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She gets you a Judgens or a dart Nice Prentice and a first bowman auto refractor Josh Williams LSU 499 early rises of Drake May. I was like that's like that was like me Philip. I bought I did the same thing. I Bought I bought Ole Miss for a full case. I don't I got like a Judgens to like 499 or something like 399 no autos nothing That is nothing I guess but It is tougher to hit some of those smaller schools You only have a few a few guys refractors of Montreal Johnson Dale and Everett Will Johnson Ruben Owens and Rashad Dubinian It's a shock of Keon Kelly for Bama I'm not sure Alex. I think we only have PYT up listed right now Yeah, I would assume it's just gonna be PYT or tiered for the most part Shock of Keon Kelly for Bama mini diamond jury on Dickie to 399 Oregon Purple Caleb Williams a 399 USC Aqua Dane key, which is crazy some of the spots it for a while Philip. It's kind of crazy It's aqua to 299 Dane key Kentucky first bowman auto Jalen burger or Michigan State All others refractor to 499 and a Johnny Wilson first woman base auto for Florida States We we might we might do like mixers with like noir. We may be Might do random teams. We don't have a whole lot in the water though We've ripped feel like I feel like we've ripped most of it The past few days here. 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Oh boy big card orange early risers Marvin Harrison Jr. Autograph Ohio State six of only 25 what a hit projected top five pick maybe the best prospects and the draft and Cade Club Nick right there early risers Watch what we're doing again fractures got Cooley McKinstree Winston Wright Antonio Gage Jr. Michael Trig Taylor Green and a shock of Frank Gord Jr The refractor to 199 Jacobi windman Michigan State Aqua Michael Trig to 299 Ole Miss Purple mini diamond a 399 Mackay Lemon USC a Shadr Sanders first Bowman base autograph Colorado Bang bang bang rang It's a classic right there Jonathan Elk Congrats on that John eight Fractor first woman out of Ohio State Brandon Innes It's 499 and early risers of Shadr Sanders All right numbered cards here. 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Hello and welcome to the eForum talk show. Our guest today is Anush Sharma, CMO of Xiaomi India. Unlike other mobile phone makers and device makers who ask people to buy their devices around the festival time, Mr. Sharma is telling consumers not to buy any tech products yet. So we decided to ask him why. Welcome to the show, Anuj. Thanks, Kanchan. So Anuj, I would like to start my conversation with your return to Xiaomi India. I think you would return in June 2022 and it was a time when both Indian and global economy both were undergoing huge churns, inflation, Ukraine-Russia war, joblessness. They are affecting consumer sentiments even now and at the same time markets are fully open right after two subdued years and marketers are expecting a bumper festive season. What kind of challenges you are facing in your second distinct at Xiaomi? Sure, sure. I think that's a very interesting question. You know, when I moved from the Xiaomi marketing role, this was back in 2020, we just gone into the lockdown first phase and stuff like that. I think the biggest challenge that is, you know, coming back after two years is the team dynamics, the way overall communications are happening have changed significantly. So the first aspect or the first challenge I had was, you know, to put a team together that hadn't really worked with each other for almost two years in a physical space and then obviously try and get into a particular direction. And then from that internal challenge, taking it from to external world, you know, there is a lot of different voices that consumers are hearing right now. You know, obviously, one part that's getting affected like you clearly mentioned was the global economy and the effects that it will have.  So consumers are also kind of trying to figure out, should I buy, should I not buy? You know, am I making the right options? Am I doing the right thing? And then on the other side, you've got this entire barrage, because again, what you were mentioning, that after two years when the markets have opened, everyone has basically gone a little more amplified, saying that buy us, buy this, buy that now, because obviously everyone's trying to meet their sales targets. So that's understandable. And especially in the telecom space, it's become even worse, because you've got this added complexity of 4G, 5G, should I buy that? Should I buy something else? So from a consumer perspective, obviously, there's a lot of noise that's coming in. While I don't think anyone's holding their hands and guiding them. And that's a challenge that we have because in Xiaomi, right from the start, you know, I remember back in 2019, somebody had asked me this question when I was doing the first tent in Xiaomi. How is Xiaomi marketing like? And I said, this is the easiest job in the world, because all I need to do is educate consumers, right? I don't have to go in hard sell. I don't need to manipulate anyone. And I think that stays there today as well. So yeah, here we are. So as you mentioned that you work pre-COVID and then post-COVID, what kind of marketing strategies are being used now compared to 2020? And I'm asking now that includes the fully open market. Yeah. I think till 2019, creating a marketing strategy was kind of simpler. You know, obviously at that point, we would say that this is really complex and the entire marketing mix is hard.  So you've got this complexity of not only hundreds of TV channels, but then you've got the OTT space as well. And who's where? Are people watching it in families? Are people watching it alone? And then on top of that, of course, the entire aspect of digital and short video consumption went up. I don't see consumers going back to 2019. Markets have opened. We are talking about return to some kind of normalcy, but the media landscape has changed forever. I think one clear indication of that was the IPL auctions where the digital rights went for higher than the TV rights. So I think things are changing. And even for us, then digital or reaching the right consumer at the right time starts becoming more and more important. I think IPL media rights is going to change the entire marketing strategies of all the businesses, all the brands. It's just a first hint that we've seen of changing dynamics. I don't know how far it will go and put direction it will take for them. Some of the biggest festivals during which consumers buy a lot of things, household items, devices, mobile phones, TVs. But you are recommending them to wait and not buy yet. Why? Yeah, that's very, I mean, I would say from outside and sounds like a very weird kind of strategy. But how you're kind of calling out each of these festivals obviously are auspicious in their way. They are heralding kind of a start. Especially like for example, Diwali is very big in my family. And it's taken as a start of new things. It's also obviously a family festival.  If not with family, at least people always get together with friends and celebrate Diwali. So it's a community kind of a festival. And here we were looking at, you know, who are our consumers in Xiaomi. And if I could, it's a very hard way to kind of put this in. But if I could put some sort of demographic, a lot of students buy our devices. And they continue buying our devices even into their first job. And now that, I mean, we are only eight years old in the country right now.  They may or may not have a kid yet, but they're still young couples. And all of these three had a few common traits. This is where I would probably dive into the psychographics of it. One very important thing that came in, if I could sum it into one word, is control.   Finally, when they've got that freedom, they want that control. But while they've got that control, the second aspect that comes in is or essentially the fears that they have. And one big fear is making the wrong choice. And obviously, you know, I'm not just talking about in terms of our products, but it's wrong choices in life. Obviously, at Xiaomi, we cannot dictate everything that you do in life, but we can definitely tell you as a friend what you should do when it comes to technology products. And this has been in our core philosophy. In fact, at Xiaomi, you know, it's in our brand vision that we are not supposed to treat our consumers. We're not supposed to treat our fans as kings and queens. I mean, is this age-old saying consumer is king or customer is king? We do not believe that. In fact, we say that our fans, our consumers are our friends. Because a lot of times you would appease a king or a queen by telling them lies. But rarely do you see a friend telling you something that you should not be doing. I mean, if a friend is giving you wrong advice, chances are that that person should not be a friend. But as a friend, you always believe you should give the right advice. Essentially, a friend is somebody who will tell you what's right for you. And this is where we come in. And this entire campaign actually was born out of a couple of instances that we had. And one very interesting one is something that happened with Sumit. So Sumit is in my team and he handles our product marketing. And this is, I think around the 12th or 13th of August. So just before the Independence Day, long weekend that came in. And at a whim, in the evening, he's like, Max has never seen the ocean. Max is his dog. So he's got this really sweet eight-year-old lab. And he's like, Max has never seen the ocean. I'm going to go and show him the ocean. Now, Bangalore does not have any oceans or beaches. So he basically decided to drive down to Goa from here. It's a long drive. So on Friday night, I think about 8.30 or 9 in the evening, on his way back home, very close to his house, there's a petrol pump. And he stopped there. I mean, that's his usual place. And in just that banter, the petrol pump attendant asked him, sir, I mean, he asked full tank, the guy said, sir, long drive. So Sumit is like, yeah.  And Sumit says, yes. So he's like, sir, we are at 24 hour petrol pump. Can you come back tomorrow morning instead of filling up petrol now? So Sumit asked, why? And this guy is like, sir, tomorrow, petrol price is going down. So you will save some money because you're going for a full tank. Now, this happened, I think, on a Friday night. And then Saturday morning, on the way to his drive, basically, he was driving all the way to Goa, he did fill up his full tank. And yes, he got some benefit, right? Probably the petrol price went down by like a rupee or two. So it's just 50 rupees, 100 rupees saving. But when he came back after the long weekend to office on Tuesday morning, he was still talking about it. It was so weird that in our space, when everyone is, you know, as a consumer, every time we go there, we think that people are going to take advantage of us. Somebody turns around and is giving you that benefit, it really sticks. And this is where, you know, from a Xiaomi perspective also, a lot of times, when we're talking to our fans, when we fans are talking to each other, we keep hearing this. I remember, sometime back, this guy who had walked up to me, one of our fans in our fan meets, and he said, sir, I'm looking to buy this particular phone, but I'm going to buy this Diwali. So the message basically stays the same, that you will have more benefit. So we thought as friends, because we are friends of our consumers, why don't we extend this message across the board? It is to reduce any post purchase resonance. It is to tell people that if you just wait another 10 days, right? So we're not asking people to give up on their life priorities and say that okay, you know, if you want that new 5G phone or something like that, wait out and don't buy it. We're just saying wait for another 10 days, and you will gain something more. It's just that trust saying that I will not take your money right now, but just make you wait another 10 days so that you can get that benefit. So we're just taking that inspiration and kind of increasing the or amplifying that message for everyone who's looking to buy a Xiaomi product. Very interesting. Anuj, what are your marketing plans around this campaign and also for the entire season? So I think from a marketing campaign perspective, this one becomes very interesting compared to our normal campaigns, because it's event-based, it's timeline-based, you have a very short runway. So we are going to do a combination of print, but stick mostly with digital. So we will have, you know, I'm hoping very simplified, easy to understand print adverts, but then from there we are going to start helping or guiding consumers into, you know, what's right for them. And we're asking them to wait, right? Think see all your options and then buy instead of trying to get into a hurry to buy stuff. So that's where the digital part comes in. So that is the campaign part. And if I ask in terms of ad-ex, in terms of percentage, if you can tell us how much ad-ex you are going to spend this festive season compared to 2020 and 2021. I think compared to the last two years, it probably could be almost about 200%. That's very interesting. And most of it, actually I'm not going to say a lot, but most of it is going towards the digital side, because, you know, that's a little more on the performance side, a little more in terms of reaching the right people with the right message than, you know, just spraying it out there and hoping it sticks. 70-80% you mean to say. Yeah. Okay. So how are you expecting the festive season sale to now to be this year? I mean, nobody knows for sure, to be honest, but from a consumer sentiment perspective, a lot of people are looking forward to it. So that's obviously a positive. I'm also hoping that, you know, in October, we would see some rollout of 5G networks. So at least from a smartphone side of our business, the 5G adoption would start kicking up, which should be good news because recently we expanded our portfolio and we've got 5G phones even under 15,000.  So one is on the smartphone side, that should take up. Second is, at least from a family perspective, we are seeing a lot more interest in larger TVs now. So TV is around 50 inches. And then considering that a lot of OTTs have also improved their overall offerings, you know, a lot of new movies come on to the OTT platforms now. First, we're also hoping that large screen 4K TVs could become a thing. So intent seems to be there. Finally, if that converts or not, we are keeping our fingers crossed. As you said that you entered Indian market eight years ago, and I suppose one plus also arrived in India around the same time. So but you both operated in different price segments initially, but now you both are almost same size in the smartphone segment. Are you concerned about it? And what exactly are your plans to, you know, go ahead? So obviously one plus has built a very, very strong, you know, brand. And they've obviously been focusing on the higher end, and they've done a really good job with that. However, from our perspective, you know, we believe that innovation should be for everyone. So right from the beginning, we kept all the price bands open. So I think currently, as for the last IDC report, one plus was at about three to 4% market share. We are still operating at about 20 22%. So probably in the premium segment, I think one plus has done a really good job. And this is something that, you know, we also kind of learned from, but at an overall market perspective, you know, we are lucky that we continue to be number one players. But, you know, no specific strategy in terms of market share, I think our strategy will continue to be how do we provide the best products to essentially our friends or fans. And we hope that we continue to do a good job there. So my last question. So there were media reports that says, India seeks to house Chinese firms from sub dollar 154 market.  No, so we would obviously have to wait because, you know, that's a big segment of the market. So taking any decisions from a business perspective, based on that media report would not probably be the right way of going about it. So we are obviously in touch with the government. We read what the, the follow up, you know, statements that came out from the ministry. So right now, no change in the strategy. Thank you so much for taking them out and speaking to you forever. Thank you. Thank you.


The use of CMOS as an alternative for thickener and emulsifier is growing in popularity in St. Lucia and around the world because it is naturally abundant in nutrients like vitamin K, iron, iodine, magnesium, and calcium. Despite the product being in high demand, St. Lucia producers face a number of challenges in expanding the market, both domestically and internationally, due to their limited capacity for product development. It is against this backdrop that the St. Lucia Development Bank, one of the many sector organisations represented at the recent CMOS Fiesta, hosted by the Agriculture Ministry, currently offers a number of financing options for those looking to expand into the production of CMOS and its derivatives. Business Development and Marketing Manager Philbert Francis says the organisation is dedicated to supporting the industry, confidently armed with a suite of services to assist farmers in expanding their capabilities and improving their output. We know the country relies on tourism heavily, but there is need for diversification and so we would go all out to assist the farmers. There may be occasions when they need to perhaps construct drying facilities and so we would want to encourage them to utilise, you know, perhaps dryers that are more sophisticated because we know the international market is very sensitive and so we can offer financing in these areas. The whole question of the cultivation of the CMOS, whatever implements they require to do that, we can provide funding in that area. When I walked around also some of the persons here, I know they have bottled, you know, some of the produce and they've taken a marker and just wrote what is in there. We can assist them in getting proper levels, even the whole labeling machines and so on. So there is a wide array of opportunities that are available to them if they come to the SNLV. As CMOS cultivation continues to be a significant contributor to the income of many families in the seven communities, Minister for Agriculture Honourable Alfred Prosper says producers should capitalise on the available opportunities to improve their product quality as the sector's success directly affects their livelihoods. Recognising the CMOS sector's current challenges, he explains that the ministry's focus is on improving the marketing, branding and quality of CMOS products in order to meet the standards of a highly competitive international market. If we have to really benefit from the value added from those byproducts, we need to take it to the supermarket shelves and then consider export. So I would like to see the soaps and all the other products that I viewed there in terms of what I saw a while ago take it to the next level and that is where the ministry, the government, understanding the value of that, our government, the SNLV and Labour Party government approved $300,000 to assist the CMOS farmers with promotion, marketing, branding. But we really want to get the other entities of government to come in, like Bureau of Standards, the NARAF facility, to be able to test those products and to ensure that we have a brand, a brand of products that can be sold outside of St. Lucia and that would help our country in terms of value added. According to Minister Prosper, the Agriculture Ministry remains steadfast in its commitment to supporting capacity development, training and financial assistance for existing and new CMOS growers in order to raise their quality and capacity to create a thriving CMOS sector. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Manicia Antoine reporting.


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a huge step-up outing by him. He's having a great season all around, and he's done it every opportunity he's gotten up here. So great job by JP. Or oldest Chapman in triple A through 13 pitches, scoreless outing. Is he going to be here tomorrow? Yeah, he probably won't be activated tomorrow. We'll activate him probably in the next few days, assuming everything's fine when we see him tomorrow. But that would be the plan that he wouldn't make another one. Brian. What impressed you the most tonight, defensively? This seemed like maybe one of the more impressive defensive games of the year. Yeah, I thought JD was great at third.


Men will absolutely commit to you when these three things happen.  These three things must happen before he'll ever commit. So let's dive into the first thing that must happen. Now, the way I've outlined this, it says he wants to be a husband and he seeks a wife. He wants to be a husband seeks a wife. Now, for those of us in midlife, a significant percentage of people aren't necessarily looking to get remarried, given that probably 75% of singles who are in the dating marketplace over 45 years are divorced, a big percentage of people don't necessarily want to get remarried, but the idea still stays the same. He wants to be a husband. In other words, he wants to be a partner to another human being, and he's seeking a person who is also partnership material. Now, men operate a little bit different than women, but I've outlined a few things that men seek in let's call it a wife, okay? And we don't mean a wife, we really mean a life partner in this particular case. So you've got to kind of, just like ladies, you're seeking a man who checks the boxes, well, this is what the man's boxes must be checked off. And I think the first one is she considers her attractive enough, okay?  We all have that fantasy. Men have this fantasy. Ladies, you seem to have the same fantasy I hear about Ryan Gosling all the time. And there's a few other men that seem to be in your fantasy category. What was that friends episode? You were allowed to sleep with the five people that happened to came into your orbit. Does anyone remember that with Ross and Rachel? Isabella Rossellini ended up being the lynchman there. But my point is, is he's seeking a person where he feels attractive enough. And I know that sounds a little off-putting, but what I mean to say is he genuinely feels like, wow, I've got someone I'm attracted to that I don't necessarily need someone better looking. I don't need someone better looking. This person is attractive and I don't need to be seeking someone else who's better looking. See, a lot of men find themselves in relationship with women where they're like, yeah, you know what? I get occasional companionship. I get occasional connection. I get occasional sex, but you know what? I think I can do better. These are the men who I call spenders. What they mean is they're spending time with you, but they don't think you're all that, okay? So they don't mind wasting your time because it fulfills their needs. This is why I'm such a big proponent of couples progressing the relationship.  I'm using her partnership material. He knows if she checks the boxes of pretty enough. The other box to check is, is she emotionally stable? Is she emotionally stable? Well, not emotionally demanding. Not emotionally demanding. These are a couple of critical boxes men need to have checked off before they're ever commit to someone. This is all the partnership wife material, wife material. And again, he has to want to be a husband. He has to want to be a partner. This is one of the first critical things that must happen before he even begins dating you. If it's more like, well, I'll just see how it goes kind of person, then he's not committed to commitment. And so he wants a partner who is attractive enough for him. She's not, she's emotionally stable and she's not emotionally demanding. See, this is the critical piece where a lot of couples fail as they become emotionally dependent on one another. And one person rejects it and the other person needs it more. Excuse my slurping.  That's all a cup. Okay, at least forgive the slurping, it's very hot. The other piece for wife material, partnership material. Now, this isn't always the case, but I think for midlife people, given that probably 90, 95% of the population, at least here in the United States is living paycheck to paycheck or at least doesn't have more than a year's worth of saving, a year's worth of livelihood in the bank. There are men that are looking for women who are financially stable, that they can support themselves. Now, that's not as critically important to men as it might be to women. Women tend to gravitate to more emotionally stable men, but as women are now significant in the workforce, their capacity to take care of themselves. This isn't necessarily a high degree of checking the box, but I would say in many cases, it's important where two sovereign people come together where they can financially take care of one another and merge into lives together. And this is the first critical piece is that he wants a life partner. He wants to be a husband. He wants to be a wife, okay? Or excuse me, he doesn't want to be a wife. He wants, he's seeking a wife, but the point is, is that this is where his state of mind is in the beginning stages or before you ever meet him. Number two, this is the idea of all in. In other words, he's found a partner where he's all in. In other words, he wants to take care of her. You know, I think this is the peace missing. You know, if you're familiar with my chart of the three active people dating, you might be able to see this. Excuse the glare. There are the users, the spenders, and the grower builders. And this is not a fact, it's merely an opinion. But I would say, you know, 20% of the population seek short-term gain. They're only in it for themselves, whether it's a man or woman, it's just all about themselves. And while I say 20% are grower and builders, they're seeking something more significant. Most everybody is in this spender category. They are happy to spend time with you, but they won't fully commit. See, the grower and the builders, these are the men that want all in. They want to actually take care of someone. And until that reached that point, by the way, have you ever read the wedding vows? I was just looking it up earlier today, you know, but this is traditional wedding vows. I, you know, Jonathan, take you, you know, ABC, to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, to love and cherish until parted by death. You know, that's the all in space.  They have to want to take care of you. This is where I would say probably 80, 90% of people fail in their relationships as they never reach this point of all in. And I'm gonna tell you something. The grower and builder men, the men who are serious about relationship, they know this stuff roughly about three months after you've been, or after you've physically been intimate with one another. They know whether or not they want to go all in. But the problem is we are swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality. We are swimming in a complicated sea of human beings who are wounded in many cases. Whether it's childhood wounds or traumas or adult traumas, and let me just say something about childhood wounds and traumas. And I'll get to the third piece in a moment. These three things need to happen. But childhood wounds and traumas and adult traumas don't have to be, childhood doesn't have to be anything overtly significant. Doesn't have to be physical abuse. It doesn't have to be emotional abuse. It doesn't have to be rape or anything like, oh, God, I didn't even like saying that, incest. It doesn't have to be something dramatic, although it can be something incredibly traumatic. But in many cases, we've all experienced micro traumas growing up, micro wounds. Little things our parents did. We could have had good parents, but they didn't mean to emotionally affect you because a child's brain is completely different than an adult's brain. And by the way, adults don't necessarily communicate well with each other either. But I'm here to say that we, the challenge with dating today is we are swimming in a sea of emotionally wounded people. And those adult traumas tend to be divorced. And divorce can be a very traumatic effect on one. So even the breakup, I know my breakup with Marie, this is, I'm grieving this experience. This isn't easy to navigate the ending of this relationship. I was all in. I was ready to be a husband. I was all in. Because we didn't have a shared vision of the future, I thought we did in the beginning, but it turns out as we got to know each other greater, we were really on two different trajectories. And so for her to want to move on, I understand her need to move on and it's okay that she's moved on. But the same time, folks, how many of you have experienced a breakup and it hurt deeply? It affected you deeply. And these wounds cause us to be fearful of going all in. I truly hope that this experience doesn't cause me to, well, you know what? I'm gonna make a declaration today. I wanna be a husband to someone. I'm seeking a wife. I do want all in. So I am in that grower builder category. I know that significantly. I know I'm still grieving the experience. So it's okay to grieve. You know, grieve is, you know, we go through these, it doesn't have to be the loss of, many of you know I lost a child. And, you know, grief can come. Okay, I just have to pause for a second. I'm just thinking of Connor for a moment. Those who don't know, there's a picture of Connor there when he was a little baby, a little child, his woody outfit. He's my son who passed away over five years ago. Grief doesn't have to be death. Could be the grief of losing a relationship, the grief of losing a job. There's a lot of different forms of grief. But my point in bringing this up is it might cause so many people to be reluctant to go all in, to want that all in relationship, to want a life partner, and then to be all in. All in is a critical piece in this component. And so I invite you all to look in the mirror and say, do you want all in? Are you wife material?  These are the critical questions that must be answered in the early stages of dating. This is why when clients work with me, by the way, there's a link right here to schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. Folks, many of you just do a terrible job vetting the person in the early stages. We've adopted mostly from what I've observed, this is my relationship iceberg, but we've adopted the belief that chemistry and attraction equals relationship success. And relationship success has more to do with compatibility, shared values, blendable lifestyles, and emotional maturity. And within shared values is a shared vision of what you seek in life, is a shared vision of what you seek in life. In other words, are you on the same trajectory of where you want your life path to be? This is one of the challenges that many midlife people face. I've been thinking about this with respects to the Golden Bachelor, for example.  And I suspect he has a full life in the city he lives in. So this is gonna be a complicated challenge in this relationship to really be able to go all in. You have to share the same values, the same vision. You have to have lifestyles that are blendable. And as I talked about emotional maturity, coming back to the deep childhood wounds and adult traumas, has this person healed from those traumas? I gotta tell you, we are swimming in a sea of people that are struggling in this area. And so the minute we meet someone where they check some of the boxes and we have chemistry, but there's a few boxes that haven't been checked and those are the red flags. And then we paint those red flags green because we have such good here that we've doubled down on what was good and didn't truly address what was missing in the very early stages of this dynamic. This is the challenge we're faced with for many of us. So what's the third piece that a man will absolutely commit? I was watching a Joe Dispenza video. Does anyone know who Joe Dispenza is? I highly recommend checking out his videos. I was watching a video of his this morning and it talks about the importance of gratitude, the importance of gratitude. Being grateful for what you have can override a lot of the little differences between a man and a woman. See, gratitude is a powerful, a powerful, not tool, but is it an emotion? Is gratitude an emotion, a feeling? I mean, certainly it's a feeling, but not but and. But I'm gonna say gratitude is like love. It's about making that conscious choice to appreciate what you have. I really do believe that humans spend so little time and gratitude. Here in the United States, it seems like we're suckling on the nipple of victim consciousness. So I can only speak from what I have observed, but not but and I recognize that gratitude is the critical component for someone to fully commit. So I talked about my relationship for a moment and then it ended. See, I could view the ending from a place of bitterness, jadedness, fear, doubt, uncertainty, or I'm gonna choose gratitude. Marie is this beautiful human being. We were just on two different trajectories and that's okay. That's okay, but I'm grateful for what she brought to my life and even though it was only a year or just slightly over a year, I got so much out of this. I'm gonna tell you something folks. I invite you all to ask yourself these four questions if your relationship didn't work out. And that was, what are the positive things did you learn about yourself in this relationship? Number two, how did you heal a childhood wound or an adult trauma in this relationship? Number three, what was good about the relationship and most important, what are you most grateful for about this relationship? Can someone write this down? What positive things did you learn about yourself? How did you heal from this relationship? What was good about the relationship? And most importantly, what are you most grateful for? Because gratitude is a powerful amplifier to attract a new partner in your life or to keep a part, well, when two people are in a state of gratitude, that relationship is rock solid. They can get through anything when they're both in a state of gratitude for one another, provided that everything else lines up too. So just to repeat, men will absolutely commit when these three things happen. First and foremost, he wants to be a husband, he's seeking a wife. And within that component, that really just means he wants to be a partner and he's seeking a partner. And he checks off the boxes, he's attracted to her and she's emotionally stable and not emotionally demanding, okay? That's the first piece. The second piece is he's all in. He says, I wanna take care of you, whatever that looks like. It could be you even have more money than him. It's not financially taken care of. It could simply be emotionally taken care of. When we think of the term provider and protector, the protector means he wants to cherish you. He wants to take care of you. He is all in. And that third piece, and again, I cannot stress this enough, the importance of gratitude to be grateful, both for what you have, for what you had, and most importantly to amplify those into your future experience. God, universe, spirit. I invite in a juicy, delicious, healthy, happy relationship, where we have amazing chemistry with one another. And our communication is off the charts and we're able to handle conflicts and differences with ease and our lifestyles are blendable. And we share the same values and have the same vision of life in life. And we're both emotionally stable and we're both emotionally givers and we're capable of receiving for one another and we handle those conflicts and differences with ease because we are emotionally grown up and we have great relationship skills. And lastly, we are fully committed to building the deep roots of trust that sustain a healthy, happy relationship. And that, and lastly, we have great sex and chemistry with one another. Because without that, that's the icing on the cake. God, universe, spirit. I invite that in and with gratitude. I express that out to the universe and I invite that in for myself and for everyone who watches and appreciates my material. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. If it is, please post a comment below. I'd like to hear your thoughts. And if you found value in this video, please hit that like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel and hit that notification bell when you get notified, so you can get notified of new videos. Did you find value in this? I hope you did. All right, those who know my life format, know this is time for Q and A. If you have a question, write the word question and then post the question thereafter. Or you can purchase a super sticker, super chat. There's a little dollar sign in the chat box. Or you can, if you're watching the replay, you can purchase a super thanks. All the monies from the super sticker, super chats goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son, Connor Asley. Again, that's a picture of him there right there. He's my son who passed away over five years ago and we donate to causes like the Hoffman Process Insight Institute, just to name a few. All right, if you have a question, write the word question and post the question thereafter. Let's see what we have in the chat box. Let's see, Dogo Diva says, if a guy you're talking to just started a date begins asking you about your feelings about getting married again, is that a positive sign? Yeah, I think that's a great sign if someone's interested. But at the same time, I would wanna find out what his feelings are around marriage. So yes, I think that's a great sign. But it's gotta be a consistent one. The question I have is, Diva, is if you haven't had sex yet, some guys understand that if we sell long-term, we can get short-term benefits. So it goes beyond the physical, the first time you're physical together, that that's a continual conversation. That's a better sign. But this is the trick, ladies, let me just say this, this is the tricky part about choosing someone. This is why jumping into bed first, second, or third date is just not a good long-term strategy. While there are some success stories out there, those are the exception, not the rule. Takes about 100 hours of face-to-face time just to build the first layer of trust with another human being. So, and it requires, listen, if you're not, again, coming back to my private coaching, by the way, there's a link for all the books I recommend and join my membership group and everything, those in the description. But I talk about radical honesty, laying your cards on the table, and the rules of engagement. And this is critically important to assess this in the early stages before you're physically intimate with someone. And if you wanna learn more about it, again, schedule a call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. Digital Warrior says, thank you, Jonathan. That is a fantastic way of looking at it. I don't wanna say failed relationships, but I guess they failed. I don't like failed relationships. I simply say relationships that end. My relationship with Marie didn't fail. It didn't. It was actually a great relationship. It taught me so much. It brought so much healing, so many positive things that came out of it, so many good things came out of it, and so many things I'm grateful for. So it just ended. It transmuted into, well, I've got a bit of word we're friends now. I mean, she's living 3,000 miles away from me, so it's not like we're gonna be hanging out together. And I don't need her for emotional support. I've got tons of people in my life for emotional support. When relationship ends, oftentimes you still remain each other's therapist. She doesn't need me to do therapy for her. I don't need her to do therapy for me. I've already got people in my life that do plenty of therapy for me. So when we communicate, it's just simply, I just wanna check in to see how things are going, how are our children doing that sort of thing. So just to give you kind of a quick update on what's going on. Okay, violets in the house. If you're out on a date after dating about six weeks, what might it mean when a stranger asks us if we are married and without a beat, he says, not yet? Well, I think that's kind of a compliment. I mean, I take, maybe I'm missing something here, but I take that as a full compliment. He sees something within you long-term, but it's more important that he says that after 90 to 120 days of being together after you've been physically intimate. After physical intimacy, somewhere between 90 and 120 days, if he's still saying that, that's a great sign. This is, could be, I don't know if you've had sex yet, Violet, but if you haven't, it's hard to say if that's truly a good sign, but it's certainly in the right direction. And it might open up, wow, that's interesting. So you might open up the conversation with them, Violet, is do you see yourself getting married? Do you wanna get married? That opens up the door to having that conversation with them. I think that's a great door opener to build that conversation with them, all right? Okay. Cindy says, if a man says he wants to be with you, but doesn't like to talk every day, is this something you should compromise with? Dating over 50 with limited long-term relationship history. So, I'm gonna speak for myself here. I wasn't big on, when I'm dating someone, when I've been pursuing a relationship with someone, I would say in the early stages, before physical intimacy and shortly after that, I'd want to stay connected with someone to build a sense of trust with them. So, but I didn't like it when it was like, if we didn't physically see each other for weeks at a time, I didn't like the habitual talking on the phone. How's your day going? Did you have a good day? I hope you had a good day. I didn't like that, that just wears on me. So I prefer to spend three or four days and nights a week together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interests, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building skills, both in our personal and our professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional intimacy that leads to either something serious. So, if usually a lot of telephone, so here's the thing, if you're dating someone around the corner, you don't need to talk always in between dates if you're seeing each other frequently. And it can be kind of exhausting and it creates a little bit of, I mean, other than maybe a check-in kind of message. Hey, just checking in. But you don't need to fuel the relationship with that telephone call. Usually that's needed for those long distance relationships.  We men like physical touch is usually then one of the top three love languages for men. We wanna physically be in your presence. So usually that happens with long distance dynamics. And yes, it's very possible. Does it mean you have to compromise? It means figure out where your relationship is going if you're in a long distance. What's your plan? I'm guessing, Cindy, that you're in a long distance, okay? Hey, one of our Facebook group members, by the way, folks, if you'd like to have direct access to me on a regular basis, check out the second link below called Midlife Love Mastery. This is a group where you have direct access to me on a regular basis. I interact with the members and for a small fee, you can join my membership subscription program, okay? Let's see what she has on the table. Do you think keeping male friendships with failed dates is harmful? Many times I find men I'm not in relationship material with but we connect on other levels. The word friends is a very subjective term. Here's the thing. To me, my friends are the people that if I need something, they'll be there for me in a heartbeat. I got a friend that called me up, the Uber Eider didn't pick her up and this was some years back. And she said, Jonathan, will you come pick me up and take me to the airport, okay? That's what a friend does.  Is this person going to be someone you're gonna call every day? I briefly had connected with a woman that we decided it was gonna be, we went on a date, it wasn't a match for her, it wasn't really a match for me either but we started to talk every day sometimes a couple of times a day and it just became draining and I realized, am I gonna be, it was keeping company, it was nice to have company but I wasn't really building a friendship but also she lived far away as well and then when I met Marie shortly thereafter I didn't need this person to keep me company anymore so the why is really important and just remember that it might be a temporary solution. By the way, I cut off friendship with that person I didn't cut it off, I just said it, I can't communicate this much and Marie entered my life shortly thereafter. So I'm just saying to this, you know what? If you're hold, if you have a tether with someone else it could be blocking you from attracting someone else in your life just be mindful of that, okay? Thanks for that question. Hey, by the way, I wanna give dog Diva props for the $3.99 super sticker. Listen, let's reach $50 today, $50 today. We only need $46 more dollars to get to the my goal of donating for today. All right, Miss Pickles is in the house. Someone I'm seeing is serious but has unhealed emotional wounds. I told him we need to stop interacting until he resolves his conflict energy. Did I do the right thing or should I help him heal? You know, you can't heal someone else. You can't heal someone else, okay? If he has conflict energy it's going to be incredibly problematic to build a relationship. I just want you to understand that this is a chart I created, emotional maturity relationship skills. You know, 20% of the population has clinical issues. True clinical issues that this is emotional maturity relationship skills usually stems from deep, deep seated wounds and traumas, okay? And while I say 20% of the population is healthy and by the way, this is not a fact it's merely an opinion. I believe most everybody is dysfunctional. It depends on his dysfunctionality. Is it closer to the clinical level or is it just at the borderline of healthy? If he's on the borderline of healthy which it doesn't sound like he is you can hold space if he is doing healing work. If he goes to a therapist, if he has a coach in his life if he does daily personal development self-help and spiritual work. I call this self-love. Do you see the book behind me self-love? I call this self-love. This is my book.  Journey of Personal Development, self-help, spiritual work. There's a link below to get a copy of my book, okay? If he's not on a daily practice and he's not on the borderline of healthy and dysfunctional, you are setting yourself up for a very complicated relationship especially if he has serious conflict energy. Just be prepared for it. Haven't talked to me, I'll vet him for you. I charge you fee for it but I'll, but I can vet him for you. Okay. Hey, I wanna give dog Diva a shout out for the $5 super sticker. So we are $41 away of reaching our goal tonight. Today, excuse me, thank you so much dog Diva. And never, by the way, Miss Pickles never, it's not your job to heal someone. You cannot heal someone, they have to heal themselves. Ronnie is in the house. Do you think one year of giving, grieving loss of a spouse is sufficient to begin seeking a new partner? That's a tough question. That's an individual question. I was just reading about stages of grief earlier and I was just thinking that acceptance is the critical piece to be able to move on that you fully accept it. And quite frankly, one thing in the stage of grief that isn't listed, but I believe coming back to what we talked about earlier, when Connor passed away, by the way, his nickname is Salty. By the way, if you ever see, by the way, if you see the products listed below you see Salty Love, that's due to Connor. Excuse the armpit stains. I'm just a bit hot here. Grieving with love means I'm in a state of gratitude, not that he passed away. I'm grateful for the 19 years and a few months I had with him. I'm grateful for every experience. If you can be grateful and you've accepted it, I think it's possible to be, if that's the space you're in, it's possible. It's hard to say. We carry residue from our past. So if you fully healed from the experience and you're not in a state of denial, you're not a state of bargaining, you're not in a state of anger, at least consistently, okay? I mean, significantly. I mean, you might have residue, but the residue is just residue from the past. It's not a coat of armor you're wearing, if you will. Then yes, I do believe it's possible, Ronnie. So, you know, I was just thinking, how long is it gonna take before I'm ready for the relationship with Marie? You know, being one year together, because that's an ending, it's not a death. Oh, you said grieving the loss. I'm assuming that was a death as opposed to breakup. You know, for a one year relationship, I'd say somewhere between three to six months of healing afterwards is a good time, you know, for every, I'd say for a longer relationship, I'd say at least a year or two years of healing, if it's a significantly long relationship. I would say, you know, really coming back to this, Ronnie, one to two years of really integrating back into your sovereignty is about, you know, there's no right or wrong here. There's no absolutes here. I don't know what if even a therapist would tell you, you just have to be in a good space within yourself. You have to love yourself. Coming back to my book, what the heck does self love anyway? All right, thanks so much for that question. I really appreciate it. Also, I wanna give props to Violet for the $2 Super Sticker. Thank you so much. So we're $39 away and it looks like Barbara is in the house, $20, so we're $19 away. Thank you so much and Ms. Pickles just gave $4. So we're $15 away from hitting our goal of $50 today. All right, let's keep seeing what's in here.  It's in, by the way, in the link below, there should be a whole plethora of salty t-shirts, okay? Okay, I don't operate that, that's a company that does it all, okay? All right, let's, oh, Summer is in the house and she says, how do I navigate a new relationship with a younger man who is also a widower, your widow? He is wonderful but wounded. Yeah, that's a tough one to navigate. You know what, if he is still deeply hurting from the loss, he needs time on his own to heal. And the fact that he's younger, you know, it's hard to say, you know, but I'm here to say, if he is deeply wounded, he needs time to heal. If he's coming out of it, you know, then you hold space together, but it's sound, here's the thing, you might be what's known as a spender.  By the way, I think you should schedule a call with me, hire me for a one coaching session. We can do a, I can get inside his head on your behalf. I can get inside his head on your behalf and we can assess the merits of this relationship. So yeah, I would recommend that, Summer. Hey, Pickles, wow, a $50 super sticker, that's a big deal. Folks, we just collected $95 today. Well, let's make it 120, so we need $25 more to hit the, there's some money we're donating to Hoffman and I think Insight Institute will be our next charity we're gonna donate to. Liske wants to tell you that a call with Jonathan sounds like a great idea. Yes, I appreciate that. Hey, Ronnie just gave us a $20 super sticker, so that's makes it, well, you know what? Let's make it $150, we're $25 away from, excuse me, $30 away from getting $150 donations. Wow, this is great. Summer wants to say thank you. Oh, you're very welcome, I'm happy it helps. Liske wants to say wowza, I appreciate that as well. See if there's anything else in here that's worth sharing. Ms. Kay, you shouldn't be seeking friendship with a man. You know what, I think we have to be careful. You know, I shared something earlier with you all, but I did begin a friendship with someone and it just was because it was COVID, I was lonely, it was just nice to talk to someone. She was readily available to talk on a regular basis, but it wasn't healthy, wasn't building a true, listen, folks, I think I'm of the space that I wanna only build a new friendship with a woman who is going to be my life partner. I don't need to make more friends in my life. And not to say I wouldn't want more people to connect with, but building deep, deep friendships requires a lot of significant effort and I'd much rather do that with a potential life partner. That's just how I feel, I'd like to hear how you feel. By the way, Roller, the girl just gave us $2 for Connor. Thank you so much and Lisa just gave us $5 for Connor. Okay, we're $20 away from getting to our $150 goal. Wow, you guys have been so generous today. Thank you so much. Hello, Jonathan, when he tells you between us it's more than just having sex, what does that mean? I think it means what it says. Between us, there's more than just having sex. There's an emotional connection there. That's the way I interpret it. I mean, it's hard to say, but I think that's a great sign, love and peace, yeah. Means there's something more than just sex. I think he's straightforward there. At least that's my sense anyway. Oh, Liz just gave us another $5 super sticker. God, we're only 20 bucks away. Ellie Louise is in the house. Question, in a new long distance with a man on the other side of the world, he's been stressed out with work, life and letting me down in communication, which hurts. Do I easily, do I go easy on him or state my needs? All right, this is your big brother talking.  Well, not, okay, that shouldn't be true. I don't know, you could have had significant words.  Folks, unless you're doing FaceTime with someone, okay? If you're not doing FaceTime with this person and you don't know who he physically is, danger number one, danger number two, most women will completely abandon their standards for a man. That's what you're talking about, abandoning your standards, okay? You're taking a big risk on somebody. You, okay, folks, it takes about 100 hours of FaceTime to build the first layer of trust. The second layer of trust comes after 200 hours of face-to-face time.  Does everyone agree with me? Say, oh my God, Jonathan, I agree with you or say amen or something. Because, I mean, you're setting yourself up. Ms. Prickle says, thank you, Jonathan, for your insights. I keep your advice in mind. I also love this Q&A format. I feel like I gained so much from hearing about others' views and dilemmas. By the way, if anyone wants to join the hot seat right now, here's a link I just posted. Okay. And you can join live with me, okay? You can join live with me. I think the timeframe for healing is complicated to calculate and it depends on so many factors. Jonathan, I've missed watching you and I've been so busy. I haven't been watching YouTube. Well, thank you, Digital War. Yes, you know what? It's, this healing is complicated. It is not one-size-fits-all. You know, I think being on a daily basis I think being in a state of acceptance and gratitude helps accelerate the process.  When you get, by the way, very cool. I did something called the Hoffman process. This was a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and adult traumas. One of the things we talked about is triggers. When you get triggered, it's an opportunity to look in the mirror and say, okay, what is at the root of what's going on for me? What is at the root of what's going on for me? And so, yes, it is through those triggers that we can heal and if we can catch ourselves before we get like, and I, by the way, I think one thing Marie didn't like about me is, and there was things I didn't like about her, so, but I have anxiety when I feel scared. And I can, these days I feel scared more frequently because it's scary getting older. It's scary being alone. It's scary being by yourself. It's scary the world we live in. There's a lot of things that make us feel scared. And when I get scared, I go into a heightened state of anxiety. It could be as simple as traveling sometimes. I'm not the best to travel with. And she was, she loved to travel, so there was conflict between the two of us there. And I'm working on it. I catch myself in my triggers, but it's still hard. Even going to the doctor yesterday triggered me on something. And I felt it right here in my gut. And I recognize that I need to give, need to give that part of me a ton of love. But giving love to oneself is so complicated. There's nothing easy about this work. This is, this is herculean work to heal oneself.  And I don't like that. You know, how do you like it when you're vulnerable with someone and it is used against you sometimes in comments or whatnot?  I don't let it bother me. I mean, well, yeah, it does bother me.  When a person is vulnerable and then you use it against them, that's not cool.  So I'm vulnerable and authentic and transparent because I'm trying to demonstrate as I'd like to be a wake-up call for human beings to do personal development, self-help, spiritual work therapy, you know, to heal. So you can find the juicy, delicious fruit within this thing called life and you can squeeze the juice out of it. Anyways, that's my two cents anyway. Hey, Christina Noel, thank you so much for the $20 Super Sticker. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate that. And Tina, thank you so much for the 10. Is it Franks, Lyra, Pounds? What is that, Tina? By the way, we reached $160 today. Why not get up to $200 to donate? Let's hit, let's, we need another $40 to donate some big bucks. Okay, Miss D, how do I tell my widowed boyfriend of three years that I'm done because he has kept his 23-year-old daughter from having friends. Wait, 23-year-old from having friends and does things with us. Always the em, a measurement is a real way. How do I tell my 20, my widowed boyfriend of three years that I'm done because he has kept his 23-year-old daughter from having friends and does things with us? Oh, if I'm understanding this correctly, Miss D, Missy D, do you believe that he has a very strong connection with his daughter? And if so, is it possible he's experiencing emotional or covert incest?  It is possible that the child represents his, I think that's where you are going, his significant emotional container. And so that's why she's so prevalent within your life. He hasn't separated that, which makes it almost impossible for you to lean into a healthy, happy relationship because he puts his daughter up on a pedestal above you. I think that's where you were going, but I could be completely mistaken. So, but that's my suspicion on that. Vote folks, check out golden or covert incest or emotional incest with a child. All right. Hey, Renette gave us a $5 super sticker. Thank you so much. And so did Violet, another $1.99. Thank you so much. All right, let's keep going here. Liz says, what if you accept your triggers and just rode them out? Resisting can make anxiety depressed. Well, well, first off, observing and acknowledging it isn't necessarily, you know, it's not about resisting and make, it's about accepting the triggers. I agree, and riding them out versus resisting them. No, I think we have to own all our triggers and feelings and acknowledge them and then just ride through them. See feelings, folks, everybody feelings aren't facts, F-A-C-T-S. They're not facts. They're just feelings. They come and go, they move around. They're not, they don't have to, now it could be, you can be in a perpetual state of depression or perpetual state of anxiety, but it's not, it doesn't mean that it's a fact. It can always change just like the tides, the water moves in and out. That's how feelings are. It's kind of like, but they can be like a roller coaster and all over the map as well. So yes, I fully agree with that. Yes. Ronnie says, totally agree about difficult self-love.  I mean, it is just not easy. I often wonder if I just, like the ending of the relationship with Marie. I wonder if that was just so, I can really get what my clients feel when you genuinely are all in and it doesn't work out. I, to really embody empathy, you have to feel it and ride through it with self-love. Self-love is wrapping yourself in a blanket. I've got you. I've got your back. I'm not going anywhere. Anyway, thank you so much. Roller Girl says, I love your honesty. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Let's see. Tina says, thank you, Jonathan. I learned so much from you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that, Tina. Don't mind anyone dictate anything to you. Continue to be yourself, people. People are fake. No, people are wounded and they have masks. People are real. They're really wounded and they really have masks on. We create these, our ego is this unique system of trying to protect ourselves and it does it in these self-sabotaging ways. I mean, there's good parts of ego too, so I don't want to diminish that, but not but and. Folks, most, it breaks my heart when we judge and crucify another human being.  I heard that from Dr. Pat Allen. Crucifying someone for their behavior is just unnecessary suffering. It's unnecessary suffering on your part. I don't know if that's where you were going, love and peace, but that's where I took what you said. So thank you for sharing. I appreciate it. Renetta says, hi, early Saturday session with Jonathan. Thanks for helping me out. So folks, let me just be very transparent with you. I am heading off today to do a spiritual journey using plant-based medicine, plant-based medicine. I'm doing it with, he's not a shaman. It's a husband and wife. They're not shamans, but I call them my shaman.  I'm doing it with a great group of people. If you haven't done plant-based medicine experiences, I highly recommend it, checking it out. If you're ever in Los Angeles, I can give you some details on it. And the plant-based medicine I use is psilocybin. It is like being on meditation on steroids. It is like meditation on steroids. It's also known as the God experience because you connect with parts of yourself through a release of chemicals in your brain that allows you to experience life in this beautiful, beautiful, harmonious experience. Now, for some of you, it could be a deep, dark, shadowy ride. I call it Mr. Toad's Riled Ride. If you have some serious shadow, some serious wounding, it can bring up all of the dark stuff in your life too, but that means it just needs to be healed. And plus, I just love communing with people. There's gonna be probably 10, 11, 12, 13 people total and it is just a great experience of really first going inward and then experiencing life through different tentacles, if you will. Anyway, that's just a personal share. I know I was vulnerable right there. Please don't use it against me. All right. How do I practice patience when I'm excited and for things to lead towards a committed relationship? I'm aware that I'm a pulsive and eager, but recognize this could jeopardize things. All right, Shirley, you're walking down a street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. You fall in, you're lost, you're helpless. It takes forever to walk, fall out. Number two, you're walking down the same street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. You fall in, same thing happens, but as you say, it's not your fault. Chapter three of this is called My Autobiography in Three Short Chapters. I heard this from Wayne Dyer. Chapter three, you're walking down the same street. You see a deep hole in the sidewalk. You fall in, you're lost, you're helpless, but you take ownership of it. Takes you much quicker to get out.  Folks are shiny, not Shirley, shiny. Self-discipline is catching yourself before you fall in. You have to be so hyper-focused and aware that the minute you fall in, or at least the minute you get there is you're gonna do everything in your power to do something different. So instead of hitting that text message, maybe you give yourself 10 minutes to rethink something. The minute you feel that impulsive, give yourself 10 minutes, maybe give yourself an hour. It's practice. There's an old saying, how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. You're going to have to practice over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. By the way, folks, you probably got tired of that, but that's how you get through it. It takes practice. By the way, Tina wants to let me know those 10 euros, so I'm sorry, I'm just, you know what, folks? I'm gonna share something very vulnerable with you all.  And I tested very high for IQ. I was in third grade. And I feel like that deeply affected my trajectory in life. So I make grammatical errors all the time. I make faux pas.   And it hurts, you know, that I didn't know that. Like you didn't do anything, Tina, I'm just sharing with you all that it hurt me. And I saw it, you know, I felt it. I'm just sharing with you what went on on the inside. The minute I saw you said euros, I'm like, why didn't I know that?  And I, working on it, I'm sharing with it publicly because I'm, you know, I don't wanna repress this feeling. But I would say every time I shoot a video, I make a faux pas, I make a grammatical error. I say something completely. I remember the other day I said something.  I don't feel enough. It's so hard to live in a world that expects perfection. Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm just being, you know what? I think it's probably time I wrap up. I'm gonna be doing my journey.  Folks, Shinee says thank you. I appreciate that. Roller girl says that teacher dumped her bad day on you. Yeah. Tina says you probably didn't spend enough time in Euroland, 10 euros or about $10.  I'd like to think I have good EQ, okay? Hey, Christina, thank you so much for the message. I appreciate that. Oh, Renetta, thank you so much. I hugged that kid, yes. I'm gonna hug that little kid big time today. All right, folks, listen. Men will absolutely commit to you when these three things happen. First, he wants to be a husband. He's seeking a wife. He wants a life partner. Number two, he'll absolutely commit when he's all in and he wants to take care of you. And number three, he's in a state of gratitude. This is true for men and true for women alike. You're in these three spaces and when you're in these spaces, you can be ready for a fully committed, juicy, delicious, healthy, happy relationship. And I hope you found value from this video. If you did, please hit that like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to the channel, post comments. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Hey, folks, I wanna thank Yvonne and Roller Girl and ask you, and oh, I forgot to give myself a first. Let me give myself a big, gigantic, Jonathan Barrow of self love. I'm gonna reach into the camera even with my pit stains and give you a hug of love as well. I'm gonna ask you to turn to a friend, Pat, a teddy bear pillow and give Iter them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. I wanna thank Ronnie and Yvonne and Roller Girl and Love and Peace and Gigi and Christina Noel and Pickles and Renetta and Lisk and Tina and Lindsay, Digital Warrior and Shiny. Ms. D and Val, Valentin, Megan, Christy, Priya, Christine, Areta, Ms. Farley, I'm just butchering names. Everyone, big hugs. Thanks so much, bye now.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE. Covering IBM World of Watson 2016. Brought to you by IBM. Here's your host, Dave Vellante. Welcome back to the Mandalay Bay, everybody. This is theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. Gerard Baum is here, he's the chief digital officer at the Schaeffler Group. Gerard, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Thanks a lot. I'm happy to be here. So really interesting discussion off camera about the Schaeffler Group and what it is. But tell us, tell our audience, what is the Schaeffler Group? Schaeffler today is a technology company being present in 150 countries. Up to 87,000 employees, 30,000 engineers, 100,000 products, 75 plants, two new every year. So dynamic growing technology company. And the company being on the digital path, which is let's say the dimension of change and the dimension of new competitiveness. Okay, and talk a little bit more about the products that you guys provide and services. There are different products starting with the typical bearings, which also are on the way to get sensors and provide data. It continues with things like active torsion stabilizer, helping high-end cars to get more, let's say, confident, higher sportiveness. We are talking about double clutches. We are talking about thermal management and we are talking a lot of parts being in powertrain and drivetrain within most of the OEMs globally. So you're primarily a supplier to the automotive industry exclusively, right? Is that right? That's one part. The other part is we are a supplier to other industries, which is train industry, wind industry, machine tool industry with our components, which could be bearings, linear drives, motors, and things like that. Okay, so you are at the center of this whole IOT movement, obviously. So everybody talks at a high level about instrumenting the windmill is sort of the metaphor. So what's happening in the business? Specifically, talk about your role as the chief digital officer, how that came to be and how you're driving digital transformation in your company. I look basically for potential which coming out of integration, which is coming out of data and which is let's say in the past based on different, let's say, different divisions, regions and units being responsible was not in the high focus of the company. So I look at integration value, I look at additional value based on data and I'm looking as a nature of that digital business towards change. Well, it's funny because I mistakenly thought you were the chief data officer at the company but you're a chief digital officer but a lot of digital is data. Where do you draw the line between chief data and chief digital? It is there a chief data officer at your company or are you defecto? So data is the raw material, digitalization is additional value that you generate based on data but also that's the key for Scheffler. We have a very strong engineering capability. If you develop a strong digital capability and if you are not able to bring that together, you will not generate the value which is able which is possible and which you should generate. So digitalization means you bring mechanic, mechatronic and data together. So the data officer has data, the mechanical engineers, they have the, let's say the complexity, the precision and also the technical innovation and my job is to bring both worlds together. And essentially you're instrumenting the vast majority of your product set so that you can collect data in the end use cases, right? So what's that journey been like? What's the progression been? When did that start and where are you now? It started with a high focus more than 10 years ago. As of today, we have some of the products in operation. So for example, industry 4.0 machine is a machine with a lot of sensors and these sensors, they need to generate value and the value is uptime, is precision and this machine we have in our regular production line with the task to replicate it. In other areas, we are just at the beginning. We are developing the, let's say the blueprints. We have set up pilot projects and we are trying to evaluate the benefits. So there's a, let's say a very broad variety of maturity levels. How did you decide where to start? The deep conversation with the business, so was it, who wants to be the guinea pig? Okay, I think that's a key point. What I did is I first analyze what are the activities existing, then looked at experiences from outside where are the biggest wind potentials and then defined the roadmap. Let's say, with a priority list, reducing the number of activities to the key ones and adding someone who have a potential big impact. Talking to the business, convincing them and then setting up joint projects. In some cases with their funding and other cases with my funding. Interesting, we always talk about the role of developers in conferences like this. You got 30, I think you said 38,000 engineers at the company? More than 30, yeah. And it seems like in your world, the engineer is kind of the new developer. They've got maybe obviously a technical background, but also maybe a development background. What's that dynamic like? What does that person look like? I think that's a key point you mentioned. If we achieve that the traditional engineers being very innovative, being patent leader right now in Germany, competing with companies who are bigger than Chevrolet and they are still at the top of the patent list. If you are able to ignite them with digital innovation, bring these things together, then I think this is a formula to win. And this is just what I'm trying to, looking at their challenges, looking at their processes and then trying to figure out, bringing both worlds together, what is the additional value add. They basically embrace it. They are engineers, they check you, they try to find the weaknesses and if they are convinced they are your friends and they push you to go faster. You know, Gerard, I was at a conference like this, I think it was an IBM conference. It was not maybe more than five years ago. And the speaker was in the automotive industry and he said that within the next 25 years we'll have autonomous vehicles. I'm laughing because the pace of innovation has occurred so fast. I mean, you started two years ago and I'm sure it could have come a long way, but I mean, what did we miss? How did it happen so quickly? I'm more than 30 years now in the automotive industry and I think there are some revolution, technology revolutions which happened during the last five years, five plus years and clearly the revolution of the micro sensors is one thing which has happened. There is a revolution of what we call big data and machine intelligence working with this data and there is also the computational power which increased significantly. If you look at big data, if you look at machine learning sensors, micro sensors and bring all these things together, this is the basis for revolution not only in automotive and highly autonomous. So when you think about the autonomous vehicle, what role do your products play in that? Sheffler right now is there where the things move, where the forces are, where the heat is and connecting this with let's say the integration of a sensor, the sensor fusion, integrating that with driving strategies and connecting them to the outside world. This is a long value chain and Sheffler's role in this value chain right now is we are providing functionalities which will be enhanced and we will provide data which will be used in this entire value chain to support highly autonomous driving. We do have research projects underway where we do have let's say very modern components like in-vehicle electrical motors which are brakes and motor and steering within one element and these components, these modules deliver a lot of additional data which then can be combined with high precise maps, could be combined with different driving strategies and also driving optimization algorithms. So we have a big chance to enlarge the picture we are right now in based on the data. The value chain, the supply chain within the automotive industry is very complex at least to an outsider. I think about the telecommunications industry for years because they would have this purpose built equipment with different protocols and standards and is it the same in the current state of the automotive industry as we begin to instrument products or is it more open source software, API connections that are more standardized? I think the standardization is around APIs right now. I think more could be beneficial but right now it's on that level and every company right now develops their own let's say cognitive environmental system, companies are developing their own strategy and steering algorithms and there needs to be some cooperation at different levels and at the API level it's working. I want to back to the conversation we were having about engineers. As you well know, engineers are very precise. I would say they tend to be conservative for products that have to get into the market many times they'll experiment but they tend to be a little bit of a control freaks, I'll say. Did you see a big resistance early on in terms of digitizing products or was there an enthusiasm to invent? Engineer is used to deliver things and be responsible for life-cycling so I at the beginning went into a lot of in-depth discussions, very deep, very open but up to a level of depth which is let's say astonishing in some cases. Astonishing. Yeah, because they really want to understand everything. What is the algorithm, how much data, how much is the latency, how to connect to things and after these in-depth discussions I saw a lot of openness. At the beginning a lot of check and balance but then opening up. So you feel like we've crossed that tipping point where there's big resistance to this sort of instrumenting the vehicles. I'll give you, we have a lot of time but last word.  What's your vision as the Chief Digital Officer of Sheffield? I think at the end of the day it will be the CDO will be measured based on value we provides, value in product, in process, in let's say transformation of the company. So I see in the future CDOs being in most of the companies established and the success will depend on the bottom line impact he will do. I forgot to ask you, so are you doing anything with Watson, Analytics, IOT? What's your relationship with IBM? We have decided after significant benchmarking that we will partner with the IBM on the cloud technologies including Watson and we will use these technologies based on many things we are doing right now. So things like predicting failure, looking at past history, collecting data, analyzing it. Collecting data, doing analytics, doing prediction, doing optimization, doing model building, also looking at significant nano-mechanic and in-depth behaviors of structures. So there is a variety of projects started. Great. Gerard, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. It was a pleasure to meet you. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, we'll be right back. Okay.