Welcome to Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. This podcast was created to provide you the information and tools Doc Snipes gives her clients so that you too can start living happier. Our website, docsknipes.com, has even more resources, videos and handouts, and even interactive sessions with Doc Snipes to help you apply what you learn. Go to docsknipes.com to learn more. Hi everybody and welcome to the Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery podcast. Today we're going to be talking about tips to deal with stress and increase productivity. So what causes stress? Well, looking over some research done by the Mayo Clinic and other places, some of the most common causes of stress are politics, relationships, and that can include being in relationships, ending relationships, deaths. You know, there's a lot that goes into relationships. Finances, your work environment because you spend a lot of time at work. Having too many responsibilities, feeling like you're being pulled in a million different directions, health problems, and unhappiness with appearance. Yes, unhappiness with appearance actually did make the top 10. So we're going to talk about some of those today and maybe things that you can do to address them. The first thing we want to look at is why do we care? You know, everybody's got stress, so why do we care?  It can cause headaches, muscle tension or pain, chest pain, fatigue, changes in sex drive, upset stomach, and sleep problems. So those are the effects that stress just has on your body. We know that when you have sleep problems that it's going to wear you down, you're going to likely have more irritability, be more susceptible to illnesses. When you've got a lot of pain, it's harder to sleep well.  And just being fatigued all the time really wears on you. You may feel kind of hopeless and helpless.  But it doesn't stop there. Stress also causes anxiety, restlessness, a lack of motivation or focus. At a certain point, you may just feel so overwhelmed.  You know, I got too much to do. I can't even begin to see the forest for the trees. So you start losing motivation and focus because you don't even know where to focus at all. Feeling overwhelmed, irritability or anger, and sadness or depression, or a sense of hopeless and helplessness. So again, all of these dysphoric moods, as we call them, are going to probably impact your productivity at work, your relationships, and your physical health. When you feel this way, then it's probably going to start compounding your physical health problems like muscle tension and fatigue. Other effects of stress include overeating or under eating. Sometimes we eat in order to deal with stress. Sometimes we just don't have an appetite because we've got so much stress. But our body needs the good building blocks. You know, it needs good food, not junk food, in order to make the neurotransmitters to help us feel happy, healthy, and focused. Angry outbursts, drug or alcohol abuse, tobacco use. A lot of times people will start self-medicating to try to control the stress. Instead of addressing the stress itself, they just try to numb the emotion. Social withdrawal because you just can't take one more thing. And even exercising less often because who has energy to exercise when you're barely sleeping and you've got 17 other things in your inbox. So you can see the effects that stress have on your behavior. Now what are we going to do about it? Find your groove. The first thing to do is identify what's important to you. Because once you figure out what's important, it's easier to figure out what can be let go and what things you can say, you know what, not worth my energy. Take active, mindful steps to use your energy in productive ways. You only have a certain amount of energy.  Or are you going to use it to do something that is going to help move you toward your goals? And finally, get recharged. Yes, you need to take time out to do fun things, to have happiness in your life. It's not just about eliminating stress. It's about adding happiness. You need to have a balance of good things in your life to balance out some of the stressful things. So let's start with perspective, getting that groove. Who and what is important in your life? Is your family important? You know, who in your family is important? Maybe your great-great-uncle Bob, not so much.  Okay, so that's going to be important. So whenever something comes up, whenever a mood comes up, whenever you're struggling with something and you're trying to decide how much energy to put into it, ask yourself, is dealing with this going to help me be more present for my kids? Or is this just draining my energy and letting it go would really have no effect on my relationship with my kids? Other things with family, like spending quality time and visiting family, sometimes that's important. For some people, it's not. So it's a matter of figuring out what's important in your life and who. Your friends. Which friends do you want to spend time with? Are you content just texting or do you want to be able to go out once a week? What about your career? What do you want your career to be like? Where do you want to see yourself in a month, six months, five years from now? And you know, what steps can you take to get that way? For example, if you want to see yourself as a CEO in five years, then regularly switching jobs because you're mildly unhappy, probably not going to get you there. So you're going to have to figure out a different way to handle that particular stressor. Are your pets important? What about your hobbies? Or certain financial or other career goals that you have? So make a list of all those things. So you see what's important. You see what your end destination is. And then when things come up, you need to say is putting energy into this and taking energy away. Is it going to take energy away from me moving toward my goals? Mindfulness, that's next step. When things come up and they will, ask yourself, how can I deal with this issue in a way that helps me get closer to those things and people who are important to me? And you have choices. You can accept it. You can let it go. You can address it. There are a lot of things. So let's take politics, for instance. Maybe you're unhappy with the state of things in politics right now.  What can you do in politics? If it is important to you to try to change that right now as opposed to waiting until the next election, what types of advocacy activities can you do as opposed to just being on Facebook and spouting and being negative and being upset all the time and feeling powerless? Some people will decide, you know, politics, there's not a lot I can do to control it right now. So I'm going to let it go because it is what it is. And then when the next election comes around, I'm going to get really involved in my particular political party and make my statement known. Other people may say, you know, politics is politics. I'm just one vote. It's not worth my energy because I need to focus on other things that are more central to my life than the global economy. Relationships are another thing. You know, things may be going well. They may not be going well. Maybe you want to get into another relationship or, you know, when things come up, you've got to decide how important is this relationship to me? And I have this certain amount. I have this tank of energy that is designed to help me achieve my goals. Is it worth drawing on that tank of energy to address this problem right now? Sometimes it will be. And then you need to ask yourself, how can I address it in a way that is most efficient and makes most sense? Stewing on it, hiding from it, ignoring it, that's probably not going to work because even when you take something and you stuff it down, you try to ignore an emotion, it's going to keep coming back and kind of haunting you. You've just stuffed it down and it takes energy to keep it compartmentalized or stuffed down. So you need to figure out how you're going to deal with it. Finances are kind of the same way. What can you do? How can you address it in a way that's meaningful and helps you move towards your goals? Another thing you can ask yourself is what thoughts am I having about this situation that are moving me further away from those things and people who are important to me? So if you're having negative thoughts regularly, if you're having thoughts of hopelessness and helplessness, if you're having a lot of thoughts of anxiety, then you want to say, are having these thoughts and dwelling on this worry and anxiety, is this getting me closer to my goals or is this draining my energy? And if it's draining my energy, which a lot of times worry, resentment, those emotions can do, how can you change those thoughts? Remember that anger, anxiety, worry, those things are put in your world and even depression are put in your world to say, hey, take note, there may be a threat or in the case of depression, you may have lost something that was important to you. So take note and figure out how are you going to improve the next moment? Your emotions themselves are not bad. They're not negative. That's why when we talk about depression and anxiety, I really avoid using the term negative emotions because all emotions are there to serve a purpose. It's what you do with them that can be positive or negative. Other tips to help you kind of recharge and rebalance include reducing input. Set aside a certain amount of time each day to read the news and or be on social media and preferably not before bed because you don't want to accidentally get yourself riled up right before bed. So if you need to read the news, which you know most of us like to stay informed and if you have to be on social media, set aside a time and make sure that it has a beginning and an end time so you don't get sucked in. Be aware of what we call the availability heuristic and the logarithms on social media. Things that you like, they're going to show you more of. So it may seem like there is a lot, there are a lot more people who are sick and struggling if you're reacting to people's posts who are in the hospital or who are struggling with something because Facebook's going to say or another social media place may say, oh, you're interested in those sorts of things. So I'm going to show you more of that. So you may think there's a lot more suffering and negativity in the world than there really is. If certain topics bother you on social media, just try even an experiment. Go for a week or two without responding to them or even go as far as telling the provider you don't want to see that in your feed and see what happens. They found Facebook actually did an experiment and found that they can alter people's moods by what they show them in their feed. So be careful and be cautious about what you respond to and if it starts getting too negative or too depressing, you might want to look at responding to positive posts again to balance out the ones that where you've got a friend in the hospital and you're sending prayers or whatever. Set aside venting and worry time. It is easy to get caught in a negative fun house. You know, you're looking around and everything seems to be kind of going wiki wonky and you're negative and the world just kind of seems to be closing in on you.  But that aside, if you've had a bad day at work, sure, you know, some people need to come home and vent about it. They're extroverts. They need to kind of get it out, get it off their chest. That's cool. But set aside again, a beginning and an ending time so you're not venting all night long. Have that 30 minutes or an hour where you can just let it all out and then after that, force yourself to focus on other things. Create healthy routines and this is part of the recharge. You need to get adequate quality sleep, not just sleep, quality sleep. That means that deep sleep where you're actually dreaming and everything. Nutrition.  So good nutrition. I'm not saying you have to get, you know, obsessive about it. Try to eat colorfully. Try to get some vegetables in each day. Try to minimize as much process, you know, white flour and sugar as you can.  You may stop by McDonald's and get a Big Mac or something for lunch. And okay, so it's got white bread on it.  Exercise. It doesn't have to be 40 minutes in your target training zone. Just get your blood moving. Go out for a walk with a dog.   Put on music when you're cleaning. Whatever it takes to kind of get your blood moving a little bit will help you get energized because exercise causes your body to release serotonin. Serotonin's a common chemical. And recreate. Yeah, you got to schedule in time to have fun. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. So it's important to make sure that you schedule in, if you have to schedule it in, time off. Schedule in time to do things that are important and meaningful to you, like your hobbies or spending time with your family. That way you have some rewards coming out and you're working on other aspects, not just work or not just one thing. You don't get this tunnel vision. Use effective time management. Too many times we get caught up feeling like we're being pulled in 15 different directions and we've got too much that has to be done. Ask yourself, what actually has to be done? If it doesn't get done today, there are going to be major negative consequences. You know, if your electric bill is due tomorrow, then paying the electric bill has to get done today. If you're running low on food at the house, you know, we are right now because we've been snowed in for like four days, do I have to get to the grocery today? No. You know, I can stop by and pick something up if I don't have time to do a full grocery shopping today. Eventually, I do need to get to the grocery store, but does it have to be done today? No. What can be delegated? What can you ask other family members or friends or coworkers to do? You know, if you're at work and you've got a big task going on, you can delegate some things. If you're at home and things need to be done, you can delegate some things. My husband has a four-wheel drive, so you can darn well bet I'm going to be sending him out to get the food today because, you know, he's not going to slip around and he can get in and out of our neighborhood. Look at what can be simplified. Sometimes we make things too difficult. Can you do all your shopping in one day for the month? And then, you know, occasionally you may have to stop by and get something or order from Amazon or Walmart or somewhere else and have it delivered. But what can be simplified to save you time? You would be surprised and just think about it. Driving to the store, for me, to get to the closest store takes about 20 minutes. Shopping takes about another 30 minutes if I'm not doing a full shopping. Checking out another, you know, 10, 15 minutes, driving home another 30 minutes, unloading, putting away. We're talking an hour and a half, minimum. Every time I go to the store. So if I'm doing that eight times a week or eight times a month or more, think about how much time I'm wasting. Whereas, you know, I could probably get all of that done in one three-hour block if I just planned ahead. Simplify by, you know, getting frozen dinners, ordering out every once in a while. If you've got too much to do, I know my family's really happy when I give in and I'm like, okay, we're just going to order out tonight. You know, we'll let the lentils go and we can have Kentucky Fried Chicken or something. And they're like, woo-hoo, you know. But simplifying doesn't have to be negative. It doesn't mean anything negative against you. It just means you're cutting corners right now. Let's see what you can do. When I cook, I will cook, a lot of times I'll cook casseroles. That way I have fewer dishes that I've got to do. And a casserole generally can be reheated for lunch the next day. So I've got two meals in one. And then look at things that can be combined. If you need to call your mother, you know, I'm notorious for calling my mother while I'm driving to and from the office. Because, you know, I can talk to her on the hands-free while I'm driving, combining those activities and bada-bing. So what things can you combine? What things can you do while you're riding in your car? Can you listen to your messages from work? Can you call people and stay in touch? Obviously, you want to be safe. Maybe you can exercise with a friend. So you got that friend time and exercise kind of going together. So what things can be combined? So you're not trying to do 15 separate things, but you're doing six combined things. Develop focus. Know your temperament. Some of us need to be around others and we derive energy from others and we get really charged when we're around others and it helps us stay focused. And, you know, maybe the ego gets in there too and we're like, okay, I'm going to be the one that gets this done first or, you know, when I'm at the gym, that really kicks in and I'm like, oh, I'm not getting off the treadmill before that person does. Because I'm just naturally competitive, not saying that that's necessarily good. But I derive energy from other people. Some other people are more introverts and prefer to work alone. They get a lot more done if they're in the quiet by themselves and nothing interrupts them. Know what works.   And know when your energy levels peak. For me, my energy is in the morning. If I wait until 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I'm kind of dragon by that point. So I do the big stuff that I've got to get done before noon.  Just kind of lay there and think, okay, what do I need? What do I have to get done today? And kind of what's my day ideally going to look like? And see yourself going through the day. That way you can visualize what needs to be done, kind of plan it out and be settled. Once you've done that, create a task list so you know which things are priority for that day and include no interruption times. So ideally in a couple hour blocks, so maybe a three hour block or a four hour block if you can do that, you're going to get a lot more done if you're not checking your email or answering your phone or having somebody come to your office door or whatever.   And before saying yes to anything else, check in and see if saying yes is going to enhance or reduce your movement towards getting that stuff done for the day. You know, if somebody comes by and says, hey, we're all going out for lunch, do you want to go out with us? You know, you can look at your task list and you can either say, sure, I've got time to schedule in some fun because I've gotten a lot accomplished this morning or you can look at your task list and go, no, I haven't gotten enough done. I really need to stay here and keep working. But it helps you to stay focused and really prioritize and decide how you're going to spend your time and energy. Practice mindfulness by working with your rhythms and check in periodically to see how you're feeling. What are you needing?  Are you thirsty?  So if you're doing something that's really cognitively intensive, you may need to periodically get a little snack. Sometimes it's better to take the day off and recharge than muddle through and be totally unproductive.  And you go to work the next day and you just can't, you read the same paragraph six times and you still have no idea what you've read. So at that point, you've got to ask yourself, is there something different I could do that needs to get done? And then I can come back to this more intensive task when I'm more alert because muddling through and reading the same paragraph another six times is probably not going to get you any further along in your day. You're just not there that day. Effectively communicate. When you're talking to co-workers, family members, roommates, whomever and they're talking to you, listen to understand, not to try to solve or defend. What do I mean by that?  Try to put yourself in their shoes. Instead of getting defensive or trying to solve their problem or trying to jump the gun and go, okay, I hear what you're saying. Let's see what about doing this. Listen to understand what they may have to say. And ask instead of tell. So once you understand, ask if you've got the right idea. So what I'm hearing you say is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then ask them, what is the next step? There was somebody in one of my groups who is getting burnt out in her line of work right now. And she posted on there. She didn't know what she wanted to do next, whether she should change careers or whatever. And people just started throwing out ideas of different things she could do. Without really knowing what about your current situation is unfulfilling. If high demand work is unfulfilling, then going to work in certain environments may continue to be unfulfilling. So what is it about your current environment that's not doing it for you anymore, that's making you feel burned out and less than happy? And then we can work from there to figure out, and what type of work environment would be ideal for you? What do you see if you could create the perfect job or work environment? What's your passion? And then we can figure out from asking those questions what directions may be to go. But a lot of times you have to ask when good salespeople interact with you. Instead of coming up and saying, hey, you want a new refrigerator today or whatever, they say, is there anything I can help you with or what are you looking for today? Or how can I help you? Instead of assuming that they know what you want or what you need. And finally, address a burnout environment. If you have too many demands without enough support at work, at home, whatever, figure out whose support you can enlist and what demands you can reduce. Remember, going back to that list of what actually has to be done. If you feel like you've got little or no control, that's probably true. There are things in life, in relationships, in politics, in work that you have little or no control over. But there are also parts that you do have control over. Part of that is how you react to it, how you think about it, and how you handle it. So identify what parts of the situation you do have control over and what the logical step is to address whatever this is to get more control that helps you move closer to your goals. If there's no sense of community or belongingness wherever, whether it's home or work or with your roommates or your sorority house, how can you develop community? What things can you do? At our house, we have a movie night. So I've got teenagers, they're not real keen on spending a whole bunch of time with me. But movie night, they're willing to acquiesce and come down and hang out for a little while. If you sense a lack of appreciation, the first thing is how can you show yourself appreciation? Relying on others to get out of their own drama and notice and be appreciative, it's putting a lot of pressure on them. So instead of relying on others to appreciate you, appreciate yourself. And you can encourage others to show appreciation, whether it's your kids or your spouse or your coworkers, by modeling it. If you show appreciation, if you are regularly saying, wow, I really appreciate that you took up that shift for me or I really appreciate that you reminded me to take out the trash or if you regularly tell them that you appreciate their efforts and you appreciate them, it's going to rub off and they're likely going to start using that same verbiage back towards you. If you sense that there's a lack of fairness, which there is, life isn't fair. Look at the situation and ask, are there ways that you can make it more fair? Can you change the situation? And if not, how can you accept the fact that it's just not fair? Sometimes the bad guys win and the good guys lose. So how can you deal with that? Getting angry over it. You know, the initial feeling of anger says, this isn't right and that's true. But holding on to that anger and dwelling on it isn't going to make the good guys win. If you want to try to change the situation, maybe you can try to figure out how to help the good guys win. But how much energy do you really want to devote to being angry about the fact that life isn't fair? How long do you want to spend on that? If you have a lack of security in your situation, in your relationship, in your job, imagine the worst and make a plan. If I got fired or laid off tomorrow, what would I do? What's the worst that would happen? How would I handle it? If we broke up tomorrow, what would I do? How would I handle it? Have a plan in your head so you're not stressed about it. And look for things in that situation that might help you get more security. If you're fearing that you may break up in your relationship, well, that tells me there's probably some turmoil. So how can you start feeling more secure in your situation? What can you do? What issues do you need to address? Same thing at work.  Well, you may not be able to do a lot about that. But if you are continuing to be one of the best employees, the chances of you getting laid off are a lot slimmer than if you're one of the ones who's unproductive. And high levels of negativity. Think about what you can do to buffer the negativity. If you walk into your office or your house, maybe you're living with a couple of people who are just big ol' grumpy gusses, you can only be around that much negativity for so long before it starts stressing you out. So what can you do to buffer the negativity? Number one, don't reward it.  You know, look for positives or maybe even try to avoid that person when they're being so negative.  And I encourage people to do this every single day. 15 minutes of fun. Anybody can find 15 minutes in their day to laugh, you know, find a skit, go out and watch the squirrels climb the trees. 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Welcome to the Anxious Morning, where each weekday morning we take a look at ideas, concepts, and lessons designed to help you understand and overcome your anxiety. For more information, visit us at theanxiousmorning.com. Yesterday we looked at the conflict created when you are trying to hold onto things that you say work for your anxiety, while you're still trying to find things that work for your anxiety. We touched on the idea that soothing and calming rituals designed to save you from discomfort are likely not working enough or not working all the time. This is why you read yesterday's edition of the Anxious Morning and why you're probably reading this one too. At the risk of being overly aggressive, I'd ask you why you need this information if you already know what works for you. When people get frustrated because I steer our conversations away from the usual coping and soothing techniques, I get that. Here's why I do that and why I will continue to do that. When you insist that you must take special action to avoid feeling anxious, to manage bodily functions that were never designed to be managed, or to engineer a life completely free of any possible trigger, you are rewarding your brain for sounding fight or flight alarms inappropriately. When your brain keeps throwing you into a panic for no obvious reason, because the panic itself has become its own trigger, responding to that alarm with all kinds of saving and rescue strategies is an admission that the alarm is justified and that it should continue to sound. When you treat your own body and mind as a danger that you must be saved from, it will continue to drag you around as it likely has for some time now. I know it seems like common sense to try to make yourself feel better immediately or to do everything possible to try to stop your heart from racing or your mind from saying scary things to you. But none of recovery is common sense at first and often the things you think you're supposed to do are the very things that make it worse for you. In this case, hanging on to those things doesn't make any sense, even while letting them go doesn't seem to make any sense either.   You don't like that, you want to go the right way. You ask for directions that will get you to your friend's house. What would happen if you ignored the directions you are given? And continued to insist that the route you've been taking is working for you because the scenery is nice. Is it possible to somehow combine your dead end route with these new directions to get to your friend's house? It is not. You can't drive down the dead end and also get to your friend at the same time. The only way to solve that problem would be to stop taking the old route and start taking a new one, even if that new route isn't as pretty and might have some bumpy roads and traffic along the way. You cannot hold on to soothing, calming, escaping, and avoiding as a primary anxiety strategy and also use facing, accepting, floating, surrender, or willful tolerance to get better. One strategy leads one way, the other leads a totally different way. Pick one. I'm going to say a thing here that I say often. This is a raw deal, but it is the deal we have been given. So take a few minutes to think about this, even if you find the idea ridiculous or distasteful. If you're enjoying The Anxious Morning and you'd like to get a copy of the podcast delivered into your email inbox every morning, visit theanxiousmorning.email and subscribe to the newsletter. If you're listening on Apple or iTunes, take a second and leave a five-star rating, maybe write a small review. It really helps me out. And finally, if you find my work useful and you'd like to help keep it free of advertising and sponsorships, you can see all the ways to support the work at theanxioustruth.com slash support. Thanks so much.


So let's look at guidance for a moment, like practically speaking what we really encourage and the people that I live with, we always encourage people to just speak their thoughts freely, their hunches, their nudges, their intuitions, their feelings, you know. It's like, don't hold back. We don't want you to have kind of a guidance anxiety for everyone's like, you know, I'm going to speak it because it could be wrong. It could be judged if I say something and, you know, it's actually, we encourage the sharing of ideas. In fact, let's call this sharing of these ideas suggestions. In other words, the Holy Spirit gives instructions, gives suggestions, but they have to be, even the guidance has to be, we'll call it a suggestion because the Holy Spirit is not going to coerce you to follow. The Holy Spirit never says, turn right at this traffic light or else you are going to get it. If you don't turn right, no, the Holy Spirit offers the what? Suggestion. Turn right. Why is this a suggestion? Because you do seem to believe you have a choice. The script is written, but if you don't know the script is written, you believe you have choices in time and space and if you believe you have choices, isn't Jesus very loving? These are suggestions. Guidance is really suggestions. It's offering us suggestions of what would save us from torment and hell. Suggestions that will actually lift us out of pain, of suffering, of delay. These suggestions actually save time. They're miracles. They actually collapse time. They bring the alpha and the omega back together at the beginning and the end because they're so loving.


Life has ground to a halt in many parts of the world for millions of people due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Work from home has become a new normal for many of us as we question many of the rules that make up the workplace otherwise. But what about those who cannot work from home? Those who may not even have a job by the time this crisis subsides. What about those who are forced to struggle against the corrosive corporate world even during these times? In this episode of around the world in 8 minutes, we will be looking at some such stories. The impact of this global lockdown is likely to be catastrophic. The International Labour Organization says that a rise in unemployment could be anywhere between 5.3 million and 24.7 million, a number which is similar to UN estimates. As of March 10th, approximately 30,000 work months had been lost. This impact is being felt in almost every country. In the US for instance, around 710,000 jobs were lost in early March. Over the past two weeks, nearly 10 million people filed claims for unemployment support. Black and Hispanic workers have been the most severely affected during the crisis, as have been younger workers in precarious jobs. In India, the confederation of Indian industries says that over 50% of the tourism and hospitality industry may be badly hit with about 20 million losing their jobs if the industry does not recover by October. Surveys have reported that the coronavirus outbreak has put about 136 million non-agricultural jobs at risk. Casual labourers, daily wage earners, people employed by non-registered nano-businesses and others who work without any formal contracts are the most likely to be rendered jobless. In these circumstances, capitalists chose to respond in familiar ways. On the one hand, its leaders have been tom-tomming their philanthropy as if they are doing a service to the world in sharing the tiniest morsel of their wealth. On the other hand, they have been targeted attacks at labour, retrenchments, cost-cutting and salary reduction while not providing the necessary safety equipment. This has forced workers in many countries to stage protests and to go on virtual or even real-time strikes despite the risk to their health and their lives. The US for instance has seen a number of worker strikes over the past week. On March 31st, delivery and warehousing workers of the Whole Foods Market chain went on strike across the country. The workers termed it a sick-out, as they called in sick, to protest the inadequate protection provided by the company. Delivery and warehousing workers in the US have been consistently demanding better and stronger policies including hazard pay. Similarly, thousands of Instacart workers organised by the Gig Workers Collective struck work across the country on March 30th Monday. These workers are demanding wage hikes and also that companies review their leave policies, safety guidelines and sanitation measures. This is especially important at a time when delivery and warehousing workers are providing essential services. March 30th also saw dozens of workers walk out of Amazon's Staten Island delivery station in New York. The warehouse management responded by firing the organiser of the poor protest, Chris Malls, for violating social distancing guidelines. The Staten Island protest of Amazon workers came in response to 10 positive cases of COVID-19 found among the employees. Workers have been demanding that the warehouse be temporarily shut down and that the company review its safety guidelines to better protect those working there. We came out here to make a cry for help. We need the government to step in, close this building down. There's too many coronavirus cases. They're not telling the employees. They're not taking care of us. We're not safe. We got a lot of people that's home right now unpaid and it's not right. It's not fair to us. It's not fair. So we're here making a statement. We had a successful walk out. You know, we got the message out. We got people aware. That's what we're here for. In a statement released by Athena that represents workers who are disputing the company's policies, Amazon workers have alleged that unsanitary conditions and extremely lax implementation of social distancing measures are prevalent in the Staten Island warehouse. On April 3rd, media reports emerged that Amazon executives were planning to run a campaign against Chris Mall, the organiser of the protest. An internal memo described him as not articulate or smart and laid out a strategy to smear him. The world may be suffering, but for big business, it's clearly business as usual. We go to South Africa next, where the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA, has alleged that the Golden Arrows Bus Services Company is forcing its employees to work in public despite the 21-day lockdown that has been imposed in their countries since March 27th. Golden Arrows is a 150-year-old passenger service company. It is the single largest passenger operator accredited under the government-recognised road transport management system. It is a fleet of over 1,000 buses, serving 1,300 routes in metropolitan Cape Town. NUMSA Regional Secretary for Western Cape, Uyolufele, said that on March 29th Sunday, the company had asked one set of workers to continue. The company claims that it has been authorised by the government to provide essential services. However, NUMSA said that it is not a company that provides essential services and has misled the government on discount. Golden Arrows may have a vested interest in declaring itself an emergency service. It can thus deny workers their right to go on strike. A similar attempt in 2018 was defeated by unions in the passenger bus sector. This time to NUMSA alleges, the company is using the crisis to claim the status of an emergency service. The company is also reportedly threatening workers who refuse to go on duty with disciplined reaction. This is despite the fact that labour law explicitly states that workers can refuse certain duties if they feel it endangers their lives. The union has urged the workers to ignore the company's dictates. The company in turn has threatened legal action against NUMSA. Across the world such instances continue to be reported. On March 31st, hundreds of construction workers and street vendors took to the streets of Columbia's capital Bogota to protest the lack of food and other essential services. The majority of these workers are day labourers and have become unemployed because of the lockdown. They did not have enough money to feed their families and pay for their rent and other public services. As a result, they were forced to go out and ask for help either with food or money. This measure of protest was called for by the Construction Workers Union of SUBA. The workers blocked roads and although the protest was peaceful, the Bogota Police and the notorious Mobile Anti-Disturbances Squadron or ESMAD were deployed against them. In Sri Lanka, intervention by unions saw relief for thousands of migrant workers who were stranded in boarding houses where they had been abandoned in 14 free trade zones. The stranded workers were living in congested rooms in boarding houses for days without proper food arrangement and no wages. The free trade zone and general services employees union intervened and wrote to the authorities to supply food durations in such boarding houses. In a letter to the ministry labour, the union also demanded the company pay the workers wages. Simultaneously, the Women's Centre launched a program to provide food in the free trade zones. Union representatives distributed food parcels in the boarding houses which also accommodate daily wage workers employed through contact agencies. The union has complained that the conditions in the boarding houses used by the workers are not conducive to social distancing and fall short of many requirements necessary as COVID-19 containment measures. That's all we have in this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. To know more about these stories, visit our website PeopleStyleSpire.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for watching.


Traditionally, we have seen the key skills for CEOs have been industry-specific expertise, superior administrative ability, a track record of successfully managing resources. Today, most boards are finding these skills necessary but not sufficient. What has changed and why? One of the biggest changes that boards have seen are that the only certainty today in business is uncertainty. COVID has shown that, supply chains have shown that, the whole aspect of talent war has shown that, and very importantly, the value proposition because today, those who held positions of strength are no longer in the pole position. You could start at the middle of the grid today or you could even start at the end of the grid. In summary, the only way leaders today can try and manage business is to first think in scenarios, look very critically at risk management, and as you say in the supply chain, look at the whole source make deliver off business, which then leads to a value proposition where you're playing in the market with players who are known as well as unknown.


Check that. Ah, really? Cool, cool, cool. Sleepy ways. Chicho. Any advice for doing less of everything and focusing on what you truly love? I feel I've become a yes man out of fear of scarcity, but in doing so much, I also feel I'm not working towards what I want, which is music. Sorry if this is random. It's not random. It's sort of related to this. Number one. Number one rule. If you want to obtain more freedom or obtain your freedom, start a savings account. I'm not saying savings in a bank account or something like this. I'm saying have some type of savings or investments, right? The other one is reduce your expenses, reducing expenses and creating sort of a saving, sort of a nest egg will get, will buy you freedom. Really. Get your freedom by reducing your expenses and increasing your nest egg, and that gets you freedom. And by the way, gang, if you haven't figured it out by now, you will never become, unless you're one in a million shot, you will never become financially independent. Okay. If you're only relying on a paycheck for you to prepare yourself for retirement and to be able to afford, you know, some of the essentials in life such as housing, transportation, healthcare, safety and all this just, you need to actively be investing in something. And that means you have to be actively aware of whatever market you're interested in, investing your time and resources in. For me, it's comic books. Okay. And other things, of course. Right. See, that's the kicker. I've just reached that level where I've increased my savings and I have a little cushion, but I feel like I am still operating in my old ways where I still feel like I have to be doing, doing the most. And it's sleepy waves. And that takes mental power. Right. A lot of people have a hard time letting go of routine. Right. That's why I tell people that the one thing I've told friends does and take this with a grain of salt, as far as I'm concerned, we need to have three months of, three months off a year to be able to ground and reanalyze our lives and make the right decisions. So take extended time off from work if you have a nest egg, if you can afford that. Right.  Right. But it's okay to take a leave of absence and make sure you're reducing your expenses to read books, to create content and kick it in slowly in that way. Right. It's a juggling game. It really is a juggling game.  They don't know what to do with their time. Right. Ronnie, another haul. Chicho is making all that crypto game. No, no. I don't invest in crypto. Okay. Street name Liman. I collect all stuff. I have a collection of books over 100 years old and glow from the 20s. Nice.  Yeah. And you don't have to collect everything. You can collect what you know and what you love. Right.  If you're letting them go at a profit, sometimes you let them go anyway. Right. To generate more money, to make more investments. It's okay to do that. Okay. Birdie here.  If you want to do something, go do it. Give yourself permission. No one else will. Birdie here. 100% I agree with birdie here. Right. Just do.   Right. We all have to, we all have expenses. We all have to live. We all have to, we all have to take care of business. Right. But it's okay just to do and fail. Have losses. It's okay to do that. Really. Don't worry about taking a hit, taking a loss. Considered education. Right. Like, look, again, one of the first things that you learn when it comes to gambling is if there's nothing on the line for you to lose, you're not gambling. You don't know what gambling is. That really applies to poker. Right. There are a lot of people that like playing poker, but there's no money on the line. It doesn't have to be a ton of money. It could be pennies. Right. There's nothing on the line. Well, if there's nothing on the line and you're playing poker for fun, you're not really playing poker. You're passing time. Poker really kicks up in intensity when there's something on the line to lose. Life is the same way. Investments are the same way.


We are going to watch a clip from CNBC that is depressing to me because it really demonstrates that we are living in that dystopian late-stage capitalist society that we always feared, but it's here now. And this clip is two individuals on the network reacting to news that any normal person should be repulsed by. So it's news that during this pandemic, billionaires have substantially grown their wealth.  So they're going to explain why this actually isn't bad news to the contrary. It's good news. And not only that, billionaires getting richer during a pandemic is inspirational. They literally made this point. Their year for IPOs is turning into a banner year for newly minted American billionaires. Robert Frank joins us now with more. I'm celebrating, Robert. I'm not one of them, but I'm just on the record. I'm not Bernie Sanders. I'm celebrating. I'm celebrating. There's taxes. There's philanthropy. There's the possibility it can happen to other people if you work hard and have a great idea.  I'm not going to comment on this. I have no editorial opinion. Yeah, these stories are just really inspirational no matter what your point of view. You've got this week two IPOs, six billionaires over 40 billion dollars in personal wealth. You look at DoorDash, they minted three new multi-billionaires this week, CEO Tony Hsu. He's now worth over 2.7 billion. You've got co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang. They were all friends at Stanford and they did the first coding and food delivering while working at night while they were students at school. Those two guys were two and a half billion dollars. Now the winner of the week was Brian Chesky, he of course, Airbnb CEO. He's one of three co-founders who started the company when they were flat broke sitting in a San Francisco apartment. They decided to rent out air mattresses to make the rent. Chesky now worth over 11 billion dollars. He also got a share grant this fall. They valued at 1.8 billion, so that's on top of that. And he and the other guys cashed out about 90 million dollars in stock yesterday. Co-founders Joe Gevia and Nathan Blacharzek, they are now worth over 10 billion dollars. Also, cashing out some of those shares. Now in total, American billionaires have gained a trillion dollars in wealth just this year. I think about Amazon too and you know, people complain, no taxes, all that kind of stuff. Think of the jobs, think of the taxes paid by all the employees of Amazon. Think about the people that own the stock and what that's done for their retirement and for wealth creation and for asset values. Think of all those things. Would you really want to get whatever they would pay per year? Is that really so important that you, you know, that you strike?  He's over 110 billion dollars in wealth added just this year.  Forget it, I'm in Texas. So now the three richest people in the world do not pay state income taxes. And I think that's a signal. Well, that was great the other day when we had that discussion about New York. I love the guy. I love the guy. He really wants to tax rich people except for the salt. Because if you don't do the salt, they're going to move. So you do like rich people if they stay. You just don't like it. I mean, I could not understand that logic at all. I don't understand. We like democratic rich people. We don't like Republican wealthy people. I think that was the message that maybe that was it. Well, we can't. We all just get along anyway. All right. Oh, I can assure you we don't like rich people who are Democrats as well. We don't like all of them. And when we say eat the rich, we're not saying eat the right wing rich. We're talking about eating all of them. So my response overall to that, if I could summarize it is this. You were supposed to lick the boot, not deep throat it.  Got him. I mean, this honestly left me speechless. I saw this and I thought this is indistinguishable from satire. Like if you told me this was a skit on SNL, I would believe it. It's that bad. Now, I know that CNBC, I'm not their target audience, right? The demographic is wealthy people, I guess.  So I like millionaires and billionaires, but why? Why do you like millionaires and billionaires? Why do you worship them? Why does just having a lot of money make them worthy of your praise? Why? What's the point? And the only thing that I could say is that it's delusions, right? I like millionaires and billionaires because I believe that maybe one day I could be part of that club. But that's not the case. You're not going to be a millionaire. You're not going to be a billionaire. I mean, maybe these folks on CNBC will, but the average person, you have a greater statistical likelihood of getting struck by lightning or getting eaten by a shark than becoming a billionaire. So the American dream is dead.  I don't know. They also say these stories are just really inspirational. No matter what your point of view, six billionaires, over 40 million in personal wealth. How is this inspirational?  This just proves that like anyone can make it. They're billionaires. And sure, some people break through the ranks and they end up getting wealthy. They end up making a name for themselves. But that is very, very statistically unlikely and having more than a billion dollars in personal wealth, that isn't a thing that happens unless you exploited your workers. Jeff Bezos couldn't be a billionaire if he actually paid his workers well, treated his workers appropriately. But that's not the case. Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers are overworked to the point where they're pissing in bottles, they're contracting COVID-19, they're not paid a living wage. And there's a reason why Jeff Bezos has the money that he has. There's a reason why he's the richest person in the world, specifically because he exploited the labor of his employees. Also they say people complain about Amazon and taxes paid. Think of the jobs. Think of all of the taxes paid by employees of Amazon. So he says this, he doesn't realize how infuriating it is that he's applauding Amazon workers paying taxes but not the actual company itself. Why is it better that people who can't afford it as much are paying but the company who makes billions of dollars in profit, in fact, I believe that Amazon is now a trillion dollar company, that's not like something that would be better. I don't get the thinking. I don't get the thinking.  I'm trying to present you with commentary here that's reasonable and I'm trying to be nuanced here but I don't think there's anything else to say about this.   It's like they're flaunting their wealth. How many billions of dollars did Elon Musk make in 2020 alone during a pandemic? Yeah, so this, honestly, this segment it made me rage and I think that any reasonable person will see this and be disgusted by it because this is only something that a late stage capitalist, dystopian society could produce.


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Good morning everybody. Good morning. My name is Anjanette Washington. I'm a proud educator in Broward County Schools for the past 25 years. I'm a WordPress user and most importantly I am so excited to host the third annual kids panel. So give yourselves a hand for being here. Thank you so much. We have six amazing young people. The youngest is 10 years old and the oldest is 16 years old and so we're excited because these young people are the future of WordPress. Yesterday at our closing session we met the founder of WordPress and he was expressing some of his goals in the future what he's looking to see WordPress do but the future is now and so today we want to introduce our kids panel and I'm going to go around and start with Ms. Victoria Danious. If you would please give her a warm welcome. Secondly Ms. Alyssa Harris. Give her a welcome. Her sister Alayna Harris. Mr. Edward Pratt and I'm real excited about this next young man Mr. Aiden Lucayo and last but definitely not least Ms. Jada Washington Booth. So now we're going to talk about what is the future of WordPress and these young people. So first I'm going to start with Victoria. How did you get involved with WordPress? So just go ahead and talk. Okay. Next how did you get introduced? Yes. Can't hear? Okay. Okay. No problem. Hello. Okay. Perfect. Victoria if you could start over. So our coaches teach us how to code from scratch and they wanted to teach us something different more modern so we use WordPress. I'm basically the same story. Last year it was about last year in our sophomore year that we were introduced to WordPress through a competition that we were having so that's how we did it. We're all in the same club so this might sound repetitive but we started last year because we were originally only coding from scratch with HTML and CSS and we wanted to do something more challenging. My coding journey began in ninth grade. I started with animation and I went to programming Jones and programming them how to take coordinates to look and take pictures of certain maps but I got into WordPress. My tenth grade year when I joined my Oracle Club and through there I was using it to make blogs. I changed some of the templates, hacked it myself, did some special things when I changed the colors, the templates of it and that's basically how I joined. That's basically how I started on WordPress. Well WordPress is a relatively new thing for me. When my robotics teacher and Ms. Washington introduced me to it as a recommendation for a higher level coding I used it and now I really enjoy it. I started doing WordPress by my friend. They introduced me and my mom. Let's give them a hand. Thank you so much. As a mom and most importantly at first as a mom and as an educator I think it's important that word camp. You're bringing your children, you're bringing your students to this environment where they can learn what are the trends in technology and so with that said, Victoria, who was the biggest influencer in your life to get you involved with technology, with coding and with WordPress? Ms. Perciti I believe she's in the back somewhere. She is the one that really introduced me to the technology world in the overall because I am an immigrant to the United States and I came in 2013. I didn't know so much on coding but then I met Ms. Perciti through her sister and since then she's been kind of my mentor. She teaches me how to code, how to present and everything. So I'm very thankful to her. Excellent. My introduction to the technological world started in seventh grade. I wasn't really interested in it at first but it was a good program that my mom suggested since technology is constantly evolving and so since seventh grade I've been doing coding and then in about ninth grade beginning at tenth grade is when I got introduced to the Oracle program and that's when we really started to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and then last year we started on WordPress with various competitions that we held in our school. And while you're on that subject how did you do in those competitions? We did. Victoria you won most of them? Yeah. With WordPress? Wow. She lost a lot of them. Oh okay but still she won. That's outstanding. So the team won a lot of their competitions because of WordPress. Isn't that interesting? Yes, go ahead. For the record I won the last one. No friendly competition here. Okay, like Alyssa said our mom suggested the program through Oracle. Our mom suggested the program. It was on Saturdays so most of us were not initially initially interested in it but they had good food so we all stayed. And then from there on our passion for coding grew. I was introduced into coding my ninth grade year. I just stumbled upon it because I heard of a group called Tugan my school and I just joined it. I was like okay this is fun then and through that I was introduced into Oracle which rest I read the rest of my friends. Well these two at least. But so yes well yes we entered various competitions as well. I won one and I got the internship for one but anyway that's how I got introduced into coding. I would say my robotics teacher Mrs. Fijekowski I've been doing robotics and coding programs with her since last year and well she is popcorn. Robotics and popcorn are the best mix ever. I was introduced into coding by YouTube and I was wondering what Scratch was and then I just started coding from it and now I am starting to do JavaScript and I already started doing Python. So as you can see regardless of what age your child is WordPress Python JavaScript all of these coding programs your child is never too young to begin learning about it and as educators you can introduce your students to what these young people are doing. Again let's give them a hand. Excellent job. Thank you. So going back to Victoria my next question. Give us some of the competition experiences or in class in school experiences that you have had using WordPress over the last it seems like couple of years last five years. I was working for someone very recently it's JJC Consulting Group. I won a competition and I had the chance to work with them and create a website for them. It was challenging at first because I did create something but at the end of the day WordPress gives you the template and if you don't try you can either try to change it and make it your own but still using the template but you can do it as the client asks for. It was kind of challenging to me because I have my own kind of style. I like bright stuff and things like that but my client they wanted something business. A business template. Yes they wanted a business website and thankfully to my coaches they helped me. Excellent. Tell us about your experiences in the classroom personal with using WordPress whether it's competition or just for learning more about the program. So this past summer recently with the Saturday program Oracle we all competed to for internships in the downtown Fort Lauderdale area and to which that there was an event with a showcase and with the showcase many of us actually designed WordPress sites to house our portfolios and our resumes. So with WordPress what I really like about it although it does provide templates it allows you to input your own HTML and CSS code so that you can customize it any which way that you like and that really helped to show our own style to these business people in the downtown Fort Lauderdale area and I believe all four of us were to get internships that summer. Same question. What have you how have you used WordPress in your classroom personal experience school how have you used it. We were given accounts on WordPress originally for the very first competition that we did and during that competition none of us really knew how to use WordPress so it was more of a learning experience and so throughout the next couple of years or months they gave us multiple WordPress accounts and so we all went in there and we customized the templates then even though the templates are there they encourage us not to use the template in their original form. So what we mainly do with WordPress is we customize the templates. There is a feature in WordPress and it tells you don't go any further when you go and customize CSS but we always go further. It's like a big warning sign and it tells you not to do it but we do it anyway. So that's that's the main thing I get. And what was the result of you pushing yourself. I have multiple WordPress websites and my portfolio is really up to Okay. Edward. For me from my personal experience WordPress has been quite fun and it's very exciting for me because I like the challenges I like going further and further in it and of course I've broke the system several times and we had to get a new one for me so it was just very exciting. I really like customizing it myself. I like putting my own finish and touches on each template and each one I do I finish and it feels like a own child of mine because I did this and I put in the hard work and time and effort and to getting it to look as it is right now. So I'm very proud of myself for doing that and I really like WordPress. It's quite fun. Okay. Now Aiden and Jada have different experiences because they're at the elementary. The four previous students use WordPress. They're building their portfolios. They've started in middle school and transferred their skills into the high school but Aiden talk about your experiences with coding at the elementary level because that's where the groundwork begins parents and educators. If you don't have that background you cannot move into the levels that these four. So talk about that Aiden. Well I've been in my school's robotics program since first grade. I've been to many competitions. Now I'm in a Sekmi program which is more hands-on program. But in my robotics we had to do a lot of coding. So we had to learn the basics like the drag and drop scratch. Very a little bit of Python and then in second grade I joined the computer programming class which taught us the more advanced programs. But they're all very good basis and when I get into middle and high school I plan on extending those like learning more about coding. Excellent Aiden.  Talk about what you've been using with coding to do both wordpress and non-wordpress. Well I've been able to make a couple of websites and two apps by coding and wordpress. You want to talk about the website and the app or. Well one of my websites was Draw Amazing Kids. It was talking about how to empower kids to get more active. But I'm still going to still be working on that. And my other app is called PandaPad but I need to update it more. Okay. So as you can see it doesn't matter the age.  What's there with wordpress. And so this is the future of wordpress. And so with that what do you see Victoria as the future of wordpress. Where do you see it going for young people and adults in the next five to ten years. Where do you see wordpress going. Wordpress if someone really if someone doesn't know much about coding they may think it's just drag and drop and then just taking a theme or a template. But really you can push yourself really forward where it's like they said there's a button and they really ask you if you want to go further because if you do you may mess up the whole theme or the whole template. And this is one thing that I like about wordpress. Other stuff doesn't allow you to go in the back end and to change stuff. But wordpress just gives you the liberty to do all that. Okay. You can be a good coder and still use wordpress. So yeah. Alyssa so where do you see the future of wordpress and coding and what Victoria talked about. And by the way can you talk about where your family is from as well. Because I think that also might have an influence on that. Talk about your background. So like Victoria and really all four of us were all immigrants from the Caribbean. And coming here we really our parents really wanted to focus on all the opportunities that we could get here which is how most of us got introduced into coding. As for wordpress I do see it blowing up in the future because it when you first sign up it does have a tutorial of how to go through it. They also have various plugins that you can use to cut really customize your website. So no website is like the next one. And it's very efficient for new and upcoming entrepreneurs and business owners if they really want to put themselves out there or have a name for themselves. Elena same with you. Where do you see the future of wordpress. I think wordpress will definitely get bigger because I feel like it has something for coders of all skill levels. Like she says there are templates already installed in websites I mean in wordpress. So someone who may not know a lot about coding could just use a template while someone who's very advanced in coding can actually modify the template. So I feel like there's something in wordpress for everyone. So I think it will get bigger. Edward what about you. I also think that wordpress will become better bigger because it's very easy to use very efficient especially for those who don't have any idea of coding is. It's very easy to get an online present through wordpress. And for people who are interested in coding it is very easy to use. And you could just reset your templates every time you mess up on it. So it's very I think that it will be very good and it will be continue to get bigger because it's very easy to use and people will grow intent. People will tend to go towards that. Aiden so from the elementary perspective now getting ready for middle school where do you see yourself and see your fellow classmates using wordpress going from elementary to middle. I think we will be using wordpress a lot. It's a very basic website to understand and since I'm very new to wordpress I got the hang of it very quickly. And as technology grows more more people will start using online businesses and they'll need more websites. So wordpress will help people create those websites to make more successful businesses. It will definitely become more popular as technology gets better. Jada you've been using wordpress for about a year and a half two years. So where do you see your fellow fourth graders soon to be fifth graders using wordpress and coding. Well I think they'll be using wordpress like to make their own businesses and to help them like well one of my friends wants to sell some things like doughnuts. So I think he'll be using it for that. And like you could help your business grow even more like Aiden said. Excellent. And so as we get ready to wrap up our kids panel first of all I would like to thank again the WordCamp Miami 2018. This is the 10th year of WordCamp in Miami. So give yourselves a hand for coming. Personally I would like to thank Mr. David Bissett and his entire staff for inviting myself and the panelists that are here from Lauderdale 6 through 12 High School Manatee Bay Elementary Broward County Schools. Dr. Lisa Malenkovic for the Coding Department Day County Public Schools for collaborating with WordCamp Miami 2018 for giving these students an opportunity to share their experiences with WordCamp Miami 2018. So again we would like to thank all of those and again to Mr. Bissett and his entire staff for WordCamp and particularly the kids camp because it's important that these young people share their experiences. The kids camp panels are to give knowledge from a youth perspective. The young people have a lot as you hear they're doing it. We have the training opportunities that were yesterday and of course today there's going to be more of that. So if you're not involved with the kids camp make sure that make it a plan for your future to be at WordCamp Miami 2018 and of course 2019 when we have more things in store. So with that said Victoria who would you like to thank personally just for these experiences. Talk about who you like to thank. Ms. Brasidi, Ms. Defei and Mr. Kevin those three people Willie they are what introduced me to coding and they are the people that keep pushing me to do better. So these are your teachers. My coaches. Your coaches. Excellent. Excellent. Along with Willie I'd like to thank one of our coaches Coach Kevin he's over there with the phone. He's our main priority mentor with this coding Oracle program and he really does help and guide us through the whole process of coding even when we're frustrated and want to give up sometimes use the main support system for all of us that really helps us get through and getting our work done. I'd also like to thank Coach Kevin and Ms. Brasidi. They're the ones who provide a support system for us. They also help us. They provide a safe space for us. So I think that's one of the main reasons we also continue with the program. We feel safe and we're like a family there. So not only do we get to do something we're very passionate about but we're very close. Nice. Edward. I would also like to thank Ms. Brasidi. Ms. Brasidi and Mr. Coach Kevin and I also like to thank Mr. Saplan who's not here today sadly. And yes they're like a support system. They really help push us and help us through the nights and like they really do care for us especially when we'd be up at night around 2 a.m. in the morning and we send emails out to them. They'll answer back right away. Yes. They really do care for us very much. Wow. Yes. I would like to thank my amazing teachers Ms. Fidjikowski and Ms. Winegardner for always supporting me with everything I do. My parents for taking me here and always being helpful and supportive and Ms. Washington for inviting me to this amazing event. I'd like to thank my mom and Mr. David for allowing me to come here. Ms. Lenora and Ms. Fidjikowski for letting me be in checkmate and major. So with that in mind would you please go ahead and give our kids camp panelists a wonderful round of applause. Absolutely. I personally want to thank a couple of people for the opportunity again. Mr. David Bassett and his wife with WordCamp. This is my second year involved. First I would love I would like to thank all of the panelists for joining us. My mom and my aunt Carol and their absence Lynette Washington Carol Weech. My daughter's godmother came to join us Ms. Tina Hankerson over to the far left of me. My fiance Mr. Collins of dads be on duty and my Broward County parents teachers from Broward County schools. Thank you all for coming. We're all of the day County students by the way of your day County students Broward County students where are you Palm Beach County students I met some from Palm Beach County. So we want to say thank you for coming and being a part of today's work camp. Ms. Lenora Porter thank you so much for your mentorship with WordCamp. She was speaking on yesterday and I would like to at this time welcome to the stage Mr. David Bassett. Let's give him a wonderful hand. Thank you. Hey thank you very much.  It's okay. What the heck. Hi thank you. I only want to interject a little bit here because we just have a few more minutes. We have the e-commerce talks coming up after this. There's before you go. I wanted to relate a few things. First thing is thank you all for coming and thank you all for your patience and understanding there. We were getting. There was a lot of people that were supposed to be here today for the rest of the conference but since children involved in the bridge collapse we understand that some people was not be here. We appreciate the fact that everyone understands that there are certain things that we could not control and we just wanted to make you make you aware that we appreciate your patience and being here and supporting us this morning. That being said I have two things. First the kids camp is ready to go with the steam and stem stuff and we encourage you guys to go over there. Where that is is if you were here yesterday it is in the same room for the younger kids. It's in the same room as it was yesterday. If you are not here yesterday maybe you could follow some of the parents and kids to that room. It is called the RB building. There should be signs pointing you in that direction if not I will personally take you there myself. Secondly though we've had kids camp here for we've had kids we've had kids camp here for five years. This is just the third year we've had it for the panel. What we are looking for is interest in breaking this off from word camp possibly or having another word camp just for kids in the summer of this year. So and I'll be honest with you. I'm a guy I'm bluntly honest a little bit too honest sometimes. We were trying to get we our problem is that we don't know enough of the right people. Like we the organizations we reached out to some of them some of them just basically dropped out on us because for the for promotion of this event. So what we're looking for is especially in the Broward and Dade County School system and we're not sure where this is going to be but what we want this year is we want to we want to do a kids camp and not this big not this long as this weekend but maybe one day maybe it maybe it's at FIU here. I'm sure they would go along with it. That would be nice but it could also be in Broward County as well and we want to be able it'll be it would be both coding WordPress and Steven stem focused. So what we we can do all the organization we can take care of sponsorships for the most part but hey if anybody wants to sponsor that that's fine but what we're looking for is support is basically word of mouth and support. So what we're going to do is that we're going to send an email probably after I were finished I finished dying later this week and I'll be honest with you my wife also runs my wife is a high school math teacher she runs a steam and stem summer camp in Broward County and she's also on board in fact you'll meet her if you go over there in a few minutes apologies in advance and but what so we are fully what we are looking for is that eventually I will be probably stepping back from the larger work camps. I want to take over something more youth related and I and I can tell you right now that you eventually everybody in this room is going to grow up. What we're doing here is we have young kids but I also don't forget about the future the older kids do you know what we did with the older kids yesterday. OK that sounds bad when I said out loud but what we taught them yesterday we taught the older kids in the track about 60 kids and their parents yesterday about e-commerce websites and how to make a simple e-commerce website and we're teaching them today how to market those websites themselves for their teenagers. This is something that I want the kids in here in some way shape or form when they get a little older. Don't worry I'm not putting pressure on you to build an e-commerce site tomorrow. That'd be nice though. That is our hope. We're not just trying to teach kids how to code. There's a lot of coding initiatives out there and that's great. I'm glad I'm glad I'm seeing it. Steven stem is growing. You know this initiative things are getting on the right track. What we're looking for is a night is is a nice diverse group of young people that we can hopefully teach WordPress and general coding and general steaming stem stuff too. We will probably need some help with educators or teachers and volunteers and that sort of thing. But we want to do it this summer. And if you guys are interested to just wait for the email and I will make this fine young woman probably part of it if she wants to be part of it. So if you can't reach out to me you reach out to Ms. Washington. So I really really appreciate it. I wanted to make that announcement here now because you guys are wearing our shirts yellow shirts. So if you like what you see we'll make sure to get more fun stuff too. It's not just teaching it's all the stickers and the buttons and the happy things and kids trivia you know it's all that kind of stuff. So anyway I wanted to thank you very much for your support. Let you know what we're planning on doing and I wanted to thank ask you for your if you can support us in that initiative this summer. We'll find a place to do it. And even if you know anyway I'm rambling but thank you very much. And we're going to a round of applause for these young kids. So so now if you want to head over to the steam stem camp they're all waiting waiting for they're waiting for you.