Hey, Bolo Buddies. Thanks for watching. All right. This is part three of Facebook members share their favorite or best February Bolo. I forgot which one I was doing. Sorry guys. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching My name is Courtney also known as Bolo Buddies and I am here to share with you some big money Bolo's Hey, Bolo Buddies. Thanks for watching Amazing, right? All right, let's get started That Facebook members sold So if you're interested in being in a video just like this come on over to my Bolo Buddies Facebook group there is a link down in the description of this video and join and go to the Announcements slash featured section and you will see posts that look like this and You can share your Bolo and I will feature it in a video just like this so This is what I posted and I'm gonna share with you what everybody Shared let me get this a little bit. All right So I am gonna be looking at my computer screen and I'm gonna be reading off exactly Well as exact as I possibly can what they wrote and I'm gonna pop up screen shares and tell you guys where they got it What they paid for it and what it sold for These items come from thrift stores the state sales garage sales just different places where people source inventory to sell on different selling platforms So the ink I found in the office depot dumpster so a dumpster dive The Tiffany collaboration ornaments I bought last year six of them for seven dollars I've sold four of them for about 35 each. Okay, so we've got this brother ink and This Tiffany ornaments, so it looks like it's a little lamp, but it's an ornament. So super super cute I got this in a bathroom lot from an online estate auction Less than a dollar into it took an offer of 50 plus shipping buyer is all in at $56 vintage new old stock Vera Newman Burlington full flat bed sheet Mod bright blue and green and this is what it looks like And you know somebody mentioned I think it This same brand this Vera Newman, so definitely be on the lookout for that brand I Got this set of sheets in an online estate auction paid $29 accepted an offer of 200 plus shipping buyer is all in for 235 Wow, so they are vintage new Laura Ashley Castleberry King fitted flat sheet for King for King pillowcases. I Got this cross stitch kit at an online estate auction in a craft lot Less than a dollar and it sold for full asking price plus shipping the buyer is all in for 106 the ad these cross stitch kits if you can find the dimensions gold This is a dimensions gold. They are big money. Typically. This is a teddy bear gathering And it's cross stitch kit and you always want to put the cross stitch kit number in your title This next one comes from rebel the rebel reseller That is her YouTube channel, but her name is actually rebel and she is a bolo finder She sells tons and tons of plush if you're not following her channel. It looks like this definitely go do that But she also sells a lot of other items as well. This is a hard goods item. She got this From this is more pharma Promo items from a high bid online auction estate sale might have a dollar in them both sold for 60 to 95 So they're basically pharmaceutical company advertising items now. I know that a friend of mine She just listed I think it was a pencil with a pesticide it said something about pesticide and she got it taken down So I don't know if the same thing can happen with the pharmaceutical stuff or not Has anybody had an issue and the reason I'm thinking of this is I just did a video on items That are that people have gotten suspended for or they've lost Like suspended or lost their accounts or just had the item taken down for a reason And the members of the group shared their boat or not bolo's not bolo's They're not bolo's shared their items that you should not list on ebay, which is completely different than what I've normally done but um It got a good response So I have two more of those videos coming in the near future Make sure that you're subscribed to the channel hit that bell if you want to get alerts when I post new videos But this is what that video looks like go check it out. It is full of information but if anybody knows about the Pharmaceutical stuff has anyone had any issues with things being removed because like The company is the same as the pill or something like that like xanax or something Has anybody had any issues with that? It may be no problem. I'm not sure just throwing it out there as a question all right Pick these up at the goodwill for five dollars and fifty cents had them listed for four hundred and thirty four dollars Took best offer of three hundred being shipped off to germany. They are the shilling system of musical composition Wow very cool five dollars and fifty cents at the goodwill. What a nice find This actually didn't really cost me anything as As such I was given the kit twelve years ago to keep me occupied when I was sick and going through treatment It has sat completed in a drawer with many other finished cross stitch Which I have finally started listing this particular piece was hard to part with as it kept me sane But it needed to be displayed. I was beaming to get feedback from the buyer who said beautiful craftsmanship Very fast delivery. Thank you so much. It is a rooster completed cross stitch designed by nancy rossy And it sold for seventy five dollars plus shipping and what a fantastic story behind that awesome Okay, this one comes from double t's treasures. She has a youtube channel. It looks like this go check her out I bought these at america's thrift store. I paid two dollars and ninety nine cents per package And each package had two containers in them. I bought three packages total for an overall total of six I sold all six between a hundred and forty five to a hundred and sixty eight dollars They are discontinued. So I only listed one at a time not multi quantity sealed beauty control skin logics quarter cure comfort lotion With camomile or cam camomile camomile Wow, can you believe that that is awesome Okay, this one comes from stort who is franklin hill ventures on youtube And he is now a moderator of this group. So go show him some love with a sub He said this was one of my first sales in my new booth location sold this antique framed old lady of Oh Is that chest of akia? I don't know. I don't know if that's how you spelled it or not. I think it is But man, I would never have thought that it would be spelled that way Um bead artwork for a hundred and sixty. I believe it was brought over from poland in the early 1900s paid 1750 for it at another antique store How cool is that and then he's got a picture of his booth here in a little arrow pointing to the item This one comes from the cha ching king We bought these the day before yesterday for seven dollars and fifty cents each and they sold within hours There were seven copies of disney's the little mermaid on video eight tape I sold them for 40 each. This is the only disney animated movie released on video eight They did not sell because of anything inappropriate or the covers. So there are some little mermaid Covers that have an inappropriate image in them. I don't know if you're familiar with it But it really is a true thing which is very It's fairly sad. Honestly. I mean, it's a disney movie. It's just not good But anyway, he's saying that there was nothing in on this one. This is just an eight mm tape You may see listed comps in the 400 to 500 dollar range But the only sold prices fall between 30 and 40 So he's just given it to you real like you can go and look at listed items and honestly, you guys people put crazy prices on a lot of stuff And he sold his at um Okay, now i'm confused I sold them for 40 each His screenshot says 280 Disney the little mermaid video eight millimeter tape rare sealed made in japan Seven copies Oh 40 dollars each. Okay, so maybe the same person bought all of them This one comes from Toledo antique. They also have a youtube channel where um, they sell a lot of estate stuff Uh, really unique cool items and they also do live sales on their youtube channel. It looks like this So check them out. Um, we got this at a consignment on We got it as a consignment with a client So it's a consignment deal. We pay 50 of the sold amount to the client and keep the other 50 percent And it sold on an auction that started at 89 and it had six bids and sold for 177 I'm gonna have to like get close here and read this vintage imperial company satin marigold carnival glass unique shape. It's a vase and that's what it looks like The next one comes from 1987 Ventures tracy and she bought this at a thrift store for a dollar sold full price on ebay after about nine months People are very loyal to crab tree and evelin. So that's the brand. It's apricot body oil Yeah, lotion. It's a lotion So for 64 87 and definitely go check her out on youtube Um She has a great channel and she's super knowledgeable and a bolo finder Here's another one bought for two dollars at a yard sale had it listed for 59 87 and took an offer on ebay after six months for 44 60 It's a vintage brass indian chief native american profile inlaid stones and shells So i don't know if it's a belt buckle or if it's a brooch, but this is what it looks like Okay, got these at the grocery store. She always has these grocery store bolos paid six dollars and 32 cents for all of them The one trip there has been fun to offload So they are six packs of tic tac x freeze strong mint cooling crystals sugar free Sold these for 35 dollars. Another person that sells tic tacks is farm girl scavenger. No, well, so Super funny, right? All right, let's look at the next one here I purchased this at ma ma jar I don't know. It's a thrift store Where I like to shop I paid 50 cents and it took and took a chance on it because it was only 50 cents Had tags and anime is so popular right now. I took a best offer of 80 and the buyer paid the shipping and I'm drawing a blank I think it's leo's treasures I'll pop it up But that's her ebay store. She does not have a youtube channel. I'm trying to keep all these youtube channels and ebay stores straight So I found this jacket at burlington discounted for 12 dollars and 99 cents this one sold for 100 plus shipping in two weeks It's a raffle rands men's size 58 regular black faux suede sport coat And this comes from flipping it good. This is his youtube channel He goes out to like ross burlington tj max all those discount stores And you guys he buys stuff and he flips it for big money So if you want to learn it about retail arbitrage clothing check out his channel. He is a wealth of knowledge Paid a dollar at a local thrift store sold for a hundred after three days going overseas gsp global shipping program original rc rug crafter speed tufting tool Um sold for a hundred dollars check that out Now that was the february bolo. So that was the end of them I just had I don't know like 15 or so to finish up, but I'm gonna add to this one and I am gonna add in um And this one didn't do well Uh, not a lot of people posted on this one someone in the group asked me to do this and I'm like Oh, I don't know how well it's gonna do but sometimes I'm wrong But this time I was right there were there's a like 10 or 15, but it's an item that um You bought That you wanted to keep but you sold it anyway So it's really a fun category and maybe just people didn't understand or they didn't see the post But I do have a few here for you. So I'm going to show you those She said I bought it on mercari for 95 dollars and it took a few months to sell But it sold for a full asking price of $995 on ebay It is um, let me see if I can zoom in here. It's alice in wonderland I think it's just like the cat. I don't know its name and I'm sorry. I cannot it's kind of blurry But um It's like a figurine or a statue Crazy just crazy Paid 50 cents at a yard sale. It is a hallmark keepsake ornament limited edition a gift for Is it a harry potter? I think it's a harry potter for some reason my everything looks really blurry I've got it zoomed in maybe that's why But this ornament and it sold for it looks like a 188 dollars. Wow Okay Sold for 55 bought it for five. I really should have kept it It uh sold on poshmark and it looks like it's a bedspread Looks like that I paid 10 cents for this at an animal charity thrift store near me I am a lisa frank fan and it brings back such nostalgia for me I have a hard time selling the lisa frank things I find but the profit on this was just too much not to take it hollywood bear is my favorite lisa frank design And this is a lisa frank vintage three ring pocket folder and it sold for 88 dollars I love kimberley patterned by fire king, but they sell so good. I kept one mug paid five for the colored set The amber glass paid 20 with other dishes and it looks like it sold for 85 dollars For okay, I see here. So that one sold for why is my why is everything so blurry? um 85 on that one and then Took some best offers on the others here and then this last one went on mercari. It looks like for 83 So I'll pop up the screenshots. I'll be able to make them bigger. So you guys will be able to see them better than I can see them This one comes from moderator be carried away carry. She has a youtube channel. Her channel is be carried away And she paid 50 dollars at the salvation army and sold locally on facebook marketplace For a best offer of 300. I wish I'd had a vintage yellow kitchen and the space to keep these They're how six vintage 1950s chrome vinyl yellow kitchen chair set mid-century modern So very cool item there I would have loved to have kept this for my christmas decor, but Paid up a bit for him $10 and it was a challenge to see who could find the best item for $10 or less at the antique mall We were at winning was more important than keeping it. This one comes from jack's treasures They have a youtube channel. It looks like this. They do a lot of storage units and they also have booths. So definitely check out their channel This next one comes from uh, oh 1987 Ventures tracy. Um, I almost said a different date. I think but I bought these at an estate sale with two other boxes full of Other vintage christmas like these that I've sold I wanted to keep them all for a supreme vintage christmas of my own But So they're the little felt santas and a lot of people collect these and they sell very well She sold this it looks like on mercari for 60 dollars And the buyer paid shipping That is it I don't know how many that was because some of them were february Some of them were an item that you wish you didn't sell. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching Go join my bolo buddies facebook group if you have not already Share in these posts so that we can share Or that we can all see your bolos and I can share them in the video All right, leave me an out emoji if you made it this far. Thanks for watching


I'll be talking about marine life with focus in the Philippines. As you very well know, the Philippines is surrounded by marine waters and we are at the center of the center of marine biodiversity. The ocean is home to a plethora of living organisms from the tiniest of the organism which can be seen only by the microscope or not seen by the naked eye. And of course to the largest creature known to man like for example the whales that are bigger than the elephants that you have seen. The coral reef for example harbors as much life as a rainforest from the minutest organism to the biggest organisms. You might be familiar with finding them Mimo or finding Dory and these were films taken in the coral reef ecosystem. The ocean in its vastness represent the greatest extremes of temperature, light and pressure. And these are encountered by the organisms and therefore adaptation to these harsh environments create marine biodiversity and therefore gives the potential for applications like drug discovery, environmental remediation, increasing seafood supply and safety and developing new resources for industrial processes. One giant worm for example which is 1.5 meters long was found in 1977. It was going in the Pacific Ocean about 2,600 meters below the surface. Bacteria symbion was a good candidate for studies for medicine. The deep sea and organisms found in these deeper parts of the oceans can be potential sources of materials for the industry. For example microbes adapted to the extreme environments can yield powerful tools for medical and other applications like for example the ones that are being used for DNA polymerase have been taken from these deep inhabiting microbes. One fish you might be familiar with is a puffer fish and it is producing tetrodotoxin and this tetrodotoxin has been used for medical purposes and it might be possible that it can be used for a specific mechanism of action that can be of medical significance and therefore I'd like to introduce to you a phenomenon which is very well known to most people as a red tide but called technically as harmful algal blooms and there are organisms that are causing these harmful algal blooms and I'll be giving more examples that are commonly found in the Philippines. The organisms that we will be showing you are the organisms that we have collected from the Philippines and we are culturing for the toxins that they produce and will be used for medical purposes in the long run. There are some invertebrates which are bent like they called this because they are present on the surfaces of other organisms like corals and they can be reached sources for biotechnology products. One very famous material that has been reported from the Philippines is the conotoxin that was found from the conus shells and the US Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the use of this conotoxin as medical drug. Some soft coral contain a prostanglandine and they can be used as anti-wrinkle creams. Fluorescence in many corals may provide novel biotech light sources and some of them are now being used in the medical profession. Some materials coming from seaweeds are used as anti-inflammatory and anti-viral materials and they are found in the tropical areas. The seaweeds are cultured in the Philippines. For example, several species are now being cultured from the wild materials that have been collected in the Philippines. Some of the microalgae can produce kadeik, acid for example that can be again sources of medicine for some other purposes. Some nutritional requirements can be addressed by the algae also from the marine habitat because they produce the so-called PUFA or PUFA to the common man. The other uses of organisms coming from the marine habitat is the corals for example and they use as artificial bones already. Other industrial applications are those coming from jellyfish like for example the fluorescent compounds from the jellyfish, novel glues from mussels. The mussels are not only edible but they produce glues that can be used for industrial purposes. Natural products that can be effective as anti-cancers are also collected and identified from asigians or seaweeds. Also aquaculture techniques have been enhanced to produce more materials from other organisms like invertebrates and seaweeds as I have pointed out earlier. Now let's talk about seaweed farming. I think many of you are familiar with seaweeds from the market and they are eaten asalad but seaweed farming meaning those that are farmed already because of their high economic value is being done almost in the entire Philippines in many tropical areas in Southeast Asia in also in South American countries and even in Africa. Like for example, Kapafakus alvarezai I'll be showing you the organism later is being farmed worldwide and I think the most economically important seaweed of today. They are found in ice creams as mixtures, binders for many materials even for some of the beers that you need to take regularly and some other pastries would need seaweed for example. In the Philippines many of these seaweeds are farmed in the Visayas and in Mindanao as well as in many areas in Luzon. Now the value has been increasing because of some problems relating to changes in climate that are affecting the seaweeds that are being farmed and so therefore seaweed farming was based on our organism collected from the Philippines developed as a crop and for many decades now giving the industry and the fishermen and some families income which cannot be estimated at this point it could be billions of dollars in fact. Now let's proceed with the so-called harmful algal blooms which this time negatively affects the economy as pointed out earlier but also would affect also the health for example if not manage well. I mentioned a while ago that marine life would give food security and food safety. In fact the Filipinos would be not permanently are basically dependent on the sea for protein source spinning the fish and so therefore this dependence on fish would be addressed more sustainably if we have fish from the marine environment as needed by the Filipinos. Now for many years now fish production in the Philippines as well as in other countries around the world are dependent in aquaculture not from the natural harvest so therefore from capture of fishery we call it there is less production and from aquaculture there is more production but along with this increase in aquaculture are problems that are facing our marine seafood sources and so therefore one of the major problems of this seafood industry is the so-called red tide or harmful algal blooms. Now maybe you have not seen this red tide meaning as red as this in the Philippines but I've seen them in many areas. This picture is from my friend an Australian scientist and you can see how red the ocean was during that phenomenon and actually this is caused by a microorganism, a microalgae that has increased in density and this increase in density could cause harm depending on the organisms that are in bloom. There are many causes of red tides or harmful algal blooms. I'd like to mention some anthropogenic factors like for example inputs from the land like fertilizers and even too much feeds being inputted into the water for the aquaculture of fish. There is that harmful algal bloom that is caused bottom from bottom up and those that are caused from top to bottom. So this would change the food chain and therefore would cause the increase in the density of your micro organism that can cause your harmful algal blooms. Now there is a prediction that with the increase in climate change there will be changes in the micro phytoplankton that is present in the ocean and so therefore the biodiversity would be changed and therefore would cause more problems in terms of harmful algal blooms. Even shapes can carry harmful microorganisms or harmful phytoplankton from one area to the other. That's the reason why the International Maritime Organization has imposed a management scheme that would check this debalesting and balesting of shapes to avoid the transfer of these invasive organisms. I wouldn't want to give a complex picture of harmful algal blooms but to summarize inputs from the land and transfer from one side to the other can cause harmful algal blooms and therefore could impact the industry and as well as cause health problems like poisonings of human beings. Now these are the organisms that we have now cultured, isolated from the Philippines from as many as 10 or more areas in the Philippines and this is a primary cause of Paralytic Shelfish Poisoning in the country and the main cause also for Paralytic Shelfish Poisoning in the tropical world and we have cultured this and we have isolated the so-called pyrodeosax which we are now developing for some medical purposes together with some people from the College of Medicine of UP and probably with some collaborations at universities abroad. Now this is just to show you the extent of the damage, not really the economic as well as the health impacts of these organisms throughout Southeast Asia. This will show you the occurrence of the organisms in the area. Now we at the UNESCO we came up with this particular poster to prevent panic of people when there is a bloom of a certain organism because it is only the shellfish which is affected but the other seafood are not affected and therefore this would prevent the so-called halo effect and so therefore would prevent people from buying the other seafood which is would have negative effect on the industry. Now actually the intoxication of the organism is through the shellfish. The organism is collected by the shellfish in the marine habitat and therefore they are concentrated on the shellfish and so therefore with the Bureau of Futurist and the aquatic resources puts up a ban has accumulated the shellfish has accumulated the organisms in their body and therefore you the human beings are prevented from taking this. Based on the studies that we have we already have predictions on when they would occur and mostly they occur or they happen during the southwest monsoon which is the period now and so therefore if you look into the newspaper there are a lot of bans in the country for shellfish collection and marketing. So many areas in the country are affected and preventive management has been in place. Now I'd like to show you a very nice picture of what we have found out in terms of the movement of some harmful organism from one country to the other using current systems. For example, there was this fish kill in Palawan some years ago and the mayor of Palawan told us to to see what was happening about the fish kill and this is another type of an organism that has proliferated and it is the fish which is affected and not the shellfish. So the fish died when they consumed this particular organism. So the water was red. The blue waters of Palawan turned red and so we went there to collect the materials and this would show you the satellite images of how the red tide moved from the southern part of Palawan to the northern part of Palawan but actually the red tide originated from Malaysia the one near Palawan. So these are the images and it would show you that the red tide moved from Malaysia Sabah going up to Palawan and it involved several kilometers of water moving following the current of the West Philippine Sea or the South China Sea to some following the current system at that time moving from south to north and affecting the waters meaning causing fish kill from that area to the other. So it was from Palawan but actually coming from the northern side of Malaysia. The organism is and the blooms have been recorded also in other parts of Asia. So like for example in Korea and Japan and of course in Brunei Malaysia and the Philippines and this is the subject of a collaboration between all these countries to see the movement of the organism whether also if they are really diverse or they are of the same organisms and so therefore this would be helpful in management of this particular organism. Harmful algal blooms do not only affect a human being through the food chain but also affect birds in marine mammals. There have been reports of some marine mammals like for example the manatees that died in Florida 1996 and also lately in Chile there was a lot of death that was caused by harmful algal blooms and so therefore the marine habitat can be affected completely by this harmful algal blooms causing harm through the food chain and eventually reaching human beings so the effect could be economic or even public health affected by these harmful algal blooms. In closing I'd like to say that the marine habitat is very rich in life. Biodiversity is very rich especially in the Philippines which is the center of the center of marine biodiversity but there is a time for some problems for example when man would interfere with this biodiversity and cause negative impacts and the most commonly recorded events of late during the last decade is the so-called harmful algal bloom needing affecting the lowest of the food chain and going through the food chain going up and affecting human beings and other marine life as well. My message here is this. We should love our marine environment it is the heaven of our marine life and especially the Philippines is the center of marine biodiversity it is our life especially because the Philippines is made up of 70% water meaning marine waters and only 30% land.


As our nation's consumption of metals and minerals continues to rise, the mining and milling industries in an effort to meet this rising need continue their drive for greater productivity. But as often happens in rapid industrial progress, a big advance in one direction sometimes results in a bigger setback in another. In the case of materials handling and hauling in service mines, production is increased with the introduction of larger capacity front-end loaders and trucks. But at the same time, the number of operator-incurred accidents is also increased. In an emergency, most operators will tend to act instinctively and reflexively. And if they had previously operated another model with different controls, they are very likely to find themselves confused and in trouble when trying to operate a new or different machine. Therefore, it is important that front-end loaders be operated only by persons competently trained and authorized to handle the particular model being used. It is also important that machines be used for the purpose for which they were designed. Unauthorized use and misuse of the front-end loader has accounted for an alarming number of fatalities. For instance, using a dipper or bucket as a work stage or platform is not a safe practice. Still another recurring and hazardous example of equipment misuse is the unsafe practice of riding in the bucket of a front-end loader. How about a ride to shop? Sure, hop in. The law and good common sense tell us that men should not ride in buckets or haulage truck beds for the purpose of transportation. Using the loader as a means of transporting men is usually asking for trouble. Recently, a front-end loader operator at an open pit sand and gravel mine was involved in an accident that could only be classified as a case of dangerous work practice. The front-end loader's job was to load sand and gravel into trucks for haulage to the construction site. After loading a haulage truck, the loader operator moved his machine toward the high wall where sand and gravel was mined from a single 35 to 40 foot high bench. Either a bulldozer pushed the material down from the wall or it was allowed to cave naturally. The loose and unconsolidated high wall was not sloped to the proper safe angle or repose and therefore was dangerous. Company safety rules specify that the high banks be pushed down from above with a bulldozer and that material was not to be mined directly from the high wall with a front-end loader. Federal regulations also state that men shall not work near or under dangerous banks. The operator knew the company safety rule against using the front-end loader for mining the high wall. Unsafe, dangerous work practices waste time, damage equipment and above all risk human lives. Past investigations have pointed up the necessity for rollover protection and seat belts but most significantly they have emphasized the critical growing industry-wide need for all mine and mill operators to establish a definite effective continually functioning safety training program for their company and to make every effort to prevent accidents by having their employees actively participate in the program. Additional safety factors to consider are make a thorough pre-operational check of your machine. First with the engine turned off and the bucket lowered to the ground then start the engine and check the braking system according to manufacturer's specifications. Be sure to check the brakes again before traveling on grades. During operation wear your safety belt. This is essential in the event of a collision and can save your life if the machine turns over. Chances of surviving a rollover are greatly increased if you remain properly secured in the cab and don't attempt to jump out. Well constructed berms or guardrails along the hallway may help keep your machine on the road and prevent you from going over an embankment. Much of our mining industry is dependent on the front-end loader therefore if accidents are to be prevented proper safety training and instruction of the operators is of utmost importance.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Oracle Open World 2016. Brought to you by Oracle. Now, here's your host, John Furrier and Peter Burris. Welcome back, Kevin. We are here live at Oracle Open World in San Francisco on the ground floor of Oracle World 2016. This is theCUBE's SiliconANGLES flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Peter Burris. Our next guest is Sharon Weinbar, who is a fabulous person, top-notch VC, but no now, the CEO of Hack Bright Academy, still involved with Scale VP. Great to see you, good friend, been a while. Number one in rowing. Tell us about your rowing status. I want to get that out first, because that's super impressive. Thank you, yeah. So I'm a master's rower. I'll be rowing ahead of the Charles next week. And right now on the concept too, that's the Rowing Machine Manufacturer Global Rankings. I'm number one in my age class for the 5K. That's awesome, congratulations. Well, you've been an amazing investor, been following your venture capital career for over 10 years. At Scale VP, you've done some amazing investments. But you took a step out of the meat grinder, or the venture capital world as a leader of the firm, although you're still involved, to get involved with Hack Bright and its mission, which has then got sold to a public company, fully funded and scaling up, unintended Scale VP. But what motivated you to leave the ivory tower, the VC were all to get down and dirty. Down and dirty in a bootstrap startup, mission driven startup. So there were a couple of things that came together, kind of all at once. Big picture was I was on the verge of being an empty nester when I first met Hack Bright, which I'll tell you about in a second. And so I sort of started the year before my daughter, my youngest daughter left for college thinking, embrace change. I was afraid of being an empty nester, and I wanted to lean in to thinking about doing something different. I had been a partner at Scale VP for 14 years. I started as a venture capitalist when my kids started school because I wanted to be more in control of my schedule and not have as much international business trouble as I had. So I had an open mind. And then I was researching women in engineering for a big article I wrote for TechCrunch about how to hire women engineers. And I looked into how many women engineers were being graduated in traditional computer science programs in colleges. And the numbers, the percentages are increasing, but the actual absolute number is vanishingly small. So top 20 computer science programs graduated 500 women in computer science. So if Google hired all of them, it would change their ratio by one and a half percentage points. The whole rest of the industry would get scratched. And I wasn't- A flip in the radar basically is a rounding error for the stats. Right, I wasn't willing to buy into, it's a pipeline problem, right? That's what a lot of men suppose. There just aren't women who are interested in. So I went looking for alternative sources of high quality engineering candidates. I reached out to Hackbrite on Twitter. They invited me to come in for a coffee meeting. It was supposed to be a half an hour. And I spent three hours with the founder who was a young fellow. And we just had a mind meld and I fell in love with the concept. As an investor, I had thousands and thousands of meetings with startups. Occasionally, every couple of times a year, I'd have a meeting with a startup and walk out of the meeting and think, I want to invest in that company. I want to be involved with this company, but be involved like chicken, right? Yeah. I walked out of that first meeting with Hackbrite and thought, I want to be involved like the pig. I want to be committed here. I want to work here.  So I called the founder, David, that night and said, I just want to be part of this. And what Hackbrite does is teach early and mid-career professional women computer science fundamentals and professional software development skills and get her ready for a new career as a software engineer. So she has a bachelor's degree, 20% of our students have advanced degrees. She's got work experience, but somehow in the great sorting hat of life, she ended up in the wrong spot in a job that wasn't intellectually challenging. She didn't push that. And she's decided she wants to move into being a software engineer. So we help her make that pivot. So this isn't getting down into the trenches on age generational, like lower. No, this is converting working women into open, you know, into software engineers and helping her get jobs in open recs. There's the conference board just published stats. There are 535,000 open positions in software engineering right now. When you think about- And we got a stat from on the CUBE interview last week that 1.4 million underfunded jobs available for security engineering, computer science, data analytics and whatnot. 1.4 million open positions. Right. So that's when you think of, so this is the Hackbrite spoke both to my heart because of the mission, but also to my head as a venture capitalist because the market opportunity, the big social mission is actually part of the big market opportunity that gave the company a lot of room to scale. And that's where I felt comfortable coming in and helping the company scale up. So when you think about that quote from Marc-André's software is eating the world, what that means is every company has to become a software company. So it's not just venture funded startups here in Silicon Valley or big software companies like Oracle that are hiring software engineers. Every retailer financial services travel company has already become a software company, right? Because you're doing everything on your phone. I just joined the board of a large diversified industrial manufacturer on the East Coast called Colfax Corporations Public, $4 billion company. They asked me to join the board because they wanted a Silicon Valley digital native to help them think through their software strategy. And we're the world's market leader in well-digested. So they want to do the digital transformation, digitize their business. So that's what's driving this requirement for so many software engineers across a lot of different disciplines. Is there a makeup for the women that are in transition here? Because it does, I like that sorting hat now because I can see that people end up, who would have thought I'd be hosting the queue out of computer science theory? I love this job. But it just happens, people end up in a spot. You become what you're known for and sometimes you get stuck and it's hard to move. Is it a migration? Is it a issue? Is it more, what are some of the- There's so many different ways that people end up in jobs that don't float their phone for some reason, right? You either, you don't know that computer science exists as a discipline.  We have a woman, a young woman who works for us right now who grew up on the Arizona, Mexico border. In her high school, she had to fight to even go to college because the high school counselor told her, oh no, you don't go to college, you get married and have babies, right? When she was 17 in America. So she had to fight even to go to college and then she has a liberal arts degree, worked as a counselor, but has a significant other who was an engineer and she got exposed to software engineering through him. And what a lot of our students have the experience is they have a friend, significant other, sibling. So it's an exposure issue mainly too, right? Kind of get the bug, kind of- And they see that and think, I could do that. And our women tend to be makers. So, you know, it takes a special set of attributes, not just educational background, to be an engineer. You want to have to build them. So our students are often makers. They are cooks, they build things, they make their own honey, they make their own makeup. They have, you know, they have created energy. Inatability, you can see the natural ability. Right, and they, well, they have a vision for how something should be and they can find the path to that. Okay, how does it work? Okay, so just take us through the process. I want to make sure people can understand this. Is there a filter? Is there an application? How does it work? Do they do it remote? Also the internet is an abler for you. Possibly, take us through the workflow. So, first of all, we're based here in San Francisco. Right now we have a campus here in downtown San Francisco. About 20% of our students come from outside the Bay Area and they apply and get in and come. And the majority of our students are from this region. And they commute in or is it? The students who are coming from all over the country are living in Airbnb, hacker hostels, Craigslist. So they're roughing it. Yes, yes. We're getting apartments. Yeah, it's a scrappy group of people. You know, they're willing to quit their job, pay a nearly $17,000 tuition, invest in themselves to transition their career. We have a competitive application process. So you have to fill out a form, write an essay, we're looking for, can you think like an engineer? Can you describe something, the big picture, break it down into its component elements and tell us how they work together? It can be any topic, but that's what we're looking for. It's almost like a whiteboard session, like code that or something, get a feel for it. There's an interview where we're looking for a combination of grit. So will you be able to stick with it? And can you work in teams, right? Because as you're here, our business model really requires our graduates to go on and be successfully placed as software engineers. And there's a code challenge. So we're looking for people to come in who have done some self-study. They're online with Code Academy or Coursera, where they've taken a community college class, they've worked their way through a couple books. So they do a code challenge as part of the interview. So we're not teaching them what is shell script, what is a procedure. Some basic fundamentals and familiarity. So after that application process, we select a cohort, we teach on a calendar quarter system. It's 12 weeks, intensive, full-time, immersive, onsite at Hackbrite, 683 Sutter Street in San Francisco. So every day, class is a mixture of lecture and lab. So there's a lecture for an hour or an hour and a half. It's followed up immediately by hands on lab work. All of the lab work is pair programming. So two women sitting side by side, talking about their code design, talking about how they decided to structure it that way. Why did they pick this data structure? All of that pair programming is meant both to reinforce the learning. So as you have to describe to somebody why you did something and explain it, it reinforces your own learning. But it also trains you to be an engineer. In the real world, you have to talk about your code to your colleagues. And women tend to be shy and introverted in putting themselves out there in the workplace. I'm not making generalizations about women's personalities in general. So we... But you've taken that discipline of communication with the coding, not making it a separate siloed course. Right, exactly. So from the first day, you're talking about code. We want you to be really comfortable being an engineer or talking about code. So that's the structure of the program is lecture lab, lecture lab. The contents are a mix of computer science fundamental. So data structures and algorithms, the same kind of information you'd be getting at Cal or Stanford or any other TOG CS program. But then a mixture of also professional software development skills. So what does it mean to work on an agile methodology? How do you design and test? What does it mean to build a distributed application? So a lot of computer science programs teach a very structured and traditional format of computer science. And they don't teach you APIs from Twilio and deployment on AWS. And our students are going to learn all of that in the program. Four weeks toward the end are dedicated to building a project. So each student builds her own full staff web application from ideation to specification to MVP to work in code. The build, that's the thesis. It's like your big project. You are hands on building code, deploying it on GitHub. So then when you go to apply for a job, the engineering manager can see your code, kind of walk through and do a code review with you. And you've practiced talking about code. So, and that's unlike most of the other code schools that have either a group project or refactoring of an existing website. Really, we really want women to own the decision about the architecture of her application and all of the implementation. And then the other big differentiator for Hackbrite is lots and lots of career services, right? You think about the boot camp, there's two purposes.  So we're there to support you in both endeavors. So our business model is two-sided. Women pay tuition to come to Hackbrite, but then also companies pay to recruit for us. We have a unique pipeline of talent that's not picked over on LinkedIn and indeed, these are net new engineers, all women, all trained curriculum that's been vetted by our partners. So they've bought into what we're teaching and why and they've bought into the quality of the students we admit and they're paying us a placement fee to hire for us. And then we in turn rebate a portion of that so the women to give them an incentive and this is a great phenomenal work. Congratulations on this. I'm so excited for you personally as well as the passion and it's the right thing, it's so awesome. I guess that my final question for you would be talk to the audience out there and other women, young women who see this as an inspirational opportunity for you doing, what can they learn from this? What can someone in high school who's maybe a sophomore at Palo Alto Public School or someone who's not even in a technical track or someone in college saying, hey I thought I might be in the wrong major as junior year, what advice would you have for those people? Can I add one little thing to that? As you do so, observe what types of new problems these tools and tactics and techniques and skills are going to be applied to. Because I think a big part of the issue is women may not see that the problems that are important to them tie back to these skills. Right, so first big picture to go to your point. There's such an important need for diverse engineering teams because technologies we talked about earlier, it's the layer through which we experience almost every kind of product now, right? Our car is a software product. Our home appliances are software products. And when you have a monoculture engineering team making the design and future trade-offs for those things you often leaving out large parts of the market. And diverse teams just make better decisions, period. So it's really important to have a diverse engineering workforce in every sector in America. I have a young, one of my daughters, the one who I mentioned went away to college who is a liberal arts major. She, I could never get her interested in code and then coming up on her senior year, she asked me, could she take a computer science class? And I said, sir, but why? Why, you know, what changed your mind? And she said, it's like baking. It's a life skill everyone should have at this point in American history because of that fact that software is everywhere, right? Yeah, in fact, we use terms, it's baking in the oven. It's baking, yes. The code's not baked. Yes, so I think the percentage of women in computer science went down precipitously starting in the 1980s with the rise of the personal computer and also the gaming console. And it became, coding as a culture became synonymous with gamers.  And that is just not true. So software is being used by lots and lots and built by lots of different kinds of people. So girls, young women, women should think there is a place for you in software.  I think that, you know, many of us have the impression that there's no ambient sense of belonging. The programmer kind of thing. And so there's lots of ways to try it. And I would say try it and see if you like it. Whether it means, you know, joining a club at school, joining girls, you know, girls who code, or there are numerous coding clubs for girls in middle school and high school. Well, and the important thing is it's a life skill as you pointed out. And women can be cured. My daughter's curious. She's in pre-med. She's studying. Now she's starting to ask me the same question. Maybe I should take a Python class. I'm like, why Python? Why not Swift? So like, I love that conversation. Python, we teach Python. It's the most prevalently taught in computer science programs. It's the most prevalently used in enterprise. And data science, too. Yes, so it's, you know, you can take free classes on Codecademy or Coursera. You just don't know what you're going to like. And I think. So taste as much as you can. Right. And also the ability to think like an engineer is useful even if you don't choose to go into engineering. I mean, honestly, I have two engineering degrees. I never practiced engineering professionally. But I guarantee you that that skill set of being able to decompose a problem, find the drivers and articulate what, you know, what the methodology is to get an outcome is incredibly useful across multiple domains. Sharon, you're so impressive and so inspirational. Congratulations on your new mission. A lot of passion, mission-based venture. It's scaling now. Congratulations. Hackbright Academy, Sharon Winebar, CEO and still a venture partner at Scale VP. You're watching theCUBE live at Oracle Open World of San Francisco and we're constructing the Siblin noise. We'll be right back with more CUBE coverage after this.


Good evening, everyone. This is Melissa with thestockswish.com and welcome. Welcome to a market review. I haven't done one for a while, so I thought I would do a spy review today. Spy is still bullish. Spy is bullish overall, but the market had a very bearish day today. It's quarter of two and this move happened mostly in the morning. It just went way bigger than expected here. I thought we'd come in a little bit today, but hold up here. But once we started to break, it was all over, and then once we started to break and started to break and started to break and came down here, really, seriously, we ended up falling much, much deeper than I thought we would today. Now we still did hold here. I mean, 166.45 is the low here. The low here is 166.84. So I thought we'd hold in here, but at one point we could have come all the way down here. We were just running so fast and deep into 166. We held here. Actually, we didn't even get down on top of it, but that's basically where we bounced. And so I see follow-through to the upside here tomorrow, but today was very bearish and we're going to close red. And I don't know if we close right here or somewhere in this body-ish. It's better for us to follow through the bullish side tomorrow if we close and hold here. If we close into this tail, we may actually drop some more tomorrow and then pick ourselves up off our butts and follow through next week. Either way, this move today has not changed the overall look of the market. It hasn't. Okay? We just had to move down. And actually, all the stuff that was going on this morning was news-related. All the things that's happening with the government and the budget and every time one of the government people gets on the news and talks, the market seems to fall. It seems to happen a lot lately. The market does not like the fact that the U.S. has not been able to figure out some kind of budget measure. And not only that, it keeps pretty money like crazy and making bigger, bigger debt for the country. So honestly, I still see the market holding bullishly. And I think the market will hold bullishly into the end of this year and into 2014. If the market changes trends and I notice something where we actually do a bearish gap that I see is significant, I will notate that. But in the meantime, we're holding bullishly and we're going to continue higher. This bullish ride in the market, despite what's going on in our economy, could last for another year or two years or five years or eight years. Eventually though, if we can't figure something out here to find a way to get out of debt completely to be so, so negative, I mean, the situation is so far past go that at some point it'll just implode. I don't think that's going to happen for five to 10 years because we'll keep doing lots of things to stop that from trying to stop that from happening. But if the government keeps spending money like water, it's not a good thing.  That's the thing that's happening here with the government. Government's in huge debt and it doesn't care. How do you know it doesn't care because it keeps spending money like water? Like it's not even in debt. So if you had money, if you were a bank, would you lend money to someone who is deep in debt and keeps spending money ignoring the fact that they're in debt and spending money like on stuff that they don't need to be spending money on like water? You wouldn't. No normal person would. And so eventually it's going to come to a head. I think it's going to be a long way off though. And so the market is going to rally bullishly until it doesn't want to anymore, but my short term, short term, meaning the next six to 12 to 18 months or maybe three to five years is bullish for the market. Unless we gap down, like I said, in something that shows me that we turn. But my overall stance, longer, bigger, bigger picture. I'm talking 10, 15, 20 years out is bearish for the market. If the country doesn't figure out a way to stop spending money like water.  This is the problem that the country is in and the market doesn't like it whenever it talks about it. And that's what happened here today when the market ran down red. So either way, I like to short. It's my preferred way to train. I like to short bearish gaps is what I do. I'm shorting them, creating the system I have in a bullish market. So if the market wants to turn around, so be it. If the market ever wants to fall off a cliff, so be it. I'll just be looking for bigger dream targets in all the shorts I ever deal, I won't do anything different, except for just make more money and to the downside and bigger targets. But I have beautiful shorts that work now and huge to big dream targets more often than you think in a bullish market. So honestly, you know, the downside as far as I'm concerned, gives me an edge. Is the right way to trade. Bad news, things fall in. Good news, if things are weak, people sell out of them because they don't want to be bothered sticking with a stock when the market's rallying, if it's not performing. So there's just no downside to trading short side. It's there's just none, absolutely none, and I love doing it. So anyways, if you'd like more information on the upcoming gap course, email me at Melissa at the stockswish.com. It's October 12 and 13. Market fell in today, but we're holding and it's two hours left to the close. But I think we're going to hold somewhere around in here. I don't think we're going to break down to the low before the end of the close. And if we do, then we're lower tomorrow. If not, we're higher here. And the market is going to make another lift up soon. I thought it might happen this week. It doesn't appear it's going to be this week. But as soon as the market, the spy specifically gets over 170 again, it's going to blow, it's going to blow higher. Next target in the spy is 175. And when the buying wants to come into market, which could be tomorrow or Monday after this drop off here, people will take the opportunity to buy more into a pullback because that's what this is. And then it will rally on through and break out to new highs. And that's what's setting up here to happen in the next week or two. So have a great day, everybody. The bears ruled the market today. Have a wonderful day. If you would like more information on the gaps, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Thanks, everybody. Have a great day.


Hi, Paul Scanlon here. Thanks for taking the time to click on my podcast. I want to spend time focusing on my primary passions of leadership, personal development, communication, growing big people, and I hope that these podcasts really help and add value to your life and to your journey. Thanks for tuning in. Case, thanks for being on the show with me today. There are so many people across my European audience that won't know so much about you as opposed to my American followers who may know about you. So just tell us a little bit about what you do and I think I'd be interested to know and they would about why you do what you do would be interesting I think to start off. For sure. Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. It means a lot. I'm a big fan of yours. I mean, so by trade, I'm a podcaster and I'm a writer. It takes a lot of different forms. I do a lot of fun things with music and quotes and books and things like that. But everything I do is around mindfulness. My definition of mindfulness, which is just self-awareness, the practice of being honest with yourself. So everything I do, I create a lot of content. I podcast, I write on this as it relates to your career, as it relates to your your self-esteem, as it relates to dating and relationships. That's what I do. So the reason I do it is I'm just so sold on the power of self-awareness, on the power of empathy, on the power of vulnerability. I used to be a rather closed off kind of robotic guy. I'm 33 now. And the past five years have just been really transformational for me as far as who I've become, the man I've become when I decided to be honest with myself, when I decided to stop ignoring feelings, when I decided to be sensitive. It's funny. I live in Chicago and everyone knows me as the guy who just shares his feelings for a living because I put up quotes around the city. I have a podcast where I just talk about how I feel. It's this total 180 from who I used to be. But I'm just so on board of how much happier and more fulfilled it's made me, the more in touch with myself I've grown to be. So I turn around and I talk about it and I write about it. And that's pretty much it. So what in your past, even going to your childhood now, is there a narrative you can track that explains what you're doing now and why you're doing it? Or was there some big life-changing thing you've gone through that put you on a different trajectory to what you expected? Yeah, I think so. I think a lot about that. I mean, I talk a lot about like attachment styles and things like that. And I try to be vulnerable and go back to my childhood. You know, I don't know.  I started the podcast when I was 29. I was kind of blindsided by a breakup. I basically came home one day and she had moved out and that was the last time I saw her.  Who is Case? Like who is Case Kenny outside of a relationship? Because I was very identified and my worth through that relationship. And also at the time, I was very invested in my career. I had a sales career at a technology company. And I was very invested in that. So who is Case outside of a relationship? Who's Case outside of my career? And I was like, man, I don't really know because those are like the two biggest areas of life, right? And I had, I had revolved so much of my blueprint around that, around trying to find the right way around following a path that I was like borrowing from other people. So I started the podcast as a result of the breakup. And I was like, I'm just going to start talking about these things. And then it kind of, kind of blew up. And I always say like, I encourage everyone to go to, to go to therapy in some form. I think it's so incredibly powerful. I myself, I don't go to another therapist because my form of therapy is twice a week on the podcast where I sit down and I talk through these things. So I'm so privileged to be able to live a life where I create content that helps other people, but it helps me in the same way, if not more. So, you know, break up to starting the podcast to three years later, it's just, it's just been growth, growth, growth. And, you know, it's amazing to be able to have it help other people. Yeah, that was kind of the catalyst for me. And you talked to me in five years, I'm sure there'll be another catalyst that's like Case 1.0, the 2.0 to 3.0. And I just love the fact that I have more to learn. And I can sit down and share it with other people and people can relate. It's really quite amazing. Are you speaking in case to a certain niche or most common issues that you feel are coming up for people in your demographic? And what are those things that you feel you particularly are interested and drawn to speaking about? Yeah, it's funny. It's a good question because I started the podcast, I was like, I want to talk about mindfulness. Mindfulness is self-awareness. Self-awareness is honesty. Honesty is happiness. So on and so forth. I never set out to talk about dating relationships. Because I see a lot of that on your social media. Yeah, that's the direction it's gone. And it's the funniest thing because I think I'm woefully unqualified. I'm 33. I have a girlfriend, but I'm not dating. I don't have kids. I'm not like the hallmark of success, although I guess what is the what is the qualification to talk about relationships? But I never set out to do that. But, you know, I started doing the podcast and I got lucky, got a lot of traction, and people were like, hey, we need mindfulness in dating. And I was like, well, I guess that makes sense, because what's the most area that's ripe for frustration in life? It's relationships, interpersonal relationships. So that's the biggest one. That's where I spent a lot of my time. And I'm glad I do because it's made me a better man as it relates to dating, a better partner. It's made me more intentional. And that's the direction it's gone. And it's funny. And then as I start talking about these topics, I've learned a lot about who follows me and who listens to me. It's mostly women, which is really interesting as well. Never set out to build a follower base that's mostly women. But, you know, I'm trying to evangelize for men to be more mindful and sensitive. But along the way, it's great to learn from women and get in their minds and understand how they think. And, you know, I mean, yeah, but to answer your question specifically, it's a lot of dating content and friendship, anything relationship driven where there's ambiguity, and we can kind of redeem ourselves through mindfulness. I'm there. And I love talking about it. Other common things that you find are recurring that are coming up for people around the issue of relationships, romantic relationships, how to treat one another, how to manage a breakup, how to argue well, or so on and so on. Are the common go-to themes that you think people are battling and struggling with? Yeah, 100%.  So I've talked about every little interesting subject. But I think like the biggest one that I see is this idea of why. Like, why do we do anything in life? Like, for starters, why do we even date? Like, most people are like, well, what do you mean? Of course, we date. We're not supposed to be alone. Like, it's biological. We're supposed to leave a legacy. We're supposed to have a family. And I always hear an answer like that. And I would never shame anyone. I'd be like, that's a good answer. It's a solid answer. But I've always been one to say that you need a little bit more selfishness. You need a little bit more self-focus on why. It's like, well, what is your partner going to offer you in the same way that you're going to offer them something? And I just think that's so important because what I've found to answer your question is they're just so much ambiguity around why we do what we do in a relationship. Like, why are we dating someone? Why are we trying to prove our worth to them? Why are we trying to get them to choose us? Why are we doing these things? And then it's like, whoa, you start thinking about those things. And then that's how you get into attachment style. That's how you get into love languages. That's how you get into all these things that are fueling the why. And it just becomes a lot more powerful. Because then if you understand what is motivating you, then you could become more intentional. Like I look back at my twenties and dating as a man, which is different than dating as a woman is like, I was just dating just to date. There was no intention behind it. And I think once you're able to flip that script, it helps you a lot. You put up with less, you have higher standards. You're not ashamed of being single. That's a big one. I talk a lot about that. People are, there's a stigma around being single. So I would say that. Why? And obviously it's important in every area of life, but especially so in dating. You know, as a baby boomer generation, I'm 64 now case. I grew up in this belief system that you, you were supposed to date and marry and settle down and have kids.  And people stayed in those marriages for decades, even though everyone knew it wasn't working. And so my generation, including my parents that I watched, got trapped in that belief system about relationships. And so I'm certainly happy to see, you know, my kids and grandkids growing up in a world that isn't as tethered to that mindset as it used to be. And also navigating the territory of what is the new norm? If there is such a thing relationally now all across the world that they're looking at and comparing themselves to. It's an interesting time to be in the space you were in, don't you think? Absolutely. I mean, it's always weird to say COVID has been very kind to the space I'm in because people, I think, have realized the importance of hitting reset in so many areas of life, mental health, especially just inner peace, mindfulness, everything. So I mean, I think it's, I think it's amazing. And like, I love what you said, like, regarding dating, like, and like expectations, it's like, yeah, I borrowed from my parents generation of like, what the expectation is. And one of the exercises I always do is like, I find it very helpful to like think forward in order to create a roadmap for yourself. And one of the things I always do is like, I talk to people who are like, they're feeling the pressure because they're 30, they're 35 and they're single, or they're 26. And they're just so they're, they don't want to be single anymore, because they want a partner. And I would never shame anyone for wanting a partner, of course, but I'm like, think, think ahead.  And like, I talked to, I talked to my parents, I talked to, I talked to my grandparents, I talked to older generations. And I always ask them that question, what do you regret? And I've never heard that come up. I've never heard them be like, in their 60s or 70s, and be like, man, I regret being single. It's just not something you regret. And like, I think it's a powerful exercise to look forward and think about what you might regret. And the very things you might regret is what you just referenced staying in a relationship that doesn't serve you. Yeah, exactly. You know, one of the things I do case is I have a mentorship group and I mentor people in that group online all around the world. I was speaking to them yesterday about, and central to my why and what I do is to awake people and guide them back to their essential self, back to their internal home, to reconnect them with themselves is a big driving part of what I do. I was talking to them yesterday about this idea that when you make your home in someone else, you give them the power then to make you homeless in any behavior they have that rejects you from the home you've made in them. And I think romantic relationships are particularly prone to that happening, don't you, where people abandon themselves for someone else, which makes the breakup all the more traumatic, because you didn't know that you were doing that. And these movies about completing each other, and you completely me and you're my forever home, all of that language actually isn't helpful, is it? I don't think so. I so agree with that message. I mean, I talk a lot about that. And it's the cliche idea that it shouldn't be two halves coming together, it should be two holes. If I used to hear that advice, it would have been like, all right, cool, cool, cool. But it really is true. And that's why I'm so adamant about people not rushing out of stages in life that are uncomfortable, namely being single, or after a breakup, and resorting to acting out of fear and ambiguity of being alone. The thing that I talk a lot about is the difference between being alone and being lonely. And I would never discredit someone who genuinely feels lonely, of course not. But it's like a lot of times we associate something like being single with being lonely, we don't take the time to realize that, okay, I'm alone, but I'm not lonely. Like we buy into the cultural stigma that not having a partner means you're lacking something. Not having a partner being physically alone means you're prone to be lonely. And yes, it's true, but it's not always true. And that's why I'm just like so adamant about people trying their best to take the pressure off themselves. Because I mean, you're absolutely right. If you're putting your happiness and your finish line in place of someone else, well, to your point, it can be taken away. And what does that do for yourself? So yeah, I'm still on board with that message, absolutely. How's your attachment style changed? What is your current attachment style, Kason? How has it changed and evolved over the years? I don't think it's evolved, if I'm honest. It's dismissive. It's a very dismissive attachment style. But I think I've evolved as far as my awareness of it. I think previously I was of the type to be like, I always leave people before I get too close. I don't need someone else because I am very independent still. And I love that about myself. And I think older version of me saw that as a flaw, saw that as like I'm broken in some way. Whereas now I just realize, okay, these are the cards that I've been dealt. You know, I can't do so much about my path that evolved me to this point. But now it's about balance. I mean, I think anything in life is about balance. It's about how you innately feel as a human, how you're wired as a human. Like I always think it's funny. I'm like, who wired humans? Like we're so prone to like negative thought processes. And I don't think you could totally rewire yourself, but you could arm yourself with additional habits and mantras and thought processes and perspectives to combat that. And so for me, it's understanding that I do have these dismissive tendencies and why I have them. And I can lean on that when I try to act on them. You know, it's one thing to have a little bird in your head saying something. It's another thing to act on them. And I've just become much more aware of that. So, you know, I would like to think one day that I could grow to be much more stable and confident in that way. But I think the awareness is step one. I think particularly for men, it's like I've done a couple of episodes on attachment styles. And then they're like, I don't, I have no idea. I've never heard of this before. And that used to be me. So I think the simple identification of these topics and awareness of them is step one for sure. But yeah, I think through my, my life is, yeah, 100% dismissive style. I think it's real. I think it is still relatively unknown is the attachment style concept and language case. To what degree do you think too? Because I thought about this a lot in my life because my attachment style for most of my life, I think was anxious. And I didn't connect the dots between that behavior in my adult life with my childhood trauma. I never even used the word trauma about what I went through as a kid until recent years when that word seemed to be more accurate to what I'd suffered. And then when I began to connect the dots between my childhood experiences with a violent alcoholic father and so on, to my adult behaviors, I got this narrative then through my life of why I grew up with this anxious attachment style. And it began to help me to deconstruct that behavior where I was defaulting to it. But I still think when I tried to talk to people about it or use the term was that what are you talking about? I'm going to begin to see other people's attachment styles. Once I understood mine and had a language for it, I think it's Brene Brown says once the things language, it's less threatening and less powerful. So I still think it's unknown territory for a lot of people, but such a massive help once you discover it, don't you think? Absolutely. I mean, I love the point. I love everything you just said. I think that the term trauma is one that I think a couple of years ago is like, ooh, trauma. It feels dramatic, right? It feels dramatic because the statement is real trauma. Exactly. Great. That's the word for it. Trauma traumatic. It feels dramatic. It's exactly it. And for all the times I bemoaned the culture we're in for a lot of reasons, I think now we're in a culture where someone says trauma and people are much more accepting because trauma isn't just physical. It isn't experiential in the grand sense. It's very emotional. And I think that's great. And I think to your point, the words we use are very important. They're very, very important. Like, for instance, I just did an episode on this idea of people who get attached easily to others, which is a subset of attachment styles, of course.  And that makes me such and such. I'm like, let's rebrand that. You don't get attached easily. You're just emotionally honest with yourself to the extent that you act on how you feel. As long as it's a healthy kind of attachment. I'm like, okay, so we're rebranding. It's not I'm attached easily. It's I'm emotionally honest. It's like, the words we use are very, very powerful. And the same way I talk all the time about the idea of the stories we tell ourselves, what are the narratives we tell ourselves? It's like, you know, like, whether you believe in God, you're faith based, or you're just karma based, or you're I believe in the power of the universe, like, what are you telling the universe? Are you repeating a story of what you don't want?  And it's these little things that I think are just so important to help in giving us guidance, like, for instance, with like a trauma based, you know, habits, or a foundation like that, it's like, yes, of course, you have to be able to face that trauma and understand it. But at a certain point, it's like, are we going to repeat the trauma as a narrative? Or are we then going to say the trauma taught me what I deserve? And I'm going to repeat the narrative of what I deserve. It's like, I always joke, it's like, if you keep telling the universe what you don't want, how do you expect to get what you do want? It's like, there's there's got to be some connection there. So I'm just so big on the power of identifying, whether it's trauma, or insecurity or doubt, identifying what it is, and then moving towards what it is that you want, rather than focusing on that narrative over and over and over again. And that comes down to words, and words are powerful and sentences are powerful. And I just, I love the English language for that reason is there's so many better ways to describe what we want, rather than what we don't want. And I just, I just encourage people to really lean on that. I was saying to the tribe yesterday, the mentorship tribe that I have, that I think too, what happens looking at my parents, for all my dad's dysfunction and violence and drunkenness, I guess he was a product of his own parenting, you know, from his own dad, my granddad, who I didn't know. And I think what happens is, you know, emotionally homeless people hook up with other emotionally homeless people, then they have kids that they can't pass anything better than that on to. So we now get emotionally homeless kids growing up in those homes, who get into dating really, and so it goes on, you know, that pattern. So somehow, you know, what you're doing, why appreciate what you're doing so much case is speaking into that space and breaking that almost generational default cycle, I think I slipped into, and not knowing how to break out of it. So I want to talk to you a little bit about self-awareness that you touched on a moment ago, because statistically, as you probably know, and in my experience, this is true, 1890% of humans is estimated have little or no self-awareness. And therefore, why is that? Because when I understood self-awareness and began to study it and reach for it, for a level of consciousness in my life, I became aware how few people were self-aware. And so the statistic to me seemed true. Do you think that's accurate in your experience? Why is that? I've never heard that statistic, but I so believe it 100%. I mean, yeah, I hate to make grand statements, but I genuinely think self-awareness is the key to 99% of our problems. We're throwing out statistics here. Genuinely. And that's my business. My business is journals. I've built a large business around journaling. I believe habit formation around self-awareness is the ultimate self-awareness. It's one thing to be self-aware on a Tuesday. It's another thing to be self-aware on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. That is the key. And I think we have to break barriers. It's hard. It's not easy. And I think there's so many layers to it too, because I talk about this idea of the difference between a fact and a feeling. And a lot of the times, we all have feelings, of course. A lot of the times, though, those feelings are not real. They're just feelings. They're anxiety. They're overthinking. They're insecurity. But the problem is if we're not practicing true self-awareness, we'll take a moment of honesty where it's like, I feel unlovable. And we'll be like, well, I'm being honest. Therefore, it's true. And that's not the case. A fact is not a feeling. And if we're not, if we don't take time to really develop a self-awareness muscle where it's like, we can feel a certain way. We can be honest about it. But then we can fact check it and be like, just because I feel this way, is it true? No. Next. That's the ultimate. There's self-awareness 101, which is identifying how you feel. Because as a man, I think very closed off sometimes, we're like, I can't feel insecure right now. I don't have time for this. No, no, no, no. Step one is saying I do feel insecure. Step two, is that a fact about you or is that a temporary feeling? Well, it's temporary. Okay, now what am I going to do about it? So I mean, self-awareness is not a button. You can flip. But it's so rewarding once you develop it as a perennial evergreen mindset that you don't turn it off. And I encourage, I wish we can get more men on board. I think the reason that a lot of women gravitate towards my content is it's just maybe more natural or women are much more vocal about the idea in publicly. But yeah, that 80 to 90% statistic seems accurate. And I think it's something we need to fix, certainly. Yeah. And I think one of the gifts of that to me has been, as I mentioned a moment ago case, that the gift of self-awareness to be able to identify and interrupt your own false narratives that you didn't know were running in the background of your life, that were conditioning all outcomes in your life. I wasn't aware of the presence of those because they were so far back in my consciousness that I didn't have the self-awareness distancing to like a drone hover above it and see this narrative, as I mentioned about trauma in my childhood. And then when I became more self-aware and committed to be intentional about developing that, it became an affliction too, because it is an affliction to be self-aware around people who are not. Yeah, it's really difficult to have. That's why I think therapy is so good for people, because at least you expect the therapist to have enough self-awareness for you to be yourself around them. And I think that culture is much more common in America than it is in Europe of people having therapy. It's still viewed as a weakness here, as is much stuff around mental health, as you know. Do you think that's true that self-awareness also is a little bit isolating, the more self-aware you become, or it's almost the more isolated you become from being able just to chat freely as you are? Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, I mean, it really is true. I think the fulfillment you get from self-awareness is enhanced or detracted by the people you surround yourself with. Definitely so, to your point. Therapy has become this cool and vogue thing in America right now, and I love it, even though sometimes people don't practice it, practice what they preach. At least it's become a narrative that it's cool. And yeah, I mean, I think about that. I think about everything in general. It's just like, I wish we can come up with more commonality around the truths that we all universally believe in and follow, and those could be moral truths, value-driven truths, faith-driven truths, whatever it may be. But I think if we were more open to that fact, we would support other people who are more self-aware than they are. And it's just like the soundbite that I always say, and like any time I talk, it's such a leading light for me. And as it relates to breaking generational trends, whereas it relates to breaking free of something you've long assumed about yourself, is this idea that the soundbite is, there's no right way to live your life, but there is a wrong way. And the wrong way is to think that there's a right way. And I like that a lot just because it's like, I think about my life, and in my 20s, I feel like I really backed myself into a corner. I need to find out what that person is doing because they have it the right way. I need to date my parents because they told me that they were happy in their 30s, so I need to do it that way. I need to be like that dude who's out at the club on a Friday because he's single and he's living his best life. They have the truths. I need to find their truths and copy it. And what really helped set me free was the fact to our whole conversation is that you get to decide what is true for you. And you get to decide that through self-awareness and not just base level self-awareness, but to your point, self-awareness that goes deeper and deeper and challenges those assumptions that we've held for maybe 60 years. And I think that that is the ultimate power is that self-awareness allows us to create truths for ourselves, standards for ourselves, expectations for ourselves that are ours that we didn't borrow from other people or generations or culture or media. And that's the ultimate gift we've been given and no one can take that from us. So I love that. I think to the power of unlearning case, I think unlearning is the most undervalued kind of learning unlearning. And I realized as I became more self-aware and I began to detach and uncouple from learnings I'd inherited. And this is part of the problem I had too with the affliction of self-awareness to use that term is that it makes you realize I learned some stuff that was faulty from day one, but that version of me that learned it didn't know that. I now know on reflection I should never have bought into that and the people that taught me it lacked the awareness to know they shouldn't be teaching me that. And the point the problem I had in more recent years is when I was unlearning things that were not serving me well the people that taught me it was still in my life and I love and respect them. So to unlearn something when the people that taught you that are still in your life and you love and respect them it feels like betrayal and disrespect to say I don't believe that anymore. I am not doing that anymore. I won't be there anymore. I'm not involved in that anymore. When you love the people that taught you it and because of their lack of self-awareness they can't keep all of that intact. It's like you're either on my side or you're not. That's rude, disrespectful. I've really struggled with that tension to say I'm stepping away from this but I don't want to step away from you. You know what I'm saying? Man, that is powerful. I mean it's so true. I mean it's like that's why it's like unlearning, retraining, resetting isn't as easy as just journaling for a month and setting a new list and calling it a day. It's like the relationships in our lives, family. It's brutal. I'm so curious. I wish I could get in a time machine or live for 200 years and just look at generational evolution because obviously your generation or parents generation is so different from my generation and Gen Z. I'm very curious about how that evolves as far as the values that are passed down especially in a society that is much more perspective-driven now. For all the amount of time we spend bemoaning TikTok and social media it's like it has really opened up the perspective that for every right way there's a wrong way but is that really a wrong way or is that the right way? I don't know and I think future generations are much more open to that fact so I'm very curious how that's going to affect people in future but I mean not to detract from what you said. I mean that's so true. This stuff is not easy and a lot of times it takes tough decisions. Imagine being a self-aware person in Donald Trump's cabinet, in Donald Trump's government. I mean good grief. You know what I'm saying? When you saw these political leaders the same with our guy Boris Johnson, these political leaders that seem to have a complete absence of this level of consciousness we're talking about here and to just have a little fragment of that what a game changer that would be in decisions they were making, policies they were setting, conversations they were having, energies they were putting out to us in the world. I think it's a huge thing. I know we touched on this amongst other things but you mentioned it. It put my antennae up for the self-awareness thing because I think we self-awareness 10% need to find each other. We need a support club. I don't know I mean I think politics man that would be ripe for a revolution if we could hire a self-awareness test when you go in and then you test bi-monthly to make sure that they're maintaining their level of self-awareness. Right. Yeah I think we would rather on that basis have Oprah running the country than Donald or Biden for that matter or Boris in our case. No you're right and I think too I think that's what people realize that people like Oprah for instance has much wider influence and following and power and authority yet she has no external power or government or authority because humanity realizing we are drawn to people who we know love us before we drawn to people who lead us but we know don't give a shit about us you know kind of thing but care about themselves. I think all of that revolution and that evolution in the world is why you are in the space you are in I think you are on the cusp of something case I'm you know 64 so I'm watching it happen and trying to learn and be open in my generation to say to kids we got it wrong don't repeat our mistakes. That's what love what you're doing with your massive following on social media and also this is important your massive engagement to me tells me a lot. Well thank you yeah I mean to my point everyone makes fun of me because I'm always being like thank you thank you thank you but it's like I am privileged to be able to do what I do the fact that I can walk around Chicago taking little pictures and put it up and thousands of people will comment or share or whatever it is I'm not bought into social media like I don't I don't really care about growing a following there it's necessary for business but what amps me up is the fact that I'll do a post and I'll look at the metrics and 50,000 people shared it I like that is great and and not just women but men and everything in between however you identify like I think that is what excites me that because like my friends used to clown on me they used to make fun of me okay so okay I don't go share your feelings like they didn't mean it in a harmful way just guys being dudes but like I'm glad like that's shifting and I love it that's what I love and I'm privileged to be to play a smart a small part in that revolution and the narrative is shifting to your point it's like I think people have a bullshit meter now and we don't want we don't want leaders who lead just with charisma we want leaders who lead with values and honesty and self-awareness and people who ask questions I think just someone who is a question asker rather than a an answer giver is like that's what we want we want people who are self-aware and open to other perspectives and so yeah I am I'm very excited I wish I could live longer and and see everything you know go to you know 2030 you know 20 to 2300 and just see see what happens but uh yeah we'll see but I you know I love being able to do this one of the things I've been doing around the world in recent years when we could all travel and I put everything online is a seminar on servant leadership and my observations being that we have had this pattern for generations of putting people into leadership who weren't first of all servants and you can't bolt you can't bolt servant hood on later to leadership there wasn't that in the first place you can bolt leadership on to servant hood but not the other way around if it wasn't there to start with nothing that's why people like Nelson Mandela was so adored because he clearly entered political world as a lover of people he spent years in jail sacrificed and suffered for what he believed in and so when he got in power the change was huge in South Africa because of who was in charge and so I know we both want to see a lot more of that but I do think my grandkids growing up in this generation I'm hopeful if I don't live to see it that the world will see this massive shift in the nature of the kind of people that finish up being in leadership in all walks of life I'm hopeful about that let me ask you before you go and I'll let you go case because I saw and heard on one of your posts and podcasts about your your optimistic nature you talked about being an optimist I know there's a lot of bad stuff happening in the world and in America racism political division economic division and so on and so on why why are you optimistic and how do you sustain that yeah I always joke that I'm wired optimistic and I think that's true but it's also a choice like I have a choice I have a choice why not choose the one that makes me feel better about my future and the future of the world I'm in and then like I back into it by trying to be as pragmatic as possible and the example I always give that always like I think self-awareness is logical if you create logical leaps where the answer is always yes or no you could follow that through to the outcome that is most compassionate and redeeming so like the example I always give myself is like we have plenty of examples in our lives where life went from good to bad right so many examples right you get broken up with you get broken up with your health deteriorates someone close to you dies bad things but we have proved that life can go from good to bad quickly then what is stopping us from believing the opposite what is stopping us from believing that life can go from bad to good quickly like that's a logical leap that I can make every time and if I have proof of one and likely proof of the other why can't I just make a choice to believe and put my eggs in the other basket and like I do and it just feels better because you know optimism begets gratitude gratitude begets you know positivity positivity begets more self-awareness and the whole thing is psycho cyclical so like I believe in that and I try to support it with logical leaps and patterns that I see in my life and I just choose to believe that and it makes me more powerful and it makes me believe in myself and then to our conversation it empowers me to create a narrative that supports that and if I'm if I have two choices in life why not choose the one that if honestly it feels better feels better to be optimistic I think everyone would want to be that way but also it empowers me to act on it so proof of one I can believe in proof of the other and I'm sticking to it and that's what I believe and I encourage other people to try to find their own proof that version works for me but it's just coming up with whatever proof exhibit a exhibit b works in your life and I just I just think that's that's the way we could train ourselves it's a practice it's a muscle you don't just turn a switch to our point but it's it's very worth it well it's hugely attractive in what you're doing is clearly from the engagement that you get on your social media and through your podcasting I think what you're doing is fantastic I really appreciate what you are doing we need more case kennies in the world we desperately do and we need more case kennies in in power and in authority and in all spheres of rule and governance in the world so good only for what you're doing it's lovely to meet you're a great human hey let me know case for my listeners um how can we find you any new things 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