Welcome to Psychic Medium, Tony Green. I am Tony Green, the Psychic Medium, here once again to give you your answers to your questions or help you connect with loved ones on the other side. I really like doing that. Anyway, so we're going to get started in a second and before we get started, a couple of quick messages. You can call in, you can join the show live and call in at<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can watch on YouTube live. I go live every Monday and Wednesday. I use YouTube and blog talk to record for the television stations, which are WSES and all of their streaming channels, and then Rude Rangers TV and all of their streaming channels. So that's what I have so far today. Now, a couple of people online are on YouTube. Hey, everybody on YouTube. Thanks for being here. One of the questions was songs and it came from Heather. And Heather, I am going to massacre this song, but it's something to the effect of, look, come with me now. Walk with me now or something like that. I hope you know the song. Hey, Patrick, how are you? I hope you know that song, Heather, because I do not. I know the song and the beat, but I feel like I might be getting the words wrong. Okay. And then Amy May, the song came in it. It goes, walk on. And I again, the beat, the tune, all of it, I'm massacring, but it's just walk on. I think it might be by YouTube, not YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. Like the band, YouTube. Walk on is the name. Is the song I'm getting for you, Amy May. Hey, Anne. And then loved ones from the other side. Okay. So they are here. They are really, really here. So I'm going to say the name. It could be their name. It could be your name. It could be a name of someone you know. And then I will tell you if there's any messages from them. So the first name I'm hearing. Really? Okay. Thank you. I hear mom, mom and mom. Somebody just keeps saying mom. Okay. So and then I hear Louisa. Louisa. Now these could be two separate people to separate whatever Louisa. So Louisa could be somebody here or someone on the other side. You're going to know if Louisa is a message for you. The next thing that I'm hearing is Brad or Bradley. Now they could yes, they could be two different people. There could be a Bradley and a Brad. And then the next name that I'm hearing is Cooper. Like a mini Cooper, but not Cooper. Okay. And then the next name that I'm hearing from the other side is if this is your person, you are freaking going to know immediately. And I could be saying this wrong. Johanna vitz. And that perhaps that's a last name or first name like Johan, Johanna vitz. I don't know just saying the names. And then Salphator, Salphator, Salphator. And then there's one more coming through Amelia. Amelia. Okay, those are the names that I have for today. If these are your loved ones or a loved one reaching out to you, they just want you to know they're with you all the time. And they are watching out for you. Hey, Kate. Hi, Fawn. Margaret. Margaret, welcome to the show. Okay, I am going to let you guys know I have a very special guest joining me today. I love this girl, this woman. She's a woman. Her name is Marla Martenson. And she is the mystical matchmaker. She works with a she she is part owner of a company that she's a she's a matchmaker for wealthy men. But she's also a dating coach. And she is also very mystical. She is and I'm sorry, I so so bad botched, so botched her intro, but Marla is amazing and I adore her. And she is going to be joining us in a in just a second. And I'm reading as I'm giving her intro. So Sal from Sal said, Salphator is my grandfather.  And he wants you also to know, you're doing the right thing. Don't worry about it. You're doing the right thing. Okay. Aloha, Jay. How are you? Aloha, Jay from Canada is here. Okay. Heather's also here. Fawn is here. Ann is here. There's a number of other Terry tea is here. Amy May. There's so many wonderful people joining us on YouTube. So when I call your area code, please make sure whatever you're listening to me on, you have turned it all the way down. And when we call your area code, please have a specific question and or relative from the other side you would like to talk to. And I'm going to bring Marla on now and let her give herself a much better introduction than I did. Hey, Marla. So Marla. All right. I'll give my intro. Yes, please do. I'm an AK-8 maker, professional matchmaker for two decades. I have my own business with my partner, wonderful partner, Bradley. It's boutique. We work out of our home offices, the men are the pain clients. And so it's kind of like a millionaire matchmaker, very kind of high end. But we've had many marriages and babies born and all of that extremely very satisfying to know that we're bringing people together. And then, yes, I'm a coach. I'm a transformational life coach, I specialize in boundaries, reinventing your life, relationships and all that. I also read tarot cards, do energy healing. I'm a Gemini. And so there's not enough time in the day to do everything that you want to do. And I'm an author. I've written six books and my latest book is called The Magic Seeker. And that's a memoir. So I love to write as well, stay creative. I love that. So Marla, if somebody, I'm going to say this right away in the show because I tend to forget later on. If somebody wants to reach out and get a hold of you, what's the best way they can do that? Yeah, my website is MarlaMartinson.com and Martinson is M-A-R-T-E and S-O-N. And if you want to connect with me on Instagram, it's at The Mystical Matchmaker. And I post pretty much every day little tips on put a reel up and you can connect with me there. I'd love to have you join our group there. I have a lot of people, the same followers, and we just have so much fun, you know, talking about different topics. A lot of it is based on boundaries, relationships. Narcissism is a theme that I talk about a lot, you know, healing from that, healing ourselves so that we can be whole, heal people to get into a relationship. Yes. Yes. So true. So true. Okay. So everybody, this is Marla. And again, one of seriously, one of my favorite people, she does so much good for so many and she is a very gifted person. So if you are thinking in any way this might be a good fit for you, please do reach out, look at our stuff, see if it is. But Marla, we're going to take callers, we're going to answer questions, we are going to yay and do whatever it is we do over the next little bit of time here.  And then from there, we will have an exact question or a loved one that you want to connect with. And here we go, 780, what's your name and where you're calling from? Hey, Tony, it's Jay Cole from Canada. Thanks for connecting with you again and Marla, thanks for talking with you too. Absolutely. Hi there. So Jay, how can we help you today? Is there a way to donate some money to you or something like that through the show or something like that on your page, on your website? Yeah, actually I do. In my bio, there's a link called solo.tony and in there there's a donate button and then all my favorite products in the world. Everything that I love to use from what I make my smoothies with to the shoes I love to, I mean, anything I love is in there and it's so weird because people have said like, where do you get your clothes? Where do you do this? Where do you do that? And so if there's something I love, I kind of put it in there except for the clothes thing because I haven't figured out how to link the clothes thing yet. But yes, in my bio, everything, there's a link called solo.t, I think it's solo.tony and there is a there is a donate button there and also on my webpage. But thank you. That's really kind of you. Thank you so much, Jay. Okay, now to your question. My question is with my mom, I think it's my mom who's been trying to get me moving on some things, especially with my apartment and things. I know why she's doing that. And if there's any other messages from my mother, be much appreciated. So thanks. Yeah, so Jay, can I please can Marlin, I please get your mom's first name? You meet. Okay. So the first message I'm getting, Jay, is it's time for you to move forward. It's really time for you to take your next step. And then I hear the word leaps and leaps and bounds, leaps and bounds. So it's time for you to get in a new energy, if you will. Now that can mean a new energy in your in the place you're already into like, make some changes, but I think it's a whole new place. Marla, what are you getting? I got I pulled some cards to and to tap in as well. And it feels like there's something that you're not don't want to look at or don't want to see and you feel a little bit, there's some feelings of a little bit. You went through a lot and you were kind of a hermit card comes up, you're kind of cocooning yourself.  The purposeful card comes in too. And in your life, there's some towards the end of the year and come into the next year. It feels like your mom's going to be helping you with some new project or something. I'm hearing the word art, artwork. There's something I really something to do with almost nature, getting out there more, connecting with nature, grounding yourself and getting getting getting on with with some of these projects that you want to do because there's no time to waste and you're talented. You have this, I'm feeling you have this deep, very deep spiritual side and deep philosophical side and you have a lot of wisdom. So enjoy that, appreciate yourself. You've really got a lot to share. Excellent. And Jay, one more quick thing.  And I feel like this is partner-wise. Now, I don't like to say, oh, it's a love partner, but there's definitely a partner coming in that's going to be significant to you. This could be even a business partner. This could be somebody that's coming in to help you move forward with a certain side of your, this is going to sunk. I'm sorry for the way I'm about to say this, a certain side of yourself you haven't really exposed to the public yet.  No, seriously. But seriously, there's someone coming in and it could be a love interest, but if it is a love interest, they also help you expand your horizons and bring you to that next level of either your projects or your personal side. And I do feel like this is going to come in once you take those next steps. Now, whatever is going on with where you live, it's okay. That can be smoothed out, but I do feel like it's time for you to start if you're comfortable and you want.  If you've been thinking about relocating, and I hear a yes on that, and maybe the thought hasn't hit you yet, and it's about to come in because these are predictive readings. When that comes, if that comes, or if you've had it, it's time to really fall into the perfect space for you. Okay, Jay, Marla, any final thoughts on your part? I'm saying to expose himself. Evolve, the butterfly comes in, also earth again, and love. Yeah, there's just, open your heart. I'm seeing some green. Open up the heart chakra, do a little work there, and then moving up to the throat chakra, expressing yourself and healing that little bit. And I feel that they're saying that you also have mediumistic abilities if you wanted to, you could develop that. He does, everybody. He does, so she's there. She's there with it. She's picking it up. That's Marla, everybody. Marla Martinsen, who is very, very mystical and magical in everything she does. Jay, I hope this was helpful for you. Yes, it is. Excellent. You're welcome. Thank you, Jay, so much for calling in today. Thank you. Okay, everybody. It's Marla Martinsen, the mystical matchmaker and myself answering questions today. Now that you see, call in<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'm gonna go to the very next caller, 630. What's your name and where are you calling from? Oh, yeah. My name is Dion. Hey, Dion. So you're on with Marla and I. It's nice to have somebody. I'm in Wisconsin too. So, yes. Dion, what's your question or your connection today? What would you like to know? What I'm gonna tell you is that two years ago, you told me that I was gonna be moving in May, and you're like, and it's gonna happen really fast when it happens. Well, I'm hoping I can still move this May, but the move is this May. So you actually saw that two years ago. So like, you see a far out. Just wanted to let you know. Nice, nice. That was, okay. Just so you know. And then my mom used to call my dad, Brad, but that's what she called him. That's funny. That is, I love that.  Interesting. This is, I've been hearing the name Cooper, seeing the name Cooper. And like, I literally haven't seen him since like high school, but I will tell you, anytime I run into anybody from high school, they're always like, do you ever hear from him? Like, they never asked about anybody else, but they always ask about him. But like, I don't, I don't know why he always comes up. And lately, his name's been coming up a lot. I don't know why. That is so funny. That is hilarious. Well, thank you for confirming. So two of the names in the beginning resonate with you. And that is amazing. I love it. I love it so much. Thank you for sharing that with us. Okay, Dianne, what's your question for Marla and I? Tell me if you can tell me. Okay. Can I please get your mom's first name? My mom's name is Carol. Carol, okay. So the first thing, okay, so I don't know, I know that people, the first thing I'm seeing is, and I know you said her name is Carol, and this has never happened before with a Carol. But the first thing I'm seeing is the Carol Burnett Burnett show, which is hilarious to me because I used to like crack up at that show, but let's, they won't take the vision of that out of my head now. So then the next thing that she would want to say is start. Okay, in order for, and okay, so this is the way she's saying, in order for anything to move, you have to take a step. So if you're moving, if you're moving, you have to push that and push it like now. The time to, oh my gosh, it's so crazy because I was just saying this to somebody, a friend of mine on the phone the other day, like when somebody is pregnant, and they say, you're going to want to push, but don't push yet. And then all of a sudden, they're making you hold the push. And then all of a sudden they're like, okay, now push.  And then I'm just going to stop right there and let Marla talk because I'm laughing, I'm just cracking up at myself and I apologize, go ahead Marla. Was Carol, did she smoke at one time? Yeah, she's so, that's just a confirmation that she's here smoking, she's showing that, but spirit comes in, I'm told some amazing Oracle cards that just beautiful spirit, celestial and divinity come in all under the full moon. So she wants you to know that she was a very earthy kind of woman when she was here, she's having a cigarette, she's having a cup of coffee, she's like very, like chatty, like people very easy to talk to, but now she's in this real higher realm, she's really doing a lot of work up in that area, and she's very, very mystical and celestial and just kind of almost showering little sparkles on you and everything, so she loves what you're doing, she says, don't take things so personal, I don't know if that makes any sense, just let things go with anybody's, you know, difficult personality sometimes, you know, can come around us, so we don't have to take it on. And she says, you're doing great, and she's sending you lots of sparkles. Awesome. That's what I got. Thank you for that. I am doing, I feel like I'm doing everything I stand as far as pushing my move forward, but like the paperwork and other people's hands too, right, you know, and so I guess I can just go and start pushing that again, pushing that narrative again. Well, and when they say push, sometimes it's a matter of us making sure our boxes are packed and everything's ready so that when that go comes through or that approval comes through, all we have to do is load up and move on. What I am going to say to you, there are other areas of your life you're about to push through on. There's a project or a career move you're about to make. Now a career move doesn't always have to be about a job, it can be about something else, but there's something coming through, like I get there are three things coming in and these three things are going to be simultaneous, and they're going like one right after the other, and you might feel a little bit overwhelmed, but when they do come in, they're going to happen very, very quickly, almost all at once, but one right after the other, and then you're going to move into this space where you feel relieved. It's almost like, okay, Dionne, what I'm seeing, the vision that they're showing me for you is like when a child waits all year for their birthday, and then months before their birthday, they're really hoping they get these certain birthday gifts, and then the day comes, and they have to wait until the end of the party to open their gifts, and then the three big things they wanted are right there, and they get to open them one at a time, and it's almost overwhelming, but with happiness, and that's the analogy that they're showing for me, so the three things coming in one right after the other are all things that you want, and you've been working on almost manifesting, but you keep saying, I want, I want instead of I have, I have, or it is, it is, and then it's finally coming to fruition, but all of it is coming together, but not like one right after the other in the same time period, so get ready for that, and it's almost like moving out of where you are, and I say this all the time, and I know Marla will one million percent agree with me, the energy that you sit in, whether it's your home, your neighborhood, your city, your state, even your country can change what you can bring into your life, and how you bring it in, because every single thing carries energy, but when you get out of where you are now, you're going to move into a more manifesting energy, an energy where things just flow better, make sure you jump into that energy really quickly, okay love? Okay, I hear you, and I agree with you. I hope it makes it. Thank you, I thank you both. Our pleasure. You're welcome. Yes, yes, okay, Dion, thank you so much for calling in, it was amazing having you on today, thank you so much, and thank you for the confirmation too, thank you. You're welcome. Okay, and folks, and that is the way, sometimes with my predictions and stuff, it does happen a little further out, it doesn't always happen the next day, and that's okay, it happens when it's supposed to, I want to say hi to some of the people that are on YouTube, so Anastasia joined us, welcome to the show Anastasia, Genevieve, hi, how are you, Marla, you've got to meet Genevieve, Genevieve is awesome, oh my gosh, yeah, and then there's Princeton, Bellarina, I just feel like somebody with that name I need to meet, Princeton, Princeton Bellarina, I feel like we need to meet that person, Marla, in person, I don't know why, I just feel like that name, yeah, I know, right, and then Anastasia is so magical, okay, we're going to go to the next caller, and there was something else I wanted to, oh, if you do have a question and you want to put it into YouTube, go right ahead and put it into YouTube, we'll be, oh, Princeton Bellarina, we know each other, Tony, well then I have met you, my beautiful friend, but I don't know, I don't think I know you by that name, Caroline, oh Caroline, oh my gosh, okay, Marla, Caroline is one of the like sweetest women, one of the sweetest, smartest, like ingenuative women too, yeah, I say thanks for clarifying Caroline, yes, okay, we're going to go to the next caller, if you do have a question and you're on YouTube, please post it in, the next caller is 908, 908, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, hi, can you hear me? We can. Hello? Yes, hi, thank you ladies for taking my call, my name is Bessna and I'm from New Jersey. Okay, I'm sorry, can you say your first name again? Bessna, B-E-S-N-A. Okay, excellent. Bessna, beautiful name. Yes, how can we help you today, love? So I'm calling about my health issues right now, nothing serious, but I feel like I'm recovering a little bit from health issues and I want to make sure that I'm making the right decision. Okay, so neither one of us are doctors or medical professionals, but we will give you whatever we get based on what Spirit is saying. Now I'm going to say this, whatever we get, you have free will, you can choose to use it, not use it, practice it, not practice it, but the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to do a clearing and or healing for you, anybody listening, re-listening, we are healthy, I get a known, we are healing, I also get a know, all that caused this. Now this is the big one, folks, it's good to clear something, but we need to get to why did this happen in the first place? All that caused this, all that has kept this, all the reasons that this showed up in my life have healed, cleared, and released, and I get a know. And I feel like the number one thing I'm hearing, sweet girl, is stress, that of course every illness has an element of stress, but also that this goes back to when you were two years old. I don't know, like I'm not trying to say that, that just flew out of my mouth because my mind was on a completely different track. So either something that happened at two or something that came in when you were two, that's where this is rooted. And like a big sunflower or a dandelion, I'm seeing them like it's in your right, not it, you might not feel this in your right leg, but what I'm going to do is I see it rooted through the way just I'm visioning this, it doesn't mean it's literal, they're pulling the roots out from beneath your right leg, like if this was a big flower, it would be down your right side and they're pulling it all out and taking it. And then the other thing that I'm getting is you are on the right track. There's one thing you're doing that needs to be tweaked just a little bit, just a little bit, it needs to be tweaked. And I'm not sure of everything you're doing to fix this, but if you want to, well first let Marla talk and then we'll ask if you, you're comfortable sharing and I can tell you which thing might need to be tweaked. Marla, go time. Yeah, it was fair and money comes up. So have you been stressed of money? Was there money issue at some point? You guys, you ladies have had everything on the nail. This happened to me when I was around, well when I was born, this happened to me. And then I have been like, you know, dealing with it ever since, but when I was two, I was in a full body cast in the hospital for about 18 months. And when she said my right foot, that's what's happening right now. I twisted, I tore a tendon in my ankle and I've been trying to fix it so I don't have to have surgery again. I don't want enough surgery. Marla, everything you're saying right now is on point. In fact, I'm shaking. Oh my gosh. So Marla, give me one quick second. I'm going to let you get back.  So thank you for confirming that. And while Marla's reading for you, I'm going to do some more. One of the things I'm hearing is PRP for your ankle. They do PRP protein rich plasma injections and that goes, our protein goes straight to that plasma goes straight to the injury. And then if you can find somebody who will do stem cells that are not in too invasive or painful, that's the other thing I'm hearing. Okay, Marla, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Marla. Go ahead. I'm going to do more clearings and healings while Marla's going. Go Marla. I'm so sorry. Yeah. So the money thing, it just feels like you there's some I don't know some beliefs that they want you to let go of and know that grounding yourself very important to calming down the nervous system, doing some kind of meditation or whether it's hitting in some heat, whether that's hot yoga or sauna or something to just to sweat to release some of these energies around it. I think that that's what happens to you at two being in that body cast that you've carried. That's traumatic. It's you don't know what's happening for that young child. And so it's kind of stayed with you in the body. And so releasing that body wise or doing some kind of body work that you could do and knowing it's safe to release. I'm safe. Everything is safe to be in my body. It's safe to be on the earth. It's safe to to live and to thrive.  Once you can do that and release some of this stuff and Tony's working on that, it feels like money's going to flow a little bit easier. I don't know if somebody's sending you a quiche. I don't know if that's something from the other side or something that's sending you a quiche. And they're saying husband kisses. That's what that's my message. Okay, I want to say the the clearings that I'm doing for you and everybody listening just so everybody knows is I started with and I hope I can remember them. I started with it's okay to be healthy. And I get a no. And we get into this pattern where again it's it's not natural and we're just waiting for the other you have shoot a drop if you will. So we're clearing all of that. We're also keep clearing it's okay to be okay. And then I'm always injured. I get a yes on or I'm always like I'm this frail little thing or injured for you and everybody listening we're going to clear all of that out. And then we're going to the root of this again going down that right leg and pulling all of that out but but it's from the whole body because if I if I were to explain what I saw don't take it as dark bad things but energy is a multitude of colors and when we have energy that's no longer like healthy for us it gets to that like storm cloud color look so there are there's storm cloud color energy on your left mixed with the pure white energy but then on the right is all the roots so as they pull the root of this they're also pulling all that storm cloud energy and if you feel it that's great but if you don't it's it's okay too. So all the beliefs and programs about being injured and ill for you anybody listening watching re-listening re-watching I have been healed and cleared and I'm just gonna like just by the way I can't even talk I'm gonna go with that's a solid no and we're gonna heal clear and release that and it's safe to be safe and okay and again we're gonna heal clear and release all of that to a yes all that causes kept this started it all that has brought this in we're clearing healing and releasing that and then we're going to do something different today all the beliefs and programs that have kept this in place have been deleted from our computer and we're just gonna all just hold out a palm of our hand and push the imaginary delete button on there and then and then like watch how that feels in your head as you push that imaginary delete button everybody do it with me even if you don't believe in it and watch the feeling you get in your head like it's almost like a tingling in my head so there we go sweetie I hope this was helpful um is what else would you like to say about this with the oh yeah and the plasma treatments are going to be or the yeah the prp treatments are going to be so so important and they are going to help and they are going to work and then the other thing is to make sure you're getting minerals that's the word mineral all the minerals take seamos and burdock root take all the minerals of full vic mineral as much minerals as you can get into your body you need into your body okay yes and I absolutely agree with what you're saying about uh of my my my beliefs my subconscious beliefs I think that is what's happening and I think that I have to let let it go look the clearing like the clearing work does that it pulls it right out and Marla can attest to that Marla does this work to you it just pulls it right out without you having to worry about it now if you do need something a little bit more I also do hypnosis we can go in without going back and looking at everything we can go in and clear this if you feel like you need a little bit more to clear it but this is very powerful come back and listen to it again and let all of this clear while you're not on the phone but you're just participating in the clearing if that makes sense to you love yes that makes a little sense and thank you so much and I know I have some angels that are watching over me and I'm wondering if you hear anything from them or um they're just saying keep going you're on the right track go ahead Marla you definitely we all have a guardian angel we all have spirit guide and so I am just gonna pull oh rejoice your spirit guide says there's three things that they want to say you rejoice the rejoice that we have the spirit guide rejoice that you lived when you were a kid and that you have grown into this amazing woman and they're saying that they're wanting they want to help you bring out your gifts more it feels like I don't know if you used to write poetry or do a little bit of writing but they want you to do that and uh have express your creativity they're showing me some colors like almost like a box of crayons I'm seeing some beautiful purples lavender's and and a little bit of like rosy red so maybe you want to bring those colors in and uh definitely the red is the root chakra so ground yourself to the earth and it is like we said it's safe to be in the body and they're saying nurture yourself and then they want you to once you kind of release this and feel more grounded and safe you're going to have some adventures in your life because life is about adventures maybe you're going to take a road trip or you're going to do something that you haven't done before and so you might want to get out your little journal and put down some kind of bucket list uh things things that you haven't done or seen that it's um important maybe that's taken that Spanish class or learning how to you know uh do some pottery or going on uh going to see Sedona or the Grand Canyon whatever it is write it down and bring it into reality because I do see in the next two three years you having some adventures and that's your spirit guys are right there with you um applauding you and and helping thank you so much and I can tell you in the last minute or so I just feel so much calmer I feel so much calmer I don't know what's going on but I feel so much calmer I can't believe it so thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you you are so welcome thank you for calling in and remember thank you you're so oh my goodness you're so welcome and don't forget to re-listen to the show because you will get even more release every time you listen and we are I'm I'm here every Monday and Wednesday I know Marla will be coming back Genevieve will be joining us at some point doing healings with us too not today but at some point in the future also so thank you for calling in love thank you thank you you are welcome okay I am going we are going to go we are going to go to a couple of online or YouTube questions Talia Talia thank you for joining um welcome to the show I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing your name wrong please forgive me um I've had a couple questions the first one I'm gonna let Marla take Joy wants to know um about romance am I ready for new love so I wanted to know about creating that and starting a family okay so Joy you're always ready for new love remember whoever shows up is there to show us what we like about ourselves what we don't like about ourselves what we're ready for what we don't what we need to heal what we don't and I feel like June is going to be a really big month for everybody for romance but also for you Joy somebody has the potential to come in in June and uh rock your world and let's hope that's in a good way Marla what are you getting I'm feeling like you had a betrayal in the past it's it's almost a little bit hard to trust and that you've had some blocks up um somebody from your past maybe the energy is still around and trying to get in so yeah my throat is all it's like you didn't speak your truth type or somebody that didn't let you speak or you never felt you could speak now's the time to get a body work it's so important to be over a year and being this these emotions we get trapped from previous relationships in the body and we've got to release it so whatever you can do to do move the body you know stretch the body detox the body and do the breath work would help too and and then you're going to be ready so you want to make sure that you're in a place that you don't compare any new guy to an old guy um have lists down what are your values what are the top uh what are the top five things that you need to find you are looking for in a person and then look do you have those qualities yourself and then you can energetically call in this person by having that list um you can even put all it knowing and visualize so um that's what I'm getting okay Marla I'm also going to do a clearing like anything stopping or blocking us from a healthy loving relationship let's clear that now and then um we've let go of all past ick with relationships and let's clear that now and then Talia Talia yep I think it's Talia I'm just going to say that um I um as she's saying she feels a huge negative energy around me I want to know where this is coming from we don't need to we don't need we don't want to actually uh and we don't need to the the the more important thing don't give it any power or like any oh my god it's so big and it's so bad because that just defeats us or you in this case and she's experiencing sleep paralysis so for you Talia everybody listening everybody re-listening watching we're going to say I'm clear I get a no I'm clear let's clear that and I'm going to do houses today my house is clear I get a no my house is unclear let's clear all of this to where it's supposed to be now the way this works is your angels come in your angels are pulling all of this energy out Talia please leave me a comment if you're feeling something and if or when you feel lighter some people feel it some people don't everybody experiences it in their very own oh wait I feel like getting lighter already there was a lot of pressure there um I'm please comment Talia so I remember to check on it before we end the show today I'm going to go to five two zero five two zero you are on with Marla and myself how can we help you today oh my god you are welcome what's from Arizona I said this is going to ask you about my uh relationship can I give you the initial please sure yeah the letter D is David okay so you're in a relationship with David and you want to know what do you want to know about it love well how long have you been with with since October energy male energy around him I'm just getting work off of something a little preoccupation that's all I'm getting what about you Tony now I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna ask you first have you you called in and asked about this prior right love have you called in and asked about this relationship we go two days in CNI okay so what I the first word I hear and if I'm wrong I'm I apologize if I'm this could be past energy but I feel like it's still present energy the first word I hear is friends I think he really values this friendship I feel like he really he does not want to jeopardize the friendship but I do feel like and my love if you're I don't know why I keep feeling like you two have different goals for this situation and it's weird that they're using the word situation with me but I feel like the two of you may have some different goals for this or some different timelines for it okay um I feel like what I'm going to say is keep what I'm going to say I don't want to let out of my mouth I don't want to let it out of my mouth you know I have people who will tell me like when they want the truth they call me because they know no matter how much it hurts that the answers I give are so accurate but I don't you're not ready to hear what they have been trying to tell you is the message that I am and I don't okay this is the way I'm going to say it no matter where your relationship is no matter what's going on with it in this moment he's not the one for you he's not the one for you he's he I'm sorry they they have jumped in there's a new captain on board take it over my little mouth here he's not the one for you he's not going to ever be the one who gives you what you want the way you want it when you want it if that's what you're looking for if this is not the person the person that you are wanting here's the person in front of you and in front of you he looks like um he's there so he's convenient and he's good and you have these these emotions for him but now what you want doesn't sit inside of this person if you want to get what you want out of a relationship you have to kind of completely back away from this person separate your energy from this person and go to somebody else who is waiting there is somebody else right like let's put this guy D in a little circle in a little circle and right outside that circle there's another guy and he's going to be able to give you what you want in a relationship the way you want it he's going to be able to he matches your relationship energy now i'm going to tell you something that that takes a moment to to get okay sometimes and and i i'm gonna try to explain this uh sometimes someone will come into our lives and we're so focused on making it work or hoping having that hope or i don't want to use the word winning because we're not desperate we just meet somebody and we really there's something about them that we just really you know and then but we're only thinking about what we're projecting on them our feelings and we're not even realizing or stepping back and looking at what are they showing or giving are these just is this just all my feelings that i'm feeling when i'm with this person and what i'm going to skip all of that i'm just going to skip all of that and i'm going to jump to again there's somebody there's somebody that you could be on the cusp of meeting and i i don't like sometimes people don't want to hear this when they're in something that they're trying to make work but there's somebody you're on the cusp of meeting that could be the person if you are ready to like get this out of your energy this could be the person that that would give you the relationship the way you want it okay that's that's what i'm gonna say and i'm gonna let that be there i am really gonna let that be there for you um okay marla any final words on that also you know i've been a matchmaker for over 20 years and i'm a coach and and and you know like if you go into your just breathe and go into your center your solar plexus your heart center and you know what the energy is if you're asking if you're calling a psychic to ask about the energy in your relationship you know that something's not right so so you you actually know you're just looking for confirmation which is totally um totally uh understandable and so what tony was sharing i'm totally on board with and uh hey it's he's not for you it's not it feels like he's not giving going to give you are capable of giving you what you would really like in a long-term relationship and so it's up to you to decide to continue or not it doesn't feel like it's going somewhere that you want it to go and so what uh you are worthy you're worthy of having everything you want in a relationship and self love is going to help that raising your frequency and deciding you know as they take that that little broom and sweep out any dust that's no longer serving you and start fresh in spring coming into summer that's what i got okay sweetie i know that this is not in some ways it's an amazing message because you get to know there's somebody right there waiting for for this relationship that's going to match your energy match your love and i'm gonna say um marla actually sent me an interview this weekend that she listened to between two people and one of them was a pastor and i don't remember his name but one of the things he said was you know that first person and i'm gonna i'm gonna ruin this statement the first person that we feel felt rejected by we will find that in somebody else and try to win that that approval and that statement is coming in so large for you in this moment you're the way and then i'm i'm gonna let you um sit with this but what i'm gonna clear for you is why are you waiting for this guy you're waiting for this guy and i'm gonna clear that because no one should ever sit at if you think you're in a relationship with this guy and you're waiting on him that should never happen to any person who believes they're in a relationship with someone we shouldn't be waiting on them or waiting for them or it should be a mutual coming together and wanting of each other okay and if you're not there the question isn't does he want me the or where is this going the question is why am i sitting in this waiting for somebody to pick me or to want me or to take this further why and this is the most important thing i'm going to say to everybody listening why am i giving up all my power to him to make up this choice okay swede that's what i have for you i hope this was helpful no i appreciate what you said i can't oh i thought i thought she all right i'm so sorry swede i thought you had hung up so i like i thought she really had hung up on us at that point so i like started the muting process i think she's taking it all in yeah i think so but but the clock is running down also tilia i need to know how do you feel patrick thank you for telling everybody to do that um j francis hey um okay as as we go i'm gonna check everybody is clear unclear the houses are clear unclear all that's with tilia has been cleared and released i don't feel much really okay she's not feeling it yet don't worry um this has been okay clear it you will i'm hearing you will i know other people well one other person commented that they felt it i'm going to tell you whatever this is okay yeah then then take it okay um the show is coming to a close please i'm here every monday and wednesday at noon come back wednesday we will continue to work on it if it's not gone by then okay swede um i'm going to let you know how you can get a hold of me and then marla will let you know how you can get a hold of her my business numbers four one four eight nine seven two eight six nine if you want a reading hypnosis or a clearing you can reach me there or my website t o n i g dot i n f o marla go ahead partnership dot com and i just put it in the chat and um or at the mystical matchmaker on instagram and it's been a pleasure you guys and thanks tony for all the amazing clearings and wonderful messages today thanks for having me on 90 seconds absolutely my pleasure yeah just in case i ever forget the the phone that might my my countdown will let me know thank you guys so much for being here i love each and every one of you so stinking much if i did not get to your call today i really do apologize i will be back on wednesday at noon central time and um thank you thank you thank you so much for joining us and remember make some miracles in your life today okay it and tomorrow and every day just get out there and create miracles for yourself okay until next time thanks and have an amazing rest of the day


In this video you will learn how to run a modified version of the user test flow exercise. User test flow is the perfect exercise to map out and sequence all the tasks and assets in your marketing campaign. Now this exercise is an adaptation of the user test flow exercise in the design sprint process. At AJ&Smart we've been using this version of the exercise for the past few years for all of our promotional campaigns, for example our Black Friday sale or Summer Sale where we sell our online courses at a discounted price. So this exercise helps map out all the steps the customer needs to take to buy our product, but also map out all the tasks we need to do to achieve that. Hi I'm Dom, growth marketing lead at AJ&Smart. The video you're watching right now is the final part of our marketing workshop series where you will learn how to run an entire marketing strategy workshop by yourself and boost any of your campaigns immediately. If you missed the previous videos and you want to learn every step of running a successful marketing strategy workshop make sure you check out this playlist. Now for this exercise you will need the following materials. You will need something to write with, we recommend Sharpies, you will need three different colored blocks of sticky notes for each participant and of course you will need a flat surface as well where you can stick these things. So here's how you run this exercise. First you will need to create a matrix. For this we recommend taking your blue sticky notes and stick them up on the wall in a horizontal and a vertical axis and in the horizontal axis you need to put the steps each customer has to take to achieve the goal and in the vertical axis just put the letters of the alphabet depending on how many participants you have. Next explain the exercise to the participants and also give examples. So for this exercise we recommend defining the start point and also the end point. So the start point is always how the customer knows about your learns about you and the end point is when the customer buys the product or the service that you're selling. So in our example the first step would be customer sees an ad and the last step would be customer buys one of our courses. Now you as a facilitator should write these steps on a different colored sticky note we recommend yellow and just write customer sees ad stick it in the first step customer buys product stick it as the last one and you should also tell participants to write these steps in a way where you use customer then a verb and then what they do. So as I said for example customer buys the product or customer receives an email customer learns about your product customer sees an ad then set your timer to 10 minutes and ask each participant to sit on their own and write down the steps they think the customer needs to go through in that campaign. The exercise is done in a together alone mode so make sure the participants don't discuss anything don't share ideas anything like that and to reduce the awkwardness of a quiet room make sure you put on some non-distracting music we have a playlist for this on Spotify. Once the time is up each participant should come to the board one by one and briefly explain the steps they created and then they should put the sticky notes on the wall as well. So once everybody's done you should have the steps like timelines in each row for each participant and use the facilitator we'll see that because it's an interdisciplinary team with different background knowledge these timelines will slightly differ so your next job as the facilitator is to take all these different timelines and merge them into one single big timeline while doing it make sure you remove any duplicates what you might also notice is that there are things that have to happen parallel to each other so what you can also do is have this timeline and whatever happens parallel then just put them next to it so now that you have this one single timeline it's time to map out all the tasks the team needs to do in order to cover every step in the customer journey so here's how you do it ask your participants to take the third colored block of sticky notes in our case the pink color set the timer to 10 minutes and tell them to write down every task they think needs to be done to cover all the steps now what usually happens is that people think about themselves and start writing down tasks they have to do only it's important to point out that this is completely normal and natural but you should also encourage them to think about tasks outside of their responsibilities as well once the 10 minutes are up ask each participant to come to the wall one by one take their sticky notes and explain each task they wrote as they explain it ask them to stick it underneath the timeline if they see that a task comes up for the second time just tell them to stick it on top of the existing one once every participant is done this exercise is completed and now you have a timeline of all the steps a customer needs to go through in your campaign and you also have all the tasks your team needs to carry out to make this project happen and there you have it this is the end of the marketing strategy workshop however there's one more important step we need to talk about once the workshop is wrapped up the decider who's usually the project manager takes pictures or takes away all these tasks and they need to assign responsibilities to each member of the team what we see is that most workshops fail because this part is forgotten or delayed or just not done so what we normally do at AJN smart is that after the workshop is concluded the project manager transfers all these tasks and actions and puts it into a project management tool we usually use asana but you can use trello and there are tons of other ones for free out there after this we set some clear responsibilities and deadlines to make sure that the project actually gets done and there you have it now you can run an entire marketing strategy workshop by yourself so just as a reminder in this video series you learn how to select the right team for your workshop how to properly introduce a challenge to your team using the what why how formula how to get inspired by other company's solutions using the lighting demos exercise how to sketch a concept without any drawing skills or without having to be creative with the concepts catching exercise how to make decisions in a group without discussions using multi-layered voting how to visualize every step and asset in your campaign using a modified version of the user test flow exercise and finally how to assign responsibilities to your team properly so you make sure that the outcome of the workshop gets implemented if you have more questions about this modified version of the user test flow exercise or the marketing strategy workshop in general please leave them in the comments below or you can also head over to our free facilitation community and ask your fellow facilitators for more insights the link to the community is in the description below if you enjoy this video and want to boost your facilitation and workshopping skills make sure you check out the playlist that's on the screen right now thanks for watching see you next time


So yeah, I'm Michael Harper. I am a Sun River resident, so Sun River is down or up the road depending upon how you define down or up about 15 miles. So if you are working on more than one project right now that really requires your attention and you probably shouldn't be here anyway, raise your hand. Right? Okay, now keeping your hands up, how many of you also had to remove eight inches of snow from your driveway this morning? Yeah, exactly. Okay, so I am, like I said, I live up in Sun River and I've turned out I'm 50% of the Sun River iOS developer community. Yeah, there's another gentleman by the name of Dick Lubkey and we found each other on Twitter because I think we're probably the only two people in Sun River on Twitter anyway. Apparently about 2,500 people live out there anyway. So this is, I'm gonna move this so it's a little bit less awkward. I appreciate the guys who came in front of me and set the bar incredibly high for keynote presentations. I'm assuming that they're gonna be there. I'm pleased to see all the MacBooks in the audience. There was a time when that would have been, I don't know what would have happened. Because we all think different now. So, let's get on with why I'm here. So, just briefly, my road to Objective C. Why am I talking to you about Objective C? Good question. Okay, mobile developers. How many mobile developers do we have out there? So, what's interesting is where I got started. Anybody remember a language called Fortran? Anybody know about Fortran? A prime mini computer? One. Oh, right. Yeah. That's about how important that is in my life, right? My experience actually goes back before this 1980 starting point. But that was like yellow schools of paper and pointing keywords in 110 bots. Not real applicable to what's going on today. But what I did learn when I was at Cal Poly in the 80s was I took this elective class called C. And it was on this wacky platform called Unix. And then from there, after I graduated, I went to work in San Francisco at an investment banking company and was working on doing developments on Macs that actually weren't all in one. They actually had a separate keyboard monitor at the base, and they had color. Yeah, it was exciting. So I taught myself C++, right? Kind of on the C continuum here. And then I encountered this Goofy language, a project that I started working on next. And this Goofy language is called Objective C. So, you know, I go from C to C++. And it was a good thing that I taught myself C++. It was a good thing I took the elective because, you know, otherwise I would have been armed to face the world with Pascal. Right? So I ended up working on this Next Step project in the mid-90s and encountered Objective C. And then about 10 years later, I ended up reporting that same project from Next Step to run on MacOS 10, which I thought was really cool, and to be able to see the evolution of what it started on Next. I still thought Objective C was relatively Goofy. And then, you know, we get the iPhone SDK, and we're doing mobile development on iPhones and iPod touch with Objective C. So I couldn't resist the allure of writing iPhone apps. Just too sexy and too cool to be able to, you know, pull your phone out and go, I made this, right? So I started doing Objective C programming. I don't see any Ruby or anything else on there. I must have filled it in on something else. Oh, yeah, Java! Yeah, so in the mid-90s, you know, let's see, that would be right about when my daughter was being born. I already had a son living in Marin. Yeah, I had to do something to make some dough. So that was Java Enterprise Development. So I was working for Sun, Stanford, and various other companies on this crazy platform called Tenga. Anybody remember Tenga, the precursor to WebLogic? Which is now part of Oracle, is that right? Yeah. So Oracle is like, there goes Sun, there goes WebLogic, there goes ATG. Anybody remember ATG Dynamo? Yeah.  So I did a lot of work, a lot of Enterprise working on Java, and I did that for quite a while. And then on the Java Posse podcast, if you don't listen to that, you should, because it's goddamn funny. And it's very interesting. A lot of Android stuff is on there as well. But anyway, I heard about Ruby on Rails on the Java Posse podcast, so I went and checked it out. And then ended up being asked to work on a Rails project. And from there, ended up working on a number of Rails projects.  I do know a thing or two about Rails. So remember I said in the early 90s, I encountered this goofy Objective-C language? It's the goofy method calling syntax. You've got square brackets or everything. You've got method names and parameter names. Yeah, they have to name. They're a mile long. I mean, it's not this method selector. I mean, who would ever want to use a method selector? Why won't you just call the method on the Objective? Come on. And also, remember, this is 20 years ago. So I'm just out of college. I'm in my mid-20s. I know everything, right? So what is this class method and category and protocol stuff? I don't need to know this, right? I mean, come on, really, seriously. Why would you want to use this? We've got C++, C++ rules, right? But let me point out briefly here that I worked on a C++ project a couple of years ago, which is definitely my last one ever. I have sworn it off completely and never happened again. But, you know, this is 20 years ago. I don't need this Objective C stuff, right? So comparatively speaking, when I found out about Ruby on Rails, and then I went to, you know, after working on Rails for a while, I went to an advanced Rails studio that was taught by Chad Fowler and Dave Thomas and Mike Clark. And had the moment of zen with Dave about Ruby, which is that everything is a method, column, and object. And it's like, whoa, everything. Whoa, you know, coming from a statically-typed world of the 80s and 90s with Java and C++ and all that stuff, it's like, whoa, right? So what were my initial thoughts about Ruby? Well, you know, of course, unicorns and rainbows. Double rainbow. You can't really see it very well, but that is... All the way. That is a proprietary picture that I took. That is... That's looking towards Lenai from the Maui office, right? So it was great. I was working on a project over the last summer and I had already planned this trip for, you know, a couple weeks to Maui and I just told them that I was working for the Maui office, which I was. I mean, seriously, I was, but that was the view from the Maui office. So initial Ruby thoughts, unicorns and rainbows. Did the Maui office have a roof? I took this outside. The actual Maui office, yes, they had a roof. In fact, they had another condominium upstairs. I appreciate that. So, you know, weigh the two different lists here, right? I've got Objective C initial thoughts and I've got Ruby initial thoughts and consider that there's 15 years of, you know, experience and life experience separating the two. But, I mean, it really was in a really moment comparing my initial thoughts about the two. And as I was working for Ruby and also working on mobile at the same time, I realized there's stuff going on in Ruby that I do all the time, but I can do Objective C, right? And I didn't even clue into it until I started working with Ruby. So let's talk about the commonisms. Not the Karl Marx variety, but what the two have in common, right? So there are a number of common things between Ruby and Objective C. I'm going to talk about three of them that were important to me, okay? There are differences as well. One of them you compile things, and you don't, I get that. But these are the three things that I found were important to me that Ruby helped me to understand Objective C, okay? So one of them is the ability to modify classes and methods at runtime. And I did this yesterday in Ruby on a Rails project. I've been working mostly in mobile for the last year, but I've been helping out in my copious free time. Yeah, we all have copious free time, don't we? And we all work in it, don't we? So yesterday I was actually using this capability in Ruby to, at runtime, change out of that. That's pretty cool. Try that in C++. If you did try that in C++, tell me how you did it. You can send a method to an object. I phrased this carefully. I didn't say you can call a method on an object, because, duh, you can call a method on an object. We do that all day long. But the concept of separating the method from the object is kind of an interesting twist, a different way of looking at it. I mean, again, from C, well, we didn't have objects, right? But in C++, you couldn't really have a method live without an object.  And those were all part of the class and part of the object. So the concept of just saying, oh, I've got this method. I'll wait till an object comes along, and then I will send the method to the object and the object will respond to the method. I guess messaging is the equivalent to what I'm trying to say here is a cool concept. And finally, of course, blocks of code, blocks of code that aren't contained in a method, basically. Now, blocks of code that you can pass around. In Ruby, blocks of code that you can write at runtime. That's really cool. I did look at metaprogramming for Objective-C and got nowhere and realized, well, that's because all your code has to be compiled. So if somebody can figure out how to do metaprogramming in Objective-C, tell me about it after class here. So let's get to an example of this. Adding a method at runtime to a class in Ruby. So this is what happens when I have this string, and I call it ferment method on it. It says, there's no ferment method on the string. So I can solve this problem simply in Ruby by opening up the class and defining the ferment method. Which, of course, changes all instances of sugar to alcohol. And then when we run that at the bottom, you can see that it works. So what does the same kind of thing look like in Objective-C? Well, there's the error. It's a different kind of error than you get in the Ruby equivalent. It's this thing I alluded to earlier called a compiler, right? So you can't even compile this code because the ferment method doesn't exist. So you have to create it. So where did it come up? Okay. So at runtime, and I have elided a bunch of code that doesn't really matter. And I've also run too far ahead, haven't I? Yeah. Yeah. Method at runtime, right? Okay. Oh, notes came up. That's what confused me. I have notes on this slide. You can't see them. All right. So let's rewind here. We're talking about adding a method at runtime in Objective-C. So what you have to do is you have to, in the interface definition for the class, you create this thing that's called a category. And that's what's putting the parentheses and some name after the class there, right? You see interface NSString, NSString being the string class in ILS and in Mac OS X. That's why there's the NS. Okay. Raise your hand if you knew that. Come on. Okay. I create this category. I add the ferment method that returns a string and then I implement it, right? So basically the Objective-C equivalent of opening up a class and adding a method. And then when I run it at the bottom, you get the result that you want to see. Okay. Compile and run it. I know. So when have I actually used this? I've used this particularly on NSString to add base 64 encoding. It's a real natural thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure I stole it off the web somewhere. But the ability to do that in Objective-C is great. And I never would have thought of that if I hadn't been arrested at all and seen it done there. They do it in Rails. Just a little bit. Active support is pretty much that. Okay. So sending a method ever in time is the concept of separating the method itself from the object that it's going to be executed on. It was another kind of, oh, wow, that's kind of cool thing for me. So again, going back to our fermenting a string. And I didn't get anything. No luck for the changing sugar to alcohol. And I'm proud because I already had a couple of years. So you can see towards the bottom there, I'm sending, s.send, and then I pass in the ferment symbol. So I'm sending that message to that object and it's the equivalent of calling the method. I'm sure that there are subtle differences there, but essentially that's what's going on for the purposes of my example. How do you do the same thing in Objective-C? Well, you have this thing called the selector. This is a thing that I didn't understand 20 years ago. Why would you create a method selector? And you see this in all caps, S-E-L. That's the type of variable that you can assign a selector to. And then you can call on an object, perform selector, and then you pass in the selector. So going back to Michael 20 years ago, why would you just call the method directly? Well, let me tell you why. For example, in iOS and iOS 10, there are certain methods that you need to always call on the main thread. You may not be in the main thread for one reason or another. So you can actually call perform selector on main thread. And then you see here with the with object, you can pass in, in this case, the text that you want to actually set in the current time view. This is from a boxing timer app that I've used for about four years as an example to continue to learn personally iOS-isms. So here's another one. In the bottom half, creating a timer. You're going to schedule a timer with a time interval of one second. The target is self. In this case, it's a model. And then here's the selector that I'll call. So two real good instances in iOS where you do need to have that method separated from the object that you're going to call on. Kind of cool. There's also this class called NSInvocation. I took a look at that because I've never used it, but I took a look at that because it is apparently the blanket, totally flexible and abundantly complex way of doing the separation of target and method and parameters and the turn value. And the amount of code required to do something as simple as one of these two is pretty impressive. But that's kind of the pure way of calling a method on an object if you really want to get down with it. So the last bit I have for you here is blocks. And this is a fairly contrived example. But what I did was I added a yield to the ferment method that I used in the example. And that way, if there is a block that's passed into the ferment call, it will yield to that to get the value that we're going to replace sugar with in this string. So I have two calls to ferment. One without any block, and that is what we did before. And then I have one that does some very simple stringing catnation, some simple math on the beer string. So do you have any beer beer beer? So that's a very simple example of blocks in Ruby. And you guys all know that we use blocks like Crazy and Ruby and Rounds and iterators. When you're going through an array and you call .each and you pass in a block, the syntax there is wonderful. So how does that relate to objective C? So something popped up here again. Okay, so here's the equivalent in objective C. You have to declare, or you have to write a little more obtuse code. Basically where you can do it. It's really not that bad. Just figuring out what that definition of the block is the hardest part for me. It always involves a character. So anyway, if you look down near the bottom you can see that I'm making the ferment call with nil. And that's kind of the equivalent of not passing in a block in Ruby. And then I'm passing in a block that returns beer times three. So that's the equivalent of the beer times three in the Ruby. Again, I mean it's a compact example of passing blocks around. But it really makes your life a lot easier, specifically for me in dealing with animations in iOS because you can pass in, for example, when the animation is done, run this block of code. And I don't have to create another class or I don't have to create a delegate method to get called afterwards. Now I just pass in this block of code. That's great. So what do you notice anything about this code? Is there a times method on the screen? No, but I needed one. So I did that thing that I was talking about earlier where I added a method of runtime so that it had a times method and basically do the equivalent of what we can easily do in Ruby. See, I'm not saying that G isn't it great. We can do this stuff in Objective C just as easily as we can in Ruby. I'm saying G isn't it neat. We can actually do it. Okay, now, okay, I've got to get this stuff in place. Okay, that's good. Got it. So just a real quick example here of making array elements do stuff. I was talking about this a little bit earlier about how nice it is, the syntax that we have in Ruby to do this stuff. I really appreciate it. They've given us some helper methods for things like an SRA so that we can make objects perform selector. Remember that thing I was talking about? About having the method separate from the actual object. Yeah, cool. You can also do the same thing with block. Pass in some code and have the object passed in, have each element in the array passed into the block. So, what have I learned? Other than, man, this is a really cool room. We had a buddy's 50th birthday party next door, so I know about that, but I didn't know about this room. But I think it's really cool. That's one of the things that I learned. But anyway, I've learned that I love Ruby. I mean, I just really do. Obviously, I've been doing this a long time. And I remember when Java came along and I thought, this is great. It's taking all the rough edges away from C++. I don't have to worry about memory management anymore. Java, thank you very much. And then I spent seven years, you know, eight years doing enterprise development. It's like, okay, well, we've replaced the sharp edges of C++ with all this XML configuration, right? And I'm hoping not XML of violence, right? And then Ruby comes along and it's like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. And then when do I end up doing Android development? That's right.   Nothing wrong with Java. But I do. I really love Ruby. I really, really do. What else have I learned? I learned that I understand objectives C a whole lot better than I did 20 years ago. I don't know. Maybe because of the passage of time, maybe because of the fact that I realized that I don't know everything anymore, right? Probably took a while for me to understand. And wouldn't it be awesome if Ruby were sanctioned for IOS development? Max Ruby. Max Ruby. I'm sorry? They're spending to do IOS with Max Ruby. Cool. Can you circle back with me after and tell me more about that? Awesome. Okay. So Ruby, you know, I love about it. It's so expressive and efficient. And then, you know, the moment was in with Dave and metaprogramming, you know, double-edged sword. Certainly, but isn't it cool?  And objective C, you know, my problem, my initial experience with objective C was really tainted by the fact that I came from such a statically-typed world, right? I mean, that's all I was taught in college.  Only happened in one class where we wrote one program in which, you know, all different languages. We actually called them programs back then. So I think that objective C was tainted for me by this heavily strictly-typed history that I had. And by going to Ruby and the freedom that I was allowed there, I really started to understand objective C and what it's, why it is so cool. I hope I'll make that to you today, to some degree. Shameless self-promotion. There seems to be some of that in the previous presentation so I'll go ahead and do that myself.  There are, I think we're up to 11 traffic circles. And interestingly, in the upper right-hand corner, there's supposed to be another traffic circle that is missing. That would have been Circle 8. So there's actually no Circle 8 in Sun River. It goes from 7 straight to 9. So the joke is that the tourist is being particularly special. The tourists are want to be, as in make me a latte and make it a good one. We will send them to Circle 8 and tell them to take them. Go check that out at Circle8.net, Android, and iOS. And the shameless self-promotion. Here's where you can find me on the interwebs. I'm at the Hapa on Twitter. That's because I have a 40-year-old BMW of varia. No, it's not in 2002. It's got two more doors, right? And I'm part of the group that keeps those cars alive. So that is a Germanization of my stature. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Standalonecode.com, that's me. Standalone Code. That's me. And I'm M Harper. Sorry, I was kind of worried. So with that, I am going to ask somebody to go get me. And... What do you want? IPA. My final admission to you is to go write a test, right? Thank you to Matt and Mark and Josh and Mike, and somebody else. The guy who's getting me here. Thank you for having me, guys. I appreciate it. Thanks, Chris, for coming out all the way from DC. I appreciate that. And I hope you learned something. A question for me? If I don't know the answer, I'll make it up. The 80s, like... That was a good question. Make it up. The 80s were Genesis? Thank you, guys. The 80s were... I discovered Genesis. I discovered Genesis concerts, as a matter of fact. The 80... Oh, we pretty much had parity between the US dollar and the British panel. It was great because I was in the fund for three months. Was it cooler? Temperature-wise. I was living in the Bay Area, and so the parity was much warmer than the US. Mike. Do you always have an 11-day reminder to go to work? Actually, I know you're not going to believe this, but that's my son's reminder for him to go to work at 11. He's a lifeguard at the University of Southern River Club. How is he going to get there if he doesn't get the reminder? I'm just going to share with you a little bit more. Can we actually use some more space? Do I do church TV and iOS development? I do as much as I can. That was one of the things that Rails brought to me, was test-driven development. And then I read our... Uncle Bob's three rules for test-driven development, and didn't understand them. And then about a year later, I read them again, and then I understood them. And that was another moment for me, right? On iOS, it's... I find it more difficult to do thorough test-driven development like we can do in Rails. It's slow and not well instrumented in my experience. I haven't gone deep on the sort of in-application testing you can do, not super deep. So I tend to limit my test-driven development to more model-based stuff. Stuff that doesn't require me to fire up the application. API testing, model testing, and stuff like that. So it's half to be in iOS testing. Android is fairly similar to London. Did you find your transition to Ruby weird as well? Did I find my transition to Ruby weird? Weird is the wrong word. Challenging at times, for sure.  I don't have to define the type of this variable in the same case. What's all this magic that's going on in Rails? The metaprogramming, particularly on the back of the record. So not weird, more uncomfortable to begin with. And then especially after Dave Thomas, the moment he said to Dave Thomas, it's like, oh, this is awesome. But there was definitely a transition that came here.