San Manani de Milan, good evening and welcome to episode 331 of the private property podcast. If you join us for the first time, welcome to the only daily property podcast in South Africa. We're simply glad to have you join us this evening. Welcome to the family. You're going to feel all the love, especially if you're watching us from our Facebook page and all our regular viewers, whether you're watching us on Facebook and Instagram or on YouTube. Welcome back. You know how we do it. Every single weekday, you and I have an appointment at 7 p.m. We are always in conversation with the property expert who helps us navigate our property journey and make better property decisions. And of course, as you know, we always love seeing the love that you show us across our social media platforms. It is the 1st of September. It's spring. And I know that we always have the debate about when spring day is nowadays in South Africa. Many people say, no, it's not the 1st. It's on the 22nd or 23rd. It's spring day, you know, says if it's like us, we're just going to have to concede that today's spring day. And of course, with it being the 1st of the month, there are also people who've moved into their new homes. So if you've moved into a new rental, let us know down here below how was moving. I know how stressful moving can be sometimes. And I always say, I typically don't like moving admin as much. I like to delay a move as much as possible. And to the landlords who are watching us, how was getting your tenant this today rather, because it wouldn't have happened in the evening. How is handover? You know, oftentimes handover can also be very stressful there for the landlord, whether you're doing it yourself or your agent did it for you. Do share with us down here below. Well, you know that, of course, you can catch other great shows across private properties, social media platforms, to make sure that you do so. And they come to your screens every single weekday at 8 p.m. And as it is a Wednesday this evening, you can catch Essie Carson on the First Time Home Buyers show, where she's always in conversation with people who've walked that first time home buying journey and have gone on to grow their property portfolios from strength to strength. And if it's Tuesdays and Thursdays, Winning Farmer Homebuyer, who brings you the farming podcast, tackling all things agriculture. So do make sure you tune into that show. If you want to have a bit of sense of what you can if you are already in agriculture, or if you want to go into agriculture. And every Mondays and Fridays, you can catch Chad and the Home Shoppers show. It always takes us through incredible properties that you can find on www.privateproperty.co.za. Those are great programs that you can find every single weekday at 8 p.m. across private properties, social media pages. And of course, we love hearing from you. I'm already seeing some of the love on our Facebook page. And we're seeing the people in there watching, Selahni Pelesing. I actually had a nap today, got some relaxed time with my baby. Evarentia, Parichia, I see you. Also, Siglechirinda is watching us this evening. Shanalfari is also watching, as well as Parana, Siddiqui. They are watching Keep The Love Coming, Nonin Kota. Also watching, Uko Solchumela is also watching this evening. Do keep the love coming on. I see more and more of you this evening on the show. And as I was saying, if you've moved today, how was the move? And if you're landlord and received your tenant, how did that go for you? Well, this evening I'm joined by a man I speak to every quarter. And every time we wrap up our conversation, I always say I'll see you next quarter. And as many of you who watch this regularly, you know exactly who I'm in conversation with. Speaking to Umu Zizem, who's the head of advancing analytics at Apsar Home Loans. I'm looking at the insights from the Apsar Home Loans, the Apsar Home Owners Index for quarter two. Muzir, good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Good evening Zamaq. Good evening, all of our viewers. So I think Muzir, it's a great place to start. You and I chat every quarter about the Apsar Home Owner Sentiment Index. For those of us who are probably shooting in for the first time, what is the Home Owner Sentiment Index? You know, what does it measure? I know you and I geek out a bit when we talk about it before we get to that part. Let's make sure everybody's on the bus so they can geek out with us as well. So the Home Owner Sentiment Index is a proprietary index that is run by Apsar, where we try to get a better understanding of the thoughts and feedings of regular South Africans around the property market. And what makes this index stand out is that we talk to the individuals who make the buying, selling, renting, renovating decisions. We don't interview industry partners or potential intermediaries. So this tells us exactly what the person is going to be ultimately making the decision is thinking or feeling. We measure a sentiment, which is confidence about the property market in South Africa in general. And then we slice it in five different ways, where we try to get a little bit more insight around what some of those drivers of sentiment might be. We want to understand from respondents how they're feeling about the present timing, as it when we measure it around buying property, selling property, investing in property, buying versus renting, and renovating and making alterations to property. Yeah, and we're going to get into some of the indices and what we saw in quarter two. But before we even start discussing quarter two, let's look at the highlights from Q1. Because I think it's always great to obviously do the comparison. When we last spoke, we were sharing some of the surprises and some of the things that were not as surprising coming off Q1. Perhaps just share some highlights of what came out of the Q1 report. Yeah, so what came out of the Q1 report is we were basically seeing yet another peak of a very long trend, where pretty much all of our indicators or all the indices that we measure were up against Q4 of 2020. So more people were confident in the property market, more people considered it a good time to buy property, to sell property, to invest in property, and to buy rather than to rent. And what we found in Q1 is the only thing that didn't increase was sentiment towards renovating property. And that didn't decrease it actually stayed the same. It was exactly the same as what we saw in Q4. That's kind of where we had left it in Q1. And it was, like I said, pretty much a similar story of going from strength to strength ever since Q1 of last year. And before we get into what the Q2 sentiment, the overall sentiment is, and of course, the overall breakdown of the different indices. Of course, viewers at home know that we have been running the 1 million followers competition on our social media pages, particularly on Facebook. We've reached that over 1 million mark follower, but we still have two more goals that we want to take off. And that's of course 10,000 comments in 10,000 shares. So you still start a chance of walking away with 500 grand cash every single day.  And the only way you can get your hands on the money is if you drop us, it takes down here below. Today, the money bag is sitting at 4,000 grand. I don't think we've ever had a roll over since this competition has started that has reached 4,000 grand. So I really hope that if you know that you've entered, you are watching because we're going to reveal rather who the winner is. So do make sure that you keep watching, keep dropping us, text down here below. The money bag is sitting at 4,000 grand. So we're going to see who that 4,000 grand is going to go to. I still see some of the love that we're getting on Facebook. Is watching as well as, of course, so many. If you would say my donor, I see you, who's also watching cinema shots on one of the top fan gang members, the same good evening fan. So do you keep the love coming right here on the private property podcast with myself? This evening, I'm in conversation with Moses and was the head of advanced analytics at Apsa Home Loans. We're looking at insights from the Apsa Home Loans Home Owners Sentiment Index, the quarter two results. And was taking us through a really great breakdown of what we saw in quarter one, especially to those who may have missed that episode. So when we then look at quarter two, before we look at the individual investors will do that after the break. I think what was the overall sentiment for Q2 and of the sentiment for quarter two? So Zama, before I get into into answering your question, I'm going to request some indulgence to kind of paint a little bit of a background. The results of Q2 were collected towards the end of June slash beginning of July. And some of the respondents that were interviewed were interviewed into the unfortunate acts of violence and destruction to property that we saw at the beginning of June. And the results of this edition of the HSI definitely reflects the thoughts and attitudes that respondents had at this time. And the overall sentiment for Q2 is down 4% versus Q1 ending at 77%. The respondents who were concerned or not not confident about the South African property market, they did cite concerns around economic and political stability and high levels of crime and unemployment. And then there were a couple who were also concerned about land expropriation without compensation, all of these making property and uncertain investment. And kind of when the data was collected versus the reasoning that was given by respondents, we can clearly see that the unfortunate events that we witnessed played quite a big role in the results. And I mean 77% is not a bad sentiment score. Just to give the comparison, we were sitting at 76% in Q3 of last year, and we were actually down at 73% in Q1 of last year just before we went into lockdown. So we're down 4%, but all is not lost. And I like that when you present the figure and the decrease by that 4%, you also paint the picture of when the sentiment was relatively low. And of course, we also would know why it would have gone low. I mean, when you look at last year and different people's sentiment around home ownership, so much uncertainty, the hard lockdown certainly created a lot of pressure for home owners, quite a significant amount of pressure for home owners, whether for your primary residence, or of course, if you even have some rental units. So understanding why or what drives the overall sentiment going up and down is quite important. I think a lot of home owners were starting to feel, and certainly still continue to feel slightly under pressure because of the unfortunate looting that we saw. And also just understanding that the way in which their properties are, or even commercial properties, I think the destruction that we saw was like nothing that many of us have ever seen, if we must be honest. And this is actually something that we're going to be talking about on Friday, where we're going to be looking at then the rebuild, because we also know that the extent of the damage that we saw during that period was such that it's not like renovating your home, it's going to require millions and millions of friends from different stakeholders coming onto the party. And so on Friday, you can look forward to that conversation, where we will be looking at rebuilding, at least being to the COO of Kandua, and that's something that you can look forward to at home. But I want us to take a quick break before we then look at the different indices and how they fade going up, going down, as Musa Zem shares more insights from APSA's home owner sentiment index for quarter two. And this quick break, we're going to see who the potential winner of that 4,000 rounds that's already in the money bag. And I really hope we're going to give this away. It's the first of spring, it's the first of September, it's spring day, I think it would be great to get some money in spring. I wish I could just take it. I would do quite a bit with 4,000 rounds, but it's not mine for the taking. So let's see who this evening's potential lucky winner is. I was a bit of a perv. And this evening's potential winner is Uri Filiwet Precious Malibana. That's Uri Filiwet Precious Malibana. You stand a chance of walking away with 4,000 rounds. Unfortunately, we don't have these breaks long enough. You saw Muzi wanted to just sneak in a conversation with me. It was always fun when we could take a nice long two minute break, and I could have another interview within the interview with my guests at home, but these ones are too short, so we can't quite do that. Meaning you catch all of the fun. So all the little, you know, the interview within the interviews I would typically have with the guests at home, you catch all of that. But to our winner, potential winner, Uri Filiwet Precious Malibana, I do hope you're watching. Drop us a message down here below. We want to hear from you. You stand a chance of walking away with that 4,000 rounds that is in the money bag this evening. And I already see all the love that Uri Filiwet is getting on our Facebook page, console, and see her. And now congratulating you, you have to give us a text, drop us a text in order to claim this prize. And of course, going back to my conversation with the Muzi, because you catch all of it. We couldn't even have an interview within an interview. And that is the Muzi Zim, with the head of advanced analytics from Apsa Home Learns. This evening, we're looking at insights from Apsa's home earner's sentiment index for quarter two. You know that I absolutely love chatting to Muzi, you know, every quarter always joke about, you know, how data is so important, but we also just don't want data for the sake of data. You know, this kind of data does help us speak better inside. And I think, let's start there before we look at the, you know, different individual indices. For those who are still not particularly familiar with the index and even just data in general when it comes to, you know, property, why is it so important for us to be able to, first of all, it is so important for Apsa to be tracking this kind of data. And then for us as consumers to, you know, go through it and have a better understanding of the data that, you know, you and your team, of course, not only collect but present to us in a very accessible way. Sorry. Sorry, Zama, I missed the last bit. Well, apologies. I think it may have been my signal there. So I was asking that for the viewers at home are probably not as clued up about the importance of, you know, data and being able to make data-driven decisions. But why is it important for the Apsa Home Loans team firstly to even track this index? I mean, and we talk about it every quarter and updating, you know, the viewers at home. So why is it important to track this data? And what kind of insights does it then give to a consumer who's watching the show when they obviously listen in on our conversation or go to their Apsa website to read the full report themselves? Awesome. Thanks for that, Zama. Apologies about that. So the reason why we're interested in tracking this index is it gives us a very nice leading indicator, forward-looking view of what we can expect in the market. And it's been very interesting for us to look at the insight that this index has been able to give us, especially when we hit quite a bit of rocky journey or quite a bit of uncertainty towards the beginning of last year. And we realize at that point in time that the findings that we get out of the index have been able to give us quite a nice holistic picture or help us to color in between the lines as it were. And the one big thing that we like to debate around when we're looking at at the numbers from the homeowner sentiment index is it helps us really think about supply and demand dynamics and how those actually drive property prices up and down or potentially result in a lot of demand and potential shortages for properties that people might be wanting to buy. So how I think our viewers can leverage the data from this is they can use this as another data point. It's not nearly enough to be considering it in isolation or as the only data point in their decision to buy, sell, make investments in property. But I do believe that it's a very valuable data point alongside other data points as they make those decisions. And I think that's such an important thing to note that this index alone wouldn't be sufficient, but it's certainly part of your weapons or your awesome as you're collecting your data and making your decisions. And sometimes you may already have a property perhaps looking to expand and you also just want to get a sense of what other people on the same boat as you feel and where they are and what some of their potential pressure points are. And I see the team has just let me know that Refilo Precious Manibane has raised her hand. She has claimed that 4,000 rounds that is in the money bag. So congratulations to Precious Manibane. The money is coming your way. Absolutely, absolutely love it for you. So look forward to that 4,000 rounds in cash that is coming through to you. Now, when we then look at the different indices, I think let's perhaps start with some of the surprises when you're saying that yes, 4%, the overall sentiment went down 4%. And in many ways, it also was surprising because of the time frame when people were interviewed. But when you then look at the different indices, were there any that surprised you whether in them going up or down or even remaining the same? I think in terms of surprises, not really. I think most of what we ultimately saw didn't come as a surprise. But I guess it was a bit different or veered a little bit off the path that we had gotten accustomed to over the past couple of quarters. So in the past couple of quarters, the results were telling one story that more and more people are more confident about the property market. More and more people are considering it a good time to buy property and to make property investments. And fewer people were considering it a good time to, well, fewer people were considering it a good time to sell property. Some of the things that we saw in this edition of the survey was that uncertainty in general around the economy had started returning as a drive-off negative sentiment around buying property. So we saw this just after we went into hard lockdown. And what we saw at the beginning of hard lockdown last year is there were many respondents who cited COVID-19 as a specific concern around buying property. And what we then saw in the quarters after that is fewer and fewer people started citing COVID-19 specifically. But then they were starting to cite uncertainty in general. And we've kind of seen that reversing. The other thing that we've seen is we've seen the segment of respondents who hold property as investments. So I'll call these property investors. They actually veered off the path a little bit and they differed from other respondent segments in that they actually had a reduction in sentiment towards selling property. So they basically behaving like typical property investors where they're saying, no, do not sell your property where we actually saw slightly more of the other respondent segments saying maybe it might be a good time to be thinking about about selling property. They definitely said, you know, fewer of them actually said sell your property, basically saying hold your property regardless of, you know, the actual kind of happening at the beginning of July. And then something else that was also quite peculiar or interesting with this responded segment is that they actually started talking about generating passive income as one of the drivers or very important driver for holding investment properties. This is typically the group that was quite long term in their thinking. They generally said it's a good time to invest in property because property will increase in value or prices will ultimately increase. But it was quite interesting now to actually see that their number one driver for a change was property can actually give you some nice passive income. And they said this off the back of the no interest rate cycle. So that kind of does reinforce what we've seen in the past quarters that, you know, people who hold property as investments more and more they're more potentially tapping into debt. But I thought it was quite interesting that they were they were basically saying it's a good time now, kind of like the benefit is now. Yes, Muzi, do apologize for that. You may continue. I had lost you, but our viewers at home are still with you there. You're showing the bits about the property investors and how they of course believed in still holding their properties. And you know, you're making the point about them wanting to generate passive income. So that's where I lost you. But viewers at home were still very much with you. Awesome. Yeah, no, that's that's pretty much what I found interesting, some of that. This is generally the segment. So I do see that we're probably having a connection issue on my side. I do apologize for that. I'm this evening in conversation with Muzi Zem, who's the head of advanced analytics at Absa, who learns and as we are solving it, I see that we're just missing each other. So I'm going to ask my colleague on a quick break. And when we come back, we are going to get that last bit from Muzi Zem. Welcome back to episode two, three hundred and thirty one, rather, of the private property podcast. We are experiencing some technical issues. I was even joking to Muzi that we're now getting our interview within an interview. You know, it almost seems like the connectivity gods are like, no, we're going to give it to them nonetheless. But we're going to have this interview, we're going to wrap it up. So Muzi was sharing there a bit about, you know, the current and will call them property investors and how they were excited, you know, the need to have a passive income. Yes, I found that to be quite interesting, Zemma, given that this is traditionally the group of respondents that generally spoke about the longer term benefits. So property will increase in price. Ultimately, you will ultimately get a good price when you sell your property or the economy will turn around. I found it to be quite interesting that one of the big drivers that they gave this time around was property can generate a good passive income for you. So it was basically a bit of a mindset shift, as it were, from you will get the benefit to the time for getting a benefit is potentially now. And as we wrap up before the connectivity gods take away all our connection, I think Muzi, any, and I always leave you with this one, and I know it would have shall away from it, but any predictions for Q3, especially as we're slowly sort of rebuilding, slowly, you know, getting a sense of what is happening, even with, you know, dealing with the looting and with some people feeling slightly more job secure because of, you know, the vaccine rollout and how rapidly that's kind of going. And so not feeling as though we'll find ourselves in a situation where we'll go into a hard lockdown again, like in previous periods when we simply just weren't certain. So any predictions for Q3? Yeah, predictions are always very interesting. I like talking a little bit, maybe around some of the things that I'm quite interested in looking at. The one, you know, is around, I really hope and believe that we won't see another repeat of the unfortunate acts that we saw at the beginning of July. So I don't think that that will take away from respondents' confidence in the property market. So that will kind of give us a bit of runway to see an increase. Something else that I found to be maybe standing out, something that I'm really keeping my eye on, is the group of respondents who are currently renters. They basically said it's a great time to invest, but not a good time to buy. And their reasoning was actually different from all the other respondent groups. They basically cited affordability constraints. So either they can't they can't afford the upfront costs, or they've lost a part of their income. So I'll be interested in seeing how that potentially turns around because I think if we can get our non-property owners again into a stable financial position, they are the ones who are potentially going to be driving quite a bit of growth and activity in the industry. And lastly around our sentiment towards selling property, one of the reasons that was given, also for the first time featured quite high up, was that respondents were saying it's a good time to sell if you're looking to upgrade your property. Now we've actually already started seeing quite a bit of upgrading activity when we look at our own specific data, but it was quite interesting to see that respondents are starting to come out and talk about selling property when you're looking to upgrade. And all of this sort of coincides with the latest stats that were received released by the National Credit Regulator to say, approval rates have generally been higher, which now talks to the people who have been applying for debt are generally more financially savvy, more financially astute, not necessarily taking chances. So that's given me quite a bit of hope, and kind of taking all of those things together, I think we'll probably see another quarter of positivity around the property market. And we are going to leave it there with almost as soon as the hell for advancing and it takes an absurd home loans this evening, because it's been such a pleasure to have a chat with you, I know we're going to see you next quarter, thank you very much for joining us on the show. And that is how we're going to wrap up this evening's conversation on the property podcast with myself. Huge congratulations to Refule Precious Manibania, who walks away with that 4,000 rounds that was in the money bag. And I see all the love that you're showing her on Facebook, absolutely love that they keep it coming. We know this is a great family to be a part of, especially when you even start winning, so all the best to feel it there. Well, I'll be wrapping it up this evening. And of course, we can keep the conversation going on our Facebook page. It is a Wednesday, so you can catch the first time home buyers show with AC Carson at 8pm. Until then, hope you're staying home and staying safe.


Teaching skills from the Swedish curriculum and Teflon syllabus perspective. As a teacher of English, one may need to identify some areas that are essential in teaching, even though the syllabus doesn't mention them. For instance, what to teach is suggested but not how to do that. Having taken courses in pedagogy and didactics in Sweden, in the Swedish language, was and still is highly appreciated, but I may consider the Teflon course is more satisfying when it comes to investigating ways and possibilities of designing a syllabus in teaching English. Another consequence of studying these courses is that it may as well result in better understanding and improving methods of preparing the French language as well. Writing skills. To clarify the matter, I tend to investigate how to improve the students writing skill as well as how to be able to assess it. The former may seem to be a hard and complicated task, but having read through the techniques and methods highlighted in the courses mentioned above will help solve the problem. Thus I tend to relate the matter to what my students and I are currently studying in class this very week. To establish ways and possibilities with which to improve the students writing skill, I tend to investigate the content of the Swedish National Agency for Education's general advice for planning and implementation of the teaching, and the Teflon suggested methods for designing a syllabus for English. How to teach and improve writing skill? Studying skills. According to the source mentioned above, it is highly recommended to plan for lessons as the following. First, after discussing the matter with my students who chose to work with one of the coursebook chapters, which was media starting from the students' interests, I clarified the goals and objectives that they need to reach and accomplish. For instance, I informed them that they would at the end of the planned task, end up writing an argumentative essay about media clarify what the teaching should focus on. Second, it is highly recommended to explain how to fulfill such an envisaged goal. Hence I informed my students that they would first listen and read texts, related to media as an attempt to combine different language skills. Accordingly they were given possibilities to discuss and compare the content based on their background knowledge and experience. Afterward they worked with grammar, past tense form and use, and vocabulary related items which they will later make use of in their news report based on a role play assignment. Students will be working in groups of three to four, where they will be recording a news report with their tablets, choose working methods and materials. Finally, write a text about media. Additionally, it is essential to explain and clarify for students which assignments are meant to train and improve their knowledge about the subject studied, such as reading comprehension exercises, vocabulary and grammar, and those that are supposed to be assessed create the conditions for following, supporting and assessing the students knowledge development. Finally, one needs to explain the matrices behalf of which the teacher will make use when assessing students writing skill development. Lesson providing skills. Before attempting to write an essay that is going to be evaluated, the students need to train other skills to be able to reach that very envisaged goal, it must also be clear to the student how the activities in the teaching should give them the opportunity to develop these abilities. As already mentioned above, the students may broaden their knowledge through reading texts and working with assignments related to media. Furthermore, and to vary the content of the lessons to be taught, students can as well listen to news broadcasts and critically discuss its content. Moreover, to allow students to practice their speaking skills is beneficiary when it comes to trying to work with all the language skills equivalently. Additionally, that may permit possibilities to provide indirect information about a student's ability to perform the upcoming assignments. In this stage, students may practice and make a news report in the form of a role play to train their verbal skill. Finally, the students can express their ideas and write an essay about media. To be more transparent, students may write an argumentative essay about for instance, the advantages and drawbacks of the use of social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Evaluation skills. Evaluating students' abilities in answering a question, solving a problem, simple or complex, one needs to be continuously present and active. Providing students with continuous and appropriate feedback helps them improve, learn, and develop. Through activating students to be resources for each other, I here tend to encourage them to feel free and write their arguments, which they may bring from their life experience, discussions, coursebook texts, or internet articles. Having succeeded in making students chose the most suitable reasons, I asked them accordingly to illustrate or explain them and provide an example or two. Furthermore, I assigned them to introduce generally for the subject matter, as well as to conclude through implementing new ways and techniques. When all was said and done, I allow students to read each other's essays and discuss the content, grammatical mistakes of subject-verb agreement, spelling, etc. Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today. Ultimately I provide final feedback to my students by inserting my comments within their documents. There I explain to them individually how a particular sentence can be shortened or rewritten. If a word is overused, I try to show them how an equivalent word or synonym can replace it. Most importantly, how to connect paragraphs and use linkers to improve coherence and cohesion. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


I was involved in an argument with my own lasten brother over a piece of land. When we tried to solve the problem with the village elders, my other cousin was not really happy. I did not know that he had a bush knife in his side. So he came closer to me and I was trying to explain that this piece of land is like this, like this, and then he just swung his bush knife, and it's a bush knife slash from my face, and the sky is still there. After two days, I picked up my conscious and I realized that I was in the hospital. In the traditional time when they used arrows, it was only few who were killed and few who died. Nowadays, these arrows and bows, they are gone. People are using guns only, guns, weapons like these to fight. It's getting worse now, while they're using these guns and modern weapons. Traditionally, the local leaders used to have a better control over travel fights. Their instructions were followed by the fighters, but nowadays they do not have the similar influence over these fighters. The modern weapons are there. The fights are taking place in the middle of the villages and the towns. The control is very difficult nowadays. Travel fighting is like a small-scale war. Like we have big wars. People know about big wars in other parts of the world, but they don't know that happening.  For the Red Cross here, what we are doing now is kind of a new idea. We have a certain drama group that we are using and up in the hangar where we are now, we use the drama group from Ambulm. They're called Adaya. Ambulm Disadventures Association. When they stepped into the hangar, they told us that there's a problem like this. We are rolling out throughout the province, so could you help us, step in to help us to do dramas? Myself, I'm a trainer too of this theater group, so I was very interested to train them on the topics that we would disseminate to the people. We were assigned to do a drama that is like a dispute over land. This is what is going on around our place here. The drama team catches the attention of the public and it is easier to draw them into the topic and gradually passing these key messages on the protection of civilians, public properties, sexual violence, and so on and so forth. I feel really happy to disseminate this program to the people with my experience in the past. I sometimes give an example of myself to the public that I've been involved in a fight when I got this injury on my face and the sky is still there. I'm really proud to tell others that this kind of thing is now good for us in today's time.


Good day, fellow investors. I cannot emphasize enough how much I love your comments. If I can add just a little bit of value to your financial life, then my life is rewarded. Today's topics are Buffett and options. Excellent comment there. Closing his put sales. YouTube channel that I would recommend. Normalized and primary earnings. And then yields dividends, defaults, interest rates and bonds. So let's start with Buffett. Quokcliffe found an interesting news on Buffett's action on options. What's my insight on it? So let's first discuss what's going on there. Between 2004 and 2010 Buffett wrote 4.8 billion of index put options on various indices around the world. So those options started expiring in June and will last, will expire till 2026. What's the deal there? So when you write an option, you sell insurance to someone else. So Buffett said, okay, if the index in 2018 that we are now till 2026, depending on the option, is below a certain level, let's say it was then 1400 and Buffett said, if it is below 1400, I'll buy it. I'll buy the SAP 500 from you.  And Buffett collects the premiums. And then if the SAP is below that level, then he has to buy it. So what's his strategy there? If the SAP 500 in 2018, we are talking, he was thinking that 10 years ago, is below that level, I'm a happy buyer. So he will get at the discount and he will get his money upfront. Secondly, if those options, if the SAP 500 is much, much higher, then those options expire worthless. And he can keep the money that he has been compounding for the past 10 years. Similarly, the FTSE index is also higher than it was 2006, 2008, 2009. So Buffett really made a great deal on that. The estimation is that he made 4.2 billion then, which was the amount he received for those options. Let's say he compounded those 4.2 billions during 2008, 2009 and what he was buying at 10%. So he made about 10 million, 10 billion long term from selling those 4.8 billion in premiums for 47 contracts from 2006 till 2010, when he disclosed what he was doing. So why did Buffett sell put options? And is this something we could do or buy options for protections? Well, as with anything, it's the key component there is value. When those options are missed priced, as in 2008, 2009, everybody was crazy about insurance, protecting what they have. And Buffett had a long term view and he was willing to give them insurance and get the money. So he took advantage again, he did the opposite of what everybody else is doing. When everybody was looking for protection, he was a buyer, be it buying stocks, he bought Burlington Santa Fe, being selling put options, long term European put options. European put option is an option where you can do what the contract says, only at the expiration date and American option, you can do it constantly during that time until the expiration date. So Buffett was protecting himself. He said, okay, I'm giving you insurance, but you can use it only from 2018 till 2026 as the contracts expire. Not before. Big difference, always Buffett is doing things smartly. So the key with options is, okay, the only advantage I think we individuals investors can have is have a long term attitude as Buffett had then. So we can see, okay, long term options, you have to see what is the price there, but out of the money options for protections can be bought cheaper when the fix is very low. And you have to see how that fits your portfolio with the certain stocks. I'm currently researching the markets, researching what's there. So and starting to look slowly at options, learning, I will take another year to learn properly what and how to best use options. And only then I will start dealing with options testing. Because I think with the long term perspective, you can really do well with options. Just wait for that value to show on your screen. Do not chase yields, chase returns with options. Just wait for them to come to you. That's a low risk, high return investments in options. However, there is plenty of time in a year, two years, I will have so much knowledge about the markets and the options will still be there for me to make money if possible. CZ has a comment about what would be my favorite other YouTube channel. What would I recommend? And there is definitely one that I would recommend Ashwa to the modern. He has a little bit more subscribers than I do. So we have to do our best to reach him. But that would be a great thing if I can ever surpass him. So Ashwa Damodaran is a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. And he was my first inspiration to do YouTube videos. So thank you Ashwa. The only thing I can do, I can recommend his channel, a lot of financial analysis, his corporate finance professor. So everything that you hear there will be smart. I might not agree with his investments, his investment thesis, but he also doesn't tell investments. He just discusses analysis. So if you want to learn about investing, of course, don't stop looking at this channel. But there is so much to learn from Ashwa. Thank you Ashwa. A third comment, a great quote. The Danger Newt says, normalized earnings. The earnings we totally would have made if it didn't cost us money to do things by corporate management. So that's an amazing quote. It really makes me laugh. We discussed the adjusted earnings in a grand video, the Intelligent Investor. And then I went randomly. I picked, okay, let's see what Johnson and Johnson has to say about their first quarter results, earnings per share 160. Oh, but adjusted first quarter earnings per share is 2.8. So the difference of 46 cents, which is what almost 25%, is of course the earnings we totally would have made if it didn't cost us money to do things. It's crazy. It's really crazy, but we can just laugh at it and be careful with what kind of earnings we discuss. And we will conclude with the dividend yield bonds issue, interest rates issue that is really, really important. I don't want to scare people with interest. I want to scare people because it's important to be scared when investing.  So there has been an interesting discussion about my bond video and here it is. So first George tells great video and I think showing a graph of historic default rates versus bond trading would get your point across better. And here is the graph from Standard and Pours, but when does the graph start? Upper bottom corner, the graph starts in 1981 till 2012 and that's extremely important. Why did they pick 1921? Because the numbers are so much better. Another comment from Hazy, this is what media tells people that high yield are dangerous. Woo, be scared. No, high yield ratings do not mean a huge difference. It had been there for years, never has completely wiped out. These are businesses after all. And here I have to say I disagree because of this. This is the interest rate chart for the last since the 1950s. And you can see that since 1981, from when the Standard and Pours chart is, interest rates have been going down, down to zero and only lately have been rising. However, if we look at what was going on from the 1960s till 1981, interest rates have been going only up. And in the 1970s, especially bonds, 1960s, 1970s, bonds have been called certificates of confiscation because all the people that would invest in bonds, even with the high yields, would lose their money thanks to inflation and high interest rates and higher interest rates that would lower the value of those bonds constantly. So if you look at bonds from what happened in the last 35 years, you see, oh, bonds are so great, everything will be great. But if I look at what happened from 1960 to 1981, in a period of rising interest rates, arising inflation, then you would say, oh my God, don't even hold bonds, except for short-term bonds. So that's a different perspective. And the key when investing is not what can happen, but the key is, what will I do if the worst thing happens? And that's something you have to be ready because you never know what will happen. Just an example here. A country Croatia, where I come from, has a government bond yield, 10-year government bond yield in euros at 2. something percent. So that's ridiculous because the government has a junk bond rating, so PB+, positive stable outlook, but nevertheless a junk rating. And 60% of the money of Croatian citizens is forcibly invest in four pension funds that invest 60% of that money in these junk bonds. So if interest rates for Croatia go from 2% to 5% to 8%, which is a normal level for those junk bonds, the country can only get help from the IMF or go into default. So especially a country that loses 1-2% of the population due to immigration every year and except for tourism, has not much to show for. Oh, has one thing that will beat Tesla and that's the rematch car. But that's a different story. So that's my fear of, okay, people have really gotten used to declining and low interest rates and higher interest rates would really make a mess. I hope we don't see them. I hope Hazi is right. I hope we don't see because nobody can raise interest rates. But what if it happens then I want to be ready. That's my main message. What if the worst happens with whatever you own? Are you ready and can you handle it? Investing is first about risk management. Thank you for watching. Looking forward to your comments. As always on any video, love answering them. It's one of the most beautiful parts of my morning. Nice cup of coffee and your comments. I'll see you in the next video.


Yeah, so before diving into the project, just a quick note of how I got here, basically, first day of Launchpad was actually my first day of Protocol Labs. So a ton of onboarding, a ton of learning, got to meet with my mentor, schedule a bunch of one-on-ones, and through all of those sessions and resources, basically started to learn that the SP side of the organization is something that is super interesting. Lots of exciting work happening there. And so just through all of that, I ended up getting my first project, and that project ended up being something that was a pretty big, ongoing piece of work that was relatively time-sensitive. So that was kind of where my focus ended up heading for the rest of the last three weeks of Launchpad program. So yeah, ceiling and service, the goal is to accelerate onboarding for new storage capacity and basically help facilitate onboarding new SPs as well. So there's a multi-pronged approach here. Today, we're going to focus on ceiling with a color provider and ceiling with a cloud provider, although there are some other more long-term strategies that are in place. And then if you want to learn more, there's this Notion page that's linked out that has all the different ways that we're approaching this. So the first question is, is ceiling with a color provider a viable option for accelerating a storage provider's ceiling capacity? And so what we did is we basically mapped out the SP ROI from ceiling off-premise and compared it to ceiling on-premise and walked storage providers through this with a color provider as well and tried to see if this would make sense both through the configurations that are offered by a color provider and through the pricing that's offered by a color provider. And so what we learned was basically that the configurations that are offered through color providers could work for ceiling as a service and that the pricing actually did match up. Another thing that was interesting that came out of this conversation was that the conversations with larger SPs turned into a conversation about them wanting to contribute and them being able to offer ceilings of service to smaller SPs as well. So out of these conversations, we have now a color provider that has a proposal that's in review. And then we're also going to be discussing potentially launching a pilot with larger SPs that are interested in contributing to ceiling for smaller SPs. We're heading to South by Southwest at the beginning of next week to have a couple of storage provider meetups and it's possible that one of the topics of this is going to be ceiling as a service. So on the other side of things, cloud provider ceiling, while we're working on figuring out the color provider ceiling as a service, we're also working on other initiatives in parallel that are already to ceiling off premise. The other one is would a cloud provider like Google be able to provide this ceiling offering? So we basically wanted to collect all these different configurations from storage providers and Google sales reps to see if there were certain configurations that would work for ceiling off premise with something like GCP and found out that there are certain configurations that match up. And then we basically wanted to look at color provider versus on-premise storage provider versus off-premise cloud provider and match up the SPROIs against all those different ways of ceiling and try to figure out, is this a viable option as well?  The CPU that they offer essentially provides too many cores and for the amount of memory that they provide, we don't need all those cores and more cores means more expensive. And then the other pieces, the GPUs, the Google GPUs are basically all these Tesla GPUs that are brand new. They're not really cost effective and the storage providers that are providing ceiling service can actually use older, more basic new GPUs. And so the newer Tesla GPUs aren't necessarily going to be needed or cost effective. So we need to talk to them about that. We also have some questions around egress cost, how much is it going to cost to actually move this data that's being sealed with Google off-premise is a big question. And then overall, there just needs to be some conversations around maybe bulk discount pricing. So as far as demand goes, we've been getting qualitative data through conversations with SPs and then quantitative data through reaching out to people through Twitter, through Slack, through our newsletter and getting information about what would they like to see, what would SPs like to see in terms of desired ceiling capacity, desired time to seal, target ceiling rate, and any other metrics that could be useful for getting this potentially off the ground. So as a summary, basically the conversations with the COLO provider and SPs have given us this, painted this picture that the configuration and pricing is actually within reason and possible to do in terms of sealing with a COLO provider. There is a potential of running this new pilot that we didn't even necessarily consider with large SPs providing a ceiling for smaller SPs. We're prepared to meet with Google and let them know that we're going to need custom hardware requirements and talk about pricing if there's a match there. And then we do want to continue to gather additional demand data and discuss technical requirements because I think Lotus requirements are going to be a big one as well.


and welcome to Holistic Wellness Reveals. I'm Latisha Sharp, and today we are gonna talk all about allergies and how they affect us in a holistic way to be able to approach it with my good friend, Doctor of Chiropractic and functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Jason Pape. Hello, Jason, how are you today? I am well, thanks, however, for you. I'm fabulous. You're in New York. Is it getting warm over there yet? Oh yeah, high 70s today, nice day.  And I've always seen a chiropractor since I was about 11 years old. And there's a different kind of approach to chiropractic care to look at the body. And it's very similar to the holistic approach that I've adopted in my adult life. Can you talk a little bit about that? Sure, so I mean, really holistic, chiropractic really is a holistic practice. So it is really all about understanding how the body can heal itself and how all the systems all work together very intimately and intricately and that we can affect, affecting one area can affect all other areas. Now, can we look at the body from that whole space, right? And not just be very specific and very different and modularized like a lot of traditional medicine is where the GI doctor and this doctor and that doctor, yes, we are spine doctors, but that's our point of entry to the rest of the body. And we really look at the whole of the person. Ha, I love that, the point of entry. I love it. So yeah, because a lot of people think, oh chiropractors just, they're gonna crack my back or they're gonna, it's an adjustment by the way, it's not cracking. And so it's really great and refreshing to hear you speak to chiropractic medicine as the holistic approach and to see that that is just the beginning. That's just how you get in. And then we address the body in all different ways. And what I wanna talk about next is the title of our show is Can You Ditch Your EpiPen? And that can raise a lot of fear in a lot of people and in me even personally, because my daughter has a very life-threatening allergy. And if we didn't have the EpiPen, I've spent many nights and days afraid and fearful for her life. So can you talk about that?  We're gonna have people maybe look at it in a holistic approach. How's it gonna affect the body, the mind, the spirit? And maybe start talking about the physical part of it.  You know, at least get some dye for your Benadryl. But, you know, medicines have their place, right? I mean, I'm an holistic doctor, but I definitely come from, I try to say as natural as possible, but we understand that those things are helpful in a rescue state, right? But our goal is to say, how can we talk from a physical and even a mental emotional aspect of where these things come from and maybe how we can start dealing with them differently and possibly not necessarily have to use those things all the time, right?  And I will tell you, I've been, you know, I've been chiropractic for over 25 years and I've had plenty of times I've worked with patients and even just the chiropractic adjustment alone has been helpful for things like a seasonal allergy. But, you know, a lot of times we get more into the, what the functional medicine aspect, the holistic medicine piece where we try to heal the body with nutrition and diet and understanding how these processes work.   So when we are come from a more natural standpoint, we try to lower the histaminic load on the body if you will. So we use certain supplements that are natural that work with the body to modulate things, not turn them off to help stop the mast cells from, you know, forming and or lowering the level of the chemicals that come from them to naturally lower histamine levels that don't cause people tired and drowsy and have a drug effect and just support immune function both from the gut and above. So that's kind of a bigger approach that we take. I have a question. Are the mast cells always there or do you form them and then you get more? Is there, and then you're more like susceptible to allergies? How's that work? You know, that's a fair question.  I mean, we always have them. We need histamines, right? Histamines are how we actually make our stomach acid. We just, and we need them to actually help our body fight things. We just don't, we don't want too much, right? And we don't want them seeing a higher elevated level on a regular basis. And it's not just the mast cells, it's immunoglobulins and everything. And other things too, about how our body's immune system is reacting to things. When it comes to an allergy, as if it was an invading organism and not just something from nature, right? So it's about rebalancing that immune system and getting those levels to be more optimal. You know, unfortunately, we live in a post-COVID world now. And one of the things that we saw with COVID was that people wound up having post-COVID elevated levels of mast cells in their bodies. And that could last, we've seen them elevated for months and years even. So more people susceptible to more colds and allergies too. So it's all about, you know, trying to refine that balance in the immune system. That's really interesting. So with some things, so we've talked about what can cause the histamine response and that there's some supplements and things. What are some, so that's where the EpiPen would come in and maybe diet. And I've almost heard too, because I'm allergic to horses and there was a time I grew up in Colorado, there's plenty of horses there. So we're thinking, oh, well, I really wanted to ride horses. I'm always out in the country and there's shots that you can get, which is like a micro dose of horse histamine. What would that be? A micro dose of horse standard, maybe? I think you're probably talking more about homeopathics or homeopathy. So homeopathy is more, you know, the study where like cures like, if a lot makes you sick, a little makes you better. So in homeopathy, you know, when you kind of do is you give a little bit of something that may irritate someone to help them as well. So there's some things we've used, I've used in the past for allergies, homeopathically. You know, sometimes even traditional medicine has tried to find a almost homeopathic way. You've seen some of these allergist things like that. They try to desensitize you by giving me a little bit of something over and over again. It can sometimes be effective, but just the delivery of all that, I've never been fan of. To me, it's an immune system that's overreacting to something and we need to correct it. And then maybe something just physical and chemical or maybe something more emotional or both. So, you know, while I'm not the emotional practitioner, I work with people in my center that do that work too. So I'll also integrate that as well, but we'll talk a little more my own story with some of that later, but really for me, it's about getting an immune system to do a shop best. And if you think about hunter-gatherers, they wouldn't run around sneezing all spring long, right?  They'd all starve to death. They were much more in tune with their environment, but we eat things we shouldn't, we change our food sources, all those things and our immune system changes and we're more reactive to our environment than we should be. So it's about turning that down in the body, whether it's nutrition and diet, supplements, whatever it may be. I've even heard, and this is controversial of course, is that you could even use urine therapy for, yeah, I know. It's not traditional and I wouldn't say it's common, but there's a lot of studies. And if you're adventurous and all alone without an EpiPen, then it might be something that you would consider.  I don't want that being my last meal necessarily. But again, you know, it's the means we have to excrete them and in the complex that we form with them, get excreted to the urine. So there are some studies out there that you can do things like that. And again, it's somewhat homeopathic, I guess, in the way it works. Okay, okay, moving on, moving on. So let's look at the mental aspect. So I always like to bring Louise L. Hayes into the mix because she's been a great teacher in this journey. And what she says about allergies is that one of the probable causes is to ask yourself, who are you allergic to? And also denying your own power. She also offers something that you can say as well to be able to bring yourself out of those patterns. Like the world is safe and friendly. I am safe, I am at peace with life. That's what she offers for allergies.  So when we first started this show, that's what I came to is the fear. And I know that I was afraid for my daughter's life when she would have these attacks with tree nuts. But I was also, I'm sure she was afraid and that's what I was responding to as well. So I think mentally, if we can reaffirm that we are safe and the world is friendly and everything, that's that mental aspect, right? That we can also address. Well, definitely in having the positive outlook to it, right? If you're subconscious believes that anytime I'm exposed to XYZ, I'm gonna have an anaphylactic reaction that might die.  So, you know, our subconscious and our emotions drive so many things. And there's a technique. One of the few techniques we use here some of our practitioners do is something called Psyche K. I don't know if you know who Bruce Lipton is, but Bruce Lipton is very big in this world of, you know, subconscious beliefs and all those things, but he's a very big component of it. And it's a very simple technique once you mastered it. And basically it's very simply put, it's finding, using muscle testing to find negative beliefs in the subconscious and energy work to balance it. So if we get to a little more of that, the spiritual metaphysical side, you know, it's what's holding that thing in. Like I had a 19 year nut alley. So I couldn't eat hazelnuts, almonds or cashews without an allergic response. Now for me, that wasn't anaphylaxis. My ears would get itchy in the back of my throat. We get itchy and scratchy. My uvula would swell up in my, my lips would get a little bit irritated and swollen at times.  But, you know, I avoided them, but it's not like I didn't have exposures. A few times a year I'd always get exposed to something and go, oh, I bet there was almonds in that. And you'd ask and go, oh yeah. And they're like, well, there's my reason. So one of the, we actually host training for this technique here. And then the instructor was in town, this is five years ago now. I had her, she did some work with me and actually cleared my allergy. Took like 10 minutes. You know, for me it was something to do with some forgiveness work around my dad. And once we had done that, I said, all right, let's try it. I ate a cashew, nothing happened. I waited a few more minutes. I'm gonna try another cashew, nothing. I'm like, that's kind of cool.  So that night I was here doing some paperwork by myself and I was hungry. I went in the back and I'm like, grew it. I ate a handful of hazelnuts. I'm not gonna find out the smartest move because by myself at 10 o'clock at night and nothing. And it's been five years and still nothing.  And just for me, that allergy was gone because something emotional helped it in, right? And sometimes with this technique you, I don't have to get too far down the rabbit hole. You try to do some detective work. See like when did it first start? And it was nothing really retired to that moment. So we just did some other work to find it. But you know, the instructor would tell the story about someone she worked on that had seasonal allergies. And it turned out he was like five years old. They were in the car and the windows were down. It was, you know, pollen spring and they had a car accident. And the trauma of that accident with the pollen exposure kind of linked those two together for him when they cleared that, no longer an issue with, you know, pollen.  So I'm not saying do this and you can go eat peanuts if you're gonna die from a peanut eating, but at the very least if you maybe could take that load down like after you get an exposure, maybe you don't need it. I'm not saying don't use it, but saying one never knows. Things can change. And I mean, and that's also that radical trust, right? I want to hear more about the rabbit hole. How did you find, how did you find your emotions in such forgiveness issue with your dad? So, you know, she went back and, because this technique has different levels to it and there's a health and well-being where they actually are trained as an MD out of Sweden that actually trains a specific thing with them. It's all about finding the emotional causes of disease. It's actually really cool. And so she was using some of that and it was like, hey, when was the first, when you first had that hazelnut allergy, what happened? And I mean, I was at, I was on a blind date eating hazelnuts at a really nice Italian restaurant. And all of a sudden I'm like, why is it back in my throat? My usual touching my tongue. You know, and it was like trying to figure out and she muscle tests and no, nothing would show up, you know, as the issue. And she goes, okay, is it something around the mother? No, it's not around the father. Yes. Then it was like doing some other detective work there to say, all right, it's about forgiveness work with your dad.  So it's maybe easier for me than someone else, but pretty cool. And I've had a lot of patients go through the training or even just get worked on with it, with some pretty, pretty radical shift for things from a physical standpoint or an emotional standpoint. And just one of those, at the end of the day, what does it mean, right? It means that you don't realize how much your emotions drive or hold things in for you. I had a real reaction. I had a real physical chemical response to something, but something was causing that subconsciously to be held there. So, and for some people that may be more esoteric, I don't think that's necessarily the case for your viewers. But, you know, sometimes it's not the easiest thing to explain to people, but, you know, when you come from a more sciencey place and you talk about it, I was, well, people listen a little bit differently than I when I talk about it in my practice. I mean, I'm big on finding what the emotional cause is for things, and I feel like there's a lot of ways when you clear those emotions, then the rest of your being has that freedom to be able to not be enslaved by those experiences anymore, right? Those occasions, those incidents, the triggers that will just get you and you don't even know. So I had a really terrible reaction when I was young to horses. And yeah, my throat, I looked really, yeah, I wasn't even recognizable as a human child. And I mean, I don't remember anything, and I was looking at like, ah, was I like allergic to somebody? Was I denying my own power at like seven or six? Like, I don't know, you know what I mean? I don't think so. I think I felt safe and everything. So I guess there's something else that I would love to hear more about that therapy. Because there's so many things from a subconscious standpoint, right? So, you know, we do hypnosis here. We do the psyche. We have other techniques and it comes down to, you know, our subconscious is recording everything and our subconscious is telling us stories, whether we understand or not. And our perspective is always shaped by our experience and vice versa. So who know? Right? There could have been one incident that happened that day that triggered something from when you were five that maybe someone had said to you and then all of a sudden boom and then now it anchored in with this other thing. You know what? That is a really good point because there were a lot of traumas in my early childhood. And I didn't feel safe. And this just came up like two weeks ago when I was doing a different therapy that I'll talk about on another show. But yeah, it came up and I didn't feel safe. I didn't feel safe at all. And that's interesting. And so it could just have been like that perfect storm is what I call it of when and dagnabbit horses are supposed to be like the most spiritually in tune animals or something on the planet too. So I always wanted to be able to be with them. Not really the horses fall. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Why can't I connect? At the end of the day, the cool thing about the subconscious is you don't have to know critically consciously. Your subconscious always knows. You just need to train. A good practitioner doing certain techniques to get to the room, right? And listen, there are other techniques and we talked earlier about you and I off before the show about NEET, which a lot of times it's done by acupuncturists but it's another technique where they try to go after an allergy and they do certain points on the body and they always make a whole stuff and then they basically avoid that allergy for 25 hours or whatever. And sometimes it does clear and I don't do NEET but I work with some number of practitioners that do. So I can refer to them too. There's a lot of ways to skin the old pet. In my center, I have so many practitioners I can just send them to whoever I feel might be the best fit. And then for myself, I try to teach them, well, she has some supplements to support it and then how can we go after balancing the immune system? So it's kind of our big thing there. Yeah, so let's talk too about, so we've got the NAT, the acupuncture. The emotional, the mental, the physical. Is there any particular incident that you can talk about that's really influenced you about allergies or something that has really just blown your mind about one of your no names, of course, but one of your clients or friends or family members? Well, like I said, the thing for me with the nuts was pretty mind blowing. We do belief work all the time, right? If in this world that you and I live in, but I can do work around a money belief and then when no one just backs up a brink's truck to my door and just dumps cash out. It's not usually how it works, right? But with the allergy thing, the fact that we did this work and I was able to literally just eat that food and not have a problem was pretty mind blowing to me. I think it's when you can see it like that. And I've had some patients who have physical issues with that too. That's one of those cool things. Even earlier on when I still has my seasonal allergies just from getting an adjustment would get better.  But for me, it's really diet and nutrition. If I avoid certain foods and I take my supplements, I don't have allergies or very minimal. I have really severe seasonal allergies and I should never keep saying that to myself because it just feeds my subconscious more BS. But because I don't eat gluten-dairy soy corn, especially this time of year and I take the supplements that I use, I have minimal response. And if I do, it's short-lived and not like I used to, you know, so. Right, because there are certain foods that are inflammatory. And if your allergic responses are an inflammatory, immuno response, then that would make perfect sense that it's contributing to it. Right, from a chemical standpoint, inflammation is at the root of all disease, right? So the less the more you lower inflammation in your body, both from your food sources, your external toxic levels, make sure your liver is like, there's so many pieces to it. There's not always one answer, right? But I think sometimes getting to the emotional root could be a really big one for a lot of people. It could be faster sometimes if you can get to the cause really quick. But yeah, otherwise lifestyle shift, the getting back to what we are and what we're supposed to be and away from all those things.  Right, on all levels, not just what we eat, but what we ingest in our environment, yeah. Correct.  So the short-term would be the EpiPen or the Benadryl if that's how you choose to go. And then, you know, or the rescue response, right? Right. And then the long-term would be, okay, let's take a look at what creates inflammation in ours. I have seasonal allergies also. And sometimes I'll just be like, oh, I can feel that coming on. And I'll just maybe take a day or two of a kerosene bromelain mix or something like that. And once it gets in my system, I'm like, oh, I feel better. And I don't have to use it every day or anything, so. Yeah, I mean, when it comes again, the EpiPen, Benadryl, to me, those are like worst case scenario, right? And if you're someone who has these life-threatening allergies, you know, you can do all this other work around it, but I would still hold onto the EpiPen, right? Because you never know, right? Like you could do the work like I do, it's like, hey, maybe it is gone, but maybe it's not.  So let's do this technique and now eat a peanut, right? You know, if someone decided on their own to try that one day, I would tell them, don't do it without Benadryl or a freaking EpiPen around, because God forbid you had the response and it didn't clear or whatever, or there's more to it than just the emotional piece. You better have that other thing around. So I'm not advocating for those things, but that's what I'm just saying. Like if, you know, people like, well, I don't want, yeah, I would, again, I tell my patients too, like if you want to use this technique and try to go after a specific allergy that you know you're anaphylactic to where you could die, I'm not like, oh, dude, I'm just gonna have your fine. Just eat, you know, peanuts, it'll be good. Yeah, that makes my heart palpitate a little bit. Right, right. There's a level of fear, but then, you know, the hope is that at the very least you can look underneath and say, you know what, I did this technique, maybe if I got an exposure one day, I may not need the epi-pen. It doesn't mean you hold out and like, I think I'm gonna make it, you know? Right. If you got an exposure and didn't know it and didn't have a response, wouldn't that be cool to find out later? Oh, you know what, there was peanuts in that.  You know what I mean? And you had the epi-pen, God, I think you needed it. Right. So let's just, so you said it was Psy-K, PSY-CH-K. PSY-CH-K. PSY-K. Yeah, and you know, the one one we work with, if you want to check out our website is, instead of inter, it's inneractivebeliefs.com. So INNER Beliefs.com, activebeliefs.com. So yeah, we actually host those trainings here a few times a year. So we actually have one coming up in June, if anyone wants to travel to, or lives in New York, I don't know where all your people are watching from, but if you want to come, it's in June. Right. So let's do a little Psy-Trip to go and do it. You should. Absolutely. You should fly all the way from Hawaii. Maybe we'll have you in Hawaii and you can host one here in Hawaii sometime. I wouldn't do that. I'm sure she would do that. Robin, the woman is our instructor, but. Beautiful. Yeah, I visit one day anyway, but I won't have any allergies either there. Oh no, there's plenty. We have lots of allergies here. And it's a real thing. A lot of things bloom and blow in the air here. And you couldn't even recognize it until you're like, oh shucks, that's happening. But thank you so much for coming on today, Jason. My pleasure, thank you so much. Yes, just really enjoyed having you and all of your wealth of knowledge and wisdom and sharing your personal experiences as well as always a bonus on this show to be able to let people know that they're not alone and share our ways to be able to, you know, find holistic approaches to their wellbeing. So I also wanna thank Think Tech Hawaii for providing a place for us to be able to have these conversations and all of our donors and sponsors for helping to keep us on the air. And just remember you are the answer that you need in order to be able to keep yourself healthy and hope. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. 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High beautiful. The other day I was scrolling through TikTok and came across a video that was horrifying and intriguing at the same time. She was flat ironing her hair, completely wet to completely dry. She had this new kind of interesting looking tool that she was using to do this. I went on Amazon and I bought the exact same tool she used. Today we're gonna try that tool and see if it actually works cause her video does kind of look a little scammy. So I have this mysterious magical flat iron here with me today. We're about to open it and see if it actually works. Can you go from wet hair to a pin straight and dry in just one step? Let's find out. Let's test this tool out. If you're wondering what that TikTok is that I'm talking about, let's watch it together. So I bought this tool and it's supposed to straighten your hair but it can be wet. So we're gonna try it out. It's not your typical iron. So is it doing anything more than just flat ironing? Is it like drying at the same time? I don't know. My hair is still wet, wet.   So apparently you just take your hair. My hair's not only wet, but not like soaking wet.  Did not just sizzle? Mm-mm. It worked. Ah. Whoa, the sizzle. The sizzle scares me a little bit especially when you know she probably didn't put any product in her hair. Like sometimes a product can sizzle a little bit or steam. Her hair is just wet but she looks amazing. It seemed like it worked. However, I noticed one little thing off about this video. She shows you the first piece she's doing and it doesn't exactly dry it or straighten it. And then all of a sudden her entire head is dried and straight. So I don't know how we got from the total wetness of her hair to totally dry and volumous without a doubt of intrigue. So let's grab this thing.  And today is one of those days. Is this the same thing that she used? Absolutely not. Well it is but it's not the same brand. This costs $85 and the one that she's using that one is $350. But as you can see from that screenshot and this tool right here they are pretty much exactly identical. And I'm pretty sure they do the exact same thing. So we're gonna continue to go with this and hopefully maybe this will be a dupe for the really expensive one. I don't know. Okay, we have opened the box and this is also called the Sutra Professional Easy Glitter. How did I pick that up? How did I end up with this one? I don't know. It literally is the same exact thing though. I don't see any difference. I just think the price is different. But what do I know? And the box also has me interested as well as the actual tool of the girl had in that video because nowhere on here does it say to use this on wet hair. It is literally just a flat iron. But on the website it literally just says like it's a styling comb. There's nobody who says like I'm using this on my wet hair or any kind of directions that say anything about it being used on wet hair. I mean, okay, so there's three reviews on Amazon about this Soleil one. There's one that's terrible and the other ones just say it's a good flat iron basically. There's nothing about wet to dry. So this girl is scamming the out of me right now and I'm pissed about it. We're gonna still try it because the whole wet to dry flat iron thing I think could work. Let me show you first and then I'll explain later. She's been plugged in. Now let's see what's going on with this thing. First of all, it does feel really nice in my hand. I like that it's very compact and small. Let's turn it on. It goes from 250, 300, 350, 450. Jesus Christ, 450 is really hot. I just don't feel like that's necessary.  I don't know what the back of this thing is for. There's absolutely no directions. I think this might just be like a sort of ventilated part of the tool. It's like a flat iron in between all of these grooves. So basically it brushes your hair and flat irons at the same time. And I think you can add like body and like volume with it while you're ironing, which actually is pretty dope. People who straighten their hair would probably like that. Like they can just go like this with it and not have to clamp it down or do anything crazy. And it's probably really easy to use. Let's grab my client for today and let's try this baby out. Hi, yes, you're gonna be my guinea pig for today. Thank you for participating in today's trials. So we are going to just go for it. We're gonna start at the top of our head and see if it sizzles off and burns and dies. Or if we get an actual nice sort of blown out looking effect even though their hair's wet. Kind of excited, kind of scared. Let's go for it. Well, it's working, but is it totally dry? No, maybe I have to keep running over it. Actually, it is drying. Hold on, hold on. This looks really good. And we went from this wet to this dry. And it feels really nice. And it's really soft and it's really shiny. This is scary, but in like a fun way. I'm very interested to see how it does the rest of the head on this side. But so far it's actually working. I also wanna try on the other side of the head a regular flat iron because I'm pretty sure they would do the same thing. And if you already have a flat iron, I don't think you have to go buy a new one, you know? I think it would work. But I also wanna say if this does work, you guys, I am not the one who told you and I am not the one who is endorsing this and telling everybody to use flat irons on their wet hair. It's not me. It's still scary no matter what. And I don't know what to say about it. So take everything today with a grain of salt, okay? All right, second piece. Let's see if it works out just as well as the first one did. See that noise? It's scary. If this was a real person, I don't know how I would feel. I just don't. It also takes a lot of passes to get this dry. We're also only on the medium level, 350. So I'm gonna move it up to 400 just cause I feel like we'll get it dryer faster and I am over waiting for it. This tool though, besides the fact that it's not supposed to be used like this, I guess, I do like the way it kind of works.  Also these combs in the back kind of help you. So like if you wanna make a curl, I guess, you just kind of wrap it around and it really does stay put. It's not really creating like the best waves. You know what it is? Like it's giving me volume without it being too flat and too straight. So it's giving me more of like a blown out look instead of a really flat iron type of moment. Like look at that volume every time. Every time. You also can't see the steam because I'm on a white background but if I weren't, you would be a lot of steam coming off cause I can see it in person and it's like whoosh. It also helps if you go over on top of the hair and then underneath it after. I feel like this isn't saving me any time though.  Okay so update, I'm getting tired and I was already tired going into this video but now I'm even more tired because this is taking forever to get her hair dry. And I have to be honest, it feels a little strange. Like it's adding a weird kind of texture to her hair. Like it's not soft. Okay it looks really good on camera. The hair feels awful. It feels really bad. It feels straw like. I didn't put any product in this to start so that might be a reason why it feels like that but it doesn't look the greatest and it feels terrible. And that took a really long time to do. I'm not understanding the appeal to this. So I am going to do the same thing on the other side of the head. I'm not gonna use my Dyson Corral because I just don't wanna ruin it. I don't know what's gonna happen. So I'm gonna use just a regular old flat iron and see how it works. And then we'll move on to my final thoughts about this product and just about ironing your hair from wet to dry in general. Okay on to the GHD flat iron. It's weird actually using a flat iron with a cord.  I definitely prefer the Corral. For this experiment we're gonna use this. I don't know what temperature this is at because it doesn't tell you. It just goes to the temperature. I don't really know. This is old, I don't even know how it works. But let's try it out on the wet hair. My worst nightmare. Let's see what happens. Oh. That was scary. Way more smoke than the other tool. Is it drying it? Yes. Is it scary still? Yes. Does it look good? No, it still looks, it looks bad. Like the other side. It looks really terrible. So I can't style the hair properly. I don't know why but I can't give it any bevel once it's dry. I can't do anything with it. It's just lifeless. Okay, I'm gonna move on and do this side of the head and be horrified the entire time.  That's a concerning amount of steam coming from the hair. Though it is kind of fun hearing the sizzle but also scary. I can't tell if I hate it or love it. And Miss Manny Quinn's over it.  I'm sorry girl. Oh, that was miserable, terrible. I hate it every second of it. So this is what happened. It looks so incredibly horrible and it did not work at all. It was so hard to get it dry. It's still wet in some areas. Why does it look like that? It really looks like burnt. Like it looks crispy and fried. This side compared to that actually looks quite smooth and pretty but in real life, I promise you it doesn't feel smooth and pretty. Neither of them are the greatest. Neither of them I would ever recommend. But I wanna talk about why I thought this might have worked. I'm still a little confused by the whole wet to flat iron situation. Okay, so hear me out with this whole situation. The reason why I was like, this could possibly work is because if you think about fabric and the fact that we use a iron to iron the fabric, but there's water involved with that process. We use steam to iron clothes. And I know that clothing fabric is not the same as hair, but why does the fabric not burn? And why do we spray water on it? I get it to get the wrinkles out. But what if your hair was curly? Wouldn't you even want water to help get the curl out of the hair? Like a little bit of steam in there. So essentially what's going on when you go from wet to flat iron dry is you're boiling that water out of the hair and it's evaporating, which is also interesting because water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. The iron doesn't need to be that hot in order to get the water out of the hair, which also had me intrigued even more. You could have the iron at 200 degrees and you could probably still get the hair dry. So why can't we kind of burn off this water and have it evaporate and get the hair straight at the same time? The noise, yeah, it's scary, but I actually don't think there's anything really bad going on when you put an iron on wet hair. I really don't and I know that's crazy and it might not be accurate. And if it isn't, leave a comment below and tell me your explanation of why this is so bad. In my head, I feel like this has the potential of working if somebody were to design a flat iron that actually works specifically for this and isn't just marketed for this. They probably had to put certain instruments inside the iron that allow it to smooth and straighten and not burn the hair at the same time. Maybe it would be better on dry hair, like it's intended to be used for. I like the fact that it was kind of a comb with the flat iron attached to it in between the bristles, but you know, I prefer a nice old flat iron than something like that personally. I don't know, maybe the secret is not making the flat iron so hot and taking your time with it, but by the time the hair is dry from using the iron, you might as well have just blow dried it first and then ran your flat iron through after. I just feel like the combo of both doesn't really make anything easier or save you any time on anything. So I'm gonna stick with regular flat irons for now and I'll keep you updated if any new findings or any cool gadgets that can do this very thing in less time. It was a cool experiment, but I hate it and I'm never doing that again. And to that girl on TikTok, I feel like you lied to us and scammed us. What the hell, girl? Explain yourself. Make sure you subscribe if you're not already. Click the like button and the bell icon to be notified every time I post a new video. This is my number. If you would like to text me, you can do so. Yes, it really does go to my phone. Yes, I really do see some of your messages. And yes, I'll be texting back a few of you guys if you text me right now. If you'd like to check out my hair Caroline and the color that I'm wearing, this is called Super Red, you can check out all of our color and our products on the website xmodohair.com. 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