Hey guys, this is Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and a diabetes education specialist. Today I am talking about A1C or hemoglobin A1C. I have been getting a lot of questions about what is a good A1C. There's a lot of debate going on. If you read the conversation or the messages that comes out of the videos, there's a lot of definitely debate out there that you can definitely get involved. But let's clarify the clouds. Let's get started. Before we dive into this video guys, please watch the entire video. Please write a comment, give a like because these are the important information. I know sometimes attention spend is not that great. You may want to cut it off short or watch its entirety. And also try to not skip the ads. That will also help us to pay for the production costs. Let's go.  But the reason we call this hemoglobin is because, you know, hemoglobin is readily permeable to glucose. So it's one of those cells that will just welcome any glucose coming in. And they also stick to the protein structure in the hemoglobin. The hemoglobin is the cell that carries oxygen in your blood that a hemoglobin is essential. If you're having a low hemoglobin, then you're called anemic. Ironically, when you're anemic, your hemoglobin A1C may not be right. If you have a transfusion, hemoglobin A1C may not be right. We are relying on a healthy hemoglobin cell that is not modified or treated or etc. So if you're on iron, for example, or if you have on medications that try to increase your hemoglobin or improve your anemia, your hemoglobin A1C may not be correct just so you know. But having said that, we rely on the hemoglobin to see how much glucose is stuck on it. Now, the reason we check it every two to three months is because your hemoglobin survives two to three months. And then we look at the whole entire pool and based on the previous studies and correlations of blood sugars, we know that every A1C corresponds to a certain average blood sugar. Now, when we say, for example, you have a 7% A1C or hemoglobin A1C, we are saying that basically your average blood sugar is 150. That includes your all your ups and downs, etc. That's the average. So 6% is, for example, 120. So every 1% A1C signifies the 30 milligram per deciliter glucose difference on average. Again, by no means A1C is the best thing to measure. It gives us an idea, but it doesn't really tell us about the highs and lows. So for example, you can be down to 50 at breakfast and up to 250 at lunch, and down to 50 again at dinner, up to 250 before bedtime, your average A1C will be seven. That that's not good. That doesn't mean that you're doing very good. So what is important is to keep the A1C down without low blood sugar. So that's why we always say stay away from insulin if you can, stay away from cell phone urea if you can, unless you have to. These drugs you can discuss with your doctor what are the alternative drugs to insulin and cell phone urea such as glupazide, glumaparide. Sometimes we use it, but just from economical reasons, because some people cannot afford anything else or their insurance doesn't cover anything else. But typically, those drugs are not the best. Back to hemoglobin A1C. So what is a good hemoglobin A1C? Well, that depends on where you are at your life right now. So if you're watching this video and you don't want to become diabetic or you have family members with diabetes and you are wondering if you have diabetes or not, well, you can get an A1C check, especially if you're over 45. If you're overweight, you definitely need to get your A1C checked because you're not going to know, you're not going to have symptoms until your blood sugar is really jacked up to 300s, 400s. That's why it's very important to catch it early. And unfortunately, like up to 30% of people have already complications by the time of diagnosis, which is 6.5% A1C. So if you have 6.5% or more A1C, we call you diabetic. But the problem is, let's say I diagnosed you at A1C of 7.5, and you have had an A1C of 7 to 7.5 for like already five years, you may have complications. And if you're genetically prone to it, and that's another topic we can talk about. And not everybody is very prone to complications. And you don't know what is in your genes. There's really no gene testing for that. But there are some type one diabetics we know their blood sugars are in the 200, 300 all the time, and they never get complications. So how do you explain that? We think there's some genetic predisposition to have complications. And there are some diabetics out there that A1C is only 7.2, 7.3. They already have eye disease and kidney disease. We're like, what's going on here? You know, it's a genetic predisposition is a huge factor. If you had family members with diabetes, if they had complications from diabetes, you probably will do as well. Hopefully, you need to be way more aggressive. So but if you had the family members, you know, they're all diabetic and you know, they're all healthy. They didn't really have any problems. It may be a little relief for you not to say that you can let your blood sugar go high. But again, 6.5% or more is just a draw line to say, oh, you're diabetic or not. But insulin resistance actually starts at 5.7% A1C. So if you're 5.7% A1C or more, up to 6.5, we call you insulin resistance, resistant.  We call this actually more like a pre diabetes, I would say your insulin resistant and pre diabetic. Now, can you become insulin resistant even before 5.7% A1C? Yes, you can. Because insulin resistance basically tells you that your body needs more insulin than some normal people. Now, if you're genetically strong in terms of insulin making capacity, let's say you come from a family who inherited millions of dollars, you don't have to worry too much about working every day busting your butt off like I do. But basically, you don't have to worry about too much if you have a huge inheritance. So same thing with the pancreas. If you have a lot of insulin production capacity, you may not become diabetic, but you will live as an insulin resistant person if you have the risk factors for insulin resistance. Well, how do you know you're insulin resistant? If you have a big abdominal circumference, if you have a low HDL, you know below 40 for men, below 54 women, triglycerides more than 150, sometimes high blood pressure, etc. are the ways you know that you're insulin resistant. Another way to know insulin resistant is like you're dieting and exercising, but you're not able to lose weight quickly, or you're always hungry, etc. Or you're on a high carb diet, more than likely you're insulin resistant. Your A1C may still be at 5.2, 5.3. That doesn't mean that you're very healthy. So again, your body is not just composed of single molecules. We don't rely on one single test to tell you how healthy you are. That's why A1C is in an important measurement, but it's not everything. So people will say, oh, my A1C is like 5.2. I'm good to go.  And no, you still have to be careful about keeping a healthy weight, eating right, intermittent fasting, keeping a low carb diet is still going to help you to prevent future complications of, if not diabetes, but insulin resistance. So I hope that's clear. Now, let's talk about the complications that happens with A1C. So anytime you go more than 6%, that's why if you can achieve A1C of 6% without causing significant side effects from the medications, or if you can do that with lifestyle changes, especially in early diabetes, it is very easy to kind of change your diet and start exercising more. But if you can achieve A1C less than 6%, it's best because after 6%, any 1% increase in your A1C will increase your risk of complications by 30%. So instead of having a 6% A1C, if you're having an A1C of 7%, 8%, 9%, 9% A1C gives you a 90% increased risk of complication from diabetes. And you know, up to 80% of people within 15 years will develop eye disease and kidney disease. So when you think about these statistics, you have to act on bringing your A1C down. Now, bringing A1C down at every expense is not the key. There are some studies out there. One of the studies is called Accord. That study showed that if you just throw anything on patients to just try to bring the blood sugar down, they sometimes actually end up having more problems, more complications, or even death from very aggressive treatment. Now, in my practice, I always use medications that cause less risk for low blood sugars. And we use aggressive lifestyle intervention. And of course, we go with whatever the patient can do. We do not alienate people. Now, sometimes I see comments saying that, oh, just stop eating carbs, you pigs, you know, don't do that, because come on, you may be a guy who is very strong willed and, you know, you may be doing great with your diet, but do not put shame on people who cannot do the same thing like you. So you have to be a little sensitive in your comments when you're trying to advise people. Don't be so harsh. Even there are some insults coming to me or to our audience. Look, this is a democratic country. We do and say whatever we want. Everybody is free. We give the advice. People take their advice the way they want to take it. But again, we have to work with people. That's the essence of good care. So I hope this helps, guys, but I want you to write comments and questions. Again, listen to the video. Sometimes I get questions about what I have already said in the video. So watch the video in its entirety. You can watch it again. There's no harm to that.  Make sure you share this video and we'll see you in the next one, guys.


Stress is a really natural part of life. Many many, if not all, women experience stress during pregnancy. There's a lot of things that can come up with pregnancy that aren't necessarily related to specifically the pregnancy, including difficulties with things like paying the rent, food preparation. And worrying that the stress that you experience day to day is going to harm your baby is just going to cause more stress. Stress itself is not going to hurt the baby, but how you manage stress can impact the baby. If you are continuing to eat well, rest well, make sure that you're getting lots of nutrition and hydration, the baby's going to be fine. But we do want you to feel healthy because your health is important not only as a pregnant person but as a parent. Many people find that exercise is a great way to relieve stress in pregnancy. Others choose relaxation techniques like meditation or reflection, time spent in nature. Taking some deep breaths or prenatal yoga classes. All of these things can help people deal with the everyday stressors that we all experience. So if you have issues like this, please let us know. There are resources to help.


Hi lovers!  Nice girl's finished last. Nice guy's finished last. So today I want to change the script once and for all. In my opinion it isn't that nice people finish last. It's that needy people finish last. An excessive niceness is actually a form of neediness.  Needing to get along with others. Needing to avoid conflict at all costs even though conflict is a natural and healthy part of life. Next week I'm going to take some friends this really cool place to a jazz club. Oh my god I love jazz. It's so cool. Some nights they do salsa like the... I love salsas one too. And I love jazz. Are you into that um that genre of kingdoms and kings and knights and queens? Are you? Not first. Yeah me neither. What are you like your biggest pet peeves?  I agree yeah or like you know dramatic. Yeah I agree with that too. I don't like that.  I feel the exact same way. I actually think those are my top three as well too. Right. Yeah. Now like many mammals humans are designed to live in close-knit interpersonal communities and these communities are built on many things like trust, reliability and dependency. So let's begin with trust. Now Washington State University did this study that found that people who acted excessively selfishly and those who act excessively generously were kind of viewed the same way. An experiment was carried out where a game was played and in this game people saw individual rewards and group rewards. The ones who went solely for individual rewards were seen as very selfish and people mistrusted them. By the same token the people who went truly for the group rewards they were also mistrusted because no one believed they could be that altruistic and it seemed like they were trying to prove a point that they were better than everyone else. Next let's discuss dependency in a healthy cooperation-based society. Everybody has and knows what their role is. We are attracted to those who need us because we probably need them in return. Reciprocity is a beautiful thing but when somebody needs a lot from us it makes us a little weary. Are they going to need more from me than I can give? When will their needing end? Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa buddy back up I'm just barely getting through things myself here. In a competition-based existence this kind of person can come across as a dependent not as an asset an ally or as an equal. Now of course not all nice people are needy but if your niceness creeps into the realm of neediness this can be an issue and there actually is a psychological term for that. So today we want to talk about that dependent personality disorder a psychiatric condition where an individual is over reliant on somebody else to provide them with their emotional and physical needs and this leads to a submissive and clinging behavior and also that fear of separation. Finally let's move into reliability if someone is constantly bending compromising accommodating and complimenting us we learn pretty quickly that we can't rely on them for leadership and possibly even honesty yes people do love compliments and having an agreeable personality is the number one trait for determining the success of a long-term relationship but these two things in excess are not a good thing. For example compliments are only useful when they're directed in an area that we are actually proud of because arbitrary compliments show to us that someone is not listening paying attention and actually understanding us and second to that agreeableness is great but we can't forget one important thing the reason why we live in the world that we live in and a new iphone comes out every second or third weekend we're constantly developing is because of the fact that somebody is willing to say that's not good enough we challenge ourselves we grow the best we put ourselves in adverse conditions and the same goes when it comes to relationships so great things happen when great minds don't think alike you're a coffee person yeah a big coffee i'm a tea person that's why so we're kind of like cats and dogs right tomato tomorrow right no cats and dogs can we say i like to like incorporate a some level of psychology behind everything i'm saying and do ideally i think psychology is so bad it bad yeah it treats people like cattle so this is what this is what someone told me in LA as an italian man was like yeah in Toronto there's a lot of italians a lot of Italian restaurants no no it's a lie very i mean yeah i don't know who who said that i guess really true lady gaga do you like her uh yeah i mean she did a great job at the uh the halftime show i don't like her at all no no as you guys can see i didn't just research this topic i went out and tested it in person now studies show that if you go on a date with somebody and you agree the entire time they're going to feel a repulsion towards you on the flip side if you go on a date with somebody and you disagree the whole time they're going to be like i cannot stand this person for one more minute but here is the interesting thing if you disagree with everything someone says for the first half of the date and then agree with all they say for the second half of the date that person's going to feel very strong and warm towards you and feel like they've won you over i agree yeah there's something that i want to note here even though this experiment in particular went ridiculously well my advice to you guys out there is not to go out there and do this arbitrary half and half thing but it is definitely something to keep in mind especially for people who exist on either end of the extreme spectrum way too disagreeable which don't nobody like and way too agreeable and i know sometimes that can seem frustrating because we are told all our lives to be nice to be kind to be loving and it seems like as you get into adulthood people turn around and turn that into a negative thing there's another four letter acronym as opposed to that four letter word that i go by when it comes to good effective and kind communication i go by hail which is communication that is honest that is authentic that has integrity and that is done with love now if you do hail you don't have to be nice sometimes being kind or being cruel is actually the kindness standing up to somebody and i watch this really dope ted talk while i was prepping for this video this morning and it was from a guy who was like yo i am the stereotypical nice guy and when i was very honest with myself my niceness came from a fear of confrontation and a fear that people won't like me and as a result of that i found myself saying staying silent or nodding along to behavior from people that i didn't agree with you know he sat by while his grandparents made some racist comments heard some homophobic things and didn't stand up for people your integrity is extremely extremely important and if niceness rests underneath all those things bonus because that means when you do say something negative at the heart of it all good intentions come behind it and that is my final word for you guys if you want to watch how that date went down it was incredible actually one of my favorite episodes you guys have to go to full screen to watch please go to full screen to watch it's a way of supporting me and showing love for my content i did an original series on there which i could not have done on this youtube channel because of production value and the casting was way beyond my capabilities in essence i tried out 10 different dating and psychological experiments to see if they would work because i don't want to give you guys advice i haven't tested out there in the field it is funny it is educational it is relatable and it is available right now when you go to full dot sc slash shambhudi if you are an atnt customer you are in luck you get one year for free so this favor is like free 99 for you everybody else you also got a little bit of luck on your side as well too you get a one week free trial which means you can watch all of season one and over half of season two right now if you go and support much love to all of you guys be kind to each other speak with hail and hail to you


For us, deep learning is, it's about being very student-centred. It's about teachers facilitating the learning rather than controlling the learning. It's about making the learning very personalised. It needs to be collaborative. It needs to be creative and it needs to be purposeful. When I was appointed here in 2008 as the Foundation Principal, it gave me a great opportunity to visit schools in other dioceses, particularly in Sydney and Victoria, do a lot of research. YouTube became my friend looking at what was happening in countries overseas as far as education systems, particularly in Finland and the other Scandinavian countries. And from there, I guess, I thought this is a great opportunity to do something different. We very much went from an inquiry approach to learning. So it was based on, I guess, how we thought that children would learn best and we thought children learn best by talking with each other. We identified at the end of 2008 with our teaching team what we saw as the principles of teaching and learning that would underpin how our learners could be successful. And I think that inquiry approach definitely is something that underpins that. And as I said, when we talk about the design thinking process, that really has given us a much better structure to what we were doing in the initial couple of years when we started in 2009. So you'll find when you visit our learning areas that the whole cohort is in a learning area together and the teacher's team teach. And the children, because they're not in separate classrooms and they work together as a year level, they learn to resolve lots of conflict. They learn to work collaboratively with all sorts of different personalities and children with different interests and yet eliminates that competition. The learning space we designed as being very flexible as again some of the research that I had done was moving away from every student having their own desk and their own chair. Our children need to be able to move around. So our learning spaces were very much designed to be very flexible. Things on wheels so they can be easily moved around. Different types of furnishings. I know when we first opened here in Channel 7 did a little commentary on it and the reporter-journalist spoke about here at Starro the Sea where all the classrooms look like lounge rooms. And at the time I thought, this is a bit of an odd thing to say and then I started to think, well no, that was actually quite a compliment because it gave very much the impression that they are learning in a relaxed, happy environment. So we've found that even we've diminished I suppose the costs in budget by being able to have one smart board to the learning area. We have mobile devices in every one of the learning areas. We've started this year a BYOD program in our year 5.6 area which is proving to be very successful. So all those sorts of things, technology is a very neutral part of our learning environment as well. But I think the fact that it's very flexible, that things can be moved around enables that creativity in the children to really shine. What I have noticed about the children when they're working together in groups or with partners is that they're very focused. They're very engaged. They really are keen to share ideas that they're really enjoying what they're doing. We see a lot of talk. We really see their oral language developing extremely well. We see them engaged. They're keen to share ideas to listen to each other's opinions to share different perspectives and come up with a really good demonstration of what they're learning is. I think sometimes as teachers in the past we underestimate what our children are capable of. What their knowledge is, their eagerness to want to explore, to find out more about how the world works. We work on their strengths and they acknowledge what their strengths are. So during the course of the year they get lots of opportunities to meet with me and I give them feedback and they gain feedback from each other. We've also embarked on regularly learning walks and talks. So giving feedback to the teaching teams by meeting with students and talking to the students about a focus. We've had this term a focus on goal setting. So looking at how teachers work with children to set goals to progress their learning. We've also had a session on learning intentions and success criteria. So the teachers actually having to work with each other to plan what the learning intention is going to be for each of the sessions during the course of the day and course of the week. And then articulating that with the children so they're very, very clear too. And that's very visual as well what the learning intentions are for that activity or for that session and then what the success criteria will be. So it's very transparent. So the students know themselves what the intention of the learning is going to be and then how they will know that they have been successful in that learning. We do it from prep so they're very comfortable with it. We have had a number of visitors here over the past few years and that's one of the things that they do notice when they go into the learning areas themselves and start to have conversations with the children is how articulate that they are, how they can articulate what they're learning, how they're learning and they can articulate what they need to do to be able to progress even further in their learning. Working with the parents is always a challenge, particularly something where it's different to what they're used to from their own schooling and particularly from the schools around the area. So that has been a challenge for me. We have undertaken some parent education, need to do more parent education. They think, I think that sometimes that the learning areas, the children can do what they want, that it's a bit disorganised but it needs to be even more organised in a traditional classroom when you have, you know, 40 or 45 children in a learning space with two teachers and our support staff. The children do have a lot of autonomy, particularly in the direction they want to take their learning after the teachers have given them the content that they require. They tend to come up with different questions. We talk about what's Googleable and what's not Googleable. So the Googleable things are the things that children would be able to find out about the topic or the area of study that they're learning about. And then the non-Googleable are the things that you just can't find out about from Google. So they're looking at the higher order thinking again. So the children come up with some really, really interesting questions and I think that's where they really appreciate the autonomy that they are given to be able to take their learning on a pathway which is of great interest to them and that's where I think I see the engagement from the students that they are really motivated because they are directing some of that learning themselves and they're taking it down a path of interest to them rather than just being told what it is that they will be learning about. Reaching out to the community I think we do very well when it comes to the project-based learning that the students undertake as far as the local newspapers, the parish community, local community groups when we, as I said, it's project-based learning so we tend to try and find some way of directing their learning so that it can be communicated and celebrated in the wider community. So from that point of view I think we get a great connection with the wider community. I think there still needs to be work done around educating people in the community that what we do here is does work, is effective because I think there's probably still is a little bit in this community which is quite traditional, quite conservative, that what we are doing here is a little bit too innovative. A delight for me is to see and hear the passion that teachers have. I mean I guess as I said earlier I've worked in education now for nearly 40 years and to hear teachers over the years that the problem is with the students or the problem is with curriculum change or educational reform or we're doing this because we're told to by the system that the teachers here are passionate about what they do they enjoy working with each other and you can see that in a daily basis that they see a lot of benefit in the way that we work with the children because they can see how motivated the children become and how engaged they become in their learning and when we first started talking about discovery learning here about five, six years ago even from the parent's perspective it would be like the children the absenteeism rate was way down because parents were saying to us children wanted to come to school because they didn't want to miss out on discovery so it was exciting to hear that the children were going home and talking about it and using that language which is what we were using here amongst the staff so that common language that shared purpose of what we do is really something I think that we do celebrate and we need to celebrate even more


All right cyber traders welcome on back here this Wednesday, February 9th shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern time welcome on back here for our Afternoon meeting. It's gonna quick soundcheck just to begin. I always ask for one But honestly today we had a couple of tech issues inside our live trading room early I need it more now than ever folks and of course first of the punch there Chuck We have Mario Gary Michael Phil Kathleen Bruno Deb John Tom Brian Jean Wendy Henry Got all of us right there perfect All right, and if you're joining us back on Facebook live or YouTube our social streams welcome on back as well first We have the KVL trade to begin. It's up near 48% right now You know hey easy enough We're gonna put this back on our watch list for the afternoon keyword back because the stock You know we've been trading really more on than off over the last five to six trading days straight, right? We ended up seeing this stock as like an 80 cent or 75 cent stock back You know last week ended up making a huge run up towards near 140 at that point all over time It only continued to push up and I know Fausto cover that for the most part in the morning meeting But it's just to say at least hey this stock right now is exactly where we would want it to be right now at This time of the day at the highs just broke a new high a moment ago So it seems like there's still a lot of buying pouring into this trade I would assume your next resistance. You can kind of see it there on the ask my trade station matrix on the far Right side. It's a 35 plus thousand share order sitting up top there at $2 and 36 cents So presumptively that would be our next resistance from that point to 50. All right So KVL definitely a great stock to begin with and putting on our on our watch list There's a bunch of other stocks moving though as you can see the spy was just moving up going into the early Afternoon and right before to or right after 2 p.m. Actually it broke higher So for right now, there's plenty of stocks going with the market and one of those stocks in particular At least sends the last few minutes little shake off the high there AMC man AMC has had some crazy shakes to it today Not much of a surprise given AMC, but at least from the late morning heading into the early afternoon This was rocking.  It's just flat. It's not doing much If it's not gonna break higher, you think it's just gonna keep dropping off Well, we had a big pop here and then right before 2 p.m. Eastern time We ended up seeing another big shake where it ended up just popping from the consolidation off of 18 So for right now at least well actually up until right now things were looking great And then right now actually just the big shake right off the 1850 resistance once again So, you know, hey, this AMC stock is up still 10.9%. It's extremely, you know Volatile and I say that in a good way because the liquidity is pretty filled in on the order book It's got at least a consistently tight spread and at least very easy to read iceberg orders That's all we could ask for out of a tradable stock either going into the morning or the afternoon So AMC for right now, I'll put back on our on our list here You know in order to see this make another nice run heading into the close We really need to begin to see this push back up soon You know, it's not just a matter of seeing support holds here You know, that's the first part of the equation But this could hold support for the next 90 minutes and not push up, right? We still need it to push up so much sooner than later We need to see this begin to retrace back up towards that 1850 blue line there All right, Wendy says she lost me, but I'm back. All right, so I'm good there Tom says AMC pretty weak volume off that drop to 1815 no volume over the last five minutes Well, yeah, definitely the volumes wane back down a bit But that was to be the case going into the early afternoon much before this pop So, you know, that's where I'm just saying make sure that we happen to see support build here Because if not, I mean, hey, you know granted this could still move with the market And if the markets keep pushing up this will likely ascend with it You know, maybe not to as much of a degree as we had from from earlier But that's where I say though generally if support does not hold here Especially if the markets pull back this will come screaming back down So you got to be careful on the street All right, so otherwise folks the big mover the big Runner that we caught from this morning the same stock from yesterday DCFC right another big pop this morning I took a little while to get the gears going for it to really pop and get halted You know right off of I think it was 14 bucks at the time Normally when a stock gets halted we tend to see what's called the opening halt print And from there we have to try and find our levels try and react from that point Man this this didn't even come close to 14 again did it? I mean when it reopened off the halt it just kept going And I thought at that point at least to some point heading into this time of the day the afternoon at least That we would see a clean bounce off like 14 even 1450 And for that reason I didn't trade the stock it just kept going I mean it ended up just kind of you know holding right off the consolidation I reckon you can call that $15 and 50 cents right where my cursor is here And I didn't want to chase simple as that So stock ended up just continuing to push up breaking all-time highs throughout the early afternoon Listen right now it's trying to make a bit of a slingshot as we speak You know trying to push back above the 17 level I'll put this on our watch list folks certainly just you know more for a stock to watch Than really a stock to trade a lot of shares on this is uh You know not really too expensive mind you but you know it's a very volatile stock I mean I would look to do probably 500 shares the most on this myself Maybe if I were to feel really confident doing a full size position But probably just do this on a half size I mean you can get shaken out extremely fast on this DCFC trade All right, well, I'll tell you the the polar opposite to DCFC The polar opposite to this DCFC trade today folks MITQ MITQ doesn't look too great right now. It actually looks a lot better You know recently here than it did going into the early afternoon And this lo and behold folks just to let you know this is also the one trade I'm currently long on right now currently in altogether. I'm in from 150 my stop is set at 149 I wrote that in the chat board folks a little bit earlier for those of us that were with me going into the early afternoon I'm gonna grant that I'm calling out AMC. We have the bkk t-trade to mind you right But I'd mentioned at 208 eastern time. I said MITQ has a 392 Share iceberg order on the bid You could see oh, actually, let me just check to see if he's still there But that was at 208 eastern time Up you actually pulled That's interesting. All right, maybe I have to just watch myself on this trade here coming up Because hey, this was the main reason why I thought there could be one more run on this stock for the day Um, and it's done a good job since I got in right. I mean 150 to 158 159 I also had a really strong pre-market level on this trade right off the 160 level So I know I'm not out of the doghouse on my trade yet. Uh, things are looking all right, right? But you never know So, you know, hey more of like a level one or two stock and not just because I'm in it folks But more so because we're getting a bit of a bounce here. It's showing some good signs of life So, you know, certainly we hope to see this MITQ trade break over the 160 level pretty hard heading into the afternoon Should that happen? You know, I would love to see like 175 by the end of the day and if we keep going Who knows, you know, I'd love to see even two perhaps you never know That's where I say at least first. We'll see what happens coming off the strong 160 level here to begin All right, so we keep it going folks we keep it pushing Bkkt we may as well jump to number eight on the gainers list right now It just made a lower high and pulling back a slight bit here But stock ended up making a really good move once again today And again the key word here would be once again because not from yesterday But more so from monday we ended up doing really well on the stock It ended up actually going into the early afternoon from what I recall I think it ended up breaking above five made for a really nice slingshot going into this time of the day Back from monday. So right now at least hey, I like where it's at, you know, it's making a lower high So we definitely would like to see this begin to push higher sooner than later here too Uh, yeah, we'll add Bkkt to our list So what else we got here folks in the meantime, uh, just kind of skimming through the volume the price tabs here on my gainers side, uh, bbi g Familiar name 49 plus million shares. It's a big today once again And uh, you know much closer to its highs compared to a lot of these other trades. So, uh, you know, if I put the Bkkt trade on I feel like I got to put the bbi g on there too They're not part of the same sector or company at least not that i'm aware of so, you know It's just a matter of just seeing this chart pattern seeing this near or at the highs made a nice push from earlier today All right, we'll just keep kind of skimming through cgc pot stock came off earnings today not looking so good right now Uh, briefly. Let me just take a look at tilray tl ry Now this looks a lot better in terms of a you know stock near the highs It's pushing up still gradually a little slow But um, you know next resistance you could see on the ask right off of seven It's about 127 000 share iceberg. So i'll tell you it's not even just tilray I'm surprised that cgc is as flat as it is because the sector mj pot stock etf It's at the highs it's up over five percent itself. So tilray. I mean just looking at this heading into the close It's not the fastest moving and that's all right. I mean for right now I'll put this on our list here too I've got some other stocks at the highs of the day moving with the market I see us steal my lovely x trade fcx one of us wrote earlier. I see twitter at the high So there's plenty more to go around folks. I just want to see if there's anything else here looking just as good IQ I feel like at some point this stock's going to set itself up for like Giant short squeeze a gigantic short squeeze. I don't know when that will be I don't know, you know what date, you know this week next week next month next year For as much as this stock has gotten clobbered not only from april of 21, but really off its ipo It's to say this stock is going to some point make a squeeze up And it's at the highs right now too across the day So it wouldn't hurt us to put this on our watch list for the close for right now this IQ trade Let's see what else we got though in the meantime sklz kind of making the same push This one seems a little slower more gradual maybe but a little slower even Um, all right, I'm sure there's going to be plenty more that's up that illustrious five plus percent folks So if there is anything that you would want me to check out here at the end just type it in the chat board Let me hop on over to the loser's side here next though Um Oh, and as I begin to go through the losers list I may as well state right now And I had mentioned this from last week We're going to be doing away with the bitcoin reviews at least monday wednesday friday as we always have been doing them across the last Year year and a half We're going to be doing separate solo more full-length, uh, bitcoin analysis videos So that's just something to kind of think about going into the rest this week We'll have that up likely by saturday well likely by friday definitely by saturday qnst flat here right now avya it's more to the lows at least kind of dropping off I don't really feel in need to put that on our list just yet Uh Container store.  I mean it's tradable Don't really feel great need to put this on our list either either the All right, and I'll tell you folks not to sound lazy. It really is not It's just kind of intuition really but you know, there are a couple of other stocks that are shortable I reckon but nothing that I think would be that great of a short trade heading into the close bbd here It's kind of dropping, but it's too slow for for me here Uh from top to bottom we'll go with so we will go with tom first I think on cfvi asking me to just go over the trade to begin I yeah, so we ended up seeing some news come out I think it was across all of those stocks that are affiliated with the trump's back I think it was just in relation to See it in relation to the platform rumble They ended up offering joe rogan like a hundred million dollar contract. Um, he I think he just passed on That's it. That's literally the reason why this stock just teched I think it's a little uh overblown the drop and you know with that It's just flat though here in the meantime. So is it making a great move right now? Not really so i'm not too particular about putting this on our list At least just yet, you know, definitely we'll check back in with this cfvi come tomorrow, you know good sideless stock at least All right, nice push on the mara from chuck Nice push on the riot also from chuck And i'll tell you I guess we got enough time here if I have enough time Perhaps we'll try and whip out the bitcoin chart at least just to show it But otherwise though again, I plan on doing just a more full length video by the end of this week on bitcoin But nonetheless at least taking a look at btc in general Back to 44 five chuck Not too steep of a pullback from where we left off from monday afternoon And that's all right. I haven't added more over the last 48 hours have not i'm gonna wait for a little bit further of a Pullback here first, but you know, hey markets are pushing up. Bitcoin's pushing up. So with that riot and mara Are pushing up I'm sure that we could look at some other bitcoin stocks too. I reckon hut hive btbt bitf etc etc Hives at the highs but slow. It's a cheap cheap. IPO hive. You know, keep that in mind as like a sideless stock in the future BITF is at the highs also kind of slow I'll put riot and mara on our main list in particular. Those are a little more volatile and volatile in a good way. So Let's see from wendy dkng approaching high of the day. It is that also right and I'll tell you, you know, it's coming up folks What's coming up? What's what's on sunday?  NFL is very stingy on Rites and all that stuff. I'm joking when I say that but you know, of course the big game, right? We'll call it the big game obviously between the rams and the bangles So with that we're seeing a lot more engagement on sports betting websites, you know, obviously draft kings and with you know Everything coming across new york within the last one to two months You know, we're hoping to see a nice move on draft kings But it's really been taken a bit of a hit over the end of last year into this year So hey, it's up decent right now I mean, I'm sure we could find plenty of other stocks that are up and at the highs right now But this looks good. I like this draft king. Now this one looks pretty interesting Brian says prime rib day and then mark follows up by saying the puppy bull That's true. It is the puppy bull on sunday. I gotta write that down on the calendar All right, so folks, what else we got And chuck says and a reminder because the cpi numbers come out tomorrow morning. That is right chuck I appreciate you bring that up again. You're talking about that from the audio broadcast in the morning You know, obviously bitcoin's going to make a big move once those numbers are out And it's already starting to make a decent move with the market So definitely interested in seeing what happens come pre-market tomorrow morning off those inflation numbers All right. How about this one of our longtime members of cyber trading university on youtube today? David? Welcome back asking about the mower trade about three minutes ago. I'm just catching that chat right now, Dave From rjf one of our longtime viewers on youtube asking us about the spev trade Not too not too particular about it if you're in already you're you're up a little bit there But you know a nice drop off so the drop Could be interesting, but I'm not necessarily expecting for this to you know At least move all the way back up to 520 break a new high by the time the market closes This could still be a good sideless stock. I mean just look what happened going into the end of last year into Even just the last few days the last week So it ended up beginning to push back up again. This this could be in contention at some point I just feel like right now. It's not doing a whole lot to interest us Brian asking about rig rig Nah, too flat way too flat there All right, folks. I think that uh I think that we're trying to go through everything But I'll tell you I think we have a decent list to begin in total. We got two four Six eight 10 stocks to work with and 10 stocks no ETFs on here folks all stocks to work with 10 in particular To start with and then aside from that. Hey, there's plenty else out there But let's start and stick with this list. You heard me say it yesterday But even further more for a day like today. There's a lot to go around Let's not get too overwhelmed with this and that this and that stock So hey, there's a lot to work with on this list Let's start with this list and work off it Then at that point right around three o'clock eastern time as rich jumps back on the mic himself Then at that point we'll look to see if there's anything else You know moving we'll work together as a team and see if there's any other pops or drops All right, folks for all of us on youtube facebook live I appreciate you sticking with me each and every day each and every afternoon You have any other questions feel more than free to send it over an email right to josh at ctu trading dot com That's my personal email So any questions that you have you could always shoot me a quick email anything to do with stock trading crypto trading our call outs And of course as a student of cyber trading diversity like chuck or tom or mark or grant Kathleen when do you folks know of course more than anyone? So hey, let me know if you have any questions folks I'll be back on the mic later on this afternoon right at three three thirty eastern take care


Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, what's going on? Today's the last day of the fiscal year. I hope you got your contracts in. Last day of fiscal year, I hope everyone got their contracts in today. I know I did. What's up, Maria, forever? What's up, one girl, one truck? Hey, make sure, Johnny Spive, Brandon, make sure, like I said, on all my chats, on all my lives, whatever I do, just make sure you drop where you're from, the city and the industry you're in, always, always, always, we want to network. Remember, network is your net worth, definitely. It looks like Fat Joe's always going live when I'm going live. Dang, Fat Joe?  But what's up, Jai Butler? And so definitely, listen, make sure, let people know what you're doing, what you're working on. Again, free throw frank, just join.  Use this as your chance to promote yourself, tell people what you're doing. Tell people like, hey, this is who I am, I'm in this industry, I'm in trucking, I'm in janitorial, I'm out in San Fran, I'm in Atlanta. What's up, Maria, just checked in. Okay, good stuff, spent all day learning, that's what I like to hear. My man, free throw frank, gotta love him. All right, taking the free course, taking it more every day, good stuff. So, what's up, King Norwood? Just starting out, how can I find out if I'm able to receive an advancement for materials? What you mean? Tell me. About being able to receive an advancement for materials. You know, if you're just starting out, you're in the free course, we actually just redirected it. Maria wants to see my shirt, the United States of America. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of how we feel right now, right? And it's tough out there, you know? We got, you know, that's a whole nother story. Maria wants to bring up some other stuff, but nevertheless, yes, we are living in the United States of America right now. Things are rough, but hey, we're gonna keep our eye on the prize and focus on the things that we can't control, not worry about the things that we can't control. So, okay, okay, all right, King Norwood. Listen, why don't you jump on if we could just chat about that? But by the way, anybody coming on now is to see there's 19 people on watching, drop, you know, again, Vicky from NorCal, manufacturing. I like to hear that. We actually, see, this is why you have to drop in there, where you're from and your industry, because it allows me to kind of see what you're doing.  She asked about you, Melissa, probably not. She asked about you in yesterday's live session, I saw you missed it, so. Definitely, she's looking for you, she's working with someone who's got 100 trucks, and she wanted, you know, she wanted to talk to you and consult with you on that, so. That's right, but the federal government is united in its spending. That's right, see, Maria? That's what we need to share. We need to say united in spending of America, because that's what we are. We are all united in the fact that they're gonna spend all this money, and so we just gotta kind of like figure it out, right? I mean, I, you know, good stuff.  And for all my people that were in the group last night, they knew I was stressing on two of my contracts because we didn't have the bonding. So, like, oof, we were able to, because they were negotiated jobs, we were able to talk with the government and have them push out the actual dates from when we had to actually deliver the bond. So, we were able to sign the contract awards and then the government pushed out the bond date for us to allow us to actually accept the contract. So, again, when you have relationships with these agencies, they can do all kind of things, make exceptions for you, change the rules, because again, we, you know, it's, they have that ability, but when you're just bidding blindly and you don't know the people, then it makes it really tough for you to ask for an exception to the rule.  I know it seems easier to go on bid match, bid surge, bid sing, and just bid, bid bid, but I'm telling you those relationships, if that wasn't for those relationships, I would not have, I would have lost $1.2 million in contracts today if it was not for relationships. I can promise you that. It was literally $1.2 million in contracts that we signed today that they wanted to give us, but we did not have our bonding. And because we didn't have bonding, that's a criteria of getting the contract. And we told them that we couldn't do it. So we were able to basically, ultimately what we did was, we said that because of the winter conditions, we were gonna start the projects after winter, which would be, you know, next year, and then could they then make the bonding due prior to us actually getting ready to mobilize and start the contract as opposed to, like normal standards, it's due right after you signed the actual agreement. So we were able to push back the bond dates, right, in terms of when they were due, in order to be able to fulfill the contracts. And because again, the government is trying to obligate funds today. This is the last day to obligate funds. So we worked it out. And yeah, free throw Franky doesn't seem real, but it is. And so what I want to say is, again, they can do a lot of things out here. Like they can do a lot of stuff. Let me go check in my man's child and then let's just talk to him real quick. What's up, Barbara world? Nicky Nick, Sean, Kevin. What's up, man? Hey, what's going on, baby? How you doing? Yeah, I was asking the question, trying to see how exactly do we, cause I watched a video and the woman was talking about how she got started in government contracting. And what happened was, for her to actually bid on those contracts, she was getting an advance to buy the materials up front. He didn't, I don't, the only time that I've seen him do that are really, really small items. Really small items? Yeah. It's far fewer in between that they do that on big stuff. You have to actually produce it in order to be able to get paid, right? So, but it's okay because, what we teach is building your supplier credit. So you don't need them to give you an advance. What's the item that you're considering? Right now I'm looking at a bid right now on bidder.SAM. What's the item? It's lighting fixtures. Okay, lighting fixtures. Okay, so let me give you an example. We have a student that just won a contract this year. I mean, this month, I'm sorry, that she bought a snow plow machine that was a hundred and like $30,000. Wow. Okay, she doesn't have a 700 score. She don't, I don't even know if she got a 600 score. I ain't wanna press her. I know she didn't have eight and she didn't have seven.  But because like you pick it on me now. But nevertheless, she went to the supplier and asked for credit to buy the item because it was going to the government. Okay. So what you do is you go to the supplier who has the item to see if they will give extended credit. What's the process of applying for credit, right? With that particular company that account or becoming a distributor for that particular company so that you can get a credit account set up. Okay. And then that's gonna help you in the long run anyways because I'm gonna tell you why. A couple of things it's gonna help you with is because one, you should get better pricing as a distributor. Yeah. Right? Yeah. So now you can be more competitive. And then the other thing is now you're actually building a business because you're building a relationship with the supply company, right? So even if you don't get that bid, that may could be your new industry. And what if something is like a one-off thing and you won't even use that company very often? But the thing is, so what happens if it's, so let's say I don't think this girl is gonna get into selling snow plows very often. Yeah. That's what I'm saying, right? Like, I mean, I live in Florida, we don't need snow plows. I don't even know what it looks like. I'm in Fortitude, I'm in Orlando, so you know. So there you go. So like, so to me, I don't think anyone buys snow plows all the time. So that's like a one-off thing. But what she said was, because again, going back to the government contract tip or angle, because it was for a government contract, they knew she wasn't buying a snow plow like she was done on a snow plow, so you get me? Like that's kind of what I try to explain to people is like, you guys don't understand. Supplier credit is not like a credit card. You can't go and waste it. We should go buy three snow plows, put it in a front yard, like they're just, you can't waste, so they understand that. The only reason why you'd want a snow plow is to sell it to the government. Well, the government, so they're basing off the government's credit. Yeah. So you get me? So it's a lot easier than you think to get credit set up with these people. In fact, Johnny on the chat just said to me, he got his IG credit line set up recently. He thanked me for that. So again, it's a lot easier than you believe. Most of us just don't try. And I'm sure if you're on my IG, you've seen some of that in my feed, right? Like you didn't even try.  What do you think? What do you think? They're not, they're not, I would not, I would say they're not credible. What do you think is small though? Because she was saying that it was a, she was saying it was a small contract and it was like a hundred and something, grain and something like that. That's not true. That's not true. Okay. That's not true. That's not true. I'm telling you it's not true. Okay. I'll just, I'll just make a show. I'm just asking because I don't see it. Listen, I don't believe her. I don't believe her. I don't know what she is and I don't believe her. I don't. I would want, I would want her to show me the advance check. She made it like she got the contract being of her $75,000 check to buy them with you. She's like, she's like that hand that you would check. Like I'm like, like that sounds kind of, it's kind of crazy, you know what I'm saying? The government, so you're telling me the government's just handing people checks to buy stuff. No repercussion, like just get a check by it and show up with it. Yeah, I'll be careful. There's a lot of Charlotteans out there. There's a lot of Charlotteans. There's a lot of people out there, especially if they are IG. There's a lot of, I mean, there's a lot of people say stuff. And I will say this, when it came time for PPE, they did make those mistakes, but they don't do them anymore. And they learn from that. In fact, I interviewed someone where governments literally lost tens of millions of dollars Giving out checks to people in advance for PPE, but that was a pandemic. That's a once-in-a-lifetime You know type of issue, but for someone to and and by look Why would you let's say that it did happen to her? Right, that's not the norm. So do you want to base your business model on some that's an exception to the rule? Yeah, yeah You can't it's not a business model Yeah, tell her I would like it for me if she if she was on this call To you where you were sitting at I would tell her let's go I want to see that who the agency was that gave you that check I want to see it and then I want to go to them and I want a bit of contract. I see they'll give me a check, too That's what I would say That don't happen man, come on That's just sounds like to Don't don't don't fall for that stuff man. Trust me. You look you're in Orlando go to Orlando City procurement and see if they'll give you advances Watch how silly you look watch how silly you look This lady or IG said you I get advanced before, you know, I mean think about how much how if they did that we would never have a chance at building a business because Why would they need us? What what value do you bring? true I just I have the question that why what value do you need? What do you bring to the table? They were they were making the case in the video that The government needs to spend this money. So they're right, but why did they don't have to spend it with you?  True. How you know, how we how will we even get into the room? Would there be for us to create value in space? Like there wouldn't be no room for us to come into the marketplace that they were just giving out people blank checks It just it's not it again.   It's hard. I got a register with Sam. I guess I got everything yesterday So look look look Karen just said governors are getting in trouble for hooking their friends up with Kobe federal money Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying it. I mean, yeah, I would uh next time you're on a check with that person Make them show you the check I Want to see your advanced check. I want to see you got a contract. I mean look Yeah, I would love to see that 75,000 just to me or I want to know I want to see 75,000 advanced Yeah, 75,000 on check is not impressive. I want to see a 75,000 on bands. Yeah, I Want to see a 75,000 vans my buddy one of my really he was one of my mentors He did PPE stuff and he got like 10% advanced or 20% advanced. He sent me a copy to check Yeah, I Mean he was like look they get because I was like I Mean I was I was struggling like hell To like get them to even agree with me on terms and he's getting a check Yeah, how'd you do that? Well? His friend knew the mayor so the mayor trusted them so they cut them a check in advance That's you're gonna build a business case up of that Yeah, that's gonna be far that's gonna be far That's I tell you I you know I started off Maria say I want to know who that liar is Nikki says I want to see that check see my these my people actually do this for living So we find the video man. This guy. He does on YouTube was a it's called casino is the name. I Don't know you've heard him. I don't I don't But he doesn't he doesn't the way she Explained she was a woman woman.  Can you do the job or not? That's it. What does that say about you doing a job? What is anything to just mention me to say how well you could do from the work If you come to my house and want to fix my recognition you tell me I'm a woman. I'm a minority. I'ma say What would you say You call these people they say I'm a woman. I'm a minority. I'm a veteran. What would you say to this? Thanks And so think about we don't look at that how silly we seem we're talking to procurement people and the people say look we We have a job for Eric is for the pair What are your qualifications? What what have you done this in the past how many times have you done this kind of Eric? Do you know what the kind of system is do you know what type of filters it's take do you know? What are the proper ratios a freon that goes in the line? Do you want to say how to do testing and balancing for the systems? Do you even know what testing and balancing is for a conditioning system? How many what type what types of matching systems are compliant with the ones that we have in here? What are some alternative systems that we could use? Is it squared duck is a roundup? I'm a woman. I'm a minority And that's the way I fear it when people tell me that and that's why again those people that are pushing that are Certification pushers they're trying to sell people and buying certifications And that's all they could sell you because they can't teach you how to actually do anything else. Yeah So I'm constantly having to disprove them. I look I always tell people I would love to do a versus with any of those people I Would I would look like if you put that up, bro be like look I got this guy say y'all some liars I do a versus with this guy. I Would love to do it They're not gonna do it. They're not they're not gonna do it because they this is not it's not it's not true That's not true. So, you know, it's not it's not that easy But again, you don't want to want it easy because if you know what I always think about and I tell my people And I learned this from a really wealthy guy who gave me advice about real estate and I said I Said hey, you know, it's really hard and I and so for me. I was new to real estate investing, right? So one of my guys likes to work at his house. He he literally this guy He lived like he live in the same neighborhood as Ray Allen did when Ray Allen played for the heat Like you gotta go through two gates He lived and I mean that neighborhood is so popular. There's nothing for sale There's like maybe one or two houses a year go for sale there because people don't want to leave like they don't even leave that neighborhood and So I said to him I said man.  He says that's perfect for you He says because the smart people figure it out and they make all the money and That's the way that I want you to look at it Is that you want it to be hard because then all you have to just become one of the smart people who figured out And then you make all the money. That's why that's why I pulled off 1.2 million dollars in contracts today How many did you get? All the videos I've seen I've just found your videos or whatever I've been watching a lot of other videos and it's like everybody's like, oh, it's so easy You know, you go here. You just be the contract you get it and I'm looking at it. I'm like, man. I'm like, damn I gotta do pricing. I gotta see if I can get this ships. Oh my god, man Yeah, no It's not easy.  They push push push push But you know again, I I come on to share examples of People winning people succeeding. So I let you know that's not impossible Right to do and that's you know, that's what we talk about. It's not impossible There's there's some really basic steps out there that you can follow and really start to understand the process So it's definitely not impossible. But yeah, it's it's hard. It takes work. You gotta You know, you've gotta put in the work. I mean, I you know, these contracts came from relationships that I developed for the last 18 months I've been working these relationships for 18 months 18 months Okay, so it this didn't I didn't get these contracts because of something I did yesterday This is something I did in 2018 So I plant dc to 2018 now they're starting to bear fruit Okay, so now I'm finally eating my mangoes.  You got, you know, I had to water it. I had to make sure it had sunlight I had to make sure it had sunlight.  It's not like the same month You know one month the guy takes your phone call. You're like, oh great. He took my phone call, right? And then two months later He's like, all right, we'll set up a meeting but he didn't set it up. He just said he will set it up, right? And then yeah, and then two months later, you know, he was like, all right We're gonna consider for a project and then and then two months later. He's like, yeah We're still working on project. I mean he kept saying follow up with me in two months Followed me in two months followed me in two months and I just kept Falling up in two months. I would follow up in two months and he was busy And he was like, I'm sorry. We're working on it. We're trying, you know, we're trying We're trying to get you to the right project and And then finally, right? You know say we have something Yeah, okay, and then can you do this? And by the way when they call you for something they call you it's like last minute We got something but we need it like done by friday And you're like, uh, right, so you've been like you've been waiting a whole year Half All of a sudden I got like We got something but I need it by friday. Yeah What are you gonna say? No After now after the year Yes, yes, I could do it. I could do it. Yeah, and so that's That's what happened. Um, is that they literally just again, it's a government The only reason I won't say the only reason but one of the reasons why they called me was because somebody else was not performing And not delivering on the contracts. So finally it made room for me to come in So that allowed me Huh Hey, what happened like a basketball or football or something quarterback get hurt. All right.  You want to get out here? You start you're the new starter, right? So just like that that's what I've been that pressure. All right. It's like, all right. Hey, your number's been called Get out here.  You're practicing your practicing for your time when it's game time And I was practicing and following up and practicing and practicing and I was ready. I have been training. I have been ready I've been doing my push-ups. I have been doing all my exercises. I've been doing my squats Look, I did my leg press. I did everything man. I've been eating right Just before that day came and then When he called my number Baby, I jumped in Your hand was raised high Hey Listen, you know, they called me out in the field. Guess what by next year I'll be Patrick Mahone You know, they gave my first shot like come on come on first day. Okay. All right So I'm performing good. You guys thought we're negotiating that kind of thing. That's what I'm talking about. You're negotiating that money He's starting to negotiate the money.  I'm silly but again we I look once you figure out and I'm going to say why why the reason why I say it's easy is because anyone can do it That's the easy part. It's easy because anyone can do it So, um, it's easy from the standpoint of the fact that, um What I like about the federal government is Yes, okay. The person says they're minority. That's great The the only thing I could would say about that is they don't discriminate So that's a good thing, right? Because there are industries where we can go into where people would discriminate against us Yeah, this is not one of them. So so that's what makes it also easy because you don't have you're not facing that That blockage there, you know, there's so that's not one more hurdle that you have to actually overcome So the fact that any one of us can do it and then the fact that we don't have to deal with the the adversity thing in terms of being minorities that That like my man just said this gives us a level playing field So then that makes it easy for us because we know as black and brown people We don't always have that in every particular marketplace in every industry. That's not always the case So that's what I really like about it. Um, is that those facts is because we can show up and no one's gonna be like Oh, no, this guy he not I'm not gonna look at him. I'm not gonna consider him for work, right? He's they're gonna be like, no, I mean What can you do? What do you form? I've never had anyone question me Um, because we we show performance and ability But I again, I don't lead with certifications or I'm brown. I'm black or minority. I don't lead with that stuff Yeah, I don't I tell people I'm a great company. Um, and we happen to be small business So you you think the a day certification all that do you think that's necessary or no? I think it's necessary. I don't think it's necessary at all I think that when people it's it's necessary only when people start asking you do you have a day? When people start asking you, right? Hey, um Jamal, do you have a day and you're like No, should I like well it would help and then, you know, go someplace. Hey Jamal, you got a day. Hey, you got a day You got it when people start asking those things then that's when you should get a day not before Yeah, okay Not before learn that you have to learn the business because again if you read the the chat Karen said earlier So many people get a day thinking it's a slam done And I mean I get I get emails and calls from people at a they have no contracts every week Yeah, three years four years in a program You can go to my youtube channel and see people's comments. This is I've been in a day for four years I have no contract Three years no contracts Go to my youtube channel type in a day and you'll see four or five videos where my guest talked about The one of the biggest mistakes that people make is getting a day too soon So yeah, because if you don't know how to do it Like you just told me you don't even have a supplier credit No, what's a day gonna do for you? I just tell me what's a day supposed to do so My a day is like this big cape What but then what are you gonna do but how are you gonna deliver how you're gonna perform? Where you're gonna get money from where you're gonna get resources Where's what a day doesn't do any of that for you? So what so where do you how do you get all the other stuff that you need to to actually be a business? When again going back to the ac example, okay Um, we have a we have an ac contract your a day will give you the ac contract You can we got you can have it What are you gonna do?  So all right.  Well, I mean, I appreciate some man. No, thanks for coming on But yeah, definitely watch those supply credit videos that they're good ones to watch and then uh, the a-day videos are good Look, you know, I've got 300 videos online. So you will there's not probably not a question You're gonna have I'm going I'm going through them, man. I'm really going through them like that It's a lot of information But it but also just use it to ask like a q&a to answer your questions when you have a question about something Yeah, all right. All right, man. Thanks for coming on be good All right, let's see Rafa Maybe she hit it by accident Johnny jump on Looks like my man moe's coming on Eric, what's up, brother? I said looks like moe's coming on What's up, man? Pretty good, man. Pretty good. What do you think about that last guy's call? uh I think that it sounds like he's on the right track as long as you know, he sticks to the script and uh Especially follow the instructions you give him about building relationships because I did definitely want to underline that and I think it's like the only reason why I I have any money coming in is because of relationships that I built, you know over the last Years almost years, right? So so wait, but have you ever had a government give in advance? No, but I did once get a credit card uh For a contract, but that's only because there was a there was a an emergency it was for a hurricane contract and they needed water So I think in Oh, yeah, yeah for sure for sure. I mean I wouldn't I mean I wouldn't even have asked You know the the lady from the contracting officer from the department of state for Any kind of you know an advance or anything? I just I wouldn't I I think I'd sound almost like a rookie if I did that Yeah, right like yeah No, I think you know, that's that's what happens. So good Yeah, but it is but I could imagine though. It must be really difficult though to You know to to cross that you know if you don't have supplier credit like it might Maybe bring in investors. Do you think that that would be? I think that I think that for me, um I wouldn't try to jump into an industry where I couldn't get supplier credit and I wouldn't even try to bring in investors the reason why is because You don't have any experience Like in your case, maybe yeah, because you you know, like you've done it before right and so You have the experience you've proven yourself But if you've never done this right and this is the example, I always tell people It's not just for the money because a lot of times I have the money to buy the stuff But what happens if your supplier brings you the wrong stuff?  You're absolutely right. But so what is what is when I've had situations where my supplier has brought the wrong stuff I'm not paying for this. Right. Right. Right.  We look at our documents. This is what I asked.  You said yellow We said to you blue Right, right. Right. Right. No, you make you make a really really good point. That's what that's where my argument is Right, right. I get the money because we have some some at some points. We have some money, right? Let's say, you know, you have more than maybe this particular contact calls for you could buy it Right, but then what happens if it's wrong? Mm-hmm. Yeah, you got there's no there's not much room for error. There's no room for error Yeah, and especially me right now like I don't know if you remember I told you I just recently quit my job, right? Yeah, I'm officially the only person that quits their job during the pandemic It opposed to getting fired. Well, you know, you quit your job because uh, you know, you brought in some money and stuff and For sure for sure. And then and I mean all I've been doing since I left my job is just, you know, sticking to the script just Looking to for who which contracting officers and which agencies are spending the money for things in my industry And then I just try to build Relationships just like the one that I have with with, you know, the lady that gave me those four contracts So I think that that's that's my plan just continue building these relationships And uh and continuing to work with integrity and and you know and and really do the right thing But I just wanted to just tell like a really quick story Uh, I won't take up too much time, but um I'm a college dropout All right I I don't want to say I hated school, but I was I was I'm really I really disliked having to go to school every day Um, also when I was 20 years old I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I actually got arrested and I actually was locked up for a year and a half Um now fast forward, you know 14 years later Now I'm selling supplies to the same prison that I was locked up at So if that's not a complete 360, then I don't know what is You know, you know, it's funny mo that you said that Um, I was on a youtube live my boy john on monday And he didn't say this But when we went to dinner after the youtube because I went to his office to do the youtube He said eric, you know, it's crazy, right? I've been winning disinfecting contracts And the last one I won is at one of like the like the detention center Okay, he says my co-defendant when I got locked up We're sitting here cleaning the detention center going. Can you freaking believe this? That's crazy, you know And he spent like a couple years in jail as well or prison whatever whatever and he was like, can you believe we're not cleaning the detention center? Uh, and we were two co-defendants on this case. Look at that man. Look at that That's remarkable I really and a lot and I'm glad you shared that and I thank you for that because obviously it's a lot to tell the Truth and tell your story, but you know, what's amazing is um, and I had someone literally text me about this yesterday because He was looking at a form about whether he's incarcerated and he uh He said he got he got like one day arrested for like a traffic stop. I'm like, bro. Yeah, but you don't tell No one's gonna care, but he was still worried about that and he was he was apprehensive about that and um, and I'm like to You know, yeah, yeah So yeah, for me it was just like I wanted to really just prove to myself that I have turned the complete other page You know what I mean, right and and and and now I and I use all of you know Like my history and my experience to kind of just like really push me into you know Just moving further in my career and doing a better job and you know, just trying to outwork Anyone that's around me. There you go. I mean, that's the way that's the way to look at that That's awesome. I think I think honestly Um, it seems to me in my experiences, right that that people like yourself who experience those those challenges and hardship work harder Yeah, I do I honestly believe that I think people again one of the things I write in my book is that my you know My millionaire friends don't have college degrees and my college friends are not millionaires and And it's my my my most my people that are dropouts and and you know X cons whatever that those people are successful people because They take up trades and they go in the trade industries And because they have a felony or because you know, they can't get a job No, I'll hire them so they start businesses and they become business owners Right, and then they end up hiring all the college degree people to work for them. Look at that This is incredible It's it's it's that's been my real life experiences Just happening my my buddy now Who makes a a lot of money? I mean, he went to jail for he was robbing dope guys. He was kicking in people's doors. I'm like If you look at him, you're like Right, right, right. I mean think about think about the kind of person to be to rob a drug person Right, right, right. No. You have to be deep in there. You have to be deep in the game You gotta be deep to be like robbing Like you go to my house that has guns and weapons and stuff like you want to rob other bad people who already are I'm like, you gotta be Deep and look and look at him now and today. Oh no today. He's he's he's the most successful Uh contractor in certain categories in Miami-Dade County. There's two categories here He's the most successful guy in those categories He's been called in because they thought that he was paying like the mayor or stuff because he was getting so much work from them Incredible, it's just a matter of other people in his space never bothered to learn the business So they never got the supplier credits. They never got lines of credits They never, you know, they were spending their money as fast as they make it because that's another problem We have as small businesses As handyman behind the truck You know, we're not saving the capital. You make some money, right?  They stunt they buy clothes They're not keeping the money in the business. So then when it comes time to go to a bank and ask for some credit Right, right. They're banks. Like, well, what are your assets? Oh, I got this car Right, right, right. That's not an asset.  No, this isn't the time now is a The time to build You know what I mean and really really focus and and get ready for the next contract that comes back around now Now mo let me ask you something because we've been talking for a while When did you start you didn't tell people about your history and how do we start like when we started Because I talked to your boss and stuff like the year, right, right so, yeah, so, um I so I got hired for a rough. I see you we're gonna tag you and Rafa afterwards so I uh When I didn't have a job somebody told me about a temp position in a police and military supply company And they needed someone that the sales so I had no job So I don't care what they would have anything any position they would have asked for I was like, yeah, I could do that I could do that. Just throw me in there. Yeah, so I started working for this company Doing sales for them. So I was reaching out to police departments and agencies all across America just Trying to see who would be interested in buying, you know, police military equipment, right? So then um, So so then they kept on directing me over to their like local websites or their state pages For us to sign for me to sign up as a vendor So I started doing that and doing that But you know in the meantime that we were getting phone calls from different government agencies Like the department of state different embassies all over the place department home and security asking us for stuff as well and they had told told me about website fed bid So I started bidding on fed bid and and and and I noticed that there was a lot of competition on fed bid But but the one thing that I actually did do though, which is really interesting. Well, wait So I started doing that for a while didn't win anything for for like about a year year and a half I came across your page because I youtube government contracting or government contractor for dummies or how do I sell government contracting? And I and I came across your youtube page and you know, and the way that you explained How to do it was in a very eloquent and very Simple way for you know, just the average person to just understand because somebody here is government contracting for them It's a little intimidating, right? Okay. Okay.  I'm not really that good at selling But I'm really good at building a relationship, right? That's what I know how to do Um, and and I knew that I know that I was an honest person and I work with a lot of integrity So that's what I started doing and just so everyone out there knows how I got this that last Four contracts over the last six months What I did was if you sign up on fed bid and you have a question So when you're on fed bid and you're looking at a bid you usually don't have information about who the contracting officer is Because fed bid is the one who's pulling putting out these solicitations So but you can however request the contact information of the contracting officer Through fed bid so by sending them an email and putting the buy number in the subject real quick Real quick time about fed bid is now unison global. Yes. Yes. Sorry. Sorry. Yes unison global Yeah, so um, there was a bid uh for during the coronavirus for um, uh for masks gloves masks and gloves So if anybody's ever been on unison before you can't just bid on one of the items You have to bid on both of the items or none of the items So I requested the contact information from fed bid. They gave me the cell phone number of The contracting officer So I called her and I introduced myself and I said, listen, is there any way I could I could just bid on the on the masks And not bid on the gloves even though I knew what the answer was I just wanted her to hear my voice anyway and introduce myself and she says, you know what you you actually can't You're gonna have to bid on both of them or none of them So I told her, okay Well, I still wanted to just introduce myself and I wanted to let you know that If there's anything that you need or if you get stuck with something You could you could call me literally anytime 24 hours a day.  She was like, wait, wait, wait, since I have you on the phone There are some other requests that I have that I that that you know that I have so I told her So she was like, can I send you an email? I'm like, yeah, of course you can So while I'm on the phone with her she's sending me all these emails and then I asked her I said, wait Are you gonna end up putting this off for bid anyway? So she says Actually, no, I don't need to put out the rest of these for bid. I could just award it to to to whoever gives me the best price, right? So I started grinding. I started working right. She asked me for like five different things. One of them was a pulse oximeter And and I never even heard of an oximeter before but I was like, she's like, can you get it? I'm like, yeah, I could definitely get it. Don't worry I'll worry about that later. I know you start That's when you start reaching out to us in the facebook Exactly exactly so um So out of the five different things that she asked me for I was able to get her to Yeah, and um, and she awarded us the contract but she awarded it through to my company to the company that I worked for Right. Yeah. So after a while, I just started so that I made some money, right? I made some money Yeah, you're like, yo, I made some money Right. So at that point by the way back by the way, that's back in the days when I used to give people my phone number Right, so So, uh, so uh months later, which is a couple of weeks ago She called me and she said hey, listen, um, is there any way you can get us more Oximeters, right? So I told her I said listen I actually opened up my own company. Is there any way we could just do it through my company? So she said Are you signed up? Do you have a don's number? Yes. Do you have your SAM registration? Yes So for me, it was just like thank god. I had all that stuff, right? Oh the whole checklist You know, that's in the first couple of chapters on the gubcom giants course so Next thing you know, I wake up in the morning like Like a week later I wake up in the morning And I see an email with a purchase order there with my company name on it And it was the greatest feeling ever. I mean like money's not everything right when you see Right, you know six of six figures on a purchase order. What's your name? Well, my name was I put a team. What's your name?  Just focus on on what you know, what you need to do And yeah, and I got to thank you for that Eric You know, I mean there's like that that whole bit on relationships relationships relationships Is truly the most important thing No, that's that's that's that was powerful man. That was a powerful story today, man And I made my day today, bro. Let me ask you something real quick. I just I mean When you bought the course did your company buy it or did you buy it the company bought it? Okay, that's what I thought a company bought it for you to learn, right? Yeah, yeah, they bought it for me to learn I convinced them and I told them I'm like, listen I mean it was a good investment for them because them paying for that led to me being able to score So I'm gonna ask you this because you know what let me tell you why when I ask this question Because so many people be like Uh, Eric, I don't have this money. How much did you pay for the course? Do you remember what you paid? I don't remember. I'm maybe like $7,800 $600 How much money did somebody make? Okay, and I made that do 350,000 dollars clean 350,000 dollars clean I made I made for him 350 clean Yeah, so everything's paid for I mean so yeah, he wasn't I mean he's not happy that I left Of course not. He's not happy at all. But but again, you know what the thing is Um, you're not the first person to hear like I'm saying like that. You're not the first guy to say that to happen to them People kind of forget like hey, you know take care of me I you know like and again you and I talked you never mentioned me were thinking about leaving, right? So I thought everything was an up and up And you know you were telling me hey, this is good and things are working out But I listen I get it. I was there before too. I look When I made this guy and it's funny you said 350.  I'm like, yeah, but what if you didn't do anything like I brought the whole deal To you. I found the supplier I got to put the whole thing together and you did nothing You didn't have to cut a check like you just put any money up front. You didn't make any investments and this is it this By the way, that guy never has done another federal contract since I left him really Because I did everything they never bothered to learn the business. They never bothered to learn the business That's why the disinformation is Is like a treasure, you know, it's like it's it's extremely important like Like, you know, but but I understand why he never took the time to learn it because it is intimidating like I have a crew of seven friends Um, and and you know, they asked me hey, how's work or what did you do? And as soon as I started telling them you could just see them like drifting away and they just not interested at all And it's like, you know what that's a good thing. I don't want this to be complicated and complex I don't want everybody to know how to do it, right? That's what I just said. That's what I just said I just I just told the young man that right before you jumped on I said the same I go You want this to be complicated? It's perfect. That's why the it creates more opportunities for people like you and myself Who take the time to learn how to do this business the right way? Absolutely. So I'm happy for it. I mean look Listen, we I'm not I'm not gonna open it up today. But when I I'm going to a meeting friday I'm flying friday to go discuss some really big stuff and you know what? I'm gonna wait till I pull it down before we talk about it.  Okay, so we got a felony on your record Okay, but people ask me these questions. Can I do this with a felony? A lot of times I can't say because I don't have a felony, you know, so I can't really and that's why honestly I told maria this and it's funny It's a joke, but it's not we you know, she texts me the day and I just got a 700 745 credit score But I was disappointed because I've always been telling people I've never had a 700 score And I've been able to do millions of dollars in contracts and with 600 scores So now I can't that story goes to go away because now I got a 700 score. So now Right The guys I said, oh well, Eric, of course because you got a 700 score like, you know, they're gonna use as an excuse I was very proud of my 600 score and doing having a $5 million credit line I was very proud of that because that's a great story Anyone could say you got 800 score that makes sense, right? Right.  That's the best type of wins though The ones that come the hard way, you know what I mean? Like like if you grow up with money and this and that Getting another check, you know, you don't really you don't really feel like it doesn't it doesn't hit as well As you know what I'm saying when you earn it when you come when you come from the mud You know what I'm saying when you get it after not having anything and people doubt it You know how many times so my father and my twin brother have an identical twin brother He works in hospitality and my father works like in a residential building in Manhattan And they're union, right? I have a couple big family union Yeah, and my my I have a I have a son.   You'll you'll you'll get it. That sounds like my family, bro They love us, right? Because so that's why they say it, right?  No, my father my father didn't come to this country for me to have to struggle and do the same job that he did You know what I'm saying? I'm I'm here. Oh, by the way, tell me where you're from because no one knows where you're from What's your background? Oh, so I'm Egyptian. I was born in Queens, New York. And actually this is my son over here Hey, joseph If I quit my job, what am I now? You're the boss. Exactly That's right, joseph. You say it brother. That's what I like Well, anyways, Eric, I gotta run. But again, I'm Egyptian Immigrant family born and raised in Queens, New York Not in the suburban part either, you know what I'm saying? But god willing one day if I stick to the script, I'll be in the illest of suburbs in the whole city All right, I love it. I love it, brother. Hey, man. Thanks mo. Thanks for sharing man. We'll keep talking. All right We'll keep around. Thank you so much. Good luck to everybody. Good story. Joseph. Take care of your dad It's okay All right, guys. I'll see you guys later. All right That was good. I was I think that was pretty that was fire, you know That is that that was fire. I mean, I couldn't even um, I couldn't ask for anything better today I couldn't ask for anything better. All right. Who wants to come behind that? No, um You look mo I you know, I knew his story We actually had a planned interview set up with Maria to to talk to some of the people who won their first contract So we definitely want to get mo on to to share and then he just happened to come on today like literally he he came on and uh And like I I didn't know like I didn't know oh rafa wants to tell a story. Hold up rafa. Hold on I'll tell you what we're gonna probably Rafa, let's do this guys because it's 8 56.   I told you I've been I've been Working with people a long time Helping a lot of people out here man. Just says you know Rafa click the button I'm uh says it's waiting for you. You have to push like to accept to go live with me Rafa's having technical difficulties No, listen brandon. We're doing good stuff man. We're really really impacting a lot of people I mean, I I'm very proud of the stuff that we're doing The content we're sharing information we're putting out there a lot of people um Over the last few years it's just been All right, rafa can't get on. All right johnny spive, uh Let's go live man johnny. Oh missy. You like the replay of a post of your story All right, we're cutting with johnny What's going on man? Hey, Eric. How you doing? I'm doing good. How are you? Not much listen you guys doing all right doing all right. Hey, listen Everyone's got story. Yeah. Yeah, but we're not yeah, this is the second We're not gonna we're not gonna. Yeah. So yeah, just go ahead This is the second week of uh doing that landscaping for nav fact. Oh and uh That's in line with that um With that sources saw the b.o.s. Yeah s c right that's one of the locations And they are very happy with the work we're doing The previous uh Landscapers left the place um a mess so So yeah, right now they're pretty happy with this Donny can you tell people? I know this is can you tell folks real quick in like 30 seconds? How did you get that contract? Give us a give us a 30 second version I give you okay So I walked into the navy exchange Over in san diego and I mean they got The landscaper is horrible. This happened during the same time when they got the fires out here. Yeah, and I say look I shop here What's going on and I said look I could go ahead provide landscaping work for you and and Would you be interested in that and they say sure? Um, do you set the uh credit cards? I said, yeah, we can do that. So they asked for me to provide a quote to them That was it. That was it. Okay, beautiful so and and then It's amazing how This happened and then a week or two later that sources sought came out And I'm like wait a minute. So right now. So they got they want is that that sources sought is is Seemed like it was haphazardly put together. Yeah, right because they mentioned this all to california, navada, arizona but At the very end of that sources sought It's it's it's focusing on san diego. Okay on the Everyone the id is kicking me off. We've got three seconds and then we'll just come back on and finish. Okay