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My guest today is Neil Donald Walsh, who has written 40 books on contemporary spirituality and its practical application in everyday life, including nine books in the conversations with God series, seven of which made the New York Times bestseller list. Book one remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 134 weeks. His titles have been translated into 37 languages and have been read by millions of people, including me around the world. Neil's latest book is God talk experiences of humanities connections with a higher power. If you'd like to learn more about him, go to NeilDonaldWalsh.com. And with that, I welcome Neil to the Dare to Dream show. It's so great to have you. Welcome. Thank you, Debbie. It's lovely to be here with you. I'm shocked to know, however, that you've been doing this program since you were four years old. I know. I started, I was a prodigy, but I started on radio when there was a thing called podcast, and then a couple of years into doing that, this strange word podcasting came along and I thought, you know, everybody's making fun of that, but I'm going to throw my hat in that ring too. Boy, am I glad I did. So here we are today, podcasting mainstream. Do you know that I did talk radio 25 years ago as well? Yeah. I actually have a question about that, but tell me, tell me what kind of talk radio did you do? I had a nationally syndicated talk radio show on what was then known as the talk radio network. And I was nationally syndicated.  It was a wide open mic, and people would call in and talk about whatever they wanted to talk about. I would, of course, have something to say myself when I opened each show, whatever was politically, you know, alive in those moments or whatever was happening, while we talk about the news and so forth. But then we'd open the mics and people would just jump on and talk about it. I spent, I started my career, I mean, in the working world, in broadcasts. When I was 19 years old, so we're talking about many, many years ago, way before podcasts, for sure, and I wound up doing radio broadcasting for 30 years. Well, your life is the epitome of a hero's journey, right? I teach book writing and yours is it. We start one place, you have catastrophes occur. You start making some headway, backslide, a little bit of headway, backslide. So for you, before you even wrote conversations with God, Neil, you worked as a radio station manager, a newspaper managing editor, marketing PR. And then in the early 1990s, you had a series of very difficult blows.   It's like a lot for any human. And then you were alone, you were unemployed, you lived in a tent, and you were collecting and recycling aluminum cans just to eat. So let's start there since you brought up the radio and your beginnings. Tell me about the profundity of that time for you. Well, you know, what was interesting is that I have to admit that life has been very good to me in spite of the difficult moments that you've described. I've never had to do anything in my life that I didn't like to do. I love broadcasting, I love newspaper work. You know, I did a enormous amount of theater and I wanted getting paid to do live dinner theater and earning money. Like acting, singing? Yeah, acting and singing. Yes, I did a show called I Do I Do for three years at stage. Wow. I did Henry Higgins in a traveling production of The Music Man. And so and I did the direction, I did directing as well.  I've simply adored all that I did. And I can't think of a time except maybe maybe one year and a half when I was selling radio time, I'll never do it again. I'll never sell anything again. But for the rest of my life from the beginning, I've just had a wonderful stream of events that people call a career. But I never thought of it as work. None of it was work. It was all joyful. You know, honestly, I have to tell you a story when I first started in radio, I was 19 years old and I was doing I was a disc jockey. In those days, there were actually things called disc jockeys and we would introduce music and be out of the air, you know? But I couldn't believe my fortune in getting a job that paid me to do this. And the order of the station, you would either come out and give everybody their checks once a week and pay day, you know, on Fridays, he'd give everybody their checks. He said to me one week, why do you always turn your back and put your hand behind your back to take your check from me?  It's too much fun. I mean, how difficult is it to sit there? Twenty after four o'clock, forty five degrees outside, KYJC, live music, more and you pay me to do this. So he said, son, I like your attitude. You're going to go far. You must have got an employee of the year after that. I wasn't trying to butter him up. I just really I was really being serious. I just I couldn't believe it. So all of my life, I have received wonderful, wonderful recompense for doing things that I love to do. And it's true, like all people, I read into a series of challenges and difficulties and did wind up living on the sidewalk on the street for a year of my life, not for a couple of bad weeks or a tough month or two, but for a solid year, because I had been hit by what I call the triple whammy. And you mentioned some of those things, the loss of my relationship, the loss of my job, the corporation I was working for, that owned a series of radio stations needed to downsize. And I was let go now because I wasn't doing a good job. And my boss loved what I was doing on the air. He said, but I was a recent hire. So I had no seniority last in first out when there was a downsizing. So I lost my job. Now, I'm out of a relationship and out of a job in the same ten day period.  I'm sure I'm going to be hired because I've got all the qualifications. But I get slaughtered in this car accident. An older gentleman made a left turn in front of my car and smashed into the driver's side of the car. So, you know, my car was not it was not this was not of what you'd call a fender bender. This was in my car was totaled. And as you said, I broke my neck and it wasn't a hairline fracture. I still remember the wording because it was so dramatic on the report. I had suffered a three quarter inch evulsion fracture of the seven cervical vertebrae posteriorly. That's a break in your neck large enough to put a pencil through. And when I awoke from the anesthesia, of course, they rushed me to the hospital. The doctor was hovering over my table and he said to me. You realize it's your miracle, don't you? Wow. He said nine out of ten people who come in here with a break in their neck like that. Do not survive. If they don't die on the spot because of spinal cord complications. But somehow you managed to not break any of the nerve endings in the spinal cord. He said, not only that, those who do survive, the few who do survive such a terrible accident and injury, wind up paralyzed from the neck down. You have suffered neither consequence. He leaned over the table and looked at my face and he said. So what are you going to do with the rest of your life? Did he really say that? Yes. Oh, my goodness, because I'm sitting here listening to you and thinking when something happens like that and then out of all this, you have this kind of physical miracle. It seems to me that everything is colliding on purpose to stop you, to give you a pause in life. So you can I mean, that's a bottom. It sounds like from what I recall from your earlier books, you hit an even lower bottom at some point. And that's when you just started writing. There was nothing else you knew how to do, but wake up in the middle of the night and just start saying to God, like, what is happening? What kind of life is this? Do you feel like all of those calamities occurred on purpose that somehow your soul agreed to that? No, I don't think that we come here with a pre-made plan. I don't believe in predestination conversations. What God told me, there's no such thing as predestination because if there was predestination, then free will would be a contradiction. So there's no predestination. So I don't believe that I had a plan or an idea or a schematic or some kind of a scenario that I was following at the soul level. But I do think that I came here with an agenda. I do believe that the soul had an agenda for me, but not an agenda that involved events, an agenda that involved states of being. That is, I believe that each of our souls come here to the physical realm to express and experience certain aspects of divinity so that we might know them experientially and not just from a standpoint of knowledge in the spiritual realm, in my understanding, we can know who we are, but we can't experience who we are because there's nothing else except that. All there is in heaven in the spiritual realm is pure love, joy, happiness, timelessness. It's always pure love here and now. But if I want to experience myself, I have to place myself into a realm where there is something other than what I am. Otherwise, I can't know what it's like to be what I am. I was in God gave me a very simple example. God said, let's just use a metaphor. Let's just pretend that you that you're the light, this is a metaphor, Neil, we're not getting into it, whether it's true or not. But let's say that you're the light. Well, I got to tell you something, you're like a candle in the sun. Everyone, you know, you are the light and the candle is there in the sun and the sun would not be the sun without your candle. Nay, it would be the sun less one candle and that would not be the sun at all. But you can't experience yourself as the light when you are amidst nothing but the light. Therefore, you will place yourself into an environment where there is darkness. Then you can express yourself as the light. Therefore, Neil, raise not your fists to heaven and curse the darkness, not.  And that all those whose lives you touch might know who they really are as well. So I don't think that I came here with a plan with regard to certain events. But I do think I came here with an agenda to experience certain aspects of divinity. I believe that all of us are individuations of divinity and that we use lifetime after lifetime after lifetime, multiple endless reincarnations in order to experience all the aspects of who we are, our compassion, our understanding, our patience, our joy, our happiness, our humor, our wisdom, our clarity, our forgiveness, every aspect of divinity. And we've used an entire lifetime to experience those aspects. And how we do that depends on the events that occur that are co-created collaboratively by the lot of us. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I'm curious about love in your life because you wrote a lot about love. You asked God a lot of questions about love throughout your books and series. What has love meant? What have you learned or what wisdom have you gained about relationships and love? Well, you know, Debbie, I'm sorry to say that that in the earlier part of my life, until I really reached my mid-60s, I thought love was a transactional experience. You know, transactional. It's a transaction. It's like a trade deal, like nations have trade deals with other nations. So I entered relationships as a trade. You know, I'll give you this, you give me that. I'll provide you when you feel you need or want or desire from me. And you provide me what I feel I need or want or desire from you. It's a transaction. But if you stop training me what it is I expect to receive from you, the deal is over. And so I came to experience life as an interesting expression of a form of love that I really saw as transactional. And you know what was interesting? I thought that's how God loved us.  But if you do all those things, you can receive my love. On the other hand, if you don't do those things, not only will you not receive my love, I will judge you, I will condemn you, and I will punish you with everlasting damnation. So I thought, oh, God's love is transactional too. And only when I had my experience of conversations with God did my understanding of love, which was the genesis of your question, that's where you began this question, the understanding of love change. I realized that love was not what I thought it was. So I wrote a book just a couple of years ago called The God Solution, which by the way, I offer free to anybody who writes me an email and asks me to send them an upload. I will upload my author's manuscript of it at no cost whatsoever. No kind. And in The God Solution, I explained that the world's problems, I call the book The God Solution, because to me it's the solution of the world's problems. The world's problems would be dissolved virtually instantly if we simply redefined our understanding of God. What if we decided that God could be defined? You know what's interesting? There are 4,223 religions on the face of the earth being practiced right now. I didn't make that number up, you can Google that. Just type into the Google search engine how many religions are there on earth and you'll discover that there are more than 4,000 religions on earth. Not from the beginning of time, but being practiced right now. But what's interesting is that of those 4,000 religions, very few of them, if any, can agree on a single statement that's true about God. Everybody has their own particular story, their own particular version of God, and we call their version religions. And so we have 4,000 religions and 4,000 versions. And in The God Solution, I have said, what if we could come up with a single statement upon which all religions of the world could agree? Can't we even find a way to define God that religions agree on? Universally? Unanimously? So I offer a two-word description of God. Pure love.  We've been listening to you for 20 minutes for you to tell us that your big revelation is that God is love. Everybody knows that. Even the world's religions that have dogmatic differences agree on that, that God is love. Nobody disagrees about that. And I have to say to my friend in the back of the room, wait a minute, wait a minute, relax. I didn't say that. That's not what I said. I said God is pure love. Now my friend will say, okay, what's the difference? The difference is that pure love needs, expects, requires, and demands nothing in return. Debbie, we can't even love the person on the pillow next to us that way. Much less can we believe in a God who loves us that way. But if we believe that that was true about God, then we would have to abandon our notion that God is judgmental, condemning, and punishing. And that would remove our justification for being judgmental, condemning, and punishing with each other. Because our religions teach us to act as the divine acts with us. And so since we believe that God acts that way with us, hey, what's good enough for God is good enough for us. So we act with each other in the same way. That is, we judge each other, we condemn each other, and we punish each other when the other person does not do what we require, need, or demand. And we're seeing that scenario play out throughout human history and in far too many places in the world on this very day. You will either do what I demand or I will judge, condemn, and punish you. I may even help you. And you have been in this marriage that you're in now, and with everything you've learned, and it sounds like a major shift came because if you speak of God as pure love and your understanding that what you used to do that was transactional actually wasn't love, how do you operate now? How is it different? Well, of course, it was love. You say, actually it wasn't love, it was love, but it was love of myself. See, if I love you, or if I say that I love you because I think I can get from you in return, then I'm simply loving myself through you. But you're right to use your exact words a minute ago, a big shift did occur. And in life, as we all know, there's no difference. So we understand that total change of one's point of view about life, about self, about another, and yes, about God can occur. The shift for me in my present marriage is that I decided to need, require, expect, demand, even hope for nothing in particular in return for the love that I give. When I look at my wife now, we've been together 16 years, when I look at my wife now and I say, I love you sweetheart, I love you with all my heart, she knows there are no strings attached. She knows that I love her when she's good, when she's not so good, when she's there, when she's not there, when she's showing up as I love her to show up, when she's not, she knows that I love her simply because of who she is, not what I can get from her. She knows that because she's told me that. I think this is what everybody hungers for. Of course it is. Just my being is enough. My breath, the cells that form who I am, however that manifests out into the world, to be accepted, to be enough, enough to be loved, appreciated, all of that and to be told so through words and actions. I think the world and humanity, if they all received this at the level you're talking about, would be massively healed. Massively healed. Changed overnight. Again, to get back to where we were a minute ago, the beginning of that is to believe in a God who loves us that way. But because we cannot imagine a God who loves us so grandly and so unconditionally, we can't allow ourselves to embrace such a behavior either. But when we decide that God loves us without condition, without a need for anything in return, then we can begin to adopt that as the quintessential behavior, as the way to be divine. And we can bring that into our interpersonal relationships, not just with our significant other, but with all family members and with all our friends and neighbors and ultimately with everyone whose life we touch. Yeah. Wow. Beautiful. Your new book called God Talk Experiences of Humanities, Connections with a Higher Power starts out by saying, look now, but God is talking to you.  God invites you to be present to life and the experience of your talks with God.  Yes, that is how it is for me. And I want to say that God's communications come to me as they come to everybody. All of us are having conversations with God all the time. You know, when I ask God in my first conversation, why me? Why would you choose me to have this dialogue with? And God said to me, oh, sweetheart, sweetheart, don't go there. Don't get bigheaded about it. It's not just you I'm talking to. I talk to everybody all the time. The question is not to whom does God talk. The question is, who listens? And so to answer your question about my daily interaction with the divine, God's communications come to me in a hundred different ways across a thousand moments in all of my lifetimes. It could be words that I hear in my head. It could be the lyrics of the next song I hear on the radio. It could be the chance utterance of a couple that I happen to overhear talking in a coffee shop. It could be any one of a thousand ways, a feeling that simply comes over to me. A vision, an idea, a visualization that just appears to me out of nowhere for no apparent reason or a simple incident, like walking down the street in a major city and coming across a man sitting on the sidewalk, leaning up against a building with a basket in front of him and a little cardboard sign that says, anything helps. And we get to decide in that moment as we walk toward that man, who am I in relationship to this experience? Who am I and who do I choose to be? We either walk by and ignore the guy completely or maybe if we're feeling a little bit charitable, we might reach in our pocket and throw a quarter or a couple of half dollars in his basket, some loose change we have in our pocket. Or maybe if we decide that we are a grand person indeed, we open our handbag or open our wallet and pull out a 20 or a 50 or a 100 and drop it into the basket. Say here, pal. And we don't do it to impress him. We do it to remind ourselves of who we really are. Yeah, I wait till I feel a nudge to be very honest. I living in Los Angeles, I experience it a lot. We have a pretty serious homeless situation here. And I will sometimes get this absolutely divine nudge when I see somebody often on the side of a freeway when you're exiting a freeway to a street. And I just know I need to give enough that it feels right to me that I know I'm going to affect something positive in somebody's life that feels really important to me. And so I guess I wait for those God nudges, if you will. I love how you expressed, how am I showing up in this moment? Because that can be answered in a flash. That can be this quick. And then you know exactly what to do, what action to take or non-action. For me, the nudge is the guy standing there at all. That's the nudge. You pull up to that exit to get off the ramp and get into the city streets and there he is standing there with his hand out. And that's the nudge. I make sure that I always have folding money in the little compartment between the two front seats of my car. I always make sure I never leave the house without folding money in that little compartment. And when I approach one of those, drive up to one of those guys at the intersection or at that turnoff, roll that window down, hand him a 10 or a 20. Again, not try to impress anybody. I just need to demonstrate to myself who I really am, not just with the dispersal of income, but every aspect of divinity that I can access, my compassion, my patience, my understanding, my awareness. You tell a really great story in the book that you just wrote of a time when you were interviewed and you were asked a question about God, and you took this pause and then this five-word statement unexpectedly came through. Can you tell us about the situation and how this came about? Yes, I was doing an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show. And Matt was kind. He was a good interviewer, but he was a little bit, I don't want to say cynical, but not quite totally ready to believe everything except me on face value. So he was kind of a little standoffish. And then at one point in the interview, he said, well, Neil, you claim to be talking to God. We have about 30 seconds left before the interview is over. What's God's message to the world? And I thought to myself, you stinker. I've been broadcasting long enough to know. You didn't have to wait until you have 30 seconds left to ask me the most important question of the entire interview. What's God's message to the world? With 30 seconds. Pressure. He said, could you put it in a single paragraph? And I thought, okay, what am I going to say to this guy? And then it came to me. You know, I got it. I got the answer. And I said, Matt, I don't need a paragraph. I can put it into five words. So Matt Lauer turns to the camera. I recall the moment vividly, looks into the camera. Ladies and gentlemen, the man who claims to be talking to God now brings us God's message to the world in five words.  You think you've set me up to fail? So I looked in the camera and I said, God's message to the world in five words? You've got me all wrong. Matt didn't know where to go with that.  He never expected me to say what I said. He had nowhere to go with it. He said, very interesting. I said, isn't it? And since we have about 23 seconds of those 30 seconds left, let me say that if I'm wrong, if I am wrong about that statement, then there's nothing further to discuss. The conversation's over. But if the statement is true that God is telling humanity you've got me all wrong, Matt, the conversation has just begun and you'd better leave people more than 30 seconds. That's when Matt Lauer realized, oh, okay. Wow, what a position. So riffing off of that, since you have traveled the entire world doing what you do, what have you seen globally with humanity? What is the pattern of what people really hunger for with God? And what they could potentially have, all the things they hunger for, if they were to understand what? What don't we understand but we're hungering for? Well, what we don't understand is who we are. Most people never even asked themselves that question in a lifetime. I invite people to write on their bathroom mirror, so it's the first thing they see in the morning. Get a little black felt tip pen and write in the upper corner of your bathroom mirror the following four questions. Who am I? Where am I? Why am I where I am? What do I intend to do about that? And then answer the questions every morning when you see them on the bathroom mirror. Every time you see yourself in that mirror, ask those four questions. Those are questions that people rarely, if ever, ask themselves in a lifetime. And so what they yearn for is an experience that something inside of them know they're more than they're being. Most people understand that they are larger than they're experiencing themselves as. But they don't know how to get from where they are to where they want to be because they're not clear about who they are. Most people think of themselves as this. I'm my body, or my mind, or maybe both of my body and my mind. I'm a sentient being in the universe. But what I was told in conversations with God is, Neil, that's not who you are. It's pieces of equipment. It's just tools that are being used by who you are. Who you are is a spiritual being.  Using your body and your mind in order to express it, to experience through the demonstration thereof, your true identity. When we use life in that way, when we see that each moment of life is an opportunity to demonstrate our true identity, then we suddenly experience that for which we have been yearning from the beginning of our journey. Can you give an example? So if someone were to write those four questions on their bathroom mirror, they wake up and they look at that, talk us through that. Give us an example of a response to each of those four questions. Question number one, who am I? I'm a spiritual entity. I'm not my body and I'm not my mind. These are just pieces of equipment, as I just said. So who I am? Who am I? I'm a spiritual entity. Question number two, where am I? I'm in the realm of the physical. There are three realms in the kingdom of God. The realm of the physical, the realm of the spiritual, and the realm of pure being, which is a combination of both. This is the entire cosmos, the universe. And I'm in that place in the universe called Earth, and I'm in this particular location, whatever city I'm in, wherever I am. This is where I am right now. Question number three, why am I where I am?  The physical realm is the only place in which a contextual field exists that allows me to experience and to express who I really am, as I explained earlier. There is nothing in the spiritual realm except pure love always here and now. But if I want to know myself as pure love, unless something other than pure love exists, I can't experience or express it. So I've created the spiritual experience inside of the physical realm. Why am I where I am? I can know who I really am and so that I can demonstrate my true identity in the context of that which I am not. What do I intend to do about that? Question number four, watch me. How I move through this day and the moments of this day is my answer to that question. Wow. Throwing down the gauntlet, I like that. That's quite beautiful. Is that what you just described? Is that different than your six-step process that you talk about to deepen our conversations, our relationship with God? Well, that process is simply an approach that I have found useful in my own life. And so it's an entirely different piece of information. I use the process to give people a kind of a roadmap, how they can get from where they are and where they want to be in their interaction with the divine. The six steps very briefly are possibility, worthiness, willingness, wakefulness, acceptance, and discernment. We have to agree that it's possible to even have a conversation with God that there even is a God. We have to be worthy. We have to think that, okay, maybe God does talk to people, but he wouldn't talk to me. I'm not the chief of the Canterbury or the chief of LeMah or the head of Rabbi, but not me. So unless we embrace our own worthiness, we're not going to have that communication. Then we have to move into willingness. We have to be willing to move in a way that's contrary to the cultural bias. The cultural bias tells us, come on, people don't have conversations with God. Our religions even, our religions tell us that if you think you're having a conversation with God through you, you're committing blasphemy. You're committing heresy. You're committing apostasy. In certain countries of the world, that level of apostasy can wind up in your own death. So we must be willing to have the courage to say, I'm sorry, I'm experiencing that God is talking directly to me. Then the step number four, wakefulness. Once we are worthy and willing, we have to be awake. We have to be not oblivious to the messages that we're receiving, which could come to us, as I mentioned earlier, in a hundred different ways across a thousand different moments. Fragrance is in the air. A vision that comes to us out of no place. The chance utterance of a friend that we just happened by non-coherence to run into on the street. So stay awake. Step number four is wakefulness. Don't fall asleep at the wheel. Step number five, acceptance. Do not reject when you get the message. Do not call it, it's just a short coincidence. It's serendipity. Or it's my imagination. It's my imagination. Accept the message that you're receiving. Don't disown it and reject it. Or minimize it. And do nothing about it. And finally, step number six, discernment. Learn to discern the difference between messages from the divine and messages that come to us in many different ways, from the internet, from people from books we've read, from movies we're seeing, from television shows we're watching, from many different sources. Don't get into that habit of saying, everything that's going on. There are some people who say, it's a message. You know, I reached into my pocket the other day to get my car keys out and a $20 bill happened to fall out of my pocket. It's a message. I'm supposed to drop $20 bills on the corner everywhere that I go. No, no, no. So discernment to know the difference between messages from the divine and information that's coming to us in a thousand different ways. And by the way, these days with the internet, we are inundated with more messages than we would have received 20 years ago. But these days, we're just being bombarded with the information. So where's the information that's coming from God? How do we know the difference? God's messages are always, how can I say it? Sending us three feelings. Freedom, joy and love. If the message you're receiving does not feel like freedom, joy and love, look carefully at where it came from. I love that. Because your book emphasizes that we have to be clear that the only plausible, valid messages that God would send us, and this is a quote from your book, is God's messages are always in our best interest, always carry positive loving energy and would never ask us to harm anyone. That's a true God message. They would never ask us to harm anyone in any way, not just physically, but even verbally, emotionally harm them. So, you know, and rejection, by the way, is a form of harm. I'm really getting a bit bored with politics in the United States, where we have people who are running for the highest office in the land, telling us that those who oppose their point of view, you know, are unworthy to even be walking the streets and generating not unity in our midst, but division. I'm right and you're wrong. Everything I say, by the way, everything I say is right, and anyone who disagrees with anything I say is wrong. Look how the person actually believes that. Yeah, it's amazing that we've gotten to this place. There's so little belief in government for people anymore, certainly in this country, I think also in a lot of countries. As you're saying this, I read something recently about forgiveness and because forgiveness, there's so many platitudes out there that at one point we're actually very powerful to hear, but then they get repeated and they lose their potency, such as the drinking the poison situation. But I read something and I thought, wow, this one lands for me. And I'm somebody who, I'm incredibly patient and I have just a wide margin for most people, not everybody, but for most people. And then I've got that place where somebody can overstep and do something really crappy, I mean kind of devastating trauma crappy. And it happens very rarely, but I know once that occurs, especially if there's no ownership of the situation, it becomes difficult for me. So that's something I've been looking at, right? Doing some healing around. And so here's what I read and I'd love you to weigh in on this. And it was this quote that said, forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. I thought, Mike Trapp, that makes sense to me. I do deserve peace around whatever happened. So what is your feeling on forgiveness and how have you been guided to release some of that in your life? Forgiveness is the least enlightened emotional reaction that any person could offer another. God will never forgive us for anything. Why? Because God understands how it could have come to pass that we would think or say or do what we believed, said, or did. That doesn't mean that God condones it. It doesn't mean that God approves of it, but it does mean that God understands it. And write this on your bathroom mirror. Understanding replaces forgiveness in the mind of the master. The Pope was driving through Rome a few years ago. He's no longer with us in physical form, but Pope John XX there, was shot six times by an assailant. All six bullets hit him. The guy didn't miss. He was only a few feet away. The Pope miraculously survived a six-shot bullet wound. Of course, they grabbed the guy and threw him in jail for life for attempting to assassinate the Pope. The Pope went to his jail cell after he healed from his injuries. And this is a matter of history, not making this up. It was covered widely by the media because the Pope doesn't go anywhere where the media follows him. So they were listening through the bars of the cell, and the Pope sat down and said something very interesting to the man who tried to kill him. Do you know what he said? I do not. He said, he didn't know what he portrayed a few spiritual sons to on men. He gave the man his people blessing. Then he said to the man, can you help me with something? The guy said, yeah. He said, help me understand why you did what you did. And the guy told him, well, I'll be happy to tell you, I think that your institution, the institution that you're the head of, your religion has done more to damage my people on this planet than any other single institution known to men. And the Pope said, I see. I don't agree with your solution. I can't condone the action you took. And I hope that you and no one else ever repeats anything like it. But I do understand how you could feel that way and how you could have done what you did given how you feel. The Pope and the man became pen pals. Debbie. They wrote letters back and forth in the mail cell to the Vatican for seven years. At the end of seven years of correspondence, the Pope asked the civil authorities in Rome. I'm not making this up. This is a matter of history. The Pope asked the civil authorities to release the man to grant him a pardon. He was sentenced to life in prison. He was given a full pardon at the request of the Pope who said he served seven years. He's paid his due. He's set him free. And the civil authorities granted him his freedom because the Pope was very clear understanding replaces forgiveness in the mind of the master. So that's true about ourselves as well. We need not to forgive ourselves because forgiveness is an arrogant statement of spiritual superiority. Understanding is the humble statement of one who clearly sees how a person could do, think or say what occurred. Absolutely powerful. Thank you for that. It reminds me of a time I was at a workshop and we broke off into groups. And I don't recall what the conversation was but I know one of the subjects in our little subgroup was about anger and I had expressed, this is quite some time ago, but I had expressed I had been through a very difficult breakup of a long-term relationship and my partner had done some very difficult things during that time to me. And the woman who was leading that subgroup pulled me aside afterwards and said no, I work in prisons from time to time and one of the things we do, if people are amenable to this, we will pull together the prisoner and the person who was let's say violated against or their family if they're no longer here and we will put them together to have a conversation of understanding. So each one is fully heard and these dialogues create, first of all the prisoner who may be living with a lot of guilt and difficulty getting over whatever they perpetrated they get a tremendous healing by experiencing and hearing the other party the other party gets to experience the prisoner who they have put a label on and have complete separation with and sometimes it's not just once they'll get together several times until there is completion a real healing on both ends and she said, you know Debbie you can do this yourself you can get a friend you really trust and sit down and do a dialogue and have this person become your ex-boyfriend and you get to say everything you needed to say but never got to say allow this person to assume the persona of your boyfriend and speak back and keep going and I had a really great friend at the time who was so kind and said I volunteer I will do this with you and it was such a pivotal moment for me to be able to be heard to be understood to say everything that I had been cut off previously to saying and then to listen to the other side of things and I couldn't believe how this friend of mine could tap into the energy of my ex to express back to me it felt so real and I wish I could tell you it was quick it wasn't it was hours that we did this and were committed to this process and it was a huge turning point for me in moving on with my life huge in the healing that it gave me and so I really appreciate what you're talking about and the clarity of no forgiveness no such thing that it's truly about us taking the time to understand one another an amazing story about the Pope that's about as deep as you can get for something to happen and to still keep your heart open to connecting with and understanding another being When your two year old grandchild spills the milk and destroys the table it's now all full of milk and grandpa says to the two year old okay sweetheart grandpa forgives you no no grandfather does that grandpa understands that forgiveness is not part of the equation not only does the grandfather not forgive the child the grandfather actually comforts the child in the moment of her dismay even as God comforts us in the moment of our dismay we find ourselves doing something thinking something or saying something that we know is not a true representation of who we really are not only does God not forgive us God comforts us and at the end of our life God says come home come home welcome home I believe I need to hear this and I thank you for everything you're sharing Neil can you tell me about your legacy and your future work reflecting on how much impact your career has had do you hope to leave behind well it's not about me it's about the messages I don't have a legacy that I hope to leave behind but it is my hope that the messages of conversations with God will live forever and I'm told that they will the books have been selling now for 30 years they've sold not bragging just saying multi millions of copies many millions of copies but 15 or 20 million copies in 37 languages globally and that's not going to stop when I'm long gone in fact probably after I die at least for the first few years after I die the books will become a hot item because I'm no longer here so I'm not looking for a personal legacy for me and I tell everyone wherever I go when I open a talk someplace I say hi my name is Neil and I'm not my book don't confuse the two what do we need to know about that how are you different than your book and who is Neil how am I different from my book live with me for a week and you'll find out I don't operate or function at the level of wisdom or mastery that the book articulates but I'll give myself this much am I doing better now than I was 30 years ago yes I will say that I'm doing better I found a path I finally understand what in the world I'm doing here and how I can make it work better than it did before so I'm on my way and I've got lifetime after lifetime after lifetime to reach my ultimate destination which is the full expression of who I really am do you still sing may I ask do you still sing Neil sure I do what kind of songs, what kind of music mostly show music rich theatrical background so one of my favorite songs is the song I do I do from the musical play I do and I love to do I've performed in public the song Trouble in River City either you're closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge or you're not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community we've got trouble my friend right here I say trouble right here in River City don't tempt me I do the whole thing oh my god I am such a Broadway nerd too well we could go back and forth especially old Broadway tunes because I came up in the world as an actress and a singer that's what I did the majority of my life till I got into radio and so yes that still holds a huge place in my heart thank you for even that snippet you know that wonderful lyric line sometimes in the evening when you do not see you study the small things you do constantly I never rise in moments that I'm fond of my cup run it over with love I've sung that song to my wife more than once my cup run it over yes thank you what are you next dare to dream Neil what are your future dreams and goals I'll be leaving here soon I'm 80 years old I could be gone tomorrow so my dream is that I could use whatever time I have left here in this particular physical body in a way that could more fully demonstrate my understanding of who I really am and my understanding of who you it is all other people really are that would be my goal that would be my dream thank you so much for being on the show today and all you shared I really appreciate you I appreciate you as well those are very kind things to say to me how nice of you to have invited me to share these moments with you thank you so much everybody Neil Donald Walsh you can get his new book you can also follow up in the work he's doing right now and he's still doing zooms which go out all over the world go to his website for more that's NeilDonaldWalsh.com and I end today's show with this quote from one of Neil Donald Walsh's books and here's the quote God I have said to all of humanity unto you I will send my messengers and among you they will walk not only one but many not only in ancient times but all the ages bringing you the knowing of the truth of your being and they will say to you listen listen to this invitation there is another way there is another way to experience God there is another way to live life your differences do not have to create divisions your contrasts do not have to produce conflicts thanks for joining us today subscribe to this number one transformation conversation dare to dream with Debbie Daschinger please leave a comment and share if you're listening to us on podcast and want to see the animation both of us go to youtube.com slash Debbie Daschinger or on Spotify you can also find the video next week on the show will be the amazing John P. Milton and the location and Qi Gong instructor author and environmentalist and John P. Milton is the founder of sacred passage and the way of nature John pioneered vision questing in contemporary western culture in the 1940s thank you for joining us today on the show


Hey everyone welcome back to Nintendo Prime we have some to talk to you about today about Pokemon Legends Arceus sales because obviously the game comes out next week Friday and hype is building anticipation is going Pokemon games obviously always sell extremely well but I find what's happening with at least the early sales data we have for Pokemon Legends Arceus to be quite fascinating and potentially putting Pokemon Legends Arceus on track to be one of the best selling Pokemon games to ever come out and that's without having two different copies of the game to sell quite interesting right now before we get into it let's go to remind you quick to drop a like and subscribe to the channel if this is the first time you've been here also by the way we do have a couple giveaways going on just head on to the pinned comment or the description to find out details on that all right let's just dive deep into this at the moment right so we have some sales data we don't have exact numbers of course because the game's not out yet and exact numbers usually take at least a month to compile for launch anyways but we have a really good idea based on retail and where the game is ranking on the sales charts to really start to get a picture for how well Pokemon Legends Arceus is going to sell so if we look at the amazon best selling charts currently for video games in both the United States the UK Japan Germany Spain and pretty much any country you can think of Pokemon Legends Arceus ranks number one as the best selling video game right now now you might go well it's not number one on the e-shop or anything anywhere and that's because they don't really show those e-shop rankings until like right up to launch so we're just going to focus in on this and the reason we're focusing in on these sales is because it is quite impressive not that a Pokemon game is topping the charts but it's topping the charts in essentially every territory where switch is a big deal this is especially important because this is just a single skew Pokemon game this game is is considered a mainline Pokemon game by the Pokemon company and Game Freak they've officially confirmed it on multiple occasions that this is a mainline game just to get rid of any and all confusion and honestly this is looking like it's going to end up being a major seller now there's other reasons we had to think about this and don't worry I'm not going to actually spoil anything I'm well aware the game is like we just went over all this on the podcast last night but what I will note here is that in looking at the leaks and looking at the reaction to the leaks it seems that hype is only building more see it was just a week ago Forbes was writing an article about how bad the visuals are with Pokemon Legends Arceus and how it's inexcusable for this to happen with this game and to be fair their criticisms might still hold water obviously we obviously had like you know Nate Drake Nate the hate disputing this and saying that people were going to change their opinion once the game came out but the bottom line here is that narrative seems to have been completely washed away since the leaks came out because obviously the thing that matters most especially when you're playing a Pokemon game isn't really that the visuals are the best thing we've ever seen it's that the gameplay is something that is what fans want and so far that's exactly what we are seeing again without spoiling really anything that matters the gameplay is clearly doing something right and because of that the hype is driving even higher and making people want to buy this game even more now while I won't spoil anything about the story I will give a small little spoiler warning here for a brief second on one little mechanic it's one mechanic in the game it's actually part of the entire game but you know it's fundamentally different so if you wanted to wait until the game came out to find out there's one tiny little mechanic that's cool but one thing you can do in this game is swap your Pokemon's abilities anytime you want so you know you usually have four abilities and like you get a new one and you have to like get rid of one of the old moves to learn the new move and you can never get the old moves back at any time you can just go into your party and change the moves and not lose any of the old ones they just go on a list on the left and you can change them on the right and you can do this with all of your Pokemon this is a grand fundamental change to Pokemon Legends Arceus and what I will say is that's just getting to the tip of the iceberg of fundamental core changes in this game that has people paying attention to the leaks super excited and when you hear about something like that that's so fundamentally different it should make you even more excited to get this game if what you have been hoping for this entire time was for the Pokemon company in Game Freak to do fundamentally different things with the gameplay mechanics both from a perspective of obviously things we know publicly such as trainers being attacked to obviously now things that are being leaked at this point Pokemon Legends Arceus is such a fundamental shift in what Pokemon is at least what we've known it to be that this is and I am fully confident in saying this the breath of the wild of the Pokemon franchise breath of the wild fundamentally changed a lot of things no traditional dungeons breakable items cooking obviously making the stamina batter even more than it's ever done a lot of climbing everywhere obviously the flying mechanic with the the sail cloth like there's so many things this game that obviously being fully open world which is not the first fully open worlds all the game but the first one in quite some time the thing is there were so many fundamental differences that it really fundamentally changed what we know Zelda to be and what Zelda can be and that's what Pokemon Legends Arceus is doing whether or not it all comes together and we end up loving it and enjoying it and praising it and it gets really really high reviews and obviously you know sales that end up matching like Animal Crossing New Horizons or something I don't know but what we do know is the hype levels are so high for this game that it's topping all of the sales charts that we even have available to look at and that's before the game even comes out and I don't think it's going to be leaving the top of those sales charts anytime soon to see it at the top in so many fundamentally different territories with different consumer bases lets you know they're doing something right at least when it comes to the pre-release hype now I have a few other videos I obviously would like to do on Pokemon Legends Arceus before launch we will be doing a launch live stream at least next Friday if not over that course of the weekend we'll see how that goes but what I will note is that there is some things we fundamentally want to cover of this game one I want to let you know the cheapest ways you can actually get your hands on Pokemon Legends Arceus I did this back in the day for Super Mario 3D All Stars and I really should start doing this for more games because I think everyone's always looking for the best deals they can get on games and I already know what to do in that video to make it obvious that you can get Pokemon Legends Arceus for cheaper than MSRP so I want to make a video on that and some of you guys might already know what I'm going to bring up in order to get it cheaper but you know keep that to yourselves everyone because obviously the point of those videos isn't for our regular viewers it's for the viewers out there that aren't aware of this stuff I know our regulars already know how to get video games as cheap as possible so yeah we will be talking about that at some point next week and then I do want to also maybe highlight a little bit of a personal thought slash spin I have that Pokemon Legends Arceus potentially not only could be the greatest Pokemon game ever made but actually maybe get in the conversation for being one of the best games of all time let alone one of the best games on Switch which is a very bold statement to make and obviously not one I can verify till I play the game myself and formulate all of my own opinions but just based on some things that maybe we're willing to get into a little bit spoiler wise maybe we could end up coming up with a really great video for that so there'll be other news and other video content along the way other fundamental things we'll want to talk about maybe we'll focus even on that video that I want to make with that opinion just the officially announced information and what we can glean from that and why I hold the opinion I do and I could also talk about maybe one more video maybe to go out like the day before launch on why Pokemon Legends Arceus seems to have such a broad appeal to people who don't enjoy Pokemon anymore let alone those that do so I think fundamentally this is also something that we have to look at with the sales because I did note that obviously it's topping all these sales charts but we didn't really talk much about why it's topping the sales charts it's Pokemon it's popular of course that's like the number one chief reason but also if you can think about like Pokemon Go on phones it did something that the Pokemon games on the handheld systems have really not been able to do and that is find a way to bring together anyone who has you know even a base interest at some point in their life and Pokemon into one game and Pokemon Go has been played by more people than I've ever played Pokemon before and while they've never been able to capture that in a game form I think Legends Arceus was a really great job of essentially bringing back potentially everyone who's ever played and enjoyed a Pokemon game at any point plus all of the current fans of Pokemon and I think this fundamental you know meeting of minds of current fans and old fans that no longer enjoy the games could end up being the catalyst that keeps this game selling well and potentially gives it an animal crossing new horizon style like boosts to the top and the thing is like you know let's say a new duality release standard Pokemon game comes out later this year whether it's let's go in in generation two or you know it's a new generation or whatever they end up releasing this year if they release anything at all I don't think that that even overshadows something like this this has the potential to do I think what Pokemon games traditionally don't and this is going to sound weird but did you know that Pokemon games are not actually an evergreen title yes the prices don't get reduced but if you look at the sales of Pokemon games over time they're not selling four five million units a year like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or like you know Breath of the Wild or even you know games smaller games like I don't know Splatoon 2 or something like they're not as evergreen right they might end up selling more units overall but that's because they sell so many units in the first six months on the market that the rest of the sales are kind of negligible for the next couple of years and I'm saying all of this because this is the game that's so fundamentally different that flips the script so much and I don't think there's going to be a direct sequel to this specific Pokemon game for some time that I actually think this is going to be one of the first evergreen Pokemon titles since the original generation one I think this has the potential to not only sell 10 15 million or so in the first six months I think this has future sales potential for years to come I'll sell you three to five million per year making it a true evergreen Pokemon title and that's what's going to lead into the same sort of success and I'm crossing now no and I'm crossing the most of its sales in its first year obviously at this point but still I think that there is a lot of value to be had there and a lot to be said for the success or potential success of this game so you guys let me know if you're excited by the current sales of the game where it's ranking in the sales charts and obviously where you think the final sales are going to end up not just at launch like we get to be we can make launch predictions I'm going to say eight million at launch or something right make we can make launch predictions but let's also maybe project out we are now heading into the next generation of Nintendo platforms how many copies is Pokemon legends archie is sold at that point and if you think it will crack Nintendo's top 10 on switch where in that top 10 will it rank I'm going to go so far as to be bold and say it hits number four or five if not higher you guys let me know where you think it will rank if at all in that top 10 chart and will this be one of the best selling if not the best selling Pokemon games of all time I don't know your projections I made mine sort of I didn't give any final figures on that number but you know give me a little bit of time to think about that one all right folks I'm with from Nintendo Prime I want to thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video


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Let me show you what this bad boy can do. Okay, so today we're going to replace mechanical water pump seal. There is a weep hole, I don't know if you can see where my finger is. It's down here underneath the water pump. It is leaking oil and coolant. So I already pulled the cover off and I've got the impeller nut loose. I'm going to take that off and always inspect the impeller. It actually looks in good shape and there's your mechanical water pump seal. So I bought myself a kit, I decided to do the upgrade with the billet impeller. I've got my new seal. This actually goes behind the mechanical water pump seal and actually I think that's what's leaking. But I'm going to have to replace both.  See if that works and if that doesn't work then I'm going to have to slowly cut that out. We'll see what happens. At first I need to get that seal out. So I'm taking two screwdrivers, got it here, popped that off, broke the spring. Pull that out. Stick stuff out of here. The idea is to get everything out of here that you can. Then you can get to this and I want to drill a hole in that and use my dent puller and pull that out. Be careful you don't drill too far. You want to drill into the seal behind it. Except for the threads that my screws already worn out so I might have to put a new screw on here. Push the dent puller if that'll work. See if I can't get this out. There we go. That wasn't too bad. So I had to drill a couple holes around the perimeter. You can see there. And then I just grabbed it in with a screwdriver and pulled that out. And now you can see what the inside looks like. And then that's going to get my mess out of here. Then I've got to pull that rubber o-ring out. This came right out. Make sure you've got the orientation right when you put this back in. The flat side towards you. I'm going to grab some air and blow that all out. Clean it up really nice. That water pump seal is shot. So I got my new seal. It's going to go in the flat side towards me. The other side goes towards the engine so I'm going to grab a little oil. Put some oil on it so it slides in nice. I'm going to take a 11-16 inch socket because I believe that fits right in there. And we're going to go ahead and push this on. Nobody said this was an easy job. I'm going to grab just a little bit smaller socket because I think I'm putting it out. You can see that in there. Let me get you in a little closer. You can see I got that seal flush with the surface of the inside of the casting. And now I'm going to put the mechanical water pump seal on. Alright so when you install the seal. Usually a plastic PVC pipe comes with a kit. I thought I had it but this is actually for a 700. That's not going to fit. So I'm going to have to find a socket that will go around there. And that will just press right in. So I followed a 1-inch socket. It actually fits over the top of this. You want to make sure it doesn't hit the side of that. So that will drop right in there. I'm going to go ahead and install that. And then just tap it in. A little bit more on top. This is the first time to put that in. Come with this little seal washer that goes on there. And you just want to snug that up until there's a little bit of pressure on there. Make sure it's pressure on there. It's tight. Make sure it doesn't spin. Now I have to clean the surfaces off of here. And then put my water pump cover back on. Hook everything up. And that's how you do a mechanical water pump seal on a Polaris 500. Hope you enjoyed this video. Hit the thumbs up if you liked it. And like always, until next time.


This is stock number 9J156A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2015 Jeep Cherokee Altitude. You get the blacked out grille and the blacked out wheels with the Altitude package. And the trim piece there has factory fog lights, projector lamp headlamps and LED running lights. Billet Silver is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. Very clean down this side. It comes with the 18 inch painted Altitude rims. And it has brand new Bridgestone Duler 225 55R 18 tires on it. We put these tires on in our shop and they are brand new all the way around. Four brand new tires on this vehicle. Front bumper and lower valance is in excellent condition. No scuffs, scrapes or cracks. Passenger fender is in excellent condition and there are no scuffs or scrapes on this passenger rim. Typically that's the one that would get curb rash but it's absolutely perfect. It has the windshield wiper heater on it, part of the cold weather group. And as you go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the vehicle. Hear the vehicle end of confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here.  No scuffs or scrapes on that. And those back tires are brand new as well. As we come around to the back you'll notice that the rear bumper is in excellent shape as is the rear gate. Altitude package also gives you the blacked out Jeep lettering. Back storage area very very clean. And you do get the tire inflator kit as well as a large amount of storage area underneath this. This one also has LED tail lamps. They're known to shine brighter faster and farther than halogen. For full disclosure this back rim is in excellent condition as well. No scuffs or scrapes. And on the rest of this side of the vehicle very very clean. Has heated power mirrors.  There are no rips, there are no tears on the seats. They're in really nice condition. Has the factory all-weather floor mats part of that cold weather group. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors, auto headlamps. And as we hop inside the vehicle you can see that this one has 35,376 miles. Compass and outside temperature display. Has the heated leather wrap steering wheel cruise controls on the right. Bluetooth audio controls on the left. Comes with the 5.0 touchscreen radio. AM FM tuning. Climate control. USB, AUG and SD card slot. The 9-speed automatic transmission. Factory all-weather floor mat on that side. Passenger seat is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that. And the headliner is in excellent condition. This one does have a backup camera which shows up right there. And you also have your heated seats and heated steering wheel buttons that you do from the radio there. Take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. Does have the latch child safety system for your car seats. And these seats do fold down for extra storage. They go almost completely flat which is nice. You've got a whole bunch of extra stuff. And finally there's a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in back here. All-weather floor mats back here as well. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this Jeep is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 2.4 liter multi-air motor. 184 horsepower. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. This Jeep was purchased brand new from us and traded in on a brand new Jeep. I actually sold this one personally the first time. And it has been fully safely and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. Has 4 brand new tires and is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it, we've got to go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle and a lot of videos of every single used vehicle that we have all at summitauto.com. If you want to check out more HD videos on our website www.summitauto.com. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. 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Thank you for keeping us company. We continue with entrepreneurship Tuesday and right about now we want to talk about matters HR, job market and the training. I'm speaking to Josephine Erongo. She's a lead consultant and CEO with Pristine HR Engine Limited. Send in your comments to our social media platforms at Y254 channel. My handle is at Morani Hillary. Welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning Hillary. It's good to have you here. Good to have you. Thank you for having me here. No, as I was telling you before we began this show, I told our audience we will be talking about the HR, job market and the training. And now with the Pristine Engine tell us how do you go about training, what are some of the requirements, if I'm looking for a job, what is it that I should have? Yes, and maybe the programs that you enroll you people. Thank you for having me Hillary. Allow me to reiterate on the introduction. My name is Josephine Erongo, lead consultant and founder with Pristine HR Engine. Pristine HR Engine Limited is a HR consulting firm. We deal with matters related to HR and we enable organization in matters related to HR. These services that we offer are trainings to ones your question, we do lots and lots of recruitment. We do human resource audits where we get into organization and audit their departments, where we audit their systems and their policies. We also do legal adversaries and in Pristine HR Engine we have many partners and associates. Hence I don't work alone. I have a team and a team of very critical and professionals. When it comes now to training, we do different kinds of training. We do both open house and in house. Open house is where we get to work on a training and we sell it out to the market where organizations as well as individuals get to buy it and we host outside our office or outside the company's premises for example in a hotel. In house training is where we go to organizations and train the staff. For example team building, customer service or customer experience and also team building is a training. People find team building as if it's just PE but team building is a training and after here I'm headed for team building as well. So those are some of the services that we offer. I'm interested in the recruitment and a bit of low because I understand there are so much calls for the HR system to ensure that the people that have been employed are paid well. Is this an organization they want to work for? Is it well-functionable? Is the employee able to maybe claim for something if it happens? So how do you go about this? Okay let me answer on the recruitment. Recruitment is we do offer recruitment where we place talent into organizations. So we set the process where an organization will find a need. For example they need to hire a manager in the organization. For example a finance manager. So they reach out to Preston HR engine and they tell us this is what you want and what we require, we require job description for that particular role, the finance manager role, just an example. So we get to understand the need. That is the first thing that we want to do, to understand the need of the organization and the kind of talent that they want. So when we now position the vacancy or we advertise it to the market, we now match the people who apply or the candidates who apply to the position with what the organization wants. So we match the skill in the market with what the employer wants and now we place. We do the interviews, we shortlist and then we send the successful candidates to the employer to this particular organization that we are hiring for. And then they do the interviews on the side and of course now they get to hire. When it comes to matter of low, low is very diverse. There are very many kinds of labor lows that are there. The one that people, the act that people know is the employment act 2007 and revised 2012. But apart from that there are others. We have fair administrative act. We have WIBA Act. We have occupational safety and health. The WIBA Act is a work injury benefit act. We have NSSF, NHIA. There are very many labor lows. I would love you to elaborate on each because I know of people like for example I have been recruited by a certain company. I have gone there. I have sent some documents say the contract but I do not know clearly this contract stipulates some things that I may need from the company in case I fall sick. Maybe I will be rendered useless. How now do I get to know the contract that I signed is protecting me. The employment act allows, there are contents that needs to be there in every employment contract. There are contents that need to be there. Of course your name, the location, the gender whether you are male or female, the job title, which designation are you hired for. Of course the job description is the statutory. It needs to define also the terms of employment whether you are on fixed contract, whether it is an open contract. And a fixed contract is where it has a start and an end. A start date and an end date and an end year. It has of course the terms and conditions. It has your remuneration when you are supposed to be paid by when, which date of the month. And in case of injury how should you report. So the contract should be able to have all those clauses that will lead you or guide you as an employee to a point that you are not going to be like you have signed and you don't know what you are signing. Of course it's your obligation and mandate to read before you sign. But it's not limited because you find the acts are there in the public domain. It would be very good also as an employee to research on your rights. What is it that is out there that maybe the employee forgot or just did not want to include exactly. Because of course ignorance is not defense right. So in case you are injured there is a guideline from the Weber Act how it's supposed to be done. Where an employer should report the incident because of those injuries that could be incapacitated for a few days or you are incapacitated totally you are not able to go back to the role.  So the Weber requires you to be redeployed somewhere else not to be terminated. So there are other injuries like that's not even an injury fatal. It's an accident that happened and we lost the staff. So there are guidelines on how to go about it. If you lost the staff that report should be now reported to the Occupational Safety and Health that's now a different act as well. Just before you move to that the accident that occurs is it at site or maybe I was home. It could be either. On your way to work accidental card. Of course the employer. If you only of course the employer has to be notified you are not at work but you are still in the payroll. I'm still an employer of that company. It's only that it's not really an liability because you are not at work. So that means there will be some processes. So what good employers should do or what employers should do it's always good to inshua staff. It's not there in the Weber act that you must inshua but it's there that you must compensate. Especially if the accident happened in the line of duty. So the other act you had started talking about. Now I was talking about reporting the matter to the Occupational Safety and Health. The act requires that if it is a fatal accident then it tends to be reported within 24 hours. But if it is this other accident where maybe you are given sick leave. You are not able to work for a few days or even weeks. Then that needs to be reported within not more than 7 days. Not more than 7 days. But of course every organization is supposed to be efficient enough to report every accident like immediately. You don't have to wait that an accident has happened to an employee like today being Tuesday. And you are reporting it next week Tuesday. You get. So again it calls for every organization to be efficient on reporting such matters whenever they happen. Alright. Now in line of recruiting. Yes. Have you had challenges with the group of people who come and say you are recruiting accountants. Have you had challenges in what the company wants versus what the applicants have. Yes. We have had challenges and challenges are there. For example the budget. Yes. The salary budget. Alright. If an organization is for example has budgeted to pay that position 100,000. And what is in the market. Same skills, same responsibilities, same qualifications. We get candidates that are way above. Right. Yes. Because a role will be asking for a minimum of maybe a degree for an account position. For example maybe a minimum of bachelors of commerce or in finance, NCPK, someone has to be registered, work experience of five years and all that. And then the budget maybe it's 100,000. But you find what is in the market or the candidates who are applying who match the job, everything, the qualification they have done, they have achieved still on the previous designations. But you find now the salary is higher. And they know about it. Yes. And they know about it. And they know about it. It's a challenge that we normally find when we are recruiting for, when we are doing the recruitment. Especially the budgeting. Now how do you advise your clients or the companies that they want to employ in terms of now you have found this. Yes. And this is what they want but you cannot. Yes. How do they reply to this? Do they adjust or they just stay where they want? It will depend. Of course with their financial capacity. Those who adjust, giving an example of 100, those who adjust if a majority of the candidates that we are meeting or those who are applying for the job are quoting 150. So you'll find an organization will adjust from 100 to around 120. And then the 30 they will compensate on other benefits. Because again it's not only the salary. But you'll find an organization may offer 100 but the benefits are good. It's only that now a candidate who is getting 150 cannot really take a road deal because of the benefits. But mainly it's all about the benefits more than the salary. Because the salary you can be on 100,000 for 3 years. But the benefits are good for you. For example the medical. For example the bonus. The company does very well. The bonus can surpass your salary. Before you tell me about now the pristine customer relation and everything else around it. Yes. Have you had challenges with the recruitment now you're doing? This person has come fresh from campus and the company wants this kind of a person.  Though they may not have that experience. But also there's a question of the curriculum that we have. Do you have a difference of what is taught in school and what is in the job market? Yes there's a very big difference what is taught in school because that's more on theory. Because what is in the market is practical. And it's reality. And the market is changing, the curriculum is not changing. What is being done about it? What I will advise is let the people who are living in school get more practical in the year internships. Let them do more internships. Because you find attachment is part of the curriculum. But internship is after someone has graduated or you have finished your course. So get more internship apply for internships so that you get to acquit yourself with what is in the market in your industry and in your profession.  Because right now most organizations are closing down. So you find those who are even cutting down on the wages. So they want entry candidate or staff on an entry level. But now what we look on our side is whether the person has got experiences from the internship. Not really experience in terms of on the job. Alright. Now tell me about the pristine.  No one wants to be employed by someone else. I went to school, I did this. I mean this field but I want to have my own house. Now you have your own company. You want to be your own employer. But also you dealing with other people. Now how do you ensure customer relation as you wind up? How do you ensure customer relation and sustaining this customer that tomorrow they will still want to be with you? Yes. How do you go about that? I go about it by feedback. I offer feedback. I believe in feedback. And I believe in starting the process from A to Z. I don't want to start the process from A and then I leave it at J. I'll work with an organization or even the candidates who are looking for employment. I work with them from A to Z. So if it is for example recruitment we recruit from, we start with them and still when they now hire the staff we'll keep checking on the staff because now that's our candidate on our side. We'll keep checking on them if they're finding any challenges. If these are challenges that they have not talked to the employer we find a way of notifying the employer not necessarily getting like directly to say this particular employee that we brought I said one, two, three, four, no. But it's working with both the employer as well as the employee because now the employee is our client. And the employee also remains on our database. We require this particular skill maybe in years to come for another organization. I have to put you on our hot seat right now with this final question. Many times we've gone on interviews and you find so-and-so ako nishinda but ali pewa. Ako shinda ni. Do you people, do you people we speak of Kenya corruption. Do you speak of you people pushing for an agenda and say I'm doing recruitment of 50 guys and you need 20 but I will push for one because I know them. Do that because we... I would say HR. Let me talk about myself and of course on behalf of Prestin we believe in honesty and integrity. Right. We don't believe in corruption. You don't push for someone. I don't push for someone even if it's a relative and I'm saying it out there. It's all about because we require to position the skills that are required so that also the society can benefit. The company cannot shut down. Not because I know a HR in an organization and I'm having a sister who needs employment now I fix it out, no. And even the people who reach out to Prestin they tell us please try and find job for us. Yes when we get a vacancy that matches your position well and good that we will do. Or rather we now redeploy if you are looking like in an admin then we can look for maybe an office a front office or something but not pushing for an organization you are in admin and you want an accounting job because I know a HR or a CEO in that organization. So it's all about morals and I think honesty and integrity. Awesome. I'm giving you less than 30 seconds. Yes please. We have a camera, final recommendations and what you want Kenyans to know. I want Kenyans to know that Prestin HR engine is an organization that will enable your organization in matters related to HR and you can find us on the website www.PrestinHREngine.com as well as the social media and the Facebook. Our numbers are 0711 367 320. Alright thank you so much for coming sharing your prowess in this particular area of job improvement and recruitment I appreciate so much. We wish you all the very best. Back home thank you so much for keeping us company Barry Moe is up next in another segment today you will learn from entrepreneurship we will keep it Y254 my name is Dereva Hillay. She has been my guest Josephine Irongo she is a lead consultant CEO with Prestin HR engine Limited. Thank you so much see you in a bit.