Well hello and welcome to Jonathan from the Heart. I'm Jonathan Asley of JonathanAsley.com And I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today our topic why men love These types of women. Are you one of them? Are you one of them? All right Before we get started really quickly. These are my Saturday morning videos that I shoot on my balcony I overlook the marina here in Redondo Beach and If this content resonates with you, this is actually the same format I shoot for my videos I shoot for my private group called Midlife Love Mastery. Check out the link below This is where I ask answer your personal questions with videos just like this in a private forum And you get access to me on a regular basis. So again, that's Midlife Love Mastery Okay, why men love these types of women? Are you one of them?   Hello below. Let me know that you have But it piggybacked something that I learned in the book the four agreements And if you're not familiar with the four agreements, do me a favor buy this book This is a great book for creating a standard of living for yourself And in this book it talks about be impeccable with your word Don't make assumptions. Don't let other people's projections of you or thoughts of you affect how you feel about yourself So this piggybacks on Connor.   They've sent me salty this salty that in fact my coffee mug today He says salty vibes in honor of Connor And Why this is so important is Connor had this ability to not let other people's projections of them Bother allow him to affect how he felt about himself So he literally had this air of confidence about him because it was he wasn't overly Sensitive to how the other people felt about him both positive or negative He let he maintained a level of sovereignty a level of inner confidence And I got to tell you he was a magnet to women. I mean they just Gravitated to him Because of this inner confidence this inner now I believe there was a level of self-love for him Which again was the reason why I wrote the book But why does this relate to the type of types of women men are attracted to? Well, I think this inner confidence comes from again self-love But there's this other book out there that you may have heard of it's called Here, let me pull it up on my screen because I don't actually own it It's called why men love bitches Why men love bitches and the subtitle and that's really what I want to lean into today is From doormat to dream girl a woman's guide to holding her own in relationship Hence why I'm wearing the don't be a salty pitch, but And by the way, it's a derogatory term. I'm not Even remotely suggesting I appreciate the term, but I've created an acronym from this term or not I have but I've heard this acronym before and bitch stands for babe in total control of herself babe in total control of herself and Just like Connor had this inner confidence within himself. I Want to invite you to have that inner confidence as well and many of you might be asking well How do I gain that inner confidence? How do I become this type of woman and I'm asking you are you this type of woman? Well, I want you to lean into this book the four agreements as one way to By the way, you can buy the book why men love bitches I'm and by the way, I have link below to Jonathan recommends in the description. So these are the books I recommend I'm not necessarily endorsing this book But what I appreciate about it is this idea Shifting from doormat to that inner confidence and you might find some great nuggets in that book and just like the four agreements You can lean into your own inner confidence because let's face it ladies. You love confident men, right? You you like the idea of being with a confident man and many of you already have this confidence great I'm excited for you many not and Mostly because many of us myself included suffer from childhood wounds and traumas That have been unhealed or at least not healing or adult traumas And this is why dating is so complicated because human beings aren't Naturally confident it just we're not I mean some people are born that way. Maybe Maybe it's just something passed through the DNA. I don't know I believe it's a learned behavior How to build that confidence in within yourself? This is why if you watch my videos I'm continually recommending book after book after book because I'm not going to sell you on some Coaching program over a six-month period of time for a year period of time or or even those ones that do a one-week Program where all of a sudden you just have this natural confidence I believe it's built over time and I'm a big proponent of reading the books and learning Little by little little by little little by little to build that confidence and within yourself This is why I recommended this book in a recent video I'm going to do it again Check out the book by Brene Brown daring greatly daring greatly and I want to read you the subtitle and I'm putting on my glasses. Please. Let me know what you think of my glasses post a comment below I feel dorky when I wear it, but the subtitle how the courage to be vulnerable Transforms the way we live love parent and lead How the courage to be vulnerable?   These are your feelings. It's okay to be a boner bow with a guy and do it with kindness That's the chair. That's the title of that chapter speak your truth do it with kindness Ladies stop being afraid of scaring a guy away by sharing your feelings It's by sharing your feelings. It actually gets a man to rise to the occasion It demonstrates his metal can he handle and I don't mean handle in the sense of like Stat you know erratic feelings. I'm talking about your sincere and from the heart feelings and what I mean by handle Can he lean into your sincere and heartfelt feelings? Or is he gonna run or pull away? Is he gonna pull away? Is he gonna run? Is he gonna disappear?  We're not leaning. This is why I'm a big proponent of leaning into each other lean into the relationship You know Or you don't know I've come to realize that one of the challenges today Centers around a lack of commitment by people a lack of commitment people are entering into relationship without any sincere desire to really be committed with one another and This is why most people can they start a lot of times, you know We start in the beginning, you know very close together the the 50 yard line because we're amped up on lust and limerence and and chemistry And maybe a small belief that there's this person's the one But what eventually gets but what happens is as minute we we start to show who we are People run away. They go to the other ends of the field and what happens is when they're at the other end of the football I'm using a football analogy. Okay I'm sure those women in the south who will get this right or any woman or man who loves football Is if you're at the opposite end of the field The only way it's gonna get like this is a commitment to getting here a commitment to getting here and And ladies most of you are letting the man run the show here with commitment and I'm here to say you are the leaders of your relationship a Babe in total control of herself is like she knows she is interviewing a guy to be the boyfriend Or potential partner. It's an interview process Just like that. You know, in other words, they're applying for the job And by the way, men should be doing the same thing Interviewing and what I don't mean interviewing like doing in this, you know, like, you know, like checking off the box is kind of interview I'm saying asking really deep Questions to get to know if someone wants to be in relationship and if you need help and asking those questions I've created a whole coaching program on this In fact, there's a link below if you're interested and if this resonates with you Then check out my link for a free discovery call to see of working with the coaches right for you Listen, I'm not trying to sell here per se. I want to help you. Okay, if you feel like this resonates Then I'm open to helping you and if and by the way, if you're not interested in coaching, do me a favor read the books I recommend these are all going to begin to help build your inner confidence And many of you already confident that's great Then you need to learn the mechanics of a healthy happy relationship to take this from here to here That's where you want to get to you want to get to each other on the 50 yard line And then you can take this drive as a two-lane street so We oftentimes start here because of chemistry and then as soon as our wounds and traumas it kind of pulls us apart and the only thing that's going to bring us back together is the agreement of commitment and It takes time to build the roots to commitment. This is why the mechanics of understanding a relationship is so important I didn't bring my book eight dates, but I talked about the book eight dates by dr. John Gottman. Please. There is a link below To this book eight dates is a great book to understand how we get from here to here and guess what?  If you're not willing to co-create then bye-bye Bye-bye next I've been saying this for years Next it's swipe the other way if a guy isn't willing to co-create But you're afraid stop being afraid to speak your truth Not emotional chaos truth. I'm talking about sincere and from the heart truth Please is this resonating is this am I getting through here? I know I sometimes in my previous videos I've been I've heard complaints about cursing and whatnot, but I'm trying to be that wake-up call I want you to lean into your heart and say what do I really want out of this journey of life? That's the other benefit of reading my book. It's taking you down a journey For self-love Because when you genuinely love on yourself and you can be you can be in that babe in total control just like Connor You'll become a magnetic attractor men will be flocking to you literally from an energetic spiritual perspective So do the work Choose men who have also done some work Not the men that are emotionally unavailable And if you haven't watched my video the five signs of emotional maturity, please check it out Somewhere below in my videos I'll try to put the link up as well Five signs of emotional maturity. This is going to help you for choosing a man But the types of quiet the high-quality men choose these types of women I'm going to ask you are you what I just talked about today And if you are please post a comment below This is my Jonathan from the heart videos again if you like this format This is what I do in my private group called midlife love mastery check out the link below And I'm going to sign off this videos I always do first off giving myself a big gigantic Jonathan bear hug of self-love I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm going to ask you to turn to somebody and give them a hug of love Because hugs are a great source of love and we can all use more hugs in our lives Thanks so much and wishing you a super duper wonderful day. Bye. Bye now


Hey guys, it's MJ the student's act tree and we're gonna be looking at a website called easy equities Now what it is? It's this little platform that lets you invest in various securities on the JSC Now I've just started it and they're not gonna let me play with real money because I have to do FICA and all these weird security things But they have given me a hundred thousand Rand of demo money So I've got some demo money and we can use it to have some fun now I need your help because what shares should I buy? I mean there are there's so many there are lots. There are lots. There's actually Let's go show 96 at a time. I wish I could get rid of this stupid thing here because that is blocking our view but what we can do is All this website welcome to use equity blah blah blah No, we can select an investment top so equities ETFs ETFs baskets and bundles of the other ones my tags What what what bundles do they have? What bundle is this risk invest Okay rule number one of investing is you don't buy something if you don't know what it is I mean ever risk aggressive bundle Kilimanjaro conservative bond. I mean, well, let's just see what it is I actually don't know what this thing is What are you want to risk it for the biscuit? Isn't that in that fired up movie the guy says that Select okay. No, I don't know. I don't know what's going on with those things. Let's go back. Let's go back Let's let's like I said first rule of investing is only invest in something that you understand Okay, so these are I think these are the stocks so we can choose the sector. Look how cool that is Let's see. Are there any tech? Tech sector is life insurance investment products Mining mobile telecommunication Non-equity investment instruments What is that? Oh Capital appreciation. Okay, so this these things are known as special purpose acquisition companies and They're kind of like a reverse IPO Where they first raise money and then they go and buy stuff and then they put it on to the stock market It's quite cool the company remember we were looking at that website color field the other day They're owned by a company called African Rainbow and African Rainbow also owns these guys over here So should we buy should we just let's just buy Let's buy a hundred grand of the share just because I've heard it before Yes, let's buy a hundred grand Yes, let's go once off Okay Confirm it's a demo account. I really have to confirm. Oh look broker commission That's gonna hurt me settlement and administration eight cents investor protection Tax. Oh gosh. Look at all these transaction costs. So that means That's just to buy this I'm losing 0.6% That is actually quite high That is that's actually quite hard for me making the decision myself But it is it's the demo account if it was real money, I would not be doing this remember This isn't this is an educational video. This is not financial advice. Don't do what I do on my YouTube channel Don't don't just don't do what I do. Okay, wait by successful way. We've bought into them We've got a hundred and seventeen shares at a hundred ran. Okay, great Congrats on your trade. You're honest. Let's let's go on Twitter. Let's be like, yeah, I Just I just bought something on Twitter. Yes. Okay, there we go I'm terrible to actually even know how Twitter works, but I am trying to learn because there's some good stuff that you can find on Twitter Okay, so now we've lost a little bit of our money But we haven't lost we've invested it. I also want to buy an exchange traded fund ETS or exchange traded funds Yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I want to I want to see which ones can we get Are they ETF access Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, let's buy I Really wish they could remove that thing. Let's go Deutsche Bank Let's go Deutsche Bank that could give us access to some of the world indexes. So whoops, I think this one is Okay, I want to buy this one. Okay. Oh, it's just telling me they normally have quite a few So it's weird that they're only offering me a few of these. Okay, so this is the world index attracts all the shares around the world It's it's great to see. Let's see how How the world is doing? So Let's go once off Let's buy we're buying into the world Okay Now look how much cheaper that is. That's only 39 cents What? Why did who? Why was that other one so much more expensive? total transaction costs Okay, let's go Yeah, because the last one was 64 cents announced 39 cents That's that's interesting. Okay. Let's go invest now BAM, we've got it. Okay. Let's tweet. Let's tweet it. I think that's that's what investings will about It's all about tweeting what you're doing, but I don't know what happened to the Twitter thing Did we buy it? Yes, I think we did. I think we did Okay, by successful. Did we do we tweet? Yeah, let's tweet it Okay, there we go Let's invest. I want to let's buy buy some futures. Feel free to to throw me some examples or some Some of your own opinions in the comment section Let me know what shares we're gonna buy and then I think what we're gonna do is I'll come to this website every now and then read your All Comments and whatever you say I'm gonna buy so if you're telling me to buy some really weird random share I am gonna go put 100 red on that weird random share. Let's see if as a youtube channel We can build the ultimate portfolio Um, remember we don't have any liabilities backing this so our investment objective is Basically to just maximize maximize shares Um, that's like a cute little lion guy there Barclays. Oh, I like break this. Let's go throw. Let's go throw 100 on break So break they are a private equity company that's listed on the johannesburg stock exchange So it's a nice way to get access to private equity While through the public market. I know it's a little bit of a contradiction and this website keeps freaking out Okay Again, why is that 64 cents? Oh, you know what it would actually be better if we just put all our money in the share That was Let's let's brag on on twitter Okay, I don't know what why is this security transfer tax and administration. I think we're paying you an extra 25 cents For that which we're not paying on the other one, which is interesting Um browse the market Let's go or let's I want to see there's a share that I actually do want to buy Here we go sing. Yeah um Let's put 100 grand behind them as well As I'll once off. I like this company. They're very much based on passive investing their whole idea is to cut down fees And I really think they're doing an amazing thing in the investment market share in South Africa So I'm going to back them. I'm going to back them even though Yeah, it would be cheaper if I actually bought their investment thing because I think I only have There's a 0.4 percent in fees As you can see I'm very sensitive to fees and that you should do that as well if you if you um Yeah, if you're an investor and you're a serious investor, you have to be super sensitive to fees And I can just see the problem with doing these little cute platforms is that you are going to be hit with fees Yeah, easy credit. How do I earn credit? I don't know We don't wait and there's so many turns and conditions. Wow um Okay guys, like I said, give me give me stuff in the comment section for me to to buy stuff um Tax-free saving account. No. Well, can we can we put like No, let's not let's not get into that now. Let's not get into that vouchers. Why would I? Voucher diviing and sending not allowed on demo money um Okay, let's go back to the exchange traded funds So we've got we've got a little bit in the world and Prop tracks the 10 largest property stocks on which we think make for a better quality universe um Yeah, let's let's maybe get get an ETF on property Okay, and let's put another hundred in that Okay, so we're gonna put a hundred this is gonna be our What does it say up to like is it limiting? We're not there. We're allowed to invest in Okay, so we've got we've got another ETF. I do enjoy my ETFs And you know, look look how much lower the transaction costs all with the ETFs I think we should actually just go ETFs purely on that fact. We're getting diversification And we're paying a lower fee. I mean that sounds pretty cool. Okay, but let's how do I look at my Let's go overview um Okay, we haven't nothing's moved because we've just bought everything our holdings I checked so we've we've basically lost two rent two rent just vanished Thanks to fees and when we come to sell them, we're also going to be losing Okay, so this is what we've got we've got these are our three speculative shares We've gone for capital appreciation limited. I know they are investing in three fintech companies around critical payments So We're going super risky there Break they own I think virgin active and a few other Like well known like but private equity. They do private equity deals Sinja, like I said, this is our industry act trees um, we should actually probably go double down on them a little bit more And We are on my ETFs. We are my ETFs Don't they show me my ETFs in my portfolio value view Maybe pending instructions No, oh this website Jumping a bit. Um, okay. Now. Let's go back um We're my ETFs We are my two ETFs Oh, I think I have to go here. They don't show it to you all in one Okay, and what we've got we've invested in the world and we've invested in some property So those are going to be the first five things that we've done um Gosh, is it really losing? Are we ready? Are we already losing? um Or is that Purchase value current value. Oh, I think they're taking in the transaction cost But why is that transaction cost 73 cents and they want 16 cents? Why is that that's actually going to irritate me now? Why? Why? Why? It should be able to like click on it be like, um No, I don't want to buy more if it's just Company summary. Oh, can you click company summary? Oh, and then you can look at whatever that stuff is um Okay, no, I think I think we've done well. We've invested 500 grand And like I said, this is going to be the game Everyone tells me something to buy and I'll put 100 rand in we've got enough to almost buy everything on the stock market and we can see who Which user has has made the best the best call Um, also, I'm going to put a link below so you can actually do this yourself I'll give you the link and if you come in as my referral I think I get I get an extra 50 for my little demo account to play with so I'll give you that And yeah, let me know What I should buy and I'll make another video like this showing our Our profit because we're going to make lots of money. We're going to make lots and lots of fictitious demo money but as always Be very careful whenever you're doing anything online with real money Um, because y'all I think that just kind of goes without saying But y'all let me end off the video. Thanks guys so much for watching and I will see you next time. Hopefully That amount goes up because what we've just done is we've lost like y'all four and then 30 cents just by trading So we've already started at a deficit, but let's see if that can push up What oh no, wait, wait, wait, why does that oh no, sorry? That's available funds. I was like, oh my gosh If we just like in the few seconds when we're talking we've just dropped, but no no Um, I'll make another video sometime soon to update if that value has gone up Thanks guys so much for watching and yeah, give me your recommendations in the comment section below. Cheers


There is a lot of focus and pressure lately to show the impact of design, how it's creating value and contributing to the goals of an organization. But could it be that we're overlooking an indicator of success, a key metric that not only pushes companies forward, but also challenges us to do meaningful work that stands the test of time? In this conversation, we're going to explore what that metric could be. Here's the guest for our conversation. Let the show begin. Hello, it's Alamo and this is edition 193 of the Service Design Show. Hello brave change agent. Welcome back to the Service Design Show, the show where we explore what's beneath the surface of service design, what are the hidden things that make the difference between success and failure, all to help you design great services that have a positive impact on people, business and our planet. And I'm your host, Mark Fontaine. Today, we are joined by Alan Moore, an author, speaker and the founder of the beautiful design project. There are many different ways companies measure success, though the most important one will often be profit. Yes, being in business means that you need to earn money, but earning more money just can't be the end goal. We're painfully seeing the consequences of acting this way. So what could be an alternative goal? Alan suggests that it might be beauty. Beauty and everything. Beauty as the ultimate metric. Now the reality is that you won't find beauty as a KPI in most businesses today, but this doesn't disregard its importance. So what if we wouldn't be designing to just earn more or to consume more? Instead, what if we would be designing and striving towards more beauty in our work and in our businesses? If this sounds like a naive romantic idea that's never going to fly with your organization or you're wondering how you're going to make the business case for it, I'd say grab your notebook because this is far from just wishful thinking. Over the years, Alan has collected dozens of inspiring examples of beautiful organizations and built an extensive toolkit that helps you to bring beauty into the design equation. So I invite you to join me at the campfire to learn from Alan about the people who are already doing it and the success that they are seeing, the ways to finance this approach towards a more beautiful business and how we can take the first step today to start this journey. I already hear the fire crackling, which means it's time to get comfortable and give our full attention to the stories Alan has to share with us. Welcome to the show, Alan. Thank you very much, Mark. It's a real pleasure to be here. I was recollecting the year in which we met. It must have been 2007, 2008? Yeah, 2007, I think it was. In the days when I still had a very different career than I do now, I think you had a different career back then as well. I did. I did. I think I was already in transition, perhaps, but from the world of marketing, advertising, although design had always been a part of my life, but of course what I was seeing was is the whole business ecosystem was going to be fundamentally changed by this little thing called the mobile. Back in 2007, I actually was in Helsinki in 1992 when I saw mobile to left me take off and that was when this realisation of the absolutely exponential impact that a technology can have on society and on the economies and the way that we run businesses and things. So I was absolutely seduced by the potential and I suppose in those days, perhaps like you were, I was a digital evangelist in believing that these wonderful devices would actually be a form of liberation from maybe the world that we were in. It didn't quite work out that way. We were romantics back then. We were romantics, absolutely. We were romantics. Well, I think we should never lose that sense of hope and optimism about the potential of what our world could be like is how I feel about it. Yeah, it was a fun ride back then. So you already gave sort of a short history of your career without getting into too much detail because that's what the rest of the conversation is for. Could you give us a glimpse of what you're doing today? So today I still describe myself as a designer, but that's a designer of many things. I'm an author, two books, which really are fundamental to the work that I'm currently doing now do design why beauty is key to everything and a book called Do Build, How to Make and Lead a Business of World Needs. I founded a thing called Beautiful Business and just recently co-founded the Beautiful Design Project, where we say that our mission is to design the designers for a more regenerative future. And that's what gets me out of bed on a Monday morning, Tuesday to Friday and sometimes over the weekend as well. Nice, great. And that's definitely something that will dive into much deeper later on. Before we do that, I'm always curious to know, was there a moment that you got in touch with service design? Do you recall the moment that you sort of heard about service design? I suppose it's always been on my periphery, as I said, you know, my I mean, when I think about it and it's partly to do with my age, but we were, I suppose, really pioneering in terms of how we thought design would work in a whole variety of different ways.  We were designing products. And so to me, it just seemed a natural state of how you you went about your your your business of design, I suppose. And but over the years, obviously, that became a specialism. And it was only really, I don't know, 10 years ago or something that I started to clock that this was sort of becoming a discipline. Or be it, you know, one that I just felt was something that I instinctively did now, whether that's right or wrong, I don't know. But so, yeah, yeah, I think so, something along those lines. Thank you. Thank you for sharing, Alan. Before we dive into the topic, we have a lightning round. I spiced up the questions a little bit, and it turns out that the lightning round is more difficult than it was, but I still want to challenge you. I have five sentences for you to finish. And basically the first thing that comes to your mind, we won't try to go much deeper into it. Are you ready for it? I'm ready to go. All right, please finish this sentence. The thing that always makes me smile is a beautiful experience. Next one. My greatest fear is that I won't achieve the goals that I've set myself. All right. The hardest lesson that I've learned so far is no matter the provocation, it's never wise to respond in anger. All right. If I could meet one historic figure, it would be. That's a tough one. Oh, wow. I'm going to have to pass on that, I think, because I just... Fair enough. I can't think who that person would be. If anyone comes up throughout the conversation, feel free to sort of break it. Let's do the final one. And that might, I'm expecting, be a very good segue into the rest of the conversation. Please finish this sentence. Our world needs more. Beauty. I sort of had a hunch that that would be your answer. Let's talk about beauty. The beautiful design project, beautiful business. You have a strong conviction that beauty has the power to change the world. Could you tell us a little bit more about that? Well, I think that the writing of due design was very interesting because actually the title was Why Beauty is Key to Everything. And I sat down and I wrote that book from the heart from what I knew to be true. But I really wrote it for myself as a form of homecoming. How do I come home? When at a period in my life, I felt very lost. And then what happened was, is my publisher called me up, Miranda, two weeks after the book came out and we're not a big, you know, they're not a big publishing company. And she said, you've given me a real problem. And I said, what's that? And she said, well, the book is sold out. And that wasn't part of the business model. And of course, it was it was very sweet, but then strange things started to happen. People sent me stuff. People sent me emails, messages just saying, you know, this book has really touched me and changed, you know, the way that I'm seeing the world. So that kind of gave me a really clear indication there was something very important going on here.  And the reason why I say that is because the laws of the universe are said to be beautiful. Einstein's theory of relativity, Paul Dirich's theory about how subatomic particles connect over, you know, time and space across vast distances and universes. And so the actual the physics of actually how our world, our cosmos, our natural world operates are all said to be beautiful. Ill reflection, I kind of felt that nature runs the longest R&D projects we've ever known, and she's created the conditions for all life to thrive without wasting a single atom. So I was thinking that if we really wanted to, you know, hang around for a bit longer, like all eternity as a species on this planet, then maybe we should learn from nature's playbook. And it's partly why I make the argument that beauty is the ultimate metric. Funnily enough, there was very famous Greek philosopher Platinas, who said beauty is the only thing we know by instinct. And if we go back actually to the laws of the universe, you know, we don't have an extra molecule in our body that makes us different to everything else. And so if if beauty and the idea of beauty being connected to regeneration, creating the conditions for all life to thrive, then we do know beauty by instinct. And there was a great American philosopher, Hordo Emerson, who said that beauty gets us out of surfaces and into the foundations of things. And so I think this is it. It's incredible restorative power. And of course, it's a word that we use all the time. On the other hand, it's not a word that we use in business. It's not a word that we use when we think we're being serious and sensible and all the rest of it. But what I have seen is that it is such an empowering and powerful philosophy. But it's actually also connected to the mechanics of actually how our world works. So for me, it's not an abstract idea. I think it comes from really understanding the interconnectivity of our of our world. It touches on also ethics. It touches on our societies. It touches on the cultural relationships that we have when we create the world. And so whichever way you look, I think that we are hitched to beauty and a whole variety of very exciting ways. That was a great intro. Now, what I was wondering and I would love for you to sort of take us back to the moment when your journey into beauty started and maybe it was from the day you were born. But I'm like, not everybody is so passionate about this topic as you are. So we're really curious, like what happened? And you mentioned homecoming. Can you share a story on that? I arrived at a moment in my life where I felt incredibly lost. I'd moved. I'd always say, I'd say I see myself as a designer. I see the world as a designer. I'd always say I see myself as a designer. I see the world as a design challenge. I see our creativity being really, you know, it needs to be used to redesign and recreate what we have. But I was very lost and, you know, I'd walked away from various professions or, you know, ways of working. Because I saw the devastating consequences of living and working within a neoliberal economy. So I asked myself, how do I come home to what is really true to me? So how do I find my authentic self, which maybe is a base from which I could work? And I sat with that question for a long time with great intention, but also with a great deal of patience. And I arrived at this profound experience. I'm seven years of age. I'm on a beach in Cornwall. It's a family holiday. And I see my mom, my father, my brother and my sister. And my mom was always a very anxious woman. And when she got anxious, it made me very anxious.  But she was on the beach and, you know, she was barefooted, laughing, playful, joyful. It kind of weirded me out a little bit. But it was intense on that reflection to see someone so transformed and beautiful and joyful, I suppose.  He was wartime, educated, dyslexic. But he was a man of huge emotional intelligence, an incredible, compassionate person. He was always there for us. There was no patriarchy in our house.  And so there was this incredible unit. And then I thought about my brother and my sister, who I always, you know, had great love and affection for. And then I saw myself. And I don't know if you kind of imagine it's like a drone shot. So there's this seven-year-old boy with long blonde platinum hair in red trunks bending down, playing with his toys on the beach. And then this drone is put in back. And then you see this entire family. And then you see this vast, beautiful beach. You see this beautiful sea, this beautiful sky. And what came to me as this incredible epiphany was, I was at one with those I love the most. I was at one with myself. And on my journey, I've not always been one with myself for a variety of different reasons. And I was at one with the natural world. And that incredible sense of this synergistic relationship between all of those things, me, the society, the community, the natural world, the only word that could describe that was beauty. And that to me was the homecoming. And that's when I thought, well, I'm going to write my way home from this. And I just got up every day and I just wrote what I believe to be true as a human being, as a leader, as a designer to think about big questions around time, our relationship to the natural world and try and condense that into something which anyone and everyone could understand. And so I made a decision and I'd written a book prior to do design called No Straight Lines, which at one point was 160,000 words. It had 150 footnotes and all the rest of it. I said, I'm going to do something really different. I believe in the power of storytelling and I believe in being really honest. And so I said there would not be a single negative idea in this book. And it's not that the book is happy-clappy, but it has to be, there has to be a grounding, a foundational grounding of potential in that book. I said that I would only use what we in English would call thruppity words. So rather than using long, clever words, you try and use the language as simply as you possibly can so that anyone could put that, pick that book up and understand exactly what it is that you were talking about. And the last one was is if it only took 50 words to say what I wanted to say, I would just try and make them the best 50 words I could write, no padding, strip it down to its utility, but like poetry to try and keep that essence within those words that somehow there was a vibrancy within them that would be empowering for other people to read. So the book's in its eighth reprint. It's translated into a number of languages around the world to somehow or other maybe being the messenger I was being successful with telling that story. Thank you for sharing and the power of storytelling absolutely comes through here. You mentioned the books and you took us back to the moment where you sort of had the epiphany that it's about beauty. If I recall correctly, the first book came out in 2016. That's right. Could you share with us a bit how your thinking has evolved over those last seven, probably eight, nine years around this topic? Absolutely. Well, I mean, at the end of due design, I wrote about businesses being beautiful. And use two examples of businesses in that and books. When you write a book, a book, a book, there's so much hard work that goes into it. But funny enough, actually, what you're really doing is just laying down the foundations for something that evolves and develops over over time. And I didn't do any research for the first book. I literally wrote, as I said, well, I believe to be true. Then because of the interest, I started on a much deeper inquiry. And what does it mean to be a beautiful business? How does that kind of work as a consequence of having that inquiry? And so I started to look at a whole range of businesses. And by business, let's just say it's the business of getting stuff done. So it could be a hospital. It could be a health care system. It could be agriculture, food systems. It could be manufacturing. It could be a government department. And so I wanted to show also that beauty can be applied in any way we as human beings come together and organize ourselves. So just some clarification on that. So I started to look at what does that mean? Do we need a new set of metrics? How do we move from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy? How do we count the right things as opposed to the wrong things? How do we use design in a completely different way, I suppose, and perhaps service design then sits very much within that way of thinking? And that led me on to writing to build. And over the last 10 years, I think that we've looked at some of the most pioneering companies and organizations on the planet. And rather than having a very sort of sliver and niche, we're only looking at tech or we're only looking at agriculture or whatever, I want to show people that there's a really different way and a different way of learning what all of these things mean. So we looked at organizational cultures. We looked at technologies. We looked at the philosophy around design and designing. And that research has got it into some really interesting places and spaces where we really developed or I developed, I think, a much deeper and broader understanding of how we could help people think about the kind of way of how beauty as a reset, as a lens, as a philosophy could then be put into application for actually making things work in a better type of way. And now you told me that you sort of stopped writing and started to teach this stuff, design the new generation of designers. Yeah, so we say we want to design the designers for a more regenerative future. And to give people, I mean, it's quite interesting when you, let's say when you leave an industry or a way of working, you get very locked into a language and a mindset and a way of working. And I think the part of why we talk about the reset is, is the liberation of people's minds and philosophies and possibilities and potential. And that has to be as much an individual journey as a collective journey. But because of my background in design and having, you know, being given an extraordinary, you know, life career in working in so many different ways, I'm very keen to enable people to move towards that idea of application and giving them a framework and a way of working, which is going to get them to think very differently and to act very differently in the sorts of things that they do. So we go reset doing and then regenerating is the kind of, you know, overarching kind of principles that we work on. Could we dive into these three steps, stages, and sort of get a hunch about what it is you would, I'm especially interested in the research aspect. What are the limiting beliefs, the, I don't know, experiences that we have gone through that we need to reset? I think the idea that there is a philosophy that could be more energizing and more optimistic. So, you know, over the period of time, you know, I've read so much and we have a way of delivering that knowledge and that information that is actually very challenging for people, but actually ultimately giving them comfort that is a completely different way of thinking about the world and how they can be agents of change with within it. So in a sense, that's the reset. A lot of people that come on the programs that we run, talk a lot about that first part of the program is very important to them. Can I ask you a follow-up question about this? You mentioned there is a different way to look at the world. What's the difference? Well, let's say that you might say the only way that we can be active is within a world, within the, you know, the idea of growth for growth's sake and extractive economy. We can only work this way. All the other stuff around contribution, for example, asking big questions about, you know, how do I contribute to the world? In a sense, it's a form of freeing the reconnection to the sort of spiritual aspects of who we are as people. So we live in a very dominant, a world which is dominated by the idea of rationalism. Everything is rational. And this thing about thinking, overdoing, or the fact that, you know, all of those aspects of what makes human beings amazing need to be kind of reappraised or brought back into who we are as people. So I'm quite comfortable about talking about that stuff. Reconnecting people to the natural world, reconnecting them to themselves. You know, this idea that there's a different design model that we can learn from. So, as you know, biomimetics, biomimicry, looking at the mechanics of nature, which then informs the way that we think about manufacturing, for example, or the business models that are kind of created.   And so we are also very keen to sort of take those sort of, you know, design principles of the cosmos, the natural world, the people which are pioneering in their own, you know, businesses and organizations and say, these philosophies, these tools, these ways of doing are actually ways in which you too can contribute to the world.  There's, you know, they're not saying ours is the only solution. We are a contributor to a way collectively of trying to address net zero climate change and all the rest of it. In fact, their purpose is actually very interesting with the story behind that. But the interesting thing is, is that, you know, they worked for it. They worked at a very, or studied at a very prestigious engineering school in Switzerland. And everyone said these machines could not be made. So you might as well give up. But they proved that actually these machines could be made. And they proved that actually with a lot of work, there could be an exponential growth in terms of the quantities of CO2 that could suck out the atmosphere. But then people said there's not a business model for carbon. You can't make money out of carbon or carbon capture. And it's really interesting in the way that they go about doing that. But their principle is, is actually they say that anyone and everyone can contribute to carbon capture. It's one of those things which is so overwhelming for people, you know, where do I start? So they run a service model now where it's not the machines that they're making their money from. They sell their services now to large organizations or even an individual. So you can spend five euros a month in the knowledge that you are taking physically X amount of carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it two and a half thousand meters into the ground where over a period of two years, that then becomes solid rock. Right. So, you know, for me, this is sort of that idea of really going for changes in the way or, for example, if you take agriculture, the model of the only way that we can farm is through, you know, killing the soil. We're actually not feeding them. You know, we're not feeding the soil. We're feeding the plants. The lack of biodiversity ultimately means actually the soil, the communities, the societies around them become depleted. And it's already proven, for example, that big agriculture really is failed as a model.  And you go, no, that's your narrative. And you want to hold that narrative.  But also we're going to show you how that powerfully connects to different models and the way that we can think about anything and everything that we need to flourish and thrive in this world. And that to me is where, you know, innovation becomes interesting. And to ask those questions, you know, we developed, I developed 13 design questions, which really push people and organizations to think very differently about the nature of what it is they do. I've got no problem with people making money. We've always done it. We've always traded with toolmakers. I don't want to tell people they have to stop doing things. I just want to show them that there is a far better way that you could be doing things. And we have enough examples through, you know, the research that we've done with these very different ways of looking at, yeah, you know, health care, governance, anything and everything that, you know, of what it means to run a modern economy. No one's perfect.  But we say that if you become a beautiful business designer, you're being given a different language, different capability, maybe a different community, where you can see so much more in terms of what it is that you can create and fight up fight against those dominant narratives.  And, you know, there are certain people that really want to hold onto some very powerful narratives, which actually divisive rather than inclusive. Yeah, yeah. So, let's imagine that I follow along and this has opened up my opportunity space, my solution space, I have a different perspective on what success looks like how we quote unquote measure success. And now my hands are starting to itch. I want to put this into practice. What are some steps that you take people through and do stage. Well, we've got to we use the we use the 13 design questions as a means to really interrogate the kind of I suppose the the relevancy of what it is they want to create. And so the first question is does it matter. And, you know, a lot of people talk about purpose is a lot of books talk about purpose but I say, you know, there's a man in the Kremlin he's got a lot of purpose but I don't think you really need that because he's not really asking how he contributes to the world. And so even this is a very powerful framing question is, does it matter does it matter to the world does it matter to me. So it's really finding something like, like, with Jan Verzbacker, who was one of the co founders of Klein works, you know, or is really asking that question, does it matter. And so therefore, even though people say, well, your technology will never work, but they say but the mattering is so important that we have to find a solution to do that. Second question is, is it transformative and a light against these things we can give examples of people organizations whatever in all walks of life, which have really found answers to those questions. Is it regenerative. So having gone through the reset and understanding the critiquing of what regeneration means and you know I say that sustainability really is a limited language and it's a cul-de-sac. That's because it's all about stopping rather than looking at possibility and potential. And so now they have a very clear idea about ways in which, you know, organizations, industries, whatever have practiced regeneration, maybe being able to input ideas and practices that come from outside their industry sector, which actually are, you know, helping them think fundamentally differently. And so on and so forth. So we work then with a team and then there's a kind of a modeling that we can we can do where they start to use that then as a form of prototyping of how that could really work as a business or a way of doing stuff getting, you know, getting stuff done in this world. We also find that this this the critiquing is very, very important. So we we ask people to go and find a business they believe to be beautiful and then present we work in small groups because I believe in in the Socratic approach where actually it's a deeper dive dialogue, learning through doing through discussing understanding diverse views, people understanding that there are different ways of doing stuff and additive all the time in terms of the knowledge that kind of couldn't be created with that. And of course we have access to some wonderful people, which is part of our network, which if we felt that we really wanted a specialist to come in who's, you know, achieve something significant. Then they can be part of a process or the program, which is about that kind of that learning. But it's really about the empowering of people. So I'm not saying you need to be like me, the people with no one would be like me, but it's about being a better version of what you could be in the world and supporting people on that on that on that journey. And I think holding that design system.  And I'm sure everyone on this call will know who Dieter is. You know, Dieter's famous quote, which is the time of thoughtless design for thoughtless consumption is over. And I think the really putting those challenges down to what we call, you know, regenerative designers is really helping them focus intensely on how their work can contribute to a better world, you know, and one that we can hang around in for a bit longer. Listening to your story. It feels like it makes sense logically, rationally. If that's the case, why do you think we aren't not everybody has already embraced this? What's what's stopping us or what could accelerate us towards more beauty in our businesses? Well, I mean, I think there's a number of things on the one hand. I'd say that there's a lot of people out there already doing this. It's just that it won't make the front pages of other other other magazine or a newspaper to some degree. I was actually reflecting on it this morning, which was, you know, everything in our world is premised on a consumer society. And without really being sat down and being, you know, told, but, you know, all every single advert on TV and all the rest of it, which is your world goes better when you have more material stuff. No one is really telling you that, you know, spending more time in nature walking in the woods that actually people heal much better when they've had operations by actually spending time in nature. And in fact, actually, there's an organization in Norway. I can't pronounce it unfortunately, but it connects nature healing and hospital in the same word. And so they've designed a hospital and looking at actually how people heal much quicker. It's actually you design the healing process and it means you need less drugs and all the rest of it. And of course, we fall into that trap, you know, I want a bigger car, faster car, bigger house, better holidays, you know, the Rolex watch that tells everyone I've really made it, you know, whatever it is that we fall into debt. And of course, then it's a form of, I've got into a lot of trouble with this, but you know, it's a form of colonialism. And we're all enslaved until some people go and of course, and the view is that the people that wanted to live an alternative lifestyle, they're the whack jobs, right. They're the tree huggers. This is not about being grown up. This is, you know, it's the language is very masculine and patriarchal. And you walk into organizations where there's huge power control.   And so, you know, you're in a really you're in a tight squeeze. And you don't turn up as your whole self. You know, we don't run businesses on the principle of vulnerability, compassion, reciprocity. And in a sense, actually, this is one of the other things that I do, we do in the way that we work with people is all of those things are connected together all the time. So we talk about the Holy Trinity of the hand, the heart and the mind. People just find huge release by the fact that actually they can be vulnerable. They can talk about how they work, which is why, you know, we look very carefully at how we teach people. And so it's not a mechanical way of doing things. And of course, there is great vested interests in actually keeping people in that place. If you look at, say, the media, for example, you know, Fox News lies, but it knows that the more hate it puts out there, the more money it makes until it goes a bit over the top. But you walk the fine line. And what we've seen really is over, let's say, since we met in 2007, the erosion of the trust in politics and society. We use immigration as a form of division. That is done on purpose. And that is a narrative that people want to use. And so breaking out of all of that is really, really hard. You know, VC money is all premised on five to 10 year returns. A friend of mine here in Cambridge, number two of the VC firm, he said, your problem, Alan, is your horizon line is too long for VC. And I think that's a real shame. And it's very interesting when you look at, say, the guys that founded Veja, the sneaker brand. Again, actually a brilliant story from end to end of how you run an ethical company, but you will not compromise on any aspect of that business for it to be as ethical as it can, while still being the coolest thing that people will want to put on the ends of their feet. Both have incredible control over where they found their money from and how they grew and how they developed. You know, I'm starting to see a rise of Regen VCs, people that talk about sustainability to some degree. You know, I'd like to know more about that. But until we start to really think about the money supply in a way, again, we are captured and we're colonised because people want us to work in a certain type of way to count things in a certain type of way. I think eventually we will get there because, well, we either will, and that will be great, or we won't. And then we're not in such a good position people. But I think people have worked out pretty much for a lot of them that things aren't as they should be. And it's not making them very happy as a consequence of that. The question here maybe is, will we need to wait till the even bigger crisis hits us before we push the reset button? Or will we be able to stare away early enough? I have no idea.  And I think that's the biggest design brief ever. Of course, it's going to be hard, very, very hard. But all we can try and do is to inspire people that that is something worth getting out of bed for in the morning. And the, you know, this idea of beauty is something which actually really does have huge potential and to really use that as a means of what we do and how we do it. You've mentioned some other examples of companies who you feel are sort of fit the bill. I'm also curious to learn, are you, I'm sure you are, and then I would love to hear how applying this way of thinking onto the work you're doing today, how are you making your business beautiful? Well, I think that you think about everything that you do or how you operate, how you interact with each other's with each other. You think about how you can reach people. Can you do things better? Can you improve the teaching? I also do a thing called walk with me. And that's where I just take one person and we go for a walk. And they can talk about whatever it is they like, two hours in the countryside. And if we've not had a good conversation, they've at least had, you know, two hours of fresh air. And then we go to the pub next door to where I live and then we have a meal. And that's really that person's time. And so, you know, working on oneself, working with others is sort of part of how that business operates and thinking about, you know, how we can evolve and how we can develop in a way that would be beautiful. Always a daily question. Do you do a check-in? Do you have like you mentioned metrics? I'm going to guess that beauty isn't binary. But either you have it or you don't. It's something that you strive towards too, always. Yeah, I mean, I mean, that's the point.  Culture versus leadership, stakeholders versus shareholders, all of those sorts of things to help people think about a different kind of KPI or KPIs that they would say, how is this defining success for us? And that's important for people and we use that as part of our process with companies and organizations. And is that also like the metric you at the end of the year look for in your own business, a score yourself? Have we created a more beautiful organization? Yeah, you also ask questions. You also ask questions. And how well do you score? I don't know how you can, how do you express? I'm going, it's not going to be a rating. No, no, no. How do you know if you're on the right way? The question, how do you know if you're making progress? I think, you know, for me personally, it's about have you helped an individual transform their life? Have you helped an organization, you know, transform what they do? Have you helped maybe, you know, a startup business really think about what its model and operating system is going to be? Have you helped them go further down the road? In that sense, you know, I feel that being in service to others is the best job one could possibly do and help them do that. You know, it's not about have we grown by 500% this year and if we haven't, then we were a failure. That's not the way I look at it at all. You know, have we contributed to a better world overall? And, you know, that metric I think is very interesting because I think it's as much then about, you know, culture, people, ecology, community. In fact, actually, I don't think there's anything about money that's on there at all. Yeah, without sounding too, I don't know what the right label is, but do you believe that if you do these things right and work towards beauty, money will take care of itself? Or is that too idealistic and too hippie? I think that's slightly too idealistic. I mean, I think that no organization runs without the oxygen and money. And so I think it always has got to be in the mix, but it can't be the primary reason that you're doing things. And I think that, you know, as I say, when you look at, say, Climeworks or Veya or even Patagonia for a, I know it's a very popular example. You know, they found ways in which is, are they in control of their own destiny? And, you know, that may take a little bit longer. And I suppose for me, you know, we've not set up a business which is about we're going to scale it and sell it. You know, beauty for me was this is a lifetime's work. You know, how am I doing beauty when I'm 80? You know, if I'm still, you know, breathing on this planet at that point. And so in a sense, it's about a measurement of more intergenerational concepts about contribution, which is completely anathema to the world that you and I grew up in. And we're sheep dipped in, in many ways. You know, but I think that having that, that control over what it is that you do is actually so important because it gives you the freedom to make choices and decisions that otherwise you wouldn't, you wouldn't have. And then when you have the freedom, of course, you also have the responsibility to make certain type of decisions because we do make decisions today. Mostly which are fed by less consume more things. Yeah. So the question is, is where is the beauty in what I'm doing? And I was once challenged actually by somebody about give me a practical example about beauty and leadership. You know, how could it possibly work? And I said, well, you know, here's an example. There's a car company and it's not doing so well. And over the boardroom, there's a conversation which is an emerging idea that they're going to lie an industrial scale to say that their diesel engines emit less carbon and actually a much more efficient. And they go for this. And but they know that, you know, if they get caught, it could cause a huge problem for them. But they're thinking so short term that they can't resist this idea is so attractive. So I said to this guy, I said, well, what if somebody put their hand up in the room and said, is this the most beautiful decision we can make? And he looked at me and I said, so what's unpacking for you is ethics. Could I sell this product to my friends and my family? Will this create legacy?  Will it damage our brand value? Et cetera, et cetera. And I said, I don't need to explain that all to you because you intuitively understand what that absolutely means. And so legacy is also a very important question. You know, how will we create legacy with what it is we do? And I think that these kind of these types of questions or questioning as you were saying, you know, you can come to this at the end of the year. You can ask you can ask them on a daily basis, a weekly basis. It's a form of checking in of actually really thinking about, are you bringing something and contributing to something continually? That's valuable to this to this world, you know. And you mentioned you're in the space where you starting to ask these questions and helping people to ask these questions. These should be questions our kids need to grow up with, right? Not at the age of what we are today. Absolutely. Well, I mean, if you look at that our education system, you know, it's for here in England anyway. They're certainly not putting kids in nature and getting them to understand that they are part of this world. And, you know, if nature isn't healthy, they aren't healthy because the one and the two are the same. You know, the idea that design is something that it's we're actually very keen to try and evolve this into something for schools. That's going to take a while to happen. But the idea of saying to a child, you are you can be a designer for a better world right now. And in a sense, that's what I suppose I push back a little bit on where designers ended up sometimes about who has the right to do design and who doesn't have the right to do design. And I say, well, once upon a time, there wasn't a school for fire.  And when the white Europeans turned up in Australia, those folks have been around for 80,000 years. They've really learned how to sort of hang around and sort of, you know, use design in its broadest possible terms. And so for me, giving that back to to young people to feel that they do have the ability to do that, that they have created potential to me is extremely important. And I think we should really fight for for that. Because what we've got at the moment is, again, in our country, a reductive approach to education, which is not about creativity. It's not about doing. It's actually not really saying that, you know, design can contribute to anything and everything that makes our world a better place to to be in. We'll save that for a follow up episode to talk about education to sort of start wrapping up. We would love to hear like a practical tip. So we've listened to the story. We are excited about this. And now we want to put this into practice. What's the one thing you could give us that we could start doing today, tomorrow within our own context? You could start thinking about the potential of beauty as a as a reframing lens. And a philosophy. There's a little book you can read about it if you're, you know, if you're interested. There's the 13 design questions that we that we've got. And maybe start to think about those as a way of challenging what it is that you do and how you and how you do it. How do you contribute to making the world a better place? To making the world a better place? Can you step back from where you are and see, you know, you know, beauty as as an enabler? And what would that mean? Very great questions to reflect upon. That's definitely something I'm going to do during a walk somewhere this week. You mentioned the books. Where can we learn more if we want to dig deeper into this topic? Well, there's my website, which is just beautiful.business. And so there's quite a bit of stuff on there. And there's also now the beautiful design project.com. We're actually in the process of putting some more material together. So there's just a landing page at the moment. But if people wanted to drop me an email and ask us, you know, some more questions or whatever, you know, we're open to have conversations with people that would be interested in that journey of transformation, whether it is for themselves or an organization that they worked for. I encourage everybody to look up the resources. They will be in the show notes as always. Alan, I'm really happy that you came on and shared what you're working on. It's great to reconnect after 15 years in a different context. Beauty is not a design principle that was high on my list, but it's definitely going to go up there. And it's definitely at the end of the year going to be something that I'm going to reflect upon. Thank you for bringing this up. And I really hope that this will inspire a lot of listeners to also embrace this topic and bring it back into design. Because I think it was always integral to it. Absolutely. I found it very inspiring to have Alan with us today. Stories like this stretch our thinking and imagination. What a beautiful service our company that you know. Leave a comment down below and we'd love to hear from you. If you enjoyed today's conversation, please do me a quick favor. If you haven't done so yet, click that like button. That lets me know whether or not we're on the right track by addressing topics like this. Finally, before we part ways, please take a moment to reflect and celebrate. By joining us today, you've directed your attention towards learning and growing as a professional. So from everyone who you're going to impact through your work. Thank you for taking the time and making the commitment. My name is Marc Fontaine and I look forward to having you with us again for a new conversation on the service design show. Take care and see you soon.


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We just made these two holiday centerpieces fall and winter and we did it with this little tiny fiskars saw a Hot glue gun and our cricket and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back Do you like to do a builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week? We're taking it to the tabletop Yes, we're getting ready for the holidays last year. We had like a little intimate intimate Thanksgiving it was just the kids, but this year we're back to the whole big crew extended family That means multiple tables all throughout the downstairs of the house Yes, we have a very large family and I'm the one that hosts Thanksgiving And so there's a giant table of like eight people in the kitchen We have one in the family room and one on the pool. Yeah now that we have our pool table converted into a table There's gonna be one in there too. So yeah, so now we need an army. We need it There was people eating on the porch the year before last. Yes, we ran out of seats So for this week's video, we're starting to this is our first kind of prep for the holidays And we're gonna make a centerpiece for our table We're gonna make a Thanksgiving version and we're gonna make a Christmas version And we're gonna show you two ways to make them Garrett thinks he's making the easy version I am making the easy version and I'm and I'm making the version that I think is harder Would be your typical way you may make a box. So we will see we'll see Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. I just needed three packs of stir sticks. Oh and some stain I'm using this unicorn spit And for a tool.  I'm told him this will be a perfect I actually went and got this because I had seen in the store I went and got this for this project because I think it'd be perfect. I didn't know it had a sheath. Oh careful All right back to what we're doing. Please don't hurt me or you For my project, I'm gonna do it. I don't know what I think is the Typical way you would build a crate. We're gonna make tiny little crates I didn't look for them in the store and I didn't see them because otherwise we could have just stained and painted them But we're gonna make our own crates because they need to be tabletop size and I'll tell you This is probably one of the smallest projects. We've never done We never do a small project and these are gonna be eight by eight So they're gonna be tiny for us and I'm using what I found in the trim section. It's called lattice So what do you say? This is quarter of an inch by an inch and a half. Yeah, cuz these are an inch and a half And they're about the same and Then these are pre-primed. So I'm planning to paint mine.  I mean, you're right. I think so I definitely know I can cut through the lattice with that I'm a maybe questioning a little bit as to whether or not I can cut through elbow grease But if you want to make it at home, and you don't have your own pocket saw I think this will be a great alternative. So that's that trying and you can wear this one on your belt You don't have to put it in your pocket. Don't worry pocket.  I'm gonna use It's either gonna be the sparklers or with a twist Two different oranges. These are more like that fall orange And then of course they have their new leather bound brown, which is perfect and then I might add the screen in We're going with a lot of colors. I don't know he does a lot of this is just a Tiny crate Kim. Yeah, but it's gonna be colorful. It's really gonna decorate my table and this one's called secret garden It's great green and then I may even throw in this road trip Which is a sandy color who knows you might even find a few more paints along the way And then you're gonna use to assemble your hot glue in my whole thing He's trying to go no tools. No, no real tools No big tools. No industrial tools. Yeah, no industrial tools. Yeah, so still need you a little fisk or saw Yeah, I need my sword and I think I think I'm gonna be using Brad Oh, you think so? I think I'm gonna nail the things. Oh, you think I should hop with them, too I don't know. We'll do them two different ways. We'll see see how we're feeling when we get there Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. I'm just gonna cut my stir sticks down to eight inches And they already have a ruler on them, so I don't even have to measure anything. Yeah, these came from the paint department They look like great little hobby sticks. I think you could use them for all kinds of things They're like a buck fifty. You can stain them, you can paint them And then like you said they already got a ruler on them up to what do we say? 14 inches 14 inches, but it goes up to like 16 or something. That's why I got them. I think it's like 16 inches to the curve That's right. These are gonna be boxes So they're gonna be 16 inch wide slats and then I mean eight eight inch wide slats and then Eight inches tall. We'll cut our dowels at eight inches as well. No, I'm not. I'm just a gluing. What are you gonna have to cut the dowel down? Really? I'm gonna make all of my cuts with my new sword this fiskars thing and I'm gonna use a straight edge this speed square. I'm gonna protect my table with a picket and some clamps Clamps, I got the clamps You embarrassed me. No, you don't get embarrassed You can't go through. Yeah, I am. No, you're not. I sure am. Yeah, I'm cutting right on through. Why not? He hasn't even taken them out of the plastic wrapping. I'm sure not. I'm just leaving them right in there. I think that's a good idea.  Hold the bottom on Right. We want this to be three pickets tall because that's the sayings I have written out right now Which would make it about six inches tall. You got pickets on the brain I thought it was gonna be eight inches, but I Back to what we're doing back to it. Focus focus Almost lost the tooth Step three. Now we're gonna bring it all together with hot glue only No No, I still think I'm gonna well, we'll see we'll see I mean if you wanted to try to carry apples in it Then I think maybe we need some brad nails. Well, it's just gonna hold some foliage I think we'll be okay with old sticky Jones Well, okay But what if I put it in the attic and then it's gonna get hot It's gonna get a hot over the summer and mess with the glue. I think you need a little brad All right, we can give yours a little sticking Sticking I guess I'm just gonna try hot glue.  Each one is like a tiny little present It's like what's in this one a Ruler I got three rulers and I'll stop at eight inches Mine I'm gonna go ahead and paint my slats first. I'm gonna paint my top slats slats slats Orange and then I'm gonna use antique white and then I'm going to use Leatherbound on your slats slats Get it out Kim Step four now. I'm standing Kim's painting. She's all out of order Well, I think it'll be difficult to paint after so I'll find out. Yeah, we will stay we will see I'm gonna use this unicorn spit white and I don't know Red it's like red glitter But first I'm gonna get it wet. So I got a little cup of water Splish-splash Get it all wet for Kim.  Yeah, the little brad nail Let's see. I'm with you. Does it look like a flag? I don't want it to look like a flag I think once you get the decorations on it, it'll just look like a flag Yes, go ahead and tell them what the next step is and then I'll tell them what we're gonna do Step five and now we're gonna add the design We're really just throwing a little word or a little saying on each one of these little planks each one of these little slats Yeah, these are cute like they are but they're gonna be even cuter with some holiday sayings on each one And we forgot to even mention our star of the show this week is gonna be our cricket We're gonna use it to stencil while I'm going to stencil. Are you guys stencil or vinyl? I don't know. I think I'm gonna stencil He loves that We're gonna stencil these cute little holiday sayings on each one We're just gonna hop in a design space Type out all of our sayings all like how many like 24 sayings 24 words Cricket maker 3 to cut these Garrett used His fonts from his laptop that I do not have on my iPad So the great thing about cricket design spaces I can just open the project and make it and I don't have to have these fonts installed on my iPad as long as I don't edit the file It'll cut the project as is and the great thing about this cricket maker 3 is we get to use this Smart vinyl so I don't have to add a mat. I just load it right in here Get it under its little guides and then I'll just go right into to design space click make it I'm gonna use without a mat and then Continue so I'll select smart vinyl permanent and with the cricket maker 3 I'm gonna hit the flashing triangle button. I decided that I'm just gonna go with vinyl.  I'm gonna put my transfer tape on Pull it off and then just take the pieces that I'm not gonna use Well seems hard I don't think so. Okay. I think it's gonna be easier than that weeding transfer tape putting it down Mod podge paint That's a lot. Okay. Okay, and For mine we put these nice boxes around each of the words So I can go ahead and take off the first layer and just leave the boxes and then leave the little boxes You'll see what I'm talking about Mistletoe up Oh, I messed up jingle bells I got the G stuck to my thumb now. All right, I ruined three of them now You know what? I'm just gonna write write it on with my hand. I'm just writing them on. I don't think you Yeah, I can't look I ruined three Three vinyl things now I'm gonna try again. One more try. I'm gonna try a little different technique this time Call all of this stuff. I don't want off now Then use a piece to transfer. I think that's a good idea And I have all of my stencils on my next step is to add a coat of Mod Podge Mod Podge over each of these stencils Let it dry so it seals the stencil and I don't have any bleeding when I add paint Or if you don't have Mod Podge, you can use the same coat of paint so I could put a coat of orange a coat of antique white and a coat of green But that takes too long.  I'm gonna go ahead and peel the stencil up My goodness. Look at that already looking so cute now Do as I say not as I do We probably should have sprayed this because of the chalk paint and I'm using permanent vinyl because it didn't have a removable vinyl You probably I probably should have sprayed this with some Polycrylic first and then stenciled and that way it wouldn't have pulled up some of the paint So as I pull the stencil off, it's pulling up some of my base paint here from my pickets That's okay because what I think I'm going to do is give it a little sand and then a little bit of antiquing wax To age it a little bit. So it should be all right. I Was gonna put this big ball in mine and then kind of stuff stuff around it until it looks Christmassy, I didn't have two greenery balls. So he's confident. He can use that foam ball. Yeah, it'll work What do you think how to turn out not too shabby, right? I love them. I think they look great I'm not sure which one I like better. Although. I do think mine was easier Once I figured out the correct way to weed it. Well, I think I Would love to see if you guys do this project what yours looks like Garrett could have added some green in there for Christmas That's what the greenery was for. Oh, I see I see I see my box sheer Christmas Pop a green. Well, I do think it's going to be fine with just glue. He just used glue for his I did add some nails and glue for mine.  We could But I loved them. They're so cute. This is exactly so I saw this in idea on Pinterest Actually went to the store that that was going to carry these but they were no they weren't there And they was said 404 not found so they don't carry this item anymore. So I was able to make it myself I actually I think these turned out better. I do. I think that one looks way cooler than the one you saw on Pinterest Yeah, and this one didn't exist. This one was yeah Straight out of your head All right, we are about out of time so if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show We will see you next week where we'll do it build it and make it again. I've already balanced this one several times No challenge no challenge. Let's try yours. Well, all right My flowers aren't all jabbed in to the green thing Then we'll just assume it balances in a similar fashion


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