Are you someone who struggles with trust issues? Because I definitely am. I've been lied to, cheated on, used, manipulated, stolen from. Everything that you can imagine to just destroy my trust and faith in humanity. So how the hell am I supposed to trust? My girlfriend Tristan or my editor Zach is up everybody. This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about trying to help you to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. So yeah, I am making a video about trust issues because I know so many of us struggle with this. We struggle with trust issues. And something that I talk about often on my channel is about how isolation is a bad thing and makes your anxiety and depression works. Like we need to build relationships with people, but you might be somebody like me who struggles with trust issues because of your past. So I'm the son of an alcoholic mom. I've had my mom let me down a million times. I've had girlfriends who have cheated on me. I've had friends steal from me and backstab me and lie to me and everything that you can imagine, I've worked in the sales field at work and had coworkers steal my clients. Like everything that can destroy a person's trust has happened to me. But the issue that I found was that I wasn't able to live free and be happy and improve my mental health when I don't trust anybody. And what happens is we put up all these walls. We put up these huge walls. We don't let anybody in. We're always worried about getting hurt and it's difficult. I get it. So in this video, I wanted to talk about two people who I've had to work on my trust issues with and one of them is my beautifully amazing girlfriend, Tristan, and my wonderful editor, Zach. So I'll break this up into two parts. First, I'll talk about Tristan and our relationship, then I'll talk about Zach, the editor, and our relationship. So yeah, so first let's focus on the relationship aspect of myself and Tristan. So I've mentioned this in other videos in the past. I've been hurt by a million women, a million women. And something I eventually realized was that I was at fault too. I was somebody who wasn't all that great in relationships as well. But it made it so I didn't trust women. I used to be one of those emo kids who listened to alkaline trio and hate women music and stuff because I just thought all women were terrible and awful, being cheated on and just women talking to other guys behind my back and going through my phone and I'd have to go through their phone and all of that. So how could I ever have a healthy relationship? And so when Tristan and I first started talking, as with anybody back when I was single and dating, I had these huge walls up because I was worried about this person hurting me, right? Like if I opened up too much to them, they're gonna hurt me and I don't wanna do that. So maybe I'll just keep up this guard. Maybe I'll just stay protected. Maybe I'll just put on a front or a show or whatever it is. So I guard my feelings, right? But like that's no way to live. That's no way to live. Like something that a lot of us struggle with, especially anybody who struggles with anxiety, we struggle with this thing called future tripping, right? The what is? Like one of my favorite quotes, I think it was from Mark Twain, said something along the lines of like the worst things that have ever happened to me in my life, like never even happened, right? And it's basically talking about all the scenarios we make up in our mind. So the thing that helps me out the most with this, especially with a relationship is mindfulness, right? So mindfulness is a meditation practice. It's very informal, where we're just training our brain to bring us back to the present, right? Because when I started dating Tristan, like it's easy for me to think, what if she cheats on me? What if she's like texting other guys? What if she's, you know, doing this? What if she doesn't like me? What if she's gonna leave me? And all these other things, like these are things that can lead to me self-sabotaging our relationship. And something that I see so many people do, which isn't fair, is we bring our baggage from the last relationship into the new one, right? And then after that, we bring the relationship baggage from both the old relationships into the new one. And it just keeps accumulating and accumulating and accumulating. Like is that fair to the other person that we're trying to start a relationship with? By the way, that's one of the reasons why I tell people that they need to stay single until they work on all this stuff, right? Or they're at least in the healing process. Because it's not fair to the other person. Want to know how you can tell us not fair? How would you feel? How would you feel if you dated somebody who is constantly accusing you of things that their ex did? Not too good, right? And this is that beautiful thing that we like to call empathy. You know what I'm saying? So I can't worry about those things. And you know, the other thing that we worry about is like, oh, what if she breaks up with me? Like I've had women just break up with me out of nowhere. It's almost like when you get fired and like seemingly for no reason, I've had women just straight up leave me. And you know, one of the reasons that I didn't like to date is like, what if this person just decides they're done with me? What if they just get rid of me, right? Like I have abandonment issues. Like I thought that my mom just like abandoned me and gave me to my dad when I was a child. You know what I'm saying? Like these are things that have been deeply rooted inside of me, but I can't do that if I want to have a healthy relationship. I can't worry about that. So what I do with Tristan on a day-to-day basis is I remember right now, like today things are good, right? I can't worry about what if we get into a fight tomorrow? What if this? What if that? What if, you know, whatever?  But, you know, aside from just our relationship stuff, you know, we're growing as a couple. And, you know, we've been together for almost two years now and we're about to get our own place. But I have an exciting announcement that I want all of you to know. I know we're not getting married and we're not pregnant. So calm down. But anyways, yeah, I've asked Tristan to become like more part of the rewired soul. And this is just something like, when I made my video about Cavos the other day and I want to do more videos like that, like you got to learn how to be a better judge of character, right? Like I've been with Tristan for almost two years now. And like I want her to become more of a part of the rewired soul. So what I'm doing and talk about trust, right? I'm giving her all the login information to my YouTube channel and my Instagram.  Because as I'm growing, like I'm getting overloaded. Like some of you watching this right now, you've sent me DMs or emails that I haven't gotten back to yet because I am just all over the place. I'm all over the place. So I asked Tristan if she could help me out with that. Like you've all seen Tristan in the live chat. She's amazing. She has a background in mental health as well. She worked at a mental health facility in California. She's actually in school right now to be a social worker. Her and I have amazing conversations about mental health.  Like right now it's like, I don't know, like nine in the morning and I've been up since seven in the morning just replying to all of your comments on YouTube. You know what I mean? So Tristan's gonna help me out with that. So I just wanna let y'all know like you might get a message from Tristan. But like that's the thing. There's a reason why I never called this thing like the Chris Boutay channel. Like I don't want it to be about me. I want it to be about everybody. I wanna do, that's why I love doing collaborations and shouting out other creators because we all struggle with mental health. And again, I'm nothing special. I'm nobody special. Other people have been through things and they can give you a message of hope as well. So I'm very excited that Tristan is going to be helping me out with this. She's also gonna be helping me out with Patreon. Like all of you signing up on Patreon, you're all amazing and you guys, we have really exciting stuff happening. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. Soon this week I'm doing my first Patreon Q&A which I will post here on the YouTube channel. So a lot of you, a lot of you, send me requests. You send me requests for videos. Sometimes I do them, sometimes I don't. It depends on my mood. But what I'm trying to do is prioritize the people who are helping to support the channel to do their video ideas. So I hope that makes sense because I'm only one person. I can't make a video for everybody, you know, who's subscribed to me. So if you're interested, like just Patreon links all over the place, down in the description and stuff. Like even if you're just signed up for a dollar a month, like I will take your suggestions into consideration but I'm gonna start doing a Patreon Q&A once a week. So Tristan is going to help me manage the Patreon and all of that. So next, let's talk about this dude Zach. Let's talk about Zach the editor. So this is important. Like this is really, really important.  Like I, like I just got back from Vid Summit, you know about a week ago where it's a convention with all these creators and like first off, first off, some of my best videos, some of my best growth happened while I was gone at Vid Summit and it never would have happened if it wasn't for Zach. But I met so many other creators at that event where they won't hire an editor. They will not hire an editor because they are control freak. They're a control freak and they're so worried. So how I met Zach was in Roberto Blake's Facebook group The Awesome Creator Academy.  And like I've been watching him, like I look at people, I analyze people, I judge like their character and stuff. And Zach just has this insane, insane work ethic. Like I've met a lot of creators who like they just want everything handed to them. They just wanna be a gigantic YouTuber and not have to put any work. They just wanna go viral. They just want, you know, money to just rain from the sky. And like Zach isn't like that. I saw Zach just hustling. Like Zach was trying to find a way to do some freelance work and make some extra money. And this dude was all up on Twitter, just messaging different people, just saying, yo, I'll edit for you. Yo, I'll do this. They offered to do stuff for free just to get his name out there. And like it's crazy. He hustled and he got a few gigs. Some of them worked out. Some of them didn't, but even so he got some more experience. And like Zach just keeps pushing forward. And I look for that. I look for that. Like I just replied to a comment not long ago where somebody was like telling me that they wish their YouTube channel was bigger. I went over to their YouTube channel and they've done like five videos. I'm like, well, what do you expect? Like people aren't just gonna come there, you know? Like you have to put in the work. Why do you guys think I hustle so hard? Because this world does not owe me anything. I have to put in the work. And I see that in Zach. I saw that in Zach. I saw his hustle and his work ethic. But aside from that, like Zach has a very, you know, not a very small channel.  Like some of you need to watch Cody Warner and he has hashtag NoSmallCreator. But anyways, like Zach's, Zach does amazing work. And every time I would watch his videos, I would laugh and I would just have, I always have a huge smile on my face. Like if you were in the live stream, we watched Zach's video about like Pokemon waifus. Oh my God. If you really want to get to know who Zach the editor is, like go check out his video about Pokemon waifus. It is absolute madness. It is madness. Like Zach is just looking for a thick Gudra to make his life complete. Anyways, getting back to the point. So watching Zach's videos, I love his humor. I love, you know, his work ethic. And like what I, what I just started doing was like, I was like, yo dude, do you want to help me out? And like I would pay him a little bit to help me out with editing and all of that. But like, you guys know my work ethic and you know how much I hustle. And this is just too much for me. I edit all my own stuff. So you guys probably noticed like, if you guys pay attention to my channel, you notice when I edit a video and when Zach edits a video, right? Like I love the way Zach edits. Zach's thumbnail game is on point. But yeah, like I just gradually grew my trust with Zach and he listens too. He listens. Like me and Zach were just like on the same page and we click and we have a similar style of humor too. Like I told him, you know, what I liked about his work and what I would like to see him do with mine. And some of you have mentioned how Zach's kind of like Brad. I like told Zach, like I love Brad who edits PewDiePie stuff. So Zach is kind of like taking that style where me and him kind of have a back and forth. And I love that too because on a mental health channel, sometimes I'm talking about pretty serious topics and I like how Zach can infuse some humor in there to kind of lighten it up because that's one of my missions with this channel and with what I'm just trying to do for this world is I want mental health to not be this like taboo subject and like things that we're afraid to talk about, you know? And Zach's like comedic timing is amazing and he knows when to dial it back. Sometimes when I'm watching what Zach, you know, edited, I'm like, oh no, like I hope he doesn't like try to throw in a joke right here and he doesn't. So like, I love that about Zach, like me and him just click. But if you're somebody who is a control freak, like remember, I always say this, pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Like if you have trust issues, if you're a control freak and you're taking on too big of a workload, that's on you and I'm sorry to let you know but I don't feel sorry for you. Like you need to take the steps and work on your trust issues. Like with Zach, for example, we took baby steps. I had him edit a video for me like once in a while, right? Had to make me a thumbnail once in a while and like I started to see that he was giving me good work. So now Zach is like helping me out a lot, a lot. I'm still editing some of my stuff because Zach is so amazing at what he does. He's actually helping a lot of different channels. But anyways, like I really respect and appreciate what Zach does. So if any of you struggle with trust issues, I really, really hope this video helped you out. Like I like sharing my own experience and how I've overcome some of my own mental health struggles. And like if you're struggling with trust issues, like just the best thing I can say is take baby steps, stay in the now, don't worry about the future.  I don't know, but today Zach's doing a good job.  Like stay in the present, quit future tripping, all right? So anyways, let's do this down in the comments below. Let me know down in the comments below if you think that you still have trust issues and maybe even if you wanna list the reason why. Wait, no, forget that. Here at the Rewired Soul, we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. So here's what I want from you down in the comments below. Let me know if you're struggling with trust issues, you can say why if you would like to, but I wanna hear you tell me and the rest of the Rewired Soul audience out there what you're going to do to work on it. How about that, all right? So anyways, that's all I got for you with this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I have a ton of awesome videos coming your way. And a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. And remember, I'm doing Patreon only Q&A coming very soon. So if you would like to support the channel over on Patreon and get involved, click or type on that Patreon icon right there. All right, thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.


شعرت شموس الهديب الكلمات فأنا رت الأفهم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين واللعنة الدائمة على عدائهم أجمعين الله سبحانه وتعالى سرنه the verse in the holy Quran بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولا تتمنه ما فضل الله به بعضكم على بعضا للرجال نصيب من مكتسب والنساء نصيب من مكتسب وسأل الله من فضله إن الله كان بكل شيء عليما الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول في this holy verse do not desire those in which Allah has given his gifts most freely on some of you than others to men is allotted what they earn and to women is allotted of what they earn but ask Allah for his bounty for Allah has full knowledge in all things what we see in this world today that there is everything that's favored there's what's favored in the life of nature what's favored in the life of animals and what's favored in the life of the human being in fact every creation that Allah has created has been favored one over another even Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the holy Quran in four verses he mentions he says if you realize fruits and vegetables they look differently they have different tastes they come in different sizes and they even differ in their health benefits the second verse Allah says we have preferred some over others the human beings in the third verse Allah سبحانه وتعالى says speaking to the prophets to the messengers he says some prophets exceed others in various ways and in the last ayah Allah سبحانه وتعالى says those messengers some are preferred more than others some exceed and are better than others so you realize that in this world whether we choose it or not there is always the best there is always the better if you're pretty there is what's prettier there is what's smarter if you're tall there is who's taller there is always the best there is always perfect and I think that the one that's most favored and preferred is what's linked to perfection what's most perfect let me give you an example for example the inanimate it tells you why am I an inanimate I want to be a plant and let's just say that we can control this with a pen so we bring all the inaniments and we cross them out with a pen we make them into plants because plants are better than inaniments but the plant says why am I a plant I want to be something more preferred I want to be favored I want to be an animal so we bring a pen and we cross out all the plants what do we have? does this end? what do we have? we have a life with no oxygen no rain, no rocks, no blocks no water to drink if you're thirsty and no oxygen to breathe from you have animals let's see if this ends somewhere the animal tells you why am I an animal I want to be preferred I want to be what's better I want to be a human so you cross out the animals you're left with a human being does this end over here? of course not the human being the human being's body tells you why am I feet I want to be hands so you cross out the feet and you're left with hands the hands tell you I want to be preferred the eyes are better than the hands I want to be eyes the eyes tell you why am I eyes I want to be preferred I want to be a brain the intellect so what are you left with? you're left with a world with nothing but human brains pumping like this therefore in this world there's always who wants to be the best but there has to be A and there has to be B there has to be varieties in everything so the first discussion is the existence of this phenomenon the second discussion is the diagnosis of this phenomenon let's diagnose it say that you want to build a house so what do you do? you need blocks you pick up block A or block B if you pick up block A to start first block B will tell you why didn't you lift me up? why did you choose block A? okay let me give you another example you're running from a tiger in a desert and you run run you reach two paths there's path A and path B which path would you take? if you take path A path B would say why didn't you choose me first? if you choose path B path A would say why didn't you choose me first? so what do you do? you stop there and you let the tiger come and eat you or you're hungry you pick up two pieces of bread to eat which piece would you start first to bite on? bread A or bread B same thing it will never end we have to accept the fact that there is letter A and that there is letter B letter B cannot say why am I not letter A that's it you're letter B A is A and B is B there has to be varieties the third discussion is why is there a preference of this phenomenon whether we accept it or not there always has to be preferences it's available in this world there's always the best there's always better now this ayah this verse that I mentioned is in Surat An-Nisa and I am assuming it's in Surat An-Nisa because one of the problems that we have today in the west is about women why do men have more preference than women? sometimes being equal is not justice there has to be differences it's just like telling the doctor that you have to be even and equal so the doctor gives all his clients, his patients one prescription but that's not being equal it's not being even because those patients they defer in their illnesses so why is the doctor giving them all one prescription because he wants to be equal wants to be even or it's like a teacher giving all her students one mark, one grade but there are students who have studied harder students who deserve a high mark and students who don't but the teacher says I want to be equal sometimes being equal is not being justice there has to be differences if you accept the fact that the men and the women there should be differences in their shape of their body and their feature faces then you should accept that there should be differences in the other things science today has proven that the size of a man's brain is a bit larger than the size of a woman's brain if you accept that scientifically then you should accept that in the Shi'a legislation there are differences between men and women Allah says do not desire what Allah has given men over women or what Allah has given some to men and women don't desire desiring ruins your life number one it's because you're objecting to Allah why did Allah give us this and not give us that why do we have to go through this and not go through that you're objecting Allah's creation don't desire some people they ruin their lives by desiring by just looking at what they don't have and not seeing what good they have we don't have an update on the life of an ant of a crawling ant but scientists have proven or researchers have proven today that a crawling ant is living her life satisfied she's fully satisfied with what Allah has given them all the animals are satisfied with their life except one creation the human beings they're never satisfied they're always living their life miserable depressed now not all of them but the majority of human beings they live miserable depressed they have no energy why it's because they look at what they have that person have this and I don't have this why does that person have that and I don't have that Allah SWT says in this holy verse do not desire what Allah has given men and women one over another Allah has given some to men and some to women so don't desire relax yourself Allah SWT has given you everything but there's one thing that Allah hasn't given you you just think of that one thing why doesn't Allah give me this why don't I have this this is the problem that we see in communities today I am not saying everybody but the majority we see problems because there are people who have fame there are people who are smarter there are people who are prettier there are people who are wealthier and we look at what we don't have so what do we do we plot one another we hate one another we try to destroy one another why is that it's because we desire of what others have and we don't Allah says in this verse do not desire but it doesn't stop here he says ask Allah وصلوا الله من فضله don't desire relax yourself but ask Allah SWT of what you want there's a story of this scholar he's a well-known scholar الشيخ البحباني if you search into his life it's narrated that he was popular he was a scholar he was well-known and most of the مشتهدين were his students he reached 80 years old and he lost his memory now not all of his memory but he felt that he lost his memory so he gathered his students now usually when someone becomes a senior they get depressed because their body changes their sense of hearing their sight changes they feel there's changes in their life so they get depressed now our youth are falling through depression so how about our seniors but this scholar did not get depressed what he did was he gathered his students and he said to them why have lost my memory after reaching this fame after 80 years old he lost his memory we show off a lot in one second Allah SWT can take everything away from us he can take our memory what do we do that's why there is in زيارة السيدة معصومة in her زيارة it says ولا تسلبني من ما أنا فيه do not take away from me the good you have given me because in one minute Allah can take everything away from you that scholar gathered his students he said to them that I have lost my memory they said to him what do we do he said سيد مهدي بحر العلوم للإفداء والمرجعية you be the scholar شيخ جعفر كاشف الغطاء you will be the teacher and سيد عبدالله شبر you will be the person who will pray إمامة الجمع those were his three students his top students they said what would you do he said an eye will teach the beginning of حوزة the beginning of jurisprudence شرح اللمع so he was 80 years old he was the greatest scholar he accepted himself to go down a bit lower and teach the beginners of حوزة he did not close the door on himself he did not get depressed from 80 years of his age to 9 years that's 10 years he taught the beginners of حوزة and he passed away this is how we're supposed to be not desiring because once you desire you ruin your life you ruin your life by being depressed and just looking around what you don't have if a sister if a girl her sister has a good husband or a wealthy husband but she's tested with a husband who's living in poverty all she does say is why does my sister have a good husband he's wealthy and I don't and all they do is look at what they don't have and what others have do you find a solution in this run after the solution there's no solution live happily relax don't desire because Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in this verse don't desire but it did not end here he said you want something ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى if you go to the book of البرهان there is this ayah and the translation of this verse that they asked that what does this verse mean he said that Allah سبحانه وتعالى says do not desire what Allah has given some over others so a woman and a man should not desire what Allah has given one over another but to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to have something similar something like it so if you see someone who's smart don't sit down on desire and say why is this person smart and I'm not but ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى ask Allah for his abundance if you see someone who's wealthy don't sit down and say why am I living in poverty and this person is wealthy that's desiring don't desire but ask Allah I want something like it in another حديث سلام الله عليه وسلم he says that in this verse in another narration he said that in this verse Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given everyone certain blessing and there are some blessings that he hasn't given to anybody except those who ask or he has given to some people but for some he hasn't given to them so those people have to ask وسأل الله من فضلة إن الله كان بكل شيء عليما ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for his bounty for his abundance and indeed Allah سبحانه وتعالى will give you so let's not ruin our life by desiring let's relax our bodies and brains and ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for what we don't have and Allah سبحانه وتعالى indeed will respond to us وسأل الله على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهر الله عطالك حد من الوجود لون من الوجود تفضل الله سبحانه وتعالى عليك بهذا الحد عرفت الحكم في ذلك أو لم تعرف امش في طريقك هذا التمنى عمل مدمر ولا تتمنوا ما فضل الله به بعضكم على بعض


Hello everyone. Can you hear me all right or do I need to talk louder? A little louder? Okay, I will try to talk louder and if I don't, if I'm not loud enough, give me the thumbs in the back there so I know what to do. We're going to back up just a little bit from the presentation Tom just gave on the current status of our open course library and talk about the culture of sharing that we've developed in our system of 34 community and technical colleges in the state of Washington.  Distance, distant past. We're going to go all over the land. Our 34 community and technical colleges created a single student management system which we actually still use today and are trying really hard to move off of. But it was a great idea 30 years ago and because we all have the same student management system some possibilities existed and the point that I'm going to try to illustrate here is that a culture of sharing increases opportunities for sharing even if after a certain amount of time those artifacts or those programs become outdated that culture of sharing will persist. So time passes like 30 years. Sorry. In 1997 our colleges formed a consortium to create and share completely online courses. And so we started with 20 courses that constitute an AA degree. We started with a process not unlike the one we're using with the open course library which is we hired faculty to develop the courses. They were built and taught by the faculty and they were freely available and when we opened them in 1998 we would give them to anyone. And I'm going to show you a chart that will show you what happened with that. Because we shared that student management system though we were also able to pool enrollments very easily in those courses. So one college adopts a course and puts five students in and another college puts in two students and another college puts in six students. And among the 34 colleges you get full sections. And this was a very effective way to build online course delivery because the content was free and there was a possibility of sharing and because we were building capacity not only in courses but also in trained faculty and in course development. So we really like this pooled enrollment system. It allows students to access all the courses and services at one institution. So the student enrolls at one institution they may be taking courses that are taught at another institution but to the student it appears a local course. Other grades are together all of that. It allows our colleges to offer a wider variety of courses and also to serve a small number of students. Maybe they only have a few students each quarter who meet a certain class. They could throw those students into the pool. And we also think those courses are flexible and efficient. We can scale them up or down. Well probably by the end of the presentation I'll figure out where to point this thing. And this is what happened. This starts in fall of 2003 and before that it was growing kind of the same. But the top line the blue line is total e-learning and you can see that there is a tremendous growth. And the green line is the non-shared courses. But the shared courses pretty straight right across the bottom. And actually right now they're dropping even further it's dramatically dropping right now. So is that a good thing or a bad thing? What we thought is we thought hey success. We thought we did what we set out to do which was to jump start this process. We created courses. We shared them out. Gave them to people free. We figured out a way to offer them. And look what happened to e-learning. Our goal was to create access for students. Done. And so it worked. But at the same time there are those courses. You know they're shareable, they're open, but they're not getting used anymore. So what do you do about that? We thought about it. Why is it that these courses are no longer being shared? Why does that number stay so low? And one thing that we're pretty sure of is that faculty don't want a whole course. They don't want to take the course and say oh alright there it is. Now I'm going to A, B, C, 1, 2, 3 teach this course. And that's what we were offering them. And in fact we know that usually when faculty took those courses and copied them. They just used them as a beginning point. They might not have even used the course itself, only looked at it as a model. They may have kept only a few pieces of it and changed it over time. So to us the logical outgrowth of that was the open course library, which Tom's going to talk about in a minute. And another factor here that builds into this is that in 2007 our system put together a strategic technology plan. And the strategy one was to create a single system-wide suite of online teaching and learning tools. So this is sharing once again, but sharing not only the courses but also technology. And so we have since then, jeez, there we go. We share these services and tools. We've got Angel as Tom mentioned, Taverty Collaborate. We've got the Northwestie Tutoring Consortium. If anybody wants to join by the way. It's a great opportunity for tutoring. It's a collaborative, very inexpensive way to provide e-tutoring to all your students. Open to anyone. Professional Development and the Open Course Library, which we're going to talk a little bit more about. So we get all of these things that grow out of that idea of once you share something and start working as a group, then the opportunities to share other things appear. And people are immediately can buy into the next thing because they know that it's worked in the past. The Open Course Library we see is the logical extension of those first open courses that we did in 1998 in that there's a whole course and somebody can take the whole course if they want. But what's more likely is that they'll see all the pieces of content and say, oh, I could use this and I could use that. I'll mix these things together and then create the course. And this will more closely match the way instructors build courses. And that's our theory and we'll see starting on Monday if we're correct or not. I'm now running Unreserved Battery Power. Tom? Because of that, I'm going to turn it over to Tom. And actually, this is where it leads in that we will cultivate the practice, the culture and practice of using and contributing to open resources as part of that technology plan that I mentioned before, sharing the technology but also developing open resources which, by definition, are shareable. All right, good luck, Tom. Speaking of open sharing, does anyone have a Mac? A Mac power cable that they're willing to share openly? Fantastic. It probably could have even reached anywhere. Yeah, that'd be great. Wow, that's awesome. Just barely in... You can ask for PC. Look at that. That's gorgeous. How are you going to hand it back to her? That's right. It's all new. So we're going to talk a little bit about... Did you mention the strategic technology plan? Yeah. So I think the other element that I want to highlight from the strategic technology plan is just that it had baked into it this goal of engaging in OVR. So from the strategic technology plan it says, we will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources. Which I think is significant in a policy document. And again, it's something that we use. We leveraged that when people were asking, why are we doing this open thing? This was, once you get the policy problem solved, then you lean on that to get your buy-in in other places. So anyway, for us, it was kind of a logical next step. We had the internet. We had digital content. What were we missing? Everyone had those two and it wasn't really... We still weren't lowering costs and increasing access. So the open license was the key. And so with all of the other pieces that were sort of fitting into this puzzle, we also had the open licensing policy that came along right around the same time. Which was just a couple of years ago. And basically that says that any optional grant money that comes through the state board actually requires that the material being created by that money is then openly licensed and shared back. So it's really a key piece to our strategy of efficiency and really working to increase access, increase quality and lower cost. So this is just, from the College Board report, just a data point that full-time students spend now well over $1,000, closer to $1,200 on textbooks every year. Now if you're in the two-year college in the state of Washington, your tuition is right around $35, $3600. And then you add $1,200. That's 25% more on top of your tuition that you have to come up with. I mean your total outlay increases by a quarter because of textbooks. And so, again, for us that wasn't acceptable and we started looking at ways to bring that down. And our good friends at the student perks, Nicola I don't think is in the room right now, but, by the way, Nicola went literally across country, 40 universities and just bless her for having gone through that six weeks of a road trip with these very fun sort of SpongeBob-like looking comments. And the textbook rebellion really drove home the point that this is not okay. The way that textbook costs keep skyrocketing is not okay. And so just I think that the first step in solving a problem is just realizing that you have a problem. And so this is a great awareness campaign that Nicole Allen and Flaproll Knowledge put together. Another point that's important here is that even in the state of Washington, which by the way, Nicole's last two stops were in the UW and Evergreen College just right near where I live. And she leveraged grassroots support from, you know, at every college. She had student advocates that were, you know, dressing up in the puppet outfit, getting out there, talking to their fellow students. And we have the same thing in Washington. We have Student Voice Academy. We have students who are mobilizing around issues. And interestingly, the top issue of three years running is cutting textbook costs. So is this a pain point for students? Absolutely. So, and then just an example, but, you know, in English Composition 1, we have in our two-year colleges in Washington, we have 50,000 plus enrollments. And if you're saving, or if you can save $100 per textbook, which is just, you know, that's a low number, actually, then that's $5 million saved to students every year. Well, why are we so adamant about saving students money? Well, because number one, if they can't buy the textbook, they're not going to do very well in the class. I mean, that's clear. Student perks has done research around that and it's, you know, and that shows. The other thing is that students are taking out student loans to be able to afford the cost of their education. So, and many of those loans are subsidized by state and federal government. So really, we should all care. It's not just saving students money. It's actually saving all of us money. And so just a little bit on some of the legislation that has led us to this point. And I think it's important to point out that this progression that Connie described is really just that. I mean, we started with this idea that we could do things more efficiently by sharing our enrollments and it progressed from there. And so using the legislative influences, because legislators get the idea that this is an important efficiency, especially in difficult economic times. But really anytime it makes sense to get the most out of your dollar. So one of the things in Hospital 1025, we added just a little piece right here. So this is the existing piece of legislation that says, look, you need to consider the least expensive option if, you know, all things being equal. And we went ahead and included open textbooks as one of the options there. And I think, again, each little step bringing you closer to convincing others that open education is okay. And they have permission to go there. And that's, I think, that's where all these little steps lead. So again, substitute Senate House Bill 1946, really that talks about open licensing options and then sites as examples, open coursework, open textbooks, open journals, and open learning objects. So another piece of legislation that went through. We talked about the open policy and so I won't touch on this right now. But really a critical piece to leading up to the open course library. And by the way, the open policy says everything that we produce is CC by. It's not just choose your open licenses. We want it as open as possible because, well, it creates opportunities. We talked about this in the last presentation a little bit. So for those of you who were here, sorry for the duplication. But I want to just now focus a little bit on the open course library goals. And really the open course library is about four things. It's about designing and sharing 81 high and rolling courses. So we're not just tinkering around the edges. We're going for the big courses. The courses with the most enrollments, pre-college and gatekeeper courses. It's about improving completion rates. Of course it's lowering textbook costs. And one of the things with the open course library is that no single course can use materials that are over $30. And actually most of our courses don't have any cost at all in the open course library. 26 out of the 42 have zero cost. So the interesting thing about that, I'll just pause and insert this. So the Saylor Foundation, so this is one of the serendipitous cool things that happens when you share. But the Saylor Foundation came along and we sort of met up at a conference and realized that we had very similar goals. They were focused on delivering open content directly to learners. We were focused on creating these resources to give to faculty. And so we both had different audiences but really very similar goals. The Saylor Foundation folks said, well gee, can we use your materials? And we said, absolutely. So we actually worked it out so that we were sharing with them even before the official launch. And they've already developed a few of our courses into, you know, into more modular, student-friendly, kind of self-learner-paced courses out on their website, Saylor.org. So it's just S-A-Y-L-O-R.org. And so anyway, it's just one of those things where in the process they actually came back to us and said, oh, you know, you got a couple broken links back on this one course. And we're like, oh, thanks. So that kind of collaboration is just really great because it helps us, it helps them, but really it helps the students. I mean, that's the bottom line. So lowering textbook costs, oh, and the whole reason I got on that little soapbox was because interestingly, and we're going to definitely push this in phase two in the next 39 courses that we build next year, it was the open, it was the 100% free courses that got picked up by the Saylor Foundation. So they were less interested in the $30 or less, you know, in the low-cost textbooks, but they really grabbed on to the 100% free. So we're going to really encourage our faculty in phase two to really think seriously about making their course have a zero cost. So anyway, the rest of this is really to get our faculty, the goal of the project, get our faculty engaged in the open course movement and really provide, we're providing our faculty with additional resources that they can leverage to improve their own courses. Everything's available at OpenCourseLibrary.org starting Monday and we'll have a big press release and we're pushing hard to make a splash out of this only because really our feeling is that the more people, students and faculty that hear about this, the greater the adoption rate will be. By the way, we also have a link on OpenCourseLibrary.org which is called our adoption form. So that's one of the ways that we're trying to track our adoptions is that similar to, you know, when any faculty adopts a textbook, they fill out an adoption form. Well, we're asking faculty who adopt our courses to fill out the adoption form to get a little bit of information about what was the cost of your last textbook, you know, are you spending anything on your new materials and then we can sort of measure our progress as we go. And so finally, at the end of it all, I think the main thing that matters here is efficient use of public funds to increase student success and access to quality education and quality materials. So really all of the business models are negotiable. We take all commerce publishers included and we will work with anyone that will work with us. And really this is our goal. So at the end of it all, we want to make education much more affordable in our state but then why not share it out with the world. And so we are selfish. We're building for our state. That's our focus. We're not building for the whole world. But you know what? Absolutely, we're willing to share that with everyone and other people will pick it up and hopefully customize it from there. So that's it. And hopefully we have just a minute or so for questions or a couple minutes. Yeah. Okay, so you've got your community colleges and your technical colleges on board. Why don't you have your four-year universities and your research institutions? Well, so define on board. Well, I mean, are they participating? Yes. Okay. Yeah. The grant to us. Okay, we're talking about our most 81 common courses but the four-year institutions are very interested. They've often wanted to share in our other courses but it was a closed system because we were on that same student analysis system. They weren't. So this is now open. Okay. The other thing is that they are working with us and we have to replace our learning management system and it's all 34 colleges and all six of our universities are working together. We'll see if we all agree on one but they are definitely interested. We're already sharing some of the technology as well. So yeah, they're interested. It's not, you know, it's the goal, the problem is figuring out how to make it easy. You know, is there a difference? Right. Absolutely. This is a brilliant idea. Congratulations on what you've achieved here. Just fantastic to see this. You feel, you've got a grant now to get things rolling and so forth. Do you feel comfortable long term? I mean, in 20 years from now that things will be in place that this will be owned by somebody financially to sustain it or do you think we have concerns there? That's a good quote. Yeah, we have concerns, absolutely. And actually we're designing the phase two very differently. We're doing everything in Google Docs and we're using a Google site to organize the course materials. The reason for that is number one, faculty were begging for more simplicity. I mean, they just, you know, many faculty, we were using a learning management system to create the content and many faculty just who were not familiar with that system, you know, it was spending 70% of our time learning technology instead of building content. But the reason we're moving to Google Docs, number one simplicity, number two, I'm going to put my money, if I had to bet between filling the blank name your learning management system and Google, Google would be there longer. You know, I'm going to put my money on Google and the truth is we just want to simplify right now. We're not looking, this is not a project about creating the next whiz bang, you know, thing that will run on your iPad. We want it to work on everything and we're not just talking about text. We have a YouTube account and we certainly can link out to all kinds of great resources as long as they're open. But the point is that we do have a sustainability problem and so our plan to be sustainable is designed from the beginning for zero money to have to be spent to continue and so really we're looking for the faculty to take ownership. We're jump starting it with this grant but if I can go into Google Docs and say save a copy and I have everything that I need, the chances are much greater that I'll adopt it instead of going and having to get my faculty technician to do some magic on the LMS to import the course. Our experience in the past is that the content that was used got maintained and the content that did get used. I left it out, we started with 20 courses, eventually there are now some 400 but some of them were get-on arrivals, some didn't last long and some are still living because faculty use them, they'll update them. I'm not beholden to the content, I'm beholden to the students. If the content is still useful to the students I want to keep it going. If the content is just content then I don't really care if it stays alive or not. I think the best content will persist and certainly we still want to find the best way to really have ownership of the faculty to continue to keep the content up to date. If they feel like it's their course in that Google Doc they're going to keep updating it. So thank you for attending.


What is up everybody. Welcome back to the channel. In this video, I'm going to show you how to simply request access to a client's Facebook business page. Now, depending on how deep you're going in with them, if you're going to be running, you know, major Facebook ads, then you'll want to request access to their ad account. In this particular video, I'm going to just be showing you how to how to request access to their business page. Maybe they're hiring you to add a few links or maybe update or maybe add some photos or maybe manage their page. You have to get access to it. You have to request access. And there was a few different ways that I used to do this. Again, I've been doing this since 2016. I've tried different ways to try to make it the least stressful and the least, you know, amount of work that the client, you know, had to do on their end. I want to be able to do everything on my end. So I don't have to stress them out. I've tried many, many different ways to try to get access to this page.  I'll log in and I'll do it myself. And this is how I do it. So when I onboard a client and again, depend on what I'm doing for them, a lot of the times I'll do a few services for them upfront, really build the value, really build the relationship and then schedule a call for two weeks out to get them on a monthly retainer and charge them even more. That's my actual model. That's what I what I've been doing. That's how I how I've done it. And so in the very, very beginning, if I'm only going to do a few basic things for them, I don't need their ad account. Access to the ad account. I just need access to the business page. And I don't want to keep logging into their account. So I have to request access so I can manage it from my end. Okay, so here's how I do it. When I when I onboard a client, I set up a landing page, a simple landing page through Cartra. And the reason why I set it up this way is so I can just enter their name and email. And right when I hit game time, an email automatically goes out to them. And that's my onboarding email. So my onboarding email kind of just consists of information that I need their login. What the what what what we're going to be doing to the pages, basic stuff, basic information to allow me to get into the page.  No, I just do it. I just do it on my end. They don't even see this page. But the reason why I do it this way is because again I have it all set up through Cartra where the the page is tied to to a thank you page this form when you opt in it goes to a specific list. And then from that list, there's an email auto responder which is the sequence. I have the whole back end set up which is really the email auto responder, all because of this landing page. They opt in and then all of a sudden the email auto responder the sequence is triggered. And then they'll automatically be getting emails over the next few weeks. And that's how I stay in touch with the client and that's how I even upsell the client, because of my emails that are set up through the sequence. That's tied to this opt in page. Okay, so, again, if you're not using Cartra, man, you're just juggling multiple services, and you're spending more money than you need to be profit with Cartra dot online. There's a 14 day trial. It's in the description. Okay, I don't need to keep telling you guys about that but it's a game changer, man. So, over the next few weeks, they're going to get an email from me. Value upsell value upsell and really just getting them to get back on the phone with me, especially in this case where they're just hiring me to do a few simple things upfront. And where I really want them is on a monthly retainer later, and my emails are set up that way so I don't have to keep calling them I don't have to keep messaging them. I can tell them, hey, man, check your emails over the next couple weeks. I got a bunch of value coming your way. And that's in those emails. That's where I provide the link to my calendar to get them to schedule calls so I can get them back on the phone and upsell them even more. Okay, so this is a client that I just brought a board so the information already went through. I already received the the initial welcome email back with with their information on on on logging in to their account. And so here's what I do I I log into their account from a normal tab right from freaking this this window right here, but then I go into incognito. I go over here and I go new incognito, and I log into mine in the incognito because I need to be logged into mine and I need to be logged into theirs. Okay. So once I log into theirs, I'll log into mine and incognito. And then this is this is what I do. I'll come to their business page and I'll grab the link up here at the top the URL I'll copy that. And then I'll come over here to my my page, and then I'll click on I'll click on my drop down right here. And I'll come down to manage ads. And now I'm going to come into the back end part of the business manager. Okay, so now, now I'm in the business manager. What I'm going to do is I'm going to click on these three three lines up here at the top and yours might look a little different if you're on a newer version, because Facebook, they keep changing this, you know, all the time. And so, this is how mine looks right now. But yours might look a little different but what you're looking for is you're looking for either these three lines or you're looking for business settings. You'll find them somewhere in the new version as well you'll see business settings, click on that and this is what we're looking to do. So we come to the business settings and we're going to click on pages to the left. We'll click on the pages and make sure you're the correct ad account which that one is not the correct ad account. So let me go into the correct ad account. And then I'm going to click on pages. Okay, so I click on pages. And these are all my different clients that I'm working with right now.  And I'm going to request access to a page. Okay, that middle section right there and all I'm going to do is paste in that link. And you'll see the drop down come down right there. And you just hover over it, click it. And right here is going to ask you okay what what type of access are you looking for what role are you looking for are you looking just to publish content. Are you looking to moderate messages and comments are you looking to create ads view page performance, what are you looking to do what's your role, right. What I end up doing is I end up just accessing the whole thing give me admin access, because I don't want to have to keep messaging the client I don't want to bother the client. If something comes up and I can't access something. I don't want to have to, you know, take them away from their day to day activities of building their business. I want them to know that I got this part handled. So I request access to everything. Okay, now again, this is stuff that I'm doing all I asked for from the client was hey give me your login. I'm going to I'm going to add myself to your business page, and I'm going to take it take take care of it from there. That's all they know that's all they need to know they don't need to know any of this, this stuff. They don't need to know how I'm actually requesting the access they don't need to know that I'm actually doing it myself this way. They don't need to know any of that which they don't and they don't even care. So, just give me the act just give me the login all handle the rest. And so this is what I do. I hover over that, and I'm going to request admin access I request access, and then I go back to her page. Okay, I go back to her page and then I click on settings. And over here to the left, you're going to see page roles. And you should, and we're going to see we should see my company name, requesting access. So, this right here, you'll scroll down just a bit and you should see your name right here so there I am right there inspired digital respond to request is going to ask for the password. You're going to go ahead and say give inspired digital access approved request. And this is where the password goes. So let me pull up her password. And her password is 72. Okay, so put in the password, we hit enter. And then I hit no thanks I don't need to say that on my end that way. And then now you'll see my actually may not see it but now I have access. So long as it didn't say wrong password password or anything like that. Then you should have have access so the now. Oh, there, there we go right there perfect so now it's showing me right there.  And then right now, right now this is how it looks okay. This is how it looks. So request access and it's pending, you have to hit refresh.  Okay, so permissions given. I got all of it. That's admin access all of it right. And so what you have to do is you have to click on add people to add yourself. So the company name was was was was tied to it all. There is an individual that's tied to that company name and Facebook needs to confirm that as well so I'm going to click on this add people and then I'm going to come over here. Add David Cantaro, and then I'm going to come down, and I'm going to do the same thing for my name as well. And that's that one right there. So I click on a sign. And then now I hit done. And now I can come now I can go in there and run an ad for her. So that's how you request access you guys and the and add and requesting your there's two different things you're going to request access to you're going to request access to to their Facebook business page, or you're going to request access to their ad account. And I do both but in this case right now. It's just the beginning. We're just getting our feet wet. We're just getting to know each other on building the relationship with this client. I'm going to go knock out a few simple services and really crush it for her. And all I need access to is the business page. When we go into the next step, which is when we go into hardcore heavy Facebook advertising that's where I really want them is I want to be running Facebook ads every single day. And that's when we bump up the budget and that's when we bring them on as a monthly retaining client. Right. So that's when I'll go and add. I'll go and request access to their ad account. And the reason why I want to do that is because now I'm going to start running Facebook ads from their account. But so I don't have to keep logging into their account. I request access to their ad account and I can manage it from my end. And the reason why you want to you want to get access to their ad account is so now Facebook can start charging their credit card for the daily ads because they can start seeing all the reporting from the ads, but most importantly so you can grab their Facebook pixel to start putting on all the pages that you're creating for them, which you should be creating the pages for them.  And so I need that ad account I need their ad account so I can start so I can so I can put their pixel on the Facebook business page, and I can start tracking conversions I can start running different ads. I can start running conversion ads and everything is being tracked from their pixel. So I hope that help you guys that it's super simple now I can come in here.  And now I can come in here. And if I didn't do that step. I come over here and I hit the green button. Let's click on this green button right over here to the left. We click on the green button. If I didn't add myself and if I didn't request access to the page like that. When I come over here and run the ad. Let's say I go into. And if you're in housing or if you're a lender or or or anything like that employment credit make sure you check this box and choose which one best fits your business. That's super important. So let's say for example I come in and and let's just say engagement. Okay, I come to the second step. And it's going to ask me which page. Am I going to run it from. It's actually is that it's either going to ask me here or it's going to ask me on step three, which is the ad. So let's come to the ad let's see if it asked me over here. Because Facebook has to know which page you're running it from. So right here, this is where you hit the drop down. And if I click on inspired digital, I should now see her name. There it is right there Carrie Lee. So if I didn't do those steps, her name wouldn't have been right here, and I wouldn't be able to run an ad from her page I'm running the ad from my account from my Facebook page Facebook is charging me. And so in the beginning, I'm not even really showing the numbers to these clients not right now they don't need to know all this is a simple a few a couple simple ads that I'm going to do for them, which doesn't consist of a ton of analytics or reporting. So, they don't need to see anything right now that's why I'm running it from my end Facebook's charging me, and I'm running it on their page. So that way I can really add from my end, but it's it's coming from their business page. So when you start seeing the ad in the newsfeed, it's coming from their business page. And and and depend on the ad, the post it's on their business page so everything's on their business page, because I added myself and so if you didn't do those couple steps, request access and then add your name, you wouldn't you wouldn't see their name pop up right here, and you wouldn't be running the ad from their business page which would throw off the entire campaign. Okay, so hope that helps you guys for those of you that are freelancers or just starting out aspiring digital agency owners whatever. This is how you're going to act. You're going to request access to people's business pages. So you can run Facebook ads and Instagram ads on their behalf right guys so I'll see you guys on the next video over and out peace.


you're watching impulse on the freedom network freedom you thought it'd be anything this time well guess what it's cousin here to do a review i'm here to do a review on the zora 2 headset made by noontech all right guys here's the beautiful packaging typically probably wouldn't do this because usually the the products i do get are usually in brown boxes but i figured the way it shipped it and have a table for this you know why not go ahead and show off this product in the original box i did test it out a little bit the couple things about this headset did notice first off this is supposed to be a high def headset i did test it out on a couple games on skype and a couple of the programs one thing i didn't notice so is first off the earpieces are super super small so after about 10 minutes it really started to hurt my ears the nice part about this though is it's a nice hard plastic and it is a soft cushion up top here whenever you put it on top of your head it does fold up somewhat compact it's decent enough to probably pack it away if you want to take it somewhere now this does come in with a plug-in cable which also makes it a hands-free cable for the headset because there is a button right here on this you can use as far as the sound quality goes i'd say i probably gave it seven out of 10 it does sound pretty clear that the only thing i didn't like about though is it's not a lot of bass to it so if you're playing maybe a video game for instance some of these games are kind of giving a little bit of a deep bass sound to them it doesn't quite produce that type of sound but it is pretty clear so you can hear a nice crisp sound whenever you do use this headset this also is adjustable too so whether you're a kid you can keep in this position if you're an adult you actually can open it up or maybe if you wear a hat like i do sometimes it doesn't give a little bit more room on your head this also comes in four different colors and this headset also produces surround sound so again the quality is pretty good the only thing i didn't like about it again it doesn't have quite the bass i'm looking for whenever i'm playing like a shooter of some sort like a call of duty or a counter strike type game so overall i'd probably say i'd get this this headset probably a seven out of ten reason being is first off for myself for my comfortability i like to have the earpiece over my ear unfortunately this does not do that i know some people do like headsets like that but i'm not the type of person i'd rather have it over top my head overall i do like the doorbelly to it it is hard plastic um there is some reinforce still inside here too that way the chance of your breaking it's going to be pretty slim it is adjustable like i said before but most likely you probably wouldn't use this headset for gaming again probably listen to the music maybe when you're doing editing on your videos this is probably a headset that i would recommend probably not for gaming overall now i did look online for the price of this headset and amazon right now has it for around 60 dollars which is in too too bad it's not a high end headset and it's also not a cheap headset either so in the comments below let me know if this is a headset you think you may use so again i'm larry aka cousin senior marketing manager for freedom like subscribe comments please nah that's not my line so give us a thumbs up if you think this is a headset you would use down below right in the comments the headset that you do use and to make sure you hit that subscribe button and i'll see you in the next review of your chest and it sits up tight here a lot of people are like kind of like want to put it down here that's not where it should be it actually should be up here so i'll go and put this on and show you how this works you


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