Welcome back after break. Just before we went for the break, we began looking at Studying Chapter 2 of First Timothy. We looked at verse 7 where Paul says he's appointed as a preacher and an Apostle and also a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and trust. Okay? We'll move on to verses 8 to 10. Can somebody read verses 8 to 10 please? Can somebody please read verses 8 to 10? Verses 8 to 10. I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. In like manner also that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but with proper women professing Godliness with good works. Amen. Thank you, Jeffina. So in the light at all that Paul has been talking about prayer, he is coming back to the main point and he's saying, you know, he desires that men pray everywhere. And here the Greek word he uses is not anthropos, which is people, but he uses the Greek word anal, which is referring specifically to the male gender. And he's saying he wants men to pray everywhere. And how should men pray everywhere? What does he say? Lifting up of hands. Okay? What does lifting up of holy hands mean? When you lift up your hands, what are you basically doing? You're trying to reach out to God. When we lift our hands, what are we showing? What does it show? What is a sign? Surrender, right? You know, you're surrending yourself to God. What is holy hands?  What is holy hands? You're basically doing this in holiness and reverence, no argument or doubting, okay? Sorry, no argument. And also it says, you know, without wrath and doubting. So what is wrath? Not in anger, okay? And doubting is without anger, without quarreling and no strife, okay? So he's saying, men everywhere, I want you to pray surrendering yourself to God in holiness, you know, without any argument or doubting, which means without anger or without quarreling or strife, okay? So he's saying in the like manner women should also pray, okay? There's no excuse that only men, you know, must lift up holy hands and pray. Without wrath and doubting, but without quarreling, he's saying that even women need to do the same, okay? And then he says that, you know, he talks about women adorning themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, okay? Which is proper for women professing godliness with good works. So as Paul here is saying that women should not, you know, dress with braided hair, you know, not wear any gold or pearls or not wear any costly clothing. What do you think? So can we take this and say that today in our churches women should not do all of these things? What is your viewpoint? What is Paul basically saying here? Any thoughts on this? This is quite, you know, a concern because many of them use this verse in our modern day churches as well and say, you know, women should not braid their hair, should not wear gold, you know, pearls, costly clothing. So please share your thoughts on this. I'll just share my thoughts. I strongly believe it's not about not to wear jewels or something. Might be some cultural background which I may think of. But I think it's more about what your motives are. You want to show the godliness, you want to show the good works. I think that may still apply now. Like some day churches is not about dressing up and going. It's about just coming together as a fellowship and being there for each other and coming together and worshipping God. It's not about what you wear on some days. Maybe that could be a point we could take out of it. But I don't think it really talks about braiding the hair or things. This is just my point of view. Okay. Thank you, Jafina. Anyone else? So Paul is basically saying here that women need to dress modestly and engage in good works so that, you know, they demonstrate godliness. And he's saying, you know, how people who believe or profess their faith in Jesus Christ need to dress up. And, you know, so the word modest apparel, actually these words propriety and moderation help to understand or explain what he meant by, you know, modest apparel. Modest apparel means to dress in propriety and moderation. So what is propriety? It basically asks this question is, you know, is it appropriate for the occasion? The way I'm dressing, is it appropriate for the occasion? Am I overdressed or I'm underdressed? You know, it's important to ask these questions. Is it going to call for inappropriate attention to myself? Is my dressing going to be provocative? So when I go to church, am I dressing up to provocate men? Am I dressing up just to, you know, honor the Lord? The way I dress is what I'm wearing appropriate to where I'm going. Sometimes if we look at people, even when they come to church in the way they dress, we feel that it's so inappropriate for the place that they are in.  Some of them dress like they've come to, you know, they're going to the beach or they've come to the beach.   But for me, it's not okay for them. It's okay. You know, but I feel like, hey, it's so casual in the way they have come to church.  And, you know, that's why now they're coming up with dress codes even in colleges and in workplaces. In schools as well. I'm making it more strict. So, Propriety basically asks the question, is it appropriate for the occasion? Is it overdressed or underdressed? You know, or I'm calling inappropriate attention to myself. It's very, very important. And I think it's so important these days, the way people are coming dressed to church sometimes, you know, am I dressing up in a way that this inappropriate is calling attention to people. Another word that he uses here to explain, help explain modest apparel is moderation. So when you're thinking about moderation, you know, moderation asks, is it moderate? Is it just too much or far too little? Okay. So moderation is basically middle ground being balanced in the way you dress. And he talks about braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing. You know, and Paul mentions that too much of these actually is going against the principles of Propriety and moderation in that culture. Because I think it had to do so much with the culture that they were living in, in the city of Ephesus. You know, we talked about in the introduction, the background to the study of Ephesus. You know, the main goddess that was worshipped there was the goddess Diana, right? And because she was a goddess, they were women priests.  And a cultic sexual cultic undertone to this whole thing. So the way they dress and everything was so, you know, inappropriate, was so, you know, calling attention to themselves, because they were seeking attention to themselves as women priests, and it was so inappropriate. So when they became believers coming to the church, you know, they would be dressing the same way. And so that's why I think Paul is addressing this matter and this issue. So Paul is saying that women, you know, when you get together, pray and your prayer should be focused not on the way you're doing yourself, but on Godliness and good works. And so when we are trying to understand this passage or we're trying to interpret it, we always need to interpret in the light of the rest of scripture. So the rest of scripture is it mentioned anywhere that women should not wear jewelry? Okay. Do the rest of scripture strictly prohibits women from wearing gold jewelry, braiding their hair, wearing costly clothing? What is the answer? Do the rest of scripture mention this? No, it does not mention. Okay. You know, but it tells us to consider the example of Abraham's wife, Sarah. Look at what 1 Peter chapter 3 verses 1 to 6 says. You know, in 1 Peter chapter 3 verses 1 to 6, Paul, Peter is writing and saying, you know, you know, wives to submit to their husbands.  And inversely, he says, your beauty should not come from outward adornment such as elaborate hairstyles and wearing of gold and jewelry or fine clothes. He does not mention it should not wear. He said it should not come from outward adornment such as elaborate, you know, of all of these things what he mentions. But of the inner self and unfading beauty of the gentle and the quiet spirit, which is great work in God's sight.  You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear. So, you know, here it talks about following the example of Abraham's wife, Sarah. And, you know, Sarah, we also knew in that time would have worn ornaments and jewelry because if you look at Genesis chapter 24 verses 22 and was 53. We see that, you know, when Abraham sends his servant to choose his wife for his son, Isaac, you know, and the servant goes waiting on God. And when the camel that finished drinking, you know, the girl who draws out water and feeds all the camels, he knows that this is the one, you know, he is going to take back as a bride for Isaac. He took out gold, a gold nose ring weighing a becker and two gold bracelets weighing 10 checkers and gives it to her. So we know that, you know, in that culture, they wore a lot of gold and jewelry and, you know, Sarah would have also worn a lot of ornaments. So when he's saying follow the example of Sarah, he's saying follow the example of her, you know, being obedient and being submissive to her husband.  So when we interpret scriptures like this, we need to interpret it in the light of the rest of scripture. And so the rest of scripture does not say anywhere that women should not wear gold or silver or pearls or costly clothing. Okay, versus 11 to 15. Can somebody read that please versus 11 to 15. Anyone can read versus 11 to 15 please. Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence for Adam was formed first than Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. Nevertheless, she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love and holiness with self control. Amen. Thank you Rosalind.  And what does he say? What does he not permit women to do? What does he not permit women to do? Not to teach. And to have authority over a man. Okay, they're not supposed to have authority over a man, but they are supposed to be silent. Yes. Thank you Rosalind and Jafina. So what do you think? Women should not be allowed to teach. That means I should not be here teaching. Yeah. Should not have authority of man to be silent. Yes Rosalind. I guess it probably means that women should not be bossy over men. Okay, women should not be bossy over men. Okay. What else? But here he's saying, let a woman learn in silence. And he's saying, I do not permit a woman to teach, but to be silent. So many of them have taken this and have said, you know, when Paul says I do not permit a woman to teach, women cannot teach. So what are your thoughts on this? I think, thinking from the cultural perspective, like you said, they were woman-freezed. Maybe that could be one of the reasons for them to first learn. Because they would have come for such a culture where they were worshipping Diana, preaching about Diana. And might create a conflict. I just think like that because he said women-freezed. So for them first learn in silence and then maybe when they are really matured and matured in the understanding of the truth, they can start teaching. I think that could be it. Yes, that's a good thought. Thank you, Jeffina. Anyone else? So here if we look at these passages, we need to always interpret it in the rest of, or in the light of the rest of scripture. Right. We need to look and see if this is what Paul is saying elsewhere. Or is this the only place? And if this is the only place, why is he mentioning it here? So that is something that we need to see. If Paul is saying I do not permit a woman to preach and teach, Paul practices it himself. That's another thing that we need to see. And also we need to look at the context why he's writing this and what is the importance of him saying this. Is it relevant? Why is he saying this? And so what is the important context? But if you look here, I see the context that he's talking about is basically two things, submission and authority over man. These are two things that stand out for me, submission and authority. In this context he's talking about women should learn in silence. Women should not be permitted to teach. There should be quiet in the context of submission and authority over men. So we will look at this in the context of the rest of scripture and Paul's own ministry practices and the context why Paul is writing this here to Timothy. And we are going to look at it because people have used the scripture passage to prevent women from teaching and teaching. So let's look at Paul's own ministry practice. Did he have women in his ministry team? Did Paul have women in his ministry team? Yes, no. Can you remember some names of women? Priscilla is there. Priscilla husband and wife team. There was Phoebe. Okay, so we see that Aquila and Priscilla, their husband and wife, a couple are part of the ministry team. And Paul recognizes them. We read about this in Romans chapter 16 verses three and four. Paul also mentions or recognizes Phoebe as a women leader. And as a deacon, we learned about this in Romans chapter 16 verses one and two. Also in Romans chapter 16, the same chapter in verse seven, he talks about junior woman leader. And he mentions her as a fellow prisoner and also someone respected by the apostles and also by, you know, possibly by apostle Paul himself. Okay. And so she was basically also an apostle her herself. Okay. We also see that when, you know, Paul mentions about membership gifts in Romans chapter 12 when he talks about the gifts of the spirit in 1 Corinthians chapter 12.  And when he talks about the ministry gifts in official Ephesians chapter four verse 11, you know, he does not specifically, you know, their talk about it in, you know, that it's only related to a specific gender. He just talks about the membership gifts, the gifts of the spirit, and also, you know, the ministry gifts in general context, which means that it can be distributed across all believers and there's no gender specificity given in any of these verses. Okay. None of these verses mention any specific gender. So we knew, and we know that even women, you know, received membership gifts that the church at current men and women were very eager to, you know, when they come to church to share what God has, you know, given to them with a sort of wisdom knowledge of prophecy. But he just talks about how to do it in a very cordial manner in a very in orderly manner so that it's not disrupting the whole service. Okay. So in all of these areas, you know, it's not talking about any specific gender, but we know that's given to all men and women. And we also see that in Paul's ministry had many women and he mentions about their many acknowledges the work that they do. Also, we see that, you know, we can look at the context in which Paul is writing this episode to Timothy. Now, the context here is that, you know, again, had to do around this cult group, the goddess Diana. And like I said, she had many, the priest was serving her were basically women. And, you know, these female priestess of Diana, you know, they just invaded the first century church. And these preachers, this priest basically promoted blasphemous ideas about sex and spirituality. And, you know, they themselves performed rituals, which they pronounce curses on men and women. Basically, they did this to, you know, to declare their superiority over men. Okay. And I think they enjoy the superiority over men compared to the cultures around them because of the goddess Diana. And when they kind of became believers and they came into the church, you know, some of them were influenced by these priestess and their lifestyle and the way of living. And they would have done the same in the church where they were they're wanting to take over authority and they were not submitting to men. They might have been very loud in the way they were asking questions or talking or discussing in the church. And so, you know, the issue here was their submission. They're yielding to men, to those who are in leadership, those who were in places of positions of authority.  And, you know, to submit to Godly leadership, to submit to the men whom God has placed in authority and in leadership. Yes, in the temple, in the culture that exists in Ephesus, there's a goddess who is the God that is worshiped, you know, the goddess that is worshiped. And yes, there are female priests, but here in the church, this is the order we follow where, you know, men are in authority and leadership. And it is mandatory or required of women to submit to the men in leadership and in authority. And women should, you know, be silent.  And hence, he did not permit a woman to teach and to speak. But we see that in the church at Corinth, you know, women were flowing in all the gifts of the Spirit. They would also prophesy. They would also preach and teach. But we don't see anywhere there. Paul basically mentioning that, hey, women, you need to be silent. You can't exercise the gifts of the Spirit. But basically he was what he was saying there in church to the church at Corinth is do things in an orderly way. Wait for other people to finish speaking to say things.  So do things in a very orderly way. Okay. So Paul is reminding them that in the governmental structure of the church, the authority structure that God is placed in the church. If you remember, we learned in the second year during the Kingdom Builders course in the Kingdom of God, that, you know, God has placed authority structures, governmental authority structures in our life in various areas in the home, in the church, in our workplace, in our society. There are authority structures that he's placed. And we need to respect those authority structures that we need to submit to those authority structures. So just like the authority structure in the home, the man is the head. So also in the church, the pastor, the priest is the head. So he's Paul is reminding them of man's headship in God's government in the church that are men.  And then he says, for Adam was formed first, then Eve. So why is Paul mentioning about Adam and Eve here? Any idea? Why is Paul talking about Adam and Eve here? Any thoughts? So basically to explain to them that, you know, remind them of God's authority structure that he's placed, he's saying that, you know, that man is the head in God's government. And so he's mentioning about Adam and Eve. And he's saying Adam was created first, was formed first, and then Eve was formed. Okay. So Paul was basically not prohibiting women from being in a ministry or serving God or preaching or teaching. But he's here talking about active submission of women to men, which was the right proper code of conduct in the local church and in the cultural context of the church compared to the cultural context in the city of Ephesus. Okay. So that is the second point that we looked at the cultural context that he was writing this in. Then the third one is let us look at, you know, if women are not allowed to teach is this mentioned in the rest of scripture. Okay. Is it mentioned throughout scripture that women should not preach or teach? Sorry. Yeah, that is in the context in current, the church at Corinth, he's talking about how to, you know, exercise the gifts of the spirit in a very orderly way. Because everyone was so eager to come to church and just, you know, so-called rattle of what they have received, but Paul is saying, hey, do it in an orderly way. Okay. So we see that both in the Old and New Testament that, you know, women were anointed by the Holy Spirit. Yes, Abu Bakr. Yes, go ahead Abu Bakr, you have raised your hand. Sorry. It's my hand. Just, just ask you something. Intentionally. Okay. Okay, no worries. So we see that both in the Old and New Testament women were anointed by the Holy Spirit and used by God. And, you know, like Miriam, Deborah, Esther, Ruth, Anna the prophetess, Philips daughters who were also prophesying, you know, all of them prophesying, preaching and teaching as well. Okay. So that leads us to verse 14. Before that, anyone has anything to say? Anything you disagree? Anything in the light of what we have been talking so far? Any questions? Before we go on to verse 14. No question. Okay. Verse 14, Paul writes, and Adam was not deceived, but woman being deceived fell into transgression. So why do you think Paul is writing about this here in verse 14? It seems rather irrelevant here, but why is he writing it? Is he saying that women are easily deceived and hence they should not teach and preach because they will be teaching all their deceptions? What do you think? I think maybe it again talks about some mission. I just think like you're not sure. Wonder how the story would have gone if Adam cooked the fruit. Just wonder. Okay. Anyone else? I think he's just reminding the women about Eve, like what happened with Eve, so that the women in that church can be cautious and be alert. Okay. Thank you, Rosalind. So here he's saying that Adam was not deceived, but women being deceived fell into transgression. Doesn't mean that men will not be deceived. This does not imply that women are easily more deceived than men are. What Apostle Paul is simply saying here is he's stating what happened in Genesis in the Garden, Genesis chapter 3, when the serpent or Satan directly spoke to Eve and lied to her and easily deceived her and got her to be deceived so easily that she took the first bite and he did not have to deceive. There was no need for him to deceive Adam because Eve passed the fruit to Adam and he ate it without resting. Okay. And both disobeyed God and both equally sinned before God and both fell. Okay. So he's not mentioning here that women are more easily deceived in the context that because of their deception, they are not supposed to preach and teach, but he's just mentioning that both of them can fall into deception. But women need to be careful. Women need to learn. And just like Eve fell into deception and even Adam and they sinned before God. So he might be stating here that, you know, be careful. You know, if you don't submit to Godly structure, to Godly authority, you know, it can lead to deception. It can lead to shipwreck of your faith and a good conscience. Okay.  They continue in faith, love, holiness with self-control. So why is Paul talking here about childbirth? Any idea? Why is Paul here talking about childbirth? Maybe he's just continuing in the same context of what happened as a result of the fall of, you know, or the sin of Eve, the curse that she received that, you know, she will give birth in pain. Okay.  Okay. They will be saved through the work of salvation. And we know that this word saved. The Greek word is sozo. Okay. The Greek word for salvation is sozo. It also means saved. What does sozo mean? What does sozo mean? Sozo means salvation. It means saved, but it also, you know, it's a very comprehensive word. It just does not include, you know, being saved from our sins, saved from death and from Satan, but also means healing from sickness. It means deliverance from every work of the enemy. It means rescue or preservation from a danger and harm. Basically means total wholeness. So it's a very comprehensive word. So sozo can, you know, mean to be saved, healed, delivered, victorious, rescued and preserved. It means all of these things at the same time. Okay. And this word sozo is a verb. It's an action word. Okay. Something that is done, something that happens because of the work of God in our lives happens because of the work of salvation in our lives. It is, you know, an action word. You know, we are saved. We are healed. We are delivered. We are rescued. We are victorious. We are preserved. And it basically means we are saved out from the devil's power and we are restored into the wholeness of God's order and the well-being of, or the wholeness of the well-being of God through the power of God's spirit or by the work of the holy spirit. Okay. So why does Apostle Paul talk about women and childbirth at this time? You know, again, we need to look at it in both the biblical context and the historical or the local context. Okay. The biblical context, we know that the curse that was given to Eve as a result of eating the fruit from the tree was, you know, that she would have pain during childbirth. But here the promise that Paul is giving them is they will be preserved. They will be saved, saved sozo because of their salvation, total wholeness, total well-being. Also in the cultural context, we see that, you know, the goddess Diana was, you know, some historians say is the goddess of the opposite, some disagree to this.  She used to protect women during the time of labor. And also she was, you know, the goddess of the opposites. The other side of her was, you know, they refer to her as Artemis. Basically it was, and some historians don't agree to this, but they say Artemis was a Greek goddess and Diana was considered a Roman goddess. But you know, some of them say that she was a goddess of the opposites anyways, just for us to understand, you know, she used to protect the women in labor. But also like Artemis was somebody who brought about sudden death while giving birth.  And also Artemis was considered as a divinity of healing, but also was considered as someone who brought about disease like leprosy, rabies, and even gout. Okay, so the Apostle Paul is addressing this cultural issue, maybe because women would live in such fear of this goddess Diana that, you know, if they would not appeaser, then instead of helping and protecting them during childbirth would also cause sudden death while giving birth. So this was the kind of the mindset that the women had.   And you're restored to wholeness, so believe that. And he's saying, you know, pray towards this, because he's talking about all of this in the context of prayer. So he's saying, pray towards this. And when you pray, you know, do this in a reverential way, in a way that is pleasing to God. And he's saying, you know, if you want to experience the so-and-so in your life, continue in faith, love, holiness, with self-control. Okay? So he's saying, you know, put on these virtues. Put on faith, put on love and holiness and self-control so that you can, you know, overcome all of these and you can experience the blessings of so-and-so. That is your spiritual inheritance that you've received as you've received salvation. Okay? So that is why he's writing this here in this context to the women at Ephesus. Any questions? Any questions? Anything you'd like to share? Okay, what really stood out for you all in chapter two? Anyone would like to, two or three can share? What really impacted you or stood out some new insights that you received from chapter two? Nobody wants to share? Everyone in class? I'll share. Yes. Yeah. So I like the when you said the ministry is not a matter of convenience, it's a command. And I think made me think about myself how seriously I have to take my works when I do something for God. I should be giving all of my 100% as much as I can. That's one of the things that really stood out. I think this chapter answered most of my questions like about the women especially. And there are even these generation people I've seen a young girl recently and she's a Tamil and she's getting famous just by saying that women should not preach. And as if she's speaking very theologically, she speaks and people are accepting it, people are moving towards it. And that's one of the things that was upsetting me and she quotes this scripture exactly. And I don't know if this is a question or something but what she says is that women cannot be fastest. Like they can't lead a church but they can be a preachers or evangelist. So if someone says like that, like I don't know like how to answer them because here it says women should not teach doesn't say that what she quotes is it doesn't say they should not preach. They just should not preach. That's what she says and people are believing it is in context. But yeah, I think this chapter answered a lot of questions. Thank you, Jaffina. Anyone else would like to share? Okay, anyone else? I just want you to repeat one thing about the king who was in that time when you said it was hard for the mother to pray for the king. I just missed to take it on my notes. Sorry, so she was asking about the king Nero and what I had mentioned. So I'm saying it's already there in the notes and she can just read it from there. Anyone else, any questions? Okay, we have five more minutes. Should we end class or can we just begin reading 2nd Timothy chapter 2? John Paul is already left the meeting. Okay, we'll stop here. We'll look, we'll begin chapter 3 next week. Okay, thank you all for joining class and have a blessed restful weekend. See you all next week. Thank you. Sorry, he left the class.


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So I teach essentially two things, how to get clients and how to automate the law firms that is one ends and ends on. And I realized that a lot of attorneys need help with that second part, they want to automate the law firm. Why? Because a lot of lawyers are so busy, right? Which attorney have you found that's not busy? So I kind of come in and teach lawyers how they're able to work less by being able to automate using very certain specific online tools to be able to kind of take care of that tedious and repetitive tasks. And second, delegating to virtual assistants to really help you sign up clients, help you onboard your new clients, server clients and also do the marketing for you. So yeah, definitely it's a big need in the legal market right now. And hopefully, I've been a frontier of that and you'll pass it on to other lawyers. So do you love doing each of those components?   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And this system is applied to every type of business you can think about online. And when I got exposed to this six years ago, I was like, this is so cool. Can I apply this for my own law firm? And I looked around and I couldn't find other people who were applying these concepts. I started applying it and right away I started within a couple of months started getting results from it. Essentially my profanity came to me when I was on a trip in Israel and I was on vacation and I was still setting up clients. I was getting notifications this person made $497 payments. This was missing $1,000 payments. I'm like, this is so cool. So started repeating this over and over. And that was all because again, because of a funnel. So yeah, that's the foundation there's and these things are being applied by every successful company online. How it's applied to the legal market is its own mystery. And that's the mystery that I've been able to solve in the past six years or from practical experience of making it work for myself and also seeing now applying this for other lawyers and be able to get that feedback that I'm able to pass on to other lawyers. Yeah, I'm sure lawyers are attracted to it because marketing and advertising seems to be such a pain point for lawyers. And I mean, so what is it without giving away any like proprietary secrets? How do you make that process easy? Or is it just that you teach some a method that works? I have no problem with sharing secrets, by the way. That's my secret sauce is sharing all my secrets. So I could explain the idea behind it but how you go actually apply these things for your own law firm is a whole other game where you're practical things that you need to create and do and set up for yourself which is exactly what my program does. So what it is essentially, I'm gonna try to summarize it. It's first, you always need to collect your leads contact information upfront first, okay? First goal, get the contact information. How do you do that? Well, you need to offer something in exchange for their contact information. Or some people can also just drive people towards saying, hey, I will solve this specific problem for you, okay? That's the first step. Second thing you wanna do is to nurture, build the relationship with your leads. How do you do that? With a very specific video that as soon as they enter your funnel, they watch this video, they hear from you, they hear exactly where you address their problems, their pain points, case studies of how you've been able to help other clients in the past about this. And a clear call to action on what to do next. Also on the back end, you have automated emails that are set up as soon as they become your lead, they're send automated emails and sometimes texts in order to get them to watch a video and to go take the, again, the desired action which leads to the third part of what is a desired action. For us attorneys, it's only one of two. Either go book a call with me here or just give me a call. That's essentially the foundation of it. How to go set this up is exactly, again, what I teach and sell legal funnel with very practical step-by-step instructions. Yeah. I love that you're doing it for lawyers, right? Because you don't need to reinvent the wheel if you have something that's working. And so just teach them how to do it the right way. Yes, and these things work by the way. Again, as I mentioned earlier, these funnel concepts are being applied by all of the seven, eight, nine, 10 figure companies in the world. How you apply it to the legal market is, again, it hasn't caught on to these things. I think we're only at the top one to 2% of the lawyers have caught on to these things to start looking into it, start learning it, start applying it. But I promise you, that's where the legal market is heading 100%. 100%. Most websites will switch over to funnels and it's kind of like you got to implement these things or you won't survive. Yeah. So if you are listening to this, don't let it pass by you. Take it seriously and try to get on as soon as you can. Yeah, absolutely. So what's your background? What did you study in undergrad or what were you interested in before law school? Well, while I was in UCLA, I was like, what am I gonna do next? I knew I had to go to some kind of grad school. My friends essentially started choosing law school. And I guess I kind of got coursed into it and like my friends were going, so let me try it out. No way. Yeah, it was just a little based on, yeah, I had no idea what it entailed while being a lawyer was until I started working while I was in law school at a law firm. And I was like, wait a minute, this is what I'm signing up myself to do. And that's when I realized that I'm probably not gonna be a traditional lawyer, but what am I gonna do? That's when I started soul searching and reading a lot of books, watching a lot of YouTube videos, figuring out how I can use my skills to be able to still be able to serve the legal market without being a traditional lawyer. So I always, I'm a contrarian kind of thinker. Everybody's running this way, I'm running the opposite way. And I learned things from the other markets that I apply to the legal market. You know, kind of like my secret sauce is. So yeah, it's worked out well. So you knew that you wanted, or at least you were gonna practice in a non-traditional way. And I really love that point because there's no shame in practicing in a non-traditional way or taking a non-traditional role, right? Most people go to law school to become attorneys. So by default, anything else that you do after law school is non-traditional. So you are licensed to practice law though? I am, yeah. Okay, in California. Is your license still active? And do you find that being a licensed attorney helps you to make these initial conversations for a legal funnel? It definitely does. Again, with everything in life, it's not about what you have, it's about what you do with it.  No matter where you're at, what are you gonna do? Yeah. It does, for me, it does build authority for me to do what I do. You know, I know some people, I know your listeners are interested in situations, things like that. But just know, again, all the power is in your hands.  Always make the best of what you have. Be smart, be a contrarian, do the opposite of what other people are doing. And other practical advice I could give to a lot of you is, you know, become a specialist, become really good at one certain idea, and combine it with something else. You always want to take two specialties. So to just say mine is marketing and legal. Those are my like two things and where those cross, that's where my expertise comes in. So find your top two, which Kyle, I'm gonna call you out.  Now in what field can I maximize on that? And what is my biggest long-term vision I could build for that? And I strive towards that. And only do that and stop doing everything else. I know if I get a side gig for something else, sorry, I can't do it. I'm working on my long-term kind of vision. And everybody needs that focus. A lot of people, I think that struggle is because the lack of focus. They don't know what their long-term goal looks like and they get distracted by all these other sides, opportunities and gigs and things like that. Avoid those. Go really focus on your long-term goal and don't give up on it. Yeah, a hundred percent. And that point rings especially true for me because I find that I'm interested in a lot of things. And I'm like, oh, I could do that. Oh, I could do that. And probably two weeks ago, I told myself, no, if it's not writing and if it's nothing to do with law, don't do it. Like these are the things you want to do and you can find stuff that involves both of those. So, okay. Exactly. All you're missing, Kylie, by the way, I know already know is that you haven't written down that planned goal yet. And you haven't signed it and dated it and give yourself a deadline. So, write it out. I'm gonna encourage you to write it. And again, I'm sharing these things, not to call Kylie out so that everybody can learn from these is to write out your goals, come into it and put a deadline on it. Yeah. And just let it, you know, don't let life happen. Yeah, that's true. And I'll write it down, make it plain. And I think that will really resonate with a lot of the law students. The audience is either law students or young lawyers who've been practicing less than five years. So. Amazing. Amazing. I'm always looking to find young people who are kind of intrigued about these things, either be clan generation or anything kind of like future, kind of forward thinking, tech, things like that. So if you are, I'm just gonna put it out there. If you are one of those and you're kind of intrigued by this conversation, please find me and reach out to me. I'm always looking to work with the different people here, ideas and, you know, have those conversations. Yeah. So let's set you on a couple of things you mentioned in your questionnaire before we started recording. So you opened the law firm, you learned to succeed by watching YouTube videos and trial and error. Is there a mentoring aspect to legal funnel? Oh yeah. This is really good. I'm glad you brought that up. So I got exposed to an individual four years ago through business who's had a Silicon Valley background, very successful guy and he was basically applying what he was learning to the legal market and super smart guy. And I started noticed that he's a genius. So let me work with them and get interact with them as much as I could. Kept falling off, kept falling off, kept falling off until finally two and a half, three years ago or so, he essentially we started working together and became a very close mentor to me. Where essentially everything that I was working on somehow had his insight and had some kind of feedback that I would get from him about what I should do. And that for me was really a big effect into my growth. Having somebody outside of myself who has a big vision who can help me not overthink things and help me create these plans the same way that I tried to do with you a little bit earlier called it. And I really saw the effect of that. And that's why I really opened the eyes of the powers of mentorship. And that really honestly inspired me to do legal funnel for me to be a mentor for other people because five minutes of really good advice could change some people's life trajectory entirely. And I try to do that as much as I can. The way that I do it right now is in a group coaching setting. Fortunately, I don't have time to do one-to-one anymore but group setting and I get like 40 or 50 lawyers who come on and I have a very systematic program that I teach these things and get people to implement with a work should they follow along. And I could see the results again from people having an external person who can come and give them that focus and clarity on what they should do next. Yeah, a hundred percent. So you've mentioned a couple of times that you've helped people open firms and you've opened, had seven businesses for yourself. How does it feel?  What does that feel like? Ever since every single day that I wake up I work in my desired zone. So I was very conscious, I'm very conscious about what am I doing and does this align with what I'm great at and this is something that I enjoy doing and everything that I do to this day has to align. Again, I have these certain rules for myself and I stick to it. I still align with those two rules and thankfully I wake up every morning, I jump out of bed, hungry, ready to do anything that's in front of me and it honestly doesn't feel like work for me at all. I'm kind of like usually in a flow zone especially when I'm creating and doing things that I love and I love it. I feel blessed. And again, the reason why I'm sharing this is not to talk about myself but really to show that it is completely possible. Again, with having the right guidance, good mentor, things like that, all these things are completely possible for you as well. Yeah, and what I'm hearing like the kind of understory is that even when you're done with law school even after taking and passing the bar exam you're always gonna be learning, you're always gonna be working hard. Yep, life is about constant improvement no matter what situation you're in. So yeah, as long as you have the right attitude and you're always constantly improving yourself you always do well. Absolutely. So this is a great time to talk about the two comma club. What is that? And what does it mean to be a part of the two commas club? So for those that are watching the videos these are the ClickFunnels two comma clubs. They're essentially a goal that ClickFunnels creates for you that says, hey, if you can make funnels work for your own business and you make a million dollars online then we'll give you one of these awards. And if it wasn't for one of these awards I don't think I would have had a goal or vision to be able to do this. So I was like, this sounds cool. It took me about four and a half years to get my first basically make my first million dollars online for my first law firm. This one took two and a half years, my second law firm. Then I was able to do it for legal funnel my third company in a year and a half. And then really most recently I also earned my fourth one and that took me just one year. So every time that I did it, it took me less and less time. The reason is it's very repeatable. This once you figure out how to bring clients, serve clients, automate all that stuff it's necessarily the same thing over and over and over. They do over and over. Yeah, it's again, it's completely false one. And now I kind of been able to show our students that it's possible. Here's how to do it. Here's how to get focused on it. And now our first student has been able to receive his first one. And we have a lot more on the way to our students to achieve it as well. So vulnerable moment. I thought those were like platinum records. I was like, is he an entertainment law, what's going on? These are like my social proof. You'll learn this about marketing. These are very strong. Always again, whenever these days, our Zoom meetings are like, it's very important. It's how you represent ourselves, how we talk. So make sure you have a good microphone. Make sure you have a good camera and make sure you're surrounded by good social proof and things like that around you. Yeah, okay, very cool. So Sam, I just have one last question here when we wrap up. What would you say to anyone listening who's interested in marketing, doesn't know what they wanna do after law school, just any kind of advice about the path that your career has taken and how they can do something similar? I'm gonna be very practical to you guys. If I just say, if somebody put up an award is, I'll give you $100,000 if you somehow make $10,000 in the next 48 hours. How would you do that? That's the question I always ask myself all the time. And here's the best answer I could give you. Make a list of the top 10 people you would love to work with. Okay, this is your head list. What do we wanna call it? 10 people minimum, if not more. But let's just start with 10 to keep it simple. Go get their contact information. It's very easy. There's these Chrome plugins that you can use to be able to get anybody's email address. Okay, get their contact information. What you do is use the tool called loom.com which is a very quick way to go to record their video on your computer where you can share a screen and also share a video of yourself talking and make a personalized loom video, a very short video to that person and just say hi, provide some kind of value, share something nice, just be a positive good person and just tell them whatever you want. And this personalized video, you just send this video to them, you email to them, cold email to them, send out 10 of them, you will get at least three or four responses. From that, that starts the conversations to see, hey, what can I do to make your life better? What are you working on? Is there anything that I could help you on? Ask those right questions and I promise you ahead of those, you'll at least have one or two opportunities for a very sustainable work to do with them. Very practical. 10 people, make a list, get their contact information, send all of them 10 loom videos. I promise anybody who actually goes and does this, you will not fail, you will not fail, you just have to go do it and it's pretty easy, so just go do that. So breaking my own rules, I got another follow up question to that. Should these 10 people be in the grouping of the two things you really wanna do, right? You're not just reaching out to people, just okay. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. These are your desired people that you would love to work with. Okay, cool. All right, I love that. So make the list of the 10 people that you actually would love to work with, create those videos. I'm sure they'll love the effort that you put into it. It's probably pretty unique to get a video. It works, it works like a charm. I've hired so many people and I've done so many different things for people who have sent me personalized things. It works. Nobody does it. Okay, very cool. Yeah, I hadn't considered it. I'm sitting here making mental notes, so. Well, thank you so much, Sam. And thank you for prompting me to turn on my camera. I'm always sitting here. I just never record the video, so. Of course. I appreciate it. Of course. And anybody who got up to this point, congrats. Again, if you are interested in these things, please find me and reach out to me. I do have a Facebook group for lawyers and maybe if you are gonna be a lawyer one day, you can join our Facebook group. Just search for legal funnel lawyers on Facebook. You'll have to join our Facebook group. You'll also be able to search legal funnel, schedule a call, somehow get to me. Love having a conversation and for anybody who's struggling at this point, I promise you better days are ahead. Ask yourself, what can I do today? What can I do today? Focus on that day. Don't worry about results. The results usually pan out in long term, but what you do is important and what you do on a short-term basis on a daily basis. So just focus on your daily and everything will work out well for you. Yeah. And to everyone that's listening to just the podcast, I know you wanna see all this stuff we're talking about in our backgrounds. So you have to go to YouTube and make sure you watch the video as well. I'll put the links in the show description and I will link all of Sam's social media and his website in the show notes as well. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Uh-huh. Bye.


I'm going to get started and introduce myself first. So hello, everyone. I'm Yash Gandhi. I work as a cloud platform engineer at Morgan Stanley. What we do and what we build out is standard developer platforms that are used across all business units within Morgan Stanley. And I'll take you through how we've built the platform. So the talk is largely focused into three areas. The first one being what challenge we're trying to solve, the architecture of how we've built the self-service platform, how we've made it in a multi-cloud manner. And then I'm going to talk about the security aspects of what goes into building such a platform. Then taking the platform that's built, the security that's introduced into the platform, and then how that actually goes on for application developers going on and actually deploying applications on those clusters. So let's take a look at it step by step. So we've got Alice here who works as a developer at Morgan Stanley. Let's take a look at a couple of requirements that she's got from the platform. So all she cares about is her application should be deployed in a production grade Kubernetes environment. It would also be useful if she could do all of the things herself without having to depend on an infrastructure team. And then it would also help if she didn't have to follow different processes for different cloud providers if she had to work with. So, and then over and above that, we are a bank. So it should all follow the firm policy and then meet all the security requirements that are enforced for us as the firm. So let's take a look at what and how we can solve this challenge. So I'm going to walk you through the four parts of how we are solving for this. The first aspect of it involves building out what we call as the landing zones. Landing zones are nothing but a secure, guardrail, cloud provider-based environment where your Kubernetes clusters get built into. The landing zone only provides the fundamental services like your networking, DNS, and then think of it like your Azure subscriptions or AWS accounts or Google projects. That's just the base foundation where your clusters will get built into. Then comes in the pattern, which is the infrastructure's code-based blueprints that we've got that provision a bank Kubernetes cluster view. As with most of you who've used Kubernetes, you know that just a Kubernetes cluster by itself is never fully sufficient. So what we do as part of the pattern is that we integrate it and we also build out the cloud provider-specific storage services, key management services, monitoring, and much more. Then above this infill layer is where we deploy the actual Kubernetes platform, which configures your enterprise and open-source components and makes your Kubernetes cluster production-grade and ready with all security controls and policy compliance. Also, and I'll show an example of how we do that, we've got a common installed template section that deploys all your platform-level components in multiple cloud providers as well as part of the platform. Now, over and above the base landing zone, the cluster that's built, the platform that's deployed on top of it, then comes in your application. So all the applications as a firm standard, we recommend that they are only deployed using GitOps so that if you have to have a consistent developer experience, you can have that because you have to follow the exact same process for any other cloud provider. So let's take a first look at the self-service aspect of the workflow. So what we have here on the left is a client who's crafting the infrastructure configuration in a JSON format once, and we'll take a look at the configuration as well. So once that configuration is created, it's actually published into a data store. What happens next is from that point on, the privileged boundary is changed up from a client's control to the actual automation control where the CICD pipeline could be GitHub actions, could be Jenkins, actually goes to the data store and then pulls down the configuration that was published in. On that package of the configuration, it runs a couple of compliance checks just to make sure that no sort of odd configuration is requested for when building the cluster. And then once all of the checks look okay, the Kubernetes cluster is then provisioned in the cloud environment. So let's take a couple of detail looks into what this looks like. So on the left, I have the example of how the config looks like. So what I have defined as the deployment target, which is where exactly I want to build my cluster into. So for example, if I'm building into Azure, I just provide the subscription name, the region and then the subnet information. Then a couple of properties of the cluster itself, what I want to name it, and then the sort of configuration I want for this particular cluster. Like I mentioned previously, we also have integrated with storage services. So I can also provision disks that I'm gonna use in my applications as part of the cluster build. So the most important part here, obviously, at the end you can also specify any namespaces you wanna get created on the cluster. But then I wanna focus on the platform version that's specified over there. So when customers and clients actually define this entire configuration in the repos that they maintain, they get to pick a platform version that's most recommended from us as the platform team. So every change to this configuration, be it the region, be it the Kubernetes version, be it the platform version, every configuration change basically becomes an immutable versioned artifact which is published into the data store. Then the customers, like I mentioned, they can actually pick the version of the platform that they want to install and configure the Kubernetes cluster with. I'll come to a later point when I'll talk about why that matters and how that matters. So once a cluster is built out on a certain version or a certain release of the platform, we help them with tools like Dependabot to send them automated pull requests whenever newer recommended releases of the platform are available for end users. And then like I showed in the previous slide, all of this is integrated as part of their CICD workflows. So with that, let's move a little into the multi-cloud aspects of the platform that we've designed. So for building out the base Kubernetes cluster from an infrastructure perspective itself, we've got separate Terraform patterns for each of the cloud providers. Like I mentioned previously and like we saw in the config, we've got cloud provider native integration for each of the key management storage and monitoring services built out with the pattern as well. Then come in the platform components as I termed them. So the platform components get installed through common templates. So we just have one template defined for multiple cloud providers and we'll take a look at that in the next slide. So each of these cloud provider agnostic templates get enriched with data about what cluster and what cloud provider is defined in the incoming configuration and get enriched with all of that information and get installed through GitOps. So when a Kubernetes cluster is given off to app developers, it's already built in with all of these features and all of these tools that I'm gonna talk about. So a couple of them include OPA gatekeeper, which we use for enforcing all policy constraints, CSI drivers, which we use to integrate with the storage. That's provision. External DNS, ingress, that's pretty obvious just to expose our services. Fluct CD as part of the GitOps controllers that we deploy, cert manager for certificates and many, many more. So the way we think of it is that we don't just give the end users a Kubernetes cluster. We give them a Kubernetes cluster that's batteries included, which contains everything required to come and deploy their apps onto. So let's take a look at one of these templates that I talked about. So what we see on the left, and if folks who have not seen a Helm release definition before, so this is a custom resource definition of the flux GitOps controllers where you can declaratively define how you want to install a Helm chart. So what you see on the left is the cloud provider agnostic template of how you want to install external DNS on your Kubernetes cluster. And then towards the bottom is the only bit that's gonna get cluster specific and then get enriched as you can see on the right side. So if you're deploying external DNS in an EKS cluster, you'd obviously specify the AWS account and the root 53 zone we're gonna publish that into. If you're provisioning that in Azure, then you would have to specify the private DNS name and the subscription that that's gonna be published into. So on the right side, with all of those details from the first slide for the configuration populated in, we get the definition of how external DNS would be installed on an Azure cluster, for example. With that, I would like to now pivot the conversation from each of these components that I talked about in the previous slide. Each of them get defined as a Helm release like so and get deployed through GitOps onto the clusters. Now, with all of these platform components installed and ready to use, let's look at the security aspects about what we've built it. So as part of being a regulated financial enterprise, we are expected to always have information about what sort of security controls exist on the infrastructure that the business critical applications actually operate on. So we are expected to provide and have this data always available and not really ready two weeks before the audit or something like that. So what we've done is that as part of the same templates, we also install policy controls on the cluster through OPA gatekeeper. On the left is a very simple example of how you would restrict any pods that are running from trying to use a non-read only file root file system as part of their container operations. Each of these policies, they're constantly reviewed and updated on the basis of the CIS benchmarks. As part of crafting the release of the platform, right? We have about 20, 30 such policies and then for each of these policies, we have a set of unit tests that we collect and run as evidence for each of these policy controls actually working as part of the release. So for each of these policies, if a certain policy adheres to how a persistent volume should be created or how a network policy should be created, we have all such unit tests certain with gatekeeper which we collect as part of the platform release. Moreover, if there's a specific application that has requirements, that it needs to elevate to certain privileges to answer certain operations, we have the ability to even provide exclusions from such policies on a case-to-case basis. What I'm now gonna do is introduce the term called chain of custody and then I'm just bringing up the flow from the previous slides and then I've just numbered up with a couple of pointers. So I'm gonna talk about this slide and the next one together. So the chain of custody effectively talks about how controls exist on each of the clusters in what stages of the build pipeline. So the first one being, let's take a look at the first one which is the Infra-Config JSON itself. So let's take a look at that and then come back. So the customers, when they define this Infra-Config, they can only pick from a set of supported platform releases that they are allowed to use on their cluster mainly to stay in continuous compliance. And then like I mentioned previously, every change of configuration is an auditable record. Next comes in the data store itself. So after this configuration is published with a certain version of the platform and the spec of the cluster, that goes into the data store. Now the data store itself is backed by immutable storage which means that once a version is published, that hey, this is the version of the platform that's used for the cluster and this is a version of the configuration that's used for the cluster, nobody can go in and tamper that information. So the data store itself is backed by immutable storage. Then coming on to the CI-CD pipeline which actually takes all the platform versions as an input, the release of the platform and then it goes in and does your tier form, does your platform component deployments. So all of these blueprints and manifests of the platform components themselves are bundled up in a release of the platform which is stored in the data store itself. So even the release itself is an immutable artifact. And then the last bit which is the checks and controls that I mentioned. So every platform version, so we've got the platform version defined. We've got the controls that are there per platform version in place and then unit tests for each of these policies that go into the platform. All of this together helps us answer this one question that at any point of time, I will know which cluster has which sort of security controls in place to give that information back to the regulators when requested for. With that, with all of these aspects now built in which is your platform, your security, let's take a look at the application aspect of it. So like I mentioned previously, we have a standard that we expect all the Kubernetes deployments to be done through GitOps. And then like we saw how the platform components are deployed, that's exactly how even applications are expected to be deployed in the Kubernetes clusters. So every change to even the Helm release manifest of an application also becomes an immutable artifact that can be checked into version control as well as goes to the same data store. So on the left is what you see an example of a demo app that's pulled in from a Helm repository and says nothing but just hello from Kubrick, Singapore. Let's take a look at how this actually ends up on the cluster, the same workflow. But in this case, what we have is that instead of the configuration JSON, this time, the clients, they create the Kubernetes manifests in YAML. They push that to the data store and then as part of the same CICT workflows, this time the manifests up or down, they run through some OPHX which deploys the application on the cluster. Now this time, given you've got the platform and all boots strapped up, you've got the bare cube cluster, you've got flux installed as part of the platform components and on top of that sits your application which is constantly reconciled and monitored by flux. With that, let's look at the last aspect of this which is how do I access this application that I've deployed. So one of the other controls that exist from a regulated perspective as an enterprise is that nobody should have complete admin or a full-time persistent access to your Kubernetes clusters. So what we've done is that we install limited time-bound access per Kubernetes CRD on the cluster for a given user. All of that is integrated with our entitlement management system so that if the question arises that can you access secrets in the namespace demo, if the answer to that question is yes, then only a time-bound access for me as a human will be installed in the cluster only for the namespace demo to read the secret objects. I won't be able to do anything else apart from reading secrets in the cluster. Once the time has elapsed for my access, it is automatically revoked as well. So let's quickly recap for what we've actually built through the platform and what can we offer Alice. So we've built a production-grade Kubernetes environment from scratch. We've enabled end-to-end self-service for cluster builds as was application deployments. We've unified the multi-cloud developer experience for Kubernetes deployments, be it any cloud provider, you don't really need to change the workflow anywhere in the process. And then all of this, while still having all the guardrails in place and all the security and resiliency that's expected by the Kubernetes platform so that you can also comply with regulatory requirements. With that, I think Alice would be happy with the platform that we've offered her. And that's about it. Thank you so much. Questions? Do you need to comply with different kind of regulators? If so, do you separate the clusters depending on the regulators or you only use unified, large clusters which comply with all kind of regulators? Each of the business units that we have, each of them have their own independent clusters but then from a reporting perspective, all the clusters are reported out together, right? As in, we've got 100 clusters, let's say. Each of them are running on what versions of cube itself, what versions of node images itself, what version of the platform, and then are these the recommended ones that they should be on? So all of that data is reported together. And I was curious with your compliance checks. The compliance checks on your last stage of your pipelines, right? Can you give an example of those compliance checks? So that would effectively be the Kubernetes manifests that are incoming to get installed on the cluster. Those checks are, so with Gatekeeper, we do something as similar to how you would write unit tests for code, you can write similar tests for Kubernetes manifests that are incoming. So you can at any point write assertions and violations for, okay, I'm expecting this sort of a pod to cause a violation. I'm expecting this sort of a... Sorry to cut you. What kind of, do you do those automated checks as per the regulatory requirements? Yes, yes. So like I mentioned, the policies that are set, those are as per CIS benchmarks. Okay. Yeah, we install all of those policies and then we constantly keep them updated as per CIS benchmarks. Thank you. Hey, hi. Great presentation. I had a question on the just-in-time access that we're talking about. So how do you do the automation of providing that access and who does the housekeeping of deleting secret access and other things? So that's integrated with our entitlement management system, the one that we have in the firm, right? And then... Is that something in-house? Yeah, that's in-house. And then each of the role bindings that are created, they get created with a timestamp. So then if that timestamp elapses, the role binding is automatically cleaned up on the cluster. We've got a controller that does that. It's a custom controller that you are... Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Hey. Yes. So for folks who it wasn't audible for, the question was that do we provide self-service and then do people create clusters per application or is it shared? The answer is it depends on each of the use cases. As per the business unit requirements, some of them have a shared cluster where they have just a namespace for trying out things and seeing how a new application functions. But then typically beyond the POC perspective, folks generally tend to go into their own clusters just for the sake of isolation. And then they can auto-scale it up to whatever requirements they have. If it's a small application, just a simple web service, they could just have a tiny cluster that serves it out. Yeah, that's mainly about it. I have a question. Because you mentioned that the customers are allowed to operate and maintain their cluster configuration. Yes. Has things ever gone wild? And then you have all these different clusters with different versions? Or is this something that you enforce with your compliance checking? So like I mentioned, they can only pick from a certain versions of the platform that they can use. A certain, we don't really enforce controls on what sort of nodes they want to use. So if someone's requesting for like a 32GB node and if they want 10 of those, we don't really go into those details. But then if they are using unsupported versions of Kubernetes or unsupported versions of our platform, that's when we just block the build at PR time or at build time itself that, hey, you're not using this particular combination of what's supposed to work. So for example, if I want to build a cluster today with say, 124 or 125 and say, the latest release that I have built out today of the platform. So we always have this combination of what version of the platform supports what versions of Kube itself. So that basically helps us catch such misconfigurations before it goes way beyond. And who should upgrade the cluster? That's up to the application developers themselves. We have five minutes. If there's no other questions, then thank you so much.


All you have to do is list it. Found these at a yard sale for a dollar each. They sold in less than five minutes for best offer of a hundred. Net profit, 85. Hey, Bola Buddies, thanks for watching. On my little pony. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, Bola Buddies, thanks for watching. All right, I'm gonna rock my new Bola Buddies hat in this video. All right, let's talk about some bolos. Let's talk about some items to be on the lookout for, some items that you can hopefully buy low and sell for a profit. In this video, I am gonna tell you where they got it, what they paid for it, and what it sold for.  Now, how does this work? If they are a Bola Buddies YouTube member, which means they have joined memberships at level two, I am gonna pop up their eBay store or their YouTube channel, whichever they prefer, and I'm gonna link them down below. Definitely go subscribe to those YouTube channels and follow their eBay stores by clicking on the heart. These people are amazing Bola finders, okay? You're gonna learn so much from them. What I do is I post this in my Bola Buddies Facebook group. This is my Facebook group. If you're not a member, it's linked down below. Definitely go join. It is free for everyone to share. Anybody can be in this video.  Otherwise, it's just anonymous. So this is the post. Share your best January Bola, okay? So this one comes from piece of scrap, paid a dollar at a church sale, sold for full asking price on Mercari for $70 plus shipping. And she sells on multiple platforms and she does sell clothing. So you would definitely get some different things on her channel I don't do a lot of shoes. I don't do a lot of clothing. You will find that on her channel. So these are Keen, K-E-E-N, Newport Sandals, size 10. And again, she paid a buck for them and sold them for $70 plus shipping on Mercari. Found from giveaway pile on the side of the road last summer, buyer paid shipping. It is a DeLonghi, DeLonghi. This is what it looks like. Rare Vintage Orange Used Electric Tea Kettle. Huh, that's a cool looking tea kettle. All right, so it was free. It was on the side of the road. Here's another free one, free from my mother-in-law's estate clean out. So you guys talk to family, talk to friends, check the side of the road. There's Bolo's everywhere. It is the master key system in 24 parts book from 1919 and this sold for $263. Warehouse Pallet. Ooh, all right, we don't get a lot of pallet shares. So if you guys do pallets, definitely come share. Cost of goods was probably a dollar or less, sold in a few days on eBay. It is a Coach Signature Shepra Bucket Hat. And it sold for $119.99. So I wanna know what kind of pallet you're ordering to get Coach. Awesome, right? Paid a dollar at a filibag sale. After a lot of research, I couldn't find this exact model of dolls. So I stuck her in my death pile.  All you have to do is list it, okay? Mine at this point in time is a money mountain. You've probably seen it in my vlog videos. It's almost touching the ceiling and it's just totes and totes and totes and totes of stuff. Anyway, back to this doll. She got a place of honor on my mantle, she said. And there she stayed for about a year. So instead of it going in her money pile, she put it on the mantle because she liked it. Finally decided I wanted my mantle back. So just threw her out there at a price of $80 and she sold in a few hours. It is a Vintage Gotts GOTZ 19 inch tall doll. New open box, red hair headband, 1980s lace gingham. There you go. All right, this one comes from Nina's Jewels and she has a Facebook and she's also on YouTube. So definitely go and check her out. These are steel toe chest waders. They were brand new, although the paper part of the tag was torn off. We paid 20 at a garage sale. They sold for our full asking price of $125. So wow, that is incredible and that's what they look like. So they're waders. Never heard of with protective footwear. That's definitely interesting. All right, this one comes from Mindful Recycle who also is a member. This is her YouTube channel.  She just finds crazy stuff all the time but she does a lot of estate sale shopping and you'll see that over on her YouTube channel. But she got this at an estate sale. She paid $25 for it and it sold for $349.97 in the buyer paid shipping. It is a DVD player, video cassette recorder, Sony, VHS DVD VCR player in the original box. Okay, this is also from Terri Mindful Recycle. She is also a moderator of this Facebook group that I'm referring to.  Picked up three sets of these at a garage sale in the summer for $2 a set. First set sold for $99 and this one sold for $75.50 and this is what it looks like and she paid $2 for it. She says she has one more set left to sell. A little under three yards of vintage Holly Hobby fabric. Yes, Holly Hobby is definitely a bolo. Holly Hobby fabric also is a bolo. If you wanna learn about more fabrics to be on the lookout for, I did a video on vintage fabric to look for. Holly Hobby is definitely one of them. Bought for $2.99 at a thrift store and sold it for $49.99 in one week. I couldn't find anything else that like it anywhere. Listed it for $49.99 auction and that's what it sold for. Found these at a yard sale for a dollar each. They sold in less than five minutes for best offer of 100 net profit, 85. New old stock, new old stock, lot of eight vintage GE flash bar two for Polaroid. Yes, these flashes for cameras are definitely a bolo depending on which ones you find some go for more than others but if they sold in five minutes, I'm guessing these are a harder to find and maybe he underpriced it. But if he had a dollar each in them, I mean, he's got eight bucks in it and he flipped it in five minutes into 100 bucks. I mean, yeah, that's awesome. Could have just been right time right buyer may have had them priced perfectly. I just started reselling part time five months ago. This is my biggest sale so far. I grabbed this teapot and two mugs right off a fresh cart at my Goodwill. And that was the end of November, paid 13. I originally tried to sell on auction starting at 299 but no bids. After the auction ended, I went ahead and listed as buy it now for 399. I just sold the set for full asking price plus shipping. This is a, I'm sorry, Fortnum and Mason Platinum Jubilee 2022 teapot and two mugs, Queen Elizabeth II. That's what it looks like. All right. This one comes from Bolo Buddies member eBay store Impressions Created or Donna 2445, okay? Bought a box lot of jewelry for $12 at an online auction. So this set of earrings was a few cents that Bolo Buddies helped me with the keywords in the name. These were signed. I listed for 29.99 but sent offers out to watchers for 24.93, which was accepted. Michael Golan Geometric Rhinestone Earrings Long Multi-Colored Dangle Y2K No Back.  And if you use Y2K in the title, that is trending right now. So there was somebody the other day that actually said they had a pair of sunglasses that had been sitting and sitting and sitting in their store. They saw my video. They added Y2K to the title and they sold. So if you have anything in that timeframe, add Y2K to your title and let me know if it helps you sell your item quicker. But here are the earrings. All right. Don't pass everything from China up. Probably another reseller put this in the free bin at the auction house, sold within a week for full asking of $49.99 and 17 in shipping. Buyers all in for $70.96. This is also from Impressions Created and this is her eBay store. I'm not sure how to say this. I'm guessing that the Y is silent. So maybe Ixine, Zisha, Clay Chinese ceramic teapot with two enamel coated cups, new old stock, new vintage. Very cool. And here is another one. Purchased at the Springfield Extravaganza for $60, paid up more than usual because Bill Campbell retired last year. Listed it for $499 and took a best offer of $300. Someone messaged and informed me, the marks on the bottom indicated that this was the first time he tried this glaze, almost didn't sell. Wow. Check it out. So that is pretty incredible. And that's cool that somebody messaged her and let her know. Paid $3.99 each and sold within a few hours of posting for full asking price of $175. And this was on Mercari. It is Lenox Village Candy and Nut Shop. It's the candy and nut shop. Lenox, nice pickup and Mercari, awesome. This one comes from Piece of Scrap, that's her YouTube channel. And again, she does a lot of clothing, paid $3.50 at the Goodwill, accepted an offer of 100 plus shipping on Poshmark. Who on earth gets Patagonia for $3.50 at the Goodwill? That is incredible. That is an awesome top right there. It's colorful, it's fleece. Paid a dollar at the Goodwill. It is New Genuine Apple iPod Socks. Covers in six multi-colors. I have never heard of an iPod sock. This is what they look like, $76 on Mercari. This one comes from the Quiet Thrifter. This is her eBay store, she's a Bolo Buddies member. I bought this vintage unopened Kindle at a thrift shop for $18 and sold it for $69, buyer paid shipping. It's a Barbie Animal Lovin' Kindle in Chimpanzee, 1988, Mattel. $69, check out her eBay store and I love it that she's selling toys. Jody Toyaddick recently talked about the pink boxes and that they are starting to go for more money. So if you see a pink box, before a lot of those were bread and butter, but it sounds like they are the markets picking up on those. So definitely look them up. This one comes from Champagne Taste 73. Today I sold two items to the same person for $250. I bought them on eBay for 40% they paid tax and shipping. They are gorgeous jewelry sets from Czechs, Czech Slovakia. It took a very long time to sell, but it was certainly worth the wait. Okay, so she paid 40 a piece on eBay. And I think maybe she bought it for her personal collection because I think she's selling off some of her jewelry. So I'll have her link down below. Definitely go check her out, she has beautiful jewelry. But these are the two sets. And one sold for 125 and the other set sold for 125 as well. So she sourced it on eBay for 40 and sold it for 125. And that was each set. St. Vincent's Thrift Store paid $1 and sold it for $39.95 in five minutes. Five minutes. It's an eight inch Barney Plush Orange Dinosaur Riff 2006. I have never ever seen this one. Not that I like know a lot about Barney, but Barney's usually purple. We all know Barney's purple. Look at this. I think I would have auctioned it, but maybe she did comps and that was the going rate for it. But if it sold in five minutes, wow. Paid $10 for these Arabia of Finland pieces. And they sold for 75. This is what they look like. And it's a sugar bowl and a creamer. Excellent condition. Oh, and it looks like she also sold the six, four mocha cups and six saucers for 175. Wow, that's awesome. I picked up this two ounce dress for a dollar. It says, grizzas tank dress, size medium, silk cotton blend, login look, green gray sheer. Sold it for 40 bucks. That's what it looks like. I have no idea. All right, the next one, Olay Silky Berry Body Lotion. 11.8 ounces, body wash 12 ounces, candle 3.5 ounces. So it is a set. Purchased at a local community thrift store for $6.99. I listed it high since it's a discontinued scent. I rejected a few low ball offers sold in three months for full asking price of $69. And that is a Poshmark sale right there. So I will say as long, you cannot sell perfume on Poshmark. I don't think this is perfume. It's body wash, body lotion and a candle. So as long as there's like no alcohol or nothing flammable, it's okay. But no perfume on Poshmark. I can't believe how many people do not know that you cannot sell perfume, perfume, nail polish, anything flammable. Do not sell it on Poshmark. Everything on Poshmark goes priority mail. So they have to be shipped ground. So do not put those items on Poshmark, FYI. Check the back of the label. It should say the contents. A lot of times it will say if it's flammable or not. Is it flammable or flammable? Flammable, right? I'm saying it wrong. Oh well, you know what I mean. All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching. If you're new here, I mispronounce things all the time. Nothing new. Nothing new here. If you're new, let me know how you found the channel. Be sure to subscribe, like, comment, and if you'd be so kind to share, that would be awesome. I appreciate all of you. Leave me an emoji of a heart down in the comments or just write the word heart. Thanks for watching. One right here is a Linux. Oh, there's no information. Disregard, we're not gonna do that one. Sorry, guys. Found from a giveaway pile and unsold, wait. Giveaway pile on the sole, oh, side. It auto-corrected.


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory, Adventures in Food. Our channel is all about the food. We do taste test recipes, grocery hauls and what's for dinner. And I am here today with a grocery haul and Christmas clearance haul from Walmart. And so I just wanted to show you guys what I picked up. Now many of you know if you've been following our channel for a while, I recently had a baby. So there are some baby items in here that I needed to pick up from Walmart. So I am just gonna jump in. I was so excited to go to Walmart this morning. You guys know that the pregnancy was a little bit rough. So I really did not do a whole lot of shopping during the last trimester, just because I was so tired and wasn't feeling well. So I was excited to hit up Walmart to see what they had today. Couple of things, like I said, we really needed for the baby. One of them is a bottle brush, which is on top. And then we also needed some warm bottles for the baby. So I grabbed those. So we really liked the Phillips, but then I saw that the Nook rawn cell as well. They're like half off. So I decided to give them a try. And then we also needed some nursery water for the baby. And then I also needed some more nipples for the bottles. And I did not know that they had different nipple sizes for babies. So this is first flow, which is for newborns up to three months. So I got a two pack of those. So that's it for the baby. What I picked up for us were some of these beef chimichangas. We really liked them. They were frozen and just popped them in the microwave. It was really good. And then I picked up two packages of Pillsbury pie crust. They were on sale for 250 each. I got one for a pot pie and one for a peach cobbler that I'm planning to make. Howard was out of garlic powder where he said he was close to it. I can't remember which, but I grabbed some garlic powder for him. And then I've never seen these before. These are Skittles dips creamy yogurt covered coating. Excuse me. And they had them only in this, you know, shareable size bag. I wanted a smaller package just in case I didn't like them, but I was intrigued by them. So I just had to pick them up. Another thing that I have seen advertised and wanted to try are these Kit Kat Duos. Howard does not like mint. So these will be all mine, but they are mint and dark chocolate. And they just sounded really good to me. So I grabbed those. Something else that I saw that I've never seen before was this ground chicken. And it is sweet Thai style and it has garlic, shallots, soy sauce, ginger, and that's it. And so you can serve it as a stir fry. What I thought I would do with it was to cook it up and then serve it over some rice. It sounds really good to me. Another thing that I grabbed, you guys know how much we like sparkling juices. And so there was a couple of flavors that I'd never seen before from Martinelli's. That's my favorite. So the apple mango I've never seen, I don't think I've seen that before. So I grabbed some of that. And then we have had the apple pear before, I'm sorry, apple peach before. What I've never seen is apple pear. And that sounded really good to me. Now I'm not a big fan of pear as just in the raw fruit eating it. But like I said, I like sparkling juices and I like to try new flavors. So I grabbed all three of those. Another thing that I picked up is some cabbage. I plan on making some fried cabbage at some point in the upcoming week. And then let me get up and move around a little bit. I just grabbed some of these Doritos for Howard. He likes the Flamin' Hot Nachos. And then I grabbed some lightly salted Fritos. He eats them but mostly I eat them. Now the reason I got the Fritos is because I plan on making some chili. Now during the last trimester of my pregnancy I could not eat anything really tomato based without getting horrible heartburn. I've been craving chili. So now that the baby is here, I plan on making some chili. And I like making chili pies and that's where you add Fritos and cheese and stuff. So that's why I picked up the Fritos.  And it has all the fixings with it. As you can see, there is the grilled chicken in there. So I thought that would be a quick meal for us for lunch or for dinner. I don't know which yet. So that, that's it for the grocery items. Okay. So now let me show you what I picked up on Christmas clearance. So Christmas clearance stuff, if you don't know, is 50% off. Now I don't have the prices on all of this stuff but do know that I got it for half off. So one of the things that I picked up are these Hershey's Caramel's and they have Caramel in the center. Looked really good to me. I don't think I've tried them before. Another thing that I haven't tried before are these cinnamon, sweet cinnamon, and KitKats, sounded good to me too. Now, Howard and I did do a taste test on these peanut M&M bars and we really liked them because the chocolate is really creamy and it doesn't taste like regular M&M milk chocolate. It's super creamy. These were all on Christmas clearance and I remember that these were a dollar each. So I thought that was a really good deal. Next thing I picked up on clearance are these kitchen towels and that's a two pack. I don't remember how much they are but the first one on top says I just want to bake stuff and watch Christmas movies. I love that. And then the other one underneath is just a patterned towel. So I picked that up. And then I just like little things like this to put in the kitchen or the bathroom. Believe in the magic of Christmas. Got that. Let's see here. So I also got some, sorry I'm having to lean into the camera a little bit to get across the table but I got some Holiday Spice muffin and quick bread mix. That looked pretty good to me. I also got the thumb print sugar cookie kit which I love thumb print cookies and this looked pretty cute to me. And then the last thing I picked up, I'm not the last thing, sorry. The other Christmas clearance food item that I picked up were these great value fruit smiles and they have all different flavors and they're 42 pouches and I do remember that these were 248 after clearance. Then I picked up gift card holders and I love this one, Fabiola's. That's so cute. I got that and there's two in a pack and then I got these two as well.  I have tons of that stuff already. So I really didn't wanna buy a whole bunch of Christmas stuff that I didn't need just because it was a good deal. So I think these are the only two like Christmas wrapping type items that I picked up. Next thing I picked up were these icebreaker mint song clearance and their candy cane of course was a good deal. I think these were a dollar each and then I'm gonna try to scoot around a little bit. I picked up these gingerbread twist and shout cookies. Sounded good to me. Now I and I both like ginger so I picked that up and another thing that I picked up, gingerbread was the trail mix. Let me show you what's in here. White chocolate gingerbread flavored almonds, roasted salted peanuts and ginger snap cookies. Try to show you. That's what it looks like. And then I picked up this fabric garland and then it was half ice course. I'm gonna get it close up and I thought I could hang that for my fireplace next year and it's felt like that was pretty cute.  It says baby's first Christmas. Of course we weren't expecting our baby to come before Christmas but the baby did. And so this was the only ornament that I could find so I grabbed it. It wasn't my favorite but it has 2019. Of course I couldn't wait til next year to get baby's first Christmas because it would say 2020 and the baby, actually the first Christmas was this year. So that's what I grabbed. It's all they had. It's a little rattle. It's not bad. I just wanted something, you know, a keepsake. So this is it. This is my Christmas haul and then also my grocery haul. Sorry for moving around so much and for the heavy breathing. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to our channel we certainly hope that you'll do so. See you guys next time. Thanks for watching.


Good morning John, going pizza John classic today. So we're all in agreement that speed is relative, and you say that you ran those 17 miles slowly? But just so you know to me, then probably many of the people watching this, any speed at all after running 16 miles is effectively infinite. I have not in my entire life of 41 years run more than one mile at a time. Like if you add all of my running up, I bet you get above 17. John, the fact that you've put together some system of willpower great enough to keep you exercising and gaining all of the physical and mental benefits that come along with that. Honestly, it's kind of inspirational. Like that's not something I've been able to do, but I feel like you make me feel like I could do it. And honestly, bro, you are a pretty inspirational guy. A thing I was reminded of when I listened to the most recent episode of Heavyweight, a podcast. It was titled, John. You are the John in question, which is a little weird. I can't believe that after 15 years of telling stories on the internet, you still had that story. It made me think a lot about how big our world is and how no one has the capacity to care about everything. And that's okay. Everything is a lot of things. And you can quote me on that. John, I have a friend who just got sick with COVID and she's fine. She's vaccinated. She's young. She's going to be okay.  And also she told me that she feels really frustrated. Like all of the last two years of being careful were for nothing, because she's still got COVID. A frustration that I understand, but, and I didn't say this to hurt, it's just a thing that it made me think along with the podcast episode. We haven't spent the last two years wearing masks and enduring lockdowns and being careful in order to eliminate the possibility of getting COVID as an individual. Like maybe at one point that's what we thought we were doing, but we can't eliminate the possibility completely. It's always going to be there. We are lowering the probability that any individual person will get it, because that slows down the spread overall. Everyone's got lower odds, but some people are going to get unlucky. And it is probably true that if she hadn't done any of this stuff, she would have got COVID the same number of times. But even leaving behind the fact that one, she's vaccinated now, so it's going to be less severe and two, like maybe she would have gotten COVID multiple times, because that can happen. The real point is that we think of ourselves as individuals, but the world acts on us as a collective. Think of it like voting in a big election. Like I am under no illusions that my one vote in a red state with three electoral votes was going to have an impact on the presidential election. But I still did it, because everybody thinks, well, my one vote won't matter, then no one votes, and that's not a very good democracy. So why this anecdote in the middle of this video? Well, because you've been caring about a person for years, who you would have had no connection with, if not for a very peculiar specific moment in your life. And there are so many other people like that, but it's not on any individual to care about everything or to do everything, to never get COVID, to launch a space telescope, to decrease maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, to teach every student or plumb every house, treat every patient, deliver every package, plant every tree or cook every meal. We do all of these things in a web of care, and if all of us extend our care out a little bit more, yeah, that does make the web catch more things. But we don't need to care about everything, because everything is too many things, and I don't need to care about everything, because that's actually a kind of selfish thought. That's what other people are for. Like, regardless of your wonderful, lovely depth of care for the person in your story, whether that was there or not, he was cared for, and that seems wrong to me, but it is not wrong. Like, don't people need my care specifically? But no, usually they don't. Even saying the words, as I have done several times, I don't need to care about everything, makes me feel gross. Like, it sounds callous. But I'm not saying that the things that I don't focus on in my everyday practice aren't worthy of care. I'm saying that they don't need my care. I can and need to trust my fellow members of the web to do their care. I have to, because it is a good thing that we don't have to care about everything, not least because we can't. John, I'll see you tomorrow.