You'll be amazed at how refreshing it is mentally, like I'm doing right now. Yeah, you see something? I needed, uh, my nose got cold yesterday, so I needed a, I needed a breathing hole, that's what that is. Feeling good now, cutting open the buffs, doing a slightly different route today in some on-shoes. Yeah, that's right. Shout out to the Swiss out there who watched the channel. I appreciate it. You know what? I really just forgot my sunglasses. You're right back. All right. That's better. There we go. There we go. Staying close to home, if you know what I mean. Staying close to home. All right. Here we go. And yes, it did snow again last night, only about an inch, but the roads are covered. A quick tip of the day, if your normal running loop is just getting a little stale, especially in the wintertime when the availability to run in new locations is, is down because of snow and ice, is just run your loop backward, your normal loop backward. You'll be amazed at how refreshing it is mentally, like I'm doing right now. Oh man, okay. Nice and easy. Nice and easy. That's hilarious. I've never actually seen Michael fall asleep on the floor. He's a little sick. So am I. We're all a little tired. We're all waiting for this baby. And so Michael just passed out in front of the bathroom, waiting for his nap. So now he is down and now it's time for Papa's lunch. Okay. Getting steak. Steak, a little banana action. Oh yeah, some tea, hot tea, you better believe it. Almost forgot. Almost forgot. Love me some peanut butter. Love me some peanut butter on my bananas. Refueling. Refueling. It's been a big week. As I sit here enjoying some lunch, I'm reading your comments from yesterday's blog all about the U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials predictions. Who's going to be the top three on the men's side and the women's side? There's already 104 comments. Thank you so much for chiming in. Amazing. Oh, it's going to be, it's going to be epic. And yeah, wow. If you haven't seen the blog, I think you'll enjoy it. I break down splits, negative splitting from 2016 and it also give my predictions for the top three on both sides. Every now and then you need a little afternoon pickup. Just a little afternoon pickup. That's what this is. Oh man. We're just trying to keep it all together here at the D'Amour household. All right. And yes, I don't know, like a little, just a little bit, I was probably four ounces of steak that I just ate for lunch. I don't know. For me. And everybody's different. But for me, like when I get over 85, 90, especially over 95 miles in a week, the body just starts yearning for a little more heartiness, like staying away from the grains or from cereal or from, even from frankly, like Bobo bars, which I love. And like I just need that, that meat. So anyway, that's what I decided to eat and sure enough I feel good. Like today's run, I'll just jump into it was 10 miles, 915 a mile. I'm so glad I kept it easy. I wanted to go faster. Yes. In the on cloud flow. We'll talk about this in a minute. But I decided to just really rein it in and just really let the legs go easy and just bop along for 10 miles. So it was solid. And there's the on cloud flow over there. Here's the deal. You know me. I love innovation when it comes to running and when it comes to filming and making the vlog and yes, to running shoes. I like competition in the running shoe marketplace. So if you don't know the story behind on spelled on, it's a company out of Switzerland and they have a pretty interesting background as to how they developed their midsole and outsole, which is very unique. You can, you can see literally tunnels through the midsole there. And I gave them a shot in 2019, actually late 2018, 2019. And yes, I'm trying to give them another shot in 2020. This is the on cloud flow model, which is their lighter version. In fact, I'm just going to toss it on the scale here to see what it weighs in my size. We're looking at basically eight ounces in my size. So pretty lightweight, not, yeah, not bad, not bad. But I think after today's run, I'm not, I'm not a fan of this model. So I'm going to have to try. If anybody out there has a connection to on, let them know. I'd love to try the on cloud swift. If anybody has tried the, which I believe is their higher stack height for their midsole. So a little more cushion, when my legs again are getting up there in volume, I need a little more cushion to help protect them. My legs from the pounding and especially right now in the winter time, it's driving me a little crazy this snow because it's hard to go seek out dirt and because everything is frozen and solid underneath the snow. And I can't go drive too far away from home right now. You know why. So there is the deal. There's the update on the on cloud flow. I don't even know if I'll do a first impression video. We shall see, but I'm intrigued by the on cloud swift. Any on fans, let us know down in the comments, make your case as to why you love on. That's not the question of the day, but and then, yeah, okay, recovery day. So I'm not afraid to run nine minutes a mile, even though that's a very slow, slow pace for me. So for these easy days, I really have to make sure that I'm reminding myself to rain it in and go slow. So that's where the title of the vlog comes from. Okay. One last comment on the on cloud flow. I loved the upper love the upper really comfortable, but I'm just I need a little more cushion through that middle. Okay. Vlogs not over going inside and probably going to do some more stretching, foam rolling just to make sure I'm ready for the long run tomorrow. All right. Here we go. Okay. I was not going to comment on today's run on Strava, but I just have to because there's already 17 comments on the run, the 10 mile run, 915 a mile. I just appreciate you all being so detail oriented in checking out my training and looking at the paces that I'm running, the shoes that I'm running in, and which are the on cloud flows today. And then so here's just a couple of comments and I just want to clarify. So injury back. Why so slow? Trainers longer recovery day. What's wrong? Then there's another one. Let's see. Not a fan of the clickbait style run title set. Love your vlog and it's been awesome cheering you on, but this is a little obnoxious. I realized the point is to keep the people engaged, but you've already built an audience that cares. So to that person and some other folks as well that so the title of the vlog was, but I spelled it a H H H H H H H H and then maybe some people were interpreting that as I like I have an injury back like no just want to clarify what I say I'm just going 915 pace bopping along nice and easy that is the that is the intention of that title so don't worry I'm not injured I feel great and I appreciate all of you being so tuned into the training you guys rock but I will give a shout out to Brent he says easy day folks watch the vlog from yesterday Brent you are correct if you watch the vlog every day you have a good clue as to what I'm doing in my training so today was just a bop it a long day anyway you guys are the best you're the best all right well one last quick comment again I'm back to the easy day is that shout out to Drew he commented on Strava and said longer recovery day drew you are very observant and yes it was longer I like to keep my easy days my recovery days and that's 6 to 8 mile range today was 10 why drew and everybody else is because with Henry's arrival any moment I'm loading up the volume just a little bit more earlier in this week because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow Saturday and Sunday so anyway that's why I went 10 instead of the usual 6 to 8 for the easy days very observant you guys are amazing you're amazing all right time to start editing okay on thanks for making my salad boom shaka laka is right oh man yeah that salad time yeah he's saying we're really in countdown mode Saturday is the due date and for sure at this point I'll tell you about that in a second all of our kids have been here Michael was two weeks early Sethi was six days early and Joseph was like a week early so we are we're more ready than we have ever been for any baby everything's washed and put away and anyway we're excited you lost caution the laundry as always I taught Joseph how to do the laundry and he's done four loads proud of you bud I'm creating a lot of laundry these days double runs with your clothing and you know the kids school clothes they take them off in a good room serious kicks you guys going on here the more house the camera stuff all right everyone we're gonna call the vlog there time to go to bed gotta take my medicine finish my salad and question of the day what is your go-to food that you eat in your training when your training is the most intense this food just helps you recover get that energy back what is it it could be breakfast lunch dinner snack anything so that's the we haven't talked about food for a while on the channel that'll be the question of the day you know how much I love spinach the steak hot sauce no I love you at days of beta days are watching all right everyone we're gonna toss it back on the right to why not the last time we talked about food on the channel in what I eat in a day that'll be on the right and on the left we'll toss it back to yesterday's marathon team trials predictions all right you guys are the best the beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow


We must proclaim Black Lives Matter because it's a biblical thing to say. Throughout our sacred narrative, God consistently stands on the side of the oppressed. White Christians specifically must say it. Every time we refuse to see the God-given value and inherent goodness of black bodies, we thumb our noses at the Bible and its radical proclamation that the Word became flesh.


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And it will be our live for the 10th day of October is Pinktober. Let's get this camera set up. There is yesterday's Pinktober painting. And here is yesterday's Pink that I forgot to put the lid on. I forgot everything. Hey Kim! Happy Spooky Season! Good evening Kim! Good evening Narenhainz. How are you? Do you have a good time in Puerto Rico? Very good, sir. Hello there Kim! Hello Alan! As Otonio and Bargain is... Yuvando? Is that rain? What are you all streaming on? What do you mean? What are you all streaming on? I'm streaming on YouTubes. Hey Moona! Okay, time to remove yesterday's. Inktober is Pinktober. The best part of the day is when you have a stream of your paintings. I should say thank you but also that sounds... That doesn't sound all that nice. I meant I was streaming on more than one. I'm not streaming on more than one at the moment. I do love streaming on TikTok because the energy there is kind of insane at times. But this month it is daily YouTube streams. And then hopefully sometime in the future we'll be able to set up a multi-platform streaming. It is at 11.35 in Puerto Rico. Not 11. 11, yes. 11.35 after 11. This time I was sure that... In my mind I said when I say Costa Rica it's the wrong place. So I said Puerto Rico. And I corrected myself to be wrong. Oh and I don't know flags. Okay let's start. Let's start. Flags help me very little except the big ones. But yes Costa Rica is a flag like normal but Puerto Rico is. Like a little American flag because it's territory? I don't think I'm fat. Let's start this thing because I'm kind of energized. But I'm fearing that I might be on my way into a hypomanic episode. And then in order to not crash and burn I have to stop all creative work long before I go to bed. Otherwise my mind is just buzzing with ideas. Hejsan allihopa. Tjena. I don't know how to speak Swedish. Hello. This is number 10 and the word for today is hubris. Greetings from Switzerland. Yes, where are everyone located? Well, I start drawing hubris. Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean and Costa Rica is located in Central America. I do know that. I just, yeah, I should know that. Actually, but very unprofessional of me. Ooh, even more unprofessional. I'll be back in a minute. You can watch this. I'll be back. I am back. Okay. Love your work, your inspirational messages and beautiful soul. Thank you. Hi from Ukraine, currently in Rhineland. Due to circumstances. Excessive pride or self-confidence is hubris. What I ran up to get is I have reference material today. An eagle and Prometheus being getting his liver picked out by an eagle. And that is one of the original Greek tales of hubris. And it's a beautiful, beautiful tale because Prometheus is kind of cool and it gives humankind fire and sews a punishment to them to eternal suffering. So that's cool. Well, I don't always use references, but I use them when I need. And the eagle's difficult. And I really liked just the simplicity of this one with the hand going down here and he's sort of tied to this. Just sort of. This is very sloppy tying by Seuss. And then I like the position. So I'm going to try to do something like that. I am not going to have Seuss there, not have the snakes, but the liver and the eagle and the pole. Yeah, I think that sounds good. And I will start by drawing with some pretty, a little bit dirty water and just sketching a basic body position for him. I will change the anatomy slightly from the vase. Hello! How are you doing? It's going pretty well. It's going pretty well. I'm from Norway. Me too. But we don't talk a lot in Norwegian, but because all the parties we see are not in Norway. Dumb question. Are there haunted places in your city town like forests or roads? So the kids think the local principal's house, which has been empty for 20 years or so, is haunted. There are supposedly haunted places, I guess, all over town. It's a European town. We burnt witches and we had the plague and it's a telephone sonoran decedent. Have you ever heard the word sonoran before? Sonoran? I think you said before you like painting wolves.  I don't know how to pronounce French. Gouvardin? Yeah, yeah. That should definitely be on my list. And it's kind of strange that I haven't done it so yet. I remember Odd Pride, who is on both TikTok and YouTube, created, made a very nice video about her. I think it was her, or their pet theory, that it wasn't a wolf at all, but a runaway tiger. I'm from America, but I'm Norwegian. Where are the mountains tonight? It's piss-reigned. It blows and piss-reigned in all directions. Sonoran. We're famous for our saguaro cactus that I've never heard of either.  I haven't made any sort of in-depth tutorials. I have made some shorter tutorials, but nothing really more substantial. There are reasons for that. And one of them is that I have done a lot of teaching, but with age, I've found that I think I'm a good teacher in terms of engaging the student and stuff like that. I have some qualities that are not great for teaching, such as I dislike doing the same thing over and over. I want to come up with new stuff almost every time. I have also been feeling that because of the way I work, whenever we're talking about technical things, I'm actually a bit out of my depth because I focus on more of the creative things. And I'm better when I don't care about all the technical stuff. A friend used to work in a clinic in San Rafael of Heredia, and the main building was an old house where he said the typewriter was. Any advice on where to begin to understand if it's my thing at all? I tried to do a podcast a year or two back, and you find the episodes on YouTube, and there's one called How to Start at Art, where I try to give a general outline of how to start basically any art process. And then I can also tell you how to start with this type of ink drawing is not with ink. I didn't start with ink. There is a whole ton of comic book, like superhero comic style pencil drawing underneath, and I'm always sort of sketching with my mind's eye. So I'm sketching like two steps ahead of wherever the brush is at all times. You're very inspiring. I love your art and your video. Thank you! So what I would do, or I can say not what I would do, but what I did myself was at the same time I was doing comic book penciling and learning that and doing comic book inking and learning that. I was also doing sketches, mostly either silly sketches or very sort of true to life black and white landscape sketches with directly with ink. So at around age 18, I started actively working directly with ink in addition to my comic book style work. So working those two things at the same time I think is beneficial. Because if you only do the comic book inking part, then it is really hard to switch around and use ink as its own medium. Have you ever enjoyed drawing painting architecture? Occasionally, but I like organic things more. But I do at times. At some point I made an entire 300 page comic. It was a disaster, but it taught me a lot. Bad experience at the same time. Good one. I can relate. I can relate. Gave me confidence and inspiration to make art for free. Thank you for being an art dad for many of us. That's a scary proposition, but cool. I'll try to be as good of an art dad as I can. As I tell my kids, you do things your way and if you want advice just ask and I can tell you my way. Just like the fun badigan man that talks about like and makes interesting things with ink. That's a description I can live with. Don't know if I'm liking this composition. I knew I wanted a very stiff composition like in that vase, but I'm thinking it's sort of, at least for now it's lacking something. But we'll get there. Talks about life, yes. That made more sense. Please stick down your recent short. As someone familiar with genetic history of depression, this short is misinformation and harmful. How? I need you to clarify what you mean. And you can clarify that by sending me a message on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok. Or you can comment here. But I am very curious about what is misinformation. Because I think you mean the video I posted just an hour ago about World Mental Health Day and I'm talking about my experience right now in a way. Okay, so Jessica stuck inside. You didn't see the whole video, did you? Or maybe you didn't understand it. First of all, for some people, depressions do go away. And that's important to remember. And that is even true for... Hi, Karolina. Good to see you. Let's get back. That is even true for things like bipolar that is for life. Some people, whether through wrong diagnosis or through other things, lose their bipolar with time. So getting well isn't... is never completely out of the picture. But I said I woke up and my depression was gone. And then what did I say after that? Now I'm pointing with my finger and using my stern art dad voice. You should go back and see the full video. I said the feeling of not being depressed was a sign of my going into a possible hypomanic period, which is a symptom of my bipolar type 2. Some people have chronic depression, meaning they will never get rid of it.  Bipolar is generally chronic. But for things with mental health, there's a lot we don't know. So some patients, some people that get diagnosed with chronic conditions do actually get better. But what I was saying in my video wasn't that I was magically getting better, but that my perhaps oncoming hypomanic period was tricking me into thinking that I was suddenly well. And if I hadn't, what used to happen with me was that I would actually think I was well, and then I would go into a full blown hypomanic episode and that would be bad. But you came into this stream, Jessica, and told me that I had to take down my video when you clearly do not understand what that video said. And I urge you to actually sit down and look at it and see if you understand it. And if you don't understand it, come back into the live. We'll be drawing for half an hour more. Oh, I shouldn't be drawing this late. But you know, we'll be drawing for 15 minutes more, I'll say. And then come back within 15 minutes. And if you have any questions, then I'll happily answer them. But you didn't understand the video. So you're making demands based on things that aren't being said in the video. Okay, I need to hurry up because one of the things I have to do when I'm in or on the verge of a hypomanic episode is that I have to stop creative work in the evenings so that my mind can settle down and I hopefully can get some sleep. I noticed that my mind is very agitated now. It's going very quick. I'm trying to remain calm, breathe, but I got a little bit agitated. I'm much easier to agitate when I'm verging on a hypomanic episode. David is fine. Just watch it. Sorry, but you didn't understand what he meant. It is, in no way, meant that I woke up and was cured of depression, even though that would be sweet. I'm not putting my dollars on it. Props to you, Kim, for knowing yourself and your needs and catering to what you need. And now I just need to... You shouldn't really hurry these Inktober pieces, but I need to hurry this Inktober piece and play a video game or do some dishes or do something else that will read a book. And hopefully I'll be ready to sleep in a little while. Hopefully Jessica comes back and asks questions if she's wondering about anything. Didn't know you were into gaming. I'm super into gaming, but I don't get as much time as I would like to game. I'm playing through a short hike again now. I had been playing Starfield and actually love it. But now that I have very little time, I don't get into the groove of it again. That's the problem with massive games. So I need to find something a little bit less involved. I've been playing some Uncharted in Spanish to learn Spanish. I didn't get far into Titanfall 2. I really wanted to because it was said that some of the level design was the most creative since half-life or something. But I didn't get past the first few levels. Now I'm hurrying with this one. I don't know if I like hurrying with it, but let's actually do an old comic book trick. When in doubt, black it out. So when things aren't quite working as you wish they would, black everything out and work in silhouettes. Just these tiny gaps of light and then that's a good trick. Because now I'm getting stressed over the clock being later than I thought.  I see a red door and I want to paint it black. I see a pink pole and I want to paint it black. Prometheus is bound to hit it. He wants his liver back. That's the song. I will switch the brush so it goes a little bit faster. Let's be very rough to lose. It's only 10 days of October. I don't understand what people are saying. I notice that still agitated from having to explain my last video. That agitation is another sign of getting closer to hypomania. I get more angry, I get more... Things are very important for me when I'm in that mood. And this is not Jessica's fault. Have a good evening and don't worry about it. Don't worry about me. I'll turn it around sometime. But thank you very much. That was supposed to be a super chat but it somehow deleted. I think there's a super chat here. Isn't there? Number one and a heart. Yes, that is a super chat. I need to relax while also finishing this one quickly. Accidentally deleted the message when you added the heart. That sounds like something I would do. Why the eagle is pecking through this guy's chest to get to the liver? I don't know. I'm not an eagle logist. I'm not an eagle logist. Dammit Jim. I'm an artist. Not an eagle logist. I eventually get agitated and angry with hypomania or mania. I don't have true mania so I don't experience that. Yet, and everything suggests that I do have bipolar type 2 where true mania doesn't really happen. So, but yeah, it is... This live has been a lesson for me in hubris. Actually, because I thought, no, no, I can do this first and I can do this first. I'll be done with the live before eight o'clock. I should have been done with the live before like six o'clock. And I need to be careful with these lives now because I do get agitated. Because I do. I am very much in control of my head, but I'm not in control of my feelings as much. Love your in-depth folklore stories. Thank you so much. Thank you for the super chest. I've forgotten to do my advertising spiel. So, so I'll do that now. The advertising spiel is that if you like my art, you can get it at 20% off in my web store, den ungeherholm.com, as long as you use the code Inktober 23. If you like my art and want to support but not buy my art, then you can go to patreon.com slash Kim Holm and join the patron for $1 month and you get access to an awesome little discord community. And if you want to support but don't have money or don't want to use money, that is quite okay as well. Then you can share my art. All my art is made for free use, so you can download it. You can change it, copy it. You can even sell it and you don't owe me anything because sharing my art and sharing my name is supporting me. I'm broke as a beginner homestead, so I can't afford it yet. But I often share to as many people as I can. And that is incredibly important. Do you have a favorite color? Yes, shock green. Really, really garish like plastic green. I love that. I bought one of your paintings. It's part of my reading corner. I'm going to wait for the chair now. Yeah, I'm not going to start producing chairs. Just now we're going to wait a year or two before we start our chair manufacturing. Chair manufacturing. Oh, another super chat. That is great. This is more super chats than I usually get. So thank you so very much for that. And I need to... Yeah, free chairs. Free chairs. It means anyone can sit on them.  I think that with this, if the gods accept this painting and they do, I think I'm done. Do you have a chair on you? Not a chair on anyone. Not a chair on anyone thing. A chair in a living day. Did you notice when you didn't draw in a long time and finally did, it's nothing like something retired. Back like your heart went back. I don't think I've stopped drawing for that long ever. But I have stopped drawing and it is... But only for shorter periods. I will talk a little bit to you guys after I'm done with this. I will not do an ink monster because it's too late o'clock for me in my state right now. But yes, I will call this one finished. Finished. Okay, let's cut a little bit. Here you can see the details. So all art is unfinished. It's just a matter of being happy with... No, you need to finish art. You don't need...  But you don't necessarily need to be happy with all the art you need to. Know that it says more or less what you wanted it to say. And then you can go on to the next one and be finished with it. And it can live on for other people, but it doesn't have to live on for you. I think. I think. I feel like drawing something tonight now. Thanks for inspiration. Have fun. You made it so quick. This one was longer than I... In my heuris, you could say, I expected to draw an inktober piece and an ink monster in 30 minutes. I didn't do that. I used 45 minutes on a single inktober piece and that's cool. But I was... I was... Not planning, clearly. And I... And that's also something that usually happens when I get towards a hypomanic period. So... But I don't know. I might wake up tomorrow and be just my old depressed self again. And you never know with these things. But it looks like I need to be careful in order to avoid a hypomanic episode. But there was a question here. May I ask you to say your name slowly? I always struggle to say it out when mentioning you. Yes. So it can be difficult, especially for people who don't speak Norwegian. But if you say my name slowly, it sounds like this. Kim. Sorry, that was a joke. If you say my name slowly, it would be Are you Norway? Yes. I never really had much jobs besides freelance art. I did a few, like, stray jobs here and there. And then I've been poor and an artist ever since. Is it okay if I just call you young Mr Holm? Yes, you can do that. But the thing is, I chose to name the unge Had Holm when I was 24. Back in 2004. And I thought it was really funny. And now I'm 43. And it's not as funny anymore. But I think that when I get to around 80, 90, it will be hilarious. I'm ambidextrous and can't decide which hand to use. Can you give me a tip? Use both. If you have a dominant hand, use that. If you're ambidextrous, then remember to train both of them. I have not watched Oppenheimer. Your short for mental health awareness appeared at a very coincidental time on my short scrolling. I was second guessing something I did for my mental health. That sounds familiar. It's a great, it's a great pleasure to watch you at your creative work. Totally pleasant and interesting. Thank you. Let's see, there was another question. What topics do you enjoy making content about most? Or what creatures do you enjoy painting the most? The creature I enjoy painting the most are the creatures I paint the most. Trolls, zombies, dragons, Cthulhu and weird monsters. I enjoy that. Topics I like making videos about. I can give you a pretty easy answer. I like doing a lot of different types of videos. But the one that has made me the happiest in a long while and that I'm most satisfied with, that's the Marilyn Monroe video. I think that's hilarious and I just, mm, that was fun. When I got to, when I got that idea, I chuckled so much. So yeah, do you have any books you think everyone should read? I don't read that much books. When I read, it's mostly nonfiction because my mind carries away with me and makes stories of its own and that's more okay with nonfiction than fiction. But yes, a book that everyone should read. I think The Dawn of Everything by David Graber and David Wengrove. It's sort of a reworking of world history based on actual archaeology and not on 200 year old mythology. So I would recommend reading that. It's very interesting. It is very thought provoking. And I had read a lot of the, at least the popular books of the bookstay used for reference. So a lot of it was sort of known to me, but the way they connect the dots and tell of the diversity of human history. That human history isn't just a straight path towards civilization, but it's a series of choices where neighboring peoples often make the completely opposite choices of the other and fun and sews. You have been a great inspiration to me and I have very much stolen and applied Inclos better into my work. Thank you for being an inspiration. I stole it from so many artists. I mean, we all, the Croatian High, I put the one counting down on Time Out because that was just a little silly. Okay, this live is going great. So I should just draw 10 more drawings and entertain you guys for hours. But if I did that, that would be listening to my hypomania and that wouldn't be good. So instead, I'll be back tomorrow with another stream that's a little bit earlier and I'll do my advertising spiel one more time. If you like my art, go to denungehardform.com and use the promo code Inktober23 for 20% off all October.  If you want to support but don't want to buy stuff, go to patreon.com. Patreon.com slash Kim Holm. And if you don't want to support with money but still want to support, you can use my art for free. You can download it. You can print it. You can change it. You can even sell it as long as you put my name on it. You're supporting me. Thank you so much and have a great night. Bye-bye. We'll show the Inktober picture first. And there'll be another Inktober is Pinktober tomorrow. Take care. Bye.


Lee at home. Home. Yes. It's been a hectic schedule and I got work at 5 a.m. But we figured we'd show you a little bit of what it's like for us when we're just sitting at the house and doing nothing. Now it's not going to be fun but maybe it will be. Probably not. As you could tell by the little B roll before that was our apartment and some of our nifty little things. And I'm gonna hang out for a little bit. We got a couple of cards in the mail. So we're gonna go through those and just kind of give you guys a glimpse of what a Tuesday night at home is like for us. It's not Tuesday. It is Tuesday. Oh guess we're gonna show you what a Tuesday is. I thought it was Wednesday. So we're going up a Tuesday. Let's go do this whatever this is. Let's do it. Okay. So I was sitting here and when we say we're gonna film like what we do at home that's basically what we were doing. I was sitting here watching some TV watching some vlogs from other vloggers and I was like what's gonna be interesting and then I look over Veronica and look at that found something interesting. What are you doing? I think my bald bald. I'm literally sitting here watching YouTube and look over and Veronica is literally just putting balls in a ball in a specific pattern. There's a certain forte or aura aura that I don't have. I think I found a decent one but I'm not sure yet. Well thank you. I'll let you know what I'm done. Tada!  Ball bowl. Yeah. Oh thank you. Put it back on the table. Thanks. That's where it goes. Yeah. Nate said this is not cool to show you guys but I thought it was pretty nifty to show you guys. Look at my plant. Aw and this is me and Nate in 2011. That was seven years ago? Seven years ago. Oh my lord. This is where we just hang out watching TV with our doggy goo, Gracie. Veronica's like hiding behind a pillow. Did you not think I was just gonna pull out the camera? No. Where are you going? We were gonna sit down and actually just hang out watch some TV with Gracie. But Veronica had a pretty good idea. What was your idea? I guess her idea was yelling in the dog's ear. No. Well then what was the idea? Oh I wanted to show you guys where we edit our vlogs. Oh alright. So I guess I'll show you kind of how we edit our vlog. Thank you. So this is it. This is our editing setup here. We've got a wireless keyboard, a mouse, a chewed up mouse pad that Gracie got a hold of. And I scribbled that. Oh you scribbled PMM and our computers hooked up right to our living room TV. Yep. Oh you know what's funny? Let's show you what Veronica has been searching all day on YouTube. We've got abandoned mansion, Epcot ambient music, horse trot sound, abandoned Florida, working out Barbie, Negro Lando, dog crying sound effect, pride at Disney World, and R&K all day. He's an abandoned channel.  What is the horse trot sound for? I can't really explain. This is it. You can see we got a little big owl there. A little big owl. A little big owl. Monstro and oh we got a main street railroad office window. Yeah but I don't like this TV stand. Like I really want to replace it with a dresser like EverSeals Pinterest things. I don't think that's happening. But that's it. That's our setup. We just got a letter. We just got a mail. Wonder who it's from. Got some postcards, some nice stuff written to us, sent to us through our PO box. And yeah we've only got like three or four things and we've only had it for about two weeks. And I didn't think we'd get anything. So I'm pretty shocked and I love everything so far. Very nice things. I'm going to do this one for, oh I think it's showing off, no they don't have their address on there. Okay mine says, oh see the cart says live the life you love. Oh look at that. To Nate and Veronica thank you for your fabulous vlogs. Love, Crin and Roger, Mac the dog and Leo the cat. That's a cool card. It's funny that they found that card. That's awesome. Thank you Crin. Yeah. And Mac the dog. And Leo the cat. Yes.  Oh look at that. It says dream. Isn't he cute? He's got a little chicken. You hear it? Oh and then we got another postcard. Cape Cod spring time. It's got Duffy and Duffy's friend Shelley. I don't know what that is. Just wanted to say that you guys are my favorite Disney vloggers. Well thank you. I live in Virginia and we visit the parks twice a year really hoping to move to Florida permanently soon. It's a good jump. Do it. Keep up the great work from Sandy and then she she shared her her at sign. I don't know if that's Instagram or Twitter. I don't know. At running our show. Oh okay. Yeah. Well thank you. Yeah I love this. This is so cute. I don't think I've ever had anyone send me a postcard. Me neither. I've never gotten a postcard before. It's very interesting. Thank you. And what's this one? This one's from... Oh yeah. This one says... Okay so they don't want us to read it out loud. Yeah. Oh but they... But that's very nice. Nice little postcard there. Yeah thank you. Well not a postcard. It's a card. It's a card but it does say don't read it out loud. Very nice. Well that was nice. Yeah. When they said that was we also got ears from Sydney. Yeah I got the I read those I read that card the other day. And then I mean we got the Avril Lavigne sent to us before. Just trying to think of things that we've got. Yeah but we really just want to take time and say thank you. Yeah. They want to send us stuff because I really do appreciate it. I really appreciate it. I think it's so fun. I do too. I get so excited. It is really fun. And this is our little Rita. I don't know what she's doing. We spend a lot of time with our pets. I don't think all of our time home really is. I guess it's time to take our Gracie Goua for a walk. I'm strapping her in. Yeah she likes to be pointed harness. Very safe very secure. She likes to feel safe. Let's go for walkie. She loves walkie time. Wow it is hot today. I think it's like 96 97 degrees out. I like it. Yeah clear skies and palm trees. Nothing like it. Yes Gracie is going out to play. Oh boy. Block your eyes. Block your eyes. Look at her face. She's like hey. But we got this nice little doggy pug here for her. And she loves just coming in hanging out. What is on your feet? These are your slippers. My slippers and I don't wear them outside. Oh I'm sorry. But they're very sparkly. No those are inside in-sword slippers.  What you got to say about that. And she's gone. I'm a maniac maniac. Get it? Yes. I'm a maniac maniac on the grass. She's like oh the talking about me aren't they. Yeah I think she knows. Oh wait. She's going down again. She likes that spot. I don't know.  What. What. What. What do you see. Dog. Well I wanted to show you guys a little bit more about ourselves. And I figured this was a good thing to bring up. We are very fortunate that we have two cars. Right. Yeah. One of them is a brand new car. 2018. Yep Veronica. Lexus. No it's not a Lexus. It's a Toyota. Why are you talking like that. Veronica. Not a Toyota either. It isn't. No. Oh it's a Nissan. Please. Yeah. Okay. Well to point Veronica drives the Nissan. Yeah. And I let you drive it. Yeah I drive the Nissan when Veronica is not driving it. But when Veronica is at work or school I actually drive Veronica's like sweet 16 car that she's had for the past like 13 years. Yeah I actually own it. I actually paid it off. And it's this little PT cruiser right here and I just want to let you see some of the things that I'm actually driving around it. I'm actually going to insert a picture in a minute after we show you the car of what it actually looked like when Nate was driving around before I toned it down. But here's a glimpse of some stuff. Yeah. So when Veronica was younger she thought it was really cool to paint the accents in the car pink and read her name Veronica on them. So whenever people hop in the car that don't mow me because some people ask me for a ride home and stuff like that they kind of stare at that for a while and look at me awkwardly and I don't address it immediately.  You'll see it in the picture. It used to be my favorite. I loved my car. Then I got older and realized oh wait I don't like it. Oh yeah. But she does have this cool decal. My other car is a do buggy. I've had that on there for years. And my kids have four paws. Yeah that was like ten years ago. We had to come back inside Gracie was panting. Yeah so you camera shy. I think she's camera shy. I think this is pretty interesting to show off. A lot of people scrapbook and stuff like that but Veronica used to make lampshades with memories of us and like this is from like 2011. Look at that. He used to rep a fallhawk. That's when we went to Baltimore. Oh does anybody know where that's from? Let us know in the comments if you know where that's from. Oh look at that. That was our first ticket to Disney World 2011 when we went together. Oh an adoption release form for Rita right or Gracie. I mean not Gracie Rita. Yeah we went to Halloween Horror Nights in 2011. A lot of fun stuff. There's our universal ticket. While we are actually making this vlog it's not something we do every single day when we're hanging out at the house but we looked at that lampshade and we decided to take a trip down memory lane, pull out the photo album, watch some old videos of us and we're gonna share some of that. Yeah. Because I mean it's fun. Here's a funny little picture of Veronica when she was in her teenage years meeting Chip and Darryl at Dino Rama with her dad. Look at you. So before we got annual passes Veronica used to screenshot the pictures with the writing on and then print some pictures out. That was from Space Mountain wasn't it? Yeah. God that was oh that was 2012. Wow. Also back in 2013 when we went to Disney World on vacation we all decided to try to get photos or random people and this was Veronica's favorite photo with this random man. He was very happy to be in the picture. Oh I remember when I was actually an extra in the back lot tour I was the guy that was in the submarine calling for help and then the water came flushing in. Yeah that was fun. I wish I had a video of that. You do somewhere. Do why? On an old phone. Oh this is Veronica once you got accepted into the LPN program. Big day for her then. Yeah it was a nice graduation too. Here's Veronica's a little little girl meeting Mickey Mouse. That was a long time ago. I was three. I don't even know where this was located at Disney World. I could see Mickey Sorcerer's hat in the background. Oh what like over in Fantasyland? I have this one too where the Sorcerer hats in the background. Oh yeah look at that. I remember one time in my life I decided to shave all of my facial hair, my eyebrows and my head and that was the outcome. I'll never do that again. Damn. So these are the pictures of what I proposed to Veronica in town square with Mickey Mouse. Got Jake in the background and we actually have a video of this. We should show the video. I think we talked about it on our live streams before but we're gonna show you guys some of the video. Okay. Alright here it is. Not good quality here guys. My friend Jake was in the picture and I'm like alright come on you gotta get out here. I gotta do my thing now. He knew what was happening but she didn't know what was happening. Oh here it is. I'm checking to see if the coast is clear. I'm reaching in my pocket. Look at her.  I was so nervous. I don't know why I was nervous. Why is any guy nervous? Yeah she thought I was pranking her or something. She asked Mickey if I was serious. This part's funny. Look at that. I literally just proposed her and she runs into Mickey's arms. What a gentleman though Mickey is. He just handed her back to me and gave me a handshake. Okay well I guess that's it. Yep. We got all caught up going down memory lane watching our engagement looking at some old photos and having fun. Just relaxing at the house. Yep but now we have to edit this vlog and I gotta get up in the morning so I guess that's it. So love the life you live. So live the life you love. Why'd you say so? Because you're the souest person. I'm the souest person. Alright we'll see you next time. Toodaloo. Bye.


Hi there, it's DJB, and in this video I'm going to be teaching you how to do a deep clean of your airbrush. I am in the hobby of painting model horses, and that is primarily what I use my airbrush for. I currently have two airbrushes, one of which is the Iwata Eclipse and the other is the Micron CMC+. Cleaning your airbrush is an integral part of having a successful airbrush experience. They tend to get very bogged down, and especially when using acrylic paint, the paint can clog inside of them and cause problems. If you're having any issues whatsoever regarding clogging bubbles, inconsistent sprays, your airbrush likely needs a good thorough clean. This process that I will be taking you through is what I do at the end of each project I complete. Before I let the airbrush sit, I make sure that it has been thoroughly cleaned. If you don't take care of your airbrush in this way, you're definitely going to have problems. There is definitely a learning curve to understanding how your airbrush works. Being able to take your airbrush apart is very important, so let's get started. Before I jump right into the actual cleaning process, I'm going to take you through the tools that you are required to have in order to clean your airbrush properly. The first thing I use is Media Airbrush Cleaner. This is a water-based cleaner, and this is really good for putting in your airbrush between paint coats. It doesn't work as a foolproof thorough clean. Next thing you're going to need is a cleaning pot, and this is for spraying the airbrush while you clean the paint out. It comes with these nifty handles to hold the airbrush in place, but I don't use them because they don't fit with my micron. It has a little filter in there. You can see that filter is very old, so you can switch that in with a new one, and it stores all of the dirty paint inside. I don't clean this too often. Now, one of my favorite tools to use is actually isopropyl rubbing alcohol. This is the primary fluid that I use to clean my airbrush thoroughly. It takes paint off immediately, eliminates clogs, but it really disintegrates paint, and it works really well for doing that deep clean on your airbrush. You're also going to want a pair of needle nose fine point tweezers. These are really handy to have around. The Iwata nozzle wrench is super important for taking off the nozzle on these airbrushes. This is so that you don't damage the nozzle in any way. I have wrecked multiple airbrushes not using this, so it's really important to have one of these in your studio. Another good tool to have around is a mono jet syringe. This is the 412 version, and it has a really pointy tip on it. I also like to keep a little container around to hold some of that isopropyl alcohol, and if it seals in, that's perfect, so you can just seal it up and close it off. It's a little dirty, but that's okay. It doesn't need to be super clean. I use a variety of Q-tips while cleaning the airbrush. To get into the little nooks and crannies, I use a fine tip nail tee and just a normal cotton swab. There's also these fancy airbrush cleaners, and these are really good in a sense that I use them for certain situations, but you have to be really careful. These metal pointy ones are not good because they will scratch your airbrush, and scratches can wreck your airbrush, so I don't recommend using these for anything, but I do use the brush ones occasionally. Also a good thing to have is some lube. Iwata supplies this when you buy your airbrush, but you have to be really careful with this stuff as it can cause problems as well. I also have these two wrenches that came with each of my airbrushes. I find I don't use these too much, but they're good tools if you have a sticky situation. Keeping paper towel on hand is really important to wipe down the parts. It's also good to have a variety of different kind of towels. I like using the blue shop towels from a hardware store, but I also bought these polishing cloths that work really well just to lay things down so that nothing rolls away. It's a nice soft surface to work with your airbrush. I also highly recommend keeping extra airbrush parts on hand. If anything goes wrong at any point, it's always good to have a backup.  I recently replaced the nozzle though, so I need to get a new nozzle to have on hand. So first things first, starting with this eclipse, it will be my main demo model for this tutorial. On my airbrush, I have a quick release and that is because I use one hose between the two airbrushes. First things first, you can see that the trigger is very sticky here. So I'm pulling on it with quite a bit of force and it's stuck. And this is what happens if you leave your airbrushes out for too long and the paint solidifies inside. Starting with the back of the handle that just unscrews easily.  And the internal support also screws out and it's quite a bit of thread there, so it takes a while to come all the way out. And when you pop it off, there's a spring inside and the needle. So the needle here you can see is a bit sticky and I'm just twisting it in between my fingers to get it out as gently as possible. You don't want to pull with too much force. The trigger support comes out and the trigger itself comes out.  This is really important to do so that you don't drag your paint into the body of the airbrush because that can cause a lot of problems. So I just take a bit of paper towel with some rubbing alcohol and I clean the needle just like this. For the nozzle, I'm going to have to take it apart with my eyewater wrench, but as you can see it's really sticky and that's because the paint has dried inside. So I just like to soak these parts in some rubbing alcohol and that just softens the paint so that they're easier to unscrew. Now when working with anything regarding the airbrush and trying to get parts out or off or unscrewed, you have to be really careful not to scratch anything. If you scratch anything inside the airbrush, the parts won't line up correctly and it will cause bubbles and weird spray to happen. So you want to be really careful not to mash anything, not to scratch anything. So never use pliers to pull on any parts of your airbrush. I made this mistake and I've mashed a couple nozzles. I've wrecked a couple nozzles. You really have to be careful and just soak things in alcohol until they come loose. Then taking the tweezers, I can just pull these parts out of the alcohol after they've soaked for a bit. A couple of minutes is usually good. And I just clean them off with a cotton swab here. The nozzle head comes loose from the nozzle after some soaking and this is the most delicate part of the airbrush that you have to be most careful about. Then I soak those parts individually once again, pull them out with tweezers, being really careful about that nozzle head. It's really easy and fragile to wreck. So running a cotton swab over that paint that's in there, you can see the orangey red color that is happening. I can also use the nozzle wrench to hold it in place while I twist some alcohol soaked paper towel on top. Using a cotton swab in the inside of the cup and in all areas of the exterior airbrush, I can clean it out. I find that the inside of the airbrush can get kind of dirty at times, but you don't really want to dunk alcohol down into the air vial. So I use my monojet syringe to just clean the front of the airbrush out. I find running the needle through here can disrupt some paint that is staying dormant inside of the airbrush. So just running the needle through it until it runs smooth and cleaning it out with more alcohol as I go and rubbing along with the q-tip. So just making sure it's thoroughly cleaned. For the air valve, this comes apart. There's no cleaning necessarily required, but I'll show you that you can take it apart by just using some tweezers here and twisting that part out. Once you get it out, a spring and a little rod will pop out. I do clean this rod up with some alcohol as well. And then we are done. To put the airbrush back together, I start with the trigger keeper. Then I insert the trigger, which is a little bit tricky sometimes.  And then we put the spring back, the body screw that goes inside there, and make sure that the trigger works properly. For the front of the airbrush, we screw that nozzle head back into the nozzle using the nozzle wrench, being very careful and gentle not to wreck it.  I can also put this little spray cap. And I insert the needle through the back of the airbrush until it hits its point. So it will stop and that is where you should stop. Don't try and force it any further than that. Then I can insert the nozzle nut and screw the body back on.  To reassemble the air valve is the same thing, the rod, the spring, and then the little screw cap that goes on using your tweezers again to twist it in. This can be a little tricky, but it does work. You just have to make sure that the threads are in correctly and only tighten to a hand tight position. And then I also will reattach that quick release that I have. And then I can reattach my hose and we are good to go.  And I just swished that around with an old paintbrush as I am working and this is in between colors. So this is kind of a temporary clean, but you do want to do this deep clean every once in a while. Now for extra maintenance on the airbrush, you can add a few drops, I would say maximum two drops of superlube into the trigger hole. This stuff can cause problems in itself. I've heard of it wrecking paint jobs and wrecking the airbrush. So don't go too crazy with this stuff. So now I'm going to do a case study on my Iwata micron and this is going to be a slightly different procedural in how I normally clean my airbrush. I don't have to take the entire airbrush apart. So for my micron, you can see that that trigger is totally sticky as well. I can't push it past much more than that without having it feel like it's going to break. So just unscrewing the body of the brush, the needle nut and then the nozzle head. I can unscrew that smaller nozzle off with the nozzle wrench and the needle fits down into that wrench so that it won't get wrecked as well. And I unscrew that really gently, really carefully and then I can push that needle through and you can see it's quite sticky because it has a lot of paint build up. You can see the paint physically there on the needle. And so I'm going to push that all the way through and pull it out the front of the airbrush and I'm going to swish some alcohol down inside. I'm going to release the crown from the nozzle and the crown gets a lot of paint debris. So just soaking those parts in some alcohol using a little bit of paper towel to rub that needle clean. And then I can push that needle through the airbrush and just see it's still a little bit sticky in there. You want it to run in through smooth. So just adding alcohol and pushing that needle through until it runs totally 100% smooth. Here you can see it's much better than what it was. Sometimes I leave the airbrush actually attached to the air hose and I can spray the alcohol through the brush. That helps adding some force at times. Then I will pick the pieces out with my tweezers after they have soaked for a fair amount of time. I will clean out that crown with a nail tee and I actually use that brush to brush it out because this isn't a crazy part. It's not an integral part of the airbrush but it does get quite dirty. That brush cleans it right away. Using that nozzle wrench to hold in my little nozzle I wipe some paper towel over it and I can also run the needle through that nozzle to push any extra paint debris out. Then once it's clean I insert it back into the airbrush and screw on that little nozzle.  Then I can clean out the surface of the airbrush as well just some paint residue that is remaining in the cup. And we have a clean functioning airbrush that's ready for the next project. Make sure you're familiar with your airbrush, how to clean your airbrush comes with understanding your airbrush. Make sure you know how to take it apart, make sure you know how to clean all of those parts and not damage the airbrush in the process. So having the right tools is really important. Making sure you don't use any metal on metal is also very important and alcohol is your best friend in this case. Thank you so much for watching. This has been DJB Studios. Happy airbrushing!


The purpose of our presentation this evening is educating the general public that a standard drink is 10 grams of alcohol and that when they do go out to have dinner or drinks, that they have that awareness of what a standard drink is before they get into a car. You don't really realise, you know, when you're at the party or barbecue and you're having a few beers. It's quite an eye-opener actually, yeah. A lot of venues have their own drink sizes and they free pour, so when someone thinks that they might just be getting one glass of wine, they're in a sense getting two glasses of wine. So we're just about educating to them that they need to monitor their consumption before they hop in and drive. It's been really, really informative. The fact that it really is just one drink an hour, you can squeeze all your drinks in together and then you'll be okay, but you won't be okay. So don't drink and drink. Don't do it. Don't do it. Simple as that.


Welcome back. In today's video, I'm going to show you exactly how to start a digital marketing agency profitably in 2023 using only the internet and a little known software called ChatGPT. AI, artificial intelligence, it's going to blow your mind. Let's go. This is about to show you how powerful AI is. I'm displaying the link and I also have it down below so you can check this out. Even though this is artificial intelligence, it still uses prompts from you, the user, and it learns very quickly on what you're trying to accomplish. Hey, real quick, before we get too deep in this video, I am going to be giving away a free lead magnet on how to generate stealth wealth. I'm going to drop it at a very specific time in this video, so be on the lookout for that. I forgot to mention digital marketing, but let's see what it comes up with. Online tutoring, eco-friendly products and services, health and wellness, it's actually pretty smart because the top three niches or industries that you can make money online with are health, wealth and relationships. So now I'm going to drill down because I'm really wanting to know five niches in local service-based businesses, so I'm going to give it that prompt. Number one, local coffee shops. Number two, personal fitness studios. Number three, hair salon or barber shop. It's smart because that's a commodity, so it knows that no matter what happens in the world, you're still going to get your hair cut. Number four, home repair or improvement services. And number five, I like this one, pet grooming or day care. Interesting. So let's go with one of these. What I'm going to show you here is it really doesn't matter what you choose. You can pick a random industry to go after in 2023, start a digital marketing agency to help that small business get more leads, get more clients, patients, customers, depending on what niche you're going to use different verbiage. I'm going to go with pet grooming. So now let's think, what's the next thing you need after you've chosen this niche of pet grooming? How about a name for your business? Pause and polish marketing agency. Pretty good. Check this out. Come up with five more. I could have said 10. I could have said 20. It's going to kick out whatever you want it to kick out. Fur Osius Marketing Company. Number two, the main attraction agency, main M.A.N.E. Number three, puppy love marketing group. Number four, Barkin brand agency. And number five, Perfection marketing solutions. Let's see. I like the main attraction agency. Main as an M.A.N.E., like a horse name. Let's use it. The next step would be threefold. Number one, create a logo. Number two, create a Facebook business page or any social media page. Number three would be to create an ad. How are we going to attract these potential pet grooming clients of ours? We're going to use social media and write an ad, but we're not going to write the ad. This thing knows copyrighting. Let's tell it now. Write a social media ad for this and I already know we're going to have to give it an additional prompt after this, but check out what it comes out with. Attention pet owners. Are you tired of your furry friend looking less than their best? Look no further than pause and polish marketing agency. Our team of professional groomers, blah, blah, blah. Two things that I forgot to tell it. Number one, it's writing an ad for two levels down as if I already have these clients, right? This is an ad that I would write to help my new client who owns a pet grooming business to attract their customers. I'm not there yet. I'm still trying to attract these grooming companies to hire me to do their marketing services. So I have to tell this that you don't even have to spell things right. I completely butchered the word potential and companies. It doesn't matter. It's going to tell you, oh, I apologize for misunderstanding your request and then it's going to give it to me. Attention pet grooming business owners. Are you struggling to attract new clients and stand out in a crowded market? The main attraction agency is here to help. Our team of marketing experts will help you reach your target audience and showcase your unique services from social media marketing. Okay, you get the point here. It even adds hashtags at the end of this. If you're going to use this on Instagram, this would be great. Pet grooming, marketing, small business. Wow, this is great. This is a little bit plain Jane. So I'm going to ask it to add wit and humor. Didn't even put a space there. I completely butchered it. It won't matter. I promise you this is going to work and it is. Attention pet owners. Is your furry friends fur looking a little wild? Okay. It's still going two levels down, but that's okay. What you're going to want to do is open up another document. I recommend using Google Docs. Everything is free here. This is free. Google Docs is free. If you have a Google account, you can start copying and pasting this for future reference. I still have to go back and give it the other problem. Please use for my agency. That simple prompt is enough to tell it what I want and it's going to give me a rendition here.  I'm going to let you see how long it takes for this thing to think and to give it to me in real time. So I'm just going to sit here and watch it. Positively perfect marketing. I would have to give it the prompt again that I've chosen that number two. Attention pet owners and business owners. Are you in need of top notch marketing services for your pet grooming business? I like it. Look no further than positively perfect marketing. Our team of experts will help you reach your target audience and showcase your unique services from social media marketing to website design. This is important. This chatbot is going to stay with me. It's going to learn and it remembers everything that I've been talking about here. It's like you talking to a friend in a DM. They're going to remember what you said. This chatbot is the same thing. So I'm going to say for Clary, moving forward, my agency is called the main attraction agency. And I am trying to create ads to attract pet groomers. And after we get this ad, we're going to move on to the next part, which would be the landing page. When somebody clicks on an ad, they're going to go to a landing page. What is the headline going to say? What does that body copy going to look like? Okay, here we go. Understood. Here's the revised version. Great. Attention pet grooming business owners. Are you struggling to attract new clients and stand out in the crowded market? The main attraction agency is here to help. Our team of marketing experts will help you reach a target. Okay, good. I like this last part. Don't let your competition steal the show. Okay. Pet grooming. A lot of them go to shows. Add a lot more humor. So it's going to keep that same theme and how it's talking, but it's going to give it some more way to humor. You could even name drive. I could say add more humor like Adam Sammer or add some more humor like the comedian Bill Burr or Norm McDonald. It's going to do it for you. So attention all pet grooming business owners.  It's time to let the main attraction agency give your business the makeover it deserves. That's awesome. Our team of marketing experts will help you stand out. Okay, let's see. Don't wait any longer. Contact us today. Let us help your business shine bright like a diamond. Okay, so that could be good. Check out these hashtags. Pet grooming, marketing, small business, main attraction, grooming is our game. I mean, that's a pretty cool hashtag I might use all over the place. Grooming is our game. Again, you're going to copy and paste the things that you like. Now I need a headline for the landing page. I don't have to explain to them what the landing page is. It understands. I say they as if it's a person, but it really does feel like it's a person. So here we go. Headline, transform your pet grooming business with the main attraction agency. Give me five more, make them even more pretty. And now you just sit back and you let it do its thing. Number one, pamper your pet grooming business with the main attraction agency. Number two, give your business the groom it deserves with the main attraction agency. Number three, get the woofing good marketing. What? Sometimes it misfires. Number four, make your business the top dog with the main attraction. I like that. Number five, bark up the right marketing tree with the main attraction agency. I could ask it for 10 more, 20 more. Let's keep going. This will create the entire landing page for you. It will create the policy pages, the disclaimer page. You can give it whatever prompt you want. How do I lose weight in the next 30 days? What do you think about fasting for health? Help me write a memorable Christmas card for my wife. There's no end to what this can do. You patiently waited. I have created a stealth wealth guide and I have used chat GPT to create the entire thing with a caveat. I gave it five prompts deep in order to get you the final product. It turned out awesome. I'm putting the finishing touches. I'm getting the cover made, all that kind of cool stuff. If you want this and you also want to learn exactly how I created it, click on the link on the screen. You're going to be taken to a landing page, put your email in and I will send you this ebook as soon as it's ready. And I will also send you the training that goes along with it. Absolutely free. Now, back to the video. Let's see what it came out with for the body copy. This top part is very similar to the ad, which is okay. You can keep it congruent. This next part is great for a specific section of my landing page with services ranging from social media marketing to website design. We've got all of your marketing needs covered. We understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with wanting a pet grooming business and we're here to help you navigate them with ease. I don't even have to come up with what I'm going to be offering these people. Let's ask it to five proven marketing strategies for pet grooming businesses. That would be a great lead magnet. And now it's going to explain it. As a pet grooming business owner, you know how competitive the industry can be. That's why we put together this free lead magnet, five proven marketing strategies for pet grooming businesses. Inside you'll find actionable tips and tactics. Y'all, it's giving this to me. So now what do you think I'm going to ask next? Okay, list the five tips and give details. You can allow this to build your lead magnet for you to write it out. Any part that you want to make more witty and more humor, be more compelling, more intriguing, put those words in there. It will continually rewrite it to how you want it, make it sound like you. If you want it to sound exactly like you, write a couple paragraphs of what you would like it to sound like and it will rewrite it in your own voice. If you want to give it a novel, you can copy and paste huge bits of text here so it can get the context of what you're looking for. I'm going to let this keep running here so you can see what it's coming up with for the five tips in this lead magnet. A good lead magnet is around 2,000 words of copy. So you can actually use this to generate the entire lead magnet and now you give them a lead magnet. The next step would be to follow up with these pet grooming business owners with a very enticing email sequence to get them on a call with you. What do you think I'm going to do next? I'm going to ask it to write a five email sequence with subject line to attract these processes further so they put a call with me. Here we go. Email number one, improve your pet grooming business with the main attraction agency. That would be the subject line. Email number two, the main attraction agency, your partner in pet grooming marketing success. Email number three, maximize your marketing. I can take that subject line, I can paste it here and I can say come up with the email body copy or biddy copy. I really need to learn how to type. Here we go. Dear prospect, now it will be a custom value. Whatever name they put into that lead magnet form is going to come here. Are you tired of feeling like the ugly duckling in a CIA competition in a pet grooming industry? It's time to give your business the boost it deserves with the main attraction agency. Our team of marketing experts has the skills and experience to help you. Okay, so this is going to be the first email. You can then ask it write the second email, write the third email, write the fourth email. Here's a pro tip for you. Once I get to emails number three, four and five, I'm going to increase the scarcity and urgency. So I'm going to start telling it in email number three, add some scarcity. Email number four, add some urgency. Email number five, increase both the scarcity and urgency. What is scarcity and urgency? Think about a concert venue. Scarcity is there's a limited number of seats, limited number, lack of the urgency though is there's a date for that concert. If you show up the day after, you're not seeing the concert. So there's urgency in the date. It's going to add sales copy that is going to be giving them scarcity, limited number of and urgency that you can use to compel them to get on a call with you. Here's the new email. I love it. This PS, don't let the competition steal the show. Schedule your consultation today and you've revisited this and deserves. I hope this is showing you just a small bit of what this can do for you. Again, click the link below, try this out yourself. And I would love to see a comment of what ideas you had while you're watching this, of what you can do to grow and scale a business, maybe a digital marketing agency, maybe something different. Drop those comments below. I'd love to hear from you. And I also might do a video on ones that I think are compelling. Peace.


Spoiler alert! Swimming, popular form of exercise easy on the joints, turns out to not be good for weight loss.  Watch the video to find out. Swimming and aquatic exercise in general are popular alternatives to land-based activities such as walking or biking. The buoyancy helps take some of the weight-bearing stress off the joints, but swimming appears to be less effective for weight loss. Obese women were randomized into an hour a day of walking, cycling, or swimming. Six months later, the walkers lost an average of 17 pounds. The cyclists lost an average of 19 pounds. And the swimmers didn't lose an ounce. In fact, they actually gained 5 pounds. Gaging skin-fulls to estimate body fat. The measurements slimmed more than 40% in the walking and cycling groups, but there was no change at all in the swimming group. What's going on? And check this out. The more the women walked, the more they lost weight. The more the women biked, the more they lost weight. But the more laps they did didn't seem to matter. Even an hour a day, no weight loss. What is going on? Well, it turns out that some exercise boosts appetite more than others. See, while land-based exercise does not stimulate a compensatory increase in appetite and calorie intake, the same cannot be said for water-based exercise. In contrast to walking, in contrast to running, and in contrast to cycling, swimming can significantly heighten hunger within hours. This may explain why swimmers didn't have more body fat than runners of equal caliber, even though they may be actually expending more calories during training. If anything, you'd think swimming might lead to even greater weight loss since you're losing heat to the water. But swimming didn't seem to work at all. The cold, it turns out, may actually be the culprit. If you exercise in warm water about 90 degrees Fahrenheit, it does not boost your appetite more than exercising on land. After the same workout in cool water about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, people can end up eating more than twice as much at a meal an hour later.  No. Even at the same number of calories expended, people eat hundreds of calories more after exercising in cold water. Offered a buffet after burning off about 500 calories in cool water, people eat nearly 900 calories, hundreds more than after exercising warm water or just staying dry. So they ended up taking in about twice as many calories as they exercised off. No wonder swimming doesn't appear useful for weight loss. Would the same thing happen under different temperatures on land? A team of British researchers sought to find out, randomizing people to briskly walk for 45 minutes on a treadmill in the cold, about 46 degrees Fahrenheit, or closer to room temperature, about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Participants were then presented with a buffet meal in which their eating was covertly recorded, and calorie intake was significantly greater after exercising in the cold. The walking is often prescribed for over eight individuals, the researchers conclude. If walking was to take place in a cold environment such as in the winter, then this may stimulate food intake. In the warmer months, though, obesity researchers suggest exercising outdoors may be preferable to an air-conditioned gym. All studies to date on the effects of hot and cold environments have found that exercising in cool water or under cool conditions on land led to an increase in post-workout calorie intake. What about a quick dip in the pool after you exercise? Australian researchers found that immersion in water for 15 minutes, cool or warm, after a running session, resulted in increased calorie intake. What is it about getting wet that wets your appetite? And maybe they got it chilled after getting out before they could change into dry clothes? This suggests that though a cool shower after a workout may be invigorating, it might be better to stick to hot.


Josh here and he said ever since six seven years ago He's had sharp pain on his right shoulder, and he says as he was worshiping He was able to notice that he was able to lift his arm I and he said he said he received this healing so you didn't even notice you were healed until you went to worship Yeah It was a weird feeling because my arm was lower than my left arm, and then it just popped right up So I was like this all the time and then my arm just went like this and then I could just go like this It was amazing And it was for six years you dealt with that pain What did you feel when God touched you it just instantly the pain left or was there something else?  I Don't I don't know how to explain it cuz it's his power. It's his power Thank you Lord for this healing and Lord use him for your glory in Jesus name in Jesus name


Okay everyone, sorry about the small delay there, we're ready to get started. Our next speaker is Raffaella, who will be telling us, who will be talking about from its mind to its me, the concept of how branding has evolved over the last 50,000 years. Raffaella started out in the WordPress community two years ago and WordPress Torino. Today she's here with us in London and to talk about the most important thing to be aware of when working on a brand. Thank you Raffaella. You're welcome. Hi. Oh, you're seeing all my slides backwards. That's a great start. I can't find my mouse here. So don't close your eyes. Just close your eyes, close your eyes.  Okay, hello. Hello London. So yeah, I'm a bit nervous, but it's okay. I'll get over it soon. First, I have a question for you. How many people here are younger than 35? Okay. What? And how many are from other countries?  That's kind of the point. I'm just trying to establish more or less, you know, what kind of an audience I have. How many developers? How many designers? How many marketers? Lovely. Great. Well, hello brands. You know we are all brands today, right? You know that. So my name is Raffaella Isidori. This is what I do. I don't do all those things together, but I actually do them and often get paid for doing them. And these are my, the three logos I go by that represent me in different areas. And today I want to talk to you. I want to try and get three main points across from you. The first is what is a brand and what is not a brand? How the meaning of what we define branding has evolved. And I'm going to give you my recipe for branding. For branding for people that don't have big advertising agencies on their payroll and have to get to it by themselves. So let's get going. I know. That's the feeling, right? So for how many people a brand and a logo are synonyms?  So a brand is not a logo. And a logo is not a brand. So I'm going to show you what I mean. What is this? Nike, right? And that's Nike, right? The empowering message, the attitude, the inspiration, the mission, the vision. This is Nike's mission. This is Nike's logo and this is Nike's brand. Okay. I have another more fitting example for you. If you know what it is, raise your hand, but don't say it out loud. No? Nobody? Nobody? Okay. Well, it's a logo. Well, maybe if I show you, if I show you, it works better. Okay. So it's a logo, right? But it's not a brand. This is the brand. Okay. This is the logo and this represents something. A logo, it's an icon. It's a symbol. It's a graphic, bi-dimensional representation of something that it's much, much deeper. And the brand is all the emotions and the feelings and the intangibles that we associate with that logo and that go way beyond the logo. To borrow from Ann Handley, who borrowed from Z Frank, the brand is the emotional aftertaste that comes after an experience with a product or a service or a company or a person or an entity. So the logo is two-dimensional. The brand is multi-dimensional. Every single one of these marks is something that will trigger a reaction from us, an emotional reaction. It can be good. It can be bad. If it's bad, it's bad for the brand. But for us, it's not necessarily good or bad. It's an emotion. And the effectiveness of the brand is in triggering the opportune and the proper emotions. So, but branding as a practice is very ancient, as the title of my talk said. And let's see how it evolved. The first practice of branding dates back to 50,000 years ago. In the Lascaux Caves in France, the paintings showed cattle with markings. So we believe that our early ancestors marked their cattle with tar or paint to distinguish them from the other peoples. So all properties considered pressure were branded with the markings of the owner. Some also not very nice. Slaves were branded. Sometimes modern slaves are branded. So I actually, I'll, sorry. Okay. So by 2000 BC, to 3000 BC, branding evolved to something more permanent. And that was burning through burning marks. We have funeral, we have Egyptian funeral documents and monuments that depict that. And in fact, the term branding comes from Old Norse brand, which means to burn. The second practice for burning, the second need that branding resolved was to establish a product's origin. So along with transferring information as to who and where something was made, about four, no, about a couple of thousand years ago, the practice of makers was to put symbols and markings that sort of certified that they made that product and that they also would, some would identify what material was made with, what, where it was made. And this practice was very common everywhere. China, India, Greece, Mesopotamia, some of the Chinese markings date back more than 5000 years. And in the branding principle closer to what we consider today, archaeologists have identified about a thousand pottery marks from the first three centuries of the ancient Roman Empire. And these are factory lamps that were found, and that as you can see, they all show the brand, the maker's brand. In the late Middle Ages, guilds began to want to distinguish their products and properties. So paper makers and printing houses used watermarks, and stonemason and queries developed an elaborate system to identify where the stones came from. And in the Renaissance, artists like Michelangelo started substituting the symbols they would put on their arts with their names. And by doing so, they started to establish what we now refer to as authorship and saying, I made that. Okay, with the advent of the, in the Industrial Revolution, the production of mass products became common. And mass products had to be identified and had to be distinguished from other mass products that were the same. So the first thing the companies did was, again, without iron, burned their names and labels on the crates that carried the product. And soon after, they started branding the single products. These are some examples of packaging design from the late 1800s, early 1900s, and it's actually the birth of packaging design and of the modern concept of branding. Also, by the end of the 1800s, companies had started investing money in creating their brands and demanded that their rights legally be protected. And in 1875, the Trademark Registration Act did just that. It also did something else. It actually turned the brand into a company asset, a property that the company could also sell that had monetary value. With so many new brands, the need was to differentiate and to, you know, convince the people that mine is better than yours. And that was done through advertising. Advertising was a relatively new and little practice practice. But this, sir, this James Walter Thompson, had a very, very good idea as to how important it could get. And his agency was the first one to establish a creative department to design content for its clients. He went further. He wrote two books, the Thompson Red and Blue books of advertising, in which he explained to clients and potential clients the opportunities that advertising had for their sales and their businesses. And it introduced also the concept of trademark advertising, which is what we today call branding. So in the 20s and 40s, the advertising, which of course requires being run through, being broadcast through media, was broadcasted on magazine, newspapers, I'm sorry, and radio. And then came television. And television was a huge game changer. If this is going to start, I don't know, I'm going to try to see if it goes. And the audio isn't on as well. America runs on bull of a time. Okay, this was the first ever aired commercial. It was 1941. By 1952, the ad revenue surpassed that of magazine and radio sales combined. In less than, not less, but in a little over 10 years, television just totally became the advertising medium, hashering in what it's known and referred to in the business as the golden agent of advertising or the madman area. So in the 50s and in the 60s, advertising evolved. It went from a unique selling proposition of the 50s, where the product was the main protagonist. There's, hey, hello, I'm here. I exist by me. Two later in the 60s, a need for something more differentiating. And something that it's called, that called to our emotion. So products were no longer just advertising, hey, I exist, but they were advertising a feeling, an emotion, a reason to buy that was deeper than the need. In the 70s, television sets were common. Everyone had them. And consumers became very brand conscious. By the 80s, brands were status symbols. And to win, it was easy. Just have a good commercial, spend a lot of money, just bombarding people, and it worked. So while products strive to diversify themselves, people started also questioning this whole media thing. So media theory became a subject of study, and people began looking at it a bit more critically, like Marshall McLuhan. From the brand side, in the 80s and the 90s, companies started to stop pushing the product advertising, and started pushing the company behind the product, trying to establish a relationship to the consumer from the house, sharing identity, vision, and values. So just like television was a game changer, internet was a total revolution. And by the end of 1990s, internet was available in most developed countries pretty widely. And in over two decades, through these guys, our way of communicating and interreacting has completely changed. In terms of branding, this has two major implications. The first one is that there's nowhere to hide for companies. Information is out there, people are watching, people are recording, people are calling out. People today have a direct line of communication with companies. Brands need to stay alert. Scandals means loss of equity. Blunders are bigger because everyone's watching, and you may recall, I don't know, an American airline dragging someone out of the airplane, or many other. It's, everything needs to be watched and cared for, very, with a lot of attention. And news travels in real time. You can't count on something that, well maybe they're not going to find out. The second thing is that we are all brands now. This means I'm going to run through, because I'm a little behind, through social media today we all have access to potentially global exposure, which is great, except we also have access to being bullied or molested or pecton or judged, and that is not that great. And that is also something that before was a VIP problem, right? I mean, no one, I didn't have to worry about paparazzi chasing me. Today some do. But anyway, so today we can all get to a new kind of popularity, and you know, you guessed it, we're talking about influencers. Like Chiara Ferragni, who's 32 million total reach, and estimated net worth in 2016 was of $12 million, started from a blog. Grumpy Cat, one, a favorite of mine, who has 68 million people following him. Her, actually, I'm sorry, she's a girl. Or another girl, Lili Singh, 247 million followers. She's a YouTuber, and she does comedy, not that funny, but I guess I'm the short part of the 247 million, but anyway, you know, more than followers I have. So branding has evolved. Ownership, origin and quality, identification, differentiation, a company asset, a status symbol, a reputation. Today, your brand is your cap promise to your client. And that is true if you're Nike, and if you are Rafael Lezidori, and if you are the pizza maker at the corner, people expect you to live up to whatever your promise is. To put it with Jeff Bezos, your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room. And it's actually really, really pertinent and correct. So, okay, so big brands have big agencies and big money, and they can do all this stuff. What about us? Should we, should you work on and build your personal brand or your image? Yes. Yes, the answer is yes. And this is what I do for my clients, but with everyone can do it for herself. The first rule, mind you, these are all before the logo, okay? The logo comes at point eight, if I recall correctly. So this is what you have to do before you even think of wanting a logo. The first thing you have to do is know yourself. Know yourself means what is it that you do? What is it the value that you provide?  Who's your customers? What value do you provide to them? The third thing you know is where you swim, which pond you swim in. What's your market? Who's your competition, which is point four? How are you different from your competition? What can you provide better or differently? Or if there's too many of you with, you know, pitching for the same clients, maybe there's a new little niche that you can find for yourself. You need to have a clear vision of where you're heading. And if you don't have one, you need to get one. And since we are in the world of internet and of instant news, you need to have values. And you have to stand by your values. People are going to call you up on that. You need to have a plan. You need to have a strategy. You need to, you know, start with, if this were a trip, you would have to have planned it out on Google Maps. You know, I'm going there and then from there I'm going there and then from there I'm going there because my objective is that one. Now, you can give your brand an image. And you can convey your brand personality through graphic design. This is where you get to like do the logo stuff. Okay. And the key here is consistency. You have to use an appropriate tone of voice and an appropriate type of language to talk to your target, which was point two. And you need to care for your communication, how you communicate, where you communicate, in which way you communicate.  And the key here is service. It's your face. Don't skimp. It doesn't mean you have to have a huge budget. It means that whatever budget you have, you have to use it wisely. And then like everything that has value, you need to work hard. And you need to stay consistent and stay there even if it hurts. Check often. If you're going astray, just refocus. Lastly, it's not mandatory, but it's a good thing to be mindful, be present. You are within context. Be aware of your context. If your brand is a personal brand, steps one through seven apply just the same. Rules nine and 11, nine to 11 apply just the same. You are your brand. So it should have your personality. And I had to stick her in here because I adore her. Okay? That's car, the B. So it has to be opportunity curbed, but it has to be you. If you're all crazy and creative, don't have a gray image.   It's okay. A brand. And that's the key point. It's an organic, living, breathing being. You have to bring it to life. You have to care for it. You have to nurture it. You have to love it and care for it like it's your baby. And when you step on a poo, which we all do very often, own it, learn it, apologize, fix it if you can, and learn from it. It's okay. Your public today is going to appreciate you more if you screw up and you make up and you say, sorry, I'm human.  Then if you try to seem the perfection that no one is. Thank you. For those of you who want at Workamp Europe, I'm going to be having a workshop on the practical parts of branding. And this is me. If you want to get in touch. And for those of you who want the slides, you can core code it. And I am a minute and 30 second early. Absolutely. If you have questions, by all means. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Great talk. Really interesting point, especially about ESP. You mentioned that it's kind of taking the place over a USP. Does that apply to just the products or the brand entirely now? How does that work? Historically, that's the shift that happened in the 60s. Today, it's sort of the basics. Today, everything is emotional selling. Today, we also got really good also understanding dynamics, how people react and how people most often react irrationally or behave irrationally. So it applies to everything. It applies to any type of communication. So it's no questions. What? I covered it all. So how about I ask you questions? Feedback. What can I do better except rehearsing, but it's my second thought and my second talk in my life. So I'm doing okay. It'd be quite interesting to see more case studies that are more smaller. The big ones, they're big 2270 million hits and users. They're great, but maybe drop it down to the level. Yeah. Well, if you're in Belgrade in the workshop, it's easier. In 30 minutes, it was really hard to try and give you a little bit of how we got here and also a little bit of what can you do? Because I felt that the second part, that what you can do is more of value, but the history part is more of understanding how we got here. Also because how we got here kind of gives you the hints of the dynamics and of the mechanics of how we create a brand and we nourish a brand. I was actually going to say, sorry, I've got my hand up there. I was actually going to say the history of it was very valuable, how you get to a brand because that's where everybody suffers either from a personal brand perspective and the company. We all say we want our logo bigger. How many people in this room have heard that? And it's difficult to explain to clients directly to say it's not about the logo. It's about your presentation of who you are, why you are, and what you are and how you're going to improve other people's lives. And that's about the brand. That's what Amazon tell us all the time. That's what Nike tell us all the time. So we can learn from the bigger brands, but on the comment that we just had there, I was at a Facebook do and they were telling us how Facebook is really successful for advertising and they showed us the Olympics. They showed us McDonald's and they showed us the Hilton Group. And one of the things about all these kind of presentations, like you say you're going to do it in your WordPress Serbia, in WordCamp Serbia, which I'll see as well, but we do really need to focus on the SME rather than the big brands. Yes, we can learn from what the big brands have done, but one of the things I'd like presenters to focus on is how is it going to affect us, the little guys. So congratulations on the presentation, but it's a good point that SMEs are actually left behind in this. We can use the big guys as examples, but how do we put that into our own businesses? Yeah, no, you are absolutely right about that. The strategy, at least that's my approach. The strategy, it's the same, whether you're Nike or whether you're Raffaella. Because the principles are the same. Obviously, Raffaella does not have Nike's budget and does not have the resources, does not have the same opportunities. So each client has to and we as consultants to those clients should help them optimize whatever resources they have. If you have the budget to go on television and have Superbowl commercials, good. We're not going to diss that, but my clients don't and I don't know how many people's clients here do Superbowl commercials. So yes, so social media, content marketing, having a blog, writing quality content, making sure you're out there, making sure you're providing value, that's really the core. That's really how you move today, then if you can do advertising better. Perfect. We have time for one more question. So we're going to have one more then we're going to wrap it up. It's not really a question. Oh God, I can't use these. It's just a bit of feedback on your thing. It's just for lots of people take photos. I write things that I'm interested in. So for your talks, if you could put your details on for longer at the end, because you kind of went through that. So no, no, no, but that was just a few to talk. Yeah. No, I just, I privileged the QR code because through that, just taking a picture of that, you would get access all the information because that's the link to the slides and it contains everything. But I'm a Luddite. So you know, there's Luddite. I'm a Luddite. Thank you. It was, it was excellent. No, no, no. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Raffiella, for taking the time to talk to us about this. It was a really interesting, beautiful presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Final round. It's short. I get a prize.