Growing up in Pittsburgh, I don't folks realize it sounds as crazy as sports signers. They see the terrible tiles and okay, but it's really unbelievable there. I grew up not liking it because I grew up in Indianapolis, was a Colts fan, and been my office burger.  What was it like growing up in a crazy sports city like Pittsburgh? I mean it was great. It's why I'm the sports fan that I am. Obviously, I watched Jason's career, but I grew up around women who were crazy sports fans. I mean everyone in Pittsburgh is a sports fan. You might not be a crazy fanatic, but everyone's watching the stealer game. Everyone's paying attention to everything that's going on. I mean they wrap the babies in terrible tiles in the hospital. It's not an option. My grandmother, my aunts, when the game was on, whatever was going on, how did you get shut down? We're watching the game. If the stealer's lost, it's gonna be a bad week in the house. Everyone plays sports for the most part too. It's very active town. You're playing basketball. It's huge obviously for youth football, Western Pennsylvania. It was a great place to grow up. A blue collar city. People just keep it a buck and work hard and love sports. I love Pittsburgh. Got to be cool growing up with a brother that has such a successful end of the career and finds himself in the football hall of fame. What influence did he have on you and the great relationship that you two have? He's a big brother. He's always been very serious about his career, which was a great lesson for me. He was very good with the media. He was very respectful. He cares a lot about being a good example to others. I think that really is reflected in how people view his career and still treat him and speak about him to this day. He's a very self-aware person in that space. Also, I've seen from where we came from, where we grew up, to him getting drafted in the third round, having to make the team, struggling initially in camp and not even wanting to know if he could do it, getting cut, getting traded, finishing his career. I was with him when he got the knock on the door that he was making into Hall of Fame. It's an incredible journey. It's a massive privilege to be able to see someone start from essentially nothing to a Hall of Fame career and handle it the way that he's handled it. It's been a good lesson for me. He's opened my eyes to a lot of different perspectives, especially in my business. When I talk about players, when I talk about organizations, when I talk about coaches, I do keep in mind these are human beings. These are people with families. These are people with kids who are in school. They are humans, and this is real. This is their job. It's my job to talk about their job, but I try actively to remain in a respectful space. I treat all of these things as if the person that I'm talking about is hearing what I'm saying, as if I'm saying it to their face, because they might be. There's a very good chance they are listening to what I'm saying. Because he played and sometimes with the power of a media's perspective on coaching regime or ownership regime or any of these things, it can change things. He definitely has given me that perspective as well. The Joy Taylor show on Fox Sports Radio, how sweet did that sound to you when that agreement came together? It's exciting. It's exciting. It's important for me, obviously, being in the radio business, having your own show is a big step, no matter if it's local or national. Of course, being a Black woman, being able to host the show by myself and Fox Sports Radio, giving me that opportunity on Saturdays was a big deal. I take it very seriously. I'm very honored to have the opportunity to do that and to be in that lineup. It's also fun. I really love radio. It's my first love in the business doing radio. I like the theatrics of radio, bringing people into the room with you, being a part of people's routine and what they automatically do when they get in their car, or they start to work out, or whatever it is they're doing, wherever they're listening. I love radio and the opportunity that it gives to really show your personality and to get out your thoughts. It's a long-form media. I'm excited to be able to do it. Do it on Fox Sports Radio. I love the ability to do both. Television has a limited amount of time, depending on the show. To get your thoughts back on the radio, you have an extended time to get into things. Get into some personal things a little bit and have a deeper dive into some topics. One of the things that's also special is that every show has its own vibe, has its own culture. What do you envision the culture of the Joy Taylor show and your listeners name? I want it to be a good hang. Obviously, we're on Saturdays during the College Football Saturday slate. It's also important to be informative of what's happening with all the games. I like to keep people updated. Also, give them a different perspective, my perspective on what's happening in the sports world, particularly with the NFL games, coming up each week. I just try to bring my personality, be a good hang, have some good guests, some good conversations, and keep everybody informed because it's a busy day that we're on. What's the best part of the show that you've been able to work on, starting with Colin Cowherd and then what you're doing with NFL Prime as well? With Prime Video during Thursday Night Football, we just announced that that starts this week with Bucky Brooks and Daniel Jeremiah. I'm very excited about that. I've been really blessed to work with a lot of great talent and Skip and Shannon and Colin have been great mentors to me and been really gracious and helpful for me throughout my career, just not just obviously being on the show with them, but just being able to observe them, how they go about doing their shows and how they prepare, how they handle themselves and business and all of that has been really, really big for me. It's changed a lot of the ways that I've approached my own shows and what I do every day. For example, obviously we know Skip gets up extremely early in the morning. I do not get up at two o'clock in the morning, but he is a very routine person. He's very Steve Jobs-like and I adapted that whenever I started on Undisputed, just getting the same thing for breakfast every morning, getting on a very strict schedule. This minute we're going here and then I go to this part and then this is when we do the prep and just doing the same routine things every day so that you save your energy for the space where you're supposed to be creative, which is the show. Colin is very similar in that way as well in just the routine of everything and a large amount of prep because the more prepared you are, the better show that you're going to do. You'll notice in both of those shows that we don't do a whole lot of rambling or going down rabbit holes to fill time because we really know where the show is always going and obviously things come up, conversations happen, stories happen and we have a good time, but we really want to give the viewer what they came there for, which is us in our personalities, but of course sports and what's happening in our perspective on that. So preparation is very important and it's something that the three of them, Shannon, Skip and Colin, do masterfully and that's been awesome for me and really helped me grow as a talent. I'm sure there's a number of people who want to ask you about getting into the industry and getting into this business. It's funny advice that she would give now. There are some similarities, but there's some differences between now and let's say 10 years ago when you had in the social media component. What would you tell someone desperately wants to get into this business? Well the first thing I always tell everyone is what do you want to do? You have to know what you want to do in order to be successful at anything in life. So if you don't have a goal, a very clear goal and a plan, then you're just working. Don't mistake activity for achievement. Great, John Wooden. Don't just be busy, be working and there's a big difference. So a lot of people want to get into the business. They say they want to be on air or they want to work in sports, but what do you want to do? Don't be afraid to commit to something because there is a mentality that all of us suffer from because of social media, as you mentioned, where it's like, what's the next thing we got to do? What's the next opportunity? How do I level up? And we're all victim of that, but you have to appreciate the process and you have to work towards something. So when I say that to say, that doesn't mean that you can't change what you want to do once you accomplish something. You might get to the top and be like, I want to be a director now or I want to produce documentaries or whatever. Great, but you have to accomplish your goal first. So I always ask people, what is it that you want to do? Do you want to be a host? Do you want to be a moderator? Do you want to be an analyst? Do you want to be a sideline reporter? Do you want to do play-by-play? Do you want to be a radio host? Do you want to be a television host? Do you want to be a writer? Do you want to be a beatwriter?  Do you want to be an executive? What do you want to do? Because there's so many jobs in this business and they all have great paths and they all have great experiences. But if you don't know know what you want to do. You can get lost in the business very quickly, because this is a business also of relationships, and it is a business of you got to strike jobs open, you got to get in there, got to make sure you know about it. And if you don't, someone doesn't know what you want to do, you're just hanging around the studio working, but you're like, Oh, well, I kind of want to be a reporter, but I kind of want to be a blogger, but you know, I kind of want to do a podcast, like can't help you. I don't, I don't know who to send you to. I don't know what direction or information I can give you. I don't know how to tell you to get better, because I don't know what you want to do. I don't know what you want to be better at.  You're going to, you're going to study to become a doctor. If you want to be a great basketball player, you're not going to go play hockey every afternoon. You're going to work on being a great basketball player. It's the same thing with anything you want to be successful at in life. You have to focus on a goal. And once that's, again, once you achieve that goal, then I do lots of things now, but I had a goal and I had to focus on that to get there. So that's the, that's the first piece of advice that I get. The social media aspect obviously is an element that I didn't have to deal with when I first came into the business, but obviously we all deal with now. And I would, I would say to just, you know, take some time to reflect on what triggers you, like what, what capacity can you handle social media? I'm built different. I don't have feelings.  I don't, you don't sign checks and I'm not cooking dinner for you at night. It's really kind of hard for me to get crazy about your opinion of me. But I realize everyone is not that way. So what is, what's your capacity? And there's no wrong or right answer. Maybe you don't want to read anyone's mentions. Maybe you just want to put things out and you don't read anything. And that's cool. I know very big names in this business that handle it that way. They're very successful and they have no interest in like mentions or anything like that. Trolls, they have no time for it. I know people who do the exact opposite. They're on it all day. They're going back and forth with people. That's, that's cool too. Whatever keeps your mental health in a good space, whatever keeps you focused, do that. I genuinely recommend not being emotional on social media, but it is something that you're going to have to deal with. People are going to have opinions about your work where that's the space that we're in and how much you, how much feedback you get should be up to you and you should probably establish that early in your career, what your capacity for it is. Talking about representation, I'd like to do a, where do you feel that we are right now with women in sports media? I'm on the play-by-play front. We have two women play-by-play announcers in the NBA talking to you about your success and what you're doing. Where do you feel we are right now with women in sports media? I think we're progressing. We're obviously not a hundred percent where we need to be. There's so massive gaps in representation, not just on air, but of course behind the scenes and at the executive level as well. We still need a lot of progress in those spaces because we talk a lot about what you see on camera. That's obviously very important because that is the representation that we see, but behind the scenes is just as important. Those are the decision makers. These are the people that choose and not choose, but have a large influence on topics and directions that shows go in. There needs to be more representation at every level. I do think we are making progress, obviously. Once we get to a space where it's no longer the first woman to do this or it becomes a story that a woman is doing it as opposed to this is just a person getting this job, then I think we'll have reached a place where it feels a bit more equal. I think there needs to be more women in opinion spaces, not just analysts and reporters and really put women in spaces where they're giving their opinion and are respected in that space. Of course, those are the jobs that pay the most as well in the business, as we know. If we're really talking about equality and really talking about progress, then we obviously have to talk about what people are paid and that's in that space as well. I do think we have made a lot of progress. I think it's important to celebrate when things happen and when accomplishments are reached. I think that's important, but obviously not taking your foot off the gases just as important. Absolutely. One of the frustrating things you may see on social media from folks remaining is this whole idea of mental health and really understanding it. Really in all spectrums, but it's really been a topic of discussion in the sports spectrum, particularly lately with some amazing women with Naomi Asaka and, of course, Simone Biles. Where do you feel we are on that front in terms of education? Because it's great that people are talking about it, but at the same time you're inundated with so many people's ignorance about understanding of mental health. I think the pandemic has opened people's eyes a lot to just the importance and the essence of mental health because we were all going through some massively stressful traumatic events all at the same time all across the world. There's very rare occasions where everyone on earth can relate to the same stressful thing that's happening. It might be one country's at war, one country is dealing with this election or whatever. This is something we were all going through together. I think the pandemic in some ways opened people's eyes. Maybe we can talk about how we're not okay today. I'm not really feeling good today and I want to share that because I feel overwhelmed or I have anxiety or I feel depressed or I feel sad and it should be okay for me to say that. I think sports are often a great catalyst for change in the social space, political space, because sports is a microcosm of society. These are humans. They're just doing something that we use as entertainment and also we root for.  So them not doing what we expect of them then becomes something that we feel like is appropriate to push our animosity on to athletes. So I think it was important that Simone and Naomi Osaka talked about it because also there's an element of we're all different. One person can handle the media and loves being in front of the camera and loves being on the microphone and loves talking to big crowds. The next person can be just as talented as an athlete but doesn't like talking to the media and feels anxiety having a room full of people looking at them even though they can go out on a field and perform in front of thousands of people speaking in a small room is a different type of attention and we all are like that and we know that. We know how every different person reacts in different situations but we expect athletes to all be the same in that space because it's a part of their job. So I think having conversations about it's okay to be different, it's okay to have different stresses and different triggers and different boundaries as a person because we all do that. We all have different things that we don't accept and do accept and athletes are no different. So I think that you know those women saying what they said and doing what they did was very important. It's not the first time we've talked about mental health obviously but I do think that with the pandemic we've had we've been more open to conversations about what it really means.  It's not separate from your physical health. We think of it as something separate. If you had a heart problem and the doctor needed to prescribe a pill for you you would take it. Why would you not take it something for your brain? You know there's a stigma attached to it that you're like weak or you're not well but when it comes to something it doesn't have to do with your mind there's not a stigma just do what you need to do to be healthy. So I do think it's a lot of education removing the stigma removing the idea that you have to be perfect or you have to be on point all the time no matter what's happening you got to you know rub some dirt on it and keep it going and I think athletes being able to speak about it is very important for that. October is a domestic violence awareness month. Can you tell me about the Joy Taylor Foundation? Yes so I've worked in the charity non-profit space for a long time. My brother's had a foundation for 20 years now I think. He's at the Jason Taylor Foundation and I started working with domestic violence advocacy programs and shelters when I was in Miami probably around 2012 or 13. So it's been important for me to establish my own foundation so I can support programs that are you know near and dear to me which obviously domestic violence awareness and advocacy and homelessness and youth empowerment are my three pillars for the foundation. So I'm working on partnerships now. Our first community partner is Beauty of the Streets which is an organization that I volunteer with a lot on out here in Los Angeles and Shirley does an amazing job she's put together an incredible operation that goes down to Skid Row on Saturdays and gives out food and blankets tents they do haircuts they have access to healthcare items the toiletries water you know essentials and you know she really pours her heart and soul into the community the homeless community down there which obviously if you know anything about Skid Row Los Angeles it's a very rough place so I'm really happy to support her and what she's doing and we'll have more partnerships that we're announcing soon within those three pillars and some events as well but it's always just it's important to me to to give back and to use my voice in whatever capacity that I have to you know try and make the world a better place so that's why joy I can't I can't thank you enough for your time we had a lot of stuff I greatly greatly appreciate you and enjoy watching you it's about thank you so much thank you thank you so much for having me


How many times have you started to do really well and then stopped and then started to do really well and then stopped too many times? Today we're going to be talking about how you as a human are built to keep moving. One of the things that I noticed with a lot of people is they don't understand the power of momentum, the power of moving into the direction of what it is that you want. And I want to tell you a story about a friend of mine. A friend of mine went down and he lived with a native Brazilian tribe for 40 days. And when I say native Brazilian, I don't mean that they were just like Brazilians that happen to live down in Brazil. What I mean is he actually went into the jungle inside of Brazil and lived with him for 40 days inside of a TP. He had to sleep with a machete because before they have had jaguars walk in in the middle of the night and attack people. Wherever he is in the middle of nowhere, he had to walk around with machete and he told me something really interesting and he was telling me about how they used to hunt for anacondas. And just what their life was like and how it's kind of like going back 50 or 100,000 years. And one of the things that it was really interesting and we were talking about fears that they have and fears that he had while he was down there. And because of that when he was walking around he had to be so conscious of where he was in his surroundings that he said it was really interesting. I had all of my primal fears, but none of my intellectual fears. And what do I mean by primal fears versus intellectual fears? Primal fears? You might die. Something might come out of the bush. There might be a jaguar. There might be an anaconda. There might be something that could attack you. That's a primal fear. Like a death is attached to that primal fear. An intellectual fear is like is Sally in accounting judging me? Do I have enough likes on my Facebook? Will I get rejected? Those are intellectual fears. They're not real fears. And he said what was interesting is it was the happiest that he's ever been. And when he came back to America, he said there was a little bit of depression that came with it because he went from living the way that he thought that humans were made to live like that's what what is normal. And he felt so good because there was so much purpose in every single thing that he did and I'll talk about that in a minute. And when he came back to America it all just kind of seemed hollow to him. And he actually slept outside in a tent for months because he just felt like he just missed that life and he was starting to go into a little depression and the one thing that he said to me, he looked me dead in the eyes and he said Rob, do you want to know the craziest part about being down there? I was again, he looks me dead in the eyes and he says there is no depression down there. I was like, what do you mean? He's like not one hint of depression does anybody have down there? And the reason why was because every moment of their life was working towards some purpose. And I'll give you an example. So, you know, they were always working towards something. They always had something that they could be doing. And it's kind of like Tony Robbins says, progress equals happiness. And he was like, they were the happiest people I've ever seen.  They would take care of the kids. They would, you know, wash the clothes. They would create clothes for people. They would, you know, go out and pick the berries and they always had something to be doing. And they were always laughing as they were doing this because they were trying to progress and trying to get something done all day long. The men, they'd wake up before the sun would rise and they'd go out hunting all day long and they would, you know, go out with the machete into the middle of the jungle and just try to find something that they could hunt. And they would come back with, you know, a 15 or 20 foot long anaconda and the entire tribe would celebrate with them.  And then they would dance all night and they would celebrate how everybody was fed and they would celebrate how Mother Nature was able to feed this tribe. But what was happening is they were so happy because they always had something that they were working towards. They always were leaning towards doing something every single day and they had momentum on their side for everything they would do. But they had so much fun doing it and they felt so alive and he was like, I've never felt so alive, but he always had a sense of purpose. And that was the difference from being here when he came back to America. He runs a $15 million a year company and he had more sense of purpose down there going out and waking up in the morning and working with the tribe and helping everybody and having this hunt that they had to go on. He had more purpose down there, he felt, than he did running his $15 million a year company.  Usually it's really hard to not take, it's really hard to take action when you haven't been taking action. Like when you're stagnant, when you're laying on the couch, when you're laying in bed, when you're sitting on the floor, whatever it is and you're not actually taking action is usually when you start to feel, I don't feel good. I don't, I kind of feel depressed. I have anxious thoughts. I don't, I'm not very happy. I'm sad is usually when you're not taking action because I really truly believe that humans were meant to move. Like we're meant to be in the move for some sort of purpose. And I don't mean purposes in changing the world because this tribe wasn't changing the world, but they were changing every single day for their community. They were, they had a sense of purpose that they were all working towards. Humans were not meant to be inactive. Humans were meant to move, to get up, to do things, to keep going. But nowadays we have really comfortable couches. We have really comfortable chairs. We have Instagram. We have Facebook. We have computers. We have really, you know, crazy games that we could play and crazy systems.  We can just sit there and lay on the ground and be stagnant and watch YouTube and learn about neuroplasticity or whatever it is that we want to learn. But our bodies aren't physically moving, which means that we're not progressing towards the future that we truly want. And it really brings up the power of momentum. I was talking with one of my team members today. We have about 20 people that are on my team. Now I was talking about one of my team members about the power of momentum, right? He's had a really great past couple days, you know, past four days or so. He's had a lot of sales doing the best he's ever done. And I said, Hey, listen to me. Don't get a case of the I deserve it. You have so much momentum on your side. You have to keep that momentum going. You're already moving. You've already got the action on your side. It's easier to keep taking action. But if you stop, if you get a case of the I deserve it, it's going to be really damn hard to get right back to where you are right now. So the best thing that you can do is to keep this momentum going. And I said, it's kind of like if you've ever pushed a car. When you first start, start pushing the car, it's really hard to get that car moving. Like it takes a lot of effort to get that car moving when you're pushing it. But then it starts moving a little bit and it starts moving a little bit. And then it's going a couple miles an hour. It might be going three or four miles an hour. And once it's moving, it's super easy to push a car. But when it's not moving, it gets really freaking hard. And that's how a lot of people live their lives. Lots of people, they get the car rolling and then they get a case of the I deserve it. And then the car starts to slow down again. And now what do they have to do? They have to try to push and physically force for something to happen. And then they get a case of the I deserve it because it's starting to move again and then the car slows down and now they've got to push. And so it's pushing and then stopping and then pushing and then stopping and then pushing and then stopping. And they're like, man, I feel like I'm always starting at zero. I feel like I'm always spinning my wheels. Yeah, no because you're doing the same thing over and over again. You're not keeping the momentum going. You're not keeping yourself moving moving in a forward progress. You're not just continuing to have purpose each and every day towards that future. Whatever is the future is that you're trying to build. Hey, if you're enjoying this video, do me a favor and hit that like button down below. It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. And so you've got to think of it that way. It's, you know, I've worked with a lot of salespeople. I've trained thousands of salespeople. One of the things that I see with a lot of salespeople is the case of the I deserve it. This is a perfect example, whether you're in sales or not in sales, you'll get this because you've probably been in some sort of situation like this. They'll have a really great sales week. And then what happens? They take their foot off the gas and they start to slow down. Why? Because they get a case of the I deserve it. Oh my God, I did so well last week. I deserve to sleep in this week. I did so many calls last week. I deserve to do less this week. And what happens is they go from doing really well and then they go back into their comfort zone and they do really well and then they go back into their comfort zone instead of pushing every single week to break out of their comfort zone and find a new level for themselves. So they get a case of the I deserve it. Oh man, I just got a really big paycheck. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to chill for a little while because why? Because I get a good paycheck. How are you ever going to make more money? If you don't continue to keep pushing yourself. This doesn't just happen in sales too. This happens in everything. This happens in weight loss. How often do you see someone lose a ton of weight? Six months down the road you see them. They're right back to the side of the size that they were. You know, they lose 30 pounds. They look incredible. And then what happens? They get a case of the I deserve it. Oh yeah, I lost 30 pounds. I deserve to have ice cream today. Oh yeah, I lost 30 pounds.  I deserve, you know, I lost 30 pounds. I deserve to, you know, not do meal prep this week. And it's not like one massive decision that completely makes them go back to where they were.  How often do you see someone that loses a ton of weight and then they gain it all back? How often do you see someone that wins the lottery and wins a ton of money and then a few years later they're back to where they were? How often do you see a big spike in your own bank account? And then you get a case of the I deserve it.  And you might be like, man, this is incredible.  You go out a couple extra times this week. You go buy a couple new shirts. You go buy a couple new pairs of jeans. Ooh, new shoes just came in. I'm gonna go ahead and get some, you know, new Jordans are strapped. I'm gonna go ahead and get those.  Back to where you were before because you got a case of the I deserve it. Oh, I got extra money in my account. I deserve to go shopping. Oh, I've lost 50 pounds. I deserve to eat a little bit more. Oh, I just had a great sales week. I deserve to sleep in this week. No, it's about finding the momentum, having the momentum on your side and then continuing to push through it. It's about realizing that if you continue to keep doing this over and over again to keep having to restart, you're going to maintain the current life that you're at. And if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably listening because you don't want to maintain. You do know you have more potential. You do know that you have more inside of you to give. And so you're trying to push past it. And so what do you do? You have to have that constant progression, constant purpose that you're working towards every single day, right? The same way that they woke up every single morning down in Brazil and they had something that they were working towards whether it was by themselves or there was collectively everybody together. There was some sort of mission even if it was just a simple mission. Take care of the kids today.  It's not life changing. It's not world changing but it's something that they're working towards.  I need to figure out how to change the world. I need to make a million dollars. No, what if you just have a simple purpose each and every day? Something that you're working towards. All too often people have some sort of purpose and they get really excited. I mean, how many people out there listening to me right now have had this happen before? You get really excited to go towards your goal and you have like, you know what? I'm going to go on this weight loss challenge this 60 day weight loss challenge and I'm going to push myself and you're like, all right, day number one you're cranking through. You're eating all of the perfect stuff. You're doing all of the workouts. You're so excited about it. Day number two, all right, I'm going to do it. I'm not as excited as I was yesterday but I'm going to, I got 60 days of this. I'm going to push myself. I'm going to eat really healthy. I'm going to get my work out. Day number three, well, I'm not as excited but I'm going to figure out a way to do it. Day number four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. What happens? Day 10, you're already off. You're already eating bonbons, sitting on the couch again, not doing what you need to, you know, negotiating with your mind on why you should probably skip this workout today and do it tomorrow, right? We all get excited in the beginning and then it falls off. Why? Because we have to start the momentum. But here's the secret. Once the momentum gets going, just like a car, you have to continue to push and continue to push and continue to push and you have to understand that the people who are the most successful in the world, not just money, not just build the biggest businesses but the happiest and, you know, have the most passion in life, whatever it is, is when they get to a certain level, they don't stop. They say, I wonder what's next. I wonder what the next version of me looks like. I wonder how I can expand myself to do even better. I wonder how I can expand my purpose to impact even more people's lives. I wonder how I can expand every facet of what I do. What do they do? They push themselves a little bit more and they push themselves a little bit more. Can I get this car to roll faster? Can I get this car to roll even faster? Not, oh man, the car's moving. All right, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and take a nap. Because if you do that, guess what's going to happen? The car's going to slow back down and then you've got to start over again. How many times have you started to do really well and then stopped and then started to do really well and then stopped and then started to do really well and then stopped? Too many times? If you knew how many people did this over and over and over again, if you do this, you're not odd. You're normal. Almost everybody does this. But there's a select few people that don't allow the I Deserve Us to pop in their head and say yes, but what's next for me? What's next for me? And I don't mean like how much more money I can make. Like making money is just a hollow goal. But like what's next for me? I'm trying to progress me as a human, this soul. I'm trying to literally make it better in everything that I do. If I'm trying to progress my soul, I'm not going to get a case of the I Deserve Us. I'm going to say what's next for this? How many more people can I impact? How many more lives can I impact? How much better can I make this? How many more episodes can I do? Whatever it is for you, it might be a little bit different than it is for me. But how can you have the mentality of I will not stop? Once I get that momentum on my side, I'm going to ride the momentum and get it to be even better. It's just like if you take a, you know, I always say it, it's really, really easy to stop a bowling ball. If you go to the very, very top, you take a 15 pound bowling ball, you put it on the top of a hill and you let go of it. It's easy to stop it at about 10 feet because it's not going too fast to that point. But if you try to stop a really heavy bowling ball that's going full speed down a hill at the bottom of the hill, it's really freaking hard to stop it. And that's what you're trying to get yourself to be. You're just like the momentum is on your side.  And so the question I have for you is where are you lacking momentum in your life? How many times have you started something and then given up because you didn't have the momentum? And then what can you do to focus on making sure that every single thing that you do, you try to push yourself a little bit past what you think is possible. And when you notice that you got the momentum, you notice you're doing better. You notice that you got a little bit more money. You notice that you're losing a little bit more weight. You notice that you're working out a little bit more.  There's another level. There's always another level for you. What does that level look like? And if you could be in constant search for what the next level of you is every single day, you're going to wake up in a couple of years and there's going to be a brand new version of yourself that you never even thought was possible. Find your purpose. Work towards your purpose and be working towards it every single day.  That is what makes you excited. That is where your purpose comes from and that is what makes it easy to work really hard is when you have something that you're working towards every single day. Who are you and who do you want to become? Is it the person that you've always been? Is that who you are? Or do you want to step into a new version of yourself? You can make that decision right now.


Thanks for checking out this video. So as promised, I already did a ranking review of all the stories from creep show season 2 I have a ranking review for creep show season 1 Those are on my channel in the playlist for the creep show series reviews So now I'm doing kind of the overall ranking for me personally So I know when I go over this there gonna be plenty of people out there who are just like that is not the way I would rank it at all and that's why I would love for you If you want to take the time to do so to rank all of them yourself and put it in the comments because I really do enjoy seeing How different everyone's rankings end up being for this after I did it for season 1 I know that I had a lot of people were saying this is what my ranking is This is a little bit tougher because there's a lot more so but this will include season 1 season 2 and all the specials Episode stories. So let me get started on it. There are 24 total So my number 24 the last one is by the silver water of Lake Champlain Now that was the one done by Tom Savini with like the creature on the On the beach side or that it beached itself or something. It was I just didn't like the way the story came together It felt just didn't feel right. It wasn't that interesting. Wasn't that great Wanted to like it more because it's me number 23 the right snuff from season 2 that was the one with Brecken Maier And Jason Quanton I think is his name in space. I just felt like it was too slow not enough going on I was just boring in the end number 22 dead and breakfast also from season 2 I felt like the story was very lackluster for this one although the acting by Thomas C Howe and Ali Larder were quite good So that's my number 20 number 21 all hallows Eve from season 1 that one was about the kids who You know, we're terrorizing people kind of on Halloween night If you know what I'm talking about that one just really didn't catch my interest. I know some people who really loved it I didn't think the story really came together all that well Number 20 Lydia Lane's better half from season 1 that is the one with the lady who you know gets that I guess it's like an award or something spike in the other one's head and then she stuck on the elevator with her Story was okay Conceptually, but the way it was pulled off not so great Number 19 times is tough in musky holler from season 1 that one Again problem with the story. It seemed kind of rushed It seemed like there were a lot of more interesting things they could have done with that story. It was just Number 18 gray matter interesting concept once again, I just don't think the story really came together That one was from season one That one was Kevin's Kevin. Oh my god Stephen King inspired that was based off of Steve Stephen King short story So though, you know, the base materials really good It just didn't make it the translation didn't go well to the screenplay. Let me say number 17 within the walls of madness That's from season 2 now this one interesting story I like the way it was done for the most part It seemed a bit slow and the CGI and that was really really bad So that's why I put it number 17 number 16 sibling rivalry also from season 2 this one was fun I like the comedy level to it and the acting was quite well done interesting concept for a story It's just CGI was wonky And it just felt a little bit rushed, but it was still solid. I still enjoyed this one enough Number 15 bad wolf down from season one. I know there are a lot of people who love this one I felt like the story didn't come together all that well It felt rushed it felt not as interesting as it could have been but practical effects in it were quite good Especially the wolves. That's what that one was. Oh, and I forgot to tell you what the other ones were Within the walls of madness was the kind of HP Lovecraft inspired ones that has that Cave scene sibling rivalry was the two the one where the one sibling saying her brother is trying to kill her and then bad wolf down is the kind of like World War two Nazis versus werewolves film and like I was saying I think a lot of people really like the fun of the concept of that I did too, but I just didn't feel like the story was the best It was fun enough though and like I said practical effects were really good the wolves look good So I did like it enough And the number 14 slot is night of the living late show that one's from season 2 That was one with Justin long and they're fusing of real life with the movie horror Express That was really interesting to me. I really did enjoy that one. It they they made it definitely too long That was an entire episode It didn't feel like it needed that time It really had pacing issues for that reason but acted well looked really cool and good concept I liked it overall number 13 night of the paw. That's the one that was basically a takeoff of the monkey's paw basically There was a lot of fun in that one. I think it was directed really well the acting was outstanding in that one Just a good kind of update for an old story in my opinion and that was from season one Number 12. This was one of the special ones Twittering from the circus of the dead now This is one of the ones that was animated and I know a lot of people didn't like this because it was doing a lot of Stuff even though it was animated with text messaging basically or posting on Twitter I think is what it was which you know, it's in the title obviously. I thought it was fun I thought the the idea was fun I thought the animation looked really good and It was good pacing. It really was good pacing. I actually enjoyed that I know a lot of people didn't but I enjoyed it number 11 from season 2 model kid That one was quite fun. The practical effects were great. That was the one with the kid Bringing his figures to life He was creating all the old creature models and bringing them to life to take revenge for him Oh, and sorry Twittering from the circus of the dead was basically what it says Twittering a young woman Posting on Twitter from a circus of the dead, which was fun. Yeah, but model kid at number 11 I did enjoy that one a good amount. That's why it's at my number 11 now number 10 from season 1 the companion That's the one where the kids being bullied and then he gets some backup from that kind of scarecrow thing I thought the practical effects in that one were particularly good I thought the story was good. I thought it moved decent pacing. It was a good one. I enjoyed number nine from season 2 pesticide The story was pretty simplistic with this one, but the acting was really good Josh McDermott Keith David Ashley Lawrence They all did really good jobs and they went really big with some of the practical effects Yes, some of the CGI especially the ending of that one wasn't that great That was the one where it's a exterminator who shows up and there's Another problem that he gets asked to take care of that's a moral issue now that one I thought it was fun overall. I thought it was really well pulled off now Like I said, the story wasn't the best but how they pulled it off I thought looked good great acting so that made up for a lot in my opinion That's why it's at number nine at number 8 from season 2 pipe screams This one was a lot of fun. The pacing was great in it. The ending was okay Not super. It was kind of satisfying in the end. They could have gone a little bit bigger in the ending But that doesn't matter because every every other part leading up to that was a lot of fun Funny really well acted There's a this element of just like not really knowing where it's actually gonna go So I really did enjoy that one. That's why that's my number eight Now number seven is one of the other special ones Survivor type now that was the one also animated that was based off another Stephen King short story That was voiced by Kiefer Sutherland who did an excellent job and it was about the guy Stranded on an island and he you know has to go to extreme measures basically you should definitely see it if you have and it's great That's why it's my number seven now number six from season one skin crawlers I thought skin crawlers was really good. That was a great fusion I believe that was the one that starred Dana Gould and it was a really great fusion of comedy and horror in my opinion It really good script for it And it was just basically about a person who was looking for an easy way toward weight loss and was you know Had pest Parasites inhabit their body through this company and then obviously things go wrong basically but really good really well done That's why it's my number six number five also from season one the man in the suitcase That's the one with the djin or the gin or the genius people would say in a suitcase all folded in there The way Directorially that was pulled off in the acting Really good Technical execution was great with that one and the CGI they used even look pretty good too That one was very compelling and very interesting and that's why it's so high up.  Love it. Love it. Love it the way it was shot wonderful the story Unbelievably excellent very very original so that's why it got so high for me So that's house of the head at number four number three it also from season one the finger now The finger is the one where we get Bob the creature I know everyone's kind of heard about Bob at this point. It was a practical effects creature which is why it looks so good and DJ Qualls was the lead actor in that who did an outstanding job in that role I really think there's so much comedy to it But there's so much interest in where it's gonna go and so much interest in the horror aspects of it as well So that is a wonderful one and that's why it's at my number three number two from season two Public television of the dead obviously, that's the one with Ted Raimi the public television shows and The evil dead craziness that ensues when the Necronomicon is brought onto the show that one is so Excellently done great story great nostalgia factor to it wonderful acting just a Joy just a joy. I love that one so much. I wish that one was longer actually from that season I think instead of the The late show one with Justin long I think that public television of the dead should have been the longer one for sure and That brings me to my number one which some of you probably already know what it is One of the specials was the shape shifters anonymous episode our story that one was so so good Acting was really awesome. The concept was super original super fun Lots of practical effects thrown into it that really worked lots of awesome action the mythology that went into that one was amazing That's the one about a bunch of shape shifters who have like a shape shifters anonymous Meeting that goes on and then they find out that Santa Claus is trying to come and kill them Among along with all his kind of mall Santa Claus disciples It is an unreal amount of fun and a lot of good laughs And that's why shape shifters anonymous is my number one. 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Hi, my name is Leon Rowe, currency trader and trading coach at Trading180.com and today we have Sam who is in the Trading180 group, Trading180 student and Sam has been with me for a while and I wanted to get him on to get his experience really with being Trading180 in the highs and lows, I guess. Sam, welcome. Hi, Leon. Absolutely. How are you doing? You all right, yeah? Yeah, I'm great. Thanks. Brilliant. So just starting off, just tell us a bit about your background and how you kind of got into forex trading. Okay. So I don't know really what drew me to trading originally.  Then eventually you do some, I did some research online along those lines and I came across something called binary options. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. It's very like, you could say it's gambling because you have to trade against time. Yeah. But when I was young, this is like when I was 17 or something, very attractive, like you could probably turn like 100 quid to 200 quid and like when you're young, it just, it drew me to that. But that's what got me into kind of looking at forex, but then I went through a journey of like finding out how to trade where I joined loads of different groups, paid like obscene membership fees and been like, been hurt a couple of times. But you know, eventually I came across Drew, one of your past students, right? Yeah. They're the same uni as me. And he told me about trading 180. Yeah. I remember. Yeah. Yeah. He did. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I came. What else did you want to know? No, that's fine.  Yeah. He's been really successful, I believe. Yeah. Brilliant. I'm going to try and get Drew on and we'll organize something as well and interview with Drew. So when you first got into, I guess, trading, most traders, I guess, they kind of start off with technical strategies, right? So do you remember what types of technical strategies you were using before, you know, joining Trading 180? Yes. So it was like, you know, like channels, triangles, like, oh, when there's three touches in the channel, then you enter here. So and in those types of groups, I remember they had like, you had pairs that you just don't go near for some reason.   We can all draw some lines and if it makes you money, then it's amazing. It's like, oh my God, why don't, why aren't there so many people trading? This is crazy. But yeah, it's mainly pattern trading like that. Yeah. I mean, I've had the same journey, right? And, you know, you buy, I bought a whole load of courses and more drawn to the technical side, right? Because it is literally just pattern trading. It's like, you see, you know, touches against support and resistance or like you say channels or it's just this indicator saying buy or sell. And generally, you know, when we get into trading, you know, it seems like that's what it is. But for some reason, technicals, you know, you quickly find, I say quickly or maybe slowly find out that, you know what, there's something more to this, right? Exactly. You don't, you kind of like, you don't believe like the banks are trading by looking at a channel or something like that. The institutional traders aren't trading like that. And I knew there was more behind it because it was, for me, it was like, I was just breaking even. It was like, oh, sometimes this pattern isn't always working.  Or like, you try and refine it. Like you try to find a way. But like, eventually you realize you find out about fundamental analysis and then, yeah, incomes like trading 180 and all that. Yeah, that's, that's, that's a great segue, right? So what was it, I guess, about fundamental analysis? And maybe what, what made you decide? Do you remember the moment that you said, you know what, there's more to this technical analysis thing? I've got to learn fundamental analysis. What was it about fundamental analysis, you know, that kind of drew you to thinking that you had to maybe, you know, learn a bit more, that might be what was missing from your trading. So like, I think I'm trying to remember the key event. I think it was, it could have been Brexit or something. I'm not sure there was just a key event in the news that like moved the market crazy. And I'm like, wow, you could probably profit off this because you could like, like certain events you could see coming and then it moves price like crazy. It's like, how can I profit off this?  But yeah, eventually I just started reading into like news more, like you start off with like looking at the economic calendar thinking, oh, there's an event at this time it's going to move the market and then there's like no movement. So then that's like a learning curve in itself. Yeah, I remember those days as well. Yeah. So you've got to go further. The basis of my fundamental learning was from your course for sure. Okay. So fundamental analysis. What were, what are I guess some of the benefits to learning fundamental analysis because because a lot of traders think that fundamental analysis is, you know, it's a bit of mumbo jumbo and it doesn't work. Everything you need to know about, you know, what's going to happen is in a price chart.  So if somebody's, you know, out there listening right now and is, you know, maybe that way inclined or maybe just sitting on the fence about learning fundamental analysis, what would you say were, you know, some of the key things about learning fundamental analysis and why would you, why would you even bother take the time? I would do it because it helps refine your trades. Like I remember when I used to scroll through all 28 pairs trying to find opportunities and it, it takes a toll on your time as well. So learning fundamental analysis, you can really refine your, the pairs that you want to trade. You can, and you know it's backed fundamentally by maybe we'll delve into it a bit later, but like interest rates, inflation. So like you're only trading the best divergences. You don't have to focus on 28 pairs. You can focus on like five and you're sure of the, the long term direction or like, or like at least 80% sure. And it gives you a greater sense of confidence as well. Yeah, it really does, right?  It's crazy how people would say, oh, technical analysis is, is what drives price. And it's like, well, that doesn't make any sense because people are just buying and selling based not, first of all, not everyone's looking at a price chart whenever they buy and sell. Do you know what I mean? Like, like, do you buy and sell, you know, property based off the technical analysis? Crazy.  Is the crime rate high or low? Are they good schools? Is there good transport links? I mean, like, that is what is fundamental analysis. I know it's an everyday life. You kind of incorporate it without knowing. Yeah. But for some reason in forex or in, you know, other, other asset classes, there are people that think, you know, that it doesn't apply. Right. It's crazy. It's crazy. But so you were saying that, for example, fundamentals helps with pair selection and direction. What about things like just holding trades and taking profit and things like that? Oh, yeah, exactly. So if you are, if you're confident in the long-term direction, it's easier to hold a trade rather than maybe like in the past, I would have taken 100% off the table at this level for a certain reason. But when you know the long-term direction, you have much, you have greater confidence to hold longer. And then a trade I'll show later, I left it in for, I just left in like 0.2%. So I took out like the majority of the position, but I left that bit because I knew I was fundamentally correct. And it brought in like a good amount of like extra profits. Yeah. Brilliant. Go on. Sorry. Oh, no, no, no, that's what I was going to say. It's just that. Yeah. And I was going to say that, that, you know, fundamental analysis is like when it comes to picking and choosing our direction, Sam, you've been with me for a while and I'm consistently calling the medium to long-term trends, right? Short-term is, you know, more driven by liquidity and stock hunting, et cetera. But generally, you know, we don't have to be right all the time on a trade idea, but when we are right on a trade idea, we know we can capitalize and we know that we're buying low and selling high, right? So how accurate would you say fundamental analysis, you know, the spreadsheet that we use, for example, is in terms of, I'm not saying that it's never 100% accurate, right? But from a foundation of if you're just buying the divergences with risk-off or risk-on sentiment, et cetera, how accurate would you say it is in terms of maybe a percentage from maybe 90%, 80% or something like that? Ooh. Okay. So I would say it's changed. COVID's definitely changed the way that I looked at the spreadsheet, because before COVID, I would say it was like 90%. It was like, you could just look at that, trade one versus six, seven, eight, and the divergence would be there, but since COVID, you know, everything's, everything changed dramatically. Like central banks can't, and now they're hiking and you can cough it off that. So the spreadsheet, you can't rely 90% on the spreadsheet. Maybe like it's 70%, but then you have to do outside reading as well and back it up for sure. Of course. And as we know, for example, we take risk, we're talking about maybe risk-off, right? So when we talk about maybe accuracy, we're talking about maybe, let's say, for example, we want to buy the Canadian dollar Swiss franc, right? Yeah. Maybe a four versus a seven or something like that. But we know that in a risk-off scenario, the Swiss franc is going to strengthen and the Canadian dollar is going to, so we still know the value cycle and what typically happens, right? So even though it might not be prudent to buy the Canadian dollar in a risk-off environment, but we still generally know that when risk-on comes back, that the Canadian dollar is a buy. And you was here when I was saying to buy the Canadian dollar over Christmas, I mean from December and look at what it's done now, right? Yeah. And I was also going to say, it's lost to me. I was going to say something about the spreadsheet. Oh, yeah. No, I was going to say, it's a great tool because it has all the data laid out in front of you. You don't have to be scouring the internet. You've got your interest rates, you've got inflation rate, unemployment rate, GDP.   It simplifies the process because, you know, fundamental analysis can be overwhelming, right? A lot of people tend to look into all these different things when it comes to fundamentals from money supply to all different types of stuff, but we basically focus on what really matters. And again, Sam has seen the track record of the fundamental analysis spreadsheet and it's really a godsend. It really is. So from the perspective of trading psychology, how has, how have I, I guess, in the group and maybe improved your trading psychology? So what, you know, were maybe your flaws or what psychologically was causing you a lot of maybe problems in your trading and then coming into the group, highlighting it and then, you know, fixing it. And definitely over trading was like my and revenge trading. Those were key ones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I used to over trade a lot, especially when I was in profit with like a position where I made profit recently. I would over trade because I don't know, maybe in the, in the back of my mind, you get a bit hyped. You know, okay, made some money here. I could do some more here, more trading here, make some more off the move. But the group really helped me like tone it down, be patient, wait for like a one set ups. And yeah, take my time with it for sure. Yeah. Brilliant. And you're right. Over trading is, is a massive thing because we come into trading and we want to work and we feel that working hard is by taking trade. Right. But, but in fact, a lot of the hard work is done in the background with reading up on the fundamental and mental preparation. And that, you know, is really what, you know, allows us to kind of pick the best opportunities. And that's what really kind of fundamentals, I guess in the group allow you to do, right? It's just identify the best trades and keeps you in check. Yeah. And I'm always improving psychology. Like I'm always have to work on it. Like I'm not like a, I'm not a robot. I've still got emotions, but it's not as bad as it used to be for sure. Like I've definitely improved a ton. And I have to, I keep improving bit by bit, you know, and it's great. Brilliant. Brilliant. So what was some of your biggest light bulb moments? Right. You've had, you know, I think you probably had a few, but off the top of the head, could you think of anything where, you know what, you've been in the group and then all of a sudden maybe I've said something or you've read something that another trader has said and it's just literally just been like mind blowing. You're like, ah, you've had that kind of epiphany. Oh, epiphany moments. I'm trying to, there was probably, I don't know, I'd say epiphany moments when you find out about the fundamental divergences, like the whole, the whole like, why was like before joining the trade 180, I was probably trading like strength to be strength. So epiphany, like you realize, like, wow, like there's these economic indicators, they're completely different. Economy is going two different ways. Why was I doing this before? Like, how could I, how could I not know about this? You know, I'd say that's my main one. I can't think off the top of my head. I'm sure there was definitely more, but. Yeah. I know it's a hard question to maybe think off off the top of the head, but if there is, as during the course of this interview, maybe if you do think of something that comes to mind, then yeah, just, you know, let me know.  And it's just gone through my mind now. I'm suffering from some sort of a thing. But yeah. Cause I might be able to back it off as well. I might have shared something. Yeah.  And where we were calling buying gold. Oh yes. Like buying gold during COVID, like that was, it was just crazy. Like realizing like it was just constant buys because of the interest rates being caught. I think it was. Yeah. They were being caught. Yeah. Yeah. And it was just a simple buy. And then yeah, just being like finding out like how we combined fundamentals with that trade idea and how it was just, it was going along with it. You know, that was brilliant. Yeah. And I think a lot of people kind of weren't ready for it in a sense that maybe because belief is a big part of fundamental analysis, right? You have to believe that the rules are going to work eventually short-term price action sometimes can convince you otherwise because price is really kind of pulled back. And in fact, let's go to a gold chart, right? You can go to the gold at the time. And there was, and I've got in on the silver trade, but you know, that worked out to be like a, about an 80 to one type trade. Yeah, that was cool. Yeah. But Sam was there, by the way, as well as when, when we were calling it, right? We were calling that trade. So gold, again, we were talking about buying around here, weren't we? We're talking about here. And sometimes, you know, while you're in the trade, you know, you might want to buy gold, right? We're like, okay, buy gold because the central bank is cutting rates and they're trying to devalue the dollar to support the economy, right? And you're seeing gold go the other way. And it's like, well, why is gold going the other way? Fundamentals don't work. We know that what they were doing was just buying as prices were going cheaper and cheaper and cheaper because fundamentally they knew where gold was going to go. Yeah, they knew what was coming. You know, so short term, we know fundamentals, there's a lot going on in the short term, but medium to long term, you know, so I think some of the traders ended up buying around here. Did you buy, did you buy a gold or silver? I bought, I was in, I was in gold and silver at times, but I remember like on one of my bro, because I got liquidity haunted. It was silly, you remember that? Yes, otherwise you would have been in that chain. In fact, I think I did a video about that. Yes, you did. It was just with one broker, like no one else had that spike. It was crazy. Yeah, it was pesky brokers, man. But yeah, fundamentally, you know, this wasn't, again, a massive eye opener for traders because in the short term, it must have looked like I was talking a lot of craziness and saying, well, you know, Leon says that gold should be going up right now. Silver should be going up right now. But in the short term, this was just the buying opportunity, right?  So this is the stuff that happens. This is the stuff that I guess I teach and you'll get to know about if, you know, where you joined. So talk us through matter of fact, one of your biggest trades or maybe the last profitable trade that you've taken from top to bottom. So I can remember my last biggest trade was Cadjian. I'll give you the date. Hold on. Yeah, Cadjian. Let's have a look. The date is 21st of September 2021. Okay. So 2021 September. Yes. You bought down here. Yeah. 21st September. Brilliant. Yeah. I remember that trade. That was a nice CPR, right? I'm pretty sure. I don't have it. I wish I had the journal that I had it in, but you might be able to, yeah. Yeah. That's it. That's it. That's the CPR. And I kind of had a demand zone there as well for that pin. Yeah. I kind of had one drawn out. It was a demand zone. I think there might have been something, but it was there, right? Yeah. It was a bit of a demand zone in and around this area here. Quite a wide one, but that was a really nice CPR, which would have started from this zone from here, right? Yeah. That's it. I do remember that trade. No, it's like I took like a one hour outside candle. Oh, really? Down there. Yeah, down here. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. So that was it, right? Brilliant. So do you remember the actual entry? If you turn on, if you have the outside candle indicator, it's one that you should be able to see it. Yeah. Yeah. It's that the left. To the left. Yeah. That one, that one. That one there, yeah. And the stop was, my stop was behind that large wick. Brilliant. So there it was. Boom. Excellent. Right there. And stop was just behind that. That large wick. Maybe about 10. Yeah. About 10, 15. Like I usually. Something like maybe there. Yeah. So really nice trade. Oh, look at that. I know. It's crazy. Really nice. And you held it to where? I think, let me check on my chart. Yeah. I think I held it to the top and it went back down, took me out, but I took profit on the way. Yeah. So if you have the target Fib out. Yeah. I took the majority at 80%. And that will give the risk award. How is that? Probably in one second. So. So I'll get. Oh, that's the other way around. Filly me. Reverse. There we are. So somewhere around there. And I held the, I took like 80% off then. And then it came back down and taking me out. That point two left and I've trailed my stops. Yeah. So about nearly a 10 to one. Yeah. Fantastic trade. Fantastic trade. Did you ever, did you ever scalp? Did you go through a scalping phase? Yes.  Yeah. It's just too much stress. And you have to be at your computer. Like it's much better just setting alerts and waiting for opportunity. Absolutely. Right. Absolutely. So this was one of your biggest trades. What was the last trade you, you took? The last trade I took recently. Yeah. The, actually the last trade. The New Zealand stop fund. The one that we took, you took that one. Yeah. Yeah. Brilliant. Brilliant. So that was the, that was the stop fund. Excellent. So it's just right there. A lot of people took this trade. Yeah. It lined up decent. Yeah. It did line up really nice. Really, really nice. There it was.  My entry is at 77.839. 83. So 83 was probably around there. Yeah. But 83. Yep. And stop loss of. My stop loss was 77.52. 52. So a bit below there. Yeah. Right. Just below there. And at the moment it went around the three to one. Right. Lovely. Yeah. I'm still holding it. I took, I took half a position off at two to one. Because I only got in one. Yeah. So you can't pull trade now. Right. So you can't lose from here. You definitely can't lose from there. But did you manage to only enter into one position? Yeah. Yeah. Only one position. Yeah. Because it didn't pull back enough. Right. No, no, no. Back enough. But yeah. We enter into multiple positions. That would have been a really nice trade if it would, you know, entered into, you know, a few, maybe two positions. And yeah, following fundamentals, but I'm happy to hold it. Of course.  Last 100 trades and the process and making sure that you're taking those A1 setups. Yeah. Exactly. Long term for sure. Yeah. So, so yeah, Sam, thanks for that. And so if you were to convince somebody, or I should really phrase the question differently. I don't want to convince anybody to do anything because it's not financial advice, but from the perspective of if someone is out there listening to this video, this podcast, and they are on the fence, right? They're a struggling trader or they're a break-even trader. They may be interested in the bit of fundamentals. What would you say to that person when it comes to joining Trading 180? I would say go for it. Like, because what's the worst that could happen? You know, I've only gained from being in this group and I'm sure if, even if you have like, you've heard nothing of fundamentals or technicals, you have like, there's so much to learn. There's a, there's so much on value that can be gained. But, you know, I'll just say go for it. What's the worst that could happen?  What's the worst that can happen?  They generally tend to, some of the, a lot of the guys, and it's funny because I get this question a lot, right? From in emails and some, like someone recently said this to me and said, well, what's the success rate of your students? Yeah. As far as how many of them are profitable? And so I always reply, I would reply probably maybe around about 10%, 10, 15% maybe.  And I'm like, no, because not really, it's just the natural order of things. So if you go to class, how many, how many students are going to get A's? Exactly. It's a minority. Exactly. It's just a minority, right? If you look at society, how many people earn over a certain amount? Or do not, I mean, I mean, and successes measured differently in different, not necessarily financially or anything like that, just from, if we are looking at it financially, you know, you've got the top, you know, 2% of the world that own like probably 99% of the wealth, right? So it is always a, there's always a difference as far as, there's always going to be a small minority that do make it. It's not because I'm a bad teacher or the strategy doesn't work. Things like even life happens, right? Students will come in thinking that it's, you know, I'm going to learn this in, you know, a couple of weeks and then I can just bounce, right? Yeah. Then they come in thinking, all right, it's a lot harder than I thought. Some people don't take to fundamental analysis. Some people haven't got the time because like I said, life happens, right? You've got children, you've got your job, you've got other stresses and things like that in life. Some people just don't follow the process. They're mixing and matching strategies. Do you know what I mean? There's so many different things as to the reasons why traders or the 85%, maybe 90% of people don't necessarily benefit from, you know, trading 180. Yeah. I have to also say that you have to be really driven and enjoy trading. You have to enjoy it. Yes. Because you have to enjoy it. You have to get up. You have to, if you're reading fundamentals, you really got to enjoy the process. And when you're taking losses, you still have to enjoy it. That's just part of trading. You're going to take losses. You're going to lose a bit of money. But at the end of the day, like you're enjoying doing it. You're doing the process of trading. Yeah. That will, that definitely, you have to have that. You have to. And that's a great point, Sam. You have to actually like trading. Yeah. Do you know what I mean?  Just tell me what I need to know. Tell me what I need to know. But the minute you come up against, for example, you know, maybe a loss or two or three, which is normal in trading, right? Yeah. You have losing streaks. I think not last year, the year before, I think I had a losing streak of 11 trades in a row. I think you're crazy in it, but I made it back in like the next five trades. Exactly. Do you know what I mean? So it happens, but you will not go through that losing streak. Yeah. And come out the other side. If you're not interested or you haven't got the belief that, you know, you want to learn about trading and still continue trading and figure it out, right? You have to enjoy it because what's going to make you want to read articles on interest rates and inflation and economy if you're not interested in it, right? Yeah, exactly. I can just watch cat videos. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Or something else. Exactly. It's always going to be something else to take your attention away. So that's a great point, Sam, is that you actually have to like trading. You have to like the fundamentals. You have to enjoy the technicals and really find it interesting and fascinating and want to, you know, go continue on moving. Right. And like watching trades played out, like I wish there's a few trades that I've just missed, but I was right about like, remember when pound had the surprise hold in November? Yeah. I saw that coming. Like you can see it in pound USD. You can see that. Pound.org, right? Is here. Yeah. When they held off the November hike, I think about November time at the top. Yeah. At the top of that, I was waiting for an entry and then I was on holiday seeing my grandparents in America. Even further up, I think it started, I was entering trades right at the top of that peak. Right. And I got stopped out a few times and I was on holiday. I couldn't enter and then they, they held and it just dropped and dropped. But it's, I find it, I'm still satisfied knowing that like, it played out. You know, I wasn't even in it, but I was just that feeling. And that's another great point as well. Right. It's seeing your fundamental idea, even if you're not in the trade, it's knowing that you're right about the direction and the more right you are about the trade idea, eventually you're going to catch that move. Exactly. I go through the same thing happened to me. Right. So I wanted to get in on the Cad Yen, Cad Swiss. Yeah. In December. I remember I told everybody that I'm not really trading around December. Right. Oh God. Yeah. I missed trades. Yeah. So I missed, I missed this move. Yeah. I missed this move. Where is it now? Where's the, sorry, that's the Cad Yen, Cad Swiss. Right. I missed this move. Yeah. I missed also as well, the New Zealand moves. This one. Right. And this one. Well, this one didn't really go anywhere, but you know what I mean? It's, it's, it actually, There's your eyes on. There wasn't even an entry here. There wasn't an entry. I was, I'm waiting for a bit of a stop hunt below that. But this was the move because prices came back down and I was waiting for that. Yeah. I wasn't even looking at my trading view, but then I come back to the discord in the new year. Oh my God. Yeah. And there was a, and there was a dollar, there was a dollar, a dollar Yen trade. I think Ken got into it as well. It was before, it was before Christmas anyway. It was like the beginning of December. Right. So he got involved in that as well. So, so yeah, there was loads of fundamentally divergent trade that went trades that went for like, you know, hundreds of pips. Yeah. But, but we take, we take comfort in the fact that our analysis is correct. Right. That is the thing.  It's just no motivation to, but you know, you know what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. So Sam, thank you very much for that. Really, really appreciate you coming on and giving your honest opinion on the, on the group and, you know, the mentoring and, and yeah, thank you so much for that, man. No problem. My pleasure. Yeah. All right, all right.


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Hey guys, welcome back to another week of What's For Dinner. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Our channel is all about the food. We do taste test, recipes, grocery hauls, and What's For Dinner. And we are kicking off another week of What's For Dinner with a continuation of our freezer and pantry challenge. So out of the freezer, I grabbed this DuGiorno three meat pan pizza. We had this probably about a year ago for the first time. And so I can't remember which flavor, which variety we got last time. At this time, we are having the three meat with sausage, pepperoni, and beef. And it does come in its own pan. So here is the pan. This is what it looks like. It's a large pan. And so you cook it on 400 in the oven for 23 to 25 minutes. And then you take it out of the pan after it's cooled for about three to five minutes. And then you put it on a baking sheet to cut the pizza. And that's what I have done here. I wanted to show you guys the crust. So here is the crust. And it looks really good and thick. It kind of looks like the package to me. And then I cut a slice so that you guys could see how thick it was. So that's what it looks like. And the bottom, as you can see, is nice and crispy and golden brown. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight. And we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so I am so happy to report that we are finished with these Parmesan and Crusted Tilapia. As of tonight, we have been eating these things for weeks now. So I am happy to be able to throw this bag in the trash. So tonight, of course, we are having the Tilapia, which we baked in the oven.  This is the corn that we are using, the steam-fresh bird's-eye variety. And then I took it out of the bag, put it in a bowl, and added a little bit of butter, salt and pepper with it. And then we are also having norpastasides, cheesy spinach dip. And here it is. I've never had it before. Let me show you the package. This is something that was in our pantry too.  I'm so happy to use up these items. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight. And we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, I am dining solo tonight. Howard went to volunteer at our church's carnival. And so he is going to eat something there. And I did not feel like cooking, so I grabbed a frozen meal from the freezer. I have talked about this spaghetti with meat sauce from Walmart during grocery hauls that I've done in the past. And I really, really like this spaghetti. It has a really good flavor.  The ingredient list is relatively short. I mean pasta. It has real cooked Italian sausage, cooked beef. So none of that artificial stuff and feelers and all that. And it's pretty inexpensive. I think this frozen meal is $1.88. You get a pretty generous portion.  Has a really good flavor, pretty decent portion. And I have had, I think I've had their meatloaf and that's pretty good. I've had a few other frozen meals from them and they're pretty good too. But anyway, this is what I'm having for dinner tonight. Something quick and simple and I'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, I stopped at a restaurant called La Madeleine, which is a little French bakery and cafe. And it's like fast service though. So it's not like a sit down place and you're served with a waiter or a waitress. You actually go up to the counter and order your food but it's really good. And so I got what is called chicken friand, which is right here. And I got it to go. So it came in this container and then the sauce that goes on top came separately. So I reheated it when I got home the friand, the chicken friand in the oven. And inside the puff pastry is a shredded chicken and mushrooms and some seasonings and it's really good. And then it comes with like a mushroom type of sauce that goes on top of it. And then I also got a cup of cream of mushroom soup. Howard didn't wanna eat anything from there. He wanted to eat something at home.  So in here I have some sourdough bread and I had some other breads that you can get. And then you get real butter, yum, yum, yum. Howard wanted to eat this Panera soup, broccoli cheddar soup. So that is what he is having for dinner tonight. So this is what's for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys. So let me show you what we are having for dinner tonight. We are having another meal from our pantry and freezer. We are having this Kekelman fried rice. It's a seasoning mix. So of course I had to make the rice because I made that the day before and put it in the fridge and so it would, you know, kind of stiffen up a little bit. And then to it you add green onion, bacon and egg. And it looks like the package, doesn't it? So I got this on a recent Walmart haul. I never picked it up before. And one of our supporters, Scott, mentioned in the comments that it was really good. And I do have to agree. It looks like restaurant style and it tastes like restaurant style. And I'm shocked that it looks just like the package. So we're having that.  Here they are. And I pan fried these and they are by Ling Ling. We got these either from Costco or Sam's Club a while back ago. And I think we probably have one more serving in this bag. And so this is it. So we're having pot stickers and the Kekelman fried rice. So this is what's for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time.


Let us look now at the bottoms-up technique, a way to factor trinomials. We discussed in a previous video that when factoring a trinomial where the quadratic coefficient is different from one, many people just become very proficient at trial and error, intelligent guessing and testing, and that is enough for them, but we could also do something that's a bit more systematic. This technique has several steps. The first step is to see whether there is any common factor in the three terms to pull out. That's not the case here. So the second step is to multiply the quadratic coefficient by the constant. 6 times 12 is 72, and now we look at all the factor pairs of 72. 1, 72, 2 times 36, 3 times 24, 4 times 18, 6 times 12, and 8 times 9. And then the third step is to choose a factor pair that adds up to 17. This is the only pair that satisfies that conditions. So now we go to the next step. Take that 8. We are going to create two binomials, x, x, x plus 8, and x plus 9. The next step is to divide the constant terms by the quadratic coefficient, in this case, 6. Now this becomes x plus 4 thirds, and this is x plus 3 halves. If those fractions would have been integers, we would have stopped there. Since they are not, we are going to multiply by an integer so that we get rid of that fraction. Let us multiply the first binomial by 3, 3x plus 4, and let us multiply the second binomial by 2, 2x plus 3. Now, we claim that this is the factorization of this trinomial. In fact, we can check here, 6x squared plus 8x plus 9x plus 12 is indeed what we wanted.


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Morning traders, it's Patrick Munlow here with another tip mail chart, so I want to draw your attention to a couple of opportunities actually in the equity indices. We have the S&P 500 on the daily chart, potential double top forming here at this 3960 level. We've got a bunch of divergence here on the momentum studies, RSI stochastic also just coming into overbought territory. So watch for bearish reversal patterns at this 3960 to play for at least a retest of the pivot cluster here at 3825. Now just jumping to the DAX. DAX has discussed in yesterday's live analysis session training to the top side of its sending trend line resistance also with divergence. Watch for bearish reversal patterns. Short positions there targeting 13,750. As always, traders, plan the trade. Plan the most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.