Because now I have the pleasure to introduce Sophie Proust, CTO of AUTHOS, and board member of the International Data Spaces Association, in a fireside chat with Petra Henrich, VP of Partners and Product at Red Hat. And they're going to discuss how to scale open source in Europe. Please, the floor is yours. Yeah, good afternoon. Thank you, AUTHOS, for introducing us. I now have pictures of, what was it, a flywheel in my brain? Various different pictures. Let's see if we can paint this a little bit together, Sophie, as we go along. The launch today, first of all, good afternoon, everyone. I assume you have been busy listening in for the entire afternoon. So I hope that you will still stay with us for another, I'd say probably 30 minutes, Sophie. Especially as we had such an important launch today of the EU's open source report, which is both warmly welcome, and also a timely reminder as to the importance of open source across Europe. And indeed the report's findings and recommendations speak volumes to our own compass and also my personal compass over the past, whatever, yeah, 20 to 30 years. So open unlocks the world's potential. And therefore I'm delighted to be joined by Sophie Proust, CTO of AUTHOS, to discuss over the next 30 minutes on the fireside chat about more aspects around open hybrid cloud, but also about open source and how we drive this jointly into the enterprises. So, but before doing so, can I first ask you, Sophie, to reflect on today's EU study results in significant contribution to European economy, e.g., 10% of open source contribution equals 0.4% GDP increase. In short, how have you seen and lived this through your career, but also through your position at AUTHOS? Absolutely. Thank you, Petra. And also, first of all, for me, I'd like to say that I'm very happy to be with you and to share this fire chat and attend this great EU open source policy submit 2021. And I think it was a great honor and chance, you know, to have this introduction from Thierry Breton, whose thought leadership and vision is always inspiring. And I want also to raise before answering to your question, Petra, the fact that this conference is really amazingly in sync, you know, with our own thinking at that moment, the role of open in the green transition, the digital sovereignty, and also the EU competitiveness, and also the idea of challenging ourselves to answer to the question of how do we create a winning open source culture in Europe is really a very good one. And so, you know, also, I want to raise the fact that our partnerships, and I'm very happy to do this talk with you on open source because our partnership are really along this line. If we look at it, we have been working together for more than 12 years. We started HPC, High Performance Computing, and it's actually why I raised this, because it really relies on open source for the operating system.  And what's very interesting is that the communities have always been building those software, reflecting on the best way to address scalability, resilience, and now we see that we are adding new words, green, sovereignty, and competitiveness. And so for that, I mentioned the fact that we are, and of course myself too, as a former BUL employee, BUL has been acquired by Atos in 2014. We have designed and brought to production the first petascale system in Europe for CEA. So you see, actually, open source is really part of my culture, part of Atos culture too. And I think it has been said during the previous talk, but really fundamental for R&D development. So I gave the example of HPC, but as you said, actually, it really opens all spreads across all the digital space, where Atos has technology leadership. I'm talking about cybersecurity, cloud applications, all this. So when you say our relationship really goes back a long, long, long time, Sophie, cloud was not even around at that time. You're right. And we started really from scratch. We learned the hard way together, what open source means, what open source and enterprise means, and how we keep going. But now looking at cloud, which is a massive driver for our joint relationship. And I think our technical teams and our business teams have really put their brains together over the past. It is a core to successfully help our joint customers to be successful with their transformation project, being faster in digitalization and really speeding this up. Can you tell us a bit more about the Atos offerings and why you choose an open source technology? Yes, you're right. Well, we launched at the end of last year a very great program called Atos One Cloud. It's an initiative where we want to accelerate our clients' migration to the cloud. And it, as you said, largely rely on open source-based technology. And let me give you an example of when we talk about migration to the cloud. Well, there's some steps to pass. And I want to take the example of a typical customer migrating to the cloud, which has an enterprise database. And so we've worked on those examples because we know it's not easy. And based on our BULSEQ and our hardware, we have created an offering called Bare Metal as a Service which really enables our customers to run the database services in a private data center, yet seamlessly seen as part of the cloud virtual environment. So why do I mention this? Well, because that service implementation largely relies on open source technologies. For example, state management with MongoDB, but also for orchestrating and managing the hardware assets with dynamic allocation and configuration. It relies on the Apache Airflow, but also Headad Ansible. And also for ITSM and CM integration, we are complying to a cloud-native computing foundation. So you see not only does open source accelerate our customer's migration to the cloud, but it has been an example on how our engineering teams could focus also on the business value. And for me, this is very important because the value creation is possible because we rely on established open source standards for the underlying element. And also if we push a little bit forward or if we think of what's happening those days with the COVID situation and the increased demand on sovereignty, we see really the progress to more industry-specific cloud to specialize data spaces for health, manufacturing, finance, and this will fuel the demand for more open source-based solutions. So you see, we have also what I wanted to stress around the sovereignty is that we are working a lot with some public sector organizations who really rely on this open source productivity to keep sovereignty and their collaboration in the IT landscape. So you see if I step back, for me, one of the key success factors for open source is really transparency, sovereignty, and of course the power of the community, but this is driving innovation and business value. So still there is a lot we need to do on helping the organizations to understand what does it mean and how do I really execute it, how do I take benefit of it, and how do I keep it going. So we have seen multiple examples fail on the do-it-yourself idea, which all of a sudden is very dependent on one or two individuals and when they pass on or go on an island for vacation, everything is breaking. But coming back to the three core factors you mentioned, can you talk a little bit about the economic impact as well? Yeah, because I think the figures you mentioned are very impressive and it's really complement, I think, this experience and you know, what I like is that we've talked about the past because I wanted to start, you know, from where we started with HPC, but as we are going on and progressing, we see that there are a lot of initiatives and Europe has launched, you know, this great initiative, Gaiaics, that will foster co-development in an open and secure and trusted European data space. So we are a funding member of Gaiaics, very much involved in this initiative that will sit on top of open source infrastructure solutions so that large and small players can also continue to innovate and deliver value. So I really think that the future will continue to pay the way for more open source. So I think this is a fantastic initiative and I do hope that we can really jointly all together drive this even more into all of the European countries. It's a great opportunity for individuals but also for smaller organizations as well as larger organizations to live the idea of sharing and jointly innovating and expanding footprint. But on this end, can you also elaborate and share some examples on how open source enables powerful digital innovation and sovereignty in terms of freedom of choice, vendor lock-in, anti-vendor lock-in, as in service scalability, interoperability and portability. So more or less the core of the ATOS business. Yes, and you're right, let's take example. It's always easier to lay ideas. So I've selected one which is on everyone's agenda and let's see how open source community today helps driving projects that has a significant impact on carbon footprint because you know that all the companies are going to the net zero and have a net zero strategy. So we know that today, IT is responsible for 4% of the carbon global emissions but we also know that it can help reduce 15% to 20% of the emissions of the rest of the economy. So we have talked about it but really the shift to the cloud is an important way to reduce carbon emission because of cloud efficiency. And I will just talk about the fact that we have application performance management solutions that help display dashboards and with giving visibility of the resource utilization, also the cost. And so if you take the principle that you can act on what you see, this is very valuable. And also there's a lot of, I will name, you know, everybody knows about Kubernetes which helps auto scaling and orchestrating the containers and it helps enable having the right sizing of the infrastructure. But this helps also reduce the carbon footprint. If we look, I just wanted also to mention, it's not directly linked of course to open source but cloud providers are more and more getting their electricity out of renewable energy. So wind, water, geothermal, etc. So this is very, very important. And you see actually, I'll take this example moving the cloud solution and adapt it to the smart cities initiatives. In the previous talk, there was mentioned, of course, of a smart city. It's of course a huge initiative where we rely on Internet of Things and devices that connect the various components, making the cities infrastructure and services. So smart cities use the technology, cloud IoT, to deliver actually better services to citizens, to connect with the citizens and of course to improve their lives. By creating this network of object capable of really smart interactions, we improve and we have many use cases that will detail some public transportation we can give and we know accurate traffic reports but also provide real-time energy consumption data. And you know, the use cases, it's limitless and there's a lot of, of course, applications that are coming that gather those data and give insight out of them. And so you know, I think this example is really key because the world is becoming more and more urbanized and we know that by 2050, over 60% of the world's population will be living in cities. So it's really crucial to make those cities a better place, make them also sustainable and with efficient streamlined services. And you know, I also like this example Petra because we are working together on such projects. If I name the city of Bordeaux, for example in France, we have been looking how to aggregate information from various sources, traffic, buildings, waste management, air conditioning, heating, and we have created an application for citizens that are able to look and see in real time what's going on. And of course we are running those workloads using our offer, AMOS, which is Ato's managed open shift. That would be great with you. So you know, the real idea actually by building those platforms is to enable decarbonization of the city with intelligent transportation systems but it can go up to smart agriculture, healthcare. So we collect data and that's the first step. We collect data in a standardized way. And I give also example of open source we are using, Fireware. You know, we are both part members of the Fireware Foundation. And very useful because it provides API but by which we can facilitate actually the consumption of the IoT data and we can process in a contextualized way. So you see, there's a lot to do. We have been, by the way, optimizing a lot of those solutions, for example, to reduce the latency sent in a smart mobility context. And also I want to mention, we will talk later on it, that we participate in a European project which is called the Green Move where we improve open source components and also the open-source model. So listening to you, certainly the carbon footprint and helping to reduce it is one of our great opportunities we have with open source but also when you take recent examples with better connection, with better sharing, with really taking open source principles in our daily life and we all suffer from the same effect. The pandemic we are right now in is not stopping at borders. Don't care about different governmental rules or any type of policy rules which may be different. We are a connected world and for this I truly believe that when we continue with ideas like smart cities and really expand them, it will be a better place for all of us. However, there is still this type of what does this mean? What does it really mean? So what does that mean for me as a person, as an individual, as a citizen? What is your view on that? Well, you know, what I think is very interesting in this approach is that we are building solutions out of open source components and using also standard open data models but to tailor the solutions to each needs, to each city. Each city is different. And there's many use cases you're asking what they bring to me. For example, some cities will have the ambition to create new opportunities for collective mobility which will lead to a decreased environmental impact. So those smart city solutions can bring that. For example, you can include data-driven bicycle mobility. You can also bring solutions which helps you reduce the time to find a parking slot near the shop you want to go. And you can also have incentive for example, offering the parking ticket. You can also use these to reduce the air pollution, giving real-time information to the drivers and for them to avoid specific areas or reduce the speed of the car to limit the CO2 emission. And also it's very helpful of course for all the city administrators because they have in real-time a dashboard giving them all the elements to act and find solutions for their own cities. And I'm pretty sure there are endless more ideas coming up, the more creative people we connect and the more ability we give people to just discuss with each other and one idea is topping up the other one idea. So meritocracy being very open to share ideas and collect all of them I think is a core in the future process. So one beauty of open source certainly is its flexibility and the openness. So how is ATOS supporting open source in the enterprise? How are you using open source in your own developments? So maybe what I can answer to this question first to the contribution. So you know we've said it ATOS is a Platinum member of Fireware. It contributes to the community our ATOS research and innovation is the open source owner of the Fireware IoT LoRa agent. So it manages the components and the GitHub. And also we launched we did a great announcement between IBM and ATOS in January and January. And we will create a smart waste energy monitoring and optimization solution which will leverage IBM Watson and the Red Hat OpenShift to help manufacturers and waste management companies to optimize energy consumption. So you know I think also that in this new area of data economy with a federated approach of data management we will need to make use of trustworthy ecosystem with a common governance for data space. And actually you said it that the open source community has a major role to play to provide also some software development key connectors but also it really helps for me driving consensus. So as we recognize that we need an increased sovereignty in this digital world we really think that open source enables to share and trust the technology because as you said it facilitates collaboration and consensus. So I have I could give you some example of go ahead. Yes. Just please give us some examples specifically. I'm also interested in this consideration you mentioned around ecosystem. So this is one of our core themes and representing the partner side I believe in really connecting different partner types and we see this now today all of a sudden we are connecting a global system integrator with independence of their vendors with cloud providers and all of them have to come together at a point. So this changed massively over the past. So I'm curious on your other examples and considerations. But maybe what I you know I think that open source is really a journey and the mind and yeah and I think there's maybe three angles we can take this journey. The first one and you said it sometimes we we start projects and it doesn't work but I think the great difference of the open source is that it enables you to start projects and you don't start it from scratch. You have everything here and just take AI with TensorFlow you know you just start cloud design some model together with power stack to package new administration services. So this is a great asset. The second aspect for me which is very important about open source is standardization. Source really drives consensus and so the standardization. So for example when you have to to run tests to comply to a given standard interface well this is absolutely key if you take hardware design if you want to comply to open compute or Gen Z standard same for software you know when you want to comply for example to open MPI to follow up the example. So really open source drives this standardization and the third point is that is more from a research standpoint and here we have you know the great help of the European Union which actually opens up projects for example Horizon 2020 which enable us to do some future developments. And so I think as we are moving along and as governments but also enterprises are moving into more and more open source well those assets are going to be leveraged more and more and I wanted also to take maybe the example of the software defined approach but now I think a star is okay. So a few examples on how we can contribute because I think that's also the nice thing about open source we can contribute in many ways. First of all you can integrate bricks in your own development but you can also do of course testing and then you issue bug reports. You can be part of communities. You can submit some features. You can take part of the review process. You can do consultancy. You can support customers who don't really know how to go on with open source and you can even open in a source inner source communities inside the enterprise. You see behind the firewall so that for me it's just sharing the open source spirit. So it allows us to innovate faster to collaborate in a different way to solve problems in a complete different way and hopefully faster and another aspect just throwing it in whilst Aster is pushing us a little bit around is also that open source open standards allow everyone to communicate. So it's a perfect way to also look at all the younger people who are looking for new opportunities for their future. How can they get engaged and you mentioned some of the examples. I think there was a lot happening for young people who want to get into open source into something they can learn of. So that's really great. So we have covered a lot of ground in the past 30 minutes and for those who are further interested I'm pretty sure there are some links and materials still available. Yeah. So giving me a thumbs up I hope. Yeah. So it was a huge pleasure Sophie to share the stage with you back to Aster. No. Yeah. Thank you very much guys. Thank you.


I would like to take you again to Hamburg. I didn't know that my pre-speakers also showed so many examples from Hamburg. Yeah, my name is Kastri Stelzer from Bokman Consult and we are also located in Hamburg, so I know very well the area I'm talking about now. So, CIVAVA or City Water Watch was a project co-funded by the Ministry of Economy and Energy and we were three partners and one was the Hugen Institute, so the Institute in Hamburg responsible for the water quality for measuring and monitoring and providing data and BBA Moldenke, who is a company producing and constructing in situ measurements and we from Bokman Consult we were the remote sensing the satellite data guys looking into the water. So, we have a lot of water in Hamburg. There is the Altster, a very large lake in the center of the city and the Elbe River with a large harbor area and there are a lot of bathing water lakes in the surrounding and in the city. So, all this needs to be monitored and we all like water, it's good for the climate, it's good for our feeling and for recreation and also it is used for industry of course. And now what was also the intention of the authorities is to know more about the spatial distribution of the water quality because they always look at points and in situ measurements taken at a certain location but they are interested in the spatial distribution of of water quality and what is water quality I will come in in a second. So, the what we see from the satellite from the water is first the color and the color is is coarsed or the responsibility for the color is either there's sediment or sand or something like this in the water or there's there are phytoplankton so little algae in the water which produce chlorophyll and there's also humic substances which are very dark. So, all these substances they are responsible for the color of the water and this is changed so these substances in the water change the light and reflect it back to the satellite sensor and this is what we measure and this is where we get our information out looking at the absorption and scattering processes which happen in the water at these little constituents in the water and this tells us what is in there and what we understand of water quality is chlorophyll concentration so a proxy indicator for algae blooms suspended sediment concentration turbidity how clear is the water or how turbid is the water the second depth how deep you can look into it and a very important indicator cyanobacteria indicator because cyanobacteria it's blue algae also known as this can be toxic and then bathing water need to be closed because yeah it can it can be influence the health and it even can kill dogs so nobody wants to drink this water anymore and and the authorities are responsible to close those waters. So, when we deal with waters in cities we have a lot of surrounding we have a lot of okay this is not working a lot of boats on the water and we need to take care of all these subjects when we process our satellite data what you see here is the chlorophyll concentration overlaid in parts of the harbor in Hamburg and so it's important that we flag everything that is not valid not a valid water pixel to get really good results so that we only show what is what is reliable. Coming to the monitoring the monitoring is done by the authorities they are responsible to detect or to monitor the water and there are several permanent measurement stations there some stations they go from time to time but I would like to look at one of the permanent stations where the water is just flowing through they do their analysis and I can show this in the time series what you see here is one of the stations at the Elbe River the blue line is the permanent measurement station chlorophyll concentration and the red dots are the chlorophyll concentration derived from the satellite data in this case it's Sentinel-2 and what you see here is we have more measurements from in situ but this is not very often the case often they go there once a month or every two months and then we have much more information from the satellite data those images are used or those graphs are needed to convince users that we measure the same thing that we are not measuring the same thing but we get similar results that's the important point so that it is a technique that can be used and help them also to to monitor their waters and yeah producing these water quality products from satellite data is one thing and the other thing is to develop interfaces so that this information can go to the users and combine with their work they are doing with their in situ measurements so that this comes really into interaction into interaction and this is what I would like to scratch here so we start as a one satellite image we process it we need certain processing steps atmospheric correction water retrieval masking so this is all that that we know very well we produce this for for each available and suitable image so clouds are disturbing our images we we are reliant on on clear water clear sky conditions and we put all this in data cube to have a consistent temporal spatial data set and and this is then then then we need the interfaces to the users because usually they cannot work with with those data but then we also work on the interfaces either we provide them APIs they can program and access the data or we provide the data via data viewers or or in fact sheets explaining how their water look like with different graphs and maps this is where we individual from user to user we talk a lot with them how would you like to get the information we can provide you so that you can very easily integrate it into your daily work because this is often a big problem that earth observation data is not integrated in the authority test but this is getting more and more the case yeah just a small sketch into the viewer via we use and developed in order to show the data these are just RGB images it's a very nice clear sky RGB image and then there's the chlorophyll concentration divide only for the water bodies that that are shown and now we can see how nicely we have the spatial distribution of the parameters which cannot be sketched by only few measurement stations and as we have this data cube we also have time series what you see here several years and the chlorophyll concentration within one lake and if you squeeze this to one year only we see the seasonal trend of the chlorophyll concentration they are growing in spring time going down in summer a bit and then have a second bloom in autumn this is a very normal way how they how they grow so that the user has this viewer and can can look at his or her lake and investigate in detail another example how we try to get the data closer to the user is that to format it the way they are used to it for instance here this is an example of a harbor cruise they do this every two months and in each of these segments you'll see there they have one water sample which they analyze which is then representing all the all the area and if we come now with the satellite data we have similar information all over the water bodies and we can format it the same way they are used to it and provided via OGC services to their system so this is the Hamburg geo online portal where they store all their harbor cruises data and yeah if we provide them the data from the satellite data the same way they can simply integrate it and have a bit more and more often information on the clover concentration and what we are doing now so Chibawa was a project and at a certain point it entered into a service which is always a very nice thing if you can continue after a project with users that are interested what you see here is Eichbaumsee it's a lake southeast of Hamburg and it's very famous in Hamburg because it's closed since years due to Blau Algenblüten which Ciorna bacteria blooms and this year they wanted to open it again they said we want to open it and regularly monitor it but unfortunately at the bathing spot here already in June they were again they had to close it because Blau Algen was growing and they opened it again end of June but in end of August they had to close it again so and then as we were serving them with this satellite data this helped them also to assess where are the algae is it only at the bathing spot is it at the west end of the lake and yeah this is a indicator for Ciorno bacteria blooms which indicate if it's wet be careful please go out do a measurement and and look at the water so it's not that we say yeah it's more triggering than Tito measurements so that they know okay we have to go to our lakes we have to control and do our measurements and this is the time series of the Ciorno indicator and so we sent out automated alerts by email whenever this indicator is too high they get next day they get the message be careful we see a risk in your lake here and there and yeah this I would like to summarize so we have this complementary information in space and time from Earth observation about the water quality a good quality or a good validation is needed to convincing users that this is a technique they can use in addition of course the availability of suitable satellite data is key and we have to be honest the problem that if we have clouds during the summer we cannot see and detect the algae so it's always the user needs to be trained a bit that this can happen and if they do not get an alert this does not mean there is nothing but it means it might be also a cloud so that we cannot see everything and then the very important thing there need to be interfaces very individually to the users so that they do not have work to work with it aid data but they really can help them to work with it and combined monitoring concepts are tested more and more by the monitoring agencies which is a very nice evolution development so it's getting more and more used and and accepted thank you


I think we need to look at where growth is going to come from in the economy and what's been happening over time. So if we look back from 1970 to 79 growth was around about 2.3 percent GDP per capita. If you look much closer up to 97 to 2007 the rate had gone down to about 1.5 percent and it had become dominated by government and public spending mostly fuelled by debt. And what we need to do is turn that around. We need to rebalance the economy and we need to put more effort into business investment and trade. We think that industrial policy will help us to bring that all together in one place and make a difference for the economy. So if you look at a country like South Korea that's been very proactive with its industrial policy making a lot of investment into predominantly high-tech sectors. A few of them not everything but really building up what they do and making sure that policy across government links in with what business wants to do. So education policy cluster policy regional policy and the way that companies are financed to do R&D and technology development all aligns so that gives them world-class strengths and the things that they choose to do. And then if you look at the country like the US now while that's not really known for having an industrial policy the way the government spends its money there in a sort of a mission-driven approach DARPA the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency would be a very good example that obviously trying to get new technology and innovation into the military but there are always spin-over effects from that and that can feed over into the rest of the economy and bring growth throughout the manufacturing and services activity. Well one of the interesting things about industrial policy obviously is that you can't just pick up someone else's industrial policy from another country the cultures and situations are all very different. What we can do is learn something about their ambitions, the way of approach policy, the way they've implemented policies as well. So in the UK we do have some quite good policies but often they're let down by poor implementation very slow to get money through to businesses and that's something we need to look at in particular because as companies becoming more competitive the faster we can get money through to companies so that they can make their investments the more certainty we can give them so they can make investments for the future that's what's going to attract activity in the UK.


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Hi, this is George Cao. And in this short video, I want to talk with you about how we can consciously grow and mature to become better people, to become people that we're really happy to be without getting stuck in the same addictions, the same unhelpful loops time and again. And the technique is very simple. It's the conscious willingness to experience a little bit of discomfort and therefore realize that you have just grown yourself a little bit. The analogy I'll bring in to explain this is, imagine someone who's learning how to lift weights, someone who is learning how to bench press, lifting weights. I'm not a weight lifter, so I don't know if the analogy I'm going to share with you is exactly accurate, but I'll just go with it. So let's say the person starts with lifting 50 pounds of weight. At 50 pounds, maybe it's a little bit difficult for that person, just a little bit of discomfort, but it's doable, definitely doable. And so maybe he'll start the first three weeks with lifting 50 pounds, and then a little bit of discomfort. And then at week three, he's realized, oh, it's pretty easy now to lift 50 pounds. There's really not much discomfort anymore at all. So now we can go to 65 pounds. 65 pounds is now a little bit of discomfort, but he's willing, and here's the key, he's willing to experience a little bit of discomfort now at 65 pounds, and then therefore grow his muscles.  Your willingness to experience a little bit of discomfort with the intention of growing, toward a little bit of discomfort with purpose, will make you a better and better person. So I'll use a personal example that I'm dealing with right now, in fact. One of the addictions I've had for a long time, it kind of goes off and on, but right now I'm dealing with it now, is my addiction to playing video games, a certain video game. It's easy for me to play it, especially when I'm doing some hard work, and the work is tough, and I just say, oh, it's so much easier just to go play a video game right now, or when I am bored, or when I'm tired, it's so easy to go play that video game. And so what I'm doing now is practicing the feeling of discomfort, of not playing the video game when I want to play it, and therefore seeing myself grow to being stronger and being able to say no to that video game, and instead say yes to doing something productive. And what I, the way I started was by tracking the experience of feeling discomfort twice a day. I literally am tracking it using, I use an app on my mobile phone called Strides, but you can simply use, you know, a piece of paper or on your calendar. If you have a paper calendar, you just mark it, mark it, you know, put a star two times that day. If you, if you practiced feeling the discomfort of playing, you know, when you got tempted to do something you don't want to do, and you say no, I'm going to say no to that temptation, and instead I'm going to say yes to something that's good in exchange for that temptation. That's something bad. Does that make sense? So you might want to start with just two times a day, or maybe even once a day. And I would also recommend that you don't give yourself too difficult of a situation. So for example, I'm not going to practice when I'm exhausted, when I, and when I'm, I didn't get enough sleep the previous night, I'm exhausted, I'm hungry, and I'm working on something that's really difficult, and I just had a relationship is challenged, and then I'm going to practice that discomfort. No, that's, that's like someone starting with lifting 200 pounds at once.  So start with a situation that's a little bit easier, but it does give you a sense of discomfort, just a little bit, but you know you can do it if you just set your mind to it and say, no, I'm going to prevent that addiction right now, and I'm going to say yes to something positive and uplifting and healthy for me, for example. So I hope this is helpful. Start with tracking it for twice a day, discomfort plus growth, and then you can graduate to tracking it three times a day.  Probably by tracking it seven times a day, I will have gotten pretty good at saying no to that addiction. So I look forward to seeing if this is helpful for you, conscious discomfort, a little bit of discomfort with a purpose towards growth, and instead replacing it with something productive.  The conscious experience of discomfort will allow you to see that you're becoming a better and better and stronger and stronger person over time to be able to, in other words, you are growing your willpower muscle. So you become a truly powerful person to fulfill and live your purpose. So I hope this is helpful, and as always, I'm open to your comments, and I look forward to any updates you want to share with me on how this is helping you. Be well.


Thank you so much for sticking with the Y254 TV. This is your number one youth station. We are coming to you live from the broadcasting house here in Elbe Kenner. We are streaming live through our website. That's www.kabc.co.ke first large Y254. My name is Ram Aguco and of course it's a pleasure being with you each and every Thursday. This is Power Talk. The best place to be and remember I repeat all this show as again every Thursday at 10 p.m. Today let's hear about someone's story. This is a story of one lady, beautiful lady. If I may say she goes by the name Consolata Viderero also known as Consa. She is an actress and a marketer. We are here to get to know her story. And of course even as we talk about this, what is your story? And we shall hear what she went through because on Power Talk we are here to empower you to keep you motivated and inspired. As we listen to her story, what is your story? Where are you watching us from? The Ashtagas always is a Power Talk show at Ram Aguco and at Y254 channel. This is a lady who will tell us how she lost her limb. Persons living with disabilities. How has it been? Especially, you know, trying to cope up with the day-to-day challenges of the Consolata Karebsana. How are you feeling? I'm feeling fine. Thank you. I'm also good. I'm awesome. I'm feeling amazing. Thanks so much for coming. Oh, I'm humbled. Thank you so much. For somebody who is meeting you for the first time, tell us something about yourself, a bit more about what you do. Okay, I go by the name Consolata Viderero. But online they call me Consa. And I'm a sister to two sisters because I'm the first born. Yeah, so first born to cook out sub-group. Wow, yeah, that's nice. And I'm also a sister to many people out there. Yeah, and I'm an actress and also a marketer. A marketer. Wow, wow. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And I know even as you interact with people, you've managed to, you know, walk in town. Do you always find those people who just look at you and, you know, it's with a different eye? I'm looking at the perception that you get as an individual. Let me start from there. Yeah, they stay a lot. And I love it. I don't hide. I don't hide. So I love it. You can stare. When you finish, you go home. People do stare? They stare a lot. Yeah, and I love it, by the way, but I don't blame them. Because before the accident, even me, because I don't know, but right now I know. So I don't blame them. And I'm here to create disability awareness, so I won't hide it. And even as you walk in town and people stare at you, right now the feeling is different. Very different. But before it, how was it before? At first I was uncomfortable. I was like, where are they staring at me? But I came to understand we need to create more disability awareness. Because people don't know what is this. You're the one who is telling them what is this. So I told myself I won't hide anymore. Does anyone ever ask what is your story? Yeah, they ask. They do. Yeah, but I don't mind explaining. Even if I'm in town and I'm in a wheelchair, you ask, I don't mind. I just tell them and explain and then leave. Wow. Do you sometimes feel misunderstood? Me, I won't blame you.  I already know myself and I already know my journey. So your thought or whatever you want to tell me, it wants to destroy me. I'll just understand you the way you are and then I'll leave you. Then you go your way. Yeah. Constable, let's hear your story. How did it all start? How did we get to the place where we are today?  From the background I come, last manager push. You're the deputy parent. Thank you. I must push myself whether I like it or not. So it was just a normal day. I've opened up a business. It's like two months. You started your own business? Yeah. Now like business, old stock, they must finish so you must go and get new stocks. So that day was my day to go and get the stocks. So I went to the palace and I went to the market. Now it's my time to go home with the stocks.  And then tomorrow I can go to the other business. So this is the evening? Yeah, it's an evening. It's 5 to 6 p.m. 5 to 6 p.m. Now we are on our way back to home. Now unfortunately a pro box came at the wrong side. It hit us. And the driver died there and then I was left. Which driver? The pro box. The border border driver. The pro box came from the wrong side. Which side? From your left or your right? It was from my right side. From your right side? Bypass, Northern Bypass. Some of them are on the right side and some are on the left side. It's just a one road. So this side is on the left side and this side is on the right side. Some of them are on the left side and some are on the right side. So it will be on the right side. And your border border guy was here on the right side of the road? Very right. Yeah, so now the pro box came on the wrong side. It hit us. The next minute I went outside. My whole right leg was outside. My bone was on the right side of the road. Everything was outside in short. Now people are trying to fix it. I was sitting on the table and I was sitting on the bed. I said close me while I was at the hospital. Since I was in the hospital. So now we are trying to see if someone can stand and go to the hospital. Now I'm in the hospital. Some of them are in the hospital. Some of them are in the hospital. Some of them are in the accident. But I'm in good luck. Someone in the hospital. What about the pro box guy? It was a hit and run case. Hit and run? Yeah. Nobody got the number plate? No. There is no CCTV. Many people are coming to see what happened. Some of them are in the hospital.  So I'm in the hospital. Some of them are in the hospital. So that person and his mother. I went to the garden. I went directly to the hospital. Emergency along the northern bypass. KU referral. So I went to see my mother. My mother came. I said this is a very serious case. And I went to the hospital. This hospital has a lot of complications. So I went to the hospital. So I went there like let's say two days. I transferred. I went to another hospital. I went to another hospital. I went directly to the theater. I went to the theater. I was very busy. I was looking for a job. I was hoping. you will be fine don't worry everything will be fine so so they did not amputated at this at this level. Now let me take a few take your few steps back yeah you're on the road yeah and you're lying there yeah at what point did you just realize that I'm actually hurt because hydronolim is always is that rush yeah yeah at what point did you realize that I'm actually hurt and something has happened and my border border guy is actually not here at first when the accident happened I was like no I want to go home so first of all I can't stand my whole leg is outside I can see even I'm touching it I'm like what what's happened yeah and I'm like when you want to have a cuji side young a lot of people are not coming on my side what driver want to try to wonder will cover a bar and any bike so afterwards and I could just realize what is happening so when the situation I'm like I'm there but I'm not talking by the way I'm traumatized I was not you've not even realized what's happening happening I'm just wondering why can someone just help me yeah afterwards you came to understand what was happening so I'm looking after my health and the more I'm wasting time the more I'm bleeding so I had to first aiders coming to the rescue Kenyans we need to really change this I think we need to change this so they come take advantage of the accident still from you and maybe still from the border border driver and just go their way yeah do you think that I think that should change but they can't change it happens so many times it does yeah when I go to see Mutun now imagine they're pretending like hey are you okay okay but now when you got this let's say good Samaritan the driver yeah yeah he was alone did someone stop him he was alone and I was talking to him along the path he just came directly he said what's the problem because we are trying to look for a car he stopped the car yeah came and asked what's happening yeah took you in yeah I said I will just drop you you call whoever you're calling and then I'll leave I was like that's good because at least I'll reach at the hospital it was just calling my parents now to come yeah he did that wherever you are may god bless you I don't know if he if he can't even remember he can't remember where he can't remember how you don't forget that easily when once you go to to this hospital because you said that there was some confusion and you're not comfortable being here yeah what is this confusion that you saw in this place that you felt not comfortable being there there are people who talk with cash if you don't want if you don't have cash they won't attend to you and they don't want to use the in hi f card so you see and it's an emergency you can't stay there you have to transfer you didn't have an itf I did I did have they don't use in hi f card they want to don't use okay yeah so you had to leave I had to leave because I have an hi in hi f yeah and they wanted cash yeah how long did you take not transferring from this hospital to this for this consulate battle to Janza story it's just the beginning so you're in a hospital yeah they want cash you deal with the in hi f so you have to leave this hospital remember you said bleeding I believe so yeah the bleeding hasn't stopped it hasn't stopped and you can see your bone like in a pangalei wow yeah and it takes you four days to leave this hospital and go to the next yeah because they are not providing you an ambulance you have to provide yourself an ambulance would you even you to connect the whole situation so that you can get out of there in this in this four four day period where are you I'm just there sleeping like nonsense and eating did they what did you treat your leg the first time when I went to that hospital the first thing when you get to the hospital after the accident they are checking where we're mea is the one who so well you can cover your smashings when I leave my head is okay my hands are okay the rest of my body okay pattern they only pattern you can make me it's the leg only so what kind of some and you can't even on any pain killers so no cup and killers bandage the food do you feel like it got worse within this forest it did because before me so after me and that hospital the next hospital now so for me I'm feeling like it's an emergency because painful let me tell you something the leg is so painful so I'm not sleeping it's like the five day but I'm not even sleeping some smell coming out yeah a public hospital let me tell you something before they cater for you look at school but have hope did you do believe them did you feel like so you're telling yourself deep down you'll be fine but no it's my leg I'm feeling it I'm not okay when you don't talk at the end you can see them you can see them sleeping they're comfortable but I'm not sleeping I'm just crying day in day out I don't know why I'm crying and I'm crying and I'm not sure anyway so after five days you make up I'm like no it's not okay we will just wait for them whatever you're feeling and you can see their reaction doctor you'll have to go back to the theater so you must go back now they wash you again and then they tell you what whatever they are going to tell you I have a friend and she can be here if ever you are in danger go to Kenyatta hospital please you just do whatever you're going to do send me an ambulance I'm an that will be better so me because I guess as I make out one week up why in pain after the second one very much in pain now this is second hospital yeah you want to leave the nurse to send the ambulance me and my mom when they opened my leg the doctor said this is a very emergency this is a very serious case you need to go to the next day in the morning so now I'm here at data five now you mentioned that when they opened you could see was this at the hospital or the previous one the previous now the second hospital the second hospital now after they opened what were they doing to open all the orders there the reason for opening your wound I was telling them it's smelling I'm from the data like four days what's going on where is my leg smelling what are you not telling me so they were like open the leg let us check and tell you what's what's going on so now the first time they checked so they advised me to go to theater after two hours maybe it's the t-shirts but they're still speculating they don't know why they don't know why in short they're not telling me what's going on okay so after the first operation which took three hours wow and I have an infection and it's growing day in the out I don't know if I have a shot of that the bone from where to where and you can show them again from where to where they said that that the limb is dead and let's get that from where to where my bone from here to here is dead from up it is it again from here to here is dead dead yeah wow and they said if you don't and you have an infection and they are not telling you my leg was turning black and I didn't know that part of the that it was turning black but you know I have a bandage so I can't see me the only signal it's giving me I'm not sleeping I'm having I'm having a lot of pain they're saying you must amputate that or else the whole leg the whole leg when I went to the hospital the infection had reached here joint salsa so the doctors were telling me if we don't amputate as soon as possible we will amputate the whole leg yeah because the infection was and it's not to its team so you have to tell your parents tell your people whatever we have told you because we need to amputate the leg or you can also decide for yourself you say yes a tick we go again Peter the next day so that we can amputate the leg they asked you if you're 18 years and above above yeah you are below 18 at this time no you know they just have to need a counter check and confirm they're just asking so you're 18 years old and above so you can make decisions for yourself so you can just sign if you don't want to involve so you signed yeah you just sign you want to amputate the yeah all right because now we can't save it so I mean come on yeah just give me that night come in the morning I'll sign the papers wow so I went back to the theater called my mom come on be whatever is going on I'm not sleeping I'm not having a peaceful time me I'll just choose to amputate the leg so that night I called that doctor come on come in the morning I'll sign the papers so so you are having a discussion with mom yeah was it on phone yeah on phone on phone yeah could you and I'm sure you could feel her reaction wow you can feel the emotion over the phone as you're talking with mom yeah and she did come the next day in the morning before me going to the theater and before signing the papers again to confirm if I want to amputate the leg what did she want what did she say okay she was like are you sure you want to do it are you going to be okay yes you know to a mother she's she's always concerned yeah she's like are you sure is that the right decision I'm like yeah what should we talk because I've never been at peace since the accident maybe when it amputated I talk I'll feel fine can you remember it's okay me I'm with if you want to choose that decision and we did that the doctor came the next morning my mom was there and I did sign you signed it yeah and this was at what time it was at eight in the morning eight I am yeah take a pose ladies and gentlemen we're going to hear more about her story consolata I don't know if you're getting some there's so many things that are coming through my mind even as we as we talk I'm looking at the status of our health care I'm looking at the character of Kenyans I'm looking at the the mindset of people who you know come to crime scenes to the hell I'm speaking about so many so many things I'm looking at the status of even our doctors even our drivers drivers Kenyan drivers I want to take a short break we'll be back meanwhile tell us what you think about this story even as you continue remember this is her story right here on power talk we're taking a short break we'll be back in a bit all right not now all right okay okay so I'm told we'll we're taking the break later sorry for that I want us to proceed with that when you're ready for the break you will tell me so at this point in time you are you're having a discussion with your mom I'm a kubali you've signed now that the doctors come now you go for theater who are the people who are present on this particular day you know me I deal with my shit like this if something has happened to me I don't tell everybody so I didn't involve any friend it was just family so I was just with my mom there and my sister so we are ready for it we have already signed an amputation is a serious thing so you need like to have the best surgeons around so you are alone your sister and your mother yeah did you have any because it's a serious thing I'm looking at maybe a counselor or an advisor someone who can you know talk with you and talk to you and ask you how you're feeling did you have such kind of a person they were calling such but I was like me I'm okay with it me I'm just fine with it you just amputate and then we'll deal with the life after it's later as amputate it first and then we will deal with the rest later because it's painful my friend it's just fun to match oh my matches you can read a lot of me men that they are almost three two times mahali kua kitchen jeal as ma damu in my geeky I can't go yet I need to donate blood because yeah it was serious by the way you need a donor yeah my parents another process again it was another process because as soon as I signed they told me you know they must come and take some blood so that it can put you a line and what what they're like you know when you're going to the other you need blood call four five people to donate blood I love to say this is how I don't have a phone where was your mom staying was she still staying in Nairobi yeah she was in Nairobi she had to come yeah she was always with me from the first hospital to the last hospital she was always always there but now you need five people yeah and I believe it it must have been a particular type of blood yeah and you don't know where to get them yeah how Nassimu I just called my sister and I said after I left she was in Nairobi she just went to talk to her and I'm going to talk to her now the first time PM yeah from 8 a.m. yeah now got them to move to Marakwanza yes if come on if you're having your menstruation they won't take your blood because your blood is already out mm-hmm so at first only pick more yeah now so my sister went to the second round was what the four people enough they were enough it was a good blood it was enough and now it's 4 p.m. 3 p.m. yeah it's three to four wow must have been something first of all you know you are you are you're going to amputate your leg first me now I don't have a joint yeah so they have to amputate above the knee and initially it ought to have been below the knee yeah so I went to the theater it took like four hours to amputate the leg for Kamalizah yeah those two days why did you cut some sleep I was sleeping because size of such a baby was not feeling any pain a lot of you have a lot of medicines in your body so now after the two days now I'm waking up I'm like I want to see my remaining part now I'm not gonna get to the above the knee how do I look no I wanted to check first I love them with a badaya fungi. So you are going to get a job? Yes, I am going to get a job. I am going to go to a competition.  I am going to get a job. This is me. I don't have a joint. It's okay. I am sure it wasn't just okay. There must have been something more you are telling yourself. There must have been something that you are... That shock. Yesterday I was walking. Right now I can't walk. You don't have a prosthetic. I didn't know there were prosthetic legs. So I am like, I will be using the crutches for the rest of my life. Let me tell you something. If I am already in a situation and I can say I can't control it. Why use more energy or complain or cry? It will just remain the same way. I am just looking for ways. I am going to tell you now how to cope. I will introduce you to a physiotherapist. Who is going to lead you with exercises. How to walk with crutches so that you can continue to cope with your normal life. Hmm. So, here I am. I am going to tell you the remaining part. Now you must take time so that the remaining part can heal. I am taking lots of water. I am taking lots of fruit now. So that my body will heal. Because I still don't have blood. Ahh. You are crying bad.  Me, me, why not? Yesterday I was at a temple. Yesterday I was in a hospital. You are in a hospital. I am in a hospital. No phone. Someone could call you and ask how you are doing. How I am doing. So, I am like, what can I do? I am going to go to the temple. I am going to go to the temple. At least I tell a little people. When you go to the temple and ask, what is the job? What happened? So, I am going to introduce a few. I am going to tell you what is going on. My leg has been amputated. If you want to see me, come to the hospital. Yes. I have introduced a few friends. And they came? Yes. And after they came, they said it is okay. It is life. It happens. And we are going to be your friend no matter what. Now, I am looking at you lying in that hospital bed. How long did it take for you to go through that whole journey of acceptance? From that time when you were lying in that hospital bed, when you came back, what was it like? It was when I was recovering the remaining part. It takes six weeks to recover. So, within that journey, I was accepting myself. And I love myself. And I am a strong person. Yes, you are. I am a first born.  So, to give up was not an option for me. Yes. So, I had to take the situation that is as it has come, and deal with whatever has come. So, I had to take time to go down, to go down, to go down. I had to go down, to go down. Within two months, I was working very well with crutches. With crutches? Yes. I worked for eight months. Wow. To recover very well. Yes. And I was able to rehabilitate myself. Because I was able to come out of Cheesy. How do I spell it? Yes. So, do you know how to spell it? Yes. There are lots of hopes there. And by the way, when you are in Kenyatta Hospital, you can get a lot of inspiration because I had amputation. I was being amputated my right limb. When I am amputated, you are both legs and both hands. Wow. So, and I have also seen a lot. So, I was like, nothing like this can make me give up easily.  And it's mindset and attitude. You geared your mind towards not giving up. How you are going to respond to this situation. If you are not going to do exercises, if you are not going to push yourself, you will not be able to go to bed. So, I was saying to myself, I don't want to be bedridden. Because most of the people are bedridden. You said you will not stay in bed. Never. So, after eight months, after eight months, take a pose there. Remember, we should take that break now. As I was talking about, now life, I am trying to answer. A new journey now starting. Consulata, thank you so much for wow. The mindset, don't give up. Don't give up. Attitude, the way you respond to things, matters. 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And to look at Nongia, who is now eight months eight months in hospital trying to recover. People coming in to talk to you and keep a little cup of tea. Now you're out. How was it now? Actually, it was from the time when you were talking about that hospital bed and you were saying, this is the day that I'm leaving. Let's start from there. First of all, when you're in a hospital, people are like, I can do it. I can do it. Let's go. Because you've been around that environment. You're feeling like you can do it. It's not bad. When I came back my baby was at home. I had a lot of challenges. You know when you're using crutches, it's because I've been around for a long time. So that's what I'm trying to do. But I have a deal now. When you're in a hospital, there are stairs. There are stairs. There's a fish therapy in the hospital. But now you're in a hospital. You're in a hospital. You're in a hospital. I have crutches. You go to the kitchen. You go to the washroom. You go to the bedroom. Now I must adapt to that. It's another new challenge. When you're in a hospital, you must go all through that. So again, life has to continue. I'm in a hospital. I'm in a hospital. You're in a hospital? Because there was work. So what I did was out of work. I took her out of the balcony. Because she went to see T battling heat and leg, the best legs, what and what, you never walk again, I'll never. Sir, sir, sir, we are talking about prosthetics. You never knew initially that actually potential legs are there? You used to see them. See, when you see a movie, you never know if it's a cut or if it's an artificial hand. Yes. You just know it's an artificial hand, you've never seen it, you don't know how it works. You don't know if you're going to get a good one because me, I don't have a joint. I need a good joint. I'm a content creator. I do skits and I find these skits without a good leg. So, I'm a mind-lead jazzy, I'll not walk again.  Whoa, I'm in the clinic. I'm looking for a prosthetic leg and I'm at a price and for real I'm not capable.  It's okay, we will plan. In terms of getting the money. Yeah, getting the money and helping me to get a best leg because right now, if you want a prosthetic, you have a lot of ideas. As in, everyone is coming, they're telling you, there's no one, there's no one, there's no one. You get confused. So many can say ma, they feel as if it was in Nibamba Vizuri because I know I need a good joint. I need to hike, I need to jump, I need to do this and this. You need to call all of them. This leg is not that cheap, let me tell you. So to book appointment with a doctor, let me see the remaining part, there's a certain shape they look so that it can fit into a prosthetic leg so that you can be able to walk. So at first I can say, you already have the shape, you're just lacking a prosthetic leg. I'm headed there, I'm going to ask for prices and a stuka, I want to be capable.  So I can say, this one will be the best, but I don't have that cash. He offered to pay half of the amount and me, I pay half of the rest. So I can reduce the cost. Out of the goodness of his heart. Yeah. So I can say ma, he'll pay half of it and then I pay half. You'll be sitting down, you'll be doing whatever you want, you'll be dancing, you'll be doing this and this, of which I've been doing them. Look at you now. Look at me now. So first of all, you must go for measurements so that they can fit your prosthetic leg. So he found the leg? Yeah. He found the leg? Found the doctor. The doctor? Paid the half. Paid the half. The doctor was waiting for my half. Did you manage to get it? I did a fundraising. Oh my God. I ate water. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Kujeni, kujeni, kujeni. And they came. They came. Yeah, they came. Because especially my church called Madritcheresa Catholic Church, wow, those people are the best. Shout out to those guys, ma'am. Barikiyosana. Kabisa. They came through very well by the way. Which year was this? It was 2021, last year. Last year? Last year. Ladies and gentlemen, we are not going to talk about this at the end, I don't know how many years back. Last year? Yeah. Wow. Now, so now this guy gets the leg and now, I don't know if I'm taking it so fast. Now you have the legs, isn't it? No. Do you pick it up from there? I don't have the leg yet. You must go and do some measurements so that they can measure exactly the remaining part so that it can fit with the other one. So it must take like two weeks to three weeks before they make the leg. So I did a fundraising as they were making the leg because they already have the half of it. So after, I'm paying the half of it now, so I did a fundraising. People came through to Kamalizah. When was this picture taken? It was a few weeks ago. These ones? Also a few weeks ago? Last month. Last month. So you have adapted.  Wow. Yes. And already in my Indian, we don't have a leg. We know we don't. Love yourself. Love yourself just the way you are. So now how did you go now trying to get acquainted with this prosthetic? Now they have already done the measurements, now it's the time of fitting another challenge. Another challenge again? Yeah. I would assume after the measurement it will fit in automatically. Another challenge again? Wow. Their challenge is each and every day, each and every day. Now I've been giving the prosthetic leg. The remaining part has not accepted. We are going to wear a plastic thing. The body has not accepted a foreign thing. It's another challenge. The mind. Yeah. Wow. And you must control it. It doesn't control it then. If you control it, you put it down the way you're walking, you must be cautious. You must control it. So at first I was walking with crutches with the prosthetic leg. Another exercise, another exercise, another exercise until I came to drop all of them. With the prosthetic it took me six months. To learn how to use it. Yeah. But now you can dance with it. Yeah. Very well. Bring up, bring up that video, Timothy. Look at that. This is you trying to learn how to walk with it. Yeah. Been even hiking by the way, even dancing. Wow. It's a TikTok challenge, isn't it? Yeah. It was a TikTok challenge. Wow. So now you started learning how to use it. How to walk with it. How to walk with it. Yeah. So the first time I was walking for one hour only, I was walking. The next day, two hours I was walking. Right now, a whole day. Did you hit it at some point? It was cold. It was cold. It was cold, by the way. If you are insecure, you can't go anywhere alone. I just need help from someone alone inside here, but again it's mindset. Mindset, all goes back to the mindset. Because right now I can even travel a whole week without anyone. I'm just alone. And you can stay in the house, work. I do all my house chores. It's for fixing a bulb. Of which I know to go wengie. You're two per second more. Two per second more, number the last one. How far is of it? Yeah, but life continues. It's just your mindset. You can go anywhere you can't. You can come up to me and tell me what you want me to tell you. But you have to pay your vibe. I love your vibe. I love that. Thank you. It brings this belief in someone that all is possible. Yeah, it is. Even the word itself says impossible. Let's look at family and friends and now that you are out into the world and you have adopted it. How was their reaction? How was their feedback? I'm looking at how they treat you. How they respond to you. You know, those guys when you're not with those eyes. Yeah. So, you know, me and I end up saying, Hey, my friend, you'll be in an accident. Stop staring too much. I'm not going to explain to you. Me, it doesn't scare me. Staring at me when you're co-co-imagined. You are there alone. I'm not there. Try to adjust like me and move forward. Okay. Some families are very good at any time for them because they have really supported me in a way that I never thought they could. They've always been there. Friends, some ran away. You lost friends? Yeah. Some ran away. Like, no, but you can't judge them. I've told you, even before I was in an accident, someone like me was in such a situation. I judge differently because it's just happened. Because it can happen. What are they saying as they're calling? Was there like some words exchanged or something? No. Like, you know, it's not like that. So, afterwards, I came and I said, I'm going to post online because I was acting. A series called Sweet Tomorrow, you were acting with Sami Kiyoko and Akina Katoon. So, some people were asking for me. So, I said, I'm in an accident because I've not been posting for a while. So, I had to come back. So, after coming back to New Nona, they're not talking. See, you just know they ran away. Yeah. Others, they were with me till now. They're stuck. Yeah, till now. And I'm sure even as you interact with people, those who actually grew stronger together. True. And also this journey, you lose friends, you gain more good friends. And that's when you know who your true friends are. Yeah. You gain lots of good friends. Who understand you, support you. And they are always there for you, than even the previous ones. You see, like, it's like a skin shed. You just stay there. You are just here for a season. And your chapter is over.  Okay. I was in this journey of self-love and self-healing. I was concentrating on that. When you're concentrating on that, you can see the people who are with you and the people who are not with you. So, you won't force. You know, I'm in hospital.  You just see the consulate online and post it daily. You know, something like that. So, you just, you're just feeling the blank. They're not meant to be there. They were just there for a season. They wanted something. So, it's over. So, I was online and I was posting. So, I was reading books. Hey, babes. With the emojis. But you're like, it's okay. You just open and assume. I know you. Do you bloutique? Very much. I love who the next and post something you see. What about the church? The church. The church have been there with me because I supported my prosthetic leg. Yeah. So, they have been supportive and very good. I wanted to take a few comments on Facebook and social media. Let's hear what people are saying. And, of course, tell us where you are watching us from. This is Isaac Nalyanya. And I say, good morning. I'm watching from Butere. This is inspiring. Thank you so much, Isaac. All the best in daily duties. Mr. Ram, I would like also to talk to my fellow youths if it's okay with white women. No problem, my brother. Rasa Bashir where you say at 40 Jesus Boussia. Thank you so much. Daungote beautiful and full of hopes. At least I've learned something. How you take things. By the way, having the right attitude is very, very important. I looked in from 1960 Vasha. Now that I'm going to tell them by attitude. Do something about it. What can you say about someone who has just bad attitude and it's affecting them? Work on yourself. It's just a routine. You know how you react to things. Now change them. If you use your old behaviors, you'll never change. You have to use new behaviors in order to change. You have to learn new behaviors. Yeah. Everything from every step. I had to learn something new. It must have changed even your personality. It has changed me a lot. Even the old people who knew me. Right now, imagine they'll say they don't know me. Because it has changed me a lot. Welcome to Akelele. Akelele Sanna. Akelele Yes Isha. Alright Timothy. Do we have more comments? Let Timothy bring them up. We have Nickson Justian. Thank you so much Nickson. Let's move on to the next comment. This is Pascal Kuena. This is on Twitter. At Pascal. And of course thank you so much everybody that is sending in their tweets. At Kevin O'Donnell. A symbol that is tuned in. At Sander Sanna. Also watching. Where? Where? Thank you so much Samuel. Alright. And of course this is let's go back to Facebook or Twitter. This looks like Twitter. And of course that is the Twitter handle where we have asked we say good morning welcome to the show. This is at DJ Scott's and some fire fire. Thank you so much. Keep talking to us. The Asheragaz always is part of show on Twitter. The official station handle is at Y2F for channel. Head over to our Facebook page. You'll find our post there. Drop in your comments on that particular platform on the Facebook page. Follow us and of course follow me too at Ram Aguko on every social media platform. Now on that note if you'd like to find her where can they find you so that you can also engage with her on the social media. Instagram you just search the word Konsa. You'll see me. Me too. We are Facebook the same. Konsa Konsa with a K K-O-N-C-A-H Konsa K-O-N-C-A-H Remember this is her story how she has managed to do it. Now I want to talk about a few more things. But before we wrap up I don't know if there's something you'd like to maybe something we've not covered throughout this whole story. If you've not then you feel free to do so as you answer this or respond to this particular query. I'm interested in finding out about how it was now that you had a business.  It collapsed. It collapsed. Because I was the head of everything there I was controlling everything so after I took her to even a hospital when people are coming there they are asking for me when they don't find me they are not buying anything it was a hotel by the way it was a hotel business. So they are not they just want me so we had to close it and wait until the time that I'm good so that I can continue because the people you left in charge it's all about passion they are not into it so you had to pause and don't be afraid to start from scratch this round you're not starting from scratch you're starting from experience so I had to pause when I'm feeling alright I'll go and restart the business What is this that I'm seeing on the screen there? These are my contents She's a content creator ladies and gentlemen What was this? So you were acting? Yeah I was acting I'm an actress What was this all about? It's the drama that ladies do you know we are always dramatic We are angry over small small things So you went into content creation did you stop doing the business now or getting a new business or you're fully on content creation Among another business and also on content creation and these are all found online on my Instagram and also on Facebook Ladies and gentlemen go check her out these are just some of her content she's an actress so getting back on your feet you still manage to continue doing content creation Yeah I've done lots of videos since I was amputated I've done some videos Wow now let me get from you because now we are almost coming to a close of this particular discussion there are those people who lose hope and they look at where life has taken them and they feel like they contemplate suicide they feel like giving up because it's all over I'm looking at your situation if it was if it was not for let me say God and you having that right mindset and the support you had you wouldn't be where you are today but there are those people who do not have anyone to look up to some are contemplating suicide some are thinking of giving up what would be your word to such a person First of all I'll tell you you love Kwanzaa deal with accepting yourself first embracing yourself and then the less will follow only you love yourself as the way you love your neighbour everything starts with you you must come clear with your thoughts with your past your past doesn't define your future by the way it just happened now what are you going to do because it has happened find a way there is always a way in everything just come you must push yourself no one will come to push you it's up to you now push yourself and because when you love and accept yourself miracles will happen from nowhere you won't know they'll just happen from nowhere and you never know where the luck is so don't mind them let them stay because you're teaching them something if they are learning they are not learning leave them let them talk let them talk yeah life moves on life moves on as long as you love yourself you're seeing you smart nothing else matters I'm looking at you being the first born of your family your siblings I've not touched on that yet how are they doing now I know and you know the the way you now cope with each other as you miss this discussion to close of course your siblings do you know they don't help me in anything they don't tell me I do it on myself it's like it never happened but it happened I want to give you time to have a final word now as you close what is your parting shirts as you bring this whole discussion to a close if you're out there and you are in a situation like me you don't know what to do you can find me in books because a few people find me there I've also opened a group of those few amputees who talk to me Facebook and Instagram and I don't know them because let me tell you a lot of people are suffering even if they don't talk so if you're in in deep trouble or you want something or you want me to tell you something you just find me Palain box borosini ambient and sins yeah at the end of poose wow wow wow I want us to do this discussion to a close and of course I want to say thank you so much to to you thank you so much for you know finding time to join me consolata you are an inspiration to many and I wish you the best keep doing what you're doing and I know at the end of the day there's somebody who's looking up to you many and this person was looking up to you saying you know what if she can do it I can do it and I'm sure you've met such responses even online if you can do it everywhere and gives you that motivation to continue yeah continue giving them hope because lots of people are not coming out from the house baby they are bedridden they don't want to get out of the house first of all they are saying what are my neighbors going to say what are my friends going to say it's your life life goes on be hopeful and love yourself out work on yourself be the better version of you consolata thank you so much for coming keep doing what you're doing okay yeah and I should be the best all right I want to say a big thanks to Consolata and of course thank you so much to even those who have been with her through this whole journey since the previous year yeah today I want us to bring this discussion to a close and I want to end with a quote remember right here on part of we're all about inspiring you keeping you motivated you know keeping you to put you to your best to the best version of yourself you know right here on part of course I hope you've been inspired by the story of Consolata a quote of the day hope is one thing that can help us get through the darkest of times with hope you have all that you need that is what brings us to the end of this show right here on part of a repeat of this show as again tonight at 10 p.m. my name is Ram Maguko a special thanks to Consolata for coming and a very big thanks to everybody that ensure this show was a success this is power talk