So hello everybody, welcome to the art so wonderful show. I'm Bruce Wilson general partner and before I do So our incredible guests. I'm gonna go over some of our upcoming events right art so wonderful and Help me out can is if I if I grow, you know, if I don't get my right so April 1st we're doing we work with CV OO Organization about fair housing and what that consists of is what we're gonna do It's gonna be as Burlington City Hall. We're gonna have people gonna Do art and you know drawings to say what does fair housing means to them? And we're gonna hang them up in a city hall Burlington in my art director Alondra and For one month and they got a people gonna come in we have a QR codes on the wall and People who come into City Hall will vote on The winners top three winners, so that's the April 1st That's for the whole month and then on art so wonderful Vermont housing finance agency This is an equity project and it's gonna be April 12 from 4 to 8 and it's gonna be a was gonna be it's gonna be an O'Brien Center in the Wunewski and Individuals who are interested in being a first-time home buyer can come down sign up to register to Get the information and learn how to be a first-time home buyer and hopefully be become one We're gonna have like I'm Linda's there credit unions mortgage people.  It's like free food there for the kids in the gym there We're gonna have I'm gonna have like bounce houses, you know For kids, you know, they say with Bruce at he like he he ain't back there to bounce house So so okay, that's April 12 and in April 27 We're gonna do the cleanup It's called our so wonderful. I give it give it. I also want a graffiti sunset cleanup, right? I have to get right So that's gonna be for downtown area and then basically it's gonna be um, you know High school kids and people can can earn a community service hours And we're also gonna have like swag bags from all the different upstores up around downtown You know that whoever even whoever does do this, they will have um, you had to get these swag bags You know, I don't know what's in them yet, but I won't want And it's gonna be some cool stuff in there because it's not a nice Shops down there and the thing about it is that we want people to like, you know, do your community service Candice say that's out to bossy. I should say do your community service, but it's you know, it's about them, right? It's about that their neighborhood their community. They should clean up, you know Help us out and and get stuff from it. And then after that it's from 4 to 8 in that around 8 o'clock. We're gonna have a arm We're gonna have um live entertainment like um dj performing so now ladies and gentlemen I want to introduce Candice Owens who is a poetry pioneer CEO president my friend and my business partner. So can this You know, we've talked a lot about um Poetry pioneer and um boy and um, you got some incredible Poetry and people can look you up on the poetry pioneer.com and check out and getting signed up You know this information from directly from you. So um You you say is go open up with a point for us, right? Can you please do that? So I'll go ahead and start out and I've found one I felt like that would be really relevant for the world today for all of us and so it's entitled be kind And it says please be kind Please let's get out of our mind. Please. Let's leave the evil and drama behind We can all seek what we wish to find we have to take a break to get out of the daily grind We have to do look at what we're truly assigned We cannot let the world keep heading towards decline We have to wake up as we've been designed Even though some can see we are all form of blind what has happened to mankind Things have become gods and humans have become mind. We are all one. We are humankind. Let's all realign Let's unlock our subconscious mind. We can change the world and break free by not being confined We can all reset and redefine All we have to do is take a deep breath and be kind Well, I mean, you know gosh And I feel like I need to take one right now too. So I'm gonna do one Need that deep reference I'm telling you That's an incredible poem.  You know what I'm saying with the you know I'm saying like That the light shine on you, you know saying and be good, you know Guess what it's and what's the light sign down on you? You can share that light with others. I mean others will will learn something from you and and also Um share that light to to the to other people and so that's the whole thing about Your poetry is like, you know, it's got the spiritual pieces in it that um about human beings about humanity about sharing Where I like to call or what I personally like to call the light to people, you know, I mean, and um You know to stay on a narrow path and um And and be good, you know, and so that's Thank you so much for having me on And I feel like that's part of my my the reason I can I created the poetry pioneer and the website Is because there is just so much negativity and darkness out not darkness. We'll just say Things that can make you feel dark right and not full of light and so I've been writing poetry since I was in seventh grade. It's an extreme passion of mine It's actually how I heal myself and deal with these things in the world and um I felt like I should share it so I started doing that and we connected and You know, I my website I've been published and um couple international publications and analogies and um, I'm glad to partner with you and it is that it's all about spreading the light because We can all focus on it's easy to find stuff wrong in the world But if we can find what's right and then trying to find like being kind that you know, someone on the side of the road You just say and have a good day. It could change their whole The rest of their day, and I think we get so busy We just forget to connect with each other and take those moments to be like, hey, whether it's words or Whatever of it. Um, thank you for letting me to share that. Yeah, no doubt about it and we got a lot of work to do because um, we'll talk about a little while about um, because we'll be doing um Continue to do this word together with our podcast coming up in march. What's I forget to date? What's the date? What's the date of a pocket? March 15. Yeah, I think yeah Yeah, so march 15 if we're gonna start that's gonna be our first podcast And um, we're gonna be talking about poetry and we're gonna talk about some surprise stuff We're gonna have uh, people get we'll have guests on it Um, we're gonna do a prizes I mean people can submit their poetry to us and we let them read it on our podcast and And you know find ways to um connect with them how we can all work with everyone's poetry They can share for people around the world, you know, and so I can't that's gonna be that's gonna be incredible I came with for that because we got a lot of things that we we are planning You know, I mean events, you know coming up We're gonna do is gonna be always gonna have poetry in it from the beginning to the middle to the end and um and so so can this um So I know I know I get it from you about the poetry and why you you know, why is a part of you You know because you've been doing this since seven seven years old, you know, I mean and um And you feel how it makes you feel though, you know, I mean really, you know, when you um write poetry and um When we recite when you recite poetry You know, especially your poetry because you create the words like everything that every poem that we you know You share in your on your website and uh instagram and all the other um social media that you have with um, um poetry pioneer It's all something you wrote written. So Where did that come from?  So The best way I can say it, um And I know I'm not alone in the world that there's other people out there that feel this way But it's something greater than me, right? So the writing Is something I just do because it's what I'm drawn to do But I've always felt like I had this message inside me that was just In poetry was the way I was able to express it. I think in even one of my poems I put only through poems. Do I know how to convey? um because I can have a conversation with someone but I don't feel like, you know, we can really talk about some things but To write it and like you said to speak it. I feel like You know the things that I did I connect with it's like I'm observing the world and I see what's bad And then I try to flip it around with words and say this is what's good And so it's something that I've I mean ever since I've been a little girl I'm like I want to I want to be a poet. I want to be a poet I want to change the world with poetry and my my logo is it inspire your desire because I feel like we've lost our desires For creativity and to connect with that source where those things come from whether you're a painter or you're a Musician and I think that's why it's good to connect with other artists because we all have that in us and so To get it out and to share it and then to get the feedback. Hey people actually like it. I'm like, oh wow, so I'm actually pretty good. So I'm just gonna keep going with it. But I think that's kind of what it's been is it's just I didn't really have choice it's like I have this thing inside of me that I need to write I need to And I'm gonna share it and I'm gonna create websites and I just followed my intuition and then That's kind of where we're at. So Right, and how you know, how good is that?   Um And I'll just share it so I had about and before I created my website I had a near-death experience like I had a lot of health issues. I you know, my role has not been easy I um have had non-abdominal surgeries and multiple uh, but the last one I had I I almost died and and when I came back my I spent almost, you know, three months in and out of the hospital and poetry was the the only You know, there's not someone by you every day that can be there 24 seven And so, you know journaling and doing those things and getting those emotions out was really the only way I was able to keep my spirits high and so Um, you know, it's not only a passion and a hobby. It also helps me is To to do what I need to do, right? Because I'm like if I can't do anything If I can write, you know, then that's something that that I can do and so, um But I just want to show that because like you said the narrow path and there was times I didn't even know if I was going to be have a pass, you know They're like, you're not going to be able to walk and I'm like watch me. Yeah. I I'm not ready Here we go, right And I know so so this so I'm talking about like, you know, we all had ups and like I say Who myself ups and downs and turn arounds and trials and tribulations and All counters, you know That kept us off the the narrow path and keep using that, you know Um, and when it's as a bible say wide as the road and many follows that and it's true There's so many people in wide as a road, you know and I've you know Like I say, I had to repent all day long and try to stay on the narrow path I'm like, dear lord, I shouldn't have said that I shouldn't have thought that I shouldn't I should have went left instead of right You know, I'm always repent all day long because I didn't want to stay on the narrow path, you know And um, and I wanted us to continue to do Do the guys will and do the work that we do, you know, because Everything I have ever do and everybody who knows me in vermont, you know Whoever who all knows me, you know, all I do is help and work with people And that's that's the best that I am.   I'm on vacation I still doing work this good. This God said God's work this God's work And uh for family youth families and whoever for everybody, you know, so I can't I don't know nothing else to do, you know, I mean I don't know what else I could do but but this work, you know, and I know This is all I ever do, you know, so Well, I know when I was a little girl, I always wanted to be a poet But I never really had anyone around me to look at that was like, hey I'm a successful poet. Um You know, like you have Maya Angelou and all these really famous ones that you see But you don't really have anyone to connect with so I hope Like like you'd help the youth I hope is I keep going that I can do that too because You know, whether, you know, it doesn't I'm not like World famous or anything, but you know at the same time well, I guess I kind But at the same time the thing is I never gave up on my dream, right? I work full-time at a university. I've been here for 20 years But on the side my passion. I just kept doing it. You know those nights. I had free time. I dedicated to it I got my LLC, you know, I've been working on all that and and just trying to Partner with places like you which is gonna, you know, an art so wonderful and do these to you know Come to Vermont and see things there. Like I'm really excited to yeah I mean they go they'll be excited to see you too You know, because you know, I got a lot of people to introduce you to when you get here And um, you know all these incredible, you know people You'll you'll meet them know all the people who um, who um, believe in the work I do, you know And so um, like I mean They will see that What the work we're going to be doing, you know, not the work we're going to be the work that we're doing You and I in Canada is no poetry part in here and are so wonderful.   I'm like, I'll say wow How good is that? How wonderful is that? I mean that you know, like I told you, you know Say can't it she go out to like keep me structured a lot Because like like all my team do because like I'm all over the place I got you know, I sit around I don't know how many boards and you know commission and that I you know, you know, I do a lot a lot of work and I'm all over the place and like if I could just like Stay focused on to some some of everything that I do, you know, I mean I'm always like try to make them all work together and I do, you know Like if I got art, I want music when they look at Educational events by drugs and that called the Bible. I want art music drugs and that called me because all they all work together I mean you'd be surprised if like I say just like the cleanups that you helped me design Um, I said we say all right. We're gonna clean up. We're gonna clean up downtown Bronson to graffiti Guess what? We're gonna give you community service hours. Guess what? We're gonna give you swag back tomorrow the different business. Guess what? When you bring at the end of the day, we're gonna have like entertainment.  Every time I know it's for a fact, you know It always a winner and so that's what we do, you know That's what you do. That's what we do and we're gonna do more of it It's got um came way to talk about so so let's talk about Okay Here we are you know So what what what you feel that our podcast going to be like about well, you know what What I already know was our goal is to reach everybody in this entire world, you know about um, you know, try to try to help them Create um be humble and get wisdom and live and wisdom brings you a long life You know, we that goal is to by using words and events and Everything that we can think of that that's good and helping with their own goals and dreams as per Based on things that they want to do in life. I think I might have said what you about to say But what what will you think um our podcast? It will be like, you know I think it's really cool And I think we can go many different ways with it and that's the best part about it right now because it's We're kind of envisioning different options But I love the fact of getting you know, we can have people calling in and have discussions at some point or you know, just kind of Featuring people on there connecting with others and just focus on uplifting humanity and and using art in any form You know, whether it's writing or power of words because spoken word is a form of art too like everything Um, and I think that that's the main goal is you know We both have that passion to help people and then you know, we both want to help spread positivity and and and you know as we say the light and get people to kind of be like, hey, let's Let's light this world up with excitement and joy and like Good energy and good vibes and you know get everyone together and That time that we're together and that we do dedicate to it We'll we'll have giveaways like he said and partner with people and have You know try to make it something that is worth your while and you won't Definitely don't regret every two minutes. Right. Right.  We're you and I are non-traditional first of all Yeah, because most most shows like I got a cable show right now.  That's so nice And that that's the water is the purity of the world. It's what it's the it's the Is everything, you know, so I know that I know that's one of your big deals Well, this is the background, but if I could be outside right now, I would this is my backyard. So It's out there. I'm just And you got two ponds. So yeah, so yeah, but it looks so cool, you know, Kentucky. Is that real Kentucky blue glass? That is real Kentucky bluegrass That's so funny, but but anyway, so so um I mean, like I said, um, so so that's a good answer about how you feel that um, our podcast is going to be because I feel You know, we think the same on the on these on these on these issues and these, you know, how we feel And we say what is it too great to measure because you say it's we don't know what it's going to be It's just going to grow, right? It's just going to be beautiful Too great to measure came measure, you know, I know that for a fact I know I know right now. It's too great to measure came measure people who thinking like us are trying to help the world That's all that's what that's what I've been doing. That's all I do and and and that's how you've been doing through poetry and so The good thing about that is is I mean I see I I can't use the words that it's hard for me to use words because I say the good thing and good mean good You know, I mean, like, you know, exceptional me exceptional excellent me excellent, you know Well, I started too great to measure, you know, and so So I'm gonna say too great. The good the too great to measure things that we we are is that we want to um spread You know love and happiness with people Place and places, you know, whereas that they need them You know, where people who just want to have an outlet, you know, because like power a spoken word, you know That's what they call spoken word. You know, that's why they call these um events that people want to come to a spoken word event or something Well, and it's open space with no judgment And I think right now so many people get the fake persona of people that walk around and they're like, hey We're super nice. We're here to listen to you But then when they really want to express themselves people generally either shut it down or And so I think just having a space where it's like, hey, just come be yourself Share your work. Let's collaborate. Let's Let's see who you really are and getting and I think that's huge because for me, that's the reason I created my website. Um I knew it was safe, right? I knew that there's nobody that can make comments on there like that was the first step to me trying to put my work out there um And and so I I think that's going to be huge with the podcast is that it's going to be like you said We're not traditional. So we're just giving people like we have that space and we're allowing it too as we keep going So, right? Yeah, and so I mean look how much we're going to learn too You know from everybody because you know, we try to we try to hit this worldwide thing, you know And um and we will because that's how that's how we bred that's what we bred for, you know, I mean bred for worldwide so It's you know, everything, you know, like I say working divine order order that's supposed to and that and And and and that's what it's working for us. You know, I mean like each step like right now It's working that everything worked in divine order to get to right here, you know And uh, and that's too great to measure and it's too great to and it's always going to be too great to measure I'm not going to put a measurement on it because I can't But it's so awesome that we're going to learn a lot from people about How they look at words what words mean to them, you know, maybe even some symbols.  Let me look here I know I got it So, yeah, and I think we talked about I'll eventually come out with a book that has them in it But right now I'm just trying to get them together. But the one I did Today was There we go Um So I always start up and say how I feel right because you have to address the emotions So I put that I woke up And I felt like today was the day right because today was our show and I was inspired so I'm like, let's go And I put today is the day that I've always prayed for Today god opens the door. I can't wait to see what he wants me to explore. So that yeah, awesome I know and this was just like that somebody, you know, we work with don't have to have no necessarily have a whole like That's a poem of itself affirmation, you know, but they don't have to have like a Page poem, you know a page that a words that would like poetry But they could if they want to but this is like an affirmation Oh, just like how you say How you felt and then because how you felt or how you feel sometimes in morning, you know, okay I better change this around right now It was called intervention. I better in the theory I better change this around right now if I'm gonna make it through this day happy happy And you know and successful, you know, I gotta I gotta change my emotions my feelings and all that right now And so just to be able to write an affirmation, you know, based on how you feel right then And change how your feelings right then is is powerful You know, I think we both know, you know, and I don't know if everybody knows this But when you first wake up in the morning, that's how you start your day And if you don't get yourself and take a minute to get yourself out of any negative Because you know, of course, I wake up sometimes I'm like, I don't want to go to work. I don't want to do this, you know But I'm like, okay. I got it. It's adulting. Let's go. You know, I gotta do it But I want to do it with a smile right because I'm like, well miles We'll just do it with a smile. So taking that minute to flip can change your whole Your whole day, you know, so that's huge. I feel like just taking that minute to recognize how you feel No doubt about that's so important.    Let's say just to walk down the stairs From their house to the kitchen or whatever, you know, some anyone has seen it on real like that People just do it automatic systematic.  I don't know why you know what I'm saying I'm the weird person standing out in the courtyard with my eyes closed absorbing the sun on my lunch break And everybody's like, what are you doing?    That's right. That's right. Go stand in the sun I mean go across the street and whatever you know, because if it's not on that side, it's definitely on the other side We're going on the other side standing in the sun Get some vitamin D.   It's amazing. You know, and so yeah, you're right.  I like, I didn't know daggone star That's a that's a you know, oh What you call it? object or something, you know Where I live in the country, there's no spaceship. There's no light pollution where I live So there's just nothing but stars and stuff and I walk out there and I know all the time I'm like, okay And my son's 10 and we've even talked about it. I'm like, is that a star and he's like, no That's not a star and I'm like, it is a star and so we've been confused like it's a satellite But in the time you're present, right? You're you're present in that moment. You're looking up at your surroundings You're not distracted by all the stuff going on.  Those are the little and big dipper for real You know me and all stars and I think star links would confuse me. They put all them satellites up there And now they light up sometimes and I'm like, I don't know what's what Yeah, it's a lot of satellites up to get granted, you know, you know, I never think that is a satellite I always think like it's some we call it um some Martian or something or something Yeah I can't think of the word the acronyms, but um, yeah, so Wow, you know, but to be able to look up there. Look at the moon and you're like, I have a friend And I said, wow bro, check it out. You know, you know, we be like, I don't know hanging out or something And I said, look, uh, that's a full moon. You're like, Bruce That's not a full moon. That's a Four quarter three times, you know, some He he's uh, he's um, um, well, he's uh, he was a math make a math major.  I got to come on teddy Hey, what no, that's the moon that he kept the name for you know, whatever You know, so he's so cool.  That's a full moon, bro. Come on You know, you like no, that's not a full moon But you know, it's so cool, you know what he said because but it's a good thing about is that how much fun we have If we just when he said it, you know Oh, oh, you know some or anybody's just talking about the universe and you know, because as you know and one thing that um We discussed it what you what you what we're trying to do is like, you know Why are people fighting killing each other? Why why? Oh, dear god Dear god Please god, please stop everybody from fighting Pass on peace let them find peace among themselves. It's you know Maybe this poetry will help them one word can stop a war.  I don't I believe we can create a form of heaven on ours you know and we do that by kindness Welcoming environments promoting it, you know, like we're doing And there's people like us all around the world that will connect and just keep making it brighter and brighter And then eventually hopefully There'll be no need for war, you know, eventually people are like, you know what guys, what do we even fight over? We're all humans. We have one planet. We have to share You got some vegetables. I got some fruit. Let's share, you know, like It's not that complicated. It really is. You know, it really is not that complicated It isn't but for some reason they feel it's complicated. I don't know. I think that's the devil working real Easily and he's not working hard at it. He's it's real easy Who we manipulated these people to um fight over something they can sit down and try to solve, you know, like fruit and um vegetables, I mean and um, hopefully the poetry and the words can help stop something because um can help heal some people and within their families, you know because these young kids Today in the world Are witnessing um all this devastation this war and You know, and then they you know, sometimes you just can't help poverty or whatever. But you know, wow, can you imagine running from missiles at the age of Young age running from missiles and standing in a dughouse and can't get the water is not running there You can't get food to eat and you know, just it is I mean My son, I think I told you he's 10 and I won't even let him watch the news because What happens when he does and is that I'm asked mom, am I going to be able to see the world when I grow up? Are they going to destroy it before I'm grown? And you know what? I refuse to answer those questions because a whole bunch of people that I can't do anything or talk to about Are making decisions that affect everyone else and I don't feel like they're very peaceful You know, and it's just like you said there's lots of problems that need to be solved But I tell my my son that you know what that's not the world That we're going to choose to live in because that's not the reality. We're going to accept You know what? I mean, we're going to make it better and that's all we can do and You know, I can't imagine those kids that don't have someone that's good because you know, if we don't have hope We don't have anything And that's any human if you don't have something to to hope or to look forward to Then you'll get up and you'll keep going, but you're not going to be invested in your life.  They should not have to worry about right, right, right It's you know some damn shame really it is.  Um, I was with somebody, um A couple of days, no, we just was um coming from a meeting or whatever and um They was walking with a bottle of water and and then they stopped pouring the water I'm full It's they say it's a bug in it. It was a bug in it. I said a bug that came, you know, bug bugs ain't not right You know, they said I said he said well something uh, something was in the water And so I was like here you got a fresh bottle of water clears it clears you clears And people here around the world are drinking water that they can even see their hands under You can't they put their hand under the water.   Um I don't know it'll get better. It has to yeah. Well, you know Yeah, and then that's nothing too. It's like, you know, it's all about money, you know It's all about money, you know, and like, you know, we can send a thousand dollars on You know, I'm listening theory over to us through some needed place And then it's about time to get it's a trickle down effect by time we get to the kid for the bottle of water It's only five hours Because because the money that went over there, they got to it's a trickle down.  I have a lot of followers over there with my instagram and You know, it's very much talking with people You know, that's one thing that social media is good for you can connect with people all across the world and It's very sad because you realize that our realities are not the same at all Especially during covid a lot of them, you know, that's the only way they could communicate and I mean Just hearing how things are handled and not that it was bad. It's just you know, what we consider normal and what other people consider a normal day are Totally different and if anything it makes me grateful to connect with those people because I'm like, you know how lucky am I to not have to deal with You know, like I didn't have air conditioning like things like that. It was like, you know Um The little things that we take for granted, you know, like like you said water running water in the sink going in there And it being fresh and clear. That's not something everyone gets everywhere um, but the power of words, right because My words even though they may have not been in the same language They were able to translate them and they were able to connect and that's why they reached out because they felt like my words spoke to them and so um That's what gives me hope. I feel like as a as a poet anyways is that in any kind of artist because Especially music like music any kind of beat or anything is you don't even have to understand the words Oh, man. No, it was a really good one too. Like you can go there not understand the word they're saying and be crying No doubt about it because it's all like I love all types of music, you know We've done over 700 events with all type of different genres and you know I love all music, you know, like you said all different beats You don't have to understand what the heck they saying But the meats and you know the way they they dance into Yeah More power to the people Well, we just got a couple minutes here um can just uh, so let's go over your website. Where is your website again? Um, it's www.poetrypioneer.com and um, they'll be able to uh um They will be able to see it, you know, um Not in a couple days on the show. Um, they'll be doing what it entails, but they can also look it up too. Um, and so So, you know I wasn't gonna say this what you're coming up to very much, baby, you know to help celebrate black history month Yes, you know, how good is that? You know, we're gonna have a it's gonna be art in the park Seattle park is gonna it's gonna be a live entertainment and a flin theater the almighty flin theater One of the best theater in Well, it's probably the best theater in the state. It was to really say so because people maybe in ruttland say the paramount is the best or you know people In um, my people say they're very opera houses, you know, but but in reality the flin is the best because it really is Um, but not better.  That's gonna happen there I'm a born on the board. We wanted to want to see my my Organization that I'm on the board directors spot a gigantic sponsor. So, you know You know, so I'm proud that they did you know, and the other thing a good thing about is that You know, you and I, you know, it's like, you know, you know, like we know so many incredible people and Wow, I'm saying god just put us around the best people, you know We could they make things so easy for us and meet the goals in life You know, you meet what we're trying to do and so I couldn't if I didn't know people like you or other people, you know, wonder Well, how could I how hard would this work be, you know, and so To share with other anybody That's what we try we want to share this with anybody anybody who knows me anybody who knows bruce wilson They will tell you that I I'm working for everybody, you know, and I'm proud to do so.  Yeah, here it is.  It's like here, you know, why not? You know what that do when they start eating that candy bar So good to them that put a smile on their face if you're good today tummy, you know Yummy for that time. We don't like candy bar and ice cream and all those cool things, you know If somebody is really one and a half of the bar, you got it Right there is make you feel good in life, right? You know, and then right then maybe you think about Give half your candy. They might think about giving some they have they care about somebody else Who they see, right? So that's the work we do and it's easy. It's not hard. It's a simple thing It's very simple But as you know, well as it come out in the end, the measurements are rocket science. It's simple Simple to achieve but at the but really it's rocket science and really really And big and for you And I it's bigger than that. You know, so I'm not we're not gonna I won't go there for on this episode but As we get better so Candace Owens number one Come on. What else say say something before we go? What what you want to say to the people to the polls? or anything anything you want to say I just want to thank you again for reaching out to me and connecting with me and Giving me the time and space on your platform to discuss the my poetry and what we have mutually discussed that we're both passionate about and You know, I think there is a poem that we put on up. We're gonna share the slides. Oh, that's right Yeah, that's right. Go ahead. Keep talking. I'll finish what you said and share that poem But there's a poem that I put on the side because I also will create graphics behind my poem. So That's kind of what I call it quotes like, you know, like for and for the social media You can create use canva or different ways to create things like that um, but I hope that people will You know really engage with us and and I look forward to it and I hope that they enjoy What we're putting out because I don't know how they couldn't It's like, you know, we're nothing but just trying to have a good time and spread love and positivity and you know, I feel like Poetry and other things are so kind of you don't really think about it that way because you know A lot of poems are like about romance or about heartache and you know Minds about the world and how I see things and empowering people and spiritual awakenings and how to like, you know Embrace not spirit. I guess you would say spiritual just awakening that there's stuff inside of us that you know It we're more than humans. We're here to I mean, we're human, but there's something greater We're here to do and it's to live in a positive world and You know, I think that that was all I wanted to really say was just to thank you and Look forward to what we have. Hopefully join us at our events when we're there because I will be down there Think in April. Yeah, I'll be on your April Yeah, so um, I want thank you for being my friend my business partner and um, and and You know, we we have a good time a good time for what we're doing and creating this all from our hearts And so with that take us out with that poem girl.  All right That's our closing poem everybody Okay, so this one's pretty short. It's called be bold To be brave, we must be bold to be bold. We must not believe all we are told We are not to be bought and sold a human's capacity for love is beyond that of gold We are meant to be free not living in fear and control Nice nice No doubt about it, you know I mean that you know I mean who can't get none of that you know what I'm saying, right We're not we're not here to live in fear and or to be controlled. I mean, no, that's not what it is That's not part of you gotta be bold right because going What we're doing is kind of going against the grain, you know, I mean it's going against the norm of just put your head down Deal with what is out there, you know clock into work pay your bills come home Do it all over again. It's like no, let's be bold um, let's look at things and don't believe everything that you're told right because you That's why we have eyes. It's why we have ears. That's why we have all these senses So we can connect and figure out what tap in and say what's really going on Mm-hmm. You got more than five senses. Um Candice You got more than five senses There you do Yes, you do. So all right everybody. Thank you for tuning in to our so wonderful show and um, Visit uh, poetry pioneers on poetry pioneer dot com and um, say hello to kandace She you know, she'll be on it On our podcast march 15th You'll hear all about it because we'll be announced it'll be all on cctv announcements, you know when we start up again So I can't just see you later girl. Have a good rest of your day. You too. Okay. Bye


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Aloha and welcome to Books, Books, Books. I'm your host, Mihaila Stoops, and my guest is Holly Kellam, the author of Heart of the Butterfly, Yoga Instructor, and also Self-Declared Adventurer. And we're going to learn more about it today. Holly, thank you so much for joining me. Mihaila, it's a very honor and pleasure to meet you. Thank you for having me on the show. You know, I've been wanting to read your book for probably more than a year, and in the end, it seems that the timing was just perfect because a lot of my friends and acquaintances and peers here in Lahaina have recently lost their homes or businesses or some even lost friends and family members. And I see how they struggle to figure out what's next for them. And what I learned from this book that you wrote is that at one point, you also was struggling to figure out what's next, what do you want from life. And I really appreciated the lessons that you had to, that you shared through the book. You did the pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, and that provided material for the book. But I also feel that you wrote it for yourself and for an audience. Am I right? You are right.  And it helps me to write things down a little bit because it deepens it for me and it really anchors it in. And when I was on the Camino and I was walking, every moment was, there was a special lesson to learn in a way. And they, I found that at the end of the day, things just, they were disappearing so fast. And so I really wanted to capture it. So as I wrote, as I walked, I wrote and pretty soon, it wasn't just at the end of the day, it wasn't enough.  And so I just put my little notebook there. And literally, it's, I would stop on my tracks and write. So I would never forget some of these lessons and metaphors that were coming in. But at the same time, it really felt like, I just got this, I just got this feeling like, you need to write it, you really need to write and put this together for someone else to read. So I know there are a lot of, at least I learned a lot. You know, I love how you have chapters and every chapter has a very intriguing title. But if there was, you know, one lesson that you wanted to share with somebody right now, the first one that comes to mind, the first 10 bit of an idea, what would that be? Super easy. It's follow your heart. Follow your heart, because sometimes that's not the easiest thing to do. And the heart, the heart speaks to you, it speaks quite often, it'll speak so softly in a whisper. And it wants to guide you in the right way with your best intention or with, with life's best intention for you. But that can be sometimes the trickiest one to follow. Because you have all of these outside influences and voices and pressures on you. And that's, that's where I got stuck. Because I had so many outside pressures. And I was so caught, I couldn't make a decision for myself. My heart the whole time was talking and that was kind of the butterfly. The butterfly is, is, is, is soft. And it wants to, it wants to show you the way. But it's up to us. Speaking of the butterflies, as you're doing the Camino de Santiago, and even before that, in your day to day life, you encounter these images of butterflies that, you know, sometimes they're happy, sometimes they're not. And you're looking at the butterflies as, you know, a special message coming to you. Am I right? That's the, should we look for these messages in our life? Are they there for everybody to see or do you have to be prepared to see that? They're most certainly there for everybody, but they show up in different ways. So for me, it was butterflies. And for you, for example, it might be rainbows, or it might be, it might be bumblebees, or it might be all of a sudden, you hear the words in a song that just make the back of your neck prickle up. And so these symbols or signs, maybe it's a bird that flies by and it's flung by three, you know, three days in a row. Those signs and symbols are, are there for you. And it's just a matter of becoming more aware, I suppose. And no, rainbows for me are really special. And I am privileged because in the rainy season, in Napele, you can almost time it four o'clock, you're going to get to see a rainbow. And it just brings me a lot of comfort when I see a rainbow. It's a confirmation that, you know, everything is going to work out just fine. But interestingly enough, for instance, for the past couple of days, there's a lot of Disney in my life. And that's unusual. And I don't know what to read into it. So that's the part that sometimes I question, are we prepared to see these signs and interpret them or not? I suppose it depends on the feeling that it gives you really. So if you, I would say, if you sit quietly and let your heart speak to you with regard to the Disney that's coming in, is it, you know, is it the monsters that are provoking you? No, it's the sign, the Mickey Mouse with the ears. That's what... Well, yeah, there's many ways, you know, maybe, maybe you're going to have to feel what Mickey Mouse then represents to you. Like, maybe it's calling you to a trip to, to Disney, for example, whether it's Euro Disney or it's Florida or it's LA, maybe it's Tokyo or Paris, you know, you don't know that. But also, Mickey Mouse has been around for a long time and has been a symbol of Walt Disney who started an entire empire just with that little mouse. So I, I worked at Disney and did one of, I did one of my apprenticeships way back a thousand years ago. And it's kind of like you're, you're the house of the mouse. It's called, you know, like when you're working in Walt Disney, but it also represents dreams. So it really, how does that speak to you is, I would say, when you, when you get these kind of symbols, even numbers for many people, like one, one, one, one, or a formulation of ones together is called an angel's number, that you have, there's, there's somebody looking over you like your guardian angel in a way, kind of like the rainbows and everything's going to be all right. So does any of that strike, strike to you, Michaela? Some of it does. Yes, some of it does. And I don't want to, it's going to get too personal if I provide more information. But you know, since we, we talked about an appeal and I know that you have a connection to Maui and, you know, you mentioned you worked for Disney in the past, of course it wasn't in Maui, but so what is your connection to Maui and has this connection kind of helped you figure out where you want to be in life? Yeah, definitely.  We know it's very, very special. And I suppose my connection is that I followed my heart. I never expected when I first landed on Maui, I never expected to live in Hawaii and it really was a dream come true to be able to call Maui home many decades ago. And what she's taught me while I was living there was to open to, to, to my heart, to that connection that we all have the opportunity to connect with whatever you call that connection.  And it's that same energy that called me to Maui, that also I would say called me to the Camino as well. There was an undeniable magnetic attraction for me to go to Spain. And I recently, I recently was to Maui and was in Napili, very special place. I lived in Napili while I, while I lived on Maui.  So that connection is the heart connection. It's following the heart. I hope that answers your question. It does. It does. And it kind of, like you said, you felt the similar call, I guess, to start that pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. And would you do it again? Has it occurred to you to do that pilgrimage again? Where another pilgrimage may be as a way of, you know, growing spiritually or preparing you for another step, step in life? Definitely. So, yes, I have been back to the Camino a couple times already. I said, yes, I cycled it and walked parts of it. And was it typically easier this time? Oh, you mean like, no bedbugs? Yeah, I haven't had, and knock on wood, I haven't had bedbugs since, since the first time. So that, that was very helpful. Yes, I suppose, you know, in a way, we highlight the pilgrimage is a metaphor for, for life really, also in the fact that we get thrown onto the road of life, very often unprepared. And in, in circumstances that are less than desirable, in circumstances where we don't know which way to go, when we don't feel that we deserve this or why is this happening or it's unfair. And so by following your heart, it, it helps you navigate those really tough, tricky times in life. And so you don't have to go anywhere sometimes to be on a pilgrimage at all. Right now for many, many people on Maui, this is, this is a period in, in life where, as you so rightly said, with so much heart that where do you go? What do you do? And it's, at this point, it's for many people just putting one step in front of the other with faith. And yeah, so it's a growth, it's a growth no matter where you are in the world or in life, it can be a pilgrimage. You're saying it so beautifully, you say life is no dress rehearsal. And I think for me, that's kind of, you know, set the tones like you, we, we all have the opportunity to decide what's next for us. But how do we do it? How do we cut through the noise or eliminate the noise? How do we not get sidetracked by the candy in the store, the shiny candy, right? And I see a lot of the people around me is the amount of information that they have to deal with on a daily basis after the fire and the decisions that they have to make. It's like being in a candy store and you know, sometimes you see a shiny solution over here and you go for it and sometimes there's no solution and you get so dejected and so depressed basically. Yeah. Yeah, life, life is very tricky and the shiny easy solutions are often there for everyone. But again, that's when what is it saying in here? You know, what, what is going to make, what's going to make you proud? What's going to make your children proud? What's going to make your ancestors proud? Sometimes the right way forward isn't the easiest way. Sometimes we really have to ask ourselves, okay, I see the easy way, but is that going to give me growth? And usually, in fact, all the time, we get, we really get what we need rather than what we want. Now that is with, please let me back up a second. I'm saying that from a point of view of something small, with reference to my book. So I would have liked not to get bit by bed bugs, but when I asked myself, what is this teaching me? What can I learn here and how can I grow? It became a little easier to scratch the thousand bites I learned not to scratch, which covered your whole body actually. Yeah. Yeah. And it was for weeks probably, right? It was quite miserable. In fact, it was bites on bites on bites on bites until, until I stopped taking my easy way, which was having a nice little relaxing glass of Spanish red wine, but the universe had a bigger picture in mind. And so when I stopped drinking the wine, the easy way, the shiny way, I was able to come to depth, a deeper, a deeper depth, I was able then to begin to actually really start to listen to, to my heart a little bit more rather than getting distracted by the other factors around. I hope that makes sense. It makes sense. And you know, one thing that really caught my attention when reading your book, you talking about fear and fear of pain. A lot of what we do in our life is for fear of something happening. And that's not following somebody's one's heart. That's responding to, you know, fear or concern. Yeah. So much so. And, but we also, we have to remember it's quite limiting, isn't it? When? Yeah. That means that we always do what we always did. And I love that saying, when you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you'll always got. And so locks us in a pattern. And one thing that I've realized is that our mind is here to keep us safe. And so those things that we always did before did keep us safe, but maybe they don't work for us anymore. And so to step out of the comfort zone, that's when we're knocking on the door of fear and saying, Hey, what's on the other side? I know I myself have this in dealing with the issues in my life. I ask myself, what am I afraid of? And it sounds like such a basic question.  Okay, why? Why? Why is that a fear?  So you start looking into this and you work it until you come to the real issue. And that's the one you need to resolve. Yeah, that's the gem. Keep drilling down, drilling down, drilling down, because at the heart of it, exactly, it's not what the surface is all about ever. I know we only have a few minutes left. So I do want to ask you, what's next for you? You're working on another book. You're working on another project. What's you, to me, you, you've had this amazing experience. You read and you wrote an amazing book. But what's next? Thank you. So, yes, I am, I am gathering the material and putting together another book. I don't know what it's called yet. I'll be sure to let you know. But I'm pretty sure that Maui in Hawaii are going to be included back in Woven into the next story. I do plan on doing the sister pilgrimage, which is in Japan. And yep, so I'll be, I'll be merrily tripling along on to you in Japan somewhere and seeing what that happens.  Are you gonna wear traditional Japanese outfits and shoes or no? I don't think so. I think I'll stick to my regular walking boots and some easy, easy to wear pants rather than a, rather than a kimono, for sure. Yeah. The lots coming for you, it sounds like in the... Yeah. And, you know, the question about the fear and how it transfixes us sometimes, that paralyzed me. And that was one of the big reasons why I wrote the book was because I figured if someone could have a little bit of a roadmap, that maybe it helps them to come back so that they can make decisions differently or even learn how to make decisions to begin with. If this book can help someone, then that's the biggest reward I can have from this book. And as a result of that, that was the propulsion to take me further into learning, for example, the rules of the minds, how it keeps us safe, why we can't make decisions, why we get locked in fear. So I'm also now assisting others in a therapeutic situation to get back to being able to make decisions for themselves when they're in a tricky situation. And it changed my life, and I hope that it can change other people's too. I'm sure it will. It was, like I said, the timing for it was just amazing because the book has been sitting on my nightstand for a while. And I probably should have read it a lot sooner, but it worked out in the end. And again, I'm very, I'm happy that, not happy, but I'm kind of grateful that you went through what you went through so you could write the book and share it with us and we can read it from the comfort of our home and not have to go through all of it. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm glad too.  And so you don't have to get bit by bad bugs. You can still have a glass of wine. Right. And read the book and learn the lessons and, you know, try and implement all the things that one learns from the book. But I'm very grateful for you having, making the time to chat with me today. And I'm really looking forward, not only to your next book, but hearing about what happens on the pilgrimage in Japan. And I'm surely looking forward to meeting you in person when you come back to Maui. I can't wait. I can't wait to meet you. And thank you so much for taking the time. It's been such a pleasure to talk to you about the book because it's a beautiful experience to share, to share the heart. So thank you so much, Mihaila. Thank you. Well, I'll be happy to share this with, you know, those that I know. And to our viewers, again, the name of the book is Heart of the Butterfly. It is a really good read. It's comical at times. It's exotic because of the location. And it will help you grow spiritually. That's guaranteed. A hui hou. Mahalo.


John, I'd still like to see you. As you know, we're trying to capture some of ICANN's history. And I want to do it in a kind of interesting way. I'm going to ask you two questions. The first question is the easy one. Say a few words about how long you've been involved, how you got involved, what your broad arc is, and that will just be used to frame the rest of what we're going to talk about. So for the people watching, I'm John Crane. I'm a British citizen who currently lives in America working for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. But I first got involved in what we call internet identifiers back in the early 90s in Europe. It's a place called the Rypen CC. It's what we call a regional internet registry, giving out IP addresses and looking at network designs and seeing how the network was building. And then, so I worked a little bit with IANA and John Postel, because that's where we got our IP addresses from, of course. It might be version four back in those days. And we got involved in the formation of ICANN, basically, because John asked us to, in the white papers, in the green papers. And eventually, as ICANN became formed, I got more and more involved. I didn't go to the early meetings. I happily avoided them. And then we needed to sign the memorandum of understanding between the address organizations and ICANN.  So I was put on an airplane and packed off to Denver, I believe it was. And it was an Aaron meeting. And myself, Paul Wilson and Kim Hubbard, who at the time was the director of Aaron, sat at a table with Mike Roberts, who was then the CEO of ICANN. And we all signed memorandums of understanding. And then a little while after that, I was at my office in Amsterdam, a gentleman who you may well remember called Andrew McLaughlin came by. And he said, well, we've formed this thing. We don't really have anybody who actually understands the network. How would you like to come and live in California? And I looked out my window, and it was raining. And I said, what's the weather like? And he said, it's always sunny in Southern California. Yeah, for sure. So I moved. The RIPE NCC seconded me. Back in those days, ICANN didn't have anything called money. In the early days, we were formed on loans. And we're still paying back those loans. So the RIPE NCC very generously paid for my time and my flights and sent me off to ICANN. And before I know it, I was working there. And that was about 15 and 1 half, 16 years ago. So around 2000. Around 2000. So ICANN had been formed in late 98 and had been limping along without you before that. How did they manage to do that? On the shoestring budget, very dedicated staff. It was a very small organization. It was amazing how dedicated the early staff were. There was a gentleman called Louis Tuton, who was a lawyer. And if you get a chance to interview Louis, you should. He was an interesting character because he was basically working pro bono at ICANN. And everybody would mock him because, well, he's the lawyer. But he was also the guy that was configuring the routers, doing the websites. I mean, Louis Tuton pretty much did all the engineering work for the early ICANN. I mean, when I first turned up the server room, if I could call it that, was also the kitchen. And we had a rack that stood in the kitchen. It was basically a two-post rack. And there was a couple of servers in there. And there was a piece of fiber running through a back wall into the university server room. And there was a refrigerator in the same room. And if you open the refrigerator too hard, you disconnected the network. It was very much startup mode. Small offices and the same building as where John had been at ISI. And everybody did everything. It was really that startup environment where you just have to do what you have to do. And I want to get into some deeper issues, but I'm curious. By the time you came in 2000, was it still that slim on operation? Oh, absolutely. We sort of got past the loan situation, but not really. I had to take a pay cut to come work for ICANN. I think everybody did. Our meetings, one of the first things I did when I joined ICANN was there was going to be a meeting in Marina del Rey. And I used to run the right meetings or parts of the right meetings. So Louis gave me a piece of paper and said, we have a contract with this hotel. Go organize a meeting. And the meetings back in those days were a couple of hundred people. If you see today, I don't even know the numbers, but I'm pretty sure even at this small meeting we're close to 2,000 people. And back then, everything was just a lot smaller scale. And there's many people still here today who were involved there, but also many have moved on. So yes, it was very much everything on the budget, small offices, very long hours, and a lot of fun. This session, I think, is much shorter than I'd like it to be. So my view is this is the beginning of a sequence. And so let me ask and try to provoke a little bit or bring forth. Pick out one or two or three really interesting or meaningful events or sequences of events or threads that run through that stick out in your mind as the essence of what really happened below the surface level of holding a meeting here or going off traveling there. So I think part of what I can is or was was this experiment in, I don't want to use the word democracy, but maybe management or government models, it was something different. And I think in those first years, we were really struggling with trying to figure out what it was. So one of the interesting things we did, which had started before I joined but was happening as I got there, was we voted for board members based on where they were from. And one of the ways of doing this was to actually have a voting system. So I think you could say that I can have what the first global online voting mechanism in the world where everybody theoretically could vote. And I mean, everybody. And it broke. It didn't work very well. It was a fantastic idea in democracy.  But it was sort of this experiment in trying to be inclusive and to include the end user, the user of the internet. And it kind of worked and it kind of didn't, but it was a very interesting way of doing things. It was trying new things. It was all about trying to find this balance of getting representation from all over the internet. So when you say it broke, two different things come to mind. And maybe it broke in two different ways. One is the mechanics of the voting and then the other is whether it did achieve appropriate representation and was fair and so forth. So yes, it broke in both ways. When I first joined, there was a lady that was running the program, I believe Jody was her name. And in our office were stacks and stacks of envelopes. And I said, well, what are those stacks of envelopes? Well, those are the returns. I'm like, what do you mean the returns? For some reason, everything is getting returned. And I'm like, oh, let me have a look at them. Oh, interesting. These are all from China. Why are the addresses written in ASCII? Chinese postmen don't read ASCII. So they hadn't thought about the idea. Now, today we talk about IDNs and localized characters. They haven't quite considered the concept of having other character sets so that postmen could read the letters. So we got a lot of returns. Also, when everybody had to sign up, I think it was one of these things where we thought, well, there's probably a few hundred people coming to the meeting. So maybe there's a couple of thousand people will be interested in this and thousands and thousands of people signed up. And that caused issues with the service. But that was also part of the system failure. Is that these board seats were starting to be seen as political interest. And people were campaigning to get their citizens to go and vote. So you would see large swathes of signups from particular areas of the world. And you could see that from an organization of maybe two or 300 participants in the meetings, we were suddenly getting tens and tens of thousands of registrations. So it was clear that there was interest in those board positions that I think maybe the people designing the system hadn't considered. I think it was a bit of an eye-opener. There's a lot of experience in political systems way before the internet, way before any automation. I have a feeling we probably waited into an area somewhat naively in a way. That's worth some significant recounting and getting the accurate picture of what did happen and the different points of view and so forth. So let me just bookmark that as something that we wanna come back to at length. I know that one of the things that you've been heavily involved in and particularly in the early days was the IANA operation itself. And my first, earliest introduction, I found myself, as you may remember, invited by Stuart Lynn, the next CEO after Mike Roberts to look into what was some sort of difficulty involving some of the CCTLDs. And it was you and Louis on the one hand and Elizabeth Portanov and Sabina Dolderoll and I think Oscar Robles. You wanna talk a little bit about that episode? Well, it depends which one you're talking about because there were many. So, I mean, especially in the early days, the relationship at times could get pretty strange. One of the issues we had was about access to data. And I don't know if this is the one you're talking about. The question of whether or not the zone files should be transferred to somewhere where they could be not actually sure if we even knew what we really wanted to do with them, to be honest. But it was, can we get access to the zone files from the country codes? And a lot of the country codes just said no. And I suspect in retrospect, rightfully so. So, those early periods, we were sort of, I think, trying to figure out what the relationship was between the country codes, which are really something that are, as they say, within a country and for within the national regulations, et cetera, and this global body. And with the generics, it was very clear. Well, firstly, there really wasn't generics. There was like one and then a few registries. But with the CCTLDs, the country codes, it was really about finding a way and figuring out what the relationship was. And it wasn't always friendly. I think it was mostly always professional, but it wasn't always friendly. And yet, with all of these people, I've always had very good friendly relationships on the personal level. But sometimes there was a little bit of conflict there. And that made life interesting. So, yes, I'm keenly aware that you have personally a very high reputation, very well regarded in ways that are, we should try to document. And I know that Postel was well regarded. And so, it's interesting to try to tease out what happened in that transition that interfered in the otherwise smooth operation that had proceeded. Well, I'm an engineer, so I like to blame the lawyers. I'm not sure if that's the case. I think one of the things that happened or one of the changes is John was very light-handed. So, I think I met him twice in person to have discussions that would be of the nature we were having with the CCTLDs. And that was an RIR that we would meet with him because we had a problem about something. Extremely rare because he was very light-handed and he believed in letting people do what they do. And I think ICANN was this different model or this different mindset. And I think a lot of the people that were involved weren't from the engineering background. The guys who had worked in building up networks. So, it was a different style. And that caused consternation. And a lot of the CCTLD folks who probably only met John once never had to deal with him again about the technical issues. So, people don't like change. So, in general, change brings fear. And I think there were misconceptions. Well, maybe there weren't, I don't know. But I think there were misconceptions that ICANN was trying to control something. And I'm not sure that was there. But if you've been left alone all this time and then suddenly these people turn up. I mean, if you talk it to it from the perspective of the DNS root service, for example, which is another community which I participate, we hadn't even really met each other before this time. And then this ICANN thing comes along like, well, who are these people? And one of the things that was often missed and I had to remind people on a regular basis in the early days is, all of these people that you're talking to, they've been doing this for 10, 20 years. They predate ICANN. Right. And that was, I think, something that was lost at times with people. It's an interesting thought that a formative period of ICANN may not have been with the greatest of poise and several affairs. Well, one of the things that, of course, happened is we lost John. Of course. And I think things may, because we don't know. You can't run the experiment again. You can't run the experiment again, but I think things may have been very different if John had been there because the trust would have been there. One would have expected so. So the impact is probably not only the most visible things but also a lot of subtle things. Yes. Absolutely. We need to take a break at this point but identified at least a couple of things that we wanna dive into more. And I'm sure more will come up. So let me thank you very much. And let me thank you particularly for years of service. You're one of the people that is most appreciated by the people who make things work and probably less well known by the people who like to talk about how things work. And certainly less appreciated by them. Thank you, Steve.


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I guess Can't believe I got rid of that gym. I dropped it too Another one you better finish up that one, buddy 45 pretty much full the latest version of path of building is broken. No, it works for me Those Hawkeye leveling streams will never be forgotten. Oh you Oh you All right, so do we let me look at the path of building for this and see if What I have to do with the bandits Where would it be? Do they have notes? No They usually don't have anything it says bandit to passive points So let's kill all Still y'all is how you doing man? Welcome.  Yeah, the chat is Like my stream deck candy is barely connecting the chat like half my messages aren't going through and let me try it now Okay, that one This any gloves what I just find some Petui I Spit on you excited. I think the Pokemon and pack streams are taking a huge toll on twitch's servers Hmm Yes, let's see how many how many people this path of exile have today 16,000 not bad. 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In this video I am going to be discussing the predatory narcissist, please like the video, share your thoughts in the comments, if you haven't subscribed yet please click the subscribe button underneath the video, click the bell icon as well so that you can receive all of the notifications of my future videos, please share the videos so that they can help others just as they have helped you. If you would like to make a donation there is a dollar sign icon underneath the chat. This will also allow your message in the chat to remain viewable for a longer period of time. I appreciate all donations no matter how small. If you are interested in a one on one coaching session with me my email is in the video description. Okay so let's discuss the predatory narcissist. Narcissists are predatory, it's like a lifestyle for them. This is what they do all day every day. If they are not currently preying on some unsuspecting victim, they are plotting or working on some plan of action. They target people who are at a state of happiness, progression or success which they are envious of. They then plot to destroy this individual and take away whatever it is that makes them happy, whatever it is that gives them satisfaction or fulfillment in their lives because they cannot get the same fulfillment and they are envious of your happiness, progression or success. This is all carefully planned and premeditated. What drew them to you in the beginning is what they will soon desire to take away or destroy.  So if you want to know what it is that they are envious of, pay attention to what they are trying to sabotage or prevent in your life. When the Narcissists first met you, it is likely that they began to check your family and social circle. They wanted to see how much support you had. They wanted to see if there would be anyone who could potentially remind you of who you are, someone who could reinforce your intuition or tell you when something is wrong. The Narcissists likely became aware that you did not have anyone close to you who could interfere with their manipulative tactics, tactics such as denial, projection, blame shifting and gaslighting. When the Narcissists first targeted you, they were looking for some form of deficiency in your life. In the beginning they may have created the illusion that they were giving you something of value or they may have future faked and made you believe or trust in them and what they were saying or showing to you. Once the predatory Narcissist has found something that you are missing in your life, they will use this to dominate and control you. They will use this to keep you in the relationship so you cannot escape. Narcissists often choose victims who are struggling financially so that they can trap them in their web. In the beginning of the relationship or love-bombing phase they will extract whatever attention, validation, approval and admiration they can get from you. At this point you will be a positive source of supply but over time this no longer satisfies them and this is when they will move to the devaluation phase of the relationship. At this point the Narcissist has secured you as a source of supply. They never fulfilled whatever the deficiency was that you originally had but they gradually provided you with this to keep you locked in and unable to escape from them and this is the part of the relationship where you really do want to escape. During the devaluation phase the Narcissist will abuse and manipulate you. They will target your self-worth, self-esteem, self-belief, self-assurance and self-respect if you try to confront them on their change of attitude or behaviours.  If you continue to threaten their control over their situation they will withhold whatever it is that you need from them.  When they targeted you in the beginning they knew that you would be the perfect target for their abuse. They knew that you would fall prey to their manipulative tactics it's as though they had this predatory sixth sense which they used to detect who would be vulnerable to their games. They studied your family and social circle so they knew that you had no one close to you who would provide you with support. The predatory narcissist operates in the same way as a child molester. It's like they instinctively knew from the beginning which child they would be able to manipulate. This is done through analysing your family and social circle, ensuring that you have no support.  The child molester looks for a target who doesn't trust their own feelings or perceptions. You may have been brought up in an environment where you had a certain feeling or perception and you were told that it was wrong even when it was correct. The narcissist instinctively knew that they would be able to invade your life and get you to doubt yourself and your reality. The child molester can instinctively spot loneliness in a child. They know when a child is not receiving attention from their parents. They know when the child is being neglected. The child molester has this instinct which is able to detect loneliness within the child. The predatory narcissist operates in the exact same way. In the beginning of the relationship they will create a false character which is specifically designed to attract you. They will possess whatever traits you find attractive. This is the bait designed to lure you into the abuse like giving candy to a child. The predatory narcissist knows exactly what they are doing and for a short time during the love bombing phase the narcissist will give the illusion that they are going to fulfill your needs or requirements. Whatever it is that you desire from them, whatever deficiency it is that you had which they then targeted but over time the illusion will fade away to reveal what they really are. The attention, validation and admiration you once received in the beginning of the relationship will disappear and this will be replaced with abuse and manipulation. The predatory narcissist really does operate in the same way as a child molester. Think about all of the characteristics that a child molester looks for when targeting a child. Connect these characteristics to what the narcissist was looking for when they targeted you. They both target some form of deficiency, loneliness, isolation, insecurities, having no parents or friends to protect them if you analyse your situation with the narcissist. You will be able to connect this to the child molester. The narcissist knew exactly what they were doing. They knew that you did not have the internal, external or emotional resources to protect yourself and that you would fall prey to them when they targeted you.  This is what gave them the ability to take control of you. It was premeditated and just like the child molester, they knew exactly what they were doing. This is what they think about all day every day. They have this sixth sense, this predatory nature. They are thinking about how they are going to target some unsuspecting victim through finding some form of weakness, vulnerability or deficiency in their lives. They then load you in like giving candy to a child and gradually began to take away whatever it was that made you satisfied or fulfilled with your life until you had nothing left except them. Then they were able to abuse and manipulate you knowing all too well that they had trapped you and you could not go anywhere. At this point they didn't need to give you any more candy. It didn't matter if you starved because they knew that you had no one to turn to, you had nowhere else to go and they knew that you were not going to leave because you were afraid of being alone. You also held on to their future faking believing that one day the false character they displayed to you in the beginning would come back.  Please protect yourself from these predatory narcissists. They do not have your best interest in mind. They only wish to control you and secure you as a source of supply. They do not care about your emotional needs. They are self-absorbed and lack empathy. Avoid revealing your personal information or anything about your family or social circle to the predatory narcissist. Avoid revealing any form of vulnerability, weakness or deficiency. Like the child molester, they will make you believe that they can fulfill you in some way. But this isn't what they are really about. They have a hidden agenda. The child molester is not interested in giving the child their attention or improving their lives. They just want to sexually abuse the child and provoke fear and shame within them. The predatory narcissist and the child molester operate in the exact same way. So please be aware of this. Thank you for watching, I hope this video has resonated with you, please like, comment and share, subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet and I will talk to you soon.


Today, we're going to speculate why unhealthy people are being used in marketing. Hey there, njbru22.com with another low carb keto carnivore chat. It's also a general health chat as well as marketing and mainstream media. We're going to talk about this recent trend, I guess over the last few years, maybe a decade or so. It's about unhealthy people. When I say unhealthy people, I'm talking in this particular instance about overweight people or even morbidly obese people being used in marketing, like clothing companies in particular and other visual products that require people in them. For the most part, what you're hearing these days in the mainstream is that, oh, this is inclusive. We're being inclusive of the people that aren't included in these magazines, like a Victoria's Secret or any kind of clothing company. And the mind says, oh, we should include everybody. It's only fair, like in Victoria's Secret instance, when it comes to being sexy, you know, being obese is not attractive.  It's just not attractive.  It's unhealthy. Your body's carrying around all this extra weight. Back in the day, people actually would strive to lose weight because they weren't happy with the way they look, their own appearance. They looked at themselves and said, this is not attractive to myself or anybody else.  They're removing the incentive to get in shape. There's nothing, there's no role model anymore.  You're not even going to bother trying to look up to a skinnier or more in shape model. I have to say, to be fair, a lot of the models that you saw in these these catalogs for many years and decades, they were extremely underway and they almost to set a unfair kind of level to reach.  They can wear anything and have no flappy overhang.  But these things are politically suicidal now to say that. But I understand what these companies are doing now. They like to talk about inclusiveness, like, Oh, what a good company they are, they're allowing the fat people to get recognition in these catalogs and so on. But I bet you this and all they're also appeasing the social justice warriors who need inclusiveness and everybody has to be represented in a hint, they're being overrepresented now, especially when it comes to race and orientation. But I know why these companies are doing it. They're doing it because it's all about the money. They know that the majority of their customers now are not skinny people or healthy people.  So they're not they're losing money by showing all these skinny people. So they're marketing to their customers. That's all they're doing.   And that's why they do it. And you would want to market to the people that are buying your stuff. So that's why they put these fat people on there. I bet you anything, if the obesity level goes down drastically in the next few years, these fat people are going to go off the catalogs to include inclusivity or not. So that's it. That's my opinion on why they're doing it. It has nothing to do with inclusiveness and all about the Benjamins. You like this video, please hit the bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time.


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