Great one digital asset news. My name is Rob and today we got a lot of things to go over first things first Just as the thumbnail and title suggests we're gonna take a look out how X Merrill Lynch chief economist calls for a recession Only a recession but a two-year recession. So we'll take a look at the data behind that I'll take a look at the four-year plan and comparing DCA during these hard times Also, we'll do a quick sweat coin update I know that's everybody's favorite and I'm gonna tell you exactly how much they paid me to talk about That and then after that we'll do a little Q&A, but first before we jump into all that instead of going to market Let's do it take a look at little Bottom and top review as far as on-chain analysis So first things first we did a couple of videos about top callers and bottom callers one of those I really like to see is the MVRV Zscore first of all you probably ask yourself. What is that? It's a great question. So MVRV uses three metrics market value Which is the blue line was the current price of Bitcoin multiplied by the number coins pretty simple Then you have the realized value the price of each Bitcoin one was last moved And then the Zscore that just pulls out all the extremes the data between market value and realized value You can find all of these great Charts and information over at look into Bitcoin comm is a link in the description What's great about this website is that's a hundred percent free So you can check these out every day to your heart's desire as we can see We've were talking about as far as like the bottom parts We may have bottomed around June 13th And we are still in what's called that green Accumulation phase and I always like these charts because it makes it very simple green Maybe you should think about accumulating and red Maybe you should think about selling and of course in this channel. I'm not a financial advisor This is not financial advice, but these are the things that I take a look at for later on down the road When I want to do some things But there is a couple of things that I will make mention of that we did a video on Friday, which is there is a in this green accumulation zone It starts at the zero level and of course as we go down below Once we hit to like a negative point or zero point four two or four zero That's when we're at the absolute low and that's happened only three times and that is in 2011 of course that was the market bottom and in 2015 again below the negative point four this also happened again in 2018 which I think most of us can remember and Unfortunately for this cycle folks in the four-year cycle. It has not happened yet So does that mean that is the bottom has been put in well only time will tell but as far as for me I think there's a little bit more to go and also Another indicator we take a look at the pie cycle top just so you know We are nowhere near the top and I've I've taken suggestions just to remind people that of course the pie cycle top has retroactively looked back in 2011 13 and 17 tops, but it also accurately predicted the 2021 top as well and That is when the 111 day moving average across over 350 day and in that time frame You can see right here that we are nowhere close To do the top I'm gonna start doing more of these so people can I can remind people to check out these charts They can take a look if you want an in-depth Observation or an evaluation of all these charts go to Dan teaches trip calm It is also 100% free and just go down on chapter 3 investing and you can take a look at what I talk Talk about the cycle top callers and the cycle bottom callers and they're all laid out for you So you can make the best decision for you and your financial independence hopefully so that is what we have as far as the top and bottom Let's jump into What I just say today's top story. So this was a it's a pretty good video brought to you By a real vision and Raul Powell I found it fascinating because I feel like these are the types of information that you're going to get from very few people It's a great It's a great YouTube channel. I check it out. The link is also in description But who Raul Powell is is interviewing here is David Rosenberg. You probably ask yourself who's David Rosenberg? It's great question David as The founder of Rosenberg research, but he's got a pretty illustrious career So of course founder and president of Rosenberg research prior to Rosenberg research David was the chief economist and strategist at Gleskin chef and associates from 2009 2019 2002 2009 he was also the chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch prior to that He was chief economist and strategist for Merrill Lynch Canada based out of Toronto or he and his team Placed first in the Brennan Woods survey of Canadian economists for 10 years in a row So this isn't some armchair economists that just kind of you know Peruse is up to every so many shows. This is a gentleman's probably been around for quite some time and It's an interesting insight to what he has to say so I'm gonna play three snippets. I can't play the whole clip It's over an hour I highly recommend that you take a listen to everything to get everything into context again There is a link in description to the video itself, but there's three clips We're gonna talk about first thing to talk about the recession then we're gonna talk about how he refers to people as clowns and how people are just Manipulating data to show that there's not a recession and then I think the one of the bigger things is why people don't call It a recession and why they're so darn afraid to say the R word So let's just jump in here and take a listen. Let me stop this real quick. Let me share the actual tab itself So you can hear it And let me mute myself Well, we are in the early stages of what is probably going to be a two-year recession So that's where I think we are right now and the beauty about this call is that it is Separates itself from the consensus view that we're going to experience a soft landing Or a shortened shallow recession It could be shallow It's not going to be short. That's where we are microinvest So, yeah, so he goes into great detail as to why that is I'm just gonna let you Evaluate that but it's just interesting that a person who has Who has been quite in this in this arena for quite some time lays it out pretty truthfully like that And the big question I have is well, why is there so few people? Talking about a recession in the same way that's being said here by Rosenberg And there's a couple of clips and I'll play those the next one is about About a minute long and wonder if that's about a minute and a half. So just take a listen to these two as well pop of that It's funny and it says basically let's face it. Well, we're in a business where Optimism he wins over pessimism 90% of the time and then it doesn't 10% of the time and you have these economists and look I spend most of my life on the sell side What they like, why would you why would unless you hate your job? Why would you jeopardize your career by making a recession call? You know, I got I saw I know I saw Brian Moynihan on CNBC today talking about how great the economy is if I was still at Meryl, well, I guess it's called make America now.  Oh Everything's just great back to back quarters and negative. Oh, don't worry It's only inventories and it's only consumers spending on durables and it's only housing and it's only catbacks Don't worry about it Hey, listen Dave question Inflation, right? Yeah, exactly. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's okay And then the next question I have is if it's so clear to To this gentleman here. Why is it that no one really talks about and that's the next part of why people just kind of hide The information and it makes a lot of sense if you think about it and don't just think about who he's talking about here But think about the people that you listen to Right now in the in the media arena. So let's take a listen to this But it come on Raul. It's hilarious, you know, the yield curve in verse I actually wrote I said here's my forecast for the year when the yield curve of verse the mass the the Intelligency is gonna say ignore the yield curve. And so Pell gets his economist find me a part of the yield curve. That's not inverted. Oh, well, what do you know? It's the three month 18 months out and okay, that's great. That's not inverted. Okay. Oh, that's great No, the yield curve is not inverted. I said they're gonna dismiss the yield curve It's got an 85% track record, but we'll ignore and then I said I said yet again I said when we get back to back quarters of negative GDP These clowns are gonna find a way to say that's not a recession.  Gee. Thanks. Thanks for do you know that if I went when I was at Merrill and I went to the bond desk And I said I'm gonna wait for the NBER you know, I think that well, I probably would have been killed and You know the thing the NBR the NBR told us that the recession Started in December of 08. Thank you. Thank you. It was 12 months old, but the recession is here Thank you very much You know, you know historically historically the NBR the NBR tells you we're in a recession When we're already seven months knee-deep in it So there you go I mean there's a reason why people like to say the R word the recession people don't like to say how you know this Bull market or as bear market is will slowly turn into a bull market quickly and there's a reason why people are so positive in different respects is because It's a jeopardizes their career. So unfortunately or fortunately, I guess Or wherever you listen to even myself include just ask the tough questions because at some point you have to say to yourself Is it really gonna be that great or that easy me? I'm in the thinking that things are gonna be rocky for quite some time and I'm okay with that and if I'm wrong I mean great I'm wrong and everything is rainbows and butterflies and things great Over when I take a look at all these things. I just look at it and say to myself. Well Honestly, I think I'll be okay in the long run. So when I take a look at The different parts that are going on I take a look at the recession and as far as like a two-year recession It makes a lot of sense especially with I mean we've been talking with this for quite some time now the economic recession for GDP based as Recession has been defined by most as two negative quarters of back-to-back GDP and We can take a look at that and say yeah, this looks exactly Like what we had before but the thing is is that recessions again, they don't last forever Usually last about two years year and a half two years last one 19 one at the last one One that goes back and as far as like the the Fred economic data Look at 1969 1970 about two years here about two years year and a half roughly year and a half and a three quarters 1990 where we go 1989 1991 about two here was a very short one 2001.com bubble burst not too bad And of course the big the great recession 2007 2009 and now here we are this was of course because of the pandemic and and if they updated it See we'd see that there was some negative GDP growth and there it was So if we have it for two years, is that the most awful thing of all time for some people It is the ones that aren't ready the ones that don't understand the ones that are like what happened I invested in what all my money went to so for us If you're here now, you're listening to me All the tourists that were here That during the bull run, they're all gone because they don't understand the whole thing about cycles They don't really understand about just having the patients investing and just the ups and downs and they can't take it It's like Good quote words Says that hey everybody's got the stomach Everybody's got the brain power for her to invest but nobody or very few actually have the stomach and We take a look at this we understand that well kind of fits into the four-year cycle theory, right? Like we're always talking about and for crypto everything kind of Or works out with that and it all kind of bases on the having event And of course if we have in like a two-year recession, this lines up perfectly exactly how things are this one first one 2012 2015 and we have one through the 16 to 19 now our most recent one 2020 there was a Bitcoin having we get an all-time high just like we did before and before then and Then we go through a dip which we're going on right now Then I think it was more of a downward slide towards the end of the year Maybe in 2023 and if we're going into a recession or we are in a recession over the last for two years Well, that's 2023 and 2024 what happens after that? Economic boom all-time high 2025 and it's the same thing that lines up over here Look what happens after a recession GDP increases and we have a robust or an increase in GDP and a more robust economy Those happens and those last for much longer than recessions. The last one was over a decade So when I take a look at this, I'm like that is great. So the next question that would be is Well, how does this all work out? What am I gonna do during this time? There's two things first of all I always talk about dollar-cost averaging and that's great. That'll tell you I mean again Not financial advice is what I do. There's a plethora of different things you can do You can trade you can go you can try to leverage you can sell your house and gamble. That's fine That's not the channel. This isn't the channel for that. There's a tons of channel that'll that'll lead you to ruination doing that but I'm just a little more safer person and you don't have to do this is what I do But if you dollar-cost average is a great website DC a BTC com lift I linked in the description and You have to remember first of one first first things first is that the dollar-cost averaging is great to understand how to buy and Sustain but it does not really teach the whole aspect of selling and selling is a whole art in and of itself There's different things you can learn and take a look at again Technical analysis take a look at the market cycles. You can also take a look at just on-chain data like we talked about in the beginning Which is why I talked about MVR VZ score pie cycle tops And of course the top calls and bottom callers and all that good stuff But if you take a look at dollar-cost averaging again just to buy doesn't we tell you Doesn't tell you great information is was when to sell And of course some people will say I'm never selling wrong I'm gonna hold on until I die And I'm passing on my kids and then they're gonna die with it And then those kids are gonna die and they're gonna transfer under my grandkids and they're gonna die Hey, if you want to do that have at it. Maybe Bitcoin will be the next reserve currency I have no idea But for me, I'm gonna take some profits along the way because no one broke taking profits anyhow If you just take a look at this DCA BTC send this to all your friends who are into precious metals I own precious metals, but I don't think it's a big Boom to you know make a make massive gains. Maybe I'm wrong But if you take a look at this you can put your purchase amount what I'm gonna do Let's just do a quick example Oops, that's not that's way too much. Let's do it. Let's say you do a hundred dollars every week and You accumulate for one year and you started one year ago That's pretty bad because we're in a bear market and we're actually down 7% Over a year.  Well, why do I do that Rob? Why do I do that? It's because it's a time game It's a time game. Let's do this Let's go four years and four years. Okay now you've invested $20,000 you put in a hundred dollars every week And you know, maybe some can do that. Maybe some people can't maybe they put in 50 a week or 10 a week I have no idea what your situation is or maybe you put in a lot more. Maybe put in a thousand bucks a day I don't know but the thing is you put in just in Bitcoin you would have invested $20,000 and He would have got back 70 thousand six fifty eight and the percentage hand will be 276 now if you would have Only accumulated for three years and stops accumulating during when we saw the the bear market indicators You'd be up even more 437% That's pretty good. You would have invested 15,000 would had 80 84,000 in the bank If you would have sold and then the one thing I like about this is compared to other assets You can say yes, this will compare against gold in the dollar Just so you know in the middle part here, you're investing the same amount 15,700 dollars, right? but In gold over three years well four years time, I guess you have a whopping 16 percent, which is pretty good Pretty good in three years Yes, but then you have 437 so again It's a it's a good way to take a look at things But it goes even further than that what I want to show you is that Bitcoin's great. It's the safest asset in the most Unstable asset class. Let's be honest, but this is what I did and I invested into Bitcoin Ethereum Cardano and even EOS like beardies always talking about And a bunch of different ones. There's that different cryptos, but some are gonna make it some are but you gotta remember that's For Bitcoin to go up for its market cap. It has to go up for it to double right now. I think we're like a gosh 500 billion, I don't know for it to double the price from 20,000 to 40,000 you're looking at to get to a trillion summer on there Now I'll be more than that actually but as you go down the down Down that pipe and take a look at different projects, you know, take a look at Cardano, I Bought in around right here roughly at the very top 2018 it was about a dollar and then everything sort of slide down I stopped for a while because I was frustrated I didn't understand about darling cost averaging and patience and I thought everything's on a moon because no one would lie to me on YouTube with it and Sure, so what I did was I stopped for a while and then I said, you know what? I'm just gonna keep investing. I learned this thing called dollar cost. I'm just gonna keep going and tell It'll it'll rebound. I think it'll rebound because that's the natural cycles. So if you take a look at this I Started to get back in around February actually around 33 cents And I just kept Dollar cost averaging putting in like let's let's let's do the same thing Let's say like a hundred dollars a hundred dollars per week, right? I got in February And we let's just average it out So here over here. It's like 3rd 14 cents 13 10 cents 8 cents 6 cents 7 4 cents 2 cents. I remember those days. I remember was 2 cents. I was a good days and I just kept buying I'm like, yeah, I'll probably do pretty well. And then when I started let's just pick a point say When did I go below 10 right around here June somewhere on there so in February 2018 to June 2020 that's Two years four months, right? Two years four months. So in two years and four months a hundred bucks per week There's 52 weeks in a year They too many to 104 plus four more months 16 roughly so 100 okay 120 weeks you have 120 weeks of putting in $100 that's $12,000 per month, right? I'm $12,000 over total time. So I put in $12,000 and I was buying it at around Roughly about 8 cents somewhere around there so For every time that I bought I put $100 Correct me in the comment section $100 at 8 cents you get around 1,200 somewhere around there Ada 1250 some 1200 somewhere on there at 8 cents for $100, right? So at the end of all this time two and a half years 120 weeks 1,250 Ada Times 120 weeks that's a 150,000 and then Geez, yeah, 150,000 and then if you would have sold around I don't know $2 or $3 That's a pretty good money, and I know it looks pretty good like this You're like hey at 84,000 here, but again when you go into the more riskier plays I don't know if Cardona was very risky, but As it goes up, I mean you can see that there's much more gains again this is all about risk and how you how you deal with it, but again, this is what I've done and Works out pretty well. I'm gonna do the exact same thing this year and this year I'm just gonna try to be a little better at selling along the way So let me know what you think about that in the comment section and let's go into Next piece is ought to be good Sweat coin and how much they paid me so sweat coin if you have never watched my show I Love that app. It's very simple download the app 100% free just like look at a Bitcoin just like my website and now this great app and You walk and they pay in these sweat coins very simple web two type of thing You don't have to buy an NFT. You don't do all that stuff. Of course You know there's an economic model along with that just like the same economic model that you might see on YouTube right now How does this work Rob? Well YouTube is free for you to watch but you have to watch ads, right? That's true. So sweat coin they have some ads and you can buy different things That's kind of much about how it works. So we did this deep dive and This is me and Oleg on the co-founders and no fear head of marketing and you can watch this video links in the description but What I did was a why I brought in a couple people I got Jess She is the chief marketing officer and a fear came back again talk about sweat coin and what's going on and Before I go that way, let me just give you a little Snip it of what this is all gonna come down to you. Listen to this Could you say that one more time the five of the top ten exchanges? Such and such Yes, I can say that again It's very nice to say it because I know that that's probably you know I've been in this space for years as a marketing person When Binance is probably the question that defines what it means to do community management as a crypto person so we have confirmed listings with Five of the top ten largest global crypto exchanges for listing day one Great. So just so you know That's what's going on with sweat coin. They're gonna have five of the top crypto exchanges What are that we're gonna do a little thing and this is how much they paid me to talk about sweat coin nothing They didn't pay me a cent As a matter of fact, there's a link in the description It is a spreadsheet and I show you how much I paid them And how many tokens I got? in the early rounds So there's a link you can check that out and all those things So it always astounds me like people always they ask the question well, how much they pay you how much they pay much They pay you this isn't 2017 when there's a bunch of dirty ICOs going on and they would say here's some coins and dump them On your community sounds like a great plan for longevity Makes no sense to me if you want to be here for three five ten years like I'm always talking about why would you do that?   Yes, I do Okay, well, here's the price as much as you can get here's a cap We're not gonna accept more and here's the lockup of the shelf now do you now for me? I can't touch these sweat coins For a year out and after that it's on a cascading effect for the next 24 months So the first 12 months the first year I don't get paid it I can't even touch the sweat because I pay into it can't touch them now you can get into it now and pay for it right now it's different and That is what it is so what I'm gonna do now is I must there's a it's about nine minute clip of me or fear and Jess and we're gonna talk to you about what the upcoming project is and How things are going along quite swimmingly. So just take a listen to the video As promised I brought in some people that could help us understand exactly what's going on with this sweat token generation events again Yes, thanks for coming in. No fear. Thanks for coming on yet again. I appreciate it guys So thank you, I appreciate so There's there's a couple of things we're gonna talk about just three quick questions first Give us the elevator pitch because there's some people on my channel that don't understand exactly what sweat coin and sweat is Even though I talk about a time I understand I talk about a lot But I am biased because I've been investing into it also Next question is the Dow maker talk to us about the updates of this and how this works between sweat and Dow and lastly What kind of metrics are showing adoption for not just the sweat coin app But the sweat coin or the sweat wallet into web 2 to web 3 so first thing first Actually first things first I wanted to say thanks for helping out me and and some my subscribers For my friend Neville and he says hey just want to he sent me a hundred sweat coins as a thank you for to get them off The couch I said no problem because I said I said to people like this and like look do you do you walk? do you like Money currency if you like both of those things Maybe you should try sweat coin and then they get rewarded and sweat and everybody gets in a little bit better in shape So these are one of those things that I can see it So the first thing I got for you either one can take it is What's the elevator picture? Why would people want to use this? I Think your techs exchanges did our elevator pitch for us in some ways So the whole premise behind sweat economy and sweat coin the app Which has been our baby and our product to date is how do we get the world moving more? And we're not talking palatons and expensive gym wear and you know fad diets The most simplest way in which you can improve your health is simply to take more steps in your day into what the least sexy But the most simple way to do that So the founders Conjected that the best way to give people a behavioral nudge in order to get them moving that little bit more is just Small rewards for movement So the idea of a step counting app was born and in actual fact when the idea started it But we very much had in mind the idea of creating a unit of currency out of movement so having some sort of Tangible asset that could be created by movement But of course the web 3 world although a lot of people were talking about it simply wasn't ready to deal with a mass audience of users That might be generating in that way. So sweat coin the app was born That was a step counting app that was free to download that enable It was it was moved to earn before Move to earn was ever coined as a phrase in fact our slogan was it pays to walk So it was simply can't your app count your steps within the app you to crew sweat coins Which is often termed sort of air miles for steps They grow in your in your in app wallet As a loyalty currency and then you'd be able to spend them on a range of Digital and physical products and services within the in-app marketplace and indeed play games Bid compete with your colleagues or your friends as to who got greater steps and it worked So we've been we've demonstrated the behavioural science works the average sweat coin user of which there are now over 100 million across the world and they move an average of 20 percent more With the sweat coin app than they did prior to having the app So it's been a fabulous success story of a company that's just grown in that way and all the time We've been itching how when can we take this into when three and we've been watching the landscape We've been watching the different players within the landscape and until really the last year that hasn't been anybody Let's been able to work with us to manage the sort of scale of Small transactions of everyday users that we expect to put through a cryptocurrency that would be generated in this kind So we're here now and we're super excited So the the the cryptocurrency that we're launching is called sweat to distinguish it from sweat coins the loyalty currency Sweat has already had 13 million people opt-in since we announced that it was coming in April Okay, and we are launching the wallet Right now that will enable people to actually access their sweat to play with it to stake it and to defy trade it in web3 say Wasn't it a short pitch? It's a pretty good pitch and then and before we go on I will say this as far as like motivating people I can tell you that is a a one key fact because we just got back from New York for the US Open and People were with like do you want to do the uber? He wanted to just just would just walk there I'm like hey, I got it. I got this app and I get paid for it. So I'm not gonna waste it We'll just do that so we have that and then just real quick. Can you talk to people about? The sweat the sweat coin app and the sweat wallet and do they still need to use those both of those things together Absolutely, so the sweat coin app even though it's become a fun marketplace where your coins are crude The actual the most important thing about the sweat coin app is it's it's your movement validator so having the sweat coin app on your device is the very very well invested and Complicated technology that teams been working on that validates the steps that you're taking So as long as the sweat coin app is on your phone your steps are being counted whether the phone is in your pocket On your body in some way So that is a crucial part of the crypto ecosystem that we're creating You do need the sweat coin app in order to validate and count your steps And then the app will give you sweat coins as of now But it will now start to generate sweat for you now the sweat that you get and post tge That will be up to 5,000 steps a day that will be converted will appear in your sweat wallet So the sweat wallet is where your token your cryptocurrency Of the steps that you take will accrue and will appear So you do need in order to access the token you do need to have both of those while it's on your app That's very important. Gotcha. Thanks a lot of sense. All right So that was just and I'm just showing everybody the the new website looks very slick very nice people can find all their information So Jess, thanks so much for the explanation. Appreciate it. Now. Let's get the next one the downmaker. So there's been New updates that are coming on, but I'm really I'm not really familiar with what's going on and the happening. So Ophir or Jesky you guys talk about what's the update and how's this work between downmaker and sweat? Yeah, okay. Well, first of all, I'd like to say that there's been a Postponing I think the TGA was supposed to happen in July and I know you're you cover in your channel the bear market quite frequently So we're reacting to the market conditions, but in terms of organizational momentum and everything We were ready to go two months ago. We just use that time to refine everything we have even further and right now the main place where the public can participate in the token sale before it goes live on listings is the Downmaker launchpad. So the downmaker launchpad enables projects to sell Their tokens to people and one of the hallmark features is that it limits the participation amount to every person around $1,000. So the goal here is to have as many wallets holding sweat not till now, you know, one or two whales by the whole thing up And so the downmaker registration for the sweat sale opens tomorrow, what does that mean? You go and see the sweat page you can register for it and then it's called a strong hold offering That's the downmaker speak for token sale Show in an acronym SHO So the show registration starts tomorrow and then what happens is that people can go they need to hold Dow tokens Which they can buy on a number of exchanges and then they use those to stake in order to hold a position Or and let's call it more simple language have a lottery ticket now There's going to be only two million dollars worth of sweat tokens on sale in this public sale And we know that there's gonna be a lot more demand a lot more interest. So let's say I don't I don't want to give numbers It's irresponsible, but let's say that several times as many Interest then two million dollars come in a lottery system will decide which of those lucky people actually get to buy Sweat and the actual buying the sale itself happens on the 9th 10th And those people get their token on the 12th, which is the token generation event And then the listing on some of the world's largest Exchanges actually more than five of the top ten are going to list sweat on day one And so the listing and the actual public trading starts on September the 13th So that's the flurry of events that are ahead of us Could you say that one more time the five of the top ten exchanges such and such Yes, I can say that again It's very nice to say it because I know that that's probably you know I've been I've been in this space for years as a marketing person When Binance is probably the question that defines what it means to do community management as a crypto person so we have confirmed listings with five of the top ten largest global crypto exchanges for listing day one We can't disclose any names if anyone listening to this knows because they've worked with them They don't like that information to be shared But I will tell you that the larger of these has told us that they will announce it around 48 hours before September 13th, so on September 11th some really, you know, juicy news is about to come up. Gotcha Thanks. So I mean that sounds good. It sounds great But what kind of well, it's my nice question then what kind of metrics are we looking at that are actually showing? Adoption and things are moving in the right direction because it's one thing to say hype There's nothing to say. Okay. Here's what we have. So what do we have here? Yeah, all right So just in terms of following up on what Jess was talking about earlier Everyone listening to this should get sweat coin because sweat coin is going to count your steps and reward you on this wet Wallet sweat coin sweat wallet, right? But the sweat wallet has been in production for several months and now it is finally being rolled out in the lead up To the rollout people who have sweat coin were prompted. Would you like to try our crypto product? It's about to launch 13 million people created wallets in that way. You can say they opted in you can say they joined a waiting list All of these words describe the same scenario and then in the last two weeks We've been slowly Notifying smaller groups of users. Hey wallet is literally live literally download the actual wallet Not the opt-in not the waiting list and already hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded and logged in and we will be aggressively Continuing to roll it out until TGE on September 12th One other thing that I can say is that there is a massive advantage of getting sweat coin and sweat wallet before September 12 Any sweat coins you've earned were turned into sweat tokens as an airdrop and that's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity if you discover about this video in six months from today, you should still get both those apps But you're not going to get that sweet airdrop that happens that day Yeah, so it's a big milestone because we've been in a coming soon state for quite a while Which is generally a state that a lot of crypto companies are in and we're very happy to see hundreds of thousands of downloads already coming in Just in the play store, you know the Android store. It's already over a hundred thousand downloads And we haven't even done any big announcements or any big blasts. It's just been notifying the people who are in the opted in Perfect. All right. Well guys, thanks for stopping by and just giving us a quick update I do appreciate everybody who's watching the video right now all the things we talked about there'll be links in the description You can find all those things you can find the sweat economy website You can find the Dow Dow maker and how to get involved in that and that should do it. So Ophir Jess Thanks again for stopping by we all appreciate it Always good and yeah, stay tuned We'll see. All right guys. Let's jump back All right, so that's it. That's a little longer. I thought it was gonna be but yeah That's all for what we have. So now that takes care of the news aspects of what's going on in crypto world If you want to stick around that'd be great We're gonna do the Q&A if you got to go take off. It's great. It's Sunday probably a football game somewhere and Some things to do if you got to take off get out of here I appreciate you sticking with me almost a thousand people that is fantastic But if you want to stick around we'll do a little Q&A and I'll answer all your questions the best of my abilities There's some good ones. I already starred in chat and that's what we'll start to do right now and let's jump into a little Q and a


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The report in your hands really is a result of a project that was launched back in April of 2010 To take a close look at the labs as Steve has laid out for you now Though these labs are really not widely known outside. Maybe this room and and a few people in the With a real interest in this they really sit at the intersection of health and security and that's a topic that's obviously of interest to Most folks in this room, but clear particularly with CSIS and the work that they've done on smart power Steve's commission that really looked at the smart global health policy these laboratories have made sustained contributions in this area of global health and Really us national security interests on a relatively small budget so that when you start looking at that They're particularly intriguing as one of the best buys in a time of what we all know is fiscal austerity We look not only to catalog the strengths But also to identify what challenges they might have and look to the future and try to make some recommendations That might help us move them in that direction These labs have been around for a while Thailand says 1959 Kenya says 1969 Egypt since 1946 Peru since 1983 and you ask well What has enabled their longevity and I think one of the answers is that they have become locally relevant and Locally valued while at the same time they have produced benefits for our soldier sailors airmen Marines They deal with diseases that have a profound local impact And so they are seen locally as organizations that are legitimate and useful institutions Ultimately these Army and Navy labs serve our Service members and as we care about our service members. We are obligated to care about these labs as well In serving the military this research also produces drugs and vaccines that serve a role That serve really the health of all people around the world and particularly You know it targets the world's poor and so that plays a role in our overall global health Interests as a nation And it is the importance of all these things coming together that really I think underscores the importance of and our interest in Pursuant this study of our overseas labs. We We investigate infectious diseases endemic diseases that are of importance to the host country But also that are a threat to our troops and so It's a balance where we We take young scientists overseas and students and medical professionals and train them alongside us because you know the United States For the longest time has been one of the leaders in science and technology So we've shared that with these countries and they've grown we've you know if you to use a Naval analogy we floated their boats along with us and so they've risen to the occasion some of them have went on and Taken great jobs in American industry and so they've benefit the country as a whole is benefited So our efforts over there as a force protection measure to protect our troops has also benefited the host country and you know We do a lot of public health surveillance now and that surveillance involves bringing in the host country social workers and Epidemiologists and others and they get trained according to our standards And so they go out and they improve their host country country infrastructure as you mentioned in the outset Our force health protection mission is an important one In fact, it's one of our key drivers our medical research and development Programs in support of our force health protection requirements is paramount And that requires key subject matter expertise in place in these countries around the world that coupled with our our Emerging and developing disease detection mission really puts us in a unique opportunity to be able to be Responsive and adaptive to new and emerging disease threats Some good examples over time are out there such as responses and research programs related to cholera Leishman Isis, Trapanosomiasis, more recently Riff Valley fever, drug-resistant malaria and influenza around the world These are all very key programs that over time have morphed In response to to new and emerging threats, and I think the impact is threefold number one We get actionable data that comes back to the DoD. It informs our medical decision makers having to do with Formulating threat matrices having to do with disease threats for deployments In addition this information is also provided back to our host nation public health agencies It's an incredible resource for them number two Data of this type also feeds into the larger global public health Enterprise if you will whether it's WHO and others and so it it's a much bigger much bigger impact and number three This this very data this responsiveness this Adaptiveness to new new threats new disease diseases that have been identified feeds back to our research programs in general helps Optimize them it helps change them over time and In some cases may develop new programs Responsive to newly identified military medical threats so in the end everyone wins the military wins It meets our force health protection mission the host nation wins the global health Effort wins and so it it's very good for all concern one of the things that medical research units have been very good at is helping us orchestrate and Coordinate the various review processes so that the studies that are being done are the best they can be scientifically and Stand up to the most rigorous scrutiny with regards to the ethical conduct of a clinical trial Finally I'd want to say that the medical research units cannot maintain their their positions World is changing like you said the medical research units actually have to stay on the cutting edge That they have been experiencing the last several years and it's Paramount to their continued success. I think there are aspects We haven't talked about in terms of the impact of the program Certainly as I saw it from the perspective of an ambassador the impact it has on the economy and and the infrastructure I mean we have built a world-class facilities there. We've put world-class equipment into those facilities We have made Kenya It is part of Kenya's regional leadership as a result of what we've done just on this program not to mention the broader relationship Over 800 technicians claim trained from the region from Sub-Saharan Africa in general And that's appreciated. I think by the Kenyans an institution building We look at a climate in Kenya where clearly there's a culture of impunity It's not that's not an overstatement and within that to have an institution which is populated primarily by Kenyans with a small degree of US leadership Promoting the values institutional transparency and accountability. That's very important dimension Of the program they're not strictly related to the to the medical, you know the the report that the CS IS has published challenges as so long I think At least three significant lines As noted already, there's this imperative We have to better communicate the value of research laboratories to the nation and that it's a shared responsibility Now, you know value you can roughly say is Cost over benefit and so the issue is we've got to constantly put that out in front of everyone that for Relatively little dollars We get a huge benefit not only in terms of protecting the citizenry of this nation and military folks in Specific, but the additive value to the world is just Incredible and important again is getting back to this notion of strategic health engagement and building Populate healthy populations and preventing disease So the military research labs around the world aren't purely an army or navy asset. They're not Essentially just a do d asset or even just a federal government asset. They really are an asset in the fullest sense the sense A real national investment in a national treasure that benefits every man woman and child in this Country and benefit many people around the world


Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming to our session We wanted to pull together a panel to talk a little bit about some of our experiences over the years as we've all kind of grown Into different leadership positions here at Red Hat and at other locations So first of all wanted to start off with panel introductions. So my name is Jenna Albertson I've been in the software industry for about 25 years, but I didn't start there I actually was an accountant and then was going back to school to get my degree in geology When I took my first computer science class and it was hooked since that time I've worked for a few stops a few startups started my own company worked for a few larger companies and eventually ended up at Red Hat during that time I have been a Java developer a website developer team lead project lead and Currently working as a manager Very excited to kind of share my experiences during my journey with you and Alexander we have this passing my game. So My list of achievements is not as long So if my name is Alexander Federer when I'm team lead of CI team in Red Hat and If we talk about the starting of a career, I actually Got a degree in completely unrelated topic which is differential geometry No one knows what this is and like at a certain point in time I decided that I wanted to go to something less nerdy and so I switched to IT and and I started from a very very lowest level from junior support engineer in the call center and then like clamped it to Support engineers is admin DevOps engineer built engineer CI engineer and currently CI team lead Hi everyone, my name is Alex Kassel Oboeva. I also work at Red Hat have been for more than seven years now I'm an engineering manager, but Similarly as my colleagues here, I don't have a background in IT Actually, I finished my bachelor degree in mass media communication and even studied archaeology for a year So the way to the engineering and to Red Hat was not super narrow for me either I began doing part-time jobs of during my studies first as a translator then writing documentation technical documentation and I would say this was the start of my career in IT in general and later in Red Hat where I started as a technical writer Which was basically just one step to the engineering Hi, I'm Erica Erica von Bielow. I currently lead the auth as an authentication authorization team for open shift I came to open shift in Red Hat through the Coro s acquisition where previously I'd worked on the operator life cycle management As well as quay for a bit previous to that I think Jessica will be the only one who studied CS. I studied math and found my way over into startup land and Where I worked in education technology for three or so years It was an exciting start-up ride from very few to Exponential growth every year That's I started Managing a an engineering team there when I transitioned over into Coro s and I became an individual contributor again and Unexpectedly found myself back in a team lead role recently Hi, I'm Jessica Forester So I'm also at Red Hat as Erica hinted at I do have a little bit more of a traditional background So I went to school for CS and math I've been doing software development for I guess about 12 years About 10 of that was that focused more on front-end engineering development Went in and out of the team lead position as I transitioned companies So did it for a little while changed companies went back to individual contributor And then at Red Hat I've been a team lead and now I am what we call a group lead and open shift Which is the easiest definition as a team lead of team leads So it's kind of like an architect for a smaller portion of the product Apologize for the patience as we pass this back and forth So as you kind of can see we come from a lot of different backgrounds Different experiences and it were all at different stages of our career What we're hoping to do is as we start sharing our stories and experiences with all of you That will give you some insight into your journey as you're moving through your careers also During this we really hope that people kind of reach out and ask questions as things come to you Love to be able to share our experiences on any questions that you have So I kind of wanted to start off with maybe something that that we've all Something in our in our background that we kind of see is sort of a key turn around or Aha moment in our careers that we that we wanted to to share with everyone. So for me I had I Had been a team lead and a project manager for for several companies Had had a lot of experience with that when I was and I was working for a smaller startup And they asked me to move into a management position. I had no experience in this other than being a team lead and Accepted the position and it was a disaster I didn't have a lot of good mentoring right at that time I didn't have a good role model that I could be looking to for a lot of that management Experience that I needed and at that time I said this is this is definitely not for me It is not something that I want to pursue and I left that job and moved back into being an individual contributor At that time it seemed like a very good decision and it gave but it gave me a little taste of Management working with people trying to to handle some of the problems in a different way and kind of got me Started on a path where I was starting to look at that as a possible future for for myself So I guess for me the the turning point was Similar in that I I got into the team lead position and when you when I first got into it It was very focused on the technical side of what it meant to be a team lead, right? Making decisions about what which technologies we were using Helping coordinate who is going to work on which pieces But over time I started to realize the thing that I actually enjoyed most about the position was the people side and Getting to mentor people and help them grow and helping them work through whatever might be going on And I think that's what eventually led me to really want to go into the group lead position because you know that the More strategic you get to be the more you get to advocate for the people that are working with you in your teams I don't know how much this counts as an aha moment, but just that I was reminded I Have failed at leading whether it was managing or team leading recently or any other Avenue many times and When I'm like mentoring someone on my team, I like if they're not failing at something I feel like they're not trying like they're not pushing themselves and I want to push them harder because that's how you grow and that's how you learn and I'm kind of having an aha moment even myself right now that that's also true Of when you're leading but you kind of fail and and it's really scary Of course because you feel like there's people that you're responsible for But so much part of it is learning and growing just the same as you would in your technical career Okay wanted to bring up a topic that I'm sure everybody has heard quite a bit about because it's all seems to be in the Media a lot especially in the technology industry and that's talking about imposter syndrome so kind of back to to everyone here is is this something that you personally have experienced and If you have do you want to share your story and kind of your experiences and and how you've overcome that? This is actually my favorite question and The thing is I believe I'm not just like experience it. I'm also like embracing it and using it into my To my benefits so the thing is like imposter syndrome is the feeling that you are not for this position that you are like Only pretending to feel in this position and there are like real people doing this job And you are just like someone who is not really like deserving this this kind of work and of course there are like two ways how you can see this and How you can resolve this feeling so first of all, of course, it's like talking to other people and Opening up and seeing what other people think about like share your feelings with others and see how others react the same To the same questions and you will notice that like everyone basically feels this the same feeling and it's you're not alone And this is like a natural thing to have but the second part of it is Especially in my case where I came from the Pre-Ormathematics to the IT and all everyone around like seemed to have a lot of experience already and I don't and so my solution to the problem of like not being on the same page with others is that I just created my own so the thing is like I Really thought about like being system administrator or support engineer and something But I realized like I have my own way of thinking of something and I created my job I actually created my title this CI engineer thing when I started to work in the company I was a DevOps engineer and like I Spend some time and see like no, I'm not a real DevOps I'm like only pretending to be a real DevOps engineer, so I just invented my own name and say like Since today, I'm not even trying to pretend I find my own way to do things So I would just add and I think it helped me in my career as well It's important to be honest with yourself because everybody has doubt So like even if you have a lot of confidence in most of the things that you are doing Like sometimes you are just doubting what you are doing and in that moment I would say it is important to really be honestly able to evaluate Your sides your weaknesses and also the the strong sides and try to see the positives and the value that you are For example bringing to your team so while it is Really simple to find all the negative Sides that you have and things that you are doing wrong It is important to also think about the positives that you are bringing so really saying honest and true to yourself I remember when I my first software engineering job I was a nervous wreck for at least the first couple months like go home throw up so nervous all the time I think I've gotten better. Although every new job or position definitely brings a new round of anxieties with it Now the way I tried to look at it I don't know that I will ever get rid of the feeling that I don't Know what I'm doing or that I am not qualified I'll probably always slightly feel those What I now concentrate on is that Even if I'm not qualified now or don't know what I'm doing now I do deserve the opportunity to grow and to learn from this and that I am capable of Learning and improving and becoming something good enough to fill whatever the role might be I Guess since everyone else has talked I will say yes, I too have had imposter syndrome many times And for me I remember the first time someone told me what it was and it was the biggest light bulb I think I have had in my life probably of yes That is what I have been feeling all this time And I think once you understand what it is and you can recognize it It makes a big difference later on because you catch it you catch yourself doing it And then it's easy to turn it around and I think Alexander like you said use it to your advantage And push through it and get fuel from it Yeah, I know kind of sort of feeding off of that I I I have suffered from that for a long time without actually realizing that that's what it was I actually had an interesting conversation with with my manager when I was telling him that you know, it was explaining you know You I'm getting involved in a lot of meetings that that then deal with a lot of long-term planning and and Suddenly I feel intimidated. So if I'm sitting at the table with it with a bunch of directors and VPs Across the company it makes me it makes me nervous and then I start questioning should I even be here? Do I have the right to be here? They obviously all know no more and and it was funny because he said I feel exactly the same way when I walk into those meetings and for me that was a really Positive statement to make because suddenly it felt like it's good that I'm not the only person out there doing that So I agree with what people have said Talking about that making sure that you're communicating that with people that you feel comfortable with is is an important way to get over that yourself and be able to To understand that if you're being asked to do that you're being given the opportunities that it's a great chance for you to be able to Embrace that take take a chance and and believe in yourself because somebody else is believed in you to get you to that to that place So talk another one about this so this is one of my personal challenges as I've become a leader and that's Delegating so very often when you're getting moved into a leadership position That's happening because you you are very good at what you do and people see potential in you The problem is it is sometimes very difficult to let go of those the the need to be as successful and do the things that you've been successful for For me, I've had a hard time Delegating and I tell myself it's because I don't want to burden anyone else with all this work So I'll just keep doing it all myself Then I know it'll get done it'll get done right and it's not then I'm not imposing on anyone else Kind of the way that I've been that I have managed to sort of break myself of that is Reminding myself of the fact that I have a limited amount of time to get stuff done So if I am doing all of the things that means some of the things aren't getting done And the things that aren't getting done may be things that are only I can do handling one-on-ones Doing some more of the strategic planning and those are the things that I shouldn't be dropping and I also look at it from the perspective of I Have This is an opportunity for me to give people on my team a chance to take on new Challenges and opportunities and so if I am always holding that to myself I'm not giving them the chance to be able to do that and and move forward So you guys have some more so For me learning how to delegate was the hardest part of becoming a team lead So I touched on it earlier that at the very beginning it was very focused on the technical side of things and as I learned to delegate and Open up more of my time to other parts of the job and the role That's when I was able to spend the time with the people on the human level and see where they were at and help grow Them more so freeing up your technical side as you're coming up into a team lead position Really helps you be a better mentor because you have time to sit back and think about where everybody is at And once I got really comfortable with well as comfortable as you can be Delegating that's when you know around the same time I felt comfortable moving into a Group lead position because you know the more strategic you become the less involved in day-to-day Development like an individual contributor might be you have to get really comfortable delegating things Oh boy, do I feel this one right now as one of these team leads that she's talking about There it is this is something I struggled more with as a technical team lead rather than when I was an official manager When I was a people manager by title. I felt much more comfortable saying No, I can't take this on this is not my responsibility and it very explicitly in making sure people on my team owned whatever it was on as a Technical team lead I find this much harder because I feel that like I'm supposed to upkeep some sort of technical Side that I need to still be demonstrating my technical expertise and how am I doing that if I can't even code a hundred lines or whatever This is very challenging It's good to hear from a group lead that part of it is just giving that up and Thinking of things from a more strategic point of view There are parts to art to the technical product that are not about just the code There especially when you're doing systems designing like we are an open shift The code is maybe the least important not the least important. It's a There is a many other aspects to go on about so this is a Sort of a team leadership therapy session for me here Of learning how to properly delegate because yeah, I think you can't you can't grow yourself Or what your team can do if you can't delegate? So before I move forward with any other our questions, does there anybody in the audience that has questions that they'd like us to answer Yes Yes, so so what? Oh, sorry. Yes. So so this the question was was kind of to talk about from the perspective of as we're moving from the Tactical to strategic. What does that personally mean mean to us? So for me, I think that a lot of what has a lot of what is has been different in my career As I moved from being that job engineer up to being a manager has been a lot of change in how I focus my time and energy so When it when I was was programming it was very much about the what do I need to get done now? There's a there's a always a list of tasks and things that I need to accomplish I'm thinking about things like the training and everything I need to do in order to empower what I'm trying to do right at This moment a lot of what I focus on now is not so much the The day-to-day activities in there a lot of that I've sort of delegated down to my team But thinking in terms of where do we need to be in in six months? Where do we need to be in a year? What are some of the things that are coming down the Down the road that I can see from other teams that might start impacting the stuff that we're doing So there's a lot more communication a lot more connection with with folks outside of my own organization being much more aware of what's going on in the in the industry and and how that may be impacting us and figuring out how I can make sure that I am preparing my team To be able to accept things that might be happening in the future that they may not be aware of yet So whether it's helping them plan training helping figure out how I'm growing their careers so that they'll be able to Expand out and and be able to support new projects as they come come up There's a lot of different ways in which you're sort of looking at things, but not looking at them necessarily On the day-to-day or the tactical in a tactical way I think I I can Talk about totally different aspect of the same thing. So for me this So what you were talking about is like how you doing this Strategical thinking as the leaders should position while you're there what I was wanted when I went to talk about is about the career growth actually and and your Tactical to strategic idea of how to grow in your position and the thing is like I met certain people who Just finished from from school or something and they say like oh I want to be like this administrator System administrator, what should I do and then they try to reach to that point and so on and This is like the year tactical goal Yeah, they want to get into this particular position and they the scope their career growth their efforts to get to this particular thing, but if you But this Scale is really too small and when you think about your career growth in general You need to understand like the life is long and like in five years. There will be no system administrators and some other like Sites really reliability engineers come and then like in ten years It will be we're maybe all talking to machine learning and and Artificial intelligence instead of writing our bar scripts and then like in thirty years You're still be there and you may be doing something completely different. So from a very beginning Just like you shouldn't limit yourself to one particular Tactical goal you need to understand that you need to invest in a wider Scope and the wider a set of things which may Play a role later on you don't know yet. Don't don't limit yourself to to to be too narrow goal in this case Any other questions? I'm sorry motivation Vision what's your vision of a career? My own personal one That is that is a great question and and I will say Right now a lot. I would say my vision for for my career is I'm incredibly happy in In the work that I that I'm currently doing I love managing teams and I love being on the engineering side of things So my goal is is basically to continue to grow my skills and in helping Manage my team Understand my the business better and better And then and just to continue to kind of grow in the same direction that I've been going in But I don't have any real long-term plans for Any kind of advancement beyond that I think right now Vision for myself or with a word that I think of is impact that I want to be growing my impact on whichever Team I am on Whichever industry I'm in and on the world at large. That's the motive Largest motivator I think for me any Issue I want to see my career growing Meaning that I'm having a larger impact on the world that I am more able to affect the changes that I want to see Okay, I think I saw one more. Yes. Yes Okay, so the question was As leaders what is our advice for for trying to find a mentor and that's great because we were actually going to try to Talk about mentors in here. I would say Very often within within the companies that you work with there's there's often programs set up to try and help match people together for mentorships Personally, I've had some some great success in finding good mentorships working through the companies that I've worked for and had some fantastic experiences with being paired up with folks that that I would never have chosen for myself But it has turned out to be an incredibly positive Engagement and I've learned a lot from them. I think especially because they're coming from a different Portion of the organization doing very different jobs than I've done and so they bring in a completely different insight in in there I think that I have I know that a lot of times people look for external mentors I have never done that and been able to have any success with that. I don't has anybody else had So In my experience like I have never had official mentor like from a company provided sign or so on but for me the main mentoring part was actually Fedora community the open source community and it was like there's certain issues with that so If you go in from mentors looking for advices from a community you need to understand to have a basic understanding to how it to differentiate the good advice from bad advice because like Community is different. Everyone is different there. You need to know your Need to understand to whom to really talk and listen and who are just like doing nothing useful for you But once you get this kind of habit of understanding how to deal with the people in the community It provides you a lot of help in this area So I think there's two points I want to talk to here the first one is Jen touched on the official mentoring stuff I have tried that before and honestly I haven't had much luck with that and I think something that I was told and that helped me is if the mentoring Relationship is not working. Don't continue it So when you want to establish a mentoring relationship You should make sure going in that you both agree on what the goals are and if you are the mentee you need to be the one to come to the table with what you want to get out of it and Don't put it all on the mentor because odds are your mentor is probably very busy And so be ready to say before you guys meet like these are the things I'm going to want to talk about and give them a chance to prepare So it that all helps you may still find that the mentoring relationship could be three months It could be a year It could be a career and it entirely depends on what the goals are for that mentorship So the other thing that I wanted to touch on is something that I heard about a few years ago Which is the distinction between a mentor and a sponsor I don't know if you've anyone's ever heard of this but a mentor is usually a Tactical I want something out of the relationship because I want to learn something a Sponsor the best definition. I've heard is someone who advocates for you when you are not in the room and So think about who in your organization would be that person and make sure you're establishing a good Relationship with them because you want to make sure that you know when people are saying well We need somebody to do this role. We need somebody to do this thing who'd be good for that I know that person So that's what you want to look for Apologies for that all these static in here So for anybody on the panel are you is anyone involved in any leadership opportunities that are outside of work? Or have have you had some in the past that that? That you want to share they kind of have led you either That that are helping to build your leadership skills now or that help bring you into the leadership opportunities that you currently have So, I mean this probably isn't too relevant for you guys because none of you are in high school anymore But so I actually got started in leadership, you know very early I was in our marching band and my first taste of leadership was leading as a section in band And you know, it's it's not very different than leading a team of people, right? You have to find motivation You have to plan, you know, this is the same kind of things that you do with leading the team of people in the industry I will represent the There are a lot of different opportunities within open source for leadership There I Currently leading the policy working group in Kubernetes. So if anyone is really interested in policy Come talk to me and I'd love to geek out about what is otherwise Considered a very boring topic Which is one of my advice I would give if you're afraid of where to go in go try somewhere boring because most likely It's not actually boring once you learn about it, but it will kind of scare people off and give you opportunities That is one piece of advice of where to find leadership opportunities at open source the other one is off hours Very good place to find opportunities Within open source I find I found that Half of it is just showing up and the other half is Taking on when they need help just volunteering There isn't as many there aren't official barriers of qualifications that you need So and if They're asking volunteer It's a very it's an interesting type of leadership usually within open source because there's actually I would say more politics often So that is in itself a very interesting learning opportunity you definitely learn how to work with people and what the various Factions and within the technology are So that is another opportunity. I would recommend people check up Yeah, and I'll share mine. So this is this is a little bit more recent But I have the opportunity to take on a leadership role in running a nonprofit Organization that we had started to bring girls into technology So it's a high it was a high school program for girls So that they could get involved in technology and I will say it was it was an incredible learning experience for me So even though I was a manager and had been leading teams for a while This was my first time ever leading an entire entirely volunteer organization And it's and it's a different style of management It's a different way of being able to lead and encourage and empower people to to work with you It was incredibly frustrating at times It felt like I should have been it a lot of times it felt like I should have had more of those skills I needed in order to make things work a lot more smoothly But I think there's once you start changing dynamics you can learn a lot from that situation Get a better understanding of yourself and and some of your some of your skills and capabilities And also some of the areas that you need to continue to improve on so for me it was a great growth experience because One it was wonderful to be able to to get out there and help run that program and get that started But it also it plugged me into a completely new Organization and a new way of managing that I hadn't done before and it took a lot We'll weigh a lot of lessons from that that I now apply both to my current job But then also I plan to use for future opportunities of being able to work in the volunteer And I will say volunteering is a great place to get a lot of leadership experience Because you don't necessarily have to start off. I did with trying to run an entire program from scratch But there's the opportunity to be able to step in and take on smaller roles Get comfortable with that and start building out your your resume and your reputation And that gives you a lot of skills that you can then pull back into the workplaces You're trying to look for positions of leadership inside your own company And kind of since it's related I have a question on Talking about building your brand so I know everybody's probably heard about that building your brand and understanding what that is And so so thinking about it in terms of not necessarily always thinking about things related to work But how can you build your brand? even outside of work in in different ways that can that that lets you help focus the Characteristics that you think are really important that you can then bring back into into the workplace and so I Will say for me it relates that one of the things that I'm incredibly passionate about is making sure that we're bringing more women into technology and especially impacting kids at a younger age so that that they become excited and Inspired by that and being able to do that and and I've done that a lot through volunteering work that I do so I and one of the reasons why it impacts me so much and why it's so important to me and that I want that to be kind of part of about who I am was I did a training class in the in the some of the schools that we have been in North Carolina and One of the things that we did was it was we would set up sessions And then we would talk to the kids about what the session was about and they would get to to decide whether or not they Wanted to sign up for our particular session so I was doing one on computer programming and one of the girls in the class asked the question Can girls sign up for this and so I use that as kind of my Call for Empowerment to make sure that I am always making sure that I am focusing on this both in my job and and also in the volunteer work that I do So you you guys have any stories on? Building your brand that you want to share. I will just talk about the Technology again part of it. So as I said when we discussed earlier like for me the Huge struggle was to find my place in the engineering and in like in the right role for engineering So one of so the solution I got to myself is to create my role myself and just create a name for for it and since then I'm trying to kind of Define what what what this role means actually and one of the like work I do in the background and I'm trying to Identify what what is this thing which I called myself actually means and what is the theory behind it and how to Have to create a certain knowledge around it because of the The topic of continuous integration whatever is like such a weird thing everyone talks about no one knows What does it mean actually? So one of the things I'm doing in the background is My ideal Like my dream is to write a book about it Currently I'm writing just like small pieces, but maybe someday it will it will help We'll see if it works out, but yeah, this this is kind of a work It's not a personal brand, but it's like the brand I want to create and I want to fight for and leading that direction So I wouldn't just like to add that like from my experience building some sort of a brand is mostly about finding your purpose in life or your career purpose and It is often a lot of trying and failing And also in my case like when you look at the background and the studies That I've been through like I've been obviously looking for my purpose in my life But I think like after like in the end. Oh, I found it similarly as so Jen, I would say like since I'm also a people manager First starting as a as an individual contributor working with other people and then becoming a team lead I have realized that this is this is basically the area The focus that I would like to have an expand on in the future. So just keep on looking Any other questions for anybody? Yes Okay, so the question is how important is it dependent for you to work on location? And how difficult I guess it can be if you're working remotely to be able to to grow your career in a positive way Yeah, so so I will say I'm gonna speak on behalf of Red Hat and then you guys can all tell me I'm wrong, but I Feel like especially for Red Hat that They do a very good job of trying to make sure that we are keeping people Giving people opportunities whether they happen to all be in the same office and local or where they tend to be remote And and I may be speaking more from from the experience that I have had in in the groups that I have worked with But we have a lot of teams that that have individuals that are scattered all over the globe and We work very hard to make sure that they are all considered part of the team and are getting opportunities to be able to to work and Grow into leadership opportunities in different ways. So from previous teams, I've managed, you know, the the I've actually had one team where the majority of the teams were all located in one office in North Carolina And yet the team lead was located in Canada And that worked out very well It just takes more time and effort to make sure that you're giving people the ability to be able to work effectively that way I Will say at other companies that I've worked at it has been almost impossible for you to be able to move into Growth opportunities unless you happen to be physically located in the same office is where the majority of the folks were So I definitely think this is an area that the Red Hat really excels So of the my answer would be like it is possible to get into leadership position from remote work and like I'm work remotely and Isolated from my team basically for for example, but to make it work You need a specific effort. So you cannot just take a team Put them in different remote locations and start working like this. You need additional effort. You need additional Policies additional workflows to make sure that a remote work Actually works for you. So it's a I Saw sometimes that the people try to do this remote work by just sending people away and then and trying to keep up Over the same workflows they had before and it always fails like miserably Yeah, so you really need to invest your time into organizing in a remote friendly way I Lead my team remotely to people are in Raleigh one of them is here and bring out Another is in Boston, and then I'm in New York, and I do think it is an additional challenge to be remote from the main kind of center It can feel I think the challenge at the biggest challenge is keeping aware of things outside your immediate periphery and Building relationships, especially with the people who are highly influential in your organization So I know that there are hallway conversations that I'm not going to be there for and that can be You know a damaging for your not damaging, but a disadvantage for your career It's something you do have to be aware of and really work to overcome To make sure that you're not letting yourself kind of fade away if that makes sense But jumping on those video calls as much as possible This also I noticed kind of comes head to head with just growing organizations meeting These sorts of skills anyway. There's a point where your organization doesn't fit in a room anyway And it being on separate floors is almost the same as being in separate towns it the Your team can be made stronger by having a good remote balance that forces you to document things properly to make Process that are going to work So working at it now. It is a great way also to ensure you have a stronger organization So the question was When you build your brand that are you specialized in certain direction or you more going into general thing and trying different things I just want to share this story The thing is like I'm see engineer. I was like looking into CI and trying to Build something about it, but I was also like curious about this You know Raspberry Pi staff and for people who are like deeply theoretical like me actually making led light blink is some achievement of my life so I Actually did it in my free time and I like created certain like library a recompiled device three once and so and This actually led me to redhead to my current position So it it was totally out of scope. I planned for it was just for fun And then eventually it kind of helped me to to get into the conversation and to get into the position Which I am here now So like you don't have to focus on something. It's good to have primary Goal or maybe primary target. I think but it's also like don't don't Skip all these other things you're interested in if you're interested in them. Just do them. It's also Yes, I think the official business school thing they tell you is to be a t-shaped person Which is you know Broad in many areas and then deep in one area and I think that's generally good True, but not great advice. That makes sense Personally if I'm told I have to find something I like or pick a favorite I Blank and freak out and that will never work for me That isn't to say I haven't found areas that I've developed more depth in But if the way I found that was mostly by spreading my tentacles everywhere, which I still kind of do Maybe that's not a good thing, but and certain things kind of you notice Hey, those are related to each other or that's an area that it seems like kind of has a common But I've heard people talk about in different areas. Is there something here we can learn about and then just following your interests. I Think passion being passionate and interested in something that especially that Maybe doesn't have as big a like people aren't paying attention to in a more holistic way is a great way to Find it and build your expertise Without feeling forced to do it Really quick I think for me Being a front-end engineer the thing that that let me do was I got to actually interface with broad parts of the system Even though I had a specific technical focus building the front end I actually got to see huge huge sections of the product and it made it very easy for me that to then Transition into a broader role because I was in familiar with all of those other areas so you can you can be broad at a Shallower level and then be able to dive into an area when you need to it if you get the chance to be familiar with it Yep Yeah, so I just I wanted to thank the panel for doing this and and definitely thank the audience for all of your questions in there And I hope that some of the stories that we have provided will give you good insights for As you're trying to develop that your own career and your own career path to a leadership opportunity. Thank you


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Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 Tops Chrome Black Baseball Hobby Edition three box random team break number one right here The next one is coming up a little bit later tonight in a different video if you're looking for that one spot gets you three teams In this little break right here. So Let's triple you up. There's one There's two and there's three and of course all 30 baseball teams are in Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a two five times for names and teams one two three four and fifth and final time Got Robert down to Tyler three and a two five times for the teams one two three four and fifth and final time after five we've got the buckos Down to the rocks Walked off my Dodger City next to Charlie Blackman solo shot solo shot Whatever it was All right Robert with the buckos Craig with the red legs Robert with the rays Sean Oh with the halos Harry you got my Dodgers Jackson with the cubbies the O's and the brew crew Robert with the Higantes Craig with the athletics Harry with the Twinkies Robert with the t-grays and the Padres the Friars Harry with the bravos Sean Oh with the Royals and the fish Metropolitan's for Robert the tribe for Tyler Craig with the M's Robert with the Nats Harry with the Stroze Robert with the Bronx bombers Sean Oh with the rain. I don't know if the Rangers really have like a nickname right Rangers the Rs Harry with the Jays Tyler with the bow socks Sean Oh with the shy socks and the snakes Harry with the redbirds Fightin' fills for Robert Flores and Tyler with the Rockies. All right, so let's sort by column B And we're gonna pause the video We're gonna allow for a little bit of trading time and when we come back We'll see if any teams get traded and then we'll have this rake stick around BRB All right. Welcome back everybody. There was a deal and look at that. It's a two for one Deal Jackson gives up the Orioles and the Cubs for the Astros so Harry You're now in the Orioles Cubs spot here So put T there for trade and Jackson. You're now in the Astros spot Think Jackson was saying he has an Astros PC going or something like that Yeah, he's got an Astros PC going. All right. Good luck Jackson. Good luck Harry All right. Now let's print and rip and let's see what we got Got red socks Yankees on the background top of the six Yankees up three nothing But the red socks are threatening. All right, so this is a three box break Yeah, three box break another three boxes Coming up in a little bit There's the final print out hot off the presses And let's see what we got 2020 tops chrome black baseball This is a pretty good break. I think it's a pretty underrated product in my opinion So it's got that pack and then the encased card Obviously all-card ship. We've got Anthony Rendon Trent Grisham and Michael Baez The Michael Baez is for Robert and that is to 139 Let's see what we got here if I could get it's out of 150 Wow, it's a no more Garcia para autograph. No ma who does some television work for the Dodgers Network Here in Los Angeles that goes to Tyler and the Red Sox next we've got some Aquino show go Akiyama And we got a Zach gallon Sean Oh with the snakes It's 23 out of 75 and it's gonna be another Red Sox this time JD Martinez nice another one for Tyler. He's got the Noma and The JD if there's Aaron judge There's Jorge Soler and that is Mike trout Sean O'Leary with the halos 176 out of 199 pretty quick break here. We've got the final encased card He's gonna be a met it's Your home run derby winner Peter Lonzo He was raking during the home run derby Nice one for Robert and the Mets Thanks, everybody. It's a quick three box break. Got another one coming up I think we've got more to post too So keep an eye out on more on Jaspies case breaks calm. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye