Search for a home on any device, any time, anywhere. Private Property, a home for everyone. Because done and dusted and you're ready for the weekend, welcome to Winner Home on Afternoon Express. My name is Danilo Acquisto, and this show is proudly brought to you by Private Property. Now, at South Africa's premiere interior design reality competition, we've been on an incredibly thrilling journey so far with our competing design dealers as they transformed three totally empty cluster homes into these lavish designer living spaces. Now, soon the journey will reach its pinnacle, but before we hit the road to the grand finale, let's take a quick look back at what happened in the conclusion of our final room challenge. Previously on Winner Home, even the rain couldn't put a damper on the judges' critiques of the living rooms. Guest Judge Stephen Pellerade had a problem with pillows. You know what? I need to get rid of at least one. While Donald and Katlechal had their own problems. I'm a bit confused about the room. What's going on with this TV? Hmm, guys. Fortunately, they agreed that one living room ticked all the boxes, and Team House and Leisure broke the three-way tie by winning the lounge challenge. Finally. And with that, the homes are finished, right? Well, no, not really, because whenever a new home is built, there's an opportunity to fix any small defects or make minor changes before the owner officially moves in. Now, this is called snagging. So, with their last few rands and scents, the design dealers were given the chance to do just that. It feels like we're changing everything, but in a way to make it better. Like, we're doing a lot of snags and touch-ups. We started with room one and we went through the process.  I think I wouldn't want to wake up with the hangover in this room. This time around, he must be able to snooze in that room. We've been trying to take the advice of the judges and edit the home as much as possible, trying to add in things that we wanted to add in the challenge that we never got a chance to. We're also keeping our design aesthetic in terms of what we do, which is over the top, daring, bold, all of that. First things first, we have to change our crescent. And also our blue room. The kittens, it's a must. But in the blue room, we've decided to paint over our paint technique. I think it made the room feel very heavy. And we added yellow, which is a bright happy colour, which also stimulates thinking, which talks again to our study theme in the room. And it matches with the chair. Listening to the judges' comment, they told us that the plant was too big, so it overpowered the furniture. So we decided to make it a little bit shorter. And we added in a rug so that when you walk into the space, it really draws your attention to the floor and folds up the room. We're changing the mirror in the master bathroom because it'll skew on installation. So to also not exert a lot of weight on it, we swapped it around. The heavier side is on the bottom side. The one reason why it got skewed was because we had the big part at the top, so putting it up was quite a mission. Since we flipped it around, it's more easier to get it straight. Our heartlander coffee table is here finally, and we can finally replace the pallet for it. And I think the judges might be impressed. I've been waiting for this moment where we can read out the pallet. We thought our house was looking a little bit boring from the outside. As much as others might adore it and love it, we still love a little element of something special, something unique, something that stays in the lane, you're not... We want something when people drive past, they slam on break. Let's go. Can I get into that door? I need to be in that house, I need to know who the person is. They're living there. It was just to add a little bit of something special. So when your vision comes together at the end, after going through all of that, it really is a miracle. And it's a miracle, especially if you as the design duo are happy with what you're putting forward. Our house has come together beautifully and how we had imagined it would, and we're very happy about how everything turned out. We definitely did bring our own personal touch into every room, and I hope the judges can also appreciate that. It looks like a designer house. It looks like a house where you can sit down and have brilliant conversations, honestly speaking. So for us, it's a dream come true. Still to come, our judges, Katlech O'Condlow, Donald Numalo and our guest judge, must assess the overall design of each design duo's homes in the final round of judging. And directly after the break, we're going to be reminiscing with our design duo's. So stay right where you are. Because if it doesn't improve people's lives, it isn't plus gone, plus gone, designed for life. Because if it doesn't improve people's lives, it isn't plus gone, plus gone, designed for life. Welcome back. Next week is going to be our live grand finale episode of Winner Home, where one of our design duo's will be handed a check to the value of 100,000 rand as our judge's choice design champions. Plus the duo with the most amount of votes from you at home will also be winning 20,000 rand. So if the same duo wins both, then they'll bag a cool 120,000 rand in prize money. Now, although voting has officially closed, you can still let us know on social media who you think will be this year's design champions using that hashtag win a home. Now, each of our design duos brought a unique aesthetic, personality, and energy to the competition and following their time on Winner Home has been both entertaining and really emotional. Team House and Leisure combines Banele's artistic eye with Cephor's technical talent and this helped secure their places the early front runners of the competition and gave them the confidence to believe in their personal style. With the course of the show, I've realised that if I put myself or a certain mindset and hope to do something, I realise that I can get it done and especially with personal style, realising that people watch you, you almost want to become a hero for them in your style and inspire the next generation who's going to come through. This competition has helped me out of my comfort zone and I've learnt that there are certain things that I didn't believe I could do prior to the competition and now I believe I can do. My low point was in the very beginning when we were starting to work together and we didn't really understand each other's styles. This is such a disaster and it's not looking as I thought it would. Really? Is it that bad? But we have literally less than six hours to get this right and it's not looking good. Do you want to give me a hand here? I wish I could help, but I can't. As the show went, we kind of got an idea who likes what and how to work around each other's styles. So which mirrors do you think you should use? I want the bronze. I want the grey. Then why don't you ask me? Because I don't think I have all of them. As we criticised the last time for using yellow, I thought maybe we could try a green since you love it so much. Who said I love green? That is your green. Are you trying to confuse yourself with me now? I've been your head. Working together for me has actually made me trust her more as well in regards to, like, technical stuff. If it wasn't for him, probably the card would have been skew of Santan. Because I'm just like, if it looks good, it's okay. But he makes sure that it's perfect. How are the nerves? Well, I'm fine now. Okay, good. Whatever happens, guys, just please get this thing finished. My high point has been, well, one, working with Banile. That would be, like, the most amazing experience. If I had to pick another partner to work with, I'd always pick him. To whoever gets to pick a house, I think they should pick ours because it's fabulous. Of the many reasons that made Team VC stand out, the one that really captured our attention was the fact that this duo created a fictional client and consistently designed every space with that client in mind. Their vision was to combine African style with a contemporary design with a theme of concrete jungle. And Team VC certainly created spaces that dreams are made of. In the beginning of the show, I was very comfortable with what I do at work. And then I needed a challenge. It nearly gave me a heart attack. I've realised that we complement each other and maybe even supplement each other where the one has a weakness, the other one complements with a strength. So I think we still work well together, even though we irritate each other sometimes. I think I'm going to go this way, let's divide and conquer. I'll go this way. The last time you disappeared out of nowhere. Trust me. And I'm proud to say that I've done it with the seahorse. Let's do this. Yep. I don't think you're testing the meter. You're testing your lipstick out. I know, but it's fine. I can manage this. We've done this before. Are you chasing me out? Anime is a very good editor. Watching her work definitely inspired me. Like, yes. Question. Can you afford it? I think we can. I didn't even sell the seahorse for this. I'm going to sell me. And I think we are blessed to have her opinion on what we are doing. We were looking at this piece over here. Without the scout cushion. My high point for the show was definitely interacting with all of the designers that I follow on Instagram and I get to meet them in real life and hear their stories. I'd want it maybe mirrored just so that it actually draws the eye and your attention towards this big bed that we have. I absolutely love your dodecahedron piece. Thank you. Thank you very much. We love it. Getting the kitchen done, that was the high point for me. I love this monochromatic feel that you've got going on here. Thank you. How do you feel? It's been a long road. Absolutely. We're just glad that we're done and now it's time to enjoy our kitchen. I like the fact that it's a soft clothes. And it can take about 400 kg. Oh, okay. Mr. Nowarov. 100, 200, 400. This should prove him a theory. We're still going to work together. For a very long time. Winner Home has definitely opened a lot of doors for us. We're already getting requests from people wanting us to decorate their spaces. If you want to enter Winner Home, I'll tell you now, it's a good opportunity for you to grasp. If you go out there and see other designers challenge them, work with them, get the opportunities that you get with Caesar Stone, with Plaskul, talking about colour psychology. I knew nothing about colour psychology when I started this competition, but as time went on, I studied it, opened a different side of me. If you want to do Winner Home, be prepared to work hard, very hard. Even when you don't want to work, you still have to work. Now, when you think of Team Habitat, there are some words that immediately come to mind, like bold, daring, perhaps quirky and brave.  As you can see, we are dressed to kill like a leopard. Wow! Welcome to the jungle! Well, please hold your flowers, you are the queen! I think our boldness and our difference stood out.  My word, good thing I had signal. We are ready to roar for our leopard's library. Meow! Our relationship has been strained a lot. I think when the budget snaps like my panty line, that's when our relationship also wins. I got a habit!  Red? 80,000. My nerves. Feel stressed.  So also we go home, leaving the space and still debate the same things. Like, we didn't leave work at work. So are you going to pick the curtain? If I have to. Or are you going to chop up that pole? That's my better knife. Every way, this draw map. My word.  It's been tough to maintain that fight. But it's actually made us stronger. I can now call ourselves bodybuilders. We are strong. Come on girl, put in some alcohol, please. And I hope we have inspired the audiences. And the people decorating them. And some decorating. This wall is amazing. Construction attire to block the dust from our eyes. This is to make sure when I go out after this, it's boom! My hyper is winning, winning, winning, winning. Especially when the money was there. We won! Can I just have one more? Just one more! Amanda, just one more.  My favourite room is house number 53. Thank you. Each room, it's like a child. And it's something different, something special, something bold, something daring. Unexpected. I'm so happy for them. They finally listened. We were not following no rule. No textbooks. No, ma'am. We just went in and said this is what the space feels like and this is what we'd like to create in the space and make it for the potential client. Everyone will be saying, what the fridge? It's hard to be a young designer in any of the fields of design. And we thank Mono Home for giving this opportunity and choosing. That was the wild card. And showing off what we do. Our design viewers have inspired us to look at interiors differently and showed the versatility of some incredible products. After the break, we take a look at how sponsored elements have added value to these homes. Plus, I'll be announcing the winner of our final bi-weekly giveaway. Could it be you? Stay right where you are. Come back to Winner Home on afternoon express. I'm super excited because in our grand finale, one lucky viewer will win a brand new home. During the live broadcast at 4pm on the 10th of November, that's next week Friday, we'll find out who becomes a new resident at I've Africa Golf and Residential Estate in the south of Joburg. Our grand prize winner will be able to enjoy the incredible amenities found at the estate, including a very special piece of history found in the old school deli. Thanks, Mangi. Thanks so much, Mangi. Old school is oh so cool, and the best way to my heart is through coffee and food. The old school deli at the I've Africa's got both. So, Louise, where does the old in old school come from? What's really exciting about this wonderful room that we're sitting in right now is it's almost over 100 years old, and it was actually an old school house. So, when we decided to put together the deli restaurant, Pete's area and create the heartbeats of the estate, we thought why not surround it around this historical building and encapsulate that beautiful history of the estate. What I love about this place is that there's a chance to pretty much get anything you need. Yes, exactly. I'm glad you've noticed that we have every offering from your everyday essentials of maybe like a toothpaste, milk, we've got some lovely gourmet sandwiches that you can come and collect daily, and then not just inside the deli convenience store, we've got a beautiful restaurant next door where you can host different types of functions, beautiful breakfast buffets, lunches, and then we've got our Pete's area where the kids can come and sit, make their own pizzas, and we've actually got an awesome kid's lifestyle area where we've got the kiddies play area, swimming pool, and then we've actually got their very own gourmet ice cream bar where they can go and get their ice cream cones and cups. So, it's really a lot of fun for the whole family. As the kitchen is the heart of the home, it feels like this old school deli is the heart of IA Africa and it's just so accessible to all of your residents. Yes, Danilo, like you say, it's right in the heart of IA Africa. So, we encourage to bring family, friends, get together like we had our heritage festival, encouraging friends and family to get together. And then the accessibility is within the estate at close walking distance, and then we're only 17 kilometres from Santon. So, to invite your friends and family archer is super, super easy. I really think what's unique about this specific development within IA Africa is we call this the Central Park. So, what's really lovely is that it almost gives you that wonderful resort feeling that you normally have to pay a lot of money to go away on holiday. Here you have this inside the secure premises of your own estate. You literally don't even have to leave your own estate to have a holiday feeling. What more could you ask for? It sounds incredible, with so much on offer, I don't want to miss out on all the opportunities. Vincenzo! Come on, start. Bene, grazie, le. The Italian blood that flows through my veins is dying to get into your pizza. You make the most perfect thin base. Can I try on my hand? Yeah, okay, you can make a nice pizza and salad, my chef in pizza will make a nice thin pizza. The Italian slag, the thin base, crispy, the nice Napolitan sauce and toppings just for you the best. Awesome. Silas, I want to give you a fist bump. Hey, how's it going, sir? I hear apparently that you're the legend when it comes to these pizzas. Yes. I've got my donut and I want to try to make a dessert pizza. Is that crazy? You can try but I think this is called a very, very bad pizza. So, what is the most popular one here? The most popular pizza here is a Mexican pizza. It's got meals, green pepper, onion, chicken curry. I'll make dessert pizza. You make your Mexican pizza. We'll see which one comes out. Yeah, let's try. Deal. Show me how to do it. Well, Silas went about preparing the estate's firm favorite, my unconventional creation, required a crispy base, sliced up donut and melted chocolate. Oh, wow. Yes. It looks good. I'll chop this one up. I won't lie. Savvy pizzas are always going to be a win. And although you can't get my donut pizza at the I Have Africa Golf and Residential Estate just yet, who knows? Maybe one day it could be a signature on their menu. Bon appetito. Oh, it's good. Thoroughly enjoyed myself hanging out at the deli and it's one of the many pleasures our grand prize winner will enjoy on the estate. Another pleasure to enjoy is living and interacting with the high-end furnishings and equipment supplied by our sponsors. Now, each team was allocated 60,000 rands worth of sanitary ware and mirror cabinets by Gibritt and 80,000 rands worth of showers and taps from Grover. They got to choose Grundig appliances worth 80,000 rand each and also could choose from Bulgatex flooring options to the value of 50,000 rand. Now, this was on top of the 100,000 rands worth of Caesar Stone per unit and as much Plaskon paint as was needed. So to our sponsors, we say a huge thank you. Using Caesar Stone in your bathroom and kitchen is going to increase the value of your home tremendously because of its high quality and lifetime warranty so the contestants have really understood that fact and put it in the right places. The Caesar Stone research and development team works really hard at creating unique colors and they've chosen really nice colors from our new range. They've utilized them beautifully. The design viewers have displayed such creative flair in using Caesar Stone in amazing out of the box ways from tile rail ladders to window frames but because it's non-porous, easy to clean and hygienic this naturally makes it perfect for kitchens and countertops. In fact, the best stone is Caesar Stone. If we could have made each kitchen a winner, we would have because they are all gathered out with state-of-the-art designer, grinding products.   Or Team Habitat's kitchen dining experience with convenient Grundig dishwasher and 12 kilogram washing machine both with their piano key design at your fingertips? The choice is yours if you are the lucky grand prize winner. Grundig, where home is. The winner of any one of the homes is going to get super products from Giberit. Choosing Giberit for your bathroom is the perfect choice because we bring technology from the front of the wall. We start with the toilet. We have the technology behind the wall with the single and dual flush. Sustainability is a really important fact for Giberit. So for example with the toilet flushing, we want you to save water and with having a 3 liter and 6 liter flush really makes you water wise and the beauty about them is they all rim free which is hygienic. The vanities which they've all selected in the are all situated off the floor which is great for giving a sense of space especially with more compact bathrooms. In addition to that all the bathrooms have beautiful illuminated mirrors that are great functions for when you are doing makeup and as well with storage in some of the units they've got storage cabinets. Mirror, mirror or on our wall make this team just appear. The products you are going to be receiving in the bathrooms are fantastic they come from Europe, they stylish and it's really where design meets function. All the products that you have in your home come with a 10 year service guarantee so that gives you a bit of peace of mind knowing that you've got high quality products and we stand by our brand. The design duos also use grower products to give the winner home grand prize winner the highest quality bathroom and kitchen experience imaginable. Team Hells and Leisure's next smart control shower will leave you feeling rejuvenated. Team Habitat's classy geometric taps are modern and stylish and their double range shower will make the neighbors jealous. Grower added an extra touch of luxury in Team VC's bathrooms and their kitchen comes complete with water wise taps that make washing up a pleasure. The lawns of the three homes were hosted by Evergreen Turf. The largest supplier of instant lawns in the southern hemisphere who have ensured that the grass is always greener. This grass is called Evergreen Gold it's a blend of turf type turf ice cubes and a little bit of blue grass it's a very good grass it's been tested over years it will remain green throughout winter and summer completely. This grass is grounded in our facility in Aikinoff. We grow it from seed that's imported and it takes us about a year before we can harvest it. This grass is grown and maintained like a mature lawn and it's cut into slabs so the moment that you've got your house ready you could virtually come to a situation where there's dirt in the morning in the afternoon you would get a beautiful lawn ready for a nice spray. Initially once you've planted it you need to water it well every day for about 14 days to make sure that there's enough root establishment. Thereafter you need to keep on mowing it every week and then obviously just a good fertilizing program. The benefits of turf grass around your house is amazing. 100 square meters of natural turf grass can create enough oxygen for our whole family as well as the cooling effect. The cooling effect is similar to what the aircon does and I mean you can just look at it stepping on a warm stepping stone and when it burns your feet and you jump onto the cool grass that's amazing. Apart from that as well just the edge to your property when coming to somebody's property you see this lush green lawn just creates that lovely outdoor living style which people love when they look at ours. Yes, a home without Plaskon is just a blank canvas with paintbrushes and rollers the designed heroes turned each home into a work of art. Creative and brave paint techniques transform spaces and bold use of color throughout each home positively impacted mood and well-being.  For our final bi-weekly giveaway one viewer gets to win a KitchenAid artisan mixer with 10,000 rand courtesy of Caesarstone. So congratulations to Patti Maloka. You voted for Team VC and this KitchenAid mixer is officially yours. Congratulations! And staying in the spirit of competition I'm looking forward to calling out the name of one of our designed heroes in the grand finale next week but first our judges have to visit the homes again to make their final verdict. This time they're packing a bag and coming extra comfortable all that and more next. This time anywhere. Private property a home for everyone. It's good to have you back with us on WinnerHome on afternoon express. Now to determine the overall winners of the design competition the judges will have to look at the design of the homes as a whole. Now for this very different final round of judging Donald Numalo of DNxDesign and Katlejo Conlow from Plaskon are joined by an icon of the South African interior design industry and they're bringing a little baggage to experience the design in a very personal and practical way. Up until this point the judges have arrived each week to look at the incredible design from our designed heroes but what will happen when they decide to live that design? Katlejo, Donald and our guest judge Kim H have arrived to spend the night and one of our designed heroes after that will be 100,000 rand richer. The acclaimed Kim Hutton was not only a judge for the first season of WinnerHome but also the designer of that season's grand prize apartment. I'm Kim Hutton. I own Kim H Interiors which I've had for 17 or 18 years now absolutely love what I do with those beautiful homes or offices or hotels. I just absolutely am completely passionate about design. I've got an honours degree in marketing at DCT started my own business which is opening up a pizza takeout chain which I've developed for about 10 years and built it up up to about 26 or 27 athletes. One day I was going outside in my after boss which I've had in every home I've built and I've just suddenly thought no, I'm now going to do what I love. The excitement I felt when I thought of the idea then 17 years ago has not gone away. I absolutely love what I do. I feel like I don't work a day in my life. Good design to me stems from absolutely thoroughly listening and understanding what your clients or your potential clients' lifestyle is, the type of person they are. The more they can tell me about themselves the more strongly I know I'm going to exceed their expectations. We watched the winner home season one and we saw him age they, hey it's really surreal to be in this moment right now. Absolutely. It's there, it's like some designers are also pushing boundaries and it's nice to be judged by people who push also boundaries. I've always wanted to work for him and I'm quite nervous. I'm not really sure how he's going to receive our work but then I'm hoping that he gets the best out of it. He is a very great interior designer in South Africa and to be judged finally by someone with so much experience so much knowledge so much inspiration is scary. Hello. Hello. Hello. We're all welcome. Now before our judges make themselves feel too at home each design duo will get the chance to present their dream home. First up Tepo and Vanelle. Welcome to your space and the idea here was to actually keep it very warm and we wanted it to feel like a home instead of like an apartment or like just a show house and it was with that we did the colours we considered what colours we use which helped with the warmth and especially in Kukula rooms and also I think with the textures that we used as well we just needed to soften up the space. What we had imagined for the space is a very young couple that has like recently gotten married so they are into like very different things like one is from like a very informal kind of upbringing and the other one had it very well in life and everything has gone well from one step to the next to the last. Since we are working together and then we have two different tastes we thought it would be much more practical to envision like a couple as our clients because it's me and Vanelle different tastes, different design styles and everything bringing that together would create something different we hope it is to you guys. And also with the art that we have in the space it was young South African artists and that helped with the relation of the value of the property. As a designer you do want to like sort of like showcase a bit of your personality into the space so since Vanelle is someone who really appreciates plants we try to sort of like bring in plants into the space to sort of like create like an indoor outdoor experience within the space. Guys have done an amazing job with your home I really enjoy the direction you've taken in terms of like an afro-scandy thing-scandy is trendy but so is Africa very much so and I think you've shown that so beautifully I always enjoyed the way that you guys created a client that was two different humans with two completely different likes and dislikes but you had to collaborate and that being the case where you would have had a bigger influence on different areas is there any common area in the home that you both really enjoyed together? I think on my side would be the master bedroom and I think we both and with the master bedroom we really considered like the I think it was more about luxury and it was about the client being at a calm state and at ease and I think we achieved that with the colors the also the bedding and the art around it and the plants. What I've enjoyed about the space is that you've always had moments of brilliance and in that it was really nice to see that the moments of brilliance were consistent so all the rooms I can see are well tied together in the theme of tranquility of Africanism that I truly enjoyed. Well done. I am just so happy for you. I feel that you've done an amazing job in this space you've created a sense of indulgence yet at the same time in the living spaces this richness in the color palette that you've used the local artist that you've used the furniture is light that offsets that richness on the walls and more importantly you've carried through a theme from each and every room when you've started you've just grown in leaps and bounds and I just want to congratulate you for that. Absolutely well done. Judges we hope you enjoyed our space and we've got lunch prepared for you. Team house and leisure and tip and bunny what do I say about them they are just they're just the most beautiful souls With lunch being served all that's left is for you to decide which homes you'll be staying in tonight have you given that much thought I've given it a bit of thought and I have to say Dan I quite like the idea of living on the wild side team habitat I'm going wild, team habitat, absolutely I'm going to stay here calling this home For me it's the babymaking room well let's have lunch and then you guys can head off and enjoy the rest of the evening Thank you Living in space will give you a real sense of the design a real sense of how it feels to be in that space it will give you real and deeper insight into the thinking behind the design how it actually in real life works It's great that homes look good but the true test will be how liveable they are as Kim Hutton spends the night in team Habitat's house Donald gets comfortable in team house in Leisure's unit and Katlecho tests out team VC's home so after the break we take a sneak peek into how the overnight stay of our judges was Will our discerning guests give our contestants five stars find out after these Come back to one home on afternoon Express Now our judges have to decide which design duo will be named the champions of this season and award them a cash prize of 100,000 rand With such a big amount on the line it was only fitting that our judges spent a night in the three decorated homes and it made them realise just how far the design dears have come and how much they've accomplished This winter home journey has been rather emotional which I didn't anticipate I found myself relating to the dewers capturing my deadly side coming out there were moments of sheer pleasure there were moments of frustration where I knew they could do better So it has been a rewarding where you see certain duos also progressing and just straightening themselves even further and improving week upon week I've got two favourites in team VC's house One is the feature wall that they've created in the living space I love how they've taken the green all the way up to the ceiling There's a sense of excitement on this wall and the combination of colour that you wouldn't necessarily anticipate to work and my favourite is also the mirror in the bedroom and not for daily making on a serious note it just created a sense of space in that room It's very important for every designer to consider how a client will interact they'll live in a space So coming in and having a day to spend in the space is really the perfect test of whether a great design has been well executed or whether the client can live in that space House in Leisure's home is faultless I mean that bedroom is absolutely dreamy and I have dreamt of sleeping in that bed So for me it is a dream come true I am completely beside myself with excitement I think that it's going to be a peaceful night of sleep Living in it gives you a little bit of a different slant from just walking through it and appreciating a space for what's been achieved etc but living in it actually gives you the chance even in your jammies and to walk around with a cup of tea and maybe appreciate a lot more about the home then you might have missed walking it through the odd week when each room was developed it gives you time to actually really feel the space I love the complete resourcefulness there's so many things that have been made from charities or places where they really had to go and shop until they actually found something and through huge amount of effort and low cost they made it look absolutely gorgeous and to me this home just looks like a station in terms of interior design judges it's been a long day team VC have prepared these nightcaps for you and they've prepared their vision for the home which they're going to share with you too judges good night team VC good luck thank you Danilo welcome to our humble abode judges I hope you enjoy the snacks we've prepared for you what we wanted to create in this house is definitely a house that is functional and also very comfortable we've designed this house for a bachelor specifically in mind so we made everything efficient and compact however what we do like about this house is that it functions for both a bachelor and a couple or a family so it is multifunctional essentially so our theme was concrete jungle it was all inspired by the song Alicia Keys concrete jungles is where dreams are made of so what we created with this house was that we sit down and thought about what could represent South African designers the way we want because a lot of design is more of European people are going more masculine but we wanted to have like a feminine touch if you can see we have the greens and the pink mixed together and a pop of color there and there if you look carefully in all our rooms there's a touch of gold whether it's accessories, it's a side table it's a bedside lamp a paint there's a touch of gold which represents the city of Jilwit from Hauden guys congratulations and after all we are sitting in the kitchen that warn the best kitchen of the competition so well done my question is mainly for you you're the only female in the competition and I'm just interested in the journey what the journey has been like the experience is the only female in the competition while being the only female is a little bit difficult it's easy to get overpowered by masculine influences however I do feel my voice is in the soft finishes I've also tried to incorporate as much as in proper tests indoor plants I think that's that's a very feminine touch men don't think about flowers guys congratulations I think the job that you've done is absolutely amazing it really feels like a home space I'm really delighted that you also chose your target market would be and it would be a bachelor because that's part of being a professional interior designer and I've heard that you've learned so much in this competition so well done on that is that you're focusing on being designers and thinking longevity having been a contestant in the show I truly appreciate what has gone into these spaces I know how incredibly difficult it is to pull together such high quality interiors tight budget but under such time constraints and I think what you've done here is truly commendable so thank you from my side I'm very proud to look at you guys and well done the team busy home it really is a lovely fresh space what I really liked about it was the fact that they had put so many thoughts and ideas into the actual design of the home and what they were going to incorporate making a big decision often requires one to sleep on it and for our judges this certainly rings true as they tuck into their luxurious master suites to contemplate each design duo's accomplishments and consider which deserves the accolade of being crowned the design winners of season fall but a new day brings with it one final team's pitch good morning judges how did we sleep so it was so restful good to know it's a brand new day and I thought we'd start off with breakfast today proudly served to you by a beer and bread come on out good morning wrap and shine and it comes with a love letter oh no bribes accepted here there is no cash but the budget was run out and that's one for you right a beer and bread we've had obviously Kim staying in your home last night but this is the perfect opportunity for both of you to expand the vision behind your home while they're all here together what a tall toss so early in the morning opportunity was to create a home that was show stopping that anyone that came to visit would be wild flawed and would remember it for the rest of their lives as soon as they drive past they need to stay shut for a break I need to go into that house who designed that house who lives in that house what's happening in that house I mean we really did not hold back in terms of trying to take it to the next level we didn't follow textbooks we used our own intuition and your guidance through the challenges to help us grow as you know we started out and it was we just thought alright we're bringing in the big five like lions, zebras you know but then as it went through a lot of editing and we learned that someone needs to live in this home and when they live in this home it must still feel like a dream and an escape that's at the eye of Africa but it's you know it's a home definitely we wanted something warm and with love Abya and Brad well done and congratulations on a beautiful project I know that you come from a fashion background so what would you say is the most challenging thing you experienced in the competition well I honestly have to say even in the fashion industry where we come from we still try to push boundaries where sometimes it's do they have to clash so many fabrics together all at once so we are that team that really is not afraid to try something new and really just if we're going to do something it might as well be something that's different or else we'd rather let someone else do it guys from my side just congratulations I see a passion here that I cannot believe in two people that are not really in the industry but also on your resourcefulness is it really looks like you've spent a lot of money well I know you've had tight budgets and in terms of being a professional interior designer going forward in life that's a big part of it you don't always have a big budget I think you've been incredibly resourceful you've created an absolute well which is what I think you intended to do well done I love how you've just kept to who you are you're unapologetic about it and you just carried on with that sense of pride in what you do and what I really really love is how you you probably don't realize it now but you've given other people permission to be who they are and not to fit into this cookie cutter world that we live in and I want to thank you for that because you've brought that through in this so but to other people as well so well done well done well done I really never thought I'd cry like that I really don't want to cry like GoPro but sometimes you just can't hold back the tears when you hear something that really touches your heart oh tears already we haven't even made it to the grand finale yet so if you're reaching for your tissues then you better make sure you're ready for next week's live broadcast at 4pm right here on SABC 3 one of our designed years will be named this year's winner home design winners and for one of you at home life will change forever as you become the owner of a home with over 3 million rand it is the biggest prize on South African television so best believe there are going to be some really big smiles and emotions next week in the winner home grand finale so please do join us as we celebrate this year's triumphs in fine style from me Danny Locquisto I will see you then have a great rest of your weekend have a great week ahead and I'll see you for that grand finale on Friday bye bye


So, what's next, Professor? Well, if you hit the next button on the slideshow, it'll tell us, and we'll see. Oh, Jen, do you want to read us off? So, we're going to segue into discussing the Seven Hermetic Principles. These come from an ancient esoteric book called the Kabalian, which was written by the three initiates. Nobody knows who the exact author is, but these Seven Hermetic Principles stem from ancient Egypt. Before it was Egypt, it was called Chem, the land of black earth, where alchemy and chemistry come from. So, these date back way, way, when. These Seven Principles are believed to be the guiding principles of our living universe. So, how we're going to explore these is in relationship to sexuality and gender and human beings having a spiritual experience on this plane. Jen, I can... It was just looking at me. You made this slideshow. Alchemy was an idea. It did make this slideshow. So, let's see. What's the best format for this? Should we just like read it off and then each of us talk about it? Yeah. Okay. I'm happy to read it. I can walk over here then? We can take turns? Perfect. Okay. I like standing. That's good. So, the first principle is a principle of mentalism. It describes that everything is mind. And what that means is that we all exist as thoughts in the mind of God. In fact, it's very interesting in another Hermetic text called the Hermetica. There's an experience where Hermes or Thoth has this out-of-body experience and he meets this sort of cosmic guide. And the guide gives him a vision and shows this chaotic reality and then it forms by the virtue of a bright light becomes ordered and begins to create the universe. And he explains that the Holy Word of God, you know, we've heard the Word of God and the Son of God and all these subjects in Christianity, but it descends back into ancient Egypt. And it's akin to how our minds give birth to speech. And so it's almost like this as above so below, which we'll explore in the next principle as well. Within the mind of God, when that mind creates, it is the Word of God giving birth to order within the chaotic, formless, cosmic everything of reality. The underlying principle of this whole thing is that through thought, we create reality. It's the principle that the mind of God is always beaming and when we as free will children of God, you know, they say God is experiencing and creating the universe through us as us. Whenever we are in a space of really listening to the voice of God, to the voice of truth and we take action from that space, any action that we take from that is a co-creation between God and man. It's a holy creation. And so these hermetic principles are from this ancient school of thought that's based on building the sacred kingdom, creating this planet, making this planet a sacred planet. In the Mahabharata, there's a teaching about the incarnations and the life cycle of this planet. And humanity has a special intermediary between the creator and the material universe. And so every thought that we think creates form on some level and then those thoughts that we allow to intentionally create form in partnership with the voice of truth and the voice of the universe, the voice of God which is unity consciousness and total loving connectedness is toward the building and the creation of this becoming a sacred planet. And there is that parallel which we're going to go over in the next principle that you mentioned, as above so below, where when we are in that space, when our thoughts are in resonance with absolute truth, when we are in partnership with the mind of God, our actions then mirror on earth as it is in heaven. Our actions then start to create in the material world resonance from the heavenly celestial dimensions. Great. I love that. I'm just listening because I'm in awe of them too. I don't think I'll go too much into detail of all the principles, but with this one, just a reminder that we're always creating so you can either be a conscious creator or an unconscious creator. And I'm sure a lot of people here have experienced that. So we are responsible for the thoughts that we think, the words that we say, and it's only when you're willing to take responsibility for those thoughts and the things that you say that you move from being an unconscious creator to a conscious one. Good stuff. So the second principle is the principle of correspondence. We say it's as above, so below, as within, so without. We can solve problems in the moment by looking at a reality from a different dimension. We use ayahuasca to grasp different planes of reality to see and heal the challenges that we face. So essentially correspondence is just an awareness that everything is connected all the time. And by perceiving the different dimensions of the connections, we can really solve a lot of things that might not make sense here physically, but it makes sense when you perceive them from a different level. And we consider the dimensions, you can really look at it very easy, simple way by looking at the four elements. Especially as it relates to you, this makes it very personal and grounded. Show of hands, who's familiar with the four elements? Oh, good. The five elements, there we go. There's many different planes that we can choose to look at at four. Often the way that the fifth is observed is the four completely in harmony with each other and at the same time the fifth is the one that creates the four. So it's not necessarily sometimes seen as a fifth in a separate sense. But really it's almost as like the capstone of a pyramid that descends into the four sides. But the traditional four elements would be earth, water, air and fire. Or earth, air, water, fire. You can play with the orders in different systems.   Well, physically you're getting this, you know, different people, the same problem sort of thing, but what is it? Well, when you start to observe that on a level of emotion and you observe that on a level of mind, you start to see that those problems are stemming, the physical problems are stemming from, you know, like certain belief systems and patterns or past traumas or things that are taking place within you from a different frequency, something that's emotional, something that's invisible. But one of the core tenets, if you will, of Hermeticism actually states that all of the physical reality, everything that we see and touch and all of our senses here is a result of the invisible forces behind it sort of thing. So your actions are determined by your thoughts and your feelings and those are invisible, but in truth they're more real than this illusion actually is. That calls back to what JJ was saying. We have eyes because we see. We have ears because we hear, you know. And it's also really interesting with the law of correspondences. All of the great sages throughout all the different world traditions taught in parables. They would teach like Jesus Christ would teach the parable of the sower or, you know, all the different mythological or representative teachings where the idea is that if we can wrap our minds around a concept in a certain context then we can echo it out. We can overlay that similar type of template into other areas of our lives. So in any time we find ourselves reading myth, fable, parable we're reading and studying based on the law of correspondences. How many of you are familiar with the quote when the student is ready? The teacher will appear. It applies to the same principle. So Ben and I are both students of an esoteric philosopher named Alice A. Bailey and one of her quotes is that our entire universe is a great theater of mirrors. So when you meet these reflections of what your soul is projecting that's looking about what's within that's causing the without. Yes, sounds good. Would one of you guys want to read the next one? Sure, yeah. Alright. Are you on the third? Yeah, this is it. Okay. Oh, the whole thing from the top. Yeah. Okay, so everything is constantly in motion. This is the third principle of vibration. Change is a constant. At the highest rate of vibration things appear motionless and this is how God is described at the highest level. Even thoughts and feelings have vibrations and can be tuned to different frequencies through consciousness intent, or conscious intent, sorry. Yeah. So I actually want to draw something for this. If you don't mind, I'm just going to, oh, I'll need a marker quickly. Well, while he's doing that, this is part of why in meditation we seek stillness. Stillness is associated with divinity with the creator and then movement is creation. Right. It's this idea of like everyone kind of comes in at their own vibration and let's say that that vibration is here. But as you take the plant medicine, the medicine itself is vibrating at a higher vibration. So the plant medicine actually raises your vibration up to a higher frequency. But when, and what this, I think it was the third quote there, what it means when it says how God is described at this level of things moving so fast that they appear still, is that the vibration of the infinite supreme light of oneness is moving at such a fast vibration that if we were actually to perceive it, it just seems like it's like it's like a still, you can't even really perceive it. It's moving so fast that it just is like, it's like the light of the sun. You know, the light is constantly moving, but to us it's just light. It's just bright. So the whole process of meditation and doing plant medicine and eating well and all these things is really tuning your body and tuning your body of consciousness from this wherever vibration that you're at to the next level. And there's always another level, right?  So that's what's going to be happening over the course of this week is purging out the heavy and really getting this tremendous shamanic spiritual support to elevate yourself into the next frequency. And by the end of the week you'll also be receiving lots of tools to help you maintain that because you know you're coming here to Rhythmia and you're going really up here. But it is possible to drop back down if you don't carry with you the lessons that you learned along the way. And you go back home and you do hard drugs and you know, it would be really mean to people. Your energy can drop back down, but it's really hard to because the experience of rising up so high shows you just how powerful love and light truly is and how it's all within you. So for most people is you go up here and then you'll kind of level out in about like a much higher vibration than you ever were before. Please, yeah, take it away. That's really relevant to what you're saying right now, Jordan, is the principle of attunement. It's not a separate hermetic principle. It's part of the principle of vibration.  A few people. Okay. So the idea with a sound bath is that there are different musical instruments that emit really pure harmonic tones. And those tones pass through your body and increase the vibration and call all of the parts of your body into harmony. So the idea is that when you're around something that's high vibrational, it's easier for you to be high vibrational. So this goes into when you go home and you have the integration process, what you're eating, what you're listening to, what you're saying, the kinds of things that you're doing, the places that you go. In the tradition that I was raised in growing up, we were taught the seven hermetic principles. And in this one, what we were always told is to stand in holy places, be in sacred spaces, spend time in sacred spaces. And the idea was that if you would just be in holy places and meditate there and spend time there, your own radiance would increase, your own light would increase. There is, I don't know if you guys know about David Hawking's and his work with levels of consciousness and how you can measure levels of consciousness. But places like holy places like a church or even Grand Central Park has a really high vibration. Not so much because of all the greenery and nature, but more because of the intention that was behind creating Grand Central Park. So a place for the city to have a place to go, greenery, fresh trees. So places that are high intentional like that really carry a strong vibration and that's a little bit part of that. But what I wanted to say earlier is this is why all of this is why they talk about people who come here with addictions like with even as something as small as marijuana or as heavy as heroin or drinking too much.  And when ayahuasca enters your body and it's such a high vibration, the higher vibration wins out. And so for a while at least, I don't want to give an exact time, everybody's different, but for a few months to six months the medicine is still working on you. And you'll still see that when you go into places that you used to go to it just doesn't feel right anymore and you just take yourself out of that room. And listen to it. And listen to it exactly. And if you have like my big takeaway the last time that I was here was reconnecting with my inner child very heavily. Like having a full conversation with my little five-year-old self. And for like a year after that the backdrop on my phone was a picture of me at like age five or something. And I always would like reconnect with that inner child and be like, is this where you want to be right now? Do you feel safe? If the answer was ever no, I would just take myself out of that situation. So that's one thing you can start looking for after you do the medicine. Another really great anchor point is how many of you have heard of simatics? So simatics is the study of the visual effects of sound on matter. So in these experiments what they'll do is they'll take something called a tonoscope and place sand over it and then have different tones play. And there's an amazing video of a woman singing Mozart into the sand and it starts forming perfect geometry. So if you need that perfect anchor point to remember, because sometimes it's hard to envision like vibration. But how can I vibrate into like a better mood? Looking to that is a really good anchor point. So simatics is something I encourage you to research. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so principle four, getting through it halfway, is the principle of polarity. And it basically says that everything is dual, everything has poles, everything has its pair of opposites. Like and unlike are the same. Opposites are identical in nature but different in degree. All truths are but half truths and all paradoxes may be reconciled. So an example is, you know, it's like hard and soft, big and small, love and hate. All of these things are the same thing on a different polarity of the spectrum. And this actually falls very perfectly into the whole conversation and theme of LGBT and gender of really taking away the gender binary of well it's masculine, feminine and that's all that there is. But saying well, and there's a spectrum that flows between them. Does that have anything to do with like... I would assume so, yeah. There is the final principle is the principle of gender and it kind of shows how it's like that Yin and Yang are constantly interplaying with each other in different ways. Well, and there's also, this goes with polarity, gender and also correspondence. And it's the law of physics which is relativity.  Every action manifests an equal and opposite reaction, you know. Principle five is the principle of rhythm. Which states, everything flows in and out. Everything has its tides. All things rise and fall. The pendulum swing manifests in everything. The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left. Rhythm compensates. Use this principle to your advantage by being aware of the rhythm of life and polarizing yourself to the degree you desire. Rhythm is a beautiful one. It goes very well with the principle of polarity in the sense that, you know, all aspects of life from cycles that you go through your day, you know, waking and sleeping or meeting people and then falling out or what have you, going to school or getting a job or, you know, all these different, everything of life has this rhythm, has this flow.  And then you can see sort of the rhythm of the forces of people and how we communicate and how we act and how we think and how that changes over time as well. You know, even in the world, you know, like right now there's a lot of conversation about climate change and a lot of rallies and everything like that, right? And you can see that there's this strong polarity of people who are fully in support of it and fully in opposition of it and then there's the rhythm of the conversation and how things flow as well. So the basis, one of the hermetic philosophies here and what they teach in the caballion is that you can use that rhythm, being aware of it to really polarize yourself in the direction that you want to be flowing because it's very easy to be lost in the rhythm of other people's energy, right? If you're around a lot of really passionate people or really negative people or really excited people, you can become polarized to that flow, to that rhythm and you flow with them. But the thing is that if their flow is not going in a really harmonious direction or direction that you're in favor to, it takes your own discipline and practice to really ground in and shift your own energy to be, you know, polarized to where you want to be. And that sometimes looks like changing your environment, changing your energy, and you've all done that by coming here. So coming here, you're polarizing yourself to a different vibration so that when you go back into the world, you have a new frequency and then others can polarize and rhythm and learn to be in rhythm with you. Does that make sense? It's like the metronomes that he showed earlier. It's kind of like people can't help it when they're around you, especially if it's somebody you live with to kind of match up to that. Maybe not as high as that frequency, but they'll resonate with it and they'll start to change within themselves. Yeah, it's like learning how to dance with these things. You know, not being in opposition with it, not just trying to completely follow it. It's like how do I move with the thing that's moving me? How do I dance with it? How can I follow the choreography in a very harmonious way to my life? Another way we can apply this principle in our lives is through routine. Ritual and routine.  And it wasn't something that they dreamt up. It was something that they observed in nature, the rising in the setting of the sun, the lunar cycle, the astrological cycles. The idea is that nature has rhythm. And so in our own lives, when we can apply rhythm to our daily ritual and routine, that's why we often talk about a morning ritual and an evening ritual. We have solar and lunar salutations and yoga. And so within these kinds of practices, we can start to see how we want to polarize ourselves. Do we want to increase our physical health? Do we want to increase our intellectual capacity? Do we want to raise our spiritual vibration? Do we want to navigate relationships in new ways? The way to do that is to do a really, really healthy thing, to polarize yourself, to do a really, really healthy thing, and to do it in a regular, rhythmic kind of way. So that's why daily routines are epic. That's why doing something like this yearly, I think JJ mentioned, we want to see you once a year. I do it twice a year. We were joking. I'm here twice a year. Some of us need more help than others. So no, the idea is polarizing yourself in that way. There's some people that have a really healthy lifestyle They do a lot of physical work. There are people who work in construction and do a lot of physical things. And I recently met this dude who was totally built and I made a joke about what gym he goes to. And he doesn't go to the gym. Because in his life, there's a lot of actual labor that he's doing in his craft. For me, I'm a meditation teacher. My work is mostly about not moving at all. And so I have to go to the gym. So if I want to increase in physical strength, I have to polarize myself and give myself those times and those moments of really going deep into that one thing, into that one direction. When we go into ayahuasca ceremony, it's not that your whole life needs to now become an ayahuasca ceremony. It's that we're polarizing ourselves into unity consciousness where all things become clear. So then we can go back into our lives and integrate. Beautiful. Absolutely good. Thank you. That was epic. Epic. Great. Principle six, cause and effect. Every cause has its effect. Every effect has its cause. Everything happens according to cosmic law. Chance is but a name for cosmic law unrecognized. That's a good one. That's a good one. Thank you for that in the presentation you created. There are many planes of causation but nothing escapes the law. Learn to see the future by the awareness of what causes have what effects and what future causes will happen as a result. A lot of the seers and sages throughout the ancient traditions, this is what they would do. They would ask, they would check you out. They would see what you've already got going on in your life in order to predict the future. They would tune in to where you're at and through this particular law, sometimes we call it the law of karma. And karma also has another meaning. It means innocence. So cause and effect, having an innocence to it, it just is what it is. It doesn't necessarily have a motivation behind it. It has a cause and an effect. It is what it is. Especially in the medicine space, how many of you is almost leading up to booking Rhythmia, had a series of synchronicities you can identify? Or one thing led to another thing to another thing and all of a sudden now you're here? So there's an author named Daniel Pinschbeck who was one of the first mainstream authors to talk about the evolution of shamanism in modern culture. And in shamanic tradition they say that synchronicities are a sign that you're on the right path. So if you start saying 11, 11 a lot or you start... Right person, right time, all of a sudden I'm on a YouTube rabbit hole and I ended up on ayahuasca. How did I get here? Paying attention to the synchronicities helps pay attention to what it is that you're emitting that's causing them to come to you. And that's sort of what they call the call. Like when they say ayahuasca is calling, it's kind of like that. These like series of events that just keep leading you toward that and then you just have this feeling of like this is meant for me. And then there was something that I wanted to talk about based on cause and effect. Is it Nick? Right. So we were talking about Wayne Dyer yesterday and I had the opportunity to meet Wayne Dyer about three months before he died and he was saying that he found this book or somebody gave it to him on the beach in Maui called Viscista's Yoga. Which is like one of my biggest practices since he told me about it. So he says to me, I think I'm done. I've like transcended after reading this book I don't feel like I'm done here. And then it was like a couple months later that I saw on the news that he had passed. And in that book they talk a lot about cause and effect. And it's this sage. His name is the sage Viscista. He's like in most Indian cultures he's teaching the young prince about these things and it's a dialogue and that's what the book is. So a big thing about cause and effect is like what we talk about biblically read what you sow. So if you read this, so shall you. Uh-huh, sorry. Can you write the name of that book? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll write it up here after because it is long. Yeah, you're right. Viscista's Yoga, yeah. And I think it's like the third longest text ever and the summary version is pretty dense. I mean I've been reading it for like two or three years now and I only read like three or four pages a week. It's a really powerful book. But he talks about cause and effect quite a bit.  I call it karma. But you know, there's this idea that souls make agreements before they ever come here. So when somebody does something to you that you think is good or bad is just a construct of the mind. It's really just, I always say thank you to the universe or source or God. I say thank you because I've gotten a little bit more of my karma paid off. Like I've done it. It's okay that this bad thing happened to me. I know I'm paying off my karma. I want my karma to be clear. I'm trying to clear all of it. So there's just a different perception and a different way of looking at it once you kind of understand that principle. Definitely. And reconciling the paradox of it. Sometimes the synchronicities that lead us places are not always quote unquote positive. Right. So, you know, I came to ayahuasca thinking that the world was going to end. I literally went down a 2012 rabbit hole. Thought that here we are on the midst of the Mayan apocalypse. And somehow I stumbled on ayahuasca. And I then found out someone I had went to high school with, broke her neck out of high school, was paralyzed from the neck down, told that she'd never walk again. She went down to Peru and did hundreds of experimental ayahuasca treatments with chiropractic and she can now walk with a walker. So for me finding it through that reflection of being an emotional paralysis, thinking the world is going to end, sometimes the synchronicities speak in ways that may seem incongruous to what you'd imagine spiritual awakening to be. Listen to all the gradients of that experience. Sometimes the bad is not bad at all. If you think about what, exactly, if you think about what JJ said earlier with the two compounds in ayahuasca that create new brain cells, you suddenly start seeing everything and you could have been working on this one specific problem for so long and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, yeah, of course. Because now all of a sudden you have this new, these new pathways that show you something in a way that you've never seen it before. And this also goes into, a lot of you probably heard of the law of attraction. So in the principle of the law of cause and effect, it's not that we're just thinking about something and we're attracting it. It's that we're becoming the person that experiences those things and then we're becoming like the people that do experience those things. And so therefore those experiences start to manifest. And it does relate directly into synchronicity also. It's like when your mind is focused on something, when your mind is preoccupied on something, you begin to find evidence of it all over the place. And so the work that we're doing on the level of the mind this week is to really create these healthy neural pathways, these healthy ways of seeing things, to eliminate illusion and to recalibrate ourselves to seeing things as they really, really, really are. Which I think is ultimately also the goal of meditation. So when we're seeing things as they really, really are, we begin to see ourselves in our deeper truth and that deeper truth creates these new needs and these new desires and these new possibilities and gives us these new gifts and powers. And when our mind is on those new needs and those new gifts, we then start to see the effects of that. The thought level is the causal level, like we were talking about earlier. So the thoughts that we're having are the causes that then generate the effects. So it goes back to as within, as within, so without. And mentalism. They all inform each other. They're all facets. So I think we only have one principle left, which is the principle of gender. Now this is the great bridge, too, for the rest of the talk, but the principle of gender essentially says that masculine and feminine manifests in everything, on all planes and everywhere in nature, including the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. So the difference is masculine is penetrative, assertive, and drives progress. And the feminine is receptive, it's sacred, it's treasured, protective, generative, and it nourishes that which is essential to life. Now we all have masculine and feminine within us and we must learn to balance all of them. And this is really the bridge that I mentioned, is like we have this idea of a gender binary or at least maybe not we in this group, but the large part of society and throughout history, there's been this, you're a man or a woman, men behave this way and dress this way and act this way, women behave this way and dress this way and act this way, and there's a line there, right? And the beautiful thing here is that that line is not so it is a gradient, it is a rainbow, it is a spectrum, that we all have all of these different aspects of masculine and feminine within us. By a show of hands, how many feel that your emotional body has been a little suppressed in life, kind of closed off? See this is a very common thing for all of us because that's the way that the world treats us and treats the emotional state is that it's pushed down, it's suppressed, it's not important, what's important is business and have a family and then keep that part of your life private and everything like that. So this is an absolutely tremendously huge revelation for us that we're discussing now and we'll be taking with us and opening up as we go through this week as well. So I think it's also important to mention that when we say masculine and feminine, we don't mean men and women, we mean masculine and feminine energy, right? So Jennifer might have more masculine energy than I do or vice versa. So that's just one thing to keep in mind when we say masculine and feminine. And Jordan touched on something really crucial is that our days of survival now, so obviously if you think about our ancestors, it was caveman and cavewoman and he would go out and hunt and she would prepare the food and all that. Right now, our link to survival is the economy and so when we think of economy, we think of strong traits, leadership and assertion like you were saying. It becomes toxic but it's actually not really toxic from the starting point. These masculine energies are pushed onto men and women. You have to be very toxic, I mean sorry, be very masculine. Very toxic, very masculine but you also have to be very masculine according to this paradigm that people have created and it's to keep the economy going and keep everything going. So women are neglecting that nurturing, beautiful, life-preserving side of them and men are neglecting that as well. And Preston, I only use this an example because you mentioned it yesterday, public and breathwork that you feel like you have emotions and you suppress them. And that's a very common thing now. It's not something that you're going through, it's something that most men and women all over the world are going through and it's this feeling of boys don't cry, be strong, you know, and it's always you're told that as a kid. And so then when these emotions come up it's like no, no, push them down, push them down and that's why there's so many, so many high rates of suicide, of people quitting their jobs, people being angry, people lashing out or using drugs and alcohol and it all goes back to that toxic masculinity which actually doesn't have to be toxic. It can be a balanced man and woman.  It's very, very balanced, you know, they're very beautiful but also very strong. It's kind of like stern yet loving. You know? Yeah, absolutely. Exactly. That's the beauty of symbolism and archetypes too. So you often see like in the tarot like the priestess with the crescent moon with the sun. So that's the merging of lunar energy which is feminine energy which is the dream state which is cyclical time, creativity, imagination and then the sun which is the binary, the zeros and ones, masculine as the penetrative force. More logic, science, mathematics. Bridged together, what kind of human can you be when you can be the artist but that can also use the architecture? You know? You map out the territory but then you use your imagination to create. This has nothing to do with genitalia or gender. This has to do with merging the left and right hemispheres of mind to be the actual human. And if you look at like the ancients, the Spartan warriors who to this day we consider the strongest warriors in history, they were mostly vegan diets. There was this amazing new study where they were looking at their bones. They mostly ate vegan and they also, when you look at their coursework, aside from just fighting and training, they were taking like art classes, poetry classes. It was a huge emphasis on being well-balanced and philosophical and a strong fighter. It was all of it together.  That's an important thing too but it's balancing it with the feminine energy. I think it's the relationship between the two. We think about a garden with fertile soil. The masculine aspect would be piercing the soil and planting the seed. And then that garden remains as is. The garden remains the container for that nurturing, nourishing space to be held. And then nature has a way of responding to that. They say that when a woman's pregnant, the most important thing that she can be doing is to put her feet up, to rest. And just out of rest creates life. Of course, after the fertilization. That goes back to the economy. We glorify this unbalance. Keep the machine moving, you know? And that is so interesting. In the economy, we have this hypermasculine CEO archetype that cuts down trees, that digs into the earth, builds new buildings and those kinds of things. And in a lot of ways those can be done in balanced, positive ways. But there is something very interesting to pay attention to when you're taking care of. When you're in a work environment that's not hyper-pressured, where there's not the fear-death mentality, but you're nurtured. And in that nurturing state, new creativity blossoms up. New ideas, new possibilities blossom. Right. And there's even this misunderstanding. It's just on the subject of the economy. I don't want to get too deep into it, but we have this idea of the economy as like a pie and everyone is trying to get their piece of the pie. The economy is not a pie. It's a garden. And that by supporting and nourishing the garden, you can grow whatever you want to and limitless resource and abundance for all if we choose to. But it's that change in perspective from the pie that everyone's got their forks fighting for it or their forks in their knives to a garden which is a much more feminine thing and the nourishing aspects of it and the watering of the garden. It really changes the paradigm of wealth and abundance for everybody. It's the shift from fear to love because fear is that space of lack where I have to compete. I have to compete. This is mine. You can't have it. I'm at the top of the pyramid. If you change that to collaboration, it then becomes an ecosystem where it's not about me versus you or I got this. Instead of you, it's like how can we work together to grow? Because ultimately, if a result is a better world, everything should be collaboration.  An insane person sees that by that person gaining, I can also gain. We can all gain. There's not you getting a book deal that's going to make me lose something. That's an insane way of thinking. We're going to go deeper into gender and the spectrum, but first take two minutes and find a partner near you and talk about your biggest aha moment from these seven principles so far. Ready? How many minutes? Two. All right, go for it.


Admin commands are basically in every Roblox game. This can be used to ban problematic players or to troll players, as in Flamingo's famous Admin commands trolling videos. But one of the more famous commands is the fling command. The fling command would fling a player off the map, killing them instantly. There is another version of the fling command called the super fling, this is just a more powerful version of the fling command. But there is a version of this command that was introduced a long time ago. That was removed a couple minutes after it was added. The name of this fling command is now lost to time, but it was rumored to be called super duper fling. From the name, you can probably infer that it's the most powerful version of the fling command. But how powerful was it? In a forum post, the offer of the post's name isn't known. They said that this fling was so powerful that it could break the entire Roblox server. You may be asking, how can a command break the entire Roblox server? Well, the command would fling the player so fast that it could overload the Roblox servers. Keep in mind that this was around 2014-2015, back when Roblox was much smaller, meaning that the servers were really small. Unsurprisingly, once this command was introduced, it immediately destroyed the Roblox servers in just a couple seconds. It took days in order to fix the servers again. When they were back up, many people posted on the forums expressing confusion. Of course, the super duper fling was removed. The reason why it was introduced in the first place isn't known. But the bigger mystery is how they made the super duper fling command so powerful. If a script was able to make a player go so fast that it destroyed a whole platform server, how did it not break the original creator computer? And how did they even play test it in the first place, to see if the command worked? These are one of many questions that I have about this command.