Hey there, David again, and I want to talk about trauma and I want to talk about the idea that in our healing That there is no regression There is no backward step we It's almost as if we never lose The progress we're making in our healing journey, and I'm going to try and explain why I believe that's the case So you may have heard or maybe yourself you've said it to yourself at times that I Feel like I I've slipped or I've backtracked or I'm right back to square one again And this can often be around our emotional well-being or it can be about Maybe some change we're trying to implement in our life and I want to I want to say here again that It's never the case that we step back although it can look like that from an outside perspective It's like okay, I stepped up on my diet there or some of my bad habits are showing up again or My you know whatever it is it could be a million behavioral things that we're working on and they're important And I'll talk about that too, but we never actually slip back Now What I'm talking about here is I'm referring to It's almost like an iceberg theory So the theory being that One of the things I love recently is there seems to be more and more people talking about This change into a perspective of what happened to me as opposed to what's wrong with me And that is the right approach. That is what we need to be Asking or a more what happened to me as opposed to what's wrong with me Now this this idea this iceberg theory is kind of more about what happened to me because This iceberg theory is like trauma the heart of the trauma really essentially is this defective story It's what something's wrong with me Ultimately, it's this feeling of separation and and maybe even being alone or cut off or isolated or abandoned That are driving it at the root of it But at the heart of it you could say that there's this guilt underlying guilt and it's this big block of guilt and It's almost like it's a big block of Stuck energy. This is what actually comes out of trauma So what we're doing when we're healing this big block this iceberg is a little bit You know it with an iceberg You just see a little bit at the surface a little bit comes up now underneath the surface. There's this huge mass of ice But the more we heal a little bit comes up it gets healed it kind of gets dissolved another little bit comes up So when we're actively healing we're actually Diminishing the overall trauma. We're actually dissolving the energy that's in that the trapped energy in the body So say you're doing some good work on that Maybe that's showing up in behavioral changes your habits or there's few few or bad habits or maybe your diet or your exercise improves or your relationships improve a little and Maybe for a period of time you step away From some healing work, which is completely understandable And even necessary at times that we step away from some healing that work on that healing and See the thing is there's still a little bit of that iceberg in there, right? so Maybe somewhere down the line That iceberg starts to come up a little bit again and Some of the behavioral changes that we've implemented. Maybe we revert back into some of our old habits And we think oh my god, I'm right back to square one again Now the thing is we're not really back to square one at all It just means the next piece has come up and it's ready now For us to look at it. Maybe it's because of some of the positive behavioral changes and the environmental changes That we are now ready to look at it But it's not a it's not this oh my god, I'm right back to square one It's the old me has showed up again, right? That's not what it is at all Now a really good example of this might be someone who? Let's let's get more more Practical with this focus in a bit more with an example somebody say who is They're in AA or they they they have an addiction issue or something and They do a lot of healing work on themselves they managed to get clean Leaves to a lot of behavioral improvements in their life And they've been cleaning sober now for two years and Then a little bit more of this stuff comes up and they fall off the wagon and of course It's this real intense guilt they feel then it's because I'm right back to square one again But you're not really back to square one again It's just time now for the next piece to be looked at now sometimes that can involve a relapse or something Okay, but the relapse isn't essentially a problem unless you start to see it as oh my god All my good work has been the minute it's all gone. Oh, it was all for nothing. That is never true Now what I'm not saying here of course is that What doesn't matter if you fall off the wagon you can go right back to drinking alcohol It's it really doesn't matter at all the behavioral stuff. You see the rule of the game with this There is a rule and the rule is that you have to be honest with yourself about What it is you really want so if being sober is something you really want, which I think is a really good thing for most people Probably almost everybody I guess You have to be honest about that and you have to stay true to to what it is that is in alignment with your values Okay, so this is I'm not diminishing the behavioral part of this I'm not saying that it doesn't matter what happens behaviorally the rule is that you have to honor what it is that you really want But what I am saying is that While we are going after what it is we really want maybe it's sobriety. Maybe it's a better diet Maybe it's anything right? Well, we are honoring that and we're not a denial that we do want that and that's a good thing that we wanted And we're honestly going towards that as best we can the healing is Something that we just need to see as okay next piece now Next piece now just go back to healing again. Okay. It means I just have to heal something new now This regression is not a regression at all It actually probably means assuming that you're honoring it at your your desire and you're going after what you want It probably means you're in a better situation in your life now to look at the next piece. Let's come up. Okay, so it's something to be Okay, you can allow yourself to be a little bit disappointed maybe But you don't beat yourself up about this It's actually probably good news that now you're ready to look at the next thing again the next piece of the trauma so One thing I would say is We never regress in our healing Assuming we're not re-traumatizing ourselves. Okay, so this is why healthy boundaries are so important. It's why Thankfully we get help and we move away from from what it is that initially traumatizes. Hopefully Okay, so it's assuming that we're not re-traumatizing ourselves actively This idea this iceberg idea holds to be true. It's very very important to realize that there's just okay It's a big chunk. I'm just going to keep melting dissolving surrendering inquiring Sharing opening being honest getting real with myself and working through these feelings and I Know this is kind of a maybe all over the place video. I'm making here, but to simplify what I've said You can't go back. You never lose any of your gains. You could call them.  It only goes in one direction. You're only going towards more and more health Okay, emotional health psychological health Assuming you're not being re-traumatized. Okay, so That's something that we obviously work on first is is Boundaries moving away from what it is that initially did this to us What happened to me? Okay, let's let's see if we can find safety first But in that situation, there is no going back Okay, it's just more stuff coming up that needs to be healed. Eventually it will dissolve Okay, and we can find ourselves moving towards what it is. We really want more and more. What's really in a line Aligned with our own values and what we really think honors and serves us And that's the beautiful part of this so Can't go back. There's no regression and it's about looking at what happened to me rather than what's wrong with me and really starting to Use compassion instead of Condemning ourselves all the time and beating ourselves up because yeah, let's be honest when when has that ever worked? It doesn't work at all So guys, I'll leave it there for today, but I hope that was useful and I wasn't rambling too much all over the place But in any case, thanks as always for being with me and I'll see you again soon


Hi everyone Shawn with jaspys case breaks calm here doing 2020 bowman draft baseball eight box jumbo case break number T number four pick your team. So no No paper ships Except for Kirsten v in Torkelson and Hassel no other exceptions all paper donated to charity all chrome ships So some details here three autographs per hobby box so on and so forth Joe just ripped open this case right here He's gonna start pack stacking on this. So I'll take I'll give you one. Yeah, I'm gonna take a box and start over here do this And Here is Our finalist if you've got a little hat next to you that just means you won the spot in a one-pack filler break So however, you've gotten to this break. Thank you guys very much We do still have the the $1,500 break credit giveaway In play it's gonna take some work, but we can do it If it sells out it will go tonight. There's a filler break a random number block for that break But if that sells out then it'll go tonight Anything that sells out tonight will go tonight.  Yeah, I'm just gonna go through fly through paper and then just do it all the chrome, you know Yeah And I just yeah, I would just stack the paper next to you and then once it gets too high then I'll transfer it over. Yeah Zach v for the Rocky Rockies in this Jack Jack vane Zach v Garrett Mitchell to 499 for the brew crew That is Eric Inch. Do you like the right cell of glaciers? I liked it I like the Julio glaciers even more Julio glaciers. Yeah He'll give us a similar production Yeah, we just picked them up from Baltimore shortstop, so we're gonna let We're gonna let what's the name walk Anderson Landon knack Bowman first auto for the Dodgers going to Daniel ousley the spot he won 60th overall pick last year So similar production for about 12 million dollars less. One problem is we only have them for one year But we can extend them Drew Romo What we call in this one light blue Chrome There's not a refractor it's like a light blue refractor. Yeah, and there's like text on it and stuff too. Was there text on it? There's the is it not on the regular ones. It's on the same one. Oh also breaking news Nick says There's an automatic discount on the rest of 2020 Bowman draft teams until midnight. There you go I'm off applied at checkout. There you go Midnight only that's hot breaking news guys. We got two hours checklist automatic your spots Jasper's case breaks calm All right, so for paper there's sky blue 499 purple 250 blue 250 green to 99 gold 50 Orange 25 and jumbo only red to five black to one and pretty place on one of one's base chrome refractors There's a base and they call that a sky blue refractor jumbo Okay, but not number not number then purples to 250 sparkle is not numbered blue to 150 green to 99 gold to 50 No clue Rex red to five and I do not supers in the place Torkelson for the Tigers and Thomas Franks, I don't see don't know they were picked up so fast Does anyone know what the cubs price is off? Maybe Jason wiener the person that bought it Heston pierced it Orioles Mark Vassette Rebel says 180. I'll agree Spencer Torkelson regular chrome Tigers Thomas Reigns Justin Fosquay to 250 class of 2020 auto Texas Rangers Mark Vassette are these one per box I think so Ashby for the Brewers. They're fairly common. Oh, okay. I was like some of them can be autographed. Oh, yeah Zach vane glimpses of greatness Rockies Jack vane Caden Polkovich purple to 250 Go to the Mariners Derek Kloss Refractors, or what are you like sleeping up or put a setting aside to sleep? I'm sleeving a toddler in Torkelson immediately. Yeah, the other three guys. I'm just leaving Okay, and then everything else. I'm just setting aside to for people to sleep in top load unless it's like 25 This guy's mom Was the mom in a little big league? Who's that? Pete Crow Armstrong?  Yeah Was that where the kid becomes the owner of the twins? I don't remember what mom looks like Hmm or the manager of the twins or something like that. I don't know Somebody brought it up another night Robert Hassel going to the Padres Mark Bassett Ben Hernandez purple to 250 for the Royals Josh Proust Zach vane Rockies Jack vane What's happening the crickets? They mating Is that in here? It's over there. It's like they're either angry or very happy Crickets, I can't take me to get into the mind of a cricket Brady McConnell gold to 50 for the Royals Josh Proust Rebel says it's mating season Is that is that real? Is that a real thing? Rebel's not usually one to This brand is not not to be a liar in the chat Prankster or jokester That's what he's always figured Spencer Torkelson green to 99.  I guess that's pretty good, right? Torquil still skin looks sexy ranasaurus Rex Torquasaurus that's nice Right behind that auto Jordan and wogu to 250 Bowman first purple for the Cubs Jason wainer on that one paper snuck in there Not getting out of here case Williams Sky blue now we're making booze with computers computer Jim being one zero one zero zero zero one I don't drink good alcohol. I don't think Right here so each stack One box correct each half tag is one box What I'm gonna do this open The space between Yeah, sure That's going there and then It'll work rebel says we need to get on a bottle of rumshada peppermint bark Sounds right up my alley I'm all about the Jameson black barrel now Jameson smoother sounds like it puts hair on your chest. Yeah No, actually, there's really no not that much of a burn It's like a weird combination of taste stronger, but less burn And if you cut it with a little bit of a block of a cube of ice melts it out real nice How long do you let it sip on the sit on the ice to to simmer torque will soon again I just let it paper tigers. It's not a great melt into it Zach vene for the Royals I don't bring gear because the hops actually kind of makes my allergies go crazy. It's actually IPA Beers my wine is to to filling Tyler saw this from sky blue to 499 for the ace Gary Meyers Heston Kirstead for the Orioles Mark cassette Torkelson tigers Thomas Franks Zach vene Rockies Zach Jack vane Grab the Thank you Thanks, Joe. He's the best Heston Kirstead Orioles 20 in 20 dem brakes Baltimore mark Vassette Daniel Cabrera sky blue refractor going to the Tigers Thomas Reigns Garrett crochet Purple to 250 for the white socks going to Eric Ainge and first auto Sammy in Fonte Washington Nationals Donald Dudley Zach vene refractor For the Rockies Jack vane Zach vene refractor Rockies Jack vane Three Garrett crochet sky blue refractor white socks Eric Ainge This is the second half of that box He's out see dude Austin walls to 499 for the Yankees Purple or sorry, that's a blue per or blue paper Yankees for a mirror Carson ragsdale Sparkle to 71 two out of 71 auto for the Phillies G. Gia Chen There you go And read Detmer's Blue wave to 150 going to the Angels Summon Kim spot he won. I hope he's really good as an angels fan We could we could really use a use some pitching Spencer Torkelson chrome Tigers Thomas Reigns and Holden Powell to 150 for the Nationals and Donald Dudley You So this is the first half of one box is the second half of that box Robert Hassel Padres Heston Kirstad Orioles Torkelson for the Tigers Zach vene for the Rockies Heston Kirstad Chrome for the Orioles Werner Blakely For the Angels refractor auto to 499 Angels Summon Kim Spot he won in that filler pack Daniel Lynch sky blue refractor for the Royals Freddie's Amora purple paper to 250 for the Brewers Eric Ainge Jared Schuster blue paper to 499 for the Braves Daniel ousley Daniel Cabrera purple auto 250 for the Tigers Thomas Reigns Zach vene for the Royals Chrome that one's for Jack vane blade Sikoni speckle for the Diamondbacks and Fred Schultz and Xavier Warren Bowman first auto for the Brewers and Eric Ainge Heston Kirstad Chrome for the Orioles Mark Vissette So first half of another box Hassel for the Padres Torkelson for the Tigers a salacy sky blue Chrome for the Royals Zach vene for the Royals Spencher Torkelson Chrome for the Tigers and Redemption auto CJ Van Eck for Toronto Blue Jays. That's going to Matthew Acons Looks like it's just a regular the class of 2020 But that's also right in front of this. So maybe we got an extra auto in this box Max Meyer class of 2020 to 250 that was going to the Marlins Brent Culper, so Let's keep an eye out. I think maybe we got an extra auto But that's what that redemption is gonna look like class 2020 auto Brennan Davis blue to 150 Going to the Cubs Jason Wainer Heston Kirstad for the Orioles Daniel Cabrera purple paper to 250 for the Tigers Bailey Horn blue to 150 for the White Sox Torkelson for the Tigers and Carmen Mladzinski blue to 499 for the Pirates See it Evan Carter refractor auto for the Rangers going to Mark Vissette Zach vene glimpses of greatness for the Rockies Marco Luciano purple chrome to 250 for the Giants Gary Goldberg and Zach Deloach is our fourth auto Seattle Mariners Derek Kloss. I thought with the redemption being right in front of a Auto that had to have been a mistake unhappy accident for somebody and Hayden Cantrell Sky blue refractor for the Brewers Remember guys discount applied at checkout for all other Bowman draft Orders before midnight tonight Tanner Burns to 499 for the Indians paper blue Heston Kirstad paper for the Orioles Spencer Torkelson paper for the Tigers and Tink Hentz Purple paper to 250 for the Cardinals That's going to Brent Colper Aaron Shortridge sky blue refractor for the Pirates Bryce Bonin We got a black to 250 purple for the Reds That is Michael Golder Milan Tolentino Bowman first black auto to 75 for the Cleveland Indians Joshua Lucas very nice Black looks super cool second half Looks like we had a green auto there Zach Vien for the Rockies Hassel for the Padres Alex Santos auto for the Houston Astros that's going to Jeffrey Goldberg Not Green auto Trent Palmer to 99 for the Blue Jays Matthew Acons Sol Garza refractor auto for the Royals to 499 going to Josh Proust Spencer Torkelson glimpses of greatness for the Tigers and Chailing Lears sky blue for the Braves Daniel House So These two stacks here are one box And after this we've got two more on the cart right there and that'll be it Recap at the end of autos Zach Vien for the Royals Owen Miller gold to 50 for the Indians Dylan Dingler sky blue to 499 going to the Tigers Tigers Thomas Reigns Heston Kirstead for the Orioles Torkelson for the Tigers Zach Vien Chrome for the Royals Sharon Durand sparkle For the Red Sox Brian Peeples spot he won and Adam Seminaris auto for the Angels to 150 Summon Kim spot he won in that one pack break Heston Kirstead refractor Orioles Mark Passette Luke Little auto Chicago Cubs Jason Wainer Alex Santos sky blue For the Astros and we got a gold Zach Britton Bowman first to 50 for the Toronto Blue Jays Matthew Acons Evan Carter green paper to 99 for the Rangers and Mark Passette Zach Vien for the Royals We've had a great camp I Should have one more auto I believe I think we pulled two out of the first half and there it is Eric horse Purple to 250 for the New York Mets and Zach Jack Vain Spencer Torkelson 2020 Tigers cool got two more boxes And our recap I Got Cool we're gonna bring over the last two boxes This break it's going good Carlos it hasn't been only We do have a promo still going up until midnight Midnight Pacific it's a little bit over an hour more discounts We're doing it right now Jack. So you're right in time. We've got a Recap coming up at the end So this and this are one box. These are the last two boxes actually for four Jack Mike Nick said though. There was a or like Nick did he put a promo $1,500 break credit promo if we do 12 cases five or sold out got more work to do but $1,500 and break credit and the Tigers are taken in every break. So the biggest Mountain is already moved Werner Blakely Gold wave to 50 for the Angels Summon Ken It's team he won in that pack randomizer Robert Hassel for the Padres Padres go to Mark Vassette Ronaldo Hernandez sky blue foil for the Rays Fred Schultz Only seven cases Carlos I'll do them all. Let's need you guys to film Slade Sikoni sky blue to $4.99 for the Diamondbacks Fred Schultz Heston Kirstad for the Orioles Connor Phillips purple to $2.50 for the Mariners Seattle Mariners Derek Kloss Alaric Sulaire to $4.99 sky blue paper for the twins Patrick Sweeney Heston Kirstad for the Orioles Second half of that box Looks like we got a blue wave down there. I don't know. I didn't see anything posted. I thought maybe we saw redemption in there, too Um Have we hit a super red at all today? It's not like we've done a ton of cases, but Hassel Padres Torkelson Tigers Zach Vien for the Royals Robert Hassel Refractor Padres Mark Vassette and Slade Sikoni Redemption Refractor parallel which should be numbered in $4.99 Diamondbacks Fred Schultz Spencer Torkelson Tigers Zach Daniels blue to $1.50 Astros Jeffrey Goldberg CJ Abrams purple to $2.50 for the Padres Mark Vassette and Blue wave auto Tyler Soderstrom to $1.50 Oakland A's Gary Miners It should be all three Maybe they surprises for the fourth auto again Nick Garcia sky blue refractor for the Pirates There you go one box left Oh Last box good luck Robert Hassel for the Padres Spencer Torkelson Tigers Zach Vien for the Rockies And Heston Kirstad for the Orioles And Mason when purple paper to 250 going to the Cardinals Brent Culper David Edwards sky blue refractor for the Rays Jordan Adams shimmer for the Angels Christian Robinson green to $99 for the Diamondbacks and Logan Hoffman Bowman first auto for the Pirates Chad the beanie Heston Kirstad glimpses of greatness for the Orioles and Spencer Torkelson glimpses of graces or greatness for the Tigers and Second half of the last box Both teams Bobby Miller to $4.99 for the Dodgers. Heston Kirstad for the Orioles. Trent Palmer, Refractor Auto to $4.99 for the Blue Jays, Matthew Acons. Zach Veen, 2020. Rockies. And CJ Van Eck, Orange Auto for the Blue Jays, Matthew Acons. That's the lowest number of auto I've pulled so far. This is my first case. So there you go. Let's get it ready for a recap. Cool. Recap time. So mostly this is autos, maybe one highlight of a non-auto in here. Trent Palmer, Blue Jays, CJ Van Eck, Blue Jays, Logan Hoffman, Pirates, Refractor, Auto, Slade Saccone for the Diamondbacks. That should be number to $4.99. Tyler Sodastrom for the A's. Warner Blakely for the Angels. Eric Orrers for the Mets. Adam Seminaris for the Angels. Luke Little for the Cubs. Alex Santos for the Astros. Saul Garcia for the Royals. Milan Tolentino for the Indians. Evan Carter for the Rangers. Zach Deloach for the Mariners. CJ Van Eck for the Blue Jays Redemption, which is funny because he's on card on some, but not on others. Max Meyer, Class of 2020 for the Marlins. Xavier Warren for the Brewers. Daniel Cabrera for the Tigers. Warner Blakely for the Angels. Reed Detmers for the Angels. Carson Ragsdale for the Phillies. Sammy Infante for the Nationals. Justin Fosquay for the Rangers. Landon Knack for the Dodgers. Jordan Wogu for the Cubs. And our only non-auto highlight, just, I mean, there's plenty of other good stuff going on to you guys, but a green, Spencer Torkelson to 99 for the Tigers. So there you go. Lots of other Bowman first chrome refractors and paper for the highlights of the Purested, Veen, Hassel, and Torkelson. All other chrome being shipped as well, but that was 2020 Bowman Draft Baseball, eight box jumbo case break. Pick your team number four from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean. Thanks for hanging out and we'll see you next time.


Hey, welcome back to another episode of insurance influencers where we find freaking influencers that are going in on it.  I love getting around powerful people. They inspire me and this dude inspires me as much as any Mr. James freaking Whitley. What's up, brother? How's it going, man? Doing good, man. James, he was on our podcast director of ops for SLS, which means you do everything operations related, which ends up being everything, right? Yes. Yeah. A little bit of everything. It can all fall under that umbrella. Yeah. That happens in our office too. Andy is COO now and he does it literally anything.  Thank you. A lot to learn still. Yeah. Yeah. Well, dude. Because I like to tell people what I'm thinking about them. Okay. And I think about you. I think of someone that is organized, maybe OCD, disciplined, determined, driven, and someone that just cares a lot about people. Would you agree with all those things? I like that. I might change my bio. Write that down. There you go. There you go. That's a yes. I mean, I hope you would agree with those things. It'd be weird if you disagreed with any of that. So that's good. I try to do all of those things. Yeah. Where does that come from? I think everybody's different, man. Where does that come from for you?  I feel like I'm partially like you and I feel like I'm partially like Grant in some different ways. You know. Yeah. You're kind of the best of both worlds. So it makes me jealous. But... Well, in what way? In what way? Since you brought it up. In what way? What are we talking about?  Obviously, I'll never be able to keep up with your social media and YouTube game and all that stuff. But, you know, Grant's better at that stuff. And then the figuring out how to build something from the ground up and how to do things more efficiently. You know, I think that's something that we have in common where just because, you know, we have a saying around here just because something's always been done one way doesn't mean we have to keep doing it that way.  Well, that's how we've always done it. And then you say, well, why? And I don't know. That's just how we've always done things. And so, you know, trying to look at it from a different angle and get new perspectives is key. So that's why I came out to see you. That's right, man. Well, dude, that's hard to, that's hard to do, you know, when someone's been doing something for so long, especially the insurance business. I mean, the average age is 59 and a half. It's an old fashioned, you know, grandpa industry in a way it really is. And there's a lot of young dudes trying to, you know, make their claim and make their mark and they're changing some stuff up. And you and Grant are, you know, as much of that as anybody, you know. When someone's trying to like, everything's been done a certain way, do you need to be creative to do something a little different? I mean, what's to talk through that for me? I think creativity is part of it, but you also don't have to necessarily reinvent the wheel. I mean, when we started around the same time in the industry, I think, in my 10 year anniversary of being licensed was July.  And when I joined SLS, Grant's dad had been doing it the same way for 32 years at the time. And so we took a system that worked really, really, really well. And we didn't change the system, we just changed the delivery method. And, you know, we didn't have a call center at the time. I didn't know anybody in the industry that was doing it over the phone.  And at the time, Quicken Loans was still becoming massive. My dad was in the mortgage industry. And I saw what Quicken Loans was doing to the mortgage industry and how hard that was making it for him.  And I was trying to tell him, dad, if I could buy a house entirely over the phone and never have to meet you, why would I not want to do that?  So that was the big creative revelation we had at the time, because nobody was really doing it. Obviously, I wasn't the only one that had that idea. But we kept the same system, we kept the same, you know, structure that SLS has and just implemented that in a different way. Yeah, Dylan and I were driving through the Dallas area earlier in the year. And there was a big, I don't remember what it's called.  And it's like a vending machine of cars. It's like Carvana or something, right? Carvana, that's it. Yep, yep.   Right. You know, so, and I think there's been some shifts in that respect from moving to phone cells in a way, you know, as you do, I still think both methods are extremely profitable, beneficial, and helpful to people, no matter what side you're on. I know you guys do a little bit of both there, obviously, a lot of both.  And there's a need for both. So I agree. Not everybody probably agrees with that, but I still think our clientele, you know, some people prefer one over the other. So that's also very, very true. I would agree with that. You said you've been in the business industry about a decade or 32? 33 now, yeah. 33. My gosh, dude. Well, you don't look 33 for starters. So congrats. Okay. Thank you. Where's, what's it like to be 30? You know, I mean, I'm still in my 20s, so I wouldn't know. What's that like? I think it, I think it's just a, it's just a number, right? That's what I tell my clients, you know. There you go. There's the answer. You use that same line all the time. Mr. Jones, you don't sound a day over 40. That's right.  I'm like, I've been saying that for a decade. Exactly. Even though you definitely don't, but there's times where our clients actually look older than what they are. You know, they're like, I'm 59. I'm like, dude, you look 79. You know, but I'm still going to use the same line. That's right. You have to bro. You have to. We talked a little bit earlier about, about waking up early. And I'm a big believer in getting my day started off correctly. When you study successful people, they don't wake up at seven, eight o'clock, nine o'clock. They don't not take care of their body. They don't drink, you know, three gallons of soda a day. They don't get drunk every day. You know, there's things that successful people don't, they don't not learn something every day. They don't not have goals. You know, there's like, there's things that successful do.  I can be better, you know, and sure we all can. But what are some, some things that you do that you believe help you be more focused and to reach your potential every single day? Well, first, I wasn't always like that. I try hard to, and I get a lot of pushback sometimes, but I try with, with our agents to, we have a thing called the 5am club. And I post a video every single day, somewhere between the hours of 5.15 and, you know, 5.40 ish. And it's almost always me driving to the gym. And if I don't go to the gym, and it's me sitting there. And the biggest pushback I get is, well, I'm just not a morning person. So, you know, I can't do that.  You know, all my classes I'd always schedule in the afternoon so that I could, you know, sleep until 12 o'clock.  And so what I was telling you earlier is my routine now. And so when I first started the industry, I was terrible at it. I wasn't, I wasn't talking to my first client until probably, I mean, 10 o'clock was early for me at that point. And it was just great. And I, you know, we're 22, 23 years old just trying to figure this thing out. So we made it work around our schedule. And, but we weren't hitting that next level. And that's when I started really getting into, you know, the early stages of podcasts and reading books. And Tim Ferriss was a big influence on me with a lot of things. And he interviews people all the time. And now he's got these books that have come out, you know, tribe of mentors and stuff where he takes key points from everybody. So it's fascinating to look his stuff up. But he talks about getting up early. He talks about working out.  And so I was overweight. I used to be 200 and almost 250 pounds when I was working in insurance.  I had a bad back. I ate terribly. I ate whatever I wanted to eat. And I was never a soda guy, but it was all other stuff. What was your favorite bad food to eat? Twinkies or what are we talking about? Cheese. I'm a big like salt and savory guy. So I could, I still to this day can sit down. You still eat a lot of cheese. Grant told me about the cheese thing. I ate a lot of cheese. But if you eat a lot of cheese and don't do anything about it, and then, you know, add bread and all this other stuff into there, it can get, it can get pretty bad pretty fast.  So it didn't matter. You know, I came out of, I think that's what happens to a lot of us. I came out of high school where it didn't matter what you ate. I couldn't gain weight.  And it was just hard. So I'd go to, you know, it was a chore. I'd go to McDonald's and get burgers just to try and gain weight. But then I go to college. I stopped playing sports. I start eating worse and drinking and doing all this stuff and ballooned up. And so in order to get out of that, and it ended up having an impact on the whole rest of my career, my life was a lot of things we talked about. So I, our industry doesn't allow me to go to the gym at four o'clock in the afternoon, five o'clock, you know, when these sessions where I started CrossFit, that's where I lost all the weight. And their latest class was five 30, you know, so it was for the people that got off work at five, they go five 30. So I couldn't go in the afternoon. So I was forced to go in the morning.  So I was telling you, so every morning now, every night, I make two shots of espresso, a big caffeine addict, but it's black and I'll put milk or sugar in it. And I put it on top of my phone and my alarm goes off at four 50 and I can't hit the snooze button because the cup of coffee is right there. And so then I feel the coffee. I shoot the three ounces of espresso and I hit the snooze and I will literally go back to sleep. And it was something that I learned from Tim Ferriss where he talks about Wall Street guys that do it, take power naps in the afternoon. And when my next alarm goes off with my eyes open to try and hit the snooze, the caffeine has worked its way into my system and I can't go back to sleep at that point. And that's what forces me to get out of bed, you know, and that's a, that's a victory for me. So that's like the first win of the day is like, I beat the alarm clock. I got up, I got going and something else we have in common is if I don't get up and do something active, get the blood flowing, even if it's just in my house. Originally it was getting on the phones, right? I have to be mentally sharp so I have to eat good so I sleep well. I drink a lot of water, you know, don't drink alcohol, especially during the week.  And now we do training every single day. So I've got to have an hour of content, just like you come into the office right away and get your sales team going. So if I don't go do something active and wake up and be alert and do all that, I'm just not the same. Some of the things we've adopted, man, when I spoke at your office, the freaking culture, the morning training, the energy, I was like, I'm still in some of this stuff, you know, it was awesome. I loved it. It was good, man. It's still good. I want to come back again soon, which we've talked about a lot and then we will. We really will.  The things that success people do that is uncomfortable. It's not natural. It's not normal. It's not something you want to do. I don't love going to the gym every morning. To that person out there that's like rolling their eyes right now, that I can succeed and I don't need those things. What would you say? Maybe you can, but to your point, I don't see a whole lot of people that get, like you said, that are being interviewed that are successful in whatever industry they're in that are doing that. And so it's only making it tougher. I'm of the mindset that if there's anything that I can do to get a 1% edge or a 1% advantage that I'm willing to do it. And when you really want to grow to the next level, people always ask or people always say to me sometimes like you get that, oh, well, that's easy for you to say because you've got a team of 50 plus people and you're making the money and all this stuff. But I work three times as hard now as I did when I was just an independent, when I was just an agent of one because I only had to worry about myself. And so part of me having to do all that stuff was a line, Rory Docherty, the owner always uses with us is, I have to squeeze the fat out of the day. So I have to get more and more and more efficient and I have to find time to do that. And for me, 7am to 8am, I come from the gym to my office and before I shower, that's the only time where no one will call me. There's no new emails coming that are of any importance and it's the only time where I can just be alone, get organized for the day, write my goals down, write down what I need to accomplish today and get organized enough and get ready for training so that I can be on it.  It goes back to sports.  Not just before a game, you do it before every single practice. So I think you have a huddle before every single practice. You know, it's a very, a lot of similarities there. A lot of similarities, I'm glad you brought that up. Is there a goal that you write down that you're willing to share? If you share one, I'll share one. How about that? All right, if it's just strictly insurance related and this is one that I both share. No, but this is what we write down every day is the long-term goal is $100 million a year. And you're still taking too small, you know that? I know. Because I've seen your operation, dude. That number should have been a billy. But I don't want to change my goal until I hit that one. So that $100 million was a goal when it was just Grant and I sitting in a closet trying to figure out how to do it on the phone. Yeah, see, okay, you bring up a good point. Okay, because everybody differs, which is great. I change, I up mine all the time, you know, only because it like challenges me and reinvigorates me. Because $100 million to you five or 10 years ago felt like a lot more than it does right now. Yeah, you know. But there's something about crossing, because I still hand right. I used to try and put it on my phone. And Rory has been a big mentor to me, you know, he says, there's just something about, and I've got it right here, something about taking the legal pad and just writing one and writing it in two. And then it makes me rip that page off in the morning and then rewrite it. So anything I didn't cross out. And so to write it down every day, but there's just something about being able to cross off a goal that you've been writing down for, you know, whether it's 30 days a year, five years, 10 years, that day where you get to cross that off. But now you can add bigger ones to the bottom, you know. Yeah. Well, I said I would share one too.  So there you go.  I just want to earn it first, you know, that's good, dude. I love the goal thing, man. I'm going on a plane.   SLS should have a freaking plane, bro. So, so Rory says that he says he worked as hard as he did for 42 years so that he didn't have to fly anywhere anymore. So that's why he doesn't want one, you know. There you go. You don't want to travel anymore. I'm with you. That's good. That's good. Where will, where will you guys be? How old's Grant? You're 60, you're 33. Grant's 33 too. Grant's 33. Yep. We were in the same, uh, Pudge class and our fraternity in college. So coming back. That's awesome. Who was wilder? I know the answer to that question, by the way. Yeah, you know, you know the answer. Definitely James. I mean, Grant, just sorry. Definitely. Okay. So let's look forward 30 years from now. You think you have, number one, you think you'll have gray here? White hair. It's the same color hair. A wig. I kind of have like dirty blonde hair now. So I'm hoping it just goes straight to the white. Okay. All right. I think I can, I think I can rock the white hair pretty good. What about, what about Grant? Cause his dad's about that age, isn't he? Yeah, he'll, he'll start getting the gray a bit. Okay. So you're, you're both 63.  Where will everything be? 30 years from now. You guys have thought about it? Mm-hmm. Um, you know, I, I enjoy, I truly enjoy what I do every day. You know, people ask all the time, like, don't, you know, what makes us the, the OCD and, and work ethic and obsessive, compulsive stuff. People all the time, especially my family, always say, oh, you're, you work too much. You're going to, you're going to burn yourself out. Like you need to take time for yourself and all that stuff. But I get most of my fulfillment and enjoyment out of doing what I do. And I enjoy coming here every day. I'm excited to come here. I, when I stay here until eight, nine o'clock at night, it's not cause I have to. It's not cause anybody told me to. It's cause I'm just so caught up in everything that's going on and helping people. And I get so much pleasure out of seeing somebody that never thought, never could have imagined making more than $23,000 a year. Making minimum wage. They, you know, I have a high school degree. They maybe made a mistake or two in life. And they think they're where they are. I get no greater satisfaction than seeing that person buy their first car, buy their first house, be debt free, get their credit right, like start saving money and like envisioning and embracing the levels of the lifestyle.  I was probably close. Yeah. He still shows up every day. Yeah. Is he going to watch this, you think? Yeah, I'll send it to him. Okay, good. And he still shows up every day, not cause he has to, right? And that's what I think that's what's neat about what we do.  Yes, you do. I forgot, yeah, he was, forget where he was when you were down here last, but he comes every day, he knows every single agent and, you know, over 200 agents. He knows, he can, he can, you can tell him a name and he can tell you what they sold last week, where they're at for this week, you know, if they're on track for certain things. I mean, he just, he's so immersed in all that stuff. And it's just because that's what his passion is and that's what he loves to do. It took him 42 years to get to where he's at. We're going to do it a lot faster. And the generations coming behind us are going to do it even faster.  Yeah, pick a number in like, of premium that you guys will be doing in 30 years. Cause it's going to be a lot more than a hundred million. It is. And, and, and, you know, if you really want to know what the newest goal that I've written down, I can, I'll share this. I'm, I doubt I'm the only one that does this. Yeah, I want to know. Everybody else watching wants to know too, bro. I want, I want to start an insurance company. Okay, good. Right. So I want to sell your own product. Correct. Because as great as commission levels are and, and, you know, and, you know, you can see people, street level cops and this and that and all the stuff that gets thrown around as much money is getting paid out from there. The insurance companies are doing pretty well themselves. You know, they're not struggling at all. And I have through, you know, 10 X and Cardone and coach Bert and all these things that I plug into have found other passions. You know, real estate is another passion of mine. I invest in different forms of real estate and do different things there. And there's a lot of correlations because insurance company is one of their biggest, you know, investments is into real estate. So when you really want to talk about what a big goal I have is, that's what it is. I want to be able to start an insurance company so that the products we're selling are then paying back into a company that can then invest in something that I'm also involved with and kind of just get this, this full circle of it. So, you know, I, you know, what's the number yearly? Yeah. I mean, there's, there's, there's no reason 30 years from now. I mean, in, in just one company, I mean, 500 million should be, you know, is a number that I've often just kind of tagged in the back of my mind. If I can get it, if we can get an insurance company up and running, it can't just be me, right? There's got to be other people involved and, and you've got to have a, a lot of moving parts to get that done. But that's, that's really what a, what a big, big picture goal would be for me. Boom.  You heard it here first, baby. Okay. So what are the steps? Is there like three, three or three or four or five steps to get to 500 million in 30 years? Yeah. And I think, you know, I, I've learned a lot even just this past year, you know, so I changed my thinking on things, but, you know, I think like you, the things you said that you've known, like we really try hard on culture. We really try hard on, on personal development. Given coach way too many plugs here. So we got to send him this too. But coach talks a lot about the whole person theory. And I think we always embrace that here. But I didn't have a, I didn't have a term coined for it. And that's so important to help people from burning out, you know, this, this industry can be very cutthroat. It can be very, you know, narcissistic and self-centered driven. And a lot of people are just out to make a penny and do this and that.  The fact that I'm somebody that a lot of people look to and grant is somebody that people can come to about things not related to insurance or sales or commissions or any of that stuff. I think that is, is what gets us there because what we're trying to do is just build a family and build a bigger and bigger and bigger. Yeah.  I like that, man. Those are good. That's really good. I'm excited to see the ride and be a part of the journey, you know.  Thanks, man. Appreciate that. That's awesome. That's really good. Man, 500 million in 30 years. I love that. That's huge, man. That's really good. Okay, let's play a quick game. You ready? All right. You worried? Concerned yet? I never know what you're pulling out. As long as you're not going to throw a basketball at me. No. Well, you think Landon and I could take you and Grant in basketball? And it's very good at basketball. So I'm just saying that this guy can't, can't hope with you guys. I was more referring to throwing a basketball at me for the objection speed round you do every morning. So. Oh, dude. Yeah. Come on now. You can handle that. Easy, easy, easy. We're going to try that to SLS sometime. You know what? Yeah. Okay. So me and Grant and I won on one, and you got to put a thousand bucks on one side of the other. Who do you put it on? I've never, I've never seen you. The only thing I've seen you do is knock out the parking lot with, with. And I won all five games. So. But you know, I got to go with my boy Grant. He's got a, he's got a wicked three point jump shot. So. Dude, you just lost a thousand bucks, bro. All right. Well, next time you're down here, we'll, we'll set it up. We have to do that. I would love that. I'm all serious. I would love that. Okay. So we'll get, we'll get Jared to film it. There we go. That would be, that'd be great. You and Grant. Okay. You're both good at different things. Yes. Who's more intelligent? Depends on what field or avenue we're talking about. Who's smarter? But that's just, that's such a broad term. Like I, he'll even tell you, if he was sitting right here next to me, I'm the numbers guy, right? I'm the one that sits there and breaks down reports and does numbers and stuff. He does it. He's good at math.  So, you know, he's got the numbers, he's got the gift of numbers, but I enjoy that stuff. That's what I'm really good at. Yeah. James, he enjoys the sales training and he's a better salesman to me. Yeah. If you had to choose, choose what? Smarter. I just gave you an answer. I thought it was a good answer. All right. He's a better salesperson or sales trainer. And he was better at sales than I was. Yeah. When we sat down and did that. Okay. Yeah. When we, when we sat down, he, he could sell better than I could. And so then I would try and help work him. Dude, you're too, you're so nice, man. You know what? So humble. You got it. If you work, if you work with other people, I mean, I think that's not just our industry, but everywhere. I mean, you've got to always be able to step back and, and look at, I think coach says this too, but you know, sometimes you can't see, see the picture when you're inside frame and, you know, being able to have that bird's eye view and take a step back and realize that you can't do it by yourself. And you're not, you're better than everybody at everything and finding your strengths and weaknesses. You know, and, and so we do that really well because there was a time before I was married and said, we live together. We work together. So like we were like, you know, we're like an old married couple, you know, and you can, you can start fighting and, and presenting people real fast. If you don't have, you know, a good head on your shoulders and you'll put things in perspective. So that's good, buddy. That's awesome. You know what? And I'm something that held me back for many years and that typically holds most people back is ego. Yes.  There comes a line though, and you need to realize that you need people and I need people as much as anybody, you know. And so I love that you guys are able to bounce each other, you know, stuff off each other and you're both very, very talented in different ways and super impressive dudes. I love comparing just because it's fun.  We got to hook up the one on one game and we got to get Grant on this thing at some point, you know. Yeah, no, I'm sorry. I couldn't be here today. No worries, bro. Thank, thank you for being on, man. I appreciate you sharing. I appreciate you being a influencer. You're the first person to call me that. So I appreciate it. Thank you, buddy. Hey, thanks for watching insurance influencers. Maybe next time it'll be you. Hey, if you like the interview with my buddy James, it just happened that you're going to love. Okay. These other two interviews I just recently did with Landon McCarter about digital marketing, insurance industry, everything throughout 2020. And also my good buddy Jeff Root on selling more term life insurance. Click on one of those and I'll see you there.


Hello, this is Christian. In this video, I'm going to show you how to install Zemp on your Macintosh. So we're going to download the Zemp from the Zemp website, install it, and there's some configuration to run on the local host. So let's go ahead and do that. Okay, so the first thing is you want to go to the Zemp website here. If you search for it, or just type in ApacheFriends.org, and you should see this site that looks very similar to this one. If you use Windows or Linux, you can install these using a Mac here. So basically, you just download this file. Okay, I'm not going to do that. I already did. So you click it, download that file. What you'll get is a virtual machine that will run on the Macintosh, and that has been changed because of security reasons. If you go to here, I'll show you what that means. So usually in the past, you're able to run a OSX native file so that you can have access directly into your hard drive. But that has been changed. And so as you can see, this message here is no longer available. So you have to use the VM, because the dash VM is a virtual machine that runs on the server on the machine. So let me just close this for now. And then once you download, you should see this file. You have the OSX here version here and then with the dash VM. So all these will be in this VM. And the difference is because of the VM, you have a different IP address. So go ahead and click that to install. And so once you install that, this is not working here. But OK, so it's going to load installer and just go through the installing process. It's basically drag here, put it into your application folder. And it's going to take a few seconds to install that for us. So we'll just wait until that's done. OK, so now that's been installed. You can close this now and you can remove this, eject this. You don't need that anymore. OK, so now open your application folder and you should see XAMP in there. So at the very bottom I have a list here. You can show icons if you want. But the very bottom here is the XAMP folder. OK, so if you open it, just double click on it. And it should load XAMP, the interface that can, you can have access to those information here. So let me just minimize this for now. OK, so just say open. So this is the interface here. You have a couple of tabs here to look at. One is the general. You will start here by turning on the, this is the virtual machine. You need to turn that on first so that all these services and network and volumes and so on can be activated. So first just click start and it might take a little while, maybe like a couple seconds or maybe in a minute to have it turned on and we'll wait until that it's turned on. Once that's on, all these menus here will be available and these services also will be clickable as well and along with all the other information there.  OK, so it's green and you see the IP address here. My machine is <IP_ADDRESS>. This is a local IP address. It's a private address on your local machine, but this is attached now to a virtual machine. OK, so if you go to the services here, you see these are available. All these will be turned on when we activate them. You can start one at a time if you want to. The networking here, we need to activate this as well because now again, Macintosh needs to run on a secure server or a local machine to make this work. So we'll enable this in a minute. So first thing is go ahead and notice that these services will be turned on already for some reason. Not sure what I did, but if they're not turned on, you can just click and start all of them or you just click and go to the application and it will also turn all these on. So if it's all green, then you're great, you're done pretty much, right? There's nothing much to do and that's what you want. If it's red or something, then usually you have a port issue and that needs to be configured. But hopefully this is the case. And so if I go to the application, if I click that, it's going to launch the dashboard. The ZEP dashboard, you see that it launches the site at <IP_ADDRESS> slash dashboard. This is a folder and this is a PHP right here. If you don't see this, that means you don't have PHP installed, ZEP is not properly configured, it's not installed. OK, so again, notice the IP address is this one here. If you try to change it to local holes, OK, you see it doesn't work because we haven't configured that yet. So let's go back to where it was before and then later on when we do what database is, you're going to go to this site here called PHP might admin. It's just another application inside the local server here. So if you click on that, it's going to say access forbidden because of security concerns. You need to run in a local network or you can set this file and configure this file. So we're not going to do that. This is a simpler way to do it. So we're going to come back and do that in a bit here. So OK, so now you are actually in PHP mode because now this is the server and this is a folder you will find inside the HT docs. So let's go back to, and let me just minimize this for now. So we have, oops, not that one. OK, so let me just put over here on the side so we can see what's going on. So on the services, you can see all these are turned on. At the network here, notice there is a local holes 8080 port for 480 and then there's a 443 port for 443 SSL. And this is also for SSL. It's secure, but you need to enable this to access PHP might admin and I'll show you that in a minute there. So then if you go back to the applications window here, you'll see that inside here you have a folder called XAMP. Again, if you just double click, you only get this. If you try to access it by right clicking on it and go to the show package contents, you'll see a vertical content inside here or some stuff that you don't want to mess with. These are the source files that run XAMP. So please do not go in here and then change anything here. It's supposed to be hidden. But where do you access this information? For example, this content here, where do you find it? So that is by going to the volumes tab here. You need to mount it. So I'll show you here on this screen here as well so you can see. Let me minimize this. So on the left side of this column, you'll see that once I mount that volume, you will see another IP address here. This is all your location for the drives. So if I click mount and you see on the left side here, the IP address, the same IP address we see earlier is mounted here. So if you click on that one now, this is the LAMP environment. So if you click LAMP, open that file, you see a bunch of files and photos in here. One of these you see is called DHT docs. This is where your PHP file lives. It needs to be inside this folder here. But before we go on there, notice you also see MySQL. This is for your database and PHP, the PHP source code itself, and a folder called PHP MyAmin. This is in a program that lets you monitor or configure databases. So all three here kind of work together. So we'll access that later. So please, again, don't do anything here unless you know what you're doing. So in the HT docs, this is the root directory of your server. You can see if I go back here and launch that site again. I'm not sure where it went, but okay, over here. Okay, so again, back in the dashboard. So you see this is a dashboard folder. This is a directory. This is a dashboard folder here. Okay, so if I click the dashboard, you'll see a bunch of files. One of these is against the PHP file or just HTML. This is a index HTML here. Okay, this one here is what you see over here. So if I type in index.html, you see exactly the same thing. Okay, that is this file here. Okay, if I renamed it to, let's just say index two. Okay, index two now. If I go back and refresh it, it should fail. Okay, so that is the file you want to load. Okay, so in this case is index one. I mean, just index. So I want to change it back to just index. And so if you write your code later on, and if you want to use this server, you need to pull your files in here. All right. Oh, what do I do? Okay, so then if you want to run a PHP file, I'm already inside the dashboard. I'm going to get out of this dashboard, go back to the HTML docs. Inside the HTML docs here, say that I want to create another file. I'm just going to copy this HTTP file here. And I'm going to duplicate it. Okay, and then we'll just call it my PHP. Put it down here. We'll change it to myphp.php. I'm going to edit this file, open with the editor, text edit, and just put a very simple code in here. So for now, just remove everything, keep the PHP tab here, tag here, and just say echo. Welcome to PHP. Okay, that is PHP statement. Again, it's not case sensitive. In this case, in the word echo here, but usually put all of the cases, make it consistent. Okay, just save that file. You can close it and just save it. Just say, okay. And then now you can access this file called myphp here in the HT docs. Again, HT docs represents this slash here. Okay, this slash here is the HT docs. And so now if I type in myphp.php, you'll see that this is the file that I put it here, right? And then later on, you know, you create a project, so you don't want to put everything here. You create a new folder, maybe call it myproject. Okay, and then oops, myproject. We already have one for some reason. And let me delete this. I have duplicate. So I have a photo called myproject. And here. Okay, and then the summer project, I have a file called testphp, for example. Okay, so I can go into myproject and test that php. And here again, in that testphp file, just a test file I did earlier, you put it in here. So all your project can be here. Another thing can go in here. So this is how things are laid out in LAMP. All right. So again, make sure you put all your content in here in the htdocs. If you're running outside of phpstorm, okay, we'll talk about phpstorm in the next video, but this is for running php on a server, which is in this case in the Apache server. So you need to activate this and then, you know, mount the volume so you can access to your files and then and so on. Okay, so to get this file, again, just click explore. You can go over here and double click that or if you click explore, it's going to open that same folder I just showed you here. Okay. All right, so now back to the dashboard. Again, notice the IP address is <IP_ADDRESS>. If you want to go and use local holes, okay, you can in this case because it's not created, it's not allowed. So to do that, you need to go into the network here and change and activate this. Right now it's port 8080. This is the default you can change if you want, but I just figure, you know, leave it as is and just activate this, enable it. Okay. Once it's enabled, then you can go and use that, but then you make sure you use the local holes colon 8080 and that should turn it on and now you should use local holes port 8080 or you can use this IP address here. It doesn't matter which one you use. Okay. It's pointing to the same place. So then now I get, if I go back to the dashboard, I get the same information as I said earlier. Okay. So now once that's activated and I can now go into PHP My Admin and as you can see, I have access to my PHP My Admin and this is now the interface for my SQL database as you can see here. Okay. So later on when you create the databases, this is what you've been using to do that. So I hope this is helpful. And if you have any questions again, please let me know. Just remember that you have to turn this on every time and then activate this database later on. If you use, we're going to use databases, you need to turn this on and then just make sure you turn this on as well. If you want to use the local holes, otherwise use this IP address here. Okay.


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Hello, today we will discuss some of the reactions that enzymes are carrying out quite naturally and quite efficiently. How they work? How the metal enzyme works and how a simple reaction can be converted into product and the efficiency goes up multiple times. We will discuss today the hydrolytic enzymes that the as the name says it will mainly involve the hydrolysis right. To book to follow would be that by principle of bioinorganic chemistry by Lippard Berg as I said earlier also this is the book mainly we are following, but there are a number of other books you can read. Some of the slides are prepared from this book and also the materials available online and materials available from MIT's lecture series and talks by Professor Lippard and others are included over here in different slides throughout these courses ok. So, some of the references are given if you have any queries please let me know. So, let us get into the hydrolytic enzymes. Well, the role of these metalloenzymes simply is to promote hydrolysis or similar reactions. I think the main important things to understand in these reactions or in these cases that over the time nature has evolved in such a way so that metalloenzymes are found to be the best we can have in transforming a simple reaction and making it extremely beautiful. A simple reactions for example, conversion of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid can be made faster and extremely efficient by the enzymes. These hydrolytic enzymes is a group of metalloenzymes basically of similar activity or similar kind of activity are having a metal center at its core. Of course, there are protein residue, protein backbone, from those protein backbone the side chains of amino acid side chains are appended some of those amino acid are binding with the metal and acting as the ligand for the metal center. By doing so, metal is now really feeling powerful and can do a metal chemistry that would otherwise not happen that easily or the rate of the reaction is very slow otherwise. Now, these metal centers which are chosen for the hydrolytic enzymes essentially does one thing very efficiently and that is their Lewis acid. Metal center is acting as Lewis acid and therefore, the substrate that organic substrate that we are interested in looking at or the enzyme is interested in reacting at will become more powerful and more reactive. Well, the role of the metal is essentially to see that we will get and supply of hydroxide from the water molecule at physiological pH and that is pH 7. The way metal does it, it binds with water, lowers down the pKa of water. So, that at pH 7 hydroxide can be delivered. Metal center as I said will act as a Lewis acid, metal center activate substrate both it does. So, it acts as a substrate it acts as a Lewis acid as well as it activates substrate during the process, it enhances the reaction rate and more of a role of protein side chains and electrostatic interactions we will see in a moment that how they facilitated this hydrolytic enzyme. Of course, often non-redox metal ions are used that means, other side reaction remain constant. So, we will see these examples very shown, let us look at the carbonic anhydride. It is a simple enzyme, it is a mononuclear zinc enzyme as you can see in the active side this is the active side ok. So, if you look at the whole protein this is a very complex structure as you can see lot of protein backbone and residue, but overall you see that in the middle there is this active side which is acting quite beautifully in converting carbon dioxide and water into carbonic acid. Overall, so, zinc is supported by 3 histidine, histidine 96, histidine 94 and histidine 119. What that means is this protein backbone these are the sequence that is participating in holding the metal ion and there is of course, a water molecule this is the same water molecule that is bound over there. So, what you have just seen that protein is very complex, but if you zoom down to a center where reaction is happening we find that this is the coordination compound it is a simple metal complex supported by 3 nitrogen containing ligand and then there is a water molecule. The geometry around this zinc center is tetrahedral as I said this has 3 histidine and 1 water molecule and the pKa of this water is nearly 7 for zinc bound state. Rate of this reaction without enzyme is very slow this reaction carbon dioxide converted into carbonic acid is very slow, but with enzyme as you can see there is a 10 to the power 8 fold increase in reaction rate that means, the enzyme has a role this metal center has a role and that role is essentially nothing, but promoting this reaction efficiently by acting as Lewis acid. So, that water molecule can bind and this deprotonation water to hydroxide formation occurs very in a very facile manner right. Let us look at this reaction mechanism as you could imagine perhaps this reaction is going to be very simple as simple perhaps anyone can think of this is one of the simplest reaction, but of course, this represents this is these pictures are all from Leopards book this represents the active site structure. So, of course, we can start from this zinc site as we were seeing in the last case there are these 3 histidine bound with water deprotonation of the water is happening quite easily because it is bound with Lewis acid zinc. So, the deprotonation is facile at pH 7 under physiological condition this deprotonation is now feasible of course, this is a reversible step, but we manage to then form zinc hydroxide. This is only possible because of this metal center and also you see that there is this you know protein backbone protein residue that is making it perfect for giving this atmosphere around the zinc center and more importantly it is also allowing carbon dioxide to preposition itself or the positioning of carbon dioxide is perfected in front of the metal site right. So, this is what we see zinc hydroxide is there which is a nucleophilic site this hydroxide which is a nucleophile will now then attack on the carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is almost fitted in a cavity where this organic substrate binding pocket is there. So, carbon dioxide is feeling welcome over there and then hydroxo is attacking over there ok. Once a nucleophilic attack is occurring you generate the intermediate which is leading to further product formation and water molecule comes out and releases the product. So, what you have seen so far is quite interesting reaction it is although a seemingly very simple reaction carbon dioxide reacting with water, but the orientation the fact that there is a zinc metal which is a non-redox metal. The fact that it is a tetrahedral center and it is supported by this peptide backbone very beautifully it allows also the carbon dioxide the whole architecture of the protein or the metal enzyme allows the carbon dioxide to orient in such a way so that the hydroxo and carbon dioxide is very close to each other right and therefore, this attack become very facile. So, this sort of reaction if you want to do in synthetic setup that means, in your laboratory the rate of the reaction will not be that fast. Let us say you manage to synthesize a zinc complex which is similar to this, you manage to get this complex also, but this orientation of carbon dioxide in front of this active site that is not easy to manage as it is managed in enzyme because enzyme is really perfect it has perfected this skill over long time right and in now it is in such a situation that everything is perfect this is the perfect you can get, but creating that perfect atmosphere in synthetic laboratory will not be that easy and that is why it is perhaps never possible to have a system which works better than nature, but if we can anyway get this sort of reaction that would be great in terms of synthetic catalyst right. So, this is really one of the benefit of studying this sort of chemistry so that you start understanding nature the way nature does you can get inspired by that and then design your catalyst the way nature is doing and by doing so perhaps you will be able to manage to synthesize a catalytic reaction or a catalyst which will do this reaction exactly same reaction because if you can convert let us say carbon dioxide to this bicarbonate or carbonic acid that is a fantastic reaction a lot of industry will be interested in finding out if it is the best reaction ever right. So, this sort of catalyst development and understanding of the enzyme is crucial if really we have to take our synthetic scale to the next level. Let us look little bit more on the some other hydrolytic enzyme for example, liver alcohol dehydrogenase ok. Well this is the enzyme that all those alcohol that is produced in our body or any consumes consumption is there this can be converted the alcohol can be converted to aldehyde by this enzyme liver alcohol dehydrogenase this is in our liver it converts let us say ethanol into acetaldehyde of course, this subsequent acetaldehyde can be picked up by other enzyme to convert further oxidized product, but today's discussion is mainly focused on how alcohol is converted to aldehyde and in a very very efficient manner ok. Now, let me tell you that these are once again zinc active site there are two zinc sites one of the zinc is not participating in this reaction directly this is providing basically the structural or the architectural context for this liver alcohol dehydrogenase this is not the active site, but nonetheless this is present this gives the structure to this to this it helps in giving the proper structure for the liver alcohol dehydrogenase this is a dimeric compound. So, two monomer units are there each of the monomer will have 40 kilo Dalton molecular weight right. Now, the structural zinc as you see has 4 16 1 2 3 4 4 16 units are there as you can see these numbering represents the side chain from where it is originating for example, 1 1 1 and 97 100 and 103 these are the side chain residue from which they are arising and binding with zinc ok. The main active site as you can see is over here. So, this whole structure is for liver alcohol dehydrogenase and this is the site a little bit center a small center where you have the real active site ok. So, all these architecture of the enzyme actually first of all prevents the active site from any damage in addition it also ensures that substrate orientation is perfect, substrate approach is perfect, substrate is getting diffused or channeling through these metalloenzyme pockets and reaches in right in front of the active site right. So, that is the role of oil of course, among others those are the crucial role of this huge architecture that substrate will be welcome and substrate will find its way to come to this active site or towards the active site and it will be positioned perfectly in front of this let us say zinc active site. So, that any other side reaction does not happen any other residues that is required for this reaction from this protein backbone will also orient throughout these orientation you will see many electrostatic interaction, hydrogen bonding interaction that are playing key role in making these reaction extremely facile. Once again these reactions may be very simple looking, but the type of speed or the rate of the reaction that you see is phenomenal something of that significant I think is very difficult to achieve other other than those in enzyme. So, the catalytic site the zinc you have 1 histidine, 2 cysteine and 1 water molecule. So, this is your histidine molecule, this is your cysteine molecule, another cysteine molecule is there another water molecule is there. So, this is the 4 coordinated zinc remember in the previous case carbonic anhydride you have 3 histidine. Now, you do not have 3 histidine you only have 1 histidine and 2 cysteine right. Now, if you look at the reaction overall what is happening here that as you have seen the major reaction the alcohol is converted to aldehyde right. So, in the with the help of NAD plus, NAD plus is converted to NADH and a proton is released. Now, how is overall this reaction occurring? Now, before that let us try to locate our active site. So, this is the active site that we were mentioning in the last slide. So, the zinc site is there, S cysteine is there, cysteine is there, histidine is there. So, 2 residues this is the third residue and this is the site where water binds. The moment it senses alcohol presence, so the water goes out and alcohol is replaced replacing the water upon binding to zinc the deprotonation of OH from the alcohol RCH2OH or acid this is ethanol this OH gets deprotonated to make alkoxide complex. So, this is a zinc alkoxide complex, but I think the most important part in addition to deprotonating this alcohol is the positioning of the NAD plus. So, this whole architecture is NAD plus right, this whole compound is NAD plus. Now, this NAD plus is positioned perfectly, I think this is what is phenomenon that it is right over here, it is not over here, it is not over there, there or anywhere, it is right where this CH bond is present right. So, if this hydride has to attack over here, it is really perfectly positioned nothing is stopping it. So, the rate of the reaction will be the best ever I would say that is why this liver alcohol dehydrogenase are so effective right. So, this is the part where we will see the oxidation overall oxidation of alcohol to aldehyde will happen and that is essentially triggered or started with the formation of zinc alkoxide by deprotonating the alcohol. Well, you notice that NAD plus is not alone, there is many side chain also from other protein residue or protein backbone these are coming and hydrogen bonding this is helping overall see this is also hydrogen bonded, these are hydrogen bonded. Overall all these hydrogen bonding is helping the NAD plus to be positioned right in front of the metal active site. I think realizing that and realizing mainly the power of it is quite essential and important. So, LAD active site is ready for hydride transfer as you can see this hydride if it has to transfer it will transfer right over here at the center right. So, in it is essential to understand in the next slide we will also discuss actually this drawing is little bit not perfect this hydride will be transferring over there. So, that is how the orientation is LAD active site is ready for hydride transfer zinc center helps in deprotonation of alcohol right that we have discussed alcohol displaces water that is also we discussed substrate orientation is perfected by zinc site right. So, this is the substrate and this is also another substrate both the substrate orientations are perfected by the zinc site and we have also seen that many different hydrogen bonding that is present over there that is helping in bringing the LAD plus where it should be right in front of the active site. Let us look at let us zoom down this center little bit details if you are looking at let us look at it little bit more carefully. What we find over here the same thing we are drawing here. So, zinc alkoxide is over here this is now O minus CH 2 CH 3 and as you have noticed this is the pyridine nitrogen the para position with respect to this pyridine nitrogen that one this is where the hydride transfer is happening. So, overall it is a double bond formation from here from this O minus double bond formation and then hydride comes out and attack on the this fourth carbon center. If you are looking a double bond formation here hydride is attacking on this carbon center to make it NADH. So, overall then if you are getting it correct now. So, alcohol is converted into aldehyde into this process and zinc gets back its water because the aldehyde that is forming over there is not a great ligand compared to even let us say water. So, water will come in and bind with the zinc site and NADH is produced over here right. So, what you have seen simply then the protein architecture is protecting the metalloenzyme active site and orienting the NAD plus and the alcohol substrate in such a way. So, that alcohol upon binding with the metal center can be deprotonated and right over there when it is or where it is deprotonated there is NAD plus waiting for it to react with it and therefore, alcohol is converted to aldehyde in the process upon deprotonation and the hydride transfer hydride transfer to the NAD plus. That is a very powerful reaction without these enzymes or without these active sites these reaction may be possible, but those reactions are not that facile not that effective right. In synthetic chemistry these reactions are not unknown many reactions are known which can convert alcohol into aldehyde it is a simple oxidation process, but those reactions in synthetic setup is nowhere in competition with the enzyme setup. Because as you have seen enzyme have taken advantage of electrostatic interaction hydrogen bonding interaction NAD plus zinc active site deprotonation and everything right. So, this reaction is quite beautiful on its own right and mainly because this is so effortless leader, so precise leader ok. Now, we will move to a new enzyme and that is carboxypeptide. Once again you will see or as you have seen now that this is a zinc enzyme. So, in the first three enzyme we are trying to discuss are zinc enzyme, we have discussed carbonic anhydride, we have just discussed liver alcohol dehydrogenase and we are discussing carboxypeptide now. Before discussing carboxypeptide let me go back once more to this liver alcohol dehydrogenase and let me tell you that this is the reason why or you know why this alcohol consumption is not a great idea in too much quantity. Because whatever alcohol we are consuming or drinking those are going to be taken care by this liver alcohol dehydrogenase to convert it to aldehyde and then further oxidize to carbon dioxide and water and all the fragmentation. Of course, some of the amount can go out by urine by sweat, but still a large majority of the alcohol can stay in our body. Those need to be taken care if it is not getting out, it need to be taken care by this LAD liver alcohol dehydrogenase. And although these are great enzymes can do reaction excellently, but the amount of alcohol makes a sure a large difference. If it is too high slowly, but steadily your liver gets damaged because it cannot handle this much of alcohol anymore. It can convert some, but not like what a you know person can maximum consume day after day. So, this is why once really need to take care of the drinking habit this can lead to the permanent liver damage, this is one of the reason why. While you have seen different you know throughout the society, you have seen different bad effect of the alcohol that one can pretty easily identify. So, by knowing these and understanding these enzyme indirectly and sure will make you aware that we need to take care of our body, because no matter how good these machineries are we have excellent machineries the best in the world, best in the you know in the universe perhaps, but nonetheless these need to be taken care, just because you have an enzyme does not mean that everything is alright. Well of course, there are other enzymes that is participating in the whole process of converting the alcohol into something that is no longer danger to us, but you know some of these enzymes are not present in large amount or the quantity that we should have in every human. So, that is why in some human we see that alcohol intolerance is there. So, some of the people you may have seen or might will encounter just when they drink even a drop of alcohol they becomes completely red right. That is because perhaps I mean mostly because this enzyme or one of those supplementary enzyme that we should have or they should have in their body are not there in adequate amount and cannot manage the any alcohol efficiently. So, there are many side effects like this skin rash lot of people have alcohol intolerance right. So, they can have skin rash redness of the skin due to the malfunctioning or not having enough of this liver alcohol dehydrogenation. It is of course, in a way it is genetic also it depends on the region let us say let us say some of the Asian people are having such problem of course, it can occur in anywhere in the world, but it is in part also genetical right. So, I mean there is nothing to really think too much here I think most important thing is we have to really take care of the alcohol consumption and not everybody is going to react to alcohol equally, but it is bad in large quantity for everybody ok. With this in the next class we will discuss carboxypeptide days where we will see once again another mononuclear zinc hydrolege enzyme ok. Thank you very much see you in the next class soon.


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