The Fjellraven Classic UK is a 65 kilometre trail through the remote and magnificent Cairngorm National Park in Scotland. I was kindly sent on this trip by my friends at Nordic Outdoors, who welcomed me into their Keswick shop to pick out a couple of Fjellraven items for the adventure ahead. Join me as I take on the UK's first-ever classic with over 200 like-minded people from all over the world. I'll show you these guys, look. It's Becky from Becky Goes Wild. There's Jake from Jake Goes Outside sometimes. The Fjellraven Classic, thanks to Nordic Outdoors. This is one of three. We've got the one in Keswick, we've got one up in Edinburgh and then London. I'm going to go in here and get some Fjellraven clobber to take with us on the Fjellraven Classic. Let's have a look. For sending me on this wonderful hike. Scenery is beautiful. It's so nice to be back in Scotland again. You get to the lodge where you set off. They had bagpipes playing. You get your real tour map foods like breakfast and dinner. You get a gas canister, which I sat that off because it's too big. You get a little bag to put litter in there.  You get a little booklet to stamp at the checkpoints, which we're going to come across. Another good thing about being at the front of the pack is you get first dibs on antlers. If we see any antlers and decklers, we yank to get on my back. I'll be keeping my eye out for them. Ooh, big boy. Look at this hard outslope. Look at this. It's like Lord at Rings but for absolute numpties. So this is what I feel like.  We've been caught graffitiing on the sheriff's van. Now look at us. Idiots.  Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Yeah. We're back in Scotland, baby. And you can tell look, there's someone gassing out. I think I'm lapping this girl. How are you doing? You all right? Oh, are you going in for a swim? Oh, is it a river crossing? Oh, is it a river crossing? All right. We're going in. It's not our first rodeo. For drop camera, it's done in, aren't we? Oh, it's nice and fresh. There he is. Look at that. This is Jake Crossy, sponsored by Aldi. Fall, fall, fall, fall. Fall but don't hurt yourself. Fall but don't hurt yourself. And don't get all your stuff wet, but just fall because it's bounce. I reckon by the time you've seen this, you're probably a mum and dad. So I'd just like to say congratulations. And yes, Hazy is a good name for a boy or a girl. Thanks. Bye. How does it feel to be leading the Phil Raven Classic, the first one in the UK? Thanks a lot. It's an emotional time. Mother nature. We've cut Mother Jake leading us into a bog or something like that. We're all off scratching our heads. Look at that. Whiskey out there. No, Maddick. You can't see, but just where my finger is. That's our second, what do you call it? Stop station. And apparently it's not far after this that people stop at night, but quick time check. And it's 10 past 1. So we're going to bat on, I think, because the only path I can see is that that goes through that valley there between them two peaks. In fact, I can remember on map seeing that. But for now, it's to that hut. You've got to keep your wits about you on this sort of gear, because you might just stack it and then out here, you're Maddick, aren't you? There's no way. You just have to get them out. You've got to lift it out. Big Maddick. We're leading the way. The issue is, if you go the wrong way, old monkey knuckles are going to follow you. And then so on and so forth. And you could be responsible for getting everyone veered off the right path. That's the sort of terrain we're dealing with. It's just very rocky and it's wet, but I've just shanned it off. I'm just going for it wet feet now. Classic Scottish hiking. I love it. One of my top five bridges in there. Scotland's coming, haven't I? All this bit in the middle of the bridge, which is where I do a lot of me, this sort of stuff. I do a lot of me work out. I do a lot of dicks. There's a bunch of bricks as well, by the way. Seven. Here we go. I didn't set this up. He just said he's got a present for me. I'm not just... Better be something that I can use in the bedroom. It depends. Where have my presents gone? Do you have a choice, my man? Oh, yes! Nordic elk and jerky. I feel like... I feel like elk's going to do me the most good, is it? I'd go the reindeer myself. Would you? Where's the reindeer? I didn't see that. Oh, my God. I was just speaking about reindeers earlier, actually. Cheers, mate. My mate's just given me some reindeer jerky, so stick that in your Christmas pipe and smoke it. That looks funny, that bike. Oh, there's the checkpoint. I can see it. Yeah, bilberries from where I'm from in Yorkshire. But, yeah, bilberries. Nice little bit of natural sugars. Keep the walls from the door. Look, this is good, isn't it? It's quite adventurous, isn't it? I'm scared. What checkpoint number is this, please? Three. Check point three. And you're the first group to arrive. You've heard it there from an official. So, first group to arrive. And then the ones in the middle, he calls the splatter. So, I don't want to be part of the splatter. So, is this Lone Warrior 69, I believe? My favourite. I'll just come through here. These are the medics. Is it right?  Medics. Medics! And there's another one over there. Actual medics. We're here at the real MVPs. OK, that's what windbreaker on. It's got a bit chilly. We're coming through this valley. Huge, high peak. See the sun in that side. So, that side is stopping it. It's made it slightly chilly. So, windbreakers have to go on. But we're now in the zone where the No Camping Zone. Which is, I think it's about 15K. We've got until we get to a place where we can camp. So, we're committed to this now. So, it might be a late one. Which I'm happy with. That's what I've been doing of late anyway. So, we'll keep backing on and then find some way to camp around 8 o'clock. As it's getting dark, hopefully get a sunset. Was that a survival, Jake? Go follow Jake on Jake's journey, mate. No, but do go follow him, though. Hang on. He's getting there. We'll keep doing some survival. We're all surviving. Jake survived. Becky survived. Tom's over there surviving. I'm surviving. We're doing well. We've got number 69 breathing down our neck. Which is giving us motivation. I've employed I think everyone has. The old stabilization sticks. Their views are spectacular. And then we're dropping down there into them. Into that wood. Forest, whatever you want to call it. And we've got about 12k to go until we're out of the camping zone. And the medic guy medic was telling us to get up top so that it's a bit more breezy otherwise the midges will come in force. And get us. Which I think might be quite funny, but you don't really want to do it. It's one of the things you think it'll be funny. If there's a few of you to get attacked by midges, but in reality it won't be that funny. Or will it?  Beauty. Look at this. Sun's going down. Squad. Let's squad girls look. Pudding curry sauce. Spotch. We stopped for a meal at the last checkpoint and we took our socks and shoes off and then we were like, we shouldn't have done that.  Shining me up bare-legs. I don't have any smidge you're out. So we can do this 6k and then just find the nearest place that'll accommodate us, all of us for tents and we'll pitch up. Right, we're in. I'm in. Look at the landshand. It is as baggy as you like and if the wind picks up at all then this whole this whole kitten caboodle is going down. It's so bouncy this ever so deep that you just can't get any purchase with your pegs, even delta pegs are struggling so I don't know how but it's just up. It's just up with pure willpower. It's been a long day. We've 42k today. See you on the morrow. I have woken up and this is state of affairs. Look how taut she is. She's taut. She's ready for a photo shoot. Look at that. Look how she's caved in at that side where even delta pegs have been raved out at ground. Looks like an absolute homeless man's squat. Some that you'd find pitched under a bridge. There's Jake Outdoors, whatever he's called. What he called me? Jake Outdoors. Jake's journey mate is there. Look too bad that. Looks quite professionally done. There's Becky's journey mate up there. Looking quite good. Tom's disappeared. He's gone to try and get some water or something. And there's me in the least professional looking outfit I've probably ever done. But we slept okay, didn't we Jake? That just said no. It was a bit rough like it was a bit bumpy but it glided out 10. I feel good. I feel good today. Weather's turned on us a little bit. There's me. Flat as a witch's tit. Oh look at that. That's what I was doing. Sliding down here. And what's that you say? Just a massive stone. Look that's what I was lying on as well. Mad flex. But any port in a storm. What 10 have you got Jake's journey mate? Burghouse, three points like that. It's got the Burghouse three points sleeping on lumps. It's the P3 3.1 for all you tent wizards out there. Bex, girl outdoors. What tent have you got BTW? What tent have I got? Yeah. She's got the fill rave and the bisco in balloon or less. Bright blue. There's no missing Bex. And I was just in some sort of mad bin bag flapping in wind. There we go. Looks nice. Got a little bit of clouding version there. And we're going to bat on because it's an early start. Tom our mate has batted on already with ours. He's off to go get some water and that. I don't know if we'll ever see you again Tom. Who knows. Now to report mate that was it. Not best night's sleep ever but we'll crack on there. What are you going for? What a fruit river. I don't think we need to look. You are so awesome. Best station ever. They've got whisky, they've got tea cakes. I mean that's all they need really but morning whisky what time is it do you think? What time is it in the morning now? It's 8.30. It's 8.30 in the morning Ravi and Whisky but we're in Scotland so we're in Rome. Cheers dude. Nice. Enjoy. Oh it smells delicious. Founders reserve. What is this slander? Skull. An iron brew. Oh my god an iron brew. This is getting so whisky. Can you play the bagpipes when you give it to me please? Maybe. Is that right? Is that bad? Can't do me for it though because I'm part of Scottish. Which part, this part that drink is Leigh. You made it mate. Well done. What time did you leave? In the rain. Oh my god look at this.  No messing about. This is the best day ever. This is the best checkpoint ever. It really is honestly. It's not even close. It's not even close. Look at the camping spots. I've got whisky, iron brew and there's a river. It's swimmable. Dunkable yeah. Dunkable right. Barely dunkable. Let's send it. Whisky, tonics, tea cakes, iron brew, yes please. Here's Tom look, he got up early this morning and blazed a trail. That's what he wanted. Did you get drinks of water as well? Yeah we drink and an iron brew. Do you have a whisky or not? Yeah. He had a whisky as well. Should we have two? Should we get on it a bit? Are we allowed? Definitely people will turn it down. I'll have beckys. I'll have your own whisky. Oh will you? Oh will you now? Because I'm going to pour it into the floor. Also, look. If the perfect camp spot couldn't get any better we've got a dog as well. I'm staying here. Staying here forever. Windy, rainy. Clearing up, coming this way. Just get close above your knee please. Which one is it? Which one is it? This one. Look at the little knee on it. It's damp as well. It's more here. It's all around this bit. There he is. There's not much happening to him. Jake's just eating a tea cake in one. A tonnex tea cake in one. That's been the highlight of my day. 15km to go until we're back to our first checkpoint and then that's it. It's pretty much free wheeling all the way to the end where no one's going to be waiting for us or anything because we've done it disrespectfully quick. See that boffy there. That's another checkpoint. These two muppets bringing up the rear. The Soto Windmaster probably the best one here. What do you got? Jetboil. Tom's got a jetboil. They're good actually. They're pretty good. They're fast aren't they? I never had one. You rate it. Yeah, well they're all the outside of it. It melts the outside of itself. Oh does it? It's too off for its own good. It just melts its little jacket. Right. What are you offering me? Why are you dressed like a honey roasted cashew nut by the way? Of course mate. The kindness of campers. I mean that will do. Thanks. Cut that man. Please fall. Please fall. Please fall. Fall. Please fall. Yeah, no good. I don't want to give you any advice because I want you to so I want you to stack it a bit for morale. For my morale. Oh that's a big jump that Bex. Look. Go back round. Yeah that's it. Come on little by little. He's made it there look. There you go. Fair enough. Well done everyone. Smashed it final river crossing. Goodbye. Goodbye forever. Do a little pan get the kids in though. There we go. Big T. And then there's where we're going. Over yonder I imagine. Through this valley. Follow this down now. And then it can't be too much further than out of the end of there. 14 Ks again. 14 Ks at the very end. Look. It's like a bothy on its own little bit of grass. Look at that. Medic. Got to film you just in case you fall. Oh look at that mate. 4 K left. Becky and Jake are back there. Jake's knee started to play up. So he strapped it up. And it was just when he was coming down it was hurting him and that so. We walked on but took it slowly to sort of wait and then with then we waited and they still didn't come over the hill so I just assumed they were having a rest or just taking it at their own pace so we just decided just to keep walking not too fast but just keep walking. So if you're watching this Jake and Becky sorry for leaving you I didn't leave you.  And also we found a dead dragonfly and I was like I wanted to do a medic with a dead dragonfly and things like that. I might nip into the village and get some supplies so that at least I'm not empty-handed for Jake and Becky's triumphant crossing of the line. I'll be there applauding saluting if anything. The heroic efforts. Dude there's so many shrooms about. Today's been a lot mate. I've not done a lot of filming because again I struggle when there's people about it's hard to just talk to the camera and that and especially with Tommy who's just it's not fair on him just for me to just be like oh wait for me while I just talk to this camera. I feel like I've been hiking a lot recently I've been putting a lot of miles in on the old hiking and then yesterday I think we did like 42k yesterday and today's like whatever it is 30 is it? No 25. I don't know. I don't even know any matter but two big days anyway right you'll see here and I've seen all along this path and all the paths around here you get these shrooms sprouting up next to the path a lot and that's because the mycelium network is all under here and then they'll build a path so it'll come along here it'll hit the paths that go down all the hardcore and compression and then they'll stop and they'll sort of fruit up at the side of paths so a good place to look for mushrooms is on paths in woodlands at the side of them just coming in to where we started and it's a bit of a ghost town everyone's still out on trail maybe did this a bit like maybe a bit fast and get one last stamping book and that's it your job's done see we do we got a clap we've got a clap off this one lad that's from the local brewery just down the road what percent is it 80 shilling it's 5% that'll do the damage well I'm hoping for a cumulative damage it's like when you catch a big fish I'm I'm peering it little shibby it's quite heavy that actually isn't it what's that that's it just shy of 10 just shy of 10 kg 30 and a half man's just shy of 10 but I've got lots of water and still thanks very much there we go this bit the beer that I'm about to drink no we didn't know each other we walked it all together though so cute yeah good place to meet it's a good romantic story though isn't it haggisnips and tatis from the big truck oh is that what it is haggisnips and tatis how can I not turn up to this there we have it the first ever UK classic it was an absolute honour to be a part of it I'd like to thank Phil Raven for putting on such an amazing event I'd like to thank all the volunteers at the checkpoints and who sorted out the party for afterwards you were heroes I'd like to thank the band also heroes and I'd like to thank Becky and Jake and Tom for hiking with me and being the best hiking buddies a man could wish for and I'd especially like to thank Nordic Outdoors for setting this up for me and sending me on such an amazing journey you can check out links to their website below and if you're in Scotland the Lake District or London you can check out their stores thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon


Hey, John Crestani here, affiliate marketing, multi-millionaire. I'm going to be answering all of your questions about affiliate marketing. Everything from what is affiliate marketing, what's the market size? Is it legit or worth doing? How much can you earn? Can it be a career? How do you start? How do you join a network? How do you learn everything? How do I make money really fast and easy? What's the best way to start everything? That you have questions about getting into this 15 billion dollar industry. I'm going to show you how you can get started. How you can start getting a piece of this pie and start earning money. So, let's get into this. I've made millions of dollars doing affiliate marketing working with dozens of different affiliate programs and affiliate networks for the last 10 years. I've been doing this and making my money living out here in rural Malibu, California. I'm going to help you do the same. Let's get into it. Hey, John Crestani and where are all my affiliate marketers at? Type in me right here in the comments below if you do affiliate marketing right now. And if you're just getting started, no worries. First, I'm going to explain a little bit about what affiliate marketing is and why it's important why it's a great place to make lots of money. And then I'll be going over quite a number of questions. Common questions I've seen on my channel. Almost a million people a month watch my channel to learn about affiliate marketing. And I'm going to be going over the common questions that I see. So that hopefully your questions can get answered and how to get started, whether it's worth doing, how much can you earn, etc. But before we get into that, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I've been doing affiliate marketing since 2009, 10, something like that. Basically 10 years, I've been dabbling in it. But I went full time and replaced my job income, which was $6,000 a month in 2012 to making 25 to $50,000 a month at around 23 years old. I was making that sort of money with the power of affiliate marketing. So great wealth creation tool, very easy to get started. And I'll be going over the specifics there. Now, affiliate marketing itself is a $15 billion industry. That's billion with a B. So if you're just looking to earn an extra $10,000 a year, that is a fraction. That's less than a percent of $15 billion. So there's a lot of money to be made here. Got a big market size and only $7 billion is in the US. Because I know that only about a quarter of the people watching this are going to be based in the US. Most of the money is actually outside of America. And what's great about affiliate marketing is it doesn't really matter where people are anyways. Because if you're in Nigeria, you can make money in the US with affiliate marketing. If you're in America, you can make money in Nigeria. I don't think there's a lot of affiliate programs in Nigeria. But the point being is it doesn't matter where you're located in the world, what matters is you can get a piece of all of this pie, this $15 billion, right? Now, 60% of the money made in affiliate marketing is business to consumers. So it's sort of like if you're selling, let's say you're selling hats. If you're selling hats, that's a consumer product. An individual is buying that, not a business. Whereas if you're selling jambboards, a business is buying that. So there's a lot of opportunity just selling to individual people, but as well as selling to businesses. 40% of the affiliate marketing income is sold by businesses. Why is that important? Well, if you are an executive or if you know about different professional tools or softwares or stuff, a lot of businesses buy this stuff. And a lot of people hear about these business products through affiliate marketing. Also, the amount of money that businesses spend each year is just astronomical. So if you do affiliate marketing and you focus on recommending products to other businesses, you can make a lot of money. Now, another interesting statistic about affiliate marketing is 74% of all online purchases, people actually do research on other websites before they buy the product. Now, what that means is basically the majority of people could land on your website doing research to figure out what product they end up purchasing before they make a decision. That's a great statistic for affiliate marketers because the public's propensity for doing research on things works in the affiliate marketers favor. It means you can get credit for the sale for basically 75% of everything people purchase. End of the day, folks. There is a lot of money in affiliate marketing and the industry is growing very fast. 11% annual, which is larger than the majority of other industries in the world. So, this is a fast growing industry. It's big and almost 80% of all companies use it. So, let's move on to some of the questions. Now, the first question I hear a lot from people who are not familiar with affiliate marketing, is it legit? Is affiliate marketing actually a legitimate way to make money? Well, as we see, it's a large industry, $15 billion. And yes, it is very legitimate. 80% of businesses do affiliate marketing.  Did you know that? Have you ever wondered how you end up on Amazon? I mean, one of my favorite examples is my wife. I asked her, do you ever click on affiliate links? And she said, no, I never do. I never click on affiliate links. I don't like scammy marketers ads. And then I looked on our computer. I looked on one of the tabs she was open and I said, oh, what's this? She said, oh, I'm doing research on what diapers to buy. I want to find some eco-friendly diapers for Fiona, which is my daughter. And I said, oh, which is your favorite? She said, oh, I really like this one.  She said, no, those aren't affiliate links. I said, Sarah, I'm mousing over this link. And I see there's an affiliate ID attached to it. You can't see it. But if you go in the code, every one of these links has an affiliate ID corresponding to it, meaning some affiliate marketer like me is getting credit for anything you purchase on Amazon right now. She said, whoa, I didn't know that. That's not real. Is it really? I said, yeah, you've been clicking on affiliate links for years, babe. It's just you don't know. And that's why it works. So affiliate marketing is legit. It's all over.  Nerd Wallet, big affiliate marketing company. Cars.com, affiliate marketing company. Hotels.com, affiliate marketing company. It is a super legit industry. It is growing fast. And there's a lot of money to be made by a lot of individuals. So now we'll move on to the second question. But John, is affiliate marketing worth doing? Yes, 100%. Affiliate marketing is totally worth doing. And if you've seen almost any YouTuber, go check out your top five or top 10 favorite YouTubers and just check the links in their description. Are they doing affiliate marketing? Do they have links to other products that are not their own or other services or other softwares? Chances are they do. A lot of the biggest YouTubers, they started making money with affiliate marketing because you can't make a lot of money as a YouTuber or it used to be that way. So yes, affiliate marketing is worth doing in almost any individual, any social influencer does affiliate marketing nowadays. Any blog you go on, any site that has traffic usually does affiliate marketing. Anybody with an email list does affiliate marketing. And there's plenty of ways that you can do affiliate marketing, even if you have zero audience yourself. And I teach that in my six week course called the Super Affiliate System. Links are down below. We updated every six months and make the course better and better and better and create more and more and more and more success. You can check out my community to see all of the success stories that are starting their own businesses making money with affiliate marketing. On to the third question. Okay, John, I get it. It's legit. You know, it's worthwhile. But can this affiliate marketing thing actually be a career? Like, can it be something I do for years?  I want a stable income. I don't want to take risks. I just want a steady paycheck. I have a mortgage and credit card costs. I just want a steady paycheck and something I can do for a long time. Is that possible with affiliate marketing? Yes, it is. First off, there are a lot of affiliate marketing jobs. And second off, you can do this for a long time. I've been doing this for eight years, full time, doing affiliate marketing, just posting links on the internet and selling other company's products and making commission when I match those two together. It's been great. And it's been something that I've had to adapt with over time. I started off marketing an investment company. And that company shut down their affiliate program for, you know, a year. You know, a couple of years after I started, they shut down their affiliate program. So, I started marketing other product. You know, I started marketing bed bug eradication kits and skincare supplements and weight loss supplements. I've shifted over time what companies I market. But I've been in the industry for eight years. So, I call it a career. I call it my job.  You know, this is my job. If you actually want a job with a base salary, if that's what you mean by career, you want just steady money, you want to do this, you freaking can't. There are a lot of jobs doing affiliate marketing. Usually what the jobs are is they're called affiliate managers. So, I'm just going to abbreviate it MGR affiliate managers. And there's a lot of jobs working for affiliate networks as an affiliate manager, which gives you the opportunity to work with hundreds or thousands of affiliates to help them make sales. So, there's jobs working for affiliate networks. The largest cities, which you can go to that have affiliate marketing companies in them, I'm going to list out a few if you want a job working for an affiliate network. One is Toronto. That's in Canada. A lot of affiliate networks located in Toronto. One of the number one places for affiliate marketing is San Diego. I'd say this is probably the number one city for affiliate marketing. So, if you're looking for a career in affiliate marketing, a lot of affiliate networks located there. Another city is New York. Lots of affiliate companies in New York. A lot of all companies in New York. Other cities that have a lot of affiliate marketing companies based in them include Los Angeles. Probably the number one city in Europe for affiliate marketing is Amsterdam. You also have in Asia, you have Bangkok. And the last notable city which has a lot of affiliate marketing companies is St. Petersburg, Florida. So, overall, there's a lot of places where affiliate marketing companies are based, but frankly, they're based all over the world because it's an internet business. You can be based anywhere you really want with affiliate marketing so companies can spring up anywhere. Let's move on to the fourth question. Okay, John, I get it. There's careers doing affiliate marketing, but as an affiliate myself, can I actually earn a full-time income doing this? You know, I see your ads talking about you can earn a side income or you can add extra dollars to what you make. But can you earn a full-time income doing this that's at least $2,000 a month? I don't know. I take home about $100, $150,000 a month. I consider that a full-time income. But in all reality, many people are full-time affiliate. They look on LinkedIn and see how many people classify themselves as affiliate marketers. I actually regularly poll my audience to see how many people do this full-time versus part-time versus not at all. And there's many people doing this as a full-time job, even following this channel commenting in the description. So, full-time income 100%. If you do affiliate marketing full-time, type and I do it full-time. Type it in in the comments below. I have some channel regulars so I love to see who's doing it. But I know a lot of people and the income can vary, right? I know people doing affiliate marketing full-time and they earn $10,000 to $20,000 a year. But they live which is I don't consider it a lot. I understand maybe if you're in like Nigeria or something or India like $10,000 to $20,000 might be a lot of money. But there's people doing it full-time living in Cambodia. And if you earn $20,000 a year in Cambodia, you're living like a prince. You're earning like multiple times with the average person in that country earns per year. So, you're living really nice. You have servants, you have house people, all that stuff. And you can do that with affiliate marketing because you don't have to be anywhere, don't have to talk to anybody, right? You don't have to wake up at any time. So, you 100% can which brings us to question number five. Okay, John, it sounds interesting. Sounds like you can make some money doing it. But how does it work? What are the mechanics of it? How do you get paid? What age do you have to be? Okay, so to answer the question, how does affiliate marketing work? I'm actually going to do a little chart on my board just to give you a little more of a visual illustration of how the whole ecosystem works. So, what you'll be working with is you will be working with what's called an affiliate network. And I'm just going to abbreviate things. But you work with an affiliate network which connects you with a lot of companies. So, you'll sign up with a good example of an affiliate network is DigiStore or another affiliate network is ClickBank. Now, anybody from any place in the world can work with these two networks. You can sign up in the links in the description. The only exception is you used to be able to work with DigiStore from Nigeria. Nigeria cannot work with DigiStore or ClickBank right now. You have to sign up with JV Zoo. I guess there's a lot of Nigerians that are doing like scammy stuff. Now, once you're working with an affiliate network, you find products to sell. So, an affiliate network will give you a link. They'll give you a link to a web page. Now, the link they give you the web page might look something like this. Blah, blah, blah.com, backslash, ABC123. That would be a unique identifier that identifies you or whatever the nickname you gave to your account. And it would go for a website, something like this, which is a page for a doctor. This is a doctor that gets people out of pain who wants more customers. Now, if you get people to fill out their information, requesting a consultation with this doctor and clicking the button right here, then you would get $10. That would be an average amount of money to earn for helping a doctor schedule a consultation. Once you get people, you post this link up on the internet, you get people signing up for consultations, then we go on to the next step, which is you get money. The affiliate network pays you money and different affiliate networks pay you different ways. So, DigiStore, for instance, will pay you money through PayPal. They will pay you money through a wire. All you need is a bank account to get a wire or they will pay you money through a check, which all you need to receive a check is an address. Another great thing about affiliate marketing is any age. There's no age restriction with affiliate marketing. There's no country restriction except for Nigeria with DigiStore, for instance. But the point being, anybody can do this no matter what age. If you're eight years old, you have an address. You can get checks sent to you.  So, anybody can do affiliate marketing and it's very easy to do. Okay, that's really interesting how it works, John, but it seems a bit confusing and overwhelming. Like, how do I just get started with it? I just want to know how to start. You probably don't just want to know how to start. You want the easiest way to start. You want the fastest way to start. And I made a video for you on that. Check out my video on how to start doing affiliate marketing if you're just a complete brand new beginner. So, check out the other videos on my channel. All I talk about is affiliate marketing and marketing. But the way I would recommend to get started is, as I said before, you start by joining an affiliate network. And the affiliate networks that I recommend you join are DigiStore. And I have a link to DigiStore in the description below. And if you apply through my link, you're guaranteed to get into DigiStore unless you're in Nigeria. The other affiliate network that I recommend is through ClickBank. And again, these networks, they like working through referrals. So, make sure you use my links down below when you sign up for these affiliate networks. I also have more affiliate networks you can sign up. Links are in the description. I suggest you sign up for every single affiliate network you can so you can get accepted to at least a couple of them and start making money, whichever one has the most interesting products to you. And in order to learn about how to promote these products, check out my video on free traffic methods for how to get your links out. And again, you can get your links out. I mean, if you can copy, paste, you can post a link on Facebook, Google, blogs, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn. I mean, the opportunities are endless. That's the easy part. Let's move on to the next question. How exactly do I join one of these affiliate networks? I just click on the link and fill out some information. Like, what if I don't have a business? What if they don't accept me? If you're nervous about clicking a link, you really don't belong to do affiliate marketing. You should probably just work a job. You have to click the links below to join the affiliate networks. You don't need a business. If they ask for a business ID, just your social security number or whatever, these networks, they do ask for your tax information or what have you, your personal identifying information because, again, this is a company you're working with. Just like any job you would get, they need your personal information in order to issue you checks. It's literally a requirement by almost any country in the world that they need your tax ID or your personal identifying number, whatever it is in your country, to actually work with you as an employee. So you need to do that. Other things to join networks is if you want to join more advanced affiliate networks, generally speaking, you need more than one referral and you need experience and a track record doing affiliate marketing. So that's how you do it. And again, I have the best list of affiliate networks down below. So sign up for every single one that is in the links in the description so you can get started. Okay, John, I get it. I get how to start, but how do you actually do affiliate marketing? I understand the concept. I understand how to join affiliate networks, but how do you actually do? How do you get your links out there? Once you have a link, how do you get it out to people? Great question. Now, once you have a link, it's very easy to get it out there. It's as simple as copy and paste. So we all know how to copy paste. We all know how to, or if we're on a mobile phone, we just click it and hold down and click copy. And by the way, for those of you that are using your phones on portrait mode, let me show you what portrait mode is. For those of you watching my video like this, please flip it like this. Okay, make it full screen. You want to get the full experience of these videos because I'm trying to teach business here and I see you over there. You 13-year-olds who are watching my videos like this and just checking through the comments. If I got you, type in I got you. If you're watching the video like this and you're kind of scrolling through comments, this is about focus. If you can't focus on a video, you're going to need it to be an entrepreneur. So flip it in landscape mode so that you can get the most bang out of it. So let's talk about how to get your links out there. Now, a lot of people wonder about this, but it's actually very simple. Now, if you have a social following or anything, really you can post your link in Instagram. You can post it on your profile. You can post it in a direct message. If you don't have any subscribers, you can just direct message people your affiliate link. Same thing with Facebook. You can post your affiliate link in your profile or you could send direct messages to people who you think would be interested in buying the product. Let's say you know somebody who has pain, right? This is a website. This is an affiliate offer where it's directed to people who have pain and it's doing lead generation for a doctor, as I said, $10. You can advertise this. You just find groups on Facebook of people who are in pain, you know? Maybe there's a group around chronic pain and you put a link to this. You say, hey, this doctor is offering a free consultation to get out of pain. Here's a link. So you could put it in Facebook groups as well. It's another way to do affiliate marketing. Just take your link, post it in the Facebook group. Another example is YouTube. Just like here. Check the links in the description. Bunch of affiliate links. Every single YouTuber. Almost every single YouTuber, I'd say 80%, have affiliate links in their description. Check your favorite top 10 YouTubers and you'll see affiliate links in the description. So there's a ton of ways. I could go on with examples, but you get the idea. LinkedIn, you posted, DMs or whatever. And all of these, you can do ads. And that's how I do affiliate marketing. And if you're looking to learn deeper about how to do advertising with affiliate marketing, check out my course called the Super Affiliate System. Once again, there's a link in the description. My course is not cheap. It's $2,000. It's a six-week program, but there's accountability. I have coaches. There's support. We have homeworks. We have a lot of stuff to help out our students, but our success rates have been amazing. If you look in our community, you can actually see, just check out some of the comments. Check out some of the people having success making their first commissions, making the first $10,000 from affiliate marketing. It's really exciting. And if you want to join and be one of my students, love for you to join the club. I'd love to help change your lives, because that's why I do this. This channel started as just a way to communicate to people and let people know how easy it is to make money in this spot. And what's great is being able to connect with people and helping change so many people's lives. It's not about the money. It's about what they're able to do with their life because of that money. They don't have to commute to work every day. They don't have to leave their house. They don't have to leave their family every day to work or they're able to travel the world. Whatever that is, it's great. And this is what I teach. I teach advertising.  And this is time with ads. It starts slow and then you ramp up whatever the market is and you can make a lot of money a lot faster. Okay, John, I feel a little confident. I understand what it is. I realize it's legitimate. I know how to post links, but how do I actually learn this? I'm still feeling a little lack of confidence and a little nervous about doing this with zero guidance. How do I go about learning? I already told you how to learn affiliate marketing. Learning affiliate marketing is easy. You can be a student of my course. Again, it's $2,000 and most people can't afford that. But if you just keep watching my YouTube channel, I have tons of videos. I have hundreds of videos. And what I suggest is watch as many videos as possible to start learning the terminology, what's working, what's not about affiliate marketing. Watch through my videos.  And I suggest you watch that to learn how to do affiliate marketing. I also have beginner videos for affiliate marketing. So check that. I'll have my editors kind of link to those videos somewhere around my head. And you can click on the little icon to watch more videos. But make sure you subscribe to this channel, like the video, and also enable all notifications so that you're aware of further videos that I do about affiliate marketing. The next thing is also join the communities. So I've created communities for you to interact with other people doing affiliate marketing. There's a Discord chat channel where you can chat with people in real time. We have a Reddit sub forum or sub Reddit, I think it's called, where you can chat, you can post comments and links and articles and whatever you want on the forum. And we also have a Facebook group which you can join and be active in and learn about what's going on. So join the community. Learn from people who are where you want to be. Learn from people who are wealthier. If you want to learn about money, learn from people who have more money than you. I'm a multimillionaire. So you can learn from me. You can join a community. And ultimately, the third part of education is actually being able to be teachable and have an open mind. And be able to do things that you yourself may not necessarily be comfortable with. That's what hungry is. You know, I talk about my hungry wolves here. But what is a hungry wolf? A hungry wolf is willing to do things that they may not necessarily agree with. And I'm here telling you, if you're only staying in your comfort zone, if you're only doing things, if you're only advertising products that you're comfortable with, if you're only marketing in the ways that you feel comfortable with, you're probably not growing. Growth comes from moving beyond your comfort zone. You grow when you are outside of your comfort zone. And on my channel, I'm going to ask you to do things that you may not feel comfortable with, especially my free traffic methods. I show you how to post ads for free, how to post direct messages, how to get clients for YouTube. I show all sorts of methods, but you probably won't feel comfortable doing all of that. If you know that I got you, type in you got me in the comments below because my goal is to make you money. My goal is to push you. And to push you to learn, you have to be teachable. And being teachable is having an open mind, not just an open mind, but taking action on things you may not be comfortable doing. If you allow me to guide you, you can look me up, you can verify that I'm a real person and I've made a lot of money doing this. And you'll see that's the truth. If you really want to be teachable, if you really want to learn, you're going to be willing to step outside your comfort zone. It's very important. Most people are not willing to do this. So allow me to guide you, take a little bit of a leap of faith and come along for the ride. And you'll learn a lot. Hey, John, that's cool. I understand you have to learn and all this stuff, but can you just tell me like the easiest, fastest, quickest way to just get started and make big money really fast? You know a lot about affiliate marketing, John. I just want the biggest money in the shortest amount of time, like just sent me as fast as possible. How do I do that, man? Just tell me the best thing. Come on, just the best thing that I should do, the only thing. You want fast big money, bro? You want it fast and you want it big? First off, if you want fast big money, yes, it's possible in affiliate marketing. And I have a number of videos that show you how you can make fast big money. And I'm going to have my editors link to a video which goes over how to make quick money in one day online. This has helped a lot of people get their start in affiliate marketing and make some big commissions really quickly. And it's something you can only do one time, but it works. And you can try that out for yourself. It shows you how you can hit up your own social network, can't hit them up every day. You want fast big money and consistency? You're not going to find that unless you have skills to do online advertising and unless you really know what you're doing and how to test and how to optimize. And that's what I teach in my course. I teach paid advertising and affiliate marketing. So, when you learn paid advertising, you can make a lot of money. But again, it's a skill. It's something you have to learn. And you can learn that, check the links below in the description to learn how to do that. Woo! So, if there's a question I didn't answer, please ask a question about affiliate marketing in the comments below. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of variations of what is the best affiliate program or what is the best affiliate network or what is the best ad network, etc. But one thing you have to understand is there is no best. And what that is is that scarcity mindset. There's a lot of companies doing affiliate marketing. There is no best. It's like asking is Nike better than, you know, Microsoft. They're both different companies selling different things. You can't compare apples to apples. 80% of all companies in the world do affiliate marketing. So, you have a lot of programs to choose from. There is no best. Is Facebook better than Google? You know what? They both have billions of people using them every month. You're not going to go hungry if you're able to work on one or the other. So, just get out there and do it. I hope I've motivated you. If you're going to get your start, if you're saying I'm all in, right?  If you're ready to start doing this, join my community, subscribe to this channel, like this video. And I look forward to seeing you in future videos and teaching you and helping you become successful. Once again, check out all these amazing students that are making tons of money with my program. Really excited to share all these people with you. Have a good day and talk to you soon.


My name is Dr Tracy Parker and I am the e-mentoring coordinator at the University of Leicester. E-mentoring is a scheme that's been set up between the Institute of Physics and a charity called the Brightside Trust and it's to do with the stimulating physics scheme from the Institute of Physics and it's all via the internet, it's all via the Big Bang blogs website. I think the e-mentoring scheme is a great way of encouraging mentees at school level to try and come to university. Each student was assigned a mentor from university and they were just willing to help us in any way with any questions based on physics that we had. It's a fantastic opportunity for students to be able to contact people outside of their lives that can help them in their work and in any problems they'll face with choosing their future. Some of these students, the mentees that are at these schools don't come from backgrounds where parents or siblings have gone to university so don't really know what it's like and certainly not a physics course. Most people think an undergraduate physicist is white coat stiffed scientist and they form that relationship and get to find out a lot more in depth of what a university life is like. Well my mentor she introduced herself as a person, what she was doing at university and she said if there was anything I needed help with my physics studies and if there was any questions I had based on physics she would be willing to help and answer. I enjoyed the fact that you could speak to someone who'd sort of already been through what you were going to go through and that it was easy to do because it was just something you'd check up on when you were on the internet. Have choices so you're never sure that you're going to choose the right subject for yourself but once you have contact with people who are doing what you want to do then you know they'll more than likely be the right decision if they don't regret it themselves.  It's actually somebody that just a couple of years ago was in exactly the same position as them so it's someone they can relate to. Yeah I'm seriously considering taking physics further. I want to do A-levels in all three sciences and maths and then I think I'm going to go on to do a physics degree. I can learn so much from it and it complements other subjects which makes it more interesting and easier as well but it is also very challenging which is why I like it as well because I like a challenge.


This study examined the effects of polygenic risk scores, PRS, genetic variants associated with colorectal cancer, CRC, and family history, FH, on CRC risk. Non-carriers had a lower risk than carriers, while those with a high PRS had a higher risk. Carriers with a low PRS had a similar risk to non-carriers, while carriers with a high PRS had a much higher risk. Those with a suspicious FH also had a higher risk, while those with no FH had a lower risk. The authors concluded that PRS, carrier status, and FH all play important roles in determining CRC risk.


Hello dear colleagues, thank you everyone who has gathered here on the third day. In fact, my task is kind of challenging because my mission is to present the, introduce the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the directions of the minister's work and they suggested to give me 20 minutes for that. I thought that since I can't tell everything anyway, something will remain, so I'm gonna start to structure my speech and follow the same approach as was used in other panels. As you mentioned, the topic of this conference is the human resources, the creativity sector of the current people and I actually really liked that all moderators and speakers emphasized the human dimension of the culture because this warmth of the human body is what is the most valuable today and what we should preserve in the first place. The first part of my speech is a brief summary about the work of the ministry. This is the cultural institution, there are 186 persons of us, I'm in charge of the directorate of culture and arts and there are 16 people in my team. Our responsibility is the art creative industry and creative or art education. So this team takes care of all that. You know, there's also some direct leadership of museums, of different institutions. Other directorates, including the directorate of cultural heritage, which had some, faced some criticism because of not being able to save something, I should emphasize that and like, unvisualize that, virtualize that power that government because it's like that institutions should be powerful, should ensure and protect, but in fact these are the same people in danger, under stress and yesterday I heard a really important message by Anastasia Platonov, who said about the memory and aging and unfortunately the minister of culture doesn't preserve this institutional memory and so thank you for this opportunity to talk about it now because it's one of those issues that is also extrapolated further to everything that's happening. The second part of my presentation is this like zooming out on the background of the zooming in which we used to have. Here we have huge numbers, but every time I speak I highlight that culture is just another kind of map and here one, sometimes one equals 100 or 1,000, so one is never less than 100 and this is a totally different story. When saying that Ukraine has about 34,000 of cultural institutions supported by the government, well this number will be publicized soon, this register of those institutions is almost ready now, it will be available to public and we'll see those numbers work with. 5,000 in independent sector, well I've created this number in a way that the Ukrainian cultural fund has like over 6,000 of some unique applicants for four years and most of them are from the independent sector so this number is invented through the activities of the fund and exposed through the fund because you know that the independent sector has really a lot of challenges because of being in a shadow. I think that in fact the sector is much bigger, you see other numbers broken down by specific cultural institutions, but this slide is about what kept us for the past three years because Ukrainian culture got into the worst position, we just locked down, took us right to the blackout, we've survived COVID, all the turbulences due to the impossibility to work to operate to the full scale and there were some some threats to lives and to cultural sector because of COVID, then there was this full scale war and in fact these issues challenges they have just got larger and they remained but thanks to the fact that since 2018 we had this kind of a cultural increase, culture started behaving in a different way and it impresses the, it's affected by the NGO sectors as well thanks to some institutions they that emerge in the public sector so these let us have these numbers now that's the ongoing situation as of now we have lost in the institutional infrastructure domain we have lost 3%, these are mostly clubs, libraries, whatever which is in the east and south of Ukraine where the active military or hostilities take place and they like to emphasize that the culture has its unbelievable influence on what is going on at the war you know that some they they they choose for location some non-residential buildings, these cultural infrastructure and I explain it to myself that there's also kind of a contribution of culture which is also required for the victory and now how are we going to rebuild and what are we going to rebuild? 10% or about 20,000 people are the people of art that left Ukraine or went to military this is the approximate number and it was caused by the polls, questionaries of different of our fellow colleagues from different cultural institutions and this is just an attempt to you know to understand the scale of something realizing that we cannot hear everyone which is also one of the biggest challenges that I've already mentioned we realize that when saying that the winners write the history we understand that today we're introducing and presenting the story of survivors of those who managed to secure themselves at the regional and local levels the situation is more than threatening and there's the level which is hard to be attained and we don't have any feedback from that but in October five heads of oblast departments of culture have been fired which means that regions find it hard to survive and there's the destabilizing of the system starting from the central level we're losing those mechanisms tools of de-escalating cascading and so we realize that the government the country cannot be close to each other so when the system starts damaging from destroying from the middle link we understand how threatening it is because those people they're also unique because you know they have the skills the knowledge they have the understanding of local context of what is happening in regions so moving forward these are approximate numbers of what we've made we've forecasted in one of the worst catastrophic case scenarios we're talking about the loss of about 50 percent and about the numbers that the culture will not receive for the development but today we're still talking about the losses caused by the russian army and we have to calculate those numbers those losses as well on 29 of november the minister of culture alexander kachenko was invited to the council of the culture ministries of europe and the ukrainian ministry addressed its counterparts in european countries calling for giving one percent from the budget culture budget of their countries to ukraine of course we do not count on the 100 percent support but it's just one of the tools that we believe would let us survive 2023 which will be very very challenging and all the war related risks and the lack of resources i think that all will affect the culture cultural sector and institutions next year and so these are the needs uh in expressed in billions of euro that's for the restoration of the heritage and destroyed infrastructure and the tools that the government will suggest to the donors you know we have this united 24 platform which takes care of the army and medicine but this platform also enables donations to the culture to some specific cultural institutions which were damaged by war just like that this this network will also have the ukrainian fund launched to it and most importantly uh as ila spoke about this wonderful initiative i know four initiatives like that in different sectors uh they have different levels of success but still that started from just people individuals and who launched the funds in support of different sectors and this is what the government couldn't do meaning that the public sector once again has become a safety net for the government because we're flexible and we can do that here and now and you know that the speed of anything is what the government always lacks because of different red tape procedures of some approvals so the government cannot be quick but if the government thanks to the public sectors coverage of 2022 we really hope that next year the government will come with the active support and this is about synergy and support when it comes to the topic of our conference i wrote down these topics that concern me as a person as as an art activist and ministry employee we should talk about this we should think about the solutions how to solve them the first issue is resilience of individuals and institutions we have been already talking about this the director of a museum that can or cannot leave evacuate the collection what is more important the institution or its team how do we measure how do we look at the institution after victory we can come back to it but right now we cannot forget i believe that individual choices and individual circumstances are more important over the civic obligation civic duty arts education process aletfina talked about this it's a huge challenge even even before prior to the full-scale event in russian invasion it's a very tough situation i will not dive deep into the details but we all understand that arts educational process is we understand as as the transfer of of knowledge from one person to another such connections today are just devastated online partly we manage to compensate for it but in the visual performance and audio arts online is not a sphere for education to be honest it's really difficult to cooperate in to operate in this format although all universities don't do work like this in the city of harkiv unfortunately they manage did not manage to to work offline we understand they've been only working online we know it's a it's a challenge so how the question is how to not to lose institutions and at the same time to preserve the quality of the education brain drain is another issue it is a huge problem and we can talk about it from many positions we can discuss this as a negative phenomenon for ukraine because the western labor market offers a higher competitiveness level so in in ukraine less people with fewer competencies remain and specialists unfortunately flee the country within the nine nine months actually ukraine has has seen a great number of intersectional sectoral and international projects which means that ukraine actually is by activities we do cooperate not only limited by our activity you can take an example as the then is by another which included ukraine which proves the strength of ukrainian culture and its potential so the brain drain well you can talk about two very interesting aspects moving on to the occupied territories again another formidable challenge the question is how to come back we understand that this should remain at the as the focal point of our attention and this program actually is devoted to this unfortunately russia which occupies any territory it leaves scorched earth so what is happening on the deoccupied territories is on the one hand the ruined infrastructure but on the other hand depressing world of russian culture because ukrainian culture included many interesting films in a way ukraine should come back and show its amazing responsibility and care it's a huge responsibility and huge challenge for the ukrainian culture to to support institutions on the deoccupied territories another issue is even more complex is collaborators and emigrants i understand it's no secret to anybody that we that these topics are separate it's not it's not the same thing obviously but indeed intuitively we understand how to understand comprehend collaborators but this topic needs to be discussed with some values in mind how to understand collaboration emigration sometimes is understood in negative through negative lands for example people who who left the country understood as people who run away there is a problem of men fleeing the country we understand that the ministry of culture supported and there are certain agreements but the question is how the men should the ukrainian men should return from abroad maybe you don't it's hard to realize that actors of one cave theater wrote a letter to to the director who is who remains abroad criticizing him you understand that there is quite a huge hate towards people who have fled the country the last topic which is very close to me and and really vital and which should remain at the as the focal point of our discussion is veterans veterans as artists and the audience these are the people who will come back after the war with a different experience who will want a different dialogue who will want to talk about what they have seen what they will have experienced will we be able to create a safe area safe space for the work as well as for the audience so that the veterans could understand that they are needed i can tell you that if you have an idea for for cooperation our ministry of culture will be cooperating with the ministry of veterans and we'll be thinking how to develop this cooperation to integrate veterans i understand this is new experience but it will shape our vision for the future i will wrap up because i'm i'm really short of time lastly a very short presentation with very short theses which i wanted to to touch upon during our conference i wanted to end up with a with a picture as as a testament to our colleagues in in poland in the year 1969 tateusz kantor a panoramic see happening tateusz kantor in white tie he was conducting the sea this conducting of the sea are is indicative of the relations of of the ministry managing culture this scene is indeed ironic but on the other hand what i see in this metaphor is synchronization indeed on the one hand these are two separate independent sectors but when you synchronize them as we can cooperate together as we can support one another and find some productive projects such a conducting of of a sea or culture indeed is the only in my in my mind way to cooperate in the ministry and culture thank you for your attention should have any questions please ask me thank you very much


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Well, hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Jonathan Asley of johnathanasley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today, our topic, the Five Love Languages Exposed. Or is it his Five Love Languages Exposed? Really quickly, before we get started, recently one of you commented that my pink shirt seems a little effeminate or unattractive to me. So I wanna hear your thoughts. Is the pink shirt not a really good color for me? Please post a comment below because I'd like to hear what you have to say. Okay, let's go to those Five Love Language Conversations. Now, if you're not familiar with Gary Chapman's book, The Five Love Languages. Five Love Languages. Definitely check it out. So I'm gonna kind of go through this a little bit. I'm just gonna give you my perspective of the Five Love Languages with respects to relationship today, especially with respects to people's core woundings and traumas. Wait a minute, woundings and traumas? Okay, we'll get to that in a second. So the Five Love Languages go like this. Words of affirmation, or in the case I'm a Leo, so it's words of adoration. Words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, acts of service, and gifts, okay? So words, obviously some of you like words. We like to hear the words. We like to hear words of appreciation, of adoration, of affirmation that we're doing good. Many people need words for them to feel love, that feel that emotional connection of love. Now there's other people that need quality time. They need that time with you, that regular time together to feel bonded, to feel connected, to build those layers of trust in relationship that allows you to develop the deeper roots. So quality time. Now, by the way, everything relates to the roots and deeper connection, okay? So the words, the quality time, the physical touch, the acts of service, and gifts.  It doesn't necessarily need the words, but the touch feels like those words, okay? Now acts of service are those things where you do something for another person.  Some of those types of things centered around acts of service where you're doing something for another person. And then lastly, gifts. It might be a small gift. It might be an expensive gift. It might be a bracelet. Oh, by the way, people ask me, what does my bracelet say? My bracelet says I'm enough. And the other one says Connor, my son who passed away. Someone made all these bracelets for me that says his date and it says he rests with love, my son Connor. So if you've wondered about that, and that's my infinity zones are chakras. Okay, but giving gifts, it might be small gifts, it might be big gifts, but for some people, that's how they feel loved. Okay, so this is the five love languages exposed. So what occurs to me, that men and women tend to fall into a certain category more frequently than others. So for example, men have been conditioned as small boys to stuff our words. To stuff our words. We've been told to keep our emotions inward. So oftentimes men aren't as vocally as expressive. Now someone like me who's a Leo tends to be that way or an anxious attachment tends to be that way. But not all men, but a significant number of men struggle with using words. So if, and by the way, what's interesting in reverse is women tend to need more words to feel more love. These aren't absolutes, this is just a generalization. Okay, or that physical touch. Men are visual creatures, we're sexual creatures. We need that physical touch to feel connected oftentimes. Now I'm gonna skip quality time for a second because we're gonna move to access service. Men tend to be more access service. We're kind of that provider protector instinct where we're doing to make sure, make sure your bills are paid on time or make sure our bills are paid on time. But that provider protector tends to be where men operate more frequently and less for women. Now women tend to be service as well is that nurturing personality that most many women have. Okay, and lastly gifts. I mean, what's interesting, I was thinking about when I brought flowers to a woman on a first date, she appreciated the gift, but I just don't see a woman giving men flowers and then men receiving it the same way. In fact, men have a very hard time receiving gifts. Now, in fact, we can talk about receiving in a whole different conversation, which is really important. Not all men feel that way, but a lot of people, actually women as well, have a hard time receiving which really equates more to our love attachment style, which I've mentioned the book many times, the book Attached, you should check it out to learn about love attachment styles. But a lot of times people have a hard time receiving the gift. They might appreciate the gift that they have the hard time receiving. Now I mentioned I blocked out quality time because this is the tricky one in a lot of current relationships, especially with people who are wounded and they're struggling to develop their own self-love right now. In fact, many people that are wounded or childhood wounds and traumas or adult traumas need to have quality time for themselves to begin to really learn how to, and in my book called What the Heck Is Self Love Anyway, to learn on to love on themselves. In fact, so, and I'm differentiating quality time because this is where a lot of relationships struggle is the time that they spend together, both the physical time face-to-face and the expectation of time on your smartphones. I'm doing my thumbs here, but there's this expectation that spending time on your smartphone is quality time, and that's, ugh, quality time is face-to-face time. And this is where a lot of relationships struggle because as we age, we've got busy, people have busy lives, they're doing other things, maybe they've got work, maybe they've got children, maybe they've got their health routine and whatnot, and we're struggling to create quality time together. Is any of this resonating with you other than my pink shirt? I'm just kidding about that. Okay, so first off, I invite you to do a deep dive in understanding the five love languages because here's the thing. How we connect with one another is primarily based on our five love languages and oftentimes the reason why couples aren't connecting because they're disconnected in their love language.   Thankfully, there are high value, high quality men who have done the work, they've done the personal development work, or have just been raised so healthy that they can lean into a relationship, but the vast majority of humans, I've always said this, we've got issues and it's important to work on our issues if you wanna be in a healthy, happy relationship and that's my invitation for you and that's my invitation for the guy that you might be attracted to. So I hope you got value from the five love languages exposed. I wonder what you thought about my pink shirt because someone mentioned it and now it triggered me to wonder if I should still wear it. Hey, you might have some thoughts or questions, please post a comment below. I read most of the questions and I do my best to respond. Also, if you're having an issue with a guy and you want to get some mail perspective, schedule a call with me, a free discovery call, to see if we're working with a coach can help you navigate your relationship.  I go through a lot of the emotional things men go through so I understand men and I invite you to schedule a call to see if working with me might benefit you. Okay, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do.   I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone else and give them a hug because hugs are a great source of love and we can all use a lot more love in our lives. Thank you so much and wishing you a super duper wonderful, fantastic day. Bye-bye now.


Acting like you don't deserve him which actually comes from a belief usually that you don't deserve him or that you don't deserve a great guy or you don't deserve a guy or that you're not lovable or that nobody wants you or something like that right there's a belief that you have a thought that you have over and over and over that you've emotionalized that says that you don't really deserve what it is that you want or you don't deserve something good and it's one of those things where if you have something like this like it's you're not alone like most people have something like this in some area of their life where they feel like they don't deserve what it is that they want and it ends up sabotaging everything that they they want one of the things that I talk about is this idea when we talk about framing which is a big concept that I've talked about in a lot of different videos and framing is this idea of like it's like what goes around all of the interactions that you have well you have outside external frames which is your interactions and how things are like what the meaning is behind the interactions but you also have internal frames which then dictate your external frames and so if you have a belief inside yourself that says that you're not worthy what you're going to start doing is you're going to sabotage things you're going to start acting out and act in behaving in ways that exhibit that you don't deserve the things that you want and people around you are going to start thinking that you don't deserve what you want because whoever is most certain about their frames and their belief systems are the people that pass those on right and so it doesn't matter how much a guy likes you or how much guy loves you or how much a guy thinks of you as amazing and beautiful and awesome and like you deserve love if you don't believe it eventually it's going to wear on him and destroy his beliefs as well