Hello, I think we can start Welcome to our session today We will discuss about how to use Cata containers in order to deploy an nfvm PLC VPN My name is Marianne to the soil. I am a system architect at one and one you know One and one you know, it's the largest hosting company in Europe with more than 90,000 servers in operation and Around 12 million domains under management We are a member of United Internet Group and We are in this in this industry for more than 20 years now Last month one and one combined its web hosting application and server product lines with the profit bricks Cloud infrastructure becoming one and one you know, so this name. It's quite new I have next to me my colleague, Alexander Bogdan pika I will let him introduce himself and after that we can move forward with our presentation Hello everyone, my name is Alex I'm a software developer with within one and one iron us so That that's about it That's all I can say about it So here are some Topics which will be which will be covering today First of all, there's Cata containers. How many of you know what Cata containers is? Okay, well for the others Cata containers claims to provide the security of the VM the Cata containers claims to provide the security of a VM With the boot times of a container, right? So it's some sort of light VM We are going to show you We're going to show you how an FR route router can be run inside of a Cata container and We're going to use an FR We are going to use FR as our NFV to in order to build an AVP and topology between two open stack data centers and Well, this is this is going to be the scenario where we'll be covering in our demo We will also then discuss about other other possibilities where Cata containers could be could prove quite useful Okay Cata containers mainly consists of Realize on two components one of them being a Kernel image right a kernel a Linux kernel and then a root file system image so in order to In order to be able to use a different kernel that you let's say compile yourself with certain Flags enabled or whatnot as with it today all you have to do is just change your configuration file as you can see the on the screen so Yeah, according to the docs this is what you have to do in order to Create a guest kernel, right? so Cata container allows you to have to to gives you the tools to build a Custom kernel right the instructions. So this is according to their docs. So let's see Let's see how how that looks in In real life in order to in order to account for a platform specific inconsistencies, you know We we decided to compile our kernel inside the of a Docker container by using a script that we We've put together So we also had to adjust a few a few of the kernel flags Namely to enable the MPLS and vex LAN support and for the future we're also planning to integrate this This script within the Cata container cycle system. They have a repository called OS builder that provides this tool This kind of tools. So we're gonna put it there probably Okay, as you can see here The kernel is now compiling so this kernel is going to then be pushed to the compute nodes And here are kernel images. Okay, bye. So That's that's about it In order to be able to run the kernel we built earlier We also had to enable some CCTL flags in our light VM, right? so in order to make that persistent we We enabled them within the exactly within it directly within the root file system image. So Here's how that looks like Then after enabling them enabling them here, they're persisted when when you spawn containers within the by using that kernel image. So they're persistent in order to do that we use the guest file guest fish tool and That that's about all there is to it Okay so About the FR routing I will invite My colleague Marian to tell you more about it as he's more accustomed to the networking side of things. So I'm more of a Automation kind of guy. So thank you Okay, so The the kernel flags that we enabled inside the Cata containers are as Alex specified related to MPLS and big lands mostly and We we've done that in order to integrate inside Cata containers our FR routing NFV What is FR routing? If I routing it's a collection of IP Routing protocols that can be installed inside Linux and UNIX platforms FR routing it can be integrated very easily with native Linux and UNIX IP networking stacks and can be used to provide different network functions like IP route I Related to layer 2 and layer 3 routing and forwarding Also if our routing it's an open source project and it's part of Linux foundation Some of the features that are available in FR routing you can see on the on the slide right now You can see features like MPLS, BGP, VPN, OSPF and so on The features that are highlighted with blue color in this diagram are the ones that we used in our demo and You will see later How we configure that What what is this demo about actually it's about the interoperability between Cloud-ready infrastructure and infrastructure legacy infrastructure We will want to create an EVPN network between two open stack data centers Using FR routing Installed inside Cata containers Okay, this is the topology for our demo as you can see we have two open stack data centers Interconnected using an MPLS over GRE network the Compute on the zoom compute nodes we will provision the Cata containers the spine and leaves for our infrastructure and On top of that we will create the EVPN setup The VMs provisioned on the open stack compute nodes will be able to communicate to the with the EVPN setup using open v-switch and And the the goal it will be to have VMs from Vegas land 1001 to be able to from data center a to be able to communicate with VMs from the other data center in the same Vegas land similar for the other two Vegas lands. We I added on this diagram Okay, so let's take a look on how this can be implemented. This is a script that basically it's It's it's provision. It's doing the provisioning for Cata containers As you can see we use for that zoom The images they far routing images are taken from glance We are using Cata runtime as you can see in this in this output The containers are started with privileged Flag because we need to add different Interfaces for Vegas land and the GRE interface as you will see later Of course we attached to each container the network interfaces in order to create the topology as shown in the diagram before and At the end we will have a setup with Four Cata container nodes the two of them in the data center a two of them in data center B with With all the naming host name and so on and IP addresses, of course This will take Couple of minutes because as you may know in Cata containers we we are not able yet to Attach network interfaces Hot hot plug-in for network interfaces and we need to restart the The containers once we add some interfaces and for this For this last container as you can see where we added three interfaces And we will wait for for that to that container to start To restart Once we are we we are waiting for this For our setup we created some dedicated availability zones only for this that that are used only for NFV Compute nodes as you can see we have all the nodes started now and we will after that we apply the Network configuration the GRE tunnel is configured after on the spine between the on the spine creating the link between the spine interfaces of After that we apply the IP the vex-lan interfaces on the leaf Towards the VMs and at the end we push the FR routing configuration Specific for our EVP and setup let's take a look on on how this Let's take a look on that how this looks on on all Cata container nodes. So what you see on this on the screen now are For CLI's the top ones are for spine nodes and The at the bottom you we are we have the leaves As you can see I SSH on those and we are running OSPF in order to advertise the Lubbeck IP addresses The MPLS it's up. It's enabled. We are using LDP in order to discover the MPLS labels between the nodes And we are running BGP between our leaves the IP address is used for BGP sessions are the Lubbeck IP addresses and We are advertising over that BGP the EVP and Address family as you can see we are advertising all vex-lan network Identifiers over that BGP session as I mentioned for BGP session. We are using the Lubbeck IP addresses as You can see in this in this output What else now if we are looking at the Vex-lan Configured in our network as I mentioned we have three vex-lans 1001, 1002 and 1003 that are advertised over our BGP Session and The vex-lan configuration looks like in this output. We have the vex-lan ID We have the vex-lan tunnel endpoint local the local one the remote one it's discovered Dynamically using the EVP and set up and if we are looking at the Routes that are advertised we can see the prefixes for our For two MAC addresses Which will you will see later are the MAC addresses of our VMs one in one data center the other in the other data center if we are looking at the Next hope the routing for the next hope IP address I will stop here for for just a couple because Here is the information about the MPLS labeling as you can see from data center B We have the next hope Advertised with label 19 after that the label and send to Spine in in the same data center on the spine the label 19. It's swapped with the label 16 and sent to data center a and there because the That it's the Lubeck IP address of the leaf the label on the spine It's it's removed and send the packet it sent to the data center to the Leaf in the data center what you can see here is the MPLS table more or less the same information the label with 19 label label or not inbound on spine in data center B. It's swapped and The label 16 in the data center a it's removed Okay now if we if we look again at the Prefixes that are advertised over the Over the BGP session as I mentioned we have two MAC addresses the one with 8a7f it's the one from data center a as you will see in this output. This is the open stack environment so 8a7 e that is the MAC address from this data center the other MAC address is the one from data center B e1 I Didn't catch that but we'll see here so a One 5f is the the MAC address in the data center B As you can see this is mapped to IP address 94132 That that's actually our VM in this data center and as you will see now I I will be able to ping from that data center from that VM To the other data center to VM to a VM in a in the other data center that it's in the same baseline The IP address 94.37 and if we go on the other data center, we will see the IP address on the VM there What what other things we can see here we can see the containers that are created inside the Open stack as As I've mentioned we have one leaf and one spine in each data center And as you can see the runtime for our data center for our containers, it's cut a runtime Okay, one more thing Okay, so the on this slide we we will be able to see some traffic capture inside Between on the interface between the spines as you can see So as you can see we have MPLS encapsulation there We have the MPLS labels label 16 for this packet We have the vexlan encapsulation so this is the label we have the vexlan encapsulation and with the vexlan tunnel endpoints and vexlan identifier and in top and encapsulated the IPv4 packet with the MAC address source and destination and also the ICMP packet For for that big that that was running similar output this time in wireshark the MPLS with the labels we have the vexlans IPv4 with source and destination and of course the ICMP I Think this was all about our demo What we want to discuss Now it's about other use cases that can be implemented using kata containers with focus on NFVs The FR routing it's also supporting VRFs so a similar setup with what I already showed can be integrated And We can have VRFs at the end of of that setup. We can run different other different protocol routing protocols like I don't know Isis or Protocols for IPv6 and so on Of course, we can integrate inside kata containers other NFVs like for IDP intrusion detection intrusion prevention like openSense and other open source technologies and of course we can we can integrate NFVs for fire rolling and here I will mention also via s or why not other Commercial solution for NFVs That that was all from our side if you if you have any questions, please let me know If not, please send us send us your feedback using the application. Thank you Hello, can you hear me? Is it working? Yes, my question is you said earlier You were using a custom kernel image for the kata containers Yes on an earlier slide you mentioned that you were using up you needed kernel version 4.18 for EVPN support Is that right? I mean I've been using EVPN and all the kernel versions. I'm just curious Why did you have to build your own kernel image? by default in kata containers the kernel The kernel flags are not enabled for most of the options They are available in the kernel but are not enabled. So we needed to enable it enable them Using that script that Alex showed and at the end we we had a compiled kernel with all the Options we needed enabled that was the what kind what kind of flags were you enabling that just to give an example for MPLS for example We enabled for big slan some flags we we played with Dot dot on that one Q But for this use case we didn't use it But we for other use cases we enable that also and stuff like this mostly the flags related to networking That makes sense for our use case. Thank you In your demo where you are linking up its in uteroom to some extent or was this also standalone Running on it to learn the MAC addresses of the end systems Because you have MAC addresses learning at the VXLan tunnels, but the MAC address need to be learned somehow Was dynamically learned using the so at the end I I just needed to ping from one VM to the other And that works. I didn't need to I don't know add MAC addresses manually or stuff like this. Everything was done by the EVP and Technology in behind That's behind, but you didn't integrate with neutron specifically for that. No So the fish component will manage the VXLan In this demo yes, so the neutron So each purchase network has a the VXLan identifier, right? Yes, who will manage each purchase machine have on the fish The VXLan identifier so so for For this demo the VXLan IDs inside the open V switch Can be different than the VXLans we configured for Our VXLan our EVP and solution are two different two different technologies let's say and two different Software Softwares there one it's a far outing the other one. It's open V switch So for for this setup we added them Manually and we decided to be the same with the ones in open V switch, but was done manually this this was done only for proving that we are able to To communicate between something in open this or in open stack and The real world meaning some legacy network infrastructure viral switches MPLS nodes and so on Thank you for the presentation I have two questions actually Did you use this for production or do your plan to use it for production? And if so, what are the performance figures? Yeah, so as I mentioned this was done at this phase only to prove that it's possible as I mentioned the Right now in the Cata containers we have that limitation regarding the Hot plug of network interfaces Once that will be solved and I saw some work is done is is done in that direction once that will be done I think we can consider this to to take in in production and Regarding the performance we didn't Perform any any testing that direction so far any other questions. I think that's all Thank you for your presence here And enjoy your summit


If you're wondering, when you make a Zoom to Facebook live, you notice that the playback isn't high definition and you're like, well, you know, when I record just on Zoom by itself, it's high def, but then when I do Zoom to Facebook live, it's not high def, what can you do? So first of all, advanced teaching, I'm here with some people live and Eric from WisdomHeart said, advanced teaching, lower your standards. That's really my, that's been my perspective. I'll give you all a high def option.  It's all standard definition. And you said, well, George, maybe yours looks a little better than mine. Well, the reason is because my lighting is better than yours. So I do daylight and I have more daylight maybe than yours as I'm a giant window here. If you don't have daylight, use one of these things behind me, you know, the umbrella lights and that'll make your, even with standard definition, it'll still look better. But let me give you the high def option now.  So if I'm not doing live, I'll like do too many takes. If I do Facebook live, I'm just having to have a particular, you know, genius that happens cause I know I only have one take and I'm going for it. If that's the reason you're doing live, okay, then do a live in a private group that allows live videos. But when you go live, you immediately press record on Zoom as well. So you're recording a local version, you know, that you will then later upload that local version to your Facebook business page or wherever you're putting it. And that'll be high definition. So that's the simplest idea. I do the same thing. And you'll notice when you watch my Facebook live videos, if you ever catch them, these days, what's gonna change, I'm sure over the years, but these days I record them at on Fridays, literally on Fridays at 2 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Eastern, which I think is late Europe. Anyway, 2 p.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. Eastern, I go live on Facebook business page, Facebook.com slash George Cal community. You can find it there, give me, but you'll notice when I go live, I will like fumble around for like three seconds. Like I'll be looking down, because what am I doing? I'm pressing record on Zoom so that I can upload that version to YouTube later.  So I don't care about high def.  My YouTube videos are probably higher def because they are locally recorded. And like I said, if you do care to have high def video, just go live in a Facebook group that's feel supportive to you, that allows you to do those kinds of live videos and go from there. And if you don't have one of those supportive groups, you have two options. One is form your own. We help put together a secret private group of several friends and colleagues who want to all support each other with live videos and go live there. Or number two, pay me. Join my authentic video creation course and I have a private Facebook group called Totally Experimental Group where all the students go live there and that's another doing it. So I hope this helps and may this help you to feel better about your videos on Facebook.


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So I'm Megan Sanakie, the COO at the Drupal Association, and I am so excited to be here and to have a DrupalCon this week. So are you all having a great time? Yeah!  So you're all feeling really awake, right? Excellent. Great. Well, I want to talk to you about Latin America and how you're so strategic to the project and how you've contributed to that and what we can start doing together, which is really exciting to me. So I wanted to start with the Drupal Association's vision. I think Holly talked about this yesterday. And our vision is for Drupal to be a leading platform around the world. And why is this important? It's because Drupal has the power to change lives. It creates all kinds of opportunities, new jobs, lots of learning, opportunities to be leaders. You can even get a global perspective by working with people around the world. And most importantly, you get these meaningful friendships that's really special to Drupal. And we're really excited to establish this kind of vision by working with the community and delivering programs, such as ImprovingDrupal.org, MarketingDrupal, DrupalCons, all kinds of community programs, grants and scholarships. And I know that together we have already achieved a lot and I want to talk about that today. And I want to give credit to the community leaders that saw early on that Drupal has this power to change lives and they wanted to bring these opportunities to Latin America. And so I'm going to be telling some of their stories as I talk about how Drupal is leading today, how Latin America is strategic to the project, and then how you became strategic, how did you grow like this? Those are really special stories that I'd like to share.  Drupal is one of the largest open source projects in the world. We have over 33,000 developers. And as we work on Drupal 8 together, we have over 2,300 people collaborating, which is really significant. Raise your hand if you're working on Drupal 8. That's fantastic. And together we've built over a million websites and we are powering 12% of the top 100,000 sites. And there's so much more room to grow in many ways that we can lead, in many ways that we can grow. For example, maybe we want to be 50% of the top 100,000 sites. These are goals that we have. We have big visions. We're going to do it together and we're going to need Latin America to help us. Dries wrote a blog post that you might have read that talked about some of the ways that Latin America is strategic. And I'd like to talk about that, but I'd like to go a little deeper and explain how the community has become strategic in the different areas. And they include helping us globally, regionally, and also with the code. Picture means nothing to me right now. Anyhow, let's talk about the global situation. There is great demand for Drupal on a global scale, which is fantastic. One of our barriers is talent. We just don't have enough talent. And I think that's happening everywhere, right? But in the U.S., if I just look at where I come from in the United States, we have thousands of jobs that we can't fill, mostly developers and themer jobs. And so it's really hard to meet the demand. We even did a survey that confirmed this and that there's hiring managers out there that are just spending so much time and money looking for talent. And I really think that Latin America has done a great job growing the community, you have a great talent base. Talking to businesses, it seems that there's good capacity too to bridge the gaps around talent and work together. And there's already some really strong examples of this happening. And Nexus IT was telling me some of their stories. And also, Rootstock is also another great example because they're in Panama that still has strong U.S. business relationships. And so this is happening all over with different businesses. I really encourage people to look at these models to see how they can help bridge the gap around talent and also to work together. And one of my favorite stories as I was interviewing people was from Carlos O'Pinus. I think I just said that right. Yeah, there he goes. He's waving his hand. Thank you. So he told me so many things that he's doing to grow the community. He's a Colombian who lives in the United States. And while he's there learning Drupal, he is taking the time to go to camps, help grow them. He's received scholarships from the Drupal Association to go to Drupal Cons. And he's out there looking for companies who need talent. And he has all these connections here in Latin America. And so he's doing a lot of matchmaking because he really wants to make sure this happens and that people have these opportunities with Drupal. In addition to that, he's also making sure that there's really competitive rates for Latin Americans who get jobs through him. I think that's really amazing because it's not that he just wants people to have jobs, but he wants to make sure that everyone has a better life because of Drupal. And I just think that's a really amazing contribution. So thank you. And so there's a lot more we can do there. And we're looking forward to see how we can help with the Drupal Association too. So Latin America cannot just be supporting people globally. For Drupal to lead means leading everywhere. And it's important that we grow Drupal adoption here in Latin America. And that's already happening in a big way. Just talking to a lot of the different businesses, there's excellent case studies already. And you can see them from e-commerce to banking, publishing, universities. It's happening everywhere. And I know that there's room for a lot more. And we're also going to need talent so that you can serve globally and regionally, right? So these camps, your global training days, all the things you do to bring people into the community is going to be even more important. And I just want to talk about how it became that Drupal was starting to be adopted in a big way in Latin America. And from what I see, one is that you have freelancers who are very brave that started a business. It's not easy to do a start-up and to put all that together. And so that's a really big shift that happened. And then they started marketing locally. So just talking with seed, they do really strong SEO, really smart. They're doing local events, Drupal in a day. There's all kinds of different marketing activities happening from these businesses that are investing in Drupal marketing.  And I want to acknowledge what Nick Vidal is doing in Brazil. He's a community leader there, and he's helping to grow the community in a big way on many fronts. One of the things that I was really impressed with is he's been going to major open-source events, LatinoWare, Faisal, a few others. And he's making sure Drupal has a good presence there and is getting the presence it deserves. And that's helping to get us traction. He also used a grant to write a Spanish magazine about Drupal and use that to spread the word of Drupal, which is just fantastic and really creative. I've seen other people that are making sure that we're getting into publications like CIO, Peru, just covered DrupalCon. I saw that Drupal Latino Summit has gotten into PC World. So there's just a lot of things that companies and individuals are doing to make a really big impact or grow Drupal here in Latin America, and I think that's something you should be really proud of. I'm also looking forward to see how the association can help you on that front, too. And then lastly, the other area that I see as a great way that Latin America is strategic to the project is in the code base, contributing code. So for Drupal to be a leader, we need to be innovative, have innovative software. And that innovation comes from diverse input from everyone around the world. We really need to capture Latin America's passion and creativity, all your intelligence in our code base. So raise your hand if you contributed, maybe not just anything, any kind of code, whether it's Drupal 7, Drupal 8. Can I see hands? Yeah, I got even more. That's great. That's really important. And for all of you that didn't raise your hand, I hope that you will. It's really important that you contribute to the project. It's something that is good for your resume, helps you with jobs. It also is your way of giving back. And we can talk some more about that. Because if you don't give back, we don't grow this project, you end up stunting your own opportunities. You should really look at it that way. They're very connected. And I also want to just call out that it's not just individuals contributing, that there is a budding contribution culture in companies here. And that's really important, that companies support employees to give back code. And that they encourage their clients to allow them to give back code. And one example is Tager. And I think I pronounced that right. I was working on that. And then also Seed is another one. I really enjoyed talking with Aldebiere about why. Why is it important for him and his company that he, make sure his company is giving back code. And one is it just shows their expertise, right? On your organizational profile, you get to show all of the contributions and that's powerful. But what I really liked was when he answered that it's really more emotional. It feels good to give back. So when he contributes a module, and he'll say it's a simple module, it's just a simple module. But then he gets an email that says, thank you so much, you just really solved something that I didn't know how to do or that made my life a lot easier and now I can just move on to the next thing for my project, I just thank you so much. It just feels good to know that you're helping others in your community. And I think that's a great culture to adopt within a company. So I certainly encourage that and I do encourage everyone to go to the sprints tomorrow so that they can learn how to contribute and be a part of this. We have some sprint mentors here. Can you raise your hand sprint mentors? There we go. Seek them out. They're really special. They want to help you get to that process and understand how to contribute. They're making it a lot easier. So there's a lot of ways that the Latin American community is strategic to the project. And it's really amazing how you've grown and you are able to get to this place. And that's because of really passionate people. Like I mentioned, people that early on had a vision. They saw that Drupal provides opportunities. They wanted to share those opportunities here in Latin America. And they put a lot of countless hours of activity in the community that you have today. And so you can see some of the pictures of people I've mentioned. There's so many people that I haven't been able to work into my talk. I only have a few minutes. But together, throughout Latin America, there are these community leaders that have really grown things in a big way. Just some statistics are, let's see, this year, this past year, there were 19 global training days. And this is companies or people welcoming all the newcomers and giving them some simple training free or near free. It's just a really good on-ramp into the community. And then we've had, in 2013, we had 10 camps throughout the region that brought together over 2,000 people. And these are really important to have these camps because you start taking the newcomers and also your existing community members and you start leveling up the skill. That's how you start growing the community and also getting more expertise. And then just in January, we had the Sprint weekend, which was really popular all around the world. So much participation. We had four countries participating here in Latin America, which was wonderful. We'd love to see more of that. And then we also have, in this region, something I think that's pretty special. Community members had gone to Drupalcon. They saw that magic that happens. They saw the kinds of learnings you have when you have people cross borders and share. And they created the Drupal Latino Summit. And this was a really special event that brought people together for the first time. And it's happened three times. And because of that, they were able to do Drupal Pichu in Peru. And that grew the community even more and created this regional strength that you need to sustain a Drupalcon. And it's because of all this work that we're all here today. And so I just want to thank the community leaders for doing this work. And I'm glad that we're able to do this. One of the things I wanted to share too is that Drupalcon Amsterdam in 2005 had about 100 people. And then they all left and they all worked in their community and they grew and they grew their businesses. And we went back in 2014 and there were 2,300 people. So imagine what that means for this group and where you're going to be the next time we come back. That means you have some work to do to have that magic from Drupalcon and go back to your communities and really grow. And I want to point out that we're not just growing as a community. We're not just giving people, we're mindful about it. We're making sure we're diverse. And that's because we have people like Karen DeCruz who are making sure that women are coming to the table and feel comfortable. Later today at the closing session we're going to tell you how the percentage of women are here. It's pretty significant. It's because of people like Karen. She started Drupal and it was, you know, for her job and someone said, no, we have a whole community come to the meet-ups. That's really important. And she came and she's like, I don't see enough women. I don't feel so, you know. Maybe this isn't my place. And she was encouraged, no, no, you need to have make it your place. And she did. And in Peru she started women in technology and just got women coming together to talk about technology in general. And then at Drupalpechu she created a panel that Holly Ross, our executive director, sat on. It just really started something. Women could see other women up there on stage talking, talking about what it meant to be a woman in Drupal, how they participate and contribute back. And it really kind of created a spark for other women. So a woman by the name of Veronica who's from Bolivia, she went back home. She is not into public speaking. She is just not her thing. But she was passionate about making this happen in Bolivia. And so now Karen is supporting her and giving her the encouragement she needs to start making Bolivia become more diverse as well. And this is happening in all the other countries. And that's because of people like Karen, so thank you. And so I love telling stories. I could tell stories all day because you inspire me so much. And this is one that is just near and dear to my heart. And so Fernando and Nancy, I would like to tell your story. To be honest with you, everyone I interviewed my story if you don't tell Fernando and Nancy's. And I was like, okay, well tell me why. And they would tell me their stories. And really Fernando is behind many of the reasons people stepped up to help grow this community. And so a little bit of his story, it's a very long story. So I'm just doing it justice in two seconds. But he started Drupal in about 2007. And it was a tool and a job. And in 2009 he was awarded a scholarship to go to Drupalcon in Washington DC. And that's when he saw that there is this amazing community with all these opportunities that you can have if you just tap in. And so he really had more of a mission to come back to Latin America and share these opportunities with everyone and grow the community so they can really take advantage of the benefits. One of the things, too, is that he attended a session that was about Drupal around the world. He realized Latin America at that time, this was 2009, really wasn't on the map. And so he said, not only do I want to go to Latin America back home to share these benefits of Drupal, but I want to make us important. I want to make us important to this project because this is significant. And now today I can stand on stage and even tell you all the ways you're significant. I think that's amazing. He's been a driving force behind camps, the regional summits, he's encouraged so many people like Karen DeCruz to step up and get more women in this community. And it's just really significant what he's done. And I want to point out, too, that he has not done it alone. His wife Nancy has been by his side the whole time supporting him. And she's working independently of him as well. She's not a coder. And that's okay because everyone has a role in this community. And she's been contributing by supporting camps and other community programs and making sure people feel welcome, making sure the logistics work. She does a lot of knitting. She expresses her love for Drupal through knitting and I just love her hats. But even this week, I mean you could just see how Nancy just kind of took over volunteering and she just sat down and read and I can't speak Spanish so a lot of times I would just point to her and she just took care of everything. So they are just a wonderful couple. And they are partners in Drupal. And they share this common vision to touch all these lives and to share the benefits of Drupal with you. And I'm just so thankful for what they've done and what everyone has done to grow this community. It inspires me and makes me really proud to stand here today and to tell these stories just to let you know what you have accomplished. It's really important that you know that what you've done is significant. And so I want to thank the people that allowed me to tell their stories today. Even if I just mentioned your company name, please stand up. That's right, that's right. I told you to stand up first. Get this going. Good, please stand up. I'd like for everyone to clap for those that I mentioned. I also would like anyone who has helped grow this community. Maybe you volunteered at a camp. Maybe you've contributed. Maybe you've worked in the issue queues. Anyone that's just helped. Can you please just stand up?  There's a lot of you. Everybody stood up. You can do it again. Sprint mentors, please stand up. Anyhow, for all the contributors. Thank you so much. It's been an honor. Again, we're here for you. We're so proud that we can support you with grants and scholarships and Drupalcon. I'm eager to hear what we can do next with you. Please reach out. Thank you.


One of the questions that we had on the agenda for today was, what are the risks and potentially the opportunities for the EU directly borrowing money on the financial market? As you know, the stability and growth by this suspended, the Commission is not talking about reintroducing it in 2022. For me, it's very unlikely that we will get out of this crisis with the same parameters that we had when we introduced the single currency and established in the SGP. There's no way we can keep the rule of the 60% limit of debt through the GDP ratio because we will go out of that crisis with very high debt levels. And frankly speaking, I do believe that the debate on austerity will come again in one or two years. There will be a political battle around that. I'm totally, I'm fully aware of this, but I'm more of the opinion that we will need to be used of having higher debt levels and that there are tools to manage that. There are monetary tools, you can address that through taxation, you can address that to a policy mix who promotes a sustainable and manageable level of inflation to make that burden reduce. But I think there's no way public opinion will accept again austerity. So we'll need to find new ways of managing that. Actually, I think we are somehow in a constant situation of austerity. I mean, even now, it's not that, you know, that the majority of the population really gains from all these measures, not taking employment into account. Of course, there is a certain stabilization of employment, but there is no increase of unemployment benefits. There is no increase in social security, inequality is rising. It seems very obvious that the result of the crisis will be a huge or further concentration of capital. So I'm not so sure whether there will not be any austerity policies afterwards. We have this crisis today, but given the predictable sustainability crises that the world is going to go through over the coming decades, we have to adjust our economies, I would say structurally, to deal with an entirely new world. And I think this COVID crisis is just a sign of what it means dealing with a society that is not built on sustainable parameters. And unsustainability, lack of sustainability, is the new parameter of our economies. And we have to switch softwares, we have to think differently.


My mum has always encouraged me to pursue education and I think that is because of the opportunities that she didn't have, my grandmother didn't have and certainly my great-grandfather didn't have. Master of Public Policy, Hannah Claire Dawson. My great-grandfather, Jimmy Barker, he grew up on a mission in Bawaruna, New South Wales in the early 1900s and his first day of school was as a 12-year-old boy and on his very first day of school he was told that he was absolutely worth nothing and that Australian blacks were the lowest type of humanity living today and despite these remarks from the missions manager and teacher he taught himself how to read within two months of his first day of school by finding old newspapers and reading the back of jam tins on the mission. Practicing on a chalkboard, the alphabet and so the legacy of my great-grandfather has certainly informed my path through tertiary education especially that education is a real privilege and it's not to be taken for granted.


So these are courses in our working space. You've got to say that I'm coming out of the side every hour in the evening. Good luck. We talk around ourselves.


Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really cute book style. I'm going to call it the Book of Chocolates rather than the Box of Chocolates. I'm going to call it the Book of Chocolates. I have something similar and I'll link it up here and throughout the video and that is a book again but it does really look like a book and I had two chocolate bars in that one. So again if it's something you like just check out that link. But this one here you just pull the belly band off and then it opens up to reveal your chocolates. And then you just open the top and out comes the top of it. Now I have done a tutorial using these chocolates before and I actually just done a simple wrap around them so you can check them out. But the good thing about these is obviously they're already sealed so they're going to stay nice and fresh and then you just pop it back in there, close up the top like so. It just closes up. You can personalize this, you can do so much with it and it's not just for Christmas, you can use this throughout the year as well. So let me show you how to make this very easy gift. Okay so I've already done one of the boxes here so that's all ready to attach to the next one. So that's the Toffifee and you just take that off and it's all in the box there or the tray but it's all sealed so it's obviously going to stay nice and fresh and then I am using the almost Christmas papers by Fest Edition. I haven't got a great deal left of this, I've actually used quite a lot which is great. And then your cutstocks, you'll want two pieces of this size which is nine and a quarter by eleven. Okay and along the nine and a quarter side you want to score it seven eighths of an inch, seven and seven eighths of an inch and eight and three quarters. Okay it's an unusual measurement because I've made it specifically for these chocolates and that's why I've got the seven eighths of an inch depth to this. And then pop it along the eleven inch side and you want to score it half an inch, one and three eighths, five and three quarters and six and five eighths. Okay so you can just make out all my score lines there so do that twice. I've got this little piece here which is for my belly band which is a piece of three and three eighths by two and three eighths and it's just so it fits this particular sentiment which is a simply creative. You've seen me feature these in a lot of my tutorials and I used them last year as well. I'll share them below, they're little wooden ones and they're beautiful. And then I'll give you your mats and layers while we're here as well. So this is for the front and back and this is four by six and five eighths. I've done it at four because I wanted to be able to get two of these from one sheet of the eight by eight in that pad. And then you'll want two pieces of five eighths of an inch by seven and five eighths and then two pieces of three and seven eighths of an inch by five eighths again. And therefore the sides. And then I'll go through the frame and everything when we get to it. And this is for the belly band, this was actually a piece of scrap and it's one inch by the whole width of the cardstock that I had which was twelve. But if you've got eleven or eleven and three quarters that would still work as well. And the dies I've used for the aperture when we add the acetate are the card making magic rectangle dies. Okay so first of all just fold and burnish all of those score lines. Okay and then along the bottom so you want the half inch tab on the right-hand side there's one of the sides and then you'll have this extra piece. Make sure that's on the right and then along the bottom you're just going to cut up all of these score lines just to the first score line. This one in the corner just remove that completely and then just take a little wedge off of the small little squares here. Okay and then work now along this side so this is that tab and you just want to cut down this score line here and remove the top tiny one and that other one there so just take that whole corner out and then you can take a little wedge off of each of the corners of the tab that's what we're going to use to stick it all together and now you're going to come along to the top here and you're going to do exactly the same as what you've done on the bottom but this time you're going to cut past the first score line and go down to the second. This extra tab at the top is so that we can close the box. So on there, that one there. Okay and what's going to happen is when we close this up this is going to be on the inside. So with that tab here on the right-hand side the whole section here you're going to remove completely. Okay like so and then these top sections these top squares you're just going to remove the little rectangle on the very top and that's all you want to do with them. We're cutting a little bit more in a bit but a lot of you will know that when you make these kind of boxes you want to do this bit right at the end really just to make sure you get a nice closure. Okay so now if you turn it over this is the inside and this is where we want to draw around our aperture so I've got these stuck together because I cut my frame.  But I want this smaller one and this one measures just grab my ruler so this one I'm going to be drawing around the outer side which is three and a quarter by five and five eighths and I'm just going to pop this one in this section here making sure I've got it in the middle. Okay I think that's about right make sure it's nice and straight and then you just want to draw around that.  With that I'm going to do that I've started so I might as well so just cut down to each corner like so and that one there and that one there and then I'll just go a bit further down on that one and then if you kind of fold as long as you've got them right into the corners if you kind of just fold back each one it just makes it a little bit easier to have kind of a line to follow I know we've got the pencil line there as well but this does help obviously you don't want to rip any of the corners there so do make sure you cut down into them nicely but by lifting them up it just makes it a little bit easier to get in and because I've got these very long scissors what I'm actually going to do is fold that one under but it now means I can get right in there and follow along that pencil line and don't worry if you don't remove it or you can always rub it out but you're actually not going to see this because it's going to be inside so I'm just going to work my way around okay so that's all done now if you have cut it by hand I mean I haven't done pretty badly you can see my corners they're pretty good so what you want to do next is some double sided tape or red tape and you just want to run a strip around your frame and then you just want a piece of acetate that is going to cover where you've just added your tape so just a little bit bigger I'm not going to bother giving you the measurements for this you can see what I'm doing plus everybody's aperture is going to be slightly different you might also have a different shape just make sure that you have something that's just going to cover and again you don't need to worry too much on how your edges look as long as they're straight because you're not going to see any of this now I've got that piece that's going to go over there so I'm just going to take my backing off and stick that down okay so now I have that lovely aperture then I've got my frame I'm going to stick this down while everything's flat so I've already put some of the tape on the back so I'm just going to stick this over the top okay so now that's all ready and next we can start putting it together so I'm going to flip it over fold this piece over and you just want to add some glue just along that's what I remembered you actually want to trim this I'm going to pop in the measurements that you didn't need the tab to be this big so I remember it came into the for me it came into the acetate window I mean yours might be smaller than mine and then it wouldn't so I've just trimmed that a bit you can see it doesn't come into this view here I think I might have even been able to have got rid of that actually but anyway I've just trimmed it off just in case so that's what you can do if that does happen and just make sure it's nice and flat and these are great boxes on their own you can just not stick the bottom now and just make a load of these and stash them away until you need them you might want to just do one of these boxes to give to someone I do already have this on the channel as I mentioned I've just done the wrap around it so they're just like I said they're really nice little gifts and then I'm just going to fold it back I've actually got some glue there just make sure that's dry and then just fold it that way like so and then the bottom is the one without that extra lip on the top so I'm going to fold down the back one first of all and just add my glue and then fold in each of the sides fold down the base and if you turn it up this way grab your ruler you can just go in there and spread out all of that glue okay and then I can grab this pop it in you'll see it fits perfectly and now with these pieces what you want to do is with the top very slightly shave a bit off and it's such a small amount really isn't a lot because you want this to now lock itself in now if you're still struggling with it what you can then do is take a little bit off just the front again as the smallest amount as soon as you make it too big you'll find your little closure might pop out so now that's now wedged in there it's not going to open you'll see you've got a nice closure okay next I can decorate so just make sure you've got them both the right way up because I've got a directional card so I'm just going to flip it over I'm going to stick this on the back and then I'm going to stick this one on the right hand side of this one but it's on the left hand side of that one so when they come up together like a book they meet the back one I'm not going to bother decorating you can do but I'm going to leave it for now and then that little one you just want to pop on the top okay so that's both of the boxes done so they're going to go together like this so you have your pattern paper on the top and the side is like facing you and the plane is away so it's going to open up like this so I've got this piece of cardstock which I believe was one in three quarters it's just under it's just over one in five eighths and just under one in three quarters and that's by seven you just want to score halfway so I could have sworn I'd scored at seven eighths of an inch yeah I think I did I don't know if this ruler's a little bit out anyway you want to fold and burnish like so so you've got it like that and we're going to stick it I mean you might not want to fold it you might want to just keep it flat and then fold it once you glue is completely dry but you're just going to stick it over there so I'm going to run my glue all the way along here and then I'm just going to sit this quite a lot of glue on there but I do want it to be nice and strong so keep them nice and tight together and basically do not even attempt to prise this book open until this glue's completely dry so I'm going to leave this now for a good ten minutes just to make sure that's completely set okay whilst that is pretty much dry but I'm going to give it still a few more minutes I'm going to grab my belly band and I'm going to wrap it I never score my belly bands I always just wrap them don't worry if it doesn't meet like I said if yours is 11 inches long you'll still be able to get it up to come over as long as it can come over onto this top piece keep it all nice and straight make sure they line up and just pinch the sides don't have it so tight you want to be able to slide it and then you're just going to stick that over on the two sides so I'm actually going to use hot glue for this just because it's a bit quicker so I'm just going to pop a piece there and a piece there and you can just pinch the other kind of sides and then if you take it off and then lie it flat just grab a bone folder and then you can really work those lines and it's just easier doing it this way rather than working out the score lines for it so they're always usually with a belly band they're those funny measurements because you're wrapping it around something but now I've got a really nice belly band so that can just go over the top you want it like I said to be snug enough but easy for that person to take off but now how nice does that look so let's now try and open this without the glue oh look what I've done there I thought I did go a bit heavy with the glue and I've got a feeling that that's going to stain I might be okay sometimes it does but anyway it is what it is there's not much I can do about it now they're going to be eaten I think pretty quickly but yeah look there it is I think that looks great so once again I just bring it up if you want to decorate this you can but I don't know I don't think it does and if you are doing this like more of a book then you could write something down here or I'll link actually the other book box unless I didn't already link it up here to you know gift some chocolates but yeah apart from that mark in the middle it's going to bug me now but I'm really not doing it once it's closed I can't see it anyway thank you for watching I hope you enjoy this tutorial and you know something that can be used not just for Christmas you know these chocolates are available all year round and obviously other chocolates can go in there too and other gifts so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye


All right, guys, it's Andy Elliott, 1% or podcast. If you're interested in making passive income, now I want you to just write it down. Passive, that means you're doing your normal life, salary, commissions, whatever, right? Then you got that passive income, right? This guy's gonna tell you about how you don't even need any money to create it, and he's killing it in the real estate game, and a lot of our clients with no money, no money, have become multi-millionaires in real estate.  Check it out.  I ain't gonna take that, stay bad. All right, guys, I'm here with Connor with GFC Investment, right? What's up guys? What's GFC stand for? God Family Country. Come on, who doesn't love their country, who doesn't love God, and man, let's build the greatest family that ever existed. He talks about investments. Now a lot of people, they know what making money means, but they don't know what investment means, right? And I know you know what it means cause you've heard it, right? But they don't really know what it means cause it's not happening in their life. And I wanna explain this to you. If you have passive income right now, okay? That means you have your normal job, right? I mean you're working for a company, for yourself, and then you have additional income. Everybody write add, right? Like I'm gonna add more money that's gonna come in from another source. And by the way, everybody's like, you gotta have seven streams of income. I'm sure you've heard it, okay? No, you don't have to have seven streams of income. What you need to do is become a master, create mastery in your job, in your business, and what you do, and then you need to invest, which is what investments is, which you'll learn on this podcast. You don't even have to have a lot of money to invest. And then you have passive income. That's an addition too, which is how you get ahead, okay? So it's important for me every time that I see people that bring good value.  And this guy is, and I love that about him. And he's true to the core and the standards and the values that he believes in. And then he teaches it. So he's a great investment coach. He does it himself, right? So he's an applicant teacher. Like he's doing the work. He's not in theory if you wanna invest. This is what I've read up on. You should do, he's doing it now. And then he's teaching others to do it, which is super cool. So as he goes through and he talks about some methods, some things that they're doing, the fears that people have to get in, not only is it gonna give you a lot of value, but if you're like, dude, like I wanna connect with this guy. I asked him, he's like, dude, I'll get my cell phone out. I really don't care. So you guys can text him. So Connor, let's rock and roll.  Number one, how old are you? Wife, kids, family. And then obviously like, tell us about some real estate. Like tell us about some fears why some people don't invest. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Andy. My name is Connor Donnelly. I am the owner of GFC Investments. I am 30 years old. I have a lovely wife, two amazing kids. I got a seven-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy. This is why I do everything that I do, is for them. So if you're in that boat, again, guys, two years ago, I wasn't doing any of this stuff.  So if you guys do wanna learn this, if you like what we're talking about, my number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can text me, call me. I don't care. I just wanna help you guys out, okay? What made you decide to go from a salary, right? Which is, I always say people sell their dreams for a salary but obviously you had a dream but it's probably a smaller one. What made you decide to go and get into investing and get into real estate? Yeah, so I just, I always knew there was something more for me but I didn't know what that was and then I would see all these guys doing it on Instagram, Facebook or whatever. Yeah, you see people doing it. And it's like, why not me, right? Why not me? So everybody write that down, why not me? Right. Okay, so like if you don't have passive income, like why not me? 100%. At the end of this, this is gonna be now it is you. Okay, that's the way things, by the way, that's how fast things change. Absolutely. Instead of, first you gotta say why not me, right? That's the first one, you gotta become aware. Right. Like self mastery is how people, you know, win. Right. You know, so why not me, now I'm aware, like why shouldn't a guy like me have self, you know, why shouldn't I have an additional income coming in? Right. Or why shouldn't I be making more or why can't I have what that guy has? Which, by the way, if someone can do it, everyone can do it. Right. And you made that decision, so then you elevate your mindset, right?  Absolutely. And then you get into wholesale? So we started, we started flipping. We did one flip, okay? And I'm not ashamed to say it wasn't a success. Yeah, you told me trial and error is how the greats get it and that's what you did. You were refined by fire, trial and error. Now you figured it out to the T. You know exactly how to be successful. If you were to get in day one, you would want to be coached by you because you've been through it. Right. But you just knew that we had to start somewhere so you started. Right. So trial by fire. I wanna say, I always say imperfect action is better than perfect action because most people get paralyzed by fear. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor. I'm gonna tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. Right, which I wanna talk about fear for a second, but people get paralyzed by fear and they say, oh, I don't understand that. So I don't wanna get into it, right? But you're like, screw this.  Exactly. So you dive in. What are the fears that you found that people are afraid of with investing and getting into not real estate like selling homes but getting into passive income investing with real estate? Absolutely. I think the biggest fear for everybody is money. Do I have enough money? I gotta have all this money. That's what a lot of people think and myself included. I thought that. People think I don't have any money, so I can't invest. I can't invest. Okay, so I think the second biggest thing is the fear of the unknown. Okay, the fear of if I do this deal and I'm wagering all this money or if I'm using somebody else's money, the bank's money, who else's money, doesn't matter. Okay, I think the biggest fear is, is that deal going to work out? Okay, and with what we teach, we teach that fear goes away. Okay. So basically they don't have enough information. They don't have enough information. They don't know what they don't know. They're not educated enough. Yeah, exactly. So you make sure that not only do you teach how it's bulletproof, but also, you give them the education around it to understand exactly how it works. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay, what's another one? I would say another just gigantic one. Of money, fear of I don't know enough, right? Fear of, can I even do this? Does this work for people like me? Does this work for people? I make $40,000 a year. Can I do this? Absolutely, 100%. Let's talk about with no money. Okay, like someone's broke right now watching this and I've heard a lot of testimonies from your people that say, I got into this with you. I was working my normal job by nine to five, whatever. And then you taught them inside of your coaching program how to create these, we're gonna call them wholesale deals, right? Which means basically it's a finder of a deal, right? And then literally when they find the deal, they don't even need money. You'll physically partner with them, which means you'll take the money side and handle it if you like the deal and then they get paid and you handle everything. Correct, 100%. And you teach them how to find it too, right? I teach you how to find the deal. I teach you how to close the deal. If it's a good enough deal, I'll buy the deal. I love that stuff. Guys, this is my passion. So if that's a good enough deal, I'll buy it but I'll show you how to find the buyers. I'll show you how to find everything you need without needing a dollar to start in wholesale. And that's where most investors start because it takes little to no money. Yeah, so I want to tell everybody real quick. So when I was a general manager of a car dealership when I was younger, I called it a buying department, right? But it's for cars, right? And I would literally just teach people where I knew that there were cars for sale, right? Where I knew they were. And they were always for sale by owner because everybody else was always looking over here or they would go to the normal auctions, right? Like people like wholesaling is not going to a house auction in bidding, right? I mean, you could, but that wasn't, we didn't want to send people down to the local auction and raise their hand with 500 other people on a car. So I would have them go search these sourcing methods. At that time, it was Facebook Marketplace, it was Craigslist, right? It was these Facebook groups where people put cars for sale, they were for sale by owner. And they would search all these places that I would tell them and all day long, they would literally just search, search, search and boom, they'd make a call. I would tell them exactly what to say. These people would say what they would sell it for. They would know exactly what it was worth. And if they found a deal, they'd get paid 1,500 cash right on the spot. That's awesome. Now, number one, I bought the car, right? That they found. And so basically I paid them 1,500 per finder fee. And sometimes they would find one, two, three deals in a day. Sometimes they would go two days without finding deals. Some of them were full-time workers and then they would come in and work when they got off for two hours after work. Some worked a few days a week. You can do this full-time or part-time what you're talking about, right? 100%. Yeah, these people were making great money and I literally would show them where to go look, what to say when they called and then when they found a deal, it was like, Andy, and then I bought it and it was done. And they got paid, by the way, wholesaling, there's a lot bigger commissions than $1,500. 100%. But I wanted to give that example that that was wholesaling for cars. So this is just wholesaling for homes. This is wholesaling for homes.   That is the number one way to start. Plain and simple.   And it was on Zillow. And when I tell, everybody's like, how did you start, how did you, like your leads, how do you get them? I go, I don't pay for them. We don't advertise. We don't do any of that. We started on Zillow. That's where the foundation was started. Well, and that's what I love. This is super important. A lot of people, they go spend tons of money for leads, which means they go to buy these leads on people that are interested in maybe selling their house, which those leads are being sold off to 50 other companies also, right? And you have no idea why they clicked on it or what happened or if you're even a good lead.  And then literally you step back one day and you're like, dude, there's gotta be a better way. And by the way, if they're all doing that, then why would I wanna do what everybody's doing? So you created a different approach which you have all written out in your curriculum on your, what is the name of the program? So it's profit with properties, okay? I wanna teach you guys different ways to profit with properties and get ahead. Again, you guys can work a W-2 job. I did, I just was able to quit and now I can go full-time on this so it's allowed us to grow at a rate that we're growing. But again, you guys can do this, work in a nine to five. Yeah, and I love this. By the way, you can tell obviously his demeanor is, you were an HVAC, correct?  Everybody's in sales, but he's not like, I've had a lot of people and you're like ultra-salesy, right? Like you notice your body language, your hands are calm. They're here, they're not running around like this. I would say you're not a salesperson even though I know you're good at selling. What you are is your proof that anybody in any industry with the right information and with the right coach can invest, get into wholesale real estate without being salesy and make it with the right coaching and teaching. Correct. And I'm just pointing that out because if you are good at sales, to me it makes you 20 times better because I'm good at sales, right? Like man, I'm a sales guy. So if I'm a sales guy watching this and I don't have any passive income and I'm wanting to get in the real estate market and you would become a multimillionaire with real estate, you guys need to send them a text message right now. Now, if you're watching this and you're like, well, I'm not good at sales. Dude, he's not good at sales either. And I'm not saying this in that way, like he's not salesy. He knows how to find these deals. It's black and white. If you know how to find them, you reach out to them. These people need help. Absolutely. You make the deal. The buyer's there, it's that simple. Now, in the training, you really give a lot of education and information on what wholesaling is, what the different types of real estate investing is because there's people, I said we started with no money, but then there's people that have money, right? So there's like, there's two ends. But it's important because I think a lot of people only think that getting involved in wholesale or getting involved with real estate and making a lot of money, you have to have money. You know, and I think what's cool about you, I would say you're the Robin Hood for people that don't have passive income because you're actually helping and showing people how to make passive income with literally no money. Like you could do this one night a week and you could literally make an additional 100 grand a year in income. 100%. And there's no reason why you guys couldn't start today. And in 90 days, you have, you have at least one deal, let alone you could possibly have a couple under your belt. And I think that's awesome. And you can do that with no money. Like that's just, that's mind boggling. That's crazy, yeah. Yeah, so let's give some examples of maybe some things that you've seen in your coaching. Maybe so we can show like some scenarios. I like painting pictures. Absolutely. There's different aspects to the coaching. So there's the wholesaling side of the coaching. There's the flipping side of the coaching. And then my favorite honestly is the Burr strategy. I love teaching it because it opens the mind. Did you say bird like a bird? The Burr, be our, you can do as many hours as you want. Okay. Burr, so we're gonna buy the property. Okay. We're gonna renovate it. We're gonna refi. We're gonna put a renter in it and we're gonna repeat that process over and over again. Okay. And if you just started with, I'm just gonna give an example of the Burr strategy. You could start with $20,000 to $30,000 and flip that into a $200,000 to $250,000 refi profit that is not taxed. You cannot tax that. The government cannot tax that.  But my suggestion would be pour that back into real estate. So let's go through that. Yeah. I've got 30 grand. Yep. Now, by the way, I buy your training. It shows me what to do. Yeah. So it's like, I know what to do now. Right. So I know how to find the deal. Mm-hmm. I buy it. Right. I put, I take this 20 or 30 grand. Yes. And I put that down. Right. Is that right? Correct. Do a simple loan on the property that I found. Correct. Which was the deal which you teach. Yep. Now that I own the property, right? Right. It's a great time in the market right now to do this. 100%. Because rates are high. Right. So there's deals everywhere. Deals everywhere. You can do it now. Right. And then what happens? So when you refi that property, so let's say that property was worth $140,000, right? You bought it. Mm-hmm. Okay. When you put the money down, okay, you're gonna, the burst strategy is a long-term play. Mm-hmm. Okay. But there are markets and the markets that we're seeing coming. Well, it could be a 12 month play right now. Could be a 12 month, could be a six month play. Yeah. Where's the market? It's that we have a six month strategy and they started with 30 grand and in six months they're gonna pull $200,000 out of their house and go rinse and repeat that process. By the end of 2024, guys, they started with one and at the end, they're gonna have a portfolio of at least 10. I mean, you're becoming a real estate millionaire in one year and you spent $20,000 to $30,000, guys. Yeah. So basically, we find a house, it's just giving an example. It's a $220,000 house, but we found a deal for 170, right? Mm-hmm. We buy it. Yeah. We take the 170, we put 30 down. Yeah. Now we're financing 140. Correct. Right? Correct. And so now we got 100 grand of equity in the home. Right away. Because the market right now is low. Right. Later on this year is presidential time. Rates drop, properties increase. That property goes up another 75 grand. Yep. Now you basically got 175 grand in equity. Right. Rates dropped, you refinance that property, pull the 170 out. Correct. And then use and leverage the 170 to go rents and repeat by the deals that you found. Man, you're gonna be my best student, Andy. Yeah. And then what happens is next thing you know, you have a couple properties that you owe money on and you put renters in them. Correct. You have money coming in. Correct. And then you also look up and you know, you have a million dollars in cash that's non-taxed. That's non-taxed. That's sitting here. Right.  Right. You're sitting cash. Exactly. And then everything that you owe, including the mortgage payments on the properties that you have, they're all covered by renters. 100%. Plus the additional money that comes in on them. Yep. And literally I'm working my own job or I decide to do this full time. Exactly. Guys, we're looking for passive income. We're looking for the gain in equity.  You know what I'm thinking? People spend 50 grand to go to college to learn how to make 50 grand in four years. Correct. Or two years. Correct. And literally you can buy a coaching program. Yeah. You spend a couple grand on it. You literally, just watch this, you take 10 grand, 20 grand, you take your savings and you turn it into a million. And people say that can't happen. He just talked about the three fears. I don't have the information, right? I don't have the money, you know what I'm saying? Or stuff like this doesn't work for people like me. I think everybody, this is why they get stuck. 100%. Because I think I was talking about the amygdala yesterday, right? Like when I'm thinking about doing something my mind says stay safe, you don't need to do this. Dude, you worked really hard on that 20 grand. You need to keep that. By the way, the 20 grand is still yours. You're just putting it in an asset. Do you think your money makes more money in the bank or more money in real estate? Correct. Way more money in real estate. Correct. Okay, but people don't understand that because a lot of people have never had a lot of cash. But once you do, and you, by the way, nobody has to make a decision right now to decide that they want to spend 20, 30 or 50 grand and buy properties. But to get the coaching to understand it, to get the coaching to understand the birth strategy, to get the coaching to understand how to make wholesale deals and buy them, the get to coaching is priceless. Correct. Every single one of you, I wanna ask everybody a question this. If you wanted to buy a house right now, and I'm gonna give you an example because you did this with one of my guys that works for me, he was looking at all these homes, seven, eight, $900,000 houses. And he got with you and he took your coaching program and he learned how to buy an $800,000 house for $600,000. Correct. And that house wasn't for sale on the normal market. Correct.  Right. But in your course, you show them how to make deals. So somebody could be watching this and never even plan on investing, but they could say, but I wanna learn how to buy my own house and make a good deal on it. Correct. Like listen, I'm not interested in investing but I damn sure don't wanna pay full market price for a house. Right. So then you buy his course so for the rest of your life you'll understand how to make deals, right? Which is crazy. Right. To even buy your own house. Right. And then all your family members, wife, kids, you know, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, you can also educate them to make sure they can get the good deals. This is crazy man. I mean, this really, you could play this like 20 different ways. There's so much you can do. And it's funny, I always joke with people. I go, I feel like I learned something new in real estate every single day. I'm always learning, always. And so should you guys be too. So it's just crazy, it's education and it's education that we missed out on growing up because the system don't want you to know that. And that's okay guys because now we have ways of teaching that. Yeah, and the rules have changed everybody. Like listen to me, it's easy to become a millionaire right now. Like listen to me, if you're around the wrong people and they're telling you it's hard, life isn't hard. Okay. You need to learn new education, you need to learn new information and you need to learn from new people.  Rich people don't think that way. The rich people think it's easier now to win than it's ever been. The universe will give you more money right now than you ever imagined. You just have to self develop. You know, I was listening to Patrick Bet David, he's a good mentor of mine.  Right, so I'm thinking, that's not bad. You know, hell, I got 10 skills. I got to learn every five years. Okay, no pressure. Dude, now to be competitive, to win, to stay on top, you have to learn 10 new skills every 12 to 18 months. Crazy. So, if you guys are looking to level up, you want to learn new skills, you want to understand this, real estate, money, money education, right? What to do with your money when you make it, if you're going to make some, how to make better purchases on homes, even just for yourself, even if it's not for investment. 100%. Give yourself a number again, so they can text you. Yeah, so,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Guys, night and day, ask my wife, I'll respond. So again, it's a drug to me. They say, choose your drug, this is my drug. So, I'm here to help, I want to help. I'm so passionate about this. So again,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Well, and the cool thing about it is, exactly what you're telling these people about, no matter what they do with it, you were making 60 grand a year, you were an HVA salesperson or a technician, you had a salary job, and you had to make the decision that you and your family were worth it, and you bought a training program. 100%.  I've learned something. Think about this, everybody right now, when you do something, and it's so impactful, and it changes your life so much, and you just can't believe the life you have, right? Like anything in your life, like me going to the gym, I talk about the time because I just can't believe the way it's made me feel by exercising. But you want to then start teaching it to others because you know how good it is for you. And by the way, GFC, right? God, family, country, to be godly is to love.  Absolutely.   You guys need to understand this, if your family's important, do you need to be making decisions like this and think, man, I need to get educated in case something ever happens to me so that my family's in a good position and you're taking care of yours. And then obviously, country, like, dude, we got the best country in the world and I just want to say that if you're inside the United States, okay, how easy it is to borrow money, how easy the lending is, as much properties are everywhere. The way that inflation is running, like this is a never ending skill that you're teaching people on how to be successful and be free in this country. That's just crazy, man. And if not for you, for your family, I mean, guys, this is how generational wealth is created. I think it's some crazy statistic, 98% of millionaires have some sort of involvement in real estate. So guys, that's a test. Yeah, I was just talking to him. I was like, dude, I bought five houses last month. Like listen, I'm not even a real estate guy. Maybe I am a real estate guy.  Look at you. That's what I say, you're my best student so far right here. Here we go. You know, it's like, I don't even think because it's just what we do, right? Like we're just always understanding money better. Listen, here's the rule, okay? It's a skill. Money's a skill, okay? Money's a tool to make you more money. It's very simple. Okay, to me, money's fake. I know a lot of people say money's real. That's because all you think about is money. It's why you don't have any. Okay, money is a skill. You must learn the skill of money. You must learn how money operates. You must understand that money really, you know, is powerful as it sounds. Money is just paper. It's very simple. And you must understand what to do with the money when you get it. You can have no money and learn to make a lot of money by learning skills. You can take a little bit of money. If somebody had a couple grand right now when they text you, they can invest that into your training course and you can teach them how to become a millionaire. But a lot of people think it sounds too good to be true. You can't do that. Well, here's what I'll tell you. Nothing is too good to be true. If one person can do it, everybody can do it. And I know lots of people that are doing what you're doing right now. But the way that they teach it, they need a lot of money to do good in it. But since you did it with no money and you've proven it and now you teach it and your students, a lot of them, they don't have money and they end up making a lot of money. Like this right here is actually a program for the masses. Right? Right? As my message is I reach out to people all the time. I'm like, dude, my message isn't for the rich. Hey, look dude, if you're making a lot of money, like I want to help you go make more money because I like being around A players. But really, I was a D player, okay? And then I made myself become an A player, okay? So what took me from a D player to an A player? I love to teach that to the masses now so that they can grow to new level. So anytime I find someone that's got a lot of value and I'm like, dude, this person can really change a lot of people's lives, can make a lot of people wealthy, can give people more time with their family. One of the things that he did, he was telling me, he's like, man, I spent a lot of time with my kids. He built a badass gym in his garage now, okay? You said you lost about 20 pounds. Your wife lost about 30 pounds. He's on this fitness journey now because he's like, dude, in my old life, it was funny, I was limited on money. I had less time. I was out of shape. I wasn't close to my family, but now that I've gotten into this passive income game, I got more time with my daughters, more time with my son, more time with my wife. I'm getting in better shape.  I got more time with my family and I'm making more money. Seems too good to be true, right? Damn! Okay, if anybody can relate, if anybody's watching this right now, let's finish this with someone, okay? And there should be thousands of you. But someone's like, dude, all right, I need to know what I need to know, okay? How can I text you again? Text me? Cell phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Again, that's<PHONE_NUMBER>. I will respond immediately. Guys, I know what you're going through. I know the pain that you feel. And I know that you keep scrolling on your phone, going through everybody else's pitch that they're gonna somehow help you out. Guys, I live this every single day. This is a passion for me, okay? I cry a lot because of it, because of what it's done for my family and I and what it'll do for the next generations to come. I'm not looking at just my kids. Guys, we're going grandkids and great grandkids. That's what we're preparing for. So if you guys want help, if you wanna get started and wanna learn, again, text me,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Hot damn! Let's go. Guys, we love you, we appreciate you.  Connor's a killer.  You can tell he wears his heart on his sleeve. He's not a sales guy, dude. All he wants to do is change people's lives.  All right, brother, thank you, man. Appreciate it.  Hit up, Connor. We'll see you in the next video. See you guys. Hey guys, I just wanna tell you the true one percenters you made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor, share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


Design is pretty easy. There. I said it. Believe it or not, design is pretty easy. It's good design that requires hard work, experience and solid skills. I'm Chris and that was my fourth unpopular opinion.


Good afternoon once again here we are at City Council as we continue to move forward and try to make improvements in our community we got our agenda where we just have voted on a series of water sewer projects not only improvements but rehabs equipment so that we can do more rehab so that we can continue to focus on water quality sewer improvements and of course storm water improvements to improve the quality of life in every corner of our community we also have had a lengthy agenda around zoning lots of annexations comprehensive changes to our zoning laws to make sure that we're dealing with the day-to-day changes in our our society our needs and finding things as we had changed our code that need to be tweaked based on personal experiences by our citizens so improving every day to make sure it's easier it's it's much easier to understand our zoning laws but also to apply and use them to do whatever you need to do if it's building a new building it's doing a rehab it's it's getting the right zoning classification so that you can make sure your project your community's project is done correctly so once again a long busy day but very excited about as we continue to move the Columbia forward


Lonnie it was a one-point game in that fourth quarter What was the biggest difference and how did you see the Celtics kind of be able to go on that run and close out the game? Um, I mean considering it was a back-to-back or ladies kind of got the best best of us We had a couple wide open threes that we you know Airbot and missed a couple shots that just wasn't falling that normally fall for you know most of our players so You know, we just didn't make the shots when we needed to make them today To come off a back-to-back and play a championship caliber team and play it to that to that degree shows, you know what yet we have to become you know and You try to stop try to find a positive within it all so we're very optimistic going forward Now when you talk about the positive There were some that you guys were able to kind of go on runs and then respond and also having six Just just six turnovers in the entire game What did you see you how you guys were able to fight through certain things like always constantly be able to kind of fight back I'm just playing with our strengths, you know, we had a lot of we had a lot of great ball handles a lot of great defenders And great shooters on top of that So we've been knowing what's been working with us as far as you know throughout the season Who to look out for you know Dorns were shooting the heck at the ball Royce been shooting the ball really well So we're just playing to our strengths We got a lot of players who got a chip on their shoulder You know I feel like they got something to prove and I think that adds that edge to to you know Just that underdog type of Brooklyn mentality I have to ask you because going into the game you're listed as questionable with the new sort of swordness But it looked like especially in that first quarter You're fighting through it didn't look like you were having dealing with the yet nine points What did you do in that first? That was working so well for you and then how is the knee? I'm just knowing that you know a lot of people really can't guard me You know if I see people in front of me just making a game easy, you know getting to the paint with my speed and athleticism understanding that my teammates around me make my teammates better and You know my father always said just never never show a man your weakness So when I'm on the court, you know, I don't want to make no excuses You know if I had a bad game, it's not credit to the soreness or my knee if I had a great game It's still not credit to my soreness underneath So I just go out there and try to play the best my capability knowing that my teammates trust me and You know go from there How would you just assess where the chemistry is growing you talked about how this team is Learning some things and like figuring out ways to close out with the last couple of games Did you guys have had a fight through what is that next step and then where is that growth process like I'm just next up It's probably just you know Consistence consistency, you know, I think Some games we come out strong other games we might you know struggle a little bit So just finding that consistent edge, you know from the first 40 first minute to the last minute, you know Being this team though. It's a chemistry. Just been there I mean since day one since training camp we've really been working each other to improve each other even better You know, I think that's the best thing is our practices everyone's trying to make each other better It was a lot of grit and a lot of grind and it's starting to transition on so each and every game, you know You know, we're not losing by 20 30 points You know, it's usually a grit and grind game and however happens in the last minute or two We'll make that decision. So we're continues to stack the days, but you know very happy with how things are going