Yes, welcome back to why in the morning special thanks to joy and which actually in color me valve for that amazing segment Start our Wednesday on a laughing note. Remember. We are going to be Aaron the Uganda game For the African Cup of Nations will give you more details on that right here on why in the morning and and our mother channel at KBC Channel one I go by the name of Barry Moses or it's very one every social media platform and it's time for strength of a woman so we have Libby was an artist and Activists and then we have James who's an activist and she'll tell us more about her activism Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, so your camera is number four Since Libby you've been here before where's him? Good morning everyone, my name is James. I'm one you were I am a consultant and also an activist around issues gender-based violence and Currently working on projects in and around Issues gender-based violence just trying to make sure that nothing happens to a woman the same way it happened to me So yeah, all right, so you have a story this that's why this is so dear to you Yeah, I have a personal story for me. GBV is really personal. So that is how I started All right, you're going to explain to me how you wear that smile so confidently and Good morning, my name is Libby. I am a musician and I have a background in media And I currently have released a song about GBV. That's how I got into GBV specifically rape So you don't have a personal story. No, I'm not a survivor But I have survivors around me and that's what made me Write the song and do the project and gets into this particular. All right, so I like you guys to take Why did you guys meet first? Because this is an amazing We met in school in university. Yeah, a couple of many years. I think It's a lot Wow, you have not met I won't say the name So you met in school. Yeah. All right, so this is Deister. Yes, and this is where you had this Odio, yes, this incident. Yes. All right So we are not going to talk so much about it, but it happened and then you had to transfer schools. Yeah, and You got a child as a result. Yes, who's turning how old? Four in September. I'm so proud for September.  Yeah, I'd like to know what was running through your mind post this Odio, I felt like I would be judged that is when I've always told people that I'm a person who's very close to her parents And I tell them practically everything that I'm doing. So when the when I got shaped I didn't know how to tell them because I felt like that They'll ask a lot of questions. Why why you get yourself in this position? So I didn't really say a lot and I slipped into depression and when I slipped into depression That was even before I knew I was expected. I was even admitted in hospital for a while So when my parents realized that I was admitted they came and they were told by a friend of mine who I had told What had gone down? So they were really Agitated and also very hot because I'm a person who is known Libby will tell you my my lifestyle was practically You'd know where I am at what time if I'm not in worship people person. Yeah, but also The things that I wouldn't get involved in so if I wasn't in worship team that is in school I was with my friends in the hostels if I was not in the hostels I was in class and that was my leadership position Yes in worship team. I was in charge of the Agape library for the Christian whatever so That is what I used to do. So when that happened I slipped into depression and during that time That is when we realized that I was expectant and that really took a toll on me because I was running mentorships For girls. I was the one who was telling people how they should be pure Not engaging sexual activities till they get married then now I show up pregnant So it was a lot that happened with me and also with my family so For us it was kind of it was a shaky time for us as for me as jeans and for my family also All right Did you seek any legal action because I'm told most of these cases go and prosecuted and if prosecuted It's very hard to prosecute rape cases in all honesty. We started the legal process when the person Showed up, but I'll be very very honest with you when it comes to the legal system in this country You need to have a certain position You have to have money a certain way because the offender will easily pay up if they have money like my my offender Could easily yes in the burden of proof lies exactly and now I'm not coming from a well or family like yes We manage just fine, but I don't think my dad or my mom had that kind of money to buy power Yes, and and for us like my father is a pastor and we believe in forgiveness So we had to come to a point of you know what God will fight for us So I moved on seeking counseling and all this and I will really that is all working on projects around GBV because I realized that the legal system is not fair on the person who has gone through Rape or has been beaten by the husband because they will always find a way the person the offender will always find a way of Working their way around it and gender-based violence is really in Kenya right now It's real people are just not talking about it enough and victims are not coming out enough. Yeah, all right My next question is having a religious background did this Was this part of the reason you decided to keep your baby Really, no I remember when I was told I was expecting my child They gave me two choices because now I conceived. I didn't even love this part. So I did anyway So I was given two choices either to get rid of my child or to keep my child Definitely as jeans. I wanted to get rid of my child and I remember my father's words Sometimes it drives me to tears till date because my father was like, you know what this might be your only child in this life So and we are going to take care of this job Not you are going to we are going to tell me yes We are going to take care of this job and my parents have been very instrumental I tell people every time I don't know the first thing that Like the meaning of being a mother because I give birth so I stayed with my child for three months and my parents took over after that and they sent me back to school and Being that my dad said that I was like, okay There's a reason why this child is here at this time and this is how I conceived him So I carried my child to the photo. I'm in delivered and I think during the pregnancy Because I didn't want to give birth to a child who is angry And my child is a very happy boy for people who met him He's a very happy boy. I was saying happy baby boy. Yes. All right. So Just to get a perspective so there's so many people who go through the same thing you've been through they never came out But it's a period of confusion. Yeah Right after I'm trying to understand What was some of the things people were telling you because you get a lot of misinformation from your friends and people around you They'll tell you and personally I'd never do this if this happened to me Yeah, I'd never what are some of the things people came around to tell you that you felt like we're really toxic Before I even came up because I wrote my story in 2016 around February and this happened in 2014 No one knew I had gone through rape No, I knew No, I knew I just disappeared from school. She'll tell you I disappeared the next time they saw me I was posting a picture of my son and everyone's like She was doing off-campus There was a lot of judgment before I spoke and For me it was a personal decision because you need to heal Not crying over spilt milk So I decided to blog and just write my story and that was your escape that was your outlet Yes, so I wrote my story like nothing unfiltered nothing censored anyone who reads that story today to tell you How can they get to read the blogs? Also, my blog is a lovely me web lovely me web at wordpress.com Lovely me web. Yes, so it's very important to find an escape or something. Yes, that you can use to release Exactly. Yeah, all right.  You have survivors around you From kids to grown-ups, right? All right. This rape culture. I Was walking in town sometime and then this guy tells this woman If your dress is above your knees, it's a mini skirt I thought it was all fun and games and I was like, yes facts facts facts And then he goes like if you're raped, then it's your own problem Then we were like, yeah that but no edit that part. We don't like that part So there's so many things that go around this rape culture And what are some of the things that you've come to learn about this rape culture in Kenya that I really Should really leave the building Number one rape culture finds it easier to blame the victim and not hold the perpetrator accountable Yes, and I'll give personally. I know for Jane's story Everyone blamed her for what happened Based on her story judgment was a number one judge Judge her and not the perpetrator. Remember you can judge two people if an act happens There's the person who did it and the person who received but then what we do is we find it easier to blame the victim So we'll say your miniskirt is it was asking for it You will say that where you are walking at night or how you are dressing in the house or what you are saying or how you act You know the people who are very friendly and very bubbly you asked for it.  What did you want? I went to someone's office and I was raped there. What did you want you were with a man alone? So the near fact that I'm a woman and I walk into a room and I'm in a space with a man And we are having some sort of relationship be it small like just we've just met or be it hardcore that we are married It it entitles this man to sex You get or rape culture says that a common phrase that men say that she was wet So she was asking for it forgetting that it's a biological process that women can't get wet You know, so that's rape culture rape culture is looking at rape and seeing that this is something We don't talk about and so we pay harsh money You get because we need to dial the story down that it may not Tarnish the image of the community of the company that has the scandal So people are forced to hash about it. This is something that you don't like so much about it. All right, so Do we have cases where parents or victims or survivors tell them don't talk about their story It's going to bring embarrassment to our family. What would you tell such parents? I tell them that it's happened What you need to do is one and I keep saying this one and sure that the survivor knows that there's someone Behind them and fighting for them and sure the survivor knows that it's not their fault And ensure the survivor knows that there's going to be a day. They're going to get it justice Because you are there for them Secondly is paying harsh money doesn't stop the perpetrator from doing it again If you pay harsh money like a report was I think to a citizen yesterday listed a report about How parents are becoming that a report has been released that parents are becoming more dangerous to children now Because more defilement cases are being shown are being reported that parents are the perpetrators So how do you pay harsh money to my father who's defiling me then? How do you protect me from being raped again or being so normalized? You know, how do you protect someone if they're walking around the only way we seek just it's justice is getting them in prison But then you see the bad on him of proof is put on the victim because when it happens You have to go to hospital get the proof Taken you get but most victims because of how defiling it is you want to just clean it off You know, I I I haven't gone through it But they thought of someone raping me and going and taking this gift that is sex Because sex was created as a gift to be given Someone taking it from me and denying me the power to give and then I have to smell them on my body I have to feel that you know automatically my response is going and cleaning myself But most people don't know that you have to go to hospital get your proof because the the law Sexual Offences Act shows that there has to be proof that has been shown that this act happened and this person And that's the problem that we have most people are not aware of that most people are not aware that even The sexual offenses act says that attempted rape is actually something that someone can go for in prison for all right So so the problem we've come to a conclusion that the problem is a perpetrator's the problem is not the survivors It's nothing to do with us. All right. So what do you think is a problem with the perpetrators? Is it mental illness? Is it just kicking morals out of the door or what? I think it's a mirage of problems.  It's about power Rap is about exerting power on the victim showing the victim that I am in control So for many of these perpetrators like for a father with a child They are going through their own motions. And so they see this child as And a place where they can exert the power. There are people who are actually psycho Let's just start there. There are pedophiles from the beginning of it. It's just something that is a psych It's a psychological problem that they've not gotten help. So we should address the real issues right there There are very many other issues. There are people who They've seen pornography and so they want to act on it and because porn shows you Be DSM that you get it in when the girl says yes or no, it's still yes You know, so it's getting your knowledge from the wrong place. Yes getting your sexual knowledge from the wrong reasons That's a mirage of reasons. All right. So since we know where the problem is that and I'm sorry to say all the But most of the perpetrators are men. Yeah It's almost impossible to have a queen perpetrator a female perpetrator There are interestingly and right now the statistic the statistic shows like yesterday when I was with my in the other panel I was being told that the statistic currently shows that men are going through the highest GBV right now Yes, and men don't talk Because you see your face exactly that reaction is what men get when they come and say I have been raped Yes, because By my With that so they don't come out. They don't come out like Whatever I'm going after after this interview is also for another panel discussion We have a survivor who we've been working with really closely and if you hear his story You're like, okay. Well now mine is okay as in you even feel you are okay because I realized that men don't talk I will come to Libby. You know this happened that happened Libby will tell another person who is my friend and we'll now look for a way of making sure the person who did whatever it is to me pays But for a man, it's the societal how the society has made you guys feel like y'all should know So you're not supposed to to report you're supposed to feel a certain way Wow, so gender based violence when we talk about gender based violence. It's not aligned to one particular sex It's gone both ways. Yes. It doesn't have age. It doesn't have race. It doesn't have gender It doesn't have religion exactly because if you look at even the Muslims who are being raped Even look at Sudan right now the cases of rape are rising Especially because of the unrest when you look at Saudi Arabia.  Be sure to join into this conversation You've used your comments and your questions are invited Don't forget the hashtag while in the morning and never ever forget to tell us where you're watching us from Hashtag wins Wednesday as well. So it's a power thing. Yes, and it's all here. Yes Wow moving forward Yes, because we cannot always be talking about problem without solutions moving forward What do you think are some of the solutions we can we can give do we get boys in in class as soon as they Get to class one we get them to a class where we teach them how to treat women or what I think first It's just awareness. Yeah Going to primary schools and telling children. This is how You're not supposed to be touched.  So other family members will know that this is something that we do not So having those discussions in the family setting having those discussion in churches in mosques in religious centers everywhere So awareness number one awareness number one awareness awareness awareness I've always believed in conversation and I've talked about things. Yes, talk about things And I always want the men to spearhead this conversation Because we are known as emotional beings women But when a man text charging says by the way this has been happening I feel like their voice is always had louder for some reason that is one number two For some reason I've always believed that it's like people are forgetting their moral principles and we are seeing this because From my experience the person who raped me was not brought up by a man And there's a way in which when you see your your dad treat your mom a certain way You'd want to treat your wife that way if your dad treats your mom like a queen You want to treat your wife someday as a queen you'd want to protect your daughters and all that and for me It's always been how the men are treated from the word go Mechs like forms who they are If you grew up with a man Yes, if you grew up with the father beating up your mom for some reason you'll just feel comfortable beating your wife You pick up on the lessons. It's the same way you hear women have daddy issues Why it's because they are looking for that acceptance from a male figure and daddy was never that daddy was never there So he's looking for a daddy in another man So I feel like from the word go how you bring up your child really matters because it's very hard for a man who has seen Sisters mothers being treated a certain way to go rape someone or even a man who has been taught This is the standard of how we treat women and women who have been taught This is the standard of treating men exactly train up a child in the ways of the Lord And they will never depart from it. That's a very fundamental principle So you teach up a child that this is how women are treated. This is how men are treated and they will never They will never depart. They may stray once in a while, but the fundamentals of it. They know they don't forget But what we're having is children who are brought are not brought up. We are letting the screens right now Bring up our kids, but I've never heard of something as a parenting school.  Exactly. Yeah, so in our circles That's why it's important that this rape discussion happens with with our parents with our grandparents with us And then now without our children because generations are being brought up Right now we are at the statistics say every 30 minutes in Kenya a girl or woman is being raped If right now 2019 we are talking about every 30 minutes if we do not solve this problem We're going to be talking about 20 20 every five minutes.  You are sharing a story with me cases where we've seen great cases in the Bible and how they were handled I went into Phase where I was reading a lot about the Bible and what they needed to cause I'm a Christian and I needed to do something You know people wait for something to happen to them so that they become activists for it and for me I just like I can't I can't go on looking at my friends and thinking. I wish I could do something So I went into this phase while doing the research for my song I was reading about what God did after someone was raped. So I'll give two instances Diner Diner was raped and her brothers were infuriated. They were so hungry. So what they did The king who raped her came to the family and said give us diner and let us marry her Now the king was not from the community where the Israelites? Yeah, so they were not circumcised the brother said you guys have to be circumcised And this king said will give you anything you want in this world will give you anything just ask for it And give us diner so the brother said anything we want your whole community your whole society the whole city to be circumcised the men So when they were circumcised in the middle of the night the brothers went into the city and slaughtered all the men Why because they were still they were here. Yeah. Yeah, it was a game plan and Jacob Jacob now The father asked them why did you cause this war because now this will cause more retaliation from the community and the brother said should we have allowed this man to treat our sister like a prostitute and That statement cut me to the core that The more we allow more women to be raped and more men to be raped is saying that their lives are not worthy That they are just sex tools that we can use and misuse and we know where we have sisters and moms And yes, but we shouldn't be saying that we shouldn't wait until it happens to someone we love then we care Rape is a fundamental Offense, so it's a capital offense. Exactly. Yes that people died Because of because of one rapist. Yes. The second case is The lever it's wife Concubine she was raped and left half dead in front of his house And so what this husband did he cut her pieces in 12 sent to all the tribes of Israel and told them that this is what has happened and the benjamites protected the perpetrators because it was a gang of men Protected the perpetrators and the whole tribe of Israel. Remember, Benjamites were a tribal if of Israel the whole 11 of them Ganged up against Benjamites and three times went to attack them and killed all the men Because of one woman being raped. How many women are being raped within this whole program? If the statistics say 30 minutes one person so in a two hour program we have four people You should have died by now, and that's Kenya. All right The statistics around the world are even more painful Whoo, and this is where you got inspiration for your song. All right, and this particular song is Against gender-based violence as much as it is religious. Yes. All right. What is the name of the song? The song is called rise again. In fact when it took 16 months Writing this song because of the research, you know, it is a very touchy topic to discuss so I wrote it the first part I wrote in February of 2018 and I walked into studio and I was so angry now after doing the research and I was like, what do I need to do?  She left work late and then you know the way you shook a matatu This Ocha Ocha places And then the whole street there's only one light but that light was off that it was not working well And so this guy pounced on her and raped her. The second story is another close friend who? Hi and her husband He was beating her so she left the his house went and found another house in the middle of the night the guy comes and He found I tracked her down found her raped her and after raping He said that you are mine, and you will never go anywhere His act caused her to have countless number of surgeries because he had completely completely injured her She had to have she had to be sewn up her vagina had to be sewn up She had she got pregnant after that and then she had to the pregnancy. She lost it again So now you can imagine what she was going through And so I sang out the verses and I was in tears and then the middle part is a spoken word Which is a letter from the victim saying that this is what you did you thought it was a few seconds of pleasure But for you it was a few seconds for me you auctioned me to a system that hides behind religion You auctioned me to a system of justice that finds it easier to blame the victim then hold the perpetrator accountable But regardless of all that I have a God who heals and restores and You should know that this is me waging war and I will not be silenced because no one deserves to be raped And then that's when we sing out I will rise again And I want to say this it was important for me to have the African chants in the song Because that was an act of waging war Whenever Africans used to go to war they would sing before they actually do the actual battle In African culture it was the role of the man to take care of the community them the women and children Yes, and that's why I had Manasseh Shalom singing out the African chants as a male representation that We are going to go to war for you And even if you look at the music video we had men from different ages Saying that this is something we want to fight for you And this woman who are very passionate about it and they reached out and they said we want to be a part of this project Yes, wonderful. I will rise again by Libby will be playing that in a few but before that Jane Your last remarks to the people that you're talking to right now And how can they get to be part of the support group that you run? After I will rise let me just go to that after rise again. I remember My friend and I sent Libya text because for some reason I got the link and immediately I Told you for a moment. I was in the office and I stopped It spoke to you this song for some I relieved my moments like through the song I was relieving every moment. I went through and I got shipped and I cried and I even told you that it moved me and For some reason we decided to start a movement here and and we are working on it You all will hear about it by the same time I really want to tell guys out there number one to the parents It's not the fault of your daughter or your son when they get shipped All they're looking for after that is a safe space. I will tell you for sure The reason I maintain my smile is because number one. There's someone fighting for me. Who is God number two? My parents were very instrument. They're still there. There are times that I Go through I relieve my moments. I won't say that I healed completely There are days that you walk see a man and you're like this is trash for lack of a better town and I relieve the moments and I go through a whole face and I just have to call my mom and tell mom by the way Today I must beat up someone Because of this this and that and number three stop normalizing grip Do not normalize it and that is all fans. Yes, and that is what is killing us as a society We've decided to normalize this thing When your daughter comes and it's you the father who's done that do not protects The father do not protect that do not protect the offender just as Libby has said So at the end of the day, this is our war that all of us are fighting together You have to protect your sister and it's sad for me It's sad because when we were growing up who are not talking about trip Your mother wanted like your mother wanted you to go play with the neighbors Go play with whoever your mother didn't have the reservation of what if You know right now I'm sending her to go play with Libby's daughter and I'm not so sure what is going to happen there I'm a figure, you know things like that and that is not the society we grew up in and that is not the society We want to raise okay exactly So this is our war that all of us have to like come together and fight against all right Yeah, thank you very much for that. How can they get to be part of the groups that you run sometimes? Right now we are in the starting processes of whatever projects that we're doing because personal for me. It's It's a one-stop-shop. I when Libby was saying when you report Like there's the fear of going to report and we realize that the cops are also not being instrumental in this because they make you Relieve everything so when we'll be ready. I'll be posting when I need a team and things like that And I'm so sure they can find you on social media. Yes. What is your hand?  I'm windy on book. Thank you very much. You're social media social media is Libby Underscore number everywhere. What about you to the most YouTube is Libby Dumbo the song is rise again Yes, and you can be part of the movement We are doing a movement on hoodies the hoody. I'm wearing it has messages from the song So you can reach out to us on our social media platforms, and we'll be able to plug in the same one Libby Yes, yes, all right. Thank you very much for coming and thank you very much for what you're doing And thank you very much for the movement. We need this for to secure a good future for our kids Yes, all right. We have come to the end of this strength of a woman today. We had amazing Queens in studio with me. We're about to listen to I will rise again By Libby then color me Val will be back with some more wine the morning dope on the way That was easy, right?


to our 2011 cool chemistry show. Are you ready for some exciting science? We're going to start off with an experiment and then I'll go into a little bit more description of what we're going to do this evening. So first off we have crystal and Logan with methane bubbles. An inner tube, normally inner tubes you would fill with air. If you're going to be floating down, lights down please. Fill this with natural gas. These are safety tubes so it's even more difficult to get the air out than it is to get the air in. But what they are doing is bubbling that natural gas through a solution of soap water. So it burns very cleanly and very quickly. So Logan is dipping his hand in water first to protect his hand. But the bubbles of methane gas burn so quickly that his hand is not singed in any way. We won't bother showing that and yet say that you are not harmed in any way.  I have learned that once or twice in my life. Travis, one more time. What's interesting and why we have these inner tubes filled with natural gas. We have no natural gas source within this room. We do have it upstairs in our chemistry lab. So what we did was we simply attached a tube to our natural gas lines and filled the inner tubes. And this allows us to do the experiment. You should see Dr. Karadrupe once the show is finished. Once I make my final announcements, you will exit the stage, the theater and go that direction out of the building. If you follow the balloons and signs and go up to the second floor of our wonderful science building, everyone who wants to can make slime so you will have something to take home. So everyone will get to do something tonight. Now, for the rest of our show, we will be having some participants from the audience. And in order to do this fairly, to participate should have gone a ticket. And what I'll be doing is for various experiments, calling the numbers on that ticket. And if you have that ticket, please come down to the stage and you'll hop us out. Now, one of the first things about science is always be safe. So you'll notice that whenever my students come to the front to do their demonstrations, they always have goggles. I have goggles, even though I'm not going to be doing an experiment for a while. But just for safety purposes, you will get, if you come on stage, a pair of goggles. And we will also have you put on gloves. One or two of the experiments will have you put on different gloves, but just to protect your hands. So, safety always with science. Now, there are so many different experiments that you can do at home. And we'll show you one or two of those. But if you ever do science at home, or at a friend's house or anywhere, make sure safety first. And in most cases, make sure you get your parents permission first, too. That's always a good idea. Okay. So, what we want you to do is just sit back, relax, and have a good time. We love doing this. I've got a great set of students. They're very excited to be here. And we'll have an hour of good fun. So, are you ready for the next experiment? Yeah. So, next we have Steve and Curtis and Mallory, and they're going to be doing chemical sponge. Older kids come up for this one.  So, please come on down here to the next contestant on cool chemistry. And so, what we have are two solutions, and a specially made sponge. Have a acidic or basic solution if you add in it. Which is something if you ask these students, they, they, they, this is all an alcohol. And he's one of these squirtbots. I want you to pay close attention. These materials are sprayed. So, the propane burns with a blue flame. That was strontium nitrate. Pring colors and pyros. So, you'll notice when you, there you go. So, what, what is happening is that the salts that are dissolved, once they are exposed to release energy in a form of different colors. So, boron and copper both give green on a piece of slate and set it on fire. And magnesium is always a tricky one. I'm going to mix these up. Another set of gloves. Dioxide. But gas. It skips liquid all the time. It's a little bit trickier. Substances that does so. So, when you heat it up, by itself, it burns. So, we shouldn't get some random surprises later on in the show. Hopefully. But, if you hear a burst later in the show, it's because, eventually, this, these balloons burst. This is some of the fun stuff you get to play with, if you become a chemist. So, I encourage you all to become chemists. I know not all of you will. If you have some fun with science or chemistry in your lifetime, please do so. So, you can see already that the two balloons have reached just from the dry ice that's in there turning into a gas. And, they're in supervision. My parents live 1,000 miles away. But, there's a little fling in here that makes a spark in order to get the propane to light. But, we can do it by chemistry too. It's not something most people would work with. It's a very strong act that is part of that combustion reaction. Very surprised by what happens. See, I was in the middle of saying something and it just went up. So, asking for manganade provided the spark. And the tissue paper, as you can see, just went up. So, there are some tissues that are coming down like snow. So, it's like being Wisconsin. Before long. Okay. So, it's in a much safer way. So, this is where R, and then you have a nice little flamethrower. That's the pressure inside the tube. And, we're using just a simple bicycle pump and we've attached it to a rubber stopper. We'll try this one more time. So, what happens when you add pressure, originally, and then you release that pressure, there is alcohol inside and then alcohol rises and makes fog. When you add pressure again, the fog disappears. And I think it's something about minus 340 degrees Fahrenheit. So, it's not something you want to dip your hand. When pouring that liquid nitrogen into the walls, it suddenly turns into a gap. It's inside the balloons. Although, it's hard to dip balloons in liquid nitrogen as they float. Dipping something a little bit. At room temperature, in liquid nitrogen, vacuum will become very, very, so it's become so brittle that it'll just crack. Warm, soapy water. When you hear that, if you saw me juggling, because if I handled this right now, it would cause some serious cold birds. Now, cold can burn just like heat can. Hopefully, this isn't cold. Hopefully, this isn't cold. I shouldn't have perhaps demonstrated this first. First experiment they're going to do is a non-burning towel. It's soaking a towel with it. If this was paper, it would burn the mixture that they have. I'm still kind of nervous. I don't see any syringes. Okay. And 70347. On the other side is the vapor. Just for safety. Read out 6 numbers. Alka-Seltzer. Put both halves into the bottles. Now, it takes a minute, but... So if you look closely at each of these bottles, and they're all the same, they're filled with two things. Water at the bottom, and vegetable oil at the top. And so what we've created here are lava lamps. So this is something you can make at home. All you need is an empty 2-liter bottle or any kind of bottle. Vegetable oil and a little bit of water. Lava lamps. So the Alka-Seltzer makes carbon dioxide gas. The gas comes up through the oil, and that's how you get the bubbles like this. So thank you, all of you, for participating. Dr. Donald and things that I unfortunately... That's the basis for this. Oil is non-polar. Hydrogen and oxygen only. It's at the bottom, and it's going to be two different layers. Now, while that's going, I'm going to show you one more. Again, it's relatively the same thing. And if you could lower the lights, it's moving up here, so it's easier to see. The bottom layer. So what I did was I took the felt part, the tip of a highlight, and the highlighter fluid is now soluble in water. So now I can make a glow-in-the-dark lava lamp, rather than just one that's colored. Now, these black lights, they're very inexpensive. This black light itself costs $9.99 at Walmart. And so anytime you have anything that has something like highlighter fluid in it, it's going to glow in the dark. So, again, for about... That's because if you think about this compared to the gloves that we had with the dry ice, these would eventually fill up with gas and burst, and then you have a mess of oil and water anywhere, and that's not something you want your parents to pay up. They will not be very happy about that. So, at least on the side here, is going to be Heather and Paolo, and they're going to do screedy candy, one of my favorites. That's that sugary near stomach, and that gives you energy. What you can do if you think these lava lamps are safe enough that I can actually close them. While I'm closing these up, you can actually reuse these lava lamps over and over and over again, so they last a good long time. You get your money's worth. About 70% sugar are probably going to be thrown away and not safe. Look to see melted sugar. Burnt sugar is... What happens is... Burnt more efficiently. So you'll notice that it's just something you can buy at your local gas station. Yes, it's a fun easy one to do. And yes, the whole size is important. And yes, the whole size is important. So make sure that if you do have... Too small an explode, it's too big, it doesn't... Yeah, you've got like one of the longer ones. Yeah. These students found these experiments on their own. So I get to learn new experiments whenever they find something that I haven't seen before. It takes a little bit, I gotta like... Averages. Adult beverages. But there are a couple of different kinds of alcohol that you don't want to drink. One of them is this methanol drink. It's a poison. Also, rubbing alcohol. It's okay to put on your skin. It disinfects. It kills bacteria if you don't want to drink that either. Because it can be a poison. So, I'll just say that. Don't drink any alcohol. So can we turn the lights on a little bit? Can we have the lights down please? If it's not cold enough, we can just let it cool and then you can do it. Squeeze it. It feels like you're grabbing a solid material. Kind of like silly buddy. To convince your parents to make some of this and do this out in the backyard. One corn starch. And one to two water. One corn. So one corn starch to two water. And you can make some non-nutrient fluid. Then it makes the two of those tickets sourced. They start to melt. Actually see that the clay pot on the bottom. I get to work with these students all year in the lab and in the lecture. This is a great group of students. And two, as far as two and John, who did thermine. This is actually their second year doing this show. So I'm glad to live in combat. I love teaching students. I love science. And hopefully you'll be able to do some of this science in the future. I'll be hopefully here for a while.


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Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is Little Bookish Teacher and today I want to share with you a recent release picture book that I have absolutely fallen in love with that is Timeless by Kelly Canby. Now this gorgeous book came out right at the end of January and I had to get my hands on a copy because Kelly Canby just does amazing work. Little Light is one of my favorite picture books that I have read over the last couple of years and I just wanted to see what she was going to do in this story. So as I said Timeless is written and illustrated by Kelly Canby. It is published by Fremantle Press and I was having a look on the author's website because the blurb is not really long on the book and I wanted to see if there was a description that I could give you guys that would explain the story before I talk about what I loved about it. So I found this on Kelly Canby's website. Emmett, whose parents turn back time to name him, is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to read stories, mum is too busy to play games, and Emmett's brother and sister are simply too busy doing nothing at all to do anything at all. What the family needs, Emmett decides, is more of what they lack, time. So he sets off to find some. He tries to catch it because time flies and wait for it because time stands still, but it's not until Emmett tries to buy some time that he learns the secret which is, if you want time, you have to make it. I love that description so much because it perfectly encapsulates what this book is all about. So as it says, Emmett is trying to find time and he keeps hearing all of these idioms about how time flies and how it stands still and how it slips through your fingers. And he just desperately wants to find time for the things that he loves and for his family. And it is very elusive, which is relatable, highly, highly relatable. This is a very cleverly written picture book that weaves all of these idioms into a narrative story that connects each page to the next. And it really forces us, the reader, to stop and reflect on what those idioms mean to us and how we as individuals find or make time or make excuses for not finding time for things. And that is a really important message in this day and age where everyone is so busy and everything is moving at a really fast pace. It's a great discussion starter of a book for, you know, how can you find time, how can you make time for the things that you love and are passionate about? And for younger readers, even though that concept might go over their heads a little bit, doesn't mean that you shouldn't read the book to them because they'll certainly take a lot away from the story because it is beautifully written. The language is very lyrical, it flows gorgeously, and the illustrations are bright and colorful and bold, and I really draw you in. For older readers, those discussion points are fantastic. It's great for unpacking that, but also this is a perfect mentor text for writing. There is amazing word choice in here. The sentence fluency in the sentence structure is fantastic, and it also has a really great sense of voice. And so when you use this with older students as a mentor text for writing, there is a lot to be gained from it. And the whole time that I was reading it, I was thinking in my head wearing my teacher hat, you know, in a writer's notebook activity, for example, going through and listing all the idioms about time in here, and then maybe choosing a different topic for idioms and seeing how many idioms as a class or as individuals students can list, and then using that as a starting point to expand on those ideas. Now, maybe that's because at the moment I'm on my writer's notebook kick for work that I'm doing at school, but I thought this would be an absolutely perfect one because it is so engaging and fun and playful with language, and I just absolutely adored it. I will leave a link to where you can purchase Timeless Down in the description, as well as a link to the author's website. In the comments, I would love to know if you have read this story, or if you're planning on picking it up. It is a really wonderful story that I think crosses a lot of age categories. If you want to let me know that you're here, but you don't want to leave a comment for free to leave a clock emoji down below. Otherwise, I hope that wherever you are in the world, you are staying safe and healthy, and I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye, everyone.


Hi. Hi y'all Liz here and you are at Smart Business Move. I have two guests today y'all. How exciting is that? Tom can't be here because he's off doing his event in Washington DC but we have Martha Woodward who y'all know and also Dom Williams. So I'm going to let them give a quick intro about who they are before we get started on today's topic of the value of work retreats. So Martha you want to go first and let everybody know a little bit about who y'all are and what you do? Sure. Sure. Martha Woodward I owned a cleaning business in another state for 13 years. I started quality driven software with Maria Dorian. She's on to figuring better things and that's all I'm going to say about me. Yeah. All right. So Martha why don't you put in the chat your for me the private chat any email addresses. I'm not email web addresses that you want me to share. I think people are going to want to know for sure more about quality driven and probably going to want to hear about the event coming up etc. Sure. And then I'll share those and then Dom. Hey Dene. Yeah. So my name is Dom Williams. Founder CEO of C&C Cleaning Services. We're a residential and commercial cleaning company in Central Indiana. We cover all of Indiana for commercial and we also have most recently expanded into the state of Michigan. We just acquired a cleaning company there within the past two months. So yeah that's what I do. I'm in the home service industry. That's fun. I didn't know you were I mean how would I know but I didn't know you moved into Michigan. Yeah. Whereabouts. So we have two offices there. We have one in Millington which is about 20 30 minutes near Flint and then we have another one that's way up north. It's called Grayling Michigan. I've actually never been to that office but we cover the whole state of Michigan though. It's all it's only commercial. I have a lot of relatives in Michigan. I grew up there for a short time. Yeah. I know it this much because I was still a little kid when I moved out. All right. So y'all I, Martha your event that's coming up is the thing that made me think this would be such a great topic. Huge in our industry I think that people way overwork and we have a lot of stressed out people and a lot of people who think it's completely normal to work 70 hour weeks. We see that a lot. I'm looking at hours. I think there's such a time and a place too. Like you're growing your business, right? You're in that you're putting all the time effort you're doing that but then when you're just you know it's a 60 70 80 hour weeks for years on end and you're not taking any time off that's that can that can wear on you in a in a big way. So and I know you have always put value and the idea of doing more than just work. So I mean you always have so I thought maybe you could talk to us just a little bit about the value that you see and how you do it and why and all that good stuff. I was waiting for you to be saying I know you have always goofed off and not done your work. Which is a little bit true but anyway yeah I mean I feel like I'm pretty nostalgic right now because this will be our last retreat and Dom told me something that I didn't know until we were in North Carolina together. Can I share that? I don't know what you're about to share. Gosh. Well whisper Martha it'll be fine. Oh did I give you credit for my success Marty? You did. I was shocked. Hear that. That's good stuff. But so I think that way back when I was lucky enough to find you know people to follow and people that I really respected and connected with more than just for business and that's been a big part of my career is those connections and everything and super super important and I think that's why I kind of went into the conference slash retreat space is just creating like there were the educational sessions but there weren't like the experiences tied in with it at least to my liking and so anyway that's one reason that we started doing conferences way back when and really focusing on not only the educational part because I always hate when people say oh yeah it's a good party well we put a lot of work into the educational part but yes we have a really good time and so you are correct Liz I've always liked to balance and but what Dom told me which really shocked me but he came to the conference in Tulsa which was our first official one and and he told me that that changed the trajectory of his business and I I think it's just getting in a room well you explained it Dom yeah so so when if I can recall before I was before I ever met Marty I call Martha Marty by the way I can't switch it up on this call so before I met Marty and before like I really understood what quality-driven software was anything like that before I ever knew about a Liz Trotter or Tom or any of you guys it was it was this quality-driven event and I remember my business was probably at like $200,000 a year it was me and my mom our office was the size of my lobby probably and you know we were doing $200,000 a sale that was working another job and you know just just getting by and I saw this event and we said mom we're going to Tulsa, Oklahoma so we rented a car I can remember it we had like this really really nice fast challenger that we drove down and about I think a four or five six hour drive so it wasn't bad and I get there and I start meeting all these people in the cleaning industry and like at that moment it really clicked like oh my gosh there's a community of people that are doing the same thing that I'm doing and they're really successful at it right so that was I think I might have met Kyle there at that one or I met him the next one either or Marlowe I mean just everybody that we know like that's in our community in our space that's where I started meeting those people I was introduced to service autopilot at that conference which changed the business forever because although we don't use service autopilot today I understood the power of what a software could actually do for your business so there were probably at least three to four if not more connections and concepts that I was able to implement in my business by being at your event Marty that made my cleaning business what it is today so I will say for for this particular business Marty you had a huge impact on where we're at that's nice and you know what I bet a lot of people could say that Martha I mean I bet if we had you know 10 people on here they would all be saying oh my gosh so true me too um like just a huge impact I've heard so many people say not not that exact thing but very similar things about your events which is surprising when I heard that this was going to be your last one that is what tell us about that man they're that you know this Liz uh they're stressful they're stressful to put on and they're I I love parts of putting on an event um I don't love having my I feel like my business up for collateral you know every time you're put it's scary um it is scary that you have to put your signature on a lot of money and then hit those numbers and drive your friends and family on Facebook crazy with all your sales post oh I don't know anything about that I know I know um but um you know and when I went into it in my head I will tell you that I thought it was my 10th year and so before I went live and I was already in the stream yard ready to go live and I had written them all down and I'm like wait that's that's just nine and I recounted and there was a second there I was like well crap I'm gonna have to do another one yeah but then I'm like no no no no it's just nine we're just doing nine but uh yeah and I feel like we're going out with a bang in that it's gonna be way different than the others it will be more similar to when we went to Cancun but hardly anybody was there because it was COVID it was January 21 and uh but that was fun wasn't it Don it was very fun and like Megan said she really liked that because it was workshop style like this one where you actually went back and instead of like a list of things to do you had a lot of it done like she implemented the um well wait was it hire who or who hire was when Dom was there in the HR settings and stuff um but anyway so yeah we can talk more about that but uh Dom is Dom and Megan are in charge of all the education this year yeah I I heard from them when they were asking hey do you want to be a speaker I was like I didn't even talk to you about any of it I was booked through them and yeah never had anything so I would think they made it easier for you easy enough that you can do it one more time so funny you know the funny thing is let's talk about some of those those speakers that we did pick out because actually there's a couple that we could highlight and kind of talk about like what they're going to be touching on because what we want to talk about the other stuff too because that's that's kind of the big thing is that and and Dom I'm I'm guessing that this would be true for you that you saw when you went to that very first event of Martha's that yeah you met all these people you you didn't even mention like the education you're like you know you made all these connections and you get all this other stuff so I'm guessing that a large piece of it was this ability to you know do other things I wasn't at the first event Martha was it along your typical style of we're definitely going to be working and we're also going to be doing some retreat stuff was it the same yeah yeah I mean not as much as but yes definitely it was it was in all I know I was in a cabin so all I know if I was in a cabin I've came a long way Marty you came a long way I don't think I can get Tom in those cabins these days I love cabins why what was wrong with it are they like stark or something I don't know that is true okay cool can cool and and Victoria where we're where we're going top top yeah top and I saw you're like there are gold rooms that you can get to or something right so for the people who really love the bougie thing that hey listen the gold rooms I'm even doing a gold room just because you get your breakfast you get all this included so by the time it offsets each other and the gold room you don't have a gold room you really want a gold room yeah the gold room has this gold floor that you have access to okay this I'm telling you this hotel this day when the coffee machine the coffee machine is like is if you worked at Starbucks and had access to all that behind there yeah in your room no no in the common area okay because I'm like you might have just sold me on that gold room right there think of it think of it this way Liz like you know when you're going into the airport and you know how you can go into the to the to the lounge yeah that's what it is okay but just even a even another level another notch up another level of that yeah that's what it is when you get access to the gold right do you have any more rooms Martha um oh look Meg likes money is here we're bringing her on I'm late I text Martha I was like I don't want to be disruptive but I'm stuck on the phone oh yeah I'm busy yeah you were busy it's text time you were busy I I hate that part of my life look look there's people I'm allergic to paper this is just terrible somebody take it away that's a lot but it's like is it end on the 15th or the I that is my goals here I pull my clients that if they did not have any information by March 10th because I have one put up the door of like been on the brink of death so you're almost there you're so close so close are you color-coded Liz yes I love it was no you know I know everybody loves it but I'm like you know it's so horrible every time because I actually read my books I actually like my books I use them for reference so every time I want to find a book I have to go look it up on Amazon to see what it looks like so that I could find it so at my old house I organized by color two and the worst part is the spine color does not match the cover color sometimes and so frustrated too or like this one whole shelf of like they're all different colors like every spine is like purple and yellow angle where where do those go where do those go anyway yes or and what are we talking about or did I just hijack a leg you're very much digressing okay I'm sorry hi hi Dom now we're really um Megan why don't you go ahead and give everybody on here just a quick how do you do what you do also give me your give me your in your private chat give me your website and I'll be posting those for everybody okay hi ready my name is Megan likes and I am an accountant based out of northern California and good friends with Dom and Martha I have a couple of businesses my primary one is likes accounting company where I help business owners kind of take the fear out of their finances by seeing the things that they can't see in their profit and loss statements and their balance sheets let's see I also own a window cleaning company so I'd like to say I'm in the cleaning industry even though I'm not as cool as the the people on this beautiful screen I have learned so much from them about how to bring recurring services into my home service company and from Martha how to hold people accountable and from Liz how to train people and from Dom how to like charge what I'm worth and hold people accountable so uh I love hanging out at conferences and so Martha I so two years ago quick aside we had an international conference for QDS and Dom gave a presentation on his software company back then called hire who and I set up my entire applicant tracking system during that two-hour workshop and I I've been running it ever since the company has since sold and rebranded and gotten cooler but everything I built during that workshop still exists and I love that Martha had quality driven software and she showed us how to use the HR module and I have been tracking all of my HR issues within quality driven software because of that one workshop two years ago and then Liz and I met four years ago at the quality driven sub conference when we did the day before thing that you did on training so like how to build a training program and hold your team accountable so I remember that was our first time ever is like who are those people they're not cleaning people and that was Jeff and me and uh yeah that was a really fun event I don't remember ever thinking who are those people they're not clean people I don't remember ever thinking that any any y'all ever think that everybody thought Jeff was a long care guy because he's in a flannel I did I thought he was a long care guy I was like oh all right windows oh that makes sense too though okay so all we were talking about today is well not all I mean I think it's super my cat is walking on did she lock me up yeah are you all still there we can hear you for I wish I could hear you all right well I don't know what happened she did something I can't see you but good I'm glad y'all can see me all right oh okay it's better all right so um we're talking about how um you know this industry a lot of a lot of small business industries but this industry also um has a tendency to overwork and not take time and how work retreats is a way around that was it a cat no I'm megan I'm pointing at megan on my screen made a face about my overworking I want to say I don't work enough I think I just don't work smart I don't know but yes as a whole we need to take time and these retreats are so helpful with that and people need to take more time and then Martha just told us she's not doing this again and so we're like listen we're talking about the value of work retreats you do them better than anybody else so what do you mean you're not doing doing them anymore I'm like oh oh all right I'm grateful because the way Martha sets these every other year ones up is you get it done you don't go home with like a to-do list it's like done you build it I do love that too play and then it's done yeah and you have time to play also which is the the piece right that we're liking so attention because we were like uh Martha you're cutting into our learning time and she's like no we're gonna play so I feel like this is your first time Martha where we were in conflict like Dom and I had an agenda and Martha had an agenda and we had to like negotiate about our joint agendas and just because I could I feel like Martha won there right we have well the agenda is changing with you being fair to be fair typically um you weren't there last year Liz when I got called out by Ashley Matuska I was just gonna say like if Ashley had it her way what would it be Martha if it was Ashley's way well at least not starting before 10 a.m but uh you know so usually when I'm planning these events and this one is labeled retreat guys so but usually when I'm planning these events I start with like a nine to four nine to five kind of agenda and then I don't know you meet a speaker and you're like oh I have to I have to have you speak and so then by the time it's all over they're going eight to six may or may not get lunch breaks you know and uh that kind of thing but this one well and till six I mean Ashley's comment is like Dom and I closed down bars with Ashley how many times last year Dom like we were out till two a.m oh Dom doesn't drink publicly but you know we were out till two a.m or three a.m so that's why she needs to start at 10 because yeah she's asking for the 10 a.m start I was like well I know what you were doing at two a.m. eight o'clock in the morning is a is an early start she told me to know my audience yes and plan accordingly I got called out on that post this year by Sarah Mitchell said Liz you could learn something here I haven't seen to start early as well so so Liz I was supposed to technically be the mc last year thank you for thank you for sharing this story Dom I'm very proud of you and what what had happened was we went and did some partying that I mean New Orleans is like no other place we went we went and uh that next morning um I didn't have a voice actually I didn't have a voice and by the next morning he means the first day of his first the man had no voice he could not and he wasn't joking he wasn't saying like his voice was gone Dom did it come back I don't think it came back no I got to do better you're on retreat this time when he tried to be mc this time Martha and I were like no I'm not trusting you yeah you're not trusted to be mc and keep your voice together oh my gosh okay so talking about like the retreat okay what a great show Denny yeah so much thanks Denny thanks Denny she loves to come on here too we're just having fun Denny and she really loves that about our business moves when we have guests that are fun on all right so I want to hear from y'all um because you were also part of the group of people that was working too much not taking enough time off etc so where where did you find value in the idea of wait two things I've asked two questions and I haven't gotten the answer so I want to get those answers first first one was Martha um do you have any rooms left because Megan came right on as I I can probably I can probably beg for some okay so there's rooms left there's just the room block is closing out like ASAP okay so anybody that might want to do it needs to do it like right now if they want to be part of the main group that everybody else yeah and the reminder the room block is a discounted room so it's slightly cheaper than online and then if you're looking online those are Canadian prices not American prices so don't have to be shocked although the hotel is gorgeous uh Dom, Martha and I all went and stayed there uh last June it's a beautiful hotel so it's it's it's an experience it's really the best hotel in all of Victoria I will say that and lots of them yeah yeah lots of them so we did hear that it has gold floor it has a gold floor right yeah don't tell you that yeah it sounds like a dom thing to notice I don't have more than I noticed that but Dom definitely noticed yeah definitely yes what he said I was like a gold floor interesting okay and we toured that section we were like oh yeah it's we know who's staying here but I can't say anything I'm even staying there so am I so and there's a coffee area I already told her about the coffee so I went I went again in February and the bar area is so nice like the bar is just beautiful lounge like one of the prettiest bars and um they had like a chocolate fountain going in the bar I mean and live music it is just a whole experience it is I love Victoria Dom did you hear we got the bingo room no there's like a very special room Martha is like going all out we have the library and we got this really really like Cary Grant style beautiful room I mean you're gonna feel smarter just being in the room like that's how so I'm not bringing any kind of fancy clothes do I need to have fancy clothes this well I will tell you don't put your vans up on the table they'll scold you for that so if that gives you some context I don't know about that Megan I'm not sure I maybe got scolded like an eight-year-old uh what else I I did go to high tea there in February and we were dressed very casually like very good so okay I was thinking I need to at least have a hat for high tea definitely bring something I might even get some gloves just because fun Martha can we tell people to pack their tea house yeah you betcha I love that yeah so like I got some fancy t-shoes or something or a tea watch or something yeah I bet you've got some come on you gotta have something you got a fedora or something no I think he's got it now Marvin Marvin on the other hand Marvin will have it Marvin has a hat for every day so he'll be dressed so he's already ready with his hat yeah instead of taking your hat off you put it on for the restaurant that's why it's fun all right well she told you about I know Liz you don't drink but did she tell you about the purple gin no so there's a special kind of gin made from this hotel the Empress Hotel and it's called Empress Gin and it's made from pea flour and it's purple and it's beautiful from one kind of flower a pea like a English pea like a I heard of it yeah it's it's it's very cool so I shall drink even I can buy it all over I mean like it's not just local okay so everywhere all right what's it called Empress the name of the hotel Empress Gin Empress Gin all right y'all so I know I have a lot of friends that like to drink so like the way to go and purple purple really you that's so weird we don't have any friends like that lavender it's like like a one okay so I said I had two questions that I asked and I didn't get answered right because we went off on it a little yeah the hotel one so we got that one and then the other one was for you Dom and it just went out of my head do you remember what it was Martha does it about the speakers the content oh I can't remember now oh it'll pop in you know how oh I'm not gonna be able to talk because it keeps wanting to take is it about we were talking about how how much I changed the trajectory of Dom's life it wasn't that but I do love that I want to know how how did that happen we can't go backwards Megan because you were late you're right now I'll do about it later but we can add on to it because I think that is like a little bit of a piece hey Drew Drew's gonna be there right did Drew to be talk about how Drew's beautiful wife is amazing and she's we haven't talked about we haven't talked about like concrete things yet we've just been playing yeah we've just been like chatting you you've been on the mediest part of the call Megan you're welcome you're welcome I brought the meat there you go okay so um Dom I do remember what my question was finally my question was um you've been to like this you said that before you didn't even know about the community you didn't know about all the same metal the people etc and so I thought maybe you could speak to how you said already that it just changed the trajectory of everything for you and give you this whole brand new perspective opened up the way of thinking um can you or your way of thinking can you talk a little bit about how you know like what was it why should people look for events like this where they can have some downtime just spend time meeting people and not only work work work work work yeah so um have you ever heard people say like you know the power and you know going to the conferences is really when you're socializing and you are at the bar or you're you're eating dinner together and you're just hanging out that's really what it's about so I think Martha does a really good job at her conferences by making it more of that rather than just a whole bunch of class sitting type setting type of things so um I would say like every time I go to a to a conference now that's what it's more about I'm more anxious to get to an area where we can have conversations about each other's business and have a real dialogue rather than you know just sitting there and listening to a presentation the whole time so that's where I think the value is at and um that's why I think there's a huge value in the QDS conferences because I think over time like like in Tulsa Oklahoma I think it was a lot more of classroom setting right and then year after year there were a lot more activities and there were a lot more things because she started to figure out like this is really this is where the value lies yeah and and nobody really has ever done it even close to as well as Martha's done it not even the people who have um done some stuff where they're like okay we're going to make it fun and stuff it's more fake fun it's more hoopla and it's true though but your your events and the things that you do it's funny because you actually provide true downtime value like well she forced it on us actually in like the most sweet way like eight party luau uh uh second line we had a brass band come into the hotel and escorted us all out on a surprise adventure that ended in a hurricane cocktail at like the oldest hurricane established bar in new orleans like she did that she she kidnapped that she like forced it on us but in the most warm and fuzzy way where you get to have conversations like and those tables she i don't know dominant got to we we get to see martha in different way when she goes to a hotel she's not looking at the things everybody else is looking at she's looking at like well where are they going to gather well where are they going to like where are they going to hang out well how big is that room how big is like the you know the table size like where are they going to meet up for coffee in the morning and drinks after the sessions like it's just so interesting martha's much more worried about the outside of the classroom time yeah i think that that's what you do so well but i know you're not going to be doing that anymore but tell us about tell us about that a little bit martha can you explain how did you recognize the value in that to such a larger degree than everybody else and how you you know decided you're going to bring this to life um so i went to my first what was arcsy then i went to my first arcsy conference and i'm sure it was part of issa but you know i really just knew of arcsy arcsy um and i went to that and i'd been in business two weeks and i remember i remember going and actually i don't know if i've ever said this to you but i went it changed the trajectory of my life too and i do talk about that but so i didn't know anyone i didn't even know i knew nothing about cleaning cleaning products nothing i all i knew was that um i was ordering products from the clean team and it was gary gorgensen at the end and i called and i was ordering products and i'm like is there any education anywhere i you know i was like i don't know what i'm doing and she goes well there's a conference next week you know i know that you'd want to go to that and i'm like where is it you know and so i went and i wouldn't know enough to ask one single question but what i did was i went to classes i remember alonso i remember like i was able to pick out who i wanted to listen to like i you were in the hall and as as they still are you know you're talking and everybody was listening and i thought okay i'm gonna pay attention to her debbie sardone was one and that was before debbie was doing any consulting or anything um alonso those were the i think you guys were the main ones but that's what it did for me is right off the bat i knew i i knew people that were good connections and were people that i wanted to hear more of and then as i went to more and more arty conferences then i start telling ernie i'm like ernie we need to do this we need to do this you know and one thing that i noticed is that and it was really from that first one what i noticed is that it was easy to not be part of it the part of the group it was really easy to come and just do your thing and then if you weren't seeking connections you would not make connections and so when i really couldn't get that part out of the arc c slash issa conference then i just thought i'm going to make my own and and i will say another one that was really um really influenced what i did was the service autopilot conference because i attended that conference and it's all lawn care for the most part i mean i would say less than five percent of the attendees were from cleaning or anything else and so but what i realized is i would sit in the room and listen and it was like on the same topic as what i'd heard before but a whole different take yeah on approaching that part yeah and so quickly i'm like i love this you know because by that time i had heard i had heard like this is kind of the same stuff yeah and i was just like oh my gosh i love being around other industries and hearing from other people because they do like routing really well and we do culture really well you know and so i think that there's just a lot to mixing up the group and i wanted to make it that whole experience where it would be pretty hard to come to a qts conference and not be involved and not be part of the yeah you know so yeah that was it and not it would be also really hard to go to a qts concert um conference and concert although they are always have some kind of music somewhere right um and not make like connections right um also people don't talk about this piece of it i think very much but um there's a lot of work there's also downtime that's also work it's like yeah downtime work which is the part of the retreat that's the part that that i think that you do really well is you you keep it going it it is all work it's just it's less pressure it's less like being for sped it's more you know we're sharing and we're and so everybody's minds are more open everybody's more more ready to absorb and to share and you know it's a much bigger much bigger impact than when it's just in a classroom me absorbing this one little thing and okay okay okay okay take as many notes as i can and then close that folder and stick it up on a shelf somewhere stick it up on a shelf somewhere and then yeah right so i i think that people i don't think i know people have said many many times over the years that the quality driven conferences are the best place to meet people and work hard but also play you get have a lot of fun time play time and downtime yeah the amazing race was like one of my favorite oh Liz do you remember Liz and i ended up in a like yeah the that calendar i mean it was so fun and the teams it was so fun martha that was so much work but it was it was one of the most incredible things i've never seen any conference come close to that amazing race not even that was probably that's probably my highlight of the thing um i mean i think i almost cried after it's over that i put you know i could pull it off because it just was way more complicated than i thought it would be and um but and i'm in fact when my husband left for work this morning i said don't worry sweetie it's it's a special night tonight and he looked at me i go it's amazing race okay i can't believe that you didn't think it was going to be that complicated i know not believe that that went off the way it did how did you make that happen that was i i was completely expecting it to just i was ready i was super afraid but um yeah and there were some near fights on uh i remember oh yeah like at the at the w-torn board that wasn't pretty and then um in one of the rooms i had my a local friend who volunteered um she's a dear friend of mine and it was her husband's first time to come to one of the events and i had him planting mingos all over the place and all and uh he was like at like 6 30 in the morning on his vacation but my dear friend was manning the room and and she had the matching game and she had someone in that room that didn't quite like the rules and finally my friend goes you know i'm on vacation volunteering do what you want i mean if that was the worst thing that happened really that's kind of crazy how everybody got through that whole thing that was yeah i don't know yeah so fun and i think that's the same year that you had the luau it was yeah and the 80s party oh my gosh the 80s party too oh and all in dom did the cult of brands right yeah that was a good one they came in and that was so good so good i talked about that talk for a long time dom yeah that was probably the highlight dom you were probably the favorite yeah i i can't imagine that was amazing that was good oh good really good that was a good conference for sure that was a good one but uh sounds like this one that we're going to is going to be amazing talk to us a little bit about for the people that haven't heard about the one that's coming out here i know you don't have a lot of room but talk to us a little bit about like your planning how how you came up with what you wanted to do give us all the all the inside juicy stuff um so i will say the weird thing about me is when i travel i really am looking at you know it's always in the back of my mind that whether or not it would be a good retreat a good conference location and um so you know my kids live in Seattle i wanted to go to vancouver uh anyway my oldest was like okay mom we'll go to vancouver but i think you'd really like victoria and i i was kind of dead set on i wanted to go to vancouver but she convinced me thankfully she convinced me to just spend one night there and the rest of time in victoria and i remember when we pulled up to victoria and like just pulling up in the ferry and i remember thinking oh my gosh i just had that uh this is amazing and right then i knew i have got to have a conference there and i was already thinking about winding it down and then you know it was like oh i can't quit until i have you know a conference here so that's how that came about um but yeah it's quickly become really one of my favorite places so i don't know about the rest of y'all but did y'all hear what i heard if you come up with the most amazing place and you show it to martha this might not be the last one that's what i heard is that what y'all heard i told me what i heard because martha she did this with new orleans too i'd never been to new orleans and martha talked me into going hotel shopping and then i went to new orleans three times in one year and the exact same thing happened to the courier this will be my third time to victoria in less than a year because when she when she tells you you're gonna love it she's not joking she means you don't love it she's gonna love it i do have a bit of a beef though because it will be my third time to victoria and i still have not seen the cute little water taxi ballet oh i know that's on sundays i know on sundays but um yeah so i don't know should we talk about the conference the retreat yeah yeah okay all right so it's it's long it's may fifth you come in on a sunday to seattle unless you already live there and um sunday we arrive in seattle i'm telling people to get there early enough so that if you especially if you've never been to seattle will fit in some quick sightseeing um try to get there by noon or one which is doable since a lot of people are coming from east coast etc and we're gonna go to the space seattle uh chihuly gardens did i say that right yeah chihuly oh my gosh so amazing yeah and then um kind of walk in that downtown pike's place area because where we're eating dinner as a group that night is called kells irish pub and restaurant or whatever um but it's right there in that pike's place area um and then that next morning we have to start heading over some of us will walk with our suitcases some of us won't and um we will go to the ferry terminal and we're gonna catch the ferry at eight a.m and then it takes about three and a half hours to get to victoria you have to go through customs it's pretty light you know and uh and you do have to have a passport or enhanced driver's license but that's just for washington residents isn't it yeah i know that's what we have yeah and um so then we basically go across the street and our hotel is there and it's the fairmont it's a fairmont brand which is a really nice five star brand and it's called the impris and we'll check in we're going to immediately have lunch uh check in um official check in time isn't till i think four so you may get in your room you may not and you may actually be sightseeing before you ever get in your room because around two we're going to go on one of those double decker buses and i put that on that first day so everybody can kind of get the lay of the land and see where china town is see where fishermen's wharf is see all the different areas so then you know what you want to go back to um and then that night you've seen in the facebook group i've been crazy about um getting people to make reservations for this restaurant the three of us went to this restaurant i couldn't i waited too long to get my family to go there but then the three of us went and it was so good and it's crazy i mean it's already looking pretty booked um and you know it's one of those you set on your calendar a month from now and wake it's like checking in for your southwest flight if you didn't purchase early bird yeah that's not all right so um i don't think you've gone crazy posting that because i haven't booked a reservation so i you obviously go crazy i everybody that saw it i said um to to try to get as many seats as you can you know so that and don't take some walk-ins too it's just that but anyway um so that's monday night tuesday we have y'all wait y'all i just gotta say real quick did y'all hear all of that stuff um yeah that's monday also yeah we're the fact that you've been away from home for 36 hours and there's been no class yet but the ferry is really good social time like dom and i had a great ferry ride on our way over to the island the beautiful well all the way there it was great when i went back it was great too it was fine but we're not gonna go there but they weren't talking to each other maybe the walking i'm not sure um but the ferry time is great time we're gonna be all sitting near each other we're gonna be socializing there's a bar there's a restaurant there's like lots of things that you can do on the ferry um and then yeah the hop on and hop off bus like you're sitting next to somebody right you don't know who you're gonna sit next to on the bus it's really it's gonna be very you're gonna have friends before the conference even starts i love that's very casual yeah yeah so before we move on so i'm driving up there so should i be bringing my car on the ferry or should i park in seattle you're gonna need to park you can't on this ferry you can't bring your vehicle it's a passenger ferry only so um i'll give you you go to victoria clipper dot com or something and it'll tell you where to park okay cool and um and you're not going to need a car once you get there uh unless you don't like walking from like a little bit but i think you will be fine uh there's it's really it's a really safe and wonderful place and the money's they're the the walking bring your jackets okay don't assume that it's going to be warm there and that is true i i would say that's the only possible downside of victoria is we went early june and it was still cool now now by the best point say cold it was all you know the southerners are gonna say ice cold frigid make sure you have a scarf and your heavy jacket not a light like maybe beanie and maybe some mittens yeah yeah for weather and but then it was like it was like one day it was extremely warm and sunny like we went to the gardens yeah it was a beautiful day yeah yeah so it's just it's like like here in indiana our weather can change every day yeah so do be prepared for that and and it is pacific northwest so could be misting could be anything but that's just part of it part of the adventure yeah um okay are we ready for tuesday yeah okay tuesday tuesday we have um we have like a presentation an hour presentation and then we have four hour workshops and so we have a workshop a four hour workshop each day i should say and um meghan's trying to slip in a little extra stuff here in the air and five things i'd like to add and she's telling me no so i think i really wish you'd won but but the content's gonna be great i mean you guys are coming for the content it's there and then the socialization and then we've really worked with our speakers to be available so they're gonna be at the bar they're gonna bust they're gonna be at the dinner they're gonna be at the lunch like it's not like this speaker comes in for an hour and then zooms out they're there with you for most right i think that's what's gonna be really different about this year is because we are kind of vacationing together and have the retreat sessions during the day everybody's together including the speakers and stuff so um but anyway so tuesday night we have a group dinner um in chinatown wednesday and thursday we have our retreat sessions um wednesday um breakthrough academy is sponsoring a happy hour at this one of our favorite places it's called barton banker and it's a bank that's like it's an old bank over the building's over a hundred years old you walk inside and it's just gorgeous and um anyway they're they're providing happy hour snacks and drinks um and then best best poutine on the island i think oh we went there at least twice in the three days we were there is good it's good thursday the retreat sessions so thursday night we were doing the water taxis and we were doing what they call the pickle crawl which like megan will tell you has no pickles and um but this is a thing for pickles we could make we could bring pickles liz i don't know i feel like you thought there's something with liz and pickles we could yeah we can sort that out we're gonna sub in so i have to plan these events uh a year in advance like i typically amid i'm announcing next year's event at this year's and so in order to do the pricing and do everything i need to do i've got to know what the agenda is and so anyway a year ahead of time there was such a thing as the pickle crawl with the water taxis and it would take you to different areas of the town and um now there's still the water taxis but you can't get a group on the pickle crawl so you can take the water taxis at night we're gonna sub the next day we're going to bouchard gardens which is about 30 minutes away uh you've got a bus that will take you there um you guys describe the gardens like when i told you you were gonna go see gardens were you like me and thought okay i'm gonna go see some flowers i'll let Dom answer and then i'll answer uh i mean yeah i mean that's what that's what i thought but then you go and it looks like that yeah yeah yeah that's when the minute you arrive i was like martha i'm in heaven martha this is amazing i like we were just like in awe it was beautiful one time to really experience it yeah yeah and really one thing that's amazing about the butchard gardens is it does not matter what time of year you go yeah experiences always amazing it's like so it's hedonistic almost and the smell i mean uh it's just gorgeous there i don't really haven't at least for me i've never seen depth in flowers like you see there i took so many pictures and i am not a flower person and i was just like i don't know how they get that you know that depth was what really amazed me yeah but anyway so we're already at the gardens that was planned but since the pickle crawl got axed we're going to sub which is a great sub uh we're gonna sub high tea at bouchard gardens and uh because we're there anyway and megan megan went to the one at the empress and the one at bouchard gardens and she said she liked that the gardens better oh nice okay we had i mean we the three of us had a great tea like even dom grumpy pants over that he like had it was a really fun tea like we had a great climb i i think it's fun i every time i go on a cruise i hit high tea every day when you did that i thought i didn't even know that was an option yeah yeah well uh i i um go on princess and so add on every on all of them but it is on princess all right uh well i'm super excited that y'all were able to come on here today and you know work retreats yeah it was fun right we didn't even talk about the education well there's some education y'all yeah this is too that it's great content lisa's doing a great workshop uh we've got some really cool speakers uh one thing's like about martha's we find people that that maybe you haven't seen before maybe you haven't heard about and uh they're gonna talk about like we're bringing a therapist yeah there's one day you're gonna cry don't say that at both sessions mark dom i'm gonna be your partner and i'm gonna make you cry oh my gosh i don't know i i kind of feel like we probably could sell more tickets knowing that you're gonna make them cry that's right that's right take one for the team yeah okay so we do have to go but uh you did hear martha say that everything's actually sold out but if you're interested it sounds like something that would be amazing it's the last one y'all then you know get her up asap because she can probably make her magic happen but you're gonna have to i will give it my best shot all right come out with us it's how we all became friends really i mean it's really how that happened so come hang out with us we'd love to see you yeah have fun and take a break take a break and work at the same time you know work retreats all right y'all thanks everybody talk soon