Thanks so much Joyce. I think we should give a hand actually to Joyce and Sylvie for all the efforts they have and kind of like putting all this together It's so inspiring to see you know people in Singapore being able to come together and and just really Support one another and and have this environment to to really Talk about and be geeks. I think we all are geeks here probably that's why we're here And we're proud of it and I just really love that about about what you guys have done So thank you for having me So I thought I would give just a quick overview Because I look Asian but people every time they see me and I open my mouth. They're like in Singapore. They're like what? So I'm actually Canadian And I've spent a number of years in New York and now I'm in Singapore So I say I'm a temporary New Yorker and Singaporean I'm an industrial engineer as as Joyce mentioned by trade and I think I'm just curious is are there who out here are also engineers Okay Okay Comps I like computer obviously everybody. Yes. Yes, okay Great. So for me I mean the comm size always made fun of the industrial engineers because we were like the ones who are optimizing business like really So we were on the low rung of engineering but So I actually ended up I did engineering for for three years And then I actually moved and fell into marketing and I'll tell you guys a little bit more about what happened And I think you know for today. I don't think I'm any wiser than anybody else here I'm just happy to be here to share my story a little bit and and talk about I think when I came out of University I really didn't know what I was supposed to do and even now I'm 34 and I don't know necessarily what I'm supposed to do or what I'm gonna do next But I know what I'm doing now and so What I stand for I think is this quote. I think is is a beautiful quote I'm just gonna read it out I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life if you're interested in something no matter What it is go at it full speed embrace it with both arms hug it love it and above all become passionate about it And and at the end what rule doll says is lukewarm is no good And I think if anyone knows me they they know that I never pursue anything kind of halfway And and I think that's just the way that I I've always been and I think engineering and technology has given me this great Foundation to just no matter where I am in my career I'm always Leveraging the thing the skills that I've learned to think a little differently And I think all the engineers out here, which in all the secret engineers I think you guys all have probably thought you know you can apply it to your jobs too And that for me is is very inspiring and and I love going into a room where we're doing a creative brainstorm and I can actually offer some insight based on the my my Background not necessarily, you know something that's directly related to code but but definitely the skills you learn So this was my first job for this was for this is just an old screen cap I found but You probably look it's it's really hideous. I'm I think this is actually a current iteration of the of the application to so What happened is I came out of engineering and out of industrial engineering, and I didn't really know what I wanted to do I didn't have great grades either, but I was probably one of the one engine like Some of that one engineer that kind of had a bit of eq.  We can drop her in consulting So so this was a truck a transit software company where they think of them as Microsoft office, but instead of Offering office suite products. They offer transportation Products for optimization whether it's optimizing your drivers or optimizing the bus routes Optimizing bus routes was incredibly complex, and I was walking into these rooms and and these Planners these transit planners literally were organizing schedules by pieces of paper like strips of paper upon paper And they were all kind of like aging through their process and we're like, okay There has to be a better way to do this there has to be an optimization algorithm that we can code to To help make this easier and then you layer on the people portion of this which is what I focused on It's like okay. Now you've got the optimized routes. How do you optimize the number of drivers you need? Just got really complex so On top of that in the u.s. Everyone is unionized So it was like oh if I work on a holiday And it happens to be also on a Saturday I get like double time and a half But if I work the Monday it becomes like triple time and a half and something really crazy So we had to try and find a way to kind of optimize all this so we weren't paying people like triple Could you pull the rates so that's basically what I did and I did it for Sam San Francisco transit So it was like from the cable cars to the to the buses to the subways But then I also did it did this for places like Nashville and Cincinnati So I was very lucky in my first in the start of my career to be able to really travel as a Canadian to all these Places in the u.s. To just really be able to work and it was crazy They let me into their server rooms and they're like, okay Go forth and put whatever you want to put in I'm like I can take this whole thing down You know so and I wouldn't say I was a strong coder by any means so So I always rely I had to rely a lot on my on my actually com-sci friends, so So you must wonder you know going from from transit software How did I make the leap to like the next step so stupidly? I think this is this is one of those things where I learned in life was like okay when an opportunity presents itself And it's a interesting opportunity. There's Why not just try and pursue it and see what happens so? Someone came to me and said hey, and yeah, you know, there's this company called critical mass Actually, they're here in Singapore too, but they're a Canadian company and they offer business solutions for clients I'm like, oh business consulting cool. I can do that so What I found out was it was a marketing agency that did banners so circa 2007 I think We only had four sizes of banners I think nowadays there's like hundreds of sizes because you have all your mobile devices But I literally was able to dig up last night some of the old banners we did for the in spron Dell was relevant at that time. They're not a relevant brand now I would say but they were they're relevant and I still remember walking into that room as an engineer and being like Okay, we're gonna kind of brainstorm about the in spron and how we're gonna bring it to market And I remember sitting there and it was my very first brainstorm It was my first time realizing as a developer or as a Industrial engineer that there's other people in the world that are smart that Aren't just you know physics majors or like, you know people who specialize in science. There's so much more There's so much more to creativity and beyond book smarts And I think that was a turning point for me that I was like, yeah I want to stay here forever now and and just and learn how to better communicate and solve business problems But using our our our engineering mind while being able to apply creativity What a brilliant idea. I was so excited and they always, you know thought of me as the geek In the room, but I didn't mind I didn't mind being there just to just to learn and absorb everything from them So from there, I Realized what I missed was we were doing great banner work and we were doing a little bit of work for city city bank And but when it came to implementation We were working with all these kind of like technology partners so half the time you would create these really great ideas and It would get watered down and watered down and watered down because the software or the back-end company would be like Oh, we can't do this. Okay, but we'll do this and then well They butcher all my work and I was my team's work and I was so upset about it So what I realized is that I needed to marry back the world of technology back into my life a little bit more So this is when I went to another agency called a sapient. I don't know if anyone's heard of it. They're pretty big here Thanks So sapient is a company that actually does they they started as a technology company and at the time when I entered They were just trying to kind of go into the marketing space. So they were always very technology driven in their solutions So when I went in we happened to be pitching for Harley-Davidson globally And I happened to you know stumble upon hey who wants to help on this really awful pitch You know, it was like pages and pages upon pages of detailed information that we needed to kind of put together for them and I was like, okay, I'll do it and We won with and we and four years later. I think we built we actually went in and re-platformed their entire site for them globally, which is like 34 languages In in some 34 countries in 15 languages, which is which is kind of crazy including Arabic So right to left left to right I think what I learned here was in my journey was just that you don't always it's it You never know. I don't think that I was like very I knew I wanted to get back more into technology But I didn't really know how and this was just the perfect fit was being able to kind of marry My all the skills I now had kind of sort of acquired from marketing, but not really I still feel like I'm learning that every day since I don't I've never taken a marketing course in my life and then going into going into a brand like Harley-Davidson, so that's so epic in the US but like in Asia as a Totally different market.  I'm in your headquarters. I know and I think that's the thing that I realized too is very humbling is like is is the fact that I Don't know everything, but I also don't you don't know all the nuances of all the different markets And it was it was actually very interesting learning experience for me So so we actually ended up doing customized work customized content for the different markets because obviously How you kind of portray the brand in the Middle East or Asia does matter So yeah, that was that was technology Any questions around Around what I did Cool, okay So current state where am I now? I think I spent a number of years at Sapient and then I remember talking to Joyce and saying to her You know what I realized though after doing tons of tons of then hardcore technology work because it was like one-third Creative and then it would take two-thirds of the time to implement anything Even though we could definitely implement it and we had like a team massive teams to implement major technology Replatforms was wanting to go back to the creativity side and really being able to solve business problems for multiple kind of clients. So So where I am today is I'm now at Rokin and I've been at Rokin for the last few years and I got interested in them actually they came to me and I was interested in them because they really took a digital first approach to marketing So I know many agencies especially in Asia today. They tend to do a lot of marketing That's like, okay What's the big idea and then we'll just kind of apply it to take to to digital But what we realize is that digital is innate like everybody here has a has a phone Everyone's probably holding some sort of technology here And we have to think about things digital first, but how can you communicate with people effectively through digital? So let me give you a little background on Rokin Rokin is 15 year old 15 year old company We started in New York and at that time it was like, okay How do we put websites on the web because we had to because people were saying oh, okay? I'm I don't have a presence online. So can you just build me a website? But where we've come to today is like I said, it's about how you actually Interact and we and I think that's where it's interesting for us with a technology background many of us here It's how do we actually interact with all these people that are all digitally innate have many things happening at the same time How do we stand out above the crowd? So it's interesting because it becomes not just about It's not technology first nor is it the creative first it's like this perfect perfect marriage And there's never I can't tell you like there's like a methodology to this There isn't it's always a bit messy and it's always a bit different, but that's okay. It's it's that's how we get to the solution So Rokin is actually in a company owned by Puba sys group. We got bought about three years ago So we're part of the big mammoth agency world However, we do run autonomously so we've been kind of it's been good because we've been able to kind of come in as this kind of smaller agency of only 150 people globally to To come and look at how we can solve different business problems And that for me was was really interesting being able to have a lot of different clients Not just one mammoth Harley Davidson But being able to kind of dig my heels into different types of problems on a day-to-day basis So I thought I would show you guys a little bit of work I'm not trying to mark it Rokin here But it's just the only way I can kind of explain the the type of stuff that's got me excited now With my technology background so airlines. Does anyone work in the airline industry here? No, okay. It's incredibly complex like incredibly incredibly complex And they have a million systems and they store all their data in all these different places And you know like I don't know if you guys know about GDS's and and so basically when you go on Google flights And you try and find like a flight. There's airlines can put their flights onto those inventories They can choose not to they can select what they put in there Then there's like these other platforms called like Saber and other platforms where you can then choose to Put certain types of flights so that it becomes like a four-layer process before it actually gets to your actual site So we actually started as a business working for Virgin America. They came to us and asked us Oh, hey, we need to launch our planes on the ground. We don't even have planes right now. What do we do? We don't have planes on the ground in America. How do we launch our brand? How do we create a loyalty program? How do we create a site? So we did all that for them It was great. Jeb blue loved it and then Jeb blue told us Hey, can you fire Virgin so you can work with us because they're a direct competitor. We're like, okay, so So jet blue They are I don't know if anyone's heard of them outside of okay. They They're I would say they are a budget airline But they aren't the stereotypical budget airline that you see here in Asia like a tiger air or a scoot where it's all very price-driven For them, it's more they wanted to kind of create this experience though. They were budget It was about building human like building experiences wherever they are and being able to kind of take a sense of humanity into flying So we touch every aspect of their business and this is what excites me is that just because I have a technology background And yes, I need to do all of this. I also get to do really great marketing work. Um, I think being able to have a technology background and being able to kind of apply your thinking into All the different channels Like I mentioned before how complex it is. This is not a brand that you can be like, don't worry about it We're gonna do like a responsive site and you'll be fine Right, it's it's not like that at all. In fact, it was so archaic We had to do like platform. We had to do channel by channel We had to do this the main site then we had to do the mobile and iPad We like did all the designs three years ago. They launched last year So, you know, it's it's a very slow process and how do you keep thinking for the brand? What the next thing is right? How do you stay and and that is a technology problem, right? It's not just a business problem. It's okay. Yes, how do you stand out as a brand? But also what we have to work closely with their technology partners to understand what we can do next so right now We're talking to them a lot around personalization Which I know is kind of a very common thing now and even though people don't all execute it very well But for them, it's a really big challenge if you think about personalization It's all it's to the point of like, okay, if I see that you're traveling from New York to Chicago every single week I know I can how do I identify you and know that? Oh, hey, you're a business traveler from there How do I encourage you to maybe take a side trip on you know on your flight home to go to I don't know San Francisco, right? Like this kind of complexity is not something. That's just Something that can be solved from business from a business mindset And I think that's what's unique about this job that I love is that is that I can come in and say Oh, okay Well from a technology standpoint this is these are the type of challenges They may run into the way that their data is set up or how they I may not know how I don't know the details of how to code, but I know how they've coded some of their Systems so we can I can help them without being a technologist myself day to day Apple watch was just really cool because when they launched they invited us to go work on Because they obviously when they launched the watch they needed to have some applications in there So they invited jet blew in to create one of the first airline apps for the Apple watch so that when you got the watch I already had that so they actually took our phones they They locked us in a room and we literally were like hey We need this feature and then they would go run to the engineers the engineers would code it And we would add the feature But even then we were brainstorming on the spot of what people would want for the Apple watch because we didn't know That was our first like when we got there was the first time they told us this is the Apple watch We had no idea what really it was supposed to do So I think This is all sorry. This is all the broken stuff I have to show but just to share a little bit more about me I think at the end of the day it's What I've realized is that it's not just it's you're you can see in all of these case studies that I was able to apply What I learned in in in school and kind of that foundational kind of thinking and apply it in however I was contributing on each of these kind of projects and I think you know There's no definite path for any of us in terms of I think I was very lost coming out of school of what I was supposed to do and I sure as Hal did not ever think I was gonna end up in marketing of all things, but I think our our skillset is very unique our way of thinking is very unique and we need to we do need to embrace that and I think All I can say is the world needs what what you every one of you have got And you know, I don't think I took the most regular path of what you would think An engineer would do but it doesn't I think the world is your oyster and you know go for it. So Yeah Quickly, yeah, okay, so I actually have a few things to give out. I just want to see if anyone had questions I'm not bribing you with a question Yeah You know, it's I was joking around about how how I had like a relatively okay, eq So that's why they took me in initially, but yes, absolutely. I think that was that was Something that it was funny because I thought, you know, my dad was just being hit like an Asian dad And he said to me I said dad. I'm gonna take either business school or I'm gonna go into engineering And he's like an thing you're gonna end up in a business no matter What you study you're gonna somehow work in business So why don't you focus on the actual skills and getting the the technology skills? And then you'll be able to learn the business skills. So I don't you're right I don't have a management background and that was just for me It was about just learning from all those people around me and when I don't know Something I was very open to kind of just being hungry and learning and just and so that was stuff that I just kind of learned along the way Um, I I'm still learning. I think um, how do I start a business in Singapore? You know, it's it's very it's very different market than than the us, right? So, um, I'm and how do you even manage a team here is very different The the way that I run the business here is that I need to hire a local talent I don't believe that I can pretend I understand the culture, but I still I I definitely failed I went into Um, a couple pitches when I first started here with just my team in the us and the people that were sitting across from me We're all local um customers and they're like, what are you doing? Like why are you talking like you know me, right? Like I I don't you know, so I think these are the things like I I've fallen And and you just kind of keep learning from it, but I haven't yeah. No, I haven't actually taken a course. So yeah Yes Yeah Who do I turn to that's a Yeah, that's actually a great question. I'm so happy that rupal's um teachers are here tonight. I think um for me it's it's Yeah I think they should be you know, they I sometimes I always joke with my friends that are teachers.  It was um, I think my biggest Jump was actually a sapient um when people when management just believed believed in me And I was also very willing to kind of do whatever and I know this is this is um You don't always want to say yes because then you'll be overloaded But I often did say yes to anything and everything even things that I didn't I wasn't sure if it was going to go Anywhere such as the Harley-Davidson Account and when I got when I did that it gave me the opportunity to do things I was really uncomfortable with I remember one of the CTOs at the time actually said to me he was like so anthea targets coming in on private jet They're opening in Canada. They don't really know what to do So I'd like you to talk about the globally distributed model you have for Harley-Davidson And I remember sweating through my shirt and being like, okay Okay, I'm gonna present and these guys are all sitting there from their product Like just got off their private jet and you know very very uncomfortable But I think it's when you get into that kind of zone of being a being uncomfortable It helps you grow immensely every time and I remember you know first pitches where I was Practicing and practicing in the bathroom and people you know like just so nervous and But you do have to kind of latch on and and I'm so grateful. I think I just wrote to my linkedin And uh person who hired me for trapeze my first job I just messaged her the other day and I was like, you know, thank you for giving me a chance I didn't have you know great marks. I didn't have what you would say is great on paper But you took a chance on me. So thank you and she said to me anthea I challenge you to take a chance on others. So I think that's that's great advice. Yeah Yes Yeah, um I I think actually engineering probably helped me a lot for that because I think a lot of you guys know For engineering or comms or whatever you do in university. It's often you're like thrown Way too much work and too many things that you're trying to balance at the same time And I remember and I think that actually created a good foundation for me to be able to multitask faster than maybe Some other people in in my career So yes, absolutely have to multitask, but I always you know, you always have to prioritize for me It's always okay, which client has I know this sounds very mechanical And I'm just going to say it but it's always who has the like the largest amount of revenue And then from there it's like, okay, but like but my focus is will change right? So for here, for example in the Singapore market, it's a lot of new business. So how do I Focus my time on new business, but also then and then also still How do I build a team to help me really ensure that the clients I do have are being serviced?  I don't like how how do you do that? I don't understand like I mean Joyce has her day job, but she also like runs this I'm like, I don't really get it. I don't know how you do it But you know, I it's definitely important to to have that balance and and so yeah, there's no signs to it Thank you. Yeah Any other questions? Hi Wow Oh You know No, I don't know You know, one of the things I did learn is that you can't win at everything So you do have to kind of put your focus on certain things at certain times in your life And so I don't think I would have changed anything I did. I'm very humbled and and honored to be you know, doing what I'm doing and and um I don't but there was no clear path to get there Right? It was you can see it's like a bit of like everything and so you just never know What's going to take what what opportunities will take you where and just being able to kind of own them and embrace them Like I said in my first quote just embrace them and and give it all you've got All right, so and I think the thing that I always keep in mind is always always, you know, there's like this Marketing lingo called the ABCs always be closing. It's like this really aged. It's like from the 70s from a movie But for me, it's always be learning. So I know when a time is to go is when I'm not learning anymore from where I am So that's just something that I've lived by Yeah Open more offices in Asia Um, no, I think, you know finding right now is finding good partnerships with with the right type of Clients here and then, you know, then we want to expand further into into Asia So I think that's a very big challenge for myself and understood for me It's it's understanding the market is a is a big challenge for me So we're learning and I have a team and we're we're working through each of the working through that. Yeah Thank you I think that was the last question. Oh, but there's one more. Okay. One more last last question Well, this is probably this is like getting it's actually outside of this This industry and outside of this talk and it kind of speaks to the idea of being more balanced I think Singaporeans also I notice are very good at the the yoga practice here is very strong And it's very hot here. So I don't like to do anything outside So I've actually been taking a yoga teachers training course and I think It's it's just interesting way to kind of take myself out of out of my day-to-day job And think about and focus on other things and I think I think that tells you a little bit like, you know, you don't always have to be learning within your industry Although I think my colleagues have said to me auntie. I'm worried that you might quit this industry altogether and become a yoga teacher No, I won't But yeah, so yeah, just learning different things not just, you know The one thing that you're doing not just taking more and more and more marketing courses, but learning things outside too. Yeah Yeah, absolutely Thank you so much I'll talk to you after Okay Yeah, no, no, I'm joking go for it Yeah, it's it's definitely in its elementary stages here in this market, but I'm very Respectful you have to be respectful of where the market is at and so typically how I'm working with clients right now is kind of Easing them in so yes, they may be starting with like, okay What media plan are we doing for next year? It's and you're like, okay. Well, maybe you could better spend your dollars On maybe revamping your e-commerce site or something like that So but you can't just do it walking in and pretending like I I don't want to walk in and say hey I know everything I come from the states. I know it's I can't work that way So I'm very respectful and and I try to kind of work within their boundaries and then slowly push them So I've been so with the relationships we have here now We're slowly pushing them towards 2017 and kind of thinking. Hey, maybe you do digital first Maybe you don't spend all your media dollars on TV Because that's that's usually the bulk of the cost if anyone's not in marketing, but yeah, so Does that help? It's it's a slow process. It's it's not like overnight. Yeah, I know it's frustrating Thank you I'll pass you your notebook later So, um, thank you so much and yeah big big round of applause for her again. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much


Hey, it's Liam from Tinnitus Treatment and in one of my more recent videos entitled Tinnitus Relief, the difference between those who do and don't get better, I spoke about how belief is very important when you're pursuing something, a goal. And in this situation, the goal of getting rid of tinnitus. And that's my goal in this video right now. I want to inject you guys just shove it into you some more belief about how you can get rid of tinnitus. It's possible. And you should just, for lack of better words, put your fingers in your ears and ignore everybody out there who's saying you can't get rid of tinnitus. Ignore the ENTs, ignore the internet.  Let them have their pity party. That's fine. Don't try and convince them. The only person you've got to convince is yourself. You have to convince yourself that it's possible. You have to get a program and stick to it. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a video testimonial from a guy named Alex. Now Alex was kind enough to be solid guy and he used my program. He used the methods in this YouTube channel and the tricks that I give you guys and he's managed to get rid of tinnitus almost to the point that it's almost completely gone. It's not completely gone, but it's almost completely gone just in a matter of weeks. Now I'm going to show this video right now. So thanks again, Alex. Alex is just going to walk you through how we got it, what methods you use to get over his tinnitus or start getting over his tinnitus. I should say sorry, how long he thinks he's got to go and what he plans to do after he's got rid of his tinnitus and also some cool little side benefits that he's been getting from using my tactics as well. He's going to talk about too. So please enjoy the video and thank you very much. Hey, my name is Alex and I developed tinnitus from a head injury. Now specifically a concussion that was kind of towards the back of my head, but I did not start noticing my symptoms until a few weeks ago, but they started to come on very slowly and then all of a sudden really peaked to where I couldn't sleep. It was affecting my mood. It was hard to get around every day just concentrating and being present in the moment. It was awful. Like it was the worst. I didn't know what to do. I went to several, I went to ENTs, audiologists, you know, basically was given the diagnosis of tinnitus. But my hearing was fine. So actually during the hearing test I was doing with those people. I was having, I was passing with flying colors. So my tinnitus is more, I guess, well most tinnitus is psychological, but mine was more based off of probably some damage due to my concussion. My concussion also gave me symptoms of being dizzy and vertigo for two years. So, but my, my tinnitus came on a few weeks, like I said a few weeks ago and it felt almost way worse than the dizziness and such because I could sleep through this. Losing sleep and losing my mood and my anxiety, you know, really spiked along with the tinnitus. But I found Liam's book just searching through Google as with you and others. I looked at everything online about remedies, went down on tinnitus talk, which was, I hate that side, but I was looking on it and finally found someone who was not only confident but had a bit of science to back them up and immediately in the first week, I didn't even start, I didn't even start the program. I didn't really start it truly on a Monday. I started on like a Wednesday, but I got through the first half week or so and already saw a difference. And it's been two weeks now and for one, I've gotten my sleep back, which is great. I know it doesn't look like it looks like I have bags on my mind. So that's just the lighting. But I've gotten my mood back. Actually, when you start doing this, you will notice huge changes in your mood. Like my anxiety went right away after one week. The volume has gone down. It's actually changed. The tinnitus has actually changed his pitch in a way to which he was more of a loud kind of kind of screen beam. But now it's more of a very low hiss, which really doesn't bother me. Even it's so low now. It's almost gone. It used to be where I would walk into a room and coming from the outside of the inside and my ears would just be overwhelmed with just this noise. And now I don't even hear that and I don't need to use noise makers at night. Another perk of this, another perk of using the Liam's book is you're going to lose some weight. I've lost 20 or so pounds of three weeks. That's just a nice little kind of byproduct of it. But I have seen results. I saw results in the first week, the second week, the third week. And yes, it's not going to be a steady decline. You'll have little peaks and valleys in between, but those peaks and valleys are still on much of a decline. The moment you start seeing noticeable results, the more motivated you are. I've seen it and I'm still amazed by it. I'm just counting on the next cycle, the next week to which I can finally not hear it anymore. I feel like it's closer than not. But Liam's book has really changed everything. There's a lot to it. It's actually helped me with my old neurological symptoms. I had somewhat bad equilibrium and balance, but that's all gone away. This treatment is far more overreaching than just treating tinnitus. You're going to be cognitively a better person or a more sharper person, I would say. You will not feel better on it. It's going to be tough. Just like all the other testimonials, this is not an easy program. You have to commit. You have to do everything. Everything in that book is there for a reason. It's there to help you heal mainly your brain. That will get into it. You have to really commit to everything. If you want to take it up a notch, you can. I've been doing that in certain days. I don't recommend it if you're just starting, but if you have the ability to do it, do it because it will just speed up the process. I just really want to thank Liam. He's really just got my life back in a very short amount of time. I'm very thankful. I'm going to stick with this until even when it goes away, past that. Plus, I'm just going to keep using the techniques in this book for the rest of my life. Like I said, it just brings you up as a person. How cool is that? Let's just recap really quickly just to put the main points out there. Alex spoke about how he got his tinnitus from a concussion injury from sports. Everybody out there said you can't get rid of it. He went online, looked on Google, looked on YouTube, went to ENT.  He had nerve damage in his brain, and he managed to follow my steps, which I've said this metaphor before, but the thing with tinnitus is if you have tinnitus, it's on a cellular level. So when Alex started to follow my steps, he got in the state of autophagy, which is basically cells eating the bad cells and cleaning themselves out. He kicked that into just overdrive, just smack bank. That's why it took a couple of weeks. Very, very quick. Not everyone's going to get better in that amount of time. Some people take it a little bit more time, but just how cool is that? Yeah, amazing this is. You don't have to listen to tinnitus talk. You don't have to listen to your ENT or anything like that. Now, there's a time and a place for doctors, but tinnitus is not it. I'm telling you guys, tinnitus is not it. Just imagine if that was you. Imagine if you've had tinnitus and dizziness and vertigo for years, and you just follow a few simple steps, a quick system, and you can get rid of that ring in your ears. Now, if you want to learn a very basic condensed version of the steps that Alex followed, I recommend clicking the link below this video. Go to liamstopstinnitus.com, put in your email address, and I'm going to send you the very, very condensed version, but still effective. Still get results of what Alex had used. Okay. Now, following that, you'll get an email. Would you put your email address in? You'll get an email with a guide, and the next day you get another email with more information. And the next day, another email, because as Alex said, the guide is comprehensive. I don't want to give it to you all at once because it's going to be too overwhelming and you might not even try it, but I promise you it works. So click the link below. Go to liamstopstinnitus.com and give it a go for yourself. I'd love to hear what happens. Please comment below. Talk soon.


I pray for the assistance of the Holy Ghost for all of us as I share the thoughts and feelings that have come to my mind and heart in preparation for this general conference. For more than two decades before my call to full-time church service, I worked as a university teacher and administrator. My primary responsibility as a teacher was to help students learn how to learn for themselves, and a vital element of my work was creating, grading, and providing feedback about student performance on tests. As you may already know from personal experience, tests typically are not the part of the learning process that students like the most. But periodic tests absolutely are essential to learning. An effective test helps us to compare what we need to know with what we actually know about a specific subject. It also provides a standard against which we can evaluate our learning and development. Likewise, tests in the School of Mortality are a vital element of our eternal progression. Interestingly, however, the word test is not found even one time in the scriptural text of the standard works in English. Rather, words such as prove, examine, and try are used to describe various patterns of demonstrating appropriately our spiritual knowledge about, understanding of, and devotion to our Heavenly Father's eternal plan of happiness and our capacity to seek for the blessings of the Savior's Atonement. He who authored the plan of salvation described the very purpose of our mortal probation using the words prove, examine, and try in ancient and modern scripture. And we will prove them herewith to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them. Consider this pleading by the Psalmist to David. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me. Try my reigns in my heart, for thy loving kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth. And the Lord declared in 1833, therefore be not afraid of your enemies, for I have decreed in my heart, saith the Lord, that I will prove you in all things, whether you will abide in my covenant, even unto death, that you may be found worthy. The year 2020 has been marked in part by a global pandemic that has proved, examined, and tried us in many ways. I pray that we as individuals and families are learning the valuable lessons that only challenging experiences can teach us. I also hope that all of us will more fully acknowledge the greatness of God and the truth that he shall consecrate our afflictions for our gain. Two basic principles can guide and strengthen us as we face proving and trying circumstances in our lives, whatever they may be. First, the principle of preparation. And second, the principle of pressing forward with a steadfastness in Christ. First, preparation. As disciples of the Savior, we are commanded to prepare every needful thing and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God. We also are promised that if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear. And that ye might escape the power of the enemy and be gathered unto me a righteous people without spot and blameless. These scriptures provide a perfect framework for organizing and preparing our lives in homes both temporally and spiritually. Our efforts to prepare for the proving experiences of mortality should follow the example of the Savior, who incrementally increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. A blended balance of intellectual, physical, spiritual, and social readiness. On an afternoon a few months ago, Susan and I inventoried our food storage and emergency supplies. At the time COVID-19 was spreading rapidly and a series of earthquakes had jolted our home in Utah. We have worked since the earliest days of our marriage to follow prophetic counsel about preparing for unforeseen challenges. So examining our state of readiness in the midst of the virus and earthquakes seemed like a good and timely thing to do. We wanted to find out our grades on these unannounced tests. We learned a great deal. In many areas, our preparatory work was just right. In some other areas, however, improvement was necessary because we had not recognized and addressed particular needs in a timely way. We also laughed a lot. We discovered, for example, items in a remote closet that had been in our food storage for decades. Frankly, we were afraid to open and inspect some of the containers for fear of unleashing another global pandemic. But you should be happy to know that we properly disposed of the hazardous materials and that health risk to the world was eliminated. Some church members opined that emergency plans and supplies, food storage, and 72-hour kits must not be important anymore because the brethren have not spoken recently and extensively about these and related topics in general conference. But repeated admonitions to prepare have been proclaimed by leaders of the church for decades. The consistency of prophetic counsel over time creates a powerful concert of clarity and a warning volume far louder than solo performances can ever produce. Just as challenging times reveal inadequacies in a temporal preparedness, so too the maladies of spiritual casualness and complacency inflict their most detrimental effects during difficult times. We learned, for example, in the parable of the 10 virgins that procrastinating preparation leads to unsuccessful proving. Recall how the five foolish virgins failed to prepare appropriately for the examination given to them on the day of the bridegroom's coming. They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. And at midnight, there was a cry made, behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, not so lest there be not enough for us and you. But go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And they that were ready went in with him to the marriage and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily, I say unto you, ye know me not. At least on this exam, the five foolish virgins proved themselves to be hearers only and not doers of the word. I have a friend who was a conscientious student in law school. During the course of a semester, Sam invested time every day to review, summarize, and learn from his notes for each course in which he was enrolled. He followed the same pattern for all of his classes at the end of every week and every month. His approach enabled him to learn the law and not merely memorize details. And as final examinations approached, Sam was prepared. In fact, he found the final exam period to be one of the least stressful parts of his legal training. Effective and timely preparation precedes successful proving. Sam's approach to his legal education highlights one of the Lord's primary patterns for growth and development. Thus saith the Lord God, I will give unto the children of men, line upon line, precept upon precept, hear a little and there a little. And blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom, for unto him that receiveth I will give more. I invite each of us to consider our ways and examine ourselves, whether we be in the faith and prove our own selves. What have we learned during these recent months of lifestyle adjustments and restrictions? What do we need to improve in our lives spiritually, physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually? Now is the time to prepare and prove ourselves willing and able to do all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall command us. Second, pressing forward. I once attended a funeral for a young missionary who was killed in an accident. The missionary's father spoke in the service and described the heartache of an unexpected mortal separation from a beloved child. He forthrightly declared that he personally did not understand the reasons or timing for such an event. But I always will remember this good man also declaring that he knew, God knew, the reasons and timing for the passing of his child. And that was good enough for him. He told the congregation that he and his family, though sorrowful, would be fine. Their testimonies remained firm and steadfast. He concluded his remarks with this declaration. I want you to know that as far as the gospel of Jesus Christ is concerned, our family is all in. We are all in. Though the loss of a dear loved one was heart-wrenching and difficult, the members of this valiant family spiritually were prepared to prove that they could learn lessons of eternal importance through the things that they suffered. Faithfulness is not foolishness or fanaticism. Rather, it is trusting and placing our confidence in Jesus Christ as our Savior on his name and in his promises. As we press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope and a love of God and of all men, we are blessed with an eternal perspective and vision that stretches far beyond our limited mortal capacity. We will be enabled to gather together and stand in holy places and be not moved until the day of the Lord come. While I was serving as the president of Brigham Young University, Idaho, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland came to the campus in December of 1998 to speak in one of our weekly devotionals. Susan and I invited a group of students to meet and visit with Elder Holland before he delivered his message. As our time together was drawing to a close, I asked Elder Holland, "'If you could teach these students just one thing, "'what would it be?' He answered, quote, "'We are witnessing an ever greater movement "'toward polarity. "'The middle ground options will be removed from us "'as Latter-day Saints. "'The middle of the road will be withdrawn. "'If you are treading water in the current of a river, "'you will go somewhere. "'You simply will go wherever the current takes you. "'Going with the stream, following the tide, "'drifting in the current will not do. "'Choices have to be made. "'Not making a choice is a choice. "'Learn to choose now," close, quote." Elder Holland's statement about increasing polarization has been proven prophetic by the societal trends and events of the 22 years since he answered my question. Fortelling the widening divergence between the ways of the Lord and of the world, Elder Holland warned that the days of comfortably having one foot in the restored church and one foot in the world were vanishing quickly. This servant of the Lord was encouraging the young people to choose, prepare, and become devoted disciples of the Savior. He was helping them to prepare and then press forward to and through the proving, examining, and trying experiences of their lives. The process of proving ourselves is a fundamental part of Heavenly Father's great plan of happiness. I promise that as we both prepare and press forward with faith in the Savior, we all can receive the same grade on the ultimate examination of mortality. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. I witness that God, the Eternal Father, is our Father. Jesus Christ is his only begotten and living Son, our Savior and Redeemer. Of these truths I joyfully testify in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.


Inside the group now, we have to come up. The first time I came here, I went to the building. The members were all in the money. Now they're all in the shoes. They put a light, a light, and a light. Before, they didn't have light. They were all on the shoes. Now, I'm alone. I'll get a light, I'll get a staff. I'll generate a light. I stopped, I looked at myself. All married too. All set up. One is something, and I'm inside the group. One is something, I walk about now, I walk around, open a bank account. I walk about now. Time will go, the salary will be, I'm married, man want him, also go want him. But inside time, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I feel that I deserve to be strong in making something, changing the family through the community and go outside again. We would like the women, folks, to be empowered. So women, folks, are equal partners. Equal partners in development and equal partners in change and enabling and empowering women in the vanilla value chain will make a lot of difference.


The choir state government has been urged to urgently initiate the process to legally retrieve the encroached portion of choir state polytechnic land allowing peace and development in the institution. The pro tem president of the choir state polytechnic alumni association Abu Salami called on property owners and other stakeholders to contact the state geographical information science GIS to determine the properties status. Part of the reason we are organizing this forum is to gear the three arms of government in choir state through our current executive governor and the Eloni community through the apex body of the Eloni social cultural and social political organization Eloni Emery Descendant Progressive Union to initiate the process of legally taking possession of its property and officially handing it ownership over to choir state polytechnic thereby allowing peace to reign within the polytechnic environment. The group pitching tent against our alma mater that is the choir state polytechnic as graduated from encroachment to land grabbing. The polytechnic management claims that the state government has paid due compensation to first owners of encroached land in several villages while the villagers deny this information claiming their lands were not illegally acquired. At this point again we challenge any of the claimants to provide any document authorizing the building of any of the structures on the land in dispute for which the choir state government had already paid compensation to the original owners and we are ready to also prove it. We are of the view that they are ready to use all means including threats, terrorism, sponsored court cases and blackmailing to snatch the land they do not own.


Hi you guys, it's Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. Today I am coming at you with all of my makes from the month of August late July and all of August. I have been a busy little psoist even though I haven't really posted any of those makes either on my social media or done any videos for them But I have been busy. I think the main reason why I haven't posted any of them is because they're kind of like catch-ups so I was fully engaged in so my style and then I completely fell off the wagon So but I decided that it's still a really good idea and it's a great way to build up a versatile wardrobe and so I wanted to stick with it. So I jumped back in And the first thing I made were the leggings the Virginia leggings by Megan Nielsen Not much to show really. They're just leggings, but the fabric came from Joanne is part of their performance line and you know, it doesn't have a ton of stretch, but That when you wear them that makes everything feel like very Sucked in, you know, if it were kind of like a looser not a looser knit You know still it needs to be like a tighter weave knit. It can't be a sweater knit or anything like that I mean, it could be I guess But either way if it weren't if it didn't have as much recovery and weren't as like tightly tight stretch Then you might just I think I would feel a little bit uncomfortable So when I went to Joanne, I was looking for like a pond teeth and this is the closest thing I can find um my only Concern with this fabric is because it is like a grunge type pattern, you know where it's like a You know, it's got a pattern to it. It's gray and black, but it's still got a pattern to it I don't know how wearable These are gonna be are these gonna be around the house or am I gonna be able to throw on like a chunky black sweater and Head out the door and then I think it depends.  I would totally wear that out I don't know that I would wear these with like black leather booties and try and make it like Anything other than a casual outfit, but the pattern itself I thought a couple things that were really interesting one is there are no side seams Which at first I was like these are never going to fit like I have so many fit issues with my Sway back plus my full seat adjustment plus my athletic front thigh, and I've never gotten a great fit out of pants and Now these don't have side seams so I can't even make the usual adjustments that I would normally make But I decided to just throw caution to the wind and give it a go and they fit Pretty good right out of the pattern Right off, you know without any adjustments at all I probably will make a couple adjustments for the next pair, but Not many. I think if anything I will add some rise and maybe a bit more of a curve to the back Curve but other than that like they're pretty good. So I got caught up with those and And then I moved on to the oh Shoot, what's this dress pattern bridge side bridge port bridge view bridge something pattern It's the backless Bridge side back less dress. Is that what it's called? Oh darn. I can't remember the name of it now But it's the one that has obviously it's backless. So I got this Rayon also from Joanne same trip as when I got the knit. This was on sale. I had Loved this when I first saw it was not on sale and then it finally went on sale They have a lot of these great rayons now Gosh, who was the designer Kathy something? Maybe I can't remember now. Oh I'll try and find all the information and put it in the description box for you guys Here's how you access the description box really quickly if you don't know by now I guess eventually you guys will tell me like we know how to access the description box You don't need to keep showing us that thing But until I hear that from you guys I'm gonna keep putting it up there just so you guys know where to find all the Information that falls out of my head while I'm talking or I just legit can't remember This dress is super cute So some things about this dress though and I'll talk more about this whenever I like have it on for real and do Like my my usual video for a pattern review But I size down like a lot like a lot. I think my my measurements might have been 12 14 based on my measurements and it ended up making like a six look I sized down So much I just kept looking at people's pictures of this and kept thinking gosh That looks so big on them and people were complaining that it was falling off their shoulders And I'm like, yeah, probably because it's so big And I just kept thinking about it thinking about it and I was like, you know, there's really no sleeve It's completely backless. There's nothing to hold There's not no tightness going on around the bust area Like really the only measurements that matter are your waist which are determined by the elastic Which is basically adjustable and your hip measurement for the skirt So I just size the bodice down like a ton Anyways, like I said, I'll talk a lot more about that in that video But I just wanted you guys to see it. I mean it has to be the note about the fabric It's not so much that it has to be lightweight as it has to be drapey Drape is more important than weight when it comes to this pattern Which is also something I kind of had to figure out on my own Just from looking at people's pictures. So I happen to choose choose a lightweight and drapey fabric But you could definitely choose a midweight drape like What would be a good sample a tensile would be a good example of a midweight drapey fabric drape drape drape is important on this, but I just love it. Obviously I made the Stripes go in different directions. Can you all even see the bottom of this? Sorry Okay, what's next? Oh, so then I moved on to the pocket skirt And as you can see it's a bit in shambles still and that's because It didn't fit womp womp. I know so it is a pointing I don't know what went wrong with this. There's elastic in here, but the elastic doesn't even stretch out So what's the point of the elastic and it's too small? It's not too big. It's too small So it needs to be more fabric So I did something wrong. I'm not sure so what I think I'm going to do is Unpick the skirt from the waistband and take out all the gathers and then rely on the elastic To size it in the waist rather than the waistband if it's well in the hips. It's just when I zip it up. I'm like Second and that's like no way to live So I've got to make some adjustments, but I did think that the which is even the right side This is the right side. I did think that the fabric turned out really cute I posted on my social media. You guys might have seen I was debating whether to do the pockets as Horizontal vertical or on the bias and overwhelmingly everyone said bias I don't it wasn't that obvious to me, but it was that obvious to you guys So I ended up doing them on the bias and I think they looked really cute this fabric came from Metro textiles in New York City in 2015 yep, so I doubt he still has any more of it, but it's kind of like a tweed Super loose, so I had just searched everything from the very beginning. I just searched all the edges So I wouldn't have to worry about it I mean it was like falling apart when I was even moving it from the cutting table to the searcher So I knew I'd never make it any further than that. I just don't want to stretch anything out So we'll see I have no more of it so if I can salvage this by taking out the waist gathers then such as life and You live and learn one day. I'll start measuring the waistbands Making sure that they are going to fit, but so that's where we are really cute fingers crossed that I can get this one together So with those three I'm not I'm still not caught up. So I've made those three plus the Coat gosh, I'm not remembering any of the names. Let me pull it up. That's probably the best way Okay, so in January was the toaster sweater made that at the Navy cable knit Then it was the saunio cardigan that I made from that black and white tweedish bukley ish fabric Virginia leggings. I just made Bridgetown dress. I just made pocket skirt. I just made so that takes me up to June So I have the briar Which I think will be super simple. I already have a sweater knit that I know that I'm gonna make it from I have the valley blouse by Cali Faye, which is again like a loose fit peasant type of blouse, so that should be pretty easy although that's my hesitation with that one is I don't have a fabric I love I do have a Swiss dot which I think would be cute because for that one Lightweight is really important And not necessarily drape But the Swiss dot is sheer So would I line it and I don't want to line it, you know some torn I don't know what where that's gonna go And then August's was the Darling Ranges dress by Megan Nielsen Super cute dress have plenty of fabrics that would work for that because it's like a stable woven cotton midway Easy and since we're basically already in September. I have the named clothing Yona wrap coat a coat So I do want to keep taking away at this and hopefully by the end of the year I'll be able to do a video like compilation mashup of all the ones that have made So I am sticking. I just thought the wagon. Okay, like I thought the wagon a little bit but I'm back on the wagon again and Moving right along so we'll see although fit issues certainly don't help they add to the problem Okay, one other couple of things that I have made here recently. This is the Austin T By blank slate patterns and The fabric is from Elliot Bierman. It's a jersey a ray on Jersey viscose. Oh, so dreamy I thought the print looked a lot like Anthropology or something like that and that's what drew me to it I love this pattern. This pattern is gonna get made again. So keep your eyes out It's just well thought out and very smart how she does little time I have a whole video on this. I don't need to like go back into it again I'll link in the description box below The link to watch my video on this pattern the video wasn't originally released on the channel It was released through her blog and it has to stay that way for like 30 days or something So that window is past So I'll make that video live and link it down below so you all can see if you didn't see it on Blank slates on melisos.com blank slates blog And then also I just wanted to remind you guys of this top that I made This was for Cali fabric. So this is a fabric. I got from them. It's like a super lightweight Variated stripe like I don't think it's chambray But it looks like it And it's a mashup of like three different patterns that I use to knock off a loft Pattern so I'm 99% sure that's live on the channel If not, it will be by the time I get this posted and I'll link this down below too So you can get all the details on the patterns that I use to make this and more info on the fabric I hope that they still have it. I didn't really check Anyway, so like I said the past like month and a half considering I had a move That went on and I've been redecorating and hanging wallpaper and if you saw my Favorites video, then you know, I'm painting everything gold busy doing all of those things plus my regular jobs and Sewing so I think I've done pretty well I mean, I gotta admit the so my style patterns are like an afternoon. You can knock those out They're super easy and straightforward. Um, so yeah, so that's what I've been sewing. So stay tuned to see The how I style the style. I sew my style like the Virginia leggings I'll post the bridge side. What was the name of that? I feel like I Skim right over that and didn't even take note of what it was called bridge town dress The bridge town backless dress by so how said anyway, so I'll put a video up on that Here shortly. I'll try and salvage the skirt fingers crossed If not, I have some other fabric that I just got from Joanne And I'll just make it bigger and make it the right way and then the metro fabric will just be a loss So yeah, and then I'll keep you guys posted on the rest of the so my style projects So that's what I've been up to. Let me know Maybe what the favorite thing that you've made this year If you've got a blog post about it link the blog post if you've got a vlog about it link the blog Instagram link whatever you have show off your favorite make from August I want to see it and everybody else wants to see you so put it in the comments And we can all gush over how amazing are all of our makes are But until next time thanks so much for watching and I will see you guys very soon. Bye