Hi everyone, and this talk is about creating a KDE video community. And you might ask, of course, what video community did you create to talk about this? So while I created a YouTube channel, which is this one at the link that you're seeing, of course, go past it in the browser, subscribe, watch all of my videos, like, share and stuff like that. It's the bare minimum at this point. And I think it really worked well. So I wanted to share my experience with you. First of all, the why I did it. So I thought that YouTube was out being was the best way to create a larger audience, because I've seen so that some people are a bit lazy, let's say, because they're doing other things during their day. And so they're not having KDE as their main form of interest. So if you do like a blog post, they might not want to read through all of it. Whereas YouTube makes you produce a lighter content that they might enjoy through the day. And it's easier for them to watch through all of it. Furthermore, a blog post you can actually follow. You should set up our assets and stuff. Whereas YouTube just you pop up the website and YouTube suggests your videos to more users. So you can get to a wider audience very easily. Then why I chose YouTube. And the main reason is that that's what people use. And yes, it's non open source and stuff. KDE official account, of course, tries to use peer to when it's possible. But you as a person, if you want to reach a larger audience, YouTube is the way to go because it's the most popular platform regarding this. Also, it has lots and lots of useful tools to help you analyze how your channel is growing, what works and what doesn't. So regarding the filmmaking, it's not really important, but I use Audacity for audio and Symposium Recorder. Obvious is good too. And it's very important to get a decent microphone. Like I've talked to some YouTubers and they say audio is the single one most important thing about videos. Forget about video quality. Not forget, but it's not very important compared to audio. And then try to edit out burning moments, do a bit editing, zooming in on the important stuff, music, background music, stuff like that, just to make the content lighter and easier for the user to watch through it. They want, by the way, you have statistics and you can see that users don't watch your content entirely. But still, the longer they do the better. And it's also good to have both like your face in a corner and then the whole rest of it in the background. So next is how I actually create the community. And step one is, sorry, I thought I had deleted these slides. So let's, yeah, sorry. Step one is to talk about specific topic of interest as an example, KDE theme in his hour started and use forums regarding those interests to share your videos, like Reddit. At the beginning, it's very important to have external views. So views coming from links posted somewhere. But after some months, YouTube will start recommending your videos. So it's not as important. But if you want to start, you need to have some kind of community that already exists where to post your link into. Then the step two is to talk about stuff in your niche that are of general interest. As an example, videos about new KDE releases are very popular because lots of people are interested in them. They go to YouTube, they Google Plasma 5.22 and your video will pop up because that's what that covers the need of the user of knowing what's going on within your release. And third, try to communicate to other niches like the GNOME one. So I try to do some videos where I try out other desktop environments and that revealed itself to be pretty, it works well. So for the GNOME one, I got lots of people coming actually from GNOME. So now my channel is not just KDE Plasma people, but also some people coming from GNOME. So you're able to create a wider audience even though you still do mostly KDE theme content. And regarding topics, of course, you decide. I did a bit of brainstorming and stuff that I came up with are how to set up developer environments, how to contribute, how to build applications like with CMake and make stuff, how to write a theme and so on. These are things that I mean are almost obvious to us developers. You just go like create your KDE folder and then go with KDE source build and it does everything for us at this point. But I remember when I first started KDE and it was not obvious at all and my builds kept falling and I was not able to understand why because I was missing packages and stuff like that. So good videos that show you step by step how to build your first Dolphin application, those are really useful. And if you're able to compile, it's really easier for you to contribute as a user wanting to join KDE. Then there's also actual one hour long, two hour long coding sessions. And I was surprised because people do actually watch those. I thought nobody was going to because what's the point. But people are interesting and they seem to learn also something while doing it. So that's very nice. And also it's very cool to show what work you're doing, what you're working on, because user, first of all, you will get some firsthand kind of feedback. Of course, you will have the damp kind of feedback where they point out something super obvious that you already know about in like 20 comments and you get annoyed by it. But just realize that what you're doing is not the main concern of the user. So often they say something without really thinking about it. Just don't worry about those kind of comments. But there are like a couple, at least in our videos that are actually useful for what you're doing. So that might help you develop your product. And yeah, also to keep them updated, to keep them excited and stuff like that. And then this was like the plan and does it work? I think so. Like I was very happy with how I did. You can see that the green line are new subscribers and purple one are views. And since I've started in like January, it has been always going up. These are partial data from this month, of course. Also, I haven't published anything because of exams, but I always had like a good momentum forward and never felt like it's not working. Always a video after video, I was building up and it was nicely working out. So I liked it. And for another graph, these are the subscribers. And I was actually surprised. Like my original plan was to get to 100 subscribers. And I think I did that within a couple of weeks. And that was really impressive. And the start, as you can see, was very step. And then it just kept going at a good piece. And after three months, I got to 1000. And now after one month, I'm 1000 and a half. So that's really good. And it keeps growing every day, except when you do videos about LGBT and pride when it goes down. But that's what you get. And what about money? Because a side goal of it would be trying to partially fund your investment with KDE, your work through either donations or the YouTube monetization thing. And as far as donation goes, they won't be like a paycheck. But for a student, they're sent forget about June because it's like one off, it will go down next month. But in average, I think I did something like 50 to 60-hour monthly. And what I found out is that I hate PayPal and LibraChat because they offer no reliable way to know whether you're getting the money next month as well. Whereas if you look at Patreon, you can see that it's slowly, but constantly going up. Libra just has one month where people used it. And people is crazy because the next month is going to be pretty much nothing, stuff like that. So Patreon is the best way forward. And I'm finishing my time. There's also YouTube monetization. I think I'll do something like 50 to 60-hour monthly. It's hard to reach, but after four months, you can do it. Right now, I have 0.66 euros. So I'm rich. And that's it. So as always, don't forget to subscribe, like the video, comment, and share it. You can check out my channel. And 10 minutes is not enough. So if you have questions, stuff like that, ask me. And for real, I prepared lots of cool statistics and advices that won't fit this presentation. So if you're interested in it, and my hope is that you are, just hit me up and try. I can help you set up stuff, let's stuff like that if you want to help. So thank you.


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Hey everyone, thanks for having me. So my name is Bastian. I'm a senior researcher at the Alan Turing Institute And I want to talk a bit about about nothing about us without us or Participatory approaches for data by the people for the people and I think today be heard already a lot in the keynotes And other talks about building inclusive communities and talking about That we want to like be inclusive and having like growing communities But I think mostly we've talked about having communities of People which are kind of in the room, which is data scientists software engineers people that are somehow in the field But I want to really talk about growing it out for like the general public or a broader audience involving those affected by our research and The idea of the nothing about us without us comes from it's like an old and long-standing idea But it really gained popularity in the disability rights movement in the 90s Where it picked up steam with Charlton's book by the same title And since then it has been adapted into many different topics There's like for example like the shared goals of the harm reduction and sex worker rights movements or transgender research And there's like a clear political stake to doing so It's the right thing to do for doing ethical and inclusive research is talking to the people affected by the research But maybe that's not necessarily the only reason and it's maybe a bit Self-serving but to say actually it's also about which is where the domain expertise actually likes if we are data scientists Maybe we are not the experts in the field of the topic. We are trying to do research on In this example here. It's Sarah regarri who is a patient with Parkinson's and we can see here Sarah defending her PhD that she did on her own Parkinson's data that she collected and analyzed herself And she made this really cool infographic which shows that from all of these like blue points Are one hour and there's like 8,765 hours in a year and only one of those Sarah spends in actual health care with like a professional in neurological disease the rest of the year She manages her disease by herself and she says well look who is probably the real expert on treating my Parkinson's Is it me or the person I see one hour a year? So I hope that convinces you a bit that this is like a really interesting and relevant topic But the question is how can we do participatory data science and I've brought you two examples of projects I've worked on in the past or that I'm currently working on the first example It's in the field of transgender health and it's the trans biome and trans biome comes from the idea that again There's like this mismatch between what the trans community actually wants to be researched and what academic researchers actually do If we look at academic research a lot of it focuses on trans related medical policies like short trans people have health care Or like should we think about sexually transmitted diseases in relation to sex work very often or like trans people's mental health What many people actually would like to researchers like so how do we actually do the best way of doing hormone therapy? What's the side effects we can expect when we start hormone therapy? How does it affect fertility things like this or also if we do gender affirmation surgeries What are the best types of surgery? What's the best postoperative care and so on? And this is a very real problem And this real problem comes to me or came to me a few years ago in the form of Clara I was a student in Paris at the Institute where I was currently working at the time and she came to me and said So I have this big problem that I actually get vaginal infections just like this woman But if I go to the gynecologist, no one can help me No one knows how the healthy microbiome should be looking like and so she wanted to actually become a gynecologist To actually do some kind of research as self-defense to actually provide health care for her own community and Very concretely for the neo-vaginal microbiome the problem was that there is like maybe three studies that were done on Trans woman like doing on trans woman is really the key word here because it was done by medical professionals Had no interest beyond having a convenient sample in their hospital and did really shitty research Compared to this woman, which also are not really well studied Granted but trans woman like they as we can see I have it a lot worse And that's not because it's a new thing these surgeries have been done for 60 years and just no medical professional ever care to do proper research together with trans woman So Clara went ahead with our help in my lab to actually Design a study together with trans women in the larger community to a sequence the microbiome samples of Trans woman from across Europe. So we did a Study together. We did a crowdfunding project. We raised 10,000 euros across Europe and enrolled 50 trans women actually in this project from I think Germany France Belgium and Spain at least 50 trans women who did a sample like this from the comfort of their own home They did like a small survey about like which type of surgery they had how long ago their post operative care strategies and so on To generate this data set and that's again a topic that no one had cared to do so far Including me and that's despite being a biologist. I had never even thought about it like to be very real on that as well So what we actually then did is we found that interestingly There seems to be a quite stable microbiome in the trans woman that we sampled which now It's actually a data set that can be used to say this is how the currently healthy microbiome It's the best knowledge we have and this was actually supported by the larger LGBTQ plus STEM community in the UK that had this analyzed these data The second example I bring is a project that's currently ongoing at the Turing Institute and it's the project called art spaces and Art spaces as the project that comes on the background of saying that 90% of autistic people process sensory information differently from non-autistic people and that's again something where there has been very little Research on despite the community being quite interested So a few years ago in the UK the autistic a foundation did a survey amongst autistic people and parents of autistic people to see which research Topics they would like to see research on amongst the top ten lists where which Environments and supports are the most appropriate in terms of achieving the best life outcomes and how consensory processing in autism you better understood But if we look at the research in reality again, it's quite similar to what I told you for the transgender health topic Only 27% of research topics are actually the ones that are the top ten of the community in 73% Other ones that academic researchers find interesting It's a heavily politically loaded thing as well because a lot of these 73% is like the molecular origins in the genetics of Of autism and like if you can imagine autistic people are not super fond of this type of research Which connotates some like genocidal eugenics idea of we try to get rid of autistic people So what we try to do is do a project where we co-design an online citizen science project Together with autistic people and the idea was to have an online platform that allows the collection of qualitative data on the sensory processing experiences as autistic people encounter in their day-to-day lives and And this was like the initial idea and then we actually started in a very heavy Focused co-creation session with autistic people over now. I think nearly three years But we did initially scoping sessions focus groups regular co-working sessions and actually have everything open source Of course, so we work together with the community Continuously and just based on our initial idea. There was a lot of contentious issues Whether it was just about collecting these data whether it should be limited on the processing and also whether parents and caretakers should be allowed to collect this data or not and The first thing that we actually need to iterate on to change was like the idea of what we would be doing Because autistic people don't just want to collect data about their experiences But also their coping strategies and here's a real example of a story or experience that an autistic person wrote up about The issues they encounter when having to work and like an open office without desking, which is really terrible It's super loud. You don't have like the used environment as you need to find a new place every day. It's really stressful But they also said here are my own ideas and tips of like how to deal with that And at least make it a bit better if you have to work in such an environment Then you can come in very early to make sure to always get your own desk that your own desk or your regular Desk at least it's often maybe far away from too bright lights Maybe get noise-canceling headphones and things like this The second thing was that of course if it's about not only collecting this but sharing these strategies with others It opens a whole host of other questions, which is we now need to somehow Get think about do people are they allowed to share or like feedback on those experiences? Am I allowed to comment on your experience and if so what are the moderation approaches to this? Like should people be allowed to just write anything because we want people to share potentially distressing experiences And when should we moderate this? So the first thing we decided actually was together with the community the community said we want to share these experiences and make them publicly available But please don't reply to my experience. It's the act of sharing that actually helps us Much more and learning from those than replying to it like we already get a lot of abuse online And we don't need this here. So sharing is okay, but no replying and then the question was how to moderate it at one So we decided actually that we would do pre-publication Moderation which again is quite similar dissimilar from any other online platform You might be used to so the community said okay No direct feedback on my experiences and everything needs to be reviewed before it goes public It's more like academic publishing than Facebook or Twitter, which again, it's a quite different approach to what you might be used to So now every experience that someone wants to share an autistic moderator needs to look over and see whether that's in accordance with the code of conduct or not And this code of conduct quite unlike most other things actually because people want to share their things has different stages It's not just it's either completely bent or it's okay Of course there are things which are not allowed and which will just be bent and there are things which are always okay And they are just shared as they are But the community said given that we want to share potentially distressing experiences which might be triggering to others There will be the option to say these things are triggering the moderator flexed them as such and they get Officially approved trigger warnings which people have to accept and then be able to see it if you've been on mustard on you've seen That people can self-tech these things, but again, it's something that most social media websites don't support and Then basically the way it works is like people as a moderator can actually take like they see the experience They are people's coping strategies and they get to flag if people forgot to flag or didn't think about flagging it They can flag it and then it's made publicly accessible and people can see it So ultimately thanks to this community feedback We basically fulfill without space of three goals with really sharing people's stories and their adaptive techniques with others Educating your typical people. So basically if you are not autistic in the room You can go and read these stories and learn from them and also to advice organizations on how they can help to make spaces For example, if you are designing an office space, maybe think about what people experience and how you can avoid these things So basically to sum it up really, I think these participatory approaches are really mutually beneficial and help us to address real world Needs and research questions, which is quite unlike many other academic research, which is very focused on the ivory tower and academic progress It also identifies challenges and potential solutions early on for example like in the odd species example None of the research team had thought about whether we should include the option for people to make it publicly accessible and adding Their coping strategies. It was the community that said this would make it a lot more attractive for us to both share the experiences and actually help us and lastly it Also allows to appropriate Co-design the appropriate data collection methods for example Initially the question was how in all spaces how to collect these experiences and whether it's maybe too open-ended in the community So you need to have like a more focused prompt for us Otherwise we cannot collect this data because it's really hard for us as autistic people or many autistic people find it hard to answer Too open-ended questions. So you need to be in a way more leading which from a research perspective you might not have wanted So some best practices for what you might want to think about I think it's ideal to involve community partners of the people affected by your research as early on as possible I think like you can otherwise lose a lot of time on doing things Which ultimately you cannot implement in the real world as your community doesn't want or need it And if you are working in industry and you have any experience with usability research and user design This might be odd news to you if you an academic researcher, you might never have thought about this Then the other thing is that also participation isn't a one-off. It's really it takes time when you need to build these relationships and Ideally you do this in a very deliberate manner and not later on even if later on is better than ever But ideally you do this over time when you can continue to engage with the community with outspaces For example, we do monthly community sessions where we meet with the whole community online to tell about what the research team has been doing Request feedback, but also meet with smaller groups for example on the moderation approach That was shaped by two autistic people quite heavily that met with us every week because they said we want to be experts on Moderation we have ideas and then be presented back to the larger audience and last but not least You might have seen and if you've ever seen me talk about this You might have seen Anstein's letter of participation enough like whether participation is a meaningful Participation where people have some actual degree of power or whether it's pure tokenism or non participation Where you try to pretend to involve people but don't really give too many power And I think often we see in research that there's like this public participation and involvement which like unfortunately stays here You make in the end invite people but that's You make it publicly accessible in a one-way communication, but this is really about going beyond this and With that, I think my time is about to be up. So thank you all and also thanks to all of these community members that made these projects happen And I'm happy to take any questions Thank you so much for that. We have five minutes for questions Who would like to start the questions? I could talk to Varshan in London too, but I'm gonna ask this question What what do you think? Participatory research looks like in research where they have not designed for it yet. Can there can that be retrofitted? I Mean, it's it's a lot harder to retrofit it But I think like the best time to start participation was yesterday the second best time is now in a sense That yes, you can always go out to the communities and ask for feedback I think the problem is too you want to really avoid like these things You don't want it to be manipulative and basically say this is what we done And now please let's just like give your thumbs up on this You need to be prepared for communities to say no And I think it's it's really really hard to to accept this and especially in autism research I know that there have been examples where like big consortia in the UK have like started their whole design process then released their study and said we are going ahead now and the community rightfully so just like didn't have any of it and they needed to shut down the research projects and It's easy to then become very defensive and say oh, but like these mean autistic people They are talking shit about researchers which like has happened in that case But maybe they actually rightfully so said like this is research It's completely unethical and shouldn't be going ahead And I think as researcher you need to prepare me to be prepared for this to happen Except that you might need to change your research direction. I have a question How did you learn How to do a participatory community research like because I imagine it takes some training how Where can others find these resources? I mean there's I think different ways of getting there There is like in the social sciences and some disciplines a rich tradition of doing participatory research participatory action research and things like this Which most of us don't have including me I think to me I came from this from a background of how does do open source communities work in a sense I started out coming from an open source angle and approached it quite similar to say okay I work with a lot of volunteer contributors in open source projects. Why would I be treating my participants? My participants in research any other way than I would treat the people that I want to work with as peers in open source So I think if you have experience in working in open communities But then treat your research participants differently I think it's just a very slight change of mindset for you to get there to at least start this journey to work with Participants in your research on a more equitable way Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I can resonate with that My questions may be a bit philosophical in a way. How do you deal with? Conflicts within the community when it comes to like the needs like if you have one person That is engaged in your project that is we definitely need things to be moderated before they're posted and then someone else saying No, this is like the complete opposite. How do you deal with that? Is it just voting? I? I think no, it's not just voting and it's This has happened I think like one big content just issue for which I didn't have time was what I briefly hinted at whether like Non-autistic people should be able to write experiences for their children or like people they take care of And that's highly contentious as like autistic people experience a lot that non-autistic people talk for them But at the same time there is like a lot of parents in these communities that say but my child or like my Person that I'm in charge of is non-verbal Non-verbal they cannot speak for themselves. So I need to do it or no one will do it and I think it takes a lot of negotiation within the communities and Maybe not necessarily voting but figuring out what the priority would be and in this case It was like okay There's plenty of spaces where parents can talk about their autistic children already So maybe we don't need to be the same place Even if like there were maybe more parents in these communities than we had autistic people But to make a decision to say maybe you can go elsewhere It's not ideal, but at least you need to make decisions and be transparent about it I think there's ultimately no way to always make everyone happy but to like clearly state how you ended up these decisions and why you made them and Even if it alienates parts of the community, it's the best you can do ultimately Thank you so much for that. Let's get another round of applause


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Wikibon, Stu, was estimated that there's $25 billion in assets built up, installed in Fiber Channel. No CIO in his or her right mind is going to rip and replace that. Correct, yep, absolutely. So what does FCOE bring to the table that addresses that? So you're Bob, sorry. That's what I mean? Bob, go ahead. So certainly for FCOE, point of view, there's a transition, right? So lots of customers who have a very dedicated Fiber Channel networking components, and then now as they look at widening the pipes, going from one gigabit to 10 gigabit, there's a lot more things that they could be doing on that new pipe, that ethernet pipe. So they're transitioning and trying to minimize their cost and doing that across the FCOE kind of capabilities and getting the benefit of both the old technology, migrating to new technology, and getting now simplification from a networking point of view, number of cables coming out the back, also the management point of views, the switching aspects and whatnot. So that kind of minimizes all those components. And it makes it a lot easier for customers to deploy, because actually the time to deploy is one of the biggest concerns. Right, so if I can hop in here. So when I've spent a lot of time working on Fiber Channel over ethernet and Convergence, if I turn the clock back three years ago, it was really companies like IBM, HP, and when they were talking about how to build their next generation of infrastructure, virtualization wasn't as big of a piece there. It was the power cooling and density that they were doing. And starting to think about what does it mean when we're going to have thousands of virtual machines in a single rack? So starting to plan for that, and they needed to understand that if I can't move to that single network, I can't fit it. It's just the power constraints and the architectural issues that they just were going to be limited. So Convergence started really on the supplier side. And really that driver from companies, IBM who's leader in the blade server space and driving that compute in there. And if you fast forward to today, customers really are virtualizing a lot more. They're taking advantage of this. And therefore from an efficiency standpoint, customers are understanding the Convergence work, the vendors that can deploy, the multi-protocol chips, such as you've got the Converged Network Adapter from Q-Logic who tends to deliver fast to the marketplace, are going to be able to lead. So let's talk a little bit about that. How are you using the, it's Q-Logic CNAs. How are your customers using those? So a lot of times they'll deploy, like for instance on a blade center chassis, they'll deploy all the new blades and they may have older chassis that have the older technologies and they'll migrate the workloads, move them and do the motion either dynamically or statically and then migrate them into the new platform. 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We do have choice. We work with the other vendors like Emulex and whatnot, but you know, customers are the ones that dictate exactly to us what we should be providing. How do you determine or how do the customers determine what goes where? Do they not even have visibility on that decision? It's really, you know, it's what they're comfortable with, what vendor they've been working with over time. If they're working with QLogic on the fiber channel component side, they may gravitate to QLogic also on the CNA side. It's really all about the trust factor. Yeah, so what do you see as the important factors there from the standpoint of that infrastructure? What's really, where should the vendor community, particularly QLogic and Emulex and Brocade be focused? Where do you want to see them focused as a customer of theirs? We really, you know, look at the customer needs and from a cost point and also about a performance also. So having a wide diverse portfolio of being able to supply customers who have, you know, maybe more of a cost issue and then likewise also a performance issue and have a larger portfolio of adapters that kind of marry between their different needs from all the cost aspects all the way up to performance. Excellent. Okay, Stu, any other questions for Bob or? No. No, you good? It's beautiful day to day though. How about, let's talk a little bit about virtualization a little bit more and where you see that heading and the kind of pressures that it's going to put on that infrastructure. So a lot of customers right now, I was talking with one of the analysts, they always talk about the phases of adoption like, you know, virtualization 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. And so from a 2.0 perspective, it's all about trying to simplify things and get started, get more automation. But more importantly also they're looking at the workload, how efficient those machines are running, those VMs, when they land on that server, is it the most efficient platform to run that workload? So from a virtualization perspective, they're looking at, you know, not just only virtualizing smaller workloads, but more importantly, the large enterprise class applications also. So like SAP deployments, you know, SAP there's like three different tiers, the backend tier, the mid-tier and also the front-end tier. And we can see a lot of customers saying, hey, it worked great on those, all of our file and print servers or DNS servers. We want to now propagate that and get the ease of use we've seen in virtualization across our entire infrastructure. And be able to have HA capabilities, DRS, things that all those add-ons that VMware associates from a virtualization point of view gives them benefits. So they really want to start seeing and have that adopted across the entire spectrum of their offerings. So from a data center point of view, I think you're going to see a lot more customers virtualizing enterprise class applications that are going to put more demand on the processor. It's going to have more demands from a memory perspective. I mean, IBM when they brought out our brand new design, it was all about having more memory and more memory bandwidth on those systems all because of the fact that virtualization is a huge driver from a performance standpoint. So final question for me was what advice would you give to customers that are looking to prepare for convergence? I'm afraid of convergence in FCOE. What advice would you give them? Certainly understand the pressure points in their infrastructure. Understand that, you know, not all workloads behave the same way. Understand exactly how they're going to roll out virtualization. Understand the type of workloads they have. Understand that, you know, not everything should just go one pipe because you could chew up that pipe and now have no bandwidth whatsoever and have bottlenecks. You know, I had one customer was talking to me yesterday. They said, well, we actually implemented VDI on top of our production environments. I said, oh, that's a pretty bad idea because you have two different demands and now having it going across one pipe it simplified them, but it caused lots of performance issues in their network. That was one of the biggest concerns. Understand your workloads. Excellent. We're here with Bob Zuber at VMworld Live, Silicon Angles Continuous Coverage, talking about convergence, that little piece of technology called CNAs. Talking about Q-Logic as a supplier and some others, but that little piece of IP that's so important. Absolutely. Supporting the network is really interesting and I appreciate you coming on. Great, thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks, too. Thank you, Bob. Yeah, the next up is the CIO Roundtable. We got a great discussion and we'll be back. Silicon Angle.


All right, so we've got a walking cooler here that's not working very well. So luckily they got one over here that they were able to open and help bring some cool air into the room, but right now, this thing just does not feel like it's running. Thermostat looks like it's set fairly right. All right, so the thermostat is closed. It, I couldn't hear it clicking, but it's sometimes hard to hear it inside here because the ceiling went usually on the roof. The roof is on fire. So anyhow, let's go upstairs and see what's going on up there. Da-da-da-da, so there it is. Nothing's happening. Coil don't feel warm. It's getting some power. I don't know if it's enough to make it run or not. Free phase. Let's see what we've got going on over here on the side. That's never good when you see the panel for the compressor popped off the top here. That's a little concerning. Appears that we're in a defrost. We just verified that we've got power. This is my small diagnostic bag, which is why I'm using my old meter there. You need to trade that thing out. I know why I quit using it now. I'm gonna feel it ticking. See if this thing's tracking or not. All right, so we're looking at the pressures here. Not looking very good. Looks mighty low there. As you just noticed in the video there, the screen, the unit is, the unit looks to be really low from what you're seeing. Just looking at the cyclast here. Not feeling a lot of airflow through that. The cyclast looks cool though. I don't know what refrigerants are running, but that really seems awfully low, unless we got some problems here. It's coming back cold. Looks nice. We're running PoE oil. So we're either running 404 or 134A. This charge is hot. So I mean, we got obviously something in there. Just looks really low. That cyclast is probably just so empty that it's not showing up. They were so generous to run the wire there right over top of my valve, so I can't get into it. I guess we could do it from this valve over here. I didn't see that. Let's do that real quick, see if we can pump it down. Make sure it pumps down. Just it's acting awfully very strange. Almost like we've got a compressor issue. It's nearly impossible to get my wrench in there. There's just no room to turn. We're gonna go down there, check the, or the TXV, make sure what kind of refrigerant this is, add a little bit to it, see if the head starts going up, see if it starts flashing off. I have a feeling we're probably low and that we have a leak. So we came down to look and see, it really looks like that's probably where it's leaking at. You can see the oil shining up right there. The whole of the leak looks like we're running on 404. So it looks like it's 404 and it looks like it's about time for a new cooler, a new evaporator and a possible replacement denser. We need to clean that coil too. So obviously this thing's got some issues. Let's go ahead and kill it and see if we can verify that it is leaking, which I think it's pretty obvious, but I wanna make sure before I tell them it is.  We're only 10 pounds on the suction because that's solenoid stopping it from equalizing. If I had my gauges up here, so these probes, I'd be able to just drop it one side to the other, but we're gonna go downstairs, see if that's enough to pick anything up. Detect three, baby. 10 pounds of pressure on this thing. Just like a heated diode. That is in manual mode. It's leaking pretty good there. And it looks like it's probably leaking over in here too. This thing needs replaced. There ain't nothing I can do about that. We've got one right there for sure. And if I thought that was the only one, I'd probably go ahead and maybe give it a shot and try to fix it. But I have the feeling that it's more than just there, especially with it all the way up there at the top. It's time for a new one. That's pretty bad. That won't last very long. So we've got our handy dandy brush here. Even got a new one.  They want to price on replacing this part and potentially the upper condenser unit. But you can see what kind of job that does. It does really well. So we'll get this thing cleaned off. You get a cap on that thing too. So we're doing is we're actually using that water there to get that off of our brush.  Bring it in there. That's the first time I've done that. So that seems to work pretty good. I hate doing too much because then it'll end up never wanting to replace it. And this thing is beyond me and it'll probably work better and it's worked in a long, long time. All right, that's a lot better than what it was by far. And it only took less than probably a few minutes. So we're going to go ahead and get this thing back into place to get a cap on that. Let's get this thing charged up. Something don't sound very good on that one over there. So it sounds like a motor's going out. Yep, we got a motor going out. That looks like it's fairly new or two. Lovely. Well, we'll get that here in a second. Still got to walk a reach in cooler yet to do. See what we got here. I don't think that's liquid. I thought maybe it was the evaporator or the condenser fan, but maybe not even when we stop adding, which we ain't going crazy for you to get much quieter. That compressor's getting ready to go out next. That is a 2000 compressor. Head pressure's higher than Susie's for two. It looks like it's probably pretty dirty. Look at that evaporator. I mean, we're warm down there. Let's put this into a pump down before we waste too much time. Two and a half pounds, we're getting dog on clothes. So I'm kind of curious if we've lost valves, because that don't sound real good. Maybe not, but it ain't looking real promising to see if it can pump down. Yeah, I think it's got some problems. Well, now that we've condensed everything into the receiver, let's see how it acts now. TXD really don't look good. We'll have to watch this for a little bit. It might just be because it's warm down there, but man, it really seems higher than normal. So we just cleared the sight glass. We're gonna watch that for a while. But we're running about 321 on the head, and we're only probably about 75 degrees out, maybe 80 at the most. Three pounds, 10 ounces, he's thirsty. I would say this thing was pretty much about empty. And I don't think this is no small leak. So they think they're gonna get away with it for a little while, but I have a feeling that this is gonna need to change out rather quickly or they're gonna regret it. We'll be right back on overtime trying to get this thing going on. So I'm gonna have to grab a hose or a bucket and some water, and of course that condenser, Alex, that thing is definitely dirty. Gotta pop that thing open yet. So now the motor's running. This was a freezer that had been converted into a cooler. It's either got faster's bad or the motor's bad, and I have a feeling it's the motor. I can hear the noise out of it. I don't know if we need that many defrosts anymore. All right, so this thing is, like I said, used to be a freezer. Had three defrosts being used as a cooler now. Set as long as 50 minutes. I don't think we need that anymore. So drop that down to maybe about 20. Hell, I'll be generous and put it at 30 since it's got a termination switch on it. The heated defrosts are running as a cooler now.  So anyhow, the motor stopped. It definitely is warm. Passer, I don't think that's it. Let's look here at this. Really don't have any front-to-back play at all. Up and down's pretty good. Let's stop and see what happens when we kick it out. It makes me wonder if it's just a capacitor possibly or if the windings are going out. All right, so we're checking out our capacitor here. And we're at 3.69 and this is rated for four. So we're gonna need a new motor. So I can get that on there for him now. Otherwise, we're gonna be back at nighttime or something for a Friday evening. Okay, we tend to use these for about everything. So 96, 56, reversible 230 volt, and we got a 120-volt one. After all, it's usually right at about the maximum, but it works out fine every time I've used them. Yeah, it kicks on a little better. Long in the right direction even. Got a little bit of a wobble. Tell us the speed difference there. All right, jump back over to this one here. We make sure it can still pump down. It flaps at 31, so it's starting to drop, obviously. Let's see where, make sure this thing can pump down. Okay, before I take off, head downstairs. Of course, I've gotta clean that thing off. Head pressure's going up a little bit. It'll do a lot better once we get that condenser cleaned. And it's starting to go back down, so we should be fine. Those bearings in that compressor sound, buddy. It's overcharged. That head pressure will just keep on going and won't come back down. All right, let's get this thing pumped up and ready to go. A $200 jet pack.  We got that one pretty good. Miles will get this one real quick, but I don't wanna spend too much time because this ain't what we're called for. And you sometimes can spend more time on something and they don't like that. Or you'd actually reveal a lot more problems and they're like, well, wait a minute, you're milkin' us through what we got here. So just one of them things where you gotta know your customer, judge for yourself and whether you should go deeper into it or not. All right, so we got that washed out and this one washed out. Side glass still full. Sounds a little better, but that compressor still sounds pretty bad.  It's probably low. We just recharged it not too long ago. I told them they need to just replace it. So we'll see what the end of doing. Look familiar? We're reaching cooler here. So the evaporator, I believe, is what was leaking. We've told them a couple of times, but they haven't done anything with it yet. I don't know, it's been a while since I've missed this one. I don't know if I ever have this with it because they don't have any writing on it at all. Let's get this thing opened up here. It's always nice. Guess we don't need the relay there. That's kind of useful. Just bypass it. That's a good way to get shocked.  All right, so we've got some of those flimsy taps here that have a tendency to leak. So let's go ahead and see if it's actually just low or what's going on. Loosen that up, and we've got pressure. See where we're at here. See if we can get over to this. See how many things are going into this. So we just worked on it not too long ago, less than a month ago. We'll go ahead and reduce it because they're in the middle of dinner and lunch here. Six ounces. A good sized leak inside there. This leak is so bad, we've got to run it in being a reset mode. But when you get back over to here, kind of reset it outside of the cabinet, come back in. It's so contaminated, it's there we go. Fran, see if we can get the bubble. I can't really see in here, but there's soaked everything in here. It's really hard to see, but either way you can see that coil is pretty eight up. It's not the suction line coming out of the coil. Actually right there it is. See if I can get my position here. Thinking right on the end of that coil.  So they're gonna need to buy a new coil or consider maybe going with a new unit. This one here is done, had it. Keeps going low like that. They're gonna destroy the compressor and they've already got some relays and stuff bad. So I don't know, we'll mark on the inside cover here where it's leaking out so the next guy doesn't waste a lot of time and kind of go from there. All right, it looks like the walking cooler is getting back down to pretty quick. Feel some good air onto that. Yep, that's a lot better than what it was. And this one here is doing pretty good too. If I can see that number, five degrees, that's probably not real accurate. But it's definitely not a freezer anymore. So that gets that one there going. Yeah, we're right in that 30-ish arc, so we're good there. All right, so we've got the walking cooler taken care of, got the condenser fan motor on the other cooler taken care of, the reach-in cooler done. Everything's set and ready to go. Everything's dropped in temperature. We're getting them a quote on replacing this. And I think they're gonna probably replace that reach-in from what I just was told, so. All right guys, if you liked the video and you wanna see more like it, make sure you give it a thumbs up, check us out on Instagram and Facebook. And until next time, we will catch you on the next one.


The House of Representatives has passed for second reading the 2023 Appropriation Bill laid recently before the joint session of the National Assembly by President Mohammad Iboharri on Friday last week. Before it was passed, the bill was debated by members which may not be unconnected to the total sum of the federal expenditure of 20.51 trillion era and the implementation of capital expenditure of the last budget. Emmanuel Ehigene completes the report. In their various contributions to the debate on the proposed budget during plenary, some members expressed worry over the humongous borrowing by the federal government in the past years. They also raised concerns over the duplication of some elephant projects among the next line, which generally appears mayobalwa, jiren, and zin. Mr. Speaker, Honorable Colleagues, what is also sad is that the level of borrowing that has been done, last budget within 3.5 trillion, today we are going to borrow. The dub servicing we are going to do for next budget is going to be from 3.6, we are going to do 6.31. Mr. Speaker, that is one salient issue that we have not been addressing as a parliament with the national budget. That is the personnel cost. Mr. Speaker, let me call the attention of the committee chairman that every MDA, they have a surplus under personnel cost and it is now being investigated by the ICPC. So we must focus our attention on the issue of this personnel cost. There are a lot of things that are going wrong with the personnel cost. With the passage of the bill for second reading ministries, departments and agencies are expected to appear before the various House Committees to defend their budgets.


Hey guys, welcome to the 1% podcast. Today I'm here with this beautiful couple that is killing it and crushing it. Three years, they came over from Panama and they're killing it. They're in a couple states now with their local solar company and they're just destroying it.  And by the way, if you watch the full video, maybe you can have an opportunity to partner up with them. So check it out. Wake up, no sunlight, so cold, sleep is nice, so tired, my eyes fight. They just want to close back up tight, get up. Hey guys, all right, it's Andy Elliott. Today I'm here with some folks that are just amazing, my beautiful wife. We are solar, we are solar army, right?  You guys are also in Virginia, you're in Texas, and you're moving into other states. Number one, there's going to be two things in this video. Number one, you're going to hear their story. Freaking awesome, OK? It's just amazing, it's crazy. How fast something can change, especially while you're studying, like this channel was made for education, right? So it's made for opportunity. I think a lot of people don't know what's out there for them, but when you hear their story, you're going to be like, damn, that's crazy. And if you want to be a part of it, you can, because they're looking to grow their team, their army right now. I'm also here with my amazing wife. They're going to be speaking some Spanish at certain times, which obviously I don't know what they're saying. But if you speak Spanish, you need to hang on, because it's going to be awesome. But also if you speak English, we're going to try to speak a lot of English so that you can understand it, OK? So I love you guys.  First of all, I want to introduce this amazing couple. They're killing it, crushing it. From Venezuela, you lived in Panama, you came over to Florida, right? You guys started in solar, is that right? Yeah. OK, and by the way, tell us what you did. Tell us what you've done. I want you to tell them. And then also, tell us your mission. Like tell us your goal. And I know people that can work for you if they speak English and they have a big level 10 earning opportunity, earn a lot of money, become leaders, find your way out. Like this is the greatest company. But also like what is your mission? Like what do you guys stand for? I know that you guys strive to really help like certain people, right? Talk to us a little bit about what's going on in life right now and talk to us about coming over, first of all, from Panama when you got here. A lot of people don't know where to start, right? Like immigrants, when they come over, they don't know where to start. So they go work at McDonald's or something, right? Yeah. OK, so talk to us. Tell us about what you guys did and tell us how you're helping so many other people and how it's just creating a movement. Like it's a job, it's a company, but it's really like a movement. And your people love you. You're like their family. It's like really cool. And I love cultures. Everybody knows that. So I love what you guys are doing. So talk to us a little bit. You came over from Panama. How did you guys start this? OK, iniciamos hace tres años que llegamos acá de Panama. Y la idea realmente de esta visión fue de mi esposa. It was actually my wife's vision. See? The women are bad asses. I told you guys. Y de una vez apenas trajo la idea a la mesa, arriesgamos todos y fuimos por ello. We risked everything and just went all in. Cuando hay una oportunidad, o lo haces, o no lo haces. When there's an opportunity, you either do it or don't do it. Good. Everybody write that down. Listen to me.  And then number two, when there's an opportunity, you either got to do it or not do it. And a lot of people, they see opportunity and they're afraid to go. They're scared, right? Was solar the idea? She was like, hey, let's do solar. Or was it like getting in sales? Like what was it? Bueno, principalmente le dije, mira, esta es este mercado. She looked at the market. She discovered there was a market. Deberías de hacer la parte de venta. You should do it. You should do it just as. Y el suelge dijo no, yo no voy a hacer venta. Yo voy a hacer una compañía sola. Entonces, ahí se desarrolló la idea. So she said he needed to get into sales. And he said, I'm not just going to get into sales. I'm going to create a solar company. That's beautiful. So they're coming together with the idea. Good, I love that. All right, let's keep rolling. En tres años nos posicionamos para las empresas instaladoras que trabajamos como la empresa número uno en Florida y la número tres a nivel nacional. They positioned themselves in those three years as the number one with the installers, basically, in Florida in the number three at a national level for all states. That's insane. I wonder what everybody think about this. So they came over literally three years ago. You guys don't speak a lot of English. You speak English. But they don't speak a lot of English. And then what they decided to do, step one, get into sales. And we all know if you want to make a lot of money, you've got to get into sales, OK? And I know a lot of people, they fear sales because they're like, oh, I don't want to be pressuring selling people. They help people, OK? But they get paid like a sales company. That's beautiful. And then they created their own company. And I think it was to help themself and help more people. Did they envision when they first started this, like being this big and helping this many people? Or was it like, we just want to get by?  Put it on the calendar, January 15th. My wife is releasing her YouTube channel, Jaclyn Elliott. My wife is the backbone of our company. She's the CEO of the Elliott Group. She has wrote all the sales training. I have just pinned the face. She is coming out into the open from how we have a badass marriage to raising our children, why we have a nine-figure business in killing it, to leading our sales team, and ultimately, just crushing and killing it in life.     So men and women, if you're ready for the greatest training that was ever released, the greatest self-development from the greatest CEO that's ever lived, Jaclyn Elliott, January 15th. Be on the lookout. It's going to be game-changing. Like, was it this big? They started the company. I mean, they already knew they were going to grow, to do what they are right now, or they just wanted to try to make money and see what happened. No, we had a vision. We had a vision and it's to create a very big company to help many people. We love people. And in our company, we're a family. I said, we're a family in our company. We have values in our company and we teach people that it doesn't matter what your age is, you can have 20 years or you can have 70. You simply have the opportunity to make a change in your life. So you have the opportunity to make a radical change in your life. And we help people to achieve their goals. But it doesn't matter if they say they're not sellers or if they have no skills. We're going to create them here. They simply need the desire and the discipline. It doesn't matter if they know how to sell or anything. What they need is basically the desire to want to get there and they provide the tools and everything so they can be trained to actually get there. So you just got to want to win. Yeah. When you guys make people successful, are a lot of these people good at sales already? Or do you guys train them how to be great at this? They are good at selling or they try to create them to be good sellers. We train them. I love that. So anybody right now, and especially if you speak Spanish, this doesn't matter.  Yes, yes, of course. Okay, I want to make sure that's important, but that's your first language. So that's why we're all speaking that except me, right? Okay, but I wanted to say that like, so people that want to make a decision to change their life, to make more money, to be around good people, right? Because that's important. I think the proximity, like the people you're around, make how happy you are in life, right? You teach those people how to do, right? Like what they need to do. And you said radical change, radical change. Ask them what that means. Like money, like in your health, like in your family, like being around good people, you know, like just living a life you could never live. ¿Cuáles son las tipo promesas? ¿O qué es lo que quiere decir con un cambio radical en sus vidas? ¿Cómo quieres cambiar las vidas de esta gente? ¿Quieres decir en dinero, en familia, en lo que, no sé, los valores? ¿O qué es lo que les ofrecen a estas personas de ese cambio radical que tienen con su empresa? Okay, primero los preparamos a las personas profesionalmente y personalmente. So we equip people in a professional and also a personal level. Okay, porque no solamente guiamos a las personas a que pueden llegar unas metas o un objetivo a alcanzar, a ganar dinero, sino también... It's not in your goals just by making money, basically. Si no es muy importante tener valores y tener principios. It's all about your principles and values in the very beginning. I love that. Y le decimos a las personas que no solamente tienen que llegar aquí a hacer lo que todo el mundo hace o lo que cree, a que muchas oportunidades y todos los días nace un millonario en este país. Yeah, so we're in the line of opportunity so it's not about just making money. Every day we have a new millionaire coming up in the states. It's not about that. It's about bringing in the values and the principles and having a fulfilled life, basically. Making people great leaders. Yes. That's good, I love that. Tell us about a couple success stories of some people that have joined their company. I love that stuff. No sé, historias de éxito que pueden tener de algunos de las personas que han entrado a su equipo. Sí, por supuesto, tenemos. Hemos visto el cambio en muchas personas. Uno que más me impactó a mí fue una madre con su hijo de 18 años que trabajaba en market. De eso se dedicaba cuando descubrí solar y vienen con nosotros. Trabajaron juntos.  You know, they basically worked somewhere else and they came together basically as a team. And they both sold the mom and the son. Y crecieron juntos, increíbles. Entonces, cuando le preguntamos cuáles son tus betas, y ella dice, bueno, si eras 200,000 al año, al final de año vimos 250,000 dólares en su plan... It was a safe method. Yeah, in six months, she wanted to make 200 grand for a year. In six months, they lived at 1099 and she had made 250,000. Entonces, hemos cambiado vidas. Lo hemos visto, es una realidad. It's a reality, it's not just like guessing game or a desire, it's actually something that's proven. Yeah, so something that's important is number one, for women, women do really well, right? So a lot of people think when they hear sales, it's like men. Okay, so you've got a mom, she's 18-year-old, she also has an 18-year-old, her and the son come together, they learn the experience and they make a quarter of a million in six months. Like, super cool. And that's important, so what's your excuse? What are you going through, right? Are you looking for a radical change, which I love that he said that, because the definition of revolution is radical change, which means revolution, to do something that's... You know, it's awesome.  I think the cool thing that they're doing is they're providing, because me, I'm Hispanic as well. And the example that I had growing up was basically having a nine-to-five laborer job in what we were taught. And I think a lot of people that come into this country have the idea that they have to work in that way and that's the only way to even make it in the United States. They came with an idea and they flourished and they tap this market that's just insane. So they basically want to change lives in the sense of, hey, there's a way that you can get to your dreams. There's a way that you can get there and you don't have to go through all of that stuff. We have an avenue for you to go and change your whole generation from here on out. You don't have to have those generational curses that you think that your family has to go through. Like we have a way for you to make that happen.   You don't have to go work at a fast food restaurant. You don't have to go work at a department store and have a nine-to-five. You can actually have a business within a business in an opportunity where you can change everything. And start earning real money. Yeah, which is huge because you can actually start building your life. So they're basically showing that this is the land of opportunity and you can get a piece of it and we'll show you the way and they have great hearts and they're doing amazing. And that's why they're exploding because they're putting those people first. Yeah, so anybody right now, whether you're 18 years old to 70 years old, no experience needed, zero. You gotta be a good person, you gotta care. And obviously they said they self-develop people inside of their company to become leaders and to become good people. Obviously to learn to make good commissions to help other people. And they're on a mission, they're on a movement, truly to just gather a family of great people. Just people that can all create a great culture, right? Of like winners and winning. So you gotta say you wanna go across all states, right? Like you guys wanna be everywhere. You know what I'm saying? What is the ideal person that you're looking for? Do you like younger people that are hungry? Do you like people that are married in relationships? Who do you guys normally look for? And who seems, obviously the mom, she killed it. But do you see younger people doing really well? For anybody that wants to take advantage of the opportunity, they have all the tools. People that already give up because they're like, I'm 50, I'm 60, so they kind of give up on that dream.  Like everybody's qualified. You just gotta wanna be a winner. It's just attitude, as age doesn't matter. So they say that, hey, you know, they wanna attract good people, but they don't wanna limit in being like, no, it's only yet for an opportunity for young people because they have people that work for them that are killing it at all levels and all ages. No hay excusas, no hay excusas. Todos podemos lograr lo que queremos. Yo siempre digo en mis reuniones y a mi equipo que la mente crea lo que la mente cree. Para mí esa es una realidad. Your mind does what your mind believes is what he says. So if you believe in something, that's what's gonna happen with it. Si quieres un cambio en tu vida y lo quieres hacer, lo vas a lograr. You wanna change in your life and then you do it, then you're gonna obtain that. So they provide all the tools necessary to give these people a way out. You just gotta believe. You just have to believe. And show up. You have to have the right attitude. You have to have the right morals. You have to have the right belief. And they provide all the training and everything necessary for them just to go and take off and get a piece of it. Basically. Y si nos diferenciamos un poco a lo mejor de las demás empresas. Todos hacemos lo mismo y está muy bien porque estamos ayudando al planeta, que es lo principal. First of all, on the solar, everybody that does solar does a good thing because they're actually saving the planet because it's energy. But what differentiates them from the rest? He has his personal goals. And it's not just about money. His satisfaction doesn't come from him making money. It's basically having people join on his mission so he can create that product and to kinda go and help more and more people. Que todos tenga un crecimiento profesional, personal y que puedan alcanzar sus metas y que podamos inculcar valores a las personas que a lo mejor no los tienen y podemos ayudarlos personalmente en su familia y que puedan traer a su familia a formar parte de este movimiento van a ser bienvenidos acá. So he's basically welcoming those people that wanna change and provide like something that not only changes in their personal level but also changes in professional level and provides something that can join in on what they have and they can multiply what they're doing and impact more lives, then that's what their goal is just to do better and help more people and just get that mission and get that statement across and they actually do change lives and they're all welcome on his team. That's what he wants to do. He just wants to multiply that belief of having good people and knowing that they have an opportunity to actually make a radical change like we're talking about. Yeah, so somebody's watching this right now. I want you to understand this. If you've made it this far in the video and you're like, okay, now how do I join them? How do I become a part of their team? How do I become a part of their culture? Go down to the description box.  There's a description box and I put a link in there. It's to join their team. I want you to understand this. It's going to ask you a couple of questions like, do you want to change? Do you want to be a winner? Are you committed to do the work? Then obviously, do you want to make a difference in other people's lives? If you answer yes to all these, it lets them know that you stand by their core values. Then there's a quick place to upload a 30 to 60 second video so they can know who you are. Make a little video telling them why you want to work with them. Now, once you hit enter, that's going to go straight to them. They can watch your video. They see the way you answer the questions and they'll be reaching out to you. If you're looking for your way out, like the single mom that had her son that made $250,000 in six months, her story, or like tons of guaranteed other stories, which they have one of the largest companies in Florida and they said number three across the country. That's huge. You guys should be like, dude, I want that opportunity. Now I just need to find how do I become a part of that? We'll click the link below. Make sure you guys fill out your information. They'll reach out to you personally. They'll get a hold of you and you guys welcome the change in your life. Always tell people you're one decision away from changing your life forever. Either stay the same or change. Your goal is to change is to find good leaders that give you a level 10 earning opportunity so you can make good money.  We're talking about being great leaders, which is why we're all together. Because making money is easy. Making money is easy, but working for the wrong people and making money is not the way you want to go. I want to know, so how did they grow up? People see successful people and they're like, oh, these people haven't ever struggled. I want to know how they've suffered. Like, I want some dirt. We want a little bit of the mud and the earth, where it comes from. So people can relate. So that people can relate to you. People who think it's not qualified to have a good life, feel that they've made a lot of mistakes, or that they don't have the cards to have this opportunity. Where do you come from and what are the ways that people can relate to each other? Like, they have something to prove. So like, I knew they did this. Exactamente. Bueno, para decir un poco más sobre lo que hayan hablado al principio, pues si somos de Venezuela, vivimos unos años, doce años en Panamá. Hace tres años que llegamos acá a Estados Unidos y mi esposa fue la que tuvo la brillante idea de este negocio. Y lo impulsamos, salimos adelante, pero confiando en nosotros mismos. When he grew up in Venezuela, did he grow up wealthy? Was he poor? Hey, guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor and take the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. Like, what are some struggles that he had growing up? Like, broken family, strong family. ¿Cuál es el ejemplo que ustedes tuvieron en Venezuela? ¿De niños, de adolescentes o como recién casados? Claro, por lo menos en mi caso, mi madre fue una mujer muy trabajadora. My mother was a very hard worker. OK, mi padre es alemán. My father's German. Me enseñó desde pequeño que tenías que trabajar para ganarte las cosas. OK, y me dijo, puedes tener un título de lo que sea universitario, pero si no sabes trabajar, no te va a servir de nada. Mmm, that's good. Y tuve la oportunidad de vivir en varios países en España, Alemania y Venezuela y Paraná. I had the opportunity to live in so many different countries. Trabajando, lo cual ayudó mucho a forjar mi carácter. That helped build his character from seeing all those different changes. OK. Luego conocí mi media mitad. His other half. How old? How long ago? ¿Cuánto? How long have you been together? ¿Cuánto tiempo tienen? 15 years. 15 years. Yes, Tordi. Two days ago. Congratulations. They actually helped me a lot. How old are you guys? 41. 41, 42. She was robbing the cradle, huh? She likes some young ones. That's why she's wise. Yeah. OK, cool. And then what about her growing up? ¿Y cómo es la historia? Eh... ¿Se han dificado mucho? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Mm-hmm. So she said they were very hardworking. Except for, in her case, there was more like a laborer type of thing where they had a schedule and a salary and all of that. So they weren't really taught to think big. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So she said she was used to being like the safe one, and he was used to being the risk taker. So it was like one of those things where they had to kind of combine the two to create something, you know, that was powerful. And who was the risky one? He was. Has that changed now? Is she more risky now? Yes. When you cross the river, she said, When you cross the river, she said, You can see all the kids. Mm-hmm. So she's had to learn from that safety net of like having that to owning a business and then having to balance the whole, you know, parenting and how to control the time and figure out how to do business together and all that. It's hard, huh? Yeah. Yeah. A beautiful life is hard to build. Yeah, that's awesome. So basically, and I love this, the solar industry is blown up, right? Okay. Now a lot of rules and regulations and things are changing. So the amateurs are getting out, right? The amateurs. And you guys have a very professional company that stands for like good morals, good values, good standards. Which is not everywhere. No, I know. Well, that's the reason why we're even having this podcast is because a lot of people, they want to make money, but they don't want to impact people's lives. They don't want to change anything. And our company believes in like changing people's lives. And when you meet people that want to change other people's lives, that's super cool, man. I mean, like, look, we all get one life. You know, what are you going to do with it? I mean, and the way that we live as parents is how our kids learn to live. Right? So like, we want to make a lot of money. We want to have fun. We want to have fun with our kids. But also how we live or how our kids are going to live. You know what I mean? So it's like, it's super important that we build more leaders because we're in a time right now where there's not many good leaders. You know, also before we started the podcast, you know, we were talking about faith. We were talking about how important it is for them to stay grounded and how you can lose everything. I think that when you start a business and you have, and you're attracting the right people that have the right idea of how to get things, that's why you see people come into business and then lose it all and they're all chasing money. The thing that I get from them too is that they're trying to build something that's truly special and they truly do care about these people. They're trying to provide that opportunity not only for the people that work for them but also for their clients. But they also have that heart and they have that faith. And that's the type of business that people want to be attracted to. The one that actually has, you know, all of that, not only are they good in business but they're also good in their family. And you can tell that they're good on their faith and they've got the whole package. So it's something like, who is going to let you down? Somebody that doesn't have those morals and doesn't have all of those things aligned. And that's how you grow as a whole because there's a lot of people that start and then they have to start back again and I don't see that happening with them and that's the reason why they're growing and exploding is because they are a good family and they have their priorities straight. So they're not working, they wouldn't be working with the team of people that all they do is care about hitting the numbers and all of that. They care about people actually winning and also doing it to change their lives and being good people, having people surrounding themselves. So what you said about people uploading video is a brilliant idea because that's what they want to see. They want to see people that identify in our part of that mission and see if they can resonate with what they want to do and can provide that same mission with them. So it's pretty awesome. That's super cool. So do you guys have kids? Yeah. Two kids? Two kids. That's awesome. Two boys? Yeah. So you were telling me about the stories, right? You know what I mean? Of the lady with the son that came on and worked and they did really good. The son like this because he's 18. Yeah. The big son. It's up here.  Do you see younger people come in and be really successful? The younger people? Yes, yes, yes. Yeah? So give us some things when you talk about personal development, right? Like, do you guys do things with your team all the time? Do you guys have different offices with different leaders? Or are you guys really hubbed mostly out of, you said Miami? You're all over, but Miami? Yes. We have office now in Orlando and Miami. But we have team in Naples, Tampa, Jacksonville, Houston, Dallas, Paso, Texas, Virginia. That's awesome. So whatever people join you, right? They have an opportunity to do really well, to make good money, and then also move up as a leader. Yes. As a leader. Yeah? So how does that work? You produce, you do a good job, and then when you do, you can be in charge of more people to train? Okay. Okay. Okay. So, first of all, you have to have an objective. In objective, or they have to set up a goal. To fulfill your goals. And second, you also have to learn to prepare yourself, to be able to become a leader. Because it's not just about selling. There are people who can sell, but they can't teach. People are not meant to lead. So they want to make sure that they can actually do that and self-develop them. To be in charge. They can be a leader. Yes. Lamenting a lot like that. But there are a lot that are good to sell, but not to be a leader. Exactly. Leaders, you know, basically are made. You're saying, and the thing is that not everybody that's a good salesman can be a leader, because they want to sell, and they probably aren't good at leading. So what he, the qualities that he looks for, somebody that's going to be self-developing, that's going to pour into the team, and that's willing to grow. I love that. And another kind of a conversation. Is this the only business you guys have? Is this just your life? No, it is. Yeah, it is. We see that it's an industry that's growing. Sometimes they say in Florida, no, this is over. And when you see it, it's the 3% of... Of the houses that have solar. Everybody is always talking about, they have the half-full mentality and saying, oh, solar's done with, it's so oversold and all this. And you really look at the numbers, and there's only 3% of the population in Florida really has it. So really, people are looking through the wrong lens. There's a huge opportunity. Well, people just quit. They're just quitters. They complain. They would rather to complain than to win. And that's not you guys, which that's cool. And by the way, I'm glad there are so many quitters, because it makes it easy on us. They're like, it's so hard.  Keep saying it's hard. You can go over there. Let me go for you guys. What I love what he said is you could have a degree, but if you don't work, if you don't know how to work, it doesn't matter.  You want an opportunity of a lifetime. I said you're one decision away from changing your life forever. You know, this could be your way out. Like this could be it. Like this could be your way out. Yeah, like I love they talked about breaking generational curses. You know, like living the life that you've always wanted to live, get the results you've always wanted, make the money you've always wanted, and be around great people. I mean, that's just priceless. Great companies are harder and harder to find now with good cultures. And you might find a good culture somewhere, but there's not any earning opportunity there. So that means if you're like, what do I do? Do I go work for this guy I don't like? Make a lot of money? Or do I make no money and work for a good place? Well, they have an amazing company and they're killing it. So at the end of the day, if you're hungry and you're like, man, dude, I just need to be around the right people and be around people that will invest in me. Or maybe you can know somebody that doesn't speak English. Yes, and the thing is, Oh, that's a great one. There's a good opportunity for you to share with them. Hey, you know what, this one. Yeah, share this video now. You know how to speak English. They would kill it. They have such a good personality. Their work ethic is insane. All of this. Well, there's another answer for them. There's another opportunity that maybe nobody knew about. Share this video with them and tell them, hey, you know what? There's a company over there. They're a badass solar company. They're taking over. Hey, you have the opportunity with them. So this is great. Everybody knows somebody. Yeah, share this video. That's super important.  Right? You know what I mean? One. Let's send this one to Juan. Say Juan. Juan. Juan. Okay. Let's send this to Jorge. What's your name in Spanish? Jorge. Huh? What's your name in Spanish? Andres. Andres. Yeah. All our kids, you know, they got dual citizenship in Mexico. They all speak Spanish 100%. So Jackie and the kids and everybody speaks Spanish. And I'm just like, I'm good. Well, yeah, I'm good. But like, you know. This is the first time I've ever translated for him. Oh, yeah? Ever. Usually I don't know what's going on. I'm just going to let him not understand. So this is good. We've been married for a long time. We've been together, what, 17 years? And I've never translated for him because I'm like, okay. You want to know? Well, I kind of can understand what's going on, you know, like, like, like every sentence, like there's like one or two words I understand. So I know the direction we're going. You know what I mean? No Spanish. Foco poquito. I was like, what is that even? Foco poquito. Yeah. It's one of those deals. As long as my kids know it, I'm good. And that, it is a superpower to learn Spanish. So many opportunities.  I mean, just because you can be anywhere, you know what I mean? You can understand. I mean, even Portuguese or whatever, if you even speak Spanish, you can kind of understand what's going on, right? Like it's super important. Yeah. So, so what is a struggle? Let's let's do this. Obviously everybody knows who you are and you're amazing now. What is the toughest struggle you've ever overcame? Something hard that you overcame. Like tell us something that was hard. Just in life. Any age. Any age, a time that was really hard. Maybe somebody died.  You didn't make it. Maybe, you know, something hard. Like, I liked, I liked, you guys are overcomers, right? So, so share a difficulty with us. You know what? I'm going to show these people that it's bad. Maybe they didn't believe in you. Maybe they've suffered. Maybe someone has, I don't know, failed in the family. Or something, something that has happened. A disease, any addiction. There are many, many people who have to know that side.  And I'm going to show these people that I can. Maybe someone, I don't know, in school that has thought that they would never do something in their life. I don't know, anything. Yes, at least in Panama, which was the time where we lived the most. Yes, we really arrived in Panama and it was bad for us in the business we started. We started a business and it went really well. And we stayed in an apartment with the lights off. No electricity, like we didn't have food, no money, no car. We ate bread with butter. That's when you guys get close. We were there. No family, everybody was cut out with nobody. That helped us get together more, as you say, because you didn't have anywhere to go. You didn't have anywhere to go, it was just... All the solutions at home. You solved everything at home, and that's it. And many people always worked very hard. They always worked well. Because my father taught me how to work. And I said, I don't want this for my life. I don't want to keep working for others. I said, I want to work for my family and for what we are doing. I want to work for my family and for what we want to achieve. But also at the same time, I want to help people. He wants to multiply that. He wants to be able to not just help his family but also help other people in change. Did you start his own business in Panama or did they make him move? No, we worked for other people. In 2017, more or less, I started my own construction company. And we opened other small businesses. It wasn't good in Panama. But when the pandemic came, we left. We sold everything. Car, house, car. And we brought everything in two bags. Completing this, was what I was telling you while we were talking. You have already learned to be here. You are going to be in the bottom. You have already learned to be here. You are not afraid to be here. In the bottom. They are at a level where they want to grow. They are not afraid of going back to the bottom because they have already been there. That's good. People are always like, aren't you afraid of being broke? Me and her? No. We have been there. By the way, you guys ate bread. You got closer together. It wasn't that bad. At that time, it was really hard. It caused a lot of fights.  But now looking back, that's what made you guys close. That made them strong. Me and her went to the same thing. We did. Before this podcast, we were talking about what they were doing and how God was preparing them for that next step in the next level. An example that they needed to show their children in order to bring them along in this journey with them, which is very, very important. That was a very good conversation that we had about that. Sometimes you get some tests and sometimes you are getting actually prepared. It's your school. God is giving you a school to go and do something amazing with it. That's why you are where you are right now and that's why you're doing good things because if you wouldn't have gone through that, you wouldn't care about your passing people's lives. You wouldn't care about changing all these people. You had to go through that pain to be able to turn that pain into something good. That's the beautiful thing. That's what people need to understand. You need to see that heart in order to want to be a part of your team. In order to want to change the world, in something and feel important in that journey. They want to feel significant. If they know and if they can see what we can see as we're talking, then that's a beautiful thing. Come on! Good, I love it. Okay, good. Obviously, they have an amazing company. I love it that they've labeled their solar company, Army at the end, which basically is a family. That's what they're building, yeah. Anybody in any state right now, no matter where you're at, if you've been looking for an opportunity, if you've been looking for your way out, if you've maybe gone through some hard times, like they said, they lost everything, no electricity, no nothing, eating bread, sitting there together, and they worked their way out of that. That's what people do. They either lose their will to win or they get stronger and be like, dude, I've got to be the person in my family that's going to change everything. That's how anybody's ever created anything great is by risk. No risk, no reward. It's actually risk not doing anything. That's the greatest risk. But you guys, if you want to get with a proven team, a proven company that's doing big stuff, that's looking to grow, and they're like, hey, is that you? Make sure you guys click on the link below. Answer the questions, okay? Send over a 30, 60 second video. Reach out, they'll reach out to you. They'll get you to get a chance to get your way out. And our sales, that was how we killed it. And a lot of people get into sales and they don't make it because a lot of companies don't have the training to get you good at it and they're not good people. So you hire on and they're like, all right, go get it.  That's how amateur companies work. Or companies that don't care. These guys truly care. And when you find someone who's willing to train you, self-develop you, want you to become a great person and they care and you can make good money, dude, I'm like, all right, where are you at and where do I need to go? So if that's you guys, click on the link below, make sure you do and any last thing that you guys want to say to anybody watching. Something that's on your heart. Somebody's sitting there on the other side of the camera, they're watching it. Don't care what you're doing. You're always going to have the opportunity to change things. You're always going to have an opportunity. Don't care what you have. Don't care about the situation you have. It's so much so that we're getting to churches and helping people from the church teaching them that there's an opportunity. So if you're watching this video, you're watching this podcast, you have an opportunity. Click on the link, look for your information and write to us. You don't have to have an ability. You don't need anything. You just need to have the desire to want to change, modify and we're going to teach you what the path is for you to change professionally and personally and achieve your goals. To reach that financial freedom or the American dream that everyone says. Beautiful. I didn't want to interrupt him, but he said so many beautiful things. We'll translate that on the screen. But the idea of it is everybody, we come on this podcast so that we can bring you guys value from real people that have gone through real shit like everybody else who have real choices that they make to stay the same or to change and to take risk and when they do, I love talking about when they were on their lows because most people can never come out of that and those are the people that give up and we know the only way to lose is to give up and quit and then they work towards something literally coming over as immigrants from another country to being here against all odds and literally now, boom, they're killing it because they're obviously in love, they're love life, they're infectious, they're living the American dream and now that they're living it they literally want you to join their team. They want you to be a part of it with them. There's a way for you. There's a way for somebody that you know that needs to hear this in order to get to that level to get at their financial situation to provide a life for their family that they didn't know was possible. That's what their goal is. Who's the next one? Who's it going to be? Number one, if that's you, make sure you click on the link below. Boom, rock and roll, that way you can be introduced to them. Number two, share this with somebody that maybe needs an opportunity that is hungry but just can't seem to find their way out or you always say your one hand shake away from changing your life forever. You know? This is our opportunity to find someone, somebody that wants to go on this journey with them and then kick some butt, dude.  You know what I'm saying? Just put us in the right environment or put us around the right people and bam, we're killing it. So love you guys, let's kick butt, make sure that, can they find you guys on Instagram? Are you guys on Instagram? Yes, yes. Where do they find you? In Instagram, you can find me we are solar powered US. Oh, and my personal is Miguel Torres Solar. Miguel Torres Solar or we are solar we are dot US. On Instagram? Not only we are solar. We are solar powered. We are solar powered on Instagram. Or his was his personal Miguel Torres Solar. How do you spell his last name? T-O-R-R-E-S. Okay, Miguel Torres. Sounds pretty easy. There were so many tongue rolls. I wasn't for sure if there's like eight R's. Alright guys, so we love you. Listen, every time I come to you guys, I bring you massive value. You guys hear real stories from real people and it's just refreshing, man. It just makes you think, do like, man, come on man, when is it my time? Okay, so either you can go and try to build something big like this and try to figure it all out or you can go partner up with somebody that's already figured it out. They already know how to do it and then you can just plug into that and you got lucky, okay guys? Baby girl, we love you. We'll see you guys in the next video. Hey guys, I just want to tell you the true one percenters you made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor, share it with a friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


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