From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of Dell Technologies World, digital experience brought to you by Dell Technologies. Welcome to theCUBE's coverage of Dell Technologies World 2020, the digital experience. I'm Lisa Martin and I'm pleased to welcome back one of our CUBE alumni, John Shirley is with us, the vice president of unstructured storage product management, John, welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you for having me, it's great to be back. So, so much has changed since we last saw you, we're very socially distanced, but talk to me from a storage and unstructured data perspective, a lot of changes in the year of 2020. Yeah, a lot of changes everywhere, but especially in our space as well, and we're seeing just a phenomenal amount of growth with storage still, that's continuing, but what we're really seeing is things changing pretty rapidly actually to new cloud-based applications, and it almost seems like everything that's happened during that pandemic has kind of been an accelerant to getting to that next level of technology, and so we're really excited to be working with our customers, really guide them in the journey to getting to new cloud-based applications, cloud native applications, and really just helping them take advantage of all of this unstructured data that's being generated. Yeah, we've heard about acceleration in so many facets this year, and that it's, we're accelerated by 24 to 36 months. Talk to me about, for example, I was talking to a Dell Technologies customer EarthCam the other day, and of course, the massive amount of video that they're generating, 24 by seven by 365, from all over the world, the edge, cloud, core, so much growth there, how are you seeing customers be able to pivot quickly and adapt to how different things are? Yeah, you know, the interesting part too isn't just the collection of data anymore, it's how customers want to treat that data, and what we're seeing over and over again is that we get the video streams coming in, but there's also all of these sensors in the world, and so marrying up the video streams with the sensor information and keeping that in a repository so that you can do things like real-time analytics, but also be able to take that same data set and also get the historical view is becoming critically important, and that's the thing that's really changed is how the data is being used. Yes, the data keeps coming in, but customers are really, really taking a different view in terms of how they want to go use that data, so we have a lot of tools that we've created over the last year or two that are helping our customers harness and really use that data, something that they just weren't able to do a couple of years ago. You know, we always talk about data as currency or data as gold or data equals trust, and the most important factor for any business is extracting value from that data. I think now real-time is even more important if you think of contact tracing, for example, or the accelerator work going on to develop a vaccine, so much access has to be now because data from yesterday isn't good enough. It's not going to help solve some of these big use cases. What are some of the key use cases that you're seeing accelerate in the last few months? You just hit it right on the head, so the way we look at it, there's kind of two points within the timeline of data that's the most valuable, and of course what you just said, data right away in the here now, that's one of the times that it's the most valuable to have that data, but then if we kind of take a look at that data as it ages, does it get less important? Well, some of it might, but actually, the data has a big scale data-like data repository and be able to extract value out of that kind of holistically as a big set of data is extremely important as well, and so we have tools, everything from our streaming data platform that talks about how we can extract value from that data right as it's coming off the sensor or the video streams. We've got our PowerScale product which provides very, very high performance storage so that customers can stream a bunch of data and get some of that AI and ML off of that data, and then we've got our ECS object storage-based product what customers want, exabytes of data, and they just want a really long-term, robust storage repository, so we've kind of got all the tools together that really helping our customers extract that value. Talk to me about data migration, that's always a big challenge, especially as many businesses live in a hybrid or multi-cloud world where they've got or using public cloud services on-prem edge maybe for example, but in terms of being able to get to the data and run algorithms on it to do AI, how can a customer, give me like a snapshot of an example infrastructure that you see as common with customers that allows them to harness data wherever it is and be able to run AI on wherever it is without having to move it around and pay all those charges and of course, lose precious time. Yeah, that's a great question. What we're seeing a lot to is customers wanting to take advantage of things like the power of the compute in the cloud and they don't necessarily want to move the data in and out of the cloud, but at the same time, we want to make sure that the customers have the flexibility to choose which cloud that they want to go to, so we have multiple cloud offerings that we're given to our customers, specifically the ability to take the data, we host the service for the customer, so it's all in all operated within the Dell IMC infrastructure team and then we can map that data up to the cloud. So whether they want to go to any of the big three cloud providers, we can map that up, there's no egress fees and they can go ahead and take advantage of the data very quickly and easily. So really from a flexibility perspective, being able to meet them where they are. That's absolutely right. So whether the customers are in the edge or in there in their core or in the cloud, we'll be there to help their needs. So this is the first Dell Technologies world that is digital, lot of opportunity for folks to learn and still be able to have as much engagement as possible. Talk to us about some of the things that you're excited about that customers are going to learn in terms of how you're helping them get more value out of the data faster in a time of such massive change. Yeah, so we're doing so much within the team. So earlier this year, we introduced a new product called PowerScale, which is taking our industry leading 1FS software for scale out file. And we have put that and really taken advantage of what we have within the Dell family and taking the best server hardware with PowerEdge. We've taken a 1FS software, mirroring it together, we're really extracting the best value of the data with those platforms. So again, the industry leading scale file solution, mirroring that up with the industry leading server solution. And now we've got even more robust solution. On top of that, we have announced our object scale solution. And so object scale is an object store solution that's specifically targeted for customers running Kubernetes. We partnered up with our friends over at VMware and we've developed an object store specifically for developers on top of Kubernetes environment so that when customers want to go and start generating new applications with object store and new cloud native apps, they can really quickly spin up new object store, new buckets and start writing data. It's very simple and easy to use. And then when they want to grow at scale, we've got our ECS object store to get them to that petabyte scale. So it's very exciting. Can you give us an example of a customer that's already doing that that you see is really achieving some significant benefits? Yeah, yeah, so probably the one that's the most fun to watch is we're working with a company that's doing amusement park rides and really taking a look at all the sensor information so that they can get predictive analytics in terms of the maintenance of the rides, making sure that if there is maintenance that needs to get done, they can get that fixed as quickly as possible so that customers going through those rides. A, of course they're gonna be safety. Safety is always number one, but being able to make sure those rides are maintained so that the lines move quickly and they can keep customers going through and you get as many people enjoying those rides as you can. And that's all coming from our streaming data platform, which is, again, taking that information, all of that sensor feed, and they need that real-time value that we talked about before. They get that real-time value, but they also get the historical view so they can see how the maintenance is kind of evolved over time. So that's one that's been a lot of fun to work with here over the last couple of months. And hopefully we get to go back to amusement parks and the calendar year 2021, wouldn't that be nice? You mentioned safety and that, yeah, and that kind of makes me think about security. We've seen so much about increases, like companies like Zoom, for example, with increased scrutiny on their data security, more compliance requirements, data protection being even more important as there was this massive pivot to work from home seven months ago. And a lot of folks are still there and are going to be there. Tell me a little bit about some of the things that you're doing to facilitate this data, this massive increase in unstructured data is managed securely, so that if there's any sort of breach or incident, your customers are in good shape. We have a lot of focus on security within the organization, and that's really across the board, and that's really across all of Dell Technologies products. So we do a lot of things around encrypted drives to make sure that if the drives are ever pulled out of the system, there's no way to go access that data. There's just no way to go do that without the original keys, and you can't get those original keys when they're not in the system. So we make sure that we do a lot of hardening at the system at that level. We work very closely with the broader partner and ecosystem community to make sure that we provide things like ransomware protection, isolate, so in case if something does happen, A, you identify it as quickly as you can, but B, you make sure that you have a good data set and a good golden copy of that data that you can always go back to. You mentioned ransomware, it's really been on the rise in 2020. I read a stat a couple of days ago that every 11 seconds a ransomware attack occurs, and when we think about how many new industries are exposed, I read recently that the New Zealand Stock Exchange was hit a couple of times, Carnival Cruise Line, the Department of Veterans Affairs, social media with Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and 235 million user profiles, great from an unsecured cloud database. So not only is that threat landscape expanding, but we've got more people accessing corporate networks with maybe personal devices, where those phishing emails are probably even getting more sophisticated. Yeah, we spend, like I said, we spend a lot of time, we have a whole security team within the storage group that does nothing but thinks about security and how we can harden the products to make sure they stay secure and robust, and we keep the bad people away. That's excellent. All right, so any predictions what we might see in the next six to nine months from Dell Technologies with respect to helping customers who are hopefully have pivoted from this survival mode to now being able to thrive, leverage data, extract values from it to identify new revenue streams or new products or new innovation. What do you see on the horizon? Yeah, I see just the continued acceleration of the technology I see. Dell Technologies spending a lot of our time focused on solutions so that when we can go into a customer environment, we talk about solutions and we talk about how we can get time to value. So how quickly can we get up the customer up and running with a known good configuration, supportable, it's enterprise grade, and we can have our customer spend time writing code and developing new applications and not worrying about how to go build that infrastructure. So you're gonna see a lot of things and a lot of partnerships across our entire infrastructure team, which internally we call ISG and we're really working together as one ISG team to make sure all of our networking, our storage and our compute and all of the software that goes around that we act as one overall family for our customers and provide that solution. Then we also partner very close with VMware to provide that software layer. So that again, when we go to our customers and they wanna start a new project, we have all of the tools within our portfolio. We've been around for a very long time. We have very strong focus on both the horizontal, the various workloads that customers are running and also very specific vertical through the industry and teams that just are dedicated on that. But I think you're gonna see a lot more is the solution-based approaches where we can go into customers, we can provide that solution and it's up and running in a very, very short amount of time.  I know you've been with Dell for 10 years. What are the three things that you would say if you're in a customer situation and they're looking at Dell and maybe they're looking at HPE for example or some other competitors, what are the three things that you think really differentiate what Dell technologies can deliver with respect to extracting value from massive amounts of unstructured data? Absolutely, I mean, this is where I get really excited and why I'm so proud to be at Dell because if I look at all of the advantages that we have that we can bring to our customers, we have just the knowledge. So I think first and foremost when it comes to unstructured data, we have been the most prevalent player in the market. And again, if you look at different verticals, think about like media and entertainment, we've won an Emmy just because we've been around and we had the technology that's really met the needs. But that's one, we have all of the deep knowledge and that's really gonna give a lot of benefit to our customers. Two, we've got the breadth of the portfolio. So not only do we have very specific knowledge in one area where I actually cover all of the unstructured portfolio for our customer's needs, whether that's file or object or streaming data, might even be the data management, data management when we have data ITU to help our customers understand that data portfolio is really broad. So deep knowledge, we have a broad portfolio and then we have the overall Dell Technologies family that we go forward with. So again, it's not just about the unstructured data, it's everything that goes around that. It's the servers, it's the computer, it's all the infrastructure, but it's the software. That's also our partners in that whole ecosystem that we built up across Dell Technologies. That's what really makes us strong and really the best person to go partner with. Excellent knowledge, breadth and a large ecosystem. John, thank you so much for joining us on theCUBE today, talking to us about all the exciting things that you're working on and what's to come. We appreciate your time. Thank you very much. For John Shirley, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's coverage of Dell Technologies World 2020.


Alright, how's the accursed day arrived? Last episode, we got an ominous ending with the king's egg just beating the heart being faster and faster and faster. I've been waiting! I'm excited, but I'm scared! I'm getting ahead of myself. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is JackTheBus where I, Shinobi, did episode 91 of our HunterHunter watch today called The Strong and the Weak. Last episode, seeing Golan and Killua's fight against Knuckle and Shoot beginning. At least their final fight. And it's not really going well for either of them. Golan's really outmatched with this entire like bankruptcy type interest mechanic. And Killua's just in his head about Illumion running and fighting and everything. We're gonna hop right into it. If you're new to the channel, chop us up and hit that big blue bell and let's hop right into the episode. A new day rises. What is this lookout? Wait, you've never seen this before. I'm gone. Oh. Oh, I didn't really think about this part. We're all noticing. I didn't like the like screaming. Can he just come out?  I don't know. I would assume so. Bro, her fingers are- Did he just command her from a- Oh my god, he just punched his way out? Pooh said I'm ready.  Oh, this is so gross. Oh my god, this is so gross. Yeah, I think she's gonna die from this. Bro's got that cell tail.  He's even got a helmet. He's gorgeous. Already radiating then too. It's so heavy. Oh, he just looks evil, man. For like snacks, you know, like graham crackers and stuff? King? Guys, I'm here. Oh. Yeah, sing her now. She's not looking good. Oh, he actually wants to save her. I thought it was just assumed that she died. I loved that penguin. Bro, he made it for you. Oh, yeah. Oh, the death throws. She's like still moving. It's gross. God, dude, he looks crazy. Is that like a syringe tail? It looks like a syringe. Listen to him. Please, cold. Please. Man's one shot the poor penguin. Bonzo. He deserves better. He told cold, not you. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I can already tell how this guy operates. God damn. Please don't kill cold. We're seeing this monster that's been created. Even they're scared. Stop. Stop showing her. Please stop. Is he... Is that the penguin's leg? Of course you have.  They're getting right to work. He's like this is more like it. God dang, dude. Those four together terrify me. None of these guys matter anymore, genuinely. They can all just perish and it wouldn't even change anything. They're still trying to save her. Wow. I figured instinctively they would instantly just not care about her anymore and only care about the king, but they've developed more than that. She was the queen. You can't save her. It's kind of sad, but they're still all just... I don't like any of it. Pino doesn't care. The king is here. Her entire objective is just the king, though. They don't have any use for the queen anymore. That's so sad.  Like I said, it's all disgusting and she's the reason this happened, but... That doesn't sit right with Cole. Again, they're not just... Bugs. They carry on the human's will and whatnot. It's not right to them. I'm just too sad. I'm more depressed about the penguin, bro. Yeah, take her to the local hospital. Is that a try? Also, where the hell is that koala? They...? Oh, humans? He actually does want to try with humans, maybe. Cole's gonna just go try to find help. The king would not be very happy about that. A view? That's what that was? Oh. Oh. Um, okay. That's, uh... Okay. I like his design a lot. Yeah, okay. Yeah, no, that works. What do you think? Oh no, he sees cold. Oh no. He is going off to try to find humans to help. That's crazy. He's the... He's this evening's fine entertainment. I figure he'll play for the king. Okay, well, you can't... You're exactly good. I guess you can't copy him, never mind. Looks like was that on purpose? What is this? Oh, more human balls. He is the entertainment. Ah, yes. He's trying to fly. Oh. He has a taste for the finer things. Ah. Oh, humans with men. Oh no, that's his baseline for hunger? God. There he goes. I like how he's not, like, instantly good at it. Oh, shoot. It's a white flag! Dude, I feel bad for Colt, man. He has a white flag. I like how Colt knows it's, like, a sign of surrender to an extent. I don't think these guys are going to hear him out, if I'm being honest. They would have their guards up. Is he going to tell them everything? How do you explain all of this? He needs to talk to Netedo. Oh, and Netedo, they hear all this. Because the king is not surrendering. He's speaking on behalf of everybody else.  The king was early to the punch. He just punched out. It's sad, because those were, like, inherently his friends. They're not mindless. What did he see? Oh no, a town.  Okay, but chill. These aren't the special ones. You don't need them. Oh no. Oh my gosh. Oh no, the kid. No, stop. Dude. This show is so f***ed up, man. What is this? Spit the child's brain out. Ooh. Damn. He doesn't want to be lectured too. Even when he knows, like, nothing about the world yet. Inherently. Well, I mean, he knows some, but still. He knows she's strong. He was trying to kill her, but she resisted it? Wow. Damn. She is really strong, though. It's a different breed. I don't know. I guess we just leave. Oh, this guy. Oh, hi. I'm sorry. Yeah, that means there's no more of you bastards to be born. Thank goodness. Of your own kingdom? Hey, you're free to go, dude. Job's done. It's against their nature. It is kind of dreary. I won't lie. Oh, God. Why did I have to see him again? I hate that so much. I forgot about Rammit. I'm going to be honest. Rammut? Rammut? He's just leaving. Brother, I think you're alone in this. You and Panda. Everybody wants a dip. Weird, I've grown so accustomed to this. Oh, it's much too late, Cole. I'm sorry. He's trying to hold both ends together. It's not working.  That is a good question. Oh, that is so gross. They've evolved to the point where they will. I think. It's like a human can mate with a Camara. Ay, ay, ay. Cole, just join the man. Oh, he is going to meet with that at all. Yeah, that's why. That's why they should do it. Yeah, he's going to say he might kill him. Yeah, he's taking us seriously. I think Cole's ready to give his life to that. Yeah, he sees the bigger picture. He's like that. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. Try this mess. Oh. They know. Today is the day. Oh, he met them all in five. I see. Okay. Oh, wait. We don't get to see the outcome? Or, like, the ending of the fight? It's going to be all five. Oh, there's Knuckle. There's Shoot. There's God the Killer. Hell yeah. Dude, oh, and there's the deadiest of pay. Bro. Yeah. Knuckle. How did it all end then? It's kind of cute. 30 days. That's rough, buddy. Oh, um, that would be a very rich man with that milly. Oh, they won. So, going in Killua are staying behind. Dang. I guess all five came, but... Oh, wait. No, where's Palm? The four of them came, but they were just seeing them off. Damn. Rip. That's tough. I mean, you could still just go in. You don't need their permission. It was more just, like, a symbolic thing that you're strong enough. I guess they're not strong enough. Dang. That's why they didn't show it, because they lost. More an optimum interpretation of how they lost. Oh, my God. It's enormous. He had nothing left to throw out. Damn, even Knuckle's face, he was like, You can do it. Damn, that's tough, dude. And Gon literally has to physically carry around that weight with him, that he was too weak to win. They didn't see the end of Killua's fight, though. That was the end of Gon's, but Killua might have won. Because they needed both pieces, or they needed to both defeat them. At first, I thought he won even taking all that debt, but it was too much. It literally turns him off. He is lit, what? After that, it's goodbye. Does he think he doesn't want to get to the point where he has to leave him to die? He's so conflicted in his own mind, still. Damn, dude, what an episode. We saw the king literally born. They're wiping people out, because he just doesn't care about them.  They don't care about the queen either. I don't know what I expected him to be like, but he's even more intimidating and terrifying than I anticipated. Not to mention strong. And now we have Colt going to the human side, asking to see Netto though. Gon and Killua, two weeks to even come back. Still thinking that Kite's alive, but he's just a zombified version with a puppet master. Everything's so off the wall, just crazy, dude. I'm eating it all up, but it's tough. It feels like so daunting, and I don't know, it feels like everything's going so poorly for everyone, aside from the king. It's just a depressing show. Gon's run into these obstacles where he's seen that he's too weak, but he always comes out of it most of the time, like, happy. I don't know how to improve. I can improve. I can do this. This feels like he's at rock bottom. Like, he's not good enough, and he never will be. It's sad, man. Guys, that has been it for episode 91 of our Hunter Hunter Watch. A lot of thoughts, I'm assuming, that you guys have on this one. So drop your comments down below. Do drop us up on the channel if you're new, and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.


So, let's do an analysis, analysis of our data. Often, you do this phenomenal thing where you throw your data into a statistical evaluation. So, you use statistics to interpret your data. And in fact, that's always the case. To figure out if your data are significant, the findings that you are showing are significant. You need to use statistics. So, that's something that you often will employ the use of in your analysis. The other thing, and the thing that we will more likely engage in, is graphing. You can graph your results to help you visualize the outcome or the conclusion that you are going to draw. I'm bringing in the graph because I think it's important for us to make sure that we know that on the x-axis, as opposed to the y-axis, the x-axis is where the independent variable goes. And this, I think, makes graphing like, oh, so much easier. Because it's prescribed when you have an independent variable. So, for example, the amount of protein in the diet, that is what is going to go on the x-axis. And then the body weight, that was our dependent variable, that's the thing that's going to change. And we're going to expect to see, I mean, what kind of, what would we see like our body weight would, I can't, we'd have to figure out how we're going to set this in here. But we might see some kind of a trend where as protein increased, our body weight increased, or whatever, as protein, whatever. I did not think this through to show you that, oh, but we could totally have those results be possible. The point is that then we can see, we have a visual on the relationship between the two different variables. So, graphical analysis is what we will do. Statistical analysis is what the scientists do. And someday wouldn't it be awesome to incorporate statistical analysis into Viya 1?


Hi, I'm Lidia Peraza, a principal in hydric and struggles Mexico office with more than 20 years of experience in the consumer markets, life sciences and healthcare sectors. I am excited to speak with Margaret Enriquez, the CEO of Bacara, a French luxury brand internationally recognized as the leader for high end exclusive crystal products. Maggie has over 30 years of experience, including over 13 years heading up LVMash Champagne House crew. Maggie has also worked for several multinational including Seagram, Nabisco, Moet, Hennessey, States and Wine. Notably, she was awarded Chevalier de la Legendreurneau on France 2021. She also has served on Bacara Board of Directors. Maggie, thank you very much for joining us today. Thank you very much for inviting me. It's my pleasure. Thank you, Maggie. What leadership skills and experiences have you found to be essential as you have navigated being CEO in the luxury goods industry? When you talk about luxury, one characteristic that is very different from the mass market is that a leader in the luxury world has to really go deep in the roots of the house and go very, very far and fly very, very high. Why? Because a luxury house, to be luxury, you have to be first unique and different. And it was first unique and different when it was founded, so you have to go to look for the reason of being and then project the house into the future, getting again and again this number one for this kind of position that brings the light that enlightens the path for others. So the first characteristic you have to have is you must have is to understand that you have to go into the roots of the house to nourish your strategy to then define your vision to go much, much further and to be able to fly very high. That is an essential characteristic of a leader in the luxury world. On the other side, because you are really bringing from the past to build the future, you have to communicate very well in order to bring everyone with you in the project. So the communication is absolutely essential. And then of course, normally a strong house is a house that is based on the reason of being that doesn't change and values. And so normally, to make sure that values are well taken care of and they are lived in every action, you have to be a very strong, determined and very valued person. Of course, any advice you would give your younger self looking back on your career journey money. Yes, of course, one of the characteristics that we talk and it's related to luxury is time. Because it's about the emotion you create between the brand and the consumer. This takes time because there is no, nothing or no, no link that is created between a brand and a person that doesn't need time to be built. My recommendation to younger generations is that they have grown up learning that everything is instantaneous because in the telephone, everything happens immediately. But the truth is that my recommendation is to understand that time is essential to build great things in life. And time is essential to understand that you have to build with work and patient. Our most recent route to the top annual global report, which tracks and analyzes the profile of CEOs at the largest company in 25 markets, found low but steady progress on gender balance in 2022. 13% of new CEO appointments were women compared to 11% in 2021 and 9% in 2020. And of course, the share of women on executive leadership teams also remain slow. What needs to be done to advance the ENI efforts within organizations and how do you personally advance the ENI efforts as CEO? Well, I think it's diversity and inclusion is absolutely critical if you want to win in the long term. An organization needs to have diversity because diversity represents the consumer and the world we have in front of us. So there is no way a company will succeed if it is not serious in diversity and inclusion. Because the responsibility, the social responsibility of a company is absolutely critical and it's something that is going to be seen by the young generation, the talent who is coming in the company. So I don't see how you can get off this without harming the future development of the company. So this is the first side. The second is what can we do to really continue to improve these strengths. And I want to say, you know, and I know sometimes I am criticized because of this, but I don't care, is that the time women have been in the world of business is quite short. And so this was a universe that was completely managed by men. It was their universe for years and years. And so women have been there for what 80 years from, you know, it's very little considering the time that the people live in the way we know and history has given us the information. And I think we have to be very proud of what we have done so far. And what is critical is those people who are convinced that this is something to be done because there is no way to succeed without it. We have to make sure that we implement it. We have to make sure that in any decision in the company, if there is a talent that is a woman or a man, and they are both the same, give some privilege or some priority to the woman, because this is going to help not just going to.  But if they are even give a priority to diversity and inclusion. So bringing this consciousness gradually, I think there's no company that can succeed if they don't go into this trend because, as I said before, young generations, they really ask companies to be committed to the planet and to be committed to diversity and inclusion. But to be committed to people. So I think we have to, those of us who believe in this, we have to apply it. We have to try to push hard. And those who are not so much convinced will be convinced if they want to protect their companies for the longer. As a female executive and board member, how have you navigated your career? What advice would you share with women who aspire to be in leadership positions too? Well, I have to say that I have always managed my career, always thinking, well, I never thought that it was a problem to be a woman. Probably this was the first thing. And it happened to me when I arrived in Mexico, I was called by a university, invited me to give a conference. I said at the beginning what I, what is what I'm going to say. But then I said, no, no, yes, you're right. I have the responsibility of sharing my experience. Give me six months and I will prepare something which I did, and I did this conference for many, many years. And I always very proud to share my own experience and how I have built my career. There's no formulas, but there's something that is critical and it is about how you believe in you, how you believe in your projects, how you take time to work, to be curious, to learn, to understand that you work in a world of men. So you don't, you cannot come with your way of being and thinking that everybody is going to take care of you. No, you have to understand that men are different. They are simpler. They just focus. Let's try to learn. Let's question ourselves until we can really get to be ourselves. Very strong value driven, I mean, never negotiate values, but understanding that we have to adapt to a universe that is not the universe that is being managed by women. And one recommendation that I think is extremely important because it is very connected to our essence as women is when we work, we are there to be respected, not to be loved. So every decision we make has to be thinking that the decision corresponds to what we have to do to be respected, not to be loved. This can change many, many behaviors and it can be very useful. What were some of the most impactful ways you were mentored and sponsored through your career, Maggie? Yeah, I was very much sponsored, I have to say. And the first was when I was quite young and the president of SIGRAM International, SIGRAM was a very, very big player in the world of wine and spirit. Today is almost equivalent to Pernorica and my boss, I was very young, I was 32 years old, and my boss thought that I was capable to manage a position of a president. You really find three companies together. And the trust of this man, the confidence and the opportunity he gave me was absolutely critical for the career that I have been. And then, years after, Christophe Navarre was the president of Muay Thai International, when he invited me to join Argentina as a president of all the properties of Muay Thai in Argentina was already something fantastic, but well, he didn't know me. But the most interesting and really amazing sporsery he did was what he invited me to run the house of proof, the house of champagne. So it was the first time in Latin America ever man or women run a house of champagne. And this was thanks to Christophe who believed in me and gave me the opportunity and I'm very grateful to him. We are increasingly focused on how critical it is for organizations to have a culture of allyship, one in which employees help to advocate for one another. From your perspective, Maggie, what are some ways that leaders can embrace and drive this culture. Yeah, allyship is networking and networking is essential for creativity. So I believe that today, because of the connectivity, it is very different to probably 30 years ago, that you have to really impulse and provoke this kind of connection. Today, what is critical is to let the connections happen to understand that organizations are not anymore pyramidal and hierarchical, they are molecular. And so provoke this kind of connection and networking will not only help to to strengthen the kind of allies between people and between organization or divisions of the organization, but it will absolutely help to develop creativity, which is something fundamental for the growth and the development of the company. Maggie, thank you for making the time to speak with us today. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much. It's been my pleasure. Thank you.


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of everyone, happy Monday, happy YouTube live day. So before I begin, I wanna talk about what we did over the weekend. So over the weekend, in Saturday, we had a London meetup and a New York City meetup at the same time. So MIC's around the world, guys. You know, when we first started, we wanted to throw events around the world. We wanted to unite traders around the world. And you know, when we started, there was a couple of people trying to imitate us. And as you can see, they didn't really, you know, follow through with it. But this weekend, we had an awesome, awesome, awesome meetup in London. We had an awesome, awesome, awesome meetup in New York. New York City was actually a really great time. We took over the entire bar, buying shots for everyone, having a great time, talking.  Some people are a little bit more outgoing. So it was the perfect combination of everyone. And you know, when we had these large meetups, like Utah, where there's 200 people showing up, it's a lot different than having like an intimate group of like 30 people showing up, you know, which was the New York City meetup. And you know, some meetups are members only. Some meetups are all around everyone. London was everyone. New York was members only. So having a meetup of just members only was really, really fun. You know, we got to drink together. We got to hang out together. We had a really, really great time. And I think Bao later today is gonna post those photos on Instagram. So go to instagram.com slash minevestonclub to see the photos from the meetup. It was great to meet Nancy for the first time. She's awesome, awesome, awesome. Her special thing is she loves to take shots with a straw. So she sips on the shots with a little bit of a straw. It's awesome. But shout out to Nancy and shout out to Eric for setting up the meetup in New York. I was only able to make it to the first bar after four shots, three beers. I was donezo. So I think Eric kept continuing the party with James. So that was a really great time, guys. So MIC is all around the world.  We like to meet traders around the world. And it doesn't matter if you're shy, it doesn't matter if you're outgoing. We're all passionate about the same thing, which is trading and making a better living for ourselves from trading. So we all have something in common to talk about. So that was the awesome meetup that we had. Now let's talk about the market, right? I'm recording this at the end of October, 2022. And the market's been really, really choppy lately. So, you know, if you've been living under a rock or if you're watching this video late, inflation is the big thing that's kind of destroying our market cycle right now. And inflation is normal. You know, a normal inflation is about two to 3% every single year. That's very average, very normal. That's expected. But this year we've had, you know, about an eight and a half, 9% inflation, right? So almost three times the average amount of inflation and that could be from all the stimulus that was printed. It's from all the supply chain issues.  And, you know, that's led to the Federal Reserve, people that control the money to tighten up this cycle by raising interest rates and pretty much collapsing everything, right? And, you know, in the long-term, long-scheme things, you know, this is the right way to do it. You know, long-term, this is a very healthy thing. But in the short term, we're seeing stock prices down, you know, 30 to 80% some of the biggest, some of the baddest names out there. So, you know, it's a very tough market. A lot of people, obviously, were short-buy traders and a lot of people say, oh, my God, you guys must be banking in this market. Everything's going straight down. Just hit the short button and everything's going straight down. But the truth is, as a short-buy trader, you know, we like to make money when we are in a raging bull market. And the reason why is this. In a bull market, a stock would extend from $5 to $55. And there's about $50 worth of range or worth of room to make money. But in a bear market, in a cycle when everything is just going down, that range is contracted. So instead of stocks going from $5 to $50, they're going from $5 to $6, okay? And because that range is contracted to only $1, whereas before, it was like $50 you could make, it's a lot more difficult to make money. Now, that doesn't mean it's impossible to make money. If you look at our website, My Investing Club, you could see my broker statements on there and I'm up a little bit over $1.4 to $1.5 million in a bear market. So there's still money to be made. It's not $3 million, $4 million like last year, but there's still money to be made. Now, the reason why I explain this and the reason why I say this is because our job as traders in this current market cycle of high interest rates, high inflation, high headaches is really not to make money. And I know that it sounds kind of counterintuitive. I know it sounds kind of crazy, but in this market cycle, our job is to pretty much stay alive. Our job is to stay alive and wait for our ideal scenarios and our ideal setups and our ideal stocks to come to us.  Now, the market that we had in 2020 and 2021 was a market that was unseen. It was like the internet bubble, it was the tech bubble, it was the crypto bubble, it was the bubble of all bubbles, right? And a lot of people made a lot of money in those markets. And what we have to remember in the stock market is maybe that year, like 2020, 2021, those two years are supposed to last you the next two, three years, right? Of not making any income. So for example, if one year, let's say you make a million dollars a year, just random, you make a million dollars a year, but one year you made $3 million, you know, three times the average thing, then you shouldn't really be upset that this year is more of a break-even year or this year is more of a slow year because that year was abnormally good, which should help cover the abnormally bad year that we're having. And now, as professional traders, as hedge fund level traders that we are, we have to remember that, you know, we have to trade when there's an optimal market cycle, when there is optimal opportunities. And this market has been very, very, very, very, very, very tough. You know, bonds have been down the lowest in the last 100 years. Stocks have been down the lowest in the last 20 years. The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates at the highest rate in the last 50 years. And Chinese stocks are now getting banned and they're in a massive bear market. Everything is crazy right now, right? Even as I'm recording this guys, everything is insanely, insanely crazy. So what can you do as a trader to make money in this market cycle?  You know what I'm saying? So today was a losing day for me. I lost about $300, $400 today. And that's not really too bad.  But on losing days, I like to reflect and I like to kind of talk about what I could do good, what I could have done better, and what to do to improve for next time. So what I've been doing and everyone has their own method to their madness, everyone has everything that they wanna kind of focus on themselves with my method to my madness in this market cycles, I have been sizing down. I've been sizing down because I haven't really seen much opportunity. And yeah, sure, if you don't really see any opportunity, you don't really have to trade.  Sometimes I have to get that fix out of my system and that fix out of my system is as simple as placing a trade that's a significantly, significantly less size. So I'll start like MOTS today. And I was using very small size. They didn't really feel right. I didn't really feel good about it. So I took a small loss. It's not really the end of the world. But what I've been seeing a lot of traders doing in this market cycle, what I highly suggest that everyone, avoid in this market cycle is I've been seeing a lot of traders size up a little bit more than usual to account for the lack of range. So because the range is less, because the range is less, they're trying to use more size to take advantage of that less range. But the problem is if you're wrong, it's gonna take a very long time to make that money back. So this market cycle is really tough. We are, again, this is being recorded in October. We are entering November. So November is historically the craziest month for small cap runners. And November is historically the craziest month for small cap runners because it's something called the Turkey Crack Week. We've made videos on this. We call it the zombie month, but November is historically the zombie month. And that's because November time, Thanksgiving time, a lot of people, they leave, they travel, they go on vacation, the human volume is shrunk and the robots tend to take control. They make everything go crazy so that these hedge funds and institutions could kind of cook their books into the end of the year. So November is historically a very, very crazy time in the stock market. And this year may be a little bit different because the action is so muted. But my thought process is, guys, it's been a really tough year. If you're staying alive this year, you're doing well. If you're break-even this year, you're doing well. If you're making money this year, you're doing extremely well, but I don't want people to get discouraged. I don't want people to get upset that they're not really making money in this market cycle because 95% of traders are gonna get wiped out in a cycle. 95% of traders that you were friends with or that you knew or whatever are not gonna be around in the next couple months because what was working the last couple of years is no longer working anymore.  So what's happening in this market cycle, and I think it's probably gonna keep happening for at least another six to eight months, is the market is weeding out all the traders that aren't gonna last the test of time. I've been trading for about eight and a half years, but I've been trading for 20 years. And the number one thing that I think that you guys need to understand to be a trader long-term is your ability to adapt. You must be a very adaptable person to make it in the trading game long-term. As you can see, what worked in 2020, did not work in 2021, is not working in 2022. So if you don't have the ability or the insight to adapt, then you're probably not gonna make it as a trader. And that's why trading is so tough doing it alone. You know, if you're trying to trade alone and all of a sudden things aren't working, you're just gonna keep trying to go back to what was working because that's how you made your money in the first place. But in the stock market, the market is ever changing. The cycles are ever changing. The opportunities are ever changing. And if you're not able to adapt to that, you're gonna lose money. So in my opinion, a lot of these traders that have been losing money this year have been refusing to adapt. They've been sizing the larger than usual. They've been trading the same setups they've been trading before. They've been trying to stick around all day long because they think that's the way to make money. But the process isn't different. We're still doing the same thing, trading until 10, 30 AM zombie times. And some days there's great opportunities. Some days there's not great opportunity, but that doesn't mean that you step out of your comfort zone or you do something that you are not used to or comfortable with just to help compensate. So right now, guys, right now, while it's slow, I know it sounds cheesy, I know it sounds corny, but this is the best time to learn. This is the best time to refine your skills. This is the best time to improve all of your flaws as a trader so that when the market does pick up again, because it will pick up again, right? This is the stock market, guys. This is the biggest wealth generator in the entire world is a stock market. When the entire world was shut down in the pandemic, one thing was open and now it's the stock market. And right now the action is tough, the action is difficult, but I do promise that things are gonna get better, things are gonna get easier, but the question is will you be able to last the test of time? Will you be able to last the storm? That is the stock market crashing right now and to be able to make money when the cycle continues. If we're in a bull market for 10 years and we're in a bear market for two years, that means that the next cycle is gonna be another 10 years of up, right? So your job as a trader, your job as a professional trader, I'm not talking about the guys that are buying YouTube alerts, the text message alerts, the emailers, your job as a professional trader, I consider myself a hedge fund-stop trader is just to stay alive in these markets, break-even is okay, a win is great, but don't be discouraged if you're just breaking even, not stop, not stop, not stop, because the reality is, even if this entire year is a break-even year, even if this entire year is a small loss year, the next couple of years will be exponential return years because the market cycle will be getting easier, it'll be much better to make money and that's kind of where the opportunity is, guys. So a couple of things in addition to that as well is as you guys have been seeing on the YouTube channel, I post my $145,000 live trade, which did really well. I've been posting the day trading vlogs that I've been doing really well and basically the way I'm doing it is every Thursday, I'm gonna alternate between a day trading vlog and a live trading video. So the first $145,000 live trading video was available free for everyone. Now going forward, it's gonna be available for lifetime members and because last Thursday I released the day trading vlog, this Thursday is gonna be a live trading video. So this Thursday for lifetime members, I have another live trading video coming out. I haven't really, I'm not really sure which one I'm gonna post yet. I have about 18, 17 recorded. Of those 17, 18 I have recorded, I have about five that are fully edited. So I'm just gonna kind of slowly, every other week release it. So this week is gonna be another live trading video on Thursday for lifetime members. And then the Thursday after is gonna be another episode of the day trading vlog and I have about three or four weeks of that already ready as well. So I've been spending a lot of time trying to get these videos edited, just spending a lot of time trying to voice over these videos.  It's been the hardest market cycle in a very, very long time. It's been very, very tough to make money. If I wasn't an eight and a half year veteran, I know that I'd be struggling and not really making as much money. But hey, I'm showing up every day. I'm sticking to the process and some days I make money, some days I don't. But my job right now is just to stay alive. So I'm reminding you guys in the worst market cycle and the toughest market cycle, in the worst bear market in the last 20 years, if we're able to survive this, we will be able to consistently make money until the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years. So it's discouraging, it's annoying, it's tough, but if you are not using this time to double down on your flaws as a trader, if you're not using this time to educate yourself as a trader, if you're not using this time to improve as a trader, then you're just wasting time. You're just wasting time. So my advice in the slow market cycle is don't get emotional, don't get upset, don't be frustrated. Instead, use this slow action as an opportunity to watch the videos, to learn and to improve.  There's wind and there's losses. So you're gonna be seeing everything. So hopefully this video helps you guys. Hopefully you guys learned a lot from this video. I'm gonna kind of go back to the room and help everyone else that has questions. So thanks everyone and I will see you guys back next week.


Fibro-optic cabling or copper data cabling. Which should you choose? Fibro-optic Ethernet cable vs copper data cabling. Structured cabling offers a whole system of cables along with connectors and related hardware for voice and data cabling. It is applicable for enterprise data networks as well as office fit out cabling. Your preference for IT cabling material can directly affect the productivity of your IT arrangement. The trouble-free and fast transfer of data across the network, the power consumption and the overall impact on the environment. Usually, enterprise IT networks consider copper data cabling, mostly from the CAT 5e, CAT 6, and CAT 6a specifications for data cabling. They also have a range of specifications for Fibro-optic Ethernet cable installations. 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In addition to that, the length of the cable and higher speed of data transfer needed for the most advanced business system led to the introduction of electromagnetic interference, EMI, even in 10G cabling. The installation of 10G cabling is comparatively complicated and demands for high skills and expertise. Fibro-optic Ethernet cable. Fibro-optic cabling contains very thin fibers of plastic or glass, which are called optical fibers. Every strand is capable of carrying a higher bandwidth over a greater distance. The network bandwidth and speed of data transmission are substantially higher through fiber-optic cabling as compared to copper cabling. A fiber-optic Ethernet cable also consumes less space, is less heavy, and has a higher density and fiber splicing allows it to be laid in much longer runs. Expert organizations are preferring fiber-optic cabling for an increasing number of process and data-intensive applications. This includes unified communications, UC, and access to cloud-based and cloud-hosted services, which is faster, copper or fiber. Copper cables have in many cases the same capabilities of transmission speeds as fiber cables. However, fiber-optic cables have the added advantage of transmitting those speeds over greater distances. The comparison between copper cable and fiber-optic Ethernet cable when transmitting 10 gig highlights the difference. Copper data cables are generally standardized at 90 to 100 meters cable links. However, in some cases, speeds are achievable on a lesser category of cable over a shorter distance sir, as in the case below for 10 gig over cat 6. Copper cabling 10 gigabit distances. Fiber-optic Ethernet cable transmission speed. When would you use fiber-optic Ethernet cable? Advantages of fiber-optic cable. The chart above shows whenever you require a certain speed over a longer distance then fiber-optic cabling should be used. Also if several connections between the same cabinets or buildings are required then a fiber-optic cable will be easier and less space consuming than installing copper cabling links. A single 96 core fiber cable could link two cabinets at 10 gig at 100 meters with 48 transmission connections, but would require 48 individual cat 6A cables to achieve the same links. What are the disadvantages of fiber-optic cable? As with all cabling infrastructure and technology design, different systems require different connections. If the requirements for connections are small then fiber-optic connections can have a higher cost of hardware for transmission versus copper cabling. A cat 6A cable can link two switches with no requirements for additional hardware, but a fiber cable link will require additional fiber transmission and receive a hardware and the associated additional costs. Fiber-optic cabling also is not suitable for linking analog signals between cabinets. In legacy phone systems if analog lines are to be linked then a copper data cable or phone cable will be required to be installed. What is the disadvantage of copper cable? The distance limitation of copper cable is a main disadvantage of copper cabling installations. User outlets will generally be designed to be within 90 meters of a data cabinet to maintain the industry standards and guarantee the required speeds over the chosen copper cable specified. However when linking buildings, floors or out to sub-cabinets copper cabling cannot be used over 100 meters which is a disadvantage to fiber-optic cable. Multiple links are also a disadvantage of copper cable to fiber-optic cable. Each link in a copper cabling design must have its own designated data cabling link. The space requirements and containment requirements for multiple links can be costly and at times not possible due to space restrictions or building construction. 48 copper cable links can all be contained in one fiber-optic cable which highlights the difference in space and time required to install those cables. Copper cables are also susceptible to interference from outside electrical interference which corrupts the signals it sends. Fiber-optic light pulses do not suffer this interference. Is fiber-optic cable expensive? The components of fiber-optic cable are no greater cost than copper cable components. Furthermore when the core size of the fiber cable increases economies of scale of the cost comes into play and the price by core link reduces. However, the cost difference between copper cable and fiber-optic cable is in the transmission hardware. Copper cabling doesn't require any additional hardware to link cabinets or create additional ports within a user space outside of the switch ports. Fiber-optic cabling however required hardware to convert the traditional electrical data transmission to light pulses and back again for transmission. Depends on the distances, speed and requirements the hardware can be an expensive addition to the existing system. Will fiber-optics replace copper in the future? The price difference between fiber-optic cabling and copper data cabling has narrowed as time has passed and that cost difference is changing here each type of cable is used. Data centers have moved predominantly more towards fiber-optic cabling links is the requirement for increased bandwidth in the data center environment has increased. However, the overall higher cost of cable and hardware still results in copper cabling being the chosen standard in standard locations such as offices, schools and commercial buildings. 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I love this theme. I love the fact that it is whatever and it's not the kind of whatever it's like hey whatever it is with a purposeful whatever. Paul wants us to really think about the things that we think on and what we say, where our heart is, where we're going, where we're living, who we are in the Lord Jesus Christ. So I pray that this morning will be just a morning of encouragement, of exhortation, of love, just as this letter when Paul first penned it was intended to be. So let's bow our hearts together as we seek the Lord for his blessings this morning. Heavenly Father we just ask this morning that you will shower us with your blessings. If as we spend this time together in your Word I pray Father that you would encourage us, that you would speak your truth into our heart Lord and that we will leave here just more knowing who we are in you. Father in what we can do to stand firm and to stand fast until you come back for your church. We love you Father we praise you be glorified this morning in Jesus's name. Amen. Well this letter is from Paul and it's to believers who were in Philippi. It is known as the epistle of joy. It's a letter that is filled with encouragement, exhortation and love from the Apostle Paul to the believers in Philippians in Philippi. It's a thank you note to the believers for their help in Paul's hour of need. He also provides instructions on Christian unity and how to continue to live and to walk in the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to also remember that Paul is writing this epistle as he is under house arrest in Rome. He had not seen the Philippians for years and he loved them and missed them dearly and somehow they heard that Paul was in need so they sent their friend to go and minister to Paul but their friend was sick so Paul sent them back sent him back early but with this epistle filled with encouragement and love for the Philippian church. In this final chapter of Philippians chapter 4 the Apostle Paul closes with an appeal for all believers to stand fast to stand firm in the Lord, to be steadfast, to continue strong in the Lord Jesus Christ, to be united in heart and in purpose. And I think that this exhortation is just as important for us today as it was for in Paul's time or when he read it the first time. So will you turn to chapter 4 and we're gonna read the first seven verses of Philippians. Therefore my beloved and longed for a brethren my joy and crown so stand fast in the Lord beloved I implore Eurodia and I implore Sintakee to be of the same mind in the Lord and I urge you also true companion help these women who labored with me in the gospel with Clement and also the rest of my fellow workers whose names are written in the book of life rejoice in the Lord always again I will say it rejoice let your gentleness be known to all men for the Lord as it hand be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus. So because of the truth that Paul had been writing about up to the third chapters he now goes on to say because what Jesus has done for us because of who he is because of his life and his death and his resurrection because he has given us victory over sin and death therefore since we have this glorious hope this great truth in the Lord Jesus Christ he says stand firm in the faith stand firm in the Lord he had already told them earlier in chapter 1 verse 27 he says this let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ so that whether I come and see you or I am absent that I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel so basically he has been encouraging you guys stay united be united don't let anything rip you apart from the faith that Jesus Christ has given to you in closing this letter he wants to remind them again about the importance of staying strong in the Lord and we need to be reminded of that as well today they are in the midst of the enemies of the cross as Philippians 3 18 states they would be influenced in the ways that would undermine their Christian stability there was a real danger that they would be drawn away and enticed so they had to make a personal resolution in their hearts to be steadfast to stand firm they needed to stand firm in the truth of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be steadfast is to be fixed in a direction to be firm in purpose unwavering firmly established and Paul is basically saying never ever give up your Christian walk because that is your life don't cave in to the pressures that are going to be upon you and that are already upon you and again i believe that word is for us this morning too the reality today the church seems to have fallen asleep we have become lethargic and it seems that many are leaving their Christian faith for other things that seemingly satisfy for just a moment too many Christians are not seeking the truth they're tired of church tired of church people that means you and me they are tired of serving they're tired of walking with the Lord they're tired of obeying the Lord they are filled with excuses for reasons why they have left Jesus behind and Paul desperately doesn't want this to happen to the Philippian church and i know our pastors your pastor my pastor my husband he does not want us wavering in our faith and getting sucked up in the ways of this world there seems to be a willingness to leave the truth whenever truth isn't convenient for us if we aren't centering our lives on the truth of the gospel the truth of the word of god we are going to find ourselves on a very slippery slope of destruction we will find ourselves buying into the world's philosophies adopting their priorities and living a life filled with compromise and not living a life filled with loving Jesus Christ John MacArthur says if Christians are to live and keeping with who they are as children of God they must live according to the word of God through the power of his holy spirit in other words believers are always to keep their feet firmly planted in the revealed truth of the gospels paul loved the philippians he loved them so desperately that's why he says in verse one brothers and sisters you who i love and i long for you're my joy and my crown please i'm begging you stand firm stand firm and this is how you're going to stand firm dear friends i'm going to show you with the rest of this chapter how we can stand firm in the lord jesus christ pay attention to the words that i'm telling you because this comes deep from paul's heart because he loves these people so much he doesn't want them wavering he says stand firm in unity not only do we stand firm in the lord who has who is our solid foundation but we need to stand firm in the unity as believers in the lord jesus christ and he implored euodia and syntache to be of the same mind in the lord in the new living translation he says please you belong to the lord will you please settle your disagreements these two women were paul's friends and he is begging them as christians to be reconciled these two ladies were active members in the church they worked with paul they served alongside paul in the cause of the gospel these faithful servants who were faithfully serving the lord jesus christ and serving paul being there whatever his need may have been now have seemed to suffer some kind of disagreement we don't know what happened and maybe that's a good thing we know how nosy we can be we want to know all the dirt on things so this is just left open for our imagination but paul doesn't really give them strong discipline in this letter he's basically saying something happened you guys are in disagreement now get back together again you guys are believers quit making big mountains out of moghills get over yourselves and continue to follow the lord jesus christ there's no um uh immorality that he's pointing out here there's no theological differences no doctrinal error it's just these two ladies are having issues how many of us ladies have had issues and we've allowed those issues to really overtake our service for the lord jesus christ haven't we haven't we found ourselves at time being so put out by a sister in jesus christ that we will actually choose to go to a different church because we don't want to have to see them and deal with them isn't that sad but isn't that so true you know where you see him in a store and you uh-oh and you run the other way we are believers in the lord jesus christ and that's what paul is saying what is going on with you there is disunity between you and that disunity it's going to spread because there's going to be people taking your side and there's going to be people taking your side and jesus's side is completely left out so what do we do as sisters when we have an issue with somebody what do we do when we have an issue that just seems so hard to deal with that we really do want to leave the church we need to repent of that and we need to seek the lord jesus christ asking him to remind us who we are in the lord jesus christ see we are sisters and we are called to love one another to be unified together to allow god to work through those differences and to help us to deal with those differences so we can come back together again and lift up holy hands to continue to serve the lord there is no disagreement so big that god can't fix we at times won't allow him to fix it because we think we're all that we do and we can look at that sister and say whatever and that's not what paul is talking about we need to allow the lord jesus to transform to change our hearts so we can continue serving the lord and and being joyful in that service whether we've had a an issue with a sister or not god's forgiveness can cover everything what gets in the way is our pride now there are so many times that we choose just to sit in our sin and not allow the holy spirit to reveal our own sin to us because we don't want to see it we don't want to come to the true realization that you know what maybe the issue is me and it's not her maybe i need to humble myself and let christ work within me so we can come to that unity again whatever it is we too have been guilty of causing disunity within the church because of our own attitudes in our own hearts we need to remember that we are sisters in the lord jesus christ if we are believers in the lord jesus christ paul i think amen awesome amen okay those of you who are clapping work real hard to keep that unity going okay don't let it let anything trip us up paul i think was kind of throwing hints throughout the whole letter of philippians and and because i believe he loved these two women and again he knows them and he served with them and he probably knows both of their personalities and and not everybody is going to be best friends and hey let's all hang out together that's not reality but there should be a love that just kind of blankets over all of us right and i i think as paul writes this epistle of philippians in verse one or chapter one of verse nine he says this and i think this is kind of like a little hey i hope these sisters are hearing what i'm saying i'm hoping that they're going to pay attention because this is really for you i'm not saying your name yet but this is for you so this i pray that your love may abound still more and more in the knowledge and in all discernment then he says in verse one chapter or chapter one verse 27 let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of christ stand firm in one spirit with one mind striving together for the face of the gospel and then in chapter two verse two he says fulfill my joy by being like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind so i think this was a subtle hint to these women before he gets to chapter four as they're reading this and and maybe i'm sure that paul is trusting that the holy spirit is going to be working in their hearts so by the time they get to chapter four they're going to realize uh he was talking about us we need to set aside our differences and let's keep keep our mind set on what's right and what's real it's important for us as christians to love and to get along with one another for the sake of the gospel for the sake of one another and especially for the glory of the lord we are sisters in the lord that is something that we will always have in common so we can focus on what's you what unites us we are all sinners saved by the grace of god and in that we can come together right if we can just admit to one another that you know what we mess up sometimes we're sinners god's grace is sufficient for us god's grace will cover us his blood is forgiven us let's let's put the past behind us and let's go forward in the lord jesus christ let's don't let anything come against the truth of the gospel amen amen Ephesians chapter four verses one through three says this again paul speaking therefore I a prisoner for serving the lord beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling for you have been called by god always be humble always be gentle be patient with each other making allowances for each other's faults because of your love make every effort to keep yourself united in the spirit binding yourselves together with god's peace what a challenge for us what a great word for us and what a wonderful reminder for us as sisters in the lord to to make allowances for one another to forgive each other's faults and remember that we are all sinners saved by grace paul repeats his earlier exhortations from Philippians three one when he says finally brethren rejoice in the lord he emphasizes the need to find joy in the lord and in the lord only verse four says rejoice in the lord always and i'm going to say it again in case you didn't hear me the first time i said it or even this time i said it i'm going to say it one more time rejoice in the lord rejoice despite this is paul despite being under house arrest not able to see his friends not having his needs met joy is all over this epistle in the philippians in this short epistle there are 10 references to joy paul understands and knows how free rejoicing in the lord can be deep within the soul paul knows that if we are rejoicing we are not going to be nitpicking on one another notice paul says to rejoice in the lord and not in circumstances it's our relationship with the lord that is the real reason to always find joys the real reason to always rejoice jesus's life flowing through our lives will change everything remember that as paul was it with the philippians earlier that he and paul or excuse me he and sylas were changed in prison and remember the earthquake and and the they were locked in chains chained to a wall and yet what were these two men doing they were singing praises singing worship songs and to jesus these men were filled with joy and as paul is telling the philippian church again to be joyful to rejoice in all things they remember hearing him they remember seeing him they know that he was filled with joy so as he writes this these letters to him it's not just words that he's saying this is something that he lived out in his life he knew how to rejoice he understood what the joy of the lord really meant he could whether he was having a hard day or a good day or good was happening to him or bad was happening to him nothing could take away the joy that was settled deep within his heart and the philippians knew that joy is a supernatural fruit of god's spirit and it is internal happiness is external and it depends on our circumstances circumstances are going to come and go but god's joy wells up from the very depths of our soul christian unity happens when as believers in the lord jesus christ we can humble ourselves and come together and rejoice together in the things that god has done verse five says let your gentleness be known to all men because the lord is at hand and in david guzik's commentary he says this there's a good example of this quality when jesus showed gentleness with a woman who was taken in adultery in a setup and was brought to jesus christ he knew how to show a holy gentleness to her he was able to look past her sin and to look at her this word describes the heart of a person who will let the lord fight his battles he knows that vengeance is mine says the lord it describes a person who is really free to let go of his anxieties and all the things that cause him stress because he knows that the lord will take up his cause so let that gentleness be known to all men we as believers need to show gentleness to everyone not just the people that we like not just the people who get along with us but to all men paul exhorts the philippians and he said and the reason you need to do this is because the lord is near the lord is at hand he is coming soon and that in itself should give incentive to live our lives well when we live with the awareness of jesus's soon return it makes it easier to rejoice in the lord as no matter how hard our life can become what do you want to be found doing when jesus christ comes back again what do you want what words do you want on your lips when you hear the trumpets going off what attitudes do you want in your heart knowing that jesus could be coming back at any moment knowing that he's returning it should prompt us compel us to live lives that are willing to sacrifice for others that we can be an example and wanting others to find the lord jesus christ with how we live our lives but are we even looking forward to his coming do we really understand that the lord is near even as our world is falling apart because he is near and this world is messed up it is so messed up and we need jesus christ so desperately i read this in a i don't know where i got it but i like it so i'll share it says the world will drain us and rob us of all spiritual energy and alertness if we let it we must purpose daily moment by moment to seek our rest and restoration in jesus christ only in this will we find ourselves alert watchful and expectantly awaiting the return of our savior to this end the scriptures can call us to be ready but we christians can fool ourselves into thinking that we're okay that we're alert watchful and waiting for the return of the lord when in reality our senses have been doled we can be duped into the sort of inattentiveness that can result in great harm to both self and others as we fail in our own readiness and we fail to warn others so this morning sweet sisters i just want to have you ask yourselves are you awake are you anticipating the lord's return because he is coming soon everybody i hear as we read the scriptures say that lord jesus christ can come back at any moment if he did it did if he does are you going with him are you ready have you received the lord jesus christ as your lord and savior because that's the only way to enter in to eternity are we ready and are we asking others to be ready are we giving them a warning because that you know as i know truth is so relative today is it not you know my truth is good for me your truth is good for you whatever whatever whatever but the lord says no the only truth that matters is god's truth the only way to heaven is through jesus christ and it's our responsibility amen but it's our responsibility as followers of christ is to share that word with others because they are confused they're deceived and they don't even realize it so we know the truth we have been set free and we need to share that truth with us others so they can be set free as well and because of that truth because christ is coming back again paul goes on to say in verses six and seven be anxious for nothing man how many of this have this highlighted in our bible be anxious for nothing instead of being anxious in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to god and if we do that verse seven is a wonderful promise the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds through christ jesus he said stand firm in the lord keep the unity of the spirit keep walking with christ rejoice always jesus christ is coming back at any minute he's near not only is he coming back but he's near right now with us and because of those truths we can rejoice in the lord and we don't have to be anxious for anything supergent says anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows it only empties today of its strength we are not to worry we are not to be anxious or pulled in so many different directions warren wearsby says our hope pulls us in one direction and our fears pull us the opposite directions and we find ourselves being pulled apart the old english root word for worry means to strangle and i like that because in my times of worrying sometimes i feel like i'm being strangled or i can't breathe and i can't handle it and i don't have to do that if i can do what paul has exhorted me to do well i think we all know that feeling of being strangled with fear and in anxiety and worry worry causes ulcers and back pains and headaches and all kinds of stuff things that we don't have to deal with on a daily basis if we could just learn to do the things that paul has called us to do worry is wrong thinking which means happening in our mind and it's also a wrong feeling that is coming into our hearts has a wrong feeling about circumstances the wrong thoughts about people and the wrong thoughts about things worry or anxiousness is the killer of our joy and paul wants us to avoid those things we hear the command not to worry so we say okay i'm not going to worry today and we grit our teeth and then we get sick because we start worrying about how not to worry paul says don't do that and he knows us so well i mean the lord knows us so well so he had to give a step by step how to okay i'm telling you not to worry but i'm gonna tell you how how not to worry but you got to continue to read and see what i'm saying here because i don't want you to become anxious about becoming anxious that's not what i'm talking about and again to quote warren wearsby he says the antidote to worry is a secure mind the peace of god the peace of god that's going to keep your heart like a garrison like a soldier guarding your heart that's god's peace he will keep you he will keep your heart and your mind through jesus when you have a secure mind the peace of god guards you and the god of peace guides you with that kind of protection we don't have to worry the scripture tells us that we overcome worry through prayer prayer supplication and thanksgiving okay now as women and many of us in this room are martha's the first thing we do when we start to get worried about something is what say something what do we do when we first start to worry we panic right and then and then what do we do do we pray next well that's good if you pray next that's good i think many of us getting a habit of we start to freak out a little bit then we got to see how we can fix it and then we try to fix it and then we call our friends and then we say oh my goodness i need to pray okay father help me and then you continue to do what you do don't we that's normally a pretty normal thing and again the holy spirit knows this as he's pinned this epistle for the apostle paul to have us read today we don't have to handle life like that he says pray i want you to pray pray pray okay i want you to pray well father help me well let's take it a little further a little deeper okay prayer is just conversation between you and god right there's no mysterious thing going on you don't have to say oh south father or anything like that it's just your normal conversation how you talk to your friends but with a little more reverence okay because god yeah we need to talk with him in reverence so we pray three different words for prayer as he tells us to pray that carries the connotation of adoration devotion and worship so when we begin to worry the first thing that helps to soothe our souls is to start praising the lord to meditate on his greatness and to meditate on his power because he can do anything and he can do everything that starts to fix the way we're thinking of things next is supplication so we ask god to supply all of our needs to be honest with him to share with him those things that are concerning us those things that are bogging us down those things that are causing us to worry cast those cares to the lord because peter says he cares for us and then the third thing is to be thankful thank him we worship him we give him our needs and then we thank him for answering our prayers for listening for loving us for caring for us we are to thank him in everything because that is a will of god in christ jesus being thankful having the attitude of gratefulness will guard our heart against ladies i want you to hear this it's going to guard our hearts against whining complaining manipulating having that discontented spirit that so many of us have on a day-to-day basis having a heart of gratitude and thankfulness to the lord changes our perspective on life we can really be anxious for nothing pray about everything and be thankful for anything and then we have the peace the promise of peace the peace of god which surpasses all understanding is going to guard your heart and your minds through jesus christ this piece is spoken of in philippines four seven it has the you can't even understand this piece it's the piece that jesus christ himself has given to you and it is so good and so real and so soothing to our soul we can't wrap our minds around it but that piece jesus's peace will become ours as we are doing those things that paul has asked us to do his peace will guard our hearts and our minds it's his peace the peace of god that will be with us day in and day out as we learn how to give those things over to the lord so as he tells us in um sorry john 1427 jesus says my peace i leave with you my peace i give to you not as a world gives do i give to you so let not your heart be troubled never neither let it be afraid it is in christ that we are kept and guarded and secure so in these first seven verses philippines chapter four the apostle paul is encouraging us to stand firm and he tells us those things so life as a believer life living for jesus christ will be an example to those that are watching us as he continues on and gene and sandi and ruth get up and share their portion of the scripture just in this one chapter we would be able to have a victorious christian life if we really apply what the apostle paul is telling us to do we can stand firm we need to stand firm i don't want to see any christian brothers or sister that i love that have been serving alongside me that have walked with me for a while to fall away and start serving other gods to start believing the lies that the enemy is throwing at them on a daily basis wanting to do their own thing because christ just isn't working for them anymore if that is you this morning if you feel that christ just isn't what you thought he was going to be i want to encourage you to really ask him to reveal himself to you and start seeking him on a daily basis for who he is as he has revealed himself to us through the scriptures not just things that you hear about him or even things that you think about him but the truth of who he is as he claims to be in his word because the more we get to know him the deeper we fall in love with him and our intimacy with him grows we want to stand firm i don't want to just please my lord i don't want to just please my loved ones i don't want to be an embarrassment to my jesus and i want to finish well and as i continue to follow the word of god and apply the truth of the word of god to my life i am able to you know ward off i guess the lies that the enemy wants me to believe the lies that he bombards me with on a daily basis and in that i can walk worthy of the calling that has been placed on my life i pray your hearts would be such the ones that are in love with the lord jesus as well that you want to walk worthy that you want to bring no shame to the lord and because it is his love that compels you to want to walk right it is his love that will compel you to want to stand firm and it is his love that will keep us as we continue to look at him as we continue to walk with him as we continue to abide in him watch what happens to our souls watch the confidence we gain within our inner man as we continue to serve him and watch how the world or people in the world will look at you in marvel because you're not a messed up frico our world is messed up ladies it really is and i guess that was kind of not nice to say but you know what they're hopeless they are really hopeless and you know that just as well as i do but jesus christ can fix that hopelessness he died for that hopelessness amen and i pray i pray that as you and i continue to live our lives for the lord we can share the hope of jesus christ to all those that are still um denying the truth of who jesus really is i have my loved ones that i'm still praying for who are denying the reality of who jesus christ is and they're looking for their own truth the only truth is jesus and i pray amen and i pray that we will continue to seek his truth walk in his truth and live in his truth so we are able to stand firm in him amen amen let's pray