This is Melissa with the stocks. What should I'm just doing a quick nightly video here in GME? I did a video on this before and now that you see the stock here I just want to show everybody this is a live gap So the stock is gapping down tonight the stock closed at 347 51 Now it's down at 298 and a little bit ago. It was at 217 So this stock is gapping down. This is one of the reasons why I said stay away from this thing It's too way too volatile. So it had a big move up now. It's down I don't know where it opens tomorrow, but you know, this is just a nightmare to train and It'll be really really interesting to see here exactly what ends up happening with this because There were retail traders that bought it. There's a hedge fund that that That lost money in it and still may be in that position we really we really don't know and And it was just too big of a position in my opinion with no risk management But now the situation is what what's going to happen between? Thursday and Friday You know, is it going to get pushed down again or people are going to continue to buy it to push it up and I just think this is a stay-away But this is a good example here of a gap. This is a live gap. That's happening right now It's 748 a friend of mine today said I thought the market closed at four o'clock I said the market does close at four o'clock, but there's after hours trading It's called the post market in the pre-market.  I don't look at trading that way. I take what I do very seriously There was no play today in GameStop. There was no play at all people played it Tomorrow there won't be any play either the charts just way too messed up now This is this kind of reminds me of like a pharmaceutical, you know How sometimes they come out and say we have a drug that cures cancer. Oops, it didn't work The trials failed, you know, it's that kind of thing that kind of thing So it's like this is just a disaster and an accident waiting to happen And it will really be interesting to see because I think that Something's going to happen in this for sure in the next two days And it may not be what a lot of retail traders want Somebody said that they they think the stock is going to a thousand if that's what people are betting on I Wouldn't be betting on it Because if a fund is in here with a big position despite the fact they're down Other funds could come in to support that fund or they may be in the same position or not as big of a position But a position and you never know what can happen Don't think that funds don't work or institutional money or banks don't work together because they do So for retail traders to try to take on the power money at Wall Street It's that's a disaster waiting to happen in my opinion and one of the reasons why just you know maneuvering in and out and just momentum moves in in very nimbly to Just ride the coattails of that institutional money is just so much easier than trying to do here What this whole configuration here is attempting to do? I think this is very dangerous, and I just don't think it's a good idea for anyone to be trading this And it'll be interesting to see what happens between today and tomorrow, but it's tanking right now tonight Up from where it closed at least today And the bar today is very strange Like I said it closed with a baby red bar big extension from the top to the tail here But basically close the day at a loss when you look at it So that's the story on this almost eight o'clock. We'll see how this closes tonight


Alright Rinse all the repeat all um How many more ticks do I have left up over here all the safari return? Let me go check on that Legend of the Roach killer exactly Just watch you game. This makes me want to game a modern modern warfare monster on the world all over again That's my superpower man. I can give events people to play games. That's why I became a streamer What's my lifelong? That's not bad for games. I just I don't know my fun is contagious I tend to make fun out of no fun.  I get all excited about freaking monster broths And these guys bring back four of them So boy, I don't understand it. All right. I am lacking in points though. So I'm making money, but Um, I got 739 points. So we're gonna chill. We're gonna let you not Take any more of my points right now And I'm getting very little points from these roaches, but you know what I don't kill I don't even care. Where's piggy?  I'm quite sure I picked the wrong camp right now It's like it just it just dropped me right next to a monster black. There you go. Happy trails Oh, I missed them That'd have been glorious Like can I like run off the edge and then do that? Cool That'd be 52. Hey, mr. Rogers. How you doing man? Welcome. I'm doing good, man B-52 bomber It's true. I want to slide down one of these baby hills, but Who's frank? That's my palico, man It's an inside joke on the channel. I have a dog Um And his name is kent and he's over there pretending to be sleep right now And uh, everybody in chat used to make fun of him and say he was a cat And they called him frank instead. So I was like, all right I'm gonna make my tier three emote a cat emote called born of frank So it's like that's how frank was born basically This is on pc. Yeah. Yeah, I'm playing on pc now Oh, I got another one. Oh the monster bros are rolling in Yeah, I'm not getting any research points for this. That's okay. That's okay I mean the money's going up at least Okay items ready for harvest And the argacy has returned uh ah Oh, what you got there? I got I probably don't have enough points to buy any of this stuff Yeah, all that's trading items consumables Oh That's nutrients Wow herbal medicines eight dung pods Oh I don't have any points man. I got 639 points. That's gonna eat all of them Been playing a lot of final fantasy 11 again. My goodness How you liking it, man? That's a throwback right there. I love that game. All right, you still love it. It's changed so much though Thought born of was playing this on the switch.  You know, it's gonna be you know, it's gonna be on the switch All right one more to 10,000 left Your warrior 73 can't wait for 75 nice Yeah, I heard they made it. They made it a lot easier to solo in that game now Basically you got ai and your parties Whereas before we just had to shout for parties Which is part of my motivation behind playing support and healers. I played barred and white mage Had no had no issues finding parties None Oh, it's a private server. You're right. Okay Oh beautiful beautiful Whoo, not beautiful I showed that water who's boss Come here You did.  Whoo, I had a little bit of a slide there I ain't done. He thought he thought I was done that that that roach heard the music. He was like, oh, okay I'm safe. He's done. Nope.  It's beautiful. You too.  Look at me trying to hide behind the rock. Look at him. All right, this farm Yeah, I keep hitting my cat. Um I hope he doesn't take it personal but I keep bopping them up beside the head with this hammer It's pretty consistent every time I swing I hit him Every single time so he's probably got a little bit of a headache But then again, he hits me to wake me up. So it's it's that tough love. I guess Oh 14 is yeah, 70 Uh, oh another broth two broths Some dragon belt. Wow. I know you can get this from this Dude, these rewards are not bad And these uh carapaces are rarity six items.  Yeah Yeah Yes, a cat I'm working on getting his uh, that's that was part of my motivation behind this Because I'm trying to get him a weapon for that set and um I needed something called monster broth Which you can get from those roaches All right, fair man. Thanks for coming by man. Appreciate the help yeah, so They're called palakos. So he this is his set right now He's rocking a ladybug set, but I need um I need to get this weapon because his weapon is the thing that allows him to paralyze the monsters for you Which is really good. So I gotta get the omniplegia sack next after I make all this money um Which I don't know where that is. Let me look up who drops that Omni Uh, this is Course reward from great giraffes It's like I kill great giraffes. So I'll probably get it from them Great giraffes drops the omniplegia sack You know, I might I might take a break from this and do that. That sounds fun Then we'll come back to making the money ba ba ba All right, let's go kill the great giraffes. I think it has to be in the high level zone, right? Yeah, hi right. Yeah I should have some investigations. If not, I'll uh, I'll see if I can get some great heroes Uh You know what let's do with investigation investigation would be better better rewards See if we can find one Where the armor piece that grants you a fluvia resistance Do I have to I don't have that the fluvia resistance What grants me fluvia resistance Waste armor val stuff miasma charm Oh, is that the that's the area where it's like it's like it's like your health is going now That doesn't bother me that much What's the miasma charm cost what should be at the top? I didn't see it Huh, I still don't see it miasma charge charm mire walker Maybe I don't have it yet. I could be I don't have it unlocked yet Yeah, I must have a lot okay, um Great girls built What's it called? I don't know what his armor set is called It's not great girls belt is not on this on a wiki So I don't know if you're that's new or what but Anyway, it doesn't look like I can get it. I don't see the girl set This isn't lowering I'm wasting time.   It doesn't matter And then next time I'll learn my lesson All right, let's see if there's a great heroes Oh There's one and there's another Two goals.  He's got two goals Oh, it's 30 minutes, too I'm back up to 81,000 already after like 20 minutes of killing roaches That was That's funny. Yeah, yeah Hey, where's my max potions? Uh, think I'm out of max potions chat When did I run out of the max potions? This ain't funny Huh Oh, I got some they're not in my bar for some reason Why are there none of my bar down here? I can't see Your boy can't see. All right. Let's find this dude Good day to ghettos Rattle bond is here We'll try the other camp. All right, man. See you later. I need this Need one more This'll be the first monster I fight since I learned my lesson. I think I know where they went I'm be honest. I don't think I fought this guy yet Unless they made you fight him Oh, there he is Because it's where I had dung on me. I missed Nobody brought dung That both of where we got one continuum, and it will happen. I do this now I blew up the wrong guy I got a tail right off the bat. Wow. That's not bad Two tails. I don't know how rare they are, but I'll gladly take it That's what I needed. I think I don't know how many but I definitely needed that New optional quest. Nice I should have added that to my wishlist. That way I can know if I can get that thing from my Palico I can do it It's a boy Wait, they get the right one Please tell him I got the alpha I did. Okay Yes Got it Got the weapon I thought I bought the wrong one because I thought there was a beta for some reason because I didn't even think twice about it Nice That's a big deal because he's going to be paralyzing people for me now. So that's good I don't know how often but Let's see. I got the boots, right?


Next question is from Zilchis, Chris. How can I quit my sugar addiction once and for all? I have yo-yo eaten and have quit sugar my entire 32 year old life. This one, Adam, I think this is your deal. Yeah. You know, uh, this was actually something that I actually really liked the ketogenic diet for, or at least what I learned from it or got from it. Right. So even though I don't follow a ketogenic diet, um, before that I was like a carb junkie, right? I was, I was eating 400 to 600 grams of carbs every single day. And I, I love sugar, um, and I crave sugar all the time. And so it's, it's a constant battle. And I was always looking for things like hacks to like, you know, the rice cakes with cocoa whip and things like that to like, you know, satisfy that craving, uh, versus trying to find ways to like, you know, suppress it. And when I went on the ketogenic diet, um, I noticed that I noticed that it dramatically went down, like almost completely gone. And that was one of my favorite things about running it. Now, I don't think there's anything magical about the ketogenic diet. So much as I think that when you run a higher fat, higher type of protein, either one or both type of a diet opposed in a lower carbohydrate diet, I think it totally makes a huge difference. So, you know, I've completely changed my macro profile. Now, like I, somebody who was consistently eating 400 to 600 grams of carbohydrates, now I'm like 200. So it's nowhere near that. And I don't have those cravings. Like I can't even tell you the last time I had candy. I'm sure I brought it up the last time I had candy on the show. I don't even eat it that often where it was like a constant battle and struggle for me. And same thing like with the ice cream. Yeah. Anecdotally speaking, I don't know if there's any research to support this, but anecdotally sugar is one of those things that if you have it, you want more of this. And if you don't have it, uh, at least initially you probably want it. Right. So if you cut it out, you're going to have kind of this, uh, these cravings that might last a week or two. Then at some point it's like, you don't want it anymore. And, and this I've noticed with myself, I've noticed with countless clients. And so the strategy to have a little bit of sugar in your diet seems to not work for people who have, who say that they have a sugar addiction. That's me. Like it's, it's all or nothing. It's like, I cannot do the, like Katrina has, she doesn't have a sugar addiction. So she can have a little bit, she can buy a fricking, you know, chocolate bar and put it in the freezer and have a square of it for the next two months, you know, and it not be like that. I do not have it. If I have one square, and even if I tell myself, I'm just going to have one, I'll eat that one square. And then I'm thinking about that chocolate bar. It kicks you in the gear. Yeah. For the next couple of days, like literally like an addict. I totally feel like an addict when it comes to sugar. And of course I know why because of how I ate it when I was growing up all the way even through my 20s. So for me, one of the best things to kick the sugar addiction was running a higher fat or higher protein type of diet and a lower carbohydrate.  And then the carbs that I do intake are like low glycemic stuff like yams and sweet potatoes, quinoa, like those type of carbohydrates, maybe rice, like those types of carbohydrates. And if any that I have in the diet and then predominantly protein and fat.


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everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh, and I have a Gap Options newsletter where trades are emailed to you in live time. And I wanted to give some trades for the last past week so people can see what results they can expect in the letter. So if I have time, I'll do, I'll do this week as well before the holiday. But this was last week, the week of June 21st. And I also have in here beginner and advanced trader risk. And actually, this was a light week. So there are busier weeks than we had last week because it's the busiest weeks is earning season. So earning season doesn't start until the second week of July. So this was, this is a good example of how many trades you can expect in a slow week, I should say that. So wait a 75% win ratio for the week of June 21st. So if you have any questions, you can email me at MelissaTheStockSwish.com, or you can call me at 929-3200-Gap, follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So it's, it's, we're getting into the July 4th holiday weekend. And you know, thinking about it, it's nice to have a couple of days off. You know, everybody really wants freedom, even financial freedom. And right now, it's almost like, you know, post 2020, post COVID, post this pandemic, people are thinking of extra ways that they can earn money, whether it's picking up extra hours at their job, or whether it's investing, where more people are starting to trade the market. And now you can do it with a small account, you can do it with a big account, there's so many places that you can open up an account and train. You don't have to have an insane amount of money to day trade, or even do options. So you can open up an options account with $2,000 at a retail broker. So it is very, very possible for people to increase their wealth and start to make more money just by actively trading. The thing is, though, you have to know how to do it. All right. So I know how to do it. I've been trading for almost 13 years. And the newsletter is a service. Okay. It's a subscription. You sign up. It's not a class where you learn my method. If you want to learn my method, you would learn that in the Golden Gap course. I teach that class once a month. You can sign up for that too. But the newsletter itself, you would just receive the newsletter's email to you, which we're going to go over last week's here. So anyways, last week, we had four trades. There was one loser, three winners. So the returning investment advanced trader risk average was 220%. Okay. And the advanced trader risk per trade, okay, your trade should be equal or close to equal in every trade was 7,500. Advanced trader total profit 16,500. All right. Weekly return investment for a beginner, because one of the trades you couldn't take as a beginner, I'll explain here in a minute, 90%, still phenomenal, still fabulous. Average risk per trade 1,000. And beginner trader told us for the week, $900. Okay. With one loser and two winners. So I'm going to go over that here because again, your risk has to be consistent. And I'll explain why in a minute. But I called this, it was the spy puts that expired in 625. This was the one that lost. Okay. So this did not work. I called this on the 18th for the fine wink. And it had the drop in here. Actually, I think some people did get out of this positive, but I didn't. I just didn't think it was up enough. It did fall on the day that I called it into the close, but then it reversed. So this never went right then for me. But some people did scout this on that Friday. Anyways, this was a loser. Just went bust. Okay. It was a 417s and this completely flipped around mark. It's been strong. So if you did this and followed it through to a normal course of action, you would have lost. Okay. Unless you would scout it, which is really not how I look at the options trades. Then I called calls and Apple the 135 calls that expired on July 2nd. Okay. This was a really nice trading actually. I don't know anybody that would still be in this, but if you were still in this, this ran up today almost till 140 in the very last day. And I don't think anyone should have still been in it, but it was a good trade. When I called it on the Tuesday to get in and out really, really quick. So I called this on the 22nd here, right in here when it ran and run up, ran up again. This is a daily chart and I called it ran straight up. So again, calls are long. We played the gap. So I make the calls. I make the picks again. I called calls. So this is an example of the letter. Again, you get it in real life time. I call this in the morning in the pre-market. So you take the trade then into the open cost of this was dirt cheap 70 cents, 100 contracts risk was 7,000. This is an advanced risk sold at 140, 100% return on investment. Take it, get out. Take it, get out. You get the move and you book the profit. And again, because, you know, inevitably I will call another trade.  I also called the, oh, this is a beginner. So 70 cents beginner against size yourself close to the same risk of 1,000. You could have taken 15 contracts for 1,050, 100% return investment. Nice trade. So again, when you're, when you're looking to determine your risk, that is something that's up to you. You can ask me, you know, what, what you should do based on the size of your account. If you want my advice, but I think even if you have a large account, if you're new, if you're new to the letter, if you're new, if you haven't done the golden gap course, then I would start at small anyways. Really? Because you want to be consistent and you want to make sure that you're green. Now this was the big trade for the weight test side called the six forties on Wednesday, the 23rd. So again, here's the 23rd rally, boom, boom, ran up. This was a nice one here. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful move. So actually, look at how it continue. Like, look at this. And this is what I mean by momentum. In this case here, it was buying. Okay. It was buying momentum. Again, this was last week's. This was not cheap though, $23 for one. So three contracts, 6,900. Again, you try to get as close as you can to your wrist sold at 16 profit, 11,100, beautiful trade, 161% return investment, really, really, really, really, really nice trade. So, you know, when you're looking to do this, you're looking to see, well, how many, okay, or how big of a move can we get it? And how much momentum word has it have into it? Now, if you are a beginner, you could not have done it. Okay. So if your risk is 1,000, you can't do it. If one contract costs $2,300, you'd be taking to be like taking two trades. And so then what if it would have lost? Then you would have needed two trades just to come back break even. So you can't do it. So as a beginner, you could not do this. And that's why the values were different at the beginning when I was reviewing this. Now, I also call the 700s in Tesla, again, expired July 2nd, called this on the 24th here, rallied up, boom. Now, this one was cheaper. So beginner advance, you could have done it cost was $12, six contracts risk is 7,200, sold at 21 profit 5,400, return investment 75%. Nice trade. And if you were a beginner, you could have taken one. Okay, again, this is not an exact science, but it's a big difference between 1200 and 2300 risk. You know what I mean? So again, this was a nice trade profit 900 return and investment 75%. I always say between 500 are between 50% and 100% you're looking for. And again, I teach more of this in the golden gap course and also the gap options course as well. So whether you want to do this full time or part time, I think this is a good way if you like options, if you've done them before to transition into doing it full time, because you can work your regular job and do options on the side, you take the trade in the morning, you can put an order in to sell it at 50% or 100%. You don't have to be sitting there watching it. If you are, if you've got the time to do it great, fine, watch the chart. Okay, I'm here, I can watch the chart all the time. But, you know, if you have to work and run around the town, then you just put the order in to sell it. And again, I'm calling the weeklies are out for the following week. Everyone wants to make money trading, but not everyone does. And why?  And I think it will always be that way. So I consider myself blessed. I mean, I really feel actually lucky that I know how to trade, that I can see where somebody's going to go before it does it. It does not mean that every trade that I take works, it doesn't. You know, you saw some things lose. But the fact is that more trades that I call win than lose. And so that is again, a gift. And it's based on the fact that I personally created my own system, which took three years of my life to do. From 2008 to 2011, I developed my Golden Gap 26 point system. And it is a great system. You can come and learn it from me if you want, or you just signed up for the newsletter. But many people fail and cannot make money the market because they have absolutely no idea what to do. They get the direction wrong. They're going long or they're going short and vice versa. You've got to get the direction right. You've got to get the momentum right. And particularly in options, you've got to get it right within the timing, within the timing too. And what I'm looking for when I'm taking a trade is institutional money. So when you see something like Tesla, you say, well, what will make a move like that to get a run up in a big move like that institutional money? It's not just the price of the stock. It's the move that it made. So I'm looking for institutional buying or selling the footprints of that is what I see in the gap. And again, this is how I'm coming into figuring out in the pre-market in the morning what to trade based on the gap and based on my rating system. It is called the Golden Gap rating system. And this is how I make the picks. You don't have to worry about this if you're signing up for the newsletter. But again, you can learn it if you want to learn it. And I think people should learn it because I may not be doing this forever. In fact, I'm sure that I won't be. So people really, if they want to learn it, then they should sign up and learn it so that they know how to do it themselves. A lot of people, though, they just like the newsletter. I think it makes it easy for people being on the newsletter. They like it. And people just continue with the newsletter because trades just come right into your email. So summer has been a great time to trade why we've had volatility in the market. It hasn't been the kind of volatility that people think the market's moving higher and the volatility was in the direction that was unexpected, which was to the upside. So volatility doesn't mean falling. Volatility means anything you don't expect. And in the case of the market, people thought we were extended and we would fall off. That's not happening. And it has not been happening. Now, I'm not saying we go up forever, but I'm saying we've had some great trading in the last month, some fabulous trades in the last month and some nice momentum. And in the summer, you would think, gosh, you know, things don't move, but that's not true. Even though people are on vacation, and even though this was a holiday week, people are active in the market. People are buying, people are selling, things are moving. Now, if you do want to learn the system, you sign up for the Golden Gap course, it's a student class. I think my class is pretty straightforward. I do my best to explain it. Everything is based on the daily chart. Okay, so I'm looking at the daily chart, I'm looking at the gap. And I really think it's very straightforward. You can always email me and call me with questions, even if you just sign up for the newsletter and don't want to do the class. I make myself available to people. I'm really here to try to help people understand it so they do well. I've had a lot of new people on the letter in the last month, and, you know, quite a few questions, but people are getting the hang of it. People are really doing well and getting the hang of it. I mean, the trains that lose lose and the ones that win-win, and you have to just book the money when things are up. Because remember, trading is not long-term investing. You're in, you're out. You're in, you're out. And remember, I've been active. This was even a slow leak, like I said, though. Anyways, my method is called the Golden Gap system. If you want to learn it, you can learn it. The next class is July 24th and 25th. And what I do is I focus on one thing a day. I'm trying to hit a bull's eye right in the center. Boom! You know, that's what I want. Get the money. Get in, get out. Get in, get out. Hitting the bull's eye. And this takes skill. This takes practice. This takes know-how. It takes experience. This is why I've been doing this, like I said, for all going on 13 years. The experience that I have doing nothing but gaps for this amount of time really is phenomenal because many, many people do multiple things. Even people that have educational businesses, like they're teaching all kinds of things. You can't be great at everything. That's just not realistic. It's like somebody can't be a fabulous, fabulous, you know, baseball player and football player and tennis player. Usually, people are good at one sport, okay? So I'm really good at one thing, reading the gap. And that allows me to get that bull's eye and to get that move and to get that pick, okay? And that is what I do every single solitary day. So it's a good time of the year if you want to train. Email me if you have questions. You can trade for yourself. You can trade for long-term to save. You can trade if you want to, you know, transition into a full-time trader, if that's really what you want to do. You want to work for yourself. Totally up to you. Many people are trading for multiple, multiple reasons. Some just do it because it's fun and making money is fun, okay? So you've got to learn how to do it. How much time do you have to spend trading weekly? Well, if you're day trading, you have to be in the room between 9.30 and 10 a.m. Eastern time. If you're just doing the options, you've got to check the trades in the morning or to email because they usually come in the morning early. Occasionally, I will call a trade late, but not that often, but most of them in the morning, you don't have to spend six and a half hours sending your desk to trade. You can take the trade, put the order in, and then put the sell order in. So day order, it cancels at the end of the day. If it doesn't fill that day, then you get up the next morning, put the sell order in the next day, okay? So you don't have to sit in babysit, but I would still check. Everybody has, you know, an iPhone usually. You can check and see where the stock price is when you're going about your day. You don't have to be sitting at the computer 24-7 looking at it. So I think options take up less time than day trading if this is something that you want to do, plus you capture the momentum of the options overnight. And so occasionally, you can get really big moves overnight. That's what that Tesla was, that move up on that one day last week, and then it blew through the following day and continued. I mean, that kind of move is exactly what we're going to see starting in earnings season in some of these really nice high flyers. And I'm excited to see really what happens with earnings season this month in July. So if you want to take the Golden Gap course, what are you going to learn? You're going to learn the entries, you're going to learn targets, you're going to learn the exits, and you're going to learn the Golden Gap 26-point rating system. And that is how I make the picks, and that's what's really, really the meat and potatoes of my system. And it's all based on the daily chart, and it's all based on institutional money, as I was stating earlier. So empower yourself to earn your own income working for yourself. It is something that is possible. I think one of the reasons that people fail is they don't know how to trade, and they think that they do. 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Right, the recording has started now, Penny. Very good. Thank you, Seal. I see someone did ask the group chat and private chats are kept. I don't know if there's a difference between those two, but they'll probably let us know a little bit later. Thank you for that introduction. I'm very excited to be able to talk with you about midwifery learning exchanges. Actually, right now, we are all participating in a midwifery learning exchange. I'm going to make this a little bit more specific to possibly midwifery programs arranging some learning exchanges. I hope that you paid close attention to Seal's introductory slides because I did not create a poll with the conference, which I think I may want to do that for another time, but I'm going to ask you to raise your hand. And we're going to start out with just two questions on the first two slides. And then I'm going to tell you about my thoughts and experiences about midwifery learning exchanges. And then at the very end, I hope to hear from you. And I hope that's why a lot of you are here at the presentation in my abstract. I did say that we would have some time for those of you who are interested to perhaps make some connections for your own learning exchanges. I've put my name and my email at the bottom of each slide. I know sometimes it's hard to keep all of our programs and papers together. So I do encourage you, if you have an interest in some type of learning exchange, you can certainly send me an email at any time. So let's go ahead and get started. The first part, I would like to just ask the group that is here, the audience, to please raise your hand, use that raise your hand feature. The little man at the top might be a little midwife at the top, I'm not sure.  And I believe I know that by the check marks that are, and I believe everyone sees that too, for our roster to the left of our screen, we can see people are checking if they've been out of their country to visit a midwifery educational program or a practice, perhaps. Okay, so some of you have, and that's very good. One more question then to find out about. Please use the raise your hand feature, that little figure at the very top of your screen. If you click on the down arrow and you could select agree. If you've participated in another virtual learning exchange besides virtual International Day of the Midwife of the IDM conference such as this. Okay, so that's very good. That's more. More of you have participated perhaps in some type of a learning exchange using some type of technology. So that's very good. And you can all just kind of see that and get an idea. But I would say for about half of the group, really, it's not been either. You've not participated other than this wonderful conference in perhaps a one-on-one program or actually leaving your country and going to see another country's program, midwifery program or practice. Thank you. And I believe perhaps you'll clear, I don't know as far as the checks and things, but those are the last of my questions. And that's helpful to get an idea of your interest and what your experiences have been a little bit in the past. So you'll see this has a lot of information on this particular slide and I will spend a fair amount of time on this slide. It's always fun to start out with the pictures that I've chosen and you can probably kind of guess. Types of learning exchanges and specifically talking about midwifery learning exchanges are a study abroad or a virtual learning. And so if you look at the fish bowls, that would be me jumping into someone else's entire environment and I may be a fish out of water for a little bit there, but I'm going to really immerse myself in a study abroad versus a virtual learning, which I think is what we're all really participating in with this conference is our fish bowls are kind of meeting in the middle. So it was wonderful, the opening presentation that gave me a little bit of a cultural idea. That was part of it, but it was probably more topic focus. So that's what my two pictures really represent there with the fish bowls is really who we are in this learning exchange. So I'd like to talk about the study abroad, the learner focus, and really that is the cultural immersion. And so it's more of a learner focus. The cultural immersion is probably one of your key priorities or what is going to happen with that. There will be development of intercultural understanding throughout that because there's a longer time period. The topic kind of comes after that and the topic exploration when I actually go to see your practice or go out of country will be through observation, in-person discussions, and these can be longer than just a 30 minute or one hour seminar. Could also include my participation in your practice or in a simulation, say in a program, could include some direct care. And that usually gets in more with a service type of service learning or service type of project. There are limits with the amount of direct care that can be done in a midwifery learning exchange due to liability issues, different restrictions for practice and qualifications, certifications, licensure, all those kind of things. But certainly observation, in-person discussions, participation with simulation can usually all be agreed upon for that. The entire time I am in country, the learner, I am comparing and contrasting with what my life experience has been up to this point. So it's really, I am totally immersed in this. I'm out of my environment and I'm soaking in really all that there is to offer. I certainly learn about topics and there probably will be an itinerary of topics for me to learn, but it's really more of this cultural immersion that I will probably take along with me and can really have a lifelong change within me. Then I'd like to talk, when we go to the fishbowl where we are kind of connecting in the middle and that's what we're all engaged in right now, would be more of a virtual learning and that would be more topic focused.  I'm developing some intercultural understanding just from perhaps the language, looking at the slides, pictures, inflection of voice, those types of things, maybe even choice of the topic. But the topic exploration, it's really going to be topic focused. So that's going to be with audio visual content like we have right now and audio discussion, which I hope to have at the end of this. And the content is really planned. We're not going to have too much spontaneous types of exchanges in our particular topic focused virtual learning that we're having now. And as technology increases and improves, I certainly think that we can get to more perhaps video inclusion or maybe real time, like some of us have used Skype and things like that. But for right now, as we look, if we're really looking at a global setting, those can be really a challenge. So that's why for right now it is usually focused on more of audio and visual content so that we're not all waiting on our servers and our internet to catch up with us. So those are the two main types of learning exchanges that I've identified. Really, main considerations for those two types of learning exchanges, the main considerations need to be looked at very closely and need to be determined to support the feasibility and the success of what you're really wanting to do and kind of your purpose and your objectives so that you are accomplishing and really having some exchange and some quality exchange happen. So if we look at some of these considerations, we'll start with if a student is going to have a full immersion and if they're going to participate in a study abroad. This requires many considerations. So again, that study abroad is that learner focus where a student is going to another country. You may have students coming to your country also, but it is still really a learner focus for them. They may provide some presentations when they come to your program or practice, but because they're immersed in your culture and your practices, it still really has that learner focus. And of course when we have the number one is always cost. And sometimes that the cost is just prohibitive right from the beginning, no matter our desire or intent or our purpose. But sometimes there is funding available to support those costs. And depending on what country that people are coming from, sometimes there is government sponsored support for those costs because this is really valued by the country to have this type of a learning exchange. But cost is usually always the number one priority. Second is access. So for you to go to another country or another practice, another program, midwifery program, there usually is some type of passport involved. There may even be some type of visa that is required. I just mentioned a couple of different types of visas, J-1 student visas, J-1 scholar visas. Those have many requirements, limitations, documentation, some cost involved in that, time involved in that, or perhaps a visitor visa between some countries that works out very well. But these are all the considerations that are needed to do these in-country exchanges. In-country exchanges can be faculty led, which is what I'm most familiar with here at Ohio State University. All of our study abroad are required to be faculty led, which means I develop a course. I teach that course for those students who are going to go to another country, and then I go with them to that country. And so we have very planned out objective assignments and working with the other country to see what some of their needs would be, what some things they may want to share with us would be. So it can be faculty led, or another type that can be very common is a student exchange. And student exchanges usually involve a longer time period, perhaps a semester, where students from one program will be exchanged with another program. And it can be a direct exchange. They're earning credits from that other institution. They are living in the living quarters. They are attending classes as those other students do. And as you can imagine, because of the variation, sometimes in definition of midwifery, as well as the different scopes of practice, not so much scopes of practice somewhat, but legal regulations and oversight and certifications direct student exchanges in midwifery are very difficult to come by. I wouldn't say impossible, but that could be a goal and something that we would look or work toward. I think it could be very beneficial. But because of those restraints of the practice issue and the liability issue, those can be more difficult. So that is another decision. If a study abroad is looked at, will this be faculty led? Or even if the student wouldn't be practicing or signing up for courses, will the students just be sent? And then perhaps the home program will say, yes, we will take two of your students also and plan their whole stay in itinerary for that. So it can really go either way with that. Time in country usually corresponds very much to cost. Certainly a week never really seems enough with any type of distant travel and time zone change. Two weeks seems just about right. Three weeks sometimes becomes cost prohibitive for all the considerations and coordination that needs to be made for that in-country stay. And so speaking to some of this coordination, of course we would think of flights, housing, meals, local transportation, identification and approval, and itinerary. And I give you this list because in starting to plan this without having a fairly detailed list, these are things that need to be discussed right up front. And your host country or program can really give you some good ideas on how to negotiate this for most efficient coordination of time and most economical. I'll speak to a little bit to identification and approval. Aside from perhaps the passport or visa being able to enter a different country, identification certainly needs to be done as we all know from our precepted experiences or even out in our own communities. Often some form of identification needs to be done with that student for background check with approval, identification of where they are able to go while they are there, if they're able to make say home visits, if they're able to go within the hospitals, what part of the hospitals if they're able to review any electronic medical records or any type of charting. So those different types of identification need all need to be set up ahead of time to really make the experience very full for once people are getting there and getting to the country. The itinerary then is very key to making a very worthwhile experience for your host as well as for those that travel. And when we get to my next slide, which talks a little bit, why are we even making all this effort to travel and to come together and hear each other, I'll go into a little bit of how that itinerary can be set based on what our purposes are. So you can see if we're deciding on a study abroad learner focus type of midwifery learning exchange, there are really a number of considerations that we have to address. If we say on the other hand, and I would also suggest that for any study abroad where you're going there, you would want to start out with some virtual learning even to set up your study abroad. But if we're looking at the other part, the virtual learning with having topic focus, that is really based on still some access, but internet access and capability. I've provided a website link for you here, the Freedom House report, which provides globally some information on the capabilities of countries and also kind of on the Freedom 4 exchange over their internet. And so with the green, you can see that those pretty much have full capability. The yellow is more limited, the blue is little to no access in those areas of the world. So I think that that's something that needs to be considered, and I think even within this wonderful conference we're attending now, we can see who's able to come into this conference, and that might follow a little bit of this map too. So for those of you that are thinking maybe I could reach out and find some of these different countries, this would be one consideration if you're thinking of reaching out and finding out if there's interest. And then the schedule for virtual learning or topic focus, that is really faculty determined if we're talking about between programs. Now there's certainly nothing that prohibits practices exchanging information. I think that we think of it more in a perhaps in a learning setting in a midwifery program setting where we're really starting out with new midwives and wanting them to be able to expand their idea of midwifery. And so that's kind of the focus for here would be for that new midwife, the learning midwife in a program, and then that faculty really needs to determine less than an hour is probably a great idea, kind of like we're scheduled here. We have a little bit of time in between conferences and really our talking time is about 45 to 50 minutes. Regular intervals could be considered or at the beginning of a term and at the end of a term. Again, it depends on your purpose and what you're thinking about. It could be decided that the cohort, if you have cohorts of students, that they might determine what topics they would be interested in, who they might want to talk with globally if that could be a match. Sometimes the topic would really determine also how often you might meet to meet the objectives. Really looking for some relationship building over the years, too. So the relationship building more than likely will come between faculty, that relationship building, because our students, we are hoping they will certainly matriculate and graduate and do all those wonderful things that they need to do. But some of that relationship building would be with faculty over the years to build stronger and stronger and improve upon your learning exchanges. So getting started, how exactly are you going to get started? You've heard some of the different needs that go into this, and I guess I would say there has to be an interest. I would say that we have the interest, though. Midwifery is universal. It is global. We all need to educate our midwives, and education usually corresponds, right, with new ideas. So I would say the interest is more than likely there. The need, I identify the need of developing professional behaviors for cultural understanding. And yes, we have all different cultures, especially in the United States. We have different cultures that are coming to us, and we do meet those needs, or we do teach about those needs and ask students to reflect on that. But I think sometimes those shifts in feelings and ideas do not happen until we are really faced with a global difference. And what midwifery means, very similar mothers, babies, families, the health of the mother's babies and families, and their well-being. But when we see it globally then, I think that that also does transpose to what we're trying to do here with perhaps various cultures that we take care of on a day-to-day basis. So the interest is there. The need is there. Desire does have to be there. We just thought traveling is not easy. It takes time. There's a lot of work in planning, money, logistics. Virtual can seem a little bit easier, but there can be technical frustrations and logistics. And it's certainly quite the same experience. It really has different purposes and different outcomes. So those have to be in place. That desire does have to be in place. So looking then at purpose and the outcomes for why you're really doing this, you need to be very clear on that. And so these would be very specific to the faculty plan. So faculty interest would come there first for wanting to have perhaps this need of developing these professional behaviors and professional kind of developments for cultural understanding. And then looking at what would these outcomes be? What are we looking for? And that would really help determine if you want to develop a study abroad program or have virtual learning. So that's kind of the decision behind that. I do suggest though that when faculty to faculty are getting together in the plan, that is really the first step to your virtual learning. And really for faculty, that is cultural learning too. Faculty do things differently from program to program in country, very differently program to program globally. That begins that cultural kind of change and broadening of our ideas even in the virtual learning or the virtual meetings to set up either a virtual exchange or to set up a study abroad. So I would take the kind of the directives that we had for our presentations for this conference to start simple, kind of to recreate almost what you're a part of here, reaching out to someone who's maybe not as familiar to you that you would have an interest in or that might be attending this conference. I think that that would be a great way to get started and to get the discussion started. And for another thing, for getting started in the, I do have it on the slide here, for faculty to faculty planning, setting a regular brief time to meet is very important. Every time you end, you need to have the next time planned when you're going to meet and those times do need to be brief, perhaps at 20 minutes. If we all have Adobe Connect here, and that is usually often the easiest way, you don't need to do video, but the easiest way to communicate. Bring up some of your documents right there. So you're not emailing back and forth and actually having a conversation is probably the most efficient way to move along your goal of study abroad or virtual learning. So let's look now, I did prepare a slide on what some of these topics might be. So topics for virtual learning exchanges, and I chose virtual learning exchange because I think that's something that is realistic. It takes off out that big cost factor, the big travel factor, some of the access and things like that, and as a starting point. And if you develop the relationships and the program moves along, that can turn into a study abroad, which could be very rewarding for both programs. And so I do think that it's important, especially in involving students, that we look to ICM, Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice, that kind of pulls all of us together and has set global standards for midwifery. And looking to those, I have just pulled out three. I mean, there are many, many more in that document, and I've listed that reference at the bottom of this slide. But I've pulled out three. And if you just think to yourself, as I mentioned these, like how you could picture what that learning exchange could look like with this particular objective or goal that you would set, and could this be covered in an hour, three hours, to give an international perspective, a different cultural perspective to the topic. So looking at these ICM Essential Competencies that also familiarizes the students with a global organization. And I do think that that is very important, and that it's something that we do want our students to be aware of. And this is topic-driven. We've pulled this out, and it is topic-driven, so it would lend itself to a virtual learning exchange. So you can look at these topics that the students might prepare these topics. Each, from each program, the students could prepare these in a 15 or 20-minute presentation, that then they come together, again, that fishbowl coming together in the middle to each present, how they partner with women to promote self-care. That could be a very early-on in the program type of presentation that they could prepare. It raises their self-awareness that they need to have self-care if they're going to be midwives and care for themselves as they care for others. And then to learn how a different culture, a different group, someone out of country would do that. Advocacy for normal physiologic labor and birth. The advocacy part is very interesting. That could raise some very interesting discussions within the exchange. So that could be a discussion that could also be a case presentation where each side would present a case, a great example, perhaps an example that needed some help or some intervention for what we might do at a different time. And not only advocacy, but what is normal physiologic labor and birth? And so what does that mean? And we would be very surprised in very developed countries if we're able to have some of our countries that normal physiological labor and birth is what they have to have and they're looking at a different part of the birthing process where they want to intervene. They will come up with very different problems or prioritizations that they have for labor and birth. And that can be very eye-opening to both participants in the exchange. And then the last one that I just brought out, I think can be very helpful, is one of the key midwifery concepts. Key scope of practice that ICM identifies is a midwife may practice in any setting, including the home, community, hospitals, clinics, or health units. So really getting an idea from each participant where are those practice sites. And so that gets into one part that I wanted to definitely mention would be pictures. And I think pictures can be very, very helpful to explain what a home, community, hospital, clinic, or health unit does look like and have some comparison and contrasting even within your own program and practice settings. Permissions often need to be sought. Definitely if there are any clients that are there, mothers, infants, families, other staff that are in the picture. Even if there are just pictures of rooms or units or different settings, permissions may need to be sought from the organization that that is okay to use. And then there are certainly some copyright things and those approvals that I mentioned. But that can be a very powerful way of explaining the different practice settings that we were in. So I really think that a virtual learning exchange can be used prior to or after a study abroad also to really enrich that and to continue the relationships. Virtual learning exchange will definitely be used to plan a study abroad, at least the technology behind that. So that is the most efficient way to be able to move along your objectives and really talk out some of what you hope to get from this. And it probably is more likely, if we really do want to provide a global sense to our students, it's probably more realistic to be able to incorporate a virtual learning exchange within our midwifery programs due to some of the barriers or some of the extensive planning that needs to be done for the study abroad types of things. So I'm going to move to my next slide and tell you a little bit about my experience. And then I would be more than happy. I think we probably have maybe, oh, 10 minutes or so or even a little bit longer, to have anybody who would like to, if you want to, put your microphone through the testing and things, because I think it is great to hear from you and we would like to hear from you, especially, you know, from around the world. I think that's a very exciting part of this. So go ahead and it's a little bit different the first time you do it, but once you get through the microphone testing, it's actually quite fun. And I know Seal can help turn the microphones on and off. My experience in visiting and providing actually midwifery coverage or midwifery care was not outside of the continental United States, but it was what is considered a different nation within the United States, the Navajo Indian Reservation in Chinley, Arizona. And so that I was immersed there and put right in like land. And tonight you'll be taking care of women, their families, delivering their babies and really helping them through that. And so that was a wonderful experience that I was able to participate in. I am involved in the planning of a somewhat of an exchange, but not for credit hours and not for an extensive period of time, but with UK midwifery students are planning to come here to Ohio and the United States, to Ohio State University. And they were planning to come here probably this fall. And then I've created, which is required by my university, a course to be able to take some of our students over to UK to a setting where these midwives have trained. And so we're working all of that out and all of the logistics out, which are very, very detailed. And that's a little bit different too because they are midwifery students and their education is at the baccalaureate level. And here at the Ohio State University, we have nurse midwifery students at the master's level. So they are nurses and midwives. But it is very helpful to look at this and look at some of the ICM commonalities. And that's what some of the students are going to explore to be able to see where we measure up on that and how we are meeting some of those goals too. And being able to see what their preparation is and also what their healthcare is and their outcomes and be able to really take some very good things that they're doing and be able to incorporate that. So my goal with this presentation, and I'm so very excited I was accepted to talk with you this evening, is to help provide a forum that you might identify a match with another program. If any of you have an interest in Ohio State University, the United States, I'm certainly happy to talk with you also. And then to perhaps be able to have this even expand further if we have some of these learning exchanges, the virtual international day of the midwifery conference and just the idea out there expanding that further. And then looking to see what relationships might grow from this. And if this is something that can be kind of a jumpstart to be able to make some of those matches. So I think I'm okay on time, Zeal. I think some people have a microphone if you want to put them on. My microphone is back. What you didn't realize, Penny, is that I lost connection. I came in and out on a totally new computer. Thank you to Lorraine. Oh, no. Kate Best had a question and I had enabled her microphone. It looks like it's off again. Kate, if you- Sorry, I'm here. There it's on now. Yes. Hi, Kate. To listen to what Penny had to say. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Okay. So my name is Kate Best, I'm actually a student midwife in Ontario in Canada. And I'm in the process of planning placements for the rest of my degree. And something that I've been kind of struggling with and I don't know if this is part of your program at Ohio State. I think exchanges are a really good way of dealing with this question. Kind of coping with the people who have access to a lot of these international exchanges tend to be often times people who come from a lot of privilege. So whether it be economic privilege or we all speak English or whiteness or being Western or whatever the privilege is that we cope with. And kind of figuring out how to accept that and still take advantage of the learning opportunities that are available to us. For example, I'm in a francophone program and I would love to do an exchange to Haiti or to Senegal. But I'm just kind of grappling with what that would mean for- Again, I think exchanges is a great opportunity but not taking advantage of my privilege and instead using it for good. And I don't know if that's part of your preparation for your students' exchanges or if you could speak to that. I certainly can speak to that. And I think several of the points that you raised are fact. I don't think that they really have any judgment to them at all. I think that explains probably the demographics and some of the history of exchanges. So I think that that is very true. I think that that is something that I am hoping to introduce to students and it would depend on where we might make some of these matches, where they can be matched. So I know one of the other faculty that's at Ohio State University, she, at the same time that I will take some students to UK, she will be going to Honduras. And that's much more of a service and a mission program. And that's not what they, an educational program, but that's to actually provide service in somewhere where there's been long-standing need for that. So I think those type of education abroad programs, that is really a different purpose. And so I would just, I think that's a very good point and I would challenge you to look for the right, the correct match that we would have. I think if that's talked about and stated, that some of those with privilege identify how to reach out to others. And whether that may be eventually in providing some with the technology to be able to communicate in a virtual type of exchange or if that's actually setting up a program where service or training can be done. I think that that is our, that helps to open our eyes more than shelter us. That's the way I view these exchanges. What I think I heard you say is if you take part in exchange that costs a lot and does seem like the only reason you could go to it is because you have that money or you, you know, you are able to have that. I understand that kind of internal struggle that you're having and you would need to really look at what that program is and how you might move forward or what that purpose of that program would be. So I'd like to hear back from you. I don't know if that helped at all or if you would like to have a follow-up comment. I think you spoke to it well. I think you only have reiterated what I already think I know internally, which is like, it's not a yes or no question. You know, it's something that we all have to grapple with and it's privileged even among all populations. For example, the placement penny or the exchange penny was talking about. There's privilege, a privilege on disbalance or unbalance that exists in that exchange as well. But recognizing that everybody has some, like, I think exchange is a really good answer to that and maybe finding more opportunities for exchange where like a one-to-one, one student comes here and we go there and that can feel like more of a balanced exchange rather than just like, you know, kind of tourism almost like... Exactly, exactly. And that, yes, and we are now particularly looking at, there is a tourism aspect to it, but we're looking at a cultural identification and a cultural growth, a cultural development to happen. And so that's where I see that even if whatever that culture might be is that then a student, as I know myself, came back with a broader approach to patients that I see every day because I would see different cultures right here without going anywhere. So thank you, Kate. Time-wise I don't know how we are, but I wondered if anyone else had a microphone on or would you like to say if you would like to match or identify anyone here. I think I saw some different countries when we introduced ourselves and that would be fantastic even to see what people are doing. Hello, Teni. Hi, Teni. So I'm Susanna. I'm just very curious about what kind of work are you going to do in Honduras because as far as I know there is no registered midwives there. So are you planning to work with traditional birth attendants or nurses? Right. That program is not a program to program. So it's not an educational program to educational program, but that is done through a longstanding with their health ministry. And so that is to go down there and actually provide care within some of their clinics. So that is not a midwifery educational program to midwifery educational program, but it is through their health ministry there. Thank you, Teni. So the next presenter actually, he's actually going into, well, we can discuss this later, but there's some program that is going to be made in Honduras. And as a midwife, I think it would be a good idea to work all together into actually make this process a united work where actually midwives can work with it, too. Yes. I don't think I understood exactly your comment. You said that they are developing a midwifery program in Honduras. It's going to work that it's going to be done in terms of maternal mortality. And there has been an effort in terms of working with midwiking Honduras, but there was no midwifery program there. Ah, okay. And yes, so that would be, you know, that's a different, really different type of learning exchange that, you know, if someone did reach out, that would be take on a little bit different direction for those countries that may not have that but are interested in that. And I could see that very much in a policy direction. We do have, and I'm becoming more involved in it, we have a national organization, American College of Nurse Midwives, and I do know that they have a global division that they do try to, you know, work and look for that. And, you know, not go in and put themselves in there but certainly work with countries that are looking to move that forward. So yes, I do agree that if that would be the moment to begin that, especially if a government who perhaps controls resources and, you know, access for care and those types of things is looking for a solution in midwifery, that would be wonderful to be able to reach out and assist on that. That would be really pretty beyond the types of exchanges I'm talking about here. But that's what happens when you start talking and broaden your horizons. There's many different ideas that can spark from that and connections that can be made. Thank you, Penny. I think we have time for one more quick question if anybody has anything quick for Penny. All right, I'm going to move on to my housekeeping slides. Penny can be contacted through the Midwifery Program at Ohio State. If some of you think about connections that you might make later on, I would also second what she just said. Some of our professional organizations have international divisions that can be a good resource for us as we look to do international work. They may have already done some work with midwives in that country and can give us kind of a springboard into our own experiences. Thank you so much, Penny. You're very welcome. Thank you, Phil. Turn off the recording.


The Cross River State Police Command has confirmed that eight persons kidnapped on the Ecom Calabar Road between Oogap and a campire have all been rescued and reunited with their families. Speaking with our correspondent Jesse Essayen-Foen, the Public Relations Officer of the Cross River State Police Command, S.P. Renner, denied it was a banditry attack. Hello. Yes. Good afternoon. My name is B.S.E.C. I work with Plus TV Africa. Ah, we heard that there was a suspected bandit attack along the Ecom Calabar Road. So I'm calling when I can get the details from him. It's not a bandit or enhancement as a ledge. It's an armed robbery attack. Yes. But were they kidnapped? I don't know. Armed robbery attack on travelers. Okay. I went there yesterday. It happened before yesterday. Yesterday we were able to rescue the victims. Okay. But can you give me maybe the number of those that were rescued? Of them we were rescued. Five of them? Eight of them, eight. Okay. But total of kidnapped victims were eight and out of the eight have been rescued. Total of kidnapped victims were nine. Okay. One was able to escape from his home. Okay. Then police rescued eight. Okay. I'm grateful. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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