Hi, and welcome to theCUBE. I'm Lisa Martin, coming to you from our Palo Alto studio. Very excited to be joined by a CUBE alumni, the CEO and president of Anita Borg, Brenda Darden Wilkerson. Welcome back to theCUBE, Brenda. Thanks so much for having me. It's great to have you here. You have been at Anita Borg for about six months. You've got a great background in the tech industry and in education. Give us a perspective of what's happening, what's new with Anita Borg. Well, we are very excited to be in this space at this point in history. It's very exciting. Women are alive to the possibilities of what they can contribute in tech. We can thank so many important women who are contributing to the conversation and it is our job to make sure that they have a voice. And so we're working really hard to make sure that the perceptions that would create barriers for women, contributing to tech, having a career path, taking those really important positions of power in tech that we obliterate them and that the floodgates are open for all who want to participate. I love that on the website, I saw the, what we do, one of the things that shattering perceptions. And I thought that word shattering, that description was really, really important. It is very important because you would think in 2018 that these issues that our founder, Anita Borg talked about years and years ago. I mean, she was a visionary. When she said 50-50 by 2020. And actually we're coming back from the cliff that we fell off of in terms of being our percentages in tech. We're at about 22% now. And a lot of that has to do with those perceptions. What are the images that young women see or people in power in tech? What are those images that continue to contribute to those barriers? And that's first and foremost the thing that we're working to change. When you were on theCUBE at Grace Hopper 2017, just six months or so ago, one of the things that you said that I really love was people can be what they can see. So having awareness and showing females in technology and leadership positions, showing people this power of representation is critical. Very much, very much so. And really all we're talking about is telling the truth. It's not as though the women haven't always been there. It's not as though they aren't making huge contributions. It's just making sure that when they do the work, they get the credit for it and that people get to see it. I've seen it be very important in my previous work in driving computer science. All of the stakeholders needed to understand that underrepresented people of all kinds could do tech. And they were very much impacted by the images that they saw. And so it's our job to make sure that all of those stories get told. So you spent 15 years in education and you had many years before that in tech. You made a massive impact with the computer science for all initiative that you founded back in 2013 in Chicago. Tell us a little bit about that because it's really exploded and I'm sure really kind of exceeded your expectations. Tell us about that initiative and where it is currently today. I'm very excited about the initiative. I mean really it was born out of some of my own experiences. I was a person who in my background, I wasn't exposed to computer science until I found it accidentally in college. I mean obviously that accident changed my whole trajectory. So when I found out that that was still happening to women and underrepresented students, when I got into education, that was sort of the genesis of wanting to do something about it. That was when we launched computer science for all. And yes, now it is a national initiative in Chicago. We have a graduation requirement. Students all have to graduate with at least one year of computer science. And we're seeing that transformation. I've got students who we started with in the beginning who are graduating this year from universities with computer science, data science, information science degrees, and they are doing amazing things. They're starting companies, they're developing products all because they had that exposure. And so it's exciting now to be on the other side, really kind of coming home full circle, back to advocate for women in tech, as I started out, to make sure that those hundreds of thousands and millions of students have access to the opportunities that we need them to have access to. Right, that access is such a critical thing. And you kind of think in some respects, as we were talking about earlier, you've made a massive impact in Chicago, New York City. The Obama administration got behind this. So while you started out with a goal of reaching 400,000 kids in Chicago, there's now over 1.5 million. But it starts with that awareness that this shouldn't be an elective. We, kids need access to understand, I can be what I can see. I can't see it. That's right. I don't know that it's an opportunity. And if I don't know, if I can't touch it and know that I have access to being the creator of technology, changing the world as we know technology alone can do, then we're gonna miss out on the kind of contributions that only they can make. And so that is what makes this so exciting. You know, when we started out, I'm thinking of the kindergartners that started that first year, they're in fourth grade now, right? Wow. What is the world going to look like when they graduate from high school? It's just gonna be amazing. I can't wait. We were just covering women in data science a couple of weeks ago. I was mentioning to you before, and I love that event because you walk into where the main event at Stanford is held and you just instantly feel positivity, excitement of this movement. And there's so much opportunity within data science alone. And one of the things I wanted to talk with you about is we heard a lot of people that were guests that day talk about the creative element. And we often think of the hard skills that computer scientists and data science need to have, but you found CS accidentally, as you said. And one of the things that I've heard you say is the opportunity to be creative. Tell us a little bit more about how people, young girls, can get creative and express creativity through computer science. Well, that's very important. We found that we could attract more girls into computer science when we told them that they could use these skills and this knowledge to solve problems that they cared about. Initially, because it was such a, it thought to be such a male-oriented subject, it was all about computer games and the kill games and the girls were like, I'm not interested in that, but I want to do things that are impactful to the world, to change my society, to change my community. And you can do that with technology and you can create something out of your own ideas from scratch, from concept. And I can see the lights go on for them and wait. I can create an app that helps my friends through a particularly difficult time with bullies. Yes, you can do that. And so that is the exciting explosion that's about to happen. People who are really using these skills to solve problems for the human good, that's what we're going to see an increase of because that's what many times the women bring. So Grace Hopper, 2018, is coming up, what, in September? It's September 26th through 28th this year and it's in Houston. We're returning to Houston. We're actually even going to use the Toyota Center for our keynotes. And you're expecting 20,000 people this year? We had 18,000 last year. We're inviting 20,000 new this year. We're going to have over 17 tracks. Last year we had 405 concurrent sessions. The whole point is to give women an idea of how they can transform their lives, coming into technology at whatever stage they found themselves in, whether they're just seekers or interested in learning about technology or if they're middle career going to that next stage or the executive level. We have something for all of them. So and you get out awards, the Abbey awards at Grace Hopper, give us a little bit of an idea of the types of categories that, in which women are awarded. So we award the top innovator. We award top educator. So wherever women find themselves, we want to bring attention to the fact that we need participation, not in just what we think of as the high tech sector, but all along the pathway. People who are bringing attention to issues using technology in their community. We award all of those people who participate in creating more of a well-rounded experience for all of us to understand what technology can do for our lives. And it's really everywhere, right? And that's one of the things I think is personally really intriguing about technology. Every company now has to be a tech company. That's right. Every company is a tech company, right? And so that's another thing that we want to make sure that people are not just thinking that, oh, if I'm going to get in tech, I just can work for these five or 10 high tech companies. Tech is everywhere. It's across the country. It's around the world. It's right where women are living and having their existence. And we need their contribution in those places. Yeah, another thing about WIDS, and when we were talking about data science, that I found interesting was somebody's female leaders talking about the hard skills, the data analysis, the interpretation, but also needing to have more diversity in the analysis to remove, we all kind of come with biases, but to start having more female perspectives to really kind of open up the analyses and remove some of the biases, which was kind of something, to be honest, I've been in tech for a long time. I hadn't really thought about before. Yeah, and it's really shocking just how impactful some of those biases are in that data on people's everyday lives. We've heard things everywhere from as serious as different sentencing levels for people based upon the algorithms that are there to how much things can cost more for important things like insurance based upon the data that's there. I think the New York Times did a piece a couple of weeks ago about face recognition software and those images that are in those databases. And so it's so important that we have diverse faces at the table as a black woman. My face is likely to be misunderstood 37% of the time, right? So to be able to have the diverse background there that will check for those images to make sure that they're more representative of the whole population is just going to make all of our lives better. So at Grace Hopper, your audience is made up of girls and maybe interested in STEM, women that you said are in many stages of their careers on the corporate side. One of the things I read recently is that article that you wrote in Mashable called Voices of Women in Tech Collaboration with Anita Boer where you talked about corporate activism and there's some pretty significant benefits that companies can achieve by speaking out. Tell us a little bit more about that. Well, you know, we have a much more engaged in active population, especially the millennials and they care what their companies care about and how they contribute or don't contribute to the causes that they care about. And so one of the most expensive things that a company will ever experience is their ability to retain great talent. And what we've seen is that millennials will decide to stay or leave based upon some of the things that companies contribute to or don't contribute to. So being able to pay attention and to get into the game of other things that are outside just the product that they produce actually contributed to a company's bottom line. That's pretty interesting. It's very interesting and very important and knowing that is something that they can immediately put in place that impacts the success of their company. Absolutely and some of the things too that I've heard on various Cube shows that we've done is the millennials perspective on the gender gap. And often they'll go, I don't know why you guys are still talking about this and we think we don't either but we are and it's refreshing to hear that this next generation thinks that that is just something that's kind of ridiculous that we're still talking about and also that how important seeing a leader, a CEO being involved in something important is to retention. So I think that's a great message that Anita Bore can help get out there and show businesses this huge impact and benefit to you in fostering your own talent. Yeah, you know, and it's encouraging as you say that the millennials are jumping in and many more people are jumping in and giving this perspective to companies which is actually assisting them, right? So now they don't have to feel like, okay, this is just my idea, I'm going to take a risk and jump out. They've got people who are loyal to their organization saying, I believe in this and I believe in you, let's do this together. And so definitely our job is to make sure that companies have access to all the information they need to make these, what shouldn't be hard decisions but we're there to help them. So the 50-50 idea you have said that and you mentioned that earlier that you want to see 50-50 representation of females in the next 10 years, tell us a little bit more about kind of what's coming out the rest of 2018 from Anita Bore and how you guys are working to help make that, help get those numbers up from where they are currently. So it's all about awareness and there's a lot of awareness out there but what we want to do is increase it. You mentioned the idea of people can't be what they can't see. Images are so powerful and so we want to work with media outlets, we want to work with entertainment companies, with writers, with producers and say, help us create the images that can turn around and tell the truth really. I mean, we're not creating a fiction, let's just tell the truth. That allow people to understand that yes, this is how this works and let's couple that with the data that shows that the bottom lines of companies that have more diverse workforces, that have more diverse boards are much improved over those that are non-diverse. And so we're creating that awareness, we're helping our companies find out what we call not only best practices but many times it's better practices. We're still working towards that best practice of here's how you can make incremental steps forward. Excuse me, you mentioned 10 years. I'm a little more urgent than that. I feel like the things that we get done are the things that we're most urgent about. One of the issues about why we're still dealing with these things, it's just been sort of like let's work on it in the sweet buy and buy. I want to say let's work on it by in the next two years, in the next three years. Let's make some goals, let's put some metrics behind them and those are some of the things that we help companies do. I love that urgency, I think it's essential but the awareness and kind of this idea that you have of let's just tell the truth, there's really nothing more powerful than that but also the imagery and the representation is critical for that. If you look back at all of your success and think back to younger Brenda, what advice would you give somebody that looks at you and goes wow, where do I start? What's that recommendation for shattering someone's own maybe perception of themselves and getting into technology? Right, I mean we have to start with the conversation that we have with ourselves but we're in this world now where there are so many great images, find those images, you can find successful women, there are so many of them, talk to them, reach out to those of us because we want you to succeed, we want you to participate and come on board and so we have a world with social media that allows people to have access to each other that we didn't have before but the most important thing is don't take no for an answer, not only because it's just not true but because we need you and it is an amazing time right now where you have all these women who are standing up saying that they want change and we're here to support them and we're here to support you. Speaking of this kind of movement going on globally about we want change with the Me Too movement, bit of a different genesis, however, the awareness is starting to be there. You talked about needing the entertainment industry to get on board and really start ensuring that we're sharing the truth here. What opportunities do you see to deliver through Anita Borg that maybe you can leverage that's coming from the Me Too movement and all of Hollywood that's really starting to stand up and be very vocal about this? Well, you know, it's interesting because people ask me that question a lot and from my own perspective, there's like this awakening because those same sorts of things were happening in tech as well. We know, we've seen the stories. It's not as though we're looking aghast at what's happening to women across the way. So these things have been happening and what is happening is people are starting to look internally to say, how can I strengthen myself and stand up like these women did? And so at Anita B.org, we are creating those opportunities for women to network, for them to get mentored. We have communities around the world where women can get together and understand what the pathway was of other women. It would have been really helpful for me to have sort of some of those breadcrumbs out in front of me, some of those examples and other people to talk to. But we provide that as part of what we do in our organization. We provide training opportunities, other experiences where people can see all across the tech ecosystem where they can come in. It's not just one way in. It's just not one pathway. And so that's gonna be a really important thing to make sure that women know they have choices. And I think that's even, it's so important in general, but you mentioned some of the attendees at Grace Hopper are maybe women who are in transition, who are maybe had a career in something different for a while and are now getting into tech. I'd love to maybe understand that a little bit more, maybe some of the demographics there, but how do you see, what are some of the inspirational stories maybe that you can see that where a woman who maybe was mid-career or somewhere around there just went, you know what, I am interested in this. Maybe didn't have the confidence when she was younger. Any stories there that kind of jump out at you that are great examples of it's never too late? Absolutely. In fact, that was some of my first inspiration in getting involved with taking my background in tech and sort of lighting the path for people to get in who had traditionally been shut out. My first educational experience was at a community college level. And many of those people were people who like myself had not been given that introductory experience of computer science in K-12 space. Maybe they went to work and did some other things. Maybe they got talked out of it, you know, it's not for you. And they came back later saying, you know, maybe I could learn, maybe I could try. And so really opening up that pathway to them. I've seen people who have gone from either having no education or maybe having even a PhD in linguistics, figuring out once again that creativity, how can I take that and apply that technologically to creating solutions that only I would care about or know about. And so we've seen people come from all different walks of life, different career paths and start small. Some of them are self-trained, some of them are boot cab trained. Some of them go back and get an additional education. What we do at www.neededb.org is not only help them understand those multiple pathways, but we work with partner companies to say, you know, there are other ways for people to come in we've got these, what, 500, 600,000 empty positions. Why don't you take a look at some of the people who are in your industry already.  She is loyal, she can learn the tech. You know, so we're seeing those types of transitions take place as well. Fantastic. Well, Grace Hopper in Houston in September, is there also Grace Hopper, there are forums in other countries? So we also have Grace Hopper India that takes place in November, right after the one we do here in the United States. We've also started to have one day Grace Hopper events. We call them Hopper by once and we are planning those out around the world. So we're trying to increase people's opportunity to come and experience all of the wonderful things that are available at Grace Hopper. We hear so many wonderful things about how it's transformative in their lives to see that many women in one place to have access to training and mentoring and networking opportunities. And we're just excited for what's to come. Well, we're excited to see what happens in the next few months. And Brenda, thanks so much for stopping by sharing what's new with AnitaB.org, your vision for that and the transformation that you're already helping to facilitate. Thank you for having me. Absolutely, our pleasure. We want to thank you for watching theCUBE. I'm Lisa Martin from our Palo Alto studios. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.


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So we're here at Shenzhen DAGRO. So hello, see hello, my name is Jesse and from DAGRO company Are you today? So you make CCTV? Yes, we make CCTV for us And this is our new IP, Wi-Fi IP cameras. This is using a ARM CPU high-silicon with this IP camera connect to the internet and there's an Ethernet on the back Can you see Ethernet and this power? Mm-hmm, and it can turn around and connect to the phone. Let's go in your showroom. Okay, let's go So here's the sales team. Hello All right, so the sales team you work with different countries. Yes so Hey, hello, hello, hello, you work with the USA, right? Yes, I'm in it and I make cell phone USA USA and All right many different country like Arabic country in different. Okay, people can contact you and here's a Showroom. Yes, this is a showroom. So what are you showing here? Okay? This is this is our DVR and this is a camera demo is for okay Yeah, this is a full demo is for our analog cameras right now our analog cameras and HD cameras It's very hard sale and this one is CMOS the first one which one is CMOS CMOS is this one This small one we have different hosting so We can change to another hosting. So it's okay. The first one is a CMOS 700 TV lines. All right 700 lines. Yeah, that's the old style. That's the analog, right? And this is also analog This is also the analog and this is the Sony Sony 700 TV lines for this kind of maybe the next video will be better. All right Right now CMOS is hotter on the market IP camera is cheaper Decide the models you choose but right now IP cameras is very hard on the market because Maybe it's very easily to view by a PC or by your Nobel phone So this IP camera right here. So what's the price? The price is decided country. Maybe normally it's around the 25 US dollars for maybe 100 pieces So we can accept the samples orders. So what's the history of your company? So how long time you make a CCTV? We expect our company is established in 2006 and we have to do the CCTV Experienced maybe for 10 years already 10 years already and doing many many models. Yes What is all these lights? What is it for? LEDs and this is for night vision and for this can there is maybe 24 and 48 LEDs and the night vision is difference So it can film the cats and the dogs and the home at night And other things are dumb cameras and this is one is boy under this can all of this can is the in our HD and And analog cameras. What is this? This is our DVR kit DVR kit. Yes, so This is our is this what people get inside the kit. Okay get four camera Yes, there's a four cameras. You see this and this is the DVR and the DVR box This is a DVR recorder. So it's DVR. You put the hard disk inside. Yes hard disk It is about one piece hard disk and max 40 B Cool. Can we go and talk with your engineer and do a tour of the factory win the factory right here? Okay? Okay, let's go And what's more I want to introduce our bumper cameras. Yeah, what is that? This is our new bomb cameras and maybe you at all said you can see it's just like a bomb But it's a cameras. It can it also with Wi-Fi and without Wi-Fi and there is a memory card slot inside So it just goes in any light bulb And it goes with Wi-Fi and without Wi-Fi. Yes. Yes How to do without Wi-Fi if it's a bulb with all Wi-Fi there is a memory card slot here So you just see inside insert the memory card and then video can be recalled to this memory card slot directly Can it also do light? Mm-hmm. Yes. Also do light or no light this can't this can also do light This is can be the normal light, but this one cannot all right. And so if it goes Wi-Fi It does the same functionality Mm-hmm as IP camera. Oh, no right now. It just up for cameras and And But it's very easily can be used Can be controlled by your number phone number Can be wheeled by a number phone and PC APK and storage and recording and How much is price for this? Mm-hmm. Maybe 30 US dollars around 30 yours dollar you get a light bulb camera. So let's go to your engineers Okay, they make a new PCB right now, right? Okay So, where are we now in Shenzhen here? What is this area long gone? Yes, we are in long gone district and So Here's some different offices you have. Yes, and this is our engineering department. Let's go in here. Yes Hello Hey, hello. How are you? Hey, so you make a software? Yes, or IP TV IP TV CCTV camera system. Yes. Yes What happened here? This is a high-silicon 3 5 1 8 SDK. Yes and connect And to the what? You are hacking this one. Yes And this is the the way you connect into it and this is also software. Yes Visual studio or something right and this guy what he's doing Yeah, hello, so you're making PCB PCB design And can we see the PCB here can we see PCB? Yeah, so this is also high-silicon High-silicon And the round round one round PCB like here New new product for a new customer or what is this? This is it with Ethernet connector And it's very important that the heat should be low low heat so it can ask very long time It needs to be power on all time. Mm-hmm. Never turn off, right? Yeah. Okay, so let's go and let's go to the factory Okay, whoops this way and this guy also what what is going on here? What is he doing? What is this? He's doing the format for the materials all the different materials yes and the data for some cameras cool Okay, so let's go. Okay Right here All right, so how do we enter the factory factory here? Okay. Let's go right here Okay So how many How many CCTV cameras you make? Maybe I remember around 100,000 every month 100,000. Yes. All right We're putting stuff from there Together I know putting a battery with Holding it together. So 100,000 that means Every day is a 3k 3k one day. Hello What is he doing? Can you ask what is he doing? Is this IPTV or analog? Has lot eat it means you you follow maybe for the traditional analog cameras You should connect the DVR but for this kind there is a slot for the memory card So you do not need to connect to the DVR right now. So this one is our new products. All right What is she what is she doing? So the small camera is saying you have something What is this the sound coming out she is testing and updating software what she what's going on here software Okay, what's going on in here? Hey, yeah. Hello. This is Seema's the microscope. What is this? And there All right, let's go around Let's go there So showing you here some aging yes Packing the product so we should testing with aging the product and maybe 24 hours In this side it says with high temperature and bad working conditions and to test if the cameras work So after that, we will re-check the camera if it works well All right, let's go around this way How about these guys So can fix What is that What is this Something okay, let's go out this way. Okay. Let's go. You have a warehouse. Yes Our warehouse. Oh He's this guy. He's using CCTV anyhow, this is a Dagger of CCTV. Yes, this is our You can see where everybody's doing All right, let's go in there. So this is all the stock. Yes Yeah, wait, what are you shipping out? So 100 K every month There is some materials for semi-products and Finish products. All right, so customer can just contact you Make order you will ship like this Ship 100 or also ship samples can do. Yes, we have some stock for the most of products So our delivery time is very good So if you have set either here set all the here we will check here if there is The product here so we can send out the product as soon as possible and you can do warranty Yes, warranty is two year for our cameras and DVR during this time I can you can send back the cameras and other products and then we can repair Prepare it Repair it all to send a new ones for instance stand and If people want special CCTV camera your engineer can make special one. Mm-hmm. Of course What is it? Yes, we have engineers so we can do some OEM or some your special software and M oq may be 1000 1000 if people order more price cheaper. Yes, of course. All right You


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Hello everybody, I'm Lance Coyke and today we're discussing how to do your first push-up So if maybe you're thinking there is no like The the scenario that I have in my mind is I have clients who come in and I talk to them And I say can you do a push-up and then they start to laugh because they're like Probably not or if I can it's not very good Well, so this is this one's for you So the idea is you've got to get that push-up motion In ways that are a little less loaded So if a push-up is too hard oftentimes you're gonna see somebody's back sagging like this because they don't have the abdominal control To keep themselves supported You'll see really flared elbows and shrugging shoulders because the Stabilizing muscles of the shoulder joint and of the arms are not strong enough to hold up the entire body weight So we got to find a way to train with Sub-bodyweight levels now. There's a couple different ways to go about this And I think you should do them all first one is just do General training so if you want to do a push-up you don't just have to do push-ups you just got to get fitter So you can do One of my favorites to start people out on is a grab dumbbells and then you lay back and you do a floor press It's like a bench press, but on the floor Just like this just make sure that you have pristine quality Reps so when I come down my elbows are about 45 degrees from my sides. I'm not letting myself flare out like this I'm not letting my shoulders shrug up like this because that's not gonna help me build the Stabilization that I need here to do a push-up That's you know side sidebar That's the big difference between a floor press or bench press kind of thing and a push-up You have a little bit more stability that is required from your midsection in the push-up Which is actually why if I had to pick one I'd go with a push-up Second idea here, so I got you know general upper-body strength, but don't neglect your rowing So if maybe I have my hand on a bench And I bent over that bench and I have a dumbbell in my hand.  Produce strength right so our strength is not so much dependent on How our muscles are but it's how well our nervous system can turn on and can time itself and We can talk about that some other time newbie gains are generally Attributed to the nervous system not so much the musculoskeletal system You don't put on a huge amount of muscle in your first six weeks of training But you do put on a lot of strength and it's because the nervous system adapts So general training even like bench press stuff that will be good for you Just getting that strength pattern and then the the other main idea is I've got to find a way to train the push-up Motion where my arms are a little bit more free than maybe the bench press and my shoulder blades have to move around a lot more I Gotta train that at sub body weight and we kind of alluded to that earlier now one of my favorite ways to do that is to just elevate the hands so if I Think about it this way Would it be harder to do a push-up in a handstand or as a normal push-up? Well, it's a handstand because more of your body weight is going into your upper body So we can do the opposite so instead of going into handstand kind of position We can make you a little bit more upright and now you know I can use my couch as a means of elevating my push-up that way I can get really good high-quality reps train those stabilizer muscles And and get many many reps I can get you know a set of 10 reps if I incline myself as Opposed to maybe almost one crappy rep from the ground, right? So we train this this good technique good range of motion. I'm trying to be repetitive here So general strength lower body included bench press included Elevate the push-up this couch is prop depending on where you're starting. It's probably not high enough So that that angle change is not that big from the ground You might need something a little bit more like waist height maybe And and that kind of leads me into the next point You want to do these things because you want to get reps in you don't want to just do sets of one All day every day You want to be able to build some of that endurance because that endurance will support you in getting good Technique holding that position while you're getting tired Because if you do your first rep It's probably gonna be pretty slow and you're gonna want to hang on to your technique throughout that So general strength we talked about inclining this third major major point. I want to talk about is You have to look at your diet and your sleep because sometimes It's let's just say it's easier to do push-ups if you're not overweight Right because I have just less weight to push That principle applies to chin-ups as well and even more so so You don't it's not just about working out It's not just about doing more workouts and that's not about working harder in the gym all the time Sometimes you need to be really particular about the foods you're eating and you need to go to bed on time because That will keep your hormones regulated Okay, so general strength talked about inclining the push-up and we talked about losing some weight perhaps maybe Now the fourth thing I've talked a lot about good technique I've talked a lot about stabilizer muscles and I think those are necessary to get you to a point But at some point you have to you have to become an animal, right? You have to just push A lot of people I've seen I have one client in particular. I'm thinking about push-ups are just a mental challenge for some people It's this hurdle that Oftentimes people get stuck thinking I am not supposed to be a person who can do push-ups and they they just They don't they if they do one and they kind of slow down They just give up and they just fall back to the ground When you do something that's really really challenging and when you do a lift that's really really challenging you will slow down That is totally normal.  So you need a little bit of that Effort mentality. I'm trying really hard not to swear Okay, so we talked about general strength even lower body even bench pressing We talked about inclining your push-ups to get that get used to that range of motion get some of the technique in there You can also do a you can modify it by coming from your knees Which most people know what I don't like about that is it doesn't challenge your abs the same way as Having your legs straight like this So it doesn't translate as well to doing a full Push-up because you need to be able to coordinate this stuff with your arm movements That was something I forgot to mention. So general strength this thing perhaps lose some weight and Be an animal now two different types of scenarios, right? You got one person who's never really worked out in their life Well, you got two people who've never really worked out in their lives one of them looks like a stick and the other one It looks more a little rounder. Okay You got two different Scenarios here you got two different ways to approach this So if you're the stick type person you probably need to start eating a little bit more And you need to work really hard in the gym that last little point about that effort mentality being more of an animal In a gym that's really gonna pertain to you because you've got to find a way to overcome that Urgent feeling of slowing down and of quitting during reps You've got to stick out the long reps You've got to push yourself to the point where you do need to stick them out Right, you need to get to a point where you're slowing down because otherwise You're just not trying hard enough and you're not going to build the strength that you need to get that first push-up Other scenario you're gonna want to focus more on the other 23 hours of the day. It's not so much Necessarily about working out though. It can be though. Maybe you need to find something that Motivates you what is the reason that you want to do this push-up? What is the reason that you want to work out? Why do you want to be healthy? What happened? How is your family doing? How is your past? This this will require a little bit of introspection maybe a little bit of psychological counseling sometimes But consider why you're working out work out hard definitely But you have to keep that mind that vision of the future in mind Throughout the rest of the day, you can't just forget it You can't just say I did my one hour of hard work now I can forget about everything else because everything else is much more important than the working out you've got to Get comfortable cooking or you've got to hire a chef or you've got to get those groceries delivered to your home Or you've got to say hey, it's seven o'clock. I'm not gonna work anymore Do you know whatever the boundary may be you need to draw that line? Okay? So I hope those are helpful. I hope you fit into one of those scenarios Those are the common ones. I I feel like we've probably taken Covered 99% of the people out here out there with those two scenarios If not, feel free to leave a comment below and maybe I'll make another video about it I Hope it helps if it doesn't help if there's stuff that's unclear if it does help leave a comment below


And this is what was your guiding force when you were a little child, you know. And it has been rudely just slapped over and literally obscured from your experience by exactly that society which claims to support you and give you that entire space to grow in. It's not true.


Well, like I said, the focus is on what's going on in the task here, you know, my job, and I wanted to make sure that that was clear.  It's just really how I felt about the mistreatment of certain artists when we get to a certain platform of when we make decisions within our lives to have full control and ownership. You know, we go through the rigorous season. We do everything we're asked to do, you know, and we want to perform in a secure and protective space. And if I can't have my voice protected on this platform, where I offer myself and my art, just inviting everyone to it because this is what I've been blessed to do. You know, I didn't make it from the best circumstances. I made it because my family had a foundation and taught me the right things about the principle led life.  So to answer your first question, can you ask that one again? Well, I was saying, obviously, you're happy to be out there with all your team. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. 10 months for you, 18 months KD, the two of you together playing on what you did. Well, it's not the first time I've had a significant injury, you know, I've been out a long period of time. So I've had to build myself back up quite a few times in my career, you know, getting hit down in 2015 finals in my fractional kneecap and then, you know, just having minor injuries and couldn't really avoid the injury bug, just being able to play a high level for consistent amount of time. And, you know, it was very disappointing, you know, having disappointed seasons the last few years hasn't necessarily been the best reflection that I wanted to put out. But, you know, it's a different show. It's a different stage. And it's a new beginning in terms of what we're moving, building and moving forward with the pieces we have here. And that includes 7-Eleven, so get to know us.


guys subscribe and turn notifications on leave a like and drop a comment down below get here first and win giveaway calls i will pin as first comment on some of my videos be fast and good luck what is going on guys welcome back to the channel and i appreciate you being here today i'll be doing another dead 2 video and today i'll show you guys where you can find a donkey and tan the little bastard to be your companion well i say tan isn't as such but you still get to keep it and use it whenever you like but before we go any further guys if you do enjoy the video i will let you support you can by hitting that like button and if you are new around here and enjoy daily dead 2 videos be sure to subscribe okay so donkeys are quite rare to come across in the world in fact i haven't seen one single wild donkey in fact i don't even know if you can tan them in the world but today i bring you a location of where you can find one guaranteed and steered it and keep it now i don't know if this is some kind of glitch i don't know if you are supposed to be able to tame and keep these all i know is it was seriously boggy for me at first and i couldn't keep it i had to find a work around okay so unscrew now you can see the location of this little fella place isn't too hard to get to obviously depending where you are it could take you quite a while to actually travel here but once you get here you will see this donkey right here all saddled up now as you would normally tame a horse well a wild one you can't move this donkey but you can just hop on his fellas back and ride him now from this point what i did was to get my horse which i rolled here to obviously follow me while trying figure out a way of keeping this dude initially i thought i could just take him to a stable and stable him up but upon heading to my nearest stable with my horse following me i figured that the game actually doesn't allow you to stable donkeys so what i did from this stable was leave my horse here not stable in my horse just leaving it near the stable so i know it's safe then i traveled back to my camp and hitched the donkey now as soon as you hitch your donkey you want to retrieve your horse the one you left near that stable now what i learnt was the hitched donkey is seriously boggy to a point where if you walk by him he somehow unhitches and one who's often disappears also if you walk too far away from him he also disappears so there's definitely a bug here so what you want to do is like i said hitch the donkey and retrieve your horse which you left near that stable then you want to save the game now upon saving the game people you want to load up that save straight away because if you notice a donkey hitched or not the game isn't registering him as your backup companion but loading up the game from the saves for some reason it does then register him as your companion so he doesn't wonder off nor disappear if you walk too far away from him something i will say though you can't apply a saddle to him for some reason and after you load up the save the saddle the donkey was wearing disappears but yeah guys this is how you find and keep a donkey i don't know if it's boggy hitching donkeys for anyone else but it certainly was for me and this method was the only thing i could do to keep him from disappearing like i said earlier in the video i don't know if you can find these donkeys within the wild and tame them i haven't come across a single one but this location is one there for you straight away to nick and keep for yourselves the little bastards are quite quick as well i'm not gonna lie to you guys don't put off by that little bit of stamina because actually that's quite a while just don't run into any rocks because they ain't got much health and it would die straight away but yeah guys that is how you get and keep a donkey and on that note we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed leaving a like really does help me out if you're new around here and enjoy daily red dead videos be sure to subscribe thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully i will see you on the next one


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Look, when you're on the spot and like I'm hitting you live right now, you may say, Andy, this is a little uncomfortable. Listen, what you do when your back's against the wall is really your true level of skill. Okay, so the question is how do we slow the cell down when the customers want to speed it up? Would you guys agree customers want to speed it up, get the information, get off the phone? Salesman wants to slow it down, ensure the appointment, make a connection, and make sure that you're not going to shop anymore and you're coming to see me. Is that right? All right, so I'm going to teach you guys a little trick. You guys cool with it? I want you to write this down. Everybody write this down, great greeting. Just in case, I didn't get a chance to meet everybody in the room, but I'm going to cover two things. Hope you're having the best day of your life. This is Andy with Jack Your Cooper. How can I help you today? Listen, guys, get, look, you don't get to make a second first impression.  What if you guys gave massive amount of value before you asked for anything? You guys would get a lot more, wouldn't you? Guys, listen to me. It's a unified front between all dealerships right now.  Guys, nobody's getting a good deal right now. You know who they're going to buy from? Who they like. Period. End of story.  And if you guys can do this, you will be unstoppable. Period. So, watch this. Ian, you're going to call. Hope you're having the best day of your life. This is Ian. How can I help you? Hey, Ian, I was calling to get the information on the 2018 F-150. Ian, just like you did, who do I have the pleasure of speaking with? Guys, write it down. Step two, who do I have the pleasure of speaking with? There's nothing tricky right here. This is an advanced selling. The third step is where you're going to win.  Is that right?   What if I kept saying, hey, guy in the white shirt, you'd be like, dude, screw this guy, man. You don't even know my name. Listen to me. Treat people how you guys want to be treated, okay? Once I have an interaction with you, it's my job to know your name. It's my job for us to do business and have a relationship from this point forward. Number three, this is simple. Listen, pump the brakes. Everybody write that down. Pump the brakes. You got to have a word track to slow the cell immediately. Okay? What's that word track? Let me give you the word track I used. You don't have to have the same exact one, but here's what I say. Hope you're on the best day of your life. This is Ian. How can I help you? Ian's like, hey, I was calling on that 2018 F-150. I'm like, oh my gosh, Ian, that's an awesome vehicle. By the way, who do I have the pleasure of speaking with? Ian's like, this is Ian. I'm like, Ian, that's so awesome talking to you. Hey, by the way, I just reset my computer. It's going to take me about 45 seconds and I'm going to get you all the information and need on that truck. Where are you calling from today, Ian? Have you had the chance to drive one of these yet? Oh my gosh, what are you currently driving now? And then guess what happens, Ian? Did you notice I just pumped the brakes? Was it weird? Was it weird? Was there anything weird? Nope. You never even caught it. You know why?  Everybody's like, well, 45 seconds, that's no problem. But watch this. I don't care if it takes 45 seconds or five minutes. I'm in control now. I'm going to make a relationship with you. Why? Because once I get the relationship, once I let you know how awesome I am, once I really get to know who you are, once I let you talk for a little bit, so I really understand really what this person's doing in the market, what their dominant buying motives are, then I'm going to do a 30-second sell and then I'm going to go for the appointment. Now, watch. Let's go the other way. Let's go the normal 99% the rest of the world like the sheep way. The sheep. Hope you have a great day. This is Andy. Hey, I was calling to get some information on that vehicle. Watch this.  Listen, if you ask somebody, do you know the stock number? Can I ask you a question?  Sir, are you talking about the Pearl White 2018 F-150, 36,000 miles navigation sunroof, right? Knee deep and tread, 22-inch wheels, Fox shocks. You talking about that one? You got some good taste buddy. I like that. I like you already. What's your name? See? Listen to me. You want to be the best in the world or you want to be like everybody else? Look, most people are going to have the same life next year that they had this year. Don't be most people. I watch people make fake appointments with people who don't show. I watch people who make real appointments and then they make one more call to some other salesman and he makes the connection you didn't and they don't show. No more. We are like Alcatraz. No one escapes.


Good evening, folks. I'm Reverend Mark Hughes. You've caught us again here and we're at juxtaposition live at 525-ish. We're here today just to talk a little bit about legacy makers and I'm hoping you're along for the ride. Again, I am so pleased right now to have in my presence one of our legacy makers, one of our community legacy makers here and it is no less than the director of the Richard Kemp Center. This is my wife Christine Hughes. How you doing, Christine? Good. Glad to be here. Thank you for joining us. The systemic racism is really what we're talking about today and I know when today we were talking about the program wanted to just get the opportunity to check in with you because all the work that y'all have been doing in the community and also obviously just get a chance to hang out because when else are we going to spend some time together? Right. So I'm glad you joined, thanks for joining us. Systemic racism, what does that mean? Systemic racism, it means there are wealth disparities, cultural disempowerment among Black folks. As a result, disparities exist in education, health services, the justice system. These disparities along with cultural erasure and appropriation directly impact, directly impact the health and wellness of Black individuals and communities across the state, across the country historically. This threatens economic development. It also threatens our social, our health and wellness of everybody. In fact, what we're seeing is even threatens our very democracy. So what we're doing here in Vermont, you know, along with the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance is we're also creating some of those programs and services. We're operating, we're figuring out ways in which we can develop and deploy policies and platforms and initiatives, cultural engagement. So one of the things that we saw probably a couple years ago was a vision of the Richard Kemp Center. The Richard Kemp Center was, it was created as a center, I should say the center, the needs of the Black community in rectifying racial equity, racial inequity by serving as a cultural broker in expanding historically ineffective, inefficient and non-existent programs and services to marginalized communities. The Richard Kemp Center is creating new systems that empower Black Vermonters, denied equal access to public or private economic and other opportunities. And also the Richard Kemp Center offers hope by being the legacy maker, if you will, at the intersection of the Black community's wellness, our culture and also our youth. So that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about our legacy makers. And we're here with Christine. Christine, tell us a little bit about some of the things that you have going on over there. Maybe you can also bring us up to speed on what's happening and moving forward. We have lots of things going on. We're really excited to be just coming back from our trip. That'll be an annual trip to the National Museum for African American History and Culture, which was a huge undertaking that went really well. That was really exciting. I think that that's something that we look at as cultural empowerment. The youth and families that traveled down there with us have given us the feedback that it was great. It was a blast and we're already starting to plan for that trip next year. On a regular basis, we have all kinds of activities that are happening in the center. I'm going to stop you right there on that trip down to DC. I think we got a slide on that too with some of the youth out by the bus. But yeah, taking the folks down to DC, that must have been a logistical nightmare. How did that work out? How many days were you down there and what did y'all see? We were there for four days. We had a day of travel on either end. We set it up so that it would coincide with the spring break that the kids had from school. I think that was pretty good planning. We went down there on a bus. I guess it was something that there could have been a whole lot of things that could have gone wrong, but they didn't. God was on our side. It was a huge success. I think all of our team members had a role to play. The youth even had a role to play in our fundraising efforts and really showed up and showed out. I think not only were the efforts that they put into it successful, but it was also another opportunity to empower them to make something happen and be part of something that they were going to actually experience. So the youth were actually a part of the planning? They were. So was that something like on the front end, before you guys went down there you had the youth engaged in something? We did. There are three parts really to this adventure that we took. There was the part before it to bring people together and to sort of form the group and make sure everybody was getting to know each other.  Then there were activities that we conducted while we were down there. Going to that museum is a pretty intense experience. So we designed it so that we would have time and space for our own wellness and our own reflections. Now we're kind of in the phase three part. We were fortunate enough to have somebody who is a videographer working on a mini-documentary. You took a videographer to DC with you? Sure did. It was great. He's somebody that we've worked with for some of our other events and he's working on that right now. So our plan is to, as the third phase of this activity, is to share that documentary with the broader community and offer another opportunity for our youth to share the experience with the broader community. So that's the phase three part of it and then we'll just be thinking about making our plans and doing our fundraising to go again next year. Absolutely. Yeah. So I mean definitely you got my vote with the youth and I guess they're going to be a part of some post trip activities involved in various activities just following up on the trip. Right. I mean I think that one of the things that we're hoping and we're sort of in the planning stages with is that there might even be an opportunity when we have our open house at the Richard Kemp Center that will actually be on Juneteenth. Well it'll be on the Saturday before the federal Juneteenth which falls on Monday. But we're hosting an open house on that day so I hope folks will plan to come out and we're hoping to you know provide some opportunities for the youth to take part in that as well. Yeah. I mean I never thought we'd be saying words like federal Juneteenth but yeah definitely definitely. So some some of the things we're doing definitely involve the youth. I know the this trip very very powerful. What else what else is happening in the Richard Kemp Center right now. So on a regular basis we have things like the chess club that happens I believe that happened just last night that's been going really well and there's a lot of participation in that. We also will have youth movie night which is happening this Friday. That's a blast. We usually have like a really nice group of kids. A lot of a lot of them are sort of like regulars you know they look forward to that. We do that twice a month. And lots of other things. I was just reminded of the summer activities that you have coming up as well. Right. You want to speak a little bit more to to that as well. Right. So that's another thing that we'll be kicking off right around the the time of Juneteenth. We're in the process right now. We have like an open enrollment. We're hoping to enroll somewhere around 25 youth from the ages of like eight and up all the way up to you know potentially 18. And we'll be having activities during the summer in the center. We're planning some field trips. We're also leaving some room too for again for parents and youth to even be involved in designing some of those activities. Sure. Each day we'll have a theme. So it's like art and music and cultural. Each day of the week. Right. And then you'll just repeat that over the following the following week. Right. I was thinking it's a long summer. You're going to have a different theme every day of the summer. No that's that's pretty amazing. So so they'll be this is going to go out through through the going through out the duration of the summer. Right. Is that Monday through Monday through Friday. We're really excited that we're going to be able to offer free lunch every day. We're working with the Burlington School District to make that happen. Hey now you got my attention. Right. So that we're really excited about that. We are in an area where you know there's a lot of poverty and stuff. So we're really excited to be able to offer that and that will happen at the beginning of the day. And we'll have yeah we'll have a theme for each day. So it's art music education. Awesome. Cultural empowerment and celebrations and then probably some local field trips. Yeah. You know. So we're we're still working on some of that but we have the basic framework set up. Yeah I know the original plan for the Richard Kim Center involved you know very very aggressive visions you know because what are we dealing with. We're dealing with poverty. You just said a minute ago because that's that's the whole I mean that's the whole jam right there the political and economic divide along racial lines. That's that's the legacy of slavery. That's that's the you know that's our jam. That's what we're here for. But yeah I mean I know we talked a little bit about envisioning. We talked about stuff like adult basic education for example and you know we talked about basic computer skills and and maybe some workforce development opportunities might be coming out of there. You know where are we on some of those things and what are your thoughts on that's a great prompt great segue into another campaign that we're in the middle of thanks for reminding me we are in the middle we have just had a better places grant and fundraising campaign launched that is looking pretty good. I just checked it a little while ago before we got on the air and better places. Yeah we have steady donations that are coming in so it's it's it's a better places grant. We're working with patronicity and it's basically a crowdsourced funding right apparatus. And what will happen when it's successful is that our fundraising goal is somewhere around ten thousand I think it's like ten three or something once we meet that goal we the state matches that and then we'll use those funds to do some revitalization in the center which includes purchasing computers and workstations that will be available for public use. So I'm really excited about that I think that that is a huge benefit for youth and for our adult community members who are also accessing the center. So those will be available for public use but will also create some programming around that around you know maybe learning about credit scores and like you had mentioned basic ed and some other programming that we've been talking about for a while and now we're actually going to have what we need to to roll it out. So we need it we need it in community I think for for those who are watching just I think you can go over to vtracialjusticealliance.org vtracialjusticealliance.org over on the blog I think there was a press release that was released this morning if I'm not mistaken or either yesterday or today but I think it's one of the latest blogs you can find in that press release the breadcrumbs that will take you to that campaign and you can get involved so I would just ask you to just go and check that out it's not about how much you give it's about how many people give I mean obviously I'm sure you guys would like to make it to 10-3 but it's important to engage the community on this. I understand that you're also on the other side of Juneteenth it's or leading up into Juneteenth is there another block party on her rise? I mean the next block party that we'll probably do is trying to talk her into it it's probably it's probably I mean unless somebody you know changes my mind about it I think the next block party that we're probably going to do is our annual back-in-school block party right right who knows I mean between now and then we might we might pull one of those off it was a great success and the community really loved it you know we had we were able to shut the street down at a section of the street which was really fun and we had a you know we had a basketball hoop out there and we had the fire our local firefighters come over with the fire truck and that was really successful and it was really it's such a nice community building thing especially as we were still kind of coming out of the whole pandemic thing it was really nice to bring people together out there um so we will do another one of those I mean right now we're thinking that it's probably going to be more like the back-in-school time of year but I don't know Mark you could maybe convince me to to try to do one before then because who doesn't love a block party right I know everybody's talking about housing housing housing housing housing housing housing activities planned around because I I know I mean and I so it's so important to start from the beginning on this because I think a lot of folks I was talking to somebody um today and they were like yeah there there are there are plenty of activities there are plenty of organizations in the city of Burlington that say for example do things for children that that help you know black children and and they were you know they were saying you know it's uh and I was like let me help you and I named Sarah Holbrook and and uh Miller as well as King Street and Boys and Girls Club um but when we got to um when we got to the Richard Kemp Center I said you know this is you know it's it's really important to delineate the work that's happening here because you know the origin from which it it comes you know the reason why we started the work in the Richard Kemp Center is because what we have is not working because because the systems that we have in place across housing education employment health services access economic development transportation the so-called criminal justice system none of them are really working effectively for black people and they never really have and that is the definition of systemic racism so amongst all of the other things that the alliance is doing one of the things that we thought was is it be good idea to hey let's do something in community let's put something in community let's put a let's put a not just you know putting a flag down but but let's stand up a flagship that supports black and brown folks in community because what we know is is when as we said at the opening when systemic racism is working well it doesn't just hurt black folks it also hurts our economy it hurts our public safety it hurts our democracy so at the end of the day you know when we start talking about again back to housing when we start we're having these conversations it's just important to know that we're having them we're having them in the Richard Kemp Center as well um yeah talking a little bit about that sorry for being so verbose you're probably gonna later you're gonna be like what mark we get it but I'm just trying to explain it to everybody else too you know tracking yeah so with housing I mean one of the things that um you know aside from one of the functions that the racial justice alliance has had I think for a couple of years now where we have a limited amount of resources to respond to urgent basic needs in the community and that has actually been something that's been functioning across the whole state I think that that's been really good it'd be great if we had more resource resources to do that but I think one of the things that we recognize about that is that we don't want to just do the band-aid thing so we can help somebody when they're in the middle of a crisis but we also want to be able to see and have access to some of the systems that you know you've just mentioned so that we can speak into them and and work with them and improve them believing that you know the folks that are running these other systems are also interested in changing those desperate outcomes that you can see across all systems so one of one of the organization one of the local organizations that we've been partnering with and sort of just getting off the ground is Champlain Housing Trust okay and so you know there's more to come with that it's not a whole lot I can say about that right now but we secret for right now well no I mean it's I would say it's developing right and we've brought together a focus group we have another one that's coming up so that's really exciting and it's an opportunity to rather than just you and I sitting down with say Mike Monty it's a group of people and community members who are impacted by housing and issues with housing sitting down with their folks who are trying to roll these programs out and really having an opportunity to speak into those systems and tell them what's working and what's not working and even sometimes being you know having enough creative space to talk about other options or other ways to approach how do we get community involved in that process how are you getting community involved in that process I mean we're constantly doing different types of outreach you know like housing specifically housing specifically well I mean I think that's part of what the focus group is working on that we would sort of it's kind of like the each one teach one or the each one reach out to another one because we want to be able to have as many community members speak into those processes and even in some cases just to be educated about what's out there because a lot of times there are wonderful things that are out there that somehow or another just miss our community so I think that we do like that kind of concentric circle building so we have a group like a focus group that are folks that are already sort of dialed into what we're doing and then we try to expand out from that and you're doing that in in different areas whether it's like with the youth whether it's like with mental mental mental health with the the plans are is to bring in a small focus group and just have have folks kind of like sitting around in the fire throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks figuring out okay what's you know what's missing with these programs and services why are they not maybe bringing the subject matter expert in you know though somebody from the cht somebody from I don't know the health I know somebody we've had somebody in from the mental health department recently as well and having those conversations and maybe um creating strategies to bring folks in and to and to bounce stuff off of folks who are from designated agencies for example and say hey this is not working to be able to make something move on those while at the same time um you're creating your own you said a mouthful though uh earlier when you when you are having a conversation about the concentric circles each one teach one more about that is how what's that look like I mean I think it's sort of an organizing model you know I think that we do that we've done it more so with our adult community members but I think that there are ways to do that with uh the youth members of the community as well but I think that one of the things that is can be easily overlooked is that we are blessed to be able to create safe spaces I don't want to do that little air quote thing because it's a real thing it really is and it's something that a lot of times is just easily overlooked like there might be organizations in town that say oh you know come on into our annual meeting or something because we really want to hear what you have to say not understanding that sometimes for a person of color for for black and brown folks even showing up in some of those spaces doesn't always feel that safe whereas in the Richard Kemp Center because it's a community building place and we already have a lot of folks that are dialed in it becomes a safe space yeah and if those if I guess you know we keep saying it over and over again but I'll say it again tonight if if it's if it was working we wouldn't be here you know it's hey everybody's pretty busy here there's a lot of stuff going on I got other things to do if it's if it was working we wouldn't be having these conversations and I think that's really the key point that we want to drive home that we want to continue to drive home with our partners with our community partners as well as those from designated agencies who are partnering in the work that you're doing is is because for you know and and sometimes the folks get stuck on intent and they get well you know we're doing the best we can we're not perfect well you know the it's it you know the service is here it's always been here I don't know why your people are missing it and so but at the end of the day what's most important is it's not working right it's not so that's I think that's your message is what I'm hearing from you more than anything is is we're going to try alternative approaches to get folks and to get folks plugged in and we're gonna and I think it it's what it sounds like is is it helps everybody it sure does at the end of the day because I mean what impact does that happen on these agencies that are delivering these services that truly want to do it better and do it in a more equitable manner right when we're able to create you know environments where you know we might be doing like a listening session or whatever and especially if they're sort of the smaller more intimate like focus groups they learn yeah they really learn yeah and one of the things that's really important to understand is that it's not necessarily like an either or we certainly don't have the capacity to deliver housing services the way that cht is that's their thing that's what they do and they're gigantic so um what we want to be able to do is speak into the into the way that those services are delivered and by having those focus groups and having a community that's kind of dialed in through us we're able to do that and I mean again it's it's really important to say that it's not necessarily an an either or it's more of and yeah we just want to throw up this last slide before we get out of here I know I really appreciate you being on with me tonight it's I always feel so much comfortable so much more comfortable in having a conversation and engage with anybody when it's you so thank you for coming I hope you keep coming back there's the first open house I see that you have coming up here on the 17th that's right around Juneteenth lots of stuff going on speak briefly to that yeah one of the things I mean I'm excited about the whole thing but one of the things that I'm really excited about is a project that we're gonna actually kick off on that day but it will be ongoing to honor local black history um and when I say local I mean throughout the whole state I feel like there's a lot of attention and it's understandable um you know in that one month that we're given for Black History Month to talk about you know the big rock stars and the big people that are getting like national attention but I don't want us to overlook all of the incredible history makers and legacy makers that are right here in Vermont and I feel like I'm not sure why nobody else has already thought of doing this but I think that in the Richard Kemp Center it's kind of the perfect place to do it that I've envisioned a wall or some space in that space that will be honoring local black history you get the last word I appreciate that I appreciate you thank you for all of the work that you're doing at the Richard Kemp Center it is honoring your father it is honoring your father and you if he was I'm sure if he was around today and I knew this guy he'd say you're doing him proud so he told you not to quit don't tell everybody that thank you so much again thank you for joining us today legacy makers it's the legacy maker at the intersection of the black community's wellness culture and their youth Christine Hughes the Richard Kemp Center have a good evening


I've learned the importance of resting before I need to, resting even when I don't feel like it, resting on a regular rhythm. Rather than what a lot of people do, is they work themselves to exhaustion and then they rest. And in my opinion and in my experience, that's resting too late. So if I feel very tired I've already rested too late. So it's more important what I do and I'll tell you the several types of rest that I take. I take micro breaks. Now this is interesting. I think a lot of you know, well yes I need to take vacations or I need to you know sleep well at night etc. Yes and those are all important, right? Taking regular breaks during your year and sleeping well at night. Those are the kind of the what a lot of us know to do that's important as rest. But what a lot of us don't know, I'll tell you about two things, two kinds of rest. One is during the working day I work no more than I only work for an hour and a half to two hours before I take a long break. Even when I feel like I want to keep working and that's that's the key. Just like I've learned how important it is to work and create even when I don't feel like it. That's I think honestly true maturity in as a professional to work and create even when I don't feel like it, right? For example, I didn't feel like doing this video. I don't feel like doing any of my videos. Like if truly if everyone in the world were fully self-actualized and I need I don't need to help anybody, I would be sitting on the couch eating popcorn watching videos all day or playing video games. That's what I would prefer to do really. So but I know that there's a lot of things I can do to contribute. I know that there's of course my own livelihood my own career that I need to work on. So I work when I don't feel like it. I work so for example this video I just you know I did my energy reboot, breathing, I showed up you know the first minute I probably still didn't feel like doing it. But now I'm enjoying it, right? Now it's effortless action. Now it's going with the flow, right? So I work even when I don't feel like it. Same thing I've learned about rest. I rest even when I don't feel like it. So after an hour and a half to two hours of work I rest even if I'm in a on a roll. I rest. I rest and I take at least half an hour and twice a day I take two hour breaks. So if I don't only take half an hour then I'm doing a little bit of snacking and I'm doing a 15 minute nap. I don't usually fall asleep during the naps but at least laying down and resting is very very helpful. And then my two hour breaks I you know do the dog walk sometimes an errand to the post office or something like that. So that's the type of break that a lot of you probably need to institute more into your day is midday breaks. I take let's see I take a midday break half an hour in the morning after an hour of work. That's basically a nap. I take another hour and a half after in the mid morning for breakfast you know nap and dog walk. I take a half hour during lunch. I don't really eat lunch. I just take a quick quick snack and I take a nap and then in the afternoon I take two hours which is you know snack nap and dog walk. So I take four naps a day 15 minutes each. I don't fall asleep usually but just laying down is extremely helpful. So midday breaks are you doing it? If not please I hope you will start doing it as soon as possible. So that's the that's the type that I and then there's a second type that a lot of you aren't doing that I want to encourage you to do. Micro breaks which are during every working hour remember I said I worked for 90 minutes to 120 minutes at a time. Well even during that time I'm taking multiple micro breaks. Micro breaks for me are 30 seconds long and I do this every 15 to 20 minutes religiously religiously. I've been doing this now micro breaks. I've done it off and on for years but I've started doing it religiously in the past month month and a half and it's been a huge difference. So micro breaks are 30 seconds every 15 to 20 minutes which means you need to look at the clock every few minutes. I look at the clock every few minutes. Why don't you? I mean it's it's really like time consciousness is really like the bottom line here like you have to build a time consciousness. You can't just lose yourself. Yes what about flow? What about psychological flow George? Aren't you supposed to lose yourself in your work? Yes I do. At the same time I've also practiced a habit even if I'm in creative flow to look at the clock every now and then just to be aware of what time. So what do I do during those 30 seconds of micro break? Okay here's what I do. I close my eyes gently. I put my arms down to my sides both arms down to the sides off the keyboard down to the sides I relax okay my arms down and then I in my mind and my heart I'm thanking God for having brought me here to this point in my life all the creativity that God has helped me to create and I know and I trust that God will bring me through everything else as well all the challenges all the problems all the ups and downs all the creativity God will bring me through all of that. Use a different word if you don't like the word God you can use source or whatever it is that makes sense you hire yourself so that's what I do for 30 seconds I'm thinking and I'm trusting I'm relaxing and then part of my 30 seconds I look into the distance I happen to work by a window so I'm grateful to be a look in the distance so I open my eyes I look in the distance I stretch and yawn and then the very lasting of the 30 seconds is I look at the clock again and say okay my next time for a micro break is at what time so I set that intention okay at you know 115 or whatever I'm gonna take another micro break and then that kind of intention helps to remind me okay okay time to take a micro break and this has helped prevent me from repetitive stress injury I've dealt with carpal tunnel repetitive stress in in the past and it's not fun and it's scary but because of frequent micro breaks I solved that problem I no longer have it I still work I probably work more hours now than I did in the past but because of all these breaks I no longer have carpal tunnel repetitive stress and I'm healthy I haven't gotten sick in in over a year actually so it's amazing so I really hope you'll take this to heart take those midday breaks take the micro breaks practice that kind of discipline rest before you need to I wish you well my name is George cowl authentic business coach and I look forward to seeing in the next video and thank you for joining me thanks so much