Thank you for those two great talks and on behalf of the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering It's my distinct pleasure to introduce Professor Latiendo He got his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Peking University Then came to the States for his graduate work at UCLA followed by a postdoc at the University of California Berkeley He joined Purdue in 2017 and since then I don't think he's left his office According to his productivity He very shortly got the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award He very recently got the NSF career award and in between he's grown his group to double digits He is on according to the web of science in three years of his five years here An outstanding re sighted researcher, which means he has published papers that get citations at the top 1% of all papers published I Will not tell you what he does. I will leave that to him in his in his time, but he really is Breaking frontiers at the boundaries of material science and chemistry to make devices that will improve human life And with that I will pass this over to Latian. Thank you. Thank you John for the wonderful introduction And also I would like to thank College of Engineering and particularly Marsha and Maria for setting this event up So really wonderful opportunities for us to share a little bit more about ourself just like previous speakers I will not talk about too much technical work Here and I will just share a little bit more about who am I and where I come from and how I get here So John already briefly mentioned So I Look at I was born in Beijing China in 1987 I spent 22 years in Beijing and I will have to say that I went to Peking University study chemistry there and after that I took a long flight arrived at Los Angeles I studied material science with professor Yang Yang there to learn organic electronics materials and the devices and Towards the end of my PhD. I had a short sabbatical type of visit at UC St. Barbara work with Fred Woodall Professor Woodall a little bit about half year learned Organic chemistry and polymer chemistry there and we have a very exciting discovery there I will mention that work later of my talk After my PhD I went to UC Berkeley did my post office With Peter young and learn change the topic a little bit learning organic materials and a nano technology So you can see most of my scientific training is in the west coast in particularly in California So I spent eight years there and obviously US is so big Right, so after that I decided to definitely go to the east and see what's going on on the east side So luckily I got this job at Purdue I took another long flight arrived at this beautiful state of Indiana and Started my independent group here at Purdue. So that I just arrived I was pretty nervous and not sure was what's the future. I luckily over the past five years I met lots of great colleagues great mentors and also great students and staff Who helped me tremendously and helped me go through this tenure process smoothly So I'll spend a few minutes just a mention a few names and introduce them Briefly, okay, so first of all definitely our department head dr. Kim who helped me and he's really a visionary I'm sure you guys all know his great achievement and he leads the department in a very good shape now He provided us an less and a tearless support. I was not only providing the money and the students he really sit down with us and Learn what we need and help us make connections to external people and and really shape our future So without his support, I cannot stand up here today another important mentor is Professor Kesh Aguva was a very very famous person and But I feel he's probably the most humble and you know, I remember In the US anyway, he's always very friendly very approachable. My office was actually next to his office We are in the same suite. We interact almost on a daily basis before COVID after COVID since COVID the change a little bit, but I learned so much from him and I really Enjoyed learning a lot of things from him another important mentor Brian Boudours He's not here today. Whether we just have a great Symposium or the weekend. So we have lots of common research interests We collaborate a lot. We co-advise several students and postdocs I learned lots of polymer chemistry and the physics from him and also I was amazed by his ability of multi-tasking He has he handles so many things at the same time learning teaching research mentoring Service family. So I did the excellent job on every aspect. So I'm still learning that and Then Professor Brezza Boy my fellow colleague was here. Thank you very much for coming Yeah, I was so fortunate to to be able to collaborate with him right from the beginning He is so popular many people want to collaborate with him But I have I have a privilege to to to be able to spend a lot of time with him So we had a very exciting five years multiple couple of nature and nature nanotag paper published together and some joint fundings Yeah, I learned a lot of things from the computational side and your prediction really really accurate So here we find a lot of useful materials based on his simulation and Once you I need to catch up. It's get up early You get up so early. So I promise this year probably I will see you in the in the gym early in the morning So, okay another a few of folks outside can be so Professor Jiang Guo Mei Also my very very good friend. We talk about everything over lunch research teaching in life He give me a lot of tips and suggestions how to how to survive and and Also, he inspired me to doing some Translational work, right? So think a little bit Something that is more practically useful, right? And also I would like to thank Felly back one also in chemistry. She is a hardcore physical chemist and learn lots of quantum mechanics from her and really Teach me a lot of how light and matter interact and how to see the electrons moves in the materials actual thoughts spectroscopy and microscopy really cool stuff We also have lots of collaborations and and many joint papers together and due to limitation of time I won't be able to Introduce each of my mentors in detail, but I definitely all their names here particularly on the highlight Professor Tony Yuan and the Jeff Guili helped me a lot on the teaching side echo taught with them in several courses and Also a few colleagues. I'm here. We'll see is here We talk about lots of our battery and solar will definitely do it in the near future Right and also John we talk about the bio and the solar definitely those are very exciting areas We can work together in the future and because I'm at the nature of my research is kind of interdisciplinary Disciplinary I interact with many people's outside chemie across across the college of engineering particularly lots of people from a material science and Thanks, Professor Wang to be here. Take some of your time your very busy schedule And also folks from ECE and ME professor Kajia-Dao is here. Thank you for coming and enjoys here BME and chemistry. So we have lots of discussions collaborations and also publish a lot of interesting work together So you can see the produce really providing a Very diverse and a very collaborative environment so that I can easily interact with many people Across the campus and did some interesting work together. It's really enjoying learning Lots of things from from my colleagues Also my group my students I also like to thank them without them I cannot do anything in my life So he's so much he's a recent picture. We have about 20 people now in the group So my group is growing very rapidly recently So this picture was took about few weeks ago Leo was she shown was sick So I put another picture here. He just got a poster award last weekend. So that's a picture That's a award ceremony. So congratulations. So he deserves a bigger picture in this slide So I graduated his three students who left the group earlier this year Equity during the lab research doing semiconductor work now in California Interestingly all of them are in California. So Aiden's in Berkeley National Lab doing a postdoc. He's very passionate Passionate about teaching and research. So hopefully he will become a professor soon Blake just joined the first solar research center in California He's trying to commercialize porous gas solar cells now So I'm very happy at least I have one student continuing working on porous gas solar cell and hopefully he'll make this happen. It's also very He's also doing a big favor from me He's trying to establish some collaboration between first solar and me and trying to get some industry funding To the group. So I'm very excited about all of their achievements and I'm sure they will do great in their career path pass, okay And the two of my first postdoc in the group Dr. Engeng Shi and Yao Gao joined almost the same time as with me in 2017 they spent three four years in the group almost like a PhD. So they did a tremendous amount of work in the lab They are now both professors in China. They just got a big start-up package. I'm sure they will do well in China Okay, now a little bit about research what we have done over the past few years So the core of our research is materials chemistry and device engineering We are developing a new type of semiconductor called organic semiconductor Incorporated porous gas or OSIP. I think the short name is pretty cool So it's a hybrid Semiconductor materials really combines advantages from both organic and the inorganic world We are doing material synthesis head of structure fabrication and do some optical electronic property calculations some fundamental understanding On the properties and also apply them into a variety of devices including solar cells LEDs Even transistor and thermoelectrics trying to improve the performance and stability There's a few examples about what we do in the lab We make the materials we grow beautiful hybrid crystals We assemble them into a head of structures and to study some fundamental Electronical process in those materials and we also apply them into real devices large Microscopic devices. This is a solar cell we fabricated We can get almost 25% efficiency in the lab now Almost approaching the single crystal in silicon and that's why the many industries Start up companies and even including for solar the larger solar manufacturing are interested in porous gas or a cell now or research and mainly founded by government a little bit from Private foundations and also P2C Grace here, thanks for the support at the beginning of my research career Yeah, as I said, we are also talking with industry or hopefully get more industry money into the group in the near future So what's new what's what's next? So we are continue to be excited about porous gas semiconductors We will definitely push forward on the on the frontier of this materials chemistry and device performance side But I'm also initiating a new direction Totally different from the porous gas semiconductor. It's about sustainable polymers. So basically we find a way to Create a unique carbon-carbon bond Elongated or weakened carbon-carbon bond. So As you may know in the textbook, we know the carbon-carbon bond usually is 1.54 amstrong in your high school or college chemistry Textbook, but we're able to make a unique bond. It's around 1.6 amstrong. So this weaker bond makes the bond easily breakable so that you can selectively break this bond but without breaking other bonds so you can Convert the polymer back to monomer almost it's a quantitative years So using this concept will be able to Produce chemically recyclable polymers for many applications For example, we can make crystalline polymers for some membrane a strong very strong Filtration membranes or we can make thermoplastic amorphous polymers for 3d printing or for extrusion Let's work for general for many different applications. So we just got a few papers Published is a very new research area and also this is also dr. Kim's vision for the future so if we can utilize this concept and Really put convert translate this fundamental concept into a real use that can have huge societal impact, so I'm also I'm also very excited about this and also I'd like to mention Most of this work also jointly with My friend best always he did a lot of wonderful calculations help us predict the best materials that I can use I have many things exciting things going on. Hopefully we'll be able to share next year I Think that's all finally thanks my my family For all of their support as don't mention has spent quite a bit of time in the office So I feel it'd be good enough spending too much time with my kids I was able to take them to Disney World this summer. So they were super excited and this is some event last week Halloween event Yeah, so that's all about myself and the other excitement over the past few years and thank you everyone for coming I'm happy to answer any questions Questions so I have seen him out of the office the co rec on Tuesday nights He's he's a well there his daughters are linked basketball. So I yeah, I know that Yes, professor for doors. Oh, it's maybe I'm not as nimble of a mind as you but it's it seems awesome. Oh Not not gaining much but um, I Guess my question is it's not not obvious sleep to me at least to go from hybrid perovskites to sustainable polymers What skill sets translate over that allow you to make that leap Thanks, thanks for this question. Yeah, obviously there's a gap in between that. So one reason I come back to the polymers is As I mentioned earlier, I spent half a year in Santa Barbara. So and there I made a Extental discovery and actually published in science. It's probably a record I got the result of second week visits in the Barbara and eventually this was the science paper I but we did not Put too much attention on that after after that paper But that's really the key foundation for the discovery of this elongated bomb But I did not know what to do with it over the past seven eight years. I just put it aside but sometimes I Went back I think what can we do with it and particularly during co-ed it allows me to think a little more because more time stay at home and I remember that's After after lunch I have a walk with my wife Near the house. I was thinking do something new maybe and suddenly got this idea and he's she said always do it It's more exciting than for us guys And then I talked to Dr. Kim and he feels same thing you do it immediately So let's get one two students jump into this area and then I was able to convince convince team He's not here. Yeah, who was doing poor sky work at that time So I asked him to stop doing the poor sky work and jump into the the polymer thing Here yeah, actually he graded from st. Barbara He also worked with Fred Woodall for few months during his undergrad but he was able to Make lots of initial discovery on that and also another interesting story is she Because I have one student working on this. I feel not enough and he'd accelerate then that I cannot find the right students with the right chemistry and polymer background immediately working on this project and My friend professor may kind of land his students to me He's a student issue. He's not not gradated and he also like stopped his project and jump into this project So I'm really grateful We have a couple of comments A couple of comments online Hello, okay, there we go All right, dr. Yi says thanks for sharing your research journey and dr. Rahman says asks the potential for recyclability by design is exciting What are some of the challenges in implementation? Yeah, great point I think there are many new exciting chemistry to take off the polymer recycling issue as there are two major approaches One is deal deal with the existing polymers particularly polyethylene polypropylene polystyrene Existing polymers you need we need to develop a new catalyst But most of the catalysts are very very expensive. There are a couple of recent work Reporting Lusinium or iridium platinum catalyst. Those are super expensive more expensive than gold or diamond So we cannot throw in those catalysts to recycle the dirt cheap polyethylene another approach a polymer chemist Want to develop new polymers to replace the existing polymers again the cost is a major issue lots of new polymers They show the Depolymerizability you can convert them back you can recycle them, but those some polymers are usually very Composal very strange very exotic Components so it's very hard to scale up I believe I Try to design polymers with a simple structure as possible not creating like a to crazy chemistry but but at the same time maintain the Processibility and recyclability though. So that's the challenging part. I think our chemistry is close, but The major challenge is the cost or had really bring down the cost to close to the existing polymers I think up this family of compounds pretty simple straightforward I think it's very promising Next question is along the same line when you change the chemical bond or the distance How does it affect on the heat to break it down or to fabricated back? Sorry Yes, this is a key part so We want to use the heat because I learned from industry the paralysis is the most economical process They don't want to use iridium or platinum catalyst But the heat is tricky you want polymer to be stable enough you don't want them to degrade when you pour hot water on it But also at the same time you don't want to be too strong if it requires five six hundred degrees C It will all the bottom will break you will get a big mass of mixtures So by using this concept we can control the strength of the bomb make it the in the right range We think 200 to 250 is the right range Usually you don't need such high temperature in daily life, but it's low enough to easily depolarize All right with that if there's no other questions we'll conclude. Let's thank Professor do again. Thank you I was just gonna Thank everyone for joining us today three wonderful presentations and discussions And I'd like to just remind everyone that while we are done for the celebrating associate professor's event for this fall semester We are Maria and Marsha are working already on the spring Events in this series. So look forward to seeing you at this event again in the spring semester. Thank you


Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news round up. It's the 24th of September. I'm sorry to say that today my background is quite terrible, but don't focus on that. Focus on the fact that Zoe from People's Dispatch, Prashant from People's Dispatch and I, Vijay from Globetrot are with you once again for the 46th edition of Give the People What They Want, your favorite movement driven global news show. It's only the 46th episode of Give the People What They Want, but Zoe has been reporting from the 76th opening of the United Nations General Assembly session. 75 years have passed since the UN was established. Its charter was put into effect. 193 countries now member states of the United Nations. Zoe from the front reporting in New York City. What's been happening at the UN General Assembly's 76th session opening? Well, I think there's been a lot of importance put on this General Assembly because it is the first one since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It's the first in-person UN General Assembly. And so there's a lot of issues on the table. I mean, on one hand we have, you know, what are the strategies? What is the state of the world right now with the COVID-19 pandemic? The UN World Health Organization, a lot of international institutions have been playing really important roles to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic to try to work with countries to create solutions to the pandemic. So that's a really key issue on people's minds. Of course, also the end in some senses of the world in Afghanistan has also been a really key issue. And another one, which we're going to get back to, Vijay, with your other stories, of course, the rising tensions against China and in general the continuation of unilateral U.S. aggression against countries that it simply does not agree with. I think the case of China is a really clear example of this. But dozens of countries across the world are suffering negative impacts of what many countries coin unilateralism. So one really important development, which I wanted to highlight that's been happening on amid this week of all of these bilateral meetings between ministers, the large general assembly sessions, is also yesterday, September 23rd, 18 countries came together to launch, well not to launch, sorry, but to create a joint declaration of the group of friends in defense of the UN Charter. Now on this show, I think we always say at Vijay, you love to say this, that we don't fall into any, we're not going to create new rules. What we defend is the UN Charter. This is a charter that promotes the respect of human rights, promotes the respect of national sovereignty, the respect of cooperation between countries from a stance of trying to help each other, promoting international peace. And so these 18 countries have called for these founding principles of the United Nations, as you mentioned founded seven decades ago, to be respected. And it's interesting because the countries that make up this group are all sort of the targets of these UN principles being violated. So among this group we have Eritrea, we have Venezuela, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Belarus, so many different countries, 18 of them just now, but I think many more will join this really important group that all have come together across political ideological lines to say, this is important, this is the most pressing issue that's holding back humanity, that's preventing many of these countries from progressing, from moving forward, from accessing medicine, from accessing essential goods to not only survive the pandemic, but also to continue to thrive and to grow as countries. And so I think this is a really key development that we want to highlight. We can also just look at the speeches of Latin America, of course, I'm focusing on Latin American leaders, but looking at the speeches of Luis Arce, for example, the newly, well, since last November, newly inaugurated Bolivian president. And he came to the UN to remind people that it was the organization of the American states, a US backed international entity that promoted the coup against Bolivia, against Bolivian democracy. Miguel Diaz Canel also used the space to condemn the US blockade, which over 100 members of the UN have condemned and called for an end to. So I think the UN continues to be a very important space to promote these international agendas for countries that are silenced by countries like the United States to show their position and also to work together. Well, at the UN, of course, just to let our viewers know, heads of governments come there one by one sequentially.  There's a very great opportunity to talk about the important pressing issues of the time. We've been seeing some quite interesting speeches being made. Zoe talked about Luis Arce's speech that was considerable. I, of course, followed the speech from US President Joe Biden very closely. The reason to listen to Biden closely is Biden is coming to the United Nations on the back of a humiliating withdrawal for the United States from Afghanistan and ratcheted up tension pushed principally by the United States against China. Of course, it should be said that this China pressure campaign has fractured the US alliance system and I'll come to that in a second. I was very keen to observe what was Biden saying and to listen carefully to the language. It's, I think, important that Biden said the United States doesn't want a new Cold War against China. I don't believe that we should take that statement and dismiss it. It is actually important and I feel like journalists now have a standard set by the United States government. The United States government has said, we are not looking for a war on China. Well, based on what Mr. Biden has said, now we can go forward and judge US actions. If indeed the United States is saying we are not prosecuting a war against China, then one can ask the question, well, why has the United States entered a new military pact with Australia and the United Kingdom where many people are saying, many observers are saying this pact has to do with the pressure campaign against China. Why indeed has the United States continued to have another military engagement called the Quad with Japan, India, Australia, the heads of government meeting with Mr. Biden and so on. I think because Mr. Biden has said that the US is not willing to prosecute a war on China because of that, the question should be raised, what are these platforms? I think that's the way to consider what's happening now. Now, this is interesting. At People's Dispatch, you can see a report that I did on AUKUS, which is the Australia-US-UK pact, which on the surface of it, and by the way, it was a very curious release of AUKUS because Mr. Biden forgot Scott Morrison's name. Scott Morrison, because you probably may not know his name either, so don't mock Mr. Biden for this, is the Prime Minister of Australia. It tells you a little bit about the role of Australia in the world system that people just don't know what's the politics like and so on. Anyway, at the release between Scott Biden, I said, Joe Biden, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom at the release, they made it sound as if this was a pressing need for security and so on and so forth. In fact, it's my sense speaking to people who understand these issues considerably more than I do and who look very closely at the issue of arms deals. It seemed to me from assessing all that, that in fact the situation of AUKUS is less about a pressure campaign on China directly and more an arms deal masquerading as a military alliance. This was a way for the US and UK to secure $100 billion-plus worth of arms deals with Australia, breaking a deal the Australians had with the French for about a $90 billion deal to buy diesel-powered submarines. Now Australia is going to get nuclear-powered submarines. This has implications, ramifications for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. I welcome you to go read the article. It's a fairly detailed report, but the quick point I want to make here is that it's important that Mr. Biden says there is no Cold War. I think that should be the headline, but underneath that comes the question. If it's true that the US is not prosecuting a new Cold War, why these military packs? I think it is incumbent in a sense on the United States to explain that to the international community and it's a pity that Joe Biden's speech didn't then develop the point further and say, well, the reason to build the Quad and AUKUS and so on is because of this other reason, because we're using them to tackle climate change and the pandemic and all the real issues confronting the planet. Of course, he didn't say anything. So then it appears that maybe there's less to his speech than meets the eye. We're going to keep looking at this because it's a fundamental issue. Switching gears quickly Prashant coming to the question of US pressure campaigns because after all that seems to be a theme along with the UN Charter. What's the pressure campaign the US has been placing on the Horn of Africa and in particular the government of Ethiopia? Right, Vijay, because what we see right now is we've been covering Ethiopia again over the past year. On September 17th, Joe Biden basically issued an authorization to the Treasury and State Department to use the most favorite tactic of the United States in many of these situations, which is sanctions. And it was kind of an omnibus authorization because it allowed sanctions on anybody who was, you know, preventing a ceasefire, say, contributing to the conflict, etc. But observers on the ground do say that there is a bit of, you know, it's not as even-handed as it seems because it does look like of the two players in the conflict. There's the Ethiopian government, which is backed by a lot of the regional governments, provincial governments in the country. And there is a Tigray People's Liberation Fund to the TPLF, which basically runs the Tigray province. And as we know, this issue basically escalated last year when the TPLF attacked a military base in Mekele, the capital, the Ethiopian army, what do you call, went back into the region, recaptured the region, and then it withdrew. It's important to note that it withdrew, declared a ceasefire because the agriculture season was starting. And once that happened, of course, the TPLF went on the offensive again. And this offensive is important to note because this offensive took place at a time when the humanitarian situation had worsened considerably due to the conflict. And there was a huge amount of hunger. There was a huge amount of famine-like conditions. But the TPLF basically conducted a war in such a way that it basically cut a lot of these humanitarian convoys, a lot of the routes, and actually increased the crisis. So even though this is currently the situation, there are some more dimensions that we'll come to later. It does look like the United States government is probably going to impose sanctions on the Ethiopian government. And this is something that the government itself of Ethiopia, say, organizations across the world have pointed out that it's actually a very problematic life. Now, as far as the ground is concerned, it's an extremely dangerous situation because what we see is that among other things, there are not enough trucks right now to deliver food to the starving people. And this has been mentioned by U.N. agencies, U.S. aid, all of them are actually chronically at this point have mentioned that there is not enough trucks to deliver food. And prima facie does look like a lot of trucks which went into the region controlled by the TPLF have not returned. And there are reports of these trucks having been taken over and used for military purposes. So this is actually one major issue that's read right now a lot of humanitarian activities basically pretty much stuck because of the fact that there is no food delivery possible because of logistical reasons. And of course, there are issues of, you know, massacres that are reported to have taken place in which the TPLF is involved. No real clout on that, no real, say, enquiries, any possibility of that. So amid all this, the kind of sanctions regime that the United States is planning is only probably likely to worsen the conflict because it gives another huge boost. TPLF has said that it will develop positions, but question really once a ceasefire was declared, how come the conflict started again? So right now they are at the back foot because most of the regional ministries have also sort of combined with the federal government against the TPLF. There's a long history of your TPLF being in power for a very long time. But right now I think one of the most important questions is regarding the delivery of food is regarding humanitarian activities and whether this kind of sanctions will only hamper the further delivery of this aid. Yeah, that's a, you know, it's a story of great feeling and tragedy in a sense. And I'm glad that people's dispatch has been covering it so regularly. Looking at it from a people's perspective, people's centered perspective, hunger as the edge of the story really. I think it's really important. I was interested at the UN General Assembly Prashant and Zoe that the Taliban was not going to speak. They had actually asked to come and speak, but they are not, they haven't been given as it were the card to come in and represent Afghanistan. That was interesting. I was also waiting to see what the coverage would be, what the various heads of governments would say about Haiti. The Dominican president, Luis Abidaneir, gave a very strong statement at the UN General Assembly talking about how the international community mustn't abandon Haiti and so on. That's a phrase I've heard for decades, must not abandon Haiti. Often not abandoning Haiti means the opposite, which is oppressing the Haitian people more, seems to me. I mean, I'm making an editorial comment, Zoe. We saw those images at the US border of Haitian refugees, Haitian people being beaten and so on. What's going on with Haiti? What's going on with the border? What's going on with this whole don't abandon the country situation? Yeah, I think it's really important that we take this moment and really try to understand what's behind those horrific images. I think people were really, really struck by the brutality of them to see border patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian migrants who were trying to cross the Rio Grande River. For those of you who don't know the US geography, that is essentially the river that divides the US from the Mexico border and is a very treacherous crossing point where a lot of migrants attempt to cross to reach the United States. These images have made the rounds because of course of the sheer brutality of what's happening in the situation, the response from the Biden administration has been to condemn the use of whips, to condemn the use of horses. They have said now they won't be using horses, but that's not the end of this story for Haitian migrants and that's not enough to correct the damage of what US immigration policy has done to Haitians, but also US foreign policy. And this is a story of course that we've been covering over the past couple of years. Right now it's no surprise that Haiti is seeing a surge in migration following the last year of events in the country. I mean, there was an earthquake in Haiti two months ago, weeks before that, the president of the country was assassinated. And this was by a group of 26 Colombian mercenaries who seem to have links to a US based company.   And, you know, of course, before that this was their favorite president, you know, Jovenin Moise was assassinated, had been facing popular protests for years. People on the streets were saying that he was backed by the US. He overstayed his constitutional term. He was not listening to the demands of the people who was imposing their liberal policies. Haitian people have been suffering, you know, not only for the past couple of years under, you know, US backed policies, but of course for decades.   You know, but at the end of the day, what the US has done is it stood by Jovenin Moise. And then when he was assassinated, they've, you know, kind of haven't really, you know, taken, of course, they're not going to ever. It's unclear what those links are, but there's, you know, a lot of different reports by, you know, some journalists with, you know, of people that have been based in Florida, etc. And now with it, what's happening with it, you know, of course, the expected migrant crisis, you know, we've also covered the fact that they've been going through Colombia through the extremely treacherous gap, which, you know, is one of the hardest immigration routes to take, you have to go through this very, very, you know, difficult jungle between Colombia and Panama, they go through their up Central America, trying to make it to the US border. And in the past couple of days, in addition to these brutal, you know, beatings at the border, there have been mass deportation flights almost every single day. So at the same time that there's, you know, beating people back at the border, they're also sending people back to Haiti on chartered flights from Texas every single day. And so this crisis, this US provoked crisis in Haiti, which we're now seeing at the border is not going to end here. The Haitian people need sovereignty. They need the ability to decide their destiny and their future. And we hear, of course, news that the US government is going to reopen a detention camp that they held 30 years ago in Guantanamo Bay for Haitians. You know, before Guantanamo Bay was turned over for the black site in the war on terror, it was used to jail to engage Haitians. They're going to do it again. It's disgraceful. Prashant, you I know are following events in the Philippines, 49 years since the declaration of martial law. By the way, I don't know if we're going to talk about this, but it looks like in the election next year, Marcos's son Bongbong is going to be one of the candidates. Are we going to have a return of Marcos in 2022 in the Philippines or is President Duterte already Marcos? Good question, because there's the question of some Marcos returning by name, Marcos already being in power in Guantanamo Bay. Duterte himself, interestingly, planning to contest next year is vice president because constitutionally he cannot contest once again. So he's adopting the tactic used in many parts of the world and is definitely planning to do so. The past few days as basically September 23rd was important because the people in the Philippines marked the 49th anniversary of martial law being declared. It was declared and then backdated due to Marcos superstitious beliefs apparently. So he had already been in power since 1965. He continued in power until 1986. And this is 21 years, 21 horrific years for the people of Philippines, especially for critics, journalists, activists, large number of judicial killings, a large number of disappearances. A lot of this history will probably never be uncovered because of the nature of such states function. Some official numbers say around 3200 extra judicial killings, 35,000 instances of torture, 70,000 political imprisonments. But like I said, probably this is really the tip of the iceberg. And the kind of impact it had on an entire generation of people, you know, people whose careers were suppressed, people whose civil rights and liberties were taken away, people who had to flee the country, people who could have contributed to the development of the country, who had to flee. Young people, you know, the whole nature of those crimes are still very fresh in the minds of people. Marcos, of course, was overthrown in 1986 by what is called the People's Revolution. Today, the key important factor for the protest actually was that keeping two aspects. One is keeping the elections in mind next year, but also the fact that Duterte while retaining the democratic norms, he's not imposed martial law. That's true. But nonetheless, the extent of killings, the extent of damage that he has caused is perhaps even greater than what happened during Marcos time. And that is really saying a lot because he is right now, the International Criminal Court has opened an investigation against him for his war on drugs. Now, as we know, sorry, as we know, war on drugs, again, across the world, a very common, say, theme used to suppress people, to kill people for extrajudicial killings. Philippines absolutely no different because I believe at least 5,000 to 20,000 people may have died or been killed in these war of drugs. And that is what the probe is about. And of course, political violence, massive during this time period, farmers leaders, trade union leaders, workers leaders, all of them red tacked, being accused of being associated with the communists and arrested, sometimes even killed. So huge human rights violations taking place in the Philippines right now. The COVID-19 handling epidemic was handled horribly as a draconian law in place which is being challenged by activists. So right now for civil society groups, a big challenge is to mobilize for next year's elections. That's what they're aiming to do. And I think this commemoration actually marked a key moment in that because people pointed out that in some senses, the martial law continues and that it's important to never forget and to remember that these, these legacies continue to evolve. Across the waters from the Philippines, major real estate development in China, grotesquely underreported story Evergrande. Some of the financial papers saying Evergrande, one of the world's largest property development companies, is going to end up being the Lehman Brothers of China. Friends, you might remember Lehman Brothers was the investment firm that collapsed in 2008, triggered the property led credit crisis in the West, the great 2009 credit crunch and so on. So there was an expectation that what was happening in China with Evergrande was going to trigger a similar kind of thing, the real slowdown in the Chinese economy and so on. In fact, Evergrande basically running out of the ability to pay off its wealthy bondholders, both in the US bond market and its internal debts as a consequence of missing some payments and then threatening to miss other payments. It's market capitalization. This is one of the largest property firms in China. Its market capitalizing collapsed from 41 billion last year to about just under $3 billion now. That is a big collapse. Its shareholders are sitting wondering what's going to happen to their wealth. There are about 80,000 people in China and I put this in context. China country 1.4 billion, 80,000 people have some investment, some stake in Evergrande. Not a huge number of people in percentage terms. Nonetheless, a considerable collapse. This 80,000 people are sitting on about 40 billion renminbi or about 6 billion US dollars wondering what's going to happen. These are wealthy bondholders even inside China. Now, what's going to happen to them? This is a serious issue. The government of Xi Jinping is trying to enclose Evergrande and to say if Evergrande goes, Evergrande can go. But we're not going to support it and so on. I'm going to come back to the property market issue. It's quite interesting that here there is no attempt to save Evergrande. They are like if it goes, it goes and we're going to have to see about it. It's certainly true in China. There's a lot of surplus housing capacity. It's also true that a lot of local governments were using land sales to raise funds for their own access to the bond market and so on. If that dries up, will this hamper China's growth rate? Economists are looking at that closely. Will Evergrande not collapse the Chinese economy, but will it in fact have an issue with the growth rate? If you're looking, watching China closely late last year in 2020, the Chinese government released a very interesting document. And my notes go back to 2020, which means that we've got to watch this carefully, friends. This is where they talked about common prosperity. At that time, there was a denunciation. Yes, Zoe, I mean denunciation. There was a denunciation of what they call the disorderly expansion of capitalism. In other words, to shift the Chinese mode of growth from essentially real estate or speculation in real estate, speculation in property, to shift it from that to technological innovation to the move towards so-called green technology and so on. To shift the basis of Chinese growth, there's quite an aggressive move being made by the government. The issue is, will the Chinese government succeed in being able to insulate the rest of the economy from the near-certain implosion of this very large corporation inside China, Evergrande, a corporation nobody has heard of, except perhaps in the pages of the financial press. It's significant. And one of the reasons I feel like we're not getting much reporting about Evergrande is because the way the Chinese government are handling this crisis is illustrative. You see, unlike, let's say, the Bush first and then the Obama administration in 2008-09, which decided to use public money to show up private companies. You remember, this was what was known as TAP and then the stimulus. It wasn't a stimulus to people. It wasn't to buy out houses and let people stay in them. Evictions continued apace. This was a stimulus in a TAP, a TAPOLINE for big firms, for corporations. In contrast, the Chinese government may not bail out Evergrande. They may let it slide into oblivion. As it is, there are surplus housing capacity, which they are basically saying, if you build buildings and they are not up to code, we're just going to destroy them. It's a different and very aggressive attitude towards property speculation. Don't know what's going to happen yet. We'll be continuing to cover this story. It's early days. Evergrande still has not collapsed. But remember this, disorderly expression of the property might not going to be permitted. Keep an eye on Evergrande. You've been listening to give the people what they want, which is, I hope, what we give you every week. We very much like to hear from you. Not only do we feel that we are your favorite weekly global news roundup. I mean, there are not many of them. We are the favorite one for you. But you're also our favorite viewers because you are our only viewers. Be with us next week and the weeks after. It's great to have you. Thanks a lot.


Hi, I'm Catherine Hamilton. I'm the policy director for the Energy Storage Association. We're a trade association that represents energy storage companies, utilities, anybody who wants to store clean, reliable, affordable energy and then use it when it's most effective, most efficient, and where cost effective. Energy storage is critical to making this country more sustainable because right now the way our system operates is as energy is produced, as electricity is generated, it has to be used immediately. If you can store it and then use it when you need it, it becomes much more efficient and cost effective. It allows wind and solar to be used at their maximum potential, as well as any other resource on the grid.


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Writing articles, making YouTube videos, coaching people, Shopify, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, As I said, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. Today we're gonna be talking about how to make money online. And I'm gonna preface it by saying this, I have nothing to sell you. Normally if you hear people talking on podcasts or on YouTube videos or on Facebook about how to make money online, they usually have something to sell you. I'm just gonna warn you with that. I have nothing to sell you.  So if they can break out of that rat race and make money through some other form, whether that's online or whether that's doing something else as long as it's something that they love to do, I am a massive proponent of breaking as many people free from that rat race as I possibly can. And so I remember years ago, probably I probably started on the journey of trying to figure out how to make money online about six, maybe seven years ago, actually probably eight years ago, actually about eight years ago, 2012, I quit my job and I went in backpack to Europe for three months by myself. And at that point in time, I thought to myself, there's gotta be ways to make money online. So I started researching it, kind of getting into it, but I never actually really figured it out. And so I tried to make money different ways and tried to make money different ways, tried to make money different ways. And so I wanted to make this episode so that we can talk about how there are different ways to make money online. As I always say to people, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. People always think there's these limited ways to make a million dollars to become successful or even to be able to just make six figures. People think there's only a few ways to do it. There's millions and millions and millions of ways. So I'm not gonna give you a direct answer for like, this is exactly how you make money, but I'm gonna give you a ton of suggestions because I've been in this space for, you know, about five years now and I've seen many, many, many ways to make money online. And so I wanna kind of crack your mind open and allow you to take some notes and allow you to go, man, I wanna research this, I wanna Google that. Cause ultimately, if you start to figure out what it is that you wanna do and that starts to get you a couple dollars online, $5, $20, $100,000 a month, then you're gonna start diving deeper into it and deeper into it. And as you get better at something, you make more money at it. And eventually you could probably replace your income with your salary or, you know, day job that you have now. So the problem that most people have and why it's so hard for people to make money online is because the majority of us were raised by people who don't make money online, right?  And so I always had this paradigm of, you know, you gotta go into work to make money. And when you have that paradigm, it makes it really hard to break out of that to go, I'm gonna make money online, I'm gonna figure out different ways to make money online because the internet really wasn't a thing. I didn't even have a computer until we were, I was probably 14 years old, right? So when you look at that, you realize that I was raised under an umbrella of you've gotta go to work to make money. Also a part of that means that time equals money. If I wanna make more money, I'm going to have to put more time in. And what you tend to realize is at the beginning of starting a business online, that is true. But as you get better and better and better, it's actually less time and more money. Which for most people, especially me, my paradigm was like, I have to work. I've gotta go put in work and work and work. I am a recovering work addictive person. Like I was addicted to working. I used to work 110 hours a week when I was 21 years old when I ran my first office with a marketing company. So you have to realize the first part of breaking through and making money online is getting past the paradigm of is it even possible? Getting past the paradigm of in order for me to make more money, I have to work more. Because a lot of people really hold themselves back for making more money because they've got a family. And if they equate, if I'm gonna make more money, it's gonna require more time. They'll never work harder and start that business because they think it's gonna take time away from their family. And so that's the first thing. The second thing I wanna tell you is this, is that we are raised in a school system that is designed to create workers. Really, it's not designed to create entrepreneurs or to create scientists or to create people who think outside of the box. It's very much designed. You do what you're supposed to do. You sit inside of this box for the allotted amount of time. When the bell goes off, then you can ring. If you wanna talk, you've gotta raise your hand.  There's one person that's in control of the entire room and you have to listen to them. They're the one that's in charge. And so it's really designed to create factory workers. And then what happened is, then we started creating universities. And then what happened was, the next thing is you've gotta go to school, right? Like if you don't go to, in America, people always say like, if you don't go to school, like what are you doing?  Like I am a college dropout, right?  That doesn't make any sense. You've got to be successful. You've got to go to college. And the only reason why you go to college is to what? Not to be an entrepreneur is to get a job. And so we're raised in this paradigm by our parents because usually just by our parents, that's the way that they were raised because their parents had to go to work. So we're raised that, number one, we have to go to work. We're raised, number two, that we have to go and get an education. So we're raised by our parents and our education system to be workers most of the time. So let's dive into the different ways to make money online because I want to dive into that first because what really holds people back from making money online is literally the fact that they don't even believe it's possible because of the way that they were raised by their parents and also the way that they were educated. So let me talk about all the different ways that I've met people and friends that I have and how they make money online. As I said, there's a million ways to make a million dollars. I have friends that run Facebook ads. So literally they just specialize. I have friends that make millions of dollars just specializing on running Facebook ads for other people and other businesses. Their only job is just to master Facebook ads. I have a friend that literally makes about $17 million a year just running other people's Facebook ads. This is a real thing. Another way that you can make money online, writing articles for people. There's a lot of people that hate writing, myself included. People will pay other people to be freelance writers for them. Another way to make money online, making YouTube videos. Now, the thing I'm gonna say is this is you're not gonna make a ton of money with YouTube videos until you actually grow following. But one of the guys that I follow on YouTube, he literally shows you how much he makes and he's got about 2.3 million people that follow him right now. He makes about $300,000 to $400,000 a month just off of the ads on his YouTube and he teaches finance to people. He teaches how to save more money. He teaches about credit cards. He teaches about housing, all of those things. Do you have any specialty in that? Well, guess what? If you were to really get focused on it, you could possibly make money teaching people that. You can make money coaching, consulting. I'm sure you have some form of a specialty. You can make money coaching people online, whatever your actual specialty is. You can make money setting up a Shopify store. So you can set up a Shopify website to sell products, whether you're a product or somebody else's products. You can be the third party person and you can make a bunch of money doing it that way. You can set up an Etsy store if you want to. You can set up both of them if you want. Etsy, if you create things by hand, if you make jewelry, if you do bracelets, if you do anything creative, painting, you can sell on Etsy. How else can you make money? Facebook ad revenue. If you put videos up on Facebook, if you're putting videos up on YouTube, number one, you're gonna get paid off of that ad revenue. You could also take those videos and put up on Facebook.  I have friends that make millions and millions of dollars just by putting videos up on Facebook. Yes, this is a real thing. Millions of dollars off of putting videos up on Facebook. I know one person that makes over a million dollars a month by creating viral videos and putting them up on Facebook. You can also do sponsorships. If you grow a following, if you grow a social media following, if you've heard of influencers, if you have an Instagram following, a Facebook following, a YouTube following, companies will pay to sponsor you. If you have a podcast with a good amount of listeners, people will pay to have you talk about their company. You could start a clothing brand and you could sell certain funny shirts if you want to and put that up on Shopify and sell them through Facebook ads or put them up on Etsy. You could teach people any specialty that you have, you could sell courses. I've met people that sell courses of so many different random things you could possibly think of. How to get better at doing jump ropes. How to get better at, the weirdest one that I've ever found was a guy that played, met him at a networking event and he played a really rare, it was like a French flute or something like that. I don't even know what it was but he played a really rare one and he literally taught people. He was one of the best in the world at this instrument and he had this really small but hardcore following and he taught them how to play this flute or this trombone or whatever the hell it was and never even actually saw it. He just explained it to me and he made a few thousand dollars a month just teaching that to his small following that he had. So there's ways to make money that way. You could do affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing means you sell other people's products. So whether you get really good at Facebook ads and you start selling other people's products or you happen to grow your own following and you start putting more eyes onto other people's stuff. So you could do affiliate marketing. You could do podcasting. You could write other people's emails. There's a lot of friends that make tons and tons of money as copywriters. They get really good at how to sell through the written word and then they actually do copywriting on websites for people and they also do copywriting through emails from people and then they get a percentage of every single sale that comes in. You can get really good at copywriting if you want to. There's friends that I have that make millions of dollars selling supplements. That's actually, I know a lot of people that make, I don't know probably about 10 people that make a few million dollars a year just selling supplements online. Like I said, you could do jumping courses. I know some people who have done harmonica courses like jumping courses as far as like jumping to dunk in like basketballs, jump rope. You could sell on Amazon. I have friends that make millions of dollars on Amazon as well. These are all just people that I've met through networking. Like I just went out and I was like, wait, you make money this way?  And I don't do any of these, but there's many ways, I'll tell you how I make money online or one of the ways to make money online in a minute. But there's many, many ways of people that I've met who make money doing this. Selling on Amazon. I know people that sold their companies for $15 million in Amazon. They created their own brands. They started selling them on Amazon. They started making money that work. There's friends I know that make money freelancing. They go on Upwork.com. Literally, if you have a specialty that people want, whether that's building websites or writing emails or recording videos or editing videos or editing music, you can literally go on right now to Upwork.com, U-P-W-R-K.com. And you can literally put your services up there as a freelancer and people can hire you off of the internet to do X, Y, Z, whatever it is that you do. So there's freelancing. Social media management where you can run other people's social medias and you can grow their followings if that's something that you wanted to do. YouTube, I mentioned. You can put videos up on YouTube. Make money that way. You can write Kindle books.  And then they take that topic and put it into like a 50-page Kindle book. They sell it for $4.99, but it's such a hot topic that it just goes through and they make a ton of money doing it. So you can literally write books in Kindle if you wanted to. You could do consulting it. There's some consulting that you're, like I said, that you have a specialty of and you could teach people whatever that thing is. Hey, if you're liking this video, make sure that you give it a thumbs up down below. Hit that like button so that it spikes YouTube algorithm and more people can see videos like this. There's literally a million ways to make a million. Like I could talk all day long of all of these different people. One of the very first people, the very first networking event that I went to, there was around what they call internet marketing, making money on the internet. I met a guy who was one of the shyest people I've ever met. And he was running Facebook ads and he was telling me what he does and he wasn't looking me in the eyes. He was very soft spoken.  He told me that he did and he told me what he did and stuff and I was like, oh, that's cool. Well, then go and get into another conversation with another person who I knew that was at this networking event. And he's like, oh man, you were just talking to, you know, this guy. And I was like, yeah. And he was like, do you know how much money that guy makes? And I was like, no. He goes, he makes about a million dollars a month running Facebook ads for people. And I was like, I'm sorry. He like profits a million dollars a month or like his business like generates a million dollars in revenue. And then that goes into product sales and all those things. He goes, no, he profits around a million dollars every single month. And this was the shyest person. And I was like, I'm very competitive. And I was like, dude, if that guy can do it, I can do it. It's nothing against him, but it's just my competitive nature going, well dude, you could do it too. And so I started getting into it and researching and I started going to as many events as possible because people are like, well, how do you know these people that do all of these crazy things? I just go to events and go to events and go to events. Now I personally hate, I honestly, honestly hate networking. I think it's awkward. But what happened was I started networking and what I always say is when I go to a networking event, there's usually about 95% of the people are kind of a little bit weird. They want to give you the business cards. They want to talk to you about things that don't really matter. They're trying to sell you their services.  And so when I go to a networking event, my only goal is to find one person who I really truly connect with and go get coffee with them the next few days after that and see if we can develop a friendship and get to know each other. By doing that, I've met people who are incredible and then I've gotten from those people that I've met that are incredible, they have friends that are incredible as well. So that's how I kind of developed my network of people who are in this industry and people who have sold 10, 20, 50, $60 million in products online. I have friends that literally their companies do over $100 million every single year. And it's not me trying to brag in any sort of way because it's not my company that's doing $100 million a year but it's me telling you, the only way that I met those people was by going to networking event and networking event and networking event. There's an event here in Austin that's called Internet Marketing Party every single month. I went to that every single month for years. Going to events, right? So I'm gonna give you some events that I recommend that you check out. Trafficking conversions is a big event that happens usually in February or March in San Diego every single year. Trafficking conversions is like 5,000 people and they teach you all kinds of different ways to make money online. So trafficking conversions is great. Funnel Hackers Live is another one that's put on by ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels makes landing pages. So those are the two that I've personally been to and are the best that I know of and highly recommend. This is another one if you're into social media called Social Media Examiner. They have an event that happens every single year I think in San Diego as well that you might be interested in. Going to webinars, there's a ton and a ton, a ton of really smart people that have webinars. And I'm gonna warn you, when you go to a webinar there's a pretty good chance that person's gonna try to sell you on buying a product at the end. But I've been to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of webinars just to see what people do just to get an idea, see if I can steal something and be like, oh, I really like the way they said it. I really like this thing.  I go to networking events. I go to webinars, all of these ways to learn. And what I realize is that sometimes when you really find what it is you wanna do, you gotta spend money to make money. Like there might be a course of someone telling you exactly how they did it. And if that's what you truly wanna do I recommend just spending the money and learning from them if they seem like they're legit and they seem like they're actually doing what they say they do. Or you could spend the next five years trying to figure it out, right? So I always recommend just spend the money on the course. And I've spent a lot of money on courses, a lot of money on mentorships and a lot of money. Usually my budget is around $100,000 a year just on mentorship and just on my masterminds that I joined in networking events to be around people who are incredible in growing their businesses. And I know you might not be at that point yet but you could go and spend $1,000 and go to a massive event and connect with some really incredible people and start to get better from there. What I will say is this is it's very addicting, right? Once you make that first dollar online your life is different forever. That's the important thing to realize. Once you make that first dollar online I remember my very first time that I made a dollar online I'm gonna tell you the story to kind of give you some inspiration so you can think about it. So when I first started this podcast there was somebody that said, hey listen did you know that it seems like your people probably read books they probably listen to audio books.  I was like wow that's pretty cool and so whenever I would talk about a book I would say hey if you wanna go ahead and sign up for Amazon just go to this website and it would put my link in there and they would sign up for free cost them absolutely nothing to try it out for 30 days and I got paid $15 because obviously Amazon has some sort of statistics on how many that do free trials become you know how much that customer's worth to them so they'll pay $15 and I woke up one morning I put a podcast out you know whatever then I woke up one morning and I had made $15 while I was asleep and I was like oh my God I got paid while I was sleeping and for somebody who was raised by a mother who worked one, two, three jobs at a time sometimes instead of having to go to work to make money I made money when I was asleep and I was like what in the hell is this world? I was addicted I was like I gotta learn more about this I wanna learn more and it's crazy to think that was only about four years ago and in the past four years after really getting obsessed with these things my company's brought in about four or five million dollars in sales because I became obsessed with it but I went from the paradigm of having to work my tail off to make money to learning that you don't have to work you just have to really understand and master what it is that you do and so if you're out there and you're like you know what I need to figure out how to make money online listen to this over and over and over again go through every single bullet point that I said all of the different ways to make money I literally wrote all of them down right here running Facebook ads writing articles making YouTube videos coaching people Shopify stores Etsy stores revenue ad from Facebook videos sponsorships run clothing brands selling courses affiliate marketing podcasting writing emails selling supplements courses on harmonica jump rope jumping selling on Amazon freelance on Upwork social media management YouTube writing Kindle books consulting freelancing how I make money is I was able to build a really large coaching business also a really large following and was able to figure out how to build a really large coaching business from a following so I teach coaches literally how to make money online so I teach fitness coaches life coaches wellness coaches nutrition coaches couples coaches mindset coach mindfulness meditation anybody that's a coach I can teach them how to grow their business online and so that's what I do but you might want to do that or you might do something completely different it doesn't matter as long as you find out what you want to do and you go hardcore into whatever that thing is because if you have a family and you have children wouldn't it be nice just to be able to hang out with them most of the day take them to school do whatever is you need to do and make money doing it or to wake up and actually have money in your bank account that is an opportunity that is 100% real you just have to get past the paradigm of it not being real and then go hardcore into research like I did figure out what it is that you want to do go to as many network events you possibly can connect with people meet people and eventually it might be 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 years down the road you will have realized that you found your own little niche of something that you love and you're making more money you thought possible working way less than you thought possible spending more time with the people that you love and maybe even traveling the world which is a cool thing as well


Jumping into the topic of teaching English without a degree, and yes, it is possible because we do get that asked quite a lot, you know At ITTT people ask us do I need a degree to teach English abroad? Can I teach abroad without having a degree? Because there are a lot of people who don't have a degree and don't despair. Yes, it is possible However, what you these are the three main things that you need to have for teaching abroad or also online without a degree so the first thing would be to definitely get a Teflur TESOL certificate that you at least have some kind of certificate and Nowadays like a Teflur TESOL is pretty much a standard thing Whether or not you do have a degree so also people who have a degree should definitely get Teflur TESOL certified it has become a Requirement in many countries to go and teach there and also a lot of employers prefer hiring people with a Teflur and Also, if you don't have a degree then it's definitely a huge plus at least having a Teflur TESOL certificate and for people without a degree we definitely recommend going for a sort of Bigger kind of Teflur certificate so one that has a lot more hours than the standard 120 so we would recommend the the one of the packs so master package that is 220 hours and then we have the professional package That's 470 hours that includes the standard certificate plus the specializations in teaching English to business people teaching English to young learners and also the TESOL diploma course So we recommend getting that for people without a degree that is really going to enhance your chances of landing a job So that's the one thing and then the other thing obviously Experience would be great. So this could be any kind of experience, you know Even volunteer experience or some kind of teaching experience even in your hometown You know, maybe a church or at like your local just in your neighborhood Tutoring and teaching, you know younger kids Maybe or older people or whoever that is definitely counted as experience or if you want to go Usually what a lot of people do who want to go abroad they start teaching online first to get experience So some kind of experience is also going to enhance your chances if you don't have a degree and you want to go abroad And then also a big thing is flexibility So what do I mean flexibility? A lot of people obviously come You know into the whole idea of teaching abroad and they have this one place where they really want to go So for example, Tiana really wants to go to South Korea Well, if you want to go to South Korea, you need a degree So if that is where you want to go and you don't have a degree, you might have to just change your destination And you might not be able to go there. So Just be flexible be open-minded You don't you definitely don't have as many opportunities as many, you know as people with a degree So it's more limited. So you do need to be a lot more flexible in Terms of location where you want to go. So That's one thing Okay, let me look at the comments over here So Marcia says the thing is that I'm already a teacher of English here in my country. So what I want to Know is to live. Oh The new experiences that teaching abroad can bring. Yeah, okay. Got it. Cool Cool. Yeah, for sure for sure And Tiana says that's my plan while I work on my degree. Yeah teaching online getting experience. Yeah Okay All right, and Andy says I have a bachelor's degree in religious education. So I just would like to be Teflor t-cell certified Yeah, absolutely. Great So what I actually also want to mention when That's also a question we get a lot for teaching abroad or teaching English in general online as well Do I need to have a degree in English or in teaching in education? And the answer is no most of the time like 90% of the time you just need to have a degree in Any major so it doesn't matter. So even your bachelor's degrees in religious education So that's also fine. It just needs for a lot of countries. It just needs to be a four-year degree So it doesn't matter my degree was in business administration and management so I Was still able to go and teach so it doesn't matter your major doesn't matter Obviously if it's in education if it's in t-cell if it's in English It's gonna be a huge plus and you're probably gonna have a lot more opportunities And also probably gonna have higher pay But it doesn't have to be and actually most of my friends who are teaching abroad don't have a degree in Education or in teaching so Alright Good. So yeah, I am says I want to take the certificate. How can I start great? You can start by Going Clicking on our 30% off link and you can sign up for a course that suits your needs We always recommend, you know the 120 hour standard or like I said if you don't have a degree and you're a non-native English speaker We recommend higher level certificates So maybe the 220 hour master package would be great for you and you can get that 30% off Now only during like the this link we only shared during the life, but you can also sign up later That makes sense. So do that go there and check it out Okay, so Then we have oh, hi a little stray who below the matos. I love your name He says Linda would you mind bringing some live sessions with pronunciation slides and some grammar issues such as conditionals Interesting, that's a great idea. I might do that in the future. So yeah, I'm open to that. Thank you I will definitely keep that in mind Good. Okay. So now what I want to talk about are the places the countries where you can go Teaching if you don't have a degree. So first we're going to go through Countries and then we're gonna look at which online platforms hire teachers without a degree. All right So if you're interested in teaching online, stay until the end. It's not gonna take too long. Don't worry Just stay tuned it's coming Thanks so much for watching We are ITTT, the leading provider for TEFL and TESOL training courses. If you like this video Please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left For more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online