Great welcome digital asset news. My name is Rob and today is the thumbnail the title suggests we got a lot of things to go Over so let's not beat around the bush and just get into it We're gonna talk about is we're gonna quickly go over the market how it's actually reboundable bit Then we're gonna talk about Voyager What led to this chapter 11 bankruptcy and the warnings that were all around us? I'm gonna take a look at the actual announcement itself We're gonna take a look the documentation of the chapter 11 that was actually filed today And take a look at what the document actually says then we're gonna get into Voyager trust as far as FDIC Insurance and go from there. So before we get into it Let's just quickly take a look at the market itself and today's I mean for the market. It's pretty good I mean, we're up a little bit so we're up about 3.3 percent almost Around 950 billion for the market cap bitcoins up a theorems up tether USD are down Which means people aren't selling off and putting into stables Finance coin everything's up up up except Wow 11% for avalanche good for you avalanche holders 4% to present 6% for change What five we change 9% for the sandbox fascinating? So that's the market, but that's not what everybody's here for What we're here for is this this Voyager chapter 11 and exactly what's going on So we're gonna take a look at what led up to this bankruptcy And it comes it comes down to we all know about three arrows capital Well first everything happened with Luna and then three arrows capital is it got tentacles into everything and the people that's Loaned to that's a black vortex that just swallowed up all different assets and of course is now in bankruptcy and Going through the whole process and the BVI British British Virgin Islands. Well, these things were going along of course, we took a look at Celsius and On on June 12th actually June 9th 10th and 11th I was at consensus in Austin and it was a it was an odd thing because I was sitting there talking to a bunch of people A bunch of heavyweights in the industry and they're like, you know We saw it coming for them from all over the place and Celsius was gonna go down And are they're going to go down because of this three arrows capital? And I'm like, hmm when I get back I probably should do a video on that did it on June 12th within nine hours after I did it Run 11 o'clock Celsius shuts off the withdrawals and then of course moving forward. We saw nice posts like this which We're from Steve Erlich the CEO of Voyager any states budget will see us as customer assets are safe and crypto Amid crypto collapse and it goes into this long History of exactly what it was. This was on June 14th. So we're like, okay And of course we heard about the loan from Alameda research for I mean everything kind of just added up to around 350 million dollars worth of loans which kind of covered everything that happened with 3ac however This was on June 14th and as things went along some things became apparent and came out and During this time. This is when I got concerned and and you know on this channel I have talked about Voyager a lot If there is any Platform I've talked about probably Voyager quite a bit So it pained me to get the information that came to my attention, especially with the collateral issue And we took a look at that This was on June 22nd. I couldn't I could have ignored it and looked the other way and go that'll be okay Good team the things I talked about things that are going on but it didn't add up Things didn't add up and of course we put the rules down We talked about those rules things that come forth But we talked about this in this video on June 22nd 40 or four minutes or so take a listen Voyager came out on June 14th and because of this situation says we manage risk and prioritize the security of customer funds first and foremost We keep things simple no defi lending activities Let me say that again. No defi lending activities, which is what? It looks like Celsius has been doing or had done Which leads leads to a little ruination. No algorithmic stablecoin staking in staking which again Luna Tara Celsius no derivative assets and certainly no staked ETH our straightforward low-risk approach to asset management is the result of our decades of experience leading companies through market cycles We have the experience to back our decisions and whether any bear market and here's the thing In a lot of ways, they're right As far as risk management, they are very good. They all take they do take a look at Some of the most trusted individuals in the space and they make those loans out to them only there's no defi thing unfortunately Here's the problem They had a big loan out Two three arrows capital. I think this has been going around but there's there's some nuances to this that I think Are kind of important especially when we talk about collateral 5 billion Crypto assets collateral payable 20% so that's this this is the what what concerns me and I was thinking myself Well, maybe that's not right. Maybe Maybe I'm just not looking at correctly because it's just a snippet of someplace else. So There was a press release. This is from same place PR newswire And if we come down here, it's the same thing. This is directly from Voyager and USD in thousands crypto assets held I don't understand respectively. So this is in march 2022 and as compared to june 30th crypto assets loaned and collateral so That's uh, that's what I see So, let me know what you think about that in the comment section and uh We'll go from there That's uh, that's pretty good. I'm just take I took a quick look at the comments. It's pretty funny and then um There is one more thing I like to say you see this these rules underneath me I just put these rules out two days ago the rules And I said I wouldn't remove them because I think they should stay for ever Because these should be some of the rules that I think uh that I will adhere to you don't have to adhere to them because this isn't financial advice from an financial advisor But for me the rules are this I always think to myself anything that I invest into it's already gone meaning In my head, I have just think myself. Well, whatever I invest into I'll probably lose it And I can only invest more than I can afford to lose So if I'm okay with putting 20 bucks into bitcoin and going well, this isn't going to crush me I'm okay Or if I look at my bank account and put my entire life savings Into uh dogecoin or even bitcoin Then maybe it's not the best place for me. The next one is everything's a scam Treat everything like a scam until proven otherwise and you'd be a lot happier person. I can guarantee that and the next one is zero percent exchanges and I don't know what's going on Uh, I said the same thing with Celsius. It seemed like a little bit off So I on last sunday. I said not this sunday the last sunday for last in the 12th I said you should if you don't feel comfortable and is the yield really worth it then take it all out And the same thing here Now I will still use Voyager because I still have to buy crypto when I dollar cross the average and when I want to sell But I don't have to keep it there if I don't want to and there's some cryptos that you can't take off of Voyager and other Exchanges so for that you have to decide is it worth it to buy this crypto and leave it there or not Maybe I want to put it into a ledger. Maybe I only want to put in my metamask. It's up to you I can't tell you what to do and let you debt So these are just the things that have kept me a little bit safe. The next one is no leverage It's just the rest of disaster. The last one is take profits. Stop being so greedy. Trust me I get into that pit myself So that takes care of that section. I know what you think and uh, I'll let you decide So that was on june 22nd Celsius video is on june 12th and here we are today I will tell you one thing and I talked about this when after Celsius collapsed And is going through their restructuring process Where I messed up Was I listened to people too much?  They'll understand people will get in their heads And they'll see it from Celsius and they'll take everything out.  That's fine. I'll see you later From now on out. It's just like marketing Everybody has to hear these things three five 10 20 times before they get it through their head About the things to do You'd think that we would do these things, but it doesn't happen as naturally as that So I'll rectify that right now anyhow, so moving forward Voyager, here's the announcement itself So this is from Steve Erlich and he says hey This was just this morning today We began a voluntary financial restructuring prospect assets in the platform maximize value for all stakeholders especially customers mean you And emerges a stronger company and if we take a look at The thread there's a couple of gems in here And and some and some platitudes we strongly believe in the future of the industry But the prolonged volatility in the crypto markets that defaulted three hours capital requires to take this action Well established legal process whereby companies reorganize their financial obligations to emerge as strong organizations provides an efficient An equitable mechanism to maximize recovery our goals to come out a stronger organization We'll see we'll take a look at the document As part of this process the proposed plan of reorganization will resume account access And return value to customers that's not happening anytime soon. I'm I'm pretty sure about that one Under this plan which is subject to change given ongoing discussions of the parties And there's 60 parties they're discussing and requires court approval customers with crypto and their accounts will receive in exchange a combination of the crypto in their accounts one proceeds proceeds from the three arrows capital recovery to Common shares the newly reorganized company three And voyage tokens or vgx some of you do not want that I can tell you right now But I can tell you if they do go through this That'll be a big sell-off We're actively pursuing all available remedies for recovery from 3ac including Of course through them from their the bvi in new york where our three arrows capital have Incorporated and put in their bankruptcy paperwork It's important to note that as part of this announcement we are confirming that customers with usd deposits in their accounts will receive access to those funds after a reconciliation and fraud prevention process With metro commercial bank. I need to say that again It's important to note that as part of this announcement. We are confirming that customers with usd deposits in their account Will receive access to those funds after reconciliation and fraud prevention process with metro commercial bank and we're going to get into that At the very last part from friend of the show paul barone as he talks about fdic insurance so Uh traditional information by the chapter 11 process blah blah blah not important. Okay, so that's the first part and it gives me We'll we'll talk all about it But this is from simon dixon as he talks about the restructuring process with celcius network And he even said look if celcius network moves to chapter 11 We have a top tier team to support depositors first We have strategy with the ears the board We will have the ears of chapter 11 as we prepare in that case blah blah blah so simons also going to be doing a Twitter space is to talk about all this so you can follow him at simon dixon twit You can find simons information in every description of my video at the very last part There's like eight people that I listen to almost every day and simons one of those guys So this is great. This is nice, but we need to break it down We need to talk about What is the chapter 11 as opposed to chapter 7 How well have these companies done getting out of chapter 11 and the companies that have to come out of chapter 11 What kind of companies are those as far as hard assets as opposed to financial industries? And then we'll take a look at the actual document so you can make some more informed decisions. So first off This is from investopedia And it talks about and I want I want you you'll probably be able to figure this out pretty quick What the difference is between all these companies? These are the ones that that have actually gone through chapter 11 and have come out successfully apple This is a 97 Microsoft came in and gave them 150 million bucks, which is kind of crazy because they're a trillion dollar company now Uh, and the reason that some people speculate them that Microsoft only did this because it was worried that regulators were regarded as a monopoly without the competition from apple in the marketplace so pretty good Point there remember, uh, steve jobs and bill gates hated each other at first They were friends then they hate each other and then the towards the end of steve's life steve jobs life That became good friends again And they were attached to the hip Next one was general motors and of course they came out of it with the help of the government ally financial Same thing chrysler marvel entertainment six flags texaco and sabarro So what's different between all these companies? Well, they all had hard assets most of them apple did gm did chrysler did marvel does Six flags texaco and sabarro has pizza. I guess so the difference was that ally financial was a financial company on and That is a big difference as far as hard assets However, I will say this the reason why they were bailed out was because they were part of the us treasure department's bailout When they bailed out gm because ally financial is the auto financing arm of general motors. So that sucks, right? You're like, well, that's bad What about financial companies? That's a great question Here's a couple of examples and I pulled these examples We're going to go over this from the actual chapter 11 documentation and these people Uh, the the moelles and company that are helping with this chapter 11 restructuring Also were a part Of the restructuring of these financial organizations to get out of chapter 11. So this one's ambeck This is uh, April 29 2013 ambeck's principal operating subsidiary Ambeck assurance corp is a guarantee of public finance and structured finance obligations one thing to note about this is that Uh they came Under bankruptcy or chapter 11 on november 8 2010 and it took them three years to get out Well, two and a half. There's some around there So that's not great. Have a look at this one Walter investment burdens from chapter 11 changes name to die tech holding company or die tech financial This was listed on february 9 2018 and again this company, which is now called die tech holding Was also a part of the restructuring plan from moelles and company and they Had a financial restructuring plan, which eliminated 800 million in debt and emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy back in december Walter announced that it planned to follow for chapter 11 That's part of a pre-practice restructuring plan to cut its debt by a million Going forward the company will continue to serve customers through its subsidiaries die tech financial like an 800 million financial company. So that's where we have To kind of say well don't want a ton of hard assets Financial companies can actually make it does this mean that this is the norm and everybody comes out of chapter 11 Absolutely not And that's what we'll get into with this first of all. What's chapter 11? And what's the difference between chapter 11 and chapter 7? Well Following for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection simply means that a company is on the verge of bankruptcy But believes that it can once again become successful if it's given an opportunity to reorganize its assets debts at business affairs, which sounds a lot like what Voyager needs to do especially with all those Loans not all those loans, but the maximum amount of loans for three hours capital just kind of screwed up everything. Let's be honest and What's the difference between that and chapter 7 well chapter 7 means you're going to seize company operations And leads the total liquidation of assets to creditors. So not there Like we think we can still do it chapter 11 So while chapter 11 can spare a company from declaring total bankruptcy the companies bondholders and shareholders are usually in for a rough ride that's me and you When a company files for chapter 11 protections shares value typically drops significantly as investors sell their positions Well, that's just for the stock option The assets the digital assets is the big question And that is the biggest that is the big thing Uh after chapter 11 filing once chapter 11 bankruptcy was filed The federal court appoints one or more committees that are tasked with representing working with creditors And shareholders of the court to develop a fair reorganization Sometimes after reorganization a company will issue new stocks that's considered different from the pre Reorganization stock if this occurs, especially to know whether the company has given its shareholders The opportunity to exchange the old stock for the new stock because the old one is considered useless So that's the that's the whole thing of what he talked about here Where he talks about hey, we're going to give you some type of uh share into the company again I don't think that's what people really want. They just want all the crypto again assets so Here's another thing There's some misconceptions Because when I see bankruptcy, I'm like, oof. This isn't good However, we try to get the most information we possibly can Here's five some five misconceptions. First of all bankruptcy doesn't mean going out of business Well chapter seven business banking, which we talked about liquidation Chapter 11 allows the business to restructure its debts and remain in operation. The question for me Is one do they turn on those withdrawals one do they actually Start the trades again Business is going through chapter 11 often downsizes part of the process, but the objective is reorganization out liquidation And I will say this remember what hurts went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Yeah, neither do I they did and during that whole time for bankruptcy people were renting cars Using those cars and going out of there again hard assets a little bit different Some companies don't survive the chapter 11 process obviously and then we talked about the ones that actually make it stores remain operational We'll see chapter 11 requires a one-size-fits-all approach Companies can seek chapter 11 protection to halt litigation And collection efforts negotiate with its creditors and frozen and confirm a plan of realization Many companies enter chapter 11 have no intention of reorganizing as a going concern The primary purpose of many cases that quickly quickly conduct a sale in which a buyer's buyer acquires the debtor's assets This is why we're when we take a look at this right now You're gonna see that they wanted to get they wanted people to come in and buy these assets and keep things going Chapter 11 is a long run-up process. Well, we just saw That with walter investment took three months. That's not too bad However Uh chapter 11 cases can wrap up in as little as 24 hours in 2019 Sunguard availability services emerge from bankruptcy a mere 19 hours after its case was filed. Does that mean that's going to happen here? No I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that you've got a long a big swath of time frame Less than 24 hours three months three years 11 years A lighting fast bankruptcy is known as a prepackage case or prepackin involves negotiation with creditors and voting on a chapter 11 plan before the bankruptcy case has even been filed And then here's another one a bankrupt company has plenty of money because it doesn't have to pay its creditors That's a misconception most chapter 11 debtors enter bankruptcy with millions of dollars in preposition debts That's that accrued before they filing by withdrawing payments to lenders landlords on the creditors, which is what they did to us Most debtors cannot rely on cash flow alone to get through chapter 11 Obviously, they're gonna need outside people to come in and say, hey We'd like to buy these things when we partner up go from there We'll talk about the 60 companies Even if the company is aggressively cutting operational costs from the process in almost all cases of any size Debtors must seek debtor in possession financing to help them get the other side. That's paramount Customers and vendors will flee and this is what I was talking about as far as hurts. So that's that part Now let's talk about So we know what chapter 11 is. We know what chapter 7 is We know it doesn't mean ceasing operation We know that it's not the best place to be and we know that sometimes people can come out even financial companies But it's more likely with hard assets now. Let's take a look at the actual documentation Which comes from the filing from new york? This is what we know Let me blow this up so you can see a little better This was filed on july 6th And chapter 11 who did this jared durmont Is a managing director and head of the financial institutions group uh at moellis and company lc.  These these guys moellis and company is a global independent investing bank. We talked about this before There's some guy Uh, they're global and they've got 3.5 trillion Of transactions with deal size ranging from 100 million to 160 billion. So they're no slouches They've been in the game again. We got this information from Uh, these are were the part of their restructuring processes. Also, they were part of orchard brands, which was uh 420 million a debt just another type of company But to get back to it. Here's what this says And this is from jared again I submit this declaration of the debtor's petition pre petition efforts to effectuate An out-of-court transaction as an alternative to filing voluntary petitions for relief Okay halfway through I've been involved in many notable chapter 11 cases and restructuring assignments Including his lead investment banker and jason industries chapter 11 realization And then this is where they talked about Where we just talked about all the different ones that they were a part of there was way more in here I Have linked this in the description So you can read the whole thing if you want to these are all the different organizations that they have gone over in the 10 plus years Because they some of them go back to 2013 2010 actually And then this stuff I even highlight so 18 billion From sound thanks cooperation. They're gonna have billion of financial guarantees policies to assured Corporation so on and so forth That's not important I mean It's important to see if they actually have a tremendous amount of experience This is the interesting part more or less was engaged by the debtors in june 2022 to advise the debt the debtors Which is wager as to strategic alternatives in light of the debtor's effort to navigate the recent challenges impacting the crypto industry again june 2022 Beginning on or about june 20th 2022 my last initiative to dual track marketing campaign to solicit interest in two general deal structures one Or a a sale of the debtor's entire business To either a financial sponsor or a strategic company in the crypto industry think uh Sam bachman freighter ftx or Alameda research Be a capital raise whereby a third party Individually or as part of a consortium would provide a capital infusion in the debtor's business enterprise financing This cause and part by the decline of three acs in terrell. We know them Moela's reached out to 60 potential financial and strategic partners across the globe again How could they do that? Well, it's probably because you know They've done this many times and they've got partners all over the place and that's what they did by july 5th two days ago Over 20 of the potential counter parties had entered into a confidential agreement with the debtors non-disclosure agreement nda Parties who executed a confidential agreement received a copy of the debtor's investor presentation Access to a virtual data room business operation finance tax information corporate documents So they could just take a look at the books and go do we want to invest in this? Well, the debtor's marketing efforts yielded one proposal out of those 20 for an out-of-court financing the conditions president Press precedent to the proposal and the pro forma capital structure Contemplated there under were not achievable. So They said look time frame isn't going to happen. We've got some concerns, especially with the State of them of the crypto market can't do it And no other potential counterparty was willing to participate in an out-of-court transaction on the timeline required out-of-court transaction As they go through Maybe an in-court transaction. Maybe something else will happen down the line, but not now Potential counterparty has expressed concerns regarding current uncertainty in the crypto market, right? The aforementioned marketing process produces multiple preliminary proposals from parties willing to participate However, as a date thereof all the offers Said no because we need more time to fully develop and structure And must be evaluated for attractiveness against the potential standalone restructuring, which is why I kind of like what Simon Dixon is doing over here with Celsius Maybe potentially They come over here and say we can do the same thing. But again Be a long shot As the crypto market continued to deteriorate the debtors made the decision to place the platform on maintenance mode on july 1st By prohibiting customer withdrawals and essentially taking their services offline, which is why On june 22nd, we did the video telling people to take it off july 1st. They shut down transactions In line with the foregoing the debtors determined that filing for chapter 11 would maximize their chances of effectuating a transaction To help stabilize the debtors business and preserve the value of their enterprise and the best interest As well as their creditors customers employees and other parties in interest because They can't leak out anything and people can't use anything to take the money off, which is a bummer for us But it keeps things somewhat solvent Moela's the debtors will continue to work with the potential counter parties And we may engage the future to advance potential transaction structures that may be more beneficial to the debtors and their key stakeholders than any standalone restructuring whether these chapter 11 cases ultimately conclude with a transaction or A standalone restructuring the debtors and mollusk will continue their marketing process Interchanging the highest value of the debtors and all stakeholders available under the circumstances. So what does this all mean? for everybody Well, if you look at what's going on And see exactly what steve had talked about and talks about hey you know We would like To actually give out Where does it say here? This part here It'll be nice if this came to fruition during the reorganization. We'll maintain operations. We intend to certain customer programs without disruption Train deposit withdrawals and loyalty frauds employment program remain temporarily suspended I do not see them opening things up. I don't see them Doing this This chapter 11 is there to protect the company And I think what's going to happen until they get a concrete offer With someone who can come in and say yes, we would like to buy this or we would like to Purchase these distressed assets and yes, we'd like to go through the courts to do this thing This could be quite a long process. This doesn't mean this could take 11 years or like mount gox eight years potentially it could However, could it take three months like die tech holding company corporation? Sure anything's possible but I will tell you that The chances of all these things just just falling in place during this bear market are not too fantastic What could happen in a year or two from now? It's anybody's guess But I can just tell you that there is one more thing I'd like to bring up So we know about chapter 11. We know about chapter 7 We know about the different companies that potentially could that did come out of chapter 11 But again, not every one of these companies come out a vast majority do fail Not his truth So the one thing that does concern me I mean everything concerned me these days Was this video that was put out by paul barone network And trust says to come out and you just can't buy you just can't buy that it's either there or it's gone and what he says here And one of the reasons was is because a metropolitan commercial bank put out a statement about what's going on So I want you to listen to this And then I'm going to take the q&a Again, just show up This is a minute and 31 seconds me Share my tab So you can hear it tat Here we go So take a listen. What's uh, what was said here? This gives me an incredible amount Of apprehension And distrust here we go A lot of this is really now boiling down to the fact that voyager does not have fdic insurance That is passed through insurance meaning your dollars are deposited within voyager They then deposit it in a bank account think of it that way at metropolitan bank And then you get that Insurance as a pass through to your deposit account over on boarder. That is not the case On voyager at all in fact over the weekend Metropolitan bank Issued this statement right here, which is fdic coverage available to voyager customers Voyager customer funds held by metropolitan commercial are insured by the fdic up to the maximum amount of coverage Per depositor under federal law the standard fdic insurance coverage is 250k for a depositor The fdic insurance coverage is available only to protect against the failure Of metropolitan commercial bank fdic insurance does not protect Against the failure of voyager any act or a mission of voyager and or its employees meaning what if they did something wrong Or in the loss in the value of cryptocurrency or other assets and we're talking about us dollars here But basically what they've said and they I think they headed this off at the past I'm simply saying if you're a voyager customer and you had us dollars in there We are not securing that as a federal deposit insurance and hence you are at risk as much as anyone else So that is a big And paul said it right that is a big Big issue and I will end it up like with this from what you just heard And that was a statement from metropolitan commercial bank. That is the bank that holds All cash from voyager to my knowledge Seems like no one tells me the full story anymore This is directly from steve erlich. It's important to note that as part of the announcement We are confirming that customers with usd deposits in their account will receive access to those funds After reconciliation and fraud prevention process is completed with metro commercial bank. Look I'm here. I'm not here to place blame on anybody. I'm not here to say this and this this I'm just here to give you both sides the same story And talk about my shortcomings of the rules The rules again below me Are never going to change and this is for me. You can do whatever you want. I'm not your dad This is what I do When I think about Investments, it's all gone. I think to myself Whatever I invest into now is gone. So never invest more than you can afford to lose Everything's a scam. Everything is a scam. Even if the things out of my mouth, you shouldn't even trust me Just go and say, you know what? I don't really trust me. Let me let me verify. I like rob But I'm I I'm going to verify not trust next one. Nothing on exchanges zero zero point zero So when this happens, we talked about on celsius june 12th Take it all off. We talked about this on voyager june 22nd. Take it all off This is not going to change from here on out Nothing gets left on the exchanges Did I leave some of the exchanges because I was using voyager to Dalek cost average while I was buying things once a week like I talked about didn't lose that much I talked to everybody about this on june 22nd Hopefully listen and hopefully they heard about celsius and go maybe some other ones are going to also suffer the same fate No leverage 25 500 x if you're a pro go ahead But for me, I'll never use leverage never Doesn't seem like a come out. I'm not a trader If you're a trader have fun again can't tell you what to do and lastly for me is take profits Nobody ever want broke taking profits and I can tell you right now almost 99.9 of people wish they would have taken more profits in the bull run And uh, there's a small percentage that don't but that's it. So again those rules stick around and uh If you don't want to hear those rules because I'll be talking about them every single day from now on Just unsubscribe because that's what's up So that's it for today and uh, again, I wish I had a little bit better news But these are the facts these are the things that are going on and we'll see how it all plays out


And if you haven't been able to figure out I mean this this space like I said at the beginning It's kind of somewhere between like a conference and a retreat and it's it's For us, it's so valuable to be able to create and carve out a space that puts the presence of God first and his ministry primary But in that place be able to awaken who we are and I think you know We're in a time too like if you love the presence of God and you love the arts like man We gotta we gotta stick together y'all like it's getting darker out there I don't know if anyone noticed but you know the two I have such a high Regard I guess for the role of the artisan going in to the hour that we we live in Just scripturally I think songwriting writing Creativity, I mean it just is at the center of the stage and it was for Israel and that's what Jesus Jesus actually is quoted in acts even though he doesn't say it in the Gospels But I will rebuild the tabernacle of David before I return in that that returning to the presence of God and the the the time of the Ark in the in the center of the tabernacle really was this Renaissance and revival of music and poetry and song in Israel's history and all kind of was awakened together and I believe that is what's going to happen and what is happening through songwriters and creatives and and So important to be able to gather together and so this afternoon We get the honor and privilege to hear from Chelsea Ebe. She's one of the most talented gifted Artists I've ever seen she she has the ability. I was just I was just telling somebody The she does a lot of portrait art and I just she she paints Paintings and the ability to translate emotion is just unbelievable And Chelsea is someone who's very in touch with her emotions and she does not hide them a ton Which makes her really fun and hilarious, but but just such a deep well With the Lord and and creativity super honored to be able to hear from her and it's kind of the next step In kind of these creative writing Exercises so really really encourage ask mandate however I can say it That you do these alongside even if you skimped out and didn't do The creative writing exercise with me re-sign up do it again I really believe the Lord is going to unlock something in you and give you some some brand new tools in your creativity to leave unstuck so If you would join me in showing honor to Chelsea Ebe eyes are open now And I see the empty promises of the world before me crying out come build on our sunken ground But I remember our history And I ask my heart who can hold back these arrows mend these bruised shoulders Only you you watched eternity open up like a flower and you watch me now So how can I stumble when your strength carries my need? Your watch gives me rest and I dream But you don't close your eyes in the midst of my world in the shadow of your glory I Do not feel the heat of my labor Or fear the light of the moon For your love never sleeps Every step you go before me and This is our history that God Keeps me. This is a song that poem that I wrote inspired by Psalm 121 and I wrote it Because I am an artist because God created me to be most connected to him and to another In emotion and poetic word The artist is the hear the seer The dreamer The curious child The beautifier But I'm not here to tell you what an artist is or even why we need artists in the body today I'm here to talk to you about The journey and the one thing and first I want to tell you a little bit about My story into being an artist from the beginning when I was very young art which was mainly in the form of writing and music Was my escape my escape from trauma from pain and fear and As I grew up and got older and I was in school. I didn't know God. I Felt like I had this voice somewhere But I was shutting it down with my pain And by the time I was in high school I Had gotten into drugs. I Had no hope for a future so I didn't do well in school. I skipped class. I never studied. I never did my homework and But when I'm was in my junior and senior year I Took a couple classes ceramics and metalwork and I really I felt this voice and This thing And I had one teacher that believed in me that she wanted me to go to art school and she even wrote me this wonderful letter of recommendation But it was too late. I had already squandered my education and Even though I graduated there was no hope of me getting accepted to any school so That part of me died and I spiraled out Fast-forward 19 years old and this is not my testimony if you ever want to hear it. I'll tell you but that's not what this is 19 years old homeless strong out My life is radically changed And hearing his voice over my life And by the time I was 24 years old I was married. I had kids I was baptized in the holy spirit And I felt something something calling It was like the lord was calling something out this voice that had been That had been tried to be snuffed out and one day I'm on worship team with my husband And I look over at this young drummer kid on our team and I have this Intense like imagery in my mind this word over his life And I hear the lord say I want you to show him this word to paint this and I was like Oh my gosh, I've really lost it now like This weird times a thousand And I was like lord, I don't know how to draw. I don't know how to paint like I did metal work and stuff But I've never took a drawing class. I don't know how to do any of this And I just kept feeling like he was saying I will teach you trust me And so I go home and I start just experimenting with all these different mediums and And getting really frustrated because I did not It wasn't good initially And but I kept every time that I just wanted to give up. I just felt like the lord say I will teach you trust me And so I kept going And then one day It's really weird. I don't even know how to explain it But I was using pastels and I was drawing this figure and it had a hand and hands are like super hard to draw And there was this moment That something just changed something opened up and I suddenly felt like I understood What I needed to do to solve Whatever an art it just opened up in my mind and from that point on I just got Better really quickly um And it just felt so obviously divine to me And so I paint this picture I give it to him and it was the most awkward thing in the world because he's a 15-year-old kid and I'm like Hey, did you this picture? You know like But his parents loved it and were so encouraging to me But it was the lord it was the lord And I've even gotten to see like him come into that word and it's just so awesome, but like It opened up this thing. I was like, oh my gosh. This was it. This was what I was feeling God I was so excited And I was drawing all the time and I was painting all the time and then people were like Asking to buy stuff or they were like wanting me to draw their really weird dreams And I didn't want to draw their dreams and But then I start going to this place that was like, well, how do I how do I charge for something that God like gifted me with Like am I just supposed to go around everywhere and paint prophetic pictures all day and You know, I don't want to draw these dreams. Am I supposed to be drawing these dreams and You know, and I was just like freaking out about it And so I would pull away and shut down because I was scared And then later I would like go to the other side and be like, well, God, you know what you care about my dreams And I should be the most Successful artist there is because I have the Holy Spirit and you know, I'm gonna make money and support my family And so I'm like going after this business thing and I'm really not good at business at all and And it didn't work out that you know, how I was imagining it would and so then I was like I'm obviously out of the will of God like I missed it I you know, it's a mess and then I would just it was just this ping pong thing of like Then my kids were in the way. Why would you give me this when I have no time to do it? And you know and people were like, why do you draw such sad stuff? Don't you ever like smiles and like I don't know like I don't know and And I was just so afraid and then at the very end it was just like And Caleb's heard me say this because I've talked about in front of them like Why the heck does it even matter when people are dying in Afghanistan and all these places for their faith And I'm just supposed to believe that God made me an artist And I'm gonna draw these pictures and I had to get before the Lord And just say, God, there's so many voices, but I gotta have your voice I gotta have your voice for my life And it was in that place that I could hear him say, Chelsea, I gave you art because I knew you would love it. I knew you would love to paint I knew that you would love to dream and make visions And just try to explain things in a new way in poetic language. I knew that you would love it And what I'm trying to say is so often we hear the call of God and we feel this pull from him But then we want to try to set up our future in it or we feel like God is leading some sort of treasure map Where we have to figure it out And we can have a pure heart that really just wants to do what God has called us to do But we think that it's about what we can do for God When it's always been about what we will do with him have to hear his voice And the way that we work with him Is by hearing his voice over our lives because if you are listening to his voice You're not gonna miss it You're not And the more that we know who we are the more that we will be able to see who others are and who God has called them to be Do you know that a biblical Sign of maturity is being able to weep with those who weep And rejoice with those who rejoice But if you don't have the voice of God Over your life then the weeping of others will overwhelm you And the success of others particularly in that thing that you most long for Will crush you it will make you bitter and cold-hearted But the voice of God Brings free and joy it teaches our hearts to say I will see your goodness in the land of the living So that's what we're doing today. We're gonna walk through a journal prompt And we're gonna use some visual images And we're gonna hear the voice of God because we all have expectations that we've set for ourselves or that others have or whatever else But we need to know what God so I want to tell you a little bit about how I came up with this Little journal practice that we're gonna do this is just a tool. This is not like the way or whatever But um the way that I kind of journal I love journaling obviously I've done it forever, but um I Sometimes I'll just you know, maybe a concept or a thought kind of goes in my brain And I I don't exactly know what God's trying to say so I'll just kind of sketch out ideas or whatever And so at this point this was 2020 Lockdown and I was listening to A friend of mine was doing a teaching about like the emotions going through our emotions with God and depressions kind of things like that and And he said this statement about self-hatred, which I wouldn't have said that I You know like hate myself or anything like that, but Um, he had said self-hatred is really just a really twisted form of self love Because you love this person that you've created in your mind so much that you hate Who you are And you hate who God Is trying to make you And it actually becomes this idle In our heart because all we want is that perfect version of ourselves that we've made And we're unable to see what God is doing And I was like, you know the Lord was like There's something there Chelsea like and so I was like Lord. I feel like I've made an idol I've made this This person that I've wanted to be and that's why I get stuck In discouragement and all these things and critical attitude and stuff like that And so I was like Lord, what do I do? I know I can say sorry and repent But like what do I do to get rid of this and I felt like Lord's like you have to see it You have to name it and so I started sketching my my idol And and then asking the Holy Spirit To show me Who the perfect self is So I want you guys to have your journals out If you don't already And I'm going to encourage you to try drawing I'm not going to teach you to draw today and this is just for yourself. It's a tool So if this like is freaking you out Don't even worry about it But and for the first we're doing two parts to this, okay So the first half we're going to ask the Holy Spirit to show us This idol self So let's if you can do the screen that has just my sketches of the different idol drawing inspiration Okay, so can you guys see this? all right so I Sketched out some examples so that you can at least just copy one of these if you want Or you can just be inspired yourself and I did different levels All the way down to stick figure if that's what you want Or just writing perfect self like you cater. This is a tool So I did this kind of like roman thing because I was thinking you know the idols the roman days you had gods and goddesses So that's what I chose Um And if you want to move to the next slide You guys are about to know a whole lot about me so This was my perfect self And when we get started you can even start sketching now if you want to But we're gonna we're gonna draw Our little perfect self and we're going to ask the Holy Spirit to show us Who we've been going after and you know what some of you May maybe you're not quite like me. Maybe Maybe you feel great Maybe you're in the best season of your life like every song you sing slaps and you know like You got your bodacious babe and like you are just killing it alive right now if that's you Then ask the Holy Spirit is there something in my life That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I've made it an ultimate thing And if that thing was gone would I be okay? So This is you and the Lord so you use it However, you me, but I'm gonna go ahead and read you The ones that the Lord showed for me And when you read them like they're ridiculous like you know that it's not possible But this is like the reality here of what you're believing so Has the best ideas for every situation Perfectly manages home always meet and organized hair always beautiful cooks delicious healthy foods by hand every day Nothing hurts her Totally in shape no wrinkle scars body like youth Lives an inspirational life in all that she does Leads others and goals and dreams Majorly successful business woman and entrepreneur Writes poems and songs that deeply impact the masses every time Every moment of her life is productive The best at anything she tries immediately Flawless has all the answers raises children that never misbehave or struggle Can fix anything or anyone doesn't need anyone and if you look I try to write The ones that feel like really deep and targeted I write really big Or sometimes I will go back over them and like circle things Home schools every day to perfection Where we're engaged and having fun every day is a success Creates artwork constantly that earns lots of money for our family And recognition Always full of joy the most enjoyable person doesn't feel rejection or pain Always says the right thing her voice is always beautiful and our melodies always those are all ridiculous But That was what I was expecting of myself because If I go to a prayer set and I can't think of a cool Like if a melody doesn't come to me and I'm crushed for the rest of the evening I was expecting to have an amazing melody every single time If I have a day that my kids are not listening to me and I'm a mess I'm expecting them to be okay all the time So So yeah, those they're gonna sound ridiculous, but let the Holy Spirit reveal to you Okay, so then the next part is when we repent and this is just you Responding to this And I'll read you mine Lord, forgive me for loving this false ideal self that I created And thus hating who you've created me to be Forgive me for wanting to be someone who doesn't need you Forgive me for thinking that I could have done better had I been the creator Forgive me for not hearing Seeing or speaking what you want me to because my eyes have been on her I have been alert not by my god, but by her I haven't wanted you But her I haven't wanted to be your child because I have only wanted to be her Forgive me Forgive me Now just as I form this powerless idol Would you give me the strength to crush her so that nothing would hold my heart back from being completely Surrender to you and the story that you long to write with my life We're gonna get going on this and we're gonna listen to some really amazing music And lord, I just pray right now as we begin that you would just be so close You are so kind lord, would you speak right now? Would you help us to be completely surrender to you? Sorry We have 30 minutes. I forgot to say so Don't panic and rush Just listen and wait on the lord and while you're waiting and listening you can just Feel free to sketch Once again if it's getting overwhelming just simplify it and move on If you tried drawing honestly surprised I wasn't sure um anyone feel like The lord revealed things that maybe they didn't see Before So we're going into the best part and we're going to journal the father's voice Um, so we're gonna draw again so get a new page And this time we're asking the question god, how have you made me? And i'm not going to give you any inspiration for your drawings this time Because this is more personal and uh once again You don't have to draw if you don't want to you can just write your name whatever um I for mine you can go ahead and put it up there.   And we're going to list just like we did before but But this is who god sees in us. This is what he's put into us So I'll read mine beauty maker finder Gentle and caring Curious and intrigued by beauty Funny and light-hearted bold and strong Attentive and engaged mother a seeker of my face Authentic communicator empathetic Willing to sit with the hurting Leader and understanding the heart Confident and stable heart investor story teller unique perspective Action oriented and then after we finish that We're going to journal the father's voice in response to us. So here's mine Chelsea my flower I've made you curious deep feeling and thinking You notice beauty in places that others don't You're fun and enjoyable to be with and pull out who people really are with your questions and your openness You make people feel safe and seen you have a voice like thunder that shakes hearts awake and words that balm over wounds Your perspective brings people in and out And you've been afraid of your softness, but in reality It's your greatest strength It kneels beside the hurting Your weaknesses are what keep us bound to one another as we co-labor together Slowly so that we see all the beauty along the way Trust the process Because you trust me I care for you I will not forget you So we're gonna take Another 30 minutes about It's gonna change everything I just have a just this short encouragement. I know you guys are Deep in oh, that's beautiful It's a lot better in my dry. Um for some of you The journaling the father's voice is over yourself is going to be really difficult Um, and you won't know where to start and I if that if you feel like that's the case Don't get stuck and then not do it Join in with this and just It's as easy as just starting with the written promises of god The script he's already made his heart Known and manifest to us in scripture And so you can write those promises of what god speaks over his people and you can just start with i'm chosen And i am beloved by the father. I'm the apple of his eye On the lily of the valley you can begin with those scriptural promises and then just let it flow And let it become personal and let him speak to you directly Keep going you're doing great We're gonna keep going in this environment. Some of you are already just beginning to respond In praise and this is what happens the father speaks he breathes into us We inhale that grace and we breathe back out his praise as he unlocks things in our hearts and Praise starts erupting from our hearts and so keep writing if you're in that place but Feel free to just begin responding. Some of you as the father speaks phrases all of a sudden It's just making other things come alive and your heart and the natural overflow that is is singing so we're gonna keep Just resting in his presence keep writing about the father and we're gonna even just have some prophetic singers come forward And they're just gonna sing the father's Perspective as the music just keeps leading us into this place of worship and adoration Father we just respond to your voice right now. We respond to your love We just ask that you would continue to speak over us lord speak identity Lord, I ask for lies that have had footholds for 10 years 20 years 30 years broken in a moment Lord insecurities deep wounds that have been there for decades lord healed in a moment Lord take us back to moments even in our childhood on and show us Who you are Speak to us speak your words of life over us Speak your words of truth Father we're listening or we're ready to respond and praise back to you Let's keep responding to this as we're singing Let's just turn our praise toward the father in this moment as we are now He is spoken to us and now we are releasing praise back to him And so in this moment, let's just begin lifting our voices and just Filling this place with songs of thanksgiving songs of gratitude Songs of just declaring who he is Great is the lord and greatly to be praised Holy holy holy all in his temple cry glory You have pulled me up from the myri clay. You've set my feet upon the rock Yours is the kingdom the glory And the power Jesus for saving me. Thank you for rescuing me. Thank you for speaking to me Yeah, come on. Let's keep just filling this place with our songs of gratitude and our praise The last thing is we close the session and it's kind of what we typically do whenever we transition out of a worship song But it's a deeply powerful part of our praise. It's the Shabbak. It's the shout of God That we release in praise and there's something that goes beyond Words when the deepest place from the inside of us That doesn't have the perfect language although we try but releases a sound and a shout That just brings victory. And so I'm gonna Count down and we're gonna lift up a shout of praise and and I want we've been We've been journaling and putting down different things insecurities sins hurts wounds things that That the Lord He's not passive about those things that he is the line of the tribe of Judah and he roars over the things That get in our way and sometimes we look at his roar and his shout and we get scared because we think he's He's roaring at us because he's angry But he's roaring at the enemies of love those things that are stealing our attention and our affection And so when I count down, let's just join in With the Shabbak of God the shout of God releasing victory And do it from 10. It seems like he'll give us more time to 10 nine eight seven six five four three two Awesome. Thank you. Chelsea so much for leading us and that is amazing powerful Thank you worship team and band singers. That was awesome Um, awesome. Well, it's 402 Sorry, we went two minutes over We're gonna be back in here at 6 30 tonight We're gonna have extended time of worship and ministry and message So really excited about that have an amazing dinner get a chance to if you're here with your team Get a good chance to connect with them if you're here alone. Maybe connect with somebody new awesome


Now, following the crisis that is rocking the PDP, one of the leaders in the Delta State Chapter of the PDP, Comrade Sonny Onwesoke, has said that the party's national chairman, Sen. Iochai Aiu, is not the problem of the party. He said that it is important for all party faithful to put their house in order and work for the success of the party come 2023 general election in the country. Onwesoke, who made the statement in an interview with our sub-correspondent, a co-major of Friday in Udu Local Government's area of Delta State, appealed to the governor of river states as someone here some weekend to accept peace in the party. Are you really negotiating? Is it, are you the major thing that you think even he's there with the PDP in the future we are looking for? It's a sequence or no? We've gone past that stage. I think once we should be advocating for what we can and the leadership of this party and the electorate should be focusing upon it's a very simple issue. We need a winning Trump card. We need a strong win this card. So we, it's enough of exposing our interviews and the press. You think a president don't have issues? They do have issues. Like I keep telling a lot of people, we care incentive like I mentioned from river state. But they kept their cool, they are going to harmonize their own. So the issue of this, we flying this, flying this, somebody talks to you, you are abusing to say, King of Ayub deliver card in the last stage. That was the last thing that he made to my card. I just kind of stop. I do not think it is proper at this time. It's not proper at this time. I think we case enough, he should try and she this one. I don't have any spy in the party. We case that kind of man that tells him blue is blue, black is black. So what we are saying here is it could be offended psychologically, spiritually or physically or politically. But what we are trying to say is enough. He has played a father figure we do recognize in 2015, 2019, like other city owners like him. Fine. We quite agree. He has already played the month Friday of the party. But then it's enough. Enough is enough for win game. It's getting out of hand. Enough is enough. It's pretty much better than this. A lot of, it's good and better than this. The master problem with the Philippines. That's not true. That's not true. He is doing this thing. We push it and as some of the city the government will tell him, we come to the point of telling my friend, the role you play in terms of the same role we play, we didn't play that rule at one hour state. It's a very simple calculation. I do appreciate it. We do appreciate it, but enough of win game. Enough is enough because we need to move ahead.


Well today we have a bit of a double whammy, earlier today we talked about how there might be or looks like there is going to be DLC coming for Tears of the Kingdom according to Nintendo's official website of course, you know, it's on Nintendo, I guess it announces it but then is this an announcement? I don't know. Today though we need to talk about this new thing and this new thing is about the Nintendo Switch 2 or whatever Nintendo decides to call a more powerful device, you know I doubt it's a pro or anything like that but who really knows? And that is because we now have potential information, at least a rumor here with some very solid backing that we are going to be getting this new more powerful Nintendo device, this next generation Switch this holiday. Now before I tell you about this, I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers, if we get there by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes up we will be giving away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom. Alright so there was a post over on 4chan and I know, boo 4chan, no you can't believe them except when you can because we have had a number of legit leaks and this post is very very strange but one thing the Pokemon presents did today was prove this post significantly. Now a big thing to remember is what the post is going to say at the beginning, this person does not speak English natively and use some machine translation to get the post out there. They wanted to release it in English because they thought it would reach the most people. And let's just read what this post says, I am a programmer at a Pokemon outsourcing company. My English is very poor so I use machine translation to complete the post. The theme of the DLC, and by the way this post was confirmed to have happened before, well before, day before. We got anything, days before at this point, anything like this post came out days ago, long before we had the Pokemon presents. So it couldn't be faked, alright? And it said, the theme of the post is going to be hidden treasures of area 0 and the hexagon. Version 1.2.0 includes dressable clothes as rewards for DLC purchasers. It's going to include a Uronamo and Tetsuna Shasha, yeah I don't, I can't pronounce that stuff. These are Paradox, Sikwin and Paradox for Reason, Uronominal is a water slash dragon and the other one is a grass slash Esper type. Again these are obviously words being used from different languages. A mystery Pokemon game with a green mask, special terrestrial appearance, and a third legendary Pokemon is a large blue turtle. Now a lot of this stuff obviously proven to be true, the rest we might not know exactly, but a huge chunk of this post happened in the Pokemon presents, like to the exact description. So that is why we have some credence with this post is that so much of this was right on and anything that isn't right yet could just be in the future because this post never said it was for a Pokemon presents in the first place, they were just giving information they knew from their time working for the Pokemon company as a programmer who has been outsourced. Lastly, this is the part where we get to talk about the next Nintendo Switch. We are working on a graphics enhancement patch for the new Nintendo Switch models that will be released alongside the DLC 2. So DLC 2 was announced as coming this fall and this winter. That means brand new hardware is arriving this holiday. Now that is, I mean that's my blowing. At this point the only indication we've had of new hardware any time in the next couple of years was from Nikkei where Nintendo was working out contracts with manufacturers early this year and that Nintendo was targeting a second half of 2024 and that made a lot of sense to a lot of people. You know you let Switch ride it out for a year yada yada but then you started thinking what about this 2023? We had a direct in February that gave us nothing past July. We have Pikmin for dropping in July and then nothing. Nintendo also isn't at E3 and in the past Nintendo would be at E3 because E3 is where you would make new hardware announcements. The thing is though, none of the companies have been using E3 to make new hardware announcements in a very long time. The Switch was not announced there. Wii U was the last system Nintendo announced at E3. That was a long time ago. PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo don't do announcements at E3. So if Nintendo has new hardware coming this holiday, it would be weird to be at E3 where they're not revealing said hardware yet and then talk about what exactly? What are they going to talk about in June if there's new hardware coming this holiday? This could also explain the light second half of the year. It's light because Nintendo is going to have a couple month gap after or a few month gap after Pikmin 4 because then they're dropping the new hardware which will launch with new games. So could we still get a mainline Mario game this year? Yeah because it could be a launch game this holiday for the new system. Now you might go, well we all thought 2024 because Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC goes through the end of the year. Well the Switch isn't going to just instantly lose support. Right? If the new thing comes out in November, then what? The final DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe drops in December. It's not like all those old Switch owners don't exist anymore and don't need games and content. So this could all still work. There also could be some cross gen stuff. Maybe Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ends up being forward compatible because there's backwards compatibility so you can even use that DLC on the new system. Maybe with 4K upscaling. I don't know but this sounds amazing and again we got to give this post credence because it was so right about the DLC and things happening at the Pokemon Company in the Pokemon Presents for, you know, Scarlet and Violet DLC. So I'm just sitting back and going, this is crazy. Again no one was paying attention to this post a few days ago because we supposed to have a dime a dozen, right?  I claim to be this. I claim to be that. Here's 4chan. But then every once in a while we do get something real because one thing that has happened with 4chan is it's completely anonymous. There's no way to track who wrote what. And while that sounds crazy, the benefit is if you are someone that's going to leak information, it's very hard to get busted if you do it through 4chan. And because everything's so skeptical, you know, it might just fly under the radar. Well this one got picked up. It's no longer flying under the radar. And now we have to pay attention to the possibility of a brand new switch this holiday. Again, this is something I wasn't even debating as a possibility this year. I thought maybe we get some rumors about the system by the end of the year. And that's that. Well now the rumors we might get might be about the damn thing coming out. Now again, this does not say that it is a brand new next generation system or it doesn't clarify whether it's a Switch Pro just that it's more powerful and they're working on a graphics pack. Maybe that's why we're not getting a patch. Remember when we talked about performance patch? Nintendo sort of promised it. The Pokemon company hasn't delivered it yet. Maybe it's because the game runs just fine on new hardware. That could have been the case. Hey, when we dropped this on the hardware, we ain't got these issues. I mean, maybe that's the case. We've seen that running in emulation on more powerful hardware seems to solve a lot of the problems. So maybe that's why the performance patch doesn't exist. Because they want to make it even a bigger start contrast between Scarlet and Violet on the old gen versus the new gen. Either way, which by the way, I think it's a really crappy reason. Scarlet and Violet, there's nothing visually going on that they shouldn't be able to make a run well on Switch. But hey, I'm just excited about this. We're not, I'm not even talking about Pokemon anymore. This is about a new generation system coming in 2023. That has me really, really excited. Still going to end up picking up a Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED edition if it comes out. But also might have that. And you know what? If it does happen, you guys are going to try my hardest to get a hold of two of these systems so I can give one away. But we'll talk about that as the year goes on. When Nintendo is going to announce this, I don't know. We'll talk about it more in the podcast. I'll probably talk about more tonight as well on our live stream. I do think new hardware in, you know, the second half of this year is possible. I think an announcement in September could make a lot of sense. I know you normally, oh, but why would they, it's a new generation. Why would they want to give more run up? Maybe they do. Maybe it's in August. Maybe it's in July. I don't know. You guys, let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. I am Nathan Rappeljantz and I'll catch you in the next video.


Hello everyone, bonjour à tous. 25 years ago, Canada was among the 189 countries that endorsed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This platform outlined a vision of a world in which women have the same rights and opportunities as men. My friends, we're not there yet. And the harsh reality is that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the progress we have made. In fact, it's exacerbating inequalities worldwide. Women have experienced greater job losses and have disproportionately shouldered the burden of unpaid care work at home. And the effects on the world's most vulnerable women and girls are devastating. Now is the time to double down on our efforts to achieve gender equality and to chart our next steps. So rather than putting gender equality on the back burner, let's put an intersectional feminist lens on all of our responses and recovery efforts up front. Each of us must do its part to see whether women, in all their diversity, are at the heart of decisions because we know that it brings better and more inclusive results for everyone. We also know that when women's organizations take advantage of support and flexibility, they turn their community into a whole. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw women's organizations move quickly and change the course of the situation. They have provided solutions adapted to issues such as violence based on sex and access to crucial information about public health. By supporting these organizations and by expanding the leadership of women and girls, not only can we achieve gender equality, but we can also build a world more prosperous, more inclusive and more peaceful. Now even though we're commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Beijing platform differently than we may have expected, Canada will continue to push this agenda forward. And we're proud to be co-leading the Feminist Movements and Leadership Action Coalition as part of the Beijing Plus 25 Agenda. This year was always going to be important for women and for our collective work towards achieving irreversible progress on gender equality. Well, despite the setbacks of COVID-19, it still can be. This is our moment to be accountable, to be ambitious and to work together to build a better, fairer future for everyone.


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