Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session on ministers foundation Last week we studied on fulfilling God's purpose for our life I hope you you would have gone through the last four chapters that I requested y'all to go through as yourself study Did y'all? Did we go through the last three chapters on positioning yourself to fulfill his purpose the prize of the high call of God and Finishing your course did we go through the last three chapters, which was assigned to us as our self-study Yes, ma'am. Yes, thank you. Thank you. So today we are going to We are going to study on the second book of our course notes that is receiving God's guidance Receiving God's guidance. I hope you would have downloaded this note If y'all have any challenge in downloading, please do let me know where I could Uploaded again on the stream Have everyone downloaded the notes Yes, ma'am Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So I will quickly go ahead and share the screen on today's session As some of our friends are joining in Okay, even before we could start we will start our class with a word of prayer Can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Yes, please. Mr. Binazir, please go ahead Our heavenly father, we thank you for this wonderful Good morning, God. I Praise you and adore you For this section Please talk to us Make us to understand very clearly We give up your marums into other hands.  I pray amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. That was a wonderful prayer Thank you So everyone able to see the presentation Yes, ma'am Okay. Thank you. So As we start with this new book Receiving God's guidance we need each of us need God's guidance in various matters in our life Some may have to do with our small Small decisions or the big decisions or sometimes the major decisions in our life Before in those days when the options were less to Make a choice with when we had to choose for our studies after our 10th grade it was very easy There were only three options left art science or commerce but now if we have to make a decision to study after our 10th grade like there are about more than 32 subjects where we can make choice and It becomes harder these days than before Not only in our studies when it comes to our career choosing a life partner being or You know or which part of the world that each of us have to stay in or live in or It can be something you do with our daily life which church who do we go? You know the small petty decisions also sometimes it challenges us and we you know We want to for us to make a Significant or a major decision we all you know We it is so much in me that we had to depend on God We have to depend on God so that we make the right decision in our life So all of his desire that we want somebody to be with us who can guide us help us to make that right decision So how do we journey with God so that we can hear him? We can hear him and yeah, so that you know we are held in Making decisions in our life. Let's see what the Bible tells us how we can journey with God How we can partner with God? How you and I can develop this a relationship with God that he can guide us There are two important ways in which God guides it guides us is through his word the written scripture and by the leading of the Holy Spirit When we meditate on his word when we have been led by the spirit Always always God desires to lead us in the right path One thing we must remember is that there is no such formula in the Bible that That that tells us to follow but then simply just go by the leading of the Holy Spirit Or by his word Today, we are going to look at 11 different ways By which the Bible offers that God releases his guidance into our life But this we will move on to the chapter one in our book God as our guide We need God's guidance in various matters in our life to make the session Psalms 37 Psalms chapter 37 verse 23 to 24 These before we could go move on to this verse We will see what are the different ways that we would be studying today Not not only today in the classes to come there are 11 ways that we would be studying how God can guide us the first is through his word The indwelling spirit The third is gifts of the Holy Spirit the voice of the Holy Spirit dreams and visions Sex this prophecies Seventh is through his angels godly council renewed mind times and seasons and the 11th is Circumstance and divine orchestration First we will move on to a second Corinthians Chapter 13 verse 1 The scripture says by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established We must build our lives on God's word and the work of a spirit and us personally We don't have to build our life on somebody else Experience or or as we share our personal experience through the classes. It's not that we have to build You know build our life depending on what the other person Shares or says but we need to build our life on the very foundation of God's word God's word should be our foundation. It's good for us to hear the testimony of others how God led them How they made the decision? It is good We should just state the pattern of the modern day went through but then come back to the word Because the word of God is what is needed for you and me to build our foundation We need God's guidance in all kind of matters in our life And God promises to lead us and guide us he desires He desires to lead us and guide us This is what the Psalms Psalmist says in Psalms 37 verse 23 to 24 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delights in his ways Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholds him with his Hand you see the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord The word order means direct set up made perfect made firm in the Lord God takes pleasure in leading us because we are his children he is much Interested in our life is very much interest So when we depend on God he leads us he guides us But there are certain season in our life that we do make mistake we do stumble we do fall But remember that's not the end of everything When we repent when we look at God and when we cry or saying Lord Lift me up put me back into the right track. Our God is faithful enough to You know put us back into the right track and lead us He is he is our God. He is our father We are his precious being and he's faithful enough to lift us up The Lord grasps His hand in support and upholds us With this we also go to the next verse Psalms 32 Verse 8 to 9 The word of God says that I will instruct you and teach you in the way You should go and I will guide you with my eyes So very important. I will instruct you a wonderful promise It assures us that our God never gives up on us. He will instruct us He will teach us and he will guide us But are we willing to receive that instruction receive that teaching receive that guidance from God or Are we saying that I know everything I Can lead my life. These are the simple things and why should I inquire with God? I Can make decisions from for myself. I'm a grown-up. These are the words sometimes these days youth tell to the parents Sometimes there are few of us. We also say this to God. These are the small things. I should not be disturbing God with it. I Can decide for my own.  What was thought simple may be the major fall So here we have been encouraged by the word of God saying that there's nothing called small or big or major or minor When we see God in all our being God desires God desires To guide us to lead us to instruct us to teach us Because the Lord has promised that he will lead us. He will instruct us He will teach us and we will guide us. We see in some 25 verse 12 Who is the man that fears the Lord him shall he teach in the ways he chooses? It is so very important for us to fear the Lord the word fear here is Reverence the respect at the most honor the reverence that we give to the Lord Those who have reverence for the Lord will learn from him the path they should follow It is very important when we give that first place to God he leads us Revelation of God's will The first point here talks about God's will is always consistent with his nature God's will Is always consistent with his nature Our God is a God was unchanging. He does not change He is the holy God Not one day he's holy and the other day he becomes unholy no he is an holy God His nature is consistent. He is the father of lights with whom there's no variation of shadow of turning back God by his nature is constant God the second point here is God's will is always consistent with his word God's will is always consistent with his word God will not lead us to do something that contradicts his own word God's word is truth God's word is truth Consider a few examples like in the Bible we see that, you know, the Bible we see that You know, how how how to keep the Sabbath the Pharisees did not permit anyone To do anything on the Sabbath on the other hand, we see Jesus People and his own disciples were plucking the grains and they were eating on the day of Sabbath So Pharisees were you know, they were upset with Jesus saying that You and your disciples are not keeping the Sabbath and Jesus explains that the he is the Lord of the Sabbath the Sabbath was was Man was not made for Sabbath, but Sabbath for man How important is to do something good? Or to keep the day of Sabbath He explains it So he's not Contradicting his own word, but we need to understand the word in the right way But this will move on to the next point God promises are a revelation of God's will God's promises are a revelation of God's will The reason God promised us something was because he Intended for us to have it so we can understand God's promises are an expression of his will for our life and God desires for us to know his will God truly desires He does not hide something from us, but he reveals it to us before in hand We see the time and again from the generation to generation how God calls people and he reveals his plan to them and Then he fulfills it in their life. Even today you and I as we sit here It's not a surprise that we are here. God called us There's a testimony for each of us that the calling of God in our life He reveals his will to us He reveals his plan to us for some of us it may be step-by-step, but he is revealing it Before hand is unfolding it before hand That's our God. He desires to reveal his will to us to his people to make it known In collusion chapter 1 verse 9 to 10 we read for this reason We also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you And to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that you may walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing to him being fruitful in every good work and Increasing in the knowledge of God We need to be filled with the knowledge of all his wisdom and spiritual understanding So that we may walk worthy of the Lord that we may be pleasing to the Lord And we will be fruitful in our life because we are filled with his knowledge With his wisdom and with a spiritual understanding So that we are fruitful and we can heal much in whatever we are doing in our life You know the word knowledge means precise The Greek word called Paganosis which means precise correct knowledge So as a believer we may pray and have We may pray to have this kind of knowledge So as each of us here as We desire for this knowledge in our heart Lord help me to have this knowledge We all need his knowledge We all need his wisdom knowledge and understanding So can we declare it over self as we study this book there? We would be making many declarations over our self which can help us grow in his word grow in his spirit So that we may be fruitful to serve in God's kingdom Today can we take this time to declare this knowledge? The knowledge of God over our self can we say that Lord I have your wisdom knowledge and understanding I declare the knowledge of God which is full Complete precise Correct deep and a clear knowledge of your will upon me in the name of Jesus Amen Very Important very important that we increase even Jesus when he was born in this world Naturally, the scripture says that Jesus increased in wisdom knowledge and understand We also as we grow as we study his word as we grow in spirit We should also increase in this wisdom in this knowledge and spiritual understanding Ephesians chapter 5 verse 8 to 10 17 says for you way once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord Walk as children of light for the fruit of the spirit is an all goodness righteousness and truth Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord therefore do not be unwise but understanding What the will of the Lord is very important scripture? Very important scripture for us to find out and the Lord So that we won't be unwise in understanding what the will of the Lord is So that we are the children of light and we walk in the light and there is no darkness in us When we take God's guidance when we receive his guidance We are the children of light and we walk in that light fully pleasing well pleasing unto the Lord Sometimes in some situations When it comes to decision-making We need to be wise God has given us this wisdom this knowledge and this understanding to make a wise Decision it is through our common sense But certain times we say no the scripture says this let's do it. No Just like how when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness make the stone into bread Jesus never heeded those voices and converted those stones to bread We need to make wise decisions. We need to we need to you know receive Sometimes we need to make the good the practical Some decisions to we should be made with the common sense So we need God's wisdom knowledge and understanding that we may Be wise enough to make our daily decisions in our life The fifth is the thing that remains unknown the things that remain unknown Deuteronomy 29 chapter 29 verse 29 We read that the secret things belong to the Lord our God But those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever That we may do all the words of his law There are few secret things that belongs to Lord and we need to or know that we need to or know that and And have no other answers or be comfortable in not knowing what it is because for every everything there is a reason or every season that God has kept certain things pertaining to You know certain well you would have kept it secret like the coming of the Lord We can live at peace with the unknown unanswered because we have the peace that is beyond our understanding So we need to just stay in peace when it comes to certain things Now are they different categories of God's will are they different categories of God's will? Romans chapter 12 verse 1 to 2 says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your body's living sacrifice which is only Acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service Now What does this verse say is it giving us three categories? For God's will or it's just one. I think it's one Yes Yes As some of us are from different Denomination background or we would have heard different messages saying that you know the scripture gives us three different categories So God's will is holy. Sometimes it is acceptable, which means Tolerable or you know, it can be lenient and it is reasonable service No, this verse is not talking about that When this was scripture says that it's holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service when it says acceptable Means it is holy and it is equal to holy nothing lesser God has a standard and it is holy and he's expecting that from us For an example if I have an apple and I say this apple is Red in color and it tastes sweet and it smells good. So does that mean I have three different apple or one apple? One apple Same way, we are just describing as character, but then it's one Yes, thank you So it is one one category of God's will there's no other category. There's only one which is holy God is a holy God Roman 12 1 to 2 says do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and Perfect will of God a God is a God of light and there is no darkness in him Neither there's any gray areas in him. Our goal is to understand that Walk in what is good acceptable and perfect will of God as what the word says We should not be conformed to the world, but be transformed how by renewing of our mind That we may prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God. It's very important To walk in that way to be in what someone calls the permissive will of God is really to be out of the will of God again To be in the permissive will of God is really to be out of the will of God So it is always one category holy We need to be acceptable the sight of God So in receiving God guidance, we have a responsibility to play with to do our part In fulfilling that to in fulfilling or to receive God's guidance. What are they? There are three our responsibility is in three areas. That is by seeking listening and obeying We must seek listen and obey What are our responsibilities? Can anyone say? seeking listening and obeying Thank you seeking listening and obeying as we seek God Let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 12 to 13 Can one of us read this please? Jeremiah 29 Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me and I will listen to you And you seek me and I find me when you shouts for me with all your heart The God is inviting us to seek him to call upon him to receive his revelation of Things that we do not know as we seek God with whole heart. God responds to such a heart attitude We also see in Jeremiah 333 call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know as We seek God leads us to find It is so very important our God is a God who answers our prayer when we call him he listens He answers to us He is a prayer answering God Matthew 7 7 to 8 says ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find Knock and it will be open to you. So when we seek and we receive God's guidance Fixes into different expressions seeking his guidance during the normal crow normal Through the normal course of things Can be in our daily life the small things But when we seek him he desires even to lead us in the smallest of the decisions in our life How do we seek God in these small decisions some of us may think why should we disturb God? Small things I can handle it and God is saying there's nothing called small or major I am a God who desires to talk to you To help you make even the smallest of the decisions. He leads us. He's a faithful God Second point here we see is seeking his guidance during special times of Seeking when it comes to special times some of us would seek God to make some major Decisions in our life that would mean take up the extra time and extra week Set that time aside seek God for his direction in our life When we seek God like how Isaiah 58 eight say sometimes we need to fast and pray and Ask God it can be any area. It can be a breakthrough It can be a decision in your carrier in the choosing your life partner or going abroad It can be anything but when we seek God earnestly Depending completely on as well our God is a God who reveals things to us because of the Relationship that we have because wholeheartedly we are seeking God and as per his word He says when you seek I will answer I will lead you and the third point of our Third point in seeking is guidance through unexpected God moments Sometimes we don't have to seek too much and When you know it is an emergency it is an immediate when we just say Lord help When we call upon the name of the Lord he answers he saves us He just breaks through the situation and comes in and he guides us we see supernatural things Happen as though it was normal Just God breaks into the situation and he speaks to us he leads us he guides us and All this can happen when we have a Relationship with God when we have surrendered our self completely and invited God to move in our life in every area Holy Spirit takes control and he just leads us This we will move on to the second one After seeking here. We have come to listening John chapter 10 verse 1 to 5 and 27 can anyone anyone read this any of us read this please John chapter 10 verses 1 1 to 5 Most assuredly I say to you he who does not enter the ship pulled by the door, but climbed by some other way The same is a thief and a robber, but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep To him the door the doorkeeper opens and the sheep faces voice and he calls his own chief by name and Leads them out and then he brings out his own sheep He's go he goes before them and the she follow him for they know his voice yet Yes, and yet Yet they will bring They will be by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him for they do not know the voice of the strangers My sheep hear my voice and I know Them and they follow me Thank you. Thank you so much. So what did we understand from this scripture? The second important component about receiving God's guidance is Listening through his voice the sheep hear his voice. They are listening and for the shepherd's voice We also saw a WhatsApp video that was released released saying that there was they were heard of sheeps and you know many people Who visited that farm tries to call that sheep for different sounds? The different sounds they try to call the sheep, but the sheeps are not responding to the sounds of Anyone any of the visitors there? But the minute when the shepherd came and he just gave one sound he released one sound in the form of a whistle All the sheep no matter how far they were no matter how busy they were in gracing the grass Immediately they left everything turned to the shepherd towards the direction where he was and they all ran to him You see they say the sheeps are the dumb bean, but if they can hear his voice How much you and I should hear the voice of God? If the sheep can hear the voice of a shepherd They have trained themselves they inclined themselves to hear his voice How much more you and I should develop this Relationship with our God to hear the voice of his The small still voice of the Holy Spirit speaks into us is very important We need to hear his voice It's not that God is not loud enough that we can't hear but then the relationship that we develop in our daily life He opens our ears. He opens our heart.  He guides us in the right way Proverbs chapter 3 verse 32 As we seek as we listen the very important is that we need to obey Obey the Lord obeying is very important Because God guides us and he wants us to obey him when we in obedience comes, you know the reward There's a reward in every obedience Proverbs 3 32 says for the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord But the secret counsel is with the upright It is very important for us to heed the counsel of God. God reveals a secret counsel to his children Why the only the upright the answer is because they desire to do what is right in the eyes of God God speaks to us that we can obey him and we and walk in the way that pleases him God guides us and we must follow him by faith with obedience and patience Sometimes obeying can be painful But then when we obey with all humility We see the result of God we see the reward of God we see the hand of God upon our life That's what some 3731 says the law Sorry, sorry Sorry Sam's 37 37 says mark The blameless man and observe the upright for the future of the man of that man is peace man So with this we we will take a break of 10 minutes and we will come back After that and we will start with chapter 2 Okay, so we'll be back by 10 minutes. Is that okay? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good bless


In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses, even though I've done a house tour of my own place. Please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. In 2016, award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow spent almost $5 million for a teardown property on a stunning 2.4-acre lot with views of the ocean and Montecito. After hiring the architects from Roman and Williams, who also designed her all-white New York City loft and her interior designer friend, Bridget Romaneck, Gwyneth created her dream home from the ground up.  While this is Gwyneth's main residence, she's owned plenty of impressive properties over the years, including her lavish Tribeca loft and her Hamptons estate, which she maintains to this day. In 2016, Gwyneth Paltrow paid about $5 million for a 2.4-acre lot with ocean views, located in the upscale Montecito, California. There was a house on the property, however, it would prove to be a teardown, and Gwyneth would start fresh, claiming the place had tons of potential. Fast forward to more recently, and the Oscar-winning actress finally unveiled the finished look of her dream home. Gwyneth hired Robin, Standifer, and Steven Alesh from the firm Roman and Williams to be the architects behind her new home, as they also designed her loft in New York City. For the inside, she enlisted interior designer Bridget Romaneck, who's also her close friend. After six years of building from the ground up, Gwyneth's home was finally finished. The European-style mansion is now where the actress lives with her writer-producer husband, Rod Falchuk, and it's simply stunning. But even before the home was completely reimagined, it wasn't too shabby. Before, the home was set to boast four spacious bedrooms, but this could obviously have been reconfigured. The original boat that was situated on the land was built in 1981 in a Palladian-style, boasting a front portico built around a small courtyard, while inside there was a 45-foot long great room. Considering Gwyneth lived in London for quite some time, she fell in love with a lot of the classic architecture there. And when it came time to bring this to her home, she wanted to create a Parisian apartment set within an old European barn, something with high ceilings, flooded with lights, a place that feels generous, yet manageable at the same time. Inside her home, there's a mixture of old world elements and modern furniture throughout. Gwyneth's family home has a warm and welcoming foyer, which boasts a fireplace with 18th century mantel and black and white stone floors underfoot. Moving to the living room, the impressive space has a light installation as the focal point. With there's also a wet bar made of onyx, a hammock, and a fireplace. In the formal dining room, you'll find hand-painted scenic wallpaper as well as contemporary lighting and furnishings. The gourmet kitchen boasts a plate rack full of colorful Hermes dishes, a rolling ladder, and a range, which Gwyneth made sure was put in a central position so she can chat with her family while cooking their favorite meals like pasta for her kids. There's also another fireplace, which the actress explained was also a necessity, saying, I had a wood-burning fireplace in my kitchen when I lived in London, and I loved how cozy it made everything feel, so it was a big priority for me to get one in the kitchen here. The coziness from the fireplace is contrasted with the light that streams in from all the windows, brightening the space up. One of Gwyneth's favorite rooms in the house is her powder room, which offers more hand-painted wallpaper and an antique marble sink. But what has got to be the coolest part of her home is the spa. Considering the actress and Goop founder is so into wellness, you can't be too surprised that she had a massive Parisian-style spa room installed into her mansion. This space is decked out in handmade ocean blue-green tile and features a cold plunge, hot tub, steam room, and a sauna. When it says about this space, I make time to go here almost every day, every time I have to pinch myself. I cannot believe this is our house. It's such a luxury. Another highlight of the home is that now it's also full of eco-friendly features. There are reportedly 60 solar panels as well as a gray water system for instance. Outside you'll find a lush landscape with native plants, charming pathways, and a large outdoor swimming pool. There are also terraces to dine out fresco and other spaces to lounge and take in the stunning views, such as a fire pit gathering area. This is our forever house as Gwyneth of her stunning and custom Montecito home and it's not hard to see why. When Gwyneth was still with her ex-husband Chris Martin, they had purchased in a boat in the River Lofts complex located in New York City, more specifically in the Tribeca neighborhood for 5.1 million dollars. This was way back in 2007 and the stylish River Lofts is a two-building warehouse conversion while Gwyneth's former unit spanned just under 4,000 square feet of space. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom spread was redesigned during Gwyneth's time here as previously mentioned. It was done up by the same exact design team at Roman and Williams who also are behind her current Montecito home. This New York City loft was transformed into an airy, nearly all-white ethereal space simply full of luxury.  Then the living room has a swing hanging from the ceiling built from an antique Indian door giving the family-oriented space a playful vibe. The glamorous interiors also had crystal chandeliers in many rooms as well as colors aside from the whites such as lavenders, grays, and silvers. And there was also a stately master suite. In terms of amenities, the building boasted a 24-hour doorman, fully equipped fitness center, private elevators, and much more. In 2017, the high-profile pad hit the market for $9.95 million, but it was previously listed a year before for much more, $14.45 million. In the end, Gwyneth's one-time apartment sold for $10.7 million that year to an unidentified buyer. Gwyneth has also long maintained a vacation retreat in the Hamptons, which she keeps quite private. According to records, the place is in the Amagnuset area of the Hamptons, New York, and the actress purchased it back in 2006 for $5.4 million. She still owns the 7,000-square-foot mansion, which boasts 5 bedrooms, 7.5 baths, and much more. While most of what we can see of this property is only from some aerial views, the actress has given some glimpses of it over the years, such as in 2007 when the home was in Housing Garden Magazine. Other highlights of the property include Nanny's quarters, a large swimming pool, and water views. Gwyneth loves this property so much, she even wed her current partner Brad on the premises back in 2018. We also got a small glimpse at the Hamptons' home when the Organizing Queens of the Home Edit worked on her place. The Home Edit posts on Instagram to show some photos of the rooms that they worked on here, including Gwyneth's craft and toy storage room and the pantry. The kids' room had an all-white storage room with colorful and color-coded books and toys. Aside from all the cabinets to organize, there was also a small love-seat sofa with a candy-inspired pillow. The Home Edit posted a photo of the kids' room at the time with the caption, We just spent the most incredible few days at Gwyneth Paltrow's Hamptons' house. Our favorite project from the trip end of all time was the playroom. We divided the room into activities on the left, a leisure on the right, and created zones for reading, games, arts, crafts, and science. Additionally, the company also revamped the actress' pantry, making it light and airy, full of white wood and glass. Since we've now gotten a peek at some of Gwyneth Paltrow's most impressive properties, including her dream home in Montecito, California, that'll bring this house to her to a close. But before we leave, answer me this. If you had your very own spa or wellness retreat on your property, what are some features you couldn't live without? Let me know how you would unwind if you were living like Gwyneth in the comments below. And don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow me on Instagram to chat. I'm Keri the Vampire Slayer and if you'd like to check out another tour before you're finished, then stay tuned for this one where we look at the homes of her ex-husband's current partner, Dakota Johnson. Bye! Just last year, actress Dakota Johnson opened the doors of her home for architectural digest. While she's all settled in in her dreamy Los Angeles estate these days, it took her a while to move in and she purchased it back in 2017. Being the daughter of two icons you may have guessed, Dakota's home is fit for Hollywood royalty. While the home is impressive, it's still serene and modest in many ways. In this video, we'll check out Dakota's Hollywood abode. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Dakota Johnson is an actress and model who made her film debut at the age of 10 with a minor appearance in Crazy Alabama, a dark comedy film her mother starred in. Beyond Dakota's own career, she's also the daughter of actors Dawn Johnson and Melanie Griffith while her grandmother is none other than Tippi Hendren whose film career includes classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie. Dakota was discouraged from pursuing acting further until after high school when she began auditioning for roles in LA. She was cast a minor role in the social network and then supporting roles in movies like 21 Jumps 3 and The 5 Year Engagement. In 2015, Dakota got her first starring role as Anastasia in the 50 Shades film series from 2015 to 2018 which you could say was her big break. From there, she scored more acting roles over the years and even one of my personal fames Bad Times the Owl Royale in which Dakota appeared with an ensemble cast. At the time of this recording, Dakota's net worth is at an estimated $14 million and she put a chunk of that towards her gorgeous home. Hey guys it's Cara the Vampire Slayer and today we're bringing you another house to our hero and famous entertainment. We noticed about 95% of you watching aren't subscribed and were the original celebrity house tour pros so hit that subscribe button and ring that bell. We post a new video daily. Today we're checking out where actress Dakota Johnson calls home aka her beautiful and peaceful Hollywood oasis. We've done videos on the likes of Ashley Simpson and Reese Witherspoon and we'll link to some at the end. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and let me know whose house tour you want to see next. Now let's get into this video. Hi AD I'm Dakota welcome to my house. Dakota's wood framed home features wall-sized windows in the living room perfect for highlighting the crystals in the space and books line the walls of her home office. From the rooms inside to the citrus trees out back the Hollywood star's home is a reflection of the things that she loves. While growing up Dakota was constantly on the road with her famous parents which taught her a different kind of appreciation for home life. The actress remembers a time when she was delivering an Easter basket to Madonna in 1996 as her then stepfather Antonio Banderas was filming a Vita with her in Budapest. While memories like this are amazing there's still a part of Dakota that was longing for a more grounded life than she had previously. That could explain why she's turned her current and what seems to be her only property into a sanctuary. The actress quietly bought the property in 2016 for $3.55 million in an off-market deal and records show it was acquired by a blind trust linked to celebrity clients. Dakota was so secretive about the purchase that even celeb stalkers and news outlets had a hard time identifying her as the buyer of the sensitive strip home. News only broke about a year after the purchase and I think that's about when Dakota finally moved in as well. Her wood-framed home was built in 1947 by revered mid-century architect Carl Mastin and was previously owned by Glee and American crime story creator Ryan Murphy. It's located in Los Angeles clearly in the West Hollywood neighborhood and more specifically above the famed Chateau Marmont. Dakota's famous neighbors include the likes of Kendall Jenner, Sandra Bullock and just two doors down is Jimmy Kimmel. Sitting on a quarter acre lot naturally the property is completely walled, gated and secured with cameras. Listing materials described it as one of the true masterpieces of the modernist movement meticulously restored with modern systems. Her home boasts three bedrooms and three baths within 3,210 square feet of living space and Dakota admits it was only the second home she looked at and the first house she ever bought. She explains, I was immediately drawn to how it was clean but also cozy. I thought I'll never want to sell this place and that seems like the case so far. Among the common spaces there's a living room with floor to ceiling glass walls and a stone fireplace. The Dakota's fitted with beautiful vintage furniture and a piano. And this is the living room. I hang out in here. I read people kind of are always coming in and out of my house and everyone hangs out in this room obviously. One thing that stands out about her place is that it actually looks like somebody lives in it. Many celebrity homes often seem so spotless and minimalistic that it feels like a showroom while Dakota's house is the opposite. And she has a dog so that makes the place really a home. Dakota's formal dining room boasts a custom glass table as well as some uplifting crystals on display. I'm jealous of those. The restored residence has an Eden chef's kitchen with top-of-the-line stainless steel appliances and marble countertops but it may not be as big as you'd expect. Dakota painted the kitchen green as well which she says is her favorite color. Although Dakota didn't invite anyone upstairs, the second level is completely private for her spacious master suite. There are wooden walls, a sitting area, spa-like baths and views of the city lights. When designing her residence, they installed wood flooring in the master which includes the bedroom and wardrobe. And for the bathroom, the same concrete as downstairs. While Dakota's entire home is delightful, this one room she feels the most at home in is her office which she lined with books and memorabilia close to her heart. I actually don't really get any work done because I get distracted by everything that's in here. Some of the most notable pieces here are a seating card Patty Smith gave her with her phone number on it, a note from her famous grandmother, and a photo of her appearance on SNL's 40th anniversary show in 2015. A special spot on the wall is reserved for a photo of Hunter S. Thompson, a close friend of Dakota's dad Don Johnson. Thompson wrote famous books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the Rum Diary and he shared a bond with Dakota acting like a godfather figure. One thing's for sure, Dakota is an old soul. Her antique pieces and unique design in the home showcase her personal style and since the house is covered in wood, it makes for a warm and intimate space. Moving outside just beyond the glass sliders in the living room, you'll find the swimming pool. Her backyard is surrounded by nature and greenery providing a ton of privacy and the lower level of the property has a dog run. There's an entertainer's space with barbecue, fire pit and patio and Dakota also shows off a table which was made from the wood of Winston Churchill's yacht. Definitely a piece of history. On an upper level in the yard, there's also a hot tub. So I think I'll bring this house tour to an end right there. After looking at Dakota Johnson's one and only house or her Hollywood sanctuary, what did you guys think? I think her home said a lot about her personality and she did a great job putting thought into every room while designing. From the messy bookshelves in her office to the restored vintage furniture, everything about Dakota's home says that you're home. It's no wonder that it helps ground the actress, letting her retreat when her schedule isn't so busy and I'm sure perfect for the lockdown year that was 2020. Dakota even said about her home, this place is my anchor. So what was your favorite part of the actress's home? What did you like or not like? Let me know down in the comments. Personally, I love the living room best since it's full of vintage furniture and opens to the pool as well as the nook outside where she has her private hot tub. Not to mention those beautiful crystals she has. I especially love the huge one by the door. Talk about good vibes. If you haven't already, please subscribe to my personal channel and check out my latest video. We'll link it for you. 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Okay, welcome back everyone to theCUBE's coverage of VMware Explorer 22. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante, formerly VMworld, our 12th year extracting the signal from the noise. A lot of great guests. It's very vibrant right here. The floor is great. The expo hall is booming. The keynote's going great. We just had a keynote announced. Our next first guest here on day one is Kermina Kapoor, co-founder and COO, Minayo. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. You're also angel investor of variety of companies of CUBE alumnides and been in the Valley for a long time. Thanks for coming on, sharing what's going on. So first of all, obviously VMware, still on the wave. They've always been relevant. They've always been part of IT. But as that's changing, a lot's going on. Security data is big conversation. And now with their multi-cloud, we call super cloud, but their multi-cloud, it's about hyperscalar, participation, cloud universal. It's clear that VMware has to be successful in every cloud. Okay, that's really important. And storage is one of it. You guys do that. Talk about how you guys relate with Minayo, the vision, how that connects with what's happening here. Yeah. So like you already said, right? Most of the enterprises are become data enterprises in itself and storage is a foundation layer of how, and you do need a system that is simple, scalable and high-performance at scale, right? So that's where Minayo fits into the picture. And we are software defined open source. So, you know, like VMware has traditionally been focused on enterprise IT, but that world is fast-changing. They are making a move in terms of developer-first approach. And Minayo, because it's open source, it's simple enough to start deploying object storage and cloud-native applications on top. So that's where we come in. We have around 1.3 million Docker downloads a day. So we own the developer market overall, and that is where I feel the partnership with VMware as they are coming into multi-cloud on their own. Minayo is a foundational layer. So just to elaborate on it, whenever you talk about multi-cloud, there are two pieces to it. One is the compute side and one is on the storage side. So compute Kubernetes takes care of the compute side. Once you containerize an application, you can deploy it to any cloud, but the data has gravity, and all the clouds that you see AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, they're inherently incompatible with each other. So you need a consistent storage layer with industry standard APIs that you can just deploy it around with your application without a single line of code change. So that's what we do. Oh, so you've got a great value proposition. I love the story. So just kind of connect on something. So we heard the keynote today. We got to win the developers. They didn't say that, but they said that. They have the ops lockdown, but DevOps is now the new developer. We've been covering a lot of the coupon, as you know, and shifting left. Everyone's in the CICD pipeline. So developers are driving all the action, and there has to be self-service. It has to be high-velocity. It can't be slow. It's got to be fast. So that sounds like you're winning that piece. Yes, yes. And I think more than that, what is most important is it needs to be simple. It needs to get your job done in a very simple and efficient way. And I think that is very important to the developers overall. They don't like complex appliances or complex piece of software. They just want to get their job done and move on to the next thing in order to build their application and deploy it successfully. So whatever you do, it needs to be very simple. And of course, it needs to be feature rich and high-performance and whatnot. That comes with the flow in itself. But I think simplicity is what wins the developers' hearts and minds overall. So object storage always been simple. Get put, right? Pretty simple paradigm. Yes. But it was sort of the backwater before Amazon launched its cloud. How have you seen object evolve? You mentioned performance. So I presume you're not just for cheap and deep. You're for cheap and performance. So describe that a little bit if you would. For sure. Like you mentioned, right? When AWS was launched, S3 was the foundation layer. They launched S3 first and then came everything else around it. So object storage is the foundation of any cloud that you go with. And over a period of time when we started the company back in 2014, beginning 2015, it was all about cheap and deep storage. You just get put it into one basket. But over years, if you see, because the scale of data has increased quite a bit, new applications have emerged as well that require high performance. That is where we partnered very closely with Intel early on. And I have to give it to them. Intel was the one who convinced us that you need to do high performance. You need to optimize your software with all the AVX 512 instruction set and so on. So we partnered very closely with them and we were the first one to come up with, you know, you need high performance object storage and that in collaboration with Intel. So that's something that we take a lot of pride in in terms of being the leader in the direction of bringing high performance object storage to the market, especially for big data workloads, AI ML workloads, they're all object first. Like even, you know, new age applications like Snowflake and Databricks, they are not built on SAN or file system, right? They are all built on object storage. So that's where you need performance. I think the Databricks Snowflake example is good. And you mentioned in 2014 when you started. Yes. At that time, big data was Hadoop and even, you know, data lakes, data swaps. Yes, yes, yes. The ones that were successful, the ones who optimized, had the right bets like you guys. Now we're in an era of, okay, I got to deploy this. So you got great downloads and updates from developers. Now we see ops struggling to keep up with the velocity of the development cycle. And with DevOps driving the cloud native, security data ops becomes important. Okay, security and data, a lot, with storage going on there, how do you guys see that emerging? Because that becomes a lot of the conversations now in the architecture of the ops teams. I want to be supportive and enablement of Dev. Yes. You guys target that world too or? Yeah, we do target that. So the good thing about object storage is that, if you look at the architecture in itself, it's very granular in terms of the controls that it can give to the end user, right? So you can really customize in terms of, you know, what objects need to be accessible to home, what kind of policies you need to implement on the bucket level, what kind of access controls and provisions that you need to do. And especially like with ransomware attacks and whatnot, you can enable immutability and so on, so forth. So that's an important part of it, especially I think the ransomware threats have increased quite a bit, especially with the macro situation with war and stuff. So we see that come up quite a bit. And that's where I think the data immutability, the data governance and compliance becomes extremely, extremely important for organizations. So we are partnering very closely with a lot of big organizations just for this use case itself. So how's it work? If I want to build some kind of multi-cloud, whatever, X. Okay, I can use S3 APIs or Azure, blah, blah, blah. Okay, and they're all different. But if I want to use Minio, what's the experience like? Describe how I go about doing it. So if you've had any experience working with AWS, you don't need to even change a single line of code with us. You can just bring your applications directly onto Minio and it just behaves and acts same way transparently what you would have experienced in AWS. Now you can just lift and shift that application and deploy it wherever you need it to be, whether it is Azure, blah, whether it is Google Cloud, or even on edge, like what we are seeing is that data is getting generated outside of public cloud. And most of the data that, you know, the emerging trend is that we see that data gets generated on edge quite a bit, whether it is autonomous cars, whether it is IoT, manufacturing units and so on. And you cannot push all that data back in the central cloud. It's extremely expensive for bandwidth and latency reasons. So you need to have an environment that looks and feels exactly what you have experienced at the central cloud on the edge itself. So a lot of our use cases are also getting deployed with Minio on the edge itself, whether it is on top of VMware because of the footprint that VMware has within all these organizations itself. So we see that emerging quite a bit as well. And then you can tear the data off to any cloud, whether it is Minio cloud, whether it is AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on. So you can have like a true multi-cloud environment. So you would follow VMware to the edge and the object store there or not necessarily if it's not VMware for Kubernetes or whatever. Exactly, exactly. Depending on the skill set that the organization has within their setup, if they're DevOps heavy, Kubernetes becomes a very natural choice. If they are traditional enterprise IT, VMware is an ideal choice. So you're seeing a lot of edge action you're saying. We have seen it increasing, yes. Are customers, so they're persisting data at the edge? It's not just ephemeral. No, they are not because the cost of putting all the data through bandwidth is extremely expensive to push all the data in central cloud and then process it and then store it. So we see that the data gets persisted on edge cloud as well in terms of processing and only the data that you need for further processing through whatever application systems that you have, whether it is snowflake or data bricks and whatnot. You choose what applications from compute side you want to bring on top of storage and that can just seamlessly and transparently work. Brian, you were saying that multi-cloud games around Kubernetes, that Kubernetes is all about multi-cloud. That's the game. Yes, yes. Can you explain what you mean by that? Why is multi-cloud a Kubernetes game? So multi-cloud has two foundations to it. One is the compute side, another one is the storage side. Compute Kubernetes makes it extremely simple to deploy any application that is containerized. Once you containerize an application, it's no longer tied to the underlying infrastructure, you can actually deploy it no matter where you go. So Kubernetes makes that task extremely easy and from storage standpoint, the state of applications need to be held somewhere. People say it's cloud but it's computer somewhere, right? So it needs to be stored somewhere. So that's where storage systems like Minayo come into play where you can just take the storage and deploy it wherever you go. So it gets tightly bound with the application itself just like Kubernetes is for compute, Minayo is for storage. I saw Scott Johnson, the CEO of Docker in Palo Alto last week, they hit a spring to a step, so to speak. Docker's doing it pretty well as a result. They got, you know, starting to see certifications. So people are really rallying around containers in a more open way, but that's open source, but it's the Kubernetes that's the action that the container's really there. And now Docker's got a great business right now going with how they're handling. I thought they did a great job, but the Docker is now lingua Franklin, right? That's the standard. It is, it is. And I think where Kubernetes really makes it easy is in terms of when the scale is involved, right? If there are, if the scale is small, it's okay. You can work around it, but Kubernetes makes it extremely simple. If you have the right Kubernetes skillset, I just need to put a disclaimer out there because not a lot of people are Kubernetes expert, at least not yet. So if you have the expertise Kubernetes makes the task extremely simple, predictable, and automate at scale. I think that is what is the- So take me through a use case because I've talked to a lot of enterprises, multiple versions. We're lifting and shifting to the cloud. That's kind of the, you know, get started, get your feet wet. Then there's like, okay, now we're refactoring. We're really doing some native development. And they're like, we don't have a staff on Kubernetes. We do a managed service. So how does, how do you see that evolution piece taking place? Because that's a critical adoption component as they start figuring out their Kubernetes relationship to compute, how they roll it out. How do you see that playing out as a big part of this growth for a customer? Yeah, so we see a mix. You know, we see organizations that are born within cloud. Like they have just been in mono cloud like AWS. Now they are thinking about two things, right? With the economy being, you know, and the state that it is, they're getting hurt on the margins. Some of the SaaS companies that were born in cloud. So they are now actively thinking in terms of what more they can do to bring the cost down. So they are partnering with Minayo either to, you know, be in a co-location at Equinex, like data centers, or go to other clouds to optimize for the compute nodes and so on. So that's one thing that we see increasingly amongst enterprise. Second thing that we see is that because, you know, of that whole multi-cloud and cloud does go down. It's not like it, you know, and it's been evident over last year or so that, you know, we've seen instances where Amazon was down or Google cloud was down. So they want to make sure that the data is available across the clouds in a consistent way. So with Minayo, with the active-active application and so on, you can make the data available across the cloud. So your applications, even if one cloud is down for DR purposes and so on, you can, you know, transparently move the applications to another cloud and make sure that your business is not affected. So from business continuity reasons as well, the customers are partnering with us. So like I said, it's a mix. So the Tanzu, you know, 1.3, the application development platform that we heard in the keynote this morning, critical, you have to have that for cross-cloud services. If you don't have a consistent experience, forget it. I mean, it's table stakes. But there's a lot of chatter on Twitter, a lot of skepticism that VMware can appeal to developers, some folk, John as well, chimed in saying, well, you know, don't forget about the upside of the equation as well. They need security and consistency. What are you seeing in the marketplace in terms of VMware specifically, their customers and what do you, how do you rate their chances in terms of them being able to attract the developer crowd, your peeps? Yeah, so VMware has a very strong hold on enterprise IT. You know, you have to give it to them. I don't come across any organization that does not have VMware, you know, for with 500,000 customers, right? So they have done something really right for themselves. And if you have such a strong hold on the customers, it's not that hard to make the transition over to the developer mindset as well. And that is where with VMware partnership, with partners like us, they can make that jump happen. So we partnered with them very closely for the data persistence layer, and they wanted to bring Kubernetes, the VMware Tanzu natively to the VSAN interface itself. So we partnered with them, you know, we were their design partner, and in I think 2020 or something, and we were their launch partner for that platform service. So now through the vCenter itself, you can provision object storage as a service for the developers. So I think they are working in terms of bridging the gap and they have the right mindset. It's all about execution like this here, right? So it's about being just focused and... It's the execution and timing. Exactly. And if they overshoot and shifts over here, you know, this comes up a lot in our conversations. I want to get your reaction to this, because I think that's a really great point. You guys are a nice foundational element of VMware that plugs into them, that makes everything kind of float for them. Yes. We were comparing OpenStack back in the day. That had so much promise. Yes, it did. If you remember, storage was a big part of that conversation. But the one thing that a lot of people didn't factor in on those industry discussions was Amazon was just ramping. Yes. So assuming that the hyperscales aren't stopping innovating, how does the multi-cloud fit with the constant struggles? Because AWS is not ra ra multi-cloud. Is there for the cloud? Customers are using Azure for state of office productivity teams or whatever, and then they have apps over here, and then that's the on private. So hybrid's there, we get hybrid. The clouds aren't changing. How does that change the dynamics in the market? Because it's a moving train, some say. You know, I would not characterize it like that, because AWS strength is that it is AWS, but also that it is not outside of AWS, right? So it comes with the strengths and weaknesses and same goes for Azure and same goes for Google Cloud, where VMware strength lies is the enterprise customers that it has. And I think if they can bridge the gap between the developers, enterprise customers, and also the cloud, I think they have a really fair shot at making sure that the organizations and enterprise have the right experiences. In terms of everyone needs to innovate, there is just no nothing that you can just sit back and relax. Everyone needs to innovate. And I think the good part about VMware is the partnership ecosystem that they have developed over the years and also making sure that their partners are successful along with them. And I think that is going to be a key determining factor in terms of how well and how fast they can execute because nobody can do it alone in the enterprise world. So I think that would be the key. Well, Garima, you're a great guest. Thanks for coming on and sharing perspective on theCUBE. And obviously you've been on this from day one, 2015. Yes. You're really early and you guys made some great moves in a great position with VMware. I like how you're the connective tissue and bridge to developers without a lot of disruption, real enablement. I think the question is can the VMware customers get there? So congratulations. No, thank you. And we've got a couple of minutes left. Take a minute to explain what's going on with the company that you co-founded, the team, what's going on, any updates, funding? Very well funded, yeah. How many people do you have? What's new? Are you going to hire? Where, take a minute to give the plug, give the commercial real quick. For sure. So we started in 2015. So it has been like seven, eight years now that we are at it. And I think we've been just very focused with the S3 compatible object storage being AWS S3 for rest of the world. Like we get characterized at. And over the years we've been like now we are used 60% in Fortune 500 companies in some shape or format. So in terms of the scale and growth, we couldn't be more happier. We are about to touch a billion dollar, billion docker downloads in September. So that's something that we are very excited about. And in terms of the funding, we closed our series B sometime, I think end of December last year. And it's a billion dollar valuation. And we have great partners in Intel Capital and Dell Ventures and SoftBank. So we couldn't be in a more happier spot. You're unicorn, soon to be deco-corn, right? What's next? Yes. I think what is exciting for us is that the market, we could not be more happier with how the market is coming together with our vision, what we saw in 2015 and how everything is coming together nicely from the organization realizing that multi-cloud is the core foundation and strategy of whatever they do next. And lot has been accelerated due to COVID as well. So in those terms, I think from market and product alignment, we just couldn't be more happier. We think multi-cloud, hybrid's here, steady state, multi-cloud is going to be a reality. It becomes super-cloud with the new dynamics. And again, Dave and I were talking last night, storage, networking, compute, never goes away. Never goes away. The operating system's still going to be out there. It's just going to look different and act differently. Yes, I mean, yeah. And like in 10 years from now, Kubernetes might or might not be there as the foundation for compute. But storage is something that is always going to be there. People still need to persist the data. People still need the performance data stored. People still need something that can scale to hundreds and hundreds of petabytes. So we're here. They're better against data. Yeah. As Andy Groves said once, you know, let chaos reign, reign in the chaos. There you go. Chaos cloud is going to be simplified. Yeah. That's what innovation looks like. That's what it is. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. Okay, more coverage here at VMware. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Thanks for watching. More coverage, three days. Just getting started. We'll be right back.