Good morning. We're from Children of St. Martha's School in Lethbridge. We're located on the west side of Lethbridge and we are kiddie corner to our, we're a Catholic school, we're kiddie corner to our own parish, St. Martha's Parish as well. I want to introduce or take this time to introduce the people that are here with me today. I'm Shannon Collier. I'm the Associate Principal at Children of St. Martha's. This is my first year at the beautiful school. We have 220 students from Precate to grade six. Beside me, we have Shelly Sampack. Shelly is a grade four or five teacher at Children of St. Martha. This is her second year at the school, but she has been in education for a lot longer than that. Behind me is Louise Dixon. Louise Dixon is our grade two teacher and she has been as well at Children of St. Martha for two years, but in education for a lot longer than that. And Christina Fox. Christina Fox you'll see in a lot of the videos that we'll share today. She has been the backbone of our school and the support that we are going to share with you today as our family liaison counselor at the school. She's involved in every single class with every single student and family and we are very blessed to have her at our school each and every day. So not part-time, not in consultation, but she is with us every step of the way as we embed FMNI content into all that we do as a family at Children of St. Martha. I'm going to let Christina Fox come up and speak. Okay. Good to see each and every one of you. We start off with our honor song. For life is sacred. Children are celebrations. Walking and learning together is a rich tradition. My title is First Nations Métis Inuit Support Staff. Long title, which I'm very proud of because I am today I am representing my people and my neighbors. The theme this year is called Horizon of Hope. When we started doing the beautiful artwork of Horizon of Hope we came to the meaning for it. The gift that we receive each and every morning because life is a gift from God. When we look to the east, when we think about it, at the end of the day the horizon of hope, that's when the sun starts to come up and we realize we're alive to share our talents and our gifts. There we pray for direction and guidance. We're also blessed with vision, courage, wisdom and knowledge. For in the east we look at vision to help us acknowledge our children's dreams and to be able to dream with them and to be able to dream with the parents and have them share their dreams with their children. We look to the south, the highest point of the sun. There we start to prepare for our future and for the day to come. And then we look at wisdom to recognize each child's gift and talent for they have so many. West, where the day starts to end and we start to relax. There we need to end our day with dreams, prayers and meditation. And we think about the knowledge what we did today for our beautiful children. Acceptance, getting to know them as individuals. North, where the source of strength comes within. And this is courage because at the end of our day when we relax we pray and ask our Creator, did we embrace our call to serve with love, faith and hope. When we come in through that door, yes we all have titles. I like to believe that my title number one is being a mother. Each and every one of us are teachers because one we are mothers, we are fathers, we are aunties and we are uncles. So in looking at education, we look at our heart and we go to our mind. And what this honor song does for us is that it opens our hearts and it opens our minds and then back to the minds and back to the heart. And that's how we deliver knowledge to our children. So to start with I am Shelly and for looking at directions, focusing on the north, that's focusing on the strength and the needs and kind of where our students started from. So this was a sample of our grade six family gathering that just took place last month. Basically the purpose of it was to highlight the successes of our students not just in their final year of elementary school but throughout their educational career. Christina and the grade six teacher, Mrs. Collier as well, they organized the students, parents to get everyone to come to the family night and from there they, yeah, again, celebrated their successes. Christina also helped organize a similar family gathering night in October to emphasize really the importance of family in our students' success at school. Looking again, we have a student who is drag and boating. The importance of first-hand experiences was also emphasized. We went to the Ignite Your Spark Fair a few weeks ago and this is also important because giving our students first-hand experiences is really, I'm sorry, is really helpful and then also thank you.  And then so also at the Pow Wow, we have a pow each year, which Christina actually informed me, it's been seven years. It's been a huge part of the strength in our school. Students experience the traditions and stories involved in the pow wow as well as they get to experience and participate in building a teepee and learn the proper teepee protocol. Christina was also able to work with the Grade 4 students and work towards kind of bridging and linking Catholic traditions with the First Nations traditions as well, so that was a big success. And then finally, this FNMI project has given us the opportunity to emphasize the strengths and provide the necessities for our students to learn through permeation of our First Nations traditions and cultures. Good morning, I'm Louise Dixon. I am tasked with looking at leadership and guidance in our school as we started the three-year project. A lot of us weren't sure which direction we were going on and between Salage and Christina as well as our board office, we were able to begin our project. We really discussed as a staff, what is this three years meant and what were the good things that came out of the project. We discussed that there was a lot of good things happening in the school but we weren't working together, we weren't sharing those ideas because we didn't have any authentic time to do that. To sit down with your colleagues for an entire day and work on projects together that you come up with together, then you have a vested interest in them and you have a vested interest in seeing that they succeed. Christina was there and so was Salage all throughout the days that we did the planning. Christina was there to answer those questions that as teachers we feel that we have to know the information. Well, there was a lot of questions that were hard to ask and you felt like a child asking questions that might be politically incorrect, challenging what you knew, challenging yourself to have a deeper understanding in what you were teaching and okay, you're putting the content into your teaching but what is it that you were putting in? And Christina was wonderful in answering all the questions that we had no matter what we asked, no matter how we asked it and that to me says a lot about Christina and her devotion to our kids and to our First Nations students but also to our kids in general because she wants the best for all of them. One of the things that we said too was it would give the staff time to build relationships with each other, build that trust relationship and that filtered out into our relationships with our parents as well. We see more parents coming in, we see more parents coming in, coming to help their child and help their child in terms of this is what I need you to do as a teacher for my child and those kind of conversations were not always happening and it's nice to see that they are now. The staff was able to attend workshops and PD sessions that were given by other districts. There was a group of us that went to Blackfoot Crossing with Randy Bottle and were able to learn about the signing of Treaty 7 and what it would have been like for those people at that time. That is authentic learning as a professional because that is learning I couldn't get anywhere else. We also talked about how do we embed that learning into all that we do so we can get the most out of the funding from the province and one of the things that we did is we took a spiritual retreat normally reserved for somewhere, some venue around Lethbridge instead we went down to Writing on Stone and we learned what that meant to the people the Blackfoot people and how sacred it is and why and how things happened there. So that is authentic learning that we can carry back to our classrooms. We challenged during this time a lot of long held beliefs that were in the community about First Nations Métis and Inuit culture and it was nice to see that we are the better for it some really authentic learning took place as a staff changing not only how we felt but how we reacted to certain things like attendance really looking at the deeper meaning of what does lack of attendance mean and why aren't they there and I'm happy to say that we've had some successes in that regard as well. Lastly it opened our eyes to the realities of residential schools from first hand knowledge of listening to Christina as well as Peter strikes with a gun talk about their experiences. They are leaders in our journey and Solange and Christina and the province for giving us the funding they've really started off something so we're hoping to keep that keep the momentum rolling. Christina is an elder in the Blackfoot or in the blood tribe she has been our liaison for a number of years before Eve and I came to the school. This position includes home visit, classroom visits facilitating meetings between parents school to stakeholders like teachers, board office employees and the community. She also brings with her a wealth of cultural knowledge to our non-native and native students alike and staff as she teaches us the Blackfoot language as well. Christina is also responsible for saying the prayer in Blackfoot every Wednesday and the kids have picked up our food in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in Blackfoot as well and it's really wonderful to see the kids saying it as soon as she begins so they're now joining her. She sings and plays the guitar, teaches music she teaches life skills in order to build a self-esteem, confidence and pride in who they are. She also facilitates workshops and staff retreats for all ages not only in the school but outside of the school and we are fortunate to have her on our staff. Tom Little Bear also joined us. He's a member of the Blood Tribe and traveled down with us to Writing on Stone and shared a lot of his stories and shared a lot of the culture with us while we were down there and we thank him as well. Peter and Jeannie Strikes with a gun have been in our school so often that we feel like they're family. They are always there. Peter is an elder in the Pekani Nation. Peter's stories combine scripture and cultural ways which gives a strong teaching and meaning to whatever he's speaking about. He's one of the important resources that Christina calls upon for whatever we need in our school. So at Christina's invitation also he's coming to join our powwow this year our seventh annual powwow and he's taught us a lot about the culture but dancing, he's taught the kids about the regalia and he's also invited them to come up and try a hand at dancing. So the kids really enjoy that and they become a part of it even though they're non-native. So we have done some interesting things and I'm hoping to continue this even after the project is no longer. I'm speaking to the self and I have to thank Louise because Christina and I were just smiling and winking at each other when you can hear a teacher take half the things that I was going to say as an administrator and share that with you today makes my heart just overwhelmed with happiness because it shows that the teachers every single teacher in Children of St. Martha has included and embedded FMNI content in all that we do when I walk into the school every morning speaking of the South I walk in and you can feel the energy in the building we have a high percentage probably one of the top percentage of FMNI students in our district come to Children of St. Martha some of those little kids get on the bus for an hour every morning and Christina is the first person who greets them every morning to give them breakfast so we have a breakfast program at the end of the day before a lot of those children get back on the bus to head home for an hour or longer Christina is out there with sandwiches bringing them out to the bus we're high-fiving the bus driver and saying take care of our little ones as you take them home so this is my first year at Children of St. Martha I had 20 years of junior high high school grade 7 to 12 so this is my first experience in a pre-cated grade 6 and I need to share with you that I have never seen a school like this school you just have to walk in to see the families that surround the children and the teachers that are really engaged in all that they're sharing with you today in addition because I don't want to take the time I need to share with you as well our district's central office Mr. Chris Smeaton is one of the head supporters that really allow within our schools for people to embrace this and really make it part of what we do so Chris Smeaton was honored in 2004 with his Blackfoot name Sacred Wings we're very pleased and proud that our leader from our district office has been given that honor I'd like Christina to come up and we'll speak about the east or the west what I have in my hand is my Indian filing Children of St. Martha know about that Blackfoot class they come to ask who can join Blackfoot class we are all children of God my Blackfoot class is open to everyone and anyone we as Nitsudafi meaning real people education we look at it differently because we live by the honor song we have a responsibility in the transfer of knowledge we believe that every child needs to live with faith need to live with hope and need to live with love our responsibility we need to praise often appreciate our children often build security give them faith to believe in themselves we need to accept build their self-esteem self-esteem and they need to know that they are loved they are valued and they are cared for the Lord's prayer translated to Blackfoot is so beautiful and so powerful because it's the world's prayer and every Wednesday like Mrs. C. had mentioned I get the opportunity to say the Lord's prayer over the intercom every morning and all the teachers come and say the children all followed you everyone is learning and so for their homework this summer the rest of the staff with Mrs. C they're going to learn the Lord's prayer and so their first exam is September before they come into that door I'll try and beat Mrs. C. that morning September the honor song starts in our minds like I had mentioned that is our foundation all that we do to be able to build faith, hope and love for each and every one of our children and a staff and the four aspects of our nature mental, physical, spiritual and emotional they are like seeds they have the potential to grow into powerful gifts there we can look at their culture our culture, every one of us here our identity and language our self-concept our self-esteem and our self-determination we have a teepee you saw the little teepee the miniature teepee that is in my office by the way I'm so blessed I have my own office and I have my classroom they treat me, I'm blessed and I believe that we should all have a teepee visual in our schools because with the teepee teachings we teach about every step in putting up our teepee we have the four main poles that represent the northeast southwest can also represent the flower, our people mom, dad son and daughter or grandma and grandparents and with the rest of the poles are the values that we use we teach our kids that's why I had started off at the Lord's Prayer that's why I had started off at the Lord's Prayer that's why I had started off at the Lord's Prayer kindness to others respect for others and to be blackfoot to be proud of who you are always being able to take on task independently because you have the faith within yourself being helpful to others such as what we're doing here today we're wanting to help each other because we are all working for children and for that I'm very proud of each and every one of you and everything comes in pairs we need to balance work on our lifestyle we need to look at the four aspects of our nature and everything that is given to a person to do what they want with it and guide them because they too have lots of knowledge to share it is a great honor to be a part of the family of the children of St. Martha's because I as an individual feel like a family member down the hallway I meet a group of students a class going to another classroom and they all say ok and that is so nice which means hello or Kedemudsen we'll see you again at the end of the day so that is so nice so nice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is an honor song opening for each day for us at Children of St. Martha's when we truly love our children work is not hard when we truly put our titles in the back of our pockets and work from the heart success will be a blessing thank you God bless you all


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Hi everyone, I'm Brian. I'm a software engineer at Square and today I'd like to tell you about how you can take advantage of linting with ember in order to ship better code faster I've worked on a variety of product teams over the years and like many of you I've shipped all sorts of cool features and I've written and reviewed a lot of code During that time, I also noticed a lot that could be improved about the development process such as developers oftentimes making the same mistakes again and again And so I began to focus more on the infrastructure or platform side in order to tackle many of these recurring issues Linting, which is a rule-based static code analysis tool, turned out to be a superpower for tackling many of these problems Now whenever you work on Automation or related tooling, you need to be mindful of the situation turning out like this xkcd comment Where developing the automation can actually take as long as the original task But my goal with this talk is to convince you that Linting is something that will save you time, not cost you time And that even writing your own lint rules is very approachable and something that you should add to your toolkit So we're going to be looking at some real bugs caught with linting and other examples of how linting can benefit you how ember integrates with linting and Finally we'll dive into writing a lint rule of our own So first let's look at this real bug that I've caught with linting This is an ember component which displays a list of milestones and whether or not they've all been completed But there's a bug in this component such that the property here will always return false See if you can spot the bug Well, it turns out we were missing a return statement in this callback Pretty common mistake to make Given the different ways of writing functions in JavaScript And now you may be thinking that TypeScript could help out here TypeScript is definitely an incredible tool for catching mistakes and logic issues And I definitely recommend using TypeScript alongside linting But in this case TypeScript alone would not have caught the issue Technically we're allowed to have an implicit return value of undefined in this callback as that will simply be considered falsely And so TypeScript will not report a type error with this code Instead this is more of a syntax pattern that often indicates a mistake And this is something that we can use linting to detect If you have the esun extension enabled in your IDE You could have received immediate feedback about this issue from rules like array callback return Which would have noticed that the callback in this array function was either Missing a return statement or should have been converted into the array for each function Another lint rule called no unused expressions would have noticed that the expression here Milestone.completed is useless the way it's written and thus we're likely forgetting to do something with it Let's look at some other benefits that come from linting I really appreciate how linting can not only Help to enforce best practices, but it can also teach us about them In fact when it comes to onboarding a new member to our team It's really magic how the tooling can now do much of the work of teaching best practices for a given code base or framework In this code sample, I'm showing a simple ember component that is not doing a great job of following ember octane best practices First we prefer to use glimmer components over classic components in ember octane Second we prefer to use native javascript classes over classic classes Kind of going along with how ember has been moving away from ember specific syntaxes that are no longer necessary And third there's a rule to help guide us away from using the the tag name on the component because glimmer components no longer provide A wrapping element for that tag name linting is terrific for accessibility Here I have an html image tag and I'm actually forgetting a key attribute on it, which is the alt text attribute That's needed for screen readers to describe what this image depicts So i'm trying to fix the issue here by adding some alt text, but It turns out that there's still an issue in my code base I'm also using the no bear strings lint rule To ensure all of my strings are translated for different languages and countries another aspect of accessibility I'll likely need to use a translation helper to fix this linting can also help us with tightening security We want anyone using triple curlies in their templates to be informed that they may be allowing unsafe html to be injected into their page Now as always if someone has a legitimate reason for Writing code like this then they can always disable the lint rule on this particular line of code Ideally including a comment about why they need to disable the rule Let's look at how ember uses linting eslint is the core javascript linting framework and Really the great part about it is that it's extensible and so we use it for our ember linting plugin as well Which I'll talk about in a moment There's a node linting plugin which can help us ensure we're avoiding deprecated or unsupported node apis There is a q-init linting plugin, which is new in ember 3.26 And this one is great at detecting test assertions That may be written incorrectly or in a confusing fashion There's ember template lint, which I'll talk about in a moment And there's also prettier which is new in ember 3.24 And can really help us to auto fix all of our code formatting and simply eliminate the bike shedding and knitting that comes from differing code style preferences So let's dive into esn plugin ember. That's the javascript linting plugin for ember, which is uh Pretty mature at this point. It has over 60 recommended lint rules The latest version comes with ember octane linting enabled by default And this is really powerful because we can use linting Alongside code mods to help us modernize existing applications and kind of guide them towards ember octane paradigms As we saw earlier there are rules for things like encouraging glimmer components native classes track properties And we've also had a focus on robustness in recent versions of this plugin Uh, we always want to minimize false positives so that developers can trust the linter And finally we've updated our rules to support all the exciting new javascript syntaxes that have come out in recent years ember template lint is ember's custom linter for handlebars templates This one also has a sizable number of lint rules And the latest release also comes with ember octane linting enabled by default There's also a neat new feature for setting due dates on linting violations something that can be useful when you have hundreds of violations to address And finally there's a new feature for linting arbitrary file types including plain html files So now let's walk through writing our own lint rule Because if you frequently see developers making the same mistakes You should consider whether you can write a lint rule to solve the problem Once and for all and help guide developers in the right direction Don't just fix it once Fix it for the long term Let's implement a simplified version of the ember no get lint rule This is a rule that ember uses to encourage developers to migrate from the older ember object get function to the New javascript es5 getters which are a cleaner and more standardized way for accessing properties This is going along with how ember Wants to reduce its weird wear and also reduce its learning curve I like to follow test driven development. So when I write a lint rule, I'll typically start out by writing the test cases First we can write out some disallowed test cases things that should be Flagged or caught by the lint rule and here I have the basic form of this dot get with my property name Then we'll also write out some allowed test cases Some variations that we do not want to flag because they're using unrelated functions unrelated objects Or they're simply too complex for us to handle right now All right, so now let's focus in on this disallowed code sample I'm going to paste this into a website like like astxplorer.net To generate the abstract syntax tree And now let's walk through how this abstract syntax tree on the right corresponds to this single line of code So first we have a call expression which is like a function call Inside that we have a member expression this dot get On the left side of the member expression we have a this expression And on the right side we have an identifier named get to the function name Finally, we have a string literal arguments inside the function call Keeping this abstract syntax tree in mind Let's write the actual implementation for this lint rule ESLint provides us a convenient framework for visiting nodes of different types And so on the left here, I have a visitor function for visiting every call expression or function call in a javascript file Inside the visitor function, we'll use an if statement to Check for the particular tree structure that we're looking for And if we find it we can at that point flag a lintine violation So inside this if statement, I'm first going to check for a member expression as we saw before On the left side or the object side of that member expression, I'm going to check for a this expression And on the right side or the property side, I'm going to check for an identifier Identifier named get And then a single function call argument Which is of type literal And that is a string that does not include a period because for now we're ignoring nested property paths So if the linter gets this far then We found the particular structure that we're looking for and We can report a violation with an error message indicating the problem and potentially suggesting effects It's not pictured here, but we could also at this point provide an auto fixer function to automatically correct the code Something that is incredibly useful when we have Hundreds or thousands of violations And that's it It really wasn't that scary writing in our own linteral In fact, we could largely fit the core functionality in a dozen lines of code on a single slide Now we can decide where to publish the new lint rule If this rule was for some reason specific to our own Codebase application or company we could create our own linting plugin for it But ideally for a Generic lint rule like the one we've just written we can contribute this back to an open source linting project That way we can all clear our minds of this issue for good and get back to shipping our application So now it's your turn to pick a common nits or other mistake that keeps coming back To haunt your team and to try writing a lint rule to address it You'll also of course want to make sure your IDE is highlighting and auto fixing linting violations for you And you'll want to consider researching and installing any other relevant linting plugins for your codebase I've included a handful of my favorite linters for you to check out here But there are still hundreds or thousands more to choose from Thank you and happy linting


Hey coach, welcome back to the channel. If you haven't yet, make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the content that we put out on a weekly basis. So if you have a training business and you're either starting, you're looking to grow, you're looking to scale, what I do every single day with coaches is I book these three 15 to 20 minute calls where I jump on a Zoom call with you and I can learn more about your business, what you're doing and give you some actionable steps to take this week with your business. So if this is something you would be interested in doing, visit my Calendly link in the description of this video and you'll be able to schedule that call with me today. So in today's video, I break down three very simple ways to simplify your pricing within your training business. So if you are a coach trainer who has a football slash soccer coaching business and you're struggling with pricing, with simplifying your pricing structure, then this video is going to help you. So reach out to me. There's two ways you can do that. Number one, you can schedule a free 15 to 20 minute call through my Calendly link below in the description or you can contact me directly via my email at makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com. Okay, hope you enjoyed the video. See you in the next one. Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to a new video. So today I want to talk about how to simplify your pricing with parents in your football training business if you are based in the UK. Alright, so if you haven't already, number one, subscribe to the channel because every single day Ben and myself were releasing content to help you with your training business. And also if you are based in the UK and you want more help, right, once or twice a week, I'm going to be releasing a video that's talking about a topic, which is a common problem for most trainers in the UK. So if you're in football, if you're in cricket, if you're in rugby, or if you're in any other sport, you're based in the UK, you have a training business, you're working with clients either one on one, or in a group setting, then these videos will help you with your business. But today we're going to talk about specifically football, right, and if you have a football training business. Now, something I've been noticing with coaches that I've been working with the last couple of years is most coaches pricing is shall we say all over the place, right, and I'm going to touch on three things that I want you to implement into your business, right, because also I'm going to share you some things that coaches and trainers here in the UK are currently doing with their business and it's hurting them every month, right. So if you have a look on my screen, I've got three highlighted points, and I'm going to go through them one by one. And I'm going to touch on each topic, right, so the first one is simple pricing per service you offer. Now what does this mean. So when I go out to the fields, or when I speak to coaches who have football training businesses, the way most of them are currently operating their business is a new client comes in, or a new prospect contacts them about working with with them. And what coaches are currently doing is they're basing their pricing of the ability level of that child. So if that child is at a competitive academy, then they're charging them this price. If that child is a beginner, then that the trainer charging them this price. Now, again, this is fine if you want to continue to implement this into your bit with your business. I'm going to tell you why we need to streamline it and why we need to have one price. Okay, so the problem when you have different prices is number one, most trainers don't keep track of their pricing, which means what they they're doing is they're making up their pricing on the spot. So a parent is contacting them for their service. The trainer is getting on the phone call asking a couple of questions. And on the top of their head, they're saying, right, I'm going to charge this client X amount of money because their child is at a pro academy. Right. Next phone call, a parent calls up. They want to work one one on one to one with the trainer. That trainer is then saying to that parent.   I'm going to charge you X amount. So ultimately in two sales calls that trainer has charged parents to different prices. And this goes on and on right when we get to the third client, the fourth client, each coach and trainer starts pricing their services completely different. And what happens is one, you can't track it to it becomes all over the place. And three, you come into a problem where if, for example, a parent of that beginner child starts speaking with the pro academy child. And they start to talk and they start to talk about your service, talk about you and they start asking each other questions. So how much, how much are you paying to work with coach X? How much are you paying to work with coach X? And one parent is paying one amount. The other parent is paying a different amount. And ultimately it's the same service. All they're getting is one to one training. Then that doesn't look good for you as the business owner. Because if I was a parent, I have a child at a pro academy and you're charging me maybe double what a beginner is paying.  Why are you trying to charge me more just because my child is at an advanced level? So we want to eliminate that and we want to have a simple pricing system where you have the same pricing for one to one and you have the same pricing for group training. So that way, when a parent comes into you, you know the top of the head, right? Boom. This is my pricing for one to one training. And this is what you get. So that your pricing differently for different clients at the end of the day. It's hard to track and you don't know what money is coming in each month in your business. So we want to keep it simple. We want to have a streamlined pricing. We want to be uniform so that any parent that comes in, right? This is where my child's at. This is what my child needs. Okay, boom. This is what we offer. This is our pricing. The second point is monthly upfront payments, right? So what we want to do is we want to eliminate the paper session model. So currently in the UK 97, I want to say 97, almost 98% of all personal football trainers are charging clients per session. What does per session mean? Per session means that you're showing up to the session and the parent is showing up with their child. You're training the child and you're getting paid there at the session, right? Now, why do we want to try and eliminate? Why do we want to try and transition from that paper session model into a more monthly or upfront payment system? So when you have a paper session model, not only does your client become in control of when they see you and when they pay you, but also it becomes hard to track what money is coming in each month, right? I speak to some coaches who, when you speak to them, they say they have 250 clients. But when you actually break down how many they're seeing on a weekly basis, that number becomes a lot more different, right? It doesn't become 250. That number actually becomes 20, right? So 20 active clients that they're seeing on a regular basis. But out of those 20, not all of them are coming every week. So ultimately, if I'm a coach, then I'm not able to track, right? Okay, one week I'm going to have X amount of money coming into my business. The next week I'm going to have this amount of money coming and it's just all over the place, right? Now, if we streamline our payment system into a more monthly or an upfront payment, then we know that if I get 10 clients this month and I keep them on a three to six month contract, then I know that in three to six months, this is the money that's going to come in per month, right? Now, something I've started working with coaches on is getting upfront payments for three to six months. Most trainers in the UK don't operate their business this way. Most, as I mentioned, do the paper session. Some have started to transition into the monthly, but it's not consistent, right? Some months it might be monthly, other months it goes back to paper system, right? We want to eliminate that. We want a simple pricing system, a simple payment system, where you know what is coming into your business each month, right? So if you're bringing on a client, that client is having a trial session with you. They're a great fit. You want to work with them, right? In order to get them more committed, we have to say to them, right? In order to work with me, right? And in order to get great results with our program, with our business, you need to commit to three months minimum, right? Now, if a client commits to three months, the way that you can secure your business is by charging that parent an upfront payment, right? So essentially, that parent is paying for three months upfront with you, rather than then paying per session or paying monthly. Now, why is that simpler to track? And why is that a more secure way to do business? Well, number one, it's easier to track because you know that if you're bringing in 10 new clients per month and they're paying you for three months upfront, you know that, okay, perfect. I've got 10 clients that I'm guaranteed to be working with for the next three months, right? And within those three months, all I need to do is I need to try and add one or two new clients to another three to six months, okay? So that's the first one. Second one is that when parents are paying in full upfront to work with you, there's more chance of them showing up every single week because they've already paid for it, right? They've already paid for it, they've already paid you for their service. So they will show up every week to train with you. When you have a paper session model, there's no guarantee of that parent actually showing up, right? Because one, they haven't made a commitment. Number two, they haven't made an upfront payment or they haven't paid in full. And three, essentially, if something comes up, right, they don't need to show up because if they don't show up, they don't need to pay you, right? Because you can't, if you have a paper session model and that parent hasn't shown up, you can't essentially charge that parent for that session because ultimately there was no contract in place. There was no commitment in place. And essentially, our parents are going to say to you, right, well, we didn't show up to that session. We didn't have any agreement with you, so we don't really need to pay you, okay? So to keep things simpler in your business, we want to move into either a monthly, if they're committing for a long period of time, if parents are paying month to month, then that really works if you have a client that's committed to you for six to 12 months. If you're only going to be working with a client for three months, then the upfront payment system works a lot better, right? Now, if you need more help with this, there's two ways you can get in contact with me, right? If you're watching this video and you need more help with charging parents in full, then get in contact with me. My link to book a call with me is in the description of this video. We can jump on a 15 to 20 minute call. I can go over your business, see where you're currently at, see what you need help with, and I can also walk you through how to implement an upfront payment system model in your business, right? So we want to now touch on the third highlighted point, which is create a program, not just a service. So 97% of all coaches and trainers in the UK are currently offering just a service, right? When you offer just a service, it means that you are just training that client for that hour, two hours, and then they're gone. Because we want to transition it into a program, right? So this touches on the second point. We want to get the parents more committed so they're training with you for three to six months, which means you can get more results with them. We want to create a program where you're seeing them once a week within that three to six months, because if they're training with you on a consistent basis, not only can you as the trainer see their development, but also they're going to develop much quicker and they're going to get better results with you. Also, when you create a program which goes above and beyond just your one hour training session, so maybe away from the pitch, you're going to watch their game, or you're offering mental coaching, right? So confidence coaching, helping them with their confidence. You might be doing this through Zoom, or you're having monthly parent meetings with the player and the parent to talk over how that player is getting better in your program and what's the next step that they need to make in order to improve X, Y and Z, right? So essentially, we want to create a program which is three to six months that is a complete experience, right? It's not just a service where that parent is coming to see you for one hour a month and then they're gone, right? We want to create a program where that client is with you three to six months. You're seeing them on a weekly basis and you're going above and beyond just the training, right? You're not just showing up to a session, putting a session on and they're going, right? We're actually keeping them accountable away from the pitch. We're setting them homework, maybe weekly or daily, right? And we're also offering a lot more value in terms of one-to-one workshops where you're working on the nutrition, confidence, injury prevention, and also we're providing feedback to parents about their child, right? So what's their child improving on? What are they doing well? What do they need help with or more work with? What level are they currently at, right? And maybe you might even offer your time to go and watch them on their team, okay? So these are three very simple ways that you can simplify your pricing, okay? Because if you create a program, then parents know what your program is. If you create a service, then parents only base you on what you're charging per hour, okay? And what happens is when you bring in a parent and you're just offering, okay, I offer my service for £50 an hour, that parent is just basing what you offer on that training per hour. So what they can do is they can simply say, okay, all right, perfect. You offer £50 an hour, I'm going to go and see what another trainer is offering. See if I can get it for cheaper. Since you're not really offering anything else, then what the other coach or other trainer down my road is offering, okay? So when you create a program, you create a complete experience, you differentiate yourself from the competition, and ultimately parents are going to be with you for longer, and they tend to be more committed than those that are just showing up for a one-to-one service. And then once a month, you see them, and then they're gone, okay? So if you need more help, as I mentioned before, there's two ways to get in contact with me. The first one is through the link in the description of this video. You can book a free 15 to 20-minute coaching call with me where I can deep dive into your business, see where you're currently at, see where you want to go, and I can break down any three of these points that I've mentioned in this video. Or if you want to send me a direct message, okay, you can contact me via my email, which is makemoneycoachesportsatgmail.com. I respond to all emails that I receive, and I'll be able to respond to you straight away, okay? Thank you for watching, and I'll see you on the next video.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jasmuskhbrace.com. This is a random number block for 2022 Museum Collection Baseball Six Box Picketing Number 15 that features the Yankees in a random number block, as well as the Rays, Royals, Cardinals, Mets, Blue Jays, and Detroit Tigers. And again guys, you get a piece of these teams via serial number break which is R&B. We go by the first number on the left side, serial number dash number, any non-numbered base cars or hits are randomized to one person in one lot. And we only sold eight spots guys, we're going to give away two free spots. So with this dice roll here, we're going to roll again. We're going to randomize the names only first. Top two names get free extra spots, we'll paste them, and then we'll use the same dice roll for the names and numbers for the break. Roll. And we got ourselves a on random. All right, again, Rando has still been very slow, but we can wait like a couple seconds to do the dice roll. If it's lags more than that, then we'll just use the real one, but six to one seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So that was seven times, Michael and Adam Cuperman, congratulations. Free extra spots for you guys, we're going to paste in the names, boom, boom. Now we're going to go seven times in the names and numbers. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Roll down to Michael, boom. Seven times now here, numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Nine down to four. Let's see how this played out. All right, Michael nine, Edwin two as well, seven, Adam with zero, ending our redemptions, Michael with one and eight, Adam with six, Michael with five, Adam with three and Michael with four. So again guys, next video is going to be the break, good luck.


Let's go ahead and get moving. Willum's propped open with a trash can. Yeah, let's do it. OK, yes, now we're starting. The doors are shut. You're all locked in here with me. So welcome to my session. Spotlight on the featured showcase, writing great case studies for Drupal.org. It is the first of the Drupal.org track. If I could get my slides working, that would be nice. Yes, Drupal.org track. So let's jump right in. Today, we will learn I'm a big roadmap person. I don't know about you. So here's your outline of what we're going to learn about today. First, we're going to learn who am I, followed by some definitions of what our case studies on Drupal.org, why they're important, what the featured showcase is. Basically, this is the session description copied over and pasted onto this slide. So you all know what you're in for. So who am I? My name is Lee Carver. My Drupal.org username is Lee C. I've been at the Drupal Association since early 2014. I've been in Drupal since August of 2012. So been around for a little while, but I'm not terribly technical. I'm a highly caffeinated content writer. I'm highly caffeinated right now.  I was also trained in the using of Drupal by Tatiana right here in the lovely sweater. And I'm her number one fan. We have a fan club. They're T-shirts. If you want a T-shirt, let me know. At the Drupal Association, one of the components of my job is moderating the issue queue for the featured case study requests. I also write community spotlights. And I work a lot on the Drupal cons as well, but we're not going to focus on that. Since I'm a writer, I figured that we would start the session with some definitions. And I went to the dictionary, which is my favorite book. What is the definition of a case study? Well, a case study, according to the dictionary, is a process or record of research in which detailed consideration is given to the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time, a particular instance of something used or analyzed in order to illustrate a thesis or principle. Really opaque stuff. So I changed it. It is a record of research in which detailed consideration is given to the development of a Drupal website over a period of time. And it is a particular instance of something used in order to illustrate the value of the Drupal CMS. And just so that we're all on the same page, when we're talking about case studies in this section, we're talking specifically about the case studies found on drupal.org slash case studies. They all follow the same format of site name, screenshot, URL, why Drupal was chosen, described project.  So we all good? Definitions? Yes. We're gonna come back to those later. So what is the value of case studies? I believe and I have seen that case studies, having a drupal.org case study is good for your company and it's good for the greater Drupal ecosystem. It creates understandable content for people who aren't necessarily technical. And it actually, because of that, it's a really critical tool in our marketing toolbox for showing the value of the Drupal CMS. It shows off how powerful it is, how versatile it is, how secure it is and stable. Hello, welcome to the session. It also shows off how flexible Drupal is because we have such a wide variety of case studies. In our featured showcase, we have banks and universities and non-profits and government websites and giant corporate websites. It's all there, it's all in the case study section. They also help organizations showcase what they do best, which is, again, good for you, good for Drupal, because you get your bragging rights, you get show off, hey, look at this really cool thing that we built, it's super cool. It shows your team's abilities. It shows how amazing the Drupal software is and how good you are with it. And it shows that the websites that you build with Drupal are valuable and they work for your clients. Lastly, we've actually had people say, yeah, our case studies help us get noticed. Some of our partners downstairs on the trade show floor say that a lot of their business comes from the Drupal.org, much showcase, marketplace. And case studies are visible on the marketplace as well. So again, this is really great for your companies. They also point back to your site from the front page of Drupal.org as soon as they get pushed to the featured section, which, for those of you who are familiar with SEO, that's really, really great link juice. You also get to tap the Drupal community and me for no charge for our expertise on marketing and composition, so it's editorial assistance free of charge. And lastly, you get a formal association on Drupal.org between the website that you built and your organization. So you'll always have that list of, say, we helped build Amnesty International or we built the Greenpeace site or we built the Beatles website. And that's really cool too. Lastly, case studies help Drupal get noticed. We went over this a little bit, but there's all sorts of these things. These are all examples pulled from the featured showcase. They show how Drupal is flexible and scalable and secure and super customizable and everybody uses it if they're big or they're little and the sites are really pretty. Drupal is a content repository. I could go on. So, case studies are great. They're good for you, they're good for Drupal. You gotta love them, it's super exciting. So, the featured showcase. I've been talking about this a lot and you may be going, I think I know what that is, but I'm not really sure. When you go to Drupal.org and you scroll to the bottom, you see this little section that says who uses Drupal and then there's three sites. If you click on the who uses Drupal button, it takes you to the featured showcase. It is actually the first thing, the featured showcase is the first thing that people see when they go looking for case studies because you have to click over to the next tab to get to the community showcase. It is a collection of the most innovative and beautiful Drupal websites and again, it showcases Drupal as a solution. So, the featured showcase is where all the cool kids hang out on Drupal.org and it's actually not all that difficult to get your case study into the featured showcase. It's just a time consuming process and here's what that process looks like. So, step one, somebody writes a case study and puts it on Drupal.org. Again, this is Drupal.org slash case studies and you fill out the form and the more thorough that you are with filling out the web form and the more grammatically correct your content is, the happier I am. We also ask that you include lots of pictures because as you've probably noticed, it's really hard to read a wall of text. And when you create these case studies on Drupal.org, they default straight into the community showcase. The next step is that you file an issue in the issue queue. It's in the content issue queue, content type case studies. There's a link at the end of this session. And when you create that issue, you need to include the name of your case study, include a link to the case study, tell us why you think it's worthy of promotion. And if you mark the issue as needs review, straight out of the gate, we'll get to it quicker because needs review is a flag for me and Dave Hochhausen, who is the other person who is really active in the case studies queue. And I cannot tell you how many emails I get that are like, please promote case study, case study name to the featured section, which is really frustrating because the issue name doesn't include the name of the case study. So please make sure that you actually follow the directions when you file the issue. The next step is that the back and forth begins. These are all closed fixed case studies that have been promoted to the featured section. As you can see, sometimes there's a lot of back and forth and begging and pleading to fix things and it's a process. So in this back and forth, this is where I provide feedback, Dave provides feedback, and other members of the community occasionally chime in as well. Usually I start off with, this is a really good start, now fix it. We read every case study very thoroughly multiple times, so all of the feedback that we give you is gonna be really thoughtful and really coming from a genuine place of caring and wanting to help you make that content the best. We're not trying to be mean. We really want this featured showcase to be amazing and we want your case study to be amazing too. So some of the common problems that we come across when Dave and I are going back and forth with people about editing their case studies, also known as how to take a case study from good to great. Number one problem, bad grammar. Like I'm always so surprised. It's like grammar, it's grammar. It's how English is put together and in the case of companies that are non-native English, like that's fine, totally understand it, but for people who I assume graduated from high school, it can be really upsetting when I see a case study and they didn't even bother to proofread for grammar, so please proofread, run a spell check, get somebody to look it over, especially if that somebody is either fluent in English or a really good writer, that's even better. So number one problem, grammar. Another problem that we very frequently come across is that case studies are way too promotional of your company, that they're going on and on and on about your team's bespoke solutions and all of these wonderful things that only you can do. And that's fantastic, but that's not what we're looking for. These case studies are meant to showcase Drupal as a solution, not your company. And so again, this comes back to what we talk about when we talk about drupal.org case studies. This is not necessarily a marketing tool for you to use on your website. This is a marketing tool for Drupal. So you did really good work, but please focus on promoting Drupal, not your company. And you can't promote your company, we're gonna talk about that in a little bit, but focus on Drupal. Another problem that we frequently come across is that there just is not enough content that people go through and they fill in maybe two or three sentences per field in the case study submission form and that's just not gonna cut it. We want to know how you built what you build. Grammar's hard. We want to know how you made this amazing site. Why is it amazing? Convince us, this is supposed to be your place to shine. So if you did something really clever, if you built something really amazing, talk about it. Describe it in disgusting detail. It is easier to take things out than to put them in. Again, this comes back to this is, these case studies are about Drupal. And I have actually seen case studies go up for promotion to featured that mentioned Drupal maybe wants. That's not what the feature showcases for. We want to know about Drupal. We want to know what you did with Drupal. What did you do? How did you do it? Why did you use Drupal to do it? Tell us again in very great detail why you went with Drupal. Now this one is much trickier. Focusing on what matters can be really difficult and this is something that I take very seriously and that I will help you find. There is always, in every single case study, even if it is, we built a three page site. There's always something in there that's really interesting. There's some sort of solution that's fascinating, a problem that you solved that maybe you solved in a really clever or elegant way. And that's what matters.  We want to know about the one amazing or the three amazing things that you did. So, when you are writing your case study, please pick one or two things that you feel that you did well and then tell us about them. Find what's most important and write to that. So, back to the submission process. Everybody does some writing. Lots and lots of writing. And then there's some issue cue ping pong and that's me and Dave on the one side and maybe you on the other and then the issue in the middle is going from needs reviewed and needs worked needs reviewed and needs worked. It's super fun. Everybody loves it. So, once we've done all of our feedback and our back and forth and everybody's happy, the case study needs to accumulate a plus one from the community, again, generally Dave and a plus one from the Drupal Association which is almost always me but occasionally Tatiana. Once it has that, it can be promoted and this is just, again, it's a check to make sure that the right case studies are getting promoted in the right way, that the content really is the best that it can be. So, and then you get this really exciting message. Yay, you're on the front page of Drupal.org, how exciting. And then the case study gets marked to fix and we're happy. And everybody has a dance party. So, if you need some inspiration while you're working on your case studies or you're thinking about writing your case studies but maybe you don't know what to do, check out some of these recommended examples. Most of these were promoted fairly recently within the past year or so and they do, I mean, again, they showcase that there's a huge range of case studies on Drupal.org showing all of the amazing things that Drupal can do. So, our case studies really don't all fit into a certain type or certain box. We want to know about everything. And that's just a pretty picture of all the case studies, I love them. So, next step, writing beyond the guidelines or how to make life easier for everybody. So, the guidelines live at Drupal.org slash case studies slash guidelines. I know that's really difficult to remember but that's where you'll find them. And this is just a copied version of the guidelines. They're not very long, they're not very difficult. If you write to the guidelines, it'll be amazing. So, we're gonna break it down a little bit. You can come in, I'm always scaring them away. So, step one, describe the organizational or client goals the project met or exceeded. So, here is where you need to be specific. Set the scene, tell us what was wrong? What needed fixing? What were the pain points? Why did the client need a new site? Who was going to use it? Who was the audience that was going to visit this site? How was the audience going to use the site or how was the client going to use the site? So, when I look at these case studies, in this section, people reading it should be able to recognize themselves. Either if they're an agency looking for inspiration, they should be able to recognize themselves building sites for their clients or if they're a Drupal evaluator, they should be able to say, oh, you know what, we have that problem. This is something that we struggle with. I need to read this case study. This is gonna tell me how to fix the thing. So, describe. Next, explain your approach. Describe why you chose Drupal instead of other options. That may include why the modules you chose were the best fit for your project, why you used a custom theme, and so on. So, did you do any user research? Maybe, maybe not. If so, why, if not, why not? Again, were there specific pain points that Drupal itself addressed? For example, maybe Drupal out of the box had this one thing that you really needed and you knew it would save you a lot of time to use it, so you did. Tell us about Drupal as a solution. I so often see in this process people say, well, we went with Drupal because we already knew how to use it and we work in Drupal and that was why. That's not good enough, guys. We wanna know why Drupal was a good fit for this site. Why did you take this client? And you might have to be a little bit of creative with your answer, but tell us about Drupal as a solution. Write about the project's timeline and milestones. Now, this guideline is a little bit more negotiable, but this is something that we do really like to see. How did you split up the work? What methodology did you use to split up the work? Did you do Agile, did you do waterfall? Tell us everything. Were there deliverables that you needed immediately or was there something that you knew would take a long time to develop? And if so, how did you make sure that you developed and delivered everything on time? Tell us about your process. Also, share any challenges and how you resolved them. So this is your space to brag about how smart you are. Show off how ingenious your employees are or your developers are or how you personally are just super brilliant and show off the elegance of Drupal as a solution. So if you came up with any clever workarounds or did something really amazing, show off here. This is also the most important part of your case study. So really, tell us about what the challenges were, how you resolved them and be detailed about it and use good grammar. So another very important part of your case study is to include clear technical details, tips and tricks so others can learn from your work. So as it says on the slide, don't tell us what you fixed. Tell us how you fixed the thing. So this is the point in the case study where you'll lose anybody who doesn't have any technical knowledge, but that's okay because again, these are showcasing Drupal as a solution. So inspire other Drupalers, show off how great you are. I'm not asking you to include any proprietary information. That's totally fine. There are sensitive things, but this comes back to what we were saying earlier about how there is always something in every single case study that's fascinating or beautiful or really, really clever. And this is where you show that off. Also, don't just tell us that having this Drupal site was a really good result for the client. Show us, give us data, give us metrics. This may include more traffic, that there were better load times or more conversions, lower bounce rates, whatever. So this is the did it work section. Did what you do work? How well did it work? Why did it work? We already know that. Just give us the results. And this is also like, this can be soft metrics, not just numbers, but our client was really happy. Their content editors had a much easier time using the site, uploading things. It's super pretty and we really like it and everybody's really happy. So show that you did a good job. So if you do all of these things that I have told you to do, you will have produced a process or record of research which detailed consideration is given to the development of a Drupal website over a period of time, or a particular instance of something used or analyzed in order to illustrate the value of the Drupal CMS. Look, we did it. We made it to the dictionary definition again. How exciting. So if you manage to nail the dictionary definition of case study, I will give you a high five and a plus one in the issue queue. And you'll be promoted to the front page and everybody will be super happy and there will be a dance party. So as you can see, it is a long process to get into the featured section. It can take a lot of time. There's a lot of work. So how can you make it easier? How can you make a difference? You can get involved. You're all experts now. You sat through my session. You can be like BB-8 and stick your thumbs up and give things plus once. So everybody in this room has the ability to weigh in and provide feedback. Each of you has specific knowledge that is really helpful and you can provide insight, unique insight that I can't provide. So please consider getting involved in the case study issue queue. Also, when you comment in the queues, you can credit your employer, which makes them look good and then you look good and everybody looks good and everybody's happy. Also, from a community contribution standpoint, the more people that we have weighing in in the issue queues, the quicker authors receive their feedback, which means that then they can turn around and follow the feedback and then mark the issue as needs review and then I can get to it because the more quickly the community weighs in, the quicker I weigh in. Like I said earlier, I work on many things, including DrupalCon and it is easy for me to get completely sidetracked. So if I see that the community is really like pushing on a case study, I'll go and check it out. And also, if you don't have lots of technical knowledge, this is a really, really good way to get involved and to make contributions because I am not a developer, I think I know what a block is maybe, but I can read a case study and I can say, okay, I don't know like what these words mean but I'm really interested and I can tell that you did something cool, so tell me more about these words. So if you want to get involved in the case study issue queue, please go to Drupal.org slash project slash issues slash content, you will be able to sort to the case study type. Also, if you think that somebody in the community has been amazing, you can also create an issue in the content queue for community spotlights, which I'll follow up on. And if you want to make your own case study, you can go to Drupal.org slash case studies. And I hope to see you all in the queues. Any questions? How many featured case studies do I publish in a week or a month? Always bump to featured on Monday morning, central time, so that people start off their work week on the front page of Drupal.org. There's some months where I promote one every single week and then there are stretches of time where I don't promote anything. It really depends. I've noticed that the case studies tend to come in like in random floods, like there'll be nothing in the queue for three months and then all of a sudden I get six. So, and then of those six, maybe two will fall off into the abyss of closed won't fix. So it really just depends. And again, this is also an opportunity for the community to get involved and increase the volume of case studies being published. No, it's just an unlimited stack, but they all get pushed down. So the top three, the most three recent case studies to be pushed to featured live on the bottom of the front page of Drupal.org. And then there's also a carousel slider at the top of the featured showcase.  So, and then eventually they get pushed to the second page and there's a period of mourning. Oh no, we love to get sites that were previously built on Drupal and either people had a bad experience and needed to be reconvenced or they really loved Drupal. Like that's a really nice thing to have in your, like why we went with Drupal section you say, well the client already used Drupal and they really loved it. It's like yes, good marketing. So yes, any, as long as it is a Drupal site, because sometimes we do get case studies that people want to promote to featured that are built with like WordPress. It's Drupal.org guys. So, no it's, as long as the site is still running Drupal, you can write a case study on it. We do have a showcase for sites that are Drupal 8. And especially like Drupal 8 early adapters, early adopters, this is not Darwinism. Yeah, if you have an early adopter in your back pocket, definitely write that case study. But yeah, as long as the site is still running Drupal, you are welcome to write about it. More questions? You write very well, I would not hate it at all. I don't hate it when anybody writes case studies, I just get really sad when they don't know how to English. More questions, there's plenty of time. Tatiana wants to ask something. You made eye contact. You have to ask a question. Do I have a favorite case study that I always send people to as an example? No, I have a collection of favorites. So, when I give people example case studies to go look at, it's generally not because I'm really attached to this one case study. Oh, I do have a favorite though. I will point people to examples that I think are relevant to what I see they're trying to do but maybe you're having difficulty executing in terms of demonstrating the value of what they've done. So, but my favorite case study is the Forest Park map. It's currently about halfway down the front page of the featured showcase, it's really cool. I just think that the, like they had this, they built this interactive map with Drupal and you can use it on mobile and you can like walk around this park in St. Louis and interact with the map via your phone and I just, it's a really cool case study, it's a really cool product and reading the case study, even though it was all about the capabilities of Drupal, I was like, I think I might need to go to St. Louis and see this park. So, more questions? Okay, everybody's looking at their phone, so I'm gonna assume no. Yeah, you're a good listener. You win the session, you get a high five. So, thank you all for coming out and listening to me ramble today. I really hope that you learned something useful and I appreciate you all being here. This is my first DrupalCon session, so super exciting. If you have any questions, you can find me in the issue queue, you can find me on Drupal.org, you can tweet at Drupal association and I will get back with you almost immediately. So, thank you. And please evaluate the session so I know how I did. And please be nice. Oh, there's a link, there's a link right there. And I'm gonna make sure that the slides get uploaded to the session page as well. So, you can find them from there.


Zodway responds to calls for her to tone down her reality show. Zodway waybanned to maybe the talk of Mzansi after the premiere of her reality show at the weekend, but not everyone was impressed by it. Zodway's show has been trending pretty much ever since it aired on Saturday night, with fans sharing what they thought of the show on social media. And while many applauded the star for being so real and showing her life, warts, and all, one fan took to Zodway's Instagram page to raise her concerns about the lessons it was teaching the youth. She called on Zodway to tone it down a little. I love Zodway, but I feel like the show is too raw, especially because we have children that follow and watch Zodway. I feel like all she's doing is promoting Yubu and I can't stand the vulgar as well. But I mean, I respect her and her hustle, but couldn't it have been toned down a bit, the fan wrote. Zodway has always been down with the people and quickly responded to the complaint, claiming that life won't tone down. Life won't tone it down for them kids. It will teach them how its real NF asterisk eat up as it is. Everything I talk about is happening in this real life, not what you think is right or wrong, Zodway added. The fan said she respected Zodway's view, but felt there was no need to be so blunt when she was seen as a role model. Zodway's army of fans soon started debating the objection, but the star did not engage further, only sending a series of hearts to the fan.


received 48 comments on my previous video 17 comments were so idiotic that I deleted them and blocked the commenters my channel is a stupid free zone 31 of the comments however displayed signs of outstanding intelligence all 31 analyzed my new haircut indeed the main topic the crux the gist the core of the previous video that I've made was my haircut my hairline whether it makes me look younger or God forbid older clearly this was what I was trying to convey and communicate congratulations I thought the overwhelming vast majority of YouTube viewers and users are it and I was proving wrong I was proven wrong I was utterly proven wrong your comments show that you are capable of digesting what I'm saying assimilating it integrating it with your previous considerable erudition indeed I have never been subjected to deeper more profound scrutiny and my hair definitely never so since this is the case please pay attention this is my new haircut with gel edit and I'm awaiting the tsunami and avalanche of inane comments about this the second much more marginal topic of today's video is the difference between the borderlines shared fantasy and the narcissist share fantasy borderlines and narcissists have a lot in common as Otto Kernberg one of my predecessors who was older than me is older than me if it's if it's at all possible Otto Kernberg was the first to note the affinities between borderlines and narcissists and he suggested very wisely in my view that narcissists and borderlines are two facets of the same coin cross time another psychoanalyst also connected borderline to narcissism and I think borderlines narcissists all personality disorders are actually a single clinical entity but enough of that borderlines share with narcissists many features many traits and many behaviors for example borderlines and narcissists are grandiose another example borderlines have a false self exactly like the narcissist both in both these disorders there is a self that is concocted in early childhood early traumatic and abusive childhood in order to fulfill certain psychological functions to cater to certain psychological needs in the case of the narcissist these are the ego boundary functions in the case of the borderline these are the regulatory functions in other words the borderlines for self is intended to assist her in recruiting external regulators of her internal states recruiting people to regulate her internal states regulate her moods regulate her effects emotions etc etc the narcissist the sole aim of the false self is to elicit and extract narcissistic supply from potential sources of supply some of them known euphemistically as intimate partners I call them insignificant others another thing is that both borderlines and narcissists create a shared fantasy they come across a potential intimate partner they attempt endeavor very forcefully to create a space where the two parties can disengage from reality to some extent and leave or pursue a magical life we'll come to it in a minute so both borderlines and narcissists have shared fantasies but there is a serious clinical difference between the shared fantasy of the borderline the shared fantasy of the narcissist the start by saying that narcissists are capable of attachment bonding and emotions I refer you to some of my videos which deal with the narcissist emotions and so on so forth narcissists are not capable to love to attach and to bond to other people to human beings because they are not capable of perceiving other people as separate from them or because they convert other people into maternal figures which are very traumatic so this you don't attach and you don't bond with a traumatic figure and you don't love a traumatic figure you do everything you can to manage the trauma and separate from the maternal maternal or traumatizing figure so narcissists are incapable of loving attaching and bonding with people but they're perfectly capable of getting attached bonding with and even loving in other words affecting investing emotional energy in inanimate objects for example books in my case I love books I'm attached to books I bond with books I mourn and grieve when I lose books or when they get defaced when I cannot obtain a book I yearn and long and pine for the book until it arrives or doesn't similarly narcissists are capable of attaching to and bonding with human bodies narcissists actually in the sexual acts somatic narcissists more generally cerebral narcissists when they transition to a somatic phase they tend to get attached to specific human bodies now intimate partners of narcissists usually mistake this attachment and think that it is a kind of love or a kind of bonding but it's actually an attachment to something the narcissist perceives as inanimate a human body narcissists objectify the human body and so for them it's indistinguishable from books for example narcissists therefore are capable of attaching to objects and to functions you remember the four s's the four s's sex supply sadistic or narcissistic services and safety narcissists get attached to these functions anyone who provides a narcissist with two or three of these four s's becomes an intimate partner because the narcissist gets bonded to and invested emotionally in what he gets from this from the intimate partner in other words the narcissist never loves the intimate partner never gets attached to the intimate partner never bonds with the intimate partner he loves he gets attached to he bonds with is emotionally invested in what he is getting from the partner be it sex be it services be it safety or be it supply narcissistic or sadistic so to summarize this first point narcissists are capable of attaching to inanimate objects or to objects which they can render in animate such as human bodies similarly narcissists get attached to functions to what they receive from other people especially from intimate partners border lines are not the same border lines get attached to regulated states the core of border line the core problem in borderline is emotional dysregulation borderline is unable to control her emotions and also her mood she's lebi and she's in a constant state of loss of control and this is known as dysregulation she's overwhelmed by her emotions she drowns in her emotions she very often becomes suicidal it's the only way to avoid the tsunami of emotions that threaten to submerge her and so the borderline the borderline's main preoccupation is with the need to regulate her internal state her internal landscape she needs help she needs someone out there who would be willing and able and capable of helping her to regulate her moods her emotions her cognitions her effect and her behaviors so the borderline does attach and does bond and does emotionally invest in and does love what a regulated state not the regulator it's another common mistake even in the literature borderlines love their intimate partners borderlines get attached and bond with their intimate partners the emotionally invest in their intimate partners because the intimate partners guarantee regulation in this sense the borderlines are indistinguishable from the narcissist the narcissists are interested in the four s's sex supply safety services the borderline is interested in the one our regulation it is what the it is what the narcissist is getting from his intimate partner that bonds him or binds him to the intimate partner similarly it's what the borderline is getting from her intimate partner that attaches her to this intimate partner of course when you ask a narcissist or a borderline are you feeling anything they would say yes I love my intimate partner they mislabel now have a whole video dedicated to how the borderline mislabels her emotions both narcissists and borderlines tend to mislabel emotions and even cognitions so when when they try to make sense of what's happening to them they would tend to use the wrong labels when the borderlines tries to make make sense of why is she so dependent on her intimate partner she doesn't realize that she's dependent on her intimate partner because he offers regulatory services he helps her to regulate her moods and emotions she doesn't realize this she says I love him when the narcissist is trying to make sense of his attachment to his intimate partner in a shared fantasy he doesn't realize that he's attached to her because she gives him sex or services or supply and if he is aware of it he would tend to minimize it because he doesn't need anyone he's of sufficient he's godlike instead he would say I love her but of course I love her because she's perfect he loves the idealized image of her so there is a mislabeling of misplacement or displacement of the locus of catexes the locus of emotional investment the shared fantasy serves a crucial role in the lives of narcissists and borderlines I've dedicated at the very least 10 videos that's 10 hours to the issue or the concept of shared fantasy in the narcissist psychodynamics and I for those of you who are interested to know why does the narcissist need a shared fantasy what does he do within a shared fantasy how does he exit a shared fantasy how does he enter a shared fantasy what's your role as an intimate partner in a shared fantasy etc etc the only thing I can tell you is go and search for these keywords shared fantasy on my channel and find the 10 videos that I've made on this topic you can search a channel by clicking on the magnifying glass if you are using a laptop those those of you old enough to lose a lot a laptop and if you're using a smartphone like the majority of the population then there's a down arrow you click on it and there is a menu and you choose search be sure to choose search and you can search the channel so this is the narcissist shared fantasy I discussed it discussed it at length I will touch upon it now just in order to make the contradistinction to the borderlines shared fantasy the borderline shared fantasy is the mirror image of the narcissist shared fantasy and this fact explains why narcissists and borderlines are drawn to each other like two magnets why they can't let go of each other why they find each other in a crowd why they form diets my good friend and colleague John Lachkar was the first to describe this phenomenon in the early 1980s in her masterpiece narcissistic borderline couples indeed there is a preponderance there's an overabundance of borderline narcissistic couples way over and above the the statistical average in the general population in other words there's a statistical significance when we study who would the narcissists tend to bond with we very often find that is a borderline why is that because of the shared fantasy the narcissist shared fantasy is the mirror image the complement the other side of the coin of the borderline shared fantasy it's like key and a lock like a substrate and a reagent it's the perfect match not between the narcissists and borderline but between the shared fantasy of the narcissists and the shared fantasy of the borderline the narcissists and the borderline can actually be incompatible they can be they can be enemies they can be fighting all the time they can hate each other's guts they can harm and hurt each other constantly they can be aggressive with each other violent and act out and do horrible things to each other but they can't let go of each other and they can't let go because their shared fantasies the shared fantasy of the narcissists and the shared fantasy of borderline create a chemical reaction they become a single molecule is like a hydrogen and oxygen become water and that's the end of it more or less same with narcissism borderline and the function the main function of the shared fantasy of the narcissist is to engulf to subsume to consume to digest to immerse to assimilate an intimate partner main main function of the narcissist shared fantasy is to get the intimate partner to become addicted to what the narcissist has to offer which is perfect mothership plus plus the whole of mirrors the ability to reflect to the partner an idealized version of the partner the partner falls in love with this idealized version of herself and so she becomes addicted to it she becomes addicted to the intensity and depth of this self love newly discovered self love and she can't let go of the narcissist and that is the main function of the shared fantasy to create him to create a magical kingdom where both parties can replay their traumas in a way that provides resolution to both of them the narcissist is able to separate from his intimate partner in this way reenacting the original conflict with his mother origin with his birth mother and the intimate partner is able to love herself finally she's a co-dependent if it's a borderline it's the first time that she experiences real self-love to the idealized image through the narcissist gaze both parties both parties get a lot out of the narcissist shared fantasy the narcissist gets to replay his childhood he gets a second chance at going through the phases of his childhood and this time with hopefully a healthy resolution or so he believes the intimate partner of the narcissist gets a chance to love herself to love herself as a mother would love her as a mother would see her a bit idealized and a bit unconditional so this is the narcissist shared fantasy it's about engulfing the borderlines shared fantasy is about being engulfed in other words what the narcissist offers the borderline seeks she wants to be engulfed she wants actually to disappear and vanish it's not a surprise that 11% of people with borderline personality disorder commit suicide because the main drive and the main thrust in the borderline's existence is to not exist she pursues absence and emptiness actively the narcissist also has an empty schizoid core but the narcissist is trying to ignore this core of emptiness he's trying to suppress the void and the black hole by pretending to be something else that's the grandiosity defense the narcissist puts on a facade of perfection and brilliance and superiority because he is trying to hide the fact that there's nobody home that is it's an old devouring black hole the borderline doesn't do this she doesn't put a facade she doesn't pretend to be someone she's not what the borderline does she pursues the emptiness in her she tries to merge with the black hole that she had become owing to childhood abuse and trauma she seeks death she has a death wish she wants to be annihilated but of course it's terrifying to seek your own destruction contemplating suicide can be soothing up to the point where you have to carry it out when it becomes terrifying so rather than commit suicide physically she chooses to commit suicide mentally via the agency of the narcissist via the agency of her intimate partner she tells the intimate partner I want to die I want to not be I want to never exist again and I want you to help me with this and the way you can help me with this is by taking over my mind the way you can help me with this is by suspending me deactivating me disabling me in taking over all my functions the borderline approaches her intimate partner in the borderline shared fantasy with a proposition I will be all yours I will be your slave but in return you have to regulate my moods you have to control my emotions you have to help me to survive and you have to be here 60 second a minute 60 minutes an hour 24 hours a day 366 days a year that's the borderlines proposed contract with her intimate partner so while the narcissist creates a shared fantasy in which he can trap and gulf consume and convert his intimate partner into a maternal figure etc the borderline creates a shared fantasy into which she invites an intimate partner on the condition that he agrees to take over her mind and her life he doesn't become the center of her life he doesn't become the pivot he doesn't he becomes her she disappears and reappears in him it's a process of merger infusion which happens also to some extent with co-dependence so when the narcissist and the borderline come together there's nothing the narcissist wants to do more than take over his partner then make her disappear because this alays this reduces his abandonment anxiety so he wants to engulf the partner he wants to get enmeshed with the part he wants to subsume and consume the part he wants to render the part convert her into an extension of himself and there's nothing the borderline wants more than this it's exactly what the borderline wants she wants to disappear in the narcissist she wants to become another organ a third arm a third leg she wants she wants to become merge with him infuse with him and become one a single organism with perhaps two heads of course she's terrified of this process because this is mental suicide so there's a lot of approach avoidance the borderline approaches the intimate partner with this offer and when the intimate partner agrees and takes over the borderline the borderline runs away she's terrified because she feels that she's disappearing she's vanishing into him into the intimate partner but then she returns she returns and she runs away and she runs away and she returns that's the famous approach avoidance repetition compulsion I hate you don't leave me so the narcissist shared fantasy has four phases and is very stable it starts with idealization and love bombing continues into devaluation then discard and then replacement mentally by the way discard precedes devaluation as I have explained in previous videos but these are the phases and they are rigid they follow each other in ineluctably in inevitably they there's no change in this pattern in this algorithm it's like artificial intelligence a follows b follows c follows d end of story with the borderline the shared fantasy is a lot more chaotic the narcissist shared fantasy is rigid the borderline shared fantasy is amorphous ephemeral approach avoidant unpredictable labile dysregulated crazy making why because the borderline is like this the shared fantasies reflect reflect of course the initiators of the shared fantasy the narcissist narcissism pathological narcissism is about rigidity it's a constriction it's even mentioned in the diagnostic and statistical manual a rigid pattern the borderlines disorder is chaos it's a big bang it's an explosion borderline is all over the place and nowhere so her shared fantasy would reflect this but both shared fantasies both of them are founded on consist over the dual mothership concept the narcissist offers the borderline the unconditional love acceptance and idealization that her mother should have offered her and in all probability did not he offers her this because it allows her to love herself through his gaze he he looks at her he sees her as a surrogate mother the borderline constitutes herself on the fly through his gaze she looks in his eyes she sees the unconditional love as she interprets it and she feels safe she feels seen she feels that she exists and that reduces her internal emotional dysregulation and mood liability so the narcissist acts as a maternal figure allows the borderline to use his gaze to love herself as an idealized version in an idealized version and that that causes her dysregulation and mobility to diminish which is exactly what she had in mind that was the goal of the shared fantasy on the other hand the borderline acts as the narcissist maternal figure the original mother of the narcissist was exactly like his borderline intimate partner she was absent she was selfish she was grandiose she was she instrumentalized him she parentified him so the borderline is a perfect imitation a perfect simulation a perfect stand-in for the narcissist original mother so the borderline plays this maternal role and makes it easier for the narcissist to devalue her and then to discard her and this way separate from her and hope to individuate later on he fails because of introject constancy watch my previous video but the borderline is his best chance at separation individuation you're beginning to understand why the borderline narcissist bond is unbreakable extremely powerful resilient and irresponsive to outside stimuli and and so come to the very information and so because they are each other's best chance the narcissist is the borderline's best chance at gaining control over her chaotic self the narcissist gays his idealization of her allow her to love herself in this way to reduce her emotional dysregulation and liability and she can't get this anywhere else only from the narcissist because only the narcissist will idealize only only narcissists idealized similarly the narcissist sees in the borderline a replica a clone of his original mother of his mother of origin so it's his best chance by far to separate in a way that would feel authentic that would feel true and real it's like separating really from real mother so he clings to the borderline as a maternal figure and then he devalues her harshly and discards her truly it's the only way to prove to himself that he has truly separated from her approach avoidance in the case of the borderline versus separation devaluation and discard in the case of the narcissist of course the borderline is terrified of all these dynamics somewhere in her she realizes that she is being sacrificed like Isaac you know like Isaac almost has been by Abra she's being sacrificed to the false self the false self is godlike it's a deity and the borderline is the sacrificial lamb she understands this she understands that the narcissist is like acid it dissolves he dissolves her she descent she's disintegrated the narcissist takes over her abscondes with her internal functions the narcissist controls her moods tells her how to feel with a single word he can he can cause her elation in euphoria and with another word he can drive her down to the pits and the bottoms of despair he has in all narcissists or her intimate partner actually even if he's not narcissistic has an inordinate power over the borderline so in her shared fantasy the now the borderline feels very uncomfortable her shared fantasy is ego-dystonic the narcissist shared fantasy is ego-syntonic the narcissist shared fantasy enhances his grandiosity and gives him hope to complete the separation individuation with his mother as far as the narcissist is concerned the shared fantasy his shared fantasy is the best thing since sliced bread or since some vaknis videos as far as the borderline is concerned the shared fantasy is a threat it's a menacing ominous space within which she can let go she can regulate herself but at what a cost at a cost of disappearing and vanishing the intimate partner in the borderline shared fantasy is someone who is out to consume her utterly and totally so she develops engulfment anxiety and she runs away this never happens with the narcissist he doesn't feel the need to run away he feels the need to discard he feels the need to separate and both narcissism and borderlines hover they both hover but they hover for different reasons if you watch yesterday's video those of you who are seriously self-loathing and self-destructive so if you watch yesterday's videos a video it's about introject constancy versus object constancy the narcissist has something that I call introject constancy he cannot get rid of the introjects in his mind he can he does he he doesn't dare to eliminate or eradicate or erase or delete the his internal objects his avatar the avatar is in his in his in his internal space the snapshots of previous lovers he doesn't dare to get rid of any of this he hoards these things and the reason is that if he were to try to get rid of these introjects he would develop enormous abandonment anxiety the borderline has object in constancy object constancy or inconstancy not introject constancy the borderline gets attached to real people she perceives her intimate partner as a full-fledged human being the borderline has empathy and she has access to positive emotions is distinct in opposed to the narcissist so the narcissist interacts with representations of other people in his mind he never interacts with other people he interacts with their symbols their images their icons their avatars in his mind the internal objects in his mind that stand in for external objects so his intimate partner is out there it's an external object the narcissist never interacts with her he interacts with her representation in his mind he interacts with the internal object in his mind that symbolizes his intimate partner symbolizes this external object not so the borderline the borderline really perceives her intimate partner as separate from her as a three-dimensional human being with needs and hopes and beliefs and so on in this sense the borderline is much healthier actually than the narcissist narcissist is much closer to psychosis on a daily basis the borderline can end up being psychotic under stress or rejection or humiliation the narcissist is psychotic every minute of the day he's psychotic because he cannot tell the difference between external and internal objects so the narcissist is emotionally attached to the internal objects in his mind and he cannot get rid of any one of them because getting rid of any one of them would create in him enormous abandonment anxiety separation insecurity the borderline cannot get rid of real people in her life because she has object in constancy or object constancy so she cannot get rid of real people the narcissist hovers you because he wants to match you with internal object he wants to kind of close the books here you are an external object here here you are in his mind as an internal object that reduces his anxiety case closed is not abandoned the borderline will hoover you because she really wants you she misses you or she misses your regulatory functions she misses what you can do for her that's much more accurate she misses the fact that you can regulate her internal world her internal space so these are the differences between the shared fantasy of the narcissist the shared fantasy of the borderline if you have any questions about my hair of course forget the rest the rest of this video is utterly irrelevant my hair is the issue so if you have any questions about my hair I'd be delighted to respond in great anatomical detail but it's not for the squeamish I warn you there are things about my hair that you really really don't want to know