This is literally my favorite song right now. Right now I might as well just show you guys what I just got in the mail yesterday. This is my one year appearance, you know? Me and Charlotte are going to take our roommate picture. Hey guys, happy September 22nd. Today is a Friday and we are going to this little boutique called Fine Fashion and then we're going to go to this really super cool like target we just found like in Soda which is like south downtown. Apparently that's the thing. I've never- Oh is that like an acronym for it? Yeah, Soda. We're going to get Laura an SD card first because she's vlogging today. I literally forgot my SD card.  Yeah, you're welcome. We're going to get her a good one today.  Hi guys, so we are at Fine Fashion and I'm with Drew. She brought me into the store today. I'm going to try some stuff on and maybe take some pictures for their Instagram.  This is the first item. It's like very, very chunky sweater. Like I love chunky stuff, it's so cute. I feel like my braid like goes well with it. It looks so good with it. It's an outfit. Maybe I like camouflage it a little bit. Barely. Those are cute. So this is the next item. It's like a little Hawaiian shirt type feel but like not really, it's like a lot cuter obviously. And the color looks good on you too. Love like just two pieces because it makes a whole outfit. You know, like you don't have to pick up like this over top and like what pants do I wear now? Like it's all like together. So look at this insane super target. Like it's literally crazy big and we're about to go in and have a little adventure. As they say, let's rage and target. On Twitter it was a tweet. Comment down below if you know what I'm talking about. This target is so cool and they have such nice home decor. I mean, target's always stepping it up, let's be honest. Where's that blanket? But that would shut like- Oh, that's not even like soft though. And that is cute. They look like super fake though. That's the only thing. So guys, I think I'm going to get a new camera. And I think I'm going to go with this one. Then it can be a mean girl's mom. No way. Well, okay. But then you need to get like literally three of them. Might as well, right? How does this do? Dude, this is 128 for 22. I'm going to get this. Oh my God. Wait, wait. That's not- That's 32. Wait, that's okay. But that's still not that bad. That's really good. Like usually they're really expensive. Wait, will this work though? Is this like the correct brand? Cause how do you know that's not work? Yeah, good question. Well, this is professional, so I trust this more, but. Why get a 32 when you can get a 64? For literally like less than 20. Get it? I'm poor right now. I'm so poor. You can not drink Starbucks for one day and get that. No. Do you or no? Do you know what Starbucks looks like? I usually get Luxaars. Like the professional one. I usually get this in like 64. Or Sandisk. I get that one too. This is literally my favorite song right now. So we decided to go to Winter Park. I'm going to go to Trader Joe's, get some flowers because you guys should see my flowers right now in my room and they are so dead. They're beyond dead. Like it's really sad. So I might brief plenish them and take some pictures over there and at Winter Park. So like I said, we decided to come to Trader Joe's but now it's pouring rain and we wanted to take pictures. So like we're like, should we go home? Like what is this? What do we do type thing? We're both so tired. Like we just want to like take a good nap. So I don't know. Maybe like we should look up what time it may be more. Probably doesn't even tell you it's raining. It's just mostly cloudy. Yeah. Weather ups, man, they always lie. We literally got pretty to take pictures. We can't. So I died down just a little bit so we're going to try to make it and not get soaked. Let's see how this goes. 10 seconds just running from Trader Joe's to here. And we're like soaked. We're like soaked too. So. Hey guys, so I'm back at my dorm and it literally took forever to get home. It was so annoying because first of all, we were tired already from like walking around in the sun and then it started getting rainy and that makes me even more tired. So I was like sitting at the driver's wheel literally wanting to like fall asleep. It was so bad and traffic was bad too. So it literally took us like close to an hour to get home from Winter Park, which was like usually like 20, 30 minutes and that sucks. So now I just want to get in bed and watch YouTube videos and maybe like fall asleep because I'm just like not really in the mood to do much. Like I have like a lot of homework to do actually, but I might just do it tomorrow because I don't have anything going on tomorrow. So I don't know if anything's going to be super entertaining from here on out, but I will keep you updated if anything does happen. And we're at Fujiyama. This is Lexi. We got two fish rolls and fried rice because they're bad-asses. Oh yeah. So excited. We got our sushi. Good morning guys, it is September 23rd and I'm about to put on some makeup for the day. I just moisturized and I kind of like reorganized like all my makeup because this makeup drawer was overflowing and it was just really like stressful every morning like that. I had to look at it. So I had to like reorganize a lot of stuff in my room, which is nice because when I moved in I just like threw like stuff everywhere and like it wasn't very organized. But today I have a lot, a lot of homework to do.  I don't really have anything else to do, I don't think. I do need to edit like videos like plural because I'm so behind, but school does come first. So crazy. So now you can record Snapchat and FaceTime and anything. We are going to brunch at FirstWatch, not shocking. We were gonna pick Kiki's over FirstWatch today, apparently. Oh, I was like, I'm driving FirstWatch. I know, we just said I'm FirstWatch. I wanna try breakfast club one day. Oh, where is that? Breakfast club, yeah. Breakfast club is like, it's really unhealthy. No, we don't. It's really unhealthy. Sometimes it takes forever to like get a spot because it's so slow. Oh yeah, it doesn't use the app. So I'm back at home.  I cleared my desk and so that always makes me feel more productive. I think we're actually gonna go to the library and like do some homework, which is gonna just get out of my room because like my bed literally always calls my name. When I'm at my desk sitting and doing homework, I just wanna crawl up in bed and sleep. And these past like few weeks, I've been needing sleep so much more than I ever have. It's so weird. And I think the main reason is that I have a really comfy mattress pad. Might be it, might not be, but I love my bed. So I always wanna like cuddle and sleep and just like watch YouTube videos. But today we have to be productive. So I'm currently waiting for my friends to get back to the house. I think they just like needed to go get their laptops and their books and stuff like that. Right now might as well just show you guys what I just got in the mail yesterday. I kind of like opened everything up, but like I didn't really like look at everything super well. So it's gonna be a little PR unboxing. I think it's just like a lot of care stuff. So this is from the brand Bossly. I think that's how you pronounce it. This one is the volumizing conditioner. And it literally like I swear to God, sometimes these PR packages are so in point because like it's literally what I need. I'm running out of shampoo and conditioner. So here we go. I just got layers. I think I told you guys this, but I did just get layers and I cut my hair a little shorter. And I think like my new favorite thing is just having a lot, a lot of volume. Especially like when I curl my hair, I love having like right here, just be super volumized. So I'm gonna try that out in my next shower. Next thing is again from Bossly. This is the volumizing dry shampoo. This brand I did an unboxing for Lanza and like I think this summer or something like that. And that's the shampoo and conditioner I currently use and like the hairspray I currently use. And so I asked for some more of like this brand because I love this stuff. It's the keratin healing oil like line that they have. And I just think it's so great because like I have shiny hair already, but I just want it to be like glowing for a mile away. So I don't know, I just like really enjoy like anything that has keratin in it. This one is Bossly's volumizing styling hairspray. I used to never use hairspray on my hair because back in Georgia my curls held really well, but now in Florida with all the humidity, it's so hard for my hair to hold. So I just started using hairspray. This one is Bossly volumizing and thickening styling mousse. So this is the thing I'm most excited about. This is again from Lanza and again from their keratin healing oil line. So this is basically just like a hair treatment. It says like an ultra healing blend of keratin protein and photo IV complex combined to leave hair incredibly soft and smooth with a healthy radiant shine. That is literally what I love. I think it's just basically like an argan oil and you can put it in your hair, damp or dry. Mine's kind of like both honestly. Took a shower this morning and it's still kind of like wet in some areas. So that was it from that PR company, but Locustan actually sent me some more goodies and I wanted to share it with you guys. They sent these like last week. So I've been getting the chance to like actually play with them. This is the Body Ultra Rich Cream.  Like it's insane and it's super, super thick. And like you guys know, I do have dry skin. So this is so nice because I'll just like put it on my knees or like my elbows and arms because you know girls with color do get like a little bit ashy sometimes. So that really helps with that. And then this is another product they sent me. It's the Dry Skin Hand Cream and I've always been super jealous of people that have like baby soft like hands. So I wanted to try this out. And my thing is like, I don't, I kind of forget to like put it on a lot and I have this problem where I like pick like all my cuticles on stuff on my nails. But when I do put it on, it definitely makes a difference. I'm kind of surprised my friends haven't texted me yet. I feel like they should be done by now. We're walking to the library. This is my one year appearance, you know? So gotta be statless. I managed to get a study room, which is really cool. Apparently you have to like reserve it, right? Normally, but we got it unlocked.  Look who came to join us. She bought our computer at 25% without a charger. I didn't think the charger was working. I finished two assignments and so many more to go. So I'm about to take an Instagram picture. But I literally don't know how to like lay things out. Like I'm like, I can only see it behind the camera. So I'm struggling right now. This is what we got so far. And me and Charlotte are gonna take our like roommate picture because we haven't done that yet. And I wanna film my room tour like tomorrow. So it could possibly be a thumbnail. So we're like trying to make our beds all nice and stuff like that. There, hey Charlotte, go in there. I just painted my nails and that wasn't really smart because now I have to pee and I'm really, really hungry. So I don't know why I did that. It literally took so much longer than I expected because I kept messing up. But I think they look really good. This is the nail color Tusk from Urban Outfitters. I love this color and I love Urban Outfitters nail polishes. And they're always super cheap, like always on sale. You got Megan on the cam. She's a professional now. I'm waiting for my close up. Really on edge, these past few months and I think it might be with you. What does that mean? I think cause you're always on edge it makes me want to go on edge. Wait, you're hitting backwards. Okay. You think. Director Charlotte over here. Oh my God. What? You can see my face being like this. I kind of like the curtain. I kind of want the curtain.  And I hope you guys like it cause we spent so much time on it. Like literally. And so much money, which was not fun. It's okay. I hope you don't go out. So we're about to go out. We're supporting our sister. She's running for a sweetheart competition. So we're just going to go and support her. It's going to be fun. I don't think we'll be like out too late but I'm super hungry. I've been craving chips and salsa for like ever like since yesterday but I just like kind of kept forgetting to eat it. But I got this from Trader Joe's and it's island salsa, chunky salsa with mango, pineapple and red jalapeno peppers. It's so, so, so good. And I eat it with like the blue corn chip things I think. So I think I'm going to eat this before I go out. Twinning for the night. Oh, you've got. But we are going to go out. So I'm going to end the vlog here and I hope you guys enjoyed watching. Bye. Oh.


Hi it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. This particular channel today I want to connect with Freddie Mercury in The Afterlife, a good friend of yours and mine. So I'm going to ask Freddie to come on in. All right. Oh it's so good to see you. It's been so long, not really, but it feels like it. So come on in and have a seat. Oh such a dear. I feel like we're on a couch or something almost. I feel like you're right next to me. Can you move over here just a little bit with your energy so that I can actually look at you so I can kind of see the viewers? That'd be great. Again Freddie is here to chat with us. This is a special time of year. It is June when I'm recording this and June is Pride Month. So happy Pride Month to all of my friends and so I wanted to talk to you about that Freddie. Let's talk about this whole concept of Pride Month. I mean what do you think of that given the life that you had that you lived and how different the times are now since like the 80s and the 90s. It's now 2019 when I'm recording this. It's so different. What do you think about this whole concept of Pride Month? He says, well of course I think it's wonderful. I think it's wonderful of course and then he's smoking. People always ask me why does he smoke? How do spirits smoke? But you do. A lot of times when I see you, you always have a cigarette in your hand and he says yes and I try not to be rude. He says I try to be polite because I know you're not a non-smoker but I can't give you I can't give you lung cancer in the afterlife. He says when he's kind of pointing. When he winks when he says lung cancer he winks. We know what that's a reference to. All right. He says you know it shouldn't have to be this way. It shouldn't have to be this way. There shouldn't have to be just a month where you celebrate the freedom of love and expression and who you are. He says it shouldn't have to be like that at all. There shouldn't have to be anything special or unique but he says I recognize that there's a lot that has to be done to help other people in the world throughout the world understand what they don't understand and unfortunately he says unfortunately there's a long way to go with that. That if you're not in a relationship where you love someone that is like you that is the same gender or or have someone in your family or your friend group or your friend circle who has come out as either gay, bisexual, transgendered, non-gendered etc. He says there's so many different variations of how to sort of describe what it is like to be a homosexual or a bisexual in society. He says Bridget I know you have a problem with this. Well you know well and the truth is Freddie I mean I do but I feel like I don't really have necessarily a say. I don't need to stand on the soapbox because I myself have not dealt with by a sort of discrimination because of my gender identification like I'm a woman I was born a woman and I am heterosexual and so I'm in a relationship with my husband I have a husband a man as my life partner but I'm very open about I understand gender fluidity and I understand that in spirit form gender is not there's no identification of gender there's actually an all inclusiveness there's both male and female within all of us and in fact all of our genders all of our gender is a term for the exterior of the body and the biology of the body but yet the energy of a person has both masculine and feminine and sometimes the masculine is dominant and sometimes the feminine is dominant regardless of the physical body manifestation of gender and so I understand that and I have a very strong perspective about that and so but but I also feel like the whole pride celebration stuff is wonderful because it's kind of but I also I can understand that it can be criticized too like Black History Month is in February and Pride Month is in June and Women's History Month is in you know that kind of thing it's like there shouldn't have to be separate times of the year to celebrate diversity unity love I mean it should just be naturally woven into our society but it's not and so that part of it it makes me feel kind of sad and yet at the same time I also want to celebrate the progress that has been made you know so are there I mean so what would you do if you are here now and there is Pride Month what would you do he says I have parties I would have parties he says parties we would have parties fabulous parties he says he says in which I would hand out condoms and such so that everyone would be safe that's what he says and so like okay and then such they would we would have party favors and that would be party favors so that everyone would be safe and healthy because that's important he says and you don't have to be homosexual you could be heterosexual or bisexual in order to be able to utilize that he says you need to everyone needs to be healthy that's the top priority is health he says healthy healthy healthy all right so I have a question for you Freddie what do you think about this or how do you explain from a spirit perspective not a human but a spirit perspective how do you explain like transgender this whole identification with male or female or you know people that have like go through change operations to change their anatomy and all that kind of stuff and hormone replacements and all that how do you explain that from a spiritual perspective because I think that'd be interesting especially for those who love Freddie Mercury on the afterlife well how would you explain that can you help can you help explain that he says it's sort of like harmonies really it's trying to find the right balance the right sequence of notes the right instruments that come together to create this perfect melody he says everyone's song is different every song is unique and the coming together of that or the the recognition of that is extremely important to the success so in these ways the same would go for gender so you could be a musician that specifically plays a certain style of music and yet incorporate a completely different how are you completely different genre it's kind of like he says it's kind of like being a rock and roll star and having to play in a purely focused polka band or a play in a bluegrass band and it's just not it's not your style you know like you're born into a rock and roll band mentality and then you have to play bluegrass but you really don't like that you don't resonate with that you don't it doesn't fit you or vice versa you're born as a rock and roll star and you have to adapt and adjust because you're only in a place that only plays bluegrass music so if you're going to want to function at all as a musician you have to play the bluegrass music and that's not your jam so both he says in both scenarios you have to identify he says you have to define you have to self-define self-declare he says so when you think of spirit you think of frequency and energy and the power of what it is that you really truly believe he says that's when you are able to allow the music to flow out of you allow yourself to be that rock and roll star no matter what environment you're in or to find a way to get access to the music that you want to play or the band this is not making any sense let's try this again he's trying to show me music music instruments and melodies and how some bands are this way some bands are that way and how you as a musician have to adapt to what is available for you to be part of or you have to move you have to make a conscious effort to leave that environment and go someplace else this is how he's trying to explain the concept of being transgender being born in one human gender body and identifying with a different gender that's what he's describing okay so well that makes sense that totally makes sense all right it's just hard he's like it's just hard to download it like for me it's hard for me to get all this information and try to sort it through and say it just like that was perfect he says perfect he says sometimes less is more rigid i'm like oh and you're the one ready that's telling me that he says not all the time darling not all the time and it's and the advice does not apply to me does not apply to everyone like i know oh you're so sweet all right can you come real close and let everyone feel your energy he says yes and he's bringing a cat and he's this time the cat is like a grayish kind of brown with little brown spots like tan spots on it he's putting it in front of the cat he says yes animals go to the afterlife pets do go to the afterlife pets do transition and yes just like your loved ones greet you in the on the other side he says when you leave your body and you're still attached to human identity so you of course you do see the first things that you see or experience are human forms which is representative of your loved ones he says and so of course pets are included in that of course my cats are with me of course they are of course they are and i want everyone to know that you will be reunited with your dear pets and your family and your dear friends in the afterlife that is the first thing that you will experience so do not be worried about that in any way you will not be alone i am not alone he says besides bridget is chatting with me all the time i am really not actually he says well you and everyone else there's others too that chat they like to talk with me so i keep quite busy well thank you very much thank you so much for being here and thank you as a viewer for watching i know you enjoy these chats with freddie mercury this was a channeling session with freddie mercury in the afterlife here at above life channel remember the purpose here is to inspire your spirit to fill you up with hope because this oh this is your life this is your life you are a gift now go live it just live thanks for watching


What is up 8% nation? Happy Thursday evening. I'm Cody Askins and I'm telling you what, when I say I have a special guest, I got a freaking special guest tonight. One of my favorite dudes in the world, Mr. Coach Michael Burt. Welcome buddy, appreciate you doing this. Absolutely. You're one of my favorite people in the world too man. I just admire what you're doing. I admire and respect the guts you have to put on conferences like this. I admire, I mean every day the commitment I've seen you take since you announced this has been very inspiring to people like me who are out there pushing the message and trying to help as many people as we can and it takes people like you for people like me to be able to take our message to the world. So thank you for that. I love it. Thank you coach. Appreciate the kind of words buddy. You know what, when we first met at GrowthCon 2 in Vegas, it was just something about you. I even went up to you after and asked a couple of questions. You were the most relatable speaker for me, period. Just absolutely incredible. We've slowly got to know each other over time, but I'm telling you what man, if you guys don't follow this man, you have to. He will over deliver. He's got a huge heart. He cares about people and he cares about growing businesses by 43%. So coach, for those that don't know you and coach is going to be speaking at the 8% Nation Insurance Wealth Conference at 3.50pm on Saturday. He's a keynote speaker. It's flying by to 14 days, 4 hours, 42 minutes and 29 seconds. It's crazy. For those that don't know you, kind of give, and I think a lot of people do, but give them a little quick synopsis on who you are man. Sure. I spent a decade of my life as a head women's basketball coach. I was actually the youngest head coach in the state of Tennessee at 22 years old at 25 years old. I began to 18 to 25. I was a deep disciple of Stephen Covey. So a whole person theory, deep character ethic, you know, first things first principle center leadership and I began to run my program that way. You taught every player the seven habits of how they affected people, the principles of the great five dysfunctions of teams. So you can imagine teaching the 14 to 18 year olds these things. We begin to win at a very high level and people begin to ask me, what are you doing with those kids, man? What are you doing? And I say, well, I don't have time to explain it because I'm trying to win championships, but I'll write it in a book. And I wrote my first book was called changing lives to coaching because I do believe, Cody, that a good coach can change your whole freaking life, man. So I wrote that book. And when I wrote that book, big time, people begin to call me and ask me to speak to their teams, speak to their people. These were big companies, Dell Incorporated, State Farm Insurance, National Healthcare, you know, and I began to go speak just as a hobby, really, because I was trying to win championships, right? And I like, I really enjoy working with adults, man. I'm watching that light bulb come on like the adults have potential just like kids do. So one book turned into two, now 13 books. And at 31 years old, after I won a championship, I retired from athletic coaching to do nothing but build a coaching business. And so for the last 11 years, I've built a multi-million dollar coaching business and I've got a big program called Monster Producer. It has about 700 people in that program that I am coaching on a monthly basis. And it's just incredibly rewarding and powerful. I was teaching tonight and teaching this morning to see 700 people who want to get better. And I have the privilege of coaching those people every week. Wow. I think it's growing, man. That's amazing. That's incredible. Yeah, it's growing. It started with six people. I don't even know if those first six people paid, you know. But I had a heart for coaching and I spent a decade learning how to inter-engineer people, the body, mind, heart, and spirit of a person and tap into the deepest parts of a person. And I think what you're feeling with me is I have a deep, deep conviction that the good coach can change your whole life. And we all need somebody who will have conversations with us. We may or may not want to have. Who will help us do some things we may or may not want to do, but really get us to a place we never thought we could get. My wife just wrote her first book. It came out the day. It's called Living with a Monster. Wow. You know, my wife came to one of my workshops many years ago and I tell people she fell in love with her potential and I fell in love with her. But to see my wife get, let me challenge and push her and to see her write her first book. And she didn't want to write the book, by the way. But I said, your desire to help people has got to overcome your desire for comfort. And I'm telling you, when you hold that in your hand, sweetheart, it's going to change the game for you. Your confidence is going to go to a new level. And after she wrote it, she's like, it wasn't that hard to write. You're an author, sweetheart. You know, she never thought of herself that way.  And you know, we got to push each other there. So I think that's critical. Yeah. Yeah. Now, okay, so say that again, though, because you said something that was super profound that really stood out to me right there, which was your... It was something to do with your... Your desire. Here's what I told my wife when she didn't want to write the book. Your desire to help people has got to overcome your desire to be comfortable. Okay. Your desire to... Like my desire to help people has got to overcome the inconvenience that it takes for me to go all over the world and be away from my family and do these things. My desire to help more people on planet Earth has got to supersede my desire for comfort in my life. And that's when I know I'm doing something big and it's part of legacy. It's part of meaning and it's part of contribution. I'm doing exactly what God wants me to do. I'm distributing my talents to the world. And the world's going to reward you when you distribute your talents to the world at a very high level. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. What was it when you were coaching 14, 18-year-old girls? What was it that really brought you to where you're giving them books, having them read, having them learn habits of highly successful people? Like that's super unique. Every time I hear that, I'm like, man, that's unbelievable. Well, I made a decision at 18. I was deeply influenced by a coach named Don Meyer. And he used to make his players bring notebooks. He made players take notes every day. And I was studying him. And I believe everybody needs that person that they're studying and they're watching and they're emulating. And I watched how he used sport as a distribution channel to teach life. And I said, when I become a head coach, I'm going to teach my players how to win at the game of life. And as a result of that, we're going to win championships. So I made a decision when you play for me, this is what you're going to learn. And other coaches wouldn't spend the time or do the work to understand or study the successful people out there to even give it. You can't give away what you don't possess. So I had to first study it myself. I had to master it. Then I had to give it away to my players. And that's really part of my legacy.  I'm actually coaching one of my players now in our business, which is the coolest thing in the world.  So now she's paying me to coach her, which is so funny. But she understands the value of a coach. She had a coach in her athletic career. She needs a coach in her business. And I see Grant Darkerty on here who's on here. I'm coaching him. I'm coaching a lot of these people out there in the world who have a strong desire to perform at a much higher frequency in their life. They just need strategy and guidance from somebody who's been doing it for years. Yeah. And like you said, a good coach. I love the business retreats you're doing. The opportunities to let people spend the day with you or fly on your private jet, which is so amazing. My wife and I are coming down to hang out with you guys, you and your wife in Seaside, Florida over Valentine's Day. And anyone that hasn't been to that or committed to something like that, I'm telling you what. My wife, as soon as I see my wife, she's like, absolutely freaking Lulie. We can hang out with Coach Burton, his wife. You know, we got to do something like that. So that was cool. Well, why did you end up wanting to do those? Where did that come from? Because you don't see a lot of people doing those. Yeah. It came from this desire. It came from a desire to want to build a community of people and create intimate settings for them to exchange energy and ideas with each other. So we went down to Florida. We were renting houses. We were inviting those people to come and the magic that I saw going, coming down and seeing them having breakfast with each other and intimate time with each other where we're spending time. Like when you go to 10X, you don't get any intimate time with any of the speakers. When you go to big conferences, it's very hard to get that, right? And a lot of people desire that. It's like, man, I would like to spend time with this dude for a day. I would like to see how he thinks. But here's the deal. The people that are going to be down there with you are all big time people. These are the best people in the world. So I'm doing retreats with my wife. I'm doing a cruise in January. I'm doing an event with Tim Story in April. I'm working on an event with Tim Grover. I'm working on an event with Ed Milet. I'm working on an event with Kevin Elko, who is the psychologist for Alabama. So listen, I get to spend time with these people too.  So you kind of get coached by both of us over a three-day period. And it's a really cool environment. I've really loved it. It's a big part of my business model today. You just went up in Idaho with Bradley? I went with Bradley a few weeks ago in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. I just got back last night from one in New York City. And the one in New York City was Person of Interest Camp. And man, it was a cool. It included flying on the private jet. It included all inclusive. It included the hotel, the food. And we spent two and a half days just working on how to become people of interest. So I brought in Hank Norman and Steve Carlos to do a session when I was there who's coached me at one time. So man, it was just a cool. It's a cool deal. That intimate nature. Yeah, you mentioned Hank Norman. That dude thinks a little differently, don't he? He's so passionate, man. I love it. It's just coming out of him. And he's helped a lot of people overcome their fear of sharing their story and becoming vulnerable. Where he's helped me the most is because I've been a coach my whole life, I've been expected to have answers. I've been expected to be the tough person. And Hank came along and said, man, you got to share the bad days. We got authentic. You got to share when you don't feel like doing it and the worst moments. And when I was speaking at 10X, the moment that I felt like was the best moment for me was really when I told the story of it. 25 years old, I went through a very bad breakup. I had to take an engagement ring back. I thought I had the person I was supposed to marry. I went through deep, deep depression. And that moment when I was so vulnerable with that group, it's hard to be vulnerable with 9,500 people. No doubt about it. But when I told that story, it felt like every person leaned in because they knew we all go through heartache and breakdowns and come apart. And that led me to finding my wife and the woman I was supposed to marry. So Hank was very instrumental in helping me take down my shield, be a real dude, be authentic with the world, man, and let you know, look, some days I got it. Some days I don't, man. Some days I'm on. I'm just like you. Every day I'm waking up and I've got big aspirations like you do. Putting on the 8% nation conference, man. It's just such a lofty and powerful thing that, and like I said, it just takes guts, man. That's what I respect about you the most. It takes guts to do it. I appreciate that. When did you know that you needed a private jet? I've just been enamored with it. I want to know, you know, we'll fly around. I guess it's so cool. All right. So as my business has grown, the demand has gotten much higher. And that's good. That's what I want. But I also have a six-year-old daughter, and I also have a wife at home. And I signed a deal with Remax, a national tour with Remax to do 35 events. I signed it in probably October or November of last year. And I was really torn because it was going to take me all over the country. It was a big contract. It was a good contract. But my daughter's getting to the point where it really affects her when I'm gone for long periods of time.  She's in kindergarten. She would call me crying at night. And I said, man, I can't do this unless I can go speak and come home. And the only way to do that is if you have your own plane. So I began exploring and having conversations with people. How much would it cost me? How do I get it? How do I, you know, what do I do? And most people have no idea how much they cost. They have no idea how it operates. There's a lot of misconception about owning a plane. And so I made a decision to purchase one last year at the very end of the year. And listen, we use that thing. And the best thing has been not only to get me somewhere and come home, but it's been to take my best customers with me, spend time with them because that is an unintended positive consequence I never expected. But it caused every time I go, I take four to six customers with me. And I say, man, Cody, go with me. Fly with me. And when we fly together, we're in an intimate setting. We're spending quality time together. We're uninterrupted. We're getting away from our business and we're looking back down at our business. Every person that goes with me is like, man, this is awesome. It was just an awesome experience. So there's ways for you to take liabilities or to perceive liabilities and turn them into assets if you approach it the right way. And a jet is not a liability like most people think. It is a tremendous asset, especially what's it worth for me to come home and see my baby girl at the end of the day versus her have to be at home crying about where dad's at. Man, that's the biggest reason I did it. That's huge. That's huge. Man, some of my favorite content videos that you guys do is literally you and some of your monsters getting onto a plane. That's just so cool. Where did the monster concept come from? I fell in love the first time I heard it. It's just so easy to relate to.  And we were riding down the road one day and I said, man, I got a question for you. What do you think I do? Like what do you think we do here? And he said, do you really want to know? And I said, absolutely.  He had never worked with someone who has the drive and engine and ambition and that you do. And he said, what I think you do and what we do is we produce other monsters.   And the second he said it, I was like, that's it. And because I was looking for a theme, I was looking for a mental construct. I was looking for something to go out and push this message. And he said, look, a monster is a legendary creature, man. It's a legendary creature that combines multiple skills to dominate. That's our tagline. We produce legendary creatures. Dominate a market. I love it. I love it. So is that what you would describe yourself as? If you had described coach in one word. I think the word I was thinking about is monster. But I think I'm an intense dude. But if you gave me two words, I'm intense and positive. OK. I love it. I'm intense and positive. Most people, when they get intense, they get negative. My strategy is to push you in a way that you go, dang, I like working for that dude. Dang. Like what I wanted to do at 10X just is exactly what I did, which is get up there and coach and coach you for an hour. And at the end of that hour, I want you to say, I want that dude to coach me. That's what I want. I didn't want to try to sell you a bunch of products. I wanted to take my time. So I spent a lot of time preparing. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to say, how I wanted to say it, the cadence I wanted to use. And I think when I speak at your conference, what I want to do is I want to give people that time of coaching. And if we never see each other again the rest of our lives, I move the needle in their life in such a way that they never forget it. Yeah. Exactly. And you're speaking on a million-dollar follow-up for those that haven't seen it. What do you expect that agents will learn from you, Nissan Stadium, live on stage in front of a thousand agents? What do you expect they'll learn from you? I think there's two problems with the follow-up. And this is from a book I wrote called Million Dollar Follow-Up. There's two problems. One, we don't go the distance. Every stat in America tells me 7 to 15 touches. It's 7 to 15 touches, 80% of the time to convert a prospect to a buyer. I play the percentages, man. Every stat in the world shows me that every transaction should be worth 5.7 referrals, but we don't follow-up after the sale. And here's the problem. So the first problem in follow-up is we don't go the distance. We peter out after one or two touches because we give up, freighter rejection, whatever the case may be. The second problem is truly the methodology in how we follow-up. And so I'm going to show the people there that day that there's two types of follow-up, a linear or direct follow-up and an indirect or non-linear follow-up. And I'm going to help you build a 7 touch system. So when you have a prospect or you're pursuing something, you keep going, but you keep coming at people in different directions. So I'll use a little bit of the challenger sale. I'll use a little bit of how to make a person think and what I want to do is just I want people going, you know what, he's right, man. There's dreams I haven't followed up on. There's partnerships I haven't followed up on. There's business deals I haven't followed up on. There's opportunity I haven't followed up on because I believe an object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an outside force. And you have got to be such a force of nature that people do, man. We signed up a guy today that's paying $40,000 a year to be coached by me because I have these different levels. Everybody said, man, your follow up was so strong and relentless, but it wasn't like, like I see some people follow up and they like take pride in like, you know, like stalking people and pushing people and getting whatever. Yeah. My follow up, I want you to think every time I follow up with you, don't you go, dang, that dude's right.  Dang, I need to take action because there's power in taking action, man. We lose 10% of momentum every day we don't act. Wow. Time kills all deals, man. You're getting me excited and I've already got a chance to see you speak and you're getting me excited about getting a chance to see you at this thing speak again, man. It's because I haven't got to see you speak on million dollar follow up yet. So I'm like, I'm excited about that. Okay. So the stats, I got to ask what the stats and the numbers is that, is that just the coach in you? Is that, I mean, where does that come from? Cause I've heard you use numbers a lot.  Yeah. This is by 43%. I love the seven to 15 touches, 5.7 referrals from every transaction. Actually, I mean, these are things that 99% of agents plus struggle with. Yeah. What I do because I'm a former coach and championship coach, here's what I would tell you. The percentages never lie to me. If the percentages tell me that we got to do this, this, this and this and we win 90% of the time when we do it, then I'm going to become world-class at doing those things. Well, when I started coaching business people, they don't play the percentages. Like for example, here's a stat for every 30 people you talk to, only 4.8 are going to be immediately interested. Those are innovators and early adopters. Okay. Then there's going to be 34% that's got to hear it three to seven times. Another 34% that's got to hear it seven to 15 times. Then a percentage that are never going to hear it. They're never going to get it. So what I do is I look at a business and I go, let's play the percentages here. Let's play the percentages here. Not just in calls and volume. That's important. Like my salespeople make about 80 calls a day. They have two call periods, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. We role play three to four times. But it's not just about that. I want to show them that 16% of the people you talk to are going to have some interest. But you can't just talk to four people. You got to talk to enough people. But look at these percentages in the follow-up. Million-dollar follow-up, for example. You look at real estate, mortgage, insurance, financial services. It's a pitiful follow-up for most people. They go one or two touches. I watch how people follow up with me. It's pitiful. Not only do they not go the distance. They give up easily. They can't handle objection. They can't overcome any objection. They don't make me think or challenge me. They just need coaching in that area. And it's costing them millions of dollars because they don't follow up appropriately. Why is it human nature to be lazy and not follow up? I think it's less about the fact that they don't know how, but what's your opinion on that? I think here's human nature. This is from a guy coaching 1,000 people a month. We start with good intention. We fall off the wagon. We feel guilty about it. Now, this is a cycle for everybody. We start with good intention. We start a diet when we fall off the wagon. We start down the right path. We start something new. We fall off the wagon. This is human nature to start, fall off the wagon and feel guilty. The guilt is associated with grief. We're actually grieving our lost potential. We're grieving the wasted opportunity. So a good coach comes in and says, I'm going to break this cycle for you, Cody. I'm going to keep you in such a forward posture. I'm not going to let you get in a static state. I'm not going to let you revert back to your old ways of thinking. I'm not going to let you do this. I'm going to eliminate that middle section of falling off the wagon if you do what I tell you to do. So I want constant engagement with the people I coach. We engage with people like crazy.  You're going to feel like I moved in with you. That's the kind of discipline and accountability I want to bring to your life. The difference, I think, between me and a lot of the people that spoke at 10X, all of them were world-class at what they do. Is that I'm a pure coach. That means I am coaching large numbers of people every single day. I'm not just writing books or speaking out on the circuit. I'm in the trenches, man, trying to get active and pray-driving people and get people to a higher frequency every day. And that keeps me, I think it keeps me humble and it also keeps me fresh because I'm right in there with you, man. I'm in there fighting a battle with you every day. Dude, you are, man.  You're everywhere. You're flying every day. You're coaching hundreds of people. You're helping a thousand people a month. You don't see you ever lose your passion and your energy and your positive intenseness. Is that, that's just always been that way, I would imagine? Well, I mean, I think I face a lot of the same things other people face, but I got to protect my special. I got to guard it, man. I got to guard my passion for people. And listen, it's hard when you coach as many people as I do because there's a lot of disappointment. People start. They quit. They don't see it through. It's very easy to become negative, but we live in such a cynical world that I want to be a bright light. I want to be a person that's attracting the right people to me. And we're doing that. We're attracting the right people. You know, when you wanted me to speak at this conference, I checked you out. I'm like, dude, I want to be in partnership with. I want to attract people to me that like gravitate toward like association breeds assimilation. So I just want to protect. I want to protect what the good Lord's given me, which is a positive spirit. And I want to go out there and just, just, I want people to want to do business with me. And I, you know, that's, that's my heart. No doubt. What was it about this event?  What was it about this one that you're like, man, this would be cool. I think you got an incredible lineup, man. The people you've attracted are, I mean, I mean, I'm just honored to be on the same stage with them. Like I was at 10 X. I think the Titans, the stadium, man, I'm like, this thing's got some guts, man. This is awesome. Like, like, like I tell people, I'm like, dude, man, it's big. Yeah. Like I need my mama to come watch me at Titan State. You know? I remember you putting that, did you put that in a post or did you put that in a video? Man, I'm like, mom, I'm like, mom, I gotta bring my whole family with me. Because this is a big deal, man. It's, it's these big moments in your life. And I'm thankful to, I'm thankful to Grant. I'm thankful for the people that allow me to get on 10 X so I can meet you. So I had the opportunity to go from being unknown to known some. And so I'm speaking and we're booking a thing for me to speak in South Africa next year. That's the result of 10 X. I'm speaking at the momentum conference in New Orleans, which is a result of that. I mean, there's all kinds of things that have happened as a result of that moment. That was a defining moment. And I was just proud that when I got on stage, I delivered. I wanted to deliver value for people that they go, this is a guy that we need to know. Yeah. Well, dude, you did it and you over delivered and it worked, man. It really did. Well, if an agent's on the fence, you're obviously a believer in events. You're obviously a believer in conferences. You're obviously a believer in self-improvement. Everybody's a coach in life. That's that's one of your biggest slogans. If an agent's on the fence, why should they attend this event in two weeks at Titan Stadium? I think here's what people have to understand.   One of my best customers came when I went to 10X, the first 10X, and I wasn't even speaking. I just sat beside her and we just we had so much synergy and energy. She went back and checked me out and she hired me as her coach and she's one of our best clients. She's from Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona. So my point was you got to go, you got to place yourself in proximity to people who can help you advance. And that's why you got to go to conferences and this is a unique conference. It's got unique speakers. It's got a unique concept. You know, I just think it's a... I think you can't afford not to go, man. I think... Listen, if I wasn't speaking, I'd be paying to come down to the conference. Yeah! In the VIP section, man. All right. I want you guys in the VIP section hanging out backstage with coach Michael Burd. Hey, thank you very much for spending a little time with us. I'm super excited to get to hang out with you. See you again in a couple of weeks, buddy. Thank you so much for being on this.  Proud of you. Proud of you, too, man. I'm glad you... Proud of you as well. For those that, hey, you haven't got your ticket. You want to see this man. I promise you want to meet him. You're like, hey, I want to get close to coach Michael Burd.  The website is right behind me. We're 14 days away.  You want to be in proximity of greatness. Coach Burd talked about it.  Looking forward to seeing you there. Thanks again, coach. Thank you, bud.


ng and this is our future if we get it right and we will and we keep on quoting and quoting this again and again but it is how it is we will win because there's simply no other choice and we will make sure that the sites from Washington will continue to be the case there Mr. Jonathan we know that we stand with you and we stand with you we're all in it together and that's again perhaps the silver lining amidst all the darkness here Jonathan Greenblatt CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League thank you very much sir for speaking to us and hopefully we'll speak at better times as well and now most of us were obviously completely shocked when the atrocities of October 7th were revealed being revealed day and day out even 41 days later but for those who know Hamas it didn't really come as a shock our I-24 News French defense correspondent Yaron Avraham now an Israeli Jew but he was born as an Arab Israeli in the city of Lod here in Israel sent to a mosque in Gaza at an early age to get educated for him this level of cruelty and brutality no surprise at all That's right they sent me to Gaza I don't know if they knew the level of education in this mosque or if they simply wanted to get rid of me I found myself in a mosque one of the most extreme in Gaza there I began to get a very radical education which was supposed to prepare me for a martyr's death what we call becoming a Shahid by all means necessary I mean it's a very cruel education very difficult most of it is structured around death you're forced to remember every morning that your ultimate goal is to return to the ground as quickly as possible so it's walking in cemeteries being taken to see terrorists killed by the IDF kissing them with their hands their feet to get inspiration so that we want to be killed like them the highlight of this training we were all 13 or 14 taking us in groups they'd make us lay in a real grave for 10 to 15 seconds while they stand over us and read aloud verses from the Quran to inspire us to evoke the feeling of the moment of ascension when the soul rises to heaven half of us almost didn't make it out of there because we were so scared personally it took me almost 15 years to get over that experience what you're telling is something unbelievable and I've even heard in another interview that it is so radical that they can even commit murder in front of your eyes there was an incident in which two children 13 year old boys who were suspected of being intimate with each other at around 4 a.m. we were pulled out of our beds they explained to us what the kids were accused of then they just cut their heads off right in front of us they did this to make an example out of them to instill fear this thing we witness to normal people it sounds very extreme but we lived in an environment of death Islam is a religion that sanctifies death certainly for this group many actions are punishable by death and from their point of view two boys being inappropriately intimate or doing such things inside the mosque this is something they cannot stand this is one of the most severe inclinaciones in Islam it's not a thing of the past it's still happening to this day people still flee Gaza and the west bank over this even Israeli Arabs who have these different inclinations they run away from home and if they are caught they are punished immediately three to four months ago a girl who took part in the pride parade was murdered at the entrance of her village as soon as she returned from the parade this happened inside of Israel so in Gaza in a mosque it's not regarded as extreme this is what I'm trying to convey this is the message that these things there are not seen as extreme they advocate death and it also links to what we saw on October 7th this cruelty did not surprise me I was surprised they succeeded but not what they've done I don't want to shock you but what happened on October 7th is not even the height of their cruelty they have many many more methods they hate Jews simply because they are Jews there's no other reason they say it's because of the occupation in the Quran it's written that the land of Israel was given to the people of Israel in the Quran not in the Bible we were taught blind hatred with no rhyme or reason it's just a religious matter so what's behind such hate it's because of their bigotry back here in the city with Dr. David Shimoni Dr. Shimoni considering what we've seen this morning in Jerusalem an attempt to commit a 7th of October type of a massacre in the city there's much talk about the day after the Palestinian Authority a key component of the plans for the day after for the Gaza Strip but considering that this is a situation there on the ground in the West Bank how feasible is that? First of all I believe it's feasible and I believe it's unavoidable I think I believe Israel will gain victory in this war but a military victory is not policy policy should be a political solution and eventually yes we would have to try to solve the entire Middle East complex which is the Palestinian issue should be must be addressed what's happening in Gaza who is ruling a Gaza the relationship between Gaza and the West Bank hopefully peace agreements with Saudi Arabia maybe with Lebanon eventually these things must be addressed when there is a Lebanon cohesive Lebanon that is yeah that's


Test your English. Honey Badgers Step 1. Listen. You will hear a passage about an academic topic. Listen carefully and be prepared to take a short quiz afterward. Honey Badgers Honey Badgers, also known as radles or rottles, are small yet fierce animals that can be found in parts of Africa and Asia. They have a thick, tough skin and sharp claws which enable them to fend off predators such as lions and hyenas. Honey Badgers are omnivores, feeding on a variety of small animals, fruits, and honey. They are also known for their ability to break open beehives to get to the sweet honey inside. Hence the name. Despite their small size, honey badgers are fearless and can take on animals much larger than themselves. They also have a reputation for being very tough as they are resistant to snake venom and can withstand bites from poisonous snakes. Honey Badgers play an important role in their ecosystems by controlling populations of rodents and other small animals. However, their numbers are threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their skins and body parts. Step 2. Answer these questions about the passage. 1. Honey Badgers only eat honey from beehives. True or false? Feel free to pause the video if you need more time. 2. Honey Badgers Predators like lions and hyenas are fearful of, aren't afraid of, are friendly with, are larger than. 3. Honey Badgers snake venom, can't resist, can't stand, are harmed by, aren't harmed by. 4. Which pose the greatest threats to honey badgers? Rodents and small animals, their skins and body parts, loss of living spaces, their ecosystems. 5. Which statement best summarizes the passage? Honey Badgers' toughness enables them to survive. Honey Badgers are best known for the food they eat. Honey Badgers' skin and claws are their main features. Honey Badgers can resist any type of danger. Here are the answers. 1. Honey Badgers only eat honey from beehives. This is false. The word only means that they don't eat anything else, but of course they eat other animals and plants. 2. Honey Badgers aren't afraid of predators like lions and hyenas. The animal in the picture is a hyena. 3. Honey Badgers aren't harmed by snake venom. In the passage they said the words are resistant to and withstand, which are similar in meaning to that. 4. Which pose the greatest threats to honey badgers? Loss of living spaces. In the passage they use the word habitat. 5. Which statement best summarizes the passage? Honey Badgers' toughness enables them to survive. Step 3. Secure Vocabulary 6.  Always true? Sometimes true? Not true at all. Sometimes true. Rodents are mostly small mammals known for their gnawing front teeth. They use their front teeth to chew on things. An example would be a squirrel. A beaver is another example. Actually, that's quite a large rodent. A mouse would be another example. 7. A word similar in meaning to fierce would be ferocious, fearful, timid, vivacious, ferocious. Fearful actually means afraid. Fearless means not afraid. And fearsome means others are afraid of you. An antonym for this would be timid. Vivacious actually means lively. 8. A or an is an animal that preys on other animals for food. Predator, omnivore, both A and B. The best answer is both A and B. Predators mainly prey on other animals for food. Omnivores eat anything. Predators and other animals. So they sometimes prey on other animals. 9. What are the similarities and differences among the following words? Resist, withstand, and fend off. Think about it for a minute. The common meaning among these words is avoid negative effects. Resist means repel or stand up against bad things. Fend means endure. Remain strong under pressure. Fend off means fight. Defend oneself against attackers. 10. What does poaching mean in this passage? Illegally hunting wild animals. Taking something for fun. Using animals for research. Illegally hunting wild animals. How did you do? Did you get them all right? Good for you. Step 4. Read the script. I will read the passage and you can follow it along. Honey badgers, also known as radals or rottles, are small yet fierce animals that can be found in parts of Africa and Asia. They have a thick tough skin and sharp claws which enable them to fend off predators such as lions and hyenas. Honey badgers are omnivores, feeding on a variety of small animals, fruits, and honey. They are also known for their ability to break open beehives to get to the sweet honey inside, hence the name. Despite their small size, honey badgers are fearless and can take on animals much larger than themselves. They also have a reputation for being very tough as they are resistant to snake venom and can withstand bites from poisonous snakes. Honey badgers play an important role in their ecosystems by controlling populations of rodents and other small animals. However, their numbers are threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their skins and body parts. Step 5. Summarize. Write about the topic in your own words, or summarize it by speaking with your friends or classmates. Use the knowledge and vocabulary that you learned from the passage. Go ahead, try this. It will help you remember and practice your English. To see more videos like these, click on the link above, or check out our websites for more free English learning resources. ESL Gold.com and FreeEnglishStudy.com


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video! Every child has an innate need to be loved and accepted by their parents. Sometimes the pressure to make your parents proud of who you are and accept you can leave you feeling overwhelmed. Such stress can be detrimental to your physical as well as emotional health. Have you been feeling stressed out lately? Do you wonder if your parents might be the ones triggering it? It's important to recognize the signs of stress early on and learn to cope with them. So here are 8 signs that your parents are making you stressed. 1. You avoid them as much as you can. Do you dread going home after school? Do you spend as much time as you can with your friends and keep yourself busy with work or studies to avoid your parents? Avoidant behavior usually indicates that a certain stimulus is too stressful or too distressing for you to bear. And in this case, it's your parents. You'll take any excuse you can get to get away from your parents and avoid them as much as you can. 2. You feel anxious when you see them. Do your parents constantly compare you to your siblings or do they always set their expectations for you unrealistically high? If so, it's normal to feel uneasy and anxious whenever you see them. Every moment you're with them, you're just waiting for another shoe to drop for something to go wrong.  3. You can't concentrate around them. Do your parents only nag you about what you're doing wrong? Do you always get an earful and feel down on yourself whenever they do? Maybe that's why whenever they tell you they're planning to visit soon, it suddenly becomes the only thing you can think about. You can't focus on doing your homework, planning events, or turning in the last project anymore because you're already stressing about what to do. The fact that you're having difficulty concentrating shows that your parents take such an emotional toll on you that it doesn't leave you with much time, energy, or attention for anything else. 4. You get emotional when they're around. Do you notice yourself getting more angry or upset when your parents are around?  If your relationship with your parents takes you through a constant emotional roller coaster, then that should already be your first clue that something is very wrong here. Moon swings are one of the most common signs of serious stress. You feel a lot of emotional distress because of them and it makes you more defensive. 5. You worry about what they'll say all the time. When you spend a lot of time and energy worrying about what your parents will think, it's a definite sign that they're causing you a lot of stress. You're consumed by thoughts like, will my parents approve of this? Or what will they say when they find out? And you always consider their feelings. Sometimes, even more than your own when it comes to making a decision. Even when you're no longer living under their roof, they're still influencing the things you do, the way you dress, the way you act, the people you spend time with, and so on. 6. They disrupt your eating and sleeping pattern. Is it harder for you to eat right and sleep well at night whenever your parents are around? This is because you lose a lot of your appetite when you're stressed or anxious, and it can lead to restlessness or difficulty sleeping as well. So if having your parents around disrupts your eating or sleeping patterns, it's most likely because of all the stress they're putting you through. 7. You start to have physical symptoms. Do frequent encounters with your parents trigger headaches, chest pain, fatigue, even hives in you? Stress is closely associated with low energy, chronic pain, and a weakened immune system that often results in frequent sickness. Other symptoms of severe stress include shaky hands, muscle tension, palpitations, and increased blood pressure. So if you start to notice physical symptoms arise as a result of something that happened with your parents, then they might be the reason why you're feeling so under the weather lately. 8. You usually feel better when they leave. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, you know when your parents are making you stressed if you immediately have a sigh of relief when they leave. Every moment with them is tense and painful for you. But once they're gone, you feel like you can breathe again. As if a weight has suddenly been lifted off your chest.  Why? Because they were the ones causing you so much stress in the first place. While your mother and father might have the best interest at heart, parents sometimes overstep their boundaries and fail to see when they're doing more harm than good to their children. Also, if you know someone who may benefit from online counseling, we actually partnered up with BetterHelp, an affordable online counseling platform that you could utilize. They're constantly striving to improve their services and terms and conditions, and the link will be in the description box. Do you feel like your parents might be making you stressed? How many signs did you relate to? If you relate to this video, what do you plan to do next? Do let us know in the comments below. Also remember to share this video with those you think might benefit from it. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more.


Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is Little Bookish Teacher and today I'm going to be sharing two recent reads that are both middle grade graphic novels and I'm really excited to talk about them with you. The first one is Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. This was a graphic novel that I found on my local library's Libby app so if you're in Australia you can definitely find it on Libby. This is the story of five mismatched students who all come from different Latino backgrounds and at first they find themselves sitting sort of in the office at their school and they don't really know why they're there. They think they're in trouble and as the story progresses we sort of see how they met and how everything that is set up at the start came to be. So all five of them find themselves in a breakfast community service club as part of their school's community service program and some of them don't speak English as well as they do their native language. Others do speak English well but don't speak Spanish well and they really don't get along because they're all the different stereotypes but they come together when they meet a homeless woman who is living out of her car with her young daughter and they become determined to help them out. This is a really great story, not only about Latino and Latina identity. It is also dual language so you get both English and Spanish in the book. You have a variety of different characters who all have different strengths. They all have different backgrounds. None of them know what the other kids are experiencing because at the moment they're just very concerned with what's going on with them so they don't really take time to find out. You know that one of them is living out of a motel room with their family, the other has been separated from their parents and is living with an aunt and has uncertain living circumstances. One of the characters struggles to read. I'm not quite sure if it's dyslexia or if it's just the translation from Spanish to English but there is that representation of a teenager who can't read and feeling really self-conscious about that and so you have all of these different backgrounds and experiences coming together and eventually these kids working together to try and help out this mother and her child and it was just a really wonderful read. It's sort of done in the same style as the New Babysitter Club graphic novels and Reina Telmeyer's graphic novels as well so if you have kids who like those graphic novels they'll probably enjoy this one but I really really enjoyed it and it was nice to see that representation on page. So I did read this digitally through the Libby app but this one would be a great one to have on shelves in schools for sure. The next graphic novel I want to talk about is Lightfall Book 1 The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert. This is one that I can't remember where I saw it talked about but I saw it and I was really intrigued and I actually purchased a copy of it. The artwork in this is just stunning. I love the colors and I love the art style of the characters. It's very whimsical and beautiful. This is the story of Bee who lives in a tonics and tinctures shop in the forest. She lives with her grandfather the pig wizard and one day she goes out to gather supplies for him and she ends up meeting Kat who is the last of the Galdurians. When they get back to her grandfather's shop he is not there. He's left a note for them and so the two decide to set out to try and find him. They find themselves caught up in all sorts of things from varying types of weather to being kidnapped to fighting off enemies to running afoul of thieves and all the time having to not only get to know one another but try and figure out what is going on with the pig wizard and it was really, really fun. I would definitely be interested in continuing this series. I really loved that this book had a focus on recognizing the strengths in others and in particular Bee who feels very uncertain and nervous a lot of the time and it manifests as this black smoke and these tendrils of blackness that just encircle her and make her feel really unsure of herself. She's always kept that at bay because she's always been the guardian of one of her grandfather's special trinkets, this eternal flame in a jar, but that gets stolen through the story and so she has to find ways to cope with her fear and her anxiety. I also love the beautiful friendship that develops between Bee and Kat. It was just lovely. So those are two recent graphic novels that I have read. I found them really, really interesting reads. I will leave links to them down below so you can check them out and find out more about them if you would like to and if you have any recommendations for other middle grade graphic novels that I should read please feel free to let me know down below. If you'd like to let me know that you're here but you don't want to leave a comment feel free to leave a flame emoji otherwise I hope that wherever you're in the world you're staying safe and healthy and I will see you in my next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye everyone.


Your dropshipping business is at risk with 30 to 50 day shipping times. And in this video, I'm gonna show you how you can step out of the AliExpress boundaries and find yourself with better dropshipping suppliers, faster shipping times, better communication, fewer chargebacks and refunds. And at the end of the day, I'm gonna help you connect with other suppliers who are not dropshippers themselves, but rather dropshipping friendly suppliers who will be able to ship quickly to your buyers. And this way you're gonna be able to make more sales and more profits.  I'm also gonna provide you with a cheat sheet with everything that I'm going over in this video, as well as links to some of the best suppliers that you can work with today, whether niche or region-specific suppliers. And I guarantee that you don't know about most of the suppliers that I'm gonna go over in this video. Believe me, you do not want to miss this. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back everyone. My name is Luan from AutoDS. And as you know in this video, I'm gonna explain to you why you should stop dropshipping from AliExpress or at the very, very least, expand your suppliers list and work with more suppliers. And I'm also gonna show you how you can find these suppliers as well as provide you with some of the best suppliers that you can work with today, most of which I'm sure you haven't heard of yet. One sec before we get started, if you haven't done so yet, do not forget to subscribe to YouTube channel if you always want to learn how to step up your game in the dropshipping world in the e-commerce industry and always stay one step ahead of your competition. Hit that subscribe button, like this video, enable those notifications and let's get this party started. Now we have a lot of content on how to dropship from AliExpress and that is because a lot of dropshippers are using them as a supplier when they're getting started. Now I gave you a small hint, but this cheat sheet that you see right here is up for grabs and it's all for you.  But why do we want to step out of AliExpress in the first place? If they're so dropshipping friendly and they're a huge marketplace and they've been around for years, they have huge credibility. Why are we trying to step out of this and look for other suppliers? One of the biggest pain points that we have when dropshipping from AliExpress and I'm sure that many dropshippers with experience can resonate with what I'm about to say, but AliExpress simply has really long shipping times and today the logistics part of your dropshipping business is just as important as the product research part. So product research is important because you need to sell the right products to the right audiences. Even if your store looks really, really bad and you don't know how to write really good product descriptions, you could probably still make some pretty good sales if your product research is on point. And on the other hand, we have logistics. So if your product research is well and you're able to sell products from your product research work, now you need to know how to deliver these products really quickly on time. And of course, we also want to make sure that the products are of high quality and that they also have tracking information so that we can track the package while it's being delivered to our customers. And this is logistics. You want to be able to ship quickly so that your customers will get their packages on time. Today, nobody wants to wait 30, 50 or 60 days to get their packages. We are in the in demand era and people want their packages yesterday. So if you're working with AliExpress, you know about these really long delivery times. The second pain point is communication. So there's a language barrier at AliExpress and when you're working with them and you're trying to reach out to the seller and trying to negotiate with him or try to get some info about a product so that you can help your customer, you'll notice that there's a huge language barrier. Some sellers are not even gonna reply to you. Some will reply with some really bad English and some can simply reply after a long delay. And one of the reasons to that is because most of AliExpress' sellers are also drop shippers and many of those drop shippers aren't really good at doing business. And that is why we're here to help you become a good drop shipper that knows how to do business the right way. So that is another issue that we have on AliExpress. It is a platform made of drop shippers who don't care that much about their business.  They wanna make a living, but some of them simply don't know English that well. They don't check their inbox all the time because they're still gonna make sales one way or another and they don't need you specifically. So keep in mind that most sellers on AliExpress are drop shippers who are also selling to you. The next pain point is chargebacks and refunds. And this happens especially if you're shipping out your products from AliExpress without tracking information. Once that happens and many products do not have tracking information and many drop shippers do not want to choose the tracking information because that's gonna set them back a few more dollars and they wanna save that for their profits. But what happens at the end is a customer says they didn't receive their product, then they're gonna open up a dispute, they're gonna have to get a refund and you won't really be able to prove that it did reach them because there is no tracking information available. So those are the main pain points from AliExpress. And now I'm gonna show you how you can upgrade your logistics, ship quickly, get happy customers, returning customers and also those who refer their friends and their family to also purchase from you because they were really happy when they purchased from your website and that they got the product after just a few days. Now, before I move on to the solution you may be asking yourself, if AliExpress is so bad, then why are drop shippers still using them? Well, the answer to that is because they're still a super cheap supplier, they're drop shipping friendly, they're looking for drop shippers because they're also drop shippers themselves. And it's also a really good place to test products. I still use AliExpress to test my products but when it comes to purchasing the product that's a different story. It's a good place to test products and to also learn about products, see what's trending, especially with the help of the AliExpress drop shipping center. Now, if you wanna learn about that we have a full article about it as you can see right here in a video embedded inside and you have the link to it in the cheat sheet that I will provide to you if you comment hashtag suppliers and let me know what you take away from this video is and of course, don't forget to also like this video. But in any case, the AliExpress drop shipping center is a great place to find items to drop ship because this place is simply gonna show you products that are trending right now. As you can see in this video you can hover over each product, see it sells history and simply find out what products are trending right now. This is a great use case for AliExpress and this is a really good reason to log into AliExpress' platform and use it. So it's a great place to test products and learn about new product trends. For those reasons, many drop shipers are still working with AliExpress but now let's move on to the solution because we need to upgrade our logistics. We need to ship quickly to our customers and we need to make sure that our products are made of high quality as well as getting really good customer service from our suppliers. So how are we gonna do all of that? Obviously the first solution is to step out of AliExpress and work with multiple drop shipping suppliers. And before I show you how to find them, first let me tell you what you need to look for when you're looking for a drop shipping supplier. So first you wanna make sure that your new supplier has global warehouses and that's simply because you wanna be able to reach a larger target audience around the world. If you're targeting only the United Kingdom today, who's to say that in six months from now you won't also wanna add Australia, the United States and other countries around the world. And if you're only gonna work with a supplier who can only target one specific country then he's not gonna be able to do that job for you. Next, you wanna be able to look for a supplier that has fast shipping and delivery times. This one should go without saying but it's also really, really important. I mentioned the reasons why your customers wanna get their packages now. There used to be a time where waiting 30 days was actually a good thing and if I get my product in 30 days I'm actually gonna be pretty happy about it. But today, that is not happening anymore. And as I mentioned, everybody wants to get their packages right away, so the next thing you wanna look for in a drop screen supplier is that they have quick and fast shipping and delivery times. Next, you wanna look for a supplier who offers really good customer service. That's because when a customer reaches out to you you're gonna have to give them an answer and in most cases you're gonna have to reach out to your supplier, get answers from your supplier and then transfer that answer down to your customer. Now if it takes your supplier two, three, five days to answer, it's not really gonna be that good. Not only are you gonna miss that sell, the customer is way, way gone by now but he's also gonna return to purchase from your store again. But if your supplier does answer quickly that means that you can also answer your customer quickly and your customer will be happy and most likely check out with the product. Not only are you looking for fast and quick answers but you also need efficient solutions. So does your supplier offer a good return policy? If there's any problems with the product can you get a free return or are you gonna have to pay for the return no matter what? So you wanna make sure that your supplier also has really good return policies and that they offer good customer service at the end of the day. Reach out to them, ask a question, see how fast they answer and see how efficient that answer is because that's the exact service that you are going to pass down to your customers. You also wanna make sure that your supplier has a really wide product range so that of course you'll be able to offer more products to your buyers and make more sales and profit. You can go for a supplier that's in a specific niche but of course you're gonna wanna work with more suppliers that can offer more products outside of that category so that you can always have trending products to sell. Next, you wanna make sure that your supplier has high quality products and that is because you don't wanna be dealing that much with returns because the products are just made of really, really bad quality. So you wanna make sure that the products are of high quality and that the product descriptions are precise. So you wanna make sure that you know exactly what your customers are purchasing and that product description is correct. And finally, you wanna find a supplier this one should go without saying but that has really competitive prices. If you're not selling at the right price you're not gonna make any sales at all. Now some products can sell at a wide range of prices so it doesn't really matter but you still want your supplier to be competitive so that you can make more profit every time you make your sales. Okay, okay, we get it. How do we find the suppliers? So after about 12, 13 minutes of talking now I'm gonna jump down to the action. So now that you understand all of the things that you need to look for in a supplier and why AliExpress can't be the supplier that you wanna work with in your drop-sharing business then here is the next step. What you wanna do next is in the cheat sheet click on the how to find drop-shipping suppliers the full guide and there you'll have this blog article which will take you step by step in everything that you need to know when finding a drop-shipping supplier. Here you also have a list of some of the best wholesale and retail suppliers how to avoid bad suppliers and fake suppliers and all in all, how to keep your drop-shipping business intact with some of the best suppliers out there how to find them, what to look out for and so forth. So start off by reading this article on how to find drop-shipping suppliers the full guide. Next, I wanna go over the best drop-shipping suppliers list. So after you read that article and you get a good idea of the suppliers that you should be working with and what you should be looking out for now let me enrich your knowledge even more. So on the top of our list on the best drop-shipping suppliers list I'm gonna have you head over to the AutoDS marketplace. Yes, AutoDS because here we have a new marketplace with lots and lots of trending products. Now granted, while I'm recording this video we only have two suppliers in this marketplace which is Aliexpress and Amazon but by the time you're watching this video maybe we added more. The point is soon we are going to add private drop-shipping suppliers to this list. This means that you're gonna have a database within all of these categories all of the best drop-shipping categories and you're gonna have exclusive access to private wholesale drop-shipping suppliers. This means that you can sell these products on any selling channel that you want whether you wanna sell on eBay, Shopify, Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Shops, Wix, WooCommerce, Amazon no matter where you wanna sell it's easy and profitable when you're working with private drop-shipping suppliers and the only people who will have access to these suppliers is anyone who is a member of AutoDS. And then what you do is once you find products that you wanna sell for example right now I'm in the home improvement and tools so let's say I wanna add this product to my store I'm just gonna hover over it and click on import draft but this is just an example I'm not gonna add a product with 38 business days shipping time but hopefully by the time you're watching this video we already added the private suppliers inside if not just wait for it subscribe to our YouTube channel learn exactly when we're gonna roll out with this feature and then you will have exclusive access to private drop-shipping suppliers. And my next recommendation for what suppliers to use is AutoDS's supported suppliers. So here I have the link to AutoDS's suppliers page and here you have a mix of retail and wholesale drop-shipping suppliers I'm not gonna dive too deep into it but you can filter by warehouse location right here so for example if you wanna find only suppliers that have warehouses in the United Kingdom then click on that and then you'll have the suppliers list here. Okay well this is just a small example and the reason that you wanna work with these suppliers is because you can completely automate your drop-shipping business when working with them. This means that you're gonna get price and stock monitoring so every time your price or the stock status has changed on the suppliers website it's also gonna change on your store as well as quick product importing whether you're importing single or multiple products and automatic orders and so much more that we have going on in the system.  Then all you have to do with them is make sure that they ship quickly to your target audience. Okay so that's another suppliers list that you can use but let's continue moving down and learn about more suppliers that you haven't thought about yet. The next one is CJ drop-shipping. You may have heard of it, you may have not but bear with me because the list is just getting started. So CJ drop-shipping is a great wholesale drop-shipping supplier. The only thing is most of their products are being stored in Chinese warehouses. So when working with CJ drop-shipping you wanna be able to find products that can ship quickly to your target audience. This is what their website looks like. And they've got many new products that are coming out all the time. They're super drop-shipping friendly and they're also a wholesale supplier. So if you need a drop-shipping contract to show to the marketplace that you're selling on they can also provide you with that. Not only that but they also have warehouses all around the world. So if I hover over warehouses right here and let's say I wanna target the US audience and I can just click on US warehouse and see all of the products that they are storing in US warehouses meaning I can ship these products really quickly to my US target audience. Let's take a look at the first product here. So this crystal column tree of life winding pendant necklace right here. So I'm gonna click on this product just to get more information. And here inside the product page I'm gonna choose the shipping from here on the right side from China warehouse. I'm gonna change that to US warehouse. And now my shipping time to the United States as you can see right here is only three to six days. So that is how I can ship quickly even from Chinese suppliers to my target audience no matter what country they're in. And that is why I love to use CJ drop shipping. Another great advantage is that CJ drop shipping can also source products for you. So if you find a product that's selling really well for you and now you wanna buy that product and source it from your own warehouse CJ drop shipping can help you with that by negotiating with some of the best Chinese agents for you and finding the cheapest one to source from. So you can get all of that and a lot more from CJ drop shipping and that is why they're one of my favorite drop shipping suppliers. But now let's move down the list to more niche specific and more region specific suppliers that I'm sure you haven't heard of. So here are some of the best drop shipping suppliers for specific niches and regions. I have links in the cheat sheet to all of the articles explaining about these suppliers. So once again, if you want access to it just like this video, comment hashtag suppliers let me know what your biggest takeaway from this video and I will happily send you this cheat sheet. So here we go. You can find jewelry drop shipping suppliers both wholesale and retail clothing drop shipping suppliers drop shipping gifts for UK suppliers drop shipping clothes from UK suppliers candle drop shipping suppliers. So if you wanna drop some candles Australian drop shipping suppliers if you wanna drop it to Australia or at least drop quickly to the Australian audience print on demand Australia drop shipping suppliers. So still on Australia but here's if you wanna go for print on demand medical supplies drop shipping suppliers lingerie drop shipping suppliers Florida drop shipping suppliers for those who wanna find more suppliers with fast shipping times to the US. Let's just open that as an example because I can't really open up all these articles. You have a lot of homework to do, but everything that you need is inside this content right here. So here are some of the best Florida drop shipping suppliers. And if I scroll down a bit, you can see some really unique names here like safety technology, drop for you, baby bedding design, magnum tuning, CWR wholesale distribution. And if you scroll down this list, you have a really good deep analysis about each and every one of these suppliers along with their pros and cons, how fast they ship. If there's any membership fees and everything else you need to know is inside this article. And that is just one example from what you can find out of all of these supplier articles. Pet drop shipping suppliers, Canada drop shipping suppliers, UK drop shipping suppliers, and USA drop shipping suppliers. Once again, you have unique suppliers in this list. The only thing is if they are not AutoDS supported suppliers, you won't really be able to connect with AutoDS and enjoy drop shipping automation and scaling. But then again, if you're looking to automate maybe some of your business and on the other half you're testing out new suppliers that's also fine. And if you want to go completely manual, that's also good, but scaling is not going to be so easy. You can use them to test products, use them to test your shipping times, but at the end of the day, you want to be able to automate and scale your business. But I highly recommend to see which of these articles is closest to your niche, is closest to your region, read about it, learn about the best suppliers that you can use, start negotiating with them and look for the important things that I talked about in a supplier. So besides all of the links to all of these articles with all of the special suppliers inside, after you read all of it, let's say you still want to expand, you still want to learn some more. So what I suggest to do right here is go to Google and simply search for private drop shipping suppliers. Now from this, you may get a lot of bloggers websites. So take that with a grain of salt because there could be a lot of affiliate links over there and those suppliers may not really be all that good. So you really have to do your homework there. But some of the results that you're going to get are actual private drop shipping companies who want to be your suppliers. And when you find those websites, all you have to do is send those suppliers a message and start negotiating. See what their prices are, see that they have customer reviews, see that they can ship quickly. What are their return policies? Do you have to pay for returns? How fast do they ship? How fast do they deliver? And how fast do they supply you with a tracking number and so forth? Everything that I went over in this video, make a list and make sure that you're talking to your suppliers about all these things, how fast they answer you and also how efficient their answers are. Now, I already talked about it, but if you're going to do this work manually, then you won't really be able to add automation and scale, but it still could be really good for your knowledge to learn about new suppliers, learn about new products and see what else can sell in your store, then learn how to automate and scale with those products. But what if you still want to continue working with AliExpress? That is completely fine as long as you're looking at the shipping time. Do not choose shipping times that arrive within 30 days, 40, 50, 60 days. This is the logistics part and this is what you need to fix. So let me show you how you can do that. And it's pretty similar to what I showed you on CJ Dropshipping. So here on AliExpress' website, let's just look for a product that we want to sell. For example, let's go with dog collars. Okay, the usual classic item. And as you can see, I have all these results for dog collar.  And this is for an example, if I want to ship quickly to the United States audience and I don't want to ship from China because of all of the reasons that I mentioned. Remember guys, the dropshipping business is not going to survive with 30 to 60 day shipping times. So here, let's change my ships from to the United States. So now I can see all of the products that AliExpress can ship from the United States warehouse, therefore ship quickly from into the US. Let's open up one of these collars and see what the shipping time is. So I clicked on this anti-bark dog collar right here. And I can see right here that I have free shipping to the United States within four to 13 days. Four days is good, 13 isn't bad, but it's not super good. So you want to continue working with this and seeing what products you can find that can ship really quickly to the United States. This example right here can ship within four to 13 days. Also not so bad, but I'm not sure if it's going to be four or if it's going to be 13. And obviously four is much, much better. Let's take a look at a few more examples. This is another one that ships within four to 13 days. And let's just scroll down and try a couple more. Let's also try this one right here. And here you can see a much, much better one. So this one delivers within five to nine days using UPS, tracking information available, free shipping. And this collar costs $9.90. It's got good reviews. And this is a pretty good dropshippable product from and to the US, which will arrive in just about one week to your target audience inside the United States. So if you still want to drop from AliExpress, the first thing that you need to keep in your mind is how you can improve logistics. And you can do that right here by shipping quickly to your target audience and make sure that the product also has high reviews. You can also check out the seller's reviews by hovering over the seller. Make sure that he's been on the platform for over a year. In this case, he's been here for about two years now and he's got really good seller ratings from his buyers. So this is a product that I would dropship from and to the US if I still want to use AliExpress. The last thing here is the language barrier, which may not be an issue with a supplier like this. That is why you want to look for suppliers with high seller ratings. While they still may be a dropshipper, they may actually be a good dropshipper who does care about his business, who is trying to grow. So you are going to get good service, high quality products, and really good prices. I hope you enjoyed this video on why you should stop dropshipping from AliExpress, improve your logistics, ship quickly to your target audience, provide excellent customer service, excellent products, and this is the way to do it. If you want access once again to the cheat sheet, all you have to do is like this video, comment hashtag suppliers, let me know what your takeaway is from this video and I will happily send you this cheat sheet. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel, enable those bell notifications if you want to stay one step ahead of your competition. Thank you for watching and good luck stepping out of AliExpress.