Hello everyone I'm Shaina from the Cloudify team and I'm going to present you our journey in on-app actually how we use and Cloudify and on-app to first bring up on-app and orchestrate very nice use cases. We started with one on-app cluster but now the demand we see from different customers that they want to go multi-cloud federated on-app as well as to the edge. As you know on-app now extends into a cry-no and there are many nice edge use cases. If I have time I will actually talk about orchestration models to the edge, autonomous orchestration etc. So let's start first with on-app and what is on-app. I will go over in briefly what is on-app. Then I will explain Tosca. We use Tosca as an intent-based model for orchestration and then I will explain how we can deploy on-app in one or more clusters on top of Kubernetes and show some nice use cases using the on-app SDC, the service design, the modeling and the SO, the service orchestration and Cloudify. Also I have another use case it's for a video streaming and then I will move to the edge and show how we can actually orchestrate an edge and a master deployment. So let's start what you see here. You see the little box here the vertical box that's the OM that's the component that installs on-app but first what is on-app. On-app is the open network automation platform. It has some non real-time components like the design time, the SDC, the service design and creation where you create the design, create the artifacts and then you push it into the SO, the service orchestrator. The service orchestrator in turn calls the application controllers the SDNC for creating the networks, the app C for creating the application workloads and it has something that is called A&I that's the asset and inventory, the active inventory and basically all the infrastructure components should be actually registered there. If you have an edge component it should also be registered there. It's not to register subscribers or some other stuff that is coming on top from higher level components but it should have all the active infrastructure components. So this is on-app in a nutshell and the vertical box on the right side here is the OM, the on-app operational manager that installs and manage on-app. Basically in Cloudify we are actually being integrated in three main parts. One is in the OM to install on-app and on top of course of a Kubernetes cluster. A Kubernetes cluster could be on top of OpenStack, could be on bare metal if needed. Then we are integrated into the SO. So from the Beijing release actually SO can call Cloudify and Cloudify can actually get a Tosca blueprint and deploy and execute the blueprint and also we are part of the DCAE, the telemetry part so we are the controllers there at the DCAE level. Another way to look at it is if you look at Cloudify is at the left side it installs on-app on top of Kubernetes cluster. Up there it's part of the DCAE and here you can look at it as part of the controllers. So you have SDNC, you have Upsie and if you want to execute a complex topology, a Tosca topology, a distributed topology you use Cloudify for that and already there are several telcos that use on-app together with Cloudify. I'm not going to get into this but what happens here in a nutshell, so you actually create something in SDC, it gets all the Tosca types, it creates the artifacts, actually it creates a CISA file which in turn is pushed to SO. SO has multiple ways to orchestrate things. One is the BPMN engine, it's more like a process-oriented flow so you say I want to do step A and from step A I'm going to step B to step C so like automaton and also it has Tosca using Cloudify which is intent-based orchestration. You say what you want to orchestrate and not how so for example you define the higher level abstractions and you don't care about the underlay so let's say I want to have a connection point between A and B I would define this connection point but I don't care if it's running on some kind of an underlay or it uses different kind of routing but it's the intent how to use it or for example I want to define a firewall between two points I don't care if it's a firewall from one vendor or another vendor or it can be even a router with ACLs but in the how in the plugins I will implement the how but the Tosca defines the what and not the how. So if we look at the OM architecture so basically you get a blueprint there is a Tosca blueprint and this Tosca blueprint is I will show you to you later is responsible to install on app. The installation is actually based on two steps first you provision a Kubernetes cluster and second which is an independent step if you already have a Kubernetes cluster so you can just use the second blueprint and install the on app components which are many containers or many services and pods installed often on top of Kubernetes so this is one cluster you see at the top the Kubernetes master we talk to the Kubernetes master and we can provision workloads and actually all the resources on top of Kubernetes which means the services the pods and the network and everything and it can run on open stock or on bare metal at the at the bottom we can deploy another on app cluster and the reason for having multiple clusters is because of high availability redundancy because of load balancing sometimes you want to actually distribute the load and as a reason is because of proximity so you can actually have multiple on app clusters and you can load balance the load between those clusters so these are the on app services actually you have the message bus you have the sdc day and I saw all the containers actually we have more than one other containers in on app and before I continue further I want first to talk about Tosca and what is Tosca and how we use Tosca so as I said Tosca is intent based and not how we do things it defines what we do so in Cloudify what we do we actually use a Tosca blueprint we push it into the Cloudify orchestrator which passes this blueprint it has a core component that knows to take this blueprint and separate the blueprint into the smaller components and parse it and creates a plan and then we have plugins that can interface with different systems like any cloud so we can run on any cloud provision workloads networks applications on any cloud like AWS OpenStack VMware etc it can interface any configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible any networking tools like NSX and others and of course I will touch the Kubernetes and containers in more details but it can provision workloads on top of Kubernetes but it can do more with Kubernetes so it's a model driven automation and governance you can say who can execute the blueprints who can view the blueprints you can have different roles of admin and a user and of course everything in one tenant it supports multi-tenancy etc and it's a federated model of a master orchestrator and edges and when you come to edge it becomes more complicated because sometimes edge doesn't have connectivity to the master orchestrator and what do you do so the edge should work autonomously so you need to have copies of your orchestration both at the master and the edge and when there is no connectivity thinks about ships or airplanes so still you need to orchestrate the lifecycle operations of the workloads there and we are open source so basically it's like building the Boeing that you have many many vendors building each one of the parts but what is different here actually is that our parts you know is very dynamic so each vendor actually creates the part and the part is constant it doesn't change but in our life everything changes so fast and we need to make sure we can orchestrate at scale at very dynamic environments so this I took from the TOSCA definition but let's make it simple so here I have an example of what is TOSCA TOSCA actually defines a graph of actually components I think about the graph in memory each component has relationship one relationship could be contained in and in this example you can see that I brought up a VM which is a node and we have a Jboss container contained in that VM and we have a CRM application contained in that Jboss container okay so it's from type compute the VM the container is from type Jboss and the CRM is from type application so I can write like object oriented I can write my own types in TOSCA and extend it from a base root another type is connected to and you can see that the CRM application is connected to an Oracle application to a rock Oracle database that is running on a different VM now on the relationship I can define life cycle operations for example I can take runtime attributes from Oracle like the port that Oracle listens to or some other information and send it in runtime over the connection the relationship to the CRM application so like this for example think about edges so you can create a topology of edge and a master and things things between the two you can create VPN as a relationship etc so I'm not going to go deeper into TOSCA just to show you the overall picture so you create the TOSCA blueprint the TOSCA blueprint is being input to the domain as a domain model to the orchestrator the orchestrator parses the TOSCA model and creates the different nodes and arrows and the connections and there is a workflow and embedded workflow and install workflow that's the default workflow that knows to run on each one of the components and instantiates them and provisions them you can define also your own workflow on the graph and you can update the graph in real time so for example you can add a node you can remove a node you can change the properties of a given node and the orchestrator is responsible to execute it now there is the plugins concept that it extends the core by actually interfaces with many different data sources so let's say tomorrow I want to actually interface with authentication or with a kind so I can write a plug-in to LDAP so there are many plugins like to the different clouds to the different orchestration systems like Kubernetes as a domain orchestrator to different configuration management tools etc so basically to create a service you can create one or more blueprints and you after you create the blueprint the same blueprint could be instantiated and executed on on different locations but using different inputs so the trick here is to you can use the same blueprint but to give different input so it can create different things based on the same core blueprint and eventually it will create the graph that I mentioned so you can have for example if you have multiple domains and if they are similar but they have different inputs so each one can have for example a different you know IP addresses or different management administrators etc think about edges so edges you can group edges actually in groups and the edges the same edges in the same group are the same but in different locations they could be the different so you can send information to those edges with the same blueprint just giving different inputs so if we look now at this one Tosca example so we see that actually we have here a VM we can create a group of a VM and all its components like the IP address etc we connect the VM as I mentioned to a Tomcan container and then to a Mongo database and here the things are becoming more interesting we can create a composite service and the composite service basically let's say we have multiple blueprints each blueprint you can think about the blueprint as a microservice microservice one and two each one can get its inputs as his own lifecycle operations and it sends out to back to the master blueprint and basically you can do this on the fly so you can have logically separate for example your application you can have each VNF in a separate blueprint you can have a master blueprint and then you can actually have an orchestrate those blueprints with you know from top down approach you can create service chain and change them on the fly so for example let's say you have a router a firewall and now you want to add a DPI device so you can in this example I run a deployment update and I actually manipulate the graph in memory so I add the additional VNF and I connected into the service chain using this deployment pattern so basically what we I wanted to show here is that Tosca is very flexible it can actually manage complex topologies and you can create a topology in a way that it's very modular like Lego blocks so each component can run in its own separate blueprint you can have a master blueprint that ties everything together and you can change this on the fly and add and remove components like we see here at the bottom now I want to talk about on a piece actually installed on top of Kubernetes before I will get into this I will I want to say what we do at the Kubernetes level so we can provision workloads and resources on top of Kubernetes but before that you need to bring up the Kubernetes so there is a Tosca blueprint that brings up Kubernetes the challenge that we actually encountered in on-app that when we actually installed it so the containers were actually were by ship or were sent the pods were sent everywhere to the Kubernetes workers the minions but they need to access a shared file system so we created an NFS share in the blueprint and combine it together so every container can access the data Cloudify also implements the provider interface in Kubernetes so if Kubernetes wants to scale so Kubernetes ask Cloudify a I need another VM it will get another VM and this will be added as a node to Kubernetes also we implement the service broker what if you won't need to actually access external services as you want to refers them as an internal Nate cloud native Kubernetes services so there is the service broker interface that you can implement a catalog of services and Kubernetes will ask actually access it as a Kubernetes service but the services could be on Amazon and could be you know a database external database that is not part of the Kubernetes cluster etc so these are actually the these main things that we do around Kubernetes so the provider interface to add more infrastructure components to Kubernetes VM networks etc. deploy applications workloads on top of Kubernetes and actually also the Kubernetes provider that I mentioned before so basically we are like a sandwich on top of Kubernetes the provider is implemented in a native go application so it can access every cloud and create resources on the cloud and we have Tosca blueprints that can provision workloads on multiple stacks so let's say you use a alum a charge so you have you know one Kubernetes cluster in Amazon and as a Kubernetes clusters on Prem so you can use the same Tosca blueprint to actually run the workloads on multi clouds so in this example we see how this looks like so we look at first at the Kubernetes you can see the visualization of the Kubernetes cluster and you can see that you have the austere you have the different networks the security groups and the Kubernetes node also we can actually collect KPIs as part of the Tosca blueprint and you can actually define in the Tosca blueprints and monitoring component that you say I want to collect CPU or that's infrastructure component memory but you can collect also KPIs from the application itself for example number of connections or something that is interest for you and visualize it on the dashboard this is the on-app cluster that we provisioned using cloudify so you can see it on OpenStack so it's on top of OpenStack and here I want to emphasize that you can take all the on-app components and provisions them on top of Kubernetes on top of OpenStack or bare metal but you can also have an hybrid installation you can define that some of the components will run as containers pots in Kubernetes and some of them could run as VMs so you can have you know a mixture environment and this is true not just that on-app is just an example but you can have an hybrid deployment model that you can actually define some components running on bare metal some could run on VMs some can run on pods and also I have an example that some components are running as function as a service when I show you the actually some orchestration use cases using on-app just to summarize this part and then I'll show you the on-app itself so basically we have a Tosca blueprint that defines the infrastructure it define Kubernetes it starts a Kubernetes master with multiple nodes this is configurable it also installs the TILA server which is the LM client uses it we have an LM plug-in or LM integration you define in the Tosca blueprint all the Tosca applications all the on-app applications as Tosca nodes instances and it will use the LM integration to provisions them on top of Kubernetes LM as values global and local values so you can override those values using the LM integration so you can use the inputs and say whatever I want for example I want to define global inputs cluster wide or on top of multiple clusters or I want to override those values locally or globally and everything is here defined with Tosca and of course we have the service layer that higher level components can interact with the REST API and call cloudify to do for example to create a blueprint to deploy a blueprint and execute it and even to create a workflow so let's say for example you want to an example of scaling you measure the KPIs and you see that the KPI for scaling actually cross the threshold so you send it to the OSS or to other system and this system can actually trigger a workflow and tell cloudify for this blueprint I need to scale out okay so this is the on-app portal after you bring up on-app so you can see the on-app this is the topology of on-app with all the components so you can see the portal the SDC the robot console the message bus the app see etc the ANI so and if you see if you do kubernetes get pods you can see all the running pods and the same for on-app services and if we want to look at the blueprint so there is the Garrett the blueprint so you have the TOSCA blueprint here so I don't want to I don't have time to actually go into the blueprint into details but it is defines the TOSCA DSL it defined different inputs imports so it's basically some definitions of the TOSCA TOSCA types that you import and makes them as part of the blueprint it has the input section for the images the LM version and then it creates the NFS connectivity that I mentioned for all the nodes and defines the kubernetes master and the kubernetes nodes and so and the security groups etc so now after I have a kubernetes cluster running I can have multiple kubernetes clusters so I can go and provision actually the on-app components on top of it so basically what I do I point to the in this example to the tiller server or to the I point to the kubernetes master and I provision on-app on top of these kubernetes I can take different on-app components and provisions them on different clusters or I can create multiple on-app clusters and define what I want to provision where so you can see that each type TOSCA type here is very similar it's from type on-app nodes component it defines the same things except for the application here it's A and I up C clamp etc so you can go to Garrett actually and this is the link and you can look at it now let's look at interesting use cases one use case that actually the telco did almost by by itself with an integrator as use cloudify for two things one for a catalog it was for a streaming video so I have different domain and network controllers and different media environments so they wrote an abstraction layer on top of it and they used the TOSCA blueprint for first defining the catalog of services what the user can do with this what services the user can consume and after that they used on-app and the integrated cloudify as part of on-app so they pushed the TOSCA blueprint into the on-app so service orchestrator and this service orchestrator was calling cloudify to actually orchestrate the different domain controllers at the top is they used the TM form API layer actually to get integrated with their OSS BSS system and this layer actually the API translated request from the OSS BSS into cloudify and as a use case is I want to go more to the edge so we also did it with big telco we created an on-app cluster with three edges each edge was a Kubernetes cluster we defined the services in SDC and pushed it into SO and SO was calling cloudify in this case it was a connected car example so think about it how many times you use ways or Google Maps and you run into traffic jam and then it tends to turn right okay but you're already stuck in a traffic jam so we calculated a rectangle around each one of the edges and we know the density of number of cars there and basically we can tell you hey you have to go through another route so before continuing I'll show you what we did and then I will explain about the architecture we use in this architecture function as a service deployed on top of Kubernetes and you can see here you can see here that we have different car types like Ford Toyota and we use an IoT gateway for that and let me show you what happened I will go quickly here so we visualized everything on a Google map so we sent information from the car so you can see the density information and also we set a prediction back to the car to tell it where to go so we used the Google map actually and who is familiar with Boston here know that you have many times traffic jams here so we created a Tosca node to create a traffic jam here each dot represent a different car type like Mazda Toyota Ford etc now I will do a fast forward there you see the cars are getting to the traffic jam and I will send some of the cars to the destination point using another route so basically you see the cars that are going on this route get to the destination much faster than the other cars okay so let's continue so basically we used here a Crino and Kubernetes on top of it and Kubless as the function as a service platform we use an IoT gateway actually I'll show you we use an IoT gateway to get the car request it's a simulation from car request but we want to do it also in real time in real-life experiment we had the fast engine that automatically defined the Tosca type for each car type like for Ford Toyota we kept all the locations of the car in the MongoDB database and Cloudify using the Tosca blueprint orchestrated everything and also we visualized everything in Grafana and Prometheus if I go one slide here you can see the on up so on up orchestrated everything we had different edges and on up run the blueprints and the workloads on all these edges and basically the challenges were here actually that we encountered is to define things dynamically let's say I now discover a new car type I want to add it to the model dynamically and with the capabilities of what I mentioned before to do everything dynamically so we can create in the graph we can manipulate the crowd in real time and add different car types to the model itself without the need to tear down the deployment and of course when you add a new car type you need to put the function in place and you need to connect it correctly to the IoT gateway and get requests and do everything as it was initially defined okay let me go quickly this is the model that we created with SDC so you can see the IoT gateway in SDC you can see the Kubernetes master you can see the Kubernetes IoT gateway service and you can see the definition for the functions Mazda Toyota and Ford for each one of the car types and this is the Kubernetes itself and the metadata for it so this model was pushed to SDC using a Tosca blueprint and it was pushed to SO in on-up and it was called Cloudify to orchestrate things here now things that we learned about Kubernetes we with function as a service we can scale Kubernetes at three different levels one is in Kubless or in any other fast engine we have a way to define if there are more car types from type Toyota for example I can create more functions of Toyota to accept the load I can scale also the native way in Kubernetes so you can define scaling in Kubernetes and that's easy and also as I mentioned before we implement the provider interface so if Kubernetes needs another infrastructure node to add workers so it can call the infrastructure provider interface and this will call Cloudify and Cloudify will add the node into a running cluster all those scaling ways are dynamic and it is easy to scale at each one of the levels okay so now let's talk about multiple on-up Kubernetes clusters so you need multiple on-up clusters because of load balancing many load balancing and high availability so you can create multiple clusters and define what runs where and let's think about federated Kubernetes first so what is federated Kubernetes actually you know what is federated already Kubernetes federated by itself because it's node federation it runs different workloads on different nodes now federated Kubernetes Kubernetes in a nutshell as an API gateway actually the API for Kubernetes it has an HCD for configuration and then as controllers to bring the workloads to the desired states the pods to the desired state as you define in the YAML files now go one layer above it so think about the federated API so you can define for example I want to run object foo on multiple clusters so it will go to each one of the clusters and execute it so the same you have HCD for federated configuration and you have controllers to define the desired state so you can run workloads on top of Kubernetes in multiple clusters now sometimes it's the world is not only Kubernetes and you need to tie it to different things outside Kubernetes sometimes you need to run it on VMs sometimes you need to create VPNs you need to create some network on activities so for that you need a glue layer on top of it and here we use cloudify to first to define all this federation and actually define workloads on top of it so I will do fast forward so there are many use cases for from federation I go to edge cloud many use cases for edge cloud think about that you have you know actually a open stack in each one of their ships so people use it for you know there are many ships that you need it for people use it for gaming or for whatever they need so you can have open stack on a plane airplane so there are many edge use cases IOT etc so and as Michael Dell said the edge will be much bigger than the cloud itself so the reason for ad we're having edge and think about it tomorrow the central cloud is gonna broken to smaller clouds to the edge clouds so the reason are to the reasons are two-fold one is latency you cannot send everything to the main cloud let's say you need latency under 20 milliseconds so you need an edge and let's say you don't want to send enormous data points I call it that tsunami of data points to the master cloud because it's a lot and you are going to overwhelm the master cloud and you cannot keep all this information so the main two reasons are latency and lots of data points from IOT AI AR a machine-to-machine smart cities etc so in this case and how you are going to manage this so already touched on the serverless edge but the challenges are enormous here you need to define a complex model and you need to do a service composition of multiple master and edges now what do you do when there is no network between the edge and the master so the edge should work autonomously also the edge has limited resources resource constraint what you do is security who is allowed to talk from the edge outside or from the edge inside or what you do is security and tenancy inside the edge itself and many different things think about the satellite environment where the bandwidth is scarce so how do you manage this so basically I just quote someone here that say that even from operational point of view we are going to have more edges and people so how we can manage this so just to finish this I don't have enough time so there are actually many models to define and orchestrate an edge one model is to have master orchestrator that actually uses a control component at the edge but the master orchestrator actually manages everything and just send operations to the edge and more federated or distributed the way to do it is to have a local edge orchestrator that is autonomous it will run the life cycle operations like they configure provision install manage even healing and scaling at the edge itself and there is the master orchestrator the master orchestrator will connect to the local orchestrator and when there is no connectivity it will work on its own but then when there is connectivity it will actually keep the data that it collected and send it to the master orchestrator now I see that not far from today we are going to have lots of edges with connected cars say augmented reality and IOT so the master cloud will serve as a learning point like let's say you learn something at one of the edge and you want to send the data to the master orchestrator that can send it toward to the other edges or and do AI at the master cloud but the edge will need to work autonomously and be smart enough to manage all the components that are connected to it and just to finish this I don't have time to go into a federated model and managers of managers and call cross edge workflows but I just want to finish it with some examples here so basically we want to have a service composition using Tosca and you want to have it as a Lego blocks so you can combine different components together create a master service and you can create multiple master services have a catalog and each one can consume each one of the services and this could be used you know for a smart city transportation branch offices we have the VCP and SD1 solutions today for smart home and cities for military and defense energy etc. so there are lots of use cases and the challenge is to make it simple and to define you know the topology and what you want to do in 10 based and not to get into complexity so I see that I'm right on time let's say someone has questions yeah so I have several questions but I try to form rate in a single one so are you using Tosca the extradited standardized one or you have a flavor yeah we are part of the Tosca Oasis yeah we supported Tosca standard we many times run ahead of Tosca so we need to define our own types and push it back to the Tosca committee and try to to actually convince everyone that this is needed and this is based on real use cases that you need to do so and according to this the blueprints could be used by other renders as well so how deeply do I lock my infrastructure into the Clarify if I'm using which which ones do you refer to I mean created a blueprint blueprints are probably use userful only by Clarify yeah okay thank you yeah so you can define the Tosca types and use another parser to go and parse them yeah another question okay thank you


I took this idea of servant leadership to mean martyr leadership. I was serving my team and every day I was helping hundreds of thousands of people so I was bullshitting myself that it didn't matter how I felt. What's up everybody and welcome to the show today we drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. All right well welcome to the show Natalie we're so excited for your latest book to launch. Thank you I'm excited to connect with you guys and talk about it in all things awesome human project and more. Absolutely and we started your book with a story that I think a lot of our audience can resonate with and I'd love to hear a bit of your origin story you start with the idea that struggle was your religion and I know many in our audience feel like trying to become a top performer is an endless struggle. Yes and that it's the way to be yes absolutely so I just for background for everyone listen I grew up in Russia I came to the US as a refugee when I was a teenager so I'm a Russian Jew which I feel like the official religion of all Russian Jews is struggle I mean have you ever met a happy Russian person I hadn't and more than that you know my mother is a pianist my father is a scientist and like I just grew up with this idea that anything good has got to come out of struggle like my mom would tell me like you know the greatest composers the greatest artists like they are so good because they struggle so I like took that all the way in then I get here's a refugee that's a lot of struggle I mean I just want everyone to imagine I'm 13 years old I don't speak English whatever I do say comes out with a ridiculous accent everyone's making fun of me I definitely don't look very cool so I was like oh see life struggle and so I really like it became like this thing I really believed in and you know over the next 20 years I worked really hard and I built a really successful successful career and I started companies but I always struggled because I didn't think there was any other way in fact I thought that was the right way you know when I spent 20 years in technology startups right and it was just like saying like the struggle is real man and so I was like yeah the struggle is real I'm like there was this worship of struggle so I was like oh my god I'm really overachieving at struggle like I sleep four hours a night I'm always like overwhelmed with self-doubt and exhaustion but like I'm doing it the right way so I'm listening to myself talk and I'm like this is an interesting story of someone who teaches emotional fitness for a living but it's a truth I never imagined I'd be here and the way the origin story actually gets me to do what I do is several years ago I suffered a really really debilitating burnout in fact I think it was more than a burnout the best expression I've come up with is a breakdown of being I just stopped being I it was the scariest thing I've ever been through I couldn't function I was a kind of a shadow of myself and it's really scary I was I was a CEO of a company called Happier right helping hundreds of thousands of people live Happier but I could hardly function I I was blacking out I hadn't wasn't speaking to my husband of 20 years I didn't know which end was up as a mom and you know it's all really hard to say but I think it's really important to share and as scary as it was in a way as it was a blessing because for the first time in my life I stopped and I had to find a different way because the struggle religion wasn't working and I did a ton of research and explored a lot of Eastern and traditions and just to figure out how to live and work in a different way and eventually realize hold on these things I'm doing for myself they can help a lot of people and here I am now that absolute shutdown is I'm sure what a lot in our audience would love to avoid what were some of the earlier signs of burnout in your life so it's a great question and I just want to be honest and saying there were many signs and I ignored them all like I I don't want to like I had no the skill one of the core skills that I teach now is emotional awareness and I had none I mean I lived from my neck up you know again like the the intelligentsia like you know it doesn't matter what you feel who cares like I'm not even sure I knew a lot of words for feelings and in Russian so I had there were many signs but I never took them as signs because that was struggle and struggle was the right way so some of the signs were I'm a really great speaker I now speak for a living it's something I really love to do and I started to like not feel good in presentations to like investors or my team I started to like forget what I was talking about you think this would you know light bulb but for me it was like wow I'm struggling a lot I must be doing it right the biggest I think signs were the biggest one sign is just dread I just began to dread everything I open my eyes in the morning after my you know maximum four hours of sleep because that's what you know super women do right like if you're you know an entrepreneur that's what you're supposed to do but also I just couldn't sleep more than four hours with all the stuff going on I'd open my eyes and I would just feel this heavy dread and all I wanted was just like not do the things you know and resenting your work is one of the top signs of burnout again at the time I was like wow this just means I'm working a lot look how great I'm doing so that was a huge sign just that feeling of dread of everything including things I used to enjoy but again at the time I didn't take it as a sign of burnout I took it as a sign of fantastic struggle I think this is an important thing to discuss as more and more people take on an entrepreneurial roles in their lives the idea of a side hustle is becoming very popular now and so people are trying to get things moving on the side some of us have jumped right into entrepreneurship and we are going to rationalize a lot of our emotional issues and mental physical issues that are going to come up from all of this struggle and we're going to rationalize it in one way or another in order to deal with it and keep plugging on now is there anything that you can speak to of what those rationalizations look like and know when you're bullshitting yourself so that you can take care of yourself I'm so excited I get to say bullshit on the show I should have asked I usually ask because you know I do a ton of speaking and there's like no you know no word no no bad words on stage so this is uh good I love your question because that's what I was doing I was bullshitting myself the whole time and I wasn't I was bullshitting myself because my bullshit story was it doesn't matter how I feel as long as I care about my team and I care about the vision and I care about creating a product that people love you know I took this idea of servant leadership to mean martyr leadership right like I was serving my team and every day I was helping hundreds of thousands of people so like I was bullshitting myself that it didn't matter how I felt and that's the biggest lie that we as entrepreneurs and as leaders tell ourselves that how we feel does not impact one our ability to actually make the right decisions you know when you're constantly exhausted and stressed out your brain starts to interpret that you're in danger we can handle us human being short periods of stress we're actually very good at short-term stress if you're under chronic stress your brain says oh I am in danger and when your brain senses danger it goes until we all notice fight or flight well you may not know about fight or flight when you're in fight or flight the brain says okay I only want to focus on the most important things that help me stay safe so things that go out the door are analytical thinking being able to consider multiple points of view being able to consider alternative paths these are all essential things for anyone having a side hustle or running a company like these are the most important things when you are under chronic stress your brain considers those luxury it's a waste of resources you know it's really good when you're what your brain does it narrows your vision literally and figuratively like your field of near your thighs get really strong because your brain is literally getting you ready to run and so I say all this because this whole idea like the biggest bullshit is it doesn't matter how I feel like you said I can just keep plugging through yeah you can keep plugging through but you can't do great work you can't make good decisions and you definitely can't build a great business and to me this this is the wake-up call that I want to be you know and I speak to a ton of entrepreneurs and when I started sharing my story I can't tell you how many people came to me were like with the quiet the sh like nobody knows but I am where you were so this idea that somehow our well-being our energy level is separate from what we can output it's just the biggest bullshit this is why to me you know one of the missions I'm on is you know that we have in this culture like this idea of like oh you're such a she's such a superwoman like oh he's a superhero being human is hard enough let's take off the cape because if we acknowledge that I'm a human being I have a limited amount of emotional mental and physical energy every day everything I do needs energy so if I am on empty I actually can't do the things that I need to do and for me you know I'm happier and a few other companies I've run I raise money for them I hired a team right these are all things that entrepreneurs we know are essential right you need capital you need a team you need product well your energy level is that essential right it's like people tell me like oh I have 12 months of runway you know cash for my business and I say how much energy runway do you have and they're like what who cares that's actually more important so it's a great question because that's the biggest lie that I told myself and that we tell ourselves is somehow we have unlimited energy to keep plugging away we can keep plugging away but no one builds a great business by plugging away we drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends it's so true and I was listening to another podcast you're on on my flight to Vegas last week and what do they say when you're on the plane right put your oxygen mask on first before you help anyone else but often as entrepreneurs and leaders we're not even thinking about our own oxygen we're running around the plane trying to get everyone else masked and trying to get everyone else moving in the right direction and usually it's the people closest to us who aren't involved in the venture who aren't involved in the business who see these signs see us not sleeping see us popping up in the middle of the night and feel the grumpiness the lack of energy and emotion expressed in our relationships and I know you talked about that in the book how it had an impact in your marriage in the way you were showing up for your kids a huge impact and again this is something that's really painful to say but I think it's really important to share I lived under this like lie that it didn't matter how much darkness I felt or exhaustion or a self-doubt that it wasn't affecting anything was affecting everything right my husband and I have been together we met in college we're like a really old married couple but it spilled into everything and I'm not blaming myself I you know I say this with a tremendous amount of compassion but when I am unempty I'm snappy I have no patience I expect only perfection I know listeners are nodding right now because I know I'm not alone I work with a lot of leaders right and it's normal like you don't have anything to give you can't give what you don't have and so I didn't have anything to give to my husband and at our marriage separate I didn't have a lot to give to my daughter not for lack of love right this is the thing I say to leaders and entrepreneurs like it doesn't matter how much you care about people in your life or people at work or it actually doesn't matter if you're if you don't have anything to give you actually can't give so it had a huge impact on my close relationships on my close relationships at work and you know in retrospect do I wish I caught some you know do I wish I had a moment of clarity at one point and been like oh wait hold on this is impacting everything I do but you know our brain loves inertia this is one of the things I write so much about in my book of how we have to talk back to our brain I was in this inertia as I said like I thought that was the right way like I just assumed everyone did it that way I didn't think there was a choice like my choice was I either succeed and I achieve a lot of things and I build a successful company like I honor this American dream or I take care of myself and I take care of my well-being and that was in my mind for lazy people like I saw well-being and success as a choice but it isn't well-being is a non-negotiable ingredient and success so I just had it wrong the book define awesome human because who doesn't want to be an awesome human no it's a great point and when we were working on the book we have the content like I knew what I wanted to write but we didn't have the title and then my publisher was watching videos of me speak and for years I get on stage and I say hello awesome humans and she was like what do you mean by that and I was like well I actually mean something really specific I believe we all have an awesome human inside of ourselves we all have this unique capacity to do something meaningful and good like I don't know if you guys have heard of acorn theory a lot of philosophers I really believe in that I believe we're each born with a destiny a gift and our life's work is to figure out what the heck that is and then work really hard to bring it out that's the awesome part but we're also human that means we mess up and we can't do it perfectly and it means we have to take care of our energy reservoir and we actually have to do work with our thoughts to kind of shift them to be more productive so we're awesome and we're human we're awesome humans


, I have a technical question on that motion. I think we prior, we discussed previously that a renewal of a license would be from the point of the vote, not necessarily June 24th. Is that correct Todd? No, there's been a review. That was discussed in the past. We went back and took a look at the statute though and it's right in section 20 F. It says that the category two license issued shall be for a period of five years and in order to remain in compliance with that section I would suggest that the license has to have effectively ended on June 24th and would then be renewed at that time even though it didn't technically expire because it was continued while the commission was reviewing the application that should be the actual date to ensure that it's a five years. Fair enough, I just wanted to make sure we didn't have a misunderstanding because I remember the prior discussion. And Commissioner Zuniga, you're absolutely right. I also address that question. It's my understanding team and maybe Karen if you wanna help clarify that this has been addressed with Lance and his team because I believe the initial letter did reference as Commissioner Zuniga brought up that it would be the date going forward as opposed to the June date. Yes, that is correct Madam Chair and the team did circle back with Lance and the team at PPC on that. So we're all in agreement, it's my understanding. Commissioner Zuniga. On that note, then I would second the motion. Perfect motion. And an important clarification, so thank you. Does anybody have any further edits or questions regarding the motion before us? All right, then I'll take a roll call vote and Commissioner Cameron. Aye. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Zuniga. Aye. Commissioner Stevens. Aye. And I vote yes, 5-0, Shara. And that would be a congratulations to PPC, to Lance George and their entire team. With that, each commissioner, if you would like to comment, we will have President and Chief and Executive Officer, CEO, Jay Snowden who does wish to address all of us. So if you would like perhaps to make any comments now, I would invite that we let President and Chief Executive Officer Snowden close, make the final statement today. So I would invite you now to make your comments. I'll be happy to just reiterate, thank you to all the team, ICJ has joined us. Thank you, Jay, for all the work that PPC has done, all the work that Penn National does and has brought to the Commonwealth here with the investment six and a half years ago and the five years of operations. You know, it's a testament to the strength of the company. And in many ways, the Commonwealth has benefited because of all of that. So congratulations on this new phase. And we look forward to another five years of similar smooth operations. If I could, yes, thank you. If I could, I congratulate the team also. Not only were there no disqualifying issues, but there were no issues at all. It was such a clean report today and both teams, I think, worked hard to get to this point. President Snowden made us, and I'll always remember this, he made us a commitment when we first issued this license that Penn National would be a good partner here in Massachusetts and would always live up to their commitments. And I think the public meeting, which we had so many people testify, how much good has been done for the community and what a good partner PPC has been, is a testament to that promise and the fact that that promise was kept. So again, congratulations and really good work. Thank you. Commissioner Stevens. Sure, thank you, Madam Chair. You know, it's interesting we're sitting here when we first reviewed their RFA-2 application. That process was both an opportunity to look at the previous performance of the licensee as well as what their plans would be going forward. And that was really how we based our decision. As we get here today and think about the license renewal, it's that same combination. We have looked at their performance over the past five years and it has been strong and at the same time, through some of the plans that Director Griffin talked about, we get a little bit of insight into what the next five years will look like also. And I think that's a strong acknowledgement of the great work that the PPC team has done as well as Penn National. You know, when we licensed them as the first licensee in the Commonwealth, they immediately struck out to do two things, which was stem the loss of revenue that we knew was going to other gaming jurisdictions, as well as offer some incredible career and work opportunities for Massachusetts residents. Those were the two big components of the Expanded Gaming Act. And I think it's been determined that PPC did a great job and helping us meet those objectives of the gaming statute. The next five years will be exciting. I think the leadership of the company and the leadership on the ground and Plainville will continue to help them be successful, not only just with gaming operations, but as Commissioner Cameron always notes with the horse racing side of the business, I think they have also really helped meet the legislature's expectations as to what could really be possible for horse racing here in the Commonwealth. So just kudos all around and great work by our team to get us to this licensed renewal decision today and thank everybody for their good work. Commissioner O'Brien. Sure, thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just to reiterate the congratulations to the licensee and then also a thank you to our staff, not only the people who present today, but all the people that help them gather all the materials to get us to where we are. And I do think that this commission benefited from the fact that you have a licensee, you complied with the conditions and that there were no surprises. I think that also made the process of doing the first renewal as easy. It could probably be in these circumstances because you could really look at the statute and determine what we as a body wanted to look at. So again, thank you to the people of PBC who unusual circumstances compiled the information and then in particular at our staff. And I wish they luck over the next five years and I hope they keep it going. I'll just echo that and extend to you Jay, congratulations. We extend congratulations to your entire team, many of whom are joining us virtually today. I think that I'd like to just share a quick note that we experienced when we held the public hearing. One of the comments was made by apparently a candidate for an office that was not successful. From our perspective, however, that individual was terribly successful because he went door to door prior to COVID and asked 300 voters a series of question and each one was asked about what they thought about PPC. And this gentleman was able to report back to all of us that there were no negative comments whatsoever that PPC was indeed a neighbor and an economic driver that benefited each and every one of those voters. That was a significant piece of due diligence for us. And note that perhaps he should have been elected given his work ethic on that piece. You have, for me, and I know from my fellow commissioners, you've been an extraordinary partner as we've navigated the pandemic. We had two for a sustainable opening, imposed significant restrictions. Your team has been fully compliant with those additional conditions on top of everything else that you were expected to do when back when you were originally received this license. And for that we are grateful because as I've said before, the stakes are so high right now. So we thank you for that.  We wish him well. We look forward to working with North and I know that our entire team, I wish they could all express their gratitude to Lance because I know that you touched each and every one of our team. We're a small group and all the way from the GEU, all the way through the entire enterprise, Lance has made a difference. So thank you. And to that, congratulations. And I suspect, Jay, you'd like to make a statement and we would welcome it, but you're mute. Help, thank you. Well, good afternoon, Madam Chair and commissioners. A couple of things struck me as I listened to the comments. One, I'm getting really old. My hairline on video is horrific. And I think that when I first met the commissioners who I've known the longest, Commissioner Cameron, Commissioner Stevens, Commissioner Zuniga, hairline was better, but time flies. Wow. I think about six, seven years ago when we were presenting to you and really trying to educate around our company and what we stand for, our culture and our values and the pledges and the promises and commitments that we made throughout that process. And of course, the day we won the license five and a half years ago, I remember like it was yesterday, sitting there and pins and needles until Commissioner Stevens with his stone look gave us the final rev it after two to two. And what a wild ride, but it's been, I'm so proud of the last five years and Executive Director Wells. I've known her for five and a half years as well. And really can't thank your staff enough throughout this timeframe. It's been a great partnership. I would tell you, I've mentioned this before. It's not the same in every state. We really value and take serious being the first licensee in Massachusetts Casino History, the first five year renewal. And this is a very important property in our portfolio. It's the only property we have in the state of Massachusetts. It's my home state. It's a very important state that we wanna make you proud. And I'm glad we have for the first five years. I do have to say that we have a board meeting going today. I think Chair Judd Stein had mentioned that previously, but I did join Aaron's office in time to hear Commissioner Cameron talk about Lance and what a trader he is as a fellow Yankee fan. I may have to reconsider his promotion to he truly is now a Boston fan across all sports. His brother's not gonna be happy to hear that. But in all seriousness, we're very proud of Lance. He's done a great job. And the opening, they're not easy. And you'll recall the first week or two after we open rave reviews, but you typically have all of this pent up demand the first few days or the first week.  And we've met from being heroes to dogs overnight in the Boston Globe and the media reports. And so Lance is so resilient and never complains. And I think you guys really summarized him and described him very well that he's no nonsense, very transparent. You get what you always need, which is the truth. And even when the truth is something that we need to self report, that's what you're gonna get and you're gonna get it real time. That's what we do. That won't change. I think you're gonna find with North, who is somebody that Erin and I, I know she mentioned, have known for a long time from even pre-pen days. And then I recruited him to pen because I think so highly of him. I think you're gonna find that he has a lot of those same qualities, obviously different style, but I think that you're really gonna like him. So really, just wanted to thank you. I mean, really it's for us, it's not just about gaming, it's also about horse racing. That's something that we also promised when we were able to earn this license five and a half years ago. And I hope that you're proud of what we've done for horse racing in the state of Massachusetts and certainly being the first to open a casino and to do it in a way with integrity and transparency and partnership. And I love always hearing you guys describe it that way as well, you have a job to do as regulators. We always respect that, but we can also be partners. And I think in the States where we're at our best, it is viewed also as a partnership. We will always respect the job you have to do and we will always self-report and we will always take criticism and constructive ideas to heart because we wanna make you proud. But this is a special day for us. And I'm glad to see all of your faces. I wish we could do this in person. It'd be nice to give everybody a hug, but you guys have set a really high standard as the first regulatory body in Massachusetts gaming history as well. And we take that seriously. So I just wanted to thank all of you. I wanted to thank your staff, obviously thank Lance. I'll do more of that offline and do some embarrassing things for him within the company. And we look forward to welcoming North to Massachusetts. And Aaron will be making those introductions. Hopefully not too distant future. We can do more of that in person. But I'm also available and free right now for any questions that you may have for me, whatever's on your mind, I'm happy to answer. Any questions for Jay? Even though I said he could have the last word. I think we're all set. Jay, congratulations, congratulations PPC. In terms of our work, Todd and Joe, I know we have to finalize their license. I think that the vote today memorializes our action. And so you'll be getting the written documentation that you need to cement the deal five years. It takes a lot of work. It's a short time period. And we appreciate all the efforts that went into getting us prepared to make an informed decision today. Thank you so much. Thank you. We'll continue to make you proud. And then last comment I would make is, you know, we understand these licenses are, it's a privilege. It's not a right. And we'll continue to earn that every day, every month, every year through the next five years. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. With that commissioners, we do have a meeting at one o'clock for our agenda setting. We reversed the order of our meetings today. And I suspect we all need to have a little bit of a lunch break. So do I have a motion to adjourn? With, unless there's any other further comments, besides a big, I think we can all say, thank you team. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Right. Karen, you'll make sure that that message goes all the way through. Thanks. Absolutely, ma'am. Move to adjourn. I second. Okay. Commissioner Cameron. Aye. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Zuniga. Aye. Thank you team. Congratulations, Ben. Lance. And commissioner Stephens. Another big thanks to the entire team and I vote aye also. Great. Five, zero, shard. Thank you so much, everyone. Great job. Thank you, Joe. Great job.


I can't wait to share this with you because this routine for Gua Sha is so simple and so easy. Number one, Gua Sha has been known to really sculpt faces. It is a known fact that we have so much extra fluid in our bodies at any given time that being able to take that lymphatic system and drain it, it can really take years off of your look. I have seen a dramatic difference in my skin.  What happens is that blood delivers nutrients, collagen, all the things that we need to look younger. This has been so effective for me and if you have any problems with your sinuses, folds, or allergies or anything like that, that this whole area is affected headaches. All right girlfriends, are you ready to Gua Sha? We are going to be using a little bit of oil on our face today. I like to use, by the way, I am whitening my teeth with crest white strips in this video. This is the real thing. This is the morning routine, so you're getting it all. Okay, so what this is is castor oil, but it's organic castor oil and when you buy oils, make sure you have it in a dark bottle because it will oxidize a lot slower. I actually keep mine in a dark closet in addition to having the dark bottle and so you are just going to pour out some of your oil. I use castor oil because it's full of vitamins and it is just so good for your skin. I also love jojoba oil but I was out of jojoba oil and make sure that you go down onto your neck and you get plenty onto your neck and your decollete too. Don't forget your decollete. Once you have that, you're just going to use any gua sha tool. I found this one on Amazon. It came with a jade roller as well and I really, really like it. It's a little bit thicker so I, I don't know, I just like it a little bit more. So you're going to always hold your gua sha tool at a 45 degree angle and you're going to find the best curve or the best position to put it onto your face. Now I like to use this long straight part right here to do my neck and so on the neck you're going to do each of these exercises eight times and we're going to do this in real time. So do that 45 degree angle, medium pressure, nothing that's going to get anybody going or anything. I forgot how many that was. I think it was five, six, seven and eight and then we're going to do the other side one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight and we're straight up the neck and I'm going to chant one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. This helps so much with puffiness. Okay now we're going to go on to our jawline. The reason that I do it in this order is you're going to see at the very end how I get everything to drain. So, and I want everything lifted so I don't want to really be going down even though everything drains down right but we're going to be trying to lift at the same time. So my jawline right here is getting so saggy. So I'm taking that edge right there and I'm going right underneath the chin and I'm coming clear out to the ear and when I get out to the ear I do a little wiggle. Now why do I do that? Because as you're pushing all that fluid you're also pushing it towards where we're draining which is clear out here. So I want all that fluid that I just pushed up for my neck to go out and drain out here.  This is just a miracle for him for me to be able to do this. So I'm going to turn it this way in this hand because we were just there actually I forgot to do the wiggle didn't I? But we will wiggle right here. I was talking too much I wasn't paying attention to what I'm doing. So out and wiggle out there at the edge and what I want you to notice right here is that you may have a little kind of crunching feeling going on as you're doing this that's totally normal and what that is is that is little kernels or little maybe calcified spots or little pockets of extra lymphatic fluid that you're trying to get rid of and I use a little bit more pressure on this part and you can already see how my skin is starting to get a little bit more pink as we're doing this and again I'm sorry if I didn't do eight each time I'm talking and I just don't realize what I'm doing. Okay now I'm going to use this side or you can use right here and we're going to do the chin and I'm going to just go out I can really feel this part when I start doing this this is a huge part and I don't know why I think it's because I keep a lot of attention in my jaw so I'm pushing it out that way now I'm going to push it up this way I don't want you to go onto the top of your cheek and the reason is cosmetic and you'll be really surprised when I tell you this when you are doing this if you leave your cheek alone you're going to get a little bit fuller cheek and for me that's a really big deal when I do get a little bit fuller cheek because as I've aged I've really lost a lot of volume in there and I'm going to split this in two so only did four so now I'm going to do my upper lip and again hold on to your lip there two this is where I feel a ton of those kernels okay now we're going to do four more of these right around that cheekbone just right underneath it pulling all of that lymphatic fluid out and then go on your nose this is where the sinus comes in and this is huge go on your nose same part right there and just do just to the cheek this is where I kind of just do this scooping motion like this this feels really good and there are a lot of kernels in my nose I don't know why and then over the eye this is over the cheekbone so and it's okay to do it over your eye as a matter of fact if you have puffy eyes this is a huge tool for you to be able to get rid of your puffy eyes and now you're going to go over into the orbital bone here kind of stay away from that eye socket not necessarily that it's going to cause damage if you're not pushing very hard but I just think it's better to kind of you know protect the eyes if we can and this one is just I'm going just above that eye socket so I can feel that soft part where the eye is and I'm going just above it and you can imagine how much this does as far as taking care of all of that fluid that you have I ate salt last night I am hooked on club crackers for some silly reason anyway they were so salty this package that I had last night well I get the little snack packs you know and um yeah they were so salty I was like when I woke up I'm like now you're gonna just on this part you're gonna go straight up and you're going to do that a few times and you can do that on this rounded part you can do it on this curved part if you want to as well but I find that this rounded part gives me a little bit more I don't know a little bit more pressure and I like that on my forehead because I always feel like my forehead doesn't quite get enough now notice I'm not wiggling on this part that's because right now I'm going to go over here and I'm going to go into the hairline again right here on the outside now this one is really good for pushing it out if you're doing half of it with me I want you to stop and I want you to just think about the two sides of your face I feel like this is just really tingly I don't I don't know if that's just me or if that's the castor oil or what but even no matter when I've done gua sha I felt the blood start coming to this area blood is what builds collagen and you also want to get rid of all that toxic lymph that's gathered into your face so now I've done all of this I want to just really quickly do right here because this part didn't get too much as I was doing my eye now we've done all this up right we've pulled all this up we need it to drain out of our bodies your lymphatic system drainage starts behind your ear and goes all the way down your neck so now I want you to take your gua sha and you can take this part or this part I personally would go right here on this edge because you're getting a little bit more area to drain five sorry I forgot to count and you're pushing it down here you can also go behind here if you want to if you're holding a lot of tension it's really good to do that now right here across the chest this is important because you do have a drainage system right here as well so if you're ever doing any sort of body gua sha you're going to want this to be your channel of drainage because that's how the lymph the lymph works so I'm going to just push all of this up this is my whole decollete and I get a little bit of pain in here too not from my breasts just the little kernels that I can feel in there so this is kind of breaking those up and you know getting rid of all that extra toxins so we're going to go now and we're going to track right across here right in our above our collarbone track through there because remember I said that this is drainage right through here I apologize the mirror right here I'm trying to look in and then track above the collarbone but below the collarbone is where that drainage sits so both above the collarbone and below it I always feel a lot of drainage if you want to you can also go into your arm and your armpit you can take that system that we were just draining go down and go out through the breast just straight down I'm not going to do my other side of my face I think we maybe can see a little bit more glow on this side hopefully and I do appreciate you hanging in even though I've got my whitening strips on I'm going to link everything down below including the oils that I use two or three of them I'll link my gouache with my jade roller and I'll link the white strips as well let me know if you do enjoy this kind of tutorial and I can go ahead and make a few more for you if you did enjoy it please give it a thumbs up and if you're not already subscribed and you like this kind of content please do so now because I would love to have you as part of our family and let me know what you think of this down in the comment section as well now we're going to take a minute and we're going to see what I had on at the beginning of the video this has got lace sleeves and it has kind of a double ruffle on it really cute crew neck up there this is really cute tucked in or have it out you could wear this with a skirt because it's a little bit more dressy and then these are just a pair of my favorite jeans that are skinny jeans I wear skinny jeans everybody is like no you can't wear skinny jeans anymore I am probably going to wear skinny jeans till the day I die either matter pair leggings I'm going to be in but I love that these are so stretchy around the waist and they're stretchy all the way through the whole jean okay let's take a peek at this jewelry this is a gold chain little rhinestones in here with a silver look to it right through here and I just like the way that it lays I've always loved this necklace I wear it over and over again on camera and then I also have a pair of new earrings which are really cute because they have this front little swirl gold swirl right here that attaches but the jacket on the back of it is a little bobble if you were wondering how those were attaching as I was talking today that is them so that is the end of the video thank you guys so much for being here with me today I do love having you I hope you come around in my next video and we'll be together very soon love you much bye


Hey friends and happy 4th of July weekend. Tonight I am celebrating here at the Magic Kingdom. I have dining reservations at the Liberty Tree Tavern. We're going to eat some food, ride some rides and watch some fireworks. So let's go do this. Today is July 3rd. Tomorrow is the 4th of July. Disney did announce they're not going to be doing any special fireworks. But I know Disney. They don't like to disappoint but they love to surprise people. So anything can happen. Rumor has it, even though they're not doing any special 4th of July fireworks, they might actually do the 4th of July projections on the castle. And they normally do do that on the 3rd and the 4th. So, you know, we're just gonna try to wish for the best. Can you hear that patriotic music playing right here next to the castle? There is actually quite a few things we can do in Liberty Square. We can ride the Liberty Bell. We can go on Haunted Mansion. And I'm excited for today. I'm excited for the whole weekend. It is a bit rainy out today and definitely some gray skies. But we've been having rain basically all week. And Hurricane Elsa is making her way up through Orlando any day now. We're gonna start off with the Liberty Tree Tavern because that's the earliest I can get a reservation. It's a very popular restaurant during the 4th of July weekend because everyone wants to eat there because it's the Liberty Tree Tavern. Looks like we get a little bit of the rainy day cavalcade too. Awesome. Oh, Mickey's in the rainy day one. Look at him. It's a good thing that we're starting off with the Liberty Tree Tavern because now it's starting to rain actually a lot more. And we got here just in time. This restaurant is the definition of Americana. From the restroom signs, take a look at that. To all the different presidential dining rooms. This place is the perfect place to be for the 4th of July. I actually tend to eat here almost every holiday. Like it's great to come for Christmas. I think I eat here at Christmas on the Easter. And it's just so amazing. I don't even have imitation candles as the lighting in here. I just love it. Look at this. Isn't that so cool? Looks like our table is ready. And we're going to be dining in the George Washington room. How awesome is that? Most of the dining rooms are all different presidential dining rooms. And I've only ever eaten in the Jefferson room. So this will be my first George Washington experience. This is the Thomas Jefferson room. And they actually have blueprints of the White House over there. And where we're dining today is the George Washington room. Look at that. Isn't that awesome? The menu itself is family style dining. Kind of like a skillet. And you're going to get all the works. You're going to get pork and beef and mashed potatoes. A good traditional like 1776 dinner. And the only thing we have to decide on is something to drink. They do have beers and cocktails. And since it's the 4th of July weekend. I think I might get myself a good old Sam Adams. Oh, they actually have a Sam Adams seasonal. I love the fact that there's going to be a George Washington picture behind me the whole entire time when I'm eating.  Soft drinks are included in the price. And like I said, it's all you care to enjoy. It's $39. So I got a half and half. And then I've got my Sam Adams seasonal. Which is the summer ale. And we're going to start off with a nice salad. Look at this. It's actually a very nice salad. Usually they give you like a family style. But they just put it all in like one little plate for me. I feel kind of special. This salad actually comes with a house made dressing. But what I really love with the dinner rolls that they have here. These are so good.  I feel like I always have to do that. Maybe we can make like a turkey pork sandwich. Like a little mini sandwich with the dinner rolls. I think that's a good idea. They also have some really good substitutions you can get. Normally it does come with mac and cheese. But I'm not a big fan of the mac and cheese here. Or actually anywhere. So I'm going to get french fries instead. And that's not on the menu. You have to ask for it. And I hear if you get extra gravy. It's like a great like gravy french fries. They also have an impossible meatloaf. That's pretty decent from what I hear. And yeah, just all you have to do is ask yourself about things. And they're more than like accommodating. It's also good that we can have a good old Sam Adams where we're at the Magic Kingdom. Look at that. It's so refreshing looking, doesn't it? Can we see those bubbles? I'm not a big fan of the regular Sam Adams. But I love the summer ale. So cheers. And now it looks like the patriotic feast is here. Look at this. We got french fries, turkey, pork, pot roast, stuffing, green beans, mashed potatoes, and a gravy boat. This is for the french fries. Look at this. This is what I was talking about. Oh wow. I am so excited. Honestly, I think this is the best gravy in Disney World. Like honestly, if you know any place else that has better gravy, this is it for me though. I love it. Now we're going to dive into the meat stove and we're going to start off with the pork. And the pork is definitely enough that you can just kind of cut with your fork without making too much of a mess. Oh yeah, look at that. That's what I'm talking about. The gravy that I put on my french fries does not have mushrooms in it. So if you don't like mushroom gravy, you can always get that gravy instead. But I don't mind it a little bit on the pork. We'll find out. Here we go. The pork is delicious and I like the gravy too. But now I think we're going to get a little bit of the turkey. And I like to get turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing all in one bite. That is my favorite right there. Actually, we're going to get a little gravy too. Yeah, I'm going to do a little bit of this. Just a little bit. Just a little dab. Oh, too much. Too much. Too much. This is for you George. That is so good. Oh, I love it. We're going to dive into the pot roast here. Yeah. Get a little pot roast. Oh, a little green beans at the same time.  This is such a great feast, honestly. And for the price, it's not that bad. Especially here at the Magic Kingdom.  It's a really nice place. It's really nicely welcomed in here. Of course you get Sam Adams. I mean, it's like the best of both worlds. There we go. Perfect. A little sandwich. I can't be the only person that does this with their dinner rolls, right? I mean, I feel like there's a lot of other people that do it. But I love it. Here we go. That is so good. And like I said, it's all you care to enjoy. I can get another plate full, or we can just get a little bit of turkey if we wanted to. But I don't think I need to. And plus we still have dessert. Which is going to be an amazing dessert. And as I said before, soft drinks are included with the $39 price tag. So that means coffee. So I might have a coffee with my dessert. Once I finish up my beer here. I mean, I'm kind of just enjoying it at this point. It's so delicious. And here we go. Owie gooey toffee cake. And then coffee. Aw, this is so good. So well. I'm going to add a little cream in there. Perfect. A little bit of this sugar. Not too much though. Just a little bit. A little bit of sugar. Then we're going to grab our spoon. Give that a little twirl around. Actually, you know what? Maybe just a little bit of this. Just like Mrs. Doubtfire. This is so, so good. Look at that. I love it.  There we go. Much too good. I feel like this dessert gets better as the ice cream starts to melt. You know what I mean? It is so good though. And it goes great with coffee. The reason I put a little bit of ice cream in the coffee. And I said kind of like Mrs. Doubtfire. Maybe you remember what she puts or he puts the pie on his face. And he's pouring tea and he drops it down. And he's like how many, darling? One or two. And it just cracks me up every time I get coffee, I think of that. Something really cool to point out is look at the wooden legs next to the fireplace in the George Washington Rome. Well, dinner was great. And now it's time to move along. Still very rainy out. So I think I'm going to try to sneak over to the Country Bear Jamboree. Luckily I've got my umbrella. It's shaking around a little bit. And there we go. I sure hope this rain stops before the fireworks tonight. Oh, hey, how are you friends? As I was saying, I hope that the rain goes away before the fireworks start because I watched the premiere of Happily Ever After or the welcoming back Happily Ever After. And it was a pouring rainstorm because of the little tinkerbell. So I thought today might be a little different. We'll find out though. I'll still wait out. It's Fourth of July weekend. It's going to be fireworks all day. Looks like a long wait for the Haunted Mansion. But there's nothing else going on right now. It's raining out and everyone's trying to seek shelter. So I guess I'll hop in line and then jump right into the ride. It's nice to be able to see that they have the pre-shows back. Is the room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination? To find a way out? Of course, there's always my way. I thought it would be maybe over by the time we got off the ride but not looking too good here. We're going to have to shake it off. Shake it off.  Oh boy. We're going to try to make it. A nice little rainy ride on the Liberty Bell would be amazing. Last call. Last call. No, no, no. That was amazing. We made it. Holy moly. Thank you. Definitely going to want to stay on the second floor here. Not too sure. Oh, you know what? Maybe we'll go all the way up the top. We got an umbrella. Might as well. There we go. All the way up. Little rain's not going to hurt us. This is great. Look at this. We got the whole entire front of the boat to ourselves. I mean, it is raining out. Nobody really wants to be standing up here, but I'm keeping pretty dry. I got an umbrella. I'm fine. Look at those ducks down there. This is going to be such a beautiful view. I mean, I really like the fact that it's raining out right now. We get to look at this. You notice something kind of strange, too? I can see right through the water. Like, I don't think I've ever been able to see through the water here. Can you see the track? If you know what I'm talking about, I don't want to ruin the magic, but I mean, you can see it. Holy moly. Hi friends. I kind of just realized that my hat technically holds the umbrella up so I can kind of have both of my hands free. Isn't that a little fancy? It's a little uncomfortable, though. I feel like my head's slanted a little bit to the right. But, yeah, at least I have both of my hands free. I wonder if Big Thunder Mountain is running right now. Usually, most of the rides can ride during the rain. It's just the lightning that they can't run on. I don't see any lightning in there. Oh, yeah, there it is. I see it. The wettest ride in the wilderness. A lot of people don't know the girth of Big Thunder Mountain. Look how long it is. It is massive. It is definitely a mountain. Oh, look. There's a train. That train's out of control. And on the back here, they even have some docks. I wonder if anyone's ever actually been down there other than just to upkeep them. It'd be a cool place to have a photo. Also notice this track right here going all the way back there. That's really, really awesome. I decided to come down to the bottom of the dock so we can get a good look at the hot of mansion. It's a good view from this very boat. Look at that. Isn't that awesome? Everyone's all lined up to go on the hot of mansion. That was me not too long ago. That was a fun little ride. I'm happy that we caught it because I don't know if it's going to go out again. The rain actually got a little bit worse. So now I think I'm going to head over to Main Street, USA and I want to sit there and wait for a little bit. Now maybe they might make the castle red, white, and blue. That would be really awesome. There's no fireworks I don't think. What I mean by no fireworks I mean no special 4th of July weekend fireworks. They're still going to have happily ever after as planned but I really wish we could see just a little bit of a special ending or like I said even if they made the castle red, white, and blue they might do that tomorrow because it's actually the fourth and like I said maybe I'll be here tomorrow. I'm happy Casey's reopened and if I didn't eat at the Liberty Tree Tavern Casey's but I will get myself something to drink from Casey's because this I love. The frozen mint julep. I love it. I just placed my mobile order so then I think I'm about ready. I don't think they have to repair it. Yep it's already so I just got to head on into spot number 2. This is what I'm getting right here. So amazing and delicious. I also have the baseball brownie but what is your favorite thing to get here? I know a lot of people love the corn dog nuggies. Right here my friend. Oh excellent look at that. Perfect. I know it's not really like a hot day beverage because it's not really hot out but this is so refreshing. I love this. Wow. So sweet and so minty. I love it.  Stare at the castle. Looks like the rain is really stopping here. We might be lucky. We might be good to go for tonight. It looks like everyone is getting their spots for the fireworks. It's just about an hour. It's 8.15pm. It's 9.15pm the fireworks start and the hub is pretty full. I'm pretty sure we are going to have a nice dry happily ever after tonight. Seems like all the rain went away. I've got a little proposal happening there. Isn't that amazing? Last time we were able to watch happily ever after in kind of like a reserve viewing area so tonight I'm just going to be right in the middle of things. Kind of like just tucked off to the side of main street. I don't like to be exactly right in the middle of main street. I like to be kind of on the sidewalk a little bit and I don't mind but it's definitely starting to fill in all the way. Only 30 minutes to go and almost not a spot to stand. This is the end of this day with us today. In just a few minutes the sky above is going to pass and we're line up with fireworks as we proudly present our lifetime spectacular happily ever after. You can do better than that I said are you excited if at this time we do need everybody to be standing. Everybody needs to stand up and move forward filling in any available space. Have a friend. Have a friend. It also looks like they did the front ones red, white and blue as well. Take a look at that isn't it beautiful. Well there you have it. We didn't get the 4th of July fireworks but at least we got the stars and stripes on the castle. I am so happy and I'm just happy we have fireworks in general. You know what I mean? We weren't going to have fireworks for 4th of July 2 weeks ago and now they're here so I'm happy with happily ever after and I was also happy to see Tinkerbell come out of the castle. I'm happy there was no rain. It was really amazing. So I hope you enjoyed this video. I'm not too sure what I'll do tomorrow for the actual 4th but this will be happening on the 4th and maybe some other festivities. Who knows but anyway I hope you guys have a safe wonderful 4th of July. We'll see you next time. Bye!


What's up guys, welcome to today's video. On the video today, we are going to be focusing on a back to basics haircut. This is a haircut, yes, from beauty school. It's the 180 degree haircut. The reason I wanted to go over this haircut today is I really wanted to focus on fundamentals and I also want to explain why these haircuts are important. So this is all part of a series that I'm putting together for FSE On Demand. That is a free app available on iOS and Android. So if you guys haven't downloaded the app yet, make sure you head on over to your local app store. FSE On Demand is a great tool for being able to just look up something to use in the salon. It's straight education. There's not only me on there, but there's other artists as well that we have filmed in our studio. So it's an amazing tool, obviously an amazing price. So go check it out guys. All right, so we're gonna get started with the video. If you have any questions, post them in the comments below. Here we go. What's up guys, welcome to today's video. On the video today I'm gonna be focusing on a haircut straight out of hair school. Now this is a fundamental haircut called the 180 degree haircut. Basically everything's gonna be lifted straight up from the head. You'll notice my sectioning was very basic, the basic four quadrants. So I go right down center back all the way down and then I go at the division point from the high point of the head down to behind the ear. And then I start taking right in the very front of the head, my section straight up. Now the key to this haircut and having success with the haircut is to take very small fine sections, about half an inch wide. Take about 70% of your old cut, like the cut or the hair that you just cut and then add in 30% of new hair. That's going to make sure that you have a nice clean guideline and you're not over directing the hair too far away from where it lives so you get a nice clean line as you lift up the hair and cut it. So you could see everything's coming straight up from the head, not being over directed at all, just straight up and out. Now besides working on fundamentals, the reason I wanted to create this series of haircuts to really focus on the back to basics is really just understanding the reasoning behind these haircuts.  What this is about is being able to work the fundamentals, learn how to layer hair and then you can transfer that into different things. So this is all straight up from the head but then there's other techniques where you're gonna over direct the hair but this is in the most basic form creating layers on the head shape. So another basic fundamental of haircutting is not cutting past your second knuckle. Now I wanna discuss this because a lot of people think don't cut past your second knuckle because you might cut yourself. Well, just so you guys know, I have cut my first knuckle many, many times. So it really has nothing to do with cutting your knuckles, it has everything to do with tension. So when we talk about tension, why is tension important in a haircut? Well, if you don't have the same tension throughout your section, if the tip of your finger is holding the hair tighter than the inside of your finger, then the hair on the inside of your finger is gonna be loose and when it's loose, it's kind of pulled out and then when you cut your line, you don't get your nice hard line. So a lot of people think I need to hold the hair tight, I need to comb it tight, all of these things. Well, when you do that, you're pulling the hair where it wants to naturally live. So honestly, lighter tension on most hair types is kind of the way to go throughout in most hair cuttings just saying in general, right? But there are times where you need tighter tension, there's times where you need even less tension, like when you're working around a cowlick area, you wanna really be light on the tension because you don't wanna pull the hair too far from where it wants to naturally fall. So those are kind of key things. So just really focus on that tension, don't worry about the second knuckle thing so much, just understand that your tension's gonna be different past your second knuckle in most cases. So you can see my body position has not changed within this haircut. So I'm staying in the back of the head, I'm combing the hair away from my body. So that's another key thing to focus on is how do you comb the hair? What separates a good hairdresser and a great hairdresser is how well they comb, it's not how well they cut, it's where they comb the hair too to cut it off, right? So anything you do with the hair, any shift that you make with your section is going to change the outcome of your haircut either for the good or the bad, right? So just understand every move you make and why it's doing what it's doing. So notice my last comb is away from my body because I'm pushing that new hair to the guide. I want it to live right at the guideline, I don't wanna move my guide to the new section because that'll make my guide shorter. Okay, so just finishing up, notice still consistent with the combing, making sure I'm pushing the hair. Something that's great and one thing obviously after making 700 videos for YouTube, you really get to watch yourself cut hair and watch every move that you make and kinda analyze the way that you cut hair. I would highly recommend any of you guys out there, not necessarily that you have to put it out on YouTube and for the world to see, but film yourself or have somebody film you cutting hair so that you can take it back and watch it and kinda learn from it and really study what you do and the consistency that you do it because that's gonna make you a better haircutter in the end. All right, so now we're continuing from the front to the back. Key thing here is just to stay vertical. So we cut vertically from the very front to the midpoint of the head and now I'm gonna start in the center back, connect using a guideline from the top of the head and connect that all the way through and work my way across the back of the head shape. Hair cutting is three-dimensional and we talk about that a lot. Really what that means is that you're working horizontally and you're working vertically and you're working with the length, right? So horizontally, you're working with your shape and really just what that line is gonna be. Are you following the head shape? Are you building corners? Are you pushing weight to the front? Are you pushing weight to the back? That's horizontal. Then when you look at vertical, that's how much weight you're leaving on the haircut. Is it a layered haircut? Is it a graduated haircut? And then obviously you pick your length and that kinda makes up all the different aspects of what the haircut is all about, right? So right now I'm working vertically, which is working also on my elevation, but at the same time I'm building a line horizontally. So to try to help you guys make that make sense, if I took any of this hair and I pull it up vertically or horizontally, I should see a perfect line. And that goes to show that the shape that I was creating is precise. So just make sure you do your cross-checking. Make sure that you have a line both ways and you'll know that you did this haircut correct. So you can see still pushing the hair away from my body into that guideline. When I work on the opposite side, when I'm working on the left-hand side of the head, I will be pulling the hair towards my guide, but everything's still coming straight up from the head shape. Notice how I comb the hair.  So just keep your sections clean. Even if it takes you a little bit extra time, you can see that line that we're creating right there in the dry, let's semi-dry look of it. Now we're gonna blow it dry, but just keep your sections clean as you work through the haircut. It may take a tiny bit longer to do that, but you're not gonna have to go back and make any corrections because you have it right the first time. So now I'm going with Palmichill Neuralift, and we're gonna do kind of an extra, like a full-body blowout for this cut, because when I was in beauty school, I learned with rollers. You did a 180-degree haircut, and then you did some roller set, and you got lots and lots of volume. So we're gonna kind of mimic that using our Palmichill Pro Tools blow dryer, and then also my Ergo Paddle Brush, and I'm gonna set the hair to get maximum volume. Again, the end style of this is not the point of this haircut. It is going to be a little bit dated because there's nothing modern about this technique, but all of these techniques can be used in the salon. You wanna build volume, you do on the base blowout, I'm going through, I'm keeping everything very symmetrical. This is a very basic round brush blow dry. Key things here, focus on truck and trailer method, which is basically really keeping that nozzle following the round brush and working my way over and over that section. What I say is like the stages of hair goes from wet to damp to dry to smooth, right? So a lot of people go right to dry, and then they kind of leave it alone. You wanna just do a couple extra passes over the hair, that'll get that shine in it because shiny hair doesn't come, it's not just naturally shiny. What shiny hair is is a perfect cuticle laying down nice and soft and reflecting light. So you wanna make sure that that cuticle is laying nice and smooth. The way you do that is adding that heat and just really smoothing it out nice. The other thing that I'm doing in this technique is I'm pre, you're not seeing it because I sped everything up, but I pre-spray the hair with Protect from Pulmageal Neuro, and the reason I do that is because it's got a nice medium hold for one, because I'm trying to get the shine and the smoothness, and two, it's gonna protect the hair from the heat because most damage comes from blow-drying hair. So I do that. Then I go in with Pulmageal Neuro Finish, really set the hair, let it all cool, and then I start taking out the pins, right? So we get our set, you can see the volume, it's just crazy, maximum volume. Looks even better on really long hair, but obviously these mannequins are only as long as they are. So you can see the seamlessness of the layers, which I really love, and how that line creates on the top. So really cool layer cut, hope you guys liked it. Hope you liked going back, taking this trip back to beauty school with me to go through this haircut. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you on the next one.