Hello and welcome back. It's been so long. Oh my gosh. Hi people. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. How are you doing? If I look tired, that's probably because I am. Please ignore that. Yeah, hi, welcome. Man, I forgot how to stream. How do you do this? I don't know. I have no clue at all just a sec. Let me let me just do one quick wee thing boom and boom and Hopefully that works. Um, yeah, I'm real. I am alive. I guess somehow Yeah, so anyway, where have I been? I've been busy. Yep, that's where I've been So there was a new quest that was added into pirate So let's do that on all our characters and we're just gonna have a nice wee chat because I don't know It's been a while. So yeah, this we're not gonna listen to dialogue if you want to see it If you want to listen to dialogue if you want to know what happens in there Go and watch the video that went up on the second channel literally like today today Literally today you can go in here delusional brain talking about random delusional things. It's great would recommend 11 out of 10 So yeah, basically this quest is for the 10th anniversary. Obviously, that's what the quest name is. So yeah Um Yeah, hi Jared. Hi Rose and hi and how along the black dragon welcome. You're just I'm wanting the next story so far video I love them. Um, yes about that. I am hoping to and this Next few weeks to get the pirate 101 one done For obviously October since it's birthday month birthday month is exciting and I will be hoping to get that one done That's sometime mid-month. I want to get the Lemuria one Done by the end of November So those will be the next two. Yeah, hi Muju welcome Though that'll be coming sometime soon. I just need to write the finish writing the strip for the pirate one Which is gonna be a long one a very very long one and then and Then I will start working on the Lemuria one which we probably about the same length as caramel one So probably about border five minutes long So, yeah, but they'll be coming out again soon soon TM Yeah, but in the meantime, I have a couple of other videos that will Need to be recorded and uploaded as well. I'm gonna try and start uploading a little bit more Because I haven't done that much. I Uploaded a video the other day, which is cool. Go watch that It's my death gear setup video if you want to know what I use for my gear Um Yeah, and that was that was cool It's very short as well because I'm not interested in making super long videos that they're just dragging on for hours and hours and hours on The end because they don't have to do that. They do not have to do that.  I Hope you know that Yeah, anyway, let's find the next discarded bottle. I can't remember where this one is. I think it is over Here from memory behind the waterfall behind the waterfall. It's actually a lot harder not using dialogue for this I need to actually remember where they are. I only did this like a few a few hours ago I heard it feels like a few hours ago, man. I slept so much I got to bed at midnight last night because I needed to like upload the video Um, also the only reason why I'm streaming today is because I need a video But yeah, I Got to bed at midnight and I didn't wake up until like 11 o'clock this morning So that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. I don't usually sleep that long But man, I needed it. I had two days where I had eight hours total for those two whole days It was ridiculous But yeah, I hope everybody else has had a fantastic few weeks while I've been away And then the next bottle is all the way up the top of the hill Yeah, I remember I'm so smart. I am so smart and intelligent I have to say it took me a wee while to figure out where all of these bottles were Especially the first one that first bottle I had to really like figure out where it was because I just had no clue absolutely no clue Um, yeah, right up here up here It's also been so long since I've actually played pirate. It's kind of crazy kind of crazy bottle very cool now we go to We go to blood shoals and we cry and we win and it's great I have to say this is the most ridiculous Ridiculous eyepatch ever, but it is so funny. It is so funny and I have to have it because it's so funny When did Wiz get horses this is for one not Wiz and secondly Wiz has always had horses This is pirate completely different game so uncultured. Oh my gosh.  You don't even know this is that that is blasphemy You're not allowed to say this is Wiz because this is clearly the more superior better game in all way possible So Yeah, did my stream freeze is my stream freezing Rose or is that just me? Or is that just me because If that's just me, that's okay, but if it's not just me then that's bad Um Um, I think it might just be me. No, it is not just me How are you not receiving enough as smooth smooth the data? Probably because I'm uploading It's probably because I'm uploading huge files on my other computer. That's probably what's happening That would probably do it Seems to have chilled out well youtube doesn't believe you it says that it's not chilled out and there's not chill at all which is strange because um I don't quite know what the issue is but that's fine I don't have wi-fi so it's okay. I don't use the wi-fi I use the wi-fi snake amazing, um Yeah, it's probably because I'm uploading huge files on my um laptop at the moment, so that's probably why it's kind of dying I apologize. Maybe I shouldn't have streamed Maybe this will be a short stream and all I do is just this one this one thing Mittens ate the wi-fi imagine imagine if mittens just ate the wi-fi that would be crazy dude That would be so crazy mittens is my cat by the way um We need to go this way I should have just honestly I was running around this area for so long trying to find out where it was And I really should have just come over here to start with I'm just so dumb I was so dumb when I was doing this. I didn't really read the dialogue enough Um, but hey, I don't know Can we have a day in the life of mitten stream? So you just want a cat sleeping the whole day? You know, I don't think we need that honestly. She just sleeps all day. There's nothing else that She she does Like she that's that's all that is all this is all no more She just sleeps. Um, this is funny. There's a pun here If you understand the pun You're a great human and if you don't I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry for your loss um Why would you want a cat sleeping all day? I don't understand. I don't understand the draw of this these guys have so much resistance crazy Absolutely crazy. I was talking about this in the video that I recorded.   I think she did a lot It did a lot But the spell it didn't do a lot interesting Interesting. I really want to do this on like a really low level character because I feel like You ain't doing too well. Honestly Um I think they're dead. I think they're gonna be dead personally. I think turn down the sound a little bit pirates a little bit loud Pirate is a little bit loud by nature Couple lamb me get her go. Please kill them Yeah, nice. Lovely. No valid targets. It's okay. Kakarius. We still love you. We still love them. We still love Kakarius Right when you actually know what to do for this quest. It's so easy But trying to figure it out is not easy. What is this? Okay, random gear Um, and there we go. We got the enlightened eye patch um Which looks like We're not going to use it, but Actually, we could unstitch that But it's just the most ridiculous eye patch Absolutely most ridiculous But we we have to get it. We have to get it on all of the characters Obviously my buccaneer already has it. So that's cool Let's go on to my privateer next My privateer I love how literally all of my characters have the same glasses I didn't notice that I did not notice that at all Oops, um, I should probably collect my pets. Say what is this? Double pet XP. Yep, definitely should collect my pets Oh, Milly's already level seven. Why did I 70? Why would I? Why would I feed? Why would I feed?  Let's do this one. Maybe why do I have so many birds? Little ginger, I'm sorry, but that is just the most funniest name for this He's getting trained just because of his name because honestly that name is the best name ever That name is great. We respect little ginger Any little ginger and joy is in chat He's cute. He's the best He's a ball balloon. I need to actually start working on pets on pirate. Maybe one day. Maybe one day Maybe one day. Who knows? Um, right. Let's go this character. We can do it. Let's leave a mark Um, right here. I don't know where that mark was, but we're removing it. We don't need it We don't need it. Nope We don't need it at all. We're speed running. We're speed running this Absolute speed run. We can do it Um, yeah, what I love about this quest is that you can do it completely free to play which is great I like that. I like that. Honestly, that's probably the best part of this quest not gonna lie Not gonna lie the best part of this quest Um, yeah, also Um, what are other games you would like to see me play on stream or something? Because I feel like next year we're gonna start changing up a little bit doing some other stuff and things um on this channel At least stream wise. Maybe maybe video wise. I don't know. I don't know But there's only so much that I can do on wiz and pirate during the year when there's no like real like updates Because like all I've got left to do on wiz is to max a my storm wizard, which will continue That's gonna take a while Um, my balance wizard my ice wizard My life wizard. Those are those are the only things that I need to do left So I don't really you know, there's like not much that I can do that is kind of like exciting content Because all I have to do oh my gosh ginger has already completed ginger.  That's that's how you know little ginger is gonna be great The best pair ever the best pair ever um So like that's kind of like other than like getting badges and stuff That's kind of like all we really have to do at this stage Which is fine, but it would be great to like You know change it up a little bit every now and then because you know sometimes you get a little bit sick of pirate I won't and was I wouldn't I wouldn't say that I don't because I certainly do I certainly do For sure unless I just become a full-time beast moon streamer and only stream well beast moons on That would be funny. That would be absolutely funny I would not do that but that's that would be funny if I did do that Um, yeah, I'm probably only gonna stream for like a short time today because I'm still quite exhausted Really exhausted Yeah, and my voice is kind of going as well because I've been speaking all weekend Oh, man. It's been so busy so busy show busy Way too much busy niche We need to also continue these side quests as well We should do that sometime there's so much that I actually need to do on pirate I need to get badges on pirate as well. I feel like maybe maybe we should start doing like weekly pirate streams I said that last time that I'm like, oh, we should we should do weekly pirate streams, and then I just never did that Perhaps I should start doing that occasionally maybe Simply stop being busy Ah, yes, just simply stop making money makes sense. Yep Understandable. I will I will just simply know no more money. Yep problem solved Problem solved easy peasy If only it worked that way If only Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way so, yeah You did say that because by not being busy Therefore I would not have to Not make money because I need to work in order to pay for things and stuff, you know so Yes, see there's like a catch 22 And I have to be busy in order to to do that. So Yeah, what's even funner is it's going to get even worse next year I want to do so much more next year, but like Yeah, I'm going to get even busier next year. So that's fine New world coming and fall. Yeah, new world should be here probably in test drum Early next month, I would say which will be exciting Very exciting. Hopefully I can play in test drum And do it like all in one day on test drum first day of test drum. That would be cool Um Because I like like day one test drum streams. They're my favorite Otherwise, I don't really touch test drum if I can't stream on day one of test drum I won't be doing it on test drum That's kind of my rule because The the thing is Um It's very cool if you do it on like day two or three. That's fine But there's all these people that come in and like kind of like Tell you tell you too much about everything which I don't really want You know, I want to have like the expert to experience it as if I have absolutely nothing um Because that's fun. That's really fun to me So if I I can't play it on day one if I can't Then I won't be playing it in test drum and we'll just do it. Um Streams when it goes to live room So yeah, I hope you understand But we will definitely do it and um the death walkthrough will continue as a streamed series Probably about one ish hour episodes streaming Here on youtube.com slash the craft box slash live It'll be great. It'll be great Very cool and fun Um, all right Okay, this is number three character number three getting the eyepatch I have to say the eyepatch actually looks pretty cool pretty cool Pretty cool not gonna lie Um, I should be able to stream tomorrow We're gonna do a whole bunch of we're gonna do a new series that I have planned Or start a new series that we have planned possibly maybe Maybe I'll see I might need to go and get some stuff for it.  This is amazing. I'll be like, I know I'm just so good 100 what you guys will say definitely and if you don't then that's your fault not my fault So Completely actually can you go can you go? Okay? No? You can't That's fine Can you go over there? You can go over there? I feel like if you just do this that'll be fine that'll be fine um Yeah, it's going to be a great series. It's a whiz series that I've got planned I've kind of spoken about it before or doing something like that. So you shouldn't be too surprised at what I do um or what it is, but I think it's gonna be great. Very cool and good. Um, right? Bladestorm. Ka-blam another one? No, really? In this? No, nothing. Unlucky. Unlucky. Unlucky. Overwatch. Ka-blam. Ka-blam. Attack. No. Block. Stock Assault. Get wrecked. Buy. Get wrecked. Agent I. Epic it. I both love and hate how these guys have so much like armor or resist or whatever whatever you want to call it. It's a good idea but also I'm like does this scale with my level or is it just that they have this much armor and it's going to be like nearly impossible at level levels to actually do? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that one. Gold limit of course. Of course I'm at the gold limit. Why would I not be at gold limit? Ka-blam. Lovely. Enlightened observation eye patch. Very cool. Very cool. Boom. That's character number three done. Two more left which is my swashbuckler and my musketeer. We'll do musketeer first because I haven't actually been on this character in five million years so it might as well. Let's just collect all of our companions while we're waiting and by waiting I mean because I will forget otherwise and it's probably a good idea to do that. I'm just going to belay you and you. Boom. Boom. Boom. Are you going to level? Yeah. Catpid's ready for a promotion. Oh my gosh. What? Crazy. Did not expect that at all. Are we have more than 10? Let's just train you up a little bit. Train you up a little bit. What are we going to give you? Let's give you tough. Sounds good. Boom. Oh my gosh. Stop having talents. Do you not understand that having talents is very unbeneficial to my cause of training you up quickly? Oh you're also ready for a promotion. Interesting. I've actually never promoted this guy so it'll be interesting to see what what do. What do we want to give him? I guess dodgy. I guess a little bit of dodge never hurts anyone. Oh are we going to get up to level 70? No not quite. Not quite. So close yet so far away. So far away. But so close. Right. I love how Bonnie ends level 32 in this character. It's funny to me. That is absolutely hilarious. Old scratch. I literally have not really leveled him up at all. That's great. That's great. He deserves it. He deserves it. Finish. Hello. Yummy. Enjoy. I need more pet snacks. Holy my. I need more pet snacks. The next world is Crocatopia. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think Pirate's going to be getting a new world for a wee while. And I don't know if it's going to be Crocatopia, Polaris or what. Because any of those are good options. Any of those are valid options. Right Catbed High. I really hate how Catbed does not have a quest for his promotion. He should because he's a main character companion but that's fine. What do you look like now Catbed? Oh my gosh you look so cool and sexy. We love you. We love you. What are we going to give you? What are we going to give you? Let's just do that first. What are we going to give you? Riposte 3. Yes please. And you can get some more toms. And Mr Mills. Private Mills. Let's promote you. What do you look like? What do you look like? Are you going to be cool or bad? You look great. I love them. I love them. What are your overwatch or double tap? I feel like overwatch is probably good. He has like no talents at all. He's got burst too overwatch too. He just feels like he has like no talents compared to other companions. Anyway let us actually continue with what we were meant to be doing.  Hello. The fancy yeah. They sure are. They sure are very fancy. Right hello Kleinmue. Let's do this. I haven't been on this character in so long. Holy moly. I haven't been on this character since the end of the musketeer walkthrough basically. I've finished that and I'm like yep no more needing for this character. So many side quests. Yikes. Yikes. Big ol' yikes. Nope not that one. This one. This one. Discarded bottle. Discarded bottle. Right let's go. Let's run. I wish mounts were a little bit quicker in this game. I really do. Wrong button. Wrong button. We are running out of pet snakes. Running out of pet snakes. Not great. Terrible in fact. Dreadful one would say. Right let's go. Hurry up. Hurry up. You can do it. You can do it Andrew. I believe in you. You can run faster. Come on horse. You can do it. When you put the clockworks into overdrive just to get all the way through here. It's so slow. So slow. Right bottle. Hello. Now we need to go this way. Do I remember where we go? I think I do. We go this way. We go this way and we open up this prison. What do we get? 12 gold. Nice. Cool. The horse is going to get burned out literally. No it can't because I've only gone this character ever so much. It's had plenty of break. So it can't get burned out. That's impossible. Absolutely impossible. I'm sorry to say. I'm sorry to say but that's impossible. Right we go down here. I didn't actually want to leave a mic there but we'll do it anyway. I want to leave a mic down that side but that's fine. Alright peace no man. Alright peace no man. He will be missed. He has gone but not forgotten. It is nearly his time. He will be back soon. He will be back again sometime soon. Um right. Two prisons. Don't mind if I do. 14 gold as our bag full. Is that why we're not getting anything? Nope okay. We just don't get anything. Fair enough. We haven't been good this year. Tredrick. So sad. Right boom. I love the sound of placing our mark in this game. So good. So satisfying. So satisfying. Right up to the top. Floating pumpkin is great. Floating pumpkin. And Ka-Blam. We also need to do monstrology on Wiz since it's October. We can get all of the um Halloween stuff. I love that cheeky wee booch bed thing up there. Trying to tell us something but he has nothing to say. He has nothing to say to me. He can't tell me anything.  He would never speak to me again. He will never speak to me. 15 gold. I still haven't gotten anything. What? I meant to get prisons not gold. Oh my gosh. Devastating. Absolutely. Devastating was my ship. Aqualyn ship. Nice. Noice. Noice noice noice. Only money for you. I know it's terrible. I don't want money. I want material items. I don't want buddy. I just want things. I just want things that I'm probably gonna trash. It's the fact that I don't get them. It bothers me. Not that I want them. It's just I don't get them. It makes me feel bad. So sad. So sad. Disrespectful honestly. Honestly disrespectful. I deserve it. I've worked so hard to do things and I just get gold. Like what's with that? I could just go and go to a fight and get the same amount of gold. Ismh my head. Big ismh. Anyway, let's head into the Azteca sore. Land. Azteca land. This way. Lady Ted. Hello. How's Lady Ted going today? Are you good? Want some fish fingers? Yummy. And we'll do some more gauntletting. Do some more gauntletting. Sounds good. Sounds great. We've run up this way. And we will win. We will win the fight. It'll be great. Then we just have to do it on my swashbuckler. And then we're done getting all of the eye patches. It'll be fantastic. This eye patch that I'm wearing already is quite cool though. Quite cool. And then GG. Easy. Yeah. Big GG. We will win so good. We will win so well. I have not been on this character in forever. And I honestly feel like bombs and traps are just the best idea here. I just feel like that's a cool idea. So why not? Why not? Boom bombs. Get bombed. Get absolutely bombed. Pop off Chantel. Man Chantel. I miss Chantel. So many bombs. Oh my gosh. Holy moly, the bombs. The bombs are real. Get wrecked. Get destroyed. Please die. Get wrecked. Get destroyed. Get wrecked. Right, one left. We can do it. I believe in us. In fact, I want Wing to kill because we haven't seen him do anything in five million years. Just kidding. We're letting Louis do it. He's got his machine crossbow. Machine crossbow. Guns nah. Machine crossbows. That's where it's at. Rapid fire crossbows. We need them. Right. There we go. We did it. We got the eye patch. Amazing. One more character left. Swashbuckler. Here we go. Let's do this. You. Aha. Let's just sort out our companions first. What needs fixing? I don't know. You tell me. You tell me. I've got so many companion quests on this character. What the heck? Man, I love when I just abandon my characters. I love it so much. Makes me so happy to just abandon my characters. Right. Let's just belay you and you and Misty. Our best fish pet ever. Level 47. Marley bone. Nice. Nice. Cannot do anything. That's cool. You can do fire walking though. That sounds undangerous and very cool. Right. Here we go. Last character. Last character. We can do it. We can do it. Is there any new stuff in the ground shop? Possibly. Oh, the autumn eye patch is so he's so cute. He's so cute. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I love him. One so big. So tall. He's so cute. He's so cute, dude. Oh my gosh. Amazing. I love it. I love it. I love it. Right. Let's go. How many pages of this is just pages one page? That's not too bad. That's not too bad. Could have been worse. Could have been worse, I guess. Let's do this. Let's find the discarded bottle wherever it is. I don't know. I don't know. Where's the discarded bottle? Who knows? Who knows? I actually want to see if this will be quicker. If we go through the mountain. This could be mildly quicker. This could be quicker. I don't know though. Yeah, this feels quicker. I feel like this could be quicker. And I should have been doing this the whole time. I should have been doing this the whole time. This is so much quicker. What the heck? Why am I dumb? Wow. No one ever thought of doing that ever until I did it. And anybody who does that now is just copying me. 100%. 100%. That's my, that's my skip. The craft box skip. I'm gonna give that chest 21. Give me something. Oh my gosh. I've literally only got one thing from opening up these chests this time so far. It's crazy. Absolutely crazy. What the heck? Have they like reduced the drop rates on them? Because they used to absolutely poop out stuff. Like all the time, constantly. Like every time you would open it, you would get something good. Weird. Weird. Weird, weird, weird, weird, weird. Right, we'll go this way. We run over here and we cut the corner. Go behind the house. And here's the bottle. I'm speedrunning. Speedrunner. 10th anniversary quest. Speedrun, any percent. Give me the box. I want the box. Literally, speedrunner is literally ruined. Absolutely ruined. Tragic. Still haven't got anything gear-wise on this character. Or my last two. Tragic. Absolutely tragic. Why do I even open up these boxes? Who knows? Who knows? I didn't realize I had like nearly all of the colors of clockwork horses. I didn't realize I had that.  But it's interesting that I have three out of five. Didn't realize I did that. Sometimes I just go play game and I just don't know. I just don't know what I'm doing. Go back to Mark. Run over here and we win. We win. We will get the last eye patch that we need. And it'll be remarkably good. Remarkably good ankle. Let's do this. Let's run over here. Run over here. Pop on the boat. Pop on the boat. Who do we have with us? This Alpero and Contessa. Fair enough. Fair enough. Sounds like a good idea. This is such a weird boat. This is a weird boat. I don't know how I like it. It looks weird. I don't know what's wrong with it but it looks weird. It looks odd to me. It looks odd. Zero out of ten. Right. Let's do it. Last eye patch. Then we can win. Boat shaming. No. I'm not boat shaming. I'm just saying that it could look bitter. And it's my boat so I can't boat shame it because it's mine. I own it. I bought it with my own hard earned monies. So yeah. I'm more shaming myself for buying such a hideous looking boat. It's really it's my fault. It's nothing to do with the boat. It's just me. It's me. I'm at fault here. I'm at fault. Completely. Right. Let's do this. Here we go. And inside. Inside the temple. Seven six five four three two one. Let's do it. We can do it. Here we go. Right. Can we win? Man I hope we can win. If we don't win this. I don't know what to say. Right. Everyone gets hidden. Very cool. You can get some some buffage. Buffage. The double points thing is still on for scroll of fortune. You're already on test seven. Yeah I haven't actually done much this week because I've been so busy but I'm already on the last page. Already on the last page which for me is ridiculous at this time in time of the month time of the thing because there's still like 60 days left which is like two weeks uh two months sorry. So like I'm going to be finished at well in well early. Well early. It resets in a few hours though so I get another one which is quite cool. Contessa popping off. Hello we love you. She is a queen.  Just kidding no repost but it's fine. You understand. Yeah nice. Nice work Misty.  We get to see fans crit. Lovely. This will be great. This will be great. Boom boom. Very nice. Fan crit. Honestly people say they like Peter but no fan is pretty cool as well. I think there's like a damage cap on these guys. I don't think they've got armor. I think it's just a damage cap. I think that's what it is. I think it's just a damage cap. That's what I'm assuming it is. I can't confirm this but I would say that it's probably a damage cap. Right there we go. That is all of the eye patches. Very exciting. Very dope. Very cool. Very very dope and cool. We have eye patched. We have patched the eyes. I need actually two companions on this character as well. But yeah very cool. Very very cool. Hello. Let's just get some of these companions done at least. Some of them El Toro leveled up I think. I think. Very exciting. Boom boom boom boom boom boom. Lovely. Very cool. And let us quickly. Let's quickly see if we can spend some crowns because I love spending crowns. First little ginger. Little ginger. Level up. Yeah enhanced magic resist. Okay interesting. Interesting. Interesting. I'll take it. Is there any companions on sale at the moment? Companions. No there is none. But there are some cheap ones like Nikita and Madclaw. What do we need for that? Oh we already have this companion. We can get Madclaw or we should open up packs. Let's open up some packs. I haven't actually opened up packs on this character forever. Super pirate nightmare booster pack. Honestly sounds fun. We got some boots. Okay. Oh we need to get some backpacks face of course. Let's head back to Skull Island. Hi Dylan. You were at our concert but I'm here a million years later. It's not a million years just a few. Just a few years. Not a million though. Not a million just a few. We can't. We're at max. This is frustrating you see. This is frustrating. We need to go and spend some gold. Ah so frustrating. You can't sell things because you're at max gold.  Who sells that housing item? Is it here or is it an aquila? I feel like it's an aquila. The one that costs like a million. I could just get another house. Let's just get the private tears mansion. What is this? What do you mean? Oh I must have clicked the wrong button.  I already have one of this item. Okay cool. That's great. Smuggler's Cove. Sure. Boom. Lovely. What else can we get? Can we get a you already have one of this item and only one is allowed? Oh we need more space to buy houses. Okay. Yep. Cool. Fantastic. Lovely. Just amazing. Amazing honestly. Amazing. Let's just sell all this. Also that and that and that. We'll keep the keys for now. Just sell these. I didn't buy it with crowns. I just don't want it anymore. And then decoration. Treasure piles now. Oops. Ninja. Yep. We'll sell that. Right. I think that is all. Kablam. Kablam. And kablam and kablam. Look at all of the gold piles. Oh my gosh. What did I do? Nothing. It's okay. It's okay.  I would never do that. Is there a free trader? Is there a free trader here? Totem trader. Must be up in every school at the free trader. How bagged space are we now? 148. Let's just sell some gear real fast. Sell some gear real fast and then it'll be fine. All. I actually haven't played any of those games. Maybe I should do that one time.  This is good. I don't really care. I don't really care if that's good. So yeah. We will sell everything. All of the things. We'll keep all of the weapons because I'm a weapon hoarder. We'll keep that one. We'll sell that and that and that and that. I think we can sell all of these. Yeah. And all of the rings can probably go. I would say amounts can stay. But I have two of these. I have two of those. Interesting. Interesting. And then treasure we could sell for a lot of gold if we ever needed to. Right. Let's open up a few more packs. Just see. Just see what we got. Boom. We got a we got a dragon. Paper dragon. Very cool. Not too bad. Theoretically we should be hopefully. I think it's the charred companions in this one I think. I think. Hold up. Let me just check. Knights. Yeah. Pirates. Yeah. Pirate 101. Yeah. The charred buccaneer. Swashbuckler. Privateer. Possibly the witch doctor and in the musketeer. The witch doctor may still be bugged but who knows. Who knows. Okay. We got another dragon. All. I have a limit for this. We got the balloon. Treasure bath. Epic. Epic treasure bath. Very cool. Lovely. Weapon. The great grim blade. Blazing berm. That sounds cool honestly. And it's like literally the same except it doesn't give bladestorm. Well look at that. I haven't actually opened up many packs in pirate ever so it's kind of interesting. Let's open one more. One more. Okie dokie then. Yep. All we need is one more. I like the way little flash on that. That's cool. Wow. Little 70 charred swordsman. What else do we get in here? Nothing too crazy. He's got pirates. Turn the tide. Raposte. An epic strike. Very cool. That is incredibly cool. New epic. What are we going to give him? What are we going to give him? Merciless bonus finishing attack versus wounded enemies. What the heck is that? What does this mean? Dillum? Dillum what is merciless? I don't understand. Merciless was a pirate when I won. I've never seen this ever. Ever. What is 2 and 3? What does this mean? When you promote them to max they get red flames or orange flames around them. Very cool. Very very cool. What does merciless mean? I mean I feel like this and bladestorm because he has an epic strike. It just seems interesting merciless. But I'm not sure what it means. Strong. He sounds like Dead Mike. They just use Dead Mike some dialogue. Lazy King's Isle. SMH my head. Accurate. Sounds like if it kills off mostly dead enemies.  That's what it sounds like to me but that just seems ridiculous. Halloween Dead Mike. Yup. Don't mind me just giving giving all of the talents. All of the talents will do tough. Man's will be a tank. Hopefully a little bit. Hopefully a little bit. And we'll give him a little bit of dodge. Cool. What does he look like? Let's find out real quick. Trash. Trash. Trash. Look at him. He's quite cool. He's pretty cool. Not gonna lie. He's pretty cool. Pretty cool. Pretty cool.  That usually doesn't happen. Usually Kingsile trolls me a little bit more. I'm like I was just kidding it wasn't actually the last pack. But hey that's cool. By the way I do have a mission to try and get all of the companions on this character eventually so you know occasionally I'll just open up a few packs. Pay 2500 for a charred warrior. Sure. Sure. Sure thing. Declined. I don't want to pay to promote him yet. I want to. Oh we need to talk to him. Don't worry. Yeah. They just did the quest a little bit weird. That's fair. Honestly fair. Okay what does he get? He has he's still the same epic strike. Okay interesting. We can give him. I could give him blade three.  Did I give him dodge or accurate? I think I gave him accuracy. So I'm feeling like a Venge play here would be kind of nice. A couple of Venge at least. Charred Buccaneer. Men's looks exactly like Dead Mike. Like 100% they just copy pasted. They just copy pasted dead Mike and slapped a different color on. I love his flames though. They're super cool. They are super cool. Look at him. Look at him go. He's amazing. Absolutely amazing new epic. Venge too. Sounds good. Sounds good. Ranked two of everything. Not too bad. Let's go and have a look at him in battle. Let's have a look at him in battle real fast against some random enemy of something. Let's go to the troggies. Look at him. He looks so cool. Oh my gosh. He looks epic. Absolutely epic. I love him. I love him so much. He's so cool. He is so cool. I haven't used the boat for a while. I miss the boat. I miss the boat. It's been so long since we've used the boat. So let us use the boat for a bit. Row row row your boat gently down the bridge.  That's that's how the saying goes. It's a little norm fact but that's how it goes. Fun fact. Fun fact. I want to see his correct even though I know it's going to be exactly like Dead Mike. I still want to see it. I still want to see it. Right. Let's see. What do you like dude? What do you like? What do you like? Yeah it's exactly the same as Dead Mike. Dead Mike Reskin. Oh good. He looks cool though. He looks pretty cool. Honestly if Dead Mike looked like this I would use him more. 100%. 100%. Honestly amazing. Love this man's. Not too bad. Not too bad at all. Probably won't use him but he's good to have. He's good to have. That's for sure. Very cool. Very very very cool. Right. Look at him. Where can he go? He can go down to like down here I guess. I kind of want to like get them and kind of like level order a little bit. Starting from here. 72. 73. Chicken minor.  These guys are also level 73. Holy moly. Oh we've got we've got the charred privateer as well. He's he's here. We have the privateer and now the buccaneer. So we're nearly we're nearly there with these guys. Who else is 72? You're 72 but you're next anyway. 71. 72. I don't know why I'm putting them in order but I want to. I want to put them in order because I feel like that's funny. That is not ordered. That is not ordered. 70, 70, 70, 70, 70. I love how he's on the 70. Okay I think that's ordered. Apart from Jack but that's fine. Jack and Bonnie are like mainstays so they stay up there. Everyone else 73, 72, 71 and then 70. Let's move let's move this guy to um uh. Too many pages of companions. First world problems. We'll move them there. There we go. Oh my gosh what I could do for like the level 70s is order them by school. What up we're ordering them by school because that's funny. It's going to be the most satisfying companion page you've ever seen trust me. We'll go privateer next. Um privateer, privateer. Actually it should probably be privateer first because we are a privateer and obviously privateer supremacy on this character only otherwise I would never agree with myself. Um and then we go swashbuckler I guess which we have one more of uh we need more buccaneers we have more buccaneers oh my gosh the hardest scrolling ever um there we go boom where did that other buccaneer go where did that other buccaneer go I don't know are there and there and finally we can now go to there and then swashbucklers and then musketeers and which doctors last because they suck um privateer is on this page here right there and another privateer uh it can go there boom right privateers okay now we sort this out we need to move this privateer over to here buccaneer and then musketeer which doctor is fine and then buccaneer which doctor can come down is that the bottom and then we have buccaneer musketeer swashbuckler is that right we need to swap them around swap them around buccaneer swashbuckler okay there we go I've I've satisfied my look how satisfying this is are you not satisfied by this this is the most satisfying way to collect them all possible just ignore this top row the top row doesn't count but everything else man that's beautiful that's beautiful I love that I love that a lot that is great that is amazing I can't believe I just spent like 15 minutes making my companionless satisfying what have I come to what have I become uh what have I become I don't even know so they're now sorted by level and school so not too bad not too bad very cool and exciting right anyway that is where we're going to end off for today we did we did a bit we did stuff and things I will probably be streaming tomorrow um and it'll be whiz and we'll do some other stuff and things and it'll be cool and good um but yeah otherwise thank you for watching hope you enjoyed uh like if you want to subscribe if you haven't already and as always remember to craft outside the box


Vertex groups are groups of vertices within a mesh object that can be referenced for various purposes in Blender. It is also the foundation of how a mesh and an armature will interact with each other. Put simply, when done properly, each important bone in an armature object will have a group of vertices assigned to it. I'm going to demonstrate with this rig, which you can download in the description down below. As you can see, I can select a bone and it seems to bring a group of vertices along with it. This allows for bones of armatures to control specific parts of a complex mesh. You may have heard of vertex groups in other software. Vertex groups are also known as weights. The term weights also reflects the fact that our vertex groups can assign a certain influence the bone has over individual vertices. For example, you can have these vertices copy 100% of the bone's movement, but have these vertices further out be assigned to the same bone but only copy say 50% of that bone's movement. Additionally, you can also assign individual vertices to multiple bones or vertex groups. In other words, it can be influenced by two bones or more at a time. This helps blend weights between bones so deformation of certain joints feel organic and natural. But how do we actually change these vertex groups? How do we edit, create or manipulate them? To see any mesh objects vertex groups, simply select it and go into the mesh data tab of the properties editor. This is labeled with the green triangle icon and is where vertex groups reside for all mesh objects. Right now, there are none, but we'll come back to this page later. Let's begin by creating a simple rig for our cube. I'm going to go ahead and subdivide this cube a few times in edit mode to give us some extra vertices and scale it along the z-axis. Then I'm going to add a simple armature object and scale the bone to the length of the cube, subdivide the bone twice and go back into object mode. Now in order to deform the cube with the armature, we simply need to parent the cube object to the armature object. To do this, simply select the cube then shift select the armature. Then press control P. From here, you can select with automatic weights. This is what we've been choosing for all of our previous videos, but let's stop to think about what that means. Quite simply, clicking this option will create vertex groups for us and assign the vertices within each group automatically with proximity based weight to each bone. As you can see, as we deform the armature in pose mode, the cube deforms along with the bones in a very smooth and organic way. I'm going to leave it bent like this for now and then select our cube mesh. If we go into the mesh data tab again, we can now see the newly generated vertex groups, each named after the bone they are assigned to. As you can see, our bone names aren't very descriptive, so I'm going to select our armature and rename the bones properly. Let's call the top one, top, the middle one, mid, and the bottom one, bot. Now if we go back to our cube and look at our vertex groups list, we can see that the names of the vertex groups have changed as well. But what do these vertex groups look like? In order to visually see our weights, we can enter weight paint mode. This is another mode option in the top left hand corner when you have a mesh object selected. For hotkey users, you can press control tab to open a pie menu where weight paint is an option. Now as you can see, we have a blue cube with green and red markings on it. This is how weights are displayed in Blender. Each color represents an amount of influence or weight the vertex group has over specific vertices. For example, if the vertices are marked with blue, they have a weight of 0%, as in they are not influenced by the vertex group at all. Whereas if the vertices are marked with red, they have a weight of 100%, or 1.0, which is the maximum amount of influence a vertex group can have. Meanwhile, green represents 50% weight and every color in between is a blend of weights between these three colors. As you select different vertex groups in the list in your mesh data tab, you'll see that you can choose which vertex group to display and to edit. However, these vertex groups are associated with specific bones, so some of you might find it a bit roundabout to not be able to select the bone to see its weight. As you can see, attempting to select the bone now with left click doesn't seem to do what we want. So if we want to select the bones to display their weights in weight paint mode, let's go back into object mode and select the armature first. Then shift select the mesh and then go into weight paint mode. Your armature will now be put into pose mode automatically. For left click users, to select bones make sure you press control left click. Right click users can just right click to select as usual. To better understand the difference between right click select and left click select, make sure to watch our right click select video. Anyway, as you may have already guessed, weight paint mode is one way we can edit our vertex groups. You may have already noticed that your cursor has turned into a circle in the viewport. This is your weight paint brush. In weight paint mode, you can actually paint weights onto your vertices, adding said weights to the vertex group you have selected. We can also open the left hand side quick tools menu to see our other weight paint tools. These include blur, average, smear, gradient and eyedropper. If you're familiar with any painting software, you should recognize these functions. We'll go over each one, but let's start with painting. Let's say I decided that I want this top bone to have more influence over the bottom of the cube as well. Let's simply left click and drag to paint over the bottom half of this cube, making it more red. By default, as you can see, the weight we paint is set to 100%. Cool, so what if later I change my mind and I actually don't want weights for this vertex group on the bottom of the cube? Well, to remove weights, you can also paint a weight of 0% onto the mesh. To do this, simply open the right hand side menu by clicking this arrow or pressing the N key and go to tools. This is where your brush settings reside, and you can change things such as the radius of your brush as well as the weight and strength of your brush. Just to clarify, weight can be seen as the color of what you want your brush to paint. In other words, the amount of influence you want your vertex group to have over the vertices you paint. Whereas strength represents opacity of the brush. In other words, setting the strength to anything lower than 1.0 will allow your brush to slowly mix with the existing weights of the mesh as you click, until it reaches the goal color you set in the weight slider. On the other hand, setting the strength to 1.0 will completely replace any color beneath your brush with the color or weight you set in the weight slider. The radius of your brush refers to your brush size. Hockey users can actually press F while in the viewport to change your brush size whenever you want. Simply right click to cancel and left click to confirm. Now that we know all of this, this should start making a little more sense. What we want to do is paint out the bottom influence we painted in earlier. So how should we do this? Well, we want to completely erase the current heavy red weights with empty blue weights. So let's set our weight to zero, which essentially sets our color to dark blue. And to replace the heavy red color completely as we paint, we're going to want to make sure our strength is at 1.0. Now, as we paint over the red, you can see that our blue paint brush is erasing the weights. But here's something important. If we rotate our perspective around the object, you may notice that we are having some issues painting behind the mesh. This is because it's behind the geometry in the front. We can't, of course, simply rotate our mesh while painting. But that can be tedious and doesn't always solve the issues where there's complex detail in the geometry or geometry within geometry. So how do we paint through a mesh so that we influence the vertices behind geometry as well? For that, we need to go over two of our options we have for our brush. If we look at our tools tab on the right hand side, we can see under our brush settings that we also have an option section. Let's expand this, and immediately you'll see a few checkboxes. Feel free to read more about what each of these settings do in the documentation or hover over them for a tooltip. But we will be going over these two, front faces only and 2D falloff. Front faces only simply means that your brush will only paint onto the vertices and faces that it can directly see. This means that any geometry hidden behind other geometry will not be painted. Turning this option off by itself is great for painting crevices or folds, where the geometry you would want to paint happens to be sandwiched or hidden behind nearby geometry. It's also useful for painting through an object onto the back side of the geometry, kind of like what we want to do. However, when we uncheck this, it still doesn't seem to paint all the way through. Hmm, well, that's because of this second option, 2D falloff. By default, 2D falloff is turned off, meaning that our default brush actually uses a 3D falloff. This means that our brush shape is more like a sphere being dragged along the surface of the mesh as we paint. Therefore, the falloff will only influence vertices that are nearby the contact point your sphere initially makes with the mesh. Having a 3D falloff makes a lot of sense when you're trying to paint a mesh. For one, it feels like a real brush, affecting only the vertices closest to where your brush meets the mesh. Meanwhile, 2D falloff is more like a cylinder that pierces through your mesh. This mode will paint anything that your cursor happens to touch.  And with front faces only turned off, we get to actually paint all the way through our mesh. Now that we understand these two settings, let's turn off front faces only and turn on 2D falloff, to make sure we're thoroughly removing weights. Another way to completely remove weights from a vertex group is to simply go into edit mode. Select the vertices you want to remove weights from and go to the vertex group tab. Make sure the correct vertex group is selected in the list and click Remove. This should remove the vertices from the vertex group entirely. In the same way, you can also assign weights to a vertex group in edit mode as well. Let's apply a weight of 100% to the top third of this cube again. Simply select the vertices you want to assign weights to, change the value of the weight slider under the vertex group list to 1.0, and click Assign. We can then go back into weight paint mode to see these new weights visualized. For those of you who are curious, while in edit mode, if you select a vertex group from the list and press select, it will select the vertices in that vertex group. And deselect will deselect the vertices. Alright, now let's go back into weight paint mode and take a look at the other weight paint tools we have in our quick tools menu. Smirr is a very helpful tool to use when looking to paint a natural falloff. Average does something similar, but specifically averages everything under its influence, smoothing sharp contrast areas. Smirr allows you to carry weights over from one place to another, with a falloff. And gradient lets you paint a gradient starting with your selected weight and blending into the existing weights. Simply select left click drag to use. Keep in mind for the gradient tool, your weight and strength settings will be separate and above your brush tool, as the gradient tool does not use your brush, but rather a vector. And of course, the eyedropper tool allows you to quickly select weights by sampling the existing weights on your mesh. Now weight painting for rigs is great, but it's important to know that vertex groups are not exclusively used for rigging. In fact, you can use them to affect modifiers, particles, physics and more. Let's take a look at that real quick. First thing we'll do is add a monkey mesh for easy visualization. If we go into the modifiers tab, we can add a modifier and see if it has a vertex group input field. Not all of them do, but certain modifiers such as wireframe include this input field for further customization. Let's add a wireframe modifier and see how it looks on our monkey. As you can see, it turns our entire mesh into a wireframe version of it. This is cool, but I still want to see my monkey mesh too, so I'm going to uncheck this option here called replace original. Great, but now what if we only want a specific part of the mesh to be wireframe? Well for that, we can create a vertex group. To do that, let's go back into our mesh data tab in the properties editor, and click the plus icon under vertex groups. We can rename the vertex group by double clicking it in the list. Let's call this one wireframe group. From here, we can actually go into edit mode and select all the vertices in the ear with the box select tool. Then go to the vertex group options, make sure wireframe group is still selected in the list, and drag the weight slider to 1.0. Then click assign. Now we can go into object mode and see if anything has changed. No, not yet. Ah, that's because we still need to go into our wireframe modifier and left click the vertex group input field. Then select wireframe group from the drop down. Nice, now we can see that the vertex group is influencing the effect of the modifier. Only the ear has been turned into a wireframe while everything else has been ignored. You can also flip the influence values of the vertex group by simply clicking on the two headed arrow icon to the right of the vertex group. And now everything has wireframe except the ear. Meanwhile, increasing the factor slider below will simply blend between the vertex groups influence and what we had by default. This exact method of using vertex groups as influence can be seen in particles and cloth as well. Feel free to experiment to better understand how you can use vertex groups for your own projects. I hope this gives you a fundamental understanding of how to create, use, and edit vertex groups in Blender.


Hello and welcome. So glad you're spending your morning, your afternoon, maybe your evening with us, but we're here for the nonprofit show. And today we're going to talk about what exactly a chief of staff does. We have with us today, Devika Narayanan, and she's here to join us as chief of staff that is her role at Nostos home so before we jump into this conversation. We want to remind you are loyal viewers and listeners who we are. So hello to Julia Patrick CEO of the American nonprofit Academy. And so her personal nonprofit nerd, but I can be yours to CEO of the Raven group and honored to serve alongside you Julia each and every day for these conversations. And we also want to say thank you to our amazing presenting sponsors that allow us these opportunities. 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Well, we're excited to learn more about you learn more about the organization. Would you tell us a little bit about the organization the mission and its role in the world. Sure. So, Nostas is this youth led charity, where we build homes for families that have been forcibly displaced, either due to natural disasters like floods or sometimes in the case of violent conflict. So, what we really do is that we come in and build very innovative homes for these families. What we realized when we really looked at the problem was that the problem was massive, about 80 million people around the world are displaced, and this is not a problem specific to any one geography is really, really global and really massive. And what we also realized was that losing your home is obviously a very vulnerable and traumatic experience. But immediately after that, these families have nowhere to go they often have to live in canvas stands they often have to live in just four, four, six of bamboo and a piece of tarp right so as you can imagine this is absolutely not a scenario in which they can rebuild their lives or really get back to their old ways of living. So we want to come in there and give them a real home, a very sturdy strong home that gives them privacy gives them personal dignity and really helps restore their previous ways of living so we've innovated quite a bit and we've landed on this building which allows us to really quickly deploy the houses and build it up by about four people even if they have absolutely no construction experience or even if they have no specialized tools they can just click the house into places essentially. So that is what we're trying to do at Nostos. So it's really an interesting. It's, it's almost like a jump from shelter services to looking at more permanency, so that then a recalibration can occur is that right. Absolutely so our houses have a lifespan of at least about 20 years. So that's significantly an increase from like the current solutions of like a canvas tent and another feature of our houses is that it can be essentially redeployed so it can be redeployed and taken to another site. So suppose these families get like permanent housing from the government or from aid agencies in say three to five years. After that these houses can be taken to a different site, but in that intermediate time we don't want these families to be living out of a canvas tent so we want to come in in that intermediate period and the house can itself last up to about 20 years. So innovative. I can understand why you've won the organization is one the prestigious Diana award named after Princess Diana of England. Talk to us a little bit about the global positioning of where you are I mean you're coming to us from India 11 o'clock at night your time. Talk to us about this global ecosystem that you have to live and work in. Yes, absolutely so the organization is registered in the UK but currently we've been building houses in India and in Africa. So yes there is definitely a lot of sort of international partnerships and a lot of international work that we do at North America that we do at North to us. And yeah around the world we've built about 500,000 nights of housing as of now for displaced families in India and Africa facing very very vulnerable situations so yes, me being involved in this work has opened up a very global outlook for me and something I wouldn't have gotten in university otherwise so I'm very grateful to be involved with North to us. You know, Jared ransom the nonprofit nerd who's one of the great minds in North America about all things nonprofit witness to us during the green room chatter that she only knows less than a handful of nonprofit organizations using a chief of staff concept. And, and we were talking about that and so I'm so fascinated to learn from you what it is that you do and what it is you maybe the better question is, what did you think you were going to do and what is it that you do as a chief of staff so can you kind of take us through what your role is. Yes. So I think before I go into the details of what I do at North to us as a chief of staff I think it will be useful for us to take a step back and look at where the role actually originated so it's pretty interesting actually that the role originated in the military I think as far as I understand. So, as you can imagine, yeah, in a military organization the sort of multiple verticals, multiple projects happening with very key decision making that is required. And it is very inefficient if you if you want the commander in chief to know the day to day activities of every single vertical and then make those decisions. So, as far as I understand the chief of staff role was really created to plug in that gap, and to act as sort of an integrated between different verticals, and between those verticals and the commander in chief. So that is a little bit of background in terms of what I think the chief of staff role is designed to do, and that is sort of similar to what we do at North to us as well. The first us is of course a much smaller organization we are a bunch of young people trying to make a difference in refugee housing and what that means is that as a chief of staff and involved in the in coordinating among different verticals and really acting as an aid to the very strategic decisions. So that would mean, you know, gathering all sorts of necessary information gathering those, those very critical inputs, and presenting them to the board in order to guide that decision making. And to then believe that those decisions back to the verticals and to execute those decisions by coordinating among the different verticals I think that is what I would sort of say is it's my day to day with nostrils as the chief of staff. That is a lot of moving pieces right like a project manager, and you're doing a lot of this remotely is that correct. Yes. So, yeah, our team is sort of split between some people in the UK and some of us in India, but we've been working remotely ever since the beginning of the organization so nostrils is actually completely volunteer run so we don't have anyone on sort of a full time paid basis so all of us, like myself I'm still in university but some of my other teammates are, you know, doing nostrils along with their full time jobs. So, we don't really have a space that we work out of we've been working remotely ever since the beginning but I think it works surprisingly well for us so far. Wow. So impressive. It really is impressive and I got to ask a couple questions. Do you find I mean Jared use that magical term project manager. Do you find that you're having to champion things and make sure that people are staying on track as a project project manager, or like what is that looking like for you. Yes, so that's definitely a fair amount of sort of like I said coordinating among these different verticals and between these different work streams in order to execute a project. So I think a very good example of that would be our recent deployment in Malawi so that was our first international deployment right and as you can imagine that would bring a lot of logistical challenges with it a lot of moving pieces as you said. And so my role then became to figure out those moving pieces and figure out key inputs that would help the board make decisions and choose options right so for instance that would look like me coordinating with a lot of our lawyers to make sure we have all our bases covered while we go into contract negotiations or making sure that we get the right inputs from our due diligence partners to make sure we know all of our risks going into the deployment. So yeah, like you said it's sort of like wearing a lot of different hats is what I would say it as because, for instance, I'm an engineering student right I have no law experience whatsoever. But I still sort of have to make sure that I do that in order to execute the project so in that sense not just has given me that experience across a different lot of different verticals and, like you said coordinating all of those moving pieces to make sure it really aligns with both the timelines as well as yeah what are your strategy goals are as an organization. That sounds like such a critical piece like when you when you when I imagine, you know, the entire organization the structure the verticals that you're mentioning like, this is a key piece. Is there one chief of staff or are there more than one. So organizations can have more than one chief of staff but at no stars we have just me with fairly small organization so I think I'm able to sort of handle it as of now. But yeah I do know of organizations that are sort of much bigger and they do have two to three. Many many chief of stars. Let me ask you this question because I'm fascinated and as we were talking about this. This is something that we're not entirely familiar with you're absolutely right. It's military based and so, and it has been successfully military based for millennia. It's not a new concept right the chief of staff, but where did you learn about this like how who do you have you looked upon to realize what it is you even need to do. So, since there's not just all of these nonprofit chief of staffs out there. Right so when I got involved with nostrils. I was essentially in my third year of university and nostrils is fairly young it was essentially in its early stages. And so I knew I wanted to get involved and I sort of landed on the chief of staff role but it wasn't necessarily something that I knew the blueprint of as as you said. It was just a fair amount of sort of researching it from the internet but also learning on the go. I think the one main thing about like being a chief of staff is that you need to sort of pick up a lot of different things. So that's not a lot you can really prepare for it fall but it's just about sort of being present and being able to be being open to solving these challenges and being open to learning from these different verticals. And I'm not really expected to have, you know, like a deep expertise in any one of these things like for instance, like I said I have no legal experience whatsoever but it's really about, you know, making sure you have the right connections, you're making the you're managing those relationships you're getting inputs from the right places and really putting all of that together so I didn't really necessarily have you know blueprint that I could follow but I think it's something that you can pick up as you go. What about, let me ask about confidentiality is that a critical piece as well because I imagine you know so much. And, and here, you know, I can only imagine that there's people going, Hey, DeVika, what do you know about x, y and z and it's like, I can't really tell you that quite yet. Yes, so there is a fair amount of confidentiality that you're expected to maintain as a chief of staff, especially because I think there are a lot of very key and sensitive decisions that you are a part of as an aid to the board. So yeah, that's definitely a fair amount of that is that that is expected of you. Yeah. So we have, I have a question and then we have a question that's come in from a viewer and I'll, and I'll mention the viewers question first. And this is, this is a fascinating question because this this demonstrates how new this concept is, at least for our US audience, and this this viewer writes in, is this a similar position to the executive director role.  I mean, so it is, it's fascinating that we would get that type of a question because again, this is a new concept for so many people in North America. I've got to ask you about some of your tools that you're using. So what are you like the spreadsheet queen, are you using slack or what what are some of these tools that you're using to help keep this float or this boat floating. Primarily, I think yeah, we do rely on spreadsheet quite a bit. So, for instance, in our recent Malawi deployment, there were about, I think at one stage six to seven different partnering organizations coming together to make that happen. So to make sure that everyone is on the same page and to also make sure that everyone is, you know, on the same page in terms of timelines and in terms of what needs to be done in every single day. We did have a lot of those sort of execute, executive like spreadsheets to make sure we are on track spreadsheets that sort of have everyone has access to and everyone can keep track of. And spreadsheets where interdependencies are very clearly highlighted to know what the order of operation should be. But apart from that, there is also a lot of just getting on a meeting, getting as many people as possible together, getting as many key stakeholders possible together and really ironing things out and then putting it into a spreadsheet. Yes. Yeah, I can imagine with that so many resources now, you know, and we work off of spreadsheets we you know will be transparent to we have a slew a slew of those. I'm curious how this role truly differs, you know from being an executive assistant or an administrative assistant, you know how does a chief of staff differ from admin support. That's a very interesting question Jared and I think you can sort of look at it in terms of two different two key differences that I think make those roles very fundamentally different. The first is like I said the sort of strategic nature of a chief of staff for it. So, like I said, you're, you're sort of an aid for the board in making those decisions, you have to, you know, deliver those key inputs you need to coordinate in getting those inputs from leaders, and you're really involved in the strategic decision making. And I think the second fundamental difference would be the level of, you know, the level of ownership and the expectation of driving impact that is placed on you so as a chief of staff, I'm able to be very directly involved in creating impact. And by that I mean you know like from everything from the first leg of the journey to the end of the journey right of delivering the house. So, for instance, manufacturing the houses, shipping the houses, clearing the houses for you know from customs, getting the houses on the ground getting a team on the ground to build the houses up. So there's a lot of direct ownership and a lot of direct expectation placed on you to drive impact. And I think in on those two accounts it sort of fundamentally differs, at least to a very significant degree I think from admin support. Does that does that make sense does that sort of answer the question I think that's how I see it. And it really caught me when you said, you know, the level of ownership. I love. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm also curious, we have another question that came in. If you are in the role currently of an operations manager. How might you transition to a chief of staff. Do you have any insight on that to Vika. Very interesting. Yes, definitely very interesting. So I haven't personally done that journey myself and still, you know, I sort of landed directly into the chief of staff role at North stars. So I'm not sure I'm the best person to answer that question. But I think for fundamentally of course there needs to be like a sort of chief of staff role at the organization it's something that is only picking up right now in organizations around the world I think in sort of for profit corporate culture still more widely accepted but in nonprofits like we discussed earlier there's going to be fewer of those opportunities. But I think one thing I can think of as a tip would be really getting that experience across different verticals or at least knowing a fair amount you don't even have any sort of in depth knowledge but you need to know how different people really work together and what the interconnectedness looks like. And I think that can really help, you know, help, help you fill in a position of the chief of staff, because I think that's one of the main skills that is required. You know, and I'll add to that just just off the cuff with my 20 plus years experience you know, because this is so new and we're seeing this, you know, really starting to trend, I think it's a great opportunity to have a conversation, and to show your desire, and even to show like, you know, the origin story as Davika said like this is a military origin, and how it supports the organization what it could look like going forward. That would be my recommendation on top of what has been shared. What about what about you Julia. I mean, Alexander the Great had chiefs of staff. I mean, this is a Napoleon had chiefs of staff George. I mean, this is a very structured approach to large management issues. And so, and crisis, I would say crisis issues right, you know, where you have like emergencies and things, you're on the battlefield, so to speak. Absolutely. And I think that this is a new time in the nonprofit sector to reimagine how we do our business. We imagine the tools and the talents and the treasures that are involved. And so, yeah, I think this is a really cool conversation. And sadly, we don't have a lot of time left. So I've got to ask this because I'm so impressed with you Davika. What the heck, where are you going in the future. Oh, thank you so much Julia, but yeah so I am still in university so it's definitely early stages for me to have a lot of things figured out down the line but in terms of next steps, I will be graduating in about two months. So that's very exciting. And after that, thank you, thank you so much and right after that I've gotten a full time offer from Boston Consulting Group. So it's a global consulting practice and so I'm very excited to join as a strategy consultant and help organizations in different different domains. And I have a special interest in healthcare specifically, and I'd love to help with strategy consulting for healthcare companies. This ties back to what I've been doing at Nostos and my interest in healthcare was found by the work I've been doing at Nostos because you know, Julia, we see communities across the world and these are very vulnerable communities and yes, definitely a house in Nostos who makes a world of difference to their lives, but it doesn't solve all of their problems, right, very realistically it just doesn't. And we've seen how Nostos can transform their lives but there's still so much that they require and I think the problem of gaps in access to healthcare is something that really resonated with me so professionally I've been working in that alongside Nostos and I'm looking to continue that with my full time role at BCG as well. Wow. Well, BCG is known as the pinnacle. Now I'm really impressed that you came on to the nonprofit show. I mean, because they take the best and the brightest that this this planet has to offer and so highly competitive, good on you. This is really, really impressive. I have so enjoyed this conversation and I look forward to, you know, following your journey and seeing what you're able to do. We need more people like you coming into our sector. Jarrett and I talk about this all the time. It's a big part of I think what I feel Jarrett with the nonprofit show is how do we help cultivate new leadership and next gen leadership and get people excited about working in this incredibly hard but rewarding environment. You know, it's really I think magical. Yeah, absolutely. I just have to share quickly. I was at a board meeting recently and one of the board members said, you know, what what we do in my business and we should probably do this, you know, as if the nonprofit were a business and someone chimed in and said, it is. It is a business, you know, and so I think looking at this from that perspective and that lens to say, okay, what is the market doing, how are we trending how can we best support all of these moving verticals that you know that you shared and and have that one one or multiple than one right like more than one. Like connecting that information exchange, especially now as we look into global and remote. I think this chief of staff we're going to see a lot more of them. I think so too. Yeah, it's really exciting. I love that you shared your personal story how you're growing. Really, I've got to encourage everybody check to check out Nostos website. It is super, super impressive. And I think that David has been very humble about communicating the degree with which the globe has really embraced their concept, their delivery, who their partners are. I mean, this is an organization that is really disrupted the way we think about displaced people in periods of crisis. And I am just so amazed by it. I really, really am. In fact, I've got to share really quickly as we wind up today, Jared. This just was broken in the New York Times before we came on air. But Cindy McCain, Ambassador Cindy McCain, who's from our state, Arizona, was just named to lead the World Food Program for the United Nations. I'm going to be replacing David Beatsley. And so that's based in Rome. And they work directly with these refugee and these crisis environments. And David, when you said, you know, canvas housing, that said it all to me because that's their delivering service, basically, with people that have to survive, not thrive, but survive and in this perilous situation. So what an interesting, interesting conversation today. Again, Davika Narayanan, Chief of Staff, Nostos Homes, check them out. NostosHomes.org. You will be so inspired. And I think that we can learn a lot of things. Check back with us, Davika. I'm really excited to see how you keep going and supporting our sector and how your wonderful organization comes forward. Because it's an amazing, it's not only amazing work, but for me, Jared, it's amazing switch of how we can solve problems. And that's what I think is really the innovation piece of this is something that we can all, I don't care what you're doing. I think you can learn from them. Again, everybody, I'm Julia Patrick joined today by the nonprofit nerd herself, Jared Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group. She is my personal nonprofit nerd, I've just got to say, but as she says, she can be yours too. Again, we want to thank all of our presenting sponsors who make these amazing connections possible. Blumerang, American Nonprofit Academy, your part-time controller, nonprofit thought leader, fundraising academy at National University, staffing boutique, and the nonprofit nerd. Wow, Jared, I'm so energized. So, so energized. I know. I want to search LinkedIn and see who pulls up for Chief of Staff. I think it's going to be fascinating. Davika, thank you and congratulations on all of your good work. And your upcoming graduation. So, so much to celebrate. Thank you so much for your time, Julia and Jared. It means a lot. Thank you so much. It's been fabulous. Hey, everybody, as we end this episode of the nonprofit show, we want to remind ourselves, our viewers, our listeners, our guests to stay well so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow, everyone.


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And yet, now, in this decade, there is a drawing apart of the South from the national life. And every time the rest of the nation makes one more snide joke about cornpone or rednecks, the defenses of the South go up more angrily, the dividing abyss widens, and the curtain becomes thicker and murkier. It is partly the South wanting to pull away, and partly the rest of the nation, misunderstanding, yes, even laughing it away. None of this is right or is good for the future of our country. I get letters from my friends down South who say nobody pays any attention to us anymore. If we come to Washington, we get a cold shoulder or no attention. If there is such a feeling in the South, what do I think I and my little trip into the South can do about it? Nothing much. Just sort of to say that whatever your feelings now, now and for the years to come, the South, to this Democratic candidate for president and to his wife, is a respected and valued and beloved part of the country. Now it is 1964. The disinherited descendants of slavery still denied their rights as citizens after a century of segregation have resolved to claim for themselves the American promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. President Johnson has thrown the full power of his presidency to their side, and he has just signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the greatest single sword of justice raised for equality since the Emancipation Proclamation. A few weeks later, both Lyndon and Lady Blurred plunge into the campaign for election in his own right. He's more or less given up on the South, but she will not. These were her people. They were her roots, and she's not ready to sever them. So she sets out on a whistle-stop journey of nearly 1,700 miles through the heart of her past. She's on her own, campaigning independently across the Mason-Dixon line, down the buckle of the Bible Belt, all the way to the port of New Orleans. I cannot all these years later do justice to what she faced. The booze, the jeers, the hecklers, the crude signs and crude adjusters, the insults and the threats. This was the land still ruled by John Birch and Jim Crow who used the cross and the club to enforce it. 1964, and bathroom signs still read white ladies and colored women. In Richmond, she was greeted with signs that read, fly away, Lady Bird. In Charleston, Blackbird, go hold.  In Savannah, her teenage daughter is cursed. The air has become so menacing that we run a separate engine 15 minutes ahead of her in case of a bomb. She later said people were concerned for me, but I was more concerned about the engineer out there in front. Rumors spread of snipers. And in Florida, the threats are so ominous, the FBI orders a yard by yard sweep of a seven-mile bridge that her train would cross. She never flinches. Up to 40 times a day from the platform of that caboose, she will speak, sometimes raising a single white gloved hand to punctuate her words, the lady always. When the insults in South Carolina grew so raucous, she quieted the ugly words by saying, they're coming not from the good people of South Carolina, but from the state of confusion. Time and again, she announced, you might not like what I'm saying, but at least you understand the way I'm saying it. And in Columbia, she answered hecklers with what one writer called a maternal bark. And she said, this is a country of many viewpoints. I respect your right to express your own. Now express, let me express mine. Thank you. The advance man called me back at the White House from a pay phone at the local train depot. He was choking back the tears. As long as I live, he said in a voice breaking with emotion, I will thank God I was here today so that I can tell my children that courage makes a difference.


Hi guys, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff! I am Kristen and I am sister number two. For meal prep Monday, I am making Southwest burrito bowls. So every Monday I'm going to start sharing my meal prep. I cook my lunches every Sunday, so I'm prepared for the following week. So with my meal prep, I'm only prepping four meals. So whether it's for lunch, whether it's for dinner, I only do four because it doesn't taste as good once you hit day five and so that's why I only do four. If you haven't done it yet, don't forget to subscribe to our channel right here and push that little bell so you can be notified every time that we post to YouTube. All right, let's go do this meal prep of our Southwest burrito bowls. So I'm going to take one package of lean ground turkey and some taco seasoning and cook those together in a skillet. While that's cooking, I just want to show you my new bento boxes I got on Amazon. I'll link it below for you, but they're perfect for the serving sizes that I use. Now I'm just going to get my four containers all ready to go so I can get my food put in. Now while my meat is browning, I have this Uncle Ben's whole grain Santa Fe medley that I cook. It only takes about 90 seconds. Then I'm just going to split it up into the four containers. So it's about a half a cup per container. Now I just eyeball it, so I just make it as even as possible. Next, I'm going to add my salad. If you don't want to put your salad in yet, that's okay. I like my Southwest burrito bowl cold. So I just add about a half a cup to a cup of salad into each bowl. Now as I put the salad on, I'm also actually browning my meat on the side. All right, once my meat is done, my taco seasoning is added. I'm just going to split that into fourths and just add it to each bowl. Now this was one pound of lean ground turkey, and so each serving will have about a fourth of pound of ground turkey. Now if you don't like the taste of ground turkey, you can easily use ground beef instead. Next, I'm going to add my corn. So this is low sodium canned corn. I love when I can use fresh corn when it's in season, but when it's not in season, I just use the canned. So I use about a fourth of a can for each bowl. The next ingredient is your favorite salsa. I love the fresh salsa or the pico. You can get it at any grocery store. You can make it yourself. There's hardly any calories, and it just adds that boost of flavor for you. So I added about three tablespoons into each bowl. And then last, I just added a little bit of cheese onto each bowl, about two tablespoons. Not a lot, but I really like cheese. Now I'm going to put this Taco Bell mild sauce on top, and it's great because there are no calories, no fat, no carbs, there's only a little bit of sodium. So it's perfect if you're trying to lower your calories. Now I add my taco sauce as I'm about ready to eat it.  Now these should last you about five to six days in the refrigerator. So in total, this has 401 calories, 44 grams of carbs, eight grams of fat, and 36 grams of protein. Be sure to comment and like this video. And of course, if you haven't done it yet, subscribe to our channel to check out all of our videos. Alright guys, see you later.