With that said, let's go into the Word of God, Genesis chapter 9 verse 12 and down. And God said, this is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you. And every living creature that is with you for perpetual continuous generations. I will set a rainbow, somebody say rainbow, in the cloud and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. It shall be when I bring a cloud over the earth and the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud. I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh.  A rainbow shall be in the cloud and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. Somebody say never again. Today's message is going to be titled, rainbow promise. Rainbow promise. Look to your neighbor and say, it's about the rainbow. Today you're going to get a new definition of the rainbow. I know the rainbow has been used to represent a movement. But today I'm going to talk about where it started and a different kind of movement that God has to represent a rainbow. Amen. We see that with Noah, God gives rainbow as a sign of a covenant. To Abraham, God gives circumcision as the sign of the covenant. To Israel, God gives Sabbath as the sign of the covenant. And to us as Christians, Jesus gives baptism as the sign of the covenant. So that's why as Christians we believe in getting baptized and the young man saying getting re-baptized. Sometimes that's good too. But the point is that it's a sign of our covenant with the Lord. The message that I want to speak to you tonight, I will summarize it in one statement. The whole thing that I'm going to speak for next 15 to 18 minutes, I'm going to summarize it in one statement. And you can write this down. The flood of my past will not reappear in my future. And this is not a sermon. This is a prophetic word that can change your life. Prophetic meaning that God can take this word as a promise for your life and can shift things first in your mind and as a result in your future. The flood of my past will not reappear in my future. Never again. When Noah went through the flood, the rain came, the clouds came, the tornado came, the lightning came. All of these things came and then the rain, the luge came and the waters raised up. And Noah saw how it destroyed everything and everyone around him. He came out of the ark, sets the altar before God, God smells the aroma, and the clouds gather again. Imagine someone who's just been through the flood. She's the clouds. She's the rain, begins to drip. And in the midst of that, God begins to speak to Noah and says, Noah, I don't want you to be afraid. The rain, the clouds, is not another flood. And in the middle of that, God gives him a rainbow.  The clouds will come. The rain will come. But there will be no flood. Sometimes we go through things in life. We go through bankruptcy. We go through a heartbreak. Sometimes we go through things where we get rejected, dumped, abandoned or God forbid abused. We go through things where we get marked left or left behind. We go through things where we try to pass that class so many times and we cannot pass it. We lose our financial aid or we lose our funding. We lose our schooling and we have to start everything from the beginning again. And then finally we get back on our feet and we attempt to make something that we tried before. And the clouds gather up and the mind begins to play games. Our mind begins to say, the way you failed, then you'll fail now. The mind begins to tell you and the devil begins to lie to you and say, the flood is coming again. That flood almost killed you. That flood destroys you and it took you years to recover and another one is coming, get ready. But the message I have for you tonight is to tell you when you've been through the flood and you have a relationship with God and it begins to rain, God has a rainbow for you and He wants to remind you that it will not happen again like it happened last time that what will happen in the future will not be a repetition of your past because of the rainbow, because of the covenant you have with God because of the covenant God has with you because of His presence and because of His peace. Somebody say amen. Never again. Somebody say never again. Never again. Say it loud and never again. You know it happened with Israel when they were in Egypt and they were in bondage for so long and finally God delivered them through the blood of the Lamb. They got out and the Bible says they walked boldly but not long after Pharaoh, he gathered 600 chariots and went after Israel and when they saw Pharaoh people begin to complain and people begin to cry and people begin to say, God here it comes again. Here it comes again. Slavery is coming again. We thought we were free. We thought this problem was over. We thought you delivered us.  Have you ever got in a place where you got healed? You were certain you got healed and the next morning the symptoms came back? That's the word that I have for you today. Never again. And when they saw Pharaoh God gave them a promise.  God hasn't drowned Pharaoh yet. Egyptians were not defeated yet. They were just approaching but God already gave them a rainbow and this was the promise. God says, look at them one more time because this is going to be the last time you see their face and no more ever again. You have to receive that word tonight. If you've been through a breakup and you're embarking on a new relationship and maybe relationships that's getting a little bit rocky and the devil will say, you will always be single. You will always have broken relationships. You have to look at that devil and say, I'm going to look at you one more time and this is going to be the last time I will look at that disappointment. Never again. If you tried something to do with business or work and every time you tried you failed and today you are trying something again you're beginning something new this year and after a few weeks you begin to see Pharaoh with his chariots and the devil lies to you and says, another flood is coming you will fail again but the word of the Lord says to you today you have to look at your Pharaoh and say, this is going to be the last time I'm going to see you around never again because the promise of God says the flood that was there yesterday will not reappear tomorrow yes it will rain but it won't flood because of God that is on your side because somebody say, amen maybe something happened with your schooling no one in your family was able to finish schooling they started but no one was ever able to finish you're beginning to go to college and you're facing challenges today I have the word for you today you can overcome that and the flood that took the education from your family will not be the flood that will take education from you I want to paint a rainbow in your mind that when you see the challenges in your school that you will be strengthened not to let the flood come again but to see the rainbow and says, this is not going to claim my life like it did the generations before can somebody say, amen never again never again you know when I was 16 I thought I was ready for marriage I was sure I was ready for marriage and there was this particular girl that was coming to a church she just started to come to a church and she had a lot of spiritual problems and I felt Messiah complex kicked in and I decided that God called me to fix all of her problems you know I was young and I didn't know that relationships are not rehabs but at that time it was the same thing relationship was a rehab at the time and so remember it was emotionally being attached and I was very certain I was ready for marriage I thought spiritually I was ready but through the grace of God nothing of that through the help of my pastor and my parents they quickly slapped that idea out of my head and I snapped out I graduated from high school and at the age of I think 20 I had my first serious serious relationship but I was convinced that it will end up in marriage somewhere along the line my head got confused I became so emotionally and mentally confused where that relationship ended about six or five months later I was in the same relationship with the same person and again I got to the same place where I was something not was there was not there probably I wasn't mature or whatever it was and so in my head I was just getting confused everything was fine for a few months and then just get completely confused wet feet whatever they call it and I just dropped it and I felt so disappointed with myself that and felt guilty for that as well I took few years off and I decided you know what no relationship for me I got to get this guy cleaned up because I'm a mess about six years ago in January around January time I meet Lana when I met Lana the first time we went on iHUB for breakfast everything went really good after that I get home and the same thing kicks in again exactly same confusion just boom it comes in my mind and I actually phone her and I said you know it's over we're just friends you know we all love that we're just gonna be friends brothers and Jesus and sisters in Christ and she completely understood what that meant and I remember we went too fast and we went to pray for about 21 days I didn't last 21 days I think it was last around about 17 days and during that time I started to see God's face I started to seek truly the Lord's face and one of the things that God started to do at that time as I gave a sacrifice financial sacrifice for money is that God beginning to change in my mind the pattern of defeat the pattern where it will always be like this you are a confused man that's just who you are get used to it you've broken other people's lives and so you deserve to have that you're gonna live like this all the time and something happened in that January where in the midst of the clouds which I've seen those clouds before and they ended up in the flood but this time in the midst of the cloud I saw a rainbow and the rainbow it was in my wife it was the clarity in my mind it was the peace in my heart that I didn't have before the clouds were still there the confusion emotional thing was still there but the rainbow came in and I said to myself this time it won't be like the last time I don't have all my life to live in the support man this time it's not gonna be like the last time and you know what within about three months we were engaged in four months later we were married looking back it's one of the best decisions that I made at the time in my life but it looked like a flood but when you see a rainbow even if it rains somebody say amen I want you to write down point number one is the rainbow is not for perfect people but for forgiven people you know verse 21 chapter 8 of Genesis God said to Noah he said the Lord smelled a soothing aroma and the Lord said in his heart I will never again curse the ground for men's sake although the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done did you know why God gave a rainbow to Noah it wasn't because Noah was perfect it wasn't because finally God cleansed all the bad people out of the earth and left the most amazing perfect people when God gave the rainbow to Noah the bible says he did it knowing in Noah's heart is already junk knowing in his kids his kids are crazy knew Noah is gonna get drunk and he says knowing that evil is in their hearts God still gives the rainbow I don't want you to feel like because what you've been through because you suffered that now God's gonna give you a blessing as an award for your suffering God gives blessing as an expression of his love never as an award for my suffering as a word for Jesus's suffering not my suffering God wants to bless you not because every decision you made was perfect God wants to bless you financially not because everything in your past was spotless God gave the rainbow knowing people's hearts were still not all there but he says my mercy is gonna be greater than my judgment can somebody say amen you know the flood did not cleanse evil it removed evil people the blood removes evil out of the people the flood removed bad people out of the earth but the blood of Jesus Christ removes evil out of people's hearts only the blood of Jesus can cleanse your life only the cross of Jesus can remove the bad that you have in your heart can somebody say amen you know it's very interesting because the rainbow is actually a bow directed upward without a string or arrow in the bible a rainbow a bow was always a symbol of God shooting at the earth but after the flood God changed the aim of the bow it was no longer aimed at the earth and that bow had no string and had no arrows that means to you and me it's a very simple lesson the wrath of God is no longer gonna be shot at you because it was shot at Jesus Christ and God flips the bow around and makes a rainbow a constant reminder your sins was already paid for you don't have to pay for them you don't have to guilt trip yourself you will make it better or you will make it go away God's grace and mercy is sufficient and it's enough somebody say amen God's grace and mercy is sufficient point number two does not stop the rain it cancels the flood a rainbow does not stop the rain it cancels the flood when the clouds begin to gather and they begin to get doomy and gloomy that's when the rainbow comes rainbows don't come during the sunshine a rainbow comes when the clouds when there's a little bit of drips of rain and then you see the rainbow as a reminder you might still have the rain you might still have the troubles but you won't have the flood those troubles won't take you out those troubles won't end up like they ended before God will see you through can somebody say amen the way it happened first time will not be the way it will happen this time God will see you through when we experienced a little breakthrough in our church about some eight years ago a sanctuary one person got saved we had about two rows of our youth that was coming here when that one person got saved people start coming every single week a little bit more and a little bit more and that momentum lasted for about year and a half to two years the most it was reached was about half or almost all of this side of the sanctuary was filled with people it was such a wonderful experience and then something out of nowhere and slowly vision was lost and people were being also lost one by one they were moving out of tracities people were leaving the church and everything went down to the same place what it used to be and then it took us a while to recover from that and to get back into the same passion and vision that we see that now for the past two and a half years and when God started to do a new thing in our ministry about two and a half, three years ago when people start coming getting saved again one of the things that I had to and even our team had to battle with is this it won't last this will be like the last time people will give their lives to Jesus this will last for six, seven months and after that everything will come down to normal and it will stop people will no longer give their lives to Jesus home groups will no longer be raised up miracles will no longer happen and one of the things in those seasons I had to battle with and our key leaders had to constantly battle with and our key leaders would begin to gather in your mind and the devil begins to lie to you and says yes you've enjoyed this good time but listen don't get too happy because the flood is coming again the thing that happened to you before will happen to you now but one thing we constantly told ourselves and I want you to tell yourself as well is that God is faithful to see us through if he brought us to this he'll bring us through it he's not gonna drown us and this flood is not gonna happen again our traditions will not stop happening home groups will not stop being opened our church is not gonna stop growing our church is not gonna just simply go back to what it used to be and we made a decision to ourselves listen any kind of cloud that begins to gather God will give us the rainbow a reminder that his grace will go from glory to glory from faith to faith in the last days says the Lord I'll put out of my spirit upon all flesh God says in the last days when doctors get darker my light will get brighter it will not happen again like it happened before because somebody say man I want you to carry that in your heart today we see more home groups more people giving their life to the Lord before when you prayed for people and there were some heavy cases of demon possessed or people who had demons and it was for 2-3 months and the next thing that would happen is that those people would walk away from the church when last year we had about 4 of those cases we prayed for almost every other service and the devil would lie and say you know what like it happened then it will happen now these people won't be delivered they will leave the church and they will always be defeated but one thing that we constantly did in our mind when we prayed for these people it's just because it happened to that young man 8 years ago that we were not able to help him it will not happen like that now these people will be set free we are in a different season these clouds don't mean flood they just mean rain and they mean rainbow God's reminder of God's faithfulness and God's goodness in our life and to God's glory you know all of those 4 people all those 3 people that are sitting today they were completely delivered and today their life are improving their life is getting better and their life is changing because of the glory of God in Jesus' name it's not you the devil will lie to you and says you are a failure he will say failure will happen again to you but remind the devil and say failure is what happened it's not who I am I am more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ every time I go through something that reminds me smells like looks like feels like what I've been through before I remind myself God has a rainbow in the midst of the cloud for me in Jesus' name amen you know about 5 years ago when we just got married I was invited to speak at that time it was the largest place that I spoke to had the most people it was a youth gathering a bunch of youth people there in Seattle and I think it was about 600 people 5 years ago that was the largest auditorium our largest crowd that I've spoken to and it was winter we drove there I was prepared to speak and I had I started having problems mentally where I would start having such a confusing thoughts about what to speak I was standing there our pastor was there and he came before worship and kind of said make sure you bring the fire down make sure you keep this and this and I'm already confused and that just kind of made it a little bit more confusing and more stressful and I got up there to speak and I just feel as cold as ice as dry as wilderness nothing comes out I begin to stumble my words I forget my notes everything and I just chicken out knocked out never done the before and never done the after and when I've done with that you know everybody looked at me and everybody knew something was wrong with him what happened to him because this never happens to this guy and pastor afterwards called me and he said you know you flopped it that was terrible I was like yeah tell me about it that wasn't terrible that was a disaster he says you can't do like that I'm like I know pastor I know something happened to me he's like whatever happened to you gotta get it out of your way because you can't be going to places and I felt so guilt and felt such a shame and after that I was spoken to good places but never really anything that size until last year I was invited to a conference to do a small session on Saturday and the main speaker who is known all around the world to do mighty healings is supposed to speak on Saturday night chose out the main speaker who was doing all the healings got sick so he wasn't making I am on my way to this conference and the pastor from that conference calls me he said hey you're gonna be the main speaker and just no pressure but you do the healing too and I was like super great anything else maybe make me an angel there flopped my wings he says no no no pressure just do your job and I was like oh for sure I'm so excited and I'm standing there in the service I had my message prepared about faith but I'm like this is not powerful enough for the main evening so every service I switched my messages somebody got up talked about offering somebody gets up and talks about this I switched my message I switched my message 20 times in my mind until the night came in and I asked him can I have a room I wanna go and pray I didn't go and pray I wanna slept because my mind was so clouded and so much pressure when I woke up from that sleep literally clouds start coming in together and that things start coming in give lad you flopped it 5 years ago you're gonna flop it again but right in the middle of that holy spirit I'm gonna flop it if you don't give me a rainbow just a small little token of your peace and that you are with me that's all I need and the Lord just gave me a small little piece in my heart and said speak the same message you were supposed to speak commander don't make any apologies just do your thing and that's it and that night was one of the greatest nights of my life so many people got healed so many people got touched and ever since then when it comes to speaking things shifted even when I get up to speak and I feel like you know I'm losing it all the stuff I remind myself in the middle of that message toward the end of that message after the altar call or during the altar call God will show his rainbow and the way I flopped it before I won't flop it again I won't flop it again and same thing applies to you today same thing applies to you today God has a plan and a purpose for your life and God wants to remind you today that all the great things ended for you before they won't happen to you again like that I want you to receive that today maybe you got broken maybe you got somewhere where you got devastated maybe some things fell apart today is the day where God wants to do a new thing in your life in Jesus mighty name because somebody say amen when clouds gather look for the rainbow don't rehearse the flood do not remember what happened before maybe today you're looking at your life and you're saying you know what what happened that happened before not true Jesus came first time they crucified him he's coming again and Jesus doesn't have thoughts that oh I'm so afraid to come on the earth same thing will happen to me that happened to me first time when Jesus looks of the earth he cannot wait to get back here because he knows when he's coming back here they won't crucify him he will rule and reign he had experience on dessert that was bad and it will be a completely different experience I want you to change your mind today if you're embarking this year and saying you know what I'm gonna commit my life to praying ah you've tried that last year how long did that last the devil will say let God give you a rainbow what happened last year stayed that last year it's a new year and it's gonna be new opportunities maybe you just got your job and the last job you got fired because you were late things happened this job maybe situation is getting friction between your boss and maybe you want to leave right now and you're saying you know what it's over because I'm just gonna go look for something else listen do not give up that soon when clouds gather last year was the flood this year is gonna be a rainbow maybe you got sick and right now the symptoms are coming back and you were treated or you received healing and you feel the symptoms coming back and the devil tells you you've never been healed and it comes the symptoms come back it doesn't mean the flood is coming back you gotta tell yourself this is a rainbow God tells me, God reminds me the pharaoh you see today you will not see again in Jesus name maybe you're a guy and you started in a relationship or you're a young lady and you're of age and you're in a relationship and the things are going exactly the same way it always went for you at a certain point the person leaves you and maybe you are in that point now I wanna tell you something today this is gonna be a different year and this year God doesn't promise floods he promises rainbows he promises that he will see you through and whatever happened before will not happen again if you believe that in your mind you will see that in your life if you wait to see what will happen and you say I'm just gonna see what happens while you're letting life dictate your direction don't ever be at the mercy of your life God called you to reign in life not to be dominated by it God called you to be more than a conqueror not to be intimidated by it God called you to rise above to soar with wings like eagles not to be trempled in Jesus name rise above tell yourself this is gonna be a different year your business will prosper your finances will prosper you will be in the best shape you will have a great prayer life this year how long did that last the devil will say listen look at the devil listen devil I'm gonna see you for the last time this time it's gonna be different maybe you've received freedom from pornography and you went on without you know falling into that sin for months and then something happened and you fell and then you received freedom again and the devil comes and says oh we'll see how long that will last as long as you're allowing clouds to create a flood in your mind it will flood but if the clouds come you have to make ground yourself deep and you say whom the sun sets free is not free for a year it's free indeed and I am that whom the sun sets free I am that one whom the sun sets free I'm not going back to that addiction and that addiction will no longer hold my life the pharaoh you see today you will see again no more forever for some of you that pharaoh is alcohol for others of you that pharaoh is drug abuse for others it's suicidal thoughts it's depression there are some of you that pharaoh is the constant allergies or it's the high blood pressure for some of you that pharaoh today is the constant disappointment in your job things that are always tensing your finances or maybe in your marriage whatever it is could you receive a word today doesn't have to happen again this time it's gonna be different oh I don't promise that we know rain but God promises He wants to cancel the flood in your future the flood of your past will not reappear in your future you may say but I don't deserve it we all know that God knows that He didn't give you a rainbow because He was blind to your mistakes He didn't give you a rainbow because He knew you will never make any mistakes in spite of your weakness His grace will pull you through His grace will cover what you do not have and He will help you and raise you up and give you a bright future in Jesus name


Our first caller is Anna from Maryland. Hey, Anna, how can we help you? Hi, guys. Well, first off, I just wanted to say, as everyone says, you guys do great work. Thank you for putting this podcast out. So yeah, I just want to start with that. I have a question about one of my clients. So I am a trainer. Actually, this month marks my one year. So I'm a newer trainer. And I have a client that I've been working with since the end of May that is a bariatric patient. So about a little over a year ago, she got the surgery. I had put her on a strength-focused, pretty linear progression, anabolic-esque type workout program. And she was doing really well. Her strength is doing well as she's going up in weight and getting stronger every session.  And she actually had went up body fat. So my question is, how do you increase a bariatric patient's metabolism? I think I also put in my question, would things like aminos and other supplements, in her case, be more important? So if you could just speak on that. Yeah, a really, really good question.   And I know body fat percentage tests are notoriously challenging to do when people have a lot of body fat. The larger they are and the leaner they are, so when you get in the extreme ends, the more inaccurate they are and the harder they are to try. Yeah, but don't you think that's almost obvious that's going to happen if she had the surgery in the last year or even two years?  Well, I want to, maybe, but she got stronger. That's why I want to ask, how did you do the body fat test the first time and then each subsequent time? Yeah, so I do work at a studio. I moved from a big box gym that did in bodies with bioelectrical impedance to somewhere that does skin calipers. So I was curious about getting her on an in-body machine, but we did calipers. And you did calipers the whole time? Yes.  All by, like, 4%. OK, so that's within the realm of error, but, again, what Adam's saying could be true.  The only thing is that her strength went up, and honestly, when you're dealing with that much weight loss, that's really the main thing that I'm looking at is, are you getting stronger? As far as the supplements are concerned, of course, you want to work with her doctor because they do have pretty specific nutritional requirements. She's probably already on multivitamins and other supplements. But can amino acids and protein powders help this person? In my experience, yes, very much so. Easily digestible protein that's easy to consume and convenient can help when somebody's stomach is so small or they can't consume as much at one sitting. Digestive enzymes can help, so can amino acids, but I would work with the doctor to make sure that this is all OK. How many calories is she currently on right now and how long ago was the surgery? So I have her tracking, but she's not very good at keeping it. She seems to be around 1,200 sometimes, can get to like 1,250, so pretty low. And how long, how long? How long she been from the surgery? Away from the surgery, removed from it? Yeah, how long ago was the surgery? A little over a year. OK, well, there you go.  It's very normal for her to get stronger, but she's losing weight at such a rapid rate that the ratio of muscle to fat is higher. So that's what makes the body fat percentage go up, which is extremely common with this situation. So that's not, I wouldn't be too worried about that. That's how I'd explain that to her, is that, listen, we have dramatically cut your calories. And even though we are building some muscle and we are heading in the right direction, you're losing so fast that it's very normal for you to also lose muscle because we're no longer feeding it enough calories to sustain it on your body. So that's all normal. Yeah, I would be entirely focused on performance. I've worked with a few bariatric patients. And I mean, essentially, that surgery forces you to lose weight. And when it comes to supplements, I always would work with the doctor because you're not dealing with a normal digestive system anymore, so there are special requirements. But I would focus entirely on performance, make the whole thing about performance. I wouldn't look at the scale.  She's probably already getting tracked by the doctor. She's very aware of how much weight she's losing or not losing because that's why she did the procedure. I would focus entirely on performance, stamina, strength, mobility and endurance, and move in that direction because in my experience, it's already so body focused that if I keep placing focus on body, it can oftentimes make it a very stressful situation. And when you're dealing with somebody who medicated themselves with food for so long, what you don't wanna do is make an experience something that may not be as enjoyable. And I found that just focusing entirely on performance tends to do a better job with this particular population of people. I mean, I would also, I wouldn't, I would personally, whether that's you, you don't need to probably involve her as much, I guess, but I would definitely make an effort to keep her protein intake perfect because she's gonna be so low calorie that making sure she's on a higher protein diet will be muscle sparing for her. Even though to Sal's point, that shouldn't be the focus. We don't need to worry too much about that. It's inevitable that if you reduce your calories at that rate from the size that she probably was at before, we're gonna lose muscle too. But to minimize how much muscle we lose, I would, I'd be focused for you as a coach at keeping her protein intake, you know. But you could tie that to performance, right? So rather than saying eat more protein so you don't lose muscle or so you get leaner. So be stronger. Exactly. We wanna look at strength. We wanna see how strong you can get. I wanna see your performance. And I think we need to increase your protein intake in order to do that. And then shakes can be very valuable for people in this particular situation because of the procedure that they had, it's harder to digest food. They don't have as much capability to have as much food at one time. And liquid shakes can oftentimes be something that helps quite a bit. And here's what's happening is we're so low calorie that fat and muscle is just coming off the body at such a fast rate. At what point that will start to, especially if you're strength training, if you're strength training, we're getting adequate protein. At one point, probably the fat loss will continue and then she'll start to kind of hold her muscle mass. And really that's kind of your indicator of like you guys are really on the right path is that she started to level off on the body fat percentage. But I would- She has. Oh, she has. Well, and that's to update since I wrote in the question for a little under a month now, she's been at the same weight. Like she comes in, she's like- That's great. It has not budged. This is so funny. So I'm hopeful that like the next time we do the body fat percentage, there might be a change in that composition, but I don't know. And again, it's a different client I've ever worked with. I told her to try to up her cow. See, I wasn't sure about upping it with protein or carbs because I know protein is very satiating. And for her, it's really hard. She's already had, I think it's called dumping syndrome which a bariatric patients can get.  So I actually told her about like 200 calorie surplus with carbs, you're saying protein instead, most likely. Yeah, proteins, fats. I mean, you want to get that. But I mean, if she feels better with some carbs, that's fine. Small meals throughout the day, this is where the benefit of that is. You know, someone like this would be doing like seven or eight snacks throughout the day because eating too much at once can cause problems like you said with dumping syndrome. I do want to go back to the body fat test though because when you're testing, especially skim fold, when I'm doing someone who's super obese, boy, the error that I can measure with that is tremendous. Like how much did she weigh the first time you tested her versus the second time you tested her? Like what is her weight at now and where was she when you first did her body fat test? Do you know? Yeah, so she came in, she was 186, 186 and now she is budget 162. Okay. Well, that's not too, that's not too heavy but you- No, so it's not as hard but it's still interesting.  I didn't even- I was gonna say that. We didn't even talk about that. No, that wasn't part of the conversation. I think the focus with that, they've obviously taken extreme measures to lose the weight. At this point now as a trainer to be able to establish building muscle as the main goal and objective and getting active recovery with that and being able to implement these better habits is the utmost priority. So to focus on the strength part of it and really just keep reiterating it's gonna take a while. Like this extreme shift, now we have to really kind of take all these steps which is gonna take a lot of time to establish a built, repaired metabolism to be able to kind of go forward from here. And increasing the calories through carbs and fat I think is fine so long as she's getting at least the bare minimum protein. So I would, that's the one thing. Otherwise we're gonna lose, continue to lose muscle. She's eating 20 grams of protein every day. And the rest is most carbs and fat to get to her 1200 or so calories. Then you can do all the strength training in the world in a caloric deficit and grossly under consuming protein, we're gonna lose muscle. Minimum we wanna hit like 70 grams. Yeah, so that's how I would decide what those calories come from is, if she's hitting a good amount at 60 to 80 grams of protein at least, okay, well we could eat whatever feels the best for you whether that be carbs, fat or protein. But if she's grossly under eating protein, 20 to 30, say even 40 grams of protein every day then I'd be encouraging those extra calories to come from protein. Consider this Anna, you're working with the hardest, one of the hardest segments of the population in terms of getting someone to achieve permanent success with fitness and nutrition. It's one of the most challenging segments of the population. So think that way the entire time. What you don't wanna do is think of goals short term but rather how can I get this person to develop a relationship with exercise and nutrition to where they'll be able to maintain it forever? Okay, always and forever. They've already, I mean, we can guess that they probably had a bad relationship to food to begin with and exercise is very closely connected to that.  So I like to really focus on performance. Like imagine if this client really started to just love, they stopped thinking about their weight and really just love getting faster, getting stronger, being able to do new exercises and move in different ways and enjoy that. The often side effect of that is they eat better. They start to eat to fuel their body. They start to develop this relationship with exercise where they, I just love doing it. I just love going to the gym because I feel good and I love moving and I love doing these new exercises I couldn't do before. So that's really the direction that I would say to focus on because don't think of yourself so much as I'm a trainer and you produce results for this person. Think of yourself as more of a guide and I need to lead them to a situation where this person now has achieved permanent success. I don't know if you're familiar with the long-term fail rate even with bariatric patients, it's not very good. So that's where I would place my entire focus, at least that's what I did and I still didn't have the greatest success rate but it was better than when you looked at the averages. Gotcha. Yeah, no, she's starting to get there and I mean, I started working with her when she'd already dropped a lot of weight. You know what I mean? After those initial months, you start losing really quickly. So she was already down pretty much and the other day tried to pick up the 45 pound barbell and like curl it for like 12. So she's getting into the strength part of it and I think the strength is actually what's exciting her. Excellent, perfect. All right, well, perfect. Well, thank you for calling in. And actually, I wonder if this person would benefit from our intuitive nutrition guide. Do you have that? No, I do not, no. Let me send that over to you. You could read through it and pull from it and it might help you communicate with this particular client in a healthy way with nutrition. There's some good stuff in there. Awesome, sounds good. Thank you very much. Thank you, Adam. I appreciate it guys.  Yeah, and I know that the 24-hour Santa Teresa, there was a clinic there. I worked, and I remember my first time working with this population and it's very, very challenging. I remember the first client I had, I got them, they lost lots of weight, got them in shape, we did the whole meal plan, the whole deal, didn't see them for years, ran into them later and I could not believe how much of the weight they had gained back. I thought it was impossible to gain the weight back, but I guess through just sheer will and just not having a great relationship with nutrition and food, they were able to do it. And I remember thinking to myself like, I need a completely different approach. Same thing happened, it's like not addressing the root of it all and it was so frustrating to see that. But again, it's so addictive once you start losing weight. Like that's like one of those things, like to slow them down and to be able to kind of really address it through behavior and to change those behaviors later on in my career. Like I figured how to do that and how to communicate that a lot better. But I mean, you're their cheerleader in a sense too. Like you want them to lose the weight because you think the weight is really the biggest issue that's keeping them unhealthy. And then you further on realize, oh, well, this root of this behavior hasn't been addressed yet. And so therefore, this is gonna keep coming back and something that you gotta keep continually dealing with. Well, and for all the trainers that are listening to this and that have clients like this, it's very normal to see the body fat percentage go up like that. So that's why I was trying to stress that like it really doesn't matter what they're using.  I know. And that's part of the reason why you don't worry about that because it's not good news you get back. They're training with you three days a week. They're doing what they're supposed to. Strength training, they've got a good balance in their macros. You would like to show them, oh look, you lost 30 pounds the last two weeks but we got more muscle. The reality is their calories are so low. And they can't absorb very much. Yeah, never really gonna lose muscle with it. That's right, they're gonna plummet. And really the strength training aspect of it is just to slow down the atrophy of muscle during that process. That's the sad truth, isn't it? Yeah, because it's inevitable because of how low a calorie they are. And then again, back to my point about the protein, that would be my biggest concern as far as helping slowing that process down because if she is eating only 1,200 calories and only eating 20 to 40 grams of protein, that's gonna continue for a while.


No, it's not a seven layer cake. No, it's not a seven layer dip.  Let's get into that video right now. This is a highly anticipated video in a follow-up to the video that I did about three to four weeks ago where I talked about how you can completely up your skincare game and make it so much more effective and now what I'm going to do today is I'm going to show you some more products and another technique that can even boost it more. Let's first talk about what I have on and what I have on today is a very plain t-shirt type of material shirt but it's got ruching on the side which helps because it kind of gathers around the tummy and disguises the tummy a little bit and it's got a pretty good size boat neck so if you want to wear this down completely off your shoulders you can or if you just want to wear it like I'm wearing it which is just where it hits the shoulders that works too. It's very true to size. I wear a large and I love the fabric. It's very light and it's going to take me from fall on into winter and I'll be able to layer it very easily and then I also have on a pair of gold dangle earrings. This has a triangle up here with the gold and then just some chains with like some feather type things on them down there so I really have been enjoying those. I just think they're so cute and then of course my rings, my fingernail polish, everything else I have on including the makeup I have on will be listed and linked below and when I talk about links I like to tell you about my numbering system. A number goes right up here on the screen. That number corresponds to whatever product that I'm holding up at that moment and reviewing. Don't worry about the name or if you need to know color or anything like that. I will make sure that all of that is listed down in the description box next to the number three. You will find that product with its link and you'll be able to show up that way. Okay so a while ago I did do that video and if you haven't seen it I highly suggest that you pause this video right now go down into the description box look for the video and go watch that video because this will make so much more sense if you watch that video. Now yes I do have seven essences in front of me and in essence is a very watery product. We're not even talking like a serum. A serum might have a little bit of viscosity in it. Essences are more like water and what happens is in that video I demonstrated how they work on your skin in order to boost the effectiveness of everything that you follow up with in your skincare. Let's just start out with looking at the first one that I use right after I cleanse and that is the Nion Super Oxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist.  The reason that you use it immediately after cleansing is to get the full benefits of it. So any essence that you use if you're somebody that picked up the Sukoyako Suhara then you would use that right then. Now let me tell you what I discovered during that video and this was such a wow moment for me. So many of you were talking about the Korean or Japanese way of layering essences instead of doing regular skincare and the reason that I it was like huge light bulb is I really have done a lot of this throughout my skincare journey which started about seven years ago. I started using very thin products because I felt like the more products I put on that were thicker the more it would peel up as I was doing my skincare or the more it would peel up during the day after I had my makeup on. So now I am so excited to tell you that I am using almost 100% essences in my skincare. So I talked about that I start out with the Super Oxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist. That is from NIOD. This is a super antioxidant and it addresses other signs of aging especially dryness on our face.  Yes I'm going to be showing you seven essences today that I stack on top of each other but no I don't feel like you need to rush out and get this many. A lot of you told me that you do this already and I think that's fantastic but if you're somebody that's on a budget or you're somebody that just doesn't want that many steps pick one of these that might suit what you need. Pick two of them that might suit what you need. Do whatever feels right to you. I love skincare so this is something that I really enjoy doing and I really enjoy testing out and it just seems to have really paid off for me but I'm never going to tell you that you have to go out and buy all of these. So the next one that I go in with is one of two but it's usually the Benton Fermentation Essence or do you remember I talked to you about crannosil bifida. Okay these have bifida in them and galactomyces in them both of those. However this one is a lot more watery this is a true essence as opposed to crannosil which is a little bit more serum like. So both of them are going to be power packed punches and I've used crannosil bifida forever because it is the main ingredient that is in Lancome Genifique and Estee Lauder night repair and they charge you a absolute arm and a leg for it whereas this one has both of those products in it galactomyces and bifida which are fermentation processes and they help with aging softening fine lines getting your skin super hydrated. They are antioxidants again and the other thing that they help with is brightening your skin. So if you have a dull lackluster complexion I would go in with this and I actually because this has both of those things in it I personally am going to be switching over to the Benton full-time. So that's just a heads up FYI there. However if you want to if you have the crannosil but you want to incorporate just galactomyces go ahead and take a peek at secret key. Now this is one that I will use up as I go but this isn't part of this seven that I'm talking about. This is galactomyces only but what's really cool about this is SK2 the skincare ingredient in it is galactomyces as well. However for a bottle like this we're talking well over a hundred dollars whereas this one I think is around 23. So this is really good to add into your regimen. If you have crannosil and you love what crannosil is doing for you this would be a wonderful compliment to it as an essence. The third layer that I go in with is the Good Molecules Niacinamide Brightening Toner. This has been in my skincare regimen for years probably since they first came out with it maybe four to five years ago and I will not be without this. Now again this is very watery just like the others and I sure should have showed you some of those others and how they performed.  It should be extremely watery. Here's the Benton let's look at it again it just drips off and of course the Saccharide Mist you can see how watery that one is in there. So the Good Molecules one keep the glasses on Melissa. The Good Molecules has in it formulated with Niacinamide, Vitamin C, Arbutin and Licorice root extract to brighten and improve the appearance of enlarged pores. So not only does it brighten but it's going to do that great thing about just sweeping out your pores and really cleaning them out helping to keep them cleaned out as well because if you do have clogged pores that's for another video. We'll talk about some acids that you can use to help keep those those pores really clean and the beautiful thing about a clean pore is it's going to look smaller even if it's a large pore it's going to look diminished when you have it cleaned and you're treating them. So that's number three. Number four is Always My Timeless Vitamin C Serum. This has Vitamin E and Ferulic Acid in it and again this is a very watery product. This just drips right on down my hand and that's why I consider it to be an essence however they probably call it a serum but again we're looking for products that are so thin that they can just be seeped into the skin and the skin can just drink them in like a dry sponge wood and so as you're layering these on you're not going to feel like oh I've got too much on my skin my skin feels greasy it feels heavy it's never going to feel like that it's going to feel hydrated yes but it's not going to feel overly done because these essences are easily sunk into the channels that are in our skin and they can go deep down into our dermis. The number five is this one right here and it's called I tried to say this the other day and I murdered it but I'll go for it again Numbuzin Toner. This is the super super glowing essence. This one boasts having 50 different kinds of fermentation processes. Now when I showed you this one from Benton this has bifida and galactomyces in it we're talking 50. That means that across the gamut huge amounts of different kinds of fermentation processes go into here. Fermentation process was discovered by people that were actually working in these plants a beer plant a wine plant something like that where they're actually working with the product with their hands and not only were they noticing how good the fermentation process was after they were done and they drank the stuff it tastes pretty good but they were also noticing how beautiful their hands were their hands were looking brighter their age spots were fading they were noticing less wrinkles they had super hydration and they just looked really youthful and so that's how that was discovered. Korean and Japanese skincare have been using this for years and their skin doesn't their skin always look like glass and that's what actually this particular one boasts of is once you put this on your skin is going to look more radiant and more glowy and I have been using this one ever since I got it right before I did that video and this is a very very nice one and I'm already starting to notice some great brightening effects of it just love it and then we're moving on to number six this is from COSRX this is the propolis synergy toner it has propolis extract and honey extract COSRX is a company that I have tried a lot of their stuff I feel like they really hone in on quality and I love this stuff so far it's just been so good I'm just going to read you from my phone what it says it says a toner formulated with propolis and honey extract to visibly reduce redness oiliness and improve the skin's texture in just three days gives a healthy glow enhances skin surface and strengthens skin barrier and it's 72% propolis extract and 10% honey extract so it's really packed full of a lot of moisture which most of these are going to be uber hydrating like I talked about in that other video because that's what in essence does it really balances out our skin gives us this huge dose of hydration plumps up our fine lines and wrinkles and as it does that and you get all of those other fermentations and different things like that like honey is a super healer so if you have redness you have done a little bit too much with your skin maybe with redness or with acids or exfoliating the honey in this is going to be super soothing and along with the other ingredients it's going to really help so I use this second to last because it's a super hydrator and then of course my last is from suko yakuza hot I've used this for going on six to seven years now now what this is is it's a urea moisture lotion so for me this is my last step because it it power packs everything into my skin so I've used all of those other ones they've sink into my skin now I'm going to use the urea that is in this and I'm going to pat this on and it's going to just really make me feel like I'm hydrated beyond belief and I'm not kidding by the time you get done with these seven products you're going to feel like your skin is almost too hydrated but give it you know 20 minutes or so and you will feel it balancing and it will feel beautiful I also want to tell you that yes I do use my retin A in this regimen if I'm going to do this at nighttime and I want to use some sort of an exfoliation I will either do an exfoliating mask like the ordinary has with their 30% peeling mask or I'll use glycolic acid this is my favorite one and again we're looking at a very very hydrating one the other one is one that you put on and then you wash off and then you would go in with these ingredients now I would never use these on the night that I'm going to use my retin A or my retinols so I would alternate them or I would even use this if you have very sensitive skin maybe two times a week maybe three the other one the red one I can only use that maybe every 10 days because my skin is pretty sensitive so the peeling solution is just a little bit too much but this one is just works out really good so after you do that once you get the peeling solution off and then you pat your skin dry you don't have to wait but if you're using this one and you want to do any of these other ingredients as well you are going to have to wait I would say five to ten minutes is about how long I wait it might be longer than that if you talk to an esthetician if you have an esthetician that you trust go for it talk to them ask them that question if I'm doing the glycolic acid I do skip my timeless my vitamin c because I actually feel like that's a little bit too much too many acids on my skin but if I'm doing my retinol retinol and vitamin c work really well together so this is going to go on my face for sure so it really need to think about customizing your routine whatever is your most concerning negative thing about your skin whether it's dryness or fine lines wrinkles if it's melasma if it's redness if it's dark spots find one of these ingredients or find one of these essences that has the ingredients that you want to tackle in like bifida and galactomyces that definitely tackles age spots and it also tackles redness and dullness because it brightens so this one is one that I I really do love now after I'm done with all of that and yes I know you're all shaking your head at me going melissa my goodness you've got too much on your face but I do take the benton fermentation galactomyces eye cream and I use that morning and night this is my treatment for my eyes and then I will go in after that sunken just a little bit and I will use the suko yaku suhara eye cream because this locks in everything around my eyes and by the time I get up in the morning I still have tackiness around my eyes which I love I actually use their cream also which I'll put a picture up on the screen right here that is even more hydrating so in the winter months that cream comes out and I use that at night instead of this but I use this every single day in the morning anyway absolutely of course I do use an spf and I'll put it up here on the screen because it's over there on my vanity it is the dermatology universal tinted moisturizer and I love that stuff I've been using it for years it plays so well underneath my makeup and I absolutely love it and I can't be without it so okay that is the seven layers and I know I've just thrown a ton of products at you but again I want you to know that you don't need to use all of these you don't even need to change your skincare routine that you have right now if you don't want to do you guys have anything different that you actually like to use I like to use most of these because they're semi affordable I know as times get tough and things get more expensive we're gonna need to watch our pennies even more so I wanted to bring you all of these affordable ones yes I do have some more expensive one like I showed in that last video I do have a tacha one which I do love using but I really wanted to show you ones that were affordable that you could easily pick up thank you guys for spending a little bit of your time with me today I love you all so very much please come back around very soon and we'll talk and we'll chat and we'll have all kinds of fun I love you so much take care bye bye


Hello and welcome to My Career in Data, a podcast where we discuss with industry leaders and experts how they have built their careers. I'm your host, Shannon Kemp, and today we're talking to Gwen Thomas, a data strategist at the Data Governance Institute. With a robust catalog of courses offered on demand and industry-leading live online sessions throughout the year, the Dataversity Training Center is your launchpad for career success. Browse the complete catalog at training.dataversity.net and use code DBTOX for 20% off your purchase. Hello and welcome. My name is Shannon Kemp and I'm the Chief Digital Officer at Dataversity, and this is My Career in Data, a Dataversity Talks podcast dedicated to learning from those who have careers in data management to understand how they got there and to be talking with people who help make those careers a little bit easier. To keep up to date in the latest in data management education, go to dataversity.net forward slash subscribe. Today, we are joined by Gwen Thomas, a data strategist at the Data Governance Institute. And normally, this is where a podcast host would read a short bio of the guest, but in this podcast, your bio is what we're here to talk about when, hello and welcome. Hello, my friends. I was just, we were just talking about how we met for the very first time at Enterprise Data World 2011 in Chicago. That was my first data conference with Dataversity and I, you were one of the first people I met. I'm so honored. It's been such a joy to chat with you over all these years and I'm so excited to talk about how things have changed and evolved over those years too.  And I so enjoyed our discussion about, now, how far back did we meet? And it was mostly a recital of conferences and industry events because, frankly, the evolution of those events paralleled the evolution of my career. So, you know, to all listeners, you can read books, you can read online, you can learn on the job, but there is absolutely nothing that compares to not only the classroom experience in conferences, but the conference within the conference, the hallway talk, the discussions with those who have been there. So I know you're not going to plug DataVersity or events, but consider that my plug for you because that's what a career to me has looked like, learning from experts along the way. Well, I so appreciate you saying that and it's true, the networking, it's my favorite part of the events is the networking and, you know, and that's where we touch base every time is when you're speaking and getting to know each other. Again, have the privilege to see, you know, your journey along the last 10 years. So let's get into it. So today you are a data strategist at the Data Governance Institute. So tell me about the Data Governance Institute. So the institute was formed one year ago this fall over this summer. And it is an online presence. Most people know it by its URL, datagovernance.com. And it provides information on the discipline, the practices of data governance. It has an online membership group. And we have heard from people at conference, from people who write into us, that over the past 20 years, our teachings and our trainings have influenced data governance programs all around the world. So the institute kind of defines explanation on my part. Oh, I love that because, you know, and that's part, you know, we mentioned the networking and that's part of what I love so much about this community is there's so much, so many people willing to help each other out. Sure, sure. And what many people don't know is you founded the Data Governance Institute. So what prompted you to do that? And what is your role in the company now? Okay, so I'm going to answer that backwards. Okay. I've just rejoined the company as an analyst and I have been updating some content and providing some online training on how to use the DGI's framework to, as you either create a program or join the program. The 10 years before that, I left the institute and others capable hands while I spent 10 years with the World Bank Group. But now let's go back to its founding 20 years ago and it's kind of tied to a question that you said you might ask me about what was a big lesson to learn. Okay, so 20 years ago I was five years into a career with consulting companies doing IT management, being a business analyst, assistant coders doing data management, etc. And the Sardines Oxley Act of 2002 was passed and this act in the US made it illegal for a CEO or a CFO to post incorrect financial reports about their company. Now, why it wasn't illegal before, I don't know. I mean, that's crazy, right? There's a whole history behind that and scandals. But the result was the whole data, whole IT industry and mostly the accounting industry was just revolutionized. There were all of the efforts that had to be undertaken to ensure that your data was controlled against all the things that can go wrong with data. And I, on behalf of my current employer, attended events on what happens. And my mind was blown. Nobody was talking about the data, the data practices. They were talking about reporting. They weren't talking about the practices. They weren't talking about the human element of what goes into ensuring that data is what it's supposed to be. And so the lesson that I have sitting there in this room full of the big four accounting firms is wait a minute, data management is about data and technology. The thing they're not talking about data governance, that's about people. That is about people and you cannot be successful here if you are not addressing the people, the the ones who get together within a group and decide which other groups that powers to make decisions, the people who actually make those decisions. And what happens if the right people aren't in the room? Which was the scenario I was in at that moment. What happens if the right people aren't making assignments about the right work that needs to be applied to the data? So the right controls are put in place. So the data itself can be shaped and curated and structured so it actually needs your needs. So sitting in this crappy, crappy little conference room in a hotel in Texas, I said, wait a minute, publishing, governance, it's data, identity and publishing. Each administration has to organize all this content. There's nothing new there. Marketing knows how to organize content. Here, these guys are talking about structured data, but please, where is the discipline? Where is the expertise about organizing, managing, making decisions about the content in these enterprise systems? So I went home from Texas to Florida, did my research, found nothing, nothing, nothing. As a matter of fact, a Google search for the term data governance showed 52 hits total. And 39 of them were IBM because they formed a little committee. So I said, folks, this is going to be the birth of an industry.  Of course, there were a few other people around the globe and in the U.S. having similar thoughts. And we all ended up at those first conferences about this topic. So amazing. You were so forward thinking and I want to come back to data governance in a bit. But because I think that you and I could talk about that for hours. We have in the past. But I wanted to drill in on the point where you talked about and you mentioned that data governance is about people. Yes, it is. It's so true. So many people think it's, even today, so we get so many people asking for help. How do they talk their executives into doing data governance? Because their executives think it's a dirty word. They think it's just about complying with laws and it's just about adhering to laws and it's a pin on the rear end and it's just something you have to do. But it is. It's about the people. It's about so much more than adhering to the legal standards. And so I'm going to say what I've been saying for the last 20 years.  You use a different one. Yeah. You use a different word. The work is the same. Likewise for compliance. I recently coached a company that did not want to use the word compliance at all. So I said, fine, commitments. What commitment has your organization made? What that your leader has made to the industry, to their customers, to the board? How are you going to help them meet those commitments? Totally no spin on things, right? Yeah. Oh, can you tell I did a little stint as an English speaker? We'll get to that for sure. Well, so what's the most creative you think rewording of that that you've seen? Oh boy. In flubbing here. I threw you, I know I threw you one for a while. Yeah, I want to think. Well, there is, here's my answer. Yeah. So before there was a field called human factors that focuses on user interfaces. I knew a company that used that term human factors to bring the human approach to the business of the business and this human factors team what consisted what I would call family counselors and they call select haters and negotiators and all of these human human resources terms and they would cycle through the organization to with the goal of working with leadership in different programs to understand how human nature and management training go into optimizing an organization. Sure. So what's the difference between those disciplines and the people side of data governance? Not a whole lot. Although they would probably have an extra zero at the end of their paychecks. As it goes. That's funny. All right, well, let's back it up here. Let's get some of your bios. So when when you were just, you know, maybe five, six years old, was this the dream? You're like, I'm going to grow up and I'm going to start a data governance institute and be a data strategist for them. Sweetheart, I didn't see a computer until I was in my teenage years. So of course not. I did want to be a librarian. And of course, there's a big aspect of this. My father was a psychologist. So maybe that came into play. My mother was a writer. So maybe that came into play. But I could not have envisioned 2000, the year 2000, much less 2023. Just like the people listening now really cannot envision what the world technology and information life is going to be like 20, 30 years now. They can, however, know what they love to do. And find a way to discover things in which they can hopefully be happy doing what they do, regardless of how the world has changed around them. Yeah, I love that. So so tell me then, tell me about the journey. So what did you start studying? And what did you, as you got into high school and what, what evolved as your passion? So I like many other people that became very passionate about something I was not able to do that. I was a musician. I wanted to be a composer more than anything, a conductor. I went to college and learned that it was the architecture of music that I liked. And that I had no skill whatsoever as a performer, none, and decided not to be a teacher. So I actually left all that behind and went and did some other things. I told you I did a stint with the marketing organization where I discovered I'm pretty good at explaining how things work and what they do. I was a teacher for English teacher for a little while. And then I went into tech writing. It was only when I had an assignment working with a data person who was trying to pull reports out of a database that had no documentation. They had no understanding of how the data was structured that I said, here, maybe this will help. I pulled out a piece of paper and I started creating on paper. What I was later told was a data model. And when I said based upon my knowledge of where the data is on the screens, it would make sense to organize it this way with these fields here and those fields there. What do you call this thing? And the woman with a look on her face said, okay, very funny.  No, no. What do you call this thing? A table. So another big light bulb moment. I said, oh, can I make a living doing this? And would it be more than I'm making now my crappy little job? Yes. And yes. Do I have to go to college? If you wait 10 years, you'll have to go to college in this discipline. But if you slip in now, you won't have to. So now when I look at data flowing through systems. Now remember, everything's invisible that we do right. Everything is invisible. The data is invisible. The processes, the systems, the flow. But I'm right back in music school where I'm focusing on a melody and I'm watching that single note flow through the orchestra across the different pieces of the music. And I found my home. Oh, I love that story. I didn't know that you majored in music. And that's the architecture of it. You're right. I mean, it's so relatable and so translatable. And so then how did you start learning? So you've created a table just by accident. So how did you start focusing on that and developing that as a career? What was your next step? So at the time was working in a bank. And I looked for a job where I could be paid as a lowly tech writer, but in a software development environment. And then I was surrounded with people to learn from. And it would be convenient to say, okay, so where do I go to learn about this little piece? And where do I go to learn about this little piece? And my superpower is I'm a doc connector. I am a synthesis, a word I didn't learn until I was in my 30, as the guy says. But I can take a body of work from here and here and here and pull them together. And so that's all right. Here's to our listeners here. If you are early in your career and you're not sure what you're going to do. Discover your passion as I just talked about and discover your superpower. The thing that you are naturally good at that not everyone is. And the third, discover what you are interested in so much that you are willing to just dive in and spend hours learning about it on your own. Now put those three together. You have a profile of the type of work you want to do. I wanted to connect dots. I wanted to work with the human aspect of working with data. I naturally wanted to work in how everything fits together. I didn't want to be a nitpicker. And that's why I did not go into QA or checking anything. But all of you listening, if you're early in your career, if you know how to put those pieces together, what are you doing when you feel joy at work? The glow in just I guarantee there is a discipline within the field of data management and data governance that is a perfect fit for you.  And no matter how the technology changes around you, you'll find your own career path. Such great advice, Gwen. And we have those conversations at data university all the time, especially when we're in the process of growing, we have those conversations. What part of your jobs do you love? Because we always have those little bits that you're not. Yeah, and you just got to play the game. But what do you love? What do you want to hand off? Because you can find somebody and hire into, find somebody who loves that job, that piece that you don't love. Right, so diverse, right? It's okay to love different things and be good at different things and acknowledge that. And I love that you talk about so much and how curious you were. And you ask questions. You found mentors. You found a place where you could learn and grow into what you wanted. That's awesome, yeah. Such a great conversation or such a great advice for people. And so from there, Gwen, so you learned a code. You're getting into technology. So I never did a script as a coder myself. However, working in a software environment, I still dream in COBOL. I learned to read it well enough. And then I did a little bit of coding. I built a metadata repository for a company that didn't have one. But it was really just the prototype. I was using basic language and I built something and then handed it to bosses. And they said, that's great. And I said, it's not enterprise ready. I said, great, thanks. We'll take it from you and hand it to someone else. And that's another aspect of working in our field. You need to know yourself. Do I have to be the one that owns it? Do I have to have credit for launching something?  Or in the last 10 years, I've been the guy behind the guy. I've been the person sitting behind leadership. Corraling up the information and perspective that they need so they could make decisions. Some of the unhappy people I know weren't honest with themselves about which of those they want. Oh, and I left out that you just want to be clickety clackety doing the work. That's fine too. That's fine. But to be happy, you have to notice about yourself and slide into position where the nature of the job meets your nature. And again, there's room for everything in data management. It is a microcosm of the whole friggin world. I love that.  Well, I have the scar on my back from when I learned that. Yeah, we're taught so young that we have to be the best at everything, right? We have to win. I think especially in the younger gen millennials or Gen Z's, but certainly older generations. Hey, I'm a boomer. I want to be the first to say. The people in their 20s and early 30s now who are accused of being snowflakes.  You know yourself. You know what's right. You know what's acceptable. You know what's unacceptable and you're not afraid to state it. Go, go, go. Do it. I am with you all the way. Yeah, right? Again, if we had that lesson that 20. Oh, wow. Visit dataversity.net and expand your knowledge with thousands of articles and blogs written by industry experts, plus free live and on demand webinars covering the complete data management spectrum. While you're there, subscribe to the weekly newsletter so you'll never miss a beat. So, so, so, so where did you see?  You look some you started kind of in thinking and I have and it was because I love money. I'm actually, you know, I talked about following the data. I worked with hundreds of people who can follow the money through and and I'm not interested. But in early days of data governance, that too was paying. So yeah, and at a certain point, you gain some of that expertise. It's kind of silly to walk away from it.  That they have to that they have to deal with. So many commitments have been made. Yeah, yeah. So, so, you know, it kind of brings me around to another question that you or something that you brought up at the beginning, you know, about data governance and it being people oriented. Have you seen that change as it's evolved and as more industries do get into data governance? Have you seen it? Are there as the tech changes as everything else changes? Have you seen data governance change? So the reason data governance exists is different in every organization. That's really important. I mean, if you're a small community colleague and you need data governance, it's probably just to keep track of your records and, you know, on the other hand, if you're working in pharmaceuticals and you're trying to discover the next big thing, then you're focused on insight. You focus upon discovery and your technology. So I got two extremes here. Your technology is designed for different purposes. You're going to have technology staff who have the right skills, expertise, and knowledge to work within that environment. You're going to have data management team who can specialize with the same types of the right types of technology challenges and types of data that you're working with. And you're going to have data governance liaison, facilitators who can work with data management in those areas. So, yes, that part of data governance has always been changing, always will change. The person who has trouble answering, am I in data governance or data management? Likewise, leadership expectations are different in various environments. And today's leaders are expected to take a more human approach to leadership. So that aspect is the same. The piece in the middle of data governance between the leadership and working with technicians and business people, the core concept don't change. They really don't. People need to know how to work together. They need to know how to make decisions. We need to challenge whether the right people are making decisions. Using the right criteria. And, you know, this part doesn't really change. But because these are the dot connectors, the matchmaker people that work with so many people across the organization, the specific knowledge and skills. Yes, that's true of all. How do you govern through Antonio? How does data governance change if your organization has put in place dev ops? How is data governance changing if now you have noticed that, just like with governance actually, the right people aren't in the room. And suddenly, security thinks that access is being handled by the business, and business thinks access is being handled by security. By the way, I spent the last four years at the World Bank for designing access governance. So yes, always the same, always changing. Makes sense. So, you know, with this in-depth career in data, I mean, just almost a founder of data governance, you know, what is your definition of data? How many angels are happened to be dancing on that pin at this moment here? Okay, it is whatever you need it to be. It's information captured electronically. And being in finance, most of my career has been working with basic structured data, but in other fields, it is what you need it to be.  Yeah, yeah, it's very, very true. So, and do you see the importance of data management and the number of jobs working with data increasing or decreasing over the next 10 years and why? Very interesting. Always important. The more successful we are in our work to standardize and mechanize, the more of our work goes into tools, but also the higher our inspirations go. So, my belief is the jobs will always be there. The focus, the expertise, the specialties will change. And some of them may no longer be full data management. I mean, data science, right? Data engineers. Put a new title on it and see what happens. Yeah, very much so. So, any other advice that you would give to somebody who's brand new and looking to get into career? I mean, you've given some great advice already. There's so many different aspects, like you said. You can find somewhere where you fit and find, based on what you're saying, in terms of career possibilities, in terms of growth in data management careers, it's pretty sustainable career, it sounds like. Yes, the sooner you get into any position where you are surrounded, where your work is acknowledged as a discipline, then the easier your price will be. You know, you live in a city, you live in a city, it's easy to forget. Half of the U.S., much less the world, live in areas where maybe there is not any place that keeps a full-time data management person, maybe. And if that's the case, then, yeah, you're going to have to choose between a future career in a discipline in a city and being where you are and doing work to do it. That's probably a completely different topic from what you were asking. But what I will say is, if you feel like you are in an environment where this kind of work can be done, pay attention as early as you can to who you are and what you want to be. And then be curious, go in. I found the whole concept that when I started playing Dungeons and Dragons, at the ripe old age of 50, I said, what are these things called character sheets? And why don't every human being have one? If I had a character sheet for myself at age 28, I would never have gone into that castle. I would have gone on that side quest. So some guys, maybe that's my advice to people early in their career. If you were a character in a game, how would you be configured?  Oh, I love that advice. If you get it, you get it. Yeah, I do. I'm not ashamed of it. I have been playing D&D for a very long time. It has been such a pleasure, as always, to talk to you again. I could talk to you for hours and hours. But I do want to keep the podcast here to a reasonable time. So I don't want to leave without giving you a chance to plug DGI and just, you know, again, datagovernance.com. I mean, that's so easy to remember. But we'll, of course, put that on the website, on the podcast and everything. But tell me a little bit about why and when people should reach out to you. Well, it's a good place to get started at school of every content. And you set people working in the field who are not early in their career, but they have, they're doing a rotation through data governance, or they have been assigned here. And the site has been designed to be vendor-nucle to not give advice, yet seems quite reasonable until you realize you're being corralled into using a specific tool. It's very, very general. And there are those who are members can deep dive into some materials. But I'm not here to really pitch a certain path, as I said. It's more about learning how you work and if the contents at datagovernance.com can help individuals as they enter the room and decide who to talk to and what libraries to study and what paths appeal to them, then that would be great. Love it. Well, Glenn, it has been a pleasure, as always. I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with us today. And it's always wonderful to see you. I will see you at the next conference. Yes. I'm so excited. EDW is in person again and so excited. I can't wait to see the crew, but, you know, and see everybody. So even though we've seen each other at the last couple of data governance conferences. You know, I still live in Washington. So when you come for the December one there, let me show you some local haunts. Oh, I would love that, Gwen. I would love that a lot. So I will take you up on that. Everyone, I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as my friend and I have. And if any of this helps you find a path, then I'm a happy person. Oh, Glenn, thank you. Oh, that's amazing. Thank you. All right. And thanks to all the people who are listening. And if you'd like to keep up with the latest in data management and education, you may go to dataversity.net forward slash subscribe until next time and stay curious people. Thank you for listening to Dataversity Talks, a podcast brought to you by Dataversity. Subscribe to our newsletter for podcast updates and information about our free educational webinars at dataversity.net forward slash subscribe.


Hello and welcome to this STM32 built-in USB bootloader getting started video. The ST built-in USB bootloader supports the universal serial bus device firmware upgrade protocol to program and reprogram STM32F devices through the USB peripheral. Check for eligible STM32 products supporting this function in table 1 of application note AN3156 available on www.st.com. The key benefits of the USB DFU bootloader are no specific tools such as JTAG, ST-Link, or USB to UART cable are needed. The ability to program an empty STM32 device in a newly assembled board via USB to upgrade STM32 firmware during development or pre-production. The example given in this video uses the STM32F072 USB device and its discovery kit as demonstrator. First go to www.st.com and search for DFUSE. DFUSE is ST Microelectronics USB Device Firmware Upgrade PC Software GUI The next version of DFUSE called DFU-UTIL is accessible at dfu-util.gnu-monks.org Now download the DFUSE package. Save the file and unzip it into a local directory. Open the directory and install the DFUSE tools corresponding to your computer processor. Open the program files to see what has been installed. The DFU driver included in the package may be useful if the automatic driver installation that we will see later in the video is not successful. Here is the DFU utility tool used to generate a .dfu file from a .hex or .s19 project output file. We will load a simple program available from the examples provided in the STM32F072 Discovery Firmware package. Let's take this example toggling an LED when pushing on the user button. Select the executable file, generate it, choose the .dfu file name and location and save it. We will now use this .dfu file with the DFUSE demo application to program the device. You can find the application inside the ST Microelectronics directory then in the DFUSE folder. First, we must have the board connected to the PC. Open the device manager to see how the DFU device appears. When the board is connected to the USB, the demo is starting, but your DFU device does not appear. To enable the STM32F built-in USB bootloader to run, the boot zero pin must be connected to VDD. Then, reset the application. The USB bootloader is now running. The board is detected as a DFU device. Now let's load your new application program. Choose the .dfu file that you previously generated and simply push the upgrade button. The device is now correctly upgraded with your new firmware. Your DFU device is still listed in the device manager until you reset your application without the boot zero pin connected to the VDD. After the reset, your application will execute your new program and you can see that the DFU device has disappeared from the device manager list. We have seen in this video how easy it is to program an application based on USB STM32F0 devices using its embedded DFU program. For more information about the device firmware upgrade protocol, please visit the application note AN3156 and user manual UM0412 available on www.st.com-stm32. Thank you for your attention.


Welcome to the session of mp3 player learning outcome of the session. Before proceeding, let me ask you one question. So where the mp3 files are commonly used? You can pause the video, think about the question and write down your answer in your notebook. After writing the answer, return to the video to see the answer. Let me give you the answer. Commonly used mp3 files are in CD player, DVD player, computers and the internet audio. They are used for the audio storage. So what is the mp3? The mp3 stands for mpeg layer 3 is coding format for the digital audio. The mp3 is an example of the digital technology by which the sound you hear are stored in form of the numerical data. The key to store the music in a digital format is processor which is called as a sampling. You can think the mp3 as a computer file and the mp3 player as a special type of the computer which is used for playing back the sounds which are stored in a coded format inside the mp3 file. The loss data compression is used for encoding the mp3 file. The mp3 file works by reducing the accuracy of the certain information in a sound by considering the psychoacoustic analysis in which the sound which is beyond the hearing capability of the humans are discarded. Let us see the mpeg layer 3 audio coding and how it is done. The operating modes in the mpeg 3 audio coding is the mpeg 1 audio works for both mono and stereo audio signal. The technique which is called as a joint stereo encoding can be used to achieve the more efficient combiner coding of the left and right channels of the stereophonic audio signal. The layer 3 allows both mid and side stereo coding and the intense stereo coding also. Later it is specially helpful for the low beat rates but it bears the risk of changing sound image. The operating modes in the mp3 are single channel, a dual channel in which the two independent channels are used to stereo the stereo which is without joint stereo coding and the joint stereo coding. Next, the sampling frequency in mp3 encoding. The mpeg audio compression works on the number of different sampling frequencies. The mp3 one defines the audio compression at 32 kilohertz, 44.1 kilohertz and 48 kilohertz. The mpeg to extend this to the half rates that is 16 kilohertz, 22.05 and 24 kilohertz. The mpeg 2.5 is the extension to the layer 3 which introduced the sampling frequency of 8 kilohertz, 11.05 kilohertz and the 12 kilohertz. Beat rates which is used in mpeg3 audio coding. The mpeg audio does not work at fixed compression ratio. The selection of beat rate of compressed audio is within some limit is completely left to the implementer or the operator of the mpeg audio coder. For the layer 3 standard defines the range of the beat rates from 8 kilo bit per second to the 320 kilo bits per second. Furthermore, the layer 3 decoders must support switching of beat rates from audio frame to the audio frame. The combined with the beat reservoir technology, this allows both variable beat rate coding and a constant beat rate coding at the fixed values within limits which is tested by the standard. So, how the mpeg3 music is stored in a computer file as a .mp3 file. Basically, inside the mpeg3 file a music is stored as a long string of beats which are nothing but the series of chunks which are called as a frames. Each frame starts with the header and followed by the music data itself. At the start of mpeg3 file there is a kind of index card that stores the details regarding to the track information. This information is called as a metadata and each part of is stored in which which is called as a id3 tag. So, here is the mpeg3 frame where it starts from the metadata that is information about the information about the audio which is stored in the mpeg3 file, mpeg3 header and the mpeg3 data. The mpeg3 header consists of the four fields and it is of totally 32 bit. Let us see each and every bit in detail. A field consists of 11 bits and the positions of these bits are from 31 to the 21st. These are used as a frame synchronization bits. The b bit fields consist of two bits and its position is at 20 and 19. It is used in order to give the mpeg audio version id such as 00 is identified as mpeg version 2.5, 01 is reservoir, 10 is identified as a version 2. And the 11 stands for the mpeg version 1. The c field consists of two bits and it is positioned at 18 and 17. And it provides a layer description such as 00 is for reserve, 01 is for layer 3, 10 is for layer 2 and 11 is for the layer 1. Next is the d bit field. The d bit consists of only one bit and it is positioned at 16th position. So, it is used as a protection bit. So, 0 stands for it is protected by the CRC check and 1 stands for not protected. The next sign or the next field is a e field which consists of the 4 bits and the position is at 15 to 12. So, these fields shows us the bit rate index. For an example, 0000 stands for version 1 layer 1 mpeg format which is of the free. It is defined by the audio composer within a certain range. 0000 stands for 32 bit for V1 and L1 version and it is also 32 bit for V1 and L2. And for version 2 layer 2 and layer 3 file it is of the 8 bit. The 0010 in which bit rate is 64 for version 1 layer 1, 48 for version 1 layer 2, 40 for version 1 layer 3, 48 for version 2 layer 1 and 16 for version 2 layer 2 and layer 3. Similarly 11, it has 96 for version 1 layer 1, version 1 layer 2 has a 56 and version 1 layer 3 has a 48 bit rate and the version 2 layer 1 has 56, version 2 layer 2 layer 3 has 24 bits. As so on 1100 has 448 bit rate for version 1 layer 1, version 1 layer 2 has 384 bit rate and version 1 layer 3 has 320, version 2 layer 1 has 250, 256 and version 2 layer 2 and layer 3 has 160 bit rate. 1111 stands for a bad bit rate means it is not allowed. F field it is of the 2 bit and it is positioned at 11 and 10. It defines the sampling rate frequency index. For example, if the bit is 00 it defines 44100 hertz sampling rate, frequency rate is used for MPG 1, MPG 2 for that bit 22 kilo hertz sampling index is used and the MPG 2.5 has 11 kilo hertz and for the bit 00 MPG 1 has 44 kilo hertz. For 10 MPG 1 has 32 kilo hertz, MPG 2 has 16 kilo hertz and MPG 2.5 has 8 kilo hertz. 11 is reserved for all the fields. G field, the G field consists of 1 bit, it is at 9th position and it introduce the padding bits which is used for the adjusting the frame length. 00 stands for there is no padding bits are used, one stand for the padded bits are used in a one extra slot. The edge field it is of also 1 bit, it is positioned at 8th position, it is a private bit, this one is used for informative only. The next a field is the eye field. The length of this field is 2 bit and it is positioned as 7 and 6th and this define the channel mode. That means 00 stands for stereo, 01 stands for joint stereo, 10 stands for dual channel that is 2 mono channels and 11 stands for single channel that is mono. G field consists of 2 bits, it is positioned as 5th, 5th and 4th and these are used for the mode extension that is used in joint stereo only. So, layer 1 and layer 2 for 00, band 4 and 2, 31 is used and band 8 to 31 is used and 1, 0, the band 12 to 31 is used. This field K it is of 1 bit and it is positioned at 3rd position and it is used for the copyright information. 0 means the audio is not copyrighted and 1 stands for the audio is copyrighted. The real field it is of 1 bit and the position data at 2nd and it is used for the original in or not. 0 stands for copy of the original media and 1 stands for the original data that is audio is the original. M field it is of 2 bit, it can position at 1 and 0. It is used as a emphasis 00 stands for no emphasis, 01 stands for 50 by 15 millisecond emphasis, 10 and 11 are reserved. Let us see the block diagram of the mp3 player. The figure shows the typical block diagram of the JP 200 mp3 player. As you can see it consists of DSP processor, digital signal processor and the microcontroller unit. These are the two main units of the mp3 player. The microcontroller take the data which is stored into the flash memory as a mp3 file for the decoding and the data is given for the decoding from the digital signal processor. The digital signal processor processes on that data and then decoded data is given to the digital to analog converter. The digital to analog converter convert that digital data into the analog and amplify it and given to the headphone. In this way we listen the audio from the mp3 player. In case of the recording the data is recorded in two ways from the mic also and from the audio jack input also. When this data is coming this data is in analog. So analog to digital converter convert that data into the digital domain. Data is sampled and given to the digital signal processor. The DSP processor works on that sample data, adjust the bitrates and give encoded data is given to the microcontroller. Now the microcontroller will save that data into the flash memory. In this way the data is recorded and played back into the mp3 player. LCD display is used in order to display what current song is played. The FM status of the FM radio and ATC. The USB connector is also present here which is used in order to upload the data to the computer from the mp3 player or to copy the data from the computer to the mp3 player by means of the microcontroller unit. So these are the references of the session. Thank you.


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