Session! What is the drive? The whiplash that goads man on to forsake family, friends and loved ones in an insatiable desire to conquer and subjugate lands beyond land. Alexander cried like a child when there was no longer a nation to subjugate and grind beneath his military heel. Little men have often risen to a giant's heights in the fanatic desire to reach the stars. In just a moment, you will hear the story of one such man who changed the destiny of the world. A Corsican of lowly birth whose name became the most feared throughout Europe. It is a story called Napoleon Bonaparte and stars Louis Merrill. A narrative of an insane driving will which seathed with an amine shot through with the dread and insidious cancer of an obsession. August 15th, 1769 is perhaps one of the most portentous dates in the chronicles of world history. What was on this day that in a tiny village of Corsica a boyed child was born. His name was Napoleon Bonaparte a figure predestined to become the little man of destiny. We shall begin this narrative long, long after Napoleon had risen to the heights of success he had become Napoleon's first self-anointed emperor of the French realm. The little military genius had vowed a conquest of all the Germanic empires and nation after nation crumbled beneath his heel and gave ear to the dictates of this redotable Corsican. Within the borders of Austria in the city of Schoenbrunn the victorious Bonaparte smug and self-satisfied reviewed his conquering troops. But as he did a two-tron youth broke from the ranks of the spectators. At last! All right, all right, you've stopped me this time but perhaps I shall be more fortunate next time and I promise you there shall be a next time. Not in this world! God! I've changed place on this upstart. Confine him in the palace dungeon under heavy guard. The defiant aristocratic intelligent-faced young fanatic is dragged by force from the presence of the emperor to be examined by the brutal lords of the military. But the young man will not speak. Words, threats, trickery cannot move him from his stony silence. For he will speak to no one but the emperor himself to Napoleon I. And thus wandering and somehow admiring the courage and firmness of his would-be destroyer. Bonaparte orders that the youth be brought before him. You may leave the room, God. But your majesty... Would you permit me to repeat myself, monsieur? I said you may leave the room. As your majesty commands and with a thousand pounds. And now, my dear young foolhardy friend I think we can talk in private. First? Your name? My name is Friedrich Staps. And I am the son of Johann Staps, a pastor of Parole. I... I do not understand you, Friedrich. You're a very fine-looking young man. And I should judge your age to be that of... Shall I say, seventeen? Eighteen. I will be nineteen in October. And if I am not mistaken, Friedrich, was your intention to kill me? Yeah. Then I should judge you do not like me.   So? And why did you change? Because you've done nothing but make war upon my people. It is your fault that we are starving to death and freezing to death. Young man, you must be mad, either mad or ill. I am in neither. I am in full possession of my faculties.  Friedrich, you know the penalty for what you did? I suppose so. You will have me shot. But that does not matter. There will be others to take my place when I am dead. But I do not want to shoot you, Friedrich.  I am old enough to know what I'm doing and what you are doing to Germany. Friedrich, you try my patience. Eh, this picture was found in your pocket. She's a very beautiful girl. You'll, eh, sweet out? Yeah. And what will she think when she learns you're to be shot? She will understand. And she will only be sorry that I failed.   But I find it very difficult to give the word that will have you killed.  And I want to pardon you, Friedrich.  Very well, my young friend. You give me no choice. Gaff! Yes, Your Majesty? May take the prisoner back to the dungeons. And it is my order that he shall be shot at sunrise. Very well, Your Majesty. Come on. Goodbye, Friedrich. And believe me, I have never been so sorry in all my life. And so for the first time, the little man of destiny becomes aware of the stark hatred that burns deep within the hearts that have been pierced and bruised by his ruthless military saber. And he knows too that if the dynasty of Bonaparte is to exist, he must retrench and strengthen his ramparts, not by war, but this time by peace. Now, within his private chambers, a strange calculating drama is being played. Josephine? But yes, my dearest, my brave and great Emperor. No, no, no, no, this is not a moment for zest. I wish to talk with you. But you are talking with me, are you now? Sit down. Sit down. Here, your mischief. Must you look so serious, Napoleon? Perhaps you have been worrying too much. Or you must not, else you will have gray hair and wrinkled like Monsieur Chauvre now. And then I should not ask you. Josephine, Josephine, the war is over. The war? But yes. France is no longer at war with Austria. I have declared a truce. Oh, then I'm so happy. Then we can return to Paris and perhaps have a great ball in celebration. Oh, that would be wonderful, Napoleon. Let me see. Whom could we invite? Josephine? Yes. Josephine, as you know, it has always been my dream to become the Emperor of France. Oh, but you are the Emperor of France. Yes. Yes, I am. But when I die, who then will be the Emperor? I don't know. Or they will find someone, I guess. Yes, they will. My son will then be Emperor of France, Josephine. Your son? But you have no son, Napoleon. Oh, I know. But I am going to have one.  What do you mean? You are not of royal blood, Josephine. And neither can you give me a son. Napoleon, what is it you wish to tell me? I wish to tell you that when we return to Paris, I shall get a divorce. Yes, a divorce. And then I shall marry again and pray God that he will give me a son so that Napoleon II shall be Emperor of France when and if they should succeed in killing Napoleon I. Napoleon, seeking to strengthen his position by a royal alliance, takes to wife the subjugated princess of Austria, Maria Louisa. And a year later, eagerly awaits an announcement of a royal birth, one that will perhaps give him a son and an heir to bear the title of Napoleon II. Suddenly, the guns of the Paris forts boom out and the city listens with raptor tension and then goes wild in a frenzy of delight as 22 salutes are fired. A son has been born to their emperor. The guns are still thundering. And the little lieutenant of artillery stands at the palace window mechanically noting the caliber of the guns from the pitch of the gunfire while his thoughts reach far back into the past and roam yet farther and forward into the future. Yes, André. Your Majesty. Yes, I know, Charles. You have come to congratulate me. And I thank you. But your Majesty and my father have a son and his name shall be Napoleon. Napoleon II, the next emperor of France. Your Majesty. Charles, they have fired the salutes. Why do the guns continue? There's a shameful waste of ammunition.  Tell me? Tell me what? Charles, pick up. Well, well, well.  What about the guns? They are not French guns, Your Majesty. Not French guns? What is this nonsense? There are no other guns within the borders of France. Your Majesty, they are the guns of the coalition. They are marching on Paris. They? May we, Your Majesty, the English, the Russians, the coalition, I beg you in the name of God to do something. The hands of the coalition within France? Oui. Call my guard. If the toxin alarm sounded, order the call to colors.  France will not be France but the state of coalition. A little man wearing a cockade hat. A little man who sought to reduce the world to a size smaller than himself.  And the meek shall inherit the earth. Perhaps Napoleon considered himself his sole beneficiary of that strange pronouncement. In a moment, we'll continue our story. The toxin alarm and the call to the colors have been sounded too late. And for the first time in his life, the emperor Napoleon has been caught napping. And so it is that the armies of fate and as well the armies of the great European coalition conquer the French capital of Paris and reduce, as the Duke of Wellington have out, the power and the strength of a little Caesar to the humbleness of ashes. And thus the once victorious Corsican, stripped of his glory and his crown, stands trial before the tribunal of Europe. And here's the dread word of judgment. It is hereby ordered and decreed by the powers of the European coalition that you are divested of your crown and rights of emperor and are vanished forever from French citizenship and soil. And are to live the remaining days of your life under heavy God upon the Isle of Elba. And thus is Napoleon stripped of his cloak of power and banished to the tiny molehill in the ocean wastes known as Elba. But the coalition powers have not reckoned with little man's titanic powers of intrigue. And the word rings throughout all of Europe with electrifying news that Napoleon has escaped from Elba and is returning with a conquering army to the soil of his empire. And now, within an Alpine village, Napoleon escaped, speaks next horts his straggling army of 1,000 odd men of his old campaigns. Attention! Attention! Lieutenant, it is not my wish for the men to stand at the tension. I wish to speak to them and I want them to listen. Order them at ease. Very well, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, as you were, at ease. Thank you, Lieutenant. My soldiers, I ask that you recognize me and I have come to you to say that if there is one among you who wishes to kill his emperor, let him come forward and do so. Here I am, and here is my breast. Thank you, my comrades. And now I wish to say this. After the fall of Paris, my heart was torn, but my spirit remained unshaken. My life belongs to you. Must once more be made useful to you. Soldiers, we are not conquered. Treachery has delivered the capital into the hands of the enemy and disorganized our army. But now, now I have come. Your general has returned. And he asks you to wear the tricolor croquette again. And at the eagles which you bore a toolman, an Austerlitzetian, a Elo and Friedland, a Dichmühle and Vargrim, a Smoliensk on the Moskva, a Glutzen in Montmereil, once more wave on high. And I promise that victory will guide us forward through the storms, and the eagles shall again fly from one church steeple to the other, until at last they'll light a Notre Dame, and again proclaim Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and dictator of the world. Hey, wait for your answer, comrades. Vive le premier! Vive le premier! In voice of destiny, proclaims the little man's ambitious conquests shall be short-lived. He is not reckoned with the solemn oath of Britain's Iron Duke of Wellington, sworn to the dying William Pitt. So England maneuvers another war with France, one which terminates tragically upon the shell-torn and scarred battlefield of Waterloo. Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Well, speak up, what is it? They are too much for this. The outnumber is four to one. Both left and right blank have broken, and in a head-long retreat. And some the order for charge. The order has been sounded, Your Majesty, but there's no use. The army is panicking, speaking, and only God can stop them. Yes, only God can stop them, and he shall. But Napoleon is the God of war and of the Frenchman. And Napoleon shall stop this retreat, or he shall die. Vive la France! Vive la France! Those blasphemous words and the insane fury of Napoleon are wasted on the sound, sharp pair of heaven. And even though he rushes into the teeth of the enemy to turn his routed army, his once loyal and courageous soldiers completely succumb to the head-long flight of panic and the great battle of Waterloo is ended. General Bonaparte, in as much as you have declared yourself and your armies to be in utter defeat, I shall apply the military law of the victor. May I have your sword, General Bonaparte? I should like to ask one favor, that you allow me to keep this sword. I am extremely sorry, General Bonaparte. This steel was once the sword of Alexander, and its age is scarred from 1,000 victories, but never a defeat. And so, Lord Wellington, I give you my sword, broken in two pieces, and I give you my life in the same way, for like this sword of Alexander, Napoleon Bonaparte is broken. A broken sword and a broken man become the souvenirs of the first dictator of Europe. Under English guard, Napoleon is returned to Paris, and again, he hears the stern judgments of exile. But this time, he is not to be sent to the historic island of Elba, but to a lonely and extinct volcanic rock in the Atlantic Ocean, the red island of St. Helena. But now, by virtue of one last request, Napoleon stands again in his chambers of the palace, talks with his brother, Lucien. Lucien, please. Please, Napoleon, do not speak to me. Why? You are still my brother? That is the reason that I do not want to talk. I swear I cannot hold back the tears. Then cry, cry, Lucien, cry if it will help. It is you who should cry, Napoleon, not I. I? I have no tears. I am as dry as the sands of Egypt. I cannot cry, Lucien, but you, you can cry for me. Napoleon. Thank you. It is good to know that there are those who can shed a few tears for Napoleon. I, I told you, I told you a long time ago, Napoleon.  Yes, I know. I remember. But why? Why didn't you listen to me? Ambition listens to no man, Lucien. But my intoxication has been like all intoxications. First I enjoyed the taste of wine. Then I enjoyed the, the exhilaration of drunkness. Then the drunken frenzy. And now, now the sickness. I think Plutac would have called it the, the law of compensation. Now please, please, Lucien, shed no more tears for me. Save them for my death. Napoleon, I. Yes, Andre? Maria. Napoleon. Will you leave us alone, Lucien? But yes. Of course, Napoleon. Maria, my dearest. No, no, no. Please, no, Napoleon. No? Please do not touch me. I'm sorry. So you too. You too would be named Brutus. No. But it was not my eye who stabbed you, Napoleon. It is only yourself whom you should name Brutus. And now an answer to your second and last request from the powers of the coalition. The fallen Caesar stands before his troops that once so valiantly served his command. Headbeard to the driving rain, which mingles the tears in his eyes with the tears of heaven. Napoleon Bonaparte, the little man of destiny. Bids his last farewell. Soldiers of my old guard, I take leave of you. The 20 years I have seen you always upon the path of honor and glory. And during the last few weeks, you have been models of bravery and fidelity, just as in the years of good fortune. But there would have been civil war. And that is why I sacrificed all other interests to those of the country. And I am going away. You friends, I beg of you to continue to serve France. Our happiness has been my only thought. And my good wishes go with you. Do not mourn my fate. But remember that if I have determined to go on living, it is only that I may increase your pain. I shall write a story of the great deeds we have brought together. And so farewell, my children. I would gladly press you all to my heart. But at least let me kiss your colors, the flag of France. Goodbye, comrade. And may God bless you and vive la France. Who was it that said, what goes up must come down? It's a simple law of compensation. But coming down in such a spot of degradation on St. Helena is not considered as homesteading on choice acreage, is it? Napoleon, however, bought and paid for his final landscape with a counterfeit coin of his evil and ambitious obsession. In a moment, I'll return to tell you of our story for next week in as many forms as often been the three forked barb which goads man to the very brink of hellish inferno. History is filled with the stories of those to whom colors on canvas were more than life itself. You'll hear such a story, a drama in which death painted a picture in obsidian black, contrasted with a million reds of murder. It is called The Blue Stain, in which an old attic trunk became the focal point of an overpowering session. Our story was produced and transcribed by C.P. McGregor in Hollywood.


what's going on guys welcome back to another video so we tried indian food we've tried african food we've tried jamaican food what else i don't know one more i feel like we're missing one i don't know i forgot honestly we've tried so many foods i know but today we are back at it again with another food video today we're going to be trying vietnamese food for the first time now disclaimer before ya come for me i do get one plate from here that i post a lot it's like the grilled pork with rice that's all i've ever had from this place all this other stuff is authentic vietnamese food that we've never tried before are you excited i'm excited i'm excited for the drink we're gonna just get right into it i want isa to try the bao bun first the what the bao bun the bao bun what is this like bread so it has dough yeah it's dough but it has pork inside eggs and some other things but yeah it's so cute and it's like fluffy and bouncy i'm not gonna lie i kind of want to squeeze it all right i'm ready to try it's so fluffy all right ready yeah three two one it's so good right okay hear me out this but with hot sauce fire i know you was not saying that amazing i'll put it down before our dog the whole thing i know we're gonna finish the whole thing later but i give this a nine mm-hmm attend with some hot sauce okay now let's try our drinks we can wash it down go ahead tell me what we got okay so i got a taro um milti and i see i got a coconut milti yes so we're gonna try like both oh i can't wait i'm so excited for this oh my god mm it's such like oh my god it tastes like coconut this tastes like cereal you might like cereal yeah like cereal milk this one i give it eight this might give it ten give me that back that one is so good i like i love coconut everything guys you guys know me i get coconut flavored everything yeah that one's a ten out of ten that one's a eight that was good too though that one yeah that one has like a very light flavor yeah it does taste like cereal milk right kind of i would enjoy both on a hot day what are we starting with first so let's start with a small one oh they're see through mm-hmm so these are spring rolls and it comes with the peanut sauce they feel like sticky so this has i believe um that you see the shrimp look at that so this is rice like uh covering we're gonna call paper yeah rice paper it is rice paper actually and then it has noodles pork and shrimp on the inside what is this peanut sauce i was gonna say looks like peanut butter it's really sweet it's like it looks like very creamy mm-hmm go ahead first dang i'm not cheating out dang i'm not doing that much i'm not cheating out just a little corner because i don't know if i'm gonna like it all right ready yeah one two one what do you think it's good mm-hmm it's throwing me off though because it's cold it's supposed to be cold yeah it's throwing me off it's good though i'm double dipping i don't care i don't care the peanut sauce is like that it's it right there you know what it is it's not seasoned like the shrimp is in season noodles aren't seasoned it's all fresh like it's good though so it's good mm-hmm it's just it's throwing me off because i see this i think of like a hot spring roll or egg roll and it's just all cold the hot ones are fried mm-hmm i will never be eaten like every day that's like a really good refreshing like healthy meal i'm gonna go ahead and get that one a seven just because it's cold mm-hmm what's next let's go i say it's favorite meal guys this is what i always order it's the only thing i work look at that we have grilled pork is this i always get them confused is this cucumber or zucchini it's cucumber babe okay grilled pork cucumber some tomato slices we got some lettuce carrot shreds i never know what this sauce is i lift it up and i screen shot it it is sweet garlic chili fish sauce so it has fish oil or fish um see i was close i was like man that's gotta be like fish oil or something like that yeah it's really good like that sauce is so freaking good yeah get your fork out i am gonna get my fork out that's a spoon when i say this smells so good like the smell is like filling the room big move it over get some rice in there and all that go ahead i'm gonna let you get your bite first because i'm telling you right now i'm not gonna give that back oh my gosh okay go ahead get your bites in well should i pour the sauce on the rice do you like that dip it dip it because i don't i'm not i don't do all that exactly okay and i'll just do it like this i'll eat it it's good you dang right it is give me some of that all right spoon in the sauce like it's my favorite you gotta get it with some lettuce there's some lettuce yeah i like the lettuce but with the sauce you don't like the sauce i'm not gonna pour it and the sauce is like spicy a little no way that is it has chili in it chili flakes this one doesn't have a lot of chili flakes they usually put more yeah now i can do without the sauce i love the sauce that is amazing though i love it i don't know like it's not about their rice i love the how it's like sticky sticky this is a ton mm-hmm not gonna like pork like that but they got it that's a ton put that to the side i'm gonna dog that after this video for sure oh i know that's gonna be gone within like five minutes this honestly i didn't know what it was i ordered it i thought it was a bao bun because i said bao on it it looks the same as the pork but noodles noodles and it's chicken mm-hmm hmm okay right hmm and then what's that this is the fun no no no we get to that after okay for the last i guess okay i think this is cold noodles oh no it's warm yes okay so cucumber again excuse me okay is that a bean sprout yeah these are bean sprouts and a whole bunch of veggies let me get a bean sprout good it tastes like nothing all right let's get some noodles i actually want to pour the sauce all over it but is this so no i hate when like it doesn't matter what type of food it is like sauce if you drenched food in sauce i instantly get turned off yeah so he likes boring food no i like to add the sauce to my amount my like yeah me i just want to pour it all on cheers mm the noodles are so soft it's good but i feel like it needs the sauce the chicken is good too mm whatever they season it when it's so tender i know let me get another bean sprout this is really good yo it's literally a bean like that amazes me look it's literally a sprout that's so cool that's what happens when you grow up and no vegetables in your life no i drop my bean sprout i'm gonna give that one a nine that's good i need to try it with the sauce real quick you think about someone make me a gallon of this they'll do it probably mm-hmm that is so freaking fire if you're not gonna drink that terrible tea i'm taking it no cuz i'm gonna take that one then we should no no no all right our last one we have a jar we have four so obviously they can't make it for us because we're taking it home so okay i see raw meat i'm not gonna lie i'm scared but is what it looks like right so there is raw meat in here yeah i hope you guys saw it's a little covered but it's beef so i think when you put it inside the broth the broth is supposed to cook it slightly so it's you know i don't know about that baby that's really raw so we have to pour out the broth like half of it so it makes space for the noodles these are rice noodles by the way what's these little containers it's like a thick brown sauce let me smell it might be like i think that's soy that's definitely soy sauce that's probably like hot sauce is it yeah that's spicy all right oh and that's what's that might be chili sauce i think you're supposed to put that in here low key well oh is this mint leaves no way smell it it is it is yeah oh my gosh y'all that must be a nice combo i'm gonna start growing mint i'm not gonna put all of this because it's gonna be like really minty but try no i can't have mint leaves straight up like this is really minty that's what i'm gonna say you're crazy as hell all right i did not expect that wow now we're gonna put the beef in there that's actually crazy i've never eaten like raw beef before that's the launcher oh yeah we get put an ad in there so put the whole thing the whole all the beef yeah put it hurry you're saying hurry like we're on a time limit or no i'm saying hurry like before it falls is it hot though like yeah that's really hot okay good and you put some of this in the what is this bean sprouts you got beansprouts i didn't i only put a little bit because i personally don't like beansprouts you don't like beansprouts they don't even taste like anything i don't know let me turn my stomach oh there's lime get out of here oh look jalapenos put it in no look at that look this is a perfect jalapeno you see that no no put the no put the whole thing no look they got one two three four they got five slices of jalapeno you could eat the jalapeno when you try yours because you didn't let me put sauce on the rice you want jalapeno he's trying so hard to like get our attention he wants all the food array just put the whole lime in babe no it's gonna overflow you're gonna overflow can you hear that silence shut up i don't feel that go ahead hurry up all right i'm mad excited right don't tell me to hurry up i'm mad excited right all right i'm actually really nervous to try like raw meat i've never i'm not sushi gal you don't like meat not raw well shut up all right this is what i'm trying that's a big fork you are brave i know you are brave i know chop all right relax your turn we have to do it at the same time you go first wow test the meat yeah go ahead all right nene you're spinning me so be honest that is so good is it really the lime are you kidding taste it like the it doesn't taste like raw food i was gonna say you know it's weird you can't tell that it's raw yeah it tastes like steak like it's so good that's very surprised i think you just gotta get past past that mental like you know what i mean the only thing that i tried raw i really don't like is like any type of sushi the only sushi that i feel like i really enjoyed is um tuna so good i feel like i can dog this whole jar if you let me put the jalapenos in it okay so we're being childish i see how this video is gonna end i'm gonna give this a 10 8 i really like this hey not just because i'm not big on soup like that i'm a soup girl you definitely are that is it for today's video guys we hope you guys enjoyed if you guys did make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button also comment down below any other cultural food what happened nothing also comment down below any other cultural foods you guys want us to try we've done a lot so far but yeah anything else you want to say babe um what would you say which one's your favorite 100% i'm biased is that that's the right word right yes okay yeah the grilled pork i get that all the time mine was actually this that's actually shout out to my tattoo artist he put me on to that yeah he put us on to this place in general better if you're watching the shout out to you shout out to ben i haven't you anything else you want to say nope well with all that being said we will see you guys in the next video


How do you deal with the fact that you offer something to your audience, a program, a product or service, but they don't respond in a way that you had hoped they, you know, maybe there are no sales, nobody signed up or very few people signed up or inquired. So how do you go through that, those emotions in that process? Well, I'm going to share with you my experience today. It's an experience and encourage you to stay on the path of experimentation because here is a truth that I hope you will take on and embody and remind yourself of. Your success is inevitable if you stay on the path of experimentation. The only way to truly fail is to say, I give up on trying different things. But if you are willing to keep an open mind, right, because reality has so many factors that you can't predict even 1% of the factors that are going to influence whether or not your business is going to work or not, your business, like I said, success is inevitable if you stay on the path of experimentation. But you can't predict whether any one campaign will work. So the question for you is, are you open to observing reality and then adjusting your experimentations to match reality better and better and better as you go along? All along, I hope you can do it with a sense of curiosity, playfulness, joyful experimentation, knowing that in the big picture, success is inevitable and you are going to be taken care of. So the sort of initiative, the idea for this topic is based on the fact that I've been building my side business now for six months. The side business, for those of you who haven't heard about it, is a personal development spiritual mentoring business that is separate from the business that you are watching right now. George Cow, authentic business coach, is my main business. This is what I make a full-time living doing. And then my side business, I started six months ago in large part to feel what it's like to be you again. I wanted to know, what is it like for somebody who has no audience, and some of you watching this are already farther along, you already have an audience, you're already doing fine, and that's great. But I wanted to experience the lowest common denominator that I could possibly experience, which is somebody with no audience, somebody who has no experience selling anything, any services or products in this particular niche. I've never sold a single dollar in the personal growth spiritual mentoring niche. So, and I've never written any books about that. I've never, you know, blogged about it. So I really am starting new. And in that side business, and you'll hear more about this, why this is a challenge, but in that side business, I am anonymous. I don't reveal George Cowell the name. I don't tell people, even though I make videos, I never say my name, and nobody has looked up, you know, nobody, I mean, you could, you could probably do a very, very clever, you know, search in some way to find out this person's image. No, but nobody has discovered, nobody has crossed these two audiences. So you are not seeing any of my posts from my side business. I exclude you all when I post on Facebook there. And then I exclude them when I, when I post here. So it's totally different audiences. They don't know who I am. They don't know my background. I don't get the benefit of all of you who already trust me to. So, so these are all new people, people who have no idea who I am, cold audiences I'm starting. So six months later, working only two hours per week. Now my guess is that you have more than two hours per week to work on your business. Well, because I have a full-time business here and I purposely am trying to experience lowest common denominator again. I only work two hours per week there. And so six months later, here's the update. I have approximately 2,500 people now who have engaged in at least one of my posts in that side business in the last six months, liked, commented or shared. So Facebook gives me those stats in the custom audiences. Those 2,500 people all arrived, most of them, almost all of them, some of them arrived from word of mouth now from my new people, but most of them arrived through Facebook ads. That's how I reached them. So therefore I am able to reach my warm audience again through Facebook ads because well, I've proven that they're able to see ads and not blocking Facebook ads, right? Almost all of my posts in that side business have, all of them have been on, I don't even have a website yet. I'm just using a Facebook business page and almost all of my posts there have been text-only posts, 300 to 1,000 words, no images, no links, just text-only, just sharing my thoughts, my message, my philosophy. And then besides the once weekly text-only post, I've also started doing about three months into my audience building. I started doing Facebook live videos again. I tried in the very beginning of my audience building and then I noticed that nobody wanted to watch my videos and that's a lesson for me and maybe for you is that it's usually harder to get people to watch your videos when they don't know who you are versus reading your writing. It's easier to read writing and kind of get a quick sense of what the message is about, right? It takes more energy and time to watch the video and wait for the person to finally say something. Except unless you are better looking than me, unless you're born with good looks, how to make yourself look good on camera, I don't.  And so it took three months for them to trust my message enough to be able to be willing to start watching my videos and commenting on them. So then anyway, so now they're starting to watch and comment on my videos. And then just a few weeks ago, I decided to make my first offer to that audience. So with great trepidation and curiosity, I asked my audience, hey, would any of you be interested in a membership program where I have a Facebook group, we would meet members only call once a week and I would facilitate the personal growth, spiritual development and help you get to know each other as well and it would cost this much. And I try to compare it with other similar, these types of programs usually cost this and this would cost that. And I shared it as a status, as my normal way of doing it, text only posts on Facebook business page for that side business and I waited and I was curious to see if there'd be any response. Of course, I boosted it to my warm audience there. And after a week, it turns out to be one of the lowest performing ads I've run on that side business. I spent about 30, well, in the blog post that I'll put a couple hours from now in the notes below this video, I will give you all the stats, but long story short, it was underperforming as an ad in terms of how much I spent versus how many people I reached and how many people liked it and et cetera, zero comments. So it was a post asking for feedback, hey, would you be interested? How could I make this better? It wasn't a very long post, it was just a couple of bullet points on what just kind of wanted to test the waters here. Nobody commented. So I was quite discouraged about that, but there were four shares, which is kind of interesting. Like, people shared it, they didn't comment. Maybe they were like sharing with friends, like, hey, might you be interested in this? I don't know. So a little bit of encouragement and a couple of people shared it. I spent like, I mean, I spent about $30 boosting it to my warm audience. And so, how would you advise me? I'm curious, because I think one of the best ways for you to learn how to deal with your own discouragement and disappointment is to advise or encourage somebody else who is going through discouragement and disappointment. And now me being in my own spot, it's very hard for me to advise myself on this, right? I'm a decent business coach for other people, right? Have you noticed it's almost always easier to give advice to other people? Because you're more objective. You're not in the emotions that they're going through and you can usually see more context in terms of what other people are, than they can, because they're so absorbed in their own situation. So how would you advise me on this? Knowing everything you've already consumed in my content, you know some of you know a lot about my methods and my philosophy. So how would you advise me? I'm in this state of discouragement about that side business. Oh, nobody said anything. Well, I've even worked six months of work, I think over a thousand dollars for sure, a Facebook ads to build the audience and no sales, no inquiries, no interest. How would you advise me? So if you are able to pause this video now and comment below, I honestly would love to know how you would advise me or how you would encourage me or what words of support or ideas do you have for me? Okay, so, all right. Now that you've done that or not, it's up to you. So what I would, so, you know, I have to say this is not my first rodeo, right? This is not my first business. And so I have, of course, over the years done a lot of campaigns and launched a lot of products and services and programs and events. So I know what it's like to have nobody respond because that has happened to me many times in the last 10 years. So it's not the first time I'd experienced this. Now, some of you may, no matter what's gonna happen, like I said, your success is inevitable, but also it's inevitable that you're gonna experience some situation where the results are far less than you expected. I mean, just statistically, if you're gonna succeed, you're gonna have to experiment a lot and all along the way, you're gonna experience one, probably many times where like, wait, I really expected this to work or I really hoped this would work and it didn't work at all. Like nobody wanted it. So you need to prepare yourself for that kind of situation.  So therefore I'm not gonna try. And it's also not, okay, I'm gonna put this offer out now. Probably nobody's gonna care. Probably nobody's gonna want it. So, oh no, no, no, it's preparation is like, I'm gonna put this out and be open. It could be that nobody will want it or it could be that a lot of people want it. I am really curious what along the spectrum it's gonna be. So you have to be prepared to accept both ends of the spectrum. Nobody wants it and everybody wants it, okay? To just mentally be prepared, like it could be either way. I'm really curious and either way is a win, okay? If everybody wants it, well, that's amazing. That's wonderful. I'll create the product. I'll go ahead and run the program. If nobody wants it, they'll be like, huh, then it will incentivize me to be more curious, more energized. My curiosity will be more energized when nobody wants it, okay? More than if everybody wanted it. I mean, yes, I think at the either end of the spectrum, my curiosity is particularly energized, right?  And that is one stance that I invite you to try on. Huh, that's quite a puzzle. That's basically what I said to them. I said, huh, wow, I've been building this audience. They've been commenting on my stuff and nobody said anything about this offer. Wow, how interesting, how interesting, right? So as I look at my own methodology, my own business and marketing methodology, I, now I'm gonna advise myself. Obviously, if I don't know the audience that well, if I don't know the niche that well, because I get two hours a week for six months, that's a total of less than 50 hours, right? Let's see, about eight hours a week, or eight hours a month of work times six months, 48 hours. I'm gonna say, let's round it up, 50 hours. I spent only 50 hours on this entire business, the side business. So I don't really know the niche that well. I don't know my audience at all because I haven't had any one-to-one conversations with my audience. So this is another thing I'd love your feedback on. It's really hard to build an authentic business being anonymous, like not saying who I am, what my background is, you know, number one. And number two is it's also really hard to build a business. You're spending only two hours a week. It's really hard because you just don't have enough time. I don't have enough time, like brainstorm and try different things and just, it just takes the spaciousness of time to let my brain work on it, right? So, but the part about having to hide and not tell my network and be so hush-hush and it's really hard.  So, but then the reason why I'm hiding it from you is because I do have a fear and tell me what you think about this. My fear is that somebody in the future or multiple people in the future, once the side business is successful, somebody will say, well, of course, George's thing is successful. It doesn't apply to me because George already had an audience. He already, he was already successful. So this next thing was of course gonna be successful. And that doesn't apply to me because I have no audience and I can't really learn from George because see, that's exactly what I'm trying to prevent. So that's why I'm hiding it from you because I don't want you to, you know. So tell me what you think. I mean, it's challenging. So what I would advise myself to do is remember the path of experimentation to towards inevitable success is continued trying of, hey, do you want to buy this? No? Oh, how interesting. Well, let me talk to you, what are you buying? And that's what I'm not able to do. I'm not able to have one-on-one conversations with my people, my new audience because if I do, I'd have to use my email. I mean, I could spread a new email account. Like I don't want to complicate it. I only have two hours a week. So like I would probably use my normal email account which then they'll know my name and then they'll be able to see my background and all that stuff. My email signature is already programmed. Like all these things about hiding for this purity of this experiment, that's like, you can tell it's kind of frustrating for me. So I have to practice breathing joy and playfulness into that experimentation. But I need to have conversations with my audience members. Like to say, hi, Anne or Bob. Thanks for being part of this, seeing my messages and I'm just really curious, what have you, like what are you going through in your life, whatever you wanna share that my messages are helping you with and, oh, have you bought any kind of courses or coaching counseling on these areas? Oh, really? Oh, you bought it from that person? Oh, that's interesting. So then make a note, go study that person's offerings, whoever they bought it from. So I need to be having these conversations, right? And besides those conversations, I think I should probably do a survey to my audience to kind of start getting a sense of what they're buying and what they're wanting to learn more about or what they might buy. So I have to figure out, and I may reveal my name there, but not reveal that to you all. So I might compromise and say, well, I need to reveal my name there so that I can actually have conversations with them and be more authentic there. The other thing is I need to do some sampling. That's another part of my philosophy is if people don't haven't tasted what you do and it's not a mainstream thing, they're probably not willing to buy. Life coaching is getting mainstream. So people are starting to understand, oh yeah, buying life coaching, therapy is mainstream, but any kind of other kind of counseling, health coaching is not even mainstream. And nutrition, nutritionists is mainstream, but health coaching or relationship coaching, those are not mainstream yet, you know? Career coaching is mainstream. People understand career counseling, career coaching, but anything that's spiritual mentoring is definitely not mainstream. People usually go to their pastor for free. So why would they pay? So there are certain things people are not used to paying for. So you have to do a sampling for them to say, oh wow, this is really good, or this is really a good fit for me. I'd love to do more. And to do sampling means I have to reveal again, my scheduling system, it all has my name attached and I don't have to set something up just for this business because two hours a week, barely enough time. Content adds logistics of the Facebook page and trying to create a website now. Anyways, so, and personal limitations, that's the other thing. Oh, another thing that I haven't done yet, of course, is the repetition of the offer. If they only saw it once, it's only planted a seed and the seed might take some nurturing to grow. So it could be that if I keep mentioning this membership offer that maybe three months down the road, there'll be enough interest then for people to take me up on it, but it is discouraging that there were no comments in the first try, right? So I am very, I'm much more willing to try new things or to try a reframe than to keep pushing the same thing with many repetitions because I'll tell you this, if something is meant to have traction, it usually has traction really early on. If it doesn't have traction really early on, you need to reframe it quite differently or something needs to change, change significantly enough where it's like a new version of it and then see there's traction early on. And like if I, for example, if I, you know, this post that I boosted the offer reached about 1,000 people of my warm audience from the side of business. If I got something like, you know, 10 comments of people, you know, 1% of those I reached saying, yeah, I might be interested, right? Then I'll be like, okay, so if there's some possible early traction, but zero comments is, you know, not a good sign. And if I kept pushing this, I don't think repetition will work for something like this. So personal invitations, that's another thing that I didn't do because again, I didn't wanna, it's awkward for me to reach out and say, well, this is Facebook page, blah, blah, blah, but I'm not revealing my name. So it's, everything is kind of weird about it. So anyway, I think that's all I'm gonna say for the update on this project and kind of what I'm learning. Another thing, I'll just end with this encouragement is that a reminder for you that nobody is gonna make you do your business. Nobody makes me write my post every week. Nobody does. Especially in that side of business when I'm just starting to build an audience. Nobody's making me do it. They don't even care if I don't show up week after week, because they're new enough where they're not used to that rhythm yet, right? Even six months, it's new. So nobody's making me do it. So I have to make myself do it.  Joyful discipline. Otherwise, the thing never builds itself. If I don't show up consistently, who's gonna build the business? Nobody's gonna build the business. So I have to remind myself all the time. And in some ways, I'm grateful for all of you witnessing this process because I am accountable to you. You probably won't even know if I don't do an update, but maybe some of you might ask. I hope you will ask me if you don't see a monthly update about this project. So in other words, you might want to announce it to your friends and family that you're building a business, that you're building this thing and ask them to ask you about it. Public accountability, social accountability is incredibly powerful because we are tribal creatures. We care about what other people think of us. So all right, well, thanks for those of you who are joining me here for this. I see Jace and Carissa and Sharon, Lisa, Alejandra. And let's see here, Sufern and Kevin, thank you all. And I'm just kind of seeing some of the comments here and checking out some of the live comments. Yeah, Sharon, thank you for your encouragement there to say she's saying that this is how she does it when she encounters this kind of situation. She has zero attachment to the outcome. As you have said, just put it out. They may not want it now. And she says she's in a permanent state of curiosity. I do exactly that. And then move on to the next step. I wonder if, she continues to write, I wonder if if you've been simply doing text content, maybe your offer was too big. It's too big of a jump from content only to membership. Yeah, good point. Maybe I should try, like I said, right? Gotta try something totally different. If I'm trying to sell them an ongoing monthly membership, maybe I should sell them a one time, $25, two hour online course or something like that. So yes, you're right. I probably should try that next. Jay said, I had a similar experience. People liked and shared it, but just only one person commented. They said they wanted what to offer and what I decided to give myself, Jay wrote, and my audience is to give some more time and keep building a relationship between us. After a few months, I'll try again. If that's good enough for him and I, I suggest you give it a bit more time. Again, following your previous advice, you might also want to consider the sampling. Yeah, so that's part of the challenging thing. So let's see here. Yeah, and Sharon's a spiritual mentorship is a hard concept to market being anonymous. That's a really challenging combo. Yeah, exactly. They have no idea who I am. I mean, they see me on video talking once a week for a few months now, but there's no relationship there. There's just a relationship with this phrase that I'm using on my fan page, you know? So yeah, all right, well, thank you all. And I look forward to any other comments you want to suggestions, ideas you want to share. And I hope that this, and of course, I'm going to keep going. Remember, success is inevitable. I believe that, I truly do. And I hope you will believe it to repeat that to yourself. Success is inevitable. Am I willing to stay on the path of experimentation? And I am, I'm willing, because thanks also to all of you who are witnessing my journey. So please use your own audience, your own friends and family, like ask them. Please be my accountability for my project, you know? So all right, I hope this is helpful, encouraging. If you have any questions or anything you want me to do videos on in the future, let me know. I look forward to hearing from you. Take care, be well.


Live from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It's theCUBE, covering DevNet Create 2018. Brought to you by Cisco. Hey, welcome back, everyone. Live here at DevNet Create Cisco's event here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The heart of Silicon Valley, I'm here with Laura Cooney. We're here for two days, wall-to-wall coverage, breaking down, Cisco's move into the DevOps file developer world, separate from the DevNet community, which is the Cisco Developer Program. And we've been breaking down, Lauren, great to have you this past two days. Thanks so much, I appreciate it. It's been fun. So, we've talked to a lot of the Cisco folks, a lot of the practitioners, let's analyze it, let's discuss kind of what's going on. First of all, Cisco creates a new group almost a year ago, next month, called DevNet Create to get out of the Cisco bubble and go out into the cloud world and see if they can't connect the cloud ecosystem, cloud native, Kubernetes, all the microservices, goodness is going on the application side on infrastructure as code, and bring that with the Cisco network engineering community who are plumbers, network plumbers, they're network engineers, they deal with provisioning gear, routes. Well, I think it's interesting because you have this CCIE number that has been decreasing over the past couple of years and that's not because the network is less important, it's actually because new skill sets are emerging and folks need to take on these new skills to learn and to really flourish in their careers. So, I think what DevNet is doing is just tremendous in terms of enabling developers to move up stack, to look at things like Kubernetes, to look at things like cloud native, to look at new applications you can build, new things that you can extend to, API integration into new types of applications. We had folks here that were learning to code in Python for the first time and I think that's awesome, I think that's great. And the timing's perfect, I mean, I got to give credit to Susie, we and our team at Cisco, they're doing all the right things. I think the way they're handling this is they're not overly aggressive, they're not arrogant, they're humble, they're learning, they're listening and they're doing all the right things, they're bringing a lot to the table from the Cisco table to this community and they're just very cool, but the timing's critical. If they tried to do this four years ago, how hard would it have been? You know, you've been there.  I think there was the goal was always there four years ago, but I think the timing was, you have to kind of put the mission in order and get things up and running first, you can't just, you don't launch a community, you build one, and I think Cisco really needed to build that core community first, and that was super critical. Well, even four years ago, let's just go back and rewind the clock, where was cloud then? So it was still the purest DevOps culture and there was certainly hard charging, it was definitely flying, but still, even like a lot of the on-premise enterprise folks were like, still kind of poo-pooing the cloud. You even saw it four years ago, Oracle just made their move a couple of years ago to the cloud and they're still trying to catch up. So these legacy vendors, and Cisco is one, they've pivoted nicely, Cisco, into this because now the timing's there, it's Kubernetes, there's enough code to get glued in, plugged in, whoop the stack, so I think timing has also been a tailwind for them. Timing was critical, I mean, back then, we were talking about software-defined networking and new services that you could deliver to the cloud in new ways, and then DevOps came in as really the glory child, right? Saying like, this DevOps is going to solve world hunger and what it came down to, basically, is a critical part, but there are certain piece-parts that need to come together, especially in the open-source world to make these things happen. I mean, to me, if I had to point out, I'm just riffing here, but to me, the seminal moment for cloud and agile is happening, that's a key driver, but it was the fact that with horizontally scalable tech, unstructured data, the roles of databases, software that was becoming this new lightweight glue layer, control planes were moving up and down the stack, so there wasn't one thing, combination of these awesome things were happening, that made people go, well, holy, holy, we could do more if we think about scale differently. Scale differently, and really, how do you bring this, and this is where you get to edge computing, is how do you actually bring these to the masses? How do you go where the people are? How do you store data where people are? How do you extend security in new ways? I mean, that's going to be super critical. And I think the other thing that's also pretty evident is that when you start having new entrants into a market, start eating some of your breakfast, then they start eating some of your lunch, then you go, wait a minute, if I don't do something, my dinner's going to be eaten. I mean, you're starting to see people see their business at risk. This is a huge thing, that lights up the CXO, the CEO, the COO, CDO, CIO, now it's like, okay, we got to make a move. Definitely, I think that's the way that it has to be. And in terms of Cisco, I want to get your thoughts, because I've always been talking about this, and I'm a big Cisco fan. I know a lot of people who work there, been a big admirer of the company from day one, and what they did in the internet generation. They did bought a lot of cubbies, which created a little bit of a mesh-mesh, but that's not the issue. They really ran the networks. What a great culture. However, we are now seeing applications driving a lot of value, and the network needs to be programmable. And the challenge that Cisco's always been, how do we move up the stack as a company? And all the little scuttle butts in conversations and parties I've been to, hallway conversations, Cisco executives and employees, that's been the internal debate. How does Cisco, should Cisco move up the stack? And if so, how? So it's been kind of this internal thing. Good timing now to start moving up the stack, because automation's here, your thoughts? Well, I think it was great timing four years ago to move up the stack, to be honest. I think that there were efforts then, I know that I was engaged in some to do that rather quickly, you know. Those turned into things that, you know, went one way or the other. I think that there are the right people in the right places at Cisco now to make that actually happen. I think, you know, we were a little early on that. I think Susie's effort is just tremendous in terms of driving the users up stack to have them learn these new skills. And as they learn these new skills, they're learning it on Cisco. And that's going to be really critical. That's going to have the pull power. Yeah, I think Cisco's got a chance, a real great chance to, and it's not a far reaching accomplishment either for them to do this, is they can now actually build a developer program. Now, because before they didn't have enough software, but what Susie's doing, if I'm Chuck Roberts, CEO of Cisco, I'm doubling down on what's going on with DevNet, DevNet Create, and I can take that DevNet component and almost kind of expand it out because Cisco has a developer object. If you look at what they're doing on the collaborative software side, the stuff with video, they have a total core competence in video. I mean, they were early on so many things, but now with, they've got WebEx there still, sold for video conferencing, but still beyond that, IOT is a video application. Huge opportunity in video. You look at these communities that pop up and right now you don't have a product if you don't have a supporting community. And so Cisco should absolutely be doubling down on this. They need to double down on it. They probably need to invest more in it than they are now. I see it as absolutely critical as they move forward because Cisco wants to be one or two in the market for all their products, all their solutions. To have that, they need to have the supporting community to do that. We did two days here and in terms of events, it's not the big glam event. It's really a early stage, only second event within the, it hasn't even been 12 months since the first DevNet Create. What I'm impressed by, what I love about theCUBE is we, when you get at these early moments, when you see it magic happening, you get into the communities and you realize, wow, this is a team that could pull it off. And I think Cisco's a company at Cisco Live in Barcelona. It really became apparent to me that Cisco's really pulling in the right direction on a couple of things. I feel they've got the big company thing, they've got to kind of clean that up a bit, just make it more nimble. But they got their eye on the prize on video. They could really crush the IoT opportunity. And the leverage of the network is a huge asset. And if they could make that programmable with an open source community behind it, man, this could be a whole nother Cisco. Almost bring back the glory days. I fully agree, I fully agree. Lauren, what are you up to these days? I mean, you've got a new gig. I do. You're a new company and what you're working on.  There's a bunch of stuff. I mean, I like my hands on lots of things. So I think it's important to say that I've taken my experience at IBM and Microsoft and Juniper and Cisco, driving new innovation to market faster and new revenue channels. And I've taken that and I've started a consulting firm called Spark Labs. And what we do is we use new models, like minimum viable product and business model canvas to actually drive whether it's product, whether it's service, whether it's these new channels, whether it's partner, or whether you're just trying to kind of pull together your team in a new way. We actually take this and help you do it in a faster way. And we've got the models, we've got the background and we're working with companies that are big and small. What kind of engagements are you working on? What kind of problems are you solving? We have a larger company that we're working with and one of the things that they ran into is they had just changed around kind of their leadership and we've gone in and worked with their leadership team to kind of establish what this new team needs to look like, what are they going to deliver on? What are the metrics? What are the kind of success things that people are really trying to achieve and how do we empower this new team that has this new leader and how do we make sure that everyone's aligned? I think that's part of it. Alignment's critical. Alignment is, you know, if you don't, it's great to have an amazing vision, but if you don't have the execution, you're just not going to get there. Andy Jassy, one of my favorite execs that I've interviewed, he's pragmatic, he's strong, went to Harvard, won't hold it against him. But super great guy, he's got a great philosophy. I think it might come from the Amazon culture is, you argue all day long, but once a decision's made, you align behind it. So bring some constructive discourse to the table, but once it's done, they don't tolerate any, you know, any dysfunctional passive-aggressive behavior. Okay, say your piece, but align. That's exactly it. I mean, we pull people together for a day or a day and a half and actually run them through the business model canvas, which will align with like, what their goals are, what their mission is, how they're being seen in the market. And lots of other things, but the real goal there is to pull the team together on what exactly those things are and the value that their organization has. Because if you can't deliver on that message, you can't deliver on much more. So you do need that alignment and teams are so all over the place often. When you're running fast, you kind of forget, and so sometimes they need to be reminded. What's your take on DevNet Create this year? What's your thoughts? I think it's great.  I love the, you know, Maraki's giving away 1.2 million dollars of equipment and software licenses. I think that's phenomenal.   They're doing a great job. They're got the microphones on. They're doing the demos, they're doing a lot. They are jazzed and they're not mailing it in either. Doing a great job. I think that's authentic, it's genuine. I think that's going to be a great, you know, seed in the community to grow that up. Again, still they got a lot of work to do, but I don't think it's too far of a bridge for network guys to be cloud guys and to kind of find some middle ground. So I think it's the timing's perfect. And again, super impressed with the team. And I think this is a great path of Cisco to double down on and really invest more in because it's definitely got legs. And I'm a big fan of the camp thing, too. We talked about the camp create where they had competitive teams hacking and spending two days on. So, you know, love it, love the culture. But again, early, let's see where they go with it. I mean, if they can get the network ops go on, there's DevOps for networks concepts and bring it up and make it programmable. Couldn't ask for a better time with Kubernetes, all the coolness going on that microservices. Good time. Definitely a great time. Well, great to host with you. And we're here live at DevNet Create, wrapping up two days of wall-to-wall coverage of theCUBE, DevNet Create. Again, this is the cloud ecosystem for Cisco, separate from the core DevNet, which is the Cisco developer program for all of Cisco. A great opportunity for them. Of course theCUBE's here covering it. We're going to wrap this up. And thanks for watching theCUBE coverage here in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Thanks for watching.


Abstract colloids can exhibit behavior similar to those found in molecules, making them useful models for understanding molecular interactions. In this study, researchers investigated the attractive forces between two particles, one permanently charged and the other induced by a diffuse layer of polarized water molecules. They found that the measured force was consistent with predictions based on a molecular-debi interaction. This suggests that the dipolar nature of the particles is responsible for abrogation into chains. Further computer simulations revealed that the dipolar attraction and the van der Waals attraction both play important roles in chain formation. These results suggest that the DI attraction may be a universal phenomenon in soft matter, such as colloids, polymers, clays, and biological materials, which could lead to further research into these materials. This article was authored by Haiang M.I. Lee, Yong Wu Kim, in Minneco and others.


In today's society, as women, we have this, I can do it all mentality and with life being so fast-paced and us often having to step into that masculine role, especially within our work and our careers, we tend to lose touch with our feminine energy, our core energy. And what this does is it leads to stress, it leads to anxiety, it leads to all kinds of health issues and unhappiness. But in understanding the nature of our feminine energy and adopting practices that help its healing and its nourishment, we can experience a greater sense of wellbeing and fulfillment. So I want to talk about first the importance of feminine energy as well as its healing power and how you can integrate it into your daily life. So feminine energy is a super powerful force and it exists in every single human being regardless of our gender. However, the majority of women have a more cord feminine energy. It's a nurturing and creative and intuitive and receptive energy that allows us to connect with our inner wisdom and our higher selves. Feminine energy helps us to be more compassionate and empathetic and understanding towards others on top of allowing us to manifest everything that we want into our lives. When we can connect to that energy, to that core feminine, creative and intuitive energy, we can bring into our lives everything that we desire. You know, when we are disconnected from our feminine energy, we can experience disorientation or anger or sadness or, you know, it looks different on a lot of people. For me, it happened to come out in anger and in burnout, you know, and I think a lot of us women can experience that in today's like crazy fast paced world that let's be honest is built for men and is built for the male cycle of that 24 hours where ours is a 28 day cycle, right? And so we have stepped into this role of playing the masculine and in that we lose our feminine. This can also show up as, you know, mood swings, low libido, fatigue, depression, digestive issues, headaches, which I am no stranger to, but when you embrace your feminine energy, right, and you let it flow freely, you'll experience a much greater sense of joy and peace and happiness and vitality in your life. So how do we heal this feminine energy? What are some practices that we can realistically implement to harness and and bring ourselves back into our core feminine energy? The first one I want to talk about and I feel like it's thrown around a lot today, but it looks different for every single person. And that is self care, you know, making time every single day, whether it's five minutes or five hours to care for yourself is essential to bringing us back to our feminine and to flourish in the most authentic way that we possibly can.  There are just so many things that you could do when you feel disconnected to your feminine to kind of scoot you back into your feminine and you just have to figure out like what that is for you. Maybe for someone it's sitting in the mirror and practicing new makeup techniques, right? And for someone else it could be swimming, you know, in a lake or a pool or something that helps, that makes you feel connected to nature. You know, maybe you love to cook or to bake and getting into that flow in the kitchen is something that just makes you feel good and nervous. So you just have to kind of find what works for you and understand that what might work for me or someone else might not work for you and vice versa. You know, if you love to write and journal do that, but if that makes you feel stressed then don't. And if you want to learn more about journaling, I'll post this video right here where I can explain different techniques and ways that you can journal, that's something you're interested in doing. This second one is so important because in our society we are constantly told to get a hold of our emotions, okay? And stop being so emotional and all of these things, but to be in your feminine you have to embrace those emotions and that was something that I struggled with for a long time and when I started embracing those emotions instead of trying to run away from them or getting angry that I was having them, they were actually much easier to manage and to understand and to learn from. You know, emotions are a natural part of the human experience. It's why we came here. So why would we try to fight them, right? Why would we try to run away from them when it's something that we came here to experience? You know, as long as that we can acknowledge them and express them in healthy and productive ways, there's nothing wrong with being emotional, right? I've actually fallen in love with the fact that I'm an emotional being where I used to just detest it. I was like disgusted with myself because I was so emotional when now I love that about myself, but it took me years to get here. You know, allowing yourself to process and to feel your emotions, whether they're positive or negative and expressing them through creative sources, whether that's drawing or writing or singing or dancing or whatever it may be, is such a powerful tool. If you take anything from this video, please do not belittle yourself because you have emotions. Next, and I also think, I mean, these are all so important. I don't even know which one's the most important one, but number three is connecting with other women.   I mean, back in the day, that's what they did, right? Women were a community. The men were all out hunting and doing all their thing and the women all came together. They always say it takes a village, yeah, a village and a community of women.  I know that every time I come back from a weekend or time spent with a bunch of my girlfriends, I feel so refreshed and almost like a buzzy feeling, like just high energy and just feeling like, ah, it's just so good, right? And that's not because there's anything wrong with men. I am not a man-hater. I love men. I think there are so many wonderful men out there, but there is just something so different and powerful with being in that feminine energy and just being washed over by it. If you don't have a lot of female friends or not in your area, you can attend women's groups in your area or retreats or maybe even there's some Facebook groups out there or something like that where you can just connect with the women in your life and find new women to connect with that and you can just really flourish in. This next one is something that I feel like probably 90% of women struggle with and that is setting healthy boundaries. I don't mean just with other people, but with yourself as well and protecting your energy. Learn to say no to things that drain you and exhaust you and make you just feel ugh and learn to say yes to things that nourish you and make you feel good and uplifted and positive. Set boundaries around your time, around your energy, around emotion. For example, I've learned that there's a certain time in my own cycle where I don't want to do anything. I don't want to be around other people. Even if I love them to pieces, I just need my alone time and that was something that I ignored for so many years. You have to learn those things about yourself and acknowledge them and feed them and setting boundaries is feeding those parts of us. I mentioned earlier in this video that a big part of feminine energy is our intuition. If you think about it, women, birth, new human beings, we are the portal from the spiritual realm into this earthly realm. When we have this heightened sense of intuition and listening to our gut, it drives our life in a way that nothing else can. Our intuition and men have it too, but as a whole women's intuition is much stronger than men's. When we learn to listen to that intuition and not push it to the side, ignore it, or question it, it will just magnetize our feminine energy. I suggest to make some time each day, even if it's five or 10 minutes. That's some days, hours, other days, five minutes. Make that time to connect to your intuition and to your inner wisdom. Things that can help you with this is journaling, is meditation, is doing certain breathing exercises, right? And just bring yourself back into your body and feeling your body and tuning into its signals. What is your body telling you? You know the answer. If you want help with learning more about intuition, I'll stick this video right here for you to check out. It is such a, oh, it's so powerful. It's so powerful.  It's there for a reason. And the last practical step I want to talk about, again, is something that is talked about a lot, but I feel like a lot of us don't actually understand how it works and how to do it. And that is self-love. Self-love is not only self-care, you know, which we talked about in the first step, right? Self-love is so, it's so much deeper than that. It's self-compassion and acceptance and forgiveness. It's not being angry at yourself. When you feel that you've done something wrong or messed something up or you don't need to feel disappointed in yourself, sometimes the way I like to look at this is think of like your best friend or your mom or your sister or someone, another woman that you're very close with, right? And if they came to you and told you XYZ problem or something that they're angry at themselves about or upset with themselves about, how would you respond to them? Because it's so ironic that we're so much kinder and more compassionate with the people that we care about, way more than we are with ourselves. And if we can just turn around and aim that self-love and compassionate and forgiveness towards ourselves, we can greatly heal our feminine energy and our love for ourselves. You know, we have so much love to give everyone else, okay?  Everyone else is going to be just fine, okay? Love yourself, respect yourself, guide yourself, be your own best friend. I would really love to hear which one of these steps you're going to implement first and, you know, what you enjoyed about this video because I'm so passionate about feminine energy and healing it because I lost it for so long and I know so many women out there can relate to that. So if you found value in this video, please don't forget to like and subscribe so we can hang out again next week. I love you guys so, so, so much and don't forget, be limitlessly yourself.


Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis, Elliot Lewis. Two of the most distinguished names in radio. A varying each week in their own theater. Starring in a repertory of transcribed stories of their own and your choosing. Radios for most players and radios for most plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elliot Lewis. May I present my wife, Kathy? Good evening. Before we tell you about tonight's play, Elliot and I want to thank all of you for the lovely letters you've written to us. All of the letters. The complimentary ones and the critical ones. We do appreciate your taking the time to write and we thank you. And now for tonight. There are certain conditions under which it becomes necessary to call the police. Some people abuse the privilege and call Wolf constantly and on any pretext. And some people don't want any trouble. And in trying to prevent there being any trouble, they hesitate making a positive action like calling the police. And that very briefly is what is going to happen tonight. The story is called Eddie. And it was written by E. Jack Newman.  In the car, a young man smoking a cigarette. As the clock on the dashboard of the car passes nine, the door to the cafeteria opens and a young lady walks out into the street. She looks around for a minute and then starts to walk towards the bus station at the corner. Hey Melva, over here. What? Here Melva, over here. Hiya. Do I know you? No. Sure you do Melva, my name's Eddie.   What's wrong? Think I'm crazy or something? I don't even know you. Well I just told you my name's Eddie. Come on.  I'm still sitting here alone. Well. I'm harmless. Nothing to be afraid of at all. Now then, where to Melva? Home. H-O-M-E home. Get it? Home it is. It's on 6th Street, 500 block. Turn left to the next corner then straight ahead. Okay. You're the boss. 521 6th Street. Turn right. Yeah, okay. Is there a, anything, any little thing I can say or do that'll change your mind Melva? Change my mind about what? About taking you home. It's a swell night and a couple of friends of mine. Oh Lord. You do this all the time? Do what? What do you mean? Look, I've seen you in the cafeteria three or four times this week. Every time you came by my check stand, you had some remark to make. You found out my name. I don't know how. And now you waited for me to get off work tonight. You got me in your car and you think the whole thing settled. Let me tell you what you think is going to happen isn't going to happen at all. Not on your life. Oh, sir. Oh no, you got it all wrong. Don't think for one minute that I'd be sitting here in this car with you for any other reason than that I, I had a hard day and I can use a lift home. Well, I guess you got me squared away, huh? I still want to take you out. Where we go? What is it with you anyhow? Well, it's just that I got a surprise for you Melva.  You may think you have, but you haven't. Not on your life. Honest. Oh no. No, sir. No, no, seriously. Today I told a couple of people that you were my girl. I told them you and me got along just fine and that we'd meet them later on this evening and have some fun. What do you think of that? I think you're crazy. What do you think of that? Well, I don't know you from that signboard over there and you don't know me. How do you know I'm not married? No rings. Are you? Let me see your hands. Keep driving. Melva. I found out your name by taking a table right near the railing and listening for that boss of yours when he talked to you. If I made cracks at you, I was only trying to get you to notice me.   That's the way it goes. I even rented this car and put on my best suit. What's a guy supposed to do when he sees a girl he'd like to meet and know? What's he gonna do? Pass her up because nobody's around to introduce her? You don't look like the kind who ever passed anybody out. I wanted to know you Melva. I went at it the only way I could think of. Now that's the whole story. You're a pretty good talker Eddie. I try to be. I'm gonna tell you something. Yeah? I could probably like you. You look nice enough. You seem to get along okay. But I wouldn't let myself like you because I see something else. What's that? I don't think you're any good. I just don't think you're any good at all.  I suppose I have. I always meant it when I said it. Slow down. Uh. Bronwyn right over there. Oh yeah, sure. Good night. Thanks for the ride. Oh wait Melva. For what? I want to talk to you. You certainly aren't going to try. No listen. Listen. I feel in your direction. I wanted to see you tonight and have you meet my friends because I've been in this town four weeks now and I don't know one girl. I'd like to know you. If you won't go out with me tonight that's okay. Maybe you'll go out with me some other night. That's up to you you know. Right now I'd.  Are you kidding? Thanks for the lift. Good night. Darn. Here for you. I don't want your flowers. What's the matter with you? I've said goodbye to you once tonight. Oh wait a minute Melva. It's eleven o'clock. I've got a lot of things to do tomorrow. Now you go. Oh Melva. Wait a minute. What? What for heaven's sakes do you want? Just to see you. Well take a look. That's all you get. Good night. You were sore when you left me tonight weren't you? Can't you get it through your head? It doesn't make any difference. No difference at all. Now will you please probably the manager complaining about the noise. Gosh I didn't mean to make any noise. Yes Mrs. Robin. Yes of course and I'm terribly sorry. That was the manager and she's had a couple of complaints already. Now will you get out of here and let me get some sleep.  Well I don't want to meet them without you. After all I told them about you and everything.  What do you want the flowers? Yeah thanks they're they're very nice setting up. Good night. I don't want to get thrown out of here on account of you. Goodbye. Can I see you tomorrow? We have nothing in common. You and I there's nothing for us to talk about or do together. We just aren't it. Why don't you find another girl somewhere? I want you. Not so loud. I want you Melva. Come here. Yeah. Now I'm going to tell you once and for all. No. I should never have let you drive me home tonight but I was so tired. I didn't like the idea of standing up on a bus all the way here. That's all there was to it.  Why don't you go find a bar somewhere? Have yourself a drink and look things over. You'll find something and then you can meet your friends. This is a pretty nice apartment Melva. And I don't want you in it. Go home. Now good night. I don't suppose you have a bottle of beer or something around. I don't suppose I have. Go on now. I'm getting angry now. I haven't done anything. You've made a pest of yourself already. You've just. There's the man. Yes Mrs. Robbins. Yes he's leaving right now. I know the rules. Good night. Now you get out of here just as fast as you can. You really mean it. I really mean it.  How about tomorrow. No no not tomorrow or the next day or the day after that. Now listen I'll call the police if you don't leave right now. I'll leave Melva leave don't worry.  Well then go. When I get good and ready. That's what I'll go. I can't like it here. See about that. I want the police. They'll make an awful ruckus around here. You just wait. Gladstone 3962. Yes. You just wait. You don't want to do that. Don't I oh don't I. Manage is going to be kind of sore no matter who's right or who's wrong. Just wait. Now listen this is your last chance.  Okay Melva I'll go. Hello. I'm sorry to bother you. No no there's nothing wrong. There's the door. Yeah. Melva what. Can't we be friends. No. I tell you I just left her. She said she had to change clothes is all. Didn't want to go out in the dress shoes working. Why did you wait there while she cheered. Well she always takes so long I thought I'd drop in here and meet you guys have a beer. Then you're going all the way back out to her place and take her up and bring her back here. What isn't so far it's just over at five twenty one sixth street five twenty one. Yeah. So. You said you had it all fixed with Melva you had a date with her and she was going to get a couple of friends for me in. Now it's almost twelve o'clock midnight you show up and no dates for us but without her to. You would give us a line about her ready. What I want to do that why I don't know that's what I'm trying to figure out Tony and I've been waiting here for an hour didn't she know she was going out with you tonight of course she knew.  Yeah she's had plenty of time.  For Tony's bear in mind you can pop for your own come on Tony. You want another buddy what. Oh yeah sure Eddie Myers.  You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage tonight's play Eddie you won't want to be anywhere else but where you are now later this evening when CBS radio presents the Bing Crosby show with Bing special guests Dinah Shore and Fidlan Jovenuti it's Bing and Dinah in solos and duets that will capture your heart tonight at the stars address. I hear in the lobby I can only see a cigarette ready to go no I'm not ready to go. I've been trying to get ready to go to bed for the last hour I was going to phone the police after you phone but I decided to wait for you down here instead.  Now you just turn right around to get on out of here and leave me alone I don't want you phoning or coming by or anything else and if I see you in the cafeteria again I'll complain to Mr Ross and he'll have you taken care of. You sure make it hard for a guy. I want you to go. Don't touch me don't put your hands on who's out there in the hole. Me Mrs Robbins. Melva everything all right yes everything's fine. It's past twelve Melva. I know Mrs Robbins. You've already disturbed some of the people in the building I'm sorry friend left yet. He's just leaving Mrs Robbins I'm not sure everything's all right. Everything's fine. I'm a friend of hers who are you. I'm the manager here are you the one who's been causing all of the trouble for trouble is leaving right now Mrs Robbins I'm caused any trouble I came to see Melva is there a law against that allow visitors in any of the apartments after ten o'clock at night didn't you see the sign what sign it's right there. People been drinking not a drop of you.  I didn't ask him to come and see me Mrs Robbins he just came uninvited.  Well that's where she lived so we went out had a beer decided to come over here well she hasn't got any friends for you now not this late late only a quarter one shake good evening well you're out of luck looks like you're out of luck to why oh don't live in it this early you to have a fight we never fight we get along fine how long you say you know and already ever since I've been in town how'd you meet her just way I told you she works at the cafeteria and I walked up to her told him my name said I'd like to take her out we've been going steady ever since just like that yeah I wish I had your touch with the women that he gave me to what's matter but you believe me just pretty early to be leaving a girl you're going steady with who says I'm leaving I say you leave well you're wrong I'm not that so I just came down to get something out of the car like what some keys I left some keys in the car they must be in here somewhere look in the ignition this is my house key I guess I didn't leave him here at that well I got to get back upstairs fellas I'll I'll see you later huh yeah sure I'm sorry about your dates make it some other time huh oh sure by the way what was my girl's name Gloria yours was Betty Betty what I don't know her last name well I'll see fellas yeah if you try to sneak back here or not you turn around and get out of here go on get out shut up you shut up you old woman you shut up and you go back to bed let me in Melva you stupid undo this chain let me in I will listen my two friends are downstairs the ones I told all about you they don't think you know me that we go together they're right we don't go together we never did we never will come on open this crazy but that's what's the matter with you you're just crazy I'm gonna phone the police for sure this time open it come on come on why didn't you go out with me all I wanted you to do is go out with me and have a couple of laughs it wouldn't hurt you you got out with a lot of men don't come near me you work from one to nine every day sitting there on a stool behind a cash register six days a week a guy comes along and offers to take you to a movie or dancing or something like that and right away get healthy about it's more important for you to hang around here in this apartment and remember how good you were getting rid of them than it is to put on a dress and go out and have some fun get out of here they would have seen you with me and then everything would have been all right I tried to be nice to you to do things for you but no you had to be so smart no you stupid little dame why wouldn't you go out with me why when you go out with me why wouldn't you why that's all I asked you to do is go out with me why wouldn't you uh police department hello Sergeant who Sergeant my name is Eddie Myers yeah we listen to me a minute and then I'll tell you you know listen to me uh my name is Eddie Myers and I came here a month ago from Omaha I got job in a parking lot making 32 bucks a week I didn't know anybody except the guys I worked with and I told him I had a girl here I I had one in mind and I tried to get her to go out with me tonight but she wouldn't do it uh 521 6th Street apartment 22 listen though I bought a new suit and I rented a car I did everything to show her that I was a nice guy but but she wouldn't she wouldn't go out with me it's her place no mine doesn't matter Sergeant I kill her well I had to kill her no she wouldn't be my girl Sergeant Sergeant would you listen every guy has to have a girl don't you think well that's all I wanted I just want to have a girl I just want me to have a girl Eddie Starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis in a moment Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will tell you about next week's play tomorrow night CBS Radio's documentary production staff goes into action to bring you over most of these same stations an exciting challenging view of what's likely to happen if any or all our major cities in the United States came under atomic attack how effective is our present military defense network could we today if necessary successfully handle the frightful aftermath of atomic attack the answers to these and many other pressing questions should be clear tomorrow night when CBS Radio presents the special program bomb target USA merited by Arthur Godfrey now once again Kathy and Elliott Lewis that was the story of Eddie the author E Jack Newman was able to make the normal terrifying our thanks also this evening to the gentlemen who thought Eddie was getting a date for them Clayton Post and Jerry Housner and to Peggy Weber landlady at Melvin's apartment house away from all of this next week when we present a new comedy by Morton Fine and David Friedkin called dig the thief it's about a very old bunco trick and an amusing way of breaking it and we're going out west to prove our point until next week thank you for listening and good night good night music for tonight's story was composed by Fred Steiner and conducted by Ludd Glushkin the Kathy and Elliott theme is by Ray Noble and the program is transcribed and directed by Mr. Lewis George Wall speaking America's 45 million radio families listen most to the CBS radio network


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's Case Breaks dot com. 2019-20, Pinini and Noir basketball, 2 box, half-case break, random team number 6 just sold out. Again, 30 total spots, everybody gets a random team, the NBA, this is a 2 box break. So good luck. So customers that don't have a little couple dash, backslash, sell out 18 or 19, means you bought it straight up, so appreciate it. And congratulations to the customers that won these spots in sell out pack 18 or 19. So there you go, that's everybody in. Let's roll the dice, 3 out of 6, 9 times, just randomize the customer names and the teams. 9 times, good luck, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Greg, down to Greg, 9 times, teams down, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, down the Darren O'Garnes. Greg E with the Bucks, Nancy with the Raptors, Jeremy with the Kings, Matthew with the Mavericks, Brian with the Jazz and Hornets, Jeremy with the Sons, Kevin with the Hawkes, Matthew with the Thunder, Kevin Mendoza with the Clippers. Ryan with the Blazers, Matthew with the Grizzlies, Alan LaS olvél des Celtics. Ryan with the Bulls, Jeremy with the T Wolves, Bryan with the Knicks, Matthew with the Applause. with the wars and Nancy with the pelicans. Good luck. Brian with the cows. Teeja you have the Lakers. Andrew with the Pacers. Jeremy with the Nets. As well as the Magic. Ryan with the Spurs. David with the Heat. Alan you have the Wizards. Zach with the Rockets. Kevin with the 76ers and Greg McKinnon with the Denver Nuggets. So quick trade window. If anybody wants to trade if not close it, we'll print it and we'll rip. Alright, let it guys. No one's gonna want to trade. Oh Zach you want to try to trade the Rockets? I don't know if anybody's gonna want to trade, but I don't think anybody wants a Zach. I actually already printed this out. Alright, let's do it guys. Good luck. Never know. James Harden maybe comes out. Alright then I also put RT6 on these so you guys know it's from the same case. Sorry Brian, I already closed it. Oh, wow. We're getting a big one. I'm gonna leave that one last too. That's a cool one right there. Alright. Marvin Bagley, 41 out of 99 for the Sacramento Kings. We got Kevin Love to 99. Cavaliers, Brian. Malcolm Brogdon to 65. Dish Knights. Elegant decor. Jackson Hayes for the Pelicans, runnin' Nancy. And a nice three-color patch, 16 out of 25. Sean Marion for Dallas. Alright, we got Coutino Mowbly, 60 out of 99. Clippers, Kevin Mendoza for the Clippers. We got for the Lakers, Javel McGee, 95 out of 99. Lakers, TJ.  You still watching? Carson Edwards, 99 out of 99. Boston Celtics going to Allen.  Fire all around okay. I'm just gonna put a little backer here. Show this one first. We got Raining Knights, Stephen Curry autographed, 34 out of 49.  Yeah, look at that one over there. One off the top? Yeah. They already, oh wow. They already see it? No, they haven't seen it. I'm just making sure TJ, if you're still here.  Oh my god. Lebron James, Sneaker Spotlight. You can't get his autograph anyway, so you want this one anyway. That is 50 out of 99. Oh, beautiful. That is super nice. There you go. This has been a great case.  Right? And you want this in a sell-up pack. Remember that. Just remember that. Sell-up pack winner. Lebron James, is that $4,000 on eBay? That's crazy. Alright TJ, I get half of it okay. I keep half the shoe. So you get half Sneaker Spotlight. I'm just joking. Congratulations man. What number is this? 50. Kind of halfway. Maybe in Vegas. Alright. Let's do it. I've got Trey Young. 6 out of 10. That curry is really good too, and that's for Kevin, who bought that spot straight up. Nikolaj Wusevik, Alana Magic, Buddy Heel to 99. Brazdaikis. Let's see. It's Tyler Hero. And we got a redemption. Rookie Patch autographs color. I don't know what color is. What color is that? What number? It's Jordan Poole though. Rookie Patch autographs color. Jordan Poole for the Golden State Warzone. Nice break for you Kevin. Wow, this case has had like four Sneaker Spotlights. That's crazy. Michael Cooper to 99 for the Lakers. The Lakers just keep on getting some hits. We have another Sneaker Spotlight coming up. It's time to autograph. And it is for the Miami Heat. Chris Bosch. I'm not sweating so much my eye. I have irritated eye. So I'm just kind of trying to get over my shirt. Who has the heat? David does. Wow. What a break for the Lakers. How about an Anthony Davis to go along with the rest of your Laker hits? There you go. I know a little cherry on top.  I mean I know there was no Zion, but we did have a John Moran, Anthony Davis, Sneaker Spotlight, Chris Bosch, Cooper, Jordan Poole, Steph Curry, Carson Edwards. I mean you even have a Javelin McGee. Man, Javelin McGee. And of course Sneaker Spotlight, LeBron James. Very nice man. There you go. Appreciate it guys. There's no more basketball, two balls, half case break. Round scene number six.