So, hey there and welcome. Really glad to have you joining us today and I'm really glad to have with us our guest Jordana Merkin joining us from Voice for Good Marketing where she serves as the CEO and founder. She's here to share a very valuable topic and insight with us around how to connect to your people and I want to say to your peeps mainly for the whole like Easter reference of that very sugary candy but all about non-profit messaging so she brings some insight to the conversation for sure. We also want to say thank you and express immense gratitude to these sponsors. So shout out to Bloomerang American Non-profit Academy, Non-profit Thought Leader, Fundraising Academy at National University, 180 Management Group, Your Part-Time Controller, Staffing Boutique, JMT Consulting, Non-profit Nerd and Non-profit Tech Talk. Again, thank you to these companies that allowed us so many amazing opportunities just like the one we are about to have now with Jordana. So again, welcome to the show. Thrilled to have you again for everyone watching and listening. Jordana Merkin has joined us CEO and founder Voice for Good Marketing. Welcome to the show. Glad to have you. Thank you so much. Thank you both for having me. It's great to be here. Start us off by telling a little bit about yourself and a little bit about what Voice for Good Marketing does in particular in the non-profit community. Yeah, absolutely. So I have been working in and around non-profits my entire career. I was, to go way back, I was an English major and creative writing and sociology minors in college and really what attracted me to all of those areas of study was making mass communication personal and how to really use words to drive people to action. And so I started off in, I live in New Jersey now. I was in college in New York City and I started off in an advertising direction and I did a bunch of internships at for-profit companies and I really enjoyed using my brain in that way but I quickly learned that I needed to be marketing a mission. So for my first job out of college I have been in marketing communications roles at various non-profits. I was in-house at a few different organizations for about a decade and for the last four years I have been running my consulting business. I do a bit of fractional marketing communications support through to my roots but the core of my work really is in messaging guides and really helping organizations get clear on what they do, who they do it for and how to communicate it because as I always say clarity creates connection. So really laying that foundation for all the wonderful awareness raising and fundraising that is made possible when people can answer those questions clearly. You know I love what you said. I feel like we could end the show right now and you have spoken to me in a way because I find non-profit organizations and not so much in the for-profit world but non-profit organizations will like start and redo their messaging over and over and over and they haven't backed up created clarity and then worked it you know like as you say you know work the plan it always seems like there's this whole new pressure to start over and start new and and we get sidetracked by the shiny thing right and we become internally fatigued and so we feel like we've got to you know get something brand new and it's just such a spiral down as opposed to spiraling up so I'm really excited to have you talk to us about this and so one of the things you said that's so interesting is clear messaging, clear messaging and then it packs a punch. What does clear messaging mean to you and what should it mean to us? Yeah so it's a great question. I love that graphic. So clear messaging really is as I said it's what you do, who you're for and how you communicate it. So what you do to your point Julia that you know resetting the messaging over and over and over again I find that comes up because you know people will say well we do so many things and I'll say well you have so many programs and that's wonderful and that's you know that's great but you you should at least have one mission right so let's think about how to communicate that mission. I you know I usually work on when I'm working on a messaging guide with the organization we start with that with the big picture story as I call it. So it's where your mission meets your impact meets the emotional core of your work right because that's how you're going to really connect with people in a clear way. So it really is like that that zooming out to that common denominator right so yes you may have many programs but you don't need to reinvent the wheel with your messaging every time you talk about one of them you should not reinvent the wheel with your messaging every time you talk about one of them and so when you when someone says what do you do it's really an opportunity to answer with your why so it's you know it's not just the oh we have x y and z programs it's but this is really at the core of our work and when you can answer that clearly you know the the the punch that it packs is that you know it makes you memorable and it signals to your people right that's the next piece is who you're for so that's both who you serve and who your supporters are and sometimes those are the same people and sometimes they're different people but in all cases it's really signaling to those people that you are for them so um I often like to quote Seth Godin and saying people like us do things like this um and all of your messaging should really be signaling to who is people like us and you know who are the people who support volunteer participate however you want to fill that in um but really having that clear messaging is the foundation to all of the communications that you'll have around that I love what you just said and I'm fascinated by this Jared I have one quick question and then I'll I'll let you jump in how often should we be doing this taking this exercise and and realizing what our clear messaging is is this like you know you you put that flag in the sand and then you just die by it or what does that look like when we get antsy and feel like we need to change that message that clear message yeah so it's a great question that big picture story should be a fairly evergreen but that you know evergreen means forever and I don't know that you know forever is a long time right so it's not the kind of thing we want to be changing too often we do we should be referencing it daily right so we do always want to make sure that it resonates and that it's still accurate and that things have not shifted um but really we want to make sure that all of the things we're saying in our day-to-day reflect back on that big picture message so unless your mission is changing or you know you're going in a different direction it really should be something that something that lasts for a long time but not in a sitting on the shelf getting dusty kind of way in a actively being referenced every day kind of way well I was going to throw a curve ball in here because I have this aha moment Julia when you were talking about you know when you see nonprofits really changing their messaging might there be a correlation in how often we change the messaging with how often the person in that position changes because we talk about the you know the workforce and the turnover and I'm really curious Jordana if you see this with the clients if it's like okay here's the big message but when we have a new development director we have a new marketing person come in they put their own twist and stamp on it and so it does look on the outside as if the message has been completely rewritten I'm really curious by that that is a great observation yeah it's a great question yeah so I think and thank you for that because it's an important point that the messaging guide um is an internal document right and it's important to have it in writing and it's important to get everyone on the same page so when someone new comes in you know it's not to say that they can't bring something new to the table but they really shouldn't be again unless there is an organizational shift or you know a new strategic plan that goes in a completely different direction the new person should not be completely changing the personality and voice and values of the organization that should stay consistent and so having this in writing um is how you get clear internally both with current internal people that staff and board which also are not always on the same page but then new people right so day one of your new job read this over so you can get a sense of what we do and how we talk about it okay so I'm gonna step back and have you spend a little bit more time on that messaging guide because I have only seen a handful in the trajectory of my career sadly a handful that were well done and I would love for you to address a couple things of what that you know some people might refer to it as a style guide but if you could talk briefly about what that looks like because to me that's that's the foundational point number one you get that into your point you hand that over and you're like okay everybody this is how we're rowing right yeah what what are some of the main elements of that yeah absolutely so it pulls together your mission your vision and your values to start a lot of a lot of organizations have that publicly on their website but even that is not always consistent with like what's let's say is on the homepage of the website you know you click through to that page and suddenly it feels different and said it so really pulling it all together in one place so mission vision values values especially because that should really be informing all of your communications that's how you're going to signal to your people that they're your people because you have that values alignment so that's crucial also what makes you different so you know if you are many organizations have similar missions to other organizations and so what makes you you and that is yes that has to do with the details of your programs but also that's again in your values that's your personality that's your voice and tone and style which also is a part of the guide um if someone were to sit down and have you know a cup of coffee with your organization not your ed not your development director but the organization as a whole what feelings would they be left with when they walked away how would that sound how would you know what what emotional pieces you know would go into that and so all of that is part of it um so that different people can write for the organization speak on behalf of the organization put out content on behalf of the organization um in a cohesive way because that's going to be um you know much more clearly and loudly amplified and um you know so it's also it's the problem you solve as well you're positioning within so even if you're addressing something maybe again if your mission is similar to someone else then what is the problem that you are setting out to solve um I see this often on non-profit websites in particular but really in communications in general where they'll set out with well here's the here's our solution here's what we do um and really that's only half an answer and that's not opening the door to educate your people and to ask them to partner with you on solving it if it's just the solution then you don't need me right you've got it so educating me on the problem first and then the reason why the solution needs to happen is also a really important piece amazing oh well and I was hoping that would be your answer too it's like we have to maintain continuity and to the the next talking point that's what strengthens the team and so regardless the message stays the same and someone can come in and kind of you know tailor it to their style or what that looks like but maintaining brand talk to us about how and I feel like you did a little bit already but really how this does strengthen the team uh you mentioned the board the staff right like volunteers there's so many ways to do this but what are you seeing yeah so I work primarily with smaller organizations um and but I have worked you know over the years with organizations of all sizes and the constant whether you're a team of three thirty or three hundred is unfortunately we work in silos right we all have too much on our plates and we're focused on our one area and um or in our many areas right as titles tend to build up in the nonprofit sector but we're focused on our pieces pieces of the puzzle um and those silos get in our way of communicating effectively because when we have an inconsistent message that's a weaker message it's not memorable it's confusing people can't support what they don't understand and so that again that to go back to you know if clarity creates connection then when that's not clear then you're not connecting internally and therefore you can't amplify that externally so having again this message and guide in place internally is you know it's a reminder and reinforcement of your common purpose of your people like us work for organizations like this right that starts from within um so of that again the common values um and that's also how you attract the right staff as well right when you're putting out consistent messaging you're not only going to attract you know the right donors volunteers however you're looking for but also the right staff because then they will understand very clearly what you're about it's also a great reminder on the hard days and we all have the hard days that you know this is why we're here um so it's just it's important for morale as well as you know growth externally yeah I love that I hadn't thought of it that way but you are right because sometimes we have to get out of whatever is boiling inside of us for that moment and then extricate ourselves from you know this small part of the bigger picture and I love that I love that idea especially when you're in crisis and so many of our nonprofits across you know our lands are crisis oriented right they deal with the hard things right so this is kind of part of their their daily work um you know Jared it's a really interesting thing because it almost makes me think about how um talking about like the strategic planning and and those conversations that we've had actually even this week how you can pull those those lines through and it really helps guide you or maybe the word is reset you know resetting well what when it comes to the engaging the supporters growing that audience I love the word amplify I I too was a mass communication major and when you uh said earlier like I want to bring mass communications into this personalized space and and I didn't say it nearly as eloquently as you did but it's like well how do you personalize met something in the masses right like when it comes to something that's so broad but that clear messaging does truly engage supporters and grow audiences and I guarantee you're going to tell us a little bit too about through that personalization that clear messaging what are you what are you seeing works well for our supporters and our audience yeah so I would say the golden rule of communication is show me you know me um I think there are a few quotes that can be attributed to truly everyone ever but I think if there ever was one that's it right everyone wants to be seen wants to be you know felt like they're understood and so when you're writing a communication um or filming a you know any kind of video or something written or you know whatever it is you want to keep your audience or audiences in mind and so and really that show me you know me is the way to do that so again thinking about who they are and who they are in relation to your organization so again to go back to the values that are really at the core of all of this so again that center of the Venn diagram between their values and your values as an organization should be a pretty large center because those are your people it's not worth convincing people who don't share those values to become supporters right you want to invest in those people who are already aligned which is not to say that you shouldn't educate of course we need to educate our people and that goes back to that problem solution framework but the the alignment should be there and you know we live in isolating times we live in divisive times it's an election year I know there's a lot of concern especially in the nonprofit world about cutting through that noise but I think again if we can lean into who we are as an organization to make our personality shine through to to really put our values out there to make it clear what we're about and what we're not about because I always you know pause before I say this because I know sometimes it's hard to hear but your organization isn't for everyone and when you try to make it for everyone that's when you get unclear messaging that's when you're not memorable that's when you sound like everybody else so to engage your current people and I I put in current in quotes usually because your current people are never you know they're maybe recent people but you can't count on them as always being your people right we need to develop that relationship over time we need to build upon it and so to really engage those groups of people that are already warmed up to your organization as well as attracting new people that really takes clear messaging and that really takes putting out there what you're about and again who you're for and even if it's multiple audiences again it's that big picture story that common denominator at those that emotional pull the values you share the personality that you're putting out there that is going to make people know people like us support organizations like this wow you know you mentioned something the divisive times and I'm glad you did Julie and I over the last four years together have been speaking about the pandemic's plural right like not just COVID like so many different issues within our community and I love that you said you're not for everyone right like your organization your mission your values aren't in alignment with everyone and I do agree that's too often we are fearful to really put out what we stand for how we make decisions what we choose to do because of the fear of losing a donor losing a supporter group losing you know that next big check whatever that might be do you have any tips as we move into our final concept today when it comes to actions to achieve this clear messaging like what can we do it for everyone listening today like what can we do what should I love this image to like what needs to be top of our post-it note so yeah so I'll go back to the big picture story and just get a little bit more specific on how to achieve it so as I said the big picture story is mission meets impact meets values it's the emotional core of what you do so the way that I the exercise I do to achieve that with an organization is we start with that question of what do you do and we think about you know how that is answered at its most basic level and then we peel back the layers of that onion by saying why is that important at least three times to really drill down to why it matters because it's not just that you feed hungry people it's that you feed hungry people because they are worthy of being fed and we believe that everyone should have basic you know they have their basic needs met that's a much more emotionally driven values driven version of what do you do then we feed hungry people um so to have that to have that as your baseline common denominator right so then you know and I the question I get a lot is well we have so many different audience groups how do we speak to all of them and you know that's and it depends kind of a question right it depends on the communication and who's receiving it and of course that show me you know me piece you always need to keep the audience in mind but that's why the big picture story is so important because every communication should be reflecting that big picture story and yeah that you'll tweak the content and you'll tweak that you know what how it looks depending on who's receiving it but the big picture story should resonate will resonate with all of your people if it doesn't resonate then you're not they're not your people um you know just to I always it's this perhaps trait example but if you run a dog rescue then like don't waste your time on the cat people because they're not your people and you know you're not going to convince them to become dog people like just you know use the language use the words use the values that are true to dog people I love that because I agree with Jared I think that we are so fearful of was that we put that front and center as opposed to being curious and embracing moving forward right we're so we're so frightened by that and the need for everyone to love us and you know feel like you know we don't have any um actions and you know the great Terry Axelrod taught me the the phrase you know bless and release and the concept meaning that you know I want to share with you what we do this is our work and if it isn't a fit then great bless and release them let them go on as you said to the cat rescue right let them still be a part of the philanthropic environment it's just not our our specific environment right but it still builds community it still builds solutions for our you know our existence so it's an interesting thing but man it's hard for organizations to embrace that for some weird reason it is hard I think you know you want to you want to speak to you what if what the what ifs come in right what if there's this other group of people who would support us but I think the clearer you can get the more you'll find that your supporter base grows because if you're speaking to everyone you're speaking to no one so just really being clear on who your people are and who you're looking to attract um but just to go back to your question about the you know the election year that I brought up I also would say that it's I would you know put your values out there as they relate to your mission I don't think organizations have to put out a statement on everything um especially as you know we get closer to November and more issues come up um if something is relevant to you um then I think that's when you can you know harness that if that's you know the public conversation is happening Joan Gary just had a great video on LinkedIn about that if the public conversation is happening around your issue then talk about your issue um but again be clear about your big picture story and if something doesn't align with your big picture story then don't waste your time on it you don't need to weigh in on everything yeah yeah I appreciate that and I think you know too often at maybe as individuals we're all worried about rocking the boat now on the flip side there's some people that want to rock the boat like that's what they live for you know they want to get those um those bantering comments on social media and whatnot so yeah there's a lot out there well for anyone Jordana who would like to maybe work with you or have a consultation um let's bring that slide up again Julia because I want everyone to know how they can connect with Jordana learn more information really zoom out to zoom in and I also want to honor your logo I love that megaphone like it didn't go yeah it it wasn't missed on me I see it in that v in the voice for those of you listening it the voice um is using a megaphone as the v and it's it's really powerful to me but Jordana Merkins and founder voice for good marketing check out her website I guarantee you it's an amazing one it is voice for good marketing dot com uh do you offer consultations what what does this look like for anyone interested to learn more I do yeah um you can set one up through my website um I'm happy to have a conversation um I also have some freebies on my website if you want to kind of get started with your own prompts for messaging that's that's on there as well and I'm happy to connect to linkedin great well thank you because we have had somebody that has written in to ask about that and as Jared said voice for good marketing dot com it's a great website and you can really um learn more about Jordana's work and and how the process can work maybe for your nonprofit because it is Jordana to me one of those things that we get so caught up in our work that we forget to step back and actually you know really reflect on what our work is and and I love that you use that we're doing I think that's a powerful powerful concept and people like us I think that's a cool way to look at this like people like us are invested in working towards this issue and I think if you gosh if you can just plant that seed in a team's mind um that's a super powerful thing we can't be all things to all people it's kind of like marketing rule 101 but for some reason um we we lose sight of that so this has been great you've been as we say speaking my lingody I love it thank you so thank you it's been wonderful to have this conversation oh my gosh it's been really really fun well we want to say thank you um and a huge shout out of gratitude to our sponsors they include Bloomerang American nonprofit academy nonprofit thought leader thought leader staffing boutique your part-time controller 180 management group fundraising academy jmt consulting the nonprofit nerd herself and nonprofit tech talk these are the folks that join us day in and day out so we can deliver really interesting conversations with our guests from all over the world Jordana came to us today from the east coast where it's super cold and so if you joined us earlier in the green room chatter we were talking about weather and and and you know the differences between parts of our country so really check us back out and we will see you again as we end every episode we leave with this message and it's such an interesting thing because jart and i say this all the time it means different things upon different days and it goes like this to stay well so you can do well thank you so much ladies


Hello, and welcome to the Eric Camadeca Show, presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, joined by Stevenson Trackenfield, head coach, Eric Camadeca. Coach, the weather's kind of led up a little bit for you this weekend, and this past weekend you were able to go over to the Hopkins Laila Imitational and just kind of talk about some of the top performances that you've had, you know, not only that week, but obviously the first couple of weeks of the outdoor season. Yeah, Kelly Winklebauer was able to open up this weekend on Friday and came out really, really well. This is our first race since pretty much outdoor ECAC's last year and going out there and running 455. It was just really, really exciting for her. Allie Cray had a great job in the 800, running a school record and almost close to a PR as well. Yeah, yeah. And then the other men's side, you know, some performances as well, like you mentioned Maurice Johnson and some of the other ones as well. Yeah, Maurice is kind of picking up where he did from the indoor season. A couple of weeks go through the shot for a school record. He opened up this weekend in a hammer getting a mark and getting close to the school record and that as well. So, you know, he's just starting to learn to college implements, you know. He's done a great job in high school, obviously was talented and now picking up with the higher weights and just new implements is doing a good job. Yeah, and then overall as a team, you know, you're able to compile enough points on Friday to finish second overall on the men's side. You know, again, I think that speaks to some of the depth that you have in the program right now. Yeah, you know, that was something that I was looking at the results and saw, I didn't even know they scored the meet to be honest. And then when I saw we finished second, because again, it's just one of those things that we don't really go out there looking to do at this time of the year. It's all about getting those performances. Right. But, you know, when you're a team that can go out there and finish second without even thinking about it, you know, this showed a depth of the program and more as a team on how we can compete against the rest of the competition.  You know, you think we'll be able to train a little bit more consistently now to kind of build up, you know, the over these last few weeks and hopefully get that momentum going.  It's supposed to get three straight days of 70 degree weather here at the end of the weekend. So we're hoping to take advantage of, you know, counting back on the trainings a bit and take advantage of the warm weather and hopefully, you know, we'll get those marks that we've been waiting for. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All right, coach. Well, you know, we wish you the best of luck and we'll chat next week. Great, thank you. All right, for Eric Camineca, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Eric Camineca Show.


A new car and 650,000 narrow have been presented to a 400 level medical student from Oshun State, Victor Adeyamo, who emerged grand winner of the second edition of Oshun Independence Day essay competition and prize presentation. 50 participants took part in the competition, with 25 from various secondary schools in the state, and 25 Oshun indices from different tertiary institutions across the country. The competition was held in the Shugbo or the instance of the state ministry of original integration and special duties as part of activities to mark Niger's independence day. The grand winner of the tertiary institution's category, Victor Adeyamo, got a car and 650,000 narrow, while the first runner-up got 300,000 narrow, a laptop and a printer. This competition is fair and I like that the judge and the assessment was done right. So I'd like to say to everyone out there that keep pushing, I have participated in a lot of competition, I have lost many, but then to God's glory, I want to do this, so try, don't stop trying, it can be an opportunity. And I'm so delighted and the message I'm passing across even to students like me is that hard working actually pays, it's really pays, it's good to be hard working and not even working hard alone, working effectively, because you can be working hard and at the end you won't get any tangible results, it's good to be hard, to be working, to work effectively, not just to be hard working, working effectively and working smart and also putting one's trust in God, it's really pays. Similarly, the grand winner of the Second Disco's category got about 400,000 narrow and a laptop, including all the gifts, while all the finalists got 10,000 narrow from the state government and all the stakeholders. Commissioner for original integration and special duties, Lekholm Badmors, said the competition is to encourage and promote the culture of education, particularly written, writing in public speaking as well as to spark healthy rivalry in education pursuits among the youths. Education is not only learning of facts, but training of mind to think. Today, our guest states have assembled a scientific population of youths to think and suggest probable solutions to the challenges facing our contribution. To some people, this might not sound interesting, as a shooting government has thrown out of force and moved away from the conventional mind-past to this assemblage. The Second Disco students discussed the ocean state-thacted anniversary and the future ahead, my perspective. While the tertiary students discussed security, architecture, challenges and solutions in all the geographical zones of Nigeria. Chairman of the occasion, retired lieutenant-general Lamy D. Adilshun, voted government and other stakeholders for supporting academic careers towards positive engagement, stressing that Nigerians should issue placing all blames on government. Security in our state, in our homes, in our democracies today, is not solely the responsibility or responsibility of the government. No, it is a productive responsibility. And as of today, many of our problems stem from us. The maiden edition of the competition was held last year on October the 4th.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. Today's topic will be angles in geometry. Angles in the planning metric, which means angles on the plane, that's what we are considering. All right. First of all, let's talk about the definition. Everybody knows basically how angles look like, but let's just start from the very fundamentals, the definition. We all know what is a straight line and what is a ray, which is actually a half line. It starts with a certain point and then goes to infinity. Now, two rays which share the same beginning form and angle. Is it sufficient to define this particular angle? Well, actually not. For obvious reasons, there are two different angles just here. One is from this to this and another from this to this. Well, is that it? Now, there are actually four angles defined here, because we can always go in an opposite direction. As you see, just a picture of two different rays doesn't really define an angle. What we have to know is what's the first ray from which we start, and what's the second ray where we finish. Usually, if you have an angle and you are saying something like a, o, b, what it implies actually is that you start from the a, which is o, a, ray, and then you go to the ray, o, b. So from ray, o, a, you go to o, b, because the letter a is first. All right. Now, what it means is that we should really wipe out this particular one and this particular one. So we start either this direction or that direction, but we start from the ray, o, a, and go to o, b. Now, which direction we go? Okay, here we need certain convention. And the convention is that the positive direction of movement is counterclockwise. Just by definition. There is nothing to basically talk about this. It's the definition of the positive direction of the angle. So if we are talking about this, this angle is this one, not this one. Because this one goes counterclockwise. This one goes clockwise. So whenever we are dealing with notation of the angle, we have the first ray in the beginning, the second ray at the end, and the direction from the first to the second is always counterclockwise. Okay, define that. Now there is an interesting thing. We have to measure these angles in some way. Now the first traditional, if you wish, measurements of the angle is the following. Basically, you can consider the angle from one ray to another, which coincides with itself, this angle, a, o, b, as 0. And the unit of measurement is degree, which is written as degree of temperature, basically. So the angle with coinciding sides is basically, by definition, a zero degree. And if the same looking angle is basically the result of a full circle from here back to here. So just imagine that this particular oe is moving all the way out here. And finally coincides with oe, again coincides. That's basically the same angle from the visual perspective. It looks as two rays coinciding with each other. But the whole movement around the whole circle is actually, by definition, defined as an angle of 360 degrees. Now, what does it mean? Well, it means that something like half of this angle, if you go from here to here, so you go from oe to oe, which is stretched on the same line, which is basically half of the full circle. Well, this particular angle is equal to half of this. And obviously quarter, which is perpendicular with the 90 degrees, etc. So this is how we measure the angle. And at the same time, you see that if you add 360 to an angle, it will be visually exactly the same thing. So angles, which are measured by the difference in 360 degrees, are not distinguishable among themselves. So what you can say is that angle in, let's say, 1 to 7 degrees is equal to, or congruent, or whatever the terminology used, 300 and 87 degrees, and in turn equal to the angle of 360 twice is 7.47 degrees. All right, so these angles are exactly the same from the visual perspective. Well, there is nothing wrong about this. That's the fact there are periodic functions, which have exactly the same value for different values of arguments. So in this case, argument is the number of degrees, basically, if you wish. But the physical angle as you see it on the plane is the value of this function, and they're all the same. All right, so we finished with this particular type of measurement. Now let's talk about arithmetic. In the previous lecture about lines and segments, I was talking about segment arithmetic, that we can add them, we can multiply by natural numbers, we can divide by natural numbers, or we can multiply by rational and even irrational numbers. So exactly the same thing exists with angles. What does it mean to add two different angles together? Okay, let's say you have an angle A or B and you have an angle C or G. Now, what does it mean to add them together? Well, obviously you have to have an angle and some ray from the same vertex O, called it G, in such a way that angle DOG is congruent to angle COD, and angle GOF is congruent to angle AOB. That's what it means to add two angles together. Well, obviously if angles are really very large, you might have an interesting picture of this. Well, consider the angle AOB is up tos and angle COD is even bigger than that. So you have one angle, which is greater than 90 degree, then another angle, which is even greater than 270 degrees. Now, what happens if you add them together? Well, let's consider the movement. So first, we draw the beginning grid. Then we have to add the first angle, so that would be something like this. Then we have to add another angle, like this. So it will be something like this. That would be our... So the resulting angle will be this one. That's how it looks. So this particular resulting angle is smaller than this one, and definitely smaller than this one. So it looks like you add two angles and you get the result, which is smaller than the component. Well, with angles it happens. And it happens only because 360 degrees, the full circle, is some kind of a limit. So if you go over that limit, well, you basically count only what goes over 360 or 720 or whatever it is, whenever you are representing in the visual sense. So you can say that this particular angle is actually the result of this movement and this movement. But one full circle actually should be completely disregarded, because from the visual perspective, angles which are different by a full circle don't really look any different. So that's why we have such a peculiar situation with these two angles. Let me just take care of these features. It looks kind of more interesting. So the sum of these two angles is equal to this angle. And well, that's how it is, basically. All right, fine. So we are talking about addition. Now, obviously, we can talk about multiplication by integer numbers. And obviously, it means that if you have an angle, let's say AOD, and you want to multiply it by some integer number, let's say, by 2, what it means, it actually means addition. It's AOD plus AOD twice. If this is any number, it will be as many components in this sum. So it works actually the same way as with segments. So you can add two different angles. You can multiply them by integer number. Now, you can do the reverse operations, subtractions, and division. And obviously, as far as subtraction is concerned, if you have two angles, this one and this one, this is AOD and this is COD. So how to subtract? Well, again, start from the gray. Have the first angle congruent to AOD, that's F. And now, instead of adding this angle into this direction, into positive direction, which is counterclockwise, you do clockwise into this direction. So it will be this angle. So this one is equal to this one. But this is positive, and this is the negative direction. So first, you move into positive direction by the value of the first angle. And then you move to the negative direction by absolute value of the same angle. And whatever is left here, that's the result of a difference. Why? Because if you add them back together, this is G. So EOG is basically the difference between angle A or B and COG. Why? Because if you will add this to this angle EOG plus angle COD, EOG plus COD, which is congruent to JOF, that would give you the EOF, which is congruent to our original angle AOD. So that's how you verify that this is actually the difference. Subtraction is verified by addition. Now, same thing with division. If you have an angle and you divide it by a certain natural number, what is angle A or B divided by, let's say, 3? It means you have to find such an angle COD. So this will be COD in such a way that if you will add to itself multiply by 3, which is the reverse of the division, three times you will get an angle congruent to our angle AOD. Now, let me repeat something which I have said when I was explaining the arithmetic of segments. Defining sum of two angles or difference between them or result of multiplication or division, defining is one thing. But every definition must be correct in some way or another. Now, what's the correct definition of, let's say, sum of two different angles? Well, we have to prove that this new angle which constitutes the sum of these two angles originally given to us really exists. And no matter how you do it, you will have the same and unique result of this operation of addition to different angles. So operation must be defined in such a way that the result exists and unique. Now, my question is, let's talk about division, for instance. Now, I was saying that I have to find an angle which is, if multiplied by 3, will give original. Now, does it exist or not? Well, I have to prove it. And secondly, is it unique? I mean, maybe there are two different angles which if multiplied by itself three times, I mean, if added to itself three times, multiplied by natural number 3, would give original number. What if there are two different angles which means there are two different results of the operation of division? Both statements must be proven, existence and uniqueness of the operation. Otherwise, operation is fully defined. Well, not defined, let's just be honest about it. Well, and it's not easy, by the way, to define these most important for any definition properties, existence of the result of the operation and its uniqueness. But it can be done. The definition itself is quite obvious, but all these proofs of existence and uniqueness are not really easy. They kind of go beyond the scope which I would like to address. But in any way, you should understand that this is very important. Again, let me repeat, uniqueness and existence are very important for any kind of a definition. Otherwise, you will be defining something which does not exist or something which exists in different incarnations, which is basically not a good thing in mathematics. All right, fine. So we've done that. We've done the operations. And one more thing about how to measure the angle. So we were just talking about measurements in degrees when the full circle is basically defined as the angle of 360 degrees, and everything which is part of this full circle basically defined through the operation of multiplication or division or whatever else. So if you can say that if you have angle A, O, B, and you can say that this is basically an angle of how should I specify it? Let's say I put A, O, A, which means a full circle, full circle times some number R. Well, just as an example, if it's something like this, it looks like, I don't know, 60 degrees or whatever. It means that 360 is multiplied by 1, 6, whatever the number is. Well, then the measurement is 360 times R, this angle. Because the measurement of the full circle is 360 degrees. So basically, you can say that you have a unit of measurement, which is a very small angle, which if multiplied by 360 will give the full circle, will give the full angle. And this is the unit of measurement. And you can either start with this small 1 degree angle and then express our angle through this. Or you can start with a full circle. Maybe it's easier. It doesn't really matter. And multiply it by some multiplier. So either you multiply this unit of measurement by some number to get the number of degrees. Or you multiply this, which is expressed as 360 degrees by a different number. In any way, whatever the result is, you have to get our angle A, O, B. And the measurement would be calculated as either if you start in the full circle, then it's 360 times the multiplier. So in order to start with this small angle, let's call it X or Y. So if you start with this small angle, X or Y times some measurement, some number S, then it will be 1 times S. So in any case, that's the measurement in degrees. Are there other measurements of the angles? Well, if you remember from the previous lecture about the segments, I mentioned that there are so many different measurements of the length of the segment, it's unbelievable. Well, with angles it's much simpler. There are only two different units of measurements which people usually use. One is degrees. And another is based on an interesting property. If you consider a circle and the correspondence between the radius of the circle, and the lengths of the circumference of the circle, there is an old fact, basically, that circumference is equal to 2 pi r. r is a radius. Pi is an irrational number which is approximated as 3.14. And so the lengths of the circumference is actually proportionate to the radius. Now, here is an interesting thing. What if we will take an angle which has radius equal to the length of this arch? Well, if you increase the size of the circle, then what's interesting is that this length is increasing in exactly the same proportion as the radius. So if you take a smaller one, the radius is, let's say, twice as small. And this length will be also twice as small. So basically, if you take this type of an angle which cuts from the circumference, an arch which has a length equal to the radius, then this angle will be exactly the same regardless of the circle. So this type of a definition seems to be much more convenient in certain aspects of angle arithmetic, angle calculation, and equations, et cetera, et cetera. And we can actually measure any angle using this particular angle as a unit of measurement. And it's called this unit of measurement is called one region, one region. So this angle, which cuts from the circle, an arch equal in length to the radius is actually independent on the circle. And it can be therefore used as a unit of measurement to call it one region. Now, if this is one region, then how many regions are in the full circle? Well, let's just think about if the full circle is equal to 2 pi r circumference. And this particular length is equal to r. Then if you divide one into another, you will get 2 pi. And this is basically the number of regions in the full circle. So whatever is 360 degrees is equal to 2 pi regions. That's what's very important now. It's just a different unit of measurement. And we can measure angles in this unit as well as in some other units. Now, although it seems a little strange to have an irrational number as the measurement of a full circle, it just takes my word for it that in many different aspects of mathematics, this seems to be as more natural unit of measurement. And it's basically much wider used in mathematics for different reasons, which we will not discuss right now. But that's actually true statement. Now, from this, from proportionality, you can say that 180 degrees is actually pi regions. And let's say 60 degrees is pi divided by 3 regions, et cetera. So two different measurements, degrees and regions, are the measurements which are used in mathematics. In common life, degrees are more prevalent. But in the mathematics, especially in high mathematics, which people are learning in like calculus, et cetera, then this measurement, the region measurements of the angles, are more prevalent because it's more convenient in many different cases. Well, that's it for the angles. I would like to remind you that this lecture and notes for it can be found at Unisor.com website, which actually presents a course of school level mathematics more or less logically arranged. And it's also very helpful to those parents and supervisors who would like to control the educational process of their children and students. Because there is something which they can use as tests and exams, scores, et cetera. There is some kind of a relationship between the supervisory activity of the parents or supervisors and educational process, which they can control. So I strongly recommend to go to the website and basically investigate how to use it and use it. Thanks very much.


Tukin of jet lag. Tumiwa na wikand kumekuana. So many events that have been happening and one of those events was Mamito and Friends. Sosa kwa ni, you guys are not friends, why didn't you not show up on that event? Yes, I blame jet lag. On, on, on, ilkukuana event mobsana yosiku, za comedy, which is very good that the industry is opening up. Me not being there was... SPM bars, bars, bars. What's up, guys? Welcome to SPM bars. My name is Miss Kethinge. And today, I'm going to tell you about a comedian. He's a creative, eddy, butita. He's a busy kid, but he's going to be here in a minute. What's his name? My name is Squeezie. I don't do interviews. It's just an opinion, a sort of conversation.  Oh, you want to hold a conversation with me? Yes. I am glad you've given me a minute also. Sosa, mi pangona na bado na drug stories adubai kila mahali, katar. Katar. Mi kwa na jet lag bado. Katar. Pa lio na juan nili make new friends, ni mabilioneya paleni ni. So, sa aya toki ni ona kwa simusana. Kuna mambubili tatu. Tuna kwa na matoke wa jupia sasa usionge tu na watuburi? Ha? Matoke wa mtawana. Mtawai kusafiri lasi makuja na matoke wa kwa ni yunenda api? Ha? Kwa ni yuki, ni mmasafiri tu ni karudi. Ha? Okay. He's on netwa kume create sasa una pangaji na yusuri. Is there any project you're doing with the katar bosses? A kuna netwa kreme create katar, lianda shareera ni karudi. Ha? Akura. Nothing else that is going to come off that try, ni ni traveling? Ni mi ni ko tu, ni po ni po tu. Ili kwa ni stare na ika malizika tu. Yeah. Topin of jet lag. Tumiwa na weekend kume kwa na so many events that have been happening. And one of those events was Mamito and Friends. So, sa kwa ni you guys are not friends. Why didn't you not show up on that event? Yes, to blame jet lag. Ili kwa na event mobsa na yusiku, za comedy. Which is very good that the industry is opening up. Me not being there was not intentional. Ni li kwa, Ili kwa yusiku ni li kwa na event India Party Signa. Signa is an international company. Wala kwa many tapu kufanya ku host India Party Awa. So by the time it was Maliza, it was around 10, 11. Na, iyo time tu li kwa close, ili kwa Westi, Prideen. So, iyo time na na ni, yuki na Mamito wala kwa shamali za show. So, yuki kwa engisha mapema. Ni kwa za kufi kasa ni, ni katoka ni kenda nasara. Iyo nasara li kwa tuwa po next. Paklans. Ni kapitia li kwa ni fashion. Iyo fashion ni nabaka late night. Ni kapitia kwa nasra kidogo. Ten na ni kenda cha chill show. Bana ke la festival li li nabaka sabasa na ne. So ni kenda sasita ni kenda la festival apo. Ni li taka ni piti e showsote. Bana ke industry na kwa kubuwa na ni jambo nzuri sana. And I really appreciate that milestone here, a game. Na show li kwa kubuwa. Liyona wali sellout. It's a good thing man. I was so happy for her. So, I feel like it's complicated. Ni ni kenda. Zina na ni ni villesheduli li gongana maali. Ni nashindo tu, kwa ni ulemi invite love strangers kwe li jwa tu kumuwa na piya? Love strangers si kwa na fanya invites. Mi li kwa msa ni tu. Ni kwa na perform. Na perform tu mi kwa na perform pale. Ni koshua sana maybe achai me kuja. What was your question again? Ni li kwa na malizia kuliza yo kama. Ki mi yata si koshua na love strangers kama li kuja ma kuja. But na jwa piya nge kuja. Maybe li kwa mi shikana tu. Nothing much. It's the industry growing. You know what happens. This is comedy. When you do a show, another person does a show. We are creating opportunities for everyone. Wakati mungi ni maybe kuja kwa na love strangers. Ki weekend kuku na mamito in France. Weekend in Afuata. Kuku na love festival. Ina manisha mi kama comedy ni kona show tattoo. Neza ni kenda apa, ni chukua apa, ni chukua apa. Ni ka push brand kwa zote. So as far as the industry is concerned, when you don't see me attending an event, any complications, kuna wadui, pengini ni rati batuzi na gongana. Pa pa pa. Aukunye chai? Lasimantakunye wa chai. Wacha ni ma lize kwanza ku have this conversation. Now moving on. Yesterday was Jamhuride and the president of course had some very good news for the content creators. Na una piyamunye ulicu kwa, asni petpale ukawa ekele kwa Instagram page ako. I don't know, what are your thoughts? How is it going to help you individually other than just the creative industry itself? First of all, as one of the voices that are being trusted as far as creative industry is concerned, I really appreciate that this is a conversation because yesterday even when I posted that thing, you can tell, like, yangu li kwa na engagement mingi, watu li kwa na kum kongele yo story apo because we've been on the forefront to try and push these agendas. And this thing has started way back. Like, I think immediately iksere kali lingi atuli mi tata na chipukizi. Ni kwa mombia na tu kwa na have conversation tu na angali, e ni aje. Kila time gavae na kujaanga, watu ona se manga? Gava allocate this money for this. Allocate this money for this. What are the things that if they are changed or policies that are implemented can help us make money without having necessarily to wait for capital? So, gavae tu pati a 10 billion fanya kitu. Ni ni niyo gavae naza sema, ama naza change to make do before waseme hatunaido ama tu kwa naido ya kwa locate for yo kitu. Na tu kwa na vitu mobsa na tu kwa na kama isu ya Facebook monetization tu li go through isoma pages tu di angali azote tu kwa na kina chipukizi ya po sema ni aje. Next time una pata away ya kubring this thing to a national platform. Just do it. And I'm so happy. First of all, for this one siyama se ma kunyi chahi na ni. I'm so happy and I really want specifically people will not thank chipukizi for this but me I'll thank him for this. Why? Me told him make sure ni the next time kuna opportunity ya kwa of conversation about content let us have content creators on that panel. Let's have content creators speaking about that because you see it's a new industry and people don't know about it. Yes, se de kali naza kwa na ta kusa idea but a kuna mutua na juwa isu ya content creators ni gani. So situna zi juwa na easy. Make sure kwa platform ni kwa in conversation to na leta content creators. That's why you know na legieto kina jabu wa kina mutembei wa kama kwe part of it part of this conversation.  This is a neutral thing. It came from neutral content creators. They urge the president since other countries are monetizing Facebook. Na Facebook ni big platform in Kenya. Bona Facebook ay monetize Kenya. Kali? Kusababu ukimonitize Facebook Kenya kwa na 200,000 followers. Ia county of Facebook kina zi kaku jenge ya karibu over 100,000 free per month. Kama ukuna watu 500,000 followers wneza wka tengeneza up to half a million or more than a million depending on how viral your videos go or the viewership isu video. So ina tengenezu aje kuna advertisers wana advertise Facebook. Adzawa zi na kwa na na ya content. But size na fani kaivo but wakeneza tengenezi pesa. Because Facebook aji agriba do na Kenya on the modernities too for this revenue kuna tax kuna ni ni witu kama iso. So kama presidenta li ambiwekitu leo. Nakesweakia li kwaasha unge na meta. I have never been happy like that because I feel like we've been losing money and this is an opportunity to create employment for many people. Wneza wka muka wu fundisha watu witu. Nini ni wu wneza fundisha watu ewe? Even how to live life how to to what? To go through character development. I must say how to cook a ways of fundisha watu. So mambue anguayo. So yo content wneza kwa ka Facebook na utengeneze pesa. So wuna ona. So watu watu sayi ni opotiti moji a kukret. Na mimi na daka kutank gava kweza kwingili a vituza creative na creative economy. Like this is a big win. Naka moe ni msa ni nuna jipata kwezo spaces wiliwaki na jipaki zia kwezo spaces continue pushing agendas that will change our lives. There are many things we are now started we've started on a good note. I hope by two years ewe narati wita kwa me change uta koneza kwa bilione aju kona content. Na juki na about earnings buti tana jua ni msa ni kona nyimbo skiza tuni ako ewe mekupea pesa mingi zaidi tanguwanze kutumiwa nipesangapi. 84 84,000 ama shillings Kenya shillings 84 Kenya shillings Gai kwevo size ni kumanisha now when content creators start earning of course even you know skiza tunes. That's a whole new conversation of revenue share from skiza because skiza we have aggregators we have mobile mobile companies telecomunication companies we have artists everyone on this chain is saying they are putting in work which cannot be ignored so me as an artist I produce music I take it to the aggregator the aggregator takes it to telecom company how are we going to have fair distribution among this they have been working on it I see like some months ago kuna telecomunication company li say ma okay wa sa ni watapandishi wa revenue yaw ewe but now these are the things that we need to address in future so that all of us have equal share yako nyesha to put in work so when aggregator went to telecomunication me nimsani see what it is to put to put on it so these are the conversations we need to have let us know where is the problem do we need to understand this thing well mimi kama ma msa ni ni kia mbi wa kumia moja 40 bopu ndi wa angu nata kaka understand 60 in our kaje no na pengina ikuliwi ama pengina ikuliwa no na jukuna many stakeholders so these are the conversations that we need to address kuna ma creators kuna make money sana because kama wimbo yako ni hit song uko USA ma Europe wapi una kwa gatum dosi for like the next 10 years kama sayi yani na yofura ni kuhu ni wana maarafi kiki hana wakwatu wako sahwa hana sidi siyake safi nani yumba kuna foundation na mihanzana promo to V2 yani because a kuna hit song so sisi we are good at creating good products but bad at monetizing e ni conversation inginia na tu na fakuawa na after na tu ni conversion inginia ya royalties na witu kama iso kujwa kama mimi tunasplita aje kama ni ki kwa ni kia wimbo na kula aje kwa ya wimbo for long kama ni ki produce wimbo na kula aje for long na kwa ni ki produce wimbo na kula aje for long na kwa ni kwa na ma producers Kenya ni maskini na ma produce hit songs more than 20 e but how important is aggregator's butita okay aggregator is someone who has been tasked with content packaging and maybe distributing on behalf of artists so they say this the person who is taking the content knows the quality they want the rules and they don't want to deal with every artist individually because kwa sani kama kila mtu ni msa ni kenya taw na muka subu yuna kwa msa ni so but I could deal now to 5,000 nime task aggregator so aggregator ana nifanya yo kazi on my biaf mimi kama telecommunication company aggregator na negotiate now at water so mimi ni kenya kwa kwa ana ni paya content siya nziten siya sign contract but kuna ala aggregator ni wakora wana take advantage ikenya kuna msa na kama na kwa mbiata niku patiandre taw uni patiakontet za kofo good ya nenda na mknazo millions so information ni aiko jumsa ni afaiku za kitu for good iwo uneza nuzia kajok kako 50,000 alaf kind of viral koskiza millions and tens of millions ni ni siya sa siwi li lose aggregator li kwi gizabox wakuna ala aggregator genu nuna kwa neshaivindyo system inawa kuna patiadi accessia baka nseginu nuna vile content ya kwa na perform kuna aggregator na wakwa mbi kitu ya kwa mou na tuangapi nuna kwa mbi atu shika 10k imetoka wapi so aggregation is very important but they should also be transparent and we should regulate them so aggregator endwara tag unafawa kansu liwe like telecommunication company should allow us artists to report them ni report them wana tolewa kwa system that was insightful in case you didn't know like me now you know but ita santesana tuta kwa chasusa wendele na mamboiako mamboiangu gani ni siya ina kuna yo eni ulu kuna panya alright guys thank you so much for watching basuit stars of course this is miss kipendi thank you for watching


Hey there friends thanks for checking in. Today we're looking at the IWI Masada. Nice compact size striker fire polymer frame handgun that's been around for about four years now. I've been wanting to get my hands on one of these. Never did. Had a couple opportunities, but my buddy called me upset. I noticed you never reviewed the Masada. I just picked one up. Would you like to review it? And I jumped at the opportunity. Many people have strong favorable comments about the Masada. I'm going to check it out at the range shortly. But let's go ahead and get into this MSRP 480. And if you go with it, you will see two 17 round magazines also available in 10 rounds for states that require that. Three grit modules. This one that is installed seems to fit my average size hands just fine. It is an optic ready handgun. It does come with four plates here to fit six different optics. And if you're into red dots on handguns, it offers it with the Masada and then everything else in a cardboard box. So not bad there for an MSRP of 480. I've seen them anywhere between 400 and 450 on the used market. You don't see them too often. It came out with a bang of four years ago. And I think a lot of people that own these really love it. I posted a pic on Instagram and I got some very favorable comments. But we look at the Masada. We can see that the grip sort of like a soft grit sandpaper. Not very aggressive. Shouldn't rub against the skin for those that would carry it. The deployment on the 17 round mag is pretty strong. Check that out. And then it does have front serrations for the press checks. I will say that that recoil spring is heavy. To charge it's not bad. But to do a press check, I really feel that digging into my thumb. It is a fully ambidextrous gun with both the magazine release and slide stop on both sides. Lefties will certainly like that. A little undercut in the trigger guard. A little extended beaver tail there for a high grip on the pistol. That's always a bonus. Already mentioned optic ready. Three dot sights that are metal. Has a pick rail there. Some checkering in the front of the trigger guard. A lot of space in there for gloved fingers. But the trigger, we're looking at six pounds. Now it does have a trigger bar safety in there. It feels exactly like a six pound trigger. So when I felt that that's about six pounds and then I checked the sight and my trigger scale and everything else it measures right at six pounds. That's what you're looking at. Right there with the reset. Nice looking handgun. It's a little bit larger. 4.1 inch barrel. But I'm going to compare with some other. Well let's just do that right now. We'll take the Glock 19 here. You can see that from this perspective the Masada looks like a full size handgun. And then when we align the slides we can see that the Masada on the left is about a half inch longer than the Glock 19. Now it's holding 17 rounds so you expect the grip to go a little bit longer but it goes quite a bit longer compared to the 15 round Glock 19. Let's check out the Walther PDP. Same deal here. If you look you see that the Masada goes about I would say half inch and then the grip not as well yeah a little bit whatever you know it feels good. I will say that the Ergo's on this Walther PDP is amazing. It just feels so nice. But the one that kind of struck me a little bit is is the M&P Compact. Now a lot of people love the 2.0 grip and if you love that grip you can just feel that this one is so much more aggressive. When you grip it it just digs into your hand. It's a preference thing as where this doesn't. This actually with sweaty hands I think would slip a little bit. But we're looking at the same sort of deal with the slide length and the grip. Let's go ahead and take a look at the internals here. We'll lock the slide back move this lever down and pull the trigger here and off comes the slide. Now this frame they're calling fiberglass reinforced polymer. Alright so that's what you're looking at. It feels like a standard polymer 1 or 9 handgun. Single recoil spring polymer guide rod 4.1 inch barrel. The Israeli made pistols little firearms in general they they have a very fine reputation for good build quality. Although I have to say most of the modern firearms these days they all they all do. I don't care even the budget handguns you know the or the budget firearms I should say they they are made so well. It's really amazing. People love the Israeli ones you know the German ones the Czechoslovakian ones the American ones. They're putting out some fine firearms some fine pistols and right out of the gate this one seemed to do very well. One pound nine and a half ounce unloaded. Let's go ahead and put 17 rounds of full mag in there two pounds half ounce we move that to just ounces where is it come on 32 and a half put another round in there in the chamber if you're looking at 33 and 73 ounces so those who would carry this would find it a little bit on the heavier side for a compact size not by much though but I can't wait to get this to the range I'm going to do that this weekend produce a range review and we'll see I think it's going to do very well a lot of people love this gun I've heard nothing but positive comments about it they say it's priced well they've got thousands of rounds through it it's fed fire and ejected everything and honestly based on that and people I know who own this I expect nothing less and we'll see check it out this weekend if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Hi, it's Bridget, welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. Today I have a special treat for you, a trans channel. A transformative channel is a unique style that I do where I share energy space with the spirit from the afterlife. Now I only do it when the spiritual energy is compatible for me, when it feels comfortable. I've been practicing this practice of trans channeling for over a year now, so I've gotten quite comfortable with it. And I have a very special spirit guide in the afterlife, who you may know yourself as well, that is Prince in the afterlife, who helps me to connect and bring. He's kind of like my bouncer, yeah, kind of like a bouncer, my security guard, if you will, in the afterlife. With his energy I am most familiar with, and he and I have been working on this practice of transformative channeling for quite some time, and so I'm really comfortable with his energy around me, and so I trust it. Why Prince? Well, you need to check out the playlist about all of my Prince channels, if you're interested in understanding the backstory of that. I'm actually a Minnesotan born and raised, and so the energy of Prince in the afterlife is just something that's natural, normal I guess for me. All right, so let's get started today. The transformative channel is with David Bowie. Now I have spoken to Mr. Bowie previously, and you can look that up. There's a playlist for David Bowie, if you're interested. And how this came about was I actually felt a connection between Prince and David Bowie. Recently, a couple of weeks ago, I actually had an in-person retreat that I hosted here in Minnesota, and during that retreat, we were doing our discussion and our wrap-up, and David Bowie actually popped right in and chatted a little bit, had a few things to share. And so I felt his energy again today, this morning, right when I woke up. In fact, when I put this cool shirt on, everyone is someone, I felt his energy and thought, I should trans-channel him today, and today is the day that I'd like to do trans-channels. So I thought, yeah, I'll do that. So here we are. You will hear my husband's voice in the background. He is going to ask questions during the trans-channel time. Most of the time, I will keep my eyes closed and allow the energy of the spirit to come in and share the space. Let's get started. All right. Oh, and I wore this for Mr. Bowie, this funky leather, pink leather jacket. I thought he'd think it was cool and appreciate it. He's got kind of this great artisty vibe, and I really like that about him, and he's super polite. He's so polite to me when we were chatting earlier. So we'll see how this goes. All right. Okay, so let's share space. All right. See if Prince will help do this, the connection. Oh, I'm so ready to trans-channel. I haven't done it in a while. I don't know how the accent is going to sound. He doesn't have to use an accent, but I'd like to be authentic. So if I can allow him to speak the way he sounded, that would be helpful, but I can't promise you all stuff because I have no idea. I am such a non-linguistic type. So we'll see. He's laughing at me. He's like, we'll give it a try. He said, okay, I can feel Bowie right away. I can feel Bowie right away. So I'm going to say I can feel Prince to my left, and I can see Bowie in the front right next to him. He's ready to kind of jump in. He's got a red sports coat on and red pants. It looks like in a white shirt. He kind of has a ruffle on it, and he's going to come in. I think he's going to jump in right away. We'll see. That was fast. Thank you. Thank you for that. Prince told me it was all right for me to just jump. He said, jump in. He said, I said, now? He said, yeah, now, right now. She's quite thin. It's quite thin. I can feel it in the shoulders, across the shoulder blades. It does feel quite comfortable. You're welcome, darling. I think she expects me to be different than I am. There's a lot of activity in her belly and her tummy. She calls them the chakras. I'm trying to use her terminology, her language, and it's different than my own a bit. But I would first like to say thank you for inviting me and allowing me to come into your space. I recognize that that's quite an honor, and I appreciate that very much. So thank you for that. There is significance to the day. We're nearing a time that is quite special, and so with that is part of the push and the why now. So that answers that question, I believe. I understand that you have questions for me as well. You may go ahead and ask them if you'd like to do that. The first question I'm going to ask is, what were your sources of inspiration for your music or anything else for that matter? Yes, inspiration comes from everywhere, doesn't it? A lot of musicians, I feel, we are storytellers. We share stories, and it can be something so simple. And you just take that little piece, and it can sort of take on a life of its own and create just an incredible experience for the listener and mix that up with some great sound and the instruments and the harmonies. When they come together, it really brings it to life. It just breathes life into something that maybe was just an experience that was so simple. And I think that there's a myth, misunderstanding or misinterpretation for many fans and many who listen to music. There is a lot to inject of your own and to recognize your own personal and unique experiences in the music. And for me, that's a very special thing to know that the individual listener can take whatever they may be feeling at the time, and it creates a link or an understanding. I feel that there is a lot of effort that is made in understanding what the artist created, what the artist wanted, what the musician was sharing through the lyrics. And if you just focus on the words you miss out, you miss out on the entirety of the gift of that connection of the music. You really do miss out. It's really about taking something that I or anyone else created and bringing it into your life in that moment and connecting with it.  And it's more than just the words. It's more than just the words. All these things, all these points coming together in one moment when you hear the song, which is why I think music is transcendent. It does stand the test of time. It completely provides you with an incredible amount of opportunity for personal growth and expansion. And that, I feel, is one of the most powerful things about music. And if you ask any artist, they will no doubt say something similar to that. That's a good question, very good question. The other question is related to that and maybe you've answered part of it already. But we want to know what was your creative process over and above what you've just talked about? I did like to get into character, you might say. Now my early on works might seem somewhat of a kaleidoscope of experience and you could interpret that in any way that you choose to interpret it. But it's really a process of experimentation, you know, trying different things and being in different places. I was very much inspired by what was going on around me in the world and it could be the architecture of a great club or even the influence of another artist's album cover or street art. There's just any number of things that could inspire me or inspire anyone, for that matter, to create something really special. But I do want to speak to the decades. You could, but it makes me sound old, take the decades and break them up into different stages, so-called stages of life or stages of my career. And it's really not fair to look at any one point of a person's life and make a judgment about the whole. And yet, because it is really art, every album, every production, because my concerts, my concerts were experiences, they were productions. Many of you will really understand that. And as a performer, the goal is to really bring forward things that will expand you, that will make you think differently, make you become something more than what you think you can be. And to challenge you a little bit and to challenge the norms and the status quo, I think might right be what I will be remembered for. And if that is what I am remembered for, then that is a very good thing. That is something that a person could look back upon their life and be proud of. And yet, there was some weird stuff out there. Can I swear? I'm not sure if I can swear, but I might just do that, actually, if I was speaking with Bridget herself. But there were some weird stuff that I did, but it all is part of the whole. You can't make any part of yourself bad, or if you reject some part of your life experience, then you're not whole. I've got to accept all of that. And maybe that's where you get inspiration from. It's not so much inspiration, but it's healing. It really, yes, she would love that. It is a healing expression or experience, a healing experience, and the process of that is shared public. And then it gives other people the opportunity to share that, to get some of that, too. You know, good or bad, however you would judge it. It's not to be judged. It's to simply be interpreted, like art. It really is art. And I appreciate it when we are referred to, musicians and performers are referred to as artists. I really appreciate that. I respect many other musicians' works, and I can really appreciate great performance. What were you put on earth here to learn and or to teach people? Yes, she will love this. You know, I never thought of myself as someone that had some big mission, or to be someone that others could look up to. That was never my intent. I never set out to accomplish that or to do that. I simply gave myself that permission to be myself in that moment, however I was feeling whatever raw reality I was faced with. And in fact, your lady Gaga, she does this. And I would say that I am quite interested. I'm quite interested in that. To allow yourself to be creative and to try different things, to experience an experiment, to not be afraid to rebirth yourself. The term reinvention is too blasé. It's not reflective of what I mean. Rebirth yourself over and over and over again. Other people will judge you, but if you get stuck in that, you can't come out of it easily. You cannot put yourself in a position where other people, their opinions, their views of you are more important than your own. You've got to really allow yourself that permission to experience.  That's a part of the process. That's part of the life. That's part of the experience. So if I was here to teach people things as a member of the Afterlife Club, I would say that looking now, understanding now where I'm at now, which is the afterlife. Yes, I am dead and I am spirit fully and completely. From this view, I would say most certainly to be yourself, to allow yourself defeat, to give yourself, cut yourself some room, make yourself some room to experience what that might be. Because you're not born knowing who you are. You discover who you are because you're born into a body from a spirit seed from this ball of incredible universe and you are born into a human experience and you've got to discover and give yourself room, give yourself time, give yourself that, those opportunities to experience who you are, to get to know who you are as that whole universe that you are. And time is short. You don't have a lot of time to be screwing around with things that don't really matter to you. Now, there are people who are you living your life for. That's a big question. That's what I would pose. And maybe that's what the purpose of my life was. Who are you living your life for? You know, it's sort of odd she's behind and she can't quite speak forward. I can't quite hear her. Prince said that she will talk behind, but she's giving me signals. Oh, she is. It's quite funny, rather. It's rather funny. One more question. It's like I'm being directed, producer's backstage. I'm sure you're used to that, right, mate? What going to be sound a little weird? What occupies your time now? What are you involved with in the afterlife? And are there any plans to reincarnate? What makes you think I'm not already here? Oh, no, I'm just joking with you. No, I'm not back yet. I have some things to do here. I have some things I want to experience as a full spirit. There's so many things that are limitless, truly infinite. It's a lot of fun to not have a body. Now, I recognize that my body was suffering in my last months, but I do not feel any pain and I don't feel any regret. There's a bit of remorse, remorsefulness, if you want to call it that, for not realizing how precious life is.  It's really an incredible gift to be a person, to have that human existence. And yes, I want to come back. Oh, yes, I want to come back. It's too early for me right now. It's too soon. There are many things. There are people that are still grieving deeply for me. And I would like to give myself the opportunity to do what I can from this angle to help them, if I may, and assist them. You would call it a spirit guide, or spirit guidance perhaps. So I'm serving, you might say I'm in service in that capacity. So those are my short-term plans, you might say. I can't say when exactly I might come back, but I will. I would really like to. Yes, definitely. I most certainly would like to. I think that's that. I think I'm getting the behind. You're right. She really does. She is kind of bossy, I will say. She's a bit bossy, but I'm okay with that. I like strong women. I think Prince might agree with that. And he's shaking his head like, don't bring me into that. I don't want to be part of that conversation, he says. And we do get along quite well in the afterlife, if you're curious about that. Quite well, yes. Many of us are connected, most certainly. We have similar paths, you know? We have similar missions now, and we're helping a lot of people. And it's good to do that in community. So thank you. Thank you for making a go of it. And you didn't use the accent. I told her she didn't need to. So we'll see how she feels about how this went, right? Thank you. And to my fans, thank you. Thank you. I feel your love, and I appreciate it very, very much. Thank you. I feel your love. And I have a lot of gratitude. A lot of love back. Thank you. This is infinite love, my friends. It's infinite love, yeah. Yeah, her body's pretty comfortable to me. It's fine. It's not awkward at all. It's pushing me out, though, quickly. I'm okay. It's Bridget. I'm close. I'm almost all the way here, but I... His nice energy. His energy is very, it's quite nice. It is. It's not in my body a little bit. I don't know if I can open my eyes. The lights are so bright. I didn't hear an accent. And I told him I would try to do an accent if needed, but I couldn't. It was really nice. He didn't like push it, you know? I thought that was very kind. I would... I mean, I love Brits and I love that English accent, but I don't know if I could... In my linguistic range, I don't know if I could do that. I don't even know. We're going to have to do an after. Let's do an after video, a post-transformative channel video and talk about this experience. Let's do that. I'd like to do that. So you have been watching a transformative channel with David Bowie. I'm Bridget. I'm here at Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit. I hope you enjoy the new weekly channeling videos. Be sure to like this video. If you do, comment. If you have other questions or things you'd like to hear, me just have a discussion with David about. And maybe I'll do that in a future video. So remember, the purpose here for all of us, the purpose of life is to live it. The purpose of your life is to live it, live it. Thank you so much for watching.