It was so cold and so uncomfortable. This is my blower pillow Broken. I feel like that I couldn't sleep at all because it was so freezing cold I had to put on my motorcycle trousers my leggings and my waterproof trousers as well It was so cold And it's still cold Let's see if some coffee will help it's really really full.  Misty all around Misty you can't see anything. It looks cold everywhere. It actually looks cold. Seriously, I didn't expect that.  Welcome back to our Guinness World Record attempt to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle We're here on a foggy morning next to this lake next to the small village of Sofca in Turkey and it was quite sunny yesterday And I did not expect it to be like this this morning. It's positively a Baltic I think This was the worst night in a long time like I was literally awake the whole night Because I was freezing Cold. Yeah, it was a pretty tough night and we put on every piece of clothing we had and it wasn't enough No, because we have sort of summer-ish Sleeping bags because of course if you've been following our series around the world, you'll know That we've been in the summer most of the time and it's been really really hot Last night was an exception. It was freezing cold But despite all the coldness this spot here was just amazing Like it was so nice and peaceful a lot of birds around and To wake up with this mist around me this morning was so cool. It was freezing, but it was magical Yeah suffering is just part of this journey, you know, if you're not so far you didn't live it, you know, that's true It's all part of the challenge. Hey, it's all part of the challenge of riding around the world Good morning But today is a really important day on our journey Because it's gonna be our last ride in Asia. So we are here and today We're gonna be taking these 650 road followed by the 200 over to the coast and around the Sea of Marmara to reach Istanbul Today we're heading to Turkey's largest city Istanbul and we're gonna cross the Bosphorus Strait from the Asian continent To the European continent Europe. We are coming So it's 183 miles to Istanbul and our navigation says it will take us three hours It's already 840 so better hit the road. Let's go Whoa, it's super foggy here on the highway Wow, oh my god, the bike is recording at the moment eight degrees So it must have been really really cold last night. You're joking eight degrees eight degrees in the moment Yeah, yeah, I have everything on my leggings my motorbike trousers my waterproof trousers My down jacket. I have even plastic bags around my feet. I Can't believe the day before yesterday. It was literally 30 degrees in Antalya We couldn't stay in southern Turkey forever. No one point. We're just gonna have to face Europe and just And just go for it, but I can tell you I think it's gonna be a cold ride through Europe So we're planning on sticking to the most southern part we can Greece Albania Italy But after that we're heading north and just gonna have to face whatever comes Yes, there comes the Sun Beautiful, I think we were actually camped on top of a mountain And that's why it was so cold because we've just been basically riding downhill since we left the camp spot And it's just getting warmer and warmer by the second Which is lovely. Well, it's 10 degrees right now. Oh, it's positively toasty 100 miles down and it's time for our first break of the day and I think it's time for a late burger breakfast Cool, look at this. Yeah, they've got everything here. Yeah, all right. What's this in front? Look at this Awesome burger Little bit frozen stiff. Hey, anyway, we're now halfway to Istanbul. We have 75 miles to go one and a half hours It's really cool because this burger king does a plant-based whopper, which is like the first one we've seen in ages How cool is that? Hey, I'm so super excited. So bon appetit and both meals together cost us 10 pounds I'm really happy with that. It's nice to have a plant-based burger with them All right, let's break over we had a burger king and then we went to Starbucks and had a coffee and use their internet for a bit Fall on relaxing time. Oh, yeah, it's nearly one o'clock now But it's time to do our final ride towards Istanbul So we have one and a half hours to go and then we'll be crossing into Europe Whoa, here it is guys the Bosphorus bridge. Can you believe it after 40,000 miles?  This is going to be absolutely crazy Why would you believe it? There's a traffic jam On the bridge, that's great. Yeah, I think it's really fitting that our return to Europe Is in a traffic jam Yes Anyway, this will give us a lot of time to appreciate this beautiful amazing bridge Connecting Asia to Europe This is definitely a very very Nice moment. This is it. This is us saying goodbye to Asia. Bye. Bye Asia Hello to Europe So I'll give you guys a little bit of info about this bridge as we're crossing over This is the Bosphorus bridge constructed in 1973 and when it was constructed It was the fourth longest bridge in the world and the longest bridge in Europe and in Asia And it's really really interesting because actually this is the first bridge to connect Asia and Europe Since the pontoon bridge of Xerxes in 480 ad so literally the first bridge connecting Asia and Europe in 1500 years Whoa, look at this and this is the Bosphorus straight running from the Black Sea Out to the Mediterranean That we can just about see in the background over there. Wow.  Oh, yes, this is it Touching down in Europe We've made it happy and alive Ha ha How cool is that home? We have just crossed from the Asian side of Istanbul to the European side And 40,000 miles after leaving Europe We're back, baby We are back. Oh cool. Look at the sign. Welcome to Europe. Yes Welcome to Europe Oh, that's amazing that is amazing. This is a milestone. This is a major milestone of the journey After so many miles since Vladivostok. I mean, I don't even know how many miles we've ridden since we landed in Vladivostok But it feels like a lifetime ago I still can't believe it, you know, it's like what a journey Yeah, and now it really feels like we are on the home stretch We have just Greece, Albania, Italy, Austria, Germany, Netherlands and France That does actually sound like quite a lot But I can tell you now that we're in Europe, those are all a lot closer together than they were before Yes, I mean it was still a lot of riding here in Turkey a lot of miles. Turkey is an absolute Huge country. Yeah, it was like our last big big country to cross and now it's just going to be plain sailing Yeah, now the countries are going to go fast and then before we know it, it's going to be England again Crazy So we're coming closer to the old part of Istanbul now the beautiful center And we're just cruising down along this river and it is such a beautiful city here very busy But very beautiful as well. Yes whilst we're cruising down towards the center I'm going to tell you guys a little bit about Istanbul. So Istanbul is Turkey's largest city with a population of 15 million Which is 19 percent of the population of Turkey and it's also the most popular city in Europe The city was originally founded as Byzantium in the 7th century bc It then later became the capital of the eastern roman empire the Byzantine empire and was renamed Constantinople in 330 ad by emperor Constantine So he named the city after himself and it remained the center of the eastern roman empire All the way until it became the center of the Ottoman empire But it wasn't until 1930 that it was actually renamed its current name Istanbul Which is the Turkish rendering of to the city. This is an incredibly important city and really central to European and world history But I don't know if that makes it worth riding in this traffic But anyway, it is really cool to be here Who can say they've been in a traffic jam in Istanbul?  I was like go to the center Do what you want and we'll just follow it. Yeah, sometimes I think we're a little bit crazy on this journey to do this But anyway, I think we were crazy to begin the journey anyway, so There we go. Nice to be here anyway. Hey, oh, yeah, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else So we're actually trying to get to Istanbul's most famous attraction The Harjir Sofia, but we have no idea if we can actually get there I've just rooted on the map straight to it And now we're just going through all the old streets in the very very center of Istanbul Hoping that we can get a glimpse of it. Yeah, it's not easy It's not easy. No, these streets are so busy Oh my lordy lord and so uneven as well It says we are less than a mile away from the Harjir Sofia that I've yet to see it. So see how far we can get Oh, is that it just over there over to the left now? Yeah, is that the top of it over there? I think so Yeah, we can see the top of it One eternity later This is starting to get pretty tough now this last mile Has taken us nearly an hour so far. The traffic here is so mad. It's just absolutely Barely moving. It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, we are only half a mile from the Harjir Sofia now But I still can't see it. It's literally just behind Just behind there. I've seen people walking past us And getting there faster. Yeah, but a lot of nice Turkish rugs. That's true Yeah, literally it says 0.2 we turn and it should be right in front of us So close Okay, I think this might be as close as we're gonna get. Yeah, just gonna park the bike here. Yeah And I'm just gonna walk it. It's okay to park here for five minutes. It's there. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you So he said we could park just here Okay Okay, perfect. So it looks like this is as far as bubble we can go now.  Unfortunately, but I'll send her over here afterwards But there it is up ahead.  So I just want to give you guys a few facts about this Amazing building. So the Harjir Sofia was constructed as an eastern orthodox cathedral in 537 ad And when it was constructed, it was the largest indoor space in the entire world And it remained the largest cathedral in the world Until the cathedral of Seville Was built in the 1500s. So for a thousand years, it was the largest cathedral in the world As I said, it began its life as an eastern orthodox cathedral but when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s This became a mosque and it remained a mosque until 1935 When it became a museum and then in 2020. So really recently they actually turned it back into a mosque Just going to walk around and have a look on this side Well, what an absolutely crazy building That has got to be one of the wonders of the world right here. Absolutely unbelievable to be here Wow, what a super impressive building. But what's really impressive about it Is that it was built in 537 1500 years ago. They managed to build a building that big That's just absolutely crazy. I can't imagine what it would have been like For the people at the time to have seen such a massive indoor space one impressive place Anyway, I have to get back to Lavi back to Bumblebee because We've really got to get out of Istanbul before rush hour kicks in. All right Time to get out of here. Yes, please It's looking really really really busy. This is the city with 19 million people guys and Each single one of them is right here Let's get out of Istanbul Let's see. Maybe the traffic is a little bit better on the way out I don't think so. Really guys promise me to never ever drive or ride in Istanbul. Seriously We've ridden in a lot of country capitals already And most of the time it went pretty well And I was surprised at how like easy it was to get around But I can tell you that Istanbul is definitely the exception. Istanbul Has been incredibly difficult to get around these roads are very uneven and cobbled. This traffic is unending And these streets are very windy narrow Basically everything which is really difficult to ride on. But anyway, I'm happy that we did it because we have seen A good amount of the city, which is nice. Yeah, we've had a whole city tour Yeah, pretty much But it's so funny because I thought that I was standing in front of the Harjit Sofia So I kind of did all my information and everything. I made it Yes The Harjit Sofia And then when I was finished I looked on the sign and I was like, huh Blue Mosque then I asked the person next to me and I was like, is this the Harjit Sofia?  No, I mean two mosques like right next to each other How do you want to know like which is the right one?  Yeah But pretty cool. We could find a room a room in our price range as well It's about 22 pounds and it's 22 miles away from here Yeah, it is a little bit out the city in the direction that we're going. Oh, no, I lost it. Is it just fallen now? I think Can you see it? No, I can't see it actually. No, it's gone You lost it Um, from England. Do you mind to grab this rubber thing on the ground? There, there, there, over there Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. I give you our card. We have a YouTube, we have a YouTube channel Yes, you got the slime We just lost this piece of Lavi's foot peg I'm so glad that we picked that up because we couldn't have come back here.  Yeah, we need to glue it back on. Anyway, we'll update you guys Once we get a little bit out. Yes.  Wow Amazing really nice decoration and the next traffic jam as far as we got Look at this biker. Whoa, here he goes. Whoa I can't filter like that with these bags With these panniers. No, we're trying to follow this police car To see if we can skip a little bit of traffic Oh, move out of the way for us Off them Go go go go go go go guys. We've got a hotel to get to Wow, yeah, this traffic here is so mad. We haven't gone anywhere like we have still 19 miles to go and we started with like 23 miles It has been an hour or something like that.  All right traffic has started moving Yes, let's get out of the city and let's get to this hotel We made it To the world-class airport hotel. It's pretty much sunset now It's been a long day A crazy day Hello You're a good dog, okay?  Anyway We made it. We're here. It's time to unpack Good evening guys. We made it. Happy to live. Yes Oh my god This is a really beautiful hotel room. The hotel is called world-class hotel This is a world-class room Yeah, kind of light switch. They've got free coffee. They've got free snacks Let's enjoy our special treat for you That's nice guys But man, it was a hectic ride. Yeah another full-on day on bumblebee I mean we got into the outskirts of istanbul at like half past one two o'clock And now it's like nearly seven o'clock. So we were going around the city for a long time. It's a mad city It's a beautiful city. It's a very vibrant city a lot of stuff is going on Like I can't imagine you can spend so much time in the city here Yeah, it was really cool to see istanbul and it's really cool to finally be in europe again So that's it the final episode of season five and now it's time to explore europe a brand new season season six And I can't wait. Yes, and that's it from us today We hope you enjoyed the video if so, please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel Share the video with your friends and family comment below and we will see you next time


Well hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill. I'm so glad you're joining us again and if you enjoyed other episodes or enjoy this episode please stop by and leave us a review, share with friends or family that might benefit from this information. Today I have a special guest and a new friend and I'm so excited to introduce her. We are just talking right before we get on here of how needed the information today is going to be for our society, for our teens, for our adults, for really everyone. Today we're talking about the anatomy of anxiety and we're going to do a deep dive with Dr. Ellen Vora. So let me introduce our guest and then we'll jump right in. So Dr. Ellen Vora is a board certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist and yoga teacher and I want to mention you're an MD because there's a lot of people out there calling themselves doctors that aren't a medical doctor so I love that you're coming to this with you know the medical degree and she's an author of the best-selling book, The Anatomy of Anxiety. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health considering the whole person and addressing imbalances at the root. She received her bachelor's from Yale University and MD from Columbia. Welcome. I'm so delighted to have you here today. Thank you Dr. Jill. I'm so glad to be here today. So as I always start with guest and mention to you I always love the story of how we get into healing professions and I'd love to hear a little bit about your journey into medicine. Was it something you always wanted to do? How did you get into medicine and then how did you kind of get into a functional and holistic medicine? Yeah so I got into medicine a little bit. I'm sure it was an early connection to intuition but I was not yet aware of how my intuition was operating. I was obsessed with the brain but I'd also been an English major as an undergraduate and really I was passionate about hip hop dancing but that did not materialize into a career so I ended up in med school and by the time I was in my psychiatry training I already felt deeply out of alignment with allopathic medicine with what I was being trained to do and I was in these two parallel crises. One was feeling like I wasn't convinced that I was doing no harm. It wasn't convinced that I was actually helping my patients thrive and that's a bad feeling 10 years into training and it's an expensive education. It's your blood sweat and tears and to feel like maybe this has all been for naught and are these tools not as helpful as we are taught to believe that they are but the parallel crisis with that was that I was really unwell and I had autoimmune markers in my blood work.  I was bloated.  Wasn't getting a period. Had polycystic ovary syndrome, ocular migraines, joint pain. There was so much that wasn't working in my body and I thought here I am a med student. I should know how to keep myself well. I thought I was doing everything right and it really took a very, you know, we at the time used the word alternative. Now I just think it's the oldest fashion most basic way to support human health but it took a lot of alternative strategies to get myself well and then I started applying that in my practice and I felt more hopeful that I had tools for supporting my patients and that has all worked together to lead me to be this radical weird psychiatrist that I am. I love it. What if we are actually more the norm? I know you and I believe this but I still understand every bit of your story. Like we didn't know it sounds like both of us the intuition and that deep like inside and right brain and you were English so you had all this creative pieces. I really think that not only women in medicine but the more intuitive healers bringing that to conventional medicine. I could just cry because it's so, so critical to the crisis we're having right now in our medical system and especially in mental health. Like the fact that you are able to sit with a patient. I can't wait to dive into more but I so resonate with your story because I almost didn't go into medicine because it was so like didn't feel aligned but then I realized wow we can actually change it and you're doing that and hopefully I'm doing that a little bit too. So I already love you and love the energy that you bring and I also love those of us who are truly healers and maybe didn't know it in the beginning. We often have that journey right that it's our own illness and when we find I find this with colleagues and with myself when we found those pieces where Western medicine didn't have an answer it's wonderful if you have a heart attack or stroke but if you have depression or you have obesity or you have diabetes or you have autoimmune lupus any of these things we don't have the best answers because drugs are not the cure right. This is right and I mean it's just I share that that appreciation of the heroics of Western medicine can really rescue you out of a bad situation and so much gratitude to that but we just keep misapplying it to situations where it's not only inappropriate and doesn't help someone get well but it often leaves them worse off and so it's really nice to expand our toolbox and have other ways to support patients to gently rebalance rather than react and throw someone into a new state of imbalance. So I love that and today we're talking about anxiety now just before we went on I mentioned I was talking to a very high-level community leader who was talking about the crisis in mental health especially among teens like literally every week there was another child being admitted for suicide and you and I both see this but let's talk first about the state of things because I think there's like the pandemic and the isolation and the social media and then our talks again I could name a hundred things that are contributing but I'd love to hear from you as the expert what is the state of anxiety and mental health especially in the younger generations what are we dealing with what are you seeing. Yeah so I mean we were already in an epidemic and then of course things got precipitously worse through the course of the pandemic for a variety of reasons and we've seen skyrocketing rates of prescriptions for psychiatric medications and some 30 million Americans have anxiety in every given any given year but I think that statistics are so intangible and really if you look around we all know someone who struggles with anxiety we ourselves struggle we see the rates in kids we see how kids are struggling and so it's I think of it as the pH of our age that if you drop a litmus strip into this stew that we're all in the quality of the way we experience imbalance right now and how we experience unease is something we subjectively call anxiety. Yeah so let's go into what is anxiety because I think a lot of times you have this movie at least I even as a medical professional I have a stereotype of what anxiety looks like right and your book titled Anatomy of Anxiety what a great name what is the anatomy what does it look like and how can it be actually anxiety but be masquerading at maybe something as maybe like even an OCD type of presentation. Tell us the many faces what does this look like in our friends and family and our patients. I think it can really present so with such a diversity of symptoms and one person has what we would call generalized anxiety disorder they're chronically worrying and tense and have difficulty relaxing and letting go whereas somebody else might have social anxiety or someone might have obsessive compulsive disorder there's so many different manifestations panic disorder is very common you can have agoraphobic traits to that but I've really moved away from my training or as a psychiatrist we're taught to use the DSM the diagnostic statistical manual and it's our Bible but I've come to observe that that doesn't steer management in a meaningful way for me and that's really the central thesis of my book is that what did feel like a meaningful classification system was to divide anxiety into two types and they're what I call true anxiety and false anxiety and I want to be really clear false anxiety doesn't mean that the suffering is any less real it speaks to the underlying root cause and with false anxiety which you can also think of as avoidable anxiety this is physical anxiety it's based in the physical body and it's related to something tipping our body into a stress response and it's usually something pretty innocuous some aspect of modern life like maybe we're tripped into a blood sugar crash or we're sleep deprived or we had an extra cold brew coffee that day or we're hung over or we just came out of a going down a rabbit hole on the internet and all of these can leave our body in a stress response which we then subjectively experience as anxiety but we would do well to identify that root cause eliminate it and we can move away from this it's unnecessary suffering we can eliminate the avoidable anxiety but on the other hand we also have true anxiety which is we can also think of it as purposeful anxiety this is not something to pathologize it's not something to suppress or try to make it go away this is actually something to honor and true anxiety is not what's wrong with us it's what's right with us when we are able to viscerally connect to what's wrong in the world around us and that can pertain to our personal lives our immediate surroundings our communities the world at large we're in a moment right now where people are having immense amounts of true anxiety where you are aware that there's something out of alignment and you feel that you have a role in the ecosystem in addressing that however large however small you know that you have to course correct or show up in some way to get things back into alignment and so true anxiety it's not something to pathologize or suppress it's really something to learn how to listen to and honor wow i'm just one of those times where i'm literally like so there's such an ha with what you said because several things just click number one when we really experience our somatic body and system anxiety is a very normal part of being it's just literally a signal you're saying that something is out of alignment whether it's in our personal relationships or the world at large or suffering that we've experienced right so i love this because i'm always helping patients to go back to their body and actually feel because when we can connect we actually intuitively often know what to do next right so i love what you're saying there and then my other thought is i remember years ago treating a patient with atrial fibrillation and i remember understanding that all of a sudden i had this aha years ago their heart was beating abnormally it was an irregular rhythm for those who don't know what atrial fibrillation is but what that did was create an anxiety but it wasn't anxiety like i'm worried it was the heart was beating abnormal and that gave a signal to the brain that something's not right and i realized all of a sudden oh this is not classic anxiety this is literally from a physiological dysfunction right so that's the other part of what you're saying is like what if it's actually a signal that something is and again i've understood that but you just made it so clear and how you spoke it um you know so eloquently i should say and it makes sense and i think those listening will understand that too let's dive deeper into what are the things physiologically can that that false anxiety you called it right i love that idea tell us more about that i mean the one you bring up with afib that's such a perfect example because our mind is the consummate meaning maker and so if you give our body a stress response that tracks up to the brain and it says okay we're in a stress response and our brain its role is always to attempt to make sense of stimuli of inputs and so it sees this stress response and it thinks okay i'm anxious right now i must be anxious because this thing happening at work or this interpersonal dynamic that feels uneasy and we'll tell a story and we'll have a narrative to make sense of that physical sensation and there's always validity to the story we tell ourselves because we do always have stressors but it's in many ways unhelpful because what caused what generated that feeling of anxiety was not these stories we tell ourselves not the circumstances it's the afib it's the heart literally you know generating a stress response or it's the hangover or the sleep deprivation or the blood sugar crash and so once we know that it can be so powerful and grounding to just be able to reflect in a moment of peak anxiety i usually instruct my patients to to say it this way which is i give myself permission to be anxious right now i'm feeling anxious and it makes sense that i'm anxious right now and maybe i need a snack or and i'm aware that i had a lousy night of sleep or and i know i'm getting my period tomorrow and to just have an awareness of the physiologic underpinnings that might be generating a stress response it can be really helpful sometimes it's actionable like you're having a blood sugar crash have a snack sometimes it's really just there's not necessarily a to-do it might help you make different choices in the future but sometimes it's just to take the power out of the anxious feeling in that moment a lot of my patients have what's called interdose withdrawal so if someone's taking psychiatric medication and if they're you know we all are slightly different with our pharmacokinetics and our unique biology and somebody might metabolize their medication a little bit more rapidly than average and maybe they're at a pharmacologic nadir or low point when they wake up in the morning and their bodies do for the next dose of medication that can certainly trip somebody into panic anxiety feeling overwhelmed feeling kind of a dark doom and gloom feeling and we run with that and we think okay everything is terrible but if you can just remind yourself in that moment maybe this is interdose withdrawal then you can just know things might not be as terrible as they feel right now this might just be my body due for its next dose hey 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could just hear myself or anyone else saying oh my gosh what's wrong why am i feeling this way like going to that kind of like which accelerates the anxiety right and pathologizing it making it like this is a bad thing what the world's going on or and i've heard patients say that too they tell the story of that um and instead of doing that you're actually having this kind compassion like maybe this means i need something like a glass of water or i had this joke with good friends and boyfriend um that if i ever get cranky i'm like a two-year-old i'd eat either a nap or a snack so i totally get that yeah if i'm we are just oversized toddlers in so many ways when i had my daughter i had to keep a list on the refrigerator like is she hungry does she have a wet diaper does she need to be burped maybe she's teething she's tired overtired and i needed to cue myself and remind myself it was just a little too many things to keep track of without a list and that's why in my book i have this avoidable anxiety inventory because we just need a list that list right and to remind ourselves like maybe this is going on right now and to just give ourselves grace and compassion in that moment and maybe it helps us form a plan that can prevent future unnecessary suffering oh this is such a beautiful way to look at it i love love love what you're saying um what about panic attacks those to me obviously are accelerated and they're definitely driven by neurotransmitters and adrenal and all those things give us a little bit of anatomy of a panic attack and i feel like that's another level for people experiencing that where they might not be able to as easily talk themselves through it what would you do or tell a patient with chronic you know maybe severe panic attacks yeah so whenever i'm working with someone who experiences panic they always want to know what do i do once i'm panicking and i like to say i'm below average at supporting someone once they're past the point of no return like there isn't a whole lot we can do at that point some people splash cold water on their face or go outside and move in the fresh air some of my patients will do a sensory practice that really grounds you in the present moment like you name five things you can see then you do a four seven eight breath then you name four things that you can feel and then you do a four seven eight breath and then you name things that you can smell or taste or touch and all of this and it's helpful but i'm so much more interested in preventing a panic attack from happening in the first place i'm like a little bit uninterested what do you do once it's happened because it's kind of like it goes up and it resolves and it's it's kind of one of these it's that's how it's going to behave almost no matter what you do and that can be helpful to know if you experience panic you're not trapped you're not stuck you're not going crazy this is going to crest and then it's going to resolve on its own pretty much no matter what you do so the more you can actually not be in resistance to it and you can kind of allow it that's really helpful because resistance does tend to pour oil on the flames of panic whereas allowing and softening in the face of it does tend to change our suffering around it but i'm always interested in preventing panic and i think it's actually quite physiologic there's of course always psychospiritual and emotional mental underpinnings but the physical stuff is where i think we can move the needle the most and it's preventing big peak stress responses i recently was talking with someone who was getting into a panic disorder when they were using cocaine and they didn't connect those dots until a physician was like do you use drugs and the person was like actually yes and it's like bingo yeah and so sometimes we forget that things that put our body into a very pronounced stress response can be contributing and the fact is you know we here in the united states it's it's common it's cool and trendy to drink really significant amounts of caffeine and i have nothing against caffeine but sometimes you just want to be conscious of how much and i have a lot of patients where they just assumed anxiety was part of their identity that's who they are it's how their life would always feel until they dramatically decreased their caffeine consumption and then it was like actually i don't have to be anxious all the time wow these are some great pearls and actually love that you said maybe you just leave it alone and let it crust i found when i really started to do somatic work and started to re-experience emotions i had allowed myself like sadness and anger the very first time like the sadness it was like a wave and by that time i had started understanding i can let this go and ride the wave like a surfer just like you're describing and it's going to come and go and once i learned that it was so much easier to deal with difficult emotions because my first 40 years i just like suppressed it and resisted and did not do any good things for my health so i really like that you're saying that that maybe it's actually a part of the allowing and knowing uh it's hard but you will get through it because once we do that whatever emotion it is and especially panic it really is just like riding a wave it's not fun but in many ways that's you know everyone writes a book and then it takes a long time for the book to come out and then by the time it's out in the world you're like well i would write it a little differently now if i could rewrite it and one thing that i've really shifted with over time is that i have a very mister fix it approach to mental health and i still stand by that i don't want unnecessary suffering happening for my patients for my readers but i also think that there's just a lot of wisdom to allowing and i think a roomies poem i think it's called the guest house and sadness comes you invite it in and the other day i was walking down the street right now we're recording this it's october i live in new york city it's that time of year for me where i start to get a little bit seasonal effective and i was noticing the early sunset and it was cold and it was dark and i felt these old feelings of sadness creeping and i knew to identify this as related to the seasons and in the past i've always had taken such a mister fix it approach to that i've thought well what's the right vitamin d amount and fish oil and bright light therapy and let me get some sunshine and i was like maybe we actually need an opportunity to be sad it's the yin to our yang it's the purge of pent up grief unmetabolized feelings so it's like actually i'm just going to really allow myself to be in some seasonal effective disorder it's almost like not a problem to solve it's actually a wave to ride that serves me on some level thank you for sharing that i think that is so so helpful to me and to everyone listening because the truth is this is part of why western medicine didn't quite align with both you and i we tend to pathologize everything right and i i'm the guiltiest of all of you listening in my not i am the queen of pathologizing and saying oh what's wrong what do i do just like you said i go to my cabinet i figure out a supplement i figure out a biohack i'm all about that however i've just recently learned what if this is actually not pathology what if there's this kindness to yourself that you can feel it's okay to be sad it's okay to be grieving it's okay to have anxiety and and it's almost like you take that little girl and say sweetheart it's okay you're beautiful and you can have full range of emotions and at least for me i grew up in a kind of a very stoic kind of farm family where some of these emotions weren't really allowed or they weren't really encouraged so i thought okay you know you put on this face and this happy so it really reinforced that and as i've grown and learned that allowing that kindness to ourself with all of its faces is so powerful and the healing isn't it and like honor to earlier times and previous generations where there was a different set of you know what what we needed to get by and it's a privilege really to be in a position where you can invite in sadness where it's not just a matter of survival and i think that um yeah i'm in a similar position of really learning to embrace the full range of emotion i'm grieving right now and and i and i just really grieve and to me there's nothing wrong with it i don't apologize for it i don't even feel like this is a burden or a nuisance if i start crying in a conversation with someone i actually think that crying in someone else's presence is a little bit of a gift to them because we use our mirror neurons and we all get a little dose of oxytocin it bonds us and crying in the presence of others we always are so embarrassed we think oh i'm sorry i'm sorry and we try to suck it back in and make it small and i'm really done with that i think that i just try to cry as big and fully now as as my body wants you know what kind of cry it wants to have in that moment that all this is so good so you wrote anatomy of anxiety and what when was that published i know we'll talk about March 2022 okay so just a year ago and again such a needed resource i want to be sure if you're listening here you go out and get that book right away we'll link up wherever you're listening to the websites and resources of dr warra but i want to talk about like writing that book i find because i just wrote my own book and that is such a process of really understanding ourselves and our patients and therapeutic what was the biggest lesson or takeaway or thing that you maybe didn't think you were expecting when you wrote the book that came out of the writing of the book any piece or it has so many parallels to pregnancy and childbirth you know you're gestating something for a while and there's aches and pains and discomfort that comes with that and identity crises you know you come up against all your all your stuff all your imposter syndrome and your perfectionism and feeling of not good enough and then you birth it into the world and it it just lives on its own and it's it's like your heart traveling outside your body it's very vulnerable and you just hope that people are kind to it and that it carries out its mission in the world you know and has a fulfilling experience and i think that i'm starting my second book now which similarly with childbirth you have your write your first book and you're like oh god i'm never going to do it again and then you get the inspiration biology trumps it all and you find yourself wanting to do the process again but what i'm really trying to do this time around more more richly than the first time is is really channel and to to pray before i start writing and so that's my process now it's very meditative i burn a candle i sit in meditation and then i basically ask for source to use me and to use my unique perspective or strengths or insights and then to birth something into the world that will benefit the world through me and so that's the process now and it's simultaneously harder and easier easier because it flows and harder because i'm tackling much bigger harder questions wow uh you are like my long lost soul sister i love i love every bit of what you're saying and i really love that piece because i learned in my first book and for sure if i ever write another book i'm still in the post delivery stage where i'm like oh not yet but all that to say like i really realize the best pieces came out of that really letting go surrounding to the divine and allowing that to flow through me and like stuff that i didn't even know was in me came out that was profound for myself and for the reader so i really really appreciate that because i feel like the most vulnerable best most powerful content is in that space of complete surrender and and realizing that with humility how limited we are but also how vast we are with the power of the divine flowing through so i really really appreciate you saying that and it's encouragement for me for the next book someday yes i'm so excited for your book to be birthed into the world thank you um so let's talk a little bit about because this morning i had this conversation with the leader about teens and about and what do you see around do you see many uh you know do you see young adults and teens are you just adults or what kind of population and then what are you seeing because i feel like they are in maybe a bigger crisis than any generation before yeah i mean so i am an adult psychiatrist so technically not trained in 18 and younger although many of my patients are parents and so kids are a central topic to my practice and what i'm seeing is that so we've had this framework of true anxiety false anxiety and i think that the young people right now uniquely have a whopping dose of both and i do find that the younger you are the more you're able to viscerally connect to what's wrong in the world you're less hardened and less concretized and rigid and so you can really feel injustice you can feel it on a visceral level so they're carrying that and they were born into this world with 9 11 with climate change with the pandemic they you know with social media which is an enormous one and so they're aware of what's wrong i think that the underappreciated aspect of what it means to be young right now and the part that i feel like is more actionable and we can do something about is the whopping dose of false anxiety that they carry i think that they gestated in an inflammatory environment even just you know i was born in 1980 so i gestated just at the end of a world that wasn't yet using high fortress corn syrup in everything wasn't yet spraying ground up on everything we just weren't yet making engineering foods to be hyper palatable i think things have gotten really deranged in the last 40 some years and so these kids gestated in a womb that is endocrine disruptive and inflammatory and lacking in microbial diversity and so all of this i think impacts their physical health and then foods are engineered to be hyper palatable which messes with your brain chemistry but also messes with how your body is depositing fat and that then is triggering especially for young females i think that they're drinking coffee in a way that kids didn't used to drink coffee but the big big big factor that trumps everything else is screens and social media and it's just so it's such a problem because it's so addictive and so necessary and so poisonous to the young brain on a lot number of different levels and if we just looked at a very biologic aspect of this the blue light in the evening suppresses melatonin and disrupts circadian rhythm and so that itself disrupts hormone production and so even it's altering puberty it's altering brain development and compromising sleep quality which itself compromises brain development and the ability to have a good stable mood the next day to have good clear attention and cognitive function the next day so all of this is big and then there's all the compare and despair and relational aggression and FOMO that happens with social media there's one other factor and this one is the most controversial and the most sensitive to talk about but i say this because this will pertain to this this will be a truth for some people and i think they deserve to know this which is that i'm a psychiatrist i prescribe psychiatric medication i know it can be helpful i know it can be lifesaving so i say this with nuance and with balance i also know that people experience adverse effects side effects they experience withdrawal when they miss a dose when they go off of it when they change medications or change doses and all of this is a silent epidemic and it impacts young people so starkly and so i think that we have made people more mentally fragile with all of the psychiatric medication prescribing and that's also a really big problem and there's no easy path out once again you have said that so eloquently i just want to pause and like take it in because what a beautiful way to say that just use i mean there's we need to use caution and you and i as a medical doctors should be the leaders in talking clearly about not only the benefits but the risk which is what we're talking about now i think that's very very valid i see the same thing and i see the withdrawal symptoms of between doses and all of that that you're discussing and it's very real what's really sad is i think whether it's a pharmaceutical or even not all doctors but some doctors maybe not giving full disclosure what ends up as a patient themselves was like there's something wrong with them that they're not responding or that they're having these ebbs and flows and i want to take that off of the patient and say you know we need to have discussions about this with your doctor and you and i hear just bringing to life that there could be a piece of the puzzle that involves your actual medications right exactly and i think that that stands repeating that people do attribute all these things to themselves they'll call something relapse when in fact it's withdrawal they'll just say you know if this is just hard when in fact that's introduced withdrawal or that's a side effect and and you know i think people just don't know to attribute things to effects of medication like a child who's on stimulants and has a come down at the end of the day and is irritable and a family might come to me and say like you know this is a problem and why are they have such bad behavior and they're a problem and what's the right medicine to treat that and we fail to look at the root cause that this is actually a really obvious effect of a medication they're taking during the day and there are things we can do to mitigate it but we need to start with a recognition of what's happening here yeah and on this note i'm going to bring up something may or not may not be controversial but benzodiazepines obviously one of the common ones that as physicians were taught to use to treat anxiety but as you and i know there's definitely withdrawal issues and there's definitely addictive issues tell us a little about your stance and again we both know there's appropriate uses for these things i'm not demonizing them but i would love to hear what you think about benzodiazepines the good and the bad and the cautions oh my god the bad and the bad i think that i have a less nuanced view on benzos i agree i mean i think that you can convince me they're helpful in seizures and you can convince me that as an absolute one-off rescue from a panic attack there's a role but the tricky thing about benzos is that they are habit forming not for everyone it's a little bit unpredictable but i've over the years had so many patients wash up to shore in my practice and say i went to see my primary care doctor i was put on an ssri i was still anxious i was having panic attacks so they gave me xanax or they gave me clonopin and just doing what i was told to do by my doctor being a good law abiding citizen i started taking this when i was anxious and now they are addicted and to me the harrowing process of getting off of a benzodiazepine is so brutal for some people it's so damning that i don't actually ever think that it's doing no harm to start someone down that path and so i have not started someone on a benzo in so many years and even just the one time i did i felt a little bit like bullied into it it's not it's not my truth and i don't and i think that also i have so much sympathy for primary care doctors who hand these out sometimes like candy but they have what eight minutes maybe 15 minutes with a patient someone's crying someone's not well in their life and you need to be able to solve the problem and send someone off feeling like a happy camper and no time and that person needs to be heard and witnessed and their false anxiety needs to be adjudicated and there's just so much that we need to do to actually support healing in that moment and it can't be done without time and training and space holding and so they end up on xanax and i really think that for the people that are listening that are okay in their relationship to benzos consider yourselves the lucky ones and no need for my words i don't want you to i don't want this to be a hex and to make you think that it's worse than it is but i just want to send so much sympathy to anyone who feels stuck on it who's struggling with the withdrawal process who feels a little bit um a little really let down by the health care system that they trusted and then they they found themselves on a on a situation that's making things worse and that's the last thing on benzos i'll add is that it exacerbates the exact problem we use to treat it for us so if we're using it to treat anxiety rushing the brain with the neurotransmitter gab the brain in an attempt to restore homeostasis pulls the GABA receptors and this is part of why we develop tolerance and dependence is that then when we're not on the benzo anymore you can't feel calm at a regular level of GABA in the brain because you it's almost as though your brain can't hear the GABA because you don't have the receptors anymore so we've then exacerbated the anxiety and the panic by attempting to treat it wow i once again so eloquent and i couldn't agree more i'm really glad you are very honest about it because i i think it's a really really big issue and patients very much are unaware of the severity of what could happen uh because like you said they go and like you said compassion to the primary doctor who's doing this because they're trying to do the best they can but even as physicians you and i both know we are not trained on the severity of the side effects in the withdrawal are we right no it's it's i mean benzos are the one exception we're at least i mean partly because maybe it's off-label and they're cheap and generic but we're at least told these are not safe for long-term use but we're not really properly told therefore you kind of can't really ever start someone on it because they create the need for themselves and it's really hard to get off once you're hooked thank you for that and again i know our listeners are appreciating every bit of wisdom you're sharing i want to end with a question that you may have already said something that fits this so you feel free to repeat but what is the one thing that you wish everyone knew about anxiety i think it really does come back to that central thesis of false and true anxiety i want someone to basically do an algorithm with themselves where at first you start with the false anxiety it's the low hanging fruit and it muddies the waters you can't really know what your true anxiety is while your physiology is pinballing between a blood sugar crash and sleep deprivation and hangovers and overcaffeinated hormone imbalance you you kind of need to get some of that resolved you need your physiology stable so that you can feel clear and then the job really becomes welcoming in your anxiety and listening to it and it's very natural for humans not to want to be still and not to want to feel our feelings and we come by it honestly it's hard but we have a feeling when we head towards anxiety of oh no oh no oh no i won't be able to handle this and if we actually soften into it and allow it it's not there to hurt us it's actually there with a loving message to help us get back into alignment once again beautifully said i have a sign in my living room it says be still it's just that reminder because i'm someone who moves a lot and does not like to be still and when after 40 when i started somatically experiencing my emotions i realized oh the reason for that was because i didn't want to feel so i think this like kindness to ourselves because when you first if you're out there listening you're a type A and you're driven and you're busy all the time there's probably a piece of you that doesn't like to be still because of what we're talking about because some of the stuff percolates up and i just like use that i want to echo Dr. Ellen and be kind to yourself and take that time in the quiet and let yourself fill the wave and the tsunami of these emotions Dr. Ellen this was so full of wisdom and pearls i'm super excited to get a copy of your book myself but where can everybody else find your book and in your website yeah so my book is wherever books are sold and it's called the anatomy of anxiety and my website's ellenvorah.com and i'm also very active on instagram i'm at ellenvorahmd fantastic thank you again for your time today thank you dr gel i've loved this conversation


lot. We're doing this. Hey guys, we're live. I am so glad that you joined me here today.  I've got reading here with us today. And she is helping me do this technology thing. And I got to tell you, I am so scared. I'm on a new platform that I mean, I've been on YouTube for a while, but I've never done the live thing before. And so I didn't know where the camera was going to end up and I didn't know where I was supposed to sit and what I'm supposed to say. And I kind of thought in the back of my mind, it was going to be like zoom. Because we do our group coachings and stuff on zoom. And so we had a task so that I could see where the camera was set up. And I was like, there's no, there's no people. There's no people read or wear the people.  Like, holy cow. There's so so I'm just talking. She's like, yeah, it's kind of like doing a show except there are comments in the side. What? I got to read the comments on the side. She's like, yeah, I was like, oh, no, then I got out reading glasses. I'm not going to be cute. And she's like, yeah, that's that's what this is all about. I was like, oh, no. And thank you for sending questions in early. So we got a couple of questions that come in came in. And I just want to say thank you for your early questions.  We've got 50 people watching us right now. So yay, it makes me so happy and it makes my heart sing that you joined us for a few minutes out of your day. I do want to answer one of the first questions we got here. Somebody asked about the ozone generator. And I love the ozone generator to remove smells and stuff from your house. And so I did want to show you the one that I use and when I use it. And I'll try to get through as many of these questions here as we can. This is the ozone generator that I use. It's very small and you can tell like compared to my head, it's about the size of my head. It fits in my cleaning caddy really well. And I don't take this on every job. I only take it on the jobs where I'm doing a special project. So for example, if I go to a house and I bid the job, but it has a really icky bathtub, like if the bathtub is backed up and there's all kinds of gunk and the drain has been clogged and whatever, it's going to need a lot of stuff. And if it's a shower and it's got mold and junk and ick and goop and stuff in it, I might decide on that walkthrough that I'm going to use bleach on the shower. And I'm not a big fan of bleach except in circumstances when you absolutely need it. And if I'm going to use bleach, it's going to leave a residue of smell in the house. And I don't want that for my customers. So that's the time when I'm going to use the ozone generator. So what I'm going to do in this particular situation is let's say that it's in the master bathroom. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go in and I'm going to set up the bathroom by spraying my bleach, let's say for in the shower, for example, so that it can start activating while I'm cleaning other parts of the house. Now, if I'm in the house, we know the ozone is not safe for people, plants or pets. So I want to turn off the air conditioning and I want to turn off the heat so that it's not blowing through the air ducts in the house. So I'm going to turn that off. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to spray down the bathroom with the bleach and I'm going to put the ozone generator in the corner of the bathroom, let's say on the on the vanity or something. And it just plugs in with the regular plug. Let me see if I have one here. It's got a three prone plug that fits in the back and a three prone plug on the other side. So you got to plug it into a grounded outlet and you're going to turn it on for about 30 minutes. And in 30 minutes, it's going to clear that whole bathroom of all of the smell, but the bleach could be working then inside the shower.  I'm going to go out of the bathroom door. I'm going to close the bathroom door and I'm going to seal the bottom of the door with the wet bath towel. That's going to prevent any air from escaping out of the bathroom. So now I'm going to go in another part of the house and I'm going to work on another part of the house. While the chemicals do their thing, the ozone is going to do its thing. And then when the ozone is done after about a half hour, I'm going to leave it for about an hour and let all of the ozone die. That's going to allow me then to come in with, let's say a steamer, for example, and we don't want to mix and match any chemicals.  We've already put bleach in there. I can come in with the steamer, which is nothing but just water and I can steam the rest of the shower done and we're good to go. So it's going to be a super easy job if I've used my ozone generator. So the one that I use, I'm going to put links in the notes. Can I put links here? If not, maybe read it. Is that something you can add in for me? I added it already. Oh, super. Thank you. I can't read as fast as Rita can work. That's why Rita's here. She's awesome. Okay, so the application ozone, make and models, two person team. So for a two person team, I don't know, was that a question on the ozone generator? You can use the ozone generator while you're inside the house, even if you have a two person team, but I want to seal the room and I want to lock it off. I hope that was the question. If it's not, I will read these later. I have a little bit more time and then I'll answer them in the in the notes if I screwed up. All right, let's look at the next one. I can't remove marks on the showerglass door that came from the rubber disks, the installer used to carry the glass in. I wonder, is it etched inside the glass? If it's not etched inside the glass, have you tried using a magic eraser on it? That usually will remove all kinds of smudges and smears. And on glass, it works really well, but I got to caution you here. Your magic eraser must be wet. A magic eraser is, in fact, fine sandpaper. It's going to scratch whatever it is unless it is wet. So you can use it on a showerglass door and it will remove smudges. It must be wet. If it's not wet and that doesn't work, you might try Barkeeper's Friend. Barkeeper's Friend was designed for bars. It's also great for glass if you need to use it. It is not abrasive. It's just soft like flour. So I would make a paste in there if you're not comfortable using the magic eraser. I would leave it on for about two minutes and that's just the powder, like the powder cleanser. Wet it, put powder cleanser on and then I would leave it for about two minutes and wash that off. That should come right off. So that would be my suggestion there. I'm so not going to reading the questions here while I'm trying to do this live and I don't want to miss anything. What is the best way to clean the toilet brush as well as the plastic container that holds the toilet juices? That is a great question. So the toilet brush, if you have a new toilet brush, you can clean it after every single use. My recommendation is that you train your homeowners to use it every single day. I love to use a toilet brush at least once a day. There's probably one good opportunity every day to clean out the inside of your toilet. When you're done, if you will flush the toilet, while the toilet brush is inside the toilet, it will wash off the toilet brush, then you can leave it on the side and just close the seat and let it drip dry inside the toilet. That's a great way to do that. When you're cleaning out the toilet holder that has the ick juices, I would recommend using an enzymatic cleaner. The one that we use for bathrooms or a stain remover, it's going to be something like this. This is a autoban. This is one of the professional products that we use. This is a stain remover. We also use the 32x, which is the bathroom cleaner. So that's the one that I'm going to use. If you don't have something like that, probably disinfectant of some sort. I know autoban makes a fantastic disinfectant that's available. Again, we buy them in the gallon, the gallon drugs and they're like 10, 15 dollars a gallon. They're very inexpensive. I would spray it out with that and then I would wipe it out with a paper towel. I would wipe it out with a paper towel after every single time you clean the tank. So when you clean the handle, you clean the tank, you clean the seat, all that stuff, that's when I would clean your your ick juice holder. Is that such a thing? I would do that at least once a week. That way it's going to prevent anything from backing up inside there because then you're right, it does, it stinks after a while. All right, next question. I spilled candle wax. I hope I didn't skip anybody here. I spilled candle wax on my laminate floor and now there's a stain. How do I remove the wax stains? That's a trick question. I don't know what the laminate floor is made of. Is it hardwood? Is it light colored? Is it dark colored? Does it look like slate? Does it look like wood? What is it? I don't exactly know. Is it on the surface or has it embedded itself inside? If your laminate floor is under warranty, I would recommend that you call the manufacturer and just say, hey I spilled candle wax on this. What do you recommend that will not void my warranty? And the reason I say that is if you use something that goes against the manufacturer specifications they can they can void your warranty and then you're out of luck. But they might say, oh we have something that we use that that's really good for this particular thing and they might recommend something that's designed for that specific floor. Another product and this is this comes to someone else asked about latex paint. How do you let latex paint out of carpet? And they asked this question in advance so I happen to have it right here with me. I hate to say how often I have this right here with me but a lot. This is the best product I've ever found to get out stains. This works on upholstery, it works on carpets, it might work on your laminate flooring. I don't know for sure but I would give it a try. This is available at Home Depot and Walmart and I know it's I know for a fact it's an auto zone and some of the auto supply stores but you're going to find it in the automotive department. And Rita if you have a link for that just so they can find this on on amazon so they can take a look at it and write all the notes or whatever. But this gets out blood, it gets out coffee, it gets out grease stains, it gets out all kinds of stuff. We've used it as our miracle cleaner in our cleaning caddy for years. I've probably used it for I don't know say 15 16 years but I it's a product I absolutely love and I swear by not sponsored or anything I just I'm a big fan of it. So I would try that on the laminate flooring that might work. Jamal says hi I can't wait to say hi to you. My daily routine is to learn something from you every single day while I'm going to work. I feel so well informed. Yay thank you, thank you so much. I share your philosophy. My goal is to learn something new every single day about my business. And I am armed when a day goes by and I'm halfway through the day and I haven't learned anything yet. I feel like I cheated myself. Now the cool thing is I'm 30 years into my business and I'm still learning new stuff every day and in fact today I learned how to do YouTube live. Yay! And I learned how to do the live stream and I true confession I watched like a dozen YouTube videos on how to do it YouTube. And I'm like man this is crazy. This technology has been around for a couple years but still I'm scared. I'm afraid I'm going to screw up.  I'm still learning. You know I'm a house cleaner by trade. I'm not a techno person. So I love the fact that you're learning and I think it's really important every day to challenge yourself to learn something new every single day about your business, about technology, about the people that you serve. And one of the things that I would recommend and add to your challenge of the day is to try to meet one new person every day. It was a challenge that was given to me probably when I was about 18 years old and it has served me very very well. On days where I'm not I'm not able to meet people I got to make up and on another day I meet two or three people but it's putting yourself out there it's having conversations it's eye to eye contact so that you are not scared you're not you know an introvert. As house cleaners we often introvert so it's important to get out there and and say hi to people. All right next question suede shoes I see that it said suede shoes yes three cheers to suede shoes I hope they're blue suede shoes. All right next one you're doing great oh thank you thank you so much for the vote of confidence that that makes my day. I got lots of questions here now I lost my place. Someone added money five dollars what does this mean. I don't know what this means am I rich I'm rich there's five dollars I don't know what this means but thank you I'm going to figure this out later. And it says what can you say about services that screen potential employees criminal driving records and recommendations. That's an excellent question and we're in an era right now where screening your employees is more important than it's ever been. I personally don't want to send someone to my parents house that hasn't been screened just for the sheer fact that I don't want them to be abused I don't want them to be taken advantage of I don't want them to be robbed I don't know what the situation is. So before I hire a house cleaner for them I want to make sure that the person is screened and I treat all of my customers as if they were my own parents. And the reason I do that is because well I love my parents I really just love them they're the coolest people on earth and they gave me birth you know hey good news. And so I want to I want to treat all of my customers with ultimate respect and so I don't want to send anyone into their house if I know that we're going to have some issues and I don't know if we're going to have issues unless we screen them. Okay so if you're hiring somebody for I don't know somebody that's going to work out of their house it's an independent contractor they're doing something for your business like graphic design or something you don't need a background check.  I will leave links in the show notes I don't have it off the top of my head. Programs that we've used that are 20 to 40 dollars per person it's a very small investment to guarantee that when somebody goes to the customer's house you put your best foot forward. If you send an employee to a customer's house and you've done no screening whatsoever what you're saying is I kind of hope nothing happens and I'm not going to go there.  At least if you have proof you say we did the screenings we did the checks we did our very best to make sure that the person we sent to you was verified before they came to your home. So I highly recommend it if you as the business owner are sending someone to someone else's home you don't want to take any risks that you don't have to take. Does that make sense? All right thank you for the highlight and the five dollars. I'm rich. Okay cool. What does this say? Wool dry mop for hardwood floors. I paid fifty dollars for this thing how do I use it and how do I clean it? Wool dry mop. I would not use a wool dry mop. Probably just for the dust mops if that's what we're talking about I would probably use a cotton mop. The cotton mops are really great for picking up dust and they're easy to throw inside your washing machine. When you throw anything wool inside a washing machine it has a tendency to shrink if anything malfunctions and the temperature is too hot or if it gets tossed in the dryer or those things. And so I would recommend just a cotton dry mop that you could use on hardwood floors. And so I hope you didn't waste 50 bucks but maybe it can be returned. I don't know that would be my suggestion there. That's awesome thanks. Thanks the Potter Kelly. Hi Kelly John Suzanne Rachel everybody that showed up this is so awesome and I have a feeling I'm not going to get to all your questions for making more YouTube videos we're going to have to come back and do this again. Kelly says I literally did how to clean my house where do I start. So Kelly that's a great question and the answer is none of us did. When we all started none of us knew where to start. It's like learning how to walk. Nobody learns nobody knows how to walk being born. You just you have to learn. You got to start from somewhere. Everybody starts from somewhere. So what I would recommend is where are you right now. If you're in front of the computer what can you clean near your computer. What's the computer sitting on. Is it on a table. Can you clean the can you clean the table. And my recommendation is start with one thing. Make sure that the computer the computer table is clean. And make sure that it's always clean. So now you have one thing that's clean. Then you can work your way around to what is the table on it's on the floor. What's on the floor. Is there stuff on the floor that needs to be moved. And you can just start in one area and like start to expand and clean that area around you.  I sat down at my computer and I brought my apple cider vinegar and my lemon juice. So when I'm done I'm going to take this with me I'm not going to leave it at my computer station right.  We have this tendency to think that cleaning is this huge thing that I have to spend all day Saturday morning cleaning. No you don't.  So where do you start you start right wherever you are. And you can start anywhere in your house there's no right or wrong place to start. You start in your bathroom. You start in your bedroom. You get up in the morning and you're right there at the bed. I'll start with the bed. You make the bed. Tada.  And it's just a micro habit. And if you do the micro habit every single day you make the bed. What happens is that becomes a big part of the room that looks clean because you've made the bed. Right. So it's just a micro habit.  You just put them away and you just kind of build and expand. And what you'll find is as you start doing the micro habits over and over and over again they all start building on top of each other. And unconsciously you'll say well the the bed looks so nice. Why are their shoes right by the side of the bed. And then you go put the shoes away and it it will start becoming a natural pattern. OK. Thanks for the question that was awesome. Moving on. Let's see. Love from England. Yay Rachel. Love from England. Love from the USA. Thank you. You have a favorite essential oil for cleaning air freshener. I use peppermint oil. I too love peppermint. Peppermint is awesome. It's a it's a fun smile. It's also fun for tea. I don't have a a favorite essential oil. And one of the things that I've noticed about essential oils is it depends on the type of oil that you're using. But if you use oils a lot and I know that I use them a lot in one particular room of my house and sitting on a glass table. It would diffuse into the air and then when the oil landed or the the evaporation landed there was like oil all over my my table. And I was like huh wait a second and I had a diffuser right next to my computer. And I said if that happens right next to my glass table is that happening to my computers that going into my computer keyboard. So what I've done is I've kept my essential oils away from my electronics for example because even though I love essential oils and I love the smell and the mood that they put you in. I'm more likely to use it inside. I don't know like my gym area for example or maybe my bedroom where it's not going to get to electronics. I'm really scared about the electronics. So but I do love essential oils. So anyway that's my take on that. Let's see what else do we have. I love these questions. I love questions.  And I'm getting a note here that says we're out of time. Oh no. Someone I see a yellow thing that says ten dollars. What I don't know what this means. I'm supposed to do some something and it's highlighted. Let me let me answer that question and thank you meta tech for this question. It says hi what do you think of the neat steam cleaner. Would it work for ovens is it great on grout. I tend to be messier. I think I'm in love and I'm and not with the steam cleaner. The steam cleaner is this. Yes yes yes to the steam cleaner. Are you steam cleaners for everything. But steam cleaners are overrated for oh it can clean anything. Like if you use it on a really dirty oven for example it will clean the dirty oven. But but it's going to take a really really long time. Right. You have to heat up that area and you have to dissolve what's there and the steamer only comes out in a very small spray. And so while you can do it and eliminate the need for chemicals prepare to be there for a couple of hours. And that's what they don't show you on the YouTube channels. I've steam cleaned the oven several times trying to figure out faster ways to do it so I can show you a way to clean an oven with no chemicals whatsoever. My suggestion is the reason we have chemicals is so that it does the particular job it was designed to do. So my suggestion would be to clean the steam clean to clean the oven for example with the chemicals that that are designed to do them. And then come back with the steamer. It's also perfect for a shower for example like you can steam clean a shower and I've steam cleaned a shower with the handheld steamer. Again, it takes hours to do especially if you have gunk and muckety muck that's on the bottom of the shower. You can do it but it's going to take a very very very long time. So I'm not here to say go for the chemicals but the chemicals were designed for something specific and I want to be very clear about this. There's a time and a place for everything. The time for chemicals is when you have a really big heavy duty deep cleaning job. So we're going to use the chemicals for that and then we're going to back off and from then on we're going to use maintenance cleaning chemicals which are going to be really neutral in their pH balance. That's when you use the steam cleaner. You're going to use the steam cleaner for all of your maintenance stuff. So that's going to you can come in later like for a maintenance clean for your regular follow up cleaning and only use the steamer. You don't need the the chemicals and you can do that on an oven if you're doing the maintenance cleaning. So I recommend the steamers for your maintenance cleaning but I don't recommend them for heavy duty projects because it takes so long and unless you have I don't know three or four hours to to to a really bang up job on an icky shower for example it's you're better off to scrubbing it you know. So anyway that's my take on that but I do love steamers and I do use them every day. That's it's a big part of what I do. Yeah I love the steamers. So thank you Meditech and thank you for the money and someone else up here has money. I got to figure out how this works you guys I'm seeing highlights and money. Yay I love this again I have no idea how this works but it's highlighted. Thank you for making great content I've been watching you since about 6,000 subscribers. You're kidding. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I've also been here since about 6,000 subscribers. That's kind of when I arrived to the game as well. In the beginning I got to tell you this real quick. I'm getting notes here that we got to cut out and I don't want to take up your time all day but when we started the show I was asked the question do you want to do YouTube or a podcast? And we decided to do both which was high risk for me because I'd never done either one. And I said what does that look like and I was really scared to do either one because I'd never done either one.  I'm going to figure it out as I go and my goal will be to try to get better every single day and it took me we were laughing about it earlier today it took me about 400 shows to get to the point where I was like oh okay I know how this works I know what comes next but every day I would get so scared I'd sweat profusely I'd be like oh no what if I say the wrong thing and I will give you an insider scoop where do you start? And where I started was what can I do with the resources that I have available to me and the resources I have available to me is I know house cleaning I can talk to you and so I didn't know about all the fancy setups and all that stuff but what I did have that I knew I could do is I could stand in one spot and I could talk and so I created the background behind me it's just one picture and if a picture says a thousand words what does that picture say and so it said house cleaning which is the message I was trying to send and so I created a 10 foot by 8 foot stretch fabric display and if you look at this you can see that's the end of it right there and we are inside my weight room and so I'll show you this this is kind of cool but this is the rest of the room there's the weight room there's Bob over there Bob is our punching bag when we get frustrated we punch Bob but I got a treadmill over there we got the lights over here and then over here on this side I don't know if I'm supposed to show you the behind the scenes but over here we have Rita hi Rita Rita's helping me with all the technology stuff because this is new stuff for me so my suggestion is thank you so much for being here with me for 6,000 since 6,000 subscribers my goal was just to show up every day and to try to provide value and I love what has happened with the show I get great questions I've got a great audience and I feel like you guys have given enough questions that the show has been able to continue over and over and over again so we're going to wrap up there for today I'm going to go ahead and go back through all these questions and I promise this hang on before I promise this let me say if they're still there when I close this out I don't know what happens next I don't know do all the comments disappear do they stay I don't know I'll figure that out but if they're all still here I will answer them all personally so thank you so much for joining me I don't know if this was fun for you this is a new experiment for me I just wanted to be able to jump in and say hi to you guys and spend a little bit of time with you here today so thank you so much for joining me I'm so honored I feel so privileged that you you gave me some of your attention today and I will answer in the show notes so thanks again and until then leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it


Hello friends, welcome to the session. I am Malka. Let's discuss the given question. The class 10 student of a secondary school in Krishnagar have been allotted a rectangular plot of land for their gardening activity. Sapling of Gulmohar are planted on the boundary at a distance of 1 meter from each other. There is a triangular grassy lawn in the plot as shown in the figure 7.14. The students are to sow seeds of flowering plants on the remaining area of the plot. In our first part, taking A as a region, find the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle. Second part, what will be the coordinates of the vertices of triangle PQR if C is the origin. Also calculate the area of triangles in these cases. What do you observe? Here is the figure A, B, C, D as a rectangular plot of land with PQR as a triangular grassy lawn. Now according to our question, we have to take A as the origin and find the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle that is P, Q and R. Now let's begin with the solution. Taking origin, taking A, B, A, D coordinate X's. So coordinate of P, take A as the origin then coordinates of P, R, 4 and 6. Coordinate of Q, R, 3 and 2. Coordinate of, so hope you understood it. Now let's see the next part. In the second part, we have to find the coordinates of the vertices of P, Q, R by taking C as origin. If we take C as origin, let me count from here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. Now we have to find the coordinates of P, Q and R. Taking, taking C, V, C, D, we'll find the coordinate of P, Q and R. Then coordinates, it is 12, coordinates of Q are 13. Coordinates, we understood how to find the coordinates of P, Q, R by taking C as origin. Now we have to also calculate the areas of the triangles in these cases. That is where A is the origin and the second case where C is the origin. And we have to also tell what does V observe. Now we know that area with vertices A with coordinates x1, y1, V, x2, y2 and C with coordinates x3, y3 is 1 upon 2 into x1, y2, minus y3 plus x2, y3 minus y2 plus x3, y1 minus y2. Using this formula we'll find the area of the triangle whose vertices are P, Q and R and where A is the origin. And taking A, D and A, B as coordinate x's. Now we already know the coordinates of point P, Q and R where A is the origin and the coordinates of point P are 4, 6, Q, R, 3, 2 and R where origin. Now we find the area of the triangle that is area of triangle P, Q, R equal to 1 upon 2, x1 will be 4, 2 minus 5 plus 3, 5 minus 6 plus 6 into 6 minus 2. 1 by 2 into minus 12 minus 3 plus 24. This is equal to 9 by 2 square units. Now we find the area of the triangle P, Q, R where C is the origin and C, B and C, D are coordinate x's. And we know the coordinates of P, Q, R, coordinates P, coordinates of Q, R, 13, 6 and coordinates of R, 10, 3. Now we find the area of the triangle P, Q, R where C is the origin. So area of triangle P, Q, R is equal to 1 by 2 into 12 into 6 minus 3 plus 13 into 3 minus 2 plus 10 into 2 minus 6. So this is equal to 1 by 2 into 36 plus 13 minus 14. This is equal to 9 by 2 square units. Here we observe that the area of both the triangles with where A was the origin and where C is the origin is same. Thus we see that the coordinates of the point P, Q, R where A is the origin are 4, 6, 3, 2, 6, 5 taking A, B and A, B as coordinate x's. And the coordinates of the point P, Q, R with 3 as origin are 12, 2, 13, 6, 10, 3 taking C, B and C, B as coordinate x's. And area of both the triangles where A was the origin and where C was the origin is 9 by 2 square units. We see that area of both the triangles is same. So hope you understood the solution and enjoyed the session. Goodbye and take care.


Or pet is not a service animal. The Americans with Disabilities Act says a service animal is a dog, and sometimes a miniature horse, trained to take a specific action when needed to assist a person with a disability. So unless Scooby fits those qualifications, you can't just bring him anywhere you'd like. In fact, contrary to popular belief, workers in public places are allowed to ask two questions when it comes to service animals. One is an animal required for a disability, and two, what worker task is the animal trained to perform? They are not allowed to ask for documentation or about a handler's disability. But if it turns out that your pet is not a service animal, they can kick out both you and Beethoven. And in many states there are actually penalties for pretending Brian is a service animal when they're not. So if your pet isn't working and they aren't allowed to be where you're going, it's best to just leave them at home.


InterGio 2019, a perfect platform for hexagon geo systems to showcase all our sensor latest sensor technologies, all our software applications and services where we want to show how to combine the real world with the digital world to create digital realities for various applications for the building and construction industry for smart cities and other applications. Smart city applications become more and more relevant and that's exactly where we are going to develop where we have developed already further develop applications, sensor technology to provide data to provide information which allow users and decision makers to make smarter and better decisions at the end. We basically need all kind of specialists developing sensors developing softwares but at the end of the day also bringing all our products to the final users to the end users and this is a long way where we also need generalists, people explaining and training and teaching the technologies because at the end of the day it only makes sense to use a piece of technology if you can also use it in a proper way in a very efficient way to create value. I think this is the most important point at the end. Geoinformation in general is a medium of the new digital economy and that's exactly what we are doing at Hexagon. We capture reality, we create a digital twin to allow our users, our customers actually to make better decisions and this is important for all the global problems, all the global challenges we have today when it comes to natural resources, saving resources and make the world better and safer. I would like to take this opportunity to invite all our customers and all visitors to visit our Hexagon booth and I'm very sure we have some very exciting new technologies, new sensors, new software applications to showcase and it will be very exciting. We will show something new.


Hi everybody, it's Wednesday and we are on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Jim Cramer to talk about the markets. Jim, how is your expectations for tax reform change given what happened in Alabama last night? Well, I think that it just makes it so it's got to be done even faster. There's no question. I think this is a done deal. I think it will come in Monday and we'll discover the new rates and then we'll start thinking about what we really are going to pay. It's very convoluted. I expected a great time for Intuit, maybe for H&R Block. It is really hard to understand. This is certainly not simplification. It's changed and changed simplification to different things. Yeah, so much for getting a tax code on a postcard. Yeah, I mean that had been one of the things that I really wanted because I hate to have to hire people to interpret every single line but that's exactly what some of us will have to do. Alright Jim, obviously it's Fed Day. You have a great article in Real Money about bank stocks. Do you want to elaborate? Oh, thank you. Yeah, I mean what I've been saying is that first the presumption here underlying the whole piece is, okay, shouldn't we be selling the bank stocks because it's fairly likely that they can't, at least the majors, make the numbers because they were talking about declines of 15% to 20% in the trading line last week. That caused a big hit down. But ever since September 8th you have had a bank rally where intervening goes up because of Fed rates going up and we do have an expected quarter point rate today increase and then goes down on near-term earnings as we hear some report about how they're not doing as well. One of the reasons why people like PNC so much, and that's been the favorite bank and we were trying to buy for the club, is that that's the largest other than USB, maybe SunTrust, that do not have the trading revenues so they're just going to give you the pure play on the rate increase, but this is very, very important for everybody. Everyone has to understand that these stocks are entirely trading on the Fed funds. They're not trading on the near-term earnings, but when we get their earnings, that won't matter. Alright, and everyone must go to RealMoney.com to read more on that topic. Meanwhile, Jim, back in May you interviewed Tim Cook and he broke news about this manufacturing fund. Yes, and what he did was say, okay, let's be very specific, they're going to be giving money to U.S. companies really to help manufacturing here and Finisar is one of those companies that's up against a lot of really good companies overseas. So this may give them a leg up and I love it. I like Tim Cook is so true to his word. This is exactly what has to happen in order to make it so that we are more competitive as a country. If I were the president, I would reach out today, call Tim Cook and say thank you. Love that. Alright, meanwhile Jim Bernstein out with a note saying Chipotle could be a good takeover. Chipotle, David Faber directly asked me, do I believe in the piece? My problem with the piece is that Chipotle's a moving target. I have been saying that over and over again when you have bad headlines on something having to do with food safety, it takes 18 months for people to forget that. So an opportunistic buyer could come in and say, you know what, we're six months in and a year from now, when the deal closes, say six months from now if you do stock, a year from now people will forget. So it's not absurd, it's not absurd. Most people didn't think the Panera could get a bit. Most people didn't think the Buffalo Wild Wings could get a bit. So most people didn't think that Popeyes could get a bit. And all these happen so it's not wild to buy calls on Chipotle. I don't like to buy, the Nazarians really tell you exactly, more than anybody, which strike to buy so to speak, but it's not insane. And don't do the out of money, it's probably expensive now. They'll be pumped up after the Bernstein call. It's not insane to believe that Chipotle could get a bit. Who do you have on Mad Money tonight? Okay, Dan Hesse is an old friend of mine. I know this show is not about friends, it's about money, but he's no longer the head of Sprint. And we're talking about doing well and doing good. This is just something that I've been spending a lot more time on. It's what the millennials care about companies. They really want to know sustainability. They really want to know workplace rules. They really want to know women, men, equal pay. They really want to know who's doing well. So I am meeting the demands of the millennials who care more about those issues than they care about the PE ratio. The essence of Mad Money is to try to figure out why stocks go up. If these companies that are doing this can therefore attract better talent, then it's likely going to produce much better earnings per share down the road. I mean, if you think about it, look at the talent that goes into Facebook. From when they started, they got the best talent, therefore they have many ways to best grow its margins, the best platforms, the best technology. And so getting the right people is hugely important for a company. Alright, that's tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern on Mad Money. Meanwhile, Jim, anyone looking to get their portfolio in shape for next year should watch you and Ken Fisher today at 11 a.m. on the street. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of fun. I mean, Ken's going to talk about the Trump rally. We'll talk about what stocks do work. We'll talk about corporate profits. We'll talk about surprises, so I think it's a must. I've been studying, studying, studying, and I am still not up to Ken's speed. He is that good. We can't wait for that. Thank you. Now, Jim, we're going to continue the conversation behind ActionAlertsPlus.com, so please join us there.


A Taliban official says a suspected suicide bomb has exploded outside Kabul Airport, killing at least 13 people, including children. A video posted on social media shows injured people being brought to a hospital in Kabul. The official said many Taliban guards were wounded, and the U.S. official said service members were among the wounded. Other than that, he was cited in an initial report and cautioning that it could change. He said there were casualties but did not know how many or of what nationality.