Hello, welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. This is Sunday morning coffee. We're gonna have our coffee together. I know, I know it's that whole like time change thing. So it's different, isn't it? Body feels like it's an hour earlier. So we might be a little stretchy and a little, today, we just might be, we just might be. I'm gonna just take a check of the sound to see if you were able to hear me. Just do my big Q Gion stretch. Let's see here, trying to check this out. Okay, there we go. So funny. Okay, if, hey, I do that every time now because if I don't, it's the one time I don't that it's all messed up and so I hate that. Good morning, hi, nice to see you in the chat. Hey, oh, welcome to our new moon conversation that we're gonna have today on Sunday morning coffee. We're gonna talk about the new moon. We're just gonna give you a couple of highlights I think here today regarding the new moon. The energy of a new moon usually is one of dreamy state or dreamy status, we'll say that. And the energy of that new moon is, it's perfect that it's happening during this time change because that's kind of how I think our heart as empaths interprets the new moon energy, at least to mine does, I know. When I'm feeling into this particular new moon here in March, I know it's like, if you follow any kind of astrology and you know I've given you lots of resources, right? Molly McCord is one that I follow and also Chani, C-H-A-N-I, she actually has an app. Chani has an app that you can download for free and follow every day if you want. And if you wanna pay, you can pay for some upgrade or something. But apparently this is a big new moon for manifesting and it's a big one, something to do with the eclipse season coming. And I don't know a lot about astrology, I know enough to be dangerous and to give you a heads up. And in this regard anyway, because I am really aligned with the moon energy. I genuinely adore that sweet and sultry divine family of them and energy of that moon and that water. In fact today, a little psychic story this morning, I was trying to light a candle. I tried to light a purple one, I tried to light a yellow one, I tried to light a white one. And no matter what I did, they wouldn't stay lit in my office here. And I'm like, oh, that's interesting. And I thought, oh, well, moon energy is water energy. And this year, 2024 for me personally has been the energy of the water has come in as I've been a firebearer for many, many years. I am now working with the water element which has a lot to do with emotion, which is perfect for our 2024 year of the empath devotion. And also it has to do with just energy flow and the energy of movement. And sometimes it's gentle and it's subtle and it seems almost stagnant to that peaceful pond, but it's a time that we need that rest or respite. So the energy of the moon and the mystery of not actually seeing her because in the energy of the new moon, it's the shadow, right? It's the dark side of the moon, which isn't bad. It's the quiet. The what is happening behind the scenes, the backstage presence of energy. So this makes sense. But for me today, this new moon what I'm tapping into metaphysically is different maybe than what the bigger I think stage is setting for this. I don't feel as much of the manifestation as the realization. Like I feel like this is an opportune time to soften into the parts of our bodies that we are rejecting and have abandoned. And I mean that from an energy perspective. So your mind, your heart, your body and your soul the four basic building blocks that I talk about in our model above life channel of working with ourselves I keep it super simple body, mind, heart and soul. But in that state, we have this opportunity I think for realization that not judgment, not oh my God, I have not been taken care of X, Y or Z or it's coming to a head. It's coming to a place where I can't ignore this problem anymore, whether it be a relationship issue whether it be a reoccurring pattern or cycle I've had a couple of those come up. Oh my goodness. Anybody else in the last couple of weeks? Let me just be clear. Last week was unbelievable with information with just in one day I had three significant events. I'm talking significant. Like in one instance, we got some really intense news about my kids, my big kids dad who if you followed me for a long time, then you know this whole story but if you haven't, I'm gonna fill you in just a wee bit. We're gonna take a little detour for a minute. So my first husband was we were married for 10, 11 years, 10 years I think. And we had three children together.   And then I married another person and we have a child together. And so my youngest is 14. And then my big kids are like in their 20s now. In fact, my youngest of my big kids, my third, they are turning 20 tomorrow. So I got like a 23 year old, a 21 year old and it's soon to be 20. So I don't have teenagers from that first marriage. Oh my gosh, I just have to pause for a minute. How to realize I'm not, am I that old?  Okay, breathe with me. Okay, but if you've been with me for a while, you know that when I was getting married to my first husband, his dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. And then about eight months later, he died or six, no, it was actually six months later, he died from it and he had fought it. And then he was in remission and then it came back and then they chose not to continue to fight it just to get a couple more months, you know? And so, yeah, they actually didn't tell us that our wedding either, that the cancer was back and they knew, but they didn't wanna tell us.  So had that experience. Well, then fast forward, my big kid's dad gets diagnosed with cancer four years ago, he was I think 46, yeah, 46 when he was diagnosed and same age as his dad actually, actually I think his dad died when he was 47. So right around the same age, pancreatic cancer, same thing. And then fought like hell and got diagnosed with it. It came back twice and one time almost died, was choppered to Mayo and it was a whole thing. It was awful after the surgery and stuff like that, lots of. If you look back on my above life channel, you might actually see, I don't know if I shared it here. I think I did, I might have shared it on my other YouTube channel, but it was a whole thing, right? And that was happening at the same time some major stuff was happening for me personally and I was going through a whole bunch of stuff and it was just crazy. Well, now this week, the same day, three major things were going on. He was the third major thing. So when I was with my oldest kid, I went to visit her at her place, she's about two hours away and I was with her when he called her and told her that the cancer was back and dude does not have any, half of his organs are missing now, okay, no pancreas, half of his stomach's gone, doesn't have a spleen, doesn't have, I think they took part of his liver one of the times like dudes had been through it, right? But he bounces back. He's like, yeah, whatever, I'm living with this. He's like a cat, he's got nine lives. I'm so glad he does. And he's gonna turn 50 in April and he just got diagnosed again, third time. Now it's in his stomach. So they're gonna zap it. But anyway, so I was with her when he called and told her and it was a whole thing and yeah, just a thing. At the same time, I'm dealing with some medical information too. And so then I decided not to talk to my kids about my stuff going on because I'm like, oh, it's not the best idea. Unless I need more information, I'm going to a vascular specialist. I'm doing a genetic testing thing this week and so we'll find out more info. But I'm just like, and let me say I feel good right now. Well, aside from this little flu buggy thing I got last week or something was going on, I'm a little reacting to one of the meds they just put me on. So I think, yeah, the stomach OEI thing is not fun. Let me just tell you. So I was not feeling so good. I actually had to cancel a session on Thursday. I think it was not feeling good. I wasn't feeling good Friday either. But anyway, whatever, whatever, I digress. So got that hit of information. That's a big deal, right? Really big deal. Especially when I'm like, oh, doing my own living will right now. I'm like, okay, dude's going to like exit stage right at some point. And I'm like, oh my God, what am I going to do to make sure that the kids are taken care of, you know? Because when I exit stage left, what's going to happen? You know what I mean? It's like, geez, it's just crazy. You really don't realize what's up. So this new moon energy, I think, is giving us this opportunity to have realizations within ourselves, of the places within ourselves that are our MIA or are neglected, have been neglected. And it's like the garden that you did three years ago and now it's just a pile of weeds in there. And it's like, it has so much potential. It doesn't mean you have to redo the garden, but it just means that you have to not ignore the choices you have. Don't ignore the choices you have. That's the message. Thank you very much. Here it comes, it's coming in. It's coming in. The message for Sunday morning coffee is don't ignore the choices you have. Lots of stuff was happening last, I'm serious, three, boom, boom, boom. And then I had to have a really hard conversation with somebody and it was awful. And I had to hold space and there's a difference between holding space and just being pummeled by energy, there's a difference. And we need to talk about some of that with us here, empaths, you guys remind me to talk about that, the holding space concept. Let me write that down, actually. I'm gonna write it in my journal here. Holding space, you guys would not believe, I have so many topics that I wanna talk to you about and educate on and share the experiences I have and what I know with you so you can, to support you through some of this stuff. Cause it feels like it's way too much and like you just can't handle it.   Do you understand me right now? Are you listening? Are you listening to me right now?   You are an empathic, caring, deeply connected individual who has lost their way because you can't keep getting back up and going into the game when you have so many broken bones. Girl, your leg is dragging behind you. You can't kick, you can't, it's hard when the body, mind, heart and soul is not working together as a team. And that's not your fault. This is not about blame. This is not about shame. This is not about beating yourself up cause that doesn't work. Drop and give me 20. That doesn't work. That's the old school method that is not accurate. That's not gonna help you heal.  Cause that's hard. That's harsh. So the new moon is gonna help you realize the body, mind, heart and soul which piece and particles of you are asking just for awareness are asking inside that beautiful, beautiful container of your body to be held again, to be brought back into an alignment, to be included back into your life in a way without judgment, practice the releasement of judgment on yourself by letting yourself not judge how far and keep avoiding and ignoring. That's just, it's harming. It's not healing. Yeah, I know the stress. I know the pressure. I know the intensification event.     I blame it on the time. Oh wait, we're not blaming.  I was looking up on mortality rates for the condition, the health condition that I have. And I know I'm unusual.  We all know that. You've heard the story a thousand times.  And all of a sudden I all unyearly die, right? I'm literally hanging by a thread, eww, an aortic thread. Literally that artery inside me is not doing so hot. And then a couple of weeks ago got more information about the surgery and my current status and have to kind of process some of that stuff because the way I live now is gonna be different. And I don't like that particularly.  Girls just turn 51, just turn 51. If you really wanna know how old I am, you can tell that I'm old, but I'm not good or whatever. Girls just turn 51, but I mean, I got good odds. I got really good odds, you know? I got good odds and like really good odds, like be average odds, like 80%. I mean, I think that's pretty good in the first five years, that's good, that's good. 10 years, there's not a lot of data after that. I have to do some more research but I'm standing in the kitchen realizing that this is a new moon and I have the opportunity to make my choices. How am I gonna receive or perceive the information that I'm reading? And we know that I'm an anomaly anyway. I'm a walk-in-fucking miracle, like I said. And so why can't I live for 25 years? I mean, granted, you know, there's a lot to that but and do I want that? I don't know, 75 would be good, right? That's a good life expectancy.  But the alignment that I received after when I was debating on doing Sunday morning coffee today was, but I'm here now. I'm right here now and I can walk and I can do yoga but now my exercise is moderated. Everything has to be in moderation. At least for a while, I don't know. I don't know how long I'm gonna accept those parameters. I guess maybe a year and then we'll see. I don't know. I standing in the kitchen today, I came to the realization that I can't go back to my job as the supervisor at the community center. I really liked that job because I can't lift. 50 pounds will not be in my wheelhouse in this lifetime, which is okay. I wasn't really planning on being a weight lifter or a bodybuilder anyway. I don't really have the body for it. I have more of the tall skinny body type.  But I guess that's a dream I won't fulfill this time around, which is okay, you know? I can live with that. I'm here now and so are you. You're here and you're watching me, so thank you. So let's inspire your spirit. Let's talk about this new moon and what choices you can make. I'm not talking massive. You don't have to make a massive shift. You can make a little choice. A small one, micro movements. Instead of, I know it's daunting, like trying to exercise again and stuff and do different things, instead of thinking, oh, I'm gonna walk two miles a day or something. How about I just walk to the mailbox and back today? How about that? How about I just walk today? I've been doing walks around the land here and that has really felt so connected and so alive and it's gotten me moving to make me get up and move a little bit because I've been kind of bummed, you know? I've been really bummed and I haven't been feeling that great. So that's those two things together and not a good combo. That's not a good combo. So small choices, micro movements really matter. Those little things matter, like calling a friend and talking to a friend or getting a funny meme or inspiring quote, those kinds of things.  Like I was having this conversation this morning too.  Or even two years or five years from now, if I wasn't here, if I'm not, the stuff that I'm really stressing about right now doesn't matter like my website, my, you know, and I'm not really necessarily stressing about that but I'm hard on myself about, okay, this needs to get done. I haven't done this. Why haven't I finished it? Or rebuilding my business now after that hiatus that I had to take. I didn't have a choice, you know? I had to take it and now things have shifted. I mean, you have a near-death experience. Yeah, I think maybe the way you do your business is gonna change. You might not be like talking to afterlife celebrities. You might be doing some other things, I'm thinking, especially because I have 20 years, you guys. This year is my 20th anniversary of my psychic birthday in October this year. I don't know what it is with October for me.  And 20 years, I have so much experience and stories and tools and ideas for you of how to manage and navigate this lifetime and how to help your kids navigate the emotional trauma that they've experienced, all the stuff with the big C that we had with the pandemic and then the political climate and all the stuff that's so disruptive and separation focused and othered. And I have so many energetic approaches that I can share in strategies that you can use. It's not a one-size-fits-all. And so I got time now. I'm here, so I need to pass everything along that I possibly can to you. That's why the first thing I started to share about was my mentoring program, was to mentor private mentoring with people. And because I really want to pass that along as much as I can and not just the information, not like I'm some big fricking dictionary, but I kind of am like encyclopedia Britannica. You asked me about anything spiritual psychic and I could probably tap in and give you some kind of guide, guidance or response to it. Not me for my ego mind, but I can just, oh, let's go find that, like the card catalog. And here you go, like the interwebs of metaphysics, and give you some info about that, at least a direction to go in or a place to start to explore what is gonna work for you. It's really so individualized and so personal and so intimate. The connections that I get to make with people, oh, I need to do that. So show up. If you don't show up, then nothing will happen ever. Nothing will manifest ever. The book won't get written. The business won't get launched. Your degree won't get started, let alone completed. You won't find that soulmate if you don't show up for the dates, the ones that suck. So tomorrow on a Booth Life channel, I wanna talk about the wolf energies, the whole concept of walking alone versus together in a pack. That lone wolf vibe, I wrote it down actually, so I didn't forget. We're gonna talk about the wound of separation a little bit and try to bring some energy together because there's so much separation and detachment right now. I'm gonna say hello in the chat and then I wanna do a little energetic, biby-biby stuff on this Sunday morning coffee. And I do have my coffee mug. Look, you guys, I found it this morning. Yay, cheers, Sunday morning coffee. Okay, now my mug's a little, now my coffee's a little cold. I'm gonna have to turn on the, I have a kettle in the corner. If you ever talk to me on the phone and you hear this from my kettle, this, I have an electric kettle right over here. I usually tell people, hey, I have my kettle going. So in case they hear that, they're not like, boys, so. Oh, and also I got some new cards, beautiful cards specifically for my twin flamework. I wanted a new deck that I, and I fell in love with how beautiful, beautiful this deck is. I'm just starting to work with it. I'm working with it and sharing some energy from it on TikTok. It's on a above-life channel, TikTok. If you're looking for me there. This beautiful deck, look at this. Ooh, here's an example of one of the cards. Oh, now it's a little weird to me this, when they put the words on the side. Oh, I'm not sure if I like that, but I love the imagery and because I'm so clairvoyant and visual, this is a really good thing for me. Recovering heart. Step into deeper, step into deeper healing. Recovering heart. No matter what you're dealing with, my lovely friends here on a above-life channel on YouTube, no matter what you're dealing with, step into deeper healing. Allow yourself the opportunity, please. Trust me, this is all we have and this moment is this moment. Don't wait.  Make sure the people you love know you love them. Even call up that friend from high school and say, oh my God, I loved what we did, blah, blah, blah, story time, blah, blah, whatever you need to do. Reconnect with people so that they know that they made an imprint on your life and it will fill you up with those positive bubbles which will help you to heal any kind of past wounding that you had from those times, it will really help. It really, really does. The reconnection is the antidote to the separation. Reconnection. So you start with a new body, mind, heart and soul and then you move into the relationships because that's why you're here as a human. Even the relationships that were shitty and sucked. You don't have to call that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend and try to come to terms with things or have closure. You don't have to do that. But you can write a letter to their higher self in your journal so you can kind of come to a place of completion so you can release some of that energy if you want to do that. Or to find some forgiveness within your heart for whatever you guys experience together regardless of what it is. There's no judgment there. So, because you might not have the opportunity again. All right, so this by the way, this deck, I'm gonna share with you what this is. This is a resource for you, resources. Remember I told you resources. Healing heart oracle, love letters to your soul. I am a seagull. The cards are beautiful. But again, I am very clairvoyant and I love the visual imagery of these. So gorgeous. The big red roses are very symbolic for me of like that divine feminine energy and that holding energy of like a mother, a great mother. So like the earth. And then that leads into the new moon energy which is being present and here now, here in your body now. The new moon energy feels very mysterious and mystical and shadow like. But it's not because you're supposed to escape your body and go hang out in the ethers tonight. It's really about feeling the cocoon of the body and allowing for the mind to be sheltered so it doesn't feel pressure or intensity so that the heart can allow itself to be warmed inside the sweet, sweet shell of the body. And when I say shell, I mean like cozy shell like a chocolate Cadbury egg shell. And you can be the gooey step on the inside. Oh my gosh, just shopped yesterday and I saw those so I had to incorporate them. But that, like that's the point. That's what the new moon gives us. She gives us the opportunity to have realizations within ourselves, body, mind, heart and soul. It's about you, sweet one. It's about you, get all cozy. It's about you, have your favorite cup of tea or your favorite, absolute favorite coffee. Or just do something just sweet and cuddle up yourself. Please, please, please feel the new moon energy. Feel her essence around you. It's like that line from one of my absolute favorite movies which is Santa Claus with Tim Allen. I know it's the old school, right? Santa Claus with Tim Allen. But in that movie, Charlie, the son says, he was talking to his stepdad and telling him that Santa Claus exists and the guy is like a psychiatrist and he's like, well, how do you know he exists? Have you seen him? And Charlie says, have you seen a million dollars? He says, no. He says, well, just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. So you can be healed in a state, held in a state of wholeness even when you are falling apart from heartache, even when you've had the most intense experience with a loved one even though you've been brought to the brink of your own health diagnosis or your actual physical loss, whatever that looks like for you, you can be whole here inside. All you gotta do is reconnect instead of detach from yourself. Reconnect, not detach. But when we reconnect and we calm the mind with the new moon energy, we cover like a hoodie.  Okay, so this, I'm gonna tell on my sister. This is how my sister, by the way, the reason why I have so much energy is the caffeine. Just so you know, legit caffeinated up right now. You see people on the airplanes and they're like this because they just want to be in their own little bubble. Like this is literally how I imagine the new moon to be everybody. Everybody, did you see this?  I'm serious. It's not that complicated. This is what it means to take care of yourself. This, this right here. This is what it means. This is what it means to harness the new moon energy. This is what it means to be an empath that is working on taking care of themselves and then in turn can be present and show up for others, for your family, for your work, for your community, for your church, whatever it is for you that's important, you can show up because you've taken care of yourself. So new moon day, good opportunity to do some cards. Like we inadvertently just did one. Here you go. Oracle cards are beautiful. They don't have to be crazy, freaky, weird or anything like that. Look at the art on here for crying out loud. It is the most beautiful thing. It's gorgeous. And there's a moon. Do you see the moon behind? It's the shadow of the moon by that duck. Huge, beautiful duck. All right. Let's see, I should say hello to the chat. And then tomorrow we're gonna talk about the separation piece, the wound and which sounds like so much fun but actually it will be, don't worry, I'll make it fun. And we'll do some energy stuff around that. And we'll talk about the wolf totem. Jerry, tell you guys this, I think I did. Yeah, get comfortable in the unknown, my friends. That's part of the message, okay. All right, so let's say hello to the chat. Oh my gosh, look at this hair now. I know, yeah.  When are you gonna cut it short? I don't know, I'm not sure really. I've been, I was really lazy with it. I've been kind of lazy with it. Now I'm just not sure because it's kind of not, you kind of get used to having a little extra puff right here and it's kind of nice. So I'm not sure, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do. I kind of don't want to be looking like a soccer mom because that's not really my vibe. So we're gonna have to figure something out but we'll see, I don't know. I kind of like my hair stylist. She does, she's awesome.  And she puts up with me and all the changes I make randomly and she's awesome. She did a nice, some cool beachy waves. I really liked that, that was neat. I loved that. And then she's like, I just wanna braid your hair. I'm like, okay, French braided. Anyway, all right, so hello in the chat. Mike was here first, I gotta say hi to Mike. Hi Kami, nice to see you. Star sister, good morning. I'm not sure I recognize you but we'll see, dreamy genie, Cynthia. Nice to see you, let me just see here. Good morning. Oh, Deja, hi. When I talk about mentoring, she's one of my people for the next generation. I'm leaving a mark by supporting Deja, college kid. Good morning, it's good to see you too. Make sure you're doing your homework. Mary, nice to see you.   I got my Owens and my Celtic tree wisdom going on here. Oh my God, I love Ireland. Oh, I've never been there but that's one of my ancestral energies and the spirit soul energy is Celtic. I mean, hello, Bridget, right? Okay, so nice to see you, Laurie. Nice to see you, good morning to you. Katrina, how's my heart?  Oh, you have a heart story too. You were born with heart disease. Oh, wow, okay. So I actually had an aortic dissection, that's what I had. So it's a little bit different than the heart thing. It's actually the artery behind the heart but some of the things that you have to do for your heart disease to manage it, I have to do for the aortic dissection but I'm dissected. So that's a little bit of a tricky slippery slope. Like if somebody were to, okay, this is probably too much for all you guys don't listen to this, but Katrina, if somebody were to do CPR on me and I fall down, I fall down and I go unconscious, they'll kill me because my aorta will rupture right now because it's dissected. So that's a little bit of a bummer but I am curious to hear about your story. So send me a message AOL or to my, I'm sorry, Gmail, abovelifechannel.gmail.com. Oh, you do. Okay, all right. Yeah, message me. Message me girl and we'll chat about it. Are you on TikTok too, Katrina? If you are, follow me on above life channel so I can find you. Oh, for a few years, star sister, thank you. Oh, thank you. Yeah, my connection to Prince. Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of people enjoy that. That's for certain. It's hard not to enjoy, he's kind of flirty. So even in the afterlife, he's a charming one. So, all right, my loves. Thank you so much for being here. Hey, Lisa, nice to see you.  I was literally just thinking about that.  It's kind of long today, sorry about that. But I will see you tomorrow for above life channel or Monday video. We'll see what comes through besides the couple little things that I wanna make sure I talk about. So, I need to heat up my coffee and then I need to go work with my new cards. That's my goal today. Yes, yes. Let's grab another one of these. There's kind of two of them here. I just saw this one and this one. Let's see what, oh, gorgeous. Oh, this is so, just the, God, the artistry on here is gorgeous. This one says daring heart to learn to lead from wisdom. Look at this. Look at the picture. Are you kidding me? Look at the artistry. There's the moon again. Look at that. Beautiful, very visible cosmic energies. Look at all the colors. You see that? Yes, I do. Beautiful. Ooh, look at that. She is beautiful. Look at her. Oh, I love her. So pretty. All right. And one more for all of you, dear hearts. Resilient heart. It's time to rebuild. Oh, this one. It's kind of interesting. Look at the colors here. Hello, very, very sacred chakra. Very womb space. The womb of creation, which fits when it's like spring here. So that's got a good vibration to have. Enter in, rebuild. Woof. Lead from wisdom and rebuild. Beautiful, you guys. Look at that. Here, I'll do it this way for you. There you go. Beautiful. Beautiful. I don't know these very well yet. I have to kind of work with them to kind of feel into what the alignment is for me and what the messages are for me. I haven't read the book at all. Like I haven't referred to it at all. I just look at the pictures because they're so gorgeous. And I've been making myself read the words just in case I'm like I missed something. So again, these were a healing heart oracle love letters to the soul. I don't have this in my links yet, so. But this is a different company too. It's Rock Pool. So you might wanna check them out. Rock Pool. Both of my new decks are from Rock Pool, so. All right. I hope that we've inspired your spirit today and filled you with some hope on this Sunday. Yeah. And if you're watching it at another time, I hope that the energy of this new moon will maybe be encouraging to you. At least at the very least, recognize that you have choices. And it's not about pressure for choices. It's about the gift of the choices, the gift. And that being in that state and that new moon energy, it's not just during the new moon. Sometimes you're in a phase in your life that is new moon where you are more quiet, more inside yourself. But when you are quiet and inside yourself, not to be isolated, to be connected is essential. You can cuddle in, cocoon in, huddle into yourself, but you've got to maintain a connection within yourself so you are not detached from life. So mind, heart, soul, and body. And I know that is extraordinarily difficult for people who face great loss or tragedy or are going through mental health crisis or who are dealing with mental health consistently like depression, for example. I know you can just feel like that. I feel like that. That happens to me. That happened to me this week. Just isolate, isolate, isolate. And luckily I have counseling. I had counseling twice this week actually. And a counselor that recognized some of the signs and symptoms and said to me, okay, I think it's time. I'm like, I know you're getting to the, I know. But had I not had that, I don't know how I would be today or how I would feel or what I'd be doing or not doing actually, not participating in life. To show up, you really need support. So I hope that in some way above live channel gives you that or can give you that. Now, if you need to be inspired, go check out all the Sunday morning coffee podcasts. There's a playlist, it's full. It's like got a couple of years of a playlist for you to just devour that or find your favorite celebrity because there are tons. There's like, I think 300, 400 videos that I've done channeling because I'm a psychic medium. Also like I can do that work and I've done that before. And obviously been a channel, hello. That's what I do is mostly the channel part. But now anyway, that's what I do in my sessions. But I would encourage you to explore like who you're inspired by and go listen. Listen to some talks that they've given because there's a lot of really interesting stuff there. That's not just like TMZ worthy. It's way more inspiring because that's the approach that I take when I do this work. That's the agreement, the sacred agreements that I have. So do that. And then check out things like the astrology because then you'll know you're not crazy, you're empathic. So again, Channy, C-H-A-N-I for astrology. She actually has a free app you can download. Again, none of this is like sponsored or anything. But if anybody wants to sponsor me, yeah, you'll call me up. Send me an email. I'll dad do that if it's good, like Channy. Or like Molly McCord, Molly M-C-C-O-R-D. She's got a great podcast on iTunes. That's where I listen to it. But also they have both of them, I think have YouTube channels too. I know Molly does. So stay inspired. Take care of yourself, okay? Stay connected with them. All right, happy new moon.


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Thank you, Nicole. Thank you for coming. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. So let's just get right into it. How many people here are involved in agriculture? Show of hands. Okay? You that didn't raise your hands, you are involved in agriculture. The fact that we have the agricultural system that we do allows us to come to things like this rather than working in the field and trying to put up the harvest for the coming winter and the spring following, right? We're not dependent on so much going right for us to avoid starvation. So maybe just a little mind shift is in order and I hope I can accomplish or at least initiate that while I'm here. Because the reality is that in America today, the average adult American is more likely to have direct personal experience with the criminal justice system than with production agriculture. And there's so very much wrong with that and there's so much we could talk about. But the point is it's a remarkably small number of people that are supporting everything else. And as an agriculturalist coming into this community, I would ask us to kind of maybe reconsider a little bit because part of my role act between my tribes. Here's my nutrition tribe, you, my brothers and sisters. I work in agriculture, they're my brothers. I'm trying to get us together, okay? And there's some things that are gonna be in the way of that. And I think that's to our detriment. So I'm just gonna offer some contradictory observations and people can do what they want as we go along. But one, for example, is there are two theories about why agriculture developed that I find kind of compelling. One is as a natural outcome of our nature as trading primates. How can I get something from this environment that I can trade with AUG over there for something from AUGs? Okay, the other thing that's interesting is that it was only about 8,000 years ago as we that CO2 levels rose following the increase in temperature to a point that allowed sufficient plant growth to support agriculture. It's an interesting theory and again, it's a little different than many of the narratives that we hear. So again, my formal training is in agronomy and ruminant nutrition, so I am trained in those sciences to do with healthy soils and healthy plants and healthy animals. And like many, I've had my own personal experience that's led me to do a good bit of study on healthy humans or more precisely, how to improve my own health. And I find myself in a position where now all these things are very well related and I can communicate to my agricultural tribe about the health message and then I hope I can communicate to this tribe the agricultural message. And I'm an advocate for ruminants. Modern humans exist because there were ruminants. We didn't evolve to eat meat, we evolved because we ate meat.  People that want to learn more about ruminant animals and their contribution as well as be able to effectively communicate the message about the role of animal products in the human diet, specifically ruminant animal products. And the fact is that we can't feed today's world without ruminant animal agriculture, let alone the world that we're gonna have in 33 years. We must improve the efficiency and the productivity of ruminant animal agriculture worldwide. And again, this conflicts with many narratives and I'll try to get some information to you today to maybe justify that position. So another thing that I'm arguing for is that we need a ruminant revolution just as we had a green revolution. We need to make that investment in private and we certainly need to get policy shifted to emphasize ruminant animal agriculture again to achieve the goal of feeding the world of 2050. It's hard for people functioning in the, you know, functioning sciences, sorry.  These are two quotes that I'd like to put up to just kind of bookend things. 1963, every woman knows that carbohydrates are fattening. This is a piece of common knowledge which few nutritionists would dispute. And then by 1994, obesity has become a carbohydrate deficiency syndrome. Isn't that remarkable? And was there science that justified that shift in outlook? And I would, and again, this audience probably is well aware of that. And so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised at the observational data of this decrease, this decline in human health since then. There are other reasons that we could postulate, but let's just say this is where we are. So as one friend said, here we have a picture of a bunch of rapacious butchers and also some nice people from the meat trade. So again, as we're thinking about priorities and policy and investment and things, maybe it's time for us to look for other places to put money when we talk about health than just in the disease care industry. And so a personal confession here, I agree with Dean Ornish. Yeah, I may be the only person to do that here. I agree that what's good for you is good for the planet. I suspect that we're going to differ on the details, however. Because I believe that butter, meat and cheese, the products of ruminant animal agriculture are good for us and I believe that ruminant animal agriculture is the only truly sustainable source that we've got going for us. So I have a personal dream, my dream of the day when the public understands that their consumption of the products in the background lessens their need for the products in the foreground. And I do believe that day is approaching. Frankly, it can't get much worse. But again, my concern is that we may have some conventional wisdom within our various tribes that prevents us from effectively communicating between those communities that could then affect the kind of change. If we're going to have a conversation about sustainability, and too often it's what I call sustain a babble. It's a marketing label. It's not a real conversation about sustainability. We're only considering one factor when in fact we have to consider multiple factors like societal factors, like economic factors, ecological factors. All of those have to be considered because there's costs and benefits to every decision that we get to make. So what's the burden of chronic disease on individual human beings, on their families, on their communities? It's massive. Is that considered in the conventional understanding of sustainability? If it is, it's from this plant-based narrative. Not what I would suggest is a more informed one. What is the cost of chronic disease? Well, we know overt diabetes care is approaching a billion dollars a day. That's diabetes and pre-diabetes. That's not considering the other metabolic syndromes. And ecological, is it even possible to farm without livestock? Is that in fact possible? And if you recognize the name of Sir Albert Howard, you might understand him and his role in organic agriculture and we'll come back to that subject in a little bit. The great enemy of truth is very often by deliberate, contrived, and dishonest. But the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebearers. We subject to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. And yes, I think that happens within this tribe as well. Just use both legs. Thank you. Yep. It's been said before, but it's not widely recognized the roots of our dietary guidelines. And these roots do extend back a long, long way, but we should at least acknowledge that the 60s and 70s environmental movement was a factor. We should acknowledge that the 19th century faith-based vegetarian movement played a factor and still plays a factor today. And if all we look at is some policy document without considering these others, we probably won't make very much progress. So before I go any further, I want to make it really clear that I respect Gary Taub's, his books have been very impactful in my personal life. I'm going to use this paragraph from why we get fat and what to do about it to make a specific point. Okay, bear with me. Carbohydrate restricted diets, typically, if not perhaps ideally, replace the carbohydrates in the diet with large or at least larger portions of animal products. Beginning with eggs for breakfast, moving to meat, fish, or foul for lunch and dinner. The implications of that are proper to debate. Isn't our dependence on animal products already bad for the environment? Well, first problem, humanity's diet today is plant-based and no. And won't it just get worse? No. Isn't livestock production a major country contributor to global warming? No. Water shortages? No. And pollution? No. When thinking about a healthy diet, shouldn't we think about what's good for the planet as well as what's good for us? Well, it does matter, doesn't it? If we do in fact know what's good for the planet, do we have the right to kill animals for our food or put them to work for us in producing it while we're heterotrophs? And already I'm using terms, I'll define them quickly, but stay with me if you don't know what that one means. Is it the only morally and ethically defensible lifestyle of vegetarian one or even a vegan one? I really don't want to get into this, but I would just point out that if in fact I'm right in all these assertions, then any claim to morality based on so many flaws is tenuous. And people are welcome to their personal decisions, obviously, but I don't think they should be the basis for public policy, especially one that has such far-reaching consequences. So there is this reality of being a heterotroph. Human beings cannot produce organic compounds from inorganic sources. We have to eat other organisms to get proteins and energy. It's just the way we are. Deal with it. We've got these friends called ruminants. And ruminant animals perform absolutely essential ecological functions. And this is my list. And I'll go through it quickly. Converts structural and non-structural carbohydrate into fat. It converts plant protein and non-protein nitrogen into high quality animal protein. It reduces the poly unstable fatty acids to mono unstable and stable saturated fatty acids through a process called biohydrogenation. It produces B vitamin B12 and other vitamins, increases bioavailability of essential minerals, degrades anti quality plant components like phytates and phytonutrients, maintains health of grassland ecosystems, which in fact are the largest biome on terrestrial earth. Recycle nutrients, build soil health, provide services, muscle power like draft, byproducts like leather, just to name a few, generates new wealth. Significant source of new wealth generation around the world is ruminant animal agriculture. Ruminant animals are those animals that have the specialized digestive anatomy that allows for fermentation, pre-gastric. Before our stomachs, essentially, you've got this massive structure, three separate bodies, two, sorry, but one is really two regions. What this permits is the digestion of cellulose. Cellulose is the most abundant carbohydrate in the biosphere. No vertebrate animal makes cellulase, the enzyme necessary, to break the bonds between glucose units. If it were not for the microorganisms that live in the rumin, or those that live out in the environment, and photosynthesis continued unabated in about 25 years, life on earth would stagnate due to a lack of CO2. Now it's interesting this match evolutionarily between human beings and ruminants. Humans have essential amino acids in their diet. Ruminants do not. Humans have essential fatty acids in their diet, and apparently ruminants do not. Humans do not have essential carbohydrates in their diet. Ruminants have two forms that are essential. They have to have structural carbohydrates, fiber, and they have to have nonstructural carbohydrates, sugars, and starches. And this is just a simplified representation of, again, monogastric animals like us, where we have the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, fat coming in, being subjected to stomach acid and enzymes, and then we have sugars, amino acids, and fatty acids being absorbed from the small intestine. With ruminants, it's a little bit different. We have, again, this pre-gastric fermentation process. Their diet is primarily carbohydrate and proteins, and you could put quotes around protein because a significant amount of that is non-protein nitrogen. From the microbial activity within their rumin, they produce methane, volatile fatty acids, and ammonia. Then, once that material is sufficiently broken down, it can flow into the lower part of the abomasum and then into the omasum, and the omasum is essentially like our stomach. By the time we get that ingesta flowing down into the small intestine, there's almost no sugar left to be absorbed. It's all been fermented. And virtually all of the protein, the amino acids that are being absorbed, were microbial protein in origin. So the ruminant animal is sheltering, raising these microbial populations, and then harvesting the byproducts of their activity as well as they themselves. So one of my campaigns is to raise awareness that, in fact, red meat is a fermented plant product. And given all the buzz about fermented products, I think we might be able to make some traction here. There's a difference between ingestion and digestion. We are not what we eat. We are what our bodies do with what we eat. And so the fat content of a ruminant's diet is less than 6% fat. By the time our micro population within the room and get done, 70% to 80% of that animal's caloric needs ends up coming from the short chain, volatile fatty acids that are produced. So a low fiber diet, a low fat diet goes in. The animal harvests, digests a high fat diet. And then there's this interesting thing that I mentioned briefly before, biohydrogenation. About 80% of the polyunsaturated fatty acids that are in the diet of a ruminant end up being unsaturated to some degree. And so as a result of this, the flesh of ruminant animals is going to be far less influenced by diet than any other animal. And this is another evolutionary neat trick. And this is the practical outcome of that. Let me explain this just a little bit. What we're showing is in blue, the omega-3 content. In red, the omega-6 content. These first two pairs are from a feeding study that were done by Dr. Duck at Clemson University. So this is a feeding trial looking at these two. And you see the difference there. And then they went shopping.  And then they bought some chicken thigh. And then my friend Adele Hyde plugged in some soybean oil. And then another friend plugged in the components that are within the box. The point here is that B for any other ruminant flesh is not a particularly rich source of either omega-6 or omega-3, regardless of how it's produced. If you're interested in getting more omega-3, eat fish. If you're interested in getting less omega-6, then by all means, please stop eating tofu or walnuts or soybean oil. And then you could start looking at some other products as well. OK? That may be a little different than some of our narratives, but that's the data. So I mentioned before that ruminant animals, there's very little sugar that remains to be absorbed from the intestinal system. And so these animals are entirely dependent on gluconeogenic pathways for the glucose that they need. Find that interesting. Ruminant's rule. I'm not sure how important it is, but apparently, ruminant muscle contains much less glycogen than does the flesh of other species. So the point would be that it would be inaccurate to call a ruminant a vegetarian. It would be, if anything, more correct to call them microbivores or microbians. They're raising these teeming hosts of animals, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and they're harvesting them. They're harnessing them to produce byproducts, which they absorb, and then they eat the animals themselves. And in fact, ruminant animals increase the human edible food supply, regardless of what you've heard. At least half and perhaps as much as 100% of the diet of ruminants worldwide on a lifecycle basis is feedstuffs that humans can't utilize directly. And in fact, in California, we can produce more human food, energy, and protein of a higher quality per acre by growing alfalfa, feeding it to a dairy cow, than we can by growing wheat and eating it. Again, a little different than the narrative. I said before that the human diet is already plant-based. And if the researchers and clinicians that I respect are right, that's got to change. That itself has consequences. But you can see developing world, developed worldwide on average. And then if we look at protein in the developed world and in the world as a whole, our brothers and sisters are subsisting on a diet where the majority of their protein is already coming from plants. I can think of no logical reason why we should follow that model, but that's the rhetoric in the narrative. Malnourishment looks a little different today than it did a few decades ago. Today, we've got about 800,000 human beings, our brothers and sisters worldwide, that are suffering from chronic undernourishment, famine. We've got 2.2 billion that are overweight or obese. I would suggest that this is just another form of malnutrition. So we've got 3 billion brothers and sisters that are malnourished. What are we going to do about that? Oh, by the way, we've got 2 billion more coming. In the next 33 years, 2050, the UN is projecting a world population in excess of 9 billion people. UN is calling for 100% increase in food production, and FAO is predicting a 66% increase in the demand for animal protein by 2050. And they're saying that that has to come from virtually the same land area as today. The problem with that, of course, is we're losing farmland at a rapid rate for a number of reasons which we could talk about. On a global, sorry, where intakes of animal products are low, increases in meat in particular, milk and eggs in the diets of toddlers and school children have resulted in marked improvements in growth, cognitive development, and health. What we, as any kind of concerned and logical human beings, I think, ought to be about is what can we do to increase the flourishing of our brothers and sisters around the world? But in America, 40% of Americans aren't getting enough protein. And there's problems with these, but this is data from US dietary guidelines and NHANES data. And most females over the age of 8 aren't getting enough protein. Now, the two problems that I see with this right away are what is their target? We could argue about that. What is their intake target? It might well be too low. Number two is they're considering plant protein and animal protein to be equivalent, and they are not. So the number is undoubtedly worse. Again, nutritional value of animal protein is superior to that from plants. But that's really inconvenient if your narrative is we need to be on a plant-based diet, right? We have to find a way to ignore that. On a global basis, oh my goodness, animals produce about a pound or a kilogram of human food protein for every 1.4. This is all animal agriculture, and this is worldwide. But the exchange is that every pound of animal protein is worth 1.4 pounds of plant protein. So it's a wash at the end. The quote is, thus diverting grains from animal production to direct human consumption would, in the long run, result in little increase in total food protein and would decrease average dietary quality and diversity, and I would add, degrade the environment. So ruminants rule, remember that last slide was all animal agriculture. Ruminants are far more efficient. They actually increase the human-utilizable protein supply. You get more than a pound out for every pound you feed in. Again, the wonder of a ruminant animal. Today, the meat supply worldwide, about a quarter of the meat is coming from ruminants. I would suggest that's the component that we need to increase for a number of reasons. And it isn't that hard if you look at, we have less than 10% of the world's beef cattle in the United States, and we're producing about 20% of the beef. If we could leverage that technology appropriately around the world, we could produce more beef from fewer animals, which would lower environmental impact. Here's what we got to play with. The Earth's surface, 2 thirds of that is ocean. Only 4% of the Earth's total surface is cultivatable. That's where people are telling us we're going to grow our plant-based diet on. And that's the land we're losing rapidly. Meanwhile, we've got 14% of the world being range land, land that can produce grass, cellulose, that we can then run ruminant animals on to produce high-quality animal protein and animal fat. We've got an additional 10% that's forest, and we can run animals in forest. We can have silvo pastoral systems. And so we could increase the resource available for us to produce the food that we need. These are the crops that are currently being grown on that 4% of the Earth's surface, and already more than 3 quarters are going to human consumption and use. So where's the rest of this going to come from that we're supposed to get by not feeding it to animals? And in fact, if you look at just the cereal crops, already 2 thirds of that is going to humans directly. Again, our diet is already plant-based, and that needs to change. Greenhouse gas emissions, you'll hear all kinds of numbers thrown around. Here's one set that shows that agriculture worldwide is the third segment. But there's a couple of things that you could say about that. One is if the societies were more prosperous, you'd see industry get bigger, for example. Also, if we look at what's going on in the United States, you see a very different number, where the total from agriculture is 9%. All of animal agriculture was listed at 7%. This is per EPA. I've actually seen a little more recent data that says the beef industry is responsible for under 4%. Again, this is a little different than the propaganda that we hear. And we should remember that our cattle are not alchemists. They're not creating carbon or nitrogen. They're cycling it out of the food that they ingested. The food got it from the atmosphere and from the soil. It's a cycling of these nutrients. But this is an actual study. This is not model projections. This is an actual study where we're measuring the increase in soil carbon in crop ground that's been converted into dairy pasture, irrigated dairy pasture in Georgia. And what they're seeing is a third of a percent increase per year in soil carbon. That's organic matter. Every 1% more organic matter in soil means that you can hold an additional acre inch of water. That's 27,000 gallons per acre. OK, so there's about 22 million acres of degraded row crop ground. This is the ground that we abused with pre-modern agriculture. And now, what are we going to do with it? OK, 22 million. We take 10% of that. What kind of impact could we make? Thank you. So that would be this kind of a sequestering of carbon equivalent. Well, I got trouble with those numbers, so let me give you some equivalents. Three and a half billion car equivalents. Well, we've only got one billion worldwide. 38.4 billion barrels of oil. The US used 7.2. 4,300 coal-fired power plants. We've got less than 430 in the United States. What this is telling me is this is not an honest conversation about the contribution of livestock to anthropogenic global or greenhouse gas emissions. They're not considering where the input side, they're only considering the emission side. So I don't think we've been having an honest conversation. Now that's before we get even deeper into any of the weeds around that subject, which I'm happy to do. But I think that we would be better served to be focusing on the water cycle instead of the carbon cycle. Unfortunately, the carbon cycle is what's giving us a lot of funding these days. And so we chase the money and whatever. So here's just a very interesting test showing water stable soil structure. These are two same soil types. This one is under long-term grassland. This one is under continuous conventional corn production. And 25 minutes later, the one from the cornfield is broken down completely while the other one remains virtually intact. That means that soil will be more productive. That soil will accept more water and hold it without runoff. And here's a demonstration of runoff difference where you have four different surface types. And the pasture is having all of the water coming from this rainfall simulator into not off of. And so in the time it took to collect this gallon of sediment-laden water, there's none from the pasture. This means less erosion, less surface water pollution, less resource degradation. Nothing is better for soil health than long-term grass cover. OK. Sorry. Again, narratives. When you start to see things like this, whatever organic agriculture was at one point, let us at least accept that it is no longer that. And here, this idea, you can eat as healthy as you want, but if it's not organic, it's unhealthy. Well, we're dealing with faith system. There's no objective evidence to support that. Remember, it's a pay-to-play label claim, not proof of superior health, safety, nutrition, or environmental impact. Really, organic Gatorade? The risks that kill people and the risks that concern people are completely different. OK. If you're starving, you have one problem. And apparently, if we're well-fed, we've got many. OK. And notice the cigarettes themselves are not organic. It's just the tobacco that they use to make the cigarettes is organic. But we can go further. We can look at organic mac and cheese, made with cheese from grass-fed cows. Or we can look at organic Pop-Tarts. Or we can look at gummy bears. Or we can get really bizarre. I can't believe they're serious. If your reason for going organic is to lower your exposure to pesticides, please consider this quote, 99.99% by weight of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves. Only 52 natural pesticides have been tested in high-dose animal cancer tests. And about half 27, in fact, are rodent carcinogens. But because they're natural, we don't test them. So if you want to truly lower your burden of pesticide exposure in a meaningful way, feed these to a ruminant, eat the ruminant. So you can tell when idols are being worshiped, because human beings are being sacrificed. And I think we all need to take a look at some of these narratives that we're carrying along unexamined with us, OK? Again, I think what we ought to be about is maximizing human flourishing worldwide. I think that's truly a worthwhile effort. And we also need to ask ourselves, as Dechral said, how are we going to expand this beyond our little bubble? So if an honest man is wrong after demonstrating that he's wrong, he either stops being wrong or he stops being honest.  I share my sources. I'm open to the fact that as an agriculturalist, I'm coming with my perspective. And I hope I'm living by this myself, OK? So I want to have the conversation. But I also want us all to kind of take a look at what we're doing and what we're saying. And I'm happy to help. Again, I'm all about advocating for ruminant animal agriculture and I'm advocating for animal products in the human diet. This is how you can contact me. Just Google the name. You'll find me. I'm sorry for going long. Thank you for your patience. Thanks for sticking it out. Thank you, Peter. We have time for just a few questions. And we'll take them over here. What other ruminant animals besides cows are healthy for us to eat? And in Africa, for example, antelopes and stuff like that, how could we cultivate those animals or should we create a movement to eat more wild ruminant animals? Great question. And I'm sorry I neglected. So some other animals that we would recognize, sheep, goats, bison, but deer, moose, antelope, there's a whole long list, hundreds, some odd. And most of our domesticated animals have in fact ruminant animals as a percentage basis. On the other hand, there are people that are farming wildlife in Africa as well as in other parts of the world, in part for hunting, but also as a resource. So I think both are things that we ought to be doing. We need to be looking for animals that best fit the environment that we're trying to raise them in. And then there are reasons for going one over the other. Reminding me. Hello. I only recently learned that there's an entire science and study on how to properly feed cows and their macronutrients. And I was not aware of that. So I don't know if you're in that realm. The reason I learned about it, because there was an uproar that a huge shipment of skittles tipped over. And this shipment of skittles was meant to go as feed to cows so that they could get the proper amount of sugar in their diet. And I am wondering, you've demonstrated that cows can handle things we can't, and they can convert and such. But I was not aware that this was a common practice until recently. So any thoughts? Less than optimal. And whether that's a common practice, I would argue with. But it's absolutely true that, especially into the dairy cow realm, you have to have a sufficient amount of soluble carbohydrate, non-structural carbohydrate, sugar, and starch in the diet in order to feed the microorganisms so that they can then break down the fiber fast enough to get enough energy in to support the production. So, but, again, we might use something like vegetable processing waste, which is a byproduct of human food production, unusable by us, that can be fed to an animal. So potato peelings, citrus pulp, those kinds of things are frequently used.


because you do want to make sure that the hair has that slightly slimy kind of slip. Hello everyone and thank you for joining me today on Free Salon Education and I'm going to be going over finger coils as well as comb coils. A lot of people aren't really too familiar with it, but it's a great technique for coarser hair that maybe doesn't have that definition and it's good for all lengths. So it doesn't matter if it's short like this mannequin right here or if it's a longer texture. So usually what you want to start off with totally wet head and I'm going to go in with Palmitul's clean beauty. This one is the anti-frizz leave-in treatment been playing around a lot with that and it's great for blowouts. It's great for adding into a style like this and it's just it's got the right amount of slip that I need in order to get the hair to lay down. So with that I always go in like right underneath. Next I like to layer on the Palmitul refresh. This is another lightweight product because we want to give it hold and we want to give it memory but at the same time we wanted to have movement especially when it dries. Now you want to make sure that whatever curl definers that you're using that they don't actually flake. So one of the reasons that I love Palmitul is that they have perfected that and my go-to choices are either the lavender mint curl defining gel or the Express round trip is another great gel soft hold flexible and really versatile. All right now that I've got that sufficiently work through because you do want to make sure that the hair has that slightly slimy kind of slip and you want to make sure that it's properly hydrated. That's another reason that you can end up with that milkier look is because the hair is the product is sitting on top of the hair because it's dried out. So I like to start in the back and work my way up now that I've gotten good amount of product on there and you can see that the curl is already starting to form. So basically what these coils are is that I'm just working with the natural texture of the hair and now I'm actually going to make like tiny little coils instead of all of these other ones that are mixed in together. I'm just going to take the fine side of my comb. Comb that product in a little bit more mold it down so that way I have a little bit more control.  All right so we're going to just comb that hair get that little corner and we're just going to give it just that little twist.  All right so let's try that with the longer section maybe that'll help. All right so we're a little away. We're going to take that section give it a little twirl and now it wraps around the comb. Okay so when you're doing longer hair I find it's easier to use your hands so I just grab the base wrap that around my fingers. This is where I used to I just hold on to the ends. I'm sorry the base of the hair. Now for the ends I let that wrap around my fingers so that's where I just use one finger right on the end so that way it has that nice little coil. Now some people they don't want to actually have too much texture right at their base so you can take like a pin curl clip just to give that a little bit of control and lay that a little flatter onto the head. All right so moving right along so as you can see once you get your rhythm you can get through that pretty quickly. Just keep re-wetting and making sure that the hair is properly saturated. Okay so now I'm taking this little shorter side piece and I'm going to use my comb for that. Okay so if you do diffuse it so that it's not dripping or if you put this under a hood dryer. If you're diffusing then of course we want to do that on low heat setting medium heat.  It's giving a little bit more volume but mainly this would be an under the dryer kind of thing because most of the people that would want this want it to be stretched out. They also want it to be a little sleeker. So now you can see that it's forming these larger curls at the base where it's shorter. They're just more like little tiny pin curls. One of the things that I love about the Dyson diffuser is the fact that it's got this circular pattern like most of them do except that the holes that are in there are facing each other so they're not all around the holes. They're just on that one side so it's not blowing it all over the place. It's keeping it concentrated to just that ring. All right so not going to do the whole head. I'm just going to do a couple of sections just to show you how that would look. So we got that on the overhead so making sure that is nice and saturated and you can see the difference between the saturated hair and the not saturated hair. So we've got nice and defined and we've got frizzy. Okay so for this I'm taking a larger section grabbing that base in between my thumb and index finger and then I'm just wrapping that around my two fingers and that is it longer hair. You still get the same thing it's just longer. I hope you guys got a little bit of extra information, a little bit of inspiration and if you have any questions that maybe you don't want to ask here you can always DM me on Instagram at the hands-downs would love to talk to you but also make sure that you share with your friends the FSC Now app and just tune into our classes Matt's on Tuesday, Brian's on Wednesday, I'm on Thursday and there's always content being shared but wherever you are in the world be safe and have a great day.


How are we all doing this morning? Do we still need coffee? Yes, I know. I left my coffee in the back. I'm so sad. Okay, everyone, please take a drink of coffee for me. Now, how are we all doing this morning? Fantastic. So thank you so much for joining me this morning. As he mentioned, we're going to be talking about double the awesome, mostly because I am super excited to be talking about DevOps because I'm a giant nerd. But I think I might be joined by some of my nerd peers. Yay. So have we all heard about the DevOps? Yay, okay. I get to skip the intro. So some of you may have heard of this like accelerate book that covers state of DevOps report. Have we heard of the state of DevOps reports? No? Do we need to make hands? No? Who refuses to raise their hands in the morning? Yes. Okay. So there's been like the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 state of DevOps report. I'm super excited because as of right this very second, the 2019 state of DevOps report is out. So we all get the first review of it. I'm excited. Are you excited? Are you going to pretend to be excited with me? Yay! Okay, here we go. This is what we're going to talk about. Is this DevOps thing even a thing? Maybe not. If not, I'm out of a job. That's fine. Getting better, aka choose your own adventure. This is where Double The Awesome comes from. We're going to talk about performance, productivity, culture, open source, because that's why we're here today. And then we'll be done. So DevOps, let's get on the same page. So when I'm talking about DevOps, I'm talking about these types of things. I'm talking about software development, software delivery. I'm also talking about availability. So some people may have heard of the four key metrics. Lots of organizations are starting to talk about this now. So when I talk about DevOps, I'm talking about measuring it because I do this like researchy thing. So there are two throughput metrics, speed metrics, lead time from code commit to code running and production, deployment frequency, how often you're pushing code, to, those are in green, eye color code, because I was a professor. I'm also talking about stability.  So it can either come all the way down or it just requires some type of attention. Hopfix, patch, a roll forward, a roll back, time to restore service, how long it takes you to bring those systems back up. Those are the four key metrics. Now we also talk about availability.  I'll come to it in a minute. Now we have movement. When I compare last year, 2018, and this year, check out those elite performers. Last year, 7% of our data, 7% of those four key metrics, by the way, they always move together. I see no trade-offs in speed or stability. You don't have to sacrifice speed for stability or stability for speed. This has been consistent for six years in a row. Okay, so anyway, 7% of our population, of our sample, were elite performers. They were optimizing on both speed and stability. But it was a subset. This year, check it out, that 7% broke out to their own. They've almost tripled. So you know how we keep hearing this whole cross the chasm thing? Have you heard this before? This confirms that. So, yay! Now check out the low performers. They went from 15% of our data to 12%. That means that everyone is getting, like, more people are getting better. They're moving out of the low performance group into the medium performance group. Yay! Say it with me. Yay! I love you guys. Thank you for indulging me. Okay, now we have medium performers. Look, they went from 37% to 44%. That's interesting because some of it came from low performers, but some of it came from high performers. High performers used to be 48%, which included elite. So they also, they went from 48% to 43%, right? 20 plus 23. I can do a little bit of math in my head, not very much. What does that mean? That means some high performers fell back, probably struggling with some complexity, probably also achieving high performance and giving themselves a gold star on their forehead and sitting back and declaring vacation. Probably not great. Not that anyone's executive has ever done that. Okay, this is an eye chart. I apologize. Now it's in the report. But when I, like, some people are going to say, what does it mean to actually be a high performer? Again, deployment frequency on demand, multiple deploys per day. Or it's a business decision and not a technical constraint. Maybe you're pushing, maybe you're like making an app, pushing to an app store, so you don't have to do it like all the time. But again, business decision, not a technical constraint. Lead time for change is less than a day. Time to restore less than an hour. Change fail rate between 0 and 15%. Look at the low performers. Between once a month and once every six months. Lead time for changes between once a month and six months. Time to restore between once a week and once a month. Change fail, 46 to 60%. I will note that change fail rate. It looks like it's the same for elite, high and medium performers. There's a bunch of, like, asterisks there. It's because we report a median because the distribution isn't normal. They're actually different and we include visualizations for, like, fun math nerds out there that want to see what it looks like. They are significantly different. It's just the medians look similar. Okay. So you can benchmark. You can take a look and see where your teams fall. See where you are. You can also go look at the website that I'll note at the back. And there's a quick check. So you can also, like, do it automatically. So how do they compare and what does it even mean? If I compare the elite performers and the low performers, we see 208 times more frequent code deployments. 106 times faster lead time from commit to deploy. So this means we can push features faster. But it's not just about features. It's about keeping up with compliance and regulatory changes. It's about being more secure. It also gives us over 2600 times faster time to recover from incidents and 7 times lower change fail rate. Now, sometimes people are like, this doesn't make sense. But when we think about it, when we take this code, if we can release more frequently, we're releasing in smaller batches. Think about it in the inverse. If we release slowly, our code piles up. When it finally gets to production, we have a large chunk of code. So we have increased our blast radius. We have increased the likelihood that it will cause problems. When it does eventually cause problems and cause an outage, we've made it much harder to debug what that problem is. And we've made it much harder and much longer to bring up. That time to restore is much, much longer. So when we introduce delays, when we introduce process, we intend to create more stable systems. That's not true. We've never seen that. We tested it in 2014. We tested it again this year. It actually creates instability. Now, I told you to remember availability. Availability is about the promises that we make and keep to our customers and end users. This is how we measure it. It's basically about how well teams can define their availability targets, track their current availability, and learn from any outages that they do have. Has anyone heard the saying, day one is short and day two is long? This is what this is about. So, wait, we do tech just because it's fun? Well, I mean, yes. And it's important because technology delivers value. We see that elite performers are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals. Let me translate this. This is a little bit academic. We call them organizational performance goals because it encompasses a lot of things. Some of its commercial goals, things like productivity, profitability, market share, like money stuff. Money stuff's nice. Even in not-for-profits, we need money because we need to pay bills. We need to pay salaries. We need to pay something. But it also covers non-commercial goals, things like effectiveness and efficiency, customer satisfaction, achieving the mission goal, serving our constituents. Okay. Hopefully, I've convinced you it matters. Okay. So, like, how do we actually get better? This is how. I also like to call this slide choose your own adventure because you can start by choosing your goal. If your goal is SDU and organizational performance, that stuff we just covered, we cover this in this year's report. Start there and then pick the things that you want to improve. Or if you want to improve productivity, we have a whole entire extra model this year to help improve productivity. So, let's start with SDU and organizational performance. This is the predictive model this year. I mean, pretty straightforward, right? I mean, it's fine. Okay. This is how we read it. We have a dark box around the things that are typical goals, things like SDO performance, software delivery and operational performance. We talked about how software delivery performance is that speed and stability, whether we cover this in the report. Like, there's lots of reminders. Availability is the promises that we make and keep to our customers. Organizational performance is like money and efficiency. Now, we can work backward into identifying the constructs that help us get better. Green boxes are constructs. That's things that help us do things better. Like, we know what continuous delivery is, right? We know what monitoring is, and we talk about this in the report. The things that are in dark bold, like clear change process, culture of psychological safety, they're just in bold because here in 2019, this is the first year we studied them. If it's not in bold, it just means that we've studied them in previous state of DevOps reports. So we've re-validated them. Anytime you see a line with an arrow, you can read that as predicts, drives, impacts. Because our research is unique in that we study predictive relationships. It goes well beyond correlation. Anytime you see a line with a minus, that means it negatively predicts or reduces. So remember how I said sometimes we try or organizations try with very good intentions to introduce change approvals, heavyweight like cabs, like the change approval board. They try to do this to increase stability. It doesn't work. Spoiler alert, narrator. It did not work. Heavyweight change approvals reduce speed and stability, software delivery performance. We also see the nice thing, continuous delivery. See how it has that line with a minus sign to burnout? Doing continuous delivery in good ways helps reduce burnout. So because I don't have very much time, I'm just going to cover a couple things. Cloud. Who here is doing the cloud? Cloud is a differentiator for late performance. However, we have to be doing it the right way. These five core essential capabilities come from NIST. I didn't make this up. Come from NIST. Here's what we see. Only 29% of respondents who say they're in the cloud are actually doing all five of these things. And elite performers are 24 times more likely to have met these characteristics. This is such a bummer. Also, I mean, I went to a gym, paid for a membership. I have to actually do the work. So when I meet with organizations or execs and they're like, I went to the cloud. I'm not seeing the benefits. I'm like, are you doing the work? Although we probably know this, right? We know this. So on-demand self-service. If you go to the cloud but you still throw it behind service now and someone has to manually approve, it doesn't count. We know this. How frustrating is it when we do the cloud but we still have to put in a service ticket?  We know this. Okay. Code maintainability. This one's new this year. And I was excited to see what this looks like because this contributes to CD and helps reduce technical debt. I'll talk about this in a minute. Code maintainability is about having systems and tools that make it easy to change code maintained by other teams, find code in the code base, reuse other people's code, and this last one I love, add, upgrade, and migrate to new versions of dependencies without breaking code. Does anyone here have tools that are kind of like this? I know there are a couple open source tools like this. These are dope, right? These make writing code so much easier. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I read the report or I'm about to. So what else is new? This is the productivity model. You can read it very similarly. Lines and arrows are prediction. Lines and arrows with minus signs are reducing. So the goal here is to improve productivity. The thing I like about this is that productivity done the right way helps improve work recovery and reduces burnout. So work recovery is when you can leave work at work. It's when you can detach. It's about work life balance. But we have to have the right kind of productivity. This is not about lines of code written. This is not about story points because we all know that writing too many lines of code just leads to loaded systems. And story points is bad because if it's story points, I'm never going to help you with your work because I have to get my story points done. So lots of researchers are starting to study productivity this way. So the ability to get complex, time-consuming tasks done with minimal distractions and interruptions. We know when we've had a good day. I know when I've had a good productive day. The nice thing about this is that this kind of productivity helps us disconnect.  Now, let's talk about technical debt a little bit. Technical debt reduces productivity because we can never get in that flow. Technical debt was introduced in 92 by Ward Cunningham. He uses this to describe what happens when we don't maintain what he calls immature code. Who here has ever hit technical debt? Okay, so we know this. A few people were like, technical, that's not a problem. And I was like, I have a hunch. Let me throw it in this year's research and see. This is what showed up, like what loaded. So loaded is actually a stats term. These are the things that statistically piled on in the analysis. Do these resonate with y'all? Y'all are my people. This is what technical debt is. Known bugs that go unfixed. Because we need features. Insufficient test coverage. Problems related to low code quality or poor design. Code and artifacts, facts that aren't cleaned up when they're no longer used. Because sometimes the best code is deleting code. Implementations that we don't have expertise in so we can't debug or maintain it. Incomplete migration, I feel attacked. Absolute technology. And this last one. Incomplete or outdated documentation or missing comments.  And I'm like, what are you talking about? This is absolutely relevant because if no one can read your code, it doesn't count. Thank you. I love you. So how can we reduce technical debt? Work Cunningham also suggested that one of the best ways to deal with technical debt is to allow people to maintain a mental model of the entire system in their heads at the same time. This was in 92 so that's adorable because what do our systems look like now? Complex. Distributed. With multiple people maintaining them. So one of the best ways is to allow our systems to be flexible, extensible and viewable. And the thing that we found is that maintainable code, lucy coupled architecture and monitoring helps decrease technical debt. I love that because that helps us at least get some type of idea of what our systems are looking like. Okay, I'm going to hurry. I keep hearing culture matters. What does it even mean? This model was studied by the project Aristotle team at Google a few years ago. Has anyone heard of this before? Psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning and impact. They put out this work a few years ago. The interesting thing is that a few people were like of course they found this to be an important driver for performance. It's at Google. So many thanks to the project Aristotle team. They shared their research instrument with us. And so we tested this to see if this is also impactful in organizations that are outside of Google. And indeed we did find that this model of culture is important. Trust and psychological safety has a positive impact on software delivery performance, organizational performance and productivity. So these results indicate that teams with this culture see significant benefits in teams in many contexts. I mean, does this sound familiar? Would you rather be on a team where you can trust people and you can depend on their work and you're working on meaningful things? Trust no one? Okay. So what does this all mean for open source? Community is an asset. High and elite performers continue to use open source the most. Elite performers are 1.7 times more likely to make extensive use of open source software. By the way, this also benefits recruiting. As I'm aside, low performers are using fully proprietary software the most. This comes with extensive costs to maintain. External search contributes to productivity. Engineers who can use external search information like Stack Overflow and YouTube are 1.67 times more likely to be productive. Faster is better even in open source. Open source projects are community driven with contributors from around the world at all levels. Still, committing code sooner is better. It helps you merge patches faster and prevent rebases. Also, working in small batches is better. Large patch bombs are so much harder and slower to merge into a project than smaller and readable patch sets. Help your maintainers out. Okay. Here's your TL there. Take a picture in case you were on Facebook and Twitter. Is DevOps even a thing? How to get better? We covered performance. We covered productivity. We talked about culture and open source. By the way, there's so much more in this report. There's disaster recovery testing. There's change approvals. There's more about open source. There's more about cloud and costs. We also talked about scaling transformation successfully. To get the report, you can go to cloud.google.com. Thanks so much, everyone.


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