Hello, everybody. Thanks for coming by. Hope you had a great day. Yes, so this is the session. Let me help you help me. The Being Human track, I'm pretty excited being able to talk a bit about a personal story, share with you what I've done so far in the Drupal community. So I guess everyone who showed up for Being Human session already would expect not any technical details. Yeah, but I guess we are on the same page for that. So my name is Josef Darbonik. You can find me online at Stasio. I'm on Twitter and Drupal community. If you have ever questions, if you want to get in touch, just reach out to me. Also, the sessions, they are already online, so on slides.com slash Stasio slash help, you can find these. There's not going to be a lot of bullet points, as you can expect, but I try to kind of lay out different topics. And I want to just share my very personal story, how I got into the community, how I got into working in different environments. Yeah, I think personal growth is definitely something that just happens to us. And figuring out how to deal with that, I think it's something that I started reflecting more and more, especially also when hanging out with people like you at Drupal conferences. Some of you I already know from a couple of years ago. Some of you I've never met before. But those who I've met a couple of years ago, it's really interesting to see how people just start new jobs, they do new things. So I'm really passionate about the community and kind of want to share a bit today. So the outline, what's going to be about is, so I want to talk about how I got started with Drupal and doing the things that I do today. So that's going to be mainly related to work, but something that I find kind of similar as what's Daniel, the founder, one of the founders of Amazing Labs described today is that work and private life, that something that some people separate very strictly and some people don't separate it that much. And I think also, especially in my case, I am happy to shift in some work hours into the private life and then the other way around. For example, traveling to a Drupal con. Is it work or is it private life? I don't know. So then I want to talk a bit about the initiatives that led my work plus private life, plus Drupal life and what I recently have been doing over the last two years at Amazing Labs. All right, so let's get started. Who has been with Drupal for more than two years? OK, cool, most of you. And so I guess everyone has started at some point with open source. For me, so I started with technology. Basically, my father asked me to help him with building his website. So pretty early on, I got in touch with computers. I started computer science. And I worked for Siemens, like a kind of boring big company introducing SharePoint into a Microsoft environment. But already there, our department focused on Linux. So we already had some inspiration there. Now that always from what I read on the internet, open source kind of felt naturally right to me. Like the principles of open source felt really right. But I never really got into touch to other than downloading Firefox when it was available and feeling like, OK, now I'm on the good side or using Linux for a couple of time. Like using it really felt good to me. But I think somewhere underneath I already wanted to start to contribute, but I just didn't know where to start. So I got into another company where we used Java. And then I did some projects with Plone. So I got connected with the community. But the Plone community was not that active. Or it was kind of active, but I didn't know where to start. And then finally, in Nicaragua, that's in Central America, somebody organized the first triple camp that was in 2009, like an open source conference. And they brought in people like Enzo. So this guy over there, he will do the community keynote tomorrow, I think. So it was kind of interesting to see like a grassroots movement for open source in a development country like Nicaragua. And I just by accident happened to be there. I worked for a cultural center rebuilding their website that was built by development-seed people. So some folks that have been in the Drupal community quite a while ago. And they kind of brought me into the open source that is powered by the people. Because I think there's the open source that you can download and that you can see online. But then to be at an event, to be able to experience meeting people, I forgot there's actually Edison Barry also there, who is the community representative on the DA. So there were already quite a lot of interesting people in 2009 that I got to meet by luck, I think, by privilege. And yeah. So that kind of motivated me a lot. And then I started at the cultural center as I was learning Drupal for myself. I'm basically self-taught a lot. So I just learned by trying out new stuff. And I learned programming myself and so on. So Drupal was really a great tool. Like you can install so many modules. And you can basically teach it yourself. Or that works out pretty well for me. But also being able to connect with those, there were some really good mentors that helped me create my first patch. So finally being able to create a patch was kind of incredible for me because I was able to improve a system that is there and be able to contribute something back in terms of code. So thanks a lot to Netro Rogers, who introduced me into the patch workflow, for example. And that way I found out, OK, I can do something here. So I passed the whole year in Nicaragua building the website for the cultural center and also started teaching other students because, I don't know, just wanted to try it. And then in order to be able to do a bit more of that, I started traveling around whole Central America. And I think that's also where my private interest of getting to know places, getting to know people, kind of aligned well with the way we communicate today over the internet. So there was groups to Drupal.org. There were some mailing lists around where I could get in touch with open source enthusiasts, with people from local Linux user groups, already kind of existing Drupal user groups, and kind of arranged my travels around Drupal communities. That was kind of awesome. And it really took nobody to tell me to do that. It was just like, well, it's not like I have to give something, but it's more like I get back a lot from them. Because on that way, they organized everything for me. They set up like a workshop room like here. And we brought in some students, and we explained them what Drupal is, how it works. And we went through the first basic steps of setting up a Drupal site, which was kind of exciting. It was also very tiring, of course, like speaking in Spanish to students. But with every workshop, we got more practice. And especially the program around was also really nice. So for example, the guy down there, Cassie, he drove me around half of Guatemala. So we went up here, and then to the coast. So he was really helping a lot, and was kind of an incredible experience to say, to be able to just invest a bit of time, a bit of knowledge, maybe. But getting back so much positive feedback from the community. Yes. So I think from this first episode of finding out about Drupal, and then starting to build my own site, but also being able to share on the code level, but even more on the people level. That kind of really got me into Drupal. And I'm still super, super passionate about the technology, but I think just comparing it to other systems, maybe another system would be more interesting in terms of technology. But this kind of foundation of being able to present and connect with people from all over through the Drupal community and the wide open source communities. That's definitely an incredibly good foundation that kind of built me up there in Central America. So let's talk a little bit about other initiatives. So 2009, I basically did the one year Nicaragua was instead of doing a military service in Austria. So after that, I continued my studies as a master student at the university. But I also found people from the Austrian Drupal community. And they were already pretty awesome. Like they did so much stuff. There's a couple of Austrians also around at the conference. There's Wolfgang Ziegler and Christian Ziegler, who founded the Austrian Drupal community. Wolfgang is the creator of the entity module, of the rules module, the cloud system maintainer of web service client module. So they really built some foundational stuff. And just by knowing about Drupal, I was able to connect with them and exchange ideas. And then, well, they hired me. So I was able to work beside studies just 15 hours per week. I was able to work for Epico, which is an Austrian Drupal agency. And it was really fun because we always combined university work with actual work. So for the university, we had to take courses. And we said, OK, we're going to build, like, write a module. And that module we're going to publish on Drupal.org. We're going to benefit from programs like Google Summer of Code. So we would get some public funding or funding from Google Summer of Code. And then we could spend time on creating open source modules. But they would then be later used for the company's purposes, but can also be reused by anyone else. I think that really made up a big space for community contribution. And when we compare it to what we see today, a lot of work that the Drupal community relies on is basically has to be funded somehow, right? I mean, we either need students. We have a lot of time, or we need to have companies that invest a lot of time in order to build so well reusable parts. So working together with these people really allowed to learn a lot and also to contribute back a lot on a more foundational level, I'd say. So the recruiter distribution builds up on Search API, builds up on entities, builds up on a lot of foundational modules. And from there, when I talk about initiatives, I think that was the second really cool moment for me was the Drupal Dev Days in Barcelona in 2012. Because I was always interested in what the people from Development Seed do. I feel like kind of a fanboy of Development Seed. And now they have rebranded to Mapbox, or there's a new company called Mapbox. And unfortunately, they don't do much with Drupal anymore, but it's also understandable, because they just don't need the Drupal technology behind that. But back then, I was really into mapping. So there was open layers, and the new kid on the block was the leaflet module. So in 2012, I think we were still mainly on open layers. And I've kind of, through the issue queues and through Drupal.org, we kind of, I got more and more involved in the mapping area. So Geofield and all the open layers, extension modules, and Geocoder and so forth. So just for the Drupal Developer Days, we set up a sprint. More than 20 people showed up at the sprints, and we were all working together on mapping, which was kind of incredible, right? So I'm not a hardcore coder. I know how code works. But I think I found another way to be able to contribute by bringing people together and working together at this sprint. And then also started to write my own modules. So maybe you've heard about the Facet API Pretty Paths module, which sounds very specific, maybe it actually is. And it's not a lot of code, but it kind of solves a weird problem where in Drupal 7, we had Apache Solar and Search API modules. There's like those two different worlds that then have an abstraction on top of it. That's the Facet API. And in order to realize the pretty paths for them and to be able to integrate with all the different search modules, there was kind of a fun challenge to take on. And also, as I've mentioned, the university work aligned pretty well. So I started to write my thesis. And the thesis was about Geocluster. It's an extension module for Drupal 7 that implements a geographic clustering algorithm. And it was really fun to kind of work on a scientific level, but to be able to actually break it down to something that works as a module and kind of implement it on the different layers of views integration, search API integration, PHP integration. Yeah. So I think that was, yeah, I think both the community and the actual work really led well together. And as part of the Drupal Austria community, we did a lot of initiatives. So for example, we organized the Drupal Austria Roadshow, which was kind of those enthusiasts from Vienna. We felt like, OK, everything is happening in Vienna, but we also want to spread the word out to different parts of Austria. So we traveled from city to city and had presentations about Drupal there. Then we organized the Drupal camp in Vienna like this one. And then, yeah, I think also these kinds of being able to present at Drupal events, just by having practice. I just like to share with people that also made me now end up having two presentations at one conference. And yeah, for example, it allowed me to have a first keynote presentation in Donetsk, where it was a bit crazy, because that was just before the war started in the Ukraine. But in general, I really like that we came up with the theme together for Drupal camp in Vienna, for example, that's connecting open minds. So the conference really aligns well with what Drupal8 now is about, with building bridges to other communities and bringing together a lot of open minds as we do currently at Drupal.com. Yeah, so kind of the conclusion for that is working in open source is really fun.  Now, you might expect also some other stuff. So what I'd like to talk a bit more about is how I then started to work for Amazelabs. And I think transitioning away from being a student, working part-time into a full-time position is definitely also that has changed a lot in my life. But I think it's really important for me to bring in all of these community values because they are still like the foundation that I want to build upon. So why Amazelabs? Well, I kind of got bored living in the same city all my life. I think there were like two options, either to help build up one of the agencies that already existed in Vienna. They were like around four to five people each. So it would have been a very tough job from my perspective because I'm just coming out of university. I don't have any knowledge about how a company works. And I felt like, so we all have the best powers in our hands. We have created all of these interesting modules, but we don't have cool clients. Or I don't know, the match wasn't there. So we had the best technology, but the project were kind of not as exciting as I would like to have seen them. So that was kind of one part of the decision. The other part of the decision was like being an explorer, being a traveler. I just wanted to get away from Vienna for a bit, at least. And then finding Amazelabs was kind of a fun accident, I'd say. I always felt like Amazelabs is a lot bigger than where I can be. And Michael had the job offer open to be like a deputy CTO. And I thought, well, I have very broad knowledge. I know about site building. I understand back-end. I understand front-end. But I don't feel really good at any of these. So maybe being a tech lead makes sense because I understand what's going on. But I don't feel like I want to specialize in any of these. So yeah, we met at Ruppedeftes. And then they just said, yeah, come by. Switzerland is maybe not the craziest move away from Austria. It's just an hour flight or like seven hours per train. But being close to the mountains and especially being able to work with such a passionate team, such a diverse team, I think that was one of the main reasons. Like especially diversity is one of the biggest plus that I see working there. So also the kind of getting started with the company was really fun because we had this kind of team event where we spent two days in the mountains or in the forest camping together and being trained by an expert that knows how to survive. Like so we had like a survival training. So kind of combining the hardworking on a laptop, kind of being able to put it into total contrast and just hang out with the team in nature. That kind of was the perfect start, I think. So yeah, starting, that's kind of exciting, right? But then you see like all these new challenges. Like, wow, should I now be responsible for a team? What does it actually mean being a deputy? Like they're still, like Michael is still there and managing everything. And I got really well introduced into new projects so I could like be responsible for tiny parts in the beginning, so I think that worked out really well. But both of us, neither Michael nor me, we really knew what would, how would the setup really work out being a deputy to him. So yeah, I kind of, I think I'm always thinking so I'm very much an optimist but I'm also fearful in a sense that I kind of see all the options and what could possibly go wrong and stuff. So kind of figuring out, like making those first steps was kind of, yeah, kind of weird because I just didn't, I usually don't have like a big plan, I know how to solve problems, I know how to be positive, how to have a good discussion and how to like try to convince people or most importantly, hear their opinions and try to align different opinions. But laying out a big plan for myself was never like how I approached life. I just said like to my parents, well I think I'm gonna quit the job I have. No, I haven't heard from Amazie yet so I don't know, we'll see. Yeah, and they were really worried before I took the decision. And then also at Amazie I was like, well, give me some tasks, let's do something and yeah, kind of figuring out that in the beginning was kind of interesting. So I think what I did in the beginning also was like, so when we had that first hike tour Greg, one of the founders and asked me about my strengths and my weaknesses and I said, well my weakness probably is that decision making is really hard for me. So I think one of the first steps that I had to learn is how to take decisions and how to take first steps. Maybe doing everything perfect in the beginning will just not be possible but being able to make first steps that really, really helped. So I think also aligning like personal goals like maintaining flexibility, being able to try out new things with company goals like stability, being able to predict stuff to clients, figuring out the right balance there. That was kind of interesting to figure out. Yeah, let's see. So how is it that you kind of, I think the picture for me is like nesting into something, like getting settled, how did it really work out? So I think what I'm really passionate about when working together with the team is that I try to listen a lot. My perspective on leadership is not that I want to tell people exactly what to do all the time but I rather want to be able to support them and coach them to reach their goals and the company goals together. And I think that's something that in the long term kind of makes sense at least to me but kind of just jumping into an existing team and telling them, hey, I will not tell you what to do but you will have to figure it out yourself is definitely a long term process that we kind of go through together. Yes, like just figuring out how to delegate task was really hard for me in the beginning because you used to build it yourself, you used to implement it yourself. You may be not even able to tell expectations to your coworkers or to your customers because you're just used to, I will figure it out that I cannot tell you now how it should be in the end because I still have to try it out. That kind of thing really changed how the way, like how I think about solving problems because I never was in a situation where I would sell something to a customer, I would sell something to a team member in terms of handing over tasks that was not something that I did before and that I do now a lot of course, right? But I really like those challenges I think without challenges life would be really, really, really boring. One very important thing for me is that I wanna step away from the critical path. So I think in like a leadership position I want to be able to jump in when I'm needed and be available to my team members when they need me. So one thing that I really try hard is because as a tech lead it's really easy for people to throw work at you because you're supposed to know a bit about everything. So one of the goals is to make the processes that way that it doesn't happen too much, right? I mean, that should be the case for anyone. Doesn't mean that the developer should get all the work but it should be in a way that it's sustainable. And I think being able to react fast is something that I really like and so the flexibility that is like a need that I have maybe I can also put it into a trend for the team to being able to help out and solve problems but not that they would continuously rely on me doing stuff. Yeah, so basically it trickles down to the word coaching for me. That's something that also AMAZ has been offering. Like basically every team member gets an offer you can take coaching if you like to. So we can like consult a life coach and discussing with him the goals I have or figuring out that I don't have any goals together with him and thinking about why I don't have any goals. That kind of situation made me think, well, coaching is kind of a description for the way I work at AMAZ. Like rather than being a manager that tells people today is this, today is this, today is this. I try to set up processes for the team to be able to perform excellent on the way they wanna perform that and definitely there is other people stepping up and taking management roles themselves. So we have tech leads who are responsible for an area for example like backend lead or front end lead. We have product owners slash project managers who set up timelines together with clients. So kind of I think also the team setup helps. I'm not saying that a team doesn't need a manager at all. I'm just, the way I see it is that I think where I'm good at is coaching. So that's what I think I'm trying to do good. And yeah, it's kind of like taking baby steps at the time, right? Because especially when for me like when starting something entirely new the pile of stuff to figure out kind of felt like impossible. And you're like also in between. Yeah, I mean there's like hierarchy of course. You have a boss and then you have developers. And I think with the way that trying to be supportive trying to find a balance and to be like very adaptive to others kind of makes me or allows me to take those steps. Yeah, so the way I think I take these steps or so far works pretty well. There's definitely some that have been times especially before we said like, okay we're now officially gonna hand over to the CTO role from Mike Kichumi kind of made me like, okay well now it's getting for real and stuff. But kind of taking steps another at the time now when I look back it's something kind of incredible. You don't really realize how much you can get done in a year like you think like I'm never gonna reach that goal but it kind of feels like I've been reaching a lot and we have been reaching a lot together with the whole team. Yeah, and how to reach that that goal is so I think it's really important to visualize the goals and that's something that we currently also I think sometimes are struggling that like AMAZ is like a group and has like different companies. So continuously communicating okay this is the goal of this project and this is the goal of the entire company this is the goal of the entire group is something that we try or that we're currently looking at how to align it or make it a bit more clearer. But I think in terms of structure what really really is like the big change that we started implementing scrum as an HR methodology and that kind of also very much I didn't. So when I now explain how I think and how I feel and how I think about my role it kind of fits well to scrum but I never like when we initially thought about doing scrum it was more like well we don't have a process we kind of need a process and it should probably be HR because waterfall is bullshit. That's like the common sense that you feel but you don't really know because everyone says like yeah scrum is really hard for an agency it's like impossible for an agency because you're never gonna be able to work in predictable sprints with a lot of different clients and so forth. So there were a lot of doubts and I have a whole session about how we adopted scrum there's a video about it online already so I don't wanna get into too much of the details but kind of aligning that with the leadership role with the kind of understanding of management that I have is really really important because so we have now two scrum teams in Zurich and we have another scrum team in Austin and another scrum team in Cape Town and that basically for me means I'm not directly part of one of those scrum teams I'm more like coaching them. I tried to be the scrum master of both scrum teams in the beginning but I just saw like by switching back and forth and being also responsible for other duties I wasn't able to really fulfill the scrum master role but yeah just figuring out that and together with the team decide okay what we're gonna do is a developer now able to step up as a scrum master and now we also work together with the scrum coach to continuously improve those processes that kind of very much aligns with the long term goal of having self-organized teams like that they can take their decisions. In the end a lot of stuff can be decided by the teams itself they don't really need management to decide stuff for them but they can consult management if they have questions and obviously there's criteria like client happiness and employee happiness that have to be fulfilled but at the end of the day like how it's exactly gonna be implemented if the sprint is gonna take one or two weeks that's definitely something that the team can decide. So I'm really really passionate about HIL and I'm really looking forward to further improve the processes that we have to figure out the best way to be HIL and it doesn't have to be scrum I mean it can be a mix of Kanban's scrum I don't know I've not had much experience other than having lived scrum for a year and what I can definitely say is compared to the way we worked before there's the quality of work that Kat's produced the predictability and the information exchange between the developers is a lot better there's definitely also challenges because that's just I mean HIL is just not as predictable as if one person has predefined everything from the beginning but I think the trade-off is definitely one to make and there's also one to be able to scale and not have a single point of failure that you rely on. So yeah, what I'd like to add here is so people ask me, hey, you are CTO now, congratulations. That's really nice to hear, thanks. It's also weird because I haven't felt that change. I started like as a deputy and I'm now officially the CTO but that was a very continuous transition so the day we sent out the announcement was more like, yeah, it's good to have accomplished that but I don't feel like I need that or it hasn't really changed the way how I walk into office or how I go home. What's definitely interesting when talking about the CTO role or any role I think is the way where do you fly? Like are you very high up? So for example, there's tech leads that will do programming or there's tech leads that will also be part of the development and for example, in my case I try to stay away from it as much as possible but that's not because I think it's better, it's more like I feel like that's where I am better. I just don't see myself producing very good code. I can give feedback, I can train people or I can specifically have foresight building, I can definitely comment on best practices and help establish them but I don't see myself being like a developer. So yeah, I think one thing that I struggle with is like time management or that I've been constantly looking at so for example, how do you make a plan for the week and how do you make sure that you will be able to do in urgent work and not so urgent work and not spend time on the wrong tasks. So for example, I spent five hours on an estimation for a big project. At the end I felt like maybe some hours were wasted because ultimately my goal is to not do that kind of big estimations in the beginning but rather have HR implemented that way that we don't spend so much time on an initial estimation without much information but rather set up a workshop together with the client and kick that off. So yeah, sometimes I'm still getting lost in those clouds but I try to stay above to have kind of the big picture and be able to support the team when they have questions and when they feel like okay, I need help now. So yeah, being able to support where needed, that's like the vision I have and in the end it's all about collaboration. So it's all about how we work together so bringing people together for conferences, bringing people together for sprints. This is also what I think is the solution for at work like rather than handing off work from one to the other. If you have good meetings together that doesn't mean you should do meetings all the time but finding a good balance I think is really important and for example, the way we do estimation meetings where in Scrum Poker we identify different views, different opinions, ideas about how something can be solved faster or how something is maybe bigger risk than other people would have imagined. Really strengthens the team and improves the quality of work being delivered. Yeah, so that's kind of what I think is important to kind of come to a conclusion. So the things and was it today? No, I don't know when it was mentioned but the word grit really got stuck in one of the presentations that we have seen. So I think being persistent and being able to also, maybe I cannot fulfill the vision of having a self-organized team today or tomorrow but kind of identifying that this is kind of the vision that I have and then finding out together with the team, together with the rest of the company if that vision can be accomplished or if that's like a common vision. That's definitely something where I would or I'm sure I invest my grit into, yeah. I think being able to communicate better is also something that I found out like sometimes I don't communicate enough because I expect people just to know what I'm thinking. So I'm constantly trying to improve that, yeah. Also being able to, so when reflecting, this is all about like figuring out what life and work should be about. So one thing that always comes to my mind is like creativity. I know we are like in an industry that is very tech driven, sounds a bit boring but actually like I'm, so one of the things that I don't do at work but the job I do is taking a lot of photography. I was producing music back then so I thought like maybe recently I got less creative because I don't do so much or why don't I write any lyrics anymore? And I think the creativity is actually also at work. I mean just finding new processes, finding good solutions and the solutions doesn't, they don't only need to be technical but the solutions can also be on the people level like figuring out how to best mix the team members, how to best define a process to work together. That for me is also really something creative. So I kind of want to put that on the positive notes. Yeah, so the conclusion is there's constant change and I'm really passionate about being able in an environment that is changing. I have to acknowledge that change is not always easy for everyone. So I think also to find the right balance is really, really important because we cannot expect all of our coworkers, all of our team members or even group of community members. Some of them just don't want change every day and I think that's also important to recognize. But I think to acknowledge that, yeah, every one of us kind of changes and the company changes over time that is constant I think is like really important. This talk is initially about like how to help others help me. And what I really like for example is that that person in Milan, he organized it to the Drupal and he said like, yeah, he only organized it because we were tweeting about to the Drupal. So you can sometimes you just make a very small thing like send out a tweet and then that kind of was helping others help me because he took me for a really nice ride. And also for example, when we work with the rules initiative that's another very successful sprint that we had the Drupal death days. Yeah, I think that's a nice way of putting it like as a conclusion and I'd be happy to hear your thoughts around how you organize your work, what makes you successful, what are the challenges. Thanks a lot for your attention.


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Hi everybody, Sean at jaspyscasebreaks.com doing a 2020 Tops Tier 1 Baseball 12 box case break. Pick your teams number 16. Spreadsheet everybody in. Last spot Mojo, Nick Stober with the Cincinnati Reds. Fresh case for us. Good luck everybody. 12 boxes in here. Typically it's two autos and a relic per box. In some cases there will be two relics so we'll go two at a time. Tyler that seems like a seems like a scene from like a movie or something like that. Rex I don't I don't let Joe do anything. Joe does what he wants. He's the nicest person I know. Let me put a cover, huh? No. God no. It's true. There's a packing order. That's a pretty cool saying. I like that. Cooler than a polar breast toenails. First up, very nice. Donnie baseball. Don Mattingly. Four out of 25. Gold, ink, auto. Nice looking card there. Yankees on that is Wade Valentine. Congrats. Carlos Carrasco, relic. Number two, three, ninety-five for the Cleveland Indians. That's going to Daniel Anderson and Williams Ostadillo, 36 of 299 for the Twins and that's going to Pat Wolfe. Not gonna lie, I thought it was Williams Ostadillo up until right now. I guess so. He's got a brother. His brother's in Bowman first this year. Yes. I was going to say, well friend, congrats Wade. Very nice Donnie baseball. I know Teddy would approve of that. Ted has a Don Mattingly tattoo. He has a Wade Boggs tattoo. Is that what it was? It's a Wade Boggs tattoo. On his chest? Oh, maybe that's a different tattoo. He's much cooler than I am. Wilfred, yeah, you were right. Wilfred Ostadillo. First auto, second box. Chris Bryant for the Cubs, going to Jacob Nos, 24 out of 30. A.J. Puck, rookie relic for the Oakland Athletics. That's going to Matthew Bodner. I'm used to breaking the Pokemons. He's a Pokemon character. I apologize, A.J. And rookie auto Dylan Cease for the Chicago White Sox, going to Jacob Nos, 80 of 299, has the North Siders and the South Siders in this break. They actually should have a pretty good rivalry coming up in the next couple years with the talent. They've kind of loaded up between both teams. He did, he did. I mean they're kind of both just like stockpiling a ton of potentially great prospects. Oh, to Family Feud. This is Tops Tier 1. Pick your team number 16. And Wade, I noticed when I was leaving up that Don Mattingly, it's actually got that cool look on it where it's multi-leveled. So the sides kind of have like the top layers like a die cut compared to the rest of it. Looks real nice with the gold ink on there. First auto, third box. Dale Murphy, classic for the Atlanta Braves. Juan Escobie Peña, numbered 41 out of 120 on that. Congrats, Obi-Wan. And Rookie Relic, three-color dual patch in there. Yordon Alvarez, 15 of 25 on that. Houston Astros is going to Colin Sullivan. Congrats, Colin. And Chris Paddock, auto 263 of 299 for the Padres. Going to Tom Jones. Dale Murphy, hauled very good, right? Nice patches on that for the Yordon Alvarez for Colin. Next up, Aaron Nola, one of the nicest signatures in baseball. Tier 1 talent, autograph, numbered 129 of 200. Phillies, Derek Hamilton. Chris Sale, Relic, numbered 62 of 395. Going to the Boston Red Sox and Chris Walker. Two Relics in this one. Fernando Tautis Jr., 275 of 395. And that's going to Padres again, Tom Jones. And Domingo Leyva, Rookie Auto, 181 of 299 for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Nick Galvin. This is just like a humiliating question to ask a person on this. Name something that your neighbor has better than you. So what do you do to tell your neighbor, like, hey, by the way, I'm going to be on Family Feud. I would think of it as, and I think about that too, but then I realize you have to win the game, you have to put yourself in the mindset of the 100 people survey. Dot, dot, dot. There's less of a personal question to you. You would think entrepreneurial surveys. Your neighbor's always going to hold that against you, though. Right, he's going to see, like, oh, here's, like, the Hickson family, they said. Next two boxes. Obi-Wan. This is, that's a nice, good, easy request. Otani, Trout, Ocuna, and Soto next. Would we settle for one, one of them? Maybe two. We lower it down to that. I mean, I'd love to get everybody their hits. Out all on the same book, Ron, now you're asking a little bit too much. Matt McCray with the dab. That is easier. I mean, workload-wise. First up, Patch and Otto, Rookie, Jesus Lizardo for the Oakland Athletics, and Matt Bodner. That's numbered 45 of 70. Relic, Carlos Correa, and the Houston Astros. Going to Colin Sullivan. Number 240 of 395. And Rogelio Armenteros, Rookie Otto, 200 of 299, also for the Houston Astros, and Colin Sullivan again. The tiered random team. Which one, Matt? The only things I have sold out right now are actually this break we're currently doing, obviously, and the Luminance, number 16, I believe. Or no, this is number 16. So the Luminance one. Those are only two breaks that are sold out as of right now. After Luminance, I'll go ahead and update orders again. So we may be in that role. Yeah, Colin, you're, you're on Alvarez, Relic, earlier was really nice, too. Really short-printed, also. Next up, great-looking card here. Silver, Ink, Otto, 4 of 10, Will Clark for the San Francisco Giants, and Steve Stone. That's a great-looking card there. Lordus Guriel Jr., number 38 of 395, the Toronto Blue Jays, and Tommy Corbett, and Aaron Hicks Otto, 288, 289 of 299, for the New York Yankees, and Wade Valentine again. Yeah, that Will Clark Otto is pretty improbable. He also played for the Tigers for quite a while, didn't he? Will Clark? No? Oppo, Joe, Mojo on that one, guys. And the Astros for you earlier. Astros have been hitting a lot, too, now, guys. Played for the Rangers also, Matt. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Rangers. I thought I was thinking Tigers. Maybe it was the Rangers then. Joe says that T-Mall football has also sold out. Obviously, I'll update orders after Luminance, so that should be up after that. Four, but there was that early bird spot. It's a 10-spot, but known as an early bird. So that's why when there was nine spots, that filled that break. Mm. So did that sell? It still sold out after Luminance, though. Oh, it did? Okay, cool. Oh, that's right. That was the last spot I filled in. Yeah. Okay, so actually, yeah, that is going to be up after Luminance. It is already sold out. We have an early spot giveaway. Brendan Rogers for the Colorado Rockies. Auto 10 of 99. Rockies going to Dan Tursky. Wilson Contreras, Relic, numbered 182 of 395. Going to the Chicago Cubs and Jacob Knoss. Adrian Morjean, rookie Relic, 285 of 395 for the Padres and Tom Jones. And Zach Plisac. Auto 18 of 299 for the Cleveland Indians and Daniel Anderson. Corey Kluber, 26 of 100 for the Cleveland Indians and Daniel Anderson. I love seeing pictures in batting photos. Those are great. Don't you love those ones? Pitcher? Yeah, I think in Sapphire. I mean, it's just funny because it's Corey Kluber. Oh, what? Yeah, Corey Kluber batting auto. Jorge Solaire, Relic, 226 of 395 for the Kansas City Royals and Deborah Close. Hideki Matsui, Legends, Relic, numbered 137 of 199 for the New York Yankees and Wade Valentine. And Michael Chavis, Auto 183 of 299 for the Boston Red Sox and Chris Walker. I love Chavis's auto. Yeah, so busy. Check it out in the picture. Look at that. Great looking auto. It's got like his jersey number in the middle there. Adam, I think there was only three spots left in that when we started. Two spots left. $2.25 a team to fill up that Bowman Sapphire. $50 between us and breaking a Bowman Sapphire tonight, guys. Tyler, we still got four boxes left. You got plenty of time. I mean, sometimes you get an extra Relic. Do you guys, do you guys leave a baseball games in the sixth inning? End of the sixth? No? I don't. Come on. People in LA, actually. A lot of people in LA. Get there in the third, leave in the sixth. I always try to get there for the first, but I pay for it, though. Like, you sit in the parking lot for like two hours. See, Tyler? But that's the eighth. We're talking about not even not even the top of the seventh yet. We're not even top of the seven. You guys are already leaving. Trying to show off some of this body. Yeah, that was a little too much room. But we had the Jasper's logo and stuff up there. Jasper's logo is still there. You gotta have, there's too much space up at the top. It's just a bad, bad composition. I was nervous the camera was gonna make me look fat, but then I realized we're already there. And then I stopped wearing. Let's save that one for next. First auto. That's why we're doing our weight loss challenge. Shane Bieber, 259 of 299 for the Cleveland Indians, and Daniel Anderson, Albert Poole-Holes, and the Los Angeles Angels, a single relic. Great looking red, 360 out of 395 on that. Los Angeles Angels going to Obi-Wan, and Matt Thais, rookie auto for the Los Angeles Angels also going to Obi-Wan, 206 out of 299. The colors and the MT just is the most T's auto every single time you see it.  Well, if you guys, hey, if you guys keep a tracker, I will do them for you. Whoa. I will actually, you know what? I don't know if I'll do jumping jacks because, you know, too much shaking. I don't know. The studio, if you guys keep track, I'll do them for you. You can probably get a camera angle or you can probably bring that camera right around. I'll do push-ups. You don't get, you don't get guns, guns on a chest like this without a little bit of effort. I did. Not very well. I tried to be a running back and then they realized that I was better off just running into things so they put me at linebacker completely. Yeah, it's a lot more fun. We're gonna go from the back on this one. Shed Long, rookie auto. Sorry, not rookie auto. Really nice auto though. $1.94 out of $2.99 for the Seattle Mariners and Chris Walker. What's up, Arthur? Relic, Austin Nola, rookie relic numbered 178 at $3.95. And if you guys are seeing a theme from this box, Seattle Mariners, Chris Walker, it may continue in this last auto. Silver, Ink auto, Ken Griffey Jr., two of ten. Congrats, Chris Walker and the Seattle Mariners. The card is disgusting. Joe, you like, do you like this guy? I believe his name is the kid. Oh my god, that's pretty nice. Silver, Ink auto out of ten. Yeah. That'd be Chris Walker and that entire box was all Mariners. All Mariners. Personal Yep. Gotta love Ken Griffey Jr. Trick loves the kids. Tyler, turn off your stream. Just turn off your stream. Turn it on later on. We'll talk. Let's get the Detroit Tigers. Jason Jaspy just pulled a Tiger Stripe. He did. Pulled a Tiger here. Jason Jaspy actually on their personal site just pulled a Zion Williamson Tiger Stripe. We have a redemption as well. One Soto, 44 out of 50 with the die-cut look auto. You can see the layers on that card. Remember that old Supreme? Washington Nationals? Obi-Wan. Did Obi-Wan, did you ask for a Soto earlier? Nationals hadn't hit. Top of the ninth. Excellent. Miles Mikolas for the Cardinals. Relic 176 of 395. St. Louis Cardinals, Stephen Kendrick, SKS. And auto Jed Lowry, the New York Mets 171 of 299. New York Mets, Sam Kies. Is it going it's going back to the same guy though, right? No. He's not buying it again? I thought I thought he gave him another offer for a ton less than we have. I don't know. I mean, I know that the like the A-Rod JLo group are trying to buy the Mets from the Wolfons. Yeah, but that's not going to ever happen. They already backed out once. The guy who, the guy, adding investors. What's up, Will? I think the guy that tried to buy it last time. They're gonna do it again?  And then Dolan just needs to sell the Mets in New York will be happy. That's a beauty. One of the nicest autographs in the biz once. There's a, that's a redemption. We'll save that. Brendon McKay, rookie relic, 218 of 395. Tampa Bay Rays and Mark Brackett. Oh, look who got an auto. Tiger Tigray? That's a Detroit Tigray. Nice. Travis Demerit, Rookie Auto, 74 of 299. Go, Tyler. Tyler Brenner. At least getting some, some action in the ninth.  For which one, Ron? Are we talking to the Demerit? I'll let you pick. I mean, if it's in question, I'd rather do a push-up. You know what I mean? So I feel like, you know, this body, this body just looks better doing push-ups than it does doing jumping jacks.  But, and last hit of the box, guys, redemption.  Then I'm going to do jumping jacks. I'll do all the jumping jacks you guys want. Invite your wives. We can watch me stream jumping jacks all night. Tier one autograph of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Toronto Blue Jays and Tommy Corbett. Is that fun? I love that they put the team named on those redemptions. Yeah. Very nice break, guys. Nice. Sorry, Johnny. I told you this box, it had the Apo Joe Mojo. Had the couple, a couple of good hits there. We're doing any break credit after this? Was there a break credit? I don't think so. I'll do a little recap on some nicer hits. Yeah, do a recap. Jordan Alvarez, dual relic, triple color, three color relic, 15 of 25 for the Houston Astros, Don Mattingly, gold, ink, auto, four out of 25 for the New York Yankees, Vlad Guerrero Jr., redemption for the Toronto Blue Jays, Juan Soto, blue, 44 of 50, and Ken Griffey Jr., silver, ink, auto, two of 10. Nice. And then another out of 10, Will Clark, silver, ink, auto. Very nice cards, guys. Thank you very much. Great breaking with you. Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com. 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Although Kaylee Cuoco has been married to her billionaire heir, husband Carl Cooke for a couple years now, it wasn't until earlier this year that they finally moved in together. They jointly purchased a brand new estate in the notoriously fancy Hidden Hills neighborhood. Kaylee owns about four other properties in LA, including a ranch, and formerly lived in a gorgeous Tarzan home occupied by a Kardashian once upon a time. We'll check out three of Kaylee's homes past and present, including her and Carl's new dream home. We even found the listings. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Kaylee Cuoco is an actress and producer who's probably best known for her starring role on Big Bang Theory, which is also the role that made her super wealthy. I don't really watch that show so personally I know her best from her breakthrough role as Bridget Hennessey on the ABC sitcom Eight Simple Rules, which she started from 2002 to 2005. Between this role and the Big Bang Theory, she voiced Brandy Harrington on the cartoon Brandy and Mr. Whiskers and appeared on the final season of Charmed. Kaylee then famously starred as Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2007 to 2019, for which she received People's Choice Awards and other awards for the role. Not to mention at one point Kaylee was getting paid a whopping $1 million per episode for this role, so I'm pretty sure her bank account is thanking that series. While she's also appeared in films throughout her career, most recently she's starring in the new HBO show The Flight Attendant, for which she's also involved in production. At the time of this recording, with over 20 years of acting under her belt, Kaylee has an estimated net worth of around $100 million. She began dating Equestrian and billionaire Eric Carle Cook in late 2016 and they married in 2018. The couple also loves horses, which explains why they have a ranch or two between them. Hey guys it's Kara the Vampire Slayer and today we're bringing you another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. We're noticing about 95% of you watching aren't subscribed so hit that subscribe button and ring that bell. We post a new video daily. Today we'll be taking a look at where Kaylee quote quote lives with her husband Carl Cook, like what we know about their current and first mansion together and two more of Kaylee's properties. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and as usual let me know who's house is next in those comments down below. Now let's get into this video. This first home is a spot that Kaylee used to live in with her first husband Ryan's suiting up until 2014. According to records the actress purchased the house in 2010 prior to her marriage to the tennis star and when it came time to sell she unloaded it for about $2.5 million. While the home is spacious and gorgeous once we compare details to her current home you'll see how far she's upgraded. This place was located in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles which is a slightly more suburban area in the San Fernando Valley close to Encino. The Tuscan inspired house was built over a decade ago but renovated since and as you'll see renovated once again after Kaylee moved on out of there. Inside it's spanned 5,233 square feet of living space full of fine furnishings and ideal amenities. It was designed for indoor outdoor living and entertaining like many California style homes and offered five beds and five beds. Among the common rooms there is a spacious family room and eating kitchen as well as stone fireplaces and interior arches throughout. There were granite walls and hardwood flooring in many of the rooms and at the time Kaylee had the home done in a Mediterranean and modern design. In Kaylee's master suite she had a dressing room with extensive shoe racks to balconies and even a bathroom including an in-home hair salon with special salon sink. Photos from the time of sale even show the bright hairstyling look. Another bathroom in Kaylee's former house had a gorgeous bathtub perched by a large window and fireplace. Outside on the property there was an outdoor living room and fireplace, outdoor kitchen with eat out bar and a resort style pool and spa all behind a green garden wall for privacy. In recent years it seems this home has undergone a big makeover as current listing photos show the place with an all-new white color scheme and fresh designs inside as well. While you can tell it's indeed the same house it seems like the whole place has been revamped and upgraded since Kaylee sold it. After this place Kaylee moved on to a home that previously belonged to Chloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom when they were still an item so if it looks familiar that might just be why. Perched on a .75 acre lot in Tarzana California more specifically in the guard gated hood of Mulholland Park this Mediterranean villa was sold to Kaylee for about 5.5 million dollars back in 2014. Unfortunately Kaylee had trouble selling the home and after almost a year on the market with lower and lower price tags she sold the mansion for only 3.95 million earlier this year. Her former Tarzana home was only one of eight celeb style mansions in the gated community spanning about 8,000 square feet inside with uniquely decorated with eye catching light fixtures and exotic patterned wallpapers throughout. There were six beds six full baths and three half baths. A double height rotunda entry with curved staircase among the highlights of the home and hints to the rest of the glamour that succumb. There are formal living and dining rooms no matter which way you go one of which with a full service bar. There's a gourmet kitchen with circular breakfast nook and a family room with fireplace and another bar. Daring colors and a sense of fun to find the home which was designed by Jeff Andrews while Khloe Kardashian was still living here. Kaylee claimed she fell in love with the place as is so it didn't need to be redecorated much but she worked with Jeff again to make sure the home had her own touch. For example in the living room the rug was custom made to match the colors in the actress's favorite painting and horse details can be found throughout the home too. Elsewhere in the mansion there's a flush screening room a library office with custom buildings and guest bedrooms one with gold and silver wallpaper. Kaylee's former master suite boasted a fireplace private view terrace and not one but three customized walk-in closets including one just for shoots. Outside of the backyard is designed for entertaining with a ton of terrace space shaded dining areas outdoor kitchen and bar seating as well as a fire pit and swimming pool and spa. Most recently Kaylee and her husband Carl finally moved in together early this year. The pair settled on a mega mansion in the Hidden Hills neighborhood known for its high-profile celebrity residents and being the wealthiest hood around. Records show that Kaylee and Carl have a 50-50 stake in the house which sold for 11.75 million dollars but since the deal went down off-market exact details and interior picks are hard to come by. We do know the estate was built on spec by local developer Peter Baer of Strategic Acquisitions who bought the 1.5 acre corner lot from an NBA star. He tore down the existing home and replaced it with a sprawling mansion built in a trendy modern farmhouse style. We can see the exterior is mostly crisp and white with an old-time white picket fence surrounding the property which is a rare feel for a Hollywood mansion. The estate also may offer some horse facilities like stables or a riding rink because Kaylee and Carl are both known equestrians and there are numerous trails in this community devoted to horseback riding and other outdoor activities. Since they married back in 2018 it's also been said the couple has been devoted to building this dream home with plenty of land for their dogs, rabbits, goats and horses. Sounds like a dream to me. Even last year Kaylee started sharing glimpses into the mansion progress over on social media. We were able to see the light and airy kitchen with white and glass cabinets, huge windows and a vaulted ceiling. What could be a living room also had a vaulted ceiling with the beams stained dark brown to match the dark wood floor that runs through part of the house. When moving in this past spring Kaylee shared more of their home and documented every moment of the move even with a full house to run her Instagram stories. We got to see the expensive blue lacquer new stove they splurged on, some of the custom furniture and even the stairs by the front door with the towering ceilings above. From aerial views of the property we can also see they have everything from a large guest house to a swimming pool and spa. So while we don't know the exact details of Kaylee and Carl's hidden hills dream home from the pics and vid she shared we can get an idea of how they designed it. Not to mention aerial shots show how massive the property is. That being said I think we'll wrap up this house tour here. After seeing three of Kaylee Cuoco's mansions including her current one what did you guys think? It seems to me that the hidden hills property is the most gorgeous of them all but I also like the fun designs of her previous home in Tarzana. 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Hey guys, it's Brandon. Here you don't have it. It's just Brandon. Let's start with him. Hey guys! It's us, and we're going thrifting us. I'm Brandon. I'm Sydney. Haley. She's Haley. And we're at our tried-and-true last chance. Trying to find some good stuff. We've only been here for like 10 minutes. I've already found so much. The last number I had goes because half of this probably won't fit. What about you, Haley-on? Oh, I was trying to zoom in. I found some stuff. Nothing amazing. A lot of cropable situations. Oh yes. Haley-on loves to go for a grandma chic. I always... I always criticize what she picks out. But then it turns out looking really good. She never ceases to amaze me. Yeah.  Now I've found Sydney. You found anything good? Show them your Fila shirt. In the little boy's section. Look at that. I know. That's pop it. Yeah, so hopefully it'll fit. I gotta try it. It will. Not. So the first location is Veneto. We got some stuff. I only spent $7. $7. Yeah, and then she spent $1. For like two things. We got two shirts. Little boys. Let me show you guys what we got when we actually sit down. Oh, I thought that was my car. We're at our second stop, which is... Goodwill. North Decatur. Don't tell them our location. All the fans will come get us. In the mirror. Let's do a video in the mirror. Okay, cool. So hey guys. I can't. Once I start it, I'm not turning it around. Perspective. Almost failed. I got some stuff. Some stuff I want to use for sewing. We're stepping on it. What'd you get? Show them. It was all stepped on, so it'll take me one second. Hayley, what'd you get? Okay. I found these little tie pants. We never get a tie pant. Burnt orange. Red orange. Sure, that might look good. I actually really like it. Here's my tie pants. Here's my crotch. There's Sydney up close. Now we're going to try on and see. Stop number three. This is actually one more stop than we normally do. This is one more stop than we normally do. So let's see if we can find anything in there. We are. For this girl. Hey guys, it's Brandon. Creator of Halfway Dress. A fashion blog dedicated to some acceptance, some confidence, and self-sufficiency. And welcome back to my channel. One more try. One more try. You get one more try. You ready? Hey guys, it's Brandon. Creator of Halfway Dress. A fashion blog dedicated to some acceptance, self-sufficiency, and self-sufficiency. And welcome back to my channel. So guys, like I said before, I was going to do a collab thrifting haul video. And I'm doing that now with these two. I don't know them. I picked them up off the street. What's your name again? Sydney. This is April. What's your name again? Hayley. This is Caroline. We're going to do a thrifting haul for you guys. We just went on a big thrifting for you. April, Last Chance, and Value Village. We got some blog footage. You just feel unsettled. What is it? So let's start with the stuff that we got from Last Chance. So the first thing I got from Last Chance was a little skeptical, but it's just really cool. Oh, you actually bought this? Yes. It looks like really cool. It's obviously like a Worker's Men jacket, but it has that reflective tape on there. I think it would be really cool for pictures and how it fits nice on my body as well. I like it. That's the first thing I got. I bought a nice pair of pink Sherbert pink. Sherbert pink trousers. Pink pants. They look really nice on you. They're a little see-through, but it's okay with it. It's a nude undie. That's an energy for fall. My fall energy. It's see-through. My Last Chance haul, I spent a lot of time in the little boys section.  So yeah, I got it from the little boys section for 99 cents. Oh yeah, all together, mine came out to be $7.38, I believe. Mine was a dollar out of six. Because you got two things. Mine was $7.30. So then I also got this really nice blazer. That was really cool. It was very last minute too. We were just in the blazer section. I didn't even know it had a little thingy on the back. I think this was really nice.  Something cool and simple. Those white converse you saw from my last video. I think that will look really nice. I bought a better blazer. What did you do with it? Yes, I did. Yeah, she's cute. It's also my fall energy. Just some color in there. There's purple, blue, some orange. You got some yellow? Yeah. Who had the better blazer? Me or Hayley? Let us know in the comment section below. The only other thing I got was a plain little black t-shirt that I'm going to crop severely. And then cut a V into it because I'm creative. And she's done. She only got two things. I also got these really cool gray baseball pants that are actually wider at the bottom. So I'm imagining wearing these with some really cool boots maybe. And adding some chains on it. I think that would look really cool. She's my last thing. I don't know. Kodaroid? It's not Kodaroid. Towel knit shirt. Towel-y coat situation. It'll be, I think it's pretty versatile. I could like dress it up or dress it down. We can see. Brandon does not support my decisions. I don't ever. Everyone slam him in the front. So next we had Goodwill. And Hayley bought a big old chest. Nah, she's a big cup. She bought a trunk. I got this really cool like it's been stabbing me this whole time. I got this really cool like vintage tennis racket that I want to use in a shoot.  I'd have to like take it off. But it's like a Wilson really vintage. It was only $4.94. But I think it would look really good like on someone's face or like using it as a prop. So I brought that. I bought that. I got these white drapes that I want to use for a shoot. I did it at Arabian Mountain. But I think these would be really nice like to use in a photo. Oh, this is so rude. All they do. This shirt which I thought had a really cool pattern. And I got it just to use as like lining for some of the bags that I make. Because I thought it was such a cool pattern. I just got a pair of pants. If my dog will let me show you. They're really, really nothing exciting. But they're just some tie pants. Kind of like what Brandon's wearing right now. Give you a little preview. Yeah, and they fit really well. But they're like good like airport pants. Because they're comfy. Oh, it's okay. And lastly for this strip top. I got this cool like backdrop that I also want to use for a shoot. It doesn't smell bad. It doesn't smell bad. Really cool green color. I got that and then did I get anything else? Yeah. Oh, Hailey found this like fake Gucci briefcase. Oh, you bought that? I did. That would be like a really cool just like cool for a shoot or cool to just carry around like this.  But that was it. I was going to buy some really cool snow pants too. But the value of the village that we were at was extremely expensive for no reason. I was going to save up some money. Yeah, Hailey hit the jackpot. Sydney found it. And I would be nice to Sydney and get her the credit. But she found me some some Air Force ones. They were $12. Amazing. And they're already more than for me. I did that. I did all of that. Comment down below if you believe me. That girl who kept saying comment down below was so annoying. That wasn't enough for me. So that is it. Comment down below if that was really disrespectful. I got this little boys Tommy Hilfiger hoodie type thing. It has like a little American flag. You're going to crop that right? Yeah, I'm going to crop it and make it really cute. And then I also got a jean jacket. That's like a really nice wash. And it's like oversized and like bulky. It's like a little trucker jacket. For $8. I know because it was too expensive. So yeah, all together I spent $7.50 something at Last Chance. I spent I don't remember how much I spent at Goodwill. Probably too much. At Value Village I spent like $9. I spent $1 at Last Chance. $15 at Value. And then I spent $6 at Goodwill. Oh, let's see. I spent $7 at Last Chance. My chest is pretty big. It's pretty big. But it was $17. And then $12 at Value for the shoes. So yeah, I think that's still good. I feel like average retail stuff is so expensive anyway. So that's it for this week's video. We thought it'd be fun to kind of film a haul of all our stuff. I hope you guys enjoyed that vlog footage. It was really fun. We actually do this pretty often. Almost every week. We don't go every single Monday. But when we do, we go all one. So if you guys enjoyed this video, you can give it a big thumbs up for me. And if I'm and if I'm lucky enough to have you stick around, you can hit that subscribe button right down below. And yeah, so if you want to see how this looks on, you can follow all our Instagrams. Mine is at TheyBeHated. Mine is at Sydney Rain. At Hailey On. And I will see you guys in my next video without these things. Probably not though. Probably. They won't. They won't. See you guys later. 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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session on Ministers Foundation. Yeah, we have many of our friends still joining in the class Okay, before we could begin our class. Can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Yes, I can pray Yes, Rupika. Thank you Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you father That you are given as a new day Lord. We praise you and lift your holy name. Hi, Lord Lord many of them pass away from the earth, but your great grace and mercy soured or your children Lord Yes, father, you are great Lord Lord. I pray for this session Lord that we have given With your knowledge and wisdom Lord. Yes, father.   Guide us Lord Jesus Thank you father. Thank you father that you are hearing our prayer Lord Lord You're never given up to your children Lord Jesus father. I lift your name. Hi Lord Jesus father You are the holy Lord.  We worship your name Lord Jesus We praise your name Lord Jesus father Thank you for hearing our prayer and giving ourself on the heaven Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord I pray in your name Lord Jesus. Amen Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rebecca Yes, I'm just presenting a screen So last class we studied on angels Godly council the renewed mind the times and seasons so I would like to reiterate on certain things about You know what always been taught and shared in this class are You know our for our understanding the testimonies that we shared from a personal life are our For our understanding and we cannot base our life on the testimony of another person Okay, our life should be determined by What the word of God says we need to place our trust our faith on the word of God and not based on anyone's testimony or how they experienced and Okay, and also I shared about the visitation about the angels and other things so Each person it is different So we should not be praying and calling and asking directly for the angels But then just pray just pray what I meant was you know in Psalms 91 when we claim for protection God as per his word as he said that I will set my angels in charge of you that word is so true This is what I meant to say that God truly, you know keeps his angel to Guard us to guide us to strengthen us even yesterday when we studied on the life of Elijah when he was tired Yes, you know God sent his angel to strengthen it So God does things so it does not mean that we have to pray for angel to come and strengthen us But then we need to pray to God and God does things so we should not be expecting for any angelic Visitation but then just simply pray and ask God to strengthen us and God does things in his own way The way that we need okay, and very important is that we need to rely only on the word of God Not on anyone's testimony or on their personal experience or the idea what they have got them up life Okay, we need to be very clear on that even that they initially at the beginning of the class also We have retreated it I just thought you know on the last class even before we could cover the last point It is good for us to Be clear on this Okay, so the last point today, we would be discussing on the circumstance and divine orchestration Circumstance and divine orchestration you know We see that the final method or the way that we could consider through which God Guides us is by recognizing how God is Orchestrating things for us in our situation in our circumstance in our life Okay, so let's turn to second chronicles chapter 16 verse 9. Can I request one of us to please read the scripture? second chronicles chapter 16 verses 9 for the eyes of the Lord run and to and pro Throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him Yes The eyes of the Lord runs two and four Throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him So God is seeking for those people who are loyal to him Who are loyal to him and he applies his power on behalf of them on the areas in which God does this In situations as such, you know he orchestrated divine things for us Through which you know we experience an unusual door of opportunity open up or favor and access to from new people or Many other things God can cause it to happen in our life situation when we Trust on God when we be loyal to him We see these unusual door open and you know sometimes God works to us as he said in in the book of Corinthians in the book of Corinthians saying that In the book of Corinthians saying that you know what eyes have not seen what Years have not heard what people has never imagined in in in such things God you know Helps us in our life and we see in the book of Job And we turn to book of Job 42 verse 2 Can one of us please read the scripture job I know that you can do everything and that no purpose of yours can be with help from you I know that you can do everything That no purpose of yours can be withheld from you. Can we move on to the next scripture revelations chapter 3 verse 7 Yes, can one of us read? Revelation chapter 3 verses 7 And to the angel of the lord infill in philadelphia Write these things say he who is holy He who is true he who has the key of david he who opens and No one shuts and shuts and no one opens Yes, yes, this is very clear when god does things He opens door unusual way and no one can shut that door No one can shut stop that opportunity from we getting and when he opens that no one can shuts And when he shuts no one can open it is very clear So we need to be attentive to this type of divine orchestrating that happens in our life situation And respond to it actively For example, if one of us are trying for a job or looking out for a job We may do the basic preparation like you know You know preparing the resume applying it Applying it online or through different portals or passing a word through your friends the known people And then you start attending the interview And when you attend the interview now Maybe you applied for Three to four jobs and you have been selected from one company you receive a offer letter From or a job offer from one of the company And it's a great opportunity something that you were looking for And it it suits your skills your capabilities and here you apply for it But then uh at the same time you're not accepting the offer, but then you're checking Is this god's well? Is this what god what did you to do in this season? Is this god? What did you to accept this offer and join the company? There are some reasons we can ask to us and why am I joining this company? Is it the skills that I have I've been applied here Or uh, is this the place that I love to work with or I'm having peace in my inner being Opting up for this We need to ask ourselves is our motives right to join this company And is this the opportunity that god has placed before us to guide And then you can take it up But if you have uh at the same time if you have two or three companies Then you know you can also pray about it pray and ask do you have this inner peace? Do you have a word from god? Do you have this inner peace? Now you've been led by the holy spirit And why are you choosing this company for what reason is your motives right? You know you can look for different reason before you could make a decision And then you can proceed with the job offer So god orders things step by step in our circumstances in our situation and he guides us through there are times you know When we travel over the mountaintop or to some uh region you see the mist is covered Because the mist is covered sometimes we don't get to see the uh the length of the road to certain area You know but as you keep moving it it unveils it unveils Slowly the mist Uncovers and you are able to see the road and go through the path But if you stand you cannot see you feel like there is no road ahead There's no way ahead But then as you move it is only when we move we see the um the the road It uncovers the road in the same way only when we move we see god unveiling the situations to us step by step and you know We see that god You know god stays mindful of other factors at work in life situation We had to speak to the storms to calm them to the mountains to move Uh It is like uh not every situation or every circumstance that we face in our life is from god But then it is also we should know that there is also an enemy who works at the same time So we can't consider everything that happens in our life saying okay god is in control If it is god's will to happen let it happen if now that's okay No, that is not what god is expecting us to say Yes, god is in control he is control of the situation But then as believers as the children of god, we should know what is happening in our life Is god asking us to wait or Is it an obstacle is it an opposition uh from the enemy to stop god's work in our life? We need to say we need to see that and speak to the storms to come And speak to the mountains to move when we speak the devil flees He flees away they must uh We need to speak in faith so that we see the storms come and the mountains move in our life But there are some times We face a situation or circumstance due to our own um Own uh mistakes are the wrong choice that we make we should remember that what we reap is what we so We need to be very careful to face such situations And uh, even when we uh, when we step into any wrong situation in our life But remember god is a god of forgiveness. He forgives us. He overcomes. He helps us to overcome our mistake When we ask god to forgive us and uh, I've got to lead us. Uh, he is uh, he is uh, he is all powerful god Who can forgive us our sins and you know, he can put us back to the track so that we can lead us We can move ahead But we are aware that uh god doesn't work in our life in our situation We must also discern and act with wisdom And accept what is from god and confront and overcome what is of the enemy We should uh discern we need to ask god god give us this wisdom to discern the things the situations in our life to know to know and act accordingly And uh, there are some times um Like we also uh, when we covered the old testament survey We also read about the life of gideon How he tested god three times to make sure that this is what god is asking him to do Yes, that was there. It was those days at the old testament but not in the new testament As a new testament believer, we need to trust god We need to know god Because it's no more like god is speaking to us from out But god has given us his holy spirit who abides in us They didn't have the word those days, but we have the word of god with us We need to see what the word of god is speaking to us We need to listen to the inner voice to the inner witness of the holy spirit What he is ministering to us in our life And then be led By the inner witness of the holy spirit Because god has instructed us to lead our life by his word and by his spirit Even in the new testament we see in the book of acts initially in chapter one We see how the disciples cast lots to find uh To replace the place of judas and then the lord fell on matthew is and they numbered him as the 11th apostle However, this was done even before the pentecost even before the holy spirit can descend on each one of them But after the day of pentecost we see in the same book of acts later part in acts 13 We see that they ministered to the lord and fasted and prayed the holy spirit said now separate to me Partners and soul for the work to which i've called them So we need to lead ourselves by what the holy spirit is saying And not by casting lords or testing god And doing that We will because we will move on to the next point Not every closed door is a no Not every closed door is a no some uh some uh doors that are closed because we have not logged on them We have not knocked on them matthew seven Can one of his turn to matthew chapter seven verse seven to eight Matthew chapter seven worship seven Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find Knock and the door will be open to you Eight for everyone who asks receive he who seeks finds and to him who knocks the door will be opened Yes Not every objection that we face in our life Is a no is a no from god no We need to keep moving ahead some doors are closed simply to redirect us to the correct door That will open up in the right time So we need to continue in the way that god is leading us and do not stop For example, Joseph and Mary when they went to Bethlehem, they did not find a room in the end But that does not mean that uh, what uh, uh, uh, uh, mother Mary was carrying Was not the uh was not the uh, uh, Jesus the son of god It was uh, she never doubted on it was not conceived by the power of the holy spirit If it was so then the in should be ready everything should have worked smooth but then They were led to the manger Where the child was been birthed? So till the right door they had to keep knocking till they reached the right place in the right door They never thought it was not revealed to them The child needs to be birthed in the manger, but then they kept knocking they went step by step The same way maybe the complete things are not revealed to us But when we face any closed doors, let's not stop in that by saying this is not god's will But then move ahead till the door opens. That's the reason in uh, Matthew chapter seven We read that ask and it will be given to you Seek and it shall be you you you will find Knock and it will be open to you. That means what we need to ask We need to pray we need to seek we need to knock till we reach the right door Till things happen in our life till the circumstance change till the situations are fine We need to keep doing what we are doing We should not stop. We should it shouldn't be like, okay I prayed and god didn't answer. So I gave up thinking it is not god's will I knocked I did my best I gave my best. I think god God's god decided not to open up this particular door for me How long did we seek? How long did we ask? How long did we knock? We need to do it Even if you see in the very verse the first letter of ask is a Seek is s and knock is k simply put us ask ask till something happens Till your circumstance change till your situation change till the right door opens to you. Let's continue Going ahead Not every delay is denial Some closed doors are there because we are supposed to knock on them and some doors are closed simply to redirect us to the right way We may have faced such doors in our life as well We may face How did we react in such situations? Did we give up? Or did we continue? Did we think that it is a denial from god? Or there are certain situation in our life. There are certain dreams in our life Still may not have been fulfilled But have we given up on those dreams or are we waiting on the lord? Are we asking seeking and knocking? Or are we given up when we don't give up and hold on to god suddenly things change It starts working on our behalf But god starts unfolding his plan into our life in the right time in the right season Just the way god orchestrated for Mary and Joseph but for that we need to continue We should not give up. We need to trust on god and move ahead in our life Can one of us read Psalms 105 verse 17 to 22 Psalms 105 verse 17 onwards He sent a man before them joseph who was sold as a slave They afflicted his feet with fetters He himself was laid in ions Until the time that his word came to pass the word of the lord tested him The king sent and released him the ruler of peoples he answered him free He made him lord of his house and ruler over all his possessions To imprison his princess at will that he might teach his elders wisdom Yes, here we see the life of joseph What happened in life of joseph? We see you know at a very young age he gets a dream Gets a dream and he also shares that dream with his parents and with his siblings And that made his brothers to be very uncomfortable with him and they were jealous of him and what happened Many things in his life didn't go very well They just sold him they just sold him As a slave to egypt And even in egypt we see that he was as a slave. He was working in potifers house and there you see he was he was Because of his Potifers wife He was put into jail for the mystic that he did not come it And throughout the season you see Yes, david went through through hard time through many trials, but then He trusted god that god will change his situation He never thought you know, uh, that dream was just a dream He trusted on god he never we the scripture does not say that he cribbed He complained He trusted god and scripture clearly says that god was with david and david did not send Even when potifers wife had to misbehave with him he ran away from her But during this time of trial He waited and he trusted on god though.  Sorry to joseph We may be going through our own season of trial But even this season is when god will activate certain skills in our life that is needed For him to bring out his plan out in our life So we need to see the hand of god is at work in our situation. We may not know the complete picture We may not know the complete picture. For example, uh, there was a story a very beautiful story saying that a woman visited uh uh Exhibition and there she saw a old man weaving a beautiful car weaving a carpet Okay, weaving a carpet and you see only the threads and knots different colors of threads and knots there And you know, she saw the focus of this elderly, uh, Man that he put in and so gently he was doing But she didn't understand what he was doing because she could not make out the design. She could only see the uh, uh, the threads the knots But after sometime when she passed through when the When the gentleman finished weaving he turned the carpet out and she saw a beautiful design of a bunch of flower on flowers on the carpet So what she didn't get to see before she sees it now and she admires at the whole work Similarly in the same way when we are passing through the situation and through the difficult Circumstances, we may not understand god's hand god's plan in our life But when we wait When we wait and when we go through it, we see how beautifully lord has led us Even during the trial times god's hand was upon us much more than what he was at the other time God is faithful God leads us and he guides us As per his word, he says that I will never leave you nor forsake you we can trust on him That he is with us Even when we face the closed doors It is just that he's leading us to the right door That we can go until the time we need to wait on god Just like how joseph waited one night changed joseph's situation He could interpret ferrus dream from being a slave Joseph You know was changed his situation was changed to become the prime minister the head of hejab The power was given to him He headed the he headed this Country he headed this nation one who was slave One who was slave in the In the prison and now god changed the situation and uh, you know brought him out To head the nation Everything changed for joseph When we continue to trust on god When we trust on god, we see the closed door open to us The night he went to bed as a slave with the prisoners clothing and next day you see The situation has been changed the power has been handed over to joseph Things changed in his life in the same way things can change in our life But we need to wait on god. We need to keep asking Seeking and knocking So that the things can change circumstance can change situation can change god can move on our behalf Because he's a god of all powerful. He can do things Much greater much powerful Even what our eyes have not seen A mind has not imagined nor it has not been conceived in our thoughts or in our heart We need to trust god when we trust god we see closed doors open And uh, you know god is above the time season He can restore it for us We need to discern when god is orchestrating something in our life Is it he Or it is not when it is not from god We need to speak to the stop we need to speak to the mountain and command it to move from our life And walk into what god is doing in our life what god is orchestrating in our life One thing we need to remember friends that god does things Revealing to his children God does not do things arbitrarily He reveals things before in hand So that all we have to do is yes This is what the lord wanted us to do and we can step into that season just the way he did for joseph God revealed things to joseph much before in hand. So when things were getting unfolded in joseph's life He knew this is what god has planned for him. This is what the dream that he had before in his father's house is getting Fulfilled now In the same way god speaks to us he can speak to us through his word through the inner witness of his holy spirit or through others When god speaks hold on to his promise trust god for the right time And when we wait on him you see the closed door open You see the way that you did not see before you get to see now the opportunities come Your way seeking you searching you and you know you will definitely know This is what god has done in your life. And it is for sure. It's god's hand in our life He confirms us priest god how the way god works and there are certain examples in our In our book how god opened up the church in mangrove how initially it started By one doctor called dr. Ranjit peter he visited Bangalore and shared his desire Of starting a church location in a place called Darlakatti, which is outside mangrove outskirts of mangrove Then pastor took up that opportunity And they first uh conducted a concert there and they saw 20 people turn up to that concert and later next day they They invited them to church and people didn't turn up for church as well And then we see how we started the napali church They were about 10 napali people approached pastor to teach them to teach the word every tuesday And then that's how the group started growing and they launched apc napali church and later as the church grew in many number You know, uh, they released this church to uh, you know established their own platform And later we see how the catalyst ministry was birthed in apc church catalyst ministry is Where we carry the word of god to the schools To the school children The first it started with the invitation from one of the school asking. Can you please teach the scripture classes? scripture class in our school and then To to teach that they had the right time they received pastor selena as one of our pastor who was Also a faculty of a bible college. She joined the team and she Thought she started this project in one school and later launched in many other schools in in the city of bangalore and later we also Started god tv and the short term bible college in a similar way God just gave us an idea gave us one opportunity and later it opened up in other places as well and it's It's growing We see how god is leading us in the right way This similarly even in our own life god may have opened a small opportunity. We may think it is just a step For time being but then that became our skill that became our job I remember I remember a friend of us You know, she came all the way from Uganda To bangalore to study on a beautician course When she came here she joined our church. She was very regular in attending the church She was good in leading worship. We saw that skill of you know She she was good in singing. So we asked her to be part of our worship team And as she was part of our worship team, we saw she was growing in the skill and she was also had the skill to lead worship So we gave her the opportunity to lead worship And she started leading in a very beautiful way And slowly we opened up an opportunity to a why uh, the time that you are here in bangalore As you're doing a beautician course. Would you like to join a bible college and study the word? She was opened enough Immediately she took that opportunity But in the same time god was also ministering to her in a heart Preparing her to do something like this So when the opportunity came away, she grabbed it She joined the bible college Initially it was difficult for her but god gave her the grace to study the word And she stood out. She was excellent in what she was doing She studied two years. She completed her diploma in Be a diploma in theology in bangalore She never thought that she would study theology in bangalore But she the main reason that she came to bangalore was to do a beautician course And then now she goes back to her home to Uganda What happens there? All she desired to open up a parlor and start a beautician But then the opportunity opened in our own local church to serve there as a ministry leader Because she graduated from a bible college And she started serving there She served one year faithfully there She saw god opening new doors And and in the meanwhile due to the pandemic we also launched our online bible college And she was overwhelmed with that news. She said I want to complete my third year She joined third year through online and you know last year she could complete The third year and now she's a bt edge She graduated bachelor's in theology and she continues to serve as a ministry leader in her church She heads worship team and she also serves very actively in the church ministering to people See how god changed her life She came for a different reason to India But when she went back she went back as a servant of god And she's serving there as a servant of god God can change things even in our life in an even in a life situation in a similar way I open up to the class now If you would like to share how god worked and changed your circumstances Your situation when you allowed god to work in your life Just like how joseph did is that anyone in our class would like to share Please go ahead. Are you experiencing any closed doors and You know god opened that door for you. Is there anyone in the class? This will only encourage us build us in faith and Give us more confidence to wait on lord to have that faith on god anyone in the class Brother lubega you would like to share Brother isik Yes Can I share Yes, please Okay, god bless you In my life what happened When I finished high school I came to the capital of our country that because i'm in syria leon I came to the capital free town because in the provinces Job opportunities are very Slow or low But um when I was coming to free town my desire was to work in broadcasting Yeah, so I wanted to do broadcasting and journalism And indeed I applied to the national station For seven eight nine months Like you are saying the doors were closed And seemed like nothing was happening But still apart from broadcasting I wanted to work because I just left school And then what happened A schoolmate of mine Who all attended sixth form Came to free town he started working for the airline industry And whenever I come from seeking job sometimes I pass through him He talked and sometimes he gave me pocket money And in the acne time he told me look Isaac, you know when we were in school You were interested in broadcasting But it's a government job. It's not coming on easily And we advise that You apply To our company which is an airline company So the personal manager Is very straightforward And godfaring And indeed from that time I applied And after Nine months also again after the two interviews The job was not coming. On the third interview I got the job My special grace of God And I was so happy And I have done with them all throughout my life And now I retired airline and airport worker So Like it's a constant experience I came for broadcasting and journalism I ended up in the airline industry, transportation industry God bless us all Praise God. That's a wonderful testimony.  I went to Bible school That's why that my degree is a religious studies Yeah, and so I want to know more of God I obeyed At the point my wife lost her job No job for me Everywhere we are close Really close doors Baby childrens are there. Oh God. What do I do? I started asking God. What is the matter? Every door we are close Ah to feed on is become a problem. So we back on God started asking And God if you what I have done that make the door to be closed That you refuse to do one so so and so work You refuse to pray for so so and so And the person eventually Gone for that When I sent you Now we started asking God for mercy Then I told God if you are for literally forgive me. I want to job without an interview and After three days later somebody called me Can you do a research for us? Can you write a proposal for us? It's an NGO I mean before I come I'll be working with Nigeria Red Cross As a staff and under NGO to be writing proposal so I said there's no problem. It's okay. Come to my office. And that was how the job came The open door surface again without an interview without anything I said to this is God because when God send you and you review this obey It will automatically close the door For you to learn So I that was my experience and I thank God the door truly open because we seek God Hallelujah Praise God brother. You know, thank you so much for sharing and that's so encouraging each one of us here. I'm sure many of us here These two testimonies would be a blessing and are encouraging to each one of us that we need to respond to God when the opportunity comes our way It is not by accident. It happens Right. God is preparing us And then he unfolds things for us to take for us to receive it Okay. Thank you so much. What we'll do is we will take a quick 10 minute break and we will be back. So Okay. Thank you so much. See you all soon after a short break God bless Oh, thank you Thank you I want to write to you. How do I write to you personally privately, please?