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Following a difficult, traumatic, or violent incident, there are a lot of challenges to work through. But when planning and thinking through how to handle these situations, we often focus almost wholly on the response and tend to ignore the short and long-term recovery challenges. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through their own experiences in the aftermath of major crisis situations. Topics discussed include grief counseling, post-traumatic stress, managing the press, post-disaster payroll policies, and more. //static.leadpages.net/leadboxes/current/embed.js Episode Transcript Jen: I read this article where there was a grief counselor that was interviewed and taking specifically around the aftermath of a situation and how its managed and how its handled. This grief counselor actually would get called onsite for various different high-level incidents, much like the shooting in Florida, 9-11, things like that. The grief counselor would come onsite and they would help the people involved through the situation. We saw that at our previous employer where if there was a big incident that happened we would have counselors that were onsite. Bryan: It was part of our SOP really. Jen: Absolutely, and help out. I just thought this would be a great topic to talk about to kind of educate those around what it's like to go through an aftermath. Bryan and I have both gone through many situations- Bryan: Numerous. Jen: Where we dealt with an aftermath of a traumatic incident so we thought it would be a good idea to talk about what that looks like. Bryan: For me it always ... This kind of is just ... This issue gets overlooked a lot, but because of what I've learned through my experience and our experiences together is that this always seems to be part of the right of boom process. When I talk about left of boom, right of boom, you've got the bad thing that happened, the boom, and there's what you can do before that, the preparation and the training and the exercises and whatever, but then the bad thing happens, you respond to it and then part of your long-term recovery, which what we're talking about here falls right on getting out of that immediate response stage, is how do you deal with the aftermath of the situation in terms of taking care of the team, taking care of the survivors or the victims and their families and the organization, how do you make sure that people are okay through this. Jen: Right, and like you said, this should actually be part of your crisis planning. Bryan: It should be. Jen: It should be part of the plan. Bryan: It needs to be one of the first things that you do once you've gotten to that immediate response and we're sure that people are safe and the immediate danger has passed, is how do you start to help people with the immediate and long-term aftermath of the situation that has impacted them. Jen: Yeah, and understanding some of the things you can expect to see. Some individuals may need to take some time off. They might need to take some time away from where it happened before they can ... Yeah. Bryan: If you're a multi-facility company they may want to work at a different facility moving forward. Jen: Yeah. It might be temporary or that might be permanent, but you need to take that in consideration and understand that that might be part of your planning process. Bryan: You'll find ... And this is definitely not ... This is something that you need to involve a professional organization, outside organization, to do and there's a number of companies that provide this, it's really kind of in the medical field. Whether you call it grief counseling or you call it just kind of the post-traumatic incident counseling, there's a lot of terminology to be used. But what you often see is these services will come in and they will do a combination of kind of group conversation, of working through what has happened, and some individual conversation. It's not ... I wouldn't characterize this as you're hiring counselors for everyone, but you are bringing somebody in that's an expert in dealing with these situations and helping your team talk through that. And then you may have folks, as Jen says, may need some time off and in an ethical organization you're going to find a way to accommodate that, regardless of what your policy is. Say that you're going to help them through the situation, and you may have folks that will need, through your medical coverage, long-term psychological, psychiatric counseling in order to deal with the aftermath of the situation. Jen: Right. I think one of the big things is you need to understand that there's a short-term and a long-term recovery process. Bryan: Right. Jen: There's what happens in the aftermath as far as the immediate aftermath, within days or weeks of something happening, but then understanding what that looks like long-term for people because everyone handles it differently. Bryan: I know one thing to consider, whatever the incident is that causes this workplace trauma, this traumatic incident that occurred. It can be a shooting situation, it could be an industrial accident, it could be a natural disaster, a tornado or whatever. What often I have done in my experience is we have made sure that folks are safe and we realize that we've had this horrible thing has happened, whatever it is. It's going to bring media attention, it's likely going to involve law enforcement and the emergency services. We would often think about how can we get the team out of that situation and somewhere safe. I'm often reminded of an issue we dealt with in my experience in 2010 where I had an individual come into a location and shoot and kill an employee and then took his own life. There's the immediate response, which is there's as run-hide-fight process and even before that was popular, everybody got out of the building. The first thing that the local leadership did for my employer at the time was: Okay, I'm going to account for everybody. I've got a competitor next door, we're going in there, they've offered us a conference room. We're going to get in there. We're going to sit down. We're going to get our families in here. We're going to make the call to the outside counselors to come help us out. We're going to be over here shielded from the media and all of the crazy stuff that comes in. I thought that was extremely astute work by the young leader that was there that day. Did everything right, but that's what we had taught them how to do. Jen: Yeah. I've experienced, aside from some of the ones that Bryan and I have experienced together, definitely experienced a lot of these types of scenarios, particularly at the beginning of the war when I was responding to mass casualty events. Some of the things that we used to do is, immediately following a mass casualty event we would get everyone together and talk about it and make sure everyone was doing okay. Bryan: That's right. Jen: But one thing we don't always do great on is the long-term and how that can affect people long-term. There's no way of knowing how it's going to affect any one person, but there is definitely going to be some kind of effect one way or another, whether it's conscious or subconscious. With good leaders, it's a matter of continuing to check in with your people, make sure they're doing okay and they have the resources that they need. Bryan: When I was a young leader, I was in New England for 9-11 and I had locations that were in southwestern Connecticut near New York City and that's where I was, I was in the Hartford area on the morning of 9-11 when all of those events transpired. I remember, my counterpart and I went back the next day and toured all of our Connecticut stores, not because we really cared about what was going on in terms of the business, but we were worried about the team. Folks there knew people who worked at the World Trade Center, had family members. They had this deep connection to the events in New York City in particular and all we really did was go from location to location and just talk with everybody, like: Is everybody okay? How are you doing? Is there anything we can do? Years later, this still comes up when I talk to people from Connecticut that they had my counterpart and I kind of making this circuit throughout the area to make sure that folks were okay. That was a conversation that we continued as leaders for years, all tied back to that traumatic incident that many of us experienced on the morning of 9-11. Jen: Yeah. You find when you go through something as traumatic as that, people really come together and create bonds that never go away, which is great because with those bonds, years down the road ... I know I can call some of my buddies that I was involved in some of those mass casualty incidents with, that I can call them any time and we can talk through things. There's kind of an untold bond between you because you were together. Those relationships are excellent to keep to continue to help each other through things like this, even down the road. That's a good way to talk about through getting your employees and that through those types of situations, but the one thing we don't always talk about is leaders. Bryan: We are not immune from this. Jen: Not immune to it at all. Leaders also experience the same levels of stress as anyone else does, plus they have the responsibility to take care of all of these people. Bryan: I think when we're talking about leaders, it's not just leaders at the site because I think of them as being directly impacted, but I've worked in crisis management for almost 20 years and it doesn't go away. Even if you're leading at a enterprise level and you're thousands of miles away from the incident that you're managing, it's that you still have impact from that, particularly if it's ... For me if it's one of two things: It's that sharp, traumatic incident, particularly if lives were lost, but it's also the ... Okay, we've had this major incident and we've dodged the ... We've not had people seriously injured, we've not lost anyone or a family member, but we have all of this work that has to be done to get the business back up and running and make sure that the team is made as whole as they can through the process because of damage to their community and homes and schools and what have you. Man, that takes a lot out of people and honestly most companies don't really put a lot of resources into crisis management, so it's often one, two, three people that are trying to manage this or with the help of a place like ours. I think it's very challenging and we miss this a lot, as it happens. Jen: And it's a high burnout career. Bryan: Oh, totally, as we know. Jen: Yes. That chronic stress, chronic fatigue takes a toll on you, both mentally and physically, for not just leaders but for everyone, but definitely leaders probably experience it the most because they're also trying to manage people that are experience it. You can see where the domino effect would happen. Bryan: We've talked before about the National Preparedness Leadership program at Harvard. Jen: Yes. Bryan: And their idea of meta-leadership through a crisis situation, the emergency situation. I remember that a big part of what we learned going through that program and a big part of their research is the psychology of being that leader in the critical moment and how do you make the decisions and what have you. But the question that Dr. Lenny Marcus would always ask, when he would get in the room and ... So there you are at Deep Water Horizon and you've got admiral Thad Allen from the Coast Guard is now the incident commander and calling the shots is, when they're in private: How are you doing? How are you feeling about this? I just saw you do X, Y, Z. Why did you make those decisions? It always came back to: How are you feeling? What are you thinking about emotionally as a leader as you're going through that? Those things are hard to manage through. Jen: Yeah. And what do you need? Bryan: What do you need? Jen: Leaders need time off too. Bryan: What do you need as a leader? Jen: Yeah. Bryan: I think back to that situation in 2010 with the ... That was a violent crime with the employee that was killed. That was my first one managing something like that at that scale and even though I was an experienced crisis manager, I had never done that. I remember coming off the first conference call with the team down there that had just gone through this and lost one of their own and we're trying to manage through the details and then calling a peer of mine that used to be in this job and just went: Okay, I have to ... I've got to walk you through what I'm thinking and what I want to do, but can I talk to you about how I feel for a minute because I'm trying to figure out how to process this. Jen: Yeah. Bryan: I think we often don't think about doing that and we don't think about or have somebody that we can do that with, that understands what you're going through. It's not the same as going home and having this conversation with your spouse, unless you're me and we work in the same field. Jen: That's true. Bryan: You can't just go to the random friend and say: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah because they're not in that same ... They've never been in your shoes, they don't really understand that. I think it's important to find people that you can have that conversation with. Jen: Yeah. That's where I go back to some of my old buddies that I used to work with because they've been through stressful situations too, so you really lean on each other when that happens. Bryan: One of the more moving things for me in the last hurricane season that was so big, and this goes back to the National Preparedness Leadership, the NPLI program at Harvard. There was about 800 and some alumni of the program and the faculty would send us updates during major situations because they go out and deploy and they're walking with us. They sent a pretty heartfelt note one day about halfway through Hurricane Maria that said: Here's some things we're seeing and thinking about ... But it ended with: Look, we know what it's like to be at the tip of the spear as leading through these situations and that it's important to have somebody to talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, call us. Here's the phone number. Promise not to make you a research subject, but call us or call somebody in the program that you know, or don't know. I think we could all do that for each other. It's important to do that, but I think the bigger challenge is recognizing as a leader that you're not going to be immune to the stress and you're going to need to find ways to deal with this and seek help with this where necessary as it starts to impact you. Jen: I think what's good in this day and age, we have so many tools out there and there's so much more education and knowledge around this than there once was. Things like meditation and yoga that used to get kind of balked at but they're actually now ... My doctor actually recommends meditation now and this is well-studied stuff, but some of the preventative things that you can do. We also know, and there's been a lot of testing around this, that to reduce the effects of stress and fatigue as these things happen are the self-imposed stressors. Drugs, alcohol although you don't want to be a Drunk Driver, exhaustion, tobacco and ... Bryan: Too much coffee. Jen: Hypoglycemia. Exactly. All of these things can really amplify the effects of stress. Staying away from the excessive amounts of caffeine, which is laughable because I don't know any crisis manager ... Bryan: That is not addicted to coffee. Jen: ... That does not drink copious amounts of coffee. Bryan: Totally. Jen: And then often times at the end of the day, enjoying a beer after the effects of things. But keeping in mind that anything in moderation is okay, but once you've gone to the excessive amounts, no good. Exhaustion is huge. Getting enough rest before incidents happen and then also during the incident you have to take a break, you have to take a step away. Bryan: We forget about this because there's usually somebody in charge. There's an incident commander, there's ... You're the city emergency management director, you're the director of crisis management for a company, but that does not mean that you have to be there all the time because it will dull your ability to make decisions and deal with stress. Jen: Right. Exactly. Bryan: You've got to go home and you have to let somebody else run the thing until tomorrow or whenever. Jen: Exactly. Yeah. Tobacco, I mean need I say more? Hypoglycemia. Okay, again, I don't know an emergency manager out there that can't enjoy a good piece of pizza during an incident, even if it means you're shoving food in your mouth in between trying to get stuff done. It's really important that you're taking care of yourself one way or another. Bryan: Right. Jen: It doesn't have to be pizza, but ... Bryan: Our key message is here: As a part of your recovery, short- and long-term recovery following that immediate response is: Determine the need to bring in assistance to help with the team, understand the signs of stress, particularly post-traumatic stress and what that means and can look like. Make it a priority to touch base with the team as a leader and encourage others to do so to really just check in and just ask folks if they're okay, if there's anything they want to talk about or is there anything you can do to help them through that. You'd be surprised sometimes, I think, at the answers again. Jen: Agree. Make sure some of this is a part of your planning process, let's not forget that. Bryan: Right. And get the vendor lined up. Jen: Yes, exactly. Bryan: And then for yourself, you're not immune. We highly encourage you to find a partner in the field, a peer at another company, the person that held your job before you, or call us, we'd be happy to talk. Jen: Absolutely. Bryan: Best of luck.

He is a coach. He's a real estate broker. He's a real estate agent. Ex-professional basketball player, and he's grown a pretty big YouTube channel. 110,000 subscribers, which is super, super impressive.   Stefan: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show, Respect The Grind, with Stefan Aarnio. This is the show we interview people who've achieved mastery and freedom through discipline. We interview entrepreneurs, athletes, authors, artists, real estate investors, anyone who's achieved mastery and examine what it took to get there. Stefan: Today on the show we have a friend of mine, a new friend of mine, Bryan Casella. He is a coach. He's a real estate broker. He's a real estate agent. Ex professional basketball player, and he's grown a pretty big YouTube channel. 110,000 subscribers, which is super, super impressive. So, Bryan, welcome to the show, Respect The Grind. Thanks so much for joining me, man. Bryan: Stefan, thanks for having me bro. I'm excited to be here and ready to drop some knowledge. Stefan: You're a young guy, 32 years old. I'm 32 as well. You've done a lot of things in your short life. Tell me Bryan, looks like it's pretty good today. Was it always like this or where did you get started? Bryan: No, man. Growing up, my family is actually from South America. I'm the first one from my family. Born in LA in the states and growing up, I wouldn't say that we were terribly poor but I didn't have a lot either. So we were very just meager, but okay. Barely above poor, we can say. I remember growing up and seeing a lot of scarcity around me from being told that Lamborghinis and nice things just weren't going to be a part of my life. I still remember to this day being three, four or five years old and just telling myself, "It can't be like this. I have to break out of this. I wasn't meant to live this way." Bryan: So, growing up around age 10 or 11 is when I got into basketball like we were talking a little bit off the air, and I just really dedicated myself to that and I had dreams and aspirations of getting to the NBA. By age 14, 15, I really just started grinding every day. People would be on vacation, people would go party, I would be in the gym working out and getting some shots up. I went into college, I got a scholarship, I played in college. You fast forward after that, I played professionally in Europe and South America for three years. My last year I injured my left ankle the second time and had a second surgery on it, at which point it took a toll on me mentally and it really affected my ability to play. So, at that point I said, "Okay, that's it, I'm done. No more basketball." At that point, I'm age 24, 25. Bryan: Getting out of that I fell into a year of just being completely lost, didn't know what I wanted to do, felt almost borderline depressed and sorry for myself until one day I decided, you know what, I have to change something. From that moment on, I just kind of, you can say, put the switch on to look for something outside of basketball because I did basketball from age 10 or 11 until 25, and I came across one of those cliche signs we see in front of the real estate buildings that says, make 100,000 your first year as a real estate agent. And in my mind, I said, okay, everybody's not doing that for sure, but there's probably one guy who's done it and he's cracked that code, let me go talk to him. Bryan: So, I walked in, long story short, I talked to the broker for two hours, I signed up, got my real estate license and I just never stopped, man. I just grinded my first couple years, then I've built my team and I got to where I'm at today. But that decision to do it changed my life to get into real estate for sure. Stefan: I love the stories about the athletes turn business people. It's always like the most rewarding for me. I used to be a captain of volleyball team in high school, I played basketball. I'm not a very good basketball player, most not a very good singer, but I love seeing the transfer of athletics to business. Why do you think it transfers so easily, Bryan? Bryan: Well, I think a lot of the core fundamentals if you apply them, you'll do great because I would say most athletes, especially if we get to a high level, we have a very high level of discipline and commitment to the sports. All we need to do is transfer what we're doing on the field or on the court into the business world. And more than anything, I think we're all super competitive. We want to be number one, we want to beat everybody else and that's ultimately the drive that keeps us going and I think allows most athletes to transition into sales jobs or the business world, it gives them a much better headstart or opportunity than everybody else. Stefan: Yeah, it's really all about discipline. Now, Bryan, we talk to all different people on this show, and we sometimes have actors, artists, authors, real estate people, why is real estate so attractive? Like, it seems to me that everybody on this show has either made it in real estate, they're holding in real estate and all millionaires in the world are either made or held in real estate, why is real estate so attractive? Bryan: Well, at the time, man, when I looked at it, especially, I would say, anybody under the age of 35, it seems from the outside like a very low barrier to entry type career with a huge upside. Meaning, you can get licensed especially here in California, you can do your three courses and state test and be licensed within, I believe, three, four months. So, it's really quick, you spend maybe $1,500 max and now you can sell a home which out here in Southern California the average price point now is around 600,000 or 700,000, and you can make 15,000, 20,000 depending on what commission you get. That alert to people, just the dollar is I think really what attracts them. Bryan: Now, they get slapped in the face right when they start in the reality of how difficult it is to put these deals together and actually build a business with it, but I think that's really what attracts people is the fact that you can create this business where you're kind of like an entrepreneur and by yourself and you can make a lot of money right away. I think that's really the ultimate attraction for most people at least below the age of 35. Stefan: I've heard a lot of times, "I don't love real estate, but I love the benefits." Would you say that's true? Bryan: Absolutely. Yeah. 100%. Stefan: Yeah, lots of benefits. Now, something you said there is like really, I think, important that people need to hear is, people get excited about the money and they get excited about the 100 Grand or whatever the thing is, and then you said, it's a lot harder to put a deal together than you think. Tell me, why isn't it just magic and why can't everybody just make 100 Grand in real estate? I'm a real estate investor. So, my background is I came from raising capital and flipping homes. That's what I do. I'd flip homes, sell more money. Never been an agent, bought the course three times, but always been pure investor. I teach people now how to be investors and go full-time if they want to raise capital, build their brand. It's funny because I think a lot of people get in and they go, "Shit, it's harder than it looks." Why isn't it just so easy to put deals together on the agent side or the investor side? Bryan: Well, especially from the agent side, man, we watch shows like Million Dollar Listing where these guys just show up in suits to the office and they get a call, "Hey, I want to buy a $20 million house, come show it." And then they negotiate it over the phone in five minutes and the deal is closed, supposedly. When I got in and what most people fail to realize is when you get in, most brokerages and companies don't hold your hand and help you. They're just like, "There's your desk, there's your phone, get to work. Good luck." Again, most people getting into real estate don't have a sales background and it's a direct sales job. Unless you're spending thousands and thousands of dollars on marketing to bring people in, you're going to have to get out there and talk to people. Whether it's- Stefan: You still going to close it, bro. You marketing, you got to close it, man. You're paying for the leads. It's like jacked up version of that now. Bryan: ... Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because you're right. Even if I pay for the leads and they come in, I still have to make a phone call and go meet with them and still speak with them. So, I'm going door to door and making phone calls like Wolf of Wall Street on steroids and those deals don't come easy. I mean, you have to go through a lot of rejection. You have to face your own insecurities that a lot of people are not willing to do. And there's really no guarantee per se that you're going to get it because even my first couple of deals, when I sat down with those people, they were interviewing two or three other agents and I had to win them over. Bryan: So, it's not this glitz and glamour. "Oh, yeah. Hi, Bryan. I'm going to sell my house. Come on in, we're going to pay you 10%." It', "Okay, I'm interviewing you and three other guys. Why should I pick you?" And you're sitting there brand new, sweating with your cheap suit on trying to make ends meet and you're now trying to convince somebody to hire you to sell their $500,000 home or a million dollar home and that reality slaps people on the face very quickly as soon as they start. Stefan: Right. It's not cheap. It's not easy. I think it's interesting. I've sort of creating a course curriculum here over the last six years and we teach sales, negotiation, marketing, wealth, and raising capital. And it's funny because four out of those five things really is sales, and the ability to negotiate and sit there and sweat it out when you're going to get the contract. How important is it to be able to sell and negotiate in this world? Bryan: It's 100% vital, man. You said something earlier, most people say they're not passionate about real estate or love it, they just love the money. One other kind of angle that I took on it is I said, "Well, I may not per se be passionate about real estate, but if I get into this game of real estate," what you just said about sales, "that's something I'm going to dive into and learn." And that to me was an essential life tool. I still believe that people look at sales, maybe it's because of Instagram, man, and all this stuff we're seeing on social media, they still look at it as like some gimmicky thing, when it's like one of the most vital skills you can have in life because everything we do, we're negotiating all the time. Everything is sales, but people fail to look at it that way, so, I think it's 100% vital. Bryan: Like if I had a son right now, the first thing I would teach them is about sales and I'd have his head in books, and I would be like, probably doing mock negotiations with them and I'd be teaching them so by the time he's 10, he'd be like a master negotiator. Stefan: Yeah. One thing I want to do in our kids is I want to say like, "Okay, look, here's the deal. Rent starts at age three, it's one penny a month, you got to pay your rent. And then there's chores in the kitchen on a big board and the kids can do the chores, invoice mom. Invoices get paid on first and the 15th." And then if they're like, "Dad, I want money." I'm like, "Okay, you got to write me a business plan and then I'm going to give you a loan at 7% and you get some chocolate almonds, you bag them up, you go selling them door to door." You got to get the hustle on early. You got to be selling early because otherwise people will do ... One thing I see too a lot, Bryan, with coaching people is, negative view on sales is usually a negative view on money. If someone is negative on selling or being sold, they're just not going to have any money. Would you say that's true? Bryan: Absolutely, man. A lot of that programming comes into us at a young age. Like I mentioned in the beginning, I was brought up to fear the salesman, to be afraid of contracts, to look at rich people as if they were evil. I remember when I started this process of kind of reprogramming my brain, that was what I had burned into my mind was money is the root of all evil, and now let's say I get into your coaching program and you're teaching me and giving me these tools to now start making money and have sales skills, well, my own mind doesn't conflict with that because it tells me money is the root of all evil. So, I mean, I'm not going to ever get it or if I do get it, it's going to be gone very quickly. Just like I always tell people the classic example of somebody winning the lottery and hitting 50 million or 100 million, and a year later, they're broke or in a worse position than they were before they got the $50 million payout or whatever it was. Stefan: Well, it's interesting, and a lot of it comes down to changing that broke programming. I remember when I started being interested in money, I was a guitar teacher making 10 Grand a year, and teaching guitar at my mom's house in university. That's what I did. I would save 70% of my money because I read Rich Dad Poor Dad, a little book called Rich Dad Poor Dad. It says, start saving your money and take a real estate investment course. I thought, shit, that's great. So, I started saving 70% of my money, the rest went to my rent for my mom. So, I paid rent to my mom, and then I had this like sliver of money. It was like $20 a week for entertainment and bus pass. I was like, bus pass, bagels for 99 cents, and like rent to mom and the rest went into savings. Stefan: It took a long time for me to shake that broke mentality. I tried to save my way to freedom. Usually in the modern world today, you can't just save your way to freedom. The currency is always inflating, the money is always devaluing. What I've found is I had to go ... Actually, what got me out of that mentality, the poverty mentality was throwing down on some big coaches and mentors. I spent 300 Grand on coaches and mentors in the last eight years. And that really got me, it forced me into the abundance mentality and out of the scarcity mentality. What are some ways that someone can get out of scarcity and into abundance? Bryan: That's a great question. What you mentioned about investing yourself, man, I mean, I think I've spent probably 300 Grand in the last three or four years alone. Stefan: Damn, dude. Bryan: Yeah, and it's one of those things where I've just doubled down on it because it's so important. Part of that is not just, I think, most of the times the coaches and the mentors, but the people that we meet with and within those programs that has really helped evolve me because when I've put together these masterminds or I've met with coaches and gone to their events and I've been able to make new relationships and new friendships, I've been fortunate enough to get around people who don't exhibit that mindset who are way ahead of me or closer to where I want to be in the future that getting a taste of that in real time is what started shifting me mentally a bit. And I sort of, "Well, my relationship with money is so different than them. Like, let me pick their brain. Let me just even observe them for an hour and see how they sit down at this restaurant, how they look at the menu, how they interact with people, even how they tip." Bryan: I really just started making mental notes and just witnessing it. That's when I first started making the connection. Another thing I started doing that I can't remember who taught me this, otherwise, I'd give him credit. I started doing little things to get me out of that broke mindset. Like, for example, I'd go to a hotel and I pull up and I'd asked myself, "What would a millionaire do here? Would he do the self parking or would he balle and pay an extra five Bucks?" And I'm like, "Well, obviously, he's going to pay an extra five bucks and balle because time is money." Bryan: So, I would do little stuff like that. I'd spend the extra five bucks to balle just to get the experience. And the more I did that and really immerse myself not only in the coaching but with these other people who already were farther ahead than I was, it really started changing me. A lot of times I didn't even realize that change was happening until I was presented with a new situation and then I responded to it differently. Like when a bill came and I went to tip, it became automatic for me to tip 20%, instead of pulling pennies together and tipping a couple of bucks. Stefan: Right. That's interesting. When I was broke, I remember I flew down to Palm Springs. I had five grand in the bank I'd saved up. So, I'm a guitar teacher, saved up five grand in the bank was like all the money in the world and I was going to buy myself a good duplex, like a rental property. That was my goal, of 50 grand at the time in my town. I remember I flew down to Palm Springs ... Well, I went to a seminar and there was a guy there named Bill Barton. He was a self made billionaire. It was 2008 and I guess the banks were crashing in the states and he said, "Look, last time I got rich the banks are crashing and I bought up all this credit card debt for a penny, two pennies, three pennies, four pennies, five pennies on the dollar. Come down with me." Stefan: I remember watching and I was like, "I'm not signing up for that. I'm going to stick to my rental property." My friend said to me, he's like, "Stefan, if anybody was going to do this, I thought it would be you." So, I threw down all my five grand on this course with this guy and I went down to Palm Springs, I had no money to my name, but I went and booked a super nice hotel. And it was like the Omni Rancho Las Palmas or whatever in Palm Springs, gorgeous hotel. Four and a half stars. I remember being there and I'm like, wow, beautiful marble. Beautiful girls at the pool, beautiful view, nice wood on the walls, or whatever they're doing there. And I was like, "Oh, man, I want to get back here. I want to do this. I want to live this life." And I remember eating like a lobster club at the restaurants like a $30 lobster club sandwich and I see bill that's eaten a $5 foot long from subway behind the stage. The actual billionaire he's eating a $5 foot long ... I mean, the $30 lobster club being broke. Stefan: And I went 10 Grand into debt, further debt at that seminar. So, of course, they can't teach you everything in industry in three days. We all know that. So, do you want to really learn at this time? It's $10,000, 10 Grands. Not 10 Grand in the whole going in on this thing? And I'm like, "Oh my god." But I'll never forget spending a week with a billionaire when I was 21 and that classroom was totally worth it. Learning to make them a loan proposal, learning to make a business plan, learning how to pitch, learning how to ask for money, learning what it's like to live in a nice hotel for a little bit. All those images stayed in my mind and Bill, he died I think two years ago. But he went and he jacked up a new company. First time it was called CFS, Commercial Financing Services. And His Second  CFS two. When he went out to raise money, Bryan, for his second company, he raised 400 million in the first round. Bryan: Wow. Stefan: So, watching him for a week, invaluable, living in that space for a week, invaluable. Just tasting it because in your mind you just want to get back to that. Would you say that that's a powerful thing? Bryan: Yeah, man, because then you have that reference. We dream all the time. For example, before I bought my Lamborghini, I can't tell you how many times in my mind I had driven in it, seen it in the garage, could practically taste the leather in there and the suede, but when I really sat in one, and I started going to the dealerships and then talking to the sales people, and then meeting some of the other owners, that's really when everything started accelerating, and it really just fired me up even more. So, having that real life reference point, like you just described, I think, is invaluable for sure. Stefan: Yeah, absolutely. It's just like, I find with people, and I'm in the house flipping business teaching people how to flip houses, until they fly to the city where their coach lives and they watch their coach flip a house, they watch their coach make the calls, they just don't do it. And I don't know what it is. It's just like, you need the evidence in your brain, and it's like you need someone to do it right in front of you. It's almost like sex. Like you have to do sex to know sex. You can't just read a book about it. You got to like get in there and see someone do it, right? Bryan: Absolutely, man. Yep. Experience. Stefan: So, Bryan, one thing that I think is super impressive are your 110,000 YouTube subscribers, bro. That's amazing. Good for you. How did you build such a big channel? What got you that kind of following? Bryan: Thank you, man. I appreciate it. It's really been consistent effort over time, but more than anything, I believe it came down to a few key points. Number one is, this is the first thing I did, even when I got into real estate, and it was right before I started doing video and social media. I started going around just asking people, what does a realtor look like? The average realtor in your mind? What do they look like? What do they sound like? What do they do? And pretty much everybody unanimously was giving me the same description. Older person with a briefcase, black suit, white shirt, very boring, no energy,  life Bryan: And I was like, man, I have an opportunity here because the way I am, if I can transcend this boredom and the stereotypical image of what a realtor is, that already is going to get me a step ahead and get me attention. That's kind of what I did, man. I went to a lot of seminars too, real estate seminars, everybody was kind of walking on eggshells. Everyone's afraid to curse and everyone is so wound up and just so tight. I said, I'm the opposite. You know what, I'm just going to bring my personality into this and not be afraid to break these barriers. That was the first thing that I did that initially was kind of like a shock to everybody, but very quickly started attracting and garnering a lot of attention. Bryan: The second thing was I wasn't afraid to show my personal life. When I even go on my Facebook and see people who follow me, especially the ones who are in real estate, or any type of brick and mortar, "real life business" outside of online, all they really show is their business. Oh, I closed this deal. Oh, I flipped this house. Oh, I just listed this home. Oh, I sold this home to this buyer. But we don't really know anything about the individual and I knew, "Hey, I'm watching these people." Just like we used to watch people on TV back in the day, we're just genuinely curious about finding out, what stores do they shop that? Bryan: What clothes do they wear? Do they wear the same shoes as I do? What kind of toothpaste do they use" I started getting more intimate details about my life, how I think, what I did on a day to day basis, what my hobbies were, and that alongside what I just told you about kind of breaking barriers, really just opened up the floodgates, man. Because then I started collaborating with other people, people from different walks of life started following me, and what I wanted to establish in everybody's brain that I was in real estate and the businessman who was always there, it was just communicated in a different way. And that really is what got a lot of attention because at the end of the day, if we do stuff on social media, there has to be an element of entertainment, and most people forget that. You can be super educational, super informative, but if you're boring and you don't entertain people, they're not going to stick around, and I think that- Stefan: You just got yourself a gong bro. Entertainment, man. So, what's some of the things that make your content entertaining that makes people want to come back? Bryan: Let's see. Well, one thing I started doing about a year ago that really helped me out was collaborating with people outside of my space and bringing that element into my social media. Because, you know, I do what most people do in my space. I travel and speak, I talk about real estate and that kind of stuff, but I really started interviewing and collaborating and doing things like people outside of my industry. For example, I'm a huge car nut. I love cars. Because I own like six, but I'm going to buy like 10 more the next couple years. I'm just a car nut. I'm very good friends with a lot of people not just locally but internationally who are in the cars, and because of that I now have connections with the people who have been the, we can say like the forefathers to the Fast and Furious franchise. I know Paul Walker's family like very intimately now, and I've gone opportunities outside of that, whether it's in the real estate business to sell homes, let people invest or whatever it is, or other business opportunities because of that. Bryan: That alone brings an element of entertainment to my channel and what I do because they know, hey, if I go to Bryan, I'm not just going to be hearing about real estate and how to sell a home and negotiate, dude, he's over here hanging out with the guys on the beach, cruising down PCH with six Lamborghinis and Ferraris. That's cool. He's doing this, he's doing that. Today, man, I just sat down with a guy who I actually just recently found him but I thought the story was incredible. He spent 10 years in the penitentiary here in the United States and he's turned around and he's a multi millionaire within four to four and a half years of being fresh out of prison. And now he's a multi millionaire. So I interviewed him. Bryan: Being able to put him now on my channel, which I'll be posting that video on Instagram and YouTube tomorrow. No one else in the real estate industry that's doing social media would ever even think about doing that because they would say, "Oh, I can't associate with somebody who has tattoos and who's been to prison, that's going to ruin my image." That part, that uniqueness, that mystery like, "Oh, what's Bryan going to do next?" That's one of the biggest pillars that I have for sure as far as entertainment on my channel because they can come into my channel and not show up for a week, and when they show up the next week, someone's going to slap them in the face because I'm doing something new. Stefan: So, you're pretty much a rapper. You're like a rapper of real estate. It's interesting. I used to have a rock band and I wanted to be a rock star, and I think rock had one of the fatal flaws that the bands wouldn't collaborate. Like a rock band was just a rock band and they had their album and that was it. But rappers would always get like, M&M would get 50 cent on his album. And Jay Z would get, you know someone else on his album. So, there's all these collabs going on. Would you say collabs is the key to growing that audience? Bryan: Absolutely. What I think and it totally is, I think some people are afraid because they think, well, if I collaborate, people are going to forget that I'm a realtor or a real estate investor, whatever it is, they're not. Anywhere I go, I'm known as a real estate agent, the leader of my team. That's going to transcend whatever space that you're in, and it just opens up you to a new audience. I can't tell you how many people now have turned into clients or students that I've taken from the car community. Bryan: For example, I have another group of friends that are dating coaches, and I do stuff with them. So that opens up another audience for me. So, just between that and the car community, I would say that's contributed to an additional 20%, 30% of my growth and just brand awareness because I've been able to open those doors which I know other people would want to do, but there's this fear saying, "Well, I'm the real estate guy, I can't talk to the car guy." Because it doesn't make any sense when I think that's one of the key is to really grow your brand. Stefan: Okay, we're growing the brand. Now, let's come back to it. So, growing a brand is expensive, dude. I've been doing that for like, almost 10 years now. Growing a brand costs money. There's a reason why there's not a million brands out there because it's expensive to grow a brand. You got to monetize it somehow. So, I guess you're monetizing through real estate skills. And then you're also doing a coaching program. Right? Bryan: Yeah. Stefan: Cool. So talk about the coaching program, Bryan, what's some of the things that are in there? Like, you said, you got all different types of people joining your coaching. Who joins Bryan's coaching and what types of things are you teaching them? Bryan: Yeah, man. Modern Success, which is the name of the program. I started it like I told you seven, eight months ago. And it started because I was getting so many requests. "Hey, man, do you have any products on this or new coach and this and that?" And it became such a regular thing to get text messages and emails and DMs on Instagram. And I said, why not start something? So, what I do now is I created a private group on Facebook. We do one weekly live call on zoom just like this for about an hour, an hour and a half depending on how many questions people have. We're all pick a topic and lecture on it for 30, 45 minutes and then I'll open it up to Q&A. And then throughout the week, I also put four to five videos in the group teaching something, whether it's a skill or a little mindset thing to help people make a mental shift, but the focus is really, I would say mainly on three pillars. Bryan: One would be the business aspect, learning sales, some sales skills. Number two, being able to handle your finances and then eventually build wealth, and three getting your mind right. I think so many people, especially younger people now who grew up with social media will look at you, me and some other people who maybe have been putting in work for a long time, but they'll think that there's such a big gap between us and them that they can't do it. All these limitations coming. "I'm too young. I'm not from the right place. I don't live in LA. I can't do it." I feel like people have literally mentally crippled themselves into the point of what we were just talking about, where they'll see you doing it, they'll be on your program and they still won't take any action as I said. So, my whole basis of building that program was to get people off their ass and into action, and the kind of testimonials I'm getting and the results that I'm seeing are just out of this world. Stefan: That's amazing, man. I got the same problem now in my Instagram. I think I got to 60,000 followers and I got all these like, kids. 12 years old, 13, 14. I've this one girl, this girl from India she's like, "Hey, I have a crush on this boy. What should I do?" She's like, "Should I tell him how I feel?" I'm like, "Yeah, why not?" I said, "Ask him out to lunch or something and if he says, no, he wasn't yours to begin with." And then today, she texted me. She goes, "He said, no, he rejected me." I'm like, "Big deal. Fuck up. Move on girl." So, it's crazy. You got all these people, and monetizing that traffic can be cumbersome. Especially I got 12 year old kids in India checking out my stuff now. Well, they can't even afford $199 audio books. So, what is your coaching cost if someone wants to join that kind of thing? What's the price point? Bryan: It's $97 a month. I wanted to keep it affordable because I know, especially with my audience being people between 18 and 35, most of them being aspiring to become an entrepreneur or a business person that money is tight for them, and I wanted to keep it simple that way if somebody is getting in. 97 Bucks a month for most people is something they can scrape together if they really take a look at their expenses and get some basic finances in order, they can do it. I wanted to find that sweet spot. I will be raising it later on, but I thought 97 a month was the perfect introductory price for somebody. Stefan: Yeah. No, that's wicked man. I mean, that's 1,200 Bucks a year. I think it's a magical thing and you know, some people would say like the negative people like, "Oh, man, you're ripping those people off." But there's probably guys out there you're totally changing their life, you're totally changing their mindset, and you got to pay for curated content. If they want good curated, branded stuff, it costs money to put that on. I really appreciate that. Yeah, go ahead, Bryan. Bryan: Yeah, man. And think about all the money you've spent too, and I, and that I've spent and anybody above us. They've spent that money. They paid their dues to get that information and a lot of times I feel like if I was to take this precious piece of knowledge, that maybe I've saved for my paid group and I just give it out for free, people aren't going to appreciate it. If we hold an event. Let's say me and you hold an event and we make it free. How many excuses that are going to come up the day [inaudible 00:28:30] for people not to show up. "Oh, sorry, guys. It's snowing a little bit today, I'm going to sleep in I'll catch the next one." You best believe if we charge them 500 Bucks or 1,000 Bucks to show up, I don't care if the world is ending, they're going to show up to that event because they forked out their money and they've put some skin in the game. And that's- Stefan: The gong. The Gong came on for that, bro. Give me an instant replay on that, Bryan. Bryan: You got to put your money where your mouth is, man. If you want to learn from the best and get the best knowledge, you got to be able to put either your credit card down, the cash down, the check down, whatever it is, or we'll go back to the dumb and dumber days, an IOU, whatever it takes, you got to put something down. I mean, a lot of times, like I even mentioned earlier, maybe at the event I got, yeah, one or two pieces of information, but I met that one person who then later on gave me a connection or introduced me to somebody else, who then gave me that next breakthrough. So, you never know how it's going to happen. But you got to pay to play. You got to pay to play. Stefan: You got to pay to play. You know I love that, man. I think you're bang on. You go to what you pay for. It's funny. I do an event called Blueprint to Cash, and it used to be called Self Made Live and Self Made was like I would sell my book, and people get the book and they get two tickets for like 50 Bucks. That's how it works. So, they're overpriced book but underpriced tickets. So, you get the $50 book and the two tickets to the event and that's cool. I remember we do these events and [inaudible 00:29:47] 100 people and then like the afternoon comments that people leave, it's people leave the next day. They weren't committed. But as soon as we turned that event and is like a Blueprint to Cash, we sold for 2,000 Bucks now, same event, and we include their flight, we include their hotel. Stefan: So it's like a great experience. We got a limousine driving thing to like a dinner at either, like a flip, or my house, or whatever. And it's amazing man because people show up, they don't quit, they stick through it, they have a great experience. It's just, you can be in the free line, but it's kind of like going to Costco and eating those free winners. It's not really a meal, dude. You can go there and eat those little baby winners, but you might as well spend the $85 and get the hot dog and the drink. Get the real thing. Bryan: Exactly, man. Yeah, I agree. Stefan: Now, Bryan, let me ask you this. You're successful in a lot of things. Did it in sports, doing it on YouTube, you got a coaching mastermind group successful, real estate salesperson. Now, what's your obsession? Bryan: My obsession, man, and this sounds weird to a lot of people is just simply me pushing, we can say, barriers on my own potential. That's really what it boils down to because I've thought about that a lot myself. Like, well, what's this drive in me? What's this spark in me? It's really, part of it maybe it's because I grew up being told I couldn't do anything, and that I would be average. So now maybe because of that my quest is just, what else can I do? Like I'm already talking to one of my clients right now who we're about four months we're about to close this new development over here by the beach for like 5 million. It's going to be a sick, sick house, man. Bryan: And we're talking about going in together to open up a sports bar because I've always wanted to open up a bar. That thought wasn't really in my mind until a year or two ago, but I'm like, "Fuck it. Let's do it." So I'm all about pushing the envelope and just seeing, maybe it's not worth it, but what I can get away with [inaudible 00:31:39]. Like somebody said, let's try this. I'm going to do it. Another idea pops up in my mind you know what, let's go for it. Bryan: Thrill seeker, we can say. I really don't know what it is, man. But I think that is the best way to sum it up because I've gone in so many different directions that that seems to be the most concrete definition I can give as far as what keeps me going because that fire is always there. I wake up every day like, let's make it happen. I don't like sitting idly. I don't take vacations. I'm just like, let's keep going. Let's keep hunting like a lion waking up every day and just looking for the deer and the gazelle and saying, "Okay, I'm getting this one." Just being relentless. Stefan: I love that. Being obsessed with being relentless and being obsessed with what I can get away with. I got a similar feeling in me, man. I think we're similar dudes. What motivates you to be great at what you do? You could show up, Bryan, and you could be like average, you could be like a seven out of 10, you could be like an okay kind of guy. What motivates you to take it over the top and be great? Bryan: Great question. Even when I was a kid, like if we played video games and you were beating me I'd throw the control at you. I was like, "Okay, we're playing again." I never was okay being second place. One thing I hear now is that kids are getting like participation trophies,  just like, I'm a dude. That completely belittles the guy who worked hard to get first place. Stefan: That's we're all fair, man. That's it. That's we're fair. Bryan: That's what I was thinking. I was like, when I got the trophies in basketball or whatever it is, I put in the work. If we were to look at my life and the other kids life preparing for that game, let's say was like a one on one tournament, you would see that I put in the work to get first. So, with me it was about being the King of the Hill, not so much for the recognition but to myself to say, "Yes, I could be first." It's more like a personal achievement thing, and just having a high standard for myself because when somebody says average, in my mind I'm looking down to average and it's like why would I be down there when first place is, okay, this is where I'm at. Like, why would I look down and be like, "Let me step down to average." That just doesn't line up with me mentally, you know. Stefan: I love what Napoleon said. He said, men will die for little pieces of medal. Guys like me and you we want the trophy, we want the medal, we want the first place, and I love what you said about, when they give up the participation trophy, it ruins the whole thing. It's interesting I was watching a psychologist and he was talking about how men when they're with other men will compete, but then when you introduce women into the competition, the men stop competing. Like when women are competing alongside men, the men don't try as hard, and then what ends up happening in like the case of school right now, like the school system, is like men are competing as women and then the men actually, the boys in university and in high school, they don't even try anymore. So the girls get the high marks, the boy is like, "Whatever, I don't want to compete with a girl." And next thing you know, they're out being entrepreneurs or something like that. Stefan: Now, let me ask you this, Bryan. What's one moment where you thought you'd fail and this whole thing would come crashing down and it'd be over for Bryan? Bryan: Oh, man. Early on, dude. I mean, I dealt with those demons a lot in my first year in real estate especially, dude. I think my first year in real estate alone as an agent, I was probably in tears at least on three separate occasions. This is coming from somebody who until that point, bro, I can't remember the last time I cried besides, maybe when my grandma passed away when I was like 11. So, this tough guy who hadn't shed a tear in, I don't know how many years, 20 years almost, breaks down three times in one years. Bryan: I remember when I got my license, a buddy of mine bought a house so I got a deal right away. Like literally the day that I got my license, boom, I ended up helping him buy a house. I got another deal a week after that. I got a listing that ended up selling, but after that there was probably this three and a half four month period where I was just grinding man. Just nose to the grindstone like six and a half, seven days a week just nonstop in just the business with that coming, and dude, I went through every emotional up and down in those three or four months and every thought, every negative opinion that somebody had expressed when I said I was getting into real estate and going down that route, that image was vivid and clear in my mind and I could hear their voice nagging in my ears, "I told you, I knew you weren't going to make it." Man, it was tough. Bryan: But I'm so glad that I went through it, but I would say that was probably one of the darkest times because now that's when your own mind starts becoming your worst enemy. And that's a very pivotal point where you hit the fork in the road for most people, and they say, I think 87% of real estate people fail the first two years. I think it's because when they hit that fork in the road, they just succumb to the negative imagery and the negative voices in their mind instead of just pushing through because in those dark moments, what saved me was, every single person I had looked up to, studied, conversed with, and sat down with in that beginning process told me, you will go through that. Bryan: Like you will be in moments where you're going to cry, you're going to feel like quitting, you're going to feel like the world is against you, what are you going to do? How are you going to respond? And if you respond like everybody else, your results are going to be like everybody else. But if you keep going and you understand that, hey, this is going to work. People have done it before you, then you'll make it to the other side. But so few people can make it through that. Those voices, man, for my mentors and people I looked up to is really what saved me. Stefan: You know I've noticed during this show, Bryan, is that every single person comes on this show who's successful, we usually have only successful people. Sometimes we get a dud, but everybody who comes on this show and is successful usually has a really dark moment. And what's cool about the dark moment is usually the worst that moment is, the higher they jump after. Like, I had one lady, young lady. She's 29 years old. She was living in her car when she was like 18. I remember she was working at Cheesecake Factory and she made no tip. She made like $2. Couldn't pay her rent. That same young lady who is in $100 million development right now at age 29 because she was able to go in there and face the demons and face the darkness. Whoever's on this show, the darker it is and the worse it goes, the higher they jump. Why do you think that is? Bryan: I tell people you have to go through that. You have to experience that to really get to the other side. I believe in polarity too, to the degree that you swing this way you're going to swing the other way. For me, another way I looked at it mentally too was, everything that I'm encountering right now is a test. So, if I'm willing to experience the lowest of the lows, I'm now deserving of the highest of the high because I was willing to be in the black hole and swim in it with a smile on my face and not succumb or be afraid of it like everybody else. Because all those moments really are, if we break it down it's just unknown because we're not sure what's going to happen. We're not sure if that deal is going to go through. I tell people, you have to be willing to dance and have fun in the unknown like you're dancing in the rain. Because to the degree that you can go into that black hole and into that unknown and darkness, you're going to get that much more light on the other side. And I just think there's a direct correlation with being able to withstand. Bryan: Like, we've heard some really crazy inspirational stories like Oprah, for example, and to see where they're at now. It's like, well, look what they went through and look what they overcame. So to me, it's just basically like a video game, and if I'm willing to go through this, I'm unlocking that next level that other people aren't willing to unlock. Stefan: Right. I love what you're saying there, man. You are really unlocking the next level all the time. There's a great book I read was called What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Have you read that book? Bryan: Haven't read that one yet, no. Stefan: You got to check it out. It's about a guy and he's like a business coach. He's coaching executives. What he noticed was that the skills that got a guy into an executive suite like a C suite, CEO, CFO, COO, or whatever, would inhibit him from going to the next level of leadership. They'd be salty, they'd be mean, they would be harsh, all these things, and his job in his program was what got you here won't get you there. His job is to undo all those things and then teach you the next level of leadership, which is being a statesman instead of being a warrior and being somebody who has compassion and things like that, but still is strong. Would you agree? That's like a really big thing, is unlearning your last level to go to your next level? Bryan: Yeah, man, absolutely. I could even think of a lot of people in the real estate space who wants to start as a solo agent and then eventually build a team and ship more into a leadership role and position. Two completely different things. You could be, I know so many people who are superstar agents who are doing millions in commissions, but when it comes to running a team of being a leader, they can't do it. Because that next level for them to get to that level, it's a different skill set and know how. A different blueprint. I think a lot of people can't navigate that and I think athletes fall into this category too. We're so stubborn sometimes and hard headed where it's like, oh, no, we have to do it this way. We want to be a perfectionist, and we're not willing to listen to that next person or pick up that new book to teach us that stuff. Bryan: I think one of the main reasons that I was able to make this transition so seamless as it seem to people was because I embraced what you just said. I didn't read that book, but what you're talking about, I think I've gotten from somewhere else, maybe that story or the kind of like that teaching because that popped into my head immediately as I started growing my team was, I need to understand that I need to unlearn some of that old stuff to really break through to the next level. Stefan: Yeah, I think one of the biggest things too with an entrepreneur or somebody who's like hustling on their own dime is to go to that next level, you have to take a massive pay cut. Like you pretty much, you probably got to hire a coach because you probably can't figure it on your own. If you could, you would have done it on your own. So, you probably have to hire somebody so you take a pay cut on that. And then when you go into management, you're not making the commissions now. You're trying to get other guys to make commissions and they're not making money right away. So now they're not making money and you're not making money and you're living off your savings, you're living off your credit cards and it's all really scary. Then what people do is they go back to just being a hustler because it's what they know and building stuff is tough. Stefan: Now, let me ask this, Bryan, what do you think is the biggest cause of failure in people? Bryan: Biggest cause of failure. It would be this. A lot of people, let's say they want to be an investor or they want to be a real estate agent, whatever it is. I ask this to people, how long are you willing to fail? It's like a test. And if they give me a date, like, "Well, I'm going to give this a shot for 30 days or 60 days." If anybody gives me a finite date to how long they're going to try something I know they're going to fail. I think that's one of the biggest reasons, is when I got into real estate I remember people asking me, what's your plan B? How long you going to give it a shot? I'm like, "I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to make this shit happen no matter what." Bryan: Hearing people who give that date, I've asked in the last couple of years, six people that have given me dates and all of them have quit or they're not doing what they're doing. So, I really think that's number one thing is, if you go in with the mindset that, "Oh, I'm just going to give this a shot for 30 days," and you have that date, it's not going to work. Stefan: Right. Yeah, it's like the, I'm ready to jump out of the boat kind of thing. I think it's interesting when I coach people and we do real estate. So, buy, fix, sell houses, and we teach them to raise money and stuff, whenever we get somebody's like, "Oh, I'm wondering payment plan can I pay." I'm like, "Bro, you're not going to make it. You got to be in, you got to be committed." Because when you try to call it, when you try to go to something on a payment plan, that's just the license to quit. Halfway through, you think you're going to save money by quitting while you're actually just losing all your money at this point. Stefan: So, Bryan, if you can go back to the beginning and talk to let's say 15 year old Bryan, let's go back half your life about 15 year old Bryan, what's a piece of advice you give yourself? Bryan: I would say you have to learn very quickly to stop living your life based on what other people want you to be like and what their opinion is of what it should be like. The last couple of years for me especially have been the most revolutionary because of that. The moment I was able to really detach from other people's opinions, what they had to say about me, how they saw my life and how they wanted me to live my life, it's like I could see the light and everything changed from that moment. So, I would say stop worrying about what other people say, live your life not someone else's. Stefan: That's getting a gong man. That's like a big thing for young people. Young people are always trying to please people and I've read a quote somewhere I was like, by the time you get to 40 you don't care anymore. You're just like, "Whatever man." When you when you get a little older. Stefan: Now, Bryan, top three books to change your life, what are they man? Bryan: Top three books. Thinking and Grow Rich [inaudible 00:44:03]. One book by Anthony Robbins, Unlimited Power was fantastic, and the book by Oren Klaff, Pitch Anything a little bit better. Stefan: Oh, Oren Klaff, yeah bro. He's from Cali too. Bryan: Yeah. Stefan: Yeah, Pitch Anything. Why do you say Pitch Anything? I think that's one of my favorites for teaching people to raise money for sure. Bryan: It just offers a very ... It's kind of like we were discussing earlier right. Unlearning some other stuff and really unlocking that next level and what he teaches in that book I believe, after you have a basic understanding of sales will take me to the next level for sure. Stefan: Yeah, there's some powerful stuff in their. Power framing, time framing, analyst frame, he's got some stuff. Oren is one of the best. Stefan: Now, Bryan, I got to ask everyone this question on the show. This is like my number one. Everybody gets this question and it happens to be one of the last questions. What's the one thing that young people need to succeed these days? Bryan: More commitment. I think people, no matter what space they're going into, especially now with social media as much as it's a blessing it's a curse, there are too many fucking options, they need to pick one thing and just stick with it. So, if they go to , they need to go all in and just stick with it and commit to the process. Everyone's one foot in and one foot out. "Oh, I'm going to try this then I'm going to try that." What do they call it? Jack of all trades, master of none more commitment. You need to double down and commit and say, "I'm doing this and that's it. Regardless what mommy says daddy says what he says or she says, I don't care if I'm not going to get any likes on Facebook or Instagram, I'm going to do this." If people would commit like that, just that sheer commitment like a lot of athletes give where they commit their lives to the sport, they're going to make it to the other side for sure. Stefan: I love what you're saying, man. You're preaching the gospel here in the church of The Grind. Now, Bryan, if people want to get in touch with you, how can they get ahold of you to interact, be a part of your brand, maybe get into coaching. Bryan: I'm all over the place, man. Bryancasella.com, B-R-Y-A-N C-A-S-E-L-L-A. That's my website. It has everything. My handles for Instagram and Twitter and everything else is just @bryancasella. It's really simple. Same thing with YouTube. Bryan Casella. Stefan: Awesome, man. Thank you so much for being on the show, Bryan, Respect the Grind, and we will see you in the future, man. Bryan:  I really appreciate it.  

That Blind Tech Show Rolls Again. Bryan brings Allison and Jeff back to the sho to talk about some of the latest Tech news, gidgets and gadgets and the latest from Sonos. We are proud to announce that Twitterrific for the Mac is Back, Downcast just got an update and AOL Messenger is no longer. Jeff gives us an update on the fire that hit Enchanted Hills Camp above Napa, CA and how we can all contribute and support #RebuildEHC. Be sure to check the links below to learn more about what the heck we were talking about. :) Check out the Twitterrific Blog and Subscribe to keep up with the latest from iConFactory Google Bought Apple or Did they! Twitterrfic for Mac is here How to get apps back in iTunes 10 Safari Long Press Shortcut Gestures. Do you remember to ever long press? Read more about Enchanted hills Camp #RebuildEHCand contribute what you can and lend your support. Give by phone: Call Jennifer Sachs at 415-694-7333   See Transcription below.   Thank you for listening. Send us Feedback via email Follow us on Twitter @BlindTechShow   That Blind Tech Show is produced in part by Blind Abilities Network.   You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store. Transcription: That Blind Tech Show: Twifferrific on the Mac and Downcast is Back andSonos Gets 1 Bigger. (Transcription provided) [Music] Alison: Sonos One's which are the newest iteration of the play one, are the ones that have Lady A built-in. [Music] Alison: I did put the Eyes Free Fitness app on my phone and I'm hoping that you know buying some of the workouts for that, I will literally have no excuse not to, not to do it because my phone is always with me no matter where I go. Bryan: Somebody in New Zealand had something about unboxing one very early before the rest of the world which..... Alison: Oh yes Jonathan was very very happy that you know when he get, when these items come out he gets them a day ahead everyone else because New Zealand is a day ahead. Bryan: He should let people know that. [Laughter] Alison: He really doesn't gloat about that enough, but yeah. Jeff: So Alison you use your phone on a daily basis. [Laughter] Alison: The face ID, I'm still, I find myself still kind of getting used to this new thing called face ID. Jeff: I want to see the Grinch again this year. Bryan: So you want me to come visit? [Laughter] Big smiles okay, three, two one, welcome back to yet another episode of that blind tech show. I know it's been a very long time since we've been here in fact you've probably heard a lot of us on other great technology podcasts. I know our friend Allison Hartley recorded one of her regular tech doctor podcasts as well as she was on with the great people over at main menu. And you may have heard Jeff Thompson on with AT Banter and I believe he's got another podcast coming out with the good folks over at Mystic Access and you may have heard me on Blind Bargains but we finally got the band back together again and we're here to talk you through some of the holidays and the goings on now, so I'm going to go ahead and say yeah how you doing over there Allison. Alison: I'm doing okay, it's the day three of a four-day weekend so I'm just kind of milking the the time off work for all it's worth, I've been reading good books that I'll talk about later and eating lots of food, lots of pie, so much pie. Bryan: There's never such a thing as too much pie. Alison: No never. Bryan: What about you Jeff, how has your Thanksgiving holiday been? Jeff: Well pie is a continuum. Alison: Yep. Jeff: It's been great here, I've been bacheloring it, the family's been gone, and I'm living it here with the dogs, happy Thanksgiving, it's Thanksgiving everyday now. Bryan: I'm actually down in Florida still recording you see, we're all about bringing you the show. Holidays don't stop us. One thing I was very excited though on the plane ride down here, I was very excited some of you might have heard about therapy pigs getting kicked off planes. [Pig noises] I'm happy to report there was no therapy pig on my plane down here, just get old Nash in me. How about you Allison, have you ever been on a plane with a therapy Pig? Alison: I have never been on the plane with anything more exciting than another guide dog, I have to say. Bryan: What about you Jeff have you ever traveled with any pigs? Jeff: No but it, it would wouldn't be that bad if it was therapy bacon. Alison: Oh yeah. Bryan: That is true, that is true and for those of you not hear about that story it's actually not the first time a therapy pig has gotten kicked off a plane so, go ahead and check that out, it was one of the more humorous stories and, you know, it's great that they stand up for our rights as guide dog service dog users, but seriously, therapy pigs. [Pig noises] Now Allison, I think you're probably the only disappointed one because I'm hearing the Soup Nazi said no soup for you, no home pod for you this year? Alison: Yeah I mean I have really no reason to be disappointed. I have speakers coming out of my ears. [Spring noise and laughter] Alison: Quite literally right now cuz I'm wearing headphones but, I am, I am still interested in getting the home pod when it comes out, home pods I should say, cuz I want to get a stereo pair. I have my Lady A controlled Sonos speakers now, and I'm finding that that is honestly filling a lot of my needs in terms of playing satellite radio and playing any song that I could possibly think of. I do still want to get the home pods because I hear that the sound quality is gonna be even that much better than the Sonos speakers, but I'm not, I'm not tearing my hair out, if these new Sonos hadn't come out I might have been a bit more disappointed, but I'm okay. Jeff: Now you said they're gonna be better sounding than the Sonos? Alison: They are, they're going to have more tweeters and better far-field microphones for understanding you, the only limitation in my opinion it's gonna be Siri, I know this is a controversial subject on an Apple themed podcast but, Siri is terrible. Bryan: You will get no argument out of me, Siri and I, we're not even dating anymore, the relationship is over and.... Unfortunately this is not surprising news, Apple you know when they used to meet their deadlines, we talked about it this summer, it was a little odd that Apple was talking about this, it almost reminds me of you know back 10 years ago when they used to say there's an attack coming, it's not coming today, it's not coming tomorrow, but it's coming, and I kind of feel that's the same thing with (inaudible) Alison: Yeah. Bryan: Apple pod, they're not gonna be out today, they're not gonna be out tomorrow, but they will be out, probably around the same time that the Amazon app comes to the Apple TV. Alison: I would, I would say you're probably right there, and I would say that when they do come out they're gonna be a couple of years behind all of the other smart speakers with better AI. It's really, it's kind of gonna be sad almost. I really I want to see Apple push forward in this arena, but unfortunately you know, I, I've played now with Google assistant, I've had a Lady A in my life, I have been playing even with Bixby on a, on a Samsung phone, and yes you give something up in terms of your data, and in terms of your privacy, but when you're putting security above all, the AI, and the assistance itself becomes very limited in what it can do, and it's really starting to show in Siri when there are so many more worthy competitors. Bryan: Yeah, the Apple really missed the boat on the the home assistant and you know, Tim Cook was wishy-washy on it for several years and now it's just gonna be a speaker, I really have no interest, I mean I'm very happy with my Echo devices, heck, I got a small apartment you know, I've got one in the living room. They're $30.00 now over you know, the weekend... Alison: God Yeah. Bryan: I just don't have, I'm like, well do I really need another one, and I'm like, I've got one in the living room, one in the bedroom, and I don't spend much time in the kitchen so you know it's, there's no point really in getting another one but I, you just can't say no at that price and, how was the Google assistant, did you like it? Alison: I do, I actually I have a Google home speaker that I don't have plugged in at this point but on the Galaxy I mean it's just, you can just ask random questions and instead of saying, let me check the web for that, here's what I found, it actually just gives you the answer to your flipping question. Bryan: Yeah. Alison: It's really amazing and then you can ask like follow-up questions and it jives with what you were talking about and it answers intelligently. I just, you know maybe the home pod speakers will come out and something about Siri will blow us out of the water or something out of the speakers, about the speakers will blow everything else out of the water because they've had a little bit more time, but I'm starting to get a little impatient with Apple's obsession with, I know they want to get it right, and I know they want to have a really polished user experience, but that user experience is starting to suffer because of that need to be so meticulous, and so perfect. Jeff: Well I think they've actually, having it come out next year might be a good plan for their stocks in a way because people are buying the eight, or the ten, those are big items, and you're talking about $349.00 here. It's hard to comBryan when everybody else is you know flooding the market with these $29.00 minis, and dots, and Amazon, what do they have seven different items now in this department? The Look, the Show, the Tap. Alison: Now Google has three, I mean, it's a lot. Bryan: And, I'm hearing about headphones, Bose, I think there is a set of Bose headphones which you know, I couldn't afford those, but that have the Google Home built into them so we're starting to see more and more even headphones with these kind of assistants built into them and, I think Apple, you know, they've just been left behind and, not every company needs a home assistant so, I really don't see what the marketplace unless you are a big music listener, you know, or have capitol to spend, I really don't see the point to it, I guess I don't have a fine ear for music because I think the Echo speaker sounds fantastic and everybody I know that's into music says, "Are you kidding?" Alison: Oh no, oh God, no no no no no. Especially the Dot. The Dot is barely passable for spoken word, but even the big Echo, drives me crazy because it tries to simulate fake stereo, but it doesn't quite get it right on the one speaker so, it's, it drives me nuts. Bryan: What's the opposite of perfect pitch? Because that's what I have. [Laughter] Jeff: Either you have it, or you don't. Alison: Yeah. [Laughter] Jeff: So with the Sonos, you have two of them, that's the Sonos one you have two of them. Alison: Yep. Jeff: That does perfect stereo? Alison: It does, yeah I have them equal distant from each other on a table, and the stereo separation is amazing, it's really beautiful. Jeff: Oh that's great. Bryan: Are there multiple different kinds of Sonos? I've just heard phenomenal things about Sonos speakers, or is there one product line or are there different kind of product lines for the Sonos speakers. Alison: There are in the non smart, non Lady A connected Sonos products, there are three, well four technically different tiers of Sonos products, and it all depends on the number of tweeters that are in each speaker, and with all of them you can pair to get a stereo pair with the Play Ones, Play Threes, and Play Fives, but they become very expensive, and they have a sound bar, and they have a subwoofer for the television, but you couldn't pair Lady A with a skill now, to make all of your Sonos products somewhat controllable via Lady A, but the Sonos One's which are the newest iteration of the Play One, they look exactly the same except they have microphones, are the ones that have Lady A built-in. Bryan: Yeah well everything, everything seems to be getting smarter except Apple News, which you know, I often go through Apple news and my subscriptions when I'm putting this show together and, lately I've been noticing there's about two articles and then everything goes back six weeks, and they just don't seem to be coming out with a lot of content and as Jeff and I were talking about, a lot of ads you'll see an article, title of an article, title of an article, then an advertisement, and then a bunch of text, this is something about Apple and an ad and everything. Jeff have you been using Apple News, and have you noticed how down hill it seems to have gone? Jeff: I've noticed it's changing a little bit at first, the ads you can't even read the ads because that, all it does is give you description of it, and you have to skip over it, so they're not trying to sell to the blind. The thing that I noticed about Apple News is Apple shuts down at about four o'clock on Friday, there's no new news, they just kind of rehash the same stuff until Monday, and it's just like looking for an app update. If I get one on on Saturday/Sunday, someone paid extra to have that pushed out. Bryan: Yeah maybe I should go back to Newsify and actually reading my RSS feed for technology news. I'm not seeing that much content coming through there, I was I was really excited when Apple news came out because I thought it was gonna be great and I enjoyed it at first, I was using it all the time, but now I'm seeing less and less content and a lot of that content, there's nothing worse than when you're reading an article and like a paragraph into the article, all of a sudden advertisement is starts being read to you... Alison: Yep. Bryan: It drives me absolutely bonkers, and Jeff you actually said, and I'm curious because I read a lot of television recaps in Safari, where I'll say, Arrow episode, season six episode three recap, and it will, I'll find an article that will describe the action and a lot of times these articles, a paragraph in it starts reading an ad to me, you just got a pop-up blocker, now do you think those pop-ups might block those in article advertisements, or just really block pop-ups. Jeff: Actually it's not a pop-up blocker, that is native to the Safari app where you can turn that on or off and it blocks pop-ups. Now some colleges, if you're a college student, they use pop-up so you might want to beware that you might be shutting off something and not being able to gain access to so, try it out. What I got was Purify and that's P U R I F Y, it's a content blocker, and when you get that you, you purchase it, and I got it for a dollar ninety nine, I don't know if that was a Black Friday deal or a special over the holidays but, a dollar ninety-nine, it's very popular app according to Nick, my buddy up in Canada, and what it does is it works on your browser. So what you do is you purchase it and then you have to go into your Safari app settings, go down and just below pop-up blocker, you're gonna find content blocker, and then you have to enable it by turning it on. Bryan: Allison, have you ever used any kind of pop-up or ad blockers or anything? Alison: I do also use Purify and I find that that eliminates a lot of the ads on the websites that I use. What I love now also is reader mode for specific websites in iOS11, if you activate reader now, it's an actionable item and you can go to Auto reader and you can tell it that I either want reader to be active on this website all the time or, all the time for everything, so I have some very specific websites for which I just have reader all the time and I never have to worry about any extra crap on the webpage. Bryan: Where is that setting where you could set it specifically for an individual website? Alison: When you actually turn on reader and you've got reader selected, then there's an actions available, it might even be available for you to select it, and one of the actions is automatic reader when you flick down. You double tap that and then it comes up with a message that says do you want to enable reader for all websites or just on this domain and, you could turn it on for just on this website, and so like 9 to 5 Mac for example and a couple of other more the, more of the busy Apple news sites, I have since I do so much Twitter reading on my phone, I've got automatic reader turned on and it's changed everything. Bryan: Yeah that's something I'll have to, you know I I use the reader all the time, but I, and I remember hearing about, that you know, you hear, about so many new settings but I've never played around with it so, that's something I'm really gonna have to make use of, and by the way if you're out there and if you know of any specific ad popup blocker that might work in individual apps, let us know, you could tweet us in at BlindTechShow or shoot us in an email at thatblindtechshow@ gmail.com, let us know about that. This next thing is really interesting because I was down here listening, I have an app where I'm able to get any NFL audio feeds and everything, and the one thing that drives me bonkers because my dad's a little older so sometimes he forgets is I'm watching the Washington Redskins game here on Thanksgiving with him and I'm listening to the Redskins radio, the only problem is streaming audio is a good minute and a half to two minutes behind real time, and he keeps commenting about what's on TV and it's just driving me insane, I'm like Dad, remember it hasn't happened again you know, so, one thing that would be nice is if FM radio actually just worked on your iPhone which supposedly it could according to this article, we'll put in the show notes that it's built into the phone but Apple just will not activate it. Have you guys been following this story? I know it's been in the news a lot lately. Alison: I've heard two things about this, I've heard that Apple for whatever reason has just decided not to activate it but then I've also heard that the newer modems actually don't have the FM radio so it's a moot point. Bryan: Mmm okay, what about you Jeff if you've been following along to this? Jeff: Yeah I have but, you know it's to me it's like, is it, is it, am I dying for it, I don't know, I really don't know. Bryan: I think it'd be nice, just, you know to be in real time. I don't understand why they can't get streaming audio to be at least maybe you know a second or two behind. I mean it's just such a significance difference, I've got it put on do not disturb, otherwise I'll get notifications about a score in a game, you know, before it happened. The fascinating thing is during the, the Yankees playoff run, I went to my local bar with a pair of my head with the headphones with FM radio, and sure enough FM radio would get it like 30 seconds before television would. [Laughter] Alison: So there's no perfect solution. Bryan: No, there's not, I'd be like, I'd yell out "damn it" and people were like "What are you talking about, they've yet to throw the pitch". [Laughter] So yeah, there's there's no perfect solution. Jeff: I like tuneIn radio, I like stuff like that. Alison: Yeah. Jeff: If there's an emergency or something we got those alarms that go off and everything. I don't see myself turning it on, I don't know, it's just, it so interesting, there's so many resources, so many different avenues that I can get information that, just one more to be on the phone and then, where's my antenna. Alison: Yeah. Jeff: You know it's, now that we're Bluetooth everything so, do we have to wrap it in tinfoil? I don't know. Bryan: You just hold it up in the air while you're walking down the street like an umbrella. [Laughter] Am I getting a signal now? Damn it, the signal is better over here. You know it's funny because the one thing my headphones don't get is AM radio. Jeff: I think it's just as important to think about this. Now do we really want that on there because everyone was so excited when like your Amazon device could make phone calls. As soon as you make that phone call you're standing there for about two minutes going I can't walk away. Alison: Yeah, yeah. Jeff: It's not fun. Bryan: No no no, like I've said for a very long time, the worst app on the iPhone is the phone, and it's also my least used app. I wonder if I could take it out of the dock and put it on like page nine. [Laughter] Alison: You could yeah. Bryan: Yeah, you know it's funny yeah I've been down here in Florida like I said for a week and everything, so I've been in a lot of automobiles which in New York City you know I'm not in cars a lot, and I've noticed my phone still thinks I'm driving sometimes. Alison: My phone thinks I'm driving when I'm not even in a car, like I'll be laying in bed and all of a sudden that do not disturb while driving thing will pop up and I'll be like I'm just reading a book, can you go away? [Laughter] Bryan: But do you have a waterbed so maybe you're moving. [Laughter] Jeff: Too much coffee. Alison: Unfortunately no waterbed, but it's crazy I wish, I have it set on activate manually, so it should not be popping up at all, but it's driving me nuts. Bryan: Real quick for a millennial crowd, water beds were beds with water in them in the 1980s. [Laughter] Look them up. Jeff: California has regulations on waterbeds. Alison: Yeah. [Laughter] Right. Jeff: The other thing is someone told me about the notifications you know that, while you're in a car if you turn it to what is that the Bluetooth setting in your car mode, that that's supposed to trigger it, I don't know sometimes that some things are on, some things are off, I don't know. Bryan: Yeah, and I've got mine set the manual where I'm supposed to be able to turn it on, I have read in a lot of places and I think we may all be running different versions of betas, or some people may be having this problem, others may not and supposedly some people claim it's fixed in a certain beta. I don't even know if I'm running that beta, I think I'm one update behind, you know there's been so many betas out that I can't keep up with them, and a lot of updates coming out too, I notice all the time I seem to have like 80 to 90 updates every few days cuz, I self update, what about you? I know you guys self-medicate, do you self update? Alison: Well I'm constantly working on self improvement, self updating, oh oh you mean apps, yeah. [Laughter] Bryan: The apps, I like to make sure tha,t I like to read those little release notes, and the worst is we update our app fairly regularly, we're not going to tell you what we're doing. Alison: Nope. Jeff: If you get a self-improvement app, would that be self defeating? [Laughter] Bryan: I don't know, you know what, email us and let us know what you think. You know a lot of people are big fans of the Star Wars saga, but have you guys been following the blindfold game saga. Alison: It's been it's been rather epic. Bryan: It has, there's been multiple parts you know. We had, we even had my favorite was Blindfold game Strikes Back you know. Alison: And they did to their credit. Bryan: They did, they struck back hard. I'm a, you know I am a big fan of the games. Blindfold Uno, I've bought plenty of them, I know some people don't like them, I think Marty does a phenomenal job and, God I love the trivia games, and there's nothing like when you've got a, you're sitting in the store you got a few minutes to kill. I've actually set my Blindfold Uno to unlimited scoring so I've got like thirty thousand points in there, it just keeps... [Laughter] Every time the computer gets within ten thousand points of me I think it's cheating you know, but, he really does a great job with a lot of those games. Marty is a businessman and he makes these games you know, out of his love of making games for the community as well as to make money and... Alison: Sure why not. Bryan: I couldn't believe what, when Apple was telling him he needed to roll them into tab less apps in the App Store. It really seemed like Apple didn't know what they were talking about I, you know you could Google Marty's website, I'm not sure the exact site but blindfoldgames.com probably, or just google it, and he's got a blog that'll explain everything that happened if you're not aware of it but, I was really shocked at the stance Apple took against him starting out. Alison: I can summarize briefly if you'd like. Bryan: Sure. Alison: I've been fairly involved in reading about it. So essentially what happened was, and there's a whole detailed timeline on the website. Bryan: Start with episode 1. Alison: In episode one Apple was going through the review process for some iOS11 related updates for Marty's games and they noticed that a lot of the games used the same template. Now Apple technically has a rule that apps cannot be clones of one another, and not looking at the content of the games which are all different decided that these games are too similar and so we're going to have to reject these updates because they have the templates are too similar and you have to make the the gameplay different. Well the whole beauty of the blindfold games is once you know how to play one, you can pretty much figure out you know, several more, so Marty defended himself and said look while these templates are all very similar, the content within them is very different, but Apple didn't want to hear it, they heard, they're like 80 apps is too much. You have to compile them into less. Bryan: A handful, yeah. Alison: Amounts of apps. So Marty's stance, with which I agree, is that then that would make the apps too large to download because they all contain different voice files, and sound effects, so they're already you know pretty sizable downloads anyway, and it would hurt discoverability. For example if all the card games were in one app, somebody might only play one or two, and that might hurt his chances at making more revenue, and the man has got to be able to make some sort of money off it. Bryan: Sure. Alison: I get it. So eventually it came down to a lot of members of the community myself included, advocating with Apple to make them understand that this is a different type of situation than just the average you know, Yahoo up there trying to clone a bunch of flappy bird apps for example. And it worked, they understood, they eventually understood and had a conversation with Marty about, hey we understand that these games are different and now it's it's okay, when the review was passed and Marty at one point he was going to be taking down the games because he just didn't have the resources, either financial, or time wise to do the rewrites that Apple was starting with, so I'm really glad that this ended up, ending happily, and I got into some, some real Twitter spats with a couple of people who really think that, that oh, it's just blind people whining. No, it's, it's people advocating for games, which are truly different in the App Store, and yes blindness does have a little bit to do with it because we have a shortage of accessible games as it is, so don't take our choices away. Bryan: Would you summarize saying basically that Marty basically after the the Clone Wars beat the Empire? Alison: He did. Bryan: Yes. Yes. [Laughter] A Star Wars theme, yeah, no, not to make light of it, it was great that Apple reversed it's course and, Jeff, any comments? Where you following along on the Blindfold saga? Jeff: I was more or less following Allison on Twitter, I'm stalking again Allison. Alison: Oh no. Jeff: But Jonathon Mosan wrote a letter, other people in the community got going on, it was nice to see everybody come together for that you know, like some people were pretty negative, they were saying like "oh yeah, they come together this, but not for jobs" Alison: Some people were jerk faces about it, and I will call them out for that. Jeff: Other people were saying like "Oh Apple, they played the blind card to Apple" it's not that, it's like Allison just explained, it's more like that. It is kind of neat to sit back and watch how different people rise up to certain things and other people take sides, you know the bottom line is the guy is doing something. he has to make money. If he bundles them all up, and you only like one of them, you're not going to buy 8 you know, it makes sense, business sense for him, and I'm glad Apple saw it that way. Bryan: I think he's got a great price plan, because you know, yes, he's got a ton of games you know, nobody buy them all. You could test them out, you know he gives you a free amount of games with each one which I think is fantastic. How many mainstream games out there allow you to test it out before buying it? Alison: It's true. Bryan: So basically what we are saying Marty, "Stay Strong!" Jeff: And may the Force be with you. Bryan: You know something that just came to the app store new and I, I've gotta actually take a look at this, because I haven't exercised since last millennium, The Eyes Free Fit, you know Blind Alive some of you may know it as, I looked up Blind Alive, i couldn't find anything related to exercising. But if you look it up under Eyes Free Fitness, and this just came to the app store last week, and I looked through it, you gotta buy the programs, but it looks like they got a ton of different exercises in there, and I know they've been around for quite a while and on a lot of podcasts. Have either of you guys ever done any of their exercise programs? Alison: A long time ago I bought Cardio Level 1, and it is really great, and really descriptive. I did it a couple of times, I'm really bad with sticking with exercise routines no matter how accessable they are. So, it's really a motivation issue, its not an issue with the workouts themselves, but now I did put the Eyes Free Fitness app on my phone and I am hoping that, you know buying some of the workouts through that, i will literally have no excuse not to do it because my phone is always with me no matter where I go. Bryan: Yeah. How about yourself Jeff? You're an outdoor mountain man, have you ever indoor exercised? Jeff: I was actually testing her website with her so I got to get a few of those and she was next to me in the booth at ACB in 2016. It was in Minneapolis, it was really fun, it's really great that she's taken it to this level now that, you can even hook it up to your health app inside your phone too so.... Bryan: Wait a minute, there's a health app in the phone? [Laughter] Jeff: Page 9 Brian, Page 9. Alison: Page 11 yeah. [Laughter] Bryan: It's next to all of my pizza services. [Laughter] Jeff: So I suggest if people want it, it's Eyes Free Fitness, it's well described, that's the whole intent of it. She uses people who are professionally trained to come up with these exercise routines, but then there's also some stretching ones, and all that stuff. So it's pretty versatile, and they got some Yoga stuff in there, and then there's.... Alison: Pilates. Jeff: Yeah, lots of good stuff in there. Bryan: Yeah, yeah, my only complaint about this app and what she does, is she makes the rest of us look lazy. [Laughter] Can I set a New Years resolution in November, where that's my plan is to, exercise and, you know, a lot of people say they want to get in better shape. I would just like to get into a shape so.... [Funny sound effect and laughter] Alison: See it's a good time for me to get back into this because now I'm walking everyday with Gary with our neighborhood in Napa being so walkable that I actually am in a little bit better shape, so I feel like these exercises would be really great, you know especially if on the weekends when we walk less, it would really help me to get in even better shape. I'm still a far cry off from where I want to be and I still eat to much, but that'll never change. [Laughter] Bryan: I don't even eat that much, I just eat all of the wrong things, I've learned if I like it, it's bad for you. Alison: Yeah, that's kinda where I'm at too, I don't find that I eat these ginormous portions, I mean although I do like a healthy portion of food, but yeah, it's not the good things. It's a little light on the leafy green vegetables and such, although I like fruit. Jeff: You know one of the main things about exercise and all this stuff that we're talking about is the mindset and it takes a while to get your mind wrapped around it. I've been using a trainer for, it'll be coming up on a year and I finally got my mind wrapped around it after 10 months. I mean, it really takes something, I used to be in really good shape, I used to do a lot of stuff, I used to run and all sorts of stuff. But I am not being chased anymore so... you know. Bryan: It's may favorite line, "Do you still run?" "Only when chased" [Laughter] Jeff: Yeah, I think people who want to get back into it sometimes it takes a little commitment. You can buy these from $19.00 to $25.00 or something like that, but you have it, you can do it in the privacy of your own home, it's accessible, and it describes all of the stances, all the positions, well described steps, so if that's what it takes to get your mindset involved in it, it might be a good start for you. Alison: Yeah. Yeah can get as of out of breath or sweaty as you want, as quickly as, however quickly it takes and it doesn't matter because it's just you and yeah. Jeff: But make sure you have your phone notifications for driving set right. [Laughter] Bryan: Either that or in my kind of condition make sure you have 911 on speed dial. [Laughter] I got a good work out there, you know we're recording this the day after Black Friday, it's not even Cyber Monday yet but you'll hear this after Cyber Monday, and it was a low tech Black Friday for me because I got some clothes and everything, no technology but I wanted to ask you guys, what about yourself Allison was it a techie Black Friday Cyber Monday for you or no? Alison: No cuz I, I bought what I want throughout the year, I don't, I don't have the the impulse control to wait three months for something to go on sale on Black Friday, I just buy it when I, when I have the money and what I want it / need it. So Black Friday / Cyber Monday are always kind of a bit of a letdown for me cuz I'm like, oh this thing's on sale, oh wait, I already have it, this thing's on sale, wait I already have it. ]Laughter] Bryan: Got it got it got it got it got it need it you know. Alison: Yeah. Jeff: I just went shopping at Allison's place, I just walk to her house. [Laughter] I'll take that, that, that. [Laughter] Ain't got it, ain't got it, ain't got it. Bryan: You know it's not a big tech year for me because I'm not upgrading, I do need to get a new key chain cuz I have one of those key chains with the Lightning charger and for some reason the Lightning charger broke off of the key chain so, one of the things I heard somebody talking about was you know I've got all these kind of what I call lipstick chargers where you have to plug the cord into the charger. I heard they now got a charger out there that has the lightning charger built into it as well as a USB built into it and I think I'm gonna probably get something like that. Alison: Send me that when you find it. Because, send me the link, yeah because that is something, you know, I love my anchor batteries. I have the ones that are like even 20 thousand milliamps witch are a little bit bigger but I just put them in my purse, but yeah you've got to have the little the cables for your Apple watch and for your micro USB devices and your, your lightning cables all together and it's just it's a little bit much, it gets to be a little bit much to carry around. Jeff: Jack really makes a couple of these. One is a six thousand, one is a ten thousand fifty claiming that X needs more power so they made that one. They do have two cords, one is the Lightning port cord and the other is for all the Android stuff, your mini USB plug, and there's a third you can plug a USB into it so you technically you can actually have three by both outputs going at one time. My concern since their dedicated cables on there, are you committed to that if, what if the cable goes bad you know, I, I don't know but it does get a 4.5 out of 5 ratings on Amazon. Myself I like the big ones. Alison: Oh yes send me that one. Jeff: Cuz size does matter. Alison: It does. [Laughter] Bryan: Hey hey, this is a PG podcast. [Laughter] Alison: What, we're talking about, we're talking about batteries. Bryan: Oh. Jeff: I must admit I like big batteries. Bryan: I've heard that about you. Now Allison you've had the iPhone for a while now what are your thoughts? Alison: I basically really like it, it's nice and fast, I like the size, I have it in a leather case because it's glass on both sides and I do not trust myself with glass on both sides and I have dropped it and the leather case has saved me a couple of times. The face ID I'm still, I find myself still kind of getting used to this new thing called face ID. I find that it's very accurate. I find that even when it doesn't get your face it learns from the experience and it has been consistently doing better but it's not as fast as touch ID, the gestures for bringing up home and app switcher are pretty fluid and elegant I think. Bryan: Are you used to doing those after having the press on the home button for so long or does it take a little training yourself? Alison: I'm used to it now, I've had the thing now for a couple of weeks so I've gotten it back into my, into my muscle memory now that this is just what you have to do because there's no home button and luckily I'm not using any other older devices to confuse me, that's convenient but yeah it's it's never going to be as fast I don't think. Jeff: So Alison you use your phone on a daily basis? [Laughter] Alison: Pretty much almost every minute of every day. Bryan: Are you happy with the purchase, are you happy with the upgrade? Alison: I am because I wanted, I wanted the latest and greatest technology and now I've got it and I realized that sometimes that comes with some caveats so I am happy with it, there are some times though when I have just become resigned to entering in my passcode. For example if I'm laying in bed and I want to unlock my phone, I don't want to have to sit up put the phone all the way in front of my face, get face ID to authenticate me, wake up the husband, wake up the dog, so I just enter in the passcode and it's that's even become a little bit faster. Bryan: My dad was having trouble with his phone recently and I finally found out what the problem was. Alison: Yeah. Bryan: He's running an iPhone 4. [Laughter] Alison: Oh for goodness sakes. Bryan: Yeah, I said.... Jeff: Wait, you, you said it's running. Bryan: Yeah, barely, yeah he can make phone calls that's about it, I said no wonder you're having so many issues with everything else and yeah, he's getting ready to get a new one because my mom did order the iPhone 10 and he's gonna get the hand-me-down. I guess he's gonna move up to a 6 which is all he really needs. Alison: Yeah. Oh that'll be quite an upgrade for him. Bryan: Oh yeah, yeah, so but, my mom's got the 10 coming, she's got the, she ordered it online and has the two to three week wait so, I will not, not get to play around with it while I'm down here and everything but I've been you know listening to you on with Dr. Robert Carter not to be confused with Dr. Richard Kimble. Not that anybody but me. Alison: Not to be confused with John Kimble yeah. [Laughter] Bryan: I thought of Richard Kimble immediately but I'm probably the only one that did that so but you know you guys had a great walkthrough of the iPhone 10 and somebody in New Zealand had something about unboxing one very early before the rest of the world which... Alison: Oh yes Jonathan was very very happy that you know, when these items come out he gets them a day ahead of everyone else because New Zealand is a day ahead. Jeff: He should let people know that. [Laughter] Alison: He really doesn't gloat about that enough no but yeah. Bryan: Allison did I hear you do laundry every now and then? Alison: Every now then, you know I, the house-elves or my husband will not comply and I have to do my own. Bryan: Are you testing out that new GE, was it the GE product that you're testing out? Alison: Yeah so, so I have purchased the GE talking laundry box and actually we were in the market for a new washer and dryer anyway so we got the compatible washer and dryer and I've actually been doing a lot more of my own laundry and enjoying the heck out of it now that we have this talking machine because it's so easy to set all you really have to worry about is the start button and the little knob that controls the settings because the different wash cycles, because it verbalizes everything, you turn the knob, it verbalizes if you're on like cold wash, or towels and sheets, or casual wear, or bulky items, and you press Start and it says starting load on bulky items with an estimated 70 minutes remaining and there's a button on the box that you can press if you need an update of what, of time remaining and the dryer is much the same you just mess with the one knob, you can set your cycle and it just works. Our old washer and dryer we had the little arrows marked, but the one thing would spin, and there was another arrow that you could accidentally move, and Jeremy was really the only person who could set it without getting the other thing to spin, so I'm glad to be able to have some agency over my laundry once again. Bryan: And this works with all GE washer and dryers I believe right? Alison: So on the website it does say that it is, should be compatible with most, it should be compatible with the ones that have the ports in the back, the technician ports, but then it says these are the compatible models and it lists just a couple of different models. Slightly more expensive, that are compatible, I think that you can get this to work with older GE models if it has the port for technicians to hook up, but it's better I think in terms of the software working is optimally as it can if you can buy the the newer ones. Bryan: Yeah full disclaimer if your washer and dryers from 1974 and is GE..... Alison: Probably not going to work. Jeff: I do laundry and the thing on my washer and dryer mostly my washer is, there's that plastic cover that covers things up so you can't really tell the dial, so I took a needlenose pliers, it was excruciating sounds but I got that piece off of there, then I put some little markers on there, so now I just put my finger down there and I just turn it and everyone uses it that way so, yeah I don't recommend anybody to take a needle nose and tear that apart unless you know what you're doing but, yeah that's how I access that. Bryan: Yeah when you're like me and you live in New York it's great because I've got like fluff and fold where they pick it up and deliver it and it's pretty cheap and yeah I'm spoiled like that I think I've mentioned that on the show before. One of the things we did want to mention to the listeners if you do not have knfb reader you're just making your life harder, and it's a phenomenal app, I believe and don't quote me on this but I believe it's on sale at least through Christmas for about 50% off. Normally it's $100.00, I believe now it's $49.95. Go ahead and get that app, you'll make your life a lot easier if you want to read your bills or anything along that. Jeff: I really think if you're a student that that's the app to have. Seeing AI is a good app for a convenience, it's just a quick shuffle through the mail, but if you're gonna do bulk reading or if you want to save it and all sorts of things, you know, that's a workhorse the knfb reader app. Alison: I agree. Bryan: Yeah luckily I think all of us have easy names to pronounce, but I have a friend named Keith Strohak, and every time I tell Siri call Keith Strohak, it says did you mean Keith Sholstrum, did you mean Keith Beyer. It drives me bonkers, I have to go in and manually do it and I will put this link in the show notes. Did you know that you could teach Siri how to save names properly? Jeff: Mm-hmm. Alison: Yeah. Bryan: Okay I was the one who didn't. By the way ask Siri to pronounce Charlize Theron because I heard that's another name that she can't pronounce. Alison: Oh boy. Bryan: Yeah so if you're if you're one of those people and your name is Mustafi Mustafasin or something, go ahead and read this link and you know, maybe you could teach Siri how to read your name and everything. Jeff: The trick about it is that it asks you for the first name and then it asked for the second name, well I didn't know it was doing that so I said Laurie Thompson that's my wife, and then I said Laurie Thompson again. I wondered why it asked me twice, so every time she calls, are you sure you want to call Laurie Thompson Laurie Thompson? I left it I thought it was kind of cute. Alison: That is. Bryan: Now Jeff was a great guy and he posted you know happy holidays to everybody on the Blind Abilities Facebook page and I chimed in with my typical bah humbug and he thought that was you know the happiest he's ever heard me, and that's because he didn't hear how mad I was that my old Grubhub app that I've been running for several years because GrubHub has refused update is now officially dead. I finally had to update it and I don't know what I'm gonna do because this happened shortly before I left New York. I kept getting server error, server error, and I could not do anything so I had to update the app, GrubHub prepare for the barrage because I am gonna be hammering you every day now with fixing your heading navigation. I don't know. Alison: Now that your life depends on it yeah. Bryan: Yeah you know. Jeff: It's time to get that Blind Alive app, get that exercise going. Alison: Yeah. Jeff: Screw GrubHub. Bryan: I still gotta order dinner. I still gotta order dinner and everything. Alison: Try Postmates, try Doordash, you said Eat24 doesn't.... Bryan: Doordash I just heard about so yeah that's one I want to check... Alison: Yeah Postmates is also very good. Unfortunately in Napa our only choice really is Eat24, and that only has a couple of options. Bryan: Yeah you know one of the other things I plan to do when I get back from Florida is, because I've been running my old laptop here my Mac air, and it's so nice because it's running Sierra, and things have been running so smooth, as soon as I get home one of my first acts to do, I'm rolling High Sierra back, have you guys, I know Jeff's been playing High Sierra, Allison, are you still using High Sierra..... Alison: I am and for the limited number of things that I do on my Mac it's absolutely fine, I haven't really had any problems. Bryan: Editing text, when you're working with a lot of text and emails or documents and everything, it just befuddles me and everything, you know sometimes you gotta use the option key, and I did report this to Apple, quick nav does you know, when you use quick nav with words, it does not follow the insertion point, we did test it it is getting kicked up to engineers, there is a navigation problem with quick nav in Hi Sierra. Alison: That's unfortunate. Jeff: Yeah I'm using the beta's and you know it keeps on changing so I don't really complain about it I just keep using it and I know, I know it'll get better, so I just putz with it. Bryan: Yeah well Jeff you said you're running the latest beta and it's, you've noticed an improvement so, maybe it won't be the first thing I do when I get back to New York you know, maybe I'll give it one more update. I am not running the beta so I never run the betas on my computer and the word to the wise if you value productivity do not run those betas. Alison: Yeah, or have a partition on your hard drive or a separate hard drive on which to run them. Jeff: Oh my MacBook Pro [Inaudible] I'm not doing the betas on that so I can always go back to that if I need to but, you know I I usually forget that I'm slowly tweaking my muscle memory like you said Allison, and pretty soon I'm just readjusted. Changes happen and I don't know. Alison: Yep. Bryan: Chit chit chit chit oh wait, do we have to play now to use that song? In a more positive segment, I know we've rolled through some some negativity here, we don't want to be negative all the time but you know these are just some things that were pissing Brian off now because, Brian's been known to get pissed off. I always like to hear you know, what you guys watching, what you're reading, you know especially the holiday time of the year, there's a lot of great content out there. Netflix just seems to be piping everything out. Allison what you watching, what you reading? Alison: Well I'm still trying to work my way through Narcos, I have not had as much time for for Netflix recently, but I've been reading this really great book, I'm not sure if it's available on any of the freebies, unbarred or well book sure it's not free but it's practically free. I got off of Audible it's my Brandon Sanderson it's called "The way of Kings" it's part of the Stormlight archive series, it's an epic fantasy series, long long books, the first book I think is 45 hours long and I'm about 2/3 of the way through it, and it is absolutely amazing it's quite frankly taken over a lot of my life this holiday weekend. [Laughter] But it's amazing. Bryan: Well we're thankful that you were able to fit time in for the podcast. [Laughter] Alison: I did, I did have to interrupt my reading to.... [Laughter] Bryan: That 45 hours, that might take me 4 and 1/2 years to get through. Alison: Well I read at speed, I'm not gonna lie, I cranked it up to 3x and I can understand it just fine, so I'll get through it pretty quickly, but there's then two other main books, and then a little novella in the middle to read so. Bryan: That's a, that's a big.... Alison: It's gonna be ten books so... Bryan: Wow, wow, what about yourself Jeff, you been reading anything, watching anything? I know you've had some time alone there or are you just thinking in the dark? Jeff: I really got nothing, I guess I am thinking in the dark, family's been gone and I've been catching up on a bunch of other things that I hadn't been able to get back t,o and yeah, I got to get back to it so sorry you don't have anything to contribute. Bryan: That's okay Jeff. Jeff: Oh sorry. Bryan: I just finished down here with my parents you know I, they they were very nice and they watched, because their sighted with described video, the second season of Stranger Things, and the first season if you have not seen it as phenomenal I said to myself I don't know how they're gonna do a second season. It was really good so, it was very enjoyable, if you have not checked out Stranger Things on Netflix, you're definitely gonna want to check that out. I know we're gonna watch another series on Netflix that just came out I'm blanking on the name, the guy that was in Dumb and Dumber, not Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels is in it, it's a Western that just came out on Netflix. I'm hearing great things about it of course I'm, like I said, God, Godlessness, or Godless or something, it's a Great Western, and I've heard from other people it's very good and everything and, yeah I've still got the same four books. You know it's so funny I'm one of those people that loads up all the audio digital content to all the devices for the travel and then I end up listening to podcasts that I have on my phone. [Laughter] During the travels so, like I said this is a That Blind Tech Show, we're gonna wrap it up here. We are at Blind Tech Show on Twitter. thatblindtechshow @gmail.com if you want to email us in let us know what you think, let us know what you like. You can download our feed through the Blind Abilities podcast speed of your podcast player of choice, victor reader stream or download the Blind Abilities app. Allison what do you have coming up the next few weeks leading into what's that holiday Christmas? Alison: Just a quiet Christmas at home, gonna take maybe a couple of days off and just probably still be reading the Stormlight archive honestly, although I, although I may do a reread of Harry Potter, I lead such an exciting life. [Laughter] Bryan: Nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with that. What about yourself Jeff, family coming back or have they given up on you? Jeff: My folks for 17 years they've been going down the Texas but they stayed up this year for the holiday so I got to go to spend time with them Thanksgiving. We were all up there and so they're here so we're gonna have Christmas there and my daughter and grandkids will be coming up mid-December, we try and offset it each year and so yeah, a lot of lot of family holidays and I want to, I want to see the Grinch again this year. Bryan: So you want me to come visit? [Laughter] Yeah I'm not a big holiday person so Thanksgiving I guess is our big holiday and, we just wrapped that up down here and Thanksgiving, I'll be heading back to New York in the next few days and you know, it's funny I'm sitting here in shorts and it's 80 degree weather so it doesn't feel like November, and then I'll go back to the 30 degree weather and, yeah amazingly Nash is not even shedding that much here in Florida, you would think he would get rid of that winter coat, but he is panting like it's August. This is That Blind Tech Show, maybe we'll have one more before the year hopefully, you know, all of our schedules have been so crazy we haven't been on a regular schedule, we plan to hopefully eventually get on it, but for now we are out. When we share what we see through each other's eyes, we can then begin to bridge the gap between limited expectations and the reality of blind abilities. 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Bryan What is a good age to start a junior shooter? A lot of it probably has to do with maturity/responsibility. Start them with a pellet gun, BB gun, .22? Bryan My practice range is an indoor range, and can be rather loud at times; what is great practice drill to do that does not require a shot timer? Mark Hello Lucas. Thank you for your show. You've helped me get started in competitive shooting. As a middle-aged guy, my biggest challenge is my eye sight. I only use glasses for reading and computer work. I don't wear prescription glasses otherwise which includes shooting. This means the front sight is always fuzzy. I shoot fairly accurately, but I know this is holding me back. I've tried some of my own junk science by shooting with my reading glasses. This brings the front sight into focus, but it makes the target fuzzier than before. I've only done this on a limited basis since my reading glasses aren't safety glasses. My results have been mixed. What do other shooters do to overcome this? Chris Are there any benefits to shooting 40 Minor for production or Carry Optics? Edd When shooting competition, where/how do the different bullet weights come into play? 9mm/.40 Steve what movement drills do you practice most in dry fire? Mike I've been reviewing my match and practice videos and I've noticed something in common, I can get the gun on target fast, but then it looks like I just leave the gun hanging there forever or at least a good second before actually pulling the trigger all the way through, I assume that I'm letting the sights settle. I am using a revolver so every shot is double action and am currently trying to improve my accuracy so I don't just want to push myself to go faster and blaze my way through. Any drills you would suggest for improving accuracy while maintaining speed beyond 10 yards. Thanks Trey What do you use to keep up with your reloads a journal or software? Marty On a recent episode I heard you briefly mention your head position when doing turn and drawers. I am assuming you have your head turned to the Direction that your body will be moving when you have made ready. I hadn’t put much thought into it before, I usually just look straight forward and then turn my head and body on the beep. Do you have any evidence that having your head pre-turned makes a difference? Maybe A future junk science episode? Thanks! Marty in Massachusetts. Sarah I just wanted to let you know I enjoyed hearing you briefly talk about 'Stage Design' this week on the podcast. Anytime you could give pointers on this topic would be great. For instance, when you have limited room to move within a bay, how to you create options? Is there a place where you can find LOTS of stages already designed (I have found random websites with a few stages listed). Also, any information you can give on creating a stage plan before shooting would be helpful too. I know in the past you have mentioned this, but for new shooters like myself, I find it very difficult to walk up to the bay and figure out how to attack a large round count stage. What are the basics newbies like myself need to know? Thanks! Matthew How bad is the Glock 19 hurting me in USPSA? I know you are not big on gear but I have to ask if there are measurable advantages to having a larger gun? James Hi Lucas! Heard any rumors on what changes to Production are going to be discussed? Anything that has you particularly nervous??- thanks! Mike I have been shooting for about 5 years, but my have yet to shoot my first match. I have been doing a lot of the Stoeger dry fire drills and things seem to be going really well. I plan on shooting my first IDPA match in a month or so. My question is this: My offhand has a pretty significant tremor. When shooting offhand supported, everything is great, but when I shoot offhand only, unsupported, I won’t be able to hit the broadside of a barn; My hand shakes way too much. In fact, I’m concerned that under the pressure of being in a match my shots could go all over. Is there any kind of Accommodation that can be made for something like this? Could I just shoot with my strong hand and take a procedural or would that be totally devastating to my score? Take the MICs and move on? Thoughts?

Olivia’s dreams are coming true and she’s Mouthing Off with her QUEEN, Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay! Rachel is keeping it 100% and answering all questions about falling in love with Bryan, behind-the-scenes information about the guys on her season, and what really happened with her relationship with Peter. Does she wish we saw more depth in her relationship with Bryan? What did she really think of the live aspect of her finale? She’s gushing about how much she loves Bryan and, most importantly, when the wedding will take place!

In this the third part in a 3 part conversation with the amazingly funny Writer/Producer of award winning Netflix Origional "Fuller House"We talk about his Huffington Post articles, Loss of his father and Bryan answers 10 questions Think Fast!  What's my "confession to Bryan? What motivates his Huffington post writing? How does he feel about laugh tracks? Also, in this extra "King Of Queen" sized early to release entry, I give my unapologetic, unfiltered, blunt and honest feelings on the "Church" of Scientology in the opening 15 minutes.   What do I think of the ex Scientologists like Leah Remini, Mike Rinder and Amy Scobee? How do I feel about Scientology in general? Why should I OR You care?!  Find out the answers to all these questions in more in this 44th day of Come Get Sum!!  Look for it late tonight!! 12/14/2016 You can read Bryan's Huffing Post articles here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/bryan-behar Follow Bryan and his hilarious hashtag antics here on Twitter: @bryanbehar The Official A&E link for Leah Remini: Scientology AfterMath http://www.aetv.com/shows/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-aftermath