 Hey, hey, I'm here. Hold on. I am plugging in better audio Here we go Hello, hello Maybe I was supposed to do that like before I went live here we go. Is that better? Yeah, that's working. Okay Happy New Year. How is everyone? I don't know if anybody will be joining us because who the heck knows what's going on and where anybody is so I just thought I'd come on here to say hey and Yeah, basically avoiding work like I usually am so happy new year. Hi Let me know where you're joining me from Um And yeah, we're going to chat I have less to say so I don't know if you're like me but when my family goes on holiday It's like maddock and so when I get back I need like a holiday for my holiday And so like this is day. I don't know. I haven't been back for a couple days like Well, I got back and I was hosting some people. So that's also exhausting in a different way Always good, but tiring and so then really I didn't have anybody since sunday one day as a tuesday, so Yeah, I'm not there yet Ooh, Syracuse new york awesome. Happy for you guys to pop in any questions that you have Anything you want to talk about? Australia. Oh nice. It's only 11. Well, it's one o'clock here and I still have it I've done my meetings for the day, but I haven't like Narrowed in on work because I get my mind just gets so like So many things I want to do in their new year and I'm so excited to get started on those projects, but like I actually have to make money so There's that problem that we all have right so Yeah, so I got to do that, but it's good. I'm in the flow and I'm happy with it and I'm happy to not push push all the time But yeah, so What did I do over the holiday? We went and we stayed We went north in new zealand and we stayed at a beach like a batch like It was fine. Nothing fancy For like six nights and then we had Christmas there and we did all of that We did lots of surfing and I mean I'm not surfing my husband's surfing. I am boogie boarding like No, I didn't really do that either. Um, I just really went I just went to the beach So that's what happened and then tried to relax but not really, you know, because you're trying to make Christmas special, you know, because you're the mother and you have to make it special. So, um That's what's happening and then we went to a friend's lake house for the next couple days And they have all these fun toys down in rota rua lake terraria area If you've never done the lake terraria falls walk Um It's like so good. Um What else did we do there? So yeah, we did have you ever been e-foiling so E-foiling is like you're basically in your own motorized like How do I say? Uh kind of like a surfboard size And you just like glide on top of the water. It's amazing I'm not like amazing at it. I think I fell off like 32 times, but um, and I'm still recovering from the falling But I mean just falling in water, but it's still like, you know It's still falling people So yeah, so that's what we did. Uh lots of boating and you know, uh Biscuiting or tubing. That's what they call it here. Biscuiting. Hello. Happy new year Back to the matrix. Yes um, and Yeah, and then we came back and we well, we had some friends from the u.s fly in for New years and so we had new years there and it wasn't good weather but um Then we came back and we had to do all the wellington things boy like showing people around your city. That's tiring too Um, you know, and it's like, you know, we've done everything six times. So You regret not learning to surf like Elvis. Yeah, um, I Yeah, do I have a desire to surf? That's the question Not so much. So anyway, um Gosh, what else can I tell you tell me about your holiday if you did one? Um, you know, the world is different like in the states. You don't get as many days off right now It's not the same. It's not the end of the school year. It's just different but um I have one daughter that's in europe traveling around in one son who's in In wisconsin. So we were kind of split for christmas. So you know, that was different, but it was okay technology is amazing I am not going to complain. I'm going to be happy with it. So um So, yeah, I was happy with it. We got we talked a lot but um Surfer holiday jelly. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just like uh, and I didn't even do it Uh, so anyway, uh excited for a new year. Um, I don't really like to make New year's resolutions, although I think goals are good and writing things down are good You know, let me just be honest with you. Okay. This is a true story So this just happened over the holiday. So like I am like anti Writing things down when people tell me that they journal. I don't understand it I've tried to journal. I said they're like, what do I say? And so I my friend let me read some of her journal, you know, like she picked a page and Like hers are like written out prayers And I was like, oh, this is actually like really good. Like I never really You know, I've tried it. I haven't been successful. So I tried it this weekend And I'm just I should read it to you. I should find it. I don't know where I put it Shoot, I should read it to you. It's funny because I'm like, I don't know what to write in here Why am I hesitant to write anything in here? And then I like broke it down and I was like, okay So why am I hesitant? Well, number one, I think someone's gonna find what I wrote Like I don't really feel like it's private. Um, so number two, like I feel like Um It feels weird to write down your feelings. Um, I don't know And I wrote down these things and then I was like, okay I'm gonna write in this as if it's gonna be burned up immediately. Is my journal burned up? No So I feel like I've just started to relax a little bit about it. So I just started writing I just read it anything I was thinking and feeling or whatever and let me tell you Like I am not one of these. I can't tell you I'm like totally like a person that would be like again something like that um And I was wrong I Can't believe how much better I felt Putting it from here to somewhere else I was like, oh my gosh Like I've been like struggling with all these things in my head and then I just put it on paper And I just immediately felt better. Have you guys experienced this? Am I the only one? I was like, oh my gosh, you know, and I should I I'm stubborn I'm stubborn. I learned lessons hard sometimes Like one year. This is a couple of years ago. This is totally true and I should find that no quick for you See, I'm completely unprepared for this um I wrote down somebody I was listening to something and there's just like over and over like I know you don't want to I want you to write down all of your Craziest goals life dreams whatever like I mean, I'm saying like Anything is possible like stop putting all your limitations on it. Like just write it down And I can't remember who it was. I kept saying I kept saying and it was like in a pocket I was like, you know what fine. I'm gonna write it down. So I wrote down on a piece of paper All these ridiculous goals. I think this was like 2019 2019 yeah, I think it was 2019. I read that piece of paper in 2021 and every single one of those things became true Never looked at again never thought about it again. And I was like, oh Maybe I am missing something you think I would learn that it's good to write it down because now I am like actually doing it Like I'm subconsciously doing I'm taking like up and I've written it down I didn't even write it on this calendar. I didn't make a plan I nothing I wrote it down and I went through and nine out of ten of those items I accomplished There's got to be something to that that was weird and it was all weird stuff I could not believe it. I flipped out when I read it. I totally forgot. I wrote it down anyway, um So yeah, this year. I think it's going to be different the youtube channel is going to be different As you know, I haven't been posting a lot of video mainly because I do really like doing it. Um Mainly because like Yeah, like I'm just not like the amount of money it cost me to edit it and the amount of money coming in is about equal So it doesn't you know, it's not great for me that way. And so I think that's why I'm going to do some more, um live videos because I don't know. I should probably be more organized about it. I don't know So I've been thinking a lot about it and I'm not going to do any more of the I'm not going to just post every week because the algorithm or youtube Wants me to like I'm not going to I'm not going to post unless I have something I want to say I'm not going to post um about just the same thing. I always have because the algorithm wants me to I'm going to post what I want to post when I'm thinking about um And I'm going to be more thoughtful and giving myself time to be creative to be thoughtful to do To educate to think through to ponder, you know, all of these things and so that's what I've been doing Over the last week or so it has been a really good like oh my gosh. So I've started to write more. I'm not a writer I say that I'm not a right. So here's the thing. I'm a professor by trade I don't have my phd. The reason why I never got my phd was because I didn't Want to write And then I was like, I hate writing like I don't want to write. I just want to teach I just want to know I want I like the practical side of everything. I don't like Doing research. I just didn't like it. Although I have published some research last year and it's great If you want me to send it to you Um, hold on. I just Yes, things just go round and round in your head until you like you're like I have thank you Like that's a really well said better than me um And that's good. So yeah, so anyway, I'm not going to be posting videos every week I'm sorry if you count on that, but you know It's free and I yeah I don't I'm not looking for tons of subscribers. I'm not looking to All of this like I'm not I'm not trying to do that. I'm actually just trying to provide Content or information or education that I think is valuable And I think that that's why my channel was all of my social media has done really well Was because when I talked about things I was passionate about things that I knew about things that were of interest And so now when it becomes more of like a business and you try to structure and process it It kind of loses your ability to be creative and your ability to come up with new ideas. And so Um, hello. Hello. Welcome Uh Yeah, so that's what I'm thinking So I have some new so I've been writing more. So anyway, my point about the writing. Oh my gosh. Am I all over the place? She's Okay, so my thoughts about the writing is that I realize that I don't like academic writing And that because I started, you know, like if you guys get my emails if you're not on my email list Um, just kiwi americans.com and just join the first page Just join the email list because I don't I don't send it out every week again. It's I'm not I'm not this crazy person. I am just you know, it's often it's it's relatively once a week. Um But like they're fun like I'm like writing and I'm telling stories and I'm sharing personal thoughts and And that kind of writing I can do I love it um And I love that sort of thing. I'm also I'm writing um courses for the universities here business courses marketing courses admin courses, um So I'm really getting good at writing courses. So I think I'm going to start writing courses Like why am I writing courses for other people to sell? Okay? um because I understand I under I'm a teacher, right and I'm um and I love that sort of thing So don't know what I'm going to do a class on But let me know what you want me to do a class on because I love teaching I love but I love the face-to-face too. So I envision any sort of course to be You know, you can watch in your own time But also face-to-face because there's something to that in fact, that's where my research is on how to improve online teaching um, that's synchronous and asynchronous and so um, yeah, there's actual ways of doing it like Being a teacher and lecturing to a group of students does not translate to online And so it has to be done differently. And so me and my research partner have come up with an actual um What do they call that like formula really to To communicate better online as a course like we should really be selling us the teachers. He is He has been a bit But I haven't been as much involved in that so Um Oh, you did. Okay. So I was up by the core mandal too. I was in Why he why I had core mandal booked and then I got canceled on me. So that was all I could get happy new year Thanks for joining. Um, so yeah, we're just talking about all things life. Um Yes, why yeah, yeah spelled like that Thanks So, um, yeah, so that's what's fun. So I've been writing. I've been writing lots of interesting things That I think I'll probably turn into youtube videos because I think you'll like them and so that's more more general Not about it's about moving. It's about less. It's it's all stems from all of my experience and what I've learned Hmm That's where you went as a childhood. I love that beach. I would totally do that again So yeah, so I think let me know if you like the videos, you know If you don't that's what I need is the feedback. Um Yeah So I was writing So I've been trying to write like an hour or two a day and just like really just kind of pondering and doing research And this is what I love the learning and then the sharing the learning and the growing and the sharing And there's a lot that I can I've learned and grown a lot over three years. So there's a lot I can share Um There's a lot like I keep writing out questions or ideas on my phone on the little notebook Because I'm like, what about this idea and this and I'm just kind of letting my brain go wherever and then organizing it for you um That I think would be good and putting it on social media and Probably creating videos. So I think that should be interesting. Um, I would like I said, I would like to create courses Let me know if there's any courses you'd like to do obviously I've been I've been consulting helping people move to new zealand for three years now So I've talked to hundreds of people and so I know all of the questions And so that's actually what I answer in my membership. So if you are thinking about moving to new zealand get into my membership Um, I don't know how long I'm going to have that So get into that and if I do turn it into a course, it will be a lot more expensive. So Um, get into the membership if you are coming to new zealand It's everything. It's all your questions answered literally and you have access to me So if something doesn't answer your question, I'm right there And you get to meet other people that are moving here. So really that's where people that are like moving um Even if you're thinking about moving it's for you because it answers all of those initial questions as well But really it's interesting because when I consult with people We're very much at the consideration stage. It's that's the real hurdle is to think can I really do this? And is it going to be okay with my kids to move overseas? Am I going to ruin my teenagers? And what how does this affect my relationships with my family and the beauty? So this is what we talk about a lot. Um, and so I've articulated that on the membership But also could maybe just come up with something that just talks about that consideration stage So I've come out with a move a broad boot camp coming up in february And that's where we're going to kind of tackle that where it isn't just me Answering questions that you may or may not have but it'll just be like let's get together every day 30 minutes and let's just tackle these questions as a group. So Thank you, I'm not giving up on videos But yeah, I'm just not sure what I'm going to talk about. I I think I keep thinking I'm going to run out of Things to talk about in regards to new zealand, but I don't seem to be so I'll still be talking about new zealand In addition to whatever is in my curiosity at the moment. I'm going to be talking a lot about what I've learned on growth Really like what I think about a lot of things So Okay So that's what I'm doing If you still want by the way, if you still want I have some of the cookbooks left If you want the american cookbook using new zealand australian ingredients, I can ship it anywhere in the world. Let me know $25 includes the shipping Even if it's somewhere else so Yeah, so also would be helpful if you wanted to share and please be honest like I'm you're not going to hurt my feelings Look, what is it that you like about the videos? Like what videos do you like and when I look at my analytics and I look at what videos do the best It's obviously the ones that are the most controversial like don't move to new zealand or Don't come to new zealand without knowing this not things like that like those are you know, I'm getting people to click on the video but like Really it's the videos where I talk about What I've learned how I've changed it really kind of personal growth And that's interesting to me that those are the ones that people are really relating to and those are probably more like Personal growth would be an area. I'd like to talk about more And I think that that is a huge part of moving abroad is how much you can grow if you move abroad So I think that we'll be talking about that So I think that Moving like you don't you don't have to move abroad in order to grow as a person Obviously, I'm not saying that but what I am saying is that there's huge benefits to your growth personal growth if you do Huge personal growth family growth Um, and I've done it three times over Okay, um, and it has this very true and it's been really good for my kids Really good for my kids so far, you know, we'll see, you know, I don't I can't I don't I have so much time but I have been here for eight years but it's been really a kind of a 10 year period and Um, actually feeling like my younger two are not benefiting as much My older two had to go through a lot of change They moved here and then they moved home and then they moved back here even as teenagers and middle schoolers and that was Hard at the time definitely hard Um, but now that they're adults how quickly they adjust How they know themselves how they adapt in the situation Is all because of that Because at the end of the day, we're not growing by staying the same. We're not growing by avoiding change. We're not growing Um by doing the same thing over and over we only grow when we change when we do hard things when Um, yeah, and like we want ourselves to grow. We want our children to grow You know, otherwise, what are we doing? We're not that happy If you're honest with yourselves You love the chance with christie. Oh my gosh, we have to get christie on I have been asking her Um, I really wanted to make one before the end of last year. I don't know what happened Like I just can't see him to nail her down. But yes chance with christie like she is so Like I can't predict what she's gonna do. I wish you guys could see like should we um What do we do? Maybe I'll do like I could do a video We do marco polo. Are you familiar with that? It's like a video platform where you video back and forth And then you watch it in your own time. So it's just easier and typing number one You could you can hear the most emotion. You can hear the tone You can hear all of that and that um Yeah, so we pretty much talk every day on there And she's so funny like it's just the way that she starts out like every polo like I could probably take them If they let me download them. I don't even know um The way she starts out on every single one and we we laugh on there. We cry on there. We you know, we're just it's just raw really Um Yeah, your videos are great. Yeah. And so that's kiwi clan. Thanks. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking that you know I'm a creator. So like whatever, you know If you if you like me talking about one subject, you'd like me talking about another one, right? And you can't continue to just do one thing for the rest of your life. You have to grow and change So um, that's kind of what I'm thinking. Um But yeah, so I'm excited for this year. Um, I'm not going to get crazy about I have to update everything and change all the looks and like I'm not going to do that Like I just think things need to change. In fact, I've watched some really big youtubers come out with the same Feedback that I've been feeling who like I'm not posting every week. I'm not I'm like, oh my gosh. That's exactly what I'm thinking And it's just like we can't like youtube doesn't have anything if they don't have creators. So I'm just I'm not going to just do it every week because you want me to because my videos aren't as good Because I'm not I'm not putting enough time into the creative because I have kids And I have an actual job because this doesn't make me full-time income by a long shot Um, but I love it like being a kind being a creator is probably my favorite thing to do So I every year I'm like, what do I actually like doing am I doing what I actually like to do My problem is most day is actually going to do the work that I don't want to do that work. I want to do the other work that um, just Gives me life and gives me and it's not that I don't like it. It's fine But there's just a really big difference in something that you're passionate about that that is innately you just You're curious your loves your you know, whatever and so anyway I I continue to do youtube and talk about new zealand because I get emails weekly Often about oh my gosh. Just so helped me And that's what it's there for Because I wish I had somebody like that. So if you are coming to new zealand definitely get into my membership You're gonna want that it's not it's like what 30 some dollars a month And um, you get everything you get everything that I know And all the resources even if you just come in for that Um, knowing what to do so Yeah, so yeah, that's what I'm gonna be doing get the cookbook if you want it. Um Oh, maybe the link isn't down there if you just go to my instagram the link is out there Um, but yeah, I think you're gonna like get on my email list if you're not because emails are gonna start getting good Start going to get deep. I share lots of stories I get lots of replies to my email saying these are so These are not like normal boring emails that you get where I'm trying to sell it I'm not trying to sell you anything. I mean sometimes I put on their products that I sell because I actually think it's helpful I don't create anything that I don't think is good and that I don't think is helpful Um, and nothing I have is expensive, you know um But yeah I should be better at that, but I'm not That I get so many consulting calls. I need to limit they eliminate those a little bit, but um I love talking with people it's great. It's easy. It's um, it brings me joy. So I keep doing it Look at this hairdo. Is your hair long enough to tie up in a bun? That's the question mine is so there you go You like the reaction video see that's interesting I started doing those not because I like doing reaction videos, but because I am good at reacting And you know what annoys me people that are good at reacting and that's a lot of members of my family I'm just going to call them out. This is the truth I when something happens to somebody they win something they succeed at something they they hit a goal I am the most enthusiastic. I like oh my gosh because Why wouldn't you be like somebody just and like so many people just like oh great That's not me That's not me. I react. I'm a reactor and so then I thought oh, I should do reaction videos. I'm a reactor So yeah, I'll do more of those. Can you send me videos? I should react to because that's why I'm like What should I react to? Somebody sent me recently you should react to what's his name that guy that's basically copies my videos He's really good. I am not criticizing him Because you should copy if there's a something that works That's the way youtube works. You should copy the concept I mean, he's not copying what i'm saying but the concept of the video The topic I should say of the video. What is his name curls curls? That's it He's from england or the uk. I don't even know and He responds to new zealand does kind of does the same thing as me and he's doing really well As he should because it's really funny Really funny and some really good takes on new zealand, which I think are great. So shout out to him on that but Somebody said I should react to I think that's a funny idea because I haven't actually watched that much of his so It would be I don't like to do reaction videos unless it's Legitimate like I literally have not watched it before I've done it like I'm not going to pretend Uh, I am a good actress But I'm not going to do that. So anyway, can you guys do this with your hair? It's pretty good, right? It's long enough I haven't um, I took a shower this morning and And that's what we do I did my meetings today. So we're good. Happy new year. Hello. Um, so yeah Let me know any questions that you have. All right, I'm probably gonna go and actually get to work But it's been great catching up and sorry. I have not been making videos. I don't think I made I think I made one video in december Um, and that was like the youtube one which said, you know, I knew that wouldn't gonna do well But there's so many people that I thought that that would be helpful for so if you're interested in starting youtube check that one out because um Yeah, it's some good insider tips Um for somebody that has been doing it for a while So I love youtube. It's the best one. That's why if you notice I'm doing lots of videos on youtube more than my other channels Although my instagram has taken off What am I at now? Which another reason I say this like I said, I don't really care about followers, but like it's just so much more like I 16 000 I was at five. So um So yeah, that's interesting It's interesting. I'm going to be putting out some new content. I'm interested to see how it goes So please be honest. Give me your feedback. I love it. It's really helpful If you are considering a move do my boot camp in february The link is in the description and sign up for the membership. You're gonna need this it has everything that you need Uh, and it's not expensive. Maybe that's probably my problem Um, but people that go in and are actually going through most of the videos So that's good. And then I chat with them and help them out with anything that is missing. So That's great. Um, not that different than australia if you're thinking about moving to australia and I've teamed up with a couple organizations That I'll tell you about once those situations are in detail Um, that will be really great for anybody that's moving here. So just trying to I have my limitations and so I am trying to fill in it all the gaps So that anybody that is moving here can kind of come Here to me and we will get you sorted and everything will be covered from pieces from to jobs to You know, uh Relocation deals that sort of thing. So lots of good things coming So anyway, you guys have a great day and thank you for joining me live