 And welcome to the live stream. Hi, Margaret. It's great to see you here. And yeah, it definitely, I suppose I should put the message up one second. That one's mine. There we go. Yeah, it's great to see you here. And yeah, it definitely counts that. Oh, hang on a minute. I've just been setting up my new Mac mini. And what I realize is I've actually got a transparent background. So I'm just going to have to quickly change this. Preparation is everything, isn't it? And I'm obviously not that prepared. There we go. That's better. I can actually see what you said now. No point in having transparent text is that it's great to see you here, Margaret. And yeah, it definitely counts that you're doing it live to your Facebook page instead of the group. I'll tell you a little story about that because I announced last week that I was going to be doing leader. But it turns out I've got completely the wrong end of the stick. So I'll tell you about that in a minute, though. Hi, Mike. It's great to see you here as well. So since you've not been on one of my live streams before, I don't know if you caught the replay, but I'm doing a little thing which is a sort of target I set myself really, which was doing 100 videos in 100 days on YouTube. So I started, in fact, let me bring up my little stats. So today is day 85, and so far I've done 87 videos from 0 to 246 lovely viewers and subscribers, 1.1k hours, 1,100 hours of watch time, and 11,500 views. So part of the process of me doing this is really just to see what happens if you post consistently over a period of time and how easy it is to sort of grow a YouTube channel organically, basically. So I haven't sort of invited people to come and subscribe and things like that. It's just to see how things go, basically, as I say, just growing it organically. Now, when I started out, and by the way, it's not a video every day, necessarily, it's just I set myself the target of in 100 days, I want to get 100 videos done. So oh, thanks, Margaret. So that was the sort of the point of it. And when I started, I actually got a few ahead. So I was probably about a week and a half ahead, something like that, in the after the first few weeks. And it's been quite lucky really, because I've had a couple of slow weeks. Last week was a slow week, because what did I do then? Oh, I was on the Ecamm Live family dinner on the Monday. And I go to bed at about eight o'clock in the evening, and I get up at three o'clock every morning, because it's currently 4.30 a.m. here where I am, which is in the northeast of Thailand. And so I do all of my YouTube stuff between four and six a.m., when the house is peaceful and quiet, when everybody else is asleep. So that's my sort of approach to it all. So I get up at three o'clock, but because I had to do this, I had to do, I was honored to be invited to join the Ecamm Live family dinner of the previous, the Monday before last. And so I had to stay up until 10 o'clock. And that is way past my bedtime. And it threw my whole schedule out for the week, for my sleeping schedule, and then also busy with work. So I didn't get many videos done last week. I only did my first one. I did one on Thursday and a couple on Friday. And then it was the same this week, because once again, I was honored to be on Doc Rock's show last, it was my Sunday morning, last Sunday. And that meant that I had to get up three hours early. I had to get up at midnight. I wasn't going to stay up for it, because it was basically one o'clock in the morning, my time that the show was. So I got up three hours early, and I did the Doc Rock thing, which was about an hour and a half. And then on Saturday, Sunday morning, my time, we have Doc Rock's office hours session, which is, if you're not part of it, go to buymeacoffee.com slash docrock and sign up for his weekly office hours. It's absolutely amazing to be part of that group. And we talked for like three hours, basically. So that was my Sunday morning. And then with getting up so early, my sleep schedule was off a little bit this week. So yes, I was a bit lax on putting the videos out until Thursday, so put about four out or something like that. Yeah, I am up early, but it's all sort of relative, really. You know, I'm up early, but I'm also going to bed early. So it's not like I'm surviving on a couple of hours of sleep or something. I'm still getting a good sort of seven or eight hours in there, going to bed at eight o'clock. So yeah, I'm not lacking sleep. I've just shifted my schedule to get that bit of time in the morning, which it always used to be my sort of learning time, really, when I sit and do my meditation and journaling and stuff like that. But then I'd have a couple of hours block where I could actually just focus and get stuff done before the madness starts in the house. Because I've got three young kids who are two, five and nine. So yes, it's always better to get the peace and quiet done in the morning. That's so right, Marga. Yes, it's the peace and quiet that makes that possible. So anyway, that was last week. And then the other thing that's happened this week, which has caused me to be a little bit slow on my video production, is that I recently upgraded to a Mac mini. I've been holding out for the 16 inch MacBook Pro on the M series chips. But obviously that hasn't come. And I'm not sure when it's going to come. And I thought I can't hold out any longer. So I've got myself a Mac mini. And it's made a big difference because my old laptop was really quite old. And it was having an impact on not so much the videos, I always find that e-cams pretty good with sort of managing process of power and things like that. So surprised that I could run e-cam live so well to produce videos with the hardware that I'd got. But when it comes to live streaming, the past few streams I've done, I've had guests on. And if I have more than one on, then I noticed that the third guest becomes or the second guest rather the third person on the stream becomes very laggy. And then as soon as the second one drops out, then the lag disappears. So it was all sort of my hardware issue. So yeah, I love it too. And it's so quiet. I used to have to have audio hijack blocking out the sound of a helicopter taking off off my desk. So now that I've changed to the mini, it's just my my aircon that it's blocking out rather than the Mac. So that's that's good. Because although you can block it out in audio hijack so that it doesn't go out on the stream, you always hear in the monitors coming back from so I've got the short MV seven. And in the in ear monitors, I could still always hear all of that fan noise. And it was quite quite a lot of noise going on. So so yeah, that was last week. And then the other thing this week rather and then the other thing was obviously leader. And I'll come on to that in a little moment. I just want to mention a couple of other things. First of all, so I was on Doc show last week. And this week coming up, I'm also going to be on James Hicks show. So that is tomorrow. Actually, is it tomorrow? It's Monday. It's tomorrow US time. So it's Saturday US time, Sunday US time. And it's Monday morning, my time, I always get confused with these time zones. So that's going to be fun. I really like James Hicks show. He's got a good in ear monitors are the they are the KZ. I'll tell you in a minute, I always forget this. It's a really easy to remember name a series of numbers the KZ 10 KZ CS 10 pro. That's the ones. So yeah, they're really good really. I've been pretty pretty pleased with them. I think they're better quality than things like AirPods and I obviously didn't want to go down the AirPods route because you need wide monitors, but I wasn't sure how good these were going to be because they're not necessarily the most expensive. They're not your sure in ear monitors, which I did consider. But then I saw these ones and they were about a third or a quarter of the price. I thought I might as well give them a go and be really happy with them. And I'm only doing this. They're perfectly okay for what I'm doing. So so yeah, I'll be on James Hicks show on Monday. So really looking forward to that. One of the things by the way that came out of me being on Doc Rock show, I've always called myself in my little bios on YouTube and everything else. I referred to myself as a recovering perfectionist because part of the whole process to get over my get over myself really and just get stuff out and be happy with being unhappy about it. If that makes sense. So I'm really sort of detail orientated and in all of my career work roles, things like that, I always see perfection as something that is a requirement, which probably isn't a great approach. But I carry that over into other things that I do in my personal life and things like that. So this YouTube channel is just basically me getting things out and being content with the fact that it's not perfect. And that includes my obviously my delivery, my onscreen presence. But also, you know, things like my website and all of my thumbnails. I hate my thumbnails to be honest with you, but I'm happy with that now. So I'm cool with that. And all of the subject that we were talking about on Doc show was actually all about that about perfectionism and how it can be a barrier to creativity. So I've decided to fully embrace that title, which I gave myself. And so I've made myself a little logo. There you go. That is my recovering perfectionist. So look out for t shirts and hats coming soon because I found that there were a lot of people who actually related. And it was quite it was quite reassuring to know that I wasn't alone. And it was also nice to think that perhaps through what I'm doing, I might be able to help some other people with their with their perfectionism and their perfectionist tendencies. So that was just something I did. So I obviously wasn't that busy this week because I found time to make a silly little logo. But I'm going to carry that forward. I was used to put on my my little lower third professional geek because I do that many different things. And I don't really know exactly how to refer to myself in these videos because I'm just talking about the sort of things that I love really. So but for my lower third, it was used to say professional professional geek. But I'm thinking of changing that over to just basically saying recovering perfectionists. So anyway, so that is that. Now what else was that I wanted to mention? Oh, by the way, I should just mention my old MacBook. I did. It's been sitting on. The reason why I was waiting for my 16 inch MacBook is because obviously we all need to be portable and having a laptop to carry around and things like that. But the fact of the matter is, this MacBook that I was using before the mic mini has been sitting on my desk propped up on its little stand for well over a year now without having ever moved because of obviously obvious reasons have not been traveling at all. So it turns out I obviously don't quite need a a mobile device after all for the moment. But one thing was, when I came to sort of move everything around to get my Mac minion, I noticed that the whole back of the MacBook was bulging out. And in fact, it was when I came to shut the lid of the keyboard, it wouldn't shut down. So I took the back off and look at the battery. Now, those are supposed to be perfectly flat, but they're like, well, they've inflated like I don't know what balloons, donuts, whatever. So I'm pretty glad that I changed my Mac when I did because these might well have exploded at some point. So I'm going to order a new battery and replace that anyway. But that's just an aside. Check your batteries guys and girls. So yeah, what I'm going to move on to now is basically lead it. And if anybody fancies joining in, then you can go to take one tech dot live slash join and yeah, jump on and let's have a conversation about it. And by the way, that's another thing this week. I don't know if you saw Doc's interview where he was viewing interviewing Arnav completely forgotten his name. I should have written it down, but they were talking about the importance of having I will do the new logo. You see, I've got it in fact. Now look at this. This is terrible. I've added it to my lower third and I've just realized that it is a few pixels too low. Now if that is not a sign, there we go. Those are the sorts of things that I have to live with. There we go. It's equally spaced now. I'm obviously still on the road to recovery with my perfectionism. I know the battery though. I know it was pretty, pretty scary. I mean, I haven't changed the battery for, well, I don't think I've actually ever changed that battery in thinking about it. I used to, I've changed it on some of my other MacBooks, but yeah, massive and it's, I just didn't notice it at all because it was just sitting there. But yeah, the other thing that I've done this week is register my dot live domain. So normally my website is take one tech dot IO, which is what I registered when I set up the channel. But then Doc was talking about the importance of having a dot live domain. So I've been and registered that. So if anybody wants to jump on the live stream, there's not many people watching. So don't worry, it would just be a chat with me really. Then it's take one tech dot live slash join. And so that's to join the the live stream. Now, so last week, this time last week, leader, I said that, you know, I was talking, I do what I've just done basically a little rundown of how I've done with my previous week in terms of my 100 videos, 100 days, little arbitrary challenge that I set myself. And then I also talk about what I'm doing for the following week. And so I mentioned that I was going to be doing leader. And I kind of just said, I'm not sure where I'm going to stream, perhaps I'll stream to my something else. And then it was Michael Powell said, well, it's you normally for leader, you stream to the group and I thought group, what group are we talking about here? I didn't even know there was a group. And then Paul Duncan said, check your email and for what email? I didn't know there was a sign up process. And yeah, I had no idea. Oh, hey, Mitzi nice to see you. Oh, I've got this all too big, haven't I? There we go. Let me just make that a little bit smaller. You've registered your dot live to to get a slug in word form. All right. So I don't know where you registered yours. I registered mine in hover. That's why I registered all of my domains at hover.com. But in there, you'll be able to go to a thing that says domain forwarding. And so my dot live, you can forward either the the root domain. So at the moment, I've got take one tech dot live, just go straight through to my YouTube channel. And then take one tech dot live slash join is obviously the the join link. So yeah, it depends on who your domain registrar is basically. But in there, there'll be a thing that's that's called forwarding. But drop me a message about it. And let me know what registrar you're in. And I'll help you figure it out. No problem. So yeah, so I'd announced that I was going to be doing leader thinking that it was just basically I thought what I thought it was is basically the live streaming community just all sort of got together and said, well, let's in April and August, let's all just stream every day for the for the month. And it's just a way to great nitty no problem. I thought it was just a way to basically get into the habit of live streaming. And so I normally just do one live stream a week. So I thought, well, that'll be good. It'll be good practice for me. But I had no idea there was actually organization around it. And I didn't realize it was actually organized by live streaming pros as well. So I've known Luria, not personally, but I've known of her for it's got to be 15, 16 years ago now. So she used to do tech reviews and things like that under the name of Callie Lewis when she first started out. So there was that and then she did geek beat or geek brief, I forget the name now is that long ago, but it was all kind of like tech review shows and things like that. So I used to follow her, you know, regularly when she was doing that. And then for one reason and another just sort of got out of the habit of watching various different shows and things like that. And so never really caught up with live streaming pros. And then when I started doing this channel and sort of in the preparation for this, I was watching people like Doc Rock and Tom Buck and people like that. And for some reason, although I watched a couple of the live streaming pros, I never sort of got into watching that one, you know, regularly and being a part of that community for one reason and another. I think I have sort of veered towards the slightly more, you know, tech heavy side of Doc, whereas Laurier always seemed more to be about the process of going live, I suppose. So that's why I tended to veer towards more towards Doc Rock and people like that. So yeah, I had no idea that it was actually a thing organized by them. And so here's me thinking that I was just going to be going and doing a live stream every day for, you know, 10, 15 minutes in my my little Facebook page. And then I actually signed up and realized there was a lot more to it. And that is good. And it's bad in some ways. It's all good in terms of leader, but it's bad in terms of I totally wasn't prepared for the amount of time that was going to be required for it. So for those who don't know, so leader is live every day in August or live every day in April. And I happen to know that people watching in it or have been part of it. So that's great. But yeah, basically, you get sort of a little challenge every day. And I'm not going to go into exactly what they are. But it's something where you have to make a video, because the rules are what happens in leader stays in leader. So I'm certainly not going to get a step on anybody's toes and say anything out of place there. But you basically get a little challenge where you have to talk about some particular topic you given the topic. And then you have to basically go live and talk about it. But the big part of it and the big value is that you're in a closed Facebook group first of all. So it is private and you're among other people that are doing similar things. I'm glad I'm not the only one that hadn't appreciated what a commitment it was going to be. So you're in a group of a really supportive community of people who are basically trying to improve themselves, which is great. It's like docs community and other communities like that. It's all about, you know, we're all helping each other and want each other to progress and sort of rooting for each other. So you do a video and people come and join your live stream. So it's getting people used to the idea of live streaming and interacting with people on the chat as well, which I tried to do also the first time I actually didn't realize how to actually activate the chat. So I didn't notice that the people were there until afterwards. But then it's also the real value is going and participating in other people's live streams so that you can watch them, you can give them feedback. And the questions that are being asked in it are really, some of them are really light hearted, but some of them are really quite sort of deep and I would say soul searching. And we're only on day, I think yesterday or yesterday was day six. So for me, it's tomorrow for me now. So most people I realize are on a Friday night. And it's a Saturday morning for me here. So yeah, the first first one couple were quite easy. The second couple were a bit more searching. And then the last one was a nice, nice one to do as well. But it's all about yet interacting with those other people. Now, I don't know how many people are actually doing it. Sammy Superstar, I've got a call out as being a true superstar, true to his name, because he's on everybody's videos and he's taking the time to watch all of them. I think on the first day he said he'd watch 250 or something like that. So yeah, it was, it's really quite impressive that is because I had just not budgeted the time for it. And it makes me feel actually really guilty because, you know, I go and do my video and then I have a certain amount of time to, you know, go and watch other people's but being a bit busy with work. So I've already mentioned that I get up at three o'clock and then my sort of four till six is my my YouTube time. And then my little boys and girls get up at six o'clock ish, something like that. So I have a few hours with them. And then I'm sort of working for the rest of the day. So I don't really have a huge amount of available time for it. And that's why I didn't make too many videos at the beginning of the week this week, because I was busy trying to catch up with these leader videos. I know it is literally hours and hours if you watch them all. So I've got to try and do some catching up with it this weekend, because it's got to be a sort of two way commitment really, you know, not just, I don't want to just go in there and just post my lives. And then, you know, not watch everyone else's. So I'm doing my best to try and catch up, but I still haven't caught up with any of yesterday's or maybe I caught one of yesterday. So I'm sort of trying to work my way forward and catch up from day one. But the thing about it is that it is actually really well structured. Now, I believe that the actual application process to join or, you know, to actually join the group is now closed. I think Laurier said that yesterday, that yesterday was the last day. Or maybe it might be, it might be time if you're in the US, but in my time zone, I think the entries have actually closed. But it's definitely something that never mind what our late to class Paul, no problem. I was talking about you earlier, actually, Paul, but I won't tell you what I said because it was, it was terrible. No, I was just saying that I was, I'd had no idea what leader was until you and Michael last week mentioned about needing to sign up or there being a Facebook group and I got no idea what was involved in their in leader. I didn't realize there was any organization or structure to it. So, so yeah, but if anybody hasn't done it, I can highly recommend it. And to be honest with you, not just if you're a live streamer, it is a really, it's just a really, really good thing in terms of having a better perspective on yourself. And yeah, I don't know how to describe it without going into exactly what it is and everything like that. But it's certainly something that I can see is going to help me going forward just in my opinions of things in general, my attitudes towards different things towards myself towards other people. And you get to really learn a lot more about the people in the community as well in a really, really positive and good way. And it's been great to hear more about people and see people in, well, see people talking who we often just see in the chat or maybe in Doc's group or things like that, getting to know people a bit better than we normally do. I love all of the banter and the things like that and the things that we talk about in office hours and stuff like that. But yeah, it's just been really nice to get to know people a little bit better. And I've certainly from listening to other people's sort of viewpoints and opinions and their life goals and philosophies and things like that is all absolutely great stuff. By the way, Paul, I don't know if you've noticed I've got a new logo. So I'm going to be making t-shirts. This is my recovering perfectionist brand. So I'm going to be rolling that out. Look out for me wearing a hat. I don't normally wear hats actually, but I'll perhaps get a polo shirt with my little logo on it instead. So I was hoping that there might be somebody who was willing to tell me how they have found it after Vlogmas. Well, that's another one. Now I need to know about that because that's another one where I thought it was just vlogging every day. So is that what that is or is there a little bit more to that? Is there going to be... I need to know what I'm getting into basically before I commit to it because I want to be able to commit to things fully and make sure that I'm being as supportive to other people as people are being to me. So yeah, Vlogmas. That's another one I'd heard about. So I only started even thinking about creating a YouTube channel around the... Was it the beginning of May or middle of April? Something like that. I know my first video was around the beginning of... Yeah, my first livestream, I think, was however many days ago, are we? Let me see. 85 days ago, whenever that was, about the 15th of May, something like that I think. So yeah, I just missed out on Leader anyway and then, yes, I wasn't around for Vlogmas. It's what you've been doing, no strings. Oh, that's good. As long as that's what it is, then I'm happy to do that. And I'll have to think before I sign up for the next Leader. I've got to make sure I've got some time blocked. I don't know how many hours a day that I need to make sure that I've got blocked out for it, but I'm guessing it's at least sort of three or four and a good time for tech. It is a good time for tech, isn't it? Yes. So I don't actually do a lot of, you know, check out my affiliate link things. Most of my stuff's about software, but yeah, I guess it's the gift-buying season, isn't it? So yeah, but... So in terms of next time for Leader, yeah, I'm going to be really interested to see what, you know, how it progresses over, as I say, we're only in day six, so we still got quite a lot of time to go yet. So, Margot, you mentioned you'd done it before, but really interested to know how it's changed your approach to things. Don't necessarily need to come on, but just drop in the comments how you found it. How many have you done before? It'd be really, really interested to hear that, because it does seem like one of those things that I can already see even so soon in how it's going to... Oh, you can only use your phone. Well, that's quite good. It's been quite refreshing, actually, because the first... I'm definitely not camera-ed it. Well, if you click the link, then you can just go to takeonetech.live.join. And by the way, that I'm going to make a video all about how to join these live streams through, you know, from both sides, really, because it's one of those things that if you've never done it as a host before, you're not sure what to expect. And likewise, if you're on the guest side, you know, what's going to happen. So just to explain that process, if you go to this takeonetech.live.join link, then basically it will take you... And I think it's best in Google Chrome, but it does work in Safari, I believe, as well. And then it's basically just going to request permission to access your camera and microphone. And then you get the option to obviously choose which camera it would be or which microphone it would be. And then once you do that and click OK, then you basically come through into, they call it the green room, it's just out. The host sees that somebody's called in and they're sort of there. And then as the host, you basically assign that person to either guest one, two, three or four. And so then that's how you sort of bring somebody in. So yeah, feel free to jump on if you're ready. And if not, then don't worry about it. I'm happy to do it any other time. So you only did it in April. So that was a big change going from LGL to being really simple. Yeah, it is a big sort of difference, isn't it? And sorry, I just had to stop. Do we have snacks in the green room? Is that what I've got to do to tempt you, Paul? There will be biscuits and cookies all over. There's so many, I can barely move. I've had to pile up this behind the green screen. So yes, there's definitely snacks in today. Oh, here we go. Mitzi is joining. So let me add Mitzi in. And I've just got to assign to one of the guests. And then I will move to a different scene. There we go. Hello, Mitzi. Can you hear me okay? I can't hear you at the moment. Can you hear me okay? Let me just double check if I think I've got your volume turned all the way up. So I don't know if you can hear me, but it might be... Let me have a little think about how to adjust the microphone settings. There'll be something on the... I should have a little look on the microphone settings. If I go to it on my phone, I should be able to tell you how to do it. One second. There'll be somewhere where we can select the mic. I don't think it's on my side. I'm not sure. Might be completely wrong. Let's have a little look. I've got to learn to multitask and keep talking as I'm doing things. There should be somewhere. Let me have a little look. She's hiding. Oh, there you go. I don't know if you can see the things. Sorry, can't see the mic settings. Right. I wonder where those are then. They should be... Bear with me one second. I'll get to the bottom of this. I'll go to do it on my phone because it won't let me do it on my laptop or my computer. That's right. I can market. You're totally right about that. I can do that. But what I need to do is figure out these audio settings. Thank you so much for jumping on though, Mitzi. It's great to see you. I'll get to the bottom of this problem in a minute. Right. Where are the camera settings? There should be a little cogwheel underneath where your little preview window is. You should have a picture of what the output is. Then there should be a picture of your camera view, I think. I don't know if it's the same on desktop actually. Then there'll be a little cogwheel next to it. Then you can change the camera and the microphone in there. I don't know if that is translating to what you can see at all. Maybe I need to have a look at it on the desktop. Well, it looks like I wasn't able to give good enough instructions. I'm sorry about that, Mitzi. Let me have a look. She's joining again. Let's try it and see. I'll put it to sign to guess one. Hi. Can you hear me now? Can we hear you? I do love a challenge, Paul. I certainly do. Don't worry. If at first you don't succeed, go and have a coffee and try again. Never mind. Well, I've completely forgotten where I was. Hopefully, maybe we can try that again or if not, I do need to make a video about it and actually have a look at those different settings and see how you can change it during the thing. No problem, Mitzi. I really appreciate you coming on. I'll make a full tutorial. In fact, I promise I'll make that my next video after I've finished. It'll actually be... Oh, bye, Margaret. It's really nice to have seen you and nice for you to stop by. Really appreciate it. I'll see you again soon. I'll make my... They weren't showing up at your end. Okay, no problem. Well, like I say, I will make it my priority. That will be my next video. Actually, it should be a bit easier now because I've now obviously got my Mac Mini running and so I've also can have my old laptop and I'll join from that one and record sort of both sides of it because I remember the first time that I joined somebody's stream. I can't remember who it was now. It was probably Dot Rocks, although it might have been Keely. I can't remember. Keely done. But anyway, it was one of those things where when you type in the thing, you're not really sure what to expect and are I just going to go straight on the screen or will I get to choose the camera or things like that? So yeah, it's definitely good to have a little video, I think, showing what to expect on both sides. And I know now also to figure out how to adjust mic settings and that during the, during the stream. But thanks again, Mitzi. I appreciate you coming on and giving it a go. And where am I now? I've lost my train of thought a little bit. So yes, so with Leader and Margot was talking about live every day in, not live every day, in Vlogmas. Vlogmas in December, live every day in December. And she mentioned about that being on the mobile. So one of the things that's been really sort of nice and a little bit liberating really is about Leader this time around is that the first, I believe the first two weeks are all on mobile. So there's no sort of fancy green screen effects or anything like that. It's just everybody in there in the natural habitat, which is quite nice. I did like your first live stream, Paul. It did make me chuckle. I really went and mentioned about the joke of it then. But obviously the thing of Leader is that everything that happens in Leader stays in Leader. So, but yeah, I really enjoyed hearing your first one, Paul. So yeah, that's been really good. And yeah, a lot of people have mentioned about it seems strange to see me outside of this purple green screen and out of my basement. And yet it's nice to get out in some fresh air. And it's made me think I'll probably do a few more streams on probably not to this channel, because obviously this channel's got a particular sort of theme to it and everything like that. So it probably doesn't suit doing mobile streams from outside. But certainly to my Facebook page or things like that, then I'll probably do a few more that are a bit more a bit more natural on my mobile. So I know it's I know it's Paul and Mitzi's first time. And how are you finding it so far? Just got to remember not to ask a question and then expect an immediate response. But I hope you're both enjoying it and finding it useful. And yeah, if I'd known you have my permission to talk. Thank you very much. Well, I will just share your joke then because it really did make me laugh that you basically did your first live stream outside the health center just to prove just in case that actually going live did kill you. It really did make me chuckle that did fall. And so so yeah. And it's one of those things, isn't it? People are sort of afraid to do their first live. So although I've only been on YouTube for whatever it is however many days we're at now, I have done a couple of live streams before into my personal Facebook page a few years ago now actually, which was when I was doing, well, it's a matter of what I was doing, I was doing some unrelated business activities. And basically, a lot of parts of that was basically networking. It was like basically real estate and things like that in the UK. So there was lots of networking going on and things like that. And so I'd do a couple of lives to Facebook just to talk about progress with different things and so on. I can remember the first time that I had to go live. It was, it was, it was quite nerve wracking. It really was nerve wracking to, you know, even though, you know, these people were my, my friends in Facebook and things like that. And if I was sitting down in front of them, just dressing them like now in a, in a room or something, it'd be no problem. But somehow there's something really, really weird about pressing that button and going live for the first time. And so it is something I've done before. And it kind of reminded me of how I felt at that time. And I remember the first time that I'd planned to do a live, I forget what I was talking about now. It's something related to some project or other that we were doing in real estate. And yeah, going and sort of pressing that button and actually doing it, I thought about it for probably, you know, I plan to do it for, you know, four hours in advance, something like that, thinking, oh, I'm going to do it at this point and talk about X, Y and Z. But then like at the point of actually pressing the button, I think it took me a good hour to actually come to the point of saying, okay, okay, okay, I've got this, I've got this. I'm going to do it. It's, it's quite funny when I think back at it and you know, what, what the, what the fear is with it. It's really, it really is a bizarre, a bizarre thing. So Mitzi, it's challenging, I hope to catch up over the weekend. I'm interested to see which types of lives get attention. And it is fascinating. It has at least got me started. Well, that is it, isn't it? It's just that getting, getting over that initial thing. And I think the thing as well is because it is such a supportive community that you do get to that point where you start, you know, you're speaking to people. And it's a bit like this now really. When I don't, when I, when I do my videos, I'm often thinking about a particular person. There's sometimes people have asked a question or something like that. And so I'm sort of making the videos for specific people sometimes. Other times I'm just imagining some people that I know that it's going to help. And with these live streams as well, I always forget that there's going to be people after the fact that I'm going to come back and watch this. Not, not a huge number of people, but there will be people. But when I'm doing them, I'm basically just talking to you, you know, they hear that I can see in the comments and in the chat and things like that. And so that's who I'm talking to. But there's something about in the, in the leader group. It's, I mean, it's interesting the focus on authenticity, which is crucial. I'm thinking of doing Adrian's YouTube Academy this month, as I think it may be more useful to me than the leader is great. Yeah, well, I've not done his Academy, but Adrian is great, isn't he? I really like Adrian Salisbury. He's got a really great sort of onscreen presence and manner about him. And yeah, definitely, definitely recommend that because that's obviously going to be a sort of more structured thing about the process and everything like that. And leaders more about sort of getting out of your sort of comfort zone and, and you know, practicing that thing of the live. Oh, Paul, I just realized that I recorded my day three to my personal page and going to redo it had a family emergency. So after some catching up to do, I thought about stopping but going to push on. Well, to be honest with you, even if you miss out a couple, I wouldn't worry too much and just carry on even, you know, don't feel that you've got to catch up. So I meditate every day. And one of the things about that is there's a lot of meditation apps out here that are basically do meditation tracking. There's a really great app actually called Headspace. And that is a good way to sort of get into, into meditation and things like that. And I don't know if they've taken the feature out now, but originally it would have a thing in where it told you how many days in a row you'd done it. And the idea was not to break the chain sort of thing. And it is totally the antithesis of meditation. The point is not to beat yourself up because you missed a day or something like that. So it always made me laugh that there was this meditation app that was supposed to calm you down and help you and stuff like that. And then they'd got something in there to put some little thing in your head to frustrate you that you could be self critical about. So the point I was going to make is even if you miss a day, it doesn't really matter because the whole point about it is, you know, it's sort of going through the process. And if you miss a day, don't worry that you can't catch up and so, you know, give it up on it all. Just, just do whatever you can. And there's plenty of people out there. I think I've missed the day or the odd day here or there or something like that. So yeah, don't worry if you get a little bit behind Paul, it's my personal advice, my personal opinion for what it's worth. Oh, thanks, Mitzi. That's, that's really nice to hear. I really appreciate that. And yeah, I do appreciate you joining my Bimea coffee as well. It's, it means a lot that people sort of value that and Paul as well. Thanks for the coffees last week. It is what fuels this channel starting at four o'clock in the morning. I have my sort of liter of coffee with my Espro coffee press. And yeah, that's what that's where all of that goes goes into coffee really. So his academy is next week and his YouTube Academy. All right, well, that is, yeah, that's really good. Yeah, he's great Adrian is, like I say, I really like his sort of onscreen presence and his manner and everything like that. Exactly, Paul, just what you need a meditation app to stress you out. Do you know, so I used to use the the Headspace app and they had one in there, which was it was a meditation. So they got all different med, it's, it's guided meditation. And the point about it is just as, you know, if you were a monk in training, a Buddhist monk, which is actually where the guy who set up Headspace, he had been a monk in Tibet for 10 years, something like that. And it's all about sort of walking you through the process of learning how to meditate and learning how to basically be an observer of your thoughts. A lot of people think meditation is about sitting there and completely clearing your mind, whereas it isn't actually, it's actually more to do with being able to sit there in peace and quiet, hopefully, and then just be able to observe the thoughts as they're coming. But I say peace and quiet, it's actually, you can do it anywhere. And it's actually being able to have that sort of inner peace really, I suppose, and just observe the, the sort of thoughts that are going on and the emotions that you're having, but be able to recognize them without being totally overwhelmed by them. So it is a really good sort of skill to have to be able to sort of have that separation. And so when I'm doing my journaling at the end of the day or in the morning or whenever, I often look back on, you know, the day before and notice the emotions that I was having, but as an observer, as opposed to, you know, I'm really stressed or really anxious or anything like that, it's, it's having that sort of external perspective. And so, although I might come across all cheery and jolly on my videos, it's not like I don't get stressed or I don't get frustrated or things like that. But it's having the time to sort of separate yourself from that and observe that as an emotion rather than let it sort of dominate your sort of feelings at the time. But so, so there's all different sort of techniques that you can use to do some of that. And the Headspace app. Oh, thank you, Mitzi. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Thanks for the coffee. This is yours. Thank you very much. So, so yeah, it's all about just sort of being able to have that perspective. And so there's a series of processes that you go through with meditation. And like I say, I do recommend the Headspace app. I don't actually use it anymore. But it's because you, you go, it's kind of like a learning process. And some people think, oh, what's the point of meditating if you've got somebody talking in your ear? Because it's a guided meditation. But the point is, you don't do, you don't listen to that forever. It is a guided meditation because you're being taught how to actually do it properly, basically. But one of the ones that they've got in there, so just coming back to this thing of, you know, just what you need is an app to stretch, stress you out. They've got all these different guided meditations. And there's one for like, you know, if you're stressed or one for studying, and it's like a series of apps, but they've got these ones that are little short meditation exercises. And so there's one of them for if you've suddenly found that you're like in an extremely stressful situation, and, and you need to calm down, then there's this little three minute exercise that you can do to calm you down. And I was telling somebody else about the virtues of this app years ago. I forget who it was or how long ago it was. But I was talking about, you know, all they've got all sorts, they've got this one that's, you know, for, you know, to help with stressful situations. And I went to show him. And then as I opened the app, it just said connecting. And it wouldn't download this particular thing. I could just picture somebody in the height of the most stressful situation they've been. And they thought, no problem. I've got an app for that. And they opened the app. And then the app is not downloading the little meditation. Oh, no. And it was just another one of those things, like it just, it would just compound the stress that you've got. So I think definitely learning how to do it without the need for an app is definitely good. I'm not quite sure how I got into meditation. Oh, yeah, it was meditation tracking, wasn't it? And Paul mentioned about missing a couple. Oh, so you, so you're going to join Paul there? Great. Yeah, so we, that's, that's really good. I've gone on quite a tangent there. We're talking about leader and ended up talking about meditation. It is, it is something helpful. Mike balance is a great app too. I know I've not used that one actually. Similar to headspace. It uses both sight, sound and touch with various vibrations like water streams. Interesting. I've not heard of that one actually. That's exactly what I was looking at, Paul. Yeah, just what you need to put that balance. Yeah, I've never, never heard of that one. So I'll have to have a little look at that and, and see. But yeah, I've read a lot of books about it. And obviously I live in Thailand. And so this is a sort of Buddhist country. And they're all about the, the temples. There's a temple for almost every person here. In the town that I am, I'm in, which is a little town in the northeast of Thailand on the banks of the Mekong River. It's a little town called Nongkai. And there are in this little town of, I don't know how many people that, what the population is, it's maybe like 50,000 or something like that. But there are about 10 or 11 temples just really close together. There's like almost one on every other block or something like that. And there's, I can't remember exactly why it is that there are so many here, but there is something a little bit special about this town. So lots of, lots of temples. And yeah, often hear the sort of temple bell ringing at six o'clock in the morning. So that's, that's why my kids get up at six. And so I get up earlier to make sure that I'm up before the temple bell wakes the kids up. But yeah. So, so that was a little diversion, wasn't it, into Buddhism and meditation. But it's all about that sort of process really. And it's like leader is a little bit like that in terms of sort of taking a look at your inner feelings. And it's certainly not something that was expecting to do, but it's always always a great learning experience. I'm doing another thing, which is going to be a bit similar. I don't know if anyone's heard of the landmark forum, but that I've got that next week. So I'll probably, I don't think I'll be doing my, my live stream this time next week, because this thing that I'm doing is basically it's from eight o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So it's currently, it's currently Saturday morning, my time here. So this time next week, I will have done a full day from eight until 10 and bearing in mind that my bedtime is normally, normally eight o'clock, then staying up till 10 or in fact, it's eight till nine, isn't it? But I probably won't get to sleep till 10 or 11. So I think I'll definitely, definitely have to give my live stream a miss next time. It is, isn't it? It's one of those things. It is once you start doing it, it does become kind of like essential. And there's that. And I also do my, I've got my little Hobonichi Techo journal that I write in every morning as well. And I'm a bit of a creature of habit and having my morning routines. Oh, that's great. Let me see. Ah, you've done it. Well, that'll be really interesting to know what you think about landmark. Well, it'll be really interesting to know what you feel about landmark because I'm doing it on the advice of a close friend who did it and found it really, really sort of really helped him with a number of different things. And I'm one of these people that I will try any of these things that are to do with expanding the mind and gaining new insights and new sort of experiences and things like that. So I would really be interested to hear what you think about that. So, yeah, as I say, mine is next week. So it's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And so part of the thing of that as well is there's a whole sort of business side to it as well. And so we're in the process of setting up a or rather expanding on a different business. And so myself and the other four of us involved in it. And so there's a sort of follow on from landmark, which is more kind of getting the team together on a business point of view and sort of expanding out the business. And so that's part of the reason for me to do the landmark as well is just so that we've all got the same foundation of footing. But I do know that, yeah, it's certainly had a profound effect for one of my close friends. Yeah, definitely, I definitely be interested to, I should read these out. I'm just sitting reading it to myself. But yeah, definitely Mitzi, I'd definitely be interested to hear about that and exchange notes. Yeah, so that is about all I've got to say today because it's all about all about leading until I've finished. Oh, thank you, Michael. Thank you. I really appreciate that. It means a lot that people come to join in and value what I'm doing. I really do appreciate it. I had no idea when I started this channel, it was, I've said this before, but I'll just say it again for the benefit of people here who haven't heard me mention this before. When I started the channel, part of the thing of it was really just for me to, first of all, you know, it's this recovering perfectionist thing to get over myself to actually just get it out there and start doing it. But it was also to get into the habit of being able to do these videos live without, this one's obviously a live stream, but all of my other videos I do them in one take, hence the name Take One Tech. And it's just sort of getting that process of being able to sit down and make a video because for some of my other work roles, I'm making course material and things like that. And so it's just basically hone those skills. But I had not really anticipated the sort of joy that you get when somebody responds to a video that you've done and said, Hey, this really helped me or, you know, or somebody responds and says, Oh, this is great, but I've got this other problem and I can make a video just to help them. It's just really, it's really rewarding. And what started out as a sort of side project for me really, you know, it was just a case of me doing these videos to practice and things like that. And it's now sort of become much more a part of my sort of headspace, if you like. It's something that I think about a lot more. So although I sort of allocate two hours for a week. Oh, thank you, Paul. I'm going to be totally caffeinated up this morning. I'm really going to be caffeinated up. Won't be able to have my little afternoon nap today. Never mind. My wife would be happy because I've got to go and cut the grass later on. So I'll be fully energized with all the coffee. Thank you very much, all of you. But yeah, it's really sort of dominated my sort of headspace, if you like. And you know, my mind, mind space, you know, during the day, it's stuff that I think about. So although I've got stuff that is takes up a lot more of my time. And it's something that I'm passionate about and the stuff that I do for my work roles. I'm definitely still thinking about YouTube quite a lot. And I'd also hadn't realized the sort of community aspect when I started as well. So, you know, I was thinking I was going to be making videos and I appreciated interacting with people in comments and things like that on the videos themselves. But I hadn't realized just what a supportive community there was surrounding this whole thing. And I keep talking about Doc Rock, but hit the way that he has managed to foster such a welcoming and supportive community. And also all of the ECAM guys, like Katie and Caleb, like the way that they, and obviously the twins as well, Ken and Glenn, the creators of ECAM Live, I still have to pinch myself sometimes and remember that this is a piece of software. And yet the community that is built around it is unlike anything I've ever seen, let alone something that is for a piece of software. It's quite extraordinary, really, if you sort of stop to think about it. I don't see the same sort of fan base of, you know, applications like Excel and things like that. Although I am a real Excel geek and a bit of an Excel jockey, I use it all of the time for everything that I do. I'm even tracking my stats in YouTube with Excel. But you don't get that sort of real sort of family atmosphere around a piece of software. It's quite amazing. And so the point of this was that when I started the channel, I didn't realize quite what an integral part of the community would pay at play in what I'm doing. So I just want to say, thank you all, to anybody who's watching, who's a, you know, part of, you know, watching this channel or part of the community in general, and the help and advice and support that everybody gives is just, yeah, just really, really great. So that's about all I've got to say for today on, I didn't really talk about leader much, did I? I went off on a series of tangents, but I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your videos in leader. And I'm definitely going to be catching up over the weekend. And looking forward to, looking forward to basically planning a bit more time for it next April, because I will do it again next April, but I'll make sure that I actually a lot at least two or three hours a day to it. Make sure I've got that all blocked out in my schedule next time. And yeah, Mitzi, don't forget as well, I'd love to hear your thoughts on landmark, but also let me know about your domain registrar, and we'll sort out that little link thing, so that you can have your dot live domain slash whatever, because it should be, we are all Doc Rocks apprentices, we are, aren't we? I'll forever be Doc Rocks apprentice, no matter what happens, you'll always have a very special place in my heart. I can't believe, I know this has been said so many times before, I can't believe the depth of his knowledge, like on such a broad range of things. They talk about like a jack of all trades, master of none. He's a jack of all trades and master of them all as well. People will ask such random questions and it's just there, casual as you like, with a whole story behind some piece of technology or something like that. It's fascinating to watch and really amazing to know how much knowledge he's got and how much knowledge he's willing to share as well. That's the other thing is, he's a total open book, I'm willing to share everything and there's no facade or anything like that with him. It's really amazing and it's kind of like, it's almost like a masterclass in how to build a community really, isn't it? Just sort of watching him at work. So with that, I'll leave on the Doc Rock note. Thank you all for joining me and thank you so much for the coffees. I really do appreciate it because it is, like I say, I've got my bio of my, or is it in the description of my things, that my channel is fueled by coffee and it is. It's my little morning wake me up. Thanks again, everybody. I need to get an outro, proper outro tune because Doc always has some nice music to go out on. Whereas what I do is I just leave it to my sort of typical end screen that I do on my videos. So Mr. Mary Poppins, yes, that's quite right, isn't it? Right, everybody. Thank you so much for being here and I look forward to seeing you all again soon and yeah, I'll see you all in Lida. I can't wait to see what the challenge is today. It's been a good few days so I'm looking forward to seeing today's challenge. Have a great day, everyone. I'll see you all again soon. For those watching on the replay, there'll be more videos coming up next. Bye, everyone.