 Hello, hello How are you guys? Lenny go life is no yoke. It's been a while Wanted to do an update video and just check in. I have three categories of updates for you today first work updates second Friend updates are calling them stuff that I would want to talk about With my friends like at a campfire and the third is family updates. Here we go. Let's dive right in. I Missed you first of all number one bite emick spring sale. I'm not allowed to say That there will be a spring sale or when there will be a spring sale Mother's Day sale in 2022 But for the past five years there has been and it has begun right around the middle of April So if you're waiting for a pretty good time to get a Vitamix, there's a pretty good chance that That's gonna be coming pretty soon Most people take three to six weeks to fully appreciate the Vitamix figure out which one they want Best way to do that is to get on our email list intro to Vitamix Send you a few emails and keep you updated on when deals are Live number two. There's a new product coming for Vitamix and We will be able to talk about it soon Little hint. There are people that have been looking for a very specific Vitamix product. I Wish Vitamix would make one of these with one of these. That's that product coming up I think for people that have been holding out for a particular You're gonna like it number three the Vitamix one the Sort of hundred year anniversary little mini blender It could do most things but it couldn't do hot soups and it couldn't do nut butters that product is being phased out It was just a temporary celebratory thing and It's going away So if you want one for your RV your van life something little something for your your mom or dad That's that's living alone. That's small. That's gonna perform really well Get one while you can we really we really like the Vitamix one If we had a van to put it in we'd put it in that or if we were gifting someone a Graduation gift for college that would be the one to the one work update number four Vitamix has a new CEO Jody Berg is Retiring after a handful of years This will be the first non family member to lead Vitamix into the new era the new CEO His name is Steve. We are gonna meet him soon and a visit So if there's things you'd like to know about him his plans for the future of the company Be like talking to Tim Cook as of this moment recondition standard programs These are basically the certified reconditioned 5200s with programs a very popular model at a very good price point. They are available now on Vitamix comm They're back in stock. They have some more of them Link in the description update number six you guys should make a cookbook. Well, we kind of did It's called the pain in the mouth cookbook. It's for orthodontist and oral surgeons to give to their patients after they Perverbially punch them in the face and tighten their braces or extract a tooth It's only available from your orthodontist or your oral surgeon So you have to ask them say hey Do you guys get the pain of the mouth cookbooks and then they'll have to reach out to the pain of the mouth cookbook? Com and say hey, maybe we should get some custom pain of the mouth cookbooks for our Orthodontist or oral surgeon practice the last work update before we move on to fireside chat stuff 1k 30 is our our new diet plan. We have a program. We've made it's our 10 years of Work it's the most important project. We've ever done in our life It's the diet plan where all you need is a Vitamix to lose weight. It's Everything we've talked about over the last years boil down into a 30-day plan go to 1k 30 calm and check it out You won't be one of the first ones to do it We've had lots of people go through and it's got a really cool feature unlike any 30-day plan That I know of not gonna tell you what it is. I want you to go to the site and see it it has to do with the the price and kind of How it's structured go there 1k 30 calm? We're really excited about it before we move on I just want to say that it it feels like sort of that some of the darkness is over and it's kind of the theme of today in that we make some of our best videos we green juice and detox salad and queso we Put those together in the summertime when we have the time when we're feeling inspired to do this for the last five Or six months. It's felt like we've been in a cloud of Darkness and winter and baby and and Omicron and so it we're excited that for what's to come big important videos on our channel, so Subscribe to our channel if you want updates of that. Okay, let's talk about some other stuff a fireside chat This is stuff. I just like to talk about stuff that I would talk about with peers of mine I think this is item number eight I've been really hampered by making videos that are wanting to them to be perfect and perfect videos have been the enemy of Pretty great videos, and so that's kind of why I'm here today. It's nice to be back Talking to you guys seeing your faces. This is number nine this book hunt gather parent Super awesome for parents for grandparents. I never thought I would need a parent book or read a parent book This is the first one Shalva and I ever needed or read but this one has changed our lives and made our kids more Helpful and gracious and appreciative and grateful and just better citizens people we want to hang with Stuff that I think comes more naturally for people in communities where there's More family around there's a bigger house with multi generations. There's a lot of helpers and Challenges that people in Western civilizations have that are in a house with mom dad and two or three kids This book was awesome Hunt gather parent. I might even do a whole video on it. It's just the best. I just switched payroll providers That's boring gusto It's cheaper and easier and better than what I had before Productivity trick the note card thing where you use a note card every day for the stuff that you want to get done I've been trying it and it hasn't ever really stuck until now I figured out the trick to it. The idea is that you put one the one big thing you want to get done for the day And then a few small things So there's space to write as you as you come up with stuff that you want to add to your big project and then like as you go through your day you cross stuff off and you get that dopamine hit of Crossing off the little tasks and retrain your brain to get dopamine hits from crossing stuff off Let me go get a completed one. I mean it's like so satisfying So I carry this around with me in my pocket. I got the date and then I have one and then two three four five and Then sub tasks for the one Cross them off throughout the day and then at the end of the day you go through You rip it up and you throw it away. I think this is number 12 the The iphone hack I just figured out or I just saw on a tiktok you can set it so you double tap Your phone to do something so it's an accessibility hack But basically if I double tap my phone now the flashlight turns on on It's good to have chats like this and Back to the theme of the video. I It's still cold and dreary out and it feels like it has been the last five or six months But the seasons always change Winter always goes away and it always gets warm That's what I keep telling myself Let's go somewhere else to chat about Family stuff Update number 13. We had a few kids eating milestones Recently so our youngest started eating baby food Really any food that we give her the second our middle child for the first time ate our pancakes We have a video about our oatmeal pancakes made with aquafaba. He loved them. He's kind of a picky eater textures Our oldest our four-year-old began to eat eight spring rolls and more than just eating mango And maybe a bite of tofu now he eats a spring roll with with avocado and Maybe a little red pepper the spring rolls were one of our favorite things and They make me feel like spring is here and soon It's definitely not a winter meal and it's nice that you know They say you got to offer kids food like 20 times before they accept it or You know if they're actually won't accept it So we just kept offering and the way that he eats spring rolls that's grown So those are three kid eating milestones. We're proud of update number 14. Shella and I turned 37 this month this coming month April April 4th and April 17th We're not kids anymore We feel like we're like 30 31 Definitely not close to 40, but we know we don't look like we did when we were 27 And that's okay. We feel like we've been catching our groove with dinners like kid dinners To want to tell you about our Caesar salad has been a hit with the kids We serve that with nugs brand nugs Salad and nugs has been huge and then a queso for dinner. We made a video on this And we have sort of an adult version of that will bake a sweet potato and throw queso all over it So it's more than just celery carrot broccoli dipped in queso. It's actually a sweet potato with All sorts of good stuff on top and Finally the last update is well you love to hear what's good with you Leave a comment. Thanks for watching. Bye guys life is no yoke It's an accessibility hack, but basically if I double tap my phone now the flashlight turns on Oh fail Oh, come on Come on. Is it because i'm in focus mode? There we go Okay, it doesn't work super well because I have Rise to wake turned off It basically makes your phone less exciting to pick up so like when I pick it up it stays black So you have to do this to turn it to wake it up and then You're embarrassing me. Oh man. It's because I'm in work mode. What is happening? You're embarrassing me All right, maybe if I turn it on off is that wow, that wasn't so easy Let's try one more time on that was fun