Happy to announce that @Dr. Saundra Stancil is now an administrator for this group. She will be helping remove spammers and keeping the chat clean. Let's show her some love because this isn't an easy job!!! xoxoxo

I thought I would use this holiday to get up early and record the video I thought about all night and couldn't sleep because of it. Then I realized when I heard the neighbors kids screaming and the loud music playing that I was wrong 😞. Hopefully they will get some down time before I have to go to my outing.

So me and my dad both got up at 4 am this morning to go to work he left first. it was a normal Tuesday for us. When I'm driving down the road through the trees I see what looks like 2 cars coming at me head on. We live in the country so it's pitch black out, no light anywhere. so I slow down and as I get closer I see that one car is on the shoulder and the other Is stopped on the road facing me. I get curious and slow right down, and I see that it's my dads car. I'm thinking who is he talking too? why is he beside this strange SUV. both cars have hazard lights on. Then I look closer and I see the SUV has it's door open, and under the door...... Is some DUDE passed out under the door! and a lady looking lifeless in the driver seat.... I then see that my dad is on the phone, with the cops I presume. So I pull over and get out to look. I didn't want to get too close because I was nervous of what could happen. I was definitely on high alert in that moment. I couldn't tell if they we're dead or drunk n passed out. The car wasn't in an accident. It looked like they tried to change drivers then passed out at the same time. so the paramedics Arrive in a few minutes and they go over and try to wake them up. They shake the guy and he wakes up screaming and startled Turns out they are a couple who decided to drink n drive together and then pass out on the road in the middle of the night. They are Definitely in big trouble! I left when the cops showed up. I stayed cuz the paramedics we're girls. So that's how my day started. It got me thinking about how are choices really do matter. This world is full of good and evil. We get to choose what our contributions are. So I want to encourage you guys to pay attention to where your energy goes. What do you let into your soul and what do you give back to the world? Our bad decisions are often the results of bad habits that have been ignored. We must be thoughtful of who we choose to be and where we put our time and energy

I've been working with Lori for about a month now, and she had a major breakthrough with her most recent video. Not in views yet, but in delivery and creating connection with the viewer. It made me cry and smile all at the same time. I’ll place the video below if you want to watch it, but the point I want to make is this — I remembered practically every bit of her story in the video, down to the comment about the feeling inside the hospital. She connected to my heart and my emotions, and that made me remember, learn, and hear her teachings. Yet I could watch a listicle video and not remember a single thing. THIS is the power of story. THIS is what separates one YouTuber from the next. Everyone can ask ChatGPT to make a script and read it to the camera, but NO ONE can speak your story or your experiences for you. And when you tap into your essence and share that through YouTube, you become unstoppable. I know not everyone wants to share personal stories — and that’s not entirely the point. Share what you want and what you feel comfortable with, but what I am saying is: learn how to tell stories. Commonly, I hear people describe things void of any emotion, such as: “I went to the store and I tried to buy my kids food, but I realized I didn’t have enough money, so we left the store. It was embarrassing.” Versus: “We walked into the store starving. My kids hadn’t had a proper meal in days. We found some cheap, day-old buns and could already taste the sweetness before getting to the cashier counter. But when the cashier scanned the items, my heart sank — they were priced wrong. We couldn’t afford them. Not even one of them. I was so ashamed, I tried to play it off like I forgot my wallet, but my children knew I had it with me. They pleaded at me with their eyes, please mommy, buy them, and it was then, in that moment, that I knew…” Can you see the difference? Feel the difference? One story is forgettable. The other is unforgettable. Here is her video and by the way her retention for this video was THROUGH THE ROOF! Power of story. Learn this skill and you will thrive on youtube.