Started doing 'AAA' work June last year (AIwithApex.com). I live in Israel; father of 5, including 2 under 2; I am still working my day job and am 45 yrs old. I think I've been following @Stephen G. Pope for 10 months now? My professional journey spans from earning a BS in Computer Science, to founding several modest tech ventures ApexWebServices.com, Motivate-Mate.com, MusicWithMax.com, and VoiceAIBonanza.com, to serving as CTO and now Board President of RedeemTheOppressed.org. Along the way, I became an IBM certified AI developer, consultant, and coach with over two decades of experience delivering dev solutions. My background in collegiate sports/military (infantry) taught me resilience and disciplined leadership—qualities I've applied to humanitarian work, helping raise over $3.5 million to rescue persecuted minorities and integrating technology into life-saving efforts. I'm passionate about the intersection of AI and practical improvements in our lives, particularly Voice AI (I've been called an expert in Voice AI, but I consider myself a student). I believe in the power of knowledge exchange and community building. Looking forward and excited to learning from all of you and contributing whatever insights I can offer!

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I wanted to thank everyone for their support in the Skool Games. I had a lot of supportive messages, DMs, cheers, comments and congratulations. And many of you joined the No-Code Architects—so you literally made it happen. Not me. Since yesterday when it ended, I've been thinking a lot. And I'll tell you what I've been feeling. Sure I'm excited, but I also fear loss, what if I can't keep it up? Why did some ask for a refund? Why have some already cancelled? How can I make people more happy? How do I keep growing, more, more, more! What if this all falls apart? It's a hole you can't fill. But I've gained just enough experience over the past 5 years (after selling my previous company), to keep a level head about this. Over this time I've had some extreme highs and lows, huge successes and multiple total breakdowns. It took longer than I wanted, but I've learned all the ups and downs were just a result of losing focus, getting ahead of myself, getting a quick win and wanting MORE. Not being OK with where I was, not forging through during a loss. Was 4th place in the June Skool Games a success? absolutely, but it's a just a second in time. If you zoom out it's just a tiny seed that will take time to grow into a something great. Nothing grand has changed in this past month. You have to be patient. It's not about more, more, more, now, now, now. More subscribers, more sales, more success... but instead, it's about the RIGHT mission and vision, serving the RIGHT people and taking the RIGHT actions. Slowly, overtime, one step in front of the other. Yes I'm working hard to improve as quickly as I can. Yes I'm working hard to make the best experience I can for my clients, this community and the No-Code Architects. But it all takes time, the good things take time. That's why digging into a mission and vision is so important—because its bigger than you, it gives you time. It gives you success over any failure given enough time. You can always fall back on the vision when things are going the wrong way.

Prepping for Sunday's Automated FACELESS video took 2 FULL days, all day Thursday and Friday! And 8+ hours of recording all day Saturday and I almost quit multiple times. It was extremely difficult to get through, and I made a last minute change Friday night that would spell disaster for the recording session. I made a technical choice that came back to haunt me! When Saturday came, I got prepped, I got one of my 3 YouTube shirts lol and started to get all the browser windows set up for the big recording. I felt ready, I knew it was going to be a lot of recording, but I was ready. - Then it came.... my neighbor decided today was the day to bring in the gardeners for a huge clean up... The hedge clippers turn on right outside my window lol That killed 2 hours and really put me on edge. I was already way behind. - Then finally I got going, my gut felt horrible. I had such a long and technical video ahead of me. I have to be so careful doing these videos. - But I got going, got through the first couple videos sections (I record in short batches then pass them to my video editor). - Then I realized I made a serious error. The way I had built the automation (with a last minute change the previous night) left the automation with a serious bug. There was potential it wouldn't work at all. I spent 1.5 hours recording that session and it was a complete waste. It's like 2 PM now. - The night before I had decided to give people the option of using still images, or animated videos (built from those still images) for their Faceless video generator. But I realized the way I was building it wouldn't work, or might throw people off. - I thought about scrapping the feature all together and moving forward with only the animated videos, but I remembered 1) I already mentioned it in the intro, and two, it wouldn't be as good. And several people actually asked me if I could do it with static and animated videos so they could choose.

After doing the automated faceless videos with Leonardo AI I wanted to try out the new Lumalabs AI model with MidJourney images. I attached the original image + the video generated by Lumalabs. Here was the prompt I gave it, "animate the cars driving on the los Angeles freeway and also animate the clouds to slowly move around" Super cool results!