Good Day Google+ - Improving Life in Our Crazy World

Hey there everyone, I'm Chef Dennis Littley and today we're here with Good Day Google Plus and a special shout out before I get started to my friend Sonny. And Sonny, I'm not gonna sing Get Jiggy With It only because I don't know it and I didn't have time to watch the YouTube video, but I wanted to let you know that I was thinking about you and it had crossed my mind. So we'll have to save that for another show. But it's a great day on Google Plus because I'm here with my friends, and I've got a wonderful, uh, cast of guests today in the film strip, and I'm gonna run down and introduce everyone to you, and then we're gonna get started. So to my— on my side anyway, my first one is Wayne. Wayne, how you doing, buddy? Good to see you here.

I'm doing great, and, uh, thank you for having me on the show, Dennis Littley.

My pleasure. Wayne, where are you coming from today?

I'm living in Charlotte, North Carolina area right now.

That's right, Charlotte. Okay, just wanna double-check with everyone. I always like to see where everyone's at because I'm like a little kid. Amazed at how this works and that we can all be in different places, you know, around the country, around the world. So it's like one of my things, right?

It's a wonderful medium. I love it.

Yeah, yep. All right, Scott Scowcroft— did I pronounce that right? Scowcroft?

Scowcroft. Scowcroft.

Okay, I'm so happy to have you here. I've been meaning to ask you so many different times, and it's my mind— I'm old, it just doesn't always work the way I hope it would. But I'm happy you could come here today and join us.

I am just super delighted to be here, and I don't know if I'm your number one fan because there's a lot of competition out there, but I'm in your top 2%. Coming to you from, I hate to say it, from sunny Seattle because I always like it when it rains, but it's not raining today.

Is it sunny in Seattle?

Yeah, it's been raining up until now, but yeah, usually it's raining.

My brother was born in Seattle. We were both born on Army bases. I was born in Louisiana.— but he was up there. I've never seen it. Someday, hopefully.

Come visit sometime.

Absolutely.

Now we have a newbie for me, anyway, she's been on for a while, Lani Latty. Is that right?

It's like a song, unfortunately.

Okay.

So I'm glad you could come join us today, and I'm excited to talk to you about it because I keep getting these subtle messages that I should be eating better and exercising. I got to start listening to him, so I want to talk to you more about that. But where are you coming from today?

Well, I have a feeling Scott stole my sun because I want to tell you I'm in sunny Arizona, but it's cloudy today.

Cloudy but hot?

It's— well, the sun definitely keeps the temperatures down. I think we'll only hit about 80, so it's still nice and cool.

That's good. Yeah, I know I'm a little cloudy here today in Orlando.. And we're about the same thing, 75, 78. So, you know, it's a little breeze, it's a little humid here, but definitely not any sun. Alright, and now to the lady I have been waiting to get on my show for a long time. I'm so excited to have you here, Kristen. How you doing? You're muted.

Unmute myself. I know, unmute myself. Oh gosh, I'm so excited!

Woohoo!

I can't believe I'm here. So I was explaining to you guys that someone asked me one time who I would want to be on if I were to ever go on Chef, which I thought was like a really long shot, and I said Scott Scowcroft. And this is just such a big honor, and I'm totally jazzed to have gotten to interact with Wayne over this past week. And I think it was over a post about like, don't send me all of your community invites, sort of thing. And it was just— we've been having a blast since. And Lonnie, we're both in Arizona, we need to have an IRL.

I know, right? I love that the internet has to connect us.

Yeah, I know.

How far are you from Shan, from the Shan Man? Shan Hernandez is there too. He's in Arizona.

You know, the majority of the population is either Phoenix or Tucson and then the tiny surrounding towns, so there's a good chance.

Yeah, there is.

I know his sister Wendy Hernandez, I think it is, has a law show on. I believe they're both in Arizona. So, well, let's get this party started, and we're going to come back. And if you have any questions for my guests, please leave them in the comments section and we'll get to them. So let's get going, and we're going to talk about what we do on the Plus, off the Plus, projects we have going, or anything that just happens to fall across. Now, you'll notice the title of my show was Living Better in this crazy world? Well, we have a lot of people, I think, that can help point us in that direction today. We're going to talk about some of the things we do and how we can live better in this crazy, insane, wonderful Google world we lived in. We'll get moving. First of all, we're going to talk to Wayne. Wayne, is that "me-ator" or "me-door"? How do you pronounce that? It's "Meder." "Meder." I wasn't even close.

Okay. It sounds different than the way it looks, for sure. I think they They got it mixed up when they came over from Germany.

Not a problem. I always get Littley, Lightly, you know, they never quite kind of get mine right, so I understand that. Alright, so we're going to talk to you first, and I want you to tell us a little bit about the different things you do. We had a nice talk the other day, and I'd like to go back to some of that.

Sure, yeah, I really enjoyed it. Well, I'll tell you just a little bit about myself. I don't know how far back you want me to go, but I've been to nursing school, I've worked as an EMT, I was a volunteer firefighter, Grew up in central Indiana out in the country, little town of 1,500 people, and somehow I ended up down here in the Carolinas, and I'm glad I did because I like it. But during that process, you know, I left the, I left the country and went to the city and thought that's really where I wanted to be. And throughout that, I've learned that I really don't. I'm not happy if I don't have ground to jump on a four-wheeler and take off through the woods on. I'd like to have ground so that I have room to grow my own food, to help me to be more sustainable or self-sustainable rather than going to the grocery store and depending on the grocery store and our food chain or food supply. For other people to supply the food to me. And so I thought I'd take, you know, I guess take that into my own hands a little bit more and start to learn. So over the last 2 years, I've been learning a lot about organic growing, growing my own food, and running my own YouTube channel, a personal YouTube channel that's just focused on sustainability and do-it-yourself projects around the home. And for example, one of the things that I made just today or this morning was a frame to hold a background. And so I made a frame out of PVC, and, you know, that's something that I'll do a video on later on. So that's the kind of thing that— the things that I do and try to help people think outside the box so that they're not necessarily working for them, for the man, if you will, and they're taking a little bit more control of their own life. And that's really what what I like to focus on in my personal life. And then aside from that, I have just new over the past month, I've released a website, aworldforchange.com, and I will be hosting a new web TV show series that will be through Google Hangouts, and it's going to be focused on sustainability. So I'm really excited about that. I do not have a start date yet for for the show, but that's something that's coming up in the near term.

Well, please keep us updated on that. I know a lot of people are going to be interested in that. Sustainability is one of those power words today, and we're really looking more towards that because we're using up so many resources we have on this earth that if we don't start really taking care of it and growing stuff and finding better sources for things, we're going to be out of luck. S-O-L. Right. Very quickly. I remember you showed me some of your growing things that you had downstairs. You were growing your own plants for transplant, and that was really cool. And I see that light back in your corner now. Is that a special kind of light, or is that a sustainable or anything, that light fixture in the back?

No, it's actually a light that my friend had, and so I grabbed it because I thought it would look cool with the white background and the—

it's pretty cool, yeah.

It's supposed to be the other way around. It's supposed to hang upside down from the ceiling.

Ah.

But I like it like this. It looks good as a set, doesn't it?

Absolutely. I was looking at it going, I wonder if he made that. That was really cool. I was just waiting to hear this great story about it. I wasn't sure.

I wish.

But yeah, I like it, so good job. All right, so yeah, I was talking actually just to Leah Segedy, and she was over on Mia this morning about you and about some of the things you're doing. So I don't know if she's reached out to you yet, but you'd be expecting a message from her soon. I think you guys get along real well.

Yeah, we have connected just briefly a couple of times, and we are trying to find some time to get together and do a private Hangout and see how we might be able to collaborate on some things. And I'm excited about it.

Yeah, absolutely. She invited me to come speak at ShiftCon, so I'm really excited about that too. So I'll be out in that in October, so that'll be fun. Alright, let's move on. Moving over, Scott, why don't we talk to you for a little while and tell us what you're doing on and off the Plus.

Oh, well, I think I'm mostly on the Plus. I discovered it a couple of years ago when I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. I left a position as a community liaison for a a hospital district. They had layoffs, and you always go to the marketing department first before patient-facing staff. And at my age, I thought, well, instead of competing on the open marketplace, I should continue my in-service training on social media. And for 9 months, I was just hitting my head against the wall because I thought it meant Facebook and being a community manager.. And I just didn't understand Facebook. And being a community manager, knowing everything is just too hard— well, it's more work than I'm able to do. Google Communities came out, and I thought, okay. And that led me to Hangouts On Air. And once that happened, life changed. I've never looked back. And the more I zeroed in on Hangouts On Air, the bigger my world got. It was amazing. And I had up until then thought that my life would be taking blog posts and condensing them down to something you could absorb in 90 seconds or a minute and a half. And that's what's going to be my contribution. And I thought— because I have a background in community access television. I managed the public access studio in Seattle for quite a few years and have done other things. And with Hangouts on Air, I was, well, why not condense Hangouts on Air into what evolved into Golden Nuggets? People can absorb a little bit of it or they can do other things with it. And so I shifted from condensing text to condensing video and that evolved into the Scott Treatment. And that leads me to today, which is going to be a pretty big day for me.

So tell us about that then. What are you doing today?

OK. Well, it's been a while. And the Scott Treatments are when you take a single topic of a Hangout On Air and you make it into 2 or 3 minutes. Or you can take out all of the dated material and you evergreen it and some other sorts of things. And I've done a hassle of them. Approaching 400 of them and they're on my channel and they've been out and about and it's about time that I got a website. So I was going to wait till the end but since you asked, I'm officially announcing the launching of thescotttreatment.com as of this program. Well, actually as of 1 minute after this program.

Well, that's pretty cool. Thank you so much for rolling it out here. That's great. And I know I did remember you saved a video interview that I was on. I remember that. I think that's how I first really saw some of the things you were doing when they forgot to unblue box themselves and the whole interview was them asking me questions.

Oh, that's right. Well, you're featured on the website at least twice. That's an example of a repair of a Hangout. And you are today's featured The Scott Treatment with your Bat Crap Crazy Song.

Oh my God.

Oh, sorry, maybe I should have asked first.

That's okay. Now, you know, that was actually the beginning of me singing on Google+ and now I keep getting requests. So, you know, I may not be as popular as Billy Joel, the Piano Man, but I'm getting some strange ones. So you never know when I'm going to start singing again. I may have to learn Get Jiggy With It for Sonny so I can sing it. You know, it always scares me sometimes when I do bring music on because I'm afraid the YouTube gods will go, "Oh, that's not yours." Boom! Have a nice day. Try and figure out what went wrong. I'm careful. That's only a very short snippet. And I did apologize to Ted Nugent for my singing of "Bat Crab Crazy" to his song and was hoping that he might see it and come on, but I haven't heard from Ted.

We can start a campaign.

Yeah, well, I'd rather work on Ellen right now, so we'll leave that. Maybe if I'm— after I'm on Ellen, I can bring up about TED.

Can we return to that topic later in the show?

Absolutely, absolutely. So real quick, I want to do a couple shoutouts, and Krithika, or Kitty, is in the house. She's eating and can't comment, but she wants to say hi to everybody. And we're always happy to see you here, and thank you so much. And Scott— or Coach Moore is here, and I've been bugging Coach about getting a picture because he's still a blue head, so we're hoping he'll have something soon. He's always around saying hi to us. And who else is here? Mick Sharp is here saying hi to Scott.

Hi, Mick.

There we go. And who else is in the house? I want to reel some real quick ones here. Katrina is here too, and I'm not sure about that last name, but it's her first time here. She wants to see what evolves and to support Kristen, so she's happy to be here. And A View from the Edge is here tuning in from beautiful Corsica. Oh my God, gotta love it. I gotta get back to France. Saying hi to everybody. Roxanne Davenport is in the house also, so Just want a few couple quick shoutouts here. Thank you so much for being here and for stopping by to see the show. She's saying hi to Kitty. We're gonna move on now. Let me get rid of that. And we're back. And now let's turn it over to Lonnie. Lonnie, I am so excited about having you on. You know, we had a mutual friend, Bradford Lowry, connected us, and I was so happy about that. And I want you to talk to us a little about what you're doing and how, uh, what you do can help us to be better.

Well, you know, I'm a mom of 3, and I was fortunate enough to stay home until my youngest was going into kindergarten 2 years ago. And my wonderful husband gave me the opportunity to, as the Flashdance song we all love says, take my passion and make it happen. So I got certified in fitness and nutrition and really just started providing that accountability and education, empowering people with the truth about food and fitness because if you listen to all the noise out there, it's overwhelming and intimidating and crazy. So sometimes people just need that cheerleader in their court and it was really successful. So I actually did then started working with Google Helpouts which opened up my client base to the world, which was really fun. And now I balance between the mom role and Google Helpouts and coaching and really wanted a bigger audience. So I do some public speaking and businesses and support their employees in wellness. And it's just this beautiful life of making people take control and establishing healthy habits and living the life they deserve. It's been a really rewarding job.

Now, what are some of the healthy habits you try to instill? Because I think that's the biggest thing, is teaching us new habits. And I know that's always a stumbling block for me. You try something and then you forget about it because it hasn't become a habit.

Right, it's absolutely true. And you have to give yourself time to make that habit stick. And it's usually about 3 months is what they say. But, you know, a lot of what I tell people is to take the pressure off. You know, if you try and fit these diets and trends into your life, it becomes too much and you just give up. So instead, just start taking, you know, simple steps. Maybe for the first few weeks you'll start looking at nutrition labels a little bit differently and spying that evil ingredient sugar, where it is on the nutrient— or the ingredient list. And again, just something as simple as reading labels and getting educated on what to look for is such a game changer. And that's really not changing your budget when it comes to food. It's not changing the foods you eat. It may change a brand, but again, it's a huge improvement. And actually too, just not feeling like fitness is the answer. You know, I think we all probably started out thinking, you know, it's harder, faster, longer, stronger. And I was stuck in that rut too. I mean, I think I was probably killing myself in the gym until I realized the power of nutrition and how much more important it is than exercise. So take the pressure off is a good place to start.

Well, that's good to know because I mean, in the days of my younger days It was always about harder, faster, longer in the gym.

Really?

And, you know, my body could take it. Now it's harder, faster, longer, sleep for 12 hours.

Which is also a really good habit, by the way. You should make sure sleep is a priority. It really helps you reset and manage the stress of day-to-day living and incorporating exercise into your life. That's another very good habit.

Good to know. I'm trying. Like I said, I keep getting these messages, and I always had the fear that something would happen and I would die, and God would go, "How many people did I have to send to you with all these subtle messages that you didn't listen to?" I'm trying to start listening and incorporating. More of my blogger friends keep pointing things out, and then exercise people keep pointing things out. They're going, "Dennis, you just need 15 minutes a day. That's all. Do something.

Get off your lazy butt and do something." Do what you love, otherwise you won't stick with it. And yes, you can be efficient with it, and so it can take a third of the time. You know, I work out twice a week, maybe three times a week, instead of the six days a week that was like a job, and I'm healthier for it.

Good to know. So there are— there is hope. There's always hope. All right, well, let's move on to Kristen now. Kristen, You got some fans in the house, so let's talk to your fans and tell them what are you doing? How come we got so many people here for you today? Besides the fact that—

I don't know, maybe because I plus everything? I don't know. Oh gosh, they're so nice. So many shoutouts. Johnny S, gotta give a shoutout to my man. ABFTE Tribe, yeah! In the hizzy. Sunny, gosh, everyone. Just everyone's turning out. I love you all. This is so awesome. We support each other. I have a hashtag, #gpluslove, or #gpluscircleoflove, because that's what it is. That's what I'm doing on the Plus, really, is my ABFTE tribe, A View from the Edge. We just barely started. We did our 5th show yesterday.. And she was amazing. We had an amazing guest on. And what we have going for our HOA is we want only fresh faces, people that have never been seen before. So we're trying to take people who need that little extra push of engagement, and it's just amazing to watch them just flourish and bloom in our community. And we always say, okay, if you guys want to get in touch with our guests, you need to come to our community and join it, and that's where you'll find them. So it's really, it's really neat experience. We're not dealing with people that are, you know, like the typical people that have really risen through the ranks. So it's kind of edgy because we don't automatically have like an audience there. So we have to build, but that's fun. There's value in that.

Yeah, building the audience helps you create it the way you want it. And how it works better for you.

We're hoping so. It's working so far. We have a good time. I have 6 kids, and they're just the loves of my life. And I call myself the exploratory specialist because I'm trying to find my way. And I just had to laugh when Scott said that he was on trying to find his way, like find what he's wanting to do, because I'm like, oh, me too. And I'm already hero worshiping. Yeah, so that's what I'm doing. I'm in school for social transformation. I want to be a voice for the people that don't have one because I was there, and now I'm on the other side of it. It's time to give back.

Absolutely.

I think one of the most important lessons I always taught in my food classes when I would teach them to high school girls that I worked with was always remember that you have food to play with while we're doing this. There's people that don't have food to eat. You always have to give back. And whatever your passion is, the industry that you're working in, there's always a way you can give back through that kind of thinking. And, uh, you know, you have to remember, so it's really important.

I think someone here has a community called Pay It Forward.

Yeah, that's me. I haven't even talked about that yet, but that's, uh, something that I'm hoping to be able to use to integrate with people like yourself that are actively reaching out and trying to help other people without expecting anything in return. That's really what the Pay It Forward community is about. I haven't spent a lot of time promoting it yet because I've been working on the TV show, but it's something that, that will be integrated into the website a little bit more down the road.

That's a good idea.

It seems to have like the look and feel of Google+. We all want to be helpful and supportive of each other, but then someone has to come forward and provide the framework in order for that to be accomplished. So it sounds like you're doing a couple of initiatives, Wayne, along that path.

Yeah, that's right. And it's using the communities to do it, but it's helping us to have a way to connect that we've never had before because we're able to use this community and do it in a way that will reach out to a large audience. And I don't think— matter of fact, there's a Pay It Forward community by the Pay It Forward, the nonprofit organization, that's the Pay It Forward nonprofit. And they only have like, I don't know, 25 people in the community. And mine's now growing, it's probably close to 100 now, I don't know. But that's exciting to me because I'd like to be able to take those people and help us to work together on a larger scale down the road sometime.

Well, it's always good to get more voices involved, more people from different avenues of life. We all have things that we can help with. Not one of us is a specialist in anything, but together we're stronger and together we can do a lot more. As I was talking about in the green room, this infrastructure, this network that we're building is just so special. By reaching out to each other and getting to know each other in a way we never could before because of Hangouts. I don't know if any of you have seen David Amerland's new book out. I want to give David a shout out and a plug. I just got it for my Kindle. I was waiting for my autographed copy and it hasn't come yet, so I figured let me get it on my Kindle so I can start reading it. I'm hoping to meet him one day soon too, so I'll have him sign everything I have at that point.

Have him sign the back of your iPhone.

Have him sign my arm, anywhere I can get him to sign.

But you're right, and it Not only can we interconnect with each other, it is so easy. If I want to have coffee with someone, it's an hour and a half or 2 hours. You have to drive across town, park, go in. This way with Hangouts, it's a click of the button and you're in an intimate relationship because you can make eye contact. And so people who want to gather around some sort of an affinity group like pay it forward, it's, it's not an inconvenience. It's, well, why don't we all just get together? And it's almost as easy, if not easier, than a telephone call.

Right, and then it likely magnifies everyone's efforts because paying it forward is addictive. I mean, you do it, you feel amazing, someone hears that and they want to do it, and all of a sudden this community has an amazing potential.

Yeah. So one thing I'm curious about are helpouts and your experience with helpouts, Lani. I'm wondering, A, if there are any surprises, and B, well, what your reflections are on it now that you've had a little bit of experience.

It's been, you know, I've been coaching clients on the phone and through email, so obviously it's a game changer when you can have a conversation. It just feels different. So much better. You feel like you make so much more progress. But of course my husband's always like the lurker. He's like, well, what if you just like the video chat starts and you just see something you're not supposed to see? And I haven't had that experience yet, thankfully. But it's been really fun. The challenge is that you have to have a Google+ account. So we know we're the cool people, and a lot of people out there don't appreciate appreciate what the Google+ offers. So it's sort of a deterrent to using Helpouts. And then as much as I could sit on there all day and offer free advice, we all want this to sort of support what we do on a day-to-day basis. And it's been a hard transition. Again, there are some steps that you have to have Google Wallet. And so again, when you start to add the hurdles, I think there are less people interested in trying it out. To be honest, I think most of my clients have come from outside of the States, which is interesting. But, you know, I think there's a lot of hurdles, but they're very responsive and they're working really hard to really create a platform of service that is really unique.

I think they are the way of the future for sure, but I want to throw this up real quick from Sunny. First time seeing Lonnie Latty, you are gorgeous.

It must be the filter.

I don't think so. But anyway, you know, helpouts I think are the future. It's a hard transition. I worked with ChefHangout.com for a couple years trying to get these paid cooking classes off the ground, and it was really, really difficult. And I think that the whole idea of paying for that is something down the road a little bit more as time progresses.

I would think that the Google community, it would be robust enough— I mean, not the Google community, the Hangout community would be robust enough that there would be enough people to feed helpouts until it caught on with the general population.

I think as a free service it was wildly popular. It's those of us now that say, okay, let's turn this into— and you know, there are promo codes. I offer a free promo code, but it's just that transition to—

Because if it's on the internet, it needs to be free. Information just Wants to be free, huh?

And I want to help everyone, so it's a struggle right now really how to best utilize it.

But you know, you deserve to also get paid for your time and your expertise. And you know, everyone wants to offer something for free, but you know, you have to find channels for that. You know, just like with the Pay It Forward, you want to find somewhere where it's actually going to do some good. You're going to donate your time and your efforts. Let's give it to somebody that needs it, not just Joe Public out there who wants to improve themselves for free. Let's do it where we're going to donate. Let's do it where it does some good. And Mia Voss said, well said, Lonnie. Paying it forward is addicting. And that is so true. And Maggie Unzueta is in the house. I love encouraging people to jump on G+. And yes, you are gorgeous. That's coming from her. She's another gorgeous one too. I mean, I got to have you all on one day and just sit here and swoon. Heather Crafter is here. She loves communities. Thank you for coming on and fighting your Wi-Fi connection. Tim Longwell just posted the link for the Pay It Forward community for us.

Yeah, thank you, Tim.

Joanne Woolley stopped in and she's saying hi to everybody. Wayne, pay it forward and work together. It's that kind of synergy that happens here with people that host these shows. Can't wait for your launch. So we've got a lot of excited people. Here's Kim V. She just stopped in. I think that's also the power benefits of bringing together various talents onto one platform, directly connecting in authentic ways. The world just shrank into one window. G+ is the best for brainstorming at its best. Love hearing your stories and tips. Hoping to start their own Helpout soon. And Kim is a former teacher who teaches her children at home now.— and as encouraging other parents to teach their children more at home. My wife used to be a teacher. She retired. And one of her biggest complaints was kids would come in not having as many social skills as they should have or that they used to and that the parents were expecting them to teach that in school as well. So, used to have those battles all the time. So it's a matter of teaching your own a little bit. And, uh, Lani, I notice you have some wonderful artwork behind you.

I do, look, it's our art wall.

I love that you have them framed.

Yeah, you know, there's beautiful— I'm sure Kristen has piles and piles. You don't want to store them away and you don't want to recycle them because they catch you in the effort of being kind to the environment. But yeah, we just pick some favorites every year and I love it, it's really good.

Okay, I want to do a shout out to Joanne Woolley. Out of, out of everybody on Google+, I would have to say she's in the top 10 of my favorites simply because she is everywhere all the time and constantly giving so much positive energy. And I don't know if you all know her very well, but I do, or feel like I do, and it's because she's so active, and I think that's why a forum like this works so well. It rewards people who are active and who interact and engage. I know we get— we're all tired of hearing engagement, but it rewards people who, who ask questions and start conversations. And so thank you, Joanne, for, for being here and supporting me.

So Wayne, would you repeat her full name please so that those of us who didn't get it the first time can look her up and circle her?

Yes, Joanne Woolley.

Let me pop this up too.

Bingo.

You'll get to see Joanne a little more in depth on my show next week. She's a guest on Good Day Google+, so stop back for that. Also want to give a quick shout out too to my friend Kathleen. Cosmo and we had a really good conversation, actually it was about a 4-hour conversation a couple weeks ago that we thought was going to go about 30 minutes as I was talking about Google+ and all the wonderful things and she left going, "I want that, I really want that. You don't find it on Twitter, you don't find it on Facebook." Glad to see you here today, Kathleen. Here we go. I just got goosebumps. Big hugs, my new brother Wayne. Oh, and I like Maggie. Oh, I lost it here. Oh my goodness.

Maggie, I can't— we can't see you, or at least I can't on my end.

Maggie just posted, thank you, Blush, let's do a Hotties in the Kitchen episode. That sounds like a plan. All right, can you see me now?

Here we go.

Alright guys, so let's keep this party going. If you have any questions, any comments, please put them in there. If not, let's talk about a little bit more about what we do. We mentioned Ellen earlier. Scott, what did you want to talk about? My favorite host.

Well, you know something, and we've got to do it early enough in the show so that we can get a little bit of juice in the comments stream and then see if we can launch something. I know my friend David Leopold has contacted Ellen DeGeneres a couple of times. HOAville is such a huge community, and if you go to the Ellen DeGeneres website, you see that she's just reaching out to so many people to engage in so many different ways. You know, it It is my opinion that she is missing a bet by not getting onto Google+ and Hangouts On Air. There really aren't any celebrities who have really seen the light or drunk the Kool-Aid yet. Maybe William Shatner a little bit and Conan O'Brien has dabbled in it. But Ellen could come in and own the space. But in order to do that, she would benefit by coming on one of your programs, I think, Chef. And it could be Around the Kitchen Table or it could be Google Plus, Good Day Google Plus, either one of them. And then after that maybe a stint with Mia Voss and should never look back. Can you just imagine her program with a big screen on stage and there is a film strip of 10 people and she could even spring for the business account and get 15 people and interact that way. So I propose that we start a campaign to demonstrate the power of Google+ and Hangouts on Air and this HOAville, this metropolitanist that we're in this global village and start a campaign that is #GetAlan. And what that means is to get Alan on your program in this film strip.

That would be amazing. I could go for that.

Let's do it. Someone has to pick up the ball and run with it because I'm not a digital strategist. But I'll bet you that there are one or two people out there who could be thinking about it and think, you know, we talk about the power of this platform and how it can change the world. Wayne, change the world. Yes. Okay, well, here is one way that we can demonstrate. And all it takes is one. And Ellen, Tag, you're it. You're the one.

Oh, she would have such a good time on Google+ too. She's got the personality for it, that's for sure.

Yeah, you know, and it also brings me back to my most recent post on my page. I think I posted it last night or this morning sometime. It's a Hangout that Yafat Cohen did a while back, maybe a week ago. It's about a 2-hour Hangout, but she covers— in that Hangout she covers how Hangouts how HOAs give us the ability to reach people in ways that celebrities aren't even reaching people, simply because we are real and we engage. And if a celebrity was to take their clout and engage with people, imagine what that would do to their career path. And if we can somehow articulate that to those individuals, like what some of us are to get people from the outside in on our shows,. If we could do that with celebrities, just imagine the impact that would have on the overall collectiveness of moving forward with Google+ down the road.

And Kristin, your program is specializing on bringing in people who are kind of unknown in HOAs. Ellen would be a terrific guest for you. She fits the profile perfectly, right?

I know, I was going to say that. She needs to come on ours first.

Well, this has been a desire of yours for quite a while, hasn't it, Chef Dennis?

Well, yeah, it has, because when I started Good Day Google+, you know, I was thinking about where I wanted it to go. It took a while to kind of iron the bugs out, and, you know, people— what it really started as, people were asking me, what show would you like to be on? And long ago, my wife had asked me, what are your goals in this? What are you trying to get out of this? And I told her two things. One, I wanted to be a household name, and the other was to be on Ellen's show. I wasn't looking for money, which is always nice, but that wasn't the prime reason I was doing anything. So she's always kind of been someone that I really enjoy watching. People ask about Oprah, and I said, no, she scares the hell out of me. I'd be afraid she's going to ask me some really difficult questions. And I'd be there—

I'm going to cry.

But Ellen, she would just throw things at you or have you play games, have a good time, make some food for her, things like that. That's kind of where—

It'd be really cool if somehow they were— her website was flooded. There's a way that you can leave comments and make suggestions. And I know I've done it a couple of times, and David, and I don't know, maybe countless other people have done it. Well, now we're starting a movement. I'm just curious to find out how long it'll take. Maybe we can even get a lottery going, you know, a calendar. Setup, and people can guess the day and the time that you will first appear on the Plus on your show.

Here's a comment from Sonny. You and other Ellen fans should record a video inviting her on your show. Share it here. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, wherever. That's a good idea, Sonny. Thank you so much for that.

Sonny, we'll make the Scott treatment out of it.

There you go. We'll have to work on that. We'll have to plan that and get some other people on involved.

Yeah, so I'll tell you what, anytime anyone makes a call to action to get Ellen on Chef Dennis' program, send me the URL and the time and I'll make the Scott treatment out of it and give it to Chef Dennis and then there can be a collection of it, of those.

Here is also a comment from Kim Vige, perhaps Steve Spangler maybe be able to ask I'm not sure he's Ellen DeGeneres' science guy. I don't know, Steve, so that would be a good one to go after.

It's beginning.

It's beginning.

Right? So we need an official hashtag that everybody uses, right? Isn't that how hashtags work? I'm not a marketer.

I thought it might be #GetEllen, but I'll defer to wiser voices.

Yeah, I saw #GetEllen a few times. Yeah, I like that.

I like it.

That works for me. Yeah, I mean, our effort to bring Kevin Bacon on kind of fell a little short, so maybe if we get Ellen on, we could have Ellen invite Kevin on and some of her buds.

See, 2 degrees of separation, right?

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Who knows who will be on next? It's a whole brave new world out there, and I keep thinking there's 2 things that I always think Google should capitalize on. And one is their new slogan should be— I don't know if anyone here is a Star Trek fan, but I've been a Trekkie for a long time, and one of my favorite slogans was the Borg's: "Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated." So that's when people are telling me they don't want to come to Google, that's what I want to tell them. I should have a shirt that says that. "Resistance is futile." And the other one— and I actually forgot what I was going to say, it's terrible being old. So we'll just have to go with the one I was going to say.

It's a good one.

It'll come back.

It'll come back. So Lani, any exercise I can do to get my brain back?

It's the sleeping. The sleeping is good.

The sleeping. You know, I have to say, I just started wearing one of those masks because I was not sleeping well for many years and just found out. It's amazing what sleep will do for you.

Yeah, absolutely. I always thought I was so fabulous for, you know, being okay on 5 hours of sleep when I needed to raising babies, but at the end of the day, when you really look into the benefits of sleep and how it sort of resets your hormones and keeps your cravings at bay, because that definitely plays into it. If you get a bad night's sleep, you might notice you're a lot hungrier the next day. Absolutely.

Yeah, that's interesting. Do you have any tips on getting better sleep?

You know, it's really establishing a routine. You have to treat yourself like a child and just do all the things that you did when you were establishing those routines for your kids. You know, an hour before you go to sleep, turn off your screens, get a book, make some tea, you know, just start to wind down.. And once you're consistent in doing that, your brain will already recognize. I know I pick up a book every night and I can barely get 3 pages into it because my brain's already like, "Oh, it's time for bed." And so it's just setting up those habits and making sure that, you know, you're pretty consistent in the time you go to bed because then waking up is so much easier.

That happens to me in the middle of the day with a book.

Well, there's power in naps, so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

I love what you said right there about treating yourself the way that you treated your children. That's just so beautiful. You need to love yourself.

You have to.

You have to in order to love other people.

You require the same amount of effort, you know, and we fall through the cracks just because we do, but at the end of the day, to really be the best parent and best person. You deserve all of the things you do for everyone else.

Lonni, do you think it matters with books? I know I'm a big one for having the computer on much too long, and I've been trying to turn it off and unwind, like you said. But I read on a Kindle. Do you think that is a bad thing?

You know, I don't think it is. You're not really getting all the flashing lights and that sort of involvement in a show or anything. So, and there's also like you can set your screen brightness, and there's some pages that are softer than others, so I think it's fine. I think it's just the routine of reading that is gonna be really powerful.

Thank you.

All right, Wayne just popped one up. It's an FYI, GetElinn has been used quite a bit already according to Topsy. Oh, okay. What's TOPSY? That's my next question.

I have no idea, but it sounds interesting.

It certainly does. I remember Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail. TOPSY's a little elusive here.

Well, there's a link there. We can chase it later.

Okay, here's another quick shout out to Elena Bellometti is in the house. Hi Elena, how you doing? I had a nice hangout with her the other day, and she's going to be coming on our show in the near near future. Ray Miller is also in. A brave new G+ world. I like it. And Sonny wants one of the shirts, resistance is futile. I'll have to see if we can get those printed up. Maybe Google can make some for us. I don't know if they go that way, though. Here's Joanne. Let's brainstorm and see one that we can use another way.

Ellen rocks. That's pretty good.

#OnRocks is great.

That might be better because that's so positive.

Yep, it's building.

Mm-hmm.

But do we have to tie Google+ into the hashtag so we can sort of reference it and come full circle? The other one—

Well, we can make a statement and then use that as a hashtag, you know, as long as the hashtag's there to pull them together. And then we can use it on Twitter too for that matter. The other social media.

Which might be picked up a little bit quicker at some point when you're talking about celebrities.

Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, you know, Ellen wouldn't mind having the moniker Ellen Rocks. And she went to, I'm reminded, she went to the Academy Awards and did the selfie and tried to crash Twitter, so it's It's not as if she's social media hostile or illiterate or anything like that. Sounds good.

Here's Amy Pablan saying, "Tip on sleep: treat your bedroom as a place for peace and sleep. It's not a hangout to play video games or where to watch TV while you eat. Make it your haven." There we go.

Well, it's kind of interesting because every time sleep came up, I was thinking how little sleep I had when I was in high school and early college. I mean, I worked at a radio station midnight till 6, and then I went to school, and I was sleeping through everything. And if I had to do it over again, I would just get as much sleep as I needed because there are years, years I just don't remember, and I'm sure they were just dissipated in a fog of not knowing. So when you're young, you think you don't need sleep, and that's when it's the most important.

Did you ever see that meme that says that you wish that you could have just banked all your naps that you refused to take as a child so you could use them now?

Yeah.

I know. We were at Disney the other day, and there's a set of twins in strollers, and one of them is like laying sideways in her stroller. She is zonked out, and I think kids can just sleep anywhere. It's so great. When they're tired, it's over. It's over, or it gets ugly. You got to let them sleep. The other one's happy as a clam, and she was just out.

That reminds me of when I was working as an EMT. We'd drop somebody off at the hospital, make the cot, and one of us would drive back to the station, and the other one would sleep in the cot on the way back. You know, and it worked out. We'd take turns, and I got pretty good at sleeping anywhere. And that's why I say if I pick up a book now in the middle of the day, I'm done.

But it's a good thing that both of you weren't back there. If you both had cots and looked at each other wondering who was driving— not good.

Okay.

Oh, and I don't know, I think sleep is underrated. I think it's overrated, personally. I think it's over. I don't do it, obviously.

Well, you know, that's a good point. There are some people in this world who legitimately only need 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Roosevelt, not Teddy, the other one.

Franklin.

Franklin, thank you. When he was police commissioner in New York, evidently he'd get 2, 3 hours of sleep in his office, and then he would walk around the streets during the early morning hours just to see how things are doing and check up and say hi to his guys. So there is that class of people out there, you're right, who don't need a lot of sleep. It's just one of those things.

Maybe we can thank it and then use it for those of us who do need sleep.

Lonnie, I couldn't hear you real well then. I don't know if you were fading.

Oh, I was just saying we could steal their sleep then, they could just pay it forward.

Oh, there you go.

That's awesome.

Another good concept, a sleep bank.

Sleep bank.

It's kind of like Monsters, Inc., right? I can see that in the future where we pay people to sleep for us because we don't have time.

There we go.

What a concept. Okay, here's a— Sonny did mention too what Topsy was for us. "It's a search analytics site for tweets. You can discover if and when a hashtag has been used. You can also see how often some topic or hashtag has been tweeted in a certain time period." That's good to know. Thank you, Sunny. Sunny uses Twitter a lot more, I think, than most of us.

Sunny's in the comment track is also asking, "How old are your kids, Kristin?" Ah, yeah.

Um, okay, my oldest Courtney Taylor, she is 11, and I have Travis Alexander who is 9, uh, Leilani Belle Brianne is 7, Gavin Woodrow is 4— or sorry, 5, and Scarlet Daisy is 4, and Dallin Lee is 3.

Great names.

Thanks.

So you've been busy.

Yeah, busy exploring.

They keep you on your toes too. You must not get much sleep because of that.

Oh yeah, no, I'm definitely blessed and fortunate that I am one of those people that doesn't need sleep because there would just— I would be sad because I wouldn't get it. And I'm happy and I don't get it. Best of both worlds.

Sounds good. Plus, holidays must be wonderful around your house with so many people gathered around the holiday table.

Oh yeah, very lively. Um, every single commercial that they—

Kristin, you still have that thing on your— the slide is up for your face too, if you can get rid of that. You can see on—

oh wait, here, let me see.

Hmm.

Un eyeball it. At the top.

Ah, okay. I have Joanne Woolley up at the top. See, there we go. Sorry about that.

There we go.

New to HOAs.

So you're saying about around the table? Or the ads?

Oh yeah, it's a blast. Just the amount of artwork that we see is amazing. And I have a tip and a trick for that. Like, the kids pick their favorites and they give them away as presents. That's a good thing to do with them. And so then when they go to visit, they can see, "Hey, Grandma has this on my wall. Grandma has that," you know. So that's a good way to do it and then also Evernote. You know, you can't keep everything but you can keep everything in Evernote.

Do you scan them then or?

Yeah, I just take picture with like the document camera.

Oh cool, what a great idea.

That is way cool.

Thanks.

Because you keep things from, you know, from youth and then you have boxes and boxes and boxes, and you know, that's really hard to carry through the decades. And multiply that by 6, my gosh.

Yeah, and Evernote with their bomb awesome hash— or their tagging and their indexing system, like they just do it all for you. You just take the picture and then it's done. They can analyze it and put it where it needs to go. It's easy. Evernote is like, I'm an Evernote enthusiast, I just am.

I just started using it myself so I'm learning.

Yeah, I haven't spent much time on it but do you talk with Jason Frasca much about Evernote?

We haven't gotten to like really talk about Evernote but I did finally purchase his book a couple weeks ago and I haven't started reading it yet but I know just from like following him around in Google+ that gently stalking, that he's just amazing, he's a master at that. So I look forward to reading that book.

Jason's book is terrific. He was a guest on the Jess Scott You Show and just really turned me around. I dropped Evernote a few years ago and I think it takes like 2 or 3 times, it's like stopping smoking, it takes 2 or 3 times before you really get into to and it takes hold for Evernote. But once you're there, it's really great.

Joanne Wally wants to know, what is a document camera?

Oh, well, I have the Android app. Of course I have it on my laptop also, but the Android app has a document camera. I believe that the Apple one does too. Apple usually gets things first as far as Evernote goes.

So it's just something built into Evernote then, the document camera?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Yeah, they've got the Post-it camera too. That's a really cool one also. They've got like, they have a collaboration with Post-it notes and there's like 4 different colors and you just write. If you're a person that like you need to have a pen and paper, I do, I have it all set up.. You just write your sticky and put it up on your computer or wherever and then you can take a picture of it with a Post-it note camera and that's another way of organizing your notes and your collection of your different thoughts throughout the day.

Cool. Yeah, how I've been using it lately is when I find an HOA post that's a really good post and I want to come back to to it, I don't have time, I'll just tag it and put it in what I've called like an inbox folder and then I'll come back through the inbox later, go through the posts, you know, late in the evening and empty it out.

Oh, that's excellent.

But, you know, I don't know much more about it than that.

I'll have to get a hold of Jason and see if he'll come on and tell us more about it then because I am really Somebody asked me what my favorite apps on my phone were. I got the new one because it was the new one, but I really can't get it to do much other than be a phone and answer my emails and social media. That's pretty much it. I know it does all kinds of amazing things, but not for me.

Well, one of these days you're going to originate a Hangout on Air in the field somewhere with your smartphone.

Oh, absolutely. They're coming. Actually, next weekend. And I'm not going to do— I probably won't be the one doing it, but I'll be at Celebrations for the Great American Pie Festival. And we're going to be doing some interviewing there, so I'll be out on site. Hopefully they'll have a quiet room for me, but I know when I was talking to Leah Segedy about her conference, I threw some ideas out about putting a team together to go out and wander the conference with mobiles, with one of us stationary. So I'm sure that's coming. We're going to have some fun with it.

Yeah. Where's that located at?

That's going to be in Los Angeles. OK. And that's the first week of October. I think it's the 2nd through the 4th. So I've never been to LA, so that'll be interesting all in itself. I'll be like a tourist there too, so if I get to see any of it.

Lots of good Google Plussers down there.

Where does Ellen originate her program from?

She's out there, but I'm not sure if it's Burbank or Los Angeles or where. But that would be good. Ellen and I will be out there, but I'll also make a special trip for you too. Just let me know when.

So have we decided on a hashtag yet, or is it just going to be organic?

Um, I don't know. Well, let's go through the comments afterwards and we can figure out. Pick on it. Alright, so it's 2 o'clock, it's been an hour, and like I said, time did fly. So I'm gonna just go through everybody real quick and we'll say goodbye and then we'll be done for the day. But Wayne, any last thoughts you'd like to share with us, or any projects coming up, or anything you'd like us to know about?

Sure, I just want you to all know that I do have the website up and running, a world for change dot com. Go there, check it out. I'm open to any feedback. I'm not a website builder. I'm not good with hand typing, you know, writing blog posts. I'm much better building a— I don't know, doing a vlog more than I am hand typing. So tell me, give me feedback. I'd love to have feedback from all of you brilliant minds out there. And connect with me on Google+.

Sounds good. Scott, I know you told us about your new website. Would you like to talk a little bit more about that? Sure. Is there anything else you'd like to let us know?

Sure, looking forward to seeing Wayne's website. Mine just went live this morning for the show and it is thescotttreatment.com. Really easy to get to and I invite everyone to drop on by, check it out and take a listen to the Bat Crap Crazy song that's in the upper right-hand corner.

And guys, please feel free to leave links in the comments section for all this too. Lani, any last thoughts or anything you'd like to tell us about projects?

Well, if anyone's interested in trying out Helpouts, there is a promo code right now on the listing. So if you go to the nutrition and fitness section on Helpouts, I'm listed there. I'm actually launching another Helpout. But we can talk for free. You can get a feel for the new platform, and I would love to help you since amplify all that noise and advice and tips that everyone sort of hears and doesn't know much what to do with.

And you do, do corporations too, like if there's some corporate offices that need something for their employees, you know, this is a really good way to get your employees back on track and awake and productive.

Absolutely, you know, it's not as much the return on investment for wellness anymore, but it's productivity, and it's so simple to boost morale and company culture. It's not expensive. It's a great way to start, especially if you know that there's a lot of risk factors you have to address with your unhealthiest employees. If you start building that bandwagon and that whole environment, a lot easier to just get the ball rolling and have people make some big changes.

Very good, and now you can do it through through Google Hangouts too. You don't even have to fly to their corporate headquarters to do it.

Lots of great video support, especially for companies that have multiple locations and they just want to make sure that that synergistically works with everyone.

And you can also use the private section now of YouTube Live and create videos especially for them, tailored for them, that they can work along with and send to their different locations. So that's a great tool.

Yeah, absolutely.

Gotta love it. Alright, and Kristen, talk to us. What are you doing fun? What can we look forward to from you? What would you like to share?

Oh gosh, well, A View from the Edge. Come to our community, sign up and watch our show and support our people. They're just fabulous, wonderful, wonderful human beings. And the community, we just love each other and we're just all about positivity and sharing each other's passions, Art Edge. So that's one thing. Find me on Google+ because honestly I use friends plus me, and so I may not see if you respond in the other things. I try, but Google+ is my home. So come and circle me and have fun.

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