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This is a Podcast surrounding the adventure, struggle, beauty and intricacies of new parenthood. Hosted by three parents, totally 10 kids in together, they go through their mazes and phases of parenting styles, parenting norms, modern day parents, their trials and tribulations whilst keeping it raw and unfiltered. Thanking you for joining us on this journey and we hope we can bring some value to new parents, old parents and those thinking of becoming parents
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Guiding Our Children Through a World Transformed by Tech | Episode 16 Part 2
As modern parents navigate the labyrinth of raising kids in the digital age, we too find ourselves at the crossroads of tradition and innovation. Our latest conversation is a treasure trove of insights, where we dissect the fabric of contemporary parenting, the surge of technology, and the entrepreneurial energy that is rewriting societal scripts. We talk with visionaries who share their personal battles and triumphs, from harnessing the unique energy of ADHD to the intricacies of conveying love and wisdom to our offspring. We tackle the silent struggles that come with non-verbal communication challenges in children, the parental stress it brews, and its long-term implications on our ever-evolving society.
Step into a realm where cryptocurrency is no mere trend but a lifeline for marginalized communities, echoing the unbridled spirit of the early internet era. In company with our guests, we dissect the role of education and its power to mold the future, deciphering the historical narratives that have long been spoon-fed to us. We navigate through heated family debates, the influence of personal beliefs, and the significance of equipping our children with critical thinking skills. The power of an entrepreneurial mindset and the strategic finesse behind successful product launches, sometimes synced with the stars, are also part of our rich tapestry of discussions.
In the homestretch, we pay tribute to the unsung heroes of parenting—the partners and mothers whose silent sacrifices are the bedrock of child development. We address the juggling act faced by working mothers, share tales of transformative career shifts, and highlight the indomitable spirit of Black families that continue to shape their narratives with strength and resilience. We conclude with an introspective look at Skighton Academy, an initiative poised to arm the next generation with the tools needed for a world where traditional careers are an endangered species. Join us for this enlightening exploration that intertwines the intimate with the universal, the present with the historical, and the individual with the collective.
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What bothers me and what keeps me from sleeping at night is that my child can't verbalize. If something happened, he can't tell me, he can't.
Speaker 2:That thousand year plan you're talking about. That's real. There are books from the 1700s that speak about things that have taken place in the 1900s and the 2000s taking place in the 1900s and the 2000s. So, when you think about how all that is set up and that's why I see, when you got into the crypto world, the decentralization of things is where, okay, I can, I can create my own economy.
Speaker 2:One of the best things about Sky and when I was doing the class was you guys create your own virtual world, and I remember I had my, my Oculus. I'm like this is is crazy, and it was in its infancy, right, I don't know where it's at now, by the way, I'm joining sky in again just because, just so you know, um, and it was, I was like damn, it opened up new things in my mind. It opened new ways of thinking. The again the first session. When we talk about numerology, you know, uh, how meta and all these different companies release certain things in alignment with retrograde, in alignment with like full moons, in alignment with whatever's happening in the universe. It's not by mistake. They know your buying habits. They know when you're not going to purchase, they know when not to sell you things?
Speaker 3:What opened your mind up to that stuff, though I was born with this you know, this is innate, this can't be taught, and that's the thing too is I don't. I don't follow social norms. I've always been a disruptor and not like you know, there's some people that just go against it just to go, just to be a contrarian. I've, I've, yeah, I've. I've never been that guy and I didn't. We didn't have that much language back in the days wrapped around entrepreneurship and all this other stuff. I just knew, listen, I went from paperboy to this to this. I've never had a W-2 paying job in the last 30 years. I had a job. I mean I've had those jobs before, but I mean it's my adult life.
Speaker 3:I would say probably right around 19 it might have ended and then from that point on, I was eating off like land. I mean, every day I woke up I had to make a decision. And then there's some things I figured out how to make easy, quick money. I've always analyzed risk, right, and not all the time just on the other side and I'm going to jump out the window type of guy and figure it out right. The other thing, too is I can't be swayed out of something, so I'm not going to ask you for permission or let me run this by you, right, because I'll trigger.
Speaker 3:I trigger everyone's fears. You know what I'm saying. Like people come to me and it's like listen, I'm the wrong guy to come to. When you're asking about starting a business and you're working full time, right, what you focus on will expand. So when you're giving this guy 40 hours and another eight in traffic, where do you really have time to put in? Okay, so it's good that she came up with you. Guys talked about the language situation. So just recently, goldman Sachs and a lot of top CEOs have been saying the same thing. If you're going to go to college especially for engineers psychology, philosophy and English understanding human behavior is at an all-time high now because the basic programming language is gone.
Speaker 3:You don't need any more coders, you need people who can talk into chat correctly yes you need people who can talk into machine learning to then spit out what you need for the end result and the thing about women black and brown is you guys hold the key to humanity. So imagine when you pick up the skillset to be able to create machine learning for everyday things that we need right. So if we allow single white males to create these things from a basement, I could tell you that they don't have a good gauge on the world and this ain't a dig at them. No, it's true.
Speaker 3:It just is what it is. If Steve was to build a product, I have everybody in mind, from rich to poor and everything in between, because I've come across this. So we had a friend who said something one day and it still sticks with me and she's like you know, a majority of these guys that are creating these products are on the spectrum and I'm like. So now you know, you sit for a couple of years and you start to take in information. Steve is constantly researching information and then having to spit it back out and create something, but it was the first time in life that I actually truly was listening to everything that was around me as a signal, as a sign.
Speaker 3:This is during the pandemic, yeah, during the pandemic. This is when it was heightened. But what changed was my perspective from going on those journeys, right, those healing journeys and again. So, for your fear, it's not going to show the trauma in how you think it's going to show it. It didn't make me relive what happened at all, because as a child I think I might've buried a majority of it. I don't, I can't even recall it. She would speak to my mom and she would tell her something and I'm like I honestly don't remember that. So the it's somewhere in the body sitting right, because the response would that's a protection mechanism, that's it. That's what it's there for. You don't want to keep reliving this. That's why I talk therapy.
Speaker 3:We don't buy into that, because it's like you're not being honest with this individual that you found online that you could only use through your insurance company? So we're there for marriage counseling and he diagnosed me with ADHD and that's like. I'm like bro, that's my superpower.
Speaker 1:Right. You know, that's my superpower, right? You know that's my superpower, I love it. He was like do you need some medication? You should go and work. Like maybe you wouldn't be having these issues with your husband if you had some another lawyer to talk to. You're talking to the wrong person, you know, and I just I wasn't now we get.
Speaker 3:Why, yeah, you Just cut him off, so I came into it with a different mindset. Now, steve finally, ego's dead, still here when it needs to be Right. But so back to the crypto. Situation in 2015 is when I picked it up Again. If it wasn't for my network at the time, that information never gets to the black and brown community, it's still not there to this day. It's only 6% of the world population invested in this.
Speaker 3:Okay, so what really triggered me is when I started the research, I said all right, give me a time in history that was similar to this, and it was the internet in the nineties. History always repeats itself, so that's another thing. We don't study history Right or patterns. I always say that, yeah, speak to black people in regards to history. It starts with cotton and I'm like listen, my people didn't pick cotton. We actually came from Haiti, so we did what we needed to do to become independent. So I'm not the cotton picker and you can tell yourself whatever you want to tell yourself, but imagine how there's no power in that to think that you came from a slave. So this is why you're learning all this new stuff on TikTok. This is why you see the bands on. They just can't control information Right.
Speaker 3:If they did have a part, we'll get on Patreon for that one, but if they did have an owner that is of a particular thing, then they put a stop to whatever they don't like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it used to be. If you want to hide something from our people, put it in a book. But now our kids don't even have books at school anymore. They're using iPads, yes. So it's like now, like okay, guys, the jig is up, what are you going to do now? And it's hard to shut off that flow of information, especially when you know we're able to just get on that little smartphone and let off whatever it is and research it.
Speaker 5:And there's so many other channels that they are finding these things out. I always thought, like this is something that I tell my children is don't believe everything you think. Don't believe everything you think. And they didn't understand that and I literally had to be like you were taught how to think this way. I taught you how to think certain things. Your father taught you how to think certain things. They teach you in school how to think certain things and certain ways. Don't believe that. Have questions. Yeah, ask those questions. Research that if it doesn't sound right, it doesn't feel right, it's probably not right question everything but your intuition yes and so going.
Speaker 5:it's something where you, when you said that, I was like I say this to my kids in a different way, but yeah, yeah, I do say that to my kids and we fight about, oh, we fight about so many things. We fight about flat earth.
Speaker 5:We fight about all sorts of things. We're sitting there having these conversations that people do not have with their kids, and I'm having these conversations and we're literally we get hype in there and the house is divided. They are divided. They think I'm crazy and I'm like cool when this comes out and you go see papa dios and he tells you then we're gonna see what's gonna happen, but don't listen to me she's like has anyone gone to antarctica?
Speaker 5:right, that's me, that's me but I'm you know those are the weather the wall and yeah, all those things like these are conversations that were meant, and all of that firmament, all those things. I literally these are conversations that I have with my kids. I was like yelling at like, ok, so my baby daddy, he is very much you know into the church and and the Bible and all of these things, and I'm like, did you really read it though? Did you really understand it though? Because you're sitting here arguing with me about something that's written in a book that you believe in so hard. We are having this conversation, and all you had to do was understand. There's so much like back and forth, but these are conversations that I'm having with my kids that they're not going to get this from other places. They might get it on TikTok, though.
Speaker 1:No, but this is the exercise right Of, just like okay, can you converse? Can you hold true to what you believe in? Can you have evidence to back it up? You know all of that. That's great exercise for your kids.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I definitely have those conversations and I'm like, because they're not doing it at school? Oh, they're not, they're not. And I'm always like show me where, show me, prove it to me, state your case, I want to know, tell me, I want you to sell it to me. So we go back to ami, my, my 12 year old he the other day, well, a couple weeks ago, he goes oh, mom, I don't want to go to school tomorrow. And I'm like why?
Speaker 4:why don't?
Speaker 5:you want to go to school? Talk to me. Tell me why he's like I just don't want to be there and I was like fair Fair.
Speaker 2:You get a day off. You get a day off. Then you get your mental health break.
Speaker 5:Listen because it was more about the honesty. You know, just tell me what's going on. You don't want to go to school, yeah, and be like are you being bullied? Are you doing that? No, I know my kids are not being bullied, but give me that conversation, let's talk. Let's talk, let's be honest. And he said no, and advocate for yourself, yes.
Speaker 2:That's a big lesson. I know your kids watch you guys right Operate, but do you ever? Because you have to teach them some things. Our kids like I'm. I'm right now with an eight-year-old. This is her brain is soaking things up right, and when I talk she she makes fun of me sometimes like yeah, you used to walk 10 000 miles to get to school and at my age you were by yourself on the train. I'm like what are?
Speaker 1:you doing my daughter's like back in your day in the 1900s?
Speaker 2:excuse you miss back in the 1900s, I was still in the 21st century but when I try to speak to her about these things, like you know, I try to show her what I'm doing now, like chasing my dreams. Right, I'm not stagnant, I'm doing what I have to do work-wise. But on the weekend, you know, I'll take this time out. I go do this and I show her stuff and I know she gets it right because I, because I'm a singer, I've been singing since I was a kid, so she hears me sing, I see her sing. Now she likes the drama club, she's in musical theater. It's like, yeah, musical theater, she's doing that and I'm like, damn, but why isn't she picking up on me reading these books, me taking these courses or me talking about this stuff? What is advice you give people to instill that in your children, aside from just them watching you like, is there a pattern, is a setup, something you do?
Speaker 1:um, for me, being a lawyer, right that that time in my life of like that particular type of training of your mind was so like pivotal for me. So I'm more of like a socratic method parent. I'm going to question you to death like we. Socratic method parent. I'm going to question you to death Like we're going to talk about something. I'm going to give all the questions to help you get to your own answer. I like that. Yeah, I want to take have your brain, have 10,000 hours in walking through. You know there's an acronym when you're in law school called IRAC, basically how you break down an issue and come to a solution. So it's issue, rule, analysis, conclusion. You know. So like, all right, so you want to do such and such. Why? What's the rule around? You know, can you do it or not? Did you clean?
Speaker 4:You know, like whatever Did you do that you know.
Speaker 1:So I could say, yes, you can go out, or no, you can't. Or I could say, well, did you do what you were supposed to do? Like, what's the rule? What are what things are supposed to be done before you can have that privilege? And then you're going to tell yourself, ah, I can't go.
Speaker 2:At the end of the day, I just actually I made a video in my car. I make videos in my car and it was something about that in terms of instilling values in your children, so that down the line, when they're like, oh, I want to hang out with this person, and you just have like a feeling about somebody, like they'll understand if you're coming from a perspective of our values, like this person does this and that like we don't't do that. Correct, does it align with?
Speaker 1:us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because, just you know, I think about my mom. The times that I did listen to my mom was because I understood my mother's values Right. Even when I went against them, I knew I was going, I was doing the wrong thing. It wasn't like I didn't know. I am doing the same shit, Right?
Speaker 1:My thing is universal law. There's just certain things, no matter what time we're in, no matter what age we're in, it, just it rings true Cause and effect. You know, like certain things, polarity, you know, as above so below, these things don't go away. So I teach from there and I teach a lot about energy and the universe. And they laugh at me because ah, here she go, Talk about the universe again. But you know what's funny about it? I'm so in my bag with it and so connected that they will go to like talk back or do something whatever, walk off, stub their toe. They're tripping. I'm like you can see it, Like you can deny it all you want to but the universe is on my side.
Speaker 2:I hated those moments as a kid. You know what.
Speaker 5:I'm saying yeah, and it's every time. I always tell them I'm like it's instant karma.
Speaker 1:Instant karma, like. They know the karma have enough wherewithal as a child, when it's been drilled into you that much where it's like, should I do? There's some energy that's going to come back from that. Yeah, you know there's some karma. Mom, you know, says like and they see it that stays with you. You know that I couldn't teach it any better. You know, I'm just like all right. Well, now you're on the floor. Why?
Speaker 2:you know because you wanted to talk back, like was that worth it, you know now in skyton, are you guys planning on implementing anything like to teach our children right, because we're learning as adults and is there like, what's the future for it? How?
Speaker 3:does. Yeah, that that's actually the lead now moving forward, and I I started that about, let's say, two months ago. So, for the amount of adults that I've been working with, you know the stories that I've been hearing, and all of it really starts with you don't have a money problem. You know you don't have a money problem. No one really has that. That you make that up. You could decide if you want to be rich or poor based on a bunch of other things that you can do. So I like to get to the source.
Speaker 3:So when you got on the call the first time, people were just like I didn't expect to start cryptocurrency and I'm like no, that's the easy part. So I gave you a million dollars. Today You're going to mismanage it because you've never had a million dollars, right? So you're only going to kick into high gear based on what you can manage and control in that moment. So if you've only had $1,000 your whole life, when that million gets to 1,000, that's when you'll start to oh, let me do something with it. You won't know anything. From 1,001 to a million, you're going to spend it and you're going to give it away. That's a wild example, but it's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's your thermostat.
Speaker 3:So now we're just talking about basic principles. So, mind you, when I'm watching her mother and parent, I didn't come up with a mom, so all this is new to me. I'm watching cakes being baked, I'm watching notes being written in their lunchbox, but the flip side of it is, steve would think, and I'm like, there's not a lot of children receiving this sort of love in the world. So this is where you create the imbalance, so I couldn't leave the children out. I've noticed how much resistance we have with adults when it comes to money. Right? Human behavior is the hardest thing to change, right? You'll pay an old cell phone. You'll pay $90 a month and not ever want to change it, only because you just don't want to change it, even if I told you I have a company that'll save you. You understand where we're going with this.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes. So as I'm meeting this resistance and training, it no longer frustrates me. It just has me moving to where the information should be going, and that's within the schools. At this point now, the biggest issue that we have as as family is we don't have time to parent. So if you're out the house by eight and this was a point of contention early on when we first started to date and you know, um, and eventually getting married and stuff where it's like she has a law degree, she could easily pull down six figures and we're struggling. You know I'm saying I'm still doing my thing and then I felt a little bit of resentment towards that. But then things start happening in the world. Right when we lived in Jersey City, there was abuse at the child facility that was on site Beautiful, you know community that we lived in you would never think.
Speaker 3:You would never think so with the parents. We live right on the water. They would drop their kids off at this daycare and then jump on a ferry, go to wall street right and then, when she's at the playground, this is where we're witnessing other parents now, because in our peer group we're the ogs. We're the only ones married. So if you look at any photo from any new years from any friend of ours, we're the staple. Everybody else dated, came and gone, broke up, divorced, whatever, never married, right. So we're that couple for our peer group. Well, not. Our new peer group now is all married, so it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:We didn't have that village to teach us something as we were coming into parenthood and married life, so we were kind of figuring it out as we went and I think we did a pretty good job. But back to what he was saying children don't have the 10,000 hours of the bad habits to have to break through. It's much easier to pour proper mindset and financial literacy and the way of the future into the child because they just they get it Still fresh oil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're sponges, you know. So it's it's it's easier to focus on them and even have the children be able to teach the parent Right, cause that's the connection too, if, if the child, if anybody can teach something, they know it Right.
Speaker 2:So if the child is able to absorb it easier.
Speaker 1:Listen, give them that, Give it to them and let them know that you know you're not just some child, that's not a value to the greater society. You know that could be your role, where you thrive. We have our photographer, a family photographer, who does our photos every year. She has a son who is maybe 13, 14, and he's big into crypto and he's teaching them like and this is on his own, you know, he just gets it, you know. So whoever got the juice in the family for whatever skill, like, let them have it, Not treating these children like they just can't do anything. They get it much faster. I look at some of this stuff, these technological advances, and I'm like I'm depending on my kids to be able to hold some of that for me, I just don't want to.
Speaker 1:I want to be somewhere writing in an actual book.
Speaker 1:And, like you know, like I don't want to be in that space like that. I'll do what I need to do, but yes, I'm depending on my children. I tell them all the time because they get on me, because they think I'm like I know everything. You know, he picks on me, he calls me like a human, alexa. You know. But I tell my kids all the time like listen, this is, we are not in competition here. I'm not a threat. You know, and I fully expect you to be better than me.
Speaker 1:So learn what I'm trying to teach. Couple that with what you're going to. You know, get from your own life and be better. Help me. We're family, we're a team. You know it's not all going to be on me, but I'm ahead in this race. Right now I got it. I want to be able to turn back and give you this baton. This is how it's supposed to go, as opposed to parents feeling threatened or by, you know, your child having an opinion on something or them not believing what you believe. All right, let's talk about it, and may the best man win, you know, okay.
Speaker 2:I used to have those convos with my nephew. He's 22 now. His name is 22? No 21 now, and I'm talking about when he was like 14. So I'm trying to learn e-com and do all this stuff. Pandemic hit. He had just graduated high school. He's doing nothing in the house. I'm like Jerm, check this out, bro. His name is Jeremy, so I'm like out. He's like I don't want to do that. I don't. What's ecom? I don't do anything. Like your generation is the one doing all this stuff, bro. Like I'm having a hard time really comprehending this. I got my own job to do. I will pay for you to learn this because you have the time, you have the brain for it. Now fast forward three, four years later, where he's like working. Now he's working at a hospital and now he's like, oh, I gotta, I gotta get this internet money. I'm like, of course you do, just like your uncle told you about four or five years ago but you don't know, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:You know, it's almost. It's a plus that he had to go now grind it out right as much as as an uncle. It kind of it bothers me because I feel like I'm the, I'm the pillar right, I'm the og I'm supposed to be able to like germ, check this out. I have this for you, yeah, and and listen, because I didn't have those uncles. Our uncles were just grinding it out. There's no emotion, just go to work, right. Like I hug my nephews, I'm always on like yo, what are you doing? What's up with this and that? But it's still not translating. So I that's why, when I I asked the sky in questions, I'm like I want to see if I can actually get him into it, because he needs to understand that world.
Speaker 3:So the biggest it really starts at home, right, and she has a saying. She's got a bunch of them, they're all good. There's no correction without connection.
Speaker 1:Well, to be fair, that is Dr Shefali. Okay, but it's true.
Speaker 3:I don't expect them to get it right now, right, but what they do see is they see all day which is their norm, right? They won't be able to know the difference until they start to go to friends homes and then they start to see the difference in the family makeups and they're starting to see it now. Yeah, we eat dinner every night and good food, and then you know when they go elsewhere together together. Yeah, that's always been a thing, right? Um, so with the crypto thing, I just created a new vertical for, uh, crypto kids camp. So this summer, we're launching our newest product for children ages three to 17. And we're going to teach them everything from A to Z with what money is right Because, think about it, your first books never really taught you about money. So, if we're not using coins anymore and that was how kids were adding right Because you can go to the store now if you try to get any cashier to break change for you, none of them know how to count.
Speaker 5:It's so sad. Am I making this up? No, you're not. And I always tell my kids I learned math because of money and I literally think of money. How to break down money is how I know math, that's how I know decimals, that's how I know division, that's how I know multiplication. It is money. And when they don't have that anymore, Right.
Speaker 3:So now you lost the physical. So now, however, you teach, you never taught them the right way anyway, but you did touch on it in that simple book. Now that simple book is going to be dated. Now, no more pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters.
Speaker 3:So, as I'm me being a visionary, I looked and I'm like, all right, well, you know, our kids have to deal with this technology. So when I went back to the nineties, it pieced a lot together. Because when you go back to the nineties, you figure, if we're all the same age group, we were just growing up with the internet being built out, so it would have been our parents' job to invest in Microsoft, yahoo, apple, right, all of these tech giants, right. Because if they would have just did a little bit, we know that everybody from that era became that's the wealth transfer, that's the multimillion. So now where we stand in the same position, now I was able to just look at where we're at now, look at cause and effect behind it, because if you don't know money or how it works and how things happen overseas before they come here, then you'll never be ready for a tsunami.
Speaker 3:And that's the thing with America is America. We do a good job of just marketing and keeping and distractions. Most countries don't have access the way we do, but with the access there is a false sense of freedom. Oh, I can do anything. No, you can't, you are not capable. And this is where I come and I straight shoot. So when people come onto our platform, there's accountability. It doesn't work for a lot of people, especially adults.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's a hard pill for them to swallow, right? Well, it's a hard pill for them to swallow because they still have this ego.
Speaker 3:That too right. But the ego is not even wrapped around like really getting money.
Speaker 2:No, it's wrapped around protection of what I already know.
Speaker 1:Right. Or the trauma, the awareness of the trauma you hold from what you don't know, right, yeah, and you're scared because you really don't know and you feel like you could be exposed if you do a little bit too much you know.
Speaker 3:So ignorance is is is not bliss and we have a saying it's dangerous right.
Speaker 3:And that's the biggest thing, holding people back. When I speak to people about this technology. Now they're you know, you're getting a little. They're conforming a little bit because they're starting to see bank failures. They're starting to see and listen. If you don't know economics, you can go to the store with a hundred dollars today and think about what you got for it yesterday or even two days ago and you start to see the change, right. But if I told you that there's some countries that have triple digit inflation, would you believe me. So that's the part we don't know.
Speaker 3:You know America set up this beautiful system that keeps us comfortable, but it suppresses the entire world. So we throw our bad debt on them and then we just stay afloat. So we've been borrowing against our children's future. That's why kids can't afford homes anymore, because the baby boomers bought it for 40, 50,000 and now they're worth millions and they can't sell because what else are they going to buy? So now you put this massive pressure on this younger generation and say what are you doing? And it's like wait. You took all the wealth and opportunity. Now they build this new space called the internet. They never trained themselves on the internet, so they don't know the power of what these kids can do with it. Correct, oh, this little, day they're killing it, right, if not more. Yeah, oh, this little, you're selling these products online.
Speaker 2:What they're making salaries, I'll tell you my father-in-law owns supermarkets and when we were watching Miss Rachel, let's say this new thing for the kids it's like, yeah, Miss Rachel, so my daughter, who's 11 months old, she loves it. And yeah, this lady makes about 4,000, 5,000 for every video. For what this? This is free. I said, oh no, no, this is free to watch, but the advertising isn't. And I started explaining all that and he almost looked like dumbfounded. So you're telling me this woman's a millionaire for making these funny videos. I'm like, oh, and she's like at the low end you start talking about Mr Beast or any of these other kids. It's wild. Yeah, it's such a tough concept to understand if you're not ready for it.
Speaker 3:You didn't train yourself in the 90s Right, so they went throughout the whole 90s, never understood the power of this technology. The 2000s what are you telling your kid right now, when they understand the power of this technology and the way it connects people and things? As a parent, or any parent, you're doing a tremendous detriment to your future, which is your offsprings, at the end of the day, by not understanding this technology to guide them properly. I could tell you that there's going to be so much more control when you start to program everything and if they don't know how to do the most basic thing in the world and it's how to think right. So they don't teach you about money and they definitely don't teach you how to think. So that's why I could definitely respect her and what she does, because when her product comes out, that's what really connects. What I'm doing is like it's low level. You know what she has is the key, because if not for her, there is no Skype in one. If not for her, my children would not be receptive to my ways, because I don't have open communication. So the way it comes easily for her. So I'm learning this.
Speaker 3:So this is where single parent households. I feel for them, whether it's father or mother. It's a lot of work, a lot. So the least I can do is hold down the fort Right, my responsibility. So I've noticed the shift in more women in corporate America. No one wants to talk about it, but I'll say the quiet thing out loud that's fucking up the world, the amount of time and energy she puts into these children to make them whole individuals.
Speaker 3:If she was out making six figures, right, a hundred thousand, it wouldn't change much circumstances for us. What position would it put our children in right now? So now we start looking at the peer group kids who come home to empty households, kids who don't have access to anything, kids who don't have people on their side to advocate for them. So I'm on a journey with my son with basketball. I'm like, wow, this is impossible for a kid to navigate by themselves when people only see them as product. So every day she's teaching them about who they are. What's the value of that? Because you can't, we pay for private school and we have to supplement so much more education. Every second, the minute they jump in the car with her, every day is always something learning.
Speaker 1:I have to like I have to put the context around everything that they learn, particularly in history. It's like, okay, what'd you learn? Got it Now, let me tell you what really happened. Let me give you the other side of it. That's a full-time job, that is. There was a situation when my son was in fifth grade. It was his first year of middle school and there was a shooting in Philly. A man was having a mental break.
Speaker 3:And this is around George Floyd, just to give proper context of just where the world was at the time. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there was a shooting, the police were called for help. He was having a mental crisis. They end up killing this man. So the news had kind of broken overnight. This is like, say, evening news into the morning, and we don't watch the news like that. So even if, but even if I had seen it and wanted to tell my child about it, there was no time before he went to school.
Speaker 1:Long story short, they sent an email out to all the students, kind of like touching on the situation, acknowledging it, basically saying hey, black students, if you need some support, we've got that here. And hey, white students, let's be allies. And the whole thing was just it, it, it. That's so cringy, but when there's not representation in spaces, right, and I mean we have, like, a very diverse school, don't get me wrong but there was no one there to make that decision in that moment of like that might not be how we should do this, right. So he gets in the car and he's like, hey, who's this such and such? I'm like how do you know? And he's like, well, I got an email. Like, okay, well, you got the email, and then what? Nothing. The teachers didn't like talk about it and give you context? No, I just kind of heard some other classes talking about it Other kids.
Speaker 1:I'm livid right, and so I had to write a whole email to the head of school. Like, listen, historically Black children are not given the luxury of having just a childhood. I don't need my kid having this fear pumped into him when it didn't even go through me, you know, and she was, you know, white woman. She thanked me. She's like listen, I'm so sorry that happened and I would have never had a reason to think that if you had not said anything. You know, and at this time I'm like, yeah, I'm still kind of like whatever you know. And at this time, like, yeah, I'm still kind of like whatever, but you, you know.
Speaker 1:But two years later she brought it back up when I had to come in for something else to address them on. She's like you know I still remember that, like I'm thankful you have to say something because we don't know. You know I wouldn't have thought I, you know, she's like I shudder at the thought that, like I, may have taken away some of his innocence you you know?
Speaker 2:Yes, because that's exactly what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't need my young black child thinking that, oh, I have to be afraid of police and all the things. You know it's too soon, but if I was consumed and career and all that stuff, that conversation might not have happened. He might have sat with that and I would have never known. And he's a very sensitive child.
Speaker 3:That's the reason I say that corporate America is creating an imbalance in the world right now.
Speaker 2:But that was the program from like the industrial age. That's when it all started to shift, when they started-.
Speaker 1:The feminism movement.
Speaker 3:Yeah, which was funded by the Rockefeller Of-. Oh see yeah of.
Speaker 5:Oh see, yeah, there's a um tiktok that I saw and it was, and it was like I, if I could go back in time and punch that girl in the face that wanted to have equality oh yeah, I would tell her no you don't want to work for a woman's right to work?
Speaker 5:I don't want to work. Someone asked me the other day what's your dream job, what's your dream career? And I've said this plenty of times I don't dream of working. I don't dream of this. That's not how I want to do that. I want chickens and I want to have a farm, and I don't want to do any of this. I don't. I want to be with my kids. I don't want to do any of this. I don't, I want to be with my kids. I don't want to do any of this, and I actually I can't say much, but the space that I work in in corporate America is tech testing. So I see this all day long. I'm in that space all day long. I see what they're doing, I see all of it.
Speaker 1:And listen. No, not to a woman who has, you know, ambition and you know it's. It's more of do what your heart says to do. My heart said I needed to be home because we're not coming from just just our personal structure, we're not coming from a strong enough foundation to where we've got a village and grandma and grandpa and aunts and uncles and people are holding down where you know I'm out working. We don't have that. We don't have a support system. Maybe if we did, that's a completely different situation. I know of families who have that and mothers work and it's fine, they thrive Of course.
Speaker 1:So I'm not. It's no one way is right or wrong, but it's more like people should be able to go with their intuition and not feel like, oh my God, I'm going to ruin my life if I'm not climbing that corporate ladder the way society tells me I should. And I got a lot of pushback when I made that choice, Not just from, like, my husband not understanding at the time but he, you know, he got on quickly, but everybody. So when are you going to use your law degree? You just you're too smart to just be at home and I'm sitting there.
Speaker 1:Thinking is different.
Speaker 1:But I'm sitting there at the playground with all the nannies right. And then when that story how he told you that the abuse happened at the child care center. I saw a couple mothers there at the playground after and I got to speak to one of them and it broke my heart because she's her, her child was very young at the time and she said what bothers me and what keeps me from sleeping at night is that my child can't verbalize if something happened. He can't tell me, he can't. So you got to sit with wondering what might have happened and some of the stories were very horrific it's tough.
Speaker 2:We, we were blessed, I think so. My sister's an attorney, right, but she always had the Taurus, yep, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:The Taurus right. So she always had, thankfully, my mom there myself, who I pretty much just had my own career, I run my own life to be able to interject with the kids, my brother-in-law he's a cameraman for NBC, so he'd be home by 12. It all worked. The village aspect that you spoke about now with, with Paige, my youngest, and with Penelope, the oldest, their, their grandmother. My mother-in-law has always been there because that's a big factor. Like their mom, she runs a supermarket. She runs a business. She never has to worry like who's taking.
Speaker 2:Like you said, these kids have to. They can't speak up. What three month old is going to tell you something happened? Somebody touched me. It's scary. It's a scary world to live in. So to have that choice, yeah, I can understand the pushback because I imagine if my sister, if Heidi, were like hey, you know what, I'm going to stay home, I'll let David handle everything, the family would be like what You're, like the smartest girl in the family, you're this and that, and they would, because now they hold it like a pedestal, like my cousin's, an attorney.
Speaker 5:That's also coming from a background where our parents probably didn't graduate. They're coming.
Speaker 1:You're successful.
Speaker 5:They're, you know they're, they're coming, they're success, so they're, so they're, they're looking at that and they're like man, they're so proud of you, of that. And then for you to say it's almost a disappointment to them, they're not understanding that this is something like you are doing something. It's a much bigger play. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because everything that's like all of the problems that I see in just being a mom right Like, mothers make the best business women, because they know all the problems, they have all the hacks and the solutions and the creativity being a parent is highly a creative job. You know what I'm saying, creative job. You know what I'm saying. So everything, all the ideas that I've gotten and whatever I will offer to the world, all of that came from my experience in tapping into being a mother. So that's my design, that's the journey that I was supposed to go on, but thank God I'm able to say I made the right choice and I didn't feel pressured into doing something that I would have absolutely resented, absolutely resented.
Speaker 1:When I did get back to kind of working a little bit, I became a wedding officiant. I'm like I'll just marry people. You know just seeing where I could kind of go with it. So I got ordained and everything and I'm marrying people now and I went from like the lawyer stuff, you're meeting everybody on their worst day, they have the biggest problem. This is, you know, their worst day. I went from that to meeting everybody on their best day. I'm like that's the energy I want to go towards 100%, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So you know, what I would tell parents in navigating their children with this technology is you have to invest a lot more time and understanding. You can't look at it as one year out. Most companies now Nike and the big companies aren't marketing. They're not doing marketing. Once a year, you would put together a marketing campaign. Now it's every month. Some people are going every two weeks. We're testing things now. So the world's changing.
Speaker 3:So if you're not realizing the shift in the world and you're telling your kid get off this phone and you might be doing them a disservice at this point, now, right, we need to manage what they're doing on the phone. But in order to manage what they're doing on the phone, you have to manage what you're doing on the phone, right? This is where the authenticity comes into play, you understand? So I never saw my dad read books. I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 3:We grew up Catholic as Haitians by default. Drops me at church, he goes somewhere else. I'm out the back door. Yeah, law Doing whatever I need to do, right, so you're going to. You know, apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. So I set the example and I lead. So with this crypto thing, I saw it in a vision period and play around with the money if you want to. Good luck, it's going to change right? I'm following where the money is being put. So if the money's coming out, the banks and the banks are failing simple math, where's the money going? No one asks enough questions. So that skill set that she's given our children is worth way more than what a company could pay to keep my wife out the house.
Speaker 3:Yes, someone has to hold down a fort with these kids, and I don't care if it's husband or wife, right?
Speaker 1:Because sometimes the husband's the nurturer.
Speaker 3:Right. And the other thing we don't do, too, is we don't really look at the world as a whole to see where we could add value and impact, because that's all all it is. Making money is just about solving problems for people. Yeah, that's the basis of it, right? If there's no people, there's no billionaires. I don't care who weren't, but I don't. Without people, there is no product for these guys. So when you start to understand, now we go back to the psychology, the language, the english right, the machine learning.
Speaker 3:I see so many parents within our group sending their kids to school like no major in mind and I'm like do you understand? The world is changing by the second. So now you signed up for something for four years. That career is not going to be around because you didn't do the research. The school's not telling you that. The school's on a backlog with these old dated material. So we are doing our children a disservice by not setting aside time to understand where this world is going right now.
Speaker 3:Right, everybody says I don't have money, I don't have time. Take a look at your Instagram usage and if you ain't getting money, that's where your time is at. If Netflix had a counter, it'd tell you how much time you spend on there, right? So we have so much on demand situations tugging and pulling at our attention. So the basic premise for Skyton academy this year is to show people and I'm gonna tell you the money is. You are the money. That's what people fail to realize. You're putting yourself up against products that other people created. You are the money at the end of the day, and what I what I mean by that is you have a particular skill set. You can gain knowledge that can give you unlimited potential, not the 40K that this job decided to pay you. We're just creatures of habit and we come from a scarcity mindset, so we just need to get what we need to get now, and once you get a paycheck at the end of the week, you become addicted to that.
Speaker 1:Of course that's it.
Speaker 5:Security.
Speaker 3:That's your value right that someone else placed on you. No one's happy. It's like the worst contract in the world. No one really enjoys their job. For the most part, from what I hear, just that traditional, just driving to work is an issue for people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I spend an hour and a half getting to where I need to go. God, I listen to go Like, so Like.
Speaker 3:I gotta listen to audio books. If not, I'd be like. But you're filling your time properly. Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah Right, I stopped your music. Shit, it's language. Now You've reevaluated your relationship with traffic. As opposed to being batshit crazy and angry, taking that energy then into work, that energy on the way back, you're dealing with the same traffic. How much more you got to give to your kid or your spouse?
Speaker 5:So much more You're drained.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying how much can you really pour out after that's? Been taken out of you.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and even if you can muster up a little bit to pour out, then you're on E.
Speaker 5:And I feel like that. I feel like I'm always on empty, because people always ask me oh, you watch this show and I'm like I don't have time to watch this show I don't have time for any of that. Oh, you have to watch this and I'm like it's on like season 17 and I'm not going to even catch it. I'm not catching up.
Speaker 2:I'm still on season one of life.
Speaker 5:Yes, because I have like. I, yes, I do work full time and I work legit I work. I work seven days a week.
Speaker 2:She comes from work sometimes.
Speaker 5:I literally will come from work On Sundays On a Sunday, I'm not even joking.
Speaker 5:I work to work. I work to work and my kids, unfortunately, they do see that and I do so many things and I get home and, if you know, I have a four year old, I have to be mindful that he's going to when he says, mommy, I have to listen, I can't be here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have to be present. You know, someone walks in my room. What's going on? Okay, cooking, cleaning, picking up, doing all the things that hadn't gotten done, and I'm not a single mom. I'm not a single mom, so they're. So I am working. From the moment I woke, I opened these eyes to the moment that I closed them. This mind is going. I sleep hard right it's your son.
Speaker 5:I'm a gemini, ah okay yeah, um, so I, I'm so here's the thing.
Speaker 3:So what your kids are watching now is they're watching you work, work, work, work, work.
Speaker 5:Right, and that's what they're going to do.
Speaker 3:That's what they're going to do. Not only that, but they're going to look for a spouse that's close to mom, right, and if she's not meeting those standards, then they may not connect with that. That's true, right? So we're going to create more divide now, in a sense of mom being out. These traditional roles were created by other people. You know, like you said, the feminine move was about taxes. It was just getting women on the tax roll. That's it. It wasn't about empowering.
Speaker 1:Empowering is and to break up the the family.
Speaker 2:So they can get the kids they got your kids from eight to three feeding them, whatever they got to do, you know. And then oh, after school program too.
Speaker 3:Come on, cause you're not even out at three. Right, they could have easily scheduled a workday to get out at three and meet your kids, but they give you this, this gap, and then now you have to make more money in order to pay for that gap, right, and this is just to make ends meet now, right? Or if you don't amount of questions that our children have on a daily basis, I'm like, wow, how much was unanswered for me. Well, I couldn't even have the balls to ask nothing that they asked.
Speaker 2:That's crazy because Everything was disrespect.
Speaker 5:Everything was disrespect. Everything, anything you asked was disrespect, and I think it was came off as disrespect because they didn't even have the answers. Right, right, right.
Speaker 1:So you were triggering them, so you were disrespecting them.
Speaker 2:So you were disrespecting them, you calling me dumb.
Speaker 5:What do you mean? You know, like, and I think about those things I think about, like homework and all of those things that I might be, and I, you know, I try to be present. For certain things like that, my kids will tell me oh, I did that at school. It shows in their grades and I don't have it. I don't. Thank you, jesus. I don't have the kids that are like me when I was a kid, because I found ways to get over on everything because my parents were not present, and so I try to be present for them in ways that I can but I'm still not present and I think it's about really knowing yourself right and what you have to offer.
Speaker 1:So you saying that you're a Gemini tells me a lot. You probably work so much because your brain works so much.
Speaker 2:So this went on pause.
Speaker 1:However right, but you're working because society has given that like okay, you've got a lot of brain energy, we Come over here.
Speaker 5:I got something for you to do. We got something for you Because it doesn't quiet, it doesn't. I'm a Gemini rising, so I know right.
Speaker 1:So it's easy to just go into that system. All right, you've got the energy and the capacity, the mental capacity for it. But I would be interested to know if you ever go on that journey, if you get the message of what you're supposed to be doing with all that mental energy and if it is aligning with what you're actually doing.
Speaker 3:That's the thing.
Speaker 5:Y'all.
Speaker 3:I'm down Now. I'm down, I'm now I'm like shit.
Speaker 5:Now I need to know think about it.
Speaker 3:We're headed to a point in humanity where people's purpose is wrapped around what they do. The first question is what do you do? What do you forget your name?
Speaker 2:right, what do you do? You forget the name. Sometimes they'll be like, hey, how you doing my name. You're not worried about that because you just-. What do you do?
Speaker 3:It's an opportunistic world that we live in, so when I say that everything we need is in us, let's just stick to the technology right now. This is how simple I simplified it. Now, all the major companies that we utilize right now Apple, meta, twitxtrillion dollar companies how do they make money? Does anybody know how they create revenue? Not even, not even Data.
Speaker 3:Okay, oh yes, the whole world. So the number one commodity in the world outside of time is data. So when I tell people that the data we've been feeding AI and machine learning for decades now, how much do you get paid for that? Nothing, nothing. Now, how much do you get paid for that? Nothing, nothing. Because the exchange was you download this app. We need everything the phone, the microphone, the camera, every app right, so think about it.
Speaker 3:So now the data is being served on a tray and other people are buying it, and this is why every time you say something, you see something, right. So what I tell people is this decentralized world is creating a new system now where you can take control of your data three ways right, maintain, monetize and minimize. So minimize the amount of people that you give this data to. Would you give everybody your phone number you met? No, no, you would kind of gauge it. Every app asks you for everything and you've never backed out of it because you can't download it, except Right. If you don't accept it, it just brings you back to the beginning. You no longer have that. So when you're giving your data up, you are the cheapest whore, and I say this with love.
Speaker 5:No, it's true.
Speaker 3:Known to man. So true, right. What I did was I started to look at how much is that data worth to these companies. You know your car alone could be worth $600 a year. Just in data from your vehicle, your cell phone, you could probably make 80 to 90,000 a year on what you photos, you take of food, restaurants you go to. That data could be worth easily $90,000 a year. So this is where all our time and money is sitting in, because you're investing in that phone even when you're working full-time, but you're not understanding how you can monetize that situation. So I'm we're gonna be training kids on how to earn. There's a play to earn situation that's going on with gaming now. So I'm not big on in our household, but if you're gonna game, then get something out of it. We're gonna. Top of it, we have a whole can I say it on the air?
Speaker 2:Okay, because I want people to take an idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, You're right and don't work from fear. Yes for you is for you.
Speaker 2:You're right.
Speaker 5:You can't gatekeep.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:That's the word, and I don't gatekeep.
Speaker 2:We're not gatekeeping here. We're going to have a Minecraft parenting show with Amir. Ah yeah, brosko, you can use my mic. You want to hook up your own?
Speaker 5:mic, he hates it no it's great, we need this you'll be I'm somewhere, okay.
Speaker 4:So pretty much we're gonna take half of the podcast yep and we're gonna bring to the minecraft world.
Speaker 4:So they've never played, we're gonna teach them how to play I have some friends who are gonna join us who are really good at it, building and everything adventure, whatever. So we're gonna do a whole survival parent podcast, so it'll be everything minecraft related. So we build and having conversations. I sent them videos to watch on what we should model after it's one of the biggest series in minecraft, um. So we're gonna try to model theirs in a way. So there's this thing called like 100 days. So like 100 days in minecraft it's probably like five hours of gaming or something like that. So we'd see what we could do in the first, like, let's say, 50 days of minecraft. So it'd be day night, day night and that's probably a couple minutes right there. So we're gonna do that. But at the same time it would be parenting conversations or it'd be. It would be whatever it is. So we take this and then we just bring it there and we just play and we stream and we kind of see how we can incorporate the two.
Speaker 1:So you're talking as you're playing. Yeah, yes.
Speaker 4:I'll show you guys an example afterwards.
Speaker 1:I know it's weird. It's like you're just watching somebody play and they love it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah and stuff, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, there's more, because people don't know this and you guys obviously know this, but there's more money in Minecraft streaming than anything else.
Speaker 3:So think about it. So that's one aspect of Minecraft, right? So when you look at this technology right here from my vantage point, this is nothing more than exercise consumer behavior being trained right now without your permission. Right, these kids have been operating in the metaverse for years and you still don't know what the metaverse is or the power of the metaverse. So when you start to understand that there's the economics behind this game, you start to see where the money's at right now. So when your child is spending the five hours a day, or whatever that number could be, what are they generating from it? Or what's being generated from that, the hours that they spend there? Right? And now I understand there's in-game purchases and things like that. So it's an economy now.
Speaker 3:So now Minecraft is teaching my child how to build, and I'm a builder, yeah, just imagine the amount of steps that are missing in a process. This is why we're gonna continue to have a microwave mentality with this younger generation. They see the finished product. Right, we take these sound bites Everything is shorts, but the shorts it's a hook for the long. Most adults don't even know that now, which is why they're still cooking you in comments without the context they love me so much, oh yeah listen, trust me, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 3:You're in great company, and when that's happening, you struck a nerve, and that's how things you bring awareness and that's how things change Right. It's nothing but trigger responses from people, and if you're triggered by that, then you still have some stuff to work on too.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But we all do no, it's true, yeah, right. It's true, we all do, but you can't fight this machine right now.
Speaker 1:We have to lean in Exactly and work together and bring the children along with us. Yeah, we're in a very unique space where our generation, we still have the old school. We know what life was like without the internet or cell phones and we grew up. We weren't so far gone to where we weren't able to pick it up. We were like early 20s, like 18, 19, 20s. So we know what we have to, what is important to bring to the future of humanity. We're responsible for that and to shape how this new technology and everything is going to affect it. So we have a lot on our shoulders here.
Speaker 2:The premise of the show was that pretty much like to give a voice to the black and brown community of parents. Right, because we all come from different households, we all have different dynamics in terms of where we're at right now. Different households, we all have different dynamics in terms of where we're at right now, and everybody needs to be heard and and seen in a way that. So I'm here as the dad, right, but I'm not gonna fit the typical dad stigma that they have around black and hispanic men like, oh yeah, you know they don't show up here, that do. They have those situations going on sometimes. But I'm also here to give a different point of view.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I came from not seeing my dad and now I'm doing the dad work and and I love it, right. So I wanted people to see that. That's why having you guys here, especially as a black couple, like that's big. You guys talked about marriage, 23 years together, the fights, the ups, the downs, exploring life together, things that that dynamic ain't seen. Like, how many couples have you heard? Like, yeah, you know, we go on journeys and we try to really figure ourselves out and you know we work together, we live together all the time with our kids.
Speaker 1:Well trust.
Speaker 2:It exists.
Speaker 1:Trust can be earned through transparency, so conversations like this are so important and that will allow us to connect in a way that then fosters more conversation and more ideas being, you know, shared, to where we can then evolve past where we are now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and listen, if you can't manage, your spouse probably can't manage a lot more aspects of your life, and this is where we're at right now. As adults, we don't manage our money, managing yourself Even that yourself, and then never mind your spouse. That's next in line to create the system. Generational wealth starts there. For me, right. So now, when you look at this, disconnect is created by silence at the end of the day, because if my father good, bad or indifferent would have told me his stories, how much more empowering would it have been. Now I'm piecing it together where you could empathize more as an adult. Now To say damn, he left another country to come to a new country without a dollar in his pocket. He's the goat. That's wealth, yeah, right.
Speaker 3:So now we start to break down. She's big with the language. We start to break down the language behind, because these guys, when they create language, they create it, so it's not powering, it's everything's a period at the end of it, not interested. No, I don't have it right, this is how we talk. This is how we're trained to not deal with things. Right, because when we sit on a circle as a young children, as a young child. It's like no, sit on that circle.
Speaker 3:And don't move and don't move, we don't have time.
Speaker 1:And then, if you're moving, you've got ADHD, you've got a problem.
Speaker 3:So we've watched enough of the dynamic on the family side. That helps me put together something that truly has the family in mind, because, at the end of the day, none of us are put here to work like slaves.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Right In things that we don't even enjoy. So what I do is not even considered work at the end of the day, but the minute you start applying money to whatever you're doing good luck, good luck, yeah, thanks for being here.
Speaker 2:First of all, where can people find the Skighton Academy?
Speaker 3:So on Instagram, skighton, s-k-y-t-o-n, underscore Academy and Skyton. Just for all you guys to know, my daughter's name is Skylar, so S-K-Y, and then my son's name is our son, our kids.
Speaker 3:It's okay, so Princeton. So we took the T-O-N at the end and that's the brand that we're running with. Now All our verticals are Skyton, skyton something, yes, so Skyton underscore Academy, and that's where you start and then link in the bio will give you all the information to get started with us. But the biggest takeaway is when this kids program starts, and we're looking forward to it because that truly is the generation. I'm not caring about having Oculus on in the next 10 years. Like you, I'm going to be on a farm, beach Things are going to be less and a fest.
Speaker 3:We're simplifying life, yes, but when you can have that money in the bank and there's no amount of money either, it's just all about how much you want to run up your expenses. So we're going to start to show the kids. We're taking back human intelligence at this point now. It never left, and artificial intelligence is not here to replace human intelligence at this point now. It never left right, and artificial intelligence is not here to replace human intelligence. But the problem is humans don't care, so they're going to utilize it to the best of their abilities and they're going to come up short every time with this technology, right? So our job at Skighton Academy is to show you, one, how to maintain, minimize and monetize your data, and then, two, how to create higher level of human intelligence, so that way, you're never useless in this new society that's coming down. Because if there's no jobs for you now, and they're slowly cutting away at these jobs, what do you think is going to happen to your children as adults in 10 years from now?
Speaker 1:Period.
Speaker 5:That's it Period.