Well, welcome to 2000 to four chapter leader meeting.

The way we do things here at this conference, we save the best things for first.

And this, to me, is the highlight of the whole conference. You guys are the front line of what we do, and I don't think it's ever been as important as today. People definitely are waking up. There's a huge new interest in food and health, and mostly people are confused. We find young people are so confused and don't know where to start

all this conflicting advice. And of course, that's deliberate, so your job first and foremost is to help people trying to get started on this journey.

So the first things first are your cell phones on airplane mode.

So we're going to be talking about a lot of things today. I'd just like to go over what I've noticed in our discussion groups, and first have been some questions about your food list,

and one of the questions I didn't really know how to answer until I got my answer this morning. So the first one was, if you have chapter is it okay for a chapter leader to, for example, organize orders from Azure standard where the chapter leader is getting a discount or, you know, some kind of special privilege, and I think it is okay, because that chapter leader is doing this work for you, and

very often they find out that it is a lot of work to organize food orders and food delivery. So my answer to that question is yes, it's okay if the chapter leader does this. We also have chapters organizing.

What were you calling them? Agoras, or, you know, it's like little

private markets, and again, that that's a lot of work, and the chapter leader should get some kind of discount or something. It's okay. Just, I just want to say it's okay you are doing the work to get this food to people, so it's okay to be compensated.

Another question was, can we include on our list things that are truly local, somebody making broth in their kitchen, or, I don't know, doing eggs in their backyard, whatever. And the answer is yes, we want to support these people. So anyway, anything we can do to support the artists and producers and the local farmers is okay on your chapter list. I

see, I have there was something else that's just gone out of my mind about the food list, but basically, that's the principle. The chapter leader is going to a lot of trouble to make these available to you, so some kind of compensation for is okay.

So we're going to do a lot of discussing today, and Sandrine is going to be handling this about your discussion groups. So we really think it's a good thing to do. It's not required, but it's a good thing for chapter leaders to set up some kind of discussion group for

people in your community. So it can be yahoo group or Facebook. I don't do these things, so I don't know how they work, but and the question is, you know, what can you talk about on these groups? You do need a moderator. And a moderator is somebody who looks at the comments as they come in, and if they're not appropriate, does not post these comments. So you do need a moderator for your group. And remember, these groups are about food and health. Now that's a pretty wide

subject. Okay, so you can talk about chemtrails, you can talk about hospitals, you can talk about pharma, you can talk about, these are all appropriate things. Not appropriate to talk about the war in the Middle East. It's not appropriate to talk about,

you know, things are just completely off topic, okay? Not appropriate to talk about religious subjects, because we welcome people of all religions.

And the key thing is we can't endorse a candidate, okay, that would end up, we could end up losing our 501, c3, or religious exemption. Now it's a fine line, because you can't.

And talk about policies. You can talk about legislation. You can talk about what administrations are doing when it applies to food and health and farming.

If it kind of bordering on a endorsement of a candidate, then it shouldn't be posted.

Okay?

Obviously you don't want to insult people. That's another thing the moderator does. If she gets a comment and it's

dismissive or insulting, she would gently suggest another way of phrasing it. We don't want to keep people out. We don't want to be dogmatic, we don't want to be inflexible. We want to be friendly. Okay, and there is a certain amount of wiggle worm room. Again, I'm just saying it's we don't want to just say no, you can't say this. Here's a better way of saying this,

but you do need to have these groups moderated. I rated.

Another big focus is young people. And we're really open to suggestions here. How do we get more young people in this movement, especially mothers of childbearing age? I would love to see some chapters on college campuses. Not sure how this could happen. It might be a professor, or maybe your spouse is a professor, and you can start a local chapter, but that would definitely get young people in

when you think about exhibiting, you know, how can we attract and encourage young people, especially young families.

So we're open to ideas on this. Anything that you've done that's been successful, please let us know.

Okay, so these are sort of nuts and bolts topics. How do we conduct our chapters? How do we have meetings? We're going to go over all that today, but I thought I'd like to share with you some of the other things that we're focusing on this year. You may remember last year I brought up the topic of olive oil, and we learned that olive oil can have anywhere from three to 27%

Omega six in it up to 27%

and has nothing to do with whether it's extra virgin or organic or, you know, local or pressed underwater by Virgin has nothing to do with that.

It has to do with the type of Olive and some and it doesn't even have to do with the weather. According to some people, it's according to others, it does, but so we sent some, and my theory was, well, you could tell by what did it pass the refrigerator test? Did it gel in the refrigerator? And I was completely wrong about that. So there's an article in the upcoming journal, and we tested, I think it was 14 or 15. How many did we test Cathy? Maybe it was more, but we tested all these different olive oils, and sure enough, we found a big range of omega six for the lowest 4% and there were a few that were above 12%

so we have kind of arbitrarily decided that we will only include olive oil

12% or lower Omega six in the shopping guide. And we're going to do a lot of testing this year, because we only tested a few. But what really surprised us was the refrigerator test had no relationship at all with the amount of omega six in the olive oil. In a way. I don't know why,

but we had the one that was the best for omega six.

Didn't jump. It's wax.

What it was wax in the olive that caused that? I just

considered an olive manufacturer. It's wax thing that caused the percentage of wax. Please send you the article. Okay, please. And then we found some with a lot of omega six that gelled in a right away, so that fridge test is not reliable.

The other thing very interested in, it's kind of a mystery to me is vitamin D in food.

Mary enig shared with me years ago that the USDA had tested lard for vitamin D and found quite a bit of vitamin D in lard. I think it was 400 units per 100 grams. And in the early days, I found a lab that tested some lard for us, and he found huge amounts of vitamin D and lard. But if you go to the food tables, it says there's no vitamin D and lard. And when I went back to this same lab and had him test again, he found almost nothing. And he kind of.

Acted very cagey like, like he didn't remember getting so much vitamin D before, and I think somebody got to him, I don't know. So right now, we're working with hri laboratories in Iowa.

We sent him some samples of lard, and they extracted the D in many ways, and they couldn't could find hardly any.

So I said we need to go back and look at the old textbooks. You know, how did they do this in the past? And he's trying some other methods for me, so we'll see what we find out. But I'm convinced there's vitamin D in lard, because in the old days when they were doing animal studies, and they wanted to see the difference between vitamin A and vitamin D on animals. They gave them butter for vitamin A, and they gave them lard for vitamin D. So they knew there was D there. But now it's, kind of think it's one of these conspiracies, you know, you know, what would, what would happen if they it was suddenly announced, gee, lard is a great source of vitamin D would change the whole food culture. So, so that's I'm I'm determined, before I shuffle off this mortal coil, to figure out what's going on with the vitamin D testing.

Any any questions? Kathy, if I missed anything,

can we start lunch?

You want to speak? That's right.

Hello everyone. Thanks for coming a day early for the conference, and for being here and for being chapter leaders. I'm sorry that some states were missing on the cards. It was just a mix up. I don't know what what happened with that, but looks like everyone is seated. So that's a good thing we do as so these topics at the end,

I'm sorry they're not more visible, but they are on the sheet, on your on your table. They're topics you can be discussing at lunch. And if you have an idea on one of those topics that you think everyone would benefit from hearing, then you can sign up, put your name there, and they one is finding venues, Sally mentioned and marketing your events.

Finances. How do you pay for your venues and other expenses, reaching younger people. And then the one that's not on the list is successful topics for meetings, and or and or benefits of having meetings so you will get two minutes, and at the end, we're going to do kind of a quick round robin, where whoever's name is on there has two minutes to share. So you can be thinking what might be helpful, and then hopefully we'll have end time at the end, just for Q and A and general comments about it.

That's it. So, yeah, I think we're Yolanda. Are we? How should we? Okay, so we Yolanda. We do need someone to take tickets. Is there some or I'll come down and take tickets. Okay, we'll both take them. But everyone should have a ticket for lunch in your packet. And I'm sorry we can't. Some people asked about bringing spouses, but we just can't include that many people. So we'll go, why don't we do by table? And

yeah, we'll start at that corner. But let me just mention, Yolanda Hawthorne is my coworker. She's our membership services person. She's also our consulting chef.

She's our consulting chef for the whole conference, and she always says, I want to make a really special lunch for you all these all of you volunteer chapter leaders, and then we have to sample all the things that she's trying out for you. So thank you, Yolanda,

I'm Kathy Kramer, I'm the executive director, and I have one question is, is anyone new,

a new chapter leader here today, as of in 2024 Did you Just start a chapter? Wow.

Thanks for starting the chapter and for joining us today. A

couple of things. What Sandrine said, this is in the 19 years she's come to the conference, this is the best meal she's had.

Yolanda,

did you hear that?

Thank you,

and that's saying a lot, because we have great meals at our conference.

So I'm

just going to run through a lot of practical things. And we have a busy schedule, we're trying to keep to it, so I'll be quick.

So we.

Have lots of free things, lots of support we can give chapter leaders. And I just want to make sure people know any brochures that we have. If you want them, need them for an event,

just let us know what you want, and we'll send them to you every quarter. We'll send you extra journals if you can use them, share them with people as a means of advertising, marketing. You know, sharing what we do, you can get two or five copies extra, each journal, each quarter, besides your regular copy. Just let us know if you're not getting that and you want it,

we have table clause for free if you're having an event. I'm sorry I don't have one here right now, but we'll have one at our table if you want to see what they look like. And those are free to you if you'll have an event, whether it's meetings or you're exhibiting somewhere,

you can get a web page within our web, in our bigger website, if you want a chapter web page. Does anyone have one of those already? Are you using that few people and it

Tim will help you set that up. If you want. It's a good place to put information about the chapter. You can put your food list there.

Just email Tim and he can help you get it started.

If you're ever encouraging, trying to encourage someone to become a member, feel free to offer $10 off, and we won't question that. Anytime you want to offer that, just offer it. You can either, if you're at an event where you're collecting memberships, they just pay $10 less. Also, you can use a code chapters 10.

Or if you forget that, there's also code farms little easier, maybe to remember, but if you don't remember, just email and I'll let you know, and that's just totally your discretion any time you want to offer that. We also have a opportunity to set up free chat groups like the chapter forum, if you want to forum for your own chapter, we can help you set that up. Karen Hamilton Roth is here, Karen, raise your hand. There she is. Her husband said, Jay will set that up for your chapter, and it's

Morgan's going to tell us a little bit about the chapter forum. It's a way to,

I don't know a lot about this stuff, but it's some kind of email group that you can exchange conversations over.

We also have this year we're not doing last year. We did where you could buy the conference recordings and we would reimburse you this year. What we're going to do is come up with four, maybe six

chapter, I mean, conference talks that we will give to you in with the idea that you will share them at a meeting. So I welcome you to fill out the survey and highlight for me to see which talks you really like, so that I know which were the ones we would like to get for free, to share with the

with you, to share with your groups.

Also, we're working on a way to get more funds available to chapters.

I'm hoping to have an application where you can request, it's

probably going to be like $250

a year that can help contribute to events you're having. Ideally, we want the chapters to be self sustaining, where you can take, you know, pass a hat and get the funds yourself to run the chapter. But we realize sometimes you can't get those funds, so

I'll be working on that. So I'll let you know when that's available, and we'll indicate what event, what types of things we will help you fund, and then you can apply and we'll get you those funds.

We do have liability insurance. If you go to a venue and it's requiring a certificate of insurance showing that we have liability we have it, whether you have the certificate or not, you you know if something happens, we have that insurance, but we also can get your certificate. Many of you have had events where the venue wants that certificate in hand, and that's very easy for us to get

before I forget this, because I can see them back there, the bag. So you're if everyone, if you've already checked in and gotten your badge and your packet, then as you leave, you can take a bag off of the little thing back there, if you haven't checked in, then please check in first. If we didn't have your information here, then do it over there at four o'clock. Registration will open at four, but we just have enough bags for the people that have already checked in.

Okay? So I.

So as a Chapter, you have three basic obligations, only three.

One is that you're a member, and we, if someone has financial difficulty with that, we can help with that. So we don't want you to not be a chapter leader, because you can't renew. Don't let that happen. So you have to be a member, though, and then you have to do your annual report, which

is not one of my favorite jobs, to collect all those. So if you can do it quickly, and you know, we can get that, it's a it's an online form, I have over 400 to collect. So it's quite a job, but so please try to do that. I'll send that out at the end of January, you can look for that. And the last thing is, you have to maintain your food list. And I really think, you know, we've had chapters since 1999 I think it's really opened and increased the conversation about supporting local farms, eating nutrient dense foods, supporting small food providers. So it's a real service to the world that you all are spreading that. So please keep that food list updated and keep sharing it. It helps a lot of people. We all know people that starting to eat this way is a big task, and without once, I mean, I've seen people see that food list and their eyes just, you know, they just smile like, oh, you know, they thought they were on their own with this, and it makes a huge difference. So those are the three obligations. But of course, the meetings, some of you have meetings, and those are

fabulous service.

Sorry.

Well,

the thing is, we do have some chapter leaders. I remember this 80 year old chapter leader who said, I really shouldn't be a leader anymore. I don't know. I'm not doing much. I said, were you sharing that list? And she said, yeah, it's a a lot of people ask me for that list. I said, then you're doing your job like that's that's a great service. And if someone sometimes we get an email or phone call, someone will say, Well, I'm in this area, and my chapter leader doesn't do anything, meaning they don't have meetings. And then we always say, why don't you get in touch with them and see if they would like help to have meetings? Because not everyone can have meetings, or you know, sometimes they can and later they can't. So they're not required, but they're greatly encouraged and they're greatly appreciated. And the main two reasons we think to have meetings is one is for education. Of course, you know it used to be in your villages and in in your tribes or whatever, all these wise traditions were passed down, but we don't really have that situation anymore. So you're building a village, you're building a tribe, and you are the ones that are passing down those wise traditions. And it's a huge gift to the people that you bring together. One caution, well, I have two cautions about that. With education we had, I think I told you all this at another meeting, but we had a member who followed every principal to the you know, just exactly, more than I do. And she said her children had cavities. And she told me that was really she was really upset about that. She said I thought if I had followed all of this, my children would be perfectly healthy. And all I'm saying is, as a caution, please be careful how you

there's no promises. You know, even the traditional people, generation after generation, some of them have health problems, but, but what we think is this is the best way to have the best health you can now. That doesn't mean you're not going to have problems. So just be attuned to that, because a lot of this stuff is second nature to us, and you know, it's brought us good health. But that doesn't mean it's guaranteed, so be careful of that. The other thing, this was a sad thing for me, this man, this husband and father, wrote to me and said, Why do you require all these practices of your members? She said, My wife is ruining our family. Our whole life is is just miserable. You know, my I have teenage children. They can't function. Said she won't let us keep the lights on after eight o'clock at night.

If we bring him a candy bar, we're just like, we're she thinks we're dying tomorrow. You know, she, I mean, he was really distraught about it and blaming us. He said, Well, could she? Could I talk to her? You know? I said, even Sally will order something off the menu that I won't mention.

You know, sometimes once a year, I think it's just once a year, she might have, like, a sugary treat, but, um, yeah, cream bro. Like, that's true. Yes, she made us all. She forced us all to eat cream. Berle the last time, but, but I was trying to help this woman see that these are.

Principles that you do as much as you can, as often as you can, but she was really just like in a panic every day for her family that she like they were leaning over the edge, and if she let them have a Snickers bar, there they would go. So

so just be careful of that. You know, we have to, we have to balance somewhere between, you know, perfection and and no, you know, just open, no girls at all, somewhere in between that's livable. So just watch out for people like that that might take you so to heart that they can no longer function.

So anyway, and then the other thing with the meetings, of course, is building the community, building relationships, and supporting these people who are especially the ones that are just getting started. So just things to keep in mind. And the one thing about meetings we've had recently, someone became a chapter leader, and they said, I want to do a festival, and I'm going to rent this place. It's like $1,500 and it's like, oh no, okay. I think what we love, what we encourage, is this kind of small and regular, steady meeting that really gives people a chance to come together.

We've seen a couple chapter leaders lose money on these big events, so just

you know, maybe there comes a time you can have a big event after you've built your community up, but don't feel like we at all if you're just getting together to watch a film together or have a potluck and discuss what hats and pans are the best ones you use, like simple, they're simple And they're regular meetings. I think that's a great thing.

So one little thing there, we're looking for butter buddies. This weekend,

if you some someone brought butter, and make sure you if you take the butter with you, and over the next couple of days, we need people to be a butter buddy, to take the butter back to your your room, hang out a little bit and then bring it to the next meal. So,

yes, yes, you may not.

We'll check how much is in it when you take it and make sure. Yeah,

it's not yes, so please don't ask a lot about that, but please be a butter buddy this weekend.

And the last thing I want to mention,

we have, oh, so we have two things. One is, we have a mix and mingle right before dinner on Friday night and Saturday night, it's out by the pool. So please, especially if you see people that never been here before. And what I ask chapter leaders is to join us in being the host of the weekend. And if you see someone with their program, you know, with a perplexed look on their face and looking up to try to find where they're supposed to be going. You know, step in and help out. And just if you're have nothing to do in the morning on Friday or Saturday at Reg, if you want to come and hang around and be there to answer questions and help people get to their rooms and all that, we're welcome any help that you Want to do, just step up and help out. I

Yes, well, just

figuring out

what

okay, yes, yes, okay,

okay, the butter plans are on hold right now. We'll get back to you. We'll get back to you about the body. So the last thing is,

is, you know, this is our 25th year.

We're not going to have next year is our 25th conference, and it's 2025

and we're shooting, Sally will say more. We're shooting for 25,000 members, and we won everything 25 so we're not doing the big celebration this year, but we've started our 25th year, and we're really excited about that. I don't know how many organizations start from scratch like Sally did, and then he.

We are 25 years old.

And the the other thing I get to announce, which I'm excited about,

oh, that's the other thing I was excited to announce. I was just about to say, You're right on the right, on the queue, on queue there next year. And I'm sorry that the table didn't have your state mark. This is one of the states that was missing, but next year it won't be missing. Is four letters,

Utah. We're going to be in Utah, Salt Lake City,

so we'll have Barbara come up. Barbara beaches is going to take a few minutes to talk about membership and recruiting and tips that she's learned over the years. She's one of the high at her exhibit booth. They've got one of the highest numbers of memberships recently. So we asked her to share her secrets.

Okay? So you guys all know that you can exhibit, and the foundation pays the fees, right?

So I want to give you a couple of tips that hopefully will make it really simple for you, so that you want to exhibit, and then some more specific things related to the foundation. So the foundation will send you everything you need for a successful event. So Kathy already mentioned the tablecloth. You can get acrylic stands for all of the different flyers. And then you're also getting the journals, and you're going to want to use those journals to drive up membership. A couple of things that you want to know is, is this an indoor outdoor event? You need to know what's provided by the person putting on the exhibit. Do you need to bring a canopy, or can they be rented? Are the tables provided? Or do you rent or need to bring those same thing with chairs? Make it really simple for bringing everything in. So have a dolly or a wagon so you can get it in there in one one set time. Know what your hours are.

You need to know the hours for the vendors as well as the hours for the attendees, because those are going to be different, and make sure that you give the foundation enough time to process all the paperwork and get you all of your supplies, because you don't need that stress for trying to set up and not having what you need. So they're going to give you all of the physical stuff. I only bring two things with me that they don't have. I think I even gave these to Maureen. I made tent cards. It's just printed out on card stock, fold in half, and their tent cards so that they have different signs so when they're walking by they can see them. One is for them signing up on a sheet for our local chapter. And I highly recommend getting in touch with Jay and having them set up a group for you. It's the easiest way to stay in touch with people. And when you get that list, you just type up all of those names and addresses and you can send them today, and he'll add them for you. You don't even have to do that part.

Then the other one says, become a member $40 annually and receive a free journal today. You get those journals from the foundation, and if you encourage people to look at those journals, they see the value of them, use them as an incentive to get people to sign up. We sold a lot of journals in addition to people signing up because they got to pick whatever journal they wanted, and they couldn't decide, so they went ahead and they just bought a couple of extra journals. So we didn't just give those. They got one for free, but then we sold the rest of them for $10

The other thing that I bring, just to make it simple, I have one of those wooden crates that you can get at, like Hobby Lobby or Michael's inexpensive I put my stuff in and bring it, but then that becomes my self contained bookshelf on the table for all of the journals, and then when you set up, you have all of your free stuff on one side of the table and your paid stuff on the other side of the table. So the other thing you're going to need is help.

So there's two considerations for this. First, you need to know if there are paid admittance. So if this is a venue where people had to buy tickets and the attendees have paid to come, then you want to selectively pick your help for that table. Okay, you do not go to your chapter meeting and say, who wants to help me at this event? Because if it is a paid event, what you are going to get are people who think, Oh, I get to go to this event for free, and I'm now going to go and attend all of these talks or whatever. That's not the kind of help you need. If it is free event where everybody is open to the public, everybody can attend, then there's no restriction on the number of helpers you can have at your table, and that's a perfect time to go.

In and open it up to everybody in your chapter, and have anybody and everybody come help you. It's also a great training round for you to see who you want to pick for when you have a paid event, you as the chapter leader. When you're interacting with people in your chapter, you know who's reliable, who's dependable, who's going to show up on time, who's more of the Tigger personality and who is Eeyore? You don't want Eeyore at your event working the table, so you want to be very selective in who you choose.

When people are walking up to the table. First thing, simple, simple. And this should be for everybody. For any event that you do, you have been to events and you've walked around, you can see which tables they're inviting and which ones aren't. So one of the things super simple is the table is manned at all times. So all times. That means when there's a presentation going on, not everybody from the table went and listened to that presentation. Somebody stays at the table, I can guarantee you, just like at this event, there will be people that are wandering around in the vendor area when the talks are going on, because they can actually engage with who the vendors are. This is also not the time where you're playing the game on your phone or you're reading the book, okay, so you want to engage with everybody who is out there. You make eye contact, you smile. And then the first question you ask is, are you familiar with the Weston Price Foundation? So if the answer is yes, what do you suppose the next question is,

Are you a member Yes? And if they say no, what's the next thing you say,

why not? Okay, so you will be shocked at how many people are familiar with the foundation. They're not really sure how the organization is structured and how it's a membership driven organization. And so many of them will say, Well, yes, I attended a chapter, but I'm no longer living there. They think their membership is associated with a specific chapter or geographic area, so that is a great warm market right there to get them to sign up, because then you're explaining that it is the chapters are free. Everybody can attend chapter meetings for free, and that the membership is going to the parent organization. So when they walk up and we determined whether or not they're familiar with the foundation, whether a member, a lot of them, when they realize that it is going to the parent organization. They sign up right then and there. If they're not familiar with it, then we explain who we are, and we direct them to the free side first, and tell them all about the flyers that we have. And we encourage everybody to take the flyers if there's a topic of interest, if they're already somewhat familiar, I still encourage them to look through all the flyers, and then I tell them that maybe they have a friend, neighbor or loved one that needs to hear a different perspective. And feel free to take those flyers and share it with them. When you have a multiple Day event, and you do that, you'll be surprised how many people come back on day two to sign up, because now they've looked at the information, encourage them to go through the journals that you have on the table. Because when they see the journals, and they see the information that's in there, and this is not just the run in the mill narrative, you know, stuff that's out there, they're getting real information. That's a huge incentive for them, because where else are they going to find that? You know, it's not readily available. The other thing is, know what your demographic is for that particular event that you're at. So if you're at a homesteading group, food sovereignty is really, really important. If it's a, you know, health fair, it might be a little bit more general. If it is a mothers or parent kind of thing, then the focus might be more on children. And one of the things that we did a lot at the homesteading conference that we were at is we really pressed the action alerts. So don't underestimate that power, because they can see the value in the journal and the information that you're giving to them, and you're explaining that as a benefit, they get that four times a year. But more importantly, they're going to get those action alerts, because where else are they going to find out about that what's being passed in Congress until it's too late? So really pushing those action alerts and being able to direct it to whatever the demographic is, whether that's the food sovereignty or maybe, oh, did you know that you'll get the action alert about a forced vaccine or whatever that target is, focus that action alert to them and encourage.

Them to sign up.

There was something that I just had there a second ago.

I did have somebody at the table when we were sitting there talking and said, it's really hard to ask for money. Okay, it is not. Do you guys, when you sit there and tell them what the benefits are for what they're getting for $40 a year? Guys, it's $40 a year. Do you know how many organizations out there you pay more than $40 a year and all you got is a little card that says you remember, you don't get information. You don't get anything that can change your life. So $40 a year is not a lot of money. So it's for those of you that might think that asking for money is hard to become a member. I would ask you to shift your paradigm, because there is so much value in being a part of this community and the information that you're getting, and then use that journal, because that journal is somebody. I mean, how many of you have been members for a long time and still have every single journal that's ever been sent to you? Okay, that should tell you the power of what that journal is. So also, when you're dealing with your help, when you've selectively chosen those people, another factor that you want to consider when you pick them is how familiar are they with the foundation principles. And I know for the ones that I picked to help me, we had two booths, two tables, side by side, because we had Sally's and then we had the Weston Price. So I was able to have three helpers with me, and I very deliberately picked people that I knew could easily talk to others. One gal, I can't tell you how many times she told people when they were looking through the journal. I have every single one of these I was ever sent. That's how valuable they are. So you take a look at this, see what you're getting for your money. And I will tell you the when you as a vendor, pay attention to what your hours are. And when I say the table is manned at all times, I mean the table is manned at all times. I messed up at this event. Our numbers would have been higher, but I misread the hours for day two, so myself and the other three people that I had helping we got there the same time that admission was happening, and while we're putting our purse away, we still have people coming up to the table. So if we'd been there when we were supposed to be there, our numbers should have even been higher.

So on member meetings, I always have a sign up. So we have over half of the people who attend our chapter meetings are members, and I think one of the reasons for that is I have a sign in sheet that because I just want to know who came from month to month. We have some regulars, but we always have new people, and the very first column is, Are you a member? So they know they don't have to be a member to come to my meetings, but it's that reinforcement, and I think there's kind of a little bit of peer pressure when they sign and they don't have a yes in that column. So and then I also will bring it up at the beginning of every meeting, because if we have new people, I don't like to go over the principles every time, because we have a lot of regulars. So I always make sure that I have the brochure that's got the 11 principles in it, and we hand that to the person and explain that the 11 principles are in there. And then they get a little brief summary about the benefits, and they get the journal. And then those extra journals that you can get from Kathy, that's a great way to distribute those brand new people encouraging them to become a member, and they can take the journal with them when they be when they sign up.

And then in every I use the email group that Jay set up, and it's just so convenient to just send. It's the same as the chapter leader group, but it's just for your area. And in every single email that I send out as the chapter leader, I always have a like a section at the bottom, kind of housekeeping. And in there, I explained that the chapter meetings are open to anybody who wants to come, so that we always have new people that are that are attending. But then I put in there we encourage membership, because we're a member driven organization. And then I give some of the benefits that are in there, so every email they get from me is going to have a reminder in the signature, and then when they sign in, they have to kind of admit which side of the fence that they fell on.

Stay hydrated when you're there. Have fun. It's like they can be very, very draining. But I can't tell you how often people will say how energizing it is. And I really think it's because you're, you're there with like minded people, and you're, you know, the foundation will give you everything you need, from your acrylics, your brochures, all of that. All you're giving is your time and your passion. And if you're excited about that, that's going to come through. Um.

Yeah, but yeah, shift your paradigm. If you think it's hard to ask for $40

it's like, I was just asked the other day if I would join the Rotary. And it's like different rotaries. They're like hundreds of dollars a month to 1000s of dollars, you know, for a year membership, like, what are you getting from?

So it's like $40 a year is a steal. So do I have any questions? I think my time is probably up.

I post a question. I'm curious. For other leaders too. A lot of people are really drawn to the food and the, you know, the wise tradition. But maybe they weren't. They're not aware of this position on 2020, 2021, COVID stuff. Do you address that when you're talking to people, or you just sort of let them figure that out? Oh, no, I will address it. And especially when we're talking with the action alerts, and I let people know. You know, we are a nonprofit grassroots organization that's all about education and about nutrient dense foods, but we also address anything that has an impact on our health, so that could be COVID or vaccines or so we've really broadened it. And I let people know that, because not everybody, we're all in a different place in the journey for where we are with food and different viewpoints. And if they're looking at those flyers, and your table is set up to where you're just using what the Foundation provided. I might bring one small potted plant or a vase, and that's the only decoration we have. Everything else is all the information that they have paid on this side, free. On this side, we let everybody know when they walk up. This is the free information. This is the paid information. So it's all very, very clear. But if you've got all of the flyers there, you're going to see that it goes way beyond food. And if you've got somebody who, you will get those that are like, Well, I'm vegetarian, and so I would always hand them the vegetarian flyer and say, That's fabulous. Read this, and then tell me where we're wrong, or let's have a talk about it afterwards. But, and that's also where I will if somebody is already familiar, I encourage them. If they have a friend or loved one that might need to hear a different perspective, take the flyer and share it with them. So I

just curious why you're tabling, try to get

members or just to share the message, do you actually sign up members at these tables? Yes. So the Foundation provides you membership form, so I have my clipboard with this little this is on one side of my table. The getter join is on my paid side, and then the free side has signed up. They've got the forms there. They've a lot of people will pay by credit card, but even if they give you cash, so you'll have your money bag. You can even get that from the foundation you put just be careful they give you your credit card, so make sure it goes right in that thing. You're keeping track of everything after the event, and I think Maureen will talk a little bit more, but after the event that you're just going to send all of those forms in, I was lucky. Sally came to our event on day two, so I didn't have to do anything with the forms, except for hand them to her. But then, if you have a large amount of cash, then you'll just deposit that and then use Zelle or write a check to the foundation so that you're not mailing cash. But yeah, we had, I don't remember how many members. We got, something like 60 members at the event that we had for modern homestanding. The other tip, I would say, also, is if you were doing an event,

if at all possible, it was not possible for this event that we were at because we had another appointment, but if at all possible, be the last person to pack up. If you've ever been to an event and people start anticipating, they start breaking down. Okay, you already know that vendors checked out and there's still people walking around. I can tell you when I did vendor events for another company. I would be the last person still there, and I wouldn't break down until everybody was gone. And I did a ton of sales in that last hour because nobody else really wanted to engage. So if you, if possible, don't start breaking down your booth until you're forced to break it down, or nobody else is around, because you will still have a lot of interaction, just

one little additional you can if you have online access, they can log on. They can join online. The only tricky part is, once they join, it logs them in. So the next person that comes up, you will have to log out before the next person comes up.

I asked Kathy not to introduce me so I could have more time to talk.

It's a short and.

Reduction. My name is cymbria Patterson. I'm from Utah. We have no place guard on the table, as mentioned, but the conference is going to be there next year. So your

full disclosure, I am not a chapter leader that I probably wouldn't have been had it been around when my daughter was born 30 years ago, but I'm an advocate. We have a small, two acre organic farm my daughter and I live on and run, and then we also own and run a non profit, truly a non profit, red acre Center for Food and Agriculture. So let's get to the topic.

Red acre Center for Food and Agriculture,

so helping make raw milk available, I did not ask to speak on that. I was given that assignment, so I'm really glad that I'm not talking to the Department of Food and Agriculture or the USDA or at a food safety conference or the health department. It's really a fabulous crowd to bring this up to. I wouldn't even want to talk about this at a farm bureau meeting, so

maybe, maybe in a homesteading conference. You might hear that subject now, but I thought, why are we talking about this? This is the choir, right? We're preaching to the choir, but I think the important thing that came to me was you're not just the choir. You're the conductors. So you guys are the leaders. We're really not preaching to the choir here. We're preaching to the conductors, which have a way bigger job, right?

Specifically, the task of keeping the food of your choice

possible, right? That's, I see, what you guys are doing to get food that you want to eat today. It's an extremely important task that you've taken on by being a leader, finding that food, getting that list out to your members.

I'm just here to tell you as a leader. I'm just reminding you. Tony Robbins, COVID, whoever it is that you follow, I'm just here to confirm that what they said is true. It's lonely being a leader. How many of you have to fight for a position to be a chapter leader? There's so many people lining up

that you're like, you're here. You have to, you know, go to be elected somewhere, because they don't know, you know, there's so many people to choose from, right? Do you ever look around and think no one will do this if I don't, I wonder if Sally's ever thought I'd just like to be home with my husband and enjoy my farm, and who would run Weston A price. How many people are in line? I'm sure she just has to, you know, pick from who's going to take over next year, right? It's lonely being a leader. Remember that it's lonely. So to have all of you in this room who has a shirt on and said, real bread, real food, real milk, I thought, and real people having real conversations. It's about as rare as the other things on that shirt.

Okay, I use an electronic device I might eat well, but this is my weakness, so my notes are on there, and I have it on airplane mode, so it's doing weird things to keep Sally's rules. Okay,

I'm reminding you that it's lonely and that you've been left with this task to make raw milk available. So I'm going to ask you guys, because you're the leaders in the room, I hope every hand goes up, but the loudest and the most enthusiastic person. I just want a couple ideas from a few people. How do we make raw milk available? That's the subject she gave me. And I thought, well, I'm in here with you guys. How can we make raw milk available? Raise it. There's a loud person. More farmers, good. Good answer.

More education. Great answer,

say it again,

a delivery system, a way to get it to the people,

connecting consumers to farmers. I'm going to be able to sit down in a minute

sharing it with friends and family. See you guys, can you guys? Can get say it again.

Family cow, oh my gosh. Okay, you named every single one you guys. I'm done. They'll be happy. We'll be ahead.

I knew you'd have the best answers. So, I mean, I had to think about some of these.

Thank you for your suggestions. So it's a two fold problem getting raw milk. Can anybody Name the two problems that we have? Pete Kennedy's here, I was looking for him earlier.

Supply. But wait, wait, what? Who's the supplier?

So we're lacking farmers. I'll be totally on.

Honest, I just kept thinking about the law, and I asked my daughter, who's back there? And she's like, the fact that nobody wants to do this farmers. I was like, I forgot about that one. So what's the other problem lack? Okay, so it's two problems, right? We've got the law that doesn't like it, which we could talk about all day, and farmers. So if you know the problem, you can come up with the solution. You guys name them. So let's stick with that for a minute. How do we access it? You guys talked about

supply. So how do we access raw milk? I love the easiest one, of course, is everyone in here go home and get a cow, and get each one of your members to have a cow, and we're done right? The law isn't involved, and you've got a farmer,

apartments, townhouses, it's a problem. Cows are not going to be in everyone's backyard. So that is the easiest solution. So we could really push for that. Or maybe we could start a campaign. Everyone own a cow. Sally will be take your cow home, bring your cow with you. Maybe, if you become like dogs, we could have little Dexter carrier cows. I don't know it's a good idea that cow campaign, okay, so maybe that's not the easiest one.

So what's another way to access it. Florida is famous for it. Someone said, herd shares, you have your hand up and waving. I love it. Nigerian

goat,

miniature goats. Goats are easier. I'm glad you brought it up. Good. I don't know if, if you guys have a preference,

say it again,

that that's where I was going. A family pet and goats are easier. Goats are easier than cows. The law we were literally told in our state about anything to do with raw milk, if we would leave the cow word out, they don't care. They don't care what we do. They don't care how many gallons. They don't care how many goats are in a herd share. Just leave the cow word out and you're fine. So there's a thought I don't know. I don't know every rule about the Weston A price diet, but I don't know if there's a preference for cow milk over goat milk. But

would you say, Sally? No,

well, maybe we should start a goat campaign instead,

because you're right, a pet.

Okay, Sarah, do you think Sally's right? I'm questioning her up here. Do you I think it depends on

the goat or

the salad? Or at least, she said, it depends on the goat or the cow. I have seen some pretty ornery goats on our farm. So and we have a cow this year that's not as friendly, okay, so own a cow, we'd be over and done with it.

Florida. How? What's another way to get milk Florida is the way they get it,

pet milk.

I've heard herd shares, and then, of course, legal on the shelves, human consumption. So that's how we access it. You know what the problems are? We've named solutions for it, and we've named the avenues of access for that. And you guys said it create a demand, get, you know, get more people drinking it. Legislators can't ignore that when that happens, and farmers will have a market for it. I know Sally might not love me saying this, but it started to work for me with Farm Bureau. Everyone saw what happened in the pandemic. They're scared. They're worried about access to food. You can buy eggs, right? You can everyone knows. You can divide up a cow, you can take it to a custom meat place. There's access to meat, there's access to chickens. But this has really resonated with conventional farmers. For me, you don't have to drink it raw. You can take it home and heat it up, but you want access to dairy, and the only way to get access to dairy is by having people who are small raw milk producers. And so I've started this conversation now heated. You can cook it, you can heat you just have access to it now you can do I love this person. She's gonna not stop let me hear your comment, sheep

and water buffalo milk in the

city of California and I

started selling to the Indian

community, the Desi

community in India around us, Desi milk. And that's where the brand came from. So these people in their village, the cow comes

to their kitchen. They milk that cow fresh, and they're going to boil

the milk. These people boil the milk. That's what they do. Did you say they boil.

Milk, yeah.

So I know not everybody might like that, but it makes it much more friendly. And I it's something that has really,

oh, there's a good there's a good one. I didn't bring it the

state of New York as well. You? Community

in New Jersey, millions and millions of I should open. I should just get it there and

put my bread and

that steak to cook it, because so

just be aware, there are a lot of vegetarians. And as a Western price, I have to be very careful not to offend you.

Any person to eat meat. You're simply not, but they sure do have beautiful teeth and smiles and appreciate fresh thank you for your comment. I appreciate that. So I don't think we want to cook it campaign, but

no, it is. It's a great it's a great way to but I think when you talk about food security and buying out of the industrial food complex, you want to remind people that that's the only way we're going to have dairy, and it would bring people back into doing this. So put that in your toolbox. Okay,

I don't. I'm trying not to go over Gabby. I wanted to, I love it was the last thing that Sally said to me before I walked up here. I was just telling her, it's amazing that she's hung on to her organization that she founded, and she still drives it. And she said, persistence, and that that's the one thing, if I can inspire you all to be, is persistent. We have a 30 I don't know all this. He works for us. He helps me with our conference. I asked him to Google something. Come on. He's 30. He could, he couldn't find it. It took and I thought, I looked and I found it. I thought, Man, that was like You gave up so quickly. And

I thought, it's back to the you're it, you're the leader. This kid's young. He's fast, he's a software engineer. And I could find it, and I just hopefully I won't go over. But I think it's worth sharing. So this little bit about persistence and comparing it to keeping this, you know, how to get raw milk accessible.

You know, here I am thinking, Oh, Florida, it'll be great. We'll go to the whole conference. We'll sign up for farm tours. Of course, times my daughter and I are extremely busy leaders, usually are right. We run the farm and the and the

center we have, she has a brother. I have a son that's disabled. We take care of and time's ticking away. Okay, you guys, maybe we won't go to the conference, and then we get asked to speak, and of course, I want to share this. You're like our people, so now I've got to get to the conference, but I don't even have a plane ticket, and it was Saturday or Sunday, so talk about persistence. It's only the cheap airlines that are left. It was like their sight was shutting down. Frontier. It's lovely, and I had to be persistent. It was 10 o'clock. I was starting to fall asleep. My brilliant daughter is now asleep, and okay, I finally get the ticket. So that works. I'm persistent. I get there, then I I know, even though the rooms are sold out for the block, I know, because I do events, that if there's room in the hotel, they can give me that price the first two people I hang up on, I'm calling it weird hours. It's yesterday, so I call, I'm like, I'm going to call it 905 Florida time. And I am I really talking the hotel or some strange line that takes reservations. So now I have a real person, real people on the phone, and I two seconds, I'm like, is this a hard no, or I know there's rooms available. Can I get the discount instantly? She gave it to me, but that was the third or fourth phone call. Persistence is very important, and being kind and patient is very important. I think we forget that. Pete reminds me, sybria, it's just your persistence. It's just the way that you, you go about things. And I didn't even recognize that about myself. He said it a few times. He's like, you just don't give up. My daughter doesn't give up either. So we got the hotel. We're good. We're going. We have a place to stay. We register for the conference.

I always give myself three hours to get to the airport, but it really only takes two and a half. And I always lie to her by 30 minutes, but we were so we had so much to do, I decided to cut it down to two and a half. She got to sleep 20 minutes late. Now I'm 50 minutes behind, doing good until GPS pops up and says you're 45 minutes. It's going to take 45 extra minutes. I'm like, I didn't do any insurance on these tickets. I'm not getting here. I so now I'm looking for a flight. What's the next flight? Out? How much is this going to cost? Me? Dead Stop and.

Las Vegas, dead stop, she wakes up, and she's like, there's been an accident. The freeway is closed. There's a shoulder on both sides of those freeway.

And I'm thinking, My heart is so sincere, these people will know it. She's like, Oh my gosh. So I start taking the shoulder. I'm riding the shoulder. But people who don't have a sincere heart and are angry. Got the same idea. Literally, a guy jumps out of his car and my daughter's going, oh my gosh, mom, oh my gosh, mom. I'm like, no, no. I rolled down my window and I'm like, kind of waving. I'm like, I really have a better reason to get here than you. I've got to talk to a bunch of people about raw milk.

I swear that, like, puts it out to the universe I was let in every time. I won't tell you how many times I had to ride the shoulder. I haven't done this in years. It was totally safe, but I did choose to run a red light. I made that plane by two minutes, I kid you not, and I won't even tell you how many, how many other things happen to be so my point is, is that a sincere heart? Oh, when we got to the airport, right? I'm like, I see, you know, you see somebody pushing and you're thinking, you're an idiot, you're late. Why didn't you plan better? I just would go up behind him and go, Excuse me, could I go past you? I'm like, running. I mean, you know, this is she's running faster than me. But I thought you can be a jerk, or you can have that sparkle in your eye, you can have that sincere heart, you can have that, you know, contagious smile, and you'll get somewhere. I didn't knock anybody out of the way. I wasn't rude, but a few more things happened to us, but the point is, we got there by two minutes. So persistence, I just want to inspire you that it really does make a difference trying to

think, if there's anything else I want to share with you, I know we're running out of time. This is a quote. This is something I wanted to share with you guys. A leader sees where a situation is, knows where it could or ought to be, and then you insert yourself to change it.

That's how you're going to get more raw milk. At 16, my daughter was illegally selling raw milk, and she received a cease and desist order. I thought we should stop. She thought we should change the law.

Pet milk had to be denatured with dye in our state, no sales from the farm gate and her shares were illegal,

nothing more than passion, a sincere heart. We knew two people when we went up to our capital. My daughter had that twinkle in her eye. We had a spontaneous smile, and we had a sincere heart. We went up there, we, after our first time, we formed a nonprofit. We made herd shares legal with raw milk products. In our herd share, you can also have raw milk products. Yes, you can sell from a mechanized mobile unit. Now this wasn't all the first year we've been at this 10 years, 121

gallons from the farm gate cream and butter were made legal. All milk products are now legal in the state, and we have a bill next session to help with outbreaks and how that is handled, how they shut you down. That's a little more technical. I won't go into that. That's our bill for next year, we've passed over 19 bills that affect direct to consumer, producers and those who want to consume the food of their choice. So we chose to change the narrative, and that's what I'm challenging you to it's the, you know, the whole heated idea, cook it. It's the only way to access dairy. Change the law so farmers can sell their milk. Open your mouth, right? That's the first thing we need to do, right? Create that demand. You guys talked about it. It was great. You talked about teaching classes, you know, webinars, there's workshops, there's all sorts of ways to get out there and gathering, finding your community, making sure that you know you we only knew two people when we went up there, but by the end, we knew hundreds and it's the it's, I have to share this story until all of you have heard it. That first time that we went up there, just two of us, so my daughter wanted to change the law. We couldn't even get it out of committee. So every vote counts, and the one, one of them was a naysayer, and this woman sitting next to me said, Hey, I'm so, you know, blah blah, Nicole handy. And I said, Yeah, are you related to Representative handy? I'm his daughter in law. He's going to vote yes. I'm like, Representative handy isn't going to vote yes. She goes. I'm a Weston, a price member, and his grandchildren drink raw milk.

That's a true story. So you guys are very powerful. It made a difference for us passing laws in the state of Utah. I don't even feel like we had a very strong chapter leaders, but that's how we got the message out. And I just, I want to tell that to Weston A price chapter leaders. I want to tell that.

Story to all of you know it, because it's what made the difference of getting that bill out of committee. That was our herd share bill in our first bill.

Okay, this is my ask. You guys ready? This is the last thing, I promise. It's the most important part, though. Are you guys listening? Here's your task. I call it the dirty half dozen. Okay,

you're up for this challenge.

Get a pen because you can't have your phone on right? Okay? I want you to find and I want you to contact them. You have one week. There's going to be downtime during this conference. You have one week to do this. A new neighbor. I'm not talking about somebody in your community. I'm talking about somebody who really lives within walking distance from you. Find a new neighbor, contact them. You can't meet them this week, but you can come up with their name.

Find your city councilman, if you live in a city or your Commissioner, make an appointment to meet them. Your state representative, you only have one and you only have one state senator. Find out who your congressman is.

You should make a point to meet them. Do you know why they come home to their state they have state offices. You can meet them. And you're to find out who your two congressional senators are. Here's the deal. By the time you're mad, you find out they're banning law milk or whatever. The thing is that takes you off. They don't know who you are. It's too late. And somebody like me who needs somebody like you, my favorite thing is for someone to say, oh yeah. Pete, I'm like, Representative Smith, yeah. Pete, oh yeah. We go to barbecues together. I'm like, you know him? Oh yes. That is the best thing someone can ever hear is that somebody has a relationship with who they're trying to get to you reach out to your friends. Make these people your friends. Know who your neighbors are, know who your people are, who are changing you and your law. We should know our farmer. But this, for me, it was all about the legal stuff. So you should probably find a farmer in that list. But then that would make it seven and not as easy to remember. So six things you really need to reach out to them now. What is this? October, tell them happy fall. I don't know, happy Thanksgiving for every month, find a reason to contact them, find out when their birthday is. But that is my ask, because remember, as leaders, you know you see a situation. You see something that's wrong and you need to fix it, and you guys have chosen to be chapter leaders, so you're going to insert yourself and make a difference and make much more than just raw milk available. Thank you for what you do. Thank you for your time. You

Thank you, symbria, so now we're going to have the chapter photos. So any chapter leaders, I know there's a few people, not chapter leaders here, but all the chapter leaders, please go out these doors. Sandrine will be out there, and there's someone with the hotel that are, I think, is escorting us to the spot. And we have 15 minutes, so please go get the photo and then be back in 15 minutes. Thank you.

So we're going to start our next one with Annette Alberto, our host for our Spanish podcast. You Hey, Hola,

thank you Kathy, and thank you everyone. We are very, very honored and very happy to be here sharing with you this update of the Spanish podcast. It's been a year full of growth for both of us and for the podcast as well. Last time, we shared with you some statistics, and we want to provide this update to you. We started every other week, and since April, we are now every Wednesday, publishing an episode. And

last year, we shared that the podcast had 38 episodes, and yesterday we published episode number 76

we have interviewed a wide variety of experts in different areas of knowledge, and we want to highlight that we have interviewed guests from Spain, from United States, including holistic Hilda, Our

godmother. Our godmother, also Christine muldon, who is chapter leader and Karen DeHaven. I saw her earlier. She's also a chapter leader from different parts of Mexico, including Galia. Also chapter leader from Venezuela, Anna de escartes, although she lives in Spain, from Colombia, Argentina.

Ecuador El Salvador, Chile, Uruguay, from Peru and from Puerto Rico. Last year, we reported that we had reached nearly 16,000 downloads, and we just reached almost 68,000

although we know there are many more listeners than downloads. This is an important metric, but the podcast reach goes well beyond the numbers, and the ripple effect is unmeasurable, and all of you are key players in spreading the word that this is another powerful tool that helps us continue with the mission of the foundation as a key, important means of communication.

So added to that,

there are a couple of websites that monitors the popularity of every podcast in the world. There are more than 3.4 million podcasts, and we just learned that the Spanish podcast is among the top 5%

worldwide, among those 3.4 million.

But even more impressive, the English podcast is among the point zero, 1% most popular podcast in the world.

That's a great inspiration and a very high bar. No pressure.

I remember two years ago when Sally was presenting us in the conference at Knoxville.

This is going to be our new Spanish political host, and I remember the pressure like I was so nervous.

We have covered many different and interesting and important topics. For example, episodes on gaps protocol for adults and children, raw versus pasteurized milk. That episode was with gallium. Very important topic, also about the invisible extinction going on with our modern microbiome.

Dirty secrets of the fishing industry. Very, very secrets. So if you want to learn Spanish, that's a good episode to listen

and then what to do to sustain responsible fishing,

ancestral foods like butter coconut,

ancestral varieties of corn and ancestral ways of cooking it, for example, with a process known as nixtamornization so your body can absorb the nutrients.

We've recorded interviews about the role of pain and inflammation and why they are not the enemy.

Also what the industry doesn't want you to know about vegetable oils and sugar,

dirty secrets. I think you should try to learn Spanish to know about that.

Also about food preservation, without topics using ancestral ways, apple cider vinegar. It was also with Galia, very good one. Debunk, debunking the COVID narrative.

That was a hot one. We tried not to cover contribution topics in the first year since we wanted to gather audience. But this year we're going full steam.

Modern medicine dogmas. That was an episode that, like,

when went for 3000

downloads, like it broke our own records. So people are waking up, sustainable living skills, ancestral diets for the whole family. We did that one with Christy Morton, very beautiful podcast. Also contact with nature

for children,

and also about the legacy of Dr wisdom, enterprise and Sally Fauci. We did that with Hilda. It's very important that the Spanish speaking community knows about that

at least half of our guests had no idea about who Dr Western enterprise was, or if the foundation existed. So whenever that happens, we take our time to tell them all about the foundation and what it's doing so they can spread the word among their followers. Some of them have a couple of 1000 followers, but some of them have hundreds of 1000s of followers. So we are taking very serious the spread of the knowledge and seed of work all of you are doing.

I.

Am almost ending, but I want to share that podcast listening is growing

worldwide, but especially in the Spanish speaking community, and especially among young people. Someone here shared the importance of the young people. We want to target them, and it's a good way that they are using to gain knowledge.

So there is so much potential, and still so much to do. So along your efforts, we will do our part.

We are just starting to scratch the surface, and this is just the beginning, before we leave, I would like to know how many of you speak Spanish.

That's great. How many of you know someone that speaks Spanish?

So if all of you share the Spanish podcasts with those people, you will be spreading the knowledge. So thank you. We are

you can access to Spotify

and Apple podcast and the foundation's web page

traditions sabias, so,

oh,

we have, we have Spanish podcast that will be sharing postcards. Sorry, my English is not very good looking.

So we'll be cheering those through to the three days of the conference. So if you can help on that, that would be amazing. Spanish speaking community is in very big need of good information. So I think beautiful thing is going on, so thank you.

Hey, I'm Hilda. I'm the host and producer of the wise traditions podcast for the Weston A price Foundation, and thank you.

That statistic from Annette and Alberto just blew me away. It is such a joy to have the privilege of representing the foundation and inviting people to consider ancestral health, ways for good health. It is such a joy. I love it so much. But I'm pleased to be here because I'm also a chapter leader, and I want to reiterate what sambria was saying and what Sally said. You all are on the front lines of this movement that is gaining steam. Can you feel it? I mean, have you noticed it's not just make America healthy again, wherever your political tendencies lie, like there are conversations happening on a national and on an international level, because people are so sick they're desperately looking for answers, and the Weston A price Foundation has the wisdom not from ourselves, not from Sally, necessarily, It's from how our ancestors live, things that serve them well, and we are the conduits. We are the communicators. Indeed, like symbria said, We are the conductors of sharing this information. But I want to tell you something more important than our sharing it

the most persuasive thing you can do, I believe, to impact the lives around you is to live it out. You all are living and embodying the wise traditions way, the wise traditions principles and that will pique the curiosity of your family, members of your friends. I mean, you can give them all the brochures and all the podcast links you want, but just like with putting food on your table, you can't guarantee that your kids are going to eat it, right? But you provide it, you bring it to them. That's important too. But the fact that you're living it out, I think, is the most important piece of the puzzle, because you benefit from it. And then people start asking you questions. Raise your hand if someone's asked you why you do what you do, or why you eat what you eat. Absolutely right. Okay, so humor me, because I used to be a cheerleader.

I want you to say I'm living it. I'm living it on the count of three. Not, I'm loving it because that was McDonald's logo A while ago, right? Not, I'm loving it. I'm living it, 123,

yes, you are living it. And it is so powerful. I was telling one of my daughters, it's like, every little bit that we do is like, one more drop in the bucket. And she's like, don't say drop in the bucket, mom, that sounds like, like it's nothing, it's not good enough. And I said, No, what I mean is every drop in the bucket fills it to overflowing, so you can't stop it anymore. I want to tell you a little story I don't know.

If you know Alex Clark, she invited Sally and myself and some others to be on her podcast. It's called, yes, it's called culture apothecary. This is a thing her show used to have to do with politics and pop culture, and she shifted because of her own health concerns, because of what happened in 2020 now she her show has displaced Andrew Huberman show as the number one health and fitness podcast on Apple podcasts. I know I'm so proud of her and I'm so happy and look, we're not competitors, we're collaborators. She binge listened to the wise traditions podcast, and she was like, Oh my gosh. Like, this has changed my life. She's all about raw milk. She's all about eating less processed foods. I'm thrilled, and so let me just segue here to say I'm not throwing in the towel because we're still going strong. So the wise traditions podcast, since its inception in 2016 has continued to consistently appear in the top 150 of the apple podcast charts and the top 150 of health and fitness, and we have nearly 15 million downloads. So yes, it's a lot to be thankful for,

and unless it's just one person listening 15 million times, which I doubt

we're reaching a lot of people. Why does this matter? Because you're living it and you're sharing it. You're not just keeping it to yourself. So continue distributing the journal, as Barbara was saying, inviting people to become members, inviting them to the conference or your gatherings. That's all great, and it's important too. So I wanted to tell you that one way in which we're up leveling the wise traditions podcast is I've learned, because I continue to learn, and go to podcasting conferences and read the journals and so forth. And they say that the best platform for podcast listening now is YouTube. YouTube has the most discoverability also for new podcasts. They say, if it doesn't have a video, is it even a podcast? And I'm like, wait, we started nine years ago, nearly 10 years ago now, with audio only because that was the format back then. But as you all know, the media landscape is constantly changing. So I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna work on the titles. I need more SEO in my titles. I'm gonna work on getting it on YouTube. Thankfully, the Foundation's board and the staff have approved this, trying to level up to get the conversation out on video. I think why do they want to see the people you know like this is silly. You can just listen anywhere. It's how they take in the content. Now, it's very, very important, so I'm thrilled about that big innovation. You'll be seeing more interviews on the YouTube channel the Western a price Foundation's YouTube channel in the months to come. So I just want to close with this. You are living it, you're sharing it,

and you're also, as they say, you're killing it.

But listen, my daughter says this, And she's right. She's like, No, let's not say you're killing it. Let's say you're healing it because we are. We're not killing it for goodness sakes. We're healing it. We're helping to heal with every share, with every way in which we embody this natural way of living. We're healing it. So I want you to say on the count of three, we are healing it because it's not just us as individuals, right? It's all of us working together. We're all making our dent in the universe, and I'm so thankful for every single one of you. Let's say we are healing it on the count of 3123,

yes, we are. Thank you very much. So

you.

All right, most of you know me, but I'm wondering what happened to the oh, okay, that's here.

I need it back up.

I'm going to add one quick thing about exhibiting and I am the Outreach Coordinator. So one big thing that we need is for all of you also to let us know when there is something in your area that might fit for us to come and exhibit, and just let me know outreach at Western a price.org so instead of emailing info, just email outreach, and I can set all of that up for you. And even though you can set it up yourself through the office, it's really my job, and it's more tedious on their end. And I also need to know who's doing what, so I know who to call upon. All right, that said,

I also manage the chapter leaders forum.

The chapter leaders the chapter Leaders Forum is an online and email forum in which we have many great discussions. How many of you are on that?

Those of you who are not again, let me know. Outreach at Western aid, price, org.

And I will add you to the list. On that forum, we discuss a lot of things, as has already been mentioned. It's very fruitful. It's very helpful. We discuss health topics, wellness, healing, and politics as it relates to food freedom and medical freedom and that kind of thing. And then logistics, you know, how do you do this? How do you do that? So we want you to be part of that forum. Common complaint that I get is help. I'm getting too many emails. This is ridiculous. Take me off of here. Blah, blah, blah. I want to tell you how to set it up so that you don't have to be overwhelmed, and it's easily managed. So what I've done is I have, just yesterday, I added myself under a different email so that I can walk you through and show you how to do this.

It does not have to be overwhelming at all. Here is an example. This is my first email that came through the forum yesterday or this morning. I'm not sure

that I have it as large as I can on my screen.

So it's up to the whoever's handling the AV equipment. To make it bigger, I can't make it bigger. It's It's my full screen right now,

some of it, I'm going to just walk through, because some of it, if you just follow my cursor, you will see at the bottom of every email, you have this footer here one key thing, and that's why it's in in bold letters are all caps. To start a new topic. You've seen me mention this time and time again. I have to tell you. I'm going to show you in a minute too. Hopefully it's super important that you don't reply to an email to start a new subject and just change the subject line, because it totally messes up the organization online and makes it very difficult to search and find things always start with a fresh email. So that's why that's that's really important. Please keep that in mind. Alright. So and the bottom line here is facts for this list. Every time somebody asks, oh,

every time someone asks me

how to do something, or why is it like this? Or why is it like that, I was connected now I'm not. Can you tell us

why it's wonderful?

Yeah, well, and that was my point, or in my opening comments was about all the things that we do on that forum. It keeps us in touch and helps us to help each other. So we do really want you to join, unless you just really hate techie stuff. So I'm going to turn off Wi Fi. I'm going to turn Wi Fi back on.

It has to connect,

and I may just try to talk it through here,

and I think that I will, because I'm not seeing my internet, my Wi Fi come up, alright. So again, bottom of every email fax for the list, when you click on that, it is a whole explanation of how the list operates, physically, from a, from a, an internet, a, you know, a platform, anything you want to know is there. You can also email me with questions. That's fine again. Outreach at Western a price or my, officially, I'm mama follies@gmail.com

but that's that's easy enough.

So this explains, if only I could connect. It explains exactly what to do,

since I'm not getting this was going to be so clear and so concise I want to show you,

and I can't,

unless somebody can help me hook up to a different

Well, that's what I've got. Oh, you know what? You know what I turned my Okay, that's probably I was on airplane mode. I just put it on airplane mode. Now I'm taking it off again. Okay, yep, that's fine. Now we should be able to work

soon as it connects, there we go,

connect, connect, connect, connect, come on.

Okay, now I can do it. Okay.

So here is that member, fax, PDF. It tells you, let's start with registering, because you you don't have to register your account. I encourage you to register your email account. So at the very top of this page, you've got one paragraph, second paragraph registering. You click right there

and it takes you.

To the affinity page. You also can just go to wapf groups.org,

and if you're a member registered or not, you will have this pop up. So you can see, I've got my chapter here below, but here's Weston, a price chapter leaders now at the top, we've got owner hope, because I am owner, moderator, member, non member, member, so I'm going to click on member,

please. I was just telling me, okay.

Oh, okay. Well, that's that's fine.

Oh, look, it's going to go back because it recognizes that I that even under another email address.

I thought this was going to be so easy. Okay, well, let's go back to that facts list, so you click on the facts and the on the link in the second paragraph, and it's going to show you welcome to affinity. I'm sorry that mine just goes even under another email address. It recognizes me, so just follow this through. The important thing is that you're signed up, you'll get a confirmation email, and then this shows you how to post messages. It tells you about receiving messages once you have Once you have registered your account, you can go to change preferences, you have to log in, and then you see, and I'll just do it this way. I'll make the screen bigger. You can change your preferences here.

And to do this,

just going to do it this way. It's probably quicker.

Okay, here is my this is what I look at because this is because I'm the owner Moderator. So you're not going to have a screen that looks exactly like this, but

you, once you are registered, you can sign in, and your screen will look a little bit differently, but I'll just pull Maureen dot Diaz up,

and there we are.

Funny thing is, this automatically registered me. I didn't register, and I'm sure it's again, because it recognizes my email. But once you're here, you have these delivery options. You're looking at two things here, registered delivery status, and it's all enabled or disabled. If you don't want to actually get emails, and I don't, I don't like to get the emails, I get none, or almost none, because there's, I think, a better way right now you're going to be either enabled or disabled. I'm going to say disable

now I don't get any emails. So what do you do when you don't get emails? Well, you sign in, you log in, and if you're active at all, you're probably just going to want to keep that window open and stay stay signed in all the time, like I do, but once you're signed in,

this is what you can do. So again, you can click

at the top of your affinity page, you have settings, and you can change your settings there, but you have archives, and this is the important thing. From the archives, you see every topic and is categorized chronologically. So, oh, I loved this one. Thank you. Kelly,

a young man coming to the conference who needs a girl.

Okay, I thought this was fun. Actually, Marianne had also relayed the same thing.

Then you can click back and forth. You can host a new thread. You can look at all of the emails. You can do anything you want, including unsubscribe, and please don't unsubscribe unless you really just hate being there.

But you can reply. You can read and reply right from here, or you can get 50 emails a day and reply individually. Or you can do this. You can go to, I'm going to enable myself, but I the delivery mode. I can choose digest plain text, mind.

As

digest or summary. And I would suggest, if you're going to do digest, I usually put people on summary digest, and I can do that for you. If you just want to change and you don't care about seeing the archives and you can't mess with all this stuff, just email me and I can change your preferences to digest. But if you're registered, you not only can do that for yourself, you can view the archives online, and then, instead of replying and changing the subject line, post a new thread. Okay, that's all you've got to do. I was going to show you an example of doing it the incorrect way, and what happens. I'm not going to take the time to do that. Just understand, if you click on young man looking for a healthy young gal, but you want to talk about something else, and you go here, and you reply, and maybe you change the subject line, but from an email, not from digest. What's going to happen is that it goes from you're clicking on this one and then you're changing the subject line to, how do I get raw milk?

That email which you're posting is a new subject is actually going to still fall under young man looking for a healthy young girl. Okay, so do it the right way, not the wrong way, please. And I'll be at the Weston A price table all weekend, so you can come and ask me more questions. I'm happy to help outreach at Western a price.org you

I'm

going to try to get this just right so that I don't have all my breath

coming out with every breath, but with every word. So my name is Sandrine Perez, and I joined the fold of the chapter leadership community in 2004

and in 2005

I founded nourishing our children, and I've been asked to speak about that as a resource to chapter leaders. I also serve as our social media director and manage our social media on five platforms, and I'll talk to you about how you can utilize what we put forward, what I post in order to share with your communities so nourishing our children. Has

a website. We are a project of the Weston, a price Foundation, and we I post articles, and there are many resources there that you can access, if you have as chapter leaders, any young parents would be parents, grandparents, anyone caring for children who want to nourish and not merely merely feed their children, please direct them to nourishing our children.org. We have a Get started tab, and that lists all sorts of articles, and we have a first steps guide which really kind of distills

these principles into very doable first steps.

So I'm envisioning that even on your resource list you could add nourishing our children. It's not a local

farmer, but it is something that I think quite a few people would benefit from.

So nourishing our children.org. If you have parents who want more support, we have a closed Facebook group, and we ask for $5 as a donation per each calendar year. So if those in your communities may not have the resources to buy a membership, as many of you probably know, we do have a Weston, a price Foundation, members only group on Facebook, and for those who may not have the means to join as a member for $5 a year, they can be part of the nourishing our children.

We have that Facebook, closed Facebook group, and every question is answered. I ensure that there isn't a single question that goes unanswered. We also have when they give the $5 per calendar year. We have a group for adults called nourished.

I used to offer this to the community free, and we had 12,500

members, and it was an unsustainable volunteer effort on my behalf. So we I ask now for $5 which is a very small contribution, but we're reduced to 250 people, which is very manageable. So

you know, when people complain, I honestly the answer is, if someone isn't in a position to contribute $5 they likely aren't going to be in a position to implement or recommend.

Because it's such a nominal fee. So for your communities, I recommend nourishing our children.org

and then also our closed group. If they really want individual support, we're nourishing our children. Is also on social media. We're mainly active on Instagram and Facebook, and between the two, we have almost 1500 followers between those two platforms,

nourishing our children, has educational materials. So if you chapter leaders would like to teach your communities, there's a PowerPoint, a study guide, an e book, an audio book, a DVD, and I've written two children's books currently out of print, but a real food Alpha book bed will be reprinted in 2025

so I think I've covered nourishing our children, and then regarding our social media. So I post every day of the year on Instagram, Facebook, me, we telegram. What am I missing? X, formerly known as Twitter. It's the same content virtually every time. And we encourage you, if you have any social media of your own to share that content.

It's it's all about us. I'm teaching our principals day and night. And then I wanted to mention that we were removed from Facebook. We had 275,000

followers on Facebook, and we were removed without explanation or notice, and we rebranded as wise traditions,

named after our principles, our podcast, our conference, our journal, and we are now at about 25,000 followers, so we have not recovered that loss. However,

our Instagram account is approaching 275,000

and it's a small miracle,

because we are shadow banned, we are censored. We have posts removed continually. People tell us when they want to follow us, that they get a warning that this page posts misinformation. Are you sure you want to follow them? So there people are discouraged, but nonetheless, we keep growing, and I encourage your you know you to put that as a resource, resource. If you're curious about all these addresses, you can go to the website, Weston aprice.org and you can find all of our social, social media platforms. In fact, I think it is Weston A price.org forward, slash social media, you'll see every address. So we have the Instagram account. There's a lot of activity there. Even though we're fighting upstream, we get lots of comments, lots of shares. The most popular content we share are people's words. People are most interested in ideas, and some of the most popular are Sally's words. We sometimes have 15,000 people engaged and sharing routinely. We have reached half a million people in a month, so lots of sharing.

The recipe of the week is a very popular resource that I post every week. I also serve as our recipe of the week moderator, and that's a great resource for your chapters. You can follow them on our social media, or just look every week, we post

recipes of a wide variety of categories, organ meats, desserts, beverages, the whole gamut. And I would definitely include that in your resource list, our recipe of the Week series. People want to know not only where to buy the food, but how to prepare the food.

Let's see. I wanted to mention, if you do have a social media presence, please be mindful that we can be removed from social media. They're still removing platforms, even though Mark Zuckerberg said, you know, oh, I was pressured and whatnot. It's content. I was in Facebook Jail for three days for a post that I had published in 2016

they pub they they targeted me personally and took me off

2016 they're going through and see what we've posted in the past. So be mindful of your language. We obstruct all the key words that they don't enjoy as discussing freely, obviously, the word COVID, the word vaccine. I use all sorts of dashes and symbols to obstruct the words.

Let's see we, you know, we have a members only group. If you're not a part of that members only group, I really encourage you to join and you can share content from that group that is public, otherwise it's a private form.

Is anybody? Does anybody have questions about either nourishing our children or our social media that I can answer very quickly? Yes? Crash.

Price. We didn't crash. We took ourselves off for fear that we would be removed when our Facebook group or Facebook page was removed. But we're back on,

I believe it's facebook.com forward slash Weston, a price, what members only group, however,

let me look it up when I sit down and turn on my phone, and I will come, and I can put it, I can say it at the very end again, just to be 100% sure you do need, obviously, to be a member and somebody else approves you from the office, they come, I think once a week they come, and they'll approve you in Yes,

it's on nourishing our children.org

and I would like to offer chapter leaders. I would like to offer you half off. We do request

a contribution, just write to me. There's a contact form. Tell me your chapter leader, and I'll give you a code, yes, and that the study guide. Also, I highly recommend the study guide,

yes, an

affiliate program for nourishing our children.

I don't think that's something that Sally would be open to having an affiliate program, meaning people would receive some kind of commission for referral. Yes, they will not.

Yeah,

yes, yes. So Facebook takes me off, and they want me to, because I post

truth Yes or my social and I refuse, and

I don't

support

that. So my point is why, I hope there's other ways

to get that information on social media that are not like that. Yes, so telegram is not like that. Exact same thing. You could go to meet we same thing. You can go to Twitter, X same thing, and you can share from there, and you can access we do have also a group on me. We so if you're not on Facebook, you can join the group, and I post every day. And we have a we have a social media moderator who is alerts me if there are questions in the groups that go unanswered. So we do want to be supportive. Yes,

we are not on rumble. I think Rumble is video. We're on bit shoot, and we post content there, and we're just as soon as this conference wraps,

because I manage our conference website. It's just a very busy time of year, but I have a new task. Is to really build our YouTube channel, and I will be putting my full attention there. We've had lots of submissions from the community video content, and we're gonna really lift it up. As Hilda will say, We're gonna really lift up that YouTube channel. So we are on bit shoot and YouTube, but we have to be very careful on YouTube. YouTube is another Facebook.

Any other questions?

I want to say before I step down, that this year, we have a professional photographer just coming for eight hours on Saturday, and I have a slideshow I'm responsible for putting together for the banquet. By six o'clock, I have to have those images. The gentleman comes at noon, I am going to really ask chapter leaders. Can I rely on some of you to send me pictures that I can put in the slideshow? Are any of you really adept at just snapping pictures? Yes. Okay, social media at Western aprice.org, anybody else? I need more than one volunteer? Yes, yes. Okay, please, by three o'clock on Saturday, just send me everything, even if you don't think it's good quality, because I really want to relax Saturday afternoon and not be stressed that I don't have enough content for that slide show. And I don't know how many of you see it, but it's something that we are used to, and people expect. And so those who raised your hands, please don't let me down. I really need you this year.

Yes, social media at Western aprice.org, it's in your program under the under a half page ad called Photo dump. So dump your photos West and social media Weston aprice.org and that will really help me this year. Thank you.

Excuse me for hunching over a little. I think this is made for short people.

I like short people. I married one

talk for a few minutes real quick About our 12 spoons, restaurant rating project you

okay, I

now,

all Right, so

several years ago, we

there. It is. We decided to decide to dive into the restaurant world and stir things up with our 12 spoons. Project.

Took a few years to

get it into a usable form, but we got there, and the main thing we need now is for people to go to their favorite restaurants and rate their restaurants. So I'm going to show you real quick how to do that. One way is if you go to our website, Weston, a price.org

and i

i

If you scroll down a little, you'll see on the right side a link to 12 spoons, which takes you to a screen which looks like that. And at the top of that, you'll see right a restaurant which takes you to a screen where you can fill in your first name, last name

and email, if you have, let me just make something up out of thin air, a name like Sarita and

don't have a last name,

oh, we have a Serena. Wow, what a coincidence.

I think the system will take just blank for last name, but if it doesn't just put Smith or Abdul Jabbar or whatever fits in, there

little more information about how long it's been a member and stuff. This is all very simple. If you can read you can do it,

then we're ready for the restaurant, name,

address, contact information

and

type of food, type of Well, the price range and you can rate a restaurant carry out food truck, etc. If you find a food truck which looks something like that, we would be interested to know

less guy serving the food is the same guy there in the picture with his hand up. Everybody

moving on,

moving on.

Comments go in the box there, and then

we are

ready to start rating

the first two categories. You can see there

one, one restriction is you have to, they have to score at least one spoon. We're not rating restaurants, not to mention any names, but with they sound something like MC Wendy's

or dairy king or burger queen.

Don't do those.

There's more comments at the end of the 12 ratings, which I'll show you all 12 in a second.

It. These comments are meant more for like, specific categories, like the dessert category. You had a brownie and you were very, very happy after that

or not, once you hit submit, your job is done.

The rating will not show up immediately. There's kind of a process which can take around a week or so, depending on how busy we are.

I was going to run through a quick example of using the system, but it's very simple, and I think we're a little behind schedule. So

if you look real fast, you'll see what happens. Get all that. But anyway,

there's our 1212

spoons, our 12 categories,

and I won't read through all of them, you will notice there's no category for dog or cat.

So far, we have a little over 200 restaurants rated, and seven of them, more or less, have scored all 12 spoons. So it can be done.

The top states that have ratings so far, Tennessee is in first place with 25

Ohio is in second place with 18, and Virginia has 13 for third place,

Oklahoma, Texas and California, we're about the top six, and everybody else has less than 10. There are a few states which have zero. You're not going to believe this, but one of those states is the one you're sitting on right now, Florida.

Now we know there are good restaurants in Florida. Our office staff just went to one last night. It's called the ravenous pig, and it was very good. It would certainly score at least a few spoons and maybe a lot of spoons.

So you might want to get to work on that, but you don't have to do that this weekend. You can do it next week. Um, it.

There is, if you don't want to do it online, we have another option. You can get one of our neat 12 spoons flyers with the ratings form inside. It looks exactly like this thing right here, which I'm pretending to hold up because I forgot to bring one up here with me. But we do have them at the Wesley price table, and you can pick them up later,

checking with the Master of Ceremonies. Yeah, we have time for questions. Okay, yeah,

we are work right now. That doesn't work, but we are working on that, so we are hoping to have that soon. What was the

question? Yeah, the question was International. Right now it only works for the United States, but we're hoping to get at least the major countries added in, yes. I know the

whole person that has two restaurants

to enter, and I haven't used this platform yet, but previously, after the person who entered the information is done, then people who eat at

that restaurant were able to go in and kind of grade it like you would on Yelp what their eating experience was. I don't know if that isn't a new version or not,

is it? I think there's, and I actually don't know this. I should know this. I think there's somewhere where you can put comments in,

maybe at the bottom of the screen, but

if, especially if there are any errors or updates that need to be made, you cannot do that yourself, but just send us an email and we'll take care of it.

Info at Weston A price, or Tim at Weston A price

was there? Did I see another one?

Okay,

thank you and have a great conference applause.

Hi.

So also we should

introduce ourselves. You'd open the list.

I'm Alyssa Hirsch. I'm Shelley lane, and we are the CO chapter leaders for San Mateo County, California.

Okay, so

we were asked to share some things that work at our meetings. We had been having quarterly meetings at public library until COVID, and then we got the opportunity from someone in our community to use her deck, and she moved, and now we're using someone's house, and we've had monthly meetings pretty much every month, all through COVID as a respite. People say it's really the only place they can hug and laugh and share and learn often in their lives, because they're so isolated from their families and we're communities, and it's just an oasis for all of us. So we wanted to share some of the things that have been working at our meetings, but we don't have a monopoly on this. There's so many things that we can learn from all of you too. So I'm gonna jump in and tag team.

One of the things that I discovered was that I confirm each RSVP. So I have like, a long list now of maybe 200 or more people and but we only get like 30 at a meeting. And each each RSVP that comes in, I will write back, confirming your RSVP with like, one word, super or glad you can make it, or where have you been? Glad you're back, something like that. So I find that taking that little bit of extra time, we have a much better show up rate than people that if, it's through Eventbrite or some other hosting service, they don't feel obligated to let you know if they have a conflict. So that really works. Well, we know how many people to expect, because sometimes we have we max out and we have to have a cap. But that not very

often. And I also, afterwards the people have not shown up, I write them a quick note, are you okay, so that they know where we care about them.

Okay,

right? There was one thing I thought of after this list I'm going to tack on that kind of goes with this.

We would you. We were using compostable coloring, and then I was pulling them out of the garbage and taking them home and washing them and reusing the compostable cutlery. And I finally decided to go to Goodwill, and now I have like, 30 spoons and forks and knives and some servers, and I they're heavy, but I just schlep them. We schlep them to whoever houses hosting us, and they're easy to wash, and it's just been terrific because they're marked, and people throw them in a container, and we just reuse them. So use goodwill,

and about half, we always ask, how many people have brought their own stuff? And we're at least half, and sometimes more people who are willing to bring their own plate or bowl and fork and spoon. So even though we provide them for if you forget,

most people are, like, a lot of people are bringing them, okay, so that, oh, and then yeah, so you're now you Okay,

as many of you may remember, Alyssa won one of the prizes last year for the Best chapter leader, and you can see why she is outstanding. She does all of this follow through, and I just so appreciate her. And so we work well. I think having a co chapter leaders is a great way of going, because each has strengths. So we we've decided, like, add one of our meetings, each of our meetings, when most people have arrived, we form a gratitude circle outside. So then each person introduces just their name and where they're from, like, what county, what city, so that way people can identify them, and they each have a name tag too when they come in and they sign up and and then we'll introduce the host and the speaker. We always have a speaker, I would say, 99.9%

of the time. And so we talk about the community and why it's so important that we're doing it and it's a safe space. And then we also remind people not to take any pictures, because some people are offended and people are going around taking pictures, and that's not appropriate, unless asked. So we go through all these housekeeping things, and then we all hold hands at the end, and this is kind of beautiful. And we just send the beautiful, positive energy. It's not religious or anything like that. And we put.

Our arms to the sky and send our love and healing energy to the universe, world

before that, though, I just did remember we there is a little sort of home that we say, and it's one time, and most of the time it's this food, thankful gratitude home, and other times it's an Indian from an Indian tribe about water or something in the universe. So we try to keep that non religious, spiritual aspect to what we're doing.

Okay? So

we have a lot of characters in here. We have a lot of practitioners and talented people in our group, and I haven't put anything up on the web like any kind of list, because we serve a huge area, and there are so many people, so we might get a volunteer at some point to help us set up something like that, but I bought a cork bullet board, and we put it up at our meeting, and anybody Who comes that has a business card, can with push pin, put it on the cork bullet and board. Or if you have kombucha SCOBY or kefir grains, or you're looking for a hiking buddy, or you need to move, or anything like that, they can put a note on that bulletin board. And everybody who's there that day can see it. And that's becoming more popular. It's filling up. So that was another thing that we added. And where's 3b Okay,

I started asking recently, the last maybe three meetings, I had this idea info bits like, Okay, who are these people? We don't know anything people that live in San Mateo. Don't know anything about people that live in San Jose. There 50 miles apart, or 30 miles apart. So I asked everybody to give me two info, bits about themselves, and what we're getting is just so fun and interesting, where they've traveled, where they lived as a kid, what they cook with who's in their family, like you never know what you're going to get. I put it in a spreadsheet, I make it into a PDF, and I send it with the last reminder for the event, for the gathering. And so people have that, and they can print it out. They can look at it afterwards, if they met somebody there. And so I think we're going to keep it up, because it's just really neat to have those little bits of information about people.

Okay,

so you see, what we're trying to do is, besides teach people the Western price principles, we try to get this group. It's like a tribe of people who you can feel comfortable with, and some people build friendships and go off into the sunset together. And it's really nice, because a lot of people in our community are isolated, so it's really useful, but every time we try to bring in the western price principles, so we have, we pick a dish that both Alyssa, she picks one, I pick one that align with the principles, and then we add and we Have a winner of who we thought was filling those principles,

right? I got to that again,

she's like my mother, and we have and they and every person writes their ingredients on the table where their food is. So everybody who has a sensitivity or they want to know, they want to, they want that recipe, the person's name is there. They can address them and ask for the recipe, but they know it's in there. And so this gives a recognition to those people who are understanding and learning the principles.

Five, you're on five. Okay, five. So every now and then, not every meeting, like maybe once or twice a year, we'll we'll do a swap meet. And it can't just be junk. If it doesn't get picked up by somebody, it goes back home with you. But these are all things, like people cleaning out their covers of extra corning ware bakers or things from your garage, or tools, or anything that is of good quality that would fit in a western price theme. And almost everything goes and it turns out people really like this. When are we going to have the next swap meet? So we've done, I don't know, five or six of them, and we'll keep it up. It's good. And then one of the other things, like, when we don't have a speaker, we live in an area with a lot of talent, and so even though we're always trying to think of who we who can we get to speak,

sometimes we don't want to have a speaker. We just have

something that we do in house. And one of the things we've done in house a few times is show and tell. So we ask people to either bring something or a story or like an artifact, something that they use in their life that has meaning for them in a western price way.

And we go around the room like one person brought a celery that she'd grown in her garden, and another person.

Her sourdough proofing bowl that had been her great grandmother's or something. This is all kinds of things, and that's worked really well for us too.

Okay, so coming back to why it's great to have a co leader, so we bounce ideas off of each other. We talk about problems during the gathering that could have been avoided, or how we could do it better. And

and we're sharing tasks all the time, like she brings some things I bring the other. And when we table, like we have been tabling at this liberty forum, and so I schlep all the flyers, and so she brings the tablecloth, and it's all one thing I thought of when this other gal was talking about tabling, is it's always nice to bring some food that would be appropriate for principals Western prize, whether it be grapes or you brought dates or things like that.

And one thing that I'm going to say that's going to lead into nori is that we have a really strong group in the Bay Area of chapter leaders, and we meet once a month. And we have someone from Berkeley, Albany,

okay. We have Karen from Marin. Sushima sometimes comes from Sebastopol. We have nori from Alameda, Berkeley, Trisha from Livermore, and Myra and who else.

Oh, yeah, Elaine from Mountain View. So we had a dear member who we've lost, who has spoken here on mercury poisoning, Chris home, and when she departed, she left a gift for the chapter leaders of California to meet and have a conference. And I'm going to let nori tell you all about that.

Hi, I maybe you heard Chris Hami speak, but she gave a talk on the train wreck of chronic mercury poisoning and Alzheimer's, and unfortunately, that was her illness, and she passed away. She was my best friend, and she had gotten me to start the East Bay chapter and in San Francisco, which had been silent since 2016 when Dave Rana stepped down. So she was a real mover and shaker, even behind the scenes. So anyway, she passed away in January, and unfortunately, but she did leave a bequest she had hoped to give something back to communities of meaning to her, and the Western Price Foundation was one of those. She ended up having

her boyfriend at that time. His name was Steve Fauci, with whom she was co writing a paper that should be published soon. I hope, on this very topic,

divvy up her estate so that we would have some way of helping our local chapters? Well, there was no easy way. Truly, We don't have bank accounts, I mean, for this purpose. But

I sat on that for a while and talked to my co lead, my leaders in the in the vicinity, as they just shared, and we came up with an idea of having a retreat for the California chapter leaders, and it's going to happen in April. And many of you have responded, and I just got another RSVP from Aaron, just speaking to him, but we have a ranch house at Bishop's ranch in Healdsburg that we've rented for next April with 28 beds, and they're all full, and we have some good speakers are coming to help us, I think, do something very unusual. In California, we've lost probably way more than other states, some of the wise traditions in food farming and the healing arts, because we are kind of ground zero for you know what happened the C word? So we are gathering together a biodynamic pair of farmers to come and speak about how they're working. Will and and summer,

I'm sorry. Her name is Willow summer, and her husband, Lou. We also have a homeopath, Myron Nissen coming to speak. We also have an herbalist, she's from Medford, Oregon. Her name Anya. And then we also have Christina Hildebrand, who started voice for choice advocacy and real food be area Co Op. And then Steve Fauci will also speak. And we're hoping to kind of do a re skilling, helping the chapter leaders in California be inspired, as Alyssa and Shelly were sharing, inspiring you to have your meetings and help us share the skills that we have in our community. Because, as you saw in Asheville, it's not enough to have your storage of food in the basement.

And when someone catastrophe happens, what really helps us to have that network of people who will come together and help each other in times of need. And if we have those skills, and we probably do, we just have to know about them, I think that will help us come together in a different way. So I'm hoping this retreat will probably just be one time Chris paid for the rental of the ranch house, but I think in the future, we might find a way to do it again, and maybe some of your states will be inspired to do something like that too. Thank you. Applause.

I thank you everyone who's presented I was that reminds me. At lunch, I was talking to the Vermont chapter leaders, and they Lee was saying the chapter was her chapter was growing and growing and kind of covering more of the state, but Sally's always had the vision that you don't become like one chapter for the state.

And so she talked to Lee about it. And then the people in the chapter, instead of all going to Lee's events,

started new chapters. So then now they have, just like in California, many chapters, and they still go to each other's events, include each other, but they they're also reaching more people that way. So that's Sally's vision to have, you know, every 20 what? I think we should every county in the country have a Chapter, you know, and just reach everyone that way. But we do.

Yeah, well, they would be, what do you mean by that, satellite chapters in

different

areas of speed? Yes, yes. So they're yes and then, but certainly come together. Have meetings like that, have dinner, you know, encourage each other. So that's all good. One thing before I forget, if you didn't get a bag already, Mike brought some more bags into the bag, and registration will be open. It may be open now, no at four, so if you didn't get your packet already, and regarding the butter,

oh, Sally's going to mention the button. Okay.

Okay, so what we're what I'm going to do is cover these different topics. I'm going to read what people wrote, and then if you have anything to add, if you've thought of anything else, you can just raise your hand or stand up where you are the first one finding venues. So people often ask, especially when they're new, how do I find venues, a venue where I can go, and some venues

cost so much. So these are some ideas, local Farm Stores,

libraries, retirement facilities,

community centers, and I know some people have used local stores, like a health food store, that might have space where you can meet. There you also have outdoor areas. I know some chapter leaders get together at parks, and I've known others to have just a dinner at a restaurant. You pick the restaurant. People come and you have a dinner there, whether or not you have a meeting, per se. Does anyone have any other ideas for venues? We have a beautiful

town hall and upstairs. They rent it for free, and it absolutely beautiful in the start. So that's fantastic. And attend a main Council. We're in Vermont,

and it's

easy in the bad weather to have people

come to the back versus going like on dirt

boats. That's been great for winter for us and also

libraries, of course, they're also great. Often the library will publicize it in their bulletin, which is multiple, so three, four on their face. Look major bowls. So the conversation. Thank you. Businesses

have sometimes a

hard time getting people who come to their places or make a name and so, for example, bakeries that are making sourdough bread in this storefront or something that's related to design,

then maybe stores that's Bucha

is always interested in bringing more people so Fauci.

God, we do have a non profits number. So if someone says, Well, we can give you it doesn't, it's not free, but we can give you a discount. If you're non profit and you need that number, just let us know. Sweet

churches, senior centers, a community center, a fire house, a fire trail throughout my street has a free all the HBL, the projector crap, got

your house

community right. That's how I started. They wanted to shut down the lockdown. I got a letter from the health department because we were meeting at my house. So you can start there,

health food store, Co Op, kitchen. My co op has a little kitchen meeting area thing and park pavilion,

good. Thank you. When I lived in Portland, Oregon, we met once a once a month at the natural grocers. They had a community

that

allowed

us to to screen one of the talks from the conference, and it was open to the public, so I was bringing content that was useful to them, and it was a chapter meeting, and they would often talk a little bit to our group about any special they have. So it's very mutually beneficial. They would sometimes have tasting for us. I think they wanted them

to they wanted to promote to

our group, that natural grocers, when we were restricted from gallery gathering, we stopped that momentum. But Ted and I have moved to Vanden, Oregon, and a half an hour from us is

another natural grocers and I plan with this conference, with the conference recording, recordings that Cathy wanted to provide to us. I plan to start that again. People can

compare on it. It's a great way to get new people involved, shoppers from the community. They'll say in the background they're showing their, you know, presentation. They'll enjoy. So if there's any gathering place that you can

meet at regularly, I really recommend recordings. It was the single most popular thing I did in more than the pop

ups. Yeah. Okay.

So then the next question, once you find your venue, is, how do you publicize? That's the next board. So

this idea is join other groups, like minded groups, and post about WPF events and ideas. So for example, we've tried to connect with CHD

with a you know, they have chapters too, not too many, but they do have some. So if you know, if there's one in your area, you can connect with them.

Someone mentioned a conference. So I guess if you attend other conferences, certainly if you

can table at another conference, that's a great way to publicize your chapter as a whole.

One thing I think is effective for people is, if you have an event and you send us the text and then the zip code range for your area, we will send an announcement out to our list so we invite members and not members. Has anyone done that? Have you? Yeah, a lot of people have does that? Some people say that really boosts their can, you know, visibility, or whatever, any other ideas for publicizing, I know Alyssa mentioned that, you know, responding, or, you know, letting them there. You got your their

word.

Wait, stand up. Sorry. I could you stand up, please, so people can started.

Around the

time Vicki, you had

okay? Good evening, and just

introduce yourself

and say, feel free to come over to me later, and I'll give you more information. Just get to know yourself in your

community. Yeah. Has anyone been out at farmers markets? Some people have told me that they go to the farmers markets. They meet people I know. I met someone recently, a great farmer, but never heard of us, you know. So you give them

any other ideas about publicizing

you, if you have farms on your farm list, and they'll let you put something like especially for your raw milk per share, people are there underneath to pick up their milk. If you can put a little paper that has your meeting dates. So my chapter meets every month, the second Friday of every month, and so it's a consistent timing. If you have something like that, or just even an email that they could like respond to, if they're interested in becoming part of a group that's supporting good food partners, then that's another way just to COVID.

Think at the farm, yes, you could probably post too at coffee shops or other places, libraries.

Okay.

Well, we don't, but we could. I wouldn't. Yeah, we could design one.

Just put in the time that place, the date of the meeting. Would you mind emailing me that idea and what you would like to see on it, and then we can have someone design it and make that available? That's great idea. In the back.

Yes, I want to say that homeschool groups and mom groups on Facebook are really, really great places to advertise this kind of thing, especially the homeschool community, because there's a lot of overlap

with

the principals in community and those moms are usually very interested in what we have to do, what we have to say and what we're doing.

Someone else told me the groups, there's groups out there for families that don't want to vaccinate, and they're a good group to connect with. Debbie, you had also we

have a college, and also we have a school, yeah, good, because even doctors offices, if you have like minded doctors, maybe they would put something up, Sally group for all subjects.

Okay, now, another thing about meetings is financing the meeting so you have different expenses. How do you pay for them? So one is, I'm not sure exactly what this it says group purchases with an extra dollar added on to every purchase to go toward the chapter. Could someone, whoever wrote that, maybe group purchases through what each COVID?

Cow chair on the

price or anything

like online

stores, and how would you get the money? Are you saying you would order it online and then organize them all purchase

and Okay, okay, and everyone pitch in, get their items and throw an extra dollar. Okay, that makes it.

I we also have, you can order a case of Sally's books, Nourishing Traditions. And, you know, at wholesale, sell it at retail. We also have healthy for life and 11 principles, books that you can buy at retail, at wholesale and sell it at retail.

What about passing the hat? Has anyone had help? I mean, have found that helpful? Just asking people to throw in $1 or $5 whatever. Serena, yeah, that's what we do at our our gatherings. We ask that $5 oh nine always do the spiel. Are you a member? $5 donation for everyone who comes. We usually always have a pot left too. So I, I got cash coming on my ears. People just Oh, kitchen, five bucks so, and then you kind of get it ball rolling. So if you want to do a bigger event for the holiday like we do. I've got money from the year to pay for a space for us to do that. Great. That's great. Someone else have an idea over here?

Yeah, church, and we just stand up, sorry, please. So your voice carries. We would meet in a church, and we just put a basket up, and people would put money in, five bucks,

and then we get back in my legit sir.

Community. This other one says at meetings, ask local businesses that are W, A, P, F minded for products that you can raffle. So that's a neat idea, but they could

possibly members just bring stuff, and they

wanted to give away, and they did, like plants and books and just a creative garden, so like seeds and already that

people just want to get rid of, like dishes or like mosquito fish, that's something fun. And then they would sell raffle tickets. And they actually did get quite a bit of defense that way.

And you, of course, you can charge for some events, if you're having, let's say, make a sauerkraut event, and you're buying all the jars, or whatever you can charge. There's not a problem with that.

Okay?

These. I'm saving the longer ones for last. So the successful topics or benefits of meetings, and these are some ideas here. Hot Topic is EMFs and light. You know, the benefit of light. So that's been a popular topic. There's also been the conference recordings, as Sandrine mentioned, have been very popular. Bio geometry for your living space.

Fertility, natural versus IVF,

and then fetal ultrasound versus healthy sound frequency and someone's had a trivia competition. Does someone want to Oh, that sounds fun, because I have

started a trivia competition business called AVIC trivia. And just a week ago, at a look chapter, I had a trivia question of seven pounds, all related with Weston Price real food. Yeah, it was great way to for

people you know more

information.

About Western principles?

Yeah, I wonder if we can be shared. Is it something I would be

glad to share with any chapter if you want, and use these questions for your details. Okay, that's great.

Oh, maybe we put it in the journal and then have some way of answering maybe the next journal.

Oh, yeah, we could have a maybe we have a box each time with trivia questions. Well, yeah, let's think about that. How we want to

do that. Oh yeah,

yeah, that's great. And then the last comment was to meet regularly. Makes for better community. So it sounds some of the meetings, I send out the announcements, and I just wish I could go, you know, the meeting sounds so good, but they're all over the country, so I can go to them.

Okay, the last one has the most comments.

So this is about reaching younger people. So one person said partnering. Here's another group to partner with partner with permaculture community. I mean, that's just a good even without reaching younger people, just anyone.

Get a young person to co lead the chapter cooking classes, home schoolers and crunchy moms. Groups on Facebook. Connect with them.

Connect with food director public school teachers and be a guest speaker.

I know I've done a talk in a in an elementary classroom about food you know, they were looking this teacher was looking for people to come in and speak, beginning semesters, go to table events. Women beginning semesters, go to Table event days and share information. Contact your health related college organization. So chiropractic or nursing departments offer to be a speaker.

Connect to the RFK teams, children's health, defense and organize, oh and bring up nutrient, wait, sorry, bring up nutrition and chronic disease. Have a table at a college campus with raw milk samples, a farmer selling raw milk and brochures that would be, if you can do that, create a curriculum for high school, family, consumer

family, consumer science classes. We are working on a curriculum Sally, maybe I'll mention that when she comes up at the end,

someone mentioned to have the website. It's wonderful, but it's dated

for young people to look and feel, the website can pull them in or turn them off.

That's, yeah, that's hard. I mean, yeah,

there's so much information and there's so little time. Let's say college student

topics, I guess the topics you could cover, menstrual dysfunction, infertility, ADHD, without meds, recovering from COVID, health without shots, food for increased strength. So these are you know, if you have x, I guess they're saying, use those topics if you're trying to

connect. I know that some people do write two colleges in a married tribe for this conference, she emailed a bunch of colleges to tell them about what we're offering here. Have a teen program at this conference for 18 to 25

with if that's something you're interested in doing.

Help us with,

yeah? I mean, we do Yeah. So they recommended cooking classes, short sessions with funny, dynamic speakers, teen games, optional, sacred sex unit subsidy, oh, and subsidized tickets. Well, we do have a 20 and under reduced rate, so we have had more young people come with that. Yes,

have a little list of ideas

as

well. Yeah, maybe we can talk. Why don't we talk good last

year,

some of the chapters and I sort of brainstormed ideas for offering a team program for the conference here that was specifically geared towards teams.

So we had a whole list of like, of ideas that we came up with and stuff we just didn't

manage. Yeah, yeah. Why don't we talk and see what we can flesh out with that? And then, and then the next thing is going to be reaching them.

Yes, we'll just have to see you.

I bring

our

children everything, would really appreciate just one room where they can

hang out and talk and see their

room, just like our mix and bingo, but just for the teens, like a certain age group, yeah, I mean, we have the children's program for the younger children. So we Yeah, I mean, some of the regular talks we want them to hear, so we have to incorporate that, you know, yes.

Okay. She said Salt Lake City has, Salt Lake City has the youngest population in the US, so maybe that would be a good place to kick off Cynthia in the back. Speak a little louder again, if

we had some kind of track that we could go like either to a

university or campus on

at a school, and then just hand out these tracks that talk about, what's the

price foundation so different than, different than the tri folds we have, but something more short, Yeah, if someone can help us design something like that, if you, why don't you email me and we can see if we can, and, by the way, with the team thing, it may simply be a matter of one track each day that's geared for younger and then having this social, you know, maybe they can have a lunch together, or something, maybe like a little comic book

like, little

comic book,

like how problems we're having and kind of goes into menstrual, sorry, say that again. Just teens with girls, you know,

menstrual, you know, girls, you know, topics,

yes, try butter, yeah, yeah,

yeah, maybe like

a team track Podcast. I'm gonna do a moms track this fall. So, topics, moms for teens,

right on the acne and the menstrual issues, whatever, what's really pressing? So I'll make a picture of this Stephanie. Listen, there, you know, if you have more ideas and masculinity, yes, don't forget about the

boys. They're off in the back. In the back,

we have a crisis on our hands,

because we have the sickest young people in history. And when I go to college

campuses and talking to kids,

they are safe in the

menstrual issues we

know specifically from the coach jabs, that all of the college women who were communicating their Facebooks were taken off by our government,

and these women are continuing to suffer, and mainstream

medical community does not know how To help

them, and they are doing the exact opposite of what is needed to help them, and they are relying on alternative sources. I have two college my kids and daughters are both in their 20s. Their group of friends is begging for.

Resources, and so the more we

can

get out to high school and college students, both the boys and the girls. If you guys watch the Tucker interview, the means

a 50% drop in sperm counts. All right, this is a worldwide pandemic,

and worldwide pandemic, and the medical establishment is not going to help. The medical establishment is

bought and paid for by Pharma. You know that? Yeah? We Yeah. This is a group

of people who is completely open because they know their doctor said, why today?

So I think, if I may say, so the we do know like the problem. So I think, I think this year, why don't we can't solve it all at once, but it would be good to have something concrete happen this year, whether it's handouts we can give on college campus or the track. So why don't we

come up? We'll come up with something that we can I came

up with a universal vaccine exemption form. Anyone interested in it, please come by Simon Technology boot, and I'll be

happy

to share I

exhibited at the sound therapy Simon Technology, Sorry, I'm a chapter

leader in

Tallahassee, Florida.

Oh, yeah. Sorry, good idea, and I didn't know anybody.

I think he

does that. I so it really was to create

this like

conference.

I

haven't

reached out. I don't think and

it's

interesting,

because I can vote,

and I want to increase because we could put, we do have a web, webs to watch On our website. And so we can put, we could maybe add that link to for young people to connect that way connected, she has some stuff going on, and so I

think she

said

choice to kind

of

dial this. She She knows what her generation is looking for and something.

Why don't you email the just email me about that, and we can see what. Yes, somebody

on the chapter very recently suggested something about reaching out to nursing schools and nursing clubs, and I never saw any other replies from it, but I think that's a great idea. And I know there's going to be some nurses here. I know that UC

vacuum, and they do have a glove

that's not, you know, school related, but they are looking for speakers, because you can go to the clubs

for the medical schools,

the nursing schools. That's the place to just, yeah, hey, listen, here's some holistic stuff. Oh,

I

know that word come to them, and then they'll say, Oh, I'll listen to some

more talk. I'm a family nurse, practicing nurse. I the energy.

So other nurse practitioners are trained and future doctors. You can talk

to some

of the older nurses and some of the older nurse practitioners, but I talk to nursing students here. So what I professors? It's got

to be the younger people. Otherwise,

okay, we'll have we have time for just a couple more comments. Vicky Ray.

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freedom? Reflective So who could or who it exists. Tell it. Are you saying it exists?

Nobody, someone over here saying it exists already? Janine homestead,

study like, find your future. Boyd like, build a home instead.

I don't know the name of it, but carnival

earliest is

launching this. Oh, carnival advertisement.

Christian, okay, maybe one more comment, what? But let me just say something like that. We just have to think about, is it something we do or one of you all do? And then we can put it in the journal like, you know, we can't do it all, but Sandra and you have

here, years old, and I

interviewed such a principal. He was 15, and it didn't really take hold. They started following an influencer, young man on Instagram. Everything

we ever told in our sticks. And the first thing we did was paycheck at the co op that he won't pretend to wear a system that serves speed on this to my pocket organic.

So

I want Yellen to interview these kinds of young influencers that will then advertise on their quality that they weren't interviewed on the white nations podcast, because they're all about that that really solidify everything you've been teaching this

Instagram influencers, yes, Alex Clark, I share a lot of her content

as it speaks to that. I think that's missing piece. We really need to get them aware of a lot of things. She's great. Alex is really shutting out the western

region. We need more of those people who already

happy. So how do we do that? That's what we interview

them. We have it right in our journal. Yes. Okay, very good. One last. One last. Talking about

that ladies

and I'm talking about, maybe we should talk about, is I've been volunteering with the Robert Kennedy young people that are all home banking and slamming meetings, and they're very thirsty for the help

that he talks about and what's going to happen if they win, like

all the colleges, will change all their curriculums throughout and they will allow us. And

how do we keep these young people? Where are they going to go? How do we keep connecting with them? Because they're very thirsty for information. They need to know

that our organization

is the one that the ground

of what everything's being built on,

enjoying going to share a story with you.

So I was my grandmother's my father's mother's only grandchild for a while, and she

she was a very lonely woman. She liked to corner me and talk to me. So anyway, she told me a story when she was a teenager. She was not developing. She was kind of stuck in childhood, and had menstruated. And you know what her father did? He gave her cod liver oil well this back in the 1890s

and it worked, and she immediately went into puberty. Kind of an interesting story. Just listening to what you're saying, it occurs to me that maybe we should have

teen 20 section of our website,

okay, and we can maybe get Alex Clark to be part of that

and have a chat group for young people and special articles for young people. And if you want to quote, unquote, younger look, you could have tasteless comics and.

But anyway, let's think about that,

and then, you know, that's place they can go. But we need someone to moderate the chat group and get Alex Clark involved with us. Let's start there. So if you want to interested in helping with that kind of project. Let us know

what's important to

them. Yes, right,

right.

Yeah, I think it would be a little bit tricky,

because a few land mines there. But I'm sure we could, controversy is good, you know,

I wanted first of all to give you a little summary of the butter situation. A

lot has been going on behind the scenes here.

We had 400 pounds of raw pasture fed butter donated by who Catty, who donated

Miller's biodynamic Miller's bio farm.

And we also have milk donated for

raw milk celebration tonight. Well,

it turns out that this is just since shock waves through the staff here,

they said we cannot serve this. And then we thought, well, if we serve it, is that okay? If we put it on the tables, if we pour the milk? No, that's not going to work either. So then we thought, well, we'll buy the butter and bring our own butter to the tables. But I think if anything happens, they will just shut us down, and we don't want to risk that. So we will have butter. It's not going to be raw, I don't know if it's going to be grass fed, but we'll have butter. I don't know that we can do our raw milk toast. Someone was talking about going across the street and doing it on public land, but please don't let's we want to keep this thing together, and the most important thing is not having raw butter tonight. It's having our conference. So please don't try to circumvent this.

Yeah, if you took butter today, don't bring it back.

Just don't rock the boat. Okay, there's times when you can change things and there's times when you can't change things, and the wisdom to know the difference. Remember that prayer.

The other thing I want to talk about is our membership drive.

We were up to 17,000 members a number of years ago, and then we had some controversies, for it mildly, and our membership dropped, and then it kind of hovered around 14,000 just for years. We go up, and then we have dropped members. And by the way, one of the things that Kathy does so well, is work on membership, getting

expired members to come back. And you know, if you, if you let your membership drop, you don't stop hearing from us. You might hear from us two years later saying, Oh, why don't you come back? And that's, that's Kathy, who's really put a lot of emphasis on membership. Well, we just had a recent drive, and I think we increased by 2000 members. We're almost at 17,000 I know that it

has to be a secret

you have, like the privacy limit on its database whose

members, but because of their addresses. But I would really like to be able to check

people who think they members, just to see if they are like, just their name and if they're a member, it doesn't even like by space, maybe because

we can help caption this effort. If we do this act to a limited state case, because you

only have to wait two years

to follow up on somebody.

If all the people who come to our meetings like check them to see if they're members, then I know where to stay up for this. Well, I think the way to do that is in your discussion groups, just bring up membership every now and then. We really cannot let anyone get into the database. We can provide email.

Emails, sometimes by zip code, but we can't provide the emails of expired members.

We can't do that.

That would be a real breach of confidence, I think.

Okay, so we have decided to have this real push, and on January 1, everyone's going to get an email that we would like to have 25,000 members by our conference in 2025 okay, and it's really not that much. It's 7000 members.

You know, it's about 800 members a month to get there.

You can help with that membership drive in your chapter leader meetings among your friends and your chat groups and everything. But there's we really are going to push now, if every

even if half of our members brought in one member at that time, during that time we'd make it

so just that's coming this real big membership. Push

anything else Kathy that I forgot?

All right, so we're going to form a circle. Now. I

And as we're forming our circle, I'll come down and be part of it. Just remember how important this work is.

We are in the 11th hour. We cannot go one more generation with this trend. And the more people we can reach,

the faster we will

turn things in the opposite direction, because you're going to really stretch around, yeah,

go around The

table.

Yeah. Them

to

do a gonna come around when I come to you, put your arms

up.

Oh, it's not the fun. This is a tsunami, and

let us all be the instigators of the tsunami, getting this information out there to those who are ready for it. And we ask for the wisdom to know how to introduce this information and to please introduce the interview. To please

introduce it and how to

expend our energies in the right way, in an efficient way. So

let's just have a moment of silence and ask for life and blessings on this wonderful

word and all the great things that you're Going to be doing

in the coming year. Okay?

You

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