Catherine Bell describes chance meetings that sparked community projects, including a visit to a naturopath's office where she met Canadians like Eddie. She also highlights how her friend Cicely encourages her 13-year-old son Adrian to build income streams through AI, social media, and video creation.
Nobody prepared for this. Anyway, ended up going working with a naturopath, and she's doing some really great stuff with me with peptides and all the things. Anyway, so I went over there on Friday because I was needing some more things, and we sat down and ended up having a conversation. And long story short, her husband was there, the kids, and then a couple people showed up, and they were any— so long story short, Deanna, that's how I ended up meeting— what was his name? Eddie. Eddie. Gosh. All these Canadians showed up, had this amazing conversation, met a bunch more Canadians, and then the whole Cortez conversation and all the things that we're doing and just talking about what a small world it is, right? And again, it's the, like, you never know who you're gonna run into and all the things. So it was just, it was a super cool conversation. So really excited to be working with you, with them, like the whole team. So again, Serendipitous moment. So just say yes and show up, which is really cool. And then Saturday we had our very first fundraiser for Chosen Forever, and, uh, everybody had a ton of fun and lots of things learned. And moving forward, just lots of things learned, we'll say that. Sicily came, and her and her son— and her son, oh my God, that was a whole other thing. Talk about multiple streams of income. And And I'm sharing with it as parents and stuff. Cicely has really encouraged her kids to lean into AI and social media and this stuff. And how old is he? 13? Adrian? Adrian's 13. The videos this kid created was amazing. I'll pull them up on my phone and show you. Like, but again, because their brains think differently and just, it was mind-blowing what she, what they created. And again, it's leaning into like where we're going socially, economically, and all of that and teaching her kids skills that are absolutely going to matter. They didn't matter to us when we were kids because we didn't have all this stuff, but leaning into it now and helping him create a little business and create these multiple streams of income was— it was super cool. So that was really neat. Had amazing conversations yesterday around with him and her and just all the things.
