Courage Night 2008

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Artley center for the Performing Arts. Before we begin tonight's performance, we ask you to take a moment to silence all electronic devices, including, including cell phones and pagers. For the safety of the performers and the viewing pleasure of the audience, Flash photography and video are strictly prohibited. And for the safety of yourself and everyone in the theatre, please take a moment to identify the emergency exits nearest you. And with that, thank you and enjoy.

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Courage night 2008, this. Thank you all for coming out. We're so excited to be able to bring this presentation to you for the fourth year in a row. Just to give you a little bit of history about how courage night started. I've always been a lover of inspiration, passion and intention and watching videos and reading books and getting things that got my batteries charged. And I just wanted to have the opportunity to bring this inspiration to Humboldt County. When I read a book a few years ago, I wore lipstick to my mastectomy. One of the things that Geraldine Lucas spoke about was to have a night of celebration. And my realization was that sometimes we get so busy in the fight of all we do that we never take a night of celebration. So the first year, courage night actually started out of living beyond cancer and the realization that we made real quickly, it really didn't matter whether we had cancer, the loss of a loved one, whether the kids that's spilled the milk, whether it was finances. 2008 is kind of all about that. Whether it was about not getting the job that we wanted to do. Every single one of us has obstacles that we encounter every single day. So it takes courage just to get up every single day. It takes courage to just decide who do I want to be today. It takes courage to be intentional, to be passionate and to be powerful. And it takes even more courage to be decide who was it that I wanted to become. When we were children and we played for hours in our bedrooms, we would dream about the things that we wanted to do and who we wanted to become. And then we got busy being busy and got caught up in our lives and sometimes our intentions started taking a different change. So we decided that Courage Night would be a great night as a checkpoint, to be able to take the courage, to look inside, to recapture, rekindle the passion that's within our hearts. Courage Night is for you and it is for everyone sitting here amongst you and for you to pay it forward to your co workers, to your family, to bring the inspiration and get reconnected with your dreams and goals. Courage Night is all of that and much more. We've been really excited about some projects that we've taken on and it's kind of a very serendipitous night tonight because it has some special meaning for me. We have some very dear and true friends that we've kind of brought into the circle of intention. The Farnhams are here and have brought some amazing people up, biotech research that are doing some incredible things and it's been so exciting to watch the inspiration that we've listened to Dan over the years and be so excited with the opportunity. So in just a few minutes we're going to be looking at where the future in technology comes from. But just to do a little housekeeping so that you guys kind of know what to expect for the evening. You have in front of you these little folders that have some information and we want you to reach inside of them. There's an intention card. So tonight is about intention. And what I mean by intention is figuring out what do I want to do with the rest of my life? Who do I want to be? It's kind of like that New Year's resolution, but it's just a little bit tuned up and a little bit more fine tuned. My intention for this year was to create the health advocacy binder. And we're just about complete with that. The other intention that I had, we're going to talk about a little bit. It's really important to be clear because sometimes when we're not clear, the universe gives us exactly what we asked for and sometimes it was exactly that way. So think about as we hear speakers speak tonight and we get some inspiration, we get some excitement, think about what do I want to do, who do I want to be. I have the intention to live my life and fill in the blank. It may be something that comes up on one of the videos. It may be something when we bring Susie on. And the secret secret is telling us what's next. So just Think about that. There's two cards and one of the cards is going to actually have it in there, but I don't want to open it up. There's two cards in your envelope. One is for you to keep. And all of those of you that were here last year, if you haven't done so on your way out, be sure and pick up your intention card. It's sealed in an envelope out front. So you can kind of see how intention went for the year and whether you want to keep the same intention or you want to change it. But this is something that you can look at every single day so that you can remember what it is that you're getting up for and what why it is that that alarm clock went off at 6:15, because maybe you wanted to get your exercise program in or maybe you wanted to listen to a little bit of inspiration, or maybe you wanted to do something just for you, like take a nice warm bath and turn off your cell phone. So that's in there. You're also going to fill out the information because that's how we're going to do the drawings later on. So when you get your intention complete, if you just put it back in the envelope, seal it later in the evening, the girls will come down and collect it and have some fun little prizes that we're going to be able to give you. There's also an opportunity to be able to purchase the dvd. Last year, as I was thinking about the themes that we've had in the last four years. The first year, Pat Cowan spoke on living an intentional life. The second year, Kelly Devlin Lake talked about refocusing and reframing and finding out if we're in the place of most potential. And last year, Deb led us in an amazing evening on living a life with no regrets. And one of the things that I realized is it's been an amazing year to have heard that. I talked to her a couple weeks on the phone and I said the message that you delivered to Humboldt county was so prophetic because it has been a year that's been tough for many of us. We've had some.

Horrible losses in our community. But to know that we can live live a life with no regrets and to have relationships. Tonight is about relationship building. It's about making sure that we have the connections in our life and how we want to live our life intentionally. So the DVD is available, it's on your little order form and as well, Susie's presentation will be available as well. I just want to welcome you and thank you all for being here and taking the time out to tap into your passion and to your rekindling of your spirit. We're going to be talking about the technology of the future next. And the little video that we're going to watch just so reminds me of Dan Farnum who has brought biotech research up here and he's been kind of an inspiration in it. And also meeting Simon last night to hear about two men with a dream and no matter what, they kept going even when people told them that it was impossibility. Humboldt county has an amazing opportunity tonight with the bringing the bio windows. We're going to ask for you to make a commitment to sign up to get the information. Simon's going to be telling you about what that means for us. But you know, sometimes we don't realize what pearls we are. Acres of diamonds in our own backyard. There's so many inspirational, intentional people. We have some of the best restaurants, the best scenic, the best. We don't even have traffic. And then we have inspiration like people like this. So we're just going to watch some fun little boy stuff and open up some dreams to you. So just enjoy.

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So innovation technology. And you know what? Those teachers better not have told him that he couldn't think out of the box and fly out of the box because it wasn't a paper airplane. But that's what it takes in life sometimes is thinking out of the box. So we're so excited to be able to introduce Simon and to bring his information here and for him to share that with you.

Thank you, Sue. I appreciate it. Out of curiosity, I'm just wondering how many of you are rescued cancer survivors? Can you raise your hand? How about just cancer survivors in general? Okay, great. Thank you. The little video that you saw about thinking out of the box and doing something that is different is precisely what Iris Biotechnology has done. I'm going to ask you another question. How many of you are familiar with the Human Genome Project? Ok. Quite a few of you are familiar with it. The Human Genome Project has been hailed as the greatest human achievement in history. Essentially, that project map all the genes that are active in our body so that it enables us to look at our inner, you know, I guess as opposed to just seeing your symptom from the outside.

Iris Biotechnologies was founded about nine years ago. And from the very beginning, our vision was to help not only the patients that are in need of medical help today, but also to focus on helping people for generations to come. Next.

They Went a little too fast.

Let's go back to the. Okay, okay. Let's stop here for a moment.

The picture that you're looking at here, it depicts a family and you have trees and the scenery in the background. What we are trying to do is to build a global family tree that collects all the medical information so that you can see how people around the world have similar profile as you do genetically or in terms of your lifestyles that will have impact on how your medical treatment will be different. So let me just talk a little about breast cancer. Sue is a breast cancer survivor and two days ago I got a call from a lady in Alaska out of nowhere, and it wasn't Sarah Palin.

So this lady called and says, you know, I read about Iris biotechnologies in October's issue of the Reader's Digest in assessing I have just been diagnosed with breast cancer and how can you help me to get the best treatment that I cannot get with the current in the current medical system? And she said, I've already gone to the website and filled in all the information for Bio Windows, which collect all the lifestyle information and all her background information. I'll talk you a little more about that. So what I told her is that we launched our Bio Windows medical system a little earlier this year and we are about to launch the breast cancer chip that would be very helpful for women like her. What we are doing is collecting information on a global basis and the significance of what she is trying to get into the medical health and what we are trying to do and how it relates to you is that each person is different. When you look at people on the outside, you can see the obvious difference, but the inside of who you are is even more different at a genetic level. And the Human Genome Project.

By looking at the genetic codes that are active in your body, a change of all that. Tim, let's go to the next slide.

So these are some of the questions that came to my mind as I talked with this lady. Insofar as what is really important, what kind of questions should you be asking? The first one is, as a patient, wouldn't you want to know which medical treatment will actually work for you before the treatment begins? Because when breast cancer patient is diagnosed with the disease, oftentimes they go through different type of chemotherapy or hormonal therapy or different combination of other therapies and the doctor doesn't know which one will work for you. So in essence, you become a guinea pig. So what we are trying to do is to look at yourself and Other patients with similar profiles around the world, both genetically as well as lifestyles, that will enable you to know which medical treatment works best for you. Most people think about breast cancer as a genetic disease, but only 5% of the breast cancer cases are due to inheritance. The other 95% have to do with the exposures and the lifestyle that you have lead. That means that you have control.

95% of it is what happens to you after you were born and not because of what you inherited. And that's what we focus on.

So the second question deals with all the different therapies that are available to treat cancer, especially breast cancer. And then the third point has to do with, if you are researchers, the information that we will gather, both in terms of the genes and your personal information, will enable them to develop new drugs that are personalized and targeted so that it won't be drugs that will have so much side effects. So personalizing healthcare is a choice and it's the future of medicine.

What can the doctors do with the information that we provide? The product and services we provide here with our test? They will be to customize the therapy for you by looking at your gene profile. And that is done using what is called a nanobiochip. It's a chip that's made of silicon and on which we put artificial DNA on there. And that chip is, is used to detect the genes that are active in your body.

The data collection takes place on a global scale. And you can also access your own information from anywhere in the world by logging in with the user ID and password that you choose. So the system is totally secure because you choose your own ID and you choose your own password. And the information is not passed on to anybody without your permission.

With the information that is collected on your family, medical history and lifestyle and treatment responses, that creates a very powerful information database. And with that information, in the future, it will also help prevent different diseases.

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So what we all about is getting the right treatment for the right person at the right time based on unique variation in DNA profile. Next.

I talked about the breast cancer chip. We are also developing other products that are comprehensive breast cancer, comprehensive cancer chip, neuro chip and other products for heart disease and many other diseases. Diseases. And our analytical system, which is Bio Windows, this is the one where you can learn more about that in the lobby on what we do. We also have brochures and you can also go to our website and take a look at it. And this information will make all the difference in terms of the medical treatment you actually get. And this is also. There's also online potential insofar as for you to communicate with, whether you're physicians or other patients around the world, they have similar profile as you are with both your gene activity as well as your personal life dynamics.

This just talked about the different patterns that we have already gotten on the chip as well as our database. Next.

So the next step that we are trying to do is to get your participation, which means we would like people around the world to be involved because without your participation, this medical event cannot go on. Because you hold the key to your own personal information that is like a little piece of puzzle. So there may be 6 billion pieces of puzzle and you are holding. And the more people put that puzzle on the board, then you can see a more clearer picture. So even though you don't have any disease right now and you're perfectly healthy, the information that you put into the systems could be helpful to you in the future as well as your own loved ones, even total strangers from other parts of the world.

So please take the time to sign up for Bio Windows and also go to our website. The second thing is that share about what we're doing with others through word of mouth as well as other means because the more people know about it then this movement can begin. Because truly this is a movement because we are changing the paradigm in the way medicine is practiced. And lastly here we are preparing to launch our brain breast cancer chips in the coming month. And we are currently seeking investors for our product commercializations. To sum it up, what I would like to say is that.

All of you chose to be here tonight because either you have survived cancer or you have loved ones that have gone through the process and you want to be actively involved. This is the first time ever.

In human history that we know what genetic codes that are involved and we can see how lifestyles in your family, medical history, as well as different exposure that you may not even know you have been exposed to that will have an impact on your life. And so this Bio Windows survey has hundreds of questions. And by.

Harvesting all this information in a way that can change the course of medical treatment not only for yourself, but for generations to come. This is truly not just a once in a lifetime opportunity, but this is the only time in human history where this can be done. And I really encourage you guys to please participate and help us with this movement. And feel free to please contact me anytime. And thank you very much for your attention.

Amazing, isn't it, to know that you in Humboldt county have the opportunity to Change the world, change it one person at a time. That's what sometimes we do best. I think what the biggest lesson that I've learned in the last couple years, years is it really doesn't matter who we are, but it's our intention to, our aspirations, our dreams and our goals and people just like Simon and people like Barnums that have really thought about bringing this kind of technology to us. So what we're asking for your help is to get your information so that the rest of the world can be changed and forever changing the medical community. So they brought their programs with them. So on the way out, if you would sign up to get, get the link so that you can get the information, we're really hoping that you can participate. What I'd like each of you to do is turn to the person next to you and I want you to share with them for a couple seconds what was it when you were a child that you think you wanted to.

Be when you grew up?

So how many of you are actually doing what you thought you were going to do when you were little?

So tonight is about opportunity.

Opportunity.

It's about possibility. It's about taking our lives to the next level and really getting in touch with the secret of life. The next presenter that I'm going to bring up is somebody that you have truly waited for. She is the Secret. Secret. She has been my inspiration to give us the vision and the courage to move our business to the next level. She's been a life coach and a support in my world and life for the last six years. She's Lisa Nichols, Secret behind the Secret. Susie is an amazing woman. She is a human highlighter and she's going to give you the inspiration just to take your life to the next level. So stay tuned, stay hang on because she's going to put some shiny in your hiney in a second because she might be a little and mighty but she, she packs a big walk with the talk. So we're going to start out with just a little bit of inspiration and everything that you're going to see in the next moment is exactly who she is.

I can kind of see you. So Sue's really built me up really big. I got some big old honking shoes to fill. Yes. I'm sitting back there getting all nervous like I'm just this person. So how many of you have read the Secret? Let me see a show of hands. Awesome. How many of you got some great insights out of it or had some great breakthroughs? Awesome. So if you left, if you liked that? You'll love this, because this is our life. This is my life. I thought I'd start by telling you who I am and how I got to my journey, and then I thought I'd tell you the stories along the way. And when sue asked me to do this, I did an exercise. And I started out, I made a big circle on a piece of paper, and in the middle of the circle, I put courage. And I started looking at what were the things in my life that got me where I am today. What were the challenges, what were the obstacles, what were the breakdowns and the breakthroughs that got me to where I am today. I'm an author. I've written nine books. I've written thousands of articles. I have spoken all over the world, and I have the privilege of being retired at 44. I sold my business.

I built a business, and I sold a business. And the great thing about that is 85% of small businesses are not profitable. 85%. And so for someone to build a business and. And sell a business and to actually make money at that, it's pretty amazing. I had a training company. We traveled all over the world, and we worked with salons and spas, teaching them how to make money. That seemed like a great idea to me. I was a very successful hairdresser. We were the top 1% in the nation and the top 10% in the world. And we earned that right by the productivity that we had and by the systems that we put in inside our business. Those were the things that we taught Sue. Those are the things that we taught everyone in our community.

Our business was bought by Thompson Learning. They're one of the largest publishing companies in the world. And I think about, I'm a hairdresser. That's where I started. That's how I came to be, is being a hairdresser. And I remember when I chose this brand profession and I got married, my husband at the time kept saying, you know what? You need to go get a real job. He's not saying that no more.

So the journey of how do you get from A to B? How do you get to live a life that you love? How many of you want to live a life that you love?

How many of you are willing to do whatever it takes to live a life that you love?

We all have our story.

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A story of you. What makes you you? What makes me me? People think because of the house I live in, the car I drive, the clothes I wear that somebody handed me something, but nobody handed me Anything. I come from a very large family. There's 11 of us, and it's Bobby, Ronnie's, Stevie, Terry, Joni, Shelley, Susie, Kelly, Debbie.

My dad was in the military. We had 1200 square feet, two bedrooms, one bathroom. Now, took a lot of determination to get to that bathroom.

We lived in a border town, so we were right next to the border, Mexico. We were really bored. And on one side of the street, the gang people walked down. On one side of the street, the other kids walked down. And if you didn't know that, you learned pretty quickly. You learned survival walking down the wrong side of the street. So you look at who I am and what made me who I was was walking on the right side of the street or walking on the wrong side of the street. Everything that you do, every lesson that you have gives you the strength and the determination. You know, life can be like a big storm, can't it? And life can be tumultuous. And the storm is windy and rainy. And some of us are in our little boats, right where water comes in. You might have holes in your boat. You bring the life grass. How many of you felt like that way before, you know, where you just. It just hits you all at once.

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Just how much more can you take on? Determination equals courage. What are the things in your life that you've been so determined to do? When I was five years old, my mom told me we were going to my dad's house. And she said, we're going to go there and we're going to have Easter egg hunt. So my sisters and I went to my dad's house, and I remember, you know, my piggy tails, and they were sticking straight out of your head. Get the visual. That's pretty cute.

And she said, I'll be back. And I said, okay. And I sat on the porch and we had our Easter egg hunt. And it's getting dark, and I'm sitting on the porch, and I'm sitting on the porch, and my dad said, it's time to come in. I'm like, oh, no, no, no, she's coming back.

He just looked at me. My older sister, the wiser sister, said, suze, she not coming back. And in that moment, I'm like, wow, I must be a really bad kid. Mama ain't coming back. My mom never came back. And at 5 years old, what's the message that you get when your mama don't come back? You determined? I determined I must not be good enough. I must have done something wrong. I must have failed her at Five years old. Amazing. And even though that household, even though that relationship was not very friendly.

You know, we all have our stories about our youth, but that was a place that I knew and I wanted to go back to. You know, some of us stay in the comfort zone. Some of us stay in our fear. Some of us think that's the safe place. Yes. And the truth is that fear leads you to believe that where you are right now is the safe place.

And going forward is the risk. But, you see, the risk is at stake. Standing still is that you miss out on your destiny. You miss out on what's possible, because the fear can constrict you. The fear can hold you. So really, when you step out of the unknown and out into the fear is where your biggest breakthroughs come. Some of the hardest lessons that we've learned in life have not been the pleasant ones. Yes. You hold courage in one hand and fear in the other hand. And you jump. You jump.

And on the way down, you're hoping somebody's there to pick you up. Right.

When I look at.

People, us, I kind of simulate, like, this, chairs, our life. And our life has a lot of stories in them, right? I mean, I have stories. Oh, I was abandoned when I was a kid. Nobody liked me. I got beat up when I was a kid, you know, because I was funny looking. You know, the kids teased you. Do you know what I'm talking about? This happened to you or. Just me. Okay, good. And a lot of times we wear those things like badge of honors, don't we? Because it has shaped our character. It has shaped who we are. It is a lot of who we are. But sometimes we. We take our past and we drag it around, and we're walking through life, and I'm having a great day. And, you know, I had a really tough life. And if you only knew my story, because, you know, it's probably a lot bigger than your story. Do you know people like this?

And then people. They might have three, four, five chairs. Do you know people like that?

That's my sister.

And then there's those people like this.

But my story.

It'S a tragedy.

Nobody loves me.

Right? Do you guys know people like that? Give me a round of applause if you know people like that.

This is my other sister.

I got nine of us, guys. So we got a lot of storytelling tonight.

And then the last type of person is the type of person that doesn't even know. It's like Pigpen. Remember Pigpen from Charlie Brown? And when Pigpen walked in the Room. There was like this big cloud that walked around him. You know, people like that where they don't even know. And if you don't know anybody like that, guess what?

Sorry.

That's why it's always my sister.

So you have this type of person.

Well, I don't even know what you're talking about. I don't have anything. My life's hard, but I got over it.

Do you guys know people like this?

It's my brother.

So the lesson in that is, what's your story? What defines you?

What are your aspirations? What are the things that you want to accomplish in this world? I knew from a really young age that I wanted to just live differently. You know, my parents were divorced, and so my dad had three kids. My stepmom had five kids. And then they made one kid. And when anybody would ever talk, they'd go, oh, you guys are like the Brady Bunch. Remember the Brady Bunch? That's old people. I know you younger kids don't know, but I would watch the Brady Bunch and go, no, they don't bite. They're not throwing anything. They're not doing anything. My mom used to work graveyard, so she used to take the bus because they wanted. There was nine kids. You couldn't afford daycare, right? So she would take the bus downtown. And so she would work graveyard and then come home in the morning and sleep well. We had to be quiet. And can I tell you, we know how to fight quiet.

My brother would be killing me, and I wouldn't scream because if we woke her up, that was way worse than the liquor my brother was giving me. I'm telling you.

I forgot what I.

Was saying, but that was good.

That was a funny one.

I want to look at those of us that have different obstacles that come in our life and the things that make you you. I look at when I was. My dad had told us because there was six girls, three boys, and he said, you know, sue, when you're 18, you move out, you get a job, you move out. I'm like, okay. And so I watched all my brothers and sisters. The minute 18 came, I was like, almost got your birthday cake and your suitcase at the same time. Get along. We only had two bedrooms, so, you know, it was tight squeeze there. My dad was like one of those renovator people. You know, the do it yourself thing before. Do it yourself was really big, you know, there was no home improvement. My dad would just wake up and get an inspiration and start hammering the wall and ripping down walls. And one time he Took this closet and made it into a bedroom. Now my parents house was built in the 40s, so do you know how big that closet was? But do you know how many of us were trying to fight to get that closet as our bedroom? I just wanted to sleep by myself. I didn't care where I had to sleep.

So I thought, well, you know, it's coming up on my 18th birthday. I had six months left. I thought, you know, I'm just going to save them. That, that challenge of, you know, making me go, if my kid did this to me, I would, I would put some hurting on him. I left him a note.

I'm moving out. I thought it'd be easier for you. Here's my number. Talk to you soon. And I moved out.

That's how I moved out.

Is that insane? That's crazy. If my kid did that, I would hunt her down like, you are not going anywhere. You're still in my house. But the times were different and we did have nine people. My dad was in the military. That was not a lot of money, you know. So you start looking at why the choices that we made. So at 17 I moved out on my own. I had my little. I rented a room with another girlfriend and there was five other people in the house. That was crazy. And so I worked. And then I graduated from high school and then I got this job down in downtown San Diego. And in San Diego in the olden days we used to have the red light district. And one side of the street was the prostitutes and on the other side of the street were the bankers. It was an interesting time.

So I had no money, had no car, but I didn't have a bicycle. And so downtown San Diego is about 50 miles from where I was living. So I would get up at 5am to leave my house at 6am to ride my bicycle to the trolley station. I'd get up, catch the 7 o' clock trolley station. It would take me an hour to get to my job. And then in San Diego there's this hill on 5th street that goes straight up and I would have to walk that hill. And I had really nice legs.

Now I have really nice calves because it just falls.

So I would walk that hill and get to my first job. And then I would leave at 4:30 and I would walk down that hill again and I'd get on the trolley and I would take the trolley three stops to my next job. And my next job was I worked at a men's clothing store. And I worked at that job until 11:15. You could not finish your job by 11:15 because the last trolley leaves at 11:45. So you don't want to be by yourself downtown at 11:45 because the bankers have left a long time ago.

So I would walk and try to not be afraid. Have you ever tried to walk and not be afraid? It's like impossible because you're kind of.

To going.

At midnight, they're honking for me and I'm like, no, no, I'm just getting the trolley. Then I would take the trolley all the way home. I would get in bed by one o' clock in the morning and I would start it all over again. And I think about what that taught me was determination. Determination to hi ride your bike. How many of you know your kids would never do that? Now I can't even get my kids to walk to the mailbox at night. They're not doing that like take a bus. They don't even know what that means. But I look at that shaped my work ethic, that shaped my tenacity, that shaped my unstoppability, like not letting.

Trans. I couldn't think the word transportation. Help me out guys. I wasn't letting transportation stop me from getting to point to A, to point B.

So when I look at what are you stopping? What are you allowing to get in your way? What's that thing you're afraid of to take to the next level?

Can you think what it is? You don't have to tell anyone.

I got married early because, you know, I got, I'm. I left my home early. So, you know, I thought I was wise, ready to get married. And I love at first sight. He had big muscles, a car and a checkbook.

I thought, you know, that was the goal. I didn't know I had two beautiful children. Beautiful children. But you know how life kind of. You keep repeating the past in your life until you get the lesson. You know, they say that your past will keep sitting in your future until you complete with the past. Meaning unless you really process what happened to you, your.

Story, your chair, you'll keep making those same decisions. So of course I made those same decisions. I married a man that was controlling. I married a man that was, had a temper. I married a man that told me go get a real job. You know, I married somebody that wouldn't support me. And when you live in that environment and that environment of fear, that environment of afraid to speak your voice, to find your voice to tell your truth, you die. You know, there's a saying that says to the degree of your alignment is to the degree of your integrity.

The degree of your liveness is the degree of your integrity. And I was so out of integrity with myself.

With me, you know, it's like when you wash your laundry. You can do laundry all day long. And at 6 o' clock there's dirty clothes in the basket, right? I can clean my integrity up all day long. But when I go to bed, I probably said something that hurt somebody. I probably did something stupid because, you know, it's life, right? And I think we're waiting for all the circumstance to come together to be perfect. But my life. I quit saying things. I quit talking out of fear.

And that's not a healthy place. Place to be in. That's not a relationship. That's an entanglement where it's so entangled that neither one of you are giving each other the space to excel and to thrive. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, just nod your head. I can see that part.

So I left and I left with my two kids, their clothes and the clothes on my back. And I remember the day that I left. He said to me, I want you to take a good look at yourself because you will never be anything more than you are right now. I know, right? Give me a hand for that one, girl.

I can.

But I believed it. I was so scared. I was shaking in my shoes. This is all I'd known. Like, how am I supposed to. To find me who I am? And what if he was right? What if I really didn't have it? I knew my consultant, you know that consultant that goes off in your head. You guys have this thing. It just talks to you. And sometimes it's a committee.

And sometimes I just want to fire that committee. Thank you for sharing. People think I'm crazy. And I'm like, no.

No.

And what happened is I found myself. I fell in love with myself. I remember my roommate and I used to sit on the couch and keep watch because he told me he would kill us. Us. Her too. Because she helped me move out.

And that's not a great place to be in. But I got my character. I got my freedom. I found my voice. I found who I am as a woman. I found that I could do anything I wanted to because I had the courage to leave. And I'm not sharing that so that you can feel it. Oh, look what she did. I'm sharing it. So you can go, ooh. If she did, I can. If she did, I can.

I went to write my first book after that, it became a best seller. I started.

My girlfriend came home and said, you know, Susie, this was four years later. It's time for you to date on my honor date. I kind of like my life the way it is. And you know how some of us are kind of waiting, you know, we kind of wait around for the opportunity. Oh, thank you. Wait, I gotta take a drink.

Thank you. We're kind of waiting around for that opportunity like this.

You know, Someone's gonna knock on the door and bring you money.

Someone's gonna knock on the door and bring you Prince Charming. Someone's gonna knock on the door and give you your dream job. Somebody knock on the door and pay off your bills.

I was kind of waiting to knock on the door to bring me a man, someone that, you know, I could trust, that I can have a friendship with. And the exercise that I did is my girlfriend said, I want you to write down all the attributes that you want in a relationship. And I said, I want a relationship like I have with my girlfriends, but with a husband. And she's like, okay, can you explain more?

So I wrote down all the attributes I wanted him to be. Have integrity. I want him to be honest. I wanted communication. I wanted freedom to be me. And that was so huge for me. Just my freedom to be myself. Do you know what I'm talking about? I wanted someone that would accept my children for who my children were. I wanted them to be successful in their right. I didn't want them to have to rely on me for everything. You know how sometimes you get in a relationship and then all of a sudden you look around, you have no friends.

You know, and then you hurry up, you're running, racing home from work, and you get home, and you're like, why did I race? You kind of lose your social life. Do you know what I'm talking about? I don't know why we do that. It's so crazy. And then all of a sudden, we're looking at the person going, okay, you're boring.

One person cannot fill you up. You have to have many people in your life to fill you up. I know. I'm like, sybil, I gotta have a ton of people to fill me up. That's why I'm a professional speaker, because I get it all from you. And then I go home and I'm like, all right, great, honey.

So my girlfriend said, suzy, we're done being single. I'm like, okay. She goes, we're gonna put an ad in the paper.

I'm like, honey, I Am not that desperate.

She goes, yes, you are.

So I put an ad in the paper.

It said, single sexy mom.

Seeking hunk of burn in love. Rebel with the cause. Biker that drinks champagne. Must need business minded, educated and physically fit. Pretty good, huh?

And my husband, he's in the back. You can stand up, honey, because they're going to check you out after this wave.

And he really is all that. I'm still amazed. It's been 13 years and I still like him.

I can't count the years because then I'll stress myself out. And we work together. That's another. You work with your spouse and I still love him.

That's pretty good.

We have two businesses together, so it's a pretty amazing thing. So I look at that took courage. Courage to step out in the unknown. Courage to trust again. Because once you've been. A lot of times we kind of sew up the heart and hide it and keep it for ourselves. And we don't want to give it to anybody else. Yes.

Yeah. Hold courage in one hand, fear in the other hand. And jump. Courage in one hand, fear in the other. And jump.

You know, I failed algebra in high school and Mr. Severson, still remember his name. He said, susie, you might be a great cheerleader, but you're not good at math.

Well, Mr. Silverson, he can take that.

And shove it where the sun don't shine because I do really good at math. Now I guess we're speaking my language. You look at how many people have talked to you, embedded in you, those stories of, you can't do it, I say, you can do it. If you don't stand for something in life, you'll fall for anything. What are you standing for? What are you standing for? What is that thing that yearns and calls you forth? What is that thing that makes you have chills when you think about it?

And I ain't pumpkin pie.

Think about it. What was that thing, like sue asked you, what was that thing when you were a kid that you said, I want to be this? There's so many times we've given up on our dreams. We've given up because all the little failures we make that mean something. And I look at it, all those little failures help me be something.

My failures are my stripes. My failures are my initiation. My failures are my character. My failures are my life lessons.

So you know how God has a way of showing you or giving you the cosmic boot? Ever had the cosmic boot? You know, where something happens to you? Like for sue, the cosmic boot was she got breast cancer. She had to completely shift her life. You have to stop your life to handle something. Have you ever had that happen to you? Yeah. Mine came in car accidents. Yeah, nine.

Yeah. Six of them totaled the car. Yeah. Let's see. I've got two bruised ribs. I had one broken leg. I had six concussions and neck surgery. I had a big boot.

Can you imagine? One of those. One of those would have taken some people out. One of those, you would have never bought another car. But me, I'm like, well, whatever. Next. Get in the car. Not really. The last one, I had to have neck surgery. And I remember laying in bed and not being able to move. You're not supposed to move. Okay, hi. I'm like, ADD kid. I gotta move. So I'm laying there trying not to move, thinking about my life and thinking about, what is this lesson God wants me to get? They say, you know, because I've had a lot of therapy on this one, that if you get. If the car gets hit in the front, you're afraid of your future. If you get hit in the back, you're afraid of your past. Well, I got smashed like an accordion. I'm like, oh, great.

I can't figure that one out.

So, you know, I'm all crashed up thinking, okay, I'm really screwed up here. What am I supposed to get? I had to take a year off from my business. And if you are an entrepreneur, if you ever owned your own business, if you leave, most of the time, the business fails. I left not by choice. My business grew, and it grew by 32%. Now, part of me was so excited, and the other part was like, dang, they didn't even need me.

So I was able to reinvent myself. How many times in our life do we get the opportunity to reinvent ourselves? You know, some of us are in jobs that we hate. We're in relationships that we hate, and we just go to work and we're like, you can see you. I see you driving to work, going, I hate my life. My life sucks. I hate my life. My life sucks. I hate my life.

Right? Have you seen. Not you, but, you know, the person next to you.

I got to reinvent my life. I got to reinvent my job. I got to look at. What do I want to do? How do I want to play? Reinvent your life. Reinvent your life every three years, no matter what. Reinvent your life because it's fun. You get to play. Do you remember what that was like, playing? I remember I went to a Counselor. Because, you know, I had some issues.

And she said, susie, you've got to learn how to play with your kids. I'm like, what? You know, I came from a family of nine. We all played with each other and beat each other up. My parents, we did they naughty playing with my kids. She goes, no. You know, get on the floor and play with them. All right, okay, I'll play with the kids. But just seeing, like, those little things that you never learn how to do, and we take it for granted. Go play with your kids. I know y' all are thinking I'm crazy. California. Southern California. No, you guys are the crazy ones.

Not in California.

Reinvent yourself. What do you want to do? Who do you want to be? If you look at who I am, I shouldn't be where I am. Statistically, you know, I'm kind of like a little bumblebee, you know, aerodynamically. A bumblebee can't fly because its body is too fat for its wing. But does a bumblebee fly? Yeah, bumblebee flies because it doesn't know any different. Some of you get so caught up in this conversation or your past conversation or your mother's conversation or your father's conversation, you know, how old were you when you decided what you could do or couldn't do? Look at your community. Look at your circle of influence. I decided that I wanted to change the world. I wanted each and every person to know that who they are makes a difference. That's my quest. That's. That's my journey. And how it shows up is different. I'm here. I'll do stuff in my church. I do stuff in my community because I want to make a difference. Look at what was that calling that you had when you were younger? Because we forget. Nelson Mandela said that your deepest fear is not that you are inadequate. You, deepest fear is that you're powerful beyond measure. It's not your darkness that frightens you the most. It's your light. Who are you to be brilliant, fabulous, talented? I say, who are you not to be? You are a child of God, and your playing small doesn't serve the world. And as you let your own light shine, you unconsciously give people permission to do the same.

We forget to turn on our light. You know, we grew up where you're not supposed to brag about yourself, but when you stand in your grace and you stand in your power and you give so freely, I think sue and her family and her team have been so blessed because she gives so free freely with no expectation.

Look at what is that thing that calls you in the middle of the night, the thing that keeps you awake. Because when you're living your life full out, you don't want to sleep. You don't want to sleep. You'll have all the time in the world to sleep when you're dead.

Think about it. And I love to sleep. I'm a sleeper. Ask anyone. Love my bed, Love my sleep. But when you do what you love and love what you do, it's not work. How many of you would like that? No work. No work.

Or you get a plate.

I remember one of my friends, Doug Carter, he was.

My mentor and started really introduced the speaking world to me. And he introduced me me to many different areas of how to take a person from point A to point B and how to involve a room of people, whether it's one person or 10,000 people. And he worked for Dale Carnegie. Anybody heard that name before? Yeah. And he's the coach of the coaches. So Michael Gerber, Anthony Robbins, Stephen Covey. His coach is Doug Carter, my coach. And he was sharing the story with me about.

This Olympic athlete. And to be an Olympic athlete, you have to be in amazing shape.

Yes.

And it was a beautiful day. It was one of those days where kind of like today, the weather was crisp and clean, and, you know, it has that smell in the air like spring. And it was the Olympic time trials. And there was this young man who was the Olympic hopeful, and he was beautiful. You know, when an athlete is in their top form and they just have muscles just, you know, pretty like their body is art. Yes. And the relay was the 440. And when people think of the 440, they think of Edwin Moses. And Edwin Moses. Moses won, like, four gold medals and three silver medals.

And so this young man was like.

The new hope fall.

And he was.

Getting ready to race, and his arms were down, you know, because they're getting ready to sprint.

And.

All eyes are on him.

And in the moment, the gun went off. And the young man is like music without notes. Just beautiful. You know, there's some people that run that have form and grace, and then there's some people like me that kind of clomp along.

Not him.

He ran around, and they were the hurdles. So he's jumping over the hurdle and he's fast, and he's catching up with the next guy, you know, kind of staggered to left.

The.

The one on the outside is farther up and the one on the inside is farther back because it's a tighter circle. And so he's running around, and in a minute, he's, like, neck and neck with all the guys. And in a second, something happens. It's like everything goes in slow motion. And he hits the hurdle, and he takes his leg and he drags the hurdle, and he falls just like, smack. And. And the race was on this red cinderblock track. And I don't know if you know anything about red cinderblock, but it's equivalent. Falling on that is equivalent to falling off a truck about 35 miles an hour. So he falls, and he gets up, and he has a white uniform on, but it's red, and you can't distinguish blood from the cinder. And he's got blood on his elbows and just, you know, got that little road rash. And he gets up, and the crowd is silent, and they don't say anything. We don't know what to do. And he gets up.

Kind of brushes himself off. And you see this look in his eye, like determination. And he starts running. And I wish that I could say that in that moment, we all got up. We're cheering him on, but in that moment, we're kind of going, dude, the race is over. There's no way you're gonna win. But there's something about the dignity of the human spirit when you say, I can, we'll cheer you on. So the whole crowd got up, and they were cheering for him and applauding him, and he's running, and. And he goes over the hurdle, and he's running again, and somehow he's caught up with the number two guy. And in that moment, the crowd goes wild because this guy could actually almost win this race. And so he's running and he's booking, and he goes through the finish line where they have the ribbon and throws himself across the finish line. And he won. And he is so excited, and he's looking for his coach, and he finds him, and he jumps up and he wraps his arms and legs around the coach, and he's like, I won, I won, I won, I won. And the coach looks at him, and he takes his face in his hands, and he said, son, you've always won. You won when you went running, and he didn't want to. You won. While everyone was having seconds at Thanksgiving, you went for a run. You won. When you got up in the morning and it was snowing outside, and you did it anyways. You won every single time you fell down and got up.

You know, it's kind of like you being here. You're here for a reason. There's Something that called you here versus staying at home and clicking on the tv. You won because you showed up.

It's now that you get to decide your destiny. It's now that you get to rewrite your future. What do you want to do? Who do you want to be? What's the impact that you want to make make on the world? Simon wants to revolutionize healthcare. Sue wants to revolutionize communities. I want to revolutionize the world. And you know that every person makes a difference. Each one of you has a responsibility.

God made you unique, whole and complete. Different than me, different than anybody else. There's some inside you. There's something more that you have to give. I don't know what it is, but that's the secret.

The secrets that action is the antidote for despair. What action do you need to take?

What action do you need to take?

Write your story, Rewrite your story.

Because it's just a story. The things that happened to me in my youth, the things that happened to me in my young adulthood, don't declare who I am today. I'm a powerful woman. I'm a force to be reckoned with. I love my husband, I love my life, I love my children, and I love to make a difference. And so every day, that's who I get to be. Who do you get to be?

I want you to turn to the person next to you, and I want you to tell them who you get to be.

If you could reinvent yourself today, who would that be?

Okay, wrap up that last thought. Either give your partner a high five or a hug, whichever you want.

A wise man said that Benjamin Franklin said, take the coins from your purse, invest them in your mind, and your mind will feel your purse overflowing. I love that quote. Take the coins from your purse and invest them in your mind. You know, I don't have a formal education. I'm a hairdresser. By 44, I retired. I'm a multimillionaire. I'm a hairdresser. And I don't say that as there's something wrong with that. I say that as how great that is. I choose. You choose. When you walked in, they gave you a flyer. And I want to share this with you. There are several of us in the speaking community. Lisa Nichols, Jack Canfield.

Pete Bassonnet, who is one of the top retail strategists in the world. Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nicholson, and myself are all playing a big game. And we came together to test pilot this training called the premier training program. It's a year long Course. And some of you, it's time for you to get off your high knees. It's time for you to take the next step. Something called to you. There's a reason.

You have a years long program available, education with the top transformational teachers in the world.

If you're interested in finding more, I want you to come and see me or come and see Bert and look at what that would take for you to participate. I'm committed that we transform the world that we live in and make it a better place for people. I'm committed that you live your dreams and live your financial dreams and leave the story about the financial crisis behind and raise up the standard of your living. Sue is a testament to the kind of training that you can take on. When I met her, her business was failing on a P and L sheet and she was struggling. And in less than a year's time, she doubled her income by taking action in her life. Joan Baez said action is the antidote for despair. Be in action, go forth, do some good in the world. Whether you take this education or some other education, do something like you did tonight. Thank you for allowing me to play with you and share my silly stories. Thank you for having the privilege of your listening because you could have been anywhere tonight and you chose to be here. So thank you for spending it with me and thank you spending it with courage and Sue.

I wanted sue to show this video because a lot of times we're afraid to tell people who we are. And so this is Sue's journey and we wanted to share it with you.

You can spend your whole life building.

Something from nothing. One storm can come and blow it.

Build it anyway.

You can chase a dream that seems.

So out of reach.

And you know it might not ever come your way.

Dream it anyway.

God is great. But sometimes life ain't good. And when I pray it doesn't always turn out like I think it should.

But I do it anyway.

I do it anyway.

This world's gone crazy and it's hard to believe that tomorrow will be better than today.

Leave it anyway.

You can love someone with all your heart for all the right reasons. In a moment they can choose to walk away.

Love them anyway.

God is great. But sometimes life ain't good.

When I pray it doesn't always turn out like I make it should.

But I do it anyway.

Yeah, do it anyway.

Sam.

You can pour your soul out singing a song you believe in that tomorrow they'll forget you ever sing.

Sing anyway.

Yeah, sing it anyway.

Yeah, yeah. I see.

I dream.

I love.

Anywhere.

Possibility. And who you are is possibility in the face of adversity. Out of our greatest weaknesses come our greatest strength. No matter what comes your way, don't let it stop you from your dreams and your goals and your aspirations. And we're going to talk a little bit about intention with those intention cards. So I was just going to let you in on what I've been up with. The flash that you saw with the non comedogenic hair care line was a dream that I had 20 years ago. Becoming a hairdresser and going around and working with skincare lines and thinking, so when are you going to create something that doesn't break people out? Because we work really hard to get their skin all cleaned up and then the hair care products end up breaking them out and they just like, look at me. I don't know.

I don't know.

So finally I took the project on a year ago. It was one of my things in my vision board and before the product ever came out, it was actually purchased by a multi level marketing company. And talk about the power of intention. About five years ago, the family and I were talking about, where do we want to go on vacation? And I'd always wanted to go to the Bahamas. So this summer I was invited by this company. They had brought my product out and I was paid to come back and be a national educator for them. So it is possible, it really matters to speak what it is, what your desires are, no matter what. Every time you get to that little place and something trips you, it's time to get back up and say, what was that that I was thinking about that I wanted to do? Oh, you can't do that. You just live in little Eureka. Oh, you can't do that. You haven't got enough education. Oh, you can't do that. In the face of impossibility. Do it anyway, because if you don't, you're just going to lay around and think, I wonder if it would have happened if I would have really tried to make that happen. Possibilities happen. Look at tonight and all of the aspirations each one of you have. So what I want you to do is to take those little cards out of your envelopes and start thinking about.

Yesterday I dared to struggle and today I dare to win. The possibility that I'm creating for my life is, what is it that you want to accomplish this next year? What is it the commitment that you want to make to yourself? And be clear, because one of my other intentions that we talked about last year was to share my vision of not only having this night of inspiration, to be committed to ourselves was to create the Health Advocacy Binder. It had become such an important tool for me in my life, in my journey, in my illnesses, and I realized that it was something that could be useful in everybody's life. We have such an amazing community that can come together and create things out of nothing and out of possibilities. And I remember after I went through my treatment with cancer, one of the things I immediately had fun was talking with Lori Watson Stone. And I said, lori, I think there's a lot of things that we can do to make things better. I think if we can put together some information so that when people come through and there isn't some information that we could have something. She says, great. What can we do? One of her team members, Mary Scolari, when she found out that I was first diagnosed, Julie was cutting her hair and she jumped out from the other side of the station and she sued Sue. I want you to go out and I want you to get a binder, and I want you to tab it with lab reports, pathology reports, surgery notes.

And a place for you to keep your journal, your calendar, and I want you to start taking care of your records so that you can have on a moment's notice the information that you need. I said, can I get that? I mean, how many of you realize that your medical records are your personal property? All you have to do is ask. So I started asking and I went back and I got my surgery notes, I got my pathology notes, I got my doctor's notes. And let me tell you, when you get to see, sit down and actually read the information, when you're not so shell shocked, when all the information comes up and you're too caught up in, oh, my gosh, what did he say? And what it's going to be, you have a place that you can go back to and you can refer to. So using this tool was such an amazing tool and such an opportunity for me that I shared it with lots of friends. And I know that it became an amazing opportunity for every single person that used one. The other thing that I found while being able to use the Health Advocacy Binder was having a place to put my emotions down so that it gave me something to do, because I'm a little bit like Susie. I'm a little add and I've got to be writing. At least I think that my brain is connected to the pencil in my hand, otherwise I'm not going to be able to retain it. So this became a working tool. And we realized that after the creation of the binder, that it wasn't for somebody that was just sick, but it would be a great tool to be able to have in every household to start opening up conversations as Simon was talking about finding out what your genealogy is and what the health history is, your family, how many times have you been to the doctor's office? And they wanted to know now, when did you have your gallbladder surgery? And what year did you have your hysterectomy? And when did you have your last Pap smear? And you just drove through the conference store and spilled the coffee. And you're more worried about whether you're going to get the stain out of your carpet than to remember exactly what you did that by having all of your medical records in reference and taking that opportunity and time to fill that out so that you can actually take something to the doctor's office. That will be an amazing thing to just have it as a reference. In the case. When we get elderly parents and we get people that get ill and we need to be in and take care of their health care, and we haven't been there for every single doctor's appointment, wouldn't it be great to be able to go into the shelf and be able to know that on mom and Dad's cupboard you could find their health applicant finder, and it would have when they had their last checkup, what were their blood works, what was the surgery notes, what did the doctor recommend? And especially now, because we're so specialized, because we go to so many doctors, and for those of you that read the article that was in the Eureka Reporter talking with my bookkeeper, who had been to several different Mayo clinics and doctors here and doctors there, we need to have reference material so that the doctors can actually see the interaction that's gone on behind them. So we have done the prototype and it is almost in completion. So that's why I was talking about being specific, because last year I said my intention was to have a prototype prototype, and we missed our deadline of having a completion date by one week. So be careful of what you put down there. Be really clear on your intention cards. But we are so excited tonight to be able to present to our community an opportunity for you to take care of your own health and to get into action, because sometimes you have little challenges in life, as we've experienced this last year with my husband revisiting an old injury after 25 years and not being able to access all the records thank God we live in Humboldt county and we have the Farnhams on speed dial. They were not very smart in the early years to have kept their telephone number in the telephone book. And there's a lot of us out there that have memorized it. So Dan and La Ronda get phone calls from people from all over the world. And what do we do? So be proactive. Ask for your medical records. There will be sample letters in the binder that will actually give you the access to get the information that you need. There's information to record all of your lab reports, to get all the pertinent information. We've taken the time to put some great little quotes of inspiration in there. This is going to be a Pay It Forward program. Our first and original goal was to create the Health Advocacy Binder to center them into the community, community into health agencies to provide them to people in need. And as we were speaking at service groups last year, it became very apparent it didn't really matter whether you were in need. If you wanted to be proactive about your health, you'd fill it out before you got sick so you'd have all the information to keep up with your health and make sure that you were having all of your information in a timely manner. And I really was inspired so much by Mary having this done and the story that she lost her sister at 37 years old to breast cancer, and she was a teacher and for her ability to save other people with the knowledge that they could travel in this. Mary, I think you're kind of back there somewhere. And I just wanted to take this time to present this to Mary because this is a gift of shadow sharing. And that's what we are, is community. And in community, we help other people through hard times. And Mary to deal with the things that she's dealt with with losing her sister at such an early age has inspired so many other people and will help keep them alive and maybe they will take care of their health a little bit sooner. So Mary's written the story about her sister, and it's the very first page that will be in the Health Advocacy Binder. Each tab has been represented by different people in the medical community, and what they've done is sponsored a tab for either labs, path reports, prescriptions, research. One side will be talking about the information that's available to us here locally. And on the back side of the tab will be health advocacy information like how to read your lab reports, how to work with your prescription people, how to understand the insurance forms. But on the first page, it's Theresa's story. It's her gift of knowledge and it's her. It's such an amazing thing because when we talked about wanting to do this, pay it forward, I didn't even realize the whole story it fit. But there's a reason. There's a reason for the season and everything. So Mary's going to read the story.

I love you too.

This is my lovely sister Teresa on screen with her children, Megan and Nicholas. The first template for the health advocacy binder came out of need. My sisters and I were desperate to understand what was happening with our eldest sister's health care. Teresa, a 37 year old school teacher and young mother of two children, had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Originally diagnosed at 37, she'd already gone through a mastectomy, chemotherapy, stem cell rescue, more chemotherapy and radiation treatment. We all thought she was in remission until a cough landed her in the hospital. Up until that point, every practitioner who saw her told her she either had asthma, asthma or bronchitis. This continued for months until she insisted on a chest X ray. Desperate for answers, we gathered her medical records. X ray reports, office visits, lab work, surgery reports, everything that sue talked about organizing. This binder gave us a timeline and reference. What we created gave us a sense of control in a desperate situation. Theresa took her binder to every appointment, obtained any record of the visit and sent copies to us. She became an active participant in her health care, fighting a valiant battle until her passing. October 6, 2002. Having a copy of my sister's medical record is vital. Every medical office has a form that asks about family medical history. Without her records, I couldn't tell you what type or stage of breast cancer she had. This binder is also inspired other men and women to create their own and take an active role in their health care. Teresa always paid any bridge toll for the car behind her. She did this for years. We would look back and see who was the lucky car behind us and laughed as they seemed confused and argued and questioned the toll booth attendant. But we really liked it when they would like let us forward in front of them and you know, they'd wave to us. And it's a tradition that my family had adopted in remembrance of her. Not everyone may see the need to buy a health advocacy binder for themselves, but keep this in mind. Purchasing one for someone else. Someone else in need is in a way paying their toll.

So the pay it forward program is working like this. We're going to take a hundred binders that we have produced and distribute them through local medical associations and it will be at their discretion to give them to someone in need. Because when you go in and you hear the word cancer, or when you hear the word that you've got heart disease, or when you hear the word that I am a diabetic, or when you hear the word that you have a chronic illness, you are grasping for answers and you need a place to be able to keep all that information. So we've put in card holders, we put in vinyl pouches. Because you'll get information from one place and you'll get something from another place and you'll get something from another place, but you don't have a place to put it. And you really need something to do at that point, let me tell you. So by being able to gather all that information and collect it, you'll be able to create some sanity in your life for a few minutes. Then we're going to take that other. We've created 250 binders to start with. We're taking the other 150 and putting them out for sale. And it will become a pay it forward program. We've created a nonprofit organization so that with the purchase of a binder for $30, it'll almost pay for the next one to be giving it. So we want this to be a self perpetuated fund that goes into our community to pay it forward so that we can stop needless heart disease, so we can stop needless cancer, so that we can stop needless not understanding of how we need to take care of ourselves in the future. We have order forms here tonight. We have the first 40 that are put together without the professional caps. They'll be available next week, so make sure you pick up an order form or you can actually take yours home and start filling it out. We'll get the tabs to you by next week. But we are so excited to be able to actually, instead of talking about it for the last five years, we actually just put it into action. And that's what the power and the law of attraction does. You got to put it out there. But then like Susie said, you got to get some action. You got to pull the trigger and just do it, do it anyway. So there's some special people that I want to acknowledge tonight that have actually taken on my vision and my excitement for that. And as we're getting some of these people to come up, I would like my team to kind of come forward. If you would pass your intention cards, put them in your envelopes, make sure your names are on the back of them, because that's how we're going to create our mailing list. That's also how we're going to do our drawing.

You're going to pass them to the center.

And what I'd like to do is I'd like to have Linda White and Marge Custis, if they could just kind of come forward and be up here. Liz Simpson.

Lori, I know you don't want to come up, but you're coming anyway.

Judy Palassi and Corey. Corey Reed, can you guys come forward?

You know, it's so great to have a community that when you ask a couple of questions, what do you think we can do? And how do we think we can move our community forward? And what can we do to embedder things that they say, yeah, we'll do that. We'll get on board. That's all you have to do, is just ask. In a community like this, we are one of the most giving communities that's really there for people when we're needed.

So when I shared my vision with Linda White, my bookkeeper, because she knows my real organization that isn't too organized, the only organized thing that I actually have is my medical organizer. And I use it every single year, because this time of year, there's so much new information that comes out on protocol and telling you what needs to happen. And I can go to my book and I can find out what my path reports say, because I don't remember what my diagnosis was five years ago. I wish we had a little bit more of that information that went on with some of my husband's information 25 years ago. It's just really interesting to be able to read, and just the technology that changes. So as I was talking about this with Linda, Linda said, you know what? I think we can do something about that. She goes, I really wanted to be able to put on a golf tournament, and I think that would be a great project to do that. So she gathered up the best person that she knew that could go out there and create the best event ever, and that would be Marge Custis. And if you want something done in this town, you ask Marge Custis to be on your team. So together, these two women took on putting on a golf tournament at Baywood two weekends ago, and they raised enough money to pay for the first round of.

Our health advocacy binders so they could be gifted back into the community and start helping you be proactive about taking your.

Health seriously. So we would like to acknowledge Both of you tonight. This is a little ceremony that Susie's taught me about. This is the blue ribbon award. Because you make a difference, because you have taken the initiative and because you have taken the courage to move forward when other people said that you couldn't. We appreciate it. And there's a second little tradition. You get to take one of those ribbons with you and pass it on. The little ribbon says I make a difference and to acknowledge something, somebody else in your life, in your world. Because every once in a while, sometimes on those gray days, not today, that we need a little bit of sunshine and get some excitement. So I'm just going to hand the mic down here to Marge for just a second.

Well, when Linda asked me to help with this.

I said, okay, because I think a lot of her.

She's a great, cool chair.

And so I guess I have to say, as Susie said, we got off our hineies.

And did this project. So on behalf of the baywood Country Club, McGoughin Country Club, I would like to present this check to you for $5,000.

Thank you, Marge and Linda.

I know the very first phone call that I made when I got out of the hospital was to Lori. And I said, because we had been very involved years ago by bringing the look good, feel better program, and there was a lot of education that went on, but I saw that there was a missing. There wasn't something that when somebody had conned the doctor into doing the forced surgery in three weeks after work, sometimes there wasn't the stuff around there to be able to give the information, to help people to get through whatever they needed to get through. Now, I'm proactive and I'll call and I'll go get it. But I was really worried about the silent patient, the patient that came in and came out and didn't know where to get the information. And I said, lori, what can we do? She goes, whatever you want. So we've been talking about this for about five years, and I just want to let you know that we are so fortunate to have somebody like we, Lori Watson Stone, that every time I would call her up, I said, what do you think about this? Okay, we could do that. What do you think about that? Okay, we could do that. And when I could call her at the last minute and said, oh, they need an insurance policy at the Art Bay Center, I didn't know about in two days, she could handle it. So, Lori, we are so blessed to have somebody with your energy and your just say yes campaign and always be there. Just to help and inspire other people and you make a difference.

And then there's the Eureka reporter. That's brought the most beautiful paper into our industry. It's been so amazing. And.

Last year.

We were trying to take some of the burden off of Lori having to do everything because I wanted to put this courage night on and put all this inspiration. And as you do more and more and more, it just gets more expensive. So we decided to spread our wings a little bit and go out there and ask the Eureka reporter to get in there behind us. And they said, yeah, we could do that. And I went, really? Okay. So Corey and Judy have done such an amazing job and I just wanted to take take this extra special time because let me tell you, there was quite a few changes like, oops, we didn't get that logo in there right. Oops, can we do this? There was a lot of emails and if anybody's read any of my emails, they're pretty hard to make out because I don't type very well. So thank you, Corey, for making it happen. Oh yeah, you guys have seen them. You know what they're like. So thank you for making a difference, Judy.

And last but not least, liz simpson from nylux.net I'm glad Carlton's not here because I think I've got her in trouble just a little bit in the last two and a half months. When Linda told me, I said we were going to have a prototype by tonight. And then Linda says, why can't we have that binder by the golf tournament? And I said, linda, that's like in two months. She goes, yeah, well, why can't you do that? And I went, well, because we haven't really done all the work. We've gotten some of the inspiration, but we haven't done all the work. And we just said that I couldn't do any emails, so we didn't type. So Liz and I have spent countless weekends evenings researching, talking about what it was that we needed to do. And she has done all the typesetting. She has taken the project home, snuck it under her desk when Carl came in because we'd call her. Our printer's not working. Can you get down here and fix this? She's taken the time. We've scoured, we've looked up inspirational quotes to put down on the bottom of each of these pages and found the best information that we can find. And it's a work in progress. So we will have new things that we will be putting onto it. They will be on a website that will be able to be downloaded. So Liz, you make a difference and thank you so much for your time because there would have been no way that this could have happened at all.

And last but not least, trip Julie before she goes out the way.

Julie is definitely an inspiration in my life. Thank you.

She is.

I'm the creator in the whirlwind. I said we're going to do this, we're going to do that. And she says how many projects are you going to do at one time? I said, I don't know. She goes well, you're going to get over here and we're going to complete this one. And I went, but I'm bored. I want to do this one now. So if Main street could talk. And I'm sure Nylex has heard us rumble. And I know Linda's been in there when we've thrown a few boxes around the thing. But Julie, thank you for making sure that all the details and all the I's were. They're dotted, right? I's are dotted, the T T's are crossed.

That we make that. And Julie Corey, you've got the next one right there.

You do make a difference. Thank you very much.

So have we got those intention cards, girls? Yep.

I have another special person that's going to help me tonight. This is my granddaughter.

And she knows how to make a drawing work really, really well. We have some fun little prizes from our sponsors. I really want to take this time too. And thank we have sponsors in the medical binder as well. Cloney's Drugstore has has done the prescription tab. Pacific Heart Group has done the tab for heart. Cal Orr has done the emergency one will give us the emergency contact. Stan Smith is doing the insurances. Dr. Ajmani from the Women's Health Group is doing doctor's notes.

Biotech Research is in there. And don't forget to be able to sign up and connected with the bio windows in the information sheet. So take a look out there. And we're really thanking everybody that's come together as a community to create an amazing piece of tool for you. Okay, so the first one is.

Jan McFarland. Yay, Jan.

Okay, so you pick which one.

Did you want to draw another one, honey? Sure.

Barbara.

T E N B E N S E L Yay, Barbara.

See and you wanted to know if you're having everything happening on the floor. Yeah. There was a reason obviously you said that that's what you call the power of intention. At the earlier in the evening she heard me make a little Statement because I wanted some of these people to sit closer to the front. She goes, is there a reason I should be sitting up there near the front? Now we know.

Candy or pampering?

Okay, go ahead and draw one more out of there.

Well, Barbara, it is your lucky night.

Barbara.

T E N B E N S E L this does the same thing. I'm not seeing double. I guess I didn't go for the second strength of things. So you won again.

Yes, sir. It's great. Thank you very much.

So I hope tonight that we've learned a few things because life is kind of like a tea bag. You really don't know how strong you are until you put yourself into some hot water. And when you put yourself into some hot water, just know that you have the strength inside to do whatever it takes to become whoever you want to become. Because life is a journey and every step along the way, there's opportunity out of every strength.

Drink.

You will gain your wings when you just go out there and soar. So we are so blessed to be here in Humboldt county, especially when we have a day like this. I told Susie and Bert that these are the days that our population doubles because people come here and they say, oh, is it always like this? Because I can't tell you how many times I've been to San Diego and said, where's the sun? So it's days like this that we can really enjoy the beauty and the harmony of all of the wonders that are out there. No traffic, the beautiful sun and the. And the rivers, all of it. So I just want to thank all of you for coming out and we're looking forward to Courage Night 2009. We've got some exciting opportunities to be talking about that. And Pat Cowan, I see you sitting there and I didn't use my notes, but we want to thank you for being so involved and being here with us again tonight. She was our first speaker and has really stood behind me in talking about living your life intentionally. Her daughter's got a great little booth out there like living strong. So what a wonderful community that we live in. What a wonderful place that we have to share in the arklies. Thank you so much for giving us this beautiful evening and take the time to enjoy fellowship and relationships out there and seeing friends and old friends. And don't forget to pick up your intention cards if you haven't picked them up from last year. And we will be taking these and placing them in the vessel so that you can live your life intentionally and become the person that you haven't taken the opportunity to become yet. So thank you, good night and enjoy the rest of your evening.

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