by Kellene Bishop
Warning.
Surprise! We have the webinars you want! photo c/o ideachampions.com
You have now been robbed of all of your excuses for not getting better prepared for life’s everyday and future challenges. Your claim of “death by boredom” isn’t valid anymore. You can’t claim that preparedness is irrelevant or simply not necessary. And you can’t blame your lack of preparedness on time, enjoyment, comfort, or attractive aesthetics. And sorry, you simply can no longer exclaim, like they do in Maine, “You can’t get there from here.” How did all of your excuses just get sucked down a cavernous black hole? Preparedness Pro is FINALLY offering the training events to you via webinar! And if you haven’t heard, these classes are actually fun, practical, realistic, flavorful, and simple. These excuses will no longer work, I’m afraid…
1) I’ve been crushed by my year’s supply of wheat and can’t get to the phone
2) I used Diatomaceous earth instead of flour in my pancakes and am now currently indisposed in the bathroom without internet access.
3) I have narcolepsy and Alzheimer’s…I have narcolepsy and Alzheimer’s…
4) My contractions are now 1 minute apart
5) “Oh, Vitamin D3? I thought you suggested Tylenol 3.”
6) I work for FEMA and don’t want to get caught listening to your common sense.
7) I’ve already bailed out of society and thus have no internet or telephone coverage…in fact, I no longer exist.
I’m actually just plain stubborn and bullheaded when it comes to preparedness.
We’ve been trying to meet your requests for training outside of our immediate demographic for some time now. And finally it’s close enough that I can actually announce it. I have been busting at the seams to tell everyone and their psychologist, but I promised myself I would do it the last day of this month. After writing and more writing, coordinating, and…well, never mind all of that…—I finally am able to announce to you that Preparedness Pro will be holding LIVE webinars for you about every other week for the next several months. (More likely to be more frequent as opposed to less.) Each week will be a new topic, so you won’t get any “reruns.”
Preparedness Pro webinars--coming soon to all locations! photo c/o mymangosteen.com
Through webinar technology, you’ll be able to listen to the live class via the speakers on your computer and you’ll also get to see the visuals that go along with it on your computer screen. (For those of you who don’t know, webinars are kind of like a tele-conference, but with pictures and sometimes a videocam.) All you’ll have to do is sign up for the particular webinar you’re interested in when it’s announced to you via e-mail—just follow the directions therein—and then you’ll be sent the access code, URL, and even a phone number too in case you want to listen over the phone instead of through your computer. In my opinion though, the best part will be that you’ll be able to “raise your hand” and ask a question just like you would in one of my classroom environments. The technology that’s available today is pretty darn cool.
The classes offered will be just like the ones that I’ve been offering live—except that I haven’t yet figured out a way to actually feed you my freshly cooked samples in the virtual world. Sorry about that. But hey, perhaps I can finally at least make use of this webcam that’s on my computer. (Dang, now I’ll have to actually shower and put makeup on.) Regardless, I’m confident that all of the participants will enjoy these classes just as much as the others have over the last year—meaning some will love them and keep bringing more friends to the next one, some will feel like they need to take a Xanax, and some will never come back. *grin*
When you attend the webinar, you will also receive the extensive resource guide that we provide to our participants as well. This provides you with additional information that may not have been covered, vendor resources, recipes, and additional helpful URLs. However, keep in mind that the only way you can obtain these resource guides is if you are able to attend the training event.
So, here’s the upcoming schedule of eight different classes for now. I selected the 8 best ones that are the most packed with info and which can still be effectively taught using the webinar forum. We’ll be holding these webinars over the next 10 weeks. Of course, it is subject to change based on the interference of real life, adding additional classes, or the occasional occurrence of a seismic earthquake.
10 Areas of Preparedness©
UNDERwhelmed in Food Storage©
Water Wisdom©
Lights Out, Now What? ©
The Wonderful World of Wheat©
Fabulous Freeze-Dried Fare©
Survival Sanitation©
Solar Oven Success©
You just found your greatest preparedness asset--right in the comfort of your own home! photo c/o nzccintheknow.org
I know that one of the first questions that you folks will be asking is whether or not we’ll be offering a recording of these webinars. At this juncture, no, we won’t. We have other plans for that in the future. You may also want to know whether or not there will be a charge for the webinar. Why yes, yes there will. It will be a whomping $7 for two hours of training with me. And of course, you can have more than one person gathered around your computer for the training. Surely learning this kind of information, live, from a professional consultant (who can even be funny occasionally) is worth at least that–considering that minimum wage is more than twice that amount. I figure that since I’m saving you money on a babysitter, charging less than the cost of going to a movie (which has very little potential to improve your preparedness efforts), as well as saving you a substantial amount of fuel by not having to drive all the way to Utah just to come to one of our events, then it’s well worth it. And besides, you can attend in your PJs! What I wouldn’t pay some days to be able to attend a conference while curled up in my PJs with a bowl of buttered popcorn and Junior Mints. Someone ought to start marketing those kinds of conferences. *grin* Oh, and you won’t have to listen to anybody coughing or screaming, nor will you have to deal with over-sugared kids, sitting by someone who has a difference of opinion about personal hygiene than you do, or even have to endure those uncomfortable folding chairs. Woohoo! Rain, sleet, snow or traffic jams need not deter you in your quest for quality preparedness information
All of the technical gobblety gook of registering for each class and paying your shipping and handling fee (just kidding) will be placed on our website over the weekend so that you can begin registering for the classes of your choice. The first class, “10 Areas of Preparedness” will be held within the week of us finally getting the HTML code loaded, so you won’t have to wait long. I have to say, after all of the e-mails from you folks beating up on me—with love of course—I’m really excited to finally make this a reality!
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