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Stephanie Skiba

All right, so I would like to thank every one of you for being here. Without you all, we wouldn't have much of a conference, so it would just be a party, I think. So thank you all so much for attending. We know the time and the energy and the effort and the expense. So we really appreciate you all, you know, register, you know, putting in your proposals all those months ago and just continuing to be here with us. So we are super excited that you're coming. We're going to have a smaller group, I think, because we've had some cancellations, but it's going to be a great time and we are so very grateful for you being here. I first was going to go through kind of like where we. What you should be doing now.


00:58

Stephanie Skiba

So the number one thing that I would like to stress is to log into the Whova app right now. I think I've got 51% of the attendees logged in right now. But it's really important. And a lot of you received the email over the weekend, and I know I already had most of your information. It actually was a little bit of a trick just to get you to log in and check it out. So I thought I was just going to send it out anyway just to have you log in, and I think it worked. So if you could log in, check your bio, check the talk title, check the description, you have the ability to change anything. So that will take things off my plate, too.


01:39

Stephanie Skiba

So if you need to change wording or you see that you had misspelled something in your application, you can go ahead and correct it then there. If you have any questions, email me about that. And also it is a way for you to connect with others. So I know that Daniel Brown has gone in and he wants, you know, he does a meetup every year. And so what's great is that you can go in and set up a time to meet with. With your. If you have students that are coming, if you have friends that are coming, or you just want a.


02:15

Stephanie Skiba

A wider audience, it's a way for you to go in there and, you know, invite people, set up and, you know, if you're there early in the week, you can set up a breakfast, you know, or a lunch or, you know, it's a good way to network. So I appreciate you doing that. I will be putting out this week. I'll do a screen video of the Whova app and I'll post that in Facebook and probably. Probably put it maybe up in the blog, Scott, maybe for people to kind of go through now, if you're having trouble logging in, make sure that it's with the email that you put in your application. If it's not the one that you put in with your proposal, chances are that's the problem that you're having.


03:03

Stephanie Skiba

The other issue that I saw people having was they were in last year, but the app has updated, some people have had to log out and then log back in order to get, you know, get back into the app. So the other thing that you should be doing right now, too, if you haven't already started, is start promoting to your audience. So send out to your email list, let people know on your Facebook page or other social media avenues. Also, you can post on our Facebook, but we are notoriously not great at advertising our conference. So it has always been through word of mouth and we appreciate that. We're trying, we're getting better. But anyway, we need you to let people know because as many people that can come, the more people in your class, it's all good.


04:05

Stephanie Skiba

The next thing is, do we have any questions? So far, pretty straightforward. Okay. For your talk, I know you all are probably putting the finishing touches on your talk. The big thing here is that you provide real value during your 50 or 90 minutes or 25 minutes. So we need you to give people information that they can leave with. So if you're going to teach a technique, teach the whole technique, or if you're going to be. I know, Melissa, you do demos. And so you're really give. It's a time that you're giving people the chance to practice those or things like that. And so it's really important that you don't take that time to give maybe a piece of what you're going to teach and then sell the real training at the end.


04:58

Stephanie Skiba

The biggest complaint each year, Scott will agree, is that people sell from the room and it's a huge problem.


05:06

Scott Sandland

Can I jump in and interrupt? Sorry.


05:08

Speaker 3

Yes.


05:09

Scott Sandland

This is Stephanie's meeting and I'm not going to talk very much. And we are so grateful to all of you and like the support you guys have given us and continue to give us. Like, it's so fun and we love it. And this one thing is one of the only things at the conference I take really personally is when people sell from the front of the room, I take it as a personal insult. And I get really mad and I don't get mad very often. And there's four people who were at our conference last year who will never come again because they didn't listen to me. And the year before that, there are three people, two of whom came up to me and told me I was wrong at the conference and why they get to sell from the front of the room.


05:50

Scott Sandland

And I yelled at them until security showed up and they'll never come back to the conference. We really mean it. We are here to protect our people. They pay to be there. They don't deserve a commercial. They deserve your best. If you are saying I can't teach it in 50 minutes, teach something else. I know how to provide value in 50 minutes and everybody on this call does. We've all done it in clinical sessions for years. That's why you're a presenter. So I'm demanding that we hold ourselves and each other to that standard. If you think you can give enough value that. That a sales pitch is okay, go somewhere else to do that. This is. I just. I want to be so emphatic and clear because I want there to be.


06:37

Scott Sandland

The people who leave your room need to understand why you were there. And if you were there to sell, you hurt the conference and your reputation in the conference. I just told you. There are seven presenters from the last two years who. Who will never be at hypnothoughts again. And there are five presenters this year on probation for it. This is as grateful as I am. This is the thing that boils my blood, because these people deserve better. And these are people trying to help others. And if we use our positions of authority insincerely, we have a massive problem. And this industry has a problem because of it. We need to be focusing on clinical outcomes, not being an important presenter, not the conference circuit. We need to have hypnothoughts make clinical outcomes better.


07:38

Scott Sandland

And we do that by making sure we're all focused on the important thing. I'm done being grumpy and I'm back to being happy. So thank you and I'm happy and grateful for all of you. That's all now. That's all the bad cop now Stephanie gets the good cop for the rest of the call.


07:52

Stephanie Skiba

I think, too. You know, I tell this story every year and I hear it from. I heard it from somewhere else, but we broke away. One of the whole reasons why Hypnoth started is we wanted more community and we wanted more of, you know, interacting with each other and learning with each other. And I remember way back when, I think it was my first year, somebody was talking and they said that they were at another conference and. And they just had it. They were Standing with like three other people and they were asking a general question, not a deep dive, but a general question of how someone handled, you know, something in a client session. And the other person took out their card and said, you know, if you want this kind of information, you need to book a session with me.


08:40

Stephanie Skiba

And so certainly if they were asking for a deep dive or something that you could provide in a class, that would be a good time to say that. But this was just an off the cuff. And I have found working with so many people and helping conferences behind the scenes that it's the presenters that give the most that tend to reap the most as well. So, you know, I think I'm going to say this later, but, you know, this year is hard for a lot of people. I don't know anybody who hasn't been affected this year. And so. But we understand the need for, you know, making sure people know about your stuff and what you have to say. So anyway, I'll say more about that later. But there are ways to sell at our conference.


09:26

Stephanie Skiba

So it's not that we don't want you to make money, it's that we don't want you to accost the attendees during your session. So how are some ways to sell outside of the classroom? We do have booths available. I still have, I believe six or seven booths left. So there are booths available. When you're in your room, there is a flip chart and markers. You can certainly write your name up there. You can write your website, your email, give them all your information. And also another way is the raffle donations. Our attendees go crazy. I really didn't believe it until I was like three years in. But the amount that the attendees love the raffles is really cool. So over the years we've had presenters give away a lot of things during those raffles.


10:19

Stephanie Skiba

And I can say more about, I'm going to be putting out an email. But we've had trainers, I know, you know, Rich and Joe are very generous with what they offer at the, for the raffles. As as many of you, I'm just happened to look at Joe's face right now. But you know, that is another way to get people into your because better that they're talking, better that they're trying to find you than saying after a class, oh my gosh, that was just a sales pitch. I never want to hear that person again. But I do have people even, you know, three months later email me and say, hey, there was someone at the conference talking about this. You know, can you tell me you know who that was? And certainly I pass on your information. Okay. So any questions about that right now?


11:15

Stephanie Skiba

All right. Now I'm going to talk about the events and the logistics. So you've probably seen this on Facebook. But I want to, especially for newer people, I want to go through this Thursday night. We have our pool party, which is our kickoff party. So you want to be in town in time to start networking right there at the pool party. It's a great time. We're going to be at a new pool this year because the Alexandria pool is closed for maintenance or remodeling. And so this one is going to be the retro pool. And it is right. It's actually right above Magic Mike's. So if you come up to the conference floor, instead of stopping at the second floor from the bottom, it'll be up on the top floor. So you'll see more information. And there's information in the HOOVA app about.


12:05

Stephanie Skiba

So it's great. Then Friday night is the Las Vegas theme party. So put on your sparklers and whatever you need, your tuxes, whatever. We're doing Viva Las Vegas. And we haven't ever done a Vegas themed party. So we figured this is the year to do it for a number of reasons. Also, you might have heard me talk about this before I went. I'm going to talk about packing tips right now. So Vegas is really hot. However, the rooms are not. So I always recommend that people bring a sweater because it's hard for hotels. I worked in the hotel industry for 10 years in banquets, and it's impossible to keep these rooms at a good temperature. So bring a sweater because of cold rooms. There's also not in your rooms. There is not unless you have a suite.


13:03

Stephanie Skiba

There's not a coffee pot or coffee maker. So Melissa has a great travel Keurig that we traveled for three weeks around Europe with this summer, and it worked just fine. So I have, I think there's a link. I'll put it in the afterwards, I'll put it in a link to that or a collapsible water pot because that is also really helpful. The other thing is there are empty fridges in the room. I know, Terrence, you've been before. So you can always go to the grocery store or have food delivered to you and store it in their fridges. We are providing breakfast Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning. It's a great buffet breakfast, something for everyone. And so you don't really have to worry about breakfast. Those. Those two days. So those are kind of my packing tips. Also a hat.


14:03

Stephanie Skiba

Oh, Melissa's showing her. Unmute yourself, maybe. Or if you can see her.


14:11

Speaker 4

So it's an espresso machine, but it's. It's like smaller than your average thermos. Right. And it heats the water and pumps out, you know, a nice shot of espresso. I take my addictions very seriously. So it's. It's uten. That's the brand. The other thing. Yeah. O U T I N. It's a bit on the pricier side. So a couple of other options. Like I said, I know my coffee and I travel a lot. The other option there is an aeropress. The problem with that is that you need boiling water. I had gotten many moons ago, a collapsible teapot that is literally silicone. It collapses down to this. That Stephanie travels with. So you could do that. And then there's pour overs. This. Ask Scott. I gave him a couple of pour overs because I always travel with backup.


15:15

Scott Sandland

By the way, Melissa, I found the Starbucks equivalent. That Starbucks makes them too. So I now have like three spare pour overs.


15:23

Speaker 4

All right, so then you just get the. You know, as much as I hate to tell people to go to Amazon, you can probably find it elsewhere. But a little collapsible tea kettle and then you can do pour overs. You can do a little French press. Anyway, I'll shut up. Just wanted to share because this is like, this was my, you know.


15:49

Speaker 5

Okay.


15:51

Scott Sandland

It's necessary. It's needed.


15:54

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah. It's almost a prescription, I think, at this point. But there's. And I'll. I'll be posting some of these tips coming up to the conference as well. But you can always email me. I have links to everything but about bringing a hat. You want to bring a hat if you're gonna plan on walking anywhere, because this. Or. Or actually an umbrella, you'll see a lot of the natives walking. I saw somebody in Arizona today with a umbrella, and she was just walking from her car to the front of the gym because that's how hot it is. So you're going to. Don't plan on. Don't plan on, you know, walking very far in Vegas if you've never been before. So any other questions about that or any tips that maybe some of you have for Matt? Do you have any. I knew it.


16:52

Stephanie Skiba

See, I knew you would have. And Melissa. Then after that,.


16:59

Scott Sandland

I brought.


17:03

Speaker 6

These. There's a Mount Hagen organic instant copy. And Whole Foods has this. It's instant espresso. I don't have a sensitive palette, but I'm particular about quality. And this passes the test. It's really easy to pack. And it's the collapsible tea kettle. It's just, it's just perfect.


17:37

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah.


17:38

Speaker 4

Can I also say just we. Moving on from coffee. One of the things other than a sweater, if you're someone like me that hates to be really cold and you think it's Vegas and it's the summer and you wear sandals, you're going to need socks. So bring sneakers or shoes. Wear socks will be appropriate. Because, you know, I have hundreds of students that come every year and that is the biggest complaint is that they didn't think that they were going to need snowshoes to sit inside in Vegas. So socks. The other crucial thing is a good chapstick because you're stepping into a pizza oven for real.


18:33

Stephanie Skiba

So chapstick humidifiers too. I do know. I mean, I, Scott and I both have a humidifier in storage that we use, but Desiree had a portable one that was just used like a water bottle. I'll look up that one.


18:48

Speaker 4

I, I have that one too, but you're going to need that one like directly next to your face.


18:53

Scott Sandland

Yeah, that one. That one's on your bedside table. If you're going to be. And by the way, we're talking about if you're only coming for three days, you're going to be fine. We're talking, I mean, we're talking about the people who are coming for a pre through post. So we're doing like 10 days in Las Vegas. Like, that's a lot of Las Vegas guys. That's a lot. So that's why we're talking about some of these things that help get us through. And by the way, I'm just going to say coffee's free at breakfast and if you don't, if you need more coffee than just coffee at breakfast, there's a Starbucks downstairs. And because my wife works for Starbucks, if you buy your coffee from Starbucks, you're helping put my kid through school. So we appreciate you.


19:32

Stephanie Skiba

Anyway, Joe.


19:34

Speaker 7

Hey, I just bought this thing. It's a portable air conditioner that goes around your neck. It is amazing. Like, I get super hot. I know that, Melissa. You get super cold. I roast all the time. I am never cold. So this is just like, I, it's so amazing.


19:55

Stephanie Skiba

For me, they had them last year. I was recommending they had a two pack at Costco. Of those. I can't remember. I haven't seen them lately, but I'll. I'll look that up, too.


20:05

Speaker 7

Mine's.


20:07

Scott Sandland

Jason is a fan.


20:09

Speaker 7

Yeah, they're. I mean, it's fantastic.


20:11

Stephanie Skiba

And I have the portable. Billy had one, too. Billy. Billy de Chalet had a really cool fan that we. I went to Michael's show last year, and it was, like, hot in the show. And so she, like, whips out this fan from her purse. All right, let's go.


20:30

Speaker 7

Oh, and I was gonna say sunscreen, too. Like, if you're gonna go by the pool, make sure everybody brings sunscreen, because if you're not used to that kind of weather, you'll burn fast.


20:40

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, there was a woman in it. Well, I digress. Never mind. I want to. Did you say the pool downstairs, though, is closed? No, no, I was just talking about. For the. The Alexandria pool is closed. Not the Azilla pool, just the Alexandria pool. So last year we had the presenter. Well, we had. We had the. I can't. I can't remember.


21:10

Scott Sandland

So we did the. The Thursday night party we did downstairs, like we did the last two years. And then last year, we also did that. That other. The Sunday night pool party. That pool is the one that's going to be under construction. And so instead of doing it there, we're moving a pool party to right next to the conference center. So like she said, it's like the same elevator is if you were taking Magic Mike or coming up to our registration desk. It's just right above that. So it's close by.


21:39

Speaker 5

Okay.


21:40

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, it's just right there.


21:41

Speaker 5

A new one.


21:42

Speaker 3

Okay.


21:43

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, yeah.


21:44

Scott Sandland

A yet third pool.


21:46

Stephanie Skiba

I know. An unknown. Who knew. So the next thing that I'm going to talk about is what to be doing at Melissa, what year. You're muted, my friend.


21:59

Speaker 5

It's. It's me.


22:01

Stephanie Skiba

Oh, okay. Sheila.


22:04

Speaker 5

So these are just. Since we're talking beverages, and it's kind of my brand. Two things if you want to save money on booze at the pool, Melissa, I'm with you. I don't like to go to Amazon like I have to, but you can get these little. They look like sunscreen containers, but you could. They're actually flasks. And then you can fill them. I've got two. One for tequila, one for vodka. Anyway, then you take them down to the pool and you get yourself, you know, can I have some soda water with a lime? And then, boom, you got yourself a cocktail. So that's number one. Number two is don't do what I did last year. And I can't remember what year it was at the Sahara where I didn't realize that the pool bar outside, they already put a gratuity on your drinks.


22:48

Speaker 5

So I was paying $14 for a Michelob Ultra, and I'm like, what the hell? And then I looked at the ticket, and I'm like, what the. So pay attention, folks. Because I didn't pay attention. Gratuity is already in there. That way you don't have to do what I did and pay so much for a beverage. Okay, that's it.


23:04

Stephanie Skiba

That's great, Matt.


23:07

Speaker 6

Yeah.


23:10

Stephanie Skiba

Oh, you muted yourself. You were unmuted. Then you muted Oopsie.


23:15

Speaker 6

To piggyback on what Sheila was saying. The little water bottles. If you drink vodka, that works as well. Just carrying water. Can I have some ice for my water, please?


23:30

Speaker 4

See?


23:30

Stephanie Skiba

And the Sahara. The. The. Our contacts at the Sahara are like, your people don't drink. And I'm like, really? I know them better. Oh, all right. So at the. When you're actually.


23:46

Speaker 8

Wait.


23:46

Scott Sandland

Randy's got her hand up.


23:48

Stephanie Skiba

Oh, Randy. Sorry. Oh, and Amber, too. So how about Randy and then Amber?


23:53

Scott Sandland

This is, by the way more talking than the attendee one. You guys are all used to presenting and all that stuff.


23:58

Speaker 5

It's great.


23:59

Stephanie Skiba

It's so fun. Well, since we're talking about real life hacks, I like to bring my zero water filter. It's like a travel size, so it's not very wide and round. It's like a Brit up. And you can just get the filter for it so that you can have filtered water the whole time. Just thought I'd share that. Oh, that's good. Thanks, Amber.


24:24

Speaker 3

Hi. You might get to this, but I have to leave in a couple minutes, so I just wanted to ask it real quick first. What equipment do we have access to for presenting? Like, is there, like, anything we can use for. I know there's not really slideshows, but just any equipment for that.


24:41

Stephanie Skiba

Okay. So my dog just went nuts. So. So.


24:44

Speaker 5

So.


24:50

Stephanie Skiba

I'm gonna let Scott do this.


24:52

Scott Sandland

Sure. I'll do that while the dog is going crazy. No problem. Theo.


24:55

Speaker 4

And we. We can't hear the dog.


24:56

Speaker 8

Just.


24:57

Scott Sandland

Yeah, we couldn't hear it.


24:57

Speaker 4

But if it's the sound you were worried about, it's.


25:01

Scott Sandland

It's probably the activity. Okay. So, Amber, the. So we do not do projectors and screens. We do you have a flip chart. So you've got a flip chart with a couple different color markers. So we have people using signs, sticking it on the walls and all that stuff. So that's the main thing you have. The other thing is handouts. Stephanie's going to talk about uploading them to Google Drive in a minute, but you'll be able to take any handouts that include links. So we've had a couple people say, hey, I want to show a video or I want to show multimedia. We put that in the handouts as a hyperlink, and then the people can watch that and have it with them. Instead of just watching it in the class, they have it forever. So that's the way we do that.


25:44

Scott Sandland

And those are the basics on how we do that. Classes are audio recorded, and you get a copy of the audio of your class.


25:51

Speaker 8

There you go.


25:53

Speaker 3

So with the flip charts, would we be able to. Like, if I wanted to write a couple things down on it beforehand, would I have time to access a flip chart ahead of time to write those things down?


26:02

Stephanie Skiba

Yes, we have a couple people always ask about that. So if you. Some people just bring their own because they have. They just want it, like, they'll get it beforehand, either at the. You know, once they arrive or whatever, they'll. They'll bring their own because they want it all written out to take time to do that. You don't have to do that, but if you need. If you need a little bit of time, you can always come see me. And sometimes I can. I don't want to hand out, you know, 25 random, you know, have them all you. But certainly if it's like an hour before your talk, I can get you one or something.


26:40

Speaker 3

Okay. And then one other question. I know that we're not, like, allowed to sell, but can we mention, like, a free resource that would get them on our email list?


26:50

Stephanie Skiba

Yes.


26:51

Scott Sandland

Okay, I'll say this. Yes. And the key is intentionality. And I know I really emphasized my bad copness when I was saying it a moment ago, but the key is we want to be a community where presenters and attendees feel like they are on equal footing and everybody is treated as a peer. And I've been to a ton of conferences in and out of the hypnosis industry, and I. Most conferences are designed to create this relationship between presenters and attendees, and I understand why, and there's a lot of great reasons. Hypnothoughts is intentionally different in that we want this and we do not want presenters to ever feel more important than attendees, and we don't want attendees to ever feel inferior, and we don't want. And that's part of, like, being treated like a colleague versus treated like a customer.


27:47

Scott Sandland

And I don't want us to treat non presenters like customers. I want to treat them like customers, colleagues, peers and stuff like that. So that's the why and the through line to use in that thinking. So if you say, hey, you know, on your flip chart, Amber, you know, if you put that up there, here's a link to a free resource or in the handout and in your handouts, if you want to put a link to things, that's okay. That's something that they can consume later and they can click or not click. As long as you're not being sneaky and tricky, obviously. But yeah, so the idea is don't turn your class into a commercial. But if you say the handouts are in there and there is a link to a free thing, that could be the way you're doing that.


28:30

Stephanie Skiba

And you can also have handouts if you want to hand something out. There is, it's not a FedEx anymore because the hotel changed, but it's a privately owned print shop. It's in there. It's super expensive though, so I wouldn't recommend it. But if you want to bring handouts, you can, I will say that lots of times that's what the volunteers are picking up afterwards, you know, so most people will keep them, but a lot of people don't want to walk around with a bunch of handouts. So we provide, I'll give you access to where to do, you know, put everything in the drive and then the attendees, everyone will have access to that drive.


29:15

Stephanie Skiba

So, and when you do that, if I haven't said this yet, when you upload things into the drive, put your name and the name of your talk in the subject line so that when people go through, they can find you. I would, I would prefer you to put your name first because that way if. There's going to be hundreds of documents in there. So if you put your name and then your talk, people can look you up really easily. Okay, thank you.


29:45

Speaker 3

That answers it.


29:46

Stephanie Skiba

Oh, good. Okay. If you have any questions, email me. Of course.


29:50

Speaker 5

Jason,.


29:54

Scott Sandland

There are you.


29:55

Speaker 8

I mute myself. Yeah, I did have a couple of questions. You answered one which is you're going to get to it later, so that's fine. I was questioning the handouts because I wasn't sure how to upload them. The second thing I was asking is, Scott was mentioning that there's going to be an audio recording. I wanted to see if I, it was okay for me to have a video recording that I can use clips for my social media and advertising and stuff like that. So I wanted to record myself or have my wife help me and record me.


30:23

Scott Sandland

So, yeah, let me answer that in two pieces. One, yes, you can. You can video your own course and no one else can video your course. So, yeah, your wife can because you're, you know, she's doing it for you. But, like, if you guys see a video camera in your classroom that isn't like, we have our own photographer and you guys will see who you know, it's Larry and Will and like, all that stuff. But if you see somebody else is recording your class, they're not allowed to, and there is not an exception. And, oh, we said it was okay with this person because they are slow at handwriting. So they get to no. And if they ask if it's okay, you can just say to him, scott says you're not allowed to. I'm just.


31:04

Scott Sandland

I'll be the bad cop on this because we don't want to put you in a tough position where you have to say no to someone 30 seconds before you go on stage. And we want you to feel safe that, you know, your content is being treated respectfully and controlled by you, us, together. So you can video chord your own talk. Absolutely. And Jason, just to say it, don't even worry as much about video quality because you're going to be able to tie it to our audio. So if you want to put a second lapel mic on for yourself, that's Bluetooth, because it's easy, that's fine. But if you don't, you'll be able to sync our audio up to yourself later. So, yeah, that's that.


31:43

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, the other. The other thing I was going to say. So, like, try not to be real obtrusive about it. So if you want to have. The volunteers are not there to videotape your course, but if you want to have a friend come in, a wife, an assistant, whatever, they can come in and use, you know, a phone, whatever, but just not a huge setup because we just don't have time for that. You know, if it takes you five minutes to set it up and 10 minutes to take down.


32:14

Speaker 8

So I can just. But I can set it on a stand and just let it run. Sure, yeah, that's. I was thinking of just using the stand, put the phone on, hitting it, boom, done.


32:23

Stephanie Skiba

And I also was going to add that we do have some presenters that don't mind their talks being recorded. So I'm thinking of James Daly, Scott, when he was doing some of his training. People did ask if they could record and he allowed it. So if you say it's okay, then that's okay too. Unless I'm wrong.


32:47

Scott Sandland

No, just use me as the bad cop whenever you guys need to. That's what I'm there for. So you guys can just say, sorry, Scott says no, and then you keep going.


32:56

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, yeah.


32:57

Scott Sandland

And then they can't argue with you.


32:59

Speaker 6

Right.


33:00

Stephanie Skiba

So, so at. I'm going to talk a little bit about the Google Drive. Since we've mentioned it a couple times. I'm going to post it. I'll also send out an email with it. So you can put whatever you need into that drive and that's going to be open to everyone. So just know, you know that and you can, like Scott said, you can put hyperlinks in if you want to link it to your website or your, you know, put your email certainly on there, your phone number, whatever you want to do can go on that drive. And if you have a lot of documents, it would be helpful if you maybe you put it into a folder. Just however, you know, I'm not going to take a lot of time organizing this. I have enough to do. So.


33:47

Stephanie Skiba

But it's a way for you to get your stuff up.


33:50

Speaker 7

You're going to say label them too, right?


33:52

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah. And label again. Label them with your name and your talk title or, you know, if it's a folder, your name, you know, because just don't confuse people, Jason.


34:06

Speaker 8

Okay, sorry, maybe I'm a little slow, but I get it. You're. They're going to a Google Drive. So are they on our Google Drive or are you going to give us a Google Drive link to put them up on or what's the plan?


34:16

Stephanie Skiba

I'm giving, I'm gonna post a drive. I'm gonna give you a link. So I'll email a link out and that's where you're. You need to post. Everything's gonna go into one central spot and it's gonna be with me, the keeper of all things.


34:29

Speaker 8

Okay.


34:32

Stephanie Skiba

Also, there is going to be a volunteer, hopefully in all of your rooms. We're, we're a little short volunteers this year, so if any of you know someone who hasn't registered for the conference yet and would make a good volunteer, let me know. We had a couple people drop out this morning, so it would be nice to have someone in every room. We need 24 people to do that, but.


35:00

Scott Sandland

Yeah, yeah. So two things on that Again, sorry, Stephanie, I'm talking too much. One is, our volunteers are the people who are the most price sensitive, right? They're, they're coming and volunteering because they can't afford it. So this year, with what's going on with the economy and ticket prices and fuel prices and all that, we've had a harder time getting volunteers than we ever have. And part of that is, you know, the woman who's been running our volunteer program, Mariana, you know, for I don't even know how many years, almost all of them. You know, she's. She's not going to be able to make it this year. She's, you know, public. She's posted this on Facebook. You know, she's going through some cancer treatments and so she can't be in person this year. So she's doing well.


35:45

Scott Sandland

We're talking to her frequently and she's loving the messages and anything you guys can send her, she would love. But she's been running the volunteer program. We don't have her with us. So if you do know anybody who wants to be a volunteer, this is a year where we're shorthanded in that department.


36:02

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, for sure. So I know I talked to her just the other day and I was like, I'm finding every day I just have. So she's so great and has been so efficient that I forgot, like, what she knows. So anyway, But Stephanie Duane is going to be helping us out at the front desk this year, along with my daughter, who's been every year except for one, Alice. So they will be able to help run the show. But anyway, you'll have a volunteer and this person is there to help you. So say you run out of markers, say everybody. You know, Mike Mandel's not here, but somebody stole all his markers one year. You don't have markers. You need more flip charts, you know, anything. Just go and talk to the volunteer because they can actually call us and let us know.


36:57

Stephanie Skiba

And we have runners and the runners will bring you what you need. What happens a lot of times is the presenter will tell their friend who tells this person. And then, and then people want to be so helpful, right? That then we have three people coming to three different people with the same thing. And then we're all like the waitress who has been asked for a spoon by the same person. So just talk to your volunteer about anything that you need. The other thing is clean up after yourself. If you do bring flyers or thing, if there's anything left over, just take a quick sweep again. Two years ago we had a real problem and there was a lot left afterwards.


37:42

Stephanie Skiba

And it just takes time, you know, volunteers moving on to the next person and trying to help them and welcoming more people into the room. So just be respectful. It also will help you not leave things behind because I cannot tell you how many tripods we've been left with, how many, you know, things that have phones, everything. So just take a quick look around. Nothing, nothing major. Any questions with what's going on and pay attention to the volunteer. The volunteer will have a 10 minute, a 5 minute and I think a 2 minute warning sign and they just hold them up. They'll also hold it up if they can't hear you very well. They'll hold up a sign that just says, you know, please speak louder. Another thing that is a tip that I heard from someone who actually buys the recordings every year.


38:38

Stephanie Skiba

She said that it's really helpful if you're asking questions or having a time for questions at the end to make. Have each person to repeat the question. So you know, you asked me about X and then answer the question because it's helpful for the recording they have then the question, you know, asked. Cause sometimes you can't hear from the back of the room. So it's really helpful if you repeat the question before you answer it. Trying to think what else.


39:13

Speaker 3

Yeah.


39:13

Stephanie Skiba

And just thank our volunteers. Our volunteers are great.


39:16

Scott Sandland

We run them raggedy and speaking of how you guys can be of service, the easiest thing you guys, the two easiest things you guys can be of service. I'm, I bet you were gonna say these next. Stephanie. Sorry, but I got excited. Number one, attend each other's talks, support each other. If you want people in your room, be a person in someone else's room. Like really? Really? I, I love the conversations in the hall as much as all of us. Like, I, they're great. But you, like, you know what it's like when somebody cools in your room, you know, like I, I was. Mark Howell just passed away a couple days ago. I think a lot of you guys saw that and I was reflecting on how moved I was.


40:02

Scott Sandland

Literally every time he was in my room, I can think of the four times I gave talks and all four times he was in my room. It made a difference in my week. And you have the ability to do that for somebody, especially the first timers. We put them all at the same time. So you only have to go to one a day and it takes 20 minutes. And it's so fun to pay that forward. So please, please do that. The other easy thing you can do is we have first timers badges, right? You guys, most of you know that invite people to sit at your table at breakfast.


40:42

Scott Sandland

I know you want to see each other, I know you want to catch up with our friends like we all do, but please make sure we are the cool kids at the cool kids tables. And I want you to invite people into your cool kids table or even better, go sit down with strangers. Just go, hey, what are we talking about? And just sit down and make yourself available to these people. It's it makes the conference better. So those are the two easiest things you can do.


41:12

Stephanie Skiba

Casey, you had a question?


41:14

Speaker 9

Yeah. Speaking of the first timers, thank you so much for opening up the doors to us first time speakers. I've spoken other conferences, but I haven't spoke in ones that have, you know, a 25 or 50 minute time limit. So I'm wondering if you could describe like this style. Is it like a series of TED talks or is it more didactic or interactive? And then what are the class sizes normally? If you could just give me a feel for that would help me a lot.


41:40

Stephanie Skiba

Sure. Do you want to answer, Scott or.


41:42

Scott Sandland

Sure, I'm happy to. So, okay, thinking about your questions in order. So room size, number of chairs per room is. There's obviously a couple different size rooms, but you're looking at, you know, 75 to 125 chairs per room as a ballpark. So you know, really 80 to 100 for almost all the rooms. So. And the first couple rows are classroom style, so they have desks. And then the back two thirds is just theater. So people just kind of sit and absorb in terms of style for a first time talk, a TED Talk is a good flow. It can be as didactic as you want it to be. Like, I know your content, Casey, and I know your style. I think honestly, people are going to devour the shit you're doing.


42:33

Speaker 7

Like I.


42:34

Scott Sandland

Or I'm just completely wrong about everything because I think your stuff's incredibly good and everyone here should just go to Casey's talk. Cool. Did that. So. So if you want to be very academic and didactic and even dry, there are people who are doing that for sure. But knowing you, I think a TED Talk style is a good format to have. Did I miss anything on your questions, Kasey? Or did I. Did I get it all?


43:07

Speaker 9

Well, I actually like doing workshops that are interactive. And so the TED Talk thing is kind of messing with my head, interactive is fantastic.


43:16

Scott Sandland

Interact. If you, I mean there are people who are like moving chairs to just create a circle where everybody can talk. Like it's your time to make it yours to. We trust you to convey the information and ethos that you're. You're looking to transmit. Like you guys are professionals at that. Like, that's what were counting on you. And we'll defer to you. And I'll also say this is one of the reasons why we create first timer talks so people have a chance to jump in and figure it out. And we're giving everybody something to respond to. And in, you know, in 25 minutes, you can only be so upsetting to the population. So, you know, do what you want. We trust you.


44:09

Scott Sandland

If you want to just make it, hey, I'm only going to say the first 10 sentences and then the rest is Q and A. That would be extreme. But you know, that'd be one end of the bell curve and you could kind of find your spot along there. So yeah, the things you are experimenting with in your head are all green lights and wide open, if that answers your question.


44:30

Speaker 5

Cool.


44:30

Scott Sandland

All right.


44:31

Stephanie Skiba

And people do like a lot of experiential. So certainly do, you know, do that. People eat. Our attendees eat that up. So if they're learning something new that way. Because, you know, we all are different learners. So some people, it's hard for them to sit, you know, through a 30 minute talk or 25 minutes, maybe me. So getting people to go, you know, stand up and walk around is always really helpful. But certainly do it the way that you feel most comfortable presenting your information. I did want to say so we with the name tags being on the same playing field. I used to always say we're the playground of conferences and we have the sandbox that everybody's invited to. So we ask that. And this is actually goes back to whova.


45:30

Stephanie Skiba

So I do have some people that have changed their name in whova and they've added characters and designations and just know that those are going to get taken off for your name tag. Because I'm limited with the template that I use. And also we just all want to be all on the same page. So for one weekend, so we just ask that you just be yourself.


45:58

Speaker 7

And.


45:58

Stephanie Skiba

Not add, you know, letters that go all the way off my name badge. Then also we. The only other. We do not have special badges for presenters or anything like that. And it's not because we don't think you're wonderful or special. It's just that again, we like everybody to just be themselves and mingle and meet friends that way. The only exception is our volunteers will have a ribbon on their bag. So, you know, if you have a question, you can always go and ask a volunteer or the first timers because we want to make sure that they are extra welcome, you know, at everyone's table. But so it's. It's just really important. Friendly. Friendly is our middle name, I think. Any other questions right now about the. The talks while you're giving your talk or. No, we're doing good. Doing good. Okay.


46:58

Stephanie Skiba

The last thing is to stay for. We want you to make sure that you know about the presenter party again. This is going to be upstairs at the retro pool we have. It's a time for us to just hang out and a time for Scott and I to really show our appreciation to you. We made it through the weekend and just try to stay for that because it's a really good time. That's all I have, really. Joe, wait, you're muted.


47:33

Speaker 7

Yeah, I just wanted to say I watched some videos recently of a lot of presenters and they talked softly that you couldn't hear them. So just remember to project your voice so the people in the back of the room can hear you too because sometimes there's an air conditioner going off or there's other things going on and if people in the back can't hear you, then they'll start talking and then you lose kind of control of the room or people will get up and leave. And so just, you know, practice. We have a month so we can practice, you know, talking really loud and projecting our voice.


48:04

Stephanie Skiba

And we have two. Wait two weeks, three weeks.


48:10

Speaker 7

I'll be there too.


48:13

Stephanie Skiba

Oh, wait. Anyway, also we do have. I see our self care. Some of our self care people in. So John and Matt and Jordan and Randy. And Randy too. Sorry, I didn't. You're down there. I'm so happy that you guys because we understand that self care is important for everyone. So make sure to check on the Whova app. We do have the self care rooms open in the morning and a session at night and each of these individuals just bring something special. And I just wanted to highlight you all because I'm so appreciative that you stepped up when I once again asked you or told you, some of you what you were doing. So make sure that's another activity that we have for our people. So if there isn't any questions. Scott, do you have anything. You always have a last comment.


49:09

Scott Sandland

No, I mean, just gratitude, like, just to say that we. We think of the conference as three legs of the stool. And we're one of the legs of the stool. You guys are the second, and the attendees are the third. And the way we built hypnothoughts for the last 15 years is a real simple philosophy. We want to keep the sto. The all three legs of the stool balanced, and we want to make sure we're providing value and everybody's getting and giving equally. And if there's ever something that somebody has to lose, we sign up for it being us and we go first. And doing that has been completely rewarded and honored and appreciated by our presenters for the last 15 years. And you guys have been really cool. And I. I love it.


50:00

Scott Sandland

And everybody talks about the thing that makes hypnothoughts special is that it does feel like a family reunion. It does feel like a real community. It does feel like the presenters care. And that's just the truth. You guys do. And I. I just want to say thank you for being that way. And the little things you do absolutely make a difference. And you know that because you've experienced it and been on the other side of it. And so I just want to encourage all of you to be as accessible and welcoming to those people as possible. And remember, oh, our goal is to improve clinical outcomes. It's not to become important presenters. We want you to become a better clinician, and we want the person to your left to become a better clinician, et cetera. I love the other conferences. We support them.


50:54

Scott Sandland

We go to many of them. We invite them to come. I'm not saying this out of an ounce of competition. Please don't prioritize the conference circuit while you're at the conference. Use that time effectively to become better and to help others. And so we can all, you know, rising tides raise all. All boats. That's what I want us to keep the important things. The important things and have that front of mind. And I know with the economy right now, it's easy to be thinking about dollars and cents, which is why Stephanie and I are doing a whole bunch that you guys are going to be hearing about. That is all about helping us all plant seeds for each other and support each other. And so just let's all trust in each other and go first and be the community that we have always been.


51:42

Scott Sandland

So thank you. And if you need anything from Us ask if you need anything. Please ask.


51:47

Stephanie Skiba

I was friend. I'm going to take your question and I'll do my little closing. When will the Google Docs be available? I have it done. Well, when I. After I finish this up and when I post it'll that. That that drive will be open.


52:03

Speaker 6

Perfect.


52:04

Speaker 5

Thank you.


52:05

Stephanie Skiba

Yes. Yes. Yeah, I just wanted to piggyback on Scott's too. What has been really fun for me is to see the relationships between all of you that have formed over the years. You know, and that's another reason why Terrence and Laura, there they are.


52:26

Scott Sandland

We've got multiple marriages that have been introduced at Hypnothants. Just saying it's a cool thing.


52:33

Stephanie Skiba

Yeah, but it's just fun. I think by. That's one reason to support each other too, by going to each other's talks. Because you never know whose idea will spark something else in you. You can collaborate together. I just, I have loved so, you know, especially so many of you that I see on here. You know, you've all become friends with someone and it's just great to see what comes out of that. So I started this, I historically say this, that I didn't think I wanted or needed any friends. And when I started hypnothoughts not being a clinician, it was a job for me and I came in and did my job and I just, I look at so many of your faces and I see friends. And that just right, especially this year, warms my heart. So I appreciate all of you.


53:23

Stephanie Skiba

So thank you for taking this time. We will post the replay. There will be some links for you in there and just lots of stuff. And again, if you need anything, come, you know, come up to us at the conference or, you know, shoot us an email, whatever you need to do. And we're happy. There was a. There was something when I was on the train in, wherever I was, I lost my train, Europe. And I was like, see it, say it sorted. Adam maybe, you know, see it, say it sorted. And I loved it. So just know that if you need anything, you come to Scott and I and we'll do our best to help you out. We appreciate you. Thanks so much for coming. I appreciate your time, especially on a Monday.


54:10

Scott Sandland

Thank you, everybody.


54:11

Speaker 5

Thank you.


54:12

Stephanie Skiba

So appreciate it. Thank you.

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