Mary Ann has been one of my heroes since I met her five years ago. I asked her to speak at my very first event. After it was all over I asked her what advise she had for me and she said, "Just don't stop. Keep going no matter what." I still use that advise whenever I feel like giving up. Mary Ann choose conversational style and we got started right away. She had some wonderful things to say about becoming present more often with our children. She opened up the scriptures and read directly from God's word. I was completely captivated by her message. The noise level started picking up in the house toward the end of her interview and we felt rushed to finish it. I was sad to have to push it, because I know I could have learned a lot more. Her message is one to listen to if you have children. She also gave the audience access to a chapter in her new book.
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Lori is a beautiful person. She came to the door dressed beautifully. As we visited she seemed sad and I asked her about her day. She had had a rough few weeks, but didn't want to not do this. She had prepared a presentation on stress, something that was helping her deal with her current stresses. She was a perfect example of how presenters present messages on what they have over come and just because she was in the middle of stress didn't mean she should stop - keep going no matter what. She talked about the different types of stresses and focused on the stress of fear and then gave some practical ways to over come fear. Jeanie walked in prepared for teaching. She brought her paper and markers to help her share her message. She is a blast to have around, full of energy, excitement and spontaneity. As we sat down together to make a plan of action she opened up and shared her vision and we made a plan to fit that vision. It was fun to improvise and learn a new way. I sat down as the representation of the 5000 people - in other words I was her guinea pig. :) In her presentation she asked me the questions and I answered them honestly. She got me to realize that some of my dreams were not coming true because of a negative belief I have/had about not being smart enough. (Yeah, that one still comes up). At one time she asked me to write a name I had been called onto a label. I wrote, Breasta, as that was my common nick name in junior high among to boys. She then asked me to put it on someone else - well the only person at that time in the room was Dave, our producer, so I labeled him. She asked me how that felt and I said, "Weird, not good at all, it didn't even fit." "Good." she said, "That's exactly what its suppose to feel like." Well, she didn't see the label and I looked over at Dave in hopes to get a smile out of him and he frowned. If you have ever been bullied or listened to those negative voices in your head, you will want to hear this presentation. She will help guide you and give you tools to fight back and win over those voices. We took our equipment to Nancy's home, because she has her school there and we wanted to get some shots of her in her school. This recording session was very unique to all the other. I introduce her and get to know her and her reading program. Then we filmed her teaching her grandchildren and their amazing reactions - it was a beautiful sight. :) We then concluded the filming with me asking her more questions about what she did and why. We finished off with how to teach children about the scriptures and then how to teach them about writing using the scriptures. I was impressed with her decision to teach Mormon first in her Book of Mormon series, then Moroni and Joseph Smith before you introduce Nephi. I think its great to learn the background to a book before you dive in. :) Her systems are amazing for teaching reading and scripture study - you are going to really love this! :) We interviewed our KEYNOTE speaker today - Victor Ludlow! He told us about his study he personally designed so we took all of our equipment to his house and interviewed him in his amazing office/study. It was beautiful. We actually had a miss communication and showed up 45 minutes late. He graciously welcomed us in and allowed us to take over his room. His new wife, Cheryl, came in just as we were starting and watched his presentation. WOW what an experience! He had us laughing, engaged and crying. He taught us about how to follow the spirit and what is the first things we should learn. He talk about our call to learn - to learn what? the key principles of truth and then he explained what they were with scriptures and stories. He concluded with how to do it. It will be our first presentation on October 24th at 1pm and will be available to watch for two full weeks. I believe you are going to love this presentation. Donna had two presentations prepared and was nervous to have an interview but was very willing to try. She said she was going to pretend that she was just talking to me. "Perfect," I responded. Her first presentation was on the workings of Power of an Hour, which was an solution to a problem she had. She found that an hour a day of schooling was enough. Her second presentation was the difference between shepherd parenting and sheep herder parenting. She told some amazing stories, in fact, one of them really affected me on a spiritual level. Through that story I received an answer that I had been for for a long time. You will enjoy her message. We had a simple recording session with ToriAnn. Her presentation was polished and ready to go. All we needed to do was hook her up. :) ToriAnn's passion is talking and helping new homeschoolers get through their decision making process and first year better. She shared some wonderful messages about personalities, learn languages and a guide to picking out curricula for each of your children. If you are thinking about homeschooling or just starting, this message is for you. I invited Becky to be apart of this conference because during a conversation I had with her earlier in the year. I felt a connection with her and felt she would be a good addition. She came with no specific agenda so we "winged it." We got to learn about her life, her childhood, family, meeting her husband and her decision to homeschool. She was genuine, happy and full of great stories. Her main message became that of being strong in your family relationships. She taught us about humanitarian work and how her family has been involved with many humanitarian events. Karl came into the home taller than expected. :) He sat down and discussed his two presentations in detail and then we went in to the studio room. I did the introduction with him. I found that I ran out of questions faster because he did not have any children. But quickly found more when we talked about the children's books he had written. Karl completed the first presentation with me about the Book of Mormon. He had successfully learned German by using the Book of Mormon. I especially loved his vocabulary (glossary) list at the back of his book. He also wrote the pronoun charts at the front. His next presentation was given presentation style at first and soon found that it wasn't flowing or alive as we wanted. David sat down with him and asked him questions while he gave his presentation. It was so much better. You're going to enjoy learning about the humanities and how ideas of how to teach them in your home. I invited Heidi to be apart of this conference because of her new LDS program she was putting together. I had heard about it through a mutual friend and looked over her website. I was impressed with the simpleness of it and how she brought the gospel into everything. I also was impressed with the fireside speakers she had lined up. Heidi came in excited and bubbly, I had personally imagined a quiet and shy woman. :) We hit it off and began to prepare for the presentation and how the experience would happen. As I asked her questions and listened to her I noticed she wasn't as bubbly as she was without being in front of the camera - she didn't use her hands as much. Soon she relaxed and we were on a role. You will learn about the reason why started her website and her passion from bringing in the gospel everywhere. :) You will also receive several ideas to enhance your families education. After she left we went through the recording and found that we had not hooked up the audio. Thank goodness we had a backup! the sound quality is not as good with the back up, but you will get the whole presentation. |
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