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whether you're someone who hasn't even
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bought a freeze dryer but you're
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interested in the industry or someone
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who actually has a business this video
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is going to be for you we're going to
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consider this more of a state of the
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union got my Nifty little notebook here
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so I don't Ramble On too much so let's
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get started with what is actually
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happening on this channel for 2025 now
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if you're not familiar with my channel I
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started the freeze drying business
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Channel because I actually was a freeze
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drying business owner I still am today
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in fact I had a cottage food operation
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out of my home for a good year or two
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and I just didn't have a whole lot of
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the tools and resources that were
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available to me to search for from
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people who are doing it actively
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themselves and so I wanted to put
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together more of a video format of what
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is the day in the life of someone who is
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running a business using a home freeze
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dryer like a harvest right or someone
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who's running things more commercially
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and it's crazy to me that the channel
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started at about 12,000 subscribers in
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2024 and now surpass the 30,000
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subscriber I thank you very much if you
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are subscrib to today for what you've
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done to support me in this and I feel a
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very strong pull to continue doing this
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as actually a career I really like this
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and one of the things that I wrote down
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here is I'm going all in on my podcast
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for entrepreneurs in freeze dry I'm
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going to be interviewing at least one
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entrepreneur per month on the podcast
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and I'm going to try to do it in person
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through the support of some of these
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freeze dryer manufacturers who are
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making commercial freeze dryers as well
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as the financial support from people who
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are either members of this Channel or
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you're buying freeze dryers from my
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affiliate links all of that is really
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helping me go and showcase and travel to
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these different entrepreneurs to feature
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them because there's nobody doing that
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and I just I really love putting my
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heart and soul into those interviews one
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of the new things that I'm going to be
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adding to the series that I'm very
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excited about is actually more of a
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connection point for you and these
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entrepreneurs in the freeze dry space
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and that is going to be through an
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individual live meet and greet uh a week
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after those episodes air and you're only
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going to be able to get access to be on
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that live video call with them through
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joining my email list so if you want to
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join my email list it's going to Freez
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dry.com I've got links Below in the
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video description once you join my email
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list not only you're going to get
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notifications for when these live meet
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and greets are going to happen in that
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specific link but you're also going to
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get emails directly from me with
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resources tips news all about the freeze
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drying space so that you feel more
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informed about what you're doing as you
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venture into running a freeze drying
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business now I'm not spamming you with
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these emails with a bunch of products to
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sell I really want you to decide whether
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you want to be connected to this
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industry so if you feel inclined to be a
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part of my email list I'd love for you
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to join that and that way I can actually
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have more discussions with you and bring
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up more topics uh that can't be really
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refined in a video now speaking of
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outside of YouTube that is really where
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I'm going to be focusing in 2025 because
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YouTube changes a lot I don't know if
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you recognize this but if you go to
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Google right now on your mobile device
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desktop your tablet whatever Google had
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changed into more of an AI answer Engine
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versus a search engine they activated
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their Gemini AI program and what that's
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done is it's basically scrubbed websites
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videos images all of that to provide
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someone who puts in a search query very
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quick answers to their questions so the
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difference in being an answer Engine
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versus what they previously were was a
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search engine so they would find
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websites videos and links and images for
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you to actually go to in order to find
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that information now there's pros and
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conent right we're very uh in the moment
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and we want instant gratification and
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things like that but at the same time
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when it provides you just the answer
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you're not getting the full context
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you're not getting the full video and so
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there's pros and cons to that for you as
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a consumer there's also a lot of
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negative sides to me doing this as a
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Creator because once I create a video
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the AI is just out there as a computer
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finding that video and then answering it
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for you without giving you kind of my
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full personality and understanding of
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what I why I created a freeze-dried
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video about mango slices things like
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that so that's why I'm really trying to
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focus both on YouTube and on my email
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community in 2025 on my email Community
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you're going to find resources just like
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I mentioned before I'm also going to
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find more ways to give you news about
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what's happening I did a little bit of
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that last year where I disclosed you
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know when the news came out about Mars
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Wrigley coming out with their own freeze
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dried Skittles popped product as well as
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the new freeze-dried Jolly Ranchers I'm
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going to be doing more of that this year
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I'm also going to give you more guides
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uh PDFs checklists things that are
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really going to help you digitally kind
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of refine your processes with the freeze
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drying business side of things so uh
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email is going to be the best way for me
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to deliver that information to you so
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join my email list and also be a
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subscriber of my YouTube videos because
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I'm not going away there now this is a
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perfect segue back into what you can
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expect on the freeze Drive business
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channel here directly on YouTube and
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that is that I'm going to be posting
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more long form videos here on this
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channel that's where my bread and butter
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has been in fact I also released a poll
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earlier this year asking all of you and
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subscribers about what you prefer
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watching on this channel and almost 70%
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of you said that long form videoos what
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you wanted to that's the landscape mode
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and so it allows me a lot more time and
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dedication to show you how to do things
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it also is the format that I'm going to
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be doing these freeze drying
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entrepreneur interviews on so that's
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what you can expect as a weekly post for
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long form videos on this channel if
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you're a daily consumer of video content
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you know that you're on your phone most
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of the time watching videos and most
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that is through the vertical format on
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Tik Tok reals as well as YouTube shorts
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so I am going to be putting a lot more
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emphasis on refining what my short form
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content looks like and in addition to
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the long form and short form content I
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am going to be going live more often
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here on YouTube I think that's been a
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great way for you to connect with me so
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so outside of the live meet and greets
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that you can find exclusively only on my
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email list I'm going to give you an
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opportunity to have more of a monthly
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live Q&A with myself and a great way for
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you to let me know what you'd like to
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have in these live streams is to comment
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below in this video let me know what
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type of topics or things would be
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relevant for you if I was to go live and
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have a live chat dialogue with you uh
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over on YouTube now for my big
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announcement I am going to be launch
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launching and officially hosting the
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first ever freeze drying conference in
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the United States that's right the first
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ever conference dedicated to freeze
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drying and the freeze drying business
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Community is going to be coming directly
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from this Channel and when is this going
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to happen I'm working on the dates
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currently but you can help me refine
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those dates by filling out the survey
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Below in the video description I've put
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together a Google form survey that you
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can fill out and you can select the
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different dates that I've got listed
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there now there's some dates are in the
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spring some in the summer and some in
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the fall I want to make sure that this
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is a multi-day event in person so that
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we can remove the digital clutter of
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trying to find the right video and blog
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article we can all meet in person which
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I think is what a lot of people just
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want to do we're going to talk about
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recipes we're going to talk about freeze
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drying processes we're going to have
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different speakers I'm really going to
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try to make this an intimate type of
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conference to where it's going to be
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really valuable for you to spend time
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and money visiting me as well as other
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people and build a network that you
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don't have right now personally in the
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freeze drying community so that's what's
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coming and I'm really excited about 2025
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go to the video description now and fill
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out the survey that I've linked there
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and that way you can decide and vote on
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what dates are going to work best for
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you the most majority of that date is
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the one that I'm going to pick and then
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it'll be on those dates that we have the
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first ever freeze drying conference
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there's a lot of exciting things
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happening in this space believe me I am
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seeing and hearing from a lot of
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different entrepreneurs and even
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manufacturers and the greatest markets
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that are going to be opening up this
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year is going to be people who are
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Innovative with the freeze drying
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process I'm excited to see what's going
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to happen and I hope to see you on my
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email list as well as the event coming
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up later this year cheers