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May Recap - What You May Have Missed in Freeze Drying
May 15, 2025
Learn about whatโs happening in the freeze-drying industry with a full recap of all videos, freeze-drying news, and highlights covered in MAY on this channel as well as upcoming content on freeze-drying that will keep you more informed on what's happening in the freeze-drying industry. Subscribe to the NEW email newsletter at https://freezedriedbusiness.com/about/ May Videos - Freeze Drying Repairs with FixMyFD.com https://youtu.be/0zCx8VfI5NM - Walk-in Freezer Reveal https://youtu.be/wcLUDAJkcEY - Simple Steps to Freeze Drying Tropical Fruits https://youtu.be/pro8Zg4Dhzs - A Message for You https://youtu.be/n2rCQ4flnb0 Previous Recaps - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8uz0_2xUyEIGb5GKrS8LVexR7z6mBonC - April https://youtu.be/vEkLDHdUeMI - March https://youtu.be/pKV3jRy68GU - February https://youtu.be/VC-A5iVglyA Other ways to connect: ๐ Website: https://freezedriedbusiness.com ๐ฌ Newsletter: https://freezedriedbusiness.aweb.page... Frozen Assets Podcast (Rate & Review PLEASE!) ๏ฃฟ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ๐๏ธ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2EtZ1eK...
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in case you missed anything about freeze
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drying this is your monthly recap for
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the month of May in 2024 where we cover
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all the videos that were posted on the
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freeze dry business Channel as well as
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people that I connected with in the
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freeze drying space and news and updates
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across the free drying industry so that
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you're more informed about future
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content that's coming up on this channel
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as well as just more and more
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information given to you about what's
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happening and growing in freeze drying
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before we get to the video recap hit the
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Subscribe Bell if you're interested in
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freeze drying or interested in starting
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a freeze drying business more
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subscribers and likes on this video will
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really help more people get connected in
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the freeze drying space if you're
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unfamiliar with this channel if you're
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unfamiliar with me my name is David I
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live in boisey Idaho I run a freeze
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drying business called freeze dry Depot
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you can look it up in the channel About
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Us section but I also run this channel
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one of the luxury items that we have in
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Boise is that the boisey river runs from
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one of our reservoirs all the way down
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through the valley and right here is a
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subchannel of the Boise River that
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contains a man-made Whitewater Park
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right behind me you'll see that there's
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different surfers surfing waves this is
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all created back a couple years ago by
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the boisey city parks and wreck and the
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Katherine Albertson Foundation if you're
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not familiar with the Albertson grocery
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store chain Joe Albertson and Katherine
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Albertson both were very integral in a
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lot of the Commerce that took place in
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the boisey area and booming and that's
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why we have Albertson today and their
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Foundation does a lot of great nonprofit
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things like building parks in this area
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and one of the things that they invested
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in was they wanted to make sure that
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there was a lot of accessibility for
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recreation across the Waterway of the
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Boise River and so right behind me
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there's actually uh they can actually
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create two different types of waves
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through some systems where they release
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different uh I I'm not a total expert
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but basically they're able to manipulate
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the water that's flowing through this
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channel so that they can create really
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unique waves and actually it's one of
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the best man kind of made Whitewater
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Parks running off of a river channel uh
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across the whole country so a lot of
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people come here to do this and I felt
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like it'd be appropriate to show you a
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little bit about where I live before we
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get to the video recap now if you live
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close or you get a chance to visit boy
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Idaho this is definitely a mustsee spot
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not only do you get to see Surfers but
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you also get to experience the beauty of
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the boy River and the boisey area video
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number one posted on this channel in the
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month of May was another episode of the
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frozen assets podcast series now this
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podcast series focused on entrepreneurs
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it focused on people in the industry as
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well as manufacturers different
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accessories everything that kind of
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pertains to freeze drying I'm trying to
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get you connected to see what's
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happening in this space and one thing
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that is common across all of us who are
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Freez drying is that failures and
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repairs on our freeze dryers is going to
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happen and sometimes we just need to
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know the experts who's taken apart these
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machines what are some quick fixes
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before I have to send it into the
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manufacturer and that person is Donald
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who runs a YouTube channel just like
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myself it's called Donald's freeze
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drying group and he also has a website
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called fix myfd for Freez dryer.com now
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he focuses on fixing different freeze
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dryers he's taken apart Harvest Right
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stay freshh blue Alpine and he just kind
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of has taken his typ of uh military
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background with different machinery and
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taken apart these machines to better
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understand what's going on as well as
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he's got a couple different fixes that I
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think are really going to help with
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different vacuum leak issues on the
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Harbor R and also different pipes and
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different accessories that can really
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help you get back on the road so that
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was video number one I really enjoyed my
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conversation with Donald he's got a lot
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of great information and I'm not a
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techie person so I like knowing more
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about how we can fix the freeze dryers
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because as a business you're going to
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need to save money by doing some of the
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fixes yourself so that was video number
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one video number two that I posted was
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the walk-in freezer that Harvest Right
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freeze dryers now has available through
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Harvest commercial.com now I actually
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visited the headquarters of harvest
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right back in January of 2024 earlier
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this year and it was a great time for me
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to experience what's going on with this
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largest manufacturer of freeze dryers
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that we all know today and one of the
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things that really was interesting was
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that they were producing a walk-in
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freezer that you could purchase along
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with your commercial type of investment
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in your freeze drying business now it's
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not pertaining to everybody who has a
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freeze drying business right you got to
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have the the actual square footage and
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the footprint in your facility to have a
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walk-in freezer like this but a walk-in
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freezer where you can prep all of your
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fruit meals anything that needs to be
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prefrozen now you can have a walk-in
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Fraser to hold all that capacity and the
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reason you freeze things before you
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freeze dry it is because you can speed
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up the freeze drying cycle time the
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freeze dryers do come prepared with a
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freezing component but you know you're
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going to be spending a lot of time
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preparing fruit cutting fruit especially
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when things are in season you're going
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to try to capitalize on the price point
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for when things are on sale and when
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things are right so that you can make
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better margins and when you're prepping
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all that fruit prep prepping all those
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vegetables meals whatever your recipe is
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having it already prefrozen can trim
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down that cycle time that's in the
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freeze dryer drying it by probably a
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good 10 20% of that total cycle time so
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if you tend to have a cycle time for
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your freeze-dried strawberries of let's
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say 40 hours you could trim off maybe 4
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to 8 hours of time in that freeze dryer
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which just gets you more Cycles which
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means more production out of your freeze
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drying business making you more money so
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if you have checked out that video check
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out the video link below in the video
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description I've got a link to the
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walkin freezer where you I actually show
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you what the freezer looks like as well
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as just talk about what the benefits are
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to the walk-in freezer before we get
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into the next couple videos that were
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posted in May give it this video a
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thumbs up if you like the monthly Recaps
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I've been doing it ever since February
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this year and I'm trying to just give
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you more and more information about
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maybe things that you missed and if
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these Recaps are really helpful the
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thumbs up really gives me an indicator
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as to whe I should continue doing them
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also if you have any comments about
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maybe things that you want included in
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the recap go ahead and comment in this
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video so that I can see that and get
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direct feedback implemented into my
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videos thanks a lot the third video that
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I posted in May was how to freeze dry
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tropical fruits because I did a earlier
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video on The Beginner's blueprint to how
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to freeze dry fruit I did strawberries
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blueberries and apples and showed you
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how to prep all of that and I used all
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different types of cutting tools to
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prepare these fruits so if you haven't
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checked out that video you can also
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check it out in the video description
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I'll put it also in the card above here
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so that you can reference that video
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later on now I had a lot of fun with the
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tropical fruit because I hadn't done a
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whole lot of these fruits before the
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only fruit that I had done was pineapple
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and the fruits that I chose to do in
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this video in case you missed it is I
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did dragon fruit which I've never done
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before that was actually really tasty I
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did mangoes as well as kiwis and I did
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papaya so I cut all those I used a
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special tool for the mangoes that I've
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been wanting to use and and I purchased
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off of Amazon so if you want to check
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out that video you'll learn how to one
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prepare these different types of fruits
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and I also share with you how to freeze
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dry it and the freeze dryer settings as
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well as just a little bit more
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commentary about what the freeze drying
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space has to do with fruit and what the
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benefits are to freeze drying fruit for
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all of us no matter whether you're in
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business or you're just trying to use it
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for food preservation so check that
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video out and if you're watching this
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recap just so you know I'm going to be
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doing a taste test as well as some
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applications for different recipes using
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that freeze-dried tropical fruit because
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I know a lot of you who watched that
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video were like well how did it turn out
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well I've got all that video captured
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and I'm going to share with you how it
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turned out and also what did it taste
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like and how we could maybe use it on
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different types of items that we freeze
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dry today for your freeze drying
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business so if you missed that video
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check it out in the video description
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I've got a link there to that and the
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fourth and final video that I posted in
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the month of May was a little bit more
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of a mess message for all of you about
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what this channel is all about there's
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been a lot of different opinions and I
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personally think just very subjective um
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kind of hard reviews about specifically
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Harvest Right freeze dryers now I'm not
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paid by Harvest Right they don't give me
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money to talk about them I am an
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affiliate of them which if you're not
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familiar with affiliate marketing
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basically you're giving someone who has
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a specific link to some product that
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they're talking talking about or they
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really like and they trust and have
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credibility with that brand that they
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really feel good about telling you that
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they'll go ahead and purchase that and
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that's what I do with Harvest Right stay
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fresh blue Alpine a lot of the different
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Amazon links I promote these different
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things because it's help me in my
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business and I do believe that it's
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going to help you as well and so this
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video was about a lot of the comments
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that I've just seen on Facebook groups
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and maybe I need to get off of social
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media but everyone's just bashing
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different freeze dryers because they
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just have personal opinion of others
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maybe they actually have had some bad uh
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just machine issues with Harvest Right
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But to be honest all these freeze dryers
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are going to fail at some point and a
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lot of the new ones are completely new
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they've only been around for a year year
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and a half really that's been out in the
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market versus Harvest R's been out for
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over a decade so there's a lot more
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longevity about what failures might
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happen with Harvest Rite which is why
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you're seeing a lot of that type of
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commentary about people's reviews about
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their freeze dryer today but we're going
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to see that you know five six years from
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now about all the brands but really what
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you need to take a look at is what's
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going to help you build your business
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the quickest and the most efficient and
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right now for Harvest Right they have
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the XL freeze dryer that can do up to 40
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lbs of product they also have the HRC
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100 which can do up to 100 lbs of
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product so they have the machines right
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now in the market for the lowest price
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to get you to accelerate your business
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that's just the facts now if you want to
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go with a commercial grade freeze dryer
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that's a whole different topic but I'm
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just talking about kind of home freeze
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dryers to get you started and then also
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the HRC 100 there's just nobody that can
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beat that and plus Harvest R was the one
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who invented kind of the home freeze
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dryer they the ones who put it all
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together compactly so that all of us can
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buy it for under 4,000 bucks I mean
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that's crazy so we got to give them some
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credit if you want to know more about my
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opinion check out that video it's in the
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video description below now the next set
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of this recap is the people that I
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connected with in the freeze drying
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space and it's personally one of my
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favorite Parts about this recap because
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I get to kind of take a look back at
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people I connected with either by email
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or I talked to over a phone call or I
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interviewed for the podcast Series so
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this is a great time for you to know
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about future content that I'm going to
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be coming out with based on the people
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that I talk to now number one is I
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talked to the owners of blue Alpine I
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talked to Corey Meritt now he's the
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co-founder along with his brother Tim
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and he was a great guy to interview
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because he's very passionate about
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freeze drying they saw an opportunity to
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start their own business several years
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ago and then as of last year they really
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rolled out their blue Alpine kind of
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Flagship product now he says that
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they've got several different versions
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that they have in the pipeline in the
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future so they had their first version
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kind of roll out where they were kind of
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taking a look to see okay what are the
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kind of new people that are entering all
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this they have a warranty they kind of
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wanted to first launch with the market
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about this kind of you know rev number
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one or this first version the second
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version is actually what you're
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purchasing right now in their larger
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freeze dryer that they're offering uh
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which is kind of in between the large
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and the XL of the Harvest Right freeze
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drer if you want to kind of have a good
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comparison of that now this interview
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was all captured for my frozen assets
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podcast Series where I'm featuring
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different entrepreneurs and
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manufacturers and the freeze drying
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space so make sure you subscribe to this
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channel if you're not already make sure
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you hit the Bell notification there so
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you get notifications on your phone
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about when those videos get released I'm
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really excited about sharing with you
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that whole content and interview series
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with Cory at Blue Alpine lot of great
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stuff coming out of there now the second
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person that I talked to in the freeze
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drying space was a a new person uh that
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I hadn't been aware of before and that
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is a guy by the name of Eugene ligman
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and he has a company called sunor s u n
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t o r r and this company is his own
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company and he focuses on Consulting
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specifically questions and information
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that you might have about commercial
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freeze drying now I had a great
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conversation with Eugene and I'm going
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to release that through my frozen assets
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podcast series but I talked to Eugene
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specifically because he actually is an
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expert in vacuums he has experience
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working with a lot of different vacuum
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pump manufacturers working within
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vacuums so he had to put it in blayman
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terms for me but a lot of his experience
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is knowing exactly how a freeze dryer
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works and he also focuses on the
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commercial grade freeze dryer system so
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he's going to be able to tell you you
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know when is it the right time for you
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to look at upping your game and going
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Beyond just our kind of shelf home
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freeze dryers for your business and
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actually invest in these larger
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commercial grade freeze dryers because
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once I release that interview you're
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going to really understand why
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there's a huge benefit in increasing
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your capital and investing in one of
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these commercial great freest Stars it
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opened my eyes and kind of gave me a
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broader view about huh this the price
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point the footprint all the things that
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are very intimidating about investing in
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a large freeze dryer like that uh
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compared to what we're used to at5 or
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$110,000 uh for these home freeze dryers
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it really made a lot more sense to me so
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make sure you tune in to this channel
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because that interview is going to be
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released through the video as well as
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apple and Spotify podcast I talked to a
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number of other people in the month of
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May in the freeze drying space and I
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wait until I actually have those
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interviews taking place and those phone
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calls before I release it on this
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channel in the monthly recap that
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concludes our May 2024 recap hey if you
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want to connect with me further go to
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Freez Drive bus.com down in the video
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description I'd love for you to join my
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email newsletter Community because I'm
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going to be releasing more more
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exclusive content through my email
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systems and that way you can connect
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with me directly also also if you want
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to ask me questions or if you want to
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book a Consulting session with me so I
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can review your business strategy talk
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to you about what type of challenges
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you're facing feel free to email me my
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email is in the about section of this
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channel you can email through me through
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Freez dbs.com or you can email me
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through my business Freez dry
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depot.com now hey if you like freeze
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drying and if you want to learn more
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about freeze drying those tropical
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fruits or freeze drying in general check
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out the next couple thumbnails I'll see
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you there
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