All right, this is Scott from Seattle. As you can see from the cabinet behind me, we're still moving into our temporary housing, but we've only got 28 days until pre conference starts. So I got to get some news to you fast. This is clarifications on a few things you guys have had questions about, a couple new announcements on how we're trying to say and actually succeeding and helping save you money and a couple other things that you're going to want to know about. Before I give you any details, you should know this. Stephanie deserves the credit for this, and in fact, the Sahara does as well. Stephanie and the Sahara worked together while I was commuting and put all this stuff together to save you money. Hypno thoughts. Life is about value.

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We always care about bang for the buck and to make sure that we're doing what we can to support small business owners and people building their private practice. I know what that's like. I've built my private practice right around the dot com bust. I've been through every economic climate as a private practice owner and then clinic and whatever. So we get that and that informs decisions that we make. I'd like to share a few of those with you. And again, Stephanie deserves the credit for this because while I was moving, she and the hotel got together and said, hey, what can we do for our presenters? What can we do for our attendees? What can we do for the people that are supporting us during these economic conditions to make sure that they feel really good about being here?

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And this is what we've done. The first thing is, obviously, breakfast is on us. We told you that for the first 10 years, we provided lunch. When we switched venues, we just couldn't make it work logistically anymore. So we've decided after a couple different things where we gave you all 100 bucks each, we decided, let's do breakfast. Let's get everybody together and start the day with Kumbaya. You know, with theme being, you know, summer camp, like sleep away camp. We thought the idea of a campfire Kumbaya is a good touchstone. So what can we do to make Kumbaya happen? And that is fellowship, camaraderie. And so every morning, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, free breakfast on us. We're really excited to get your feedback on that. We think it's gonna be great and we hope you all join us.

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Obviously, we have self care in the morning and the evenings. That's already been explained. But you can come for self care and then have some breakfast if you don't wanna do self care. You can get in front of them in line while they're stretching and doing yoga and breath work and whatever they're doing. And you can cut in front of them in line and get your coffee and muffins and whatever we have in the buffet, which would be great. So breakfast is on us and also every meal after the conference. So from like 5 o' clock on until closing at all of the other venues at the hotel, with the exception of three that I'll get back to, you get 15% off your entire order.

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Not 15% off during happy hour, not 15% off apps, not 15% off your first drink, 15% off your total order. We did not have this in our contract. The Sahara did not need to do this. But Stephanie went back and negotiated for you guys and worked with them and they want to do it. They're very cool. We had to do a little bit of negotiating and, you know, exchanging. And thank you to you guys for booking through our link. That helps us negotiate for you because it shows what we're doing and it shows who we're bringing. So please use our link. It helps us negotiate and also it saves you money. There's a bunch of hidden fees that all hotels have. This is how we get past those hidden fees, is negotiate them down for you before you even know they're there.

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So every year there's a few of you, especially the Brits and Europeans, who try to find some sort of convoluted way to combine your airfare in the room and a rental car. And you do all this stuff and it's much more complicated and you end up saving about 20 bucks. Like it doesn't really work for you as well as you think it is once you add the hidden fees that we've negotiated down for you. So please use our link. You have till the 23rd. You only have a couple more days to use our link. Please, please use our link. Please remind everyone to book their room if they haven't already. Do it now, because that's how we're getting these deals for you. So 15% off at every restaurant after hours, you know, from 5:00 on, with the exception of three.

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Like I said, one is Starbucks, one is Prendy, and the third one is the super expensive steakhouse Bizarre Meats. But Prendy and Starbucks are basically breakfast and coffee and we're serving that for free, so you don't have to really worry about that very much. Also remember, there is a refrigerator in every room, and we made sure of that. And there is a supermarket across the street. There's cheap food like McDonald's and Subway and stuff like that across the street, too. And you can just like have Uber Eats bring you food from a supermarket and you can like doordash your food and then you have food in your fridge. So if you're on a budget, we're going to give you breakfast, we're going to save you month, 15% everywhere on property and there's a refrigerator.

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So there's a bunch of value options for you guys to make sure the conference is fun networking opportunities that you feel you got great value out of. Cool. Cool. But that's not all. As you guys remember, we moved the pool party. The Thursday night pool party is still Thursday night and it's still a pool party. Bring your bathing suit because we're still hiring the lifeguards so you can swim and doing all that. And we moved it to the other pool. It's a more intimate space. I mean, it's still great. So big, still plenty big for all of us. But we moved it to the Alexandria Tower. And one of the things that Stephanie did when she was putting all this together to get the 15% off, she also negotiated it so all the drinks at the pool party are going to be cheaper.

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She did a cool thing instead of like going, hey, we're giving you a free drink. And then the next drink is, you know, 25 bucks. We're going to have all the drinks be cheaper and we're just going to have it be a much more affordable, much more fun, much more. Everybody can buy everybody a drink and again, feel good about it and get that Kumbaya networking. I love that. For us, again, Friday night is going to be the costume party like we always do. And then Saturday will be the go out and explore Vegas street hypnosis. People are going to want to go do Fremont or whatever. A bunch of people are going to want to go do shows. And there's going to be an unsanctioned field trip.

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Just like the pool party used to be unsanctioned, just like the costume party used to be unsanctioned. We are going to have a couple women attendees, one presenter have said they want to help put together another independent experience. And so we're going to, based on what we've been hearing for a couple years, we're going to try it out. We'll have a whole different thing on that. That's not what this video is about, but that's the Thursday The Friday, the Saturday and then Sunday we have the thank you party for the presenters. All that is happening just like it always has. We are going to have the self care in the morning and the afternoon. We have done as much as we can to provide as much. I mean the free self care that we've been doing for years.

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You know, Sandra Grace and her team in the last two years. Incredible. And now making it, instead of it being all day, making it really focused on group experiences in the morning and in the evening and having it again be more communal and less waiting in line, more focused on talks when the talks are happening. First timer talks when the first timer talks are happening. I'm really excited about getting all of you guys to go support those first timers and then you get to take care of yourself at the end of the day. Remember, if you are a podcaster, we have rooms dedicated to podcasting in that 5 o' clock hour that in the gap hour before like nightlife stuff happens and the kind of people are hanging out. We have a few rooms that are dedicated to just have those.

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So if you want one of those, contact Stephanie about those because I think we have half of them left for the weekend. So get with us on that and when you do, let us know if it's okay if other people sit in and watch or if you want to have like a closed set. That's that there's so many other things I have to share with you but I think if I share any more it's going to become white noise and you guys are going to forgot forget the things that I've already mentioned. So 15% off everything from 5 o' clock till close at everything except Starbucks, Prendy and Bizarre Meats, all the other restaurants, you get a good discount. Pool party is going to be cheaper drinks than we've done in the past.

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And still bring your bathing suit because that's going to be fun. We've also had the conference getting out a little bit earlier so people can go to the pool at the end of the day. If they want to go do the podcast thing. They don't want to be in the family room. They don't want to be doing self care. If they just want to go get some sun and water, they can do that at the pool again. Everything we're doing is about making sure that you guys have the best experience and I am so excited to see so many of you in a month. We're there. Please tell everybody that they need to book their room if they haven't through our website. Please, if there's anybody who's been considering and on the fence, I understand what's going on in the world.

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Believe me, we get it. And we want to get everybody together and support everybody and to feel that community that has been such a great part of Hypno Thoughts for the last dozen years. And I'm so excited to see you guys. It's gonna be so fun to see you in one month in Las Vegas. See you there. And thanks for watching.