Hello, welcome back to Something Positive for
Positive People from Courtney Brain. Something
Positive for Positive People is a 501c3 nonprofit
organization that provides herpes support resources to
people navigating stigma. I do a lot of things and
I'm narrowing it down to the things that are most
impactful. I'm teaching yoga, I'm hosting
this podcast, I'm conducting research, I'm putting events
together, running support groups, trying to host
workshops and educational things as well as training
healthcare providers, y 'all. As
I mentioned before, stepping away from this podcast was
probably the biggest mistake that I could have made
because I think that this is in fact what people are
finding to be the most impactful thing to them. So
I plan to remain consistent in producing podcast
episodes. I have a list of podcast
guests. Fortunately, I started to put out an
intake form for people who are interested in being
interviewed. So I have that to follow up
on and I'll be bringing guests back after the May
23rd herpes stigma conference, which is
virtual. You can visit www .spfpp .org
slash conferences in order to register for that today.
Or it's just on the homepage.
When you scroll down, you'll see
the conference and I put it everywhere important so
that you'll be able to very easily find it, access
it, purchase tickets and register for the conference.
At this conference, we have
four presenters and also as an added bonus, this is a
new addition will have the no shame in this game film
documentary screening. It's a 22 minute documentary
afterwards. The producer of it, Jolene
Hernandez. I'm in this documentary too. So
you get to get see me on camera. You
know, I'm saying my element, but this is back
in 22. Yeah, I was looking rough. I
had my bar brows cut my own hair. Woo.
But it was great. It was just an artistic
expression of what people who have herpes are
experiencing. And yeah, it's beautiful. I
don't want to give too much of it away, but
that's a bonus for the conference. That
part will not be recorded because this is something
that the way that she shows it is through
experiences. So it would be like stealing
her work and making it my own if I were to record
that. But Dr. Evelyn
Dacker, who's going to be speaking to health care
providers on what's necessary to take a stigma
free sexual history, Nikita Fernandez is the sex
therapist who's going to be speaking to mental health
components of herpes stigma. We've
got Dakota Rampin, who's going to be talking about
stigma free education. And I myself am going to be
delivering the data analysis. So
you've got four great workshops as well as a
documentary as a bonus. I want to shout out Wisp,
the American Sexual Health Association and Affirm in
Arizona, sexually reproductive wellness for
all for being our sponsors of the conference. And
yeah, thank you all for making it possible to make
this thing happen. Y 'all, like my first
conference is happening May 23rd from 10 a .m. to
4 p .m. central time. Get
your tickets today. All right. So
as I mentioned, I'm doing a lot of different things
and narrowing it down to like how I want to run
something positive for positive people has been a
journey. It's been a journey to say the
least. And I thank you, everyone who
has been here for as long as you have. I
thank you to anybody who might just be listening to
this. And today, actually, I reviewed
the analytics for the website because the web
traffic has been going crazy. Roughly
200 people are seeing something positive for
positive people's website per day. And
they're all going to the same web page to frequently
asked questions. So people are looking for
answers to herpes related questions because I guess
they just aren't getting them. And
that's how people are finding something positive
for positive people. And with that, what I'm
starting to learn between that and then looking at
who's purchasing tickets to the conference, I'm seeing
a lot more health care professionals. I'm
learning that it's not through people with herpes
that stigma is going to end because it's a like
self perpetuating cycle of stigma keeping people from
doing the things that I'm doing, for instance, like
I'm happy to talk to people about herpes stigma.
I'm happy to talk about, you
know, the falsehoods and the misinformation, but not
everyone is willing to do that because of stigma and
fear of what people will say about them because of
fear of people thinking or finding out that they have
herpes themselves. So my angle adjustment after
speaking to my homeboy, who's we work together.
He's one of my closest friends.
We were talking today and he
was like, Hey, you know, I might be thinking 20 steps
ahead, but why aren't you, you know, providing this
information to health care providers? And
I think it's because I had a very negative experience
when I first started the podcast, reaching out to
health care professionals and just hearing no and
like, oh, we only can provide information from
credible resources. And now, you know, look at
something positive for positive people here seven
years later and establish nonprofit organization that's
up to the IRS and Secretary of State standards
and all of the states that we operated in so far. I
think that the credibility might be there. Having
IRB approval for the most recent survey gives us some
credibility there as well. So
I'm able to offer, you know, these survey data
statistics to health care organizations for them to
share. And in fact, I'm already
hearing from people who work in organizations that
they are sharing these resources. So
what I'm putting together now is and, you know, y
'all can approach me now. If
you're a nurse, nurse practitioner, if you're
someone who does STI testing or you do the
treatment diagnosing, please reach out to me because I
am actively right now putting together subscription
options for health care organizations to have them
be able to empower people who are living with herpes
with the resources and education and information
that they need to go on and make whatever decisions
they want to make. Oftentimes,
I talk to people with herpes for the first time
and they're like, I wish that my health care
provider would have given me these resources. So
they go on to find me after however much searching
they do or however they search for me. And
if they happen to find me now, they can ask these
questions and get the answers that they need. All
of the workshops that I create, all of the events
that I tried to put on and like granted, it's on
social media. So social media and me don't
really get along as of lately because of the sex
education, sexual health, the barriers that are there
and the restrictions that social media is appearing
to put on sex related content that isn't
entertaining. So that's been a challenge of
mine. And my target audience being
health care professionals who serve people with
herpes, I think makes a lot more sense than me
trying to run this organization exclusively off
of individuals donations, trying to look for funding.
I think that what we have to
offer is something that is unique and uniquely useful
to nurses, nurse practitioners, public health
professionals and organizations who wish to
have more accurate sexual health related information
in regards to herpes and minimizing the impacts of
stigma. These are the people who I
believe care more, who have more credibility as well
and can benefit from a lot of these workshops that I
host, that I invite people to where I try and talk
about herpes disclosure, the intersection of sexual
health and mental health and how we can go about
minimizing stigma, not just within ourselves, but within
the education system, within SCD prevention, within youth
education. These are all things that
alongside training and simulated experiences for
health care providers to practice hands on taking
the sexual history, communication skills with
patients. I believe that these are the
initial touch points where stigma can be minimized, it
can be addressed, it can be alleviated. And
we see that there will be people who come away from
their doctor's appointment a lot more empowered to
navigate stigma than they have been historically when
working with health care providers. So
I'm saying this because if you are someone who works
in an education facility, if you are in SCD
prevention, please send me the contact information of
the person who I would need to speak with about
creating this subscription to something positive for
positive people so that we can have access to and
have ongoing access to these herpes related
resources. Because I'm finding that a lot of
health care providers really need that added support and
individuals really need to hear what it is that I'm
saying from a health care provider. And
I can't do it all myself. If
like the health care field, I think looks down on me
or has looked down on me historically because I don't
have letters behind my name. No,
I didn't go to medical school. I'm
just a person with a passion, a sense of
purpose, and I give a damn. And
because I give a damn, I'm willing to put my
experiences out there and call in people who are
struggling with stigma and give them what I know to
give them and offer as means of support, which is
what my yoga practice has been over the last several
years in offering this presence, offering this
healing and extending what's been useful to me to the
people who are navigating this themselves. And
I'm understanding that that's not for everybody.
And I get it. I
had someone reach out to me overnight filled out the
one on one donation based support call form, gave me
their email, phone number, name, why they were
reaching out. And I got that information and
I emailed them and the email came back, you know,
hey, wrong email address. So
I sent them the text. I was like, Hey, I saw you
filled out the form. I got a different email
address just reaching out to let you know. Like
if you want to schedule that call, once your
donation comes through, we can set up the time and
day to have the call. And they responded. Oh,
I'm sorry, you must have the wrong person. Uh,
I didn't do that. Don't contact me again. And,
you know, I was, I was sitting there and I was
just like, okay. And all day it bothered me
that I said, okay, because initially like I had a
response. So I wanted to be like, Hey,
don't insult my intelligence. Like,
I, you don't get that far in that thorough of and
through a process of something. And
then tell me I got the wrong person. And,
you know, I had to sit with that for a while and
like ask myself, like, why was it so important for me
to respond or say that? And
it was actually, you know, my girlfriend's she's like,
no, just say, okay, leave it alone. So
I just was like, all right. And
then time passed. And of course I felt like I
needed to say something, but I was sitting in one
of my yoga therapy. Um, it was a webinar on the
chakras of business and the second and third chakra.
They were speaking to really
like brought back up my thoughts about this. And
it was very much out of alignment as me, who I am,
to have just said, okay, or to have not addressed,
you know, the elephant in the room at all. So
I responded. I actually responded and I
said, Hey, you know, it really doesn't feel good to
me to have responded in the way that I did because
that's really not who I am. And
I don't know, you know, what you might have
expected from me, but I have to respond and here's
what I have to say. Like I've been disconnected from
where you are at this point. I
didn't want to go and trigger them about herpes
or anything like that. So I was just vague enough to
where they knew what I was talking about. I've
been disconnected from where you are, you know, when
you're newly diagnosed and, you know, you do a brave
thing. You know, I just apologize for,
or I didn't apologize. I acknowledged that that was
a very brave thing of them. And
I thank them for it, for reaching out and being
willing to have a conversation with me, even
if, you know, they might have gotten a little bit
of cold feet at the end. So
I just acknowledged that. And
I was able to say, when you're ready, I'm here.
That felt more in line with who
I am, which is what this workshop that I was
attending was speaking to and the importance of
consistency. And I realized like for seven
years now, I've been consistent up until a few
months ago when I decided to put the podcast on
pause while I tried to do everything else. But
the thing that really sparked my creativity and I
was excited about, like, I love doing joy yoga. I
enjoy teaching the classes, but I had a look. I
had about 11 people show up and I'm going to be
real with y 'all. Y 'all for the letting go
classes. I had probably three people
show up. I invited a couple of other
people, like privately, and these were the people who
showed up. So I mean, I might have had
attendance at four or five of the classes out of
what's up right now is 16 or 17. Yeah,
17 classes are up right now. I've
got three more to do before the week. Yeah,
before the week is out. Yeah,
I got three more. And that's it. And
it was really discouraging for me, right? Like
that was one of those things where it felt like
it was a great idea. It's a direct service to the
community. We're offering opportunities for
people to engage with one another. It's
something that's useful. I was able to justify it as
being supportive to sleep as well as emotional
health, which have been shown to us in the survey
to be main triggers for people having outbreaks. So
I'm thinking I'm doing this bomb. They
write and it's really hard to get people to show up.
And I have to remind myself,
right? Like to me now, it's about
building community because that to me is a cure.
We're not going to get a cure
for herpes. But what we can do ourselves
is cure stigma. And when we cure stigma, what
happens is we make herpes irrelevant because it's
really only relevant when we have to tell a person
or when we have to deal with the symptoms. And
if we're taking care of ourselves in a way where
we don't have to deal with the symptoms, then when we
tell a person like we're confident and we know what
we want and we know the quality of the person that
we're telling, it's not going to really be a
concern of the anxiety that comes with having to
disclose our status to a new person. Right?
Because once we're in a relationship, when do we
really have to talk about it at all? Like
if we're in our ideal situation, herpes is not an
issue. And if our body is in its
ideal situation, herpes is not an issue. Right?
So. I just let this person know,
like I'm here, you know, reach out when you're
ready, whenever that may be. And
if you're not, if you're not ready, then that's OK,
too. But that felt so much more
like me and I recognize that I've been doing a lot
of shit that's not me, like these, the grant
applying applications. I keep saying that, but like
that's how much I've been holding in, because it's
not. It's burning. It's
burned me out. And when I recognize that I'm
going in five different directions and all of them
are not the direction of, you know, really doing the
things that I want to be doing, I want to host my
podcast. I want to do my yoga, you
know, or teach my yoga and the education. I
love talking, right? I enjoy, you know, the
educational component and the person to person
engagement and the training for the health care
professionals. Right. And I'm figuring out a way
to really bring that together and bring that
into the mix so that people don't like, I don't
have to ask people for donations. And
if people want to donate, then they can. So
looking at organizations who have funding, who have
funding that is to be allocated towards these
educational workshops and things like that, that I'm
offering through something positive for positive
people. I think that that's the route
that I'm going to go and commit to. The
monies out there, the people at the organizations
who are, who find value in the work that I'm doing
and the information that we have. I
think that this is for y 'all, right? Like
when I talk about how to disclose, when I talk about
these statistics and the communication components,
like there are trainings and workshops. There's
like dozens of trainings and workshops that can be
hosted off of the survey that we did for people
with herpes alone. And there aren't any herpes
resources out there. There's not herpes organizations
that are out there. There's a lot of social media
influencers. There was an organization, a
nonprofit that was out there. The
project accept was for people with herpes. And
unfortunately, they are no longer running. They're,
I don't know if it's public information or not,
but I talked to the executive director founder
about it. And she said that they're not
doing that anymore. They, they, they're just not. Let
me just leave it there. So as far as I know, I'm the
only nonprofit organization that exists in relation to
herpes stigma that, you know, there are others out
there that are advocating for cures, but herpes
stigma, herpes education, right? Like
the more accurate and real information we get, I think
that the less relevant stigma is. And
at the very minimum, we can get to a place where
there's more accurate testing. And
with that accurate testing, more people know, yes, they
have herpes. No, they don't have herpes. And
with that, we have more understanding of, you know,
the, the likelihood of getting it. We
have more people who are willing and able to talk
about it, who are more accepting and understanding
of what the potential outcomes are. You
know, if you do have herpes or if you don't
know if you have herpes, right? And
understanding that condoms actually don't protect you
from every single STI that exists. That's
another really key component to this whole thing, y
'all. And a lot of people don't
understand that for whatever reason. I
don't know. But as a one man army, I
think tapping into my network of healthcare
professionals, public health professionals and offering
this subscription format, like becoming a member of
something positive for positive people and being
able to offer what incentives that includes. I
think that the expansion of that will allow for
something positive for positive people to grow and
expand to where there can be more of these community
functions that draw in people to come be part of
a community and not do this thing on their own or
not navigate stigma on their own, but to find
community and make herpes stigma just completely
irrelevant. I believe I can do that. And
I believe that like I feel very strongly about this. I
had conversations with two of my board members so far
about this particular idea. And
now I'm putting it out there because here we are
podcast episode need to put this out. And
now having this podcast episode out, there's
accountability. All right. Accountability
is now in the works as a result of me saying it. So
now this is what I got to be doing. So
I have the conference coming up May 23rd. I
also have. Oh, I also released the
September 29th conference is going to or expo that's
going to be an NYC. This is just called the safe
sex expo. And it's on September 29th.
More details will follow if you
go to the offerings tab of something positive for
positive people's website as pfpp .org. You'll
see there that the early bird tickets are on sale.
We've got workshop play shops
that are going to be presenting on the spectrum
of safety and pleasure. Like
people think that when you try and incorporate safety
in the pleasure that it takes away from pleasure or
the more enjoyable or pleasurable. Something
is like the less safe it is. So
we're we're combating that we're integrating safety and
pleasure into some interactive engaging and
communicative workshops that we have as well as
vendors. So if you're someone who is
connected to somebody who'd be a great fit for
something like that as a sponsor, please don't
hesitate to reach out to me. I'm
doing this in collaboration with Jolene Hernandez, who
is the producer of the no shame in this game
documentary film. And we're combining resources,
our connections to make just a day of play shops
of vendors of community of celebration. And
if we get enough money, food and refreshments. So
yeah, y 'all, I I was worried for a while about
something positive for positive people. I'm
losing members, you know, which is sort of expected
to happen. But like, you know, I don't
know that I'm really giving members anything because I
make everything available and accessible to everyone.
And the only thing that people
don't pay for things that they hear me talk about if
they listen to the podcast on a regular basis, right?
So I don't have a solid
business model as far as getting donations as far as
retaining memberships. So that's just that's just
what it is. I don't know what else to
say about that. Like, I am reaching out about
having things organized, but then like, randomly, a
person every few weeks might show up to a support
group and be like, damn, where is everybody? Yeah,
it's just me and you and then be disappointed because
they expect, you know, more people like me or like
them who are part of something positive for
positive people because they want to see more people
that are like them. And at a place where they want
to move through stigma, right? Or
just just some sense of community, right? Like
I'm really advocating for this sense of community.
And we have that, you know, as
people one on one listen to the podcast episodes for
themselves or as people engage with Courtney one on
one, right? But what happens when Courtney
is removed from the equation? Like,
is there just no more community? Is
there no more person for you to reach out to and
share and open up to and be able to express, you
know, hey, this messed up things happening. I
had the situation happen. I had this disclosure coming
up. How do I go about moving
forward with that? So I think I need to, you
know, sort of clone myself among healthcare providers
by producing workshops, offering a library of
resources. Handouts that can be distributed
directly from healthcare professionals providers. And
yeah, that's that's the plan. I'm
going to take some time to work on that. I
have a very busy upcoming week and a half. Y
'all are moving to New Jersey. I
saw my place is real. I'm going to be moving to
Pasek, Northern New Jersey. I'll
be more easily accessible to get to New York City.
I saw them told is like $17
or something each way. So I will be taking a bus.
I'll be busing back and forth
to New York City and commuting that way. I
still don't plan on having a car. But
who knows? I mean, yeah, the way that
things are shifting with something positive for
positive people, I might even be able to get a
physical location. Like I'm very much manifesting
that. No, I don't necessarily need it
at this point. But I'm in yoga therapy school.
I would like to be able to
have a space for people to come into for yoga therapy,
even in yoga classes, right? Ain't
nobody coming to the virtual class and here I
am talking about real, real classes. Ain't
that crazy? No, but people ask me how they
can support me and I always say like there is
nothing we can do without money. So
make donations. Yeah. But I think what's more
important to me right now is that the healthcare
organizations that you're connected to that you like
that you think need work or that you think can get
behind being someone who can contribute on a monthly
basis to mind you y 'all. We're
nonprofit like something positive for positive people
is a nonprofit. This isn't a for profit thing.
So this is tax deductible. All
the money that comes into something positive for
positive people is tax deductible. And
so the organizations that I'm advocating to be able
to provide resources, workshops and trainings for
who are on the new subscription plan that is
rolling out as we speak. These
are tax deductible. You can write this off on your
business taxes. So if you're an independent,
you know, private office, if you are even a Planned
Parenthood, I've got connections. So
I'm reaching out to my people who I'm connected to
already to see about, you know, what what I can what
kind of value I can add to these because when I'm
hosting these workshops, I want to be able to pay
guest speakers to present on their area of expertise.
I'm connected to very reputable
healthcare professionals who can speak to the science
of herpes transmission rates and things like that. But
I think what's most important is the experiences
of people living with herpes and being able to
translate that to healthcare providers so that when they
go on to take histories, deliver diagnoses that they
do their part in minimizing stigma as well. So
I've been doing a lot of like presentations workshops
for other people. But I think it's time to just
have that being housed. Y 'all and if you want to
help grow something positive for positive people, I
really think that it's important that, you know,
if you don't want to share among the public, like I
said, the people who are looking for the information
will find it. I think that the healthcare
organizations need to be on the something positive for
positive people membership. These
are going to be different tiers than our normal
everyday members, different offerings. So
if you are already a member, you there's no need
for you to have these resources that I'm talking
about for healthcare professionals. If
you are an organization, please reach out to me. If
you're part of an organization, like ask me
because it's coming together as I'm going along. I
have some very important things that I need to iron
out over the course of the next few days. But
believe me, by the time the conference is here, I
will be saying, here's what this membership looks like.
Here's what is on there now.
Here's what you can expect moving
forward. These are my goals. Like
I said, I spoke it. This is what I'm choosing and
we hear y 'all we hear it. So
that letting go series. If you are currently a member,
you should be able to log into the the letting go
tab. You'll be able to access all of
the yoga classes there and watch them one by one move
through the process of letting go. I'm
in the process of also writing a book. So
the outline for the book is complete. I'm
waiting on my publisher to get back with me with
feedback so that I can write it up differently.
And we'll have an ebook out
that's something positive for positive people letting
go of herpes book or it'll just be by Courtney. So
we're going to be letting go of herpes. Take
me. So if you want a membership,
remember events are free. You
get this kind of stuff for free as just a thank you
for being here for rocking with me because I don't
know like what I'm doing. I'm
figuring it out as I go. And
y 'all been here. Y 'all know y 'all know I
went from trying to I've been paying for people to
get therapy. I've been hosting these support
groups to teaching yoga to the podcast right and
you're watching this organization refine itself
in real time. And I think that's a very
beautiful thing. It's very beautiful to see y
'all be part of this. I've been looking at the
analytics and we have a little over 10 ,000
subscribers. And it's interesting because
with Apple and Google Play, like you see the subscriber
count. People don't actually press the
subscribe button. What happens is people come back
and listen to the new episodes and that's what it
sees. So my RSS feed shows me that
10 ,000 people regularly come back and listen to
podcast episodes again and again. But
don't press the subscribe button. Don't
leave reviews. And these are the things that
grow nonprofits. So like I said, yeah, y 'all
as you I understand where you're at. I
understand how difficult it is to get involved. How
difficult it is to make it real by taking an action
that puts you out there to the world as being
connected with this nonprofit. Organization,
right? Like, yeah, you might send me a
message and then like delete the thread. You
might accidentally follow me, hurry up and unfollow
me. You might make a new account,
say something to me, follow me and then go away. But
those things, you know, I guess they're like
energetically doing something. But
realistically, if you want to get involved, you want
to do something the smallest thing you can do
is just tell me who I need to talk to. Tell
me who is a decision maker at this healthcare
organization near you or that you know somebody at
or that you are aware of so that I can just pitch
them. Let me give me a shot. Just
give me a shot to be able to pitch these organizations
with this money that comes in. I'll
be able to put these workshops on for the
healthcare professionals so that they can treat y 'all
better. And when they treat y 'all
better, they also are talking to the people who
don't have herpes and giving them the information
and education that they need to go with. And
when they have someone disclose to them, they know
how to respond. Right? Like these are the kinds
of things that I'm doing that I struggle to get
people to show up to. So podcast, weekly, support
groups. I need to know that people
are invested in coming. So the members of the
something positive for positive people membership,
like I can hear from them. But
it's mostly women and a couple of guys. And
if y 'all are wanting a support group that meets, I
can do every other week, one for a men's group and
one for a general population group. And
then I can teach the yoga classes as well. But
if there's no interest, I'm not going to do it. And
I'm only doing this for members. I'm
not going to do this like pop up every now and then
whatever I do is going to be consistent. I
am very much honoring consistency after this
conference because I've been all over the place
sporadically for way too long. And
I'm getting my life in order. I'm
getting things together. I have to be more structured
and streamlined, especially coming at these
organizations and expecting them to, you know,
essentially fund my purpose and allow for me to be
able to continue to do all of these free things for
the community. Such as reach out to interview
podcast guests and bring these additional values and
offerings directly to the general population of people
who might find this podcast and be able to offer these
support calls and everything else. It
is that y 'all are finding to be useful and valuable.
Yeah, I thought I was going to
come here and talk about something else. But
I guess it was really heavy on my spirit to ask
y 'all for help. Right. Like this is my ask. My
ask is that if you are connected to health care
facilities organizations, like tell them about
something positive for positive people, tell me
who I can email there or call there and talk to who
might be willing to hear me out and make a case
for why they what they would get out of and why
they should be members of something positive for
positive people and what kind of resources we have
to make accessible to them to be able to serve their
people. And
I think that's what I'm going to do. I'm
going to ask you all to follow through on my ask
for me. Follow through on my ask ASK not
AS ASS. I think that's what it
sounded like I said. September
29th in person New York City. It's
going to be a big day. I
think that's what I'm going to do. I'm
going to be able to get information and condensing
the information down to what I believe is going to
be the most valuable to the attendees so far. We
got the St. Louis County Department of Health.
I've been trying to get in
these people's like radar for so long and I don't
know what it has been. I think that it partially has
to do with herpes just not being a priority. I
don't know. But I think things are things
about the change after today. Mark
my words. Y 'all is April 24th 2024 and
I had these ideas today. Let's
see how soon we can get you know who's to say we
can't get 510 organizations on board with the something
positive for positive people membership and before long
you see that our survey data is being handed out
to people right upon diagnosis our yoga classes
and our podcast is being. Handed
to people on a card or something like that. I
don't know. I don't know. So
I'm working on it. Thank you all for supporting me.
Here's how you all can continue
to do so even if behind the scenes at a way that
I believe is as incognito as possible. I
thank y 'all. I love y 'all. Appreciate
y 'all. Stay tuned for more episodes or
something positive for positive people, especially
where I'm not, you know, just talking about my
experience and running this business. Also,
I have like a column. I guess I'm a columnist on
porn, hub, sexual wellness center now. So
I have like seven. No, eight. I'll
have eight articles on May. Early
May is when the most recent one comes out. But
I have various articles about herpes and like
aspects of herpes stigma on there. I
looked up and was like, yo, I'm actually a writer.
I'm over a herpes stigma
writer. Y 'all. So
if you look me up on the poor hub sexual wellness
center, except Texas, because I think they banned
poor hub. I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. I can't get there. But
I'm on that thing. I'm on it. So
bear with me over the next month, literally month. Oh
my God. It's a month from now. Y
'all the conferences a month from now and I'm going to
be in the process of moving across the country.
I have some my last few days
of my other job in Portland. These
are going to be really long days or 10 hour days,
which for me is more like 15 hours because I got to
get up like three hours earlier. I
got to go to the gym, shower, get to work, get
these genital exams. I get an hour break and then
go back to it. And then I got to say, by the
people after the work day ends, go to sleep, get up,
do it again. I got a three days in the
road and look like that. And
then I'm off to New Jersey. I'm
off to New Jersey. I got a training to continue
to work part time teaching the genital exams. I
want to be able to continue to stay connected
to the medical world. So working part time at NYU
as a male urological teaching associate still.
And I start yoga therapy
training. So lots going on over here.
But yeah, we this is my
primary focus. I'm doing this. This
is the work I'm doing. So good vibes, y 'all. Good
vibes. All right. Till
next time.