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Okay, great.

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So let me just start with a basic

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question about kind of how you guys would describe your overall

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experience with the Grassroots Advocacy Academy.

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So that includes things like the town halls,

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the team huddles,

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the live and virtual trainings.

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I'm especially interested in that if you've been trained,

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if you've been part of the virtual training,

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if you go online.

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We do know that there are some issues with actually accessing.

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the trainings,

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but so we don't want to spend a lot of time on that.

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But what has been your general experience?

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And just asking you to,

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to, you know,

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kind of give me some of your general impressions.

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It's

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been a little frustrating for me.

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Because sometimes I would go on

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to do the videos,

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and they would check

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off, or they I couldn't get them on correctly.

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Yeah.

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and things like that,

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just,

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you know,

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just a little frustrating.

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Once you did get there,

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Betty, because we do know that that's a real issue and I've,

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and we've, and they're working on trying to fix that.

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That has to do more with that.

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They're centralized up in the New York office.

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And so they don't have their own platform,

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but once you actually get to the content.

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How have you found the content?

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Is it helpful?

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Is it useful?

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Or is it just more things that you already know?

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That's,

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I think, one of my questions.

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I think it's useful.

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For me,

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the biggest thing is understanding what...

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counts for lobbying and so forth.

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You know,

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I think I've got it pretty much down pat,

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but I have to go back.

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Sometimes I'd like to go back and look over it again to make sure that

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I have everything right.

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So,

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but otherwise I think it is helpful.

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And has it helped you build your skills as an advocate?

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I don't know how much advocacy you did before you joined as

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a leader.

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Yeah,

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we're, our committee is almost non

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-existent right now.

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Okay.

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So we need to really build on getting more

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committee members.

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We're lucky if one person or two

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people show up.

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And actually,

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I think that's why I got the job was

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because I was the only one that showed up every time.

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That happens.

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That happens.

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What about others?

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What have been your kind of experiences overall?

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And we'll maybe dig in a little bit deeper on some of the specifics.

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This is Diana.

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Yeah,

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Diana, go ahead.

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So my experience,

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I've been doing this,

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the advocacy stuff less than a year.

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And I would say that the staff I've interacted with have been great.

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When she was just talking about the videos.

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My issue with them is some of them seem kind of basic and elementary,

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and I kind of already knew that.

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I went through like a media training,

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but I have already done multiple interviews

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with the media just from like the night stuff and advocacy stuff that I've

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had reporters reach out to me that wasn't affiliated with Blood Cancer

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United, yet that's what I ended up speaking about.

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So I kind of thought that...

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The classes were kind of redundant or not necessary.

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And I don't know if it's something where they need everybody to do it and to

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check a box,

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but it seemed pretty basic.

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I guess if you didn't have any kind of prior experience,

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it could be helpful or beneficial,

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but that was my two cents in regards to that.

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That's super helpful.

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Thank you,

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Diana.

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You're welcome.

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Others?

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I feel like the...

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Overall,

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I thought it was well done.

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But the module,

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I kept getting an email saying you haven't completed your work.

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And the module I hadn't done was the one on if

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you take someone to lunch,

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like what counts for something that Black

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Cancer United can do,

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like bring people to an event.

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But that,

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it just went into the weeds so deeply about

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all the things you can and can't pay for.

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And as an advocate who's going in and just meeting with legislatures,

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I'm never going to be that person that's paying to take them to

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lunch, paying to do things for them.

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That's more on the stage.

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when we go for lobby day.

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So I felt like it was way too in depth for the

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type of interacting we're going to be doing with staff and the legislature.

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Okay,

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very helpful.

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Thanks,

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Terry.

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Any other comments?

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And again, you don't have to comment on every question,

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but before I move forward.

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I thought the module was a good refresher course,

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but I've been doing this with other groups as well,

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and they all have approximately the same type

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of training.

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It's good to go over,

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but yes,

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it seems like I've been through it so many times,

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I could kind of take a nap while I'm doing it.

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But it is a good refresher.

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Like she said,

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I'm not going to be the one that's going to be taking

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my representative out for lunch or that

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sort of thing.

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Yeah.

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Let me ask you guys,

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several of you have talked about this,

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that it seems kind of basic.

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You guys are obviously probably a little more involved than the average advocate.

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So sometimes there is that level of kind of for people that are just

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coming in.

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But what would you find more helpful given your progression

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as an advocate?

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Kind of what would be helpful to you to

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do the jobs that you guys have assumed as volunteers

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for Blood Cancer United?

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What kind of training specifically?

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I would like to get more training.

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in the goals

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what Cancer United has at any particular time.

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I mean,

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what is it we're going to be asking for?

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And get that far

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enough in advance of when we're going to be doing the asking that

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I have time to absorb it and probably examine some

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other sources on my own.

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I find everything comes very last minute.

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And, you know,

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if I have a busy schedule,

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that's difficult for me to handle.

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So I would really like more information,

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you know,

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rather than trying to cram everything into,

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you know,

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lobby day,

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the day before we go on to go to the legislature,

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if we had that information significantly in

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advance.

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And is that mainly on the federal issues,

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Linda, or are you also working state issues when you're experiencing

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that kind of things are coming late?

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Yeah,

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things are coming late.

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I'm just now taking on chair of our

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Texas Advocacy Committee,

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so I'm trying to get things out more in advance,

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but I can only get out what is given to me.

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Yeah,

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that's a great observation.

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Yeah, I do think we need,

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you know, more information farther in advance.

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You all know when things are coming up and what's happening,

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but we don't.

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And so sometimes I don't feel like we're clued in as much as

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we should be.

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And you talked about the goals of even more.

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So just help me understand a little bit more about what you're thinking on that.

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Is that actually understanding both the issues,

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but also the strategy behind the issues?

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Both.

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You know,

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like we're going in federal lobby day,

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we're going to be talking about the need for continuing to fund cancer research.

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Well,

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I mean, give me more information about that other than just that global

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picture.

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You know,

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what is what?

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what funding is is in existence what more and specifically

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are we asking for just so i'm better prepared to

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talk to a legislator you know with with details yep

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right they talk about our strongest

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Our stories are the strong message that gets the point across.

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So if we have a little more time to craft our message,

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our story,

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so in terms of research,

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how can I fold that into my story?

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It's kind of hard to do that Monday

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night, Tuesday night before we hit the ground running on Wednesday.

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So just talk to me a little bit more about like,

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are you guys,

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each of you has slightly different experiences,

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but...

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Are you are any of you participating in the month?

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Isn't there a monthly call with some of the advocacy leaders?

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Yes.

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Ohio does that.

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Yes.

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And so is that a place where are you hearing more about state

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issues there or are you hearing about federal issues?

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Federal issues.

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Federal.

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We're doing more state on the Ohio side.

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I mean, we do hear about the federal issues,

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but we're also talking a lot about what's going on in Ohio.

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But it would be helpful for you to hear well

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in advance of the lobby day.

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Let's say the lobby day is coming up in May,

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I think.

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So starting even in January,

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if people were laying out,

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here's what the strategy is and here's where we're going.

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That's one of the things that could help all of you is what I'm hearing.

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Is that a fair playback?

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The talking points,

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the reason that we're going there.

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Yep.

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If we get those the day before and that's not really,

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you know,

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enough time for us to internalize it and spin it the way we need

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to spin it so that it fits our own personal stories.

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Great.

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That's super helpful feedback.

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What else would be helpful to

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you?

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If you think about let's go back to the modules for a minute,

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because that the the kind of.

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The talking points of those things are kind of more in real time stuff.

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But what about the modules themselves?

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How could they be better?

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Especially,

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you know,

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you guys talked a little bit about some of them are somewhat elementary

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to you.

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What would be helpful for you as you develop

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as an advocate and you're trying to lead others?

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What kind of trainings are you looking for?

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I would like to see.

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kind of a general overview of what we can do as an advocate.

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You know,

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the emails that Danielle sends are

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wonderful, and I respond to almost all of them.

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But there are other things that I could do,

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be it,

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you know, just sending letters or calling my representative.

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How can I get other people involved?

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What little sort of...

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things that we can do that don't take much time but can certainly

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help us reach other people and reach our

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representatives.

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Great.

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Others?

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Kind

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of along the lines with that,

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is there a way,

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like when Danielle says something or sends something that I

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could put on a Facebook thing that's not quite

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as detailed as what we get because we're a little more...

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You kind of understand it,

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but just like, hey,

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friends, this thing is going on in Congress.

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Here's a little here's an easy way to reach out to your congressman

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to say that you support or don't support this.

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OK,

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make it easy to,

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as Joel was saying,

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to get more people involved.

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So it's not just like the five of us advocates in Ohio,

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but like, how can I get my broader group to easily be able

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to do that without.

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seeing a two -page document come from Blood Cancer United.

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So say a little bit,

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I get exactly what you're saying,

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Terry, but say a little bit more as you're kind of looking at your advocates and

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trying to get them more involved.

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Are they doing the trainings on their own?

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Are you suggesting that so that they know more about kind of what's happening?

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Even not just for advocates,

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but just as a way that me as an advocate can get my

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friend group.

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to also respond to Congress.

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You know,

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I feel like we need more than just people that are directly impacted

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by blood cancer by themselves or somebody in their family or close friend,

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but are just also going to be impacted by funding

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cuts, changes to Medicaid,

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things like that.

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Like, is there an easy way that I could just send something out

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through Facebook to say,

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hey, join me in supporting this legislation or this?

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piece of legislation so and you think that some of it's like too

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long it's not like pithy yeah needs to be like if i was just to share

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something that i saw i feel like it's almost you know when you

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see a page that's full of in -depth text with leukemia lymphoma

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stuff that people may turn away from that yep the simplifying

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the messages great others all

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right let

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me ask you kind of the question about

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As you think about the trainings you have done,

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which of them have been the most helpful to you?

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And it could be

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that you did a live training.

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It could be,

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just give me some examples.

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It could be that you did a module online.

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Could be that you went to a particular,

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you know,

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there might've been a particular meeting of advocates,

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like the lobby day or whatever.

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Are there examples of things that really you walked away?

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and said oh that really really helped me i think the day before

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lobby day when we all get together and we hear from you know

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not only staff but other professionals that to me has been the

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most valuable tool that i've i've been given by blood cancer

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united i find the modules um i think

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diana was saying they're pretty elementary i mean if you've been doing

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this for a long time

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You know,

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you already know the basics and have to redo them every year

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is a little frustrating.

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Plus,

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as Terry mentioned,

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you know,

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they can't seem to keep track of what you've done and what you haven't done.

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That's frustrating.

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Yeah.

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Yeah,

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I agree.

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Just advocacy day the day before is when you really

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kind of get the nuts and bolts of it.

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Going in as a first time advocate two years ago,

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I was a nervous wreck and like the best advice I got and

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I got it from multiple people is all you're

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doing is having a conversation and telling someone your story and nobody knows

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your story better than you.

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So I almost feel like a module on like have

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two or three people almost like you're sitting across the dinner

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table saying.

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This is kind of what you can expect,

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but just remember,

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nobody knows how blood cancer has impacted

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you more than you.

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And do you think that's very

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helpful?

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And do you think,

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again, trying to think about multiple layers here.

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So you all are a sophistication level that's higher than many of the just

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day -to -day advocates.

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Do you think it's helpful to have some of these modules for the day -to -day,

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not the day,

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for the occasional advocate,

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I should say, someone who hasn't done it before to get them introduced and

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then do the in -person stuff moving forward?

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I'm just trying to think about a progression of helping people who are new to

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the program.

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Like Terry, I think you were just saying,

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like you were new a couple of years ago.

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So the in -person really helped you because somebody said to you,

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like,

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don't freak out.

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You know, just tell your story and you'll be fine.

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So that in -person thing.

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But then there are people who may

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need to learn more about things and there's not always time to

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do all the in -person stuff.

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So is there a place,

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I guess I'm asking about the online modules for

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maybe people who are less experienced than you guys?

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Linda,

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I can't hear you even.

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I can tell you're off mute.

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Now you're on mute,

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but I can see you're talking.

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One of the difficulties with the modules that I've found

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is that they're really geared towards

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staff.

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I mean,

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as Betty was saying,

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you know, taking people out to dinner or,

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you know,

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we...

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that's not something we're going to be doing,

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or Terry was saying,

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I forget which,

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sorry.

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But yeah,

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you know,

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it's a lot of it is geared toward,

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you know, conflicts of interest.

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And, you know,

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a lot of this is just not,

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your day -to -day advocate doesn't necessarily need

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that information.

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Have to plow through all that without getting what you really do

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need is a little frustrating.

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Yeah, and I think actually now that I'm hearing you guys talk about this,

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and I'm not as intimately familiar with the website

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that they use,

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but some of that is actually required by the national organization,

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the conflict of interest policy.

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And are those the things you guys are talking about where they make you wade through that stuff?

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Yeah.

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And that's actually not necessarily from the Office

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of Public Policy.

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It's something in addition to what they're doing that I

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think is required of you.

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So I'm kind of thinking more about the content.

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I hear what you're saying on that.

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I don't know if they have a lot of control over saying that from the Office

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of Public Policy that you don't have to do that stuff.

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But I'm wondering about them when you get down into

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the content about how do I do a good meeting,

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those types of things for your advocates.

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Do you think that those are helpful to them or would you rather

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have more people just doing in -person stuff or on Zoom

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stuff?

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That's my question.

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I'm trying to kind of figure out kind of how you can get more people involved.

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I just did an interview

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segment and that really helped to

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see how everybody talks,

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you know,

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how they talk to other people,

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how they respond.

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Some people are more professional,

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some are more lighthearted.

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And it was nice to see the way different people respond.

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into conversations about advocacy and

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what they're doing.

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And I think that helps a lot.

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Okay,

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that's great.

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Others?

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I thought Lobby Day was the most amazing thing there

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was.

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I had a wonderful partner.

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Thank you, Linda.

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But what I would like to see is...

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There's so much information and it was all so good.

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I would like to see maybe that all the information that we were given

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during lobby day be distilled down and then make it

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into a module so that,

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you know,

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we aren't afraid of our representatives.

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We're,

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you know, everybody,

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we always say,

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okay, they're just,

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they put their pants on just like we do.

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But there's still that,

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oh, yeah,

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they got elected and they're up in front of millions of

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people every day.

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But I'd like to see something

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that would make us a little more comfortable just speaking

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even to our local.

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representatives,

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be it city council or state representatives,

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national,

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that sort of thing.

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Something that would give us an idea,

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maybe even including a mock interview

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or a mock discussion with a representative.

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Excellent.

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That's great.

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And are you thinking that even though you're an experienced advocate,

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doing the mock thing in real time could be super

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helpful?

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It seems like a lot of what you're telling me is the in -person

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stuff, whether it's on Zoom or in person,

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is the stuff that's the most helpful to you.

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Is that what I'm hearing?

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To me,

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yes.

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And again,

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