BioFi Event Planning
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Disclaimer:
Everything below is a mix of what I observed and heard during the event. The goal isnât to pinpoint "who exactly said what," but to share (usually) an outsider's view and overall perspective on these industries. Iâm not here to act as a definitive firsthand sourceâreaders should do their own research. I hope this inspires you to attend events, explore new industries, and hear what leaders are presenting. These notes combine my observations with thoughts on how things could run smoother and how ideas connect (IMO). Iâm not an expert, you know? Just hanging out in the room with them. Enjoy!TOPIC INCLUDE: Regenerating Earth, Funding, Water, Native Lands, Connecting Communities, Motivation, Healing, Private Funding, Event Planning, Marketing, Social Media, Mini-Influencers, Storytelling, Narratives
This was to help plan an upcoming event in the region. The goal is to cut waste out of financing and get money to the people actually working. The goal is to restore the region around the Duwamish River, and using this as a scaleable model others can use. I was randomly invited to speak at this event and the more I learn of it - the more Iâm lovinâ it. đ
Why Attend? Can save and turn a toxic river (hosting 70%+ of the regionâs industryâŚ) somehow into a restored beautiful area? A DESTINATION!!?!?!? Is it possible? Well⌠it actually, sounds like we could be doing many things in the region a LOT better (as far as cleanliness, data, and connecting people already working on the same things). So, how do we turn this dream into a reality? (Legit, I felt like I was on another planet at this event sometimes cause it was such a cool/surreal conversation that Iâd love to see happen). I think we can achieve a lot. We just gotta be clever and organized. I can only do so much - each person can only do so much⌠but communities can move rivers (no joke!! This river has even had its shape modified in the past đ).
OVERALL EVENT REVIEWS: Venue (5/5), Food (4.99/5), Speaker Content (5/5), Networking (4/5), Likeliness to Return (5/5)⌠hahahhahah and I really didnât want to go to this event too much before it started. Itâs funny to write these reviews down now. hahahhahaah. See? Just leave your house, okay? Youâll probably enjoy it. đ
Photo Collage & Commentary
NOTES FROM THE EVENT
These all deleted and i had to retype the top 80% of them so iâll clean it back up laterrrrrrrrrrrrr
PRE ARRIVAL
BTW I want to make this particular eventâs topic/title sound as epic as possible, cause Iâm super biased about it, hahahaha. I mean!! Itâs about saving Earth - everyoneâs freaking âsettingâ in this movie of their life!! So⌠itâs a good thing to advocate for - alright? I stand behind my stance!! hahha. So, I think the title will change a few times over the next few days until I hit ânothing but the netâ. AKA a perfect feeling of the name. But at the moment âBioFi Event Planningâ is what I have up there. So dull. đ
This upcoming weekend conference/event will be soon - in about a month. They decided to invite more people who will be contributing to the event to come and share their ideas and thoughts. (For most of this, I thought this was their first meeting. So first-person of me. But it turns out theyâve been planning this a long time hahahah.) Just invited more people for this.
So, thatâs pretty awesome and epic - and, you know, not TOO last minute with still a month to go.
Even though I didnât know anyone there (and was an hour late by mistake), I ended up speaking up a lot đ.
Cause, I found there was a lot of knowledge I could add from going to all of these events lately!! And even the weirdest things are tying together now⌠do you remember that crazy tour i went on of that mystery laboratory? And i was like, âum, where/what am I doing?â It ended up being super useful knowledge for today!! At least a bit hahaha.
And if Iâm going to be even a tiny part of an EVENT!!! Now that Iâm BLOGGING ABOUT EVENTS!!! hahahah. I better try my best with this one. Letâs see if we can make it really shine!!!
This is great (which is rare for me to say hahhaa - for me to be so hyped about a huge event start to finish). But I think this is something I can really get behind, so I want to give my best and help make it great - so it has a positive effect on more people and can ripple. Thatâs all it takes (right?) hahha. Letâs try⌠watch⌠and learn.
Okay - so if you canât tell, above is all sorta rambles. I will now start writing down my notes below. And no crazy story alongside my note-taking today.
Though, I will add that Iâm extremely excited to have this new tea this morning. Itâs local and looseleaf (no plastic-coated teabag) and the ingredients INCLUDE!!!! (iâm so excited to start my day with this lately - cause theyâre super anti-inflammatory and it turns out inflammation is the root of so many problemeessss): ginger, tumeric, cinnnamon, damiana, dandellion root, catnip. (hahha catnip!? okay.) Letâs begin.
TRAVELING THERE
When I arrived there was a chair perfectly by the door that I sat in. I saw that the agenda was on the board and that the order was like Introductions, and then other stuff. So I thought to myself, âOkay, they must be on the âother stuffâ section now, cause Iâm an hour late. Why? NAPPING!!!!
Omg. Can you believe it? IDK. Iâm not a ânapperâ - but you wanna know something funny? Lately I learned the definition of ânapâ. I didnât realize I had it wrong this whole time.
I thought that napping was like a skill someone had. Where you could lay down, fall asleep - but also somehow it only lasts 30 minutes. Like, everyone always says, âonly nap 30 min or soâ⌠so my whole life I tried napping, but iâd be like âwtf, i canât fall asleep in 30 minutesâ so I just thought I was bad at napping and Iâd get annoyed with it. Eventually, I started calling, ânappingâ - âFake Sleepingâ. I just said, âokay, iâm going to go fake sleepâ and then just lay there and pretend to sleep.
Turns out⌠that is napping. hahahahahhahaha. Cause I realized when you take the pressure off of âfalling asleepâ its easier to do. So I just invented âfake sleepingâ where Iâd pretend to sleep (if/when you become a parent, this just naturally happens. hahah).
Only recently, I learned thats what a nap is. Its just resting?? Not actually sleeping???? hahahhahaha. So yeah. I meant to take a TRUE nap (like a fake sleep) but I ended up taking a âKellyâs Old Definition of a Napâ aka FULL FLEDGE SLEEP. For an hour and a half hahahahha. Then I woke up and I didnât know if it was morning, night?? Sunday? Monday? Saturday When? huh? Then I realized, omg, I slept through my nap alarm đ - and the meeting started 5 min ago hahahah.
Then I took a taxi to the subway, then the subway to the closest station, then a shared scooter - and scootered over to the personâs garage this was hosted in. Introductions Anyway, so - yeah! When I got there, over an hour late - I saw the agenda and thought probably introductions were overâŚ. but they were still going on.
Cause next thing someone said was, âHi, my name is âŚ.. whatever, whateverâ hahha. This made me laugh and think about my Solo Women Entrepreneurs Group that I was in for a while. Cause they ended up limiting introductions to 30 seconds after they were taking up half of each meeting. hahahhahah. Letâs just say that.
ARRIVAL
So, when it was my turn to introduce myself (idk, if youâve been reading my blog a while, you know iâm like: eew. i dont want to say who/what i am/do hahahah cause iâm like uugh. idk? Iâm trying to make a global sensational tv show + epic content for generations to come/still figuring it out hahahahha) But at something like this, well⌠I felt itâs important to say who I am, my skills (a bit) and my stance. So I said I work in Stock Market Activism, I pay attention to what a lot in what people call âmeme stocksâ proudly. I said I make a lot of content on financial literacy, media literacy, and I have a blog.
Also (OKAY - YOU HEAR IT HERE FIRST, YOU EASTER EGG HUNTER - on Easter appropriately) - I also work on a kids tv show thatâs being revived. Yes. WTV is coming back :).
And thatâs teaching kids about money, kinda like a Schoolhouse Rock goal. With music, books, animations. And how a lot of people who like these memestocks havenât stop obsessing about it for years, cause at first we were just trying to figure out what was going on, but itâs been years later and nothing has happened - so we keep trying to figure out why, and now weâve learned of more corruption and crimes than we ever wanted to know. hahhaha. So. Yeah. Thatâs why I was asked to speak here and thatâs what Iâm working on.
And stuff like this regenerating Earth, I think it is great. hahahahha.
Other people introduced themselves, they work in applied mathmatics, event hosting, social connecting, aspects of climate, different groups, consultants, nonprofits, economic cohilitions (one woman said sheâs helping to create Seattleâs metaphorical portrait!), fishery sciences, one guy had lived in an ECOVILLAGE!
One lady worked in politics for a while (donât donate money to political candidates, she said)
A woman said her goal is to find an easy way to get people connected. To get people in local cities to get together who are already working on the same things. They can accomplish a lot. Social development Climate research resillience Energy systems Shared Narratives Sharing Interests Natural based climate solutions
Agreed. Sun - get back here!!
DISCUSSIONS BEGIN
How do you get folks to take care of themselves? To do carbon accounting research
Alternative carbon credits (biodiversity), PRACTICE versus metrics
Greenhouse emissions
Biodiveristy is low
Equitable and regenerative districts, states, communities, cities, countries.
We can apply these concepts of equitable regeneration⌠Local can be scaleable.
SO TRUE!!! You gotta start somewhere, you know? And a lot of times people feel like âstarting localâ isnât epic enough⌠but with this perspective, you realize - nah!! Itâs actually kinda/probably doable, as much as anything.
So, do it locally to start! Local can be scaleable. Proof of concept
One woman has a background in communications, selling good ideas to the public.
Political advertising for local democrats (donât give them money).
Weâre in a solar home!
People are working on many regenerative projects all over the region, but theyâre feeling tired and burnt out. Theyâre feeling hopeless. We want to connect people to launch this idea.
Develop processes, come together with a plan to regenerate this region and the landscapes. We will need to work together, which is something weâre not good at doing. It is hard. We will need to learn how to work together. We will need global partners.
We work closely with partners. We will become a case study, reimageining finance to reclaim our places.
Letâs take our institutions and fix it. Take back the land.
Letâs use money to regenerate. How? Weâll make it up together.
This is the first of its kind. We will showcase whatâs happening.
This eventâs location is unique. The story of it is amazing. The location on the water.
How will this really look? Look at the Duwamish River.
It is the home of the Duwamish people. The river was straightened. Itâs home of 75% of the industry in the state. The entire river is toxic. How do we fix this? We want to make sure weâre doing things right.
This is reminding me of the lab tour I went on. The lab theyâre building over the local lumber building near downtown, and how they were priding themselves in the eco-friendly watershed or whatever, must be related to this. And the governement people there seemed like they really wanted to help. They want to give money to people who know what to do with it. hahhaha. I wish now that Iâd taken even BETTER notes, but it wasnât the best environment for that⌠plus, I was really not sure what was even going on exactly at that event. But now I see why I went. hahaha.
So I could relate it to this a tiny bit. I brought up that idea later, how we can market this almost like a festival and show off all the big names and the work theyâre doing (like I know above the lumber yard is freaking hosting tours to show off how good they are at protecting the watershed, or wahtever - I went on the tour, right?) so I think we can use that "peer pressureâ here.
But then another girl spoke up saying probably this isnât the best way to do things. When you pressure someone, they donât stay involved as long (See!! I do like when people add on or sorta shift ideas, but still get my point).
Instead, she said we should hear what theyâre doing, excited about, and see if they can lean into it more.
Smart!!! Iâll admit- and Iâm glad my comment led to this point.
There is more of that below in a bit. Letâs work on bioregional finance. Shift the money from philanthropy to flowing into funding LOVE THIS! Let the funding flow directly to the people on the ground. No need for a middle-man + brokers. Eehhh right? like the stock market. D.R.S. âbookâ your shares, so they say.
The people on the land know best. They know how to regenerate the land.
Find founders, community artists, Web 3 Participating, goverenance, Land regenerators
This river is the most polluted industrial challenge.
Most companies think that âclimateâ is just people telling them what to do.
Long-term choices need to be self-led. Less forceful⌠date them, get to know them.
Connect and hear what theyâre interested in.
You love this?
How can we bring what you love into our goals? How can you contribute? People want to do that for the long-term.
There is not a lot of connection between communities. Many communities are doing very well, pretty advanced in their work. Letâs bring them togehter.
This event will have about 150-250 people, no more than that.
Then the event developed a lot over the next time. So at first there were plans, but as everyone added input, a lot great over the night Friday night will be dinner, catered. Meet everyone, guests and speakers.
Saturday will start with introductions to scalers. Make sure people can connect online. Open up with the fish bowl.
Invite the community people, model challenges and operations
How they would and will spend $5,000
The main room can hold about 200-250 people and will have a projector, pa, panel (hopefully they have a stage so that itâs not like only the front row can see⌠sometimes events forget this)
Livestreamers, videographers, photographers
Sunday, finance focus. Specific work presenters, conversations, workshops
App lets you meet ahead of time Elders will meet, music, poetry reading.
They need volunteers
Note takers at every event to document everything
Still a lot of needs and this is in a few weeks (4)
Info walls, Art Family space (my comment), Separate business and finance between two days in themes.
I suggested they reserve times for meetings, like power hours (take two hours each day - or one hour and have businesses plan four 15-minute meetings).
Cause we talked about how we want people to make connections and find the resources they need at this event.
Have tables Cooperate with what people need
Accountability and sustainability
How do we handle things going wrong?
Weâre already not the best at talking to each other.
My comment: Could we have influencers or people with media outlets to share about this? If its a small amount of people attending - then the âwordâ should be amplified, with FOMO, almost - then hype for the next events. Itâs a community.
It was said that also maybe weâre all influencers. Sometimes people donât realize how great their stories are to share. Maybe we can do interviews ahead of time with people and start to share it. Do interview at the event and share them after.
Huge marketing campaign AFTER the event. We are all mini-influencers
We need to learn to share our stories. PPL in organizations are already doing great things. Interviews, fast pitch stories⌠hereâs what you will need.
If someone heard what you need, what would they give you? What would they give your city?
Are you prepared for this question? Ge people together. There is power in sharing.
Weâre all telling this story together in a landscape. This is to set up alternative funding streams. Structure it through storytelling.
I think they need coloring pages in the family hahaha.
Maybe a Duwamish River coloring page :)
Kids are the future, hello!!! How can we tell THEM whatâs going on?
10-20k followers in some of their groups, so they have big social followings even in this room.
I mention, should we have awards? Plaques, acknowledgements? Certificates?
People mention that itâd be great to have acknowledgements cause that helps some businesses get more clients. Helps them become more credible. We need to build trust, context, and deep dive. We will give away some money here, as a taste of funding. Then you keep it going.
Some of these assets were are creating will become powerful tools. Maps, guides, better data than what is existing now.
I feel like this meeting is really incredible. Itâs like literally transforming and taking ownership of this region!!!
Makes me think about the âFire Annexingâ event I went to where I learn that almost every government job is contracted out, locally⌠so - YEAH!! WE DO NEED TO TAKE HOLD cause no one else isâŚ
Finance partners.
Letâs talk about money. For me, I started thinking about the fact this is a river, so its like a trail.
I told everyone how I went to school in Tennessee and there they had whiskey tours, so what if they have a tour where you travel along the sites. I said Iâm not even from here, Iâve only lived here 5 years so I donât even know where this river is hahahahah. But what if you take people on tours - even school groups? Then they said they want to have a tour be part of Friday.
There was also discussion about what are our key points? I mentioned that the best speech I ever heard about a pitch was to make it a few words, then add on a sentence, then maybe a paragraph if people are interested. Feed it in bites - so what are we doing here?
We must structure this event and our conversations oo hit all the points. So its all cohesive and together. You have a case study and white paper and model.
Can this be replicated and duplicated more globally?
Maybe there can be a trash-to-treasure upcycling event? Clothing swap? Seed exchange
Contractor w/ onsite education.
Eco-classes
Right? You can take dance classes but you canât go find farming classes, what the heck!!!
Crypto people will be at this event. Literally, they want to build a location for funding.
Bring in natural calendar cycles, too. Right now theyâre not on track.
Think of how we build and fund. Are you ready to accept $100M? What would you do with it?
I say: but how would you say this to a kindergartner? Right now its too huge of a concept, what is the simple way to say what weâre trying to do?
Cut the waste out of the investment. Heal back the dirt
Measure success
Local investments.
How are we encouraging others to work together, connect, regenerate real estate? Communities? Itâs about coming together in people I ask what the opposite of regenerative is? If this were black and white and weâre the black side, whatâs the white side?
Weâre working on regenerating earth? Theyâre un-regenerating it? Do they have a team like this?
They said itâs âextractingâ earth, and saw my point.
Weâre trying to figure out what we are - what this is. I was bringing up these things to get people starting to view this from an outsiderâs perspective, cause as you start to share with others what youâre working on, its good to think this through.
The more clearly you can explain what you do, the more likely others will get it - get hyped, and get onboard too.
Build a dedication of surplus.
Plug into portions of surplus into the BFFâs. It will go into the landscape trust. Working at the surface level. Use it as an investment.
Protect from extraction, use what is created and replenish.
Use money to build what you want to flow.
Put the landscape first, then investors. So we all are repaid.
Refinace for ACTUAL carbon offset.
- How do you partner? Letâs make sure itâs non-performative.
They want to work with the local native tribes and earn trust. âYou canât call them up to come and give your event a blessing, it doesnât work like that.â
Cause I said maybe thereâs something similar to the $5k seed money that we can also offer the tribe, and then follow up in the future, to start building trust and accountability from ourselves - build that into the plan.
Away from âcarboâ and more towards biodiversity
Makes me think of this huge push for diversity lately in humanity and beauty, but⌠we forgot about it in the ecosystem!! Our nutrition haha. Exercise and activity! Not just netflix shows⌠(eye roll. Join me in boycotting Netflix when youâre ready, yeah? Covid lockdowns was enough Netflix for me.)
What do you need to do what you want to do? How do you move it? Flow funds? Web 3?
speeches over!! Time to mingle.
Also,I want to add - a lot of this event was talking negatively about Trump and general slashing investments. I am cautiously and patiently optimistic about the future (and SO ANNOYED WITH THE PRINTING THE PAST 4 years. I GET IT!!!! more belowâŚ)
Seems a lot of the problems in our society are VERY deeply rooted and a few layers of the onion need to be peeled back before we can get to the cause. So, itâs gonna be a little messy here for a bit, but a year or a few from now itâs going to make a lot more sense. And legit everyone will be happier because everyoneâs goals are happening- safer environment, healthier food, more fair prices, more jobs again.
Thatâs what I think⌠as long as we can keep holding this administration accountable.
Just seeing the way money has been wasted by the previous administrations (and in general by everyone, cause we never got financial literacy classes or any money education throughout normal media and schoolingâŚ) itâs like - YEAH!!! Letâs spend this money smarter and better for everyone. Make our environment fantastic. Iâll teach them about this in my speech. About the reverse repo. Itâs left confusing on purpose so they can print infinitely and this is just the TIP of the iceberg.
How much of this money is hiding moass?
Look at the freaking reverse repo!!??? It is insane how much money was printed like weâve never seen during 2021-2024.
Federal Reserve borrowing money (the reverse repo) w/ the last date April 21, 2025.
That was about it!!
At the end, I volunteered to type up all of the notes we took down (but then Iâm not even sure they ever got them cause they wrote down my wrong email lol). They meet weekly to work on this, so they can use the notes with Ai⌠you know???
Cause you donât wanna put in all this work and then see only 30% get done. NO WAY. So I sent those off this morning. Then weâll hopefully meet again before the event to go over more things. And then the event is in about a month.
Pretty excitign and cool! Iâd never been to anything like this.
One guy simply said 'âthank youâ to me - hahahah, and then he left. I felt like that was nice.
It made me think of someone singing happy birthday to you - how much I hate it. Cause itâs so forced and just feels like an excuse for attention. Itâs like undeserved, required attention.
So his, âthank youâ really stood out cause it was just in general. it was like: thanks for coming here and being you. Nothing more needed to be said - cause it was just overall, you know what Iâm thanking you hahahah.
Idk if I ever had that happen to me before, so it felt really nice/surprising and - yeah, felt like the opposite of someone singing happy birthday to me hahhaah. Subtle, casusal, nbd - letâs carry on, but also - yeah. Youâre welcome :) and thanks for saying thanks.
I feel so lucky for being invited to join this and Iâm so glad they want to hear from me, you know? But I get it. And its good to see my value catch on.
One woman complimented my storytelling and how I spoke up. Sheâs in charge of a lot of this and she liked how I share ideas with others. I showed her this website and how I like to build out campaigns about interesting events. So, maybe we can do something similar with this information.
I spoke to her a long time, rambling (then got a bit embarassed)
She said its amazing how my mind takes on idea and becomes a fountain.
But I told her, a lot of this stuff I really think deserves to be taught, so how do you need to hear it? Song? Book? Cartoon? Lesson - you know? Iâll teach it to you however you need it.
This type of mission is right at the same level, I think. I like the goal of regenerating earth and I like the realisticness of figure out how to make our money do it. Itâs the only way!!!!
I spoke with a while at the end, too, who said she doesnât like the internet much, but sheâs glad that at least the internet made it so âeveryone is a modelâ now. Not just one stereotype.
I said thatâs true, but it also depends on what your take is on the role of a âmodelâ. Cause it seems like models represent, like, âideal beautyâ. At the same time, models are used to sell things to you, so it may be that the internet is just letting companies reach out to larger audiences and sell more to them. Often on things you donât even need and that do more harm than good.
She kinda just reinforced her views on being glad that everyone can be a model now, even with different colored hair and piercings.
For me, sure⌠sure⌠but whatâs the goal of the model? Also, I grew up my entire life dying my hair out of insecurity.
But about a decade ago I stopped dying my hair and then a few years ago I boycotted makeup. So, my true stance would be that beauty comes from within and it shines in how you present yourself.
So, I donât really care about âmodelsâ i care about our definition of beauty. And I think beauty looks different on everyone - just depends if they can stand with confidence (and then if you think theyâre doing beautiful things).
But just simply models there for the purpose selling you things, alright? I guess Iâm glad they look like everyone. I mean, when I was living overseas, my mind was blown - seeing advertisements with 99% only chinese people. it made me look at advertising from a whole new lense here on out. I stopped feeling like I could relate so easily to everything being sold to me - i saw it as an outsider, versus being a white woman in america surrounded by advertising to be more white (but with a tan) and blonde.
That was âcool/trendingâ when I was extra impressionable. I think Iâm buying WAY LESS than ever after experiencing that overseas exposure to advertisements for a few years. So, it may eventually have a negative effect on everyone - so much diversity in advertisements, it helps people see it for what it is? Just selling things to you? Or idk - maybe its making more people spend money, just not me - since now advertisment is less âblonde white girlâ - which I was always encouraged to become.
Always dying my hair blonde as a teenager⌠then dyed it black for a few years hahaha. So, I think we need to go one step further and see what do models represent? They represent messaging? Now letâs work on our messages.
What is REALLY worth saying?
Also, one of the eventâs hosts hugged me goodbye.
This made me surprised and I ALMOST laughed and told him, âI think youâre the first person to hug me all year.â (minus my daughter). Haha. You know? My fiance is stuck overseas and I just donât get hugs lately.
His goodbye hug made me realize that. :/ hahaha.
So, that was a little bittersweet and appreciated too. I teared up a little.
It was nice being so appreciated at this event, especially when I was pretty much âmy whole selfâ this whole time, more brave than usual. I was glad that âmyselfâ was appreciated there. So much that I got a goodbye hug.
With that - toodle-loo! Letâs see how great we can make this event and what the future holdsâŚâŚ..đŚ
Elaboration on Event Reviews:
Venue (5/5) - This was someoneâs basement, but it was extremely inspiring and you could enter through a door right at the front. It was such a nice space and was perfect for this planning event. Made me want a venue/basement (it wasnât underground though, just like âa basement/first floorâ)
Food (4.99/5) - Amazing to have food when this is a free event. And botique pizza too!! I mean, it ainât Dominoâs. Also, there was salad and clementines. ButâŚ. they ran out of salad. Thatâs my 0.01 negative comment. hahah. I mean, beggars canât be choosers!! So I was really happy even so.
Speaker Content (5/5)- Why was it so great? Cause he was the perfect moderator. Everyone spoke as much as they want and SO MUCH got accomplished and it was a really nice vibe.
Networking (4/5)- I didnât meet everyone there - no worries! hahah. But I met quite a few. So, it was easy to network - even as someone actively avoiding it lately hahahahah. Just lemme learn, and go home, okay?
Likeliness to Return (5/5)- For sure!! This was really cool, super interesting, I was able to contribute a lot - hashtag âsense of purposeâ you know? So yeah - for sure would love to join again and see how we can lock-in a pretty great event even further.
Until next time, I wish you the motivation and success to search for opportunities around your area. Search and explore: Who is out there giving talks? There are new things happening all of the time
Find relatable or interesting topics you like and check them out! Maybe even something hosted at a cool venue, if thereâs no other reason to go. Letâs see what you can learn and discover not too far from home. đ
