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years ago, I was very active on the lecture circuit, speaking not only
at raw food restaurants, as the keynote speaker for EarthSave
International twice, Friends of Animals, and at the North American
Vegetarian Society, but also at all of the big Raw events of the day,
including the Portland (Oregon) International Raw and Living Food
Festivals, the Living Now Festivals outside of Buffalo, New York, and
others. I also wrote for Just Eat an Apple, Get Fresh, and many
independent magazines.

But as Tanglewood got busier and busier, finally becoming the
largest fasting center in the world at that time, I gave up traveling
and speaking and focused on working with my clients and running
the center. We stayed nearly full all the time via word of mouth and
repeat clients for six or seven years until the economy started to
take a nosedive five years ago.

I finally realized that it was time to come out of hiding, and once
getting past my fear of YouTube (I’m not really a technology guy) I
started posting videos sixteen months ago and started to book more