You will be provided with a Zelle payment request. Once you pay this, you'll have a receipt on your end immediately. Since I'm probably reserving space using your payment, if you're going to cancel on me, then you have to do it two weeks before the date of our class/meeting.. If you have a scheduling conflict, we can carry you over to the next event and you won't suffer any penalty that way. Just let us know whether to send it to your phone or email.
If you want to pay by cash app, we'll send you a payment request. Just let us know your Cashapp name.
If you want to wire us the funds, I have Bank of America and Nevada State Bank as options.
If you want to use a check or a money order, you can either mail it to me, or I can have you take it directly to one of my banks and deposit it directly. That way you'll get a receipt upon deposit. I need two weeks for checks to clear, one business day for wires to clear, and three business days for money orders or cashier's checks to clear.
Please reach us at msjodywilliams@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Good question. Many sites that offer you things like "unlimited classes for $99" are making money off you in other ways you may not realize. First, they sell your data. I don't release any information off any of my lists to anyone. They also sell you ads while you're on their site. I'm not using you to sell ads. Most of these sites have "sponsors", meaning they take money in order to only teach what these sponsors "approve" of, or they push their agenda on you.
Let's say there's a pharmaceutical company that wants to push their drugs on you so you think you need this to help you and/or your client. So they offer cheap and/or free classes, and then you get exposed to teachings they approve and that support their products. When I used to live in Allentown, PA, we locals were experiencing a lot of high quality recovery. It was normal to see a newcomer enter a meeting on a Saturday, and then see them start clicking off high quality time. They were surrounded with recovery as the area would have a brunch everyone was welcome at even if they were broke. Local merchants would donate beautiful coffees and foods.
At the same time I'm seeing this with my own eyes, I also picked up a continuing education newsletter talking about how "hard" it was for them to "enter this resistant area" with their message. That's because this area wasn't treating addiction with more drugs. Now I may take advertising from people who are supporting what I'm teaching, but I'm not teaching based on advertising dollars I get.
That said, I've paid dearly in many ways to have the knowledge I'm going to be passing onto you. I also put a lot of work into obtaining the knowledge I have. I've also done the "trial and error" on myself and others so what I teach isn't "experimental". It's tried and true proven to be true when it comes to someone like me. You may disagree with what I teach, and that's ok. I say that because at first, most people do. However, I have a lot of years of people thinking I"m crazy, and then a few weeks later, they're calling me up saying their mind just got blown because they know understand what I was talking about.
So if you just want cheap credits, I'm not the one. Then again, if you want to hear about what I've seen work with myself, my daughter, my sponsees, and other programs I've provided consultations and trainings for, and seen the results, and you are the kind of person to at least investigate if what I know may be of use to your clients, then I'm the one to choose. Know that your dollars allow me to carry on with work for people I work with who can't afford to pay for professional services, even if I were to charge them.
I've actually been teaching others, and speaking, since the first year I entered recovery. However, I come from a generation where we taught others "one on one". I actually did have tapes of my classes and lectures spanning over 30 years, but my now ex-husband left all of them out on the porch in the Las Vegas heat. So poof? Everything gone! I have managed to get duplicates of things like my appearance on Donahue, and I have a copy of my speaking at Many Paths, One Destination. But understand in 2018 I started getting calls from people like the guy who recorded me at that event saying "men have just come here demanding I wipe my hard drives of any of your speaking". So much of the tapes I used to have available before like at Pierce College where I used to teach with Dr. James Crossen, they also reported someone "broke in and stole everything in the library". Why? I'll explain more of that in my "about me" page. I also was asked by the Schlesginer Womens' Library to donate my archives to them, which made me realize I need to start preserving more things to give them. When they said my life was "history", I was taken aback at first. Then I started to REALLY think about it, and they were right. To Grandma Moses, she was just helping people get to freedom. But to history, we need to know about what she did, and preserve that history for future rebels.
If you wanted to learn how to surf, would you rather learn from someone who read a book about it, or a surfer who has broken world records?
As you get to know my story, you'll see how unique what I'm offering to share with you is. If you just want credits, then I'm not for you. If you're the kind of person who TRULY wants to see your clients change, then I am the one to take some time to hear what I have to say.
The changes I experienced through in my 66 years of age, and the 40 years I have clean now, are things very few people survive, let alone experience recovery.
But I had good teachers. In 1986, I found a special library that had films made by Bill Wilson, Dr. Bob and Jimmy Kinnon. I was floored because what I'd been led to believe these men believed, and then what I heard coming out of their mouths - was very different. Whatever your views on these men, they WERE responsible for causing a change in the course of recovery.
It's like if I wanted to make a million dollars, so I tracked down a millionaire, and I asked him how he did it. Then someone says to me, "oh but they've been married 8 times so he's horrible at relationships." Yes he is, but I wanted to learn from him how he made a million dollars, not how to stay married.
Inspired by these films, I started tracking down founders of other 12 step programs who were still alive and getting to know them. I created a "founder advisory board" of people who had founded 12 step programs that were helping a lot of people to teach me what I couldn't find in textbooks.
Which I learned in my own life why these things aren't in textbooks, and probably never will be. Then I started tracking down people with high positions within 12 step programs, such as the first World Literature Chair of NA, or the General Office Treasurer.
Then I found out how integral Alano Clubs were to AA, so I added friends from various Alano Clubs and Oxford Groups. I spent time being mentored by a man who created the first ever halfway houses for addicts (not alcoholics). I guarantee you what he taught me won't be in any textbook.
Then came "big game hunting" where I started trying to find a woman who had experienced childhood abuse and trauma , who was intelligent and neurodivergent, who had achieved more than 20 years of sobriety/clean time, and was not acting out with food, shopping, sex, or other forms of addiction/compulsion AND who was functional - not coach rotting and calling that "recovery". On top of being clean, this unicorn had to also be in recovery from sex work - stripping, porn, sex work, trafficking victim, etc.
The real hunt came to find someone with this background, who ALSO had a child in recovery without relapsing in some fashion. Many women like this either never have children, or they relapse or even die during child birth.
This is because I've seen this archetype also tends to have co-existing female problems such as PCOS, or fibroids, etc. Many times depression is just undiagnosed female issues.
In short, you will get my "experience, strength and hope". And I've seen a lot of things and sought out others who have also. This view allowed me to see the "patterns" also of what "we've" experienced, as opposed to just what I've experienced.
Like everything, take what you can use and leave the rest. I can guarantee time with me will be very interesting, and hopefully you'll also make friends with others like minded people in the classes.
Simple - I do not give, sell, rent, release or in any way transfer any of the information I obtain on my clients. I am am ordained minister, so that if you ask me to keep something confidential, then I will. I do not store my information on this site, nor do I keep paper records in my house. I i have received warrants and subpoena's that I've refused, and I turned down a lot of money and refused a lot of opportunities by refusing to be included in a program for trafficking victims that tracks their movements daily, and is reported back to Palantir Technologies.
I can't issue any refunds until your payment has cleared.
Because I may be reserving a room, or hiring a camera person, and because I have to reserve time to perform my teaching from other activities, I can't restock my time. So if you need to cancel and wish a refund, and your payment has cleared, and you are canceling in writing at least ten days before the event, then I will issue you a refund. If it's less than ten days, then I keep half for the inconvenience. If you have to cancel, you can also roll over to another date and not suffer any penalty. For your tax purposes, the payments will be processed through my 501c3. I don't know if that means it's tax deductible so you'll have to check with our accountant about that.
If you believe in what we're doing, here's some opportunities:
If you want your employer to pay for your training, we can arrange to do that for you. If you sign up people , at your company, or anywhere else, we can offer you 10% commission. Please remember payments have to clear before we can pay you. Since there may be cancellations we have to wait until after the day of the event.
If you sell for us, whether it's classes or products, then we'll pay you 25 % of the gross amount. So if the event is $100, and we have to pay out $10 for a book, then you get 25% of the $90 once the payments have cleared. Just be sure if someone signs up from your work, then you need to let us know.
If you have a story of survival and/or recovery, tell me about it. If I think my students can learn from your experiences, then I'll pay you to come speak.
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