Now Kelly Boomin, Executive Director of the FLCCC to explain how this actually comes together
in reality.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good morning, everybody.
I wanted to kind of think, first think some of our board members here.
Chris has been doing an awesome job emceeing.
He did a great job yesterday, and I think really adding kind of the strategic context
that we're looking at as we grow the organization.
Chris also is going to be doing a pop-up session, so we'll talk about that at 10.30 this morning
over in the Rio conference room, while Tim will show you how to get there.
But I wanted to thank Chris for all his hard work emceeing this.
He's really kind of provided us great leadership.
So I want to thank Chris.
Another board member that's become a friend, because he just worked so hard for us and
invested in our organization and invested in the people with his time and energy.
Tom Markson, I want to let you feel kind of wave here.
Just endless energy to kind of help us do what we need to do.
And then Steve Timms, I don't know where Steve is, I haven't seen him this morning.
There's Steve.
Steve has been our Chief Legal Counsel.
He's a really big job, and he does it for zero money for us.
So he is like so generous with his time, and he helps me navigate all the different specialist
attorneys that we work with, and we couldn't do what we're doing without kind of his counsel.
Jeff Hansen is going to join us later today.
I don't think Jeff is here yet, but he's one of the people that also recognized Pierre
on the video, and said, I've got to meet this doctor.
He seems like he's telling the truth.
And he actually kind of helped make the organization, in addition to Matt Isaacs, who's here, who
also kind of contributed very early.
He really helped put in the funding to kind of help bring on.
He actually hired me into the organization and started to kind of get a business part
that accompanied the doctors.
So we wouldn't be where we are without Jeff, and he'll be here later today.
I want to point them out, because I would love for them to introduce themselves to you
and you to introduce yourselves to them and learn more about the organization.
So I really appreciate all that they're doing.
Joyce Cayman is not able to be with us today.
You see how beautiful our stage looks, and the tables and everything.
Joyce came in early just to do all the work, and she had to leave for a family by Mitzvah,
but we're so blessed that we have her kind of helping us as well.
I wanted to do something.
We've got a mix of an audience here.
So I wanted to say, how many people here are healthcare professionals, providers?
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
And I know we had a number of people.
Do we have any scientists here?
Data scientists?
I know Matt.
We've got a lot of scientists in the room.
Who would say that you're a medical freedom advocate?
This might go across all different areas.
So I'm going to put my hand up.
Health enthusiast?
We've got a lot of health enthusiasts in the room.
Who are here looking because they're injured, and they're looking for some solutions?
I met a few people yesterday.
So I think we've got a lot of amazing talent in this room that hopefully we can kind of
provide some solutions and ideas for you as well.
I already went through our, I want to also talk about the badges.
So this year, we really tried to kind of make our badges stand out.
So we've got the state on the bottom of the badge.
That's there by purpose because we want everyone to connect.
So I'm Colorado.
So any other Colorado people come up and let's kind of connect.
I met some folks.
I gal from Grand Junction, a couple other people.
So there we are.
So if you know, go ahead and connect and even at the front at registration, the team actually
printed out all the people that are in different states and the cities are in.
So if you're curious, if someone's from Castle Pines, Colorado, like I am, I can go ahead
and find them on my list.
And we'll talk a little bit better about it, even more convenient way that you can actually
kind of connect.
We started our lives as frontline COVID-19 critical care Alliance.
There's a really funny video that we dug up for our anniversary where the doctors are
all talking about what to name the organization, and I think they had three or four more names
attached to this.
They were really even longer than it became here.
So this is like a short name.
And this has become so well regarded to so many.
When we looked at how we move beyond COVID, and when I say move beyond COVID, we will
always be committed to COVID in serving the needs of those in prevention, acute care,
long COVID and those that are vaccine injured.
So we're not going to go away from that, but we will build beyond that.
So FLCC Alliance, what we're going to unveil today is now, it's like Kentucky Fried Chicken
going to KFC, frontline COVID critical care Alliance is going to FLCC Alliance.
So we'll always have strong roots, but we're going to be using our acronym now to mean
something that's much bigger and broader.
And Pierre and Paul and Chris talked about the ways that will extend our strategy and
really fill the gaps that are so avoid today within the current system.
So I've got a couple of notes here, but we talked about expanding on other chronic diseases.
We're already doing that today.
I mean, Paul's led some of the work that we've done in insulin resistance and diabetes.
We've worked with Dr. Goshta on helping with brain health and things you could do pre-dimension
all timers.
And one of the most amazing new things that Paul's worked on and led is the cancer care
document.
In fact, we got a number of his books and we are sold out on Paul's book, but you can
get it on Amazon.
And Paul, I think, wanted me to tell Pierre that we sold out of his book first.
So, but in all seriousness, we do have Dr. Corey was so generous and he gave us all the
books that he purchased at Wholesale.
The entire purchase, if you guys get a book in the FLCC hub is 100% donated to the organization.
So Pierre, we really appreciate that gift that you gave us.
But our doctors do a great job is thinking about creative solutions.
And it's not only them.
It's all the people in this room.
So we can really harness a talent beyond kind of our small team of doctors with everyone
here.
And we've got some ways to kind of, we'll make it really easy for you guys to do that.
The other thing that has been a principal and is a North Star is that we're always
about patients over profits.
We very purposely don't have a lot of commercial, you know, kind of support.
We've had people come to us.
It's a very expensive event to do for us and we don't do it to make money.
We do it to educate.
In fact, it's a high principle in working with Paul and Pierre that we make it accessible,
that we make sure that we do it in a hotel that people afford to attend, that we make
the price not so high that we can get the most contribution of people being in the audience.
But what that means is that we can't always kind of deliver a profitable return.
So I'm here humbly also to say that we are in the red on this.
And I know Paul and Pierre don't like me to talk about this, but it's like that's an
area that you guys can help us support.
If you like the kinds of things that we're doing on the events, we can use your help
and support.
So I'm going to bring that up.
But we also wanted to bring up some great partners into this particular conference.
So actually we've got a whole line of tables.
We've got like a whole partner hallway.
So when you guys are on breaks, make sure you turn left and go around the corner.
And we've got some partners.
And I'll go through them specifically that are here to cut that are really compliment
kind of the good work that we do.
And so we did integrate that in and want to kind of highlight their great work.
Chris talked about leaving a movement with shared values.
And that's really what we're trying to figure out the best way on how to kind of format
that.
I'm going to quickly go over this since we're running a little bit over time because I want
to go through some of the new announcements.
As we talked about FLCC Alliance, we wanted to come up with a really short, like we call
it a frame of reference statement.
And so what we've got is to kind of synthesize everything as our new kind of elevator pitch
is a healthcare nonprofit on a mission to restore trust.
We talk about all the trust being broken, integrity, really kind of, I think kind of
the best exemplified by our founders, Paul and Pierre, and restore the doctor-patient
relationship.
Dennis Madison, what do you guys think?
I've got kind of the AV team help kind of put some gobos up on the wall, the kind of
the lights on the wall.
But we worked with Tony Van Grove to kind of help put an expression, you know, beneath
what the FLCC Alliance is and something that we all really resonated with very quickly.
And it was at the end of the video that we kind of showed.
The video was really amazing to me, like do I get sentimental kind of watching the video
we put together?
And I want to put a big thanks out to, where's Betsy, or Betsy might be in our other room,
is Betsy Ashton in here right now?
Oh, there's Betsy.
Betsy, which many of you guys know from our webinar, so she's so well known, is kind
of like behind the scenes kind of worked on all the videos that we captured.
That was like, you know, the master, you know, Lee Work of her interviewing people and helping
to put that together.
And Joyce came and also did an amazing job in pulling that together.
What we wanted to do was kind of show how the value of FLCC has kind of touched so many
people, but we also wanted to get the information from them on what we can do and how we could
do a better job as we grow.
So honest medicine is kind of a tagline that we've picked because it just really went to
our values.
So here I've got some kind of words on the page that talk about how you pull out from
honesty and how you pull out from medicine.
On the tables, you guys should see this little brochure.
So that gives you a little bit more insight on it.
I'm not going to read through it, but I wanted to talk a little bit about the use of the
tree, you know, that's on the front on here.
So the reason we use that kind of as an icon is a tree is about strength, roots, wisdom,
is a place to gather for security.
It's a symbol of courage.
Many parts of it are actually used for medicinal purposes.
So again, I think these are kind of some of the things that we want to build upon.
Community forums, we started talking, this might be a little bit redundant to folks that
were here yesterday, but I think it's important.
Community forums is when we can't do this all the time, it's a place that we can do
something online that can kind of pull together all the great ideas.
And what we get, I got approached by 20, 30 people, how can I help?
What can we do to help FLCCC?
Well we needed a place to kind of work a small team.
We're still only about 15 people that work really hard and are so passionate about it,
but we get all these amazing ideas from this room and we don't know what to do with them
all.
But if we create a structure that can organize the different topics where people can contribute
and we can kind of get the information or the ideas on new research or the ideas on
new therapies or how we need to package things so it's easier for a patient to kind of empower
themselves, then we can do our job so much better and we can like facilitate this entire
room and those so much many beyond to kind of help us.
So one of our big strategies is we need to harness the power of the talent in this room.
So are you guys willing to help us harness the power of this room?
And we want to do, we want to create a place that's safe and secure.
I mean how many people have had issues with what they can say on social media, being kind
of put in Facebook jail, taken off Instagram, I know we have as an organization, we can't
even get on YouTube anymore, but we're going to have a place that's safe and secure and
also is a place where people can have honest debate.
It's not just about what our organization, we want a debate like it should happen, like
it should have always been happening.
And it also can be a place for the professionals in the room to exchange referrals.
So anyway, I'm going to announce today that we've got kind of the beta of our service
and we want to invite you to participate.
We're a little short of time so I don't want to go into too much detail, but I'm going
to quickly give you the FLCC.net forums and that's a place where everyone can go in the
public forums and communicate and actually part of it you can see on the top here is
conference 2024.
So we actually have a forum just for this conference.
And that's where you can kind of post questions.
So we'll go through some questions on Slido, but we're not going to get to them all.
But this is a place where you can post other questions and we can work with our speakers
to kind of answer them as a follow up.
You can say, you didn't get to this, but I have a great study.
You guys should consider this one too.
So when you have all these ideas, help us put it there and then we have a place to organize
it and kind of act upon it.
It'll make it so much better for us and I think we really enjoy connecting with others
as well to extend the value of this conference.
And then part of this too is that we want to provide forums for everybody on our website,
but we also want to create some membership programs that have special additional security
and benefits and value.
And one thing that we've heard is that especially professionals, they want a place where they
can exchange ideas and therapy safely and where they can exchange referrals.
Well, we're launching the professional membership program forum and we're going to do it free
for everyone in this room for three months because we want you to help us build it and
you to contribute ideas.
I had people come up with me with scientific studies, oh my gosh, help put that in the forum
for us please so we can organize this because that gives us a way to kind of go through
it.
We can have the forums tell us which studies should we be looking at next.
What have we missed?
What new therapies are you guys working on in this room that Paul and Pierre might not
be aware of that we should consider?
We need your help.
So this is a great place for us to harness the help and we might identify amazing volunteers.
Now we have a method to kind of use a great talent in our room.
And we also have one, we're calling it for champions because people are champions of
the cause.
There might be freedom advocates, there might be health enthusiasts.
So it really is an umbrella to say, you know, Paul mentioned we have to empower ourselves
as patients because all the doctors aren't going to be in the same place.
So we need to go, I know so many people that said I go to my doctor and I show him your
protocol and I print it out and I bring it to them.
And people are taking Dr. Merrick's new cancer guide and they're reading through it and they're
bringing it to their oncologist.
We need to empower the patients and you need to kind of ask the questions yourself and
take back your power for health.
And this is a way that you can do it and help us at the same time.
So again, you can sign up at flcc.net forward slash forums.
Eric Jensen is the guy in a cowboy hat who is like very quiet sitting in our hub.
And he is an amazing find that we had as head of technology for our organization.
I call him the black ninja because he just kind of quietly gets stuff done.
But he and a team, including Michael Goller, you know, Kyle Thompson, Christie Young and
Allison Smeltz, actually who are working the merchandise booth, we've got our head of technology
doing forums because the rest of the team kind of helping to sell t-shirts, all kind
of put this together.
And they've done a fabulous job and they'll be demoing it in the hub.
So check it out.
I know I might be over but I really want to make sure I'm able to kind of thank our team.
We have an amazing team.
This is more than that kind of full time people because we have a lot of people that help
us just part time, we have people that kind of volunteer with us.
There's no way we could put on this event with all the people and all these like amazing
circles.
I have managed people in entertainment when I've run television networks and cable systems
and this is the best team I've ever worked with.
This is like magic that we have because everyone is so, they've come to our organization to
save lives.
They've come to our organization because they feel like we feel a gap and everyone works
so well together and the mission is far outweighed by anyone's individual interest or ego.
So I'm so proud of this team.
Please introduce yourself.
They're all in teal so we kind of stand out and can help you all.
And I want to particularly thank my leadership team which is Eric and then Kate Van Grove.
I don't know if Kate's got a chance to be in here.
She's out in registration and Zara Sethna, our head of marketing who's been kind of sitting
in the back helping Tom and I kind of put on the show.
So thank you so much to kind of everybody there.
Oh, one thing I didn't mention.
I wanted to thank the donors in the room.
We can't do this without you.
So Bob and Diana Carter who have been amazing supporters.
I didn't mention you earlier.
I don't know if Bob and Diana are probably here.
Oh, there you are.
Hi, guys.
Thank you.
Matt Isaacs.
I don't know where Matt might be.
Matt is like fabulous kind of peer mentioned him.
We've got the Brady Foundation here.
Thank you so much.
And Bill Meekley, William Minniter, Barbara and John Meister, Helen Arnold and Barbara
Hobb.
And a number of people.
So thank you from our hearts.
We can't do this without you.
And we need everyone's continued support to do more of what we're doing.
There's also a number of people that did benefactor passes at the conference and we really appreciate
that.
That really is kind of a huge contribution that helps us put on the conference today.
So that's all I've got to say today.
