#evidencebased

Last weekend I attended the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicines' annual national conference, in sunny Cairns, Australia.

I was fortunate enough to attend the conference on a student scholarship for my systematic review of reviews on CBD interventions within autistic population. I presented an academic poster that visually displayed and outlined the background, aims, methods and results of my research review.

This was my first national conference and I learnt a lot from the oral abstract presentations and academic posters. However, my main take away from my experience was the ability to network. Yes, you may say! thats the point! Conference are for networking . . . . .

No. I am talking about strategic networking and if there is one thing I learnt from my time in tourism marketing, it's how to strategically network.

Network with intention, having a purpose for making the connection is key here!

Ask yourself how the connection could benefit you

Ask yourself how you could benefit the connection

Pitch with purpose

Follow up with actions

e.g. I watched a presentation this past weekend looking at a bio-psychosocial screening tool used in clinical general practice for intervention prevention.

How did this potential connection benefit me? I wanted to adapt the screening tool for research purposes.

How can I benefit the potential connection? I want to work with the connection to further adapt, implement and publish the screening tool for research.

I pitched with purpose! I introduced myself, my research and affiliations (elevator pitch) and specifically how I wanted to adapt the screening tool for my research - I kept it short and was offered a business card from the connection instantly afterwards.

I followed up with actions via email, I re-introduced myself, where we met, the reason for reaching out and how I intend to action my original pitch.

Long story short . . . . . a new project is in the pipeline and it took me less than 5 minutes in total to make the connection.

Save yourself and your potential connections the small talk by setting intentions for your networking and walk away with opportunities, NOT just linked-in connections.

We're running a zine! No, not the other one I posted about, that had some personnel issues but your money was already completely legitimately spent on the production costs so you won't be getting it back. But you know what they say: if you fall off the horse, maybe try stealing a scooter instead next time, you don't know how to fucking ride a horse.

So we're taking applications from artists and authors who want to be in FelonZine! Look out for submission guidelines in our next post to see what we want from you, but this one is about what you want from us: accountability.

We've incorporated in New Jersey as FelonCorp LLC to make it easier to launder money evade taxes lay out our exact costs and profits to you, our talent and consumers. Here's the breakdown:

Printing will be $1.50-$3 per copy, depending on final production volume

$100 flat rate for each accepted artist or author (in addition to one free copy); 25 artists + 15 authors = $4,060 - $4,120 total depending on printing price

$200 flat rate to our layout designer, who does this for a living and is taking a hilariously steep pay cut for the hundreds of hours of work this will be so I don’t want to hear any of you bitching about it

$200 flat rate to our editor (that’s me) who does not do this for a living but still needs to eat, and since we’re paying our content producers and this is all the money from the entire zine that will go into our pockets I don’t feel the least bit guilty

$7 shipping per copy

We went back and forth on this for a long time, but in the end we decided on this instead of having each person pay separately for shipping depending on where they are. We’re both in the best state in the best country and will be sending the zines out from here, but fandom is global, so we’re expecting (hoping!) to see a lot of international interest, and we don’t want to $30 shipping to a. stop someone from being able to buy this or b. be a surprise after pre-orders have already been made. So yes, a lot of you may end up paying more than you would for shipping if we broke it out and we could just have Vinnie and Todo drive it down the block to you, but many will pay less, too, and we’re feeling socialist today.

$1500 for business expenses, which covers the lawyer and accountant we’ve consulted to help us set this up and the actual cost of founding FelonCorp LLC.