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all right, Oh so anyway, Hey, I got a special
announcement that I wanted to do on this episode and
is letting everybody know that come this summer of twenty
twenty five, we are going to be doing two live
webinars in Virginia and for CEU Credit for Virginia. Uh
And so we're right now we're picking the venues. We
have to work through that, but it's gonna be two
of them. It's gonna be one that's going to be
basically taking the state and drawing a line right down
the middle. So we're probably gonna have something maybe Richmond
to Manassas area, that type of thing for the east coast,
maybe even you know, something between Virginia Beach. Try to
find something that is kind of central and then also
do something on the West side as well, like Roanoke
areas and and out that that way in the past
we used to do years ago when I helped create
the Continuing Education Requirement for Virginia, which with Eric Olsen
who worked with dp o R, I was the original,
the first ever CEU provider. And since then, you know,
there's a lot of providers. I think what makes my
live events different and those that maybe are still in
the trade that remember when I did Lives, is that
there's a lot of interaction. I try to make it enjoyable.
You will not sleep during one of my live shows,
and we really the ability to answer people's questions on
the fly is something that I take a lot of
pride in and so I do that on these shows.
And everybody knows that I'm a past Mike Holt top gun,
So again that tells you the endorsement of my stage
presence is totally you know up there, and I've been
doing it for decades. And again, it's just a great time.
And you just bring your codebook. We'll give you a
handout of the slides and uh yeah, it's a great
time to you know, get your CEU credits. It's a
three hour webinars. Excuse me, seminars keep saying webinar, but
we're out of the COVID thing now, so it's seminars
that I do, and I'm also available. I'm also doing
a private some private stuff for some some companies around
here that have quite a few employees. So right now
a couple I have schedules of just knowledge only, but
come this summer, we're going to be offering the CEUs.
And again, obviously you don't have to use US. I mean,
there's plenty of options out there. There's online options, even
our website. You can go for like forty five bucks,
you can get your CEUs. Pricing wise, we're looking for
the live show. It's going to be one hundred dollars
because again we'll have a lot invested in it doing it.
So again it's going to be one hundred dollars. Is
this flat fee you can pay in advance or pay
at the door, whatever, And we're going to give you your
money's worth. I really am. I'm going to give you
a lot of code, but I'm also going to break
it down for you so you understand it. It doesn't
do any good to have some educators who just kind
of read along and they don't really have the ability
to get into it.
Speaker 2: Now most people, no.
Speaker 3: I've been serving on code making panels for many, many
years now, multiple cycles, and you know my specialty is
obviously grounding and bonding aspects. I love that part of
the of the National Electrical Code Article two fifty and
two hundred and how it sprinkles its knowledge throughout the NEEC.
But again, I've worked at a very high level with
NIMA as well as large manufacturers.
Speaker 2: And I've been.
Speaker 3: The supervisor and the engineer too for municipalities here in Virginia.
So I give kind of a well rounded approach on
how to deliver the National Electrical Code. So if you're
out there and you're in Virginia or you're in Maryland
you have a Virginia license, or if you're in DC
and you have a Virginia license and you need to
get your CEUs.
Speaker 2: You have many options.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to say, you know what, let's take
a day and let's suspend it together, make it fun,
and come out in and enjoy spending the day with us.
Bring your lunch. We're just gonna do three hours, so
we typically don't don't provide any type of food, okay,
and again it's only three hours.
Speaker 2: I tend to sometimes do what's.
Speaker 3: Called a piggyback, And what a piggyback means is you
can do the webinar for one for the three hours
to get your CEUs, but then if you pay an
additional twenty five, then I also do an additional hour
on grounding and bonding a specific topic, maybe service bonding,
that type of thing, is kind of a bonus that
is very affordable, and you can choose to stay for
that or not, and you'll be able to do that
when you sign up. Maybe you just want to get
your CEUs and that's it, no problem. We'll give you
a certificate, we'll take all your information and we'll we'll
upload it. The other thing to remember is that in Virginia,
the online stuff now requires you to take a exam
or quiz, So that's huge. If you do in person,
you do not if you do it online or correspondence,
then you're gonna have to take a quiz and you're
gonna have to pass it. And if you don't pay attention.
I'm gonna tell you from my experience because I sampled
them before and the questions are tough. They're they're very ambiguous,
and so again it's very easy to potentially fail these.
So you do not have to do that in person.
Plus you get to ask questions, you get to interact
with me. I'd love to see you a lot of
times in the past people want me to sign their
codebooks where the code panel five or code panel seventeen is.
Speaker 2: I love to do it. I love to interact with you.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we do have some swag there, we we you know,
we'll have the trade hog demo there and all this
kind of stuff. We'd love to catch up with you
and meet you. So if you're in Virginia, if you're
in Maryland, if you're in d C and you hold
a Virginia license, we love to catch up up with you,
and hopefully you'll attend some of our live events here
in Virginia, So we're excited about that. Now, where are
we going to post these? Just so you know, this
will be posted over on our website, fasttracksystem dot Com
in the events, so you'll see it when it's available
and you can you can even purchase directly from there
to get your name there. If you want to purchase
online ahead of time or again, you can pay at
the door. That'd be fine too, don't We don't have
any problem with that. The only thing is at the
door we want cash exactly because we don't want to
get into having to swipe. It slows down the registration.
So just remember, bring cash. We'll give you a receipt.
We turn in everything so we keep track of it all.
So but at the at the end of the day,
I think that there's nothing that can really take the
place of a live seminars es actually one that's more dynamic.
There are some extremely boring seminars out there. I get it,
But I can promise you something. If you've ever watched
my videos, or have you ever listened to my podcast,
or you've ever been to a coffee hour, or have
you ever had some type of interaction with me, then
you know that I am not going to let you
sleep right. I'm not going to let you goes off.
It's going to be three hours of action packed code changes,
talking about the changes, giving you some real scenarios, real situations,
some that you can tangibly take back with you to
everybody that works for you. It's not just about you
getting your CEO credits. I believe that when you go
to a seminar that you need to leave with something.
You need to leave with a tidbit of knowledge that's
going to make you better than the moment you walked
in the door. And I really do not feel like
I've accomplished that unless I make a massive effort to
make it happen right, And that's what I do with
every seminar that I did for years, and there are
folks out there who attended my seminars in Virginia, and
you know that was fifteen years ago that I last
did a live seminar in Virginia. So us moving the
corporation back here to Virginia really allowed us to now
be able to get back to my first love, and
that is being out with individuals and being out and
teaching on a stage and being able to answer those
questions for folks, real pressing questions that you may have.
And that's what I missed it and so I'm able
to do that now. These will typically be on a weekends,
so yes, it is meaning that you're going to take
of your time. A lot of times people want these
things to take place during the week so they can
take off from work. I'm a I gotta remember people
have to remember I'm a business owner as well, and
I'm also been a contractor for years, and.
Speaker 2: I just I want people that realizes that I need
to do this for me.
Speaker 3: It's not for me as the owner. It's not my
employees that I want to give them time off. I
don't want to give them time off for that. That's
just me and I never wanted to do that for
when I was younger for my employer, and I did
not want my guys to I wanted them to do it.
It's your license. It's not my life. It's not as
a contractor. If you work for me and you're an
electrician and you need to get renewals, it's not my responsibility.
Speaker 2: That's your license.
Speaker 3: Okay, you need to maintain a license to work for me,
and so it's on you. So I don't want to
pay you on my dime. I want you to take
the initiative on your dime on your Saturday. Okay, three hours,
that's it. If you want to stay for the additional
grounding and bonding mini seminar, that's fine because I answer
a lot of questions about grinding and bonding that drive
people crazy. In fact, I pick those things intentionally to
make sure that when you walk away from that, you
understand the basic core concepts of service supply, type of
bonding and all those things that are critically important, and
you understand the nuances of grinding and bonding. That's important
to me. That's why I add that extra in there
for such a great price, since we're already there anyway,
that's totally totally up to you that you want to.
Speaker 2: Do that, So.
Speaker 3: Dates wise, I can't tell you the dates. All I'm
telling you is to mark your calendar. Go to our website,
make sure you keep checking it. You'll hear me do
a podcast in the future, so make sure you're subscribing
if you stumble on this. This is the first of
March of twenty twenty five, so I'm giving you enough
time to know that it comes summer, we're going to
be doing some continuing ed throughout Virginia and it's going
to be very limited. I do not want to have
thousand people. It's going to be very limited. Personally, I
like anything that is at least fifteen up.
Speaker 2: To one hundred.
Speaker 3: I mean some of you might say, well, gosh, only fifteen. Hey,
I've done private sessions for people for fifteen.
Speaker 2: You know it's okay with me.
Speaker 3: But ideally we want to try to get anywhere from
fifty to one hundred people, and we don't want to
really go over one hundred because then it's not as intimate.
And that used to never be a problem. Although I
know today there's a lot more resources for getting your CEOs,
whether it's.
Speaker 2: Online, but this is unique.
Speaker 3: This is an event where you get to get out,
you get to go somewhere, you get to mingle with
the other tradesmen trades women, and you come together and
we have a good old session. We learn the National
Megical Code. And again remember the in person ones don't
require you to take an exam or quizzes after every unit.
The ones online there is literally a quiz that you
have to pass after every unit, and something that ends
up taking that you think would take you three hours
is going to take you five and six hours. So
they're in person ones, no exams required. Okay, so that's
important for those that don't want to take the exam.
But beyond that, the ability to interact, to ask questions,
to have somebody communicate with you about the National Electrical Code.
It's still today the best way. It's just no doubt
today it's still the best way to communicate. Code changes
give you perspectives and really ensure that when you walk
away that you take away something, that you learn something
you do. Those online ones you just go buy it.
I mean I sell them, I mean I'll sell to you.
They're online, but I'm being honest with you, there is
nothing like and in person still it is nothing like it.
Speaker 2: As the old folks will say, it's nothing like.
Speaker 3: A face to face I'm just saying, and I know
time is precious, but again, three hours of your life
to enrich it, understand the code, ask questions, interact with me.
Speaker 2: You'll make my day.
Speaker 3: I enjoy meeting people and things like that, and so yeah,
I'm looking forward to it. So for all you out there,
just a quick heads up again, be tuned in late.
Speaker 2: I will be bringing back our.
Speaker 3: Seminars to Virginia in the summer of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: All right, folks, that's all I really wanted to announce
and let you know, and we're excited about it.
Speaker 2: So that's today's podcast.
Speaker 3: If you're with any Earshot of Virginia, make sure you
check our website out. We are going to most certainly
once we get the approval from dpo R, because we
just submitted the paperwork.
Speaker 2: I was already approved before and we left.
Speaker 3: Virginia and we went to tut and I was like,
you know what, we have this partnership online. I'm not
going to teach physically in Virginia anymore. So I'll just
let that expire, all right. So we're resubmitting it again.
Obviously I'm overly qualified, so we get Once we get
the approval, then we'll be able to pick some dates
and we're hoping to know something by May first, but
again it depends on when DPR's board meets and that
type of thing. But hopefully we'll get it all sorted
out and you will notice on our website we will
put a date and it'll be available in our events
page over on fasttrackssystem dot com. Okay, all right, folks,
till next time, Stay safe, God bless, and thanks for
tuning in. Sorry, more of a commercial than actually any
lesson today, but we were excited. We just wanted to
let you know about our seminars that are coming to
Virginia live here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Until next time, folks, Stay safe, God Bless.
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