Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Moonbeaming. I am so happy you are here with me. I'm so happy to be here with you.

I'm starting this episode off with announcing the winner of our monthly sweepstakes prize. Yes, that's what I'm calling it from now on.

Every month we pull a winner from anyone who has left a five star review of this show on Apple podcasts.

Anyone who gives us a five star review, which I think you have to do a little like writing, just say like why you like it, gets entered to win in a drawing where they get a free 30 minute terror reading with me.

Anyone who enters at any year is eligible as evidenced by today's winner. Our winner left a review from 2022 a year ago.

Our winner for September is Care Bear in PNW. Care Bear in PNW all one word. You wrote us the sweetest review. Thank you so much. I'm going to read it. Care Bear in PNW rights.

I listen to a lot of podcasts. This is my absolute favorite one. Sarah is so generous with her teaching and I learn a lot from the terror astrology season's spiritual emotional intelligence aspects. This podcast also led me to her classes and other offerings like the many moons guides better boundaries literally changed my life.

Also, Froggy voice Sarah is adorable. They were referencing when I had really bad COVID and it took me maybe like a month to get my voice back, but I still was podcasting and I'm glad that I sounded adorable, but it was really intense. So yeah.

Anyway, thank you so much for this review. It was so sweet. Please email the studio so we can schedule your reading in the next month. Yay.

And thank you all for your reviews, everyone. This is a totally independently produced podcast. It is listener supported by our Patreon and reviews help us so much because it helps us show up in the algorithm that is Spotify, the algorithm that is Apple podcasts.

You know, I don't have any ties to corporate podcasts or like I don't know someone at Apple who can like help me launch and promote my work. All indie creators rely on things like word of mouth reviews, sharing on social media.

If you liked an episode and financial support to keep things going, you know that though, because you are a supporter and you're probably a creator of some kind yourself. So thank you so much for the reviews for the shares for all of the support, financial and otherwise, yes, I am running a business and yes, businesses do have to make money.

It's something that fills my heart. It gives me so much gratitude. So truly, truly thank you. You have no idea how wonderful your support and action feels for my little heart.

Today on the show, I've got an episode I have wanted to do since January of this year.

There are so many topics I always want to cover. There's so many guests I want to have on. I'm super blessed that, you know, I have an abundance problem, right?

I never run out of things to say and I never run out of inspiring people I want to speak with. Last year I knew there was going to be a sea change around unions and labor in this country.

In embodying abundance this year, I joked slash like not joked that true abundance is universal basic income. It's free healthcare and free education for all it's everyone being able to have three well made meals a day and a roof over their head. It's robust mutual aid and it's unions. That's all true.

So I wanted to create an episode around unions around starting a union. I wanted to educate people about unions if they didn't really know what unions were unions are not perfect. They're not going to solve everyone's problems and also they are one trillion times better than the alternative to no unions.

I didn't know this in January of this year. I guess I could feel it coming, but this really has been the year of strikes in the United States more than 200 strikes have occurred across the US so far this year involving more than 320,000 workers.

The percentage of workers represented by unions was 11.3% in 2022. So there's a lot of people represented by unions and also probably not enough.

So on today's episode, you are going to learn about unions. You're going to learn why should we have them. You're going to learn about what they do. You're going to learn about how to start one and I am no expert. So I invited on two guests that are the first person I'll be talking to today is a labor organizer and friend.

I've known for around 20 years as well as a former client of mine who started a successful union at their place of work. Yes, I know incredibly rad people. Yes, I have been blessed to read for incredibly rad clients.

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