Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to The Astrology Podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to be talking with a astrologer, Laura Nalbandian,

about organizing astrology conferences, and also how to give a good astrology lecture

if you're an up-and-coming astrologer, and you want some tips for how to do that the most

effectively. So, Haylor, welcome to the studio. Thanks, Chris, for having me. I love doing this

with you. It's awesome. Thank you. Yeah, you're only one of my second guest to come out here since

December when I had Kent buy out, and I'm starting to do more interviews in person. I'm actually

very excited about it, so thanks for being the second person. Thank you. It's actually fitting,

because I also, um, your astrology conference, you gave me my first lecture ever at the Northwest

Astrology conference in like 2006, 2007. Yeah. So, it's sort of fitting. It is, you know, Norwack has

had a history of providing space for folks who otherwise would not have an opportunity to speak.

They don't have a CV. They don't have a resume. They don't have, they don't have the experience.

And mom and I really felt that was something important. How are you going to ever get the experience

if you don't get the experience? Right. Somebody doesn't give it to you, you know, create that space.

Yeah. So, Norwack has always been good about having a mixture of some new speakers and some

intermediate and some advanced like established major astrologers at the same time.

Yes. Okay. So, we have a lot of, I mean, our goal is diversity. So, that diversity is diversity

of age, diversity of gender, diversity of topic, diversity of race. It's just all about diversity.

Right. So, it's not a one, we don't want to be a one-note event. Right. We're not looking to

be about one particular style of astrology. We want to give people the opportunity to visit

and explore different topics and meet the needs of the wide variety of astrologers and students out

there. Right. So, let's talk a little bit for those that are maybe like new or haven't seen

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