To all my trusted followers, fans and clients. I feel obligated to write this note as this is the very reason I pedal across the nation on my bicycle tours. Not only speaking OUT against Monsanto and getting our Right 2 Know about what is in our foods and standing UP for your food and health freedoms. But also to "weed the snakes out of the organic grass". As most of you know, I do NOT compromise, I do NOT and will NOT sell out. I represent YOU!
First, let me start by saying that I am a simple person representing the 'simple' person. I have many clients, fans and followers who take my opinion as trustworthy. I have proven myself time and again that I stand by what I say and only bring to light the many fallacies in the healing world. My name is Lynnette Pate, AKA, Organic Guru, author of "Fuel for the Body." Health activist, public speaker, and truth seeker. I do not make the claim to be a certified nutritionist, doctor, or scientist. All my findings are by my own experiences, studies and research. I have, however studied under two great holistic practitioners. (if you want names, please send an email) I have been named as a "Patient Expert" by a national practitioner. I have been on both sides of the fence, meaning I have been in the chemical infested world and sought the advice of western medical doctors. I suffered my own kidney surgery at age 8, then for 25 years spent in and out of hospitals. It wasn't until my son's 2nd near death experience with a deadly disease and 27 surgeries that I was introduced to a "whole new world" in the natural remedy and CURING world. I sat face to face with Merck pharmaceutical reps begging them to release a certain remedy that would actually CURE these kids. When the reps flat out crossed their arms and said NO, "because we cannot put a patent on that," was when my eyes were fully opened. From that moment on I set out on a journey to find all the TRUTHS and cures I possibly could. I also vowed to myself that I would study very closely any company or organization that claims to be saints, truthers, or wonders of information and shine the light on any falsehoods.
I have spent the past 7 years studying, researching and building a very solid reputation with clients, fans, and companies. I have many companies who trust me and I support them and better their sales, public presence and more. I travel across the nation on a bicycle spreading the good message about organic and sustainable living. I also shed light on all the myths about organics and shed light on bogus companies who claim to be organic or green. There is a lot of 'green washing' going on out there to taint the natural / organic world we love. I have found that in the TRUE organic /natural world, that these companies, including myself, do NOT care one bit about stardom, fame or fortune. I realized a long time ago who the real trusted companies are and those that will NOT compromise. (FYI, when they do, I drop them like a hot potato, as I did one company who sent me products wanting to use my name). With this being said, true organic / natural companies will bond together and have a deep trust for one another and there are rarely any complications.
Most of you by now have heard of the "ALIVE New York" event that was to take place on June 29 & 30 of 2012. I want to let you know that I, was at one time their Marketing Director. I agreed to be their marketing director, after meeting in person, Josh and Anna Scurry in Washington state during my west coast bicycle tour in November of 2011. It all sounded very good in the beginning with a great mission and goal to help us gain the health of humans / planet the way it should be. After completing my 45 day bicycle tour in mid
December, I fully started promoting ALIVE. Even before that, I had already started promoting ALIVE all over the place via my bike tour, to the extent of putting their ALIVE NY logo in front and center of my tour banner along with all my other trusted sponsors.
We also went to the extreme of putting the ALIVE logo on the shirt of the very first health doll to be announced to the public. I got ZERO compensation from Alive. Nor did I ask for compensation as I felt this was a worthy cause to get out to the nation and after all they were to benefit a charity (the American Anti-Cancer Institute). The speaker lineup seemed very interesting and valuable. Although the lineup was still being compiled when I met them, Josh & Anna seemed so full of joy, Christian ethics and more. However, upon meeting them in person in WA a few RED FLAGS were raised. (until now I NEVER released this info to anyone, not even my husband). As I am the type person to question the authorities and never make assumptions, plus I was so involved with my tour of events, I had no time to ponder the red flags.
(My husband, Tommy, has been in law enforcement, private security and back ground work for 26 years. He now works to help private citizens get the truth. He is very keen on "snakes in the grasses.")
RED FLAG #1: One of my sponsors sent some vouchers for 30 to 45 days worth of product for 3 people. Just as most of my contributing sponsors always do, they asked if they could send me the vouchers to an address that I would be stopping at. So I asked Josh and Anna if they vouchers could be sent there and them bring to me? They said sure thing. (We stayed in WA about 4 days due to the early arrival and an event that was to be planned on the tour behalf by Josh and Anna.) So when the day came for me to get my product vouchers ,
funny thing... Josh and Anna were house sitting, yet they said they had their own dog / house sitter at their house. So they said, "OMG, we did not know those were YOUR vouchers, so in order for us to pay our sitter, we told her to open the mail and any coupons or vouchers she found, she could just take." What!? are you kidding me? "So you let your sitter have 30-45 days worth of product for 3 people?" "Oh goodness, Lynnette , we are so sorry. Do you think the sponsor can send you more?" Umm, don't think so, the sponsor was very upset and this did not look good on MY part. But I had NEVER had a problem with any products being delivered to my stopping places on my other 1200-mile tours. Again, no time to sit an ponder the problem. I am also the type to say, "It was just an innocent mistake", so I left it at that.
RED FLAG #2: Josh and Anna urged me to "Beware of some of their friends they introduced me to there in WA as some of them had lawsuits against them". I said, gee that's terrible. Keeping an open mind that anybody can sue anyone for anything. So, me being the anti-government person that I am, the statement really did not bother me too badly. However, I did keep that statement in the back of my mind where I kept the voucher issue hidden. This is when they further disclosed to me that a lot of their family was negative and against them and lots of people were degrading them. Again, I am not worrying as they have done nothing personal to me and I have a tour to do.
RED FLAG #3: Josh & Anna needed to come to New York to scope out the "secured" venue of the Marriott and they needed to have meetings to get the word out. So I, being my jolly, happy self and volunteering my husband for all sorts of things he has no clue of, said: "Hey, you two are welcome to stay in my husband's apt. while you are in NYC. His apt. is in the middle of Manhattan where you will be close to all".They of course took me up on that. Once they arrived in NYC, my husband greeted them and opened his doors. He took them out to dinner and showed them around town a bit. My husband then called me to question me stating: "What in the world are you doing? Do you know these kids? Where did you find them and what game are they playing"? I was on the west coast doing my tour of events and simply told my husband: "Oh, not to worry, you are overreacting. They are young but they have some great ideas and have great sources of funding for this benefit". My husband, said: "Well we will see what really happens". He said if someone is putting on the 'EVENT OF THE DECADE', then wouldn't you be on the road constantly making as many meeting contacts as you possibly can and getting flyers out to as many businesses as you can? Would you not be gone all day? According to my husband, they both sat right in his apt., each having a laptop, doing nothing but surfing the web constantly. Then Josh & Anna call me to say that the Marriot is insane to work
with and they decided to move the event to the Hamerstein. This was the first change of venue among the 4 changes they had of venue and dates.
RED FLAG #4: When I returned from my tour of events. I stayed in NYC for a period of time dedicating all my time, energy and money to the promotion of ALIVE. Keep in mind I was doing this of NO promise whatsoever to gain money, I never even signed a contract, yes not smart on my behalf, but remember I said, I work on trust with the database I have acquired over the years. I was running from meeting to meeting to look for organic caterers and so on. Josh & Anna kept me busy constantly with all this, plus emails and Skype meetings and conference calls. They were supposed to be DONATING to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, right? Well I called to question them as to why they did not advertise them except in fine print on the web site? I got all over them about not advertising this institute if in fact they were to donate to them. Finally they started advertising for them. Why did I have to even point this out?
RED FLAG #5: I began seeing more and more celebrities added to their list of "nominees" and "award recipients" who had NOTHING whatsoever to do with Natural health, organics or anything that I stood for. In fact, I speak out against most celebrities. We care nothing about celebs, unless of course they really are true naturalists. I had concerns of this component, so I asked them why these certain celebs? Josh stated to me: "Wow, Lynnette, this is so exciting and awesome that we want to be the Brad & Angelina of the Health world". My jaws dropped. But again, I am thinking, they are young and immature, I will talk to them.
RED FLAG #6: I was sending out letters of solicitation for sponsorship. I was told from the very beginning that they had secured some great sponsors. They even told me that Miranda Kerr was donating $25,000 and that they were just awaiting the arrival of the money. They also told me that one of my own sponsors was setting aside $20,000 for them and that they would release those funds in about 3 months. So this is what I had to go on, their verbal promise and claims. I proceeded to talk to a very good friend of mine and introduce him to Josh and Anna, as I knew he would be the perfect match and could sponsor a great amount. We had a 3-way conference meeting with my friend, Josh and Anna assured him that they were fully funded and that they of course needed the funds to fulfill their commitment to donate to the charities. When my friend was sure enough to release the funds, of course he asked me to get the 'EXIT PLAN' from Josh and Anna. I said, sure thing. When I called Josh and Anna on a Skype call with my husband to ask this question, they simply looked at us in awe and stated: "Lynnette, what do you mean an exit plan? It's NOT going to NOT happen, umm we don't need any exit plan". Um, hello?
RED FLAG #7: Josh & Anna never gave me the proper tools I needed to 'close the sale'. I was walking around in the dark with a blindfold. Every time I asked them for a paper, they sent me some fabricated disclosure without any attorney, or third party's name and none of the papers had Liana's name on it. Also they were NEVER advertising their so called sponsors except for the few supporters they listed on their sites. NOT one mention of any on public announcements or radio.
RED FLAG #8: Josh & Anna disclosed to me that they were very new to this world of organic and natural foods. (Nothing wrong with this whatsoever, everyone starts somewhere with a passion) However, they disclosed to me that just a few months before they met Liana over the internet, that Josh was suffering from depression and Anna was sick. They found this as a way to be 'Out of a rut'. Josh also went on to say with his arrogant ways: "Lynnette, this is going to make all of us SO MUCH MONEY, this is going to be huge, we are going to be rich", "Wow, Lynnette, we already feel that we are Brad & Angelina". They have made these exact statements to others as well. Yet they were NOT funded at all, they had NO money. So they lied to people I sent their way which reflected on me.
RED FLAG #9: When they approached one sponsor I sent their way, they were extremely arrogant and desperate. They first told the sponsor (unbeknownst to me, the potential sponsor disclosed this to me later) they wanted $10,000.00 for the vendor fee. The sponsors saw this as something worth value, but needed
to think and ask their accountant. While they were pondering, (I supposed they pondered too long) Josh and Anna called them back to offer them an "Exclusive" deal, "Off the record"...they said you can have the vendor space for just $5,000.00. Again, they had to think... (thinking too long only progressed the desperation) Josh and Anna called a third time, "Hey we are going to make you an un heard of deal...YOU can have the vendor space for a measly $2,000.00!" Wow, talk about TIME SHARE mentality.
RED FLAG #10: When I asked them for the tax id number for their 501(c)3, they simply stated, we have filed for it. I called and all they had was a TIN#. They never had an EIN.
RED FLAG #11: When Miranda Kerr suddenly dropped out, Josh and Anna told me: "Miranda's mom is so unreasonable to work with, she does not have her act together, so it is in our best interest to not work with her." Also when I sent them to a very well known and very reputable company in which I was very good friends with from childhood... Josh and Anna started spreading rumors that ALIVE was so big that said company was reaching out to them to gain their services. UMM, NO... this company is a very private company and well known, they called me with astonishment of the rumor.
FINAL FLAG: Everyone started dropping like flies, and when one person would leave, the answer was...."they are so evil, it's best we get them out now, cause that's what Jesus would do." I asked what some of the celebs had to do with health and wellness, the answer: "Lynnette, you yourself said it is fine to use celebrities to get your message out." Yes I did say that, BUT I also said ONLY certain TRUE celebs that could practice what WE preach. Again, the statement was: "We are bringing HOLLYWOOD to the health world."
First, let me start by saying that I am a simple person representing the 'simple' person. I have many clients, fans and followers who take my opinion as trustworthy. I have proven myself time and again that I stand by what I say and only bring to light the many fallacies in the healing world. My name is Lynnette Pate, AKA, Organic Guru, author of "Fuel for the Body." Health activist, public speaker, and truth seeker. I do not make the claim to be a certified nutritionist, doctor, or scientist. All my findings are by my own experiences, studies and research. I have, however studied under two great holistic practitioners. (if you want names, please send an email) I have been named as a "Patient Expert" by a national practitioner. I have been on both sides of the fence, meaning I have been in the chemical infested world and sought the advice of western medical doctors. I suffered my own kidney surgery at age 8, then for 25 years spent in and out of hospitals. It wasn't until my son's 2nd near death experience with a deadly disease and 27 surgeries that I was introduced to a "whole new world" in the natural remedy and CURING world. I sat face to face with Merck pharmaceutical reps begging them to release a certain remedy that would actually CURE these kids. When the reps flat out crossed their arms and said NO, "because we cannot put a patent on that," was when my eyes were fully opened. From that moment on I set out on a journey to find all the TRUTHS and cures I possibly could. I also vowed to myself that I would study very closely any company or organization that claims to be saints, truthers, or wonders of information and shine the light on any falsehoods.
I have spent the past 7 years studying, researching and building a very solid reputation with clients, fans, and companies. I have many companies who trust me and I support them and better their sales, public presence and more. I travel across the nation on a bicycle spreading the good message about organic and sustainable living. I also shed light on all the myths about organics and shed light on bogus companies who claim to be organic or green. There is a lot of 'green washing' going on out there to taint the natural / organic world we love. I have found that in the TRUE organic /natural world, that these companies, including myself, do NOT care one bit about stardom, fame or fortune. I realized a long time ago who the real trusted companies are and those that will NOT compromise. (FYI, when they do, I drop them like a hot potato, as I did one company who sent me products wanting to use my name). With this being said, true organic / natural companies will bond together and have a deep trust for one another and there are rarely any complications.
Most of you by now have heard of the "ALIVE New York" event that was to take place on June 29 & 30 of 2012. I want to let you know that I, was at one time their Marketing Director. I agreed to be their marketing director, after meeting in person, Josh and Anna Scurry in Washington state during my west coast bicycle tour in November of 2011. It all sounded very good in the beginning with a great mission and goal to help us gain the health of humans / planet the way it should be. After completing my 45 day bicycle tour in mid
December, I fully started promoting ALIVE. Even before that, I had already started promoting ALIVE all over the place via my bike tour, to the extent of putting their ALIVE NY logo in front and center of my tour banner along with all my other trusted sponsors.
We also went to the extreme of putting the ALIVE logo on the shirt of the very first health doll to be announced to the public. I got ZERO compensation from Alive. Nor did I ask for compensation as I felt this was a worthy cause to get out to the nation and after all they were to benefit a charity (the American Anti-Cancer Institute). The speaker lineup seemed very interesting and valuable. Although the lineup was still being compiled when I met them, Josh & Anna seemed so full of joy, Christian ethics and more. However, upon meeting them in person in WA a few RED FLAGS were raised. (until now I NEVER released this info to anyone, not even my husband). As I am the type person to question the authorities and never make assumptions, plus I was so involved with my tour of events, I had no time to ponder the red flags.
(My husband, Tommy, has been in law enforcement, private security and back ground work for 26 years. He now works to help private citizens get the truth. He is very keen on "snakes in the grasses.")
RED FLAG #1: One of my sponsors sent some vouchers for 30 to 45 days worth of product for 3 people. Just as most of my contributing sponsors always do, they asked if they could send me the vouchers to an address that I would be stopping at. So I asked Josh and Anna if they vouchers could be sent there and them bring to me? They said sure thing. (We stayed in WA about 4 days due to the early arrival and an event that was to be planned on the tour behalf by Josh and Anna.) So when the day came for me to get my product vouchers ,
funny thing... Josh and Anna were house sitting, yet they said they had their own dog / house sitter at their house. So they said, "OMG, we did not know those were YOUR vouchers, so in order for us to pay our sitter, we told her to open the mail and any coupons or vouchers she found, she could just take." What!? are you kidding me? "So you let your sitter have 30-45 days worth of product for 3 people?" "Oh goodness, Lynnette , we are so sorry. Do you think the sponsor can send you more?" Umm, don't think so, the sponsor was very upset and this did not look good on MY part. But I had NEVER had a problem with any products being delivered to my stopping places on my other 1200-mile tours. Again, no time to sit an ponder the problem. I am also the type to say, "It was just an innocent mistake", so I left it at that.
RED FLAG #2: Josh and Anna urged me to "Beware of some of their friends they introduced me to there in WA as some of them had lawsuits against them". I said, gee that's terrible. Keeping an open mind that anybody can sue anyone for anything. So, me being the anti-government person that I am, the statement really did not bother me too badly. However, I did keep that statement in the back of my mind where I kept the voucher issue hidden. This is when they further disclosed to me that a lot of their family was negative and against them and lots of people were degrading them. Again, I am not worrying as they have done nothing personal to me and I have a tour to do.
RED FLAG #3: Josh & Anna needed to come to New York to scope out the "secured" venue of the Marriott and they needed to have meetings to get the word out. So I, being my jolly, happy self and volunteering my husband for all sorts of things he has no clue of, said: "Hey, you two are welcome to stay in my husband's apt. while you are in NYC. His apt. is in the middle of Manhattan where you will be close to all".They of course took me up on that. Once they arrived in NYC, my husband greeted them and opened his doors. He took them out to dinner and showed them around town a bit. My husband then called me to question me stating: "What in the world are you doing? Do you know these kids? Where did you find them and what game are they playing"? I was on the west coast doing my tour of events and simply told my husband: "Oh, not to worry, you are overreacting. They are young but they have some great ideas and have great sources of funding for this benefit". My husband, said: "Well we will see what really happens". He said if someone is putting on the 'EVENT OF THE DECADE', then wouldn't you be on the road constantly making as many meeting contacts as you possibly can and getting flyers out to as many businesses as you can? Would you not be gone all day? According to my husband, they both sat right in his apt., each having a laptop, doing nothing but surfing the web constantly. Then Josh & Anna call me to say that the Marriot is insane to work
with and they decided to move the event to the Hamerstein. This was the first change of venue among the 4 changes they had of venue and dates.
RED FLAG #4: When I returned from my tour of events. I stayed in NYC for a period of time dedicating all my time, energy and money to the promotion of ALIVE. Keep in mind I was doing this of NO promise whatsoever to gain money, I never even signed a contract, yes not smart on my behalf, but remember I said, I work on trust with the database I have acquired over the years. I was running from meeting to meeting to look for organic caterers and so on. Josh & Anna kept me busy constantly with all this, plus emails and Skype meetings and conference calls. They were supposed to be DONATING to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, right? Well I called to question them as to why they did not advertise them except in fine print on the web site? I got all over them about not advertising this institute if in fact they were to donate to them. Finally they started advertising for them. Why did I have to even point this out?
RED FLAG #5: I began seeing more and more celebrities added to their list of "nominees" and "award recipients" who had NOTHING whatsoever to do with Natural health, organics or anything that I stood for. In fact, I speak out against most celebrities. We care nothing about celebs, unless of course they really are true naturalists. I had concerns of this component, so I asked them why these certain celebs? Josh stated to me: "Wow, Lynnette, this is so exciting and awesome that we want to be the Brad & Angelina of the Health world". My jaws dropped. But again, I am thinking, they are young and immature, I will talk to them.
RED FLAG #6: I was sending out letters of solicitation for sponsorship. I was told from the very beginning that they had secured some great sponsors. They even told me that Miranda Kerr was donating $25,000 and that they were just awaiting the arrival of the money. They also told me that one of my own sponsors was setting aside $20,000 for them and that they would release those funds in about 3 months. So this is what I had to go on, their verbal promise and claims. I proceeded to talk to a very good friend of mine and introduce him to Josh and Anna, as I knew he would be the perfect match and could sponsor a great amount. We had a 3-way conference meeting with my friend, Josh and Anna assured him that they were fully funded and that they of course needed the funds to fulfill their commitment to donate to the charities. When my friend was sure enough to release the funds, of course he asked me to get the 'EXIT PLAN' from Josh and Anna. I said, sure thing. When I called Josh and Anna on a Skype call with my husband to ask this question, they simply looked at us in awe and stated: "Lynnette, what do you mean an exit plan? It's NOT going to NOT happen, umm we don't need any exit plan". Um, hello?
RED FLAG #7: Josh & Anna never gave me the proper tools I needed to 'close the sale'. I was walking around in the dark with a blindfold. Every time I asked them for a paper, they sent me some fabricated disclosure without any attorney, or third party's name and none of the papers had Liana's name on it. Also they were NEVER advertising their so called sponsors except for the few supporters they listed on their sites. NOT one mention of any on public announcements or radio.
RED FLAG #8: Josh & Anna disclosed to me that they were very new to this world of organic and natural foods. (Nothing wrong with this whatsoever, everyone starts somewhere with a passion) However, they disclosed to me that just a few months before they met Liana over the internet, that Josh was suffering from depression and Anna was sick. They found this as a way to be 'Out of a rut'. Josh also went on to say with his arrogant ways: "Lynnette, this is going to make all of us SO MUCH MONEY, this is going to be huge, we are going to be rich", "Wow, Lynnette, we already feel that we are Brad & Angelina". They have made these exact statements to others as well. Yet they were NOT funded at all, they had NO money. So they lied to people I sent their way which reflected on me.
RED FLAG #9: When they approached one sponsor I sent their way, they were extremely arrogant and desperate. They first told the sponsor (unbeknownst to me, the potential sponsor disclosed this to me later) they wanted $10,000.00 for the vendor fee. The sponsors saw this as something worth value, but needed
to think and ask their accountant. While they were pondering, (I supposed they pondered too long) Josh and Anna called them back to offer them an "Exclusive" deal, "Off the record"...they said you can have the vendor space for just $5,000.00. Again, they had to think... (thinking too long only progressed the desperation) Josh and Anna called a third time, "Hey we are going to make you an un heard of deal...YOU can have the vendor space for a measly $2,000.00!" Wow, talk about TIME SHARE mentality.
RED FLAG #10: When I asked them for the tax id number for their 501(c)3, they simply stated, we have filed for it. I called and all they had was a TIN#. They never had an EIN.
RED FLAG #11: When Miranda Kerr suddenly dropped out, Josh and Anna told me: "Miranda's mom is so unreasonable to work with, she does not have her act together, so it is in our best interest to not work with her." Also when I sent them to a very well known and very reputable company in which I was very good friends with from childhood... Josh and Anna started spreading rumors that ALIVE was so big that said company was reaching out to them to gain their services. UMM, NO... this company is a very private company and well known, they called me with astonishment of the rumor.
FINAL FLAG: Everyone started dropping like flies, and when one person would leave, the answer was...."they are so evil, it's best we get them out now, cause that's what Jesus would do." I asked what some of the celebs had to do with health and wellness, the answer: "Lynnette, you yourself said it is fine to use celebrities to get your message out." Yes I did say that, BUT I also said ONLY certain TRUE celebs that could practice what WE preach. Again, the statement was: "We are bringing HOLLYWOOD to the health world."
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