Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.

This is episode 256, and I'll be talking with astrologers Laura Nalbandian and Nicholas Polamanakis

about the recent Northwest Astrological Conference, which occurred this past weekend,

which was for the first time in its 36-year history moved from an entirely in-person conference

to an entirely online conference.

So hey guys, thanks for joining me today.

Thanks, Chris.

Thanks for having us.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, you guys have had a long couple of months getting ready for this thing, but you finally reached the end point and you actually somehow in it, I believe like a two month time span, maybe three month pulled off successfully an online

astrological conference with hundreds of astrologers attending from around the

world and I just wanted to talk to you about what that experience is like. Right now I'm sure you're both pretty

exhausted from running that but it seems like it was a success, right? Oh gosh, better than I could have even imagined.

You know, I had a lot of hope, but no real experience with a virtual conference online platform.

I mean, I teach online, that's one thing,

but running a multi-layered major astrological conference

with six breakouts going at the same time was not something I had ever done before and the technology was all new to me and so when yeah it was a, it was probably,

I'm trying to think, it was probably late March

that I made the decision.

Okay, and this is something, so just to give people some background for those that aren't familiar with the conference,

this is the, this was going to be the 36th Norwhack and the first one happened way back in 1984, and it was actually started by your mother,

and it's been a family-run conference that entire time, right?

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