Dearest family & friends,
I come to you with a sincere and passionate request for your help.
I’m auditioning online to host a wellness show for the Oprah Winfrey Network and I need your support to make it happen. Here is my audition page: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=265&promo_id=1
More details:
My pitch is for a holistic health show with a lot of personality. The show hits all facets of health and will integrate interviews, demonstrations (therapies, medicinal recipes, etc.), location shoots (highlighting healing practices and initiatives around the U.S.) and lots of other empowering and entertaining content. More importantly, the show integrates a new production technique that will enable a diversity of voices to generate show topics AND actual content for both the TV show and the show's website. This means that practitioners, university and high school students, and others who are passionate about health can create content that reflects their own community, beliefs and experiences regarding wellness. That's right, this will be OUR show, with OUR voices that creates change in OUR world. This is not the typical health show with a top down communication approach, this is a bottom up health revolution!
Why I’m doing this:
After my dad died, I realized there was something more to health- something we were missing in our society. I knew this jaded perception of health and happiness was part of what dad struggled with. I followed that dark path for many years as well. My exploration (and sheer desperation) to find something better- to find true healing- has led me to some amazing places, realizations, philosophies, wisdoms, truths and much more. Most of all, it has led me to the knowledge that healing and happiness is always open to us. It may not look the same as we had once pictured it, but it is there waiting to embrace us.
Throughout this journey, I was always motivated to work harder, dig deeper and open my heart and mind a little more so that one day, I could communicate to others a message of true healing. Creating a wellness show has always been my vision and the motivation behind my education and work experiences (you can read more about those endeavors here: http://wellnessgossip.com/a-little-about-me/). I have been working with local producers and such, but it is really hard to get the right connections in Minnesota! Connecting with the OWN Network would allow for a media platform that I’ve always dreamed of.
Here's what I’m asking from you:
The audition videos are voted on by the public and the top 5 move to the semifinals where they can formally pitch their shows. Voting is almost over (July 3) and the competition is getting more serious. I presented my thesis the night before I made my audition video, so it’s not nearly as strong as I would have liked (but not bad for 4 hours of sleep in 3 days!). So, it’s vital that I stay in the top 5 so that I can wow the producers at the semifinals!
I'm in 4th place now, but there are 3 individuals averaging 50,000+ votes per day and they'll pass me by in about 10 days if I don't pick it up. Which means I need to find a team of voters willing to tally up 50,000 votes each day. This email is going out to 200 of our closest friends and family members (friends & fam of Aimee, Marcia, Alycia, Kyle and Charlie) and also to those who have been instrumental in my own healing journey (a lot of yogis, professors, health warriors and meditation gurus for this one). You are the team of 200 who I am leaning on :) The other contestants have made it clear that their friends and family members are doing nearly all of their voting, so I figured it was time for me to finally send out my formal plea!
I’m asking (begging!) you to please take 2+ minutes out of each day for the next 3 weeks (until July 3rd) to send me 100+ votes each day. That adds up to less than 1 hour total over those 3 weeks-- all to improve the health of our world! If you have a desk job or are at your computer a lot, just vote 10+ times every hour or so. Another great time to vote is during shows or commercials when watching TV. And feel free to vote more than 100 times. Some of my friends have started a 1,000 vote club (1,000+ votes every day). They said it takes them about 25 minutes to reach that number. To reach the goal of 50,000 each day, we’ll need several more people joining the 500 or 1,000 vote club! There are no club dues or rules, just click to join :)
http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=265&promo_id=1
Voting Tips
Thankfully, there are ways to speed the voting up :)
- Try moving your side scrollbar so that the “vote” and “back” button are lined up perfectly between screens. If your computer doesn’t return to the top of each screen after it refreshes, then this works perfectly (you don’t have to move your mouse at all)! If that doesn’t work, try number 2.
- Minimize your screen to 75% (or zoom out to 75%) so that you don’t have to move the mouse so much.
- Don’t worry that your votes aren’t reflected right away. It takes about an hour for the vote totals to refresh. Just know, if you click it, it counts it!
Also, I would very, very, much appreciate it if you would send this to your 5+ closest friends/family with a message to support this important concept. If they could help us by voting just 50+ times per day (about 1 minute) then we’ll be in great shape!
Many thanks :)
This is our opportunity to show support for- and ultimately create- a show dedicated to a deeper understanding of health. It’s our opportunity to invite more happiness and passion into our lives. It’s our opportunity to end the stigmas and ravages of suicide and depression in our culture. It’s our opportunity to truly heal. Our world desperately needs this.
Thanks for reading this guys :) This was a long email. I just wanted to communicate how passionate I am about this and how I would cherish this opportunity. I’m thankful to be surrounded by such amazing family and friends and I am confident that we can do this together. If 100 votes per day is too much, I would be extremely grateful for absolutely any help you could offer- even just one vote. And please let me know if you have any questions/suggestions/etc.
Love you,
Aimee
(And Charlie, Marcia, Alycia and Kyle!) And sorry if you received this more than once, I'm having computer issues at the moment :)
Click here to vote: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=265&promo_id=1
If you would like to offer some additional help, here are some areas where I need assistance:
* Spread the message (with the link to the audition page) to your FB contacts with an encouraging message (why people should care to spend 1 minute per day to vote) and a reminder to vote as many times per day as possible until July 3rd. If possible, post this info a few times before July 3. My audition page link: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=265&promo_id=1
(and find me on Facebook too! Just search “Aimee Prasek”)
* Get the message out to relevant FB groups and fan sites.
* Same as above with Twitter (find me @WellnessGossip)
* Viral marketing (hit the same above points on the comment sections of relevant blogs, websites, etc.)
* Get the word out to schools (stressing the production opportunities that a show like this would offer interested high school students and those in health degree or journalism/communications programs)
* Media connections? If you have any, let me know! (there was an article in the 6/6 Pioneer Press, but I haven't seen many votes from it- perhaps we need a more targeted audience with a real push for why people should vote)
* Other ideas??? Send 'em to me!
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Please support me by voting for my audition video for Oprah's new network: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=265&promo_id=1
Get your healthy dose of gossip! Visit http://www.wellnessgossip.com
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Please support me by voting for my audition video for Oprah's new network: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=265&promo_id=1
Get your healthy dose of gossip! Visit http://www.wellnessgossip.com
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