Hey, this is Anne, coming to have a chat with you this morning, perhaps telling you some things you don’t know about me from the past and a mission that I created over time, in addition to helping elevate people to a higher level in their personal and professional life and in their purpose.

One of the things that’s been really important to me throughout my life that is ingrained in the essence of who I am is a love of the natural world.

The year I was born, my parents started camping, and my 1st birthday was in the woods.

They would camp because my father was a teacher at a technical college.

They would camp most of the summer when we were really young and over time, the park system started to put a limit on how many days you could camp.

It became 30 days and then sometimes we’d go to another campground for a night and come back for another 30. 

Then it became 3 weeks, and then we got older, et cetera, et cetera.

But I got, at the start of my life spending, a lot of time being able to hear and listen and communicate with spirit in the woods and along Lake Michigan, which is a huge ocean like body of water, if you haven’t been on the shores of the Great Lakes.

On Sundays, my mom’s side of the family, when we were home, would be together on a property they had purchased to, to be out in nature.

It was considered a kind of an undesirable marsh property, and we would spend time listening to the frogs and fishing and laying on the pier, looking at water bogs and things.

As I grew up, my mom also was constantly volunteering in the community and contributing.

With those understandings and respect for those understandings, as I got older and had started to have a family of my own, I created some nonprofits, one that planted trees in the community that I lived in, and wrote grants.

I ended up appointed by our state governor to be on the first urban forestry council.

I served there and helped create some initiatives that would promote healthy urban forests and education on tree planting and things.

At some point, uh, I just, I worked very hard, like you do at a bake sale when you buy the ingredients, bake the cakes or the cupcakes and cookies, and then sell them for next to nothing, and there’s not much money made.

You might have just donated your money.

I started to look at what I was doing for conservation.

I know I was doing outreach and was affecting people and their lives, but I started looking at what I could do to have more impact and less red tape to get things approved.

As I was doing that, property was being degraded that I loved.

I would see on my way to work as a teacher groves of beautiful sugar maples being logged out because somebody had an idea for business and they wanted to clear that area for the business.

I read the book “The Law of Attraction” and started thinking about what I wanted, and that that the universe is vast, and there’s room for everyone to be creating what they would like.

“What would I like to create?”

I began to think about what if I could purchase my own property and have an impact there, instead of having to go through committees, present things to people, and try to vie for public opinion.

One night driving home I heard an audible voice, and I’ve never heard it since.

It was the voice of God saying, “Where are you going? What are you doing?”

The next week, I found myself looking for properties and within another week, I found myself owner of Spirit River, (named by me later), this cliffy, beautiful. gateway to the river corridor up in Wisconsin, Dells, Wisconsin.

I continued dreaming of my what I would like to do and the impact I’d like to have in my small part of the world.

I created a nonprofit called the Spirit River Conservancy, with a vision. 

The corridor that Spirit River sits in, is very delicate.

It has the Wisconsin River running through the center with cliffs on each side.

When I come out of my grassy wooded driveway, if I step a little bit to the right, it is agricultural.

For a long distance along the Wisconsin River is agricultural in addition to woodland.

In areas it’s developed.

I could see the writing on the wall for my quadrant.

In Wisconsin Dells, coined the water park capital of the world, one quadrant of the city, along the river, is water parks.

It’s tacky, and it’s amazingly contrasting.

Some people never actually see the river.

They just go into these all-inclusives.

They’re fun and they never see what the Dells really looks like.

Another area across from me on the river is a huge resort that has a golf course and swimming pools, and they have also installed some water parks.

The other quadrant is the old, small town of Wisconsin Dells that has little homes and families.

I would love to…I have a vision to… steward and preserve the quadrant that Spirit River is in, to retain the agricultural aspects and how they are interwoven with the river.

It matters how the land is farmed, and the chemicals that are put on the soil, because they will run down into the river.

It’s a beautiful, quiet, step back in time.

So I created this conservancy to show that business, and land, and human beings, can live in harmony in a watershed.

I wrote all the paperwork, got an attorney, and created this nonprofit about 3 years ago.

Today, I am sharing this with you and letting you know that if you’d like to be a part of this conservation movement, you are welcome to make a tax-free donation.

It is the end of the year, and sometimes people like to make a donation and write it off on their taxes because they had such a successful year, or just because they want to donate.

So I am sharing this mission with you today.

If you’ve been enjoying the coaching on the go every Monday for years and you would like to be a contributor and you’re not in the coaching program, this could be a nice way for you to contribute to the mission of Spirit River and say thank you to for the content that perhaps has influenced something in your life in a positive way.

Looking forward to getting some donations and getting SpiritRiver Conservancy into stewardship.

There are a couple beautiful properties up along the river that are vulnerable, that can be either developed or conserved.

I’m looking to purchase one of those properties that’s right near the resort, across the river.

I’m looking to put it in a conservation easement, under the auspices of the SpiritRiver Conservancy.

You could be a part of that today by sending a check, and writing it out to the SpiritRiver Conservancy Inc, or I’m going to create a link you can pay with using a credit card (I failed a this, but will try, try again).

All right, sending love.

Happy New Year.

Bye bye.

Anne