Hello, I am Tamara Johnson, your host of The Get Out of the Mud Show. Thank you for joining me. Today I want to share something with you because I'm so excited about a movement that I've become involved in that I think is going to make a tremendous impact on our planet.

It was on the weekend of November 30th through December 2nd of 2007 that I was invited to attend a conference that has changed my life. It was my publisher, David Hancock at Morgan James Publishing, that invited me with a last-minute e-mail. He had told me to attend every event I could because as a first time author, the powers that exist want to see that I'm doing my part to rise above the obscurity of the masses of nameless, faceless authors who've also written books. The name of the organization is Humanity Unites Brilliance and the website is www.hubhub.org.

From the website, I couldn't quite figure out what the organization was about, but I had a feeling that it didn't really fit with shameless self-promotion by new authors. So, I registered for the event with an open mind and a prayer in my heart that I would discover the purpose for my attendance at the event. The journey to the conference was actually pretty tough. It was raining and a jackknifed truck on the 605 freeway stretched my travel time from what should have been just over an hour to 3 hours. So by the time I reached the conference, I was pretty grumpy and felt impatient about sitting through a sales presentation. I went in and sat down with my arms and legs crossed and a "prove it to me" attitude.