Today I want to tell you about three very special people who enlighten our lives in different ways.

They are Scott Sayre, Greg Gerritsen, and Valerie Wilson, all members of the 500K Marketing Group that meets each Wednesday evening on Zoom.

Scott leads the group. A Renaissance man, he is an author, a chef, a healer, and a teacher. In his spare time, he has written and polished his screenplays over the past 30 years.

Valerie, known to her students and subscribers online as Macro Val, lives in Michigan and teaches cooking classes. She also writes cookbooks and inspires so many others nationally with her new recipes and advice on vegan cooking.

Greg, a member of the Gerritsen family-owned Shaklee Vitamins Online Store, also writes screenplays and surfs frequently at Huntington Beach. Greg has served as a part-time school teacher, as has Scott,

They are all recommitted to helping other people to heal by different means and in different ways, as well as being a resource for others.

Scott’s talents lie in healing, he believes. This he does through cooking healthy for others — he is a professional chef of long-standing — and writing. His writing is eclectic, from cookbooks on personality-based foods to non-fiction on spiritual and existential issues.

His cookbooks reflect the seasons and offer daily reflections. His is “The Awakened Kitchen,” the title of one of his major cookbooks.

Teaches Cooking

Val teaches vegan cooking classes in her Michigan home, on Facebook Live and nationally on Zoom. Like Scott, she is spiritually oriented.

She has authored several cookbooks on vegan cooking, her latest being on desserts. Val has been practicing her nutritionally healing arts for at least 27 years.

Self-Help

Greg works diligently with a writing partner on his screenplays and remains active with helping others in two self-help groups that have made his life better.

He enjoys passing it on. He is also involved in the operation of his Shaklee Company, which has been in his family for generations.

What all three do, as you can see, is to promote mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health.

“My three angels” described above, and this writer, have been participating in our marketing study group for about two years, every Wednesday at 7 PM on Zoom.

We started out with Seth Godin’s “This Is Marketing,” in which the author espouses an altruistic approach to marketing, putting the customer’s needs ahead of the seller’s.

John Wooden

After Godin, we took on John Wooden’s “Pyramid of Success,” in which the late, great basketball coach, with his son, teaches how to build teamwork. Spiritually oriented, it asks many questions — that we answered in class each week — and liberally quotes the Bible.

Sadly, the group will be concluding in a couple of weeks. It’s been a long, enriching run. Here’s what I learned, in small part:

What do we get out of participation in the group?

• – Sense of security 
• – Information about each of us
• – Community building 
• – Information about Marketing ourselves
• – Learning to love ourselves
• – Putting our clients’ needs up front
• – Loving one another 
• – Problem-solving
• – Thinking below the surface
• – Self-expression 
• – Sense of accomplishment 

You can reach these three success stories by their e-mail addresses: gregorygerritsen@hotmail.com, val@macroval.com, and sayrecooking@gmail.com.

Of course, you can reach me here at my blog and through my website, DavidKearse.com.