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STAGE IT FORWARD...
Active Rain has given me a platform from where I can share my voice. So I get a LOT of stagers asking for my advice, my help, my thoughts and I am honored and humbled... and a bit frustrated.
I am “frustrated” because I see a huge need and want to help. There is so much that can and needs to be done, but right now our "industry" has been less then united or responsive to each other. 
Yes... there are stagers who have acknowledged other stager’s skills and education differing from their own.  But there are many who have seemed to have "drunk the Kool-Aid and joined the cult" and at times are outright rude, condescending and mean spirited. (Yudda Yudda Yudda… "petty bickering bunch." I am sure you are as tired of hearing it, as I am tired of writing it.) But this drives me NUTS... because I see greater possibility.  
Lori Matzke, a staging industry leader and pioneer, shared her own thoughts, despair and frustrations regarding our industry when she once commented on one of my blogs saying...
"Though I think idealizing a more structured industry is a wonderful dream to have, well...so is world peace.  Talking the talk until you're blue in the face and waving ... more

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