Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 05-27-25_TUESDAY_8AM_Open4Business

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

Open for Business with Network in Action Members Sharre Whitson from the Salvation Arm and Lori Campbell from Reveal Aesthetic Studio and discussion on their respective businesses.

A different kind of schedule this morning. Normally we would have Open for Business about a half hour from now, but Congress and Benz is available late 30s still in town. So we said, okay, we'll shift a few things around getting everybody in. And one of the talk about the people in Open for Business who are part of Network in Action. Network in Action is more than just your standard. I don't know what is the... I'm still looking for the best way to describe what Network in Action is. Well, I'll tell you what, I'll ask Lori Campbell, you know, since she's a member of this. Lori Campbell is with Reveal Aesthetic Studio. We have a couple of people in the studio. Sherry Whitson from Salvation Army. We'll talk with her in just a moment, too. How you doing this morning, Lori? Welcome. I'm doing great. Yeah, I picked on you first because you're closer to me at the moment. Hey, tell us a little bit about Network in Action, what this is and what it has done

for you and your business because I know Lisa MacLeese Kelly has been making a big deal and getting a lot of people signing this up and must be some reason that people are enjoying this. Tell me your story, if you don't mind. For me, I've actually been a part of different networking groups over the years with different businesses and Lisa kind of reached out to me and wanted to connect with me and brought me in as a guest. And it was pretty easy to see that this networking group's a little bit different than everything

that's out there. It's a really, it's a family. We really connect. We dive deep with a lot of our questions and getting to know each other and really establishing relationships that feel like friends and family more than just business partners. Does it help you get clients too though in some way? Oh yeah, absolutely because as you build these relationships it's really easy to find people that you connect with and oh I know this person that does this because you know them, you trust them, you have this relationship and connection and it just makes it

really easy to remember what they do and wanna share that with others. Now your business is Reveal Aesthetic Studio. Where is that and how can people find out more? I'm located in Central Point in the Albertsons shopping center there right off the freeway. Easy place to find. Yeah, it is the easy place to find.

And an easy way to reach out to us, we have social media through Instagram, Facebook, we have our phone number, and then we also have a website. Okay, now aesthetic, you're an esth... I'm gonna trip on this one. Esthetician. Yeah. Esthetician or something. How do you do that? So I'm actually an advanced esthetician, which is one step up. It's a little extra license, which allows me the opportunity to use lasers and plasma pens and... Plasma pens? Yeah, it's a burning...

So you're taking a pen and you're... Yeah, I'm burning people's face. But you're burning it for a good purpose, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if they want like a mini facelift or some skin tightening, that's a really great way to do it. Boy, I'll tell you, technology has really come into this business, hasn't it? Oh, yeah. Yes. It's definitely advanced a lot in the last few years. Weight loss too, huh? Yep, yep. Tell us a bit about this. This is a big part these days. Yeah, so GLP-1 has become super popular in being

able to support people and losing weight. I myself actually lost 45 pounds using it, which is one of the reasons I wanted to incorporate it into our business. And with us, the cool thing that we do is we get to offer all the skin tightening treatments along with the weight loss program so that you can kind of reach your goal and have tight and firmer skin along the way. So you successfully lose the weight so you have looser skin, so you do the tightening while you're doing the weight loss. It seems to go hand in hand, I guess. Yeah, yeah, it's really great. We offer them as transformation

packages. Okay, and what's the main, you got a main website, anything else like that? Or let's see. Oh yeah, Reveal Studio, revealsaestudio.com, right? Okay, and we'll get you on there. Thanks so much. Yeah, thank you. Glad to hear things are going well here. We're going to shift over, I should say, to the Salvation Army. Sheri Whitson, now you're the Regional Development Director at Salvation Army. How are you doing? I am doing great. So wonderful to be here today. All right. Now, your development deck, what does this mean? Like fundraising, you know, doing all that kind of stuff?

I think I have the best job in the world and it's to say please and thank you. Please help the Salvation Army with your skills, talents, and resources and thank you for helping. So yes, I help support the tremendous programming that the Salvation Army has to address our community to need to make it better. You were telling me off air that there are a lot of misconceptions about the Salvation Army because we think of the Salvation Army mostly at Christmas time and we're bell ringing out in front of Bi Mart, you know, you know, doing all those kind of things but there's a lot more isn't there? Yeah, it is so surprising because I don't think you can approach any person that

hasn't heard of the Salvation Army and doesn't love it. But they have no idea of what the Salvation Army does. The Salvation Army is here locally one of the largest social service providers and bell ringing in the thrift store are essentially our fundraisers to help us address poverty. And so we have a very large food pantry, we have eviction prevention, youth camps, youth services, and one of the best state-of-the-art transitional housing programs in the state for homeless families. Okay, so transitional means you're you're getting them off the streets and getting

them into something different and hopefully transitioning to a more permanent, better situation. Absolutely, and with full wraparound services, it's literally, we've been told, one of the best programs in the state. We have a 98% job placement rate within their first 30 days at Hope House. That's pretty impressive, actually. It's astounding. Give me an example of maybe something really stuck with you, like a particular family story, you know, that you're able to move them along. Could you do that? There is so many, but one of them that breaks my heart, that breaks my

heart and also just encourages me, is a gentleman married for 45 years to his lovely wife. They lived in their home for 25 years together and then she passed away. And because the occupancy changed, the rent raised, and then the loss of her income. This man who has served our country never required any assistance in his life. He was in trouble now. And now homeless, living in his van. They had their cat that was their pet together. He had to rehome his cat. Found his way to the Salvation Army, and we discovered that his Social Security birthdate was off by one through the Social Security

and also like the veterans is what I meant to say through the veterans office. And he wasn't getting any of his VA benefits. And through our case management, we restored VA benefits to him and now he's doing great and found his cat and reunited them. Oh, and the cat's back at home. I'm a cat guy, so it's okay.

You're going to get me on the cat. Okay. No, seriously. But that's great. There's a lot more to it then. And I didn't realize there, I think I knew some about this. I didn't realize there was so much activity in the homelessness. You have any hope on this when you see what's going on

around Southern Oregon here? There's been a lot of movement in this and I'm really looking at one, preventing homeless from occurring through eviction prevention. Our healthcare system's even involved with that now through doing health-related social determinants of health benefits. If we can keep somebody from becoming homeless, it's a lot better.

And the Salvation Army's probably preventing 75 people households from becoming homeless every single month. The model of transitional housing with that whole wraparound service, that includes life skills, job placement, that's getting people permanently housed and then making it stick to where they're not repeating and going back into homelessness. Do you, what about a quick question I know I don't want to get off you know too much in the weeds here, is there anything on addiction recovery because so much of the homelessness situation we're seeing here in southern Oregon, you're looking at people who are in a world of hurt in that respect. Absolutely. And so I mean in the Salvation Army's

case our transitional housing is drug and alcohol free and includes drug and alcohol programming right there on site. And so we're doing very well with and we were testing for that. And so you have to address all of those things. You have to address mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, life skills, barriers. All of those things get addressed with wraparound case management and support services. Very good. How can people help? There are so many ways, especially businesses, because can get involved. Like one of our Network in Action individuals,

Laird Dental, is hosting a big food drive, bringing a food bag starting next month, and he'll give you a teeth whitening kit. So donate, volunteer your time, volunteer your talents. All of those things make a difference. If each one of us step up to do something, we can really change our community to the better. Sherri Whitson, Salvation Army, and of course Lori Campbell with Reveal Aesthetic Studio. We appreciate you both coming in here

from Network in Action.