Podcast appearances and mentions of kim yates

Tonight our guests are Kim Yates and Michelle Armiger of Scarlet Angel, and they came by to talk about some news about the direction of the band- to reminisce about the old days- the clubs- Monsters of Edgerock-97Underground and more!At this time their website isunder construction so they are using their facebook page for thatpurpose The Fowl Players of Perryville are back in action and have upcoming shows on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, 5th Company Brewing in Perryville, MD, and others. If you are interested in seeing a show our website is www.fowlplayersofperryville.com and if your are interested in booking us- fowlplayersperryville@yahoo.com or 443-600-0446. Remember- every Tuesday from 4-6pm EST is the Back of the Rack- The Michael Spedden Show on 97underground.com- where we feature songs you forgot you liked, classics that never die, interviews with up and coming and classic beloved bands. Go to 97underground.com and download the free app today and listen to us wherever you go! We thank you for watching and listening to Fowl Players Radio- our main website is www.fowlplayersradio.comand our youtube channel is youtube.com/@fowlplayersradio.Remember- to support our guests in their endeavors. Links to their books, albums, tickets to their shows, and much more can be found in the show notes of each episode. #scarletangel #kimyates #michellearmiger #kimskrypt #michaelspedden #fowlplayersradio #wmsr #5thcompanybrewing #fowlplayersofperryville www.fowlplayersradio.comwww.thefowlplayersofperryville.com#michaelspedden#fowlplayersradio#fowlplayersofperryville@fowl_radio@SpeddenMichaelwww.youtube.com/@fowlplayersradiowww.patreon.com/fowlplayersradiobuymeacoffee.com/fowlplayerw

NOW AVAILABLE ON FOWL PLAYERS RADIO- www.fowlplayersradio.comVideo Version: https://youtu.be/erGHx4O8ZyIKim Yates joins us again to talk about her upcoming season at Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill in Spring Grove PA- this year's haunt season starts on September 15, 2023 and will feature lots of upgraded attractions, activities, and merch- and a new “mascot” who just made his way onto a t-shirt!! BTW- this is their 30th season!! What a milestone indeed!!www.kimskrypt.comRemember- you can hear my show- The Back of The Rack- The Michael Spedden Show every Tuesday at 4pm eastern at 97 underground.com- Baltimore's Pure Rock World Widewww.97underground.com  The Fowl Players of Perryville will be performing on Maryland Party Boat 9/10/2023 from 12-3- tickets are available at www.marylandpartyboat.com The Fowl Players of Perryville will be performing on the Western Maryland Scenic Rail road on 10/7 and 28- www.wmsr.com tickets are going fast!!!We appreciate your support of the show- remember- no matter what platform you listen to us on- hit that like and subscribe button-ALSO- believe it or not, the holidays are right around the corner!! AND the guests of Fowl Players Radio are amazingly talented people who produce great things that make great gifts- so check out their links in the show notes of each episode and please support them! Books, t-shirts, cds amd dvds, theatre tickets, all make great gifts!! REMEMBER TO SHOP SMALL THIS HOLIDAY SEASON AND SUPPORT ARTISTS!! This is how dreams come true!!#fowlplayersradio #kimskrypt #kimyates #kimskryptspringgrovepa #michaelspedden #97underground #wmsr #marylandpartyboat #shopsmall #shoplocal #supportartists #fowlplayersofperryville www.fowlplayersradio.comwww.thefowlplayersofperryville.com#michaelspedden#fowlplayersradio#fowlplayersofperryville@fowl_radio@SpeddenMichaelwww.youtube.com/@fowlplayersradiowww.patreon.com/fowlplayersradiobuymeacoffee.com/fowlplayerw

We are so excited to bring you this special bonus episode! We interviewed the amazing, kind, passionate and hard-working Kim Yates - owner and founder of Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill in Spring Grove, PA (located between York and Hanover, PA). Her place is THE scariest and most fun you can have at a haunted attraction!

Getting to net zero emissions requires a paradigm shift in the way that we think and in the way that we do business says Dr Kim Yates from Mott MacDonald. In this episode we explore how collaboration between climate resilience, decarbonisation and improving biodiversity along with systems thinking could deepen efforts to reduce global carbon...

NOW AVAILABLE!! www.fowlplayersradio.comhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/175423/11466729We are rolling into fall, which means Halloween is just around the corner! We are kicking off Halloween Season with a return visit from the one and only Kim Yates from Kim's Krypt to tell us all about what's new for the upcoming haunt season! Kim is always adding things to the haunt and each year it keeps getting better and better! We will also take some time to check in and talk about Scarlet Angel, who recently opened for KIX! Exciting news indeed.www.scarletangelrocks.com www.kimskrypt.com If you are watching this, you are likely watching this on YouTube and can see that I have the greatest face in the world for radio. Here is some exciting news! Over the next few months  we will be relaunching some of our classic episodes, and placing them on our new youtube channel! Remember, Fowl Players Radio can be heard on our main website, www.fowlplayersradio.com, or any platform where podcasts can be found, such as Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, IHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and many more, as well as on our new YouTube Channel! No matter where you listen, please remember to hit the subscribe and like buttons, and give us a good review. www.fowlplayersradio.com.The Fowl Players of Perryville have a few shows left this fall- we will be performing on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad on October 8, and October 29, and also on New Year's Eve!Tickets are available at www.wmsr.com- also- don't forget your tickets for the Polar Express which runs on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad on selected dates from the Friday after Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve-www.wmsr.comThe Fowl Players of Perryville will also be performing at 5th Company Brewing in Perryville MD on October 21, November 12, and December 10. Tickets are available at 5thcompanybrewing.com. Stick around! Kim Yates will be coming up-right after these words!#kimskrypt #scarletangel #scarletangelrocks #kimyates #fowlplayersradio #fowlplayersofperryville #michaelspedden #hauntedmill #halloween2022www.fowlplayersradio.comwww.thefowlplayersofperryville.com#michaelspedden#fowlplayersradio#fowlplayersofperryville@fowl_radio@SpeddenMichaelFor YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy2kTPvrJRqwuYQDwDI64Sw

NOW AVAILABLE ON FOWL PLAYERS RADIO www.fowlplayersradio.comDirect Link to Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/175423/10250178Tonight we welcome back Kim Yates and several friends (Sluggo, Otis, and Jen!) from Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill! Kim has been a guest quite a few times and is now back to tell us about her Halfway to Halloween Haunt that is coming up. She is always full of great stories and is always a fun guest. For more information on Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill please see:www.kimskrypt.comFor more information on Scarlet Angel please see:www.scarletangelrocks.comThe Fowl Players of Perryville are now booking shows for 2022! We have some shows coming up on Maryland Party Boat and Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. For more information please call 443-600-0446 or see www.fowlplayersofperryville.com  Subscribe for free at www.fowlplayersradio.com or listen wherever you find podcasts online.No matter what platform you listen on, you can help us greatly by giving us a fair review and a 5 star rating!Also- be sure to visit our page on patreon.com- www.patreon.com/fowlplayersradio!Fowl Players Radio now has selected episodes on YouTube!#kimskrypt #kimskrypthauntedmill #kimyates #scarletangel #scarletangelrocks #trixie #sluggo #otis #kimskrypthalfwaytohalloween #michaelspedden #fowlplayersradio

If you work in the Government acquisition world, this podcast is for you. (not just for Contracting Officers!)Sometimes the government agency or office has a requirement that they don't have the resources to procure on their own.  (Or would prefer not to procure on their own for many reasons) Kevin discusses Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) with Kim Yates, former Contracting Officer and AAS veteran.   Listen and learn how AAS works from the pros.    _________If you enjoy this podcast, check out Skyway Acquisition at skywaymember.com  to begin your relationship with our team of former contracting officers. The Skyway Community is the essential resource for context in the government market. Give us a call at 877-884-5280 or email us at connect@skywayacquisition.com  LinkedIn CO Podcast Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6796606/ Facebook Government Contracting Network Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GovernmentContractingNetwork ___________Kevin Jans and Paul Schauer created the Contracting Officer Podcast to help government and industry acquisition professionals understand more about how the other side thinks. As former government Contracting Officers who have also worked on the industry side, Kevin and Paul share their perspectives in support of the podcast's mission:  Make government contracts better, one contract at a time. 

NOW AVAILABLE ON FOWL PLAYERS RADIO!!! www.fowlplayersradio.comDirect Link to Episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/175423/9319432Our good friend Kim Yates returns, to give us the good news on the brand new haunt season at KIM'S KRYPT HAUNTED MILL in Spring Grove PA! Updated attractions, new merch, surviving another flood, and more news! Also- Scarlet Angel has some new dates coming up- their website is listed below!!www.kimskrypt.comwww.scarletangelrocks.comSubscribe for free at www.fowlplayersradio.com or listen wherever you find podcasts online.No matter what platform you listen on, you can help us greatly by giving us a fair review and a 5 star rating!Also- be sure to visit our page on patreon.com- www.patreon.com/fowlplayersradio!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!!The Fowl Players of Perryville are back and have many shows booked for the fall and winter of 2021-22! See our schedule on www.fowlplayersofperryville.com. For bookings, we can be reached by phone at 443-600-0446 or by email at fowlplayersperryville@yahoo.com.

NOW AVAILABLE ON FOWL PLAYERS RADIO!!!! www.fowlplayersradio.comKim Yates and her trusty sidekick Trixie return to talk about their upcoming "Halfway to Halloween" Haunt scheduled for April 30, May 1 and 2, 2021, stories from past haunts and "Kampouts", keeping COVID compliant while opening up to customers, new merchandise, past haunt and kampout  characters, Ghost Tours at Kim's Krypt, cadaver dog training, and how to tell whether or not a haunt customer would like to buy a new mask. It's all here! Always a great time when Kim and Trixie visit! PLUS- all the current news on Kim's band- Scarlet Angel!! Good times indeed!www.kimskrypt.comwww.scarletangelrocks.comSubscribe for free at www.fowlplayersradio.com or listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocketcast, Deezer, Listen Notes, Player FM, Podcast Index, Overcast, Castro, Cast Box, or PodfriendFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!!The Fowl Players of Perryville are now booking Murder Mystery Shows for the late summer and fall of 2021! Indoor or outdoor venues, trains, boats, office parties, fundraisers, or just for the heck of it!443-600-0446www.fowlplayersofperryville.comfowlplayersperryville@yahoo.com

Today we welcome Jackie Joyce to Fowl Players Radio! We had a great time reminiscing about the Maryland 80's Hair Metal Scene, and her bands Scarlet Angel and Dying Breed. We talked about some of the good old clubs from those days, concerts we both attended, favorite venues, making Kim Yates' ears burn, and much much more!Subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castro Pocketcast, iHeart Radio Stitcher, Spotify and Cast Box or https://fowlplayersradio.buzzsprout.com

Available NOW! (Just click the link below)The one and only Kim Yates returns again (with her trusty sidekick Trixie) to discuss Kim's Krypt in Spring Grove PA (www.kimskrypt.com) and Scarlet Angel (www.scarletangelrocks.com)Follow this link to listen for FREE- https://fowlplayersradio.buzzsprout.com Subscribe for free on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Over Cast, Pocket Cast, Castro, Cast Box and iHeart Radio!

Brian & Trisha talked to Kim Yates, whose family is the ambassador family for this year’s March for Babies. The March for Babies Step Up…

In this episode we speak to Rich Davis- (formerly of Shift and Mystic-Force, and now working as a solo artist) about his new video "Resurrection" as well as taking a trip down memory lane to discuss his early career as guitarist and founding member of Mystic-Force and his time with his next band, Shift. We reminisce about the 80's and 90's club scenes, 97 Underground, the steps at The Paragon in College Park, the 9:30 club, and he tells us about opening for national acts such as Pantera, Crimson Glory, and Fates Warning. Rich also gives great tips on how to save money and maximize mileage on a rental truck(don't try this at home kids!) and we pay homage to the great Kim Yates! Enjoy!www.richdavismusic.comSubscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Soundcloud Stitcher, Spotify, and at http://fowlplayersradio.buzzsprout.com and at www.fowlplayersofperryville.com

Hello and welcome to warrior divas real talk for real women. Our show is specifically designed for divas. divas is an acronym for Destin inspired victorious accountable sisters. And we will be bringing guests on our show who will help in our mission to equip and empower a global community of women change agents as we make a positive impact on the world we live in. When we started doing this impact about four years ago, we quipped that we wanted to change the way women think and speak about themselves and others. And as we progress that was our thinking and our intentions and we want to talk about things that are impacting women. So that means we will talk about faith, family, fitness, finance, dude, and a lot of other words that don't even begin with that. So today I'm excited to bring on the show Lucy Mitchell are fierce in beautiful wellness, and I met Lucy through her husband I've been watching her for a little while and have fallen in love with her beautiful outlook on life. Lucy is a mindset and wellness coach site. Colin fitness fanatic food lover look, we got some of those f words in there. And all around personal development junkie she helps women break free from their inner mindset demons and create healthy relationships with food and fitness and define their self worth and find the confidence to live a life of purpose on their own terms. Welcome to the show, Lucy. Thank you, thank you. Well, I am so thankful to have you on the show and you know, it's a little bit of one of those things that I'm listening to what you're talking about and and what your mission is and, and it lines up so much with what we wanted to do and what we are hoping to accomplish with empowering and equipping women. I think it's it's just beautiful. So first off, I want to tell I want you to give us a little bit about what Why this is important to you? Oh, gosh, I mean, I think that I would probably have to go to a little bit of a backstory in myself. I mean, I'm first of all, I'm one of four daughters that my father had. So that in itself, there's lots of events going on in that house with my mother. And in fact, they always had a habit of choosing even female animal that was all about a daddy, there was a glutton for punishment, or he was a sweetheart, through and through. But he did raise him and my mother always did raise us to be very strong willed, very independent woman. And I said something that I've always carried through my entire life and probably proved very difficult and a lot of my relationships that I was not so much of what you call quote, unquote, a submissive woman. I just always do what I want. To do what I wanted out of life, and I wanted all my relationships, no matter what they were friendships, personal relationships, my children to live vicariously through that just, you know speak your truth. Speak your mind and and live your life to the fullest. And I really, it really hit to my core when my dad passed away suddenly, actually yesterday he realized it was five years that cancer took him from us. And in fact I woke up this morning going oh my gosh, I didn't even reflect or or anything about that which is a good thing because that means that we're you know, we're at peace with you know, his passing but I had decided about a couple of years ago. A that that cancer is is one of those that doesn't put the word I'm looking for it's it's it knows no boundaries. It's not just hereditary. It can affect anything. One right and, and that it's really important that we look for the signs and that we pay attention to ourselves. And as women, we spend so much time taking care of others that we don't stop and listen to ourselves and and listen to our own bodies and take care of our own needs. And that's where I decided, you know, that's not okay, we should be able to speak out and take care of ourselves. And so I just started like looking inward and decided I wanted to become a transformational nutritional coach. And I wanted to start working with women and in the pyramid upon women a problem phase of their lives, because that's the phase where we just given up, we have no purpose. We were just, it's all about our kids. It's all about our husbands. It's all about everybody else, and we no longer have a voice and by the time we have a voice, we feel it's too late. And I'm like, I'm techno sister. You have a voice and it's time to use it. And that's what my purpose has been. Is, is taking this drive that I have to live healthier to speak your truth to link arms with other sisters and just, you know, whatever it is, whether it's licensing, whether it's spiritual, whether it's sexual, whether its food, whether it's fitness, no matter what it is, it's like your children will be fine. Take the time to take care of yourself. Exactly where I'm at. Well, I think you bring up a beautiful point because a lot of the times those of us that are in those older years of life in we're not old, we're not dead. We we have a lot to give up, live up to and, and one of the things that I hear all too often is it's not only that they've given up, it's because a lot of times they've been so invested in helping their children. Or their spouse build up their dreams that they forgot how to dream. They didn't they don't know how to dream anymore. And they just don't have the energy to move forward with anything anymore. And a lot of that has a lot to do with Fitness, Health, the food you're putting in your body, your hormones, and like you said, they give up. I can relate to this because about a year or two ago, I was pretty much in the same place. I was. Okay, something has got to change. This is not right. Some I feel like something's hijacking my body and and what I found is there's a lot of women out there that feel that they just have to suffer silently. And I love that you're saying that's not true. I agree. And I think the other F word that we're all set is fear. Mm hmm. Exactly. Here I have the women that I have talked to is fear not a change but of making a change because they have gotten so stagnant are so used to a certain routine, a monotonous routine of doing things. It's, I want to say and I mean I'm 45 years old I've had three children I have four of my stepdaughter, but I've had four children and mentally and physically I do not feel 45 but I've also made that my passion drive like not because I remember watching my mom grow up and personalities eyes is probably today 65 right and and even then some 65 there are 45 I mean, all just depends on on your your drive to be something different, but I remember there was a cartoon and I'm gonna really date myself but way before I was born, Black and White, probably from Disney, but it was just as monotonous black or white. Whether they were just a repetitive cartoon like they had briefcases and they were just walking slowly along the line to work. And it just, it was just repetitive. They're just doing the same thing. over and over and over again, in no power, there was no life, there was no activity. And I feel like I see so many women feel that that's what they're supposed to do. Get up, feed the children take care of the husband clean the house, go to bed, right. And when I reach out to when I reach out even to some of my close friends about like, hey, there's this amazing women's conference downtown and we're going to put samples of face creams on our feasts and, and and you know, sample whatever is in here from concept. Well, I'm not no I don't and, and, you know, what will people think? Right now Like First of all, let's see if we can find something new and something done and and like let's get away from the kids away from the husbands and you know we're old I've discovered this amazing you know, like I lost 35 pounds in August give a listen to my body and I and I, you know I it's like to share all the different things that have worked for me for stepping outside of what the norm is. And I want to link Everybody with me I want to take all my sisters with me. And there's so much more there's so much fear. Well, yeah, and I agree with you on that. I think I think we have a lot of women that I listen to and and I'm surrounded by a bunch of strong women so a lot of my friends are kind of in the same boat I am their husband goes to work their husband goes on business trips, they just keep on keepin on they don't let their life be dictated by their their spouses schedule or their kids schedule. They still make time for friends. They still make time for their business, they still make time for living their life. But I realized that there's a out circle of women that I'm connected to, that that's all their life revolves around. It may be for the season, it may be that that's all they know how to do. And one of the things that it like it goes back to that fear word, word, you know, they don't want to rock the boat, so to speak. But I think it also goes back to how we're raised and what we're seeing and what's emulated for us. You talked about your dad being outnumbered by daughters Do you know? Well, he probably didn't, he didn't probably run the house, the house probably ran, you know, by the daughters more than then he would have liked to admit it admitted. But there's that that sense of confidence and ability that he instilled in you to where if your kids or your husband move on, yes, you're going to be you know, to business or to A career path or off to school, you're not going to be wrecked by that because you've got things of your own to do. It doesn't mean you're sitting waiting for Eric to come home. It doesn't mean you're waiting for your kids to come home for your life to be complete. And that's the part that we're wanting to women to realize is you are a complete human being with or without them. They are just, they are your life. You love them. It doesn't disqualify their role in your life, but they are not your your wholeness, and we want to talk about your wholeness. Yeah, yeah, exactly. My mom and dad were married for 44 years. And my dad did work. He worked. He owned his own landscaping business and then he was also a longshoreman. Very tough job. Yeah. So my mom did raise us Basically solely, I mean, our celebrations were around food. Because God was home, right? Um, you know, and it's funny when we were just together. My sister my younger my baby sister just had a baby. And he's where we sold. I just went home to go and meet him for the first time. And we were reminiscing and we were talking about how I remember when it was like Danny was home we celebrated with hungry man. You could put it in your body. Yeah, the look of joy on my dad's face wanting to meet that sounds very state hungry man dinner with the apple cobbler and the water down mashed potatoes. But it was all of us watching him eat and sitting with him because that was a rare key. Right? And what I look back on and see is that there wasn't a lot of light and color in my mom's face because what What he did in those hours to work for his daughters and his wife versus the hour during the day of what she did to keep the children alive in the house of flow. I saw that color changes we got older because she had more time and she was able to start doing things for herself. She ended up becoming a professional chef for a very small company. When I think it was close to me more moving out and still to my younger two sisters. Wow. And it was one of the things I took with me even later on was that, okay, it is okay to find your own interest outside like you're talking about outside of your role of wife and mom. And what I loved was that my dad always encouraged that. And my sisters and I have been very, very fortunate to marry husband to have always encouraged and supported any of our ventures and I believe me for I've had many years, for 21 years, I went to college for 10 years to either become an accountant, a business something and blatantly Was it a master's degree in education, I was going to be a teacher. Oh, wow. And now I'm going to become a I'm a transformational nutritional coach. Um, and God bless my husband for supporting every single one of those ventures. It but it's it was for me it was going back and like, knowing that my mom had that supportive my dad because she supported him. So just keep the house afloat, like keep food on the table. and whatnot. Exactly. And, and, you know, I think, I think we think, how do I phrase this? I think a lot of the times we as modern women think our role has changed so drastically from the quote unquote, olden days, but when you look back and You know, I'm going to use the Bible as a reference here. If you look back in the days of Abraham and Sarah and Isaac and all of them, the men went off, they went off to tin the sheep, they went off to hunt, they went off to gather, you know, they did all of that. And the women were left to take care of the home to take care of the children to take care of, you know, things that are holding the fort down, so to speak. And even even as recent as yesterday, it was Texas Independence Day here, somebody was talking about that as well. Excuse me, but in talking about that, women are afraid nowadays to be left behind by their their spouse or their children, and we're hearing more about the empty nest in their lives being just totally distraught over their children going off to college. And I'm not gonna say that I don't miss my kids. I'm not gonna say that at all. But what I'm going to say Is it opens up the doors for us to spread our wings and we need to be focused on spreading our wings not hiding away and into a shell of ourselves. It's funny that you say that because I have this is my philosophy and I have my mother philosophy of your viewers or your listeners think this is harsh. It's my philosophy. Once you're 18 you graduate you go, right need to go you need to spread your wings. Now, I understand if there might be a maybe a there's an emotional or a non mental but there's some type of a disconnect you haven't connected yet. I'll give you a little bit of time back just gonna kick you out and send you have you fend for yourself against wolves, but I came home one day and they were boxing by the German moms and she got a time we got to go. Right I was almost 19 she had found me a place. I had a job. I think that you know, but that was how I was raised. I do not understand. And I think I've done a post about this somewhere. I do not understand mom's neighbor say, No, no baby, you don't need to you need to you want to live here till you 30 you use you stay there done. Right. Right. Your job. It's your time now. Yeah, I agree. And I was raised in a very strict Christian home, and I read the Bible five times, through through, I did not see anywhere. Then it said in any fine print. You know, they can stay as long as they want. They need to go and you know, create their own household and, and live their lives. You raised them. And now it's your turn. I mean, I have the nice Do we have it like a countdown on them. Turn I've been raising children since I was 12 years old. I am right. It's my time. I want time with my husband. I want it to be just we'll check on you guys. We might even give your address Well, I think I think there's a term called leaving cleave, you know, leaving cleave to something else, not us. Do not give me grandchildren. Raising children, younger sister, so do the world a favor and get a dog grandchildren. And so I'm technically a grandmother. And they look at me and I and my girlfriends are like, really? I'm not saying I don't like babies. I love babies. Right? Like people. In today if you need to travel you need to see the world. You need to contribute any to You need to contribute to charitable causes you need to help other you know, other countries. Now we need to we need to go to Nashville we need to help Nashville right now like right. so horrible what happened in the middle of it. There's so many more important things that need to be focused on then Okay, you're 18 go get married and have children. Exactly. They go and do that they can't fend for themselves and then they come back well in and and i agree we've had we've had a we've got a son that's in the military. We've had had daughters that went off to college, they came back for a period of time and we're we were at the same place of Okay, the clock has started. What What is your action plan what you know, will be a safe place for you to land come back and land if you need to, but yeah, what's the action plan? What's the end result? I kept resetting the timer on the microwave. When my son came home from college. I was like, go take it. And and I, but they appreciate that they think it's hard, you don't understand they're like, No I do sweetheart, things have got changed just because it's, you know, it's 2020, the millennial state of mind is not a mind, I understand, because you do not understand the hardship that those of us who are our older actually went through. Well, and I think I think we also understand how important it is for them to have their independence and to, you know, it's not even just about me for for for my kids, I want them to be strong and solid and independent on their own right, and making good decisions and making a good income and making, you know, good life choices. I don't want them feeling like they're under my wing the whole time because I haven't trained them all these years to stay under my wing. I've trained them to push them out of the nest. Yeah, well And it's like I even told my elder to I have given my mind my body my soul My spirit my everything to raising you and keeping you alive right now trying to invest all of those efforts and energies back into myself. Right? Because I still have the second half of my life and that is equally as important as the rest of your life. So if we're going to roll the dice and mover important at this point, you know it's and and that is I that's what I like to also talk to my clients about it like this is now your time and dive into I really big about faith about whether when no matter what it is, God fear if universe angels whatever it is that you believe in. That is a huge when you lose that you lose yourself, yourself, your sense of self worth, right. And when you tap back in to that through meditation, through prayer through journaling, you're able to kind of like have your eyes reopen to who you really are as an individual, especially as a real woman as a woman. And a lot of times, it's a very uncomfortable process, but it's, it's step one, before we can do any other type of change, it's like, you've got to step back in, tap back into that spiritual sense of who you are, who you were created to be. Right. And, and we're gonna be going to break here in just a few minutes. But when we come back from that break, I want to I want us to talk about the difference between femininity and feminist. I think the feminist word gets, you know, thrown out there and everybody already thinks, you know, angry, bitter woman. But more so than that. I want us to talk about embracing our femininity because that's where our true strength is. I believe and and I love that you talk about this on such a transparent parent level. But I want us to dive into that when we get back from the commercial break so that we can really break that apart just a little bit. And then then we'll go into the fitness side of things after that, but we're gonna take just a couple of minutes to pay for the show with our sponsors, and we will be back in just a second. All right, we are back. And I know we talked before we left for the break in said we were going to come back and talk about embracing our femininity. So So Lucy, let's talk about that for a minute. I know years ago, I went to a women's conference because yes, I go to women's conference, biggest tomboy out there and I still go to women's conference conferences. And one of the ladies was talking about how The color scheme where you had pink for women and blue for men nowadays used to be actually the opposite. Back in the late 1800s to 19 hundred's blue was for women and pink, pink and red were for men. And so we keep mixing things up a little bit. And so when we talk about our femininity I've I left high school I joined the Navy, I worked as an aircraft mechanic then worked in the aviation industry. So in the military, I was called a dude with long hair, basically. But when we go into embracing our femininity, it took me a while to even figure out what that looked like because I had struggled so hard to try and fit in with my male counterparts that I didn't know how to be feminine. And I really didn't understand what feeling comfortable in my own body was and I really did And understand how that led to having close relationships with girls, you know as girlfriends, and what that was all about, because all my guy, all my friends were guys, and then I'm married. And you know my husband and I have this little competition going back and forth because I was trying to compete with him basically for his role in the family. And it ended us in a hot mess. But I want I want to hear a little bit of a taste because I've watched some of your Facebook posts and I've watched some of your talk about femininity and embracing it and really just discovering yourself and I want to hear how you feel to best translate to women the importance of embracing their femininity. I, first of all, I can honestly say I'm right there with you. I had more guys But I do call friends I just don't understand. I don't understand women. And again, I don't know if it was because of being raised by my gentle father I'm not sure what it is, but I know for for me I I can see I'm both sides of that sword in a sense that I can handle my own. But I am a I am I'm a I am a woman I am sweet, I am kind I am sexual I am I incense sensual, I am in tune with my my body and my senses and I'm comfortable in my own skin. I I don't feel and this again is my own opinion based on who I have seen and dealt with who is considered a feminist femininities the harshness that I'm not kidding. competition with my husband in the fact that who has the bigger package or however you want to work that right? Um, there is a role that he has and he is supposed to have. I want him to have that role. That's why I married him. He is our protector. He is our fighter. He, he's the man of the house. But if he needs a warrior right beside him, I am that woman. Right? Doesn't need another man. I am that woman. I am his Joan of Arc. As I like to so eloquently put that and I think in my messages when I am doing my posts or doing my stories is I like to I think I had done one A while ago where I was describing a road. So what from fairway you look at a rose and the roses Beautiful, beautiful, soft, pedal, scented beauty Mostly comes in a variety of colors, whether it's a tight flower or beautifully blooms, but if you get too close, you are going to get pricked by a thorn. Now, is that for the feminist part? Or is that the Thor's disorder protecting her femininity, right? It's all in how you want to look at the flower. But for me, I feel like all women are beautiful roses like we are. We have our authority to protect ourselves, but we are they're beautiful, we are feminine and there's no reason to hide that. to, to be ashamed of that. Is that's what that's how we were created. And not in a sense I mean, that's that's my, that's where I stand on that part of it. I mean, I feel I raising a daughter, raising two daughters when one's out of the house. I look at my daughter and I'm like, I want you to be as strong and I bought her this bracelet. And I said, always remember to adjust your crown. And don't have mine with the train thing. But always remember to adjust your crown. And remember the queen who gave it to you. Hmm, something along those lines, and she was amazing. I just want you to understand that no one is no one is to not knock you down. Because you need to remember where you came from, right who your queen is. Because people knocked me down. had a lot of horrible things happen. I've experienced a lot of things. I've experienced a lot of judgment. Even in the course of that I'm in now I get a lot of messages about some of my posts of like, I don't understand why you talk the way you talk or how you feel the way you feel. And there and it's a lot of times it's from women. And I just looked at my daughter and I said But it doesn't stop me. I'm just gonna get back up and I'm going to keep spreading my message because somebody needs to hear it. Somebody somebody else Can you benefit from what I have to say? Just like someone out there will benefit from what you have to give. And and I wholeheartedly agree with that. You know, one of the things that has happened over the years we started divas impact, like I said about four years ago. And right off the bat, we started getting a bunch of hate mail, mainly from feminist organizations, a few from guys, because they mistakenly thought that we were going to do this as another male bashing organization. And quite honestly, I've told everybody this is absolutely not a male bashing organization. We realize the need for men in our lives, just as we hope men realize the need for us in their lives. We we don't I'm not as concerned about what the guys of the world are saying about us women. I'm more concerned with what we are saying about ourselves and each other. You know, we you know, when You've got examples out there, like Real Housewives of bad behavior or bad girls clubs or whatever that's going on out there. They have the, the opportunity to, to send a such a empowering message. But they don't, you know, because drama sells. And when I was, you know, kind of whispered in my heart to start this organization and and get things going I was like but God I don't like women. I really don't like women their main they're nasty, you know and he's like, Yeah, you've had your episodes too and I'm like, okay, you know to Shay. And I remember a few years ago, whenever, whenever the Donald Trump and Billy Bush news broke, I got a lot of hate mail. You know, why aren't you denouncing Trump and why aren't you denouncing billy bush and why aren't you denounce? In and even with the Harvey Weinstein and, and all of those, and I said, because I'm not focused on them, I'm not letting them dictate my worth, I'm not letting them dictate the worth of all women out there. I'm working on me, I'm focusing on me. And, and and the women that I speak to, and I encourage and I empower and let them know that, yes, bad things can happen to you. But you don't have to live in a victim role anymore, you can live victoriously, and that's, you know, what we're focusing on is walking women out of those dark places. And so for the feminine femininity side of things, what I've also realized is, the more I've embraced my femininity, the more intimate my relationships have become with my girlfriends, the more intimate relationships have come with my family and with my spouse, it because I'm loving myself first before I learned how to love Anybody else and, and to me, that is the difference I see between, you know, saying I'm, I'm into feminism, or I'm into my femininity and and opening myself up to really love myself now loving yourself has a whole other series of side effects, I guess is what you'd call it kind of like a rolling blackout. There's just you start loving yourself and then you go, Oh, I love myself. So I'm gonna go to the doctor and get checked out and make sure I'm healthy. Oh, I love myself. The doctor says I could I could work on fixing these things. So I'm going to work on fixing these things to make sure my body is optimal. And I'm going I'm going to change the way I eat. We've got Kim Slater who does our magazine and and does a lot of the things behind the scenes for us. You know she's in that season right now. We'll have her on the show here in a few weeks. To talk about her health journey that she was flung into, as at the beginning of the year with a massive heart attack and, and in the lessons that she's having to learn for herself, but that whole femininity thing feeds so much of your life. It's what builds up your confidence that gets your husband looking at you with a little bit of, Hey, what do you do? And he's doing it in a way because he's more intrigued because he sees the woman that he was attracted to in the first place. It's interesting that you say that I'll quickly say that, you know, when I started my mild personal transformation last year, before that, you know, I was trying to help other other women men, it didn't matter. I just wanted everybody to be aware about cancer, you know, after losing my father and other health issues that attributed that I just didn't. My goal was I don't want anyone else to lose up Father a husband a daughter of themselves, like listen to the signs so I'm so like, driven like everybody needs to work out get up cheapest way to eat this much water. It was like what I woke up every day but that was my passion and I was ignoring my own health. I was ignoring my own grieving process I was ignoring my own fleet, my own health but mental health spiritual health all the things and as I I got a I did a post about this is something I can recall but I remember looking at a picture of myself. I think it was this past summer and I was like, I thought I was in optimal health working, working out six days a week, eating 1400 to 1600 calories a real food healthy greens all blah, blah, blah. meditating journaling, praying all the things that when I looked at myself I was pale bloated 45 pounds overweight. I just had to like look in my eyes and I was like, I stopped. And I was like, on this task to help other people, when did I stop and take care of myself first? Right. And as soon as I did, I mean as soon as we got home from that trip, I don't remember we went to sun river something. I immediately called a nutritional coach. But I knew right away my doctor just oh my gosh, yeah, go take a nap, you'll be fine. You know, I was like, okay, it's got to be deeper. And I started working with the nutritional coach and I and I stopped helping all the other people. I put everything on hold because I was like, I really wait. I'm suffering from vertigo. My hands are numb, my feet are numb. These are all things I was experiencing but ignore right because I was so passionate about helping other people live their best life and be healthy so you don't die like my daddy. That I I didn't you know, pay them for myself. But as soon as I did that the glow came back the weight when I found out I was insulin resistant. So Kyle was a huge thing. I was borderline type one diabetic. Yeah, the bad one. Yeah, um, I changed my eating habits. I, you know, we changed how I work out, changed how I slept, all of the symptoms went away, the weight falling off. And my husband even looked at me He's like, Oh, my God, baby are glowing. Right? People like, we're looking at my pictures, like, what filter are you using? Now using a filter, you're glowing, but your hair is shiny. And it was like, and I looked at myself, and I was like, I feel beautiful. I don't think and I'm not ashamed of this. This is what I want. Everyone's like, so I reevaluate everything but it was like I'm taking care of myself and like And I had no problem looking at. And hopefully it's okay to say that I had no problem looking in the mirror naked. Right? Because that's a woman as a woman, especially after you've had children. Right with the lights on girl, right? Ugly bathroom lights on, right? Like, that's hard to do, but I didn't know I was like, I am feeling myself right now. Now I'm not gonna go into a changing room lighting and I'm loving and feeling beautiful. I feel sexy. I still sleep. I feel gentle. I feel happy. Because I took care myself first. Right, feel feminine. And that wasn't a feeling I felt all before that is so harsh, hard, poor like, ready to take on the world and compete with everybody else and that wasn't feminine. I don't know if that was coming. Right. Well and I think one of the one of the things we we hear a lot of the times is or you know, I worked in the faith base area before I started out on my own after leaving the corporate arena and I went from dressing like a dude because I was always in jeans and T shirt and then I went to work in the church offices. And I knew I needed to look female but I was just how do I I was putting the outer surfaces on it was like treating the symptoms without treating the actual cause. And I would put on an outfit that everybody go oh that looks so cute on you and I would feel the most uncomfortable ever. And it had nothing to do with the outfit. It had everything to do with the skin I was walking around in I did not feel comfortable in myself. And you know you're talking about people sending you the hate messages and and then asking you what filters you use. You use and things like that, which, you know, they're thinking You look amazing. But on the other side, they're also kind of giving a second backhanded compliment, you know, oh, you can't look that good person. And I remember when we started getting those hate messages, first thing I did, I stood up, I dropped my laptop down, and I stood up and I did a little happy dance. Because it's getting people off their balance a little bit. It's getting them to look at things through a different perspective. Making them question something for themselves will have so and so can do it then maybe I can too. Or what the heck is Angie, the biggest tomboy, we know doing starting a women's organization. What gives her the right i mean, i i've had women go, Oh, that's cute. I'm like, okay, you know, and now they're going well, how do we get in your magazine? How do we get on your show? How do we do this? I'm like, well, there's a process but we're friends. Okay, but there's still a process. And I'm not doing that to be mean or ugly. But, you know, I am looking for the people that want in and want in at the at the ground level, because that means that they understand the vision and the mission, we're going after they're not coming in with ulterior motives to go, Hey, you know, this is great, but let's do this. And, and let's steer this your vision, your goal, your passion, let's steer it to the right a little bit or to the left a little bit, so it fits more of what we want. No, this is what we're going for. This is our niche. This is what we're working on, is equipping and empowering women period, in a variety of different ways. And they're like, oh, bitch, it'd be so much better if you'd sign on with, you know, this organization or that organization and I opened up the organization's page and it's just male bashing and, and hating on each other and Like, yeah, not what we're about. It doesn't resonate. Yeah. And so, when we start talking to women, I've watched women open up after going through all that they've gone through, I see what you're talking about, you see that physical transformation, the light bulb moment that comes on, and their whole life changes. And in, you know, I've shared before that, you know, being a veteran, I'm tied to a lot of veteran communities and and I'm telling you, my veteran sisters are the worst of it. I love them to death. But oh my gosh, they wear me out, because they are so stuck in being a victim, but touting that they're a warrior, but they're living in a victim role, because they don't want to fix anything. And I guess that's our biggest uphill battle is how do we get them to hear it enough to where finally they get fed up and start doing something about it. Yeah, I know I that's it. That's an interesting question. I'm not sure. I mean, I again grazers to me I have all my outside family was actually own Navy. Okay. My first husband was Navy. I'm attracted to the servicemen and I think I got some army leaves in there somewhere. I'm not sure but my dad did not serve the police officer and then my mom got pregnant but and she was like, heck no, you need to come home every day. But I don't know if it's the year you spend. You know, somebody you're being told what to do, when to do how to do it that when you're out, right of that environment. You're like, what I mean, because I know that was part of the premises of like us starting the Lightfoot media. My husband starting that I mean when way back even when he was doing Your podcasts and things that when we first started this whole thing, it was like helping veterans get started because they spent so many years being told. When when to eat, when to make your bed, where to put your shoes on, when to shoot when to do all the things. And then when you're out, it's like nobody's telling you what to do. Right and when to do it. You don't do anything, but you got to do something. And, and I know that that that was that was helpful for a lot of veteran entrepreneurs with being able to go to Eric and him saying, Okay, this is how you start, but I'm you I can only get you so far. You've got to take it from there. Exactly. That might be it for the women desert you know, maybe that's that mindset of like, okay, switch it just a little bit and and remember what that authoritative voice of you being told what to do, and now tell yourself like, speak to yourself in that. Yeah, I mean, I and I like I said, I I'm just speaking from, from experience, veterans wife. Well, and you've had a front row seat to watch all of that. And do we want to go ahead and give you a shout out there? Because in addition to your hats that you wear for fierce and beautiful wellness as a coach there and leading people there, you've just been named CEO of life flip media, haven't you? Yeah. So yeah, yeah, that that is an amazing thing in itself as well. I asked if they came with a pay raise. He says, Wait, we get paid. Yeah, so tell us a little bit about that for just a few minutes. I'm not sure exactly what to say. I think he just woke up one day with a brilliant idea. No, actually, I think it's it's a great power move for him. Because he was actually wearing way too many hats and I, I think it's a great obviously it's a great move for it to be a women ran and owned business. It's a different type of demographic with a power move. So I know that there was a lot of driving behind that. But he takes a lot of guidance and advice of mine. And I really wanted him to be able to focus on what she's really good at, which is working with our customers. And you know, the me I don't understand that part of the business you know, the media bookings and the article places I that part of it I'm like I have too much going on and this three little head of mind when it comes to business when it comes to making sure that we are on the right path. And that our business plan, our business model needs tweaking or just seen or we're not that's my forte. Right? So we just decided to to do a title change. And and I think that puts us a little bit ahead of the game, especially being a woman. Yeah, having that see I mean, I my LinkedIn is blowing up ever since I changed that. Yeah, we're having a business meeting, in fact today because since he made that announcement, just that I know, but I mean, what we're getting into because I'm like, at the end of the day, this is his baby. This is his dream and his but we talked about it for the last year or so. And I just said when you're ready, then I will not lead you astray. Well, that what that is fabulous. You need to change your LinkedIn. I made it official. Yeah. Did you find out From one of his Facebook Lives, or did he actually tell you in person? He told me in person. But you never know. You know, Facebook or my Instagram Stories like what we're doing what I just saw that she didn't tell me. Oh, I literally in the next room. Yeah, you could just tell reviews. Exactly. All right. Yeah, it's an exciting experience for our business. We've had a massive amount of growth. And I want that growth to continue. So I needed him to be in the right, roll on to focus on that, right. Yeah. It's gonna be good. Yeah. And I think we are going to have him on our leading moment show in a few weeks. I've got to get him to get all the stuff together for us to do that. But having him on our leading moment show, to really talk about how to get started and how to do what he does. And encourage and inspire some small business owners on that page for us. So maybe you can join him when we do that call, but of course, yeah, it'll be a black. Yeah. So we're gonna take another break real quick and we will be back after these messages. All right, we are back with Lucy Mitchell. We are talking about her fierce and beautiful wellness and mindset coaching and all that she does that makes her glamorously beautiful, inside and out. So as we go into this next next segment of our show, what I want to talk with you about is more. I'm going to tell you, this is all purely selfish. I'm going to preface that right off the bat. So a few weeks ago, right before Christmas, peloton came out with that commercial about the bike and everybody lost their flippin mind over it. You know, that was sexist. That was this that was that and I'm sitting here going well, what we didn't See, he was maybe she asked for the bike. Maybe she didn't because you know, quite honestly, I would like a peloton. But my husband kind of refuses to buy me one right now because I made such a big deal at a date. He took me out on one night he took me to dinner as he goes, you want to go to Jason's deli, so not particularly. He goes, come on, we can go get a salad bar. Fine, you know, so we go to Jason's deli, and we get the salad bar and we eat our dinner. And then we go to Walmart, which we had to get dog food or whatever. And he goes back to the bike bicycle section back there. And he's like, Hey, I was looking at these the other day. Did you see this bike? Do you want this bike? This bike would be a fun bike to have. Don't you want? Don't you don't want a bike? I do not want a bike. He's like, Oh, come on. You'd have fun with this one. You'd like this one. Are you sure you don't want this bike? Come on. We ended up walking out of Walmart with a bike that night. So I told him I said the theme of that whole date was Hey, you're complaining about not feeling good. So why don't you lose some weight and ride a bike, you know, eat a salad ride a bike. So we give him grief over that all the time. But my biggest thing is not about riding that bike. It's about I've had some balance issues, I've had some things that I just don't trust, the agility of my body right now. So balancing myself on two wheels is kind of a freaky idea to me, but I like the peloton idea because I feel like I could slowly progress until I got that confidence back. But, you know, you said that you the reason I'm bringing all that up is because, you know, you said that you like to cycle and you're a fitness fanatic and in So talk to me about I know some people that say jump all in, go all in and go as hard and as fast as you can until your body stops you and then there's people that are going, alright, if you're going to fail at that, then you need to ease yourself into So, I know you kind of help people break down their mental hurdles over things like this. So help me break down mine for a little bit. Okay? Nothing like putting you on the spot. the peloton is amazing. Um, and that ad was ridiculous because we don't know the backstory, right? So why people got all on the Tuesday just because she happened to be skinny doesn't mean anything because there could have been a whole mental thing. She could have been skinny because she had an eating disorder. And you know, and so moving her body was going to help this so she could eat real food, there could have been a myriad of things, or it could have been that she had social anxiety to go outside. So she got the bike so that she could like, start to connect with people. There's so many different things that I deal with on a daily basis. I You know, I use a virtual workout platform, through Beachbody on demand. Mm hmm. Because I do work from home so a lot of my workouts are done through that platform. I do have the peloton and then I do love my local cycle bar cycle bar and Tiger get your shout out. But he has always been when I talk to everyone is you start at step one, do you look at a baby and prop them up and tell them to run a marathon? Right? No. Step a step by step. I've been working with my mother who has bad knees and it's always been an excuse. What has not worked out a day in her life. She's 68 years old. She talks every day about losing the weight. And I say okay, Mama. Well, it's, you know, 80% nutrition, it's 20% movement. So you've made your choice. If you want to eat the way you want to eat that by the left Work on the 20% of movement. Maybe it's just you sitting in a chair with one pound weight, and you're doing bicep. Right? And you're just working on understanding the movement and we go up to two pounds until you feel confident and comfortable. You know, or I'll work with other people that say, Okay, if you have a problem with consistency, do not find an eight week 10 week program, because you're going to be done after two days. All right. Start with something that is and there's so many apps out there, I'll backtrack there so you don't have to do just what I do, which is Beachbody. I always say there are so many peloton has a free app and that you can use on any bike on a treadmill. They have weighted programs, they have yoga, they have wonderful meditation programs that I love to use. And there are other apps as well that you could download that has on if you Have a beginner where you start at and that and you start at basically what you're comfortable with. And if it's just one day you conquered that one day you're winning. And you could go on to day two. And there's been many times that I've started over. I mean, I had three babies, I had to be one. Sometimes Mondays every Monday is my day one, especially if you're a football team. Day one, right after the Super Bowl is day one. But I think you know, I you always want to talk to your doctor to start and talk to your doctor about any current medical conditions that you have. And then be you have to have an internal conversation with yourself and be like, how important is this to you, not to others to yourself. Right? What changes are you wanting to see logically, ideally, we want to wake up tomorrow and be 50 pounds lighter, all because we took two steps down the street. I ran a marathon there. Go I should eat 50 pounds lighter, right? It doesn't work that way. I ate a salad. And I bought a bike at Walmart. I lost 50 pounds. Right now, that doesn't work that way. It's a great start. But I but I always say you have to write out a plan and you have to write out a plan that will work for you. And if you can't do that alone, and that's when you reach out to people like me, who says, Okay, we're going to start with just the day one we're gonna do a four week plan. And after you talk to your doctor, you've gotten clear that there's nothing you have stability issues. I'm not going to say I want you to start balancing on one foot if you have stability issues, that's not you're going to get discouraged and defeated. But if you can handle you know, you can go for a 30 minute walk. Walking is one of the most beneficial 30 minutes a day walking is one of the most beneficial kick starters to a weight loss journey out there. Not cycling, not weightlifting. Plain old, angry dog. Well, I think just being outside helps mentally and emotionally and then and then the movement, you start waking up parts of your body that you don't realize were asleep. Well, not only that, but then you're also you're getting if you're, you're getting a break from the kid. Maybe it's a stronger and go for a walk. But if it's, if you're cooped up in the house all day or you've been in an office all day long, you get outside you get the fresh air, you get the oxygen from all of the plants that are around you. You get cute you're around nature, you could put the personal development into your ears and start a good book. Listen to an amazing podcast. I don't know maybe warrior diva out there. Um, you know, and and you're not only working your body, but you're working your mind. Those two working together will kick start an amazing weight loss sustainable journey. Well, I think that's where I start. I think a few years ago I I lost roughly 100 pounds and I did that strictly by walking there was there I changed you know, I'd done some intermittent fasting I had done some other things you know as far as weight loss goes, it was all around nutrition and walking. That was it. And I walked five miles a day. I didn't start off walking five miles a day I started off being winded walking down the street and back but it you know, by the time I was to a good steady pace, I was at five miles in under an hour. But I kept you know, going okay, well I've kind of nailed this I'm, I'm one of those people that are not consistent. So I'm adaptable is my number one strength I'm the Strength Finders thing, which means I can roll with the punches but I always strategic backs it up. So I always have something else. I'm planning in background to if this goes awry, I already know where we're going next. So the whole walking thing was fabulous for me because it helped with the weight loss. It was, whenever I tried to stretch beyond that, I started pushing my limits. And about that time is when the doctor says, you know, you really don't need to be doing any hit right now. Any high intensity, you need to keep it low. Well, that kind of took the wind out of myself and I kind of sunk back into. Oh, but see, I like the CrossFit stuff. I like some of those things. And he's like, yeah, just not right. Now. He goes, let's get some of this other stuff under control. And then we can go in there. And then it just made me feel old and grumpy. And there was a mental game that I was having to battle for a while over that. Because, you know, that was there was almost like I was accepting a sentence that he wasn't even giving me he was just saying, Let's get you to a certain point before we start doing that. And I was like, Well, if I'm not there, I don't want to I don't want to work any harder to get there. It's not coming off fast enough. It's not doing what I want it to do fast enough. And like you said, We live in an instant gratification society, you order in a box, and you drive to a window, and it's there. So we want the weight loss to come off just as fast as that burger is delivered through that window. Yeah, and I think I was talking to a potential client, in fact, just this past weekend, who was like, I have been doing keto for six weeks, and I've gained six pounds and I'm doing CrossFit. six days a week and I don't understand why nothing is moving in. And I said, Okay, well, that's what I'm hearing is what you're doing for the last six weeks isn't working. So we're going to start over and she looked at me and I said, don't get defeated. What I've seen because I have not been working with her and I've been what I would recommend. Okay, continue to CrossFit. That's it. Yes, that's it, you live naked. But women over the age of 40 do need weightlifting. cardio is not as important once you get past the age of 40. Because our our muscles and the way our bodies work, our muscles will hold on to fat. Because there's a fight or flight like, Oh, you don't want to have babies anymore. So we're going to hold on to this fact just in case you change your mind. So that way we have a way to support a baby. And I'm like, when did my muscles get to decide if I'm a child Barry like right yours anymore, like you could release that fat anymore. Done and done. It's the science behind it. So weightlifting expands your muscles to release the fat. It's the right type of weightlifting. If you're doing strenuous weightlifting like crossfitters do and I didn't cross it for two years and my father looked at me and said, I'm finally getting the son. I never had Alright, we're going to stop doing that. Yep. Um, so I was like, okay, it's CrossFit works for for certain individuals, and it is great, but just tone it down, don't need to be deadlifting 75 100 pounds or whatnot, stick with just the barbell, and maybe do just four days a week, if you really love that community in that workout, right? And give your body two days of full rest. And that one day can be a day of restoration of yoga, and meditation of maybe walking or whatnot. And I said, and then we'll look, then we look at the diet. And let's maybe do low carb instead of keto, because keto is not long term. No, it's not. If you're gaining weight on keto, which is meant to put your body in a state of ketosis, you should be losing weight. So something else is going on. And I gave her a list of recommendations that I would you know, I'm not a doctor. I just say I would take this list and talk to your doctor about the certain tests, maybe check if your insulin resistant. What's your glucose level? How's your body reacting to certain sugars, things of that nature? And, and it gave her a little bit of hope but but, you know, you've got to do your research and there's sometimes there's a little bit of adjustment and whatnot that I mean, and that's the recommendation. And actually, she just emailed me a little while ago. And then she'd like to work with me. Because her doctor didn't give her the answers that she wanted. And I wish she got more information from me, which is like, amazing, but it's just like, the information is out there. You just have to know how to educate yourself, as well as know the right people to talk to you. And a lot of times doctors just want to get you in and out. And it's just knowing how our bodies change. But once I found out that our bodies want our money, they want to hold on to that because they want us to still have babies. I was like, no, that's not okay. So, yeah, it's that's what I that's what I tell women. That's how I work with with some of my clients. is just sometimes you just got to read That's the wheel just a little bit and it'll kick start your journey and do it the healthy way. Well, I think, I think you also touched on something else as she was paying attention to her body and listening to it going, Okay, what I'm doing is not working. So therefore, something's off. I need to have another person come in and give me an outside view. Because a lot of times we don't even talk to other people about this. We just kind of suffer in silence. Oh, well, I tried this diet or I tried this exercise or I tried this lifestyle change. It didn't work for me. And a lot of the times, it may be just one turn of the wrench to get you running optimally. You know what in NASCAR, they talk about a quarter turn on the the car could totally make the car loose or tight. You know, and a lot of the times it's fine tuning what our lifestyle is and and it's not a throw it all out mindset it's a let's keep making the adjustments until we find what's working and and I think that's where a lot of people give up is they just go oh well I tried that it didn't work well let it's not cookie cutter it's definitely not cookie cutter. And that's why I share so much of my journey on my social media because that's how she found me on and watch how I went from being so cookie cutter to not sharing too much to them all the sudden sharing this new way, you know, when I discovered what was working for me and then really just sharing that it's it's individualistic, right to listen to how your body is responding to, to certain foods to certain movements. And when the ultimate goal I know for me was that I'm not going To be a diabetic, I that's just not what I want my children to see, that's not the life that I want to live. And this is my time right now to change this. And it goes back to making those sacrifices, you know, as a mom and as a woman, like I have to I have to be selfish right now. Right? Because I can't be a mom to my kids, if I'm constantly having to give myself shot. And I'm drained from all these doctor visits everything and what kind of mom Am I going to be for my children? What kind of wife Am I going to be for my husband? What kind of business owner Am I going to be for my clients and for a company? If I'm confused by this, you know, that I'm now I didn't take action. Right. Well, and I think I had I had a friend a couple of years ago that that passed away and she passed away from a recurrence of her breast cancer after her first recurrence of breast cancer she got healthy, she ate the right foods. She did everything right. And the cancer came back and, and she did have a genetic disposition to it as well as you know, other things that that brought it back. But I heard several people say, Well, if she ate everything and did everything right, and she got the cancer again, then what's gonna keep me from getting it and just trying to shift people's mindset to go that you can't go down that road, we are all created differently. We all have a unique DNA to us, that keeps us keeps our bodies moving. There are things in my family history, you know, I've got diabetes on both sides of the family. So I have to be mindful of that and I have to start putting things in place to to not go down that path. But on the other side of it is I also got a couple of cases of cancer on one side of my family. I could park my boat Go, well, you know, diabetes and cancer, they're in the cards for me. So I don't really need to work out, I really don't need to do this stuff because that's what's gonna get me in the end or I saw them try these things, it didn't work for them, so I'm not going to try them. Even though they're my relatives, I'm still uniquely created. And I it does not mean that it's an end result that I will catch that or that I won't be able to beat it. What what I think I've heard you say most all today in several different ways is taking care of yourself sets you up for so much more. And even if it is an illness that comes your way, you're better prepared mentally, emotionally, physically, for taking that that illness on head on, head on because if you're already out of shape, you're already feeling frumpy, you're already down in the dumps. You're definitely not in the mental and emotional state to take on a major illness, that if you're taking care of yourself in so many other ways, than if something comes out of left field, you're much more better positioned to go in in a warrior stance against that. Exactly. Yep, that is correct. And so, so you also do I mean, we talked a little bit before the break about how you do. You're the CEO of life flip media, you you do this as well as, you know, the fitness coaching and mindset coaching. So you're talking about, you know, feeling comfortable in your skin, not letting fear of missing out, you know, derail you. As we get ready to go into the last part of our show, I want you to kind of talk to us about what is the overall message edge that you really feel like you are here and put here on earth to accomplish share anything you want to share about your story and and how you can encourage and empower other women. You shared so much already it's gonna be a rich rich show but we just want to hear from from you as to what what you feel is your mark in the world and how you can help the women that are listening today. Well, I think I stop by called by many a unicorn. And that's that, you know, one of a kind, type individual. And I really do embrace that label. Because I've actually worked really, really hard to to be what other women cannot be And then turn around show them how they can be. So when it comes to self love, you know, we I know personally I have experienced so many things in my life that have shaped me to who I am today and why I want to help other women, my innate need to help others I was a hairdresser for 21 years I was an accountant, I helping my husband, I've PTA volunteer, room volunteer pretty much you need help moving I'm that person. My Drive was always to make other people happy. And and I realized that the end of the day was to fill the void of the lack of happiness in my own life due to abuses and whatnot that I experienced in my childhood. And in working with a life coach over the last year when I was able to finally understand what self love really meant, and how to forgive Others for what was done to me, I really, there's so many women I've even come across in my life that are experiencing that lack of self love. And they're masking it with food, with alcohol with shame, with abusive relationship with a lack of connection to their face. Blaming the world blaming society blaming others for their experiences. And my whole purpose in life is to use the platform that I've been given and my voice to a let them know it's going to be okay. That it's, it's not your fault. Everything is fixable, everything is figured out a ball. And if you need help figuring out that first step, no matter what it is, whether it's your relationship with food, whether it's emotional weight, whether it's physical weight, whether their spiritual weight whether it's figuring out how to take that first step on a treadmill, whether it's that first step on how to learn how to write a letter to your younger self, to forgive your younger self to connect with your younger self. I'm here because that's that's my that's my purpose now. And and it brings me joy I wake up every single day now hoping I'm going to connect to just one, even if it's just one person, and sometimes that one person is myself. It's like I reconnect with myself in some way I discover something more amazing about myself that I had buried or hidden deep down below. Because when when we carry all those burdens, when we feel like our only soul what job in this world is to be a mom. Or are we have no value as a woman in today's society. Or we've only known what it's like to be in the military. We don't know what it's like to be a veteran or are we were a mom and now we're an empty nester and we have no purpose and we were away for now we're divorced and we have no we have no wives or whatever it may be. You can lose yourself and you can lose that definition of what a What a beautiful woman really is. And that's where I come in. And then unconventional. Just sit down have a real talk over a glass of Chardonnay in our closets and that's what we need to do. kind of way I am not I I'm serious. I mean, I have been there I am sat in the closet with a bottle of Chardonnay. My husband's like what do you do and go away? Right I'm in a moment Hmm. And and it's okay. And and I don't I don't have it all figured out. I am not the leading expert in this you do not see me sitting on Oprah couch. I am one of many in this field. I just feel like we need as many voices as possible right now. Exactly. It's it's a layered approach to one I think, I think a lot of what I've seen you say and I've heard you say, we're watching you on social media and listening to you today is, you know, there's a lot of women out there looking for somebody to be an accountability partner for them to lead them to give them to you know, just actually listen to them and hear them and and you're willing to be that person you're willing to take that task on for them if that's what they need, until I told people for the long This time, one of my best friends I worked with her at the church before and, and we would go to the gym and her name was Kim Yates and we would go to the gym and we'd get on the treadmill and she'd go, I go, Okay, how how long do you want to go? And she goes, I want to go for 30 minutes at a two mile pace, he you know, and I'm like, okay, so I punch that all in, and we get going. And about three minutes in, she's like, I'm really not feeling it. And I'm like, sorry, you said you wanted to go for 30 minutes. We're going 30 minutes left, right, left, right, come on, let's go. Let's go, let's go. Let's go, you know, and and we finished the 30 minutes. She'd come to me, I'm like, we're gonna do a five mile an hour pace. You know, this is the incline we're gonna do. We'd get on and about five minutes and I'd say I don't feel like doing it. And she'd go great. Let's go get some chips and salsa. She was great for certain areas of my life fitness was not one of them. And so one of the things I want to encourage women that are listening today is if you've got those friends that are great and holding you accountable in your marriage and your spiritual life and all these other areas, I guarantee you most of the time, it's not the same person that can handle all of those areas for you. So I encourage you to reach out to someone like Lucy, who is great in what she does and in the fitness realm and, and in the mental mental improvement mindset improvement sorry, in the mindset realm as well I went mindset blank on that. You too can be a professional radio show host. But anyway, when you when you are coaching them through the min

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Hello, and welcome to Warrior Divas: Real Talk for Real Women, and I am your host Angie Leigh Monroe. I'm excited about connecting with you today to talk about all the gritty things that impact us, women, every day. Today, I want to take a little bit of time and share with you some of the personal walks that I've come through to lead us to where we're at. But the reason isn't to talk about myself. It's to build a connection with you, see, my focus with this show is not to have a place where I just talked to you when you sit there and listen, but for us to connect offline and online, and really build those relationships together. I'm going to share the hats that I wear, I'm going to share some of the trials and tribulations I've had, and I'm just going to open up and be transparent with you for a little bit. So like I said, I wear many hats. I'm a wife, I'm a mother, I'm a business owner, a boss. Let's see, Diva to my grandkids - Yes, that's my grandma name. Fake Mom to several kids that we've helped raise over the years. There's a lot that I've done. I'm a military veteran. But there are several more hats I'm sure I wear that I don't even realize it. But I bet you as I listed off some of those things, you wear some of the same hats I do, don't you? You know, that's one of the things is building relationships starts with finding commonality. And that's what I'm hoping to do today. I'm hoping that we can build relationships starting right here, right now. You know, some of y'all might be thinking this sounds a little beautifully utopian and very unrealistic. But hear me for a little bit, okay. I've been through some stuff, to know how devastating it can be not to have the right people in your life. How walking through things alone can make things seem 10 times, 100 times worse than they really are. So that's why building relationships is so important to me. See, I was raised in a little hometown, it's a little town called Euless. It's halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth literally 20 miles to downtown Dallas, 20 miles to downtown Fort Worth. My mom and dad met in the local post office. They said they played post office together. And if you don't know what that is, I’ve dated myself, and you need to go to Google it, yes, Google it. So later on, my dad became a police officer. My mom stayed home with my brother, my sister, and me for many years and then went back into the workforce. And when she did, she worked for the government. So, she, they both had their own lives. They were living, I had my brothers and my sisters, and it was a normal raising. My husband, when I met him and he came here he basically called us the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ family. You know, we played outside until dark or my mom whistled. We got spankings or whoopin’s as I call it here in Texas. We played sports and we were at church every time the doors opened. And yes, I was raised in the church. And from time to time, you'll hear me refer back to my Christian faith, my belief, my system that I go back to for my own personal walk. But more than that, you'll hear me talk about my missteps in life and in business, and how I was able to find my way back to my true self. Now, why is it important for me before I go into the next part of the story, I want you to know that I'm not sharing them from a point of shame. I'm not sharing them from a point of bitterness, or victimization. What I'm sharing them from is a point of victory. And that's what I want to help women get to, is that point of victory where they can share their story, and not share it from a point of pain. But from a point of significance, and helping others move on. You know, these are things I didn't use to talk about. These are things that were so painful to me that I had shame surrounding them. I thought everybody else's life was perfect. And mine was a hot mess. And what I found out is as I started sharing my story, other women had the same story. And they had felt alone and they had felt disconnected from others. And so, my hope is by me sharing my story, it's not for you to listen to me, but for us to find a connection. Now, I'm going to start off with high school because it was really the turning point of where I was at. I had been at youth camp I'd had an amazing word spoken into my life that I would have a voice that would reach the nation's and you know, my favorite Christian artist was playing the keyboards. His name was al Denson. It was great. But then life happens. And I was in drama in high school. I was super excited. I had a very tall, very eloquently spoken teacher named Mr. Blankenship for drama. And you may hear a little bit of a Texas accent in my voice today. Do not be alarmed. It is authentic. Okay, so what happened back then, as it was so much worse than it is now. And I came running into the drama room Mr. B, Mr. B, Mr. B, it's about that third B, with the 16 syllables that made up the letter B. That he turned around. And what happened next shook me to my core. He turned his very tall features. Hands clasped at his diaphragm. Feet in perfect third position dancers pose. Come on girls, you know the one I'm talking about the one that everybody stands in for pictures and everything else. He's standing there lips, pursed jaw set and says, “Young lady! as long as you sound like a hick, you will never amount to anything.” Then he quickly turned back around and engaged with the students that he was in class with. I was left there standing speechless, shell shocked. All my hopes and dreams in that one sentence had gone up in a debris cloud that was now left, falling on the ground right in front of me. Along with the shattered image that I had put this man on a pedestal in my life served for so many years. All of that was gone. Now, I'm going to be honest with you right now, back in the day, I didn't see that as very helpful. Today, I know what he meant by that was to encourage me to work on my accent to work on the way I was speaking, didn't even possibly protect me from harm, because there are a set of people out there that will hear my Texas accent and discount my intelligence, because I sound like a hick. Well, that's their loss. But back then, I was just a kid in high school. And the man that I had looked up to had totally wrecked my world. So the next day I marched off the stage into the counseling office and dropped the drama. A few weeks later, I joined the United States Navy, as an aviation electrician. After all, aircrafts don't care what my accents like, right? Now, I bet there's a few of you listening today that may have a similar story. Maybe you've had someone that you respected, you loved, that said something negative and devastating to you. Maybe it gave you the drive to push on. And maybe it defeated you for a minute like it did me. Either way, I would love to hear your story. Because it's these stories that help us climb out of the pits of despair that we often find ourselves in when these things happen. It helps us articulate our feelings and our emotions around those moments so that we can dig deep into who we are and who we are called to be. Now, while I was in the Navy, I got stationed in Rota, Spain. Yes, I was trying to roll my R's there and it totally fell flat. But, Rota, Spain is a beautiful place in the south Mediterranean. You've heard about it on NCIS, you've heard about it on Pitch Perfect three, even though that's not the real base in that movie. I'll tell you that right now. But it was the best and worst time of my life in Rota, Spain. See, when I met my husband there, I like to say it, say it this way in the best Scarlett O'Hara voice and I know that's Georgia but not Texas. But here we go. “I met my husband in Spain just after the war”, doesn’t that sound romantic. Well, it wasn't. So what really happens was the night I met my husband he was falling down drunk in a bar. And literally falling down. He leaned up against the wall next to me, went to put his foot on the wall and leaned over to ask me a question and fell completely face down onto the floor. I have people go “Oh, that's so sweet. He fell for you.” I'm like, Yeah, okay, whatever. Now, not long after that, I was set up on a blind date, my roommate and her boyfriend connected me with this blind date. And who would walk in the room but falling down drunk Mike? Well, a couple of months later, after a few nights together, I got to tell him that I was pregnant and expecting our first child. He asked me to marry him. But I wasn't quite sure that that was the right next move. I really wasn't sure of anything. I headed back to Texas for leave. He headed back to West Virginia. And California, where his main base was, but he was going to West Virginia for leave and I just needed some time to process what was happening. To see what had happened before Mike, as I had been engaged before, to a Christian guy, a marine. And that marine had beaten me, raped me, and left me for dead. And, so, if I could not trust this strong man who sworn to defend our country and be a Christian, to hold up with the values of family and livelihood that was going to leave me feeling like a trash receptacle. How can I trust a man that I've only known a few months with my heart? You know, after that experience, I guess as Joe Diffy said best, my give a darn was busted. I became very promiscuous. And my low had me feeling like a trash receptacle. I had a hole in my broken and battered heart. I had already trusted, had already been defeated. But here, I went to West Virginia to meet my husband, my soon to be husband and his family. So it's Tuesday evening, I landed at the Pittsburgh airport. He and a buddy picked me up and drove me the 40 miles to a small, one light, six bar, four church town. And it's not too long after I walked in the front door. His mom says “so you gonna marry my son?” I said, “well, we're talking about it.” She says “good. I've got the church reserved for Friday at the three o'clock." A bit taken aback but sad to say, I knew my husband well enough to sleep with him. But I didn't know him well enough to say what my feelings were about getting married. And neither did he. I called my mom. My mom said something she'd said to me many times before “you made your bed and now lie in it.” So Friday at three o'clock, I met my maid of honor on the way to the church. I met the guy that walked me down the aisle at the church. And we were married. After a short reception at my husband's cousin's house. We went to his mom's bar. Oh, this is where the party began. Remember falling down Mike, falling down drunk Mike. Yeah, that was him. He was at the bar hanging out with all of his high school friends having a good time. I sat at the end of the bar having Coke, some water, being ignored. And at midnight, my mother in law slammed her fist in the middle of the bar, said “young lady, Grab your husband. I'm closing the bar in two hours. Y'all need to go have your honeymoon.” I ignored her. So she went and told him, Hey, grabs my hand and I walked and he stumbled the two blocks down the street to his mom's house and up to the room and we're getting ready for bed. And by this time, he's starting to realize I'm not real happy. So he asked me “what's wrong with you?” I said, “Well, this isn't exactly how I expected my wedding night to go.” He looked at me and he said, “Well, maybe your next husband can do better. I just don't see us being married in seven years and then rolled over and went to sleep.” I laid there that night. Why he slept and snored. And I accepted the challenge. I'd already walked away from being told that I wasn't enough once, I'd already been beaten down. I'd already had so many other people try and dictate what I could and could not accomplish. This marriage was going to last seven years, whether it killed him or not. So, I want to tell you about the year that I was in the running for wife of the year, it was 1999. And the running was so close right up until May 29th of 99. That was the morning that I jumped up out of bed as soon as the light hit the window, stood over my husband, shaking my finger in his face and telling him, “you said it wouldn't last seven years and I made it last out of spite.” For some reason, they didn't give me wife of the year that year. I don't get it. You know, I repeated that several times over the next several years. Just to remind him how bad he had wounded me. It wasn't a bragging right for me. It was more of a reminding of how bad he had wounded me with his words. Our marriage was falling apart. Several years later, I'd worked many jobs around Mike's job, and he was moving off to Florida, I wasn't even sure if he was coming back, I needed a job. I'd put out over 400 resumes, not one single bite. Finally, I get a call from a company. They had two positions and they were both part times I've got three mouths to feed. You know, a part-time job was not going to cut it. But I do know two things. One, somethings better than nothing. And two, it's always easier to find a job when you already have a job. So, I went to the interview. As I sat in that interview, I use my best negotiation skills that I didn't even know I had, right? So, I'm sitting there with this person, and he's telling me about the mailroom that bills I'm overqualified for the mailroom. Well, yeah, I'm overqualified for the mailroom, duh! But, there's this administrative position that would really fit me nicely, but he feels that might even be overqualified for that because I'm really full, full-time potential not part-time. So I said, Give me both jobs. Let me prove myself. If I prove myself then what's the harm? What's the foul? The little while you can hire somebody else for the mailroom? Because I can guarantee you, you will want me helping out in other areas as well? He did. And that's what happened. While I was there, I had a girl that I got pitted up against for a job position, right. Have you ever worked with a bunch of women I'm up until this point I had steered clear of working with women? I worked in male-dominated environments. I worked aviation, I worked construction. I worked everything around men, I steered clear of women. And I didn't even know why. Until this happened, I was offered a job, given it. It wasn't one that I really wanted. It was kind of like, well, “you'll do” type thing. And I was really like, I really don't want to do it. And they decided to interview this other girl. And then they took the job away from me and gave it to her. But have you ever been around office politics and gossip? Oh, that is just feed for the fodder with them. Boy, that turned ugly quick. And next thing I know, Jill and I are being pitted against each other. So, I asked Jill to lunch. She told me later that she was terrified to go to lunch with me because she was afraid that I was going to beat her up or chew her out or something like that and to be quite honest, I probably would have back in my older days. See, when I worked in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic and aviation electrician. When women came into my shop, I was their worst enemy. They were not going to come in there and just be willy nilly little girl and worry about their nails getting broken or other things like that they were going to do their job better than any of the other guys were or they were going to get out of my shop. I was much tougher on the girls than I ever was the guys. I really saw the women around me as less than. I saw them as being weak. And until Jill told me this, I didn't even realize that I had that vision of them. Now, Jill's the one that opened my eyes to let me know what I was missing out on the most. And that was friendship. Who knew friendship was so important. I'd been busy raising a family, married to my husband doing all these crazy, crazy things, and I needed friendship. A couple of years later, I'm working at my church and lo and behold, another situation. My boss is getting promoted, another assistants, bosses getting promoted, they're getting promoted to like what we call it the inner sanctum. It's a C level suite type of situation. And normally at that point, if your boss was getting moved up, you moved up with your boss. But that position was the position of a personal assistant. I was not a personal assistant, I was administrative, get stuff done girl. Right? I did not know how to play nice with others. When I started at the office, I was already having a problem because they put me in an office with 12 women. I had just started working with women at my last job and now I’m with 12 of them. Do you realize how many personalities we had going at one time, not to mention perfume smells and baking smells and candles, smells, and all sorts of stuff. It was like sensory overload, right? While I was there, and we were going through that transition, I learned something amazing. Gossip just doesn't happen in the workforce. It happens in church offices too. So, I did it again. I took Kim out to lunch. And we were the couple in our offices from that point forward that knew where all the bodies were hidden. We knew all the things that were going on, we knew how to handle things. We were the ones that when things needed to get done. We were the ones called to get them done. But what happened even more than that was Kim and I started hanging out outside of work. Our husbands and I got started getting together for double dates. We started attending our kids' events together. We started building relationships together, we saw the joys, joyous highs, the devastating lows of each and everything that happened in our lives for 13 years. So this is going to bring us to our spotlight today. Our spotlight is called Everyday Divas. And each episode we're going to highlight a woman who's made a significant impact. She may not be a household name, but her impact leaves an indelible mark on each of our lives. And our Everyday Diva that I'm going to talk about today is, Kim Yates. As I said, Kim Yates and I work together, we had an opportunity to be enemies of each other. But we turned that opportunity on its tail and became friends and sisters and connected. Our husbands are friends. Our kids are friends. We loved, challenged, and supported each other throughout many, many years of ups and downs, pregnancies, marriages, deaths, and so much more. And she was my biggest cheerleader for starting and doing the things that I do here with Divas Impact. See, Kim's the one that taught me to see people not just tests, Kim's the one that taught me to look beyond the surface, and to look for what people needed to feel connected. See, Kim has about 40 other kids, as we call them, I call them fake kids, she calls them other kids. And of those 40 kids, they all loved and adored her. And I say loved, because this past Saturday, we laid my friend Kim to rest. You won't ever get the chance to meet her face to face. But in everything that we do from this episode moving forward, our work with Divas Impact, our work that we hope to build for the future. You'll see Kim's touch because of what she has taught me, how she connected with me, how she was willing to reach out with me. So, I want to ask you, what is your touch? What is it that you are doing to make an impact on the world that you're in? Because that's what we're going to be challenging with each week? What is your impact? Where are you going? How are you doing it? Now we have our Divas Impact Inner Circle, and we would love to connect with you there and be real with you there. It's a closed group, you can talk about whatever you need to talk about in there. We're going to be real with each other. We can continue the conversation from this podcast in that group. But you have to be willing to be open and transparent so that you can get the relationship that you so desperately don't even know that you need a lot of times. Wow. So I'm ending this on a bit of a solemn note because I am a little sad about my friend Kim, but I'm so happy that I had the great opportunity to get to know her. Because she pushed me, she challenged me, to get us started on what we're doing today. So thank you for joining us today and stay tuned for our next episode where we’ll share more about Divas Impact, how it started, where we are going and join us in our deepest impact Inner Circle and until next time, this is Angie Leigh Monroe, reminding you to be a diva and make an impact.

Subscribe for Free on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and Player FM!Kim Yates and her trusty sidekick Trixie return to talk all about the upcoming Haunted Kampout,June 22, 2019 at Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill! She is always full of good news and great stories and is one of the most requested guests by our listeners for encore appearances! Later in the episode, Kim tells us all about the latest Scarlet Angel CD and their CD Release party for Rise Metal Angels on April 13, 2019 at the Sparta Inn in Edgemere, 6400 N.Point Blvd. For more info see www.kimskrypt.com and www.scarletangelrocks.com.The Chorus of the Chesapeake will be having their annual May Show at Kraushaar Auditorium at Goucher College on May 11, 2019. For more information and tickets please see www.dundalk.org.The Fowl Players of Perryville return to the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad on April 6, 2019. The Show is Tennis, Anyone? For more information see www.wmsr.com or call 1-800-TRAIN50.The Uncle Moldy Show will be performing at Folk Rock Night on April 4th at Reverb Collective- 2112 N Charles St, and opening for The Godz on April 12, 2019 at Mum's- 1132 S.Hanover St. in Federal Hill.

In this episode we met Marty Banghart of Deer Creek Chorale. We sat down in her home studio in White Hall MD and talked about the history of Deer Creek Chorale, past and upcoming performances, her career as a vocal music teacher, and much more!Congratulations to Kim Yates on 25 years of Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill! Soon, it will be Kryptmas Season- www.kimskrypt.comThe Chorus of the Chesapeake will he having their fall show- Tribute to Our Veterans- on Saturday, November 10 at the Dundalk Knights of Columbus Hall- 2111 Eilers Ave Dundalk MD 21222. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for children under 12. No tickets are available at the door- please order them from www.dundalk.orgThe Fowl Players of Perryville will be performing in their last show of the season on Friday, November 23, 2018 on the Black Eyed Susan in Havre de Grace, Md. For tickets www.blackeyedsusanhdg.comInterested in acting lessons for on camera, voiceover, and auditioning techniques? Call Sareva Racher 410-227-2102 or sarevaracher@aol.com

If you've been to a haunt, you've probably been very impressed with the costumes, props, mazes, and exhibits, but who conceives of, designs, creates and maintains these things? This week we talk to Jerry West and Jason Wenger (as well as Kim Yates) from Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill in Spring Grove PA! Haunt Season is just around the corner!!! www.kimskrypt.com On August 28, 2018 The Chorus of the Chesapeake will be performing both the American and Canadian national anthems at Oriole Park at Camden Yards for the game between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays. If you would like to join in on the fun and sing with the Chorus, why don't you? The Chorus is looking for a few good men to join them at this event. In order to do so you must attend at least 3 rehearsals between now and then. For more information please go to www.dundalk.org. The Chorus of the Chesapeake rehearses every Tuesday night at 7:30 at the North Point Government Center at the corner of Wise Avenue and Merritt Blvd. Are you interested in on-camera acting training? Sareva Racher is now offering classes. Sareva is an experienced acting coach and casting director who has worked on many high profile projects and knows exactly what people need to do to get cast. If interested, you may contact her at 410-227-2102 or sarevaracher@aol.com The Fowl Players of Perryville would like to thank all of those who came to see them perform on the Black Eyed Susan in Havre de Grace on July 21! What a great crowd! We have other dates coming- tickets are available for August 11, September 21, and new dates have been added for October 27 and November 24. To purchase tickets please go to www.blackeyedsusanhdg.com

Scarlet Angel has been rocking the Mid Atlantic region for nearly 3 decades now, and they are just full of good news! They are releasing a new CD with new members Abby Otradovec and Barry Bergoffen (as well as long standing members Kim Yates and Michelle Armiger) that they plan to have out..."this year"... We also discussed some band history- how I and Scarlet Angel first crossed paths in the 1980's, how the current line up came to be, and much much more! For information on shows, the cd release, bookings and anything else you want to know about Scarlet Angel- please see www.scarletangelrocks.com. **** Please bear with us- we did experience some audio issues with this episode for the first 5-6 minutes, but the rest of the episode is fine. Also- The Fowl Players of Perryville will be appearing on July 21, NEW SHOW ADDED on August 11, and September 22- for tickets and more information please go to www.blackeyedsusanhdg.com

I visited Kim Yates and her sidekick Trixie on location at Kim's Krypt Haunted Mill in Spring Grove, Pa. We discussed the upcoming Kim's Kampout on June 23, 2018, her celebration of 25 years in the haunted attraction business, some new attractions at Kim's Krypt, and this fall's haunt season. For more information on Kim's Krypt itself, or to purchase tickets for the Kampout, please see www.kimskrypt.com. Also- the Fowl Players of Perryville will be performing on the Black Eyed Susan in Havre de Grace on July 21 and September 22, 2018. For more information or ticket sales please go to www.blackeyedsusanhdg.com The Uncle Moldy Show will be performing at the Boumi Temple Carnival on May 26, 2018 at 6pm. Admission is free, for more information please go to www.boumicarnival.com

Episode 34 with Kim Yates and Trixie is live now! In one of our wildest interviews yet we talked about Scarlet Angel, Kim's Krypt, Kim's Krypt Kampout Trixie's Revenge! and much more! Enjoy the episode!