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And welcome to the program on your Monday afternoon. And it is I mean, I don't even know. You guys might not even know this. Maybe it hasn't registered with you today, but today is a momentous day in history. This should be one of those days that that everybody remembers where they was, right alongside of so many of those other days where you're supposed to remember where you was. But today marks a little over three thousand six hundred and fifty days of liberal tears because, ladies and gentlemen, it was ten years ago today that this happened. I am officially running for president of The United States. There are no words. How do you even have a straight face right now? There are no words to describe what just happened. Ed Rendell, do you have any doubt that this is anything more than a carnival show? And you watched that speech today, and we all laugh about it. And I'm sitting here laughing out loud, you know Yep. You know, for for the entire, you know, front part of the show here as we're talking about it. I mean, it was a rambling a rambling mess of a speech. That said, it was very entertaining. I was howling howling. He's got gamudgings of money. He's got a lot of recognition, and he just became the twelfth presidential candidate for the Republican party. Is it typical Donald Trump fashion, or is it hilarity run amok? This morning, some Republicans say they're worried Trump will turn the campaign into a circus. Party leaders worry Trump's presence will turn the primary into a joke. America's largest Latino civil rights organization called Trump an exceedingly silly man. Donald Trump is a fool. Hell froze over, and now we're stuck in the ice with Donald Trump. And there you go. Ten years ago today, ladies and gentlemen. And they thought he was a joke. Everybody. All of the late night comedians, they were on there talking. Even even I remember, Charleston's own embarrassment, Stephen Colbert going, hey, buddy. It was funny. Hey. We've had a good time, but it's time for you to go. And over the past ten years, this man has become the most consequential president that this country has ever known. Well, I would say the top three, maybe the top four. Of course, you got Washington, you got Lincoln, you got Reagan, and you got Trump. Those three, the most consequential presidents that we have ever had, and he continues to show just how consequential he is every single day. They even had big oh, oh, oh, by the way, president Trump sent out a thank you this weekend. He thanked all of the people that were going to the no kings rally. He said, thank you so much. I thought we were gonna get a king to replace me, but that didn't happen. Oh, my word. Did you see the owls this weekend? The old white liberals out there. Did you see them? Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. That's a it's a good yeah. They were out there. Oh, they don't even they didn't even know why the heck they were there, ladies and gentlemen. Some of these people had absolutely no clue why they were at this no kings rally, and I'll give you a great example. Here you go. Here's this one woman. I just I just I I'm just so scared. I'm I'm 74 years old. I worry about everything, and I just I just I just am so scared and and upset, and I don't and I don't understand why people didn't voted for this person. Oh, I can tell you. I oh oh oh, call on me. I can tell you. I can tell you why. I can tell you why 74 year old white liberal. I can tell you why they voted for him. Open borders. How about that? The economy. Inflation. How about that? I mean, just that's just three right off the top of my head. How about that? That's why people voted for him in droves. That's why he won 312 electoral votes. That's why he won the popular vote. That's why not only he beat Hillary Clinton, but he also beat Kamala Harris. Here here is Donald Trump. Be the only beat two women running for president. That's perfect. Good for you. And, ultimately, beat Joe Biden as well. We all know that. Righ ...

4/8/25 - Hour 2 Rich reacts to Geno Smith's introductory press conference with the Raiders and says why fans of the Silver and Black should feel confident in the team's direction under Smith and Pete Carroll.   In ‘Overreaction Tuesday' Righ weighs in on the NFL Draft, the Raiders, 49ers, expanding the NCAA Tournament, the Cavs, Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Masters.    Chargers CB Tarheeb Still joins Rich in-studio to discuss his journey from high school, to Maryland, to the NFL, Jim Harbaugh's unique ability to connect with his players, reveals what Justin Herbert told him the first time he picked off the QB in practice, what it's like to score a touchdown in Yankee Stadium, and more. Rich and the guys react to the breaking news that the Denver Nuggets fired head coach Michael Malone (along with their GM) despite being the 4th-seed in the Western Conference. Please check out other RES productions: Overreaction Monday: http://apple.co/overreactionmonday  What the Football with Suzy Shuster and Amy Trask: http://apple.co/whatthefootball The Jim Jackson Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jim-jackson-show/id1770609432 No-Contest Wrestling with O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-contest-wrestling/id1771450708 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chapter 21 - The Eye of the SnakeʹOi!ʹ bellowed Ron, finally losing patience and sticking his head out of the window, ʹI am a prefect and if one more snowball hits this window—OUCH!ʹ  He withdrew his head sharply, his face covered in snow. ʹItʹs Fred and George,ʹ he said bitterly, slamming the window behind him. ʹGits…ʹ ʹDonʹ worry, it wonʹ hurt yen,ʹ said Hagrid patiently. ʹRighʹ, now, who can tell me why some oʹ yeh can see ʹem anʹ some canʹt?ʹ  Hermione raised her hand. ʹGo on then,ʹ said Hagrid, beaming at her. The only people who can see Thestrals,ʹ she said, ʹare people who have seen death.ʹ  Thaʹs exactly right,ʹ said Hagrid solemnly, ʹten points ter Gryffindor. Now, Thestrals— ʹHem, hem.ʹ Professor Umbridge had arrived.Q1 - What do you think of ThestralsQ2 - Is Umbridge still okay after this?ʹYou can see the Thestrals, Longbottom, can you?ʹ she said. Neville nodded. ʹWho did you see die?ʹ she asked, her tone indifferent. ʹMy… my grandad,ʹ said Neville.Q3 - Harry is going to the Burrow for Christmas…what's the most memorable Christmas you've had?ʹWell,ʹ said Angelina dully, pulling off her cloak and throwing it into a corner, ʹweʹve finally replaced you.ʹ  ʹReplaced me?ʹ said Harry blankly. ʹYou and Fred and George,ʹ she said impatiently. ʹWeʹve got another Seeker!ʹ  ʹWho?ʹ said Harry quickly. ʹGinny Weasley,ʹ said Katie.Q4 - You think Ginny will be good at Quidditch?Q5 - When Cho was hanging back during the DA meeting, did you know everything that was going to happen, like Hermione did, or were you oblivious like Ron.ʹWell?ʹ Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. ʹHow was it?ʹ  Harry considered for a moment. ʹWet,ʹ he said truthfully. Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell. ʹBecause she was crying,ʹ Harry continued heavily. ʹOh,ʹ said Ron, his smile fading slightly. ʹAre you that bad at kissing?ʹʹWell, obviously, sheʹs feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect sheʹs feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she canʹt work out who she likes best. Then sheʹll be feeling guilty, thinking itʹs an insult to Cedricʹs memory to be kissing Harry at all, and sheʹll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably canʹt work out what her feelings towards Harry are, anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so thatʹs all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and sheʹs afraid sheʹs going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because sheʹs been flying so badly.ʹ  A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, ʹOne person canʹt feel all that at once, theyʹd explode.ʹ  ʹJust because youʹve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesnʹt mean we all have,ʹ said Hermione nastily picking up her quill again.Q6 - Is Hermione the best?He had to tell Ron, it was very important that he tell him… taking great gulps of air, Harry pushed himself up in bed, willing himself not to throw up again, the pain half‐blinding him. ʹYour dad,ʹ he panted, his chest heaving. ʹYour dadʹs… been attacked…ʹ  ʹWhat?ʹ said Ron uncomprehendingly. ʹYour dad! Heʹs been bitten, itʹs serious, there was blood everywhere…ʺ Q7 - Was this dream real?ʹNo!ʹ said Harry angrily; would none of them understand? ʹI was having a dream at first about something completely different, something stupid… and then this interrupted it. It was real, I didnʹt imagine it. Mr Weasley was asleep on the floor and he was attacked by a gigantic snake, there was a load of blood, he collapsed, someoneʹs got to find out where he is…ʹ  Professor McGonagall was gazing at him through her lopsided spectacles as though horrified at what she was seeing. ʹIʹm not lying and Iʹm not mad!ʹ Harry told her, his voice rising to a shout. ʹI tell you, I saw it happen!ʹ  ʹI believe you, Potter,ʹ said Professor McGonagall curtly. ʹPut on your dressing gown—weʹre going to see the Headmaster.ʹQ8 - Was Harry the snake or was he watching the whole thing happen?Chapter 22 - St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and InjuriesProfessor McGonagall rapped three times with the griffin knocker and the voices ceased abruptly as though someone had switched them all off. The door opened of its own accord and Professor McGonagall led Harry and Ron inside.Q1 - What are those voices? And what are they talking about?ʹHow did you see this?ʹ Dumbledore asked quietly, still not looking at Harry. ʹWell… I donʹt know,ʹ said Harry, rather angrily ‐ what did it matter? ʹInside my head, I suppose—” ʹYou misunderstand me,ʹ said Dumbledore, still in the same calm tone. ʹI mean… can you remember —er— where you were positioned as you watched this attack happen? Were you perhaps standing beside the victim, or else looking down on the scene from above?ʹ  This was such a curious question that Harry gaped at Dumbledore; it was almost as though he knew…Q2 - What does Dumbledore know?Q3 - Dumbledore tells Fawkes that they will need a warning…what is he talking about?The instrument tinkled into life at once with rhythmic clinking noises. Tiny puffs of pale green smoke issued from the minuscule silver tube at the top. Dumbledore watched the smoke closely, his brow furrowed. After a few seconds, the tiny puffs became a steady stream of smoke that thickened and coiled in the air… a serpentʹs head grew out of the end of it, opening its mouth wide. Harry wondered whether the instrument was confirming his story: he looked eagerly at Dumbledore for a sign that he was right, but Dumbledore did not look up. ʹNaturally, naturally,ʹ murmured Dumbledore apparently to himself, still observing the stream of smoke without the slightest sign of surprise. ʹBut in essence divided?ʹ  Harry could make neither head nor tail of this question. The smoke serpent, however, split itself instantly into two snakes, both coiling and undulating in the dark air. With a look of grim satisfaction, Dumbledore gave the instrument another gentle tap with his wand: the clinking noise slowed and died and the smoke serpents grew faint, became a formless haze and vanished.Q4 - What does Dumbledore mean, in essence divided? What is happening here?ʹYour father has been injured in the course of his work for the Order of the Phoenix,ʹ said Dumbledore, before Harry could speak. ʹHe has been taken to St Mungoʹs Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. I am sending you back to Siriusʹs house, which is much more convenient for the hospital than The Burrow. You will meet your mother there.ʹ  ʹHowʹre we going?ʹ asked Fred, looking shaken. Floo powder?ʹ  ʹNo,ʹ said Dumbledore, Floo powder is not safe at the moment, the Network is being watched. You will be taking a Portkey.ʹ He indicated the old kettle lying innocently on his desk. ʹWe are just waiting for Phineas Nigellus to report back… I want to be sure that the coast is clear before sending you—” There was a flash of flame in the very middle of the office, leaving behind a single golden feather that floated gently to the floor. ʹIt is Fawkesʹs warning,ʹ said Dumbledore, catching the feather as it fell. ʹProfessor Umbridge must know youʹre out of your beds… Minerva, go and head her off—tell her any story.”ʹQ5 - Does it scare you that Dumbledore is being this intense?It happened in a fraction of a second: in the infinitesimal pause before Dumbledore said ʹthreeʹ, Harry looked up at him—they were very close together—and Dumbledoreʹs clear blue gaze moved from the Portkey to Harryʹs face. At once, Harryʹs scar burned white-hot, as though the old wound had burst open again ‐ and unbidden, unwanted, but terrifyingly strong, there rose within Harry a hatred so powerful he felt, for that instant, he would like nothing better than to strike—to bite—to sink his fangs into the man before him — ʹ… three.ʹ Q6 - What is going on here?Q7 - Do you side with Sirius or the Weasleys wanting to go see their dad?If Harry had ever sat through a longer night than this one, he could not remember it. Sirius suggested once, without any real conviction, that they all go to bed, but the Weasleysʹ looks of disgust were answer enough. They mostly sat in silence around the table, watching the candle wick sinking lower and lower into liquid wax, occasionally raising a bottle to their lips, speaking only to check the time, to wonder aloud what was happening, and to reassure each other that if there was bad news, they would know straightaway, for Mrs Weasley must long since have arrived at St Mungoʹs.Q8 - Maybe this is too personal but have you ever had a moment of waiting for bad news like this?Fred fell back into his chair with his hands over his face. George and Ginny got up, walked swiftly over to their mother and hugged her. Ron gave a very shaky laugh and downed the rest of his Butterbeer in one. ʹBreakfast!ʹ said Sirius loudly and joyfully, jumping to his feet. ʹWhereʹs that accursed house‐elf? Kreacher! KREACHER!ʹ  But Kreacher did not answer the summons. ʹOh, forget it, then,ʹ muttered Sirius, counting the people in front of him. ʹSo, itʹs breakfast for— letʹs see— seven… bacon and eggs, I think, and some tea, and toast—”ʹBut thatʹs not all,ʹ said Harry, in a voice only a little above a whisper. ʹSirius, I… I think Iʹm going mad. Back in Dumbledoreʹs office, just before we took the Portkey… for a couple of seconds there I thought I was a snake, I felt like one ‐  my scar really hurt when I was looking at Dumbledore ‐ Sirius, I wanted to attack him!ʹ  He could only see a sliver of Siriuss face; the rest was in darkness. ʹIt must have been the aftermath of the vision, thatʹs all,ʹ said Sirius. ʹYou were still thinking of the dream or whatever it was and—”  ʹIt wasnʹt that,ʹ said Harry, shaking his head, ʹit was like something rose up inside me, like thereʹs a snake inside me.ʹ Q9 - What do you think is happening here?ARTEFACT ACCIDENTS… Ground floor Cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc. CREATURE‐INDUCED INJURIES… First floor Bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc. MAGICAL BUGS… Second floor Contagious maladies, e.g. dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrojungulus, etc. POTION AND PLANT POISONING… Third floor Rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable 2, etc. SPELL DAMAGE… Fourth floor Unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms, etc. VISITORSʹ TEAROOM / HOSPITAL SHOP… Fifth floorQ10 - What floor would you want to work on?Q11 - What was Mr Weasley guarding?ʹCourse heʹs worried,ʹ growled Moody. ʹThe boyʹs seeing things from inside You- Know-Who's snake. Obviously, Potter doesnʹt realize what that means, but if You-Know-Who's possessing him —ʹQ12 - What does this mean?Chapter 23 - Christmas on the Closed WardQ1 - What is Voldemort after? Is Harry really the weapon?ʹYou know,ʹ said Phineas Nigellus, even more loudly than Harry ʹthis is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed‐up popinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard‐done‐by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realize what the Dark Lord may be planning—”Q2 - Is Dumbledore right to keep his secrets?The feeling of being unclean intensified. He half-wished he had not obeyed Dumbledore… if this was how life was going to be for him in Grimmauld Place from now on, maybe he would be better off in Privet Drive after all.Q3 - Is it crazy to you that Harry would rather be back with the Dursleys now?Q4 - It's great that Hermione comes, but is she being a bad kid to her parents?ʹWell, that was a bit stupid of you,ʹ said Ginny angrily, ʹseeing as you donʹt know anyone but me whoʹs been possessed by You‐Know‐Who, and I can tell you how it feels.ʹ  Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he wheeled round. ʹI forgot,ʹ he said. ʹLucky you,ʹ said Ginny coolly.Q5 - What's the best gift you've ever given?Thanks for the book, Harryʹ she said happily. ʹIʹve been wanting that New Theory on Numerology for ages! And that perfumeʹs really unusual, Ron.ʹ Q6 - Thoughts on Ron giving Hermione perfume?Q7 - One of the healers thought Ron had Spattergroit…do you think he does?Q8 - What do you think about them seeing Lockhart again?ʹWhat?ʹ said Ron, looking amazed. (Harry wanted to stamp on Ronʹs foot, but that sort of thing is much harder to bring off unnoticed when youʹre wearing jeans rather than robes.) ʹIs that your dad down the end, Neville?ʹ  ʹWhatʹs this?ʹ said Mrs Longbottom sharply. ʹHavenʹt you told your friends about your parents, Neville?ʹ  Neville took a deep breath, looked up at the ceiling and shook his head. Harry could not remember ever feeling sorrier for anyone, but he could not think of any way of helping Neville out of the situation. ʹWell, itʹs nothing to be ashamed of!ʹ said Mrs Longbottom angrily. ʹYou should be proud, Neville, proud. They didnʹt give their health and their sanity so their only son would be ashamed of them, you know!ʹ ʹIʹm not ashamed,ʹ said Neville, very faintly, still looking anywhere but at Harry and the others. Ron was now standing on tiptoe to look over at the inhabitants of the two beds.Q9 - What do you think of the group meeting Neville here?Nevilleʹs mother had come edging down the ward in her nightdress. She no longer had the plump, happy‐looking face Harry had seen in Moodyʹs old photograph of the original Order of the Phoenix. Her face was thin and worn now, her eyes seemed overlarge and her hair, which had turned white, was wispy and dead‐looking. She did not seem to want to speak, or perhaps she was not able to, but she made timid motions towards Neville, holding something in her outstretched hand. ʹAgain?ʹ said Mrs Longbottom, sounding slightly weary. ʹVery well, Alice dear, very well ‐ Neville, take it, whatever it is.ʹ  But Neville had already stretched out his hand, into which his mother dropped an empty Droobleʹs Best Blowing Gum wrapper. ʹVery nice, dear,ʹ said Nevilleʹs grandmother in a falsely cheery voice, patting his mother on the shoulder. But Neville said quietly, Thanks, Mum.ʹ  His mother tottered away, back up the ward, humming to herself. Neville looked around at the others, his expression defiant, as though daring them to laugh, but Harry did not think heʹd ever found anything less funny in his life. ʹWell, weʹd better get back,ʹ sighed Mrs Longbottom, drawing on long green gloves. ʹVery nice to have met you all. Neville, put that wrapper in the bin, she must have given you enough of them to paper your bedroom by now.ʹ  But as they left, Harry was sure he saw Neville slip the sweet wrapper into his pocket.Q10 - What do you think of Neville after this?Chapter 24 - OcclumencyQ1 - What is Kreacher up to?“Occlumency, Potter. The magical defense of the mind against external penetration. An obscure branch of magic, but a highly useful one.”Q2 - Thoughts on Occlumency?Q3 - What's in the package that Sirius gave Harry?Q4 - What's the best story you have of asking someone on a date?“Only muggles talk of ‘mind reading.' The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure, Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter — or at least most minds are.” He smirked. “It is true, however, that those who have mastered Legilimency are able, under certain conditions, to delve into the minds of their victims and to interpret their findings correctly. The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him. Only those skilled at Occlumency are able to shut down those feelings and memories that contradict the lie, and so can utter falsehoods in his presence without detection.”Q5 - Would you want to be good at Occlumency or Legilimency?“Then you will find yourself easy prey for the Dark Lord!" said Snape savagely. "Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily - weak people, in other words - they stand no chance against his powers! He will penetrate your mind with absurd ease, Potter!”Q6 - Would you be good at controlling your emotions like this?Q7 - What's in the department of mysteries?Q8 - Why is Snape hiding his memories?Q9 - Why is Voldemort so happy at the end of this chapter?

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In this episode, Brad and Lesley delve into the fascinating story of Nikole Mitchell, famously known as the "pastor turned stripper". She bravely transitioned from a pastor's life to a flourishing career as a coach and advocate for self-expression. Discover how Nikole's journey to self-acceptance inspires others to liberate themselves from societal norms and expectations.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! 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I think sometimes we expect people to know like, oh, I'm doing this big thing, you should just post something nice. But people, they don't know how the algorithm works or how things work. They don't actually know what you need, you have to tell people, here's what I need.Lesley Logan 0:07  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:21  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It Interview Recap where my co-host in life, Brad, and I are going to dig into the bold conversation I had with Nikole Mitchell in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to the interview, you should, whether you do it right now, or after this, or whatever, but it's amazing. So pause this, go back and look, if you're listening in our OPC app, it's really easy to just like flip between the episodes. If you're in your any other of the tools, they typically will drop the latest one first. So if you miss Tuesdays, and you're like, oh, I always miss Tuesdays, well, then you can actually set your settings to tell it to what to do. So you never miss the interviews. Anyways, Nikole is amazing. And we'll talk about her in a minute. She's one of our new dear friends. I feel like so that's fine. (Brad: Starting to that.) I know, I'm actually really annoyed at the time that we're recording this, you are going to see Nikole and her partner. And I'm going to miss them. And it was like a monthly meet-up we were doing that I'm missing. (Brad: I know.) Or what. Ah. (Brad: Yeah.) Anyways. Brad Crowell 1:23  We'll take pictures. Lesley Logan 1:25  I know you will. Nikole, make sure to capture the moment. But today is National Buy a Book Day, everyone. Also National Beer Day. So you can (Brad: Oh yeah. Grab a beer.) And a book. (Brad: Buy a book.) And I wanted to do a shout-out to some of our guests who have books that I can recall. And if you've been on the show, and you have a book and I forgot I'm so sorry. But Claire Sparrow, her book is actually coming out in a couple of weeks. (Brad: Nice.) So definitely be on the lookout for that. That is a book that every woman should buy their friend. Jake Helfer has an amazing book and also helps you write a book. Brad Crowell 2:05  He got a book that helps you write a book. Lesley Logan 2:06  There's just like, I mean, we've had so many people who've written a book. We've got some guests coming up, we've got books coming out. Actually, last week's guest, Rory Vaden, he's written a couple books and bestsellers. So go buy one of our guests' books. Take a picture and tag them and the Be It Pod so we can reshare it. Then also this week we are actually it's the last few days to sign up for our Agency Mini, our Seven-Day Coaching Program for fitness instructors especially Pilates instructors, who are looking for some clarity on their business, getting their burning questions answered, make sure they're on the right path. So that you can have to sign up before Sunday. And if you're listening this on Monday (Brad: It's coming out of the wire folks.) so you got to sign up because our next one is not until the next year which is not in January. It's going to be maybe later in January but probably in February. So and also it is the last few days to get your application in for eLevate my program, my mentorship program for Pilates instructors so it's a big week around here. And so you should do the thing that is in your like best for you for your business and for your teaching right now.Brad Crowell 3:12  Yeah, so profitablepilates.com/mini or lesleylogan.co/elevate.Lesley Logan 3:20  Yes. Then after a few weeks of like, just enjoying Las Vegas in the fall weather that starts up. We'll leave and go to Cambodia. We'll be there for a couple of weeks which is our retreat (Brad: Holy cow I cannot wait.) which is basically full.Lesley Logan 3:34  You are welcome to you know, do your Eat, Pray Love and sign up last minute if you want but if you're wanting to, to do next year's go to lesleylogan.co/retreat to get on the waitlist because we'll do October again next year only one.Brad Crowell 3:51  While we're still selling tickets right now. It's just going to show all of that. But one of the FAQs is like I really can't come this year. I want to get on the waitlist. So check that up.Lesley Logan 4:00  Yeah, yeah. And then and then after I get back from that I'm here for some days, few days. And then I go to Chicago with Erika Quest.Brad Crowell 4:09  That's gonna be a party. And honestly, I'd love to go to but I'm staying home with the pups. Lesley Logan 4:14  You are. And that reminds me of the dogs that are for those couple days in Nashville. But we'll do that after this. And then in DecemberBrad Crowell 4:23  That's how sausage is made folks. Lesley Logan 4:25  This is it. Oh, shoot, we need the dog. December. We're back on the road for our winter tour. So stay tuned for the details on all of that goodness. Before we talk about Nikole. Brad, we have a question. (Brad: We do.) I pulled this one in honor of the day.Brad Crowell 4:41  Yeah, I love it. So since today is the National Buy a Book Day. Oh, by the way, go to Whole Body Pelvic Health for Claire Sparrow's book. (Lesley: Oh fabulous.) Yeah, go to wholebodypelvichealth.co.uk.Lesley Logan 4:53  And every other guest that we did not call out where to get. We love you. (Brad: Yeah, we love you.) Go to the show notes of your episode. Brad Crowell 5:00  Yeah. Okay, so we had all these questions, favorite books, what favorite books are we reading? And Lesley Logan 5:11  I'm gonna go first. Brad Crowell 5:12  You listed a few of them here. Lesley Logan 5:13  Yeah, I listed a few and you can, you know, come up with your own as well. But I am currently listening to Tough Titties by Laura, Laura Belgray. I actually, she was actually my writing coach, my copywriting coach many moons ago. And it's just a fun story. Women, Food and Hormones by Sarah, Dr. Sarah Gottfried. That is an interesting, dense book. But hey, I'm 40. So we're reading it, The Big Leap I say this, every time someone asked me for a book, I listened to this annually. I literally call and go, Oh, I'm upper limit myself right now. Like his book is like my life Bible, to be completely honest. And then We Should All Be Millionaires. I've read that one off before, but I just think many women as possible should read that about money. It's so, so important. Brad, do you have a book that you're reading currently?Brad Crowell 6:06  I do. I have a few. And so the first one that I wanted to talk about is one of my favorite authors of all times, his name is Michael J. Sullivan. He's prolific. He's got like 20 books. And I'm reading his most recent book that came out last year, called Esrahaddon. And that's a character's name that's why it means nothing to anybody. But it's so well written, everything that he's done is so fascinating because he completely ties everything together in an incredible way. That like over 20 books, there's like, all these pieces that are all connected. It's really, really impressive. I just finished reading Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can, Too. And I did that because I think it's important for me to know about that topic. So there's another book that, let's see, I've just got so many that are on my list here. I'm going through my literally right now just flipping through my Audible account. There's one called well, I think this is a good one, The Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable. (Lesley: Oh, so good.) Lesley Logan 7:29  So essential even though he talks about some things that are like really old. Everything is still applicable today. So good.Brad Crowell 7:37  Yeah. So if you're interested in actually any of those things just ping us and I'll happily happily share a link.Lesley Logan 7:43  We need Seth on the show. Who knows Seth? (Brad: Yeah. Who knows Seth? We should totally have Seth on the show.) I want to have Seth on the show. Just by me saying Seth if you know Seth, you know who I'm talking about. I want your help. Anyways, I love when people ask us about what books we're reading and what podcasts because it changes over time based on your like interests and everything and it's so, so important to immerse yourself in topics the things you don't know some things for pleasure some things for inspiration.Brad Crowell 8:09  All about it. Okay, now let's talk about Nikole Mitchell. Nikole Mitchell with her refreshingly honest and bold demeanor, emanates genuine authenticity demonstrating an intuitive connection with her body that encourages women to embrace and love themselves. Lesley Logan 9:08  Yeah. She's phenomenal. She's so great. Brad Crowell 9:12  Yeah, I think her one-liner is a bit shocking. She's a pastor turned stripper. (Lesley: Yes.) I think the shock value is a little bit on purpose. It definitely raises eyebrows. And you know whatLesley Logan 9:25  Hey, well, as we know from guest Alex Street, you have to have a story that can be told in three seconds. You can expand into 30 seconds, maybe into three minutes and keep going but like you have to go where was I, where am I now? Like, everyone has that. Like, I was in retail now I'm a Pilates instructor or I was homeless now I like I have a five-bedroom house. Like... Brad Crowell 9:45  Well, my point in this is that you know, when she was a pastor, we didn't know her when she was a pastor and but I can imagine the type of pastor that she is based on the type of person that we have met today, so and it has completely up ended my understanding of what a stripper is. Who a stripper is, like, in my mind. Like, it's, I don't think I ever I never conceptualize being friends with someone who's like, yeah, that's what I do. And it's been so funny because she, I guess,Lesley Logan 10:24  Well I think what's so cool about her, we're gonna get through in a second but like it's really, because I'm a Pilates instructor and so like, it feels like it's part of but I'm not just a Pilates instructor and when we hang out I am more like it's like I'm just talking about like teasers all the time, I actually do talk about a lot of other things that have nothing to do with it. (Brad: Exactly.) What is so what you forget about that with yourself when you think like your job is kind of just like what it's, it's a normal ish job, right? Because she's a stripper, and we've only known her is that what I love is when we were hanging out it's only talking about stripping. We don't talk about her taking clothes off (Brad: No.) like we can, that is an that is a conversation that can come up and she would not shy away from it. But like, ever, she is the perfect example that we are all more than what we consider our job or our career. And she is a multifaceted person. And if you do follow her on Only Fans, like I get I get tons of like aspirations and informations from all of her posts.Brad Crowell 11:27  Yeah, she she's also a life coach, she started coaching people before she started her Only Fans account. You know, and I didn't actually I kind of went down the rabbit hole just to read a little bit more about her when we were doing these interviews and stuff. And I thought that was really amazing. She is just, she has a, her story, which I thought was really fun about the interview is that it wasn't actually about what she does today. It was about her transition from being like, you know, basically oppressed, and in like the society, like the situation that she was in with her church effectively. And the that whole community that she grew up in, and then getting out and then becoming herself. Lesley Logan 12:16  Yeah, and I think like one of the things why I really wanted to have her on obviously she's super successful at what she does. She is a seven-figure earner she went from being on literal food stamps to be a seven-figure earner in a shortish period of time, through dedication, and we talked a lot about it, and we in the episode you want to go back and also we were gonna have her back on to talk about, like, manifestation and goal setting all that stuff. But what is just been what I wanted was like, I wanted people, there's a lot of people within the show who have a dream, and they're afraid of losing people. And I couldn't think of a better person to have on than someone who went from being a pastor to a stripper. Because that is the ultimate like, you're gonna lose your circle, you're gonna lose a lot of circles. And yeah, and to see where she is on the other side of it, I thought would be such a great example for people to be it until they see it in that way. And, and you don't have to be like I want to be a stripper to do that you could maybe you just want to maybe your family is like you should be a doctor and you're like I don't want to or maybe you want to date someone of another sex that like maybe your family is not probably super excited about I really want to to have an episode on the show (Brad: Or different religion or something) right all right, just like things that can scare people in your family that can keep you from being the true person that you are because you're afraid of losing people I really wanted to have a guest on where you can go she did she totally lost people knock online but she also look where she is at she truly is living the life she wants. And she didn't lose every single person in her family we do know that she does talk to you about her family so like it's a transition. So anyways, we're gonna get to things that she loves. Let's just actually accomplish what she talked about. (Brad: Yeah) So one of the things I love she said to, she said people will people won't take that final leap. So when you're on the journey of living your truth and you're taking the thing sometimes you hit an obstacle and right when it gets hard is usually when a lot of people quit but if you could just make that final leap you're actually going to you're actually going to be on the other side of it and she talked about like it's really terrifying. I really loved how honest she was about like she was scared as fuck like (Brad: Yeah) she was so scared and she talked about taking these like really little baby steps and we talk about this all the time you don't have to see the whole staircase you guys like baby steps and she really surrounded herself with people that could could help her you know take those steps without being like oh my god what am I doing, I'm making a mistake like she could be herself and then the safe places and then removed herself from circles where she was afraid that they would actually not burst the bubble but when you are new at something having anyone tell you something that's like your biggest fear is gonna, like make you like, just stop doing it.Brad Crowell 15:04  Yeah. And I think that I have this right on the timeline of things, but I'm pretty sure she removed herself from her circles prior to getting on Only Fans. (Lesley: She did.) So she was like, already up and out for multiple years because she, you know, was basically stuck. And she wanted to be unstuck and being unstuck meant she had, she moved, she literally left where she was at, she left a small town. She left a church that she was in, she like all the things, right? And then she started a new life. And then she was doing some life coaching. And then it was only after that even that she she decided to go down the Only Fans path.Lesley Logan 15:44  And I go back to her like one line like, like, pastor turned stripper. It can sound so quick. (Brad: Right.) What for whatever reason, our brain just goes up. It's like a light switch.Brad Crowell 15:55  Right. Lesley Logan 15:55  Like it turned it on. Lesley Logan 15:56  Yeah. Like she went from the pulpit right toLesley Logan 15:59  Yeah, and it was not like that at all. Like it was very much a slow and gradual journey, where she just explored. And she gave herself those permissions. (Brad: Yeah.) And she, she didn't. And I think this is really important. She didn't go into where we know her now right away, she actually built up her confidence in other places. So that when she got there, and we talked about this on the podcast about when she like first posted the picture, she's like, okay, tell her friends, makes you post nice things right away, because I need to, like create the space. So I just want to, I really loved her story, because I think you can insert any before and any after. And take her advice of just like, take your time and get get people go find people who will immediately be on your side, and really protect those dreams from the people you already know were gonna judge them. You already know it. So why even? Like, why even try to find a perfect way to let them know? Because it's not, there's no perfect way for those people?Brad Crowell 17:02  Well, that is perfect segue here. (Lesley: Right, take over.) So, you know, one thing I love that she said, is that you have to give your yourself permission not to tell anybody.Lesley Logan 17:13  Yeah, I love when I do a great transition. Brad Crowell 17:16  Yeah. You know, so she shared about how we may inadvertently self-sabotage our ambitions and dreams by sharing them too early with those who we actually imagined will support them. But then their fears, end up shooting them down. Righ? And so more often than not, I would imagine that those people are people that you trust, you love, you know, and they are probably not like out to undermine you or whatever. But they have a definitive concept of what life is supposed to be or your life is supposed to be or your role is supposed to be or whatever. And so they're gonna say, Well, why would you go do that you're not, you know, the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And all this stuff that, you know, effectively is what you're trying to remove yourself from that kind of situation. And so for her, she actually went out and found a coach, that she said, This person, I literally am paying them to be 100% on my side to support me, right. And that's the person that I'm going to share the things with. And I thought that was super interesting because it allowed her to just bounce ideas off of a third party, different perspectives. Someone who isn't involved in the day to day, doesn't know the history, none of that stuff. Yeah. So that she could get like an objective.Lesley Logan 18:47   And, yes, a total objective. That's why therapists are great. It's one of the things I joke about when we like, when we first started doing business coaching for our like, we started going, we started going to get business coaching many years ago. And someone's like, oh, I got a client go. Oh, what is that for? And I said, it's kind of like I'm taking my business to private school. I'm paying for some friends. And yeah, for some people to really help uplift me. And it's not like they don't have because as business coaches, we absolutely have amazing advice for you. But also, you need to have people in your life who are not going to go oh my god, are you scared? Like are you sure that's a good idea? Like my god? My family, but every time I mentioned what country I'm gonna go to oh, are you nervous about that? (Brad: That must be dangerous.) That's really dangerous it's like that is the last thing I need to be thinking about right now. I'm supposed to go there to like help make sure that these people feel uplifted and like you're telling me I'm really scared about that. (Brad: Right) So it's, that's one of the reasons whyBrad Crowell 19:52  But again, that's not like they're not like intentionally trying to stop you. But they are definitely putting (inaudible).Lesley Logan 19:59  It's their own fear. And so this is why, like I love that she, you know, paid someone to be alive, good to be your friend, but also like why many of us need to have either a business coach or a life coach or community that we pay to be part of? Because everyone in there is there to be supportive, and to help everyone succeed? Like that's what they're buying into.Brad Crowell 20:20  Yeah, yeah. And what I thought was interesting is that she said, once she moved, she still took time. Like, she said, I didn't know anybody. But I knew that I needed to get out of my community where it was a small town, everyone knew me. They knew all of everything. And she moved. And she said, she ended up taking like a year of what she called the time that she hunkered down. And she spent that time to get to know herself again, explore things, figure out what she actually want to be doing with her life. And, you know, like, find new people who would support her. And she said in that time, it was super important to be selective around the people that she was around. Because one, she wanted to avoid having her dream squashed by negativity. Two, she said it was really she said, give yourself permission to be very, very picky. Right, which is so interesting, especially when, you know, you're on the, when you're out there trying to find friends, community, support, whatever it is, you know, she was very intentional about who it was that she surrounded herself with. And then she said, your dreams are so fragile at the beginning, that if you give it to the wrong person too soon, they could squash it with their fear, they will smother it. And she said, ultimately, this was also really used in her growth into being a model online. Because she said, this was really scary, too. She just knew that this is something that she always wanted to do. But she was afraid to do it. And so when she started her Only Fans account, she didn't share with anyone for a year. It was just her. (Lesley: Taking pictures of) just her. (Lesley: Yeah.) And you know, there's no search bar on the Only Fans, you have to be sending people the link in order to find anything. Yeah. So she didn't share. She just started the account, just to do it for her. Right. And then when she finally started, like sharing this, she was intentional about who she shared it with. And then she said to them, hey, I need your support, because I'm going to start sharing a little more publicly. And I really want to shape the way that people are commenting. And so when I post this thing, would you please leave a supportive comment, because I want to drown out any of the negativity, before it even starts.Lesley Logan 22:57  She wants to set the tone. (Brad: Set the tone.) And this is really you guys, this is so important. When you've got things like you, sometimes you do have to tell people this is what I need from you. I think sometimes we expect people to know like, oh, I'm doing this big thing, you should just post something nice. But people, they don't know how the algorithm works on how things work. They, they don't actually know what you need, you have to tell people, here's what I need. And you know, when I first when my when my accounts, were first starting, I was gonna do a giveaway. And I literally texted my best friend. I said, hey, I know you have three Instagram accounts. Here's the link, can you please post these comments? I literally gave them the comments, like post these comments right now with all three accounts, because I wanted people to go, oh, this is how we behave here. And I have actually like, if you look at her comment feeds, most every person has a positive comment. There is the rarest of hundreds of comments. There's the rarest of like, dick comments. And she because she did this so gradually, and she made sure that she was ready for this. She has the quippiest responses back that just lay and she inspired me because I had some dick say something to me about I'm an exercise person. And they said something and I was like, I don't go into your training gym to tell people how to squat. You should not be telling people how to do Pilates. You don't know it. You clearly have never done it. But I hope you try it. That's why you're here. And they, their response. I was like, Oh no, I just meant that like blah blah. I'm like, you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to different modality. Yeah, thank you. So like, I she gave me the cuz I was like, oh my god, what a negative comment. And I was like, oh, I could actually just tell people really the honest truth back and it's still kind. Thanks, Nikole. Brad Crowell 24:38  Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. You know, and then she she actually recommended a book Glennon Doyle's book. And she said that she made it really clear that her new bar was to only include people in her circle, who she loved and liked, loved and liked, and that made her feel good and then celebrated her.Lesley Logan 25:00  I love that it has to be both have to love and like, yeah. (Brad: Yeah.) I think that's so cool. And also anyone just now shout out if you know, Seth, maybe know Glennon and hey, hi. Brad Crowell 25:11  We're doing it.Lesley Logan 25:13  I'm asking for what I want over here. Brad Crowell 25:14  I love it. Brad Crowell 25:22  All right, so finally, let's talk about those Be It Action items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your convo with Nikole Mitchell? She said, whatever's on your heart right now, yeah, that thing that you've been wanting to go do, but you've been afraid to do it, you need to go do it. You need to do it today. You need to start today. (Lesley: Yeah) Right? And even if it is just one small piece of the thing. Start it. And you can do it only for yourself. You don't need to do it for anybody else. You don't need to do it publicly. You can just do it for you. (Lesley: Yeah) Whatever that thing is.Lesley Logan 26:05  That's, I really just like wanna highlight. Just we already said it. And we emphasized it. But she really just did things for a year without publicizing because like she did it for her. And I think like, that speaks volumes to why she's had the success that she had because she got so clear on what it was. It goes back to the book Big Magic back on National Buy a Book. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. You're welcome. She is the author of Eat, Pray, Love. And she did not even quit her job as Professor even when that book was a national bestseller. Right? She didn't she barely quit it after she sold the movie rights. Like she really wanted to make sure that she protected her love and, and gift of writing, to not put pressure on it to be something to make money and tell like she really knew she could do it. Because when we put things out to the public too soon, before we've really gotten clear on our values and why we're doing it and the purpose for it. It's so easy for other people's opinions to mold that. In fact, my my tattoo artists she is she's still going to do tattoos, but she's also like starting to get into upholstery and like making chairs. Cool. He's like been like buying chairs and like doing a new upholstery on them. And like redesigning them is super cool. Like, we're obviously going to end up with some chairs. We'll get rid of some I'll get rid of some to get some new ones.Brad Crowell 27:37  Or she's gonna be upholstering some of ours. Lesley Logan 27:38  That or, I was like, oh are you reposting people's and she said, I took on a client. This has been this is a month-long project. This is like she's not one month into this, maybe she's two months into this at this point. Idea. And she took on a client and she's like, I'm already mad at myself for doing it because I can't find the fabric that she wants. And I want to do this other thing. And it made me just realize that like maybe I don't want to actually do special orders unless I really liked the project because I prefer (Brad: takes her creativity, her creative mind.) So what happened is she like made it a business before she'd really gotten really (Brad: That's really interesting.) clear on it. And I think that just goes back to like, go do the thing right now. And then also like, let yourself like, like, go, go get started. And I do love that she said you know, you'll talk yourself out of it if you wait longer.Brad Crowell 28:27  Yeah, what about you? Lesley Logan 28:29  Okay. So she, we had to there's a couple things that came out of the Be It Action Items that I really love but she realized the detrimental effects of trying to fit into other person, others' perceptions of her so when we are people pleasing hello, where are my people pleasers at, probably a big portion of this of this group. She realized that like trying to fit in was causing her to be stressed it was actually causing anxiety and depression and, and she was miserable on the inside. And while in therapy, she really discovered the root cause of her people pleasing, which is so important because there's different reasons why you might people please and we got into talking about like, cuz there was a part of her like staying in poverty, right. Like, you know, there's there's a part of that that like it we can feel guilty for like making money and things like that. (Brad: Totally.) And she said, Well, poverty is very expensive. And that was a whole like a whole segment of the episode have to listen to but it's on emotional and mental well being as well. And so she said, there's two reasons. She's disappointing someone. One, she acknowledges that the disappointment others felt was due to her performance of someone she wasn't and so this is a really interesting thing. Because if we are telling people we're someone else, and we're gonna be our true self, then of course we're gonna disappoint them because we lied to them. We (inaudible) and then the other thing was that she wanting to wanting to remain they wanted her to remain the same for their comfort. And when we try to people, please we are trying to remain what people other people want so they will like us, and that's not actually going to make you happy. So the standard, she said the standard should never be toleration in a relationship or friendship, it should always be celebration. And she said, if you if I see you evolving, I'm celebrating you. So be it action item.Brad Crowell 30:34  And I think she also said, even if she doesn't necessarily agree, yeah.Lesley Logan 30:39  Oh, that's, that's what that's next level. Next. What's next? And that is our I hope we all are. I think all of us listening to this want to be that person. And I think if you do find yourself seeing someone evolve, and you're not celebrating, I just think it's a little flashlight of like, oh, here's some work to do. Don't get mad at yourself. Like there's some work to do. But I just, I think like, just I really found that her Be It Actions are like about self-reflection. (Brad: Yeah.) Just taking a little action, and being kind to yourself and celebrating along the way.Brad Crowell 31:11  Yeah, I mean, amazing. What a journey.Lesley Logan 31:14  I know, were having her back because it was I could have just kept going. So. So anyways, I really can't wait for the next episode to come out. We're gonna hold it for the holiday New Year situation because I don't believe in New Year New You. But I do believe in the that sometimes there's certain points of the year when we're really more open to the idea of envision big visions and manifestation. So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, go check out Nikole, and let us know what your favorite takeaway is. Or tag her. Tag us. I know that I really do, I really hope that you like send this to your mom who (Brad: Do it.) Like, I think, one, it's really refreshing and enlightening for people to understand that jobs don't define people. And I think people need to see that like different jobs, the holistic part of it, we donate to the Cupcake Girls, which does sex workers' rights. And my we told my dad about it, and he's like, sex workers rights. I'm like, Yeah, dad, they need rights, too. And I we like told them some stories. And he's like, oh, okay, I'm in like, it's so interesting. We're not exposed to it. It can it can keep people from seeing beauty and possibility and things and making judgments that are based on non fact. So make sure you share this with people. Tag Nikole. Tag the Be It pod. Thank you so much for listening to our episodes, your questions and your comments, your takeaways inspire the guests that we bring on I keep thinking about different guests based on different scenarios I know people are going through who are listening to this so that we can support you wherever you are. I heard you on the menopause. I'm going to be really honest. I had someone lined up and it didn't work out. So we are working on someone else. (Brad: Stay tuned.) Until next time. Be It Till You See It.Brad Crowell 32:59  Bye for now.Lesley Logan 32:59  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. 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Welcome back to Chronic Gals Podcast! This week we celebrate two special occasions - Righ turned 30, and the season finale of Vanderpump Rules aired!! For fun, we took over the patio at the Thirsty Sasquatch, cuddled up with some pizza and drinks, and watched the #scandoval unfold with some friends! So this episode is a companion episode to the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale. Queue up Vanderpump (available on Bravo and Peacock), then queue us up alongside, and press play as the hilarity ensues! Big thanks to the wonderful people at Thirsty Sasquatch for letting us celebrate, and to all our friends who joined us celebrating Rileigh's birthday! Thanks to YOU for tuning in to the Chronic Gals Podcast! Don't forget to subscribe on Podcasts, ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠YouTube⁠, and follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ and TikTok! Catch you next time! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chronic-gals/support

Welcome back to the latest episode of the Chronic Gals Podcast! We're so glad you're here! Are you feeling this intense transformational energy like we are? We're blaming the eclipses! Feels like we're walls being sledgehammered and vacuumed out all at once, leaving a clean frame upon which to build the new. What? The Chronic Gals? Transformation and deep insights of innerstanding?? tHaT's A nEw OnE

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Chapter 19 - The Lion and the SerpentʹWell, the Sorting Hat did seriously consider putting me in Ravenclaw during my Sorting,ʹ said Hermione brightly, ʹbut it decided on Gryffindor in the end. So, does that mean weʹre using the Galleons?ʹ Q1 - Should Hermione be in Ravenclaw?ʹGood luck, Ron,ʹ said Hermione, standing on tiptoe and kissing him on the cheek. ʹAnd you, Harry—” Ron seemed to come to himself slightly as they walked back across the Great Hall. He touched the spot on his face where Hermione had kissed him, looking puzzled, as though he was not quite sure what had just happened. He seemed too distracted to notice much around him, but Harry cast a curious glance at the crown‐shaped badges as they passed the Slytherin table, and this time he made out the words etched on to them: Weasley is our KingQ2 - What's the best bit of trash talk you've ever heard? (Weasley is our King)Q3 - Was Hermione's kiss tactic a good one?ʹAnd itʹs Johnson—Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, Iʹve been saying it for years but she still wonʹt go out with me—” ʹJORDAN!ʹ yelled Professor McGonagall. ʹ‐ just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest.Q4 - What's the most exciting sporting event you've ever seen?Harry was not aware of releasing George, all he knew was that a second later both of them were sprinting towards Malfoy. He had completely forgotten that all the teachers were watching: all he wanted to do was cause Malfoy as much pain as possible; with no time to draw out his wand, he merely drew back the fist clutching the Snitch and sank it as hard as he could into Malfoys stomach.Q5 - Was Harry and George right to do this?ʹBut instead of leaving it to Madam Hooch to sort out, you two decided to give an exhibition of Muggle duelling, did you?ʹ bellowed Professor McGonagall. ʹHave you any idea what youʹve—?ʹ  ʹHem, hem.ʹQ6 - What were your thoughts when you initially read this?Q7 - Is Umbridge the worst?Chapter 20 - Hagrid's TaleQ1 - How do you like Hagrid being back?Q2 - What do you think about Hagrid's story?Q3 - Do you think the giants will be on Voldemort's side?ʹI—Iʹve been away for me health,ʹ he said. ʹFor your health,ʹ repeated Professor Umbridge. Her eyes traveled over Hagridʹs discolored and swollen face; dragon blood dripped gently and silently on to his waistcoat. ʹI see.ʹ  ʹYeah,ʹ said Hagrid, ʹbit oʹ oʹ fresh air, yeh know—ʹYes, as gamekeeper fresh air must be so difficult to come by,ʹ said Umbridge sweetly. The small patch of Hagridʹs face that was not black or purple, flushed.Q4 - How do you think the Hagrid Umbridge dynamic will work out?Q5 - Will Hagrid get sacked?Chapter 21 - The Eye of the SnakeʹOi!ʹ bellowed Ron, finally losing patience and sticking his head out of the window, ʹI am a prefect and if one more snowball hits this window—OUCH!ʹ  He withdrew his head sharply, his face covered in snow. ʹItʹs Fred and George,ʹ he said bitterly, slamming the window behind him. ʹGits…ʹ ʹDonʹ worry, it wonʹ hurt yen,ʹ said Hagrid patiently. ʹRighʹ, now, who can tell me why some oʹ yeh can see ʹem anʹ some canʹt?ʹ  Hermione raised her hand. ʹGo on then,ʹ said Hagrid, beaming at her. The only people who can see Thestrals,ʹ she said, ʹare people who have seen death.ʹ  Thaʹs exactly right,ʹ said Hagrid solemnly, ʹten points ter Gryffindor. Now, Thestrals— ʹHem, hem.ʹ Professor Umbridge had arrived.Q1 - What do you think of ThestralsQ2 - Is Umbridge still okay after this?ʹYou can see the Thestrals, Longbottom, can you?ʹ she said. Neville nodded. ʹWho did you see die?ʹ she asked, her tone indifferent. ʹMy… my grandad,ʹ said Neville.Q3 - Harry is going to the Burrow for Christmas…what's the most memorable Christmas you've had?ʹWell,ʹ said Angelina dully, pulling off her cloak and throwing it into a corner, ʹweʹve finally replaced you.ʹ  ʹReplaced me?ʹ said Harry blankly. ʹYou and Fred and George,ʹ she said impatiently. ʹWeʹve got another Seeker!ʹ  ʹWho?ʹ said Harry quickly. ʹGinny Weasley,ʹ said Katie.Q4 - You think Ginny will be good at Quidditch?Q5 - When Cho was hanging back during the DA meeting, did you know everything that was going to happen, like Hermione did, or were you oblivious like Ron.ʹWell?ʹ Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. ʹHow was it?ʹ  Harry considered for a moment. ʹWet,ʹ he said truthfully. Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell. ʹBecause she was crying,ʹ Harry continued heavily. ʹOh,ʹ said Ron, his smile fading slightly. ʹAre you that bad at kissing?ʹʹWell, obviously, sheʹs feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect sheʹs feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she canʹt work out who she likes best. Then sheʹll be feeling guilty, thinking itʹs an insult to Cedricʹs memory to be kissing Harry at all, and sheʹll be worrying about what everyone else might say about her if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably canʹt work out what her feelings towards Harry are, anyway, because he was the one who was with Cedric when Cedric died, so thatʹs all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and sheʹs afraid sheʹs going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because sheʹs been flying so badly.ʹ  A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, ʹOne person canʹt feel all that at once, theyʹd explode.ʹ  ʹJust because youʹve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesnʹt mean we all have,ʹ said Hermione nastily picking up her quill again.Q6 - Is Hermione the best?He had to tell Ron, it was very important that he tell him… taking great gulps of air, Harry pushed himself up in bed, willing himself not to throw up again, the pain half‐blinding him. ʹYour dad,ʹ he panted, his chest heaving. ʹYour dadʹs… been attacked…ʹ  ʹWhat?ʹ said Ron uncomprehendingly. ʹYour dad! Heʹs been bitten, itʹs serious, there was blood everywhere…ʺ Q7 - Was this dream real?ʹNo!ʹ said Harry angrily; would none of them understand? ʹI was having a dream at first about something completely different, something stupid… and then this interrupted it. It was real, I didnʹt imagine it. Mr Weasley was asleep on the floor and he was attacked by a gigantic snake, there was a load of blood, he collapsed, someoneʹs got to find out where he is…ʹ  Professor McGonagall was gazing at him through her lopsided spectacles as though horrified at what she was seeing. ʹIʹm not lying and Iʹm not mad!ʹ Harry told her, his voice rising to a shout. ʹI tell you, I saw it happen!ʹ  ʹI believe you, Potter,ʹ said Professor McGonagall curtly. ʹPut on your dressing gown—weʹre going to see the Headmaster.ʹQ8 - Was Harry the snake or was he watching the whole thing happen?

Here's the real difference between the Biden's classified document scandal versus Trump's: It's the double standard. https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/10/theres-a-difference-between-biden-and-trumps-classified-documents-snafus-but-its-not-what-you-think/ Trump asks, “Where's the FBI raid on Biden's homes?” https://www.theepochtimes.com/classified-documents-found-at-penn-biden-center-presidents-lawyer_4972626.html Kotek wants to throw massive money at homeless problem rather than address root cause for homelessness and high cost of building affordable housing. 108k per homeless person is stunning. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/tina-kotek-inauguration-oregon-governor/283-fdaf6dc3-8dbf-4baf-92ce-dd4b2ae8360c Affordable housing? Nearly 100k in fees to build a home in Portland: https://oregoncatalyst.com/65119-100000-fees-overcosts-starts-build-house.html Parent's rights lawsuit? Fox News on OR's new ODE transgender guidelines that says schools should refrain from telling parents about their children's identities: https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-guide-encourages-schools-hide-students-gender-identity-parents Republican lawmakers walk out of Gov Hobbs radical inaugural address and will sue her for unconstitutional EO's like forcing kids/teachers to call eachother by their gender pronouns: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/just-arizona-freedom-caucus-announces-plans-sue-katie-hobbs-unconstitutional-gender-identity-executive-order-turning-backs-hobbs-walking-sotu-address/   

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Welcome back to Chronic Gals Podcast! 2022 is quickly coming to a close, and Ash and Righ are ready to look ahead to next year and beyond! Spark up with us as we talk about what's next for the podcast, what's next for us, and what we're dreaming up for 2023! Shout out to WSJ Magazine and NW Leaf for all the great vision board material! FARM FEATURE Fatso by Doc & Yeti (WA) Pineapple Express by unknown FARM FEATURE Sweet Tea - Fire Mountain (WA) BULLETIN BOARD Our Youtube channel, Real Stoners, is now LIVE!! We seek to normalize what happens when you get stoned on our try channel, where real stoners get high and do stuff. What will we do next? Are you a WashingStonian who loves weed? Check out our new WashingStonian's notebook, a blank journal for all of Washington's cannabis connoisseurs! Get it here. /// If you like this episode, share with a friend & let's grow the smoke circle! Follow us over on Instagram @chronicgals_podcast to see what fun we're getting up to & get notified when we go LIVE for our Instagram Live smoke seshes! Subscribe to the audio version of Chronic Gals Podcast wherever you get your podcasts OR check out our videos on Youtube! Support the show & buy us a joint! We're $ChronicGals on CashApp! Check out our website at ChronicGals.com! Talk to you next time on another episode of the Chronic Gals! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chronic-gals/support

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►► FREE Start to Finish Guide to Creating a Song https://www.fairairmusic.com/StartGuide Do you find guitar panning just a little confusing at times? I know I do, especially when all you ever hear about is having only 3 panning choices - Left, Righ, and Center. But, that's not really true, is it? I mean, if it were, a panning knob would be more of a switch with 3 settings instead of a full 180 degrees to choose from. Right? In this episode I'm going to show you my guitar panning techniques that give me more movement and clarity in my mixes. This technique has made my mixes sound more musical and i know it will do the same for you! In this episode you'll learn: Why I came up with this panning technique How it's better than just panning LCR How it compares to panning hard left and hard right Hope you enjoy! - Emily [0:00] - Intro [0:22] - Overview of why I use this guitar panning technique [2:50] - Guitar panning techniques [9:20] - Guitar panning technique that will make your mixes sound clear and wide [9:32] - Outro

Welcome back to another episode of Chronic Gals Podcast! This week, we catch up with the Gals after Righ visits Bellingham Bud Fest and gets inspired to throw a cannabis festival in SW Washington, Ash comes up for air after deep diving into Mary Magdalene backstory, and bring it back full circle to the trauma convo with our pal and energy worker Lauren Nielsen! Lauren practices the Body Code, a healing modality that releases the trapped emotions, blocks, and negative energies stuck in your energy field after experiencing trauma. Ash has experienced a couple sessions, and will advocate for how much energy moves after working in the Body Code! Find out more about what it is and how it works inside! Schedule your session with Lauren at wholespiritwellness.net! Catch you next time on another episode of Chronic Gals! BULLETIN BOARD Our Youtube channel, Real Stoners, is now LIVE!! We seek to normalize what happens when you get stoned on our try channel, where real stoners get high and do stuff. What will we do next? Are you a WashingStonian who loves weed? Check out our new WashingStonian's notebook, a blank journal for all of Washington's cannabis connoisseurs! Get it here. /// If you like this episode, share with a friend & let's grow the smoke circle! Follow us over on Instagram @chronicgals_podcast to see what fun we're getting up to & get notified when we go LIVE for our Instagram Live smoke seshes! Subscribe to the audio version of Chronic Gals Podcast wherever you get your podcasts OR check out our videos on Youtube! Support the show & buy us a joint! We're $ChronicGals on CashApp! Check out our website at ChronicGals.com! Talk to you next time on another episode of the Chronic Gals! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chronic-gals/support

Grab your bibs, knives & forks and tuck in for Chronic Gals Pot-luck! Righ and Ash each cook something yummy, then come together to eat and smoke about CERN. Join us for some buffalo chicken loaded fries and vietnamese chicken wings with schezuan aioli! Frickin yum. And then we talk timelines and choices as scientists in Geneva continue to try to understand our universe. We have thoughts, lol. Catch you next time on another episode of Chronic Gals! BULLETIN BOARD Our Youtube channel, Real Stoners, is now LIVE!! We seek to normalize what happens when you get stoned on our try channel, where real stoners get high and do stuff. What will we do next? Are you a WashingStonian who loves weed? Check out our new WashingStonian's notebook, a blank journal for all of Washington's cannabis connoisseurs! Get it here. /// If you like this episode, share with a friend & let's grow the smoke circle! Follow us over on Instagram @chronicgals_podcast to see what fun we're getting up to & get notified when we go LIVE for our Instagram Live smoke seshes! Subscribe to the audio version of Chronic Gals Podcast wherever you get your podcasts OR check out our videos on Youtube! Support the show & buy us a joint! We're $ChronicGals on CashApp! Check out our website at ChronicGals.com! Talk to you next time on another episode of the Chronic Gals! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chronic-gals/support

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Your favorite stoner sisters are back for another episode of Chronic Gals Podcast! Ash & Righ spark up this conversation with some unique and ultra-frosty THCA dusted flower, which sends us into our next spiral into the Marvel Cinematic Universe! We've been doing our homework and watching more Phase 4 releases, and THERE ARE THINGS TO TALK ABOUT! Grab a joint and join us for the ride! FARM FEATURE Gummy Worms isolated flower and Stomper Express preroll by Trichrome Extracts BULLETIN BOARD Our Youtube channel, Real Stoners, is now LIVE!! We seek to normalize what happens when you get stoned on our try channel, where real stoners get high and do stuff. What will we do next? Are you a WashingStonian who loves weed? Check out our new WashingStonian's notebook, a blank journal for all of Washington's cannabis connoisseurs! Get it here. /// If you like this episode, share with a friend & let's grow the smoke circle! Follow us over on Instagram @chronicgals_podcast to see what fun we're getting up to & get notified when we go LIVE for our Instagram Live smoke seshes! Subscribe to the audio version of Chronic Gals Podcast wherever you get your podcasts OR check out our videos on Youtube! Support the show & buy us a joint! We're $ChronicGals on CashApp! Check out our website at ChronicGals.com! Talk to you next time on another episode of the Chronic Gals! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chronic-gals/support

It was the first Boston Celtics home Finals game since 2010, and it was a hell of a return for the Celtics faithful... with Jayson Tatum Jaylen Brown & the rest of the Boston vets managing to weather the inevitable Golden State Warriors 3rd Q storm. SO! We've got the NBA Straya wrap & reaction for a FASCINATING Game 3 of the NBA Finals! RIGH! First off there's all the latest NBA news -- Ben Simmons back surgery recovery is going well, who are the Utah Jazz interviewing for their coaching gig? Then we're breaking down, wrapping & reacting to a really fun Warriors-Celtics NBA Finals Game 3 in the NBA STRAYA GAME WRAPS. There's also THAT'S NOT A KNIFE, OLD MATE NO MATES, SPUD OF THE NIGHT, PANTSING OF THE EVENING and BETTER THAN LONZO BALL!! PLUS! After that, a SHANE HEAL SHOOTERS SHOOT SHOOT YOUR SHOT LIGHT EM UP AWARD! And we finish off with Jimmy's FIRST BLUSH pick & preview for Celtics-Warriors Game 4 on Saturday.... And we close out with everyone's favourite new segment, JOCK'S ROCKS!! You little beauty! Enjoy, legends.

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Do you want to work only because you want to and not because you have to?   Rachel Richards has built a real estate portfolio of 38 units by the age of 26 and is now passively earning $20,000 per month. In this episode, she tells us how she stopped trading time for money by investing and opening up passive income streams other than real estate. She also shares why she continues to work and find ways to challenge herself even after “retiring” and achieving financial independence.   Rachel Richards is the best-selling author of “Money Honey” and “Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement.” Listen in to know more about her journey!   [00:01 - 07:54] Living off of $20,000 in Passive Income Monthly Rachel on being a finance nerd and on her experience in the industry Why people should look for off-market deals This is how she found their first duplex From self-managing to hiring property managers to self-managing again The biggest mistake they made so far Don't be cheap! Owning real estate out of state   [07:55 - 14:15] Passive Income Strategies You don't have to own a rental property to generate passive income Self-publishing and making $4,000-$10,000 a month  Rachel's goal to make income more and more passive Being a limited partner Setting boundaries and being more intentional  Looking at opportunities in mobile home parks and self-storage Screening syndications and doing due diligence   [14:16 - 17:55] Creating Impact Through Her Work Living freely and having time for things that fulfill them Writing to inspire others, especially women Doing what serves them and the people around them   [17:56 - 19:06] Closing Segment Reach out to Rachel!  Step into the path of financial freedom with Rachel's FREE Passive Income Starter Kit! Links Below Final Words Tweetable Quotes   “Being cheap can cost you a lot more money in the long run. This is not the place to cut corners when you hire people like contractors and property managers.” - Rachel Richards “Don't be afraid to invest out of state. It really forces you to be an efficient property manager and owner of real estate.” - Rachel Richards “I want to make a big impact and help as many people as I can. That's what I'm passionate about, especially helping women.” - Rachel Richards -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Connect with Rachel! Follow her on Instagram and visit her website, Money Honey Rachel. Get her FREE Passive Income Starter Kit, and check out her books, Money Honey and Passive Retirement, Aggressive Income, to know more about money management, personal finance, and investing!   Resources Mentioned: Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki HOLD by Steve Chader The Hands-off Investor by Brian Burke Connect with me:   I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook   LinkedIn   Like, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on.  Thank you for tuning in!   Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below:   Rachel Richards  00:00 The great thing about moving away is that we've been forced to streamline, and systematize all of our processes and doing that has made self-managing so much easier. I was so afraid to move away. But owning real estate in another state is so freeing and it's a lot easier than I thought. So if that's anyone's hang-ups if you're listening, to don't be afraid to invest out of state, it really forces you to be an efficient property manager and owner of real estate.   Intro  00:27 Welcome to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate Show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big.    Sam Wilson  00:39 Rachel is the best-selling author of Money Honey and Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement. She built a real estate portfolio of 38 units by the age of 26. Rachel, welcome to the show.   Rachel Richards  00:50 Hey, Sam. Thanks for having me.   Sam Wilson  00:52 Hey, pleasure's mine. Three questions I ask every guest that comes on the show: 90 seconds or less, where did you start? Where are you now? How'd you get there?   Rachel Richards  00:58 I started my real estate investing journey in 2017. My husband and I purchased our first duplex that year. And within two years, we scaled our real estate portfolio from zero to 38 units. When people hear that they make some assumptions. So I'll get those out of the way. I'm not a trust fund baby. And I never made six figures from a job or career. So let's see, where am I? Now I am now investing in syndications. I've invested in eight syndications as LP as a passive investor, and I'm now financially independent and living off $20,000 per month in passive income.   Sam Wilson  01:35 Wow, that is really cool. Congratulations and a job well done. Zero to 38 units in over how many months was that?    Rachel Richards  01:43 24.   Sam Wilson  01:44 24 months. Okay, so you're buying a property? We're actually more than one and a half properties a month.   Rachel Richards  01:50 It was six buildings. 38 doors.   Sam Wilson  01:53 Six buildings. 38 doors. That helps. So you're not, one and a half transactions every single month. Got it? Six buildings. 38 doors. That's cool. Absolutely. Love it. Is this tell me? Is this all you're based in Denver, Colorado? Is this all in Denver?    Rachel Richards  02:06 This was all in Kentucky where I lived for 20 years.   Sam Wilson  02:10 Okay, cool. So you had some experience, obviously, in the local market there? What did you do? I mean, to identify that many assets and that short of a time, what were you doing to do that?   Rachel Richards  02:21 So I've always been a finance nerd. And my whole life proud of it. And I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad in high school. I, after college, I was a financial advisor. I also took a couple of jobs, working with a real estate investor and learning from him, and then working under a realtor. So I did have some experience in the industry. And I read every book I could get my hands on. One of my favorite ones is this book called Hold by Steve Chader. That one was really helpful in learning how to analyze properties. One of the important things I think, for people to do right now is look for off-market deals because the market is so intense. The MLS is saturated and competitive. And it's really difficult to find good deals if all you're doing is looking at the MLS. One of the ways we found our first duplex was pretty much an off-market deal. So we looked at the withdrawn and cancelled and expired listings on the MLS. And I was reaching out to those list agents to find out what happened. You know, why did the seller take it off the market? Did they change their mind? Are they is it going to come back up? And I remember feeling like I was pestering this one list agent about this duplex for months. But really, I was just trying to be polite and stay top of mind. And when the seller was going to relist it, she reached out to me first and she said, Hey, this is about to come back on the market. Would you like to make an offer, which was really beneficial because I could make my offer before anyone else did. And that is how we got that first duplex.   Sam Wilson  03:45 Wow, that's cool. Now, did you self-manage these? Or do you self-manage these? Are these be plugged in the property management company? How do you handle that?   Rachel Richards  03:54 We self-managed until we got to about 26 units, I think. And here's the thing, my husband and I were working full time. So we were working 40 to 50 hours a week, I was writing my book in the evening. And we were acquiring and managing our rental properties on our own on the weekends and everything. So once we got to 26 units, we were like we definitely need a property manager. And we've made our share of mistakes, hiring property managers as well. But now to this day, we're back to self-managing.   Sam Wilson  04:20 Okay, that's really Yeah, that's interesting, because you at some point, you're right. You need that outside help. But it sounds like there were some mistakes made along the way where that help wasn't so very helpful.   Rachel Richards  04:30 Absolutely. This is our biggest mistake to date. So my mistake is that I tend to be too cheap and being cheap can cost you a lot more money in the long run. This is not the place to cut corners. When you hire people like contractors and property managers. You don't cut corners here. So what we did is we were looking for a property management company and we you know, they charge you anywhere from 10 to 12%. And we had this couple that was working for us doing things like maintenance lawn care, they were so hard working, some of the hardest working people we've met, and they always went above and beyond. So we figured let's make them employees of our company, and they can be our property managers. We can save some money and be a little more hands-on in the way that we are training them and managing them to manage our properties, felt like a win-win, right? It was not, it was not a win-win. It was a win-lose. So everything started off great. And then about six months in my husband went to pick up rent from the onsite lockbox is one weekend, and he noticed a lot of rent was missing. And it was not just the normal tenant or to paying late, it was a significant amount. So come to find out this couple had stolen $6,000 in rent that weekend. And we found out they had been squatting in vacant rooms and units in our properties for almost a year. Devastating. Yeah, it was one of those occurrences where I was like, we should quit. This is not meant for us. This is awful. And that lasted for a few days. And I got over it, but it was devastating and such a violation of trust. And the moral of the story is that, again, this is not the place to be cheap. You need to hire a licensed, insured, properly-permitted, you know, everything reputable property management company, because if we had done that, and one of their employees had stolen rent from us, they would have been liable for the damages, not us. So it's embarrassing to share. Because in retrospect, it seems so obvious. It's so naive of us to have done that, but I share it in the hopes that others will learn from my mistake.   Sam Wilson  06:24 Yeah, no, thank you for taking the time to share that that is painful. I mean, I'm curious, you said your husband had gone to pick up rent from the on-site lock boxes. Now you live in Denver, and these properties are in Kentucky. So were you flying back to go pick up rent monthly?   Rachel Richards  06:39 No, we were still living there at the time. So we only moved to Denver a couple years ago.   Sam Wilson  06:43 Got it. Okay, cool. Wow, that's really intense.   Rachel Richards  06:46 Yeah. Now, we're not quite that dedicated. But the great thing about moving away is that we've been forced to streamline, and systematize all of our processes. And doing that has made self-managing so much easier. I was so afraid to move away. But owning real estate in another state is so freeing, and it's a lot easier than I thought. So if that's anyone's hang-ups if you're listening, that don't be afraid to invest out of state, it really forces you to be an efficient property manager and owner of real estate.   Sam Wilson  07:16 You know, I've heard that and I, let's see, do I own anything? I own stuff that's four hours away. So it's, you know, I guess that's, I mean, obviously involved as a general partner on deals that are much further away than that. So I get it. Yes, I'm trying to remember what that state where you're mentioning, we're allowed to and maybe hearing this and going, Gosh, I can't quite wrap my head around it. But you does all the things you just mentioned, where it's like, oh, you know what, I've got to find a way to solve this without going to the property. Got a way, to find a way to solve this, we're now taking all electronic payments, there's no checks, there's no cash being dropped off, like this is the way we do business. That's, in fact, a very freeing, freeing thing to get in place. I think once you've done that, tell me about your self-publishing journey. I know you've written the book. And I know I read the title out here and we kick this off, and I can't remember what it was now. But tell me about the title of that book. And then tell me about what's in the book and why you wrote it.   Rachel Richards  08:08 Yeah, so one of the great things about passive income is that you don't have to own rental property to create passive income. And so a lot of the things that I hear from people is like, well, I don't want to be a landlord, Rachel, I want to create passive income, but I don't want to be a landlord. And the great thing is, you don't have to be a landlord to generate passive income. There's a lot of other ways to do it besides investing in real estate. I have found self-publishing to be an amazing way to generate passive income. So in 2017, I self-published my first book Money Honey and it was the thing I did because I used to be a financial advisor. All my family friends came to me for financial advice, which I loved. At the same time, I thought, Well, why aren't they learning on their own? You know, why aren't they reading books, listening to podcasts? And I had this aha moment where I realized, oh, yeah, personal finance is boring, right? It's overwhelming. It's complicated. It's intimidatin for most people. No wonder people don't like to learn about it. So I thought to myself, How can I make this topic sassy and fun and simple? And that's where the idea for Money Honey came from. So I wrote it. I was really excited. Something I felt very compelled to do. I didn't really think I was gonna make money to be honest. I was so hesitant to invest in it. So I spent like $560 on the book launch thinking I would never make that money back. It was just a passion project. But I published it in September 2017. And to my surprise, to this day, it just took off. It resonated with female millennials, it started selling, spread by word of mouth. I was making $1,000 a month in profit for the first year. And I launched another book. And last year, I believe I made about $99,600, or something and profit from my two books. I was like, so close to becoming a six figure author, but it's still really amazing to think you know, these books now bring in anywhere from four to $10,000 a month in passive profit and it's just an example of you know, you don't have to invest in real estate to create passive income streams.   Sam Wilson  10:05 Right. No, that's absolutely true. I mean, it can be books, it can be other businesses. It can be, you know, a variety of things that you do. Tell me on, since we're talking about the money side of things. I know you said you're making about 20,000 bucks a month off your rental property off a 38 units. That's over 500 bucks per month profit per unit.   Rachel Richards  10:26 Yeah, and it's not that's including all my passive income streams. Okay. Yeah. So at one point, when we had 38 units, we were making 10 grand a month from those 38 units. It was about $260 per door.    Sam Wilson  10:26 Got it. Okay. Yeah, I was gonna say that's, it sounds pretty incredible. 500 bucks a door in profit every single month. So that's really, really awesome. Now, you're a limited partner in eight syndications, why are you going this direction, and not buying more active real estate?   Rachel Richards  10:55 So great question, real estate investing for my husband and I was always a means to an end, we never wanted to build this huge empire. And our goal was to get to 10k a month in profit from our rentals. And once we did that we wanted to stop, that was sort of our fat fire number. We could become financially independent and not have to work anymore once we got that number. So in 2018, we achieved that, and we stopped acquiring real estate and it shocked some people, you know, they were like, Well, why not build an empire of 200 doors or 250 doors? And we were like, well, that's not what we want to do. So we stopped. And I'm proud that we were able to do that, because you can really get caught up in you know, enough is never enough. And sort of always moving that goalposts further, but we were able to stop and be intentional about what we wanted to do with real estate. So that was why we stopped acquiring. Now why we've transitioned things is because the goal is to always make the income streams more and more passive. And back then when we were building up this empire, we had a lot more time than money. We started off pretty broke, in my opinion. Again, we didn't have, like I wasn't a trust fund baby. I wasn't making six figures, we were just scraping the money together to get 20% down payments, right? We did have time and we were willing to hustle to make cash flow. Now that we have a lot more money, we would rather invest in syndications, which are a lot more passive. So last year, we sold three of our big multifamily buildings. And we've transitioned that money into syndications. And it's a much more passive way to directly own and invest in real estate. So that's why we sort of change strategies.   Sam Wilson  12:31 Gotcha. Let's talk about what you are investing in right now. Are there certain asset classes you're favoring? Where do you see opportunity as a passive investor?   Rachel Richards  12:42 So I favor multifamily, just because I'm so familiar with it. And I can easily analyze those syndications. So that's my comfort. However, I really want to invest more in self-storage and mobile home parks. Because I think there's a supply-demand thing with self-storage right now. And definitely with mobile home parks, because it's a scarcity thing. It's a limited resource. And there's only so many and you're not allowed to build any more mobile home parks. So I'm really wanting to invest in more mobile home parks.   Sam Wilson  13:07 Right, you obviously talk about mobile home parks, you know, commonly on this show, and you've hit a lot of the highlights that kind of go into why that's still a great asset class, a great asset class to be involved in how have you gone about picking the sponsors that you are working with?   Rachel Richards  13:24 Great question, because picking the sponsor is almost more important than picking which syndication you're investing in. Because really, when you're deciding to invest in a syndication, you're placing your money with the person, you're trusting the person, and you need to find somebody that has enough knowledge, who's done this before successfully, who has the experience, and who's trustworthy. I've heard horror stories of syndicators running off with you know, 50k of somebody's money. And yeah, they'll eventually get caught and get thrown in jail, but someone's not gonna get their money back. So I definitely want to find good trustworthy people. I was making the mistake at first to try to go on Facebook groups and LinkedIn and reaching out to people. But the problem with cold contacting somebody is that no one can speak for them. No one can vouch for them for me. So the best way in my opinion, to find good sponsors or syndicators is to be connected to them through a mutual contact or friend who knows them and trust them and has already invested with them. So that is what I now do. I have a good network. And a book that I really recommend is the Hands-off Investor by Brian Burke. It is so good. It's very dry. It's very technical, even for me, and I'm a finance nerd. But it's something if you read it, like have everything you need to know to screen syndicators and to do due diligence on a syndication.   Sam Wilson  14:43 Righ. Yeah, I think I've read that book before. It's been a while, but I'll put that back on the list. And we'll certainly make sure we reference that. And also the whole book by Steve Chader. Yeah, we'll reference both of those there in the show notes. Questions for you. You said earlier when you guys had hit you or number that you said, Hey, we had units, X number of dollars in passive income. And we don't want to grow any bigger. That's not what we want to do is go bigger. What did you want to do?    Rachel Richards  15:11 We wanted to just live a free lifestyle, we wanted to work when where and if we want, a lot of people get bothered by my use of the word retire, because I still work. I still work on my business, I teach women how to invest in real estate, I have books, I have courses, I have programs. But the thing is, I work now because I want to not because I have to. And we now spend a lot of our time hiking and traveling. And we have free time. And we work again, because we have the choice to work. And that's because we want to do so it's about having the time to do what is fulfilling to us and not have to trade our time for money anymore.   Sam Wilson  15:52 Right. Absolutely. So what does the next five to 10 years look like for you? Because let's presume I mean, at some point, forgive me for my projects, you might be like, I hate this guy. You know, at some point, you know, the book sales may drop off that income stream may dissipate. And then if you're doing courses or some other stuff along the way, do you just keep building some other things that are generating passive income along the way? Is that really the plan? Or is there something there that you guys are shooting big for?   Rachel Richards  16:18 There's I have a lot of ideas, I have a lot of ideas and not enough time to implement them all. But one thing I know about myself is if I'm not building and creating something, I'm bored, so I don't see myself ever stopping or slowing down from that regard, I want to make an impact. And I want to make a big impact and help as many people as I can. That's what I'm passionate about, especially helping women. So I want to write more books, that's for sure. One of my dreams is to write a fiction book, actually, I've thought about becoming a general partner and being a syndicator myself or helping to raise capital. So that's a thought that I have, I definitely want to continue finding ways to invest in real estate, maybe as a silent partner, hard money lender, just continue to find ways to just do more things and challenge myself.   Sam Wilson  17:02 Got it. I love that. I think that's the fun part about it. And I really appreciate how you guys have defined what it is that you want. I think a lot of people, you know, they keep doing like you said they keep adding on to keep moving the goalposts because they see, well, that guy has a billion dollars in assets under management, why shouldn't I? Like, you know, why should I go out and do this or do that. But in the end, it was not what it is that it serves you or the people around you, it's probably not that fulfilling. So you got to do what it is that's in your heart and in your goal list of things to do. So I really admire you and your husband's ability to set limits on it and say, This is what we're building. And then we're done. At least with the real estate, you know, portfolio part. Yeah, obviously, like you said, you're either building or you're bored. You're always gonna be building something.   Rachel Richards  17:47 I think that's my new tagline. I like that I'm either building or I'm bored...   Sam Wilson  17:52 Guys, that's me. I wrote, building or be bored. So yeah. So that's really, really cool. Rachel, I've certainly enjoyed this. Thank you for taking the time, really to come on today and share with us your story of what you have done, are doing in real estate, publishing and everything else. I think it's a really cool story. It's certainly inspiring to the rest of us. If our listeners want to get in touch with you, or learn more about you what is the best way to do that?   Rachel Richards  18:15 Yeah, thank you, Sam, you all can follow me on Instagram @moneyhoneyrachel. And what I'd love to do for your listeners is if anyone wants to download my passive income starter kit, I will give that for free so they can go to moneyhoneyrachel.com/passiveincome to download that.   Sam Wilson  18:33 Awesome. And we'll make sure of course that we put that also in the show notes. Rachel, thank you again. Appreciate it.    Rachel Richards  18:40 Thank you.    Sam Wilson  18:41 Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate Podcast. 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Wow! The San Francisco International Pen Show! After hearing about all the beautiful pens Kelly saw, we may all want to start collecting a few ourselves. We also learn that pens join knitting, dogs, chickens, and teaching on our Venn Diagram. Show notes with full transcript, photos, and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Subscribe on Android or Subscribe on Google Podcasts Three Green Sisters prizes: Grand prize is an 18 by 18 pillow using fabric designed by Cheri Magnusson. A fabric designer who is the shepherd of an Icelandic flock in Maine.  In addition to the pillow, they are generously providing their Patty style bag as a prize. One will be used for the Summer Spin-In and one will be drawn from a thread we'll post in the Ravelry group.  They are offering Fiber Adventurers a coupon code EWES2 for 15% off until the end of the year. They also make custom loom totes, spinning wheel carriers and spindle and heddle bags, along with one of a kind styles. Take a look at what Suzanne and other 3 Green Sisters are offering in their 3 Green Sisters Etsy shop. SF International Pen Show Kelly saw lots of great pens and stationery supplies. Bailey got to attend , too. Some favorite vendors were Peyton Street Pens, and Curnow Bookbinding. Marsha's Projects Atlas (Ravelry link) by Jared Flood using Navia Tradition. The pattern is also available at his website. I finished the colorwork yoke and the neckband and washed and blocked the sweater before finishing the bottom and sleeve ribbing. My brother tried on the sweater and we confirmed it was too small. I need to frog it and start over. I'm waiting for Kelly to get here to help me unravel it over a glass of wine. I finished the picot bind off of my Simple Shawl by Jane Hunter. I still need to wash and block it. 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Contact Kelly with your pattern selection!  Patterns people have requested (Ravelry links) OMG Heel Socks by Just Run Knit Designs Beautiful Together by Romi Hill Georgetown by Hannah Fettig Girlang by Linnea Ornstein Friday Tee by PetiteKnit Mosaic Musings by Steven West Avion by Katrin Schneider Stripes! by Andrea Mowry Edie by Isabell Kraemer Songbird Shawl by VeryShannon Derecho by Alison Green Nydia by Vanessa Smith Morning Rituals by Andrea Mowry Riddari by Védís Jónsdóttir for Ístex Sleepy Polar Bear by Susan B Anderson Summer Spin In - Ending September 6th! Get your projects posted this weekend. We'll draw prizes in the next episode. Prizes from Three Green Sisters Full Transcript Marsha 0:03 Hi, this is Marsha Kelly 0:04 and this is Kelly. Marsha 0:05 We are the Two Ewes of Two Ewes Fiber Adventures. Thanks for stopping by. Kelly 0:10 You'll hear about knitting, spinning, dyeing, crocheting, and just about anything else we can think of as a way to play with string. Marsha 0:17 We blog and post show notes at Two Ewes Fiber Adventures dot com. Kelly 0:22 And we invite you to join our Two Ewes Fiber Adventures group on Ravelry. I'm 1hundredprojects, Marsha 0:29 and I am betterinmotion. We are both on Instagram and Ravelry. And we look forward to meeting you there. Both 0:36 Enjoy the episode. Marsha 0:42 Hi, Kelly. Kelly 0:43 Hi, Marsha. How are you? Unknown Speaker 0:45 I'm doing well. Kelly 0:46 Good, me too! School has started. Yay! Marsha 0:54 Yay! It's your favorite time of the year. Kelly 0:55 It is it really is. And actually, it's been a lot of fun. The last couple of days I've gotten to meet-- I had, I had some activities that I didn't do in previous semesters. And so I've gotten a chance to meet students online. A little bit, a little bit better than what I've done in previous semester. So yeah, I'm learning. I'm getting better. It's getting to be a little more interesting and fun. And all that training pays off. Marsha 1:25 Yeah. Really. Kelly 1:25 Yeah, really? Ask me again, though in November. Marsha 1:33 Yeah. Yeah. Kelly 1:35 But right now, day three, right. This is Wednesday? Yeah, no, this is Thursday, day, four of the semester, it's going great. Marsha 1:46 It's going so great you don't even know what day of the week. Kelly 1:47 I know, really, this is a good sign. I feel like I'm attached to the hip with my computer between doing all the school stuff. You know, I mean, I don't have zoom class meetings, but jumping on zoom to help students with questions, emailing back and forth to students, putting up assignments to students, grading assignments to students--with-- you know--of students. Checking in to make sure they've done all the things that they needed to do. It has data analytics, so I can see what pages they've been looking at. And, you know, figure out what I need to do like, oh, they're missing this. Students don't seem to be looking at this page. They're missing this information, I need to make sure I put out a notice, you know, all this stuff on my computer. And then when I'm done for the night, well, and then then the morning before I start, you know, I'm looking at the news on the computer, I'm looking at Ravelry on the computer, and then when I done at night, I take the computer to bed and I watch TV, watch Netflix Like this computer is like attached to my-- practically attached to my body. Hmm, I'm going to really be in need of a digital detox at some point. Marsha 3:00 Well. Yeah, maybe someday. Maybe. Kelly 3:05 Yeah, I don't know. It's funny, because I don't, I don't really, I don't really mind. You know, most of the stuff on the computer is, is it's enjoyable, you know, looking at Ravelry and talking to students and all that, watching Netflix or Amazon Prime. You know, it's it's not terrible. It's just-- It's so funny. This one device is doing everything for me Marsha 3:31 That's a lot of time. That's a lot of time looking at that blue screen or whatever it is. Kelly 3:35 Yeah, yeah. That's true. Marsha 3:39 Well, what have you been up to? Kelly 3:41 Since we last talked? Well, I went to the San Francisco International Pen Show! Yay! Marsha 3:50 I saw your pictures. It looks very cool. Kelly 3:53 Who knew? First of all, that there even was such a thing, although I should know that. You know, if there's a yarn conference, of course, there should be a pen conference. I mean, every hobby's got to have their you know, their their get togethers. I saw on Instagram, the like mascot for the pen show was a white German Shepherd. And so on their Instagram feed they were posting pictures, you know, Odin says wear a mask and have you gotten your you know, do you know what pens you're going to be looking at? A picture of the dog with the pen in his paws and, you know, all these different pictures with pens. And then I saw there was a hashtag dogs of the San Francisco pen show. And then somebody said something about, oh, and then one of the posts was, is your pooch coming or something like that? And I thought, Wait a minute, what? Wait, what? Because we were trying to figure out what to do with the dogs, you know, they don't really have a lot of experience being home alone. And that's a you know, that's a distance away for for us so it's going to be all day. And the two together is a lot for Aunt Betty to, to have to deal with. So we were trying to manage what we're going to do and we had thought we would bring them both in the truck, but then it was going to be like almost 90 degrees. And there was covered parking but Robert's truck is tall and so there's always a worry what if it doesn't fit in the covered parking? The old truck didn't fit in covered parking. This one the shell is a little bit lower. He didn't get the, the taller shell. So anyway, there was all this like angst about what we're going to do. And and I had, you know, thought, Oh, I need to call the hotel and get information about their parking structure. Anyway, when I saw that, it's like, oh, she can come to the pen show. So Bailey came to the pen show. It was so fun. Marsha 5:48 Did she by a-- Did she buy a pen? Kelly 5:50 No, I didn't let her have any money. But she was really good. And there were other dogs there. We didn't get to see the white German Shepherd. I guess they were busy running the show. And not you know, didn't have the dog. But But yeah, he was there at the party-- the after party that evening. But we had already gone by then. So Marsha 6:17 The pen show has an after party? Kelly 6:18 Yeah. It's called a pen show after dark. It looks like a lot of fun. Marsha 6:27 It's so clever. Kelly 6:28 Yeah. Yeah. Kind of like, you know, kind of like the lobby at stitches. Marsha 6:33 Mm hmm. Kelly 6:34 So after, you know, after hours, so yeah. I also found out that there's an intersection. Quite the intersection between pen lovers, and knitters. Okay, so I wanted to give a few shout outs to some people that I talked to at the pen show. One of them, her name is Rena. I don't remember her last name. But her Ravelry name is sewwhatsports and sew is an s-e-w. And she actually was telling me that she had written an article for ply magazine. And I don't have this issue, but it's in the electric issue. I was gonna try to get it because I'd love to see her article. It's in the electric issue of ply magazine, which I think was in May or April. And she wrote an article about being a nomad spinner. So she's sold everything and she's just living on the road. And one of the things that she that she's doing as she lives on the road is these pen shows. She was at a booth for a guy, a shop called Toys in the Attic. And so yeah, I bought a pen case from them. Little travel case that fits in the pocket of my briefcase, and she showed me all about it, how it's--you could step on it and it won't crush and and so it won't, you know, my pens won't get smashed in my briefcase, and has a magnet clip that is super strong so that it won't pop open. And but anyway, her article was about how she spins on the road with an electric spinner. Marsha 8:20 Mm hmm. Kelly 8:21 So that was really cool. So shout out to Rena, Ravelry name is sewwhatsports. And then I was at the Peyton Street Pens booth. And Peyton Street Pens is the one that's local to me. It's an online shop, but they are in Santa Cruz. All the pens I've bought, have been from there. Marsha 8:43 Except, except the one from college, right? Kelly 8:47 Yes, the one the one that I bought in college I bought, I did not clearly did not buy from them. But then that inspired me to get-- make a small collection of Sheaffer Targas from that same era, which I bought from them. And then I got the older Sheaffers for Christmas and my birthday. And those were also from them. So anyway, I wanted to meet Teri and introduce myself and say hello and have her put a face to an order blank, you know. Marsha 9:20 yeah. Kelly 9:21 So I went over there to talk with her and helping in her shop is a woman named Elizabeth. And she's like, did you knit your sweater? So I think this actually is what what created my knowledge about this intersection because I wore the Edie my Edie Tee that's that variegated yarn, the turquoise variegated. And so she said, Did you knit your sweater? And I said yes. And then I said, Are you a knitter and she said, Oh yeah. And so she goes to her bag and she pulls out her shawl and, and she was making a beautiful or she had in her in her bag it was finished. It was what she was wearing. She had in her bag, a beautiful, multicolor shawl. So that was really fun to get to meet somebody who--and she's on Ravelry. But I don't, I didn't get her Ravelry name. And then there was another booth where I actually bought a little leather cover for a field notes-- for my field notes notebooks. Marsha 10:26 Yeah, Kelly 10:26 It's what they call a traveler's style notebook where it's a cover with elastics and then you just, you just insert almost as many of these little Field Notes notebooks as you want inside by using these elastics to attach them. So I bought the cover from them and it's Curnow Bookbinding. Marsha 10:49 Okay, Kelly 10:49 And the woman there was also a knitter and I did not get her name, unfortunately. But yeah, she she, she told me her Ravelry name, and I didn't write it down. So I don't remember. But But yeah, that was really fun to meet her too. And I was able to buy the little, the little book and they have-- Curnow bookbinding it's C U R N O W. They have an Etsy shop. And they sell the cutest notebook thing. I didn't buy one at this shop, but I think I might have to at some point go on their Etsy shop. But they take old books. And then they use the covers of the old books. Marsha 11:34 Mm hmm. Kelly 11:35 And they put hand sewn notebooks inside. Okay, so they had Hardy Boys and some other titles that I didn't recognize. But I was just thinking I should go back and look at their site because what a fun gift for someone. You know, if you know that they really loved a certain book when they were young. Like let's say they love Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys and you go on Marsha 12:01 Yeah, Kelly 12:01 and see, you know, that notebook So, so I thought that was very clever. And then they also had wooden notebook covers that were like laser engraved. And there's one with a really cool octopus. Oh, I almost I almost bought the octopus one. And then there was also a woman who made felt art notebook covers and had bowls for your paint brushes. Marsha 12:34 Okay, Kelly 12:34 And and she was like, No, they're not knitting bowls. They're not yarn bowls. Like okay, she knows about yarn bowls? Kelly 12:43 Yeah, really? Kelly 12:44 I guess if you if you craft with felts maybe you do know about yarn bowls. So but they have little lips on them. So you could put your, you know, your watercolor brush on Marsha 12:56 Okay, Kelly 12:56 the bowl edge. So yeah, it's very cool. I so I bought the cover to the note-- the notebook cover. I bought a pen, a really darling little, small, like four-- under four and a half inches. A little orange and black, a 1920s or 1930s pen that fits into my little notebook. So that's really cool. Yeah, I had a great time. It was a lot of fun. I didn't spend all my money. Marsha 13:30 Oh, good. Kelly 13:31 Yeah. Well, Marsha 13:31 I guess that's good. Is that good? Kelly? Kelly 13:33 Yeah, it was fine. I wasn't sure you know, what I was going to see or what I was going to want. And there was there was a lot of interesting stuff there. But a lot of the things I don't feel like I know enough. Marsha 13:46 Mm hmm. Kelly 13:47 You know, so it was mostly, it was more of a learning, was more of a learning experience to go. And yeah, there are a couple things I wanted. I wanted the case, the pen case that I could put in my briefcase to protect my pens. Marsha 14:01 Mm hmm. Kelly 14:02 If I ever get back on campus, if I ever go anywhere. And then I wanted the cover to the field notes notebooks. So, huh. So yeah, but lots of intersection between knitting and this whole pen, pen and stationery world. Marsha 14:23 I remember having this whole discussion about the intersection of knitting and chickens. Kelly 14:27 Yes. Now we can add knitting and pens, knitting and pens, knitting and chickens. knitting and dogs. Marsha 14:34 Yeah, Kelly 14:35 There are a lot of intersections. Yeah. knitting and teachers, pens and teachers. Anyway, yeah, we could go, we could go on. Marsha 14:46 The list goes on. Yeah, Kelly 14:47 yeah. You know, all the cool. All the cool people do all the cool crafts, right. Marsha 14:54 Yeah, that's true. So yeah, well, that sounds like it was really fun and I think you sent me some pictures. Yeah. And the pens, some of the pens are just beautiful. Kelly 15:05 Oh my gosh, yeah, just Yeah, really, really, really beautiful. And some are really, really, really expensive. Yeah. You know, there's a pen price for everyone. That was another thing that was pretty cool to see, you know, really wide variety. Marsha 15:23 Well, and I was gonna say, you know, if you had those really expensive pens, you probably wouldn't want to take it out of your house and bring it to class because it'd be easy to lose something like that, you know. Which it's nice now that you have the case too, because you it's that'll be harder to lose, than a pen, you know, Kelly 15:39 yeah right. And then the case, I've been using the case. I have a bag that I pack in the morning when I go out to the trailer just because it's easier to carry all my stuff. And so I've been using the case in there. And it's really nice, because it just fits exactly in the pocket of my felted bag. And then the flap. The flap closes, because it's magnetic, it closes over the edge of the pocket. So it's really easy to just flip that flap up and grab the pen out and then close it back up. It's not like I have to take something out, take the pen out of that. I could just reach in like, it's become like a... it's not permanent, but it's almost like a permanent pocket. Or, well, yeah, a permanent hard sided pocket in my, in my bag. And that was kind of what I wanted was something that I could just put into my bag. It'll stay in my bag, and then I could just flip up the top and get the pen out. Marsha 16:36 Yeah. Kelly 16:38 So yeah, it was nice. I also saw Marianne, our friend Marianne. Kelly 16:42 Oh, yeah, Kelly 16:43 Arunningstitcher or Mariknitstoo on Ravelry. I think is her her Ravelry name there anyway. Yeah, so that was fun. She was-- she said she was gonna come for the end of the pen show. So we stood around and talked, probably a good 30 to 40 minutes. So I hope she had enough time to do damage after we got done talking. So we were headed out and she was headed to take a loop around and see what she could find So, huh. So yeah, I was really fun to see someone in person. Marsha 17:20 Yeah. Yeah, cuz it's been years. Well, year and a half when we're getting up on it. Kelly 17:28 Yeah, I mean, I haven't.. The last time I saw her it was in February of 2020. At tSitches. Yeah. So it would...that was really fun. To have a chance to meet somebody in person. It was, it was just a fun, fun day all around. Marsha 17:47 Yeah. Good. Yeah. Well, um, yeah. So it's very cool. Next year, maybe I'll come down for it. I'm not, maybe I need, maybe I need to get into these pens. I'm not into the pens. Maybe Maybe there's, maybe I shouldn't be into these pens. I don't know. Kelly 18:01 Oh, it's pretty fun. Yeah, pretty fun. Well, and I've got, okay, we won't to talk a whole lot about this. But I've now got a little system with my notebooks, to help me remember what I have to do for my classes and stuff. And that's been kind of fun to to...You know, we've talked about our lists. And I still have the steno pad that I use to keep lists. But now with that little small notebook cover, I have a couple of notebooks in there and one's for each class. And so I just take and jot little things or have like, I need to make a list of students that I need to contact, you know, like, I can actually write their names down on it. It's all in the computer. But sometimes you just need to write it down, have a list, and then go back to your email and create the email, you know. So I'm using it for all that kind of stuff, just like little scratch notes that I have for my class. So it's kind of fun to have a new little notebook system that I'm developing here. Marsha 19:00 Yeah, yeah. Oh, very cool. Yeah. And what else? Kelly 19:05 Well, I have some knitting. Okay. Marsha 19:07 You want to talk to me-- talk projects, then? Kelly 19:10 Yeah, I do have some knitting. I'm working right now on my sweater. And I'm almost finished with the first sleeve. I have probably 18 to 20 more rows of the cabling, and then the ribbing at the bottom. Marsha 19:30 Wow, good progress. Kelly 19:32 Yeah, it's it's going. It seems like it's going slowly. But that's just because I haven't had a chance to pick it up recently. Or the other thing is, when I've had the chance to pick it up. I've had to then rip back because my problem is that the rows are you know, the rounds on a sleeve are so short. Yeah, I forget to mark them off. Marsha 19:58 Oh, okay. Kelly 19:59 And so I'm going... You know, if it's a longer one and you get finished with it, it's like more momentous, I think. And so you remember to mark it off. I still forget, but I have an easier time remembering in that case. But with this, I'll get to the end of the row and just keep, you know, just keep plowing on. And yeah, keep going. Yeah. And every fourth row, I think it's every, Yeah, every fourth row, I have to do cable crossings. And so I was like, oh, shoot, have I gone three rows? Is this the time for the cable crossing? Or was it only two and I'm trying to count. And then I make the cable crossing and like, oh, shoot. No, that's too small. I needed to go one more or Oh, no, that's too big. Oops, gotta go backwards. So I've done quite a bit of, of unknitting the whole round or going back and just undoing the section of the cable crossing and fixing it. It's, it's a little irritating that I can't count. Marsha 20:58 [laughing] Kelly 21:03 I find it to be annoying. Not so annoying that I've learned to do it. But Marsha 21:10 to do it. Yeah funny! Kelly 21:12 But yeah, it's annoying, I get really irritated with myself. But it's it's well pattern I am I'm enjoying this pattern. I'm really enjoying the yarn. This is my handspun CVM three ply that I overdyed. And the natural color is a light tan. I think when I originally named the the the yarn, you know, in my project page, I called it "have a little coffee with your cream." Because the color of the yarn is if you... we used to have as a kid, I don't know if you guys did this, but my grandma would make us coffee milk. Marsha 21:57 What is that? Kelly 21:58 Well, it's like an inch of coffee. And then the rest of its milk in your cup. Oh, and so it's like you're having coffee with your adult family members. It's like you're doing this thing of having coffee, but you're really just having a glass of milk. So anyway, we used to have coffee milk, not all the time. Special, you know, special treat to have coffee milk. So it reminded me of that coffee milk where you're really just having milk and you're having a little coffee with your milk. And that's the color of the yarn. And then I dyed it with a color, I think it's called dark red dye. And so I've gotten this terra-- kind of orangey rusty terracotta color. So that's the the yarn I'm using, which of course you already know. But I'm letting people people know who might not have listened to before because I don't know if you noticed Marsha, but we have quite a few new listeners. Marsha 22:55 We do. Kelly 22:56 Yeah. Yeah, over the last few months. Marsha 22:59 Welcome. Kelly 23:00 Yeah, Marsha 23:01 all that talking is paying off. [laughing] Kelly 23:07 Well, and I think, I think some of them have come from... I can, you know, I can kind of look at the statistics, the analytics on our on the lips inside, but some of it has come from Spotify. So now that the our podcast has been on Spotify for a while, it's starting to get more more listeners there. And then there's another one called Gaana, which is I think it's in I want to say it's in India, is where that podcast app is used more. Okay, so we have we have some listeners on that app anyway. So yeah, welcome everyone who's new. Nice to see you and I wanted to just make sure you know about my sweater. And the pattern that I'm using. I think I forgot to say that the pattern that I'm using is called dark green forest. And it's by Christina Korber Reith. Or Rieth. Marsha 24:07 and I have a question about your sweater because where are you with the sleeve issue? Because remember, we were talking about this the last time that you think it's going to be okay? That because the color is slightly different but you think the last time we talked, we recorded I think you said we thought was going to be okay. Kelly 24:23 oh yeah, cuz I was only like an inch or so past and I now I'm now I'm quite a ways down and this sleeve is looking fine. Marsha 24:32 Okay, Kelly 24:33 There's a there's a slight change in the in the variation, you know, because then kettle dyed yarn is varied. Anyway, there's a slight change in the variation about the place where I started the sleeve, but there's also a slight change in the variation a little higher where it was within within a single skein. And then there's slight changes in the variation as it goes down the sleeve too. So I think I think it looks pretty seamless. Marsha 25:07 Good. That's nice to hear. Kelly 25:08 Yeah. Yeah, that was, I think that's what kept me from actually putting the sleeves on for so long. I was kind of worried about that. But this one's going well, hopefully the second one will go will go just as well. But I think it's going to be fine. Yeah. Yeah, I'm pleased to say. Marsha 25:29 Very nice it is really pretty. Kelly 25:31 Thank you. Yeah, I'm really enjoying this pattern. I'm glad I found it. It's not a very-- it's not a very well used pattern. I think there were only like, maybe 20 projects. Let me see. There are 25 projects. Okay, so yeah, only only a very few people, two dozen people have made this pattern. So, but I'm having a good time with it. And I think it's really well written. It's very detailed, a little bit daunting when I first opened it up, but once I started actually reading... Kinda like my students and my online class. Once they actually read the directions, Marsha 26:16 yes. It's not daunting at all. Kelly 26:19 It's not so daunting. So yeah, no, it's, it's, it's, it's been really a good pattern, I would, I would highly recommend it. So and then the only other thing that I've been doing is, I've now I finished with the pinkish purple yarn that I was using for those dish cloths. And I cracked open as a couple of skeins of green. So I've got a dark green and a light green variegated. They're really pretty. And I was thinking back to when it was that we did this. I think we dyed this yarn in, like 2015 Marsha. Marsha 26:58 Well, it was... Yes. It was a while ago. Kelly 27:01 Yes. So I'm really glad to be finally getting some use out of it. Yeah. Marsha 27:09 Nice. Nice. Is that it for projects for you? Kelly 27:14 That's all I got. I haven't done any spinning. I haven't touched Faye's blanket. But her birthday is in October, so I'm thinking I'm gonna finish it for her birthday. Kelly 27:24 Okay, Kelly 27:25 That just seemed like a good, A good milestone. Once I passed a certain point, it was like, Okay, now it's just gonna be a birthday present. Marsha 27:34 And it's an achievable goal, right? Kelly 27:36 Oh, yeah. I yeah, I have just the edging to do so it should. The crochet goes pretty fast in October's a month, away. Marsha 27:45 Thinking of October, I was thinking the other day at you know, I think I texted you a picture that I threw out a bunch of yarn, God gave it back to the goodwill... to the universe. And then I organized all my yarn and I also got these little plastic boxes to put the yarn in. And I had extra boxes. So I decided to put my unfinished projects in these clear plastic boxes so that I would see them. Kelly 28:09 Oh, I think I know where this is going. [laughing] Marsha 28:13 And one of my clear plastic boxes that contains my unfinished skull. And I was thinking I think this the third October, but I I yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the third October, Kelly 28:28 I think you're right. Marsha 28:30 Hmm. And I'm not getting... I'm not... well, I don't know. Maybe I'll maybe something will happen and I'll get it done by the 31st. You know, by Halloween. unlikely but I could do it. Kelly 28:42 Didn't you start on the teeth? Marsha 28:44 I finished the teeth on the ...now I can't remember. Kelly 28:51 You finished all the teeth? Marsha 28:53 No, no, no, no, I finished the teeth on the lower jaw. Kelly 28:56 Oh, okay. Marsha 28:57 And now I think I have... And there's how many teeth? Do we have? 32? . I don't know. It has accurate... an accurate number of teeth. So yeah, how many teeth is that? I've done half of them. That's 16 teeth. Kelly is that 16 teeth? Yeah, here's math. Can you divide 32? Kelly 29:17 I can do that math. I just can't count. Marsha 29:21 Anyway, um, and then I need to... so I, so I can... I was looking at it. And I've actually knit all the parts except I have to finish the teeth. And then sew it together. And I have to knit I have to get some dark gray yarn, or black or some dark color to knit like the the, the eye sockets. Yes, if I recall and I never... as I say I didn't get to that part in the pattern yet. But I think what you do is you knit basically like it's a ball kind of, like that's not as... like some like a half circle, kind of that you then push it back into the skull, kind of, to make like the eye So okay, Kelly 30:01 I'm remembering the one I did. I did the mask, The Day of the Dead mask. And it had it had the eye sockets too. And I think it was just kind of like a, it had some short rows in it. But yeah, it was kind of just like making a circle. And then that gets sewed on the back. I should bring you... do you need dark yarn? Kelly 30:23 Yeah. Kelly 30:23 Okay, I should bring you--that's another thing. We haven't talked about that. I'm coming up to see you. Marsha 30:28 Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. Yeah, I have something to say about that, too. Kelly 30:31 I'll, I'll try to remember to pack... I have some of the that Rambouillet that, you know, the replenish Rambouillet that we have in our shop and I have some samples of that from from Lani. One of them is a dark color, I'll bring that and that might work. Marsha 30:49 Well, the other thing I have, I will get to my projects. But the other thing I have is just I have a lot of fleece, dark brown, black fleece, that I could just spin some and spin a little bit, knir with and... Kelly 31:05 that's, that's another obstacle though, to make it not get knit. Marsha 31:09 I know. I know. So Kelly 31:11 I'll try to remember to pack it, because Marsha 31:14 I will just remind people, because you, Kelly, you said we have a lot of new listeners. But I bought this pattern. So it'll be it was not last Stitches, but it was the Stitches before the Stitches we went to before the pandemic started. Because I can't even remember Kelly, when did the pandemic start? Is that 20 2020 Kelly 31:35 Yeah, it was 2019 when we got crazy about the skulls. Marsha 31:39 Yes. And we went crazy with the skulls and you bought like the Day of the Dead and they're kind of flat? Where mine is actually like, like round three dimensional sculpture. Yeah, that you felt and then you stuff and Kelly 31:51 I have that pattern too, I just never... I just didn't start that one. I got excited about starting the day that the Day of the Dead mask skulls. Marsha 32:00 So But anyway, it's in a clear box, so I can see it now when I go down there. Yeah. into the cellar.... Kelly 32:08 The room under your house? [laughing] Marsha 32:10 Yes. Um, so anyway, and I'm trying to think to remember who the pattern maker was? It's Wooley. Kelly 32:20 Wooley. Wooley Wonders or something. Marsha 32:23 Yeah. Wooley Wonders. Yeah, right. Kelly 32:25 I think so. But you talk and I'll look. Marsha 32:29 Oh, well, anyway, so that's it with that. So anyway, I just I'm bringing that up, because I found that skull down there. And it's, it's October so it just kind of made me laugh again about it. Okay. While you're looking I'm... we'll go back to it. But I'm going to talk about my next project. So Kelly, the last time two weeks ago, we talked about the Atlas, the Jared Flood pullover that I'm making for my brother. And remember I said I was...had some concerns. Kelly 32:54 Yes, about size. Marsha 32:57 I know. So it's too small. I mean, like he can get it on. But he said it's just like it's not there's not enough room through the shoulders. It's like, let me back up. It fits through the body, like the torso, then when you get up onto the the yoke through the the shoulders. It's... he said it just feels tight. Like he can put it on and it looks okay. But he said it's not super comfortable. And he said to me, Well, maybe if you wash and block it, and I said it is washed and blocked. So I think what I just... it's just sitting in the guest bedroom. And I'm thinking about it. And I thought I'm not going to rip it out yet. Kelly 33:38 Yeah. Marsha 33:38 But I think it needs to be frogged. And I and I but what I'm... You mentioned that you're coming up and so I will, I'm going to speak about that now. So you're coming up. You're driving up from California. Kelly 33:49 Yay. Marsha 33:50 Yay. And we're.. we are beyond excited. Kelly 33:52 Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That is definitely fair to say. Yeah. So I, I decided that since I had to endure the pain of teaching 100% online for three semesters now. That well, actually three and a half semesters. This is my, the start of my fourth semester. Let's see spring, fall, spring? fall? Yes. Marsha 34:22 Again. Kelly, again, the counting. [laughing] Kelly 34:26 This is the start of the fourth semester with 100% online. And so I thought if I have to endure the pain of this, I'm also going to get some of the benefit of this. And one of the benefits of teaching 100% online... Which in the... in the before times not very many people at the college had the opportunity to do that. It was not something that was routinely done. And in fact, there were moves towards making it so that people couldn't teach 100% of their load online. So there were just very few people who could do it. But one of the advantages of doing it is that you can teach from anywhere. And so I thought, okay, I could teach from Seattle. And then I could work during the day, and then I could play in the evening. And actually, with online classes, you can play in the day and work at night, you know, you can rearrange your schedule, however you need to. So I thought, I'm going to take advantage of this once in a lifetime, for me, because I don't intend to teach 100% online, ever again, if I can help it, right, Marsha 35:38 right. Kelly 35:39 But I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity to teach really remotely, so I'm going to be teaching from Seattle. It's just gonna be so fun. Marsha 35:48 I know. So you're, I'm very excited. So and we have our, we have everything planned, well sort of planned out what we're going to do. Basically, when we're in Seattle at my house, we're just going to sit on the deck and spin and knit. Kelly 36:00 Yep. Marsha 36:01 When you're when you're not working, we're going to be spinning and knitting on the deck, and walking dogs and just playing with dogs. And because you're bringing Bailey, you're not bringing Beary though he's gonna stay home. Kelly 36:13 No he's staying home. In fact, he's having afternoons with Aunt Betty, because because he needs to get practice in staying with her. And he's, you know, for months, he, this pair of dogs are the only dogs I've ever raised where I haven't practiced having them be by themselves. Marsha 36:32 Mm hmm. Kelly 36:33 You know, all the other dogs I raised from puppyhood. And that was just a part of the routine was that they had to get used to being alone. And, of course, Bailey came with her own issues about being alone. And with Beary, it's just, you know, it's harder now because there's two dogs and we're always home. So he really hasn't had a lot of opportunity to to learn to just be the stay at home dog and not have me around not have Robert around. So he's been practicing. Practicing afternoons with Aunt Betty. She gives him cookies. And he's learning to be happy down there. Marsha 37:14 Well, he's a pretty easy going dog. I mean Kelly 37:17 Well, it's funny, because he does seem like that. But he has fears that you just don't notice because of the way he acts. Like he was really afraid to go in the door to her room from outside. I don't know why. There was just something really strange about it. Maybe it felt like going into the basement? I don't know. Yeah, he just had a real fear of it. And so we've had to really work on work on that. And then once he got in, he immediately wanted to go out. And so but you know what? He likes food. And yeah, and so she's been giving him cookies. And he's been, he's been learning that it's a happy place. Marsha 37:59 Mmmhmm. Well, and aunt Aunt Betty is fun. And she loves dogs. And you know, all the dogs love Aunt Betty so he'll be fine Kelly 38:08 Yeah, it'll be, it'll be fine. He'll, he'll be okay. while I'm gone. Yeah, it'll be different for him. But he'll be okay. But anyway. Yeah, I'm really excited to be bringing Bailey on a road trip. Marsha 38:19 Yes. So we're gonna have a week in Seattle. And then we're going to go down for about a week to the Washington coast and do the whole beach thing. Kelly 38:28 Yeah. Marsha 38:28 And so we're excited about that, too. And let Bailey and Enzo run on the beach because Bailey's been to the beach a couple times with you and Robert, right down in California? Kelly 38:38 Once Yeah, we went once. Marsha 38:40 Oh, just once. And so I'm excited about that. Just to the beach... Well, you know, it's my favorite place. A side note, I'm going more and more side notes that we're going down. I will get back to my project. Because we're going to that community called Seabrook where we always go and I've talked about String Theory Yarns, that's owned by Jean. And I noticed that she posted on Instagram that she and her husband bought an Airstream trailer. Marsha 38:43 Oh, wow, Marsha 39:13 For traveling, which is super cool and super exciting. And my first thought was, how are they going to go anywhere? Because she was telling me in the summer, she usually she works like 120 days straight because she has... she's open seven days a week, and she's the only person in there. She doesn't have an employee. And so I thought when's she gonna use that trailer, and I thought I have a bad feeling about this. That she's retiring and she's closing the shop. Kelly 39:42 Oh no, Marsha 39:45 Well, I assume she's closing the shop. They just, she... Seabrook then posted that she's retiring. So I don't know. Honestly, I don't know if somebody has purchased the business from her or what's going to go on with the yarn shop but I'm a little heartbroken. I have to say. Because we love, We love Seabrook, but it was really nice having the yarn shop like we go in there and check in you know, before you go to the beach and say hi and then stop by afterwards and she always had knit nights on Thursday nights and it was really fun just to go there and you met a lot of the people who lived in Seabrook or in the surrounding communities. So I'm a little heartbroken. But she still lives in Seabrook, so I'll see her and that's good. So I'm Kelly 40:29 Maybe someone will buy the shop, and it will continue. Marsha 40:32 Yeah. I don't know. It's, Kelly 40:35 well, it's a difficult I mean, yarn shops are a difficult endeavor At any point Marsha 40:42 Yeah. Kelly 40:42 and then Seabrook is a little place, kind of out of the way, and then the pandemic can't have helped. So I can, I can certainly understand. Marsha 40:53 And I suspect part of it, too, probably is, it's just a lot. You know, your... she has a dog Cooper and she said, it's hard too when she works in the summer, he doesn't get down to the beach at all, because she's working. Yeah. So anyway. But back to projects back to this my Atlas. You're coming up. And I... See everyone probably thought I'd lost my train of thought, thank goodness. [laughing] I went so far off track. No, but you're coming up, and I decide I'm going to wait till you get here to look at the sweater. And look at it on Mark, because I don't know. And I know you've done color work before. I also I need to have Kim come and look at it too. Because as I've talked about in other episodes, this is the first color work sweater I've done in 20 years. And it looks nice, but I'm wondering if maybe my tension is too tight or something? I don't? Because it doesn't seem like it has a lot of give. Kelly 42:02 Yeah. Marsha 42:02 Now I realize it's not going to have this... It's not gonna be the same type of fabric that is on the body because it's color work, right? But I wonder if maybe that might I need to go up a needle size. So the body is worked on sevens, and the yoke is worked on a size up so on eight, and I want to talk to you about it. And maybe Kim. Do I need to maybe go up two sizes on the yoke? Kelly 42:28 Yeah, maybe. Marsha 42:29 I don't know. And listeners can weigh in on this if they want. I you know I bought a color work sweater in Iceland, where it's a it's a cardigan, zippered cardigan and has the same type of concept of like the... at the yolk. And when you feel that, it doesn't feel much different than the body that is not color work. And I'm wondering, is it... if it's I'm getting too tight or something? Kelly 42:56 Maybe the yarn isn't a good match for the pattern. Yeah, it's...Yeah, I'll be happy to look at it and see. It could be any number of things. It could be that the fabric is stiff, because of all the layers and the type of yarn that it is. Or it could just be a tension issue. Yeah, well, and Kim's done quite a bit of color work too. So she... Marsha 43:19 She's done a lot of color work. And then and the other person I thought I should contact too is momdiggity, Joanne. Because she lives just a few blocks from me. And she does a lot of color work too. She might be able to... Kelly 43:34 Yeah, that would be good. Marsha 43:35 Maybe I'll reach out to her and see if she could take a look at it and see because it it. Yeah. Anyway, I need a little bit of help on that. But it does, it needs to be ripped out. And I'm just gonna wait till you get here. And that can be one of our projects as we sit on the deck over a bottle of red wine is rip out that sweater. Kelly 43:55 Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. You need you need companionship for for something like that. Marsha 44:00 Yeah. Well, and you know, the thing is like, it's like it takes... Well, I knit it pretty fast, because I worked on it exclusively. Pretty much. And it's, you know, bigger needles and whatnot, but I don't know, two months. Maybe. I know that it'll take literally 10 minutes to rip that thing out. You know? Anyway. So that's what's going on with that sweater. And then do you remember I've been...? I looked it up. I cast on Simple Shawl back in 2018. Kelly 44:29 Oh, right. Marsha 44:31 And it's been to Scotland twice. I think it has been to Iceland. Anyway. It's a pattern by Jane Hunter. And I finished the Picot bind off. So that's bound off. I've not washed or blocked it yet. Let's see. I cast on a new project. I we have a friend Brian, who likes the tea cozy that I made for my other friend Gary. So I said I would make him a tea cozy. So it's that Nanny Meyers tea cozy by Amelia Carlsen. I've made, I made one for Gary. And I've made two for myself. And it's that one where you alternate, it's all garter stitch, but you alternate, like, six of your main of one color, and then the second color and keep alternating that across. And so and you pull tight, so it it keeps, oh, yeah, these stripes create like ridges, Kelly 45:26 kind of like corrugated right? Marsha 45:28 Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's like corrugated metal kind of. And so I, he looked at all of my spirit yarn, there wasn't any colors that he liked. So I said, let's just go down to acorn street here in Seattle. And what it is is just buy cascade 220. Because it's, it's a good all purpose workhorse yarn, and a really nice colors and stuff. So he went down there, and he couldn't decide what he wanted. He was really attracted to a red and green. And then he also was attracted to a blue and yellow. And you know where this is going, Kelly. I can, as I'm saying it out loud. I'm thinking, don't say it. And then I said it. I said, Oh, just buy all four colors, and I'll make you two tea cozies. So so he's getting... I know... so he's getting two. I've cast on the red and green one and they're there. The cascade... Both... All of these are cascade 220 heather's, and there's one called, the one I cast on is red wine heather. And that's a pretty one, and a green called Ireland with an extra e at the end. So I don't know how you pronounce that. But they're really soft colors. Kelly 46:48 Yeah, I think that red wine heather is the one that I used for my heroine jacket. Okay, a long time ago, this I might even have been kind of pre pre Ravelry. Marsha 47:03 Heroine as in a woman who's Kelly 47:05 Yeah, Marsha 47:07 Not the drug. Okay. All right. Yes. Kelly 47:10 Yes. I can't remember who the pattern designer for that was. But it's a felted, it's a felted coat that you knit with two strands, held double. And then you put it in the washer and felt it and it's double breasted. Anyway, I think that's the color. It's a really pretty color... has some blue, some little blue strands through it. Marsha 47:34 Yeah. Yeah. A really nice, they're really nice together because, yeah, super nice together, the two colors so... But I just thought it, just kind of funny going down there to Acorn Street. You know, of course, any yarn shop, people are super friendly. Right? And, and so we go in there and to figure out colors. And of course, you're you're you're confronted with a wall of cascade 220. And where do you kind of start, you know, and I said, Well, let's, let's just narrow down. We want to do heathers. He was pretty sure he wanted that. And so we were picking out the colors. But this is the part I think is so funny is, you know, everybody gets involved in the project. Righ? What are you making and both the the, the people working there, the shop owners or the clerks but then also customers. So I think it was actually kind of fun, you know, that everybody got involved with picking colors. You know, that's, I think he was surprised. But I also thought it was a really enjoyable process, you know. Everybody has a say. So anyway, I'm working on that. And you knit, sort of the two halves and then sew them together. And I have done, I would say, three inches of the first side. So that's coming along. And then I finished my summer spin-in spinning project. Kelly 48:58 oh yay! Marsha 48:59 Yes, I know I'm very excited. I just dedicated myself to and I have a couple things to say. The first thing I'm going to say about plying is the the lazy Kate that comes with the little Herby spinning wheel, the bobbins are vertical on it. Right? And then there was like a spring and then you screw down a knob to hold it on there. But then that spring provides makes, puts some tension on the bobbin right. So that is just not free spinning off the single is not just free spinning off the bobbin, right? Kelly 49:37 Yeah, because if it if that happens and it gets spinning too fast, then it stops and it starts turning around the other direction and then you have a mess. Marsha 49:45 And then it starts plying on itself kind of the single, right? So do you remember when I bought the that Ashford spinning wheel from was it the 80s and it had never been assembled? Well, it came with a lazy Kate, but the bobbins are on there horizontally. Okay, Kelly, so much better! Kelly 50:11 Oh, good, Marsha 50:12 Because what I found and I think it was when the, when the bobbins are horizontal, the, the single sometimes like the, what I would... what am I trying to say? It's like the, you're putting pressure on it like because you have to tension it right, those springs, but some tension so it's just not free spinning, but it also then sort of pulls the single into the layers of singles that are wound on to the bobbin. Kelly 50:43 Yeah, and then the other thing that happens too is if you're pulling just up and you know it's like it's below you and so on on the wheel attached to the wheel and you're pulling on so what you have to do is you kind of have to put your hand down there and pull out and so it's a real, it's a real technique. And then also when you're pulling up it can catch on the edge of the bobbin which is rough and that will break. There's lots of ways for the yarn to breakwhen you're plying with it. Marsha 51:14 What I found is it was the the single would break but then I couldn't find the end because it got buried into the other yarn wrapped around it. So for this I had the the green and brown that I had made. I use the lazy Kate from the little Herbie and then I think when when the podcast we were talking about this and so I got out the other one from the Ashford where the bobbins are horizontal and so all the brown I... well three skeins of brown I plied with that on the horizontal lazy Kate Totally different experience! My yarn didn't break once. Kelly 51:57 Nice. Marsha 51:58 And so I yeah, I don't it's it's... I love the little Herbie. But that design is not very good. I think it's good if you-- but you're right, you have to keep your hand. Yeah, so it's coming up and then this one you don't have to worry about Kelly 52:12 and I'm not as tall as you know, I'm closer. Marsha 52:17 That's true. Kelly 52:18 I'm closer to those bobbins you know, and and so I just kind of got used to a technique but yeah, it is true. spinning off of a horizontal-- plying jof a horizontal bobbin is very different. Marsha 52:32 Yeah. And then I also remember too, when you were first showing me how to ply the yarn You had me put the the lazy Kate quite a ways away from you know, like several feet away and and I noticed like when I was spinning I just had it you know on the side of my chair blocked by the table leg because it doesn't sit flat either. That's everything that's that Kelly 52:54 yeah, it's designed to attach to the wheel Marsha 52:56 Yeah, the wheel and yeah, anyway, so that was just a cool thing. I just, it's making it much better for me, much easier. And anyway, I've got the two tone one I'm calling it the barber pole is the green and brown together. I have about 950 yards. And I think because it's already in skeins I didn't think of doing the wraps per inch. So it's somewhere between a DK and a worsted. Okay. It might be DK I don't know. And then the the solid Brown. I have 661 yards. That is a three ply plied off of three bobbins and then I had you remember when I first the first time I plied I didn't have three bobbins of the brown so I thought oh well just do the chain ply or Navajo ply, but it's a little bit different. And so if you count that skein in, I have Oh, I'm sorry I have that other way around. I have 536 yards. If you add in that odd skein, I have 661 yards of the brown. Okay. So adding that all up it's about 1600 yards or about 1500 yards you know, so I get... I think I have enough for a sweater for Ben. And so I've been looking at sweaters and I need to do a striped sweater so I have couple-- three options. The first one is a pattern from... it's called Thun T h u n by the blue mouse. And I don't know if you've looked at that Kelly it's Kelly 54:39 I'm looking at it right now.And I'm I'm looking, well I'm trying to look at it, here we go. That's cute. Marsha 54:47 So so it's cute. It shows it's a... it shows on a woman but it's a unisex sweater. What I and it's a striped quite big, so the the yoke is one color, a solid--no stripes, I should say. And then like the the body. And the sleeves, partway down are big, thick stripes. Kelly 55:08 Yeah, I like those stripes better than I like the little stripes in the other pattern that you showed me. Marsha 55:13 Okay. So the only thing I would change about this is it has a split. The ribbing at the bottom is split. And the back is longer, twice as long as the front. The ribbing is twice as long as and I think I would make... that for a man, I would make that without the split. And then the same, you know, Kelly 55:35 right. Consistent ribbing all the way around. Yeah, yeah. Marsha 55:41 Yeah. And then the other one I'm looking at is let me go back. It's called poach pooch, p O, ch, E. And that is by Caitlin Shepard. And it's sort of the same idea. It's saddle shoulders. So the same idea, but you're--You're right, Kelly. It's thinner stripes. And but I thought that was a pretty good. It seems like I have enough yarn for that. And the only other thing I would change too is you...after you've knit the sweater you apply over the left breast a patch, like a leather patch or a fabric patch. Do you see that? I don't think I'd put that on Kelly 56:30 Yeah, I don't like that. No. Marsha 56:31 Yeah. And then the other thing I'm considering, as you remember, the I think it was the last time we went to Stitches. And we were having lunch with a bunch of people friends that we know. And there was a man there named Frank Jernigan, and he has a website. It's Phrancko Ph. r a n k. I'm sorry. That's wrong. ph RANCKO, and he does custom fit sweaters. That's not what it's called but it's that same thing where you put all your measurements in and your gauge and it will create a sweater for you. And so I was thinking I might do that. And he has saddle shoulders. So I was the... I might do his sweater. And then add stripes to it. A basic sweater, because Ben is is very tall, but he's very slender. And so if you just do one of these sweaters is actually designed for your body would fit really well. I would think. Kelly 57:32 Yeah, that might be a good idea. Marsha 57:35 Yeah, so those that's what I'm considering. Kelly 57:39 That sounds good. So you got some choices there. Marsha 57:42 Yes. Kelly 57:44 Well, before you make your your segue Marsha, I just wanted to say while you were talking about your spinning, I went and looked up the skull designer, pattern designer and her name is Ellen T. Sebelius. S i b E L I u s. And yeah, give her patterns I look, you may never want to knit something that fiddle that fiddly. But there may be something that you fall in love with on her yarn pages. Because she has some very cool patterns. So yeah, so yeah. But yeah, with your spinning finished Marsha. I didn't, I didn't finish my summer spin-in yet. Maybe I'll finish it while I'm up visiting you. I'll bring up... bring it with me. I just-- I mostly have plying to do so. So we'll see. Marsha 58:35 We'll just remind people that summer spin-in ends Monday at midnight on Monday, September 6, that's right. Kelly 58:45 So get your new projects into the pages, your your finished spins and also if you made anything using your handspun. And I didn't finish this sweater that I'm that I'm knitting out of my handspun either So this time I was a I was a spin along fail, Marsha? Marsha 59:04 Yeah. Kelly 59:06 There's no failure in spinning. I have a beautiful sweater mostly finished and I have quite a bit of singles on my bobbins so I'm happy with with what I was able to accomplish Marsha 59:17 well, that then, uhhh... Kelly 59:22 Oh, I should say about prizes. And we have prizes for this spin-in that we'll draw on our next episode when I'm up in Seattle. And the grand prize is going to be a pillow-- fabric designed by Cheri Magnussen who is a shepherd of an Icelandic flock in Maine. And then we also have project bags donated by three green sisters. And then we also, for people who aren't spinners who might want to enter, or spinners who want two chances to win one of these bags. We have a thread up in the Ravelry group that you can win, we're going to do a giveaway in that thread for a project bag as well. So and then, if you don't want to wait to see if you won, you can just go and look at her bags. And if you use the coupon code EWES2 e-w-e-s -2, you'll get 15% off all the way till the end of the year. Hmm. So take a look. She has some very pretty bags. . Marsha 1:00:28 Really! Yeah Yeah, really cute stuff. So. Alright. Well, we have one more thing we need to talk about. We want to talk about Kelly 1:00:36 Yes. So we're still having the pattern giveaway for our Patreon sponsors. People have been messaging me about the patterns. You get a pattern of your choice up to $8 and just message me on Ravelry or email. I have one email that I have to get to that I haven't haven't sent out the pattern yet. I'll have to do that tonight after we get finished here. But the patterns that people have selected, so fun to see. It's fun to be able to give a prize to our patrons. It's fun to be able to support designers. But I'll tell you, Marsha, it has also been fun to see all these patterns that people are selecting. Marsha 1:01:21 Yes, a few have gone into my... well....a lot have gone into my favorites. Yeah. Kelly 1:01:27 Yeah. So I've done similar. I've done a similar thing. I have a queue. I keep them in my queue. But yeah. Marsha 1:01:34 Like oh, yeah. So we'll have we have a list of them in the show notes. So you can... so anything that really stands out? Kelly 1:01:40 Well, the the beautiful together shawl, I think is really nice. And I haven't done a lace Shawl in a while. It's a Romi Hill pattern. And I have not done a lace Shawl in a while. And so that was kind of like, Oh, I kind of... I'm now at a point where I kind of miss shawl knitting. I think I need to, I think I need to think about casting on a shawl. So that was one of them. And then of course, I'm just gonna say Edie is a great pattern. Unknown Speaker 1:02:08 Mm hmm. Kelly 1:02:09 I was happy to buy that for someone. Because it's just a great pattern. I love my Edie. I have two of them and I love them both. They get a lot of wear. And I just was happy to see that pattern on the list. What about you? Marsha 1:02:25 Well, there was another cuz I love the Edie as well too. That's a great pattern. I but there's I know somebody else picked a tee Derecho. How is it pronounced. Derecho. By Alison green. That's a really cute t shirt too. Kelly 1:02:40 Yeah, that is. That's cute. Marsha 1:02:45 What else do we have here? There was the well Stripes. I've been looking at this Stripes by Andrea Mowry. That's cute. Kelly 1:02:56 I like the the cropped pullover the Nydia by Vanessa Smith. I I don't really wear clothes that it would work with. But I really like how it has the sweater and the cowl. And so when you wear that, you know... I... growing up in the late 70s I guess it was the late 70s cowl neck sweaters became a big thing. And I've always liked them. And so this you can have a cowl neck if you wear the cowl and then if you take the cowl off, you just have a scoop neck. And it's really I think it's a really clever design. Marsha 1:03:40 There's another cute t shirt the Friday tee by petite needs, no petite knits. Do you see that one's a striped sweater. It's very cute too. Kelly 1:03:50 Let me look. Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember seeing that one. Yeah, Marsha 1:03:55 and did you see the sleepy polar bear? Kelly 1:03:58 Oh my god. That's that. I think I'm gonna make that one when that one went on my list of things to make. I had heard of that pattern. I had no idea he was so big. He's big. Marsha 1:04:14 Yeah, it says here about 17 inches in length. Yeah, so yeah, he's he's a big boy. Kelly 1:04:19 Yeah, Marsha 1:04:20 I'm assuming it's a boy Kelly 1:04:21 A chunky boy. Well, it wouldn't have to be you know, not all polar bears are boys. Marsha 1:04:26 Did you? Did you look at the picture of its rear end. That's adorable. Kelly 1:04:31 It's cute. Yeah. Marsha 1:04:33 And little tail and the little paw is adorable. Kelly 1:04:36 Yeah, it's a cute cute pattern. Susan B. Anderson has some darling, darling patterns. But like you could make it a little color work sweater. You know, it has a sweater on but yeah, it's a plain, kind of a plain sweater. With a marled, looks like the marled yarn. I love the little toe pads on the bottom of its feet. Mm hmm. So but it would be fun to make that and also make it a little color work sweater. Marsha 1:05:06 Yeah, look. Yeah. Well, and then speaking of color work sweaters, there's a beautiful Ridari? Kelly 1:05:15 Yes. Marsha 1:05:16 The Icelandic, the Icelandic one and look at I'm not pronouncing this correctly. But it looks like it's Vetis Jonsdotter. Kelly 1:05:25 That's beautiful. Yeah, that is. So Marsha 1:05:29 anyway, everyone should just take a look at them. Because there's... really they'll end up in your in your queue. Kelly 1:05:35 Yes. Yeah. There's danger there but... Marsha 1:05:38 or not queue, but in your favorites. Or you might even just click the buy button. That's right. Kelly 1:05:43 Yeah, there's danger there. But it's the good kind of danger. [laughing] Marsha 1:05:48 Yeah. Yeah. Kelly 1:05:50 Yeah. Very nice. Yeah. Very cool. So yeah, it's, and this is still going on. So if you haven't contacted me yet, and you're one of our Patreon patrons, just get in touch with the pattern that you'd like, for your special gift. Marsha 1:06:06 So I think that's everything. Do we have anything else we need to talk about? Are we want to talk... any more rabbit holes we want to go down or deep dive? Kelly 1:06:14 We'd better not because I have office hours in about 20 minutes Marsha 1:06:18 Okay. Kelly 1:06:19 I can't think well, I can't think of any real big rabbit holes. I stopped myself from going further into Spoonflower after the last episode. But there's quite a discussion going on about--there was quite a discussion going on about Spoonflower in the Ravelry group. So yes, Marsha 1:06:39 I know. I saw that. So. Kelly 1:06:43 So speaking of the Ravelry group, if you are a new listener, come join us. On the Ravelry group. We have discussions about spinning and weaving the the big discussions going on now are the spinning discussion that's been going since the summer spinning started. We have a winter weave along discussion that's been going on since last October. We're almost ready to start our next winter weave along. And then we have morning coffee, where you can talk about anything. Recent conversation has been about dogs and how chaotic the start of the school year has been for all the different teachers that are there in the session. But yeah, it's fun. I go there every morning while I have coffee. That's why I called it morning coffee. But you don't have to drop in in the morning and you don't have to drink coffee. Marsha 1:07:34 No. Kelly 1:07:35 Yeah. Just a fun way to keep in touch with some fiber friends. Marsha 1:07:39 Yeah, Kelly 1:07:40 yeah. Yeah. So feel free to join us on Ravelry and the discussion and the Two Ewes Fiber Adventures group is where you'll find it. Marsha 1:07:48 Okay, any? I guess that's it, though. Yeah. I'm gonna-- I'm gonna let you go so you can get to your office hour. Okay. All right. And then I will... well, I will talk to you in person because you will be here in just a few days. Marsha 1:08:02 Next week, in a few days well, not a few days, but a week. Kelly 1:08:04 Well, less than a week. Marsha 1:08:06 Less than a week. Yeah. Kelly 1:08:07 It's less than a week. You'll be ... very close. Tuesday, I leave. Marsha 1:08:13 So as soon as you finish your office hours, go pack. Kelly 1:08:15 I know. I really, and I'll remember that dark yarn. Marsha 1:08:20 Yeah, yeah.Put it on your list right now. Okay. Use your finest fountain pen and put it on your list. [laughing] Kelly 1:08:28 Okay. Marsha 1:08:30 All righty. All right. Bye. Kelly 1:08:32 Thank you so much for listening. To subscribe to the podcast visit Two Ewes Fiber Adventures dot com. Marsha 1:08:39 Join us on our adventures on Ravelry and Instagram. I am betterinmotion and Kelly is 1hundredprojects. Kelly 1:08:47 Until next time, we're the Two Eews Marsha 1:08:49 doing our part for world fleece! Transcribed by https://otter.ai

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“Wax on, wax off. Wax on, Wax off.” Feeling the world is ganging up on you? Feeling targeted in some way? Even bullied by those around you? Who would you rather have on your side? Mr. Miyagi or Eli? The perfect time for Episode 18 of Pop Art, the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture and I select a film from the more art/classic side of cinema with a connection to it. This time, my guest, film enthusiast and podcaster, Todd Liebenow (of The Forgotten Film and Walt Sent Me Podcasts) chose the Ralph Macchio/Pat Morita iconic coming of age martial arts classic, The Karate Kid, and I chose Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson’s moody, atmospheric new take on vampire films, Let The Right One In, both about bullying. And here we answer such questions as: How can you combine getting free labor while training someone for martial arts; who was the original choice for Mr. Miyagi; where the heck are the adults, for God’s sake; what does Let the Right One In bring to the vampire genre; what happens when you don’t invite a vampire in and they come in; and how are the issues of bullying dealt with and resolved in each movie, if they are indeed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howard-casner/support

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All right.This is super exciting. We have the 22nd episode of the gut check project. And, unfortunately, my co host Eric Rieger is actually at a conference right now. But we have a huge upgrade. We have Dr. Marisol naturopathic doctor, who is now my co host, and my lead guest both, which is awesome. So, this is going to be a super super, super fun show because what we have going on is Dr. Marisol. We're going to talk about pooping. We're going to talk about castor oil. We're gonna talk about bowel habits. I'm just a simple country, butt doctor, she's a brilliant naturopath. So we're going to welcome Dr. Marisol. Oh you're awesome. Ken thanks so much. You're so so so so humble. It's amazing but I have to say you're pretty incredible gi specialist honestly.That is thank you very much but I'm just I'm just thrilled to actually have a different co host so we're gonna let we're just gonna bounce off each other we're gonna let and let everything roll here.You're just happy it's a cuter co-host.Eric's extremely attractive. If he'd shave i think that i think we'd have a more of a connection but he just won't do that. I know. I know he could do that whole Mr. America contest. I'm telling you. I keep telling him to go in it. I love that Dallas accent.Before we even jump in I just want to ask one one question Yeah. How you pooping?How am i pooping? I'm pooping like a champ. Actually, I'm pooping like a queen. Right?So sure her moniker is that she is the queen of Thrones which is why, now it's not just because you're here. That's actually how I introduce everyone, as I just asked him how you pooping? I love it. And I'll go to family reunions and just walk up and say hey, how you pooping?You know, that is the most important question that we should be asking people, honestly, or at least asking ourselves every day, right? How am I pooping? Because it's so important. It's like your number, you know, they get I always say, you know, poor poor poo, you know, it has a bad job where it you know, got the number two label right? Like, why is it not the number one like, in my opinion, poo is number one, not number two, the most important thing that comes out of your body And you know, this was completely planned, but this is Episode two two and we've got the queen of number two. I love it.This is awesome. You know, synchronicity at its best. I'm telling ya. Yeah, that's an important question. Honestly. That's what that's what I've been asking myself for the past, gosh, 40 years of my life. Right?So you did this in utero? You're asking questions. Oh, you're so sweet. No, no, I'm definitely over forty. But because I poop well, I do look younger and better and I feel better than I did otherwise. Right? And when I was younger I really suffered with digestive problems like constipation. My mother was constipated constantly. You know, my father had IBS it was we were just a bunch of problems in the butt. Tt was just gosh, everyone always a bathroom occupied. We only had one bathroom in those days.At home was in Ontario Canada?Yeah, Ontario, Canada, right back up northern Canada. So we were isolated in the very north in the mining towns. Oh, my goodness. Very interesting experience growing up there.Lots of family members coming out of the bathroom going, Oh, that didn't go well ay?That's right. So for us, you know, that conversation was very, very open. We would talk about it at the kitchen table, we would talk about it everywhere. And then I would remember going to a friend's house. And then I started talking about it or say something to a friend of mine and they'd be like, Oh my God, you're so weird. Why are you talking about poo? And I'm like, I don't know it's interesting, and it's what we talked about. Right? There was a common converstation at our home. It was really it was really interesting. And I keep on you know, what really changed my life though was Oprah and Dr. Oz. Ironically, the the that show they opened, I think Dr. Oz was just going on The Oprah show for a couple of episodes. And he went on in one of his first episodes. And what he did was a huge explanation about what you're poo is saying about you. And that day when I watched that episode, something in my heart lit up. And I was just looking at him like a child in the candy store, like I just was amazed by what he was talking about, and how there was actually things you could find out about your body from your poop, and it just set me on this trajectory on this pathway to really always constantly be looking and investigating my poo and because I suffered with IBS, with so much digestive problems up until I was in my 30s when I finally you know, figured out my formula to fix it. I was looking and learning from my poo, so it was just it's just It's been a really cool ride to get me to becoming the queen of the thrones and what I'm doing now. And the ride on the throne that is.Let me ask you, so when you watch this episode with Dr. Oz, were you a naturopathic doctor at the time? No. Oh my gosh, this is talk to that we're talking like 19 I think it could be like 1992 maybe earlier like I was around 11. It was it was early on in my life. Like it was a point, a foundational point in my life where that something just inside me clicked. It was like, I want to talk about poop that seems really important to me. What were you doing at that time?So at that time, I was a young young kid I was in dancing in my dreams were to become a Liza Minnelli and a doctor. I wanted to be both of those things. My Liza Minnelli dreams got crushed by a dance teacher who said I didn't fit quite in.Uh huh. Right? Which you know was now I look at that as the best gift I could have given been given in my lifetime. Because if I fit in, I would not be here talking about poo, let's face it because it was taboo. Righ?t And so what I wanted to go into was, was being a doctor.Really?Yeah, yeah. And so that was, was that the motive to get you to start studying naturopathic medicine?100% Oh, because I suffered my entire life suffering suffering and you know, your purpose is within your pain 100% of the time, when you you know, you're dealing with something, you're trying to figure out how to make it better. And you and like someone like me, like I I, I'm always looking how to advanced, how to be better, how to improve, and I couldn't get this part of my life improved, because IBS can be a huge beast, you know, because it's not just only what's going on in the digestive tract it's so much more. So I really needed to look at all those things, and I needed I think I needed to take it into my own hands and take it and that's why that's what eventually led me into naturopathic school.Oh, that's awesome. So I'm really blessed. I mean, I think that one of the most common things is that when people in other fields of medicine and I think there's so many naturopathic doctors that really focused on the gut because they realize how important it is. Yeah, I mean, I'm a little bit bias because I'm a gastroenterologist. I say that all health begins and ends in the gut. But it really is because what I see in my clinic and I'm sure it's exactly what you see, you can't get away from it. If you have a sore knee, you quit running. You go to an orthopedic, whatever, you get a surgery, something like that. But when you have intestinal issues, it's always there. So. Yeah. Always. Yeah, it's always there and it permeates your entire life. You're constantly dealing with it constantly thinking about it. Like I'm still in the habit of when I turned in my 20s my IBS shifted from a constipation more to a diarrhea and I'd have periods of constipation, but it was predominantly like explosive I don't know when it's coming diarrhea. I love this. I've never been able to talk so openly about this. You know, like, I'm just like, this is my love my story.So I want to get into your I want to get more into you as the person. Yeah. You in the history. But I want to tell you that you may not even remember this.Yeah, eah, yeah. So I met you a couple years ago at mindshare. Yeah. And we were sitting around talking.Oh i remember.  I myself am gluten intolerant to me a long time. Trying to figure it out. So you know, we developed Oh, little bit of housekeeping totally forgot. This episode's been brought to you by Atrantil. Go to   lovemytummy.com/spoony or go to lovemytummy.com for a discount code. I forget that my our own product is sponsoring the show. So sorry Chuck. So I did not realize I was gluten intolerant. Yeah. Until the person that helped me develop this,Brandi, who's my research manager, we diagnosed her with celiac disease. So I would go out to lunch during work and I would I would eat gluten free sort of to support...The people. And it took me a long time to realize that I would not have to rush back to the office because I'd have to use the restroom. Before I'd start seeing people again and she pointed that out. And I was talking to you. I was like, yeah, it took me forever. I would go out on a run and be like a mile out. And then you have this urge to go. You don't know if you should stop and waddle bad or whatever, and that's when...Or squat.And then you told me a really funny story that if you're cool with sharing I'd like you to share?Yeah, well, gosh, I have so many funny stories like that. Are you talking about my Dominican Republic story probably the one on the bus?The only one that you told me. No, it's one that you had a route and that you would actually squat in somebody's yard. Oh, yes. That's Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cuz I mean, I have a around my house, I have a pond. And you know, it would be that it would be explosive, right? I'd be like, suddenly, Oh, my gosh, what's happening? And so I literally have squated in people's lawns and their back lawns, thank God because it's going heading in butt. You know, like when nature calls, you know, nature calls and when, when, when she's calling in that way. It's not. It's not always a call that you love or really want to answer, but you got to do something about it. And you know what I like to this point, now in my life, it's so funny and I'm re patterning this, so up until now. I would always look and see where the bathroom is, wherever I go. Because of that, right? Because there's been so many times that I've had accidents or what have you like when you're suffering I realized you just don't know when it's going to come and it's it's a can be a scary thing to live with. We probably share very similar patients and when that the trauma that can happen I mean I have stewardesses,pilots, people that are trapped in a, you know, here in Dallas there's commuters and the  thought of that just the anxiety of that can actually trigger something. Exactly it makes it worse and you know, you know how you say like the gut is it all and then begins with the gut. I agree. 100% like, you can't like digestion is how you are digesting your life. Like there is no other way around it like if things are not good in your life emotionally and hence the anxieties triggering an IBS like an explosive diarrhea. Like emotionally physically what have you. It all has started in the gut,all of it. So my research in you know, I do a lot of irritable bowel do a lot of inflammatory bowel disease. And we got really into I was one of the first doctors that really started embracing worked with Dr. Mark Pimentel when he was I was one of the people that on this study for Xifaxan and things like that and so I was hearing about bacteria, the microbiome like 10 years before everybody else was and now it's really interesting because even my own colleagues still aren't addressing that but the naturopathic world embraced it early on.Oh yeah, we're all about the bugs and bacteria right? Because we're all about the ecology and how the body is a system right? In conventional medicine. I mean, I love you guys thank God for you guys thank God for conventional medicine. You know what we all benefit from it the the but you you tend to look at it as like one organ system, right? So but we look at it as our as it as like a garden like we're a garden, right? And in the garden, you need things like water, you need nutrients, there's bacteria in the soil. So for us, it wasn't a large stretch to think oh, wow, we should be using like probiotics in our prescriptions because guess what, it's a garden for us. So just like already our methodology about how we think about the human body, and how like in naturopathic medicine, there really aren't specialists. Really we're all generalists, but we just have a focus on certain areas, like some patients, some doctors and naturopathic doctors might have a focus on you know cancer care you know I have a focus on gi just like you so the majority of my patients I see a lot of IBS Crohn's colitis, but I tend to also see things like autoimmune conditions and cancer but you know what I treat them all very similar really because I still start with the gut on everybody.So you watch this Dr. Oz episode? Yeah. Tell me about your history. Like when does one become a naturopathic doctor? What did you do? Just give me the give me the history of the queen of thrones. Oh, gosh, so so this is the thing so I watched Oprah Dr. Oz I was in a time of my life. I was rounder you know, I was I was, you know, isolated from society, like not society. But from, you know, kids kids didn't like me. I was the strange little Spanish girl who brought sardine sandwiches. It didn't smell good you know?We know. So. Up in, you know, that was my life back then and... Were you born in Canada? I was born in Canada. Yep. So my father's from Spain and my mother's from South America. Where in South America? Uruguay. Okay.Beautiful, beautiful country like it's...Se habla espanol? Se hablo espanol. I'm always trying to get my teenage kids to speak Spanish because you know, it's such a gift to be able to speak Spanish, I've got my he's soon to be 15 year old, I got my 15 year old who is will only speak Spanish at the house. And there are times I'm like So that's, you know, that's good though. That's good because, you know, Spanish opens up doors in so many different ways. And you know, like I love coming to this in Canada, where I'm at, I don't run into too many Latinos, but when I'm in the States, especially Dallas, and you know, like the more southern states, it's awesome. I love it because I'm constantly speaking Spanish. It's just like, this is great. I want to move to America. I love the states.I would say that my, my Spanish really took off when I was in training in San Antonio. Yeah. Almost every patient i saw...And you know what I see patients because of the languages that I speak. Many of them come and search me out. It's super cool, but back to my story. What had happened was that I you know, I wasn't living a happy life as a kid. I was, you know, isolated from the crowd and I was also very anxious, right, anxiety was a huge predominant factor because of my isolation from the group, you know, I was I was a different kid. And so I was but I got diagnosed with asthma instead of anxiety. And so the medical system kind of failed me when I was younger. And unfortunately it put me on a series of lots of drugs lots of prednisone, which made me go from a you know, a plump cute to a very overweight teenager and itWhy were you on prednisone?Cuz was I was having such anxiety and but it would manifest and look like an asthma attack. But the doctor never even examined my lungs he never he never did a physical exam What?!There was no oh no yeah, this is back in the day. Yeah, nothing was done. So you can imagine my what I thought of the conventional medical system and family medical doctors at that point in time, right I didn't really have very cause here I was, like, you know, medicating with prednisone to reduce my asthma attacks, which I wasn't really every having them it was all anxiety. So I was I was I was the case I was really mismanaged and it is made me gain more weight isolated me more my anxiety got worse as I got fortunately my mom got to the point where she's like you know what i'm done with you taking these drugs and she just pulled me off of them. How old were you when this?I think by that time I was around 15-16 so I remember going into high school and still being a bit overweight and then once appropriate the prednisone was gone. My weight started to go down.And it's not just that it's not just the weight but the acne the inability to sleep that's a horrible drug. It's a tough drug it was a tough drug to be on as a. I was, the acne didn't affect me. Definitely sleep was a problem. Like so lots of my systems weren't working very well. Right like I like it. My body definitely wasn't happy. I like it. I like stories like this because it shows you know you said that your pain is you know, your your pain point ends up becoming your your purpose. Yeah. And for anybody that's ever had a child, that's 15 and unhappy and anxious Gosh, it's so hard.You know, and then to see you take that and then become really this incredible brand where you really put yourself out there if anybody gets a chance look at her YouTube channel. There's videos of her on the toilet talking. It's really funny.It's awesome. I love it and I get to be my Liza Minnelli right? Because I get to do it but my own way talking about poo. It's so perfect!So you're 15 you're going into high school, you finally get pulled off the drugs? What happened? Yeah, well, then then my life just suddenly becomes much better, right? But my anxiety is still there because that's still not really being managed. And, you know, so but I do lose weight, I'm looking better and being accepted more, which is great when you're in high school, you know, I still have a lot of confidence issues, of course, because you know, you spend the greater majority of your life at that time, you know, being unconfident, unhappy with who you are anxious, you know, it's not not a nice nice, not a nice life. And then you know, someone tells me to go into a beauty pageant. So this is where I've got the queen. And this is actually what helps to build me It builds me up. So I you know, entered it in the hopes of I didn't think I would win it because I didn't think about myself. as attractive or anything or that I didn't like up until then I didn't believe it right I didn't believe that I could achieve anything like that. I but I could achieve the talent because I was very talented I played the piano and I danced. So I went into the competition and and I won the talent and I oh no I didn't win the talent I won Miss Congeniality, which was like awesome to me sounds like at least I want something. How do you win the Miss Congeniality part?You're just really pleasant and nice person like I am i guess.You know what? I'm going to say if this was a Canadian beauty pageant where everybody's pleasant and nice. Winning Miss Congeniality is a serious deal.That's right? Oh, that's a really awesome way of thinking about it. I need to think about it more that way. That's wonderful.Yeah, I mean, like you would almost think like in other Yeah. Like if you're not I don't want to single out a certain part of the United States. Yeah, certain parts all you gotta do is just be like, say, hey, and you won.That's so awesome.Instead of flipping somebody off.There you go, but it what ended up happening is I actually won it and and me winning it. It was first time I became a queen, and it's one of the reasons why my brand is also called the queen of the thrones is that it just it just built my confidence. So I just needed that one little vote of somebody else seeing the magic that I had inside of me. So that really changed my mindset changed how I was working and expressing myself as a person out here in this world. So that was really cool. And then, you know, took me through travels, I started doing more pageants, more, more, more, more of that and, and then it came time to go into high school into university and I, my mother was like, go be the doctor, go be the doctor. And I was like, I'm not being the doctor. I don't want to be a doctor. Look what happened to me. I was taking prednisone and I was like, 180 pounds by the time I was like, you know, 13 like that. No, I don't want to, I don't I'm not going to go become a doctor and do that to anybody. Because that's what my that's what my paradigm was. I looked at medical doctors at the time, that they didn't help you that they they they just gave you drugs that weren't good for you. And a lot of people think this, you know, and I still want to correct that. Because there's a time and a place for every single medicine. There's a time and a place for prednisone. You know if the patient is assessed properly? And you may need them. Right like in an acute flare up of Crohn's and colitis and you can't manage it. Prednisone would'nt you say?Oh, yeah, this is what I. Like my biggest problem is as a gastroenterologist is having people that possibly have been mismanaged for a very long time. And then they come in and they've got osteopenia, and they're 30 years old and they've got all these other issues they're morbidly obese they've been on and off prednisone and other options have not been discussed. So the way that I view prednisone is is exactly that. It's a very powerful drug, but you only want to be on it twice in your disease course. Once to see if you go into remission the next one to say okay, now the we pull you off for the second time. What are we going to put you on so that you don't have to back?Yeah, yeah, see and that's that's that's that's a great doctor. And and that's that's what there are so many great doctors out there. Right? It's like any profession, right? Like there's, you know, great naturopaths and there's not so great naturopaths and there's great doctors and not so great doctors. There's great lawyers and I don't know if that works. Like, no, I know really good lawyers, like I love my lawyer. So, you know, like, they're in all professions, it's like that. So you just have to search and find the one that really resonates with you and just just you need to listen for these key things, right? Like a doctor who is saying these things to you, like, you know, we'll try prednisone, but that's a dangerous drug. Like it's not something that should you should be on, managed for years. Like I was on it for years. So I ended up instead going into languages and business. So that was where my school ended up taking me. Really?Yeah. Because one thing I knew that I loved talking, and I loved people, and I figured, you know, one of the greatest platform to do that would be business. And so that led me there. And then I ended up going into actually my first very first job coming out of school was it was completely aligned in the stars was to work for a homeopathic pharmaceutical company from Germany called Heel Called Heel? Heel. Hiel? Heel. Heel. And they are an unbelievable force in natural medicine they created this product called Traumeel it's no longer available in the United States they pulled out. But it was available and people out there will understand what if they've ever been in the natural world they've heard of Traumeel, an excellent anti inflammatory actually works very similar to a prednisone, but natural. It's an incredible thing. And there's no side effects to it. So in Germany it's number one.Yeah, so one of the things like we would as we're launching Atrantil in the EU and stuff, oh, my goodness, though, so we, we have our own. We got recognized in Canada. So we have our own...That's great. GoodNPI number, whatever it is that you guys do.NPN. Natural product number. Yeah.So we got our own NPN. And then we were not expecting the added expense of having to translate everything into French.Oh, yes.So that one was that was one of those non budgeted type things. So we're in Canada now. We're bilingual. But dang those Germans. They are strict.Oh, yes. Oh yeah, they're quality control. Everything is just phenomenal. And that's great. I think that's fantastic. I think anything that we do in our life, if it's worth doing is worth doing with excellence, you know, and and I loved working for that company. I was so fortunate, you know, I was able to train with the best, the best doctors in Europe and Germany and Belgium, you know, sports, medical doctors, like gastroenterologists. It was just awesome. Like, I got the opportunity to see the world from so many different places around the world.Where did you travel with that company?how old are you when you're doing all this? So I would go to Germany, I'd go to the United States, South America, it was just, it was just everywhere. Those are the main main places, but it was it was phenomenal. Like what an experience, but what it did is it introduced me to other practitioners. So that's where I got my first flavor of what a naturopathic doctor was, and a chiropractor, and then it opened up a whole new world to me of a different form of medicine. You know, a medicine that was inclusive, that really focused on from what I knew, really focused on assessing the patient, right because we know up until where we're at only what we have had experience in our lives. And my experience with the medical system was was one of not being well managed, you know, because even then later on in my, in my teenage or sorry, adult years when I started going to things like birth control, you know, I wasn't well advised on birth control and I, you know, went on a different pathway for that. So, so many so many issues there, right, like I was given Depo-Provera, and Depo-Provera just actually aggravated a lot of my digestive symptoms. It also made me bloat on certain points of time, you know, my period was messed up when I went off of it. So, you know, that was my perception of medical system. But then when I saw naturopaths and chiropractors I go, hey, there's different ways to do things. And there always is, right? I'm about 26 or 27. I'm about 26 or 27. And then I finally like, just something inside me when am I I was back up in my hometown I was as that sales rep. I was speaking to a doctor when my good good doctor clients, and I was teaching him and training him all the methodology of what Heel taught which was something called homo toxicology, the study of toxins within the human system. So it's so phenomenal. It talks about the you know, how disease becomes manifests and how it reverses. And how, you know, first signs of disease are things like discomfort or, or, or discharge, right? Like if in our world, it would be like mucus and our stools are diarrhea. And then after that, it becomes inflammation. And it's just like the different steps of the pathology of how you know how disease manifests and how to reverse it. It was super phenomenally interesting.That's really cool. I mean it's basically all in, in my opinion, all of disease really comes down to inflammation. If we can stop the inflammatory process, we can stop cells from being damaged and blah, blah, blah, blah. So...I'm gonna add I'm an add in stress. Because I think to me, it's like a two a two prong thing. I think people will have like, it'll either be the like, you know, chicken or the egg. It's they'll start with the stress and then the inflammation comes about or the inflammation starts and then they have more stress. So then it's just like, and then it's you know that snowball effect down the hill but that big snowball is becoming bigger and bigger and bigger. Have you ever seen a snowball living in Dallas?A snowball. It's...soBasically two snowflakes will fall a year and there will be like 700 accidentsOh that's so funny oh my gosh That's very it'll it'll snow like once a year just kind of dusting and everything will just shut down. Everything will shut down. It's just like disaster mode.So funny. Yeah but it's so it inflammation and stress are really really key. And you know, like if I look at myself and even just my history like that, that anxiety I was dealing with was full on stress like that was of course messing up my digestive tract, right it was making making my digestion feel totally off.So I... Trying to move your mic here so that we can get a little better picture of the queen of thrones here. So you know, this the whole studios in an adjustment you know this is two two but everybody wants to see the Beautiful, Dr. Queen of Thrones here so there we go.But yeah, so so it was a great introduction and what an amazing methodology to learn. So I was training at that point, naturopathic doctors who are top in their class, treating cancer, a G like GI focused doctors, it was awesome. And what ended up happening is this doctor in my hometown said to me, he goes, What are you doing being the sales rep, what are you doing? He's like, you need to go be the doctor. You need to go be the doctor. And again, it was one of those foundational points in my life, you know, someone believes in you, and it's just enough, you know, gas in that engine to make you go phoom right, just jump on. So and I you know, when when I get an idea, and when he when he planted that idea in my mind, that was it. I was like, I literally called the company the next day and said I was quitting.Oh my. You don't play around.I don't play around. You know, when I know it feels right. It feels right. And that felt right. I just I knew it 100%. So what I what I did is the company actually wouldn't let me go that fast. So they actually prepared my journey to meet more doctors and really made it great. So then I went to naturopathic school at 28. But I didn't have my sciences because I had done a business degree. So I actually had to like read get all my sciences done. So you know, when you go back to school after you've been working, making money, you know, and you have to you have these big mountains you have to succumb to right, like, I literally had like Everest, I had to go back and do my basic sciences. I had a lot to do, right? Luckily, there was ways I could do it faster and get my basic sciences and I did that. And I started school and I loved it. I was just like, this is where I need to be. I had to really focus on the sciences and get really in depth those first few years because they were a little bit more challenging because I didn't have you know, all the years of the science background that that that other people did. And I went in as a mature student, but it was an amazing and amazing experience.Had school always been easy for you? No, no, no. And you know why? So let me explain this. I am brilliant and I don't I say that in the most humble way, I'm my, my superpower is really to be able to grab things, complex, complex ideas and simplify them. So I'm very fortunate in that way. But because I didn't have confidence in myself, because of all my experiences as a child and what was happening, I wasn't excelling in school at all. And I don't think that the school system was meant for my mind and how my mind works. You know, like I if if a concept if a simple concept is skipped through, and it jumps to the advanced concept without going through the basics, I get lost. So there was many times in like math class or such, like fractions, I couldn't get my mind into fractions. I couldn't understand the concept of it, right. And so they jumped to the next step, and then I would be lost and my marks would would, would be that way. So I had to work hard. So going back to school would have been somewhat stressful for you. Very, very. I mean, just the idea that I'm gonna quit this job. I'm gonna go back to school and I'm going to revisit a lot of my insecurities. That's impressive.Yeah. And, you know, to the and thank you for that. That means a lot. The the impetus also to go back to school was also that I was like, you know what I had been to see a lot of naturopaths and I had been to see a lot of doctors. And you know, my gi specialist at the  time was like, I'm sorry about your luck. There's nothing you can do. And I'm like, Okay, well, thanks. I'm like, that's not you know, that's not the answer I want but another, you know, another mismanagement.Yeah, the one that I mean, I always joke around that everybody, all the patients that come to see me and I'm sure you had this also, which is, you go to the doctor, you wake up from your endoscopy colonoscopy, and they're like, great news. It's all normal. You just have IBS.And then you walk out and you're like I still feel like shit, exactly. What does that mean? Now I just have a label.Exactly. And you know, even with an naturpaths I had seen before going back naturopathic school, they had none of them had tested my food sensitivities, and they just put me on these diets, for my food intolerances. They just put me on these diets that actually made me feel worse. So I kept on like losing confidence in the entire system. And I was like, well, maybe I can go back and become a naturopath and I can figure it out for me, right because I was that determined because I'm like, there has to be a better way to live. There really has to be a better way to live. And you know, and of course you know, go back into school it was challenging because I wasn't an excellent student, but I did become that but it did aggravate all my IBS symptoms. So during school I was I was a mess again, right and I had to work through it. I had to walk through it and try my best. And then finally someone tested my food intolerances and my sensitivities. And the thing was this is that all the naturopathic and cleansing diets before that time, were all based on rice and almonds and you know, you would take away the gluten and take away the dairy but you'd still be eating the grains like the rice and one of my big I'm Spanish background, you know, guess what I've been exposed to the majority of my of my life, you know, my gut is constantly being exposed to piyaya, maybe and piyaya is made out of rice, and I have a very permeable gut because I'm suffering with IBS my whole life. So what, what what food molecule is going to be elevated?And then of course the South American component where you can add a bunch of beans to it so.Yep, love those beans do exactly right. I love me some piyaya. Oh man, I love me piyaya too.  But the thing was I had to I had to be stay away from rice for a period of time because I was just over consuming it and it had become an intolerance to me my body was overreacting to it. And that's like, That's awesome, right that I was able to figure that out through school. So that was one of the components. Super like good great experience. I've been really, really blessed in my life I'm so thankful for.It's really cool and I like hearing the background stories of somebody like you because you've over although you've you've been able to make changes, you make adjustments you pivot, and then you make this life change. And then you revisit some of these insecurities, which only makes you stronger. Yeah. And only allows you to continue to grow as a person. So then, you get into naturopathic school. What was that like?Yeah, so it was a total shit show. I'm not sure if I could say that word on here but...Ya no, this show you can basically say anything you want.Oh, fantastic. I've been really like, you know, trying to be very prim and proper here but I really wanted to bring out my bad ass.When we were on the spoony network or when we're still on the Spoony network, oh that's the label to Spoony right there.Oh awesome.Shout out to Ron and all those guys but it was pretty fun and because I was concerned about that also you want to like be normal and everything and so they're like look in our world just do not say GD or the F word and basically everything else is okay.Cuz I say shit a lot. Patients say shit a lot to me.Of course they do you know my my first book coming out in the in the spring is called Oh shit. I saw that. I cannot wait. Yeah. That is really cool. But you know why I labeled it oh shit because I was I used to say when I would be ready to about to have an accident. I'd be like, Oh shit. Like, and if you look at us, what we do is when we have a moment of anxiety, what do we say? Oh shit. Oh shit, right. So that's the whole energy of it. So the book is gonna be really great. I'm super excited for it, but I'm back in school so I'm in school...Just to clarify so that I saw that the title of the book is doesn't actually say shit you do the...Yes I do the little star I do I do. I'm keeping it clean. You know, the reality is is that like Northern Ontario you swear a lot like I grew up in Northern Ontario. Like lots of truckers like we said, I don't want to stereotype anybody but I just grew up in a place where I learned to swear a lot right so and the majority of the words I would swear with shit typically so that and you know, and I like I like saying like I'm a badass because I am a badass. You know, but it's it's uh, yeah, I gotta keep it clean you know, got it gotta do those things.So right now we're in a shit show. Yeah. Which we're just kind of bounce around so I love a I've got a little add Yeah, like bouncing around. So we just went forward in time we got a book coming out. We'll talk about that. But now you're at the shit show called naturopathic school or are you going into graduate school?Yeah, I mean, the school is phenomenal. Like the knowledge and education you learn is great, but you know what the volume is a lot. Because like, it's like we're talking like we not only have to learn everything that conventional doctors learn, we also then have to learn what naturopathic doctors learn. So the amount of material that we have to go through is incredible unless you're constantly being I mean, I'm sure medical school also is very stressful. And it takes it takes a bit of life out of you, you know, but which you regain amazingly, afterwards. But it was a lot, a lot to learn a lot to learn at once. And so and because and because I had been in the past challenged in my learning, I would invest a lot more time than the average person would. So I was taking it to that next level, because I really did. You know, when you go back, a lot of the people in my program were younger, you know, they hadn't lived, they hadn't worked. And, you know, a lot of them just cared about getting good grades on their exams. And you know, the typical mentality of students. Well, it's a typical mentality of a graduate for sure, cuz they worked that hard to get where they're at. And then all of a sudden they're amongst everybody else. So like in medical school, at least in medical school, I went to, everybody was at the top of the class when they came from undergrad, and all of a sudden to be the top of the class there. It's, it's an ego blow. And a lot of people just view it as a badge. Like, I'm just gonna learn this and crush this and do whatever, but to actually realize no, I'm learning stuff to apply to people later on, is hard to do.And then like, I remember there was one girl who was like in a we're in a class and she's like, lifting her hand. She's like, Can we just like know, like, what topics you are actually going to be testing? And I like actually flicked her in the head. She was say me, I never because I was like, I looked her and she turned around, she's like, I go, I go, you are going to be a doctor, taking care of people's lives. That is a huge responsibility. And if they're not going to come in with just what you learned on the test, like honey, you I could do that because I was an older mature student, right? She was younger, and we were friends and you know, and she and she loved me so I got away with it. But you know, I said to her, I go, you know, you have a it's an enormous responsibility to be a doctor and you know, I feel so honored and blessed and like you do to Ken I know because we've had so many conversations like this.That is I want to not to digress from this at all, but this is a great opportunity. I got our good friend, Tony. Just came out with his book and your book, I can't wait to read your book. But Tony's awesome. Tony's awesome love this guy, this whole book. It's called playing God, but it's basically exactly what you're talking about. And he brings up an example in there, where there's this star resident, the star resident that's kind of competing with him about this plastic surgery. But Tony got they went and took a test. And he did well on it. And then there was like medical emergency the next day, and he figured something out that and he said the patient's life, and the other resident didn't like it, like How'd you know how to do that? He's like, well, it was on the test, but it's all about studying to apply.Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Studying to apply. And It's so important, right? So I would definitely spend like, prob I would say like my 82 Gosh, probably 120 hours I would be I would be studying or in school. So it was intense. And you know, I really I unfortunately really hurt myself in in in that that time and by the time I got to third year moving into my fourth my fourth my residency year, I actually I felt completely ill like chronic fatigue. I couldn't get out of bed I couldn't I couldn't do anything. I was just I was really really stuck. Really? Yeah. And and at that time, which was scary was that I was actually doing all the right things. I was eating all the right diets for me, I was taking all the right supplements I was you know, doing all the right things that I could do. And I you know, had a really heartfelt conversation with my lovely mother, who you know, normally was one who just constantly pushed me forward, push, push, push, push, push, but this was the time in my life where she said, uou know what, it's time for you to rest and take the time that you need, so you can get back to being you.  I thought she was gonna put you back on prednisoneNo, no, thank God. No, my mom my mom was always trying to get me on to witches brew right it was like she was she already have that latin American you know, let's do like the natural I got some herb.No I would like I said when I was studying in San Antonio not uncommonly the whole you know, the whole chicken eggs under the bed kind of thing and whatever.Absolutely raised part of our culture and our tradition is so awesome but and you know what and I did that and but more more importantly than that what I did was this there had been something that was recommended to me at every health food store I had gone to as a sales rep for that natural company, every naturopathic doctors office, every chiropractor I had talked to every every person I had been in contact with with something called the castor oil pack. And I had said no that I wasn't going to do it for the longest time probably about 15 years at that point. Because it was messy I felt like it was too much time it was a hassle didn't make sense to me. I'm like how can this thing that's like you pour castor oil, you know, which is you know what, you know, people that live in the Caribbean people are like oh god don't give me castor oil because they you know take it weekly to you know purge so that they prevent their parasites right this kind of like cultural tradition. I didn't know that. Caribbean islands? Yeah, Caribbean Indian Indian culture as well too. They do that weekly one tablespoon castor oil to purge the gut. Right. So So I was thinking like, I don't want to do that like because I had a misconception of it and how is castor oil put on your body topically gonna go in your body? And how is that going to work and help my gut and you know, just miraculously improve my IBS, right? I'm like, whatever. I didn't believe it. That was my like, cuz I was also you know, my sister's a dentist. So I also have that mindset where it's like, you know, I am very, very, very scientific and I am and the woo woo's. I'm into both of them. I don't want to call naturopath a woo woo but you know, that yeah, I mean, it is it's like, you know, Earth medicine and like the herbs and then the homeopathy and all these different things like just different tools, mindset. These are all different tools, and I think they just were I think they work so good together with Science and these tools are now like natural things are also getting a little bit more science behind them which is excellent and and experience helps too but I had to figure out something different I needed to do something different so then what I said to myself was this you know what? I am going to try that that castor oil pack I don't care if it's a shitty mess whatever I'm going to do it I'm going to try it and I'm going to see if it's going to help me.Now wait a minute. What were your symptoms that you were experiencing at this time? Well, it was it was severe chronic fatigue including like constipation alternating with diarrhea so I had mono antibodies so I was you know and and and stress honestly like I think to me I think the really the biggest problem was just that it was stress like that the stress was just so enormous and then I was putting so much pressure on myself to be the best that I could be so that I could be the best doctor because I wanted to be no I need no I'm I needed to be the best doctor ever because this was super important to me because of what happened to me as child.So what I like getting the history of this and I like listening to your struggle because people don't see that and what they do is they'll go on your YouTube video and say, Oh, she's got it all together.She's so amazing, perfect.Yeah, and people don't realize that you you had kind of a difficult childhood you turn around and then in your quest to become a really good doctor you destroyed yourself. People don't realize that that's the kind of effort that's the kind of mentality it takes to become the queen of Thrones. And all people see is this end product.Yeah exactly. You know what we are one of those this quote this weekend one of my friends said, it's like you know, people see in the one minute of success what people have been doing behind the scenes for like 10 years, right or from in anyone's case it's like their lifetime before that like everything that is created who they are up until this moment right now.There's a saying in the entrepreneur world it only it only took 10 years to be an overnight success. That's right, exactly that right like and that's the thing is that you know, it's like every like everything I look at my life, everything that every journey every every every shitty point, you know those things shitty points are so bad. And now I guess, I'm so happy I swear this is like awesome. A whole new.You know, all those points, they're all part of your journey and it's so important you have to honor them. Do you have a favorite spanish swear word? No, because my mother wouldn't really I know my mother wouldn't really like teach us that right and so because we were in Northern Ontario there weren't too many Spanish people we never got indoctrinated with, with, you know, any of the spanish swear words. My parents were very clean. So we did. I mean, maybe the worst one would be like hijo de puta. I feel bad when I say I'm like my mom, like, no, don't say that. Right.We're gonna send a clip of that to your mom. Oh, no. She's seen and she's up in heaven.Oh that's right! I'm sorry.She passed way this year. Yeah. Do you want to talk about that for a second. Yeah, we can. Yeah, totally. So my mom, you know, she she's also a big driver in why I do what I do because of her suffering with constipation. And, you know, I truly wish that she would have dealt with her constipation earlier on and had the availability of better doctors to be able to get better because you know what people who have constipation for their lives, especially women and overweight then they tend to be highly likely to get some type of hormonal breast hormonal cancers, right? Like breast cancer, right? You have all this weight, you know, constipation, it just it just it's something that can happen very easily. And, you know, my mother's, you know, was one of my very first cancer patients actually, but fortunately she beat stage four breast cancer. She beat it. At stage 4?She did comp a mix of we were so fortunate we actually like we're very personal close personal friends with the oncologist at our hospital because they've actually kind of given her nothing's really going to happen. But we were able to get her breast removed we were able to like do both chemo and radiation. And then she she, you know, suped it all up with adding and all the natural stuff on the side with naturopathic medicine and she did awesome and she survived 10 years 10 years and then what end up happening was it was a stroke. A hemorrhagic stroke out of the blue. But you know, we got 10 more years, which is amazing. And you know, you know, but if she is still like to this day if she had worked better on, I think being better at her bowels. When you're better with your bowels Your life is simply better. Like it's it's just it's just the way it goes you feel better when you poop better, right? Like there's no...Well I think that if you have a if you go to your website, you've got the 50 shades of poo.I love that. Yes, my fifty shades poo. My nasty little secret.So she's got her 50 shades of poo, which you gotta talk about that that really, when we see how people are digesting a lot of that actually can come down to as a kind of a window into what's happening in your body. And so yeah, yeah. So I'm so sorry that your mom died this year.Thanks Ken. Yeah, you know, it has been definitely a huge journey and a lot of it has brought up a lot of different things because she was truly the biggest believer in me, you know, and so to lose that force behind me, but I haven't lost her and that's the thing truly like she's actually here constantly and like, I feel her presence completely. And so I feel guided by her and, and her passing actually just makes me makes me must have this and help more people more, you know, because my goal is to actually reach a billion people and I will do that this is a must in my life. And and the reason why is because, you know, 20% of our population actually deals with like constipation or some form of digestive, like problems. That's a billion people around the world.Oh, it's huge. It's huge. In in certain countries. It's really interesting because when you look at different countries that have digestive issues, it really is the Western world. And now as other countries become more westernized, they're starting to develop these same things. Latin America. Latin America. I mean, Brazil is one of the largest IBS populations also. US Brazil, and then we have these different countries and so, you know, we've always been taught that 20% of the US population has irritable bowel syndrome. And there's that is my explanation as to why we have this huge increase of autoimmune disease and all these other things.Yeah. And the thing is what's really cool is this. So I found stats on constipation, it's 14% in North America 21% in Latin America countries. 7.8% in Asian countries. So it just goes to show right like, and you know, Latin America, like I could say that being a Latin American is that it is it is definitely getting corrupted with a lot of the North American, like the SAD diet, like the standard American diet is really infiltrating into that.The SAD diet. Stsndard American diet. I have never thought aboutYeah, right. Like, because it's like, I mean, you know, and not all Americans are a SAD die, right? Many of us are like, I feel like I'm an American. Many Americans do live a good healthy lifestyle, right. But there are those people who are eating a lot of packaged, processed, you know, fast food, and that's the majority of their of their diet. And that's the type of diet that will really, you know, like be a detriment to your system. And you know, Latin American countries are taking that all up as well to, you know, and I think just just sometimes too, they do eat a very starchy diet and heavy starches also can be a problem for constipation. So that could be a thing too. But it's it's it's really interesting and this is a must for me now like, really I want to help people because my mom's passing I know I probably would have gotten another 10-15 years had her constipation not be a problem and then her not having cancer and not having those, those struggles to go through in life. How did your sister handle it?My sister, so interesting, you know, she couldn't even watch her pass, which was she ended up coming into the room to watch her pass, but she didn't want to. And I found that very interesting, because, you know, she's a healthcare professional as well too, but she's a dentist, so she doesn't necessarily deal with death and dying. You know, I've seen quite a few patients death, and I've been at their bedside for death and dying with my cancer patients. So I'm more used to it so I could deal with it, but my sister keeps on going. That's what she does. So I'm a little bit of the emotional wreckage you know, that like falls apart and is like, you know, crying for months on end. I actually took a sabbatical from clinical practice for six months, Six months? Yeah, I've never done that before but I just need I needed time. Because that was that was an important it's it's one of the hardest things that you deal with when you lose a parent. Right? Like, like the only other thing that I think could be worse would be to lose a child. You know, cuz you never want your children to leave before you. But losing a parent is detrimental but it has also given me a lot of strength. So I feel very honored to have been on that journey with her.Yeah, I lost my dad when I was 21 before I went into medicine but, but I always find it interesting when medical people have to deal with death or illness. And you know, you just start looking at things a little bit differently,Huge differently. And it's funny, we couldn't do anything for my mother we had no, there was nothing to save her in the stroke being hemorrhagic like is just like she was bleeding like they could have gone and got into her brain but we said you know, what are we doing? Like that's not going to be good quality of life. We don't even know she'd come out and she would be a vegetable. And we figured you know, this is her time. And and when I did see my sister was this is that her and I both tried to become the doctors when our mom got the stroke. Right? And but I, I not so well because I get too emotional. So I'm like, I don't want to treat family like you can't do it was too close to you right? But my sister got into like Dr mode, right? You want to see the scans you want to see this and I'm like thank God at least you can do that and I'll I'll be the emotional support you will be. So we're good team that way. So thank God. That's awesome. Yeah.So getting back to when you finally discovered this castor oil pack. So what did it do for you?Well, immediately I started sleeping better. And immediately I started noticing that my my bowel movements were better, better formed. I'd had them a little bit more frequently or when I did have them I'd actually go more. So I'd have more eliminate all at once. So I was pretty impressed with that and then and then you know of course I was also doing other things I was getting IV therapy. I was I was doing other things on top of that. Because I wanted to get better and I wanted to get back into my life right. I felt like I was having to take a big pause and a break and I wasn't happy with I really wanted to be back in the joy of what I was learning and doing. And so I started, I committed to myself to do these packs every single night because I wanted to feel better and that's what I did and and and I thought I would have to take a lot more but only and I ended up having to take one little semester and I got right back into the groove of things. And honestly, I feel it was the castor oil packs that really did something different for my body. And and what I ended up learning and researching years later was that it it of course it works on the digestive system and on the guts and on inflammation like castor oil is a well known, you know, topical, anti inflammatory, it does all those things. But what it did more than anything was that it changed my stress state. It moved me from being in the stress to sympathetic, you know, hardcore, constantly wired to be stressed out. And it moved me into the paused state which is like the parasympathetic and the relaxed state. And I think that above and beyond everything is what I needed more than anything, and I needed to be able to sleep better so that I could I could heal better at night, right? Because I wasn't healing good at night because I couldn't sleep. Right. I would spend hours just like in my mind.I think that that is it's really interesting. And I want to geek out. About castor oil. I'm not very familiar with it, certainly the topical application of it I did a little bit of reading about it. But what's let's get back to the whole stress aspect. It is so fascinating that I have so many people that will go through a profoundly stressful period, and then develop a significant disease. It's almost like insult to injury. Yeah, I'll have people to go through a bad divorce and then they'll show up with crohn's. They're like what there has to be some sort of correlation, all of this with the cortisol and just these inflammatory markers that are all going up. And then don't even get me started. I think that the three pillars of health are our gut, brain and sleep. Basically, we need to make sure that we decrease the inflammatory process in our brain. We need to protect the gut, and you gotta sleep.See I say eat sleep, poop. But the brain is in there for sure, I think the brain is just an extension of the gut. That's my that's my perception of it. I've got, I've got a talk that I give and quite a bit of data where I can actually show that they have taken. And so a lot of lot of traditional doctors will not discuss leaky gut. And you know, but if you say, Oh, it's intestinal permeability, maybe that'll be a little bit more, but it's really well known and they're documented does some people say there's not science, I've got thousands of articles documenting a lot of this, something really wild. And this is how I end up telling my patients I'm like, Look, they did a study where they took human digestive tissue and they put it with inflammatory markers. And then I checked the permeability of it. And they actually showed the different things like zonulin like leaked through and stuff, and then they had different sizes. So there, that's an in vitro study, then there's not a blood brain barrier, same exact inflammatory markers, and they, they show that the blood brain barrier becomes leaky. So we've got leaky gut, leaky brain, it's all tied together,All tied together. And then so this is a thing to talking about cortisol Is that the research that I've looked at is mainly that my focus has been a lot on the stress component and cortisol and and my research has shown that whenever there's an elevated level of cortisol, your gut is impermeable so it goes completely together is that you know like it's that inflammation back to the chicken and egg we were talking about earlier not the chicken under the bed but the chicken and the egg right the chicken and the egg where it's like it's you got inflammation first and then you get stressor you get stress and then you get inflammation so it that's that that whole that's what's playing out there with that. Alright now let's talk geeking out. You are now going to become a teacher to me.Absolutely! Love it!So castor oil. You on your website you have it is the castor oil pack that you wear. yeahSo just tell just teach me just I don't know shit about castor oil. Well, I'm going to show you how to shit with castor oil. But not early. So we all know like Castor Oil of course you know that's it's it's approved by Health Canada. It's approved by the FDA orally for use to for bowel movements or for constipation right and actually at the turn of the century castor was one of those oils that was you know, everywhere and all the little like apothecary pharmacies, right and they would use it along with like things like Ipecac and those all those old herbs. So castor oils are super cool. castor oil actually is a plant of vegetable vegetable plants, some water in a vegetable plant and this vegetable plant actually what's so cool about it is that the bean will kill you but the oil that is extracted from it will heal you so the bean is actually used in like warfare. It's like a biological weapons that it'll kill you it'll stop your DNA replication and they'll kill you within like six hours if you take enough of a dose.The whole been like if you just eat it.Yeah, yeah, yeah, the bean I mean can kill you. So it's, like so many patients have seen it on like CSI and they're always like, Oh my god, I heard that on CSI about like the castor bean. It's like a biological warfare. It's neat. But the oil when it's extracted and cold pressed doesn't contain the component that kills you which is the ricin component. So yeah.Oh wait. Ricin?Yeah, that's from he castor bean.Yeah so ricin it kills you right? It kills your ear it like block your receptors. Oh! I had no idea.Oh yea it's potent neural toxin. Ricin comes from castor bean?Yeah. Castor bean yeah ricin comes from the castor bean. So so the castor oil though however does not contain that, but how castor oil actually like if you were to take a spoonful of castor oil to actually have a bowel movement. What ends up happening is it's not the people think that it's the ricin that makes you you know have explosive diarrhea. That's not the way it works. Castor oil stimulates nitric oxide production within the gut, nitric oxide production within the gut which nitric oxide of course is healing Of course, you know, that simulates paracel in it's a speak to me about it. About nitrous oxide.Oh, nitric oxide. That's that. So nitric oxide, the reason why I'm super interested into it and we know that that is the molecule that stimulates vascel dilation, which increases blood flow. And so we're real big in nitric oxide because we have been working with some sports medicine people without Antrantil, and I'm here once again, plug Atrantil, sponsor of the show. So what as it turns out the polyphenols in there, they actually have been shown to increase nitric oxide. So for sports recovery. And it decreases reactive nitrogen species reactive oxygen species so so we're so we're super big about nitric oxide.So and this is what one of the actions of castor oil does. And so which is which is amazing. And nitric oxide is also, you know, in other research, they're using it as antimicrobials. So there's some really neat, neat, neat research and they actually use it on catheters and such they'll they'll put nitric oxide on it in order to help reduce infection rates. Yeah, it there's that there's really neat, neat, neat information coming out with nitric oxide Of course, it's a you know, gasotransmitter of the digestive system as well too, but the nitric oxide is one of the mechanisms of action but there's also castor oil also stimulates PGE3 and it's it touches on to the receptors in the gut that create parasol cysts. So that's how it gets yourPGE3 is a smooth muscle receptor.A hundred percent exactly so so it creates a paracelsus and smooth muscle of the body if you take it orally, so in the digestive tract but then also in the uterus so that's why there's a contraindications so don't use castor oil if you're pregnant unless you are inducing a baby and you've been you know your midwife or someone has recommended to do that. Because castor oil will stimulate any sleep muscle in the body to go to the bathroom so uterus is the other smooth muscle of the body. So that's enough action to go to the bathroom. Then castor oil topically has been compared to capsaicin which is like hot red hot chili pepper, and red hot chili peppers are known as a very good anti inflammatory The only problem with it is it makes it red and a bit burning is called a rubefacient effect. It gets it gets really really red into the skin when you put... Rubefacient...Rubefacient yeah, right.That's a big word. I didn't learn that in medical school.No well hey...I love it.These canadian naturopaths are smart!So that reddening is uncomfortable for people right and then of course you know like think about it you get like chili pepper on your fingers or your hands what happens if you get a close your eyes it's like burn, so you don't want that but castor oil has the same effect in terms of like reducing edema, reducing the inflammatory markers and not and and not oh also reducing substance piece so your pain perception is reduced with castor oil topically and it's an amazing oil.So it does this topically but that you had a systemic effect. So how does that happen when you put soemthing on topically?So it has to do with the the triglyceride chains in the oil of castor oil. So castor oil is composed of mai

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Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! Week Three of Submissions September and the final episode of Agents Week!  For Part Three we got we spoke with three more agented authors to hear about their journey and experience in signing with their literary agent.  This time we’re chatting with AJ Hackwith, Jennifer Mace, and Nino Cipri who share stories, wisdom, and anecdotes about their paths to signing with a Literary Agent. You can (and should!) check them all out on Twitter, Instagram, and their website, all of which are linked below! In case you’re just joining us, this month is Submissions September on the We Make Books Podcast, we’re doing seven (7!) episodes this month all about the process of submitting your novel.  We have a lot of awesome discussions lined up and even some special guests.  Here’s what will be coming your way for the month: Week 1 (9/3/2019): Is This Ready For Other People to See?- Submitting Your Manuscript Week 2 (9/10/2019): My Entire Novel in Three Hundred Words - The Dreaded Query Letter Week 3 (9/17/2019): Agents of Literature, Part 1: An Interview with Literary Agent Caitlin McDonald               (9/18/2019): Agents of Literature, Part 2: Interviews with Agented Authors               (9/19/2019): Agents of Literature Part 3: Interviews with Agented Authors Week 4 (9/24/2019): What is Going On Over There? - The Other Side of the Submissions Process Week 5 (9/30/2019): Now I’m Even More Confused – Submissions September Q&A Episode We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves. 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Hackwith   Represented by Caitlin McDonald https://literallycait.tumblr.com/ of DMLA http://maassagency.com/   https://www.amandahackwith.com https://twitter.com/ajhackwith   The Library of the Unwritten https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608277/the-library-of-the-unwritten-by-a-j-hackwith/9781984806376/   ===     Jennifer Mace   Represented by Kurestin Armada https://twitter.com/kurestinarmada of PS Literary https://www.psliterary.com/   https://www.englishmace.com http://twitter.com/englishmace   https://www.englishmace.com/fiction/ http://betheserpent.podbean.com/   ===   Nino Cipri   Represented by DongWon Song http://www.dongwonsong.com/ of HMLA http://www.morhaimliterary.com/   https://ninocipri.com/ https://twitter.com/ninocipri   Homesick: https://www.dzancbooks.org/our-books/homesick   Finna: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250245724     Kaelyn:00:00   Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the, We Make Books Podcast, a show about writing, publishing, and everything in between. And when I say another, it's because this is the third one this week. Rekka:00:10   And I'm Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as RJ Theodore. Kaelyn:00:13   I think my name is just third episode. No, I am Kaelyn. I'm the acquisitions editor, Parvus Press. Why did we do this? Rekka:00:21   Hey, you know what? We're going to be so glad when it's done. Kaelyn:00:24   It is good because these were, these were great interviews. So this is the second episode, um, of interviews with. Rekka:00:29   Interviews with authors - Kaelyn:00:29   Interviews with agented authors. So, you know, first episode, if you missed that one, go back and take a listen to that. The, uh, September, Rekka:00:39   How should we even know? Kaelyn:00:39   [laughs] What day is it? Rekka:00:41   Is it September? Kaelyn:00:42   The September 17th episode. Rekka:00:43   Which was with Caitlin McDonald, the Agent. Kaelyn:00:46   Yes. Rekka:00:47   And then on the 18th, yesterday we spoke with Sam Hawk, Tyler Hayes, and Caitlin Starling. And today we are speaking with AJ Hackwith, Jennifer Mace, and Nino Cipri. Kaelyn:00:57   Yes. So, um, second episode of agented author interviews. Uh, you know, how they got them, what, Rekka:01:03   Yeah. Rounding out the experiences that we gathered of people who found agents and then those agents are helping them or have helped them find a home for their manuscript. Kaelyn:01:13   Yeah. And um, some good insights here. Yeah. I think in this set of interviews. So, um, we'll stop talking now because I don't know - Rekka:01:21   To talk. Kaelyn:01:23   Words. Um, so everyone, uh, we hope you enjoy and um, so next week will be the last episode of Submissions September and uh, we're going to be doing what is going on, on the other side of things. Rekka:01:35   Kaelyn's side. Kaelyn:01:35   My side. Rekka:01:36   Yes. Kaelyn:01:36   [laughs evily] You are in my realm now. Rekka:01:41   Well not now. Next week. Kaelyn:01:42   Next week. Yeah. Fair. All right. Well thanks everyone so much for listening and bearing with us through all of this. Enjoy the episode. Music:01:57   [music] AJ:       02:04   I'm Amanda. I write as AJ Hackworth. I have a contemporary fantasy coming out October 1st with Ace called The Library of the Unwritten, I tend to write about mythical stuff and gods and sarcastic and families and all that good kind of good staff. I also have two Scifi romances out as Ada Harper. Um, they both came out last year and the first one is a Conspiracy of Whispers. Rekka:02:29   Cool. And you are represented by an agent. Um, you want to say who and tell us, uh, how you found this agent and why you chose them. AJ:       02:40   Sure. I represented by Caitlin McDonald at the Donald Mass literary agency. I, I found Caitlin via tumbler. That's really what made me, made me reach out with her because she seemed to have a lot of the same interests in likes and fandom interests that I did. I so I thought that she would jive on my writing style and so I reached out to her, um, through the slush pile. Basically I just like queried her and was coming up through the slush. It kind of funny because she had my, full of my book, for 10 months, 11 months. It was a long process. I had actually like had like given up and thrown in the towel and it's never going to happen. And I had pitched the most ridiculous romance I could think of to a Karina Press. And then an offer from them came first, uh, just about the same. It's just about the same time that Caitlin was getting back to me about the full, I'm making an offer. So, uh, it was kind of a weird deal that the book that I queried her with, with not actually the first book that came out, but it's been fantastic. Rekka:03:44   Awesome. Very cool. Okay. When you interact with your agent versus, um, when you interact directly with the editor, with your publisher, um, how would you describe one versus the other and when do you go through Caitlin and when do you go through your editor? AJ:       04:02   I tend to go through Cait, went through Caitlin, whenever there's a disagreement, especially if it's one that's a delicate negotiations, delicate to navigate. Um, I like my relationship with the editor should, uh, is, should usually be in the positive and I cc Caitlin on everything. But if there's something that actually needs to be pushed back on or negotiated with, I definitely sometimes let Caitlin trace the language of that just so she has control of that navigation and I can just be the fun one. Rekka:04:35   She's the bad cop. That was one thing she said. So that's, it's good that you're, um, you're using all the tools you have correctly. It sounds like. AJ:       04:43   Well, you know that takes, that's something you have to learn too. Cause like when I first signed, when we were going through the first uh romances, I was more hesitant. I didn't want to bug my agent. Um, which is a common thing that new writers feel like, you know, you, it's a, it's a change in relationship. Cause when you're querying, you feel like you're trying to impress them and get them to like you and stuff. But then when you are, have signed with them, your business partners and that sometimes is a switch for a lot of writers that they are too hesitant to contact their agent when things come up. Um, and so it took a few times of Caitlin gently say, I should cc me on this. Let me, let me handle this. Um, before I understood, um, how before you look at her communication style and how to make that a real partnership. Rekka:05:28   Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Now. What about before, um, you had the book on contract to a publisher, um, editing, um, pitching, like getting the, the submissions ready. What was the process with your agent in that regard? AJ:       05:45   Um Caitlin's very nice editorial level. Um, for my, for my tastes, we did line edit, we did developmental edit and then a line edit, um, before we put it on submission. Um, and that was just about the right level for me. I think we got it in a really good place and she had, she, she had her, her touches on enough that I felt like, um, it was strong going out into submission. Um, and then when we'er on submission, you know, it's so important to know your communication style with the mission cause it's a nerve wracking process. And I like, you know, when we went on submission I asked Caitlin at the beginning of it is like, whether it's good news or bad news, I just want to update at least once a month. And it can just be a summary. I don't need the specifics because I wanted those people that the rejection language will stick in your brain forever. And you of course, you forget the good stuff people say. So that worked out really well as soon as she just, you know, gave me a monthly summary of where we were at in the process. Rekka:06:42   Okay, cool. So did you work together on um, putting the submission package together? Um, in terms of coming up with the language that you use to pitch the book to the editors? AJ:       06:54   It was pretty hands off. Caitlin came up with all of that. Um, we discussed just basically, um, she gave me a list of which houses she was going to approach in this round. Um, and and kind of the vague genre of how we're pitching this book. Um, you know, like, you know, contemporary, literary, smart commercial, all those different types. So we really had a basic discussion, but Caitlin really ran with it past that point, which is great. [laughs] This whole, you already had to query the book once.   Rekka:07:25   Right. You don't want to do it again. AJ:       07:26   Well, magic in itself, the whole submission process. So I'm glad to let an expert have the final say of those things. Rekka:07:33   Okay, great. So it sounds like you feel like you're in good hands. AJ:                   Yeah, it's been good. Rekka:07:38   Awesome. So if you were talking to, uh, an author who was looking for an agent, what are some tips that you would give that author as far as, uh, whatever part you feel like maybe people have misconceptions with before they get into it? Um, either with the querying, with finding the agent, with negotiating, et cetera. AJ:       08:01   I think querying, um, you just, you gotta be patient, it's a long, long process and um, there's some great guides out there. I think I found, you know, after I signed as agent was the area where there's not as much information and, and resources for people for how this should go and go. I think the biggest advice I would give is to start as you intend to go on, which you know, how you want to communicate and establish that early on with an agent. And if you're wondering whether you should email your agent about something or whether, whether it's okay to email them about something, the answer is yes. Rekka:08:37   Fantastic. There's that power balance. It must be difficult to say like, okay, now, like that power balance is more like we're partners in this now and the power struggle and that you feel when you're querying doesn't evaporate inside your head. AJ:       08:56   Yeah. And it was, it was really, it was, it was a, a tough transition, especially for me because we went right from signing her representation and to negotiating a contract for the romances. Um, so we didn't have that like getting to know you build up of, of um, the editorial process. I joke with Caitlin that I knew we, we broke the ice right away when like my second email to her was, uh, talking about fanfic tropes and how my book shouldn't like have any ref- You know, my joke is like when they're in my email included en-preg in the second email, you knew it was a [laughs] Rekka:09:32   Well that's awesome because I mean, so everyone knows the Caitlin is human now, but she promises us that all agents are, and it does sound like once you get past this strange like, um, professional dance that there is a chance to just like relax and get into the relationship and get to work. AJ:       09:51   Yeah, and I, and I think also one of the things I've seen with a bunch of my friends uh getting agents as well is that your relationship is going to be unique to that agent if you're not best buddies. And tweeting memes at your agent all day, that's okay too. Like, you know, I have a pretty, I mean Caitlin and I have a great relationship but we just keep it pretty professional. You know, I'm not tweeting her about, you know, whatever the Internet's on about current time. Um, whereas other other agents I know like our, our, like our, our much more, much more of a friendship relationship with their, their clients. And so it just depends on the agent and depends on the author. And there's no wrong way to have a relationship we've had with an agent as long as it's the right way for you, Rekka:10:36   For both sides to, yeah, definitely. Awesome. Well thank you so much. I really appreciate your time. And um, why don't you give us your pitch for The Library. AJ:       10:44   Sure. The Library of the Unwritten is the story of the Librarian of the Unwritten Wing, which is the library of all the books that were never quite written. All the stories that were never quite told and it happened to be located in hell Rekka:10:57   Exactly where they go when I failed to write that book. Right? AJ:       11:02   It can feel that way for the author that it's definitely a fantasy about, um, books and writers and readers and also about regret and what happens when your story fails to start. Rekka:11:14   Awesome. So everyone get out there and grab a copy. Thank you, Amanda for joining us today. And um, good luck with everything that you're working on. AJ:       11:24   Thank you very much. It's been great to be here. Macey:11:29   I'm Jennifer Maca. I go by Macy and I am a fantasy author, short story writer, poet and podcaster based out of the Pacific northwest. Despite my accent. Kaelyn:11:42   Wait, that's not what everyone sounds like up there? Macey:11:44   It absolutely is. This is what happens when you move to Seattle. This is the secret. They don't want you to know. Kaelyn:11:49   It's because of the coffee. Macey:11:49   And the rain, I feel. I feel like the rain, helps like really get you in character. Kaelyn:11:55   Gotcha. Well thank you so much for uh, taking some time to talk to us. Macey:12:01   So I'm represented by Kurestin Armada of PA Literary and I guess I have a somewhat normal journey to getting an agent. You know, I did actually query uh, I didn't have an agent descend from the sky and pluck me from Twitter, but I guess it kind of starts with, I went to a workshop called Viable Paradise in 2016 and that was kinda my first step along the road to trying to become a professional author. Right? I had all of these books that I'd been writing for years, but I didn't really know what to do with them. And so this is a workshop that's taught by a bunch of professional authors and editors. And while I was there, they talked about, you know, the query process and that really helped me get together what I wanted to say about my book. And so I actually decided to go out querying with the book that wasn't the one I brought to Viable Paradise because I had two books in my back pocket. And you know, who doesn't? Umm - Kaelyn:13:06   It's, it's very true. I, Macey:13:10   I accidentally did NaNoWriMo every year for eight years running before I decided to try to get published. Kaelyn:13:17   Wait, how does this one accidentally do NaNoWriMo? Macey:13:20   I mean, I kind of describe what I was writing. Like back then as I wasn't trying to write books, I was kind of just like textually role-playing. Kaelyn:13:28   Okay. Macey:13:29   Just I wanted to have adventures and makeup adventures to go on, you know? Kaelyn:13:34   Okay, Gotcha. So, okay. So you were actually just consistently doing this and then certain months you were accidentally falling - okay. All right. Macey::           13:43   Yeah, yeah. Kaelyn:13:44   That's, that's wonderful. I love it. Macey:13:47   I decided that I was going to start querying in sort of March, 2017 and I had won in an auction, a query critique with someone who used to be an agent. Yeah. It was super great. It was a Amy Boggs and she did really great work for me. But while I was waiting to hear back from her, it was actually Pit Mad. The Twitter contest. Kaelyn:14:09   Yes. Yes. I really love PitMad. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Macey:14:14   I have so many friends who got their agents that way or at least got one of their offers that way. PitMad is a Twitter like pitch contest where you tweet a very short summary of your book and kind of some hashtags about what genre it is an agents can go through and like the tweets that they want to hear more about. Kaelyn:14:34   Yeah. So it's just, yeah, it's great because it's, it's kind of, I always think of maybe a little bit of a more low pressure situation. It's kind of like, it's like a market almost where it's just like, Hey, I'm here. I got this thing. Macey:14:46   Right. Exactly. And, uh, one of my first was actually from Kursten. Kaelyn:14:53   Oh, okay. Macey:14:54   And she'd actually already been on my list of agents to query because I am an over researcher. And so I had a very detailed list of agents Kaelyn:15:03   Listen, as an acquisitions editor, I appreciate the over researchers. I love hearing like, Hey, I looked you guys up online and I saw you're interested in this. And I'm like, yes, yes. Somebody who who's paying attention, you know? Macey:15:15   And one of the things that I did end up doing, I queried 12 different agents after Kurestin had asked for my manuscript. Um, because you, you keep trying, right? You never know. These things take time. And every one of them I would look through their manuscript wishlist or look through their profile on their agency and make sure to tweak either, you know, which comp titles did I pick or what parts of my book did I highlight? Not In the plot pitch section, but in the like little blurbs section below that in your query letter. And that's where you can kind of do really subtle, um, personalizations Kaelyn:15:51   I don't know if it helped, but it sounds like it did. And if nothing else, it sounds like it didn't hurt. Macey:15:58   Right. So that was in March, Kurestin asked for the first 50 pages from PitMad and then a month later she asked for the full manuscript. And then I think in late July it was, she reached out and said, you know, let's talk, which is the email you are waiting for. And so we had a really great conversation and I followed up with all of the other agents who had had my full and I decided that no, Kurestin is really the one for me. Kaelyn:16:26   So what made you think that Kurestin was really the one for you? This is another thing that we're seeing when we're talking to everyone that they're like, and I just knew I - Macey:16:37   I'm a very analytical person. Um, so I can probably break it down. Kaelyn:16:42   Um, which by the way, you're going to see, you're one of the only authors I know is like, I have some statistics on this. I've given a lot of thought. There's a spreadsheet with a pivot table. And if you look at the corresponding data here. Macey:16:57   Yeah, no like seriously, um, I have so many spreadsheets with so many like cell formulas. I have an entire automated poetry tracking spreadsheet that moves things in and out of the available to sub column based on where they're submitted to and where they're not. Kaelyn:17:13   That's amazing. And I love it as a, as a big fan of excel myself. That is, Yup, that's phenomenal. Macey:17:21   But um for Kurestin, so one of the things for me, I sent out a total of 12 queries over six months and that's a little bit of a low number for some people. I was being very specific when I was researching about who I wanted to query and I was only querying people who represented fantasy and YA and both adult and why a fantasy and who specifically mentioned LGBTQ or queer or gay somewhere in their profile or their manuscript wishlist and that plus, you know, targeting agencies that had a reputation for selling books kind of cut my choices down a lot. But it meant that I was already kind of confident. So I had a fairly short list of agents and so all of them would be really great choices. But for me, Kurestin had a lot of really great editorial things to say about the particular book that I'd sent to her and really understood what I, where it was going. And we also had a conversation about like longer career plans. Did we want to be in this as business partners for the long term because it's not just about will they sign this one book, but do they want to be your career partner? Kaelyn:18:30   Right. Yeah. And that's, that's really important. And I think that's something that not everyone thinks about going into this is this is a business partner. This is a business relationship. And like you both have to be on the same page about what you're expecting out of it. Macey:18:45   Absolutely. And especially since the project that she signed me for, which was a queer, silky, YA novel, it didn't sell. And so now we're moving onto the next project, which I'm super excited about. But like I asked her on the call, what do we do if it doesn't sell? And she says, you know, we keep working and we try the next thing together. And so that was really great to find or have knowledge of an advance and then not be so scared that I was going to disappoint her. Kaelyn:19:14   Do you actually, I just kind of brought up an interesting, uh, the angle that I think author, you know, authors, you guys are so in your own head. Macey:19:23   Yup. Kaelyn:19:23   So some of the most lovely but some of the most anxious people. Macey:19:30   You are not wrong. Kaelyn:19:32   I have ever met, and um, one of the things that you know is the I the self rejection and I the the not good enough. And um, so yeah, disappointing your agent. That's a whole nother level of scary now. Macey:19:46   Isn't it? Kaelyn:19:48   Sp how'd you work through that? Where you've said like? Macey:19:51   Well, so, well one of the things that really great being with Kurestin is we built this kind of community amongst all of her clients called Kurestin's Armada because her last name is Amato and we are dweebs fantastic. And so I have this community of really supportive, amazing fellow clients and we have a little Alack together. And you know, once or twice a week, one of us will go in and be like, I fucked up. She's gonna hate me. And then we're like literally never going to happen. The rest of us know that Kurestin will never hate you, will never hate any of us and we'll fix it. Kurestin still not be mad. You should talk to her and she will help you. And just having someone else who actually knows her be like, no, no, it's fine. Really fix it. Kurestin fixes everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm uh, she, she has done nothing to deserve being saddled with us. Kaelyn:20:57   Well, it sounds like a lovely supportive community and an army nay an armada and the rest, as they say is history. You guys are still working on upcoming projects and you know, that's, that's great. Uh, you know, the ongoing relationship with an agent is so important. Macey:21:20   Right. Kaelyn:21:20   And I think a lot of people when they sign with one are just so excited right off the bat to have their literary agent. It's like, oh, right, I'm going to be with this person for a while. Probably. Macey:21:30   I think it's really hard to get past that initial kind of gut reaction that this is just a stamp of approval. You know, you have gained this status. Kaelyn:21:40   Yeah, it is. It's like, you know, you've completed this quest, here is your - Macey:21:46   Tada. Kaelyn:21:46   Yeah. Um, here is your agent badge to add to your, your book. Um, it's, it's Mewtwo at the end of Pokemon and, but no, because then it's like no, but then you actually have Mewtwo. Macey:22:00   Yeah. You've got to have a relationship with this person who is a human with styles of working with opinions and you need to understand that and not just jump at the first opportunity because it could be a bad one. Kaelyn:22:17   You know, that's so hard. If you're really wanting to get an agent to have to walk away from something and there's no good answer to it, you just kind of have to be aware is really, I think the only way to approach that. Macey:22:34   And I think for me, one of the things that I didn't realize at the time and so kind of lucked into, um, is we were talking a little earlier about how inside our heads authors get and how anxious and I think that in order to stick it out as a writer, you really need to get to know yourself and understand the things that make you more anxious and the things that sues you. And one of the things that's super important is that the communication style of your agent works for you, not against you. I have friends who have, uh, agents that they really, really love, who don't always answer emails and have to be poked with followup things to answer the email. And I'm like, it's great that that works for you. I would have a panic attack, but I would just need curled up in a ball. Like they hate me now Kaelyn:23:27   They're figuring out how to drop contract all together. This is it. Macey:23:34   And that's fine. It's, um, there is no one perfect agent. They're puzzle pieces. Right. Kaelyn:23:41   That's, that's a really good way to describe it. Yeah. And, um, you know, agents that I know and I talked to. I know even just like in my capacity as an editor, I always kind of go to the author and go, what works best for you? If you want to text me questions, that's, that's fine. If you prefer to have like, you know, regular scheduled meetings where we talk about that all at once and that's the only time you hear from me, that's, that's great too. Like I can be flexible. So let me know what works for you because if you're unhappy it's not, this isn't going to work well for anybody. Right. Um, you know, I, the last thing I want to do is be a source of anxiety in your life, right? Yeah, exactly. Macey:24:26   Righ, I have enough of those. Kaelyn:24:27   Exactly. So tell us something, either you wish you had known, you wish other people knew, something you're surprised by about either the process or once you have an agent. Macey:24:37   Hmm. I mean, I think the big one is the communication styles. I have seen agent breakups that have been in large part caused or worsened by that by just a mismatch and just how important it is to understand your own needs before you try to make the sort of commitment. I mean it's not a marriage, but it's a longterm partnership contract. You know what I mean? Kaelyn:25:03   In some cases it's harder to get out of than a marriage. Macey:25:07   Yeah. I mean things get really tangled up once you've sold your money will be coming through that agent forever for that book. Yep. Um, it doesn't have to go away. Kaelyn:25:16   You know what, that's a good point that, uh, I think maybe again, something you don't think about. If you signed a contract for selling your book through an agent and then you and that agent go there, set your separate ways, your money still goes through that agent. Yeah. Does forever. Yup. Because even though you're no longer working with that person, they are technically still your business partner for that particular deal. Yeah. Macey:25:42   They are 15% or whatever their fee is. Kaelyn:25:46   Exactly. Yeah. That's, that's a very good thing to mention. Um, communication style. Yeah. Is very, very important for so many people. And again, I think like you just, when you get the call and you're like, oh my gosh, somebody wants me. Um, Macey:26:04   And I think the other thing is when you're getting those calls and making your decisions, you are setting a pattern for yourself in how you work with that person. And you need to think about setting up a pattern that's going to keep working for you. You need to not be scared to email your agent, right? And that can start early, you know? Um, I pester my agent on Twitter sometimes and gently troll her by suggesting I'm going to write a new book where the entire plot is one Flovence and the Machine's song. Kaelyn:26:37   Um, I mean, you're going to do that though, right? Macey:26:40   Maybe. But then she's like, Macy, that's not what plot means. I'm like, I, I'll fix it later. Kaelyn:26:45   You have some stuff you have to tell us about coming up with you and your life. You're headed to Ireland. Macey:26:52   Yes. My podcast is a finalist for Best Fan Cast at the Hugo's Be The Serpent. And so that's exciting and scary and awesome. Kaelyn:27:01   That's amazing and wonderful and just the greatest thing. Macey:27:05   Yeah, I'm honestly like we, you were completely gobsmacked and amazed just to be on the list and I'm so happy with how many new people have been brought in just to hear a few episodes of the podcast and hopefully stick with us cause I'm really fond of what we do. Kaelyn:27:21   Yeah. So do you want to tell everyone a little bit about like what the podcast is? Macey:27:24   Sure. Kaelyn:27:25   Why it's so awesome. Macey:27:27   It's called Be The Serpent and it is a podcast where three redheaded fantasy authors dissect tropes and patterns and themes in media, in literature, and in fan fiction. Kaelyn:27:40   Do you want to hear three people that just genuinely love and enjoy each other's company. Macey:27:46   And make a lot of dick jokes together. Kaelyn:27:48   And that absolutely that. Come for the friendship - . Macey:27:55   And there's one other thing that's coming up. Myself, Janeen Southard and Danielle Wexler are putting together a Kickstarter, which hopefully should be out in October sometime to fund an anthology of queer ff stories about swords, women and their princess lieges. Kaelyn:28:14   It's going to be amazing. I'm so excited when it was funny because of Rekka had mentioned like, oh, and you have to make sure to remind Macy about the Kickstarter. And so I was like, and hey, tell me about this Kickstarter. Like, oh well it's a ways off still, but here's what it is. And I was like, this is going to be awesome. Macey:28:33   It's going to be so cool. We have so much awesome artwork lined up for people as rewards and stretch goals. And one of our first stretch goals is to hopefully open slush so we can have open call and lots of people can send us their amazing weapons sapphic stories and I can't wait to read all of them Kaelyn:28:54   It's going to be fantastic. A project doesn't, doesn't have a title yet. Macey:28:58   Nope, but we've got some really cool people attached. Um, like Alliette Bardard, Kelly Robson, JY Yang. Kaelyn:29:04   Oh, awesome. That's, that's so great. So, um, yeah, where the Kickstarter is not up yet. There isn't a title yet, but when there is, we'll be sure to put in the show notes and uh, you know, hopefully, you know, you'll have something, you know, we can have put out on Twitter to the masses because that just, it sounds like it's going to be amazing. So, um, okay, well thank you so much for taking the time. Talk to us. Where can people find you? Macey:29:28   I have a website which is EnglishMace.com and I'm on Twitter @EnglishMace and the podcast is Be The Serpent on Podbean, on iTunes, on Google play or wherever you get podcasts. Thank you so much for bringing me. Nino:   29:43   I'm Nino Cipri. Um, I'm a queer and Trans Writer. I've written all kinds of different things, mostly focusing on fiction. Um, I have written screenplays, essays, um, so many angry emails, so many, uh, I have two books that are coming out in the next year. Um, my first collection of short stories is coming out in October. It's called homesick. I'm very excited about that. And then in February, I have haven't developed coming out with Tor.com that's called Finna. I write in a bunch of different genres. The like kind of main main through line is that a lot of my stories have like, they're kind of funny. They have a lot of feelings and they're pretty queer. Um, but I've written like horror, I've written science fiction, I've written like fantasy. I actually wrote a story that's like almost entirely like non genre. There's no spec- the only speculative is that there's like 3 million old or 3 million year old fossils of like intelligent weasels and that's it. Rekka:30:47   That's all you need. Nino:   30:48   That's all I needed. Rekka:30:50   Okay. So with that list of, um, of writing styles and subject matter and genre, um, who was in charge of wrangling your writing career? Nino:   30:59   Uh, I like that wrangling. Um, I am represented by DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Agency. Rekka:31:06   And how did you come to choose DongWon? So I actually had kind of a weird journey towards that. I wasn't planning on getting an agent until I had a novel finished, um, which I didn't actually. Um, but in sometime early in the fall, I decided kind of on a whim to enter a contest, uh, like, um, uh, what was it? It was like a short story collection contest with a small press called Dezink. Um, and I had no, like thought that I would win it and then I did and I was shocked and like appalled and I was like, what do you need? Nino:   31:40   Um, but then I had a book deal and then I needed an agent. Um, so I turned as so many millennials do to my friends. Um, and I called a bunch of different people that I knew that all had different agents that I was like, I had been kind of eyeballing them for like, okay, when I start going out and query, I'm going to, I'm going to contact these people. Um, but the fact that I had a book deal like in hand and I needed to sign a contract at some point very soon or reject it, um, kind of sped the process up a lot. So I think I ended up, I talked to a bunch of different friends. I came up with a list of I think like four people who all represented like other writers that I knew pretty well. Um, I asked those friends a lot of questions about like, what the like relationship was like, kind of like exactly like what you're doing. Nino:   32:31   Um, and then ask those friends if they would be willing to, you know, with their agent's permission, like write me a letter of introduction. Um, and I think three of the people, like three of the agents were like, yeah, sure, just like have them email me. Um, and I, one was one of them. I talked to JY Young, um, who is fabulous and awesome and I don't, I don't really know their faces right now because I'm sure everybody knows. Rekka:32:59   Yeah. Nino:   32:59   So it actually ended up coming down to, cause I was talking with a couple of other agents, um, I had to, I got two offers and then ended up going with DongWon. Um, and then almost immediately after like got another book deals. So I feel like I kind of like prove my worth, like, technically? Rekka:33:15   Well no regrets. Right? Nino:   33:18   Yeah. Rekka:33:20   So, um, that's an interesting way to come about having an agent is having the contract first. Um, yeah, which is funny because we think about like the, the power dynamic between the author who is querying and the agent who must, you know, judge and, and accept or, or you know, there's several stages of acceptance with the agent and um, it feels like you kind of get to skip ahead in line a little bit because like, um, not only do you have a book deal, but you also have a little bit of a time pressure that you can leverage to say like, Hey, um, there's a bit of a of a time crunch on this. Could you just let me know real quick? So did, um, so normally when an agent replies to a query, they are requesting a full or a partial or, or some, um, step forward from whatever has been queried. So what were you querying with and what was the next step from there? Nino:   34:15   Like what I sent to DongWon, like the other agents that I was talking to, I sent them like the manuscript for the, um, for the short story collection. Okay. And just be like, this is what is getting published. I think I sent them the contract that was on offer as well. Um, and then I also sent them like, I think the first 10 pages of the novel in progress that I had, which was a young adult horror novel. Um, and it was just like, this is not finished. Just so you know, like just when I tried to be like very, very transparent with that. Like, here's what I've got, here's the first chapter of it, or like the first half of the first chapter. Um, so you can get like an idea of like what I'm, what I'm working on next. Okay. And then I am working on something. Rekka:34:59   And so the contract was an offer for that future novel? Is that what it was or is it the contract for the short story? Nino:   35:05   The contract was for the short story. Rekka:35:06   Okay. Gotcha. Okay. So now you have an agent, you already have a contract, you've already sold a short story. Um, so the agent and you, I'm sorry DongWon and you began to work on that novel together. Is that what the next step is? Nino:   35:22   I should mentioned that all of this was happening when I was in my last year of an MFA program. Yeah. This was, it was like the last six months of it. Rekka:35:30   Okay. Nino:   35:32   So there was like a bunch of different things going on. Um, so on the heels of this offer for the short story collection, um, the novella that was in there was originally in that short story collection. Um, I had also submitted to Tor and Tor.com like novella submission window. Rekka:35:49   Right. Nino:   35:49   Um, and which was like, I double check to make sure that I could do simultaneous submissions and I did. Um, but the thing that people say might happen but never ever will actually happen, happened to me where like I had the offer and I had withdrawn it, um, from Tor immediately. And then like Carl Anglay was just like, I want that. Nino:   36:14   Yeah. So he ended up calling DongWon, DongWon called me. We both called my publisher at the, at Dezink. Just be like, um, so this awkward thing is happening. Yeah. Um, so that was the next thing we actually started working on was something else that like was already the kind of like fell into our lap. Um, which was really nice. And so now, um, like all of that had to be kind of like taken care of. I edited, finished up. Um, so now I'm trying to finish up like revisions on my novel. Um, I finished the first draft. I think this was also my like masters thesis. So I finished the first draft sometime in April I think, and then sends it on to him and like we made a revision plan and yeah, that's what we're working on now. Rekka:37:01   Okay. Alright. So the novels that you have, the books, um, I didn't catch the length that you have coming out in the future. Are these different? Nino:   37:11   Yeah, the short story collection, one novella. And I'm trying to work on a novel and like also there's like a screenplay that's like way over there that I think I was just going to be like, can you just make it fiction? Rekka:37:23   So, um, how is working with DongWon on your novel versus working on the contracts and all the business like communications. Nino:   37:32   So with the other two manuscripts, he was fairly hands off. Um, when we were talking about like, uh, trying to like maneuver one Novella into Tor's hands and then like another novella to this to, to Dezank. Um, he read the like replacement novella cause I was like, you know, this is a pretty rough draft. I didn't, you know, it needs another couple of revisions for sure. Do you want to read it and let me know what you think of it? Like here's my thoughts about it. Um, so he gave me like, he was mostly just like, yeah, I think I agree with basically everything that you, you know, all of your instincts on what through revise are good in my opinion. Um, but he also knew that like, uh, the editor at design would have like a lot more, um, specific feedback. Nino:   38:19   So he was like, here's like the kind of like big picture stuff that I think too you need to work on. Um, the novella, like, because it was already thought, like he was just like, you know, didn't really have any, anything to really say about that one I don't think cause you knew like Carl would be Carl Anglered at Tor would have, you know, his own feedback that he would want implemented. Um, with the novel. He read it and he like, we met for drinks and he was like, okay, we've got like basically one of four ways that you can revise this. Like, and was really good at just trying to figure out first like, what was my vision of this book? Like what did I actually think this was about? And ones that I want it to be. Um, you know, he's like, is this an adult horror novel? Is this young adult or is this about trauma? Um, and it was like we figured out there's like, we like what it was and then how to get it closer to that. Rekka:39:11   Okay, great. So that was all over drinks. You just like hashed it out in person? Nino:   39:15   Pretty much. Yeah. I mean, I, and he said that because he said he wanted to do that because he could tell like there was different directions that it could be, it could go, um, like, and that is easier to figure out in person rather than like over email. Sure. And you don't really appreciate cause yeah, yeah. Email him that. Rekka:39:35   Well plus the back and forth, the time lag and then trying to phrase things correctly without the context of facial expression and volume and enthusiasm is, is different. Okay. Nino:   39:47   When I first signed with him, I was living in Kansas. I'm attempting to move to New York. I have, I'm trying to find a job here. Rekka:39:54   Oh, okay. Nino:   39:55   - permanently, but yeah. Um, even before my partner Nibs lives here, so I was here pretty regularly, like every, I've maybe every other month. Rekka:40:04   Okay. So it wasn't, it wasn't out of your way. It wasn't like come to this expensive conference and then we'll meet and have this, have this meeting. So that's good. Awesome. How often would you say you check in with DongWon? Nino:   40:17   Hmm. He's good at like telling me the things that I need to know. But he also, I think respects the fact that I'm like, you know, we're both very busy people. I'm trying to find a job. He has a bunch of, he's got like several other clients and travels a lot. Yeah. Um, we check in like fairly regularly. I would say like maybe once a month, twice a month, something like that. And he'll send me updates on things like, you know, oh, there was film interest in this thing. Um, I'm just going to let you know. And also here's what you should maybe expect out of that. Which of course was not much, but it's nice. Consider it a complement. Rekka:40:54   Yeah, definitely. Definitely. So if someone you knew was in your position where you were after you won this contest or, um, in the position of somebody who hadn't won anything for, um, their writing yet, but was looking for an agent to represent their work, would you have any tips for that person, what they could expect or what, what you would recommend they do? Nino:   41:15   So in this, I would say like definitely if you have a community like if you know other writers like talk to them about their agents, talk to them about, um, like what are the reasons like that I signed with them. Like what were their expectations going in versus what, um, you, they've learned since then. Like what the reality actually is. Um, and like I and I, I actually have like talked to some people like who are going out, like starting to query it and I'm just like, you should absolutely do what I did. Absolutely. Get your friends for at you like introduction. Rekka:41:49   Yeah. Nino:   41:50   Your friends are willing to and their agents are okay with it. Like right there. Right. Get them to write you introductions. Like, I feel like anything that can kind of like put you a little bit ahead is helpful. Um, and I don't think it's like breaking the rules at least as far as I know. Maybe there are rules, but like, like nobody told me that when I was starting. Rekka:42:10   So, so your tip is, um, no, no rules and just go forward. Nino:   42:15   Well, and I think too, like agents, especially ones that are trying to find like build their client base are really good at like trying to make themselves accessible in various ways with DongWon, like I know that he's really active and like going to cons and like, um, talking to new writers and doing all of these things. So if that opportunity presents itself to like talk to an agent, then yeah, absolutely. Do that. Like go to go to a conference or a convention if that's something that's available to you. Rekka:42:43   Awesome. All right, cool. So community basically is, is the center of the universe for making this happen? Nino:   42:49   That is absolutely, yeah. That's like the, all the advice I ever have about writing comes down to just like just to build, build better in larger communities. Rekka:42:57   Awesome. Nino:   42:58   Yeah. Hunger communities. Rekka:42:59   Yes. 100%. All right. So um, you'll give us the names of the two books before. Just remind us before we let you go. Nino:   43:08   Okay. Yeah, so in October the my short story collection Homesick is going to be released from Dzanc Books. You can preorder it now. Yes, you can absolutely preorder it now. Um, and then Finna, which is a novella is going to be up from tour.com in February. Rekka:43:25   Okay, great. And we will include links to that in our show notes and thank you so much for your time and we really appreciate you coming on and sharing your experience. Cause like you said, learning from your friends, learning from others in the writing community is, is like such a great resource. Nino:   43:38   It is. It is. Oh God. Yeah. I would not be anywhere without my friends. Rekka:43:42   Absolutely. Awesome. Well thank you so much. I really appreciate your time. Nino:   43:46   Thanks you too. Rekka:44:04   Thanks everyone for joining us for another episode of we make books. 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As major influencers continually advocate for a godless lifestyle, Christians are constantly put on the defensive. The latest comes as the Democratic Party issued a resolution in which they embrace godless values. Listen as host Stephen Strang issues a call to action for believers in our country and in both major political parties to stand up for godly values in this battle of right vs. wrong.

#podcast #History #fuckthepoliceThe HPR CHRONICLES With Shakur & SmithA podcast about History, Politics and Race from a pop cultures perspective. We're about truth, if truth offends you we're sorry not sorry!Information based on Facts only not opinions. We're not pro any particular race just pro truth!Episode 16:  F%#k The Police, but Not all of them, do you know your rights?Full ShowIn this episode Shakur and Smith discuss knowing your rights when stopped by the police. Best time to visit Berlin:https://travel.usnews.com/Berlin_Germany/When_To_Visit/Imani Shakur IG: @DirectorImaniShakurChristopher Smith IG: @Tech1CSEmail us: RPTalkTruth@gmail.comDON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE!KEY WORDS:HistoryPoliticsRaceImani ShakurChristopher SmithThe HPR Chronicles PodcastPodcastCategoryEducation

How did the ancient Gnostics create such personal but transcendental texts? How did they write their own gospels that infuriated orthodoxy? We find out by intimately understanding the process of how a modern poet engaged the Gnostic template to write his own gospel. The result was his soul delving deep into the collective unconscious and high into daemonic realms. Ultimately, he experienced his version of Sophia and the Logos. Our discovery leads to insights on leveraging Gnosis in modern times, including novel approaches to the concepts of evil, free will, ego, and overcoming fear. We also discuss overlooked Gnostic movies like Conan the Barbarian! Astral Guest – Armunn Righ author of the Gospel of the Living and creator of the Armunn Righ YouTube channel. This is a partial show for nonmembers. For the second half of the interview, please become a member: http://thegodabovegod.com/members/subscription-levels/   or patron at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aeonbyte Got his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvaC9mCDhii4t3fxLkyHqQQhttp://www.kevinkiely.net/ Get Armunn’s book: https://thegodabovegod.com/the-gospel-of-the-living/

"Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." This sermon about the transfiguration of Jesus, and Peter's reaction, was preached on March 3, 2019, The Transfiguration of Our Lord, by the Rev. Jeff VanOsdol at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Simpsonville, SC. The sermon text is Luke 9:28-36. Connect with Immanuel at https://www.immanuellutheranchurch.com/.

This is kind of a new beginning for RSR. Greg and Wayne invite Troy Norr, who portrays vocalist K.K. Fosser in the band THEM, on the show. They discuss the Manowar Karl Logan situation, Kiss' "final tour", favorite new bands and Troys start in the music business all the way to the new THEM album Manor Of The Seven Gables. Song at the end of the show is "Circuitous" off of the THEM album Manor of the Seven Gables.Buy the new THEM album Manor Of The Seven Gables at https://them6.bandcamp.com/ or on Amazon. Available as CD, Digital, or double Vinyl with CD.Join the Rat Salad Review Facebook Group at www.facebook.com/groups/ratsaladreview also on Twitter @Rat_reviewYou can also watch this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8zlmm15UMo or any past episodes on Youtube, just search Rat Salad ReviewPlease like and subscribe

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It's a very important truth of our Faith; important enough for the Apostle's Creed: "and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty." But what does it really mean? And how do we apply it? Oh, there's wonderful good news in the answer to those questions. Let's take a look... Ephesians 1: 19-20 Message by Pastor Rod Schorr, Calvary Chapel Old Towne, Orange, CA From the series on Ephesians: Good News for a Rebel Planet (Music by Pastor Holland Davis and the Calvary Chapel San Clemente Worship Team)

"My motto is walk tall, be proud."

WOW: Women of Worship Conference 2014 // Session 2 - Message // Kalyn Robinson digs into the concepts of identity, value and strength by highlighting the relationship between intimacy with God and doing the Word. We are created to intimately know God! We study how the ambiguous idea of "knowing God" is a relationship that can be obtained through practical engagement and tangible intimacy.

WOW: Women of Worship Conference 2014 // Session 2 - Message // Kalyn Robinson digs into the concepts of identity, value and strength by highlighting the relationship between intimacy with God and doing the Word. We are created to intimately know God! We study how the ambiguous idea of "knowing God" is a relationship that can be obtained through practical engagement and tangible intimacy.

Welcome to 2013! Righ, so here it is. The first podcast of the brand-new year proper. We talk about all the news that happen over the festive break and what we've been up to (to be honest, it's mainly been drinking and playing Far Cry 3). IGN UK Podcast #168: Giving Sea Turtles Some – 51.5 MB (right click to save) Subscribe to IGN's Podcast Series

Bryn Williams teaches on Ephesians 4:17-25. Download the Mp3(Right click 'save as')Download the Powerpoint slides(Righ click 'save as')