Season 6 Finale: Celebrating Our Guests and Top Takeaways

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Personal sexy zoom voice

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yeah no i'm telling you you definitely should

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look into voiceover acting i need

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to connect to our listeners yeah dirty skittles needs a connection to voiceover

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acting the perfect way to get out of her shitty job i need like uh like one-liners

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to read like audition this is my auditioning tape,

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Can we just pull a line out of one of your spicy books?

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Somebody else would have to pull the line. Because if you give it to me,

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I immediately want the most horrible.

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Like, you know, not horrible. That's good, depending on if you like that sort of thing.

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This morning, this season is not PG. So yeah, yesterday I realized that I need an assistant.

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So we had some scheduling conflicts. and

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this all came about during my day job right

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where i also had some conflicts going on and

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both of them yeah both of them

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needed my attention like right away so i

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had to flip a coin and figure out which one i

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was going to work on at that very moment

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i realized that i need an assistant somebody that

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can handle that stuff during the day when i can't really

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get to it because i still work right i i have

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a day job but like stuff with a podcast is

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also important especially now because we have

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zero spots left for 2024 like zero

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yeah how crazy is that and it's may and it's may and like how the fuck this

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happened is beyond me but i think the other cool thing that happened this week

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too is that we hit 400 000 downloads and incredibly humbling excuse me while

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i have a panic attack. I'm just kidding.

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I literally, you know what? I'm in a healthy state of delusion.

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I'm like, nobody's listening. Although I was talking to a coworker.

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We won't say her name there, but I'm pretty sure she probably reached out and told you the story.

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Talking to a coworker and I've literally, this is how I blacked out shit that makes me nervous.

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But I swore she said she was somewhere listening to it.

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And just a complete stranger was like, oh my God, I love that podcast.

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And she told me that and I was like, oh, I gotta go. It's like Microsoft Teams

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just did something wrong. Hang up.

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Oh, it fucked me up for the day. I know it fucked you up, but like,

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does it fuck you up like in a humbling way or?

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I think you and I have briefly talked about this, probably not while we're recording,

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where it's like, it's one thing.

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Okay, this is completely a me, you thing. it's one

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thing for me to encourage your story

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right like I'm like this is important she's got a lot

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to say like this is wonderful blah blah blah and like I'm like yes do

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it girl do it like I'm cheering you on but then

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when you hear from other people that hey someone

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so really likes your podcast or a complete stranger is like hey that

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podcast is great I'm like oh yeah people

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are actually listening I'm like this is actually helping somebody

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and it freaks me out freaks me

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out because I'm like oh yeah like I become very self-aware

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like what am I saying like what am I putting out there people listening

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like it's kind of trippy and that's kind of like why I

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don't tell you anymore when a new article goes out or like she can't or anything

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like that because I'm afraid to poke the bear that will go into a full-on panic

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attack so what I do is I just put them into like bundles and then I like send

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you a text I'm like hey listen we got like three new articles can you

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go read these yeah after you've

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maybe taken a gummy right shit maybe

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not so that i might get more into my head who knows we'll have to test it out

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do you let's do a quick intro and then we can dig in you ready let's go i'm

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gonna do the intro because i am all in and you're ready you should just roll

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today bro i'm just here okay i don't know what i'm doing.

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Music.

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Three two one one welcome

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back to another episode of shit that goes on our

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heads today it's just dirty skittles and i and we

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are going to recap season six how the fuck did that happen i don't know i honestly

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i don't know it was just yesterday we recorded the very first one that we never

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aired remember right we recorded it we listened to it back and you were like no i needed a mic,

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you're like i need a mic let's try that again and then

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we tried to recreate it and it just wasn't the same it wasn't

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and this i think we laughed a bunch and this

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was all started because of some fucked up story you and i were telling each

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other like hey we should record a podcast okay a month later we dropped our

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first episode and now we're in season six and we're all the way up to almost 70 episodes. I know.

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That's fucking crazy. It's fucking crazy. But I love it. And I love our Saturdays together.

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And I love meeting all these new amazing guests.

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Yeah. And the whole...

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Sorry to interrupt. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say

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just how grateful and how cool it is that people are like, we want to record with y'all.

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Yeah. And like, people are willing to wait. We are completely booked for 2024.

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It's crazy. It's wild. And every day, I get at least four emails of people that

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want to get on the podcast.

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So starting mid-July, we are going to stop doing pre-recordings because we will

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have enough content to take us into February.

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But i will start the recordings again sometime in late october and because there

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are people waiting to to talk to us and i'm like we're a little booked right

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now but we still want to talk to you,

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and you can sign up for the newsletter to kind of see where we're at what's

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going on in our lives and over the last couple weeks i've had about 10 new subscribers

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to our newsletter wow Oh, that's really cool.

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How does it feel for you? Because this was not only just like a joke amongst

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friends, but you for sure came out of a dark place.

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You're much better now and you're sharing your story.

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So like, how does this feel for you? It's very surreal.

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So surreal. And like never in a million fucking years than I think that I would

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be doing a podcast, let alone sharing my story.

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But it's so fucking healing for me.

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I'm so thankful to be alive. Every single day, I'm so thankful to be here and

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to be inspiring and to get other people to share their journeys and make people

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feel less terrified about their own shit they're going through because it's

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scary. Depression sucks.

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And I think, well, I know that we're making a difference.

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Like your story, right? Somebody said that they love our podcast.

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A complete stranger, you know, because when we started this,

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it was just friends and family.

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And now we have best-selling authors we have

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morning show hosts we have you know

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people from all walks of life and the

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fact that we ended up having to get a pr firm because i just couldn't do all

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this shit myself i mean i tried i did really good for almost a year you did

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so good not really good i think we are here because of your effort and the work that you put in i love

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doing this like when recording saturday comes

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up i get so excited i went to bed at 10

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o'clock last night i never go to bed just so you're

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fresh and ready to go

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and you know i get to do this with my best friend and not everybody gets to

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do this and you know people say to me all the time that we just really land

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well and that you know you ask those really hard questions and And then I come

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back sometimes with a snarky answer.

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Maybe not, but it's so healing.

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And when I'm done recording on Saturdays, like I'm at an 11 because I just feel

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like I've learned something new,

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a new tip, a new technique and how people got out of some of the darkest places

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in their life to get to someplace better.

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And you know i just want to give people hope because life

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really is better on the other side of depression yeah i

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know and there you go gonna make

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me cry again because i feel oh my gosh what are we

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in what 10 minutes in yeah you're i

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got a little tear in my eye because of you but yeah i

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you know i want to give a shout out to our family because we

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you know we spend a lot lot of time on the

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podcast i took away some of the responsibilities from dirty

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skills so she can you know spend time with her son

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and work at her not so

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fantastic job but i love it and you know i'm in a point in my life where i get

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to not only work at my dream job like i get to follow my passion also and it's

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funny my wife lisa the lesbian she's like i've never seen you work so hard on

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something you don't get paid for.

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And, you know, that truly has been our mission since day one is that, you know.

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I am so passionate about this and we're both really good at this.

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Not to, you know, throw an ego blast out there, but we're really good.

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And we bring out like, we bring out like the best in all of our guests.

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And, you know, Heather reached out to me the other day and she's like,

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I listened to Jackie's episode.

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I was just, I loved it. and every episode

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that we have they all have something awesome

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to say about what we're doing and how we're helping other

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people so yeah dr jackie

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dr jackie she was awesome so cool

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for me because i remember literally like

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yesterday i'm up in our kitchen and i'm

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reading up on the guests so that i can kind

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of you know not necessarily plan out the questions but like know

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what direction to go into and i remember reading about dr

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jackie and thinking whoa this is

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there's a lot here right like her story

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her history i never in

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a million years would think that i would have the opportunity to talk to somebody

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like that it was just intense and but awesome and that's the awesome part about

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this it's like think about all those amazing people we've gotten to speak with

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that in our normal day-to-day life,

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we probably would never run into.

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Right. That to me is like the coolest part of our podcast.

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And I think what's really cool, not necessarily just about Dr.

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Jackie, but I remember in that episode, I'm learning, I'm seeing,

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like we get to see the people for who they are today, right?

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And then we get to hear about how, what their past was like.

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And so even such a, I mean, I would say intense pass for her parents and look at her now.

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She's so put together and she's not a victim of whatever happened, right?

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Like she is this beautiful, wonderful person.

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I just think that's so cool because it's not just her. It's like every guest

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we see and we get to talk to.

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We get like, almost like a, what do I want to say? Like we're going back to the future, right?

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Like, we see you today, but we're going back and learning your story. Like, it's crazy.

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And that, to me, is really cool.

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And getting a sense of everything that they've been through and teaching us new lessons.

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I really depend on you to write stuff down because when I'm recording,

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I'm in the moment and I can't do two things at once. I've tried.

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I'm 60 now. It's a lot harder to do at 16 and

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it probably was at like 45 i've got like

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blinders on i'm like i just need to focus on this

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one task i think i

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have a little bit of late stage adhd i'm not sure like i'll be working on podcast

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stuff and then i'll remember that there was something else that you know at

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least the lesbian asked me to do and i'm like oh just gotta go on hold at least

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you remember that she She asked you to do something. Only because I wrote it down.

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Okay, well, can you write and stuff down? I use my phone, so I text myself a

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message of stuff that I'm supposed to do. Otherwise, I forget.

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So besides Dr. Jackie, we also had Barb. Barb and Carmel.

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Love Barb and Carmel. I'm so proud of her.

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She's been winning a bunch of literary awards for her books.

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And really getting out there and showing people that therapy animals are so

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important. Not just for kids, but for adults, you know, people in senior homes,

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you know, they're just, pets are comforting.

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And as much as my eight asshole cats, you know, are little assholes, I still love them.

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And like when I'm around them, I feel they give me a sense of calm.

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And I will say something about Dr. Barb. She comments on every single post we put on Instagram.

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Every single post. she's like our biggest

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cheerleader i love that so quick uh side

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mission eight cats eight tell the

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listeners who your favorite cat is okay don't

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say you can't pick don't say so my favorite is

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momo she is our blind cat and she

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is the most resilient cat ever she's

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cute she can't see anything she uses

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her senses to get around and she's just

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soft so soft but i try not

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to pet her because that girl so the

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reason she smells like dryer sheets all the time is

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because she likes to roll around in the fucking litter box okay

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listen girl go clean your shit okay

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don't roll on me let me go

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take eight thousands or ten d when i'm

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done petting you please oh so that's

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like torture a soft animal you can't pet she's resilient

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and so are you maybe i'll just get a stuff

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version of her like mobo i was sorry side mission we're back i was thinking

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of barbie the other day because my son is learning math he loves math by the

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way completely unlike his mom so i'm like yes let's encourage this but we were

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trying to work through a math problem and we.

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Have a dog and he came

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over his name is mayor he was

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named mayor because isle is obsessed with john mayor

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shout out to john mayor i'm not

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obsessed with you but other people are anyhow so we're

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were trying to teach him math using mayor and

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it was like he couldn't be more focused and

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i remember that being one of the things that barb talked about in her episode

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and i just was like oh i i thought it was cool that i can think back on on her

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yeah in my life yeah like she was she's so passionate about the therapy animal program and.

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Just really out there and she's an educator too herself and

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just you know bringing all that together so that

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people have a better understanding of how the process

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works how it can really help children especially you know i think she said it

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was like second graders you know helping them ease their fears and their tensions

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and anxiety and just getting into the moment and so i really love

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that and then we had bob the episode

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where you and i laughed so hard our face hurt after and then we had to like

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record like two more sessions after that i have never had a deeper conversation

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about crickets in my entire life versions.

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You know what though bizzle i think

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finally listened to it to that episode because at

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night like two or three nights ago he

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kept laughing about crooked legs being stuck

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in your teeth he had a couple of gummies but he

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couldn't stop laughing and i'm like where is this coming

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from then i remember bob and i

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i love that you know he was able to overcome some of

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his aversions so that you know he could have kids and you know i don't think

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that's why but so that he could have kids so that he could have kids and so

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that he could like enjoy life and you know it just as an adult you know life

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sucks anyway but having those fears and those aversions and.

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And just making it through. And I really think that laughter is one of his coping

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mechanisms because I have never laughed so hard for an entire hour.

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I mean, I've laughed with you, but I had tears rolling down my eyes,

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down my cheeks, because he would not stop.

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It was just like, I'm like, I'm going to die of laughter.

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Literally. Yeah. I remember texting you after that one saying my face hurts

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just from smiling through that whole episode and laughing through the whole

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thing. Yeah, he was, it was wonderful.

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It was wonderful. And I like that, like, I could relate to his story, right?

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Like, sometimes we think that, yeah, maybe there's something weird about this,

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but you don't really know, right?

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Like, you don't know. And then when somebody points it out, you're like,

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oh, yeah, I guess maybe that's not normal.

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And I can relate to that. Maybe what I'm saying is a bad thing.

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I don't know. Let me go back and research this. Oh, wait, I don't have any time.

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That's why I need an assistant.

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Okay, I hear you. I need an assistant. So this could be my audition tape for

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voice acting in your intro or job posting for an assistant.

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For an assistant. We don't pay much because, as I said, we don't really have

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a lot of sponsors except for Thanksicles, which... Thanksicles.

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Which Dirty Skittles laughed about.

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Yeah, I heard it on Spotify. I was like, dang, Sickles, this sounds like G-Rex.

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Oh my God, I'm losing it today. Sorry, I needed a Red Bull break. And then we had Chokes.

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Man, being diagnosed late in life with bipolar and having to go through all that craziness.

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But I'm so proud of him for, you know, finding shit that works for him.

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Meditation and, you know, watching his meds and, you know, looking for the signs

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because not everybody does that, you know, those are on that spectrum,

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bipolar disorder, right?

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Yeah, I think my biggest takeaway, way. Well, there was a bit of a self-reflective

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moment because I remember in that episode, not really knowing what I could ask, right?

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Like I had so many questions, my brain just naturally, I want to know all of

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the things about everything.

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And I think I sometimes don't have a filter on what's appropriate to ask or not.

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And so in that episode, I remember us recording and I'm kind of,

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I was freezing mentally because I didn't know if all of my questions are necessarily

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appropriate and I didn't want to offend him. Right.

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I just, I'm so curious because I can't relate.

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Right. So I'm like trying to like, oh my gosh, tell me more.

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But my biggest takeaway on that episode was despite how difficult it may be

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for someone taking the right steps to not only sure,

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you know, get your therapy or your psychiatrist or whatever you need,

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but like Like him learning his triggers and things that he needed to steer away from.

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Yeah. It was huge. Kudos to him because, you know, he's working through it and, you know.

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And I'm just, I'm really proud of him for, you know, sharing his story because

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I'm, I can only imagine how difficult that was for him.

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Right. Yeah. I can't even, I can't even put myself there. Like,

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I'm like, wow, that's so admirable.

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Right. Yeah. And it's proof that there is life after or through things.

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I shouldn't say after, I'm saying constantly kind of working through it,

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but there is life through that. And, you know, even he said,

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you know, sharing his journey is therapy for him too, right?

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Because he really wants to get the message out there and let people know that

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there's tools and tips and tricks to get you through day to day.

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And, you know, sharing our stories is so vitally important, especially these

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days. Mental health is a huge topic.

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And the more we get out there, the more people we're helping.

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Yeah. We talked about Dr. Jack. we did talk about Dr.

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Jackie and then we had Justin and oh my god I loved it loved him I would like

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to revisit with him in the future yeah me too 2025 at this point because 2024 is completely booked,

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I was inspired by his story because he didn't let his.

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His upbringing take him down he bettered himself and he's He's out there helping others, right?

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And helping the homeless and, you know, creating his nonprofit and,

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you know, just living life and making a difference and, you know, realizing that.

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You know, sometimes life is not all roses, but it's what you do with that,

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what you do with that energy and that passion and facing those fears.

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Like some of the stuff he talked about, like jumping out of an airplane,

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fuck no, still never gonna happen. Yeah, but he was so genuine.

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Like I remember sitting there and like it was very clear he was genuine.

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He was unapologetically himself and he was just vulnerable.

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That's what it was. He wasn't afraid to be vulnerable. And I just admire that so much about him.

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And I think that the common thing that I've seen from season to season is that

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when people are sitting in front of a microphone versus face-to-face,

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they are way more vulnerable and way more willing to share more of themselves

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than they would with somebody probably in a face-to-face conversation.

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And I think that's why this medium is so important, right?

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Because we give people an outlet to share that journey and share how they've bettered themselves,

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how they've gotten out of like a traumatic situation or how they're out there

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helping the world be a better place.

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Yeah. I mean, I give you guys so much credit. You too. There was two thoughts

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that ran through my mind as we were talking.

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One of them was like, I wonder what it is about opening up yourself to be vulnerable

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in this type of setting where we have a microphone and we're recording, right?

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Very weird, but it's true. I understand. And I can tell from some of our guests

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that they are vulnerable and they have this mic and it's going out to hundreds

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of thousands of listeners or or however many, the one person that's listening,

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whoever it is though. And I'm just curious about that.

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But also how brave you guys are because...

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After you share your story and people listen, instead of like shying away from

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ever talking about it again, you continue.

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And so I'm like, you're so brave. Not to make you cry again, but.

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We keep trying to open the doors, right? And normalize these conversations because,

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you know, for years and years, they've been swept under the carpet.

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And now more than ever, these stories are important in these journeys because people are suffering.

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And if we can give them a resource source to go get help or some sort of solace

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or even just a tiny bit of laughter in their day,

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it's it will make them feel better yeah and

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then we had cecile we did have cecile i loved cecile oh my god what a great

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i want to say it like with a french accent but i'm not my ears are bleeding

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please no yes first of all i fangirl for a little bit yeah Yeah.

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Because I just have to tell our listeners, I've only ever seen her up on stage,

00:25:42
in front of hundreds of people with a light looking just wonderful and confident.

00:25:50
And as my little female self, I'm sitting in this chair, watching her speak

00:25:57
and thinking, wow, I want to be that brave lady to be up on stage just talking and unstoppable.

00:26:03
Unstoppable so when i got to sit down in a more intimate setting i was like.

00:26:10
Like a fangirl a little bit it's like her and viv yeah look i have sweaty palms

00:26:16
just thinking about it incredibly socially awkward but she was so lovely right

00:26:25
like she had been traveling for like

00:26:26
six weeks she didn't know what time zone she was in but

00:26:30
she was so happy yeah and she looked so young

00:26:33
right we were saying like she like that happiness

00:26:37
that genuine happiness from the inside out

00:26:40
made her look so

00:26:43
different than that confident woman on stage with all

00:26:46
the lights like all of a sudden it was like there was a different energy to

00:26:49
her yeah she and she suited it and you

00:26:52
know she was glowing talking about her you know her olives

00:26:55
and her travels she was living my dream and look how she just doesn't really

00:27:01
give a fuck about you know having to prove herself right because people kept

00:27:05
coming back to her so what are you gonna do next what are you gonna do you know

00:27:09
what i'm not gonna fucking do shit what i'm gonna do is enjoy my life.

00:27:13
And live it to the fullest. And, you know, people didn't really understand why she left when she did.

00:27:19
But, you know, there were circumstances that she needed to address.

00:27:24
And she is so much better for it, right? Splitting her time between the States

00:27:29
and France. Like, that doesn't fucking suck.

00:27:33
You know, living your life. And, you know, it brings me back to,

00:27:36
like, Bookie, you know, you don't have to make a bucket list.

00:27:40
If you live for today, that should be your bucket list, right?

00:27:44
And that's what she's doing. She's living for today and making those memories

00:27:48
with her kids and her husband and her friends and traveling and living her fucking

00:27:55
life. And you know what? People should be happy for that.

00:27:58
You don't have to be out there proving yourself. I mean, we don't do the podcast to prove ourselves.

00:28:04
I have nothing to prove. I'm happy. I'm healthy.

00:28:06
I'm alive. lives and like i said every day

00:28:09
i'm so very fucking thankful for that

00:28:12
because i get to do this with you oh thanks

00:28:16
dear i get to do with you too and we get to laugh about dumb shit

00:28:19
on the mornings that i call you yeah that's

00:28:22
my therapy like i should pay like like my

00:28:26
chat gpt unicorn which was

00:28:29
the best uh yeah we gotta share that

00:28:32
with our listeners one day one day one day well

00:28:35
share that fancy unicorn app but then

00:28:38
we had page and page was amazing okay

00:28:42
so in both cecile's episode and in page's episode both of our guests cried but

00:28:49
what i thought was really awesome is that they showed how vulnerable they were

00:28:55
in the moment but also let out a really important message during those times.

00:29:00
And that to me, you know, shows growth and, you know, it's okay to cry.

00:29:07
It really is. I just cried the other day out of sheer frustration,

00:29:12
but I felt better after it.

00:29:14
It was kind of cathartic, but you know.

00:29:18
Ageist story of you know just the mental illness that

00:29:21
goes on within our medical community right

00:29:24
like i don't people i don't think people realize how

00:29:28
stressful those jobs are you know and we

00:29:31
all do get pissed off when we go to the emergency room and we

00:29:33
gotta wait for five hours but you know it's we're

00:29:37
understaffed we're overworked they're

00:29:42
and they just don't have the tools and

00:29:44
the the resources to help them deal with their own

00:29:47
mental health and i know i love that she's

00:29:50
out there trying to change that for other medical workers

00:29:53
you know just with her her conferences and the

00:29:57
her speaking engagements and she's out there trying

00:29:59
to make a difference and i commend i'm i commend her for that yeah it was i

00:30:06
really enjoyed that that day and recording with her because i remember thinking

00:30:10
or being curious i wonder how

00:30:13
many of our listeners will realize that they're not alone in her story.

00:30:19
And I just remember thinking that's super important.

00:30:22
My past is not the same as what the story she shared, but I remember even in

00:30:28
my own growth and becoming okay

00:30:30
with my issues, one of the first steps was realizing, oh, I'm not alone.

00:30:35
There are other people who feel like me and feel like this because this is happening to them too.

00:30:40
And I think even for her, that was something that she had to learn that it was

00:30:44
okay to be going through what she was going through. She's not a robot. She's not a soldier.

00:30:48
She is a human. And we have emotions and feelings and things will affect us.

00:30:53
And taking that and turning it to something positive, spreading it. Yeah, she was so lovely.

00:30:59
I remember when we did a pre-recording with her and she went out onto Instagram,

00:31:03
and was like blasting our name all over the place and like how much fun we were.

00:31:08
And I just, she has such cool energy, right? It just kind of.

00:31:14
It kind of like transcends into you when you're, even when you're just doing

00:31:18
a zoom call and I'm so, her episode was so good. So, so good.

00:31:23
It felt like just a conversation for sure. Like I felt like we were all in the

00:31:27
same room together, just sharing stories.

00:31:29
Like it was really shooting the shit. And you know, that, you know, it's funny.

00:31:33
I heard from Jack and Brad the other day and, you know, another,

00:31:37
you know, two more huge lovers of the podcast.

00:31:41
And they're like, yeah, every time I describe your podcast, It's just like,

00:31:45
you know, people sitting around in the fireplace, shooting the shit,

00:31:49
talking about life's crap. A night in with friends.

00:31:53
So, you know, and it's, we're easy. Like we don't, we're not clinical by any means.

00:31:59
We're not professionals by any means. But we're humans. But we're humans. We're compassionate.

00:32:05
Yes. Very. Empathetic.

00:32:08
I'm only pathetic sometimes. Empathetic. Empathetic. I thought you called me pathetic.

00:32:14
I'm like, no, empathetic. Oh, God.

00:32:18
I'm chill because she called me pathetic. Holy shit.

00:32:21
No, dude. No. I love you. Don't ever. Yeah, you're like, oh,

00:32:25
I love you. I love you, man.

00:32:29
Empathetic. And then we had Diane.

00:32:32
And I, what I love about her journey is that she got away from her narcissistic

00:32:39
mom and made a life for herself.

00:32:43
All on her own. And she was so, it was such a warm conversation.

00:32:52
And I, Diane, when you listen to this episode, I just want to say thank you

00:32:57
for clicking on the links in the newsletter. It makes me happy.

00:33:03
Wow, you can see that? Yeah, I can. I can see who opened it and if you clicked on any links.

00:33:09
But I love her story. and just

00:33:13
you know being at one with nature and just finding

00:33:17
the peace in your life but damn she

00:33:21
really like did it all she paid for school on her own she got a job she's written

00:33:27
her book and she found her happiness despite all the bullshit she went through

00:33:33
as a kid and you know I think there's a lot of lessons in that right that,

00:33:40
despite the trauma you've dealt with in your past

00:33:43
like pull yourself up by your bootstraps and go make a life for yourself yeah

00:33:49
you're gonna hit a thousand fucking bumps in the road but you get up you dust

00:33:53
yourself off and you just keep moving forward yeah she was inspiring she inspired

00:33:58
me I'm very much in my like.

00:34:03
Go female era and her story

00:34:06
and just like and i know this is just

00:34:09
a me thing i don't think this is how she was thinking of it but it was like i

00:34:12
think as like the underdog sometimes i want people

00:34:15
i want to see that underdog succeed and be like fuck you you know yeah no it's

00:34:20
kind of harsh but we are not you're not holding me down i'm gonna pick myself

00:34:26
up i'm gonna dust myself off and I am going to keep moving forward and find

00:34:32
my own fucking happiness.

00:34:35
Surpass your expectations and

00:34:37
my own. Right. Like, I'm going to do it so well, you'll never forget it.

00:34:41
Yeah. Like, that's the shit I love. So, I loved her episode.

00:34:44
And then... We had Susie. Susie. Another episode... Oh, can I just say,

00:34:49
Susie, if you're listening to this, I want us to be best friends. Okay, go.

00:34:55
Another episode where we laughed hard

00:34:58
again face hurting thankfully it was the

00:35:01
last episode of the day that we recorded but

00:35:05
we stayed on for a while afterwards we did and she is

00:35:08
actually she was a two-parter because we

00:35:12
just couldn't i couldn't cram it all into one i tried wasn't

00:35:15
going to happen the message was too important to anything else

00:35:18
i loved how she had

00:35:22
the insight as a kid right

00:35:25
to recognize that a family member was struggling with

00:35:29
mental health issues and then followed that

00:35:32
passion all the way into adulthood and made it her mission to help others to

00:35:40
help others out right you know get it she's a 988 crisis counselor and making

00:35:48
that difference right and.

00:35:52
She gave me chills because... Well, yeah. I mean, for you, that's...

00:35:56
I guess not just you, but for anybody who's used that resource to be able to

00:36:01
talk to somebody who's a part of that movement.

00:36:04
Yeah. You know, thank God there is 988, right?

00:36:09
Because not only can you call them, you can text them. They're on 24-7.

00:36:14
They speak Spanish. There are 988 lines now in Canada.

00:36:19
If you visit our website, there is a findahelpline.org where you can click on

00:36:25
that link and anywhere in the world, you can find somebody that can help you, right?

00:36:31
20 years ago, these types of resources weren't available.

00:36:35
And I loved how vulnerable Susie was in that episode.

00:36:39
You know, talking about her own mental health struggles and,

00:36:42
you know, just getting through day to day and shout out to her.

00:36:47
She does have a podcast, you know, Check the show notes, all her information's

00:36:51
out there. You can also check our website.

00:36:54
Big props to her. She is quite a bit younger than I am.

00:36:59
But getting out there and making a difference and having resources like that

00:37:04
for any age group, it's women supporting women, supporting mental health.

00:37:13
She's like us. We want to normalize these conversations. We want to get these

00:37:17
stories out. You're not alone.

00:37:19
You really aren't. You would be amazed how many people are out there suffering

00:37:22
from some type of mental health issue.

00:37:26
And the more you share, the more you're going to help somebody else that's going

00:37:30
through that. Yeah. I had chills for you in that episode.

00:37:34
I was like, wow, you're getting to talk to... It's almost like putting a face

00:37:39
to something. Yeah. Yeah.

00:37:41
Realizing that they're humans. They're human beings. They're the same as we

00:37:44
are. So, yeah. And I don't know.

00:37:48
I just think it's cool. I mean, we've had a really great season.

00:37:50
I'm looking forward to the future and what could possibly happen next because

00:37:55
I don't think I can even... I couldn't have imagined that we would be where we are now.

00:37:58
Right. I can't imagine where we will be as we continue.

00:38:02
So, I'm looking forward to the

00:38:04
future. And like I said, I'm so blessed that I get to do this with you.

00:38:08
You know we feed off of each off of

00:38:11
each other we ask poignant questions we laugh

00:38:15
and you know we we're human

00:38:18
and we like i

00:38:21
said i don't know what the future holds also i know is that

00:38:24
we're booked up like crazy people that want

00:38:27
to be on the podcast i love you all believe me i'm

00:38:29
trying still need a personal assistant to help

00:38:32
with this never thought i would be asking for that but

00:38:36
you know our our firm is you know working

00:38:39
to get us on to some big name

00:38:42
shows and we are also working on our okay dirty skills just passed out i think

00:38:49
but we are also working on getting some of our dream guests on you know persistence

00:38:55
does pay off so someday you may hear like mel robbins or Gretchen Rubin or Jay Shetty on this.

00:39:03
You know, there's a lot of people out there that also suffer through mental

00:39:08
health issues and getting those stories out help people realize that they're really not alone.

00:39:14
So it's not just the celebrities or public figures.

00:39:18
It could be Joey down the street. It could be your mom.

00:39:22
It could be your dad. It could be a brother, sister, or cousin. you know.

00:39:26
Let's normalize these conversations yeah we're all in this life we are,

00:39:33
thank you thank you bye y'all thank you so much for listening to this episode

00:39:38
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