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Season 3 - Episode 220- Resilience · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Let's talk resilience today. We've just come out of a weather
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  pattern. Well, it was Hurricane Debbie,
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  but then it turned into Tropical Storm Debbie.
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  And as it came up the East Coast of the United States, it dumped
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  a lot of water, 20 inches approximately in the area that
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  I'm in. And it just was endless.
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  It was not just all like, you know, OK, this happened in a
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  day. That would have been something
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  interesting in itself, but it happened from Sunday to Friday.
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  So you just it's day after day after day, the torrential
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  downpours, the things that are just seemingly not quitting,
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  water everywhere, everywhere, like just expanding, flooding,
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  you name it, it was happening. And one of the things that's
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  interesting when this happens is what happens to Mother Nature in
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  that process. So you start to think about how
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  it affects, you know, the land itself, especially if the land
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  has been touched. Because then, of course, when we
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  build, you know, you end up disrupting how the sponge effect
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  of the Earth works. So all of a sudden, things don't
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  seem to go down as quickly as they did.
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  Unfortunately here where we are, our farm is set up so that it
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  does do that. Although we ended up with
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  multiple ponds all around the pond, all around the property.
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  The chicken coop was safe, the house was safe, all the rabbit
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  areas safe, everything because we have it elevated.
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  But boy what a mess it made. And the gardens are just done.
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  Like everything got so beat up in the rain and vegetables are
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  done. You know, between the humidity,
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  the heat and the amount of rain we had, it just beat everything
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  up. One would think, oh, this is
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  great. It gives it a really good drink.
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  No, it doesn't. And then the weeds take over.
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  And when I say the weeds take over, they take over.
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  And it's so hot now, can't really even get out here to
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  clean it up because if you're not out here early in the
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  morning and you know, that in itself presents its own issues,
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  you're going to get, you know, the humidity is just going to
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  take you out. So yesterday I had to completely
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  swap out this entire coop area with all the hay inside because
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  it was just so much water, so much humidity.
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  And usually I do this like, you know, every three weeks I just
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  make a complete swap, but it's not as thorough as I had to do.
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  This was like a major one, which I do really every three months
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  I'll do like I'll wash down everything inside and switch it
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  all out. That way I make sure there are
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  no problems in there. I'm I'm on top of it and I had
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  to do this in the humidity and I was drenched from head to toe.
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  The muck is everywhere. I'm up to probably, I have muck
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  boots, extra tough muck boots and the ankle height and the
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  muck was up to the top of them and it's hard to walk in it.
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  I'm sweating, I'm uncomfortable. I've gotten attacked by fire
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  ants multiple times. And I'm not telling you all this
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  because I'm complaining. I'm telling you the part of the
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  story. And my hands have a rash on them
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  because I got into something, touching it, cleaning it up.
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  I don't know. It's not Poison Ivy.
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  Who knows what it is. Reaction to something doesn't
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  matter. So my hands, my feet, my boots,
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  everything is a mess. And you know, there's a part of
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  you that just wants to cry and then you stop and you say, hold
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  on, I have to just stop right now and and collect myself.
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  So I make this plan. I'm going to come out.
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  And then I find out that one of my favorite chickens read
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  somehow got sour crop and she passed away in my arms.
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  As I opened the door to the coop, she came over to me and
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  she literally just died right there.
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  It was. It was the saddest experience
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  I've had. It was like she was waiting for
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  me and I picked her up and she just died right in my arms.
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  And sauerkraut is just a overload in their systems of
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  candida and it builds up in their crop.
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  And she must have eaten something.
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  And if if I had caught it in time, I could have treated it.
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  But the problem was the rain was so bad we couldn't even get out
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  here. There, I mean rain, the Thunder,
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  the lightning, it was so bad. Other than coming out and
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  opening the doors and feeding them, I wasn't out here as much
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  as I normally was. And I would have noticed it
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  because there are telltale signs.
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  So you look at all this in its totality and you say, OK, this
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  is nothing compared to what other people went through.
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  I did not lose a home. I did not lose lives.
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  Nothing like that happened other than losing the chicken.
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  But we still feel the weight. So is it wrong to feel the
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  weight? Is it wrong to feel what your
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  emotions are telling you? No, it's not.
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  If your emotions are telling you that it's overwhelming, that
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  you're hot, you're tired. Because that's what I was
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  feeling when I was going through this.
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  I wanted to just say screw it and go in the house and not do
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  it. But I had to dig for resilience
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  and just say, Nope, I'm doing this.
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  I'm going to suck it up and I'm going to do this.
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  And I have to tell you, it took me longer than normal because I
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  had to keep stopping and sitting in the shade because it was so
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  hot. And I ended up making it and
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  getting it done, of course, and I felt fantastic mentally when
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  it was done and physically completely overwhelmed, needing
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  a shower, needing to make a protein shake.
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  I was AI was a mess, but I felt good mentally.
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  And the reason I'm sharing this all with you is because I don't
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  want you to think that just the big things are where you have to
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  be resilient. We have to be resilient every
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  day in all types of little situations.
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  We just have to find a way to be resilient.
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  And the more we do that, the better off we are as people
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  because and we bounce back quicker.
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  So look for that spot. And yes, finally the water is
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  receding. Finally, we are getting dried
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  out. And I'm very grateful for that.
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  Very, very grateful. So go find your resilient path
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  and remember, no matter how small it is, it's required.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.