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Favorite Episodes, What's Coming & the Truth About Making a Podcast | Go Wildly Podcast · Go Wildly Podcast

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  Welcome to Season 2 of Go Wildly podcast.
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  We are Emily and Heather, 2 childhood friends who carry a
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  mic into wild places like rivers, trails, and forests with
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  wild people to host raw, honest conversations about adventure,
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  healing, identity, and the transformative power of nature.
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  In this season, we're centering the voices of people who call
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  Southern Oregon home. Outdoor enthusiasts and outdoor
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  professionals whose lives have been shaped, changed or are
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  continually influenced by time outside come along as together
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  we go wildly. Hey, you wildly wonder.
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  Thank you so very much for listening to the podcast.
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  It means the world to us. Okay, I have a little mission.
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  Pause the podcast right here. Make sure that you're subscribed
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  to this guy. Okay?
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  It's going to be a fun time over here.
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  And if you so wish, we would love a five star review or
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  Also, leaving us a review truly helps the algorithm and we
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  appreciate you doing that. Thank you so very much.
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  Also, little tidbit over on Instagram, we're having so much
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  fun over there. Lots of behind the scene
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  footage, some POV's, and just some fun unhinged content.
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  If you love the pod, that's where we go wildly for sure.
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  So don't forget to follow us over there.
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  OK, back to the show. Thank you.
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  Shake that ass, watch yourself shake that ass.
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  Show me what you're looking with.
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  I got these off of Facebook Marketplace.
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  What? Yeah.
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  For real I'm for real. 15 bucks from some gal in Brookings.
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  My mom. It was when my mom was staying
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  in Gold Beach for that month and she picked them up for me in
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  Brookings on her way home. And those fresh purple lavender
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  shoes, are they lavender? Are they wisteria?
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  They're totally wisteria. Or are they lilac?
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  Wisteria. Lilac Wisteria.
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  Lilac has multiple purples. I guess wisteria does also, but
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  these look more like as well. Facts.
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  Purple is such a spectrum of color.
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  I love purple. Do you want to comment on my
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  purple cup as well? They're all shades.
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  I'm wearing purple. Shorts, bag and my purple hat.
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  Do I have enough purple? Am I purpley enough for the
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  purple club? Purple.
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  Purple. Yes, I'm just a little worried
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  like I'm going to like leak out my paleols.
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  That's gross. I know.
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  I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry, K, that's all I'm going to say for all of our
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  groups, for all of our, for all of our male listeners.
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  We are significantly more female than male in our listenership, I
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  will say. So girls tell the guys to listen
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  to us. We have male guests as well.
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  We actually have this season we will have recorded, we have
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  recorded exactly 17 male episodes and 17 female episodes.
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  And this is the end of the season podcast.
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  We're going to wrap it up here, baby.
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  The end of our. Recording season, not the end of
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  our production. Season.
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  So. No, we will still be going
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  throughout the year once a week. Yeah, we will have episodes
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  running through likely the end of October and then we will take
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  a little winter break from production.
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  Or from from posting them. From from auditing and posting
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  and producing episodes. Yeah, publishing.
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  So for our listeners, thanks for being here.
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  This is our second season of Go Wildly Woo Woo Woo.
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  We just wrapped up our last recording.
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  OK, Yeah. So what we what we did this
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  season was we stacked all of our episode recordings to occur
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  between February and May. Did we do a January?
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  You're right, we started recording in January and January
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  to May. We put out our first episode in
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  February. So sometimes I get confused, but
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  we did. We started recording in January
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  and we scheduled recordings, 2 recordings every Monday from mid
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  January till mid-May being this week of the mid-May.
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  And we did it. We did it.
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  It was a. It was.
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  Long it was work. It was a load.
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  It was a load. We just the load was loading.
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  Yeah, it was a lot. And especially right now
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  building my career too, building the real estate career, it's a
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  it's a lot. That was a lot.
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  But like it worked out. Yeah, it worked out great.
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  And I imagine that it felt better to have just one day of
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  the week a full day of recording, rather than
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  scattering it out through the week trying to find little
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  pockets to. That didn't.
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  Work. No, that's what we did last year
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  and it created a lot of inconsistency for us, a lot of
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  scheduled dysfunction. Which is I think a good take
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  away for anybody listening. Like just start and you can
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  perfect it as you go. Like you will learn the lessons
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  you need to do, you just have to stay consistent and keep going.
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  Make it What's the quote that you have on your computer?
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  Make it exist first, you can make it perfect.
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  Later, yes, and that's what we've been doing.
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  We've made this podcast exist last year and we've been
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  perfecting as we go. Yes, Yeah, yeah.
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  I feel really good about where it was this year and I want to
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  do that for probably next year too.
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  But. Next year, we'll be even more
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  dialed in. This year taught us so much
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  about how to be consistent and focused and.
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  Can we talk in an accent? Sure.
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  Which accent would you like to use?
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  I love, I'm always like, hey, how about this?
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  And Emily's like, sure, let's do that.
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  I can I can do that. Yeah, and also if I think it's
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  dumb, I will say no thank you. I don't think you've ever told
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  me anything's dumb. No, I've never said it's dumb,
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  but I have said write it down. We'll think about that later.
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  Because not because I don't think it's dumb.
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  I think that it, there are sometimes ideas that we're not
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  ready for. Yeah, we don't have the capacity
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  for or there maybe there's been some that I'm like, I don't
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  really see how that fits in with what we're doing.
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  But if you feel really excited about.
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  That my my mailing, my mailing newsletter letter I had an idea
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  for because we're trying to monetize this at the end of the
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  day, right? Like this this is.
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  We are monetizing this. This is a business.
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  It is. And we are currently.
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  Which is I'm going to segue into that because if you have not
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  checked out our promotional partners and gotten yourself
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  some of those perks, you're missing out.
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  And there are absolutely more to come.
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  This is just the beginning. This is just portfolio building.
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  This this season we have partnership with Calvin
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  Livingston with Lean In Breath Work.
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  Wow. It would be great if I could
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  enunciate he's offering a discount to our listeners for
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  his sauna bus. So go to our website, click on
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  the promo tab and you'll see all of these offerings.
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  Oh my God. The train's coming by and it
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  literally comes by like 2 feet from us.
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  Shit, I love a train. I do too.
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  I love me in good train I. Bet you do I.
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  Bet you do. We also have a partnership with
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  Row Adventures, a rafting outfitter, that they are
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  offering $100 off to Go Wildly listeners if they book a multi
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  day rafting trip in 2026 or 2027 you can use code Go Wildly.
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  2027. Did I say 2027?
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  Yeah. OK, good, because the other day
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  I called Sierra Sara and I don't know what my mouth is saying
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  these days sometimes I. Well I was going to say, doesn't
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  Calvin also do online breath work stuff?
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  Which do we have a link? I don't know if it's quite that
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  the disc. I got to see the.
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  Code that he's offering to go wildly listeners, I got to see
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  is for the sauna bus. But he does do.
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  Can you see the train? No, I can hear it.
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  Dude, it's like. Loud.
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  Oh, I see it. I see.
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  It I see it, it's yellow. Cool that train tracks getting
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  railed. How do trains stay on the rails
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  so good? They've got little like
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  grippers. I love, I love me a train dude.
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  Like that's have you? Ever ridden a train?
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  Yes, like cross country. My dad not a cross country.
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  You're showing your butt to the camera.
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  My dad, my grandpa was a train. Conductor.
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  Oh, engineer. Yeah.
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  That's really cool. We went on them.
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  Have you ever taken your kids to the Railroad Park in Medford?
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  Yeah, Cruz has been there, not Roscoe.
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  We need to go there. Yeah, I want to go.
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  Take me when you go. There's a Weiner right there
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  next to you. About time anyways.
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  Yeah, you can get a rafting trip with Rd.
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  Adventures and a discount on that.
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  Soma. Soma Southern Oregon Martial
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  Arts you can get 2 free weeks of training and then if you sign up
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  for a membership that helps out the show.
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  We are working on other partnerships with other really
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  cool businesses that you'll hear more about if you keep listening
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  to the pod. And I'm not going to give
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  anything away right now, so just stay tuned.
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  Pretty good, pretty good. Really awesome small women owned
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  businesses that we've connected with that love what we're doing
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  and we love what they're doing and they want to collab so.
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  Collab. We are open to more.
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  This season we really did focus on partnerships with our guests
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  who have services and offerings so that we can.
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  That was the most obtainable. Yeah.
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  And it really felt like a great way to highlight the amazing
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  people that since this season is all about celebrating the voices
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  of Southern Oregon. Yeah, that was a great way to
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  celebrate those voices. Yes, it was.
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  And we are very intentional about the partnerships that we
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  create, being absolutely authentic to us and actually be
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  products and services that we use ourselves and it'll have
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  pride behind. Yeah, we're not here to just say
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  yes to the dress. Yes to the dress.
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  In fact, it's probably pretty rare that we would say yes to a
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  dress. I don't know if I've ever seen
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  you in a dress. Very rare.
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  Would you wear a dress for your wedding in the event that you
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  had a wedding? Yeah.
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  Yeah. OK, cool.
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  I'm going to wear a dress for Kobe's wedding.
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  Nice. Me too.
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  Yeah, I think it's going to be pink, which is going to be
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  weird. Not purple, but.
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  There's a man. There's a man.
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  Oh. My God, look at that cute little
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  dog. He's kind of cute.
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  I'm always scoping out the cuties for because I am.
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  I am a really good wing woman. Yes, you are though.
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  You're just looking at them. You're not doing anything about
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  it. Go chase him down.
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  I said hi and did you thinking that?
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  He waved. Yeah, Yeah.
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  Well. If it's meant to be, it'll be.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And I'm intentionally boy sober
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  this year, taking a break after some less than ideal experiences
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  last year. If you know, you know.
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  And yeah, intentionally boy sober this year.
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  This is the closest I've been to a penis in months and it's just
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  painted on the wall. Oh, I should be getting that on
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  video. Well, they can't see the penis.
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  Oh, they might be able to, but it's pretty small.
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  Well, I, I mean, I guess it's average.
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  It's pretty thick, but otherwise it's pretty drippy, which is not
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  a good sign. Anyways, it's.
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  Very girthy. Some girth Brooks right there.
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  It's a little beer can. OK.
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  Anyways, so back to what we've been doing this season.
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  So we've finished all of our recordings rather than a couple
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  of random ones that are scattered through the summer.
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  And one part part of why we did this recording stacking at the
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  front end of the year is that I work as a river guide over the
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  summer and my season starts in five days.
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  So it's just not practical for me to be a.
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  Zookeeper during the summer time.
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  Did you know that? It's a fact.
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  It's a fact. It's a fact.
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  I'm a zookeeper for my wild children.
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  Yeah, so our summer lives are just a little too busy this
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  current season of our lives and do.
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  Anything outside and our shit over heat like we we have to
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  like we're out here in the elements.
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  Yeah, we're not in a studio, as you know.
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  And so we do have to be considerate of weather.
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  The temperature, the rain, the climate.
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  It's the climate. It was such a good recording
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  season. It really was.
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  Tell me. Yeah.
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  Tell me about it for you. Well, I do think I hit like a
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  little bit of a wall maybe a month ago.
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  And I was like, fuck, bro. I was like, I really had to
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  evaluate like internally, I did not tell you this, this is fresh
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  news. But I was like, am I doing this
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  podcast? But then I stuck with it and
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  more things started to like happen.
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  And I started to see like, more like light at the end of the
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  tunnel for recording, but also just like light at the end of my
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  tunnel personally. And like feeling.
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  Yeah. And just like feeling less of a
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  winter wait, you know, coming more into like better weather,
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  opening up doors. It was literally, it's like a
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  all around felt better. It just felt better.
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  And that also made me feel better about everything.
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  And then I got to reflect upon the few months prior to that and
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  I was like, Oh my God, like, we're doing it.
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  And that made that gave me a lot of momentum and positive
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  positivity and like kept me going to the end.
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  Truly, I'm so glad. I'm glad you powered through
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  that. Yeah, no, I there was some, but
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  I was also pretty busy this winter really trying to do some
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  things. And now I've found my cadence
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  with some things like the gas is not necessarily off my foot is
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  not off the gas with like real estate per SE, but like I got a
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  few under me. I kind of feel that.
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  I feel like what I'm doing, I know what I'm doing kind of sort
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  of like you never really know what you're doing.
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  But like I feel like I have a grasp on things.
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  I've made some money. I'm not as like desperate for
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  money and you know. Yeah, you've made some great
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  connections and you have some really awesome colleagues who
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  are in your corner and love all of the things that you do.
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  They see you as more than just a realtor.
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  They see you as podcast host and food reviewer and mother and
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  wife and mountain biker. And I think that really helps in
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  the way that they're able to support you and show up for you
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  and celebrate you. Yeah, no, yeah, I definitely had
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  a moment this season with but I'd I have that a lot and I
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  need. I know that it was best and I
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  know all along I was going to power through it.
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  But I know I hit I know that I have a wall at some point with
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  everything I do, literally everything, even like a mid bike
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  ride wall I'll have and I'm like, right, if I just
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  breakthrough that wall, the the other side of that wall is so
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  glorious that I just have to remember that while doing the
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  thing. Absolutely, whether it's.
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  A break on through to the other side, Heather.
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  Break on through. To the other side.
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  Break on through to the other side.
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  Cuz there's something good over there.
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  Even if it's an hour long trail run.
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  Yeah. Even if it's a what would we do?
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  4 month, 5 month recording? Yeah, five months of recording
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  it. Whatever it is, you will get to
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  the other. Side and I think for the
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  recording what really I'm assuming helped you was that not
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  only could you see the light at the end of the tunnel but there
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  was a date that it was going to end Yeah.
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  So rather than this like ambiguous, well, like for a run
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  like, well, I don't know, I'm just going to go till I don't
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  want to go anymore unless you set a I'm only going to go 4
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  miles or I'm going to run for an hour.
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  But having that bookend of the activity can really help to
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  know, OK, like, you know what? I can do this.
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  I can do this for three more Mondays.
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  It literally challenged me in the best way possible and it
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  made me be so for sure of this good.
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  Yay breaking through. OK, what was?
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  Your I'm so proud of you. I'm proud of you.
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  Cuz Emily also took on all of her editing this year and like
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  also admin logistics, which is something I was doing editing
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  last year. And that's when it like I was
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  like, wow, burnout with editing. That's a lot of work.
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  But Emily took it over. We refined some things from last
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  season so it's easier editing. Thank God.
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  I probably will pick up a few episodes of editing over the
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  summer time as Emily's pretty busy, but.
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  Yeah, yeah. So I last year I was a full time
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  house cleaner and river guide and doing this on the side.
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  And at the end of last year I quit full time house cleaning
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  and made this my essentially my full time job.
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  So I've done all of the guest recruitment and coordination and
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  communication. So cold calling guests, giving
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  them the whole spiel of what it is that we do, arranging the
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  location that we're going to meet them at, coordinating all
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  of the transportation logistics for us to get there and how the
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  day is going to run with having two interviews in a day.
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  Making sure that they've signed all of our vital paperwork and
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  such, put together all of our live read BIOS with a with the
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  assistance of AI. And then come home after all of
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  that and get all of the files onto my computer, into our
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  Dropbox, and do the editing process, the publishing, the
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  show notes, I monitor the e-mail inbox, and I take care of
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  Heather. I'm am I Are you my handler?
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  Yeah, I'm your handler. Dude, Emily's done a lot this
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  and I've totally like, well, I've been doing social media.
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  And that's my job. We have had immense growth on
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  our Instagram page in the last, I'd say since mid March.
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  It's been like. Wildfire.
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  Yeah. We just had a wildfire.
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  Nice. I.
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  Thought you were going in for a high 5?
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  Sure. We've had like minimum 50 new
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  followers a day. It's been a lot since mid March.
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  Go check it out. It's pretty fun over there.
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  Yeah. And I'll probably put more time
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  into it now that I have two days essentially in my week that have
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  opened up. Yeah, it's been really a lot of
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  fun. I really do enjoy and.
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  Emily is the tentpole holding this tent up, and I am the
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  flappy rain fly that is flapping in the rain and wind.
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  That's our analogy for our rules in this podcast, this season and
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  this season. Yeah, shift a little bit next
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  season. Yeah.
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  We don't know where we'll be at. We're never gonna be the same
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  thing forever, yeah. But yeah, I really enjoy and in
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  some ways kind of thrive in that administrative, logistical
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  space. I have a lot of professional
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  history in that. And so I'm really good at it.
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  And I do really, I'm good at it and I enjoy it.
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  So there were definitely some days where I was just like, all
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  I want to do is contact guests and coordinate our logistics and
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  yeah, I would. Like awesome, I didn't know
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  that. Get high on it.
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  Cool, you can continue to do that next.
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  Season I love it I love reaching out to people and making them
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  feel at ease about what we're inviting them to do explaining
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  our structure and our story to them and making sure that they
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  feel set up for success for this experience and and coordinating
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  the like OK we're going to have somehow we've most of the time
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  would happen to have two guests on the same day in Ashland or in
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  Medford and a lot of that just happened really organically and
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  magically and I think. That was you, baby.
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  But yes, and it really just like.
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  But it happened. Also, it happened and a lot of
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  the time it didn't take much effort from me to have it work
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  out like that. Like maybe one person would say
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  I'm available this time on this day in this location.
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  And then somebody else would say, I'm available this day,
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  give me a location and there would be some alignment in the
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  schedule and I'd say, OK, meet us in this town and we'd be able
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  to touch I'm. Surprised how all of our guests
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  were able to do Mondays. Like all of most of the people
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  that you even reached out to. Like we record on a Monday,
• 22:49
  that's usually a work day for people.
• 22:52
  Cool. Thank you.
• 22:53
  There was only one person. I mean, there were probably 4,
• 22:59
  I'm going to guess 4 people, and that might be an exaggeration of
• 23:04
  people that I reached out to who said they were interested but
• 23:06
  were not available on a Monday. One of them we did on a Saturday
• 23:12
  and it worked out really great. But otherwise, you're that fart.
• 23:18
  I heard your fart. I don't know if the microphone
• 23:20
  did it, sorry. Yeah, it just like I, I set out
• 23:26
  with that intention and it worked out really magically.
• 23:29
  And I think while yes, I was putting very intentional effort
• 23:34
  into it, for me it was a sign, very consistent signs along the
• 23:41
  way to hear of that we were doing the right thing.
• 23:43
  Bro I do have to say like since I have, we have rekindled our
• 23:48
  friendship from yesteryear. Everything that you say you're
• 23:57
  manifesting, that you're actively manifesting is
• 24:01
  happened. Oh, thanks.
• 24:03
  Dude, hell yeah. So like, I don't know, like
• 24:07
  everything that you've like put energy into making happen has
• 24:10
  happened. Thank you.
• 24:11
  Even stuff outside of the podcast.
• 24:12
  I, I'm see, I see you, I see the manifesting and I see it coming
• 24:17
  to fruition and it's really cool and I like being around it.
• 24:20
  I'm hoping it rips off on me. Thanks.
• 24:22
  I think it is. I've been, I've seen, I've seen
• 24:24
  it happening for you too. It is for sure.
• 24:26
  I'm I'm a very intentional person and I am a very devoted
• 24:32
  to my intentions and I also give myself a lot of grace and.
• 24:39
  Yeah, you've helped me with my grace over the last year.
• 24:43
  You're welcome because it's only been a year, but this is season
• 24:46
  2 recording wrap up. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:48
  Because we launched our first episode of Go Wildly Podcast
• 24:53
  April 26th, 24th of 2025 and it today is May 13th, 2026.
• 25:04
  So Go Wildly Podcast has been in publication for just over a year
• 25:10
  and we're crushing it. We're doing really well.
• 25:13
  We have, well, last time I looked we have 20 reviews on
• 25:18
  Spotify. Five stars.
• 25:20
  Five stars. Make it 50.
• 25:22
  Yeah, make it 50. I actually had a thought in the
• 25:24
  shower this morning. I was like, should we do like a
• 25:27
  giveaway of some sort? And I was like.
• 25:29
  We don't have anything to give away right now.
• 25:31
  That's. The thing I was like, well, what
• 25:32
  do we do? How does that feel like?
• 25:34
  Does it feel authentic? I asked Claude.
• 25:36
  I was like, huh, just some like fun thought of like maybe we do
• 25:39
  a giveaway to get people get our Instagram followers because we
• 25:44
  have over 1500 now to come over to Spotify and actually consume
• 25:50
  our product, our product. Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Amazon,
• 25:53
  wherever you get your podcasts, you can find.
• 25:55
  Us and that's our product, yeah. And that's the podcast.
• 25:59
  That's something that I really want to make sure we stay
• 26:01
  intentional about is that we aren't a stuff in things.
• 26:07
  We are podcast, yes, we are an immersive podcast experience.
• 26:14
  We're not. If we're going to talk about a
• 26:17
  product, it's because we are using it and loving it.
• 26:20
  It's not because we just want more consumption and stuff out
• 26:25
  there. Right.
• 26:26
  And then I. Got these pants off of Facebook
• 26:28
  Marketplace. And that's also in the same vein
• 26:31
  as we have way more Instagram followers.
• 26:35
  It's like, yeah, we have an Instagram account, but we're
• 26:39
  not. The Instagram account isn't our
• 26:42
  business and our product, yeah, it's just snippets of the actual
• 26:46
  product that we're making, which is the podcast.
• 26:48
  It should be a pipeline into becoming a listener, watcher,
• 26:53
  follower of the pod. If that's all you can do is
• 26:55
  follow an Instagram because you're not really into podcasts.
• 26:57
  So the little like snippets and stuff like if that's what you
• 27:00
  like to consume, we will continue to post them.
• 27:02
  Absolutely. We're just saying that we're
• 27:04
  bigger than that. Yeah, we're cooler than that,
• 27:07
  Yeah. We are more than just Instagram
• 27:10
  influence. We're more than just acid.
• 27:12
  Today's well. I don't know about you, but
• 27:17
  yeah, yeah, yeah, we're, we're very intentional with what we're
• 27:23
  doing here. And I think we've that's really
• 27:28
  been evident to me this season with how frequently we are
• 27:31
  discussing what we're doing, why we're doing it, where we're
• 27:35
  going with it, what we want to get out of it, when we're when
• 27:39
  we are seeking funding sources, what is that money going to pay
• 27:43
  for? We still have yet to really dial
• 27:45
  in our code of ethics for that which we will, we have intended
• 27:50
  to, you know, make sure we, at least for now, thoroughly review
• 27:54
  every opportunity that is presented to make sure that it
• 27:57
  aligns with both of us. And then I also wanted this
• 28:03
  little pokey. Did you see that?
• 28:06
  I'm watching you. What was your favorite episode
• 28:11
  to record this year? Thank you for asking.
• 28:14
  That's a really good question. And I every episode where
• 28:19
  somebody says that's a good question, I get a little, I get
• 28:24
  a little tickle because like obviously like we should be
• 28:27
  asking good questions. We're hosting a podcast and that
• 28:31
  is just affirming. Affirming Affirm.
• 28:35
  We've had several episodes where if you had to.
• 28:40
  Pick 1. Emily.
• 28:41
  Emily. I can't pick my favorite child.
• 28:44
  Yes, yes you can. Can I pick two or you can pick?
• 28:48
  One and then two. OK.
• 28:52
  If you had gun to your head. Don't threaten me with violence,
• 28:57
  Sorry. I was, I don't know, I was going
• 29:02
  to grab your boob or something. I thought we were going to high
• 29:05
  5 or hold hands. OK well I do.
• 29:09
  I do have two and for different reasons.
• 29:11
  That's fine. OK.
• 29:12
  That's good. That's good.
• 29:12
  That's good. OK.
• 29:13
  I like it. Thank you.
• 29:14
  Shoot, shoot. OK, go.
• 29:16
  OK, shoot. Rock, paper, scissors.
• 29:21
  Shoot. I went yes.
• 29:23
  OK. Probably my favorite episode to
• 29:25
  record was with Julie Norman. This episode has not been put
• 29:29
  out yet, and it was my favorite to record because she has known
• 29:35
  me my entire life. She was literally at my parents'
• 29:40
  house when my mom got up and said I'm going to the hospital
• 29:44
  to birth this baby. That's probably not what she
• 29:47
  said or how she said it, but she has literally been in my life
• 29:51
  since day one, so that was special.
• 29:54
  Her. Yeah.
• 29:55
  Her and my mom and my dad have been friends for 50 years and
• 30:01
  she is part of this greater river community river family
• 30:06
  that I have. And she was so intentional about
• 30:12
  her interview experience, she spent weeks like essentially
• 30:17
  researching her own life so that she would know what she wanted
• 30:23
  to share and how she wanted to share it and what her timeline
• 30:25
  was and what the highlights were.
• 30:28
  And she just has the most positive, uplifting and grounded
• 30:38
  perspective on herself and life that is so admirable and has
• 30:44
  been influential to me in so many over and subvert ways
• 30:49
  throughout my life. And because part of the
• 30:53
  intention of this podcast is to host a container for the elders
• 31:01
  to share their stories. Because much of the inspiration
• 31:04
  of this was that I was recording stories from my dad as he was
• 31:08
  dying, stories of his life in the outdoors.
• 31:10
  And I saw the importance and the value in capturing these stories
• 31:15
  and having a record of real human stories outside that are
• 31:22
  otherwise going to be lost when their lives move on.
• 31:25
  And because of this river community that I've grown up in
• 31:29
  that has been very informed by storytelling, there's like
• 31:36
  documentarian that is part of this community that has filmed a
• 31:40
  series, a trilogy of document documentaries about these
• 31:45
  people. Storytelling and history
• 31:48
  capturing has been a through line in my life.
• 31:52
  And so to get Julie on to kind of pull all of those pieces
• 31:58
  together was really valuable for me.
• 32:00
  And that it also met our criteria of highlighting voices
• 32:04
  of Southern Oregon. And she's lived in Southern
• 32:05
  Oregon for like 30 years, you know?
• 32:07
  What about Julie? Everything.
• 32:10
  She's an old school liberal. When we need more of that
• 32:13
  energy, Yeah. Like but like looks.
• 32:15
  Like that core? She's like, not even like a
• 32:18
  like. You don't even need to classify
• 32:20
  her as that. Like she is an earth lover, she
• 32:23
  is a human lover, she is a community lover, and she fights
• 32:28
  for and engages in the issues that affect the places that she
• 32:34
  loves. But that's my.
• 32:35
  That's, that's what I resonate most with.
• 32:39
  That's my, that's my liberal side.
• 32:42
  Yeah, that. She was like, I'm spending all
• 32:45
  my time on rivers and I see that the forest around this river
• 32:49
  that I'm recreating in is being overlogged.
• 32:52
  I'm gonna go participate in a campaign to slow or stop the
• 32:58
  logging of this environment that I enjoy that informs my life.
• 33:04
  And dude, I love it. There's Even so much more to.
• 33:07
  I bet the. Beauty and wonder of her story
• 33:09
  than what she shared in our hour and a half episode.
• 33:12
  I could see it. We have to have her back on.
• 33:14
  Yeah, and I think more. That's part of.
• 33:17
  I also just want to say too, like I'm also, I have my liberal
• 33:21
  side and I have my conservative side.
• 33:22
  Yeah, we're a little bit. We're a little bit of everything
• 33:24
  and but. That's what that's the like, I
• 33:29
  just resonate so much with that because that's where my my earth
• 33:33
  loving side comes from. That's where all of my things
• 33:35
  stem from, from that. Same.
• 33:38
  So, and we've had a, we have a lot of guests who are in their
• 33:43
  30s, twenties, 30s, because that's 40s, because that's us
• 33:48
  and they have great stories and they have great lives.
• 33:51
  And also the people who are in their 60s, seventies, 80s have
• 33:55
  had so much more life and more stories.
• 33:58
  My dad will be coming on. Yeah, there might even be a
• 34:00
  Wyman's Wyman series. His name's Wyman, by the way.
• 34:07
  And then my second favorite episode was with Ryan Garn.
• 34:11
  We've known each other for many years, several years, but we've
• 34:15
  never really had the chance to really connect in person.
• 34:19
  And what I mean, it was a wonderful episode.
• 34:24
  It was a unique episode. It was a safe container for her
• 34:28
  to share her story and it was an awesome experience.
• 34:33
  Like I think we just had so much fun.
• 34:36
  But what made it the best, one of the best for me was her
• 34:39
  feedback afterwards about how special and safe and fun and
• 34:46
  awesome the experience was for her.
• 34:48
  Getting that feedback of that. She's done public interviews.
• 34:53
  She's been on, you know, shows and she's been recorded before,
• 34:59
  but we gave her the best experience that she'd had and.
• 35:03
  Damn straight. Yeah.
• 35:05
  And shout out, Ryan, congratulations on your
• 35:07
  engagement. Yeah.
• 35:09
  And happy late birthday. Yeah, happy late birthday too.
• 35:12
  So many. Great things happening for Ryan.
• 35:13
  Dude I'm always so gung ho with birthdays at the beginning of
• 35:16
  the year for like Facebook looking at everybody's birthday
• 35:19
  and then I forget one day and then it's all downhill from
• 35:21
  there. Yeah, you can't.
• 35:22
  You can't keep up on. It I was like fuck, I miss one
• 35:24
  day, might as well miss mall. Yep.
• 35:27
  That's so that's that's really special for me.
• 35:30
  When we get feedback from guests, that's their experience
• 35:34
  was. Top notch, top notch.
• 35:36
  That's what's up. So I'd say those those have
• 35:39
  presented to the top for me for. Sure, for sure.
• 35:42
  And Julie also sent us gifts afterwards she sent us.
• 35:46
  Who else did gifts? Was it just?
• 35:48
  Julie. Julie gave us gifts.
• 35:52
  Arrowhead Adventures gave us, oh, I'm not wearing it.
• 35:55
  Gave us hats. Shout out Ashley and Kel.
• 35:58
  Sierra at the Oregon Caves gave us bandanas.
• 36:02
  Where's my bandana? I don't know.
• 36:05
  I put mine in the wash today. I don't know where My.
• 36:08
  Yeah, we've received some gifts. We're going to.
• 36:12
  Have gifts next year for our guests.
• 36:13
  Yeah. Can I talk about that for a
• 36:15
  moment after? My yeah favorite.
• 36:17
  Episodes. You tell us your favorite
• 36:19
  episodes. I have to say my favorite
• 36:21
  episode was Sophie. Yeah.
• 36:24
  She's just such a vibe. I just love silly, fun people.
• 36:30
  She's really smart too, so I love that all combined.
• 36:32
  That's like literally when I'm trying to be, even though she
• 36:35
  just turned 29 and I'm 30, going to be 37, I still, I want to be
• 36:40
  Sophie when I grow up. Yeah.
• 36:42
  Age is just a number, and that was also one of my takeaways
• 36:46
  with Julie was like, she's 70 something, but she is, it feels
• 36:52
  like she's still just as like lively and spry and vibey as
• 36:58
  when she was so much younger. So we are going to wrap this up
• 37:02
  because we're almost out of time, but.
• 37:06
  What else? What were you?
• 37:07
  Oh, I want to say that. Oh, for next.
• 37:09
  Yes. So one of the other really
• 37:12
  amazing things that has come out of this season is that my mom.
• 37:18
  Sweet surprised us at our million 1,000,000 cups episode,
• 37:23
  which is a whole nother bag of worms for Emily.
• 37:25
  I'm I'm neutral now but. We.
• 37:27
  Did do our our first public speaking event this season.
• 37:31
  And I think that in and of itself was really beneficial for
• 37:34
  at least me. I mean, I know it's beneficial
• 37:36
  for you and us as a whole, but like, for me, getting back on
• 37:39
  the stage in front of people, I was a little nervous and I'm
• 37:42
  going to continue to be, but exposure therapy is the best
• 37:45
  therapy. Yeah, that opened us up to.
• 37:48
  Some other. Things other opportunities that
• 37:49
  we can see ourselves doing of doing public speaking
• 37:52
  presentations and at that presentation, which we don't
• 37:57
  have an episode on, it was filmed and live streamed on
• 38:02
  YouTube. But you can't actually hear us
• 38:04
  talk because our theme music though, it wasn't playing in the
• 38:07
  room, it was playing on the YouTube live stream.
• 38:10
  So you can't actually hear us at all, but you can watch it with
• 38:14
  closed captioning and kind of know what we're saying.
• 38:18
  But at that presentation my mom approached us at the end and
• 38:22
  said told us that she is hand sewing with a sewing machine but
• 38:27
  she is sewing tote bags for us and having them all screen
• 38:32
  printed at Talent Maker City who I have a deep connection to with
• 38:37
  the Go Wildly logo and she's going to make us like 50 some
• 38:40
  odd bags. Oh my God, that many.
• 38:42
  Yeah, we went fabric shopping together and Chelsea donated a
• 38:46
  bunch of fabric to her to use and she's going to make a shit
• 38:51
  load of tote bags that we can give as giveaways or give to our
• 38:56
  guests or do whatever we want with.
• 38:58
  That's really. Cool.
• 38:59
  Maybe we'll do a giveaway with that.
• 39:01
  Yeah, just. So sweet and special and the the
• 39:06
  handmade component and the family component that my mom
• 39:11
  decided to do that out of her own volition.
• 39:13
  I never said anything about like, would you do this for us?
• 39:16
  She just decided to do it. And I think she's just so
• 39:21
  thoughtful and kind and generous.
• 39:23
  And I also, yeah, that was amazing.
• 39:25
  I also want your mom shout out Teal.
• 39:30
  Do we need to have teal on? I've asked.
• 39:32
  She's not interested. At this moment, yeah.
• 39:35
  Yeah. Totally.
• 39:35
  And that makes sense. I'm gonna keep working on.
• 39:37
  Her, well, I've had to work on my dad.
• 39:38
  I mean, obviously we haven't recorded an episode yet with
• 39:41
  him. Well, we've only been doing this
• 39:42
  for a year. That's true.
• 39:43
  So but I have I do want to make a little statement like as we're
• 39:47
  growing, we are getting more people kind of like I feel like
• 39:51
  hitting us up trying to get their shoe in the door of like
• 39:54
  recording. And I wanted to just say, like,
• 39:56
  we see you. We had a really tight recording
• 39:59
  season, so we just did what we could do.
• 40:02
  I've been stopped numerous times being like, yeah, we need to do
• 40:05
  this. That's right.
• 40:07
  Yeah. And it's like, we're gonna get
• 40:08
  to you. We'll get to you.
• 40:09
  We're not stopping this. It'll.
• 40:10
  Be better. It'll be even like there'll be
• 40:12
  more, it'll be more serious because we keep growing.
• 40:15
  So there'll be more of an audience when you come on or
• 40:18
  whatever the case may be. Not that that's important
• 40:20
  because that's not what we're trying to do here in a, in a, in
• 40:23
  a sense, yeah. Like we're trying to make this a
• 40:25
  monetary our dream career, but like also like.
• 40:30
  With the, with the intention of we're telling amazing outdoor
• 40:34
  stories with good audio and video quality.
• 40:37
  Boom. Yeah.
• 40:38
  And that to that point, we had multiple guests this season who
• 40:42
  I contacted for last season and it didn't work out.
• 40:46
  And then when we got them on the season, it was like the most
• 40:48
  perfect conditions and circumstances and like they were
• 40:52
  further along in their careers. And so timing is magical and
• 40:58
  meant to be and absolutely if you are interested in joining us
• 41:04
  here on Go Wildly and being a guest and going on a little
• 41:07
  outdoor adventure. With US submission, Yep, you.
• 41:09
  Can put a make a submission on our website or you can e-mail us
• 41:13
  directly at gowildlyoregon@gmail.com and
• 41:18
  that will come to me and I will put you on our list.
• 41:20
  We have a very long list that is growing of people who have
• 41:26
  reached out to us interested in being guests and people that we
• 41:29
  have identified as potential guests.
• 41:31
  And we've recognized that everybody has a story and most
• 41:38
  of those stories happen outside. So if you've got that, let us
• 41:43
  know. We'd love to have you at some
• 41:45
  point in time. We record in person.
• 41:49
  Yes, no virtual. No virtual and.
• 41:53
  And only outside. And only outside.
• 41:55
  And we don't do over Zoom. So if you listen to this from
• 41:58
  far away, maybe one day we'll come to you.
• 42:01
  Yeah. Did that rhyme a little?
• 42:02
  Bit a little bit cool and that's those are our aspirations.
• 42:06
  I feel like it's fair to put put this in before we wrap up of
• 42:10
  that. We do have vision and
• 42:13
  aspirations of being able to travel as go wildly podcast and
• 42:17
  be in other regions interviewing outdoor enthusiasts.
• 42:24
  That would be like a great funding pinnacle for us to be
• 42:28
  able to take time to travel and go other places.
• 42:30
  Yeah, and let's talk about maybe what's on the agenda for like
• 42:34
  pod specifically for summer, keeping it just rolling and
• 42:37
  going. Yep, episodes every Wednesday.
• 42:40
  I'm gonna keep refining and like Instagram and stuff.
• 42:45
  I'm actually currently building a portfolio to send to our
• 42:49
  favoritist brands that we would potentially like to work with
• 42:54
  and then or just to have as like a portfolio and potentially
• 43:00
  getting some sort of a Patreon started rolling, maybe some
• 43:04
  merch. That's kind of something I'm
• 43:05
  going to work on intermittently between like now and next
• 43:08
  season. Like so, you know, next year,
• 43:10
  next season, so that when we launch next season, we're just a
• 43:13
  little bit more, we're just a little bit grow.
• 43:16
  Like so you can buy for the price of a cup of coffee a
• 43:19
  month. You can become part of our
• 43:21
  Patreon and like get a sticker, whatever we decide.
• 43:24
  Get some more behind the scenes footage.
• 43:28
  Yeah. When we're when we're making
• 43:30
  money from this, we'll be able to spend more time creating our
• 43:36
  beautiful product here. Yeah, it's gonna be lovely.
• 43:39
  Yeah. So there's a lot we still have
• 43:41
  in the works. It's not just, you know, a dead
• 43:44
  summer. Yeah, no, episodes are still
• 43:47
  coming out every. Week.
• 43:49
  Through the end of October, we just won't be actively recording
• 43:53
  yes. That's the only thing that's
• 43:54
  stopping. Yeah, we will continue to
• 43:56
  snowball. We do.
• 43:57
  Have technically we do have four more recordings on the calendar.
• 44:02
  You have two solo ones coming up, two, Yep, 2 next week.
• 44:07
  You have one next week and then you have 1-2 weeks after that.
• 44:11
  Oh, I thought you were doing that one with me.
• 44:12
  Nope. I am on the.
• 44:13
  River Was that the June 22nd? That's a different one.
• 44:18
  I will be at that one and then we'll have another one in July.
• 44:22
  Emily just tells me what to do. Yes, I'm the tent pole.
• 44:27
  I'm pitching the tent. So Yippy skippy what?
• 44:33
  Who's that one with? Which one?
• 44:35
  The other solo 1? Not the leash guy, but.
• 44:40
  A gal who saw us at 1,000,000 cups.
• 44:43
  The farmer. Nope, she's June 22nd farmer.
• 44:47
  The farmer is in June. Oh, OK.
• 44:50
  And then the July 1 is that is Chris from Worldwide Rafting.
• 44:56
  He's going to come through from Colorado.
• 44:59
  That's our 22nd. That's in July, July 23rd.
• 45:03
  Really. Yeah, that's sick because we
• 45:05
  potentially have a partnership going going to happen with him.
• 45:08
  That'll be good that he's coming through.
• 45:09
  Yeah. Awesome, awesome.
• 45:11
  Yeah, No, who's the other one to a gal from 1,000,000 cups?
• 45:14
  Yeah. Whom saw us there?
• 45:15
  OK. Yeah.
• 45:16
  Sick. I'll tell you more.
• 45:18
  I don't want to. I don't want any.
• 45:19
  Spoilers. I know, I'm sorry.
• 45:21
  From our. From our.
• 45:23
  I'm like I don't, OK. Yeah, Heather just goes when and
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  where I tell her to. Yeah, well, and that'll be
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  actually the first like this next Monday is the first alone
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  one that I've ever done. I really have to like step it up
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  because usually Emily's the one that's very Emily has got a lot
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  of public speaking articulation. I'm the fun.
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  Well, Emily's also the fun giver.
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  Let's not. But I am very silly.
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  You're the silly and I will be on the river, so you won't even
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  be able to call me. Consult with me.
• 45:58
  Oh, that's fine. Check in with me.
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  So I'll give you all. I will make sure that you are
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  set up for success. I'm actually.
• 46:04
  And it will be on you to execute.
• 46:07
  I'm just gonna. Pretend I'm doing a real estate
• 46:09
  meeting getting to know my client.
• 46:12
  But this is go wildly. Well, I guess, yeah, I know.
• 46:15
  But that will take me. That'll decompartmentalize it
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  just the way I need it to, OK. Just make sure you're wearing
• 46:20
  the right hat. Oh, I will.
• 46:22
  OK. This one, yeah.
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  OK. Are we good?
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  Yes, I'm Heather. So that well that is our end of
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  recording season wrap up episode and more episodes with guests to
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  come. Yes, I'm Heather.
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  I'm Emily and together we're go wildly.
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  Yeah. Hey.
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  I gotta pee the. Cruise.
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  Oh, we have. We also we have not been deep
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  squatting at the end of our episodes.
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  And it shows. Or twerking.
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  So we. Haven't been twerking.
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