Latest / Back In The Closet - Two Crazy Cat Ladies / A Cattitude of Gratitude

Transcript

A Cattitude of Gratitude · Back In The Closet - Two Crazy Cat Ladies

• 0:01
  I'm Jay, I'm Adrian and together we are the 2 crazy girl ladies
• 0:05
  I'm going to cut. You.
• 0:09
  I think I just peed. Buckle up.
• 0:11
  We're back in the closet. Welcome to another episode of
• 0:21
  Back in the Closet Closet If. You didn't do your normal intro?
• 0:26
  Welcome. To another episode of Back in
• 0:29
  the Closet with the 2 Crazy Cat Ladies.
• 0:30
  Y'all am I wrong in this, but was that the very first time in
• 0:34
  the history of Back in the Closet that Jay didn't start
• 0:36
  with? Well, OK, so last week, last
• 0:41
  week we did you I, I actually was when I was in the shower
• 0:45
  today, I thought about starting it with a like a, a hook of
• 0:49
  yeah, of, of like a hook of the subject of tonight, which we are
• 0:56
  talking about a cattitude of gratitude, right?
• 0:59
  So like, obviously it means an attitude of gratitude.
• 1:04
  Thanks. Thanks for spelling that out.
• 1:06
  Are you sweating? I'm very warm.
• 1:09
  It's warm. It's.
• 1:10
  Warm. I'm very warm.
• 1:11
  Can I start off with telling you what I'm most grateful about
• 1:13
  right now? Sure.
• 1:15
  May I? Yes please.
• 1:16
  OK you guys. So I don't know if you guys know
• 1:18
  this, but I'm not a big fan of makeup.
• 1:20
  However, when we do stuff like podcast or catfish, she's on
• 1:25
  camera, right? You guys are about to experience
• 1:28
  why I do put a bit of powder on because I glow like the moon.
• 1:33
  Those for those of you that are joining us live.
• 1:36
  And tonight I have on moon. Phase.
• 1:38
  Yeah, tonight there's no makeup, you guys.
• 1:41
  I'm just sweating. Profusely sweating bowls.
• 1:45
  Yeah, anyway, so it's going to be glowy tonight.
• 1:48
  I'll start with that. Yes, but it's just the two of us
• 1:51
  tonight. We're just the two of us.
• 1:54
  We can make it. What a day.
• 1:56
  What a day. I have to tell you when we
• 1:58
  started today, and I'm telling you up until about 4:00 today.
• 2:03
  It's one of those things where you schedule a podcast because
• 2:06
  there's so much to be grateful for.
• 2:08
  And we really want to share those things.
• 2:09
  Yeah, but it's hard to feel it in the midst of the right,
• 2:15
  however. Yeah, so, yeah, so, so hi,
• 2:22
  everyone. Thank you so much for for
• 2:24
  joining us. Welcome.
• 2:27
  We're excited to be here, back in our closet once again.
• 2:31
  Well. There's no AC event.
• 2:33
  Well, there's no AC event and also where and we'll, we'll get
• 2:37
  into this in a in a minute, but where we're actually not hosting
• 2:42
  an interview with someone and we could just talk real with you
• 2:45
  guys. So, so most of you guys like the
• 2:48
  people that are the 15 people that are here right now, right
• 2:51
  like that. We don't have a.
• 2:52
  We don't. We don't have a.
• 2:53
  Lot of people because it's. Not, you know, we don't have
• 2:55
  like we don't have a huge draw because we're not talking about
• 2:59
  a cat specific ailment. I forgot to shut off my sorry
• 3:05
  for the Ding. I forgot to put myself on June
• 3:09
  to start. OK.
• 3:11
  So we're, you know, we don't like typically we have something
• 3:17
  that's drawing, something that's exciting for people to learn
• 3:22
  about or engage with, I think. Gratitude is a big deal, though.
• 3:26
  Good for us, gratitude is everything and and so we when we
• 3:32
  were discussing what should we talk about on the podcast this
• 3:36
  week, we've had so many moments of real true gratitude that we
• 3:45
  were like, what if we just talk about this because I think it's
• 3:49
  I think it's important for every human being, but most
• 3:51
  specifically every cat parent. Gratitude is the highest form of
• 3:57
  thought, right? Like it is, I mean.
• 4:00
  It's GK Chesterton, right? But but it's true but.
• 4:03
  He's not the only person that says that, right?
• 4:06
  Like there's like when, when, if you, if you read, if you, if you
• 4:11
  look into, you know, like the Deepak Chopras and the Gary
• 4:15
  Zukoffs and the like the, the awesome authors that we love to
• 4:22
  read and have for 20 years. Gratitude is really where it's
• 4:29
  at. And so we decided that we wanted
• 4:32
  to make this podcast a little bit about or we wanted to just
• 4:37
  bring it real with you guys and and talk about our cattitude of
• 4:41
  gratitude, right And where where we're at right now.
• 4:45
  I it feels like everybody knows everything all the time about
• 4:48
  us. Is she just dumpster diving
• 4:50
  right now? Our cat is dumpster diving.
• 4:53
  That's happening. I don't think there's any
• 4:56
  plastic in there, babe. No, Oh my God, here's let's
• 4:59
  start with this. I want to talk about this.
• 5:01
  I want to start with the fact that we have so much to be
• 5:04
  grateful for and really what was the catalyst for us deciding to
• 5:08
  do this topic. Catalyst.
• 5:09
  Is the fact that the Cat Behaviorist just launched this
• 5:17
  is such, this is such a heart feeling for us because we are,
• 5:21
  as as many of you guys know, we are working through some cat
• 5:24
  behavior issues, including inner cat aggression or cats peeing
• 5:28
  all over the place. Just really working on their
• 5:32
  sense of feeling happy and safe and like they don't need to pee
• 5:36
  on Jay's face, you know, right. Like we've never dealt with this
• 5:40
  issue in 20 plus years of having cats.
• 5:42
  We've never dealt with this issue until about two years ago.
• 5:45
  And there were so many things. This is our 10 year anniversary
• 5:49
  year. We started in 2015.
• 5:51
  There were so many things that we had planned and so many of
• 5:54
  those things have been like, you know it like you make plans and
• 5:59
  then God laughs. That has happened.
• 6:01
  And while it was frustrating in those moments, we recognize that
• 6:05
  it was. We've been around long enough to
• 6:08
  know that when stuff happens, it's completely out of our
• 6:11
  control sometimes. There's a lesson in that
• 6:13
  sometimes. There's there's always an
• 6:15
  opportunity in that. There's also always an
• 6:17
  opportunity or lesson or there's always something bigger than
• 6:21
  what we are. What?
• 6:23
  We are planning in our little. In our little brains that don't
• 6:28
  work that well these days, we we are.
• 6:32
  There's always something better, right?
• 6:34
  Yes. I mean, Friday, just Friday was
• 6:37
  just dumpster diving and it reminded me we just had this
• 6:40
  incredible meeting today about again, there's just so much
• 6:44
  happening that we don't always work.
• 6:49
  We're not always sharing in real time on, on social media.
• 6:52
  There's so much happening that's just like, you know, Friday,
• 6:55
  even with your dumpster diving. There's something that we're
• 6:58
  about to look into that's really exciting about helping cats that
• 7:02
  love to eat pika. Kitties.
• 7:05
  Yeah, or. Pika kitties, whatever you call
• 7:07
  them. Yeah, it's OK.
• 7:08
  So let's, let's, let's bring it to where it makes sense to
• 7:11
  everybody instead of just in our heads, 'cause we tend to, This
• 7:15
  is why we're like, OK, we just have to do interviews because we
• 7:17
  can keep it on point if we're on interview.
• 7:20
  Otherwise, like it's always the two of us together and we start
• 7:25
  halfway, we start sentences halfway through a a mind
• 7:29
  conversation that she knows that I'm having but the average
• 7:34
  listener doesn't. So let's talk about this.
• 7:35
  OK, so back to gratitude is the highest form of thought we have.
• 7:43
  We, the 2 crazy Cat ladies, Jay and Adrian, we are so grateful
• 7:51
  for where we're at right now on our journey and where we have
• 7:56
  been on our journey and for everything that has come before
• 8:00
  to where we to, to lead us to where we're at right now with
• 8:06
  cats and with cat health and with cat behavior and with all
• 8:14
  of it. We are.
• 8:16
  We are so grateful, but we want to but but negates everything
• 8:25
  before. So we want to encourage you guys
• 8:31
  and with our own stories, right, with our own story of where
• 8:34
  we're at and why we're here and and how we don't even fucking
• 8:38
  know that we got here. Like we don't really even
• 8:43
  understand all of it, but what keeps us going every day is the
• 8:49
  gratitude. So what I was the other night, I
• 8:55
  was sitting with, we were, we were just sitting together.
• 8:58
  And I said it is crazy to me that literally everything that
• 9:07
  is happening and that continues to happen, like continues to
• 9:10
  show up every everything day, like literally every it's it's
• 9:16
  almost every single days we have someone or something that
• 9:21
  reaches out to us and it says, Hey, I would love to do this for
• 9:25
  the cats with you. I would love to help do this.
• 9:29
  I would love to have you on my podcast.
• 9:30
  I would love to like collaborate in this way.
• 9:32
  I would love to you guys don't even know the amount of things
• 9:36
  that we're about to shout from the rooftop.
• 9:40
  Share with you guys launch. Cats are cats are about to be so
• 9:46
  much more acknowledged in so many ways.
• 9:49
  And it's crazy to think 10 years ago how much like we started
• 9:55
  this to become the resource that we needed, right.
• 9:59
  So first and foremost, our our biggest gratitude goes to this
• 10:03
  community. We were in a meeting today where
• 10:05
  someone was very kind and said you guys are just incredible.
• 10:10
  What you guys do for cats, what you guys, whatever, like cats
• 10:13
  need to. It's not.
• 10:15
  Us you cats need to it is you should finish your sentences.
• 10:18
  Because cats need to. Cats need to have more
• 10:20
  recognition, cats need to have more resources, cats need to be
• 10:24
  included in this research and these things that are going on,
• 10:27
  cats need to be acknowledged. We need stuff that is for cats
• 10:32
  specifically. And yes, we do.
• 10:36
  But it's not us. You guys and all of you guys
• 10:38
  know this. It is this beautiful.
• 10:40
  It is you, it is it is you, it is you.
• 10:44
  It is our beautiful community. It is this, this space and these
• 10:50
  amazing. Cat parents that are that are
• 10:55
  that are seeking, that are looking that are that are
• 10:57
  hearing that there might be maybe we take maybe.
• 11:01
  We. It is, it is our voices all
• 11:04
  together, but maybe we give plant seeds maybe and that's all
• 11:09
  we really ever want to do is just plant these seeds here and
• 11:13
  there. But you guys water them.
• 11:16
  You guys are the are the sunlight on them.
• 11:19
  You guys are the ones that make them grow to where we're at
• 11:22
  right now where it's like guys, you guys are doing some really
• 11:25
  awesome things and you're blah, blah, blah.
• 11:28
  And we're like. No one in the world would pay
• 11:30
  attention to us if it wasn't for you, correct?
• 11:32
  Honestly like for for this collective.
• 11:36
  But it's not about us, it's about the cats.
• 11:38
  Right to to give our cats a better.
• 11:40
  We're just ready to be here, to be the voice, right?
• 11:44
  Oh. And it is.
• 11:46
  It's it's bad to get loud. It's, it's guys about to get
• 11:50
  loud. It's, it's crazy.
• 11:51
  Maybe we maybe we look at our at our lineup here, our Bullets.
• 11:56
  We need a couple of bullets of the things that were super.
• 11:58
  I mean, I think let's talk a little bit about Linda Hall.
• 12:01
  I think a lot of you guys are following our journey on the.
• 12:03
  Cat Behaviorist. The Cat behaviorist.com A lot of
• 12:07
  you guys might be following our journey on us better providing
• 12:13
  a. Resource.
• 12:16
  Right, like she is the resource that we needed.
• 12:19
  We tried for two years implementing all the things that
• 12:22
  we have learned from cat behaviorist along the along the
• 12:25
  way to try to deal with our issue for us humans, right?
• 12:28
  It's the they're peeing on our pillows, they're peeing on Jay's
• 12:31
  face. They're peeing on the one piece
• 12:33
  of carpet that we have in our house.
• 12:35
  They're peeing on our stove. And we think we literally got to
• 12:39
  the point where we thought it was going to be a season.
• 12:40
  A lot of you guys are are aware of this journey.
• 12:44
  It wasn't until we had our session with Linda that we
• 12:47
  actually felt hope. And we are probably a month and
• 12:50
  1/2 in now. And it isn't so much the fact
• 12:53
  that there is such a big decrease the salt, the issue
• 12:57
  isn't done. It's not like voila, we're not
• 13:00
  done cleaning up cat pee, but we are seeing such a huge change in
• 13:06
  our cats demeanors in in the frequency of these issues in the
• 13:11
  inter cat relationships that are just, you know, Annie Madison
• 13:17
  and Friday in particular are showing such growth.
• 13:24
  I think is the only way they're they're blue.
• 13:27
  Annie in particular is just blooming.
• 13:28
  What is going on your home? I'm just reading the comments
• 13:31
  and this is it. It's just, I'm sorry.
• 13:32
  It's just it's, it's beautiful because it's so many people are
• 13:36
  are giving us praises, but they're it.
• 13:39
  But it is all of us, right? And you guys are noticing that
• 13:41
  too, that it's that like all of a sudden now cats are getting
• 13:46
  more recognition. And it's not just funny videos,
• 13:51
  although I do feel like they play a part in getting cats more
• 13:56
  recognition. But it's not just the funny
• 13:58
  videos and the cute videos of cats, but it's the, it's the,
• 14:04
  it's the closeted. It's just like us closet cat
• 14:07
  ladies. No more right part of our back
• 14:11
  in the closet, really. How much we learn from you guys,
• 14:17
  I mean, there the questions that we learned to ask this amazing
• 14:22
  growing body of resources that is now available to us that we
• 14:26
  there's, you know, there is this growing acknowledgement in in
• 14:33
  the areas of science, in the areas of behavior, in the areas
• 14:36
  of nutrition, in the, in all of these areas that people are more
• 14:40
  focused in on that now we can ask bona fide experts what can,
• 14:46
  what can we do? And our only mission is to
• 14:48
  learn, share and we can all grow together.
• 14:52
  And you guys give us so many things to learn more about
• 14:56
  things that we've may not have encountered.
• 14:58
  It is a remarkable growth spurt that's happening.
• 15:03
  I mean it is a. It's beautiful and we are
• 15:05
  grateful. And Madeline, yes, I think it's
• 15:08
  Madeline. I don't have my glasses on but.
• 15:10
  Madeline. Madeline.
• 15:12
  I wish I could find out more information about senior cats
• 15:14
  and how to help them along their.
• 15:15
  Journey follow follow us because we we have been through that
• 15:20
  journey and we continue to learn as much as possible about how to
• 15:25
  help our senior kitties. We are about to launch a
• 15:29
  specific product for senior kitties.
• 15:33
  It's it's coming this month guys like in a couple weeks right
• 15:37
  you're you're going to see a lot of teases about it on social
• 15:39
  media. We're very, very excited.
• 15:42
  And another thing that we are super grateful for is what's to
• 15:48
  come, not just what we did, what we've already like, like
• 15:52
  collaborations that we've already had like for this year,
• 15:54
  like with teeth and with the cat behaviorist.
• 15:57
  Like all of this is like amazing stuff that we get to.
• 16:03
  We, we have the, we have the privilege, the, the, the
• 16:08
  pleasure, the gift to be able to offer it to, to the cat
• 16:13
  community to share it with you guys.
• 16:15
  You have. To understand that behind every
• 16:17
  collaboration is well, this year it has been a woman hell bent.
• 16:23
  I'm making a difference in a way that is going to make actionable
• 16:28
  change empowering for us. And more to come.
• 16:32
  And more to come. It's just an incredible, yes,
• 16:37
  it's just an incredible experience to be able to share
• 16:39
  someone's hard work with that has this, this profound impact
• 16:46
  on the, the quality of life, the happiness of life for our cats.
• 16:51
  That is just, it's, it's mind blowing to me.
• 16:55
  It's mind blowing to me that we're ten years in and it's
• 16:58
  almost like there's a deluge of amazing things.
• 17:03
  That are going to please, please define the word deluge because I
• 17:07
  have no idea what that means. You just use the big word and.
• 17:11
  You know, like when it's raining and then all of a sudden it
• 17:14
  comes down like sheets. Like it's just like.
• 17:16
  Correct. Today was not a deluge, but it's
• 17:19
  just like a sudden flood. Like just, Oh my God, it's just
• 17:24
  that's so much that's. Called deluge instead of using
• 17:27
  the word downpour. Like couldn't somebody just say
• 17:30
  downpour instead of deluge? Can someone drop the definition
• 17:35
  here? I don't really know the exact.
• 17:38
  Rob. QQ.
• 17:39
  Rob. Mr. Milligan just said point of
• 17:42
  fact. Whoa, whoa, where'd you go?
• 17:44
  Sorry I'm so behind in the comments.
• 17:46
  Point of fact for cat acknowledgement, Time magazine.
• 17:50
  What has a cat's special edition on the news stands right now?
• 17:55
  Yes, I bought a copy. See, I'm saying I have.
• 17:57
  No idea. I'm saying it's.
• 17:58
  Let's go. We're we're going somewhere A
• 18:01
  severe plus. Thank you, Judith.
• 18:04
  A severe foot, right? Like it?
• 18:05
  Just why? Not just say, downpour.
• 18:08
  Different. Than a downpour.
• 18:09
  Deluge is a hard word. Do you even know how to spell it
• 18:12
  you? Probably do look DEL.
• 18:15
  Because you were home school. GE.
• 18:17
  Whatever. Anyway, we do have a deluge of.
• 18:28
  So many exciting things. So many things that just
• 18:31
  continue to and like, we could tell you a lot of them, but I
• 18:36
  don't know that I'd like I, but we also want to always keep the
• 18:40
  suspense of the exciting things that are to come.
• 18:43
  Well, yeah, wait until it's. Actually.
• 18:45
  And yeah, I don't. Want.
• 18:46
  To and a lot of them are just like people coming together with
• 18:49
  like we mind jam together. And it's like, Oh my God, what
• 18:52
  if, what if we could, oh, thank God you reached out to us.
• 18:57
  What if we could do this for cats?
• 18:58
  And what if we could do that for cats?
• 19:00
  And they're like taking notes, like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:04
  let's do this and with. And then we see where it goes
• 19:06
  because we're not the scientists.
• 19:08
  We're not the formulators. Like, we're not like these.
• 19:11
  Your Mama is here. And she said Noah's flood was a
• 19:14
  deluge. Thank you, Mama.
• 19:19
  You. Can watch a live video.
• 19:24
  Oh my gosh, my heart just had a flutter.
• 19:27
  I love you so much, Laura Lee said.
• 19:30
  Deluge is the fans is Deluge is fancier, and this is the year
• 19:34
  for fancier words. All right, Laura Lee, let's do
• 19:38
  that. Meg said perhaps a plethora of
• 19:41
  Kitty things. I know plethora mag.
• 19:43
  I know plethora. I can do plethora, but all to
• 19:49
  say, we are so super grateful for where we're at now.
• 19:55
  We talk about Jay's anxiety. 1st right me too.
• 19:58
  So it's a it's a interesting thing when and some of you guys
• 20:02
  hear some of you listeners will completely understand and some
• 20:06
  of you guys will be like you're you're dumb.
• 20:10
  But we we literally sit in this. In this, what's a good way to
• 20:20
  say it? We, we sit in this like bed of
• 20:24
  roses, right if you will, we sit in this.
• 20:28
  I can't wait to hear where this is going.
• 20:30
  We we sit in gratitude for all of the things that are
• 20:36
  happening. There are people that there are
• 20:39
  people that I know, right, but I might not know well, but right
• 20:43
  now, like their husband just died, their dog just died.
• 20:48
  They're you know, they're, they're, they just lost their
• 20:50
  house. They just lost their this or
• 20:52
  that. And, and it, and it is like, oh,
• 20:54
  heavy, like it's heavy to, to think about.
• 20:58
  Like, I can't believe that you're going through that.
• 21:00
  Like that is so sad and so hard and so stressful, right?
• 21:07
  And yet we sit here in this just opportunity after opportunity
• 21:12
  after opportunity after opportunity and things just
• 21:16
  coming to us left and right and it's so beautiful and it is so
• 21:23
  awesome because it's more opportunity to offer to you
• 21:26
  guys, not opportunity for us necessarily in every case, like
• 21:30
  the in some cases, yes, but also like opportunity.
• 21:34
  It's a collective. It's a collective to, to, to
• 21:37
  better the better the world, right?
• 21:41
  Like that's the whole, that's Jay's whole goal from like when
• 21:44
  she was a whatever, what do I want to do?
• 21:46
  I want to make a difference in this world.
• 21:47
  That's what I want to do, right? It wasn't about cats at that
• 21:50
  time. It wasn't about even people.
• 21:52
  It was just like, I want to make a difference when I was like 13.
• 21:57
  Now it's like everything is just falling into our laps, Yet
• 22:02
  there's this anxiety piece of me that is like overwhelmed.
• 22:07
  And I get, I, I get so much so that like I took a Xanax this
• 22:14
  weekend, this past weekend because it was like, I don't, I
• 22:18
  think I'm, I think I'm verging panic attack.
• 22:21
  Like I don't, I don't, I, I think I'm verging panic attack.
• 22:24
  I, I just can't. Like there's so much, right?
• 22:27
  But it's all such beautiful things.
• 22:29
  And what fixes that for us is when we sit down and count our
• 22:33
  blessings. What what fixes what fixes that
• 22:36
  for me is, is taking a breath, maybe a Xanax, but but being
• 22:44
  able to like step back and say, wow, this is so great.
• 22:53
  And if I can for me again, some of you guys will get this Type
• 22:58
  A's, we'll get this Type B's and C's, probably won't.
• 23:01
  But if I can be present in this moment versus for instance,
• 23:11
  launch of the cat behaviorist, we wake up Saturday morning,
• 23:16
  it's a big day. It's a huge.
• 23:18
  Day. It's the day of the launch.
• 23:19
  We have put a lot of work into that in a small amount of time
• 23:22
  to make this happen. Very excited about it.
• 23:26
  Another person, another person is involved, which adds another
• 23:32
  for me personally, adds another layer of the overwhelm or the I
• 23:38
  need to get it right, peace, right?
• 23:41
  Like, because it's not like it's just us like this podcast,
• 23:44
  right, Like how many, how many people are going to listen to if
• 23:47
  we don't have any kind of cat health behavior something?
• 23:51
  It's not going to break or make the world.
• 23:53
  And, and like, OK, this podcast might go nowhere, most likely
• 23:58
  will go nowhere because it's just the two of us talking about
• 24:01
  gratitude, right? Fine, totally fine.
• 24:05
  But if we're bringing somebody else on the podcast, I need it
• 24:07
  to be right. I need them to be able to see a
• 24:12
  like a difference. I need them to be able to get
• 24:14
  their message out. I want as many people to join as
• 24:18
  possible so as, so we can plant as many seeds as possible or
• 24:23
  that person can plant as many seeds as possible, or they can
• 24:25
  hear it from a different source. It's it's so important that I
• 24:30
  get it right. I don't know why, but it's so
• 24:33
  important that I get it right now.
• 24:36
  I lost my train of thought. We just it was a heavy feeling.
• 24:40
  For you on Saturday morning, Adrian said.
• 24:45
  What are you thinking first thing in the morning?
• 24:47
  The first thing she said is 3. 30 in the morning and she's
• 24:50
  sitting there. Oh, I forgot.
• 24:52
  Wide awake. I'm like, what are you?
• 24:55
  Thinking about it was 3:30 in the morning.
• 24:57
  That's right. What are you thinking about?
• 24:59
  And she said it is the day of launching the cat behaviorist.
• 25:04
  And she said. Super Zoo.
• 25:08
  In August. Which is, which is another event
• 25:12
  that we're hosting in August. And she's like, seriously, we at
• 25:17
  3:30 in the morning, seriously, we have the cat behaviorist
• 25:21
  launching today and you're thinking about August?
• 25:25
  She's always forward thinking. Right.
• 25:27
  But that's my issue is being present in the moment when I can
• 25:31
  just be present where we're at right now.
• 25:35
  And I encourage everyone to do this as well as much as
• 25:38
  possible, especially with your cats, because I see the
• 25:41
  difference on those few in those few moments when I'm able to
• 25:47
  actually sit and be present in this moment with my cat, what
• 25:54
  kind of change that makes. And we'll get to the behavior
• 25:58
  portion of that too, with the issues that we have going on.
• 26:02
  But but if I can, if I can be here in this moment, then that's
• 26:08
  great. The other night, Adrian said to
• 26:11
  me, it's like Sunday when I just like this weekend, I was just
• 26:16
  too much for me. And yeah, both of us, we were
• 26:19
  just like overwhelmed, right? I.
• 26:21
  Didn't know she was too much for me too.
• 26:23
  And I was I, I'm always too much.
• 26:26
  So she, she said, and I think this is a biblical reference,
• 26:31
  but she said to who much is given, much is required.
• 26:36
  We know that. And I was like, OK, so we needed
• 26:42
  and, and she said we you need to focus on the fact that we are
• 26:48
  dropping rocks. And I was like, what?
• 26:52
  And she referenced back to a video or a book or something
• 26:58
  that we had have seen in the past, which is talking about
• 27:04
  when you drop those rocks in the water, right?
• 27:07
  And the ripple effect happens. And your job, as she said, your
• 27:14
  job is to drop the rock. That's your job.
• 27:18
  You don't need to hold on to the ripples because they go where
• 27:20
  they may, but drop the rock and watch the ripple effect happen
• 27:28
  and that hit home for me. That really hit.
• 27:31
  More succinctly, it was from It was actually shout out to Erica
• 27:34
  McKenzie. It was a near death experience
• 27:37
  where she was given a vision of being the rock and got the
• 27:41
  saying of you are the rock, you are the light.
• 27:43
  The light is from your creator. Then you drop the rock and you
• 27:46
  watch the ripple effect. You let it go, basically,
• 27:49
  instead of taking ownership of everything, instead of feeling
• 27:51
  all the stress of anything, you have to recognize when energy is
• 27:54
  supposed to move through you. So it's not so much about hold
• 27:58
  it. You know, people use that
• 28:00
  reference of they're holding onto rocks.
• 28:01
  That's kind of a thing, right? And it can't, it can pile up and
• 28:06
  it can feel heavy. But when you recognize that what
• 28:09
  you're doing is meant to be a ripple effect in the water of
• 28:13
  mankind, right? You, you, you can release the
• 28:16
  anxiety of the the ownership of it.
• 28:20
  You can do to whom much is given, much is required.
• 28:24
  You can do many, many things to do your best.
• 28:29
  You know, like Buddha says, the only real failure in life is to.
• 28:32
  Not be. True not to be true to the best
• 28:34
  that you know you can do your best, but then you have to let
• 28:37
  the ripple effect do its own thing.
• 28:39
  You have to let it go instead of taking ownership up every a.
• 28:43
  Moment of and then having to take a Xanax, yeah.
• 28:46
  So, so I immediately came upstairs and I and I typed in my
• 28:51
  computer on Word and I printed out to whom much is given much
• 28:55
  is required, which didn't actually like that statement on
• 28:58
  its own doesn't actually fix anxiety.
• 29:01
  It doesn't actually help any in any way, shape or form my
• 29:04
  anxiety, right. But to whom much is given, much
• 29:07
  is required. I know that.
• 29:08
  I get that. I'm actually grateful for that.
• 29:12
  Then I followed it up with so be present.
• 29:17
  Stay grateful. And drop the rocks.
• 29:21
  Drop the rocks and let and and watch the ripple effect.
• 29:26
  And then I, and then I taped it on our mirror and I said, how
• 29:30
  about we we talk about gratitude for our podcast history.
• 29:33
  Oh my goodness. Our favorite friend from the
• 29:36
  north also. Known as favorite friend.
• 29:38
  From the north said Hi, is it true if I remove the moisture
• 29:43
  from my cat's fresh food diet it becomes healthier?
• 29:46
  If yes, what techniques do you recommend?
• 29:51
  Rodney Habib is in the House, right?
• 29:53
  Now this is interesting because there was a a recent post that
• 29:57
  Rodney shared today. Rodney Habib is from.
• 30:01
  A kipper company? Yes, Another.
• 30:05
  Gratitude. Gratitude point this.
• 30:07
  Is this is probably the most powerful citizen scientist in
• 30:11
  the world that has changed the lives of our cats and many pets
• 30:17
  all over the world and I love us like.
• 30:20
  Thank you for thank you for joining Rodney.
• 30:22
  He's probably not here anymore. You probably just didn't said
• 30:24
  something. But what?
• 30:25
  But but I am, I'm like, like Rodney is someone that we
• 30:30
  wouldn't be creating content if it weren't for him.
• 30:34
  Like he was the inspiration for us to show up on camera, give
• 30:39
  information because it's uncomfortable.
• 30:41
  Sometimes when? You it is.
• 30:42
  It is uncomfortable right At first.
• 30:45
  At least now it's like whatever, clearly.
• 30:51
  Kathleen is asking why would it make it healthier?
• 30:54
  Cats need moisture. Thank you, Kathleen.
• 30:56
  It is common sense, but I love the fact that there was a study,
• 31:00
  I'm I'm for those from the podcast.
• 31:03
  There was a study, oh, I got balloons.
• 31:06
  There was a study done that basically said fresh food is too
• 31:11
  diluted with moisture for those nutrients to make a difference,
• 31:15
  which is why kibble is this concentrated.
• 31:21
  Magic. Like they literally post that on
• 31:24
  their website. That was a thing.
• 31:26
  This is why we always say know your source you guys.
• 31:29
  When you read a study, who paid for it?
• 31:32
  Look at all the footnotes. And that wasn't a study, that
• 31:36
  was somebody's website, that was a marketing it.
• 31:38
  Was a. Marketing is what it was.
• 31:40
  Yeah, it was. A it was very, it was very much
• 31:43
  like Rodney, if you're still here, I wanted to say, and I I
• 31:47
  don't know if it would have made sense to you, but I wanted to
• 31:50
  say you can't fix this with duct tape.
• 31:52
  Like that was like my first thought process was like, jeez,
• 31:56
  like you can't, you can't even fix this.
• 31:59
  You can't fix it like. Back-to-back to Jay's point,
• 32:01
  though, I think that we as human beings often, whatever it is, if
• 32:06
  there's a a deluge of blessings, if there's a deluge, challenges
• 32:14
  we tend to, we tend to get on this hamster wheel of overwhelm
• 32:20
  and that turns into anxiety that turns into this heavy feeling.
• 32:23
  It turns into this focusing on the negative things.
• 32:26
  It turns into a frequency, if you will, to use a woo woo term
• 32:32
  that is much lower than the the light and the abundance that is
• 32:41
  all around us. You know, it's like we get too
• 32:43
  caught in the snow. You know, when you go up to ATV
• 32:46
  screen and all you see are the little pixels.
• 32:48
  If you back up and you look at the big picture, it's like,
• 32:52
  that's beautiful. Jay has a tendency to do that
• 32:55
  where she just gets however beautiful and abundant and how
• 32:59
  many opportunities there are. It feels heavy because it's so
• 33:03
  much instead of being able to talk, especially when there's
• 33:05
  other people involved. Right, right.
• 33:07
  Like I need it to be, right? If like for everybody else,
• 33:11
  right? But you understand the idea.
• 33:13
  And the opportunity was not from you and that it was something.
• 33:17
  So you have to let that energy flow through.
• 33:19
  You have to recognize that you, you cannot take ownership of
• 33:23
  everything. You are meant to be a conduit
• 33:25
  for the things that come into your life and, and do what you
• 33:30
  can to improve. I mean, that's true.
• 33:32
  That's true. And guys we have.
• 33:34
  So many really exciting things coming up and I am going to do
• 33:39
  my best to stay and stay, stay present, right, to stay in the
• 33:44
  moment and to to be able to I mean, there's so much, there's
• 33:51
  so much and that like. I don't even know how to land.
• 33:58
  Well, I want to. I want to say specifically.
• 34:00
  The challenge that we've been dealing with, with our cuts and
• 34:02
  so many of you guys have been so supportive.
• 34:05
  You guys have been raw, real with us going through the same
• 34:08
  things. It's not something that a lot of
• 34:10
  us like to talk about. Our cats having behavioral
• 34:12
  issues, peeing under stuff. It's one of those crazy cat lady
• 34:16
  stereotypes that our house smells like cat piss.
• 34:19
  It's like, you know, it's one of those things.
• 34:22
  In 20 years, we've never dealt with this issue until this
• 34:25
  specific clouder of cats. And I have to say, working with
• 34:29
  Linda, one of the things I'm most grateful for is it has
• 34:32
  shifted. She has given us tools to best
• 34:37
  handle the specific, like individual needs of our cats
• 34:41
  because it is layered. There is grief that goes into
• 34:44
  it. We know that Friday is still
• 34:46
  grieving the loss of Twist. We know that there is this, you
• 34:50
  know, Annie coming into the house and Annie's trauma,
• 34:53
  wherever she came from, not knowing how to use a litter box
• 34:57
  has put all of our cats on full tilt instead of us focusing
• 35:01
  always only on the negative of did you clean?
• 35:05
  And that's where we're at 0. Just always.
• 35:09
  That's overwhelming. Total breakdowns of like, we
• 35:12
  have so much shit to do today and I'm three hours into
• 35:15
  cleaning up cat piss because we just found another spot.
• 35:18
  You know, it's like overwhelming.
• 35:20
  And that affects obviously our energy and effects our
• 35:25
  relationship with our cats. We will admit you just start
• 35:29
  resenting. We were literally.
• 35:32
  When we met. With.
• 35:33
  Linda, we were like, OK, well, we've got something you need to
• 35:39
  fix for us 'cause we're like, we're at our like we're at the
• 35:43
  point that we are not grateful at all for our cats and, and I
• 35:48
  want I want to bring that we can say it I.
• 35:51
  Love them I love them all dearly I love all specific beautiful
• 35:55
  things about them we're not going to not feed them.
• 35:57
  We're. Not going to, yeah.
• 35:58
  But the feeling that we were, that we were having was like, I
• 36:04
  think we like the, the only time that we were like really like
• 36:09
  pleased was when like maybe they would come up on her chest at
• 36:12
  night when we're sleeping or something, you know, like it was
• 36:14
  then they gave us the tools to start.
• 36:16
  Mitigating these issues, like genuinely we have, we are
• 36:21
  probably at let's say almost 60% resolved.
• 36:29
  I feel like we are today on a couple.
• 36:31
  Yeah, 60. Percent.
• 36:34
  She gave us the tools to to really tackle the issues and
• 36:39
  also gave us the ability to celebrate the good stuff and it
• 36:43
  was the celebration. Of the good stuff, the gratitude
• 36:46
  of the good stuff that really I feel like on an energy level
• 36:52
  changed so much because once we put it in our heads that we're
• 36:59
  gonna celebrate when they're not peeing on things or when they're
• 37:03
  not fighting or you know like then we started paying attention
• 37:06
  to them closer. And the energy that we give the.
• 37:09
  Negative is minuscule. Now it is literally a very calm,
• 37:16
  very controlled, very like action plan.
• 37:20
  This is what this is how we handle it.
• 37:22
  For the first couple weeks, it was like, and, and Linda will
• 37:25
  say, use your words on the launch day.
• 37:27
  Our, our cats, of course, had to demonstrate their behavior
• 37:30
  issues on launch day on the live.
• 37:34
  And Linda said, use your words because in those moments we're
• 37:37
  reactionary, right? So it took a little bit of time
• 37:40
  to kind of exercise that muscle of how to respond, not react and
• 37:45
  and instead shift our energy to the celebratory positive
• 37:51
  relationship building moments. And it's profound, profound the
• 37:57
  impact that it has on our cat's demeanor, on our cat's behavior,
• 38:02
  on our attitudes, on our dailiness.
• 38:05
  It is there's something to be said for having the right, you
• 38:10
  know, you got to have the right tools for the job.
• 38:12
  You know what I mean? You can't can't build a house
• 38:14
  with a toothbrush. You got to you got to have the
• 38:17
  right tools. So Linda has been invalid.
• 38:20
  House with the toothbrush. Go ahead.
• 38:23
  I mean, it'll take you some. Time but man, those toothbrushes
• 38:27
  can get the floorboards really well they are great yeah, it's a
• 38:30
  good. Tool for that, but shifting
• 38:33
  perspective, shifting into that mindset of gratitude and really
• 38:37
  being mindful, aware of where we put our energy has been
• 38:42
  incredible, which is why I say that, you know, launching the
• 38:46
  cat behaviors is what made us want to do this podcast because
• 38:49
  it is literally about where we choose to put our energy,
• 38:52
  whether it is when we feel overwhelmed with so much
• 38:55
  abundance and so much opportunity and still it feels
• 38:58
  like, oh, heavy, like obligatory, like, oh, what do we
• 39:01
  do need to do? Got to get this done.
• 39:02
  Got to get it right. Got to get it right.
• 39:03
  Got to get it. Right, instead focusing.
• 39:06
  On letting this energy move through US, doing our best.
• 39:10
  That is all we can do. Not obsessing over things, not
• 39:14
  not carrying the rocks, not weighing ourselves down, but
• 39:17
  letting those, but dropping the rocks and.
• 39:20
  And watching the ripple effect, I think it's so important.
• 39:22
  And and also, I have to say, I can't say like I can't in this
• 39:27
  podcast without saying that as our team grows and we are
• 39:31
  watching our team grow, it is, it is.
• 39:41
  I am so grateful. I am so thankful.
• 39:45
  I am so overwhelmed with gratitude for where God has LED,
• 39:52
  where the universe has LED us. Whatever language you're
• 39:55
  comfortable with. Whatever you're.
• 39:56
  Yeah, like where? We're at right now it's, it's
• 40:02
  really, really awesome to, to, to stand back to like just for a
• 40:07
  second. Look from that like 10,000 foot
• 40:10
  perspective at where we're at and and this amazing team that
• 40:15
  all has the same vision that all just wants to be a part of a of
• 40:23
  the betterment of cats and cat parents everywhere.
• 40:26
  I want to be pretty specific real quick.
• 40:28
  Because I feel like when, when because we've said this before
• 40:30
  and people think that we have like a whole group of employees.
• 40:35
  I want you guys to know that it's this girl, Jay, me.
• 40:40
  It is our Sissy, Jennifer Lopez, who is our executive director.
• 40:44
  It is our Lindsay Robbins who helps with our graphics.
• 40:48
  And she's such a brain. She helps us through reminders.
• 40:51
  She helps us with a lot of things.
• 40:52
  She's just a beautiful person. Shout out to Lindsay.
• 40:55
  It is our Michelle Joe Riley, who we just hired this year.
• 40:59
  He's been a bestie of ours for 20 years here in Vegas.
• 41:03
  And she is now our shipping manager is Linda Hall.
• 41:07
  Now that we just that just joined our team, her beautiful
• 41:12
  daughter Nikki, I mean, they are their own.
• 41:14
  They are completely autonomous from us.
• 41:16
  We are their biggest supporters. But she is part of our team.
• 41:22
  She's part of our team, right? And stay tuned because we have
• 41:27
  more. We have.
• 41:28
  Another one joining us. This month, am I forgetting
• 41:33
  anybody? No, that's that's the.
• 41:35
  That's that's like this at the teeny guys these.
• 41:37
  Beautiful human beings, women, all are.
• 41:40
  All women, women just, you know, wanting to do the like the best
• 41:48
  and feeling like this is a this is a, a way for me to be
• 41:55
  fulfilled and also make a living.
• 41:58
  It it's just a I, I, I can't. It's a dream, you guys.
• 42:02
  It really. Is a dream and it's great.
• 42:04
  It's a dream team. Maybe we did this.
• 42:06
  Podcast More for. Us than anything.
• 42:09
  It's just so important for us to remember.
• 42:13
  Remember how who much is given? Much is required, so be present,
• 42:23
  stay grateful. Drop the rocks and.
• 42:27
  Watch the ripple effect. Yeah.
• 42:30
  So we encourage all your job to do the same.
• 42:32
  Be your best you. Your job is to be your best you,
• 42:35
  be your best you and I. Promise you, you will see your
• 42:39
  cats be the best them. It it it is.
• 42:44
  It is a It's happening in front of our eyes.
• 42:47
  It's a thing, it's happening. In front of our eyes.
• 42:50
  And it is, it's an amazing thing and it's just an amazing thing
• 42:55
  for you and your perspective on life, which is everything,
• 42:59
  right? So stay grateful.
• 43:02
  We love you guys and happy whatever day you're watching or
• 43:08
  listening to. Happy, grateful day.
• 43:09
  Happy grateful. Day.