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Hungry is a Mighty Fine Sauce | a conversation with Shellie Tomlinson · The Wholehearted Enneagram Podcast

0:13
SPEAKER_00: Hi friends, welcome to the Simply Wholehearted Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Amy Wicks, your host, as well as our good friend, Ashley Pittman.
0:21
SPEAKER_00: Here at Simply Wholehearted, we are sharing our journey as we discover how to better love the Lord with all of our heart, soul, mind, and extra.
0:29
SPEAKER_00: And even though you might be surrounded by a world of half-heartedness, we hope to inspire you something wholeheartedly.
0:36
SPEAKER_00: I invited our different friends to share their simple ideas of how they live.
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SPEAKER_00: But purposeful and intentional for every day.
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SPEAKER_00: Today, our guest is Shelly Tomlinson.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: She is awesome as a bell of all things other.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: Her books have been endorsement by books like Kay Corey and Missy Robertson of the Death Dynasty.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: Now when I got her book, all I do is by looking at the cover, it made me hungry.
1:13
SPEAKER_00: And her most recent cookbook, Hungry is a money by boss.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: Not just full of the recipe.
1:22
SPEAKER_00: We did ask her to share one of the stories, and I'm fairly certain you'll be laughing at her at the end.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: Now, a cookbook that she came out with makes a great death.
1:37
SPEAKER_00: After you get to know Shelly, I know you'll be wishing like we were, that we could connect with her in person and clean up her life and wisdom.
1:44
SPEAKER_00: And I think you'll get a wonderful same for that book.
1:48
SPEAKER_00: While also being encouraged to live whole part of Before Jesus.
1:52
SPEAKER_00: Now, grab a glass of that refreshing iced tea and sit back and enjoy our conversation with Shelly Tomlinson.
2:00
SPEAKER_00: Where are you headed off to, or are you going from one place to another?
2:04
SPEAKER_02: I am no, this one is all fun.
2:06
SPEAKER_02: I have been on the road working, it seems like forever.
2:10
SPEAKER_02: And now I'm having a fit to get out to Houston, where two of my grandchildren are.
2:16
SPEAKER_02: I have five of those wonderful critters, and two of them are in Houston, which is about a seven-hour drive for me.
2:23
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
2:23
SPEAKER_02: So I got my field of the ones, or I got caught up with mine in Lake Providence, where I live, and now I'm on the road to go see the grand boys of Texas.
2:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's so funny.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: Look at you, just me and so they call you Nana, Mimi, Grammy.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: They call me Keggy.
2:43
SPEAKER_02: I am a K-E-G-G-I-E.
2:46
SPEAKER_02: Um funny short story: my nieces and nephews couldn't say Shelly when I'm um when they, you know, came around the first that first group came around.
2:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah somehow or another, instead of Aunt Shelly, they got Keggy.
3:00
SPEAKER_02: And so everyone was calling me Keggy, and so the grandkids picked it up.
3:05
SPEAKER_02: Now, my best friend who travels with me, and you've probably been introduced to her through my book, she just absolutely loved to tell loves to tell people that um I got that name because I was really drunk one time and selling a keg of beer.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: Yes, it's good.
3:21
SPEAKER_02: And she loves to tell that one right before I'm about to speak to an audience.
3:26
SPEAKER_02: And you know how that goes when you deny something, you just kind of the more you deny, the bigger it gets.
3:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
3:32
SPEAKER_01: So she tells people you were doing keg stands, and that's how you got your name.
3:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's I got my name.
3:38
SPEAKER_02: And I have just some I have completely quit denying it, and I just go with that's right, and Jesus just redeemed me, and I just gave up that love.
3:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's no need to deny it now.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: That works so great.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: Well, when Ashley was talking about who are we talking about the into this week, and they said, Oh, it's Shelly Tomlinson.
3:59
SPEAKER_00: She's Southern, you'll love her because Ashley is my Southern sidekick.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm from Alabama.
4:04
SPEAKER_02: Yay! Yes, Alabama girl.
4:07
SPEAKER_02: Okay, well, we we can probably get along with about most anything other than LSU and roll tide, right?
4:13
SPEAKER_01: That's probably Well, I'm an I'm an Auburn fan.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm not um my husband's an Alabama fan.
4:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm an Auburn fan.
4:19
SPEAKER_01: So either way, but yeah.
4:21
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, we we are the people that say that Alabama is now being coached by Satan.
4:26
SPEAKER_02: I mean Satan.
4:29
SPEAKER_02: That's how we feel about that.
4:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:31
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
4:34
SPEAKER_00: So now that we have that established.
4:37
SPEAKER_00: That's so funny.
4:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, there's a apparently a true truer test of your southernness.
4:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't know if it's a true southern test.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay, because I'm up here in the Midwest.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: Tell me.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: And so I have Okay, where are y'all where are y'all from?
4:50
SPEAKER_01: Where are y'all from Kansas City right now?
4:52
SPEAKER_02: Okay, excellent.
4:53
SPEAKER_02: Now, you know about another test.
4:56
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's not, I don't know that it's a test per se.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: I can't decide if it's a test or if it's just my family.
5:00
SPEAKER_01: So around here, and and Yankees, as I say, you like when you make a sweet potato casserole, first of all, they call it what do they call it?
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SPEAKER_01: Quiche or they call it uh they call it something.
5:10
SPEAKER_01: Sweet potato something.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, it's casserole, it's not whatever you said.
5:15
SPEAKER_01: You top it with because they put marshmallows on top.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, uh-uh.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: You can't do, I don't know if you do marshmallows, but us it's pecans.
5:22
SPEAKER_02: It's pecans, it's pecans all the way, baby.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: Yes, they do.
5:27
SPEAKER_02: Pecans, butter, sugar, all the stuff.
5:29
SPEAKER_02: Marshmallows, they go on something we call the Mississippi mud cake.
5:33
SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's where you put marshmallows, and then they put it on top of um like banana pudding.
5:39
SPEAKER_01: Like if you have banana pudding.
5:40
SPEAKER_01: For me, it's meringue.
5:41
SPEAKER_01: Now I'll go to the whole thing.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: It's the meringue and the little brown tips on top.
5:44
SPEAKER_01: Do you do that?
5:46
SPEAKER_01: Yes, girl, I'm giving you a fist cuff right here.
5:48
SPEAKER_01: That's the way you go.
5:49
SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm saying.
5:50
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that's the test of the solidarity.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: I have I have debated with people at my dentist's office.
5:56
SPEAKER_01: That's we have a debate about banana pudding.
5:58
SPEAKER_02: We've got some major solidarity going on here.
6:00
SPEAKER_02: Are you telling me that my dear sweet new friend Amy puts marshmallows on her banana pudding?
6:05
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
6:05
SPEAKER_00: What do you do with that banana?
6:06
SPEAKER_00: I do not make banana pudding.
6:11
SPEAKER_01: What is banana pudding?
6:13
SPEAKER_00: I know.
6:13
SPEAKER_00: I do yeah.
6:15
SPEAKER_02: If I could get it, if I could get it to there and to y'all without ruining, excuse me, but I made a point without my glasses.
6:22
SPEAKER_02: Now I need them.
6:23
SPEAKER_02: It's sunny out here.
6:24
SPEAKER_02: Um so yeah, if I could get y'all some banana pudding without it ruining, I would send y'all some.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, sand marshmallows.
6:32
SPEAKER_02: There you go.
6:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, maybe we have to take a road trip and stop on in for all of these goodies for sure.
6:38
SPEAKER_02: That would be great.
6:39
SPEAKER_02: I would love to host y'all at my house.
6:42
SPEAKER_02: I would take y'all out on the floatboat.
6:44
SPEAKER_02: Oh, for the way.
6:44
SPEAKER_02: We would just have a glass.
6:49
SPEAKER_00: We've got a few friends to visit down your way.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm just loving it.
6:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm loving that.
6:54
SPEAKER_01: Mine might get a little bit more thick as this proceeding.
6:56
SPEAKER_01: I know.
6:57
SPEAKER_01: Already I can tell.
6:57
SPEAKER_00: It's like coming out.
6:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, whoa, there she goes.
7:02
SPEAKER_00: Southern girls.
7:02
SPEAKER_02: Isn't it funny how that happens?
7:05
SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't even intentionally do it.
7:08
SPEAKER_02: Um, like I just, this is what I got.
7:10
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I can't do anything about this, but sometimes when I'm speaking with other people, like, you know, uh speaking engagement, and they're they're really, really southern.
7:18
SPEAKER_02: I got so tickled one time, you would have thought we were gonna have to dig our way off the stage.
7:23
SPEAKER_02: I mean, the more she and I talked, the thicker it got.
7:27
SPEAKER_01: So that's so funny.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: It happens.
7:29
SPEAKER_01: It does when I go home.
7:30
SPEAKER_01: And my oldest daughter's like, Mom, it's bad.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: You know, it just comes down when I go home.
7:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, you can't help it.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: It's true.
7:36
SPEAKER_00: Even I who do not have one, if I go down to the south, all of a sudden I get a little twangy.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: I'm hanging out with Ashley, it is like drop a couple.
7:43
SPEAKER_00: Well, I do y'all, and I've done that for a long time.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that was some southern influence of some friends.
7:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, we'll have you speaking southern by the time we hang on, right?
7:52
SPEAKER_01: You probably matter if you say y'all with a W or like coffee.
7:56
SPEAKER_01: Coffee has a W in it, it's coffee and then coffee.
7:59
SPEAKER_01: No, A W.
8:01
SPEAKER_01: Yes, coffee.
8:02
SPEAKER_01: See A W Right, yeah.
8:04
SPEAKER_01: So anyway.
8:05
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: Well, since we've gotten that established, now we need to like back it up a little bit and hear more.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: Because we're just we're new to you, we're new to becoming friends and just getting in your world and reading your books and your blog, and yeah, we're admittedly really hungry right now, and so we're flipping through the looking at your cookbook getting hungry.
8:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it will make you hungry.
8:29
SPEAKER_00: How long have you been blogging?
8:31
SPEAKER_00: I mean, what blogging teaching all the things?
8:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, doing whatever it is that I do.
8:37
SPEAKER_02: Um so the short version of that, um, because there's a longer one because you know I am southern.
8:43
SPEAKER_03: So there's a longer version of that.
8:46
SPEAKER_02: Um cute side story.
8:48
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if y'all have found my humor books, but the first humor book is Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On.
8:54
SPEAKER_02: Oh and the second humor book is entitled Two Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, she just weighs heavy.
9:01
SPEAKER_02: So my New York publisher, she says that I have the longest book titles known to God read.
9:10
SPEAKER_02: I tell her I'm Southern.
9:11
SPEAKER_02: It takes us a few words to say things.
9:14
SPEAKER_01: We're run on sentence.
9:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
9:17
SPEAKER_02: So the short version is uh about 18 years ago now.
9:23
SPEAKER_02: I cannot believe that.
9:24
SPEAKER_02: When someone asks me, I have to try to fast do the math and go, wow, it really is.
9:29
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
9:29
SPEAKER_02: Um, I was trying to uh self-publish this little bitty book, far-reaching plan called Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road.
9:38
SPEAKER_02: It was just a little tiny memoir, and everybody in the world was going, Shelley who and why, and why, you know, why?
9:45
SPEAKER_02: And I was filing rejection slips left and right.
9:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
9:49
SPEAKER_02: And I finally said, Okay, I I kind of did it the build it and they will come.
9:53
SPEAKER_02: I mean I finally said, Okay, no one's giving me any room to get in here.
9:58
SPEAKER_02: So I self-published that little book.
10:00
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
10:00
SPEAKER_02: Um and started selling it, and a website came out of that.
10:05
SPEAKER_02: Again, far reaching planned a way to sell the little book.
10:09
SPEAKER_02: I was gonna create this website and out of the website.
10:15
SPEAKER_00: So I keep it.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, yeah.
10:18
SPEAKER_02: It's the same thing.
10:18
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
10:19
SPEAKER_02: Um like the internet, like what we used to call the World Wide Web.
10:24
SPEAKER_02: You know, you always had to say the World Wide Wealth had just came to my little bitty town called Lake Providence.
10:31
SPEAKER_02: And I jumped on it as a way of always wanting to talk to the whole world.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: That's just who I am.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: I just want to talk to the whole world.
10:38
SPEAKER_02: So I looked at it as an as wow, here's my opportunity.
10:42
SPEAKER_02: So the, you know, and then the then the we could make it longer or shorter, but what happened was through the first couple self-published books, um, it was my sales that finally got an agent's attention and an editor's attention because I had proven that I could uh sell a platform and that I could sell some books.
11:03
SPEAKER_02: And so that's how I got my first writing contract.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: So awesome.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: No, you thank you.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: And it sounds like you have a daughter, at least a daughter who's sort of following in your footsteps.
11:16
SPEAKER_00: She's got she's a blogger in her own right, and you actually incorporated some of her recipes, I think.
11:23
SPEAKER_02: She is uh the precious one that I'm going to see here in Houston today.
11:27
SPEAKER_02: It's Jessica Ann and her boys and her darling husband.
11:31
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, Jessica has a blog called Kitchen Belicious, and she is a oh thank you.
11:38
SPEAKER_02: I kind of have to come up with that.
11:41
SPEAKER_02: Kind of play playing with it, and we came up with Belicious, and she she's a great cook.
11:48
SPEAKER_02: So with the storytelling cookbook, was my first opportunity to really bring her into um my world as far as what I do, you know, professionally, because my editor said they gave me carte blanche on that book, and and that just doesn't happen.
12:06
SPEAKER_02: You know, they said we want this cookbook to be what you would do if you just had free reign.
12:13
SPEAKER_02: Well, I was like, well, I would like, you know, like my family in it.
12:17
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, I'm I'm a mother and grandmother.
12:19
SPEAKER_02: I'd like my family involved in it.
12:21
SPEAKER_02: I would like um to people to quit compartmentalizing me because everything I do, you know, people either want the humor or they want a message.
12:30
SPEAKER_02: And my life passion is to lose all the uh the boxes that we put ourselves in between, you know, our our life in Christ and our holy moments, and then the rest of our life.
12:44
SPEAKER_02: And I I just like to blend it all up and just live one life for Christ.
12:48
SPEAKER_02: And so I thought I want humor in it, I want um storytelling and recipes, and so they bought into that vision, and that's why it looks like what you see there with the stories.
13:00
SPEAKER_02: And um, my daughter-in-law took the pictures, and I have my daughter's um recipes in there as well.
13:06
SPEAKER_02: So it did turn out to be that family project that I've got vision.
13:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that is awesome, and it's so great because it it makes a great gift that you know, not only they can use, but then as they use it, they can read those little vignettes of life and story and sometimes you know, directly related to the recipe or you know, the family memory.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, yeah, yeah, exactly.
13:31
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes not.
13:32
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes I'm just chasing a squirrel and you know, who knows?
13:35
SPEAKER_00: But hey, when you've got so many stories, why not?
13:38
SPEAKER_00: Right?
13:38
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think that's the beauty of it.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: Not everyone is able to capture and see it as a story and then relay it so and you know, and share it with others.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: So I think it's it's definitely a gift.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: Not everyone can just, you know, is is checking for that and looking for that and and then able to turn around and share it.
13:57
SPEAKER_00: So it's good.
13:58
SPEAKER_02: I appreciate that.
14:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's one of the one of the ones that um that I enjoyed and I'm trying to remember.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, one of I wrote it down here and see, this might be an editive moment.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm trying to read my writing.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
14:17
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm glad to know that that's possible.
14:19
SPEAKER_00: Okay, totally is possible.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I did it.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I marked it, maybe I pulled it in here.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: She's trying to pull out something from the cookbook that she read the story and I was like, oh, you need to share about that.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, one of the recipes I know that um I did try because I have had this book for a little while is the Mexican pull apart chicken.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: And I think that was one of your daughters, maybe.
14:42
SPEAKER_02: Yes, it is.
14:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's good.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: Delicious.
14:45
SPEAKER_02: That's good stuff.
14:47
SPEAKER_02: And you can repurpose that several ways.
14:50
SPEAKER_02: Which Jessica um, you know, she cooks in some ways different than I do because every generation does.
14:57
SPEAKER_02: And in some ways, she cooks a lot, you know, a lot similar.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: Um one of the things we both like to do is to make one dish and repurpose it.
15:06
SPEAKER_02: We we're not big on leftovers as far as the same thing the next day, but she and I do the the same type of thing, whereas I'll they make a pork roast and then um the next day I'll make a pork chowder out of that, you know, the pork, and then maybe the next day I'll make sliders.
15:25
SPEAKER_02: So I like to I like to use it all, but just not the way you know you think of as far as leftover.
15:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, keep slopping the same thing on the plate for three days.
15:34
SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah, right, right.
15:35
SPEAKER_01: No, it's awesome because it's crock pie.
15:39
SPEAKER_00: I know this is dangerous.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: Do you have your snacks?
15:43
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, road trip snacks there as you were talking about.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: Oh yes.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: Oh yes, I can just start eating at any point if we're gonna have a snack time because I have to think it up and be here.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: One of the other recipes that I when I was flipping through there, that it's not quite the right season for pumpkin, and I compartmentalize.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: Compartmentalize.
16:03
SPEAKER_00: Compartmentalize?
16:04
unknown: Yeah.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: Compartmentalize my pumpkin in my life.
16:10
SPEAKER_00: It has to only be in the fall.
16:12
SPEAKER_00: And so, but I did see your pumpkin spice brownies, and I was like, oh, I was just going to you may want to break your rule for those.
16:22
SPEAKER_02: They're really good.
16:23
SPEAKER_02: They sound good.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, they sound like gooey and delicious and yummy and great for breakfast.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: Put a put a big pumpkin on the counter and the little scrag of leaves.
16:39
SPEAKER_02: And then go with it.
16:41
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
16:41
SPEAKER_00: I might have to do that this weekend.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: It sounded really, really good.
16:45
SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: Well, as I was reading though, I I was like, I gotta hear Shelly say this story, tell the story.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: But you, and I'll see if you can remember it because it's been a little bit.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: But your airport prank.
16:58
SPEAKER_00: Um you have to tell that story.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: That is so fun.
17:04
SPEAKER_02: The nerve is that is what I finally refer to as the epic BFF prank.
17:10
SPEAKER_02: Is that the one you're talking about?
17:12
SPEAKER_02: What I did to my BFF.
17:13
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
17:14
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
17:15
SPEAKER_02: And um, I have had so much fun with this because we're always pranking each other.
17:19
SPEAKER_02: She's pranking me, and I'm getting her back, or vice versa.
17:21
SPEAKER_02: We never know if it's ahead.
17:23
SPEAKER_02: And I say I got ahead for eternity with the five.
17:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you did.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: You did.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: This is amazing.
17:29
SPEAKER_02: I did.
17:30
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so what I did, Ashley, um, I had broken my arm.
17:35
SPEAKER_02: That's a part of the story that we can just fast forward the night before at a speaking engagement.
17:39
SPEAKER_02: And the next day, oh well, I I had all these big old high bills and it was raining and yeah, it was raining and fell.
17:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
17:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was it was bad.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: It was bad.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: I spent the whole night between the ER.
17:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was in the cake.
17:54
SPEAKER_02: Um, but we gotta get a hand out.
17:57
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
17:57
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna have to explain that if we hear that.
18:00
SPEAKER_02: We're not in the T, by the way.
18:02
SPEAKER_02: Okay, good, good.
18:03
SPEAKER_02: We do make an editor's note then on that one.
18:07
SPEAKER_02: Um so I spent the night in the ER and the morning in the orthopedic clinic trying to decide if I was gonna have to have surgery and all this on my elbow, on my right arm.
18:18
SPEAKER_02: Well, my my friend travels with me a lot, but she was not supposed to travel with me this weekend.
18:25
SPEAKER_02: The next day I was flying out to West Virginia to speak.
18:29
SPEAKER_02: And so she and her kindness, which makes it worse what I did yesterday.
18:36
SPEAKER_02: In her kindness, she got a late-minute ticket and went with me because in the time between, you know, fracturing my elbow and getting on the plane, I had figured out that my right arm knew absolutely nothing.
18:49
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't know what it's been doing for 50 plus years, but my right arm knows just nothing.
18:54
SPEAKER_02: And um, yeah, it's the one that does everything.
18:58
SPEAKER_02: And um, I mean my left arm.
19:00
SPEAKER_02: My right arm was broken.
19:01
SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry.
19:02
SPEAKER_02: Um I'm meaning my left arm knew nothing.
19:06
SPEAKER_02: And so I was like, how am I gonna do this?
19:08
SPEAKER_02: Right.
19:08
SPEAKER_02: So I'll take y'all now with that input onto the plane.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: We're flying through the friendly skies, we're, you know, way up there.
19:17
SPEAKER_02: I'm in the back of the plane because we got our tickets at different times.
19:20
SPEAKER_02: We weren't seated together.
19:21
SPEAKER_02: Rhonda was way up at the front of the plane, and I should say that I was on legal drugs because of my the fracture.
19:30
SPEAKER_02: Um, I was in a lot of pain, and I was on very legal drugs.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: That's another one of my excuses for this story.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: So I was sitting back there in pain and I was looking up there, and I I could tell that Rhonda was very happy.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: She was very happy, happy, happy looking out the window.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: Now, I knew that Rhonda was happy, girls, because uh we were actually in this in the uh flying part of the experience.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Rhonda loves that.
19:59
SPEAKER_02: She's just been in the Philippines and the Ukraine, and you know, she loves actually flying, but I knew that the reason she was so happy is because she was um through security.
20:12
SPEAKER_02: She had made it through security, and we don't know why this is, but Rhonda has like this thing about going through security.
20:20
SPEAKER_02: She sweats like a terrorist.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: I mean, she's just you would think she has a shoe bomb.
20:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh I mean it's crazy.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: So so we I know well that's why she's so happy because she's foo and you know, she's fine.
20:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
20:36
SPEAKER_02: So the uh flight attendant came by and I had already kind of pegged him as a joker.
20:45
SPEAKER_02: I I say a lot that we type of people can pick up on that.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: It's like a dog whistle, and I can we can figure it out.
20:50
SPEAKER_02: So I had figured out that he was a prankster.
20:52
SPEAKER_02: So when he came by me, I had devised his eagle plan, and I asked him if he wanted to be a part of a prank.
20:58
SPEAKER_02: And he said, sure, why not?
21:00
SPEAKER_02: So I told him what I had planned for Ryan.
21:08
SPEAKER_02: And everyone around me could be listening to the in-flight movie.
21:17
SPEAKER_02: This will be real funny.
21:19
SPEAKER_02: So they are all uh watching me on as I tell him the whole story, and then I give him my business card, telling how to finish it, and he puts my business card in his pocket, and he goes up there to Rhonda, and he leans over and he asks Rhonda, and I know I'm making this way too long, I'll try to wrap it.
21:35
SPEAKER_02: So I ask he asks Rhonda if her name was Rhonda, and she said yes, and he said Rhonda Perry, and she starts getting a little concerned, and she says yes.
21:44
SPEAKER_02: And he tells her that there's been a call into the cockpit, and that there has been a security breach, and that her name was associated with it.
21:55
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
21:56
SPEAKER_02: And she starts freaking, she likes thoughts.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Starts not breathing, and you can tell because the color's leaving her face.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: And he asked her, like Miss Perry um from Louisiana, Lake Rhims, Louisiana, and she's like, Yes.
22:11
SPEAKER_02: And he says, asked her if she flies a lot.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: And now she didn't know what the right question is.
22:16
SPEAKER_02: I mean, she'd just been flying a lot, but she didn't know.
22:20
SPEAKER_02: So she's she's stumbling around and she's like, um, yeah, you know, like, kind, yeah, kinda.
22:27
SPEAKER_02: And so he assures her that that's probably all there is to it, that she more than likely there was some sort of flag that went up.
22:35
SPEAKER_02: And right about the time, I mean, she looks like she's gonna visibly relax, he says, but Miss Perry, I do need you to know that when y'all change planes in Atlanta, um, that you're gonna have to be detained for questioning on the phone.
22:50
SPEAKER_03: It's so bad for her.
22:53
SPEAKER_03: Oh man, that's right.
22:56
SPEAKER_02: So bad.
22:56
SPEAKER_02: So bad.
22:57
SPEAKER_02: And she was just staring at him with these big old blue eyes, and he said, Um, but I do know the name of the woman that's going to be conducting the investigation, and he pulls out my business card and hands it to her, and it was perfect.
23:15
SPEAKER_02: You could hear her hollering, I love the airplane.
23:17
SPEAKER_02: I mean, she was just shall hey! I mean, she was just curious.
23:20
SPEAKER_02: I can't believe she knew your friends.
23:23
SPEAKER_02: That is so awesome.
23:24
SPEAKER_02: Oh, she has since done some evil things to me.
23:28
SPEAKER_02: Evil, evil things.
23:31
SPEAKER_02: I mean, don't feel sorry for her.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: She has got me back.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: Hey, as long as you in more ways, take it then, you can dish it out.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: So that is awesome.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: So, this is what friendship with Shelly Tomlinson looks like.
23:45
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
23:46
SPEAKER_02: And so that probably scares all of our listeners off.
23:48
SPEAKER_02: They're like, I don't want to get anywhere near her.
23:50
SPEAKER_02: But um, we do have a lot of fun with it.
23:53
SPEAKER_02: And you know, the funny thing about that prank, or one of the best things is that because you know, with security as it is in our nation, and that was just like 15, 2015, um, do you know that the pilot and that attendant actually waited on the tarmac and pinned Rhonda with those little plastic wings that they give kids so they'll put grinds?
24:18
SPEAKER_02: That's great.
24:19
SPEAKER_02: Um I have a picture of it.
24:21
SPEAKER_02: I should have put it in the book.
24:22
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, I should have put it in the book.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: That's that's a good one to tell again and again.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
24:27
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
24:28
SPEAKER_02: I love it.
24:29
SPEAKER_02: She she loves it too now.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it does make for a great story.
24:35
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25:33
SPEAKER_00: Okay, now back to some more laughter with Shelly.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: So, back when you first started writing, did you start speaking as well?
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Did you just like, you know, speak to Mops groups?
25:45
SPEAKER_00: Because you were in the middle still of like raising your own kids and and all that sort of stuff.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: What did that look like?
25:51
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to figure out how that all happened.
25:53
SPEAKER_02: When I start trying to trace the steps, it gets like interesting, almost like you're talking about someone else's life, because I didn't set out to do it.
26:02
SPEAKER_02: But basically, out of the website, um, I had was sending out a newsletter and establishing, beginning to establish um a type of an audience that was interested in what I was hearing.
26:15
SPEAKER_02: And then um I went from there to radio with um, you know, this person that said, you know, you've you've shown that you can produce content week in and week out, and content's everything, you should take this to the radio.
26:28
SPEAKER_02: And again, he didn't have to twist my arm because I wanted to talk to everybody.
26:32
SPEAKER_02: So um that's how I began getting into radio.
26:35
SPEAKER_02: And then I think it was after that um that people began to call me and ask me to come speak, and it was, you know, just little small intimate things at first, and um, the more I spoke, I kept getting different opportunities to to go.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: And so now my speaking schedule is um uh just this big bear that I've tried to keep wrestling down, but I love it.
27:02
SPEAKER_02: I love speaking to um women and I I love it when I just do humor and storytelling if they have me there for that.
27:12
SPEAKER_02: But if they have me for a message, that's my favorite.
27:16
SPEAKER_02: But hands down when they give me time to bind in story and then bring a message, that's my favorite type of event because the storytelling and the humor opens people's hearts up, you know, because we all have hard things going on in our lives, and so it opens people's hearts up, and then I can um, you know, speak something that matters and something that they can hopefully use that will help them.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and take and apply to their life.
27:45
SPEAKER_00: What are some of the the topics that you love to share about?
27:48
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you've lived a full, you know, life of you know, raising babies, and now you know, you get to enjoy the grandparent experience.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: What are just some of those pain points in your own life that you end up sharing about?
28:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I share.
28:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, are we talking specifically faith now or just the whole board?
28:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, just whatever.
28:07
SPEAKER_02: Okay, whatever you love.
28:08
SPEAKER_02: Just whatever.
28:09
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
28:10
SPEAKER_02: So of course I tell um when I'm doing storytelling and humor, it's always pulled from life itself.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: I tell a lot of stories about my um my family, my kids and grandkids, and my uh big southern family that they're just crazy like everybody else's family.
28:29
SPEAKER_02: Um and so I just I say that I just hold a mirror up as I travel and and I let people look in that mirror and they go, wow, you know, we we really are weird, aren't we?
28:39
SPEAKER_02: You know, they just all see themselves in the stories that I tell about my family.
28:44
SPEAKER_02: And so uh and friends, you know, everyone at home, I mean they're now they're careful around me, you know, they're thinking and every time they're talking, you know.
28:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and they're going, I mean, you know, this is not for a book or a blog or a newspaper article or right.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're they make their disclaimers if it's I think personal.
29:04
SPEAKER_02: But um, but I do, I do try to really, really respect that.
29:09
SPEAKER_02: And um, especially if it's someone else's story, you know, that they need to tell.
29:15
SPEAKER_02: So I I do have bounds there and I try to respect them.
29:18
SPEAKER_02: As far as messages, that um my resounding life's message um that it doesn't matter what I take off teaching on, it's always gonna come back to this once I begin sharing from God's word.
29:33
SPEAKER_02: And that is the actual joy of learning to live with Christ as opposed to living for him.
29:42
SPEAKER_02: Because I was just a church girl.
29:44
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I was in church nine months before I was born and thereafter, and knew God and believed in God, but I wanted my life here and then eternal security on the other side, and um I could just probably go much too long on that.
30:00
SPEAKER_02: But the bottom line is when I decided that wasn't enough and I needed to actually know this one that had saved me and this one that I served, and I went on a different type of pursuit to actually know him, and and there's no comparison, and now I love to to tell anyone who will listen that trying to live um a Christian life without Christ is is just pure draining religion.
30:28
SPEAKER_02: But living with Christ is the greatest adventure of our lives.
30:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
30:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's awesome.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: I can see it.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: You're so full of joy.
30:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
30:36
SPEAKER_02: Oh, thank you.
30:38
SPEAKER_02: And he is that.
30:39
SPEAKER_02: Um it's that learning to go back to him, like day in and day out, that you know, you discover that your greatest drink is owning up to your need.
30:50
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm I'm at the front of the line every morning, go, here I am.
30:53
SPEAKER_02: I'm needy, Lord.
30:54
SPEAKER_02: I need you, I need you.
30:57
SPEAKER_02: Um, because we we get this craziness about us in the church where we try to pull it up from ourselves, you know, we might wake up and feel cold or distant, and so we start trying to churn that up and you know, create a passion in our own heart, and that's our greatest Achilles heel.
31:17
SPEAKER_02: Instead of going back to him and you know, here, hey, here I am.
31:21
SPEAKER_02: You know, I need you to make this heart beat passionately again this morning.
31:26
SPEAKER_02: I need you to fire my soul, and he is faithful, he is so faithful when we go to him for that rather than trying to manufacture it.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: Do y'all get that?
31:37
SPEAKER_00: Totally, and subconjuring it up that you just like, hey, put it in.
31:41
SPEAKER_00: Right.
31:42
SPEAKER_02: I like, yeah, you just wake up and go, I'm cold.
31:44
SPEAKER_02: I don't know why.
31:45
SPEAKER_02: I mean, maybe I ate too much pizza last night.
31:47
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, but I'm cold.
31:48
SPEAKER_02: Right.
31:49
SPEAKER_02: And you know, uh on my own I can't do this.
31:53
SPEAKER_02: And just owning that need, yeah, um, uh puts you, it positions you for more of him that day.
32:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
32:01
SPEAKER_02: And so I I live in that dead out run for more of him.
32:06
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
32:07
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
32:07
SPEAKER_00: That is so good.
32:08
SPEAKER_00: Now, a lot of your first books were, you know, humorous and and stories, and and there's always a story behind the book.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: But what um obviously you had mentioned before the publishers kind of let you have carte blanche with the cookbook, right?
32:23
SPEAKER_00: But also the devotional book.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: What's kind of you know, your thought process behind that and why you wanted to do it and all that?
32:30
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, thank you for that question.
32:33
SPEAKER_02: Um, the storytelling cookbook was doing well, and it was the first time that I had really um been allowed to marry that, you know, that storytelling with my passion for Christ in book form.
32:47
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I do it when I speak, but it was the first time in book form that I was really able to marry.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh, hold on, Shelley, we lost ya.
33:01
SPEAKER_02: Still there?
33:02
SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, we can hear you.
33:03
SPEAKER_02: Uh-oh.
33:03
SPEAKER_02: Are y'all still there?
33:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're good.
33:06
SPEAKER_02: Sorry, we'll have to edit that out.
33:07
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, no, no.
33:08
SPEAKER_02: That was my mom.
33:09
SPEAKER_02: Okay, I will call her back.
33:11
SPEAKER_02: Gotcha, gotcha.
33:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
33:12
SPEAKER_02: Oh, you gotta call the queen of us all.
33:14
SPEAKER_02: That's what I call her.
33:15
SPEAKER_02: So I will call the queen back after we finish this.
33:19
SPEAKER_02: But um, so yes, I was saying that.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: She's probably checking on you because you're traveling, right?
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Because she's oh she is.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: She doesn't want anybody to knock me in the back of the head.
33:28
SPEAKER_02: That's like her head.
33:32
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, that was just so funny.
33:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, love it.
33:34
SPEAKER_02: She doesn't want anybody to knock me in the back of the head.
33:36
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you don't have to worry about getting knocked in the front of the head, but you have to really watch the head of your head.
33:40
SPEAKER_02: That's what you have to worry about.
33:41
SPEAKER_01: So my mom's thing is the weather watcher.
33:43
SPEAKER_01: She gives me the weather updates for my entire path.
33:46
SPEAKER_01: And if there's a storm off to like the west, I know it.
33:49
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, There's tornadoes in your area.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Really?
33:51
SPEAKER_01: I did not know this.
33:53
SPEAKER_02: I am dying.
33:54
SPEAKER_02: That extends.
33:56
SPEAKER_02: That is so my mom.
33:59
SPEAKER_02: I have not even spoken about that.
34:01
SPEAKER_02: I'll have to write a column about that now because you just triggered all these thoughts in my mind.
34:06
SPEAKER_02: Where mom, I mean, there could be a tornado parallel in the next day.
34:11
SPEAKER_02: And my mom's like, well, you do know there's a tornado in Oklahoma.
34:14
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, yeah, Mom, but I'm in Florida.
34:16
SPEAKER_02: You know, but she's like, yeah, she's a big thing.
34:22
SPEAKER_01: She warns me well before the sirens ever go off.
34:24
SPEAKER_01: She's like, you know what?
34:26
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
34:27
SPEAKER_02: Why have an app on your phone for the weather when you got a southern mom?
34:34
SPEAKER_02: You know, you don't even need that when you got a southern mom.
34:37
SPEAKER_02: I love that.
34:38
SPEAKER_02: That was around.
34:39
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so I'm sorry I crashed so far.
34:41
SPEAKER_02: But so I yeah, okay, so back to back to the demo.
34:45
SPEAKER_02: I was saying earlier that my um, you know, my my storytelling cookbook was my first opportunity that I had been given to do in print what I do in public when I speak, and that was to marry that love of uh storytelling with my passion for Christ.
35:03
SPEAKER_02: And it did really well.
35:05
SPEAKER_02: The cookbook's did doing really well.
35:07
SPEAKER_02: So thank you out there, anybody that bought it.
35:09
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
35:10
SPEAKER_02: Um, hey, post post reviews on Amazon.
35:13
SPEAKER_02: Can I just plug that really fast because it really helps?
35:16
SPEAKER_00: No, it's really true.
35:18
SPEAKER_02: Really?
35:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and y'all, I've got to tell y'all about a funny review about the Devo after I make a complete sentence, which I'm rambling, so I'm gonna try to scale a complete sentence.
35:26
SPEAKER_02: Okay, and then I'll tell you a funny review.
35:29
SPEAKER_02: So um, with that book doing well, the storytelling cookbook, um, it was just very natural.
35:35
SPEAKER_02: They said, you know, why don't you um bring a devotional out of this and we'll um, you know, we'll it'll be like a baby book to the uh cookbook.
35:45
SPEAKER_02: Okay, that means and kind of brand it with the cookbook.
35:48
SPEAKER_02: So that's why it's like the same colors.
35:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
35:50
SPEAKER_02: And everything as well.
35:52
SPEAKER_00: It's like a me, it's a just like the perfect gift if you if you're looking for some sort of combination like that.
35:58
SPEAKER_00: I mean it's just yeah.
35:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's just a little mini, it's I I think it's great for Mother's Day.
36:04
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's a great gift.
36:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, great thing.
36:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's beautiful.
36:08
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, and I I promised y'all a funny story about reviews.
36:11
SPEAKER_02: And so here's a funny one.
36:13
SPEAKER_02: So they tell us, they being uh like editor type people, you know, they tell us not to look at reviews.
36:21
SPEAKER_02: Right.
36:21
SPEAKER_02: You know, you're not because it will make you just like crazy, super sad.
36:25
SPEAKER_02: You know, because some of them are nice, and then some of them you're just like, really?
36:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
36:29
SPEAKER_02: Well, one that I saw the other day because I broke the rule and and I looked, and y'all, honest to Jesus, there is a review right now on the devotional on Amazon, and you know how it has the headline, and then it was the review.
36:46
SPEAKER_02: The headline says, and I quote, the headline says, I do I did not read this book.
36:54
SPEAKER_02: And then, wait, it gets better, and then the review says, I don't have this book because I didn't order it.
37:01
SPEAKER_02: What?
37:02
SPEAKER_00: What how do you leave a review?
37:05
SPEAKER_02: That's the whole thing.
37:08
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, and this past Amazon's verified review.
37:11
SPEAKER_02: You know, when you leave review, they say it's being verified.
37:14
SPEAKER_02: This past?
37:16
SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
37:17
SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
37:18
SPEAKER_02: I don't even know.
37:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, thank you.
37:21
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
37:21
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for that one star review because oh, oh, and she gave it a one-star review.
37:25
SPEAKER_02: Oh, oh which pretty much brings your whole rating down because she hasn't read it because she didn't order it.
37:35
SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
37:35
SPEAKER_02: That's so crazy.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: It's like bringing her GPA down in school.
37:38
SPEAKER_02: You can't ever get it back up.
37:39
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
37:40
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, sister.
37:42
unknown: Absolutely.
37:44
SPEAKER_02: So maybe you're maybe your people will listen.
37:48
SPEAKER_02: If they get the book, go review it.
37:49
SPEAKER_00: Yes, art a campaign.
37:51
SPEAKER_00: Help me get that five-star review up.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: I want to go contact the Amazon and be like, excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna mark this as very unhelpful because that's ridiculous.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll get all our friends.
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get on there now on the Amazon song.
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SPEAKER_02: I am putting go on it.
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SPEAKER_02: Ashley and I am here.
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SPEAKER_02: Own it.
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SPEAKER_02: That's right.
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SPEAKER_02: That's right.
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SPEAKER_00: We do.
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SPEAKER_00: We like to help our friends out.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, I sure did enjoy this thing with y'all.
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SPEAKER_02: Y'all are precious.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm glad we were able to make it work, and it was awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: So have fun with your grandbabies and your daughter, and what a blessing.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank y'all.
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SPEAKER_02: God bless y'all.
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SPEAKER_02: Let's stay in touch.
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SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_02: Sounds great.
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SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye.
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SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye.
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SPEAKER_00: Isn't she hilarious?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
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SPEAKER_00: Ashley and I are both ready to head down south for some more in-person conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: She's the real deal.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm enjoying following her on Instagram.
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SPEAKER_00: And maybe you'll want to join me there.
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SPEAKER_00: Or check out all her other connection spaces and purchase a few of her entertaining and inspiring books.
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SPEAKER_00: As usual, I'll put all the links in our show notes.
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SPEAKER_00: So, until next week, we hope you'll be joining us as we discover more ways to repeat the bladeful part of life.
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