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Season 4 - Episode 236 - 2+ years in the making! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good evening from the chicken coop putting the
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  girls away. But I could not wait till
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  tomorrow morning to record this because I'm absolutely filled
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  with excitement that to share with you guys that today after
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  years of setting up this beautiful butterfly garden for
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  all the butterflies to come into and focusing on milkweeds and
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  flowers and pollinators, today I got to film a monarch
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  Caterpillar going into its chrysalis.
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  Like I saw it hanging. I knew when they, you know, when
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  they obviously go into that fish hook shape and it's hanging
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  underneath a leaf that it's about to happen.
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  Well, I thought it was about to happen.
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  So I panicked and I ran in. Mind you, I'm walking doing
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  coaching sessions and I saw it. So I was like, OK, I'm just
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  going to set my camera up and it looks like it's going to happen.
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  So that was at like 10:00 in the morning, and I'm waiting and I'm
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  waiting and I shut the camera off because I don't want to
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  waste all the battery. And I've got my little DJI out
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  there and I'm filming it. And I kept going back and
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  nothing's happening. Nothing's happening.
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  It's just hanging there. It's like in a trance and you're
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  watching it and it's literally just hanging in that U shape,
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  like a candy cane upside down. So I'm like, OK, I guess I'll
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  just keep checking and see when I start to notice something
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  happening, then I'll turn my camera on.
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  Then I get concerned because OK, it's hot, the camera's in the
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  sun. I'm like, OK, so I'm trying to
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  block it, get the whole setup. I mean, this was like epic,
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  guys. You should have seen it.
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  It was like I had to MacGyver this thing because the tripod
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  for it is very small typically. So I had to get out a ladder,
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  set it on the tripod, get it close enough because you can't
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  zoom in and the wind is blowing. And it's this attached itself to
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  this little tiny leaf that's on the the milkweed that I grew.
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  So I'm like, OK, I'm just bringing all my gear out.
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  I'm just going to start photographing other things, keep
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  myself occupied, coaching, doing all these things.
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  So waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,
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  waiting. And I'm like, Oh my God, does
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  this ever happen? Like I know what happens.
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  I'm asking myself all these questions, attempting to manage
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  my emotions, which are not working out well at all because
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  I'm mixed with excitement and trepidation.
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  And I'm wondering, is it not turning because I'm watching it?
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  Like this is one of those things, like if I watch it, will
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  it never happen? And just about 4:00, I started
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  to notice that it was starting to do this little shaking thing
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  like it was the whole body was shaking and I was like, oh,
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  something's going to happen. So I turned the camera on and I
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  said to myself, I'm and I was doing a session.
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  So I just turned the camera on because I had to focus on my
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  client. And I was like, you know what,
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  I'm not even going to stand near here.
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  I'm going to walk my loop and I'm just going to let the camera
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  roll and I'll come back. And an hour later when I
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  finished my session, I walked back and the whole process had
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  been done, that it was transformed, it was in its
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  chrysalis, it was completely set up and it was done.
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  And I could not believe it. I shut the camera off and I
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  tears were just streaming down my face.
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  Now this may seem silly, but you know, those of you who are
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  regular listeners know I have been transforming this water
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  garden into a pollinator garden for a couple years now.
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  And planting and growing and ordering different kinds of
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  milkweed and making sure I have everything and enough milkweed
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  because, oh, it's, it's crazy because you can attract the
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  butterflies, but if you don't have enough milkweed for them to
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  eat when they lay the eggs and the, you have caterpillars
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  appear, they die. They die because they don't have
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  enough food. So I was making sure you come to
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  my house. I have enough food.
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  It's not like, believe me, I, it's a pet peeve of mine.
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  When I go to people's houses and they invite you over and then
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  they don't have enough food. It, it makes me crazy.
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  I would rather have tons of food for everybody.
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  So I follow that rule here and they have tons of food.
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  So mind you, the tears are streaming down my face.
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  I caught it on camera. And then all of a sudden I start
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  looking around and I notice how many other very large monarch
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  caterpillars I have. And I'm counting and I'm like,
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  you know, 2468 and I like 19 caterpillars and that's the ones
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  that I could find and count. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, it's
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  happening. And then the, the, the biggest
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  thing of the day, besides this huge thing of the day was
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  there's a male and a female and I'm watching them and all of a
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  sudden they're like locked. They're in a complete lock.
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  They're mating. And I got to photograph the
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  process of it. I couldn't put the video camera
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  on it because I was videoing the other process, but they locked
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  up and I got a sequence of still shots showing it.
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  And I was like, unbelievable, the, the, the gifts that I got
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  today with all of this, we're just so epic for me.
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  And I think what was so important to me in the whole
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  process and why I was so excited to share this was I've been
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  waiting for this for, you know, two years plus.
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  And it was worth every bit of it.
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  And it's, you know, it's over so quickly.
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  And now that garden is completely like the the milkweed
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  flowers have passed and I can't do anything.
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  I can't touch it. I can't cut anything down, I
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  can't replant. I can't do anything because
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  there are baby eggs in there. There are more caterpillars
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  coming, there are the chrysalis's are all hanging.
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  And it's just an exercise in patience that the universe is
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  teaching me, but it's giving me absolutely beautiful gifts in
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  the process. And I just sat there and I was
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  in awe of what I witnessed. So no matter how long your
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  things take to come to fruition, no matter how long your goals
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  take to hit, just pause and be grateful for them when they show
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  up. Because damn my friends, this
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  was a good one. And it might seem silly and it's
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  not a big financial goal and it's not like, oh, I got a new
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  book out or oh, I did that. Nope.
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  It was a very simple thing of giving back and wanting to feel
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  like I lived in a butterfly house.
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  And today, Oh my God, now it just inspired me to say what the
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  hell am I going to do next year? So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed day. I'm sending you all a huge hug
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  and I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.