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Ep. 1: Intro to Bre (and to this podcast) · Adventures in Adversity: an inspirational podcast

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  What's up? This is Bree.
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  Welcome to the very first episode of my brand new podcast
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  called Adventures in Adversity. Thank you so much for joining.
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  I've been super excited to record this.
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  And if I'm being very honest right now, crazy nervous because
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  you know, this is a new adventure for me, this podcast.
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  But I'm excited. More excited than nervous.
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  So that's what we're going to go with today.
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  So for this first episode, I thought I would just take maybe
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  5 minutes to tell you really three things.
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  First, who am I? For those of you who aren't my
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  friends and family, which probably for this first episode,
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  you already know me. But I'm going to say who I am
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  anyway, because we are going to have more listeners one day and
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  they're going to need to know me too.
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  Who am I? Why am I doing this podcast?
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  Like, what's the passion behind it?
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  Why am I starting it? And third, what do I hope that
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  you get from it? That's really what I want the
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  first episode to be about and kind of to just give you a
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  little bit of a preview of what it's going to be like when you
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  log on and scroll through the episodes.
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  So that is what I'm going to tell you today.
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  So let's get started. Who am I?
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  Bree Wilson. Nice to meet you.
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  I am 42 years old. I live in Danville, CA and I
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  have my husband Ryan and let's see, I got two kids.
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  We got Brayden, he is 8 1/2 and we have Reece, my daughter who
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  is 6 1/2. So life is busy but super
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  blessed. Everybody's happy and healthy,
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  which is the most important thing And my job, my day job.
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  I am a senior writer editor for a company called ServiceNow,
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  which is a software company. And at work I actually do the
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  same thing that I'm going to be doing at this podcast, which is
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  what it boils down to, is I'm a storyteller.
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  So I actually, at ServiceNow create presentations and stories
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  for executives about how we use our own technology.
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  And it's funny. Day-to-day, we talk about the
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  power of the story and the emotions that you want to evoke
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  and how you really resonate and connect with people and the
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  power of storytelling. And so it's funny how I'm
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  starting this podcast because this is my passion project on
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  the side. And I think I've learned a lot
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  through service now and like, stories really make the world go
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  round. Whether it's in business or
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  relationships, people just want to connect and hear stories
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  about overcoming a challenge. So that's what this podcast is
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  going to be about. I love my day job.
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  I love what I do and I just want to see if this podcast is
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  something I can do on the side and really just selfishly, you
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  know, get inspired by the guests that I have on.
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  So that brings me to the podcast.
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  Why do I want to do this? Well, I love hearing
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  inspirational stories. I've always loved since I was
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  little like inspirational quotes, motivation.
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  I listened to a ton of podcasts. That's what really got me
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  inspired to do this. There's one with Forrest and
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  Rick Hansen called Being Well amazing podcast The Mel Robbins
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  Podcast, where she basically just, you know, makes you
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  confront all your shit and you get your shit together and you
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  face your fears. There's the Anxiety Tool Kit
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  with Kimberly Quinlan who's amazing.
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  So these podcasts over the last couple years have inspired me to
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  overcome my own challenges at work, at home, mentally, you
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  know, mental health is huge for me and so I just want to be part
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  of that conversation. I'd love to.
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  You know, my big dreams are to have guests like that, like
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  those podcast hosts come on this podcast.
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  But you know, honestly, my podcast is going to start with
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  asking and my friends and family, which I've already done,
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  to come share their stories about how they've overcome
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  adversity in their life, whether that is in any area.
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  I just think that this day and age, having a really open mental
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  health conversation is so important.
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  We're so busy. We're all like going for the
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  gold, you know, whatever our personal and professional goals
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  are. But there's a lot of pressure,
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  there's a lot of stimulation with constant pings and all
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  this. So I hope that this podcast
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  becomes something that you listen to, like when you're
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  cleaning, when you're driving, when you're working out, because
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  that's how I listen to my favorite podcast, just to get
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  that boost of, hey, I can do this because look at this person
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  who's overcoming this adversity and hey, I feel inspired.
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  You know, I can do more than I think I can.
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  So that's what I hope you get out of it.
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  I hope you leave inspired. I hope you leave each episode
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  feeling less alone. We're going to cover a range of
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  topics you know, career, personal relationships, mental
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  health, friendships. You know, just overcoming
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  adversity and really turning adversity into an adventure.
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  That that adventure is actually your life.
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  So I hope that you enjoyed this introduction to who I am, why
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  I'm starting this and what I hope you get from Adventures at
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  Adversity in Adversity, an inspirational podcast hosted by
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  me and I've got a few guests lined up.
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  I'm so excited to bring them on. You're going to hear some
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  amazing stories about you know, people digging deep and really
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  just ultimately being resilient, which I think the world needs to
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  hear those stories right now about overcoming challenges that
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  everybody goes through in their everyday life.
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  So thank you again for listening.
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  I so appreciate it. And with that, we are going to
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  exit out of this podcast. And I I can't thank you enough
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  for for taking the time to listen, to get to know me.
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  And until next time when adversity comes your way, blah.
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  Turn it into an adventure. Oh God.
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  Well that's just funny. That's the first sign off was
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  not the way I wanted it to be. But guess what?
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  That's OK. We'll work on it.
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  We'll get better for the next one.
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  I'm a dork. See you later.
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  Bye. Bye.