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Rebecca Blackwell · Dishing with Stephanie's Dish

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SPEAKER_01: Hello, everybody, and welcome to Dishing with Stephanie's Dish.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Stephanie Hansen.
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SPEAKER_01: You are here at the podcast that talks to foodies,
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SPEAKER_01: cookbook writers,
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SPEAKER_01: and today we have,
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SPEAKER_01: I would say,
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SPEAKER_01: all three plus more.
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SPEAKER_01: We have Rebecca Blackwell.
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SPEAKER_01: She is a recipe developer.
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SPEAKER_01: She is on the verge of releasing her Let's Get Lost, the cookbook.
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She is a Substack writer who has a Substack newsletter called
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Let's Get Lost.
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SPEAKER_01: She also is starting and launching the Lost Supper Club.
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SPEAKER_01: and has been out in the space.
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SPEAKER_01: One of the things about Rebecca that intrigues me,
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SPEAKER_01: not the most because you're just a nice person,
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SPEAKER_01: but beyond that,
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SPEAKER_01: you live in an RV.
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SPEAKER_01: You kind of upended your life,
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SPEAKER_01: sold your worldly possessions,
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SPEAKER_01: and bought a pull behind,
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SPEAKER_01: and you and your husband travel all over the United States in your RV.
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We are talking right now in your RV,
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which I know you've got a good cookbook shelf.
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SPEAKER_01: I see it behind you.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the show, Rebecca.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for having me, Stephanie.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm so happy to be here.
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SPEAKER_01: Me too.
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SPEAKER_01: So for people that maybe aren't familiar with your story,
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can you talk about how you decided to just chuck it all and get
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into the RV?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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So we had three children,
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and when our youngest was about seven,
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we decided that we wanted to...
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work towards getting to the place where we could work from
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anywhere in the world by
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SPEAKER_00: the time all of our kids were graduated.
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SPEAKER_00: And so our youngest was getting ready to go off to college in 2019.
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SPEAKER_00: And we had done it.
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We were both working virtually and we could work anywhere where
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there was an
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SPEAKER_00: internet connection.
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SPEAKER_00: And so our initial plan was that we were going to
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um just rent airbnbs in various places for you know three
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months or six months or
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whatever at a time so some friends of ours in southern
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california were heading off
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to europe for a couple of months and asked us to come house sit
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and we were like
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great this will be a great test run for how this works and we
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loved living and
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SPEAKER_00: working in a new place but we hated living in somebody else's home
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SPEAKER_00: And so we weren't sure what we were going to do about that.
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And we met up with some old high school friends while we were
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there that lived in an RV.
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SPEAKER_00: And it was like the answer to all of our problems.
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SPEAKER_00: We had never considered living in an RV.
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We had never in our entire lives spent one night in any kind of
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a camper of any kind.
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SPEAKER_00: We're just not the camping kind of people.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but we went home from that trip and, um,
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SPEAKER_00: Within five months,
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we had sold our house and bought a fifth wheel RV and moved
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ourselves into it.
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So the first night we ever spent in a camper,
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we had already sold the house and bought our RV.
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SPEAKER_00: So did you feel brave doing it at the time?
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You know,
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we just felt very exciting until the night we closed on our house.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I got a little freaked out.
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SPEAKER_01: Understandably.
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SPEAKER_00: What have I done?
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SPEAKER_00: But,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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the first night we we lived in Colorado and we drove we closed
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on our house on a
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SPEAKER_00: Monday and we drove to Katy,
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SPEAKER_00: Texas to pick up the RV on a Tuesday and picked it up on Wednesday.
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SPEAKER_00: And that first night in the camper, I wasn't worried at all.
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SPEAKER_00: It instantly felt like the right decision.
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SPEAKER_00: We felt at home in it almost immediately.
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SPEAKER_00: And, you know, we really haven't looked back.
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SPEAKER_00: We we say that we'll keep doing it until we get tired of doing it.
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SPEAKER_00: But so far,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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it's been almost five years and we're not anywhere close to
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being ready to stop.
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SPEAKER_00: So.
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What I think is kind of hilarious about you in particular is
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you have this sort of
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SPEAKER_01: idea of who might be in an RV park.
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SPEAKER_01: And I've been in a lot of RV parks.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're,
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know about your husband,
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SPEAKER_01: but for sure you are like this type A,
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SPEAKER_01: organized,
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SPEAKER_01: hyperproductive person.
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person who's doing all this work from an rv park i mean your
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substack newsletter
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alone with let's get lost kind of focuses on the rv living
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aspects and the travel
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aspects but also recipes and then as if that wasn't enough
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you've launched the lost
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supper club that just launched what made you decide you needed
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yet another outlet
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SPEAKER_01: because you just seem super prolific
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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ask me at the end of the year if I regret adding another thing
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and I'll let you know.
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SPEAKER_00: But but really,
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SPEAKER_00: at the end of last year,
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I was just looking for more ways to connect with people on a
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more meaningful way as
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SPEAKER_00: we travel around.
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We love being in a new place and kind of immersing ourselves in
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the culture of the
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SPEAKER_00: place as much as we can.
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And we have met people without even trying all over the country,
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and that's been really fun.
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SPEAKER_00: But this year or this last year, I was just thinking a lot about how...
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SPEAKER_00: When we're in a new place,
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when I have the opportunity to spend a few hours with somebody
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that lives there,
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SPEAKER_00: it it just enriches both of our lives in a in a really meaningful way.
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And so I thought,
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well,
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with the Lost Supper Club,
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if I can do that and then write about it.
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Then maybe I could also inspire other people to get together
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with friends over
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SPEAKER_00: dinner on a more regular basis.
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I feel like it's kind of a lost art that and we're just craving
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that in-person
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SPEAKER_00: connection everywhere I go.
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I talk to people about this and everybody seems to be craving
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that in-person connection,
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SPEAKER_00: but they're not really sure how to go about starting it.
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So that's kind of what I'm hoping to do is by doing it myself
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and writing about it,
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SPEAKER_00: inspire more people to do the same thing.
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I think food too is so common in that everyone speaks the same
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language when it comes to food.
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No matter what you eat,
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what you prepare,
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it has a way of bringing people together.
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SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that you and I have talked about offline is
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SPEAKER_01: Is how challenging,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: when you're a nomad,
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SPEAKER_01: we'll call it,
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it's challenging to keep up those relationships with friends
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and family because
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SPEAKER_01: they don't know where you are and you can't just,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: have your weekly tennis date.
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SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
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that's been a big challenge with our friends back home in
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Colorado is maintaining
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SPEAKER_00: those relationships with some of our closest friends.
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SPEAKER_00: Thankfully,
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we tend to attract the kind of friends that are also similar in
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that they they're
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SPEAKER_00: very independent.
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SPEAKER_00: They have they travel all over the place.
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SPEAKER_00: And so it's pretty easy to just pick up where we left off.
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SPEAKER_00: But but I'm just I'm starting to become a little more conscious of
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Trying to do things like phone calls and just text messages and
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just reaching out
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in any way I can to some of these relationships while we're on
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the road because
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SPEAKER_00: they are important.
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SPEAKER_00: Those connections that we form with people that become lifelong friends,
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SPEAKER_00: it's one of the most valuable things in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: The older I get, the more I realize how deeply important they are.
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Also,
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I'm curious what your thoughts are,
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because I don't know your husband at all.
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SPEAKER_01: But my husband has a small group of friends,
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SPEAKER_01: and they're the same friends he's had since the sixth grade.
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And I am someone that craves a lot of friends,
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a lot of different types of people.
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SPEAKER_01: Everyone I meet becomes my friend.
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SPEAKER_01: We just have different needs.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm an extrovert.
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SPEAKER_01: He's an introvert.
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SPEAKER_01: How to fill our buckets are
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SPEAKER_01: Would you say you're more introverted or how do you,
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is your husband like on the same page with you or do you spend
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a lot of time
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SPEAKER_01: forging connections?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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So both of us have a strong tendency to just keep to ourselves
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and hold ourselves away.
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And that's part of the more concentrated effort on my part of
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reaching out to more
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SPEAKER_00: people and making those connections,
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SPEAKER_00: because if it's not deliberate,
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SPEAKER_00: we won't do it.
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We're very happy parking ourselves in the middle of nowhere for
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months at a time
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SPEAKER_00: and not really talking to anybody except each other.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh my God, that's horrifying to me.
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SPEAKER_00: We love it.
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SPEAKER_00: We love it.
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SPEAKER_00: We love it.
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SPEAKER_00: But that.
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SPEAKER_00: no matter how introverted you tend to be,
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SPEAKER_00: those connections with other people are just important.
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And so my husband's a little worried about how many social
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activities I have
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SPEAKER_00: planned for us this year because he gets really worn out by it.
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But also when he's there,
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he has a good time and he knows that it's good for him as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So
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SPEAKER_00: So we'll see.
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At the end of the year,
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we'll take stock and see if it was too much for us or not.
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SPEAKER_01: So let's get lost details.
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It's your newsletter on Substack that details all the places
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that you are and what
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SPEAKER_01: you're cooking along the way.
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The Lost Supper Club is the new paid version of Substack that
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you will belong to this club.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll talk about ways to entertain.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll share recipes in your January edition.
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SPEAKER_01: You did a really nice overview of homemade pasta.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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That I love because I just filmed a TV show about pasta and I
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made pasta myself at
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SPEAKER_01: home for the first time.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, fun.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So it was really fun to read your recipe and your techniques.
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SPEAKER_01: And then the Let's Get Lost, the cookbook is on the verge of coming.
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So tell me where you're at with that and when we'll be able to
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get our hands on it.
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Yeah,
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so that should be out the last week of this month,
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January,
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the last week of January.
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SPEAKER_00: And there'll be links on RebeccaBlackwell.com and on both of my blogs.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'm very excited about that.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a
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140 something recipes,
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135 page cookbook,
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full color photos of every of every recipe.
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SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't a book I had intended to write last year.
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SPEAKER_00: I just I was publishing so many recipes on Substack that I thought,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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I'm just going to throw these together into like a quick little
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downloadable book.
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SPEAKER_00: And then it turned into a full blown, a full blown cookbook.
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SPEAKER_01: So how do you do it?
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SPEAKER_01: Are you printing on demand?
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SPEAKER_01: Because you're obviously not warehousing things in your RV.
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SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're printing on demand.
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SPEAKER_00: So it'll be available on print and downloadable PDF and Kindle.
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SPEAKER_00: So three different options for that.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I'm already started on volume two.
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So this year's volume two will be focused more on a supper club
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and it'll be
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SPEAKER_00: organized by the areas that we've traveled to.
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So Southern California,
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Louisiana,
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the Midwest,
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there's a,
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there's a pool.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And it'll include other people's recipes as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So as we travel around and cook and have dinner with other people,
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SPEAKER_00: they will contribute recipes to the book.
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SPEAKER_00: So it'll be more of a collaborative effort.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, gosh, I just love it.
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SPEAKER_01: You're so prolific.
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You were a marketer in your other life before getting into the
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RV and kind of
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SPEAKER_01: branching off and doing your own freelance.
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SPEAKER_01: What did you market?
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Yeah,
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so I mostly worked with businesses who wanted to improve their
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online strategies.
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SPEAKER_00: So I put together very comprehensive strategies for them that included,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of different factors.
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And I did a lot of writings,
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wrote a lot of websites,
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a lot of emails,
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a lot of blog posts.
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I was the ghostwriter for quite a few companies blog posts over
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the years.
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SPEAKER_00: So back in 2013, I thought maybe I'd like to do this for myself.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's when I started my first blog.
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SPEAKER_00: And and then gradually I started as the blog grew,
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I was able to let go of some clients on a very gradual basis
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and was finally full
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SPEAKER_00: time with food blogging by 2020.
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SPEAKER_01: That's so exciting.
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SPEAKER_01: When you're in your RV and you're like making a recipe,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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do you find space is a limitation or how do you get like the
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perfect photograph?
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SPEAKER_01: And have you had to adapt?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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That has been a big adaption in our house before we sold it and
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moved into the RV.
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SPEAKER_00: I had a whole room just for photography and that was amazing.
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But I have discovered that there's really nothing that you
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can't do in a small space.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have, it's like money.
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SPEAKER_00: However much you have, you seem to need it all.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how space is.
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SPEAKER_00: I think however much you have,
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SPEAKER_00: you figure out a way to need it all,
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SPEAKER_00: but you don't actually need it all.
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SPEAKER_00: For an RV kitchen, mine is much nicer and much bigger than a lot of RVs.
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SPEAKER_00: As we were looking towards buying an RV,
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SPEAKER_00: we looked at,
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know,
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SPEAKER_00: 100 different models and found one where the kitchen would work for me.
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And it hasn't limited what I've been able to do really at all,
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which has been really nice.
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SPEAKER_00: And then photography, I just use these, like, 24-inch photography boards.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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SPEAKER_00: some of them you would never know that it's a board,
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SPEAKER_00: even though it's this small little board.
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You know,
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the cover of the cookbook has a window in the background,
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the cover photo.
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SPEAKER_00: And people are shocked to know that that's not a window,
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SPEAKER_00: that it's just a board that I set up on on my kitchen table.
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SPEAKER_01: You can create like a little good light and there you go.
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SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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Artificial lighting for photography has been a game changer for
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me because relying
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on how the light comes in and what time of day it is and where
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we are in the world
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SPEAKER_00: and what the weather is doing and,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: all of those things affect it.
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And so that's been,
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that's been really important to use artificial lighting in,
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in the RV.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: One thing I'm curious about,
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like travel and being in new spaces and meeting new people,
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I feel like that so like inspires creativity and gets you sort
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of out of your
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SPEAKER_01: day-to-day existence.
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Does that persist when you're like,
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your day-to-day existence is all those things.
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So I'm just curious,
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like,
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I'm wondering how it is that you like ground yourself
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when everything around you is changing,
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or is that just a constant source of inspiration?
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Like food,
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like the ingredients,
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everything is different everywhere you go.
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SPEAKER_00: That's true.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's very true.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, that's interesting.
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I just started listening to a book that's talking about the
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difference between,
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it's mostly focused on anxiety and the difference between right
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brain and left
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SPEAKER_00: brain functionality.
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SPEAKER_00: And our right brain is really where our creativity lies.
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SPEAKER_00: And the more stressed out and anxious we are,
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SPEAKER_00: the more it shuts down creativity,
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SPEAKER_00: like just closes that part off of us.
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SPEAKER_00: And I feel like as we travel around,
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SPEAKER_00: I can identify how when we get into a new place,
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the more I'm able to just be present in that place and
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appreciate the experience of
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SPEAKER_00: being there,
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SPEAKER_00: the more I can feel that creativity opening up.
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SPEAKER_00: And just relaxing,
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relaxing my mind enough to like really see where are we and
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what is this place like?
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SPEAKER_00: And that just brings forth a whole bunch of new ideas.
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SPEAKER_00: And then also.
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SPEAKER_00: What's the book?
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SPEAKER_00: Do you know?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it's Martha Beck.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't remember the title, but it's her it's her newest one.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's the word anxiety in the title.
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SPEAKER_00: It's highly recommended.
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SPEAKER_01: And just put it in the show notes in case anyone's very good.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
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because she has this idea that we can use our creative mind to
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calm stress and
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SPEAKER_00: anxiety in our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: And I love that idea.
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SPEAKER_00: So and,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: before we moved into the RV,
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I could have shopped at the same places and I could have very
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distinct ideas and
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SPEAKER_00: just go to the grocery store and get them.
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And now I have to show up with a very loose idea of what I want
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because you never know.
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SPEAKER_00: You never know what's going to be there.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And that just also been a creative.
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SPEAKER_00: I think a creative boost to not be so rigid in that thinking.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love that idea.
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SPEAKER_01: Also,
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I think for we're in this kind of weird political place where
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everybody is very
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SPEAKER_01: polarized in their silos and you're either all this or you're all that.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's very little nuance.
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One thing I found about traveling that really helped me a lot
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is this idea that
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SPEAKER_01: wherever you are in an RV park,
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Whether you're alone or you're with others,
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everybody's kind of there for the same things.
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SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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SPEAKER_01: You might approach them differently.
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SPEAKER_01: Your political flag might fly differently.
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SPEAKER_01: But at the end of the day, they're sitting out there at their campfire.
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SPEAKER_01: You're sitting out at your campfire.
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It doesn't hurt you to kind of go over and introduce yourself
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and share a beer or a
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SPEAKER_01: glass of wine.
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SPEAKER_01: And I just felt so...
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It's appreciative that I had that experience because when I'm
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in a dark place and
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SPEAKER_01: I'm feeling like I'm alone in my own silo,
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SPEAKER_01: I remember that,
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SPEAKER_01: oh,
17:39
SPEAKER_01: no,
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there's all these other people out there and we kind of get to
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it a different way.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: But we want security for our family.
17:45
SPEAKER_01: We want to have jobs that are meaningful.
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SPEAKER_01: We want to love and be able to be, you know, in a place that's beautiful.
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That really helped me have a lot of empathy for people that
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weren't like me.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I agree completely.
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We had this one experience a couple of years ago where we were
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talking to a couple
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in our campground and he got on a tangent of all sorts of
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political ideas and we
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just stood there listening and I didn't agree with pretty much
18:16
anything he was saying.
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SPEAKER_00: And at the end of it, I just said, you know,
18:22
SPEAKER_00: I didn't actually agree with anything that you just said,
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SPEAKER_00: but one thing that I've learned is that there are good people everywhere,
18:29
SPEAKER_00: even if they think differently from me.
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And so then we ended up talking about that and that I have
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strong opinions about a
18:38
SPEAKER_00: lot of things.
18:39
SPEAKER_00: And so the more I meet people that don't share that same perspective,
18:46
SPEAKER_00: the better it is for me,
18:47
SPEAKER_00: the better it is for my state of mind.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: I can get very...
18:51
SPEAKER_00: into thinking that the world is a dark place.
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And then when I'm out in it and actually meeting the people
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that live in all of
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SPEAKER_00: these places,
19:01
SPEAKER_00: it's a solid reminder that it's not a dark place.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: Most people are very generous and very kind and very friendly.
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SPEAKER_00: And in every state, that's true.
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SPEAKER_00: We have states that we enjoy more than others,
19:16
SPEAKER_00: but we have found good people and beautiful places
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SPEAKER_00: Pretty much everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: That is like the moral of the story, isn't it?
19:26
SPEAKER_01: Like right what you just said.
19:27
SPEAKER_01: And it's why I love sailing.
19:30
SPEAKER_01: I love RVing.
19:31
SPEAKER_01: I love going to Europe.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: I love traveling.
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SPEAKER_01: And, you know, I'm fortunate in that I have some reserves to do that.
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But you can just travel to your state park down the road and
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really explore it in
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SPEAKER_01: your car and sleep in your car and meet so many different people.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: And
19:49
SPEAKER_01: I didn't sleep in a tent for,
19:52
SPEAKER_01: well,
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SPEAKER_01: honestly,
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I've only slept in a tent like probably twice because I've
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either had an RV or a
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SPEAKER_01: cabin or,
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but it is a very eye-opening experience to just put yourself
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out there and the
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SPEAKER_01: people that you meet.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm really excited about your Lost, not the Let's Get Lost.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm excited about the Lost Supper Club because in the Midwest,
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SPEAKER_01: as you know,
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SPEAKER_01: supper clubs are such a big deal here.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I know.
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SPEAKER_00: So that I did.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't know anything about separate clubs until we visited the Midwest.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I was like, well, this is cool.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: And some of them are there's sort of older folks here,
20:30
SPEAKER_01: but then there's others that are more modern now.
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And we're kind of getting back to seeing fancy relish trays and
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fancy high end restaurants.
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And just the idea of the supper club being like a place where
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you gather on a
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Friday or Saturday night and it can be with friends and it
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doesn't have to be at a
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SPEAKER_01: restaurant all the time.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: And it certainly does not have to always be steak.
20:49
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
20:49
SPEAKER_00: Well,
20:49
SPEAKER_00: and in the South,
20:51
SPEAKER_00: if you say Supper Club,
20:52
SPEAKER_00: people don't even realize that you're talking about an establishment.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: Supper Clubs are a group of friends that get together on a regular basis.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: They're very organized.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: And we...
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SPEAKER_00: We met some friends in Louisiana a few years ago.
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SPEAKER_00: We're going to do a supper club at her place this year.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: But she invited us to her home for dinner, and that's what it was.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: It was a supper club,
21:14
SPEAKER_00: and the table was tablescaped,
21:17
SPEAKER_00: and the china was out,
21:18
SPEAKER_00: and everybody was in their Sunday best.
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I mean,
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it was an amazing dinner,
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an amazing event,
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and she just does that all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just a normal part of life to have these-
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amazing dinner parties with groups of people gathered around
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her table and and so
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that's more what it is in the south so um there's there's a lot
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of options and a
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lot of variety um for people to kind of create more community
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over food and and
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honestly there's something about humans where we want if we're
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going to get
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SPEAKER_00: together with people we want there to be food
21:58
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: Hot tea does not do it.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: You got to have a scone or a biscuit or something else.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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I'm going to go ahead and put links to all the ways that people
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can connect with
22:09
SPEAKER_01: you in this podcast episode.
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SPEAKER_01: You can pre-order the book now.
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SPEAKER_01: We will provide a link in the show notes.
22:16
SPEAKER_01: Rebecca Blackwell, thank you for being our guest today.
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SPEAKER_01: It was super fun to just chat with you.
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I think it's funny,
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too,
22:22
the cookbooks behind you that made it on the RV list.
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SPEAKER_01: You have probably like 30, way more than I would have thought.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: I have another 30 in our bedroom.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, so do you read cookbooks like you read novels?
22:38
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: Same.
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Like at night when I'm in bed,
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I'm like reading a cookbook,
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not necessarily a book as it were.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
22:45
Well,
22:45
and I'm starting to order more on Kindle because,
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you know,
22:48
I only have so much space.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: And yeah.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: And I don't love the Kindle cookbooks as much.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: It's I love having a book in my hands.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: I can't stop buying them.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I think.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got to make make do where you can.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: Well, it was great to chat with you.
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Like I said,
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I'll have all the links for everything in the show notes here.
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SPEAKER_01: And good luck.
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And I can't wait to connect with you next year after you've had
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this whole year of
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SPEAKER_01: creativity behind you to see where it goes.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for having me.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Rebecca.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll talk soon.