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041 - Alchemy & Alignment w/ Shauna Ramirez · Here's to You

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Yo-yo yo-yo yo. You are now tuned in to Here's
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to You the podcast. I am your producer and Co host
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Dusty V Sitting next to me on the left is the other Co host,
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the fabulous Banister McAllister.
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Oh what's up guys? I was trying to throw a gang
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sign. I can only do the 18.
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And today's special guest sitting across the table, we
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have the one and only Shauna Ramirez.
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Hello. Is worker just kidding?
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Sorry. Yes.
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No. We're really excited to have
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Shauna on the podcast because we're going to talk about a
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bunch of stuff, hopefully from a lot of topics, like should I
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give him a rundown, like an agenda?
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Sorry, I got into work mode. Yeah, OK, I'll do the agenda.
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We thought then we could talk about, you know, like grief.
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I feel like we had some really good conversations, you and I,
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on that. Definitely.
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And we're going to talk about witchy things.
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Love it. Then we're going to do a drink.
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Love it. Then we're going to talk about
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Alchemy Studios. Perfect.
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Then we're going to talk about drinking.
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Awesome. And then we do Lightning Round.
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All right, I'm. Excited so you know, look at the
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time stops guys, if we ever do those things.
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Probably do not do those things unless I get AI to do it for me.
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that it's going to do it had a smart thing to do it for us.
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I think magic. I think that was you.
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We're speaking it into existence.
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Oh yes, yes, we're talking about witchy things too, but not
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witchy things. I, I think like it'd be kind of
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cool if we kind of start first with the things that are harder
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to talk about. And so I think you and I kind of
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related, you know, grief in general.
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Like I reached out to you pretty soon after my mom died probably,
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like, I don't know, a couple months after probably.
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And I feel like our conversation really helped me just in terms
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of maybe just be feeling hurt because it wasn't necessarily
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like something that you were actually going to help me get
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over, right? Because like, that doesn't
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happen with anybody, right. Yeah.
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But like, you had lost your mom very young, right, At 10 years
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old. So I feel like I have also just
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like when other people have lost someone very close to them,
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whether at any age, like I feel like I am closer to them to some
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degree because they get kind of that pain.
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What was that like for you though at 10?
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I think it took a lot of years before it fully like I fully
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started to process it. It was a lot of just like going
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on with life because what else can you do?
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So I think it took years later until I started finally
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processing my grief and processing the loss and going
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through that journey. But it's never ending.
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I mean, there's some years that are still really hard.
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There's some years that aren't as hard but are still hard.
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You know, it never goes away. It's just kind of a missing
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piece. So that really changed my life.
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I think that losing my mom at such a young age, I think made
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me realize like how short and precious life is.
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And so I really think moving forward, that's helped shape who
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I am and just trying to live my life to the fullest because we
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just don't know how long we have.
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So I think, you know, her passing away so young and then
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me losing her so young, like definitely made me realize how
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precious and short life is. And I think that makes me, you
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know, more motivated to try to live it to the best of my
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abilities. Yeah, yeah.
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How old was she when she had? Passed.
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She was 46. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So she was really young. She was.
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Very young, so it's a hard journey.
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And how many siblings do you have again?
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I have two older, OK, yeah, my sister's six years older and my
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brother's five years older. So I was the baby.
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Yeah. I think it was harder for them
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right off the bat 'cause they were in their teenage years.
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And so I think they processed more.
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I don't want to speak for them, but I think that it hit them
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hardest then and then when I got to be that age where it's like,
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do you want your mom? You know, my dad's helping me
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pick out my first bra, get my tampons and pads, you know,
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shout out to dad, Woo. I think, you know, it was
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different. Our, all of our journeys were
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different with it just because of the age differences and our
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relationship with my mom was all different.
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So. Yeah.
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No, that makes sense. I was, I think 26, maybe 20.
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I'm 29, it's been three years. Yep.
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Yeah, I think, I think I'm 26. Yeah, it does.
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I, I, I've found it does not matter what age it is.
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Yeah, like it's still always going to be hard.
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It's, it's a part of life, but it's the worst part, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. Because I was going to say like,
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I think for all my siblings, because my sister, my older
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brother or my, my sister is the oldest, then my brother.
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And then I have a little sister who is just barely turning 21 in
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July. And yeah, I definitely hit all
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of us hard. I feel like for the first year,
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I was like really mad at the world, you know, cuz more of
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like how it moved. And I think like keeps going.
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Yeah, I think that that's kind of like you said that right now
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was the like, you have to keep going cuz you don't have a
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choice, right? And I think like that's what
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frustrated me is that like things had to keep going and you
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had to keep going. And I never realized that, like,
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even for because I had been to other funerals of, of friends
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who had lost somebody and I had, I, I I never really understood
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that because, you know, you go to a funeral.
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Absolutely. And it's like part of your day,
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like, hey, I'm taking time off from work.
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Yeah. And then you're like, OK.
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And then later on you're like, well, I'm eating lunch now.
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Yeah, sure, for sure. It's weird.
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Yeah. And it is weird.
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And yeah, it does still put in perspective, right?
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Like you still feel sad for the person that you're there to
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support. Because typically for me at that
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point, all the funerals that I had gone to was not a loss of my
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own that I was. I mean, I had like uncles who
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had passed, but they were more distant uncles that I wasn't
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super, super close with. And so I had the funerals I had
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been to were like a cousin who had lost an uncle or like a
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friend who had lost a mom. I like really early.
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But like, I didn't get it, you know, when I and yeah, I just
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definitely didn't get it. I feel that.
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And I think you said what you said about the anger.
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I think it's interesting how grief, like this past Mother's
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Day, I woke up just mad, just very angry.
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And I was like, why am I feeling so like angry?
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And I'm like, oh, that's just my grief.
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Like some years it's like lots of tears, lots of sadness.
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Some years it's like, I'm still mad.
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I'm mad that it happened. I'm mad that my mom's not here,
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you know, just mad at the world, that everyone can just live
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normally, you know, quote, UN quote.
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But it's interesting how that journey, I mean, you kind of
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like, go through it, but I feel like sometimes you go back to
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those anger moments of just feeling like it's not fair.
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Yeah. And then you're like, OK.
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And then you sit with it and you let it pass.
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Yeah. But it's really hard sometimes.
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You know, I'm not usually an angry person, but I just woke up
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mad. So it's interesting how it ebbs
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and flows as time goes on. For sure.
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It's like a ping pong. Yeah.
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Or like, yeah, or, or I guess like the jar, like the images
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that you see about grief, how it's like you kind of learn to
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live around it for sure. And I think that that is pretty,
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at least so far in my own. That is what it's kind of felt
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like. I agree that like or like it's
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kind of silly to even say this out loud, but sometimes like if
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a friend of mine is having an argument with their mom.
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Oh yeah. Or like they or a friend of mine
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has a strained relationship with their mom.
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Oh man I struggle to even hear them cuz all I'm thinking is
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like that is a stupid argument. Yeah you have no reason to.
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I wish I could argue. With my mom.
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Yeah. I know it's hard to not feel
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that way. It's hard to empathize with
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people that are going through that, even though it's a very
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real thing. Yeah, just from our personal
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experiences, it's like, come on. Yeah, it's not that deep.
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Yeah, or like, 'cause you were, I'm sure, I'm sure that you,
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when you were younger, you argued with your mom.
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I argued with my mom all the time, you know, and then like I
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would tell a friend and like vent to them, like, Oh my God,
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this or whatever, right, 'cause like that's what they're doing
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and essentially venting like when you get annoyed at a Co
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worker or what have you or something dumb.
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But yeah, 100% like it's just like I, I want to, but it's, I
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just, it frustrates me. Yep, I understand.
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Like I like I literally feel. Frustrated.
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I know. I get it.
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I get it. And I think that's a normal
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feeling, you know? That's part of it, Yeah.
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It's like, And life's not fair, as unfortunate as it is, you
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know? Yeah, yeah.
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How was your wedding? My wedding was amazing, but
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hard, you know, hard to not have my mom there.
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But I definitely felt like her spirit was there.
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Yeah. I felt like it was.
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It was a very emotional day. I did like, a seat in honor of
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her and put flowers down and had like, a sign made as kind of
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like a physical reminder that she was, like, there.
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And spiritually I felt like she was there with me, too.
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But it was really hard. But it was such a joyful day.
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It was more, I definitely thought about her a lot, but I
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think I was more just like, happy that I'd found a great
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partner and someone that I think she really would have like,
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loved and supported. So that was a very nice feeling
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of like feeling at peace, I guess.
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So, yeah, it was hard though. It was very hard.
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Lots of tears. Yeah.
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No, happy and sad, I'm sure. But it was, it was an amazing
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day. I wish it would have gone
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slower, but yeah, I, I loved it. It was a good day.
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Yeah, like the time of the day going slower.
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I think like that's also an interesting point, right?
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Because it's like in those moments you do one time to go
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slow. I know.
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But but like again, like in the morning part, like I was really
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mad at how fast. For sure, For sure.
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Like, I feel sometimes mad at, yeah, that's life, Yeah.
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Like, yeah. It's crazy.
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I think you start to realize that too.
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How like the hours do just go fast?
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They fly. And it and that is kind of crazy
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to think about. And then how in like the really
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good moments, how it does go fast, but you're happy there.
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Yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah.
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You just take it one step at a time.
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Yeah. How was like?
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So Speaking of like spiritual stuff too, you know, all the
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witchy things that you do. Yes.
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We were also kind of thinking about, like, horoscopes.
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Do you read them? I don't read them necessarily,
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but I do believe in them. OK, so my chart, my like big
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three, I'm all water. OK, so it's an ocean of emotion.
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So I'm a Pisces. I'm a Pisces and a Scorpio and
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write. This down.
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Write this down, Patrick. I'm a Pisces son.
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Pisces, I'm a Scorpio rising and I'm a Cancer moon, so it is a
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lot of water, which is a lot of emotion.
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The more I looked into my chart, actually my grandma was the
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first one who ever charted my chart.
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She's like an old hippie from back in the 60s.
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So my grandma, like I was like, you ever had your chart read?
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And I was like, no, grandma, she's like, I'm gonna do it for
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you. And so I remember her like
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laying a bunch of stuff out and she was telling me all the
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things about my horoscope and astrology of when I was born and
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stuff. And so I didn't really think
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much of it. And then later as I got older, I
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kind of looked more into it and it's interesting how much it
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checked out. Yeah, it's just interesting.
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I feel like the, I feel like Scorpio is like the darkest of
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the water signs. They have like the most I I
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would say like shadow. And so it's interesting once I
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started digging deeper into my chart and realizing like I do
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have these emotional like bubbly elements, but also like shadow
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self as well. And I feel like Scorpio is a
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little bit more of that shadow for me, which is usually how
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you're rising is. So it's really interesting.
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I don't know. How old were you when your
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grandma did that? I was like pretty young.
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I think I was probably like, well, maybe like 12.
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Yeah, remember. I just remember her being so
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excited. Yeah, yeah.
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To chart my my astrology so. So like, did she?
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She had cards and like she actually.
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She had like, I don't even, honestly, I don't remember
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exactly what all she had, but I remember she had like a like a
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star chart thing laid out and she was doing some weird stuff.
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I don't know. Yeah, but it was cool.
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OK so like you said, you're a Pisces sun, a Scorpio rising,
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and a Cancer moon. But what does that mean?
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Like astrology wise? Like what?
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If you're reading your horoscope, what are you reading?
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Pisces are very emotional, really all water.
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It's very emotional, very in tune.
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I meant like if you were to read your daily horoscope.
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What are you daily horoscope? When's your birthday?
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February 29th. I'm actually leap your baby.
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Oh yeah, so you're like 8 years old or something.
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I. Only have a real birthday every
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four years. Yeah, which is pretty cool.
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So I'm forever young. Let me see, February, You're a
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Pisces. I'm a Pisces.
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You just told me that. Yes.
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I'm a Pisces. I don't.
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Understand how this works if you guys haven't Pisces.
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So I've done more research on horoscope stuff just with Pisces
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specifically, it's really interesting that when you look
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at the rest of your chart, because a lot of that plays into
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like who you are too. But Pisces is the 12th sign.
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So we're kind of a combination of all of the signs.
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So it allows us to more easily connect with everybody.
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And that's kind of that like water, that like fluidness, very
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open, very sensitive, very empathetic.
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Like, I remember even from a young age being in tune with,
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like, the energy of other people and being able to kind of, like,
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pick up on stuff. And then as I got older and
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started looking into my charts, I'm like, well, it checks out.
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So yeah. Yeah, I have a lot of friends
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who are Pisces. Yeah, Dusty's a Virgo.
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So what does that mean about him?
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Virgo. My bestie is actually a Virgo.
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Virgo and Pisces are sister signs.
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OK, you're sisters. We're sisters.
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You didn't know you had a sister.
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Virgo Virgos I think are a lot more grounded trying to think of
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all the Virgo. We're Earth elements.
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Yes, you're an Earth. You're an Earth.
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That's all I know. Queen Damn, I don't really know
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what about myself I. Know what are you?
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I've been looking it up for the last couple minutes.
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OK, OK, OK. He's researching.
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I'm a Libra. I love Libras.
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It's all about the balance. Yeah, yeah, I think, I think I'm
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pretty cool. I.
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Mean kind. Of I think I'm I love that
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confidence. Our dear friend Marco Biotics is
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a Pisces, and that's probably why we get along.
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Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys
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are besties. That makes sense.
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What? What do you call them again?
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Marcus, OH. My God.
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His name is Marcus. Marcus.
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Two s s at the end. I love it.
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And then a instead of AU. Wait, he's Mark?
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Like his full name is actually Marcus.
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No, it's not, is it? It probably isn't.
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I don't know. I don't.
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Think or I don't know, you know, you know more.
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It's Mark. It's Mark with AC and normally
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that's short for Marcus I feel like.
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True, true, true, but it's Mark ass.
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Marcus, you heard it here first. We were.
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Actually going to read our score horoscopes.
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Read it. OK, let's hear it.
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Let's see. Yeah.
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It's your safe for. Today, where are you?
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Reading yours off of. Well, I just sent you the link I
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went to. Where should we read it from?
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I went to horoscope.com. That's fine.
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OK, I'm going to horoscope.com. I'll read mine, you read yours,
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and then we'll read Shauna's Perfect together in
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synchronization. Cute.
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OK, so mine May 27th. Oh yeah, we just told our
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listeners what day it is. Just kidding.
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If you're hearing this, it's the first time ever and we recorded
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this morning or whatever time of the day it is for you when you
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hear this. OK, so it says you will most
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likely for all the oh fucking ads.
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Oh, I found it. OK, you will most likely be
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hungry for attention. Facts Today Libra, you will look
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at others who are on center stage and adjust your appearance
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or attitude in order to be more like them.
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Be careful of getting obsessed with attention.
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The key, The key is to be yourself and happy regardless of
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who's watching. A flower and scene balloons just
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as beautifully and smells just as sweet.
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See, like sometimes I feel like I don't always know what that
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means other than like, OK, don't be the center of attention.
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Interpretation. Yeah.
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So like, what does that mean though?
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Just just don't seek out attention then.
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I guess and like Bloom. Quietly.
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Yes. OK.
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Give the spotlight back to Shawna.
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Got it, Got it. OK.
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No, no, I'm not saying that. Let's hear Dusty's, Yeah.
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What's yours, Dusty? All right, so mine says today
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can be a wonderful, productive day for you, Virgo.
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If you learn how to compromise, if you insist on doing things
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your way only, you will run into difficult emotional conflicts.
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Realize that this can easily be avoided by joining hands with
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your partner and working together toward a common goal.
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There's a great deal of energy here, so don't waste it on
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something insignificant. That felt very good one.
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Yeah, like very wisdom in there. It's actually what I needed to
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read. Yeah.
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Two hours ago when I was like, I hope they cancelled tonight, I.
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Feel like staying? Home.
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It is a cozy day, I won't lie. Yeah.
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See. Get on the couch.
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Are you going to join hands with me?
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Yes, All right. Yes, let's hear it.
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This is so lame. Let's join hands.
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What were you going to say before I said that though?
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I don't know. OK, well, OK, well, now we're
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working together towards a common goal.
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On that, let's read Sean is I'm. Excited.
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Goddamn stupid, that's what I get for going to like free ones
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because. Of yeah, the ads.
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Yeah, OK, so today, Pisces, you feel confident.
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People can't help but notice as you radiate a loving, peaceful,
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calm. Pisces, that's really nice.
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Yeah, eyes will turn your way and complete strangers may come
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up to you and tell you how attractive you are.
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Oh, OK. Be confident, all right?
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I love that. I love that ending.
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Be confident yet humble. And you will inspire people just
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by your peaceful, glowing presence.
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Take advantage of this wonderful day by enjoying yourself as a
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beautiful person you are. Hey, these are so affirming.
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I know I love it. Like that's so sweet.
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They are. I love that.
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OK, spot on. Yeah, but you're saying you
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don't read your horoscope? I don't usually so I would say I
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don't usually read my. I went through a phase where I
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read my horoscope a lot and usually it was pretty spot on
22:23
and then lately I haven't read it as much.
22:26
I feel like for a while I switched more to like my tarot
22:29
cards cuz doing like a daily check in draw.
22:33
I would like close my eyes, meditate a little bit and then
22:36
pull a card. Like for either a check in of
22:39
the day and just do A1 card pull or I do a no grow let go pull,
22:43
which is a three card pull. Something I need to know,
22:45
something I need to grow, something I need to let go.
22:47
And I did a lot of like journaling around that time just
22:50
to kind of check in. And it was crazy how spot on my
22:53
tarot cards would be. There was a few times remember I
22:58
would draw a card and I'd be like, that doesn't seem right,
23:00
and I'd reshuffle and then I'd literally draw the same card so
23:03
she knows her stuff. Yeah, yeah.
23:06
So I would say tarot probably more than horoscope is more what
23:10
I have used for like guidance day-to-day.
23:14
So also just meditation too. Oh.
23:16
That's so cool. So like you're saying so today,
23:19
so or like what do you do? Like do you still do?
23:21
That I don't always. Lately I have been out of my
23:24
tarot practice, but I feel like it's like connection to the
23:29
source is kind of what I think of it as.
23:31
It's like connection to the spirit or connection to the
23:33
source. I do find I get that through
23:35
meditation, which Chris and I usually do a morning meditation
23:39
and just set intentions. Like right when we get up, we
23:42
usually do a Wim Hof breathing exercise, which you basically
23:46
make yourself hyperventilate. It's a lot of times they're
23:48
like, I don't want to do this. And then we sit in silence
23:51
afterwards and just like focus on our goals or focus on like
23:55
how we want the day to shape. And that's been really, really
23:58
good for me just to like center and set my intentions right off
24:02
the bat. Occasionally I'll still like
24:04
dabble in my tarot cards, but this season I haven't felt the
24:08
need to do that as much. I don't know if that's just cuz
24:11
I feel more balanced or more confident with where I'm at, but
24:14
I feel like in times where I was feeling a little lost, Tara was
24:18
a great tool for me to check in and kind of see I would know
24:23
where I'm at. But it's nice when the cards
24:25
also tell you where they're. At it almost feels like like
24:30
self not affirming, but what's the word like validating?
24:33
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Or sometimes it calls you out.
24:37
Yeah. So yeah, either way, it's like,
24:38
oof, I needed to hear that. You know, I remember last time
24:41
that we were all out together, which was like almost a year ago
24:44
in October, you had you and Chris had mentioned that like,
24:49
OK, so when you're meditating or maybe doing your, or I don't
24:53
know, at one point, maybe it's during graffirmations, but like
24:56
Chris will pray, right? And then you're meditating, or
25:00
both of you meditate together? We both meditate together and
25:02
then one of us will do a prayer at the end.
25:04
Yeah, so we do a daily prayer too.
25:06
Yeah. And I really just, I thought it
25:08
was really both interesting and also really like how much you
25:12
both just, like, accept each other, how like yours.
25:17
I think he was saying that like, when he finishes his prayer, you
25:20
know, he's like, I don't want to get it this wrong.
25:23
Yeah. I think he's Christian, right?
25:24
Like he's like maybe Amen or something.
25:26
Yeah, it's funny 'cause he says God and I say universe.
25:29
Yeah, like the same we're talking about.
25:31
It's interesting 'cause he'll say like, dear God, thank you
25:34
for the say. He's not necessarily Christian.
25:36
He wouldn't say he's Christian, but he's very open to whatever
25:39
that divine spirit is. And that's the same thing I feel
25:43
I'm connected to. And so it's interesting,
25:45
whatever you want to call it, like the greater unknown.
25:49
But yeah, it's funny. When I pray, I say dear
25:51
universe. Yeah.
25:53
And I thought that was so cool though, like how you're saying
25:57
that and he's saying for sure, you know something else.
26:00
And so maybe like when or I'm curious like when you guys were
26:05
first dating or as you were dating in general, like, and
26:08
maybe that topic came up because I think that's pretty true for a
26:10
lot of people that they're kind of looking for someone with
26:12
similar values. For sure.
26:14
And it was like, OK, so for you and your connection to the
26:18
universe again, like when we say universe, we're talking about or
26:22
are we? I don't know, so clarify this
26:24
for me. When you're saying universe, are
26:26
you talking about some type of divine connection?
26:29
Yes, OK, Yes, OK. And.
26:31
That could be whatever and whatever.
26:33
Religion. Yes, whatever religion you wanna
26:34
call it. I think it's all the same thing.
26:37
That's kind of I think it's that's.
26:38
Kind of what I call the source, it's kind of what everyone, it's
26:42
like that thing that everyone believes in that mysticism
26:46
that's out there. And, and yeah, I think
26:48
definitely when we first were dating, we had a very shared
26:52
like vision with a lot of life things and also just both being
26:55
like very open artistic people. I think there was just that
26:59
natural click because I'm very open and I was very much, I felt
27:05
like with Chris, it was the first relationship.
27:07
I was truly like, this is who I am, you know, I wasn't trying to
27:11
be a certain way or trying to diminish things.
27:15
I was like, this is me. Like, hope you like it, you
27:18
know, And that was such a beautiful, freeing place for me
27:22
to be in a relationship, to just like truly be myself and then be
27:25
accepted and loved for that. And I hope everyone can find
27:28
something like that. Yeah, someday, because it's a
27:32
very special connection. Yeah.
27:34
And he's very like open and he had done tarot and he was doing
27:38
starting his tarot deck, which he should be completing by
27:41
November. He has a publishing deal for a
27:43
tarot deck, so he's been working on that, and he was working on
27:45
that before we even got together.
27:47
I didn't know that. I thought it was kind of pretty
27:49
recent, like maybe 3. Years ago, yeah.
27:50
Well, he he started with the Major Arcana and completed those
27:55
during COVID and then after that he didn't ever think he would do
28:00
a full deck. But then the publisher reached
28:02
out like a year and a half ago and.
28:04
Oh, when he got in the book. It was after that, yeah.
28:07
So he got in the book, he was published in a witchcraft book
28:10
for his Hecatee piece, and then lady actually found his tarot
28:14
stuff on Pinterest and reached out to him.
28:18
It's from US Games and System, so it's like the OG tarot deck
28:22
publisher. So it was a big deal.
28:24
Yeah. And he's like, I mean, I, I
28:26
always thought about doing a deck, but he wanted the the
28:28
value of it to be there. So the publishing deal kind of
28:32
gave him that extra push. So it's been really fun to watch
28:34
him go through that journey too, and really try to like stick to
28:37
the meaning of each card, but also his own spin on it.
28:41
So it's been a fun journey, but I feel like we both were very
28:44
open in a lot of those ways. So yeah, that was it was easy to
28:48
connect. Yeah, As he's been going kind of
28:52
through that, do you feel like, you know, you're cuz you're
28:55
saying like you you would do tarot yourself in the mornings
28:58
that like you got to even like maybe learn more?
29:01
Or dive. Yeah, definitely, definitely.
29:03
Because he's been doing a lot of research with each card and then
29:06
just intuitively kind of figuring out the messages he
29:09
wants to portray. So it's been, it's been fun for
29:11
me to watch him go through that process too.
29:13
It's been really beautiful. Oh, so curious, what is this?
29:21
Saturn in reverse or Saturn in return?
29:24
That's what it's really. Called Saturn in return.
29:26
Or like Mercury in retrograde, All these things.
29:30
Yes, I think the planets affect us a lot.
29:35
I mean, they move the tide in the ocean.
29:37
So the fact that people say they don't affect us, I don't believe
29:41
that. I think they have a very strong
29:44
pool. I always feel a little bit of
29:46
the chaotic full moon energy. Mercury in retrograde doesn't
29:50
always have to be a negative thing.
29:52
I think a lot of people think it's a negative thing, but I
29:55
think it can also that energy can also be used for good.
30:00
I just think you have to be aware some stuff might pop off
30:04
during Mercury retrograde. Just chaotic energy, but it's
30:09
up. I mean, it's dependent on your
30:11
sign. It's dependent on, I think a lot
30:13
of people just think, oh, Mercury retrograde's awful,
30:15
everything's going to go wrong. But that's not always the case.
30:17
So it's really dependent. I want to know more, even more
30:22
because I, I, I know some, but I know I know nothing.
30:26
Yeah, I would like to know even more about those things because
30:30
I do think they affect us. And I, I sometimes feel it and I
30:33
don't even know what's really going on.
30:35
And then when I research it, I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is
30:37
happening planetarily, so it makes sense.
30:41
So then I dumb question and no, there's.
30:43
No dumb questions. So you know, I just categorize
30:49
it all as witchy things respectfully yes, because I
30:52
value which is a lot. I wish I was a witch yes.
30:56
I just don't really get into, I guess horoscopes, astrology,
31:00
like how metaphysical metaphysical.
31:03
OK, that was. So I was going to ask is like,
31:06
does that then you know also contain the planet stuff too?
31:11
Or like, are you saying like there's still kind of levels to
31:13
this? I think there's levels.
31:15
I think there's levels. I think for me, my connection
31:20
like started as a kid again with like the intuitive stuff and
31:24
then also spending a ton of time in nature.
31:26
I just feel like that connection is very strong with me.
31:32
I feel like, I feel like the spirit of that has always been
31:36
in me. And so there's things that I'm
31:39
naturally drawn to, like tarot planet stuff, astrology, you
31:44
know, I, I feel that pole to those things.
31:46
And so I think it's always been there.
31:48
It's just how much you cultivate it.
31:51
Not in everyone necessarily. I don't think that's everyone's
31:53
journey, but I think for me, I've always felt that from a
31:56
young age of like that connection and that divine
32:00
spirit, I guess. OK.
32:02
I like, I have another question. Where do chakras come into this?
32:07
Like is that part of this or is that not?
32:09
Or is that like one of those, honestly?
32:11
It can be, there's so much to the the world of the
32:14
metaphysical chakras. For a while I would do like
32:18
chakra balancing meditations. I've also had a Reiki session
32:23
done which is where they like balance your chakras.
32:28
That's like the massages. Too Right.
32:29
Yeah, so she didn't it wasn't they do have chakra healing like
32:34
massage or energy work massage. The lady who did my Reiki didn't
32:39
actually touch me at all. She was just doing like energy
32:42
work and like she had a whole crystal room and it's this
32:45
little pyramid I sat in. It was really cool.
32:47
I was kind of nervous and it was interesting.
32:51
It was interesting. It definitely like brought up
32:54
some things that I thought I had like already healed like
32:57
physically and mentally. So sometimes I think there's
33:01
traumas that are, I do think trauma is stored in our bodies
33:05
and a lot of times we're not even conscious of it.
33:07
And so I think some of those things can bring that to the
33:10
surface to like unlock another level of healing.
33:13
That's kind of how I think of it.
33:14
But it's always intense. It's always intense as long as
33:19
you're open to it. I think you have to be open to
33:21
it though. Yeah.
33:22
Have you ever had your chakras realigned or no?
33:26
I have not done that. I I find chakras super.
33:31
I don't no, I'm not, but I find like something about chakras
33:35
really interesting. Like I it has to do right.
33:39
Like yes, the healing part with with all the crystals.
33:42
I don't know much about crystals.
33:44
My little sister used to be really into everything.
33:47
I think she kind of still is, but she has right like if we
33:51
were talking about like a divine connection, she's kind of gotten
33:55
more into we were raised Catholic, so she's kind of gone
33:59
more that side. And I think like some religions
34:01
to the metaphysical look. I'm learning, I guess, like look
34:07
down upon it from like, Oh, it's not a good thing to do that
34:11
because like, I guess it could seem like predicting because
34:14
tarot can seem like it's predicting futures and and we
34:17
shouldn't be looking into the future in that perspective of
34:21
that. It's predicting stuff because I
34:25
don't know, I think it has to do with the fact that you have to
34:27
trust God or what have you. But I mean, at the end of the
34:31
day, that tarot is like, I mean, the end of the day, I think it's
34:36
like, it happens. Yeah, you can use it.
34:37
How? How you feel drawn to.
34:40
And I think no matter if you're Catholic, Christian, whatever
34:43
religion you are, I think it could still be used as a tool.
34:46
It just depends on what you want to do with it, you know?
34:48
Yeah, but it definitely is looked down upon, I think from a
34:51
lot of religions. Yeah, yeah.
34:53
And I've always thought that was pretty interesting that it was
34:55
looked down upon. But like, I don't know,
34:58
something about chakras has and I don't know if it's maybe it's
35:02
because of like the fact that I'm Libra, I'm not huge into
35:05
astrology, but like I've been challenged a lot because at
35:11
first I would be like, Nah, I don't think like the planets
35:14
really affect us, right? But like.
35:17
Your logical brain. Yeah, yeah.
35:20
But scientifically, they do affect the ocean.
35:23
And then a friend of mine was like, which Dakota?
35:28
He's he's more straight to the point and his personality is
35:34
like that, which I admire. Like I think I'm like that.
35:38
A lot of my friends are like that, But he was like, dude,
35:41
like we're 80% water. Like it's stupid of you too.
35:44
So he would be like, that's fucking stupid of you to not
35:47
think that. And then I was like, you know
35:49
what, you're fucking right, You're right.
35:52
Like, and that made me kind of go like, but you're right,
35:55
that's true. So I don't know.
35:58
And I think like because of that, that part, that comment, I
36:02
don't know, I just something about chakra is just because you
36:04
see the image, right? And it's like all these things
36:07
aligned and then like a person. It reminds me of the planets, I
36:10
guess in a way to me. And so I don't know anything
36:14
about it. I just find a lot of like truth
36:17
to it. And I do like to meditate.
36:19
So I don't know enough again about it, but I like to meditate
36:24
and before like for a while I was like in a good habit where I
36:28
was meditating every night mostly till I could go to sleep.
36:31
Yeah, because it's really helpful.
36:32
It really is. Yeah, but then also, like, I
36:35
started meditating because of my anxiety, but then then I started
36:39
to switch to doing it at night and I really liked it.
36:41
And again, I just kind of kept thinking of like the chakra
36:44
stuff. So I was just kind of curious if
36:46
that was part of that space. It is and it isn't.
36:49
I mean, it's all, I think it's all kind of connected, but I
36:52
think like that's awesome that you're drawn to that
36:55
specifically. I think that's interesting.
36:57
Yeah, I don't know. What the heck?
36:59
Also, when I first was meditating, there is a guy on
37:03
YouTube named Jason Stevenson and I really his voice is just
37:07
very soothing and I think he does have some chakra aligning
37:11
meditations. So you like visualize colors as
37:15
you're meditating and you do kind of like the body scans.
37:17
I don't know if you've done those before.
37:18
Yeah, I have, and I really like. Those, I love those meditations.
37:22
Yeah. So those are really cool to kind
37:24
of align with the chakras. Is chakras like Buddhist stuff
37:29
or no? Aren't they?
37:32
Like maybe? I think it is.
37:34
I think it's, I think it is. I think it's kind of to do with
37:37
that, yeah. Cuz I did think about it like
37:40
when we talk to the monks and stuff and they just be like
37:43
telling us stuff about us. Yeah, without like, I'm like, I
37:47
don't know you dude. I know all this stuff.
37:50
I know you like. That yeah, yeah.
37:52
But then they're like right and stuff a lot of times.
37:54
So I'm wondering if they're just reading or chakras or what.
38:00
Yeah, I think there's definitely people like blessed with that
38:02
gift of like tapping into our source, Yeah.
38:07
And just reading and feeling things energetically.
38:10
Yeah, that's what I also feel very drawn to, like the Buddhist
38:14
religion. Like I feel, well, I again, I
38:18
grew up Catholic. I really don't have any bad
38:19
experience with it. I liked it a lot.
38:22
I just think that there's so many ways that people talk about
38:29
some type of divine thing that I feel like there's truths to just
38:35
about everything because like I feel like affirmations are
38:39
really praying. Like that's kind of what that
38:41
is, you know, like you're doing affirmations, that's praying.
38:45
Meditation can to some degree even be praying, like when
38:48
you're doing certain elements from that.
38:50
And like even tarot itself. I mean, the part of like
38:57
learning about yourself or reading or like learning what
39:00
this thing means from this deck or card or whatever it's called,
39:05
right? Like there's some wisdom there
39:08
that there's something from some page in or proverb or whatever
39:13
that has some wisdom there, you know?
39:15
Yeah. And I don't know, I, I just
39:17
find, but like what I, what I really like about the Buddhist
39:21
religion is I think like, right, Like there isn't this belief of
39:26
heaven or hell, but it's like this, you're chasing like this
39:28
euphoria or something like that. And like, or at least that's
39:32
what kind of friends have described it as.
39:34
And I don't know, that just seems so peaceful.
39:38
Like there's something about peace that seems like comforting
39:43
from that where like some other religion, sometimes they I see
39:49
more like it's the sinning part that has a higher focus.
39:53
Like, don't do this, don't do that, whatever.
39:54
It's very black and white. Yeah, yeah.
39:56
And I don't know, it's, it's really not like most of life is
39:59
not in a lot of the things that are in the Bible or whatever,
40:02
Like it's not black and white. All those things are not black
40:06
and white either. So it's just I don't know.
40:09
I find it like the the Buddhist religion too because I feel like
40:12
it. It almost like gives the power
40:14
back to yourself instead of, I mean, obviously you're kind of
40:19
like detaching and letting go and you know, experiencing all
40:21
these things. But I think it is more like a, a
40:25
personal internal journey of discovery and like creating that
40:30
enlightenment within yourself, which I think it's beautiful.
40:34
You know, whereas some religions it's a lot more emphasis on like
40:36
you have to be this way to do this to get into heaven or hell
40:39
or, you know, what have you, Like you said, very black and
40:41
white. So I do I there are things with
40:43
the Buddhist religion that I definitely appreciate and kind
40:46
of connect with as well. So.
40:48
Yeah, I would say that was something that confused me
40:51
growing up in a Buddhist household.
40:54
But then learning Western culture and, you know, going to
40:59
school and stuff and people talking about God, we say the
41:04
Pledge of Allegiance every day. And then like, they're like, oh,
41:07
and seeing on TV and stuff like, oh, this is wrong, this is
41:10
right. But then I'm like, in our
41:14
household, we were just kind of taught, hey, that's bad.
41:16
Don't do it. This is good.
41:18
Act this way. You'll be straight.
41:21
And I think that's kind of how Buddhism kind of is Like, hey,
41:24
just be a good person, be a good human, and don't worry about
41:29
doing the bad stuff. If, if, if the if it happens, it
41:33
happens. And just keep trying to be good
41:36
and improve yourself and everything around you.
41:39
Yeah. It's kind of the.
41:40
Just I think like the energy. You put out the energy.
41:43
You put out, that comes back to you in a lot of ways.
41:46
And I, I think that definitely rings true in my life of just
41:48
like where you're kind of vibrating at whether you've like
41:52
done the work or you're currently working at it.
41:54
I think like a lot of good things can be attracted back
41:57
into your life when you're vibrating at that level.
42:00
So yeah, like being a good person, it's like good people
42:03
will be drawn to you, you know, And I do believe that.
42:06
Yeah. So I also like that part of like
42:08
it sounds very forgiving and I think that's something that most
42:15
western or like I'm cuz I'm thinking now of like just like
42:19
our like I'm going further into our criminal justice system and
42:25
how like we're just not a forgiving culture western wise.
42:30
And then, like, you kind of look at other criminal justice
42:32
systems and like across the ocean and maybe not all of them,
42:37
maybe not all of them. Like, I'm probably, yeah, yeah,
42:39
yeah, I should probably say like.
42:41
Knocked up abroad? Not certain continents, not
42:44
certain continents, but like just kind of the way that they
42:49
do reform and the way that maybe they are able to.
42:53
I don't want to say the word forgive, but that's kind of what
42:56
I'm saying. Like for a layman's term, a
43:00
simpler way to say it, like it's OK, you paid for the thing, you
43:04
did the time and now you're trying to re enter society and
43:10
you know, they're not necessarily supportive right
43:13
away, but rather at least more of like open to you doing that.
43:17
Where here it's like, well, you did this, you did that, and it's
43:21
really hard for them to get a job. 100%.
43:23
And so I don't know, like, I think like what you're saying
43:26
right there or what you just said around, like, you know,
43:28
Shay, if you did something bad, I mean, focus on being a good
43:31
person, How can you continue to do better?
43:33
How can you like it? I feel like that type of
43:35
message, two people as they're continuing to grow up and go
43:41
through life, it's also this part of like, we are not our
43:44
worst selves, right? Like if we walked around with
43:47
the worst thing that we ever did and that was on our forehead,
43:50
like the way that people would perceive we would perceive each
43:53
other would be so much. Different for sure.
43:56
And you know, like there have been points where each of us
43:59
have been not in the best character and you know, again,
44:05
back to doing the work you did the work to better yourself or
44:10
however you defined that, right? Like maybe some people did the
44:13
opposite end of the work, which that attracted different things
44:17
for sure. And then other people did, you
44:20
know, a different work to continue to improve that, you
44:23
know, that's not who they are Like that was just like them at
44:27
a moment of strife, really. I mean, sometimes, right?
44:31
Like. I think we could all give
44:33
ourselves and others more grace. Yeah, that's like, I think
44:36
that's it too, Grace. And like, that's what it is.
44:38
Giving yourself grace for the mistakes you've made, giving
44:41
others grace because they're making mistakes.
44:43
Like we're all human. And so I think having the space
44:45
to give yourself grace and realize like we're going to make
44:49
mistakes, but we'll learn and grow from them.
44:50
And like, I think that's the most important part is taking it
44:54
to the next level. Yeah, after whatever you go
44:56
through, you know, even grief, it's the same thing.
44:58
Yeah. It's like you can be in a really
45:00
dark place, but then like, how can we make something beautiful
45:03
out of this? Yeah, for sure.
45:07
I don't know that I have the best way to transition us into.
45:10
AI got it is 111 thing that I did want to ask earlier, though,
45:13
that you kind of struggled back around to with with the grief is
45:17
because I did. I have a friend who did have a
45:20
parent recently passed away and their other parent had been
45:24
passed away. So and they're going through a
45:29
rough time right now, of course. So was there anything you for
45:32
each of you that like helped with your grief?
45:37
Like as far as like what you got like from your friends or like?
45:42
Was there anything like any friends did that like kind of
45:44
made things better? I think.
45:48
I think, I think for me, because I was so young, I didn't really
45:54
express that to my friends. Like I feel like I kind of
45:58
avoided it for a long time and just kind of suppressed that.
46:01
So when I finally did, I felt like it was a very like lonely
46:04
journey. So I think and grief is just
46:08
kind of a lonely journey in general, but I think just trying
46:11
to be there to listen or you know, support I think is the
46:16
best thing you could do cuz I didn't really have that.
46:19
So I don't really know how to advise on how best to be there
46:23
for someone. But I think like, you know,
46:24
talking with you, it was like just being heard with someone
46:27
who understands like that is a like that is a good feeling,
46:31
even though I would never wish that on somebody just that like
46:35
understanding and care and love, I would say.
46:38
Yeah, for sure. I think like, yeah, I would
46:41
agree with that. Like I people don't or want to
46:47
avoid it right or don't know what to say or afraid to say the
46:50
wrong or the right thing or want to say the right thing, but
46:53
there really isn't a right thing.
46:55
Like, there is nothing really that you can say.
46:58
But like, that doesn't mean leave me alone, you know?
47:01
Because I think that's what people think.
47:03
It's like, they're like, oh, they're going through this
47:04
thing, Leave them alone. Yeah.
47:07
But like, no, like, I feel like that's when you really need
47:09
people. I think.
47:11
Like, that's one part of the anger, at least for my own
47:15
grief, where it was like if a certain friend who I felt very
47:20
close to just distant themself more, I would just be like,
47:25
well, why? Like do you not care or whatever
47:27
you know and like. Like we need loved harder.
47:30
Yeah, yeah, One of my not distance.
47:32
Yeah. One of my good friends, another
47:34
friend of ours asked her like how I was doing and she was like
47:39
talk to her. Like where?
47:40
Why are you asking me? Yeah, and and, and like 1 like I
47:46
really appreciated that. So like also you be that for
47:48
your friends, right? Like that or not reaching out to
47:50
them because everyone's afraid to.
47:53
And sometimes you don't even need to talk about the topic.
47:55
It's just like being there because I think you do go into a
47:58
kind of darker space, especially like I can't imagine they
48:02
probably are feeling. I mean, losing 2 parents, I
48:05
cannot even imagine that, right. Like that's harder ever.
48:08
Like all of it is hard regardless, all of it is hard
48:12
for sure. So I think like sometimes some
48:15
sometimes friends would just like come and sit with me at
48:17
home and watch a movie with me. Like that was really nice.
48:22
Just like little things like that.
48:24
I think that that's all that really matters is that you just
48:27
don't let yourself get caught up in the, I guess like in the
48:33
everyday because it's so easy to, but don't let yourself get
48:36
caught up in the being afraid of what to say because there's
48:40
there's not much all you really are just gonna be there.
48:45
Cool, sounds good. I made this chicken soup
48:47
yesterday. Aw.
48:49
Mostly because. That's a really.
48:52
Mostly because they were hungover.
48:55
That's so sweet. What do you think?
48:56
That's even better. Yeah.
48:58
Even better. Yeah.
49:00
Really. They're like let's go get
49:02
something to eat. And I was like everything is
49:04
like closed today bud cuz it's Memorial Day.
49:06
Yeah. Well, I was like, you know what,
49:09
if you're hungover, I it's kind of chilly outside, I'm going to
49:13
make some soup. So.
49:14
Nice. He like napped and then texted
49:18
back. It's like, hey, you up because I
49:20
made some food for us. No, that's great.
49:23
That's perfect. Yeah.
49:25
Yeah. And also, you're a great cook.
49:27
You've never had his food. His food is delicious.
49:30
Be on the lookout because I have an idea for the pod.
49:33
OK, Yeah. It'll be fun.
49:35
Yeah, and that's who makes How Good Food.
49:37
Yeah, there will be food there. That's great.
49:39
That's all your friends need, honestly.
49:41
I said anything but yeah, there'll be.
49:43
Food there. Speaking of food, but we don't
49:45
have food for you. We have a drink for you.
49:46
Let's take a quick break so we can get ready for that perfect
49:50
sounds. Good.
49:52
Thanks for the copy Emily, I really needed it.
49:55
No problem, we got a hurry because we're always.
49:57
Late. Oh no.
49:58
The lights turning red. No.
50:01
Oh man, there's copy everywhere. Where are the napkins?
50:04
Don't worry about it, we can just go ahead and I'll schedule
50:06
with two U auto. They'll come to where we're at
50:08
and then they'll clean it while we're at the wedding.
50:10
OK, you drive I'll schedule with two U auto.
50:13
What's the website? Go to 2uauto.com.
50:16
Wait, what was it again? The number 2.
50:19
The letter U auto.com. Perfect.
50:38
And we're back. That was the best ever.
50:45
I don't know. I ain't no rapper.
50:46
I'm a DJ. Well, I'm not a bartender, but I
50:50
pretend to be 1. And today we're making a skinny
50:54
blueberry Margarita for the very our very own Shauna.
50:59
So, you know, that's the sound of the beautiful tequila.
51:03
Coffee as always. OK, I can't lie.
51:07
I'm not a good liar. We made it before.
51:10
I was going to say, this drink looks really familiar.
51:14
Does it? Does it kind of?
51:16
Does it remind you of Sergio's? Is that why?
51:19
I don't remember whose, but with the color and the fruit choice I
51:24
was like, I feel like I've had this one before but I don't
51:27
know. Well, mostly I did the she
51:30
wanted a skinny Margarita. But like the skinny margaritas,
51:34
you know, we're just orange juice and lime and yeah, cuz you
51:37
know, we're being skinny, but I have blueberries at home and
51:42
they were really good and ripe. So I was like, we're going to
51:45
add blueberries in here. So we're, we had to muddle some
51:48
blueberries in there and add like 1.5 ounces of tequila, you
51:53
know which right now I'm pouring some.
51:55
Oh, you didn't hear? It.
52:00
But mostly pouring some for the shop and then .5 ounces of lime
52:07
juice and then match that same measurement for the orange juice
52:15
and a little bit of light agave syrup.
52:20
And that got us to our Margarita that we're currently having.
52:27
But I just actually poured a shot.
52:29
All right, So are we taking the shot first or drinking or are we
52:35
getting to know whether or not this drink?
52:37
Would actually take a drink of your drink for Shawna and tell
52:40
us how it is. Yeah.
52:42
All right. Thank You, Beautiful Fanny.
52:45
You're welcome. Lovely drink.
52:47
Let me test it out. That's very good.
52:53
Yeah, 10 out of 10. Does it feel skinny?
52:56
It does feel skinny. The blueberries are a nice
52:59
touch. Yeah, It's very refreshing.
53:01
It feels like a summer drink. Oh good cuz I didn't know.
53:04
Oh Memorial Day weekend I lied about the day again.
53:06
If this is your first time hearing it, it's whatever day it
53:09
is on your phone right now. Yes.
53:11
It does taste good. Yes, it's very tasty.
53:14
Big fan. If all skinny drinks were this
53:17
good, then there would be no diabetes.
53:22
Yes. You don't know how long I wanna
53:25
take. He's been waiting.
53:27
He's been waiting. I'm glad we could.
53:29
I'm honored. Yeah, we could use it on.
53:30
My show, my segment. Yes.
53:34
Cuz we're finally trying to, you know, say no more sugar, raise
53:39
awareness. Yeah.
53:40
Although I did use simple syrup or coffee syrup, you know, But
53:44
is that healthy? A little bit, yeah.
53:45
That's healthier. Right.
53:46
It's healthier than like I like a skinny Margarita cuz it's more
53:48
refreshing cuz you don't have like all the additives of the
53:52
Margarita mix. So like it takes away from the
53:54
taste of the tequila. Yeah, for like, just like some
53:57
fresh juices, a little agave. It's delicious.
54:01
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually worked on squirting
54:06
all of the juices out. I wondered if that was hand
54:09
squeezed. It was all hand.
54:10
I'm very impressed, yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.
54:20
Oh my God. Gross.
54:22
OK, let's take the shot. That's time for the shot, I
54:24
said. And that's our cute.
54:26
Yes. OK.
54:27
Cheers. Cheers.
54:28
Clink, Clink. Thank you for coming, Mao.
54:34
OK, the well the other thing we really wanted to talk about was
54:38
Alchemy Studios because you have launched a solo studio.
54:43
I have. And so tell us a little bit
54:46
about that. What made you finally like take
54:48
the leap into opening something? I've been thinking about it for
54:52
a while. It was actually, it's so funny
54:56
because this Mother's Day was a year like date anniversary from
55:03
when I first decided. So last Mother's Day, not this
55:07
past one, but the one before we were in Colorado and we went to
55:12
at the concert at Red Rocks and we were staying with my friend,
55:15
some of our close friends in Colorado, and her mom was
55:18
actually the Reiki lady. So that's the weekend I had my
55:20
Reiki done. And it was just such a beautiful
55:22
weekend filled with just like the best people and like all the
55:26
motherly love and good energy. And for some reason, just that
55:30
weekend, I was just like, it's like, I have to like, I don't
55:34
know what sheltered for me. I've been thinking about it for
55:37
a while, but that was like the weekend that I was like, I'm
55:39
doing this. Yeah.
55:40
And I remember, like, setting that intention.
55:42
So it was really awesome this Mother's Day to look back, like
55:47
this Mother's Day weekend, to look back and, like, see
55:49
everything come to fruition because there was a lot of,
55:51
like, worries about, like, how it's going to go and how it was
55:54
going to be received and all of that.
55:57
And so, yeah, I'm very proud of myself.
56:00
Yeah. I love being independent.
56:01
I think like it comes to a point where you want to just be your
56:03
own boss. So for me, I am very grateful
56:07
for my time that I had at Planet Hair.
56:08
There was a lot of like learning and growth from the people
56:11
there, but I felt like I was I, I need to keep growing and I
56:15
felt a little bit stagnant for a while.
56:17
And so it got to the point where I was just ready to take that
56:21
leap. Yeah, yeah.
56:22
Cuz I just, I have, if there's a ceiling, I I don't do well with
56:26
that. Yeah, I need to like, what's the
56:28
next thing, you know, like how can we build?
56:30
How can we grow? So I had been at my last job
56:34
working for my old bosses for almost a decade, so I was ready.
56:38
Yeah, yeah. No, that's that.
56:41
Wait, did you wear a plant here the full time?
56:43
Yes. Wow, that.
56:44
Was my one and only that's so I was straight from school.
56:46
I started there on the weekend of my 19th birthday.
56:49
That's. Good.
56:50
My age away and then, yeah, I was there for almost 10 years.
56:54
Wow. So it was a solid place to grow
56:58
and build my clientele and like being in one place for my whole
57:01
career was great. Just because people would
57:04
sometimes leave Wichita and come back and they're like, you're
57:06
still here. I'm like, yeah, I'm here.
57:08
Yeah, I think it was better sleep.
57:10
It was. It was, I think, though I had
57:12
been ready for a while there. You know, there's a lot of
57:16
things that aren't in your control when you're working for
57:19
someone else. And I didn't realize how much of
57:21
A control freak I am until I had the opportunity to be in control
57:25
of everything and my own schedule and just reap all the
57:28
benefits of working really hard. Because I don't I I'm OK with
57:31
the hustle, but I want to feel like I'm reaping the benefits of
57:34
that. So I definitely do now.
57:36
Nice. So what's the right because like
57:40
the market, right, that's what it's called where you're at
57:42
there's. Studios on market?
57:43
Yeah. So it's now essentially like a
57:47
beauty entrepreneur space, which is really cool.
57:51
What's the difference between like learning from other beauty
57:54
experts in the industry to like, you know, when you were in
57:56
Planet Harry? I mean kind of similar, but not
57:58
really, right. I mean like similar in to like
58:00
there's different people in different chairs or owning
58:03
different booths, yes. And now you guys are all owning
58:06
your own studios, yes. But I think, I think definitely
58:11
it's a lot. It's interesting because I
58:15
thought there would be like a lot less community moving to my
58:17
own studio just because it's not like a big open space.
58:21
But I really do feel like there's even more of a sense of
58:23
community with the people at the studios on market.
58:27
And everyone is like just bossing it out, doing their own
58:29
thing. So I love that I there, you
58:32
know, there were some hard days where it's like, I just want to
58:34
go to work and do my work and go home, you know, and I get over
58:39
stimulated sometimes in an, in kind of a busy, chaotic
58:44
environment. And so I think sometimes my last
58:46
job would be like a little over stimulating for me.
58:48
It'd be hard for me to focus on my work and focus on my client
58:51
because there was a lot of just like noise in the background,
58:54
like physically noise and just other people's conversations and
58:57
tons of different people's energies.
58:59
So I think being in a private space with my clients, I've
59:02
noticed they feel a lot more free to tell me like all the
59:07
things one of my girls is like, I don't need my therapist
59:10
anymore. And I'm like, yes, you do stop
59:13
going. But I feel like really honored
59:16
that I, I'm able to provide a space that people feel
59:20
comfortable in that could be like whatever they need it to
59:22
be. You know, it's like the space is
59:25
here, I'm here, it could be whatever you need.
59:27
If you need to cry, I'm cool with it.
59:28
If you want to laugh the whole time, I'm cool with it.
59:31
If you just want to sit silently and get your hair done, I'm cool
59:33
with it. So I really feel grateful to
59:35
have a space for people like that because that's definitely
59:38
something I always wanted and tried to provide, but it was
59:41
just a little bit harder in my previous environment.
59:44
Right, right. Yeah, has anybody actually cried
59:46
in the? Chair Yeah, yeah, I've actually
59:49
had several people just like full on.
59:51
And I think it's like something about being in a private space
59:54
where they feel comfortable and they know me.
59:56
You know, a lot of my clients have come to me like almost
59:58
since the very beginning. And then I have some newer ones
1:00:00
as well that have found me. But yeah, I feel that.
1:00:04
And then they're just like, I don't know why I'm crying and
1:00:06
I'm like, it's all good. It's the space.
1:00:08
Like it's, you know, that's what you need and that's OK.
1:00:11
So that's been really special for me to have that experience
1:00:14
with my clients. And also just be in a space
1:00:17
that's all my own. I have my own artwork, I do my
1:00:19
Pollyo Santo cleanse in the morning.
1:00:21
I love it. I set the stage, I have my own
1:00:23
music. So it's just, it really is
1:00:25
perfect for me. I've been a lot happier in my
1:00:27
own space. Yeah, So what is so Speaking of
1:00:31
the space like, why alchemy? Why that name?
1:00:34
So alchemy I think is. It was so hard to come up with a
1:00:38
name, but I kept coming back to alchemy.
1:00:41
Alchemy for me is just really like taking, it's like
1:00:46
transmuting things into something else, right?
1:00:48
It's like a chemical reaction. But for me, like on the more
1:00:52
spiritual aspect of it, it's like taking everything that I've
1:00:55
been through and all my experiences and like turning
1:00:57
that into something beautiful. And also allowing that space
1:01:00
also for other people to kind of like transform themselves within
1:01:06
my chair. That doesn't happen with
1:01:07
everyone, but I feel like a lot of the conversations I have with
1:01:09
my clients are like very deep and you know, and healing for me
1:01:14
and them. So alchemy for me was just like
1:01:17
the. The.
1:01:22
Just kind of where I've got to in my life, you know, like not
1:01:25
refusing to let experiences and things that I've been through
1:01:28
like define me and how I choose to walk in the world.
1:01:32
So taking like pain and turning it into power.
1:01:35
That's kind of like the message between with alchemy, so.
1:01:39
That's sweet. Yeah, my hair stylist also
1:01:43
recently switched to a studio and I feel like it's my office.
1:01:46
Yeah, yeah. I have my own.
1:01:49
I have. To bring working yeah like.
1:01:51
I always joke with her. Yeah, I always joke with her.
1:01:53
And I'm like, you know, I think like the ultimate setup is
1:01:57
finally when you have a desk in here.
1:01:59
Yeah, just for Fanny. Yeah, like, that's Fanny.
1:02:02
Yeah. Like, honestly though, I feel
1:02:04
like I'm not. I can't be the only one who
1:02:07
still has to work through. Well, I mean, like, but my
1:02:09
appointments are long. Sometimes it's like 5 hours,
1:02:12
yes. Maybe.
1:02:13
Yeah. I don't have enough hair.
1:02:19
I do. How long are your barbershop
1:02:21
appointments like? 40 minutes.
1:02:24
Oh, OK. Because I go to a cosmetologist
1:02:28
stylist lady who I've been friends with since middle
1:02:33
school, has her own salon and stuff and, you know, does me up
1:02:37
right. And then we go to the bowl thing
1:02:39
washes and shampoos my head and. Get the whole experience.
1:02:43
I can go run my errands after I don't have to go home and wash
1:02:46
all the hair off, you know, before I do anything else.
1:02:49
It's it's nice and I do agree that it is nice to have someone
1:02:54
I can like just kind of rant to while they're like making me
1:03:00
pretty. Yeah.
1:03:01
It's the best combination. Yeah, for sure.
1:03:03
Like I would ask her a lot of stuff that I wouldn't ask other
1:03:06
people. Yeah, there is a really good
1:03:09
bond with them. I mean like, and you're also
1:03:12
going often because your hair grows back faster than like a
1:03:16
girl's typically, right or. Like getting like every four or
1:03:18
five weeks. Yeah.
1:03:20
So like it is a lot more and. My glory days is every two
1:03:23
weeks. Yeah, for sure.
1:03:25
Now it's like a month. So, I mean, she haven't.
1:03:30
Does she line up your beard and all of that too?
1:03:32
Oh, nice. Yeah.
1:03:34
Or, you know, she's like, you want me to hit this up?
1:03:36
I like I'll hit it up when I get home later.
1:03:39
Yeah, but I do think there is something about also someone
1:03:43
washing your head, like when someone washes your head.
1:03:46
It's very relaxing. We carry a lot of tension in our
1:03:49
scalp. Actually.
1:03:50
A lot of people think about the neck and the shoulders, but our
1:03:53
scalp actually carries a lot of tension.
1:03:55
So when someone else, it doesn't feel the same ever when you do
1:03:58
it to yourself, but somebody else, there's something about
1:04:00
somebody else relieving that tension that's so relaxing.
1:04:04
I actually really love shampooing.
1:04:06
I love shampooing my clients because I feel like it's like a
1:04:08
moment for them to just like take a deep breath.
1:04:11
Like that's how she got me hooked.
1:04:12
Yeah, from doing that work, the scalp massage.
1:04:15
Yes, this is. This is.
1:04:16
Nice. Yeah, Yeah.
1:04:17
A lot more people. They don't realize they need it,
1:04:19
but they need it. Yeah, yeah.
1:04:21
I wish my scalp massages would last longer.
1:04:24
Sydney. No kidding.
1:04:25
Shout out to Sydney. No, I mean like it could be
1:04:30
there forever, right? Right.
1:04:32
Actually, so one of the studios, studios on market, she has like
1:04:38
a head spa. She's actually a trichologist,
1:04:40
so she specializes in like scalp health.
1:04:43
So if you have psoriasis or anything like that, she does
1:04:45
treatments for that. But she also it's like a head
1:04:47
spa. So you can literally just go and
1:04:49
get your head rubbed for like an hour and then she has like a
1:04:53
little waterfall thing. Yeah.
1:04:55
So there is businesses like that.
1:04:58
We should if you're interested, because that sounds really nice.
1:05:02
Very. Relaxing yes, yeah, yeah and
1:05:05
give us. You got to.
1:05:06
Help her head massages. Get us on the pot.
1:05:08
Yeah, well, get her on the pot. I will.
1:05:09
Yeah, I'll send her your way. OK.
1:05:11
And then like tell her we want head massages.
1:05:13
Yep I know it's nice. I love that that is a newer
1:05:19
thing that I'm seeing. There's also one of my other old
1:05:24
Co workers works for, I forget the name of it, Willow Roots or
1:05:28
something like that in Wichita. And it's also a head spa, so
1:05:31
they're called head spas. So that's literally it's like a
1:05:33
spa for your head. What else?
1:05:36
So if you want to go get your head massaged for an hour, there
1:05:39
is a place for that. OK.
1:05:41
OK. Now we know, the more we know,
1:05:44
you guys heard that the market and another place look up it
1:05:47
because I don't want to give the wrong name.
1:05:49
I know Willow roots or something.
1:05:51
Or head spa something roots head spa Wichita I should know what
1:05:57
else is like trending right now in beauty industry?
1:06:00
Like what are these new things that are coming out?
1:06:03
Gosh, I feel like the beauty industry is constantly evolving.
1:06:07
I still, I think it's still a lot more like it's either super
1:06:11
vivid hair like yours or like very lived in.
1:06:14
So some of my girlies I'll see like twice a year because their
1:06:18
hair just laughs. So I'm seeing a lot softer, like
1:06:22
makeup, softer hair, a lot more natural beauty.
1:06:27
Industry wise though, it's it's honestly hard to keep up
1:06:30
sometimes. Yeah, yeah.
1:06:32
Because it's constantly changing.
1:06:34
Education is super important to me though, so that's definitely
1:06:37
something I want to continue on my own.
1:06:38
At my last salon, we did a lot of continued education, so
1:06:41
sometimes we would go out of state or have educators come in.
1:06:45
And so that's definitely still something I want to cultivate
1:06:48
with my own studio and continuing my education and
1:06:51
making sure my skills are where they need to be to give the best
1:06:55
possible services. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
1:06:58
So Speaking of that then, like do you feel like cuz you're also
1:07:02
kind of stepping into a bit of an entrepreneurial role too,
1:07:05
right. So like, what are what are
1:07:07
things from that aspect that have kind of challenged you or,
1:07:12
you know, things that you're probably now maybe even talking
1:07:15
more about yourself that maybe you didn't before?
1:07:17
Because I feel like people follow more when they know who
1:07:20
you are. Yes, I think that's very true.
1:07:24
I think the entrepreneur part I really enjoyed.
1:07:26
Like the business side of things.
1:07:28
I think a lot of people don't. I don't think doing an
1:07:31
independent studio is for everyone.
1:07:34
I think some people like just want to go to work and like do
1:07:37
their work and go home and leave it at work.
1:07:40
With owning your own business, it never stops.
1:07:43
I've definitely had to set boundaries with that and I'm
1:07:45
still continuing to try to be better about my boundaries.
1:07:49
Just like honoring my days off and not answering things until
1:07:53
I'm like back at work or, or on the clock because it can get to
1:07:57
be a little overwhelming with the business side of things if
1:08:00
you don't separate that. But I've actually really enjoyed
1:08:03
the business side of things. I love like scheduling my own
1:08:05
appointments and being in control of my schedule and you
1:08:07
know, checking my wait list if someone cancels.
1:08:10
I like all the financials. Like I'm very, I'm a bit OCD, so
1:08:15
it works well for that. But I do feel like in my own
1:08:19
space with new clients, I'm definitely talking about myself
1:08:22
more because at my old job there would always be conversations
1:08:25
going on and you never know what wild stuff people are talking
1:08:28
about. So sometimes my clients and I
1:08:30
would just be silent and listening to what was going on.
1:08:33
Around us. I love that.
1:08:35
So, professional eavesdroppers. Professional eavesdroppers for
1:08:38
sure. Yeah.
1:08:39
So in my studio, definitely there is not that as much.
1:08:44
But I do have some clients that, like I said, they just bring in
1:08:47
work and they're like, I'm sorry, I'm not talking.
1:08:50
And it's like I talk all day. So it's kind of nice for me too,
1:08:52
to have a break. I don't mind like more silent
1:08:55
appointments or appointments where people want to get work
1:08:57
done. So I love both, yeah.
1:09:02
But even with content creation though too, yes, content
1:09:05
creation is huge, yeah. So when I went to school, we
1:09:08
didn't really, that wasn't a huge thing yet.
1:09:11
I mean, social media was, but it wasn't to the extent that it is
1:09:14
now. And now it feels like you have
1:09:18
to be a videographer and a photographer.
1:09:21
And it's more than just like doing beautiful hair.
1:09:23
Yeah. It's like having an online
1:09:25
presence and showing people, like, your value and what you
1:09:29
bring to the table, essentially. And that can be a bit
1:09:32
overwhelming for me. I enjoy it.
1:09:36
And I think now I do have a little bit more of a drive
1:09:39
because it's for my own personal studio.
1:09:41
And so it, it motivates me more 'cause it's like, it's my, you
1:09:44
know, people finding me in my space.
1:09:46
I still try to be really good about social media at my
1:09:49
previous job, which I think is what allowed me to get to be as
1:09:53
busy as I was in order to take the step to be independent.
1:09:56
So I do think there's a lot of value in social media and people
1:09:59
that just don't wanna do social media.
1:10:02
It's like, well, there's someone that will.
1:10:03
Mm hmm. And those clients will go to
1:10:05
them because their online presence is there.
1:10:08
They're seeing it. They're seeing the work that
1:10:09
they want done, done on someone else.
1:10:11
And so it kind of draws your like ideal dream clientele.
1:10:15
But the opposite is also true. If you refuse to evolve with
1:10:19
technology in the times, like you do get left behind a little
1:10:22
bit. And so I think that's something
1:10:24
that's difficult for a lot of beauty professionals, especially
1:10:27
ones that have been in the industry for a lot of years,
1:10:29
because they don't, oh, I don't want to do social media.
1:10:32
It's like, well, I don't always either.
1:10:34
Yeah, but I know it's necessary. It's a means to an end.
1:10:37
So I definitely have weeks that I'm really good about it, and I
1:10:40
have other weeks that I just take a break.
1:10:43
Yeah, I just think I have to take a break sometimes because
1:10:46
it can be a little overwhelming. And I do get some creative
1:10:49
blocks when it comes to content sometimes, so.
1:10:53
I feel like that's kind of true for us, even like with the
1:10:55
podcast. I was talking, I was about to
1:10:57
say, you sound like a DJ, right? Now.
1:11:00
But yeah, like or even yeah, with you like as a DJ, but like,
1:11:04
OK, because obviously the podcast for Dusty and I is just
1:11:07
like one other thing that we enjoy to do, but that like we
1:11:10
still have other things that we enjoy to do.
1:11:12
And then plus the regular eight to five.
1:11:14
Yes. And so I was talking to a friend
1:11:18
about this, like how much I often struggle with like,
1:11:22
because at least like with other things that I want to do, I
1:11:26
might keep those accounts public, but then like my own
1:11:29
account, I want to keep private, you know, like I want just that
1:11:32
to myself. But then also it's like, oh,
1:11:35
when you have to have a public account, you have to keep up
1:11:38
with it. You have to be posting stuff.
1:11:40
Like, I mean, like I have an account that I haven't posted in
1:11:42
forever, but I like will be on there and still liking stuff.
1:11:45
And I'm like, I need to post. I know I do.
1:11:48
I have stuff, but I don't want to or you know, like you get in
1:11:50
that headspace, which is a different space from like the
1:11:53
podcast where I might be more willing to say whatever on the
1:11:57
mic. And it's just so funny the
1:12:00
different headspaces, all these things create for us, right?
1:12:03
Because like there are also moments in my work where like
1:12:06
now getting to be more creative and like designing an app or
1:12:09
something, like I still get blocked there.
1:12:12
But that's still different from like an art creative block,
1:12:15
which is different from the podcast creative block where
1:12:18
like even today I was like, oh shit, what are we going to talk
1:12:20
about? Yeah, for sure.
1:12:22
It's hard. It's hard to sometimes generate
1:12:24
those ideas, I think. And I think there's also just so
1:12:28
much pressure because we spend so much time on our phones.
1:12:30
And so I think for me, I really have to be careful about my
1:12:35
screen time because I can easily like fall into a negative
1:12:39
headspace of like, oh, I should be posting or I should be doing
1:12:42
this or this, you know, like comparison, I think is
1:12:45
definitely the thief of joy. And I think with social media,
1:12:47
that's affected a lot of us and puts more pressure on us.
1:12:51
And sometimes it can be inspiring too.
1:12:53
So it really varies, but I think it all depends on where your
1:12:56
like headspace is at. If I'm not having the best
1:12:59
mental health week and then I see all these things, it usually
1:13:01
makes it worse. So for me, just monitoring that
1:13:04
as well, and then sometimes using people's videos for
1:13:07
inspiration because you know what, it works.
1:13:10
Yeah, it's hard. Yeah, no, I was gonna say like,
1:13:14
even, not just your mental health in that week, but even
1:13:18
that day or that hour, like, right, Because like you're going
1:13:21
like, let's break out down a day, right?
1:13:23
Like you're probably going into the studio or do work out in the
1:13:27
morning or afternoon. I work out in the morning.
1:13:28
OK, so like in the morning, say you're laying in bed.
1:13:31
Yep. You pull out your phone.
1:13:32
Oh yeah, instantly. Starts your day.
1:13:34
Negative. Yeah, it's so bad to be in bed
1:13:36
on your phone. It's the word, actually.
1:13:38
Are you good about? Not I'm I'm pretty good about
1:13:40
not because usually I get up, I start the coffee, I drink my
1:13:44
electrolytes. Chris drinks his electrolyte and
1:13:46
we meditate and that's like our first 30 to 45 minutes.
1:13:50
Wow. And so that is really been great
1:13:52
for me just to like get out and do it.
1:13:55
And then I start getting ready for the gym and then I usually
1:13:57
go to the gym. So I try to be, I mean, some
1:13:59
days I'm not good about it, but I try to be.
1:14:02
And Chris is good at reminding me too.
1:14:04
If I like get up and I'm like just scrolling or whatever.
1:14:07
He's like, it's really bad for you to be on your phone.
1:14:10
Like the first hour of of your day really sets the tone.
1:14:14
Yeah. And so if you're immediately
1:14:16
getting on social media, it's just really bad for your brain.
1:14:20
That first hour is super important.
1:14:21
So if there's some other ritual you can do in the mornings, I
1:14:24
think that for me has been super beneficial.
1:14:27
So so even like your alarm clock, what do you use as your
1:14:31
alarm? Clock.
1:14:31
So I do use my phone OK, but I just I just shut it off OK.
1:14:36
You and Chris have separate alarm clocks or no?
1:14:39
OK, Nope. So you guys get up together?
1:14:41
We get up together OK. That's helpful, yeah.
1:14:45
For the monster, usually I get up too.
1:14:47
I usually get up and my alarm I sit on.
1:14:50
I lay on the side of the bed that the table's on.
1:14:52
So I shut the alarm off and I'm like hey good morning, it's time
1:14:55
to get up. And so then he usually gets up
1:14:56
like 5 minutes after me but close enough.
1:14:59
But I usually am the first one out of bed because I'm on that
1:15:01
side. But I do use my phone alarm.
1:15:06
But I find just trying not to get on social media, that's the
1:15:10
big one. Social media first thing in the
1:15:11
morning, not good. And a lot of what is on there,
1:15:14
not always, but most of it's negative, I would say not always
1:15:19
are. You are you pretty specific
1:15:20
about what you fall because I can be like I try not to.
1:15:24
I try to be. I try to be.
1:15:26
And I like clean up my followers too.
1:15:28
I do. I need to be better about that
1:15:29
and I clean up who I follow. I don't take the time to do
1:15:31
that, but I mean. Sometimes I do, but I should.
1:15:34
I'm like, you don't need to be on my.
1:15:35
Shit, OK, I will do that. There have been a few people who
1:15:38
are like, Nope, this is too much.
1:15:40
Yeah, But, you know, there's just a lot.
1:15:43
I think in an age of technology, we just have access to so much,
1:15:48
which can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be a detrimental
1:15:50
thing. So like, you get up and you're
1:15:52
like, Oh my God, a plane crashed and hundreds of people died.
1:15:56
And then I'm sad. Like I just.
1:15:58
It's just not. Good for me.
1:16:01
Yeah, I'm sensitive. Well, also absorb it.
1:16:03
January through April, like shit after shit after shit with like
1:16:08
just this administration like and every time I open my phone I
1:16:11
was like fucking hate it here. Yeah, stuff like.
1:16:15
That it was just like so high, Yeah.
1:16:18
And every time. You got to change up your
1:16:19
algorithm bud. I know and I do follow because
1:16:22
like I care about things like that.
1:16:23
So I follow a lot of accounts and like it is so good to be
1:16:26
informed, but it's also so like what you know, like.
1:16:31
Cuz there aren't. My algorithms got better, now
1:16:33
it's like workout stuff. Yeah.
1:16:35
Food, hair, yeah. And like some funny reels in
1:16:40
there. Yeah, yeah.
1:16:41
So tried to cultivate that. But yeah, they're occasionally
1:16:45
things slip in. Yeah, my like morning routine,
1:16:49
not the best. I'm trying to get better at it
1:16:51
again, but I stopped using my phone as my alarm clock and I
1:16:55
have like a couple years ago I switched.
1:17:00
I bought myself like a nicer alarm clock used because it was
1:17:04
expensive If I bought a new and I was like, I'm buying a used
1:17:08
one. Yeah.
1:17:09
But anyway, so like a mimics sunrise and sunset.
1:17:14
Oh, I've. Seen those?
1:17:15
Yeah, I would love to get one of those.
1:17:17
Yeah, and also the sounds, I mean you can choose what sounds
1:17:20
it is for it to wake you up, but it's like birds sinking or
1:17:23
whatever, but it's it starts slow.
1:17:26
So like the light will start really slow and like eventually
1:17:30
get super bright where it brightens my whole room and then
1:17:33
like the bird noise gets louder to where it wakes me up.
1:17:35
That's so nice. How peaceful, Yeah.
1:17:37
And so it's like, say my alarm is supposed to be at 7:30, like
1:17:42
at at 7:15, it's starting to gradually do this or 730
1:17:46
something like that. And then also same thing for as
1:17:49
I start to get ready for bed, I probably feel like I use it most
1:17:53
for my bedtime where I've gotten better at that where like I
1:17:56
although I have kind of gotten out of my meditation habit.
1:18:00
Sometimes I feel nervous like I don't know, like if someone is
1:18:06
spending the night, like I get nervous about them seeing that
1:18:08
they're like hey, I'm at a take and like and it's kind of like
1:18:12
corny or like, do you wanna do this with me?
1:18:14
So like that's where I get out of that.
1:18:17
But like I will like cuz you can set it to 30/20/15 or 5 minutes.
1:18:22
And so like that's kind of what I use cuz it'll mimic sunset and
1:18:26
that's what I'm using to kind of like start the meditation.
1:18:30
I love that. And so I really do like it
1:18:32
because one time a long time ago, one of my coworkers at that
1:18:36
time, she was like also talking about how bad it is that we wake
1:18:41
up with so much anxiety from our phones and the alarm clock that
1:18:45
it goes off and it's just so much anxiety because like it is
1:18:47
scary. It is, you know, you wake up and
1:18:48
you're like, what the? Sound is triggering.
1:18:50
Yeah, it's very triggering and so I was like also, I think this
1:18:55
was also like out of the time where like peak anxiety.
1:18:57
So I'm like OK, I need to switch and that's when I got to that.
1:19:00
But my morning routine, I definitely wish it could be
1:19:02
better. And I, I feel like I'm
1:19:05
constantly trying to be like, I just want a better morning
1:19:07
routine where my better morning routine is where when I say that
1:19:12
I'd like to just like be able to get out of bed right away and
1:19:15
definitely be off my phone for at least the 1st 30 minutes.
1:19:17
Like that's my first school. Like eventually I'd like to get,
1:19:21
yeah, eventually I'd like to get, you know, an hour or
1:19:25
something, but at least the 1st 30 minutes or something.
1:19:29
What's kind of your morning routine?
1:19:30
Your night routine? My morning starts off very
1:19:33
violently compared to y'all. I just checked my phone.
1:19:41
I have 3 alarms set. 63637 and 73730 is the very last one that
1:19:49
I absolutely have to wake up so I have time to at least wash my
1:19:53
face, brush my teeth, put clothes on, and then get my butt
1:19:57
to the office. Sometimes I set alarms like that
1:20:02
and then I get mad at myself because I'll get up at the last
1:20:04
one and I'm like, I could have just slept another hour, but
1:20:08
instead I feel very groggy. That's true, because once I wake
1:20:11
up and then I fall back asleep and then it's so hard though.
1:20:13
It's so hard to get up to that first one.
1:20:15
But before my phone I have an old school analog clock that
1:20:19
just beeps. Dating.
1:20:24
Yeah, it keeps going until you do something or you gotta, you
1:20:27
gotta snooze or flip the switch, Yeah, to shut it off.
1:20:30
And so, yeah, my mornings start off pretty violent.
1:20:33
Yeah. Yeah, a nice snooze.
1:20:35
Like I'm a snoozer. Yeah, so I got set.
1:20:37
It's hard to not be a snoozer, Yeah.
1:20:40
But it's also because I'm irresponsible with my sleep at
1:20:43
night. I'm trying to get better with
1:20:45
like, all right? Sleep is a very important
1:20:49
activity that I should actively pursue instead of just waiting
1:20:53
until I'm tired and gonna pass out.
1:20:56
Yeah, yeah, I like that was it for me too.
1:21:00
Is like realizing how much sleep matters and I feel like I'm so
1:21:06
I'm not the best if I don't even get 8 hours and I know that's a
1:21:10
lot of hours for people who are parents yes for example.
1:21:15
But shit man like I'm single fuck off.
1:21:18
Like I want 8 hours of sleep at least.
1:21:21
Don't make me feel bad. And they say 10.
1:21:23
Oh really? See, I'm a woman.
1:21:25
Too, It's actually different for women and men.
1:21:27
Like men can operate at full function on less sleep than
1:21:31
women. What is that?
1:21:33
Because of our hormones. I'm good at 6-7 to 8 would be
1:21:38
fantastic. Like over this weekend I got 7
1:21:42
to 8 and woke up great. Yeah, woke up refreshed, was
1:21:45
ready to tackle the day and then last night I was up till 2:00 AM
1:21:51
and had to get up at 7 and wasn't as great of a day.
1:21:56
Yeah. Yeah, I think it's hard to
1:21:58
asleep because they're like sleep is so important.
1:22:01
But if you tell that to someone who's not sleeping or someone
1:22:03
that has anxiety around sleep, it's the worst thing you could
1:22:06
tell them. Yes, like every video, they're
1:22:08
like, it's so important and it's like, it is, but you're gonna be
1:22:12
fine if you don't get great sleep.
1:22:14
Yeah, we can function on a lot less than we think.
1:22:17
That's true. Sometimes I'll get a great
1:22:19
night's sleep and I'll still feel tired.
1:22:21
That's true, yeah. Cuz of course then other shit
1:22:25
happens, yeah. Like, just water.
1:22:27
Yeah. I don't know if we're getting
1:22:29
nutrition. Nutrition, 100% nutrition is a
1:22:32
big one. Oh my God.
1:22:33
Eating like a hamburger and stuff and then you feel really
1:22:37
awful and slow and groggy right after versus like maybe more of
1:22:40
a balanced meal or a hamburger that's just a little more
1:22:43
balanced because you can definitely still have a
1:22:45
hamburger. I find it more about really
1:22:47
heavy at night. Like late at night I wake up so
1:22:51
groggy it still affects me the next morning, which is crazy to
1:22:55
say. Yeah.
1:22:56
When did I get so old? Yeah, I got to take whatever.
1:23:00
But yes, Tums are in my bag at all times.
1:23:05
You never know when you need one.
1:23:07
The first sign that you're getting old I.
1:23:08
Know, yeah, and. It's.
1:23:09
Tragic. Yeah, but it does.
1:23:12
I think food effects us a lot more than we realize.
1:23:14
Yeah, even the next day. You heard of that guy who's like
1:23:18
20 years younger than his real age and he injects his Sonny's
1:23:24
blood into him? What?
1:23:25
I don't know if I'm thinking of the same guy.
1:23:28
Maybe, I don't know, maybe you just haven't heard that part.
1:23:31
Maybe I hadn't heard that part. OK, is he does?
1:23:34
He does he is it the one that wakes up at 4:00 AM and like,
1:23:37
finishes eating by 11? AMI think so?
1:23:39
OK. OK.
1:23:40
Yeah, but yeah. And he like looks.
1:23:42
He said like his last meal. He never goes in the sun.
1:23:44
His last meal is at least six hours before he plans to go to
1:23:49
bed. Yeah, we've, Chris and I have
1:23:50
actually just started doing that.
1:23:51
It's like very fresh. Yeah, But we've started not
1:23:55
eating past. Well, usually we eat like our
1:23:58
first meal around like 11 to noon.
1:24:01
And then we we've been trying to stop eating at like 6.
1:24:05
And as long as you eat like a nutritionally dense meal, like
1:24:08
before you cut off your time, I have felt a lot better and I've
1:24:12
been sleeping a lot better. We're trying to shred some fat.
1:24:15
I've been doing some works. I've been doing intermittent
1:24:17
fasting, but yeah, intermittent fasting, Yeah, yeah.
1:24:20
Do you like it? I love it.
1:24:21
This year, actually, I've shortened that window so my my
1:24:25
first meal is like 1:32 PM and then my last meal about six or
1:24:31
seven. Yeah.
1:24:33
PM That's awesome. How long have you done that for?
1:24:37
Many years it hasn't been doing great I don't think cuz I can't
1:24:41
make it to the gym all the time but.
1:24:44
I mean, you're doing that and I think that's good.
1:24:45
I think just even giving your body and like what I've read
1:24:49
anyways is like your digestive system like a full long period
1:24:53
of time to like and before like you're going to sleep as well.
1:24:57
Yeah, they can get a. Full break like.
1:24:59
Gut rest. Or something.
1:25:00
Yeah. Yeah, you gotta give it a break.
1:25:03
See, that is definitely where I can improve.
1:25:06
Like right now, I am in a calorie deficit.
1:25:09
I do. I am counting my macros.
1:25:12
I love to see it. Yeah, it's thank you.
1:25:14
But I, I mean, I have my throat breakfast, lunch, dinner, 2
1:25:17
snacks. Sometimes I or I, I've been
1:25:22
focusing more on like, because it's a calorie deficit, like
1:25:25
spacing out the meals so I don't feel hungry.
1:25:29
But also, I mean, I've been doing it for a while that I
1:25:30
think I'm used to it now that I really don't need to.
1:25:33
But like, sometimes if I start my day really late, as in like I
1:25:36
didn't get out of bed until the minute that I needed to be on
1:25:38
camera because I work from home, then like, I, you know, I eat
1:25:45
later. I then eat lunch later and then
1:25:47
I work out and then I'm eating dinner really late.
1:25:50
Like sometimes I'm eating dinner at like 8:40.
1:25:52
Yeah, that's how Chris and I were.
1:25:54
Cuz some nights I get off at 8:00 and then he would do
1:25:57
jujitsu. So by the time we both would get
1:25:59
home and I would get something together for dinner, it'd be
1:26:01
like 839 o'clock. And also we were.
1:26:05
I feel like we make our worst food decisions at night.
1:26:08
That's when my self-control is the least strong.
1:26:13
So like sweet treats or like snacks, like when you're tired
1:26:16
and you just wanna munch. So we're trying to cut that out
1:26:18
by doing the intermittent fasting, and it seems like it's
1:26:21
working so far. Yeah, What's your favorite sweet
1:26:24
treat? Favorite sweet treat?
1:26:26
I am an ice cream and baked goods girly.
1:26:29
So like ice cream and a brownie fresh out the oven, some
1:26:34
chocolate cake. Like really I love my sweets but
1:26:37
we have cut out like extra sugar like sweet treats recently which
1:26:43
I do feel better on but. But it's still sad.
1:26:45
It's still sad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:26:48
I'm a salty person. I like like chips.
1:26:52
That's my I. Love that too.
1:26:53
Like that's my weakness. I just love snacks.
1:26:56
Yeah, I just love food. Yeah.
1:26:57
I don't discriminate. Yeah.
1:26:59
I love it all. What's yours?
1:27:01
I feel like if I'm craving something salty like chips or
1:27:03
something, it's like I really just want real food.
1:27:06
But. I definitely have a sweet tooth,
1:27:09
like, after dinner, like, oh, there's an option for dessert.
1:27:14
Yeah. That was Chris and I for a
1:27:15
while. Like every time we'd finished
1:27:17
Keating. I'm like sweet treat time.
1:27:19
Like we deserve a treat. Yeah.
1:27:21
Like, no, we don't. We need to calm down.
1:27:23
Yeah. No, like, it's kind of funny
1:27:26
because like for my now, you know, switching to a deficit and
1:27:31
like, because so I have somebody who does my workout programming
1:27:38
and then she also manages my nutrition and she gives me my
1:27:41
recipes too. Oh, that's so nice.
1:27:43
Yeah, and sometimes, like, when I wouldn't see salty stuff in my
1:27:48
sex, like that took me a while to finally go like, OK, I'm
1:27:51
going to eat sweet stuff. I mean, it wasn't super sweet.
1:27:54
I mean, we're talking Greek yogurt and like, some fruit in
1:27:57
there, things like that. But I would always be like, I
1:28:00
want salty stuff. So like, at the end of the day,
1:28:03
you know, like everything is good in moderation because like,
1:28:07
I could still fit in some Frito Hot Lays if I want.
1:28:12
And then with a little bit of Greek yogurt just so I can still
1:28:15
balance out the fact that, like, I got the carb and the fat, but
1:28:19
I definitely didn't get the protein type of thing.
1:28:23
And yeah, but I mean, I still want more because I love salty
1:28:27
snacks. Or I think it's also like I sit
1:28:29
on my couch and I will put it on TV and I'm like I'm a.
1:28:32
Snack. See that's.
1:28:33
What it? Is, Yeah.
1:28:34
Especially at night. It's game over.
1:28:36
Yeah, where it's like, but I'm sitting on my couch.
1:28:38
I want a snack. It's hard.
1:28:42
It's hard to get the habit. Yeah, the first, the first
1:28:45
evening we intermittent fasted. When I got off work, like early,
1:28:50
I felt weird. I also didn't eat, I should have
1:28:52
eaten at like 5:30 or like 430. I ate at like 3 and I didn't eat
1:28:58
like enough food. So by 6 I was starving.
1:29:02
But Chris and I both were like, it's like the ritual of it.
1:29:04
Like we, we like eat food, we watch our TV.
1:29:07
Like it was just weird. So now we're getting used to it
1:29:11
and I think learning, like, we have to eat dense before our cut
1:29:14
off time to stay full. I don't know.
1:29:18
It's a weird feeling, though. Yeah.
1:29:20
You, you just get used to those habits.
1:29:21
Like a sweet treat after dinner. Oh, I'm on my couch.
1:29:24
I want a snack. Like it's just like, almost
1:29:26
like, I don't know, it's just second nature.
1:29:29
It is the conditioning because I have gotten rid of my dining
1:29:33
table. I definitely am trying trying.
1:29:36
I want to get a dining table mostly because I need a stop
1:29:41
eating on the floor, eating on my couch.
1:29:44
Like I have a like, you know, on the floor of my or my coffee
1:29:46
table or sometime because I have an office space now.
1:29:49
And so like even eating on my desk, like I need to stop doing
1:29:52
that. But I bring that up because,
1:29:54
like, I'm now used to eating and watching TV.
1:29:58
That's how we were, too. Yeah.
1:30:00
And so it is the conditioning. So say like at the end of the
1:30:02
day, I've had a really, really long day and I want to watch TV
1:30:06
or something. It's the oh I want to get
1:30:08
something to eat while I'm watching this.
1:30:10
Absolutely. Because it is kind of the
1:30:12
conditioning. Yeah, you're used to it, Yeah.
1:30:15
Yeah. Yeah, so you.
1:30:16
Know you know what'll break you out of that And you can't find
1:30:19
anything to watch while you eat. Oh my God.
1:30:21
Like, you know what? Screw it, I'm just gonna eat.
1:30:24
I'm done and. Then go to something.
1:30:25
Else that's so true though, because no, I don't know.
1:30:28
See what The thing is with me is like I let my food go cold.
1:30:32
Oh no. She'll find that something to
1:30:34
watch. I do, yeah.
1:30:37
And then like something, sometimes if I can't find
1:30:41
anything, I'll just revert to like a Disney movie or
1:30:43
something, something cozy. Because that's so funny.
1:30:47
Because I don't know what else to watch or like now, like I've
1:30:50
turned into an iPad kid, you know, like that's, that's what
1:30:53
it is. And so I'm like, OK, I really do
1:30:55
need to get myself a kitchen table so I'm not looking at a
1:30:59
screen. Cuz even at my desk I'm looking
1:31:01
at a screen. Yep, like just something that
1:31:04
gets me out of a screen while I'm eating so I can stop that
1:31:07
habit. I gotta do that at work.
1:31:09
Like I see people eat at their like desk and then like that
1:31:13
you're still working. Yeah, that's.
1:31:15
Not a break, I need a break. I'm gonna go leave my desk, get
1:31:18
out of here, get some food and go eat somewhere else.
1:31:22
Yeah, yeah, definitely need to do that.
1:31:26
I didn't have a good transition for this either.
1:31:28
That's OK. That's my laugh.
1:31:35
How are you making fun of me? Actually, I have the perfect
1:31:39
lightning round question. We're going to switch to
1:31:40
lightning round, OK? And I'm just, yeah.
1:31:42
And I'm just going to ask you a bunch of questions, OK?
1:31:47
I'm going to ask you questions and you kind of like, just want
1:31:49
to kind of go through them. OK?
1:31:51
So the first lightning round question is give me your best
1:31:54
rich laugh. My best rich laugh.
1:31:58
Yeah, yeah, cuz there's this thing like going around like
1:32:00
there's a poor laugh and there's a rich laugh.
1:32:02
So like I haven't seen it. So like maybe your poor laugh is
1:32:07
your regular laugh, like or like that laugh right there.
1:32:09
What it sounded like really obnoxious.
1:32:11
My regular laugh is my rich laugh.
1:32:13
Yeah, that's your best rich laugh.
1:32:16
That's my rich laugh. That's just my laugh.
1:32:18
Yeah, I'm gonna say it's my rich laugh because we're manifesting
1:32:21
money. Oh, there you go.
1:32:22
OK, that's a good one. OK, one word to describe the
1:32:26
vibe of your studio. Cozy.
1:32:29
Cozy. What's a hair trend that needs
1:32:31
to end? I hope other people can hear
1:32:38
that. Yeah, that's definitely not me.
1:32:41
That's coming from downstairs. What's downstairs I can feel.
1:32:44
It it's Christmas, sounds Christmassy.
1:32:51
Oh, you know what? I did see a band leaving the
1:32:53
other day. I'm sorry, can you ask the
1:32:56
question? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:32:57
It got really distracted. What's a hair trend that needs
1:33:01
to end? Chunky highlights.
1:33:04
Chunky highlights OK. Just keep it blended.
1:33:08
What's your hot take? My hot take just in general.
1:33:12
A hot take. A Hot take?
1:33:15
Heal your childhood trauma. Yeah, that's my hot take.
1:33:19
You will improve everyone's lives around you by healing
1:33:22
yourself. Yes, OK, you told us what your
1:33:25
moon sign is, but remind us and how does it show up for you?
1:33:29
My moon sign is Cancer and how it shows up for me.
1:33:34
I think all three play together. So my almost astrology twin well
1:33:42
for the big three is Robin Williams.
1:33:44
Love him, but I think he had a lot of struggles as well.
1:33:51
And I think our, I can't remember if our rising and our,
1:33:55
I don't know, two of them were switched, but he had all three
1:33:57
water sign as well. Just very creative.
1:34:02
I feel like very in tune, very creative.
1:34:04
So I think cancer has a part to play in that as well.
1:34:07
Yeah, OK. What was your first hair, Phil?
1:34:12
My first hair fail Oof. In beauty school, I had a friend
1:34:18
from high school and she wanted like a purple balayage.
1:34:22
I did not learn balayage in school because I'm kind of like
1:34:25
in between old school hairdresser and new age
1:34:27
hairdresser. So a lot of that was learned
1:34:29
afterwards. And so I was like, I always
1:34:32
wanted to give people the best. So I was like, yes, let's do it.
1:34:37
Like I wanted to be enthusiastic.
1:34:38
I wanted to do all the things even when I did not know how to
1:34:41
do the things. So I did a purple, I guess it
1:34:44
was ombre called ombre back then.
1:34:48
And it was not good. It was not good.
1:34:52
And she said she loved it. And I'm like, girl, no, you
1:34:54
don't. Don't lie to me.
1:34:55
It was really bad. I was like, you might love it,
1:34:58
but I hate it. But that was a good learning
1:35:01
experience for me and I learned from my mistakes.
1:35:04
And we have come a long way. Oh good, she still trusts.
1:35:07
You she doesn't live here anymore.
1:35:09
But Nope, that was my one and only time I did her hair.
1:35:12
So shout out to Maddie. We love you, Maddie.
1:35:17
OK, favorite mantra or affirmation at the moment?
1:35:23
There's so I have literally so many that come to my mind.
1:35:26
Favorite mantra? I would say everything that is
1:35:31
meant to be mine will be mine. Yeah, I think I gave you this
1:35:36
ahead of time so hopefully you can answer it if you had to pick
1:35:40
3 songs for your life anthem. Yes.
1:35:42
OK, what would they be and why? I would say Float On by Modest
1:35:49
Mouse because it's just about like going with the flow.
1:35:53
Like no matter what happens, like it's all going to be good.
1:35:56
So I think that is like one of my life anthems because I just
1:36:01
try to go with the flow. Not very good at it sometimes,
1:36:03
but we're trying. My second one would be Love is
1:36:07
Alive by Louis the Child. It's just a very upbeat, like
1:36:11
happy, like she says, I want to go where love is and I feel like
1:36:15
that is true to my life is I just want to like surround
1:36:18
myself with love and people that love and just all of the good
1:36:22
positive vibrations. So that would be 1.
1:36:25
And then I would say Heaven up there by Palace.
1:36:29
It's one of my favourites. It's just really good.
1:36:33
I feel like it's, it's a really sad song, but it really connects
1:36:38
with me in a lot of ways and I think it just makes me think
1:36:42
about like human existence and future and I don't know, just
1:36:46
living life to the fullest so. Yeah.
1:36:49
Those 3. What would your younger self be
1:36:52
most proud of you today? For everything I actually saw, I
1:36:59
actually saw a post the other day on Facebook, it was like, if
1:37:03
you could say 3-3 words to your younger self, what would it be?
1:37:06
And the first thought that came to my mind was like, I love you.
1:37:08
And I think that is, I think I, my younger self would be very
1:37:13
proud of like what I've been through where I'm at owning my
1:37:17
own business. Like I think my younger self
1:37:19
would think I'm so cool. And I think that's like the best
1:37:22
accomplishment and the best feeling.
1:37:24
Yeah, yeah, for sure. So we now had heard a little bit
1:37:28
about you, your stories, your passions and interests.
1:37:31
Tell us in our listeners. How can everyone find you and
1:37:33
support you? You can find me at Alchemy
1:37:36
Studios at the Studios on Market.
1:37:39
My Instagram handle is the Art of Alchemy Studio.
1:37:44
I think Quote me on that. I'm also on the Studios on
1:37:49
Market page. And if you want to, Yep, the Art
1:37:55
of Alchemy Studio, if you want to come check out my studio, I
1:37:59
would love to take care of you. And yeah, I'm excited, excited
1:38:05
to have you in my space. So with that.
1:38:07
Accepting new clients. Oh, accepting.
1:38:09
But you'll have to wait a couple months.
1:38:10
But I would love to take you on the books.
1:38:13
So with that, it's times that we also here, you know, give a
1:38:17
quick here see you so Pariva. Pariva.
1:38:21
Pabajo pabajo palcentro palpento Y palentro Y palento.
1:38:35
That was so fun. That was so fun.
1:38:40
I love it.