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Season 4 - Episode 288 - Do your fears restrict someone else? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody, good morning. My family has very unique pets
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  and very unique businesses and things that we do.
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  And my husband actually breeds reptiles and snakes, hognose
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  snakes, bigger snakes getting ready to breed eastern Indigos,
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  which are I think they're threatened, maybe they're even
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  endangered. He had to get permission from
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  the federal government to even be able to do it, and he's
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  licensed now. We've been waiting for five
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  years. He's been growing them up.
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  He waited forever to get them. Breeding reptiles is a very,
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  very involved business. And his whole world is built
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  around breeding them, getting them in the right conditions,
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  taking care of them at this impeccable level to to make them
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  be the best that they can be. And there's a whole culture of
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  people who love snakes and have them as pets.
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  And it's, it's brought me into a whole different mindset about
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  things. Now we have geckos as well and
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  we are breeding Lucianus geckos. And often times when I am
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  talking to people, I hear this pushback.
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  I'll say, Oh yeah, well, we have a gecko world.
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  Just a picture of myself holding a gecko.
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  And I hear people go, oh, no way, no way.
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  And often times when I am coaching, I'll be on the phone
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  with someone and they will make a comment about how they would
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  never allow this. And it always puts me back where
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  I go. That's so interesting that you
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  would say that because here's the thing, I don't want to put
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  my rules of certain things like, OK, yes, you have to pick up
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  your mess when you're around the house.
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  You have to put your dishes in the dishwasher.
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  Those are my rules. I mean, the guys in the house
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  meant they probably wouldn't do it.
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  Let's face it, we know that. But those are like common area
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  rules and whatnot. I would never put my rules for
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  what someone else could do for a passion that they really enjoy
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  like reptiles in in that on somebody.
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  I mean, I just I would not do it.
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  I have had to have six snakes actually stay in the house.
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  Yes, they have had to stay in the house because they couldn't
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  be with the others because they were sick.
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  OK, great. We had to make a space for them.
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  They were not well. But I've had a chicken.
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  My friends sleep in the house. I've I actually had a chicken
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  stay in the house like multiple times.
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  We used to have one that had rye neck and my son absolutely loved
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  her, Daisy as what he named her. And Daisy was often in the house
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  because she had she ran funny. She had something happened to
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  her. She went to bed one night and
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  she was fine. The next morning her neck seemed
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  to have gotten out of whack and she couldn't even walk.
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  And my son was devastated. So in the house she came and she
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  stayed inside at night because she needed to have a safe place
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  to stay. And our favorite queen, Miss
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  Celine, she has been in the house.
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  She's almost died twice because she gets herself in trouble and
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  she has stayed in the house. And at neither of those points
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  did my husband say no chickens in the house.
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  He said, oh, let's get the little cat crate.
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  Let's get her set up and get him taken care of.
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  And that's the kind of place that we have.
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  That's the kind of rules that we have for each other.
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  My son has two gigantic fish tanks, 120 gallons each in his
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  room. It sounds like he lives in an
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  aquarium. He enjoys that.
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  I'm not going to say no. As long as he's taking care of
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  them, Why would I say no? And this comes full circle in
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  the sense of when we take our rules on things and we say, this
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  is not for me. I don't want this around.
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  That's OK if it doesn't affect people that we love.
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  Otherwise, we really have to look and say, hey, you know
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  what? I really need to work on this.
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  Now. I I've never been afraid of
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  snakes. I've never been bothered by
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  them. And we had one that lived under
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  the front steps of our house for years.
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  And my mother named him Stanley. And he would come out and she'd
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  say good morning to him. He'd lay on the rocks in the
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  sun, She'd open the door, She'd say, morning, Stanley.
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  And she'd step right around him. And it was a garden snake.
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  And he would just, you know, make sure there were no rodents
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  around. And so I grew up not having a
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  fear. And my question to everybody is
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  the rules that we often push back on are based on fear.
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  So we have to say, hey, listen, I have to make sure I put my
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  fears in check so that they don't make other people feel bad
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  for who they are. Such an important question.
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  Are your fears making other people for feel feel bad for who
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  they are and what they like? Now, I would never want to do
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  that to the person that I spend my life with because if it's
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  important to him, I want to learn to, you know, have it in
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  our world. So we have figured out how to
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  have it in our world. And I have to tell you, it's
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  pretty fast, fascinating, and it's pretty interesting.
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  So give that question some thought.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.