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Season 5 - Episode 56 - The seeds we drop and others sprout! · 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. I want to talk to you about how
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  affected I was in my life by a woman who happened to be the mom
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  of a friend of mine so many years ago When I was little I my
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  one of my friends that I went to I.
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  I knew her my entire life. Her family lived on the next Rd.
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  over around the corner. Her mom had a massive, massive
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  impact on me and I, I actually didn't realize it until later in
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  life, but her mom was the person that already had six kids on her
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  own. She had six kids on her own with
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  her husband. I believe it was a second
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  marriage, but then they had kids.
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  They each had a child and then they had kids of their own,
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  which was wonderful. They had a very blended family.
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  And this goes way back into the 70s.
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  So you have to think about the fact I was little in the 70s.
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  And so this was an extraordinary thing for people to do at that
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  point in time. So they had this big family.
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  And as the kids got older, she decided that she was going to
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  foster more children. So she started taking in foster
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  children. And those children were, you
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  know, eventually she adopted, they adopted all these children.
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  And for me, that was something that my family had tried to
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  adopt, my parents had had, my mother had had multiple
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  miscarriages and I was the only child.
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  In fact, she had a pregnancy where I was a twin and she lost
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  the other baby. So the fact that I was able to,
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  you know, be here, I always think of it as like I, I really
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  have a responsibility because this was quite the mission that
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  I must have been on to be able to survive all of that.
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  Well, in any event, they tried to adopt at one point in time
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  and they, they did it once and it fell through and the little
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  boy ended up going to a family member.
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  And my mother was crushed by that and couldn't do it anymore.
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  She said she just couldn't do it.
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  And I I understand that being crushed having gone through the
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  process of adoption with my own son, what it would have done to
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  me. But I do understand perseverance
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  as well and I don't give up as easily.
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  So I I never understood like how that all connected in my head.
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  But this woman in my life when I was very young did it multiple
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  times. She saved 2 sets of twins and
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  two other individual kids and they all were adopted by her,
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  which was phenomenal and incredible.
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  And she would talk about how, you know, a house filled with
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  children and filled with, you know, laughter and love is such
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  a big deal. And you would go there and she
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  was always happy, always busy running around, you know, just
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  like this amazing energy. But you don't realize the effect
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  that that has on those around you.
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  So I grew up running in and out of that house with all of those
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  kids. I grew up seeing her doing all
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  of that and experiencing that energy.
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  And then Fast forward in my own life, you know, I end up
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  adopting, taking, doing the same, taking that path, doing
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  the same thing, not to the extent that she did, but I did
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  it. And I, I had this epiphany the
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  other day. I was thinking about her and how
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  extraordinary that was. And then one of my clients sent
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  me a note talking about his family and how his grandmother
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  did things. And I thought, isn't it amazing
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  because that's what he's doing now?
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  And it clicked in my head like where I had one experience
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  watching my mother take the path and then get scared and stop the
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  path. I had this other mother who took
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  the path, didn't get scared, kept going, kept going, kept
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  going, impacted all those people.
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  And then I hear from my other client that his grandmother took
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  the path and it affected all these amazing people.
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  And I just had this like, wow, if I, I don't know if I would
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  have been brave enough to take the path if I hadn't had her mom
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  to teach me that that was that was viable.
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  That was something you could do. And it was such a small sliver
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  and such a small threat of awareness.
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  But I really want to highlight it because how do we know all
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  these little things we do and all these little things we talk
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  about that connect and and say something?
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  Last night, my son was putting his motorcycle together and I
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  was out here helping. I walked into to do something
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  else in the garage and he said, hey, can you help me?
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  And he was on his headset talking to his two other friends
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  while he was doing it. And he he said, all of a sudden
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  he and I was holding up the bike in the air so that he could put
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  a pin through the back tire. And he said to me, my friends
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  want you to know that they think you're the most awesome mom.
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  And I said, oh, that's sweetie goes no, they're not joking.
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  They think you're the most awesome mom.
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  You're out here in your pajamas helping me put this together.
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  And they have never seen that before.
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  And it really made me think, look, I just dropped some seeds
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  right there. I just dropped some seeds right
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  there. So they know, hey, that's how
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  people should show up for each other.
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  So remember, all these little things, they matter.
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  What you're doing matters. Even if you're not getting
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  recognition in the moment somewhere, it matters.
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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.