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Season 4 - Episode 208 - Surrounded by dolphins! · 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.
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  World. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. I'm so happy to be saying that
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  again. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So one of the things that I
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  forgot to mention about something that we did on our
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  trip was that we got to go out on a whale watch.
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  Now, many people have not been on a whale watch.
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  Many people have, depending upon if you live on a coast and
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  you've ever been on one, they're pretty incredible.
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  I went out on them when I lived in Massachusetts a lot when I
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  was younger. Not with my parents, ironically,
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  but with myself or whoever I, I had a boyfriend at the time or
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  whatever. We would always find ways to go
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  on whale watches because I was really into doing that and
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  watching the whales and going through the, you know, the, the
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  whole experience of hunting for them and trying to see if
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  they're there and catching them on pictures.
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  I mean, you know, I'm obsessed with taking pictures.
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  So one of the things that about going to California is that you
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  have opportunities to really see interesting things out there at
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  the Pacific Ocean, different animals, different times of the
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  year. So I was super excited about
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  that. And there was a chance, albeit a
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  small one, that we might be able to see some humpbacks or what.
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  So I was like, ah, OK, we're doing this.
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  So the last day before we get on the flight, we were taking the
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  red eye home. And before we get on the flight,
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  we decided in that morning we were going to take the kids and
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  we were going to go out for this whale watch.
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  And we got there. First of all, it was cold by
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  being cold for me anyway. And I was like, had to buy a
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  sweatshirt, 'cause I was cold. And I just kept thinking about,
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  Oh my gosh, I hope we get to see, you know, whales and
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  dolphins. Whales and dolphins.
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  Well, turns out we only saw one whale, and that was a minky
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  whale. And it was special, but it was
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  really hard to see and it was farther away.
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  But we had the blessing and the gift of being surrounded by a
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  super pod of dolphins, which the captain estimated to be anywhere
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  from 3 to 500 dolphins swimming all around us through, you know,
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  with the boat jumping in and out of the wakes coming alongside.
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  You could see the mothers with the babies right beside them,
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  multiple mothers with babies, babies swimming.
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  And it was one of the most glorious experiences I can ever
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  say I had out on one of these hunts.
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  Now, what was killing me was I only had my iPhone with me.
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  I couldn't, I couldn't shoot it any other way.
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  And I was like, I don't even know what's going to come up
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  with this, but I just kept focusing on I'm getting great
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  shots, I'm getting great shots, I'm getting great shots.
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  And I got some really great shots.
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  And then the naturalist on board was taking pictures so we could
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  buy those pictures at the end so that we would have some.
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  And she was shooting them with no glare.
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  So you got to see even more clearly what was going on under
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  the ocean, under the surface of the ocean.
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  And it was such a divine experience to be able to have
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  that in my life, to be able to see it.
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  I sat there when we were on the boat and they were swimming.
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  My son looked at me and there were just tears streaming down
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  my face. I could cry right now thinking
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  about it because here you have these absolutely beautiful
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  beings. And I don't even want to say
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  animals because they're to me, they're just, you know, they're
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  just such a, a special soul. They're just these, you know,
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  sential beings that are just unbelievable.
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  And I just, you just know that they have such an intelligence.
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  And just because they live in the water and they live
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  differently than this doesn't mean they're not smart.
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  And you watch them and you watch them playing with us and you
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  watch them how they come up and they look right at you.
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  You see their eyes looking right at you.
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  And you know, on some level they're looking at us and
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  saying, what are they doing? And we're looking at them and
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  going, wow, what are they doing? And it's just, it is a spiritual
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  experience. So if you ever get a chance to
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  do it, go do it because it will, it will connect you with nature
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  in a very different way. And for me, that's what this is
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  all about is connecting with the surroundings, with nature in a
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  very different way. And it was, it was such an
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  impactful moment and it was the end of the trip.
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  It was the end of the trip and it was such a special end of the
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  trip that I will never forget that end of the trip.
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  And that's the point I'm trying to make.
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  So when we were trying to decide, should we go, Shouldn't
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  we go? You know, it wasn't cheap to go
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  on it. Should we spend the money on it?
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  I am so glad that I did it because it was such a moment in
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  time that I will never forget. So the question is, how do we
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  create more of those moments in time that we will never forget?
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  And we have to look for them. We have to seek them out.
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  And we have to be willing, always willing to, to notice
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  them. And whether they're small or
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  big, whether it's something that's just happening in your
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  world or something you have to go out and say go on a whale
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  watch to see. Every night when I go to close
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  the coop out, I have a special moment because I have one
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  chicken named Sammy that will come over and she will wait for
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  me at the door. She waits for me to say
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  goodnight to her every single night.
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  And that is a special moment for me.
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  I will never forget her for that, just like I will never
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  forget Dottie for showing up and always jumping up into my lap
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  and into my arms. And I will never forget this
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  whale watch and this super pod of dolphins.
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  So the question is, what can we do to create more of that in our
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  life? Because I don't know about you,
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  but I'm going to work diligently on that.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day and I will see you
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  all tomorrow. Bye.