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Diana Silva (Molé Mama) – Abuelita’s Magical Molcajete · Postcards to the Universe

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Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Capria. Do you believe in magic?
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What if you were told that all you had to do was get a
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little creative and work a magic spell to bring anything you can imagine into your
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life. Here on Postcards to the Universe, we will share manifesting tips,
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postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity. Here's your host, Melissa Capria.
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Hey guys, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the
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life you crave. How are you guys doing. I hope everybody's doing well.
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Is everybody getting into the holiday spirit? I hope that you are.
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I can't believe it's this summer and the year is almost over. Just crazy
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crazy. I'm really excited about my show today because I have somebody who's become
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a very dear friend of mine. She's also an author and a home chef,
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Molly Mama's Diana Silva as my guest, and she's gonna join me in
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just a couple of minutes. To my regulars, I just want to say
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thank you so much for listening to me each week and sending me messages that
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you really like my show and you enjoy the guests that I have. It
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means the world to me. And if you're joining me for the first time,
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welcome, welcome, and welcome, and I hope you keep coming back.
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I hope you enjoy my show today. And if you do and you
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want to listen to some more shows, you can always find the shows up
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on the archives on Home Times Radio. We put all the shows up so
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you can listen at your leisure, or you can also find them on my
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website under a podcast and I have every show that I record each week and
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I load it up there too, so you can listen to it any time
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you want. Just a little bit about me. And we're going to be
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talking a lot about manifesting today with my guest Diana, So I'm excited.
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But I created something called Postcards to the Universe, harnessed the Universe's power and
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manifest your Dreams, which is also the title of my book, And it's
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all about manifesting the life that we want. Right. We want abundance in
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different areas of our life, and usually it's in a love and money and
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career, in our health. We want to bring more abundance in those areas.
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So my book is based on that, and there's thirty manifesting stories along
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with the photographs because I'm also a photographer that I took of each contributors manifesting
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postcard. And my guest Moley Mama Diana is in my book. Actually,
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she's one of the stories in my book, and we're going to be talking
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about her postcard today and how pretty much everything she put on it has come
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to fruition. So it's really really going to be a fun show. But
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I also in the book include a bunch of writing exercises, and it helps
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us get clear on what you want to manifest and what we want to manifest.
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And I have so many fun exercises on how to bring it more abundance
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in areas of love and money and health and career and so much more.
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So I hope that piques your interest, and if you want to find out
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more, you can always find the book on Barnes and Noble or Amazon dot
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com or ask your favorite bookstore and they'll get it for you. But what
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I started doing is I started doing some live readings from my book and I'm
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releasing it. Seems like it's about one a week. They're just about five
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minutes long each video, and sometimes I have to do three for one person's
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story. But yeah, so that way you can you can follow along and
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see. And I also started free photographing all the postcards that are in the
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book, So as I'm doing the readings, I'm rephotographing each week the postcards
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and it's been a lot of fun. And I always have an affirmation or
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the person's the person's affirmation if I'm rephotographing the postcards, and this week's just
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happens to be someone who her story is about. Her affirmation is uncovering your
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elephant, And really what it's about is, you know, let's talk about
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the elephant in the room and whatever that secret is that you have inside yourself
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that you want to keep hidden. She brings it all out to the forefront
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so you can follow along and see more about that. I keep asking people
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to send me manifesting postcards each week. You can find out how and where
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to do that if you go to postcards to the universe dot com and how's
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the address and how to make a postcard and send it to me. And
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I have a couple of workshops going on right now. One is called Manifesting
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through Gratitude a visual Journey and it's Thursday evenings to eight pm online and it's
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about using gratitude to help us manifest in those things that we want and that
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we want to bring more of into our life. And the cool thing about
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it is is it's five classes start to finish and then the workshop rolls over
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Beautiful Gratitude Journal, so that will be really really nice and yeah, so
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check it out. And then I also have another one that is three hours
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long. It's called put your Wishes to Work and Manifest the life that you
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desire, and that is January sixth, and it's one to four pm Eastern
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time, and we are going to be working on a manifesting postcard and what
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do you want to bring in in twenty twenty four? Right, So that'll
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be pretty exciting, So check it out. If you want more information,
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just go to Postcards to Universe dot com and the workshops are listed over there.
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All right, So I think that's everything that I wanted to tell you
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guys before I started talking to my friend miss Diana. So let me read
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you her bio because it's pretty incredible all the stuff that she is doing and
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has been doing, all right, Diana Silva. Molly Mama is a San
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Diego based author, home chef, vlogger, speaker, and podcaster. She
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recently completed competed on Food Networks Guys Grocery Games five episode Home Chef Tournament and
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just a little side note, I watched it and it's really awesome, and
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you can. You can go and look it up and you guys can watch
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it. Her most cherished kitchen tool is her Abulita's magical Mocha Hitta, which
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she uses daily. Her culinary training began when she was nine years old,
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on the day her mama asked her to help make flower tortillas. Crunchy tacos
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stuffed with creamy mashed potatoes are her all time favorite taco and her most fewed
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YouTube video with over two hundred and fifty thousand views. She grew up on
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a California dairy farm and has always loved cooking, hosting taco parties, and
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eating. Molly mama recipes, YouTube cooking videos and podcasts celebrate family recipes,
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cooking delicious meals at home, and adding love to every recipe. Along with
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her guest chefs, Molly Mama explores recipes and traditions from around the world and
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the stories that keep them alive. Most of her podcasts will make you hungry,
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and you may find yourself dancing in your kitchen to sell some music.
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Molly Mama calls for everyone to return to their kitchens and preserve their living and
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past ancestors, favorite recipes and stories for future generations. She says we must
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preserve all cultures and not let those favorite recipes disappear forever. The common thread
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of every cherished family recipe is that they were homemade with love, and that's
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the real secret ingredient. For many home chefs, cooking is their preferred love
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language, and that's why we cherish their recipes. Their love has the power
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to transcend an ordinary recipe into magic. Molly Mama's new book, it was
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just released, is titled Abwalita's Magical Mocha Heeaday and it is a fun,
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magical, heartwarming romance filled with delicious Mexican food, meddling, ghosts, and
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hope. And if you want to know more about her, you got to
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check out her website because she has all of this information on her website.
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It's www dot Molay m l E Mamamama dot com. Welcome Diana. Thank
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you, Melissa. It's so great to be here. I'm so grateful for
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all of your support and for introducing me to your fabulous movement. Thank you.
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So yeah. So Diana and I have become friends really through our books,
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truthfully, her working on her first book and me working on postcards,
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and we connected and stayed very very good friends, and the friendship has just
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grown over how many years now? Seven years now? I guess I guess
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I were, Yeah, yes, I think so. So. Diana created
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a postcard very early when I just kind of launched this in what I was
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doing, and Diana, I found your postcard before the show, so I
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have it. It's just amazing. So everything you put on this postcard has
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pretty much come true. There's just one thing missing. Do you know what
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it is? Do you remember? I don't remember? Okay, Well,
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your newest book just came out, so we'll give it a time. New
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York Times bestseller. Oh okay, okay, right. Everything else is so.
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She has on her postcard, faith, blog posts, live events,
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delicious recipes, joy love, abundance, hugs, funds, monthly visits to
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her YouTube channel, trust and the last one you have TV and you're just
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on TV. I know. It's just absolutely amazing. And for anybody listening,
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I am not artistic, Okay, I'm talking to Melissa, who's this
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phenomenal photographer. And I had so much resistance to doing this card because they
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can't draw. And so you see the picture of my card, it really
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looks like, you know, maybe maybe a first grader drown. So for
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me to have had so much resistance about it and now for everything basically to
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happened, it's amazing. It's just remarkable, It really really is. Yeah,
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And I told her, you don't it's not about being a good artist
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or drawing or you know. Yes, some artists send me their cards and
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they're visually stunning and beautiful and everything, and that's great because you know,
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I love it, of course, but it's really about what you put the
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desire that you put into your card. You know, you're launching your desire
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out into the universe and then taking the inspired action to make that come to
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you. So why don't you share with everybody who's hearing about you for the
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first time, like, what is Molly Mama? Why did you start it?
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Why did you create this? What is it? You know, what's
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your message and that you want to share with everybody. So Molly Mama is
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all about connecting with food and with other people. The central thing really is
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about home cooking, entertaining, finding joy, and home cooked meals. And
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the reason why I started it, Melissa, is because many years ago,
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I had the idea I was working for really big technology companies in Silicon Valley
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that I kept pitching this idea too about really having a brand that was focused
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on family recipes. Because everybody that I've ever met that's into food is always
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telling me about their favorite teo, their favorite ant, or their grandmothers some
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dish, right, And so that's really what I am trying to do with
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my business is really to help people just cherish their families or their friends or
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their recipes because there's something that magical about when we sit down, let me
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share our meal together, and especially that meal is home cooked. Right.
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So that's really what I'm trying to do. Yeah, and you're trying to
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do it with You're from your family's heritage, your your Mexican and Portuguese.
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Is that what your lineage is? Yes? It is, yeah, So
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and your the moca head day is really important So why don't you share with
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everybody about the mocha headay, because first of all, you cook in it,
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and also it's in the title and about in your next in this book
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that was just released, so it's really important. So tell us what it
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is because people are like, what the heck's a mocha head day? You
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know for those of us who don't know, so thank you. It's it's
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basically a pester and mortar and it's very very popular home cooking tool that Mexican
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families have been using for thousands of years. And it's made out of volcanic
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rock. And when my Abelita Magalenas and my grandmother immigrated to this country from
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Mexico to the United States to the California border that she crossed illegally, she
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was carrying one suitcase and in it was her mocha headay. And so I
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have that mocha headay. It was given my mother, and my mother passed
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it to me, and as Melissa said, I definitely use it to cook
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dishes in Probably the two most popular dishes that I use I make is the
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caste fundido, which is a spicy cheese dip sauce and Melissa, I know
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you love. I actually took you some when I saw you asked me,
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and I also like it. I also make a tequila Pronov's dish and as
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it's really good. But because it's made of rock, it really holds that
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heat really well, so if you put a cheese dip in it, it's
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going to stay warm for a really long time. But it's also great for
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grinding up spices. You can make other sauces in it, so I use
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it all the time for garlic. I smashed my garlic in it, and
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it's loud and makes a lot of noise, and I just I love the
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way it sounds so away. Yeah, no, I know it's pretty.
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It's and and with with your which we're going to talk about your latest book
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and just a bit, but it's Yeah, it's pretty amazing because I never
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really knew what one was until I saw Diana actually cooking well with it and
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grinding up all the spices in the garlic. And when you it's really heavy
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and when you hold it, and if you smell it, it's almost like
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you can smell the thousands of years of cooking that is just embedded in the
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rock. Right. It is magical. It does have that magical quality,
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you know. Oh okay, yeah, so how tell us about the how
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the Food Network found you for Guys Grocery Games because they found you right,
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yes, so yeah, it's a yeah. So what happened was and I'm
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going to get a little bit emotional because I still can't really believe all this
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happened. In twenty twenty three, I was quite ill. I had to
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have two heart surgeries. I'm really well now I'm all recovered, so I'm
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doing great, which is fantastic. But on the second day after my second
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heart surgery, the Food Network called me about being on the show, and
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Melissa, you know, I've been asked to be on other shows and I
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said no because I was afraid. But this time I was heavily medicated,
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so I said yes, I'd love to try out for this show. And
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two days later I was on a video call and again heavily sedated. It
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went really well, but that is how I ended up being on Guys Grocery
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Games. So unbelievable that this is how it happened, and the only reason
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why there was a yes in me because I was drug No, it's on
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your postcard Giev and capital letters, so it was there in uh as the
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as those in the note heard in the vortex, right, it was already
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in your vortex coming to you. So it just it just didn't manifest until
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it did, which is pretty amazing. And I watched it, so it
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was really good, by the way, and it's super for those of us
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who were watching Super Nail Biting because the challenges were really really intricate and interesting
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and you have to do it fast and how did how was that whole experience?
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Were you like out of body when you were doing it? Like what
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was that like? Because I was watching and I was like, oh my
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god, Oh my god, how I would never make it. I would
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have failed. I would have been kicked off the first the first, the
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first one. So for those of you that haven't watched, you have to
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shop so that the set is a giant grocery store, so you shop for
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all your food. You have to cook and you have to play in thirty
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minutes, and every single time you cook there's a game element to it.
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So like the first time I had to cook, I had a backpack and
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I had canned cheese in my backpack, so I had to make a dish
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with that, so it is really fast and it's very stressful. But Melissa,
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it was like one of the funnest things I've ever done in my life.
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And I was so surprised at how easy it was for me to talk
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on camera. That was the most surprising thing, and to be speaking with
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celebrities and just how easy that was and how joyful I was. But when
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I wasn't on camera, what I was doing in between episodes is I was
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meditating. I was asking all my ancestors and my mama, my Fias and
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my Moviita to help me, and you know, I was just in this
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interesting zone. And when I did get that first ingredient that I had to
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cook with, that can cheese, I was like, Oh my gosh,
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what am I going to do with this? And I do remember, I
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swear I heard my medics say, Chiso Teresa fixes everything, miha, So
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like, Okay, I know what I'm going to do. So I feel
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like I did have because this is what I believe in. I do feel
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like I had that ancestral connection that was supporting me during that show because I
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had been so sick. Yeah, yeah, I think so too. And
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also I think you were more prepared than you realize you were because of all
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the years of you doing the vlogging and having your own people showing yourself cooking
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on your YouTube. You know, you guys can check her out and you
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can see her videos. So you were already started to do the work and
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get used to it, right and then you have interviewed other guest chefs.
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So I think that's like what people like put stuff down and they want to
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manifest, you know, they start from zero and they want to get to
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one hundred, like they want that right away, and of course it doesn't
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work that way. You know, you got to do it step by step
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and everything is as a building to the next level. It's taking us to
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the next level, to the next level. So I think of all the
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years of all the work that you've put in prepared you to be able to
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handle that being on that kind of show because it's fast paced and it's a
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lot of pressure, a lot, a lot and the other chefs. What
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was there six of you to start? Is that? What it was six
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of you to start? Seven of you to start. Everybody was pretty amazing,
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Like everybody's pretty popular on social media. Everybody was really amazing, and
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they had a nice diversity to the chefs, so it was a really well
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put together show, and you were really happy with it when it was finished.
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I was really happy with it and everyone that I cooked with and the
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celebrity steps, everybody was so kind, just incredibly kind. It was such
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a fun experience. And I want to go back to for a moment when
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you were talking about the stress of it, because I had been so ill.
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I hadn't been able to grocery shop for five months leading up to the
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show, or I think I couldn't push a cart without impacting my heart.
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So when I found out I was going to be on the show, I
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had about six or seven weeks to prepare and I literally was doing training,
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pushing things, carrying my dog whatever I could get strong enough. So I
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think that's like part of the miracle is that I was there and I was
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running through the store. I knew I was running, so I was just
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so happy to be well enough to do it. Wow. Yeah, see,
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And I knew how I knew how ill you were because of you and
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I, like I said, were friends, So I know what's going on
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with her. But I would never have known watching that show, because yes,
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you guys were all like you know, he would like joke. It's
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like one two and if you said go, you're supposed to go no matter
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where he says it. In the sentence, everybody's taking off and I'll see
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you like running around. I wouldn't know what being if I didn't know who
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you were and what was going on in your life that you were dealing with
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that at the same time, that's pretty incredible. That's amazing. And you
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started with the I want to talk a little bit about Molay because that's your
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name, Mollay. Mama, Where did why Molay? What is molay to
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you and your family? So Mullay is a very traditional sauce that originated in
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Mohaka. There's seven different types and if you ever speak to a Mexican person
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that has Mollay in their family, they always tell you some story and it's
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always the best Molley they've ever had, is their Eblita's, their grandmothers or
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their mothers, or a tea or a cousin. So it's really about the
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best of us. And so when I was thinking about a name for my
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brand, I feel like my mother made the best Mully, just like so
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many others that might be listening, and so I really wanted to highlight something
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that's such a rich part of my culture. And also it's about the best
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and that connection to our ancestors. That's where MOI Mama came from. M
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I love it. Yeah, And we're going to talk. I don't want
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to get into the story because we're going to be coming up to a break
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in just a couple of minutes about your first book and you know, with
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your mom and how this all started. But you told me just in us
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talking that you've always desired wanting to write. You've always wanted to be an
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author. You always wanted to be a writer. You always wanted to have
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a book, and now you have two, right, Like that was always
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niggling at you, even since you were a kid. For as long as
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I can remember, Wow, earliest memories I have, I've always written little
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story always. Well, what's so interesting is and people think like you have
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to just be one thing, right Like you said, Oh, I'm not
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artistic, but you are artistic. You're just not a painter, you don't
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draw, but your artistry is in your cooking, your food and in your
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writing. You know, like people forget those things. You know, everybody
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thinks, oh, like I can't draw for crap, you know, like
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at all. But I still call myself an artist because I'm a photographer and
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I also write, right, so that makes me an artist. And you
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forget to add that you're cooking is your artistry. I mean, what you
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put into it, It's the same thing that an artist puts into a canvas,
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don't you think I do. I'm learning to accept that, You're like,
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uh, yeah, yeah, that's true because I've watch her cook and
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believe me, there is artistry in the magic of her cooking. I don't
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know what was it, four or five years ago now, was before COVID.
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I went out to visit Diana and I did a photo shoot of all
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of her food so for her book and her website and all that stuff.
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And it was so much fun because she she cooked so many different Mexican dishes,
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and of course after we photographed that, I got to eat them.
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It was amazing. So I watch you, it's like a whole ritual,
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Like it's you set the space. It's a whole ritual. So I can
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see that adding and the love is part of it. Absolutely, And you
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made my food look more beautiful than it ever had. I think I cried
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and I saw your picture. My bulllefe was like, what it never looked
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like that? Yeah, that's right, that's true. Oh my. And
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that's the first time I've ever had molay homemade molay. I've never had it
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before, and it was delicious. Yeah, because I've never I mean,
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in Florida, we don't have great Mexican restaurants Mexican food here, so I
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got to taste the real deal. But I want to. I just looked
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at the time and I see that we're we're going to take our breaks,
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so let's take it now. We'll be back in just a couple of minutes,
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And don't forget to tune in each week here on Home Times Radio with my
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Time, I share tips on creativity, abundance and prosperity, and you will
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be introduced to the coolest guests, trailblazers, mystics and creatives who enrich our
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lives. Hey guys, and welcome back if you're just joining me today.
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I have Moley Mama's Diana Silva as my guest and she is an author,
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home chef, vlogger, speaker, and just does so many amazing things.
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And she was just on food Networks guys grocery games. It was really good.
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I mean, I swear to God, just go to your DVR talking
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to you. I have cable that you can talk into it the microphone and
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like say what you want to watch, So just do it because it's really
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good. It was. I recorded it every week because I didn't want to
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miss it because it was on I think it was on Wednesday evenings, right,
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it was on Wednesday evenings. I think, yeah, it was on
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Wednesday evenings. So yeah, I'm sure it's up that you can watch it.
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But I want to go back and I want to talk about your your
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two books. So the first one, let's talk about the first book that
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you wrote as in tribute to your mom called moly Mama, a Memoir of
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Love, Cooking and Loss. And share a little bit about that book because
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the story this is nonfiction, this one, and the stories really kind of
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amazing what you did, and you know, your connection with your mom,
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it kind of goes along with your cooking. You know, family and love
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and ancestry and recipes and the magic of all of that, so go ahead
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share with all of us. Thank you, Melissa. So that book is
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really about how I managed to perfect my mother's recipes. So she was given
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three days to live, and she ended up living for thirteen months. She
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was in hospice, and during that time I made forty visits to see her,
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so she was four hours away driving. I'd go on the weekends and
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cook all of her food. She'd been such a great home cook that she
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didn't want to eat anybody else's food, so she wanted her own food,
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which I completely understood, and it was a great gift for me to be
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able to cook for her. But when we had cooked together growing up my
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entire life, none of my family recipes had ever been written down. And
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one of the things that she always did was every time I left the room
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to go to the restroom really quick or check on something, I would come
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back and if we were making chili beans, for example, all of a
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sudden there were a different and I was like, Mom, what did you
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do? Like She's like, oh, I hadded a little this, a
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little that, And I'm like, oh no, now I missed. I
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missed what you've done. So when she was in that hospital bed, I
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was able to cook her food and I was writing everything down and I was
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taking her spoonfuls for her to taste, and so she helped me perfect them
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because before them, they had never been written down. So that's what that
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story is about. And I had no idea, Melissa that when I was
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going through this process with her, that someday this would be a book and
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that someday I'd have a brand and it would really highlight her recipes. And
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when I was on the Food Network and to see her picture on the Food
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Network, my Walita's picture and my teas, and to have you know,
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that Food Network logo next to their photos, I was just like, oh,
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oh, that touts my heart more than anything else. Because those women,
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all those women, especially my mother, It's like, whoever came into
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our home. It was like, let's let me sit down and feed you.
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You know, everywhere I went, I went with bags of burritos or
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bags. I just love it. I love it who they were. So
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that's what that book is really about, is how we said goodbye with food
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basically to each other. Yeah, it's a beautiful book, and anybody who
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has lost somebody that they love will really feel this book deep in their heart
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because you just know right when that person's no longer around. And it's such
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a tribute to your mom. And I think I remember and your mom's name
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was a Rose, right, Rose, Rose, Yeah, Rose. And
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I remember one time Diana and I were taught and we were talking about her
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mom, and I remember getting the strong smell of roses. I don't know
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if you remember that. And I remember telling you I don't have roses in
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my apartment. I don't have roses here right now. I don't know why
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your mom is here with us. I think we were talking. I think
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it was right after your book came out or something, and I was like,
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oh my god, Yeah, it's such a beautiful book and the way
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that you laid it out, and then all the recipes are in the book
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for anybody who is interested in seeing the recipes that you guys cooked with your
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mom. You have it all, You have it all in there for anyone.
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Correct, Yes, I do, Yeah, I love it. Oh
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my god, it's such a good So when did you write this one?
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This was how many years ago? Now? Four or five years ago?
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Now? Six years ago? I know, yes, My God's time was
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flying it's crazy, I know, Oh my god. But the book that
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just came out a couple of weeks ago is a different kind of a book,
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and it is fiction. It's considered a novel fiction, but it's very
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much based on people, like there's influence by your family and tradition and all
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that stuff. Right as Magical Mochahead Day, Yes it is. I love
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it. It's so good. It really really is good. I got to
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read it early on, and then I got to read it again after the
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edits, and now I'm in the process of listening to it on audible,
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which is my favorite way to read is listening. So and it's really really
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fantastic. Okay, So share with us what a little bit about alb Walita's
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Magical mocahead Day is about. So it's basically about a woman who's experienced really
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grief and loss and she starts getting visited by her Abouita and her Abilita's eight
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sisters, her grandmother and her eight of her aunt and they come to her
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in the middle of the night and they travel through Amulcahete from the other side
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and they're there for five hours once a month, and they give her cooking
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lessons and they're medaling and they smoke cigars and they drink tequila and they basically
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transform her life and they really help her get through this grief and to really
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discover and find herself again after she loses her twin sister. So that's the
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story. So it definitely, I think pulls at your heart strings. And
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it's fun and it's hopeful, and there's romance and there's lots and lots of
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food, lots of Mexican parties, you know, but yeah, that's basically
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the story. Yeah, there's definitely lots of food. Boy, they know
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how to do it right in Mexico, right, I swear to God.
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But what's so good about it is is that so the protagonist is dealing with
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grieving. She's grieving, but it's not a sad book. It's a hopeful
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book. It's like and meeting the teas are The teas are hilarious, by
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the way, all the old teas who come through and they transport themselves through
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the molcahete they come through the Molcha hate to her to help her, and
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they're based on your real tias right like with it including their and then did
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you did you actually use your their names their actual names or did you change
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you use their names? They love it their names. So all the Tears
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and the Miamlida are all based on real people that I grew up cooking with
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and tros as my mother, so she's one of the teas that it was
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so fun to hang out with them again. It really was. I really
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felt like I was cooking with them. Yeah, and you know, just
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these women that I love so much, and they all had very distinct,
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strong personalities. I did take a lot of creative liberties, but there's some
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things in there that are there different scenes, but I think they would have
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done some of those things people, Yeah, right, give means I could
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see some of them behaving rather poorly do some of those things. Yeah,
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yeah, No, they're they're very very funny. And for anybody listening who
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can think of an aunt or your grandmother who was a character like I have
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those in my family, and I think of my grandmother, my mama Miileen
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and Aunt Bettie and they were sisters and my aunt Louise, and when the
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three of them were together, the trouble that they would get in with me
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and toe as a little kid, you know, like it's just like they
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get just such resonated with me so much. But I love that they they
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were so like, it's it it okay. So I was explaining, all
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right, so let me try to say what I want to say. So
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when Diana and I were together, it's like I said. I read the
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book a couple of times. It changed for me this time because the first
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time I read it, I hadn't lost my sister yet. The second time
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I read it was after my sister passed away, and the main character is
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grieving the loss of her twin sister and nieces and she's deep and deep grief,
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and you're watching how her family helps her through beyond right and food with
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food and love heel from that. So it gave me such a different I
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had such a different perspective on it than from the first time I read it
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could touched me so much deeper. In fact, I started tearing up when
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I was talking to her lunch. I was like crying. I'm like,
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because now I know what that feels like to be grieving the loss of a
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sister, right and looking for what heals you. And it's funny too,
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And then you throw in the love story and the recipes. It's like has
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everything, but talk tell everybody about how you experienced it writing it and how
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that process happened, because that was also pretty significant for you, and it's
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in the writing it. Oh. It was so in November of twenty twenty,
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during the height of the pandemic, I ended up in the emergency room
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with my heart condition and I knew I just needed some medication that I'd be
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fine, but it was really crazy just because of everything going on and all
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the people that had COVID that were in the hospital at the time, and
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I was really scared. And I remember asking myself, you know, if
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you only had one year left to live, what would you be doing?
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And I heard so loud and so strong that you'd be writing every day,
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because when I'd written my first book, I felt so connected and alive and
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just excited about what I was working on. And then I asked the question
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again because I'm like, I'm sure that can't be right, be writing,
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So I asked again and it was you'd be writing every day. So I
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was released from the hospital later that evening. The next morning, I woke
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up at five point thirty in the morning. I have a writing space in
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my house and I had my little dog Sophia with me, and I started
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out by saying, right, typing on my laptop, I'm answering my divine
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call to be a writer, guide me and help me. And so I
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started typing and the first thing that I heard was the banging of a malca
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head day and this story just unfolded. And so every morning I would get
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up and I would write and I would reconnect and I would start that writing
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exercise by asking for guidance and to reconnect me. And for many months it
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did not have a title. There was no outline, and I just had
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the date November thirtieth of twenty twenty. That was the title of the book
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for a long time. And then when I got to thirty thousand words,
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I called our writing coach and I'm like, you know, I think I
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have a story here in my dad had fun. So but the thing that
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also was happening was that as this story was unfolding, and I was the
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main character was learning how to cook with her a Belita, and Tea is
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like when she learns how to make dortillas, addina flower dorthias, and she's
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covered in flower and you know, just funny things would happen and my husband
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would come down and I'd be laughing. He's like, what are you laughing
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at? You know, in front of my laptop, and I'm like,
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oh, you're not going to believe what the teas did today, looking at
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me like what is wrong with my wife? And now that I know your
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husband, I can really picture it. But it's almost like the Teas were
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channeling the book for you as you were writing the story about the Tias channeling
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the cooking through Maria, you know in the story right, like it was
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like okay, like they were with you, Like they showed up with you
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every morning at five point thirty, which I commend you for doing that and
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making that committed, by the way, well, and that was just right
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for an hour before I started my work day. But you know, towards
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the end, like they were getting me up at three o'clock in the morning
43:47
because I just wanted me to finish it and I was dying too. But
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I swear I heard them. I know I sound a little bit you know,
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out there, but I really feel like they channeled this to me,
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like it was downloaded, like you said, it was just yeah, yeah,
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I think so too, and when you read it and the fact that
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you've got so much joy out of doing it. See, that's what's so
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important that I try to talk to, like when I'm doing the workshops or
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whatever I'm doing like to with people is to to find the joy in the
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act of creating what it is you want, right, Like, we know
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we see the big picture. You saw the book finished, you saw the
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story, you saw yourself holding it in your hands, right, But the
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joy that you felt while you were creating it is really where the power is.
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It's not in the outcome. It's in the creating of it that we
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feel that we raise our vibration and we feel all that energy and that's what
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the universe responds to. And I don't think a lot of people understand that.
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Right. Absolutely, it's not forced. It's just so easy. There's
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ease in it. And I can't remember who it was it told me this
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that they said, find those moments that make your heart smile and do more
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of that. Yeah. No, that's so important because you know, we
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all have our list of have to's. Right, I have to do this,
45:17
I have to show up for this, I have to get this done.
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I have to be a responsible adult. I have to do all these
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things, but we need more of the I want to like, I remember
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talking to you and I remember her saying, I can't wait to see how
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this is going to end, And I'm thinking, what do you mean you
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can't wait to see? You're the writer, what do you mean don't you
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know? And she's like, no, I really don't. And I loved
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that you got to be surprised, that you surprised yourself, you know,
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in how it complete, how the story wrapped up. Yeah, I love
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that. This is wild to me. Absolutely, Yeah, I did not
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know. And even i've I've read it, you know, it's over that
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eighty thousand words, and I probably know most of my heart at this point.
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I've edited and worked on it so much. But even when I listened
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to the audiobook, the final version of it recently in the last few weeks,
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I was laughing out loud and I cried a couple of times. So
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there's something about it where I feel like, yes, I'm the author,
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but I didn't create this alone. No way, right right? Oh?
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Yeah? No. I love the narration. The narrator she's amazing, she's
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wonderful. She really connects you. To the characters in the book. And
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that's what makes a good narrator when you feel like you know, that's what
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the thing in magic of books for me. When and Diana is a huge
46:45
reader like I am, we talk a lot about the books we're listening to.
46:49
It's like you get sucked to write into the story, and that's the
46:52
best kind of book. It's like you're in it, right. I love
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it. I agreed. I agreed, love it well. I told her
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at lunch that I really believe that this. I could see this picked up
47:06
as a series in one of the streaming platforms because it's so rich and it
47:10
can go so much, and it's got It's got all the elements in it.
47:15
It's got you know, drama, grief, love, the love story
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and the fantasy and the magical part and the cooking, and it's just like
47:22
that. It touches on all the points that we can all relate to,
47:28
you know, having this human experience. So I can really see it.
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So I said it to her at lunch, and now I'm saying it on
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the air on December thirteenth to twenty twenty three. So I tell her,
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remember me, don't forget me when they're making your clob not no. And
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I just really appreciate your support so much. It's just meant so much to
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me. And you've been on this ride with me from the very beginning,
47:53
which is really great. I mean, you're one of the few people that
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I was talking to all the time about writing this book and happening, and
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you were just so encouraging and supportive. So I'm so grateful for that.
48:07
Thank you. Oh well, thank you. I am so excited to see
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everything that's manifested for you. And that's why I tell people it's really powerful
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if you make if you put your dreams on a tiny little postcard and you
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send it out and you believe that it's possible, and you take the steps,
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just take a few steps every day to work towards that, you'll be
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amazed at what shows up in your life. And Diana is living proof.
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She's like group because she didn't have any of this. You didn't have any
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of this when you wait, when you made the postcard. None of it,
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none of it no I and I knew. I think at that time
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I was working on my first book, so I had no idea that there
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was going to be another book. I've already started on the sequel of this
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book, so I know, and they're yes, because there's so many good
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characters. I mean, there's so many good characters that you can just keep
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spinning on to a new story. So this could you never know where this
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could take you, so that would be amazing. So do you want me
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to read what you wrote? That you actually wrote on the back of the
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postcard? Do you remember? No? Please read it? Okay, you
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wrote, Dear universe, I'm so grateful for all the fun, abundance,
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love, financial security, joy I'm having living my dream with Moley Mama.
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I've met the most amazing people, eaten so much fabulous food, and so
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moving to hear the stories of everyone's loved ones, recipes, memories, and
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all the new memories. This movement of love is what I was meant to
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do on this planet, and I am beyond joyful that this is my path
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Aimen, and thank you. Pretty amazing. That's why I waited till the
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end because I had a feeling you would cry. Wow, isn't that amazing?
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I know, I know, Wow, I know, And that's what
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That's what happens when we live our dream right like it doesn't mean that you
50:25
know, you know when you have a dream that just because you're doing something
50:30
else, you should just cast it aside. It doesn't matter how old you
50:34
are, it doesn't matter you know, where you are in the world,
50:37
it doesn't matter how many responsibility you have, you know, a family that
50:40
you have to take care of, because it's not like you had to give
50:44
up your your your career, of your work to make this happen. You
50:49
were doing this concurrently together so that you could still live your dream while you
50:53
were taking care of other things. And I think a lot of us make
50:57
excuses because we're afraid, don't you think? Oh yes, definitely you're afraid.
51:04
And I would say that for me because I had said no to so
51:08
many different shows and I'd heard of that thing where you're afraid of the success.
51:15
Yeah, definitely, definitely guilty, Yeah, definitely yeah, yeah,
51:22
because what does that mean. I mean, I always look at I feel
51:24
like it fits my personality, like the Gemini two sides of the coin.
51:29
On the one side, I'm afraid of failure. Then on the other side
51:30
there's I'm afraid of success. Right, Like I go back and forth,
51:35
back and forth, and I think that we're afraid of success because it could
51:39
mean our life could change. Yes, I would agree. And also I
51:45
think it's really believing that you're providing value into the world. That's been something
51:52
I've really struggled with because I'm like, oh, I'm a little cooking brand,
51:57
and I have said that so many times. And it's actually my husband
52:00
Sean, who is like, why do you refer to yourself as little?
52:05
Why do you? I love that? Sean tells you that. Good good
52:09
Sean, thank you for anybody listening. If you have a dream, don't
52:15
think of it as little. It means what you're supposed to be doing.
52:20
And it is something that I think I really finally believe in. And when
52:25
I was on the Cooking Show, my face hurt from smiling at the end
52:31
of those long days of filming. Wow, And I was like, Wow,
52:37
I am doing this thing that's so hard, physically hard, dressful,
52:42
and I'm so filled with joy. Yeah, I love that, and that's
52:47
what we want more joy. So where do you want to take Molly Mama
52:52
next? I know you have some things that you envision, you see happening
52:55
from this moment from this point, what's coming next? Well, okay,
53:04
I'm going to say it. I'm going to put it out there, put
53:06
it out there. Go. So eventually I want to have my own cooking
53:10
show on TV. Yes you need to. And we were talking this weekend
53:16
and how many women chefs have their own show that anybody can think of let
53:22
me know, let Diana know, besides people who Rachel Ray, let us
53:24
know, because we couldn't think of anybody else. Right, they're all men,
53:29
so and especially yeah, especially a woman who is Mexican. I mean,
53:37
right, even better, even better? Right? I love it?
53:42
Okay, good, So now you put it out to the universe. You
53:45
set it on live radio, you set it, you said it, I
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said it. I'm okay, Okay said it. Everybody heard it. So
53:55
it's just a matter of when we turn on the Food Network and see your
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show. I want to continue to inspire others to follow their dreams and also
54:10
to connect with people that they love. That's really important to me. Yeah.
54:16
Yeah, Well, I think that's why people resonate with you so much,
54:21
because it's genuine, it's authentic, and it really is about family and
54:25
love and connection, you know. I mean that's what your whole brand is
54:30
really about. And you're not be asking anyone. You know, it's not
54:36
just to get recognition. No, that's not what it's about. And people
54:38
know that. I think people can see the difference. People can sense when
54:42
you're authentic and when when you're full of it. So it's really genuine what
54:47
you're doing. And I love that it started with your mom and your story.
54:53
That was your first big release of Molly Mama was your mom and your
54:58
story together, right, So it makes perfect sense. Yes, absolutely,
55:04
yeah, So Diana, if anybody wants to reach out to you or any
55:08
any home chefs listening and would love to talk to you, where can they
55:14
connect with you? So the best way to find me is at moimama dot
55:19
com or Instagram on Instagram Mullay Underscore Mama, Facebook I'm there as well,
55:25
or YouTube, so please reach out. I would love to connect with you
55:29
and Melissa. I can't thank you enough for all of your support. And
55:35
this is my very first podcast talking about my new book, so you forgiving
55:39
me. Oh my god, You're welcome. I love you so much.
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All right, guys, thank you for listening to Postcards to the Universe with
55:49
Melissa creating the life you crave and I'm wishing everyone a wonderful week filled with
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joy, abundance and love. Peace,