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Season 3 - Episode 224 -The quiet stories · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermindset
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So I want to talk to you about a little thing that I'm working
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  on, a little project that I'm working on.
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  So I write children's books and haven't done one in a while
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  because sometimes they're complicated to find the right
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  person to draw them and whatnot. And, you know, it's, you have to
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  have a symbiotic relationship with somebody when you're doing
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  it. So over the years I've had, you
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  know, I've written four children's books and I've had
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  different people work on them with me.
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  And recently I decided I was going to do a reboot on some of
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  my books. And I started a quest to look
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  for an artist. And I was looking for a
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  particular style and watercolorish.
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  Now I watercolor, but I don't really cartoon children's book.
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  I wanted cartoons. And I'm looking and I'm looking
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  following people on Instagram trying to find somebody.
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  And then I decided to go to a place called Fiver.
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  Now, if you've never heard of Fiver, this is a place where
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  artists can put themselves up from all over the world and make
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  themselves available. And I've had clients use it.
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  I've used it for translating my very first book and I found
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  somebody in Venezuela that could put it into English, from
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  English into Spanish. And he was a reporter.
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  So it was proper. It wasn't just like, you know,
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  auto generated Spanish where it sounds wonky.
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  But, and I've always had great luck with it.
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  But I, I had not thought about doing it for the artist because
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  I said, oh, it's going to be challenging because I want to
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  make sure I can speak their language so that I can have it
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  be, you know, a good match to what I'm looking for.
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  So I had kind of been not shying away from it, but not seeking it
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  out, if you know what I mean. And it was, it was a story I was
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  telling myself. So I decided after a couple
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  months of looking, I was just like, yeah, I'm, I'm not excited
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  about anybody. So I popped over to Fiverr.
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  And for those of you who are wondering what it is, it's
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  spelled fiverr.com, Fiverr. So it's just like A5 with an
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  extra R at the end, 2 Rs at the end and.com.
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  Anyway, so it's fiverr.com and you can find anybody that does
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  anything on there, but not my point.
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  It's not a, this is not a pitch for fiver.
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  This is a different story. So I go on and I start searching
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  and I find a bunch of different people that have kind of one of
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  them had a really tight look to what I wanted and four of them
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  had pretty close look. So I message everybody and I
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  wait to see who gets back to me. And immediately the girl that I
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  thought had this amazing artwork gets back to me like almost
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  instantaneously. And she is in Sri Lanka, so
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  opposite time zones, what not, But she's answering me and she's
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  so sweet. And I look at all the other
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  books that she's done and she's fabulous.
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  And I'm like, oh, did I just find something?
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  Did I just stumble into something?
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  And I've been waiting all this time and here I could have found
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  it right here. But I realize I have the story
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  I'm telling myself about. I wonder how well she
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  communicates because is English her first language?
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  Probably not. And I'm totally open to working
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  with someone that doesn't have English as a first language.
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  But I realized that this is a challenging thing because we're
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  working on art and we have to really be able to get nuances.
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  So I didn't think to myself how much I had been telling myself
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  the story about how difficult this could be.
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  So I sent her a message and beyond when she says hello, I
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  said, you're available. And then she start, she and I
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  start writing back and she's amazing at communicating with me
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  and she's showing me examples. And I said, why don't we try it?
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  Now this is me telling you this because so important is to jump
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  in. So I said, you know what?
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  I'm not going to be afraid to try this.
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  I'm just going to say to her, let's see if we can nail down a
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  look. This is what I'm looking for.
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  So I sent her over some pictures of my chickens and I said, I'd
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  love to be able to have them animated looking.
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  How would that come back? What would that look like like
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  if you were trying to show them as happy as sad?
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  And three days later, she sends me back these drawings.
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  And they're incredible. They're incredible.
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  I actually cried when I saw them because it was like they came
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  right out of my head onto the paper.
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  And just last night, which is why this is the podcast about
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  this. This morning she sent me over
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  the final drawings for the first reboot on one of these books and
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  I was just in tears because we nailed it.
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  We nailed it so amazingly and she is phenomenal.
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  Now, what's the point of all of this and what's the point of me
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  telling you the story? I was letting my story get in
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  the way of reaching out to find my new artist.
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  And believe me, she and I are going to do a ton of projects
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  together because she's incredibly talented and she's so
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  well spoken and she's so on time.
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  She she says she wasn't going to finish until the, I think the
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  end of August, August 31st. And she's already finished.
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  She has a great attitude. She doesn't mind if you give her
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  tweaks. It couldn't have gone better.
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  And the point is sometimes we make up stories in our head and
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  those stories hold us back. And I had a story, but it was a
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  quiet story, my friends. That's what I'm trying to tell
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  you. It wasn't something that I
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  really was like, oh, yeah, I'm totally against that because
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  sometimes their stories are loud and we hear them.
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  But this was not a loud story. This was a quiet story.
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  So I'm telling you to share with you.
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  Listen to those quiet stories because they influence and it
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  took about three months of my time and stole it because I
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  didn't recognize it. I let it sit there for quite
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  some time. So go find out what those quiet
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  stories are you're telling yourself and stop it because
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  it's holding you back. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I'll see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.