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Sisters, Spirit Animals & Llama Love · Let’s Talk, Sister!

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  Welcome to Let's Talk Sister, about life, the whole damn thing.
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  We're Shell and Chrissy. We're sisters, and this is where we talk about life
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  Let's talk, sister, about life, the whole damn thing.
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  Welcome back to Let's Talk, Sister. Today, we're talking about something a little
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  lighter spirit animals what animal do you think represents you and more importantly
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  what animal does your sister think you are,
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  because those might be two very different answers and if you don't have a sister
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  could be a friend it's whatever sister quote is in your life,
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  yeah spirit sister exactly yeah,
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  So what's your spirit animal? I'm pretty sure it's a llama.
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  Llama? No problemo. No problemo, llama.
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  And it's not the llama that spits and chews and is yucky and gross.
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  It's the really cute llama that everyone wants to pet.
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  It's a little cartoony. It's really kind of a cute one. Like Cusco?
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  I don't know what Cusco is. On Emperor's New Groove? Yeah, that one.
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  Okay. Like that one, yeah.
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  Okay. So which is why on the back of my Jeep I have a llama.
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  And it says sup sup what's your spirit animal.
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  I have had multiple right now i couldn't tell you because i haven't said in
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  it but i started with an owl,
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  and then a fox and then yeah so because because spirit animals you don't have
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  just one right like they they kind of they tag team and And they show up at
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  different parts of your life with what you're going through.
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  Yeah, absolutely. I was just going to say, has your animal changed?
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  So you're like, but you just answered it. Yeah, no, it's all good.
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  It might be a little bit psychic. I don't know. Yeah, it's good.
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  So, yeah, I was trying to think. I did not grow up with animals in my life.
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  Like, I had a dog. I don't even know if you know this story.
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  I had a dog when we lived on 2nd Avenue in Scotts Bluff.
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  And I was, you know, those banana boat bikes?
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  With the big old long seat. Yeah. And then the bars that if you fall on them
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  and you're a girl, it's not a good thing. It's not good. Yeah.
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  So I was on my little banana boat bike. I have no idea how old I was.
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  And this guy, I'm riding my bike outside of our house. And this guy,
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  older guy, not like, well, older to me. I don't know how old he was really.
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  But he drives by and he's like, I have your dog. And I was like,
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  excuse me. I was, I didn't even think about, I like chased that man.
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  And I chased him far on that banana. Like I was so far away from home.
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  Like talk about today if that happened is he like trying to kidnap you?
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  I don't know how long were you?
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  Grade school. That's crazy shit. I know. Isn't it crazy?
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  And so like, and then I just didn't have animals. I was like,
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  and I never got that dog back. And I don't even remember anything else about
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  that event. It's so crazy. That's probably good. I know.
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  So crazy. So I didn't have animals growing up. And then I did when my children
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  were little, Nate and Tosh, they, they wanted puppies. So we got puppies,
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  but they did not take care of them.
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  So we had to get rid of those dogs. And then And when was it?
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  It was, oh, a few years ago.
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  It was right after my mom passed, actually. And Danelle and I looked at each
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  other, and she'd been wanting a dog.
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  And I was like, we had Buddy who drowned in a, remember the big flood? Yeah.
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  He went under the shed and drowned. Ugh. So Buddy was the cutest dog.
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  And then she wanted a dog. So one day we looked at each other and we're like,
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  Let's go buy a dog today. And so you didn't rescue.
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  We didn't rescue. We actually went to a golden doodle breeder in Utah.
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  Well, I was talking about Onyx. Oh, yeah. Onyx was definitely a rescue for sure.
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  I forgot about Onyx. Yeah. Onyx.
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  So nice. That little dog. But Onyx was mean as she got old. She was a chihuahua. She was.
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  Yeah, they're spicy. Yeah, she was spicy. And then Maverick came into our life.
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  Sluffy Maverick. Oh, he's a little.
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  Red golden doodle. And he's like, he's our doggie. I was like my OG dog.
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  Yeah. Like, like you have soul dogs. Yeah. Like I, I have a furry flock of weens.
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  I have three wiener dogs and then a French bulldog.
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  And I think my, my, my female ween, she's my spirit dog. Like she's,
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  she's literally me in wiener dog form.
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  Yeah, for sure. And then we got Molly given to us.
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  So my daughter-in-law her mom didn't couldn't have the dog anymore and so she's
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  like do you want another doodle and it's free and you get that kennel and all
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  this stuff and i was like i don't know,
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  i really don't want another dog and they brought her over and we were looking
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  at pictures last night of her the day we got her she was so small oh my gosh
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  and so of course i was a sucker for this little tiny white puppy.
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  And i was like yes i'll take her and so she's my little uh barker she barks at everything
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  and she's but this morning the cutest thing happened oh my gosh she was just
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  licking mavericks on the lips and kissing him like giving him kisses
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  and he's like just laying there letting her kiss him i was like oh so sweet
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  so well that yeah you have sweet stories my dogs eat their own poop so there's that,
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  yeah i was like now we're gonna do the barfing noise oh god here we go.
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  Oh, so funny. So this is why this came up this morning. So I'm at Pilates and
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  the lady next to me goes, I meant to tell you I love your llama on your Jeep.
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  And I was like, you love my llama? And I was like, the Jeep's name is Willow,
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  actually, like White Owl Willow, which comes from Tasha.
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  I'll tell you that story in a minute. But I was like, oh, thank you.
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  And she's like, yeah, I see you driving everywhere. I see your llama. I was like, oh, so fun.
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  Yeah so because i even forget it's there yeah like the tattoo on the back left
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  shoulder i forget it's there you know same with the back of the jeep yeah you forget it yeah.
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  Yeah so do you know my owl story tasha i think you told it to me but tell me again okay so,
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  natasha natasha had chosen some friends that were not necessarily healthy for
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  her and she got into drugs she became an addict and at one point she was in
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  the emergency room and she was detoxing
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  and I think the girl was hallucinating at least in my mind I thought she was
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  hallucinating but maybe she wasn't and she was like,
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  mom out of the blue mom you have to promise me you'll keep a white owl by your
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  door everywhere you live and I was like,
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  why would I do that? And she's like, mom, promise me.
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  And she had a dream about this white owl. She was like, I had a dream about
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  the white owl. Actually, I left the hospital, had a dream about and I said,
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  is this the white owl you're talking about? And she's like, yes,
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  mom, that's it. You have to keep it with you always.
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  And so I was like, OK, so and she does not even remember this conversation.
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  She was wide awake and but she does not remember it.
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  And so but later when she got clean, you know, totally clean and sober because
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  she did totally get clean and sober, which I'm grateful for.
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  She came to my office one day, which she did all the time and said,
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  tell me my stories. Tell me what happened. Tell me what was happening in my
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  life. Tell me what, you know, when I was detoxing, what I said,
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  like I need to know it all.
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  And I was like, okay. So we were, I was telling her all these stories and she
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  was like, wow, I don't remember that. But she bought me a white owl to I put it in my back door.
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  And then I still have a white owl today. I'm actually in my house at my back door.
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  I just, I like white owls. And yeah. And so where was I going with that? But anyway.
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  So do you feel like the white owl was the animal, your spirit animal,
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  that spirit picked for you? And
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  then the llama is the one you picked for yourself? Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
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  Yeah. And then when we went to that retreat, that was the first time I'd actually
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  heard voices of a human thinking or talking i don't i can't really explain it,
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  but there was a guy working out in his yard and it's like he was talking to his deceased wife,
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  and i could hear both sides of the conversation yeah and i was like i don't
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  know what's happening right now but it literally and then i heard all these
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  voices behind and i was like,
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  Okay. I don't know what's happening right now. And I heard the woman say,
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  pull over right now, Google Swedish shaman with blue eyes because Johan.
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  My first love, had blue eyes and our baby would have had blue eyes.
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  But she would have had dark hair, blue eyes. And so I Googled dark hair,
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  blue eye shaman, and it pulled up this picture that looked exactly like Natasha.
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  But it wasn't Tasha. Her features were a little different.
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  She had blue eyes, but she had a white owl on her shoulder. And I was like,
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  oh, my gosh. I remember, like, right when you pulled that picture up and showed it to her.
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  Oh, confirmation so much. And I was like, and I mean, Tasha and her, like, wow. Yeah.
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  So, and so her name is Hope. And because I hope to meet her someday, which I know I will now.
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  But at that point, I didn't know. And I was like, but that was what I needed.
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  And it came through voices and animals that I was like so they've definitely shown up,
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  and I know you had a I don't know if you remember this when your very first
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  readings you had someone that
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  saw like a spirit animal as a sign of a lost loved one right yeah so that I
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  think that happens quite often yeah it does well and and and like when I get
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  animals like when I do readings,
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  I they just service validation,
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  for you know that i'm on the right track and stuff like that yeah and then the
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  other thing that happened too which is absolutely a sign when tasha died i.
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  I don't even remember her loving butterflies but i i posted hey everyone post
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  butterflies for tosh and then tammy one of.
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  Came to me afterwards and she was like, oh, I remember Tasha being at the house,
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  looking at my butterfly plaques. And she wanted them so bad.
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  I almost took them off the wall and gave them to her. And I don't remember her
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  saying like, oh, mom, I love butterflies or anything like that.
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  But I mean, I see butterflies all the time now. Yeah, me too.
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  Yeah, butterflies. And red robins for grandma. What else do you see?
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  I, you know, I just see everything.
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  Yeah, of course. It's hard to like narrow it down. but like i do see the monarch
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  butterfly for tasha especially here lately i've seen a lot of that and i was
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  just hi tash love you you know,
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  yeah the other uh the other animal my youngest animal that i remember seeing
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  is these huge grandma sly and i would go out to the garden it kind of looks
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  like this little pickle you have on your desk but she's got a pickle on her desk it's not a real.
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  It's an emotional support pickle but it was kind of like more neon green and
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  just like little bubbles they were the biggest caterpillars i've ever seen in
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  my life but i was like oh i love this because it's going to morph into something
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  beautiful and i remember and i was grade school,
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  yeah when i saw this and i still today love caterpillars ago i was down here
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  in the chateau and i walked out the door and there was a big green caterpillar,
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  right in front of the door and i took it and i moved it over to a bush so that
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  it could do its cocoon and stuff i love that Oh,
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  see, it was it was my caterpillar.
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  I love it. So we're going to segue. What is a chateau? A chateau?
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  Well, it's basically just another structure on a piece of property that I don't
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  know. Let's tell people about it. Like when they walk in here, what do they get?
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  OK, so I'm going to preface this by saying I'm very spoiled.
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  My husband spoils me rotten.
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  Blessed. Yeah, very blessed. And I, when I started doing my readings,
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  I was doing them in our business office at our concrete construction company.
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  And that was kind of hard to like maintain the energy and stuff like that.
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  So that morphed into building an addition onto our, our, our office so that
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  I could have a place to do readings.
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  Well, then our business kept growing and I had to leave my office because our
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  office manager needed a new, bigger office.
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  So, which is totally fine. I was really pissed off about it at first,
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  but I'm not anymore. I promise. I promise.
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  And then that's kind of when I took a break from doing readings because a lot
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  of people don't want to do readings over Zoom or over the telephone,
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  even though the energy is the same.
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  They prefer to be in-person, one-on-one or one-on-two or whatever. And that's fine too.
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  Well, here earlier this year, I was just thinking we were just going to go get
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  like one of those pre-built little shed things. And you just like walk in and
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  there's room for a table and maybe a fireplace.
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  Well, no, that was not good enough for my husband.
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  So I have this great big, huge like building.
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  It doesn't have a bathroom. There's no plumbing, but we have electricity.
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  How big do you think it is? You know, I don't. Here, let me guess.
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  It's freaking huge. I'm 5'4".
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  So if I lay down, let's go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 35 by 20.
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  See? Maybe. I don't. It's big. I'm terrible at the dimensions,
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  unless they're like. A guesstimate. Yeah. Yeah.
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  It's huge. And it's purple. And it's purple. The inside of it's purple.
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  He wouldn't let me do the outside of it purple, which kind of pissed me off.
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  But I let my door be purple.
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  So he was he because he wanted it to match the house and i'm like no,
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  so we compromised so i have a purple door purple walls charcoal gray ceilings
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  like i love it and all of my smut romantic books are in here with us i didn't
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  realize the ceiling was a different color yeah,
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  it looks purple to me yeah so yeah this is this is where i do my readings i
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  come down here and read i have a coffee bar. I have a little refrigerator.
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  We do Art of Manifesting in here sometimes. We do podcasting in here.
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  It's our hangout place. Yeah, it doesn't smell like stinky boys and dog farts.
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  Chateau, baby. Yeah, it's a no dog zone. Because it's French.
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  Oui, oui. Oui, chateau. My musée.
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  I wonder what kind of animals they have in France. Hmm. Probably the same as
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  they have here. I wonder if the birds chirp different.
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  They're probably like, I don't even know. Me, me.
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  Okay, we've digressed. Anyways.
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  That was funny. All right. So you said something that I was going to ask you.
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  You said people prefer to be in person than do it over Zoom,
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  whether it's one on one or one on two or small group or whatever.
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  Why do you think that is? I think the personal, they feel like it's more personal.
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  The the connection and i some people you know i've had i've had my skeptics
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  you know and they they like to have the the proof you know right there so they're
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  like seeing if you're real yeah pretty much,
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  which is fine like it bother me like,
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  yeah like it is what it is all right so spirit animal what animal are you attracted to birds of any kind.
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  So, I'm like kind of cranes. Like, I like cranes.
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  I, you know, I may have accidentally hit one and it shit all over the side of my Bronco.
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  He was fine. He flew off. Okay. But he just shit all over the side of my Bronco.
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  I was on my way to one of my boys' football games. I was like,
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  oh, sorry. Sorry. Yeah. No, I, and I see cranes all the time.
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  You do? I don't know if I've ever seen a crane. Landon said it was like some,
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  I don't know, some grade bill, whatever. I don't know. I'm going to move my chair real quick.
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  Keep going because I like to look at you. I notice that I like to look at you,
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  so I want my mic to be like I'm looking at you.
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  I like to look at your eyeballs. Yeah. That way when you laugh,
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  I laugh. I actually put my face on today, so yeah.
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  All right. Yeah.
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  Can you draw birds? I cannot draw birds. I can't draw birds.
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  I can't draw at all. I don't know if that's true.
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  All right. So your challenge, should you choose to accept it,
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  choose to accept it, is to draw a bird today of some kind or your spirit animal,
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  whichever one is calling to you.
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  So if you guys could just grab pen and paper. We're going to draw a little animal.
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  Please don't draw a snake because they are just freaky. So if your spirit animal
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  is a snake, we're not probably going to judge. Or anything reptilian.
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  Yeah, no. Why you got to be a wuss?
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  Well, God and I have to talk about spiders, snakes, mice.
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  Come on. With mice, you could be like Cinderella and you can like sing to them.
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  No, I'm sorry. I'm like dirty little creepy animals.
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  Well, because we live out in the country, so we have mice. So like I try to
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  be one with the mice. Like, don't get me wrong. Like, I don't I don't like them,
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  but I can tolerate them. I just picked up my feet.
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  No, Landon's terrified of mice. Yeah, no, I, yeah.
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  So the other thing that has happened to me twice now, I don't not know,
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  like, big birds. I don't know if they're eagles or, I don't know what kind of
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  birds they are. Falcons, like something.
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  I've had two of this happen before where all of a sudden there's this just big
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  poof and feathers everywhere, and they are birdless birds.
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  The one i think they got hit by a plane yeah and they like one of them dropped
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  in the back of your backyard yeah and the other one in the front yard yeah and
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  and then it happened once in erie too really three times i was like why do i attract headless birds.
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  I know i was like creepy huh yeah i can't hit on that so then i had to literally like,
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  use a snow shovel and scoop them up and like try myself to get it in a bag because
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  I'm not putting a bird in a trash can
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  and I was like I was out there gagging the whole time did you call like the
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  wildlife reserve or anything? it's a headless bird,
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  I don't know. Well, my dogs, I had to clean it up because I didn't want my dogs
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  to, like, pick at it. Yeah. They were, like, big birds, not,
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  like, a robin. They were big, big birds.
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  Yeah. So, for all the airplanes out there, please drive safely and don't hurt
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  the birds. Yeah, don't hurt the birds. Sometimes I just can't avoid it,
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  though, unfortunately. Yeah, I suppose. Maybe they get, ooh, I can't think of that.
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  Let's just not say that out loud. Yeah, let's go to a different topic.
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  I'm gagging again. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I'm a gagger. Don't make that
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  noise. So anyway, a spirit animal is llama.
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  Llama's much better than headless bird.
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  Oh, I was like, gosh, maybe I'm attracting headless birds. Well,
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  it could have just been the bird's time, you know.
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  Because, like, we all got a ticket to punch, right? Yeah, that's true.
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  And we're all living to die.
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  I think it's cool how birds migrate. Like, they know when.
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  And, you know, back in the day, there's some kind of, I don't know the scripture.
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  Someone will know it listening to this, but the scripture that says,
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  don't worry about tomorrow, even the birds have what they need,
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  you know? And I'm like, okay, if God can take care of the birds,
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  he can take care of me. Like, quit worrying, girl. Yeah.
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  I don't know. So with that, that's spirit animals. Anything you want to say to our listeners?
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  I would love to have a little bit of feedback from our listeners with their
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  spirit animals and their experiences with animals.
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  Through email they can email us at hello at letstalksister.com we would love
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  to hear from our listeners and we'll definitely be giving you guys feedback,
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  and then the other thing i'd like you guys to do is go to our instagram letstalksister
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  and you can actually see our faces so you know what the chateau looks like you
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  can see us and so just engage with us a little bit there as well,
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  And we'll probably have more platforms as we go down the road, right? Of course.
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  And that's it for this episode of Let's Talk, Sister, about life, the whole damn thing.
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