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Beek on being A SISTERS SESSION January 2026 · Beek on being

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  Melissa Shere Beek: Hi. I'm Melissa Beek, and welcome to Beek on Being. Twenty five years ago, I started a weekly column in a section of the Miami Herald focusing on topics of shared humanity, human interest pieces, and highlighting people creating a better world. Always coming from a place of kindness and connection, this podcast is a natural extension of that. A safe place for everyone to share personal or professional perspectives, talk openly, ask questions without fear, to keep connecting, keep learning, keep growing, keep being.
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  This is Beek on Being. Today's episode is Beek on Being Sisters. Anyone who knows or has little sisters knows that they follow you around and like to do whatever you are doing. So it's no different with this podcast. You girls really love the Quickie Questions.
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  We're gonna talk about Quickie Questions that specifically relate to sisterhood, mostly.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh. That's good. Alright.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Wait. We go from this to once a month? Is that what you just said?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yes. Yes. You're not coming in every week. You you have to you have to do something else. Biweekly.
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  You're not doing biweekly. Anyways, go ahead and introduce yourself.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I'm the middle sister, the blonde Samantha.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I am the third and last sister, the
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  best, Jessica.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: The baby. Our sisterhood is tight. But what do your other friends offer or provide that the other two of us don't? Like an objective opinion or a chance to complain about the other ones of us?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Well, Jessica has a lot more friends than I do.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Not true.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I think my friend, well, the one that I can really count on
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  Melissa Shere Beek: for, like We know.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Trust the most. She understands who I who I'm talking about when I need to ask. Like, if I have to go to her for advice, why I go to her is because she understands the story, and it's too much for me to explain to the two of you. Okay. I think we go to each other
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: more like build in mom. Yeah.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: The the only family problems we go to each other.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: The the only thing that my friends provide, and it's no offense to you
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Mhmm. No. I'm not offended.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Is that, like, if I need something, I can call them and pick up my kid. I do that. Like, you're in a different era. It's different for you now. It's different era.
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  It's fine. But those are the little things I think, like, the the little community that you need, like, oh, can you take him to the basketball game and I'll take
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: home? Right.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Like, those
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  Melissa Shere Beek: because you have kids in common age and doing Same things and seeing
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: what they've it. But they don't provide, like, the stability that you two provide. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.
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  That might just be more me looking at friends rather than my sisters.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: But I don't think we go to each other, like, for friend problems. We go to each other for family problems.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I go for friend problems.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I think I hear both Mhmm. From both of you.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, maybe. I don't have many friends, so
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Not true. Okay. Any friends that you actually like and trust?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, maybe. Yeah.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's it. Yeah.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Do you think that our relationship with each other helps improve your mental health?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, yeah. I was I feel better already being in here.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That's why I like doing this. We can't do this monthly.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I'm sorry.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: This is extremely therapeutic. I think it was really good for us, the three of us. Because I feel like we got off the rails for a little bit several years ago, you know, recently. I think that this has really strengthened our relationship.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: A connection. Totally.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. Totally, totally, like I see that.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: It's also hard for me to pin you guys down for, like, coffee or tea or something like that because your kids are all over the place with different schedules. So
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Schedule my schedule changes every day. Unless I have something set in place. Otherwise, it's all over.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Alright. We've got you set for each month in place.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Okay. Monthly. That's not bimonthly. That's monthly. You know what that means.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Feel like you're still gonna show up.
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  Yeah. I had a feeling. Okay. What's the hardest thing about our our sisterhood?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Are we are
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: we we go
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Go ahead. Go back. I feel like
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: offending someone by saying something.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, you think you're gonna hurt one of our feelings by saying something like this?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes. Okay. But I pretty much say stuff. Yeah. But, yeah, I think that's my only fear.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. I think I love the fact that we each have a grasp of mom. Like, we all, like like, we all deal with mom differently, but we all
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Can deal with her. Yeah. I Well We all yeah. We all have different Relationships with her too, I think.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. But we all handle different things that she does differently.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Like Right.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I know I can pick up and do one thing for her that you guys wouldn't, and then you can do something for her that I wouldn't necessarily do. Okay. So what's the best thing about sisterhood then? Wait. Wait.
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  Do we even do the hardest thing about sisterhood? Offending each other. That's what you think then.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Say. The hardest thing I don't think there's been I think try I don't know. I don't know.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I will tell you, though, a lot of friends do always try and ask me, what's it like with your sisters? Like, what kind of relationship do you have with your sisters?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: What do you say?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, I'll well, put me on the spot.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: What what do you say?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. I say that it I'm extremely lucky that it's amazing to be able to have them and go to them. But, yeah, I think people are interested in the dynamic.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I think it's funny when people They ask see us at school and they're like, you're sisters.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Some people know and then some people still
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And then some people are scared of us. A lot of people are scared of us.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I think.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Right. Because you two come as a threat together?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Well, we share information. So I think they're afraid that if they say something Yes. One, the other one will know.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That for sure.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I think that goes with sisterhood. If if somebody doesn't like you or they're being mean to you, they're No.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: They're they're on the shit list.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: They're done. Exactly. It's a it's a one for all, all for one
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: You get, like, a nasty stare.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, I
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  don't give a nasty stare. I'm just not gonna pay you any mind.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. We're very gossipy.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: You are?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: We just we just threw some gossip before we started.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, well, the two of you are. Yeah. The two of you gossip amongst each other. But also, you're sort of in the same boat.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: And you feel safe, though.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That's the good thing. Oh,
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  Melissa Shere Beek: yeah. But you're also in the same boat because your children are similar ages, so you have lots more to discuss. Yeah.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: We do.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I know. I miss our I miss our volunteer days. I fucked that one up.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: You're not the only one. Don't worry.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I'm sad. Okay.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I feel sometimes excluded Yeah. From that.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I could see that.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: When we get together and we talk and you come in, both of you, and you're like, and I'm like, wait. Wait.
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  What are we talking about? Where are we going? Wait. Who's that? And you're just like, and I'm like, wait.
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  What? And I'm clueless to that because I don't have that shared
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's one of
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  Melissa Shere Beek: the best guys have.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Honestly, to be able to have that.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I'm sorry.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Okay. Sorry.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I know some of your cast
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  of characters.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I got fired from a volunteer job at high at a high school. Like, who does that? Who who gets fired being
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  Melissa Shere Beek: a cool mom?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Okay. I was being a cool mom.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: You're not the only one. There was, like, several
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: others. Said to the principal, I apologized. I said, I asked her for another chance, and she's no. No.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I just That's not because of you, though. That's because she had to make you out. Yeah.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I guess so. I don't know. I cried for a whole week. But then I think you cry a little bit more than a week.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Awesome. I gotta be honest,
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  you're not missing anything. The rules have changed
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: so But I miss you. That's the whole problem. Nice. I miss you well, I missed you coming in late. I missed
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  Melissa Shere Beek: you. Not doing anything.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Not doing anything. I missed when our girls
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Your presence.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I missed when our girls would come in together, and they were happy to see us. Yeah.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I missed That is true. I would just come in and She did all the work. It was great.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I loved it. Okay. So the best Okay.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: The best thing about sisterhood is that Yeah. You take
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: The best thing about sisterhood
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: more excluded. He's like, get me back in this conversation.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: No. No. But the best thing about sisterhood is you can gossip amongst each other.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: It's more than that. It's just being able to have a person to go to immediately. Pick up the phone. They know that you'll pick up. Like They won't bullshit you.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. It's just I know that you all know that I will pick up for you, but Right. I know that neither of you pick up for me.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: It's really hard to pick up
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  for you. Or, like, in the middle of stuff.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Neither of you. That's like my one my one hardest thing about me is that
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: like, I'll be honest, I'll see you call, and I won't be able to pick up, and I will not even remember that you called to call you back.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Okay. You called me on Sunday. I need you to call me right back. I need to hear what happened Saturday night. I called her back, still haven't heard from her.
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  It's now Wednesday. It's so bad. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. But I'm not a good initial phone call was
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  Melissa Shere Beek: You're a good friend.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I'm not a good friend.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: In person.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Of. In communication, I'm terrible. Yeah.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: But you called me. I need to speak to you right now. I need to hear everything. I'll call you back. Nothing.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I think Okay. Three words that describe our sisterhood.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Loyalty.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, that's a good one.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Unconditional.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I like that. Stability. I'll go back to that word.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: And spot. A safe space.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: And honesty. And, yeah, truthfulness.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: What are your three words?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, mine were support
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Uh-huh.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Trust
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: And hilarity.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's a good one.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Feel like whenever we get together, we end up pissing our pants with laughter over something, someone, some something. Yeah. Like, giggle out of control.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes. Okay. We could just look at each other and giggle.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. Now yeah. That's true. One or three or two, however many you want, words that describe us and our individual personalities. Like Sam, how you see Jess and I, and Jess, how you see Sam and I, and how I see the two of you.
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  And I didn't prepare because I didn't think of anything yet. I just made these questions.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: So Oh, I found a word for me.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't I don't understand the question.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Can you repeat the question?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't understand.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Blondie. Blondie. Okay. So if you had to pick one word that would describe me, what would it be for my personality?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Hat woman. Hat woman.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Like that. Deep. About what about Jess? One word to describe.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Messy Jesse.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I have I thought wild. Wild. Wild?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. You are. I you know, if we were going for Muppets, Sam would be the lady in the band with, like, you know, she's so cool and blonde and, like, spacey. And and then She'd be you'd be she'd animal. Animal.
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  Animal. Yeah. You'd be animal.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: What would you be? The Swedish meatball?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: No. I'm either no. No. I'm between two.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: She's I'm already between telling us what she is.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: You're not telling? Grover or Kermit? I'm kind of between No. Kermit.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You Loved Kermit.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I always Loved Kermit because I love frogs and I love green, but I'm like that nerdy Grover guy also.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. But Kermit's really dorky too.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, yeah. Okay. So dork is the word we're going
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: for for me. No.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I I own it.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. You're so not a dork. I need to find a word for nerdy dork. Oh, and but not in your appearance.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I'm not talking about appearance. I'm talking about personality.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: What's the word like like when you can you can step out of a situation?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Objective.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Objective. I'll say your objective.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. I see that.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Samantha
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Be nice.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Sensitive.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I'm extremely sensitive.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Over sensitive.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I think
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: that's the good one.
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  I think I would say that.
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  I have
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  a hard time. I even had this conversation with Mason. I have a hard time letting shit go. And like, I need to work on that.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: You do. It's gonna bog you down.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Need to work on that.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: But I have that opposite. And I wish I had not so much of it.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. I let I
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  Melissa Shere Beek: let go. Yeah.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I let go too much. I think sometimes.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I I gotta let, like, four something happened four years ago. I gotta let it go. I'm too sent way too sensitive. Like, I need to let things roll off my shoulders and laugh.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Or you just need to shake it off quicker.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I do. Yeah. I don't.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't want it to get you all bogged down. It does.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Right. And then I'm pissed at myself later because I ruined the moment.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Wow. Yeah. You get hard on yourself. Yeah. You get very hard on yourself.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I think you both are hard on yourselves. I think
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I'm hard on myself for a little and then the fleeting moment kinda just goes and I don't know.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Okay.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't think I answered your question, but, again
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  Melissa Shere Beek: No. You did. About personalities, about each one of our personalities.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. Well, Muppets.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, Jessica's well, okay. The Muppets was you're in that the doctor toothed band or whatever it is. You're the blonde in the band, and you're animal.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Has she even opened her eyes? I don't think she opens her eyes.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh my god. She's High all
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  the time.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, is
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  that what it is? I think she
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  Melissa Shere Beek: might be. Okay. I don't mean it from that perspective. I just meant, like, you're, like, that groovy little blonde chick.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Yeah. She's, like, in the seventies. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: The groovy little blonde chick.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Her eyes are very swollen, I think. I remember.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't think they're swollen. I think they're closed. Very dreamy. That's me.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Yes. Yes. Okay. That's it.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Just go say she's high. I say she's dreamy.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, I mean, I'm sure she is.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I could see her being high, but it's if it's me, I say dreamy.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Yeah. You're dreamy. Dreamy. Okay.
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  If God forbid
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, no. I don't like these.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: It's fine. I forgot everything. If yeah. Poo poo poo. If God forbid I forgot everything, what would be the first thing that you would tell me about me?
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  And this goes for all of us. So, like
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Wear sunscreen.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's a good one. That's a good one. The hat wasn't enough?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I really couldn't tell you to wear
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  a hat,
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  but I
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. What would you tell Jess?
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You got three kids?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Go get your kids. Go find them. They're somewhere.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I would tell Sam, go ask your husband.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, okay.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's a good one. Right?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Go ask your husband.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, god.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: What would I tell Jess? Where would I begin with you?
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I know.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I don't know what to say to you first. Well, I don't even know the question. First thing I would say
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: was toilet?
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  Melissa Shere Beek: No. No. No. I would say it's okay. You're gonna be it's okay.
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  You're gonna be okay. That would be, like, the first thing I would say to you.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's nice to know.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That's a good one.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Right? It's okay. You're gonna be okay. And Sam, I would say, go ask your husband.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. That's a good one.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That's a good one for Jess. Oh. Oh, she's crying.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I just wish I knew that a long time ago.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: But you know now. Hi. You know now.
• 14:39
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You wouldn't you weren't willing to listen a long time ago.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. I listen, you guys.
• 14:43
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. It's different listening. There's a difference between hearing and listening.
• 14:47
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't know.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: I think you process it now, and I think you know now, and I think experience taught you that. And that's a really great thing going forward.
• 14:58
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. But I still you know, you still live life with a hiccup.
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  Melissa Shere Beek: Everybody has
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: We all a have hiccups.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. But you carry it with you.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Well
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Well, I carry mine.
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  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Your hiccup is a hiccup that keeps hiccuping.
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  Jessica Shere Coggins: Like a speed bump. Several of them.
• 15:16
  Melissa Shere Beek: But we could send mom with her car to run over it.
• 15:19
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. True.
• 15:21
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. Favorite memory of us growing up?
• 15:26
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, jeez.
• 15:27
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I I don't have, like, a vivid vivid memory, but I just remember us hanging out in the hallway in the in the hurricane.
• 15:35
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. Oh. When Sissie was pregnant?
• 15:37
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. No. No. I wasn't pregnant. The hurricane Andrew.
• 15:40
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I just remember us all being Not married. And like laughing. Yeah. That's what you're
• 15:43
  Melissa Shere Beek: talking about in hurricane Andrew.
• 15:44
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. I just remember us being in that hallway laughing.
• 15:47
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: But you were married. Oh, you weren't
• 15:49
  Melissa Shere Beek: we No. We got engaged like two months after that. Yeah. I just
• 15:53
  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's not a great memory, but Doug was with us.
• 15:56
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I remember Doug We were
• 15:57
  Melissa Shere Beek: all along the way. Doug with Doug was under the under those glass shelves of those freaky dolls
• 16:02
  Jessica Shere Coggins: And I was started to sing.
• 16:04
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Remember sitting in the hallway. I remember when the your ceiling fell.
• 16:07
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Daddy went in. And daddy went I remember listening to Toad the Wet Sprockets on the boombox in the kitchen while we were cleaning up. I remember that.
• 16:14
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Toad the Wet Sprocket.
• 16:17
  Jessica Shere Coggins: But that's not my only memory memory.
• 16:19
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I mean, I feel like my memories are all picture based, like photographs.
• 16:24
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, I get that.
• 16:25
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Like I still think of the photos. The image isn't printed. Like us at Disney with Pluto, you know, like we're all wearing matching outfits from Palm.
• 16:34
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, god. We wore matching outfits except I was 15 and you guys
• 16:38
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: We were were like company called remember. Palm I Palm Produce I forget. Or something.
• 16:42
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't Palm Produce is the place I right
• 16:45
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: was gonna say it's Palm Point, but that's not Palm. I I guess it's that.
• 16:50
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't know. It's every it's every time we're together. It's like a new memory. I don't know. God.
• 16:55
  I don't have like a I
• 16:56
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: feel like my memories are like picture based. Only from seeing birds.
• 17:00
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I could see that. Excuse me. Comes happening.
• 17:07
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: It comes happening.
• 17:08
  Jessica Shere Coggins: It wasn't Okay. Keep going.
• 17:09
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. Keep going. Something that annoys you about each of us.
• 17:14
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Jessica not answering the phone.
• 17:15
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I'm gonna go with that one for
• 17:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: you feel like I need a buzzer. I wanna be the first to answer. Just
• 17:21
  Jessica Shere Coggins: like it's it's like a Ding. Ding. Like a game show.
• 17:25
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I feel like that. I feel like, okay, I'm gonna be the first. Jessica not answering the phone. But I probably you all get mad that I don't text.
• 17:32
  I hate texting. I was just gonna tell you, just text me.
• 17:34
  Jessica Shere Coggins: It's important.
• 17:34
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Don't know. But
• 17:35
  Melissa Shere Beek: I hate texting.
• 17:36
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh my god, you guys. Come on.
• 17:37
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Like, you relate. I hate texting. Who wants to pick up the phone? I was nervous to call you.
• 17:41
  Melissa Shere Beek: I'm on the phone. I don't like the text.
• 17:42
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And you relate? Because he kept saying, yeah. Call her. Call her. I'm like, I'm too scared to call her.
• 17:47
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Why?
• 17:47
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't know. Is that scary?
• 17:49
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Not know, it's I scary?
• 17:52
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Hello. I
• 17:52
  Melissa Shere Beek: I'm choking on licorice as she gets.
• 17:54
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Am I scary?
• 17:55
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Sometimes you can be.
• 17:56
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Like, you came in hot.
• 17:57
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah.
• 17:58
  Melissa Shere Beek: Because you were you said you were crabby today, which I understand.
• 18:00
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I warned you. Yeah.
• 18:02
  Melissa Shere Beek: But then we did the we did the beek beat with some pump up music, and and got you in a good mood.
• 18:06
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Really good.
• 18:07
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. That's why I always do the beek beat.
• 18:09
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. Being Wait. What one word would I describe, sis? What was the question? I really
• 18:14
  Jessica Shere Coggins: fucking repeat the question? I we just I back.
• 18:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: On my button here.
• 18:18
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. It's her highlights.
• 18:22
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. I was just Oh. Something that annoys you about us.
• 18:25
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, something that annoys me. You?
• 18:28
  Melissa Shere Beek: Each one of to the other.
• 18:29
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I'll say something about you. Don't be mad.
• 18:31
  Melissa Shere Beek: I won't be mad. I like honesty.
• 18:33
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: If I don't answer, you call again, like, a minute later.
• 18:37
  Jessica Shere Coggins: How me? You could do that, probably.
• 18:39
  Melissa Shere Beek: I could do that. But it also might be that I think that the the cellular service in my house went out and disconnected disconnected my my phones. Phones. But I know that if I move from room to room, sometimes my service goes out and, like, the call drops.
• 18:50
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Because you don't have an iPhone.
• 18:52
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I'm old school.
• 18:53
  Jessica Shere Coggins: My answer. Annoys me about you.
• 18:55
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Mhmm. Who's you?
• 18:56
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Sissie. Okay. I think this is for me personally.
• 19:04
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah.
• 19:06
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I think when we don't agree on a story per se when we're talking on the phone
• 19:11
  Melissa Shere Beek: Uh-huh. You mean like a story from our past?
• 19:14
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Or just any A story.
• 19:15
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. I
• 19:16
  Jessica Shere Coggins: feel like you don't hear me out all the way, like you interject, but I gotta get the story through. And then if we have different opinions on it, I feel like it's hard to prove my opinion to you. Oh, okay. But not in a bad way.
• 19:33
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. I get what you're saying.
• 19:34
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You know what I mean? Yeah. But I don't feel like you're bossy. I don't feel like you overstep. I don't know if it's me and I'm not realizing, maybe you're right in the conversation, so I'm still trying to prove myself even though I think your answer fits Right.
• 19:48
  The story better. Do you know what I'm saying?
• 19:49
  Melissa Shere Beek: I get your signal. No. I don't I don't have a problem understanding your point of view. Right. Totally understand your point of view.
• 19:55
  I'm I'm sorry if you feel that No.
• 19:57
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. I'm not getting it. A bad thing.
• 19:58
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. No. No. I appreciate that.
• 20:00
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Also I the good thing about you that I do love is your words are very succinct and to the point, and and and they relate to the subject. I tend to skirt around and go over, so maybe it's my fault on not being clear enough. Okay. Which it could be too.
• 20:18
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. Yeah. No. I understand your point of view.
• 20:20
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Yeah. Because I also think if anyone you would understand it too.
• 20:24
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, yeah.
• 20:24
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Because I can talk in weird ways and you still get it.
• 20:26
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, conversations with you include 10 other people. Right. That's the thing. So, you'll be on the phone, and one kid will come in, and then another kid will come in, and then you're driving through a drive through and you're ordering like, I'm gonna take a latte. Or wait, hold on.
• 20:41
  And then, oh, you ran into somebody in the hallway, and so like
• 20:44
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I would never be able to have a conversation with myself. Like, it's so frustrating to me that I just couldn't I wouldn't I would hang up the phone.
• 20:51
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Like, I couldn't be friends with Yeah. But I Because it's you.
• 20:55
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I know. But it's so annoying. But it's never like one I'm I'm in the bathroom
• 21:02
  Melissa Shere Beek: or No. They find you there too. Yeah. Somebody will call you while I'm already on the phone with you in
• 21:06
  Jessica Shere Coggins: the like they're in school.
• 21:07
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:08
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I know.
• 21:08
  Melissa Shere Beek: I get it. You? Sam you. Sam you.
• 21:19
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Not it doesn't annoy me or anything.
• 21:22
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I know what you're gonna say.
• 21:23
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. I don't know if you are.
• 21:25
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That I always go to Mason for advice.
• 21:27
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, no.
• 21:27
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I think that's one of the best things that you and Mason I always love that you two are a unit. I think it's amazing. Go Maiming. You I've always said it. The two of you work as a unit together.
• 21:38
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And it's really annoying. Because I always like I think it's so sit there and go ask him.
• 21:43
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. I think it's so
• 21:44
  nice that you have
• 21:45
  it because you work together as a team.
• 21:47
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't know if we work together. Just not sure.
• 21:49
  Melissa Shere Beek: She beats Him into submission.
• 21:51
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: When I see
• 21:52
  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's But when
• 21:53
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I see you on
• 21:54
  Jessica Shere Coggins: trips and stuff, you guys work together. Like, it's a team effort, and I've always admired that. I I guess maybe it's a sensitivity thing. Wish you weren't you wouldn't get
• 22:08
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: So upset about things.
• 22:09
  Jessica Shere Coggins: So upset or sad about things. Because I know that sadness, like, lasts with you for, like, it's not an hour. It's like a day or two or more. I wish you wouldn't get so upset, because you're a great mom and you're a great person,
• 22:23
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. And should see
• 22:24
  Jessica Shere Coggins: But I do. Don't want you to get bogged down by all that Because when you think about it, you deal with a lot. Like, there's a lot that you deal with. All three of your kids are way different, and you deal with a lot constantly. And I wish you you felt kind of prouder about yourself.
• 22:41
  Yeah. Very good,
• 22:44
  Melissa Shere Beek: That's good. Thanks. I like that. Yeah. Well said.
• 22:46
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Okay. Yeah. Thanks.
• 22:48
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That was very therapeutic.
• 22:49
  Jessica Shere Coggins: And I and I also don't want you to think, I also feel like not as much now.
• 22:54
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: It's getting watery,
• 22:55
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I think. No. Because I feel like you always felt like left out, but you were never left out.
• 22:59
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Is that a
• 22:59
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: mental thing? There was a time where I thought the two of you were Right.
• 23:02
  Jessica Shere Coggins: And it wasn't like that.
• 23:03
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Every single day, and I was like
• 23:05
  Melissa Shere Beek: She doesn't call back.
• 23:06
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Shit here.
• 23:06
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't call back. That's like after the tenth time ever calling. I finally, like, what the hell do you want? No. I'm just kidding.
• 23:13
  Kidding. I I
• 23:14
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: do have a question, and I don't mean to leave Jess out of this.
• 23:16
  No. Go. Sissie
• 23:18
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yesy.
• 23:19
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Because you
• 23:19
  have two daughters, I have two daughters. What's the biggest advice that you would give for raising girls to be so close?
• 23:31
  Melissa Shere Beek: I think that's a great question. My girls are very close.
• 23:33
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. And I don't know if it's something that happens when they're older. Because my kids I've always told them you gotta be close, but it it waxes and it wanes. For example,
• 23:43
  Melissa Shere Beek: like flow to relationship. Yeah.
• 23:45
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: They hate each other. But, like, this weekend is parents weekend, and Bria's not coming. So now Stella doesn't want anybody coming because her sister can't be there. So, like, now it's like her sister's her parents.
• 23:54
  Jessica Shere Coggins: One different thing that I think of dynamic is also different because it's just her two girls.
• 23:59
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. Well, we forget about it, you know.
• 24:01
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. No. No. You forget it. You asked the question about Like, sisters.
• 24:04
  Boys.
• 24:04
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Like, it's different. There's not another one in So,
• 24:08
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: like, what point
• 24:10
  Melissa Shere Beek: I think, first of all
• 24:11
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I think you did a great job on your girl.
• 24:12
  Melissa Shere Beek: Thank you. Thank you. I think I got lucky. I got great girls. But, there's a couple things I learned, and one of my questions was, you know, what surprised you, what you learned from motherhood.
• 24:22
  So I'm glad we're on this. Listening is the most important thing that I learned to do instead of trying to be a problem solver. Because as mom, you wanna go in and you wanna, like, help them with everything. And sometimes they just wanna come in and vent. And then the other thing that I think made them close is, well, two things.
• 24:45
  All the secret shit that they did that they didn't tell me about.
• 24:49
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I like that. They did that.
• 24:50
  Melissa Shere Beek: Close in age. So they had each other's back, and they covered for each other. But, also, let them work it out. Let them work it out when they have an argument or a fight, because you getting involved as a parent doesn't really do shit, because you don't understand the nuances, and they have to find their own words and their ways to each other. Yeah.
• 25:13
  So I think that's what I learned from them, really.
• 25:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Do they have moments where they fight now at this age?
• 25:19
  Melissa Shere Beek: I don't think so. I don't think so. But, I mean, again, they're way older than your girls are. But I'm I'm sure that they had, like, small tiffs. I mean, there was a shirt that was in question for a while with one of them, and it kept ending up in somebody else's closet, and and who did it belong to.
• 25:34
  Jessica Shere Coggins: But I don't think But that's not bad.
• 25:36
  Melissa Shere Beek: That it was never they never they never had a major fight. Thank God.
• 25:39
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You gave them a lot of confidence, which I think is nice.
• 25:42
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that.
• 25:44
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. I think I tried have to a ton of confidence.
• 25:47
  Melissa Shere Beek: I think you
• 25:48
  both have amazing kids. And I think individually, they really rock themselves individually, not just what you did to support them, but I think they really came out and and were fabulous.
• 25:58
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: It is the hardest fucking job in the world. I can't even tell you.
• 26:03
  Melissa Shere Beek: So that was the question, like, what was what surprised you about motherhood? That's that was my next question.
• 26:09
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I I think it's I mean, listen. For me, going to Zero To one was the worst.
• 26:17
  Melissa Shere Beek: What? I didn't hear you.
• 26:19
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Going from zero kids to one
• 26:20
  Melissa Shere Beek: kids was the worst. To one.
• 26:21
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Uh-huh. I think what surprised me is I think what surprised me more is the the time. The time and and the mental capacity it takes to
• 26:37
  Melissa Shere Beek: raise be involved in raising a child.
• 26:41
  Jessica Shere Coggins: It's a lot. Oh, it's 20 mentally, it's a lot too. It's not just physically.
• 26:45
  Melissa Shere Beek: There's no off ramp. There's no break.
• 26:47
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. It's all day. Yeah.
• 26:49
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I have three
• 26:49
  Jessica Shere Coggins: different And I worry a lot, so I think that's what makes me worse.
• 26:53
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, how could you not?
• 26:54
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I have three totally different children. So what I took for one, I can't do for the other.
• 26:58
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I mean,
• 27:00
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: it's just the hardest. It's a lot of times of just biting your tongue and not responding back
• 27:08
  Melissa Shere Beek: because Listening.
• 27:09
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Not being mama bear, but I had to be mama bear for one kid. But I'm not a mama bear for the other kid.
• 27:17
  Melissa Shere Beek: It's But you know you've you've listened to your kids, you know when you need to jump in and when you don't need to jump in.
• 27:22
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I try. That's hard. It's just a hard and I think I remember and and my mother-in-law tells me, the moment I gave birth to Aidan, I said to her, and I looked at her, I said, when do you ever stop worrying? And she said, never. Yeah.
• 27:36
  That has been the thing. You never stop worrying.
• 27:40
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I think that's the one thing I do appreciate about technology and and and having a phone.
• 27:45
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Like it, but I don't like it.
• 27:46
  Melissa Shere Beek: I like it because we can stay in contact.
• 27:49
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. Yes. But, like, to know, like, they don't go home till 3AM. But it's really 6AM my time, but 3AM Arizona time, like, I worry. I don't worry so much anymore.
• 28:03
  It was definitely first year that I worried about her.
• 28:06
  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's when you go West Of The Mississippi.
• 28:08
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't care.
• 28:10
  Melissa Shere Beek: So as as we get older She did. I did. I always research. Yes. She did.
• 28:16
  I always research. Okay. So I had, like, three questions. I'm not sure which I'm gonna do it in this order. Are we stronger in our relationships because we came from a strong matriarchy?
• 28:27
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. No? I don't know. I feel like we're just strong because we are strong.
• 28:32
  Melissa Shere Beek: I think it's by choice. Okay. I don't know.
• 28:34
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I think we had to be strong at the moments where we definitely had to be strong.
• 28:38
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Okay.
• 28:39
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't think it had anything to do with me. It had to be like, we need to
• 28:43
  Melissa Shere Beek: Rally the troops.
• 28:44
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Rally, like Yeah. Put put our feet forward, build this.
• 28:47
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I definitely also think it's how we were raised.
• 28:49
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: There are moments where I remember you and I were like, this is you're not passing this line. Like, you we are your barricade. Yeah. We are your wall. No one's gonna force us down and just we will be there for you when you need us, but this is where we stand.
• 29:05
  And we were very, very honest and blunt many times.
• 29:09
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Supportive for each other.
• 29:10
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't think that would anything to do with anybody. This was like, we are Our choice. This is we're putting our armor on, and we need to protect her right now. That's it.
• 29:19
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I think so. I think so.
• 29:21
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: There were I I totally remember that moment so strong where it's like yeah. And then there's moments where we cave, where it's like, it didn't matter if you know? I don't know.
• 29:32
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, I think flexibility with each other.
• 29:35
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I think it's also by choice. You wanna make an effort, or you don't wanna make an effort. Yeah. I mean, you can be the best of sisters and not make an effort to really like each other.
• 29:42
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. That's true.
• 29:43
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I hate you today.
• 29:44
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. No. We love each other.
• 29:47
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You didn't hear me.
• 29:48
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I did. I'm sitting right here.
• 29:52
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Chose to ignore it. I did. I thought I was talking. I was
• 29:55
  Jessica Shere Coggins: mindful in that moment.
• 29:57
  Melissa Shere Beek: I'm trying to tell I was gonna leave this for the last one, but I'll do it now, because we're on legacy and history and matriarchy. What do you think our legacy will be as we get older?
• 30:09
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, shit.
• 30:09
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I can't think that. I can't. I'll get too emotional. Sorry.
• 30:13
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, okay. I got it.
• 30:16
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I just want my kids to be proud of the mom that I have and will be, like, when they become a mom, be like, oh, this is what my mother did. Like,
• 30:29
  Melissa Shere Beek: that's
• 30:30
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: what
• 30:30
  Melissa Shere Beek: I I
• 30:31
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: want them to be Call me me, I want them to be different, but I want them to be like, I'm doing this because this is something my mom did.
• 30:40
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. So incorporate the things that were meaningful to them that you shared with them that they can do.
• 30:45
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Like, I want and it's weird because I feel like I have this conversation often. But, like, I wanted my journey as a mother to be different than the one that I had.
• 30:59
  Melissa Shere Beek: Got it. Oh, for your oh, yeah. Jess is crying. So Stephen's giving us the signal to pass the napkins.
• 31:08
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Thanks for the help.
• 31:09
  Melissa Shere Beek: She keeps using her sweater.
• 31:11
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Thanks, And I and I don't wanna talk poorly. Yeah. No. But I did go into this mother journey saying I was going to do things differently. Well, I think you have everybody's I hope that I have, and I hope that the changes that I've made have made my kids proud and will want to do the same.
• 31:36
  Melissa Shere Beek: That's nice.
• 31:37
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That's that's kind of like I hope I hope they look back and be like, I had an amazing mom and I'm gonna be a good mom too.
• 31:43
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I like that. I think every child and and one of my questions was gonna be like, what do your kids say is the most annoying thing about you? What if we didn't get there? But I think every child we'll do it after then.
• 31:54
  I think every child looks at their parent and goes, oh, I'm definitely not doing that. And then they think, oh, okay. Those are some of the things that I am gonna do. So I think they always it gets edited down each generation. Yeah.
• 32:07
  Probably. But I I like what you said about that, Sam.
• 32:10
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I mean, there is one bad thing I did. I mean, I don't wanna get negative, but I have a tendency to run away. I think we've talked about this.
• 32:18
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. We've talked about this.
• 32:19
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Mhmm. When I You and I have. When we get when I got upset with my girls and I'd fight, I would run away. Whether it be hiding in the backyard, or I'd take the car and go somewhere.
• 32:30
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You always take the car.
• 32:31
  Melissa Shere Beek: Is that to avoid confrontation, or is that to give yourself a beat to calm down? I you know what?
• 32:37
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I actually, I don't I think there's a third thing in there.
• 32:40
  Okay. Attention.
• 32:43
  Melissa Shere Beek: You wanted attention?
• 32:44
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Maybe.
• 32:45
  Melissa Shere Beek: Mhmm. Like You wanted them to run for
• 32:47
  Jessica Shere Coggins: run after her. Right.
• 32:48
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And so but it's also because that's what happened in our lives.
• 32:53
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Mhmm.
• 32:54
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: So I know as it got down to Bria and I was doing it, it made her really, really, really upset. And and Bria talk about stubborn. She's stubborn, but she's also tells you like it is. And she would say, you need to stop doing that. I don't like when you do that.
• 33:11
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Good for her for expressing
• 33:12
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: need stop. And so it was like the light bulb went off in my head, and I'm like, I gotta stop doing this. And I started working on it.
• 33:19
  Melissa Shere Beek: That's good.
• 33:20
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And so, you know
• 33:22
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You should probably just wanna get out
• 33:23
  of sight of your question. Yeah. I get it. You don't wanna, like, be in it.
• 33:27
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That's one of the things that I've, like I'm I'm mad at myself for doing too often back then, and I'm working on not doing Yeah.
• 33:36
  Melissa Shere Beek: But you're aware of it and working on it now. So it's amazing.
• 33:38
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I hope I didn't to be honest with you, hope I didn't do damage. You know, it's that kind of thing.
• 33:43
  Melissa Shere Beek: You're talking about it openly with them. So there Yeah. I don't think that's damaged. Listen. If you continue to do the best you can with kids No.
• 33:50
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: But I feel like those bad moments, they remember so much more than those good moments sometimes.
• 33:55
  Get nervous.
• 33:56
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I don't think they do. I feel like . You it's like it's like when the kids, you know, God forbid, they're little and they get sick or whatever, and you worry, and we talked about worry and stuff like that.
• 34:07
  They get over it, and they're totally fine, but you're still traumatized from it. Like, so I think that maybe you're, again, in your head beating yourself up about it, but
• 34:15
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Also, I'm sensitive.
• 34:16
  Melissa Shere Beek: So I remember. Yeah.
• 34:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: This is who I am.
• 34:18
  Jessica Shere Coggins: But that's Right. But you remember it.
• 34:19
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I do.
• 34:20
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Your kids might not.
• 34:21
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I know. But it's see, this is what worries, this is what wanes on me is this this stuff. Which is okay and it's like
• 34:28
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, that's normal.
• 34:29
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I think we've all Jess and I have talked about changes that you make like when you go to a therapist and things that you need to change in your life and like, this was definitely an moment for me when Brea was like, you got to stop doing that.
• 34:42
  Melissa Shere Beek: Good for her for expressing that.
• 34:44
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Mhmm. And so for me to go, I gotta change this was very important to me. It's hard.
• 34:50
  Jessica Shere Coggins: It's hard Maybe to you'll give yourself, like, ten, fifteen minutes.
• 34:52
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. You know? I tried that on Saturday.
• 34:54
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, that's Yeah.
• 34:56
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Didn't really work.
• 34:57
  Melissa Shere Beek: That's okay. But you tried.
• 34:59
  Jessica Shere Coggins: But knew. You tried. Don't know how many other people knew. I mean, you're my sister, so I knew someone was bothering you.
• 35:03
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, she's also Bria is tough. But She is very. She. Yeah.
• 35:07
  Melissa Shere Beek: What we okay. So this will be the last question then.
• 35:09
  Instead of Legacy, because Jessica didn't wanna answer. You didn't want yeah. Okay. She's shaking her head. Okay.
• 35:14
  Maybe this will be a funny good thing to land on. Oh. What do your kids Uh-huh. Think is the most annoying thing about you?
• 35:20
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I I actually got in a little thing with Meyer yesterday about this. So I think I'm finding out stuff about myself more so through my kids, not through my actions. He was like, you just blurt out things all the time. He's like, I don't even think you realize you do it. And I don't think I do.
• 35:41
  Melissa Shere Beek: That's pretty astute.
• 35:42
  Jessica Shere Coggins: He like yesterday when I dropped him off, I said something and I was like, I I don't know what I said. Was like, bye guys, have a great day. And he looked at me and he's like, we're not even there yet. Like, it's it's I think, you know what it is, and I'm sensitive to this.
• 35:57
  It's a stream of consciousness that whatever goes on in my head comes out. Mhmm. And Meyer's like, we don't care. We don't care that you like, he said I put a song on. Was like, I love this song.
• 36:09
  He's like, Michael are in the car and we really don't care. Like he's like, you gotta stop like just talking. Like, and I agree with it. Uh-huh. Like there's some things that I need to be able to say no one else needs to know about this.
• 36:22
  Melissa Shere Beek: You don't need to make a public service announcement. He means.
• 36:24
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I can't it's my thought, and then it comes out. Yeah.
• 36:27
  So I'm oversharing.
• 36:29
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. I'd say the three things that my kids would say.
• 36:31
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, there's three.
• 36:32
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And I'm loving it. Yes. I asked way too many questions. I do. Like, Bria comes home, and I'll be like, I Like think I asked
• 36:40
  Jessica Shere Coggins: any of us. Oh. Yeah.
• 36:41
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. Too many questions, because like the third question, she's already shut down. She her and Stella say that I'm very lurky. Like, if I look over their shoulders and they're watching a TikTok, I'll be like, who's that?
• 36:52
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes. Or
• 36:52
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I call Stella
• 36:54
  Jessica Shere Coggins: on You
• 36:54
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: are. Or I call Stella on a TikTok. I'm like, what does this mean?
• 36:57
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes. Yes.
• 36:58
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: She goes, mom, you need to stop. I'm gonna block you.
• 37:00
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. That I don't bother. But you lurk you lurk I
• 37:03
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: lurk around.
• 37:04
  Melissa Shere Beek: That's so funny.
• 37:05
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: What was the third one I thought of? It was something you were saying.
• 37:08
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, and I can't cook, but I don't care. Oh.
• 37:10
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. My kids think, like, they get worried that, like, I ask a question, but I forgot that I asked the question, so I asked the question again.
• 37:19
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, I do this
• 37:19
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: so And they'll be like, mom, are you okay? You just asked that question.
• 37:23
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Or if it's I'm telling them a story, I told them a story, like, four times prior.
• 37:26
  Melissa Shere Beek: Do repeat yourself?
• 37:27
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I honestly don't remember, and it scares the the shit out
• 37:30
  Jessica Shere Coggins: of me. I don't remember. I remember.
• 37:31
  Melissa Shere Beek: I guess I think that nobody was listening, so I had to repeat it.
• 37:34
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I don't remember asking. They're like, you just asked that question. Those are the three things. I we should we should bring them on and see.
• 37:40
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, I think that would be really fun.
• 37:41
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That would be so good. That would be start
• 37:43
  Jessica Shere Coggins: with the two girls.
• 37:45
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. And see if
• 37:46
  Jessica Shere Coggins: would be would be fun. They think.
• 37:48
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You have to you have to, like, remember this episode and see if they'll
• 37:52
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. See say they'll stop talking
• 37:54
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I'm about sure your kids have opinions about you.
• 37:56
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, my kids have lots of opinions about me. I think the first one's gonna they would say is stop trying to problem solve everything. Okay. Like, you know, like, you just you can.
• 38:05
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: So For who? For them or for other people?
• 38:08
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Like, if they come to me with something and they just really wanted to vent, and I'm still trying too.
• 38:12
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: To Yeah. Oh, they'll
• 38:13
  Melissa Shere Beek: tell I mean, I I don't problem solve anymore. I bite my tongue and just listen because I've learned they've expressed it, but I would say that they would think that that was most annoying thing.
• 38:22
  Jessica Shere Coggins: And then, You gotta learn when someone, like, wants to just, like, talk and not hear you.
• 38:27
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, yeah.
• 38:27
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Of course. Yeah.
• 38:28
  Melissa Shere Beek: So I think sometimes they call and go vent, and and then they just Yeah. But the other thing too is wait. I just lost it.
• 38:37
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Oh, this happens to me multiple times a day.
• 38:39
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, no. Was thinking But I will say, I'll jump ahead. I feel like the third, I finally, like, listened. I feel like the first one, I had no idea what I was doing. The second one was like, la dee da.
• 38:48
  And the third, it's like, okay. I can't do this. I gotta do this. I gotta change this.
• 38:53
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Well, that's good. You're learning.
• 38:54
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I feel like the third, it's like I finally, like, okay. Maybe somebody was right. And I didn't listen to the first two, but I gotta listen to the third.
• 39:01
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Maybe you should Maybe that's why I listened to Meyer about, like, learning to
• 39:05
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh, I know something else that's annoying that I probably do. What? I I'm opposite with Sam. What Sam says, she, like, runs away and needs I need to have closure. Like, I can't let an argument if we have a discussion or something like
• 39:18
  Jessica Shere Coggins: true, but you do that with a lot.
• 39:20
  Melissa Shere Beek: I cannot go it will eat me up inside. He does
• 39:23
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: it a lot. I That's can't why I go back to the call. You call and call.
• 39:27
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. If there's something that I
• 39:28
  Jessica Shere Coggins: want You'll resolved call back and say it too if you didn't even say it.
• 39:32
  Melissa Shere Beek: Back and say because I it will not rest with my heart if anybody I love and care about, I've upset in any way. You know, I would never do it intentionally, but if I if if someone's not feeling right about something, it doesn't I don't feel good about something. And so
• 39:48
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: that has to do with birth order or just personality?
• 39:50
  Melissa Shere Beek: I don't know. But I will I I need they need to know the people that I love that I love them, and I need I need That's another think a word about you, but I can't think of the word. Yeah. Okay. I just I I wouldn't be able to rest.
• 40:03
  You know, I can't you can't go to bed upset with anything.
• 40:06
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I That's what you do in the conversations, I think. Maybe that's what's pinpoint is you keep trying to prove yourself and not prove yourself to me.
• 40:14
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: She wants to seal something up. She's done.
• 40:16
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You keep yeah.
• 40:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Because she She wants to make her point heard.
• 40:18
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes. And you won't stop until you get your point heard. Not in a bad way. Yeah. But you'll then be like, but did you hear when I said this?
• 40:25
  And then you'll go and say it.
• 40:26
  Melissa Shere Beek: You know what I say that to you because you're not listening? Or because I Probably. Do I say it to you too, Sam?
• 40:36
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You know how to work it. With me, you know, like, how to understand. You know how to read me.
• 40:42
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Like But I feel like sometimes she talks to you and you don't listen, because she'll call me and, like, I'm trying to tell this to Jess, and I don't think Jess is really getting it.
• 40:50
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I probably get it. I just probably don't wanna listen to you or do it. Right.
• 40:53
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. You don't have to do what I say. Yeah. Like, if call me and you go, like, how do I word this, or how do I say this, or how do I do this? And then I tell it to you, and you'd be like, okay, no.
• 41:02
  And then Well, because yes. And that's okay. You don't have to take my advice. That was just my opinion.
• 41:07
  Jessica Shere Coggins: That's more, I can say this on here, more with court stuff, I'll say.
• 41:12
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yes. Okay.
• 41:13
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. It's more with court stuff because Mhmm. You say things that that's not how the court system works anymore.
• 41:19
  Melissa Shere Beek: Got Got it.
• 41:20
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That that really Yeah. That gets her. That gets me gone. Come back a couple days later and say it again.
• 41:26
  Melissa Shere Beek: No problem because they've been thinking about it.
• 41:28
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yes.
• 41:28
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. And it's not closure
• 41:29
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: for you. It's still going on, and she gets it, but it's not, like, Jessica's the type
• 41:34
  Melissa Shere Beek: who It's not valid for her situation.
• 41:36
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Say, okay, and because she'll just stop the conversation, but her okay to you is, like, shutting you up, and so you haven't expressed yourself. And then she And then I get got stuck in the middle, like, I'm trying to explain this to Jessica and she's just not understanding is can I can you explain it to her better? And then I try to explain to you. Well, I've tried explaining it to her but
• 41:56
  Melissa Shere Beek: Clearly I’m the problem. No.
• 41:59
  Jessica Shere Coggins: She's You're not understanding.
• 42:00
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. No. Because I get it. Like, I think that there's also a point where, like, you don't wanna understand because on all
• 42:07
  I think it's somehow
• 42:08
  you're paying for a lawyer and you don't care. No. Don't. Yeah. You want her to understand because you want her to have knowledge and not go into it without the knowledge where she's like, I don't care.
• 42:19
  I just want this over and done with. I'm paying for lawyers. So she has a laissez faire
• 42:24
  Melissa Shere Beek: Laissez faire?
• 42:24
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Feeling. Mhmm. And you're like, but I want her to understand.
• 42:28
  Melissa Shere Beek: Because I always want her to go into anything with information.
• 42:33
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Right. But it's different. Not only with the courts. Right. It's different.
• 42:38
  Melissa Shere Beek: Right. Only because I get it. I don't know the legal aspect of You've
• 42:41
  Jessica Shere Coggins: got go go gadget here.
• 42:43
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Go go
• 42:44
  Jessica Shere Coggins: go gadget Sam. So she, like, kinda gets it more. I'm not saying you don't, but the court's not your thing.
• 42:49
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Carmen Santiago. Yeah. Carmen Santiago is better.
• 42:51
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Like, it doesn't work like that sometimes, so I feel like I'm trying
• 42:54
  Melissa Shere Beek: to No. She's more proficient with the legalese than I am. Right. You wanna talk about the body or the brain or surgery or medical It's all you. I can do that.
• 43:02
  But the legally the legal jargon, that's Sam. And the investigative services is Sam. Love stuff. Sam's like a secret FBI agent.
• 43:09
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: That stuff.
• 43:10
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Okay. That that let's end on this one last question. Oh. What would be our best professions that you would say we would be great at?
• 43:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, I'd be an FBI agent
• 43:19
  Jessica Shere Coggins: in a heartbeat. Okay. FBI agent. You know, I don't ever want this job, but I always go back to it like teaching little kids. Yeah.
• 43:29
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You have the patience.
• 43:30
  Melissa Shere Beek: I was just gonna say that but I didn't
• 43:32
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: say it.
• 43:32
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You know, I I like I I I
• 43:35
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You would clean runny noses?
• 43:37
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Okay. No.
• 43:37
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay.
• 43:38
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. Was just have assistant will do Fully potty trained and and no it's not. And they can't be like little where they get sick all the time. Like That's every little or fives or sixes. I don't know why.
• 43:50
  I never think I would ever work with kids, but I really like it. That's so cool. I like that. I would have never imagined No. For you.
• 43:56
  Never.
• 43:56
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: So So go back.
• 43:58
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Go back. No.
• 43:59
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: No. Okay.
• 43:59
  Melissa Shere Beek: It's not too late to start anything. Look what I'm doing.
• 44:02
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. I know. But I don't know
• 44:03
  if teacher would be my thing. I just know if I had little kids, I'd be able to You
• 44:06
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: have a friend that went back. She told me was not even in this realm of like No. Anything if she
• 44:11
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't know though. Also would be like a lawyer, maybe. Yeah. What would you think I would be?
• 44:16
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, that's a good question.
• 44:17
  Melissa Shere Beek: I don't know. Sam totally FBI agent
• 44:20
  Jessica Shere Coggins: like You would be a journalist in a newspaper.
• 44:22
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. I would I wish I
• 44:23
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You would be a publisher. A book
• 44:25
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, that's it. I have all of my books that I've written, but I have yet to publish them.
• 44:28
  What would I
• 44:29
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: love your PR. I feel like you do that.
• 44:32
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yes. You were such a great PR person. Yes.
• 44:36
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I could see you, like, on a red carpet in your It was
• 44:39
  Jessica Shere Coggins: great. I love
• 44:40
  Melissa Shere Beek: that entertainment into that.
• 44:41
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. That's the one thing I regret is not having a career to fall back on. I wish I had something that I could just go into, parlay back into, and go into.
• 44:51
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I know you keep looking something to do.
• 44:52
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I do. I need something.
• 44:53
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: What would you see you see me as
• 44:55
  Melissa Shere Beek: a Oh, a investigative services area.
• 44:57
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Uh-huh.
• 44:57
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Or a criminologist. Yes. Criminologist. Be a crime scene. I'd be at a crime scene or be an FBI agent.
• 45:03
  Yeah. Millisecond.
• 45:04
  Melissa Shere Beek: Okay. So we'll watch for you On ncis
• 45:05
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yes. I want to be a doctor, but then I went on rounds with someone, and then I almost threw up. So then I know
• 45:10
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I couldn't do it.
• 45:12
  Melissa Shere Beek: This will be the last one. Promise.
• 45:14
  Jessica Shere Coggins: It's like you said the other two results one. Okay.
• 45:16
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: We're getting better. This better be a real good one.
• 45:17
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. Just one rule you live by.
• 45:20
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Oh, shit.
• 45:21
  Melissa Shere Beek: Why do you always say, oh, shit for a good question? I think
• 45:24
  Jessica Shere Coggins: now it's it's it's not to lie.
• 45:27
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah.
• 45:27
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I was gonna say truth. Yeah. Definitely. It's one thing I've instilled in my kids. Just be honest.
• 45:33
  Honest. Yeah. It's just
• 45:34
  Jessica Shere Coggins: the best way to go.
• 45:35
  Melissa Shere Beek: My one rule, that I live by is is gratitude. That's And kindness. Gratitude and kindness. I feel like they go hand in hand, you know, just grateful for the blessings that we have and treating everyone with kindness. That's how I feel.
• 45:49
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I could work on kindness. I'm gonna be honest. I could. Big time.
• 45:54
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Yeah. You're quick. You're quick. Like, we call we didn't wanna call you today, because I was afraid you were gonna get defensive. Like, I sometimes cut off.
• 46:02
  Sometimes I get I get worried that am I catching you in a moment where if you're late, you already have your defense mechanism. I don't blame you. Yeah. I don't blame you.
• 46:12
  Melissa Shere Beek: Yeah. Yep. But then we put on pump it up, and you got in a good mood. Yeah.
• 46:16
  Jessica Shere Coggins: No. She
• 46:17
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: saw us since she got
• 46:18
  in a
• 46:18
  Jessica Shere Coggins: good mood. Yeah. Why not pump it up.
• 46:19
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: I love this. I I I I'm not gonna cry because I feel like she walked in today in a bad mood, and the second she saw us, like
• 46:28
  Jessica Shere Coggins: It does. It it sunshine.
• 46:30
  Melissa Shere Beek: It was sunshine for each
• 46:31
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I'm just imagining, like, not, like, having a sister to, like no offense to people that don't, but, like like, who do you share your deepest, darkest secrets with? Like, who do you call? Like, I don't trust my friends. I I don't. I don't trust my friends at all.
• 46:47
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: It's not
• 46:48
  Jessica Shere Coggins: that I love them. I just don't trust them.
• 46:50
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: It's very hard to know where to start with all of our stories.
• 46:52
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. But I do I do agree. I I bark a lot. I I just bark. I wish I could work on it, but it's hard.
• 47:00
  Melissa Shere Beek: You are working on it.
• 47:01
  Jessica Shere Coggins: You are. I just can I but I'm not that kind sometimes to people?
• 47:05
  Melissa Shere Beek: No. We love you. Thanks.
• 47:07
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Well, if they're not sticking around, then they're not meant to be. True. They know you. They know you. You have we all have our good days.
• 47:13
  We all have our bad days.
• 47:14
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Right. Just that.
• 47:15
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: It's though. If they're willing to stick around
• 47:18
  Melissa Shere Beek: Wisdom from the blonde. And she just got her
• 47:21
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: hair done today, so it's, like, all pouring hasn't settled in yet.
• 47:25
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. It hasn't
• 47:25
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: rotten the My god. This is so much fun. I hope honestly, I hope people enjoy this as much as we do.
• 47:33
  Melissa Shere Beek: I hope so.
• 47:34
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I don't know.
• 47:34
  Melissa Shere Beek: I hope so. Well, okay. So Steven said to me, there's an audience for everything. Okay. So, don't worry.
• 47:41
  I have other people I'm interviewing out there in podcast land.
• 47:44
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: We're just giving up our slot.
• 47:45
  Melissa Shere Beek: But this cast of characters will be reoccurring each month.
• 47:49
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Each month. You heard that again?
• 47:51
  And I know She makes sure to say that, Sam.
• 47:53
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, yeah.
• 47:53
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: You're the one who wants it more.
• 47:54
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Right. No. But she keeps on reconfirming to us that it's
• 47:57
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: each month. Because coming
• 47:58
  Melissa Shere Beek: why? You keep telling me you're gonna show up every week anyway.
• 48:01
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I just I I just think we're important.
• 48:03
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: She I think I think she just doesn't want to miss out on anybody else's conversations.
• 48:08
  Jessica Shere Coggins: I wanna jump in on it.
• 48:10
  Melissa Shere Beek: Oh gosh. God. Maybe. We'll see.
• 48:13
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Well, I love my sisters, and I'm so lucky to have you guys. You know, you had asked a question. Like, I don't remember memories. Like, there's still six years, four years, but I feel like it's only a year between us. Like, I just Oh, yeah.
• 48:28
  Melissa Shere Beek: The gap of
• 48:28
  age Closes
• 48:29
  Jessica Shere Coggins: Yeah. Don't even think about age,
• 48:30
  Melissa Shere Beek: I think. I don't think it's affected now. I think it was when we were younger.
• 48:34
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: And I thank you for doing this because I feel like it really brought us closer.
• 48:37
  Jessica Shere Coggins: This is very therapeutic for Samantha. Very therapeutic for I love it. Samantha. Love you
• 48:42
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: girls very, very much.
• 48:43
  Jessica Shere Coggins: And
• 48:44
  Melissa Shere Beek: yeah. Well, I love you girls very much. Love you, I'm so so grateful that you're in on this, and I'm so looking forward to all the Sisters' Sessions, and we're gonna have a good time. I hope our listeners have a good time. Say it again.
• 48:55
  Okay. But now you have to really leave and let me interview other people because I've got a great lineup for our listeners. But don't worry. Like I said, these two reoccurring characters will be back for our monthly sister sessions
• 49:06
  Jessica Shere Coggins: on current hot topics. We want the sisters.
• 49:09
  Melissa Shere Beek: Well, sign up. If you want the sisters, let us know. To our listeners, thank you so much. So grateful that you're here. Keep listening.
• 49:15
  Keep learning. Keep laughing. Keep up with Beak On Being. Tell us what you think, what you wanna hear, if you have something to share or someone to nominate, or you just wanna be our guest. Reach out to beak on being on Instagram or beakonbeing@gmail.com.
• 49:30
  Find beak on being wherever you get your podcasts. Big shout out and a huge thank you to Stephen Chen at Penthouse Studios. Beacon Being was recorded at Penthouse Studios and is a proud member of the Penthouse Podcast Network.
• 49:43
  Samantha Shere Sharpe: Thank you, Stephen.