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Deborah Weed · Postcards to the Universe

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa Capria. Do
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  Speaker 1: you believe in magic? What if you were told that
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  Speaker 1: all you had to do was get a little creative
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  Speaker 1: and work a magic spell to bring anything you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine into your life. Here on Postcards to the Universe,
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  Speaker 1: we will share manifesting tips, postcards, creativity, abundance, and prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Melissa Capria.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, and welcome to Postcards to the Universe with
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  Speaker 2: Melissa creating the life you crave.
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  Speaker 3: How are you guys doing. It's Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: I hope everybody is doing well. As usual. I have
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  Speaker 2: a great guest today, Deborah Weed. She founded a self
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  Speaker 2: worth initiative through storytelling and her work is pretty incredible
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  Speaker 2: and she's going to join me in just a couple
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  Speaker 2: of minutes. To my regulars, I want to say thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining me each week. It means the world
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  Speaker 2: to me. And if you're new to my show, I
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  Speaker 2: want to say welcome. I hope that you keep coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Just so you know, every show that we record is
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  Speaker 2: put up in Old Times in the archives. It's also
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  Speaker 2: on all the podcasting platforms, and it's on my website.
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  Speaker 2: Postcards to the Universe. I have a little section of
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  Speaker 2: podcasts and then you can hear the show, so you
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  Speaker 2: can listen to any of my shows. I always have
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  Speaker 2: a variety of guests who are doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different kind of work, and that's what I like to do.
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  Speaker 2: I love to have these conversations. I'm an artist myself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a photographer. I have a book. It's titled Postcards
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  Speaker 2: to the Universe. Harness the Universe's power and manifest your dreams.
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  Speaker 2: And I have people create manifesting postcards. They send them
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  Speaker 2: to me too, graph them, and when their manifestation shows
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  Speaker 2: up and their reality, I share their story.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what the book is about.
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  Speaker 2: You can find that on Amazon or Barnes and Noble
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  Speaker 2: or in your local bookstore. If it's not there, they
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  Speaker 2: will order it for you. Okay, So I want to
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  Speaker 2: make a couple of announcements. One, I'm really working on
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  Speaker 2: building up my YouTube. So I've been doing daily three
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  Speaker 2: to five minute short videos where I'm reading the Oracle
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  Speaker 2: cards because I created my own deck of Oracle cards,
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  Speaker 2: and I do these short five minute talks about you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever's on my mind, everything that has to do with
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  Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that I talk about here with
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  Speaker 2: my guests, and I also share them on Instagram and
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  Speaker 2: TikTok too, but you know, the algorithms are weird on there.
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  Speaker 2: I like a YouTube and that's where I'm really really focusing.
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  Speaker 2: And that leads me to the big announcement is starting
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  Speaker 2: in November. This show is going to be on Home
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  Speaker 2: Times TV, so I'm going to be on video along
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  Speaker 2: with radio. You'll still be able to listen to the
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  Speaker 2: show on radio to The show is going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the first and third Wednesdays of the month. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to be on every week like I am.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Video is a much bigger production, so but you'll be
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  Speaker 2: seeing me and my guests live and you'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to stream it on Home Times TV on YouTube, and
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  Speaker 2: I believe we're going to be able to put it
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  Speaker 2: onto my channel Postcards to the Universe on YouTube Live also,
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  Speaker 2: but if not, it'll definitely go up there afterwards. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so I just wanted to share that exciting news. So
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  Speaker 2: let me get to my guest today, because she's done
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  Speaker 2: some pretty She's such a creative person.
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  Speaker 3: She's pretty amazing the stuff that's done.
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  Speaker 2: So debor Wee doesn't just write stories, she creates movements.
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  Speaker 3: I Love That.
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  Speaker 2: A former director of development for Citibank and a marketing
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  Speaker 2: force for companies like Kia Motors, her life changed dramatically
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  Speaker 2: after a devastating misdiagnosis left her bed ridden for three years.
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  Speaker 2: It was during this time that a simple, yet priceless
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty three copper penny.
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  Speaker 3: Became a powerful symbol for her.
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  Speaker 2: If a seemingly worthless penny could be worth millions, then
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  Speaker 2: everyone has a hidden value just waiting to see. Inspired
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  Speaker 2: by this realization, Deborah made it her mission to ignite
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  Speaker 2: self worth through storytelling.
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  Speaker 3: She wrote and produced The Luckiest.
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  Speaker 2: Penny, an award winning interactive musical, and founded both the
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  Speaker 2: self Worth Initiative and the Quill Power Movement to empower
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  Speaker 2: young girls. Now she's embarking on her most ambitious project yet,
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  Speaker 2: Haiseley the Musical. It's inspired by her award winning children's book,
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  Speaker 2: Paisley's Last Quill. This new musical is a powerful story
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  Speaker 2: about a little porcupine to give away her protective quills
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  Speaker 2: just to fit in. This isn't just a show, It's
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  Speaker 2: a movement for anyone who has ever lost their voice
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  Speaker 2: or their way and is ready to take it back.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have links to her websites you can find
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  Speaker 2: in the bios, but it's her one is self worth
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  Speaker 2: Initiative dot net and her other is Paisley p A
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  Speaker 2: I S L e y S. Fashionforest dot com. Welcome, Deborah,
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  Speaker 2: thanks so much for being here with me today.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, Melissa, thank you so much. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I love that you're because, like me, you're coming
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  Speaker 2: from you have this create You're you're creating a movement
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  Speaker 2: using creativity, which is what postcards is, right, Like I
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  Speaker 2: have people make manifesting postcards and then I into it
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  Speaker 2: how I want to photograph them, and that's like like
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  Speaker 2: part of the whole collaboration. And you know, you went
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  Speaker 2: through obviously something and I'll let us tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you tell us your story.
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  Speaker 2: And then instead of you know, going and down the
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  Speaker 2: deep dark hole, you let it inspire you and you
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  Speaker 2: created this whole through storytelling, which is absolutely beautiful. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So Deborah, what happened? Like said, you got misdiagnosed in
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  Speaker 2: your bedroom for three yearsn't like let's start there, I'll
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  Speaker 2: start there.
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  Speaker 4: You got it? Well, actually, even let me start.
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  Speaker 5: Before that when I was okay, oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 5: was an EmPATH, is super EmPATH, all hard, and so
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  Speaker 5: many people said you're too sensitive, over and over.
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  Speaker 4: So many of us do, right, and that I've been
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  Speaker 4: inspired is that I ended up trying that I was
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  Speaker 4: not sensitive. So I ended up in corporate right, and
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  Speaker 4: I ended up as a director of development for City
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  Speaker 4: Bank nineteen branches, and I worked on a twenty six
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  Speaker 4: million dollar pavilion with Disney and Universal Consultants for Kia
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  Speaker 4: Motors and k John Korea. So anyways, I fought, it's
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  Speaker 4: not I had everything. I had, the shoulder pads, I
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  Speaker 4: had on the.
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  Speaker 3: Heels, I was school.
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  Speaker 4: But I got this spiritual two by four because to
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  Speaker 4: this day, I truly believe I was misaligned with my
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  Speaker 4: true nature. When you're in corporate, you are very cerebral.
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  Speaker 4: It's you're thinking all the time. It's not heart centered.
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  Speaker 4: Yet my soul, my essence, was heart centered. So my
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  Speaker 4: two by four was essentially be and dead for a
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  Speaker 4: long three years and being misdiagnosed by doctor after doctor.
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  Speaker 4: So here's kind of what happened there. The first doctor
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  Speaker 4: I go to said, it looks like you have NS
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  Speaker 4: and we can't tell you, you know. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 4: can you help me, and they're like, no, we can't
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  Speaker 4: help you because it's in your brain stem and they
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  Speaker 4: probably won't know until you die. Like, okay, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: help me very much.
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  Speaker 3: No, that doesn't help you at all.
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  Speaker 4: I got to this second doctor, and the second doctor
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  Speaker 4: is the second doctor tells me that it looks like
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  Speaker 4: I have lou Gary's disease. And I'm like, okay, Luke
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  Speaker 4: Garry's disease. That's really scary. What can you do for me?
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  Speaker 4: And they're like, well, we won't know until years later.
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  Speaker 4: You know how this progresses. Yeah, And then being an overachiever,
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  Speaker 4: I go to the next doctor and the next doctor says,
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  Speaker 4: it's all in your head now for so many people
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  Speaker 4: and your listeners, oh my gosh, you know with coat long,
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  Speaker 4: COVID and everything that's happening. When your voice stops being heard,
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  Speaker 4: something happens to your soul. Something happened to myself. And
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  Speaker 4: what happened is is that here I was thinking that
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  Speaker 4: I was on the top of the earth, thinking that
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  Speaker 4: I had everything confortable with. Self esteem, which I've more
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  Speaker 4: is very very different than self work. Self esteem is
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  Speaker 4: like eating, I went with the director, who a party?
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  Speaker 4: That's really cool?
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  Speaker 6: Right, I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Look right exactly. I was finally so uh when when
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  Speaker 4: I was in bed and losing my voice, what you
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  Speaker 4: be heard, understood or you know, it was dremendously scary.
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  Speaker 4: The pin that I was feeling felt like I gave
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  Speaker 4: birth every day going to labor and the.
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  Speaker 6: Guide that bapples with.
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  Speaker 4: The pain Emotionally, I was being abandoned by every single
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  Speaker 4: person that I knew. And the reason why even my family,
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  Speaker 4: even you know, my husband, just everybody because and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I caution people who are listening. When you are being
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  Speaker 4: told uh, different things by different doctors and there's no
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  Speaker 4: people that have a consensus, then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: you look like something is wrong with you because nobody's
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  Speaker 4: coming up with the answer. But I knew something was wrong,
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  Speaker 4: and this is when I read. I had done a
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  Speaker 4: lot of productions and shows ever since I was sixteen,
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  Speaker 4: so that was kind of natural to me. But while
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  Speaker 4: in bed, I heard about the nineteen forty three pure Copper.
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  Speaker 3: Penny and that I've saved my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna I wanted to know if you
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  Speaker 2: had found the penny and it was yours or if
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  Speaker 2: you read or heard a story about it. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: you heard a story about the penny, right exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I heard a story and I heard that the penny
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  Speaker 4: at the time could be worth two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: thousand dollars, which is pretty mind boggling. And now it
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  Speaker 4: could be worth a million, although when they took pennies off,
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  Speaker 4: we don't know, we.
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  Speaker 7: Don't know, we don't know, right right, but the facts
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  Speaker 7: fact that a penny, a simple penny that hardly anybody
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  Speaker 7: would pick up.
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  Speaker 4: On a street or a sidewalk unless they say, oh
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  Speaker 4: my gosh, i'sn't lucky penny. If that could be worth
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  Speaker 4: so much made me reflect on myself and go, okay, listen,
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  Speaker 4: Deborah to myself. If a penny can be worth that much,
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  Speaker 4: then and it was made by mistake, because the reason
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  Speaker 4: that it was so valuable is because it was a
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  Speaker 4: pure crapper penny and they didn't put the steel flat
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  Speaker 4: in the middle, and that's what made it so valuable.
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  Speaker 4: So if a mistake or I was feeling like a mistake,
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  Speaker 4: I was feeling worthless. If that's the case, then maybe
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  Speaker 4: I'm worth something. And I promised myself at that moment,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when that all came together, that if I
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  Speaker 4: ever got out of this and figured out what was
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  Speaker 4: wrong all along, then I would go on to start
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  Speaker 4: the self work. You become the founder of the Self
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  Speaker 4: Worth Initiative and help people for the rest of my
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  Speaker 4: life get back to my heart centered essence and help
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  Speaker 4: people understand that self worth is not predicated on anything
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  Speaker 4: you do. It's predicated on what you say you're worth
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  Speaker 4: in knowing that you're you know, invaluable.
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  Speaker 3: Essentially. Yeah, that's pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: It's then It's obviously it's no coincidence that the story
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  Speaker 2: of the penny.
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  Speaker 3: Came across you right that you were meant to see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I always look at it as like those
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  Speaker 2: are the gifts from the universe, right or God or God,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it. It doesn't really matter to me.
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  Speaker 2: Your angels, your higher self, your guides. You know that
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  Speaker 2: it was a sign for you to spark this in
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  Speaker 2: you because of everything that you were going through and
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  Speaker 2: you were feeling worthless, and if people were leaving your
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  Speaker 2: life when you needed them the most, that makes it
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  Speaker 2: even reinforces the story that you're not worth anything. Right,
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  Speaker 2: these are the people that are supposed to love me
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  Speaker 2: and they're abandoning me.
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  Speaker 4: That is so true. I think, you know, the physical
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  Speaker 4: part was beyond excruciating and I didn't even want to
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  Speaker 4: be on this planet anymore. Yeah, but the emost part,
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  Speaker 4: the abandonment from people, good people, by the way, But
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  Speaker 4: because there was so much discrepancy, I could see their point.
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  Speaker 4: But yet for me, I was drowning in the sea
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  Speaker 4: of misunderstanding because maybe, like so many, well maybe not
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  Speaker 4: like so many, but when I grew up, I almost
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  Speaker 4: thought that life should be like like a musical, because
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  Speaker 4: I loved musicals. And it was like, hey, everybody's saying,
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  Speaker 4: there's you know, everybody happy. What is this that I
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  Speaker 4: walked into? Well?
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: How did the symptoms start? You're going about your life?
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  Speaker 2: This is because I want people who meet we are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, having some kind of physical symptoms, you know,
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  Speaker 2: please go to a doctor. Neither of us are advocating
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  Speaker 2: that you don't go to your doctor if you're having symptoms,
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  Speaker 2: but also go inside your intuition and ask yourself what's
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  Speaker 2: going on? Right, you could do both, but like what
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  Speaker 2: was start? Like how did it start? That made you realize?
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  Speaker 2: Like I have to go to a doctor and find
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  Speaker 2: out what's going on with me, because you obviously have
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  Speaker 2: this big job, this big corporate job. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: were working eighty hours a week, you know, and trying
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  Speaker 2: to maintain this life.
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  Speaker 3: So how did it start manifesting for you?
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  Speaker 4: And that is such a great question that really goes
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  Speaker 4: into the depths of things and something that I'd love
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  Speaker 4: to explore with you, because I had been hemorrhaging and
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  Speaker 4: I had gone first to a guynecologist who said that
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  Speaker 4: it's probably perimenopause, and I explained that this is happening
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  Speaker 4: on a daily basis, but it was ignored, and then
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  Speaker 4: because of that, I was going to doctor after doctor
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  Speaker 4: after doctor. They did do an ultrasound, but during that
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  Speaker 4: time period, ultrasounds were on the top of your stomach,
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  Speaker 4: so they missed something crucial in me. And I'm so
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  Speaker 4: glad you want to go into a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: depth with this, because so many like men, when a
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  Speaker 4: man goes to a doctor, right, it's it's like an emergency.
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  Speaker 4: He's nothing really wrong, so doctors take it seriously. However,
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  Speaker 4: when a woman goes to a doctor, she's got all
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  Speaker 4: We've got all these intricate parts, things that people don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes our voice has been diminished. And so when
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  Speaker 4: we go in if we're too if we're crying too much,
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  Speaker 4: them were hysterical. And if we're smiling too much them
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  Speaker 4: nobody's going to take it seriously. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: where I was puggling. So to answer your question very specifically,
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  Speaker 4: when the doctor finally figured out what was wrong with me,
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  Speaker 4: he figured it out with a simple blood Wow.
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  Speaker 2: But it took three years of you suffering to finally
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  Speaker 2: get that simple blood test.
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  Speaker 4: Three years of beyond suffering. Although on the positive side,
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  Speaker 4: I learned so much my father, who was like a
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  Speaker 4: Yoda type dad, he gave, he had parted so much
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  Speaker 4: wisdom and things that now I'm able to share with
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  Speaker 4: flair and purpose and wisdom that you know, I know
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  Speaker 4: will help the next person. But at the time it was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was like I don't understand. I would
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  Speaker 4: talk to God all the time and say, I only
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  Speaker 4: wanted to come here to help. Why am I sidelined?
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  Speaker 4: Why is this happening? I just don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: But you do now now I do, Yeah, yeah, Because
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't the work. That's not where you were supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be helping. And I'm a big believer in that
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  Speaker 2: that that your life will be shooken up in a
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  Speaker 2: way if you are not on the path that you
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  Speaker 2: are destined to be on. That you not that we
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  Speaker 2: don't have free will, there's free will and mixed in
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  Speaker 2: that too, but but I believe that that that for
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  Speaker 2: everyone there's a there's a destiny that we are meant
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  Speaker 2: to fulfill because we came here.
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  Speaker 3: To do that, we chose to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So when we're off track, something will happen that will
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's usually painful. Unfortunately it doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to be, but for for some reason, with us humans,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way that it works.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's painful, and then that brings us back to uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ourselves and we can start doing the work
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  Speaker 2: to find out where we're meant to be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm onnercent on board with that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you wholeheardly. These things have happened
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  Speaker 4: to me three times in my life. I'm a grandma now,
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  Speaker 4: so it's like, you know, I've had I've had these
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  Speaker 4: traumatic experiences. You know. What I've found is that each
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  Speaker 4: time creativity was the thing that brought me back to
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  Speaker 4: life because think about it. Think about it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have trauma.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's kind of like when we have trauma, it's
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  Speaker 4: like like a boulder where it was it's very hard
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  Speaker 4: to move it. Like creativity is like like like God's water,
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  Speaker 4: like a waterfall and it comes from above and it
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  Speaker 4: washes that out. And if we're being in that creative flow,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's like every time this has happened, like you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's like I step up a little bit more. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So first it is, you know, musical for kids, and
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  Speaker 4: then it's a book and and it's just and now
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  Speaker 4: it's a full fledged musical like Wicked. So each time
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  Speaker 4: it said, hey, if that happened to you, no problem,
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  Speaker 4: so let's go for some big time. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: it can things can either get you stuck and I
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  Speaker 4: understand why and that's happened to me and put you
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  Speaker 4: into sphere. But also there's this swing shot effect where
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  Speaker 4: the farther back you go farther you can fly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's so true.
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  Speaker 2: So so you're you hear the story, you get this
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  Speaker 2: spark in your mind that says, okay, this nineteen forty three,
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  Speaker 2: worthless penny is really worth so much? And and that
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  Speaker 2: sort of sparked you to come up with the story
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  Speaker 2: of the Luckiest Penny?
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  Speaker 3: Is that is that what happened like like did you
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  Speaker 3: start writing?
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  Speaker 2: Like how did it like go from I read the
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  Speaker 2: story to I wrote.
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  Speaker 3: And produced the Luckiest Penny?
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  Speaker 2: Basically that's the question, and it's a great question.
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  Speaker 4: So what happened is is that you know, I've got
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  Speaker 4: three long years and dead. That's a whole time, let
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: me tell you. And I was very, very weak. I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't get up either, but I during that time I
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  Speaker 4: started to conceive of the Luckiest Penny. And the storyline
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: is about two nineteen forty three, where copper pennies that
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: are at an auction and going to learn how much
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: they're worth and why. The first one is Alistair, who
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: knows he's worth millions of dollars because he's uncirculated, ever
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: been touched perfect, whereas Henry is kind of models my
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: life at the time, which he's been in the garbage can,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: he's been on the streets alone, he's been somebody's lucky penny.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: He's had so many things happen to him, so one
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: has experience and has taken a journey, either one has
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: stayed in a plastic case his whole life, and the
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: two are sold. And at the end, Alistair does get
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  Speaker 4: sold for a lot of money, a lot, you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I'm sure millions, but he lucky him, he gets to
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: spend the rest of his life in a beautiful silver case,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: never to be seen again. Whereas Henry is sold to
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  Speaker 4: a grandfather who brings it home to his grandson and
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Tommy is like, oh my gosh, you got me this, Benny,
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  Speaker 4: And Grandpa is like, well, you know, Tommy, you love this. Huh.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: He's like yes, it must have been worth a million
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: dollars And Grandpa's like, well, why do you say that?
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: And he says because it was born the same year
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: as you. So, based on that sweet story that where
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: children families can easily understand what self worth, I created
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: a musical. It started it while I was in bed,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: finished it when they find the doctor finally figured out
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  Speaker 4: what had been what had been wrong, and then went
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: on to found this self worth initiative.
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  Speaker 2: So you say that the musical is interactive, so would
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: you perform it for children? And you would have children
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: come up and participate.
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  Speaker 3: In the musical.
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  Speaker 4: That is such a great question. Yes, sometimes we had
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: children performance, sometimes we had actors performance, but most of
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: the best part of the show, Melissa, Oh my gosh,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: this was like, right to this day, it gives me tears.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: We would have we would have a talkback and ask
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: the kids who's more that you know? Which one is
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: more valuable or priceless or lucky? Is it Alistair who
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: got all that money? Or is it Henry who you
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: know had this adventure? And the kids there was no
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: wrong answer. So one child would be like, oh my gosh,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: it was Alistair. Look at all that money. He could
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: buy anything he wants. And the question back to this
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: child would be, yet, and if you had to spend
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: the rest of your life in your room and you
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: had all the toys you want, but you can never
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: go out, how would that feel? He thinks about it,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: she thinks about it. And then the next child will
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: be like, no, no, it's Henry. So there was a
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: lot of everything I've ever done my whole you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: probably my whole life has been to spark a conversation.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: It's not just the story, it's essentially to have people
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: answer very very profound questions on their own.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what's so wonderful about storytelling, right, because storytelling
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: makes us think. That's why we love the you know,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the oral storytelling traditions that got passed down and families,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: you know, people who write books. Then we read the stories,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: we get lost in that world, we go on these adventures.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: That's what's so magical about storytelling, and it is it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: tapping into the creative spark that comes from source. Because
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I'm a big believer that our creative spark comes from
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: source and that everybody has it. It's just a lot
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: of people don't know how to access it. You don't
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: have to be an author, a playwright, an actor, a photographer,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: a painter to use that creative spark. And I think
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: that's what people don't realize.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: So I think you're absolutely correct. I think they creativity.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I think too many people, as children have been told
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe they've painted a sky pink and my
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: teacher said, what do you think blue? Right? You an idiot?
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: And then all right said you freeze and you never
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: do it again. But the create a spark is in everybody,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: and that's actually the divine spark because it's not coming
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: from us. How many times have we heard about the
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: fact that if something gets downloaded to you and you
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: don't take action, then right around the corner there's going
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: to be somebody who's going to come up with something.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: And you're thinking, but I though, I.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Know that's so funny.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I was just having that conversation the other day that
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: all these things are floating in the ethers and if
• 26:44
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• 26:48
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• 26:53
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• 27:01
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• 27:07
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  Speaker 2: So, Deborah, I was thinking during the break, do you
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: start with your award winning interactive musical The Luckiest Penny, right?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: And then that starts your self worth initiative?
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: And then and then and then it grows from there to.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Because I want to talk about I love the quill
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Power movement because I love porcupines.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I think they're just the cutest little things in the world.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: And have you ever watched those videos I don't know
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: if you've ever seen them of a porcupine eating and
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the little the noises they make when they're eating, like something,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: it's the cutest thing you've ever heard, or like they
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: make the cutest little sounds, you know, because you look
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: at a porcupine and you can't touch it because you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Know the quills.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: And and I love that you use the porcupine as
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: your character for your story.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: So let's talk about how did the quill.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Power movement and like, you know, how did that like
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: spark in you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that I have had happened
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to be maybe so many have, is I have continually
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: given my power away. Yes, And I thought for probably
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: until now, that people took my power away. I didn't
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: realize that nobody, but nobody can take it away. And
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: then I was horrified because I realized through health situation,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: no matter what it is, it's sort of like I
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: was willing parts it. So I needed a metaphor. I
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: needed the perfect metaphor for me, and it ended up
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: being a porcupine because what I created, when you think
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: about a porcupine, they're supposed to put up their quills
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: to protect themselves. But the porcupine that I created Paisley
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: the dreams of being an animal fashion designer, but in
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: the animal fashion world, she has to give up her
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: quills like pins to Zivanna. And Zivanna is a kind
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: of like a Kuela de Ville type character. Yeah, is
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: a couture designer and the fashion forest, and she creates designs,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: over the top design that that are gorgeous, but they
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: only reflect how the top models look, not how they feel.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: And so I wanted to set Paisley in this world
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: because number one fashion really it's kind of like what
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: happens underneath the clothes or the dress for all of
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: us who we really are compared to who we're pretending
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: to be or thinking we are. And there was so
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: much richness about and the golden threads that I had
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: in this storyline was and I started out with a
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: children's book called Paisley's Last Oil, and the whole idea
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: that Paisley is giving away her quills to Repin Repin
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: to make the animals feel more comfortable until these down
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: to her last well. And it's what she does with
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: the last quill to reclaim her power and know her
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: strength that matters. And when I originally came up with
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: his story and illustrated the book, and you know, back
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: in like two thousand and seventeen, way back then, I
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: created a children's book and it was so beloved and
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: the little girls loved it, and we made wills, you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: the quill power was like we made I had the
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: little girls create these quills of like power so that
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: they knew who they were, they could take their power
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: back and really examine that in creative ways. And that
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: the book itself is all five stars. And it was,
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: you know, an amazing hit. But here's the thing. The
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: mothers were like, Okay, wait a minute, you're doing it
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: for our girls, thank you very much, And what about
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: us talk about giving our power away. We've been doing
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: it longer than they have. So after the last COVID
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: and a whole bunch of things that happened to me,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: it was like, you know, what, if everything's happened the
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: way that it has in my life, why not go
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: for my big over the top screen, which is to
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: create a Broadway style musical to the scale of Wicked
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: or The Lion King. And that's where you find me.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Now, Oh my god, I just love it so much.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Well, I am waiting for it to be on Broadway
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: So I hope and I hold that space for you
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: that it is on Broadway for where you want it
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: to be, because I love the idea, because I do believe.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Now I'm speaking for women. I'm sure some men feel
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: this way too, but going to speak for women because
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a woman, that we do give our power away
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and it's instilled in us from being a very very
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: little girl. You know, be a good girl, be a
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: good girl, don't talk back, you know, respect, you know
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And it has not served us in
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: our lives of being quiet and being good little girls
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: and not wanting to rock the boat and giving our
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: power away. So I love that we have Paisley here,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: who we get to learn through her journey of what
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: is she going to do when she's on her very
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: last quill?
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Right, exactly what is she? What does she do?
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: So so now the Muse the Musical, the Paisley the
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Musical is Paisley still a child fashion designer or has
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: she grown up now? Has she grown up as a
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: woman now?
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: It's the same storyline. It's the same story line, this
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: one and this one. It's it's you know, And I
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: always had this concept in my mind because I happen
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: to love musicals because look when we listen to Wicked
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: and we hear defying gravity, what woman is not just
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: like bulting it out whether they confess it or not,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: and feeling the emotion of that. That's why I love
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: musicals because subconsciously it rewires the brain. So as far
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: as Paisley is concerned, she was, she would probably be
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: you know, like eighteen nineteen twenties, okay, and she's against
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: momett Is trying to get this beautiful young woman to
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: protect herself with her quill. And but Paisley has a
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: different vision. It's essentially the same story. But it's but
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: when you look at the customing, because all of the
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: catur is made out of nature, and when you look
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: at the characters and the layering of the characters, they
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: represent each of us. Let me give you an example
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: of what one of the characters is. E Crew, Okay,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: is an elephant. He's a plus size model with a
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: plus size heart, and she is being told by zavannaiat
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Celery to shrink to fit her expectation of what needs
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: to be done, rather than Divana honoring her boldness and
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: who she is. And e Crew who's an elephant, is
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: quiet and timid because she's trying not to be too big.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: So what is that the representation of Let's look in
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: the real world. The world would be a woman who's
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: probably a size fourteen, which is averaged by the way.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Let's say that she's, you know, a bigger woman, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: she is been working in corporate and she is doing
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: the most amazing job ever. And here comes these skinny minis.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: And I love these skinny minies too, But here they come,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: and they're beautiful and they're perky and they're happy, and
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, they're the ones that are promoted
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: over and over and over again. And here's this woman
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: who's like, yeah, but but I put my heart in this,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I put my soul in this. Why am I being overlooked?
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: And so instead of being maybe more bold, this particular
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: person decides to shrink. Now, what rets that to the
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: psyche Okay, So I'm taking real world scenarios for each
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: of my cares that are tremendously layered. And Paisley is
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: consistently the porcupine pleaser Dampath probably a lot like me
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: all heart, and she's constantly trying to rearrange or refit
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: what Zavana has created to suit each of the top
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: of these top models with all their you know, very personalities.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: And I was told by somebody, and I love this.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: They said, it sounds like a feminine lion king.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can see that.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: That's so right. But the classic like if you were
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: if you were to go to my website and you
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: see the costuming and what I have in mind. I mean,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: we're beautiful, we're talking. And the music. So here's what
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: I'm doing. I'm starting with a five song album and
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: that's what I'm going to put out first. So I've
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: got listening. It's going to be so much fun. But
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I'm putting my best foot forward because to do an
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: actual Broadway production it takes fourteen to forty million dollars.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: And by the way, if you have that car. But
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: the thing is that, but the thing is is that
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm most people do it the traditional way. They
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: get a producer or they get an investor, they come
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: up with the money, and then they take action. I'm
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: doing it a different way. I'm starting with the music.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I want to get the album out there. I'm going
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: to offer that to the world. I am currently looking
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: for singers and dancers and producers and investors and talent
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: and creatives of all kinds to make this. You know,
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: let's see if I'm providing a vehicle that's meaningful right now,
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: and I don't want to spend seven to ten years
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: to workshop something. I want to create this now and
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: make it because it's timely, it needs to be now. Well,
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: let's see what happens.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Now. Are you writing the songs yourself?
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Are you writing created the songs? I created the songs.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I collaborated. It's it's like, as far as conceptually, every
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: single thing has total alignment with where I want to go.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: But as far as the songwriting, you know, with The
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Luckiest Pennie and the Sticky Bum Band, it's a lot
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: of the things. I did do a lot of the songwriting,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: but in this one, it was more of a collaboration.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: A collaboration, yeah, because you're gonna with a production like this,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: you're going to need a collaboration. And you can go
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: to her website, Paisley Fashion for Us, and you can
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: see the vision.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: And I love the costumes. I love the costumes.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now, I mean, are absolutely beautiful.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: And to see this on Broadway would be, yeah, it
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: would be gorgeous.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, just the costume design.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: And you have a short video just for people listening
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  Speaker 2: that you can see. It's just from storybook to showstop
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: or I think it's what like five minutes six minutes long,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: and it's just talking and you're showing the book and
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: you know your vision for.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: It, which is really really quite beautiful.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: And I love that you are in the process of
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: creating that creating this because.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Self.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: It's like self healing through creativity, really right, I think
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: that's the what I get from it, Like I'm watching
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: a production of all of us learning to accept who
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: we are, the.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Way we were, the way we were created.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: We don't have to do anything to be worth something,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and we should be embraced for each of our own
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: individual gifts.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: And I love that you're doing it and the way.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: That you're doing it with these characters, and that you're
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: using all the animal totems too, which have this whole
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: other mystical.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Thing to it, you know.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I see, because I'm big on
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: all of those, like having the animal totems and what
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: animal shows up for you and what that represents.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: And each one, you know what you are so right
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: and I'm hearing the depth of your vision and understanding
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: of what you know what I'm out to do. But
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: each animal was selected very good. Everything about this production
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: is so thought out. I mean, it's really you know,
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: and and the whole goal is and it's exactly what
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: you said. I'm healing through this and I want everybody
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: to heal through this so that at the end of
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: the day we can hold hands collectively and say, oh
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: my gosh, I too. You know. It's one of the
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: songs is called Quills Up. And that's the movement that
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: I have going right now for women. It's essentially, let's
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: stop giving away our quills. Take them back, because quills
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: do grow back. Take them back and stop giving them away.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: Because I truly believe that we don't get stuck because
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: of fear. We get stuck because we've given away quill
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: by quill, our power and we've got nothing left.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're one hundred percent right. And more women
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: that I talk to on a regular basis, especially when
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: they've hit you know, like in their forties, and they
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: start thinking, okay, like now what you know, I've given
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: all my.
• 44:48
  Speaker 10: Power, my.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Especially kids, my husband, my friends, chop. There's nothing left
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: for them. You know, they have nothing left for themselves.
• 45:02
  Speaker 10: So this is asking us to start taking back those
• 45:07
  Speaker 10: pieces for ourselves that we okay through story of Haisley.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Exactly and you.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: Know people, but oh my god, here the.
• 45:33
  Speaker 11: You So how are you getting because you're basically doing
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: this for the ground, how are you getting Sunday, How
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: are you getting to support?
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: How are you getting help with bringing this creation?
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Because this isn't something you can do on your own,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: great question.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: You need actors, you need singers, you need.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Musical, scorn, fashion, everything exactly exactly.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: I have as working on this right now and keeps
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: doing an absolutely fabulous for them for the actual you know,
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: music for the five song album and because we're starting
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: out with something manageable, that's really great. And as far
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: as the script, I have a dramatague, who I'm working with,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: who's helping me polish the actual script what they call
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: a book. As far as the actors and actresses, I'm
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: going to be putting out a call to the world
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: looking for the next Siberna Manzelle. I'm looking for. You know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Jonathan larsh And is one of my models. And what
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: he did is he's the one who did rent and
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: he found just random actors and actresses. Some of them
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: want to act. Maybe they could sing, but they could
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: an actor, or they could act but they couldn't sing.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: And he worked with them and they were so excited
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: about the project. They became sem like a family, and
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: then they took that to the next level. So to
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: answer your question, you know who's the major producer in
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: this God not even me. I'm just being everything's being
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: downloaded and right now it's essentially I'm assembling the team.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: I'm discovering new people. I'm putting the call out. If
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: you'll see on my website there's a place where if
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: you're a singer or a dancer, you can fill it
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: out send it to me. I want to know about you.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: You don't have to have but you could be in
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: your closet singing, and you might be the perfect person.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: I'm not looking for that person that has, you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: a million followers just because you've got followers. I'm looking
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: for the person who sees this vehicle and was like,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, this is what I've been looking for
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: my whole life. So to answer your question specifically, I'm
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: allowing you know, because I've worked with Universal and Disney people.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: The one thing I've learned is it said, if everybody's
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: going right, you go left.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Interesting. I like that if everybody's going right, you could laugh.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: What do you mean? Tell people what you mean by
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: that and why you're saying that.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, well, to do a usual Broadway show is
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: very regimented, and who knows, I might end up still
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: doing it. But an investor and producer comes in. They
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: spend seven to ten years work stopping the production. You know,
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: maybe they can make it a little bit faster. They
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: look for the right actors, they look for the right actresses.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: They they don't really know of a proof of concept,
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: and then they put it out and it may have
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: a run, it may not. But that's why a lot
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: of the producers go for things that they know are
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: going to work the old time things because they don't
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: want to take a risk, because that's what a lot
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: of money to take a risk with. What if, just
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: what if you have an album out there that just
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: touches people, just find song, Yeah, just five simple songs.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: But people get excited and they're like, I want to
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: know more. I want to see this, make it happen.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Guess what happens with the universe. The universe rearranges itself
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, you don't even know where
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: things they're coming from. And as far as me reaching
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: out to actors and actresses that are out there looking
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: for a vehicle, let's say that I find the next
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: Idina Menzelle and I guess what I'm trying to say
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: is this, Sometimes when a train is moving fast enough,
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: people want to jump on.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, Oh yeah, But.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: If you keep, if you park it at the station.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: And if I do the traditional by going to people
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: and saying please, now, does that mean that I don't
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: want help? No? Of course. If what I want help
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: with the album, you can pay. I'm making it like
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: you know, you decide the price. If you want to
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: give me five cents, if you want to give me
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: a penny that might be worth million dollars, that's cool.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: And if you want to give me fourteen million dollars
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: for that album, that's cool too. I'll take anything. But
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: it's like, let's just it's kind of an experiment in
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: letting go knowing that the storyline is needed, in seeing
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: how far it would you know, that will will take me.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: And because I'm having the album to be ready and
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: the the the script in the book that's going to
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: be ready, and because it's solid, it's really really good,
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: I mean really good, and because you know, my personal
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: favorite is Wicked, So that's that's what I'm aspiring to towards.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: And you know, as you can see with the cost
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: and and everything that I've created so far, Yeah, it's
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: kind of a little bit of a one woman show
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: at this particular point. But yeah, it's not. But that's
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: not you know, you believe in angels. I believe in angels.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: We believe in you know, all kinds of spiritual help.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: You know, I've got a team of millions.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And when something is meant to be born and
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: burst and created, like you said, the universe will align
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: itself up to make it happen, right, So I like that.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: You kind of are like, I'm open to however it's
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: meant to happen. Because you have the vision. You can
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: see it, you see it on Broadway. You know in
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: your mind's eye what it's going to look like. But
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: you're open to allowing how it's going to come in.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: And that's what's so wonderful about art and creativity is
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: because it does change. I mean, you know, I'm an artist,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: so I believe this wholeheartedly. Art does change the world.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: And if you don't believe it, go back in history
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: and look at some of the greatest artists and the
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: work they were making, especially during some of the most
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: craziest times in history, and what their art represented and
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: how it shifted well and how it shifted the mind
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: and how it shifted the energy of people.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's why I love it.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: It's totally heart centered, right, It's like it's divine power.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: You know. It's like if I told anybody who's listening
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: right now, okay, give me the creative idea, they'd be like, ohh.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: But then they go in the shower or take a
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: walk and all of a sudden, something drops in where
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: you may come from.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Exactly exactly where did it come from?
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: And we've got to get it out there. And you know,
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: like I the biggest thing I'm exploring right now, my
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: kind of like might drop moment maybe with our conversation
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: is the whole idea I've been examining, the whole idea
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: of failure versus regret, because nobody wants to fail. They
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: don't want to try because they don't want to fail.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: But with failure, imagine that you're put you're taking a seed,
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: you're putting it into the ground, and you're getting your
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: hands dirty, and you're learning things and it may not work,
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: but you might just get a surprise flower. But with regret,
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: you never put a seed in the ground and there's
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: no surprise flowers. So might I fail, Yeah, say time?
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: But one you know what I actually can never feel
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: because every single day I'm very conscious of trying my
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: very best to make a difference in the world any
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: which way I can. I'm with you today hoping that
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: I can touch somebody's heart and inspire them. So you know,
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: there's no way, there's no wood for failure. And whatever
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: I can't finish, God will.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I so agree with you. And I am on
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: the thought if you got the there's a reason the
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: idea was given to you, or it was meant to
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: be born, or you wouldn't get it right, it just
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: wouldn't come. So yeah, So if there's something, if anybody
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: can take anything from today's show, if you have some
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: creative idea inside of you, listen to Debra's energy and
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: you are meant to bring birth that into the world,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: or you wouldn't have gotten it, just like like Devra
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: has burst this into the world. And tell people how
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: they can support you, because if anybody wants to reach
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: out to you and how they can support you, if
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: they want to.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Be a part of it.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, As I said, I'm looking for actors and singers
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: and dancers and any creatives that are out there that
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: are looking for a vehicle like this that they want
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: to be involved with. I don't have a budget. I'm
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: going to be really honest, but I got all part
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: and I think that all the money's going to fly
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: in as far as as far as the other piece
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: to this. I am going to be having a listening
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: party for the five songs coming up soon and that's
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: going to be online and it should be so much
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: fun and everybody's incited.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, great.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: And so people can go to Paisley's Fashionforest dot com
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: to reach out to you.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: That's the best place.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's part best place to reach out to me.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: Or if they go to my Instagram at Deborah dot weed,
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: Deborah Okay dot weed, that's another great place they can
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: DM me or a Facebook, any anything you can DM me,
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: you can go on to my website. I respond to everybody.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Deborah. It was so fun having
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: this conversation with you today. All right, everybody, thanks for
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: listening to Postcards to the Universe with Melissa creating the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: life you crave. And I'm wishing everyone a wonderful week
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: filled with joy, abundance and love.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Peace,