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Season 4 - Episode 316 - Our connection with Nature · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happened to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here every day.
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  To record a podcast to. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  It is cold and that has and it's going to get colder over the
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  next couple days. And I mean it's going to go into
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  a real like we're going to be 19°.
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  I think it's tomorrow night or into Monday night maybe.
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  And it has really made me think about again about how nature is
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  so tied to us. So this morning I'm getting
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  ready to go out and swap out the girls coop.
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  I do. I can get a couple of maybe an
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  extra week, week and a half. I swap out every couple of
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  weeks. I go out and I take out all the
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  straw that's in their coop and I move that out into the front of
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  the coop and around the coop and it breaks down and it actually
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  makes amazing dirt to plant in. So as that straw breaks down and
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  it gets into the ground and the girls are constantly digging in
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  it, it kind of turns into this most fertile, insane, beautiful
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  dirt that you've ever seen. And so I love using it.
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  And I keep putting layer upon layer upon layer.
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  And every couple weeks I take all the stir out of their coop.
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  I wipe it all down inside. I make sure I see if there's
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  anything. So if there's anything
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  happening, I catch it right at the beginning because chickens
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  are, you know, very vulnerable and especially to all the
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  environmental stuff that they can get into and their
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  respiratory systems are very delicate.
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  So I like to make sure everything it's clean.
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  But now why am I bringing this up?
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  Because today it's kind of it's, it's not cold, but it's chilly.
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  And I have, I'm today is a day I'm going to go out and I'm
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  going to swap out the coop this morning.
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  And I recognize I was like, oh, I got to hurry up and do this
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  before it gets really, really cold.
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  And I, I come back to the same thing over and over again.
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  We as human beings sometimes don't recognize how tied to
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  nature we are. We like to think, oh, I'm not a
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  nature girl. I've had people tell me this
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  many, many times. However, if you pay attention to
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  the weather, you're tied to nature.
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  If you sit there and you think about, OK, well, when is it
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  going to rain? How am I going to do this?
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  You're tied to nature. We have so many things that we
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  revolve around, like many parts of this country right now.
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  And I know I have listeners from all over the place, but in the
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  United States, many parts right now are brutally cold.
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  People don't even want to leave their house.
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  I have clients in Alaska and I, I know they're used to going out
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  in this stuff, but it's cold. Or in, in Michigan, Oh my gosh,
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  it's really, really cold and they don't want to leave.
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  So here we are getting into this in the South and it's like, oh,
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  now you know it's going to be nobody wanting to go out and
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  we're really ill equipped for it.
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  The other day I couldn't let my son drive because he has a
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  learner's permit to work in the morning because we had frozen
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  fog. My friends, I've never had that.
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  I grew up up north and I've never even heard of frozen fog.
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  Didn't even know it was a thing that could happen.
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  But Yep, fog can freeze and boom, We had accident after
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  accident. It turned out that there was
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  about a six hour traffic jam from one side of our county,
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  city, whatever you want to call it to the other.
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  And that is a massive area. It was huge.
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  And everywhere we went, I was with my daughter.
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  I could not believe the traffic we were in.
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  And of course you're using Waze and you're trying to get around
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  it. But all of that came from
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  nature. So when nature has its its
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  moments, and it always does, it's going to cause us to change
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  our approach as humans, what we wear, what we eat.
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  Have you ever noticed the other day it was cold?
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  I said I'd love to have some like really cozy food and ended
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  up with shepherds pie because Oh my God, that's cozy food.
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  But do you realize how tied to nature we are?
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  And here's what's funny. This helicopter that's flying
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  over right now is coming over and checking to see if the power
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  lines that run down the center of this, the island that I live
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  on, are OK. And they do this regularly,
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  especially when the weather is happening.
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  So I'm telling you, we are tied to nature more than we think.
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  And there's a reason that I'm bringing this up because embrace
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  that. Get out into it.
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  Because I promise you, you feel so much better when you
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  acknowledge it. Oh no, I guess I am tied to
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  nature in a way. I guess there are things about
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  this that I should pay attention to.
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  And when you do, you end up feeling so much lighter.
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  You end up feeling so good. I can tell you the moment I go
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  out for a walk in nature, the moment I start to just feel that
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  like dirt beneath my feet, I go, OK, the decompression starts.
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  So you are tied to nature. Now go figure out your link
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  because it's not going to be the same as mine, but figure it out
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  and allow yourself to have some breathing space.
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  I'm going to tell you this morning's going to be
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  interesting because the, the cool air is going to make it
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  feel so good out doing a job that takes a while.
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  And I, I, I love giving them a clean space and I'm going to
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  decorate it for Christmas. So anyway, I hope you guys have
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  a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.