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What Happened After Her Grandfather Said, "Nothing Is Impossible" · Groove with Portia

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Group Porsche, the podcast that uncovers the hidden
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  Speaker 1: treasures within grief. I'm your host, Porsche the Producer, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm inviting you to join me on a transformative journey
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  Speaker 1: where we were exchange laughter, of course the best medicine
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  Speaker 1: of them all, reflect on cherish memories, Remember that time
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  Speaker 1: that the little boy grabbed my hand instead of his
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  Speaker 1: gratitude while navigating one of the life's hardest challenges lost.
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  Speaker 1: So get ready to gree with me, Porsche the Producer,
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  Speaker 1: let's dive in. Hello everybody, and welcome back to Groo
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  Speaker 1: with Porsche. I am your host, Porsche Booker, and as always,
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  Speaker 1: with all things grew with Porsche. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I carry with me from my great grandmother, the
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  Speaker 1: you who know I've talked about her many times, is
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  Speaker 1: she always said a phrase may wonders never cease. And
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  Speaker 1: I always thought that phrase was so unique because my
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  Speaker 1: great grandmother just had this wisdom about her, just something different. Well,
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  Speaker 1: come to find out she borrowed that quote from the
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  Speaker 1: book The Game of Life.
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  Speaker 2: By Florence Scobelshin. But I remember that quote because I
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  Speaker 2: think about how life is.
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  Speaker 1: How she took that quote, passed it down to me,
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  Speaker 1: but she carried it from a book that she was
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  Speaker 1: fascinated by, right, And I think that's the beauty about
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  Speaker 1: people who have come into our life. They leave imprints
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  Speaker 1: on us that we carry with us, whether it's through
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  Speaker 1: a business endeavor, through something creative. We are a collective
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  Speaker 1: of imprints of all the people who we've encountered throughout
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  Speaker 1: our lifetime. Let that sink in. So today I'm joined
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  Speaker 1: by an individual today who is no stranger to also
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  Speaker 1: something similar. She is the founder of Kiko and Gigi,
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  Speaker 1: which is a sustainable toy brand that was inspired by
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  Speaker 1: her late grandfather. So welcome to grow with Porsche, Miss Haz,
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  Speaker 1: Shaomi Kaz, how are you today?
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  Speaker 3: Hello Portia, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm awesome? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: It's an honor, It's an honor to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the show. I look forward to I look forward to obviously,
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  Speaker 1: let's dive in. Kaz, as I mentioned, very similar to me.
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  Speaker 1: My great grandmother was a big inspiration in my life,
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  Speaker 1: and for you, it was your grandfather who inspired your
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  Speaker 1: sustainable toy brand. Can you share with our audience, Kaz,
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  Speaker 1: who your grandfather was and what you want people to
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  Speaker 1: remember about him outside of the beautiful craftsmanship that you've
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  Speaker 1: created in his honor.
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  Speaker 3: My grandpa was a carpenter. You know what I make
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  Speaker 3: wooden toys. I think my grandpa is telling me to
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  Speaker 3: tell kids in these days is to play with wooden
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  Speaker 3: toys because I see all the digital toys. But I
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  Speaker 3: think wooden toys are very sustainable and very important, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I also think, you know, create creativity is the
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  Speaker 3: things that my grandpa told me. Yeah, creative person, you know, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I always learned that creativity never happens in
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  Speaker 3: a vacuum, you know, always with people with many ideas,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So I think this kind of thing is
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  Speaker 3: the things that my grandpa told me. Made my doll house.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had this little doll and I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to make. I wanted him to make my doll house
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  Speaker 3: in a you know, I had an idea about the
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  Speaker 3: size of the dollhouse, and he made everything happen. He
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  Speaker 3: always said like nothing is impossible, so he made everything possible.
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  Speaker 3: So I really respect my grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is impossible, and I love that, Casin. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing with us about him and his vision and
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  Speaker 1: the importance of giving kids the opportunity to create from
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  Speaker 1: their own mind.
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  Speaker 2: Right where, I hate to say, it.
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  Speaker 1: Stuck and glued to technology more so today than obviously
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  Speaker 1: when we were coming up. Right, I didn't get my
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  Speaker 1: first cell phone until I was fifteen. I was a
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  Speaker 1: sophomore in high school. Right, and I had a razor phone.
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  Speaker 1: The Internet wasn't the same way that it is on
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  Speaker 1: our smartphones today. And remember we had to use the
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  Speaker 1: number one number two.
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  Speaker 2: To text yes.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and you brought up about sustain ability and giving
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  Speaker 1: kids the opportunity to use their hands to touch things
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  Speaker 1: to build their motor skills outside of a smartphone. And
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  Speaker 1: I can see behind you you have a boombox, which
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  Speaker 1: is one of your your many creations. I'm curious, Cass
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  Speaker 1: for our audience because a boombox, a rotary phone, these
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  Speaker 1: are things we grew up with me and you where
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  Speaker 1: this generation they may see it in movies if they
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  Speaker 1: watch classic movies. They may see it in a commercial,
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  Speaker 1: but they've never had the opportunity to play with it,
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  Speaker 1: mess with it the way we did. So for our audience, Caz,
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  Speaker 1: what was that inspiration to sustain these pieces of early
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  Speaker 1: technology for young people?
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  Speaker 3: Because these are so awesome, but you know people kids
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  Speaker 3: nowadays don't know about it. So I thought maybe my
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  Speaker 3: grandpa was telling me to till kids nowadays to know
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  Speaker 3: that this is from a long time ago ate it,
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  Speaker 3: but they don't know how to play with it. But
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  Speaker 3: this story has a function, so kids can learn the
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  Speaker 3: function and appreciate this kind of function. So do you
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  Speaker 3: understand what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you look at a boombox, right, you have
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  Speaker 1: multiple You got the play button, the stop record. They
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  Speaker 1: come with a radio, whether it's AM FM, some of
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  Speaker 1: them have a cassette player obviously, you know, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of kids they may see a concept, but remember
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  Speaker 1: we had to rewind them, right if the boom box
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  Speaker 1: wasn't doing itself, we had to take what is it
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  Speaker 1: a pen and do it in the middle to really
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  Speaker 1: rewind it. And I know you also have a camera too,
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  Speaker 1: an SLR camera where that also takes some arithmetic to learn.
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  Speaker 2: The shutter speed. The f stops loading in film today
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  Speaker 2: and I mean film has gotten expensive. It's not you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like it used to be exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So what I wanted to do is I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: design toys. But I don't just design toys. I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to design more like moments of the joy for people,
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  Speaker 3: and this kind of thing I wanted to create for
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  Speaker 3: the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Well in their parents too, Cats. I think about the
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  Speaker 1: kids and their parents who remember how a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these early technology pieces came into existence. They might have
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  Speaker 1: had a father who took a black and white photograph
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  Speaker 1: f class in high school or middle school, and right,
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  Speaker 1: and now their kid kind of gets to play with
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  Speaker 1: something that's a replica made out of wood where they're
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  Speaker 1: not damaging. You know, some of those old fashioned cameras
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  Speaker 1: that you know are pricey to replace certain pieces. So
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  Speaker 1: possibly when they reach a certain age, Cas, I think
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  Speaker 1: there's this You you mentioned that creativity doesn't stand a vacuum, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think that curiosity well gets opened up
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  Speaker 1: when kids become a certain age, asking well, you know, mom, dad,
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  Speaker 1: what is this this is? You know, I can see
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  Speaker 1: a wooden version of this, but where what was the
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  Speaker 1: inspiration behind the original.
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  Speaker 3: About making these kind of wooden toys?
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm saying just in general, where kids can
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  Speaker 1: have that dialogue with their parents about these early technology pieces. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you'res a man out of wood where they're not breaking
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  Speaker 1: your original they get to play with it. But then
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  Speaker 1: also as they're getting older, they can ask their parents, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's do a Google search of what this original camera
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  Speaker 1: or the boom box look like. And you know YouTube
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  Speaker 1: has everything these days, right.
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  Speaker 3: And AI can teach them everything. But actually, my other
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  Speaker 3: toys are like, you know, if you see our toys,
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  Speaker 3: you feel, oh, nostalgic. Kids for example, ten year old
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  Speaker 3: kid see our toys, they see like, man, what's this?
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  Speaker 2: What's this?
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  Speaker 3: But they know this is telephone. I don't know why,
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  Speaker 3: but when I design telephone, I asked my friends five
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  Speaker 3: years old, four years old, three and two to see,
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  Speaker 3: do you know what's this? And they said it means
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  Speaker 3: hello in Japanese. Yeah, they all understood what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe from the movie or the trauma or animation, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think this is important. Now people use cell phone,
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  Speaker 3: but they should appreciate how this cell phone is from
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  Speaker 3: the original is the telephone?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I thought this is cool and it can be a
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  Speaker 3: tool of the communication of kid and mom and dad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah about it. Tell I'm curious when you created.
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  Speaker 1: Kiko and Gigi and the sustainable designs that you have,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel that keeps you connected to your grandfather?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, yes, I think my grandpa is looking after me
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  Speaker 3: still in heaven. He's cheering me up always, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when I'm down, when I'm sad, he's always there helping me.
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  Speaker 3: But also I think joy and the anger and the sadness,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sadness and the happiness all play role important role.
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  Speaker 3: I think without feeling sad angry things like this, I
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  Speaker 3: cannot make. I cannot be creative. To be creative, it's important,
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you said it beautifully Kas in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning that creativity doesn't come in a vacuum. No, you
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  Speaker 1: need to experience, right, the anger, the frustration, the sadness,
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  Speaker 1: the joy right, and when you experience that loss of somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you have all of those right, regardless of what age
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  Speaker 1: you are. Regardless of how the person I call it
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  Speaker 1: transition made their transition from this physical world to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you call it, You're gonna wonder where they are.
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  Speaker 2: Do they still love me? Can I still stay connected
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  Speaker 2: to them?
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  Speaker 1: And I love how you have taken something that was
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  Speaker 1: your grandfather's craft and continue to honor his legacy by
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  Speaker 1: also educating the new generation about some of these early
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  Speaker 1: inventions that have changed our world today. I mean, now
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  Speaker 1: we can look at me and you, we're talking virtually,
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  Speaker 1: we're not even in the same room.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, having a communication like this with using technology,
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  Speaker 3: so we sent apro appreciate the technology, but we should
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  Speaker 3: also appreciate the analogue mm hmm way of communication as
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  Speaker 3: well writing writing letters to each other. This is also
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  Speaker 3: nostalgic with love. You know, as me as can't sew me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm writing a book about me, so as
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  Speaker 3: can show me. Everything begins with l or the.
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  Speaker 2: Kat.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that share with our audience. So you're working
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  Speaker 1: on a book about you. When can our audience expect
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  Speaker 1: the book? Can you give us a little teaser of
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  Speaker 1: maybe the title of the book. Is it inspired by
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  Speaker 1: Kiko and Gig? Tell our audience about your upcoming book,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but my book is going to be published in
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  Speaker 3: Japan only, okay now, but I hope it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be translated in English so you can also read it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm writing about my creativity, my passion my grandpa
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  Speaker 3: as well. So I hope it's going to be translated
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  Speaker 3: into English so you can read.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and can you share with us?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a title yet for acast or is
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  Speaker 1: that kind of still in the works of the book.
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  Speaker 3: I do know the title. Okay, I just found out
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  Speaker 3: about the title. I'm working on a graphic now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: My assistant, my friend, now she's working on it. Okay, yes,
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  Speaker 3: so still secret.
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  Speaker 1: Still secret. Okay, let me ask this. Will the book
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  Speaker 1: have some wooden elements to it?
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  Speaker 2: Just out of curiosity?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, so we can We can expect the
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  Speaker 1: book sometime this year or probably next year, in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, actually.
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  Speaker 3: End of July.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, coming soon, come soon? All right.
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  Speaker 1: So cas for our audience who's tuning in, if they
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  Speaker 1: obviously want to connect with you, get some of your
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  Speaker 1: amazing sustainable designs from Keiko and GG. How can our
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  Speaker 1: audience connect with you, whether through a website or your
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  Speaker 1: social media platforms.
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  Speaker 3: You can take our Instagram. We have Instagram, kicko and gg.
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  Speaker 3: You can start kicko and GG. Yeah, and if you
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  Speaker 3: like me, you can also follow me as cats chiom.
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  Speaker 1: Me okay, so, Kiko and GG on Instagram and also
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  Speaker 1: cash Yomy. You can also visit them online and also
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  Speaker 1: we can utilize AI if you forget, and we'll also
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  Speaker 1: put Kaz's contact information in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: Pas. This has been a beautiful conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you so much for sharing the legacy your grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: your beautiful sustainable designs made out of wood, preserving the
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  Speaker 1: history of where our technology started to where we are today,
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  Speaker 1: and also reminding us the importance of creativity not being
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  Speaker 1: in a vacuum.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly for.
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  Speaker 1: Our audience today, Kaz, if there's somebody out there who
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  Speaker 1: wants to start or find their creative spark again, where
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  Speaker 1: can they start? Where do you recommend they start today?
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  Speaker 3: In their heart? They can start from where they love
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's fair because so many of us look
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  Speaker 1: externally right for answers for inspiration, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times the answer is closer than what we realize. Right
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  Speaker 1: in here, everything starts from the heart, and you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you do is from a place of love.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly so for me as Cane, everything begins with love.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I absolutely love that. Cast Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much today to our audience. That was cass Yo
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  Speaker 1: me that you heard from today on grew with Portia,
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  Speaker 1: and that concludes our conversation and until next time, everybody
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  Speaker 1: peace and agrees everyone, Thank you,