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Personal sexy zoom voice

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yeah no i'm telling you you definitely should

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look into voiceover acting i need

0:09

to connect to our listeners yeah dirty skittles needs a connection to voiceover

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acting the perfect way to get out of her shitty job i need like uh like one-liners

0:25

to read like audition this is my auditioning tape,

0:30

Can we just pull a line out of one of your spicy books?

0:35

Somebody else would have to pull the line. Because if you give it to me,

0:38

I immediately want the most horrible.

0:41

Like, you know, not horrible. That's good, depending on if you like that sort of thing.

0:49

This morning, this season is not PG. So yeah, yesterday I realized that I need an assistant.

0:56

So we had some scheduling conflicts. and

1:00

this all came about during my day job right

1:03

where i also had some conflicts going on and

1:06

both of them yeah both of them

1:09

needed my attention like right away so i

1:12

had to flip a coin and figure out which one i

1:15

was going to work on at that very moment

1:18

i realized that i need an assistant somebody that

1:21

can handle that stuff during the day when i can't really

1:24

get to it because i still work right i i have

1:27

a day job but like stuff with a podcast is

1:30

also important especially now because we have

1:33

zero spots left for 2024 like zero

1:37

yeah how crazy is that and it's may and it's may and like how the fuck this

1:43

happened is beyond me but i think the other cool thing that happened this week

1:47

too is that we hit 400 000 downloads and incredibly humbling excuse me while

1:53

i have a panic attack. I'm just kidding.

1:56

I literally, you know what? I'm in a healthy state of delusion.

2:01

I'm like, nobody's listening. Although I was talking to a coworker.

2:07

We won't say her name there, but I'm pretty sure she probably reached out and told you the story.

2:11

Talking to a coworker and I've literally, this is how I blacked out shit that makes me nervous.

2:17

But I swore she said she was somewhere listening to it.

2:21

And just a complete stranger was like, oh my God, I love that podcast.

2:26

And she told me that and I was like, oh, I gotta go. It's like Microsoft Teams

2:31

just did something wrong. Hang up. Oh, it fucked me up for the day. I know it fucked you up, but like,

2:41

does it fuck you up like in a humbling way or?

2:45

I think you and I have briefly talked about this, probably not while we're recording,

2:49

where it's like, it's one thing.

2:51

Okay, this is completely a me, you thing. it's one

2:55

thing for me to encourage your story

2:58

right like I'm like this is important she's got a lot

3:01

to say like this is wonderful blah blah blah and like I'm like yes do

3:04

it girl do it like I'm cheering you on but then

3:07

when you hear from other people that hey someone

3:10

so really likes your podcast or a complete stranger is like hey that

3:13

podcast is great I'm like oh yeah people

3:17

are actually listening I'm like this is actually helping somebody

3:20

and it freaks me out freaks me

3:23

out because I'm like oh yeah like I become very self-aware

3:27

like what am I saying like what am I putting out there people listening

3:30

like it's kind of trippy and that's kind of like why I

3:33

don't tell you anymore when a new article goes out or like she can't or anything

3:38

like that because I'm afraid to poke the bear that will go into a full-on panic

3:42

attack so what I do is I just put them into like bundles and then I like send

3:48

you a text I'm like hey listen we got like three new articles can you

3:52

go read these yeah after you've

3:55

maybe taken a gummy right shit maybe

3:58

not so that i might get more into my head who knows we'll have to test it out

4:02

do you let's do a quick intro and then we can dig in you ready let's go i'm

4:09

gonna do the intro because i am all in and you're ready you should just roll

4:13

today bro i'm just here okay i don't know what i'm doing.

4:16

Music.

4:33

Three two one one welcome

4:37

back to another episode of shit that goes on our

4:40

heads today it's just dirty skittles and i and we

4:43

are going to recap season six how the fuck did that happen i don't know i honestly

4:50

i don't know it was just yesterday we recorded the very first one that we never

4:57

aired remember right we recorded it we listened to it back and you were like no i needed a mic,

5:04

you're like i need a mic let's try that again and then

5:07

we tried to recreate it and it just wasn't the same it wasn't

5:10

and this i think we laughed a bunch and this

5:13

was all started because of some fucked up story you and i were telling each

5:17

other like hey we should record a podcast okay a month later we dropped our

5:22

first episode and now we're in season six and we're all the way up to almost 70 episodes. I know.

5:31

That's fucking crazy. It's fucking crazy. But I love it. And I love our Saturdays together.

5:38

And I love meeting all these new amazing guests.

5:41

Yeah. And the whole...

5:45

Sorry to interrupt. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say

5:49

just how grateful and how cool it is that people are like, we want to record with y'all.

5:56

Yeah. And like, people are willing to wait. We are completely booked for 2024.

6:03

It's crazy. It's wild. And every day, I get at least four emails of people that

6:10

want to get on the podcast. So starting mid-July, we are going to stop doing pre-recordings because we will

6:19

have enough content to take us into February.

6:21

But i will start the recordings again sometime in late october and because there

6:29

are people waiting to to talk to us and i'm like we're a little booked right

6:33

now but we still want to talk to you,

6:37

and you can sign up for the newsletter to kind of see where we're at what's

6:42

going on in our lives and over the last couple weeks i've had about 10 new subscribers

6:46

to our newsletter wow Oh, that's really cool.

6:52

How does it feel for you? Because this was not only just like a joke amongst

6:57

friends, but you for sure came out of a dark place.

7:03

You're much better now and you're sharing your story.

7:07

So like, how does this feel for you? It's very surreal.

7:11

So surreal. And like never in a million fucking years than I think that I would

7:18

be doing a podcast, let alone sharing my story.

7:22

But it's so fucking healing for me.

7:26

I'm so thankful to be alive. Every single day, I'm so thankful to be here and

7:32

to be inspiring and to get other people to share their journeys and make people

7:37

feel less terrified about their own shit they're going through because it's

7:41

scary. Depression sucks. And I think, well, I know that we're making a difference.

7:47

Like your story, right? Somebody said that they love our podcast.

7:52

A complete stranger, you know, because when we started this,

7:55

it was just friends and family. And now we have best-selling authors we have

8:00

morning show hosts we have you know

8:03

people from all walks of life and the

8:07

fact that we ended up having to get a pr firm because i just couldn't do all

8:12

this shit myself i mean i tried i did really good for almost a year you did

8:17

so good not really good i think we are here because of your effort and the work that you put in i love

8:25

doing this like when recording saturday comes

8:28

up i get so excited i went to bed at 10

8:31

o'clock last night i never go to bed just so you're

8:34

fresh and ready to go

8:36

and you know i get to do this with my best friend and not everybody gets to

8:43

do this and you know people say to me all the time that we just really land

8:48

well and that you know you ask those really hard questions and And then I come

8:54

back sometimes with a snarky answer. Maybe not, but it's so healing.

8:58

And when I'm done recording on Saturdays, like I'm at an 11 because I just feel

9:06

like I've learned something new,

9:08

a new tip, a new technique and how people got out of some of the darkest places

9:14

in their life to get to someplace better.

9:17

And you know i just want to give people hope because life

9:21

really is better on the other side of depression yeah i

9:25

know and there you go gonna make

9:28

me cry again because i feel oh my gosh what are we

9:32

in what 10 minutes in yeah you're i

9:34

got a little tear in my eye because of you but yeah i

9:38

you know i want to give a shout out to our family because we

9:42

you know we spend a lot lot of time on the

9:45

podcast i took away some of the responsibilities from dirty

9:48

skills so she can you know spend time with her son

9:51

and work at her not so

9:53

fantastic job but i love it and you know i'm in a point in my life where i get

10:00

to not only work at my dream job like i get to follow my passion also and it's

10:06

funny my wife lisa the lesbian she's like i've never seen you work so hard on

10:11

something you don't get paid for. And, you know, that truly has been our mission since day one is that, you know.

10:19

I am so passionate about this and we're both really good at this.

10:24

Not to, you know, throw an ego blast out there, but we're really good.

10:28

And we bring out like, we bring out like the best in all of our guests.

10:34

And, you know, Heather reached out to me the other day and she's like,

10:38

I listened to Jackie's episode.

10:41

I was just, I loved it. and every episode

10:44

that we have they all have something awesome

10:47

to say about what we're doing and how we're helping other

10:50

people so yeah dr jackie

10:54

dr jackie she was awesome so cool

10:58

for me because i remember literally like

11:01

yesterday i'm up in our kitchen and i'm

11:04

reading up on the guests so that i can kind

11:07

of you know not necessarily plan out the questions but like know

11:10

what direction to go into and i remember reading about dr

11:13

jackie and thinking whoa this is

11:17

there's a lot here right like her story

11:21

her history i never in

11:24

a million years would think that i would have the opportunity to talk to somebody

11:27

like that it was just intense and but awesome and that's the awesome part about

11:33

this it's like think about all those amazing people we've gotten to speak with

11:38

that in our normal day-to-day life,

11:41

we probably would never run into.

11:44

Right. That to me is like the coolest part of our podcast.

11:48

And I think what's really cool, not necessarily just about Dr.

11:51

Jackie, but I remember in that episode, I'm learning, I'm seeing,

11:56

like we get to see the people for who they are today, right?

11:59

And then we get to hear about how, what their past was like.

12:03

And so even such a, I mean, I would say intense pass for her parents and look at her now.

12:11

She's so put together and she's not a victim of whatever happened, right?

12:18

Like she is this beautiful, wonderful person.

12:21

I just think that's so cool because it's not just her. It's like every guest

12:24

we see and we get to talk to. We get like, almost like a, what do I want to say? Like we're going back to the future, right?

12:31

Like, we see you today, but we're going back and learning your story. Like, it's crazy.

12:36

And that, to me, is really cool.

12:38

And getting a sense of everything that they've been through and teaching us new lessons.

12:46

I really depend on you to write stuff down because when I'm recording,

12:51

I'm in the moment and I can't do two things at once. I've tried.

12:55

I'm 60 now. It's a lot harder to do at 16 and

12:59

it probably was at like 45 i've got like

13:02

blinders on i'm like i just need to focus on this

13:04

one task i think i

13:07

have a little bit of late stage adhd i'm not sure like i'll be working on podcast

13:14

stuff and then i'll remember that there was something else that you know at

13:16

least the lesbian asked me to do and i'm like oh just gotta go on hold at least

13:22

you remember that she She asked you to do something. Only because I wrote it down.

13:28

Okay, well, can you write and stuff down? I use my phone, so I text myself a

13:32

message of stuff that I'm supposed to do. Otherwise, I forget.

13:36

So besides Dr. Jackie, we also had Barb. Barb and Carmel.

13:41

Love Barb and Carmel. I'm so proud of her.

13:46

She's been winning a bunch of literary awards for her books.

13:50

And really getting out there and showing people that therapy animals are so

13:57

important. Not just for kids, but for adults, you know, people in senior homes,

14:02

you know, they're just, pets are comforting.

14:05

And as much as my eight asshole cats, you know, are little assholes, I still love them.

14:11

And like when I'm around them, I feel they give me a sense of calm.

14:16

And I will say something about Dr. Barb. She comments on every single post we put on Instagram.

14:24

Every single post. she's like our biggest

14:27

cheerleader i love that so quick uh side

14:30

mission eight cats eight tell the

14:33

listeners who your favorite cat is okay don't

14:36

say you can't pick don't say so my favorite is

14:39

momo she is our blind cat and she

14:42

is the most resilient cat ever she's

14:45

cute she can't see anything she uses

14:49

her senses to get around and she's just

14:52

soft so soft but i try not

14:55

to pet her because that girl so the

14:58

reason she smells like dryer sheets all the time is

15:01

because she likes to roll around in the fucking litter box okay

15:04

listen girl go clean your shit okay

15:07

don't roll on me let me go

15:10

take eight thousands or ten d when i'm

15:13

done petting you please oh so that's

15:16

like torture a soft animal you can't pet she's resilient

15:22

and so are you maybe i'll just get a stuff

15:25

version of her like mobo i was sorry side mission we're back i was thinking

15:31

of barbie the other day because my son is learning math he loves math by the

15:37

way completely unlike his mom so i'm like yes let's encourage this but we were

15:41

trying to work through a math problem and we.

15:45

Have a dog and he came

15:48

over his name is mayor he was

15:52

named mayor because isle is obsessed with john mayor

15:55

shout out to john mayor i'm not

15:58

obsessed with you but other people are anyhow so we're

16:00

were trying to teach him math using mayor and

16:03

it was like he couldn't be more focused and

16:07

i remember that being one of the things that barb talked about in her episode

16:10

and i just was like oh i i thought it was cool that i can think back on on her

16:15

yeah in my life yeah like she was she's so passionate about the therapy animal program and.

16:25

Just really out there and she's an educator too herself and

16:28

just you know bringing all that together so that

16:32

people have a better understanding of how the process

16:35

works how it can really help children especially you know i think she said it

16:40

was like second graders you know helping them ease their fears and their tensions

16:46

and anxiety and just getting into the moment and so i really love

16:52

that and then we had bob the episode

16:56

where you and i laughed so hard our face hurt after and then we had to like

17:03

record like two more sessions after that i have never had a deeper conversation

17:09

about crickets in my entire life versions.

17:14

You know what though bizzle i think

17:16

finally listened to it to that episode because at

17:20

night like two or three nights ago he

17:23

kept laughing about crooked legs being stuck

17:26

in your teeth he had a couple of gummies but he

17:29

couldn't stop laughing and i'm like where is this coming

17:32

from then i remember bob and i

17:35

i love that you know he was able to overcome some of

17:38

his aversions so that you know he could have kids and you know i don't think

17:43

that's why but so that he could have kids so that he could have kids and so

17:47

that he could like enjoy life and you know it just as an adult you know life

17:52

sucks anyway but having those fears and those aversions and.

17:58

And just making it through. And I really think that laughter is one of his coping

18:02

mechanisms because I have never laughed so hard for an entire hour.

18:08

I mean, I've laughed with you, but I had tears rolling down my eyes,

18:13

down my cheeks, because he would not stop.

18:17

It was just like, I'm like, I'm going to die of laughter.

18:21

Literally. Yeah. I remember texting you after that one saying my face hurts

18:26

just from smiling through that whole episode and laughing through the whole

18:30

thing. Yeah, he was, it was wonderful. It was wonderful. And I like that, like, I could relate to his story, right?

18:38

Like, sometimes we think that, yeah, maybe there's something weird about this,

18:44

but you don't really know, right? Like, you don't know. And then when somebody points it out, you're like,

18:48

oh, yeah, I guess maybe that's not normal.

18:52

And I can relate to that. Maybe what I'm saying is a bad thing.

18:57

I don't know. Let me go back and research this. Oh, wait, I don't have any time.

19:01

That's why I need an assistant. Okay, I hear you. I need an assistant. So this could be my audition tape for

19:09

voice acting in your intro or job posting for an assistant.

19:14

For an assistant. We don't pay much because, as I said, we don't really have

19:18

a lot of sponsors except for Thanksicles, which... Thanksicles.

19:23

Which Dirty Skittles laughed about.

19:26

Yeah, I heard it on Spotify. I was like, dang, Sickles, this sounds like G-Rex.

19:32

Oh my God, I'm losing it today. Sorry, I needed a Red Bull break. And then we had Chokes.

19:38

Man, being diagnosed late in life with bipolar and having to go through all that craziness.

19:47

But I'm so proud of him for, you know, finding shit that works for him.

19:52

Meditation and, you know, watching his meds and, you know, looking for the signs

19:58

because not everybody does that, you know, those are on that spectrum,

20:03

bipolar disorder, right? Yeah, I think my biggest takeaway, way. Well, there was a bit of a self-reflective

20:09

moment because I remember in that episode, not really knowing what I could ask, right?

20:15

Like I had so many questions, my brain just naturally, I want to know all of

20:19

the things about everything. And I think I sometimes don't have a filter on what's appropriate to ask or not.

20:25

And so in that episode, I remember us recording and I'm kind of,

20:28

I was freezing mentally because I didn't know if all of my questions are necessarily

20:33

appropriate and I didn't want to offend him. Right.

20:37

I just, I'm so curious because I can't relate.

20:40

Right. So I'm like trying to like, oh my gosh, tell me more.

20:43

But my biggest takeaway on that episode was despite how difficult it may be

20:48

for someone taking the right steps to not only sure,

20:54

you know, get your therapy or your psychiatrist or whatever you need,

20:58

but like Like him learning his triggers and things that he needed to steer away from.

21:04

Yeah. It was huge. Kudos to him because, you know, he's working through it and, you know.

21:11

And I'm just, I'm really proud of him for, you know, sharing his story because

21:15

I'm, I can only imagine how difficult that was for him.

21:19

Right. Yeah. I can't even, I can't even put myself there. Like,

21:24

I'm like, wow, that's so admirable.

21:27

Right. Yeah. And it's proof that there is life after or through things.

21:33

I shouldn't say after, I'm saying constantly kind of working through it,

21:36

but there is life through that. And, you know, even he said,

21:39

you know, sharing his journey is therapy for him too, right?

21:42

Because he really wants to get the message out there and let people know that

21:46

there's tools and tips and tricks to get you through day to day.

21:50

And, you know, sharing our stories is so vitally important, especially these

21:58

days. Mental health is a huge topic.

22:00

And the more we get out there, the more people we're helping.

22:05

Yeah. We talked about Dr. Jack. we did talk about Dr.

22:08

Jackie and then we had Justin and oh my god I loved it loved him I would like

22:15

to revisit with him in the future yeah me too 2025 at this point because 2024 is completely booked,

22:25

I was inspired by his story because he didn't let his.

22:30

His upbringing take him down he bettered himself and he's He's out there helping others, right?

22:37

And helping the homeless and, you know, creating his nonprofit and,

22:42

you know, just living life and making a difference and, you know, realizing that.

22:49

You know, sometimes life is not all roses, but it's what you do with that,

22:54

what you do with that energy and that passion and facing those fears.

22:59

Like some of the stuff he talked about, like jumping out of an airplane,

23:02

fuck no, still never gonna happen. Yeah, but he was so genuine.

23:07

Like I remember sitting there and like it was very clear he was genuine.

23:12

He was unapologetically himself and he was just vulnerable.

23:16

That's what it was. He wasn't afraid to be vulnerable. And I just admire that so much about him.

23:22

And I think that the common thing that I've seen from season to season is that

23:27

when people are sitting in front of a microphone versus face-to-face,

23:32

they are way more vulnerable and way more willing to share more of themselves

23:37

than they would with somebody probably in a face-to-face conversation.

23:41

And I think that's why this medium is so important, right?

23:45

Because we give people an outlet to share that journey and share how they've bettered themselves,

23:53

how they've gotten out of like a traumatic situation or how they're out there

23:58

helping the world be a better place.

24:01

Yeah. I mean, I give you guys so much credit. You too. There was two thoughts

24:07

that ran through my mind as we were talking. One of them was like, I wonder what it is about opening up yourself to be vulnerable

24:13

in this type of setting where we have a microphone and we're recording, right?

24:17

Very weird, but it's true. I understand. And I can tell from some of our guests

24:22

that they are vulnerable and they have this mic and it's going out to hundreds

24:26

of thousands of listeners or or however many, the one person that's listening,

24:29

whoever it is though. And I'm just curious about that.

24:33

But also how brave you guys are because...

24:38

After you share your story and people listen, instead of like shying away from

24:44

ever talking about it again, you continue. And so I'm like, you're so brave. Not to make you cry again, but.

24:50

We keep trying to open the doors, right? And normalize these conversations because,

24:55

you know, for years and years, they've been swept under the carpet.

24:58

And now more than ever, these stories are important in these journeys because people are suffering.

25:06

And if we can give them a resource source to go get help or some sort of solace

25:12

or even just a tiny bit of laughter in their day,

25:14

it's it will make them feel better yeah and

25:18

then we had cecile we did have cecile i loved cecile oh my god what a great

25:24

i want to say it like with a french accent but i'm not my ears are bleeding

25:30

please no yes first of all i fangirl for a little bit yeah Yeah.

25:36

Because I just have to tell our listeners, I've only ever seen her up on stage,

25:42

in front of hundreds of people with a light looking just wonderful and confident.

25:50

And as my little female self, I'm sitting in this chair, watching her speak

25:57

and thinking, wow, I want to be that brave lady to be up on stage just talking and unstoppable.

26:03

Unstoppable so when i got to sit down in a more intimate setting i was like.

26:10

Like a fangirl a little bit it's like her and viv yeah look i have sweaty palms

26:16

just thinking about it incredibly socially awkward but she was so lovely right

26:25

like she had been traveling for like six weeks she didn't know what time zone she was in but

26:30

she was so happy yeah and she looked so young

26:33

right we were saying like she like that happiness

26:37

that genuine happiness from the inside out

26:40

made her look so

26:43

different than that confident woman on stage with all

26:46

the lights like all of a sudden it was like there was a different energy to

26:49

her yeah she and she suited it and you

26:52

know she was glowing talking about her you know her olives

26:55

and her travels she was living my dream and look how she just doesn't really

27:01

give a fuck about you know having to prove herself right because people kept

27:05

coming back to her so what are you gonna do next what are you gonna do you know

27:09

what i'm not gonna fucking do shit what i'm gonna do is enjoy my life.

27:13

And live it to the fullest. And, you know, people didn't really understand why she left when she did.

27:19

But, you know, there were circumstances that she needed to address.

27:24

And she is so much better for it, right? Splitting her time between the States

27:29

and France. Like, that doesn't fucking suck.

27:33

You know, living your life. And, you know, it brings me back to,

27:36

like, Bookie, you know, you don't have to make a bucket list.

27:40

If you live for today, that should be your bucket list, right?

27:44

And that's what she's doing. She's living for today and making those memories

27:48

with her kids and her husband and her friends and traveling and living her fucking

27:55

life. And you know what? People should be happy for that.

27:58

You don't have to be out there proving yourself. I mean, we don't do the podcast to prove ourselves.

28:04

I have nothing to prove. I'm happy. I'm healthy.

28:06

I'm alive. lives and like i said every day

28:09

i'm so very fucking thankful for that

28:12

because i get to do this with you oh thanks

28:16

dear i get to do with you too and we get to laugh about dumb shit

28:19

on the mornings that i call you yeah that's

28:22

my therapy like i should pay like like my

28:26

chat gpt unicorn which was

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the best uh yeah we gotta share that

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with our listeners one day one day one day well

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share that fancy unicorn app but then

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we had page and page was amazing okay

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so in both cecile's episode and in page's episode both of our guests cried but

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what i thought was really awesome is that they showed how vulnerable they were

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in the moment but also let out a really important message during those times.

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And that to me, you know, shows growth and, you know, it's okay to cry.

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It really is. I just cried the other day out of sheer frustration,

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but I felt better after it. It was kind of cathartic, but you know.

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Ageist story of you know just the mental illness that

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goes on within our medical community right

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like i don't people i don't think people realize how

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stressful those jobs are you know and we

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all do get pissed off when we go to the emergency room and we

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gotta wait for five hours but you know it's we're

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understaffed we're overworked they're

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and they just don't have the tools and

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the the resources to help them deal with their own

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mental health and i know i love that she's

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out there trying to change that for other medical workers

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you know just with her her conferences and the

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her speaking engagements and she's out there trying

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to make a difference and i commend i'm i commend her for that yeah it was i

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really enjoyed that that day and recording with her because i remember thinking

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or being curious i wonder how

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many of our listeners will realize that they're not alone in her story.

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And I just remember thinking that's super important.

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My past is not the same as what the story she shared, but I remember even in

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my own growth and becoming okay

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with my issues, one of the first steps was realizing, oh, I'm not alone.

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There are other people who feel like me and feel like this because this is happening to them too.

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And I think even for her, that was something that she had to learn that it was

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okay to be going through what she was going through. She's not a robot. She's not a soldier.

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She is a human. And we have emotions and feelings and things will affect us.

30:53

And taking that and turning it to something positive, spreading it. Yeah, she was so lovely.

30:59

I remember when we did a pre-recording with her and she went out onto Instagram,

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and was like blasting our name all over the place and like how much fun we were.

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And I just, she has such cool energy, right? It just kind of.

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It kind of like transcends into you when you're, even when you're just doing

31:18

a zoom call and I'm so, her episode was so good. So, so good.

31:23

It felt like just a conversation for sure. Like I felt like we were all in the

31:27

same room together, just sharing stories.

31:29

Like it was really shooting the shit. And you know, that, you know, it's funny.

31:33

I heard from Jack and Brad the other day and, you know, another,

31:37

you know, two more huge lovers of the podcast.

31:41

And they're like, yeah, every time I describe your podcast, It's just like,

31:45

you know, people sitting around in the fireplace, shooting the shit,

31:49

talking about life's crap. A night in with friends.

31:53

So, you know, and it's, we're easy. Like we don't, we're not clinical by any means.

31:59

We're not professionals by any means. But we're humans. But we're humans. We're compassionate.

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Yes. Very. Empathetic. I'm only pathetic sometimes. Empathetic. Empathetic. I thought you called me pathetic.

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I'm like, no, empathetic. Oh, God.

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I'm chill because she called me pathetic. Holy shit.

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No, dude. No. I love you. Don't ever. Yeah, you're like, oh,

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I love you. I love you, man. Empathetic. And then we had Diane.

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And I, what I love about her journey is that she got away from her narcissistic

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mom and made a life for herself.

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All on her own. And she was so, it was such a warm conversation.

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And I, Diane, when you listen to this episode, I just want to say thank you

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for clicking on the links in the newsletter. It makes me happy.

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Wow, you can see that? Yeah, I can. I can see who opened it and if you clicked on any links.

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But I love her story. and just

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you know being at one with nature and just finding

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the peace in your life but damn she

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really like did it all she paid for school on her own she got a job she's written

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her book and she found her happiness despite all the bullshit she went through

33:33

as a kid and you know I think there's a lot of lessons in that right that,

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despite the trauma you've dealt with in your past

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like pull yourself up by your bootstraps and go make a life for yourself yeah

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you're gonna hit a thousand fucking bumps in the road but you get up you dust

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yourself off and you just keep moving forward yeah she was inspiring she inspired

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me I'm very much in my like.

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Go female era and her story

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and just like and i know this is just

34:09

a me thing i don't think this is how she was thinking of it but it was like i

34:12

think as like the underdog sometimes i want people

34:15

i want to see that underdog succeed and be like fuck you you know yeah no it's

34:20

kind of harsh but we are not you're not holding me down i'm gonna pick myself

34:26

up i'm gonna dust myself off and I am going to keep moving forward and find

34:32

my own fucking happiness. Surpass your expectations and

34:37

my own. Right. Like, I'm going to do it so well, you'll never forget it.

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Yeah. Like, that's the shit I love. So, I loved her episode.

34:44

And then... We had Susie. Susie. Another episode... Oh, can I just say,

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Susie, if you're listening to this, I want us to be best friends. Okay, go.

34:55

Another episode where we laughed hard

34:58

again face hurting thankfully it was the

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last episode of the day that we recorded but

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we stayed on for a while afterwards we did and she is

35:08

actually she was a two-parter because we

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just couldn't i couldn't cram it all into one i tried wasn't

35:15

going to happen the message was too important to anything else

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i loved how she had

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the insight as a kid right

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to recognize that a family member was struggling with

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mental health issues and then followed that

35:32

passion all the way into adulthood and made it her mission to help others to

35:40

help others out right you know get it she's a 988 crisis counselor and making

35:48

that difference right and. She gave me chills because... Well, yeah. I mean, for you, that's...

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I guess not just you, but for anybody who's used that resource to be able to

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talk to somebody who's a part of that movement.

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Yeah. You know, thank God there is 988, right?

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Because not only can you call them, you can text them. They're on 24-7.

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They speak Spanish. There are 988 lines now in Canada.

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If you visit our website, there is a findahelpline.org where you can click on

36:25

that link and anywhere in the world, you can find somebody that can help you, right?

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20 years ago, these types of resources weren't available.

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And I loved how vulnerable Susie was in that episode.

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You know, talking about her own mental health struggles and,

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you know, just getting through day to day and shout out to her.

36:47

She does have a podcast, you know, Check the show notes, all her information's

36:51

out there. You can also check our website. Big props to her. She is quite a bit younger than I am.

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But getting out there and making a difference and having resources like that

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for any age group, it's women supporting women, supporting mental health.

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She's like us. We want to normalize these conversations. We want to get these

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stories out. You're not alone. You really aren't. You would be amazed how many people are out there suffering

37:22

from some type of mental health issue.

37:26

And the more you share, the more you're going to help somebody else that's going

37:30

through that. Yeah. I had chills for you in that episode.

37:34

I was like, wow, you're getting to talk to... It's almost like putting a face

37:39

to something. Yeah. Yeah. Realizing that they're humans. They're human beings. They're the same as we

37:44

are. So, yeah. And I don't know.

37:48

I just think it's cool. I mean, we've had a really great season.

37:50

I'm looking forward to the future and what could possibly happen next because

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I don't think I can even... I couldn't have imagined that we would be where we are now.

37:58

Right. I can't imagine where we will be as we continue.

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So, I'm looking forward to the future. And like I said, I'm so blessed that I get to do this with you.

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You know we feed off of each off of

38:11

each other we ask poignant questions we laugh

38:15

and you know we we're human

38:18

and we like i

38:21

said i don't know what the future holds also i know is that

38:24

we're booked up like crazy people that want

38:27

to be on the podcast i love you all believe me i'm

38:29

trying still need a personal assistant to help

38:32

with this never thought i would be asking for that but

38:36

you know our our firm is you know working

38:39

to get us on to some big name

38:42

shows and we are also working on our okay dirty skills just passed out i think

38:49

but we are also working on getting some of our dream guests on you know persistence

38:55

does pay off so someday you may hear like mel robbins or Gretchen Rubin or Jay Shetty on this.

39:03

You know, there's a lot of people out there that also suffer through mental

39:08

health issues and getting those stories out help people realize that they're really not alone.

39:14

So it's not just the celebrities or public figures.

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It could be Joey down the street. It could be your mom.

39:22

It could be your dad. It could be a brother, sister, or cousin. you know.

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Let's normalize these conversations yeah we're all in this life we are,

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thank you thank you bye y'all thank you so much for listening to this episode

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