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Dec 14, 2022
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and I'm Mel Greenberg today we are home for
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the holidays you're thinking about it and we're talking about it so stay tuned
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Uncorked live with Karen Glasser and Mel Greenberg making the most of life's Peak
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stage and sharing it all with you thank you
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so Mel what are you drinking today I'm drinking a hot toddy which is it's it's
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a remedy of sorts um because it cures everything when you're feeling ill but also it's warm it's um Bourbon and hot
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tea lemon and honey and at this time of year it is perfect what are you drinking
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well I'm I'm just doing hot chocolate but of course with a splash of coffee liqueur because you know if you're gonna
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drink it you might as well drink it so Cheers Cheers everybody welcome
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so today Mel I know we're talking a little bit about keeping family traditions alive
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um and how important that is especially during the holiday time but during the whole year but today we're talking about the holidays so what does that look like
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exactly you know okay I'm going to divert a little bit and this is a little bit of a surprise because I kind of
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threw this at Karen um and I woke up this morning at three o'clock thinking
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about this and I wanted to like kind of get a handle on the overwhelm which is
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so easy during this time of year we feel overwhelmed anxiety comes up what do we
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do so I thought I I typically write things three things I'm thankful for in the morning I flipped it today and I
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said what can I do what are three things that really matter to me this season and
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I picked up a piece of it just a single sheet and I'm going to ask I asked Karen to do it I'm going to ask you all to do this for yourselves because once I wrote
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it down every ounce of anxiety just kind of slipped out of me I fell back into a
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beautiful sleep and I was ready for the day and I feel like I'm ready for the rest of the month so what's important to
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me are first to be fully present and it's so easy don't you think Karen when
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we are so overwhelmed December first hits it's like oh my God holidays parties presents right eating
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trying to stay healthy trying trying to stay healthy for God's sake and what to do so we're not present we miss
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everything around us and because we're so worried about all these things that might happen do you do you oh my God
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you're preaching to the choir here yes always well so that was number one fully
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to be fully present and then following that up number two for me was to just
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relax to you know and I don't want to say I wrote relax and that's kind of a
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novel concept to me because I'm always on the go but do you don't you find like when you just
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I'll get breathe but relax and just kind of lean into whatever's coming your way
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you yeah all of a sudden it's not this huge mountain it's not everything you can't do I think our minds sometimes
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makes everything so much bigger than it really is and when we just lean into it
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I love that expression leaning into it and just relax we realize that it's maybe not that big big thing it's maybe
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a little bit smaller and we just need to as you say lean into it I love that that's great and then number three was
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to take in every minute every relationship and just
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appreciate them all for what they are you know your your tree might not get put up the right way galatkes might be a
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little flat it's all okay you know so and I actually I'm gonna start using
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that tag on my three things I'm thankful for my my morning writing like how can I
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just appreciate this moment this day and I think getting through December for me
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that way is the easiest way I love those words I'm I you know in those thoughts I
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am when you threw this at me this morning and I did I lobbed it you really did
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um the only thing and it's a huge thing but the only thing that I could I could think about and I continue to think
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about is health and and that we get through these holidays in good health as
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we have talked about you know in in the the past several months
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um you know unfortunately we've had a lot of um ill health in my family and it continues
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um and it's and all I want right now is to get through the holidays in good
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health um and that's my that's my Forward Motion right now we are we're doing
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everything that we can to make sure that we get through the holidays in good health it's what does that look like for
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you when you say good health what do you do maybe differently than the rest of the year or do you take other extra
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precautions do you how do you take better care of yourself totally taking until extra precautions especially right
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now taking extra precautions we we talked about the fact that you know Michael my husband has cancer and he's
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immunocompromised and so we're taking extra precautions that way and when we do go out which we are starting to go
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out just a little bit we're going out outside just so that we we keep him
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healthy and keep him and safe it also means that in the morning I'm being very diligent about eating my breakfast so
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that I I get nutrition and making sure that I go out and take the dog for a walk so I get some physical activity
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even though the last thing that I want to do right now is any of those things I do you know I'm standing there is a home
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so those are the things that I'm doing and um I I think that I'm gonna be okay you
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know I think that I'm gonna make it through the holidays with a smile on my face and with the people that I love in
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my life with good health good and and that's a blessing do you find that that
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the dynamic of your family changes during this time like how you interact
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again maybe related to all the stress on everybody of the Season or do you all I
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think they're very good I don't think so I you know um we we already have our routines that
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we do during the holiday times and because of the last several years everything has been very remote and
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we've done them remote and so that will continue and so the dynamic doesn't change at this point my family uh the
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dynamic changed two years ago when we never talked to each other and now we talk to each other all the time and I
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think that the reason that's happened is because of the health issues and because of the world issues and things that are
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going on so I don't think my family Dynamics have changed that much in the last last year maybe in the last three
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years but in the last year not so much and we're just going to continue with that
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um the love of family and so how about you what are does things change during the holidays no I it's I I and I've said
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this before September 30th to January 1st is my favorite time of year and
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whether the kids were here or in their respective places before
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um it's always been a really special time we've always come together in one way or another whether it's on a trip
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somewhere traveling to get together um now everyone's under the same roof which has presented different
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challenges and it's kind of funny so I always put up a huge Christmas tree in my living room which is now essentially
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a daycare and so I thought and and so that was the first thing that was back because my mind in like October I'm
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freaking out like what am I gonna do we're just gonna stay oh my God I can't have things the way they were and then I sat back and I thought about it I was
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like I wouldn't want things the way they were because that would mean my kids weren't there so I I let go of that and
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I put up two small trees and I did the whole house and
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um it feels so much better and I think part of that was truly just letting go of
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what couldn't be but I'm going to share a really fun story so Dean and I were in Las Vegas this past weekend for a
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friend's birthday party and we went up Thursday and most people didn't arrive
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until late Friday even Saturday morning for some and we went up early because as I mentioned
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our home life has changed considerably we have a full house again and we don't get a lot of just us time so we thought
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this would be fun and I like Vegas it's not my favorite place I don't gamble
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um two nights and I'm usually done so I would never in a bazillion years think that anything positive emotionally or
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spiritually might come out of that place how's it benefits it's a great place don't get me wrong but it did that one
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night that Dean and I went up early from the minute we left here till the next day when we started seeing all our
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friends come in was just for us and we had the most incredible conversations and it was the
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most beautiful time that we were present with each other so it was sort of the
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upside the unexpected you know collateral damage of having this Full
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House and taking advantage of a moment that we could to just be to truly be
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with each other and it was incredible and I thought God if this is starting my
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holiday this is amazing and I'm so grateful and it's just beginning and
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you're appreciating it and you're appreciating it and that's that goes back to your three words right it's appreciation appreciation of what you
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actually experience I just that's wonderful yeah and now the kids are um Matthew and Heather and the baby are
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going to be leaving and spending Christmas with her family and you know
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part of me is like no don't do that I'm gonna miss the little baby but I don't want to be you know yeah because I get
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to see that angel every day so um that that's a little different we have Dylan at home and and it's just
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every little bit is different than I ever imagined it to be at this time and I think that's something that you and I
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talk about a lot like how to navigate this time in our lives to to be
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more flexible to whatever comes because thankfully they're all healthy we're all healthy right and
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just enjoying the changes and appreciating them for however long they last I
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we do that's a really good question Karen we do and I do and I've thought about this a lot lately because I
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thought what are the traditions where did they come from did I carry them forward from my childhood
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or have I created new ones and it's a little bit of both and I like baking and
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cooking it comes with me from as long far back as I can remember and making
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those events special whatever the events are so that's with me and I do that and
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I bake you know and cook dinners now I don't bake as much because I have Heather because she's an amazing Baker but cooking and and the meals and and
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planning and enjoying it even even if it's just appetizer so though that's a
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tradition um let's see what else well we do and and
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I've kind of with Hanukkah we celebrate and do everything really a big first
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night and we light the candles all the nights but as far you know when the kids are
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young yes it was a little different but so those are my I think the traditions and I it was important to to start our
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own with our family that then they can as their extended families grow
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they will carry on some and start their own news so I think yeah that's that's
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great I make potato latkes I make potato pancakes um I've been making them for as long as
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I can remember I'm the house that everybody will come to I will stand there in the kitchen you know frying up
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a lot of oil yeah I used to wear a um a shower cap yeah you have to you
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know and then I started I bought myself an electric fry pan so I could do it outside so that I wouldn't get the smell
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all over the house however the smell is kind of yummy because it's potatoes and
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you know it's delicious so you know I kind of moved it back in and we would do it inside but what's fun is is to make
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the vodkas and then have people literally at the kitchen counter as you're making them and they're eating them as fast as you can get them out
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yeah I know you never leave yourself right and everyone thinks they have the
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best vodka right of course because I do but clearly you don't really I don't well I mine is actually Marlene
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swarovsky who um she's at this amazing Chef sheets has some great cookbooks out
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there and I've been doing her recipe and her tip just for if you're listening is you put some vitamin C into your
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potatoes and it keeps them white so powdered vitamin C item powdered
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vitamin C um it literally keeps your potatoes white because we know that when potatoes
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you know hit the air they start turning brown and it's kind of so then there truly is a Jewish penicillin there is
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truly a push medicine and it's called vitamin C this thing that's Marley yeah
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and I have another question for you do you have you tried air frying them I haven't but I I am the guy were they
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delicious they were delicious and they they were I mean you kind of bent the oil thing but wow I'll have to try that
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and a little bit healthy one night you know and do it so we when we had we had a Jewish Italian deli for for a few
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years and when we had we would do that the eight nights of latkes and we would do different lot because every not
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highlight like like zucchini carrot beet and that was really fun to keep every
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year to come up with different combinations and and I think honestly zucchini and carrot are my favorite
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really I'm the purest give me I I have it has to be potatoes russet potatoes not even a sweet potato it has to be
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rested I'm just a purist with applesauce what do you eat your latkes with applesauce and sour cream yum okay now
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I'm getting hungry I know right I went down here speaking of that as as the and I I come
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up and I'm so guilty of this I I come up to our financial offices because this
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time of year the treats start pouring in and I I'm really like I'm you know I eat
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healthy take care of myself and I it's like crack I can't wait to get up here to see what's been sent and I want to
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eat everything in sight oh my God all the cookies all the caramel everything how on Earth do you
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stay focused on on eating well taking care of your body during these time
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during this month it just pours on from things from the minute you sit down at the Thanksgiving table it doesn't stop
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until the end of the year and it's just it's cookies and and not just cookies and that's just baking it's it's food
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really delicious food right I mean I eat a lot more sweets this time well that but that's where core 50 comes in right
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perky I love that word I do too and so you know we have we we
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kind of coined this our Barrel list uh which of course because you know drinking and all that and wine comes in
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a barrel uh but we're talking about books the things we love and it's full this month you guys it's not just books
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I mean you're gonna be so excited I have so many fun things in our Barrel
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in our Barrel so you know I'm I'm reading this amazing book um the the author is Vision lucky
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Ani and he is the founder of mine Valley which is I think the top self-development company right now in
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the world you're kidding um it is an online program but they do live events and
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um the book The reason why I like the book so much is well first of all you know I meditate as as do you and this is
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about doing six things and it's basically about 12 minutes and phase one
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is compassion and having compassion for yourself and two the stage two is
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gratitude and having gratitude for things and phase three is forgiveness which is a really tough one for a lot of
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us is being able to forgive and then number four is a vision for the future number five is mastering your day and
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then finally number six is the blessing and literally he leads you through these six phases in about 12 minutes so
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you do each six you you follow them yes each time you sit down every time I sit
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down and I was introduced to it by reading the book and one of the things that comes with the book is a an audio
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free audio where you can go and log in and he talks you through it so you don't even have to remember what the different
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phases are because my memory is like you know shot so he talks you through the entire thing and it's literally a 12
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minute meditation so let me ask you this you go through the same six yep
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benchmarks if you will each time do do you find that they differ depending on
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what's going on in your world or how they resonate with you differs absolutely because what you do on each
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one you think about a person possibly or a thing and that changes oh that changes
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um when you talk about forgiveness he very specifically talks about are there situations or people in your life that
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you need to forgive because they did something that you never have gotten over and you go through
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forgiving them and he talks about the fact that it may not happen the first
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time you do this it may take four or five times until you can literally come through it and forgive them not forget
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but forgive them and you give them a hug in your meditation and when you can give
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them that hug and and feel good about it you can move to the next person and sometimes the person you need to forgive
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is yourself is yourself so you know that is so it reminds me of
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um Elizabeth Keebler Ross the five stages of grief because you can't move on to the next one until you fully right
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connected and moved through the first one so it's kind of the same it's a
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progressive growth totally a progressive thing and he talks about that we are so much not living in the present which I
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love what you said earlier about being present that we don't live in the present we're so busy worrying about
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what it's going to take to get to the next thing instead of appreciating where we came from and so the whole focus of
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that piece of the meditation is remembering how good we really are and what we really did to get to where we
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are right now it really gives you that confidence not having to worry about am I going to make it to the next stage it
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is such a great book it's an easy read a really easy read and the fact that it
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comes with the meditations it's it's a no-brainer I really encourage people and we're going to put the link to the the
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book in the in the show copy make sure you check it out how about you Mel what are you doing I'm reading a really fun
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new novel and before I disclose what that is I'm going to introduce you to
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the author because she is friggin amazing and you're going to love her and this is another in a fabulous series
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that I if you're not familiar with it you will be enjoy so take a listen
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I'm happy to be here today with Donna Killian best-selling author and we're
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here really to talk about first of all you're just released new book in the series and also a little bit to get
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everyone to know you and and uh talk about how you ended up here so welcome thank you so much I'm thrilled to be
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here Mel I want to know first um what inspired you have you always wanted
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to be a writer or is this something that happened at this time in your life tell us about that
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I've always been a reader but I did not set out to be a writer until basically
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just a few years ago I was going through some dramatic things in my personal life
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I needed to switch gears a little bit in career find something that allowed me
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flexibility to work wherever I wanted whenever I wanted and so I Revisited this idea that had
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been in the background a little bit of trying my hand at a book and when I made that decision part of
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what I did was to think about what do I like to read and I found that there were very very
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clear themes I was always reading mystery and Thriller I was reading
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series fiction I liked a female protagonist and I liked first person point of view
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so I set out to create a character that
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I could then take into series which meant giving her a career that that made
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sense I don't have technical background in police investigation or FBI work so I
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made her a journalist it gave it gave me so much flexibility to play around with the kinds of cases
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where she explored Where She Went who she talked to so I started with the character and uh then I've been creating
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uh situations for her since my first book was published in 2017 and I'm uh
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just released number five in the series last month that's incredible and I know
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that you have self-published these and was that a conscientious decision that
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you made because of your audience because of where you are in your life and what you wanted from this Prospect
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it was a conscious decision on my part to publish independently I'd investigated enough of the publishing
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process to know what the downfalls were of both types of
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publishing for me uh control of my Market and my marketing message was
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probably the most important thing as an independent author I have complete control over the title the cover how
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it's marketed when it's marketed how often I release books in a traditional world
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Publishers do take care of a lot of that for you but you lose your rights and the
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one thing that you still have to do as a traditionally published author is the marketing and marketing is the hardest
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part so to me the differences were I could have
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control or I could give up control and either way I still had to do the marketing so
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it seemed a pretty obvious way to me to think that your background first of all
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you have an incredible background in in retail and design and building successful companies and because authors
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notoriously are quiet and and I ran into this
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um we don't want to maybe we want it out there but we don't want to be the ones to put it out there and and it's
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daunting and because of your business background leading up to this time in your life do you found that did you find
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that it made it easier or more a fun challenge I think it was a
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fun challenge um you're right that many authors really would prefer to just sit in their corner at their desk and write their books and
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they think somebody else is going to do everything for them and that again goes to that well I need a traditional deal
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because the publisher is just going to do everything for me and it's just not true
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um having been someone who owned my own apparel business I had at least a little background and
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more importantly I knew how to find information and there are tremendous resources and
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people that you can learn from and the independent author Community is extremely generous so it was just a
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matter of finding the right people understanding the Cadence and then understanding the technology part so
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that I my light went out um the technology part so that I would
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um I guess I'm going to be out of the light um uh the technology part to to understand
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how to take it from a Word document into something someone could read on their iPhone
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so something just struck me when you were talking about the pro the processes that you felt and the steps and getting
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out there and you could you could find answers and you could get things very journalistic qualities is there a little
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bit of Andrea in you I think there is I think any time you're creating a character you take parts of
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yourself um I also took parts of my parts that I got a wish I had
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as I was starting to write I was going through a difficult time in my life and
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there were things about me that I wished were a little stronger so I could kind of live vicariously and try some of
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those things out through my through my protagonist I love that and that's because I relate
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to that my characters it's always I've been often asked is that you how much of
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it's you and and like as you said there's always a piece of us of course we're doing the writing but it is kind
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of fun to to sit back and go oh but I could be a little more of this or a
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little less this and and that's wonderful and and clearly that you've just released book number five so
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something's working and you are tapping into and touching your readers in a way
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that they are that they're they're drawn in and they're excited about the character and the stories that you write
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how have those things changed who you are today you mentioned a couple times
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here with us that you were going through a difficult time a challenge when this
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light went on that you were going to pursue these roads how have the successes and changes that you've gone
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through changed you inside a more interesting question
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um well I think first of all people that read series they're reading
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for the character not so much what happens but the character and seeing the tenacity
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and I think as I was writing I was putting myself into that position of she has to be
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Fearless she has to be ballsy she has to go after what she wants because otherwise her life is going to fall
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apart and in a big way and so you're kind of practicing I think trying out
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these qualities in yourself through that character and and it it does I think it
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does rub off I think it getting um feedback from readers who you know re
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I just released book number five and it's been a month and I've already got wins number six coming in that that's
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such a reinforcing that you're touching someone else that that you're sharing
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part of you and part of your heart with with people who kind of come along
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for this ride and as we just talked about some of this character is me so they're coming along with me and they're
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coming along with my character and we're we're all kind of growing together and figuring out what the next stage of life
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is so uh is there a book six in the works or in the cloud early early stages
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I'm more at the um I haven't done any writing yet I'm more in the brainstorming
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um who are the characters that need to come forward that haven't perhaps played a big enough role in Prior books
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um What scenario might be the crime the core crime at the center of the story so
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it's brainstorm stage and I'll uh I'll start outlining shortly well I am thrilled for all of this and I'm
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thrilled that you're here today with us um I really have the joy of running into you and meeting you first almost a year
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ago uh here in Tucson and um it's great to have you neighbor and
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I'm I'm curious so book six is back there it's kind of out there what next we know
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about you know Andrew's journey and what's going on what's next for Danna well the next thing
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um is a it's it's an overlap between my personal life and my writing life
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because I've got a memoir coming out in May
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yeah it touches on more than touches on and Dives straight
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into all those difficulties that were going on in my life back when I started writing and and have
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kind of continued in in one fashion or another over the last uh five six years so I'm I'm doing something that is
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probably the most vulnerable thing I've ever done and therefore it's the most important thing I've ever done
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and I love that you can say that and you can acknowledge that difference and and
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I literally was gonna wrap up but I can't without asking a couple more questions because you just stopped a bombshell on us all
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the difference for you in writing fiction and now bearing your soul in
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words on pages for all to read how the decision to do that first of all and
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then the process how different was it for you yeah well the decision came about very slowly
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I was journaling as a way to supplement therapy to process all the uh
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painful thoughts that were going through my head that I had no place for and as I
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was journaling I realized maybe I think there's a book here I don't I think I need to write it
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I don't know if I've got the courage to release it um
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start which is different you know writing a book is different than putting it out into the world and letting
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letting the world see your vulnerability um but the more that I did that the more
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I wrote the farther long I got into it I just kept thinking of all of the women that I've known over the years family
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members included who spent so much of their life regretting something that
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they didn't do women in particular we set aside ourselves for everyone else and it's sooner or
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later it either eats away at you or you've got to force yourself into it's my turn it's my time
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and I know when difficult things happen to us as
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women silence is our our go-to response oh my gosh yes you
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nailed it yep and that's certainly what I did about what was happening in my life
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and as I was writing the Memoir I came to see and came to understand that that
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silence actually damaged me and I thought it was protecting me it
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was not it was festering inside me and So eventually I got to the place where I
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didn't know what I was more afraid of publishing the book or not publishing the book because to not publish the book
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would be another silence yeah you would have stayed in that space
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that you were talking so desperately to to move Beyond and grow Beyond correct wow and do we have a release
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date yet for that May 18th this year 2023 23. wow the title is
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where the Shadows dance will you come back and and talk with us about it once it's out be delighted I
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would love that and I know all of our followers and everyone would really appreciate that I think that it's
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beautiful to to just have seen your Arc right here from facing a challenge you
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know challenges in your life and reaching to something that brought you Joy and finding it through your mystery
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writing and through this incredible series and the success there and then furthering that healing
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in your life this way I'm I'm excited I'm excited for you and I'm really excited for May 2023 for that release
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but in the meantime everyone you can get the latest in the Andrea Kelner series and it is on Amazon the links are on all
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of our properties this is Dana Killian thank you so much for being with us today
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love to do it thank you bye-bye bye ciao is she not amazing amazing I I think as
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excited as I was about this next book um I'm more excited about the Memoir that's coming I can't wait till she
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releases that because it's gonna be incredible and I and I'm always in awe of people who have the courage to first
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of all um go through what she's gone through and come out the other side as brilliantly
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as she has but then to share the story because we can all benefit we can all learn something from other people's
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roads So to that end now I get to relax and we have more of our Barrel list and
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this is the movies our favorite holiday movies which is my
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favorite time favorite thing from the again hell or excuse me Thanksgiving I
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immediately the holiday that's my favorite number one all time with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law and there
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was something going around the internet yesterday that they signed to do a sequel I've now found the debunked but
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maybe if we keep putting it out there it will you know put the intentions out to the universe that will happen because
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who wouldn't love to see Jude Law yeah hey absolutely right we'll leave a
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whole list here movies just run through the list and by the way guys there's a link to all of these
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movies sitting in the show notes so click on it after you watch this you can go check them out so what did some of
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the movies on this list well so Love Actually great great movie good laugh
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elf 100 still one of my favorites the night before I die I that just as
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I don't think I've seen that I'm gonna have to go look it up what's up Brogan I
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will not stop laughing it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen it's him I think it's his best he just kills me
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um historically and and even now all the new versions of it How the Grinch Stole Christmas of course I grew up with that
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it's so fun to see what it's evolved into how about you what do you think
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here I mean every year it's something that you watch right you have to watch it because it everything you have to
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yeah absolutely absolutely and Planes Trains and Automobiles I haven't seen that I have to go watch that oh my
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goodness I'm not a big movie television Watcher but I I think over the holidays I should probably do that now the next
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one is home alone now I totally seen that one I've seen that one I think more times than I should admit
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um all I can think of is that little kid you know going with his hands on his face that's that's what I think of home
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alone I know it was such a cute movie and Miracle on 34th Street is the
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classic classic total classic uh Polar Express it's so beautiful yeah such a beautiful
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film Tom Hanks was amazing and Christmas vacation isn't that with uh yeah
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everything he does he does fun on the link down below but but wait
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there's more we also have a holiday playlist of our favorite holiday music and we're gonna put the link in there as
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well Mel does a phenomenal job going and sorting through all the the songs that
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are out there and she put together a great playlist just for the holidays
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it's on my PL it's just non-stop at my house it's on Amazon because you have the not Amazon um Echo and I just say
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Alexa yeah it's just really nice music to have
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on it is and I I have it on all the time I do I just put it on in the morning and you just it just goes because it's a
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long list we we there's a lot of songs on there well and there's a lot of Classics but there's an awful lot of of
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contemporary jazz versions of the classics which I like and I find soothing and just kind of as we talked
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about before the anxieties that can arise during this time you know just to have some genuine
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gentle music on in the background is so nice and even driving because you know there's a lot of psycho drivers out
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there I was gonna say a lot of cycle drivers out there a lot of psycho drivers yeah I know this this season
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though it feels so much better and brighter than recent holiday seasons I
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don't know if it's just because we're doing the work and you know you guys are all I know if you're listening your your
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committed to moving through these years right stronger and learning and it's
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always learning to be better and do better and I think the work that we're all doing is playing out in how we're
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going through this time because this is sort of like you know the curtains up show time this is the worst time of year
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to be stressed I agree now Mel you and I had some fun uh the last several weeks
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going through our favorite products and our favorite gifts for the holidays and
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um we actually put together 12 products that we absolutely love and if
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you go to uncorkedlive.com you are going to see 12 of our favorite products kind of like a
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la Oprah you know even though we're not Oprah but um it's our favorites and we
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would love to hear what you think about them let us know if any of our favorites are your favorites or did we miss one
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yeah share with us we share we're always excited to learn about new things and these are products that we use that we
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have discovered or have used for years and just will never stop using
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I totally totally I am loving this peak stage Journey I'm on with you and with
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all of our our listeners and uh you might have noticed guys that we are on a podcast right now we have shifted a
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little bit we're not on a video we're not on a video um and and it happens and we decided it
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was time to make the move and we did and we want to thank you for always being with us and um uh we hope to see you
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next time do and have a beautiful beautiful holiday however you're
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spending it wherever you are we're thinking of you and love you and we're so glad that you're a part of this
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journey with us take care ciao foreign [Music]
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