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 This week my gurl Brenda talk about finding your place, building community and finding yourself. 

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• Welcome to this week’s episode of. 0:05
• Common courtesy has gone out of the window. 4:31
• When you move to a new place, it’s difficult to form a community. 9:46
• Loss of opportunity and loss of connection. 14:25
• Children are supposed to listen to the stories our elders give us. 21:54
• It’s human nature to want to know things and to feel like you owe people an explanation. 27:48
• How to deal with unsolicited dick pics. 31:43
• Transgender people don’t have to look a certain way to be transgender. 36:17
• What made you do top surgery and not breast reduction? 41:04
• Can it just be kids issues and not trans issues? 43:00
• What are we doing putting stuff in kids’ bodies that we don’t know enough about? 48:02
• The hierarchy that exists in the transgender community. 52:43
• You don’t have to like every person. 57:16
• Don’t take over issues for any group of people. 1:05:15
• What’s next for you? Hormones. 1:10:36
• What’s next for Brando? 1:15:39
• Burning Man is like the ultimate life hangover. 1:21:16
• Burning Man Regionals. 1:26:32

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 Listen in while my Boo and I talk all things drag, love, and finding your authentic self.

• Trey’s origin story. 0:13
• What it’s like to know that your parents were doing the best they could. 9:00
• Did things get better with his parents? 13:58
• What’s the worst way to connect to someone? 17:30
• What happened after her breakup with her ex. 21:46
• Trey’s first mentor is. 27:54
• On her wedding anniversary, he made jokes at her expense. 33:55
• Moving to the San Francisco Bay. 38:56
• Working at the Federal Law office. 41:37
• What’s your auric bubble like? 47:04
• When you get to that point in your life where you’re like, “How did I get here?”. 53:16
• Boundaries are very important. 55:35
• It’s all about building trust slowly. 59:55
• Family is the only thing that matters. 1:05:10
• “All you’re trying to do is make yourself feel better.”. 1:10:28
• Don’t be rude to other people’s friends. 1:16:13
• How do I know how to trust myself on who to let in? 1:23:19
• When someone sees me that makes me uncomfortable, it makes me feel like I haven’t seen in the past. 1:26:00
• It would have killed me if I hadn’t left. 1:32:44
• When you’re in school, did you ever have a test where you had to learn a different key? 1:37:22
• Don’t get involved unless you are asked to. 1:43:14
• Drag shows are not always about sex. 1:52:59
• Don’t get me wrong, I don't like violence, but it’s not our job to fix it. 1:58:55
• When are we going to have gun control? 2:06:33
• Donald Trump’s wife is a flight attendant. 2:10:35
• “You are the master of your own de

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 Kirkland and I get real about pain and what people mean when the my say you have privilege. 

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• Do more things on microphones. 0:00
• Donna doesn’t give a shit, she’s feisty. 2:52
• Don’t have a huge black population at the bar. 7:55
• Detroit vs. Oakland. 12:11
• What’s he worth? -. 19:18
• Sean Keeley is moving off of the online game. 21:54
• They don’t owe you anything. 29:18
• Every time she leaves her house, she has to think about getting murdered. 32:26
• How do you sustain your pain with your pain? 35:51
• What’s going to happen in the studio. 41:13
• Morphine and pain relief. 47:55
• Don’t take drugs. 52:09
• What do you need to do to help your sickle cell. 55:56
• How does a guy from Detroit fall in love with the Patriots? 1:00:50
• No bullshit in Boston. 1:05:20

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 Carrie and I get real about how hard and exciting transition can be!

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• Who Carrie is and how she got started. 0:00
• How do you find joy in your life? 8:27
• Can somebody come get me? -. 14:11
• If you don’t actively participate in those time periods, it’s not going to get better. 17:32
• How the pandemic threw a wrench into his life. 23:10
• “He who finds himself a joy does the winged life destroy. He who gives us the joy as flies lives in eternity”. 28:47
• Kiss the joy as it flies. 32:04
• People are so wonderful, they are. 36:39
• How do you let people back in after they’re no longer interested? 42:41
• Don’t let your brain take a backseat to your gut. 46:19
• Karen’s first experience with reiki. 50:32
• What’s the starting point of a health insurance fail? 55:51
• On the days that I don’t do those things I feel like the worst version of myself. 1:03:56
• Breaking away from codependency and being me. 1:07:29
• What makes you feel the most alive? 1:11:15
• What makes you happy? 1:17:49
• What makes Kelly happy other than dancing? 1:20:47
• The tension between women and light. 1:28:59
• Why are you getting that face on? 1:32:02
• The power of meditation to help you heal. 1:39:02
• It’s hard living with people. 1:44:37
• How do you figure out what works? 1:48:57
• What it’s like to have no cell phones in the 90s. 1:54:07

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 It was an honest raw fun conversation with my friend Tracie from breathing to finding your passion at any age. Thanks for hanging Tracie and enjoy everyone the go check out her songs on Spotify

Summary/Time stamps: 

• Welcome to the show. 0:00
• How did Tracy get into respiratory therapy? 2:19
• Codependency is real and it’s an area of my life. 9:39
• Saying “no” to people. 13:00
• Once you put someone on an event, they’re probably not coming off unless there’s a terminal illness. 18:45
• Unvaccinated and high velocity oxygen. 24:40
• The second worst day of intubation. 26:28
• You can’t sit there and tell me what is wrong with this vaccine when you don't even know what is in it. 32:01
• You can be a good person by walking away from people. 37:25
• Auntie Whitney’s moment of truth -. 40:43
• What do you call it when you don’t know what your purpose in life is? 46:23
• Everything happens for a reason is more of a religious concept. 50:48
• The 10 commandments are not written in stone. 55:06
• People of God don’t have to be like that. 1:01:12
• What does it mean to be “gay”? 1:05:16
• Bisexuality is different for men and women. 1:10:29
• No one just wants to satisfy someone else. 1:15:07
• The process of becoming a respiratory therapist -. 1:18:24
• How burnout impacts and changes people’s lives. 1:22:56
• Growing up listening to everything from Merle Haggard to Barry Manilow. 1:27:12
• What is a barre chord? How does it work? 1:34:18
• What if it ever gets cut out? 1:36:55
• How the recital

This week I’m sharing my conversation with Ryan Reed of High Striker Farm in Southern Maine. I was lucky enough to sit with Ryan after a private tour of his grow operation. Ryan and I get into all things cannabis. Our person experience and what we think about the cannabis community and cannabis in medicine. Join us at the kitchen table for a casual conversation over some local ciders and home grown flower. Find all the deets on the show page notes… 

Today’s episode I’ll introduce you to Dr. Alandi, a chiropractor, Yoga instructor and Reiki master. I have been seeing Dr. Alandi for about a year and a half. We sit down today to learn more about chiropractic care, bio-geometric mapping, and consciousness.  Join us for a fun, educational conversation about finding your balance and keeping your body in alignment. 

 David is his late 30s from just south of the Bay area. We get an overview of David’s physical and mental health complications. We also get into parenting advice, growing up Jewish and the history of science fiction. David and I have decided to do a special series of conversations to cover the many topics we find interesting or informative. Today get to know both David and I a bit more. 

Casual conversations and sharing of personal experiences have always been my favorite way of connecting and learning from others. Natural curiosity and a desire to understand others has led me to meet amazing people and hear some crazy stories. Those stories helped me to understand that living your truth will lead you to the best possible life. Through the Pod I hope to share others stories told with laughter, tears and understanding.  passing the knowledge and personal experience to help others avoid the pitfalls of life. Remind them of the many options to getting back up. Hitting bottom can be devastating at any height or depth. After all, the worst thing that has ever happened to you is the worst thing that has ever happened. My goal is to help people from getting hung up on the size of the trauma. Big T or little t, the only thing that should matter is that you recover. Through casual conversations about these serious experiences, I hope to inspire others to heal from their traumas and live a life filled with more joy and happy moments. The shit is going to come no matter so why look for it? Be present for the good times and enjoy them, when the shit comes, deal with it so you can get back to the bliss of life. 

 Consider this a soft place to land and tell your story. Help others learn from your experience. It has always amazed me how the more personal and vulnerable we are the more we connect to others.