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TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 001

Elaine Appleton Grant, Host: [00:00:05] Hi there, and welcome to the podcast about people who are taking a spark of an idea and making it real. Now. One More Shot. 

[00:00:21] I talk to guests honestly about their remarkable stories of reinvention and dig deep into the obstacles they faced and how they overcame them. 

[00:00:33] What was the role of saying out loud, "I want to make a film or I'm going to make a film?" What was...Did anything happen as a result of telling people?

Denise Soler Cox, Being Enye: [00:00:45] So oddly, here's the thing--I definitely sounded like one of those people I was like, you know, one day I'm going to make a movie, that's what I said. Like one day I'm going to make a movie, and it's going to be about all this stuff.

Elaine Appleton Grant, Host: [00:00:55] One day I'm going to write a novel? 

Denise Soler Cox, Being Enye: [00:00:57] Yeah. Yeah. One day, some day, when the planets are aligned, I always make a joke, I have enough money in my bank account, and I'm a size six and fit into all my favorite clothes...

Elaine Appleton Grant, Host: [00:01:04] Why don't we do the things that burn in our minds? Why don't we take action on our biggest ideas? We face real, tangible obstacles. 

William Loopesko, PuppTech: [00:01:13] I had dreamed about quitting my job for so long and about being able to walk into my boss's office, and say, I'm quitting and this is why and this is what I'm doing. But I was terrified of not having a paycheck.

Elaine Appleton Grant, Host: [00:01:26] And many of us face even more daunting challenges. The ones inside us. Perfectionism. Fear of failure. The Imposter Syndrome and simply not knowing where to start. I record some One More Shot interviews in the studio, and others, like this next one, on stage in front of a live audience.

Kari Knutson, "Ain't Never Met A Stranger": [00:01:46] That I want to say something out loud. And I just feel like I want to tell somebody. And she's like, "OK." And I said, "I want to do a one-woman show." And I whispered it like that. I don't know why, but I just was like, "I wanna do it," and she's like, "Why are you whispering?" I'm like, "I don't know." But it's that thing that you're scared to say out loud that I said it out loud. And then the world -- nothing came crashing down. No one was like, ha ha ha! Nobody said anything! She said, "Great, let's do it!"

Elaine Appleton Grant, Host: [00:02:11] One More Shot guests are career changers, entrepreneurs, artists and people who are using their talents to make the world a better place. They're risk takers, figuring out how to get married, or get divorced, to move across the country or overseas, to lose a lot of weight or bicycle through three countries or finally write that novel. Through these stories, I delve into the strategies that help people reinvent themselves to move from their old life to a new one, so that you can use them yourself. Here are a few of my guests recorded in the studio and live in front of an audience at Setting the Stage, a women's concert and connection event in Denver.

Elaine Hamel, Girls At Work: [00:02:54] You know when I started talking about giving girls power tools, everyone told me I was crazy. I'm still crazy.

Grace Estripeaut, Boost Your Zen: [00:03:01] So I'm in the plane with the CEO and, you know, he's having a drink, celebrating negotiations gone really well, and he looks at me and he goes, "I'm going to regret this conversation, but there's something about what you did there that's yours to do." 

Debbie Scheer, Humorist: [00:03:17] I'm going through something so scary, I should probably find something else that's even scarier to take my mind off this really scary thing. 

Elaine Appleton Grant, Host: [00:03:32] That was Elaine Hamel, who founded a nonprofit to teach at-risk girls how to build furniture with power tools and how to build their confidence at the same time. Grace Estripeaut, who founded a business to take meditation into the corporate world and Debbie Scheer, a stay-at-home mom who became one of Colorado's best known comedians.

I started One More Shot because I am wildly curious about people and especially how they make transformations in their lives -- how they reinvent themselves when they need to or simply want to. I'm a lifelong journalist and public radio broadcaster and I love hearing people's stories in my ears. I've had more than a few opportunities to take a One More Shot in my own life and I wanted to hear from others how they did it. What role does habit play? Discipline? Resilience? Support from friends? Money, time, the Imposter Syndrome, procrastination, accountability? These stories will tell you.

If you live in Denver or you're traveling to Colorado and you'd like to experience One More Shot live on stage, check my Web site, OneMoreShotPodcast.com, and join me in person. It's great fun. So where and how often can you find the One More Shot podcast? I'll post new episodes at least every two weeks on all of the normal podcast platforms, so subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like it, please share it with your friends and sign up on the mailing list at www.OneMoreShotPodcast.com to learn who's coming on the show next.

[00:05:16] And I want to hear your story. So write to me at [email protected] or follow 1MoreShotPod on Twitter and give me a shout. So what's your One More Shot? Let me know. I'm so curious. 

Elaine Hamel, Girls At Work: [00:05:34] So if you want it bad enough and if it's something that's going to help somebody else's life, you gotta just go for it. You gotta just trust that it's why you're here, and it's all that matters.

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