The scene:
We are in my brother’s kitchen prepping lasagna for family dinner and game night with our mama.  Aaron is a damn fine chef.  I watch him work while I eat his entire jar of jelly beans - childhood redux.  Hah!  We just started all hanging as a family again in the last few months - since we all got our priorities straight and made being together #1.  We cook together and play either Golf, a card game, or Bones, dominoes.  I played Bones with him once and got so destroyed I have forbidden it henceforth ;)  These are some of the favorite moments of my entire life.  Join us in the heart of my brother's home!

Highlights:
+ Shit has to be used
+ Building your own kitchen
+ A pantry the size of a bedroom
+ Sally O’Malley on SNL
+ CaliSignsations custom signs
+ Getting kicked off Facebook, and TikTok
+ Growing up in a small town
+ Woodworking in high school
+ Tree trimming, coal and gas plants
+ The emotional part of sign carving
+ This guy gets around (the West)
+ Working creative hours
+ Friendship breakups
+ A backyard full of guacamole
+ Self-reliance works
+ Bromances
+ Three Jessicas
+ Being single looks good on you
+ Working 5 months per year
+ Being a carni at the county fair
+ Boundaries and giving
+ Folks, he’s an artiste!
+ Introverts are people readers
+ CA, OR, ID, AZ = fair circuit this year
+ Deep fried Philly cheese steak
+ Shitty people get run off
+ The chili scale educational
+ Don’t convince someone to love you

A taste:
“I don’t think I could do a 9-5 to be honest with you - just be in the same office daily.  Or like a car salesman - just walk the same old fuckin’ 3 lots every day of your life.  I’m just not that kinda guy.  I need to move.”

“I want to just hug everybody.  That’s who I am.  ‘Hey stranger!  Get over here you motherfucker!’  […]  I hug with my heart, it’s not just my arms.”

Favorite saying(s):
“Ain’t nobody got time fa dat!”
“Don’t sweat the petty stuff and don’t pet the sweaty stuff.” (that one's credit to our dad whom he hasn't spoken with in 20 years...)

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The Scene:
We are surrounded by 3,000 individual boxes of cookies.  This is Bexlie’s first year in the Girl Scouts and her first year selling cookies.  Big goals for this little gal is an understatement.  And I’m sure you’ll see why there is zero doubt in my mind that she will sell every dang last one of them.  At 9 years-old, Bexlie is more certain of herself than I am at 44.  She’s an inspiration to all, both in her drive and her pure character.  She shares her dreams and a scary medical situation that she’s handling like a champ.  Come talk cookies with us.

Highlights:
+ Guinness world record for youngest person interviewed on a podcast
+ Tate is Irish for cheerful
+ Rylan is Irish for joyful
+ Dance and piano
+ “I’m good at sales”
+ Really liking ballet
+ Almost old enough for toe shoes
+ What really motivates me
+ Helping your friends
+ Going door-to-door
+ Face time over texting
+ Wanting to be a baker
+ Wanting to be a plastic surgeon
+ I am smart enough to do it
+ The job is helping people
+ Dreaming of big spaces
+ Gardening our ingredients
+ Living in Utah for a safe environment
+ All four seasons
+ The spirit of immediacy
+ Being an entrepreneur
+ Confidence early in life
+ Business ethics
+ Good communication skills
+ Teaching your younger self
+ Having regrets about spilling things
+ We do our best
+ The human body has mistakes
+ Being very brave
+ Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis
+ Yanking tubes out
+ Thank you to the doctors
+ Parents are great

A taste:
“I like to cook a lot.  And when I was littler, I wanted to be a baker when I grew up.  […]  I just like to make food, it’s just like a passion and fun thing that I like.”

“Right under my vocal chords I have scar tissue and it closed my airway and it was the size of a matchstick. […]  The next day we have to go into an emergency surgery.  I was really scared.  My mom was there every minute of it.”

“We went to Minnesota to go to the Mayo Clinic because the doctor on the phone said that in the last 2 years there have been 4 cases of this because it’s like a really really rare disease, for my age.”

Favorite quote/saying/mantra(s):
Not really, no.

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Meet my mom - one of the most involved and joyful humans I know.  We are sitting in her living room in her “voice and music area.”  We get a free performance of her playing the ukelele, singing acapella and playing the piano.  Join us as we discuss all things singing - from reading music to competing to singing a completely different part than the person you’re standing next to.  Our conversation weaves it’s way around her journey through cancer and single mothering.  Join us for inspiration, laughter and heartfelt moments between a mom and her daughter.

Highlights:
+ Singing internationally
+ Acapella as an instrument
+ Being coached
+ Casually competing
+ What is backbeat?
+ Singing since high school
+ Dancing in a play with Alejandro
+ Playing the Uke in Berkeley in the 60’s
+ The joy of singing your heart out
+ Dancing with mom to Ariana Grande
+ Sweet Adelines international singing quartet
+ 50-80 singers in a regional chorus
+ Competing in Hawaii
+ How to get started with a chorus
+ Choreography with singing
+ Breath management
+ From rigid moves to personal expression
+ The Collective, Simon Lubkowski
+ The joy of sharing with others
+ Singing without reading music
+ Barbershop harmony
+ Choosing your geography for friendliness
+ Being choreographically challenged
+ Being a class clown
+ What is woodshedding?
+ What is Vibratto?
+ Singing YOUR style, your genre
+ Going to a movie by yourself
+ Finding your core community
+ Understanding others’ opinions
+ Laughter is the best medicine
+ Purpose
+ Starting piano lessons at 77
+ Everything you do is a building block
+ Being afraid of losing your mind
+ Feeling fortunate and lucky
+ Riding horses
+ Mom’s cancer journey
+ Approaching cancer with new meds
+ Bible studies lessons
+ Writing prayers down
+ Praying alleviates worry
+ Manifesting through action
+ Taking a day of rest…at 77
+ Planning for no stress
+ Choosing spontaneity
+ Mom has always known my beauty
+ Let your kids be who they are

A taste:
“Even if you’re not participating you can go watch.  When they get down to ten of the top quartets - in the world!  And ten of the top choruses - in the world!  Then you’re seeing some really good singing.”

“I have a sense of humor that some people don’t either get or appreciate.”

“Everything you do in life is a building block.  It might feel like a mistake and you might go down that path but in actuality it’s just another place to learn.  […]  It’s a mindset, you have to not beat yourself up so much and not be so critical of yourself and say, ‘What did I learn from that particular thing?’”

Favorite quote/saying/mantra(s):
“Praise the Lord!”
“You reap what you sow.”
Gratitude.

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We are sitting in Danielle’s house, which means the only thing separating us from the jungle - and the monkey families - is a few panes of glass.  Dream!  Her home is pretty much glass and screens.  It is structured such that one building holds her bedroom, bathroom, living room and office and another contains her kitchen hangout spot.  Like a hallway in a traditional house, a cute covered walkway connects the two.  The computer monitor is practically IN the jungle.  The vote is in, you CAN have it all at once :)  I’m trying to talk her into coparenting chickens…and maybe a goat with me.  Wish me luck!

Highlights:
+ Researching people to create solutions
+ Living in a jumanji jungle…with wifi
+ Earning points for doing good
+ Connecting community
+ “Upe!” is a doorbell
+ Falling into computer nerding
+ Creating for the end use
+ Having every kind of job
+ Choosing Costa Rica for 21 years
+ Living in an energetic vortex
+ Being an extroverted introvert
+ Independent to a fault
+ Learning to ask for help
+ Relying on close relationships
+ We’re all in this together
+ The telephone game
+ Depriving yourself to near death
+ Building security for self
+ Choosing YOUR life
+ The calendar struggle is real
+ We only have control of our response

A taste:
“I like knowing before I begin my process the history and the inner workings of who it is that I’m helping…what their goals are, their audience is, and really researching not just their background but other projects, like maybe not even directly associated or related that people might think, but I feel creatively match.”

Favorite quote/saying/mantra(s):
“Being comfortable in that space of nothingness.”

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This is a symphonic interview of Polish accent and language, Goku the Frenchie trying to lick the microphone, and the birds of Costa Rica singing to us at sunset.  We are lounging on Isabella’s back patio next to her lap pool and stationary bike, drinking natural fruit fizzies.  We have a very honest and frank conversation about our personal paths out of dark pasts that have brought us to gratitude and joy every day.  Isabella’s guidance in my yoga, meditation, and breath work classes have helped me reach new heights of personal realization.  This is her natural gift to the world - and she only just discovered it 4 years ago.

Interview highlights:
+ You must be like a tiger
+ The goal for the body is balance
+ Feeling what your students feel
+ When a door closes, open another
+ Make mistakes, take the lesson
+ The forest is the church
+ We rely too much on our sight sense
+ Being better for others
+ Changing self-criticism
+ Being true with your heart
+ Everyone has stress
+ We need sad to know happy
+ Keeping our energy
+ Becoming another from our upbringing
+ Gratitude instead of wanting
+ We want love, not cars and clothes
+ All life fixes come from our own fix
+ Life is a flow
+ Play with a lot of people

A taste:
“I always took care of another.  My life started changing when I started to take care of myself.”

Favorite quote/saying/mantra(s):
“Be thankful, be from the heart position.”

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While Chelsey may truly someday go to the pickleball olympics (sans digi-yuan), today we are discussing a few other less amazing (sarcasm) things about her life.  Every day for a month we’ve been sitting here together gazing out over Potrero Bay in Costa Rica, planning our days - yoga, paddle boarding, pickleball, swimming, house-building, medical clinic creating - and talking about all the important things in life - boys (to men), friends (over boys), singing Aaliyah’s “4-page letter” on repeat, the reflection of our self - that we see in others - which reveals our life lessons…  I drink espresso (or two) and roll a ciggy (or two).  Chelsey drinks chilled green tea.  We laugh, we cry, we get closer.

Interview highlights:
+ "Rock bottom"…in paradise
+ Giving up “control”
+ TIME with loved ones
+ Innovating in cancer care + prevention
+ When life flows with ease
+ Being consumed with power and success
+ Doubters are fuel for the fire
+ Don’t chase the money
+ Jumping into the deep end
+ HUMOR with serious shit
+ Taking care of you first
+ Living IN the dream
+ Square peg in a round hole
+ Finding your people

A taste:
“I just wish I could have started earlier, but I needed to go through all that shit - over and over and over again - to realize…it’s really really scary to take your foot off the brake and your hands off the wheel and just see what happens and to do things that aren’t the norm socially…and live outside the box, but I think that’s what we all should be doing.”

Favorite quote/saying/mantra(s):
“Set the world on fire.”
“Stay the course.”

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We are sitting in the motel “cafe” as I call it, which is also the hub for emotional healing.  Imagine a man who goes from being the highest level insurance investigator to a conduit of God - meet Dave.  We discuss choosing your geography before your livelihood and blessing every motel room so the user experience is a clean slate on life.  It was very important to Dave that this part of the ocean behind him be in his picture as this is where he's being called to receive his next direction.

Interview highlights:
+ God washing the slate clean
+ exiting corporate
+ “caught a lot of bad guys, saved a lot of money”
+ American men are their job
+ hard lessons are opportunities
+ doors close and windows open
+ looking for what feels right
+ working for who pays your mortgage
+ running a restaurant with no experience
+ a soup kitchen: The Common Good
+ how surviving cancer shapes your life
+ the new world builders will come from grace
+ visit from Charles: ex-military, minister, therapist
+ this place: one of three ecosystems worldwide

A taste:
“…during this [corporate dismissal] interview, I saw blue out of the left side of my head.  I saw an […] monochromatic expanding sky blue - it’s all one color how do I know it’s expanding? “

“I was pushed into this thing and developed this peace and this grace from what formerly was a den of iniquity.” 

“I’m making far less money than I ever did and I’m richer than I ever thought I would be.”

Favorite quote:
“Don’t sweat the small stuff.”

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Charlotte has been a lobster advocate since the age of 9.  This is the age she started spending her allowance money on purchasing them from the fishermen so she could release them back to their home in the sea.  Imagine those old salty dogs watching this spirited child.  Charlotte is still blowing people’s minds with her endless energy, enthusiasm, and boundary pushing.  Her main objective: to make the world a more joyful place for all beings.

Interview highlights:
+ destination: Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound
+ experiment: how to get a lobster high
+ Dostoyevsky and lobsters
+ “cute” dreams about law school
+ doing good through and through
+ the rabbit hole of compassion
+ learning KNOWING
+ how to get the attention of the feds
+ hotboxing Roscoe = a lobster bong
+ “Blueberry” is 1 in only 2.2 million blue lobsters
+ stress-free lobsters taste better
+ FDA-approved food additives: the GRAS list
+ modeling expandable industry standards

A taste:
“Sometimes something will just stick with you for a lifetime […] something you feel so much that it resonates in your system.  …I applied it to the Lobster Pound because I was thinking about all of the wonderful things this does but it was all at the expense of the lobster.  The quote from him [Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov]: ‘Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...'"

Favorite quotes:
“*%@$#& bleeeeeeeep! *&@^#%$”
“Everything happens for a reason.”

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Dani’s dad taught karate to Elvis. 
Dani’s life is equally chalk-full of amazing experiences and she is a fantastic storyteller.  We drink, we ride, we sing musicals, we laugh our asses off, we have visitors with conversations ranging from karaoke planning to roof repair.  Join us for just another day in our sister life together <3.

Interview highlights:
+ skiing for a living and not being a bum
+ managing 100 ski patrollers
+ when your dad is your best friend
+ escaping a shitty life pattern
+ there are no Winter vacations
+ saving lives / just fancy taxi drivers
+ a different office view every day
+ bloodys at Bunny’s
+ advice: find a higher paying job
+ skipping the college degree
+ being terrified and doing it anyway
+ lusting for your motorcycle
+ acknowledging that you kick ass
+ “The Dirty Dick”
+ casually carrying guns in your purse
+ oatmeal cookie shots = a good time
+ avalanche mitigation a.k.a. blowing shit up
+ the ZYN phenomenon

A taste:
“I don’t speak up for myself sometimes - over the years being a female in a leadership role I have been talked over.  I’ve brought ideas to a table in the middle of a meeting and those ideas were disregarded, but then 20 minutes later a guy brings it up and it’s uh, 'What a great idea!  I can’t believe we haven’t thought about that before!'”

Favorite quotes:
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph.”
“Past behavior is a predictor of future behavior.”

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Janelle tells me the only person in town who knows more people than me is the postal lady.
I absolutely love this compliment.  And Janelle is the biggest connector of people in this community.  She is literally a rolodex of anything anyone would ever need.  And she gives this information away freely.  [Apologies for some wind noise!  I’m still learning how to record and edit like a pro ;P]

Interview highlights:
+ shifting from the standard American diet
+ 6 miscarriages
+ eating food that is alive creates life
+ pharmaceutical sales rep to organic farmer
+ the more I learn, the more questions I have
+ creating any possibility in your life
+ SYNERGY in marriage
+ 3 goats, 22 chickens, and a vegan
+ faith creates confidence
+ Janelle saw me before I did
+ 1000-acre off-grid dream
+ the heartbreak of the truth
+ being fully expressed in your world
+ not relying on a govt bailout
+ what don’t I know that I don’t know

A taste:
“I think the health industry is not designed to get you better, but to numb your symptoms… […]  And in many other ways it continues to make you sick.”

“They eat more plant-based than most children do.  And they are more plant-based than my husband is.  So I try to get him not to sway or entice the children with these rich unhealthy foods.”

Favorite quotes:
“It’s easier to convince people of a lie than it is to convince them of the truth.”

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