"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

That's the Shakespeare quote I was trying to remember in my introduction for this episode. Bridget Pilloud is, among many other interesting things, an animal communicator and the owner of Pets Are Talking. I first got to know her when my beloved schnoodle, Lucky, had a huge benign growth in his mouth that had grown back after surgery. It was a quality of life thing, and I didn't know what to do. I found Bridget and between the three of us, Lucky and I both found the courage to let him go. Since then, Bridget has helped me say goodbye to several animals whose time had come, to check in with my current menagerie of dogs, horses, parrot, and cat, and to prepare them for times when I would be away from home for an extended period of time. I've stopped wondering if this is some kind of trick or wishful thinking on my part and have come to accept Bridget's intuition and friendship as a great blessing in my life.

We talked about a lot of things in this pre-COVID conversation at the beginning of 2020, but we didn't stray far from animals.

SHOWNOTES
You can find Bridget at https://www.petsaretalking.com/

Yes, I begged in this episode's ad. Please post a review for WTF...it will help others find out about it.

WTF music is “Zendigi” written and sung by my wonderful friend Mahsheed Rajaee

You can reach me through my website at https://www.trishlambert.com

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This episode of WTF features Marie Prosser, a friend acquired through mutual affinity for the works of JRR Tolkien. She is show runner for The Silmarillion Film Project, a podcast I co-host with Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen and my pal Dave Kale. 

"My Word," my solo segment, focuses on a fake Chinese curse that is relevant at the moment.

Show Notes: 

This conversation took place on December 30, 2019 

Credits and contact info:
Music is “Zendigi” written and sung by my wonderful friend Mahsheed Rajaee
Reach Trish through her website at https://trishlambert.com
Follow her on Twitter @tolkienmaven 

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This episode of WTF features Laurie McMenamin, who has had “big earth momma energy” for the 20+ years that I’ve known her. We muse about the third phase of a woman’s life, the Crone Years, how that looks to each of us, and how we see that phase being reviled or revered in society as a whole.

My Word, my solo segment, focuses on two words that involve facial features to describe a state of mind.

Note: This conversation took place on December 30, 2019, 

Links for this episode:

About Hellerwork, the wellness discipline that Laurie has practiced for over 30 years: https://hellerwork.com/

Credits and contact info:

Music is “Zendigi” written and sung by my wonderful friend Mahsheed Rajaee

Reach Trish through her website at https://trishlambert.com

Follow her on Twitter @tolkienmaven 

Become a patron of WTF! A mere $2 monthly subscription gives you access to the show chat channel on Discord so we can talk freely about the show or whatever. And $5 per month gets you a link to the full unedited conversation with show guests, all the ah, ums, and tangents. Go to the page at https://www.patreon.com/womentalkingfreely.

My guest in this episode of WTF is Kristy Swift, my honorary little sister and friend who consistently keeps me laughing and inspired. We range over a lot of topics that cross the Pacific (from her native Australia) and the Atlantic (from her current home in the UK), all within the context of giving your living space a light cleaning while listening to us talk freely.

My Word, my solo segment, focuses on a word that prompted me to wax philosophical about the sine wave that is human civilization.

Show Notes: 

Note: This conversation took place on December 26, 2019, 

Links for this episode:

The Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com

Credits and contact info:

Music is “Zendigi” written and sung by my wonderful friend Mahsheed Rajaee

Reach Trish through her website at https://trishlambert.com

Follow her on Twitter @tolkienmaven 

Become a patron of WTF! A mere $2 monthly subscription gives you access to the show chat channel on Discord so we can talk freely about the show or whatever. And $5 per month gets you a link to the full unedited conversation with show guests, all the ah, ums, and tangents. Go to the page at https://www.patreon.com/womentalkingfreely.

My guest in this episode of WTF is Karen Swim, a stellar business owner and all-around wonderful person. We talk about the status of women in the workplace, particularly women entrepreneurs, and then widen the topic to consider generational and gender contrasts.

My Word, my solo segment, focuses on two words and the epidemic of improper usage that is DRIVING ME NUTS!

Note: This conversation took place in December of 2019, 

Links for this episode:

Karen’s PR/content business: https://wordsforhirellc.com/

Solo PR Pro site: https://soloprpro.com/

Freshbooks: https://www.freshbooks.com/

Buzzsprout  https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=281066

Credits and contact info:

Music is “Zendigi” written and sung by my wonderful friend Mahsheed Rajaee

Reach Trish through her website at https://trishlambert.com

Follow her on Twitter @tolkienmaven 

Become a patron of WTF! A mere $2 monthly subscription gives you access to the show chat channel on Discord so we can talk freely about the show or whatever. And $5 per month gets you a link to the full unedited conversation with show guests, all the ah, ums, and tangents. Go to the page at https://www.patreon.com/womentalkingfreely.

My guest in this first fully official episode of WTF is Kay Hardiman, who is the most bloodthirsty hobbit of my acquaintance. Which is to say that we play The Lord of the Rings Online together, and that is where our friendship started. Kay is officially a Millennial and I’m officially a Boomer, and we talked about how to make a living and live independently through the lens of generations.

"My Word," my solo segment, focuses on the word mettle and how I associate that with the notion of the road less traveled.

SHOW NOTES

Note: This conversation took place in December of 2019, so the “holiday season” may come up here and there.

 | 1:56 | Guest Introduction
 | 3:49 | What’s on Kay’s mind? Money and generations
 | 8:00 | Kay sleuths a comparison to costs and income from 40 years ago
 | 23:30 | How computers have changed the way jobs get done and how Boomers may not appreciate the difference… and other Boomer misconceptions about computers
 | 27:48 | Kay confesses to a very “non-computer-y” childhood
 | 33.35 | Pondering how much the whole work environment has changed
 | 38:45 | The joy of video gaming
 | 44:34 | My Word: Trish takes on mettle and its relationship to the road less traveled

EPISODE LINKS

The Lord of the Rings Online
Article about unemployment
Buzzsprout  

 
CREDITS/CONTACT INFO

Music is “Zendigi” written and sung by my wonderful friend Mahsheed Rajaee

Reach Trish through her website at https://trishlambert.com

Follow her on Twitter @tolkienmaven 

Become a patron of WTF! A mere $2 monthly subscription gives you access to the show chat channel on Discord so we can talk freely about the show or whatever. And $5 per month gets you a link to the full unedited conversation with show guests, all the ah, ums, and tangents. Go to the page at https://www.patreon.com/womentalkingfreely.

This is another pre-launch ditty...this time it's an apology for having been silent for so long and missing my commitment to a summer launch of the WTF podcast. I do offer an explanation that in no way excuses me but might shed a little light on the reason for the silence.

I have made a new commitment--January 2020. New decade, new podcast series!

Here it is! The pilot episode of Women Talking Freely!

• Liz tees up communication as a topic on her mind.
• Frat brother story
• Oakland teacher story
• Trish’s two cents
• Book club story
• Trish takes over
• The idea of an interview debrief
• Move on to the next opportunity
• Trish again!
• It’s a skill set
• Find what works
• Advice Liz got
• Liz reactions to advice
• Performance art
• More confetti gun!
• Pragmatic dating
• Wrap up

NOTE: I've marked this as "explicit material," but it's pretty mild. I'm not quite sure where the line is on this one.

Attention!

A new podcast is on the horizon! Women Talking Freely is about women sharing what's on their minds, no matter how big and serious or small and trivial. It's about the lives of women in all sorts of situations with diverse experiences, passions, and opinions. 

Your host, Trish Lambert, is a freely-talking woman who got frustrated with the female-led podcasts available to her, and decided to do something about it. There are no specific agendas here, no topics out of bounds, and flogging of books, products, and businesses is okay but not required. 

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