Welcome back, friends, to Season 2 of No Shame in The Home Game! This episode is all about embracing home management without any judgment, because, hey, we all know it’s about how it makes us feel, not just how it looks, right? We’re absolutely thrilled to be back, and we can’t wait to dive into this season with you. It’s been a journey filled with a few tears, a whole lot of joy, and the absolute pleasure of helping our participants find their groove at home.

Again this season, we’re featuring three incredibly brave participants, each at different stages in their lives, all with the common goal of making their homes work a little bit better for them. We’re going to share a bit about each of our participants – the amazing Tirra, the inspiring Ashley, and the incredible Theresa. Each of them has their own unique challenges and journeys with home management, and we can’t wait for you to meet them.

And hey, we’ve got something special for you too! We’re introducing the Home CEO course, specifically designed to help you get a handle on your own home management. But don’t worry, we’re all in this together, and there’s no judgment here, promise!

To wrap up this episode, we just want to share a few personal moments of gratitude. We might even talk about some of our other interests that aren’t exactly home-related, just to end things on a warm, cozy note. Thanks for tuning in, and we can’t wait to embark on this journey with you!

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Lacey:

Welcome to No Shame in the Home Game, the podcast that cares

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how your home feels, not looks.

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I am Lacey, your co

host here in season two.

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We're so excited.

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And here is Sara, our, hostess

with the mostest co host.

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Welcome.

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Hi, Sara.

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Sara: Hi, Lacey!

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I am so excited to hear that season two.

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I just, my heart is overflowed with joy.

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I can feel the tears coming up.

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This is, I've wanted this for so

long to help more people and it

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feels like it's coming together

and this season is so beautiful.

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It just, it fills my heart with joy.

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It's so beautiful.

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It's weird because I'm telling

the audience who hasn't listened

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yet, but we know what's coming.

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And it has reaffirmed the work that I do.

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I'm putting that joy ripple out

there and I can actually feel it.

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I can see it happening and it's so cool.

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Do you feel the

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Lacey: Absolutely, and I think, for

me, this season's a little different

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because, 1, I'm not a participant.

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you'll get updates about me and Joe

in our home and that kind of stuff.

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I'm sure and our postseason stuff, but

I, I don't know these people as well.

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our participant, Alex, she's

1 of my dearest friends.

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I really don't know these people and it's

been so fascinating to really come in as

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a complete outsider and hear these people

because all three of our participants are

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really in different stages of life, too.

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they've got different things going on.

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And so to hear how that.

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A lot of the same things, as I

know you've said before, Sara come

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up for them that come up for me.

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I just.

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I would say that I think there are a lot

more tearful moments this season too.

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idea what

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Sara: see the extension of your feelings

and the history and how it's affecting

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the feelings of those in your house, when

you really go into that mindset, That's

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when magic really starts to unlock.

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And I think season two feels a lot

different too, because with season one,

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season one, it was our first time around.

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Like we were really getting

our footing with the format and

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how we wanted to frame things.

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And so I felt like this season, I felt

like we were able to get to the meat

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of it a little bit quicker, which.

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Is worth to me.

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I love that part.

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I, that's the part I wanna get.

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I wanna get into the good juicy inside.

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I felt like it was more, I don't

wanna say compact, that's not the

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right word, but it was more hearty.

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I don't know, do, what's

the word I'm looking for?

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Like that mors, that

goody morsel was there

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Lacey: It's juicy,

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it's, yeah, you get to

the heart of it faster,

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Sara: two is juicy.

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Lacey: we'll tell you more this season

later on, but Sara and I wanted to take

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the opportunity in this 1st episode

of the season to just reintroduce

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you to how this is going to work,

what we hope you come into it mindset

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wise with and all of that stuff.

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So just a quick reminder that

here at No Shame in the Home Game.

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We are going to tell the story of our

three participants who are making changes

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over the course of three months, and

we are going to check in with them.

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Every month to see, how

suggestions that Sara has made

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change things and adjustments.

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And so we're going to get

to visit them 3 times.

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And each time we get a little bit

deeper into their home and how

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it runs and why it runs the way

that it runs really to highlight.

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We all have a lot of the same issues.

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And a lot of the same hangups

and that we are not alone when

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it comes to our home management.

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Check

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Sara: Which is exactly the core

root of why I started, why I

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invented home management consulting.

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Because I was in so many homes,

and I was hearing the same thing.

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Things don't feel good, they're

not smooth, everyone else can do

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it better, I don't know what to do.

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But we weren't all saying it in the open.

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And that's why I feel like No

Shame is so powerful, because

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it's taking away that facade.

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Of peachy keen, and we can all just

admit, I want this to feel better.

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How do you do it?

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Right?

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So the goal is, is that you listen.

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And Lacey said, there's going

to be something inside that

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you're going to connect with.

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It may not be each

participant's origin story.

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It may not be each of the

participants particular.

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Cause we hone in on one thing

that we want to work on.

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Because that's realistic with

three episodes, we're not going to

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tackle everything, but you might

hear something, a mindset, a tip,

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a tool, something that is going to

go, Oh, that's something I can use.

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And I also want to remind our audience.

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we are so appreciative that these three

participants are opening up the door

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to their home and they're showing us

the inner workings of their house.

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And that's a vulnerable space.

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So let's just take a moment to appreciate.

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I always hear about those shows

where it's couples therapy or

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something where it's a reality show.

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And these people are being

like so vulnerable, right?

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And I'm like, wow, like that's a strength

to be that, that open and vulnerable.

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So let's honor and respect that the people

are showing us what isn't feeling good.

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And they're willing to share

that for the benefit of others.

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Lacey: Yeah, and I think it's also

important to highlight that people

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can be vulnerable like this when it

is an environment of no judgment.

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And that's right.

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No shame.

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We are not here to judge.

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How they do things.

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We're not here to judge how we do things.

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It is a shame free space where

we're tackling the problem as

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it is not as we think it should

be or all of these other things.

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I think it's important for

you, dear listener to remember.

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There ain't no judgment here.

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This is a judgment free zone and

hopefully that can also lead into

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your own home management to stop the

judgment because it's hard not to.

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Sara: Well, and on that note.

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I love that whole thing

from that hair club for men.

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I'm not just the president.

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I'm a member too.

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Like every time I do one of these

episodes, I'm reminded of the shame

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and the guilt that I, I may not

realize cause it's not screaming, but

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I uncover another layer for myself.

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Oh, I'm actually really draining

my energy when I shame myself for.

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I don't know, not making more

nutritious meals every single

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day of the week, or when I'm not

nailing my grocery plan every week.

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So it is also reminding me how much

I need to, not forgive isn't the

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right word, but accept, just accept.

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Because life, is not always

a bowl of sunshine and roses.

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And Life just keeps happening,

which during this season, you will

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actually hear with our participants.

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We really embrace what life is

throwing at each of our participants.

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We roll with it.

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There's always this feeling of oh,

I'm sorry I didn't get to ABC because

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of All these things that happen

and it's just yep, that's life.

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Yep.

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Let's, we're not going to edit out life.

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This is what's really

happening behind in your house.

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and let's fold it in because good

intentions are awesome, but then we

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have to flex and allow for reality.

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Lacey: I think another thing this

season that we really highlight to.

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that is so beneficial for me.

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Is the fact that just one tiny

step moves you closer to what

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you want and how you feel.

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No adjustment is too big, too small.

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Whatever feels the best is the right path.

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And we've talked about

this many a times before.

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Your house is different than their house.

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It's different than my house.

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It's different to Sara's house.

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And what needs to be

done is different too.

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Very much just, I love our little

space of no judgment and this is how

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it is and all of that good stuff.

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Sara: I love it too.

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I feel like a mama bird.

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Have you ever actually seen a chicken when

the little baby chicks go under the mama?

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Have you ever seen that?

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Lacey: I've never actually seen it.

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I, my brain pictured something,

but I don't know if it's right.

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Sara: a really safe place to show

up and to not be judged and to

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feel like you can share what's

going on and to feel supported.

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And that is, the extension of no shame

in the home game and sharing the middle.

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It's just mama bird, come here.

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Like all you little bit.

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Come here.

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I want to give you the safe.

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My neighbor has chickens.

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So I've got to witness a lot

of chicken things and that's.

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That's why my analogy went there.

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I also really like to mama bird people.

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Lacey: you're very good at it.

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Sara: so if you're listening to this

season, last season, this season, whatever

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you resonate with and if something in

your heart just wait, there's a chicken,

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Lacey: Did you call a chicken to you?

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You have binoculars right there by you.

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Sara: Yeah.

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Okay.

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So if you listen to season

one, you know, I'm a bird nerd.

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Lacey: I'm taking a screenshot of this.

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I

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Sara: I'm going to have to go mama

bird those chickens after this.

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Anyone who's listening, if you get

that little warm, fuzzy feeling.

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And you just feel that recognition

of acceptance, what are those

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warm fuzzy feelings that you feel

when we're recording or listening?

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Lacey, do you get any of those?

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I do.

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Lacey: What would I call them?

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I

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Sara: Fuzzy nuggets?

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Lacey: don't know.

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That sounds a little weird to me.

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I think of chicken nuggets and then I

don't want my chicken nuggets to be fuzzy.

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We just talked about chickens.

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Home tingles, right?

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Sara: Thank you.

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Hong tingles.

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If anyone gets those good

feelings inside, come join.

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Like you can get more of those.

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That's, that is why Lacey

and I are working together.

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Cause we want to spread

those yummy, good feelings.

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Mhm.

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Mhm.

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Sara: One of our participants, Tyra.

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Lacey: Lights up.

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a room and we feel it

miles and miles away.

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She is magnetic and every time we

are done talking to her, Sara and

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I both are like, I feel amazing.

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She's amazing.

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She's magic.

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I think is what I said last time.

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Sara: I've been so lucky.

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I support the participants between

episode recordings and I've done a lot

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of back and forth with Tyra over Voxer

So we do audio messages and I texted her

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one day and I said your voice is like

sunshine And it was actually a really

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good tool for me because when she would

slip into the mindset Sort of that old

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mindset that was weighing her down.

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I could actually hear it in her

voice and I could see it on her face.

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And it was night and day and I was

like, Oh, that's how did we get there?

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Okay.

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And so when she's in

that sunshine magnetic.

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That's when the stuff is happening

and it's unlocking and it's clicking.

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And then as soon as those

shame, that's what it was.

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It was those shame thoughts.

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I don't want to give too much

away, but there's a teaser for you.

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you get to witness some

real time shifting.

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It's amazing.

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Lacey: it is.

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So we have, Tyra, who is a retired

homeschool mom and her, process

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of turning her home into a post.

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School, right?

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Going into this aspect of retirement,

being able to focus on herself

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and her businesses, she's so cool.

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Sara: I want a spinoff podcast called

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Lacey: time with Tyra.

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Sara: time with Tyra.

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Yeah.

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I love her story and journey

because it goes to show about how

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every phase in your life, it's

different requirements and needs.

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Your home serves many

purposes any given day.

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But then if you look at different time

periods in your life What needs to happen

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really changes and to be aware of that.

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And I think that's what we did a lot

for her is to shine the awareness on.

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It was a different chapter in her life.

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and we get to help her through that.

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I went clothes shopping the other day and

I said to the lady, when I was checking

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out, I said, Oh, I just got to that

point where I'd open up my closet and

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it felt like somebody else's clothes.

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So if you're walking around your

house and there's a part of your house

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where you just feel like this isn't

mine, like this feels like a previous

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version of me or somebody else's.

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Yeah, that means you're in a

different chapter in your life.

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And you have to

intentionally shift things.

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Lacey: it takes time to shift things.

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It's not going to happen all at once,

I think is another big thing that we

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forget, it's not like, I woke up today

and everything is done for me and it's all

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perfect, hunky dory, sunshine rainbows,

no, it takes time, takes emotions,

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it takes effort, and it's, Yeah, her

story is special and we adore her,

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we are also going to be following Ashley

this season Ashley feels like she has her

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life together so much that it almost feels

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like she shouldn't need her.

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Sara: Yeah.

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oh, completely.

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So Ashley jokes that me and her are

twin flames, which I think is hilarious.

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The work she does, she is an

occupational therapist by training.

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And then when lots of things

change, she ended up shifting her

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focus to Calendars and planners.

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And how do you communicate

as a family unit?

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So no one person is, knows

everything that's going on.

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And so she applied that

occupational therapy mindset of

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reducing the points of friction.

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And so the way I see things in a

very tangible way, she's doing.

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All of the appointments and lists

and so she's doing all that.

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So yes, we speak very

much the same language

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and we're talking.

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I'm like, I don't, how can I help you?

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Lacey: But I think it's really

important and I think that's 1

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of the reasons why it's so great.

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We're working with her is even people

that we think have everything all

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together and perfect and planned and

because her planners are like, beautiful

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and simplistic and just gorgeous and.

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Sara: wait.

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We got to do, shout out dovetail

designs, calendars, planners,

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meal systems, analog and digital.

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I'm a convert.

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Go ahead.

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Sorry.

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I interrupted you,

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Lacey: Even she, and we're

only going to tackle one.

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We ended up actually having

quite a few different things

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we talked about in her house.

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Even she has this strain that is pulling

her energy down, that is not making

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her own feel how she wants it and that,

it should be better, should be this.

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She also has four kids, which

every time we talk, I'm like,

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Oh my gosh, you are amazing.

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How do you do this?

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Sara: And run a business and

she has multiple animals.

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I know.

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She's just one of those Energizer bunnies.

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What I like about

Ashley's is she very much.

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Is already on board with what I call

like the home CEO, junior mindset of

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your children are going to be managing

their own living spaces one day.

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And so setting them up with the

tools of success, she has a space

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that they are supposed to manage,

but she can't be totally hands off.

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She's finding that bridge between

how do I let them have this space and

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ownership and yet still maintain it.

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And It's totally different.

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each participant is so different, but

she has a great mindset about that.

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She needed help thinking it out of

how do we go about this and tackle it.

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Ashley's fun.

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Her type of humors.

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I like

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it.

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Lacey: too.

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It always takes me by surprise.

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That's what I love about it.

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Then we have Teresa who, struggles

a lot with meal planning and

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feeding her family and all of the

stuff that goes along with that.

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Sara: Yes.

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So full disclosure, Teresa and I have

known each other for quite a long

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time We used to live right around the

corner from one another but we live

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in different states now So there's

a level of comfort with Teresa that

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you'll hear is a little bit different

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so I also know how she approaches things.

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So I had, a leg up on knowing

how she was approaching it.

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And I really saw with

Teresa mindset was actually.

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Going to be more 70 30, 70 percent

mindset, because she was juggling,

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as you'll hear, she's juggling a lot.

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She kept her expectations the same.

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And it's just, I, one of the tenants

I always say is, if you can't dip

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into your three buckets of resources,

then expectations need to shift.

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And I know we were able to make

a shift with her that was pretty

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powerful and was able to unlock a whole

avenue of options once she relaxed

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into this new expectation mindset.

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And I was really excited for her because

that was really draining her energy.

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So that felt powerful too.

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Lacey: and, Teresa, she has an

energy that's like a warm blanket

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to me of Oh, I just enjoy.

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Hearing her talk and it really

helps that spoiler alert.

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She gets a puppy and then Sara and I watch

the puppy Wow, she talks at one point.

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So there's lots to come with that

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, Sara: Theresa is so funny the way she's

just like, let's add this in, she's

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almost got a very Alex vibe that way,

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where it's just like, yeah,

let's do this and this.

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So yeah, the new puppy was funny.

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And Also, side note, Teresa's a massage

therapist and I have to say a massage

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by Teresa is another worldly experience.

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She is so in tune with the body

and the healing and the letting go.

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, you can see the way she just she connects

and that's where her strengths are that's

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where her so she was expecting Herself

to be not only the best masseuse But the

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best home cook and the best Dog trainer

that felt very valuable So that she can

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go to work because she loves what she does

But she can go to work and show up and

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give the best There goes that ripple that

1 percent ripple so she can show up and

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give a 1 percent more to her clients So

they feel 1 percent better going out into

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the world that felt really powerful and

again knowing her as a Friend, it means

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so much to me to be able to work with her,

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Lacey: and I really feel like I she

and I connected about a lot of those

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same like Shoulds and all that stuff.

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yeah, each of our participants this season

are so cool and special in their own ways.

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And I am so honored to be.

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Really just a spectator in their journey.

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Sara does the work and I'm just

like, oh, my gosh, this is great.

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Sara: I couldn't do it without you.

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And that's, but that goes back

to some of the tenants of home.

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CEO is recognizing what needs to be done.

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Who does what better?

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And why your values like we're doing

this cause we are very passionate

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about helping people enjoy life more.

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We know why we're putting the work in.

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We know where Lacey's skills are and

they are not where my skills are.

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We are very two different

skill set people.

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Lacey: Go back and listen to

our human design episodes and

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you'll hear a lot about that.

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Sara: Every episode we

end, I just feel so good.

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Like so warm and gooey.

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I always just be like, Oh,

everything's good, man.

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Lacey: you are magic.

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Our participants each have several

times said in some way or another.

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That you are magic.

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So of course you feel that way.

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Sara: But that's what's so cool

is I'm not magic in a vacuum.

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It's a two part chemical formula.

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I'm only magic when people are

open to the process and they

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do the back and forth with me.

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That's where the magic,

it has to be both people.

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I can't come in and do anything

unless somebody is showing up.

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So there's, Oh, I just got goosebumps.

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Cause it is like magic

and it is so much fun.

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it's just so much fun when

people are open to it and it's so

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Lacey: We, we hope that, our dear

listeners get a little bit of that

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magic too, cause it's so great.

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It really is.

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Sara: It is so good.

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Mhm.

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Mhm.

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Sara: just A reminder too, No

Shame in the Home Game is based

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off of the work that I do.

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Which we are putting into

a course called home CEO.

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Not every single person can

be a participant on the show.

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Not every single person I

can work with one on one.

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I only have so much time in the day.

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I went from one-on-one consulting to doing

a podcast so I could help more people.

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And then we created the course

to help even more people.

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So if you are looking for solutions and

you like the process and approach that we

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do on this podcast, home, CEO is a DIY.

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These are the steps, this is how we do it.

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And so you can start to

implement some of those steps.

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Lacey: And so we've been talking

about OMCEO for over almost a

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year now, and it is happening.

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we have All the elements all together,

and, we'll be launching it, at the

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end of March is our current plan.

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it is happening.

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for realsies.

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Sara: It is happening and I have trusted,

I've really been focusing on it is going

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to happen at exactly the right time.

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We haven't pushed, we've

been really excited,

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Lacey: So

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Sara: but we haven't pushed.

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We've just allowed each piece to

unfold exactly as it's needed to.

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Which feels much better

than pushing the solution.

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Lacey: and it also is

getting bigger and bigger.

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I feel like every day, we're like,

oh, we should add this, and this video

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should go with this worksheet, and da.

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that's also part of it.

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Sara: I feel very expansive when I did the

home harmony program with Corey Whiteland,

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our executive functioning coach expert.

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It was supposed to start out as a

20 minute conversation, me and her.

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And then that turned into, Hey,

we should make this a course.

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I thought it was going to

be three 15 minute videos.

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It turned into three 45 minute videos.

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So there's just, it's I

want to help everybody.

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So I just keep mushrooming it out because

I want it to be more and more, but.

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Yes, it's got to just

come out at some point

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Lacey: And it will.

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Sara: and it will, and it

is, we're in the future now.

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It is out.

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Lacey: It is out.

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We've made it happen.

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Got a few

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tweaks and finishing work

to do, I personally am not a

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home management consultant.

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I am barely a home management co host.

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I have taken a lot of the tools in HomeCEO

and it has really helped my household.

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Every single piece of it is maybe not

going to be for you, and that's fine.

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So remember, just one little step.

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One percent better.

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It's the magic of compound interest.

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A little bit, and a little bit.

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And over time, it becomes a lot.

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Sara: Yes.

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And anyone listening, because Lacey

just gave that full disclaimer of

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not being a home management expert.

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And I just want to say, this is

not something I was born with.

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I very much learned through struggle.

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Lacey: it's

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Sara: good.

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How can I do this differently?

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I am very much the person who's I've

done this, I've seen what's worked, I've

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done this, I've seen what doesn't work.

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I've very much been in the trenches,,

I don't want anyone to be intimidated.

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You know, when you see the covers on

those like really nice magazines of

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everything's color coded and everything's

perfect and nothing's out of place and

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there's no dust, that's not what I am.

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That's not what this is.

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This is.

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Let's make your home operation

smoother, whatever that looks like.

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Lacey: whatever it looks like, and

hopefully it looks like how you

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want it and how it works for your

home and how it makes you feel good.

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Sara: This is the start of

a really happy revolution.

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Lacey: Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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we're excited for you to hear season 2.

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since we're kicking off the season

and we're doing our participant

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episodes, they are every week.

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So every Friday, you'll get a new

episode of no shame in the home game and.

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Sara, and I cannot wait

for you to join us.

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Sara: We're very excited.

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Thanks for coming along with this journey.

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Lacey: I'm so excited.

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I'm always excited.

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We should still do what, what

we're feeling grateful for,

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Sara, at the end of this episode.

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Sara: Anyone who's new here, we do

Moments of Gratitude at the end.

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Which, oh my gosh, full circle,

this is based off of Moments

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of Zen from The Daily Show.

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Jon Stewart.

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Lacey: on Mondays!

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Sara: So that's going to be my moment

of happiness because Jon Stewart, he

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doesn't know it, but he is sort of a

foundation in my scaffolding of coming

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of age, of learning how to think

critically, but with humor, I remember

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when he first took over the Daily

Show and that was a staple for me.

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And when he left.

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it was really, that

was a big thing for me.

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And so with him coming back and

it's just on Mondays, but I eat it

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up and it is so good for my soul.

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And again, it's that whole, like we

can do tough things and still laugh

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because if you don't laugh, you're

not going to do the tough things.

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Jon Stewart, you are my

masthead on this ship.

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Lacey: The ship of life.

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Sara: On the ship of life.

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I said that just to be silly.

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Cause I pictured, like back in the

day when they had like those women,

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those busty women and they'd be on the

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Lacey: Well it's a

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Sara: I was just picturing,

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Lacey: She's got the flowing hair

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and yeah.

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Sara: I just pictured Jon Stewart

like on the front of a ship,

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like hanging out over the water.

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Lacey: His pen is like poking out.

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yeah.

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I can see

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it.

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I see it in my mind's eye.

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I am, feeling grateful for

historical romance novels and genre.

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I had a strong historical romance

period in my, Late teens, and right now

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I've just picked it back up, and the

joy that it brings me, it just does.

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specifically really into Tessa

Dare books right now, NBD.

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don't tell me what to read, because

then I'll resent it and then not read

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it, because that's what I did with

Bridgerton, is everybody was like, watch

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Bridgerton, and I'm like, don't tell me

what to do, and I just not watched it.

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So, I am feeling grateful for the books

themselves, but also, rediscovering a

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part of myself that I haven't, enjoyed, I

don't know, it's just, it's making me very

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happy because I'm thinking of, my friend

who I've read them with and we would talk

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about them and it was, like, scandalous

for us, and all of those different things.

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So I'm just really, I'm enjoying

and basking in that enjoyment.

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Sara: I love that for you.

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Oh.

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Yeah, that's your joy fuel.

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I love

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Lacey: it.

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it is, And I also, it's a, I think

when I was younger, it was a shameful

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thing that I liked my romance novels,

specifically historical romance, because

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they usually get like the, they get

made fun of for the Fabio on the front

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type thing and that kind of stuff.

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And it's no, I know a lot

about:

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Do you?

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Sara: you were gonna, I thought,

and I was looking forward to you

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more specifically saying, I know

a lot about:

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Do you?

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Nazimulai, tell me more.

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We just discovered a new spinoff podcast.

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Lacey: I will say, I don't know

how accurate these books are.

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they're definitely through

a lens of present day, but

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it is, it is not shameful.

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It is joyful and, Whether that's

a joy that you have or not.

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Just love what you love.

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Sara: See, you sound

a little high too now,

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Lacey: do!

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I do.

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You get start getting me to

talk about roads and how cool

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I think systems of roads are.

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And we'll get

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Sara: That's one of my

favorite season one highlights.

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You talking about roads.

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Oh my goodness.

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We're here for the wacky.

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I hope you y'all are

along for the wacky ride.

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You don't have to be wacky, but You

have to appreciate Wacky, because

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we're gonna dish that out every now

and then when you least expect it.

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:

Lacey: did I think this podcast

episode was going to end with,

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No, I didn't.

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But here we are and I'm so happy for it.

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Sara: that's why I love our talks.

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You never know what

we're gonna talk about.

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Did you know I was gonna talk about

chickens that were halfway between

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my house and my neighbor's house?

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You didn't know

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Lacey: out the binoculars

is a high point of my life.

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I have a screenshot.

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I'm going to post it.

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Like I, it just felt so,

so good in the moment.

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So genuine.

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.

Sara: So then we end it, you say, Thank you

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Lacey: Sara

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Sara: thank you, Lacey.

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