Well, welcome to our experiment, the one hundred person Project. Simple questions
for one hundred people. I'm Bill Correll and this is my investigation. It's
actually a research project to gather data from one hundred beautiful human beings for the
sole purpose to see what actually happens in the interviews. Now, the questions
are going to be all fixed and the interviews will remain consistent with the variable
being the actual participants themselves. And it's almost as if I'm having you come
sit on my porch, Genevieva, to share your ideas so I can learn
about people. We're looking forward to what we're going to discover when we're done,
and not quite sure what it's going to be. But this is going
to be fun. So you'll get to know our guests through the interview and
let's dive in. It's my distinct pleasure to introduce my guests. Well,
how about I let you do it for me. What is your full name,
Genevieva Putty a person so lovely? Tell me about that middle name.
That's that's beautiful, thank you. So actually Padilla is because it is actually
my maiden name. I have to maintain it due to my native American ancestry.
Nice, good for you. So what is your favorite nickname that most
people don't know? I would say Viva, and a lot of people call
me that because it means life. It does Eva le fronts right, right.
So when did you first note us what color hair you had? Oh,
that's interesting. Maybe when I was younger, I guess. I don't.
I don't know. You know, I've definitely different color. It's gotten
lighter as I've gotten older, for sure. Do you have a time when
you noticed that you had hair? Probably maybe when I was in kindergarten.
Yeah, yeah, I always had really really long hair. Interesting. Now,
what is your favorite thing to do to intentionally waste time? Oh,
intentionally waste time? I don't know. I don't really like wasting time,
So that's a difficult question. I guess maybe it would be to primp myself,
you know, just to I think that's a big time wister. You
spend much time doing that, truthfully, possibly, And I know I'm pretty
social, so I don't know if that's a time waster. So that's kind
of an odd question. They're all odd. Yeah, So we'll move on
to the next one. What is your favorite movie? To watch alone Guilty
Pleasures. Huh. I would say it's a Diane Keaton movie and oh gosh,
I can see his face and I can't. Ah. It was based
in I want to say, off of Cape cod or something are the Hampton's
and uh, Diane Keaton, and it was about this couple or these two
that meet. They're both successful, they're both in denial there there, They've
got a lot of life experience. And you know what, the name of
that movie actually eludes me. But for some reason, it's so peaceful because
maybe that it's where I'm at in life. But I'm sorry. The title
is definitely escaping me feeling pressure. What's unimportant is what the title. What
is important is how it makes you feel. And I appreciate you expressing that.
Mm hmm. Yeah, it's I think it's just two people who've gone
through life and they're successful, but they're jaded in relationships, and then they're
coming to the realization that they want a long term partner in life that's committed
to each other and supportive of each other's endeavors. And I think they form
a friendship through an interesting trauma. The gentleman Jack Nicholson something's got to give.
That's the name of it. There you go, see what happens when
we take the pressure off. Yes, it's a beautiful thing. It is
a beautiful thing. No good And so you think you'll watch it again sometime
this week. It's a good possibility now that you've mentioned that. I haven't
watched it a while. Yeah, all right, So number six, you
were to have an action figure made of you, Viva, what superpower would
it have and what would the colors of its uniform be? Huh? I
think the colors of the uniform would be gold. And the superpower that we
would have is feeling capabilities. Hmmm. Say some more about that. Well,
my Native American name actually is Medicine Eagle. My father, who is
a registered we're both registered in the Yestta delsor Peblo, which means little Island
of the South. It's the south most southern Publo people. He actually named
me medicine Eagle because typically I like to make people feel better. So I
think that that would be yeah, my superpower, the great superpower. You
could do a lot with that, couldn't you? I could? Yeah?
I think you do. Well, Thank you welcome. What did you want
to grow up to be when you were five years old a mom. Yeah.
Other than that, I really didn't have any idea and I'm still kind
of searching for that as we speak. Now that mom, you know,
is empty nesting. I think it's time for new endeavor. So yeah,
wonderful. Along those lines, what is your greatest accomplishment? M hm?
Producing humans that contribute in our kind in this world? I think that would
be my greatest accomplishment. It's a pretty darn good one. Thank you,
welcome. Who is your favorite person to listen to? You say some more
about that? Okay? I will actually so interestingly enough, we met you
know where at the Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Romantic Chamber of Commerce meeting
where correct me please if I'm wrong, but you were the treasurer at the
time that I met you. You might not have been treasurer, but I
was definitely on the board. On the board, okay. So we had
just become the company that I owned, had just like blown up exponentially,
or was on the COSP I should say, because it was pre COVID,
And I remember your kind overall being and approachability, and I felt so comfortable
in you know, talking to you in a new setting and meeting new people
in having to to introduce my company as you know, one of the corporate
sponsors for the chamber, and you know, new settings could often you know,
deem uncomfortabilities, of course, and you, certainly, for some reason,
we're just a comfort And you know, I felt an instant connection with
you. Yeah. I feel the same way about you, you know,
like there absolutely was, you know, a connection that was very quick and
very easy, no doubt about it. And I appreciate that. You know,
it's it's, uh, we've known each other for several years now,
and uh, it's it's quite a it's quite a thing to u in this
podcast for you to mention that you like listening to me, and I do
appreciate that. Perhaps, Oh, I'm sorry I didn't introduce no worries,
I said, I'll try to step my game up a little bit and continue
to be listenable. Okay, Well, I also wanted to just tell you,
you know, your professionalism and your thought processes are most welcome. Your
tonality is certainly something that I don't know, there's just such a level of
comfort around being around you and in your presence. I think you have a
lot of wisdom and life experience, and that you have an area of good
intentions. So well, that is a lot. Thank you. You're welcome.
I'm going to spend a minute or two after we're done really kind of
thinking a little bit about what you're saying. If there were a design to
my life many many years ago. A lot of what you're saying has just
come out. Okay, So we wanted to be somebody who was not only
trustworthy and comfortable, but also very intelligent and also be able to know when
to know when to be quiet. So okay, all right, enough about
me, so please complete this sentence when I grow up. I'd like to
when I grow up, i'd like to be able to maintain Masl's hierarchy of
needs comfortably while helping others. That's very interesting. So where on the hierarchy
would you place yourself? Where would I place myself else? Oh, let's
see, so the five and correct me if I'm wrong. Our shelter food
heat, shelter food heat. What's the other? Uh? Psychological? I
think is the other one? So I would gray that's level yeah, yeah,
so right, survival, I would say that that's me right now.
Yeah, yeah, stylish survival. I would say, oh, thank you.
I just I'm a little bit messive, you know, messy. I
just came from the gym from working out with my tribe. Thank you.
I admire that about you. You do get out there and break a sweat,
and that's a good thing. It seems like most times we get together,
you've just completed some kind of a workout. Thank you. Yeah,
it's it's it's helpful overall well in your well being. Yeah. So that's
an interesting place for the next question. What's the most important thing in life
to you right now? Yeah, it actually is working out. Yeah,
I do that like I look at it like brushing my teeth in the morning.
And the reason being I was in nursing school and understanding anatomy and physiology
of the human body is so important. But it's more than that. It's
the endorphin high that you get when once you reach you know, the aerobic
anaerobic stage. And you know, aerobic is of course including oxygen, and
anaerobic is lack of oxygen. But once your endorphin level gets up there,
I call it your happy pills. I'm like, you must be a crazy
person if you're not happy once you're done working out. So you know,
I call that like taking my happy pill in the morning. And it's not
just about that. There's so many different aspects of you know, working out
that I find beneficial to where I'm at in my life right now, and
that is a supportive tribe of people. I think there's a movement in this
country of you know, of especially women, to support one another and to
you know, not be quote unquote caddie and gossiping and you know, to
be able to compliment each other and you know, want better for each person
or as an overall unit. There's something to be said for that. And
there's actually tangible evidence which we never had twenty years ago, you know,
of oxytocin being brought out when you compliment somebody. It actually you know,
elevates the brain levels. So there's multifaceted purposes for exercising and so where I'm
at in my life, it's it's definitely really important and it's a platform.
Yeah yeah, baseline for everything. Huh m hm. Absolutely mental and your
overall well being very clear, and that says to me that your foundation is
strong. Oh, thank you. I try. I think I found something
that's working. You've definitely gotten inside of it, both physically and intellectually.
It's something that you are on a mastery path for and the difference between you
know, just doing things like to complete it and doing things to see what
it feels like and to experience new elements of yourself, that's the mastery path.
Yeah. Absolutely, And just to add in a little bit, the
extra benefits are you know, I had lost I've lost now nearly one hundred
pounds since two thousand and seven, so it's been a yeah, long processes.
I've I've pushed myself probably farther than I ever thought that it was capable.
But it's it's a it's a self movement as well, because you're not
really Yes you're competing with others, but no, you're not. You're competing
with yourself when you work out to be better than you were yesterday, whether
it be to take a couple extra running steps, or you know, like
setting many goals, and it really translates and this is I guess now that
we're talking, I'm talking out loud and processing. You know, it really
translates into life goals. You know, you know, you take a couple
extra steps maybe you know, you save some more money towards retirement, or
you know, you get better credit so that you're able to obtain a nice
house, or you know, go on on nice vacation or whatnot. So
I mean it really, you know, is parallel along lifelines, if you
want to take comparison. So I've lost weight, I've been through a couple
of car accidents, unfortunately one of them. Actually they I went in because
my back was bothering me. And you know, working on your core and
everything is so important. But again, you know, like the overall well
being in the health. You know, I could have sat there and said,
ah, I'm just gonna, you know, feel sorry for myself,
pop some pills, and I don't do that. I get up every day
and you know, I pushed myself to try to do better to feel better.
You know. So there's it's like I said, it's multifaceted. So
I'm sorry to go out on fund tangents. That's what I do. This
is your time to do that. And as a matter of fact, every
time you open your mouth give an insight to the warrior spirit that lives inside
of you. And it's really an amazing thing to hear someone who says I
can't picture just sitting around and growing old. Thank you. See, that's
why I really love you. I really love you as a good friend because
you were just like you find that like overall, you know, goodness in
people, you know, and you're also inspiring you know, you inspire me
as well, so and validate perhaps what I'm trying to do as well.
So thank you. Yeah, and you do know that, as you said
before, the oxytocin that happens in both the giver and the receiver, right,
yes, to the point where you're not sure who's giving and who's receiving.
I know, it's a wonderful thing, right, it's a close symbiotic
relationship. Goosebumps, right, yes, exactly in the crown of your head,
in the back of your arms. And yeah, that's that's a good,
good way to step into the next question. What would you like to
leave in the world after your life is done? Genevieva. Yeah, so
again, you know, I somehow over the past couple of years, and
you know what I've shared with you in my personal struggle of I don't know
if I should I will. You know, my heart got broken and so
finding my warrior spirit and coming back through all the tribe, you know,
the tribes of people in the support groups, such as yourself, you know,
being renamed Viva, which means life is substantial. So you know,
I've held somebody when they died. One of my customers I had for fourteen
years, and it's the most humbling and honorable thing I think you can do
is to see somebody out and they trust you to that level. I think
people, I'm going on a tangent again like I always do, but I
think people Anna, you know, Anna would use a death a context as
it's awful and things like that, but it can actually be one of the
most beautiful experiences when you're able to say goodbye to somebody. I think death
when it's sudden. I actually just had a good friend died yesterday. Wow,
last night I received the news. And so something I've struggled with is,
you know, I want, like a best friend in life, to
hold somebody's hand and die like a broken heart of true love in that process.
I was with somebody for twenty five years and I always be true that
I know of concretely for ten years, and I was honorable to that person.
So there was that was not reciprocated. So you know, the rest
of my life, I want to live it out and possibly find somebody that
would do the same thing for me that I would do for them. But
when I pass, like you know, going through the heartbreak and owning the
name Viva as life, you know, I didn't realize that I had it
inside of me. So I want to live and I want to be remembered
for making people happy and feeling better and educating them on that process and that,
you know what being vulnerable and just being true to yourself and it's okay,
and that you don't have to feel scared about that. I want people
to celebrate my life when I die. I don't want somebody to be sitting
in a church and saying, not that there's anything wrong with it, but
I feel like life should be celebrated. I don't think that it has to
be a concrete thing. And I want to be perhaps maybe celebrated for bringing
joy and love into people's lives. So yeah, I see that tremendous opportunity
when there's that exchange and it's a it's an exchange of power, you know,
it's an energy exchange where the trust is so present that it's invisible,
and then there's just a moment. And to experience a lifetime of those moments
in whatever you're doing. Not a bad way to teach other people. See,
you're so eloquent, and you know how you translate. When I just
said so, thank you, I think I feel like I do get you.
I feel like there are some things that you When you speak, it
wakes me up in areas that we're not awake and very much appreciate that.
Thank you. I think that's a great legacy that you just spoke into existence.
Oh, thank you, And believe it or not, we're at the
baker's question. Okay, So when you and I go to our baker and
we order a dozen of something, they always give us the thirteenth, right,
Okay, yeah, okay, So instead of twelve questions, we've got
thirteen. And here's the baker's question for you, Genevieva, Miss Genevieva,
Miss Viva. What is the thing that most people misunderstand about you? Hmm.
I think people under estimate me greatly. It's interesting. I think you
know growing up because I have I was a non traditional student in college and
you know, in in the time that I was growing up, we didn't
have the advancements again of psychology where you know, learning disabilities were present or
diagnosed. There's been such a huge movement for that and a lot more support.
One of my dear friends actually Peter Valentin. He's local and Lebanon,
Connecticut. He just authored a book that is uh with regard to autism.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and as an adult, and so sitting in a
classroom for me was extraordinarily difficult. And so one of the things that a
lot of things that people, you know, look at you sometimes when you
can't stay on task or whatnot with the diagnoses of ADHD and you go off
on tangents or I hyper focus. You know, people, I think they
misunderstand that for possibly dizziness or you know, quote unquote you know, stereotyping
that. But if you sit and listen, obviously, I mean I can
be articulate and I'm highly intelligent. So I think that's where I'm underestimated quite
a bit, you know. So I've I've been in the presence of people
that run multi billion dollar companies, not million dollar companies, but billion dollar
companies, and you know, I didn't realize with what I've done with the
company that I previously had took a lot of strength for me to get through.
So yeah, so I think I'm totally engrossly misunderstood when it comes to
intelligence, check and check. So do you have any questions of me?
Yes, I'm curious as to Bill what enjoyment? What do you enjoy out
of doing this podcast? And not just particularly in mine, I'm saying what
you're doing with the podcast in general. All right, so here's a news
splash for you. I love people, Okay, no way. Yeah.
I don't sugarcoat the word or add any other spice to it. I just
plain love people. And I love people who are authentically expressing themselves and who
have this access, you know, to a moment of lightness of being and
just in the moment, discover new things about themselves, you know, in
conversation. And it's a joy to me to ask one of these simple questions
and they are very simple, and watch you and others thoughtfully gaze out into
somewhere in space and then come back to gold. You know, I had
a feeling when I started this about a year and a half ago that we're
going to find out that people are not who they're told they are, but
they're actually something different than that, and that I had a sneaking suspicion that
all of us at the core, you know, we're not that far apart.
You know, there's just you know, the things that we've learned that
get in the way of what we know life is about. Right, So
what do I get out of it? I get a lot of presence,
a lot of little happy thoughts, some caring and sharing. But authenticity is
a It's a really cool thing. And I very much appreciate who you are,
who you've been in this podcast, and who you are in my life.
You're a wonder and it's been amazing to spend time with you. Well,
thank you, and I'm you know, I'm honored to be here.
Thank you for asking me and having me here. And you know, I
learned something new about you today, and I learn more about myself, and
you know, thank you for having me. You're You're very welcome, and
I hear from people that's kind of what happens when you hang around Bill.
So the last thing I want to do and say before we sign off is
I want to invite all of you, our listeners and YouTube gi call somebody,
text them, send an email, send a card, a letter,
whatever, and just let that person know that the world works because they're in
it, and that you love them and you hope that they're having the best
day ever. And that's it. Thank you for being a participant in our
experiment, and thank you at home for making this all possible. Bye for
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