Hey, guys, welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. How you doing.
Happy holidays. It's getting closer to Christmas. I can't believe we're in the
middle of December already. It's I'm crazy. Oh my gosh. I have
so much to tell you, so much to tell you. Plus we have
a very special guest. Her name is Clia. She founded doll Face Club,
Sober Living House. I have a video We're going to interview her.
She's an incredible person. She's a designer. Some of the things I'm wearing
right now Face Club. So she has a great story. So we're going
to talk to her in just a little bit. Yep. And you won't
believe what happened to me on Friday. I'm prepared. I am sure.
I can't. It is insane. So we'll get to that in a second,
and then I know you have something you want to share. You have
a show and tell I do. First, I want to thank everybody who
has already donated to the doll Face Club, Sober Living Fire Awesome through the
one thousand dollars Magical Holiday Box, which just up the ante. Yes,
because Clia just brought us some merch so that was added to the box.
It's awesome. Okay. So it's five dollars a donation, yep. And
you can go to Laura Kane after Dark dot com and you'll see the link
on there. And every five dollars you donate gets your name put into another
holiday box and we will be picking a name on the twenty first of December
and that person will win what's in this box? So, Eric, yes,
why don't you show everybody? I had to get a bigger box.
We had a different box, but now I had to get a bigger box.
They have more stuff to give away. This box is worth over one
thousand dollars. So we have some dollface Club Merch, which is super cool,
super cute that was just added to the box, along with a lanyard
right here. Yes, I just love the font. I just love this
font. We also have Laura Kane after Dark merch a hoodie. We also
have oh, I know, there's like there's necklaces in that bag from San
Diego Crystals and Jewelry. Okay, also from San Diego Crystals and Jewelry.
Is this wooden box? Wait? Hold on? Oh some other things in
here that are very pretty. There are several necklaces. Yes, they really
really hooked us up. And then the box is really special. It's hand
carved and inside it's lined with red velvet, and inside we have a bunch
of crystals and sage and a goshuaw for your face, a bracelet, another
necklace. All of this in this box alone is worth one hundred and fifty
dollars. Then we have from Capitol Growth Inc. And our favorite Jay Wurtzler,
we have two hundred dollars cash. Thank you Jay. There's a picture
of Jay right there. Two hundred dollars cash. And then from La joya
cosmetic surgery center and Medspa, a five hundred dollars gift certificate to use on
anything you want botox or maybe you want to do a surgery. You can
use it. It goes toward the surgery. Plus you get one year of
glam Fam membership, which is worth one hundred and twenty dollars, So that's
actually worth six hundred and twenty dollars. So all together this box is worth
over one thousand dollars, and more stuff is being added every week. The
money we raise is going to go to this sober living home which I can't
even wait to tell you about so and you guys have already started donating and
donating hard. So thank you so so so much, game, I know,
really it's just so sweet and I just I love I just love it
so thank you so much. I mean, people have been donating. There's
one person donated one hundred dollars, and again that person's name gets put in
the box twenty times. Every five dollars you donate, your name gets put
in another box. So anyway, the drawing will be on the twenty first
donate at Laura Kane after Dark dot com. You'll see the link and you'll
also find a little link that shows you what the house is all about.
So there you go. There's that. Okay, now we need to talk
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that happened to me, we also wanted to talk about our newest sponsor,
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crystal wise, bowls and boxes and scarves and just beautiful engagement rings,
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all the crystals you could possibly imagine. And they are great people. Brothers,
eight of them own these stores and they are the nicest guys ever.
My friend met one of them at it was like a little Holidays street fair
and La Mesa and they had a little booth. Oh nice. Yeah,
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Thank you so much for sponsoring Laura Kane after Dark, and thank you
for the donation as well. Thank you. Okay, now, my host
chat, Sir erger Loin's. Somebody was kind enough last week to give me
a gift. I'm not gonna say who it was, but the gift was
a gift card. It was an American Express gift card. And this person
gave it to me in an envelope, in a little card, and I
was like, oh, that's so and I thank you so so much.
I get into my car. Before I start the car, I open up
the envelope and you know how gift cards are attached to paper like that with
that sticky stuff sometimes so it shows the amount the card. I was taking
it off the paper, it like fumbled out of my hands and it went
straight down into the slot where my parking break comes up. So it is
like the thinnest slot you could possibly imagine, and it goes all the way
down to the floor. Because you couldn't wait to do that until you got
home the gift card. She already had three things she was waiting to buy
second, so oddly the websites that were up on her phone were Sheen,
Tufty Girl, and Timus. The card was worth one thousand dollars. You're
an idiot, Laura. It wasn't my fall it was a complete and total
freak accident. Is it still down there? So, oh god, I
immediately drive home because I can't see it. You could barely even see down
in there, so I can't see it. So I got I get home,
I get a long screwdriver. I'm trying. I'm going in there.
I have a flashlight. I'm looking. I couldn't find it. I think
I probably pushed it back farther. And the way my car is, you
can't reach underneath the console. So anyway, I panicked. I took it
to one mechanic real quick. They blew me off. I was like fine,
I took it to a second mechanic. They said, well, we're
going to have to remove the entire center console and that'll be a thousand dollars.
That'll take no, three hundred dollars. It was going to cost me
and we can't take you till monday. So I'm freaking out right. I
know there's one thousand dollars in my car, And did you say, do
you know how much shit I want to buy? Today? Okay, anyway,
the sale ends tomorrow. I'm like, what the hell? That is
ridiculous. I'm not going to pay three hundred dollars to get it. I
guess it makes sense because then I still have seven hundred dollars left. But
what the heck? So long story short, Antonio on Saturday took apart my
car because a jef you can kind of take it apart. Took the seats
out, managed to find the gift card, but in the process also found
the following in my car the crevice of my car. I can't hold hold
on. I didn't write it all down. An old tarnished ring like an
ing. No, it was tarnish because it was fake. Okay, lipstick
with no lid, one small hoop earring, three pens, a metal carabineer.
You know what that? You know what that is? Clumps and clumps
and clumps of dog hair no less than ten sour gummy bears that fell when
I used to when I was in my sour gummy bear phase three, broken
hard French fries. Strand upon strand upon strand of blonde hair, some of
it my real hair, some of it my hair that's taped onto my head,
your magic hair. Yes, a Robbert nozzle that used to attach to
a car vacuum that I threw away. Oh, a ross tag that said
seven ninety nine on it, an old Christmas card from the Haas family,
leaves from trees, dirt dust, sticky stuff and a CVS receipt and her
birth certificate and her life savings. Isn't that gross? Do you know what
Antonio would find if he took a part my car? Like nothing, absolutely
nothing? It would be showroom new. And you know what your car is
showroom new? About six months ago, I spent two hundred dollars getting my
car detailed. All that accumulated in six months? Can you fead my god?
But the good news is I am now in possession of the thousand dollars
gift card. And do your seats work in your g Yes? But there's
there's one little broken part on my uh my, on my console, but
it's okay, I'm gonna glue it. And she goes, Eric, Eric,
we need new microphones for the set for our show. Anyways, guess
what I just got from TIMU with a thousand dollars No, you know what?
I try googled can you turn a gift card into cash? And you
can't. Nobody has never given one thousand dollars gift card. Yeah. Actually
trick. Did you turn? I'm gonna say who it's from, why or
anything? Do anything for the gift card? I was just myself. Okay,
which corner did you get the gift card on? Shut up? But
that was an alcohol bulevar or Texas Street? It was definitely alcohol. It
is Texas Street actually, god, oh my god. But anyway, good
news. I have a back and hopefully I can make a car payment with
a gift card. Can you can you? I don't know what a gift
card. I don't know if that's what I really need it for. It's
to make my car payment this month, but no, it's not. It's
like, no, it'll be a portion of that. Well, you probably
can't. But then I was thinking, you know what, I should really
use it for something that's I really want that's very expensive. But I can't
really think of anything right now. So I'm just I'm not going to use
it piece by piece. I think I'm going to use it to buy something
huge. Oh god, Okay, So I think I'm going to take it
out of my wallet. Give it to me. I probably should. Yeah,
okay, give it to me. We have a new set coming in
January, and that has already been paid for, so okay, we maybe
we'll get more stuff. Eric bought two microphones. That's it. I bought
the rest of this a new couch, new table, new new. No,
I bought that couch regardless. Hey, we have a new set with
the nobody else. Brian, you're killing me anyway. That's something to look
forward to in January. Is excited? Big things coming anyway? I cannot
can Can I keep that list? Yes? You can keep things found in
the of my car. I'm going to frame this and give it to you
for your birthday. Stop it should post it on the website. Stop it.
Okay, So what is your host chat I got? You have show
and tell, right, Well, I kind of have shown tell. I
have the box that came in, but I left the actual product at home
on my kitchen counter. Okay, but it does have a photograph of it.
So okay, I got probably one of the best gifts this weekend.
Oh is this that your company Christmas party? No? No, this is
it was this like a white elephant thing. No, this was just just
for you. Yes, okay, So I've been looking everywhere for just like
a little accent light that has like that Cepia tone where I look really good
in it, or I look tan and yes without lines, Yes, I
got. It's called a crystal lantern, okay, and it is fantastic.
So it comes with a little charger. Okay, So it doesn't have a
bulb. It comes with a charger. Yeah, it comes with a charger.
And then it has three different light settings, so you touch the base
and the middle light is a Cepia tone light. So you're gonna put this
weary saw my kitchen counter. Oh okay, carry it around with me everywhere,
like it's a little bag, like with all you for all your selfiesroom
the other night, Prairie live in Farmers just getting up in the middle of
night, guys lantern to go to the outhouse. Well, like my lighting
is yeah, it kind of is like freaking Laura Goals Wilder, like three
am. He's like, shillok good with this lantern. I gotta take a
selfie on my way to the bed. Wow, I'm on the toilet.
God damn the goodness. But yeah, I had it in the bathroom the
other night while I took up a bath your heart. Wow, you just
pick it up and take it and then the it's got a good weight to
it, and it's really it lasts a long time. Wow. I got
it as an accident piece, but it turned into a centerpiece for every single
it did. I'm obsessed with it. Are you going to get another one?
Just so you have one and everything? I probably have. Look,
it's really cool. Did you get it from I don't know. It was
a gift? Oh, okay, yeah, I'll have to ask. It's
probably on Amazon. I'll look during the did you have your company party?
Yes? Did you get a good gift from that? I didn't. Oh,
yes, I did my gift exchange? I did you did? Okay?
Good? I got cash? Oh that's always the bed dollar gift card
that which she did not drop in between the seats. You guys anyway,
Oh my god, all right, before we bring on, I am so
excited. I know, just you guys, you don't even know. She
is just the coolest. And I love her nails. I love her nails,
her look, her designs, her purpose, her everything. And wait
to hear what the girls in the house call her. You're gonna love this.
Okay, but first we need to do a little bit of double D
news. Oh yeah, baby, our show business, our celebrity gossip we
call the Double D's Daily Dirt. I can blow this. I mean I
can blow through this pretty quickly. Sorry, Oh my goodness, excuse me.
So Norman Lear dead at one hundred and one. He created them all
in the family. What the Jeffersons, the Jefferson's h there's like two or
three, one day at a time. Sad that Betty White didn't make it
to one hundred, I know, just like a week short of her birthday
or something like that. Ryan O'Neill dead at eighty two. Yeah, I
saw that. I just watched What's Up Doc a couple weeks ago. It's
some one of my favorite movies. I His daughter was a client of mine,
so I reached out to I haven't heard back yet, though. It
just sent her our condolences. Oh that's nice. So Beyonce's Renaissance concert film
opened at number one, but has now slipped to number five. My daughter
and her friend called me on the way back from this movie and they were
like, OMG, OMG, the best movie I heard. It's amazing.
What do they love about it? The plot was there? The plot twist
halfway through? I guess I didn't expect it. The way it was filmed
was super cool, and she said it was so loud. She goes,
and these are twenty these are nineteen year olds, saying that it was so
loud. Oh, I probably wouldn't get through. I agree. Movies are
typically too loud in the theaters. I'd be like, somebody turn it down.
But it's gone now you can't see. I guess after this weekend it's
not in theaters. Thing. Oh, then it'll be on Netflix. That's
what I figured. Watch. I heard it's almost three hours long, so
I'm good. That's insane. And watch his concerts in a theater. But
the way it's shot it probably it's probably super artsy. I heard it's really
really good and she devotes a lot of time to like the backstage people.
You should see the trailer. It's really really impressive. I'm good, Okay,
fine, I think about okay. The nominations for the Golden Globes are
out. Barbie and Oppenheimer are leading the pack, and the Bear with nine
nominations each. Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things are coming in second
with seven nominations. Poor Things, Yes, it's that's with Emma Stone Stone.
I think this is a TV show. No, it's a movie and
it's out already. I think kind of like a female Frankinsight where they kind
of put her together, and I think so it was like a limited release.
Yeah, do I want to see Oppenheimer. I don't think you'd like
it. You would definitely not like it. Why you say that it's a
biopic and it's like three hours long? Why would you say that you don't
think I like that kind of thing. I don't know. No, I
love documentary types of documentary. I know that. Speaking of documentaries, have
you watched Bad Surgeon? Yes, Oh my god, is insane? Is
co z Okay insane? And then I just watched another one called Nice Life,
Beautiful Picture or something like that. It's on HBO Max and it's documentary
about a pedophile and all these years of what molestation has done to the victims.
It's extremely, extremely sad, but it's very, very, very well
done. I wait to turn it on after it is a friend of mine
talking about it. It's very it's a it's unbelievable. Wow. Last thing,
not that we care, but Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jenshaw,
who's in prison right now wants Kim Kardashian to portray her in a potential
biopic. Why would anybody make a biopic about her? Nobody cares about that
chick. Nobody cares about that franchise of Real Housewives? Right, did you
care about it? It's pretty good? Okay, somebody cares about it.
I don't know. I don't know. I haven't watched since I lost cable.
I don't know. I don't even know where to get Bravo anymore.
Oh and by the way, I may be able to explain my random coughing
that's been going on for months. Yes, his occasional cough on Mike.
I may have asked reflux and yeah, something okay, happens when you're almost
a hundred Clia weird. Laughing is a factor. So from now on,
I'm gonna be the voice of doom and gloom, and I'm never gonna laugh
again. Oh God, you're gonna be there, Laura, Jesus, I
laugh at plenty, just not at stud jokes. Oh I have a Christmas
joke for you. Oh God, all right, me too. Actually,
you go first. These better be short and quick and done with, because
we need to move on. Laura Caane. Yes, why is santa sack
so heavy? I don't know why is Santa's sack so heavy? Because he
only comes once a year. That's pretty good, no dumb, that was
so okay. I've got one. What do the Pope and a Christmas tree
have in common? I don't know what do the Pope and a Christmas tree
have in common? Their balls are just for decoration. I think I've read
that before. Yeah you laughed. I hate I hate that. I hate
the year jokes making. I hate all jokes. But I don't know what
you're telling you. I have a very curated selection. Oh yeah, oh
darling, do you indeed? I love it? Okay? Can we bring
her on now? Yes? Well, first, while she's coming up to
the set, we're going to play a video about the house and some of
the girls in the house, and just so you get to know about some
little backstory while she's making her way up here. Here's the video. Look
at how fast it and beautiful the Silver Living House is. It's just gorgeous.
I'm entering the Dolphace Club Sober Living House, and I gotta say this
house is absolutely gorgeous and clean and sober today because I lived in a sober
facility. And this is really really important for these girls we live here.
Look at all the doll faced stuff. So cool, a big house,
there's lots of rooms and thirteen year olds to live here. Right now,
this looks so familiar to me. Oh my gosh, are you still live
in a sober living house? This is where the meetings take place out here
in this big, beautiful modulard. It's a play. It's just a wonderful
little everosphere. It's just beautiful. It was beautiful really help me in recovery,
especially with being with women and like surrounding myself more with women and then
also like the women here in recovery, I feel like I can relate more
to It's like and she like teaches us to like to be able to be
like prendent and stuff, you know, like that's what she shows us,
hope, like we get from her like and like people see us and they
know that we stay after something and we won't fall for anything. And this
is just like a family environment. So if you don't have a family,
and this is where you give me a supplies, food, water, coffee,
pies, just simple things. What do you like about being here?
Are being part of the Doll Face Clubs, the just the mission statement,
the camaraderie women and women, empowering women, the recovery. You know,
we do this together. That's cute. That's my new jacket. Anyway,
Here she is Clia from Doll Face Club, Sober Living. Hello, Welcome
to Laura Kane after Dark. Hello. Hi, Okay, So I was
scrolling through Instagram one day and I don't know how it happened upon Doll Face
Club and I look and there's the coolest clothes hoodie, these T shirts,
sets, jackets, all different designs, and I'm like, I am really
attracted to this, this aesthetic. I loved it. And then when I
found out that you opened a sober living home, I was like, oh
my god, because I was in a sober living home and I believe that
that two months I spent there saved my life because I went from rehab and
I thought I was just going to go to rehab and then just come back
home. I needed more treatment and I needed to learn how to live as
a sober woman. And that's what the Sober Living House does for a woman,
for anybody really. So Claia tell us a little bit about yourself and
why this is your passion and why you open the house. Tell us a
little bit about your history. Where do I start. I'm an immigrant,
so I, you know, spent my younger years in and out of jail
and just on drugs, you know, and pretty much not seeing anything other
than that lifestyle. And then I got clean at the age of twenty two
and by chance, not planned obviously, you know, And it was more
of like a force fully I guess you could say, because I had the
judge pretty much gave me one chance to like get it together. I've had
multiple chances, but once ice catches you, I don't think. I don't
know if you guys know, but no, it's ice, you know.
It's like, well, how they you know, take illegal immigrants, you
know. And so where where are you from? I'm from Albania, full
born, raised my whole family. And then when did you come to the
States nineteen ninety six? Oh okay, yeah, I been here since I
was six. Oh okay, yeah, so you they were particularly hard you
because of absolutely it was actually really eye opening it at the time too,
because I was locked up with normally when I get locked up, I'm in
county you know. But if I catches you in time, I got built
out right away. But if I catches you, they'll pick you up and
then you're done. You're gonna get deported, you know. So I remember
being down in federal prison with like everybody that there's a lot of people that
just tried to cross the border, and here I am just like taking it
for granted. You know, I'm here already, and I'm just I was
young, and you know, I you know, we if you've been in
a subber living, we all have traumatic childhoods at some point, you know.
So, yeah, I got clean when I was twenty two, and
for a few years I just tried to be learn how to be a productive
member of society and just kind of be normal, you know, and have
a regular job and not do crime and just kind of have peace without chaos,
you know. And then after my third year of being clean, that's
when I got the idea for Dollface Club, which initially we had already been
doing service events with my friends, you know, to stay clean. Service
is a big part of what keeps us clean, you know, giving back.
So we were doing service events and then I was like, like,
I think it was like a hashtag on Instagram that I commented back to somebody
that I put Dollphace Club and it was in the middle of the night,
and then I clicked on it and there was nothing, and I was like
this can't be right, you know. So then like I did like a
Google search and there was like a roller derby in like Kentucky or something,
you know, and I was like, no problem, you know. And
then the next day, literally the next day, this was a Sunday night.
The next morning, I took I went down to like the courthouse off
the Harbor Drive, you know, where they sell the fbns, and I
went and searched if there was anything called doll Face Club. And then they
were like no, They're like what is it going to be? And I'm
like a clothing brand, I guess, you know. And then I walked
down those steps leaving there, and I just it all hate me. I'm
like, oh my god, I'm going to do like this is what my
friends are going to be called, and we're gonna wear the shirts and we're
going to do a bit and we're just it's gonna like we're gonna have different
chapters and different cities, you know. Like just a dreaming like I was
dreaming at that time, you know, and then yeah, I mean I
didn't. It's just grown a lot. So how many years have you been
sober? Now? I've been today, oh sorry, last week? Clean?
Eleven years? Okay, thank you. Getting sober at twenty two.
Clean and sober at twenty two is very difficult. You're still so young,
your friends are all partying. Well, I guess you surrounded yourself with friends
that didn't do that. But that I mean, kudos to you, because
that is that is tough at that age. I was around a lot of
older people too, though, and the lifestyle I was running was not like
I don't even think I've ever maybe I went to a bar one time in
my life. I wasn't ever at bars in my active using, you know,
I was literally a criminal. So I think that happens in our active
addiction, and they tried to keep us in that lifestyle, you know,
like the temptation of like you know, but yeah, I know, I
hear you. Well, how did you then open up this incredible sober living
home. So when I started Dolphace Club, within like a year, I
want to say, within that first year, we were wearing the shirt that
I designed. The one kind of looks like that, but it was just
black. It didn't have members only at the bottom. It was I went
to a mall Kiosk and I was like, I just want to do those
shirt was hideous, the first one who made and they charged me ridiculously,
you know, But so we all, you know, my friends were wearing
the same shirt for a long time and then they were like, you know,
we're wearing the same thing. Can you just like make something else?
And I'm like, no, I'm not a designer, like we're talking about,
you know. And then that same night, I literally cut out her
shirt and put it on like an old thrift store jacket. And then everything
took off from there where I was like, well, this is an old
thrift stoaree jacket. But look I got this at her little pop up on
Saturday. Look how cute that is. It's upcycling. I love upsycling,
so okay, so okay. So from then, you know, the brand
really really took off for me. Like it from selling forty dollars jackets in
the living room, you know, my jackets are like five hundred dollars now,
you know, And for a long time, I started feeling like,
Okay, well the brand is going great. I finally don't need a day
job, you know, Like I'm I'm living a great lifestyle thanks to recovery
and thanks to staying clean and thanks to everybody supporting the brand. And I've
been praying like I need something else, like something something more, you know.
And then that's when this. Honestly, my sister is the one who
brought it to me because I have but we also have a friend in the
siber living industry, and my sister was like, you know, you would
kill it if we just did this together. And I'm like, yeah,
maybe, you know, and then last minute she backed out, and you
know, it just everything just kind of like flowed together. And then I
just had this like idea where I'm like, I upcycle clothes, you know,
reduce the carbon fiberprint, you know, and I like to use older
things and make them new again because it's also one of one, you know.
And then I'm like, oh my god, I could thrift store furniture
and like revamp it and like make it so that the whole house is custom.
And I wanted to go that route with the Sober Living because I too
wasn't sober livings in the beginning, and I had like horrendous experience, horrific
furniture, horrific like everything literally every like, and I just wanted to provide
something that I didn't have when I got clean, you know. Same with
the club in general, like some sort of like a group of women that
I would have hung out with when I was younger that probably would have steered
me away from what I ended up doing. And with the sober living the
same thing kind of just fell in my lap in regards to like I this
home is literally what I wish I had when I got clean, you know.
Yeah, and it's it just like came together. It's like I found
the tape and just everything else just kind of like I don't know the whole
vibe of that because I went to the meeting on Wednesday night. Is it
an open meeting, Yes, okay, there's an open NA meeting on Wednesday
Women's meeting at the house at six thirty on Wednesday nights. And when I
walked in that house, the vibe, the feel it was just such the
just a flood of good feelings and the girls that live there, there's thirteen
of them right now that live there. Right is? How many does the
household? How many can the household? Well, I have one that's the
house manager and she has her own room, and then there's twelve other girls.
That's the max. And then how if somebody was thinking, I really
would love to try sober living or is there a waiting list? This is
there. You know, there is a waiting list right now. Unfortunately,
he drives me nuts. I'm like, I need another house now. So
if anybody's watching that's renting for and up bedrooms, I will rent it from
you and I will make it worth it. Oh my god, I'm like
literally looking for houses right now because at first I was like I just want
to own all these houses, but now that I'm in it, like I
would rather not, you know, and and with the interest rates, it's
crazy right now noways anyways, that's a whole different conversation. But well,
on a sidebar, I'll get with you because that's what I do for a
living. He rents things, Yeah, do you? Oh my god,
I'm telling you, like the waitless everything is just like this. This year,
my whole this has probably been the best year of my life, you
know, in regards to like just doors opening and like more will be revealed,
you know. And the house is amazing. I mean, the girls
are amazing, each one of them. I feel like, God just you
know, like plucked them in there, and I don't know, like I'm
excited. I'm already like looking at furniture for another place, you know,
and it's like kind of ridiculous. I've only been opened three months, you
know. But normally, I mean several livings are revolving door, you know,
these girls are not revolving. They're like, I'm not leaving, you
know either. It's is there a time limit that you give the girls?
Not you live there for the rest of your life if you if they want
to, can they Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah? You know what they call
her the girls what because she's such an amazing leader and she's they call her
daddy. That's awesome. It's not awesome. Oh it's daddy. That's so
funny. The baseball say daddy. Oh my god, Oh it's so funny.
I'm going to get you want to know where to get one of those
that's been like long standing. This is not just a souber living. Even
my best friends like I'm not like super nursuring, but like I'm the tough
love. I'll tell you, like in real time what's going on. But
then like you don't want to disappoint me. It's like I don't know what
it is. And then I if anybody needs to pull up somewhere, it's
me the dad. Yeah, well that's a good I mean, you need
a leader like that in order to keep order and not chaos in a group
of what thirteen fourteen women in one house, you and somebody And that's like
you saw the little chores list. I remember that list. I remember like
being on that list and when I was had bathroom duty and when I had
this duty, and when I had that duty, I was like, oh
my god, this is bringing back to so many memories. But it is
just so this is what we're raising money for. We've decided that you are
going to be our Christmas holiday box recipient of the money that we thank you
rage and the girls are so grateful too. They're like, oh they really
are. I mean they one of the girls was saying, like they just
need stuff like like toilet paper or tampons or like you know, food or
games to play. Like one of the girls says, I would love to
go skydiving, Like I have a bucket list of things I want to do
now that I'm clean, Like I feel like I just want to take on
the world. And I was, Oh, my god, I can make
that happen for you. So I'm going to I'm working on that one for
her. But so this is where the money's going to go. It's going
to go to the house, going to go to things that you and like
we were talking, sometimes in sober living, there's like downtime and that can
be a little dangerous, right when you get a little bored or so there's
activities that this money will go for, like he like outings and like field
trips and stuff like that, and talk about what you're doing in January.
So I love this. So we had one of my really good friends,
Astrad, she's an amazing tattoo artist. She had this idea of doing a
DFC tattoos Dolphace Club DFC, and then all the donate, like everything that
they would pay for the tattoos, she's going to donate to the house.
And then she raised around eighteen hundred dollars. We all did this at the
house and then now We're going to go to Big Bear for the whole house.
We got like a mansion house, case, spapool table. Oh,
we're taking all the girls. Some of them have never seen snow. Oh
my god. No, some from the nineteenth to the twenty first we're going
to be in Big Bear. So I'm really excited. I'm like a weirdo
about snow. I love snow. Really, did you? Is it snowy
in Albania? So? I was born in Albania, but when I was
seven months old, I moved to northern Italy until I was until we moved
here. In the part in Bergamo where we lived, it literally snowed,
like I want to say, it was like right on Christmas Day, Like
that's how close it was to like the map. But then you know,
you're a kid, so it could have been like not and it could have
been like but yeah. So there's just like nostalgia about like snow. I
love it makes me happy. And I think being there with everybody and having
like a unique sover leavings that really and you know what, they're going to
be so grateful. It's not like anybody's gonna be whining about having to go
to the snow like everybody's going to be so, yeah, we can go
like play and yeah, I don't know, I'm really excited. I think
it's gonna be cool. That's gonna be so much fun. And you know
what, guess what, Eric, you can be part of the Dolphins Club
as well. It's not just for people in recovery, it's not. It's
for people that want to help the community. Yeah, and so there's something
else you're doing coming up at Father Joe's right, Yes, And January thirteenth,
we're gonna be at nine am at twenty four to ten Et Street and
we're going into the day Center. So there's gonna be They said that normally
when they do events there, there's around one hundred homeless people that come for
the day. And we're gonna do bingo, so we're gonna collect prizes for
that. And then we have two speakers, both of them in recovery.
But you know, the woman speaker is so powerful. She's gonna be telling
her story there and she was actually there herself and now her life is just
beautiful, you know. So it's gonna be cool and we're gonna you know,
I think it's gonna be a powerful day and Bingo's always fun like you
know, and not just like the prizes shouldn't be just necessities. It'll be
fun stuff too, you know. Bingo was the best. Literally, like
I don't care if I win a toothbrush. I'm like, yes, I'm
like weirdly competitive, you know. But these are like things you do stuff
like this frequently, right with the girl with with once a month we do
once a month. We skip this month because last minute we were going to
do the Father Joes this month, but then they give us the go like
two weeks in advance, and I'm like, no, we need more time
than that. So once a month we do something though, So that's awesome
as a group and anybody, you just need to buy a T shirt right
to be part of the club. It's just a uniform. It's literally twenty
dollars. It's just so that we all go in looking the same and you
know, just looks. I love the way we look when we all come
in wearing the same shirt. You know, but I can't afford it.
You can still come. I'll give your shirt. It's not the end of
the world. Okay, So when she does her drops because she I've been
following I've been looking very deeply into your Instagram. I'm sorry, I'm still
I was stalking you pretty hard. But she does drops like she shall have
a certain theme for clothing, and like this last one you did had like
mother Mary and you know I love religious art, you know, and then
it's a Dolphace club over it, and then just the I got I got
a sweat. See it was really really cute. But anyway, stuff sells
out boom like that, I was looking through your stuff sold out, sold
out, sold out, sold out, so I was looking for anything that
was available. I mean, I don't know how that happened. It's just
so great. You're so talented, and the fact that you weren't even thinking
about being a designer like early on. I still can't believe it to this
day. Honestly, I'm like, it's I don't I don't even I don't
even know. I'm more of just like a creative you know. Yeah,
I wouldn't be, like I don't want to be put in that box because
then it's so much pressure, like what's next? What you know? And
like I like to just feel creative and like, oh now I have like
ten ideas. Let me go and I could do. I'm in a place
in my life where I can do ten things at once, you know.
But so if somebody is watching right now that maybe might is struggling, what
is your message to them. My message is that there's hope, you know.
And it's even though it seems like there's no way out, there's always
a way out. You just got to reach out. And the hardest part
is making that decision, because after that, the univer rist will flow with
you. You know, everything will make sense and you can come out of
it and you can have a life way better than mine. I never thought
I would have this life if you would have asked me, you know,
And it's still shocking to this day. I feel like I would just blink
and it's gone, you know. But it's real and it's here because I
made the decision to like, I'm going to try something new. That's all
it takes is just to try something new. If it doesn't work, you
can go back to what you're used to. But I guarantee you it to
work, because if it worked for me, it can work for anybody.
And you are helping others and that's what keeps us clean and sober is paying
it forward. I feel like a lot of us have influence, you know,
and if you're one of those people that has that type of energy,
like you should use it for good? Why not? You know? For
sure? Exactly? Oh my gosh, So this is where your money is
going. See the Dolphace Club Sober Living. You guys, it's five dollars
an entry the box. We showed you over one thousand dollars worth of good
ease and there's more being added every single week. And we will draw the
name on the twenty first of December. And already people have been giving giving
givings, so I'm super excited. I can't even wait for the total.
But anyway, just five all come with all the girls Christmas Eve. We're
all meeting up to give them gifts. So, oh, you guys are
welcome to I want to come to the Father Joe's thing for sure. And
I'm bringing a girl who I'm helping kind of mentor who is was a drug
addict. I'm bringing her to the meeting on Wednesday. Oh my god.
Yes, I'm like, I found an any meeting that is outstanding, because
she couldn't find like an any meeting that really, but she could gravitate towards
I'm like, this one is women only, and you will totally jive with
these women. I love that. So I'll see you on Wednesday for sure.
Thank you for joining us here at Kirk. Thank you. Thank you
for all that you're doing too. That's amazing. Seriously, thank you for
what you're doing for the community. It is really cool, and coming from
somebody who is clean and sober, it's just it's very special and very powerful
and it means a lot. So thank you for finding me. I know,
I am so I heard you guys are cracking jokes and I'm like,
I can't wait to crack jokes and you haven't said anything. Sorry, are
you all of a sudden? Yeah, I know how he's weirdly silent.
Silent now interview, especially on something that's serious. Do you have many questions,
Brian? Do you want to say anything like like how cool this is?
Or give some money everybody go to Laura Kane after dark dot com keep
up the great work, like to live there. Yeah, that'd be nice.
It is. I have to get maybe clean first, well I just
get dirty and then clean first, so yeah, it's a process. And
then become a female. It's another process, your girl. I'll reach out
in a couple of years. I'll let you know, right but we will.
We'll you guys updated on the things that that they're doing every month,
So maybe you could be a part two because it's just helping the community basically
is what they are doing as well. So thank you, Clia, thank
you, thank you, and thank you everybody who has already donated, and
thank you if you are going to donate. We really appreciate that. And
we lock out of our show with a phrase. So I'll say it first,
then you say it, then Eric says it, and then we're done.
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