Speaker 1: Deborah, with her thirty years of being an entrepreneur and
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Speaker 2: do everything right. How about that is when's the last
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Speaker 2: everything you wanted? Are we going back to that kind
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Speaker 2: We're excited and you have noticed that we have started
Speaker 2: to do some really cool things with the podcast show.
Speaker 2: You for sure know about the two sixty two explosion,
Speaker 2: and we're going all around the world and that's cool
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Speaker 2: in something like that is you get to hang out
Speaker 2: with a lot of really cool people, and those cool
Speaker 2: people know cool people. I don't know my dating myself.
Speaker 2: Has anyone ever seen that Panteon commercial? Did I just
Speaker 2: give them a free plug? We're two people that know
Speaker 2: two people. But look at we have collectives of women
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Speaker 2: businesses and having different purposes in the same area. And
Speaker 2: so we wanted to bring that to you in a
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Speaker 2: So look at today, we are going to be talking
Speaker 2: to the most incredible authors. And right now I have
Speaker 2: a collection of women with me. We do have women
Speaker 2: and men that come on the group podcast, yes we do.
Speaker 2: But I have an incredible group of women here today
Speaker 2: that are going to share with us their insights on authoring,
Speaker 2: what it's like to be an author, and just all
Speaker 2: of the questions that are around that because many people,
Speaker 2: we know it's really only three percent of people that
Speaker 2: actually put pen to paper, whether it's co authoring where
Speaker 2: it's poetry, whether it's quote authoring, where it's solo authoring,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter. The bravery is the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's about willing to be seen and willing to be
Speaker 2: heard because those pages they hang around for a little while.
Speaker 2: It's why we used to lock our journals. Right It's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want anyone to read this,
Speaker 2: but it is sharing up oneself. So we're going to
Speaker 2: dive into that a little bit today. And I know
Speaker 2: that as an incredible audience, I always give you this
Speaker 2: wonderful title. So today you're a highly highly informed audience. Today,
Speaker 2: you're a highly informed audience today. So let's get this
Speaker 2: party started. Now for those of you that are, you know,
Speaker 2: driving or doing something other than sitting and watching this
Speaker 2: beautiful podcast, visually keep doing what you're doing. I'm going
Speaker 2: to introduce some people too. But for those that are watching,
Speaker 2: maybe authors. If you can, when I introduce yourself, just
Speaker 2: put your hand up so they know.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: You can do jazz hands if you want, you can
Speaker 2: do like you know, build billy dance and do whatever
Speaker 2: you want to do. Just let people know who I'm introducing.
Speaker 2: So we have miss Lorie Osbourne. Laura Osbourne is wearing
Speaker 2: pink today and Loria Osbourne is also a web developer.
Speaker 2: She is an author there and she's a keynote speaker.
Speaker 2: I'm best selling author. All of these women I here
Speaker 2: are best selling authors. And then we have Linda and Nardelli. Yay,
Speaker 2: so Linda Nardelli is also a spiritual counselor, a channeler,
Speaker 2: a visionary and of course best selling author. And then
Speaker 2: we have Cheryl rafter Dad who just came back from Ireland.
Speaker 2: I know because we hung out there, and she is
Speaker 2: a courageous comeback coach as well as a multi best
Speaker 2: selling author. And then we have DRIs Kelly. There you
Speaker 2: are and she is the intuitive business mentor. And then
Speaker 2: you have me as your host. What a shock. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's get into this party. So we talk about books.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have a favorite book, maybe you have one
Speaker 2: that changed your life many years ago. But Laurie, I'm
Speaker 2: going to start with you. Can you tell us if
Speaker 2: you had a favorite book growing up?
Speaker 4: You know, dev I have to admit something really embarrassing.
Speaker 4: I was a top student growing up, and I was
Speaker 4: supposed to read all the books. But I didn't actually
Speaker 4: start reading until I was twenty seven, So I actually
Speaker 4: didn't read books growing up. I did the cliff notes
Speaker 4: and did the you know, short and sweet, I cheated.
Speaker 2: Well, no, hey, you didn't cheat. You got creative. Do
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? You didn't You didn't cheat,
Speaker 2: You got creative. And but you were inspired. Was there
Speaker 2: any book even in your lifetime, man, something that you've read,
Speaker 2: even up to date, that moved you? Oh?
Speaker 4: There are there are so many, because I you know,
Speaker 4: I read so many now, I you know. I I
Speaker 4: started with John Grisham, which you know is not business
Speaker 4: related at all, but I love John Grisham books. And
Speaker 4: he happens to actually have a home on a Millia
Speaker 4: Island where I live, which is really awesome. And and
Speaker 4: then I would say just any any books, anything that
Speaker 4: Mel Robbins writes just has inspired me, moved me just
Speaker 4: I feel.
Speaker 2: Like she's a soul sister.
Speaker 4: So I have to go with with Mel Robbins work.
Speaker 2: All right, well, Teresa, thank you so much. Teresa. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe you didn't you know, as she says, cheat, which
Speaker 2: is she didn't cheat. But did you have a book
Speaker 2: that inspired you when you were growing up? Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, And I don't remember all the details, but
Speaker 5: did you ever read The Outsiders? I think it was
Speaker 5: seventh grade required reading? And all I remember, all I
Speaker 5: remember was Stay Gold and I just hung on to
Speaker 5: that like that just just that just went into my soul, like,
Speaker 5: oh I want to Stay Gold. I just love that because.
Speaker 2: I think it's for me somebody.
Speaker 5: Then the young Man with twelve year old, Right, it's
Speaker 5: a story of twelve year old boys in the trouble
Speaker 5: that happens to them, and and.
Speaker 2: For me, it's very much like.
Speaker 5: Somebody was seeing somebody and seeing something in this young person.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of what I.
Speaker 5: Do today, right, And then as an adult, it would
Speaker 5: be an LaMotte. I first read Bird by Bird and
Speaker 5: I'm sorry operating instructions and I'm like, I want to
Speaker 5: be here when I grow up. So I love Love
Speaker 5: Love and Lamont those are my two.
Speaker 2: Okay, awesome, thank you so much, Linda.
Speaker 6: I've been pondering that and I wish I could remember
Speaker 6: the name of the book. And it had such a
Speaker 6: profound effect on me, and I've been like, every now
Speaker 6: and again I think of it. It's like, what's the name.
Speaker 6: And it was about a preteen girl that visits this
Speaker 6: other world and that's what I do. That's my life.
Speaker 6: I connect with the unseen, the other world, the spirit world,
Speaker 6: and she would go it was about the fog. It
Speaker 6: was called it was something around fog, and she would
Speaker 6: go through this fog to go to the other side
Speaker 6: and she had a best friend there and it really
Speaker 6: spoke to spoke to me in a huge way. And
Speaker 6: more recently is Wild Mercy Now as a child that
Speaker 6: was fiction. This is nonfiction by Maura Mariah Bye Star,
Speaker 6: difficult name Maria by Star and it's about the divine
Speaker 6: feminine and wow, and that's just nourishing, nursing, because I
Speaker 6: think that we're in a time right now where we
Speaker 6: need like these circles, we need to celebrate them, the
Speaker 6: divine feminine.
Speaker 2: Wow, thank you so much for sharing. And Shayl, what
Speaker 2: about you.
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 3: Growing up, I like to read because that was kind
Speaker 3: of my world to get out of my other world.
Speaker 3: But I would like to read Nancy Jew and Hardy Boys.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it was always a series, right,
Speaker 3: So they are always doing some kind of solving or
Speaker 3: there was a mystery, or they'd go to a different country,
Speaker 3: so I'd be like right in that little world with them,
Speaker 3: and you know, it was a series, so I would
Speaker 3: read the first one really quickly and then go on
Speaker 3: to the next one to find out what other adventures
Speaker 3: they were were doing. And then eventually I think they
Speaker 3: became a TV series too, So it was really cool
Speaker 3: to watch that and be in another country or you know,
Speaker 3: solving something that they were were looking to find or
Speaker 3: a mystery.
Speaker 2: So it was always cool to do that. Oh, that's
Speaker 2: that's awesome. I was thinking about this the other day
Speaker 2: because of course I was thinking about you know, authors
Speaker 2: in the show and what have you. And for me,
Speaker 2: my first memory was my mom had bought children's children
Speaker 2: set up encyclopedias by the door, and you know, like, no, people,
Speaker 2: I'm not you know, I'm I'm wise, not that wise.
Speaker 2: But and I remember my mom just I mean, because
Speaker 2: you know, obviously that was expensive for her, and it
Speaker 2: was they were highly prized. And wherever we moved, they
Speaker 2: came with us. But we'd open them up and they
Speaker 2: had these gorgeous, colorful pictures of animals and what have you.
Speaker 2: That's my first, really like and I think I took
Speaker 2: such good care of it because it was an expensive purchase.
Speaker 2: And I bet you we had those circulating in my family.
Speaker 2: Possibly my mom still has a few. Like possibly still
Speaker 2: my has a few. But those were highly prized. Which
Speaker 2: books are right? Which books are so? Laurie going back
Speaker 2: to you, So you've had your books, You've had your experience.
Speaker 2: We've all read books, we've all been impressed upon by
Speaker 2: books and what have you. And like Cheryl said, some
Speaker 2: books turning into movies and the impression just move changes
Speaker 2: the platform. But what inspired you to finally put your
Speaker 2: pages together and share yourself? What was that someone forcing
Speaker 2: you or was it a divine message?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, ironically, even though I didn't read growing up,
Speaker 4: I wrote growing up. I wrote poetry constantly growing up.
Speaker 4: And I had a great aunt that self published a
Speaker 4: book when I was a child, which was very unusual
Speaker 4: back then, and she was one of those that just
Speaker 4: made you feel like you could do anything. And she
Speaker 4: really always encouraged me to write. You know, I have more.
Speaker 4: I have my own books my head that I'm still
Speaker 4: going to get out there. And every time I think
Speaker 4: about writing, I think about great Aunt Bobby, that had
Speaker 4: such a profound influence on my life. So that's the
Speaker 4: encouragement for me. And then, you know, in recent years
Speaker 4: and actually doing it, it's just I've mainly written for
Speaker 4: the art of connection, and it's just really the mission
Speaker 4: of sharing and being part of an amazing project, you.
Speaker 2: Know, tooche I love and you know, I love to
Speaker 2: highlight for women. It's not you know, there's so someone's like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm just a poet. Have you heard it? Like I'm
Speaker 2: just a poet, Or I just do quotes, or I
Speaker 2: just wrote a few pages, or it's mostly pictures, or
Speaker 2: there's sometimes we dismiss the power and when you think
Speaker 2: about some of the words that we say to people
Speaker 2: that really have left an impact. It wasn't twelve volumes,
Speaker 2: do you know, what I mean. It was the message
Speaker 2: of your book. It was the meaning of your book.
Speaker 2: That chapter meant more to me. There's a chapter in
Speaker 2: Thinking of Rich from Napoline Hill, which I read ten
Speaker 2: times before someone told me to do it, that there
Speaker 2: was a chapter that really spoke to me more than
Speaker 2: the others. So sometimes I don't think it's the volume
Speaker 2: of words. I think it's the it's the depth of
Speaker 2: the message that makes a difference. Absolutely, Teresa, how about yourself? Three?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you know what. I keep doing that because
Speaker 2: you know, my daughter is closed us and I always like,
Speaker 2: I'm like, which one is she? So it's terse. Thank
Speaker 2: you for correcting me, because it's it's going to be
Speaker 2: a long show for you otherwise. Okay, So Teresa gully Soe.
Speaker 5: Actually I've always been a good writer people. I'm irish.
Speaker 2: I got the gift of that right.
Speaker 5: And I want to do marketing writing and blogs and
Speaker 5: all that. And a friend of mine is that was
Speaker 5: an actually book publisher and she's like, I want you
Speaker 5: to do this, and I it just was like not
Speaker 5: the right time, not the right time, not the right time.
Speaker 5: And in our next question, I'll tell you the story
Speaker 5: of how this book is this book, but when I
Speaker 5: first got to it, it was a completely different title.
Speaker 5: It was a whole different It's funny how it's morph
Speaker 5: into something else. And so it was somebody believing in me,
Speaker 5: and somebody holding a space for me, and somebody like,
Speaker 5: let's get your words out because you're really good when
Speaker 5: people need your stuff. Right, So it was somebody else
Speaker 5: kind of me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool, that's cool. That inspired you? And London,
Speaker 2: what inspired you?
Speaker 6: That's beautiful, Teresa. It was somebody believing in me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: first what inspired me Initially the spark was the group
Speaker 6: sold that I channel asked me to write a book,
Speaker 6: and I naively said yeah, sure, thinking well, I'll channel
Speaker 6: a message and transcribe it and edit it for readability
Speaker 6: and done. But they gave me in complete messages that
Speaker 6: I had to maul over. And then a dear friend
Speaker 6: of mine that supports my writing read through it and
Speaker 6: he says, this is so powerful and terribly written. Rework, rework,
Speaker 6: rework and get more real and intimate. And then I
Speaker 6: struggled because I had a strong belief and we do,
Speaker 6: we have those underlying beliefs, I said, I thought, I
Speaker 6: don't know how to write. I'm not a good writer.
Speaker 6: I even just said that to a friend of mine recently.
Speaker 6: I have this book, yeah, and I said to him,
Speaker 6: I'm not a writer, Linda, what do you mean? As
Speaker 6: I'm working on my second book, I just remember a
Speaker 6: paper in elementary and high school, early high school, and
Speaker 6: all the words were red marks, correction, red marks, red marks.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, oh, I'm terrible at this in my
Speaker 6: substantive editor and all those red marks and corrections. Oh,
Speaker 6: I don't know what I'm doing. But now I look
Speaker 6: at that as an opportunity to get a clear the
Speaker 6: message clearer, and that it's part of the process. And
Speaker 6: she told me put the words down, beyond fire, be passionate,
Speaker 6: get it all out, and then do the grueling rewrites.
Speaker 6: And that's part of the writing process. And I've learned
Speaker 6: to love it.
Speaker 2: Learned to love it. Oh my goodness, Thank you, Cheryl.
Speaker 2: What or who inspired you to get your first words
Speaker 2: on paper? Because I know that there's you know, some
Speaker 2: of you have written many different books and many different
Speaker 2: titles and things. So going back to that first one,
Speaker 2: what inspired you?
Speaker 3: Well? What inspired me is last year in June, I
Speaker 3: went to a fundraising event where I met a publisher
Speaker 3: that was looking for authors in her book. And of
Speaker 3: course I am, my, I'm not a writer, Like I've
Speaker 3: never written anything before. You know, I might have journaled
Speaker 3: a little bit or you know, done a little bit
Speaker 3: of that. And then it's like, I don't really have
Speaker 3: a story, right, And then you know, so I had
Speaker 3: a conversation, so I put my hand up. I'm like,
Speaker 3: what the heck, you know, I'm gonna just jump over
Speaker 3: the fence and put my hand up and see.
Speaker 6: Where it takes me.
Speaker 2: So that's what I did.
Speaker 3: I had a conversation with her, and you know, I
Speaker 3: was telling her a little bit about my background and
Speaker 3: where I came from and you know, your life, what
Speaker 3: you the adversities and challenges that you go through growing up.
Speaker 3: And she's like, yeah, that sounds like a courageous story.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, okay, that's great. So then yeah, so
Speaker 3: I jumped on board and started writing my story and
Speaker 3: it was really a great journey and it was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. And you know, I had like Teres,
Speaker 3: somebody who believed in me and said, you know what,
Speaker 3: this is something people need to hear. It's inspiring and
Speaker 3: you know, you never know who you're going to inspire,
Speaker 3: and so then it really brought me into my second
Speaker 3: book from doing the first one. So it was really
Speaker 3: a great journey. And I think one of the big
Speaker 3: things that I learned about writing my story is that's
Speaker 3: not who I am, It's just what happened to me. Right.
Speaker 3: That was a big aha moment when I actually had
Speaker 3: read it out to one of the other authors as
Speaker 3: we were like going through editing, and it was like, wow,
Speaker 3: these are just events, you know, father, whatever you grow
Speaker 3: up with, right, and it doesn't define who you are,
Speaker 3: It just is what happened. So it was an amazing journey.
Speaker 3: I've learned so much and has brought me to where
Speaker 3: I am now.
Speaker 2: It's great. Yeah, and I think that thank you so
Speaker 2: much for sharing that. I think that it is very
Speaker 2: interesting just how powerful the personal development is. I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that I decide to write
Speaker 2: their journey and write their book because it's been inside
Speaker 2: them for a long time. Some people, really the whole
Speaker 2: process to putting a book together is actually using it
Speaker 2: as a piece of personal development, and the fact that
Speaker 2: it sells is a bonus. And some people write books
Speaker 2: really to sell, support their courses, support their business, be
Speaker 2: a piece of a marketing tool, and the personal growth
Speaker 2: that comes along the way is the surprise to them,
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? The other one is like, oh,
Speaker 2: I just meant to heal myself and ooh look it,
Speaker 2: I'm a number one bestseller. So it really is very different.
Speaker 2: And I think sometimes when you embark on the journey
Speaker 2: because someone's like, come along, I'm doing an anthology, or
Speaker 2: come along, let's do this together, come along, it's time,
Speaker 2: or your group says, hey, write a book for us
Speaker 2: and you're like, yeah, no problem thing, you know, checke gpt,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? You And then you end
Speaker 2: up having a different experience and by nature from someone
Speaker 2: who's been sitting on this side of the camera for
Speaker 2: a long time, who's also done you know, I think
Speaker 2: I'm at nine books. Is that the personal development and
Speaker 2: the person that you get to meet and that sometimes
Speaker 2: you just share, like there was one book I just
Speaker 2: shared one incident like CHERYLT you talked about just one
Speaker 2: thing that is going to make other people realize they're
Speaker 2: not alone. And it's interesting. It's also reflective of things
Speaker 2: that you have gone in and you don't have the
Speaker 2: same attachment to it or or it makes you stronger
Speaker 2: that you do write it. So, I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: such a journey. And I think for those of you
Speaker 2: that are listening and watching the show, really, if you
Speaker 2: are wondering or thinking about anything, whether it's authoring, or
Speaker 2: there's anything that's inkling inside you, whether it's starting a
Speaker 2: business or stopping a business, whether it's starting a family
Speaker 2: or not starting a family, or whatever it is that's
Speaker 2: inside that is brewing, I think that these are these
Speaker 2: are actually stories of courage. And it does take courage
Speaker 2: to say you'll do a book, and then I think
Speaker 2: it does it takes bravery to close the last chapter
Speaker 2: and take it to market. Right, So you've talked about
Speaker 2: some of the feelings that you've gone through, the projects
Speaker 2: meant to you. Let's talk about the title. So and
Speaker 2: if you didn't have a chance to talk about your process,
Speaker 2: please do when I ask you this, but what is
Speaker 2: your title? How did that title? Because sometimes when you
Speaker 2: go into an anthology, the titles picked for you. But
Speaker 2: what was it about the title that made you decide?
Speaker 2: It could have been just the fact that it was
Speaker 2: a community process. What made you decide to either go
Speaker 2: into that collective and community and do those or what
Speaker 2: was it about the title that you had to come
Speaker 2: to to be able to take your book to market? So, Cheryl,
Speaker 2: let's start with you. I just said I wouldn't do that,
Speaker 2: but let's start with you, because your yours was about
Speaker 2: courage and you were saying that that was the draw there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you've been in a few so you can talk
Speaker 2: about that that or anything else I have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So my titles were I didn't have an option
Speaker 3: to choose the titles, but Ignite your Courage really just
Speaker 3: resonated with me. And the other one is Ignite Joy
Speaker 3: because it's always bringing about being joyful in your life
Speaker 3: and doing the things that you love and just collaborating
Speaker 3: and having the courage as well to really really do that.
Speaker 3: You know, example is going to Ireland, right. I just
Speaker 3: put my hand up and said I'm going to Ireland, right, so,
Speaker 3: and I went by myself and people are you're flying
Speaker 3: by yourself. I'm like, yeah, you know, so that takes
Speaker 3: courage and and it brings you joy. I had so
Speaker 3: much fun doing it. So you know, my titles were,
Speaker 3: you know, not my choice, but really resonated with what
Speaker 3: they were, what they were doing, and what they were saying.
Speaker 3: So it really allowed me to, you know, write my
Speaker 3: story in both of those and even the two sixty
Speaker 3: two women's book like it just really resonated to be
Speaker 3: part of this community and really help and support women.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 4: So I had no control in the title of mine either.
Speaker 4: I am in the process of writing for the third
Speaker 4: of five books, The Art of Connection, and they're all
Speaker 4: three hundred and sixty five days of something quotes, and
Speaker 4: the first one was transformational quotes, and the second one
Speaker 4: was gratitude quotes. Now we're doing abundance quotes. And the
Speaker 4: reason I stay with it and the reason I will
Speaker 4: be part of these books till they stop someday maybe never,
Speaker 4: is because they they are written by people like us.
Speaker 4: They're small business owners, entrepreneurs, and there's just so much
Speaker 4: wisdom in these books. And for me, it was an
Speaker 4: opportunity to share my story. I live with a meningeoma
Speaker 4: brain tumor that I just I love to share my
Speaker 4: story of resilience because I always find that it inspires
Speaker 4: other people. So my quotes, my gratitude quote is I
Speaker 4: am I am I'm grateful for this tumor because it
Speaker 4: led me to where I am. And it's just being
Speaker 4: part part of the community and part of sharing something
Speaker 4: so amazing and having If it's just one page, it's
Speaker 4: one page that could hopefully change someone's life.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you so much. All right, miss Kelly, take
Speaker 2: it away there.
Speaker 5: That's good. So I've been in bunches of anthologies, but
Speaker 5: this is this is my own book. And when I
Speaker 5: first started it, the title was called The Entrepreneurial Journey
Speaker 5: as a Spiritual Path and it sucked. Can I say
Speaker 5: the word sucked?
Speaker 2: Because what do we don't d it? So okay, okay,
Speaker 2: there we go. It wasn't embodied.
Speaker 5: I was going for word count, so I would grab
Speaker 5: other things I wrote, and I was literally like, and
Speaker 5: who talked about the red lines? When I got it back,
Speaker 5: I literally was not in an emotional place because it
Speaker 5: wasn't embodied. And I'm just like, oh, I'm done, I
Speaker 5: can and so and then I had like some tragedy
Speaker 5: and stuff happened, and a couple of years later my
Speaker 5: publisher friend reached back out and she said, do you
Speaker 5: want to do the book? And so this one is
Speaker 5: love based mission, how to create a business that serves
Speaker 5: your soul and this this iron body, And to me,
Speaker 5: that's the significant peace. And so I my belief is
Speaker 5: the title is specific because there's a certain there's a
Speaker 5: people that are just here for the money.
Speaker 2: They have businesses, they're for the money.
Speaker 5: And those of us who are business the way we
Speaker 5: do our business isn't it's our ministry, it's our mission.
Speaker 5: It's it's our extension of our soul in the world.
Speaker 5: So it tells you how to do that.
Speaker 2: And I'm wildly proud of it. I love that, wildly
Speaker 2: proud of it. That's awesome, wildly proud of it. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that's uh, you know, whether it's the topic
Speaker 2: of our chapter or the topic of the book, or
Speaker 2: what we're resonating to in the project, you know, it's important.
Speaker 2: It's part of the drive. It's part of the drive
Speaker 2: and yourself.
Speaker 6: Miss Linda mystical intimacy MMMM came to me intuitively. I
Speaker 6: was I can't remember if I was reading a book
Speaker 6: or part are blog by Carolyn Mayce, but she's all
Speaker 6: about mysticism. So there was something about mysticism in Somewhere
Speaker 6: in her writing was something about intimacy, and I put
Speaker 6: those two words together. That's it. That's it. She hadn't
Speaker 6: put those two words together. It was just as I
Speaker 6: was reading along it just came together and I knew
Speaker 6: it's not any other name.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 6: It took me a while to understand what it meant
Speaker 6: is our idea of intimacy. And people will think often
Speaker 6: that it's a book on relationships. To me, mystical intimacy
Speaker 6: is a relationship with our spiritual selves. It's the idea
Speaker 6: of mysticism. It's a relationship between our human experience and
Speaker 6: the soul embodiment. And we often see those as separate
Speaker 6: and spiritual life as separate. And I look for where's
Speaker 6: the merger, where's the integration, the place of interconnection. And
Speaker 6: that's what this whole book is about, is developing an
Speaker 6: intimate connection with our longing, which is the language of
Speaker 6: the soul.
Speaker 2: Wow beautifully said, I'm going to ask it's kind I'm
Speaker 2: just going to kind of throw this in the here
Speaker 2: a little bit. But as you talk about your book,
Speaker 2: and you talk about it with such reverence and all
Speaker 2: your eyes kind of I'm going to ask the moment
Speaker 2: that the books arrived, like what was that like, and
Speaker 2: who did you give your first books to and what
Speaker 2: did it feel like to sign the cover like it
Speaker 2: could be I'm not imagine. I'm not going to say.
Speaker 2: I mean, for me, I've had that experience and it's
Speaker 2: been really interesting. I can still. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: one of those magical moments that everyone out puts on
Speaker 2: social media because it's so powerful, But share all for you.
Speaker 2: What was that like that first opening, because I st
Speaker 2: look at the same feeling nine books later, I'm just like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And even my third book, it was still the same
Speaker 3: feeling when I was opening up it just it really
Speaker 3: just made it real, you know, because you're you're in
Speaker 3: the process of doing it and you're writing it, and
Speaker 3: you know you see that it on like maybe on
Speaker 3: the computer, right, and then when you actually physically get
Speaker 3: that book, it's just like, oh my god, like this
Speaker 3: is so exciting and it just makes it really real,
Speaker 3: like it's like, hey, I'm actually an author. Here it is,
Speaker 3: you know, like the physical book is right here. And
Speaker 3: so yeah, it changed it made I don't know, it
Speaker 3: made me different. Like people said to me, you're more confident,
Speaker 3: you're you know, things like that. So it was just
Speaker 3: really amazing to feel that book in your hand and go,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I actually have done it right, and
Speaker 3: then the second time saying, wow, this is amazing. I
Speaker 3: have now two books, and then the third time right.
Speaker 3: So it's it's just really exciting and magical to be
Speaker 3: able to feel that actual book. Also, Laurie, Well, I
Speaker 3: must say I'm looking forward to the day when I
Speaker 3: received the book that it's my name on there and
Speaker 3: it will happen, because like I said, it's in my
Speaker 3: I've got two in my head, it's coming. But even
Speaker 3: just being.
Speaker 4: You know, part of a collaboration, the same thing that
Speaker 4: Cheryl said, it just you know, I thought back to
Speaker 4: my aunt Bobby, and she would be so proud that,
Speaker 4: you know, I did put my pen to paper, I
Speaker 4: did get published, and you know, I look forward to
Speaker 4: that every year. I'm trying to remember who I gave
Speaker 4: the first book to. I know, I sent one to
Speaker 4: my dad and and I give them as client gifts constantly.
Speaker 4: And I love the writing inside and just you know,
Speaker 4: writing some encouraging and going oh my gosh, here's my page,
Speaker 4: you know, go to my page. It is so rewarding,
Speaker 4: and I do I mean, I'm very I have a
Speaker 4: lot of admiration for those of you that have done
Speaker 4: it on your own. And I will be back here
Speaker 4: someday talking about when I have my own books.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So well, Linda, what about yourself?
Speaker 6: You know, there was a combination of being really really
Speaker 6: terrified I put it was finally out there, and it
Speaker 6: was a long journey for me creating the book. It
Speaker 6: was some people create a book in a year. I
Speaker 6: remember somebody saying, oh, it took me a whole year,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, oh god, it's been ten years. It
Speaker 6: was a journey. Yeah, there's a lot moving around. Also,
Speaker 6: I love this question because it helps me penetrate truth
Speaker 6: that that overwhelmed that I was experienced at the time,
Speaker 6: to imagine myself opening the box. I remember the box.
Speaker 6: I love this question because I could relive that there
Speaker 6: was a sense of accomplishment, there was a sense of
Speaker 6: joy that I love the design of the book. We
Speaker 6: think it's beautiful. So the artist in me was very,
Speaker 6: very pleased and going through it. And each chapter starts
Speaker 6: with a photograph or an image, a painting that I've done,
Speaker 6: or photograph of my husband's taken and so I'm like, wow,
Speaker 6: that's really beautiful and just feeling the energy of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really good. Now that you say that, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, thanks for reminding me and trace yourself.
Speaker 2: How did it for you?
Speaker 5: I remember, so I remember sitting on the floor and
Speaker 5: my two dogs are.
Speaker 2: Like what what? So they were the first.
Speaker 5: Ones to see and I put the video on Facebook
Speaker 5: of the dogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, looked.
Speaker 5: But the first two people that I gave these two with
Speaker 5: my boys, I called them and then also my partner Scott.
Speaker 5: And because they don't they don't you know, I'm mom,
Speaker 5: got new mom, you know, And they're like what Mom
Speaker 5: did what?
Speaker 2: And Scott's like damn, like what? And what was so cool?
Speaker 5: As a part of the publicity that my publisher, I
Speaker 5: got a five minute TV spot on a local news
Speaker 5: station in North Dakota, where Scott's from, so his mom
Speaker 5: and his sisters and his family could watch. And one
Speaker 5: of his sisters, she's not in the business world, she's
Speaker 5: and she actually read it and she's like this, this
Speaker 5: gave me more confidence. And I'm like, oh that that
Speaker 5: so so to me it's applicable. Yeah, we focus on
Speaker 5: business and getting your work out in the world. But
Speaker 5: the fact that you know somebody in actually.
Speaker 2: North Dakota is like wow, and so it was.
Speaker 5: Those are the special things that happened for me as
Speaker 5: a result of the book.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, as you're all talking about it, I
Speaker 2: just have this massive amount of remembrance who you give
Speaker 2: it to. And I think the incredible thing is there's
Speaker 2: like this sense of pride that we've been proud of
Speaker 2: things before there, but there is something really powerful and
Speaker 2: it's from someone who puts together anthologies, right I get
Speaker 2: to I get to see those first moments of people
Speaker 2: many times over because they'll call me, and it is
Speaker 2: a different sense of pride. I can't explain it, but
Speaker 2: I it's kind of like I get to have joy
Speaker 2: watching other people have all their joys, and there's for me,
Speaker 2: there's a greater purpose, sense of accomplishment right where on
Speaker 2: the way back, being sure we're on the same flight
Speaker 2: and we're on the way back. And I've had a
Speaker 2: book in the back of my head for a couple
Speaker 2: of years and I just opened up my book and
Speaker 2: I literally laid the chapters down and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: one more step closer, and you know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: one more step closer, and then we're.
Speaker 6: Going to do this.
Speaker 2: And I think that sometimes the books call, but I
Speaker 2: also give respect to when the words want to be seen,
Speaker 2: so you know whether someone's someone's like, oh gosh, I've
Speaker 2: been doing this for so many years. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: when the pages, it's kind of like when the student.
Speaker 2: When the student's ready, the teacher appears. I also believe
Speaker 2: when the teacher's ready, the student appears. So when the
Speaker 2: words ready, the pages will appear. So I'm sure we're
Speaker 2: inspiring and motivating people today. I have a last question
Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with books, but I want
Speaker 2: you ladies to have an opportunity to again just in
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. You
Speaker 2: got to have your sixty seconds ready here, Like, tell
Speaker 2: people the name of your book, and probably for most
Speaker 2: of you it's available on Amazon. And if I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: then you can tell me. But most of you probably Amazon.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's your website and we'll have all of them
Speaker 2: in the show notes. But I would love someone to
Speaker 2: read my book if so for me, it's like let's
Speaker 2: talk with two sixty two. I would love one to
Speaker 2: read my book. If they felt alone because you got
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty one other women being completely transparent.
Speaker 2: And trust me, sweetheart, you ain't. You just ain't. So Laurie,
Speaker 2: let's start with you. So where's your book available? And
Speaker 2: I'd love someone to read my book if hey, I'm
Speaker 2: throwing it at.
Speaker 4: You, all right, The Art of Connection all series are
Speaker 4: on Amazon, and I would love someone to read my
Speaker 4: book if they are looking for any sort of connection
Speaker 4: or inspiration, if they just need and if it's a
Speaker 4: daily thing, any single day, if you need words of wisdom,
Speaker 4: words of encouragement, and you just want to feel good
Speaker 4: about your life, I encourage you to read it.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much. Trace.
Speaker 5: You can get it on Amazon or Trace Skelley dot com.
Speaker 5: There's a little printing glitch. We had to take down
Speaker 5: one copy and put it back up, and I don't
Speaker 5: know if Amazon's getting all that right. So if it's
Speaker 5: not on Amazon, go to Tresclly dot com on my website.
Speaker 5: I would love you to read this book if you
Speaker 5: are a woman who knows you're meant for something and
Speaker 5: you're stuck because a lot of this is you're so
Speaker 5: busy taking care of other people or not believing in
Speaker 5: yourself or not owning your value when I tell you
Speaker 5: why So if you want to, if you want to
Speaker 5: get your big mission out in the world, this is
Speaker 5: the book.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you and miss Lindon our Deli.
Speaker 6: My book is also available on Amazon and Banion Books
Speaker 6: if you're in Vancouver, and my website Lindenardeli dot com.
Speaker 6: And I'd love for you to read Mystical Intimacy if
Speaker 6: you yearn for connection with your soul, if you're feeling
Speaker 6: lost disconnected, if you're confused by a lot of the
Speaker 6: spiritual princess out there that often don't make sense. Principles
Speaker 6: like forgiveness and faith can sometimes lead people to disconnect
Speaker 6: from themselves. It becomes an avoidance strategy. And I clarify
Speaker 6: a lot of this. This just demystifies a lot of
Speaker 6: spiritual concepts.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you, and we'll end with you, Cheryl Well.
Speaker 3: All three of my books are on Amazon. Ignite Your Courage,
Speaker 3: Ignite Joy, and of course the two sixty two Women's
Speaker 3: Mission Book. So who I would like to read my
Speaker 3: books is somebody who is looking for the courage to
Speaker 3: move forward, find the joy. This speaks for good tear
Speaker 3: up because it's like find the joy in whatever it
Speaker 3: is and find the courage to move and have the
Speaker 3: community of people in the book, knowing that you're not
Speaker 3: alone and you can do anything that you put your
Speaker 3: mind to.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Awesome, Okay, We're going to do what we always
Speaker 2: do at the end of this show, and thank you listeners.
Speaker 2: I am sure you are writing Feverish Lee and we
Speaker 2: will have this show you know we do everywhere, so
Speaker 2: and you can tap into these women because we will
Speaker 2: have their individual information there. Please go to their sites.
Speaker 2: Please go to the website of Amazon and check out
Speaker 2: their books. We're going to do one fast round and
Speaker 2: it's you're on your way. You're all going to your
Speaker 2: own different private island. You're taking one suitcase you're going
Speaker 2: and I want to know the album that you are
Speaker 2: putting in your suitcase to take with you on your
Speaker 2: private island that you could not imagine not listening to
Speaker 2: for the rest of your days. So one album. We're
Speaker 2: going to end this with a music note, as we
Speaker 2: always do.
Speaker 3: So Cheryl, what are you taking with you? I'm taking
Speaker 3: anything from bon Jovi?
Speaker 2: All right, bon Jovi. Courage kind of works, kind of works. Yeah, okay, Laurie,
Speaker 2: what about yourself?
Speaker 3: Eagles Hell Freezes over all?
Speaker 5: Right, look at us. I think we're on a theme
Speaker 5: a little bit. Teres pink gotta be greatest hints or something.
Speaker 2: It's all the pink, dull cank, dullkink, Oh my gosh, amazing.
Speaker 2: And Linda, it's.
Speaker 6: The Florence and the Machine leadst album. I love it.
Speaker 6: I've been listening to it over and over again, especially
Speaker 6: her song King I'm not wife, I'm not mother, I
Speaker 6: Am King, and she sings it with so much passion,
Speaker 6: really breaking out of the social rules that we're given.
Speaker 2: Love it awesome, awesome. Those are some powerful, careful albums.
Speaker 2: I want to thank my guest today. I want also
Speaker 2: want to thank my listeners today. And look, I know
Speaker 2: you know, but we've got these cool summits going on,
Speaker 2: and if you actually, if you have words that you
Speaker 2: want to say and you want to come onto the podcast,
Speaker 2: we've got room for our November, March and upcoming May summits.
Speaker 2: Whether you want to speak a little bit or you
Speaker 2: want to speak in a full spot. We have spots
Speaker 2: available for you. We actually have, and we've been starting
Speaker 2: to share it. We were smart we knew in the
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty two women Entrepreneur, Lentrepreneur, Creatives and Media,
Speaker 2: Rock Legacy and Tell All book, we have two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty two women's names. And when we knew we
Speaker 2: were going to do a five year book tour, we
Speaker 2: knew women would be comeing to us and saying, I
Speaker 2: wish I could be in the book. I wish I
Speaker 2: could be in the book. Well, we use fifty incredible
Speaker 2: women of history as placeholders because it would be kind
Speaker 2: of weird to go for a five year book tour
Speaker 2: and not be able to put anybody in. So we
Speaker 2: still have well, we're now down to forty seven spots
Speaker 2: because we're just letting we know, watching a big campaign
Speaker 2: people that know. So if you want to be in
Speaker 2: the book, please come in the book. We are making
Speaker 2: waves with this book, you know, I think most.
Speaker 3: Of you know.
Speaker 2: We're on our way to the Emmys. You might be
Speaker 2: watching this after the Emmys, but we also have an
Speaker 2: award event happening next year that it might even be
Speaker 2: considered better. So if you want to play with us
Speaker 2: in a community, then please reach out. And we still
Speaker 2: have forty eight spots in that book. And then we've
Speaker 2: got boat planners and all sorts of all sorts of
Speaker 2: really cool, groovy places for you to come and experience
Speaker 2: the power of word on paper or stand up and
Speaker 2: speak up. With that being said, I just want to
Speaker 2: thank you so much. You're incredible, and I want to
Speaker 2: thank my guests today for coming together collaboratively and sharing,
Speaker 2: and whoever is listening, we are looking forward to hearing
Speaker 2: how this inspired and motivated you. And if you have
Speaker 2: a book or a phone or a quote that came
Speaker 2: out of this, I'm expecting to hear from you. That
Speaker 2: is your requirement for getting to listen to this show.
Speaker 2: So thank you again, ladies, and until until we meet again,
Speaker 2: which is all next week, you'll be well and you
Speaker 2: stay Grevio