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Speaker 2: So we are all authors that are going to be
Speaker 2: speaking to you today. We've either been an author, an
Speaker 2: author and a collaborative book. We've done our own book,
Speaker 2: we have ebooks, we have multiple books. We have books
Speaker 2: that we talk about when we speak and share, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk all about kind of the world
Speaker 2: of authorship. If you've wanted to be an author. Very cool.
Speaker 2: If you are an author, congratulations all And like when
Speaker 2: you think about books, when I think about all, like
Speaker 2: when you when you walk into a bookstore, you walk
Speaker 2: into a library, do you get excited? I get excited
Speaker 2: I'm like, Ooh, which aisle do you go down first?
Speaker 2: Do you run to like personal development? Or do you
Speaker 2: run down to cooking and look at all the pictures
Speaker 2: and wish you could you know what I mean? Do
Speaker 2: you do you find yourself wanting to sit on the floor?
Speaker 2: You're like, there should be a chair everywhere. Do you
Speaker 2: find yourself sitting on the floor? Are you a magazine person?
Speaker 2: I love? For me, magazines are all I love, like
Speaker 2: pictured magazines. I lot loves of pictures and magazines. I
Speaker 2: like to take them. I go on planes, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I already have my books in my suitcase.
Speaker 2: So are you the person that likes to write in
Speaker 2: your books? Are you like my book is like I
Speaker 2: would never ever fold the corner? I would never like
Speaker 2: you know, I put my bookmark and I put it away?
Speaker 2: Or do they look like you've had them for twenty
Speaker 2: years and you've had them for three weeks? Do you?
Speaker 2: I mean, do you like to stack them? Do you
Speaker 2: put them on bookcases? I mean, books are so they're
Speaker 2: just so cool. They represent you. You know, I have
Speaker 2: books behind here. We use them for decor, we use
Speaker 2: them as things to reflect our personalities. We love coffee
Speaker 2: table books? Or do you like black and white pictures?
Speaker 2: Do you like color pictures? There's so many cool things
Speaker 2: about authoring and being part of a book, But I
Speaker 2: have yet to meet an author that wasn't inspired at
Speaker 2: the very least some people driven to share a message
Speaker 2: to make the world a better place, that had to
Speaker 2: brave up on some degree to put those words on paper.
Speaker 2: Because when you put them on paper and they're in
Speaker 2: a store and people can buy them, You're like, can't
Speaker 2: change it, can't change it until revision times. So welcome
Speaker 2: to the wonderful world world of authors. And I'm going
Speaker 2: to introduce who is sharing some time with us today.
Speaker 2: So let me tell you. We have so people are
Speaker 2: listening to the show and some are watching to the show.
Speaker 2: So ladies, look at this. I'm in a group of
Speaker 2: ladies today. Maybe when I say your name, you can
Speaker 2: just kind of wave your hand. If you're driving, just
Speaker 2: keep going, just keep going to look at look at
Speaker 2: the show. But I'm just going to introduce you. So
Speaker 2: if you can't just kind of wave your hand, that
Speaker 2: would be great. So we have Grace Lou who is
Speaker 2: the Woman's truth awakener. She is with us today and
Speaker 2: then we have Mary Lumberding and she is a cooking
Speaker 2: coach and author. And we have Vera Melingervais. Oh, that's
Speaker 2: a personal thing of mine. I'm a speaker, author and
Speaker 2: a success mentor. And then we have miss Trish Springsteen,
Speaker 2: who is a confidence coach, a mentor, a speaker, and
Speaker 2: an author. You have met these ladies before if you've
Speaker 2: been hanging out in the two sixty two world watching
Speaker 2: some of the summits. They all are incredible speakers. But
Speaker 2: let's have a little chat today about this world of authorship.
Speaker 2: So Grace, let's start with you favorite book growing.
Speaker 4: Up, I would have to be The Monkey because you know,
Speaker 4: my parents were traditional Chinese, so they wanted me to
Speaker 4: understand and immerse in my culture first before getting into
Speaker 4: the American culture. So I was introduced to The Monkey King,
Speaker 4: and I just love anything to do with monkeys.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Oh my gosh, that's not so, is it? So?
Speaker 2: For those of us that don't know, is it a
Speaker 2: children's book? Is it a Yeah, it's a children's book.
Speaker 4: It's a chilengre's book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, awesome, thank you somuch for sharing.
Speaker 3: And Vera, I think for me it was The Hardy
Speaker 3: Boys and Nancy Drew the series because I just read
Speaker 3: a lot and they had so much curiosity and sense
Speaker 3: of adventure and and problems to solve and interactions and
Speaker 3: it just created this whole world of excitement for me
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to be there.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so good. Those books that when you read them,
Speaker 2: they transport you. Yeah, there's education books and there's the
Speaker 2: ones that transport you. I'm sure I my daughter went
Speaker 2: through that. You know, the hair and not it. You
Speaker 2: don't have to be a young girl to love the
Speaker 2: Harry Potter series, but the people that really get into
Speaker 2: the series, right, I remember Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. And Mary.
Speaker 5: For me, I was a biography about Florence Nightingale. My
Speaker 5: brother gave me the book. I was about twelve years
Speaker 5: old and I wrote her independence and just her drive.
Speaker 5: I really cherished that book.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, awesome, And Trish, how about yourself growing up?
Speaker 2: A favorite book?
Speaker 3: For me?
Speaker 6: It's the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm
Speaker 6: a big science fiction fantasy have a normal fan, and
Speaker 6: that's probably where it all started.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that was so good. For me, it's
Speaker 2: really interesting. My mother had bought these encyclopedias from someone
Speaker 2: that came to the door and sold encyclopedias, and there
Speaker 2: were children instead of encyclopedias, and they were full of
Speaker 2: little tidbit informations and these incredible illustrations. So maybe that's
Speaker 2: where my love for magazine comes a little bit of
Speaker 2: information and a big instrum. But I just remember those books,
Speaker 2: and I remember they were They must have cost my
Speaker 2: mom a lot of money for herself because it was
Speaker 2: like the book. There was this like glory around these books,
Speaker 2: like you know, to be able to read one was
Speaker 2: kind of special and you didn't just take them anywhere
Speaker 2: and they stayed in a special place at the house
Speaker 2: or what have you. So there you go. Well, ladies,
Speaker 2: it takes a lot of guts in glory and inspiration
Speaker 2: and determination and dedication and all those things that end
Speaker 2: in ion to take a book or say yes to
Speaker 2: being in a collective book. I'm just going to ask
Speaker 2: you what inspired you. We have a lot of people
Speaker 2: listening that may very well want to take that step
Speaker 2: or write their second book, right, So, Trish, what inspired
Speaker 2: you to put your words on paper? Because you've not
Speaker 2: only put your words on paper once you've put it
Speaker 2: a number of times. So is it just a part
Speaker 2: of your being now you've embodied it, or when you
Speaker 2: first started to do that, like, what was your process?
Speaker 2: What inspired you?
Speaker 6: I was never going to be an author that I
Speaker 6: didn't even think about it at all. And when I
Speaker 6: first started my business, it was credibility. So my first
Speaker 6: book I wrote was all about what I was doing
Speaker 6: in my business. The other two ones that are really
Speaker 6: ones I like to highlight were because of personal experiences
Speaker 6: and crisis I had, And they were two that I
Speaker 6: facilitated because I wanted to bring together groups of people
Speaker 6: around two subjects that are sometimes difficult to talk about.
Speaker 6: So there was a business inspiration and then there was
Speaker 6: a personal inspiration. And then people don't start writing as
Speaker 6: an author because once you do, you'll just keep writing
Speaker 6: as an author. And it's absolutely fantastic. It's to think
Speaker 6: that sometimes down the track, someone might pick up my
Speaker 6: book and read something that would be fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that, yeah, and pick it up, and
Speaker 2: sometimes we don't even know where they'reing it up from.
Speaker 2: Just kind of like my girlfriend who borrowed my book
Speaker 2: of Yours and you know who knows we used that
Speaker 2: put our name and number on the inside, because you
Speaker 2: know that once you lent out a book, the chances
Speaker 2: of you getting it back are pretty slim. But it's true.
Speaker 2: Books do travel. And the one thing that I love
Speaker 2: about books, kind of like how my mom had that
Speaker 2: around the encyclopedia, which I'm sure was more about cost
Speaker 2: than anything, was that we move with our books, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. We don't put books in recycling
Speaker 2: by nature. We give them or we recycle them, or
Speaker 2: we take them to a like recycle them by giving
Speaker 2: them to a library or.
Speaker 4: What have you.
Speaker 2: But where we go, our books follow, I think, And Mary,
Speaker 2: how about yourself?
Speaker 5: For me, it was it was like a big brain
Speaker 5: dump because I kept thinking about all these cooking ideas
Speaker 5: and once I wrote it down on it into a book,
Speaker 5: then I could stop thinking about that and move on
Speaker 5: to helping people to get cooking. So I really appreciated
Speaker 5: being able to just put it together in a book.
Speaker 2: Right, And I think much like yourself, I mean, it
Speaker 2: does make when you are so you are a chef,
Speaker 2: so you know those things go together. Not everybody that
Speaker 2: puts a book together happens to do it for business,
Speaker 2: but like with you, Trish, just the ability to see
Speaker 2: because people will walk up to all of us and go, hey,
Speaker 2: tell me how you know, Trish, tell me how you
Speaker 2: got confidence. And you're like, oh my goodness, I don't
Speaker 2: have that time to stand here, but let me tell you.
Speaker 2: Let me give you this, Let me give you this,
Speaker 2: or being able to send people to get that information.
Speaker 2: Ver what inspired you?
Speaker 3: My husband actually our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, he said,
Speaker 3: I don't understand why I can't give you red roses
Speaker 3: for something that happened ten years before I left you
Speaker 3: or I met you, and it made me realize that
Speaker 3: I had some unhandled traumas, and so I decided to
Speaker 3: delve into it by writing. And I wrote for therapy initially,
Speaker 3: and then realized when I was done that I wasn't
Speaker 3: the only one who was using words that have been
Speaker 3: attached to my identity to hold me back. And I
Speaker 3: started to write my second book, which is the one
Speaker 3: I published.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that's cool. So you you had a
Speaker 2: book that you didn't publish you and then nice, nice,
Speaker 2: nice step up.
Speaker 3: Once it was done, I realized I didn't need to
Speaker 3: publish it. That it had done what it was meant
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 2: Right, Very cool, and what about for you to grace?
Speaker 4: Well, I've always loved to write, and then I'm always
Speaker 4: like sharing my story. So my parents go, you should
Speaker 4: write a book, and then you know, my friends, and
Speaker 4: then I got into this business and everything. Everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 4: but write a book, you know, so that you have
Speaker 4: some credibility and everything. So it just seems like everybody
Speaker 4: was just going write a book, write a book, write
Speaker 4: a book. I stepped into it.
Speaker 2: I love that, right, I mean talking about that earlier
Speaker 2: and Vera we were sharing about that not too long ago.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, the environment that you in, you
Speaker 2: will rise to that tide, right, You'll rise to the tide.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because those of us that have written
Speaker 2: in books and are writing in books, because predominantly we're
Speaker 2: probably in business or in publishing or have stories to tell,
Speaker 2: there's this thing around, Oh, everybody's writing a book. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, why should I write a book too. We're like,
Speaker 2: we're still at only three percent of the world. So
Speaker 2: it is a pretty special thing to be able to
Speaker 2: write it. And there's a process. So let's talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about that. So, Trish, you've had a couple
Speaker 2: of different you've had the business, you've had personal feel
Speaker 2: free to talk about either or both, but what what
Speaker 2: was your main feeling going into the project? Like was
Speaker 2: there anything that you had to overcome and or got
Speaker 2: inspired by internally? What was that feeling like relief like
Speaker 2: you know, grace might have been okay, okay, relief, but
Speaker 2: what was it like for you?
Speaker 6: The first book, I had to be pulled in, kicking
Speaker 6: and struggling, because as far as I was concerned, I
Speaker 6: was a speaker and a train and a mental I
Speaker 6: was not an author. So it took a lot of
Speaker 6: bullying around me to get that first book, which was
Speaker 6: called Creating Confident Communicators. So that was the first start,
Speaker 6: and then I didn't write anything else for quite a
Speaker 6: few years until someone asked me to be a to
Speaker 6: be in a compilation in America. So I did that,
Speaker 6: and then I decided I wanted to share two of
Speaker 6: my favorite two rooms very close to my heart. One
Speaker 6: was touched by breast cancer, and that was because I
Speaker 6: went through breast cancer and I wanted to invite other
Speaker 6: people to share their stories. And the other one that
Speaker 6: I facilitated is forever changed by suicide. And that is
Speaker 6: because we lost our son Craig to suicide in two
Speaker 6: thousand and seven. His anniversary was two days two days ago,
Speaker 6: and I suicide at that time was not spoken about,
Speaker 6: So I wanted to give people opportunity to speak about
Speaker 6: their journey those who help people, So those in the
Speaker 6: three of my twenty one books. But that's probably the
Speaker 6: Aha moments and Peotle moments of my body, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really interesting. Thank you for sharing what
Speaker 2: inspires one or what is the main you know? Like
Speaker 2: when I say what is the main feeling? Like, what
Speaker 2: is it about going in? It's very interesting because sometimes
Speaker 2: that's the things that we have to overcome to just
Speaker 2: get that pen to paper or or all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it fuels you and you write one book in
Speaker 2: your life, bring it on, you know. How about for
Speaker 2: you and Mary? What was it like for you? What
Speaker 2: was that and what was the feelings going through your project?
Speaker 5: Well, like I said, it was just a matter of
Speaker 5: writing down things that were going around in my head anyway,
Speaker 5: and it just brings together all the pieces in my life.
Speaker 5: It's the Toastmaster's work, raising my son with Adhd and
Speaker 5: helping him and also my professional cooking. It just brings
Speaker 5: all that together. And yeah, it was just fun to do.
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed the process.
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, vera yourself.
Speaker 3: I think one of the interesting things for me writing
Speaker 3: my book was just giving myself permission to write it
Speaker 3: because I knew, I mean, I'd been a professional writer,
Speaker 3: medical writer for years, and I knew I could write,
Speaker 3: and I knew that my story had an impact on people.
Speaker 3: But it was like, I don't deserve to share that,
Speaker 3: Like who am I to do this? But once I started,
Speaker 3: I realized that one of the gifts I have is
Speaker 3: I can simplify the complex, and if I didn't use
Speaker 3: that gift appropriately, I was actually wasting it. So I
Speaker 3: sat down and said, Okay, let's not be selfish, let's share,
Speaker 3: And that's how I forced myself to write.
Speaker 2: Wow, very cool and grace yourself.
Speaker 4: Well. First I stepped into excitement, and then sometimes the
Speaker 4: self dealt came because you know, like, who's going to
Speaker 4: want to read my story? You know it's already been
Speaker 4: told probably, so it's like that yo, y'll feeling excitement
Speaker 4: and self doubt excitement. So literally I just had to
Speaker 4: say you know what, excitement is going to have to
Speaker 4: take over. It's going to have to win. So yeah,
Speaker 4: so it's just like you know, stepping into your power,
Speaker 4: right and just letting that excitement and power take over
Speaker 4: and getting rid of the doubt.
Speaker 2: I love that. I mean, I love how everyone's kind
Speaker 2: of had a little bit of a different experience and
Speaker 2: but that, I mean, I hear things like worthiness and
Speaker 2: deservedness and relief and excitement and validation, whether it's internal
Speaker 2: external like our careers, right, and just that whole process.
Speaker 2: I mean, Trish, you know, you take people through the process,
Speaker 2: all those things that they go through, and I think
Speaker 2: we have to be our own cheerleaders and then having
Speaker 2: other people cheer us on. And then the beautiful thing
Speaker 2: is you have these books, you know, I mean, these
Speaker 2: are two of the author's books. Tricia's got all hers
Speaker 2: behind hers, and so does Grace. But you've got this.
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool to see something in an actual
Speaker 2: physical form because many of the times that we help
Speaker 2: people or we do things for people's through one on one.
Speaker 2: A lot of us are coaches, cooking sharing, and so
Speaker 2: a lot of it is like that. But you know,
Speaker 2: you get to see these it's kind of like when
Speaker 2: you get an aword. I mean, I think writing a
Speaker 2: book is almost that feeling like when you open it up.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've all known that feeling of opening that box,
Speaker 2: seeing it come in and you're like ooh, and who
Speaker 2: are you going to give your first book to? And
Speaker 2: the first time that you signed a book and you're like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is really real, right, I mean, I think there's
Speaker 2: all times where it's real. It's like the book's finished,
Speaker 2: like you just signed off on it. Like I finally
Speaker 2: just signed off on a new book, like about three
Speaker 2: minutes before I came on. So you sign off on
Speaker 2: it and then you start to you're like whoa, Okay.
Speaker 2: Now you go to wait for it to all get
Speaker 2: to put together and then you have something. And I
Speaker 2: was thinking about this other day, Mary, actually when you
Speaker 2: sent me your book and I opened it up and
Speaker 2: I was like, how many books have I had the
Speaker 2: pleasure of reading and sharing? And it is a really
Speaker 2: beautiful way of leaving legacy. I think writing a book
Speaker 2: is a really beautiful way of leaving legacy because you know,
Speaker 2: if I think about some of the books that I have,
Speaker 2: that the authors are no longer writing. Let's put it
Speaker 2: that way, you know what I mean, Like, I think
Speaker 2: our words carry on, or impressions carry on, or stories
Speaker 2: carry on. I think it's really really really super super
Speaker 2: super cool. And I wanted to ask because the topic, like,
Speaker 2: it's one thing to decide what are we going to
Speaker 2: write about? But when you came up with the topic,
Speaker 2: let's talk about the topic. And or you're you know,
Speaker 2: the book title not topic. I'm talking like you know
Speaker 2: now I'm talking speaking, But when you came up with
Speaker 2: the title, or maybe you participated in someone else's book,
Speaker 2: and I've done that before. I'm part of other people's anthologies.
Speaker 2: I as someone who puts anthologies together. I make no
Speaker 2: meant I completely respect for me. It's about the content
Speaker 2: that we're sharing. And if they pick a book name,
Speaker 2: I'm like, wouldn't be what I put It's not my
Speaker 2: place to say. It's their journey and I'm participating in
Speaker 2: their journey. And I just love that. So I actually
Speaker 2: am a big I do participate in a lot of
Speaker 2: collaborative books, and I just think it's so cool. It's
Speaker 2: a great way to meet people. But how did you
Speaker 2: come up with men? And again, you know a Tracy
Speaker 2: of twenty one. So I mean, you know, pick one
Speaker 2: or pick two to talk about on how you came
Speaker 2: up with the title and what was your process around that.
Speaker 6: Look, the title isn't It doesn't always come straight away.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I just write and then I know the long
Speaker 6: I've put a working title, which sounds pretty awful, and
Speaker 6: then as I go along, the actual title comes out.
Speaker 6: It was creating Confident Communicatus was just because that's all
Speaker 6: about what I talk about speaking being confident. The two
Speaker 6: that I really put a lot of time in was
Speaker 6: touched by best Cancer and I wanted to do that
Speaker 6: because that's that's the cover of it. And I did
Speaker 6: that because everybody's touched by breast cancer. It is a
Speaker 6: ripple effect, no matter who it is. And then favor
Speaker 6: changed by suicide, which is that one? That one, because
Speaker 6: suicide changes you. It is a very massive thing and
Speaker 6: it changes you. Those two titles, those last two came
Speaker 6: as I wrote, came as I saw the stories, came
Speaker 6: as that. And then my two that are closest to
Speaker 6: my heart of the twenty one books I've gotten. The
Speaker 6: others are great, but those two, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and I think that's fair and I think that's
Speaker 2: really important for people to know because a lot of
Speaker 2: times they're like, oh, they think that. People think to
Speaker 2: be an author you have to have everything altogether, including
Speaker 2: the title. And many times, even if you have a title,
Speaker 2: if you say it kind of you know, you're like,
Speaker 2: are not going to be it? But you have to
Speaker 2: give it something? So are you this project that you're
Speaker 2: working on. But the title can change even at the
Speaker 2: very end, even as you start to get into the
Speaker 2: cover and how the cover starts to get designed, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you're like, well, the cover design I
Speaker 2: like doesn't really match that. Or you have a title
Speaker 2: and the visuals that go with the title, they're not merging.
Speaker 2: They're not the right color for you or the right
Speaker 2: meaning for you. But it's very interesting that process. What
Speaker 2: about you? Mary came to the picking at the title.
Speaker 5: I belonged to a Facebook site for authors of self
Speaker 5: published books, and I received some versions from the publishing
Speaker 5: house that I was working with, and one of them
Speaker 5: was a really weird green. It was just like I
Speaker 5: asked for green, but it was just really different. It
Speaker 5: was crazy. But they had very good suggestions, and so
Speaker 5: I took about three people's suggestions and put them together.
Speaker 5: And the plate. I was thinking about putting a question
Speaker 5: mark in the middle of the plate because like you're thinking,
Speaker 5: what am I going to make? And somebody said, no,
Speaker 5: just leave it blank. And I just love the way
Speaker 5: it turned out, you know. And the subtitle organize and
Speaker 5: Enjoy your Cooking, Well, that's what I want. I want
Speaker 5: people to be organized in the kitchen so they can
Speaker 5: enjoy cooking. And it just felt together. The pieces came together,
Speaker 5: and it feels really good when that happens.
Speaker 2: It does. And so what I'm hearing is that even
Speaker 2: getting other people's opinions, now some people don't because they
Speaker 2: you know, but getting people's feedback and weaving through that
Speaker 2: it is a creative process, right. Even the title to
Speaker 2: cover very much, so very much and vera. How about
Speaker 2: for yourself?
Speaker 3: So my book's called The Words We Wear, How to
Speaker 3: Show Up with Confidence and Create your best life. It's
Speaker 3: the book is about how word labels, in fact, how
Speaker 3: we feel about ourselves and how we show up, which
Speaker 3: is basically I'm talking about limiting beliefs and things that
Speaker 3: most people don't want to deal with. So I wanted
Speaker 3: to make it very approachable, and I told the analogy
Speaker 3: that word labels are like clothing labels. They affect how
Speaker 3: we feel, which means they affect how we show up
Speaker 3: what we do, and that means our behaviors, and that
Speaker 3: creates our identity because our actions, behaviors, and choices are
Speaker 3: our identity. So I did that and then I used
Speaker 3: to z z if you're an American, because I wanted to
Speaker 3: emphasize the fact that we have choice and that the
Speaker 3: words we use to describe ourselves and to think about
Speaker 3: ourselves should be intentional.
Speaker 2: Very cool, and so that's that's how you picked your title,
Speaker 2: was being intentional. Yeah, that's awesome. And Grace, how was
Speaker 2: your experience around book and book titles?
Speaker 4: Well, I just love the fact that I was able
Speaker 4: to collaborate first because that kind of helped me to
Speaker 4: the figure out, like, you know, what it is I
Speaker 4: want to write. And it wasn't like I had to
Speaker 4: write a whole book. I just was, you know, writing
Speaker 4: a chapter. So writing a chapter is much easier. And
Speaker 4: I think for me, which is first, if I can
Speaker 4: write a chapter, then perhaps the next step will be
Speaker 4: to write a book. But first, you know, it's just
Speaker 4: like little baby steps for me.
Speaker 2: No, I think that's a really great place to be.
Speaker 2: Even for people that we had people come in to
Speaker 2: write a quote in our planner, it's twelve words or less, right,
Speaker 2: And I think that because sometimes people have the same
Speaker 2: thing that we've talked about. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: really have anything to say. This may not you know,
Speaker 2: and so baby stepping in and or that's super cool.
Speaker 2: You know, that's super cool to have your own quote,
Speaker 2: to use your own words. That's interesting as well. When
Speaker 2: you ask people for a quote, they're like, they give
Speaker 2: you something from Winston Churchill or something. You're like, no, no, no, no
Speaker 2: no no no no no. Your words, like your words
Speaker 2: make impact. I've done the same thing and I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that my first book was collaborative as well.
Speaker 2: So super cool. So look, ladies, as we talk, let's
Speaker 2: share a little bit more about I mean, would you
Speaker 2: do it again? I want to assume that what the
Speaker 2: answer is, would you do it again? Are you planning
Speaker 2: on doing it again? Is there something that you want
Speaker 2: to share here? A mission accepted? Heard here first? And
Speaker 2: I know that you just shared with us some content
Speaker 2: of what your book's about. Ladies, share with us what
Speaker 2: your chapters about with your stories about if there's more
Speaker 2: that you can share about that, And while you're doing that,
Speaker 2: maybe what is it that you hope that by doing
Speaker 2: this book? What kind of impact are you hoping it may?
Speaker 2: You know, whether it's making it easier for people to
Speaker 2: make meals so they save money and stop going to restaurants.
Speaker 2: I mean, what is it that you would like? So
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot in that, but it'd be
Speaker 2: great to share, you know, just would you do it again?
Speaker 2: Are you doing it again? What's your main message? What
Speaker 2: was it that the book was, What was it that
Speaker 2: was important to you that you wanted to get out?
Speaker 2: And then yeah, what do you want people to get
Speaker 2: from it? So Tricia's start with you.
Speaker 6: Yes I would because yeah, you know, no you.
Speaker 2: Might have said twenty one, that's it.
Speaker 6: Wow, you get helped and the reason why I had
Speaker 6: to stop and think why I suddenly became quite prolific
Speaker 6: at writing. And some of them are my own books,
Speaker 6: some are co authored, and some are contributing chapters. And
Speaker 6: I'm very particular about the books that I contribute to
Speaker 6: now because I've been caught out a couple of times
Speaker 6: and books that I put a chapter in and it
Speaker 6: didn't quite work. And the reason why is because, as
Speaker 6: I just adhere to very briefly before, it's the legacy,
Speaker 6: it's the fact sense shivers up the spark my spine
Speaker 6: because I know people don't throw books out, they give
Speaker 6: them away, they stay on shelves, they end up in
Speaker 6: second hand bookstores. And thought that sometime down the track,
Speaker 6: in maybe twenty years, someone takes a book off Amazon,
Speaker 6: or they go into a bookstore and picks up one
Speaker 6: of my books, and it might be just a paragraph
Speaker 6: or a sentence that they read that time they need
Speaker 6: to read. That could have been all that they needed,
Speaker 6: that to change their lives or to make a decision.
Speaker 6: The thought that I could be leaving words like that,
Speaker 6: that is why I write. I've got two more books
Speaker 6: coming out. One it started out being called a set
Speaker 6: of public Speaking and this is why your titles changed,
Speaker 6: because it is now rock public Speaking for introverts and extroverts.
Speaker 6: And the other one is my story for Craig. It's
Speaker 6: Craig's story, remember him, and it's the story of his life,
Speaker 6: our life before and the ripple effect after. So that
Speaker 6: on those two I'm writing at the moment and they're
Speaker 6: coming out, and I will keep writing, contributing, co authoring,
Speaker 6: and making sure my word's there because I don't want
Speaker 6: to be selfish. I don't want someone down the track
Speaker 6: who needed to hear my words not be able to
Speaker 6: hear them because they weren't there.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Well, we look forward to those book launches, and
Speaker 2: you know we're going to be cheering you on. We're
Speaker 2: a big book invite to the party, right, people like
Speaker 2: I launched the book. I'm like, God, I get an
Speaker 2: invitation to the party. What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Mary?
Speaker 5: For you, my messages is easy, simple, healthy cooking, And
Speaker 5: I do have a couple of follow up books for
Speaker 5: my book. One is a journal so that people can
Speaker 5: track their progress and write down ideas and just keep
Speaker 5: themselves organized in their head. And also a recipe organizer,
Speaker 5: because we find recipes in books and online, and you know,
Speaker 5: how do you find the master words? So there will
Speaker 5: be a kind of a tracker for recipes. And I
Speaker 5: may even just write a recipe book. I don't tend
Speaker 5: to I don't tend to measure ingredients. I'm an intuitive cook,
Speaker 5: but I've read that Jamie Oliver's like that too, so
Speaker 5: I'll try and write down my recipes and give them measurements.
Speaker 5: And I wrote down how to make a spaghetti sauce
Speaker 5: and it's just a list of ingredients. It's not any amounts.
Speaker 5: So I'll have to pin that down someday. But I'll
Speaker 5: write a recipe book one day.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, invite your friends over and try the
Speaker 2: different you know, try the different recipes. That's not a
Speaker 2: tough thing to do. That. That's called market research and
Speaker 2: that sounds like a whole lot of fun. All right,
Speaker 2: thank you, and grace for yourself.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm working with some other authors. We're collaborating on
Speaker 4: overcoming obstacles. So yes, I had such a great time
Speaker 4: collaborating on the first book, so yes, I would step
Speaker 4: in and do it again. And for me, you know,
Speaker 4: relationships is so important and I think like a book,
Speaker 4: you know, you're just sharing your story. You're bringing people together.
Speaker 4: There's a relationship there, and you know you all have story.
Speaker 4: We all have stories, and you know, I think everything
Speaker 4: started off with stories. So yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe share with us what was it that you
Speaker 2: wrote about in your first collaborative book. What was what
Speaker 2: did you decide to write about? First?
Speaker 4: I would decide to write about like how you know
Speaker 4: relationships are important and so you know, to open up
Speaker 4: and keep that door of relationship open, you have to
Speaker 4: have communication. And we all have our unique communication keys
Speaker 4: because I'm a key chain collector, So I thought about
Speaker 4: the keys and if you have the right keys and
Speaker 4: you know the lock, you can always open the door
Speaker 4: to that relationships. And having that beautiful relationships all the time.
Speaker 2: Right on, right on. That's really powerful and vera hub
Speaker 2: about for yourself. You've got something brewing and you shared
Speaker 2: a little bit of on the inside, but what what
Speaker 2: do you hope that your book does.
Speaker 3: Actually, I've got two more books brewing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love it. I love it. I just decided
Speaker 2: to ask that question. And I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because when I started to write the first one,
Speaker 3: I couldn't get everything into it. So my editor said, like,
Speaker 3: set it apart. You could, you don't have to do
Speaker 3: it all on one. And to me, it's really important
Speaker 3: because when I wrote first one, what's coming back now
Speaker 3: is people who will well. I was in an event
Speaker 3: last week and people came up to me and said,
Speaker 3: I read your book and it's amazing. And I get
Speaker 3: one from my sister and I bought one for my niece,
Speaker 3: and I realized that if that book, which just barely
Speaker 3: touched the surface of everything that I've been researching, could
Speaker 3: have that kind of an impact, that I really wanted
Speaker 3: to go deeper. So actually, my next book is going
Speaker 3: to be called Nearly Naked Truths, And it's because I
Speaker 3: write nearly naked for the most part, because that's the
Speaker 3: best time to be vulnerable. And so I'm really looking
Speaker 3: forward to that. It's going to go a little bit
Speaker 3: deeper and hopefully help us a little bit more give
Speaker 3: ourselves permission to live the core of who we are.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's so cool. Look at the amazing things that
Speaker 2: people do. You know, when you're walking in the grocery store,
Speaker 2: you're walking down the street, there's like all sorts of
Speaker 2: people like us going around, and we have all this
Speaker 2: People have just incredible greatness, and I think the wonderful
Speaker 2: thing about putting words to paper is the expression of that.
Speaker 2: Just people are so vast and they're so creative, and
Speaker 2: we all have different we all have different messages. And
Speaker 2: I love tricks that you've written multiple books with different
Speaker 2: with different messages in each Because we are there's you know,
Speaker 2: don't say we all have multiple personalities with someone. There's
Speaker 2: a condition for that. But we all have different skills,
Speaker 2: and we all have different ways of explaining those skills.
Speaker 2: When you explain it, I hear it a little bit
Speaker 2: differently than when someone else does, So I think you're
Speaker 2: very much correct. You're very correct. They say it's kind
Speaker 2: of like getting a tattoo. Once you get a tattoo,
Speaker 2: then you tend to get another tattoo and another tattoo.
Speaker 2: And writing books are the same. They the same thing.
Speaker 2: And vier I love the fact that you know you
Speaker 2: had someone kind of rein you in a little bit
Speaker 2: because you hear people, my book's not finished. My book,
Speaker 2: I'm like, how much you know? Like what do we
Speaker 2: at five or six hentred pages? And I think it's
Speaker 2: important to be digestible, right too, because not everybody because you,
Speaker 2: as you are starting to write book, sometimes you even
Speaker 2: re educate yourself and inspire that next piece of information.
Speaker 2: You actually are your own teacher, right And you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right. But I've known that for ten years and
Speaker 2: I'm going to go over here, So I think that's
Speaker 2: absolutely wonderful. So we're gonna do a little bit of
Speaker 2: a round robin and maybe if you can just share,
Speaker 2: we know we have everything in the show notes for
Speaker 2: people to be able to reach you and get your books.
Speaker 2: I believe if I know everybody correctly here that when
Speaker 2: you sit, give your title of your book, and then
Speaker 2: a place to reach out to you at just one,
Speaker 2: whether it's a website or a social handle, we'll have
Speaker 2: everything there. And then I'm pretty sure everyone's book here
Speaker 2: is on Amazon. If it's somewhere else other than Amazon,
Speaker 2: please feel free to share that as well. I know
Speaker 2: that the book that we just completed that a lot
Speaker 2: of you are part of, the two sixty two book,
Speaker 2: is on Amazon, but it is also making its way
Speaker 2: to the big stores and the small stores, and we're
Speaker 2: super excited about that. So Trisha, again, let's go back
Speaker 2: to you. Maybe share with us where people can reach
Speaker 2: out to you if they're looking to get more information
Speaker 2: about the things that you did share. And then yeah, my.
Speaker 6: Book's available on my website, which is Trish Springsteen dot com.
Speaker 6: Very easy to remember and just go to the book
Speaker 6: label there and all my books are there. Creating confident
Speaker 6: communicators is my basic one which I really like to
Speaker 6: share for people because that's why I want them to
Speaker 6: be confident in being able to share their message. So
Speaker 6: it's there, and all of my books are on Amazon.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you so very much.
Speaker 5: And Mary, I'm on Facebook under the chef Mary Kat
Speaker 5: and also my website is Kitchen Times dot org and
Speaker 5: you can message me through Facebook of course.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: And Vira, my website is via Gerve dot com. Jerve
Speaker 3: is g E R V A I S. My books
Speaker 3: are at Barnes and Noble, Indigo and Amazon as well.
Speaker 3: And it's the words we wear with the Z.
Speaker 2: And oh my gosh, I just want to say vera again,
Speaker 2: Bet Grace. I was looking at you and I was
Speaker 2: gonna say vera on that's all right? So well, obviously
Speaker 2: Deb already gave a shout out to Mission.
Speaker 4: Accepted two sixty two women book. Yes, it's on Amazon.
Speaker 4: I'm ever so grateful to be part of this book
Speaker 4: project that Depp you know, had us, you know, contribute
Speaker 4: and everything, So thank you Deb for that. You can
Speaker 4: find me at Grace Solutions that g R A C
Speaker 4: E S O U l U T I O n
Speaker 4: S dot.
Speaker 2: Com so awesome, awesome, and of course you can go
Speaker 2: to de German dot com for to reach out to
Speaker 2: any of these ladies. We're happy to put you together.
Speaker 2: If you missed anything, uh the book, you can go
Speaker 2: to the two sixty two projects and see the book
Speaker 2: and then all the other books. My books tend to
Speaker 2: support people in being sustainable. So a sustainable person is
Speaker 2: a powerful person. So a lot of my books behind
Speaker 2: the underneath the message to them is to help people
Speaker 2: to be able to be sustainable, particularly our wonderful self
Speaker 2: funding entrepreneurs. And with that being said, I have a
Speaker 2: final question for everybody that has nothing to do with books, nothing,
Speaker 2: absolutely nothing, but it does have to do with one
Speaker 2: of my favorite And if you've been on this show before,
Speaker 2: you know that I love music. I think music just
Speaker 2: moves us. A good book moves us nothing like some
Speaker 2: music as well. So I'm going to ask you. You're
Speaker 2: taking some music with you, You're going to your favorite
Speaker 2: place in the world, and you couldn't imagine not ever
Speaker 2: listening to this music again. What would it be so grace?
Speaker 2: How about yourself?
Speaker 4: I would say this wing out sisters, break out?
Speaker 2: All right? You got that going?
Speaker 4: And via.
Speaker 3: Incredibly talented jazz artist Keiko Mitsui.
Speaker 2: All right, look at this some new music for me
Speaker 2: to check into. And Mary Katie Lang's duets. I was
Speaker 2: just looking up her picture because the Country Music Awards
Speaker 2: for BC is this weekend, and you know, how can
Speaker 2: you not think about Katie Lang?
Speaker 6: Trish anything by Anya music?
Speaker 2: I love, right, that's so good, so good. So look
Speaker 2: at listeners and viewers. We love a door and thank you,
Speaker 2: and here at Dev Drummond and mission accepted. If you
Speaker 2: want to be sitting where anyone else is sitting here,
Speaker 2: this is not difficult. My website's really easy. It's dev
Speaker 2: drummond dot com and you can reach out and if
Speaker 2: you'd like to be on a show, whether it's a
Speaker 2: group show, or you want to have a three part
Speaker 2: mini series, or you want of your own show, we're
Speaker 2: happy to have that conversation with you. We have just
Speaker 2: made a couple of announcements, so we're super excited, and
Speaker 2: I hope you're super excited and you're going to hear it.
Speaker 2: You're going to see it probably before you hear it.
Speaker 2: But we have just offrom this incredible book tour. We
Speaker 2: are on a book tour for five years. We're on
Speaker 2: our way to Dallas right now. We just came from
Speaker 2: the Emmys, and please tap into that. If you don't
Speaker 2: know why or how, you can contact me. We have
Speaker 2: still thirty eight spots left in the book and you're like,
Speaker 2: what I thought you published, and we did, we did,
Speaker 2: but there's there's Women of History holding space for another
Speaker 2: thirty eight women. And we announced yesterday that we are
Speaker 2: on our way to the Oscars. So if you're watching
Speaker 2: this after February twenty seventh, two two five, because we
Speaker 2: keep our things alive, then you know what. Reach out anyways,
Speaker 2: because chances are we're doing we're still doing award events.
Speaker 2: We're on an incredible five year too. But how exciting
Speaker 2: for this book to get into the hands of people
Speaker 2: that can actually share it. And that's really what we
Speaker 2: want our books to do, no matter what books we have,
Speaker 2: is to get them in the hand and share it.
Speaker 2: And then we made an announcement that the Top Performance
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Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks, so you'll be able to
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Speaker 2: Pick up a pen, pick up a paper. I was
Speaker 2: a full journal writer. I wrote in a journal pretty
Speaker 2: well every day for seventeen years, and never did I
Speaker 2: think I was going to do a book. And I,
Speaker 2: like you, Grace, my first place was not only my
Speaker 2: personal journal, was actually collaborating. I collaborated in a book
Speaker 2: that I created, and then I started collaborating with other
Speaker 2: books and I love that process. But there's something very
Speaker 2: powerful about sharing your story and making a decision to
Speaker 2: share your story. And the nice thing about being in
Speaker 2: multiple books is you can share those many places of yourself.
Speaker 2: So that being said, we encourage you, and please let
Speaker 2: us know because we will support your book launch. All right, ladies,
Speaker 2: thank you for joining us today, and everyone, as always,
Speaker 2: be well and stay ruby. Bye for now,