Speaker 1: Deborah, with her thirty years of being an entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: creating over seven companies, knows exactly what it means to
Speaker 1: accept the mission. When you make that decision, when you
Speaker 1: accept the mission to become a solopreneur, to take yourself
Speaker 1: and your talents to market, then you embrace a life
Speaker 1: of not only unlimited possibilities, but also the unknown. It's
Speaker 1: an elixir of fear and bravery that only someone who's
Speaker 1: taken the leap really understands. On our show, deb digs
Speaker 1: deep with her guests to highlight what you the listener
Speaker 1: wants to know, the stories, the whys, and the hows
Speaker 1: to navigate the journey to success. Get ready to hear
Speaker 1: from some of the most incredible mission takers from Generation
Speaker 1: Z to boomers. So sit up, perk up, and get
Speaker 1: ready to be blown away. Now Here is your host,
Speaker 1: Deborah Drummond.
Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome back to the Mission accepted. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 2: that's right, we do dab. There is a lot of peoples.
Speaker 2: If you are listening, let me tell you you are
Speaker 2: with a team of people that have taken the mission.
Speaker 2: And you know, we have started these really new cool
Speaker 2: group podcasts in amongst our three part mini series and
Speaker 2: everything else. And I have to say, you know that
Speaker 2: I compliment you because you do what every podcast host
Speaker 2: would want you to do, and that is share the
Speaker 2: word about the guests that they have. And you are
Speaker 2: posting and reposting and commenting and telling us what you want,
Speaker 2: and we're delivering it to you because you know, the
Speaker 2: whole world is getting interested again in something that is
Speaker 2: so valuable that when you move, you don't put it
Speaker 2: in recycling, you don't drop it off at your neighbors.
Speaker 2: You pack and take your books with you. You pack,
Speaker 2: and you then buy furniture to hold them. You buy
Speaker 2: bookcases and you have them stacked and they're under your
Speaker 2: chair and they're on your office and you're so excited
Speaker 2: when someone signs the front cover and mails you one.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about books today, people, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about authors, and we have an incredible team of authors today.
Speaker 2: First of all, they are all best selling authors. They're
Speaker 2: all rocking their world. And let me introduce you to
Speaker 2: who we're going to hang out with for this little
Speaker 2: bit here. So we have Nadine Thompson and I'm going
Speaker 2: to say all the way because I'm in Vancouver, all
Speaker 2: the way from China joining us today. And she did
Speaker 2: the most incredible poem on the two sixty two summit.
Speaker 2: And if you've been watching or listening to this podcast
Speaker 2: at all, I don't need to tell you what that is,
Speaker 2: cause you've been hearing us talk about it for two
Speaker 2: or three years now and it's still going strong. She
Speaker 2: is a best selling author and NLP coach and we
Speaker 2: are so excited to hear from her today. Then we
Speaker 2: have doctor Melissa Balizan. It is the doctors are in
Speaker 2: the house today. Let me tell you that she is
Speaker 2: not only a best selling author, she is a international speaker.
Speaker 2: You've seen her on our stage as many times, and
Speaker 2: she is a concierge pharmacist and I love that about her.
Speaker 2: She's like little pharmacist in your little pocket that you
Speaker 2: can contact anytime. And we have miss emy Thurman, who
Speaker 2: we are going to be spending time together in person.
Speaker 2: Don't you love that when you meet people online and
Speaker 2: then you get to meet them and you're like, I
Speaker 2: didn't know you were that tall, I didn't know you
Speaker 2: that short. Oh my goodness, look at you. And she
Speaker 2: is as well a best selling a multiple best selling author,
Speaker 2: as many of these ladies are and is an inspirational speaker.
Speaker 2: And then again doctor Lisa tan and I know you
Speaker 2: know who she is because she too has been a
Speaker 2: big part of the two sixty two and she is
Speaker 2: a red carpet coach and that's super interesting. I'm wondering
Speaker 2: about that. And she as well as a best selling author.
Speaker 2: And today we are going to talk about that lead
Speaker 2: that people take because look at, you might be in
Speaker 2: the world where you're watching quite a few people start
Speaker 2: to become authors. And that's the beautiful thing about this
Speaker 2: whole world opening up. You know, we talk a lot
Speaker 2: about media here, but it still comes down to this.
Speaker 2: There's over eighty seven percent of people that would like
Speaker 2: to write a book, and it's only between three and
Speaker 2: one percent of people that actually do so, even though
Speaker 2: you may see the shell full. I mean, look at,
Speaker 2: we just launched our book. I know that you all attended.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, you know, and it was incredible
Speaker 2: to us because we were watching it and when I
Speaker 2: was talking to our publicist and we were going through it,
Speaker 2: I'm like, how many books launched today in Canada. They're
Speaker 2: like five hundred and fifty thousand, you know, you're like,
Speaker 2: this is your number out A five hundred and fifty thousand,
Speaker 2: and like, woo woo woo, we did pretty good. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty excited to say. I always say we hit Harry
Speaker 2: Potter's status. But when you hear someone that's an author,
Speaker 2: take note that it is really only one to three
Speaker 2: percent of the people that want to do that take
Speaker 2: the time, settle themselves in, concentrate, focused, pray, almost get sick,
Speaker 2: have to rewrite. The process of putting words on paper
Speaker 2: is a very vulnerable, courageous, brave thing to do because
Speaker 2: it's imprint people. It's like taking your coloring and putting
Speaker 2: it on the outside of the door instead of the fridge.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying. So I'm super excited.
Speaker 2: You got a team of courageous women today. And so
Speaker 2: what we're going to do is we're going to start
Speaker 2: asking some questions because we I know that you are
Speaker 2: also on a mission. That's why you hang out with us.
Speaker 2: You whether are on a mission or you're laughing at us.
Speaker 2: We're not sure which one. And we're going to kind
Speaker 2: of go through the process of being an author. So
Speaker 2: let's kind of start, Nadine, Let's start with you. Please
Speaker 2: share with us what is your the title of your
Speaker 2: book and what was your favorite book growing up?
Speaker 3: Okay, the title of my book is Encounters. My favorite
Speaker 3: book growing up was The Journey to the Center of
Speaker 3: the Earth. It's not poetry, but that was my favorite
Speaker 3: book growing up.
Speaker 2: Beautiful, And your book, Encounters is about poetry? Correct? About poetry? Yes?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so amazing. Okay, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: asking these questions because I think it's fantastic. I love
Speaker 2: to know when that early inspiration started. And Lisa, can
Speaker 2: you share with us the name of your book and
Speaker 2: what was your favorite book growing up? So for me,
Speaker 2: I still have the book.
Speaker 4: Oh, the places You'll go. I'm going to read a
Speaker 4: quick excerpt. You will come to a place where the
Speaker 4: streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted, but mostly
Speaker 4: they're dark, a place you could sprain both your elbow
Speaker 4: and chin. Do you dare to stay out or do
Speaker 4: you dare to go in? When I was a kid, yeah,
Speaker 4: I was that kid that kept springing my elbows and
Speaker 4: I could totally relate.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's awesome. What's the name of your book,
Speaker 2: my friend, Oh, metamorphosis, Metamorphosis okay, and miss Amy Thurman,
Speaker 2: same question.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely. My book is called Finding My Hero Within.
Speaker 5: It's my tenure journey of living the past ten years
Speaker 5: with a broken neck and going from being completely incapacitated
Speaker 5: to now living in a powered life. And my favorite
Speaker 5: book growing up were The Little House on the Prairie books.
Speaker 5: I wanted to live out on a farm like that,
Speaker 5: and so I really really loved reading those books and
Speaker 5: kind of living vicariously through our angles Wilder.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that's amazing. Okay, and Melissa, what is
Speaker 2: the name of your book and what was your favorite
Speaker 2: book growing up?
Speaker 6: So the journey begins, and I have a couple because
Speaker 6: I looked at back when I was younger, So I
Speaker 6: liked the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and then as
Speaker 6: I got a little bit older, it was The Box
Speaker 6: Car Kids, and so both of those have stories and
Speaker 6: journeys and adventures, and I think that that really suits me.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's awesome. It's always so interesting and it
Speaker 2: takes you back when you talk about books that inspire
Speaker 2: you things like for me, if it was anything Holly Hobby,
Speaker 2: anything Holly Hobby, a book, a noe cut, anything, Holly
Speaker 2: Hobby was super inspiring to me. And I remember The
Speaker 2: Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, you know those series, and
Speaker 2: my mother. It's gonna make me sound ancient, but we
Speaker 2: had encyclopedias. I think my mom bought them from someone
Speaker 2: on the front door. And the encyclopedias used to be written,
Speaker 2: at least the children's encyclopedias almost story like with pictures.
Speaker 2: So who knew who knew? Awesome? And you know, when
Speaker 2: you write a book, we talk about you know, it's
Speaker 2: one of those things that is kind of an internal
Speaker 2: journey by nature. So I'm going to ask you kind
Speaker 2: of what inspired you? Was it a what was it?
Speaker 2: A who?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What was the final push that made that paper hit
Speaker 2: the pen or the finger hit the you know, the keyboard, Nadine?
Speaker 2: For you was did someone inspire you? What inspired you
Speaker 2: to do this? Was?
Speaker 3: I was inspired to write a book when when I
Speaker 3: was about fifteen years old, so my teacher gave me
Speaker 3: a small book of poems written by the poem Mary O'Neil,
Speaker 3: and I really loved that book, but I didn't start
Speaker 3: I started writing poetry, but I didn't start publishing at
Speaker 3: that time. I published my book in twenty twenty. So
Speaker 3: maybe it was COVID that reminded me of this dream
Speaker 3: and I want to go back and by the stream.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So you were fifteen, and if you
Speaker 2: don't mind me asking you, how wise were you when
Speaker 2: you decided to put your book to market? How many
Speaker 2: years in between? There more than twenty years? Yeah, dreams
Speaker 2: stay alive, you know what I mean? If the dreams
Speaker 2: don't necessarily actualize the time that they show up, things
Speaker 2: show up, and then you know, you get that choice
Speaker 2: one when they actualize. That's awesible. And Lisa, how ot
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 4: So in Metamorphosis, I'm sharing about how I had forgotten
Speaker 4: that I'm a butterfly and I was just a terrified
Speaker 4: cat pillar stuck in a cocoon that I made up.
Speaker 4: And the person that inspired me was doctor Jane Goodall.
Speaker 4: We had so many things in common. She loved animals
Speaker 4: as a child, so did I. She would study chickens
Speaker 4: bye and seeing how they lay eggs by staying in
Speaker 4: the she can cook for hours and hours, and I
Speaker 4: would read books about dolphins for hours and hours. So
Speaker 4: I was just so inspired by how she ventured off
Speaker 4: to Tanzania with not more than a notebook. And for me,
Speaker 4: one year, I just took off with my kids to Asia.
Speaker 4: We were terrified. We just had our backpacks. So I
Speaker 4: drew so many parallels. So she was my inspiration for metamorphosis.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Thank you for sharing. And Amy,
Speaker 2: what about yourself.
Speaker 5: I used to be a language arts teacher where I
Speaker 5: would teach kids to write essays and how to use
Speaker 5: grammar correctly. And I thought it would be so cool
Speaker 5: for me to write my own book. I had no
Speaker 5: idea what it would be about, didn't know anything. That
Speaker 5: was before my next accident. And Blair Kathlain Venables asked
Speaker 5: me to write a chapter in her book Resilience af
Speaker 5: Stories of Resilience, And it was really difficult for me
Speaker 5: to keep my story to one chapter, to just that
Speaker 5: character limit. And so I thought, I have so much
Speaker 5: more to say, There's so much more to my story.
Speaker 5: I'm just going to write my own book. I'm just
Speaker 5: going to put it together and write my own book
Speaker 5: and put it out there. And so Blair actually really
Speaker 5: inspired me to write my own book.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. That I love that. I love that
Speaker 2: because when there's anthologies and collectives and what people and
Speaker 2: you know, we have one and people are putting them together.
Speaker 2: And I do believe. I always say to people, at
Speaker 2: the very least, start there, start with an anthology. Start
Speaker 2: that process of going within and writing things down. And
Speaker 2: I love it because, Sister, I'm with you. It's so hard,
Speaker 2: You're like, what do I mean, I'm at seven hundred characters.
Speaker 2: I've just introduced myself. But it's a really good lesson too,
Speaker 2: in just getting the point across. But I think once
Speaker 2: you start, we all have such a beautiful story to tell.
Speaker 2: And what about you, Melissa, what was your inspiration or
Speaker 2: who was your inspiration? Put these words on paper.
Speaker 6: My mom, so she's always believed in me, and through
Speaker 6: the process of her drawing me a staircase when I
Speaker 6: was in high school and telling me to take one
Speaker 6: step at a time, and so just putting my foot
Speaker 6: forward and taking one step at a time and pencil
Speaker 6: to paper, one word at a time, and knowing that
Speaker 6: through all things, Christ strengthens me. So having him strengthened
Speaker 6: me and my mom being my biggest cheerleader, that just
Speaker 6: helped me.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I love that. I just I can
Speaker 2: visualize the drawing of the staircase. I think that's great.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna take Can
Speaker 2: I take that one and enshare it? I'm gonna path
Speaker 2: that on to my son absolutely, all right. So you know,
Speaker 2: we talked about how we were inspired and who inspired us,
Speaker 2: and then inevitably there may be something trepidacious. We may
Speaker 2: notice that we're not putting our pen to paper the
Speaker 2: way that we thought we would. Was there any feelings
Speaker 2: that came up? Was there any like was there anything
Speaker 2: that you had to talk yourself through or get someone
Speaker 2: to help you talk yourself through? Because I think that
Speaker 2: there's a lot of authors out there they just haven't
Speaker 2: put their story yet, and you'll hear a lot of
Speaker 2: it like oh I just don't have time, or I
Speaker 2: haven't gotten to it yet, or I said I was
Speaker 2: going to do it. And we know it can be
Speaker 2: a number of things. And so I'll just ask you.
Speaker 2: I mean, you may or may not. You may have
Speaker 2: been so over ready, had twenty years, Nadine, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. You may have been over ready and
Speaker 2: you're ready to go, and that was it. But is
Speaker 2: there anything that you can share with our audience? On
Speaker 2: that how it really got penned a paper. Was there
Speaker 2: anything that you had to overcome or have conversation with
Speaker 2: or arrange your day for, like how did you get
Speaker 2: it done? Oh?
Speaker 3: For me, my biggest obstacle was overcoming myself because I
Speaker 3: didn't think I wanted to put myself out there. So
Speaker 3: when I thought about publishing my book, my first thing
Speaker 3: was I was going to use an alias. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to use my real name because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: in China, I work as a teacher. Most people know
Speaker 3: me as a teacher. Nobody knows me as a writer.
Speaker 3: So who's going to read my book? Who's going to
Speaker 3: accept it? So even when I found the publisher, I
Speaker 3: even said to her can I use an alias? And
Speaker 3: she was like, why do you want to use an alias?
Speaker 3: Yes you can, but why not just put yourself out
Speaker 3: there as your real name? So that was my biggest obstacle.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for bringing that up, because I
Speaker 2: know I went to a writing I went to in
Speaker 2: New York. There's this beautiful location. It's a retreat center,
Speaker 2: and Cheryl Strad was teaching a writing workshop for three
Speaker 2: days and so people, if you know Cheryl strade. She
Speaker 2: wrote the book. While that turned read, Witherspoon turned it
Speaker 2: into a movie and really incredible woman. And that was
Speaker 2: that was a question that really came out for people
Speaker 2: around if they were if they wanted to keep themselves hidden,
Speaker 2: and what was that about. And I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people they're like, oh, I'll just use someone else's name,
Speaker 2: you know, and then they go through that process. They
Speaker 2: debate that again at the end, and it was a big, big,
Speaker 2: It was a deep conversation that happened there. What about
Speaker 2: for you, Lisa, anything that you had to you know you.
Speaker 4: I mentioned the word vulnerability at the very opening, and
Speaker 4: I thought, oh, this is gonna be a piece of cake.
Speaker 4: I'm just sharing my story. No, it was not a
Speaker 4: piece of cake by any means. Every time I gave
Speaker 4: my revision to the editor, I got back, go deeper, Lisa.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I went deep, Go deeper, Lisa. And I
Speaker 4: like to do it on paper first before typing it,
Speaker 4: and you would see dried up tear puddle marks on
Speaker 4: all my paper because like, not only is your heart
Speaker 4: on your sleeve, like your blood is spilling onto the paper.
Speaker 4: Is how I felt. It was really taking a cutting
Speaker 4: open a piece of me and just.
Speaker 5: Going blooh.
Speaker 4: Wow, vulnerability was challenging.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and I think too when you're writing something that's
Speaker 2: a part of you, like your story, for you, it's
Speaker 2: it's your story. It's not us, it's your story. You know,
Speaker 2: it's your story. And therefore where you go, you follow.
Speaker 2: So if you're putting a piece of yourself in an
Speaker 2: art word or a piece of clothing or a piece
Speaker 2: of jewelry or whatever, where you go, you follow. And
Speaker 2: I think it is very metal. You know, never mind
Speaker 2: the name of your book, but it does put you
Speaker 2: through your own process, very similar to that words on paper.
Speaker 2: Like I said, you know, it's not like you can go,
Speaker 2: oh can we just take that book back off the
Speaker 2: shelf exactly. I can't think it. Ah yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2: And what about for you, Amy, I know that your
Speaker 2: book is about you as well, and your life and
Speaker 2: the process you went through. What was it like for you?
Speaker 5: I really had to get over the fear of reliving it.
Speaker 5: My story is very traumatic. It includes a lot of trauma,
Speaker 5: a lot of some suicidal ideation, and to be able
Speaker 5: to get to that depth that Lisa was talking about,
Speaker 5: I really had to relive it. I had to get
Speaker 5: back in there with it and allow those feelings that
Speaker 5: I had shut up down all these years to resurface
Speaker 5: and allow myself to feel them and to be able
Speaker 5: to put them on the paper so that I can
Speaker 5: help other people. And so it was just that I
Speaker 5: started and stopped so many times as I lost count.
Speaker 5: It's literally the hardest thing I've ever done. But it's
Speaker 5: the greatest therapy. I say, everybody needs to write a book.
Speaker 5: It's the greatest therapy out there, and it's the thing
Speaker 5: I'm the most proud of in my entire life. So
Speaker 5: so worth it. Do it, don't be afraid of it.
Speaker 5: Do it. It's definitely worth it.
Speaker 2: That's that's incredible. One of our sisters in the two
Speaker 2: sixty two, which most people know, is Kimberly Butler, and
Speaker 2: she's writing her biography right now, and what a process.
Speaker 2: She's like, I need a therapist, do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Because there's places that she wants to make
Speaker 2: sure that she's got support in and not everybody's out
Speaker 2: there writing a book of depth. But I think there
Speaker 2: is something about sharing part of yourself and I love
Speaker 2: that you shared that because I think having a really
Speaker 2: supportive circle, Like if you're going to do a book
Speaker 2: of depths, having a supportive circle getting through it could
Speaker 2: be like a little bit of fear all the way
Speaker 2: through too. I am reliving some things and I need
Speaker 2: someone who already knows the story to kind of help
Speaker 2: me through. So I think in preparation, I think what
Speaker 2: you're sharing today is so valuable because in preparation for
Speaker 2: someone to go forward, a lot of times people are
Speaker 2: afraid to write their book or their story or this
Speaker 2: or their name because they know that there'll be emotions.
Speaker 2: But when they know other people have done it, it's great.
Speaker 2: But also be prepared for it. Be prepared for it, right,
Speaker 2: Be prepared for it? And what about for yourself, Melissa.
Speaker 6: So, I'd say it's a combination of a lot of
Speaker 6: things that have been said. There was excitement to get
Speaker 6: it done, but there was also the vulnerability of sharing
Speaker 6: the journey and me as a doctor that I'm human,
Speaker 6: which we all know I am, but putting it on
Speaker 6: paper and putting it out there that I can help
Speaker 6: so many other people and saying, Okay, this can happen
Speaker 6: to me as a professional, just like it happens to.
Speaker 2: You, right, and I think that that can be very
Speaker 2: difficult for people that have a perceived image attached to
Speaker 2: either themselves or their occupation or the the way the
Speaker 2: world sees them. Right, the way the world sees them.
Speaker 2: So that's really that's an interesting, interesting piece that you
Speaker 2: just brought up. So let's get let's get you know,
Speaker 2: interesting here. Let's have some fun. One of the fun things.
Speaker 2: One of the cool things about writing a book is
Speaker 2: like doing the cover. It's like coming up with you
Speaker 2: know what it's going to look like, and it's format.
Speaker 2: That's the easy staff. You know, it may seem to
Speaker 2: but it's fun to be able to put your own
Speaker 2: book together. So let's let's have a conversation about the titles. Right,
Speaker 2: so you you you all share the name of your books.
Speaker 2: But Nadine, what made you? Please again, remind us what you're,
Speaker 2: what you're the book is called, and what made you
Speaker 2: choose that title?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is my book, we can see it.
Speaker 3: The title is Encounters. I chose that title because of
Speaker 3: my own journeys. So I'm originally from Jamaica. Then I
Speaker 3: first place I lived was in Japan and I was
Speaker 3: working there as an as an al teacher, and one
Speaker 3: thing that always happened was that people would leave. So
Speaker 3: you'd stay for six months a year, and people are
Speaker 3: always leaving. And I started to reflect on what I
Speaker 3: was encountering, so I wanted to document my encounters as
Speaker 3: I was doing several journeys, personal and otherwise.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, so interesting.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You look at the title of a book and you know,
Speaker 2: you perceive it in one way and relationship to you,
Speaker 2: but it's interesting to hear how in relationship to the person,
Speaker 2: so you know, I know you do poetry. When I'm
Speaker 2: looking at a book of encounters, right, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is kind of interesting. It's a book about but
Speaker 2: it's a book about your experience with encounters totally different things.
Speaker 2: That's that's incredible. Now, Lisa, you've been sharing with yours
Speaker 2: about you know, it being a metaphor, but you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: please yeah, share again so the audience can hear and
Speaker 2: see what is it that you chose, Like why was
Speaker 2: it about word to describe your book.
Speaker 4: I had a breakthrough hypnotherapy session and my hypnotherapists at
Speaker 4: the end of this session hand at me purple fabric.
Speaker 4: I opened it. I held it up and these were
Speaker 4: butterfly wings, and she told me that another woman gave
Speaker 4: it to her when she was ready to fly, and
Speaker 4: she said, Lisa, you're ready go fly. So I actually
Speaker 4: earned my wings.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Oh my goodness, that's awesome. I got to
Speaker 2: ask you, is the color of your book, like, like,
Speaker 2: because you talk about wings and purple, what does the
Speaker 2: cover of your book look like?
Speaker 4: It will We're still designing it, but it will definitely
Speaker 4: be purple. Yeah, definitely have butterfly symbol on it.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. That's amazing. Well, Amy, I know that
Speaker 2: you showed your book. Maybe share with us as well
Speaker 2: the name and why you chose to go with that name.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's called Finding My hero Within, and part of
Speaker 5: my story includes, like I said earlier, su subtle ideation.
Speaker 5: When I made that decision to swallow that handful of pills,
Speaker 5: I had this moment of clarity that said, what if
Speaker 5: you don't have to die? What if you can use
Speaker 5: your story instead to help other people? And so that's
Speaker 5: what I chose to do.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 5: I was going to fight to live with the intention
Speaker 5: of using my story to help other people. And so
Speaker 5: that's what I did. And throughout that whole journey ten years,
Speaker 5: I was able to find my hero within. I stopped
Speaker 5: looking outside myself for someone to come rescue me for
Speaker 5: that night and shining armor to come save me from
Speaker 5: this existence, and I found the person I had always
Speaker 5: been the before in my reflection in the mirror. And
Speaker 5: so that's what it's about, learning to find my hero
Speaker 5: within and how others can do the same.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. And I know that when I first met
Speaker 2: you and you were like talking about polish the mirror,
Speaker 2: and I was like, well, that's kind of nice. And
Speaker 2: then you know, you talk you started to talk about
Speaker 2: how that self reflection and how important that was for
Speaker 2: you to pull strength from self. That's amazing, all right,
Speaker 2: And Melissa, what about you? What made you? You know,
Speaker 2: what took you to please? Again, remind the audience what
Speaker 2: the name of your book is, and like how you
Speaker 2: came to that.
Speaker 6: The journey begins. So throughout life, we have many different journeys,
Speaker 6: but compiling the story and things that have gone through.
Speaker 6: Anytime we go on a trip, my husband and I,
Speaker 6: you know, most of us, it's like, okay, we want
Speaker 6: to get from point A to point B as fast
Speaker 6: as we can.
Speaker 2: And I was like that for so long, but.
Speaker 6: My husband's always like, he's like, no, it's it's about
Speaker 6: spending time with you and it's about the journey. So
Speaker 6: that's kind of why I chose that it's about taking
Speaker 6: time and living in the moment, but also taking care
Speaker 6: of your health because of course you know that's where
Speaker 6: where I lean towards. But it's not about a sprint.
Speaker 6: It's about the journey.
Speaker 2: Wow, I've inspired just and I know you all, I
Speaker 2: mean you inspire me anyways, but just knowing the process
Speaker 2: of what it takes to put a book again. Now
Speaker 2: we may all assume this next answer to this question
Speaker 2: that I'm going to ask you, but I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask this to go kind of a little bit deeper
Speaker 2: on that. So I'm going to ask you if you
Speaker 2: would do this again, if you would put yourself through
Speaker 2: that again. And I know that many of you are
Speaker 2: and have written one book and you're going to write another,
Speaker 2: or you've got another one on your mind, or this
Speaker 2: may have been a complete process for you, you may
Speaker 2: feel completely but would you do it again? And if
Speaker 2: you would do it again, what kind of book would
Speaker 2: you write? So you know, I think it's no secret
Speaker 2: to the world that we just did this incredible compilation
Speaker 2: of two sixty two which audience, please go and look
Speaker 2: up every single one of these ladies' names because they're
Speaker 2: in that book. And then at the end, I'm going
Speaker 2: to ask you leadis to tell people where to go
Speaker 2: find your book. Please. And So there's a book that
Speaker 2: I just on the way back from Ireland, did all
Speaker 2: the chapters four on the plane and it's a completely
Speaker 2: different book. It falls in the category of a different
Speaker 2: type of business and a certain sector. I'm completely different.
Speaker 2: So do you have a book that's going on in
Speaker 2: your head? Would you do it again? Do you feel complete?
Speaker 2: Let's start with the unit.
Speaker 3: In definitely, I will do it again. And I am
Speaker 3: working on other books. Since doing Encounters, I have started
Speaker 3: to delve more into writing. So I've done a thirty
Speaker 3: day of poems that I do have ready to publish.
Speaker 3: And I've also started writing my own memoirs and I
Speaker 3: also help other people to start writing their own books.
Speaker 3: So that's what I've been working on.
Speaker 2: Wow, memoirs, that's a big one. That is a big one.
Speaker 2: I know people that have taken years to compile and
Speaker 2: put that together, and it seems to be, so, I'm
Speaker 2: told because I haven't done mine. It seems to be
Speaker 2: one of those things that you that you can add
Speaker 2: to as soon as you finish the editing, you get
Speaker 2: back and go, oh, I forgot about this. I could
Speaker 2: add this, but it's a brave step. And what about you, Lisa,
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: In between revisions, I would have said heck no, because
Speaker 4: like Amy's experience, it was it was very somatic for me,
Speaker 4: things were still very deep within my DNA even it feels.
Speaker 5: But now, yeah, I think I would, and I guess this.
Speaker 4: Book helped me. It even helped me during college. During
Speaker 4: my college nights studying for the finals, I would actually
Speaker 4: whip out this book. So if I were to do
Speaker 4: it again, I would actually do a children's book.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard many people talk about doing a children's
Speaker 2: book because it's just, you know, it's pure beauty, and
Speaker 2: it's in the simplicity of a children's book. It's so impressionable,
Speaker 2: Like it's so impressionable, like many of us have been
Speaker 2: impressed upon by some of the greatest Right Do You
Speaker 2: Love Me, for example, is a great book that many
Speaker 2: people talk about, but in simplicity is quite impressionable that
Speaker 2: I could definitely see that for you and you can
Speaker 2: use lots of angel wings and butterfly wings of purple
Speaker 2: and it would be super cool. Oh my gosh. And Amy,
Speaker 2: what about yourself?
Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely, even though it was the most difficult thing
Speaker 5: I've done, it was so worth it. I'm already working
Speaker 5: on a journal and a workbook, and I have another
Speaker 5: book in the works. The first one was pretty much
Speaker 5: what I did. People message me all the time and say,
Speaker 5: but how did you do it? And so the second
Speaker 5: one is going to be how I went about doing it?
Speaker 5: What I did, and then how I went about doing it?
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome. I love that that expansion of and you'll
Speaker 2: see that with authors, there's that expansion of that extended
Speaker 2: piece right to what they've done. And a lot of
Speaker 2: people with the workbook, you know, a lot of people
Speaker 2: with the workbook to help people get through. And Melissa,
Speaker 2: for yourself, would you do it again? And if so,
Speaker 2: what's going on there?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: I would. I'm actually working on a cookbook right now.
Speaker 2: Now. Is it healthy eating, doctor Melissa Ballada? What kind
Speaker 2: is it? A brownie?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 7: Yes, Doctor Melissa Balles, I loves her Bremnies, So there'd
Speaker 7: be a lot healthy, and then there's gonna be some
Speaker 7: things that I grew up with, you know, those those
Speaker 7: staples that it's okay to have a little bit.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of biting.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 2: I love that you can have a little bit, just
Speaker 2: not a lot of it. I love that. I absolutely
Speaker 2: love that. Look. In terms of wrapping up, I would
Speaker 2: love for you to share I'm all about magical moments.
Speaker 2: I think you all know that, and so does my audience,
Speaker 2: and I want I would love the audience to go
Speaker 2: away fueled. And you have given such beautiful insight. So
Speaker 2: as we kind of go around and we're come into
Speaker 2: the close, I have a question for you outside of
Speaker 2: outside of the author question that you know. So don't
Speaker 2: go away. Don't go away. Our audience knows exactly what
Speaker 2: we're going to do. But I'd love to ask you
Speaker 2: when again, tell people where they can get your book,
Speaker 2: But can you share a magical moment that happened other
Speaker 2: a personal magical moment where when because of this book,
Speaker 2: this happened, or someone read your book and shared this
Speaker 2: like something that made you feel like it was worth it.
Speaker 2: It can be private, it can be external.
Speaker 5: It can be what have you.
Speaker 2: And then share where they can go get the book. Okay,
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 3: There have been many magical moments since I took the
Speaker 3: step to become a published author and published this book.
Speaker 3: So first was the launch, because when I had this launch,
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting anyone to turn up. And then a
Speaker 3: lot of my friends came and even people who were
Speaker 3: just interested in books, and they all came out and
Speaker 3: supported me. So it was a very beautiful launch. And
Speaker 3: since then I've met so many people. That's how I
Speaker 3: met you and became part of this project because I
Speaker 3: started writing and did some other collaborations. So it brought
Speaker 3: me to this moment. And just the other day my
Speaker 3: book won a silver award in the Global Book Award.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so' there have been many magical moments since
Speaker 3: I wrote this book.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. And where can we purchase your book?
Speaker 5: My friend?
Speaker 3: You can find it on Amazon. It's in e formed,
Speaker 3: the it's in paperback and you can also have the
Speaker 3: kindle format, So it's on Amazon. You can just look
Speaker 3: for Encounters by Nadine K. Thompson, perfect and everyone. We
Speaker 3: were going to have that in the show. Note, So
Speaker 3: if you're driving, don't worry. We will have it there
Speaker 3: as we always do, all right, And Lisa over to you.
Speaker 4: You One of my intentions was to reach out to
Speaker 4: that mom who's alone at two am, screaming silently, hoping
Speaker 4: anyone would hear her.
Speaker 5: And this book did reach this.
Speaker 4: I had one mom before read one of my revisions
Speaker 4: to get some feedback, and she told me that it
Speaker 4: did happen to her in the middle of one night
Speaker 4: when she felt like there was no one for her.
Speaker 5: To talk to. And that.
Speaker 4: Land home for me that Wow, this book can do
Speaker 4: that for someone else. And if there's anyone out there
Speaker 4: ever feeling alone, there's always a good book to curl
Speaker 4: up to.
Speaker 2: You're never alone, handsome and hun Yeah, where can they
Speaker 2: find your book?
Speaker 5: Just go to my website.
Speaker 4: There, I have it on my www. Doctor Lisatan dot com.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you so much. And Amy, what about Yeah?
Speaker 5: Just like Nadine, there are so many My book is
Speaker 5: being picked up by libraries and bookstores now. And I
Speaker 5: wrote it to share hope and help other people learn
Speaker 5: to overcome adversity. And I think the most magical moment
Speaker 5: for me is so far two people specifically who have
Speaker 5: reached out to me, said that my books saved their lives,
Speaker 5: that they were on the verge of suicide and they
Speaker 5: read my book and realized that I made a different choice.
Speaker 5: Amy made a different choice. Maybe I can make a
Speaker 5: different choice too. So to know that my book and
Speaker 5: my story has at least saved two people's lives, it
Speaker 5: gives me chills. It just was so worth it. Everything
Speaker 5: I went through was so worth it. To be able
Speaker 5: to share it in that way.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's very powerful. Awesome, thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 2: And Melissa, It's.
Speaker 6: Brought a lot of people out of the woodworks. They've
Speaker 6: come there and brought family members back to me, brought
Speaker 6: clients to me. So I think just being able to
Speaker 6: be more seen has brought people from people I didn't
Speaker 6: I hadn't heard of her a long time.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's so beautiful.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because we know it conceptually and for those
Speaker 2: of you out there that are contemplating, or you've written
Speaker 2: a book and you're going to write another one. Did
Speaker 2: you notice I said you're going to write another one?
Speaker 2: So didn't ask you, But it is really interesting when
Speaker 2: you start to really because we hear it all the time,
Speaker 2: it just sees one person's life. I do it for
Speaker 2: just one person, right, But in actuality it is in
Speaker 2: actuality it is like it changes one person, which changes
Speaker 2: many because we know that when when something happens to
Speaker 2: one person, it's a domino effect through family, you know,
Speaker 2: friends and community. And it really is quite interesting how
Speaker 2: powerful that moment is when you know that something that
Speaker 2: you've produced, something that you've braved up, something that you've
Speaker 2: put money into, time into resources into, you know, said
Speaker 2: no to other things to complete, really does have an
Speaker 2: impact in a global way. I mean, whether your book
Speaker 2: is a community book or not, it has a global reach.
Speaker 2: So I think that's fantastic. And Melissa, where can they
Speaker 2: purchase your book off my website? Awesome? Awesome, and we're
Speaker 2: going to have that in the show notes. Look, I
Speaker 2: get to hang out with beautiful women like yourselves, and
Speaker 2: also you know all sorts of different authors. We know
Speaker 2: we have the two sixty two book, and look, I
Speaker 2: just want to do a shut out there if anyone
Speaker 2: has a story to tell. We still have pages where
Speaker 2: you can come and put your story on our book,
Speaker 2: and we would love to have you and help support you,
Speaker 2: and at least that first step of anthology is funny.
Speaker 2: Some people write their solo book the book, and then
Speaker 2: go into anthologies. They're like, ooh, not doing that again,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like that, And then some
Speaker 2: people do anthologies and they go that different way. But
Speaker 2: if you have a story to tell, we have pages
Speaker 2: for you to write upon. And I always say, like,
Speaker 2: you know, books are like good friends. They come around
Speaker 2: when you need them, right, And so when that book
Speaker 2: falls out in front of you, or when someone buys
Speaker 2: you one for Christmas and you're like, well, that's kind
Speaker 2: of interesting. You kind of read my mind or those
Speaker 2: kind of things, like books do find you. Books find
Speaker 2: you at the right time. Like Lisa, your friend who
Speaker 2: you're just looking to some advice, can you read this
Speaker 2: and give me your feedback? And she's like, you know,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it just made me feel so much better.
Speaker 2: So that being said, I have a completely different question
Speaker 2: for you. So let's just shake this party up a
Speaker 2: little bit. And there you go, So all of you
Speaker 2: on your own island. All of you are packing your
Speaker 2: suitcase and you have room in that suitcase for one album. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about an album. They're all back. It's all
Speaker 2: back now, everyone's listening to LPs so that one album,
Speaker 2: and you're on your way to your desert island. What
Speaker 2: album are you going to be putting in that suitcase
Speaker 2: that you would absolutely want to listen to for the
Speaker 2: rest of your days. Let's start with you, Ammy, What
Speaker 2: album are you packing?
Speaker 5: I'm taking Jim Crucy.
Speaker 2: Oh time in a bottle.
Speaker 5: Yep, I'm taking Jim.
Speaker 2: You're taking Jim. You're taking Jym. Your husband's listening to?
Speaker 2: What are you? Who you taking?
Speaker 5: Where?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, now, Melissa cam leud, you guys do
Speaker 2: some really cool road trips. I'm sure you listen to
Speaker 2: some great music. Who are you putting in your suitcase?
Speaker 6: I think this time around, I'm putting in George Straight.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I saw George Straight with Chris Tapleton and
Speaker 2: that was He's He's quite the guy. He's quite the guy.
Speaker 2: He owns it, he earns it absolutely absolutely, and Nadan,
Speaker 2: who would you like to be listening to on your
Speaker 2: private beach?
Speaker 3: I put the Legend album by Bob Marley, some of
Speaker 3: his greatest hits.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, see she's got a covered. She's doing greatest hits.
Speaker 2: She's going, Oh my gosh, that's amazing. That's amazing. And
Speaker 2: what about you, Lisa, who are you listening to dancing
Speaker 2: Queen Alba? Oh my gosh, it's amazing. If anyone saw
Speaker 2: the last summer that we did in Ireland, at the
Speaker 2: end we broke out into song and we thought we
Speaker 2: all knew this Abba song and after the first couple
Speaker 2: of lines we were all like, well, that didn't go
Speaker 2: very well, but we tried. Oh my goodness, ladies, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for share and thanks for taking the time,
Speaker 2: and thanks for being you know, revealing into what it takes.
Speaker 2: And hopefully we've inspired some more people out there to
Speaker 2: write their book. Brave up. And at the very least,
Speaker 2: I think books are the most one of the most
Speaker 2: incredible gifts that you give, because, like I said in
Speaker 2: the beginning, when you receive a book, you don't get
Speaker 2: rid of it. No nothing against magazines. There's some magazines
Speaker 2: that I still have, but by nature, books have a
Speaker 2: different energy and they have different level of play, and
Speaker 2: so we pass books on. So I would encourage you,
Speaker 2: any of you out there that have read the books
Speaker 2: that are sitting in your house and you have no
Speaker 2: room in your bookcase, that you take the ones that
Speaker 2: you're not reading, and go bless other people and then
Speaker 2: go and refill your bookcase because you're at a new
Speaker 2: place now, freshen up, check out these ladies' books, bring
Speaker 2: them into your world, and then pass them on, you know,
Speaker 2: pass on the goodness that these books do, because there's
Speaker 2: just so much there. And the beautiful thing that I
Speaker 2: love about the book is that, like you know in Nadana,
Speaker 2: I'm sure this much must happen for you. So much
Speaker 2: more so with poetry is that when I read the story,
Speaker 2: I get something different out of all of your stories
Speaker 2: than when someone else reads that story. So it's the
Speaker 2: same story, but we all pull from it different things,
Speaker 2: remember different things.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I want to thank you so much for
Speaker 2: sharing and please support. We're so grateful and thank you
Speaker 2: for sharing your music of choice and as always you
Speaker 2: incredible mission accepted audience. Please share this podcast with everyone
Speaker 2: that you know. We want to see you on the
Speaker 2: next summit. The next summit is coming up just a
Speaker 2: few months, so if you have something that you want
Speaker 2: to say instead of put into a book, we want
Speaker 2: to see you on the stage and look at go
Speaker 2: to Devdruman dot com because probably by the time you're
Speaker 2: listening to this, we will have our whole schedule up
Speaker 2: there of where we're going to go, and you're going
Speaker 2: to be able to follow us. For those of you
Speaker 2: that know who Santa is, I'm saying that we're doing
Speaker 2: a Santa a Santa thing on the website where you're
Speaker 2: going to be able to see us go from country
Speaker 2: to country to country literally, and you can come and
Speaker 2: hang out with us live. You can see the author's live,
Speaker 2: you can sign their book live, you can get your
Speaker 2: own book, and of course we're all over Amazon, and
Speaker 2: we just made an announcement that we two will be
Speaker 2: in box stores and independent bookstores hopefully by the time
Speaker 2: that you watch this podcast. So congratulations for all.
Speaker 3: Of you for doing what you do.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you audience, and until next
Speaker 2: week you know the deal, we'd be will and you speak.
Speaker 2: Ruby