September 9, 2025 • 51 mins
Deb Drummond is a pioneer in the world of entrepreneurship & one of the 1st in her country to create companies in the health/wellness sector. To date she’s built 7 Int’l businesses & inspired 1000s around the globe. Natalie A. Solomon, A speaker, public health strategist, #1 best-selling author and founder of Meraki Life & Style, LLC. She’s the visionary behind Secure Your Oxygen Mask First™, & this fall she’s launching The Oxygen Lounge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, there was Brian Sebashian movie reviews and more. And
if it's Tuesday, first of all, we have to always
say support the art, support everybody, strong, women, women owned businesses,
you know, those people that really need to help. And obviously,
if it's Tuesday, let's see one hundred and sixty seven
straight shows in a row, we still have our live
streak going. And so I wanted to make this show
(01:28):
about you know, it's never about me or Howard, even
though Howard deserves to have it about him. It's about
always women. I don't care where they are. So tonight
is really special because I'm really going to win it tonight.
I wing it in general, but I'm really going to
wing it tonight, meaning I'm not going to talk about anybody.
I'm gonna let depth take over the show because I
kind of took over her show. This was it last Wednesday,
(01:51):
I think, when we were talking about stuff and I
thought it was fun meeting people that I didn't get
a chance to go when I went up to can
I didn't get a chance to go up to Canada
to meet some of them come in here. So I said, Okay,
let's just throw everything together like making good spaghetti, and
just take it and do it like that. So I've
brod an honor to always have strong women around, aren't we, Howard?
And it's always a good thing like that. Carol Register
(02:14):
will be joining us later because she's jumping on a
plane tonight to come to Beverly Hills for tomorrow. Dev
just got there from Canada today and I'm getting ready
to go over and see a couple of people within
like the next two hours. So that'll be interesting. So,
as we was always saying, we're live on Talk for Media,
K for HD radio, Talk for TV and streaming around
the world on over one hundred outlets and also streaming
(02:37):
in it T four seven. The site is down right
now because you know why we crashed it and it's
been out. Oh man, it's so sweet. I like that. Uh,
that's good to see see. You know, people time me
all over in a place. I think it's hilarious. But yeah,
the site was crashed keyboard trying to hok into it.
It had I think it was seven hundred and eighty
three million views on that with team unique views on that,
(03:01):
and I go, why is the site down? Was it
just hackers? No, because I've been hashtagging and talking about
it so much that we crashed it. And I didn't
believe it until he sent me the image of him,
and so well that's pretty good. So I still be
talking about itube. Timmity goes, yes, keep talking about it.
So we're gonna keep talking about it because that's quit
excess security on it. But it didn't crash just ittube.
It crashed half of the other site that was supporting it.
(03:24):
That's how powerful itube. Team for seven is so and
that's where we have over forty million views in counting
in general. So I don't want to keep talking. I
want to actually hand it over to depth. You get
the takeover movie reviews and more. It's not the first
time I let a woman do it, and it won't
be the last. But the good thing about this. Let
my Canadian friends take over and share her people, because
(03:45):
it's always about that.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Go ahead, dev Oh my goodness, well, welcome movies, review reviews,
and more. This is dem Drummond, your official co host,
coming to you live from Beverly Hills in Bryant's Hood.
And we came on planes. Today's playing trains and autmobiles.
People are coming. Sydney came from Canada. She's in the
house in Beverly Hills, Emily, Beverly Hills, and we're getting
(04:07):
Natalie here next March eleventh. We're working on We're working
on that Oscars girl. So look we're here, we're having fun.
We are. You know what I think, Brian, is that
I think we should talk about what it really takes.
You know, what it really takes. I was sitting downstairs
waiting four hours from my room. Blah blah blah, cry
cry cry, you know, you know, really not a problem
(04:31):
to have. And I think I'm down there with all
these incredible people, including the ones here I was. You know,
Howard was on our podcast Mission accepted. We got to
hear his story.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I heard it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I know I've heard some of your story. I think
we should have a conversation about what it takes sometimes
to make things happen for yourself, when you put the
cart before the horse, meaning sometimes you just take risks.
You don't know what you're doing the first time we
came down here. This is our third time at at
the awards events, and all of the benefits that happen
(05:04):
from just not knowing and doing it. Anyways, you want
to talk about that, we.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can talk about anything. But you know what, instead of
ladies first, let's have Howard introduce himselves. So it's a
reverse order this time, because Howard, you know, you know,
I let the women take over the show most of
the time. Carol's having tech issues in Florida, but no,
this is about them because I love my Canadian friends,
I like my Aussie friends, I like I like friends
in general, and we're supposed to support everybody. Howard, tell
(05:30):
them who you are, even though you were on Dev's
Oh yeah, which is dat Howard?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Okay, I'm Howard Wiggins, like he says, I'm one of
the top thirty five world's leading interior designer. I have
a look called Stacked and Layered, which you can follow
on my Facebook page. Just playing Howard Wiggins Facebook. Let's see,
I'm son of litter Roary Wiggins play still guitar on
the grand O Aubrey. I'm known for kissing Dolly Parton.
That's my claim to fame. And let's see. Uh and
(06:03):
of course movies and reviews and more with Brian for
about three years now.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh sow before we get into the women, back to
deb hows what room you're in and what the paintings are,
because he has collect.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I'm in the downstairs hallway. Uh so that's the powder
room with the door shut, and then just a little
bit of the hallway downstairs. You know, I'm an art collector.
I like stecting, layered and and always say that if
you have a home full of art, it can't be
duplicated because it's one of a kind. You can't copy me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
All right, Jeb, back to you take it away.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, Well, look at I'd love to introduce you to
miss Emily Bassett, who we got to share a really
great conversation today in the plane on the way here
all things creative. Emily Bassett, I'm going to let you
introduce yourself, but this woman is completely responsible for a
lot of the success that we have in our media
company because like us, Brian, she really appreciates the creative
(07:01):
she creates what it's like to go and put it
out there. So you know, it's one thing to be visionary, right,
So I think everyone on here can agree that, you know,
having vision is important, but you need people that are
going to actualize that and help you take it to
the world. And so that's my relationship with Emily. So
I'm gonn let her talk about herself. And I think Brian,
just like you did on my show, I was telling
(07:23):
Emily today. I think one of the coolest things that
we did was asking people. I'd love to hear Howard's
what is one big audacious goal? Like you take risks,
what it's like to take risks and put it out
there and be vision But what's one of your big
odacious goals? Wasn't that cool?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I did like that?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
All right, So Emily, you got you got big shoes
to fill, you got lots of stuff there go go.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Go hey guys.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah, So my name is Emily Bassett and I'm Dev's
marketing manager and also the co founder of starting Up
Marketing Solutions.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yeah, I mean, my world is all marketing.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
So it's one thing to have a business, it's another
to be able to reach the world.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
With your business.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
So I say, I always feel a little bit lucky
that my business is marketing, because sometimes marketing could be
the hardest part about a business. So I've got it
where that's all I focus on all day, every day.
So yeah, So in general, I think it's been so
incredible working with the Women's Channel and the two sixty
(08:25):
two women, the like women's movement in general, because it's
connected us with so many incredible women around the world.
And I mean, Brian yourself included. How are do you
you know, the whole team here. But it's like everybody
has such incredible business ideas, people have such incredible talents,
Like anybody that invents like products too.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I'm just like such a different world, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
But it's awesome to be able to really just listen to,
you know, what people are striving to do and how
they want to live. Truly goes so far as to
change the world, you know, with products, and that could
be you know, in a small way of just like
making a you know, shoe work better, or a you know,
clothing piece whold better, or something like that, or it
(09:15):
could be something like quite crazy, like trying to you know,
make sort of women's voices louder in the whole world
and create an accessible platform for everyone. So I feel
super lucky to just get to work with incredible people
around the world. And we talk a lot about how
when you're making a team and bringing people together, you know,
(09:39):
you want to kind of have different people that have
lots of different skills and stuff like that. So I
get lucky in the sense that you know, social media, right,
who wants to be.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Doing that all day every day?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
It is really nice to hire people out like my team,
where it's like just that tedious element could be taken
away from you. But when it actually comes down to it,
like my company and just the people I interact with,
it's not just about the skills we bring to the table,
but it's actually about like.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
The people we all are, you know.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
And it's if you lose that, that's the worst thing
that you could do kind of thing. It's just about
like I care about you, I care about your business,
I'm rooting for you, I'm rooting for your success, And
those types of core elements are really what I think
has like made the biggest changes in my business and
even Dev's business and all the businesses I've worked with
(10:31):
is that we're all like focusing on the same goal
and we're all like genuinely cheering each other on. And
that's almost like the best marketing we can do for
each other is just like actually looking for opportunity.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You know, when this comes up.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You know, Brian, you're you're awesome with this in the
sense of you're like, you know what, let's get you
on the podcast, let's have you talking about that, that
type of stuff and just having each other's back in that.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Way is so powerful.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
And that's what I love about this world, about Dev's
two sixty two world, about what I.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Do every day in the marketing world.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
So yeah, let's just keep cheering each other on and
and it's awesome to be here.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So yeah, you know, you know, they know the good
thing about that. And Hi, Carol, It Carol looks fabulous.
I mean, she'll be here tomorrow. I'm going to greet her.
I guess as soon as she's you know, comes to
Beverly Hills, which will be fun. And and Emily, welcome
to California. There are all of us, there's a lot
of us that do like our Canadian friends, so I
have to put that out there. No matter what. You know,
(11:29):
Canada has always been nice to me. Right now, I
would normally be at the Toronto Film Festival, but you know,
things have changed, the schedules have changed with everything, but
I still support things like that. You know, all right,
dead back to you, and then you will go to Carol.
You know what, Let's go to Carol real quick, cal
tell tell everybody who you are, and then we'll go
back to death. I let Carol. I let Death Table
in the show tonight. That's why.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh awesome, that's fantastic. Hi, Dev, It's great to see you, hey,
and I'm super excited to be here. I'm Carol Register
and I take women from six to seven seven plus figures.
I also run retreats down at my little boutique hotel
in the Andes Mountains in southern Chile. I have a
(12:12):
neurowealth certification, so I do a number of really fun
things in the world, and I'm super grateful to be
able to do that. Great women, to serve great wealth
for great impact. So right on, Well, Carol, we were
talking earlier on. I know that we've had conversations and
about leaping faith right, putting the cart ice cll up
(12:35):
before the horse, and taking risks so that what we want,
what our passion is, what the power is within kind
of makes its way out to the world. And we
were talking about big, audacious goals. We had a big
meeting with all.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The VIPs and the sponsors and all the Brian Sebastian fans.
I mean, you should have seen that show last Wednesday.
It was like the screen was twelve and then afterwards
people were putting it out and I got, why didn't
you by me? Why don't you invY me? I'm like, so,
Brian has a large fan base. He's one of the
you know, we always see our projects.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I was not aware of that.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You're like a commodity. You're like, ooh, you know what
I mean, I just put it out. That's what people
are piping in. And so we always see it that
the two sixty two project is for women and those
that and for women and those that love women right
support women. And so we basically got two of those
guys on here tonight. But before I pass it over
(13:32):
to Natalie, who is an incredible to sixty two and
doing her own thing in the world. What's a big
audacious goal that you have and have you ever taken
a risk?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Oh my goodness, well, let's see. Let's start risk taking
moving at alone to I can't talk moving alone to
a foreign country. I've got major decision making fatigue. I've
been packing and planning for this trip and you know
right now, so I'm a little bit okay, got it
(14:05):
all in bag, right. That's my big, Harry audacious goal
right now is to make it to La in the morning.
I'm leaving at one am you guys' time. Thank you
for asking taking a risk moving to a foreign country alone.
As soon as I got there, my husband died. I'm
(14:25):
a black belt, I have my motorcycle's license. I've been
a long time high level gymnastics judge and clinician. I mean,
it could go on and on and on, and I
have a history of risk taking and I continue to
do that. And great women do deserve great wealth for
great impact. And this is my big, audacious Harry goal
(14:50):
to see as many women as possible living to their
full abundance because it's right there waiting for us.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's in the quantum field.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
There's no reason that we're not accessing that, and so
I provide the tools for women to be able to
access that. So that is one of my big, hairy,
audacious goals.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I so relate to that girl like people will you know,
we get I'm sure this happens to you too. When
you haven't seen anyone for a while, they're like, what are
you up to now? I go, same thing I was
up to three weeks ago. And until every woman is
allowed to say International Women's Day in their country and
not get thrown in jail, we've got a little bit
of work to do, you know. So we got, we got,
(15:34):
We're in the work. You know, that's it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
But I mean, that's honestly it. It's there are a
lot of places in the world where women to this
day don't have a seat at the table, and I'm
all about helping women create seats at those tables. I've
been in some of those rooms. I know what they
look like, I know how they operate, and it's possible,
(16:00):
and it's not only possible, it's incredibly important.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, absolutely tooche. Well, look, let's take it over to Natalie. Natalie.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You know what me and.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Natalie met, you know where we met so, you know,
we do a lot of podcasts, a lot of shows,
a lot of teaching, a lot of conferences, a lot
of this. And it was International Women's Day, so you know,
we do a two day summit, right And at the
end of that summit, I'm like, I got to race
off and go to a go to an International Women's
Day summit. And my friends are like, are you in
your mind?
Speaker 8 (16:28):
You just spent two.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Days pouring out. I'm like, I know what that was?
The calling, Like someone called me, I'm what am I
gonna say?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And I got onto this show and it was really different.
It was like open up your heart and literally talk
about your trauma, your therapy, where you came from. Like
it was like get down and dirty. And I didn't
know anyone except one woman, and I was like, oh
my gosh, everyone's getting real deep. And I'm like, okay,
(16:55):
I'm going to bypass my exhaustion and get down there.
And as soon as Natalie came on and she talked,
I was like, you know when you see someone and
you're like, that's it. I got to call her, We
got to hang out. Whatever that turns into. Lucky, Yeah,
she decided to come onto the two sixty two creak
Creak train. But Natalie, why don't we why don't we
pass it over to you? And she is no, she
(17:17):
you know, she's all about the mic. This woman, tell
them about the designation you just got for speaking. You
go girl, you share about.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You all right?
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Hi, everybody, my name is Natalie Solomon and thank you
Jev and Brian for this opportunity.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Like Dev said, we met in a summit.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
I am a public health practitioner by Jay in a
sacred lifestyle wellness strategy by Design at Night. I recently
was selected to do a TED talk in November talking
about securing your oxygen mask. First, I am a survivor
and still living with brain tumor.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Infertility, reproductive health issues.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Almost died a couple of times, and I took that
opportunity to create a sacred space for myself to heal and.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Burnout and just stress.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
And I've really been able to combine my public health
background over two decades in public health, primarily focusing on
women's health and mental health and creating sacred spaces for
women to heal and whatever that may look like for them,
it could be a sacred space in a box it
could be a zen den like I have in my house,
where each of my walls is basically its own vision board.
(18:31):
And the name of my company is Marake Life and Style.
Marak is a Greek word where there's no equivalent for
that it in English, but it basically means pouring yourself
into your work, through your soul, creativity and love, and
really just having a space for myself and other women
to decompress and you know, deal with my brain surgery
(18:54):
situation and my infertility all these other things that I've
had to deal with and keep pushing. I just started
my doctoral program this week and I worked full time
and really just thankful to be here and figuring out
how I can best help women, you know, get past
their burnout, secure their oxygen mask first, and make sure
(19:16):
they're really taking care of themselves and pouring into themselves
as much as they pour into everyone else.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
So I'm just excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Thanks dev all right, Dev, I got to say something.
First of all, Natalie, I'm glad that you're here. Thank
you felt because I have a lot of my friends
who have gone through brain trauma. One of my good friends,
you know, when I met her in o eight. One
of the reasons why I wanted to start helping women,
going back to six eight during the housing bubble market
here in the United States. But she was, you know,
(19:45):
she was a military vet in Afghanistan and Iraq, and
she was a tank and her gun was called the
big Bitch. She was on the fifty caliber. She was
that good, beautiful woman. And then her tank got blown
up by ad ID and one of her those soldiers
was killed. She her brain scrambled around because you know,
the tank turned over. You would have never done she
(20:06):
would have had brain damage. And just strong, strong women.
It's amazing what women can go through where us mere
mortal guys. You know, we can't take the pain that
you guys can go through, you know. So I've always
welcomed things like that. And then Carol I we didn't.
I didn't. I called Carol my show wife because we
talked so much. It's like we might as well be married.
They said, you go to be my show wife. Terry's
(20:28):
my sister, Rachel, what is Rachel? Rachel's I've got what
I called Rachel, and Tash is like, you know, the
little one of all of us. And then we have
little Steel and you know how granddaddy. Yeah, well Rebel. Yeah,
Rebel's a dirty little secret because people don't realize we
have an energineer. But we couldn't do this without Rebel.
(20:49):
We really couldn't. So we always joke about these things.
So I'm I'm really glad that you hear. Those things
are important to me. And I love your crazy looks
because you are not crazy. I know why you do
those things because I can relate to that. You know,
I'm that straight black guy who's never been married, don't
have any kids, no tattoos, I don't wear ear rings,
I don't wear jewey I'm not. I've never been that
(21:10):
flashy guy because my family was. I was the total
opposite of that. I was kind of like that lone wolf.
Leave me alone, let me do my thing, and I'll
make you look good. And so that's why I like
doing things like this where a woman can take over
a movie of use and more. I love when Carol's here.
I love when Howard shows up. Howard's a dressy guy.
You know, I should be ashamed to be a black
(21:30):
guy that I don't dress like Howard. I'm the opposite.
So he gets the credit for that all right, dev
take it away again.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Hey, you know what, I gotta thank you so much
Natalie for sharing and be so transparent. But Howard, I
want to talk to you a little bit because Natalie
was talking about creating these healing spaces and the healing
den and taking care of herself and you are so
immersed in the art world. Can you share with us
just how art can heal us emotionally, like make us
(21:57):
feel better? I mean, you designed in people's home.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
You know that old expression. Money doesn't buy happiness. Just
don't know where to shop.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
It does.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I mean, I have to get out every day on
my day off. I'll stay in the house and then
I'm like, no, let's go shopping, and you go shopping,
and my day's fine because I just love beauty period.
I don't have to buy it, although I want to,
but I have to look at it. I mean, it
just gives me joy and it stems from even as
(22:29):
a child. I have a story I've told Brian before
the reason I'm an interior designer. My father was a
country music artist and he traveled the road a lot,
and while he was gone, my mother hearted an interior
designer to do the house, and when he did, everything
within the house was new. The chair, the TV, the
tables are everything. Dad comes in off the road, sits
(22:51):
in a brand new recliner, goes turns on a brand
new TV set and says nothing, and Mom says, well,
don't you notice anything? He said, he you get your
hair done today. But even as a kid, my mother
had decorated the house I think maybe two or three times,
and then she hired a professional. I was a kid,
and I could tell the difference between my mother's taste,
(23:14):
which wasn't very good, and the professional face, which was excellent.
And I just could see it. I mean, it was
just so obvious to me that that I know what
he did. And the colors that he did my room
in are still my favorite colors and have been all
my life. So anyway, oh look cluz, Brian's got.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
And Terry, Hi, I'm not on the show tonight.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
I'm not on.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
The show tonight because I'm trying to buy a new
house and I'm doing escrow and I have to get
all this stuff in because I got I have to
get all the documents and by the end of the week,
and is the most I did not realize buying a
home was so stressful.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh my god, it worry ladies. She will still interview Thursdays.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
She'll be there, No, I swear to I was like, okay,
this an other thing. So I had to wire money
to This is just a story. It's kind of crazy,
but I had some fraud on my bank accounts. I've
been trying to wire money to escrow it bounce back
three times. So I take today.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Today.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
I had to go to the bank get a cashier's
check so I didn't lose this property.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Because they're like, if you don't give us a chuck today,
you're gonna lose it.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
So anyway, anyway, it's an exciting thing to be buying
a new house, but it's the most stressful thing I've
ever done. So that's what I'm trying to do today
so that I can like close this chapter up and
move into a new chapter. But I'm excited about it.
So that's why myla on tonight. So I gotta go
back and finish all this stuff.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
I gotta do.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
What Yeah, I'm saying, in the same city pretty much,
I'm going to be in I'm gonna be going north
More into I don't want to see the exact area
because of stalkers, but I have as it's an area
where there's a lot of horses, a lot of ranches,
a lot of.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
There's masts down the street. I'm by the four seasons.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That's enough.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Back, Okay. One thing though, is I want to say
I'm really excited tomorrow for the gifting sweet to be
interviewed Thursday.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Well today, see, I don't know what date is. Stress up.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
I'm really really excited to do the red carpet and stuff.
And I just had to take a peek in because
Brian's staying at my house right now and I'm upstairs
running around like this in my mind. But I'm really
really excited for there's event and it's gonna be a blast.
Cat wait to see you, Carol. We're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna have a blast. So anyway, I'm gonna go
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back to it, and I'm gonna go back to doing
all this paperwork I do.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But here you go.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Well, I think that's perfect. We were talking earlier about
you know, it's sometimes this the stretch to significance isn't
always on a surfboard.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's like sounds like she's on her way to significance
and coming up against some bumps.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Perfect, take the credit for that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Thank you, you take the credit.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
So look, let's listen.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Let's here from Sydney. Oh my goodness, Hey up in
the corner there, so share, yeah, share with us. What
do you do? What's going anything that we've talked about
that you want to, you know, add in on.
Speaker 11 (26:19):
I love the word that Natalie brought up that there
wasn't a like a translation, a solid translation for it
in English.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
I think you said it was.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
I feel like as soon as you said that and
explained what it was, I was like, that's like these
women that we surround ourselves with, Like this is like
like I'm just meeting you and Carol tonight, but like
dep and Emily I've obviously like met a few times.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
Before, and like that word perfectly describes them.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Like it's like and that's like, like I would like
to think that that describes me too.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
It's it's like you your work is your life in
like a good way. It's kind of like it it's
not an obsession.
Speaker 13 (27:02):
But it's like also it's just what you do and
it's what drives you and it's it's like a constant
pursuit of perfection that and perfection isn't really obtainable, so
it's just like a constant state of improvement in getting better.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
So I feel like that's like, yeah, something that resonated
with me tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, but I want to ask you something. What makes
you happy?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
My goodness, what makes me happy? That's really interesting, you know,
because we were having a conversation about joy the other
day and the difference between happiness and joy. You know what,
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark movie. I
don't want to turn you into like the Real Women's
Channel with Hallmark movies. But I think what really gives
me a great sense of joy is when something that
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I've done, or I've taught, or I've imparted upon information
on somebody, they grab a hold of it and you
watch the evolution. Me and Emily were talking about some
women that we know that came into the two sixty
to that are now, you know, doing their book and
speaking on the stage differently and getting their own television channel.
And it's not like everyone has to go and do
those those things, but how they do them, and I
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think it gives me a quiet sense of joy and
happiness because like Sidney was just sharing and I know
that Carol can relate to this too. You know, people
like to be honest with you. I couldn't not do this,
I don't, you know, Like I don't think it's a
dream of passionate desire. I think it was a calling
from the time I was in my twenties. The other
(28:31):
thing that makes me absolutely like jump up and down
for joy is having really good relationships with my two
and my two kids that are really good humans, Like
they're really freaking kind and and they love music. So
I've done my job. So I just really I think
it's I think it gets reflected back. That's what makes
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me happy. A good Irish movie makes me happy. And
whenever I'm at a concert and there's music, like, no
one can touch my joy.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I got to bring something up. What about the chocolates
on your table?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh yeah, when you walk into my house, the whole
array of the candy, the whole candy. Well, you know
what gives me joy about that care. I'm allergic to
sugar and caffeine, so I haven't eaten sugar in thirty years.
But creating that for other people to come in. Yeah,
it's it makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Hey, let me before we get back to the woman.
What did you learn about Howard? Because anybody that listens
to our show around the world, or you know, when
I when I went up to him, I'm like, what's
up with the guy with the hat? You mean Howard? Yeah,
he's really interesting. No matter what dev I'll let you
seek on this. What did you find out about Howard
that you thought was fascinating?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well, you know what, you know what I loved, So
I just talked about music. And first of all, I
think he's not only is he a very creative being,
but when he talks, here's some thing that because we
got to talk for quite a while, it was almost like,
you know, Okay, I hope you find this as a
compliment Howard. But when you go into a really cool
(30:10):
cafe and there's like a poet on the stage and
they're talking poetically and the melody is so cool, like
you keep finding yourself drawing in. Interviewing him and having
him on the show was almost poetic because it wasn't
just storytelling. It just made it just it made you
feel like you wanted to engage with his words and
(30:32):
his story for design and how it makes him feel
and how that's so embedded was captivating, and you didn't
hear a pin drop except him. It was really poet.
I would say it was poetic. I would say he's
a poet.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, all right, Howard, So we can you know, add
poet and poetry to your long list of things because
it is about telling stories because people are fascinating about that.
And I didn't mean yours is gone by quick? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Country music good hurt, get hurt, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Help to me? Well, get synergy, you know, it's synergory
how we all work together to create one thing better.
So life has experiences. I'm older than anybody on the panel,
and you learn from your mistakes and you you evolved
the thing that they tell you. You know, you always say, oh,
(31:27):
I wish I knew that when I was younger. It's true,
you do, and then by the time you do it,
nobody listens to you.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
But it's it's uh.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
But it is a life experience. You you learned what
works and what doesn't work, and what makes you happy
what doesn't make you happy. H You learn to let
go of people that make you unhappy, and you keep
people that make you happy. So, I mean, life is
full of choices. So you've got a choice to whichever
way you want, whoever you want to be, or whoever
(31:58):
you want to have it a friend or not as
a brand.
Speaker 12 (32:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
And as you get older.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
You don't care.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
You know, you don't care what people think about you.
You want to be who you are, who you naturally are,
and accept me the way I am or not.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's fun, you know, that's just plain and simple, you know,
dev I'm fascinated about Sydney. Yeah, she's she's got this utel.
She's hiding something. I can't wait to have someone interview.
There's something about her that I know that I like.
I don't know what. It's what makes you happy? What
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makes you happy?
Speaker 12 (32:35):
What makes me happy?
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Hmm?
Speaker 11 (32:39):
Making things look beautiful, I think is something that brings
me joy.
Speaker 12 (32:46):
What else do I like?
Speaker 11 (32:47):
I really like solving problems and I feel like I
get to do that every single day and it's always different,
which is also fun, and that kind of paired with design,
I would say, is what I do for a living.
So it's like I get to make things look pretty
and I get to solve problems every day.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
And it's like it's I'm I have the best job.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
It's funny.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Brian, So Sydney and I we grew we went to
university together and then now we work together.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
And you could call.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Sid and I up and need something in like five
minutes and you would get it. It would be beautiful,
it would be perfect, and we would just be like
we're here, ready to go.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
There you go. So it was like like Gran, it's a.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Very fun dynamic and it's just like so ready to
jump in and like be there and like fully show up,
which is awesome and yeah, definitely great for a friend
and teammates.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, Natalie, let me ask you this what makes you
happy because of what you've gone through? And the reason
why I ask that specific question because people need to
know when you go through an illness, it's not a
crutch and actually motivates you in a different way. You know,
Carol and I talk about these things, and she will
always bring up what she talked about making sure you
put your oxygen mask on first. You know. You know
(34:09):
Carol started clapping when you said that, because she and
I will have all talks about this almost daily.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Yeah, I would say, you know, when the amount of
times that I've been hospitalized. I was in the hospital
a couple of weeks ago for some other stuff that
happened a couple of years ago that I'm still dealing with, and.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
My doctors were so funny. They were like you.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
I was on the stroke floor and they were like,
you are the most pleasant patient. Like we fight at
the desk to try to get to talk to you
because you come in and you're like, yeah, no, I
can't walk, I may not be able to see. My
blood pressure is off the chain. And but you're like,
did I said? Because you never know when you and
(34:49):
this happened. A lot of this happened during COVID. Life
is so precious, your mortality that you have. It really
brings to bear, like the little things of me not
be ing able. When I woke up for my ten
hour brain surgery, I wasn't allowed to sit up. I
had a laser going to my ear that if I
went pasted it.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
All these alarms would go off.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
I wasn't allowed to put my feet down on the
ground because it would have discombobulated my brain.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Fluid and kill me.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
And like that, And it's COVID, so nobody can come
visit me. So I'm just in the room by myself
with HGTV so, you know, and paint and I paint too,
so you know, you have that time to reflect. And
you know, when I was finally able to get up
and use my walker and running and running laps around
the hospital. You know, one of the ladies, the nurses,
(35:39):
I I you know, I'm a little fashionista, so I
didn't want to wear no hospital gown, so I had
on some cute little outfits and I was walking through
the hospital.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
The nurse said to me, may'am, visitor hours are over.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
And the lad.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
She's a patient.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
Yeah, but I say that because those little things are
being able to get up, to walk, to be able
to write my name, to not have a phasia and
actually articulate. And I'm an analyst by day, you know.
That's I'm an analyst for the government. And I'm like, what
the hell am I going to do if I can't
have a job like this is what I went to
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school for, you know, And I really had to pivot
and I went on and became an accredited event designer.
I flew to Florida into the class and did some
high end design became a professional event floors. I was like,
I'm gonna use my left brain in case my right
brain doesn't want to work. And I really had to
look at it as an opportunity to figure out how
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do I bring my self joy? And there's other women
that have done gone through this. I you know, living
with endometriosis and chronic pain and day in and day out,
and you show up looking not looking like what you've
been through, and people don't always believe that you really
went through what you went through. But you still have
(36:57):
to keep pressing on and enjoy the little things that
breath that when you wake up, and just you know,
those little things you really have to really take as
a sacred moment and enjoy those little things. And those
things really make me happy because at any moment, you know,
(37:18):
the amount of times that I've been to the hospital
and they're like, did you not know you were septic?
Like you're crashing, You're in ICU.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
I was in ICU and I.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
Was like, I'm so sorry, I'm taking up a COVID bed.
I'm in public health And.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
They were like, ma'am, ma'am, you're sick because I need
you do not worry about other people right now, so
that right there, you know, just being able.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
To pause the power of the pause.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
And really think about how do I show up for
myself and help other women do the same, and that
it's okay just to be and hold space for one
another is huge and that brings me joy, and it
brings and I like making some beautiful two like Sydney,
like that is what gives me joy when I do
my decor when I'm doing different spaces for people. That
(38:05):
gives them that peace, that environmental health, that they can
have their mind be at ease so that they can
get up another day and pour into whatever it is
they want to do. And it's so pivotal that, you know,
I don't think people realize how much your environment, the
colors that you have on your walls, the way you
have certain things placed in your room. I work outside
(38:28):
on my deck every day because it is my happy space.
I have my little day bed, a little wicker day bed,
my plants, and you know, and I can sit outside
and look through my my drapes and just look at
dragonflies and listen to the birds chirp, and you know,
because I'm usually unfortunately I've been in the hospital so
much that to be outside is a joy and it's
(38:50):
a privilege. And I really think being able to impart
that on others to really understand how much of a
privilege and a joy it is to just to get up,
to be able to get out of bed and to
put your feet on the ground, which is something that
I've had to deal with that brings me joy. And
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to help other women see that in what they do
and what they bring to the table and really celebrate
themselves as much as they can. It's something that, you know,
and making stuff pretty.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
I'm a lib. I'm like, ooh, shiny pretty sparkles.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yay, all right, Howard, I'm coming to you in ten seconds.
All right. So here's still levers, because I'm a labor too.
You know, we do things a different way. We're determined levers.
And you know, there's two types of labors. There's lazy
levers and then there's determined leavers. And the determined leavers
are like Barbara Walters, Will Smith, cast some Data Jones,
(39:44):
Michael Douglas, you know, Olivia Newton, John you know, well, well, okay,
part of that list. But the thing about that that's important,
and that's one of the reasons why I said, it's
you know, women are important. You create, thanks you greeted
us and when your birth those things like that. That's
a great thing. And I always tell people when they
(40:05):
get out my nurse, you need to go outside and
appreciate the nature around yourself because that will help you.
And again, I'm glad that you hear on planet Earth
because we need people like you, Dad Howard.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I was gonna ask, Natalie, have you ever bought a
client tears of joy?
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Because I have.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
And when you help a client make their environment inviting
and beautiful and reflect who they are, they're life changing.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I had a client once that lost her husband and
she had three sons, and when I got to her,
she was middle age, and I said, let's make this
room feminine. Let's make your bedroom pink, Let's do the
living room yellow. You've lived with a house with four men.
You were a mother and a wife. Now let's be
a woman, you know. So with that, I did her office,
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all three sons. I did three or four friends of hers.
Later in life, she got married at eighty again and
I got to do the house with them again for
the second time. But your environment plays a great deal
the way you feel from a day to day basis.
It really really does. And I don't think a lot
of people understand that. And I think a lot of
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people will take vacations to escape their home drum life.
I haven't taken a vacation. I love being in my home.
I can't think of any place as going to be
any prettier than where I am.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Now, so I just stay here. I took one vacation
once I called up my effort tour and oh three,
and I just remember I was so burned out of
but showed appreciation and joy because you know, we would
do all of our enemies up the four Seasons in
Beverly Hills. That was basically my home before my home,
(41:51):
and that's where we did everything because of security and everything.
I just remember I was started to interview George Clint
and I'm like, I don't want to interview imagine this.
I don't want to in you George Clooney and Russell
Crowe that was coming up in my schedule. I said,
the hell with this, left this. I'm going to Europe
for twenty two days to visit my friends. And I did,
and it made me appreciate something outside of that, just
(42:13):
getting away because I needed a break because I we
didn't take vacations. Now the world has changed for us
as far as doing interviews because we only had three
three weekends off the year, Mother's Day, Eastern and the
third week of August because everybody was going back to school.
And that's when they used to release horror films. Now
they release horror films during Christmas and they do well.
(42:34):
This past week in The Conjuring, which is supposed to
be the last one, has done one hundred and ninety
eight million dollars globally. It will not be the last
one now one hundred and ninety eight. It is the
top viewing horror film in the business. Now, who would
have known. So when it comes to that, you know,
this is all that's going on. All right, dad, We
got about a couple of minutes left. Let's talk about,
(42:54):
you know, being at the Emmys and all that and
that Emmy. Oh aahead, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
So look at the hotel is buzzing. People are everywhere,
they're arriving, they're landing, there's drinks flowing already. People are
getting ready tonight to go out for dinner. They're doing this,
they're doing that. We got to go find our twenty
two boxes of books and get those out of that room.
There's people doing things and you can feel it. They're tired,
they flew in, they drove in. There's this level of
(43:21):
adrenaline excitement, and everyone is just so looking forward to
meeting other people, like it is such a risk, you know,
like you put a lot of time, a lot of money,
a lot of effort into being here and putting your
best foot forward to meet people like you, Brian, so
that the word of your passion gets out there to
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the world and there is a buzz in the air.
It is there. It's you can taste it. You can
taste what's going on in the hotel right now. By tomorrow,
we're going to be out of our minds. By Thursday,
we're going to be like, well, our crew is double partying,
We're doing the whole thing all day and then we're
hard today.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
So I just want to know will be there and
Terry will be there.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
H yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So then we're going to
an Emmy's party that night, and then the next day
we're all sitting you know what we're doing you would
love it. Brian Carroll, join us. We're going to sit
down downstairs and all of us that have come, we're
going to sit there and we're going to do an
after party marketing meeting. So now that we poured our
heart and soul into everything that we did, let's get
it out to the world and see what we can
(44:24):
do to help. And of course Emily and Sydney are
going to be there because that's their expertise, So I'm
going to pass them the mic and they're going to
share that with everybody. So that's what's going on here.
Who else wants to share before we wrap up?
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (44:37):
You know, if I could jump in, I want to say, Natalie,
I have a combination of three rare diseases that I
don't ever talk about.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
It's not the lain I stay in. I do my
very best.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
To live as already healed, even though I don't experience
those circumstances yet. Circumstances sometimes are very difficult, they're not pretty,
and so I could definitely relate to your story. And
it's so inspiring, so encouraging, and I think it's beautiful
because you know, it gives you an appreciation of life
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that you wouldn't have otherwise. And our spaces are our sanctuary.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
Yes, they are our sacred space.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
So thank you, thank you so much, thank you, and
for each and every one of you, by the ways,
just have been inspired by each and every one of you.
I can't wait to beat you, Emily and pick your
brain about marketing. I'm just doing some new things, Sydney.
I can't wait to hear about the spaces that you design,
(45:50):
and I can't wait to connect again.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
I look forward to it.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
Absolutely all right, Brian, should I be passing it back
to you or we got a few minutes for someone
to perk up?
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Like Emily, I wanted to ask Emily what makes Emily happy?
Speaker 6 (46:03):
Happy? I mean, yeah, what makes me happy?
Speaker 8 (46:09):
Funny enough?
Speaker 7 (46:10):
I love learning new things like every I think I'm
in the right field for it, because marketing changes every
three months and everything we thought we knew is different.
Speaker 6 (46:21):
But yes, absolutely love learning new things. I do love.
Speaker 7 (46:26):
To travel and sort of like really learn new cultures
and meet people around the world. I've found I actually
really did not like history and geography in school, but
I say I argumentatively use.
Speaker 6 (46:42):
It more than I ever could imagined.
Speaker 7 (46:45):
Because I'm constantly looking at the map on where i
can go, and I'm once I get there, I'm like,
how is this country come to be?
Speaker 8 (46:53):
How is the city come to be?
Speaker 7 (46:55):
How is you know? How is this here? And why
is it here? And why does it work? You know,
and and all that stuff. So yeah, I absolutely love
learning new things. Every new adventure I'm I'm just fills
me with joy. So yeah, I mean, and I'm so
excited to have another year here at the Emmys with
(47:15):
this awesome community. And I'm gonna learn a lot about
all of you guys in the next few days here,
so it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Howard, what makes you happy? And give you social media links.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
Howard Wigan's Facebook. And doing my job really makes me happy.
I mean, when I can, like you said, when I
can do a design job and change somebody's life, or
I know that I want them over, I have this
little expression. I'll say, I just helped the customer. Now
they won't buy a toilet paper and listen to me
ask me what color because I want them over, you know.
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And you know, and the biggest joy is when they
come in and I sell them something other than what
they ask for because a lot of times what people
want if you ask the proper questions, it's really not
what they want. It's like you got to find deeper
down what do they truly want and desire that we'll
make them happy? They don't know. You have to find
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out that's it. And then just Howard Wiggs, Facebook, Emily,
social media links.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
Start them up, marketing, Come connect, can't wait to see
you guys, Sydney.
Speaker 12 (48:24):
Same for Connecting and for sidcat eleven.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
Also fine Carol at Neurocoach, Carol on id or Carol
register on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And did Carol, did we ask you what makes you happy?
Speaker 11 (48:39):
To no?
Speaker 5 (48:42):
You know, I think everybody like helped fill in the gaps.
I love connecting with people, honestly. I love travel. I
love uh doing things that are artistic and creative, visiting music.
Music's huge art. By the way, shout out to Ocean.
(49:05):
Ocean's streetwear line is so hot.
Speaker 6 (49:09):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:10):
I mean it makes me wish that I could really
rock it for him, you know, forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Oh honey, if I can wear it, you can wear it.
Speaker 6 (49:22):
Okay, I mean you're in all right?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Did social media links?
Speaker 12 (49:26):
Look?
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Everything is on deb Drummond dot com. Just go to
the bottom of the page. You'll find every social link
and a little button that says connect with me. So
connect with me.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
And Natalie you get the last word tonight. Social media
links and how people can reach out to you.
Speaker 9 (49:42):
Sure, so everything Natalie Asolomon dot com at Natalie A.
Speaker 8 (49:47):
Solomon and I'm on LinkedIn as Natalie A. Solomon.
Speaker 9 (49:51):
And just make sure you guys are all securing your
oxygen mask first, take care of yourself, take that time,
take that and really just embrace where you are in
the moment and really appreciate where you're, where you've been,
where you are presently, and where you want to go
forward and enjoy, have fun. Life is too short not
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to absolutely all right, Brian, what makes you happy?
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Oh, connecting people the world of drum and Bugle Corps
and reaching my goal of one hundred million views on
it two four seven. That a site that nobody knows about,
that goes opposite YouTube. That's what's gonna make me happy
because no one will, no one will have done that
one opposite a major site, and that makes me happy,
all right. So the whole thing about this, this is
(50:38):
thrown together because I asked Deb, all right, deb, give
me some people. She was always scheduled for this, and
I go, she goes, let me, let me think about it.
Let's put this together. So it was like like, okay,
I've never done a last minute one like this, even
though she was always scheduled for this, and this is
how it turned out. I hope everybody's happy. Thank you
for the people in the audiencestead of chiming in with
the comments. And I always say that I have a
(51:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, there was Brian Sebashian movie reviews and more. And
if it's Tuesday, first of all, we have to always
say support the art, support everybody, strong, women, women owned businesses,
you know, those people that really need to help. And obviously,
if it's Tuesday, let's see one hundred and sixty seven
straight shows in a row, we still have our live
streak going. And so I wanted to make this show
(01:28):
about you know, it's never about me or Howard, even
though Howard deserves to have it about him. It's about
always women. I don't care where they are. So tonight
is really special because I'm really going to win it tonight.
I wing it in general, but I'm really going to
wing it tonight, meaning I'm not going to talk about anybody.
I'm gonna let depth take over the show because I
kind of took over her show. This was it last Wednesday,
(01:51):
I think, when we were talking about stuff and I
thought it was fun meeting people that I didn't get
a chance to go when I went up to can
I didn't get a chance to go up to Canada
to meet some of them come in here. So I said, Okay,
let's just throw everything together like making good spaghetti, and
just take it and do it like that. So I've
brod an honor to always have strong women around, aren't we, Howard?
And it's always a good thing like that. Carol Register
(02:14):
will be joining us later because she's jumping on a
plane tonight to come to Beverly Hills for tomorrow. Dev
just got there from Canada today and I'm getting ready
to go over and see a couple of people within
like the next two hours. So that'll be interesting. So,
as we was always saying, we're live on Talk for Media,
K for HD radio, Talk for TV and streaming around
the world on over one hundred outlets and also streaming
(02:37):
in it T four seven. The site is down right
now because you know why we crashed it and it's
been out. Oh man, it's so sweet. I like that. Uh,
that's good to see see. You know, people time me
all over in a place. I think it's hilarious. But yeah,
the site was crashed keyboard trying to hok into it.
It had I think it was seven hundred and eighty
three million views on that with team unique views on that,
(03:01):
and I go, why is the site down? Was it
just hackers? No, because I've been hashtagging and talking about
it so much that we crashed it. And I didn't
believe it until he sent me the image of him,
and so well that's pretty good. So I still be
talking about itube. Timmity goes, yes, keep talking about it.
So we're gonna keep talking about it because that's quit
excess security on it. But it didn't crash just ittube.
It crashed half of the other site that was supporting it.
(03:24):
That's how powerful itube. Team for seven is so and
that's where we have over forty million views in counting
in general. So I don't want to keep talking. I
want to actually hand it over to depth. You get
the takeover movie reviews and more. It's not the first
time I let a woman do it, and it won't
be the last. But the good thing about this. Let
my Canadian friends take over and share her people, because
(03:45):
it's always about that.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Go ahead, dev Oh my goodness, well, welcome movies, review reviews,
and more. This is dem Drummond, your official co host,
coming to you live from Beverly Hills in Bryant's Hood.
And we came on planes. Today's playing trains and autmobiles.
People are coming. Sydney came from Canada. She's in the
house in Beverly Hills, Emily, Beverly Hills, and we're getting
(04:07):
Natalie here next March eleventh. We're working on We're working
on that Oscars girl. So look we're here, we're having fun.
We are. You know what I think, Brian, is that
I think we should talk about what it really takes.
You know, what it really takes. I was sitting downstairs
waiting four hours from my room. Blah blah blah, cry
cry cry, you know, you know, really not a problem
(04:31):
to have. And I think I'm down there with all
these incredible people, including the ones here I was. You know,
Howard was on our podcast Mission accepted. We got to
hear his story.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I heard it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I know I've heard some of your story. I think
we should have a conversation about what it takes sometimes
to make things happen for yourself, when you put the
cart before the horse, meaning sometimes you just take risks.
You don't know what you're doing the first time we
came down here. This is our third time at at
the awards events, and all of the benefits that happen
(05:04):
from just not knowing and doing it. Anyways, you want
to talk about that, we.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can talk about anything. But you know what, instead of
ladies first, let's have Howard introduce himselves. So it's a
reverse order this time, because Howard, you know, you know,
I let the women take over the show most of
the time. Carol's having tech issues in Florida, but no,
this is about them because I love my Canadian friends,
I like my Aussie friends, I like I like friends
in general, and we're supposed to support everybody. Howard, tell
(05:30):
them who you are, even though you were on Dev's
Oh yeah, which is dat Howard?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Okay, I'm Howard Wiggins, like he says, I'm one of
the top thirty five world's leading interior designer. I have
a look called Stacked and Layered, which you can follow
on my Facebook page. Just playing Howard Wiggins Facebook. Let's see,
I'm son of litter Roary Wiggins play still guitar on
the grand O Aubrey. I'm known for kissing Dolly Parton.
That's my claim to fame. And let's see. Uh and
(06:03):
of course movies and reviews and more with Brian for
about three years now.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh sow before we get into the women, back to
deb hows what room you're in and what the paintings are,
because he has collect.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I'm in the downstairs hallway. Uh so that's the powder
room with the door shut, and then just a little
bit of the hallway downstairs. You know, I'm an art collector.
I like stecting, layered and and always say that if
you have a home full of art, it can't be
duplicated because it's one of a kind. You can't copy me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
All right, Jeb, back to you take it away.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, Well, look at I'd love to introduce you to
miss Emily Bassett, who we got to share a really
great conversation today in the plane on the way here
all things creative. Emily Bassett, I'm going to let you
introduce yourself, but this woman is completely responsible for a
lot of the success that we have in our media
company because like us, Brian, she really appreciates the creative
(07:01):
she creates what it's like to go and put it
out there. So you know, it's one thing to be visionary, right,
So I think everyone on here can agree that, you know,
having vision is important, but you need people that are
going to actualize that and help you take it to
the world. And so that's my relationship with Emily. So
I'm gonn let her talk about herself. And I think Brian,
just like you did on my show, I was telling
(07:23):
Emily today. I think one of the coolest things that
we did was asking people. I'd love to hear Howard's
what is one big audacious goal? Like you take risks,
what it's like to take risks and put it out
there and be vision But what's one of your big
odacious goals? Wasn't that cool?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I did like that?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
All right, So Emily, you got you got big shoes
to fill, you got lots of stuff there go go.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Go hey guys.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah, So my name is Emily Bassett and I'm Dev's
marketing manager and also the co founder of starting Up
Marketing Solutions.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yeah, I mean, my world is all marketing.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
So it's one thing to have a business, it's another
to be able to reach the world.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
With your business.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
So I say, I always feel a little bit lucky
that my business is marketing, because sometimes marketing could be
the hardest part about a business. So I've got it
where that's all I focus on all day, every day.
So yeah, So in general, I think it's been so
incredible working with the Women's Channel and the two sixty
(08:25):
two women, the like women's movement in general, because it's
connected us with so many incredible women around the world.
And I mean, Brian yourself included. How are do you
you know, the whole team here. But it's like everybody
has such incredible business ideas, people have such incredible talents,
Like anybody that invents like products too.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I'm just like such a different world, you know.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
But it's awesome to be able to really just listen to,
you know, what people are striving to do and how
they want to live. Truly goes so far as to
change the world, you know, with products, and that could
be you know, in a small way of just like
making a you know, shoe work better, or a you know,
clothing piece whold better, or something like that, or it
(09:15):
could be something like quite crazy, like trying to you know,
make sort of women's voices louder in the whole world
and create an accessible platform for everyone. So I feel
super lucky to just get to work with incredible people
around the world. And we talk a lot about how
when you're making a team and bringing people together, you know,
(09:39):
you want to kind of have different people that have
lots of different skills and stuff like that. So I
get lucky in the sense that you know, social media, right,
who wants to be.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Doing that all day every day?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
It is really nice to hire people out like my team,
where it's like just that tedious element could be taken
away from you. But when it actually comes down to it,
like my company and just the people I interact with,
it's not just about the skills we bring to the table,
but it's actually about like.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
The people we all are, you know.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
And it's if you lose that, that's the worst thing
that you could do kind of thing. It's just about
like I care about you, I care about your business,
I'm rooting for you, I'm rooting for your success, And
those types of core elements are really what I think
has like made the biggest changes in my business and
even Dev's business and all the businesses I've worked with
(10:31):
is that we're all like focusing on the same goal
and we're all like genuinely cheering each other on. And
that's almost like the best marketing we can do for
each other is just like actually looking for opportunity.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You know, when this comes up.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
You know, Brian, you're you're awesome with this in the
sense of you're like, you know what, let's get you
on the podcast, let's have you talking about that, that
type of stuff and just having each other's back in that.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Way is so powerful.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
And that's what I love about this world, about Dev's
two sixty two world, about what I.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Do every day in the marketing world.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
So yeah, let's just keep cheering each other on and
and it's awesome to be here.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
So yeah, you know, you know, they know the good
thing about that. And Hi, Carol, It Carol looks fabulous.
I mean, she'll be here tomorrow. I'm going to greet her.
I guess as soon as she's you know, comes to
Beverly Hills, which will be fun. And and Emily, welcome
to California. There are all of us, there's a lot
of us that do like our Canadian friends, so I
have to put that out there. No matter what. You know,
(11:29):
Canada has always been nice to me. Right now, I
would normally be at the Toronto Film Festival, but you know,
things have changed, the schedules have changed with everything, but
I still support things like that. You know, all right,
dead back to you, and then you will go to Carol.
You know what, Let's go to Carol real quick, cal
tell tell everybody who you are, and then we'll go
back to death. I let Carol. I let Death Table
in the show tonight. That's why.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh awesome, that's fantastic. Hi, Dev, It's great to see you, hey,
and I'm super excited to be here. I'm Carol Register
and I take women from six to seven seven plus figures.
I also run retreats down at my little boutique hotel
in the Andes Mountains in southern Chile. I have a
(12:12):
neurowealth certification, so I do a number of really fun
things in the world, and I'm super grateful to be
able to do that. Great women, to serve great wealth
for great impact. So right on, Well, Carol, we were
talking earlier on. I know that we've had conversations and
about leaping faith right, putting the cart ice cll up
(12:35):
before the horse, and taking risks so that what we want,
what our passion is, what the power is within kind
of makes its way out to the world. And we
were talking about big, audacious goals. We had a big
meeting with all.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The VIPs and the sponsors and all the Brian Sebastian fans.
I mean, you should have seen that show last Wednesday.
It was like the screen was twelve and then afterwards
people were putting it out and I got, why didn't
you by me? Why don't you invY me? I'm like, so,
Brian has a large fan base. He's one of the
you know, we always see our projects.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I was not aware of that.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You're like a commodity. You're like, ooh, you know what
I mean, I just put it out. That's what people
are piping in. And so we always see it that
the two sixty two project is for women and those
that and for women and those that love women right
support women. And so we basically got two of those
guys on here tonight. But before I pass it over
(13:32):
to Natalie, who is an incredible to sixty two and
doing her own thing in the world. What's a big
audacious goal that you have and have you ever taken
a risk?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Oh my goodness, well, let's see. Let's start risk taking
moving at alone to I can't talk moving alone to
a foreign country. I've got major decision making fatigue. I've
been packing and planning for this trip and you know
right now, so I'm a little bit okay, got it
(14:05):
all in bag, right. That's my big, Harry audacious goal
right now is to make it to La in the morning.
I'm leaving at one am you guys' time. Thank you
for asking taking a risk moving to a foreign country alone.
As soon as I got there, my husband died. I'm
(14:25):
a black belt, I have my motorcycle's license. I've been
a long time high level gymnastics judge and clinician. I mean,
it could go on and on and on, and I
have a history of risk taking and I continue to
do that. And great women do deserve great wealth for
great impact. And this is my big, audacious Harry goal
(14:50):
to see as many women as possible living to their
full abundance because it's right there waiting for us.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's in the quantum field.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
There's no reason that we're not accessing that, and so
I provide the tools for women to be able to
access that. So that is one of my big, hairy,
audacious goals.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I so relate to that girl like people will you know,
we get I'm sure this happens to you too. When
you haven't seen anyone for a while, they're like, what are
you up to now? I go, same thing I was
up to three weeks ago. And until every woman is
allowed to say International Women's Day in their country and
not get thrown in jail, we've got a little bit
of work to do, you know. So we got, we got,
(15:34):
We're in the work. You know, that's it.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
But I mean, that's honestly it. It's there are a
lot of places in the world where women to this
day don't have a seat at the table, and I'm
all about helping women create seats at those tables. I've
been in some of those rooms. I know what they
look like, I know how they operate, and it's possible,
(16:00):
and it's not only possible, it's incredibly important.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
No, absolutely tooche. Well, look, let's take it over to Natalie. Natalie.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You know what me and.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Natalie met, you know where we met so, you know,
we do a lot of podcasts, a lot of shows,
a lot of teaching, a lot of conferences, a lot
of this. And it was International Women's Day, so you know,
we do a two day summit, right And at the
end of that summit, I'm like, I got to race
off and go to a go to an International Women's
Day summit. And my friends are like, are you in
your mind?
Speaker 8 (16:28):
You just spent two.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Days pouring out. I'm like, I know what that was?
The calling, Like someone called me, I'm what am I
gonna say?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And I got onto this show and it was really different.
It was like open up your heart and literally talk
about your trauma, your therapy, where you came from. Like
it was like get down and dirty. And I didn't
know anyone except one woman, and I was like, oh
my gosh, everyone's getting real deep. And I'm like, okay,
(16:55):
I'm going to bypass my exhaustion and get down there.
And as soon as Natalie came on and she talked,
I was like, you know when you see someone and
you're like, that's it. I got to call her, We
got to hang out. Whatever that turns into. Lucky, Yeah,
she decided to come onto the two sixty two creak
Creak train. But Natalie, why don't we why don't we
pass it over to you? And she is no, she
(17:17):
you know, she's all about the mic. This woman, tell
them about the designation you just got for speaking. You
go girl, you share about.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You all right?
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Hi, everybody, my name is Natalie Solomon and thank you
Jev and Brian for this opportunity.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Like Dev said, we met in a summit.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
I am a public health practitioner by Jay in a
sacred lifestyle wellness strategy by Design at Night. I recently
was selected to do a TED talk in November talking
about securing your oxygen mask. First, I am a survivor
and still living with brain tumor.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Infertility, reproductive health issues.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Almost died a couple of times, and I took that
opportunity to create a sacred space for myself to heal and.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Burnout and just stress.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
And I've really been able to combine my public health
background over two decades in public health, primarily focusing on
women's health and mental health and creating sacred spaces for
women to heal and whatever that may look like for them,
it could be a sacred space in a box it
could be a zen den like I have in my house,
where each of my walls is basically its own vision board.
(18:31):
And the name of my company is Marake Life and Style.
Marak is a Greek word where there's no equivalent for
that it in English, but it basically means pouring yourself
into your work, through your soul, creativity and love, and
really just having a space for myself and other women
to decompress and you know, deal with my brain surgery
(18:54):
situation and my infertility all these other things that I've
had to deal with and keep pushing. I just started
my doctoral program this week and I worked full time
and really just thankful to be here and figuring out
how I can best help women, you know, get past
their burnout, secure their oxygen mask first, and make sure
(19:16):
they're really taking care of themselves and pouring into themselves
as much as they pour into everyone else.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
So I'm just excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Thanks dev all right, Dev, I got to say something.
First of all, Natalie, I'm glad that you're here. Thank
you felt because I have a lot of my friends
who have gone through brain trauma. One of my good friends,
you know, when I met her in o eight. One
of the reasons why I wanted to start helping women,
going back to six eight during the housing bubble market
here in the United States. But she was, you know,
(19:45):
she was a military vet in Afghanistan and Iraq, and
she was a tank and her gun was called the
big Bitch. She was on the fifty caliber. She was
that good, beautiful woman. And then her tank got blown
up by ad ID and one of her those soldiers
was killed. She her brain scrambled around because you know,
the tank turned over. You would have never done she
(20:06):
would have had brain damage. And just strong, strong women.
It's amazing what women can go through where us mere
mortal guys. You know, we can't take the pain that
you guys can go through, you know. So I've always
welcomed things like that. And then Carol I we didn't.
I didn't. I called Carol my show wife because we
talked so much. It's like we might as well be married.
They said, you go to be my show wife. Terry's
(20:28):
my sister, Rachel, what is Rachel? Rachel's I've got what
I called Rachel, and Tash is like, you know, the
little one of all of us. And then we have
little Steel and you know how granddaddy. Yeah, well Rebel. Yeah,
Rebel's a dirty little secret because people don't realize we
have an energineer. But we couldn't do this without Rebel.
(20:49):
We really couldn't. So we always joke about these things.
So I'm I'm really glad that you hear. Those things
are important to me. And I love your crazy looks
because you are not crazy. I know why you do
those things because I can relate to that. You know,
I'm that straight black guy who's never been married, don't
have any kids, no tattoos, I don't wear ear rings,
I don't wear jewey I'm not. I've never been that
(21:10):
flashy guy because my family was. I was the total
opposite of that. I was kind of like that lone wolf.
Leave me alone, let me do my thing, and I'll
make you look good. And so that's why I like
doing things like this where a woman can take over
a movie of use and more. I love when Carol's here.
I love when Howard shows up. Howard's a dressy guy.
You know, I should be ashamed to be a black
(21:30):
guy that I don't dress like Howard. I'm the opposite.
So he gets the credit for that all right, dev
take it away again.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Hey, you know what, I gotta thank you so much
Natalie for sharing and be so transparent. But Howard, I
want to talk to you a little bit because Natalie
was talking about creating these healing spaces and the healing
den and taking care of herself and you are so
immersed in the art world. Can you share with us
just how art can heal us emotionally, like make us
(21:57):
feel better? I mean, you designed in people's home.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
You know that old expression. Money doesn't buy happiness. Just
don't know where to shop.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
It does.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I mean, I have to get out every day on
my day off. I'll stay in the house and then
I'm like, no, let's go shopping, and you go shopping,
and my day's fine because I just love beauty period.
I don't have to buy it, although I want to,
but I have to look at it. I mean, it
just gives me joy and it stems from even as
(22:29):
a child. I have a story I've told Brian before
the reason I'm an interior designer. My father was a
country music artist and he traveled the road a lot,
and while he was gone, my mother hearted an interior
designer to do the house, and when he did, everything
within the house was new. The chair, the TV, the
tables are everything. Dad comes in off the road, sits
(22:51):
in a brand new recliner, goes turns on a brand
new TV set and says nothing, and Mom says, well,
don't you notice anything? He said, he you get your
hair done today. But even as a kid, my mother
had decorated the house I think maybe two or three times,
and then she hired a professional. I was a kid,
and I could tell the difference between my mother's taste,
(23:14):
which wasn't very good, and the professional face, which was excellent.
And I just could see it. I mean, it was
just so obvious to me that that I know what
he did. And the colors that he did my room
in are still my favorite colors and have been all
my life. So anyway, oh look cluz, Brian's got.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
And Terry, Hi, I'm not on the show tonight.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
I'm not on.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
The show tonight because I'm trying to buy a new
house and I'm doing escrow and I have to get
all this stuff in because I got I have to
get all the documents and by the end of the week,
and is the most I did not realize buying a
home was so stressful.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh my god, it worry ladies. She will still interview Thursdays.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
She'll be there, No, I swear to I was like, okay,
this an other thing. So I had to wire money
to This is just a story. It's kind of crazy,
but I had some fraud on my bank accounts. I've
been trying to wire money to escrow it bounce back
three times. So I take today.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Today.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
I had to go to the bank get a cashier's
check so I didn't lose this property.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Because they're like, if you don't give us a chuck today,
you're gonna lose it.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
So anyway, anyway, it's an exciting thing to be buying
a new house, but it's the most stressful thing I've
ever done. So that's what I'm trying to do today
so that I can like close this chapter up and
move into a new chapter. But I'm excited about it.
So that's why myla on tonight. So I gotta go
back and finish all this stuff.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
I gotta do.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
What Yeah, I'm saying, in the same city pretty much,
I'm going to be in I'm gonna be going north
More into I don't want to see the exact area
because of stalkers, but I have as it's an area
where there's a lot of horses, a lot of ranches,
a lot of.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
There's masts down the street. I'm by the four seasons.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That's enough.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Back, Okay. One thing though, is I want to say
I'm really excited tomorrow for the gifting sweet to be
interviewed Thursday.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Well today, see, I don't know what date is. Stress up.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
I'm really really excited to do the red carpet and stuff.
And I just had to take a peek in because
Brian's staying at my house right now and I'm upstairs
running around like this in my mind. But I'm really
really excited for there's event and it's gonna be a blast.
Cat wait to see you, Carol. We're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna have a blast. So anyway, I'm gonna go
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back to it, and I'm gonna go back to doing
all this paperwork I do.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But here you go.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Well, I think that's perfect. We were talking earlier about
you know, it's sometimes this the stretch to significance isn't
always on a surfboard.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's like sounds like she's on her way to significance
and coming up against some bumps.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Perfect, take the credit for that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Thank you, you take the credit.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
So look, let's listen.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Let's here from Sydney. Oh my goodness, Hey up in
the corner there, so share, yeah, share with us. What
do you do? What's going anything that we've talked about
that you want to, you know, add in on.
Speaker 11 (26:19):
I love the word that Natalie brought up that there
wasn't a like a translation, a solid translation for it
in English.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
I think you said it was.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
I feel like as soon as you said that and
explained what it was, I was like, that's like these
women that we surround ourselves with, Like this is like
like I'm just meeting you and Carol tonight, but like
dep and Emily I've obviously like met a few times.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
Before, and like that word perfectly describes them.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
Like it's like and that's like, like I would like
to think that that describes me too.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
It's it's like you your work is your life in
like a good way. It's kind of like it it's
not an obsession.
Speaker 13 (27:02):
But it's like also it's just what you do and
it's what drives you and it's it's like a constant
pursuit of perfection that and perfection isn't really obtainable, so
it's just like a constant state of improvement in getting better.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
So I feel like that's like, yeah, something that resonated
with me tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, but I want to ask you something. What makes
you happy?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
My goodness, what makes me happy? That's really interesting, you know,
because we were having a conversation about joy the other
day and the difference between happiness and joy. You know what,
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark movie. I
don't want to turn you into like the Real Women's
Channel with Hallmark movies. But I think what really gives
me a great sense of joy is when something that
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I've done, or I've taught, or I've imparted upon information
on somebody, they grab a hold of it and you
watch the evolution. Me and Emily were talking about some
women that we know that came into the two sixty
to that are now, you know, doing their book and
speaking on the stage differently and getting their own television channel.
And it's not like everyone has to go and do
those those things, but how they do them, and I
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think it gives me a quiet sense of joy and
happiness because like Sidney was just sharing and I know
that Carol can relate to this too. You know, people
like to be honest with you. I couldn't not do this,
I don't, you know, Like I don't think it's a
dream of passionate desire. I think it was a calling
from the time I was in my twenties. The other
(28:31):
thing that makes me absolutely like jump up and down
for joy is having really good relationships with my two
and my two kids that are really good humans, Like
they're really freaking kind and and they love music. So
I've done my job. So I just really I think
it's I think it gets reflected back. That's what makes
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me happy. A good Irish movie makes me happy. And
whenever I'm at a concert and there's music, like, no
one can touch my joy.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I got to bring something up. What about the chocolates
on your table?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh yeah, when you walk into my house, the whole
array of the candy, the whole candy. Well, you know
what gives me joy about that care. I'm allergic to
sugar and caffeine, so I haven't eaten sugar in thirty years.
But creating that for other people to come in. Yeah,
it's it makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Hey, let me before we get back to the woman.
What did you learn about Howard? Because anybody that listens
to our show around the world, or you know, when
I when I went up to him, I'm like, what's
up with the guy with the hat? You mean Howard? Yeah,
he's really interesting. No matter what dev I'll let you
seek on this. What did you find out about Howard
that you thought was fascinating?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well, you know what, you know what I loved, So
I just talked about music. And first of all, I
think he's not only is he a very creative being,
but when he talks, here's some thing that because we
got to talk for quite a while, it was almost like,
you know, Okay, I hope you find this as a
compliment Howard. But when you go into a really cool
(30:10):
cafe and there's like a poet on the stage and
they're talking poetically and the melody is so cool, like
you keep finding yourself drawing in. Interviewing him and having
him on the show was almost poetic because it wasn't
just storytelling. It just made it just it made you
feel like you wanted to engage with his words and
(30:32):
his story for design and how it makes him feel
and how that's so embedded was captivating, and you didn't
hear a pin drop except him. It was really poet.
I would say it was poetic. I would say he's
a poet.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, all right, Howard, So we can you know, add
poet and poetry to your long list of things because
it is about telling stories because people are fascinating about that.
And I didn't mean yours is gone by quick? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Country music good hurt, get hurt, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Help to me? Well, get synergy, you know, it's synergory
how we all work together to create one thing better.
So life has experiences. I'm older than anybody on the panel,
and you learn from your mistakes and you you evolved
the thing that they tell you. You know, you always say, oh,
(31:27):
I wish I knew that when I was younger. It's true,
you do, and then by the time you do it,
nobody listens to you.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
But it's it's uh.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
But it is a life experience. You you learned what
works and what doesn't work, and what makes you happy
what doesn't make you happy. H You learn to let
go of people that make you unhappy, and you keep
people that make you happy. So, I mean, life is
full of choices. So you've got a choice to whichever
way you want, whoever you want to be, or whoever
(31:58):
you want to have it a friend or not as
a brand.
Speaker 12 (32:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
And as you get older.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
You don't care.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
You know, you don't care what people think about you.
You want to be who you are, who you naturally are,
and accept me the way I am or not.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's fun, you know, that's just plain and simple, you know,
dev I'm fascinated about Sydney. Yeah, she's she's got this utel.
She's hiding something. I can't wait to have someone interview.
There's something about her that I know that I like.
I don't know what. It's what makes you happy? What
(32:34):
makes you happy?
Speaker 12 (32:35):
What makes me happy?
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Hmm?
Speaker 11 (32:39):
Making things look beautiful, I think is something that brings
me joy.
Speaker 12 (32:46):
What else do I like?
Speaker 11 (32:47):
I really like solving problems and I feel like I
get to do that every single day and it's always different,
which is also fun, and that kind of paired with design,
I would say, is what I do for a living.
So it's like I get to make things look pretty
and I get to solve problems every day.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
And it's like it's I'm I have the best job.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
It's funny.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Brian, So Sydney and I we grew we went to
university together and then now we work together.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
And you could call.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Sid and I up and need something in like five
minutes and you would get it. It would be beautiful,
it would be perfect, and we would just be like
we're here, ready to go.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
There you go. So it was like like Gran, it's a.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Very fun dynamic and it's just like so ready to
jump in and like be there and like fully show up,
which is awesome and yeah, definitely great for a friend
and teammates.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, Natalie, let me ask you this what makes you
happy because of what you've gone through? And the reason
why I ask that specific question because people need to
know when you go through an illness, it's not a
crutch and actually motivates you in a different way. You know,
Carol and I talk about these things, and she will
always bring up what she talked about making sure you
put your oxygen mask on first. You know. You know
(34:09):
Carol started clapping when you said that, because she and
I will have all talks about this almost daily.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
Yeah, I would say, you know, when the amount of
times that I've been hospitalized. I was in the hospital
a couple of weeks ago for some other stuff that
happened a couple of years ago that I'm still dealing with, and.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
My doctors were so funny. They were like you.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
I was on the stroke floor and they were like,
you are the most pleasant patient. Like we fight at
the desk to try to get to talk to you
because you come in and you're like, yeah, no, I
can't walk, I may not be able to see. My
blood pressure is off the chain. And but you're like,
did I said? Because you never know when you and
(34:49):
this happened. A lot of this happened during COVID. Life
is so precious, your mortality that you have. It really
brings to bear, like the little things of me not
be ing able. When I woke up for my ten
hour brain surgery, I wasn't allowed to sit up. I
had a laser going to my ear that if I
went pasted it.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
All these alarms would go off.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
I wasn't allowed to put my feet down on the
ground because it would have discombobulated my brain.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Fluid and kill me.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
And like that, And it's COVID, so nobody can come
visit me. So I'm just in the room by myself
with HGTV so, you know, and paint and I paint too,
so you know, you have that time to reflect. And
you know, when I was finally able to get up
and use my walker and running and running laps around
the hospital. You know, one of the ladies, the nurses,
(35:39):
I I you know, I'm a little fashionista, so I
didn't want to wear no hospital gown, so I had
on some cute little outfits and I was walking through
the hospital.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
The nurse said to me, may'am, visitor hours are over.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
And the lad.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
She's a patient.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
Yeah, but I say that because those little things are
being able to get up, to walk, to be able
to write my name, to not have a phasia and
actually articulate. And I'm an analyst by day, you know.
That's I'm an analyst for the government. And I'm like, what
the hell am I going to do if I can't
have a job like this is what I went to
(36:16):
school for, you know, And I really had to pivot
and I went on and became an accredited event designer.
I flew to Florida into the class and did some
high end design became a professional event floors. I was like,
I'm gonna use my left brain in case my right
brain doesn't want to work. And I really had to
look at it as an opportunity to figure out how
(36:36):
do I bring my self joy? And there's other women
that have done gone through this. I you know, living
with endometriosis and chronic pain and day in and day out,
and you show up looking not looking like what you've
been through, and people don't always believe that you really
went through what you went through. But you still have
(36:57):
to keep pressing on and enjoy the little things that
breath that when you wake up, and just you know,
those little things you really have to really take as
a sacred moment and enjoy those little things. And those
things really make me happy because at any moment, you know,
(37:18):
the amount of times that I've been to the hospital
and they're like, did you not know you were septic?
Like you're crashing, You're in ICU.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
I was in ICU and I.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
Was like, I'm so sorry, I'm taking up a COVID bed.
I'm in public health And.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
They were like, ma'am, ma'am, you're sick because I need
you do not worry about other people right now, so
that right there, you know, just being able.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
To pause the power of the pause.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
And really think about how do I show up for
myself and help other women do the same, and that
it's okay just to be and hold space for one
another is huge and that brings me joy, and it
brings and I like making some beautiful two like Sydney,
like that is what gives me joy when I do
my decor when I'm doing different spaces for people. That
(38:05):
gives them that peace, that environmental health, that they can
have their mind be at ease so that they can
get up another day and pour into whatever it is
they want to do. And it's so pivotal that, you know,
I don't think people realize how much your environment, the
colors that you have on your walls, the way you
have certain things placed in your room. I work outside
(38:28):
on my deck every day because it is my happy space.
I have my little day bed, a little wicker day bed,
my plants, and you know, and I can sit outside
and look through my my drapes and just look at
dragonflies and listen to the birds chirp, and you know,
because I'm usually unfortunately I've been in the hospital so
much that to be outside is a joy and it's
(38:50):
a privilege. And I really think being able to impart
that on others to really understand how much of a
privilege and a joy it is to just to get up,
to be able to get out of bed and to
put your feet on the ground, which is something that
I've had to deal with that brings me joy. And
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to help other women see that in what they do
and what they bring to the table and really celebrate
themselves as much as they can. It's something that, you know,
and making stuff pretty.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
I'm a lib. I'm like, ooh, shiny pretty sparkles.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yay, all right, Howard, I'm coming to you in ten seconds.
All right. So here's still levers, because I'm a labor too.
You know, we do things a different way. We're determined levers.
And you know, there's two types of labors. There's lazy
levers and then there's determined leavers. And the determined leavers
are like Barbara Walters, Will Smith, cast some Data Jones,
(39:44):
Michael Douglas, you know, Olivia Newton, John you know, well, well, okay,
part of that list. But the thing about that that's important,
and that's one of the reasons why I said, it's
you know, women are important. You create, thanks you greeted
us and when your birth those things like that. That's
a great thing. And I always tell people when they
(40:05):
get out my nurse, you need to go outside and
appreciate the nature around yourself because that will help you.
And again, I'm glad that you hear on planet Earth
because we need people like you, Dad Howard.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I was gonna ask, Natalie, have you ever bought a
client tears of joy?
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Because I have.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
And when you help a client make their environment inviting
and beautiful and reflect who they are, they're life changing.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I had a client once that lost her husband and
she had three sons, and when I got to her,
she was middle age, and I said, let's make this
room feminine. Let's make your bedroom pink, Let's do the
living room yellow. You've lived with a house with four men.
You were a mother and a wife. Now let's be
a woman, you know. So with that, I did her office,
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all three sons. I did three or four friends of hers.
Later in life, she got married at eighty again and
I got to do the house with them again for
the second time. But your environment plays a great deal
the way you feel from a day to day basis.
It really really does. And I don't think a lot
of people understand that. And I think a lot of
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people will take vacations to escape their home drum life.
I haven't taken a vacation. I love being in my home.
I can't think of any place as going to be
any prettier than where I am.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Now, so I just stay here. I took one vacation
once I called up my effort tour and oh three,
and I just remember I was so burned out of
but showed appreciation and joy because you know, we would
do all of our enemies up the four Seasons in
Beverly Hills. That was basically my home before my home,
(41:51):
and that's where we did everything because of security and everything.
I just remember I was started to interview George Clint
and I'm like, I don't want to interview imagine this.
I don't want to in you George Clooney and Russell
Crowe that was coming up in my schedule. I said,
the hell with this, left this. I'm going to Europe
for twenty two days to visit my friends. And I did,
and it made me appreciate something outside of that, just
(42:13):
getting away because I needed a break because I we
didn't take vacations. Now the world has changed for us
as far as doing interviews because we only had three
three weekends off the year, Mother's Day, Eastern and the
third week of August because everybody was going back to school.
And that's when they used to release horror films. Now
they release horror films during Christmas and they do well.
(42:34):
This past week in The Conjuring, which is supposed to
be the last one, has done one hundred and ninety
eight million dollars globally. It will not be the last
one now one hundred and ninety eight. It is the
top viewing horror film in the business. Now, who would
have known. So when it comes to that, you know,
this is all that's going on. All right, dad, We
got about a couple of minutes left. Let's talk about,
(42:54):
you know, being at the Emmys and all that and
that Emmy. Oh aahead, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
So look at the hotel is buzzing. People are everywhere,
they're arriving, they're landing, there's drinks flowing already. People are
getting ready tonight to go out for dinner. They're doing this,
they're doing that. We got to go find our twenty
two boxes of books and get those out of that room.
There's people doing things and you can feel it. They're tired,
they flew in, they drove in. There's this level of
(43:21):
adrenaline excitement, and everyone is just so looking forward to
meeting other people, like it is such a risk, you know,
like you put a lot of time, a lot of money,
a lot of effort into being here and putting your
best foot forward to meet people like you, Brian, so
that the word of your passion gets out there to
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the world and there is a buzz in the air.
It is there. It's you can taste it. You can
taste what's going on in the hotel right now. By tomorrow,
we're going to be out of our minds. By Thursday,
we're going to be like, well, our crew is double partying,
We're doing the whole thing all day and then we're
hard today.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
So I just want to know will be there and
Terry will be there.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
H yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So then we're going to
an Emmy's party that night, and then the next day
we're all sitting you know what we're doing you would
love it. Brian Carroll, join us. We're going to sit
down downstairs and all of us that have come, we're
going to sit there and we're going to do an
after party marketing meeting. So now that we poured our
heart and soul into everything that we did, let's get
it out to the world and see what we can
(44:24):
do to help. And of course Emily and Sydney are
going to be there because that's their expertise, So I'm
going to pass them the mic and they're going to
share that with everybody. So that's what's going on here.
Who else wants to share before we wrap up?
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (44:37):
You know, if I could jump in, I want to say, Natalie,
I have a combination of three rare diseases that I
don't ever talk about.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
It's not the lain I stay in. I do my
very best.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
To live as already healed, even though I don't experience
those circumstances yet. Circumstances sometimes are very difficult, they're not pretty,
and so I could definitely relate to your story. And
it's so inspiring, so encouraging, and I think it's beautiful
because you know, it gives you an appreciation of life
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that you wouldn't have otherwise. And our spaces are our sanctuary.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
Yes, they are our sacred space.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
So thank you, thank you so much, thank you, and
for each and every one of you, by the ways,
just have been inspired by each and every one of you.
I can't wait to beat you, Emily and pick your
brain about marketing. I'm just doing some new things, Sydney.
I can't wait to hear about the spaces that you design,
(45:50):
and I can't wait to connect again.
Speaker 6 (45:52):
I look forward to it.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
Absolutely all right, Brian, should I be passing it back
to you or we got a few minutes for someone
to perk up?
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Like Emily, I wanted to ask Emily what makes Emily happy?
Speaker 6 (46:03):
Happy? I mean, yeah, what makes me happy?
Speaker 8 (46:09):
Funny enough?
Speaker 7 (46:10):
I love learning new things like every I think I'm
in the right field for it, because marketing changes every
three months and everything we thought we knew is different.
Speaker 6 (46:21):
But yes, absolutely love learning new things. I do love.
Speaker 7 (46:26):
To travel and sort of like really learn new cultures
and meet people around the world. I've found I actually
really did not like history and geography in school, but
I say I argumentatively use.
Speaker 6 (46:42):
It more than I ever could imagined.
Speaker 7 (46:45):
Because I'm constantly looking at the map on where i
can go, and I'm once I get there, I'm like,
how is this country come to be?
Speaker 8 (46:53):
How is the city come to be?
Speaker 7 (46:55):
How is you know? How is this here? And why
is it here? And why does it work? You know,
and and all that stuff. So yeah, I absolutely love
learning new things. Every new adventure I'm I'm just fills
me with joy. So yeah, I mean, and I'm so
excited to have another year here at the Emmys with
(47:15):
this awesome community. And I'm gonna learn a lot about
all of you guys in the next few days here,
so it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Howard, what makes you happy? And give you social media links.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
Howard Wigan's Facebook. And doing my job really makes me happy.
I mean, when I can, like you said, when I
can do a design job and change somebody's life, or
I know that I want them over, I have this
little expression. I'll say, I just helped the customer. Now
they won't buy a toilet paper and listen to me
ask me what color because I want them over, you know.
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And you know, and the biggest joy is when they
come in and I sell them something other than what
they ask for because a lot of times what people
want if you ask the proper questions, it's really not
what they want. It's like you got to find deeper
down what do they truly want and desire that we'll
make them happy? They don't know. You have to find
(48:12):
out that's it. And then just Howard Wiggs, Facebook, Emily,
social media links.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
Start them up, marketing, Come connect, can't wait to see
you guys, Sydney.
Speaker 12 (48:24):
Same for Connecting and for sidcat eleven.
Speaker 5 (48:28):
Also fine Carol at Neurocoach, Carol on id or Carol
register on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And did Carol, did we ask you what makes you happy?
Speaker 11 (48:39):
To no?
Speaker 5 (48:42):
You know, I think everybody like helped fill in the gaps.
I love connecting with people, honestly. I love travel. I
love uh doing things that are artistic and creative, visiting music.
Music's huge art. By the way, shout out to Ocean.
(49:05):
Ocean's streetwear line is so hot.
Speaker 6 (49:09):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:10):
I mean it makes me wish that I could really
rock it for him, you know, forty years ago.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Oh honey, if I can wear it, you can wear it.
Speaker 6 (49:22):
Okay, I mean you're in all right?
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Did social media links?
Speaker 12 (49:26):
Look?
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Everything is on deb Drummond dot com. Just go to
the bottom of the page. You'll find every social link
and a little button that says connect with me. So
connect with me.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
And Natalie you get the last word tonight. Social media
links and how people can reach out to you.
Speaker 9 (49:42):
Sure, so everything Natalie Asolomon dot com at Natalie A.
Speaker 8 (49:47):
Solomon and I'm on LinkedIn as Natalie A. Solomon.
Speaker 9 (49:51):
And just make sure you guys are all securing your
oxygen mask first, take care of yourself, take that time,
take that and really just embrace where you are in
the moment and really appreciate where you're, where you've been,
where you are presently, and where you want to go
forward and enjoy, have fun. Life is too short not
(50:13):
to absolutely all right, Brian, what makes you happy?
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Oh, connecting people the world of drum and Bugle Corps
and reaching my goal of one hundred million views on
it two four seven. That a site that nobody knows about,
that goes opposite YouTube. That's what's gonna make me happy
because no one will, no one will have done that
one opposite a major site, and that makes me happy,
all right. So the whole thing about this, this is
(50:38):
thrown together because I asked Deb, all right, deb, give
me some people. She was always scheduled for this, and
I go, she goes, let me, let me think about it.
Let's put this together. So it was like like, okay,
I've never done a last minute one like this, even
though she was always scheduled for this, and this is
how it turned out. I hope everybody's happy. Thank you
for the people in the audiencestead of chiming in with
the comments. And I always say that I have a
(51:00):
good night tonight, I better day tomorrow. You see someone
went out of smile, please give them one of yours,
because the world needs it. I'm Brian Sebastian, and you
guys are the more part of movie reviews and more.
We'll see you next week.
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