June 24, 2025 • 12 mins
What do 14 soulful speakers say when the spotlight softens and the mic gets personal?
In this special bonus episode, we’re mashing up answers from the “Pivot Pivot” lightning round—a series of rapid-fire questions inspired by Bernard Pivot and Inside the Actors Studio. From favorite words to how they hope to be remembered, this mash-up offers a glimpse into the hearts behind the voices.
As I edited, I was struck all over again by just how extraordinary these people are—wisdom, heart, soul, purpose, and presence, all wrapped in breathtaking humanity.
Take a listen. Let their answers stir your own reflections.
And maybe—just maybe—you’ll find yourself smiling (or tearing up) along the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And it's time to slide into our Pivo Pivot, pivo,
pivot, pivo, pivot.
I loved the TV show Inside theActor's Studio when I was a
child and the host, james Lipton, asked a series of questions
that was inspired by a series ofquestions from someone else
(00:21):
named Bernard Pivo.
So I'm now.
You know we're paying itforward with this.
All right, it is time now forour Pivot Pivot, pivot, pivot,
pivot, pivot.
So beautiful.
Oh, tears and the past coupleof times I've got to this
lightning round of questions.
I'm starting to call it thePivot Pivot because a few times
(00:44):
it's been like we're in thisincredibly deep thing, you're
sharing this heartfelt and I'mlike over here, crying, going.
Okay, it's time for the PIVOpivot.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I love it All right Hard pivot.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Let's go, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's time for what I am calling the Pivo Pivot, pivo,
pivot, pivo Pivot.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Pivo Pivot.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, okay, okay, woo hoo, woo hoo.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Woo hoo, I think.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I need to take a sip for this?
Do I need to stretch for this?
You can stretch.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Let's take a little stretch Really.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm like, okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
What is your favorite word?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Life Flow Delight.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Mama Mellifluous Succulents.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Ken Fascinating, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Soup.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's in French Exquis .
It means in French Exquis itmeans exquisite, Mmm, yummy.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
What is my favorite word?
Let's do that.
Who was the actor who did it?
He was like I'm just going toget here.
And just a favorite wordAdventure.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Oh, fuck, fuck, Fuck would be my favorite word.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's so personal.
What would be my favorite?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
word.
It's so personal.
What is your least favoriteword?
Hate, hate.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hate.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Confusion Should.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Moist Can't.
Can't this spreadsheet.
Stupid Racism.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Racism.
Can't this spreadsheet?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Racism.
What turns you on creatively?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
spiritually or emotionally, Late night chats
with my husband.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Adventure Laughter Womb work, especially dancing,
dancing in nature.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Being in nature, being in nature.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, I do have two answers for this, and it was
speed round.
One is sitting with cacao,which is chocolate, and two,
this visual that someone justgave me recently for energy flow
, so incoming energy coming upthrough your root chakra and
through the rest of your body.
There is such a turn on natureto the incoming energy coming up
(03:09):
and flowing through you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I love that the incoming energy.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
A sense of connection to purpose.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Seeing other people exhibit their talents Two things
.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Seeing other people exhibit their talents Two things
.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Challenge and an expansion of an idea that I
originally had from someone else.
Details and honesty.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Joy Writing, definitely writing.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Love.
What turns you off?
Ignorance, closed-mindedness.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Rigidity, insecurity, settling.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Too long in a city.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Feeling restricted, feeling that I'm not in a state
of empowerment.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Confusion Mundane, yeah, mundane, we'll leave it at
that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Administrative tasks.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Well for sure, inauthenticity.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Dishonesty.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What's your favorite cuss word?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
oh, I'm old school on this one.
I don't think you can go pastthe mouth feel and the
versatility of fuck, oh fuckfuck fuck fuck, fuck man, fuck,
fuck.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I feel like a little kid.
Fuck man, fuck, fuck.
I feel like a little kid.
In that way right.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh my God, I'm saying fuck on a podcast.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh, I'm laughing because my husband always is
trying to get me to kiss and I'mterrible when I say it.
There's no like infinite Shootypoops, cheese and crackers or
biscuits, shit, shit.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Bullshit, fuck, fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck
it's.
It's so versatile, it, it, it.
It can be all kinds ofdifferent.
Fuck, it's so versatile, it canbe all kinds of different.
Love it, use it all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What sound or noise do you love?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I love, honestly, I love the sound of silence-ish
it's not quite silence, but likebeing out on the porch and just
listening to the wind and thequiet and the rain.
Oh my god, I love the rain.
And the last but not least, Ilove the sound of a really hot
(05:50):
mic, when, when somebody'splaying like a really intimate
acoustic, the singer-songwriter,that sense of that they're
leaning in and just gettingreally intimate and real.
I love that feel.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh, my favorite sound in the world is the sound of
the breeze going through thetree leaves that leaf clapping
sound.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I love that sound.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The wind through a forest of bamboo.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Birds yeah, hummingbird and just most birds.
I love their sound.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right now, I really love Alchemy crystal sound bowls
and gongs.
G-o-n-g-s gongs my dog sighing.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I love that sound so much.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I kind of love when my dog sneezes.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Baby laughs, boom, shakalaka.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I love when I'm in bed and there's rain on the tin
roof and there's nowhere that Ihave to be and nothing that I
have to do, and it just melts me.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I was going to do like my sound I make to myself,
like ah.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I love when somebody I love says my name.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Candice, see, it's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
My wife's laugh.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
This is so cheesy, my husband's singing so cheesy.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It's better that that's not the answer to my next
question.
What sound or noise do you hate?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
My microwave beep.
I hate my freaking microwavebeep.
It's the worst beep.
It's so hard.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
The sound of fingernails on the chalkboard or
styrofoam rubbing together Leafblowers.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh, together Leaf blowers.
Oh, fuck leaf blowers.
And drones Lawnmowers.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Really squeaky dog barking, honking of horns, like
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
High pitch, super high pitch noise.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Screeching.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Oh, I have tinnitus.
I do not like that at all.
It's constantly ringing in myears.
I would say that's, that's upthere this is easy.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Anything repetitive, anything that just goes over,
and including my childrensinging, drives me insane the
sound I hate most is there's aparticular tone in people's
voices when they repeat withconviction the lies they have
(08:50):
bought and sold themselves.
It's like nails on a chalkboardto me.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
People screaming um in in ways that are very not
present.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What profession other than yours would be fun to try?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Anthropologist.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Professional wrestling.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Trapeze artist.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Musician.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Talk show host A marine biologist.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Psychology.
I think a diver would be fun.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I've always wanted to work at a donut shop.
I'd love to be a voice actressfor erotic stories.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Roller skating derby, what profession would you not
like to do?
Anything whose primary purposeis just to make money, and
immediately.
Anything that's in a cubicle,any kind of like computer desk
job all day, every day.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Sitting at a computer all day and hearing data.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I would not like to work at the sewer system, having
to be with our excrements.
Bus driver.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Lawyer.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I would not like to be a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Accountant.
Anything with sports.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Telemarketing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And last one what do you hope people say about you on
your 100th birthday?
You're so young at heart.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Thank you for your wisdom.
Well gosh, I hope I get to see100.
That's a really interestingquestion.
Laurie, that's you, that's notthe Bernard Pivot.
That was a good one, I thinkwhat I'd like to have people say
is is is thank you for seeingme.
And and the other thing thatcame came up just then was that
was more funny I went myhundredth birthday.
I like and be like man.
You sang the shit out of thatsong just then.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
She put me in touch with my true nature.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh gosh that I always saw them and loved them for
exactly who they were.
She was so fun, full of joy,and she brought a smile to my
face.
She's still really cool.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
She loved and she lived with heart and all things
sparkle.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
She made a difference in my life.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Thank, you for doing life together.
She saw me, she listened, shemade me or helped me see myself
more fully.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
She was just a blast to be around.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
I hope they say that I was a person that lived in his
truth and, as a result,impacted everyone that he met.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
He asks the right questions that shifted thought
patterns, that created wellnessin humanity.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I love them.
That's all.
And or?
That motherfucker was a badassbitch.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Thank you so much.
And it's time to slide into our Pivo Pivot, pivo,
pivot, pivo, pivot.
I loved the TV show Inside theActor's Studio when I was a
child and the host, james Lipton, asked a series of questions
that was inspired by a series ofquestions from someone else
(00:21):
named Bernard Pivo.
So I'm now.
You know we're paying itforward with this.
All right, it is time now forour Pivot Pivot, pivot, pivot,
pivot, pivot.
So beautiful.
Oh, tears and the past coupleof times I've got to this
lightning round of questions.
I'm starting to call it thePivot Pivot because a few times
(00:44):
it's been like we're in thisincredibly deep thing, you're
sharing this heartfelt and I'mlike over here, crying, going.
Okay, it's time for the PIVOpivot.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I love it All right Hard pivot.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Let's go, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's time for what I am calling the Pivo Pivot, pivo,
pivot, pivo Pivot.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Pivo Pivot.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Okay, okay, okay, woo hoo, woo hoo.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Woo hoo, I think.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I need to take a sip for this?
Do I need to stretch for this?
You can stretch.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Let's take a little stretch Really.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm like, okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
What is your favorite word?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Life Flow Delight.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Mama Mellifluous Succulents.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Ken Fascinating, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Soup.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's in French Exquis .
It means in French Exquis itmeans exquisite, Mmm, yummy.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
What is my favorite word?
Let's do that.
Who was the actor who did it?
He was like I'm just going toget here.
And just a favorite wordAdventure.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Oh, fuck, fuck, Fuck would be my favorite word.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's so personal.
What would be my favorite?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
word.
It's so personal.
What is your least favoriteword?
Hate, hate.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hate.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Confusion Should.
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Moist Can't.
Can't this spreadsheet.
Stupid Racism.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Racism.
Can't this spreadsheet?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Racism.
What turns you on creatively?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
spiritually or emotionally, Late night chats
with my husband.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Adventure Laughter Womb work, especially dancing,
dancing in nature.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Being in nature, being in nature.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, I do have two answers for this, and it was
speed round.
One is sitting with cacao,which is chocolate, and two,
this visual that someone justgave me recently for energy flow
, so incoming energy coming upthrough your root chakra and
through the rest of your body.
There is such a turn on natureto the incoming energy coming up
(03:09):
and flowing through you.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I love that the incoming energy.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
A sense of connection to purpose.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Seeing other people exhibit their talents Two things
.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Seeing other people exhibit their talents Two things
.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Challenge and an expansion of an idea that I
originally had from someone else.
Details and honesty.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Joy Writing, definitely writing.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Love.
What turns you off?
Ignorance, closed-mindedness.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Rigidity, insecurity, settling.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Too long in a city.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Feeling restricted, feeling that I'm not in a state
of empowerment.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Confusion Mundane, yeah, mundane, we'll leave it at
that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Administrative tasks.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Well for sure, inauthenticity.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Dishonesty.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
What's your favorite cuss word?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
oh, I'm old school on this one.
I don't think you can go pastthe mouth feel and the
versatility of fuck, oh fuckfuck fuck fuck, fuck man, fuck,
fuck.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I feel like a little kid.
Fuck man, fuck, fuck.
I feel like a little kid.
In that way right.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh my God, I'm saying fuck on a podcast.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh, I'm laughing because my husband always is
trying to get me to kiss and I'mterrible when I say it.
There's no like infinite Shootypoops, cheese and crackers or
biscuits, shit, shit.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Bullshit, fuck, fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck
it's.
It's so versatile, it, it, it.
It can be all kinds ofdifferent.
Fuck, it's so versatile, it canbe all kinds of different.
Love it, use it all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What sound or noise do you love?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I love, honestly, I love the sound of silence-ish
it's not quite silence, but likebeing out on the porch and just
listening to the wind and thequiet and the rain.
Oh my god, I love the rain.
And the last but not least, Ilove the sound of a really hot
(05:50):
mic, when, when somebody'splaying like a really intimate
acoustic, the singer-songwriter,that sense of that they're
leaning in and just gettingreally intimate and real.
I love that feel.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh, my favorite sound in the world is the sound of
the breeze going through thetree leaves that leaf clapping
sound.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I love that sound.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The wind through a forest of bamboo.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Birds yeah, hummingbird and just most birds.
I love their sound.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right now, I really love Alchemy crystal sound bowls
and gongs.
G-o-n-g-s gongs my dog sighing.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I love that sound so much.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I kind of love when my dog sneezes.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Baby laughs, boom, shakalaka.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I love when I'm in bed and there's rain on the tin
roof and there's nowhere that Ihave to be and nothing that I
have to do, and it just melts me.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I was going to do like my sound I make to myself,
like ah.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I love when somebody I love says my name.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Candice, see, it's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
My wife's laugh.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
This is so cheesy, my husband's singing so cheesy.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It's better that that's not the answer to my next
question.
What sound or noise do you hate?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
My microwave beep.
I hate my freaking microwavebeep.
It's the worst beep.
It's so hard.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
The sound of fingernails on the chalkboard or
styrofoam rubbing together Leafblowers.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh, together Leaf blowers.
Oh, fuck leaf blowers.
And drones Lawnmowers.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Really squeaky dog barking, honking of horns, like
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
High pitch, super high pitch noise.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Screeching.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Oh, I have tinnitus.
I do not like that at all.
It's constantly ringing in myears.
I would say that's, that's upthere this is easy.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Anything repetitive, anything that just goes over,
and including my childrensinging, drives me insane the
sound I hate most is there's aparticular tone in people's
voices when they repeat withconviction the lies they have
(08:50):
bought and sold themselves.
It's like nails on a chalkboardto me.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
People screaming um in in ways that are very not
present.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What profession other than yours would be fun to try?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Anthropologist.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Professional wrestling.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Trapeze artist.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Musician.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Talk show host A marine biologist.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Psychology.
I think a diver would be fun.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I've always wanted to work at a donut shop.
I'd love to be a voice actressfor erotic stories.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Roller skating derby, what profession would you not
like to do?
Anything whose primary purposeis just to make money, and
immediately.
Anything that's in a cubicle,any kind of like computer desk
job all day, every day.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Sitting at a computer all day and hearing data.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I would not like to work at the sewer system, having
to be with our excrements.
Bus driver.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Lawyer.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I would not like to be a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Accountant.
Anything with sports.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Telemarketing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And last one what do you hope people say about you on
your 100th birthday?
You're so young at heart.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Thank you for your wisdom.
Well gosh, I hope I get to see100.
That's a really interestingquestion.
Laurie, that's you, that's notthe Bernard Pivot.
That was a good one, I thinkwhat I'd like to have people say
is is is thank you for seeingme.
And and the other thing thatcame came up just then was that
was more funny I went myhundredth birthday.
I like and be like man.
You sang the shit out of thatsong just then.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
She put me in touch with my true nature.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh gosh that I always saw them and loved them for
exactly who they were.
She was so fun, full of joy,and she brought a smile to my
face.
She's still really cool.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
She loved and she lived with heart and all things
sparkle.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
She made a difference in my life.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Thank, you for doing life together.
She saw me, she listened, shemade me or helped me see myself
more fully.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
She was just a blast to be around.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
I hope they say that I was a person that lived in his
truth and, as a result,impacted everyone that he met.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
He asks the right questions that shifted thought
patterns, that created wellnessin humanity.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I love them.
That's all.
And or?
That motherfucker was a badassbitch.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Thank you so much.
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