July 1, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app. Got
anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Today, second of July is exactly the midpoint of this year.
If we're on a seesaw perfectly balanced, one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Eighty third day of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wow, this is amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We are in the midpoint of this year twenty twenty five.
Last week on Wednesday we were talking about I see
Wednesday as the kind of like it saw It's halftime.
Look back at the first half. You have, you let
a few in, you're winning or losing. You tie up
the defense, come on the attack. Okay, part of the
(01:06):
bus Just god, it's been a good week, so fucking now,
free will for the rest of this week. I've done
the task I want to do. I've actually ticked off
more than one thing on my to do list. So
actually today I urge everyone, and it might not be
you might be on your way to work right now,
spend a little bit of time. Right I know you
lead busy lives, but I think you'll get something out
of this. I started to do it last night, just
for ten minutes. I actually found it really good, and
(01:27):
I'm just talking to my wife and kids now over
in the thoxt couple of days, we're all going to
do it and talk about how our year has gone
so far. Love that, and then how we feel about
the next half of the year, because you still got
time to change things and stuff like that. You know
new intentions and you might want to see some new
things anyway. So I was thinking last night, like my
year so far twenty twenty five, I think our lives
(01:47):
are a lot light seasons, and sometimes when you think
about it, you can probably tell me what's season in
right now. And I don't mean the season and where
we are right now winter. I mean actually for you
in your life right now, you could be in a summer.
You could be in a spring, you could be in autumorrow.
I actually could be a winter in your life. I
would say for a lot of this year, it's been
a winter. It's been still I would say the overall
(02:07):
theme for me and my wife has been letting go. Yeah,
youngest daughter left home in February, and then even Jack
Post leaving the show as well. That there's all this departure,
letting go actually of old stories, old identities, and then
a really big one. I've known it's spoken about the
show yet because it wasn't confirmed. To the end of
last week, we sold our family home. Much we're sold.
(02:28):
That is huge and it's very strange, Patsy, because normally
when you sell a house, you have someone that you're
excited about going to. Yeah, we haven't gotten you're homeless.
Can you guys start pulling me out and share me,
you know, school, that pet and you'd have the guinea
pig for a bit, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This week, Well, actually, Will and I am looking for
a place maybe we can swap.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Okay, this strange thing where like we don't know where
we're going.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We've got a.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Long settlement now, so we've got a good couple of
months until January, so we've got time. We think we're
going to rent for a year and just work out
what we want to do next, maybe a new area
and stuff like that. But that family home, it's been
a great home for me. In the kids, they've literally
grown through their time here and they entered pre teens
and now one of them as eighteen, Ruby's about to
(03:21):
turn twenty one. She was turning thirteen fourteen when we
moved into that home. So we and then we found
out that people buying it, you know, and then we
do what are the odds? They have got two kids
and they came around last week they wanted to see
the house. We left for half an hour for the
kids to pick out new bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Ah, the same age.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, as Ruby and Loewe's work when they moved into
the house.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was meant to be. I remember them doing that. There's
this house that you've just remember. They were fighting over
who what room was? What isn't that a beautiful?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That is past I saw it like that missus O'Connell
Burston's tiss.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's a lot. It's a lot, I will say.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, it's been a letting go, a kind of what
DoD snakes do? Snakes do?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But now do you know what I feel? Well, this
tremendous newness coming in, Yes, you do. When Alex coming
into the show. Alex is joining us in a couple
of weeks time, when we're back from our break work.
We're here for another couple of days and we've got
a two week break. Alex joined the show represents that
we will find a new home. Don't anyone worrying about us?
I say, paying him? I thought the show, the station,
(04:26):
get him over and now he's on the streets and
wandering around at this hobo. We all find someone need
to live. But I feel as tremendous new and newness
now and it's it's a spring.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So second half of this year, I feel like a
new Harve's coming in. For the last two years, I've
been struggling with I couldn't get I couldn't get something
right with a new book I really desperately want to write.
I kept thinking it was something starting, it, starting, it stopping.
Just in the last five days, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's click, I've got the golden thread. Now I've got it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And also I know what my new coaching course IM
going to launch in August is going to be as well.
Tired in with what the new book is going to
be about. I'm so excited. That's guys for hearing that.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So where are you? What's This has been a big
year for you, mate.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You have stepped in and really dramatic circumstances and been
tremendous for me. Patsy and this team. You've done an
amazing job, mate, Well done.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Thanks man, I appreciate that. Yeah, I guess it feels
like a I guess maybe more of a summer for me,
like a completely new season stepping into you know, Jack's
old chair has been great, But for me, I guess
even the bigger thing for me and my family has
been Just in April, we went to South Korea and
just for a bit of context, and my elder sister,
Kimberly she's adopted from South Korea. My middle sister, Alex,
(05:44):
she's IVF baby, and I was very much an accident.
My parents obviously didn't think they could have kids, and
that's when Kimber came along first, you know, in nineteen
eighty six, and Mum and dad had sort of given
up on having kids and they were about to go
to Europe when they got a call from the adoption
agency saying, hey, we've actually got a daughter for you.
(06:07):
And the woman came over and she showed mom the
book of a photo of Kimber and Mom and dad
always say they said, we knew straightaway that this was
our daughter, and this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Was fucking a beautiful story.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, they just looked into her eyes and there and
they just knew. And for us, Kimber being adopted was
never a huge deal. It was just more of an
afterthought really, like a fun little fact. Yeah, and now
forty years on, it was Kimber's fortieth birthday and she
sort of had this desire then to go over to
South Korea and find and Iu guest look start looking
(06:40):
for her birth mum, which was a massive thing for
our family.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And how are you mum and dad with that? Because
obviously they are her mom and dad. But this obviously
for people to go through that, there must be some
part of the story that they really feel like they
want to try and find out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Definitely, it's hard to say. For Mum and Dad had
been incredible throughout the process.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I saw them.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And also what Rio was talking about was on the
project about two weeks ago, and it's about a twelve
minute piece. They doing it because that your other sister
is a comedian. Yeah, and she did the You're all
in it, And I tell you what the project did, blessed.
The project no longer with us now, but they did
an amazing job with your family in that story. Yeah,
they was, I mean, I was in tears watching it.
It was your mum and dad. What humanity and joy.
(07:26):
It just shines through your whole family. Actually, but it
must have been hard for them as well.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think so. I think on some level it was
really difficult. But Mum has really been the driving force.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I saw, just like then Rio, because I watched it twice,
I've hand it so moving. Your mama constantly writing and
making efforts to try and find out more about Kimberly's
parents on their behalf without Kimberle even knowing.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes, So a couple of things happened. One when kimber
went to the adoption agency and asked, you know, I'd
like to find out more. They're actually closing down in May.
They've closed down now and so they said, we're not
taking any more appointments. So Mum was hounding them and
hounding them and call him. And actually mum's the most
determined woman in the world, and she actually kind of
(08:10):
implied to the adopted agency that Mum was dying. And
she's been you don't mess with the mum savings to
go to Korea for it. So she, I mean, she's
very well versed in the guilt trip is alicon Lee.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, it's a power move. Use it, mamaly.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So she gives she's.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Using her powers for the greater good.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
She is. So we all went over there as a fad.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
She's dying.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, she said, I'm good. I'm really getting on. I
don't know how much time I've got work awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I mean, none of us really do true technically, she's right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, So we all went over with Kimber. Yeah in April,
the whole family, even my sister's kids, my nephews, we
all went over. There were in this old gray municipal
municipal building and yeah, this woman, this little Korean lady,
comes over and she brings this folder, this like big
binded folder.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's the story of view of what we know about you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's still it's one of those really surreal outer body
experiences where you know, she I can still see her
plunking it down on the table in front of us,
and just the whole world fades away and you're just
looking at this thing that and it's so administrative and
like unremarkable, but it holds this whole other life to
(09:24):
your sister, you've known your whole life, and it's just
sitting there in front of you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I want you. Did you leave her in the room?
Does she want some time with it alone?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, you're actually not allowed to. They have to supervise
every file. We're not allowed to take them back. They
just have to show us. We can take photos. But
we all just sat there and she took us through it.
And the most, you know, we learn a lot about
Kimber's mum and that was amazing. But for me, the
most incredible part was and Mum had totally forgotten she'd
done this. She'd had every single year written handwritten letters
(09:55):
to Kimber's birth mum and included all Kimber's school report
cards and photos and every year.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So she updating just in case she ever wants to
make contact with her.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, because Mom said, we didn't know, what.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
A great generous, selfish thing to do.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, And Mom says, you know, if she was in
Kimber's birth mum's position, she would she would want to know.
She can't imagine how difficult it would have been for her,
and she would have wanted to know as much as
she can. And we didn't know she'd done that, and
Mum had forgotten as well. And so when she pulled
this out. I mean that destroyed me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That was this is like a scene from a movie.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, it was, it was, it was I can't even
really put into words because you've just got, you know,
this sadness for this poor woman who is to give
it up. But also it is so grateful because if
that didn't happen, kimber wouldn't have been in our lives. And
then mum writing these beautiful letters and sadly the mum
has never made contact with the adoption agency, so they've.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Just but there's so much trauma and sadness on the
other side of what was what happened as well.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Absolutely, yeah, and that's and that's all bundled up, and
I'm still processing, and I think we all are as
a family.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And how's Kimberley now?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
She is, you know, I'm so, I'm so. I'm more
proud of kim than anyone I know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
He's doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
She's actually changed careers in the past couple of years.
And she's an adoption counselor and yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
She's so she's helping other people like her.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, she's helping other people like her, and she's helping herself.
And because there's not what she doing. She was in
pr and then.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
To talk about pivots a lot, that's her soul pivot,
pivot and all that pain that she must have felt
on some level despite a very very you know, loving family,
there's still some part of her child but that felt rejected.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
One hundred and you can never no matter, you know,
we had an idealic you know, story childhood. You still
you never you know, you've been abandoned.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
She's using that wound to be actually a gift to
other people. Yes, yeah, you talk about being of service.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Your sister's living. How inspirational.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, she really is. She is, she's account Yeah, she's Yes,
specializes in adoption because a lot of especially adopted adults,
have a lot of stuff and they're still working through.
So yeah, she's done a lot of work on herselves.
Now she's helping a lot of other people work on themselves.
And yeah, I couldn't, I truly couldn't be more proper.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It must be so proud.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, we're proud of you mate as well, you too
tell that story and well done for this year as well.
All right, we're gonna take a break, so listen, I'm
telling you now take some time today, right, don't rush
into it. We're carrying on doing this tomorrow and Friday.
It is a great thing to do to think about.
Today is July the second you're at the midpoint of
this year. How has it been so far? Email me
(12:46):
Christian at christiano'connell dot com dot au will share if
you want let me know whether you want to keep
it just privately, you just want to share it with me,
or you're happen to me sharing them on the show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I wouldn't want to upset anybody.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But email me Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot
au World.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Am I The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app. Got
anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Today, second of July is exactly the midpoint of this year.
If we're on a seesaw perfectly balanced, one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Eighty third day of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wow, this is amazing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We are in the midpoint of this year twenty twenty five.
Last week on Wednesday we were talking about I see
Wednesday as the kind of like it saw It's halftime.
Look back at the first half. You have, you let
a few in, you're winning or losing. You tie up
the defense, come on the attack. Okay, part of the
(01:06):
bus Just god, it's been a good week, so fucking now,
free will for the rest of this week. I've done
the task I want to do. I've actually ticked off
more than one thing on my to do list. So
actually today I urge everyone, and it might not be
you might be on your way to work right now,
spend a little bit of time. Right I know you
lead busy lives, but I think you'll get something out
of this. I started to do it last night, just
for ten minutes. I actually found it really good, and
(01:27):
I'm just talking to my wife and kids now over
in the thoxt couple of days, we're all going to
do it and talk about how our year has gone
so far. Love that, and then how we feel about
the next half of the year, because you still got
time to change things and stuff like that. You know
new intentions and you might want to see some new
things anyway. So I was thinking last night, like my
year so far twenty twenty five, I think our lives
(01:47):
are a lot light seasons, and sometimes when you think
about it, you can probably tell me what's season in
right now. And I don't mean the season and where
we are right now winter. I mean actually for you
in your life right now, you could be in a summer.
You could be in a spring, you could be in autumorrow.
I actually could be a winter in your life. I
would say for a lot of this year, it's been
a winter. It's been still I would say the overall
(02:07):
theme for me and my wife has been letting go. Yeah,
youngest daughter left home in February, and then even Jack
Post leaving the show as well. That there's all this departure,
letting go actually of old stories, old identities, and then
a really big one. I've known it's spoken about the
show yet because it wasn't confirmed. To the end of
last week, we sold our family home. Much we're sold.
(02:28):
That is huge and it's very strange, Patsy, because normally
when you sell a house, you have someone that you're
excited about going to. Yeah, we haven't gotten you're homeless.
Can you guys start pulling me out and share me,
you know, school, that pet and you'd have the guinea
pig for a bit, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This week, Well, actually, Will and I am looking for
a place maybe we can swap.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Okay, this strange thing where like we don't know where
we're going.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We've got a.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Long settlement now, so we've got a good couple of
months until January, so we've got time. We think we're
going to rent for a year and just work out
what we want to do next, maybe a new area
and stuff like that. But that family home, it's been
a great home for me. In the kids, they've literally
grown through their time here and they entered pre teens
and now one of them as eighteen, Ruby's about to
(03:21):
turn twenty one. She was turning thirteen fourteen when we
moved into that home. So we and then we found
out that people buying it, you know, and then we
do what are the odds? They have got two kids
and they came around last week they wanted to see
the house. We left for half an hour for the
kids to pick out new bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Ah, the same age.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, as Ruby and Loewe's work when they moved into
the house.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Was meant to be. I remember them doing that. There's
this house that you've just remember. They were fighting over
who what room was? What isn't that a beautiful?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That is past I saw it like that missus O'Connell
Burston's tiss.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's a lot. It's a lot, I will say.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, it's been a letting go, a kind of what
DoD snakes do? Snakes do?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But now do you know what I feel? Well, this
tremendous newness coming in, Yes, you do. When Alex coming
into the show. Alex is joining us in a couple
of weeks time, when we're back from our break work.
We're here for another couple of days and we've got
a two week break. Alex joined the show represents that
we will find a new home. Don't anyone worrying about us?
I say, paying him? I thought the show, the station,
(04:26):
get him over and now he's on the streets and
wandering around at this hobo. We all find someone need
to live. But I feel as tremendous new and newness
now and it's it's a spring.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So second half of this year, I feel like a
new Harve's coming in. For the last two years, I've
been struggling with I couldn't get I couldn't get something
right with a new book I really desperately want to write.
I kept thinking it was something starting, it, starting, it stopping.
Just in the last five days, I've got it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's click, I've got the golden thread. Now I've got it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And also I know what my new coaching course IM
going to launch in August is going to be as well.
Tired in with what the new book is going to
be about. I'm so excited. That's guys for hearing that.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So where are you? What's This has been a big
year for you, mate.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You have stepped in and really dramatic circumstances and been
tremendous for me. Patsy and this team. You've done an
amazing job, mate, Well done.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Thanks man, I appreciate that. Yeah, I guess it feels
like a I guess maybe more of a summer for me,
like a completely new season stepping into you know, Jack's
old chair has been great, But for me, I guess
even the bigger thing for me and my family has
been Just in April, we went to South Korea and
just for a bit of context, and my elder sister,
Kimberly she's adopted from South Korea. My middle sister, Alex,
(05:44):
she's IVF baby, and I was very much an accident.
My parents obviously didn't think they could have kids, and
that's when Kimber came along first, you know, in nineteen
eighty six, and Mum and dad had sort of given
up on having kids and they were about to go
to Europe when they got a call from the adoption
agency saying, hey, we've actually got a daughter for you.
(06:07):
And the woman came over and she showed mom the
book of a photo of Kimber and Mom and dad
always say they said, we knew straightaway that this was
our daughter, and this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Was fucking a beautiful story.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, they just looked into her eyes and there and
they just knew. And for us, Kimber being adopted was
never a huge deal. It was just more of an
afterthought really, like a fun little fact. Yeah, and now
forty years on, it was Kimber's fortieth birthday and she
sort of had this desire then to go over to
South Korea and find and Iu guest look start looking
(06:40):
for her birth mum, which was a massive thing for
our family.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And how are you mum and dad with that? Because
obviously they are her mom and dad. But this obviously
for people to go through that, there must be some
part of the story that they really feel like they
want to try and find out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Definitely, it's hard to say. For Mum and Dad had
been incredible throughout the process.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I saw them.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And also what Rio was talking about was on the
project about two weeks ago, and it's about a twelve
minute piece. They doing it because that your other sister
is a comedian. Yeah, and she did the You're all
in it, And I tell you what the project did, blessed.
The project no longer with us now, but they did
an amazing job with your family in that story. Yeah,
they was, I mean, I was in tears watching it.
It was your mum and dad. What humanity and joy.
(07:26):
It just shines through your whole family. Actually, but it
must have been hard for them as well.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I think so. I think on some level it was
really difficult. But Mum has really been the driving force.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I saw, just like then Rio, because I watched it twice,
I've hand it so moving. Your mama constantly writing and
making efforts to try and find out more about Kimberly's
parents on their behalf without Kimberle even knowing.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes, So a couple of things happened. One when kimber
went to the adoption agency and asked, you know, I'd
like to find out more. They're actually closing down in May.
They've closed down now and so they said, we're not
taking any more appointments. So Mum was hounding them and
hounding them and call him. And actually mum's the most
determined woman in the world, and she actually kind of
(08:10):
implied to the adopted agency that Mum was dying. And
she's been you don't mess with the mum savings to
go to Korea for it. So she, I mean, she's
very well versed in the guilt trip is alicon Lee.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, it's a power move. Use it, mamaly.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So she gives she's.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Using her powers for the greater good.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
She is. So we all went over there as a fad.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
She's dying.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, she said, I'm good. I'm really getting on. I
don't know how much time I've got work awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I mean, none of us really do true technically, she's right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, So we all went over with Kimber. Yeah in April,
the whole family, even my sister's kids, my nephews, we
all went over. There were in this old gray municipal
municipal building and yeah, this woman, this little Korean lady,
comes over and she brings this folder, this like big
binded folder.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's the story of view of what we know about you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's still it's one of those really surreal outer body
experiences where you know, she I can still see her
plunking it down on the table in front of us,
and just the whole world fades away and you're just
looking at this thing that and it's so administrative and
like unremarkable, but it holds this whole other life to
(09:24):
your sister, you've known your whole life, and it's just
sitting there in front of you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I want you. Did you leave her in the room?
Does she want some time with it alone?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No, you're actually not allowed to. They have to supervise
every file. We're not allowed to take them back. They
just have to show us. We can take photos. But
we all just sat there and she took us through it.
And the most, you know, we learn a lot about
Kimber's mum and that was amazing. But for me, the
most incredible part was and Mum had totally forgotten she'd
done this. She'd had every single year written handwritten letters
(09:55):
to Kimber's birth mum and included all Kimber's school report
cards and photos and every year.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So she updating just in case she ever wants to
make contact with her.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, because Mom said, we didn't know, what.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
A great generous, selfish thing to do.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, And Mom says, you know, if she was in
Kimber's birth mum's position, she would she would want to know.
She can't imagine how difficult it would have been for her,
and she would have wanted to know as much as
she can. And we didn't know she'd done that, and
Mum had forgotten as well. And so when she pulled
this out. I mean that destroyed me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That was this is like a scene from a movie.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, it was, it was, it was I can't even
really put into words because you've just got, you know,
this sadness for this poor woman who is to give
it up. But also it is so grateful because if
that didn't happen, kimber wouldn't have been in our lives. And
then mum writing these beautiful letters and sadly the mum
has never made contact with the adoption agency, so they've.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Just but there's so much trauma and sadness on the
other side of what was what happened as well.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Absolutely, yeah, and that's and that's all bundled up, and
I'm still processing, and I think we all are as
a family.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And how's Kimberley now?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
She is, you know, I'm so, I'm so. I'm more
proud of kim than anyone I know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
He's doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
She's actually changed careers in the past couple of years.
And she's an adoption counselor and yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
She's so she's helping other people like her.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, she's helping other people like her, and she's helping herself.
And because there's not what she doing. She was in
pr and then.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
To talk about pivots a lot, that's her soul pivot,
pivot and all that pain that she must have felt
on some level despite a very very you know, loving family,
there's still some part of her child but that felt rejected.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
One hundred and you can never no matter, you know,
we had an idealic you know, story childhood. You still
you never you know, you've been abandoned.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
She's using that wound to be actually a gift to
other people. Yes, yeah, you talk about being of service.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Your sister's living. How inspirational.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, she really is. She is, she's account Yeah, she's Yes,
specializes in adoption because a lot of especially adopted adults,
have a lot of stuff and they're still working through.
So yeah, she's done a lot of work on herselves.
Now she's helping a lot of other people work on themselves.
And yeah, I couldn't, I truly couldn't be more proper.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It must be so proud.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, we're proud of you mate as well, you too
tell that story and well done for this year as well.
All right, we're gonna take a break, so listen, I'm
telling you now take some time today, right, don't rush
into it. We're carrying on doing this tomorrow and Friday.
It is a great thing to do to think about.
Today is July the second you're at the midpoint of
this year. How has it been so far? Email me
(12:46):
Christian at christiano'connell dot com dot au will share if
you want let me know whether you want to keep
it just privately, you just want to share it with me,
or you're happen to me sharing them on the show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I wouldn't want to upset anybody.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But email me Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot
au World.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
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