February 19, 2025 • 35 mins
Ever announce your bathroom breaks at home? It might sound strange, but it's all part of the fun and laughter we share in our family. This episode, we introduce my wife Victoria's impactful book on dealing with life's real challenges, like navigating narcissists and setting boundaries with toxic family members. We also touch on the serious issue of cyberstalking, offering practical tips to keep your online presence secure. You'll hear personal stories about the importance of meaningful apologies and supporting those who've always had your back.
Prepare for a rollercoaster of humor and heart as we recount some unforgettable family pranks. Ever tried simulating labor pains with a TENS unit, only to find out it's a muscle relaxer? Well, that was quite the mishap! Plus, the hilarious moment when a father's protective instincts go into overdrive after discovering his daughter's new sports bras in the laundry. And as we wrap things up, discover how our new Podcasting Academy can empower your creative journey with its treasure trove of resources and a vibrant community, all designed to elevate your podcasting endeavors.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Howdy y'all?
Welcome back to another episodeof Take the Smile Unstoppable
with the lovely and sexyVictoria.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And my smart-ass husband.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right in front of my face.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh, so I got a question for you guys out there,
or is it just me?
And guys listen, do y'all,y'all, and guys listen, do y'all
announce to your wife,significantly other the entire
household, that you must go takea shit at this time.
Are you serious right now,because I feel that need.
(00:38):
Every time I go take a shit, Ihave to announce to the people
in the house, whoever it may be,and I don't care who it is, I
just do it.
So that's my question for you,fellers.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really, my wife is just staring at me,
(01:21):
no-transcript, and we have beenlooking at what can and cannot
be done and so seeing aspecialist and yada, yada, yada.
So we've been even busier thannormal.
So I apologize for that, butthat's on me.
I'm so sorry.
It's just been overwhelming tosay the.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So I want to give kudos out to one of my customers
today whom called me up by theblue and told me that she has
bought several of your booksthat you have published out
there on Amazon and one bookthat our daughter has published
out there.
So, if she's listening, thankyou for your support, absolutely
(02:06):
, and I hope you make it throughher first book.
It is very challenging, it'svery tough.
I could not get through a pageon air one night.
I tried to read it and Icouldn't.
I broke down in what we wouldcall Niagara Falls.
Okay, so if you're up for achallenge, if you want to know
(02:26):
the truth about, um, realmonsters out there abusers, uh,
narcissistic people, then pickup my wife's first book, who
kicked first, by victoria cureyspeaking of monsters, let's talk
about a few One, without goinginto individuality, if you will.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
one of my little cyberstalkers, right?
So, as we've discussed before,we get notification of people
who find us interesting andconstantly check out what we're
up to, what we're doing, blah,blah, blah who we think would be
a good fit for us, right?
So a little ways back, not tooterribly long ago, I found out
(03:16):
that this person, if you will,was cyber stalking, showcasing,
leering, lurking, I don't knowwhatever adjective or whatever
you choose to put in thesentence.
And then, after announcing thehilarious side of the fact that
(03:40):
it's my sperm donor, on justthis one accord, I get notices
of a new person that is quiteinterested in all that we do.
Yet a different name, but sameprofile.
Same people that are on thatpage that are young enough to be
(04:04):
the grandchildren, if they werefemales, of the night, as I say
as politely as possible,because you know, hey, there are
people out there how do you saythis?
There are people out there whouse their physicality for
alluring purposes and they maketheir profiles as such, and
(04:28):
there are plenty of thoseindividuals on that account.
So I think that's funny thatsome people think just changing
the name makes it where youcan't identify.
I think that's kind of humorous, if you will.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So Victoria has some awesome ideas for the survivors
out there when it comes to hideyour social footprint.
She hosts a lot of classes andshe advocates for survivors and
special needs families.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I also teach you how to know if your stalker is
chasing you Right and how youcan find out which is.
You know it's easier.
Some people think it's not thateasy, but it really can be.
I'll teach you how to disappearfrom the world of social media,
but yet you'll still be there,and that's just kind of ironic.
(05:29):
If you will.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
What are you looking at on camera?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The car light that just flashed through here from
the neighbors at the beginningof the cul-de-sac.
Our whole property is oncameras and film.
In the office we have monitorsthat show us everything and it
kept getting my attentionbecause it was in the corner of
my eye that one of the monitorswas showing a car light and they
(05:54):
were driving in the driveway.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't have your attention.
Oh, good grief.
I don't have your eye.
Huh, huh no.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Anyway, as you were saying, you were saying hey we
both had outreaches fromnarcissistic people.
You did too.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I did the first one remember.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You had a text message.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
From.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Your mother.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh, oh, I already forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That's been ages ago it wasn't that long ago it's
ages how long has it been?
Less than a week okay, that'syeah and you just forgot it, or
it just doesn't why, you justdon't care exactly you want to
give reason, no, but I thinkit's so helpful that men, that
men see this well, because ithappens to more than just women.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So the reason I did not respond and I don't care to
dwell on it is because you don'tapologize to me.
Okay, yes, you hurt meindirectly, but you hurt the
ones I love.
Are you saying, michael, thatyou don't love your mother?
Listen you hurt the ones I loveright here, my wife and my
(07:12):
daughter, my family right herein this house, who have not
forsaken me, who have not turnedtheir backs on me.
You hurt them.
Apologize to them first, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
If your mother did, are you saying that you would
open those gates again?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would do whatever y'all thought was right.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What do you think is right?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm not thinking about it, I don't put any
thought, I don't waste my timeon it.
It's not worth the stress,worry.
It's not worth it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But in all fairness, 100% honesty here for her,
because I know she listens.
Did I in any way ask you toignore her or not respond to her
or have nothing to do with herin any way?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You don't have any control over me.
Woman, what?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm being serious, oh okay I can't joke around not at
this point, because I I don'twant things to be said that you
know and and I didn't.
I told you absolutely if youwant a relationship with her,
that's on you and you're.
I wouldn't stop you, but youwere tired of her shit, I think
(08:29):
in the my what are you stilllooking at camera?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
for I think in my second marriage that there was
more control issues there.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, so but I appreciate you being so open
because you know a lot of men dogo through these exact things
that you have unfortunately beenthrough and we don't get that
perspective unless you talkabout it Right, absolutely.
Absolutely.
But then, when they can hear itfrom you, feel like you know
you're their voice of reason andthen you can give them must not
(09:05):
be a man.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Man, that's absolutely not true guys, we can
only hold it in for so long, wecan only bottle up so much
before we implode or explode.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So I don't mind talking about it, um but I know
it helps so many of thelisteners when they feel like,
oh, he is talking about it, letme think of his perspective, let
me think about how hissituation might mirror mine and
look at it that way, because, asyou have stated, men don't want
to be forthcoming about it andthey hold it in and then they
(09:36):
bottle it up and they suppressit, and that's not healthy and
they need to get it out anddiscuss it and talk about it and
think of options and thingsthey can do.
And so I appreciate you beingopen and discussing.
You know what you do, becauseif it helps somebody, then it's
absolutely worth it, which islike the reason why I published
who kicked first?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
yes, y'all get on Amazon and.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That was not a tag for you to try to sell it.
It was not.
It was absolutely not a plugfor you to try it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The prequel is Narc Narc.
Who's there?
Get it, narc Narc.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Is it Narcicistic?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Not.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Narcotic.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
No, there has been no Narotics well, not with him I'm
talking about with me.
Yeah, not with me you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
you hardly take an aspirin.
I've never even.
How many of you y'all men outthere, women, redheads, I I
particular, with extremely highpain tolerance.
It's very.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Just crazy high.
We, you know, redheads requiremore anesthetic when they put
them to sleep.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's insane, y'all I mean they To me they basically
hacked off her arm.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
She was.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You were going to say butchered, and she passed out
because of the pain.
I mean no anesthetic, no gas,no knocking on the head, no,
nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Uh, I was under for part, yeah, but you know it's
crazy.
Most of my surgeries I like tonot be put under because I don't
like all that anesthetic, Idon't like the medication they
give you after, um, but evencoming home, when they did both
my jaws or my arm, you you cantell everybody I never took
anything.
You used to beg me becauseyou're like I could see how much
(11:22):
pain you're in and I'm likeokay, and then you would say
please take something, and Isaid that's just a band-aid,
that's not going to be anythinglong-term that helps.
So why do it?
I mean to me, taking somethinglike that is masking the injury
and then it gets ripped off andthen the pain comes back.
(11:44):
You know it's not taking itaway, because it's not a
headache, it's not an earache,it's not regional pain syndrome.
Due to the fact that I've hadwhat are we at now?
Surgically, surgically on this,like 19 on the arm, and then
(12:07):
I've had nerve transpositionsand nerve transfers, nerve
transplants, muscle transplant,muscle transfers, muscle
repositioning, muscle transplant, muscle transfers, muscle
repositioning.
I mean, like the inside of myarm, even my bone isn't in the
right spot.
My bone isn't even setcorrectly, for instance, if you
(12:28):
put both of your hands out infront of you.
Your palms face down, my leftarm doesn't face down.
It looks like I'm in that shakeyour hand position.
So with all of that like whywould I take something if it's
not going to get rid of the paincompletely and ongoing forever?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, so I just want to comment about my awesome wife
.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Pain tolerance.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh yeah, You're.
You're as strong as anythingI've ever experienced.
Oh any guy out there.
I mean, they get nuts on you.
Oh, let me put this out there.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I knew it.
I knew it.
Okay, my wife and my daughter.
They got the wrong version.
I went back and looked.
She got the wrong version.
This was supposed to behysterical.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Carry on, go ahead.
No good, so Wrong version.
They bring me into the after myshower.
They bring me into the bedroomand they say OK, you, mr Michael
, are going to experience whatit's like for us women To give
birth.
Excuse me, yes.
(13:32):
So they pull out this unit andthey say okay, big boy, lick
them and stick them, all right.
So I connect these uhelectrodes all over my hairy
chest, my hairy stomach, and, uh, they proceed to exactly now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
In fairness, I had control of the device because I
know our faith.
She would have started you onlike mock one, right, she would
have been like let's see, oh,extra, extra strength would have
been what she would have done.
So I started it on like one.
Now, in fairness, we love faith.
(14:18):
She is the apple of our eye.
She picked out the device.
After researching it, Irealized she didn't get the
labor stimulator.
She got the muscle relaxingtens unit, so she really just
kind of gave you an internalmassage without doing the labor
(14:39):
simulation.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, yeah, so it started zapping y'all and it was
really no big deal, I guess.
Even on the highest setting Inever went all the way to the
highest setting, but the prankwas supposed to be hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The joke backfired again yes, but she did get you
today.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Really, you're going to go there.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm going gonna go there I'm gonna go there because
, as a dad, as all dads are, I'msure they don't want to see
their daughters.
You know, undergarments, right?
You don't want to see this andyou're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So, still and so I think our time's up, no it's not
so faith.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Who is, you know, a woman in her own way ask her
she's effing hot.
Oh, she'll tell you, she'seffing hot all day long.
So she purchased a couple ofbras really, and hold on and
they were in the laundry, whichwas all over our bed, because I
(15:42):
have to sit on the bed in orderto fold towels and do things
like that.
Well, I didn't know that shedidn't take them out of our room
prior to you coming home thisafternoon.
And then she came in with thatgrin on her face and we know
something has transpired, I didnot know.
(16:03):
So what started out as laundryended up that she left it on the
bed for you to find, and I wasin the kitchen when I heard you
say what the heck?
And then I didn't get to hearthe rest of the dialogue because
I was downstairs.
So what did I miss?
Let me ask you something?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why were they in the laundry?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Because you have to wash them before you wear them
once they're new.
When they're new, you have to.
Those are brand new.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, I thought those were the old ones.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
No, she just got those.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
She got more.
Yeah, those lace frilly.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
They're not lace frilly things.
Okay, they're not see-through.
Let's clarify, Okay, first ofall, they're not see-through.
They are of the gothic, I guessnature.
They are sports bras with alittle clip on the back.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
They are inappropriate for my daughter.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
They cover everything they don't cover enough.
They are.
They're like you know, they'reblack and they have like little
skull whatever things all overthem and it has like a little
clip thing in the back and thatit's like an exercise top and
she left two of them.
They're not lacy, they're notanything you'd see at
(17:25):
Frederick's of Hollywood orVictoria's Secrets.
They're none of those.
They're none of that.
There's no lace or see-throughmaterial in this at all.
Hold on, there's none of thatin this, in this material.
And you see her sports bras andyou lose your shit because
they're your little girls sportsbras and you flip out.
(17:50):
Now it's different.
If it was like one of my lacy,see-through bras, that would be
different.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yes, because you have um.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yes, you have nice underwear so, but you flipped
out over our daughter workoutsports bra it's our daughter,
our little girl.
But yet when you two do yourdaddy daughter movie night and
and there it gets hanky-panky onthere, do you cover her eyes,
(18:23):
do you make her change thechannel?
Totally Every time, that littlerat, that's your little girl.
How is it your little girl?
And now she's a rat?
I'm not the pranker.
She's been pranking the livingsnot out of you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, and whoever's been pranking the living snot
out of you?
Yes, and whoever's been givingthose pranks to her?
Who was the last time you gaveher a prank?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
One of your guests or there's been quite a few that
have given her some.
Oh, she's got some in the bankwaiting.
She's got some in the bankready to go for you.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, let's go back a minute, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm not telling you anything about frederick
hollywood to our mighty app.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Carry on.
How can the listeners getaccess to this mighty app or the
website that?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I will link it in the show notes in the show notes.
Yes, but why don't you explainhow things go with the academy,
how there's like a welcome spotand a discussion group, a?
Lot of stuff on there and thereis um go figure it better not
ever happen again I mean I mean,I mean I wasn't meaning that I
(19:37):
was cheating on you, babe, andshe didn't look on my phone.
Also, there's a resource librarywhich I would say has a good,
solid couple of dozen greatarticle, application tips,
advice in there.
I'm adding more every day intothat.
There are right now there's twosets of courses that have
(20:01):
already been up and running.
One of them has we havedifferent subscriptions and,
depending on what you get, everysubscription allows you access
to the welcome and thediscussion and the member portal
and the daily feeds and theresource library.
(20:23):
But you can either pay you paymonthly and, like you can get
the subscription for the firstone, which has two courses in it
, then you can cancel and thengo to the next.
That way you're not justcontinuing, you can go to the
next subscription, which is thesame price but it's for a
different class, and then youcan do the next and the next.
(20:47):
That way you're not tied in andwhen you finish your course you
don't have to continue paying,which a lot of applications do
they make.
You just continue and continue,and this you don't.
You pay monthly.
When you're finished, you'redone and then you can cancel and
then go to the next course.
That way and you still haveaccess to everything, which is
(21:08):
great and we have not eventechnically opened it for
pre-launch yet and I'm hopingthat it helps listeners do what
we've done for our shows.
Because, god knows, I have spentI don't even know how long in
courses, classes, seminars,talks, chats, webinars, you name
(21:30):
it.
I've sat in it, I've done it,I've paid for it.
It's been ridiculous amounts ofmoney.
Now I've implemented what works, what doesn't work.
I've taken out what doesn'twork.
I've taken out what doesn'twork.
I've gotten into the socialcontent creation.
I've gotten into doing logosand um content creation and
marketing for many differentcompanies and people and
(21:52):
podcasters and help them getstarted and launch into the top
10.
And yeah, so now you've hadtime to observe and what do you
see?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
uh, just going through just the resource
library, y'all.
She has spent so many hours, uh, creating this content and she
really wants to get it out thereto y'all so you can, like she
said, be successful, as she hasbrought this business up and uh.
Anywhere you type in victoriacurate, she is literally
everywhere.
I think she fills the first 11pages of google, or is that bing
(22:26):
?
Or internet explorer orwhatever I mean, okay, type in
your name and see type in thewords your name no type as in
the listeners okay, okay, typein the doughy bag of donuts.
Yes, okay type in your name, see, see how many times you pop up.
So what?
(22:46):
What I'm getting at is no,you're not insignificant, but my
wife can teach you.
Victoria can show you how toget out there like she is now.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
We've done all of our own marketing.
We've never hired outside.
We've never um saw anythinglike that.
We've done it all on our ownand like, uh, we've been in the
top one percent for a year and ahalf when we almost lost faith,
we jumped up to the fivepercent and then within six
(23:17):
weeks we we got down to 3%.
So we've been in the top 3% or2% for over a year, but we have
been in the top 1% a year and ahalf as well.
I've done over oh, I couldeasily say maybe 500 interviews.
I've done internationalspeaking.
(23:38):
I've done internationalspeaking.
I've done local speaking.
I've done let's see, we havehosted.
We've also had a lot of miniseries.
We've put out well over 350podcasts about well over 350
(24:02):
podcasts and we have you know,it's so cute even when Faith
says anything because let's talkabout Valentine's for one
second, because you're going tosay, oh, she's going out in left
field but we're not.
So at Valentine's dinner I lookand there's a video email and I
look over at my beautiful girl.
Are you freaking, kidding me?
(24:23):
Right now, aram mush, by, fromthe blacklist, sends her yet
another video and I think thathe is one of the nicest human
beings on the planet, like he'sso genuine yes he is such a nice
(24:45):
guy.
Now faith has had him on herlist of wanting to interview,
like he's one of her top, like Ithink he is the number one
person she wants to interviewthat she hasn't interviewed,
right, like she always wantedAbigail from Blue Bloods and she
interviewed her while in theICU, but Aram, just like the
(25:09):
first time, and then he sent herlike a seven-minute video and
then this one was wishing her ahappy Valentine's Day and he
remembered how you know, thelast time they spoke she just
had her 34th surgery and that hewas so touched that he was with
her when we almost lost herearlier and that meant the world
(25:31):
to him.
And so she's like, yeah, well,let's see.
Last year I had Dermot Mulroneyasked me to be his Valentine
and this year I have.
And then she looks over andsays, dad, what about you?
How are you topping that withmom?
What are you going to do there?
But it's because of theauthenticity that, like we've
been blessed, we've had so manypeople we were thinking about.
(25:54):
You know some of the peoplewe've had China Phillips from
Wilson Phillips, people we werethinking about.
You know some of the peoplewe've had china phillips from
wilson phillips.
Um, lou diamond phillips.
No relation um who else?
Abby lee miller and um who'sthe guy who wished you a happy
birthday, the frank.
You know what's his name.
He played.
(26:15):
You know who he was.
He had dark hair.
Oh my gosh, now I feel horriblebecause I'm not.
I don't remember his name.
You knew him and he said he wasgoing to wish you a happy 50th
in your next 50 years and hehoped you enjoy your day, babe.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
you're talking to me.
I barely remember what I hadfor breakfast.
Hell, I can't even speak, right.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well, now I have to look, so you carry on about the
website.
Malcolm Goodwin oh, what a niceguy.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That is too right he reached out, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
three times he heard from someone else somebody he
knew reached out and asked himto thank me because I saved her
life and I had no idea.
And he wanted to thank me andhe says you have a forever
listener in me and I wanted tothank you for what you did for
my friend and that was out ofnowhere.
(27:13):
Currently playing on reacher,lisa leslie, olympic gold
medalist, was amazing.
Oh wow.
Scott hamilton, he like, oh mrbackflipper there's just so many
, like there really is.
There's so many and I don'twant to discredit anyone by not
(27:34):
remembering um and not sayingnames.
I thought it was um, you have,dermot maroney, you have.
I can't.
Who's the guy who wishes happyanniversary from, uh, booker t?
No, what, that guy right there,of course you don't have your
(27:54):
glasses on that one right therethere, of course, you don't have
your glasses on that one rightthere.
That guy I don't know who.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That is Alright, I'm going to play it.
Oh, sheriff Buford T Justice.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, yes, it is see what was that guy's name.
(28:34):
So talk about the academy realquick, because that's going to
drive me berserk.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So going back to the academy, y'all uh y'all once
it's posted and, uh, you get thelink.
I seriously and encourage y'allto get on there and learn,
learn this stuff, you know.
Uh, okay, it may cost you aperson cressley okay but, rascal
flats, we all know you pay forknowledge, okay, and this is,
(29:03):
this is invaluable stuff that mywife has compiled together just
just in the resource library.
Um, the things like masteringthe art of podcasting in frank
wiley, oh, frank wiley.
Yes, okay, your interview.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Sorry, frank tony denson, your guest.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know you don't have to make them where it's an
interrogation.
Okay, make it a conversationwith two between two, between
between between two friends.
What do you put it at?
Yes, I'm gonna put it at whatdo you get?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
uh, it's a conversation between two friends
.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Forget the microphone okay, building your brand
identity.
Okay, what, what?
What are you?
Who are you?
When people hear a contagioussmile and they see our logo, uh,
they may see a puppy dog onthere and they, oh, you breed
dogs we did dogs.
Well, we did at one time.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, we help special needs and we donated more than
80 percent right, but we're allabout advocating for special
needs and survivors of abuse so,uh, I'm there.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
guys.
There's a a lot, a lot of stuffin here Unconventional secrets
for social media posting successOkay, unconventional.
Well, that must not workbecause it's unconventional.
Bs.
Look at a contagious smilenumbers.
Look at Victoria Curie'snumbers.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Look at any of her videos I'm gonna pull up my
numbers right now and you canread them.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Put your glasses back on you know we had, we had
compiled all the numbers from uhacross all sorry, sorry, across
all social platforms, oh god,about a year ago or more.
And uh it was, it was over 40million followers.
Ok, if you have over 40 millionfollowers then you can put out
(31:04):
your own course.
But my wife has put togethereverything that she's learned
and you know I'm a redneck overthese past three and a half four
years since we've beenpodcasting.
She has a guru of a podcastinghusband named dave campbell and
(31:24):
yoda okay.
So some of her videos here thatshe's posted uh, 3.7 million
listens.
Uh, these are different fromviews or downloads or downloads,
because most of our podcastsare audio only.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And then, like one point four million, I mean
they're all way over they getanother one.
One point three million.
Four point two million.
I mean all of them are in thesix, if not seven, figure.
Every one of them.
I mean you scroll down in everysingle one and you know what.
That's not because of myhusband, that's not because of
them.
I mean you scroll down in everysingle one and you know what.
That's not because of my husband, that's not because of me, it
(32:03):
is because of you, it is becausewe try to bring true, authentic
genuineness.
We try to, you know, stand upfor the voiceless.
We are the voice for thevoiceless.
You know, we may not agree witheveryone, we may not agree with
everyone's opinion, but that'swhat makes vanilla, chocolate,
(32:25):
chocolate, mint, chocolate chip,strawberry, that's what makes
it.
But you know what?
We're not going to belittle you, we're not going to talk down
about you.
You know, yes, we talk aboutnarcissism and narcissistic
abuse, because both my husbandand I survived it and that's
different.
But like we don't advocate forbullying, we don't advocate for,
you know, derogatory, hurtfulthings.
(32:48):
We stand to help people buildthemselves up, because, building
themselves up, you should notbasically have to spend your
adulthood recovering from yourchildhood and that is such a
phrase I use all the timebecause it's true and you get
one childhood and you'resupposed to love it and enjoy it
(33:08):
and have fun and you know, andenjoy and have, make great
memories, not be like every timeI think of something, it's you
know, it just makes me want tocrawl into a dark hole and
that's not how it's supposed tobe.
So we want to help you realizethat even the smallest, tiniest
flicker of light can start awildfire and show you your spark
(33:33):
, show you that you can riseagain.
You can be that phoenix.
You can, you know, come backand just be all that you can and
all that.
You can rise again.
You can be that phoenix.
You can come back and just beall that you can and all that
you are.
That's what we're here to help.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I think that's a beautiful ending to this show.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Then you can take us out.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I brought us in my wife.
I tell you what y'all.
She's something else.
She's my soulmate.
We already established thatshe's the love of my life, could
not live without her and yes, Ican live with her.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
But seriously, y'all be looking out for the link here
for the, the podcast powerhouseand growth academy, and there's
also a, an app, I think it'sthrough mighty yeah, it shows
you, once you've joined, how youcan get the app, and it'll be
(34:30):
like and uh, yeah, y'all get onthere whenever y'all log in.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Um, I see you.
Uh, I might be running aroundall day, you know, doing my
full-time job, but I will get onthere and say hey and welcome,
and if you have any questions,uh, I can help you out.
So there, and we'll see y'allon, I guess, sunday when we do
(34:57):
another episode.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Now it's recorded that you're going to do this.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Of A Contagious Smile .
Speaker 2 (35:02):
It releases Monday at 5 am Correct.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But I've only got two days off a week and I get
bogged down with you know oldman naps and you know honey-do
list.
Close your mouth, babe.
Your kitchen flies.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, from all the shit you're talking.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Good night y'all.
Thank you for listening toContagious.
Smile Unstoppable.
Howdy y'all?
Welcome back to another episodeof Take the Smile Unstoppable
with the lovely and sexyVictoria.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And my smart-ass husband.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Where is he?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right in front of my face.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh, so I got a question for you guys out there,
or is it just me?
And guys listen, do y'all,y'all, and guys listen, do y'all
announce to your wife,significantly other the entire
household, that you must go takea shit at this time.
Are you serious right now,because I feel that need.
(00:38):
Every time I go take a shit, Ihave to announce to the people
in the house, whoever it may be,and I don't care who it is, I
just do it.
So that's my question for you,fellers.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really, my wife is just staring at me,
(01:21):
no-transcript, and we have beenlooking at what can and cannot
be done and so seeing aspecialist and yada, yada, yada.
So we've been even busier thannormal.
So I apologize for that, butthat's on me.
I'm so sorry.
It's just been overwhelming tosay the.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So I want to give kudos out to one of my customers
today whom called me up by theblue and told me that she has
bought several of your booksthat you have published out
there on Amazon and one bookthat our daughter has published
out there.
So, if she's listening, thankyou for your support, absolutely
(02:06):
, and I hope you make it throughher first book.
It is very challenging, it'svery tough.
I could not get through a pageon air one night.
I tried to read it and Icouldn't.
I broke down in what we wouldcall Niagara Falls.
Okay, so if you're up for achallenge, if you want to know
(02:26):
the truth about, um, realmonsters out there abusers, uh,
narcissistic people, then pickup my wife's first book, who
kicked first, by victoria cureyspeaking of monsters, let's talk
about a few One, without goinginto individuality, if you will.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
one of my little cyberstalkers, right?
So, as we've discussed before,we get notification of people
who find us interesting andconstantly check out what we're
up to, what we're doing, blah,blah, blah who we think would be
a good fit for us, right?
So a little ways back, not tooterribly long ago, I found out
(03:16):
that this person, if you will,was cyber stalking, showcasing,
leering, lurking, I don't knowwhatever adjective or whatever
you choose to put in thesentence.
And then, after announcing thehilarious side of the fact that
(03:40):
it's my sperm donor, on justthis one accord, I get notices
of a new person that is quiteinterested in all that we do.
Yet a different name, but sameprofile.
Same people that are on thatpage that are young enough to be
(04:04):
the grandchildren, if they werefemales, of the night, as I say
as politely as possible,because you know, hey, there are
people out there how do you saythis?
There are people out there whouse their physicality for
alluring purposes and they maketheir profiles as such, and
(04:28):
there are plenty of thoseindividuals on that account.
So I think that's funny thatsome people think just changing
the name makes it where youcan't identify.
I think that's kind of humorous, if you will.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So Victoria has some awesome ideas for the survivors
out there when it comes to hideyour social footprint.
She hosts a lot of classes andshe advocates for survivors and
special needs families.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But I also teach you how to know if your stalker is
chasing you Right and how youcan find out which is.
You know it's easier.
Some people think it's not thateasy, but it really can be.
I'll teach you how to disappearfrom the world of social media,
but yet you'll still be there,and that's just kind of ironic.
(05:29):
If you will.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
What are you looking at on camera?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The car light that just flashed through here from
the neighbors at the beginningof the cul-de-sac.
Our whole property is oncameras and film.
In the office we have monitorsthat show us everything and it
kept getting my attentionbecause it was in the corner of
my eye that one of the monitorswas showing a car light and they
(05:54):
were driving in the driveway.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't have your attention.
Oh, good grief.
I don't have your eye.
Huh, huh no.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Anyway, as you were saying, you were saying hey we
both had outreaches fromnarcissistic people.
You did too.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I did the first one remember.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You had a text message.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
From.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Your mother.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh, oh, I already forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That's been ages ago it wasn't that long ago it's
ages how long has it been?
Less than a week okay, that'syeah and you just forgot it, or
it just doesn't why, you justdon't care exactly you want to
give reason, no, but I thinkit's so helpful that men, that
men see this well, because ithappens to more than just women.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So the reason I did not respond and I don't care to
dwell on it is because you don'tapologize to me.
Okay, yes, you hurt meindirectly, but you hurt the
ones I love.
Are you saying, michael, thatyou don't love your mother?
Listen you hurt the ones I loveright here, my wife and my
(07:12):
daughter, my family right herein this house, who have not
forsaken me, who have not turnedtheir backs on me.
You hurt them.
Apologize to them first, okay.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
If your mother did, are you saying that you would
open those gates again?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I would do whatever y'all thought was right.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What do you think is right?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm not thinking about it, I don't put any
thought, I don't waste my timeon it.
It's not worth the stress,worry.
It's not worth it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But in all fairness, 100% honesty here for her,
because I know she listens.
Did I in any way ask you toignore her or not respond to her
or have nothing to do with herin any way?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You don't have any control over me.
Woman, what?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm being serious, oh okay I can't joke around not at
this point, because I I don'twant things to be said that you
know and and I didn't.
I told you absolutely if youwant a relationship with her,
that's on you and you're.
I wouldn't stop you, but youwere tired of her shit, I think
(08:29):
in the my what are you stilllooking at camera?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
for I think in my second marriage that there was
more control issues there.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, so but I appreciate you being so open
because you know a lot of men dogo through these exact things
that you have unfortunately beenthrough and we don't get that
perspective unless you talkabout it Right, absolutely.
Absolutely.
But then, when they can hear itfrom you, feel like you know
you're their voice of reason andthen you can give them must not
(09:05):
be a man.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Man, that's absolutely not true guys, we can
only hold it in for so long, wecan only bottle up so much
before we implode or explode.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So I don't mind talking about it, um but I know
it helps so many of thelisteners when they feel like,
oh, he is talking about it, letme think of his perspective, let
me think about how hissituation might mirror mine and
look at it that way, because, asyou have stated, men don't want
to be forthcoming about it andthey hold it in and then they
(09:36):
bottle it up and they suppressit, and that's not healthy and
they need to get it out anddiscuss it and talk about it and
think of options and thingsthey can do.
And so I appreciate you beingopen and discussing.
You know what you do, becauseif it helps somebody, then it's
absolutely worth it, which islike the reason why I published
who kicked first?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
yes, y'all get on Amazon and.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
That was not a tag for you to try to sell it.
It was not.
It was absolutely not a plugfor you to try it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The prequel is Narc Narc.
Who's there?
Get it, narc Narc.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Is it Narcicistic?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Not.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Narcotic.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
No, there has been no Narotics well, not with him I'm
talking about with me.
Yeah, not with me you mean?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
you hardly take an aspirin.
I've never even.
How many of you y'all men outthere, women, redheads, I I
particular, with extremely highpain tolerance.
It's very.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Just crazy high.
We, you know, redheads requiremore anesthetic when they put
them to sleep.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's insane, y'all I mean they To me they basically
hacked off her arm.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
She was.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You were going to say butchered, and she passed out
because of the pain.
I mean no anesthetic, no gas,no knocking on the head, no,
nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Uh, I was under for part, yeah, but you know it's
crazy.
Most of my surgeries I like tonot be put under because I don't
like all that anesthetic, Idon't like the medication they
give you after, um, but evencoming home, when they did both
my jaws or my arm, you you cantell everybody I never took
anything.
You used to beg me becauseyou're like I could see how much
(11:22):
pain you're in and I'm likeokay, and then you would say
please take something, and Isaid that's just a band-aid,
that's not going to be anythinglong-term that helps.
So why do it?
I mean to me, taking somethinglike that is masking the injury
and then it gets ripped off andthen the pain comes back.
(11:44):
You know it's not taking itaway, because it's not a
headache, it's not an earache,it's not regional pain syndrome.
Due to the fact that I've hadwhat are we at now?
Surgically, surgically on this,like 19 on the arm, and then
(12:07):
I've had nerve transpositionsand nerve transfers, nerve
transplants, muscle transplant,muscle transfers, muscle
repositioning, muscle transplant, muscle transfers, muscle
repositioning.
I mean, like the inside of myarm, even my bone isn't in the
right spot.
My bone isn't even setcorrectly, for instance, if you
(12:28):
put both of your hands out infront of you.
Your palms face down, my leftarm doesn't face down.
It looks like I'm in that shakeyour hand position.
So with all of that like whywould I take something if it's
not going to get rid of the paincompletely and ongoing forever?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, so I just want to comment about my awesome wife
.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Pain tolerance.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh yeah, You're.
You're as strong as anythingI've ever experienced.
Oh any guy out there.
I mean, they get nuts on you.
Oh, let me put this out there.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I knew it.
I knew it.
Okay, my wife and my daughter.
They got the wrong version.
I went back and looked.
She got the wrong version.
This was supposed to behysterical.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Carry on, go ahead.
No good, so Wrong version.
They bring me into the after myshower.
They bring me into the bedroomand they say OK, you, mr Michael
, are going to experience whatit's like for us women To give
birth.
Excuse me, yes.
(13:32):
So they pull out this unit andthey say okay, big boy, lick
them and stick them, all right.
So I connect these uhelectrodes all over my hairy
chest, my hairy stomach, and, uh, they proceed to exactly now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
In fairness, I had control of the device because I
know our faith.
She would have started you onlike mock one, right, she would
have been like let's see, oh,extra, extra strength would have
been what she would have done.
So I started it on like one.
Now, in fairness, we love faith.
(14:18):
She is the apple of our eye.
She picked out the device.
After researching it, Irealized she didn't get the
labor stimulator.
She got the muscle relaxingtens unit, so she really just
kind of gave you an internalmassage without doing the labor
(14:39):
simulation.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, yeah, so it started zapping y'all and it was
really no big deal, I guess.
Even on the highest setting Inever went all the way to the
highest setting, but the prankwas supposed to be hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The joke backfired again yes, but she did get you
today.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Really, you're going to go there.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm going gonna go there I'm gonna go there because
, as a dad, as all dads are, I'msure they don't want to see
their daughters.
You know, undergarments, right?
You don't want to see this andyou're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So, still and so I think our time's up, no it's not
so faith.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Who is, you know, a woman in her own way ask her
she's effing hot.
Oh, she'll tell you, she'seffing hot all day long.
So she purchased a couple ofbras really, and hold on and
they were in the laundry, whichwas all over our bed, because I
(15:42):
have to sit on the bed in orderto fold towels and do things
like that.
Well, I didn't know that shedidn't take them out of our room
prior to you coming home thisafternoon.
And then she came in with thatgrin on her face and we know
something has transpired, I didnot know.
(16:03):
So what started out as laundryended up that she left it on the
bed for you to find, and I wasin the kitchen when I heard you
say what the heck?
And then I didn't get to hearthe rest of the dialogue because
I was downstairs.
So what did I miss?
Let me ask you something?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why were they in the laundry?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Because you have to wash them before you wear them
once they're new.
When they're new, you have to.
Those are brand new.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, I thought those were the old ones.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
No, she just got those.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
She got more.
Yeah, those lace frilly.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
They're not lace frilly things.
Okay, they're not see-through.
Let's clarify, Okay, first ofall, they're not see-through.
They are of the gothic, I guessnature.
They are sports bras with alittle clip on the back.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
They are inappropriate for my daughter.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
They cover everything they don't cover enough.
They are.
They're like you know, they'reblack and they have like little
skull whatever things all overthem and it has like a little
clip thing in the back and thatit's like an exercise top and
she left two of them.
They're not lacy, they're notanything you'd see at
(17:25):
Frederick's of Hollywood orVictoria's Secrets.
They're none of those.
They're none of that.
There's no lace or see-throughmaterial in this at all.
Hold on, there's none of thatin this, in this material.
And you see her sports bras andyou lose your shit because
they're your little girls sportsbras and you flip out.
(17:50):
Now it's different.
If it was like one of my lacy,see-through bras, that would be
different.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yes, because you have um.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yes, you have nice underwear so, but you flipped
out over our daughter workoutsports bra it's our daughter,
our little girl.
But yet when you two do yourdaddy daughter movie night and
and there it gets hanky-panky onthere, do you cover her eyes,
(18:23):
do you make her change thechannel?
Totally Every time, that littlerat, that's your little girl.
How is it your little girl?
And now she's a rat?
I'm not the pranker.
She's been pranking the livingsnot out of you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yes, and whoever's been pranking the living snot
out of you?
Yes, and whoever's been givingthose pranks to her?
Who was the last time you gaveher a prank?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
One of your guests or there's been quite a few that
have given her some.
Oh, she's got some in the bankwaiting.
She's got some in the bankready to go for you.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, let's go back a minute, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'm not telling you anything about frederick
hollywood to our mighty app.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Carry on.
How can the listeners getaccess to this mighty app or the
website that?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I will link it in the show notes in the show notes.
Yes, but why don't you explainhow things go with the academy,
how there's like a welcome spotand a discussion group, a?
Lot of stuff on there and thereis um go figure it better not
ever happen again I mean I mean,I mean I wasn't meaning that I
(19:37):
was cheating on you, babe, andshe didn't look on my phone.
Also, there's a resource librarywhich I would say has a good,
solid couple of dozen greatarticle, application tips,
advice in there.
I'm adding more every day intothat.
There are right now there's twosets of courses that have
(20:01):
already been up and running.
One of them has we havedifferent subscriptions and,
depending on what you get, everysubscription allows you access
to the welcome and thediscussion and the member portal
and the daily feeds and theresource library.
(20:23):
But you can either pay you paymonthly and, like you can get
the subscription for the firstone, which has two courses in it
, then you can cancel and thengo to the next.
That way you're not justcontinuing, you can go to the
next subscription, which is thesame price but it's for a
different class, and then youcan do the next and the next.
(20:47):
That way you're not tied in andwhen you finish your course you
don't have to continue paying,which a lot of applications do
they make.
You just continue and continue,and this you don't.
You pay monthly.
When you're finished, you'redone and then you can cancel and
then go to the next course.
That way and you still haveaccess to everything, which is
(21:08):
great and we have not eventechnically opened it for
pre-launch yet and I'm hopingthat it helps listeners do what
we've done for our shows.
Because, god knows, I have spentI don't even know how long in
courses, classes, seminars,talks, chats, webinars, you name
(21:30):
it.
I've sat in it, I've done it,I've paid for it.
It's been ridiculous amounts ofmoney.
Now I've implemented what works, what doesn't work.
I've taken out what doesn'twork.
I've taken out what doesn'twork.
I've gotten into the socialcontent creation.
I've gotten into doing logosand um content creation and
marketing for many differentcompanies and people and
(21:52):
podcasters and help them getstarted and launch into the top
10.
And yeah, so now you've hadtime to observe and what do you
see?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
uh, just going through just the resource
library, y'all.
She has spent so many hours, uh, creating this content and she
really wants to get it out thereto y'all so you can, like she
said, be successful, as she hasbrought this business up and uh.
Anywhere you type in victoriacurate, she is literally
everywhere.
I think she fills the first 11pages of google, or is that bing
(22:26):
?
Or internet explorer orwhatever I mean, okay, type in
your name and see type in thewords your name no type as in
the listeners okay, okay, typein the doughy bag of donuts.
Yes, okay type in your name, see, see how many times you pop up.
So what?
(22:46):
What I'm getting at is no,you're not insignificant, but my
wife can teach you.
Victoria can show you how toget out there like she is now.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
We've done all of our own marketing.
We've never hired outside.
We've never um saw anythinglike that.
We've done it all on our ownand like, uh, we've been in the
top one percent for a year and ahalf when we almost lost faith,
we jumped up to the fivepercent and then within six
(23:17):
weeks we we got down to 3%.
So we've been in the top 3% or2% for over a year, but we have
been in the top 1% a year and ahalf as well.
I've done over oh, I couldeasily say maybe 500 interviews.
I've done internationalspeaking.
(23:38):
I've done internationalspeaking.
I've done local speaking.
I've done let's see, we havehosted.
We've also had a lot of miniseries.
We've put out well over 350podcasts about well over 350
(24:02):
podcasts and we have you know,it's so cute even when Faith
says anything because let's talkabout Valentine's for one
second, because you're going tosay, oh, she's going out in left
field but we're not.
So at Valentine's dinner I lookand there's a video email and I
look over at my beautiful girl.
Are you freaking, kidding me?
(24:23):
Right now, aram mush, by, fromthe blacklist, sends her yet
another video and I think thathe is one of the nicest human
beings on the planet, like he'sso genuine yes he is such a nice
(24:45):
guy.
Now faith has had him on herlist of wanting to interview,
like he's one of her top, like Ithink he is the number one
person she wants to interviewthat she hasn't interviewed,
right, like she always wantedAbigail from Blue Bloods and she
interviewed her while in theICU, but Aram, just like the
(25:09):
first time, and then he sent herlike a seven-minute video and
then this one was wishing her ahappy Valentine's Day and he
remembered how you know, thelast time they spoke she just
had her 34th surgery and that hewas so touched that he was with
her when we almost lost herearlier and that meant the world
(25:31):
to him.
And so she's like, yeah, well,let's see.
Last year I had Dermot Mulroneyasked me to be his Valentine
and this year I have.
And then she looks over andsays, dad, what about you?
How are you topping that withmom?
What are you going to do there?
But it's because of theauthenticity that, like we've
been blessed, we've had so manypeople we were thinking about.
(25:54):
You know some of the peoplewe've had China Phillips from
Wilson Phillips, people we werethinking about.
You know some of the peoplewe've had china phillips from
wilson phillips.
Um, lou diamond phillips.
No relation um who else?
Abby lee miller and um who'sthe guy who wished you a happy
birthday, the frank.
You know what's his name.
He played.
(26:15):
You know who he was.
He had dark hair.
Oh my gosh, now I feel horriblebecause I'm not.
I don't remember his name.
You knew him and he said he wasgoing to wish you a happy 50th
in your next 50 years and hehoped you enjoy your day, babe.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
you're talking to me.
I barely remember what I hadfor breakfast.
Hell, I can't even speak, right.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well, now I have to look, so you carry on about the
website.
Malcolm Goodwin oh, what a niceguy.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That is too right he reached out, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
three times he heard from someone else somebody he
knew reached out and asked himto thank me because I saved her
life and I had no idea.
And he wanted to thank me andhe says you have a forever
listener in me and I wanted tothank you for what you did for
my friend and that was out ofnowhere.
(27:13):
Currently playing on reacher,lisa leslie, olympic gold
medalist, was amazing.
Oh wow.
Scott hamilton, he like, oh mrbackflipper there's just so many
, like there really is.
There's so many and I don'twant to discredit anyone by not
(27:34):
remembering um and not sayingnames.
I thought it was um, you have,dermot maroney, you have.
I can't.
Who's the guy who wishes happyanniversary from, uh, booker t?
No, what, that guy right there,of course you don't have your
(27:54):
glasses on that one right therethere, of course, you don't have
your glasses on that one rightthere.
That guy I don't know who.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That is Alright, I'm going to play it.
Oh, sheriff Buford T Justice.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No, yes, it is see what was that guy's name.
(28:34):
So talk about the academy realquick, because that's going to
drive me berserk.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So going back to the academy, y'all uh y'all once
it's posted and, uh, you get thelink.
I seriously and encourage y'allto get on there and learn,
learn this stuff, you know.
Uh, okay, it may cost you aperson cressley okay but, rascal
flats, we all know you pay forknowledge, okay, and this is,
(29:03):
this is invaluable stuff that mywife has compiled together just
just in the resource library.
Um, the things like masteringthe art of podcasting in frank
wiley, oh, frank wiley.
Yes, okay, your interview.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Sorry, frank tony denson, your guest.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know you don't have to make them where it's an
interrogation.
Okay, make it a conversationwith two between two, between
between between two friends.
What do you put it at?
Yes, I'm gonna put it at whatdo you get?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
uh, it's a conversation between two friends
.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Forget the microphone okay, building your brand
identity.
Okay, what, what?
What are you?
Who are you?
When people hear a contagioussmile and they see our logo, uh,
they may see a puppy dog onthere and they, oh, you breed
dogs we did dogs.
Well, we did at one time.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, we help special needs and we donated more than
80 percent right, but we're allabout advocating for special
needs and survivors of abuse so,uh, I'm there.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
guys.
There's a a lot, a lot of stuffin here Unconventional secrets
for social media posting successOkay, unconventional.
Well, that must not workbecause it's unconventional.
Bs.
Look at a contagious smilenumbers.
Look at Victoria Curie'snumbers.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Look at any of her videos I'm gonna pull up my
numbers right now and you canread them.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Put your glasses back on you know we had, we had
compiled all the numbers from uhacross all sorry, sorry, across
all social platforms, oh god,about a year ago or more.
And uh it was, it was over 40million followers.
Ok, if you have over 40 millionfollowers then you can put out
(31:04):
your own course.
But my wife has put togethereverything that she's learned
and you know I'm a redneck overthese past three and a half four
years since we've beenpodcasting.
She has a guru of a podcastinghusband named dave campbell and
(31:24):
yoda okay.
So some of her videos here thatshe's posted uh, 3.7 million
listens.
Uh, these are different fromviews or downloads or downloads,
because most of our podcastsare audio only.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And then, like one point four million, I mean
they're all way over they getanother one.
One point three million.
Four point two million.
I mean all of them are in thesix, if not seven, figure.
Every one of them.
I mean you scroll down in everysingle one and you know what.
That's not because of myhusband, that's not because of
them.
I mean you scroll down in everysingle one and you know what.
That's not because of my husband, that's not because of me, it
(32:03):
is because of you, it is becausewe try to bring true, authentic
genuineness.
We try to, you know, stand upfor the voiceless.
We are the voice for thevoiceless.
You know, we may not agree witheveryone, we may not agree with
everyone's opinion, but that'swhat makes vanilla, chocolate,
(32:25):
chocolate, mint, chocolate chip,strawberry, that's what makes
it.
But you know what?
We're not going to belittle you, we're not going to talk down
about you.
You know, yes, we talk aboutnarcissism and narcissistic
abuse, because both my husbandand I survived it and that's
different.
But like we don't advocate forbullying, we don't advocate for,
you know, derogatory, hurtfulthings.
(32:48):
We stand to help people buildthemselves up, because, building
themselves up, you should notbasically have to spend your
adulthood recovering from yourchildhood and that is such a
phrase I use all the timebecause it's true and you get
one childhood and you'resupposed to love it and enjoy it
(33:08):
and have fun and you know, andenjoy and have, make great
memories, not be like every timeI think of something, it's you
know, it just makes me want tocrawl into a dark hole and
that's not how it's supposed tobe.
So we want to help you realizethat even the smallest, tiniest
flicker of light can start awildfire and show you your spark
(33:33):
, show you that you can riseagain.
You can be that phoenix.
You can, you know, come backand just be all that you can and
all that.
You can rise again.
You can be that phoenix.
You can come back and just beall that you can and all that
you are.
That's what we're here to help.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I think that's a beautiful ending to this show.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Then you can take us out.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I brought us in my wife.
I tell you what y'all.
She's something else.
She's my soulmate.
We already established thatshe's the love of my life, could
not live without her and yes, Ican live with her.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
But seriously, y'all be looking out for the link here
for the, the podcast powerhouseand growth academy, and there's
also a, an app, I think it'sthrough mighty yeah, it shows
you, once you've joined, how youcan get the app, and it'll be
(34:30):
like and uh, yeah, y'all get onthere whenever y'all log in.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Um, I see you.
Uh, I might be running aroundall day, you know, doing my
full-time job, but I will get onthere and say hey and welcome,
and if you have any questions,uh, I can help you out.
So there, and we'll see y'allon, I guess, sunday when we do
(34:57):
another episode.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Now it's recorded that you're going to do this.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Of A Contagious Smile .
Speaker 2 (35:02):
It releases Monday at 5 am Correct.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But I've only got two days off a week and I get
bogged down with you know oldman naps and you know honey-do
list.
Close your mouth, babe.
Your kitchen flies.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, from all the shit you're talking.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Good night y'all.
Thank you for listening toContagious.
Smile Unstoppable.
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