June 30, 2025 • 46 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
How do y'all work?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm airing it.
Go, keep going.
It's the redhead and theredneck.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
A contagious smile brought to you by Victoria and
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The redhead and the redneck.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Y'all, I can't do it.
I can't do it See.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
My wife and I, we cut up all the time and we just
have a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
He just asked me why don't you bring us in?
And I said because nobody cando it the way you do.
I mean seriously, but you wereincorrect in one thing.
Tonight, this episode is beingsponsored by our academy,
contagious Smile Academy, whichis launching its first webinar
on July 13th.
It's so exciting.
We have the best people ever.
(00:49):
Let's just digress for a momentand celebrate this event,
because we have just launchedour academy.
There's over a hundred pluscourses in it, what, what, and
there is so much awesomeness inthis.
There are courses in this thatwill make you laugh, that will
make you cry, that will make yousee things in lights you've
never seen before.
We have the Safe Haven PhoenixCenter for anybody who's been
(01:14):
through any kind of traumadomestic violence, sexual
violence, sexual abuse, traumain childhood, narcissistic
trauma, you name it.
It's in there and you're nothaving to sit in a room.
Now don't get me wrong.
I am the biggest advocate fortherapy and having a therapist,
but you get to do this at yourown time.
(01:36):
You do it in your own timeframe.
You sit there and you get to doit, and it's done by people
who've walked in this life,who's been through the trenches
and really has a firsthand look.
I've written every singlecourse in this.
Right now we have over 100.
My goal is to add more weekly,but right now I seem to be doing
(01:57):
it daily.
My favorite is the Stucco Squad, because everybody who knows me
knows that I have such a bigheart when it comes to kids.
So the Stucco Squad's awesome.
I just finished a course forsummer, beginning with Stucco
Squad, about how some of thekids can't go outside.
So this whole course is likehow to have an awesome summer
(02:19):
inside with air conditioning andit is so cute.
And then there's like bonussections where there's like 50
different ideas for people whohave not come up with ideas on
what to do to keep the kidsentertained and excited, even
when they're hooked up tomedical equipment.
This thing has it all.
I'm so excited.
Then you have um.
(02:40):
You have the valor circle forveterans and active military,
and I actually just completed acourse writing about the
aggressor, the abuser, for himto partake or her to partake in
it.
My husband is yawning profuselyat my words.
It's kind of like I'm a littlehuh about it.
(03:03):
Of like I'm a little huh aboutit.
And then we have also thesocial media playbook on how
we've gone from zero to millions, um, and how we've done it
because we don't have amarketing team, we have me and
how I've done this.
And then let's see what else dowe have?
I think I've named them rightvalor stucco squad, limitless
recovery, social media and safehaven.
So we've named them right ValorStucco Squad, limitless
(03:24):
Recovery, social Media and SafeHaven.
So we've named them all.
But then there's fun stuff inbetween and a lot of the
collections coincide with eachother, so you might find a
course in one and then a coursein another collection, which is
what's fun is you get to go andexplore.
But for those who have followedmy ever loving daily thing of
(03:48):
being in the hospitals OR rooms,you know, babe, I've actually,
if you take a calendar which is365 days, unless it's a leap
year, because I know myhusband's gonna say it I've had
a surgery like basically everythird day over the course of my
life.
I'm well over 100.
Basically every third day overthe course of my life, I'm well
(04:09):
over 100.
And so I just found out lastweek again, my goal is to go to
a doctor and leave without themsaying you need surgery just
once, like could I make thathappen.
It would be fabulous.
But I'm having.
I've had ear trouble andhearing trouble since the trauma
of the abuse and I found outthat I have to have a major.
I'm gonna get you a coffee anda smile in about five seconds.
So I have to have yet a verylife-altering surgery.
(04:34):
And I'm a very big believer inlaughter, and so I asked him
while he was in there could hebuild me a USB port for my arm
or something, because in orderfor me to function on a daily
basis, I have to plug everythingin, like I have to plug in my
hearing aids, which I'm not ableto wear right now.
Because of this, I'm not ableto hear completely correctly and
(04:56):
my speech is taking a toll andI'm starting to see it and
people are telling me that theyhear my speech issue now now,
which is hard for me as someonewho speaks, you know, in public
I would say talk too much whatfell out of your face?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
this hearing, this hearing loss is not so bad okay
you say I speak too much no, butthat's what I would have said
oh okay, uh-huh you said assomeone who won three global
awards we just got oh, you gottarub that in my face I am okay
(05:38):
yes, y'all, she did win, she no,we, we yeah she just won three
global awards.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
For best trauma advocate in domestic violence.
We won best special needsnetwork globally and we also won
the Evergreen Award as well forthe advocacy of domestic
violence and helping others, andall of our awards are out there
(06:07):
and I'm so humbled by them.
But one of the courses that Ihave in there is my butt is on
bluetooth because, you know, atleast three nights a week I have
to charge my back, which is,you know, oh, so much fun and
it's not fun, that's facetiouslystated.
And then you know my prosthetic.
(06:27):
If I ever chose to wear it andthe new one I'm getting, I
probably will, if it gets to bewhat I want you you don't wear
the old one because it's heavy,it's it's like a 10 pound weight
my shoulder can't handle itright right.
So I talk too much.
So you know what?
Watch this.
Go for it.
Go ahead, I'm just gonna sit,drink my unsweet tea and let you
(06:50):
just jaw jack that you are sogood your unsweet tea.
Babe is nasty so is stuff 90 ofthe shit you put in your mouth
okay, let's not bring up my pastI didn't, I wasn't going to and
ex-friends.
They're not girlfriends if youonly keep them for the night.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Those are called conquests.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Conquests no.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Uh-huh, you should have been in the United Nations
Because you, you know, were soattentive to third world
countries.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What I'm just saying, I thought you were not going to
talk so much.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay, go ahead.
Have at it, Hoss.
Let's see our numbers.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Go Go, three seconds, three seconds, y'all.
She hasn't spoken.
It's a miracle.
So I want to give a shout outto DJ Blacks.
He has officially andeffectively provided us with
quality equipment that you know,of course we had to purchase,
(07:52):
but, um, I got a little overtime.
I worked last few weeks but, um, yeah, he set us up real nice.
Thank you, dj Blacks.
My wife's just looking at me.
Y'all already know I'm not thebrains of this operation, so I
(08:16):
don't have two cents to share,but my wife does and she is
awesome.
Oh, let me tell you what I did.
Y'all, if y'all buy theselittle nugget ice makers, okay,
and, and you're an atypical guyand you think I don't need the
(08:37):
dang instructions, I can figurethis out myself.
All right, you sound like thatlisten y'all, I.
Okay, we are on our second icemaker, right, because the first
ice maker literally blew up.
Okay, some some metal part felloff inside the ice and then the
(09:01):
, the dangdoll top just exploded.
All right, there was no fire.
There was no fire, but itexploded so I'm having to send
it back.
So, anyway, got a new ice maker, ran it through and the whole
time I'm taking out the wholeice tray dumping water in the
(09:21):
bottom up under the ice.
And that's how I thought youfilled the dang thing up.
Well, it's our second secondweek with the thing somewhere in
there and month I have to cleanit.
So I moved it over to the sinkto drain the water out and I'll
(09:43):
be doggone if the top partdidn't pull out to reveal y'all
the water container where youput the dang water in.
You don't pull out the ice trayand fill it up from the bottom
up, you fill it from the top andnow there's more ice in it than
(10:06):
there's ever been, and youdon't have to fill it every two
years y'all.
I felt like a complete imbecileand I told you what an imbecile.
You know what imbecile is?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
it almost sounds like you're saying embolism embolism
how do you get embolism?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
because I'm reading your lips and like it sounds
like an imbecile pulmonaryembolism so my wife is cracking
up laughing and y'all know thefirst thing she yells faith.
Don't look what your idiotfather did that's the adjective
I chose, but sure okay, maybemoron dumbass no I think I, I
think I said yeah, okay.
(10:46):
Anyway, our daughter had a goodlaugh at it also.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, she was knee-slapping, laughing so hard
she goes.
You couldn't make this up.
This is great.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So, guys, just quickly, quickly, All right,
you're good for a quickie.
Guys Quickly peruse theinstructions so you don't look
like an arse.
An arse A-R-S-E an arse.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Like you're an arsehole.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I would say you're an icehole.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So tell people about who's going to be speaking at
the webinar.
It's quite exciting.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Susan, no, not Susan Ortega, y'all.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Who is Susan Ortega?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh my, are you serious?
Yeah, I'm serious.
Okay, we need to go retro somemovies.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Your movie choices suck.
I'm not watching your movies.
You have the worst taste inmovies ever.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
He watches those not B-rated movies or B-classified
movies.
He watches the Z-classifiedmovies.
They get like oh my God, wespent $40 million.
We have one watcher, woohoo,and it was in my husband
Seriously.
I mean his choice in movies isthe cure for insomnia.
Like, seriously, it is the shityou watch.
(12:11):
I can't.
He's like babe, watch a moviewith me.
I would rather have agynecological examination
because your movies suck.
Your movies suck, they'rehorrible, they are so bad.
I mean, my husband has so manyamazing qualities and I'm very
faithful, very honest, veryloving.
(12:31):
But I have to be very honest.
Your choice of movies suck andthat's why I'm so glad you and
Faith, our beautiful belovedchild, watch them together on
your father-daughter night everySaturday and I don't have to
partake in them.
I sit in the office and work.
It's great, because I can't, Ijust can't.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The second movie that we watched last night at
midnight was actually ananimated cartoon.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
No, the whole thing was an animated cartoon and I'm
okay with that.
It was sidebar Because it wasyeah, you lost me already, I
wouldn't watch it.
Because it was our time.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Okay, but both of y'all like to watch the dumbest
shit, and here's what I don'tget about our daughter.
I mean, god knows that.
That kid is the reason I liveand breathe.
However, why does she go onYouTube and watch the like Cliff
Notes version of a movie inlike 8.6 minutes?
(13:32):
And then she's like oh, I needto see it because I just watched
the what.
I don't even know what it'scalled, I don't care, whatever
she watches it.
And then she's like, oh, Ialready saw this what.
And then what she does that I'mso glad she does it with you,
because she doesn't do it withme.
I don't even know what's on tvanymore because I don't get the
chance to watch it.
She will be, and I love her tomadness.
She.
She'll watch a movie with myhusband and I'll think it's
(13:55):
hilarious because I don't haveto partake in this.
Every two or three minutes shestops, has to ask a question and
, what's even funnier, she'salready seen it.
She does it purposely to annoyhim, or she'll be like or he'll
have to he has not seensomething and she has and and
he'll be like don't tell me,don't tell me.
(14:15):
And she'll be like let me giveyou a little clue.
No, don't tell me.
And then she'll blurp it outafter, but then she'll stop and
then it's like an eight minutedissertation and then I wonder
where she gets that from andthen she turns it back on what's
wrong with your middle finger?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
it's the only one.
I got it just pointed straightup there for a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, there it is again I only have one, yeah, but she
does.
And then she pauses and she'slike well, let me tell you
something like non-stop.
And then she pushes play.
And then five seconds latershe's like oh, I forgot to tell
you about this sounds just likeyou no, it doesn wish.
Well, not for that one part,but I'm just saying it's
(14:56):
hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
She does the same thing on the video games.
I don't know if you're aware ofthis.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, because I think video games is a waste.
I hate them.
Hate isn't strong enough.
It does the exact same thing.
No, because you know what thetwo of you, two youths, are in
this constant competition,constant competition in video
games.
Right now, they're incompetition as to who can beat
(15:23):
the other one in Hogwarts.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Hogwarts.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And it's like as if y'all don't play enough.
And you go in there and youwant to play, and then she's
like hi, abuelo, she alwayscalls him abuelo.
And then she's like guess what,I'm on level whatever.
And he's like what?
And he hasn't reached thatlevel yet.
And then he had to have herassistance and help beat oh yeah
(15:50):
, and she was laughing so hard Iwas like you need to breathe,
babe, please breathe, pleasetake a breath, breathe in,
breathe out.
Like she's.
Like I can't believe you needyour daughter to show you how to
do this.
What an idiot like.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
She's hilarious so let let's give credit where
credit is due.
Okay, thank you foracknowledging all that I've done
for her our daughter seesthings a little different, okay,
and I love it about her.
I love it too, um y'all y'allbeing older, seeing the movie
(16:28):
rain man and how dustin hoffmanwas able to count the toothpicks
Right.
She sees things different andshe can master, manipulate these
puzzles that she has on herphone.
And it's the one where youconnect the dots.
(16:51):
I do the same one Withoutcrossing the lines.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, I do the same one.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh my God, I watched her as we're standing in the
grocery store line Right.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
For her to get me my roses that she got me, that was
so sweet.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
For her to allow me to buy you roses from her.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
She was smart because she keeps her money away from
you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There was like 30 to 40 dots.
Oh, she's so quick and she, Imean she flew through the lines,
I mean, and maybe made onemistake, yeah, but had to back
up.
But her mind is so quick and Iknew that she could do this
puzzle, that my old ass couldn'tget through on this video game.
(17:31):
And she showed me up.
I mean she was quick, oh, ittook her like 30 seconds Right,
and I died like eight times.
I was, you know, I wasn't evenfrustrated, but I was like I
can't do this, I just don't seeit.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But yeah, and then it's like the comical
conversation, because she'll belike, hey, did you get past this
or find this, or just find this, or did you get through this
maze, or whatever, and you'relike no, and she just walks
around and she goes up thestairs and she laughs and she's
like amateur and she's oh.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
She comes back and says oh, oh, I've been in that
part.
Yeah, I've already.
I've already done that, dad,I've already done that one too.
You might want to, uh, get asmany potions as you possibly can
.
I'm just saying I'm notdaughter, I love you, but stop
giving me hints.
Oh, I've done that too.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You might want to go and look up and up, but then,
like a day or two later, you'relike, hey, you want to give me a
hint or you want to help yourold man out here and show me how
to do this.
And, like you, you back up andyou're like, hey, can you help
me here?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I believe if we don't keep up with them, they're
gonna leave us behind who ourchildren faith is never gonna
leave me behind.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You might be in the dust, but well you're.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You're so far ahead of the game.
Miss 192 iq, it's not 192really not 192, what was it?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I recall it like 162.
Maybe something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You recall yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Einstein was 160, babe, then maybe it's not, I
don't know.
If you ask my biologicals,they'll tell you I'm like dumber
than dumb.
Well, let's ask them as soon ashe comes on.
Yes, wouldn't that be a hootWoo?
I haven't started drinking yet,I might just start.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So if y'all haven't already, get on Amazon and pick
up Victoria Curie's books.
She's written at least 41, 42sin the works, actually, 43s in
the works.
Faith Curie has written somebooks.
Y'all look her up.
She's written some beautifulbooks about me.
What about you, right?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I have to say so.
I had to go okay, and I knowthat so many people are gonna
understand when I say this.
So this past week I was meetingwith a new prosthetic team,
right and so highly recommendedprosthesis team, you know.
So I get, and everybody whoknows me knows I'm always early.
(20:00):
If I'm late it's insulting.
It's insulting because itmesses everybody else's day up.
If I'm 30 minutes early, I'm ontime, so I'm always really
early.
So our appointment was like 10.
We left at like 8.
And it takes forever becauseAtlanta sucks and Atlanta driver
suck and traffic sucks.
And Russia, there's not a rushhour.
(20:21):
In Atlanta it's 24 hours, evenSaturdays, sundays, holidays.
It doesn't discriminate, it'sconstant.
So I put it in the GPS, right,and I'm like whoo-hoo and I'm
driving and driving, and driving, and driving.
It doesn't recognize thebuilding.
There's no building.
So it takes me behind a grocerystore in a shopping center and
I'm like, yeah, this isn't right.
(20:41):
I already know that this thingis like on one of the top floors
of a building.
So we finally asked somebodyand still I have never heard of
that building.
Great, so we're still driving,we're still driving and of
course, faith's on her phonewhich is driving me bananas.
And we finally find the building.
(21:02):
I have not a clue how.
And we get there and they'relike oh, the parking deck's over
here, great.
So we get to the parking deckand then you have to go through
this incredibly heavy door toget to the elevator.
Well, if you are, you know, anamputee, or you're a wheelchair
(21:25):
or both, how the hell do youopen this door?
There's not a button to pushfor it to open itself, right,
you got to do it on your own.
And then you get to theelevator and then you go down a
floor.
Then you have to go down aflight of steps and you're like
okay, and then there's a sign itsays no standing and I no
standing in the elevator.
(21:46):
No right outside the elevator.
I looked over at faith and Iwas like that would piss me off
if I was an amputee.
Right, right, like these jokesthey're doing on tiktok.
How do you call a dog with nolegs like, see, you know what?
How do you have a conversationwith someone who has no brain?
Because that's not funny, likeI think that's offensive.
So we get in there and then youhave to go into the building and
(22:06):
then you have to go up to oneof the top floors and you walk
in there.
I walked in.
I was like y'all better be thebest damn people in what you do
ever, because this is some crap.
I mean seriously, how do younot have it on Google?
You can't fight.
I tried to do a Google image ofthe building so I could see
what the building looked likewhen I pulled over in the back
(22:27):
of a grocery store building,nothing, nothing.
And it's like you work withpeople who are amputees.
Don't you think this is stupid?
Just a thought, just a thought.
I'm just saying.
I mean, come on now, let's,let's, let's turn on the brain
for a second.
Really Speaking of turning onthe brain, because you have not
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gone on about the webinar.
We have the best people, thebest people.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I mentioned Susan webinar.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
We have the best people, the best people.
I mentioned susan.
Okay, susan's amazing.
Susan is someone I interviewedyears ago who only a few times
in your life you meet somebodythat you are just enamored with
in such a professional way,right?
Susan is an attorney.
I couldn't do her story justice.
Her niece, maggie, was incollege and was murdered On
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campus by her ex-boyfriend andshe has like Devoted her life To
bringing awareness to domesticviolence.
She's written courses, she'swritten books.
She's amazing, she is amazing.
And so I reached out to her,knowing how busy she is, and
(23:46):
asked if she would do this.
And when she came back and said, yes, I was like a little kid
at Christmas who got their youknow, wanted toy.
And I spoke with her today andwas talking with her about a
bunch of different stuff goingon and I am just so enamored and
impressed with this woman.
She's going back to school inthe fall, right, and it's like
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you know.
She was like, well, people over62 get free tuition.
And I was like, well, you gotto wait a little while, right,
and she's like, ha ha, ha,you're, you know, you're funny
and I know she's either in herlate 70s, early 80s, somewhere
around there.
I'm not going to ask her age Inever want to insult her or make
her unhappy in any manner butshe is the spotlight headliner
(24:32):
for the webinar.
She actually also opened thevery first rape crisis center in
the country and just aweinspiring.
This woman is awe inspiring.
I could sit and listen to hertalk all day long and not say a
word.
And when we spoke today, Ithink I got like maybe not that
(24:52):
much in Because I was justlistening to her talk about
everything and I was so happy,like so, so happy.
So she's coming on there.
And then we have KeelanFloshender, who I just adore.
Keelan, he's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Y'all like him, he's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
He's had me on his talk show in LA.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
He's got a good voice .
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He is just as real and great as they get Like.
I just adore him and he'scoming on.
He has such a story ofinspiration and recovery and all
he wants to do is help people,and so we are so lucky and
blessed to have the lineup thatwe have.
And we have also chris callahan, who, um, is an attorney.
(25:33):
He is, uh, somebody who used tobe a police officer.
I met him and knew him fromwhen I was a teenager.
We met when I was like 15, whenwe worked together, and then he
was inspired somehow some wayto go into law enforcement I
don't know much about that.
Anyway, yeah, that's a falsestatement and so he became like
(25:58):
a brother to me and he is comingon.
He spent some time as a judgeand he's a speaker and an
investor and he was a detectiveand just a powerful source of
knowledge and wisdom, which youknow.
I hope he doesn't hear this,because I'll never hear the end
of it.
(26:18):
And then we have also D.
Oh, she's a limelight.
We have also D?
Oh, she's a limelight.
She survived domestic violenceand she's a coach and a mentor
and just one of those people youwant to sit outside with in a
rocking chair and justconversate all day right.
Just a wonderful human being, awonderful lady, who I'm very
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honored to call a friend, who iscoming on and doing this as
well, who I'm very honored tocall a friend who is coming on
and doing this as well.
We have Whitney Knoxley, who isalso an attorney, and she's
amazing.
I don't even want to share herstory because I don't know what
part of it she will share, whatpart she won't.
You need to tune in just forWhitney's story alone, because
the comeback story of Whitney isamazing.
(27:02):
Her recovery is amazing of whatshe's gone through and you
really need to tune in just tohear hers because it's so worth
it.
So we've got Keelan, we've gotChris, we have Susan, we have
Whitney, we have Dee.
We just have like a group ofamazing, amazing people, and
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that's not even everyone.
We have emily, who is also apodcaster, and she's done quite
a bit, uh, when it comes totrauma, and she's going to be on
.
The list just goes on and on andon, and tickets are free.
You can go to Eventbrite andput in best of the best for July
13th and we have free tickets.
(27:48):
We have tickets that are $2.50.
We have tickets that are $5.
And that money is going tosponsor someone who can't afford
it.
If you leave a domestic violencesituation, you have what's on
your back.
You have what you can carrywith you, you have your kids.
You know you're carry with you,you have your kids, you know
you're trying to go into refuge.
When you go into this situationand you don't know how to do
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certain things, you know theseclasses are out there for you
and if you reach out to mepersonally, I'm going to make
sure you get whatever you needin these courses and you're not
going to have to pay for them.
But but we do have to pay forall the platforms and all the
things that we need to do inorder to keep it up and going.
And I've never taken a paycheck.
My husband's never taken apaycheck from any of the work
(28:30):
that we've done, and myhusband's been doing this with
me for five years.
I've been doing this for 19 anda half years now and it becomes
very hard financially, but wewill not turn anyone away.
So, if you look at it, one infour women are victims of abuse,
whether it's your mom, yoursister, your daughter or maybe
even God forbid you.
(28:51):
You never know.
Like I had my arm September 7th, three years ago, the very next
day it was gone.
You never know what's going tohappen tomorrow.
So if you have the ability topay it forward I mean, even a
cup of coffee at Starbucks ismore than $5 now.
A Happy Meal is more than $5now but that is going to bring
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hope and awareness and life andyou're paying it forward.
And you know what, if Godforbid, the day comes when you
need it, it's going to be therefor you too.
So you can go to Eventbritethere is a link down there also
if you want to do a donation foreven $5, $10.
You know we had someone whogave us 15 cups of coffee the
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other day, which was amazing.
That gives 15 classes.
You know when, when you havespecial needs kids and you are
literally pulled in a milliondifferent directions scheduling
the appointments, implementingin the therapies that you were
just learning, going in andfighting insurance and getting
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stuff approved.
You know what?
What?
What burns me up so much aboutthe insurance facilities is the
fact that they don't care thatthat's a human being, that
that's a child.
They you know it's about.
Well, let's see if we're gonnacover them.
And then the doctors are nodifferent.
You know what happened to theday where the doctors care more
about the patient than they dotheir paycheck or their
(30:16):
kickbacks that they Get right.
So, like you could need for now,if you need to have a surgery
because you're in pain anddiscomfort unless you're in the
hospital, as an admitted patient, say, to have a surgery because
you're in pain and discomfortunless you're in the hospital,
as an admitted patient, say, youhave a child that has horrific
earaches and they need to haveear tubes put in.
You have to wait for insuranceto approve and if they have
Medicaid, it could take up to 30days.
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So these beautiful littlechildren are in agony because of
it.
And then that's horrible.
I mean, that's absolutelyhorrible.
And then you have to go anddrive for gas, you know, and if
somebody is on disability,they're on a very limited income
and like, if you go to thehospital, it's anywhere from 14
to $20 to park at most hospitals, right.
(30:57):
And then you have to pay for thegas.
You have to pay for the wearand tear on the vehicle.
Long term you have to pay ifyou're driving any far of a
distance, you know, do you haveto stop and get a snack?
Do you have to stop and makesure your kid gets something to
eat?
There's all these differentfactors that people don't put
into play to realize.
So if these people, thesebeautiful families, need
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assistance, I'm going to makesure that those kids get into
Stucco Squad, that those kidsget into stucco squad, that
those kids get into anythingthat they need that we offer,
because that five dollars couldgo towards a parking ticket, it
could go towards a snack for thekids, or the mom who is wearing
herself down and, you know,trying so hard to put on that
face for her kids, but when shegoes into the bathroom she
(31:39):
silently cries because she feelslike no one's listening and no
one gets it.
Well, we get it because we'velived it and we still live it.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
so so many times we we sat in uh the NICU and would
walk just the hallways right.
We wouldn't be NICU.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
NICU is neonatal intensive care unit.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I was in the NICU for six months but we would not see
parent one in any of the roomsfor forever, for for there would
be days and weeks, uh, thelongest parents that way but a
majority months right peoplelook at it like it's a
babysitting service.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I get rested.
It was crazy.
Not everybody, but there's amajority and it's always been
that way, right, and it'shorrible.
I mean, there were so many dayswhen faith was in the hospital
last year for six weeks you andI would share a sandwich for the
day, because hospitals don'tcare if you're impatient.
They don't even give you abreak on parking.
It's $14 a day, right, andthat's just what it is.
(32:35):
And then when we would try andeat each meal that comes to the
room which is not tasty you knowyou're not asking for a decent
meal, but like, make it where itdoesn't taste like cardboard is
at least a parent plates, atleast $10.
So for the two of us it wouldhave been $60 a day just for the
parent tray.
(32:56):
If we went downstairs whichneither one of us would want to
go and leave her at the sametime then it's even more so.
But then we would just get asandwich and split it a lot of
time.
Or when he would have to comehome, he would bring snacks back
up and we would eat those.
I mean he even brought tea upbecause the drinks nothing there
is free, you know, and I meanit's like they charge you $85
(33:17):
for a baby aspirin but you'regoing to pay $6 for a tea, right
, and it's so wrong to pay sixdollars for a tea, right, and
it's so wrong.
So if you have the ability, youknow five dollars, ten dollars,
whatever it is, even if it'sone time you know that could be
for your sister, that could befor your niece, that could be
for yourself one day, and wejust ask that you know, pay it
(33:40):
forward, because it does comeback around.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It comes back around tenfold yeah, buy that cup of
coffee, y'all it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It really does help others and if you don't want to
go to event bright and look, youcan go to a contagious smilecom
and in the right corner itshows buy me a coffee.
And when you open it up ittalks about transformation and
how.
That's what this is for.
It's for transformation, whereyou can set up if you want to do
monthly or if you want to dojust a one time, and it does.
(34:09):
I mean.
You know writing these courses,I look at them and I compare
them to other courses similarout there and people are
charging anywhere from $99 to$497 for these classes.
But it's not what it's about.
What it's about is helpingothers that need that extra
support right now and I knowit'll come back around at some
(34:29):
point in time and you and I as afamily have really sacrificed a
lot so that we could continueto provide these services.
You know, as long as Faith hasbeen okay, we have, you know,
sacrificed personally the two ofus as long as she's good.
But you know, we just want tomake sure that nobody is left
(34:50):
alone, nobody's unheard,nobody's unseen, and everybody
realizes that they're valued.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
So, speaking of these courses, they can access these
courses.
How they can access thesecourses?
How.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
You can go to a contagious smilecom and go onto
the Academy tab.
Also, you can do a contagioussmile M, as in Mary and as in
Nancy, so a contagious smilemnco, and it pulls it up and you'll
see the option of join orexplore.
Hit the explore button and itshows you all of the collections
(35:26):
.
It lets you click on and readthe overview of each course.
There's some in there that arehilarious.
I mean, they were so much fun.
And you know what, if you havea course suggestion that you
think needs to be in there, sendme an idea.
I'm happy to do it.
We've just started doingsomething else that I'm so
honored to do.
We're going to start doingdedicated courses for
(35:50):
individuals.
So, like JJ Holly, who helps usnow, who owns Ripple Retreat,
has his Ripple was his goodfriend that passed away serving,
and so we're going to do adedicated course in his honor.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
And so what we do is if you have someone that you've
lost to like breast cancer orany plethora of things addiction
, you name it, you know, or youjust want to thank someone for
being your rock during yourtraumatic event and helped you
through your trauma, we can doone for them and those proceeds
will go to help in thescholarship fund.
(36:30):
So that's so much fun to dothat and really bring light to
those that are helping brightenup that darkness.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
These courses y'all, and when both my wife and I have
been on the masterclasses, shelikes to take one by uh, I
believe, chris foss oh yes, okay, okay, him on the show.
He was an fbi top hostagenegotiator I opened that door,
y'all sorry drop the mic, butanyway uh, those master class
(37:02):
courses are just like what youfind here in our academy I keep
saying her academy because youknow she's sitting here doing
all this work one handed, youknow, while I'm out.
You know Jaw jacking, jawjacking on my job, yes, playing
video games she is.
She has done awesome, awesome.
(37:23):
You know, very meticulous jobon the details of all these
courses.
So y'all get in there, join,start perusing through there.
Uh, you like them, buy them.
They're.
They're dirt cheap.
Okay, could, could she markthem up to 3399, to, you know,
$516?
(37:45):
Yes, she could, but she doesn't.
She wants to make this minimumas possible but still be able to
function as our network grows,as our business grows.
Okay, just recently we had toget new microphones.
Y'all we had to.
Our old ones were just shitty,they sucked.
And I'm, our old ones were justshitty, they sucked.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And I'm sure everybody can hear the
difference already.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Oh yeah, we had to get a new soundboard.
We had our soundboard stolen.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
We did, we did.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
And then you know, we just had to upgrade stuff, we
had to upgrade our computer wehaven't done yet because we have
to wait.
A have to.
She's just ran out of room.
All the things that she does.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Well, I've had this computer for like five years
right.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Her graphics aren't up to par.
She needs, you know, bettergraphics card.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
So do you have an issue with being a little
meticulous and anal, aboutmaking sure everything is just
right?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
But the stuff that she produces, y'all is
absolutely phenomenal.
So get on there, joined.
Y'all is absolutely phenomenal.
So get on there, join themighty networks.
Say hey, you, you get logged in.
I'll say hey to you right offthe bat.
Okay, I'm going to welcome youto our community.
Hey, holler at me if you've gotany questions.
Uh, and then and then, and thenstart perusing through these
courses.
(38:58):
Uh, jj, I understand he's goingthrough the courses and he
loves them.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
He does, he actually does all the independent
activities.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He's a jump my skillet, as you call it, because
he's like do you tell peoplehow you sit here in absolute
agony and pain and you'rewriting all these courses Like
and no, I don't because, I don't, because it doesn't make a
difference to me.
I'm still going to do it Right.
And the fact is is that peoplewho, like a lot of people, don't
know who what CRPS is and it'scomplex regional pain syndrome
(39:32):
and I have it and you know I aman amputee, I just got a STEM
router spinally put in and it'sjust, you know, and what really,
just I don't want to say,irritates me.
But you know, I don't care ifit's one surgery or a hundred
surgeries.
When people hear, oh, she'shaving another surgery, it's
like, oh, okay, it's a day thatends in Y, you know she's having
it, but it's, it's serious andit's still scary.
(39:53):
I'm very scared for my familywhen I go in and have all these
done.
I feel like a hollowed outwoman.
I do because there is not aplace.
If you took a picture of askull that I have not, or a
skeleton that I have not had,and none of it's been cosmetic,
which I think by now I should beable to get, like buy a hundred
, get one free, or something,right, but literally it's just,
(40:15):
what else can they do to me?
I mean, I'm so robotic thatinstead, you know, my body parts
are like between the ages ofeight and 15 years of age, so
I'm really not my age when itcomes to the fact that this is
where I am with my replacementparts, and so I'm at a point
where it's like, oh, I don'tneed a shower, I just need a
(40:36):
good WD-40 washing, because myhusband is just mesmerized by
all of our cameras around theproperty.
He's just watching everythingam I interrupting you?
no, but it's just like what areyou interrupting me?
Okay, so yeah I'm watchingsecurity I just need wd-40
(40:56):
washes, but it's, it's yessitting here, stop it.
You're the one always talkingabout keeping it pg burrito.
What are you talking about?
What was it you said?
You needed lube I said I neededa wd-40 wash isn't that the
same thing, y'all?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
you're asking me, I'm asking them, they're the ones
listening wow, I don't.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
I don't even know what I'm gonna do with you you
ain't right I'm not right, I'mnot the one who said it yeah,
okay.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Hey, speaking about those courses again, didn't
whitney?
Um?
Isn't she one of the productsof one of your courses?
Uh, did she?
Wasn't she one of the firstones that came to you about
social media following?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Whitney came to me about her podcast, um, right off
the bat before she started andlaunched and she's amazing and
award-winning and awesome andshe I helped her with creating
her tagline and teaching her alittle bit about podcasting.
But, like you know and I'vedone some marketing for a bunch
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of different people and helpedtheir numbers grow and showed
them how to do it winnie is likea self-starter.
She's amazing, like peoplereally need to tune in just to
hear her, and she has a hugeheart and she's got such a
comeback story, so people needto tune in just for that.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
She does have a huge heart.
She was there for us during ourWith faith.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Absolutely.
She started to go fund me forus because I mean you wouldn't
leave and I was there and so youdon't get paid unless you're at
work.
And so she helped launch aGoFundMe and I called her so
many times and she just listenedand listened, and so I'm
forever in debt to her for that.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, good, and you've got more on the lineup
for the webinar.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, We're're gonna end up with
another one.
My goal is to have like aspecial webinar eventually every
week where we bring in someoneand people can tune in and just
listen to that person and askquestions and and that would be
amazing and that's my goal is toget to that point where we do
it weekly and have somebody comeon that people would be
interested in in that topic andy'all.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I do apologize if uh you've tried to reach out to be
he never checks his emailcontact.
I am having technicaldifficulty with my a contagious
smile, uh email I just have youtried turning it on.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Well, I would ask you if you checked it on your
computer.
But if you, guys, I almost wantto take a picture of his desk
and put it out there.
But it's kind of funny becausehis desk is so hoarded with
hoarding, like Haven, that itcovers over chaos.
No, it's not.
His desk is so messy that thepile of crap is over half as
(43:55):
tall as the big monitor on hiscomputer, and so that is another
reason.
So you can always reach out tome, because I answer emails at
one in the morning, at five inthe morning.
I just it's always right there.
So, yeah, you can reach out tome online and you know work on
that.
But you know you should try andclean your desk a little bit.
(44:17):
Just get that mess off.
I'm out there working.
You have no, no yes no,absolutely not video games.
You were up today at like 10 30and at 12 30 you were napping.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
It's Sunday.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
I don't give a rat's behind.
You were in pajamas all day.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Who doesn't take a nap on Sundays?
Me.
Well, you're like theTerminator.
Is that a bionic joke?
Yes, you don't stop.
Is there a?
Speaker 2 (44:46):
problem there's people running in the yard.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Well, that's just great, so you can take us out.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
No, you're so good at it, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
No, no, I brought us in laughing.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Right, so that because you didn't complete it
in its entirety?
No, you didn't, you werelaughing profusely.
Therefore, you did not completeit in its entirety, so go ahead
.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Thank y'all for listening to another episode of
Unstoppable with the lovely,sexy, feisty, saucy, saucy.
I haven't used that word yetSaucy.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
What is that?
You're saucy?
What the?
Speaker 1 (45:26):
heck, is that?
Feel a mix.
Victoria curate, which y'allallget on Amazon.
Get her books who Kicked Firstand Nark Nark, who's there.
Okay, I can't read them.
I won't read them.
Not that I couldn't read them,I just.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Nark, Nark.
Who's there?
Speaker 1 (45:45):
I didn't read the entire thing.
Okay, lord, and her first bookkicked first.
I could not read it's, it's,it's too much for me.
Anyway, y'all pick up thosebooks and we'll see you next
time.
I can take the smile signingout.
Good night, y'all.
How do y'all work?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm airing it.
Go, keep going.
It's the redhead and theredneck.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
A contagious smile brought to you by Victoria and
Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The redhead and the redneck.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Y'all, I can't do it.
I can't do it See.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
My wife and I, we cut up all the time and we just
have a good time.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
He just asked me why don't you bring us in?
And I said because nobody cando it the way you do.
I mean seriously, but you wereincorrect in one thing.
Tonight, this episode is beingsponsored by our academy,
contagious Smile Academy, whichis launching its first webinar
on July 13th.
It's so exciting.
We have the best people ever.
(00:49):
Let's just digress for a momentand celebrate this event,
because we have just launchedour academy.
There's over a hundred pluscourses in it, what, what, and
there is so much awesomeness inthis.
There are courses in this thatwill make you laugh, that will
make you cry, that will make yousee things in lights you've
never seen before.
We have the Safe Haven PhoenixCenter for anybody who's been
(01:14):
through any kind of traumadomestic violence, sexual
violence, sexual abuse, traumain childhood, narcissistic
trauma, you name it.
It's in there and you're nothaving to sit in a room.
Now don't get me wrong.
I am the biggest advocate fortherapy and having a therapist,
but you get to do this at yourown time.
(01:36):
You do it in your own timeframe.
You sit there and you get to doit, and it's done by people
who've walked in this life,who's been through the trenches
and really has a firsthand look.
I've written every singlecourse in this.
Right now we have over 100.
My goal is to add more weekly,but right now I seem to be doing
(01:57):
it daily.
My favorite is the Stucco Squad, because everybody who knows me
knows that I have such a bigheart when it comes to kids.
So the Stucco Squad's awesome.
I just finished a course forsummer, beginning with Stucco
Squad, about how some of thekids can't go outside.
So this whole course is likehow to have an awesome summer
(02:19):
inside with air conditioning andit is so cute.
And then there's like bonussections where there's like 50
different ideas for people whohave not come up with ideas on
what to do to keep the kidsentertained and excited, even
when they're hooked up tomedical equipment.
This thing has it all.
I'm so excited.
Then you have um.
(02:40):
You have the valor circle forveterans and active military,
and I actually just completed acourse writing about the
aggressor, the abuser, for himto partake or her to partake in
it.
My husband is yawning profuselyat my words.
It's kind of like I'm a littlehuh about it.
(03:03):
Of like I'm a little huh aboutit.
And then we have also thesocial media playbook on how
we've gone from zero to millions, um, and how we've done it
because we don't have amarketing team, we have me and
how I've done this.
And then let's see what else dowe have?
I think I've named them rightvalor stucco squad, limitless
recovery, social media and safehaven.
So we've named them right ValorStucco Squad, limitless
(03:24):
Recovery, social Media and SafeHaven.
So we've named them all.
But then there's fun stuff inbetween and a lot of the
collections coincide with eachother, so you might find a
course in one and then a coursein another collection, which is
what's fun is you get to go andexplore.
But for those who have followedmy ever loving daily thing of
(03:48):
being in the hospitals OR rooms,you know, babe, I've actually,
if you take a calendar which is365 days, unless it's a leap
year, because I know myhusband's gonna say it I've had
a surgery like basically everythird day over the course of my
life.
I'm well over 100.
Basically every third day overthe course of my life, I'm well
(04:09):
over 100.
And so I just found out lastweek again, my goal is to go to
a doctor and leave without themsaying you need surgery just
once, like could I make thathappen.
It would be fabulous.
But I'm having.
I've had ear trouble andhearing trouble since the trauma
of the abuse and I found outthat I have to have a major.
I'm gonna get you a coffee anda smile in about five seconds.
So I have to have yet a verylife-altering surgery.
(04:34):
And I'm a very big believer inlaughter, and so I asked him
while he was in there could hebuild me a USB port for my arm
or something, because in orderfor me to function on a daily
basis, I have to plug everythingin, like I have to plug in my
hearing aids, which I'm not ableto wear right now.
Because of this, I'm not ableto hear completely correctly and
(04:56):
my speech is taking a toll andI'm starting to see it and
people are telling me that theyhear my speech issue now now,
which is hard for me as someonewho speaks, you know, in public
I would say talk too much whatfell out of your face?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
this hearing, this hearing loss is not so bad okay
you say I speak too much no, butthat's what I would have said
oh okay, uh-huh you said assomeone who won three global
awards we just got oh, you gottarub that in my face I am okay
(05:38):
yes, y'all, she did win, she no,we, we yeah she just won three
global awards.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
For best trauma advocate in domestic violence.
We won best special needsnetwork globally and we also won
the Evergreen Award as well forthe advocacy of domestic
violence and helping others, andall of our awards are out there
(06:07):
and I'm so humbled by them.
But one of the courses that Ihave in there is my butt is on
bluetooth because, you know, atleast three nights a week I have
to charge my back, which is,you know, oh, so much fun and
it's not fun, that's facetiouslystated.
And then you know my prosthetic.
(06:27):
If I ever chose to wear it andthe new one I'm getting, I
probably will, if it gets to bewhat I want you you don't wear
the old one because it's heavy,it's it's like a 10 pound weight
my shoulder can't handle itright right.
So I talk too much.
So you know what?
Watch this.
Go for it.
Go ahead, I'm just gonna sit,drink my unsweet tea and let you
(06:50):
just jaw jack that you are sogood your unsweet tea.
Babe is nasty so is stuff 90 ofthe shit you put in your mouth
okay, let's not bring up my pastI didn't, I wasn't going to and
ex-friends.
They're not girlfriends if youonly keep them for the night.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Those are called conquests.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Conquests no.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Uh-huh, you should have been in the United Nations
Because you, you know, were soattentive to third world
countries.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What I'm just saying, I thought you were not going to
talk so much.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay, go ahead.
Have at it, Hoss.
Let's see our numbers.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Go Go, three seconds, three seconds, y'all.
She hasn't spoken.
It's a miracle.
So I want to give a shout outto DJ Blacks.
He has officially andeffectively provided us with
quality equipment that you know,of course we had to purchase,
(07:52):
but, um, I got a little overtime.
I worked last few weeks but, um, yeah, he set us up real nice.
Thank you, dj Blacks.
My wife's just looking at me.
Y'all already know I'm not thebrains of this operation, so I
(08:16):
don't have two cents to share,but my wife does and she is
awesome.
Oh, let me tell you what I did.
Y'all, if y'all buy theselittle nugget ice makers, okay,
and, and you're an atypical guyand you think I don't need the
(08:37):
dang instructions, I can figurethis out myself.
All right, you sound like thatlisten y'all, I.
Okay, we are on our second icemaker, right, because the first
ice maker literally blew up.
Okay, some some metal part felloff inside the ice and then the
(09:01):
, the dangdoll top just exploded.
All right, there was no fire.
There was no fire, but itexploded so I'm having to send
it back.
So, anyway, got a new ice maker, ran it through and the whole
time I'm taking out the wholeice tray dumping water in the
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bottom up under the ice.
And that's how I thought youfilled the dang thing up.
Well, it's our second secondweek with the thing somewhere in
there and month I have to cleanit.
So I moved it over to the sinkto drain the water out and I'll
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be doggone if the top partdidn't pull out to reveal y'all
the water container where youput the dang water in.
You don't pull out the ice trayand fill it up from the bottom
up, you fill it from the top andnow there's more ice in it than
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there's ever been, and youdon't have to fill it every two
years y'all.
I felt like a complete imbecileand I told you what an imbecile.
You know what imbecile is?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
it almost sounds like you're saying embolism embolism
how do you get embolism?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
because I'm reading your lips and like it sounds
like an imbecile pulmonaryembolism so my wife is cracking
up laughing and y'all know thefirst thing she yells faith.
Don't look what your idiotfather did that's the adjective
I chose, but sure okay, maybemoron dumbass no I think I, I
think I said yeah, okay.
(10:46):
Anyway, our daughter had a goodlaugh at it also.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Oh, she was knee-slapping, laughing so hard
she goes.
You couldn't make this up.
This is great.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So, guys, just quickly, quickly, All right,
you're good for a quickie.
Guys Quickly peruse theinstructions so you don't look
like an arse.
An arse A-R-S-E an arse.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Like you're an arsehole.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I would say you're an icehole.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Ha ha.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
So tell people about who's going to be speaking at
the webinar.
It's quite exciting.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Susan, no, not Susan Ortega, y'all.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Who is Susan Ortega?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh my, are you serious?
Yeah, I'm serious.
Okay, we need to go retro somemovies.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Your movie choices suck.
I'm not watching your movies.
You have the worst taste inmovies ever.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
He watches those not B-rated movies or B-classified
movies.
He watches the Z-classifiedmovies.
They get like oh my God, wespent $40 million.
We have one watcher, woohoo,and it was in my husband
Seriously.
I mean his choice in movies isthe cure for insomnia.
Like, seriously, it is the shityou watch.
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I can't.
He's like babe, watch a moviewith me.
I would rather have agynecological examination
because your movies suck.
Your movies suck, they'rehorrible, they are so bad.
I mean, my husband has so manyamazing qualities and I'm very
faithful, very honest, veryloving.
(12:31):
But I have to be very honest.
Your choice of movies suck andthat's why I'm so glad you and
Faith, our beautiful belovedchild, watch them together on
your father-daughter night everySaturday and I don't have to
partake in them.
I sit in the office and work.
It's great, because I can't, Ijust can't.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The second movie that we watched last night at
midnight was actually ananimated cartoon.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
No, the whole thing was an animated cartoon and I'm
okay with that.
It was sidebar Because it wasyeah, you lost me already, I
wouldn't watch it.
Because it was our time.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Okay, but both of y'all like to watch the dumbest
shit, and here's what I don'tget about our daughter.
I mean, god knows that.
That kid is the reason I liveand breathe.
However, why does she go onYouTube and watch the like Cliff
Notes version of a movie inlike 8.6 minutes?
(13:32):
And then she's like oh, I needto see it because I just watched
the what.
I don't even know what it'scalled, I don't care, whatever
she watches it.
And then she's like, oh, Ialready saw this what.
And then what she does that I'mso glad she does it with you,
because she doesn't do it withme.
I don't even know what's on tvanymore because I don't get the
chance to watch it.
She will be, and I love her tomadness.
She.
She'll watch a movie with myhusband and I'll think it's
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hilarious because I don't haveto partake in this.
Every two or three minutes shestops, has to ask a question and
, what's even funnier, she'salready seen it.
She does it purposely to annoyhim, or she'll be like or he'll
have to he has not seensomething and she has and and
he'll be like don't tell me,don't tell me.
(14:15):
And she'll be like let me giveyou a little clue.
No, don't tell me.
And then she'll blurp it outafter, but then she'll stop and
then it's like an eight minutedissertation and then I wonder
where she gets that from andthen she turns it back on what's
wrong with your middle finger?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
it's the only one.
I got it just pointed straightup there for a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, there it is again I only have one, yeah, but she
does.
And then she pauses and she'slike well, let me tell you
something like non-stop.
And then she pushes play.
And then five seconds latershe's like oh, I forgot to tell
you about this sounds just likeyou no, it doesn wish.
Well, not for that one part,but I'm just saying it's
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hilarious.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
She does the same thing on the video games.
I don't know if you're aware ofthis.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, because I think video games is a waste.
I hate them.
Hate isn't strong enough.
It does the exact same thing.
No, because you know what thetwo of you, two youths, are in
this constant competition,constant competition in video
games.
Right now, they're incompetition as to who can beat
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the other one in Hogwarts.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Hogwarts.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And it's like as if y'all don't play enough.
And you go in there and youwant to play, and then she's
like hi, abuelo, she alwayscalls him abuelo.
And then she's like guess what,I'm on level whatever.
And he's like what?
And he hasn't reached thatlevel yet.
And then he had to have herassistance and help beat oh yeah
(15:50):
, and she was laughing so hard Iwas like you need to breathe,
babe, please breathe, pleasetake a breath, breathe in,
breathe out.
Like she's.
Like I can't believe you needyour daughter to show you how to
do this.
What an idiot like.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
She's hilarious so let let's give credit where
credit is due.
Okay, thank you foracknowledging all that I've done
for her our daughter seesthings a little different, okay,
and I love it about her.
I love it too, um y'all y'allbeing older, seeing the movie
(16:28):
rain man and how dustin hoffmanwas able to count the toothpicks
Right.
She sees things different andshe can master, manipulate these
puzzles that she has on herphone.
And it's the one where youconnect the dots.
(16:51):
I do the same one Withoutcrossing the lines.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, I do the same one.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh my God, I watched her as we're standing in the
grocery store line Right.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
For her to get me my roses that she got me, that was
so sweet.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
For her to allow me to buy you roses from her.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
She was smart because she keeps her money away from
you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There was like 30 to 40 dots.
Oh, she's so quick and she, Imean she flew through the lines,
I mean, and maybe made onemistake, yeah, but had to back
up.
But her mind is so quick and Iknew that she could do this
puzzle, that my old ass couldn'tget through on this video game.
(17:31):
And she showed me up.
I mean she was quick, oh, ittook her like 30 seconds Right,
and I died like eight times.
I was, you know, I wasn't evenfrustrated, but I was like I
can't do this, I just don't seeit.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But yeah, and then it's like the comical
conversation, because she'll belike, hey, did you get past this
or find this, or just find this, or did you get through this
maze, or whatever, and you'relike no, and she just walks
around and she goes up thestairs and she laughs and she's
like amateur and she's oh.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
She comes back and says oh, oh, I've been in that
part.
Yeah, I've already.
I've already done that, dad,I've already done that one too.
You might want to, uh, get asmany potions as you possibly can
.
I'm just saying I'm notdaughter, I love you, but stop
giving me hints.
Oh, I've done that too.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You might want to go and look up and up, but then,
like a day or two later, you'relike, hey, you want to give me a
hint or you want to help yourold man out here and show me how
to do this.
And, like you, you back up andyou're like, hey, can you help
me here?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I believe if we don't keep up with them, they're
gonna leave us behind who ourchildren faith is never gonna
leave me behind.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You might be in the dust, but well you're.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You're so far ahead of the game.
Miss 192 iq, it's not 192really not 192, what was it?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I recall it like 162.
Maybe something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You recall yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Einstein was 160, babe, then maybe it's not, I
don't know.
If you ask my biologicals,they'll tell you I'm like dumber
than dumb.
Well, let's ask them as soon ashe comes on.
Yes, wouldn't that be a hootWoo?
I haven't started drinking yet,I might just start.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
So if y'all haven't already, get on Amazon and pick
up Victoria Curie's books.
She's written at least 41, 42sin the works, actually, 43s in
the works.
Faith Curie has written somebooks.
Y'all look her up.
She's written some beautifulbooks about me.
What about you, right?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I have to say so.
I had to go okay, and I knowthat so many people are gonna
understand when I say this.
So this past week I was meetingwith a new prosthetic team,
right and so highly recommendedprosthesis team, you know.
So I get, and everybody whoknows me knows I'm always early.
(20:00):
If I'm late it's insulting.
It's insulting because itmesses everybody else's day up.
If I'm 30 minutes early, I'm ontime, so I'm always really
early.
So our appointment was like 10.
We left at like 8.
And it takes forever becauseAtlanta sucks and Atlanta driver
suck and traffic sucks.
And Russia, there's not a rushhour.
(20:21):
In Atlanta it's 24 hours, evenSaturdays, sundays, holidays.
It doesn't discriminate, it'sconstant.
So I put it in the GPS, right,and I'm like whoo-hoo and I'm
driving and driving, and driving, and driving.
It doesn't recognize thebuilding.
There's no building.
So it takes me behind a grocerystore in a shopping center and
I'm like, yeah, this isn't right.
(20:41):
I already know that this thingis like on one of the top floors
of a building.
So we finally asked somebodyand still I have never heard of
that building.
Great, so we're still driving,we're still driving and of
course, faith's on her phonewhich is driving me bananas.
And we finally find the building.
(21:02):
I have not a clue how.
And we get there and they'relike oh, the parking deck's over
here, great.
So we get to the parking deckand then you have to go through
this incredibly heavy door toget to the elevator.
Well, if you are, you know, anamputee, or you're a wheelchair
(21:25):
or both, how the hell do youopen this door?
There's not a button to pushfor it to open itself, right,
you got to do it on your own.
And then you get to theelevator and then you go down a
floor.
Then you have to go down aflight of steps and you're like
okay, and then there's a sign itsays no standing and I no
standing in the elevator.
(21:46):
No right outside the elevator.
I looked over at faith and Iwas like that would piss me off
if I was an amputee.
Right, right, like these jokesthey're doing on tiktok.
How do you call a dog with nolegs like, see, you know what?
How do you have a conversationwith someone who has no brain?
Because that's not funny, likeI think that's offensive.
So we get in there and then youhave to go into the building and
(22:06):
then you have to go up to oneof the top floors and you walk
in there.
I walked in.
I was like y'all better be thebest damn people in what you do
ever, because this is some crap.
I mean seriously, how do younot have it on Google?
You can't fight.
I tried to do a Google image ofthe building so I could see
what the building looked likewhen I pulled over in the back
(22:27):
of a grocery store building,nothing, nothing.
And it's like you work withpeople who are amputees.
Don't you think this is stupid?
Just a thought, just a thought.
I'm just saying.
I mean, come on now, let's,let's, let's turn on the brain
for a second.
Really Speaking of turning onthe brain, because you have not
(22:48):
gone on about the webinar.
We have the best people, thebest people.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I mentioned Susan webinar.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
We have the best people, the best people.
I mentioned susan.
Okay, susan's amazing.
Susan is someone I interviewedyears ago who only a few times
in your life you meet somebodythat you are just enamored with
in such a professional way,right?
Susan is an attorney.
I couldn't do her story justice.
Her niece, maggie, was incollege and was murdered On
(23:21):
campus by her ex-boyfriend andshe has like Devoted her life To
bringing awareness to domesticviolence.
She's written courses, she'swritten books.
She's amazing, she is amazing.
And so I reached out to her,knowing how busy she is, and
(23:46):
asked if she would do this.
And when she came back and said, yes, I was like a little kid
at Christmas who got their youknow, wanted toy.
And I spoke with her today andwas talking with her about a
bunch of different stuff goingon and I am just so enamored and
impressed with this woman.
She's going back to school inthe fall, right, and it's like
(24:10):
you know.
She was like, well, people over62 get free tuition.
And I was like, well, you gotto wait a little while, right,
and she's like, ha ha, ha,you're, you know, you're funny
and I know she's either in herlate 70s, early 80s, somewhere
around there.
I'm not going to ask her age Inever want to insult her or make
her unhappy in any manner butshe is the spotlight headliner
(24:32):
for the webinar.
She actually also opened thevery first rape crisis center in
the country and just aweinspiring.
This woman is awe inspiring.
I could sit and listen to hertalk all day long and not say a
word.
And when we spoke today, Ithink I got like maybe not that
(24:52):
much in Because I was justlistening to her talk about
everything and I was so happy,like so, so happy.
So she's coming on there.
And then we have KeelanFloshender, who I just adore.
Keelan, he's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Y'all like him, he's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
He's had me on his talk show in LA.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
He's got a good voice .
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He is just as real and great as they get Like.
I just adore him and he'scoming on.
He has such a story ofinspiration and recovery and all
he wants to do is help people,and so we are so lucky and
blessed to have the lineup thatwe have.
And we have also chris callahan, who, um, is an attorney.
(25:33):
He is, uh, somebody who used tobe a police officer.
I met him and knew him fromwhen I was a teenager.
We met when I was like 15, whenwe worked together, and then he
was inspired somehow some wayto go into law enforcement I
don't know much about that.
Anyway, yeah, that's a falsestatement and so he became like
(25:58):
a brother to me and he is comingon.
He spent some time as a judgeand he's a speaker and an
investor and he was a detectiveand just a powerful source of
knowledge and wisdom, which youknow.
I hope he doesn't hear this,because I'll never hear the end
of it.
(26:18):
And then we have also D.
Oh, she's a limelight.
We have also D?
Oh, she's a limelight.
She survived domestic violenceand she's a coach and a mentor
and just one of those people youwant to sit outside with in a
rocking chair and justconversate all day right.
Just a wonderful human being, awonderful lady, who I'm very
(26:40):
honored to call a friend, who iscoming on and doing this as
well, who I'm very honored tocall a friend who is coming on
and doing this as well.
We have Whitney Knoxley, who isalso an attorney, and she's
amazing.
I don't even want to share herstory because I don't know what
part of it she will share, whatpart she won't.
You need to tune in just forWhitney's story alone, because
the comeback story of Whitney isamazing.
(27:02):
Her recovery is amazing of whatshe's gone through and you
really need to tune in just tohear hers because it's so worth
it.
So we've got Keelan, we've gotChris, we have Susan, we have
Whitney, we have Dee.
We just have like a group ofamazing, amazing people, and
(27:26):
that's not even everyone.
We have emily, who is also apodcaster, and she's done quite
a bit, uh, when it comes totrauma, and she's going to be on
.
The list just goes on and on andon, and tickets are free.
You can go to Eventbrite andput in best of the best for July
13th and we have free tickets.
(27:48):
We have tickets that are $2.50.
We have tickets that are $5.
And that money is going tosponsor someone who can't afford
it.
If you leave a domestic violencesituation, you have what's on
your back.
You have what you can carrywith you, you have your kids.
You know you're carry with you,you have your kids, you know
you're trying to go into refuge.
When you go into this situationand you don't know how to do
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certain things, you know theseclasses are out there for you
and if you reach out to mepersonally, I'm going to make
sure you get whatever you needin these courses and you're not
going to have to pay for them.
But but we do have to pay forall the platforms and all the
things that we need to do inorder to keep it up and going.
And I've never taken a paycheck.
My husband's never taken apaycheck from any of the work
(28:30):
that we've done, and myhusband's been doing this with
me for five years.
I've been doing this for 19 anda half years now and it becomes
very hard financially, but wewill not turn anyone away.
So, if you look at it, one infour women are victims of abuse,
whether it's your mom, yoursister, your daughter or maybe
even God forbid you.
(28:51):
You never know.
Like I had my arm September 7th, three years ago, the very next
day it was gone.
You never know what's going tohappen tomorrow.
So if you have the ability topay it forward I mean, even a
cup of coffee at Starbucks ismore than $5 now.
A Happy Meal is more than $5now but that is going to bring
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hope and awareness and life andyou're paying it forward.
And you know what, if Godforbid, the day comes when you
need it, it's going to be therefor you too.
So you can go to Eventbritethere is a link down there also
if you want to do a donation foreven $5, $10.
You know we had someone whogave us 15 cups of coffee the
(29:34):
other day, which was amazing.
That gives 15 classes.
You know when, when you havespecial needs kids and you are
literally pulled in a milliondifferent directions scheduling
the appointments, implementingin the therapies that you were
just learning, going in andfighting insurance and getting
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stuff approved.
You know what?
What?
What burns me up so much aboutthe insurance facilities is the
fact that they don't care thatthat's a human being, that
that's a child.
They you know it's about.
Well, let's see if we're gonnacover them.
And then the doctors are nodifferent.
You know what happened to theday where the doctors care more
about the patient than they dotheir paycheck or their
(30:16):
kickbacks that they Get right.
So, like you could need for now,if you need to have a surgery
because you're in pain anddiscomfort unless you're in the
hospital, as an admitted patient, say, to have a surgery because
you're in pain and discomfortunless you're in the hospital,
as an admitted patient, say, youhave a child that has horrific
earaches and they need to haveear tubes put in.
You have to wait for insuranceto approve and if they have
Medicaid, it could take up to 30days.
(30:37):
So these beautiful littlechildren are in agony because of
it.
And then that's horrible.
I mean, that's absolutelyhorrible.
And then you have to go anddrive for gas, you know, and if
somebody is on disability,they're on a very limited income
and like, if you go to thehospital, it's anywhere from 14
to $20 to park at most hospitals, right.
(30:57):
And then you have to pay for thegas.
You have to pay for the wearand tear on the vehicle.
Long term you have to pay ifyou're driving any far of a
distance, you know, do you haveto stop and get a snack?
Do you have to stop and makesure your kid gets something to
eat?
There's all these differentfactors that people don't put
into play to realize.
So if these people, thesebeautiful families, need
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assistance, I'm going to makesure that those kids get into
Stucco Squad, that those kidsget into stucco squad, that
those kids get into anythingthat they need that we offer,
because that five dollars couldgo towards a parking ticket, it
could go towards a snack for thekids, or the mom who is wearing
herself down and, you know,trying so hard to put on that
face for her kids, but when shegoes into the bathroom she
(31:39):
silently cries because she feelslike no one's listening and no
one gets it.
Well, we get it because we'velived it and we still live it.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
so so many times we we sat in uh the NICU and would
walk just the hallways right.
We wouldn't be NICU.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
NICU is neonatal intensive care unit.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I was in the NICU for six months but we would not see
parent one in any of the roomsfor forever, for for there would
be days and weeks, uh, thelongest parents that way but a
majority months right peoplelook at it like it's a
babysitting service.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I get rested.
It was crazy.
Not everybody, but there's amajority and it's always been
that way, right, and it'shorrible.
I mean, there were so many dayswhen faith was in the hospital
last year for six weeks you andI would share a sandwich for the
day, because hospitals don'tcare if you're impatient.
They don't even give you abreak on parking.
It's $14 a day, right, andthat's just what it is.
(32:35):
And then when we would try andeat each meal that comes to the
room which is not tasty you knowyou're not asking for a decent
meal, but like, make it where itdoesn't taste like cardboard is
at least a parent plates, atleast $10.
So for the two of us it wouldhave been $60 a day just for the
parent tray.
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If we went downstairs whichneither one of us would want to
go and leave her at the sametime then it's even more so.
But then we would just get asandwich and split it a lot of
time.
Or when he would have to comehome, he would bring snacks back
up and we would eat those.
I mean he even brought tea upbecause the drinks nothing there
is free, you know, and I meanit's like they charge you $85
(33:17):
for a baby aspirin but you'regoing to pay $6 for a tea, right
, and it's so wrong to pay sixdollars for a tea, right, and
it's so wrong.
So if you have the ability, youknow five dollars, ten dollars,
whatever it is, even if it'sone time you know that could be
for your sister, that could befor your niece, that could be
for yourself one day, and wejust ask that you know, pay it
(33:40):
forward, because it does comeback around.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It comes back around tenfold yeah, buy that cup of
coffee, y'all it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
It really does help others and if you don't want to
go to event bright and look, youcan go to a contagious smilecom
and in the right corner itshows buy me a coffee.
And when you open it up ittalks about transformation and
how.
That's what this is for.
It's for transformation, whereyou can set up if you want to do
monthly or if you want to dojust a one time, and it does.
(34:09):
I mean.
You know writing these courses,I look at them and I compare
them to other courses similarout there and people are
charging anywhere from $99 to$497 for these classes.
But it's not what it's about.
What it's about is helpingothers that need that extra
support right now and I knowit'll come back around at some
(34:29):
point in time and you and I as afamily have really sacrificed a
lot so that we could continueto provide these services.
You know, as long as Faith hasbeen okay, we have, you know,
sacrificed personally the two ofus as long as she's good.
But you know, we just want tomake sure that nobody is left
(34:50):
alone, nobody's unheard,nobody's unseen, and everybody
realizes that they're valued.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
So, speaking of these courses, they can access these
courses.
How they can access thesecourses?
How.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
You can go to a contagious smilecom and go onto
the Academy tab.
Also, you can do a contagioussmile M, as in Mary and as in
Nancy, so a contagious smilemnco, and it pulls it up and you'll
see the option of join orexplore.
Hit the explore button and itshows you all of the collections
(35:26):
.
It lets you click on and readthe overview of each course.
There's some in there that arehilarious.
I mean, they were so much fun.
And you know what, if you havea course suggestion that you
think needs to be in there, sendme an idea.
I'm happy to do it.
We've just started doingsomething else that I'm so
honored to do.
We're going to start doingdedicated courses for
(35:50):
individuals.
So, like JJ Holly, who helps usnow, who owns Ripple Retreat,
has his Ripple was his goodfriend that passed away serving,
and so we're going to do adedicated course in his honor.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
And so what we do is if you have someone that you've
lost to like breast cancer orany plethora of things addiction
, you name it, you know, or youjust want to thank someone for
being your rock during yourtraumatic event and helped you
through your trauma, we can doone for them and those proceeds
will go to help in thescholarship fund.
(36:30):
So that's so much fun to dothat and really bring light to
those that are helping brightenup that darkness.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
These courses y'all, and when both my wife and I have
been on the masterclasses, shelikes to take one by uh, I
believe, chris foss oh yes, okay, okay, him on the show.
He was an fbi top hostagenegotiator I opened that door,
y'all sorry drop the mic, butanyway uh, those master class
(37:02):
courses are just like what youfind here in our academy I keep
saying her academy because youknow she's sitting here doing
all this work one handed, youknow, while I'm out.
You know Jaw jacking, jawjacking on my job, yes, playing
video games she is.
She has done awesome, awesome.
(37:23):
You know, very meticulous jobon the details of all these
courses.
So y'all get in there, join,start perusing through there.
Uh, you like them, buy them.
They're.
They're dirt cheap.
Okay, could, could she markthem up to 3399, to, you know,
$516?
(37:45):
Yes, she could, but she doesn't.
She wants to make this minimumas possible but still be able to
function as our network grows,as our business grows.
Okay, just recently we had toget new microphones.
Y'all we had to.
Our old ones were just shitty,they sucked.
And I'm, our old ones were justshitty, they sucked.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And I'm sure everybody can hear the
difference already.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Oh yeah, we had to get a new soundboard.
We had our soundboard stolen.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
We did, we did.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
And then you know, we just had to upgrade stuff, we
had to upgrade our computer wehaven't done yet because we have
to wait.
A have to.
She's just ran out of room.
All the things that she does.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Well, I've had this computer for like five years
right.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Her graphics aren't up to par.
She needs, you know, bettergraphics card.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
So do you have an issue with being a little
meticulous and anal, aboutmaking sure everything is just
right?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
But the stuff that she produces, y'all is
absolutely phenomenal.
So get on there, joined.
Y'all is absolutely phenomenal.
So get on there, join themighty networks.
Say hey, you, you get logged in.
I'll say hey to you right offthe bat.
Okay, I'm going to welcome youto our community.
Hey, holler at me if you've gotany questions.
Uh, and then and then, and thenstart perusing through these
courses.
(38:58):
Uh, jj, I understand he's goingthrough the courses and he
loves them.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
He does, he actually does all the independent
activities.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
He's a jump my skillet, as you call it, because
he's like do you tell peoplehow you sit here in absolute
agony and pain and you'rewriting all these courses Like
and no, I don't because, I don't, because it doesn't make a
difference to me.
I'm still going to do it Right.
And the fact is is that peoplewho, like a lot of people, don't
know who what CRPS is and it'scomplex regional pain syndrome
(39:32):
and I have it and you know I aman amputee, I just got a STEM
router spinally put in and it'sjust, you know, and what really,
just I don't want to say,irritates me.
But you know, I don't care ifit's one surgery or a hundred
surgeries.
When people hear, oh, she'shaving another surgery, it's
like, oh, okay, it's a day thatends in Y, you know she's having
it, but it's, it's serious andit's still scary.
(39:53):
I'm very scared for my familywhen I go in and have all these
done.
I feel like a hollowed outwoman.
I do because there is not aplace.
If you took a picture of askull that I have not, or a
skeleton that I have not had,and none of it's been cosmetic,
which I think by now I should beable to get, like buy a hundred
, get one free, or something,right, but literally it's just,
(40:15):
what else can they do to me?
I mean, I'm so robotic thatinstead, you know, my body parts
are like between the ages ofeight and 15 years of age, so
I'm really not my age when itcomes to the fact that this is
where I am with my replacementparts, and so I'm at a point
where it's like, oh, I don'tneed a shower, I just need a
(40:36):
good WD-40 washing, because myhusband is just mesmerized by
all of our cameras around theproperty.
He's just watching everythingam I interrupting you?
no, but it's just like what areyou interrupting me?
Okay, so yeah I'm watchingsecurity I just need wd-40
(40:56):
washes, but it's, it's yessitting here, stop it.
You're the one always talkingabout keeping it pg burrito.
What are you talking about?
What was it you said?
You needed lube I said I neededa wd-40 wash isn't that the
same thing, y'all?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
you're asking me, I'm asking them, they're the ones
listening wow, I don't.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
I don't even know what I'm gonna do with you you
ain't right I'm not right, I'mnot the one who said it yeah,
okay.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Hey, speaking about those courses again, didn't
whitney?
Um?
Isn't she one of the productsof one of your courses?
Uh, did she?
Wasn't she one of the firstones that came to you about
social media following?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Whitney came to me about her podcast, um, right off
the bat before she started andlaunched and she's amazing and
award-winning and awesome andshe I helped her with creating
her tagline and teaching her alittle bit about podcasting.
But, like you know and I'vedone some marketing for a bunch
(42:06):
of different people and helpedtheir numbers grow and showed
them how to do it winnie is likea self-starter.
She's amazing, like peoplereally need to tune in just to
hear her, and she has a hugeheart and she's got such a
comeback story, so people needto tune in just for that.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
She does have a huge heart.
She was there for us during ourWith faith.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Absolutely.
She started to go fund me forus because I mean you wouldn't
leave and I was there and so youdon't get paid unless you're at
work.
And so she helped launch aGoFundMe and I called her so
many times and she just listenedand listened, and so I'm
forever in debt to her for that.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, good, and you've got more on the lineup
for the webinar.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, We're're gonna end up with
another one.
My goal is to have like aspecial webinar eventually every
week where we bring in someoneand people can tune in and just
listen to that person and askquestions and and that would be
amazing and that's my goal is toget to that point where we do
it weekly and have somebody comeon that people would be
interested in in that topic andy'all.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I do apologize if uh you've tried to reach out to be
he never checks his emailcontact.
I am having technicaldifficulty with my a contagious
smile, uh email I just have youtried turning it on.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Well, I would ask you if you checked it on your
computer.
But if you, guys, I almost wantto take a picture of his desk
and put it out there.
But it's kind of funny becausehis desk is so hoarded with
hoarding, like Haven, that itcovers over chaos.
No, it's not.
His desk is so messy that thepile of crap is over half as
(43:55):
tall as the big monitor on hiscomputer, and so that is another
reason.
So you can always reach out tome, because I answer emails at
one in the morning, at five inthe morning.
I just it's always right there.
So, yeah, you can reach out tome online and you know work on
that.
But you know you should try andclean your desk a little bit.
(44:17):
Just get that mess off.
I'm out there working.
You have no, no yes no,absolutely not video games.
You were up today at like 10 30and at 12 30 you were napping.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
It's Sunday.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
I don't give a rat's behind.
You were in pajamas all day.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Who doesn't take a nap on Sundays?
Me.
Well, you're like theTerminator.
Is that a bionic joke?
Yes, you don't stop.
Is there a?
Speaker 2 (44:46):
problem there's people running in the yard.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Well, that's just great, so you can take us out.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
No, you're so good at it, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
No, no, I brought us in laughing.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Right, so that because you didn't complete it
in its entirety?
No, you didn't, you werelaughing profusely.
Therefore, you did not completeit in its entirety, so go ahead
.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Thank y'all for listening to another episode of
Unstoppable with the lovely,sexy, feisty, saucy, saucy.
I haven't used that word yetSaucy.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
What is that?
You're saucy?
What the?
Speaker 1 (45:26):
heck, is that?
Feel a mix.
Victoria curate, which y'allallget on Amazon.
Get her books who Kicked Firstand Nark Nark, who's there.
Okay, I can't read them.
I won't read them.
Not that I couldn't read them,I just.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Nark, Nark.
Who's there?
Speaker 1 (45:45):
I didn't read the entire thing.
Okay, lord, and her first bookkicked first.
I could not read it's, it's,it's too much for me.
Anyway, y'all pick up thosebooks and we'll see you next
time.
I can take the smile signingout.
Good night, y'all.
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