May 1, 2025 • 56 mins
Welcome to Mental Health Awareness Month!
We kick start the month at GGA Dwarf Goat Yoga with GG and Sabrina where we discuss the therapeutic benefits of spending time in nature with animals.
From hikes to sound baths. Goat yoga with a glass of wine, to cow cuddling, there’s something for everyone. Discover how GG’s roots from Virginia and Sabrina’s childhood memory from Bangladesh sparked this unique, soulful business.
Understand the magic behind their trauma-free environment and why goats, with their docile yet powerful energy, make such wonderful companions. Perfect for families, kids, and anyone in need of a mental getaway, this episode is sure to leave you smiling and inspired. Don’t miss out on the laughter, the learning, and the love flowing from this charming farm. Tune in and bring a piece of nature’s zen into your life!
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Hey, you. You're tuned in tothe Skirts up show with Samantha
and Melissa.
Join our mission to normalizefailure, but still uncover the positives
at every twist and turn.
Skirts up, but keep yourpanties on. What's up, Skirts Up
Squad? It's Samantha andMelissa, and we are back for another
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episode of Skirts Up. In caseyou didn't know, Fun fact, maybe?
Fun fact. It's a fun fact.
What is it, May? I'll tell youif it's fun. I'm the decider of fun.
Love it.
Thank you. Thank you for that.May is mental health awareness month.
Oh, it's a good fact.
It's a good fact. Right,because everyone should be aware
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of it.
Actually, you're right.
We make it fun. And everyonedoes have mental health issues, whether
you want to admit it or not.And if you don't want to admit it,
that is a mental health problem.
That is a good point. And youknow what? Some of our mental health
problems are more fun than others.
Summer Cuckoo.
That's mine. So, yes, it's afun fact. I'll accept it.
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So what you'll get everyepisode this month has to do with
mental health awareness.Mental health. And you'll leave every
episode with new knowledge ofhow to really regulate yourself or
tools.
Tools for your. Yeah, for your pocket.
Yeah, in your pocket.
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In your pocket. We're going toopen up your pockets, listen to the
episode, and we're going toslip in those tools. Okay, that was
really funny.
I like it, I like it, I likeit. But you guys saw we, we have
been at the end of everymonth, we're posting a little heads
up of this is what the episodeis each week for the month. So you've
already seen kind of what thereal out is for for this month. And
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if you did, you also saw thatI'm sharing my mental health through
my seizures. I know thateveryone's been wanting to kind of
know, like, the conclusion of.Of what was going on with all that
from when we started. AndMelissa also shares her story with
mental health. We have a griefcounselor. We have. We have a type
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of therapy that kind ofteaches us how the subconscious mind
kind of locks in a lot of ourtrauma and really propels us into
who we are and how we act.
Yeah.
And today we also have goatyoga, which is you.
Yes.
As a form of mental health clarity.
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Yeah. Because it's. What'sinteresting is not even. Yeah, they
use it in mental health andthey use it in like, like meditation.
Yeah.
And they also use it, like,for Anyone who's been through an
abusive relationship.
Therapeutic.
That's the word.
That's the word we're lookingfor. It's therapeutic. Or when you
have traumatic stuff going on.Absolutely. Which, funny enough,
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we decided that we weren'tgoing to do a fail, and we were just
going to talk about ourexperience on the farm.
Yeah.
And what was very interestingto me is that. So we got to go. We
got to bottle feed the babygoats. We got to bottle feed the
cows. And when we went intothe gates with the cows and the big
goats.
Yeah.
They all were gravitatingtowards Melissa. What? They were
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really? Oh, yes. Like, Sabrinaand I kept looking at each other
and we were like, oh. And Igo, she needed it. Like, dude. And
so the point, like, what wetalk about in this whole episode
that you're about to hear ishow the animals know what you need.
Yeah.
Even if you don't. And it wasreally fun to witness all the animals
just kind of fleeing to you,flocking to you. And in that. That
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day, you needed it.
I did need it that day. Andthe truth is, like, if I have any
talents in the whole world,like, I like to think that it's,
one, making few people feelcomfortable around me. But two, like,
I feel like I'm kind of ananimal whisperer, and if an animal
doesn't come up to me, ithurts my feelings. And I was super,
super that day. I was reallyhaving some feels about life regardless,
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not about the animals. And Iwas just like, okay, I really hope
I go in there and I hope theanimals like me. And it was just
like, I know that sounds dumb,but if they.
They.
I think they just knew that Ineeded it.
And if it wasn't even thatday, it was that month. Honestly,
it's so. Oh, my gosh, you wereso much. I mean, I knew.
I don't know if Sam even said,I feel so sad knowing that this was
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happening now. But, you know,it happened and it is what it is.
But she. You had said, youknow, every time we got together,
you would go home and youwould feel it. Like, you'd feel like
a heavy weight.
And it's just like sleep and just.
Yeah.
And I'm really sorry that thatwas happening.
That's not your problem.That's an empath problem that I have,
and I haven't figured out howto turn it off.
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And that's something that wecan work. Maybe we should have an
episode on.
That too, because that'sKelly's offer. Kelly commenter. That
was One of the things she waslike, you know, there's a way to.
There are.
That wall. There's a way to.
Melissa Walker helped me with it.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah.
She has to do it. Shespecifically had to do it when she
was doing her. And she's goingto talk about this in one of the
episodes coming up, but shewas doing, like, a suicide hotline
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therapy for a while, and itwas. Yeah. So, yeah, you'd. But anyway,
all that to say. We got to goaround to the farm.
What was your favorite part?
My favorite part is gonnasound so weird, but I like, okay,
two favorite things. It wasthe actual, like, physical contact
with the animals. So they wentin and we got to feed the babies.
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We got to hold the baby goats.And like, oh, my gosh, it was so
messy and so fun. And theysaid, like, if you get. Sabrina and
Gigi said, if you get on yourhands and knees, the goats are starting.
They're training the babygoats to, like, jump up on your back.
So, like, when you're doingyoga, that they'll do that. And it
felt really. It feels reallygood. It feels like a little massage.
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And then I loved, like, whenwe went in to meet with the cows.
One of the cows is still ababy kind of. And, like, like, literally
up to, like, my forearm. Heput my whole hand in his mouth and
was just suckling on my hand.And I was like. It was so slimy,
but I was.
So there for it.
I was like, oh, hey, baby,I'll give you some love.
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One of my favorite memories inwhat has, like, brought me to wanting
a cow and just beinginterested in cows in general was
there was a fall festivalcalled Corn Dogs, I think, here in
Georgia, and they one day theyjust had a baby cow at the farm,
and it had to get bottle feetfed every so often. And I just happened
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to be in the pen, like, whenit needed to be bottle fed, and I
got to sit on the floor withthis cow in my lap and bottle feed
it. And I just thought it was,like, the coolest thing ever. And
so I actually enjoyed holdingthe baby goats and holding them like
a baby and, like, feeding them.
They were so sweet.
Honestly, that made me. Idon't know. No, there's nothing wrong
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with that, but that made methe happiest.
I just like, baby, that's great.
Babying, like, little things.
Nurturing and loving andgiving. Taking care of something.
Yeah.
Oh, that's so sweet. Thatmakes sense with the empath part.
So we did. We're not going tolike really do a fail. But collectively
we did kind of fail. But thisis where you guys get to come in
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and it's really exciting. Sowe have yet to do an actual yoga
class at the farm, but we werethinking it'd be better if.
We maybe it's okay that wedidn't do it with just us two because
we can invite you guys.
Yeah. So look out for a postwhere we will ask you guys what day
works best for you. We willget in contact with Sabrina and Gigi
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and let's get a class andlet's do it together. I, I, you know,
Gigi suggested that we do askirts up down dog, wine and yoga.
That's right. I forgot about that.
Yep. So maybe that's what wedo. Wine, yoga and a good time under
the stars. It sounds like fantastic.
It sounds amazing. Andsometimes we just need to go somewhere
where we're allowed to let goand not think about and be with.
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Yes. And be just surroundedwith people that are there for the
same thing.
And pure love, no judgment.
Yeah. We're there for. I'venever done yoga before, so hell if
I know how this is going to go.
Oh, shoot. It's going to be sofun. And it won't be the same because
you're going to have goatsclimbing all over you, which is amazing.
So yeah, look out for that.We're gonna do it together. And like
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we said, this episode is prerecorded. So this is our meeting
with Sabrina and Gigi at Gigia Goat Yoga here in Tucker, Georgia,
Georgia. So take a listen andenjoy. You get to hear the cows in
the background.
Moo.
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Today we have with us Gigi andSabrina. They are the owners and
operators of this locallyowned goat yoga studio in Tucker,
Georgia called GGA Goat Yoga,shockingly in Tucker, Georgia. Like
right, it's right here. It'sliterally a gold mine. Yeah. So thanks
for joining us today. We arehere to learn about this hidden gem
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that any one of you can visitat any time. They even travel.
Oh, absolutely.
I did not know that.
We are, we're a fully mobilecompany so anything you want happening
anywhere within Georgia oreven outside of Georgia, we will
come to you. We will pack upour goats, get our staff, get everything
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we need and come to you andhost a class anywhere you're at.
I love that.
Really?
Yeah. Schools, birthday parties.
Okay. You can go like into thesuburbs and like just in someone's
backyard, just have a party.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
A lot of corporate events though.
Or that. Okay.
That is genius.
It's Really a broad spectrum.We've done it all. We've done corporate
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events. We've done privateevents, personal events, birthdays.
We've done schools, ksu,Georgia Tech. Our furthest outreach
was Florida.
Okay.
We went to sand. Yep. We had.On the go weekend.
We did on the beach.
Are they on leashes?
No, they were doing goat yoga.
Like, the goats can get onleashes for hikes.
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Aren't gonna run away.
No, no, they're not gonna runaway. They are herd animals too.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's easy to train them tokind of.
That makes sense.
You can't, like, train themto, like, sit, though, can you? Like,
not.
Not. No, not like a dog.
Not too many animals.
Like a dog. That's just gonnatake all your.
You know, you can do that witha pig.
Pigs are smart. Apparentlythey're smarter than dogs.
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Pigs are very smart.
Pigs are, like, level 10 onthe Smart. But it's all food based,
though.
Yes, I'm food based too.
Trainable.
I can be trained.
Oh, my God.
Sam's working on it.
Anyway, so I want to know thestory of how this all became. This
is not what either of you wereoriginally doing. Gigi, I believe
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you were in music originally.Serena, I don't even know what you
did before you found this passion.
I worked in tech, so I was incorporate America. I come from a
development background, so Iwas literally on a computer screen
typing code all day building stuff.
Wow.
Were you, like, yearning forthe outside? I mean. Yeah.
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Yeah.
So with music and with tech orwith most different worlds and different
ways and differentprofessions, you need a balance.
So the animals typicallybecome a balance for you. So most
people balance stop at a dog.Our balance took a lot of different
things to kind of make it allmake sense. So, yeah, that's pretty
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much your origin in a realquick nutshell right there. Music
can get pretty intense. A lotof careers can get really intense.
And you find yourself hikingwith goats.
Yeah.
You find yourself hanging out,cuddling cows, and it kind of turns
into something you want toshare with more people, and that's
what you're looking at.
Yeah. What Gigi was sharingwith me before you got here is that,
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of course, this is like awellness place, but also for, like,
writer's block and in artisticblocks, that this is a great place
to come in. Get that workedout. Because you are in nature, you're
with animals, and so they canhelp you.
Release that probably the mostnatural way to prevent. Prevent all
kind of blockage. Just sohappened that the creative Blockage
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is connected to the earth, andwe can go through all the different
elements, but the animals arenaturally grounded. These things
just kind of help you. It justopens you all the way up and.
Yeah.
Yeah, it works.
That's really cool, because I.I didn't. I remember knowing in the
past, like, the animals kindof help us with our energy. They
take some from us that theyknow that they maybe don't want us
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to be carrying, because thisis true.
I don't know.
They're amazing. But, like,wow, now that you say, like, they're
grounded, that makes perfectsense. And then, like kind of like
hugging a tree, hugging ananimal, it's like just kind of.
But let's not be selfish now.Humans actually help the animals
too.
Yeah.
So by hugging them, we'reshowing them tons of love. That they
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human parents sometimes can bethe best parents for a lot of different
animals.
Yeah.
We go over and beyond theirnatural wild ways of survival, and
we spoil them typically. So wegotta kind of balance that sometimes.
Sometimes you can overdo it.You got cows that's 500 pounds or
500 pounds overweight.
Yes.
I've seen cats. You have thefat cats just like, oh, that's not
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healthy for the cat. So whenyou go to the vets, most time they
tell you, hey, your dog is overweight.
Yeah.
We equate that to good in loveand spoiling the animals.
Yeah.
So it's always awesome to comeand hug on a cow. You're helping
yourself. You're helping thecow. Cows and goats and most farm
animals are considered flightanimals, which mean they run from
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humans. And you can think of amillion reasons yourself of why typically
that happens. So we appreciateyou all and other people coming by,
spending so much time showingthese animals that they don't have
to run. People are loving andthey can love you all. And so it's
just ying and yang kind of balance.
Sabrina told me that there'speople who come to literally just
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love on the animals. Like,that's their job, so that they become
more trusting of humans on aregular basis.
So we have a role of ourstaff. They're called goat whisperers,
but they're not just limitedto the goats. They're, you know,
they engage with all theanimals here at the farm, but they.
They are here to provide a lotof love, provide a lot of attention
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and spoil the animals alongwith, you know, their other staff
duties that they have. Butthat is a big piece of their job,
is to bond with all theanimals here and then let the Animals
kind of trust them as wellbecause, you know, when we're hosting
these classes, the animals,they're going to follow who they
know. So I always tell ourgoat whisperers, if you don't bond
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with these animals, they'renot going to follow follow you. They
are going to be like, who isthat? I don't know you.
How often do they come by? Isit like a full time thing?
Oh, wow.
Daily they have their schedule set.
But it's true because animalsdo like build relationships with
you.
Dogs even, like they usuallypick their one human and you know,
wife is the one that workswith them more. Then like the husband's
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like, you know, do this andthat. It doesn't listen. Why is that
dog only listen to you?Because I'm home and I feed it.
If you constantly socializethat dog, then it can be everybody's
friend.
That's true. Yeah.
So that's kind of the balance because.
We don't want our animals hereattached to just me or Gigi. You
know, we want them to attachto anybody that comes that's in need.
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Or sometimes people don't evenknow they're in need. They come in
just to have fun and do a coolig picture or something. Then they're
starting to realize, hey, thisactually really, really works. It
feels good. Then they refertheir friends, family. Some people
bring moms that don't evenlike anim and I'm like. But then
they typically 98% leaveloving the animals. I want to say
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100, but I just stay away fromthat. But they typically leave learning
something good andunderstanding that all goats aren't
trying to chase you. Andchicken, like people got a lot of
different.
I'm afraid of chickens stories.
Yeah, stories. So thesechickens here, therapeutic as well.
They're very human. They loveyou. They're not going to chase you.
They're not going to bite me.
They're not going to bite you.
Get out of here.
So before we leave, I shouldtry and touch it. Yes.
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I'll video it.
We're gonna try to, you know,they like being held. You know, I
think one of the coolestthings about our farm versus it's
like, well, what makes you alldifferent from other farms? Yeah,
our animals here, they areraised in a trauma free environment
and that is something that wereally do take pride in. Yeah. We
are ensuring that our animalsnever feel any trauma. So they have
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never been chased, bit scared,slapped, kicked, thrown.
I mean, maybe some, maybe somekids chased them. They pull your
dog ears, but no. And we Lovethem. And. And most animals know
kids, so they know what'sgoing on.
But, yes, that's true becausethey, like, have babies themselves,
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and they know that.
They have to, like, our dogshave had some, had a litter. We're
not breeders at all, but, yeah.
They got pregnant behind my back.
Because of that, they learnedto be our boys. Huge. You've seen
them kind of.
Yeah.
What kind of dogs do you have?
County Corso.
Yeah.
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
And they're so wrinkly andcute, and.
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They'Re good for keeping out coyotes.
Oh, really? Do you have toworry about that here?
Absolutely. Georgia has tons,but Atlanta has more coyotes and
things than people reallyknow. I've heard the stories. Downtown.
Coyotes.
The coyotes are, like, very.
We've seen them in our neighborhood.
Wow. Yard. They don't care.They're like, hey, what's up, Georgia?
Coyotes, bobcats, foxes.
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Okay.
In this particular regionright here, we got majority of coyotes,
coyotes, and foxes.
Yeah.
They try to get too many bobcats.
Absolutely. That's why we gota. A K Corso. We picked that breed
because of their psi on Bidenis at 750.
Wait, psi?
It's the pressure.
Oh, of course. Pounds persquare inch, same as in a tire.
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I only know this because mywhole first half of life was in vet
medicine.
Yeah.
Yeah. We have our guard dogshere. You know, they guard. They're
protectors of this land, andthey are the guards of all of these
animals that reside here. Andthey're awesome.
And they know it, too. I'msure they do.
So it's really funny becausesometimes at night, I'll hear Hannibal
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barking, and you'll think he'slike a mile down the road somewhere,
but he'll just be in his room,and he'll do one bark, and it echoes.
Oh, my gosh.
All throughout to where you'llthink he's way down over there in
some. Like, I'm. I'm overhere. Like, oh, my God, Gigi. Like,
is he. Did he escape?
Did he ruin his voice? Coyotes.
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He's like, the goat guardian.And it's really good with the cows,
too. It works.
He's cute. He grew up with thegoats. So it's really funny because
he, you know, of course, hegrew exponentially in size over the
goats, but I even look at thebaby pictures of him where he was
smaller than the goats, andthen he's like, 140 pounds and just
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wrinkly muscles.
Speaking of growing up, I'mcurious because you said that you
had, like, a Growing up and ahistory with animals.
Absolutely.
And then did you, Sabrina?
Yes. So I was actually born in Bangladesh.
Okay.
Which is in the SoutheastAsian region. It's a small country
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located right next to India.It's so funny, because I. I have
this memory, and I told himabout this memory, and I swear this
is what triggered him to getthe cow.
Come on.
So my memory, I. I want to sayI was probably like 4 or 5 years
old. My mom took me with herto her friend's house to, like, you
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know, whatever, hang out.She's hanging out with her friend.
I had a nanny, and my nannywas supposed to be watching me while
my mom was hanging out with afriend, and the nanny wasn't watching
me for some odd reason. Andhere I go.
Oh, no.
I start. I apparently leftwobbling out of the property. I saw.
I went across the street tothis open grass field where there
were a cow. There was a cowthere. And I was trying to chase
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the cow. And, like, I wasaiming for the cow's tail because
it was swinging from side toside. So I'm like, oh. I was, like,
very intrigued by this wingingtail of this cow. Trying to walk
up behind the cow.
A toddler.
Oh, behind the cow.
That is terrifying for a mother.
Right?
Because I really could havejust got kicked and, you know, that
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could have been the end ofthat. But thankfully, like, my mom
came out right at that momentand was like, sabrina, you know,
and like, you, like, ran andgrabbed me up. But yeah, that. That's
like a memory I have of, like,me trying. Trying to engage with
the cow. And I told him the story.
That moment kind of, like,revealed a common interest.
Oh.
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And I was like, okay. She'ddefinitely be okay with the cow.
Oh, so it was your idea to geta cow originally.
That is so funny. You're like,when should I bring it up? When she
brought the story. And you'relike, that looks right into my plan.
Oh, my gosh. Well, why did youwant a cow then?
I love them. I mean, we got ahistory of cow host goats my mom
couldn't take. She couldn'tdrink regular milk. So her mom, you
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know, it's kind of like ahistory going back in Virginia. I'm
the first born out here outside.
Of a farm, and my brother and.
His mother kind of likechanneling the roots of Virginia.
I mean, it's a nice, beautifulold state to be from. And I'm first
born in Georgia. Don't get mewrong, I'm a real Georgia boy. I
Love it here, but it's prettycool to have the roots and have the
know how and more. So grandmaand Mom. Mom just grew up on the
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farm, but it's. It's likegetting these different words of
advice and knowing aboutfarming and loving to touch the dirt
and deal with animals kind ofmade it even more impactful when
I heard the story. So it justkind of. I knew she would be in a
line.
So then we got our cow. Andyou know, they're awesome. Both of
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our cows, Medusa and Hercules.I mean, it's so funny. They do their
cow cuddling classes here. Sowe just had our. They just had their
class this past Saturday.
And who is they?
Medusa and Hercules.
Oh, like, they have theircouch. Yes, they do. But who comes
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and cuddles with them? Like,you're talking about. Okay, clients.
So it's open to the generalpublic now.
Like, you can, like, goregister for the class and sign up.
We have them bi weekly here atthe farm. It's a very intimate class.
We only allow 10 people tocome per class, so we can kind of
like split them up to keep it.
That's our constant goal foras the company continues to expand
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and grow, as always, it's moreabout quality than quantity.
Yeah, for sure.
Big time. Because you can. Ifwe put too many people around, it's
not. It just destroys thecows. They start not trusting humans
again. And people don't reallyget a chance to, you know, engage
with the cows and stuff.
Right. It's not really for thehigher good of anyone.
Definitely the quality over anything.
I love that. I'm really gladyou guys said that, because that's
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a big truth to anything. Youcan't. The more you try to do at
one time, you can't do it to.To the full standard.
That's true.
So whose idea was it to openup this business first? Or was that
just kind of like a. Hey, weboth have this love. Let's.
It just came out of, like, usdoing this and sharing. And then
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people start advising, youknow, you don't hear the like, oh,
yeah, I'm gonna do that. Causeit's not. It's not driven off of
that. But the Sharon justturned into kind of like what you
see here now, if that makesthe most sense to you.
It was Gigi that was in mycorporate world. So I was like, you
know, drowning in my computer,not thinking about anything outside
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of my screen. And we. Wealready had the goats, you know,
and I think the goats alreadywere doing what they needed to do
for Gigi and I as far as,like, providing that therapeutic
aspect. I just remember ourvery first goat that we had.
They jumped off the thing.
Yeah.
The cows are, like, jumpingoff of each other. Sorry, guys. I
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got distracted.
They do like to cuddle.
But.
Yeah, I just remember the veryfirst goat we had. It was, like,
cold outside, and we had thegoat in. In her little house. We
had heat lamps. I mean, shespoiled. Very spoiled pajamas. Yes.
Okay.
I just remember going outthere and picking her up and just
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holding her, and she was just,like, laying on me like a human baby.
And I was just like, this isso nice.
Yeah. That is what theirbabies are called.
So kids came from goats, not humans.
That's a kid. That's a goatterminology. The word kid go out
far enough.
In middle America that theywould give the wife a baby goat before
they have a kid.
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Really?
To see how ready they really are.
That's a thing?
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, I love that. Learningthings. I love that too.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Like tradition and myth andnot myth, because he said it's real.
Tradition is.
It's happening right now inGeorgia. Y'all just so much in the
city right now. You don't see it.
Oh, that's so sad that I'm notmissing that. I'm missing out on
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that. Why is my husband notgiving me a kid?
Brett, Simon, y'all have failed.
Sorry, guys.
They're gonna come after you.They're gonna be like, you did not
help.
No.
So, like. Okay, okay. So I'mjust imagining you guys meet, you
get married, and then you'relike, I want a goat. Do you remember,
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like, how. How did it all start?
It started with our very firstgoat that we got.
Oh, Hunter.
Gigi. Yes. Gigi was just sointrigued. We were out in the country
somewhere. I can't even recallwhere, but North Georgia. This all
white, beautiful cashmeregoat. Like, he had these curly hair,
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curly beard. Like, he wasjust, like, so beautiful. And I was
like, oh, my God. Like, thatgoat looks better than me. Like,
my hair.
Walk him in the clock. You getall these compliments. They're like,
wow, that's like a holy goatyou got.
So Gigi. I just remember. Imean, I still have the picture I
took of him with Huncho, andhe's, like, holding the goat, you
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know, by the horn. And hishorns were already very grown. I
mean, this is an adult goat,like, not a baby.
Okay.
Fully grown. Not a dwarf size.A regular size goat.
Cashmere.
Yep.
I don't know what that Is. ButI guess about other big. Oh, wow.
Not like one of the baby goats.
That we have now, and justlike the coats with the cashmere,
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so their hair comes. Hangsdown real long.
Okay, so we got this goat.Gigi was like, we have to get this
goat. And I was like, youknow, he's a Gemini and I'm an Aries,
and, you know, like, when hegets ideas, instead of my logical
sense being like, you know, Idon't know, let's talk about that.
I'm more like, yeah, we needto just do it. Yeah, whatever you
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said.
Oh, that's great.
Enable each other. Yes, thisis great.
He was like, we're gettingthis goat. And I was like, okay,
we're getting the goat. Let'sgo. We got him home, and after we
brought him home, I mean, wewere like, we were walking him around
the neighborhood on a leash,my daughter and I. I just remember
we would take late night walkswith him, and he's just following
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behind us. And it was just a whole.
He was the closest goat todoing what you said, sitting and
stuff. Like, he was raised bya lady that had a huge farm out of
North Georgia, and she was.Got too old, and then it just kind
of worked out. Where we can.
Did you guys just ask herlike, hey, can we have this goat?
A friend of the. The actualguy that I knew arranged it for us.
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And so that was like our veryfirst goat experience. Unfortunately,
at that time, we didn't havethis much land.
Okay.
So it just didn't really makesense. You know, our. The selfish
side of us would have kepthim, but honestly, he probably wasn't
happy not having any land toreally roam. That's why we were walking
him around the neighborhood.But, you know, he needed. He needed
grass, he needed land. But itgave us the idea to get dwarf goats.
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We were like, okay. You know,dwarf goats, they're small in size.
They don't need a lot of land.And we're like, okay, this is. This
makes sense. We can do this.
It sparked a lot of interest.And then one fact I tell everybody,
just so you won't think allgoats are as cuddly as these guys.
A boar. A boar goat, and acashmere goat. And quite a few more
strong enough to break your kneecap.
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Wow.
Like from a kick.
No. Or ramming head button.
Okay.
That's their number one tool.Your dog cannot take out those size
goats at all. They just turnaround, they aim at your dog, and
they're. They're. They'reprecise with every Hit.
Yeah.
So just to let people knowthat I know you're seeing, like,
people come here to get to seethese teddy bear goats. Australian
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dwarf is the breed. But whenyou go back out to farms, don't.
Yeah.
Get to playing with goats.That can be extremely dangerous.
Yeah.
No, I love that. Do you guyseducate the kids and stuff before
they enter?
Even with our cows? I tellthem this is not your normal cow.
Cows. I explained to peoplehow cows kick from the side. Most
people don't know about thekung fu kick that they have going
on.
When you were grabbing thecow's tail, I was like, wait. Hopefully
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you're right behind his face.
Once again, most. Mostanimals, unless they just had a bad
upbringing themselves, knowit's a baby.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's one thing you canalways. I'm talking about the vicious,
like lions, tigers and bears.They know a baby somehow. They don't
mess with it.
I can see that.
My dogs, my. My dog now, like,she really tones herself down when
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she's playing with the cats.
Yeah.
And I know that soundsdifferent. It's not the same. But
they're small, they'refragile, and it's just really interesting
watching her. Like, she just knows.
And you raised that dog so,you know, that dog is pretty trauma
free. But only reason Iwouldn't experiment with the babies
and larger breed animalsbecause some of them are raised with
trauma. The larger breed andthey will hurt your child.
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Yeah.
But it is a higher chance thatanimals won't try to damage a baby
as long as they're raised agood way.
I didn't understand the JungleBook, you know, when they had Mowgli
and how all these animals tookto Mowgli, who was a human child.
Yeah.
And really, I mean, I don'tknow what would happen. I don't think
that's.
Since we're talking traumafree, does that mean it limits what
you can bring into the farm?Like, you can't just rescue a goat
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and then start.
That's a really good question.
Integrating it so it depends.So we are in a network of communities
and different farms. Theyreach from Carolina to North Georgia,
kind of around. And it's allabout the actual animal first.
Okay.
So if it finds itself lovinghumans and taking to that and appreciating
it, then the home will behere. If it just needs tons of land,
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it just graze and kind ofspend the rest of his days, it'll
go to a different property.
That makes sense.
So it's really all about howthe animals at their current Mental
space.
Where they at if you're alsowhat they need.
Right. There you go.
That makes sense because we'vehad rescues here. Like for example,
I have a rescue actuallyinside right now.
Oh, I remember you saying youhave them roam inside.
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They just hang out.
It's kind of new though.
Do they wear diapers?
I think it's cuz I'm pregnant.
You can put them. You candefinitely put the kids in diapers.
Yeah, we would put the babiesin diapers. But you know, it's funny
because a lot of farms willcall us and they'll be like, hey,
we have this animal. You know,they're kind of sick. Do you guys
want to rescue and try even.Even Medusa? You see my girl right
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there? Yeah. My red babe.She's a rescue. And we didn't think
she was gonna make it, honestly.
But look at her today.
She's happy, healthy, a lot of work.
A lot of work, a lot of loveand not giving up on her.
Yeah.
Yep. Because this, they getdiseases really early, really fast
when they're young.
Basically they don't have animmune system for about the first
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six weeks of their life. Sothose six weeks of a cow's life is.
We become their immune system.So interesting.
Are they getting it like fromtheir mother's milk? Even if they
were to have your.
Mother, sometimesunpasteurized milk can take the cow
all the way out. It can hurtthem sometimes. So believe it or
not, your mom might not be.I'll give you another example. Somebody
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contacted us for a raccoon.The raccoon barely is born and he
already somehow had rabies. Itcomes from the mom's womb.
Whoa.
So sometimes the mom aren'tsuitable to help, you know, do the
right thing. Yep, that's true.
Wow.
That's true.
Well, people don't realizethat kittens are actually the highest
carrier of rabies. So when youfind a kitten, like I always tell
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the kids, like, do not touchthat cat. Do not touch that kitten.
Do you want me to have to testit? Like, let me tell you how we
test it. And then so nowthey're like, kind of like, I see
a wild cat, I'm not gonnatouch it. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
I didn't even know that. Wow.
Humans catch it and we can'tget rid of it.
From my understanding, no,you, if you.
Get bitten by an animal, ofcourse you gotta test the animal
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that bit you. And you can getthe rounds of rabies vaccines. There's
like four of them. They' Very,very painful, but it cannot cure
it.
That's rabies in a nutshell.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Don't get it.
So where do the classes take place?
So we have quite a fewpartnerships, actually. We are partnered
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with several parks andrecreations all around. So we have
classes that happen at BrookRun Park. We have. We just acquired
the Pinckneyville park. Sowe're going to be having classes
there starting in March. Wehave classes in Henry county at Heritage
Park.
Okay.
We have a partnership withPhoenix and Dragon Bookstore. You
do? Yes, actually, they're ourfirst partnership.
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I am dying to take you there.
Is that where you've beenwanting to take me?
Yeah, it's the most unique andone of a kind store you'll ever.
I mean, it's not even just abookstore. They have so much stuff.
Cats in there.
Yeah, they love cats. Andtheir cats know our goats.
Yes.
That was so funny.
So we, on top of all thepartnerships that we do have where
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we have these monthly classeswith them, we also have classes at
the farm, and then of course,we travel as well. So we go to people.
We'll host classes there. So,yeah, we'll literally just have a
class just about anywhere.
Things of that nature. Yeah, yeah.
We have a lot of midtown, alot of, like, residential places
that will, you know, have uscome monthly and do a class for their
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residents.
One of my questions to Sabrinawhen we did our pre interview was
I feel like this is like agolden ticket opportunity for kids
that are on the spectrum to beable to have this release because
they don't get to have thatunderstanding from a lot of people
and their environment. And soanimals are really important to them.
Yep. Yeah, we've worked withautistic children, we've worked with
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deaf children. It's any andeverybody who, you know, we feel
is a good participant forengaging with our therapeutic animals.
You know, we're all inclusive,we say, so we don't have any barriers
on age, race, gender,disabilities, nothing.
That's awesome.
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As long as you are open toreceiving the good energy, we will
bring it to you.
Oh, that's beautiful.
When you walk into the yard,you see Buddhist statues. How did
that incorporate into the farm?
So a lot of practices.
Ah, hey.
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A lot of the practices dofavor different areas like Nepal.
And Nepal is a big placethat's dealing with a lot of different
Buddhists and monks andthings. So it's kind of a respectful
thing for that to kind ofbalance that that way. But yeah,
you got cow cuddling somewhatcomes from that area.
Okay.
Yoga. So even a couple of ourgoat whisperers are monks. Well,
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one is, actually. He's instudy right now.
No, he's. He's already a monk.
There you go.
Oh, wow.
He's already done all hisstuff, and he's a monk.
Wow, that's awesome.
You see a lot of differentcultures like that up there. That's
India. That's bringing backin. So we're kind of integrating
these things in so that youcan get a little bit of different
walks of all the spiritualityaround the world.
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Okay, now I understand.
There you go.
So happen that, Ms. Deb, thatis a big part of what we're doing.
But, yeah, you can see it allthroughout everything.
Okay. Now that you pointedout, I do see how it all comes together.
To me, it kind of goes back tohow you said, we're equal opportunity.
And it's like kind of likegiving everyone a little place here.
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For sure. That was theJapanese lanterns.
When I walked in, I was like.
Oh, I really like that.
Those kind of celebrate.Cheers. So that goes to the tiki
bar. And it's a class that Ieven recommend you all to come down
to if you're 21 and over. Andlike wine. Check out wine down dog.
Oh, that's so cool.
It's really awesome. And it'san evening event, about an hour and
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a half roughly. And you get tokind of. And it's nighttime, so it's
really nice. Lights are going.The animals are still up. It's right
before their bedtime. No, youget to kind of hang out with them
and enjoy yourself withfriends. And believe it or not, even
in yoga classes, we got someof the coolest, beautiful people
around that come visit theseclasses. I'm not kidding you. Our
guests are, like, the bestthat I've ever seen.
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Their yoga class, the yogaclasses, all the classes, cuddling.
Even the kids in summer camp,like, these are the best people.
Even y'all come to theinterviews. It somehow attracted
some of the best people thatI've seen. And it flows. I'm very
appreciative of that. And Ithink more people should come and
meet more people. That's inthat same energy.
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So, yes, my husband, his,like, favorite saying is, show me
your friends and I'll show youyour future. Because it's who you
surround yourself with isgonna kind of tell you what kind
of success you're gonna have.
I also really like the idea ofjust meeting people who aren't like
us. Right. Like, it just kindof opened your Mind. And then I think
the world today, that's a good thing.
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That's it.
Yeah.
You guys are amazing. Thank you.
Really, I'm serious.
I wanted to ask because. SoI'm interested in doing a class.
Like how do people sign up?Tell me, tell me more.
You just go on our website.The calendar is listed right there.
It has all of our goat yoga,Pilates with goats, hiking with goats,
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meditation with goats. Wait,where are you guys going hiking around
Georgia.
Majority are on Mason Mill,north Drew Hills area.
Okay.
But we've also done hikes atthe Bamboo Forest. We've done hikes
at Sweetwater Creek Bamboo Forest.
I gotta go.
Oh, yeah, but it's so nice.
There's a little bit ofeverywhere. You are right about that.
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They kind of like not stationone place, but if you go on a website,
you'll see what's going on.
Okay.
And bi weekly, it's alwayssome kind of hike going.
Okay, I'm gonna have to checkthat out because I actually know
quite a few people who. That'stheir hobby. They hike.
Oh, nice.
And if they love animals, thenI don't see how you cannot hike with.
Can I share your guys's on my.I have a quilt shop. Okay. Do you
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have like a Facebook page?
Yeah. So we have Facebook, wehave Instagram, we have TikTok, we
have LinkedIn.
Because I know a lot of peoplethat would just love what you're
doing.
Awesome.
When you said quilts, did youlike, y'all make them?
Yeah. Yeah. So we teach peoplehow to make quilts. We have fabric,
we have the notions.
Yeah.
We have classes.
Yeah.
Maybe we could make like somelike clothes for the cows and stuff
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because it's hard to find that size.
Really?
We can talk later.
Let's talk.
I also have another friend Ican get you in touch with. They're
called cool people. Sew.
Nice.
Okay.
I love that you guys mentionedlike, you know, if you love hiking,
then like hiking with thegoats is something that you should
definitely try. What's thedifference between taking your dog
hiking and hiking with the goats?
I think you know, with thedogs. So, you know, people are always
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asking and it's not even justhike based. It's like, well, why
are you guys not doing puppyyoga or cat yoga? Kitten yoga? Why
goats? That's like the numberone question. Right. We like the
goats over other animalsbecause of their docile nature.
Okay.
So they are very docile. Andyou all will see when you go to the
nursery and cuddle on thegoats, you'll see exactly what I'm
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talking about. But even thoughthey're so docile, their energy is
very loud.
Right.
And it's very powerful.
Okay.
Hopping sideways.
They're not afraid to owntheir space at all.
So because they're herdanimals, you don't even have to hold
their leash. They will hikeright next to you. Oh, if you want
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you can just pick them up andcarry them while you're hiking.
Right.
But they are there toparticipate in this hike actively
with you. It's less about I'mwalking a goat on a leash and more
about one with the herd andbeing one with this herd. So you
all are traveling.
You're so proud of her.
You're so cute.
You guys are both adorable.
But that is the mentality wewant to, we want to promote where
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you become one with the herd.Because these are herd animals and
they, they want you to be apart of their herd. So they want
to hike.
And they love expressing theirlittle personalities.
They do.
But it's, it's like almost anight and day kind of thing. It just
shocks the, it works. Sort oflike what she was saying. It's a
different vibe. Your dogs forinstance, that do go out with kids
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with autism get one response.I come in and bring some dwarf goats.
Teachers are like, we've neverseen responses like that.
Yeah. So it's not to discreditthe other therapeutic animals.
We own dogs.
I'm not discrediting it, butit makes a whole lot more sense.
Like when you put it that wayas they, you become part of the herd
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with them. Because like whenyou do take, I have four dogs. When
you do take the four dogs out,you end up kind of being like behind
them and yeah, you're justgoing where they want to go. And
it's like just a one way street.
It's like we know we'regetting walked. You know, this is,
this is an activity for us.Exactly. The goats are more like,
oh no, this is like a group activity.
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Do this, they chase behind youthings of that nature.
They will chase you. They getthe zoobies and sometimes they'll
like start sprinting andhopping on rocks and everything especially
they do a lot.
Well. And I, I, I never, Ididn't even think of it until you
guys were saying becoming onewith the herd. Like we're in such
like an individualized liketype of like time of, I don't know,
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year of our Lord.
Very, very self selfish likeyou guys. Yeah, very like it's hard
to think of the bigger pictureof how we come together.
And I think it's a really coolsituation in time and opportunity
to be able to like, like yousaid, think of the, like, think outside
of yourself.
Yes.
Right.
And be part of something.
That's definitely what thisconversation is helping me think
because here I am like, okay,but why goats? But like, why. Why
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the stuff around us? Like, Imean, I need to, I need help seeing
the bigger picture. And I hopethat someday I will, you know, be
more.
You'll be completely readywhen you get your goat.
Girl. You almost brought homea goat.
I did, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Ialmost put a goat in my car one time
because, like, it wasliterally just the three of them
go in the middle of thestreet, like, no one around. And
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so I was like, here, go to go.But then, you know, it ran away.
I think also, you know, a bigpart of our classes is the fact that
everybody comes asindividuals. You know, I mean, of
course there's groups thatcome as well, but an activity like
hiking with goats, by the timethey're leaving that class, everybody's
talking with each other.
Yeah.
Because they, you know, ofcourse we're not able to provide
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one goat per person becausethe hikes can get up to like 15,
20 people.
People.
Oh, wow. You know, so they arehaving to like share the goat in
a sense.
Every three to four people sometimes.
Yeah.
Smaller class. Then it can belike every two or one person gets
a goat.
Yeah. But it does, itencourages them to speak with each
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other and you know, pass thegoats around or hey, you want to
cuddle the goat, you know, andit does open them up.
So does it bring out personal stories.
And you're out in a trail.
Yeah.
Oh, that's my happy stuff.
People talking. They said it'sgiving like TV show vibes, like survive,
like all kind of.
You're saying I need to followyou guys out with the camera one
day.
No, no, seriously, it's veryinteresting. All our, our whole staff
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is like hand picked interview.Like that's who you all are engaged
with. A lot more than me andmy wife. But you'll see everybody
has a great energy. So ourhike leads are like great with conversations.
They know about the animals.They come from like some somewhat
of a farm background or somekind of veterinarian background.
They know their stuff andthey're also great conversation pieces.
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So before you know it, youdone walked three miles and you feel
like you just started.
Yeah. Wow.
So that's kind of the thing.It's just, it's like, you know, when
you're having fun and you'reactually working out and not even
knowing it.
Yeah.
And you're done. You're like,oh, I'll be back next week.
That's cool.
My body is buzzing because itjust gave me, like, a creative idea
of, like. Yeah, you told me.You told me this is the place for
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creativity. But, yeah, I canfeel it all the way up my body. That
we need to get our camera guy.We need to get Case with us. We need
to designate a small grouphike with the goats, and then, like,
just see what kind of storiescome out of people during this hike
and see, like, how it bringsout each individual so that you can
see that when you're done, howeveryone's coming.
And our instructors will lovethat, too. So that.
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I love that.
Be so cool.
I'll talk to Katie now.
They do trivias while they'rewalking, too.
They play goat trivia.
Educational fun.
I love this. Okay, we're onto something.
I'm bringing my family herenext time they come visit me.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah.Amelia wants to come, so whenever
we come out to actually do aclass, we'll bring a million.
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Tell me.
Yeah, okay, I'll be with you.
When we did our pre interview,you were telling me about some of
the most special moments thatyou've gotten to witness on the farm.
Can you tell us one of themost special stories that you've
gotten to witness on the farm?And just really a testimony to what
this farm brings out.
So, you know, the story that Imentioned to you, I mean, it's. It's
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stuck with me ever since, andit honestly hasn't. I haven't seen
anything else top the story.But we had this family come out,
and it was like a family ofseven or so, and you could tell that
there was somethingdistressing the family as a whole.
Something was not aligned withthem. You felt the energy. You felt
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that the mom had signed themall up for this, and, you know, they
didn't want to be there. Itwas like the grandparents were there,
the mom's sibling was there,the kids were there. Didn't seem
like anybody really wanted tobe there. They did their class. It
was a goat yoga class. And atfirst, they didn't really want to
participate. They were justkind of standoffish. By the end of
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the class, they were allhugging the goats, engaging, laughing
with each other, having aball. And I'm not saying that, you
know, our goats fixed whatevermisalignment they might have had,
but they fixed their familybut at moment, they did something
to where their entire energyshifted after 50 minutes. And I witnessed
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it because I was there. I waslike, you can feel it.
Yeah.
Like, everybody, like, theywalked in, they wouldn't even greet
me and say, hi.
Oh, no.
And when they were walkingout, they're like, thank you so much.
We're gonna be back. This isso fun. Since then, she has brought
her family back over and overand over again.
I know exactly what you wantnow. This kind of energy she's talking
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about happens weekly.
Yeah, she.
We just doing it happensweekly. You'll see somebody come
in, you're like, oh, then theyleave. They even tell us like, hey,
like, this is really like you.I feel great about this. And then
they. That's what makes themwant to share with other loved ones.
They don't just go to anybody.People that's close to them, they
bring back, they refer. A lotof times we hear his word. It's.
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It's been a lot of word ofmouth, especially in the original
moments. It is.
And I think that storyresonated with me the most because
I saw it changing in kids andelderly and adult. Like, they were
the full spectrum range ofages and genders. I'm like.
And it didn't matter.
It didn't. I mean, by the timethey were leaving, they were happy.
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They were hugging each other.I was like, okay. Something clicked.
Something happened where nowthey're leaving happier than when
they first arrived.
That is awesome.
I'm not saying we fixedwhatever they came with, but they
left happy.
The negative, bad energy.
And.
And then it leaves.
Exactly. And, you know, it'snot just. It's not just the goats.
It's also our instructor, youknow, our. Our class leads, who can
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also feel these energies. Youknow, they have to engage with all
of these clients every singleclass. So hand picking these instructors
is also a big key piece.
Yeah, we love our staff.They're really amazing people.
Yeah, they really are.
It's not one class. You cantake them, you know, you'll see each
of them are totally different,but they got their ways, and they
all communicate together. Someof our meetings are some of the funnest
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things when we all gettogether and kind of grow and build.
Our staff meetings. We havequarterly staff meetings where, you
know, it's hard to get thewhole staff together at once. So
we have quarterly meetingswith them where we get to all get
together and, you know, justtalk about classes, talk about new
ideas, just things like that.But everybody's great.
I call them like superheroes.Because they're out here really helping
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people and sometimes theydon't understand or they don't know
and they don't really care.Cause that's not their focus to be
praised about it. But they'reactually like really helping tons
of people all the time. And.
And you know, our company hasgarnered over 200 and I don't even
know how many reviews, allfive stars. And these are people,
all of our clients, naming ourstaff by name.
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That's what they.
I came to this person's classand this person is so.
And you know, they have to begood to have their name remembered.
Exactly. Remembers names.
No.
So these, these are all likethe pieces that happened for us.
That's gratifying where we'relike, okay, this is why we keep doing
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this. This is why we keepmoving forward and we keep growing
and expanding and having theseclasses and getting, you know, more
and more partnerships. We wantto continue spreading this energy.
Validates everything you're doing.
Exactly. It really does. Andit's a good feeling to know, you
know, everything that's doneat the farm is a pure intentions.
You know, we're not here like,hey, we're trying to become multi
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millionaires from this farm.You know, we're.
We're more like, this wouldn'tbe the way to do.
No.
Have like a million glasses. But.
Well, I mean, clearly, becauseyou even said earlier, like, we're
not going to have too manypeople here or we're not going to
have the wrong kind. Like.
Yeah, because it is like, itis a. At the end of the day, you
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know, no matter how manyclasses we host, we only have so
many goats. We can only haveso many instructors. We only have
so many hours in the day tohost classes. Yeah. And we're not
going to overload. Exactly.
Jeopardize the quality for the quality.
Like, we're not going.
It's an experience. So whenyou come here, you need to get the
full experience. If not, thenwe're not happy about it.
Yeah. And I'm all aboutquality. Like for me, being a chief
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marketing officer, I'm morelike, okay, we have to provide quality.
We have to continue gettingfive star ratings. That means, hey,
this year we're doubling up onour goat whisperer staff. When, you
know, class exceeds thisnumber or however it may be, because
that is our focus. Our focusis our clients and our goats.
That's awesome.
And our cows and the chicken too.
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Love that. Well, before we go,is there anything new coming that
we can get A little sneak peekof or get a little first. First know
of.
Well, this year we have twosummer camps happening. That's what
I was thinking. Last year wedid one summer camp, and it was an
epic success. So this year wewere like, well, let's do two summer
camps. We haven't even beenable to promote it yet. Our first
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camp is already full.
Oh, my gosh. Nice.
We have not even been able topromote. So I'm like, okay, great.
We might have to have three camps.
I'm just kidding. And it'sreally good, like, for kids to learn.
You want? It is. I've seen afew private schools that have these
kind of similar experiences.Not the same, but kids don't even
know where chicken eggs comefrom anymore.
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Oh, wow.
To see a different color andto see the chicken in the hand and
to go pick it and then bringit back and, you know, to grow corn
and get to see it sprout out.
And you guys have a vegetable too.
Absolutely. We did a gardenbrush, a cow, and learned that they're
all not that bad. And hang outwith baby Go.
I mean, well, so the otherthing is that we are in a city, essentially,
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and they're all glued to theirphones, so.
And Atlanta, out of all of that.
Yeah.
So by the time the kids aretelling their moms, like, I love
the camp, I want to go back.And the mom is like, my kid just
told me that they love you.
Want to go back outside.
Coming back, you know, like,it's just so rare for.
Not till there is a TV in thenursery, though. All right, whatever.
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Cartoon Wilder hanging outwith the goats.
That's fair.
Yeah.
Cuz I'll tell you, we live onfive acres, and the thought was,
okay, we got five acres. Thekids will just go play in the woods.
It'll be great.
Oh, yeah.
If those kids were born in the.
80S, you still can't get themoutside. Like, go play in the creek.
Go. Like, whatever.
But yeah, so summer camp ishappening. So the July one still
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has spots open. Our camp spotsare very limited. Again, going back
to quality, we only allow 10slots per camp.
Nice.
I'm gonna definitely hook youup with cool people. So because they
do a lot of kids classes.
Nice.
Nice.
I think you guys could like nice.
Yeah, That'll be awesome.Yeah. Over the summer, we also have
kids only goat yoga classeswhere it's just the kids. We have
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a instructor who teaches thatclass, and he's. He's perfect for
the kids.
And I would say, wind down,dog. This is like, the first one
year that it'll be running,just the first four years. So Wind
down. Those classes are gonnabe really cool. And, yeah, I mean,
it's gonna be some awesomepeople there.
And I think Wind Down Dog ismore geared towards, like, being
(54:03):
more of a social activity. Youknow, it's. It's on a Friday evening,
you get up.
Yoga.
Is it Down Dog, like, yoga as well.
So we serve complimentarywine. Or you can bring your own bottle
of wine.
Hands with the yoga.
Thank you.
And then we finished with theyoga class. Okay, you come.
That is genius. Because Ifound you guys because of one of
your members of the team. Andwhat's that group that we found each
(54:28):
other in? There's constantlywomen, like, hey, I need new friends,
or I'm not connecting withpeople. Like, how can I meet new
friends? And it's always this,like, running joke of, well, there's
friend apps, but really, youshould find something you like doing
and then just try and findpeople organic. But, like. But this
is genius. Like, hey, if youlike wine and like yoga, just show
up here and then you'llorganically leave with.
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That's true.
Can you just show up or do youneed to buy in advance?
Yeah. So typically, we alwayswant everybody to book in advance.
And like I said, it is on thewebsite, it's on the homepage. It's
also on the booking page. Justgo click the class that you want
to book and, you know, it letsyou pay for the class right there
then and there. And thenyou're registered. And then you got
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to have any.
Trouble, call the 1-800number.
Yeah.
You know, if you missed thecalendar on the front, I was going
to.
Refer to that myself, butthank you. Thank you.
Yes.
You're welcome.
Call the number. We'll get youall the way through the process.
Yeah.
Okay.
A lot of times people arelike, I don't know what's happening.
Don't worry. We'll. We'll getyou booked. Just call us. Our phone
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number is 844-ggagoat. Okay.Super easy.
I like it.
I like it smart.
So, yeah, just dial 844GGAgoat and you'll get Right. And yeah,
we're on social media. Ourlink tree is listed on our Instagram.
I love that we have a link.That's so much fun. The easiest way,
(55:53):
if you don't remember thename, just Google Goat Yoga near
me.
Yeah.
We are the first facility thatpops up in the Atlanta region. So
awesome.
Nice. So nice. Well, thank youso much. For taking the time to speak
with us and show us the farm.And congratulations on the newest
member of.
The family, a human kidjoining the goat kids.
A real one? Yes.
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Another kid.
Oh, yeah.
And this is.
This is number three.
Y. That's correct.
Y.
Excited?
A.
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Fun fact. It's a fun fact.
What is it, May? I'll tell youif it's fun. I'm the decider of fun.
Love it.
Thank you. Thank you for that.May is mental health awareness month.
Oh, it's a good fact.
It's a good fact. Right,because everyone should be aware
(00:42):
of it.
Actually, you're right.
We make it fun. And everyonedoes have mental health issues, whether
you want to admit it or not.And if you don't want to admit it,
that is a mental health problem.
That is a good point. And youknow what? Some of our mental health
problems are more fun than others.
Summer Cuckoo.
That's mine. So, yes, it's afun fact. I'll accept it.
(01:02):
So what you'll get everyepisode this month has to do with
mental health awareness.Mental health. And you'll leave every
episode with new knowledge ofhow to really regulate yourself or
tools.
Tools for your. Yeah, for your pocket.
Yeah, in your pocket.
(01:23):
In your pocket. We're going toopen up your pockets, listen to the
episode, and we're going toslip in those tools. Okay, that was
really funny.
I like it, I like it, I likeit. But you guys saw we, we have
been at the end of everymonth, we're posting a little heads
up of this is what the episodeis each week for the month. So you've
already seen kind of what thereal out is for for this month. And
(01:48):
if you did, you also saw thatI'm sharing my mental health through
my seizures. I know thateveryone's been wanting to kind of
know, like, the conclusion of.Of what was going on with all that
from when we started. AndMelissa also shares her story with
mental health. We have a griefcounselor. We have. We have a type
(02:09):
of therapy that kind ofteaches us how the subconscious mind
kind of locks in a lot of ourtrauma and really propels us into
who we are and how we act.
Yeah.
And today we also have goatyoga, which is you.
Yes.
As a form of mental health clarity.
(02:32):
Yeah. Because it's. What'sinteresting is not even. Yeah, they
use it in mental health andthey use it in like, like meditation.
Yeah.
And they also use it, like,for Anyone who's been through an
abusive relationship.
Therapeutic.
That's the word.
That's the word we're lookingfor. It's therapeutic. Or when you
have traumatic stuff going on.Absolutely. Which, funny enough,
(02:53):
we decided that we weren'tgoing to do a fail, and we were just
going to talk about ourexperience on the farm.
Yeah.
And what was very interestingto me is that. So we got to go. We
got to bottle feed the babygoats. We got to bottle feed the
cows. And when we went intothe gates with the cows and the big
goats.
Yeah.
They all were gravitatingtowards Melissa. What? They were
(03:16):
really? Oh, yes. Like, Sabrinaand I kept looking at each other
and we were like, oh. And Igo, she needed it. Like, dude. And
so the point, like, what wetalk about in this whole episode
that you're about to hear ishow the animals know what you need.
Yeah.
Even if you don't. And it wasreally fun to witness all the animals
just kind of fleeing to you,flocking to you. And in that. That
(03:36):
day, you needed it.
I did need it that day. Andthe truth is, like, if I have any
talents in the whole world,like, I like to think that it's,
one, making few people feelcomfortable around me. But two, like,
I feel like I'm kind of ananimal whisperer, and if an animal
doesn't come up to me, ithurts my feelings. And I was super,
super that day. I was reallyhaving some feels about life regardless,
(04:01):
not about the animals. And Iwas just like, okay, I really hope
I go in there and I hope theanimals like me. And it was just
like, I know that sounds dumb,but if they.
They.
I think they just knew that Ineeded it.
And if it wasn't even thatday, it was that month. Honestly,
it's so. Oh, my gosh, you wereso much. I mean, I knew.
I don't know if Sam even said,I feel so sad knowing that this was
(04:23):
happening now. But, you know,it happened and it is what it is.
But she. You had said, youknow, every time we got together,
you would go home and youwould feel it. Like, you'd feel like
a heavy weight.
And it's just like sleep and just.
Yeah.
And I'm really sorry that thatwas happening.
That's not your problem.That's an empath problem that I have,
and I haven't figured out howto turn it off.
(04:44):
And that's something that wecan work. Maybe we should have an
episode on.
That too, because that'sKelly's offer. Kelly commenter. That
was One of the things she waslike, you know, there's a way to.
There are.
That wall. There's a way to.
Melissa Walker helped me with it.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah.
She has to do it. Shespecifically had to do it when she
was doing her. And she's goingto talk about this in one of the
episodes coming up, but shewas doing, like, a suicide hotline
(05:08):
therapy for a while, and itwas. Yeah. So, yeah, you'd. But anyway,
all that to say. We got to goaround to the farm.
What was your favorite part?
My favorite part is gonnasound so weird, but I like, okay,
two favorite things. It wasthe actual, like, physical contact
with the animals. So they wentin and we got to feed the babies.
(05:30):
We got to hold the baby goats.And like, oh, my gosh, it was so
messy and so fun. And theysaid, like, if you get. Sabrina and
Gigi said, if you get on yourhands and knees, the goats are starting.
They're training the babygoats to, like, jump up on your back.
So, like, when you're doingyoga, that they'll do that. And it
felt really. It feels reallygood. It feels like a little massage.
(05:51):
And then I loved, like, whenwe went in to meet with the cows.
One of the cows is still ababy kind of. And, like, like, literally
up to, like, my forearm. Heput my whole hand in his mouth and
was just suckling on my hand.And I was like. It was so slimy,
but I was.
So there for it.
I was like, oh, hey, baby,I'll give you some love.
(06:12):
One of my favorite memories inwhat has, like, brought me to wanting
a cow and just beinginterested in cows in general was
there was a fall festivalcalled Corn Dogs, I think, here in
Georgia, and they one day theyjust had a baby cow at the farm,
and it had to get bottle feetfed every so often. And I just happened
(06:33):
to be in the pen, like, whenit needed to be bottle fed, and I
got to sit on the floor withthis cow in my lap and bottle feed
it. And I just thought it was,like, the coolest thing ever. And
so I actually enjoyed holdingthe baby goats and holding them like
a baby and, like, feeding them.
They were so sweet.
Honestly, that made me. Idon't know. No, there's nothing wrong
(06:53):
with that, but that made methe happiest.
I just like, baby, that's great.
Babying, like, little things.
Nurturing and loving andgiving. Taking care of something.
Yeah.
Oh, that's so sweet. Thatmakes sense with the empath part.
So we did. We're not going tolike really do a fail. But collectively
we did kind of fail. But thisis where you guys get to come in
(07:13):
and it's really exciting. Sowe have yet to do an actual yoga
class at the farm, but we werethinking it'd be better if.
We maybe it's okay that wedidn't do it with just us two because
we can invite you guys.
Yeah. So look out for a postwhere we will ask you guys what day
works best for you. We willget in contact with Sabrina and Gigi
(07:36):
and let's get a class andlet's do it together. I, I, you know,
Gigi suggested that we do askirts up down dog, wine and yoga.
That's right. I forgot about that.
Yep. So maybe that's what wedo. Wine, yoga and a good time under
the stars. It sounds like fantastic.
It sounds amazing. Andsometimes we just need to go somewhere
where we're allowed to let goand not think about and be with.
(07:59):
Yes. And be just surroundedwith people that are there for the
same thing.
And pure love, no judgment.
Yeah. We're there for. I'venever done yoga before, so hell if
I know how this is going to go.
Oh, shoot. It's going to be sofun. And it won't be the same because
you're going to have goatsclimbing all over you, which is amazing.
So yeah, look out for that.We're gonna do it together. And like
(08:20):
we said, this episode is prerecorded. So this is our meeting
with Sabrina and Gigi at Gigia Goat Yoga here in Tucker, Georgia,
Georgia. So take a listen andenjoy. You get to hear the cows in
the background.
Moo.
(08:43):
Today we have with us Gigi andSabrina. They are the owners and
operators of this locallyowned goat yoga studio in Tucker,
Georgia called GGA Goat Yoga,shockingly in Tucker, Georgia. Like
right, it's right here. It'sliterally a gold mine. Yeah. So thanks
for joining us today. We arehere to learn about this hidden gem
(09:06):
that any one of you can visitat any time. They even travel.
Oh, absolutely.
I did not know that.
We are, we're a fully mobilecompany so anything you want happening
anywhere within Georgia oreven outside of Georgia, we will
come to you. We will pack upour goats, get our staff, get everything
(09:26):
we need and come to you andhost a class anywhere you're at.
I love that.
Really?
Yeah. Schools, birthday parties.
Okay. You can go like into thesuburbs and like just in someone's
backyard, just have a party.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
A lot of corporate events though.
Or that. Okay.
That is genius.
It's Really a broad spectrum.We've done it all. We've done corporate
(09:48):
events. We've done privateevents, personal events, birthdays.
We've done schools, ksu,Georgia Tech. Our furthest outreach
was Florida.
Okay.
We went to sand. Yep. We had.On the go weekend.
We did on the beach.
Are they on leashes?
No, they were doing goat yoga.
Like, the goats can get onleashes for hikes.
(10:09):
Aren't gonna run away.
No, no, they're not gonna runaway. They are herd animals too.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's easy to train them tokind of.
That makes sense.
You can't, like, train themto, like, sit, though, can you? Like,
not.
Not. No, not like a dog.
Not too many animals.
Like a dog. That's just gonnatake all your.
You know, you can do that witha pig.
Pigs are smart. Apparentlythey're smarter than dogs.
(10:31):
Pigs are very smart.
Pigs are, like, level 10 onthe Smart. But it's all food based,
though.
Yes, I'm food based too.
Trainable.
I can be trained.
Oh, my God.
Sam's working on it.
Anyway, so I want to know thestory of how this all became. This
is not what either of you wereoriginally doing. Gigi, I believe
(10:53):
you were in music originally.Serena, I don't even know what you
did before you found this passion.
I worked in tech, so I was incorporate America. I come from a
development background, so Iwas literally on a computer screen
typing code all day building stuff.
Wow.
Were you, like, yearning forthe outside? I mean. Yeah.
(11:17):
Yeah.
So with music and with tech orwith most different worlds and different
ways and differentprofessions, you need a balance.
So the animals typicallybecome a balance for you. So most
people balance stop at a dog.Our balance took a lot of different
things to kind of make it allmake sense. So, yeah, that's pretty
(11:39):
much your origin in a realquick nutshell right there. Music
can get pretty intense. A lotof careers can get really intense.
And you find yourself hikingwith goats.
Yeah.
You find yourself hanging out,cuddling cows, and it kind of turns
into something you want toshare with more people, and that's
what you're looking at.
Yeah. What Gigi was sharingwith me before you got here is that,
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of course, this is like awellness place, but also for, like,
writer's block and in artisticblocks, that this is a great place
to come in. Get that workedout. Because you are in nature, you're
with animals, and so they canhelp you.
Release that probably the mostnatural way to prevent. Prevent all
kind of blockage. Just sohappened that the creative Blockage
(12:22):
is connected to the earth, andwe can go through all the different
elements, but the animals arenaturally grounded. These things
just kind of help you. It justopens you all the way up and.
Yeah.
Yeah, it works.
That's really cool, because I.I didn't. I remember knowing in the
past, like, the animals kindof help us with our energy. They
take some from us that theyknow that they maybe don't want us
(12:46):
to be carrying, because thisis true.
I don't know.
They're amazing. But, like,wow, now that you say, like, they're
grounded, that makes perfectsense. And then, like kind of like
hugging a tree, hugging ananimal, it's like just kind of.
But let's not be selfish now.Humans actually help the animals
too.
Yeah.
So by hugging them, we'reshowing them tons of love. That they
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human parents sometimes can bethe best parents for a lot of different
animals.
Yeah.
We go over and beyond theirnatural wild ways of survival, and
we spoil them typically. So wegotta kind of balance that sometimes.
Sometimes you can overdo it.You got cows that's 500 pounds or
500 pounds overweight.
Yes.
I've seen cats. You have thefat cats just like, oh, that's not
(13:29):
healthy for the cat. So whenyou go to the vets, most time they
tell you, hey, your dog is overweight.
Yeah.
We equate that to good in loveand spoiling the animals.
Yeah.
So it's always awesome to comeand hug on a cow. You're helping
yourself. You're helping thecow. Cows and goats and most farm
animals are considered flightanimals, which mean they run from
(13:50):
humans. And you can think of amillion reasons yourself of why typically
that happens. So we appreciateyou all and other people coming by,
spending so much time showingthese animals that they don't have
to run. People are loving andthey can love you all. And so it's
just ying and yang kind of balance.
Sabrina told me that there'speople who come to literally just
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love on the animals. Like,that's their job, so that they become
more trusting of humans on aregular basis.
So we have a role of ourstaff. They're called goat whisperers,
but they're not just limitedto the goats. They're, you know,
they engage with all theanimals here at the farm, but they.
They are here to provide a lotof love, provide a lot of attention
(14:32):
and spoil the animals alongwith, you know, their other staff
duties that they have. Butthat is a big piece of their job,
is to bond with all theanimals here and then let the Animals
kind of trust them as wellbecause, you know, when we're hosting
these classes, the animals,they're going to follow who they
know. So I always tell ourgoat whisperers, if you don't bond
(14:54):
with these animals, they'renot going to follow follow you. They
are going to be like, who isthat? I don't know you.
How often do they come by? Isit like a full time thing?
Oh, wow.
Daily they have their schedule set.
But it's true because animalsdo like build relationships with
you.
Dogs even, like they usuallypick their one human and you know,
wife is the one that workswith them more. Then like the husband's
(15:16):
like, you know, do this andthat. It doesn't listen. Why is that
dog only listen to you?Because I'm home and I feed it.
If you constantly socializethat dog, then it can be everybody's
friend.
That's true. Yeah.
So that's kind of the balance because.
We don't want our animals hereattached to just me or Gigi. You
know, we want them to attachto anybody that comes that's in need.
(15:38):
Or sometimes people don't evenknow they're in need. They come in
just to have fun and do a coolig picture or something. Then they're
starting to realize, hey, thisactually really, really works. It
feels good. Then they refertheir friends, family. Some people
bring moms that don't evenlike anim and I'm like. But then
they typically 98% leaveloving the animals. I want to say
(16:01):
100, but I just stay away fromthat. But they typically leave learning
something good andunderstanding that all goats aren't
trying to chase you. Andchicken, like people got a lot of
different.
I'm afraid of chickens stories.
Yeah, stories. So thesechickens here, therapeutic as well.
They're very human. They loveyou. They're not going to chase you.
They're not going to bite me.
They're not going to bite you.
Get out of here.
So before we leave, I shouldtry and touch it. Yes.
(16:23):
I'll video it.
We're gonna try to, you know,they like being held. You know, I
think one of the coolestthings about our farm versus it's
like, well, what makes you alldifferent from other farms? Yeah,
our animals here, they areraised in a trauma free environment
and that is something that wereally do take pride in. Yeah. We
are ensuring that our animalsnever feel any trauma. So they have
(16:45):
never been chased, bit scared,slapped, kicked, thrown.
I mean, maybe some, maybe somekids chased them. They pull your
dog ears, but no. And we Lovethem. And. And most animals know
kids, so they know what'sgoing on.
But, yes, that's true becausethey, like, have babies themselves,
(17:06):
and they know that.
They have to, like, our dogshave had some, had a litter. We're
not breeders at all, but, yeah.
They got pregnant behind my back.
Because of that, they learnedto be our boys. Huge. You've seen
them kind of.
Yeah.
What kind of dogs do you have?
County Corso.
Yeah.
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
And they're so wrinkly andcute, and.
(17:26):
They'Re good for keeping out coyotes.
Oh, really? Do you have toworry about that here?
Absolutely. Georgia has tons,but Atlanta has more coyotes and
things than people reallyknow. I've heard the stories. Downtown.
Coyotes.
The coyotes are, like, very.
We've seen them in our neighborhood.
Wow. Yard. They don't care.They're like, hey, what's up, Georgia?
Coyotes, bobcats, foxes.
(17:47):
Okay.
In this particular regionright here, we got majority of coyotes,
coyotes, and foxes.
Yeah.
They try to get too many bobcats.
Absolutely. That's why we gota. A K Corso. We picked that breed
because of their psi on Bidenis at 750.
Wait, psi?
It's the pressure.
Oh, of course. Pounds persquare inch, same as in a tire.
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I only know this because mywhole first half of life was in vet
medicine.
Yeah.
Yeah. We have our guard dogshere. You know, they guard. They're
protectors of this land, andthey are the guards of all of these
animals that reside here. Andthey're awesome.
And they know it, too. I'msure they do.
So it's really funny becausesometimes at night, I'll hear Hannibal
(18:34):
barking, and you'll think he'slike a mile down the road somewhere,
but he'll just be in his room,and he'll do one bark, and it echoes.
Oh, my gosh.
All throughout to where you'llthink he's way down over there in
some. Like, I'm. I'm overhere. Like, oh, my God, Gigi. Like,
is he. Did he escape?
Did he ruin his voice? Coyotes.
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He's like, the goat guardian.And it's really good with the cows,
too. It works.
He's cute. He grew up with thegoats. So it's really funny because
he, you know, of course, hegrew exponentially in size over the
goats, but I even look at thebaby pictures of him where he was
smaller than the goats, andthen he's like, 140 pounds and just
(19:17):
wrinkly muscles.
Speaking of growing up, I'mcurious because you said that you
had, like, a Growing up and ahistory with animals.
Absolutely.
And then did you, Sabrina?
Yes. So I was actually born in Bangladesh.
Okay.
Which is in the SoutheastAsian region. It's a small country
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located right next to India.It's so funny, because I. I have
this memory, and I told himabout this memory, and I swear this
is what triggered him to getthe cow.
Come on.
So my memory, I. I want to sayI was probably like 4 or 5 years
old. My mom took me with herto her friend's house to, like, you
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know, whatever, hang out.She's hanging out with her friend.
I had a nanny, and my nannywas supposed to be watching me while
my mom was hanging out with afriend, and the nanny wasn't watching
me for some odd reason. Andhere I go.
Oh, no.
I start. I apparently leftwobbling out of the property. I saw.
I went across the street tothis open grass field where there
were a cow. There was a cowthere. And I was trying to chase
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the cow. And, like, I wasaiming for the cow's tail because
it was swinging from side toside. So I'm like, oh. I was, like,
very intrigued by this wingingtail of this cow. Trying to walk
up behind the cow.
A toddler.
Oh, behind the cow.
That is terrifying for a mother.
Right?
Because I really could havejust got kicked and, you know, that
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could have been the end ofthat. But thankfully, like, my mom
came out right at that momentand was like, sabrina, you know,
and like, you, like, ran andgrabbed me up. But yeah, that. That's
like a memory I have of, like,me trying. Trying to engage with
the cow. And I told him the story.
That moment kind of, like,revealed a common interest.
Oh.
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And I was like, okay. She'ddefinitely be okay with the cow.
Oh, so it was your idea to geta cow originally.
That is so funny. You're like,when should I bring it up? When she
brought the story. And you'relike, that looks right into my plan.
Oh, my gosh. Well, why did youwant a cow then?
I love them. I mean, we got ahistory of cow host goats my mom
couldn't take. She couldn'tdrink regular milk. So her mom, you
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know, it's kind of like ahistory going back in Virginia. I'm
the first born out here outside.
Of a farm, and my brother and.
His mother kind of likechanneling the roots of Virginia.
I mean, it's a nice, beautifulold state to be from. And I'm first
born in Georgia. Don't get mewrong, I'm a real Georgia boy. I
Love it here, but it's prettycool to have the roots and have the
know how and more. So grandmaand Mom. Mom just grew up on the
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farm, but it's. It's likegetting these different words of
advice and knowing aboutfarming and loving to touch the dirt
and deal with animals kind ofmade it even more impactful when
I heard the story. So it justkind of. I knew she would be in a
line.
So then we got our cow. Andyou know, they're awesome. Both of
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our cows, Medusa and Hercules.I mean, it's so funny. They do their
cow cuddling classes here. Sowe just had our. They just had their
class this past Saturday.
And who is they?
Medusa and Hercules.
Oh, like, they have theircouch. Yes, they do. But who comes
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and cuddles with them? Like,you're talking about. Okay, clients.
So it's open to the generalpublic now.
Like, you can, like, goregister for the class and sign up.
We have them bi weekly here atthe farm. It's a very intimate class.
We only allow 10 people tocome per class, so we can kind of
like split them up to keep it.
That's our constant goal foras the company continues to expand
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and grow, as always, it's moreabout quality than quantity.
Yeah, for sure.
Big time. Because you can. Ifwe put too many people around, it's
not. It just destroys thecows. They start not trusting humans
again. And people don't reallyget a chance to, you know, engage
with the cows and stuff.
Right. It's not really for thehigher good of anyone.
Definitely the quality over anything.
I love that. I'm really gladyou guys said that, because that's
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a big truth to anything. Youcan't. The more you try to do at
one time, you can't do it to.To the full standard.
That's true.
So whose idea was it to openup this business first? Or was that
just kind of like a. Hey, weboth have this love. Let's.
It just came out of, like, usdoing this and sharing. And then
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people start advising, youknow, you don't hear the like, oh,
yeah, I'm gonna do that. Causeit's not. It's not driven off of
that. But the Sharon justturned into kind of like what you
see here now, if that makesthe most sense to you.
It was Gigi that was in mycorporate world. So I was like, you
know, drowning in my computer,not thinking about anything outside
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of my screen. And we. Wealready had the goats, you know,
and I think the goats alreadywere doing what they needed to do
for Gigi and I as far as,like, providing that therapeutic
aspect. I just remember ourvery first goat that we had.
They jumped off the thing.
Yeah.
The cows are, like, jumpingoff of each other. Sorry, guys. I
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got distracted.
They do like to cuddle.
But.
Yeah, I just remember the veryfirst goat we had. It was, like,
cold outside, and we had thegoat in. In her little house. We
had heat lamps. I mean, shespoiled. Very spoiled pajamas. Yes.
Okay.
I just remember going outthere and picking her up and just
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holding her, and she was just,like, laying on me like a human baby.
And I was just like, this isso nice.
Yeah. That is what theirbabies are called.
So kids came from goats, not humans.
That's a kid. That's a goatterminology. The word kid go out
far enough.
In middle America that theywould give the wife a baby goat before
they have a kid.
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Really?
To see how ready they really are.
That's a thing?
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, I love that. Learningthings. I love that too.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Like tradition and myth andnot myth, because he said it's real.
Tradition is.
It's happening right now inGeorgia. Y'all just so much in the
city right now. You don't see it.
Oh, that's so sad that I'm notmissing that. I'm missing out on
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that. Why is my husband notgiving me a kid?
Brett, Simon, y'all have failed.
Sorry, guys.
They're gonna come after you.They're gonna be like, you did not
help.
No.
So, like. Okay, okay. So I'mjust imagining you guys meet, you
get married, and then you'relike, I want a goat. Do you remember,
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like, how. How did it all start?
It started with our very firstgoat that we got.
Oh, Hunter.
Gigi. Yes. Gigi was just sointrigued. We were out in the country
somewhere. I can't even recallwhere, but North Georgia. This all
white, beautiful cashmeregoat. Like, he had these curly hair,
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curly beard. Like, he wasjust, like, so beautiful. And I was
like, oh, my God. Like, thatgoat looks better than me. Like,
my hair.
Walk him in the clock. You getall these compliments. They're like,
wow, that's like a holy goatyou got.
So Gigi. I just remember. Imean, I still have the picture I
took of him with Huncho, andhe's, like, holding the goat, you
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know, by the horn. And hishorns were already very grown. I
mean, this is an adult goat,like, not a baby.
Okay.
Fully grown. Not a dwarf size.A regular size goat.
Cashmere.
Yep.
I don't know what that Is. ButI guess about other big. Oh, wow.
Not like one of the baby goats.
That we have now, and justlike the coats with the cashmere,
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so their hair comes. Hangsdown real long.
Okay, so we got this goat.Gigi was like, we have to get this
goat. And I was like, youknow, he's a Gemini and I'm an Aries,
and, you know, like, when hegets ideas, instead of my logical
sense being like, you know, Idon't know, let's talk about that.
I'm more like, yeah, we needto just do it. Yeah, whatever you
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said.
Oh, that's great.
Enable each other. Yes, thisis great.
He was like, we're gettingthis goat. And I was like, okay,
we're getting the goat. Let'sgo. We got him home, and after we
brought him home, I mean, wewere like, we were walking him around
the neighborhood on a leash,my daughter and I. I just remember
we would take late night walkswith him, and he's just following
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behind us. And it was just a whole.
He was the closest goat todoing what you said, sitting and
stuff. Like, he was raised bya lady that had a huge farm out of
North Georgia, and she was.Got too old, and then it just kind
of worked out. Where we can.
Did you guys just ask herlike, hey, can we have this goat?
A friend of the. The actualguy that I knew arranged it for us.
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And so that was like our veryfirst goat experience. Unfortunately,
at that time, we didn't havethis much land.
Okay.
So it just didn't really makesense. You know, our. The selfish
side of us would have kepthim, but honestly, he probably wasn't
happy not having any land toreally roam. That's why we were walking
him around the neighborhood.But, you know, he needed. He needed
grass, he needed land. But itgave us the idea to get dwarf goats.
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We were like, okay. You know,dwarf goats, they're small in size.
They don't need a lot of land.And we're like, okay, this is. This
makes sense. We can do this.
It sparked a lot of interest.And then one fact I tell everybody,
just so you won't think allgoats are as cuddly as these guys.
A boar. A boar goat, and acashmere goat. And quite a few more
strong enough to break your kneecap.
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Wow.
Like from a kick.
No. Or ramming head button.
Okay.
That's their number one tool.Your dog cannot take out those size
goats at all. They just turnaround, they aim at your dog, and
they're. They're. They'reprecise with every Hit.
Yeah.
So just to let people knowthat I know you're seeing, like,
people come here to get to seethese teddy bear goats. Australian
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dwarf is the breed. But whenyou go back out to farms, don't.
Yeah.
Get to playing with goats.That can be extremely dangerous.
Yeah.
No, I love that. Do you guyseducate the kids and stuff before
they enter?
Even with our cows? I tellthem this is not your normal cow.
Cows. I explained to peoplehow cows kick from the side. Most
people don't know about thekung fu kick that they have going
on.
When you were grabbing thecow's tail, I was like, wait. Hopefully
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you're right behind his face.
Once again, most. Mostanimals, unless they just had a bad
upbringing themselves, knowit's a baby.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's one thing you canalways. I'm talking about the vicious,
like lions, tigers and bears.They know a baby somehow. They don't
mess with it.
I can see that.
My dogs, my. My dog now, like,she really tones herself down when
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she's playing with the cats.
Yeah.
And I know that soundsdifferent. It's not the same. But
they're small, they'refragile, and it's just really interesting
watching her. Like, she just knows.
And you raised that dog so,you know, that dog is pretty trauma
free. But only reason Iwouldn't experiment with the babies
and larger breed animalsbecause some of them are raised with
trauma. The larger breed andthey will hurt your child.
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Yeah.
But it is a higher chance thatanimals won't try to damage a baby
as long as they're raised agood way.
I didn't understand the JungleBook, you know, when they had Mowgli
and how all these animals tookto Mowgli, who was a human child.
Yeah.
And really, I mean, I don'tknow what would happen. I don't think
that's.
Since we're talking traumafree, does that mean it limits what
you can bring into the farm?Like, you can't just rescue a goat
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and then start.
That's a really good question.
Integrating it so it depends.So we are in a network of communities
and different farms. Theyreach from Carolina to North Georgia,
kind of around. And it's allabout the actual animal first.
Okay.
So if it finds itself lovinghumans and taking to that and appreciating
it, then the home will behere. If it just needs tons of land,
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it just graze and kind ofspend the rest of his days, it'll
go to a different property.
That makes sense.
So it's really all about howthe animals at their current Mental
space.
Where they at if you're alsowhat they need.
Right. There you go.
That makes sense because we'vehad rescues here. Like for example,
I have a rescue actuallyinside right now.
Oh, I remember you saying youhave them roam inside.
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They just hang out.
It's kind of new though.
Do they wear diapers?
I think it's cuz I'm pregnant.
You can put them. You candefinitely put the kids in diapers.
Yeah, we would put the babiesin diapers. But you know, it's funny
because a lot of farms willcall us and they'll be like, hey,
we have this animal. You know,they're kind of sick. Do you guys
want to rescue and try even.Even Medusa? You see my girl right
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there? Yeah. My red babe.She's a rescue. And we didn't think
she was gonna make it, honestly.
But look at her today.
She's happy, healthy, a lot of work.
A lot of work, a lot of loveand not giving up on her.
Yeah.
Yep. Because this, they getdiseases really early, really fast
when they're young.
Basically they don't have animmune system for about the first
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six weeks of their life. Sothose six weeks of a cow's life is.
We become their immune system.So interesting.
Are they getting it like fromtheir mother's milk? Even if they
were to have your.
Mother, sometimesunpasteurized milk can take the cow
all the way out. It can hurtthem sometimes. So believe it or
not, your mom might not be.I'll give you another example. Somebody
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contacted us for a raccoon.The raccoon barely is born and he
already somehow had rabies. Itcomes from the mom's womb.
Whoa.
So sometimes the mom aren'tsuitable to help, you know, do the
right thing. Yep, that's true.
Wow.
That's true.
Well, people don't realizethat kittens are actually the highest
carrier of rabies. So when youfind a kitten, like I always tell
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the kids, like, do not touchthat cat. Do not touch that kitten.
Do you want me to have to testit? Like, let me tell you how we
test it. And then so nowthey're like, kind of like, I see
a wild cat, I'm not gonnatouch it. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
I didn't even know that. Wow.
Humans catch it and we can'tget rid of it.
From my understanding, no,you, if you.
Get bitten by an animal, ofcourse you gotta test the animal
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that bit you. And you can getthe rounds of rabies vaccines. There's
like four of them. They' Very,very painful, but it cannot cure
it.
That's rabies in a nutshell.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Don't get it.
So where do the classes take place?
So we have quite a fewpartnerships, actually. We are partnered
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with several parks andrecreations all around. So we have
classes that happen at BrookRun Park. We have. We just acquired
the Pinckneyville park. Sowe're going to be having classes
there starting in March. Wehave classes in Henry county at Heritage
Park.
Okay.
We have a partnership withPhoenix and Dragon Bookstore. You
do? Yes, actually, they're ourfirst partnership.
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I am dying to take you there.
Is that where you've beenwanting to take me?
Yeah, it's the most unique andone of a kind store you'll ever.
I mean, it's not even just abookstore. They have so much stuff.
Cats in there.
Yeah, they love cats. Andtheir cats know our goats.
Yes.
That was so funny.
So we, on top of all thepartnerships that we do have where
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we have these monthly classeswith them, we also have classes at
the farm, and then of course,we travel as well. So we go to people.
We'll host classes there. So,yeah, we'll literally just have a
class just about anywhere.
Things of that nature. Yeah, yeah.
We have a lot of midtown, alot of, like, residential places
that will, you know, have uscome monthly and do a class for their
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residents.
One of my questions to Sabrinawhen we did our pre interview was
I feel like this is like agolden ticket opportunity for kids
that are on the spectrum to beable to have this release because
they don't get to have thatunderstanding from a lot of people
and their environment. And soanimals are really important to them.
Yep. Yeah, we've worked withautistic children, we've worked with
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deaf children. It's any andeverybody who, you know, we feel
is a good participant forengaging with our therapeutic animals.
You know, we're all inclusive,we say, so we don't have any barriers
on age, race, gender,disabilities, nothing.
That's awesome.
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As long as you are open toreceiving the good energy, we will
bring it to you.
Oh, that's beautiful.
When you walk into the yard,you see Buddhist statues. How did
that incorporate into the farm?
So a lot of practices.
Ah, hey.
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A lot of the practices dofavor different areas like Nepal.
And Nepal is a big placethat's dealing with a lot of different
Buddhists and monks andthings. So it's kind of a respectful
thing for that to kind ofbalance that that way. But yeah,
you got cow cuddling somewhatcomes from that area.
Okay.
Yoga. So even a couple of ourgoat whisperers are monks. Well,
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one is, actually. He's instudy right now.
No, he's. He's already a monk.
There you go.
Oh, wow.
He's already done all hisstuff, and he's a monk.
Wow, that's awesome.
You see a lot of differentcultures like that up there. That's
India. That's bringing backin. So we're kind of integrating
these things in so that youcan get a little bit of different
walks of all the spiritualityaround the world.
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Okay, now I understand.
There you go.
So happen that, Ms. Deb, thatis a big part of what we're doing.
But, yeah, you can see it allthroughout everything.
Okay. Now that you pointedout, I do see how it all comes together.
To me, it kind of goes back tohow you said, we're equal opportunity.
And it's like kind of likegiving everyone a little place here.
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For sure. That was theJapanese lanterns.
When I walked in, I was like.
Oh, I really like that.
Those kind of celebrate.Cheers. So that goes to the tiki
bar. And it's a class that Ieven recommend you all to come down
to if you're 21 and over. Andlike wine. Check out wine down dog.
Oh, that's so cool.
It's really awesome. And it'san evening event, about an hour and
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a half roughly. And you get tokind of. And it's nighttime, so it's
really nice. Lights are going.The animals are still up. It's right
before their bedtime. No, youget to kind of hang out with them
and enjoy yourself withfriends. And believe it or not, even
in yoga classes, we got someof the coolest, beautiful people
around that come visit theseclasses. I'm not kidding you. Our
guests are, like, the bestthat I've ever seen.
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Their yoga class, the yogaclasses, all the classes, cuddling.
Even the kids in summer camp,like, these are the best people.
Even y'all come to theinterviews. It somehow attracted
some of the best people thatI've seen. And it flows. I'm very
appreciative of that. And Ithink more people should come and
meet more people. That's inthat same energy.
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So, yes, my husband, his,like, favorite saying is, show me
your friends and I'll show youyour future. Because it's who you
surround yourself with isgonna kind of tell you what kind
of success you're gonna have.
I also really like the idea ofjust meeting people who aren't like
us. Right. Like, it just kindof opened your Mind. And then I think
the world today, that's a good thing.
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That's it.
Yeah.
You guys are amazing. Thank you.
Really, I'm serious.
I wanted to ask because. SoI'm interested in doing a class.
Like how do people sign up?Tell me, tell me more.
You just go on our website.The calendar is listed right there.
It has all of our goat yoga,Pilates with goats, hiking with goats,
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meditation with goats. Wait,where are you guys going hiking around
Georgia.
Majority are on Mason Mill,north Drew Hills area.
Okay.
But we've also done hikes atthe Bamboo Forest. We've done hikes
at Sweetwater Creek Bamboo Forest.
I gotta go.
Oh, yeah, but it's so nice.
There's a little bit ofeverywhere. You are right about that.
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They kind of like not stationone place, but if you go on a website,
you'll see what's going on.
Okay.
And bi weekly, it's alwayssome kind of hike going.
Okay, I'm gonna have to checkthat out because I actually know
quite a few people who. That'stheir hobby. They hike.
Oh, nice.
And if they love animals, thenI don't see how you cannot hike with.
Can I share your guys's on my.I have a quilt shop. Okay. Do you
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have like a Facebook page?
Yeah. So we have Facebook, wehave Instagram, we have TikTok, we
have LinkedIn.
Because I know a lot of peoplethat would just love what you're
doing.
Awesome.
When you said quilts, did youlike, y'all make them?
Yeah. Yeah. So we teach peoplehow to make quilts. We have fabric,
we have the notions.
Yeah.
We have classes.
Yeah.
Maybe we could make like somelike clothes for the cows and stuff
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because it's hard to find that size.
Really?
We can talk later.
Let's talk.
I also have another friend Ican get you in touch with. They're
called cool people. Sew.
Nice.
Okay.
I love that you guys mentionedlike, you know, if you love hiking,
then like hiking with thegoats is something that you should
definitely try. What's thedifference between taking your dog
hiking and hiking with the goats?
I think you know, with thedogs. So, you know, people are always
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asking and it's not even justhike based. It's like, well, why
are you guys not doing puppyyoga or cat yoga? Kitten yoga? Why
goats? That's like the numberone question. Right. We like the
goats over other animalsbecause of their docile nature.
Okay.
So they are very docile. Andyou all will see when you go to the
nursery and cuddle on thegoats, you'll see exactly what I'm
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talking about. But even thoughthey're so docile, their energy is
very loud.
Right.
And it's very powerful.
Okay.
Hopping sideways.
They're not afraid to owntheir space at all.
So because they're herdanimals, you don't even have to hold
their leash. They will hikeright next to you. Oh, if you want
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you can just pick them up andcarry them while you're hiking.
Right.
But they are there toparticipate in this hike actively
with you. It's less about I'mwalking a goat on a leash and more
about one with the herd andbeing one with this herd. So you
all are traveling.
You're so proud of her.
You're so cute.
You guys are both adorable.
But that is the mentality wewant to, we want to promote where
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you become one with the herd.Because these are herd animals and
they, they want you to be apart of their herd. So they want
to hike.
And they love expressing theirlittle personalities.
They do.
But it's, it's like almost anight and day kind of thing. It just
shocks the, it works. Sort oflike what she was saying. It's a
different vibe. Your dogs forinstance, that do go out with kids
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with autism get one response.I come in and bring some dwarf goats.
Teachers are like, we've neverseen responses like that.
Yeah. So it's not to discreditthe other therapeutic animals.
We own dogs.
I'm not discrediting it, butit makes a whole lot more sense.
Like when you put it that wayas they, you become part of the herd
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with them. Because like whenyou do take, I have four dogs. When
you do take the four dogs out,you end up kind of being like behind
them and yeah, you're justgoing where they want to go. And
it's like just a one way street.
It's like we know we'regetting walked. You know, this is,
this is an activity for us.Exactly. The goats are more like,
oh no, this is like a group activity.
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Do this, they chase behind youthings of that nature.
They will chase you. They getthe zoobies and sometimes they'll
like start sprinting andhopping on rocks and everything especially
they do a lot.
Well. And I, I, I never, Ididn't even think of it until you
guys were saying becoming onewith the herd. Like we're in such
like an individualized liketype of like time of, I don't know,
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year of our Lord.
Very, very self selfish likeyou guys. Yeah, very like it's hard
to think of the bigger pictureof how we come together.
And I think it's a really coolsituation in time and opportunity
to be able to like, like yousaid, think of the, like, think outside
of yourself.
Yes.
Right.
And be part of something.
That's definitely what thisconversation is helping me think
because here I am like, okay,but why goats? But like, why. Why
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the stuff around us? Like, Imean, I need to, I need help seeing
the bigger picture. And I hopethat someday I will, you know, be
more.
You'll be completely readywhen you get your goat.
Girl. You almost brought homea goat.
I did, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Ialmost put a goat in my car one time
because, like, it wasliterally just the three of them
go in the middle of thestreet, like, no one around. And
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so I was like, here, go to go.But then, you know, it ran away.
I think also, you know, a bigpart of our classes is the fact that
everybody comes asindividuals. You know, I mean, of
course there's groups thatcome as well, but an activity like
hiking with goats, by the timethey're leaving that class, everybody's
talking with each other.
Yeah.
Because they, you know, ofcourse we're not able to provide
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one goat per person becausethe hikes can get up to like 15,
20 people.
People.
Oh, wow. You know, so they arehaving to like share the goat in
a sense.
Every three to four people sometimes.
Yeah.
Smaller class. Then it can belike every two or one person gets
a goat.
Yeah. But it does, itencourages them to speak with each
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other and you know, pass thegoats around or hey, you want to
cuddle the goat, you know, andit does open them up.
So does it bring out personal stories.
And you're out in a trail.
Yeah.
Oh, that's my happy stuff.
People talking. They said it'sgiving like TV show vibes, like survive,
like all kind of.
You're saying I need to followyou guys out with the camera one
day.
No, no, seriously, it's veryinteresting. All our, our whole staff
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is like hand picked interview.Like that's who you all are engaged
with. A lot more than me andmy wife. But you'll see everybody
has a great energy. So ourhike leads are like great with conversations.
They know about the animals.They come from like some somewhat
of a farm background or somekind of veterinarian background.
They know their stuff andthey're also great conversation pieces.
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So before you know it, youdone walked three miles and you feel
like you just started.
Yeah. Wow.
So that's kind of the thing.It's just, it's like, you know, when
you're having fun and you'reactually working out and not even
knowing it.
Yeah.
And you're done. You're like,oh, I'll be back next week.
That's cool.
My body is buzzing because itjust gave me, like, a creative idea
of, like. Yeah, you told me.You told me this is the place for
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creativity. But, yeah, I canfeel it all the way up my body. That
we need to get our camera guy.We need to get Case with us. We need
to designate a small grouphike with the goats, and then, like,
just see what kind of storiescome out of people during this hike
and see, like, how it bringsout each individual so that you can
see that when you're done, howeveryone's coming.
And our instructors will lovethat, too. So that.
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I love that.
Be so cool.
I'll talk to Katie now.
They do trivias while they'rewalking, too.
They play goat trivia.
Educational fun.
I love this. Okay, we're onto something.
I'm bringing my family herenext time they come visit me.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah.Amelia wants to come, so whenever
we come out to actually do aclass, we'll bring a million.
(45:26):
Tell me.
Yeah, okay, I'll be with you.
When we did our pre interview,you were telling me about some of
the most special moments thatyou've gotten to witness on the farm.
Can you tell us one of themost special stories that you've
gotten to witness on the farm?And just really a testimony to what
this farm brings out.
So, you know, the story that Imentioned to you, I mean, it's. It's
(45:50):
stuck with me ever since, andit honestly hasn't. I haven't seen
anything else top the story.But we had this family come out,
and it was like a family ofseven or so, and you could tell that
there was somethingdistressing the family as a whole.
Something was not aligned withthem. You felt the energy. You felt
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that the mom had signed themall up for this, and, you know, they
didn't want to be there. Itwas like the grandparents were there,
the mom's sibling was there,the kids were there. Didn't seem
like anybody really wanted tobe there. They did their class. It
was a goat yoga class. And atfirst, they didn't really want to
participate. They were justkind of standoffish. By the end of
(46:33):
the class, they were allhugging the goats, engaging, laughing
with each other, having aball. And I'm not saying that, you
know, our goats fixed whatevermisalignment they might have had,
but they fixed their familybut at moment, they did something
to where their entire energyshifted after 50 minutes. And I witnessed
(46:58):
it because I was there. I waslike, you can feel it.
Yeah.
Like, everybody, like, theywalked in, they wouldn't even greet
me and say, hi.
Oh, no.
And when they were walkingout, they're like, thank you so much.
We're gonna be back. This isso fun. Since then, she has brought
her family back over and overand over again.
I know exactly what you wantnow. This kind of energy she's talking
(47:20):
about happens weekly.
Yeah, she.
We just doing it happensweekly. You'll see somebody come
in, you're like, oh, then theyleave. They even tell us like, hey,
like, this is really like you.I feel great about this. And then
they. That's what makes themwant to share with other loved ones.
They don't just go to anybody.People that's close to them, they
bring back, they refer. A lotof times we hear his word. It's.
(47:41):
It's been a lot of word ofmouth, especially in the original
moments. It is.
And I think that storyresonated with me the most because
I saw it changing in kids andelderly and adult. Like, they were
the full spectrum range ofages and genders. I'm like.
And it didn't matter.
It didn't. I mean, by the timethey were leaving, they were happy.
(48:04):
They were hugging each other.I was like, okay. Something clicked.
Something happened where nowthey're leaving happier than when
they first arrived.
That is awesome.
I'm not saying we fixedwhatever they came with, but they
left happy.
The negative, bad energy.
And.
And then it leaves.
Exactly. And, you know, it'snot just. It's not just the goats.
It's also our instructor, youknow, our. Our class leads, who can
(48:25):
also feel these energies. Youknow, they have to engage with all
of these clients every singleclass. So hand picking these instructors
is also a big key piece.
Yeah, we love our staff.They're really amazing people.
Yeah, they really are.
It's not one class. You cantake them, you know, you'll see each
of them are totally different,but they got their ways, and they
all communicate together. Someof our meetings are some of the funnest
(48:47):
things when we all gettogether and kind of grow and build.
Our staff meetings. We havequarterly staff meetings where, you
know, it's hard to get thewhole staff together at once. So
we have quarterly meetingswith them where we get to all get
together and, you know, justtalk about classes, talk about new
ideas, just things like that.But everybody's great.
I call them like superheroes.Because they're out here really helping
(49:10):
people and sometimes theydon't understand or they don't know
and they don't really care.Cause that's not their focus to be
praised about it. But they'reactually like really helping tons
of people all the time. And.
And you know, our company hasgarnered over 200 and I don't even
know how many reviews, allfive stars. And these are people,
all of our clients, naming ourstaff by name.
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That's what they.
I came to this person's classand this person is so.
And you know, they have to begood to have their name remembered.
Exactly. Remembers names.
No.
So these, these are all likethe pieces that happened for us.
That's gratifying where we'relike, okay, this is why we keep doing
(49:51):
this. This is why we keepmoving forward and we keep growing
and expanding and having theseclasses and getting, you know, more
and more partnerships. We wantto continue spreading this energy.
Validates everything you're doing.
Exactly. It really does. Andit's a good feeling to know, you
know, everything that's doneat the farm is a pure intentions.
You know, we're not here like,hey, we're trying to become multi
(50:14):
millionaires from this farm.You know, we're.
We're more like, this wouldn'tbe the way to do.
No.
Have like a million glasses. But.
Well, I mean, clearly, becauseyou even said earlier, like, we're
not going to have too manypeople here or we're not going to
have the wrong kind. Like.
Yeah, because it is like, itis a. At the end of the day, you
(50:37):
know, no matter how manyclasses we host, we only have so
many goats. We can only haveso many instructors. We only have
so many hours in the day tohost classes. Yeah. And we're not
going to overload. Exactly.
Jeopardize the quality for the quality.
Like, we're not going.
It's an experience. So whenyou come here, you need to get the
full experience. If not, thenwe're not happy about it.
Yeah. And I'm all aboutquality. Like for me, being a chief
(51:01):
marketing officer, I'm morelike, okay, we have to provide quality.
We have to continue gettingfive star ratings. That means, hey,
this year we're doubling up onour goat whisperer staff. When, you
know, class exceeds thisnumber or however it may be, because
that is our focus. Our focusis our clients and our goats.
That's awesome.
And our cows and the chicken too.
(51:24):
Love that. Well, before we go,is there anything new coming that
we can get A little sneak peekof or get a little first. First know
of.
Well, this year we have twosummer camps happening. That's what
I was thinking. Last year wedid one summer camp, and it was an
epic success. So this year wewere like, well, let's do two summer
camps. We haven't even beenable to promote it yet. Our first
(51:46):
camp is already full.
Oh, my gosh. Nice.
We have not even been able topromote. So I'm like, okay, great.
We might have to have three camps.
I'm just kidding. And it'sreally good, like, for kids to learn.
You want? It is. I've seen afew private schools that have these
kind of similar experiences.Not the same, but kids don't even
know where chicken eggs comefrom anymore.
(52:08):
Oh, wow.
To see a different color andto see the chicken in the hand and
to go pick it and then bringit back and, you know, to grow corn
and get to see it sprout out.
And you guys have a vegetable too.
Absolutely. We did a gardenbrush, a cow, and learned that they're
all not that bad. And hang outwith baby Go.
I mean, well, so the otherthing is that we are in a city, essentially,
(52:32):
and they're all glued to theirphones, so.
And Atlanta, out of all of that.
Yeah.
So by the time the kids aretelling their moms, like, I love
the camp, I want to go back.And the mom is like, my kid just
told me that they love you.
Want to go back outside.
Coming back, you know, like,it's just so rare for.
Not till there is a TV in thenursery, though. All right, whatever.
(52:57):
Cartoon Wilder hanging outwith the goats.
That's fair.
Yeah.
Cuz I'll tell you, we live onfive acres, and the thought was,
okay, we got five acres. Thekids will just go play in the woods.
It'll be great.
Oh, yeah.
If those kids were born in the.
80S, you still can't get themoutside. Like, go play in the creek.
Go. Like, whatever.
But yeah, so summer camp ishappening. So the July one still
(53:21):
has spots open. Our camp spotsare very limited. Again, going back
to quality, we only allow 10slots per camp.
Nice.
I'm gonna definitely hook youup with cool people. So because they
do a lot of kids classes.
Nice.
Nice.
I think you guys could like nice.
Yeah, That'll be awesome.Yeah. Over the summer, we also have
kids only goat yoga classeswhere it's just the kids. We have
(53:42):
a instructor who teaches thatclass, and he's. He's perfect for
the kids.
And I would say, wind down,dog. This is like, the first one
year that it'll be running,just the first four years. So Wind
down. Those classes are gonnabe really cool. And, yeah, I mean,
it's gonna be some awesomepeople there.
And I think Wind Down Dog ismore geared towards, like, being
(54:03):
more of a social activity. Youknow, it's. It's on a Friday evening,
you get up.
Yoga.
Is it Down Dog, like, yoga as well.
So we serve complimentarywine. Or you can bring your own bottle
of wine.
Hands with the yoga.
Thank you.
And then we finished with theyoga class. Okay, you come.
That is genius. Because Ifound you guys because of one of
your members of the team. Andwhat's that group that we found each
(54:28):
other in? There's constantlywomen, like, hey, I need new friends,
or I'm not connecting withpeople. Like, how can I meet new
friends? And it's always this,like, running joke of, well, there's
friend apps, but really, youshould find something you like doing
and then just try and findpeople organic. But, like. But this
is genius. Like, hey, if youlike wine and like yoga, just show
up here and then you'llorganically leave with.
(54:49):
That's true.
Can you just show up or do youneed to buy in advance?
Yeah. So typically, we alwayswant everybody to book in advance.
And like I said, it is on thewebsite, it's on the homepage. It's
also on the booking page. Justgo click the class that you want
to book and, you know, it letsyou pay for the class right there
then and there. And thenyou're registered. And then you got
(55:09):
to have any.
Trouble, call the 1-800number.
Yeah.
You know, if you missed thecalendar on the front, I was going
to.
Refer to that myself, butthank you. Thank you.
Yes.
You're welcome.
Call the number. We'll get youall the way through the process.
Yeah.
Okay.
A lot of times people arelike, I don't know what's happening.
Don't worry. We'll. We'll getyou booked. Just call us. Our phone
(55:30):
number is 844-ggagoat. Okay.Super easy.
I like it.
I like it smart.
So, yeah, just dial 844GGAgoat and you'll get Right. And yeah,
we're on social media. Ourlink tree is listed on our Instagram.
I love that we have a link.That's so much fun. The easiest way,
(55:53):
if you don't remember thename, just Google Goat Yoga near
me.
Yeah.
We are the first facility thatpops up in the Atlanta region. So
awesome.
Nice. So nice. Well, thank youso much. For taking the time to speak
with us and show us the farm.And congratulations on the newest
member of.
The family, a human kidjoining the goat kids.
A real one? Yes.
(56:13):
Another kid.
Oh, yeah.
And this is.
This is number three.
Y. That's correct.
Y.
Excited?
A.
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