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Imagine a world where the seeds of growth are planted with love and nurtured by a mother-daughter bond. That's exactly what Brandy and Brooke Bocolo have done with their inspiring book, "Planting Sunshine Seeds: A Mother Daughter Journey of Growth." This episode captures their journey of creating a heartfelt narrative inspired by Brandy's experiences as a sixth-grade teacher. Together, they weave a story rooted in personal relationships and the beauty of growth, all while using flower names to bring their characters to life. At just 13, Brooke joined her mother on this creative quest, showcasing a powerful collaboration filled with passion and imagination.
We also explore the profound impact of positive self-talk and affirmations on our lives. In a world where kindness often takes a backseat, nurturing self-compassion becomes crucial. Drawing wisdom from figures like Jim Rohn and Wayne Dyer, we uncover how a positive mindset can transform how we interact with others. Personal stories, including insights from Jon Gordon's "The Energy Bus," illustrate that growth and guidance often arrive just when we are ready to embrace them. The messages of self-kindness and positivity remind us that the energy we cultivate within ourselves influences the world around us.
Finally, we reflect on themes of gratitude and kindness, highlighting their ability to enrich our lives and the lives of others. Through everyday practices and family anecdotes, we see how small acts of kindness can have a lasting, positive impact. Whether it's encouraging children to share joy through simple gestures or appreciating the small wonders of life, these practices create a ripple effect of positivity. Our conversation underscores the significance of readiness, illustrating that even when seeds of growth are planted, they eventually flourish at the right time. Join us on this journey and learn how Brandy and Brooke's story can inspire your path towards a more positive and grateful mindset.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All righty, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
From real estate to real life and everything in
between the Brad.
Wiseman Show and now your host.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Brad Wiseman.
All right, yes, we are backAnother Thursday at 7 pm, which
is really really fun.
I have I just have a reallygood show lined up today.
I'm really excited about it.
We've been talking about it fora while.
We have actually amother-daughter guest right here
in the studio.
They didn't even have to driveup here, but they did, and it
(00:32):
was really nice that they did,because being in the studio is
just so much better.
We have Brandy and BrookeBacolo.
You got it?
Did I say it, right?
You?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
said it right.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Hey, hugo, mark that as down as one of the ones I got
right.
You know, this is a very uniqueshow for us.
You are mother and daughter,which I can tell.
I can see that.
I can see that, and you're herebecause you wrote a book
together.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We did.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Do you know if there's any other
mother-daughter combinationsthat wrote books together?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm sure there's tons .
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You think there is.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
But maybe not a young girl like Brooke.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're, how old are you?
I'm 14.
14.
When did you guys start thebook?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was last year, she was 13.
We wrote the book in like twomonths.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Are you kidding me?
You wrote the book in twomonths.
This is not a skinny book.
I mean, there's a lot in here.
Yeah, when we get started, weyeah, we just go right, you just
go.
So so how do you do that as twopeople?
Do you just sit there assomebody on a type?
I mean I say typewriter.
You don't know what atypewriter is, do you?
She's like what the heck is atypewriter?
(01:39):
This guy's old.
No, but do you just sit thereor do?
Do you dictate it first or doyou write it down longhand?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So we went to the mall and we brainstormed all the
stuff, what it was going to beabout and all the characters
that were going to be in it.
Awesome, we based it on peoplethat we know, and also flower
names, because it's sunflower.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, say the name of the book, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Planting Sunshine.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Seeds.
A Mother say the name of thebook.
Go ahead Planting SunshineSeeds.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A Mother Daughter Journey of the Growth.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, so there it is.
So there's the PlantingSunshine Seeds, A Mother
Daughter Journey of Growth.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And after we named the book and then I said the
book aloud I would have renamedit because it's like a tongue
twister.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Is Planting Sunshine Seeds.
Is that hard to say, or is itjust me?
So Sunshine Seeds Is that hardto say, or is it just me?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So you did that on purpose, just to mess up any
kind of podcast you would want,I probably would have changed
the title, because every time Isay it aloud I get twisted it is
weird, because you want to saySunshine Sheeds right, is that
right?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's what you want to say, yeah, but well, you know
what?
It's a challenge, that's okay,it's a challenge, it's something
to look at, but yeah, so you goto the mall, come up with the
characters, all these things.
That's how it starts.
But who had the seed idea of it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So I'm a sixth grade teacher, and at back to school
night I always talk aboutplanting seeds in their mind and
how.
Your mind is a garden.
And us as teachers?
We care about their education,but most importantly, we're
helping them with their mindset.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So a mom was in tears .
She loved it so much, so as aChristmas gift, she made this.
So I teach Zoom, that's great.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, it's a great graphic.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This graphic here was .
It was very touching.
It was like one of my favoritegifts and I teach Zoom workouts
every morning.
So I was showing the girls inZoom and I got a text message
from one of the girls and shesaid, Bram, what was the name of
that book?
And I said, what do you mean?
She said the one with the brainin the water.
And I was like, oh, that's justthe picture, it's not a book.
And she was like, oh, maybe youshould write it someday.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So she planted the seed in my mind.
Then I was cleaning, and that'swhat I always get in my all my
good ideas.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She gets all of her good ideas when she's cleaning.
That's great.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And I said you know what, Maybe I'll write a book
and I was going to make it morelike nonfiction, more self-help
kind of thing.
And then I said you know what,maybe I'll make it about a girl
named Brock.
So then I called Brock.
I say Brock, come on down.
And then I said would you wantto write it with me?
And she was apprehensive atfirst, right, would you?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
want to write it with me.
And she was apprehensive atfirst, right, because what do
you say to that?
You're 13, right, yeah, I waskind of.
What do you say?
Like mom says do you want towrite a book with me?
I mean, you're like mom's lostit, she's out of her mind, Like
something has gone on.
Now do you have siblings?
Yeah, I have a brother, abrother 13.
Oh, you're twins.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
She's 14 now.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She's 14 now.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They're 13.
Oh, Irish twins.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, is that what they call it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Irish twins.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Awesome, okay, so did he want to get in on this book?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, look at her face.
You guys are like no, he's aboy, he's dirty, he's gross.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know what I mean the idea for the book.
You come up with it from thatpicture and then it just started
to go from there.
It was so like she said we metat the mall, we came up with all
the characters, we came up withthe idea, and then how we wrote
it together was we would comeup with the chapter title.
I would actually write thechapter and then we would sit
together I would read it to herand then she would give me
feedback and she'd say, mom,change this, let's do this.
And then she'd say, all right,what's the next chapter?
We would think of the title.
I'd say, all right, brooke,I'll be right back.
I would go write those wordsand then it's crazy.
(05:12):
Weren't we getting addicted toit, though?
We were like, all right, what'snext?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Is there another book on the horizon?
Part two Did you like theprocess, brooke, of the writing
of a book?
Did you like that process?
Because, even though you're 13,I've never written a book.
I'm 54.
So that's a process I'm notaware of.
So to go through that and havethat experience at your age is
(05:37):
pretty awesome, and to be on, Imean hello, your name's on the
front of a book.
I mean my name.
Hey, Hugo, are you on the frontof a book?
No, you're not on a book, areyou?
No, not yet.
At least I didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I like that answer.
Not yet, not yet at leastthat's true.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Me neither so far.
But yeah, that's awesome.
So tell me about this book.
So what are we going to find inthere?
What?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
is it about?
Why did we write?
Reason we wrote this is becauseI think the world right now
needs a little more sunshineseeds in their life.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The world is tough, life can be tough, but when you
wake up each day, one of myfavorite sayings what do I say
every day?
Brock, it's going to be a greatday.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So when the alarm goes off?
That's what I say in my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's going to be a great I say that until I believe
affirmations affirmations andso you're a big believer in
affirmations, right?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That is like one of my favorite things, but I think
the seed you plant in your mind,girl.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So, as having two middle school children and
teaching middle school aged kidsare hard on themselves.
The world is hard and itdoesn't have to be.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So this is a beautiful story about a mom and
a daughter.
The mom's name in the story isactually my mom's name.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh cool.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And we use Brooke's name and she moves.
She has to move to a new townand her daughter, brooke, is
miserable, but Linda's alsomiserable because they lose
their routine.
They're planting all negativethings in their life.
Brooke's spending a lot of timein her room.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Is this, after they move, that this is happening?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes, they move pretty quickly in the beginning of the
book.
The mom is struggling withmoney so she moves in with her
sister.
Her sister's name's Mary.
That's my mom's sister.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And the most beautiful part of the story is
they meet a man named Holy Joe.
Now Holy Joe's character,brooke, tell who it's.
Who's Holy Joe.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It was her pop-up, and they called him Pop Joe, and
I never got to meet him, though.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
He like passed away before I was born, but he always
like I don't know how I'd likeword that, but he would always
so that's my grandpa, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So, in real life.
His name is Holy they calledhim Holy Joe because I'll give
you a little backstory.
So he grew up very poor.
He had his teeth knocked out.
He was jumped.
He was an alcoholic.
He was married.
His wife died.
His last son died.
He had his last son died, his.
He had eight kids.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh geez, the baby died, yeah Well the wife died.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He was working.
He became an alcoholic.
They lived in the projects.
Both of my parents grew up inthe projects and my grandpa
quickly found recovery.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So he found AA, and there he became known as holy
doe oh wow and he planted theseseeds in the lives of so many
people.
People in the projects calledhim dads.
Like his door was always open,people were always they always
need a pop.
Pop was always there.
Um, but then growing up, helived with us.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So I have a sister.
Her and I are 11 months apart.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So this runs in the family this whole 11 months or
12 months apart.
This is something in common.
I'm noticing this.
So you're not Irish, though,bacolo, I would think, is that
Italian.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, but my maiden name's McKinney, so I am Irish,
so I am Irish, guess where I'mgoing in July, by the way.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Ireland I'm going to Ireland, yeah, with my wife and
the kids and everybody.
We're all going to Ireland.
Yeah, that's exciting.
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, so he planted these seeds throughout
our whole life.
Yeah, and we didn't realize it.
We didn't realize it, but mymom and dad grew up really hard
and they are so inspiringbecause they're just great
people.
They were very successful inlife.
(09:29):
They raised two children.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We thought we always had everything.
So that's where it ties in with.
One of the things we talkedabout before we went live here
is creating positivity withoutsupport at home.
Yes, is that where that comesfrom?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It does Because I think, like I said earlier, it's
going to be a great day.
I think, when we wake up, wehave a choice.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How do you want your day to go?
We have some people in ourlives who have beautiful lives
and they're miserable.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh, that's so true, right, they have everything and
they're miserable.
They have everything.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And then you have other people who have been
through it all and they're happy.
And you wonder why.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It is a choice.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It is a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It is a choice.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And the older I'm getting, the more I'm realizing
it's not what you have, it's notyour circumstance, it's your
perspective.
It's how you're looking at yourlife.
It's your perspective.
It's how you're looking at yourlife.
It's the seeds you're plantingin your life, and one of the
biggest things we talk about inthis book is pulling the weeds
each day.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, oh good, that's good.
Now tell me what would theweeds look like in somebody's
life?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Getting rid of toxic people, which Wayne Dyer always
used to call them toxic people.
Let me actually refer to.
This is Linda's, so she's, heraction is procrastination.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, so that's her weed.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh, there you go so her actionable step is I will
get out when my alarm goes off.
I will not hit the snoozebutton.
I will not scroll on my phonebecause Linda in the book was
spending a lot of time doingthat.
She was procrastinating.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I don't think any of us ever do that.
What do you think Now, hugo?
You don't do any of that, doyou?
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And then, Brooke, you want to read what yours was
Read at the bottom.
What was your weed?
I will be kind to myself, Iwill practice affirmations and I
will give myself compliments,but read what was your negative
self-talk.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh, negative self-talk is terrible.
It can really I can reallychange, change your life,
actually change a lot ofpeople's lives actually.
Yeah, it's amazing, it's goodstuff, and that's what I was
saying, the thing that I really,when I'm looking at all the
things that you sent and it'sall all great stuff, it's all
stuff that I listed we justtalked about.
We like Jim Rohn, we like WayneDyer Both Jim and Wayne are
(11:44):
dead.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They're no longer around, which is terrible, and
they're still so popular.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I just started listening to Jim Rohn again and
it's so funny.
You know, nothing changes underthe sun.
I mean, it's all been taughtbefore.
I always say that we all have.
All these things are all aboutpositivity, about the powers in
the word.
All these things are kind ofthe same.
The thing that changes is thepeople that put the message out,
(12:08):
because everybody has a uniqueway.
Like this is a unique way ofputting the positivity message
out and putting good things intopeople's lives.
It's a different way of doingthat and I think we need to have
that, because we all learn indifferent ways.
If you think about it, wayneDyer might not attract everybody
because you might not learn theway he teaches Right, so let's
(12:32):
go back into that.
So one of the other thingskindness has a superpower.
I like that one, and that's notjust being kind to other people
, it's being kind to yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And I think that's the most important part.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
When you're happy with yourself and you love
yourself, it spills out what youbelieve about yourself.
When you're kind to yourself,you're kind to others.
And what do I always tell you,brooke?
If someone's being mean to you,what's usually happening?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Um, like something like wrong in their life or
something so true, so true.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's actually a reflection from it's from from
them.
It's them not you, and you'llfind as many times where things,
sometimes where things annoyyou about somebody.
Sometimes you have to look inthe mirror because sometimes
you're doing those things tooand you're like, oh boy, this is
not good.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We do that to each other, yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's funny, I just thought of it.
When the student is ready, theteacher will appear.
Oh, just thought of it.
When the student is ready, theteacher will appear.
Oh, I like it.
Yeah, when the student is ready, the teacher, the teacher will
appear.
That's yeah, that's a WayneDyer one.
That's a good one.
Yeah, cause it's so true.
Because I'll tell you why.
Because what I was sayingbefore is that if you're not
ready to to learn, it doesn'tmatter who's in front of you
teaching you or talking to you.
You have to be ready for it.
(13:39):
And what's funny is all yourteacher will appear at that
point.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I actually, did you ever read the energy bus?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I did not, I've somebody, I just the second time
.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
somebody said this recently you have to John Gordon
is you know who?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
you know who said that it was um Sylvie Sylvie the
juice, though she's uh was on ashow and uh, she said about
that.
Yeah, and I know the name.
What's the name again?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The energy bus.
Energy bus, yeah, and what?
Who's the author?
John gordon.
Yes, I know he is.
He has tons of books.
They're all about positivity,but they're all little stories
yeah, he actually inspired theway I wrote this, because he
tells a story, but he gives themessage through a story yeah but
anyways and a lot of us learnbetter that way yeah, because
a lot of us learn better thatway his books you can read in
(14:23):
like an hour yep, exactly soready for this story.
I think you know she's like ohno, mom's telling that story so
the energy bus was one of thefirst books I read, probably
like 10 years ago, that I fellin love with positive self-talk
and stuff like that so I waspromoting it to everyone and
telling everyone my sister atthe time was going through a
(14:43):
really hard time a really reallyhard time just in life, and
every time we would sit thereand just have a couple of drinks
or just hanging out, I wouldtry and plant the seeds.
plant the seeds about thisenergy bus, energy bus, energy
bus.
But one day she's like Brad,I'm going to pop those tires on
your bus.
And her and I were so.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Only a sister could say something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right, there might've been some colorful language in
there too.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, um, but I was, we cracked up.
We started laughing and she'slike Brian, I don't want to hear
it.
I don't want to hear it.
You have things going on inyour life that are good.
Of course you're going to feelhappy.
Well, about six months later,she started sending me like the
energy bus book is yellow.
She started sending me apicture of this bright pink bus.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And she finally got on the bus.
But the reason I wanted to tellthat story is because you said
sometimes people aren't readyand you can't force them to be
ready.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, so true.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So when they're finally ready is when?
But I tell that story to her.
She doesn't mind that I tellthe story, but I always tell it
because it's always important tostill plant those seeds.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Because when people are finally ready, it starts to
grow.
It does.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff, really good.
It's almost like and what'sfunny about that, do you know,
if you plant a seed and neverrains, it will stay there until
it rains and then, when it rains, it'll start to grow.
Wow, yeah, so it's the samekind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, it's the same kindof thing.
So let's go into the power ofgratitude.
We hear a lot about gratitudetoday.
You know what does gratitudemean to you?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It just like is always like just reminding
yourself like how fortunate youare and just all the like
amazing things, and you have tobe like grateful for what you
have, even if it's little likelittle or big.
You always just should begrateful for whatever you like
you have and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And do you, do you think about that?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Sometimes I don't really like really do it, but
when do we do it?
Tell them.
And like, the morning forschool, we always like do a
prayer and she always asked meand my brother and she does it
herself, like what we'regrateful for, to just like
remind us and just like yeah,good stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We do gratitude a lot too in our family.
Gratitude we also do um talkabout your day.
We go around the table talkabout your day.
You know um always have timefor that, but we try, yeah, um.
But yeah, gratitude is huge,huge, huge, huge, thankful for
everything you have.
Cause I think it's funny.
I think you know 99% of ourlives are gone exactly where
they're supposed to and it's allgood, and then, all of a sudden
(17:17):
, that one little thing happensand we put all of our focus on
that one little thing and whatwe focus on expands, yeah.
So you know, that's, that's um,it's good, good stuff,
gratitude's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And I love the theory of I get to or I have to.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So you don't have to do anything, you're blessed, you
get to get to like we, we hadthe opportunity to drive up here
.
It took us a long time.
There was traffic, but we had acar.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We had this awesome podcast to come to, and it's a
much better experience, don'tyou agree?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh yeah, this is so cool.
This is better than.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Zoom, zoom is just so sterile.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I feel like we're like famous don't you?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, I never do.
I don't know what the heck thisis.
You know I's good, it's good,so let's go into some of this
stuff here.
I love the idea of small actsof kindness.
Great gratitude and positivitycan make a difference in
somebody's life.
How do you do that every day?
(18:14):
Do you look?
Do you look for the people totry and do that for, do you?
Or is it just happen?
You know, I'm just wonderinghow that works out for you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Initially I forced it when they were little.
We would.
We did some really fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Tell them some of the stuff we did so, like when I
was younger, she would alwayslike play this song and it was
just like I am and it was likelike a ton of things like that.
You should always like talk toyourself like, about, like
positive, and not negative whenI was like younger.
I play soccer so I was juggling, it's like with your foot
(18:48):
juggling.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I think you knew the video.
Yeah, it's not this.
At first I did think you werein a circus, I wasn't sure.
But no, it's with your foot.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I know exactly what you mean.
I would always get frustrated.
So that sparked an idea toalways play that song.
Then we would always listen toit on the way to school.
We would to it like on like theway to school or just like we
would like sing it.
And she would always ask likewhat is your affirmation today?
What did you affirmation Tellthem about the?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
acts of kindness, though.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh, when me and my brother like were younger, we
that like remember on thegrabber machines.
Oh, yeah, so she put like,wrote like a note and we put
money there so like people couldplay or or use the grabber
machine we call it a grabbermachine.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What's a grabber machine?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's like the crane machine where you put the money
in Stuffed animals.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, I know exactly what you mean.
I don't know why the kids areaddicted to those things.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, I don't know why we call it a grabber machine
.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh my God, we have so many little toys from that.
All right, go back to thegrabber machine.
So were you using positivethoughts in the grabber machine,
or what?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
No, we just put a bag of like coins oh okay, Got it A
little note that said have funor good luck, and we would like
kind of hide them.
Walmart.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Catch someone using it.
Did we actually ever see anyone?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I remember we like walked in and we did it like
when we first got like in thestore and then the store and
then we like got whatever likewe needed to get and then when
we left it wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So oh, it's interesting.
And then with our soccer teamwe collected tons of stuff for
the homeless that's good and wewent down and delivered it, and
so initially we forced it.
But now, what do I say to youbefore you leave the car?
Every day, make someone whatmake somebody smile?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
yeah, oh, that's cool , that's really good that's
really good.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's good no pressure on buying anything.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Just make them smile.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Open the door Smile at someone.
If someone doesn't have someoneto sit with.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Show that you care.
Yeah, yeah, just showing actsof kindness.
I mean acts of kindness.
You hear that all the time, butit's so true because it's
actually.
It's a small story.
I didn't tell this story yet atall, but this is really
interesting.
So I'm at McDonald's which isnever good for me, of course,
you know but I'm at McDonald'sand I'm there and I'm in line
and I'm waiting and waiting, andwaiting and waiting.
(20:53):
I never told you this story,hugo, so this is a new one.
Waiting and waiting.
Right, I'm like what is thislady doing?
She?
She gets out of her car to talkto do the order at the thing,
because I guess her windowdoesn't go down or whatever.
I'm getting frustrated.
I'm like, what is going on?
She's there, she's taking likefive minutes.
I'm like so much for fast food.
This is ridiculous, right, I'min a hurry.
I'm going on an appointment.
She pulls up now to go pay.
(21:15):
She gets out of her car again,gets out of her car.
She's talking to the ladyforever paying.
I'm like, why is this persongetting out of their car to
order first and then?
So I'm thinking, okay, maybeher window doesn't work.
And now in my mind I'm going Iknow I'm not supposed to be
going through this, I know Ishouldn't be acting like this,
but I am.
I'm human.
This is the way it is right.
I'm going on.
(21:35):
I'm about ready to honk thehorn and she like goes, like
this and smiles and I'm like,all right, I'm not going to, I'm
not going to do that, I'm notgoing to freak out.
I was about ready to like justbe, like gone, totally bizarre.
Gets back in her car, shedrives up to the second window,
gets her food.
I pull up to the first windowand said, and the lady goes,
that lady just bought your lunch.
I just got chills I did too Iknew you were going to say I was
(21:58):
.
I was about ready to beep ather and freak out on her, and it
taught me a huge, huge, hugelesson.
The lesson there is.
You know, you have no idea whatthat person is doing, and I
think what it was is her windowdidn't work.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So and she had a.
The car was not the nicest ofcars, you know.
So me sitting there doing thatwas probably not a nice thing,
but I'm in my day, I'm in myworld and we're human.
Probably not a nice thing, butI'm in my day, I'm in my world.
And then, of course, because ofall that, of how much time it
took she bought me my lunch.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's beautiful, isn't?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
that cool.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But I feel like Brooke and I were actually
talking about that on the way up.
You never know what someoneelse is going through,
absolutely you never know what'sgoing on in someone's mind.
You never know the hurt, thepain.
So did they lose?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
somebody Did they.
Are they going through cancer?
Are they?
Are they doing this?
Are they doing that?
Are they financially strapped?
You know you.
You just don't know.
And you know when they'recoming at you or coming to you
in a way that you're like thisis you know, you just have to
kind of go.
Okay, wait, I don't know wherethey're coming from.
Figure it out.
The world would be a betterplace, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would.
And, of course, at McDonald's Iwas freaking out.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I think most people would have.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And I'm usually pretty patient, but it was like
really getting on me.
But it just shows you.
You need to slow down, brad.
You need to slow down and letpeople have their time.
I like that slowing down down,because how's mommy, when she's
in a rush, don't say the wordshe says?
This is a family friendly show.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
She just gets very annoyed at me and my brother and
it's just I don't like it's notfun to be around, right?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But no one's fun when they're in a rush.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
So why are we in a rush?
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Right, just like when we in a rush.
Yeah, exactly Right.
Just like when we were runninglate.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I said to her all right, let's take a breath.
Let's email, let's call let'semail.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And we got here.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, no, it worked out great and you were right on
time.
Yeah, actually, it was perfect,it worked.
We don't get to the end of theshow and we didn't talk about it
.
You have a podcast that youjust started not too long ago,
which is awesome.
I tend to like podcasts.
It's called Great Day Vibes, isthat right?
Yes, owning the chaos, findingthe calm is like the part and
that's the part that I lovebecause I have to say when she
(24:13):
says owning the chaos, findingthe calm.
I was listening to your podcasttoday.
I listened to the latestepisode before you got here and
I was getting a little.
I was very relaxed.
She had that.
That show or that podcastyou're doing is a very it's a
very relaxed like tone,definitely different than what
you are here a hundred percentdifferent.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, yeah, I'm sitting usually on my couch okay
with the computer on my lapokay and it's just me and the
computer like I'm just talkingand that's in that computer.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's the way you sound with the voice.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yes, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I seriously was like I was.
I felt like I was going to go,like I wasn't sure what was
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I was very relaxed I was like this is my talk, like
my teacher voice teacher voiceand do you do your workout thing
in the morning?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
are you whisper on that sometimes?
Is that because nobody's?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
up I.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It's so funny you're saying that because the first
time, the first thing I lookedup when I saw you was you doing
some kind of okay, so what we'regonna do right now, and I'm
like she's really timid I thinkinitially because I it's 5, 15
am and oh, yes, so the house issleeping yeah, that's I.
I had it right.
I knew that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
But then I think that is now in my mind, that's my
voice when I teach a workoutwhen, I talk on Instagram.
Like my Instagram voice.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Everyone makes fun of it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Everyone makes fun of it.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
She's rolling her eyes.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
If you don't know me, you think that's my voice, but
if you know me, you're like whatat first?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
what's funny?
At first I was like I don'tknow if I can have her on the
podcast.
She barely talks.
I was like, oh my gosh, she'sso soft spoken.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
What'd you say You're totally opposite.
Yeah, yeah, she talks a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
This is good.
My nickname growing up wasmotor mail.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh, okay, Okay, that's interesting, yeah, so
this is good stuff.
This is good stuff.
So let's talk about the podcast.
Why the podcast?
What made you go from from thebook to this podcast, which is
totally different than than kindof well, it's not different,
it's just it's a calmer way ofof planting those seeds.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yes, so that was always in the back of my mind of
something I wanted to do.
Yeah, and how I do everythingis impulsively.
So I was driving to work and Ihad the idea again.
It was came to me.
I was like I really want to dothis podcast.
I was like you know what I'mgoing for it.
Yeah, good for you Post it onFacebook.
Guess what?
(26:31):
I have a podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Is that before you even had it?
Yeah, sometimes, sometimes youcan throw it out there.
Yeah, I have to commit Wait.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I chat GPT the the um graphic.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, oh, the graphic is awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That was chat GPT.
Are you kidding me?
It's a really good graphic andI actually have a kid in my
class who's an artist, who isphenomenal.
She's going to paint that forme.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But for now that so I , I screenshotted it, I put it
up, and then I said to myself ohcrap.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now I got to do it, and then I Googled how do you
start a podcast?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
So I mean, my intention for this podcast is to
just help people.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I have a couple of platforms that I help people
workouts.
I would teach workouts on thebeach.
I do the zooms.
I have an Instagram page.
I have a Facebook page.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I'm a teacher.
I run little seminarsoccasionally, yeah, but I
thought this is just another wayfor someone who doesn't have
Facebook, like my mom, orsomeone who's driving to work,
cause that's when, a lot oftimes, I'll listen.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's where a lot of people listen to podcasts, yeah
, and I do you know.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Do you ever listen to Rob Dial?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I can't say I have.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, he's, my favorite .
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Rob Dial.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Rob Dial, you dial, rob dial You'll have to send me
these things.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Cause I like yeah, I definitely like to look things
up, cause I'm always looking fordifferent things.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
They're like 20 minutes long.
They're a little scientificbased.
He curses a little bit in itand he's a little bit raw, he's
a little real, he's really cool,but he gives you it's quick,
yeah, so I once again, I basemine kind of like his.
I don't want to keep it long.
I can talk forever.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same here, same here, and we
have to wrap it up soon.
Just speaking of which, we haveto wrap it up soon.
You know what's funny?
This show started out.
It used to be what?
12 minutes, 15 minutes, we usedto do it, and then it went from
15 minutes to 17, 18 minutes,then from 18 minutes to 22
minutes.
We're almost at a half hour,believe it, or's good content,
it's good stuff.
So I want to ask you is whatelse?
(28:23):
And let me just make sure I gotmy takeaways on here Many
things look different.
I wanted to ask you yourfriends we brought this up
before we went live, right, yeah, your friends?
What do your friends thinkabout all of this?
I mean affirmations, positivity, oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
All that stuff that we never think of as as
teenagers.
Um, I don't really like talkabout it, like with them.
Uh, like they like found out Iforget how they found out about
it I feel like I guess a coupleof them follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Are you going to tell them about the podcast?
Oh look at her, she's probablylike no, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, your soccer team, though, when I did the
talk at your soccer team, oh,yeah, she so like my team was
struggling a little bit.
Yeah, okay, and like our games,like we would play really well,
just that we couldn't get ourshots off.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And she came to our team like in before the game and
just like gave us basicallylike a pep talk good, you think
it worked um, can't hurt it did,she thinks it did.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
they were like goal scoring machines after that,
goal-scoring machines.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
She makes the same faces my daughter makes.
You and Catherine should gettogether sometime.
But so, out of all of this, doyou like it?
Because it's different thanwhat most 13-year-olds are being
exposed to, do you like it?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
It definitely helps sometimes.
Sometimes I'm just like is thisreally going to help?
It does, Since she says it somuch, it's kind of not like it
gets old, it's just like okaymom, but it does really help.
It really is something thatanybody should do, because it
(29:59):
really helps improve your life.
It just makes you happier, eventhough you might think it
doesn't.
It really does, that's goodstuff.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
That's good stuff.
It's good for you like happier.
Even though you might think itdoesn't, it really does.
Yeah, that's good stuff, that'sgood, so it's good for you to
hear it right.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
That made me feel good.
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's good Is there anything else you can think of
that you wanted to cover beforewe wrap it up?
Um, I guess we got the book.
Also, where do we find you?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Oh, so Susan found you.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Now we figured that out.
Okay, let's give susan a plug,because she'll enjoy that.
Susan mcfadden is the one thatput us together because they're
friends through, uh, family orwhatever, right, I think.
And um, yeah, so, but no, wheredo we find you to get all of
your information?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
so instagram coach piccolo okay facebook.
Just my name, brandacolo, andthe podcast is on Apple Spotify.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I think I saw you on Spotify.
That's where I saw you.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I upload through RFM.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And what's that called again?
That's called Great Day Vibes.
And if they look up your name,Bacolo, they find everything
that way, right.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
And the book is on Amazon the Gratitude Journal,
amazon.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, the Gratitude Journal we forgot about real
quick.
That's this thing right hereand you have stuff in there,
that it's basically gives youevery day like to write, to do
stuff Right.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So the reason I developed that was I had 10
different books and I wanted toput everything into one book
with my goals, my prayers, allof that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So I love it.
I love it, I love it.
This stuff is so exciting.
Thanks for coming in.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you for coming in.
I really appreciate it.
This was excellent, excellent,excellent.
All right, we'll get you backin again, how's that?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm excited We'll bring your friends in next time.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, that's good.
She'll be like All right, thereyou go, brandy and Brooke
Bacolo what a great thing.
We got Great Day Vibes as theirpodcast.
Author of Planting SunshineSeeds I said it correctly but
all kinds of positive stuff inhere.
You really should look them up.
I think you're going to love it, you're going to love the book,
you're going to love everythingthey're doing and you're also
(31:59):
going to love the podcast thatshe does.
It's very, very low, calm kindof feeling.
So, yeah, check it all out.
All right, that's about it.
Thanks for watching us everyThursday at 7 pm.
We'll see you next week.
All right, bye.
All righty, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
From real estate to real life and everything in
between the Brad.
Wiseman Show and now your host.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Brad Wiseman.
All right, yes, we are backAnother Thursday at 7 pm, which
is really really fun.
I have I just have a reallygood show lined up today.
I'm really excited about it.
We've been talking about it fora while.
We have actually amother-daughter guest right here
in the studio.
They didn't even have to driveup here, but they did, and it
(00:32):
was really nice that they did,because being in the studio is
just so much better.
We have Brandy and BrookeBacolo.
You got it?
Did I say it, right?
You?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
said it right.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Hey, hugo, mark that as down as one of the ones I got
right.
You know, this is a very uniqueshow for us.
You are mother and daughter,which I can tell.
I can see that.
I can see that, and you're herebecause you wrote a book
together.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We did.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Do you know if there's any other
mother-daughter combinationsthat wrote books together?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm sure there's tons .
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You think there is.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
But maybe not a young girl like Brooke.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So you're, how old are you?
I'm 14.
14.
When did you guys start thebook?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was last year, she was 13.
We wrote the book in like twomonths.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Are you kidding me?
You wrote the book in twomonths.
This is not a skinny book.
I mean, there's a lot in here.
Yeah, when we get started, weyeah, we just go right, you just
go.
So so how do you do that as twopeople?
Do you just sit there assomebody on a type?
I mean I say typewriter.
You don't know what atypewriter is, do you?
She's like what the heck is atypewriter?
(01:39):
This guy's old.
No, but do you just sit thereor do?
Do you dictate it first or doyou write it down longhand?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So we went to the mall and we brainstormed all the
stuff, what it was going to beabout and all the characters
that were going to be in it.
Awesome, we based it on peoplethat we know, and also flower
names, because it's sunflower.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, say the name of the book, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Planting Sunshine.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Seeds.
A Mother say the name of thebook.
Go ahead Planting SunshineSeeds.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A Mother Daughter Journey of the Growth.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, so there it is.
So there's the PlantingSunshine Seeds, A Mother
Daughter Journey of Growth.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And after we named the book and then I said the
book aloud I would have renamedit because it's like a tongue
twister.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Is Planting Sunshine Seeds.
Is that hard to say, or is itjust me?
So Sunshine Seeds Is that hardto say, or is it just me?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So you did that on purpose, just to mess up any
kind of podcast you would want,I probably would have changed
the title, because every time Isay it aloud I get twisted it is
weird, because you want to saySunshine Sheeds right, is that
right?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's what you want to say, yeah, but well, you know
what?
It's a challenge, that's okay,it's a challenge, it's something
to look at, but yeah, so you goto the mall, come up with the
characters, all these things.
That's how it starts.
But who had the seed idea of it?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So I'm a sixth grade teacher, and at back to school
night I always talk aboutplanting seeds in their mind and
how.
Your mind is a garden.
And us as teachers?
We care about their education,but most importantly, we're
helping them with their mindset.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So a mom was in tears .
She loved it so much, so as aChristmas gift, she made this.
So I teach Zoom, that's great.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, it's a great graphic.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This graphic here was .
It was very touching.
It was like one of my favoritegifts and I teach Zoom workouts
every morning.
So I was showing the girls inZoom and I got a text message
from one of the girls and shesaid, Bram, what was the name of
that book?
And I said, what do you mean?
She said the one with the brainin the water.
And I was like, oh, that's justthe picture, it's not a book.
And she was like, oh, maybe youshould write it someday.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So she planted the seed in my mind.
Then I was cleaning, and that'swhat I always get in my all my
good ideas.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She gets all of her good ideas when she's cleaning.
That's great.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And I said you know what, Maybe I'll write a book
and I was going to make it morelike nonfiction, more self-help
kind of thing.
And then I said you know what,maybe I'll make it about a girl
named Brock.
So then I called Brock.
I say Brock, come on down.
And then I said would you wantto write it with me?
And she was apprehensive atfirst, right, would you?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
want to write it with me.
And she was apprehensive atfirst, right, because what do
you say to that?
You're 13, right, yeah, I waskind of.
What do you say?
Like mom says do you want towrite a book with me?
I mean, you're like mom's lostit, she's out of her mind, Like
something has gone on.
Now do you have siblings?
Yeah, I have a brother, abrother 13.
Oh, you're twins.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
She's 14 now.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She's 14 now.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They're 13.
Oh, Irish twins.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, is that what they call it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Irish twins.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Awesome, okay, so did he want to get in on this book?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No, look at her face.
You guys are like no, he's aboy, he's dirty, he's gross.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know what I mean the idea for the book.
You come up with it from thatpicture and then it just started
to go from there.
It was so like she said we metat the mall, we came up with all
the characters, we came up withthe idea, and then how we wrote
it together was we would comeup with the chapter title.
I would actually write thechapter and then we would sit
together I would read it to herand then she would give me
feedback and she'd say, mom,change this, let's do this.
And then she'd say, all right,what's the next chapter?
We would think of the title.
I'd say, all right, brooke,I'll be right back.
I would go write those wordsand then it's crazy.
(05:12):
Weren't we getting addicted toit, though?
We were like, all right, what'snext?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Is there another book on the horizon?
Part two Did you like theprocess, brooke, of the writing
of a book?
Did you like that process?
Because, even though you're 13,I've never written a book.
I'm 54.
So that's a process I'm notaware of.
So to go through that and havethat experience at your age is
(05:37):
pretty awesome, and to be on, Imean hello, your name's on the
front of a book.
I mean my name.
Hey, Hugo, are you on the frontof a book?
No, you're not on a book, areyou?
No, not yet.
At least I didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I like that answer.
Not yet, not yet at leastthat's true.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Me neither so far.
But yeah, that's awesome.
So tell me about this book.
So what are we going to find inthere?
What?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
is it about?
Why did we write?
Reason we wrote this is becauseI think the world right now
needs a little more sunshineseeds in their life.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
The world is tough, life can be tough, but when you
wake up each day, one of myfavorite sayings what do I say
every day?
Brock, it's going to be a greatday.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So when the alarm goes off?
That's what I say in my mind.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's going to be a great I say that until I believe
affirmations affirmations andso you're a big believer in
affirmations, right?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That is like one of my favorite things, but I think
the seed you plant in your mind,girl.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So, as having two middle school children and
teaching middle school aged kidsare hard on themselves.
The world is hard and itdoesn't have to be.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So this is a beautiful story about a mom and
a daughter.
The mom's name in the story isactually my mom's name.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh cool.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And we use Brooke's name and she moves.
She has to move to a new townand her daughter, brooke, is
miserable, but Linda's alsomiserable because they lose
their routine.
They're planting all negativethings in their life.
Brooke's spending a lot of timein her room.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Is this, after they move, that this is happening?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yes, they move pretty quickly in the beginning of the
book.
The mom is struggling withmoney so she moves in with her
sister.
Her sister's name's Mary.
That's my mom's sister.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And the most beautiful part of the story is
they meet a man named Holy Joe.
Now Holy Joe's character,brooke, tell who it's.
Who's Holy Joe.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It was her pop-up, and they called him Pop Joe, and
I never got to meet him, though.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
He like passed away before I was born, but he always
like I don't know how I'd likeword that, but he would always
so that's my grandpa, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So, in real life.
His name is Holy they calledhim Holy Joe because I'll give
you a little backstory.
So he grew up very poor.
He had his teeth knocked out.
He was jumped.
He was an alcoholic.
He was married.
His wife died.
His last son died.
He had his last son died, his.
He had eight kids.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh geez, the baby died, yeah Well the wife died.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He was working.
He became an alcoholic.
They lived in the projects.
Both of my parents grew up inthe projects and my grandpa
quickly found recovery.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So he found AA, and there he became known as holy
doe oh wow and he planted theseseeds in the lives of so many
people.
People in the projects calledhim dads.
Like his door was always open,people were always they always
need a pop.
Pop was always there.
Um, but then growing up, helived with us.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So I have a sister.
Her and I are 11 months apart.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So this runs in the family this whole 11 months or
12 months apart.
This is something in common.
I'm noticing this.
So you're not Irish, though,bacolo, I would think, is that
Italian.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, but my maiden name's McKinney, so I am Irish,
so I am Irish, guess where I'mgoing in July, by the way.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Ireland I'm going to Ireland, yeah, with my wife and
the kids and everybody.
We're all going to Ireland.
Yeah, that's exciting.
Yeah, yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But yeah, so he planted these seeds throughout
our whole life.
Yeah, and we didn't realize it.
We didn't realize it, but mymom and dad grew up really hard
and they are so inspiringbecause they're just great
people.
They were very successful inlife.
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They raised two children.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We thought we always had everything.
So that's where it ties in with.
One of the things we talkedabout before we went live here
is creating positivity withoutsupport at home.
Yes, is that where that comesfrom?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It does Because I think, like I said earlier, it's
going to be a great day.
I think, when we wake up, wehave a choice.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How do you want your day to go?
We have some people in ourlives who have beautiful lives
and they're miserable.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh, that's so true, right, they have everything and
they're miserable.
They have everything.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And then you have other people who have been
through it all and they're happy.
And you wonder why.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It is a choice.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It is a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It is a choice.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And the older I'm getting, the more I'm realizing
it's not what you have, it's notyour circumstance, it's your
perspective.
It's how you're looking at yourlife.
It's your perspective.
It's how you're looking at yourlife.
It's the seeds you're plantingin your life, and one of the
biggest things we talk about inthis book is pulling the weeds
each day.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, oh good, that's good.
Now tell me what would theweeds look like in somebody's
life?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Getting rid of toxic people, which Wayne Dyer always
used to call them toxic people.
Let me actually refer to.
This is Linda's, so she's, heraction is procrastination.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, so that's her weed.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh, there you go so her actionable step is I will
get out when my alarm goes off.
I will not hit the snoozebutton.
I will not scroll on my phonebecause Linda in the book was
spending a lot of time doingthat.
She was procrastinating.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I don't think any of us ever do that.
What do you think Now, hugo?
You don't do any of that, doyou?
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And then, Brooke, you want to read what yours was
Read at the bottom.
What was your weed?
I will be kind to myself, Iwill practice affirmations and I
will give myself compliments,but read what was your negative
self-talk.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh, negative self-talk is terrible.
It can really I can reallychange, change your life,
actually change a lot ofpeople's lives actually.
Yeah, it's amazing, it's goodstuff, and that's what I was
saying, the thing that I really,when I'm looking at all the
things that you sent and it'sall all great stuff, it's all
stuff that I listed we justtalked about.
We like Jim Rohn, we like WayneDyer Both Jim and Wayne are
(11:44):
dead.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
They're no longer around, which is terrible, and
they're still so popular.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I just started listening to Jim Rohn again and
it's so funny.
You know, nothing changes underthe sun.
I mean, it's all been taughtbefore.
I always say that we all have.
All these things are all aboutpositivity, about the powers in
the word.
All these things are kind ofthe same.
The thing that changes is thepeople that put the message out,
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because everybody has a uniqueway.
Like this is a unique way ofputting the positivity message
out and putting good things intopeople's lives.
It's a different way of doingthat and I think we need to have
that, because we all learn indifferent ways.
If you think about it, wayneDyer might not attract everybody
because you might not learn theway he teaches Right, so let's
(12:32):
go back into that.
So one of the other thingskindness has a superpower.
I like that one, and that's notjust being kind to other people
, it's being kind to yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And I think that's the most important part.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
When you're happy with yourself and you love
yourself, it spills out what youbelieve about yourself.
When you're kind to yourself,you're kind to others.
And what do I always tell you,brooke?
If someone's being mean to you,what's usually happening?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Um, like something like wrong in their life or
something so true, so true.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's actually a reflection from it's from from
them.
It's them not you, and you'llfind as many times where things,
sometimes where things annoyyou about somebody.
Sometimes you have to look inthe mirror because sometimes
you're doing those things tooand you're like, oh boy, this is
not good.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We do that to each other, yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's funny, I just thought of it.
When the student is ready, theteacher will appear.
Oh, just thought of it.
When the student is ready, theteacher will appear.
Oh, I like it.
Yeah, when the student is ready, the teacher, the teacher will
appear.
That's yeah, that's a WayneDyer one.
That's a good one.
Yeah, cause it's so true.
Because I'll tell you why.
Because what I was sayingbefore is that if you're not
ready to to learn, it doesn'tmatter who's in front of you
teaching you or talking to you.
You have to be ready for it.
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And what's funny is all yourteacher will appear at that
point.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I actually, did you ever read the energy bus?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I did not, I've somebody, I just the second time
.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
somebody said this recently you have to John Gordon
is you know who?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
you know who said that it was um Sylvie Sylvie the
juice, though she's uh was on ashow and uh, she said about
that.
Yeah, and I know the name.
What's the name again?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The energy bus.
Energy bus, yeah, and what?
Who's the author?
John gordon.
Yes, I know he is.
He has tons of books.
They're all about positivity,but they're all little stories
yeah, he actually inspired theway I wrote this, because he
tells a story, but he gives themessage through a story yeah but
anyways and a lot of us learnbetter that way yeah, because
a lot of us learn better thatway his books you can read in
(14:23):
like an hour yep, exactly soready for this story.
I think you know she's like ohno, mom's telling that story so
the energy bus was one of thefirst books I read, probably
like 10 years ago, that I fellin love with positive self-talk
and stuff like that so I waspromoting it to everyone and
telling everyone my sister atthe time was going through a
(14:43):
really hard time a really reallyhard time just in life, and
every time we would sit thereand just have a couple of drinks
or just hanging out, I wouldtry and plant the seeds.
plant the seeds about thisenergy bus, energy bus, energy
bus.
But one day she's like Brad,I'm going to pop those tires on
your bus.
And her and I were so.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Only a sister could say something like that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right, there might've been some colorful language in
there too.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, um, but I was, we cracked up.
We started laughing and she'slike Brian, I don't want to hear
it.
I don't want to hear it.
You have things going on inyour life that are good.
Of course you're going to feelhappy.
Well, about six months later,she started sending me like the
energy bus book is yellow.
She started sending me apicture of this bright pink bus.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And she finally got on the bus.
But the reason I wanted to tellthat story is because you said
sometimes people aren't readyand you can't force them to be
ready.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, so true.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So when they're finally ready is when?
But I tell that story to her.
She doesn't mind that I tellthe story, but I always tell it
because it's always important tostill plant those seeds.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Because when people are finally ready, it starts to
grow.
It does.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff, really good.
It's almost like and what'sfunny about that, do you know,
if you plant a seed and neverrains, it will stay there until
it rains and then, when it rains, it'll start to grow.
Wow, yeah, so it's the samekind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, it's the same kindof thing.
So let's go into the power ofgratitude.
We hear a lot about gratitudetoday.
You know what does gratitudemean to you?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It just like is always like just reminding
yourself like how fortunate youare and just all the like
amazing things, and you have tobe like grateful for what you
have, even if it's little likelittle or big.
You always just should begrateful for whatever you like
you have and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And do you, do you think about that?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Sometimes I don't really like really do it, but
when do we do it?
Tell them.
And like, the morning forschool, we always like do a
prayer and she always asked meand my brother and she does it
herself, like what we'regrateful for, to just like
remind us and just like yeah,good stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We do gratitude a lot too in our family.
Gratitude we also do um talkabout your day.
We go around the table talkabout your day.
You know um always have timefor that, but we try, yeah, um.
But yeah, gratitude is huge,huge, huge, huge, thankful for
everything you have.
Cause I think it's funny.
I think you know 99% of ourlives are gone exactly where
they're supposed to and it's allgood, and then, all of a sudden
(17:17):
, that one little thing happensand we put all of our focus on
that one little thing and whatwe focus on expands, yeah.
So you know, that's, that's um,it's good, good stuff,
gratitude's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And I love the theory of I get to or I have to.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So you don't have to do anything, you're blessed, you
get to get to like we, we hadthe opportunity to drive up here
.
It took us a long time.
There was traffic, but we had acar.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We had this awesome podcast to come to, and it's a
much better experience, don'tyou agree?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh yeah, this is so cool.
This is better than.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Zoom, zoom is just so sterile.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I feel like we're like famous don't you?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, I never do.
I don't know what the heck thisis.
You know I's good, it's good,so let's go into some of this
stuff here.
I love the idea of small actsof kindness.
Great gratitude and positivitycan make a difference in
somebody's life.
How do you do that every day?
(18:14):
Do you look?
Do you look for the people totry and do that for, do you?
Or is it just happen?
You know, I'm just wonderinghow that works out for you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Initially I forced it when they were little.
We would.
We did some really fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Tell them some of the stuff we did so, like when I
was younger, she would alwayslike play this song and it was
just like I am and it was likelike a ton of things like that.
You should always like talk toyourself like, about, like
positive, and not negative whenI was like younger.
I play soccer so I was juggling, it's like with your foot
(18:48):
juggling.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I think you knew the video.
Yeah, it's not this.
At first I did think you werein a circus, I wasn't sure.
But no, it's with your foot.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I know exactly what you mean.
I would always get frustrated.
So that sparked an idea toalways play that song.
Then we would always listen toit on the way to school.
We would to it like on like theway to school or just like we
would like sing it.
And she would always ask likewhat is your affirmation today?
What did you affirmation Tellthem about the?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
acts of kindness, though.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh, when me and my brother like were younger, we
that like remember on thegrabber machines.
Oh, yeah, so she put like,wrote like a note and we put
money there so like people couldplay or or use the grabber
machine we call it a grabbermachine.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What's a grabber machine?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's like the crane machine where you put the money
in Stuffed animals.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, I know exactly what you mean.
I don't know why the kids areaddicted to those things.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, I don't know why we call it a grabber machine
.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh my God, we have so many little toys from that.
All right, go back to thegrabber machine.
So were you using positivethoughts in the grabber machine,
or what?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
No, we just put a bag of like coins oh okay, Got it A
little note that said have funor good luck, and we would like
kind of hide them.
Walmart.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Catch someone using it.
Did we actually ever see anyone?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I remember we like walked in and we did it like
when we first got like in thestore and then the store and
then we like got whatever likewe needed to get and then when
we left it wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So oh, it's interesting.
And then with our soccer teamwe collected tons of stuff for
the homeless that's good and wewent down and delivered it, and
so initially we forced it.
But now, what do I say to youbefore you leave the car?
Every day, make someone whatmake somebody smile?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
yeah, oh, that's cool , that's really good that's
really good.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's good no pressure on buying anything.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Just make them smile.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Open the door Smile at someone.
If someone doesn't have someoneto sit with.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Show that you care.
Yeah, yeah, just showing actsof kindness.
I mean acts of kindness.
You hear that all the time, butit's so true because it's
actually.
It's a small story.
I didn't tell this story yet atall, but this is really
interesting.
So I'm at McDonald's which isnever good for me, of course,
you know but I'm at McDonald'sand I'm there and I'm in line
and I'm waiting and waiting, andwaiting and waiting.
(20:53):
I never told you this story,hugo, so this is a new one.
Waiting and waiting.
Right, I'm like what is thislady doing?
She?
She gets out of her car to talkto do the order at the thing,
because I guess her windowdoesn't go down or whatever.
I'm getting frustrated.
I'm like, what is going on?
She's there, she's taking likefive minutes.
I'm like so much for fast food.
This is ridiculous, right, I'min a hurry.
I'm going on an appointment.
She pulls up now to go pay.
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She gets out of her car again,gets out of her car.
She's talking to the ladyforever paying.
I'm like, why is this persongetting out of their car to
order first and then?
So I'm thinking, okay, maybeher window doesn't work.
And now in my mind I'm going Iknow I'm not supposed to be
going through this, I know Ishouldn't be acting like this,
but I am.
I'm human.
This is the way it is right.
I'm going on.
(21:35):
I'm about ready to honk thehorn and she like goes, like
this and smiles and I'm like,all right, I'm not going to, I'm
not going to do that, I'm notgoing to freak out.
I was about ready to like justbe, like gone, totally bizarre.
Gets back in her car, shedrives up to the second window,
gets her food.
I pull up to the first windowand said, and the lady goes,
that lady just bought your lunch.
I just got chills I did too Iknew you were going to say I was
(21:58):
.
I was about ready to beep ather and freak out on her, and it
taught me a huge, huge, hugelesson.
The lesson there is.
You know, you have no idea whatthat person is doing, and I
think what it was is her windowdidn't work.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
So and she had a.
The car was not the nicest ofcars, you know.
So me sitting there doing thatwas probably not a nice thing,
but I'm in my day, I'm in myworld and we're human.
Probably not a nice thing, butI'm in my day, I'm in my world.
And then, of course, because ofall that, of how much time it
took she bought me my lunch.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's beautiful, isn't?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
that cool.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But I feel like Brooke and I were actually
talking about that on the way up.
You never know what someoneelse is going through,
absolutely you never know what'sgoing on in someone's mind.
You never know the hurt, thepain.
So did they lose?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
somebody Did they.
Are they going through cancer?
Are they?
Are they doing this?
Are they doing that?
Are they financially strapped?
You know you.
You just don't know.
And you know when they'recoming at you or coming to you
in a way that you're like thisis you know, you just have to
kind of go.
Okay, wait, I don't know wherethey're coming from.
Figure it out.
The world would be a betterplace, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would.
And, of course, at McDonald's Iwas freaking out.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I think most people would have.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
And I'm usually pretty patient, but it was like
really getting on me.
But it just shows you.
You need to slow down, brad.
You need to slow down and letpeople have their time.
I like that slowing down down,because how's mommy, when she's
in a rush, don't say the wordshe says?
This is a family friendly show.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
She just gets very annoyed at me and my brother and
it's just I don't like it's notfun to be around, right?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But no one's fun when they're in a rush.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
So why are we in a rush?
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Right, just like when we in a rush.
Yeah, exactly Right.
Just like when we were runninglate.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I said to her all right, let's take a breath.
Let's email, let's call let'semail.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And we got here.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, no, it worked out great and you were right on
time.
Yeah, actually, it was perfect,it worked.
We don't get to the end of theshow and we didn't talk about it
.
You have a podcast that youjust started not too long ago,
which is awesome.
I tend to like podcasts.
It's called Great Day Vibes, isthat right?
Yes, owning the chaos, findingthe calm is like the part and
that's the part that I lovebecause I have to say when she
(24:13):
says owning the chaos, findingthe calm.
I was listening to your podcasttoday.
I listened to the latestepisode before you got here and
I was getting a little.
I was very relaxed.
She had that.
That show or that podcastyou're doing is a very it's a
very relaxed like tone,definitely different than what
you are here a hundred percentdifferent.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, yeah, I'm sitting usually on my couch okay
with the computer on my lapokay and it's just me and the
computer like I'm just talkingand that's in that computer.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's the way you sound with the voice.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yes, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I seriously was like I was.
I felt like I was going to go,like I wasn't sure what was
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I was very relaxed I was like this is my talk, like
my teacher voice teacher voiceand do you do your workout thing
in the morning?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
are you whisper on that sometimes?
Is that because nobody's?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
up I.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It's so funny you're saying that because the first
time, the first thing I lookedup when I saw you was you doing
some kind of okay, so what we'regonna do right now, and I'm
like she's really timid I thinkinitially because I it's 5, 15
am and oh, yes, so the house issleeping yeah, that's I.
I had it right.
I knew that's what it was.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
But then I think that is now in my mind, that's my
voice when I teach a workoutwhen, I talk on Instagram.
Like my Instagram voice.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Everyone makes fun of it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Everyone makes fun of it.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
She's rolling her eyes.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
If you don't know me, you think that's my voice, but
if you know me, you're like whatat first?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
what's funny?
At first I was like I don'tknow if I can have her on the
podcast.
She barely talks.
I was like, oh my gosh, she'sso soft spoken.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
What'd you say You're totally opposite.
Yeah, yeah, she talks a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
This is good.
My nickname growing up wasmotor mail.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh, okay, Okay, that's interesting, yeah, so
this is good stuff.
This is good stuff.
So let's talk about the podcast.
Why the podcast?
What made you go from from thebook to this podcast, which is
totally different than than kindof well, it's not different,
it's just it's a calmer way ofof planting those seeds.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yes, so that was always in the back of my mind of
something I wanted to do.
Yeah, and how I do everythingis impulsively.
So I was driving to work and Ihad the idea again.
It was came to me.
I was like I really want to dothis podcast.
I was like you know what I'mgoing for it.
Yeah, good for you Post it onFacebook.
Guess what?
(26:31):
I have a podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Is that before you even had it?
Yeah, sometimes, sometimes youcan throw it out there.
Yeah, I have to commit Wait.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I chat GPT the the um graphic.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, oh, the graphic is awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That was chat GPT.
Are you kidding me?
It's a really good graphic andI actually have a kid in my
class who's an artist, who isphenomenal.
She's going to paint that forme.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
But for now that so I , I screenshotted it, I put it
up, and then I said to myself ohcrap.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now I got to do it, and then I Googled how do you
start a podcast?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
So I mean, my intention for this podcast is to
just help people.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I have a couple of platforms that I help people
workouts.
I would teach workouts on thebeach.
I do the zooms.
I have an Instagram page.
I have a Facebook page.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I'm a teacher.
I run little seminarsoccasionally, yeah, but I
thought this is just another wayfor someone who doesn't have
Facebook, like my mom, orsomeone who's driving to work,
cause that's when, a lot oftimes, I'll listen.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's where a lot of people listen to podcasts, yeah
, and I do you know.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Do you ever listen to Rob Dial?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I can't say I have.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, he's, my favorite .
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Rob Dial.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Rob Dial, you dial, rob dial You'll have to send me
these things.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Cause I like yeah, I definitely like to look things
up, cause I'm always looking fordifferent things.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
They're like 20 minutes long.
They're a little scientificbased.
He curses a little bit in itand he's a little bit raw, he's
a little real, he's really cool,but he gives you it's quick,
yeah, so I once again, I basemine kind of like his.
I don't want to keep it long.
I can talk forever.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same here, same here, and we
have to wrap it up soon.
Just speaking of which, we haveto wrap it up soon.
You know what's funny?
This show started out.
It used to be what?
12 minutes, 15 minutes, we usedto do it, and then it went from
15 minutes to 17, 18 minutes,then from 18 minutes to 22
minutes.
We're almost at a half hour,believe it, or's good content,
it's good stuff.
So I want to ask you is whatelse?
(28:23):
And let me just make sure I gotmy takeaways on here Many
things look different.
I wanted to ask you yourfriends we brought this up
before we went live, right, yeah, your friends?
What do your friends thinkabout all of this?
I mean affirmations, positivity, oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
All that stuff that we never think of as as
teenagers.
Um, I don't really like talkabout it, like with them.
Uh, like they like found out Iforget how they found out about
it I feel like I guess a coupleof them follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Are you going to tell them about the podcast?
Oh look at her, she's probablylike no, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, your soccer team, though, when I did the
talk at your soccer team, oh,yeah, she so like my team was
struggling a little bit.
Yeah, okay, and like our games,like we would play really well,
just that we couldn't get ourshots off.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And she came to our team like in before the game and
just like gave us basicallylike a pep talk good, you think
it worked um, can't hurt it did,she thinks it did.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
they were like goal scoring machines after that,
goal-scoring machines.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
She makes the same faces my daughter makes.
You and Catherine should gettogether sometime.
But so, out of all of this, doyou like it?
Because it's different thanwhat most 13-year-olds are being
exposed to, do you like it?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
It definitely helps sometimes.
Sometimes I'm just like is thisreally going to help?
It does, Since she says it somuch, it's kind of not like it
gets old, it's just like okaymom, but it does really help.
It really is something thatanybody should do, because it
(29:59):
really helps improve your life.
It just makes you happier, eventhough you might think it
doesn't.
It really does, that's goodstuff.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
That's good stuff.
It's good for you like happier.
Even though you might think itdoesn't, it really does.
Yeah, that's good stuff, that'sgood, so it's good for you to
hear it right.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
That made me feel good.
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's good Is there anything else you can think of
that you wanted to cover beforewe wrap it up?
Um, I guess we got the book.
Also, where do we find you?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Oh, so Susan found you.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Now we figured that out.
Okay, let's give susan a plug,because she'll enjoy that.
Susan mcfadden is the one thatput us together because they're
friends through, uh, family orwhatever, right, I think.
And um, yeah, so, but no, wheredo we find you to get all of
your information?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
so instagram coach piccolo okay facebook.
Just my name, brandacolo, andthe podcast is on Apple Spotify.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I think I saw you on Spotify.
That's where I saw you.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I upload through RFM.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And what's that called again?
That's called Great Day Vibes.
And if they look up your name,Bacolo, they find everything
that way, right.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
And the book is on Amazon the Gratitude Journal,
amazon.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, the Gratitude Journal we forgot about real
quick.
That's this thing right hereand you have stuff in there,
that it's basically gives youevery day like to write, to do
stuff Right.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So the reason I developed that was I had 10
different books and I wanted toput everything into one book
with my goals, my prayers, allof that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So I love it.
I love it, I love it.
This stuff is so exciting.
Thanks for coming in.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you for coming in.
I really appreciate it.
This was excellent, excellent,excellent.
All right, we'll get you backin again, how's that?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm excited We'll bring your friends in next time.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, that's good.
She'll be like All right, thereyou go, brandy and Brooke
Bacolo what a great thing.
We got Great Day Vibes as theirpodcast.
Author of Planting SunshineSeeds I said it correctly but
all kinds of positive stuff inhere.
You really should look them up.
I think you're going to love it, you're going to love the book,
you're going to love everythingthey're doing and you're also
(31:59):
going to love the podcast thatshe does.
It's very, very low, calm kindof feeling.
So, yeah, check it all out.
All right, that's about it.
Thanks for watching us everyThursday at 7 pm.
We'll see you next week.
All right, bye.
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