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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good afternoon and
welcome to everybody.
The podcast which sharesstories that highlight people in
life, that make the world aninteresting place, which
ultimately ties us all togetherin unique and wonderful ways.
And who am I, you might ask.
I would be the headwrappedsocialite Weith mom,
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micro-influencer in the fashionand etiquette world, but on this
podcast I will be introducingyou to some people who I've had
the opportunity to meet along myjourney, who have helped enrich
me in my life in beautiful waysand who I hope will do the same
in yours.
Hello, hello, cool what's goingon.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh my God, Katrina.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is this thing one?
Is this thing one?
I was With this right you aredoing this right.
Guys, I'm so happy that wefinally made it here.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I am on the road.
I can see the soccer field fromwhere I am, so if I get excited
and I start screaming, justoverlook that part.
Okay, just joking.
Okay, I love it.
Yeah, no, I'm excited to chatwith you Three two one I first
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met today's guest within thefashion modeling sphere.
There was something electricwhen he walked into the room,
what I like to call the magic ofthe moment.
I am so excited to share withyou and welcome to today's
episode a very talented fashionvisionary and model, coupe de
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Ville.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I have found that
core thing that brings out the
best in me, and I have continuedto celebrate and drive
everything I do, because ashumans, we're not always able to
play the part.
So it's easier to incorporateyour expression, incorporate
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your creativity into everythingyou do, regardless of the
circumstance, regardless of hatecoming your way, regardless of
things that are frustrating, andI love myself endlessly.
I had to push that to thepeople around me energy into
everything I do.
Through that, I've been able todiscover this beautiful person
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underneath it all and put mymodeling, push that into my
styling, my art, how I portraymyself, because that's a message
of love and spread a message ofcreativity.
I think that they can reallyonly just be yourself and nobody
else is going to stop youbesides you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I have to remind her
that we need not have the
perfect environment to step intoit and enlighten state of being
, and, in fact, you need nothave the perfect teacher, that
it's within us and it's inherentin the essence of the
foundation of who we are that wego on this journey.
I really love how, a minute ago, you said certain relationships
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will be the key to unlockwhatever evolution you're ready
for and to really trust intothat space, to trust into life,
to trust into the timing of yourlife.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay.
So now that we figured out itwas Death Leopard, okay.
So I know the listeners wouldwant to know because I want to
know 90s rap what would be yourgo-to song.
You're not going to go way backbecause if we're going to take
it back, we got to take it back.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'm like I got to
look at my list here.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
That's fair.
That's fair.
Like I don't even know, I meanI get into like Salt Me Pepper.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I was thinking Salt
Pepper.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I don't know, I don't
know, I don't know, I don't
know what I'm thinking.
Of course they're alphabeticalby song.
Hold on, hold on, I hope I gotthis.
I mean, that's good, I tried.
There's another one on the tookof my time and I can't think of
it right now.
I do have to say it's not 90srap, but there's one.
New kids on the block oh,that's good.
Yes, that was like my firstconcert, new kids on the block
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when I was in, you know, juniorhigh.
Who did you go with?
My neighbor, her mom.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Very cool.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
So super fun.
And then I probably didn't goto another concert for 15, 20
years.
But recently didn't you go tonew kids?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
on the block again,
See I knew that.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I knew them, since
they've come around again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, two or threetimes.
Yeah, I've gone with a goodfriend of mine.
Yeah, I was going to say I wasgoing to say Nelly, new kids on
the block, coistamaine.
Well, paula Abdul was supposedto come more time and then she
didn't come.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh, okay, debbie
Gibson or Tiffany.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, she was, maybe
both of them actually.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Because they are the.
Maybe the last one we went towas like mixed tape was like the
name of it.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh the dub.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So there's a lot of
those.
Debbie Gibson, tiffany kidslike okay, my childhood.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So, listeners, as you
can see, I told you she was a
real one and I'm going to sneakin a quick story about there.
Was one time my hubby and I wewent to a Janet Jackson concert.
Right, we think we're justgoing there, we're just going to
have our good old time withMiss Janet.
So as Miss Janet is playing,there's these screens I think
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there were like three screens,you know just projecting the
concert.
So all of a sudden the screenprojects the crowds, and I mean
there were like thousands uponthousands, upon thousands of,
have thousands of people there.
Okay, Just to put things intoperspective, all of a sudden I'm
looking at the screen and itflashes on people, but then it
flashes somewhere else and then,really quick, I'm like I think
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I just saw Tony and Jenny.
And I tap my husband and I sayI think, because he was looking
away.
And I said I think Tony andJenny are here at this Janet
Jackson concert.
And he was like no, I said I'mtelling you I think I saw them.
But, listeners, if you know me,you know I always think I know
somebody.
That's why people say mind yourbusiness, trina.
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But all of a sudden I textJenny and I'm like dude, are you
at the Janet Jackson concert?
And she texts back right away.
She's like I'm here, all capsis like I'm here, are you here?
And I'm like I just saw you andTony on the screen, so yeah, so
I mean, you're always going tosee somebody somewhere.
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And again we just digressbecause yeah, but that's, but,
that's our, but, that's ourrelationship.
We just digress and we comeback and we do it all again.
So, as we go right back intothe interview, that was like a
commercial break.
We'll say that it was ourcommercial break.
Okay, I was thinking earlier.
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You know, as you were firsttalking, I was thinking of your
mom and I was thinking of my momand I imagine them friends and
sitting across from each otherand having this conversation.
That's pretty cool.
And I.
That is a really amazingthought.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Cause they would have
been friends For sure they
would have been friends.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I love that yeah.
I love that, as I like, sit inthis moment and grateful for our
friendship and yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Thank you for helping
me see things about myself I
didn't see.
I always want to be better, dobetter in life.
You're changing the world.
Thank you, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So are you Okay?
So I'm gonna switch this alittle bit, as I gather myself
together.
Another thing that you and Iresonate on is our love for
cheerleading, and you know, Iwas not gonna forget this
because I'm telling you okay.
So another thing that I want todo this is sounds so bizarre,
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but it's not bizarre.
But we're gonna get a group ofus who were cheerleaders.
Our kids are gonna be so mad.
But let me tell you, kids,we're about to go viral, but I
would love to pull like a bunchof us who were cheerleaders.
There's plenty of us Right andjust do like every now and then,
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like get together and do somecheers.
We don't have to do like thejumps.
I bet you you can still do someback lifts, like let's not
pretend and splits, but I thinkit would be like the coolest
thing.
We're gonna get our sweatsuitswith our names on the back, but
I think that would be like thecoolest thing.
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I mean, how much fun would wehave.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
It's funny, I picked
up cheerleading because I used
to be a gymnast growing up andas an eighth grader the
gymnastics club in Rochesterjust closed and I was done doing
gymnastics Exactly, and I waslike getting ready to go into
high school and I'm like youknow, actually I mean it was I
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joke about it now, but I mean itwas devastating.
That was my identity, just likeI watch my own kids with you
know their identity as a soccerplayer, as a hockey player, and
I get that.
I remember I, you know Iidentified as being a gymnast
growing up and all of a suddenthat chapter was closed and I'm
like, okay, it's, I'm too old topick up sports and be good or
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competitive at the high schoollevel, so I guess I'll be a
cheerleader.
It was so funny because I stillbrought the competitive gymnast
in me to cheerleading, whichwas not competitive, when I
started as a freshman in highschool and thankfully I had a
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co-conspirator who also was agymnast with me and my dearest
friend growing up and we bothstarted cheerleading as freshmen
and I tell you, we turned intoa competitive team and went into
competitions, started winningcompetitions, qualified to
nationals as juniors and it's sofunny, it's.
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Yeah, we had a great squad.
We're also proud of it.
However, I will saycheerleading taught me one of
the most important aspects ofleadership and it's something I
carry with me to this day.
So we're putting the call outto all former cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Okay, we're looking
for you to come out of
retirement.
If you are interested ingetting together once every
couple of months.
We'll skip over the winter, butevery couple of months, and
we'll do a lot of fun.
We'll skip over the winter, butevery couple of months, and
we'll do some cheers.
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That would be awesome.
And just to rekindle thatcheerleader spirit, little
sparkle, yeah, yeah, yeah,because it was called the what
was it?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
I know you do it and
I'm like they're not jazz hands,
not the jazz hands.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I can't remember, but
if you all can remember, please
let us know in the comments.
But, my friend, I have enjoyedthis conversation, this
conversation immensely.
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's a gift to me, so thankyou.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I'm talking about
these stories.
Another story is my mother fellin and out of high school.
She had five children at theage of you know, starting at 15.
At 60, she went back to schooland became a psychologist
because of her story and she waslike they have it now.
And when she was taking theclasses she would say you know,
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do I have to read this chapter?
Because I'm a parent, I burieda mom, I buried a child, I've
been homeless.
So it was okay, just writesomething about your experiences
and you get credit for thatclass.
So it was her life skills thatenabled her to be a successful
psychologist and she had donefor Sister Norma King at 60.
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And she's always said God, god,god, faith, faith, faith.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I see it in their
demeanor and I've experienced it
myself.
But something about sittingwith the trees and just watching
the natural flow of the birdsflying from one tree to the next
, the little ants in the soil,the way that the leaves move,
taps you into something ancientand innate and deeper.
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It's hard to put in words, butI know, trina, you've had this
experience before.
Sitting with water is anotherexample.
I used to live in Hawaii andbeing with the oceans reflects
our movement of breath in such abeautiful way.
It makes you breathe slower andcalmer and deeper.
So I've been a yoga teacher forabout 25 years.
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Yoga has been a really big partof my life, not just the
physical stretching and asana,but the deep philosophical and
spiritual work that the ancientpractice of yoga brings some
5,000 year old technology forthe science of the mind and the
science of self-realization andknowledge of self.
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The breath, you know the breathis the one thing that's
constantly changing.
So within yoga philosophy weidentify the physical body and
all of nature.
We call this property, and thatincludes the thoughts in your
mind and it includes themovement of breath, so things
that are coming and going,things that are constantly
changing, and then we identifythat within you, that is the
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conscious awareness that isobserving all of the things that
change so the seasons, yourmind, your thoughts, your
emotions, your breath.
And the idea, with yogapractices, to live from that
space of conscious awareness, tobe the observer, to sit on a
throne as a royal goddess and bethe witness of life, unbound by
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situation, unbound by theweather patterns, unbound by the
mental complexities andsomething about sitting in front
of the ocean, which you find arhythm with your breath.
It's such a deep meditation forme.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And we'll go get our
bubble tea.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And that's another
thing we connect on, because it
wouldn't be right if we didn'thave our bubble tea.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No, it would not be a
tea crime.
Boston Tea Party 2.0.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Wait, what's your
drink from Starbucks again?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I love a good cold
brew.
They have a vanilla sweet cream.
I honestly have such a guiltypleasure for that.
The shake and espresso, butthen the lemonade.
If I'm going to do tea, I'm notlike a repeater.
I have to get different thingsall the time.
So some days I'm in the moodfor like younger coffee, I want
my espresso, and then some daysI just love me a good drip brew,
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hot coffee.
We do not leave any drinks.
I'm not a frozen drink girl.
I'm not into those stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
OK, that's not your
damn, teach them no.
That's true so we are.
Ok, we'll chat soon.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
OK, that sounds
lovely.
Ok, love you.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Thank you.