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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to finding Out with Pete and the Poet Gold
and our special series to celebrate Women's History Month titled
Poet Gold Knows Women Lead Duchess Luncheon, gathering thirty women
leaders of Duchess County to participate in my workshop on
joy and Fear. In this segment, the women share their
joys and when you tune into the next show, they
are courageously vulnerable sharing their fears. We're going to open
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up today with name affirmations. You're not present for me,
You're present for you. This is about you, so make
sure we have those phones on the lock.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I want to take a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
To thank Chris Marino, Vice President of Programming, Felisha Kershner,
Vice President of Promotions, and our producer engineer Uncle Mike
for their support and getting behind this vision.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Please give them a hand.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And I think we have another vice president in the room,
so your name miscapes me again once.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Edgar Waltzky, all right, thank you so much for your
support and getting behind this crazy vision of ours. I
also want to thank Hurricane for providing some of the
delicious food.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So before we start, we have an activity. So while
you eat, we're going to do the activity.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Your name tags well one, you'll notice the two dollar
bills that's yours to keep. That's luck for you and
hope for you to take out of the room with you.
It's it's something that my co host Peter loves to do,
the two dollar bill.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Let's give it up with Peter. I love Peter, I
love the whole team here. So we all have a voice,
right and we all have a name.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But sometimes people like to create stories about us that
aren't necessarily us. I will leave in a friend who
we are and that starts with our name. So I
want you to think about something positive about yourself, a
positive adjective, a descriptive word that starts with the first
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letter of your name, something that might define who you
are that you want people to know, or something that
you may want to grow into. I like to use
let's say your name is Paula, patient Paula p and
p patient Paula. Maybe Paula is not that patient, but
maybe Paula wants to grow into patience, which is a
positive thing sometimes, so paul becomes patient Polo, or Paula
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may be patient and is patient Polo. When I was
given this exercise, I chose gifted gold. So when I
say gift, what comes to mind for you? Someone says
gift what comes to mind? First word, don't overthink? It
a present right. So I chose gifted God because life
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for me is a present right. Every day I breathe
is a gift. And so it's a reminder for myself
that I'm living and everything around me every moment, whether
it's in favor, but it's always in favor. If I'm
growing through, it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is a gift.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And then in that gift, I'm allowed to gift others.
So I became gifted gold. So take a moment. Decide
who you're going to be writing on your nametag, and
then we're going to share that had them in your name,
no last names, no titles, just your first name and
the adjective.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So if it's gold, it's gifted gold.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
My nametag is floating around somewhere here it is okay,
And this is a really quick activity. You have one minute.
This is a speed workshop. Eat speed, have joy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I'm going to meet some of you that I
haven't met, which is glorious. Does everyone have their name?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is anyone struggling saying something nice about themselves? Because sometimes,
you know, it's hard to do. We're not used to it, right,
We're not used to being kind to ourselves. And and
you may need that one day. I know I certainly
needed mine. You know you may need it when you're
having a bad day or something. There's a little tension
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in the office and you have to remind yourself that
you're adorable, Anna, that you're strong, Sarah, you know your
magnificent Michelle. You have to remind yourself sometimes.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I like the silence.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm going to play a video since you guys are
so quiet, and I want you to listen to the words.
I need your listening skills. Listen to the words. Someone
sent this to me and I felt it fit the moment.
It came to me yesterday and I said, oh, I
want to play this for the ladies.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Here you go, the difficult women.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
We are women who don't take it easy or stay silent.
We don't whisper our inconveniences into a void of nothingness.
We make it difficult for the patriarchs and the misocialists,
and the society that tries to label us.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We make it difficult for you to leave.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Us out of the main plot and use us as carricages.
We are the difficult riven. We laugh loudly, love proudly,
and face heartbreaks like a curtain racer. If you look
deep into our history, it is full of such trail phrases.
We write the most beautiful verses, tell the wittiest jokes,
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and narrate our success stories. We cry on each other's shoulders.
We howl and yell each other's victories. We are the
difficult riven. We run with balls and question inter sectionality
in the current feminist discourse, from being hunted as witches
to being worshiped as goddesses, is a result of our
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feminine force. Some of us menstruate with the moon, give
birth to stars, and carry the labor of labels on
our anatomy. We celebrate that being a woman is simply
identifying as a woman without the conditioning of a gender binary. Yes,
we are the difficult swimmen. We are the difficult women.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We are the difficult women who make it all looks
so God damn easy.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That wonderful.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Absolutely. Now let's share. Let's share. Who'd like to go first.
You're just gonna make this very quick, uh you know,
very fast. Just stand up and say who you are,
your affirming names, everyone knows you are in the room,
and how you see yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'll go first, okay, so the table in.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
The back me maybe, me, me, okay. My name is
Soprina and I am Serenity Soprina today because I need
a little bit of serenity. I need some like.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Work with that. So thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I got the power and I can be in your face,
but the serenity part's a little hard for me.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So thank you, Thank you so much. Clap it up.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Hi, I'll keep with the s theme.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Name is Sherry and I'm survivor Sherry, whatever it is,
I'm the survivor.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Could I have to know.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
My name is Deborah Daring Deborah because I dared to
do what I was born to do.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
Excuse me.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
My name is Carmen with the K and I normally
default a kind, but I'm gonna switch it up a
little bit. So I put karma because I believe that
the good that we put in the world comes back
to us, So I am Karma Krmen.
Speaker 11 (07:52):
Well, if anyone feels that twenty twenty five has been intense,
it has been, and that is why I am level headed.
Speaker 12 (08:00):
Leah, hi are going, I'm Lydia and my adjective is
lydia listener, love to listen, and then I'll assess and
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then I'll speak.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And I'm courageous Carmen.
Speaker 12 (08:29):
I have grown into that and I hope to make
it even better later.
Speaker 13 (08:42):
So this was is always hard for me because you're
right poet, you know, talking about yourself. But I said today,
I'm smiling soon because I want to keep everybody happy.
Speaker 14 (08:57):
Good morning everyone, Madeline Enriquez, and my name is magical Madeline,
just as a reminder to stay connected to my spirit
so that I can keep being reminded of my power.
Speaker 15 (09:12):
I am resilient Rebecca because we all need to bounce
back and I definitely need to do that often.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I'll go.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
My name's actually I like Liz, but I wanted to
use the E, so I am empowering Elizabeth because I
hope to empower the youth of Poughkeepsie to follow their dreams.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I'll go next. My name is Sakima.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
So I'm gonna go with strong Sakima, just because I
hope to be that shoulder if anybody needs to someone Elena.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
I'm going with mindful Melissa for today, to be present
in this moment as Gold spoke, and to be continue
to be present no matter what happens throughout life.
Speaker 16 (10:10):
I don't know why I came up with this, other
than it's on my son's door. His store says he's
awesome or he's amazing. So I'm gonna say I'm awesome, Andrea,
as we all.
Speaker 17 (10:21):
Are, Hi, I'm I'm Colleen. And the word I went with,
which was the only one I could think of at
the time, was conscientious Colleen. I try to be somebody
that you can count on.
Speaker 18 (10:43):
My name is soulful, soulful Stacy because of my deep
connection with God, because I surrender everything to God, and
because I am committed to my destiny.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sorry I'm squeezed in here.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I chose.
Speaker 12 (11:04):
I'll start over resilient Renee like Rebecca, because like everyone
in this room, I've been through it and like to
think that I come out better and stronger each time.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Okay, okay, so this is a little difficult because my
name is Yvonne, so it's hard to find the why.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So so I felt youthful.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
But that ain't gonna work.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
So I had help getting the word yare, which yes,
which means quick and ready. And because of everything that's
been happening, when things coming at me the way it is,
I definitely have to be ready for it. And because
of the fact that everyone knows we got the ten
million dollar the alright, grand thank you, so oh, my
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team and I have to be ready.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
So I felt that was a good word.
Speaker 12 (12:08):
Okay, just to follow that, I'm active, Alex, so we're
a team here. My name is Sandy Swan and I'm
gonna be sassy Sandy all right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes, yes, I'm Tracy, and I'm going with teacher.
Speaker 14 (12:24):
And when I say teacher, it's hopefully teach to understand,
teach to love, teach to grow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Love it, love it. I think I might be the
last one.
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Hello.
Speaker 19 (12:34):
I'm Jesse, and I chose jovial Jesse because it starts
with a jay and because I do believe in a
smile and spreading good cheer.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So good, we're still in good time.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
See.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Sometimes I walk in the classroom and the teacher will say, oh,
the professor will say, okay, well we have twenty minutes,
and I'm like, okay, but I got ninety minutes worth
of content.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
We're going to do an activity that deals with joy
and our fears because my belief.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Is that and I'll talk about this later. I'm working
on a book.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's called be the Poem, Living Beyond our Fears to
better connect with our joy, and it's filled with poems
and stories about that. So today we're going to do
some activities relating to joy in fear. And the first one,
the first activity, you'll see that there's some paper on
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the wall.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You're going to go up as your group and you're
going to make a diagram.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So we're going to make a chart that looks like
this then intersects joy and fear. We're not trying to
go for a visual arts award, perfect circles.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We're not worried about that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And what I'd like you to do is indicate as
a group, for yourself, what is joy for you? You know,
how do you define it for yourself? Not collectively, so
everyone's going to be writing what that is. Do you
have an example of joy that that you might want
to share just some bullet points, okay, and then we're
gonna do the same thing for fear. I'll go back
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to fear once you finish Joy. So let's go to
our walls. Find a blank your group, find a blank
paper on the wall. There's markers. They're colorful markers. There
are black markers. As I said, your circles do not
have to be perfect circles. You know, have someone who's
riding the circle. Do the circle very quickly. You have
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three seconds to do the circles. So every table has
a has a.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So here it is. This is what it looks like. Sechema, okay,
this is what it looks like.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
So one side says joy, the other side says fear.
So for joy, joy is.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Personal and means something different to each one of you.
How do you define it? How does joy show up
for you in your lives? Everyone should be writing all
at the same time. There's no line. Everyone's writing together.
We're learning how to share space with each other through
an activity.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You're just reaching over saying oh, excuse me, I'm sorry.
I wanted to get that in.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Joy is personally means something different to each one of you.
How do you define joy? How does joy show up
for you in your lives? The room is quiet, yes, yes,
please you fill it up, Fill it up, fill up
that circle.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Is it not just a one off thing? Just you know,
fill it up.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I know you have more thoughts about joy than one joyful.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Thought talking about animals. I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They teach us all the time. How does joy show
for you in your lives? Everyone should be writing. Everyone
should have something up there, not a person that's in
this room, Lydia, if you put something up there on the.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Wall, okay, very good, Thank you, dear. I love you, Lydia.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, Now we're gonna shift to fear. But keep writing joy,
keep writing in your joy box. And I'm gonna talk
to you about fear and I'm going to share a story.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Okay, you know, because.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The fear thing may be a little bit challenging, because
sometimes it takes that sort of courageous vulnerability to talk
about our fears. So how do you define fear for yourself?
And what is fear? What fear may you be responding
to internally? Is it scarcity like Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
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You know, so to speak, the fear of living in
a community without proper resources, a personal lived experience that
serves as a fear example for you, how do you
define it?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
About my book already that's coming up. In it, there's
a story called The Can Collector. At least I hope
it makes it through the publisher. So it's called The
Can Collector, and it's inspired by my mother. But I
used to have a fear from a personal lived experience
that I still live with. But it's you know, I
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deal with it of growing up and living with the
chronic illness. Because chronic illnesses can breed uncertainty, right, it
can breed uncertainty When you awake and you've lost your
ability to walk, feed yourself, move your limbs, your arms
are turned up like this, your jaws locked, it can
be pretty scared. And so I constantly had this fear
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that I don't know when I go to bed what
I'm gonna be like when I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I found that it's not promised. But my mother, through
her storytelling and.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Through modeling for me, allowed me to develop a different
perspective and gain better tools that if I had to
cross that bridge again to that capacity physical inability would
no longer be my deepest fear. I recognize I do
still respond to it through my ferocity to get my
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commitments done at some crazy level. I understand that time
is not promised to any of us, not promise to me.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's not promised to you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right that that uncertainty, But I and I understand that
I'm going forward. I've had thirteen surgeries so far. I'm
gonna have some more. It's a bridge I have to cross.
But every step in movement I make when my body
does not come with some physical pain on a daily basis,
but I am alive.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I feel it. I'm grateful to be living. But to
live in.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Uncertainty can be fearful for individuals and communities. What's your fear?
What's yours? Let's get it up there. What's your example
of your fear? What does that look like for you?
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This is about being courageously vulnerable so that you can
really live to your joy. Because whether we're conscious of
it or not, we do respond to it on a
daily basis. We're responding to it and sometimes we're dumping
it on others not knowing. So what does that look
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like for you?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
And you might combine that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
With has there been a woman in your life that
demonstrated joy in the face of adversity? Has it been
a woman in your life that demonstrated joy in the
face of adversity? What does that look like?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I know?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Today's heavy?
Speaker 18 (20:27):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
All right? Are we good?
Speaker 18 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We can put it all up there, put it all
in the same circle. You can put it underneath it.
You can draw another circle if you want.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You can.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
If you want, yes, you can. You can affirm them
on that paper, write their name, bring them to life,
whether they're whether they're here or not.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Look at her, Look at her? Who is she? Who
is she?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Has there been a woman in your life that demonstrated joy?
You're going, wow?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
How can she be so joyful right now? What's wrong
with her?
Speaker 19 (21:14):
You know?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And people try to break it down, they try to
tear it away. Why is she happy? I'm miserable. Who
gives you the right to be happy at this moment?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And smile?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I want to get it all in. Okay, is everyone done?
Because there is one more? But we can sit at
the table for the one more and we're gonna share.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
We're gonna share now. So we're gonna do some sharing.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And I want to get something from everyone's every group's circles.
So can I get a volunteer to start in the
back there on that.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I'd do?
Speaker 18 (22:17):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Table table two? Okay, table two?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Anyone can step up there and share something that was
shared on your table.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Let's start with your joy. Okay. How much do you
want me to read joy?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Okay, We'll just let me get three. I'm timing this.
Let me get three. Let mee have a three expressions
of joy and.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If someone else wants to speak also and share in
the speaking, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Please, I'll start with three, but you can all yell
out more three. So okay, we had sunshine.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, say it like we believe it. We had sunshine okay.
Speaker 19 (22:52):
And we get joy from sunshine. Food with friends okay.
I related that children and grandchildren not being interrupted. That
was good.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Okay, I'm like joy out of that.
Speaker 19 (23:09):
Helping others came up, I think a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Okay, anything else you want.
Speaker 19 (23:14):
Puppies, puppies, puppies and animals came up.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Now, now how do you and and in thirty seconds,
can someone you know share maybe how you bring that
into your space how do you bring some of that?
How do you bring that sunshine into your space on
a daily basis or every other day or okay, or for.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Me, I try to be positive.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I try to surround myself with people who are positive,
try to be in that mindset so that way I
feel like when I walk out is right sunshine, even
though I might go into a room that might be gloomy.
So it's just my own emotional mindset, trying to put
my space, my headspaced into something that's gonna keep me positive,
you know, keep reminding me of the good things that
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are in life and in the day.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
So that's part of my sunshine.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
And I remind and also that I do this work
because the love that I have for people and for
my grandkids.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So I always keep that for farnt in my mind.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's shoot across the room.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
We'll get to fear lay at your table.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Thank you God.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Okay, yes, give some of your joy.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Some of our joy that wasn't already shared, because we
have similar joys in so many ways. Is gonna be
a win win.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Win win win win.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Okay, concept of win win. Let's see hugs and kisses
uh and nature nature?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Quick question, how do you bring win win into your spaces?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
What does can someone expound on that? What does that mean?
A win win? What's a win win?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Else?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah? Whoever wrote win win? I like to know what
win win is exactly? Who wants to take ownership of
win win?
Speaker 18 (25:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You wrote win win?
Speaker 9 (25:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Okay, I did say who wants to take ownership of it? Right?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The question?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well what is win win?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Let me open up to the room because I'm not
quite sure who wrote it and what it means? So
what does win win mean to different people in the space?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Okay, got you? That's a win win all right?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So being being non judgment mental, being non judgmental, being
receptive to other ideas other than your own. Okay, thank you,
thank you, thank you for doing this suit.
Speaker 13 (26:09):
I think one of the things that I enjoy in
this month sound crazy when somebody sees something differently than
I do. You know, I live in the crazy world
of politics, but then we're able to have a conversation
and we both change our minds, right, Like I see
a little bit of what they say, they see a
little bit of what I say. And we land at
a happy place.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So that's a win win.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
That's a win win. Okay, thank you, thank you so much.
So let's let's jump to first.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Table here in the front of the room, right hand
side Stacy.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
You guys, yeah, yes, So some joy we have at
table five is internally being internally connected. Continue, continue, what's
happiness no matter your circumstances, pause of energy, authentic connections
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with people, family and friends, and releasing.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Some of the joy here. Releasing. Yes, yes, let's talk
about releasing. Release what what is? What is that? What
is releasing?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's getting rid of the unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
It's kind of kind of understanding what's essential, getting rid
of past, getting rid of unnecessaries, getting again back to
the essentials.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Got you letting go?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah? Yeah, knowing when you know, knowing when the bucket
is getting full, it's time time, time to let it go.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Can anyone else relate to that?
Speaker 15 (27:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Releasing, releasing is is is so important? So where are
we now? What table? Haven't we done the middle table?
Madeline table? Can we did we? We didn't do you
guys table?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Right?
Speaker 15 (28:02):
I think I just got nominated, Okay, okay, all right,
so I think.
Speaker 12 (28:06):
We have family.
Speaker 15 (28:08):
We have a lot of overlap with the other tables,
but we had dancing and cooking and poetry and poetry
and candles and playing with kids. We have access to childcare.
That's really important at our table, and listening to people
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and traveling and helping people and seeing an idea or
a dream come true.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I want to I like that seeing an idea or
a dream come true. But I also want to address
access to childcare.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, that you know.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I mean, I think it's sort of obvious why that
would be important, because it impacts the whole.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
House.
Speaker 15 (28:58):
I mean, I think we could eat and say, not
to put words on Madelin's mouth, but access to quality childcare,
the opportunity to feel that those people who are helping
you with childcare are not someone who just keeps your
child because you have to do something else, but that
you're part of a team that helps support good point
and that you feel they're helping you raise your child,
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that they're supporting and cooperating with you, and that you
know that your child is happy and you're happy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Where I come from, we call that the village exactly
the village.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It takes a village to raise a child that.
Speaker 15 (29:32):
Could be family friends, right as well as folks that
you are paying to help to make a family together.
Speaker 19 (29:39):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Thank you, yes, Stacy, access to reasonably christ.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
There you go, thank you, thank you, yes, yes, yes,
of course.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
You know last night I talked about this, you know,
the access to childcare and one of the things I
was a outcare provider because I was a single mom
and a way for me to be with my son
during the day because I worked a job at night.
I became a licensed childcare provider. And we are trying
to encourage more people to do that, to be at home,
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and we will help them with different things that they
might need, whether it's toys or access to food. I
know that we can help with that, but there's a
lot that we can do to be able to encourage
more smaller childcare at home. And I know Jerry does
a great job with this too. She's got that mentor
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programs so that we're talking about and also thinking outside
of the box and other areas too. We're gonna be
working on a few things.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I like that idea. I like that, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I want to make sure that I got every table. Sorry,
front table here, Well, this is somebody from your table.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Grab the mic.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
Okay, joy, that has not been said. Music, watching my
daughter play softball, so kids activities, which is yep?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
And peace piece.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
I'm gonna take those three words.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Actually, no, I lied.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I'm gonna take another one. Mom. As we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Thank you, thank you piece.
Speaker 19 (31:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
How many people want some peace?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You gotta fine piece of mind. Right, gotta fine piece
of mind piece. Oh, I hear somebody's phone. Uh oh
one person?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
What is peace for you? One person? Just jump at it,
don't overthink it. What is peace for you? Yes? And
happy birthday?
Speaker 12 (32:08):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yes, absolutely, bank to you.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Birthday her mom, and happy birthday to you. Thanks for
listening to Finding Out with Pete and the Poet Gold.
Don't miss our next episode once Again, where you hear
the women share their fears
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to finding Out with Pete and the Poet Gold
and our special series to celebrate Women's History Month titled
Poet Gold Knows Women Lead Duchess Luncheon, gathering thirty women
leaders of Duchess County to participate in my workshop on
joy and Fear. In this segment, the women share their
joys and when you tune into the next show, they
are courageously vulnerable sharing their fears. We're going to open
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up today with name affirmations. You're not present for me,
You're present for you. This is about you, so make
sure we have those phones on the lock.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I want to take a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
To thank Chris Marino, Vice President of Programming, Felisha Kershner,
Vice President of Promotions, and our producer engineer Uncle Mike
for their support and getting behind this vision.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Please give them a hand.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And I think we have another vice president in the room,
so your name miscapes me again once.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Edgar Waltzky, all right, thank you so much for your
support and getting behind this crazy vision of ours. I
also want to thank Hurricane for providing some of the
delicious food.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So before we start, we have an activity. So while
you eat, we're going to do the activity.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Your name tags well one, you'll notice the two dollar
bills that's yours to keep. That's luck for you and
hope for you to take out of the room with you.
It's it's something that my co host Peter loves to do,
the two dollar bill.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Let's give it up with Peter. I love Peter, I
love the whole team here. So we all have a voice,
right and we all have a name.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But sometimes people like to create stories about us that
aren't necessarily us. I will leave in a friend who
we are and that starts with our name. So I
want you to think about something positive about yourself, a
positive adjective, a descriptive word that starts with the first
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letter of your name, something that might define who you
are that you want people to know, or something that
you may want to grow into. I like to use
let's say your name is Paula, patient Paula p and
p patient Paula. Maybe Paula is not that patient, but
maybe Paula wants to grow into patience, which is a
positive thing sometimes, so paul becomes patient Polo, or Paula
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may be patient and is patient Polo. When I was
given this exercise, I chose gifted gold. So when I
say gift, what comes to mind for you? Someone says
gift what comes to mind? First word, don't overthink? It
a present right. So I chose gifted God because life
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for me is a present right. Every day I breathe
is a gift. And so it's a reminder for myself
that I'm living and everything around me every moment, whether
it's in favor, but it's always in favor. If I'm
growing through, it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is a gift.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And then in that gift, I'm allowed to gift others.
So I became gifted gold. So take a moment. Decide
who you're going to be writing on your nametag, and
then we're going to share that had them in your name,
no last names, no titles, just your first name and
the adjective.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
So if it's gold, it's gifted gold.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
My nametag is floating around somewhere here it is okay,
And this is a really quick activity. You have one minute.
This is a speed workshop. Eat speed, have joy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I'm going to meet some of you that I
haven't met, which is glorious. Does everyone have their name?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is anyone struggling saying something nice about themselves? Because sometimes,
you know, it's hard to do. We're not used to it, right,
We're not used to being kind to ourselves. And and
you may need that one day. I know I certainly
needed mine. You know you may need it when you're
having a bad day or something. There's a little tension
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in the office and you have to remind yourself that
you're adorable, Anna, that you're strong, Sarah, you know your
magnificent Michelle. You have to remind yourself sometimes.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I like the silence.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm going to play a video since you guys are
so quiet, and I want you to listen to the words.
I need your listening skills. Listen to the words. Someone
sent this to me and I felt it fit the moment.
It came to me yesterday and I said, oh, I
want to play this for the ladies.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Here you go, the difficult women.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
We are women who don't take it easy or stay silent.
We don't whisper our inconveniences into a void of nothingness.
We make it difficult for the patriarchs and the misocialists,
and the society that tries to label us.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We make it difficult for you to leave.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Us out of the main plot and use us as carricages.
We are the difficult riven. We laugh loudly, love proudly,
and face heartbreaks like a curtain racer. If you look
deep into our history, it is full of such trail phrases.
We write the most beautiful verses, tell the wittiest jokes,
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and narrate our success stories. We cry on each other's shoulders.
We howl and yell each other's victories. We are the
difficult riven. We run with balls and question inter sectionality
in the current feminist discourse, from being hunted as witches
to being worshiped as goddesses, is a result of our
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feminine force. Some of us menstruate with the moon, give
birth to stars, and carry the labor of labels on
our anatomy. We celebrate that being a woman is simply
identifying as a woman without the conditioning of a gender binary. Yes,
we are the difficult swimmen. We are the difficult women.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We are the difficult women who make it all looks
so God damn easy.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That wonderful.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Absolutely. Now let's share. Let's share. Who'd like to go first.
You're just gonna make this very quick, uh you know,
very fast. Just stand up and say who you are,
your affirming names, everyone knows you are in the room,
and how you see yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'll go first, okay, so the table in.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
The back me maybe, me, me, okay. My name is
Soprina and I am Serenity Soprina today because I need
a little bit of serenity. I need some like.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Work with that. So thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
I got the power and I can be in your face,
but the serenity part's a little hard for me.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So thank you, Thank you so much. Clap it up.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Hi, I'll keep with the s theme.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Name is Sherry and I'm survivor Sherry, whatever it is,
I'm the survivor.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Could I have to know.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
My name is Deborah Daring Deborah because I dared to
do what I was born to do.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
Excuse me.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
My name is Carmen with the K and I normally
default a kind, but I'm gonna switch it up a
little bit. So I put karma because I believe that
the good that we put in the world comes back
to us, So I am Karma Krmen.
Speaker 11 (07:52):
Well, if anyone feels that twenty twenty five has been intense,
it has been, and that is why I am level headed.
Speaker 12 (08:00):
Leah, hi are going, I'm Lydia and my adjective is
lydia listener, love to listen, and then I'll assess and
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then I'll speak.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And I'm courageous Carmen.
Speaker 12 (08:29):
I have grown into that and I hope to make
it even better later.
Speaker 13 (08:42):
So this was is always hard for me because you're
right poet, you know, talking about yourself. But I said today,
I'm smiling soon because I want to keep everybody happy.
Speaker 14 (08:57):
Good morning everyone, Madeline Enriquez, and my name is magical Madeline,
just as a reminder to stay connected to my spirit
so that I can keep being reminded of my power.
Speaker 15 (09:12):
I am resilient Rebecca because we all need to bounce
back and I definitely need to do that often.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I'll go.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
My name's actually I like Liz, but I wanted to
use the E, so I am empowering Elizabeth because I
hope to empower the youth of Poughkeepsie to follow their dreams.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I'll go next. My name is Sakima.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
So I'm gonna go with strong Sakima, just because I
hope to be that shoulder if anybody needs to someone Elena.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
I'm going with mindful Melissa for today, to be present
in this moment as Gold spoke, and to be continue
to be present no matter what happens throughout life.
Speaker 16 (10:10):
I don't know why I came up with this, other
than it's on my son's door. His store says he's
awesome or he's amazing. So I'm gonna say I'm awesome, Andrea,
as we all.
Speaker 17 (10:21):
Are, Hi, I'm I'm Colleen. And the word I went with,
which was the only one I could think of at
the time, was conscientious Colleen. I try to be somebody
that you can count on.
Speaker 18 (10:43):
My name is soulful, soulful Stacy because of my deep
connection with God, because I surrender everything to God, and
because I am committed to my destiny.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sorry I'm squeezed in here.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I chose.
Speaker 12 (11:04):
I'll start over resilient Renee like Rebecca, because like everyone
in this room, I've been through it and like to
think that I come out better and stronger each time.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
Okay, okay, so this is a little difficult because my
name is Yvonne, so it's hard to find the why.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So so I felt youthful.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
But that ain't gonna work.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
So I had help getting the word yare, which yes,
which means quick and ready. And because of everything that's
been happening, when things coming at me the way it is,
I definitely have to be ready for it. And because
of the fact that everyone knows we got the ten
million dollar the alright, grand thank you, so oh, my
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team and I have to be ready.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
So I felt that was a good word.
Speaker 12 (12:08):
Okay, just to follow that, I'm active, Alex, so we're
a team here. My name is Sandy Swan and I'm
gonna be sassy Sandy all right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes, yes, I'm Tracy, and I'm going with teacher.
Speaker 14 (12:24):
And when I say teacher, it's hopefully teach to understand,
teach to love, teach to grow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Love it, love it. I think I might be the
last one.
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Hello.
Speaker 19 (12:34):
I'm Jesse, and I chose jovial Jesse because it starts
with a jay and because I do believe in a
smile and spreading good cheer.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So good, we're still in good time.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
See.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Sometimes I walk in the classroom and the teacher will say, oh,
the professor will say, okay, well we have twenty minutes,
and I'm like, okay, but I got ninety minutes worth
of content.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
We're going to do an activity that deals with joy
and our fears because my belief.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Is that and I'll talk about this later. I'm working
on a book.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It's called be the Poem, Living Beyond our Fears to
better connect with our joy, and it's filled with poems
and stories about that. So today we're going to do
some activities relating to joy in fear. And the first one,
the first activity, you'll see that there's some paper on
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the wall.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You're going to go up as your group and you're
going to make a diagram.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So we're going to make a chart that looks like
this then intersects joy and fear. We're not trying to
go for a visual arts award, perfect circles.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We're not worried about that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And what I'd like you to do is indicate as
a group, for yourself, what is joy for you? You know,
how do you define it for yourself? Not collectively, so
everyone's going to be writing what that is. Do you
have an example of joy that that you might want
to share just some bullet points, okay, and then we're
gonna do the same thing for fear. I'll go back
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to fear once you finish Joy. So let's go to
our walls. Find a blank your group, find a blank
paper on the wall. There's markers. They're colorful markers. There
are black markers. As I said, your circles do not
have to be perfect circles. You know, have someone who's
riding the circle. Do the circle very quickly. You have
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three seconds to do the circles. So every table has
a has a.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
So here it is. This is what it looks like. Sechema, okay,
this is what it looks like.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
So one side says joy, the other side says fear.
So for joy, joy is.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Personal and means something different to each one of you.
How do you define it? How does joy show up
for you in your lives? Everyone should be writing all
at the same time. There's no line. Everyone's writing together.
We're learning how to share space with each other through
an activity.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You're just reaching over saying oh, excuse me, I'm sorry.
I wanted to get that in.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Joy is personally means something different to each one of you.
How do you define joy? How does joy show up
for you in your lives? The room is quiet, yes, yes,
please you fill it up, Fill it up, fill up
that circle.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Is it not just a one off thing? Just you know,
fill it up.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I know you have more thoughts about joy than one joyful.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Thought talking about animals. I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They teach us all the time. How does joy show
for you in your lives? Everyone should be writing. Everyone
should have something up there, not a person that's in
this room, Lydia, if you put something up there on the.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Wall, okay, very good, Thank you, dear. I love you, Lydia.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, Now we're gonna shift to fear. But keep writing joy,
keep writing in your joy box. And I'm gonna talk
to you about fear and I'm going to share a story.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Okay, you know, because.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The fear thing may be a little bit challenging, because
sometimes it takes that sort of courageous vulnerability to talk
about our fears. So how do you define fear for yourself?
And what is fear? What fear may you be responding
to internally? Is it scarcity like Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
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You know, so to speak, the fear of living in
a community without proper resources, a personal lived experience that
serves as a fear example for you, how do you
define it?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
About my book already that's coming up. In it, there's
a story called The Can Collector. At least I hope
it makes it through the publisher. So it's called The
Can Collector, and it's inspired by my mother. But I
used to have a fear from a personal lived experience
that I still live with. But it's you know, I
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deal with it of growing up and living with the
chronic illness. Because chronic illnesses can breed uncertainty, right, it
can breed uncertainty When you awake and you've lost your
ability to walk, feed yourself, move your limbs, your arms
are turned up like this, your jaws locked, it can
be pretty scared. And so I constantly had this fear
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that I don't know when I go to bed what
I'm gonna be like when I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I found that it's not promised. But my mother, through
her storytelling and.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Through modeling for me, allowed me to develop a different
perspective and gain better tools that if I had to
cross that bridge again to that capacity physical inability would
no longer be my deepest fear. I recognize I do
still respond to it through my ferocity to get my
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commitments done at some crazy level. I understand that time
is not promised to any of us, not promise to me.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's not promised to you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right that that uncertainty, But I and I understand that
I'm going forward. I've had thirteen surgeries so far. I'm
gonna have some more. It's a bridge I have to cross.
But every step in movement I make when my body
does not come with some physical pain on a daily basis,
but I am alive.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I feel it. I'm grateful to be living. But to
live in.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Uncertainty can be fearful for individuals and communities. What's your fear?
What's yours? Let's get it up there. What's your example
of your fear? What does that look like for you?
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This is about being courageously vulnerable so that you can
really live to your joy. Because whether we're conscious of
it or not, we do respond to it on a
daily basis. We're responding to it and sometimes we're dumping
it on others not knowing. So what does that look
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like for you?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
And you might combine that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
With has there been a woman in your life that
demonstrated joy in the face of adversity? Has it been
a woman in your life that demonstrated joy in the
face of adversity? What does that look like?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I know?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Today's heavy?
Speaker 18 (20:27):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
All right? Are we good?
Speaker 18 (20:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We can put it all up there, put it all
in the same circle. You can put it underneath it.
You can draw another circle if you want.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You can.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
If you want, yes, you can. You can affirm them
on that paper, write their name, bring them to life,
whether they're whether they're here or not.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Look at her, Look at her? Who is she? Who
is she?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Has there been a woman in your life that demonstrated joy?
You're going, wow?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
How can she be so joyful right now? What's wrong
with her?
Speaker 19 (21:14):
You know?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And people try to break it down, they try to
tear it away. Why is she happy? I'm miserable. Who
gives you the right to be happy at this moment?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And smile?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I want to get it all in. Okay, is everyone done?
Because there is one more? But we can sit at
the table for the one more and we're gonna share.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
We're gonna share now. So we're gonna do some sharing.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And I want to get something from everyone's every group's circles.
So can I get a volunteer to start in the
back there on that.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I'd do?
Speaker 18 (22:17):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Table table two? Okay, table two?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Anyone can step up there and share something that was
shared on your table.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Let's start with your joy. Okay. How much do you
want me to read joy?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Okay, We'll just let me get three. I'm timing this.
Let me get three. Let mee have a three expressions
of joy and.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If someone else wants to speak also and share in
the speaking, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Please, I'll start with three, but you can all yell
out more three. So okay, we had sunshine.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, say it like we believe it. We had sunshine okay.
Speaker 19 (22:52):
And we get joy from sunshine. Food with friends okay.
I related that children and grandchildren not being interrupted. That
was good.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Okay, I'm like joy out of that.
Speaker 19 (23:09):
Helping others came up, I think a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Okay, anything else you want.
Speaker 19 (23:14):
Puppies, puppies, puppies and animals came up.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Now, now how do you and and in thirty seconds,
can someone you know share maybe how you bring that
into your space how do you bring some of that?
How do you bring that sunshine into your space on
a daily basis or every other day or okay, or for.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Me, I try to be positive.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I try to surround myself with people who are positive,
try to be in that mindset so that way I
feel like when I walk out is right sunshine, even
though I might go into a room that might be gloomy.
So it's just my own emotional mindset, trying to put
my space, my headspaced into something that's gonna keep me positive,
you know, keep reminding me of the good things that
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are in life and in the day.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
So that's part of my sunshine.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
And I remind and also that I do this work
because the love that I have for people and for
my grandkids.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So I always keep that for farnt in my mind.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's shoot across the room.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
We'll get to fear lay at your table.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Thank you God.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Okay, yes, give some of your joy.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Some of our joy that wasn't already shared, because we
have similar joys in so many ways. Is gonna be
a win win.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Win win win win.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Okay, concept of win win. Let's see hugs and kisses
uh and nature nature?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Quick question, how do you bring win win into your spaces?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
What does can someone expound on that? What does that mean?
A win win? What's a win win?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Else?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah? Whoever wrote win win? I like to know what
win win is exactly? Who wants to take ownership of
win win?
Speaker 18 (25:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You wrote win win?
Speaker 9 (25:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Okay, I did say who wants to take ownership of it? Right?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The question?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well what is win win?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Let me open up to the room because I'm not
quite sure who wrote it and what it means? So
what does win win mean to different people in the space?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Okay, got you? That's a win win all right?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So being being non judgment mental, being non judgmental, being
receptive to other ideas other than your own. Okay, thank you,
thank you, thank you for doing this suit.
Speaker 13 (26:09):
I think one of the things that I enjoy in
this month sound crazy when somebody sees something differently than
I do. You know, I live in the crazy world
of politics, but then we're able to have a conversation
and we both change our minds, right, Like I see
a little bit of what they say, they see a
little bit of what I say. And we land at
a happy place.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So that's a win win.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
That's a win win. Okay, thank you, thank you so much.
So let's let's jump to first.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Table here in the front of the room, right hand
side Stacy.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
You guys, yeah, yes, So some joy we have at
table five is internally being internally connected. Continue, continue, what's
happiness no matter your circumstances, pause of energy, authentic connections
(27:03):
with people, family and friends, and releasing.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Some of the joy here. Releasing. Yes, yes, let's talk
about releasing. Release what what is? What is that? What
is releasing?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's getting rid of the unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
It's kind of kind of understanding what's essential, getting rid
of past, getting rid of unnecessaries, getting again back to
the essentials.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Got you letting go?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah? Yeah, knowing when you know, knowing when the bucket
is getting full, it's time time, time to let it go.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Can anyone else relate to that?
Speaker 15 (27:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Releasing, releasing is is is so important? So where are
we now? What table? Haven't we done the middle table?
Madeline table? Can we did we? We didn't do you
guys table?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Right?
Speaker 15 (28:02):
I think I just got nominated, Okay, okay, all right,
so I think.
Speaker 12 (28:06):
We have family.
Speaker 15 (28:08):
We have a lot of overlap with the other tables,
but we had dancing and cooking and poetry and poetry
and candles and playing with kids. We have access to childcare.
That's really important at our table, and listening to people
(28:29):
and traveling and helping people and seeing an idea or
a dream come true.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I want to I like that seeing an idea or
a dream come true. But I also want to address
access to childcare.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, that you know.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I mean, I think it's sort of obvious why that
would be important, because it impacts the whole.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
House.
Speaker 15 (28:58):
I mean, I think we could eat and say, not
to put words on Madelin's mouth, but access to quality childcare,
the opportunity to feel that those people who are helping
you with childcare are not someone who just keeps your
child because you have to do something else, but that
you're part of a team that helps support good point
and that you feel they're helping you raise your child,
(29:19):
that they're supporting and cooperating with you, and that you
know that your child is happy and you're happy.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Where I come from, we call that the village exactly
the village.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It takes a village to raise a child that.
Speaker 15 (29:32):
Could be family friends, right as well as folks that
you are paying to help to make a family together.
Speaker 19 (29:39):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Thank you, yes, Stacy, access to reasonably christ.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
There you go, thank you, thank you, yes, yes, yes,
of course.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
You know last night I talked about this, you know,
the access to childcare and one of the things I
was a outcare provider because I was a single mom
and a way for me to be with my son
during the day because I worked a job at night.
I became a licensed childcare provider. And we are trying
to encourage more people to do that, to be at home,
(30:14):
and we will help them with different things that they
might need, whether it's toys or access to food. I
know that we can help with that, but there's a
lot that we can do to be able to encourage
more smaller childcare at home. And I know Jerry does
a great job with this too. She's got that mentor
(30:35):
programs so that we're talking about and also thinking outside
of the box and other areas too. We're gonna be
working on a few things.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I like that idea. I like that, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I want to make sure that I got every table. Sorry,
front table here, Well, this is somebody from your table.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Grab the mic.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
Okay, joy, that has not been said. Music, watching my
daughter play softball, so kids activities, which is yep?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
And peace piece.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
I'm gonna take those three words.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Actually, no, I lied.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I'm gonna take another one. Mom. As we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Thank you, thank you piece.
Speaker 19 (31:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
How many people want some peace?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You gotta fine piece of mind. Right, gotta fine piece
of mind piece. Oh, I hear somebody's phone. Uh oh
one person?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
What is peace for you? One person? Just jump at it,
don't overthink it. What is peace for you? Yes? And
happy birthday?
Speaker 12 (32:08):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yes, absolutely, bank to you.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Birthday her mom, and happy birthday to you. Thanks for
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