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August 15, 2025 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity totally
en cud because we all make mistakes.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged, Hey.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sarah, And this is vocal d freg Vocal d fragging
is asking yourself the questions and questioning the answers. You're
doing it vocally into a digital device, not to just
sit there and say ooh, look at me, look at me. No,
it's really a learning tool when you physically ask yourself
the questions and you question the answers. Constantly, we are
running to other people for their opinions and their experiences,

(00:33):
but rarely do we ever sit down with ourselves and
just kind of figure shit out, you know what I mean,
just to figure it out, asking the questions, questioning the answers.
I do it in a journal so I can physically
see the words on the page. I can go back
and study how they were written and what the mindset
really was. And then the vocal dfrag is listening to
the emotions. Now, what we're doing on this episode, this

(00:55):
isn't vocal d fragging.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
What this is.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
This is this is an instructor or a teacher who
has said, I have lived the life. I know what
vocal d fragging will do for you and how it
will find a place for you so you can plant peace.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Inside your life.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
This is vocal dfrag The subject today is based upon
a true story. We see that all the time in books,
television shows, movies. This is based upon a true story.
Do you realize in your own personal life it's the
same thing the stories that you share, the things that

(01:31):
you post on social media. It's based upon a true story.
How often do you put the physical actuality of your
story in a place for someone else to watch, to
listen to, to grow with, or to push away based
upon a true story. My lifestyle is that of living

(01:52):
in the presence of right now. And the reason why
is because through my daily writing, I guess I convinced
myself that one is writing or what is sharing a
story about your past, but rewriting the past.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh, we'll do that. I'm guilty of that.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Where the experience went one way, and as time goes by,
it kind of bends, it goes a different direction. It's
based upon a true story, which is one of the
reasons why when we go camping, I keep a journal
just for the RV, and it's so fun to go
in there and read what I was doing five years ago,
ten years ago, the experiences at each and every one

(02:30):
of those campsites. The thing is is that when you
learn to activate the actuality of the true story, when
you go back to it, sure it's a different day,
it's a different emotion, it's a different interpretation, but you
put your truth on that page. And that's the same
thing that I do with with vocal def writing. You
put your truth inside that digital device so that you

(02:51):
can come back and live it out in the way
that it was delivered and not being a based on
a true story kind of approach. When people talk to
me about my forty four years in broadcasting, it's based
upon a true story. When I see what they're doing
inside those classrooms, when I'm lecturing, everything that is going

(03:11):
on there is based upon that story.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
These are the experiences.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
That I once had, and if you continue to do
it this way based upon my true story, you might
run into the same bad luck, or you might even
have some good luck. Podcasting is no different. People come
up to me endlessly and tell me how they want
to start a brand new podcast and they want to
have that experience.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, it's based upon a true story. But if you
go into the journals and the defrak journals as well
as listening to some of the podcrashing episodes that I have,
you will hear the actuality of the real story.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
So what is this all about today? Well, I'm just
asking you, how do you live your life? Are you
one who talks about the past all the time? Do
you really put a lot of energy and soul into
something that is based upon a true story. If that's
the case, what's keeping you from writing the real story,
the real adventure, the twists, the tumbles, the facts versus

(04:11):
the fiction. What happens to you when you are in
that moment of sharing what you think is the God's
honest truth. But somewhere along the line, a new sentence appears.
You're rewriting that story. I'm not saying it didn't happen,
but it's based upon the true story. So learning how

(04:33):
to be more upfront with yourself in the way of
guiding yourself to the truth. Not everybody wants to hear
the truth. Not everybody wants to hear every story that
you've been through. But if you've had something go on
in your life. Instead of bending it so it's more
acceptable for those who are receiving it, maybe it's time
to just look at them and say, can I be

(04:55):
honest with you? Because here is the truth about the
moment that you're speaking of. Instead of based upon a
true story, I'm going to tell you the story. It's
hard work, because being open and honest with yourself like
that is hard work.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I've been a daily writer for thirty years. I've learned
how to be able to trust and have faith in
that daily writing because I don't want to be based
upon a true story. A very good friend of mine,
his name is Bill, wants to interview me. He wants
me to be amazingly brutally honest, to tell the real story.

(05:38):
And the reason why he wants that is because he
feels that during my forty four years of broadcasting, I
was in the glory days, the days when we had
so many departments that we didn't know how to stop growing,
that we were making millions of dollars inside our sales departments.
But today it's a different journey, it's a different walk

(05:59):
in life, and a lot of people are doing several
different jobs where at one point in time, all you
had to do was one job. He wants to tell
the truth. He wants the truth to be known about
the industry and everything that goes on in it, around
it and behind those closed doors. So the idea of

(06:20):
being something that's based out a true story is something
he does not want. He's more interested in the real story.
Could you do that, how would you present it? Where
would you take it? And you know you're going to
ask yourself that question, is anybody even interested? Well, we
kind of live our life like that. That's the reason

(06:41):
why we do social media, because we think everybody is interested.
Ask the questions, question the answers, and don't base it
upon a true story. Be real with yourself and the future,
knowing that what you do share will probably be read,
or listen to or even watched by somebody else. And
there's nothing wrong with that. I'm Merril and that's vocal

(07:05):
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