October 22, 2024 • 36 mins
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being with us through over three incredible seasons of real talk, real life, and real love. This podcast was born from the deep bonds of friendship, family, and love shared by Allison, Kim, Susan, and Tosh—four women who have let our souls flow together for over 30 years. Your loyalty and support have meant the world to us as we've shared our candid conversations and personal journeys with you.
After much reflection, we've decided to take a hiatus and end our episodes at this time. While this is goodbye for now, we hope to return one day to continue inspiring you with more real-life conversations.
Until then, stay tuned, stay connected, and remember—you're always part of the Four Souls Flo family.
With gratitude,
Allison, Kim, Susan and Tosh
The Four Souls Flo Podcast
After much reflection, we've decided to take a hiatus and end our episodes at this time. While this is goodbye for now, we hope to return one day to continue inspiring you with more real-life conversations.
Until then, stay tuned, stay connected, and remember—you're always part of the Four Souls Flo family.
With gratitude,
Allison, Kim, Susan and Tosh
The Four Souls Flo Podcast
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome back to the Four Souls Flow Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This podcast is going from friendship, family and love.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We are Alison, Kim, Susan and TSH, women who have
let our souls flow with every girl's trip, phone call
and milestone for thirty plus years.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The Four Souls Podcast is committed to having conversations that
will encompass real talk, real life, and real love.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now get ready, take a seat and join us. Now
let's flow.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Welcome to the Four Souls Flow podcast. Souls, I don't
I don't know should I should I start with boys
to men?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Now that'll we come? Make it care?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Is it the end of the road?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is it really the end of the road.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's the end of this particular road, right.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Roads exactly, And you know what, let's talk about that
because to me, that is really what this podcast has
been about for the last three years. We started on
a path together, yes, and all of those paths have
created all kinds of other pathways and intersections highways.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
How do we feel?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Fantastic good?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's a bittersweet. I remember when we met right after COVID.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh my god, on the rooftop, on.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
The rooftop, and just started talking about all the things
we wanted to do. Yes, COVID had put us in
that mindset, let's be intentional moving forward.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes, And we talked.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
About this podcast and I know, like it was at
first we were like, we're.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Not sure, I know you and all and were like,
I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Drop it low, let's go.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I knew nothing about podcasts absolutely zero, barely listen, right,
But I'm so proud of us that we really pulled
it together and decided to do it, stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, and then we did a great job.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Really.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
The remarkable thing when I think back, is about the
growth from when we started and when we first started
recording and for myself, not going on and on and
on and then go somewhere else with it, but staying
focused and the growth, like I know what, I think
we all acted, opening up and you know, and it
(03:02):
takes a lot because you're bearing your soul here, right,
You're talking about very personal situations in your life and
hopes to help somebody else.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right. Yeah, it taught me a lot about continuing to dream.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, that you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Put your dreams to rest, just because you had to
put your dreams aside.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah for a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, everybody knows. I know. It's no secret I
enjoyed a mic. I will miss this part of it.
I was creative at one time, and then life got
in the way, you know, And then to have this
just come about again and as you said, to then
decide to be intentional about it, to move forward, to
(03:46):
stay consistent with it, it has just really sparked the
dreamer in me again.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And Kim, you know you're my sister cousin.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yeah, but this is your super our baby, yes, and
this podcast would not have been what it is and
the role that you play. I thank you from the bottom.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Of my heart.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
She helped me come. You help me so much with things. No,
she just you know, like even you know, because I
jumped on board with the content with you, and she
just taught me so much. And she taught me how
to look at things and kind of like you know,
(04:34):
take information and kind of you know, take it out
the box. And I just appreciate that you've done so
much to help me.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh my god, I appreciate y'all too.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And you spark that creativity in me too, So I
just I just appreciate that now. And when we first started,
you know, like you know, you know how I said.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No because you know, just.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Didn't know whether I had to give the gap and
all that kind of thing. But you know, but working
with Kim with content.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But you know what you were. You were the flower
that was always there, that just needed the blooming. And
now here is the bloom and all of you, all
of us. I feel like all of us came to
the table, you know, and brought exactly who we were.
That's what made it so archantic. You know, Susan down
there with the spice, you know, she's always yes, she
(05:39):
was the provocateur of the group, which I loved so
much because we could get in our comforts on it,
all of us. I think the three of us are
a little more can be reserved on the more reserve side.
You were the provocateur, Tash always the I think of
(06:00):
Ta Shamla as just our guiding light, like she was
just the lights. Always came so prepped and so prepared
and so ready to flush out a conversation so brilliant,
you know, and so much of this. You know, you
talk about me being a gift so much of this
(06:21):
is your gift. You might have not seen the mic
as your gift, but the therapeutic aspect. I always tell
her that she is. She has been our family therapist
before we had a family therapist.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
She it is, it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Is what she We all know. I mean she's talking
to you all, but you all know as sisters and
friends to her. She has always, for so many people
been the go to for.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The truth.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The truth, the truth, the understanding, the the way she
can take information, process it and give it back out
as astounding and.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
That's a that's a true gift.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I just want to also say the season, thank you
for your vulnerability, come on now, because it is the vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That makes it so real.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It gives a breakthrough, and it also kind of gave
us permission. As Kim said, we can sometimes be a
little bit reserved on the right side. It gave us
permission to open up yep and really allow us to
tell our story because you were so brave and telling
your story. Yes, so I want to make sure that
does not go unnoticed and say how important that was
(07:42):
for all of us.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well, I wouldn't have been able to do it without
all of you. For me, this journey, excuse me, has
been It's been truly therapeutic for me. I shared a
lot of things that I normally wouldn't share, and I
(08:06):
always knew that when I talked about things, it would
help somebody else. And this just was the best platform
and the best people here to be in support of
me to do it. So I thank all of you
for being my friend, my sister, sisters. I just thank you, guys,
(08:30):
because it is I'm going to miss doing this, miss
shooting the ship with you, guys, because who else better
can we do it with, you know, except our family,
our friends, our loved ones. And that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So much of it was the journey and the destination exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And then lastly, not least, thank you for the spirit
of comfort and serene that you bring every time you
step in a room. Yes, yeah, thank you for being
(09:17):
open to something that I know took you outside of
a comfort level, something you have never thought about or
even would have considered. And sometimes it's just the bond
and the trust of friends that allow you to step
into a place that you just don't want to step into. Yeah,
And so I know that wasn't easy, but I tell
you from the bottom of my heart. I so appreciate
(09:40):
it because it would not have been the same without you,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Not at all. And the spirit it is the you know,
we everyone knows.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's no secret.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know you're a deep woman of faith, and you
colored this podcast with that faith and spirituality and grounding
and just engrace. Yes, yes, thank.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You so much.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And I could not have done it with just anyone.
It has had to be you, guys.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, And you know mat Tashama always, always, she has
a way. You know, we talked about taking all of
us to a different level.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes she does.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
She has a different way of taking us to a
different level. Yes, Susan has a different way of taking
us to a different level. And Kim you you know,
And so I couldn't have done it without you, guys.
And I would not have done it if it wasn't
for you guys. Could get me in front of him.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Mic, Let me tell you, because there was a little
bit of kicking and screaming, but I'm glad you did.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Kim, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Lady, whatever you choose to do, let me tell you something.
You need to have a MIC sitting right there connected
to your chest, I don't know in your car. You
are a wordsmith and a woman of eloquence. Thank you
so much, miss ma'am over here, mister Shanmua, girl, m.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's just something though.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You take a dream and you make it into reality.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yes, she does, Yes, she does.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I'm talking about when I look around, I'm looking
at this artwork behind us. Yes, and picked us to
the tee.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, we want and we want to do a couple
of different things. Okay, this you tremble a little bound
and I'm mad at it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's okay, But that bun is rocking her because it's
every day.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
But we are here and we did something we never
thought in our fifties that we would be able to
do what we did it sweet okay, yes, visionary, Yes, absolutely,
you dreamt it and it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We made it happen, made it happen. I just remember
when you guys told me.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We don't do a podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I was, what the hell?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Alan?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
When we were on that, I was, but you were,
but we want.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
To do a podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I was, you want to do a podcast?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
I was, yeah, kicking, screaming, and look at all of
us now, three years later and when you look back
over really the catalog of conversations that we have had,
(13:00):
I was, oh my god, I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Want to know what stands out to you most.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
What What are some of.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
The most memorable moments of good kitchen table conversation that
we've had.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You want the filthy good kitchen I want it all.
I think when I talked about the black meat.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, yes, I was so amped up that day. Em
and the a holes.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
The one that got me was it was it was.
It was the same morning when she said he got
a lot of friends, but I know none of them motherfuckers.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Did.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yes, he did not.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Man, No, I had recording did having to deal with relationships.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Fire, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Gosh, and a ton of what Susan is okay, Oh
my gosh. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
No, listen, we look.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Kim had a couple of little things and she talked
about to Oh gosh, I.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Remember, I think I remember, as anybody remember that, just
that first time for us of that soul to soul
and yeah, the connections to us. Yes, I am that
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
This is been a wild ride, especially for me personally,
because I've always considered myself of every private person.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
And whyat why she's going to me because she didn't
say quiet because she realizes now she.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Quiet. Yes, but.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You are, yes, myself in the position to talk about
my personal story.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yes, it was really scary but rewarding.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
It's so true.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's so true, and because you know why it's risky.
I've always watched TV and radio and I've always thought, like,
don't these people know they're in front of a mic
or there in front of a camera. How would they
say that? But you do sometimes you're so in the moment.
I can see how you can jump the cliffs sometimes
(15:38):
and not intentionally because you start just speaking your truth
seeking you're not monitoring your your story. Yes, yes, and
how liberating honestly, honestly that has turned out.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, my blood pressure down.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, it was like I think therapy for all of us.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, you know, I learned some good things, you know,
from your ladies and just just doing the podcast and
just listening to the you know the stories and you
know the experiences, and just learned a lot, just look
at things so much differently. Now, what would you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Tell somebody who wanted to start something new, to start
something that they feel intimidated about to.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Do it because yeah, because you know, and if it's
something that they could do it with a group of
people like you know, we did like a girlfriends, like
close girlfriends and things like that, do it because you
have nothing to lose. You really have nothing to lose,
a lot, a lot to learn and a lot to
gain from that. I just say, would do it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, you two ladies down at the end. What
I think is so remarkable is separate and apart from
the podcast, you are entrepreneurs, yes, And I think about, well,
you can tell me like how much of this experience
has influenced where you are and your businesses and how
(17:12):
you approach business maybe in a different way and stuff.
Because both of you, you know where we started three
years ago and where I see both of you now.
It's just remarkable.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It is really extraordinary.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I think for me, when we first started the podcast,
I think we were starting to work on the business,
and again, it was around the time when I was
really thinking about intentionality for my life and anything that
I felt like I really wanted to do is to
start being intentional about it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm putting steps in.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
And the podcast has really just been a great format
for me. To talk about You guys allowed us to
talk about our businesses on the podcast, which was great,
and to give some expertise in those areas and talk
about what we know and how we can help other people.
But it's just been another way for me to align
(18:06):
myself with my business goals over the past three years. Yeah,
I'm building. It really is better, sweet, I'm gonna miss it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And I know it's been difficult because as we've all.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Grown and started working things in our lives, right, schedules
have changed. It's getting hard and harder for us to
get together. Yes, but I'm so grateful that we had.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, it's time together to cry together. Yes, Yes, because.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Not only have we grown individually, but I think we've
grown in friendship. Yes, pulled us closer, Yes, which is
always wonderful. Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yes, thank you for sharing your friendships because you know,
of course I've seen Susan and Ali over the years
at this and the maybe this little party or whatever,
but this was really like a three year intensive with
you guys, you know, and I appreciate that to Shamla
for you bringing this group together to allow me an
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opportunity to just grow friendship with the ladies. Friends and
to learn more about them and to see why they
have been a part of your life. You know, for
so long I've known you to have these friends and
knew that these were deep relationships. But now I got
real insight into what has made the three of you
(19:36):
thicket thieves all these years.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Well, thank you for you know, being with us, because
it's been a pleasure and absolute pleasure. Yeah, and I
can't say more than that. I mean I can, I
can go on and on. You know, it's been beautiful
to embark upon and watch this friendship grow. Yes, you know,
we had our own bond in the beginning. Try whenness
(20:00):
that it's best talk and that was our connective tissue
in the very beginning. And now we don't even have
to talk about that. We can exactly the day to
day and just be friends just because we're friends. And
it's different. Now. You asked the question about being an
(20:21):
entrepreneur and how this affected us, and I know, for
me scary, but I will say this woman to sham
Will helped me so much with making me be better.
And still I get tabs, pushes and kicks about certain things. Yes,
but it made me, It made me see that I
(20:44):
had more of a somewhat of a business mindset than
I thought that I did. Yeah, and you know she's
still teaching me how to do that. You know, that's
true friendship.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Though.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know, friends are not going to let you waste
an ounce of potential when they see it before you
catch the vision for yourself. That's going to make sure
that you know that it's there.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
And that's friendship. She's one of the greatest teachers I've
ever had in terms of a mentor to Shauma is
outstanding in that area. Yes, and she sometimes you know,
she'll just.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Tell you straight up, you know, I feel this way and.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It's just a little bit, you know, but you know
that it's coming from such a loving place.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And I will say this before anything, before I go on.
I would do anything for you ladies, and I would.
I got people I'm related to that I wanted to
do that way, but for the three of you, I
would do anything for you guys. And that includes cracking
some tail and also knows and you know, I'll get
(21:58):
a little like because I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Have a pro She's right here, Okay. I have to
text Allison the other day.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
It was like, Allison, do you have bail money ready,
because I'm about to be in a position I don't
know what's.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Going to happen. Be ready, bail money, be ready, be ready.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That he happened, get your financial.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
To go off. These people just not trying to give
me a refund on something.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Give me a refund, don't even play out.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Take a ride. Yes, I'm saying, we have to call
my girl like, hey, this is the situation.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes, without that's what we said. We hope too that
folks would get out of this in the end, you
know what I mean. It was just an illustration of
what support looked like. Yeah, friendship, what vulnerability, what conversation
can do. So you know, listen, there's been no secret
(23:02):
either that you know. We had a bit of a
struggle on the engagement side with folks. But I really
do hope people find their way to this content because
it's rich.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I feel like those who have listened always had great
things to say.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, yes they did.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It was very connected. Yes, people felt like it's very relatable. Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
And the other part is that you never know, wi't
walk away from this mic and it'll blow up, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And never know who you have touched along the way,
and I know you're listening, I'm gonna shout out to
Josh my Cosh. Josh is a thirty something, a little young,
little young thundercat, the little thirty something, a little cat
that I worked with, and he connected. There was something
(23:57):
about this table of women of a certain age that
he found something in and connected in and always was
eager to tell me, you know, when's the next episode?
Did y'all didn't get up on time.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
The fifteenth?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I didn't see whatever it was. Rash was there because
he was invested.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
And I will say I think starting out, when we
thought about our purpose for doing this, it was about
being able to speak to people who might be going
through things that we've gone through, to be able to
relate to people, especially coming from a position of being
women in our fifties. Yes, having a voice and being
able to talk about our own stories.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And it's funny because I don't think in the beginning
when we started thinking about this, marketing was not a
part of the plan. It wasn't like market It was like, no,
we're just gonna talk. Yeah, right, So back to your
point him, Yes, it's great to know that there are
people out there who have been listening, people who listeners.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I have a niece who I'm when I told her,
sitting now, you got the information that you know, this
is going to be a hiatus for the forest flow
coming up and the next recording, and she was like
what She was like, why why are you guest?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I can't? I just love the podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
She said that Hu and my nephew because she's my
niece through marriage, Yes, they listen to the podcast when
they're going places and then they got the nerve to
stop it talk about what we was.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Talking about, and then they start again.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
A So, I'm just so glad because you know, the
thirty somethings is listening, like Josh and male as well
as female, because I always thought that, you know, I
would ask, you know, people that I knew that would
male listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's not just you know, my husband listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
It's not just women.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's a relationship about and so everyone can benefit from it.
The themes are universal and it applies to people can
benefitt from it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
And we have spoken about our children, the experiences of
what they have gone through and where they are now.
We have shared quite a bit of things, and like
you know, to just piggybag on what you said, all
of this was gifts for other people. Yeah, not that
we lived one hundred years of life, yes, but I
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believe that between the four of us we have one
hundred years of wisdom here, Yes, and then we've shared
that wisdom with our audience on a continuous basis. We
made them laugh, I know, we made them cry. Yes,
we have touched so many people's hearts in different ways,
and we have talked them along the way. So I'm
grateful that we were able to give them that gift.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And you know, even I don't even think we were
conscious about it, but our inter generational connections were always
so strong. Because I think about it and want to
give a shout out to the three beautiful guests that
we've had a lot. We're all very young women, and
they brought so much wisdom, yes, so much expertise to
(27:46):
the platform. And so thank you so much for Jazmine
and Money and Shanta. Yes, thank you all so much.
If you're hope you're listening.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Thank you, ladies.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yes, it was a wonderful journey and it was the
best journey to take with.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
My girls, Oh oh, absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And what are you taking with you? Can we can
we in there?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What are we all taken away from all of this?
And like you said, Susant, this is a farewell for now.
You'll never know how this will emerge again. But for now,
what are you taking with you from this experience?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And a lot of love, a considerable amount of joy
m h. Of course, some sadness. But I know when
we hit the mic again, all the memories that we
will have that leads back up to this will be
shared again. Yes, and if we do things right, you
guys are gonna check us out on a platform where
(28:49):
you can see us interact, make faces because I do
it all the time. Come with my foolery. Okay, but
I'm gonna miss this. I'm gonna miss this table time
with you ladies. So that means that we're gonna have
to figure out some dinners and stuff we don't have
to do, put you some little lunches, beach time with
the horse flies on our legs. Again.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It was worth the death, Miss Helen. There you go,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Miss on a few occasions.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
What you're taking with you.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
All the things that Susan just said, I think Also.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
The podcast has really just given me the confidence in
terms of knowing that I really can do whatever I
put my mind. Yes, I really can, because like all
of us, this was just so out of the box
for us. Yes, so I definitely take that with me
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and just feeling the gratitude to be able to be
in a position to do what we've done the last
three years.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yes, thank you all that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The gratitude, the love, the gratitude, those are great things.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, just like Tash said, you know that I'm taking
away with me. I think about you know, you know
where I'm going scripture. I can do all things, Yes, Yes,
I can do all things. Yeah, I'm just taking that
away because I've learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Love and you know, and it really.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Has helped with a lot of helped in ways of
just you know, being more forceful and confident, confident. It's
confidence I'm taking confidence with you know, because we did this.
You know, I wasn't really you know, like okay, and now.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I'm just like confident.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I love that we did it, and and it was
something that was an exerci It's almost like an exercise.
Else we had no exercise, we had nothing to do
with a podcast prior to coming in, and it's like
we just gained muscle.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
We just.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Muscle, we exercised it and and we did a great job.
So I'm just taking I'm taking that with me that now,
you know, if there's anything else I need to do creativity?
Do I feel that this is creative? Very if I
can do anything else creative, I know that we started
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from zero and now we're here, and now I can
just take that creativity to another level to something else.
I can take what I've learned here and go for
I can even take this into a workplace, so people
don't really even realize how much you know, small things
we consider small things the connectivity, so you can take
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this anywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I so agree with that. Confidence, gratitude, confidence, And I'm
gonna add the fourth ingredient to this, and for me,
it's passion. This thing has just exnited something so passionate
in me, and like everything I do, I just want
to live in I guess maybe we're at this age
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too where we know listen, I mean, we pray for
a long life and longevity, but time is yeah, time
is ticking, you know, and like you all said, do it,
you know, have the courage to do it, love enough
to do it, have the gratitude inside of you to
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do it. That's how I feel. I feel like this
cookie is over. So you know, we giggling, okay, but
to just have the passion and I do. I feel
the same way. I see the connectivity in that in
everything that I'm doing now, you know, inside of the work,
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outside of the world. Just trying to live a little
bit more passionately, love a little bit more passionately, work
a little more passionately. And so that's my takeaway.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Nice, I love that.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, it's given us a voice, you know, Alison, It's
been such a pleasure to hear yours. It's been such
a pleasure to watch you grow through this experience and beautifully.
You know, I love you to death and I'm grateful
that you are my sister in law, but you and
my best friend before that, I love that. So to
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watch you grow because you know, for you to see
here and I was like, this broke can talk her
ass off when we get past the door.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So to see you do.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
It, it's such a wonderful thing because you've grown so
much in this being here. You know, Yes, so what
you said, I had to just piggyback on it and
just giving you your flywer. I don't have no physical
one at my house because you're playing them for me, but.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Because you're creative.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You, Hm.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Four souls who always and forever?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
All right, four souls for life.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Okay, I don't know whether or not they that's what brain.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Lady, got a sign for We'll figure that out.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I thank each and every one of you, and we
thank each shadow. We thank his audience for giving us
so much years of real talk, real life and real love.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Shout out to Scott and his staff.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Point you need of a studio, you come here.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Sure to make your way to the studio.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
It's not a school over room. It is gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Green room. Local and we'll just say until the next time,
until the.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Next time, next time. Yes, on the next.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Road, Yes, ma'am, we'll see you girls.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Thank you podcast. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
You do.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Since you just get started before you know it comes
the time we have to say.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
So. You can find the four Souls Flow podcast wherever
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
This podcast is going from friendship, family and love.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
We are Alison, Kim, Susan and TSH, women who have
let our souls flow with every girl's trip, phone call
and milestone for thirty plus years.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
The Four Souls Podcast is committed to having conversations that
will encompass real talk, real life, and real love.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now get ready, take a seat and join us. Now
let's flow.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Welcome to the Four Souls Flow podcast. Souls, I don't
I don't know should I should I start with boys
to men?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Now that'll we come? Make it care?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Is it the end of the road?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is it really the end of the road.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's the end of this particular road, right.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Roads exactly, And you know what, let's talk about that
because to me, that is really what this podcast has
been about for the last three years. We started on
a path together, yes, and all of those paths have
created all kinds of other pathways and intersections highways.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
How do we feel?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Fantastic good?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's a bittersweet. I remember when we met right after COVID.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh my god, on the rooftop, on.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
The rooftop, and just started talking about all the things
we wanted to do. Yes, COVID had put us in
that mindset, let's be intentional moving forward.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes, And we talked.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
About this podcast and I know, like it was at
first we were like, we're.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Not sure, I know you and all and were like,
I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Drop it low, let's go.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I knew nothing about podcasts absolutely zero, barely listen, right,
But I'm so proud of us that we really pulled
it together and decided to do it, stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, and then we did a great job.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Really.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
The remarkable thing when I think back, is about the
growth from when we started and when we first started
recording and for myself, not going on and on and
on and then go somewhere else with it, but staying
focused and the growth, like I know what, I think
we all acted, opening up and you know, and it
(03:02):
takes a lot because you're bearing your soul here, right,
You're talking about very personal situations in your life and
hopes to help somebody else.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right. Yeah, it taught me a lot about continuing to dream.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, that you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Put your dreams to rest, just because you had to
put your dreams aside.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah for a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, everybody knows. I know. It's no secret I
enjoyed a mic. I will miss this part of it.
I was creative at one time, and then life got
in the way, you know, And then to have this
just come about again and as you said, to then
decide to be intentional about it, to move forward, to
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stay consistent with it, it has just really sparked the
dreamer in me again.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And Kim, you know you're my sister cousin.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yeah, but this is your super our baby, yes, and
this podcast would not have been what it is and
the role that you play. I thank you from the bottom.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Of my heart.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
She helped me come. You help me so much with things. No,
she just you know, like even you know, because I
jumped on board with the content with you, and she
just taught me so much. And she taught me how
to look at things and kind of like you know,
(04:34):
take information and kind of you know, take it out
the box. And I just appreciate that you've done so
much to help me.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh my god, I appreciate y'all too.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And you spark that creativity in me too, So I
just I just appreciate that now. And when we first started,
you know, like you know, you know how I said.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No because you know, just.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Didn't know whether I had to give the gap and
all that kind of thing. But you know, but working
with Kim with content.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But you know what you were. You were the flower
that was always there, that just needed the blooming. And
now here is the bloom and all of you, all
of us. I feel like all of us came to
the table, you know, and brought exactly who we were.
That's what made it so archantic. You know, Susan down
there with the spice, you know, she's always yes, she
(05:39):
was the provocateur of the group, which I loved so
much because we could get in our comforts on it,
all of us. I think the three of us are
a little more can be reserved on the more reserve side.
You were the provocateur, Tash always the I think of
(06:00):
Ta Shamla as just our guiding light, like she was
just the lights. Always came so prepped and so prepared
and so ready to flush out a conversation so brilliant,
you know, and so much of this. You know, you
talk about me being a gift so much of this
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is your gift. You might have not seen the mic
as your gift, but the therapeutic aspect. I always tell
her that she is. She has been our family therapist
before we had a family therapist.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
She it is, it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Is what she We all know. I mean she's talking
to you all, but you all know as sisters and
friends to her. She has always, for so many people
been the go to for.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
The truth.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The truth, the truth, the understanding, the the way she
can take information, process it and give it back out
as astounding and.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
That's a that's a true gift.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I just want to also say the season, thank you
for your vulnerability, come on now, because it is the vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That makes it so real.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It gives a breakthrough, and it also kind of gave
us permission. As Kim said, we can sometimes be a
little bit reserved on the right side. It gave us
permission to open up yep and really allow us to
tell our story because you were so brave and telling
your story. Yes, so I want to make sure that
does not go unnoticed and say how important that was
(07:42):
for all of us.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well, I wouldn't have been able to do it without
all of you. For me, this journey, excuse me, has
been It's been truly therapeutic for me. I shared a
lot of things that I normally wouldn't share, and I
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always knew that when I talked about things, it would
help somebody else. And this just was the best platform
and the best people here to be in support of
me to do it. So I thank all of you
for being my friend, my sister, sisters. I just thank you, guys,
(08:30):
because it is I'm going to miss doing this, miss
shooting the ship with you, guys, because who else better
can we do it with, you know, except our family,
our friends, our loved ones. And that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So much of it was the journey and the destination exactly.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And then lastly, not least, thank you for the spirit
of comfort and serene that you bring every time you
step in a room. Yes, yeah, thank you for being
(09:17):
open to something that I know took you outside of
a comfort level, something you have never thought about or
even would have considered. And sometimes it's just the bond
and the trust of friends that allow you to step
into a place that you just don't want to step into. Yeah,
And so I know that wasn't easy, but I tell
you from the bottom of my heart. I so appreciate
(09:40):
it because it would not have been the same without you,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Not at all. And the spirit it is the you know,
we everyone knows.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's no secret.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know you're a deep woman of faith, and you
colored this podcast with that faith and spirituality and grounding
and just engrace. Yes, yes, thank.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
You so much.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And I could not have done it with just anyone.
It has had to be you, guys.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, And you know mat Tashama always, always, she has
a way. You know, we talked about taking all of
us to a different level.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yes she does.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
She has a different way of taking us to a
different level. Yes, Susan has a different way of taking
us to a different level. And Kim you you know,
And so I couldn't have done it without you, guys.
And I would not have done it if it wasn't
for you guys. Could get me in front of him.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Mic, Let me tell you, because there was a little
bit of kicking and screaming, but I'm glad you did.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Kim, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Lady, whatever you choose to do, let me tell you something.
You need to have a MIC sitting right there connected
to your chest, I don't know in your car. You
are a wordsmith and a woman of eloquence. Thank you
so much, miss ma'am over here, mister Shanmua, girl, m.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
That's just something though.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You take a dream and you make it into reality.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yes, she does, Yes, she does.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I'm talking about when I look around, I'm looking
at this artwork behind us. Yes, and picked us to
the tee.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, we want and we want to do a couple
of different things. Okay, this you tremble a little bound
and I'm mad at it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's okay, But that bun is rocking her because it's
every day.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
But we are here and we did something we never
thought in our fifties that we would be able to
do what we did it sweet okay, yes, visionary, Yes, absolutely,
you dreamt it and it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We made it happen, made it happen. I just remember
when you guys told me.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We don't do a podcast.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I was, what the hell?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Alan?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
When we were on that, I was, but you were,
but we want.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
To do a podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I was, you want to do a podcast?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
I was, yeah, kicking, screaming, and look at all of
us now, three years later and when you look back
over really the catalog of conversations that we have had,
(13:00):
I was, oh my god, I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Want to know what stands out to you most.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
What What are some of.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
The most memorable moments of good kitchen table conversation that
we've had.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You want the filthy good kitchen I want it all.
I think when I talked about the black meat.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, yes, I was so amped up that day. Em
and the a holes.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
The one that got me was it was it was.
It was the same morning when she said he got
a lot of friends, but I know none of them motherfuckers.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Did.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yes, he did not.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Man, No, I had recording did having to deal with relationships.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Fire, Oh my.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Gosh, and a ton of what Susan is okay, Oh
my gosh. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
No, listen, we look.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Kim had a couple of little things and she talked
about to Oh gosh, I.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Remember, I think I remember, as anybody remember that, just
that first time for us of that soul to soul
and yeah, the connections to us. Yes, I am that
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
This is been a wild ride, especially for me personally,
because I've always considered myself of every private person.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
And whyat why she's going to me because she didn't
say quiet because she realizes now she.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Quiet. Yes, but.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
You are, yes, myself in the position to talk about
my personal story.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yes, it was really scary but rewarding.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
It's so true.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's so true, and because you know why it's risky.
I've always watched TV and radio and I've always thought, like,
don't these people know they're in front of a mic
or there in front of a camera. How would they
say that? But you do sometimes you're so in the moment.
I can see how you can jump the cliffs sometimes
(15:38):
and not intentionally because you start just speaking your truth
seeking you're not monitoring your your story. Yes, yes, and
how liberating honestly, honestly that has turned out.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, my blood pressure down.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, it was like I think therapy for all of us.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, you know, I learned some good things, you know,
from your ladies and just just doing the podcast and
just listening to the you know the stories and you
know the experiences, and just learned a lot, just look
at things so much differently. Now, what would you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Tell somebody who wanted to start something new, to start
something that they feel intimidated about to.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Do it because yeah, because you know, and if it's
something that they could do it with a group of
people like you know, we did like a girlfriends, like
close girlfriends and things like that, do it because you
have nothing to lose. You really have nothing to lose,
a lot, a lot to learn and a lot to
gain from that. I just say, would do it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, you two ladies down at the end. What
I think is so remarkable is separate and apart from
the podcast, you are entrepreneurs, yes, And I think about, well,
you can tell me like how much of this experience
has influenced where you are and your businesses and how
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you approach business maybe in a different way and stuff.
Because both of you, you know where we started three
years ago and where I see both of you now.
It's just remarkable.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It is really extraordinary.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I think for me, when we first started the podcast,
I think we were starting to work on the business,
and again, it was around the time when I was
really thinking about intentionality for my life and anything that
I felt like I really wanted to do is to
start being intentional about it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'm putting steps in.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
And the podcast has really just been a great format
for me. To talk about You guys allowed us to
talk about our businesses on the podcast, which was great,
and to give some expertise in those areas and talk
about what we know and how we can help other people.
But it's just been another way for me to align
(18:06):
myself with my business goals over the past three years. Yeah,
I'm building. It really is better, sweet, I'm gonna miss it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And I know it's been difficult because as we've all.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Grown and started working things in our lives, right, schedules
have changed. It's getting hard and harder for us to
get together. Yes, but I'm so grateful that we had.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, it's time together to cry together. Yes, Yes, because.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Not only have we grown individually, but I think we've
grown in friendship. Yes, pulled us closer, Yes, which is
always wonderful. Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yes, thank you for sharing your friendships because you know,
of course I've seen Susan and Ali over the years
at this and the maybe this little party or whatever,
but this was really like a three year intensive with
you guys, you know, and I appreciate that to Shamla
for you bringing this group together to allow me an
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opportunity to just grow friendship with the ladies. Friends and
to learn more about them and to see why they
have been a part of your life. You know, for
so long I've known you to have these friends and
knew that these were deep relationships. But now I got
real insight into what has made the three of you
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thicket thieves all these years.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Well, thank you for you know, being with us, because
it's been a pleasure and absolute pleasure. Yeah, and I
can't say more than that. I mean I can, I
can go on and on. You know, it's been beautiful
to embark upon and watch this friendship grow. Yes, you know,
we had our own bond in the beginning. Try whenness
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that it's best talk and that was our connective tissue
in the very beginning. And now we don't even have
to talk about that. We can exactly the day to
day and just be friends just because we're friends. And
it's different. Now. You asked the question about being an
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entrepreneur and how this affected us, and I know, for
me scary, but I will say this woman to sham
Will helped me so much with making me be better.
And still I get tabs, pushes and kicks about certain things. Yes,
but it made me, It made me see that I
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had more of a somewhat of a business mindset than
I thought that I did. Yeah, and you know she's
still teaching me how to do that. You know, that's
true friendship.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Though.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know, friends are not going to let you waste
an ounce of potential when they see it before you
catch the vision for yourself. That's going to make sure
that you know that it's there.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
And that's friendship. She's one of the greatest teachers I've
ever had in terms of a mentor to Shauma is
outstanding in that area. Yes, and she sometimes you know,
she'll just.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Tell you straight up, you know, I feel this way and.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It's just a little bit, you know, but you know
that it's coming from such a loving place.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And I will say this before anything, before I go on.
I would do anything for you ladies, and I would.
I got people I'm related to that I wanted to
do that way, but for the three of you, I
would do anything for you guys. And that includes cracking
some tail and also knows and you know, I'll get
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a little like because I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Have a pro She's right here, Okay. I have to
text Allison the other day.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
It was like, Allison, do you have bail money ready,
because I'm about to be in a position I don't
know what's.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Going to happen. Be ready, bail money, be ready, be ready.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That he happened, get your financial.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
To go off. These people just not trying to give
me a refund on something.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Give me a refund, don't even play out.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Take a ride. Yes, I'm saying, we have to call
my girl like, hey, this is the situation.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes, without that's what we said. We hope too that
folks would get out of this in the end, you
know what I mean. It was just an illustration of
what support looked like. Yeah, friendship, what vulnerability, what conversation
can do. So you know, listen, there's been no secret
(23:02):
either that you know. We had a bit of a
struggle on the engagement side with folks. But I really
do hope people find their way to this content because
it's rich.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I feel like those who have listened always had great
things to say.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, yes they did.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It was very connected. Yes, people felt like it's very relatable. Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
And the other part is that you never know, wi't
walk away from this mic and it'll blow up, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And never know who you have touched along the way,
and I know you're listening, I'm gonna shout out to
Josh my Cosh. Josh is a thirty something, a little young,
little young thundercat, the little thirty something, a little cat
that I worked with, and he connected. There was something
(23:57):
about this table of women of a certain age that
he found something in and connected in and always was
eager to tell me, you know, when's the next episode?
Did y'all didn't get up on time.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
The fifteenth?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I didn't see whatever it was. Rash was there because
he was invested.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
And I will say I think starting out, when we
thought about our purpose for doing this, it was about
being able to speak to people who might be going
through things that we've gone through, to be able to
relate to people, especially coming from a position of being
women in our fifties. Yes, having a voice and being
able to talk about our own stories.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And it's funny because I don't think in the beginning
when we started thinking about this, marketing was not a
part of the plan. It wasn't like market It was like, no,
we're just gonna talk. Yeah, right, So back to your
point him, Yes, it's great to know that there are
people out there who have been listening, people who listeners.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I have a niece who I'm when I told her,
sitting now, you got the information that you know, this
is going to be a hiatus for the forest flow
coming up and the next recording, and she was like
what She was like, why why are you guest?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I can't? I just love the podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
She said that Hu and my nephew because she's my
niece through marriage, Yes, they listen to the podcast when
they're going places and then they got the nerve to
stop it talk about what we was.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Talking about, and then they start again.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
A So, I'm just so glad because you know, the
thirty somethings is listening, like Josh and male as well
as female, because I always thought that, you know, I
would ask, you know, people that I knew that would
male listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's not just you know, my husband listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
It's not just women.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's a relationship about and so everyone can benefit from it.
The themes are universal and it applies to people can
benefitt from it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
And we have spoken about our children, the experiences of
what they have gone through and where they are now.
We have shared quite a bit of things, and like
you know, to just piggybag on what you said, all
of this was gifts for other people. Yeah, not that
we lived one hundred years of life, yes, but I
(26:59):
believe that between the four of us we have one
hundred years of wisdom here, Yes, and then we've shared
that wisdom with our audience on a continuous basis. We
made them laugh, I know, we made them cry. Yes,
we have touched so many people's hearts in different ways,
and we have talked them along the way. So I'm
grateful that we were able to give them that gift.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And you know, even I don't even think we were
conscious about it, but our inter generational connections were always
so strong. Because I think about it and want to
give a shout out to the three beautiful guests that
we've had a lot. We're all very young women, and
they brought so much wisdom, yes, so much expertise to
(27:46):
the platform. And so thank you so much for Jazmine
and Money and Shanta. Yes, thank you all so much.
If you're hope you're listening.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Thank you, ladies.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yes, it was a wonderful journey and it was the
best journey to take with.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
My girls, Oh oh, absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And what are you taking with you? Can we can
we in there?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What are we all taken away from all of this?
And like you said, Susant, this is a farewell for now.
You'll never know how this will emerge again. But for now,
what are you taking with you from this experience?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And a lot of love, a considerable amount of joy
m h. Of course, some sadness. But I know when
we hit the mic again, all the memories that we
will have that leads back up to this will be
shared again. Yes, and if we do things right, you
guys are gonna check us out on a platform where
(28:49):
you can see us interact, make faces because I do
it all the time. Come with my foolery. Okay, but
I'm gonna miss this. I'm gonna miss this table time
with you ladies. So that means that we're gonna have
to figure out some dinners and stuff we don't have
to do, put you some little lunches, beach time with
the horse flies on our legs. Again.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It was worth the death, Miss Helen. There you go,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Miss on a few occasions.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
What you're taking with you.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
All the things that Susan just said, I think Also.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
The podcast has really just given me the confidence in
terms of knowing that I really can do whatever I
put my mind. Yes, I really can, because like all
of us, this was just so out of the box
for us. Yes, so I definitely take that with me
(30:02):
and just feeling the gratitude to be able to be
in a position to do what we've done the last
three years.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yes, thank you all that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The gratitude, the love, the gratitude, those are great things.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, just like Tash said, you know that I'm taking
away with me. I think about you know, you know
where I'm going scripture. I can do all things, Yes, Yes,
I can do all things. Yeah, I'm just taking that
away because I've learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Love and you know, and it really.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Has helped with a lot of helped in ways of
just you know, being more forceful and confident, confident. It's
confidence I'm taking confidence with you know, because we did this.
You know, I wasn't really you know, like okay, and now.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I'm just like confident.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I love that we did it, and and it was
something that was an exerci It's almost like an exercise.
Else we had no exercise, we had nothing to do
with a podcast prior to coming in, and it's like
we just gained muscle.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
We just.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Muscle, we exercised it and and we did a great job.
So I'm just taking I'm taking that with me that now,
you know, if there's anything else I need to do creativity?
Do I feel that this is creative? Very if I
can do anything else creative, I know that we started
(31:46):
from zero and now we're here, and now I can
just take that creativity to another level to something else.
I can take what I've learned here and go for
I can even take this into a workplace, so people
don't really even realize how much you know, small things
we consider small things the connectivity, so you can take
(32:11):
this anywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I so agree with that. Confidence, gratitude, confidence, And I'm
gonna add the fourth ingredient to this, and for me,
it's passion. This thing has just exnited something so passionate
in me, and like everything I do, I just want
to live in I guess maybe we're at this age
(32:35):
too where we know listen, I mean, we pray for
a long life and longevity, but time is yeah, time
is ticking, you know, and like you all said, do it,
you know, have the courage to do it, love enough
to do it, have the gratitude inside of you to
(32:56):
do it. That's how I feel. I feel like this
cookie is over. So you know, we giggling, okay, but
to just have the passion and I do. I feel
the same way. I see the connectivity in that in
everything that I'm doing now, you know, inside of the work,
(33:17):
outside of the world. Just trying to live a little
bit more passionately, love a little bit more passionately, work
a little more passionately. And so that's my takeaway.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Nice, I love that.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, it's given us a voice, you know, Alison, It's
been such a pleasure to hear yours. It's been such
a pleasure to watch you grow through this experience and beautifully.
You know, I love you to death and I'm grateful
that you are my sister in law, but you and
my best friend before that, I love that. So to
(33:53):
watch you grow because you know, for you to see
here and I was like, this broke can talk her
ass off when we get past the door.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So to see you do.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
It, it's such a wonderful thing because you've grown so
much in this being here. You know, Yes, so what
you said, I had to just piggyback on it and
just giving you your flywer. I don't have no physical
one at my house because you're playing them for me, but.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Because you're creative.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You, Hm.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Four souls who always and forever?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
All right, four souls for life.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Okay, I don't know whether or not they that's what brain.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Lady, got a sign for We'll figure that out.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I thank each and every one of you, and we
thank each shadow. We thank his audience for giving us
so much years of real talk, real life and real love.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Shout out to Scott and his staff.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Point you need of a studio, you come here.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Sure to make your way to the studio.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
It's not a school over room. It is gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Green room. Local and we'll just say until the next time,
until the.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Next time, next time. Yes, on the next.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Road, Yes, ma'am, we'll see you girls.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Thank you podcast. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
You do.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Since you just get started before you know it comes
the time we have to say.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
So. You can find the four Souls Flow podcast wherever
you listen to your favorite podcast. We'd love to hear
from you, So go to four Souls Flow dot com.
(36:37):
Hit the mic and leave us a message
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