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July 4, 2025 • 16 mins
Our host Darriel Roy interviews Lainey Miles, the author of The Lost Forest Trilogy - The Legacy of the Golden Bird.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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your morning with some motivational advice to help you to
feel inspired and energized to start.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Your day today.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I want to talk about the importance of knowing how
valuable you are, up your worth. The reality is most
of us goes through life feeling small or not worthy
of the things we truly want. This might not even
be something you're aware of, but on a subconscious level,
those feelings of unworthiness lay at the surface, buried under
all your beliefs and stops you from going after what

(00:37):
you truly want. I'm here to tell you that just
you being alive.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Makes you worthy.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You don't need permission or validation from anyone to assure
you of your value.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
You are worthy right now.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Kick those subconscious beliefs out the door that tell you
that you can have it all, and start adopting the
belief today that you are worthy of love, success, and
a life filled with joy. Successful people know their inherent
value and walk with the confidence knowing that their value
doesn't come from anything external, but simply the fact that
they were put on this earth with the purpose. As

(01:09):
Max Locado quotes, you are valuable simply because you exist,
not because of what you do or what you have done,
but simply because you are. Next up on the show,
we have Leany Miles, the author of the Loss Forest trilogy,
The Legacy of the Golden Bird.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Leani, thank you so much for being on the show today.
How are you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm good. Thanks for having me really excited.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, thank you for being here.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
We have a lot of exciting things to talk about,
but before we get into all of that, let's talk
about your love for reading. I know that you grew
up reading fantasy books as a child and that you
loved going to the library.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
So tell us about that time.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, there is a particular library in our town. I
grew up in Littleton, Colorado, and there is this really
cool library that my mom used to always take me
to it. It was called the Carnegie Public Library, and
it was a really old building, had these really cool
terra cotta bricks, you know, is built out of and

(02:07):
you go in and you almost felt like you were
in sort of a castle setting.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
And so.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Places to hang out, you know, and when I was six,
the steps seem like they're huge. I'm sure they really weren't.
Going there and have a grab a book and just
sit down in like a little cubby whole area. You
just felt like you're kind of surrounded in the castle.

(02:34):
So it was it was super cool. And my my parents,
you know, they read to us all the time, and
so that's kind of how I got my love for books.
We had my mom, we had a set of Grim's
fairy Tales, which I loved, and also Nancy Drew was

(02:54):
a big reader for me. Loved that mystery series. And
then I guess Lord of the Rings. I love you
know that. So I kind of looking at back in
the questions that you sent me, I guess kind of
just combining all those together kind of reminds me of
my book.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So very nice.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know, I share that passion of also going to
the library. I also used to get really excited as
a kid going so I can completely understand the bad
passion And speaking about that, I know that you want
your readers to really share the.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Same excitement that you felt reading. So tell us about
that mission.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, I guess when I first started writing, I just
let my imagination just kind of go wild, and I
just started creating, just follow the situations and trying to
figure out how everybody kind of got to be getting
out of those situations. And so after the book came out,

(04:00):
the reviews that I've been getting kind of lean. Everybody
says kind of the same thing, like they enjoyed the
the the drama and the situations and the twists and
turns of the story. So kind of made me feel like,
you know, people were kind of getting what I was
talking writing about, so.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Amazing, and Posar, let's talk about your book. So'st the
Golden Bird and some of the characters that we meet
in the book.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, Chuck, So this is kind of a funny story.
So I started writing this book about my sister's hamster.
She was always it's it sounds really weird, but all
these stories about her hamster, Chuck. So I just started

(04:54):
writing a story about her hamster, Chuck. And then Silaire
the Princess was this beautiful white brat. I started thinking
about that, and I thought, you know, silly me, when
I make my movie. Here I am thinking about making

(05:16):
a movie. I wanted Chuck to be a handsome warrior
and Celaire to be a beautiful princess. So then I
changed the character from that and both those characters, and
then the story kind of developed from then on. And

(05:37):
I love, I have a great love for animals and
insects and butterflies and stuff, so I just like incorporating,
you know, a bunch of different characters. Porcelain a Dodge.
Dodge is a super cool hummingbird that's very protective over

(05:58):
Porcelain because he's had a hard time growing up as
a butterfly anda, so he's very protective of her. And
I think, you know, my characters are all looking out
for each other. That's kind of how I want them
to be, like their family, and so kind of that

(06:24):
very interesting.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
And of course this book is called Legacy of the
Golden Bird. What is the symbolism behind the Golden Bird?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, the symbol behind the Golden Bird is the premise
behind it is, no matter how bad things get in
your life or the challenge challenges you face, there's always hope.
And so the premise is also you know, good versus evil,

(06:54):
darkness and light, there's always the light and never the dark.
You can always find her way out, So that's kind
of the premise.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Very nice, and tell us a little bit more about
the main character and some of the challenges she goes
through Barah.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
The more I wrote and worked through Bara's character, actually
it just dawned on me that I was sort of
writing about my mom. Oh, my father died when I
was in my early twenties, and so she was left,

(07:32):
like in her mid fifties to take care of three girls,
still watch out over them, making sure that we are okay.
And she always looked out after us, always protected us,
always was therefore us made sure, you know, we're okay.
So she passed away in twenty sixteen, and it was

(07:55):
really difficult for me. She was my best friend. But
she's my inspiration for the book because she I just
admired her so much and she was the protector, and
so I think there is like the protector of everybody,
and she's going to make sure that everybody's going to

(08:15):
be okay. So it's kind of the driver of my
story right now.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Very nice.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
And if there's one teakaway that your reader is to
take away from this book, what would it be?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Boy, Just pursue your dreams, look forward, not backwards. Friendships
are important, family is important, Just have really good priorities
in your life, and just you know, follow your dreams

(08:46):
and work through situations even if they're difficult. And I
think this is kind of the book kind of kind
of says that as well. You know, I like to
put my characters in difficult situations and then it's kind
of like working out how they get out of these situations.
So that's kind of another avenue that I'm I'm doing

(09:07):
in the book.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
So very nice and can we see more books coming
with the Loss Forest trilogy.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yes, I'm currently working on the second book. There's some
more intriguing characters. I think Optimist my Octus by bad
Guy is going to get more evil and and drug

(09:35):
Prince Druck. They're best friends, and that's another dichotomy in
the story that's, you know, these guys are bad guys
and we don't want them to succeed, but they're they're
fierce friends. So that's another kind of weird dichotomy with
those two guys. But then there's going to be something

(09:56):
with that goes on with the turquoise buying. That's a
big west and the story that's coming up.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Very nice. And you know, how does it feel, you know,
getting this book out and sharing your passion with everybody.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I know that you said that you've gotten really great
feedback from your from your reader, so tell us about I.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Don't know how to explain it exactly. It's just been
kind of strange because I never thought I would be
publishing a book. Yeah, and everybody says they have a
book in them, but not everybody writes one and gets
one out. And I the more I wrote this book,
I just decided that either quit writing or let's get
this published and see what happens. And it's really it's

(10:38):
really cool to see people relating to the Taberah and
just this little sorrowful bird that you know was found
by this fierce warrior, and just the whole dichotomy of
the emotions that I guess people are feeling from reading
about all the characters and the story behind you know,

(11:00):
being brave and you know you got to get through
your your goals and you're you know, find a solution
to you know what I'm trying to work them through.
So it's been really humbling to be able to have
people like connect with what you're you're writing. It's been really.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Cool, very nice.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And if you can make The Golden Bird a movie,
who would play Barra?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I'm curious. Wow, that's what you want to stop there?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I know you did, boy, I don't know. Maybe Carrie Underwood.
I love her.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh Ary, Wow, I can actually see that.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
I can kind of see her. She's pretty fierce, so
very nice. Maybe she made my top pick for Bara
and LENI.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Of course there's Barra, but there's also a villain. Tell
us more about the villain in the book.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
So there's two main villains in my story. One is
Prince Druck, Prince Druck healthy, and the other one is Optimus,
and he's an octospy. But so Prince uh Druck. He's
from a long line of I guess tyrants, and he

(12:16):
was brought up very cruelly. His mother got you know, threatened,
and she had to leave. So he grew up under
the guise of his who was very cruel to him
and taught him very terrible things. So he's he's a
bad guy and he's fine with being not a good person,

(12:40):
which is kind of another lesson in the story. You know,
don't be cruel, be kind of people. And then there's
also Optimus and he an Optimist, sort of grew up together.
Optimus was the product of a terrible experiment that Prince

(13:01):
Helby's ancestors performed on him, combining an octopus with a spider,
and so the whole procedure is really painful. And so
Prince Prince Druck kind of took care of Optimists and
they formed a, you know, a very close relationship. And

(13:21):
so throughout the book and in the next book, they're
going to be more aggressive with Berah and Chuck and
Claire and the characters. So that's kind of their relationship.
But they're they're not they're not nice people.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
And Lennie, you know, I created my platform to inspire
and so I've lived and really showcased that anything is possible.
So for any of our viewers that maybe has a
great idea, but maybe it's fearful to to get their
idea out there, what would you say to inspire them
and you know, do what you did and just go
publish their idea.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know, I was thinking about that question as well.
These are all great questions. By the way, I just think,
you know, fear is meant to be conquered. I mean,
if if you don't overcome it, you know, you'll never
do anything. And that's the that's the bad thing about fear,

(14:26):
because most of the time people are like doubting themselves
and saying, oh, I just don't know if I can
do this or not. And I think once you get
over that hurdle, you know, it also allows you to
grow as a person, thinking, Okay, I was afraid of that,
but I got over it, and now now I'm onto
the next challenge. You know, you just have to and

(14:48):
even if you fail, it's okay because you're still learning
and you're still growing as a as a person. So
I think just conquering you know, that is is very important.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
And just you know, I think that's great advice. It's
better just to try and even if you fail, at
least you won't have a regret, right, because I think
the worst thing in life is regrets and looking back
on your life and thinking, you know, I should have
done that, should have go to what I and then
you know, you run out of time.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Life moves fast, right it.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Does, and you're exactly right. Yeah, I mean everybody has
regrets like, oh I should have done that, you know why,
you know, and that's a fear thing again, like you know,
you say, so just get over it.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, I think that's great advice and leaning for our viewers.
I want to purchase your book and learn more about
your story. Where can they do so?

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I'm on Facebook and Instagram. I have a website www.
Dot Laneymiles dot com and that's where I'm at right now.
And actually I'm speaking about conquering fears. I'm getting ready
to go live on TikTok oh nice. I think I'm

(16:02):
gonna do maybe reading with Ramsey Ramsey's mind Miniossie, So
I don't know, that's another thing I got to conquer.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
So let's say, well, you definitely conquered one fear today, right,
and you're doing this and honestly, it's a great book.
And we're going to link information below so viewers can
purchase the book. And congratulations and all your success and
being on the show.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh, thank you so much, Dariel. You're amazing. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
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