December 15, 2025 • 17 mins
I DO HAVE SOME GOOD STUFF TODAY And it is in the form of a wonderful woman in Lakewood with a dream of allowing people to get on stage and do something they've never done before. I will talk to Brit Stueven at 1pm today about her upcoming event at the Lakewood Cultural Center on Wednesday, January 28th called Not Til Now. What is it? A storytelling and comedy event where people finally do what they’ve always wanted — share a story, try stand-up, or create on stage — for the very first time. Find out more and buy your tickets here!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have to give our guest Britt Steven, a little
of my background. I love it when anyone comes to
me and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Says, I have this crazy idea and then you get.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
To help bring it to fruition and it sounds like
your we'll call it a show, a variety show. Not
Till Now has a little bit of that let's put
on a show kind of feel to it. What is
happening It's happening at the Lakewood Cultural Center in January
January twenty eighth. And what is not till Now? Let's
(00:31):
start with what that is. Then we're going to work
backwards because the story of how we got to not
Till Well was very interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So it's basically a live event where first take the
stage and people do the thing that they've always wanted
to do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And it's just wide open as to what people are doing. Well,
is it a variety show? Feel a little bit? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So this first debut show will have a mix of
storytelling and stand up comedy.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
One gal will be singing.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I was kind of hoping that there would be someone
you know, doing a clarinet solo, or someone juggling or
you know, but those those folks didn't come through, but.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Maybe in the next one they will.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, you need to reach out to music schools that
cater to adults and see if you could get some
you know, cellis Sitter coming up there for the first time. Yeah, answers.
Do you have any tap dnswers?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, but I want one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I have never tap dance in public before, mostly because
I don't know how, so maybe that could be my thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, that would be so fun. And
that's what it is. I want to give the first timers,
basically the feeling of being the headliner.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean I've never gone to an auditorium, you know
where there's a big red curtain in the spotlights, and
seeing people do something for the very first time, or
seeing a more experienced speaker maybe talk about something they
never have Like, for example, my pastor, I asked him
to come into the show and I was like, will
you please tell that story about the time that you
(01:56):
found God on the bathroom floor? And he's like, no,
that's and not till now story for me. That's not
a first time thing. He's like, you know what would
be is telling a story from the soul without mentioning
God and without mentioning the divide.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm like, okay, let's do that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So lets fanned out. Okay, so let's this. This sounds
like a wacky idea that probably sprung into your head
at some point. What made you go, wait, this could
be amazing. And it started with a dinner party for
a book launch with one hundred women.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Right, well, it actually goes back a little bit more.
In twenty fifteen, when I was living in Germany, I
was attending startup events and watching people pitch business ideas
and would attend the you know, the final events of that.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Event, and I would be like, oh, my gosh, you
know what I want to do some days.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I want to have a talent show of sorts where
people do the thing they've always wanted to do, even
if it is, you know, doing a dance routine with
everyone in astronauts suit like. And then we moved back
to the States, and I like, my business kind of
evolved a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And then yeah, so I launched a book in twenty
twenty three called Mama Be Present.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And at the book launch, it was a dinner party
for one hundred women, and I was up there.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know, reading from the book and sharing some of
my story.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And after that, I was like, you know, I want
other moms to get up here and do that because
that was so fun. And so four or five months later,
I held Moms on the Mic with one hundred.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Women getting on the mic, and it's what's.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Really fun about it is it kind of feels like
you're at the Golden Globes, but it's you.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Know, every city at tables.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, there's people getting drunk, people throwing salad that, yeah,
that kind of thing. I mean, that's really the crowd
you want when you're doing anything, a little bit lubricated.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yes, deactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So it's uh yeah, but yeah, there's not the pressure.
And so some of the best moments from these Moms
on the Mic events, which I've done three of now,
are when I just draw a name from the bowl
and have a woman come up and speak for the
first time or tell a story for the first time,
or you know, in that moment, not even knowing they
(04:01):
were going to, and have them completely grip the room
and do just as well, if not better than the
polished people, because they were probably the most relatable and
the most real And I just think there's so much
magic in that, and I don't think there's enough of
the like spur of the moment, first time, beginner, vulnerable thing.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
For how many of the people And you could speculate
if you don't have any real, you know, clarity on this,
but I'm guessing that at least a few of these
people decided to do one of these things to get
over those feelings of anxiety. And I can't do this.
I mean, it's still true the public speaking is number
one by far of the things people fear most, which
(04:45):
is crazy to me. Right for me, it is like
I can't even remember not being able to speak in
front of people, even as like a young kid, I
could get up in front. So for me, it's like
I don't understand that. But I also been around enough
people to know this has to be just terrifying for
some people. Is that part of it for them?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, what's really cool?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So a lot of the people who've gotten up, well
the women so far, they come to the event. So
last year, for example, there are a few women who
were like, I could never do this, you know, And
then at the end of the event, at the end
of the night, after watching everyone else go up and
seeing them basically give them permission.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
They're like I can do this, yes, And then.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Of course they're still super nervous going into it because
that's normal and it means that you care. And I mean,
I was so nervous coming here, but I'm like, I'm
just so excited.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, no, nobody listens to this show. You're fine. So
this event, to be clear, is not women only. I'm
super excited. My favorite realtor, Ed Prather is going to
speak and tell his story. Yes that I don't even know. Yeah,
so I am very excited to hear about that. What
are some of the people going to talk about or
do are what are we looking at here in our
list of talent for not till now?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well yeah, so speaking of Ed, I was telling his wife,
because our sons go to school together, about this event,
and she and how I want to have people do
stand up for the very first time, like very first,
like I haven't even done open mic or anything like
this is the moment. And she was like, oh my gosh,
Ed has always wanted to do stand ups and he's
got a whole thing, and I'm like, we got to
(06:19):
have him, man. So he didn't even volunteer himself.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
He got volunteered, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, and so he you know, he'll be doing, yeah,
a whole routine as I don't know if you know,
but he was born with one I yes, and so
he'll be doing stand up about his life from that perspective,
which I'm so excited to hear about.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah. So I have a mom and a teacher.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
She's starting the show with her very first time stand
up talking about life with ADHD and how she just
started taking adderall and how.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Everything has literally.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Changed for her and how she has this new life.
We have Debbie Shear, she's a you know, very established
comedian and auction and MC and that she'll be you know,
speaking about mental health and surprising us with a certain
way that she does the stand up that she's.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Always wanted to do. So we have you have some
experienced people doing things for.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The first time, but we also have you know, I
have a mom who's going to be singing. She's never
sung in front of people ever. I mean the people
she's telling about this event, She's They're like, wait, you
sing She's like, yes, Like I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So I just I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
This just sounds super fun, and I have people asking
do you have to audition? How do you get to
be a part of this? So I'm guessing this show
is set. Yeah, but how can they get in the
loop so they know when Britt Steuven is looking for
the next group of people? How do they make that happen.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
People are already saying they want to audition, They're like
writing in They just asks.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
How do you need? Oh do you need to other
asking if I need to alis, I don't need to
audition for this show. But I honestly have had so
many first already that I don't know if there's a
first left in front of an audience other than stripping
and not doing that. So you know, I just shot
me a look like, no, that will not be happening.
(08:12):
I can assure you, Yeah, so no, I would. I
would love to do. I love stuff like this though,
because I love I'm always rooting for people that are
doing hard things right. I'm always rooting for them to succeed,
and when you see somebody. I just watched my daughter's
classmates get ready to go to Festcon, which is a
big theater convention, and they were practicing and oh my gosh,
(08:35):
I was rooting so hard for those kids, like and
you get they get done and you're just like, oh,
that was so good. I have a feeling there's gonna
be a lot of that in.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
This Yes, yes, yeah, and so but yeah, if anyone
is interested in applying for the next one, I actually
just set up the website, not till now dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They can go there.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I will add that to the blog as well as
when we finish talking, because I have a link to
the actual it's Wednesday, January twenty eighth, and it's at
seven pm at the Lakewood Cultural Center in Lakewood, And
I'll remind you guys, like a week before if you
if there's tickets left. You guys have had some pretty
brisk ticket sales. I understand.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yep, eighty tickets sold so far.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Nice, very nice. Somebody just pointed this out and we
need to have this discussion. Were you on House Hunters International?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I was to stop it? Okay, No, you don't understand.
I was HGTV's biggest fan in the whole world that
they have canceled every show that I love except House
Hunters International. Okay, So where were you looking? Because now
I'm going to go back there. What I'm writing it down?
When you leave here, I'm gonna go back and watch
your episode. Oh no, so, where where were you looking?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We were a Duseldorf.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh I love Joseldorf Dwarf.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yes, so, And I'm probably gonna get in big trouble
for this, but I thought that they actually helped you
find a place to live.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But they yeah, they work backwards.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now you've got to have found your place before. Yeah,
I knew that that jig was up years ago, So
now it's now. My husband and I play a game
like which one are they faking about? It's like when
you're like I have to have this place, we're like, oh,
that's not it. Yeah, we just make it a complete
game on that. How did you even get into that?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I emailed them and just said, hey, can you guys
help us find a place to live?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And they never responded until we.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Lived there and then and then I'm like, oh, shoot,
well now we have a spot. They're like no, no, no,
but yeah, and then we were like should we even
do this still?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But then did you feel like a faker?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well yeah yeah, But it was actually just really fun
to see how they do it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
There's like three people.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, you know, and then you have to film everything.
You say something naturally once and then you have to
say it four more times so that they can get
all the angles.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And then that you form like four days of content.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You film four days and then they only use like
twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
So all the good stuff is actually not even all
the really funny things. We're yet inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You serious because you have to look serious as people
think you're really considered. No, my brother's a real a
realtor in Las Vegas, and he's like, no, you have
to have already sold the house before they even show up.
So not till Now is a wonderful idea of break.
What is it that? I mean, you have a website,
You've got the not till Now website, but you have
all kinds of irons in the fire. Yes, what is
(11:22):
you know? What do you do? What is your actual thing?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I know, I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I have yes, So I've just so this is my
debut event of the thing that actually is the umbrella
of everything I've been doing for a while now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So yeah, I just love to help people do.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
The things they've always wanted to do, whether it is
to start writing or to write a book. I have
a fun writing group which I now changed the name
to the not Till Now Writing Group. I yea also
do yes the annual Mom's on the Mike event, which
I will be changing the name to.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Not till Now.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Focus righting and yeah, very.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Cool, niche, extremely cool, Niche, britt, I like it. Okay,
So the texter who just said okay, just like when
the wine Yogi is on the show, just became exclusively
for chicks only. I'm out. I'm sorry, Please don't take offense.
But there's just nothing in this segment that's remotely appealing
or interesting for the blue collar men of your listening audience.
(12:29):
Oh wow, so with respect, literally ninety nine point five
percent of this show is designed specifically for you, and
mind suck it up, Buttercup, you'll live through the point
five maybe you'll become a more compassionate human in the meantime.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Good lord, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well yeah, no, So that's what's so fun about not
Till Now is that I'm men are welcome to me.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well loved that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Guy, Yeah that anyway, Sorry about that. It just sometimes
people sometimes send things without recognizing exactly of the picture. Actually,
Britt and I were talking about this before the break
and for the first time in my hosting life. When
we were having a conversation, I was like, oh, Britt,
you need to watch this video on Instagram, and I said, honestly,
(13:12):
never done that before. But the notion that getting out
of your comfort zone and doing something for the first time.
I think when you reach a certain age, especially, you
kind of feel like I mean, I know I have
because I lead one of those yes lives where I
say yes to a lot of stuff. I may only
say yes once, yeah, but I do say yes at
least once. I think a lot of people think, oh,
(13:33):
I've accomplished a lot. I've checked a lot of boxes.
I've done the things right, I've done the things that
when I was younger, I was certain these were the
things that I needed to do, And once you achieve them,
there's almost that okay, what now, right?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That wasn't as great as I thought it was going
to be. So is that part of what this is about?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Kind I mean, it's it's really I just I want
to give a space to people who can be the
person that they've maybe always wanted to be. Right, maybe
they did check certain boxes, but there's a certain part
of them, a certain piece of them that wants to
be creative or to share a certain story, and this
(14:17):
is the arena for them to do.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It, to share it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And I also want people in the audience to know
that it's not all about performing on a stage, right,
Like if you don't if you don't have a hidden talent,
if you don't have something that would be on a
stage like I Also, I don't want them to feel
like they don't have anything to offer. I want them
to feel something in their own lives that could possibly
(14:41):
change another is something they could share with someone, something
they could do personally, you know, like start off talking.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Exactly what I'm talking about. It's about I mean, And
maybe it's I don't know how old you are, brain,
I've got to be older than you are. And I
look at where I am now, very content with my life,
right I have I mean, people who was saying how
you do it? I'm like, I have nothing to complain about, Like, yes,
I could complain about dumb things, but I have nothing
to complain about. I am living through a season of
my life that I am enjoying every second of and
(15:08):
that's not how it is. That's not how it's been
my whole life. But I got to say love in
my fifties so far for that reason. But I am
now also actively thinking about things that I would like
to do right that are different than what I'm doing now,
that have different outcomes. And I think it's like once
you sort of get to where you are. I love
my job, I love my career. I've been working for
(15:29):
it for a long time. But now I'm like, Okay,
this is good. You know what else is there? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And this is this is totally what it's about, is
to do the thing that you're curious about that you
don't even have to be a professional, right, you don't
have to change your whole life to Like you talked
about doing tap dancing, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, that's all my list, by the way, it's on
my life list of things to do before I die.
That's on there, learn to tap dance, you know. And
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And that's what I was thinking about when I was
driving down listening to you know, with the like crazy everything,
Like as things get crazier, I get more and more
motivated to do things like this.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I love it. I think it's fantastic. And for the record,
more text messages different blue collar worker here, love the
show today? Good. Maybe that guy is so wrong. I'm
picturing how hot you and britt are. Okay, that's weird.
Why did I read that? Why I was committed? Dang it? Anyway,
(16:26):
careful not till now dot com. I just added it
to the blog. I also have tickets there for the
show coming up on January twentieth. I'm super excited about this,
like I already put it on my calendar. I'm gonna
buy my tickets this afternoon and go see this because again,
there's something and I love this about my personality, and
I've realized through the years that not everyone shares this trait.
(16:48):
I love rooting for other people, especially people I don't know.
I love it. It gives me so much joy to
see them succeed. And I feel like this is gonna
be a whole night of that.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I and I'm gonna just be emailing everyone being like, Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Come on, we gotta just cheer everyone on.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Like I just cannot wait to fill this thing with
three hundred people and have them watch people do the
thing that scares them, but like they're doing it bravely,
and they're doing it and they're being cheered on.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I love it. Fritz Steven, thank you so much for
making time all of this. I'll put her website on
the blog in just a moment. But the ticket, the
ticket link is already on the blog.
I have to give our guest Britt Steven, a little
of my background. I love it when anyone comes to
me and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Says, I have this crazy idea and then you get.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
To help bring it to fruition and it sounds like
your we'll call it a show, a variety show. Not
Till Now has a little bit of that let's put
on a show kind of feel to it. What is
happening It's happening at the Lakewood Cultural Center in January
January twenty eighth. And what is not till Now? Let's
(00:31):
start with what that is. Then we're going to work
backwards because the story of how we got to not
Till Well was very interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So it's basically a live event where first take the
stage and people do the thing that they've always wanted
to do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And it's just wide open as to what people are doing. Well,
is it a variety show? Feel a little bit? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So this first debut show will have a mix of
storytelling and stand up comedy.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
One gal will be singing.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I was kind of hoping that there would be someone
you know, doing a clarinet solo, or someone juggling or
you know, but those those folks didn't come through, but.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Maybe in the next one they will.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, you need to reach out to music schools that
cater to adults and see if you could get some
you know, cellis Sitter coming up there for the first time. Yeah, answers.
Do you have any tap dnswers?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, but I want one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I have never tap dance in public before, mostly because
I don't know how, so maybe that could be my thing.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, that would be so fun. And
that's what it is. I want to give the first timers,
basically the feeling of being the headliner.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean I've never gone to an auditorium, you know
where there's a big red curtain in the spotlights, and
seeing people do something for the very first time, or
seeing a more experienced speaker maybe talk about something they
never have Like, for example, my pastor, I asked him
to come into the show and I was like, will
you please tell that story about the time that you
(01:56):
found God on the bathroom floor? And he's like, no,
that's and not till now story for me. That's not
a first time thing. He's like, you know what would
be is telling a story from the soul without mentioning
God and without mentioning the divide.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm like, okay, let's do that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So lets fanned out. Okay, so let's this. This sounds
like a wacky idea that probably sprung into your head
at some point. What made you go, wait, this could
be amazing. And it started with a dinner party for
a book launch with one hundred women.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Right, well, it actually goes back a little bit more.
In twenty fifteen, when I was living in Germany, I
was attending startup events and watching people pitch business ideas
and would attend the you know, the final events of that.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Event, and I would be like, oh, my gosh, you
know what I want to do some days.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I want to have a talent show of sorts where
people do the thing they've always wanted to do, even
if it is, you know, doing a dance routine with
everyone in astronauts suit like. And then we moved back
to the States, and I like, my business kind of
evolved a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And then yeah, so I launched a book in twenty
twenty three called Mama Be Present.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And at the book launch, it was a dinner party
for one hundred women, and I was up there.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know, reading from the book and sharing some of
my story.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And after that, I was like, you know, I want
other moms to get up here and do that because
that was so fun. And so four or five months later,
I held Moms on the Mic with one hundred.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Women getting on the mic, and it's what's.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Really fun about it is it kind of feels like
you're at the Golden Globes, but it's you.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Know, every city at tables.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, there's people getting drunk, people throwing salad that, yeah,
that kind of thing. I mean, that's really the crowd
you want when you're doing anything, a little bit lubricated.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yes, deactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So it's uh yeah, but yeah, there's not the pressure.
And so some of the best moments from these Moms
on the Mic events, which I've done three of now,
are when I just draw a name from the bowl
and have a woman come up and speak for the
first time or tell a story for the first time,
or you know, in that moment, not even knowing they
(04:01):
were going to, and have them completely grip the room
and do just as well, if not better than the
polished people, because they were probably the most relatable and
the most real And I just think there's so much
magic in that, and I don't think there's enough of
the like spur of the moment, first time, beginner, vulnerable thing.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
For how many of the people And you could speculate
if you don't have any real, you know, clarity on this,
but I'm guessing that at least a few of these
people decided to do one of these things to get
over those feelings of anxiety. And I can't do this.
I mean, it's still true the public speaking is number
one by far of the things people fear most, which
(04:45):
is crazy to me. Right for me, it is like
I can't even remember not being able to speak in
front of people, even as like a young kid, I
could get up in front. So for me, it's like
I don't understand that. But I also been around enough
people to know this has to be just terrifying for
some people. Is that part of it for them?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, what's really cool?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So a lot of the people who've gotten up, well
the women so far, they come to the event. So
last year, for example, there are a few women who
were like, I could never do this, you know, And
then at the end of the event, at the end
of the night, after watching everyone else go up and
seeing them basically give them permission.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
They're like I can do this, yes, And then.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Of course they're still super nervous going into it because
that's normal and it means that you care. And I mean,
I was so nervous coming here, but I'm like, I'm
just so excited.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, no, nobody listens to this show. You're fine. So
this event, to be clear, is not women only. I'm
super excited. My favorite realtor, Ed Prather is going to
speak and tell his story. Yes that I don't even know. Yeah,
so I am very excited to hear about that. What
are some of the people going to talk about or
do are what are we looking at here in our
list of talent for not till now?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well yeah, so speaking of Ed, I was telling his wife,
because our sons go to school together, about this event,
and she and how I want to have people do
stand up for the very first time, like very first,
like I haven't even done open mic or anything like
this is the moment. And she was like, oh my gosh,
Ed has always wanted to do stand ups and he's
got a whole thing, and I'm like, we got to
(06:19):
have him, man. So he didn't even volunteer himself.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
He got volunteered, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, and so he you know, he'll be doing, yeah,
a whole routine as I don't know if you know,
but he was born with one I yes, and so
he'll be doing stand up about his life from that perspective,
which I'm so excited to hear about.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah. So I have a mom and a teacher.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
She's starting the show with her very first time stand
up talking about life with ADHD and how she just
started taking adderall and how.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Everything has literally.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Changed for her and how she has this new life.
We have Debbie Shear, she's a you know, very established
comedian and auction and MC and that she'll be you know,
speaking about mental health and surprising us with a certain
way that she does the stand up that she's.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Always wanted to do. So we have you have some
experienced people doing things for.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The first time, but we also have you know, I
have a mom who's going to be singing. She's never
sung in front of people ever. I mean the people
she's telling about this event, She's They're like, wait, you
sing She's like, yes, Like I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So I just I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
This just sounds super fun, and I have people asking
do you have to audition? How do you get to
be a part of this? So I'm guessing this show
is set. Yeah, but how can they get in the
loop so they know when Britt Steuven is looking for
the next group of people? How do they make that happen.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
People are already saying they want to audition, They're like
writing in They just asks.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
How do you need? Oh do you need to other
asking if I need to alis, I don't need to
audition for this show. But I honestly have had so
many first already that I don't know if there's a
first left in front of an audience other than stripping
and not doing that. So you know, I just shot
me a look like, no, that will not be happening.
(08:12):
I can assure you, Yeah, so no, I would. I
would love to do. I love stuff like this though,
because I love I'm always rooting for people that are
doing hard things right. I'm always rooting for them to succeed,
and when you see somebody. I just watched my daughter's
classmates get ready to go to Festcon, which is a
big theater convention, and they were practicing and oh my gosh,
(08:35):
I was rooting so hard for those kids, like and
you get they get done and you're just like, oh,
that was so good. I have a feeling there's gonna
be a lot of that in.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
This Yes, yes, yeah, and so but yeah, if anyone
is interested in applying for the next one, I actually
just set up the website, not till now dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They can go there.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I will add that to the blog as well as
when we finish talking, because I have a link to
the actual it's Wednesday, January twenty eighth, and it's at
seven pm at the Lakewood Cultural Center in Lakewood, And
I'll remind you guys, like a week before if you
if there's tickets left. You guys have had some pretty
brisk ticket sales. I understand.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yep, eighty tickets sold so far.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Nice, very nice. Somebody just pointed this out and we
need to have this discussion. Were you on House Hunters International?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I was to stop it? Okay, No, you don't understand.
I was HGTV's biggest fan in the whole world that
they have canceled every show that I love except House
Hunters International. Okay, So where were you looking? Because now
I'm going to go back there. What I'm writing it down?
When you leave here, I'm gonna go back and watch
your episode. Oh no, so, where where were you looking?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We were a Duseldorf.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh I love Joseldorf Dwarf.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yes, so, And I'm probably gonna get in big trouble
for this, but I thought that they actually helped you
find a place to live.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But they yeah, they work backwards.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now you've got to have found your place before. Yeah,
I knew that that jig was up years ago, So
now it's now. My husband and I play a game
like which one are they faking about? It's like when
you're like I have to have this place, we're like, oh,
that's not it. Yeah, we just make it a complete
game on that. How did you even get into that?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I emailed them and just said, hey, can you guys
help us find a place to live?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And they never responded until we.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Lived there and then and then I'm like, oh, shoot,
well now we have a spot. They're like no, no, no,
but yeah, and then we were like should we even
do this still?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But then did you feel like a faker?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well yeah yeah, But it was actually just really fun
to see how they do it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
There's like three people.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, you know, and then you have to film everything.
You say something naturally once and then you have to
say it four more times so that they can get
all the angles.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And then that you form like four days of content.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You film four days and then they only use like
twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
So all the good stuff is actually not even all
the really funny things. We're yet inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You serious because you have to look serious as people
think you're really considered. No, my brother's a real a
realtor in Las Vegas, and he's like, no, you have
to have already sold the house before they even show up.
So not till Now is a wonderful idea of break.
What is it that? I mean, you have a website,
You've got the not till Now website, but you have
all kinds of irons in the fire. Yes, what is
(11:22):
you know? What do you do? What is your actual thing?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I know, I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I have yes, So I've just so this is my
debut event of the thing that actually is the umbrella
of everything I've been doing for a while now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So yeah, I just love to help people do.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
The things they've always wanted to do, whether it is
to start writing or to write a book. I have
a fun writing group which I now changed the name
to the not Till Now Writing Group. I yea also
do yes the annual Mom's on the Mike event, which
I will be changing the name to.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Not till Now.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Focus righting and yeah, very.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Cool, niche, extremely cool, Niche, britt, I like it. Okay,
So the texter who just said okay, just like when
the wine Yogi is on the show, just became exclusively
for chicks only. I'm out. I'm sorry, Please don't take offense.
But there's just nothing in this segment that's remotely appealing
or interesting for the blue collar men of your listening audience.
(12:29):
Oh wow, so with respect, literally ninety nine point five
percent of this show is designed specifically for you, and
mind suck it up, Buttercup, you'll live through the point
five maybe you'll become a more compassionate human in the meantime.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Good lord, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well yeah, no, So that's what's so fun about not
Till Now is that I'm men are welcome to me.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well loved that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Guy, Yeah that anyway, Sorry about that. It just sometimes
people sometimes send things without recognizing exactly of the picture. Actually,
Britt and I were talking about this before the break
and for the first time in my hosting life. When
we were having a conversation, I was like, oh, Britt,
you need to watch this video on Instagram, and I said, honestly,
(13:12):
never done that before. But the notion that getting out
of your comfort zone and doing something for the first time.
I think when you reach a certain age, especially, you
kind of feel like I mean, I know I have
because I lead one of those yes lives where I
say yes to a lot of stuff. I may only
say yes once, yeah, but I do say yes at
least once. I think a lot of people think, oh,
(13:33):
I've accomplished a lot. I've checked a lot of boxes.
I've done the things right, I've done the things that
when I was younger, I was certain these were the
things that I needed to do, And once you achieve them,
there's almost that okay, what now, right?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That wasn't as great as I thought it was going
to be. So is that part of what this is about?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Kind I mean, it's it's really I just I want
to give a space to people who can be the
person that they've maybe always wanted to be. Right, maybe
they did check certain boxes, but there's a certain part
of them, a certain piece of them that wants to
be creative or to share a certain story, and this
(14:17):
is the arena for them to do.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It, to share it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And I also want people in the audience to know
that it's not all about performing on a stage, right,
Like if you don't if you don't have a hidden talent,
if you don't have something that would be on a
stage like I Also, I don't want them to feel
like they don't have anything to offer. I want them
to feel something in their own lives that could possibly
(14:41):
change another is something they could share with someone, something
they could do personally, you know, like start off talking.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Exactly what I'm talking about. It's about I mean, And
maybe it's I don't know how old you are, brain,
I've got to be older than you are. And I
look at where I am now, very content with my life,
right I have I mean, people who was saying how
you do it? I'm like, I have nothing to complain about, Like, yes,
I could complain about dumb things, but I have nothing
to complain about. I am living through a season of
my life that I am enjoying every second of and
(15:08):
that's not how it is. That's not how it's been
my whole life. But I got to say love in
my fifties so far for that reason. But I am
now also actively thinking about things that I would like
to do right that are different than what I'm doing now,
that have different outcomes. And I think it's like once
you sort of get to where you are. I love
my job, I love my career. I've been working for
(15:29):
it for a long time. But now I'm like, Okay,
this is good. You know what else is there? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And this is this is totally what it's about, is
to do the thing that you're curious about that you
don't even have to be a professional, right, you don't
have to change your whole life to Like you talked
about doing tap dancing, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, that's all my list, by the way, it's on
my life list of things to do before I die.
That's on there, learn to tap dance, you know. And
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And that's what I was thinking about when I was
driving down listening to you know, with the like crazy everything,
Like as things get crazier, I get more and more
motivated to do things like this.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I love it. I think it's fantastic. And for the record,
more text messages different blue collar worker here, love the
show today? Good. Maybe that guy is so wrong. I'm
picturing how hot you and britt are. Okay, that's weird.
Why did I read that? Why I was committed? Dang it? Anyway,
(16:26):
careful not till now dot com. I just added it
to the blog. I also have tickets there for the
show coming up on January twentieth. I'm super excited about this,
like I already put it on my calendar. I'm gonna
buy my tickets this afternoon and go see this because again,
there's something and I love this about my personality, and
I've realized through the years that not everyone shares this trait.
(16:48):
I love rooting for other people, especially people I don't know.
I love it. It gives me so much joy to
see them succeed. And I feel like this is gonna
be a whole night of that.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I and I'm gonna just be emailing everyone being like, Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Come on, we gotta just cheer everyone on.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Like I just cannot wait to fill this thing with
three hundred people and have them watch people do the
thing that scares them, but like they're doing it bravely,
and they're doing it and they're being cheered on.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I love it. Fritz Steven, thank you so much for
making time all of this. I'll put her website on
the blog in just a moment. But the ticket, the
ticket link is already on the blog.
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