April 26, 2024 • 16 mins
For over a decade Ande has been producing and hosting interview style podcasts and livestreams shows.
In March 2024 she launched Don't Be Caged By Your Age - a proaging interview-style podcast challenging societal and internalized ageism and empowering folks to THRIVE after 65.
Ande Lyons is a 4 time business founder, a startup champion, and host of the popular live stream show Startup Life LIVE.
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In March 2024 she launched Don't Be Caged By Your Age - a proaging interview-style podcast challenging societal and internalized ageism and empowering folks to THRIVE after 65.
Ande Lyons is a 4 time business founder, a startup champion, and host of the popular live stream show Startup Life LIVE.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/and-i-thought--3370626/support.
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(00:02):
Hello everyone, and welcome to theend. I thought ladies podcast. Yes,
and if you're going what, yeah, remember when I changed the name
at the tail end of COVID andI was like, you know what,
I'm going to call the podcast theactual name of the podcast? Yeah,
because I was calling it the Woman'sApostrophe Cave because I was the only one
(00:22):
that was not like trademarked, butthe name of the podcast was. And
I thought so, I thought Iwould go ahead and do it, and
I thought ladies podcast. I feellike I'm a genius. At this point,
I was like, this is agreat marketing term. I wish you
know, I thought of it atthe beginning to name it the actual name
of the podcast so you could findit. Now that we have celebrated my
(00:46):
genius. Hold on, now thatwe have celebrated my genius, I don't
know. No. By the way, I almost forgot one of the end.
I thought, ladies go. Hey, that's why in the podcast back.
Oh, mag you're right. Oh. When I wrote books, well
they are and I thought divorce wasbad with other life lessons, I can't
(01:07):
believe I'm adding the entire with otherlife lessons, Like I'm a freaking famous
person or something. And I thoughtbeing grown up with easy, if only
I were me, I mem weiringVerse, Foreign Coffee, whittles, web
in Widdows debt and if you're counting, that is six six six books.
And those books are over where foundwhere every audiobooks can be found. Yes,
those areus the audio books. Andjust in case you've been around or
you haven't been around for a while, you know what comes next? Seventeen
(01:30):
more books, because I write,did you think it's gonna come next?
Stripping? I I was just great. I love the inflectionre Okay, I'm
back now that I'm dumb patting myselfon the back of that joke. That's
just sad. Oh, you canfind those books at www dot And I
thought ladies dot com, No,you're not here to hear about me,
(01:53):
which is sad because there could havebeen stories about stripping. No, they
couldn't have been because I didn't strip. You're here, I ever got our
wonderful guests. Wonderful guess would youlike to introduce yourself? Hello? I
am Diane Burkhart. I am anindie author. I am also a podcaster,
and I just started a new magazinecalled book Banter Magazine, which is
(02:15):
a companion to my podcast. Ihave seven books out right now and I'm
working on the sixth one currently.Yeah, I'm excited you said you have
seven books out. I did aseries called Into the West Saga serial that
I wrote as Stephen Burkhart, andtheir historical fiction actually won a couple of
(02:36):
awards. There are seven books inthis series, and I'm currently writing a
book that is my medical memoir calledFree Bad Haircuts with each Craniotomy. That's
all about all the brain surgeries thatI had. Okay, first of all,
it's a great name for a book, and then you made it depressing.
Oh well, and my tag thingis it's like on TikTok do the
(03:00):
Mutant Chronicles, where I sell myselfas somebody who is part cow, part
machine and still an award winning author. What yeah, yes, yes,
yes, yes yes, And thatis great for a TikTok audience. I'm
stealing it. I feel like yourfans would be like, no, that's
not you'd be like, oh,and part dye job because I am a
(03:23):
little darker got dyed this color.I should ask you something reasonable and real,
right, like how did you yourpodcast. Why did you want to
be like, I want a podcast? Not just right. I could not
afford advertising, and it was cheaperto do a podcast than to my advertising
(03:44):
four of my books. That works. Wow, that is the simplest,
simplest answer I've had. You know, you guys. She does coaching on
how to keep your short concise andgood, so you're not just babbling on
and on and on like this host. Also, I just wanted to say
that I noticed that you said yourbooks on your Stephen Burkhart mm hm.
(04:06):
The inside south was like, I'mwriting about history, so well when my
books are not romance at all.They're straight historical fiction with Western theme to
it. And I did some marketingresearch and it said that books sell better
that are like that, that arenot romantic if they are perceived to come
from a male author. So Itook my maiden last name Stevens, and
(04:30):
dropped the last ass and added mymarried last name Burkhart, and became Stephen
Burkhart. And if you look onour website, the photo for Stephen Burkhart
is my father when he was myage. That is so cool. Dad
loves being the face of Stephen Burkhart. I'm sure he does. Does you
(04:50):
want to go to a book signings? Then? He doesn't like doing anything
in public, but he loves showingall of his friends the books. Oh,
it's like, look, I haveskills, says it right here on
the bottle. Do you have sis? No, I have? What happens?
(05:11):
I'm babbling again. I'm gonna needmedia training, Diane. Sometimes it
does make it more fun, thatis true. Oh, so I have
to ask as my you know,as my like little segue is I have
to ask if you haven't noticed,so we're going back to it, I
have to ask, what three tipsdo you give to any author who are
(05:35):
who's looking out is looking for liketo be on an interview and it's the
first time, what do you say? First thing is to definitely be prepared,
have a few things written out,and practice it before you come on
to the show, because almost everybodybodyasks you who you are, what do
you do, what do you write? If you've just written a book,
(05:55):
what is the book about? Andit is incredible how many authors do not
know how to give a summary oftheir book. They can talk about it
for twenty minutes and you still don'treally understand what the book is about Oh
that is still good, very true. I can I can give you an
example. It's like my first bookinto the West Saga serial. It's a
(06:17):
family saga where a woman who's animmigrant from Ireland falls on destitute times and
she has to give her children tothe Catholic Aid Society and they take her
children into the wild West to findthem a new home. That's the basis
of this first book, and therest of the series carries out this family
saga and ends up bringing it fullcircle at the end of the seventh book
(06:42):
with the series plot with a seriesapp up. Oh Sweeten, you're only
missing like four more components, andyou can pitch us for a movie to
a producer. Because you only getfive to seven minutes. They're like,
I want to know the series,the entire series. I want to know
the episode plot. I want toknow the story arcs and the character five
minutes. Let's get out. No, I'm joking. You know. There
(07:03):
was a friend of my mother's whowas a actor in westerns and he did
a lot of his own movie productionsfor like low budget movies. He was
interested in turning my series into amovie, and then he passed away.
I was so hoping that story ina different way. I was like,
(07:23):
in my mind, I was likepicking endings and I was like, that's
that sounds like the more likely one. And I was like, nope,
nope, I have three other alternateendings in my mind. Passed away is
not the one I wanted to hear. I'm so sorry. Okay, we're
gonna work on finding you a newperson, all right, moving on.
I had a new segue by there, moving on, ha ha, getting
(07:44):
better at my job. I'm sorry, We're gonna stick with the podcast theme.
And so since we're sticking with it, what how do people contact you
to like, like, I wantto be on your podcast? What are
they writeing that? And I'll pitchletter. Actually, I have an application
form on my website so that peoplecan just go there fill it out with
the information that I need to makemy decision right now. Though we do
(08:07):
have a hold on applications until Augustbecause I had so many applications in the
last month that it's going to takeme a while to go through all.
That's very sad about that, becauseI was just about to pitch myself.
See, well, we do alot of cross promotions. Whenever somebody has
me on theirs, we have themon ours and do that a lot.
(08:31):
Oh well, looky, looky,y'all. This que phase with actual makeup
on it, even though it's apodcast, is probably going to show up
being like, yes, glamorous.See now, my podcast is only audio
only. We don't do any video. But that's the only reason why we
do the Companion magazine so we canshow all of the videos or all of
the photographs, so people can seethe people that we're doing the interviews with
(08:52):
and see their books. Plus,the magazine has live links so people can
click on the cover of a bookand go buy it. Okay, I'm
in love with this magazine. Idid too, Madam. We need to
talk. It turned out with theevil fingertips that magazine has turned out so
much better than I could have imagined. I do have a long history of
(09:16):
working in like newspapers and magazines.My first job ever working for somebody else.
I was seventeen and I started workingfor sports magazine. And I've worked
for newspapers, I've done broadcasts.I have a lot of experience doing this
kind of stuff. How does thebroadcasting in the newspaper, except for like
knowing how to concisely hit who,what we're were, what why? In
like the first sentence. Every timeI take a journalism class, I'm like,
(09:39):
must wait, is it absolutely importantthat people know this? And like
the first two sentences, I don'tfeel like it is mistory people mystery,
something happens somewhere. You got toread to find out that's how we should
do during it. But that's justme that's helped you at all, and
writing historical fiction. It One ofthe things that's really great about having a
(10:01):
journalistic background is it helps you writeconcise because you want to have all of
that drama. You want to beable to draw people in, but you
don't have a lot of space asa journalist to get very flowery and run
on forever. You have to getto the point. And almost every author
that I've spoken to who has becomean indie author traditionally published author, that's
(10:26):
one of the things that they saythat they took away from journalism is how
to get to the point and writeconcise. I'm a poet, so that
just came naturally. They were like, could you please make it longer?
Still still longer, like fake timeto the length. Oh and that's chapter
one. It took me years toget that down. Anyway, that was
(10:56):
something I had in my head andit completely just felt I was like,
like, Nope, not there anymore. I was like, I know,
I was there, It's right there. Oh there was a statement I was
going to say, so like,I actually I love reading people who had
journalism as a background because first ofall, I love the the speed that
you guys, the tempo of yourwriting. I love that at the pace
(11:20):
the word is pa ooh having anot so good brain day today. I
love the pace of your writing andthe conciseness. I mean, this is
why I like out of everyone,I'm like, I like him Ingway and
everyone goes Himingway the guy. NoHimingway the writing, while I'm not even
fond of his stories, just thestyle. Yeah, okay, so this
(11:43):
next book, how is it differentand more challenging? Is it more challenging?
It is just because I am writingabout events that happened twenty years ago
while I was having numerous brain surgeries. Luckily I kept journals during this time.
It was one of the things thatI did for stress relief was I
(12:03):
would write in journals, and Ihave a lot of photographs from that time
too. This picture is actually reallyvery important to me. It's going to
be on the cover of the book. Whenever I had my first brain surgery,
I acquired hydrocephalus and they had toimplant a valve in the top of
(12:24):
my head to help drain away allthe extra fluid to keep my brain functioning
correctly. Whenever I had been inall of the brain surgeries, whenever i'd
wake up, my mother would bestanding there whenever I opened my eyes,
and she be like, you know, everything's going great, You're gonna be
fine. I knew I was gonnabe okay. When I woke up from
(12:45):
this surgery, I looked up bymy mother and she burst into tears,
and I was like, oh lord, I cannot see what I look like.
I don't want to know. Ihad her go into my hospital room.
I had her cover every reflective surface, and this was the first way
that I saw myself when I finallygot up the courage. I had her
(13:05):
take a photo on one of theold digital cameras that had the little screen
on the back, and that's howI saw myself first. Was a little
tiny picture of that photo, andthen I started like, Okay, I
can do this. This is mynew me, this is how I am
now. And I eventually had hergo ahead and take all of the covers
off of all the reflective services,and I went in and looked in the
(13:28):
mirror and I was like, Okay, we need to go on. It's
amazing, like how it seems likethe perception of yourself through looks and that
like health, Like I'm up andI'm alive, and i just had freaking
brain surgery and I'm still calculative andI can still think like, wow,
that's amazing, and you're like,I don't see me ugly well. And
(13:48):
part of the problem for me too, with having brain surgeries and having to
have my head shaped constantly. I'mNative American. I've always had Right before
I had that first surgery, myhair down to my butt, and I
had always had my hair very long, and then to have to go from
that to a shaved head, thatreally was a hit to my personal identity
(14:11):
how I saw myself. So itwas it was traumatic as far as my
own self image for a while.But I'm one of those people that I
consider myself a treasure where I justeven when things are tough, I just
put my head down and just focuson moving forward. Yeah, definitely you
and you have definitely done that.And I can't wait to read about this
(14:33):
journey. So where can people findout more information about you, your podcast
and your journey. I made iteasy current books dot Com. Oh my
god, I'm in love with that. Okay, this goes in your couching,
in your couching burgod Books just whoayeah, and I'm cutting up to
(14:56):
do this again. Oh, it'sreally easy to find us on any social
media because you just do at bKurt Books and that'll pull up all of
our stuff. I want to thankyou so much for being here with us
today because it is truly a miraclethat you are here with anyone. That's
awesome. And by the way,she's an awesome gamer. Two h side
(15:18):
fact all Just like in case you'relooking at the chair going, oh,
that's just a relaxing No, it'sa professionally like gaming chair. Yeah,
so you gotta be comfy when I'mplaying my Fortnite. So I'm gonna wrap
it up for us over here.And when I say as it's normally a
jade over on this side. Butshe's not here today. But anyway,
you can find out everything your ladiesare up to. A www dot and
(15:39):
I thought ladies dot com. I'msorry, I had to clear my throat
in the middle of that, sogive me a second. A www dot
and I thought ladies dot com.And no, that's not getting edited out.
And when you go down to themiddle of the page, you can
find that charities that we probably support. Yeah, did you take a moment
and support them too. It doesnot have to be monetary. You can
use your skills. Hey, youcan even use your knowledge. Give them
(16:00):
a little bit of knowledge that youknow that that can help them out,
knowledge that you know. I'm usingthat somewhere just because Tungu twister. Remember
that wisdom is all around you ifyou're open to finding it and accepting It's
a peace in love you guys fromWill Knowna and the Missing Jade. Oh
yeah, thanks for listening.
Hello everyone, and welcome to theend. I thought ladies podcast. Yes,
and if you're going what, yeah, remember when I changed the name
at the tail end of COVID andI was like, you know what,
I'm going to call the podcast theactual name of the podcast? Yeah,
because I was calling it the Woman'sApostrophe Cave because I was the only one
(00:22):
that was not like trademarked, butthe name of the podcast was. And
I thought so, I thought Iwould go ahead and do it, and
I thought ladies podcast. I feellike I'm a genius. At this point,
I was like, this is agreat marketing term. I wish you
know, I thought of it atthe beginning to name it the actual name
of the podcast so you could findit. Now that we have celebrated my
(00:46):
genius. Hold on, now thatwe have celebrated my genius, I don't
know. No. By the way, I almost forgot one of the end.
I thought, ladies go. Hey, that's why in the podcast back.
Oh, mag you're right. Oh. When I wrote books, well
they are and I thought divorce wasbad with other life lessons, I can't
(01:07):
believe I'm adding the entire with otherlife lessons, Like I'm a freaking famous
person or something. And I thoughtbeing grown up with easy, if only
I were me, I mem weiringVerse, Foreign Coffee, whittles, web
in Widdows debt and if you're counting, that is six six six books.
And those books are over where foundwhere every audiobooks can be found. Yes,
those areus the audio books. Andjust in case you've been around or
you haven't been around for a while, you know what comes next? Seventeen
(01:30):
more books, because I write,did you think it's gonna come next?
Stripping? I I was just great. I love the inflectionre Okay, I'm
back now that I'm dumb patting myselfon the back of that joke. That's
just sad. Oh, you canfind those books at www dot And I
thought ladies dot com, No,you're not here to hear about me,
(01:53):
which is sad because there could havebeen stories about stripping. No, they
couldn't have been because I didn't strip. You're here, I ever got our
wonderful guests. Wonderful guess would youlike to introduce yourself? Hello? I
am Diane Burkhart. I am anindie author. I am also a podcaster,
and I just started a new magazinecalled book Banter Magazine, which is
(02:15):
a companion to my podcast. Ihave seven books out right now and I'm
working on the sixth one currently.Yeah, I'm excited you said you have
seven books out. I did aseries called Into the West Saga serial that
I wrote as Stephen Burkhart, andtheir historical fiction actually won a couple of
(02:36):
awards. There are seven books inthis series, and I'm currently writing a
book that is my medical memoir calledFree Bad Haircuts with each Craniotomy. That's
all about all the brain surgeries thatI had. Okay, first of all,
it's a great name for a book, and then you made it depressing.
Oh well, and my tag thingis it's like on TikTok do the
(03:00):
Mutant Chronicles, where I sell myselfas somebody who is part cow, part
machine and still an award winning author. What yeah, yes, yes,
yes, yes yes, And thatis great for a TikTok audience. I'm
stealing it. I feel like yourfans would be like, no, that's
not you'd be like, oh,and part dye job because I am a
(03:23):
little darker got dyed this color.I should ask you something reasonable and real,
right, like how did you yourpodcast. Why did you want to
be like, I want a podcast? Not just right. I could not
afford advertising, and it was cheaperto do a podcast than to my advertising
(03:44):
four of my books. That works. Wow, that is the simplest,
simplest answer I've had. You know, you guys. She does coaching on
how to keep your short concise andgood, so you're not just babbling on
and on and on like this host. Also, I just wanted to say
that I noticed that you said yourbooks on your Stephen Burkhart mm hm.
(04:06):
The inside south was like, I'mwriting about history, so well when my
books are not romance at all.They're straight historical fiction with Western theme to
it. And I did some marketingresearch and it said that books sell better
that are like that, that arenot romantic if they are perceived to come
from a male author. So Itook my maiden last name Stevens, and
(04:30):
dropped the last ass and added mymarried last name Burkhart, and became Stephen
Burkhart. And if you look onour website, the photo for Stephen Burkhart
is my father when he was myage. That is so cool. Dad
loves being the face of Stephen Burkhart. I'm sure he does. Does you
(04:50):
want to go to a book signings? Then? He doesn't like doing anything
in public, but he loves showingall of his friends the books. Oh,
it's like, look, I haveskills, says it right here on
the bottle. Do you have sis? No, I have? What happens?
(05:11):
I'm babbling again. I'm gonna needmedia training, Diane. Sometimes it
does make it more fun, thatis true. Oh, so I have
to ask as my you know,as my like little segue is I have
to ask if you haven't noticed,so we're going back to it, I
have to ask, what three tipsdo you give to any author who are
(05:35):
who's looking out is looking for liketo be on an interview and it's the
first time, what do you say? First thing is to definitely be prepared,
have a few things written out,and practice it before you come on
to the show, because almost everybodybodyasks you who you are, what do
you do, what do you write? If you've just written a book,
(05:55):
what is the book about? Andit is incredible how many authors do not
know how to give a summary oftheir book. They can talk about it
for twenty minutes and you still don'treally understand what the book is about Oh
that is still good, very true. I can I can give you an
example. It's like my first bookinto the West Saga serial. It's a
(06:17):
family saga where a woman who's animmigrant from Ireland falls on destitute times and
she has to give her children tothe Catholic Aid Society and they take her
children into the wild West to findthem a new home. That's the basis
of this first book, and therest of the series carries out this family
saga and ends up bringing it fullcircle at the end of the seventh book
(06:42):
with the series plot with a seriesapp up. Oh Sweeten, you're only
missing like four more components, andyou can pitch us for a movie to
a producer. Because you only getfive to seven minutes. They're like,
I want to know the series,the entire series. I want to know
the episode plot. I want toknow the story arcs and the character five
minutes. Let's get out. No, I'm joking. You know. There
(07:03):
was a friend of my mother's whowas a actor in westerns and he did
a lot of his own movie productionsfor like low budget movies. He was
interested in turning my series into amovie, and then he passed away.
I was so hoping that story ina different way. I was like,
(07:23):
in my mind, I was likepicking endings and I was like, that's
that sounds like the more likely one. And I was like, nope,
nope, I have three other alternateendings in my mind. Passed away is
not the one I wanted to hear. I'm so sorry. Okay, we're
gonna work on finding you a newperson, all right, moving on.
I had a new segue by there, moving on, ha ha, getting
(07:44):
better at my job. I'm sorry, We're gonna stick with the podcast theme.
And so since we're sticking with it, what how do people contact you
to like, like, I wantto be on your podcast? What are
they writeing that? And I'll pitchletter. Actually, I have an application
form on my website so that peoplecan just go there fill it out with
the information that I need to makemy decision right now. Though we do
(08:07):
have a hold on applications until Augustbecause I had so many applications in the
last month that it's going to takeme a while to go through all.
That's very sad about that, becauseI was just about to pitch myself.
See, well, we do alot of cross promotions. Whenever somebody has
me on theirs, we have themon ours and do that a lot.
(08:31):
Oh well, looky, looky,y'all. This que phase with actual makeup
on it, even though it's apodcast, is probably going to show up
being like, yes, glamorous.See now, my podcast is only audio
only. We don't do any video. But that's the only reason why we
do the Companion magazine so we canshow all of the videos or all of
the photographs, so people can seethe people that we're doing the interviews with
(08:52):
and see their books. Plus,the magazine has live links so people can
click on the cover of a bookand go buy it. Okay, I'm
in love with this magazine. Idid too, Madam. We need to
talk. It turned out with theevil fingertips that magazine has turned out so
much better than I could have imagined. I do have a long history of
(09:16):
working in like newspapers and magazines.My first job ever working for somebody else.
I was seventeen and I started workingfor sports magazine. And I've worked
for newspapers, I've done broadcasts.I have a lot of experience doing this
kind of stuff. How does thebroadcasting in the newspaper, except for like
knowing how to concisely hit who,what we're were, what why? In
like the first sentence. Every timeI take a journalism class, I'm like,
(09:39):
must wait, is it absolutely importantthat people know this? And like
the first two sentences, I don'tfeel like it is mistory people mystery,
something happens somewhere. You got toread to find out that's how we should
do during it. But that's justme that's helped you at all, and
writing historical fiction. It One ofthe things that's really great about having a
(10:01):
journalistic background is it helps you writeconcise because you want to have all of
that drama. You want to beable to draw people in, but you
don't have a lot of space asa journalist to get very flowery and run
on forever. You have to getto the point. And almost every author
that I've spoken to who has becomean indie author traditionally published author, that's
(10:26):
one of the things that they saythat they took away from journalism is how
to get to the point and writeconcise. I'm a poet, so that
just came naturally. They were like, could you please make it longer?
Still still longer, like fake timeto the length. Oh and that's chapter
one. It took me years toget that down. Anyway, that was
(10:56):
something I had in my head andit completely just felt I was like,
like, Nope, not there anymore. I was like, I know,
I was there, It's right there. Oh there was a statement I was
going to say, so like,I actually I love reading people who had
journalism as a background because first ofall, I love the the speed that
you guys, the tempo of yourwriting. I love that at the pace
(11:20):
the word is pa ooh having anot so good brain day today. I
love the pace of your writing andthe conciseness. I mean, this is
why I like out of everyone,I'm like, I like him Ingway and
everyone goes Himingway the guy. NoHimingway the writing, while I'm not even
fond of his stories, just thestyle. Yeah, okay, so this
(11:43):
next book, how is it differentand more challenging? Is it more challenging?
It is just because I am writingabout events that happened twenty years ago
while I was having numerous brain surgeries. Luckily I kept journals during this time.
It was one of the things thatI did for stress relief was I
(12:03):
would write in journals, and Ihave a lot of photographs from that time
too. This picture is actually reallyvery important to me. It's going to
be on the cover of the book. Whenever I had my first brain surgery,
I acquired hydrocephalus and they had toimplant a valve in the top of
(12:24):
my head to help drain away allthe extra fluid to keep my brain functioning
correctly. Whenever I had been inall of the brain surgeries, whenever i'd
wake up, my mother would bestanding there whenever I opened my eyes,
and she be like, you know, everything's going great, You're gonna be
fine. I knew I was gonnabe okay. When I woke up from
(12:45):
this surgery, I looked up bymy mother and she burst into tears,
and I was like, oh lord, I cannot see what I look like.
I don't want to know. Ihad her go into my hospital room.
I had her cover every reflective surface, and this was the first way
that I saw myself when I finallygot up the courage. I had her
(13:05):
take a photo on one of theold digital cameras that had the little screen
on the back, and that's howI saw myself first. Was a little
tiny picture of that photo, andthen I started like, Okay, I
can do this. This is mynew me, this is how I am
now. And I eventually had hergo ahead and take all of the covers
off of all the reflective services,and I went in and looked in the
(13:28):
mirror and I was like, Okay, we need to go on. It's
amazing, like how it seems likethe perception of yourself through looks and that
like health, Like I'm up andI'm alive, and i just had freaking
brain surgery and I'm still calculative andI can still think like, wow,
that's amazing, and you're like,I don't see me ugly well. And
(13:48):
part of the problem for me too, with having brain surgeries and having to
have my head shaped constantly. I'mNative American. I've always had Right before
I had that first surgery, myhair down to my butt, and I
had always had my hair very long, and then to have to go from
that to a shaved head, thatreally was a hit to my personal identity
(14:11):
how I saw myself. So itwas it was traumatic as far as my
own self image for a while.But I'm one of those people that I
consider myself a treasure where I justeven when things are tough, I just
put my head down and just focuson moving forward. Yeah, definitely you
and you have definitely done that.And I can't wait to read about this
(14:33):
journey. So where can people findout more information about you, your podcast
and your journey. I made iteasy current books dot Com. Oh my
god, I'm in love with that. Okay, this goes in your couching,
in your couching burgod Books just whoayeah, and I'm cutting up to
(14:56):
do this again. Oh, it'sreally easy to find us on any social
media because you just do at bKurt Books and that'll pull up all of
our stuff. I want to thankyou so much for being here with us
today because it is truly a miraclethat you are here with anyone. That's
awesome. And by the way,she's an awesome gamer. Two h side
(15:18):
fact all Just like in case you'relooking at the chair going, oh,
that's just a relaxing No, it'sa professionally like gaming chair. Yeah,
so you gotta be comfy when I'mplaying my Fortnite. So I'm gonna wrap
it up for us over here.And when I say as it's normally a
jade over on this side. Butshe's not here today. But anyway,
you can find out everything your ladiesare up to. A www dot and
(15:39):
I thought ladies dot com. I'msorry, I had to clear my throat
in the middle of that, sogive me a second. A www dot
and I thought ladies dot com.And no, that's not getting edited out.
And when you go down to themiddle of the page, you can
find that charities that we probably support. Yeah, did you take a moment
and support them too. It doesnot have to be monetary. You can
use your skills. Hey, youcan even use your knowledge. Give them
(16:00):
a little bit of knowledge that youknow that that can help them out,
knowledge that you know. I'm usingthat somewhere just because Tungu twister. Remember
that wisdom is all around you ifyou're open to finding it and accepting It's
a peace in love you guys fromWill Knowna and the Missing Jade. Oh
yeah, thanks for listening.
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