April 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Grammy Award winning artist Isolde Fair is one of the many residents of Palisades who lost her family home in the devastating fires in Los Angeles. Hear Isolde's story of that tragic day and how she is bouncing back from this loss. Our guest also gives our Moms a preview of her NEW SONG - that was inspired by the recent fires and the hope she has to give others about surviving such a life experience.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
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(00:35):
inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom.
Welcome Mom's Welcome to inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and I am thrilled to have with me
today my co host, Julie Orchid. Welcome back, Julie.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm bringing from here to hear.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am so thrilled to have Julie back. Now we
had last time I was here, we had a couple
of substitute hosts co host and well one of them
my sisters. I think she wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The host, but that's a whole other story.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
But they filled in beautifully. Her daughter Georgia was another one.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yea special thank you for having her.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Have you back? Can you share with our audience why
you were here?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, I took a little break.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've got one of those fancy stories that I got
diagnosed with breast cancer, and I am so beyond thrilled
and feel a ton of gratitude to be back today
and back on track and super scary, but I was
able to come back, and you know, be stronger and
(01:46):
better before, and don't skip your mamacrams.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That would be my first advice to everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So I'm doing very well and I'm truly over the
moon to be here today.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So well, we're over the moon that you are here.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, you're very excited, and it's hard to get rid
of me.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's so hard. Happened, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah,
I guess you're here permanently.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There, I guess.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I hope, so, I hope so yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So you and as far as I mean breast cancer,
people get all different concepts. But my aunt was diagnosed
with breast cancer many years ago. She she had the surgery,
she had the five years of the drug to moxifin,
and she's eighty seven now, and you know, that's sort
of a memory of hers, that she had breast cancer.
So these days that's not like in the old days.
(02:36):
I guess people took it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
As yeah, yeah, this is over, you're done. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I think the most part for getting a diagnosis of
that is that we've come so far and you can
really have You have your before cancer and then you
have after cancer, and so what happens in between is
really something that you know can you can fare well
from this type of thing. So but for the most part,
I just really like seeing that diagnosis on a piece
(03:02):
of paper. You think it's someone else, you don't think
it's you, and you have to really process that and
go through you know what life is going to look like. So, yes,
your aunt eighty seven, and I'm not going to give
my age, but.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Not eighty seven if.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You aspired to eighty seven decades.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
From you anyway, I think for the most part this
is inside the mom's club.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And for the most.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Part, for me, I always knew that I could handle
anything that came my way. But I have children and
two daughters, and I'm gonna try not try because my
daughter's here today. But for the most part, I would
never want to leave them, and that would be that's
the hard part. So that was the hard part for me.
But I'm a fighter and I'm here. I'm ready to roll.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, good, we're ready. We're ready to roll with you
for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So thanks for asking. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, I'm just happy. I'm thrilled your back. Yeah, and
I think you're story is important.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, there's a lot to it.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
There's a lot to it without going into all the
details of it, but it's definitely show worthy and talking
about because actually, I'm one of eight women, and so
if I have a platform or something to say about it,
it's definitely something that needs to be known. And it's common.
It's common, it's common and so and it's super scary.
But yeah, so thanks for.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Letting me talk about it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And something you just said reminded so years ago they
thought I might have a varying cancer, right, Fortunately I
did not, thank God. But but you're right when they
first tell you that, yeah, you've kind of body and
your life happening to me.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And you hear nothing once they tell you or they
say something to you.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And even though these physicians.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Say it to people every day, once they say it
to you, you're like, I can't hear anything that you're
saying because all the wave, if you know, whether you're
a mom or not, or you have things going on
in your life, it just comes over you like, how
am I how am.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I going to manage this?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So anyway, I'm incredibly blessed have friends and family that
is above and beyond, and I would wish that what
I have going on in my life to anybody, you know,
and especially my daughter who came home and took you know,
without it, didn't skip a beat about Yeah, I'm going
to be there and no matter what not, I have
(05:18):
a life. I can't do it, just not even didn't
even skip a beat. And we're tight people.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We're tight and the good and all your friends, because
that's what the Mom's Club is all about. Are we
are good friends that we're there for you? Yeah, you are, And.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yes I'm the friend you want to have. I will
drive you to the er and I'll take you to
the airport.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What more, what more would you want?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And she drives me around Los Angeles with I have
my eyes closed and awful, you guys, I'm the worst
passenger in a stressful situation, like truly, Yeah, I know,
we've got to get over those four lanes and she's like,
I got it, and so then I closed my eyes,
embraced myself and we so we're here now. Nothing nothing
(06:02):
bad exactly, Well, you had a difficult January and February.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You are not the only one, and so today we're
going to share a different story. Our guest today has
been with us before. The Last time she was here,
she was here with her mom talking about their amazing
or as we say in the Mom's called amazing careers.
She is a rising recording artist, singer, and violinist who
has made a significant impact on the music scene. By
(06:31):
the time she was eighteen, she'd already performed at Lincoln
Center and had a song on a Grammy Awarding Award
winning album. She is truly amazing, and she is here
to share her story with us about her family's experience
with the Palisades fire. Sadly they lost their home and
we'll hear more about it. Please welcome is sold a
(06:52):
fair back to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Hello are you guys?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Thank you for having me?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Are good?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So so Julius told her story. She had a little difficult,
A little difficult. She had a difficult but you're you
know you can relate.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Sorry, very okay, I'm so sorry with what you had
to go through. You know, it's but the fact that
you're a survivor, and the fact that you're fighting is
something that I feel like I can relate to, and
it's amazing that you're still fighting, because truly, I feel like,
as women and as people, we are at a point
(07:31):
in our life when we're when we're figuring out and
learning how to be braver and to be able to
be more of ourselves than like be okay with that
and be able to I think, what's the word, like
be able to like fend for ourselves and be able
to be there and be strong and not to back down.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know, well, you both are a good example of that.
So let's let's start.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, you're it's it takes a little time.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Let's easy for me to say on the one the
middle that doesn't have a story to tell, Oh, that's
not true.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's True's so not true.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I mean, you're here, I forget us. That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So take us back before we talk about the other
side of it. Take us back to that day. So
what exactly was your experience?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh, good lord, I was sick with the flu. I
was sick with the flu. I think until or I
got the flu. I think it was a couple of
days beforehand, you know, it was just kind of going
around at the time. Yeah, you know, you don't really know,
you know, what to expect. That it comes every year,
it comes every winter, and I'm the type of person
(08:45):
that only gets sick probably around like once or twice
a year. And for all the moms out there, my
mom got me hooked on cod liver oil from Air One.
I will say, since I was three years old, I
have been taking it NonStop. I only get sick like
once or twice a year, so it's very good for
your body and your immune system. And I was kind of,
(09:09):
i would say, like loosening myself up, and I wasn't
really taking the cod liver as I should be. You know.
I was rushing everywhere doing jobs, doing things that I'm like, oh,
work is so important, you know, and I really wanted
to maintain more of my health. But I just kind
of had like a little downfall and I was like, okay,
I had the flu. The worst that could happen is
(09:30):
that I just like sit in my room all day
and either record songs or sleep. You know. I was
getting some rest and it was a beautiful morning. Yeah,
just start the days started off so beautiful and I
love I mean, this is like a biased opinion, but
I love the Santa Ana Wins. I always have never
had a problem with them. I just thought they were
(09:52):
so beautiful, even though they can be a complete destriction
as we all know.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now, you know, see them being calming and something, yeah,
is bringing, you know, something more spiritual.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Than absolutely and it's there's something about the one that's
so beautiful, and so I think, like it blusters and
it's just a nice breeze and your hair and and
you know, a nice feeling on your body and you know,
with the sun, and it's just especially in California. I mean,
that's why we all live here, right, you know, that's
why so many people live here. As they come for
(10:23):
the ocean, they come for the beach, they come for
the sunny days, because it's practically spring every season of
the year. So the morning just started off so beautiful,
and I was at a moment where I was just like,
I was still really sick, but again I was like,
I'm just gonna, like, you know, put put up the
blinds and I'm just gonna enjoy the weather and love
(10:44):
living in the Palisades, you know, because I did love
living in that area. So I was staying at my
parents' house and my mom comes in and she's like, oh,
there's a fire in the Highlands, and okay, so on
Jane way. First, there was a bunch of different parties happening,
you know, for New Year's and so my cousin and
(11:07):
I got back home around like maybe four am, and
so it was a party for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I went to a couple of them.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And he was staying over at my place because he
lived super far, you know, in a different area, and
so he's kind of like my older brother, except I
bost him around like a little sister and I'm like,
go sit over there, like that's where you're sleeping. You're
sleeping on the couch. And he's like, can I have
a pillow? And I'm like I'll throw it from the
other room, you know. And I was like, I'm tired.
I don't want to wake anybody up. And that morning,
(11:40):
like we had a really nice morning and I'm you know,
I told my mom, I was like, I'm sorry if
we like woke you up or anything, and she's like, no,
you didn't. Actually I was already awake.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
There was a fire in the Highlands on January first,
early that morning, around like four am. And that morning,
when I was with my cousin before we went into
the house, we saw all these helicopters kind of surrounding
the violence area and we're like, okay, like the firefighters
are going to take it out. It's gonna be fine.
And they did like they always do, and like, I'm
so grateful for them, but with this fire, yeah, there,
(12:14):
that's not first.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And they thought later that there were people shooting off
fireworks for the New Year, Is that right?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, So there was kids that were shooting off fireworks,
and I think that the fire did not get completely maintained,
and so there was embers that were lying around. And
so when the wind picked up on this seventh or
it was like the sixth or the seventh, that part
of the Highlands started.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
To reignited the fire and the sant Ana winds like
drove it over towards the palisades. So how long between
the time your mom said that and then did she
say we need to evacuate or when you're here, you're sick.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So so we had gone through a couple of evacuations before,
and this was not the first you know, and the
Highlens has always had some sort of fire every now
and then, whether it was like an artisan meaning like
somebody who was like igniting a fire because they wanted
to or for some stupid reason, or you know, maybe
(13:17):
like a spark happens between a power line and a brush,
or who knows. You know, there's so many things that
could happen.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
For someone's from California. If you have a go bag,
do you have like how does this work?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So setting this scene? So you're sick, you don't feel well,
and what did you take? Like how did you decide?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
God?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
So typically, on every evacuation that I you know, was
a part of then the times that I've lived in
the Palisades, I always took my most expensive clothing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's hurt, it's art.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
It's art my mom. It is a muss my mom made.
She she had this Versace jumpsuit. Oh, it was so
beautiful and it was from the nineties, and so as
a kid, she always just like she's like it was
one thousand dollars back then, and I bet it's going
to be like more now. And and it was something
that also like the piece itself is literal art. It
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had like Mozart on It had all these different composers,
and it had like music notes and like violins, and
I loved it. I would be very it was very cool.
And I was like, oh, I took it. I took it.
That was one of the first things. So I took
it because it just meant so much to me. Yeah,
you know, And I was super sick and I didn't
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have like any fluids or any food in my body.
So I was just like so out of it, and
my mind was just like what am I doing? So
I went through my closet and I was like, what's replaceable.
I was like, that's replaceable. That's replaceable. Oh, that could
be replaced. Oh I don't think I'll need that. You know.
There's a bunch of things.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That their animals involved.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Oh yes, my dog Dmitri Shostakovich.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, I'm sorry, can you say this one more?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Test you Always in my family, it's a tradition to
name a dog after a classical composer of no why not?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
You know?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
So his name is Dimitri Shostakovich. I call him Shosty
for shorts or d me. It's a little you know,
cute name. He We definitely took him, of course, you know,
so obviously your pet.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Or whole different story.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Don't don't leave your animals.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You guys told you you took your birth certificate, which
you learned, or you took some documents you didn't need
to take right because you could have gotten them later.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I took actually I did not take any documentary, oh okay,
which was actually totally fine because the government said it's
all free, and I was like, great, thanks, yeah, like
let's go government, you know. But I took my grammys.
I thank god, thank god.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did your mom she had great too, so she didn't
take her grands she did not.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
I don't know whyt Oh, they're replaceable for sure, and
I think a majority of the things that are in
somebody's house are so replaceable. Besides, i'd say grandma's jewelry,
which these are these rings right here, which like they
are my grandma's and they were all in the safety
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deposit box that burned in the fire. But it burned around,
it burned around, So think the Lord that our safe
box was good. But you know, I think the thing
was was that like still, I mean, you know, I
this was one of the only pieces. Everything else on
my body right now is donated, sure, you know, but
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this cross was something that I took. My mom gave
me a Tiffany necklace for graduation, so I took that
because it just was meaningful to sentimental, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So you have all these possessions, and I think that
you know, you think about possessions for what they are, right,
not the most important thing. So you're Monica and I
have kids in our twenties, and you know, we what
is it like for you as a young person?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What does this teach you? How do you start over?
What is the lesson in it?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well? I think for me because I was born and
raised in that same house that I grew up in
in the Palisades, for me, it's more of a new start,
So it seems more I think positive because I think
there's so much positivity and even in such a destructive
and chaotic time, you know, I think you learn from
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the lessons of being a young kid. And in a way,
the fire is like a sense of relief. It's like
it kind of washes everything off of you and like
you become a new person. It's like the phoenix literally
rising from the action. Sorry Ashes, Yeah, no pun intended.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So do you your parents, how did they view it,
because they're older and those were decades of their possessions,
and how did they feel about.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I think in that situation, it's a little different because
for me, it's something where it's more like more of
an adventure and more of something where I'm like, oh, okay,
I'm going to be okay being able to grow up now,
Like I yes, I hope that my childhood home was restored.
I'm not going to live there again, though, you know,
I'll visit my parents if they move back there. But
(18:32):
you know, I'm now an adult. I'm twenty one years old.
You know, I'm starting to figure out my living situation
and live on my own.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
With my parents, it's a place where they literally got
that house from nothing, you know, like they grew up.
They grew up in two different types of households. You know.
My dad grew up with like two brothers and he
was the oldest, and he lived in Seattle and he
came down to be in the music industry. And my
(19:02):
mom her mother and dad or father. Her mom was
a actress at one point and then decided to become
a holistic healer and chiropractor and doctor. And then my
grandpa on my mom's side, he was an alternative. He
was like an alternative blah, oh my god, the an
(19:23):
alternative energy. And he was also in like finance, you know.
And so he grew up. He grew up from nothing
to He was an immigrant from Italy and so his
parents his mom died young. His father was very abusive,
and so he grew up with a sister who actually
worked at Hannah Barbera as like a cell drawer, the Flintstones,
(19:47):
and she's so cool, like the most Italian woman you'll
ever meet. And he decided to move to Baja California
and really start to start his life again because in
the nineteen oh six earthquake, he was like one years old,
but his parents lost everything in San Francisco and so
there was a.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There's so they had some knowledge of what it's like
to lose things like that at their age. So where
we have zoomer moms who have lots.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Of questions, but amazing before we.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Get to them really quick, you told me too that
you learned a lot like there are resources like you
can mention your clothes you're wearing our donated so you
learned you had nothing, had nothing, and how do you
go about accessing those resources?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Are their own groups that.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Help you automatically jump in there and say, you know, yes,
some help or or we'll help you, or do you
have to seek them out.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
There's so many different foundations and so many different corporations
that are so amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Can give us one that you really stuck out to you.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh, there was this one. I'm trying to remember what
it was. I think it was called either a List Hollywood,
which was really really lovely group of women in.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
The industry and everything.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
J Lo donated some clothing. I got a pair of
Versace heels. Her I was like, she had a lot
of Louis Bauton or lou Baton heels and.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Happen it's good yeah to her size literally literally.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
There was a bunch of different clothing that were donated
through different people in the industry, which was so lovely
because I think the community itself, it's so strong, and
that's what I learned throughout this whole situation, and I'd
say that was one. I think that's what it's called.
I think it's called a Hollywood you know, that's one,
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and then I love there's this one called Frankie's Bikinis,
which was really cute, and they had a bunch of
like swimwear stuff and very high end, very nice, and
they you could pick like three different outfits and three
different things, and it was like by appointment only to
rag and Bone did one as well, okay for jeans,
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which was lovely. And then there was one at this
like an editorial house like in the like the parking
lot that a good friend of mine told me about
and he also like lost his place in the fire,
and so he told me about it, and he told
me to go there, and everybody there was so lovely
as well, and so I don't know, I think also
(22:28):
being able, like a bunch of my childhood friends also
lost their place, so like we're all kind of in
the same boat. But I think being able to have
a strong community and like be there for one another.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So that's that's at the Mom's Club that we have
by our zoomer moms, because I'm sure they have a
lot of questions. So welcome zoomer moms. Welcome to the
Mom's Club. Well, let's start with Annie tell us a
little bit about where you're from, and do you have
any children? And do you have a question for a
(23:00):
soul day?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I do, I do, and I do.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
So.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
I am a mom of two boys, one of which
is the younger. He's twenty six, and I guess we
have a little bit in common in that I was
his manager for a time when he was growing up.
He's a guitar player. He's in a band in Chicago
(23:27):
and it's called the Untold And it's leading to my
question for her. They have reported some really good music
in the last year that has to do with mental
health issues, which is a huge topic front now for
lots of reasons.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
But I guess where I want to go with her
is today.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
From what I'm seeing, she seems to be in a
good play. I try to, But what I want to
know is how did you get there?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Like, you know, did you.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Go somewhere or even your parents for you know, counseling,
or did you all join a group a support group,
because you do seem to be I guess resolved not
be a good word with you. Said, you know you
had that loss, now, but how did you get to
(24:19):
that place? Because it had to be devastating for at
least a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Good question, A great question.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I think that's an amazing question and something that I
actually want to actually talk about with you guys. I
think mental health is so huge. My mental health was
never this good. Ever. I think that if my younger
self would have saw me, she would have been so
so proud. And I think that as a kid there.
(24:51):
I was actually just talking about this with a friend
of mine in the car the other day, and I
think there's so many different things that you know, you
you surround yourself with different people in your environment. I mean,
there was a time where I want to be so honest,
I was suicidal when I was sixteen years old, and
it was something where I was at a really dark
(25:12):
place in my life and it was difficult to be
able to want to live on planet Earth. And that
was at a time where I was trying to figure
out myself because I either by teachers that I had
in my life, told that I was not good enough,
that I'd become a failure. And this is by people
that I cared about in my life, not my parents.
(25:34):
My parents were definitely there for me, but I think
they were always trying to be strong for me and
so I wanted to be strong for myself so I
could be strong for others. And I took mental health
into my own hands when I knew I was going downhill.
There was a couple other situations that I feel are
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super important to talk about. I got interrogated by the
police when I was sixteen years old and they handcuffed
my hands behind a chair in somebody's office without my
parents knowing about it. And I was at a camp
in Michigan, and that scared the living daylights out of me,
and I didn't know who to talk to try. I
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felt like I lost a lot of trust in humankind,
and then I started to regain it after I started
to love myself again. And I was always like wanting
to be there for myself. I always wanted to love myself,
and I think everybody should. Everybody should love their self,
you know, fully to love somebody else. And so I
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really took mental health seriously because I was an absolute toll.
And so I decided that I was going to go
to counseling. It was super expensive. I had a family
friend who was a psychologist and she helped me, and
she saved my life multiple times. When I was sixteen
and I am now free of that.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I speak fly about it and I think that really help.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah, for sure, So I I took better help. I mean,
I don't know if this should be a sponsor had
for better help, better help sponsor me?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The best endorsement is one for the genuine.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Why people know about it, if it really helped, it
really helped it.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Really mean did I had this amazing counselor and she
one counselor. Yes, and she like was so amazing and
I had her in my life. But I also like
when I was doing classical music because I was classically
trained and violin for seventeen years and now I'm a
pop singer. So definitely a change, you know. But I
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the thing is is that like I had a teacher,
a violent teer, I had a couple of violent teachers
that were very different from one another. The first one
was not my favorite and I and I wish her
the best, I really do, you know. I think she
helped me and she hurt me the very same time.
And she was the one that was telling me I
wasn't good enough and You'll never be good enough to
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be playing this orchestra. Because you never do this, and
I think critigue is such a toxic thing to do.
I mean, critique is great, but in a healthy way
it should be maintained. But it was very toxic for
a very long time, for about like maybe ten years,
and so I told myself, I'm like, I'm not going
to go through that. And then I went through another
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teacher who was lovely, but it was hard for me
to open up. Yeah, even with playing already been shut down.
You've already been shut down, yes, exactly. And so she
was lovely, but she decided to go another path with
profession and she went to become an incredible teacher at
UVEM at the University of Michigan.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
So what I'm hearing too, it's like, if you look
at that experience, which was pretty devastating at the time,
and you you got counseling, you dealt with it. If
someone were to tell people a scenario and say, what
would be worse just having a really rough we can
even call it abusive at times situation as a child
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or having your house burned down, most people would think
the thing that would make you come out the other
side not as together and saying I'm feeling better than
I ever felt before would be the house burning down.
So yeah, so you are really a testimony to the
good counseling you did get.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Thank you. I yeah, well yeah, going, going more on
that topic is even the people around you are the
most influential in your life, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So have your parents been They've been positive for you,
they've had a good attitude and been positive, or.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
They've had mixed mixed attitudes. But that is so okay
because they've been going, they've been.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They've been through well, let me not miss our other
Zoomer moms here.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So that's okay.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
So it's such a good question.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yes, it was excellent question. Thank you, Annie. Billy Ray.
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Please tell us your name,
where you're from, and do you have a question for
the Soul Day.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Yeah, hi everybody, Billy Ray here. I am actually a
new mom. I have a five month old daughter.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
That's amazing.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
On on a learning journey for sure.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
But yeah, it's been great and thank you for sharing
your story.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
It's it's it's really nice to hear the sort.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Of human side of a lot of the natural disasters
that our country is facing.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Actually work in the clean energy industry, and.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I think a lot about resilience for our buildings and
other sort of physical spaces.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
But kind of similar to Anny's question, I'm wondering what kind.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Of skills or you know, sort of foundational efforts you've
made to become more.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Resilient in the face of disaster. And it sounds like
you have a few different examples of that. So just
love to hear your thoughts on that.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well, what makes you resilient, babe girl?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
So many things? I think what makes me resilient? That wow,
that truly, that's an amazing question. And I love your name,
by the way, beautiful name. I think what makes me
resilient is the fact that even through all these different hardships,
I still had faith in humanity and I still love.
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I love people. I love people, I love being around people.
I'm a people person. I will never not be even
when Chico is crazy, I will never not be. I
love people because I think I just see the good
in them good and I always try to even at
the worst. And I think that was one thing that
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makes me resilient. But also I think when you learn
how to be there for yourself through all these different circumstances,
whether it's it being you know, emotional abuse, or whether
it being your house burning down, or whether it be
something crazy happening, or or you like or you're yeah,
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exactly like all these different things happening in life. I
think the things that make you resilient are your mindset,
you know, the mindset that you carry within yourself. I
think affirmation. I go by affirmations all the time. I
think I listen on my headset. I was coming here
in an uber listening to affirmations and Tate McCray.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So, but does it help to to be to be
prepared like a lot of people not to be going
the Scouting program necessarily, but where at a place goes
to like what Billy Ray does for her career. You know,
like if I had to evacuate my house, I might
not know where to go if I had nowhere to live,
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or the power went out, which should happen one time,
and I did not handle that very well because you know,
it's not that kind of person.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
But that's what's bad, like I could starve to death.
Does it help to do you feel literally another show?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
But I mean, do you feel now like, Okay, if
something happened, that's I'm prepared to deal with anything.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Like I've got myself.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I didn't get in a bad situation like starving to death.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I knew what to do.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You also feel like you know you're all because there's
a lot of internal things you're talking about, which are awesome,
thank you, but yes, but if you're starving because you're
no power, I do. I recommend people prepare themselves for
what could happen, because there's plenty of things that could
happen these days, with you know, climate change and everything.
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They were losing worse storms that the people are finding
themselves in a similar situation, and some of them were
truly homeless. I mean we're in shelter or living in
their car or what. So did you find yourself did
you or do you feel now more prepared to deal
with if the worst thing, yeah, happened, you're ready because
you've been through it and you're yeah, you got it.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I do. I honestly feel that the community is so
important now because that was the only reason how my
family and I got house.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
And where are you living.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We're in Plia del Rey, which is near Marina. It's
this cute little area. It's like a beach town.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And are you renting or friends or how does.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
This friends renting situation? But it's really lovely because we're
super grateful for them and they're they're close friends. And
you know, right as we were, we were like at
our you know, trying to put some stuff away in
a different place right after the fires, and we were
checking on the house because we had a ring camera
and so we were just at this one little place
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and we were just watching our house burn down to
the ground, and we had so many people reaching out
and so lovely, and honestly, I'm just so blessed and
so grateful for everybody that's either reached out or has
been in my life or has sent me prayers or
has you know, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's really the support, so I should not fear starving
to death. Jeanne Video, jan Welcome to the Mom's Club.
Tell us your name and where you're from, and a
little bit about yourself and do you have a question
for a soul Day.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
Yeah, I'm Janis Corcamis and I live in Dallas, Texas.
I'm a kundry Western singer and my business was limousine
service for many years. But I have an adult child
that I take care of that lives with me on
the spectrum. So my question is to you is what
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kind of advice would you give to young people in
this time of tragedy?
Speaker 8 (35:57):
And also did you write a song about it?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Did I write a song about it? By the way,
I love that you are a country singer, and I
love that you have a limousine business that is so badass,
so cool. I did write a song about it. I
have not released it yet, but it's called Hometown and yeah, absolutely,
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let me get my the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Well, we don't. We only have time for a few.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
It'll be like I just.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Need to when she.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Has a beautiful voice and if you haven't, you you've
seen her songs in her you are amazing. It's all so.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Evy winner, who's blessing?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
I mean, come on, thank you a couple of chords
for us to kind of I think that's an amazing
way to.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Take this out.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, okay, because your art, I think is getting you through.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
To thank you. I agree. I think art is the
most and one of the most important things that I
think for me has distracted me in such an amazing
way during this time, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Really hyper focus.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, it give us something.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Okay, So this is the chorus. It's my home town.
Speaker 11 (37:15):
Leaves and the trees are burn now, tanglement, knees and
thrown down, had women nails, they'll pull pull pullsh it.
It's my home town. Disguise in the views are gray now,
smoke and ash lefts the grave town, tombstones of houses.
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They're called cold Heaven now became the cold cold Heaven
now became.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yes, thank you, wow.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yes, a little step.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yes, I'm gonna have to go get my makeup redne wow.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Amazing of course any time.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, okay, we're looking forward to that being released soon.
Review of it, So, where can everyone find you on
social media?
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And social media is at is old a Fair with
another r so I s O l D E F
A I R R. And that's for Instagram TikTok, and
then for YouTube it's just is ol day Fair with
not a double R so I s O L D
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E F A I R.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Well, thank you on Spotify too, oh.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yeah, well, thank you check her out. She is amazing.
As we stay here on the moms, thank you and
thank you for sharing your story because I think a
lot of people needed to hear that they've heard of
what happened, but they don't really understand how it affected
the people who lived here in other parts of the
country that had similar things happened. So thank you so much.
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to thank you. They all have amazing questions and we've
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I finally also want to thank and we listen to
this closely because it's important to all of you moms
out there. We want to thank the Beaman Hotel who
recently has been sponsoring great events for moms in the
Dallas area where women could come together and meet each
other and the local people have contributed prizes, so there's
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women that get there and they get it a special gift.
We couldn't have done it without the Beaman Hotel and
some amazing people that have done that. But also we're
going to do this all over the country, So we
are doing it in Dallas, but we're going to do
it everywhere so moms can come together and get to
know each other and find out and discover if they
too want to be a zoomer mom and be on
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our show. If you're interested in being a zoomer mom,
check out our website inside the Mom's Club dot com
and there's a tab on there where you can sign
up that's great to be a zoomer mom, and we'll
have you on this show as well.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Julie again, welcome back, Thank you, you're back in the group.
What are you going to tell all your friends to
be zoomer moms?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Okay, good. I mean I was going to say, we're
gonna have to We're gonna have to let you go
as a co host. If you're not going now, we
get you back to work. Now You're now you're always
on it, always on it. Julie is going to do
that Julie is going to do that. And all you
moms out there, even if you're kind of like shying,
like I don't know that I want to be a
zoomer mom.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
I bet you know.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
I bet all of you know at least three of
your friends you'd make amazing zoomer moms.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
They'd be I mean, every friend loves to chat be
zoomer mom. It's super cool.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
You learn something, put your chattiest friends who you think
are smart and can ask good questions and tell them
to be zoomer moms exactly.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Anyway, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
It has been, It's been great and so like time flies,
and it certainly has today as always.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
For sure, but when we have young people are wiser and.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That's always yes, that's always amazing. Well, we will be
back next time with its celebrities and extraordinary moms like
you in listening audience. We know that your meantime is
precious and valuable. Thank you for spending it with us.
We will see you next time inside the Mom's Club
Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
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inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom.
Welcome Mom's Welcome to inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and I am thrilled to have with me
today my co host, Julie Orchid. Welcome back, Julie.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm bringing from here to hear.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am so thrilled to have Julie back. Now we
had last time I was here, we had a couple
of substitute hosts co host and well one of them
my sisters. I think she wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The host, but that's a whole other story.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
But they filled in beautifully. Her daughter Georgia was another one.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yea special thank you for having her.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Have you back? Can you share with our audience why
you were here?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, I took a little break.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've got one of those fancy stories that I got
diagnosed with breast cancer, and I am so beyond thrilled
and feel a ton of gratitude to be back today
and back on track and super scary, but I was
able to come back, and you know, be stronger and
(01:46):
better before, and don't skip your mamacrams.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That would be my first advice to everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So I'm doing very well and I'm truly over the
moon to be here today.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So well, we're over the moon that you are here.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, you're very excited, and it's hard to get rid
of me.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's so hard. Happened, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah,
I guess you're here permanently.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There, I guess.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I hope, so, I hope so yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So you and as far as I mean breast cancer,
people get all different concepts. But my aunt was diagnosed
with breast cancer many years ago. She she had the surgery,
she had the five years of the drug to moxifin,
and she's eighty seven now, and you know, that's sort
of a memory of hers, that she had breast cancer.
So these days that's not like in the old days.
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I guess people took it.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
As yeah, yeah, this is over, you're done. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I think the most part for getting a diagnosis of
that is that we've come so far and you can
really have You have your before cancer and then you
have after cancer, and so what happens in between is
really something that you know can you can fare well
from this type of thing. So but for the most part,
I just really like seeing that diagnosis on a piece
(03:02):
of paper. You think it's someone else, you don't think
it's you, and you have to really process that and
go through you know what life is going to look like. So, yes,
your aunt eighty seven, and I'm not going to give
my age, but.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Not eighty seven if.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You aspired to eighty seven decades.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
From you anyway, I think for the most part this
is inside the mom's club.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And for the most.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Part, for me, I always knew that I could handle
anything that came my way. But I have children and
two daughters, and I'm gonna try not try because my
daughter's here today. But for the most part, I would
never want to leave them, and that would be that's
the hard part. So that was the hard part for me.
But I'm a fighter and I'm here. I'm ready to roll.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Well, good, we're ready. We're ready to roll with you
for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So thanks for asking. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, I'm just happy. I'm thrilled your back. Yeah, and
I think you're story is important.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, there's a lot to it.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
There's a lot to it without going into all the
details of it, but it's definitely show worthy and talking
about because actually, I'm one of eight women, and so
if I have a platform or something to say about it,
it's definitely something that needs to be known. And it's common.
It's common, it's common and so and it's super scary.
But yeah, so thanks for.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Letting me talk about it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And something you just said reminded so years ago they
thought I might have a varying cancer, right, Fortunately I
did not, thank God. But but you're right when they
first tell you that, yeah, you've kind of body and
your life happening to me.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And you hear nothing once they tell you or they
say something to you.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And even though these physicians.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Say it to people every day, once they say it
to you, you're like, I can't hear anything that you're
saying because all the wave, if you know, whether you're
a mom or not, or you have things going on
in your life, it just comes over you like, how
am I how am.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I going to manage this?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So anyway, I'm incredibly blessed have friends and family that
is above and beyond, and I would wish that what
I have going on in my life to anybody, you know,
and especially my daughter who came home and took you know,
without it, didn't skip a beat about Yeah, I'm going
to be there and no matter what not, I have
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a life. I can't do it, just not even didn't
even skip a beat. And we're tight people.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We're tight and the good and all your friends, because
that's what the Mom's Club is all about. Are we
are good friends that we're there for you? Yeah, you are, And.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yes I'm the friend you want to have. I will
drive you to the er and I'll take you to
the airport.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What more, what more would you want?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And she drives me around Los Angeles with I have
my eyes closed and awful, you guys, I'm the worst
passenger in a stressful situation, like truly, Yeah, I know,
we've got to get over those four lanes and she's like,
I got it, and so then I closed my eyes,
embraced myself and we so we're here now. Nothing nothing
(06:02):
bad exactly, Well, you had a difficult January and February.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You are not the only one, and so today we're
going to share a different story. Our guest today has
been with us before. The Last time she was here,
she was here with her mom talking about their amazing
or as we say in the Mom's called amazing careers.
She is a rising recording artist, singer, and violinist who
has made a significant impact on the music scene. By
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the time she was eighteen, she'd already performed at Lincoln
Center and had a song on a Grammy Awarding Award
winning album. She is truly amazing, and she is here
to share her story with us about her family's experience
with the Palisades fire. Sadly they lost their home and
we'll hear more about it. Please welcome is sold a
(06:52):
fair back to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Hello are you guys?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Thank you for having me?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Are good?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So so Julius told her story. She had a little difficult,
A little difficult. She had a difficult but you're you
know you can relate.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Sorry, very okay, I'm so sorry with what you had
to go through. You know, it's but the fact that
you're a survivor, and the fact that you're fighting is
something that I feel like I can relate to, and
it's amazing that you're still fighting, because truly, I feel like,
as women and as people, we are at a point
(07:31):
in our life when we're when we're figuring out and
learning how to be braver and to be able to
be more of ourselves than like be okay with that
and be able to I think, what's the word, like
be able to like fend for ourselves and be able
to be there and be strong and not to back down.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know, well, you both are a good example of that.
So let's let's start.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, you're it's it takes a little time.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Let's easy for me to say on the one the
middle that doesn't have a story to tell, Oh, that's
not true.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's True's so not true.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I mean, you're here, I forget us. That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So take us back before we talk about the other
side of it. Take us back to that day. So
what exactly was your experience?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh, good lord, I was sick with the flu. I
was sick with the flu. I think until or I
got the flu. I think it was a couple of
days beforehand, you know, it was just kind of going
around at the time. Yeah, you know, you don't really know,
you know, what to expect. That it comes every year,
it comes every winter, and I'm the type of person
(08:45):
that only gets sick probably around like once or twice
a year. And for all the moms out there, my
mom got me hooked on cod liver oil from Air One.
I will say, since I was three years old, I
have been taking it NonStop. I only get sick like
once or twice a year, so it's very good for
your body and your immune system. And I was kind of,
(09:09):
i would say, like loosening myself up, and I wasn't
really taking the cod liver as I should be. You know.
I was rushing everywhere doing jobs, doing things that I'm like, oh,
work is so important, you know, and I really wanted
to maintain more of my health. But I just kind
of had like a little downfall and I was like, okay,
I had the flu. The worst that could happen is
(09:30):
that I just like sit in my room all day
and either record songs or sleep. You know. I was
getting some rest and it was a beautiful morning. Yeah,
just start the days started off so beautiful and I
love I mean, this is like a biased opinion, but
I love the Santa Ana Wins. I always have never
had a problem with them. I just thought they were
(09:52):
so beautiful, even though they can be a complete destriction
as we all know.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now, you know, see them being calming and something, yeah,
is bringing, you know, something more spiritual.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Than absolutely and it's there's something about the one that's
so beautiful, and so I think, like it blusters and
it's just a nice breeze and your hair and and
you know, a nice feeling on your body and you know,
with the sun, and it's just especially in California. I mean,
that's why we all live here, right, you know, that's
why so many people live here. As they come for
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the ocean, they come for the beach, they come for
the sunny days, because it's practically spring every season of
the year. So the morning just started off so beautiful,
and I was at a moment where I was just like,
I was still really sick, but again I was like,
I'm just gonna, like, you know, put put up the
blinds and I'm just gonna enjoy the weather and love
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living in the Palisades, you know, because I did love
living in that area. So I was staying at my
parents' house and my mom comes in and she's like, oh,
there's a fire in the Highlands, and okay, so on
Jane way. First, there was a bunch of different parties happening,
you know, for New Year's and so my cousin and
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I got back home around like maybe four am, and
so it was a party for sure.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I went to a couple of them.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And he was staying over at my place because he
lived super far, you know, in a different area, and
so he's kind of like my older brother, except I
bost him around like a little sister and I'm like,
go sit over there, like that's where you're sleeping. You're
sleeping on the couch. And he's like, can I have
a pillow? And I'm like I'll throw it from the
other room, you know. And I was like, I'm tired.
I don't want to wake anybody up. And that morning,
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like we had a really nice morning and I'm you know,
I told my mom, I was like, I'm sorry if
we like woke you up or anything, and she's like, no,
you didn't. Actually I was already awake.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
There was a fire in the Highlands on January first,
early that morning, around like four am. And that morning,
when I was with my cousin before we went into
the house, we saw all these helicopters kind of surrounding
the violence area and we're like, okay, like the firefighters
are going to take it out. It's gonna be fine.
And they did like they always do, and like, I'm
so grateful for them, but with this fire, yeah, there,
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that's not first.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And they thought later that there were people shooting off
fireworks for the New Year, Is that right?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, So there was kids that were shooting off fireworks,
and I think that the fire did not get completely maintained,
and so there was embers that were lying around. And
so when the wind picked up on this seventh or
it was like the sixth or the seventh, that part
of the Highlands started.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
To reignited the fire and the sant Ana winds like
drove it over towards the palisades. So how long between
the time your mom said that and then did she
say we need to evacuate or when you're here, you're sick.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So so we had gone through a couple of evacuations before,
and this was not the first you know, and the
Highlens has always had some sort of fire every now
and then, whether it was like an artisan meaning like
somebody who was like igniting a fire because they wanted
to or for some stupid reason, or you know, maybe
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like a spark happens between a power line and a brush,
or who knows. You know, there's so many things that
could happen.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
For someone's from California. If you have a go bag,
do you have like how does this work?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So setting this scene? So you're sick, you don't feel well,
and what did you take? Like how did you decide?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
God?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
So typically, on every evacuation that I you know, was
a part of then the times that I've lived in
the Palisades, I always took my most expensive clothing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's hurt, it's art.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
It's art my mom. It is a muss my mom made.
She she had this Versace jumpsuit. Oh, it was so
beautiful and it was from the nineties, and so as
a kid, she always just like she's like it was
one thousand dollars back then, and I bet it's going
to be like more now. And and it was something
that also like the piece itself is literal art. It
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had like Mozart on It had all these different composers,
and it had like music notes and like violins, and
I loved it. I would be very it was very cool.
And I was like, oh, I took it. I took it.
That was one of the first things. So I took
it because it just meant so much to me. Yeah,
you know, And I was super sick and I didn't
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have like any fluids or any food in my body.
So I was just like so out of it, and
my mind was just like what am I doing? So
I went through my closet and I was like, what's replaceable.
I was like, that's replaceable. That's replaceable. Oh, that could
be replaced. Oh I don't think I'll need that. You know.
There's a bunch of things.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That their animals involved.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Oh yes, my dog Dmitri Shostakovich.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, I'm sorry, can you say this one more?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Test you Always in my family, it's a tradition to
name a dog after a classical composer of no why not?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
You know?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
So his name is Dimitri Shostakovich. I call him Shosty
for shorts or d me. It's a little you know,
cute name. He We definitely took him, of course, you know,
so obviously your pet.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Or whole different story.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Don't don't leave your animals.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You guys told you you took your birth certificate, which
you learned, or you took some documents you didn't need
to take right because you could have gotten them later.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I took actually I did not take any documentary, oh okay,
which was actually totally fine because the government said it's
all free, and I was like, great, thanks, yeah, like
let's go government, you know. But I took my grammys.
I thank god, thank god.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did your mom she had great too, so she didn't
take her grands she did not.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
I don't know whyt Oh, they're replaceable for sure, and
I think a majority of the things that are in
somebody's house are so replaceable. Besides, i'd say grandma's jewelry,
which these are these rings right here, which like they
are my grandma's and they were all in the safety
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deposit box that burned in the fire. But it burned around,
it burned around, So think the Lord that our safe
box was good. But you know, I think the thing
was was that like still, I mean, you know, I
this was one of the only pieces. Everything else on
my body right now is donated, sure, you know, but
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this cross was something that I took. My mom gave
me a Tiffany necklace for graduation, so I took that
because it just was meaningful to sentimental, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
So you have all these possessions, and I think that
you know, you think about possessions for what they are, right,
not the most important thing. So you're Monica and I
have kids in our twenties, and you know, we what
is it like for you as a young person?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What does this teach you? How do you start over?
What is the lesson in it?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Well? I think for me because I was born and
raised in that same house that I grew up in
in the Palisades, for me, it's more of a new start,
So it seems more I think positive because I think
there's so much positivity and even in such a destructive
and chaotic time, you know, I think you learn from
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the lessons of being a young kid. And in a way,
the fire is like a sense of relief. It's like
it kind of washes everything off of you and like
you become a new person. It's like the phoenix literally
rising from the action. Sorry Ashes, Yeah, no pun intended.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
So do you your parents, how did they view it,
because they're older and those were decades of their possessions,
and how did they feel about.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I think in that situation, it's a little different because
for me, it's something where it's more like more of
an adventure and more of something where I'm like, oh, okay,
I'm going to be okay being able to grow up now,
Like I yes, I hope that my childhood home was restored.
I'm not going to live there again, though, you know,
I'll visit my parents if they move back there. But
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you know, I'm now an adult. I'm twenty one years old.
You know, I'm starting to figure out my living situation
and live on my own.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
With my parents, it's a place where they literally got
that house from nothing, you know, like they grew up.
They grew up in two different types of households. You know.
My dad grew up with like two brothers and he
was the oldest, and he lived in Seattle and he
came down to be in the music industry. And my
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mom her mother and dad or father. Her mom was
a actress at one point and then decided to become
a holistic healer and chiropractor and doctor. And then my
grandpa on my mom's side, he was an alternative. He
was like an alternative blah, oh my god, the an
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alternative energy. And he was also in like finance, you know.
And so he grew up. He grew up from nothing
to He was an immigrant from Italy and so his
parents his mom died young. His father was very abusive,
and so he grew up with a sister who actually
worked at Hannah Barbera as like a cell drawer, the Flintstones,
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and she's so cool, like the most Italian woman you'll
ever meet. And he decided to move to Baja California
and really start to start his life again because in
the nineteen oh six earthquake, he was like one years old,
but his parents lost everything in San Francisco and so
there was a.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There's so they had some knowledge of what it's like
to lose things like that at their age. So where
we have zoomer moms who have lots.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Of questions, but amazing before we.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Get to them really quick, you told me too that
you learned a lot like there are resources like you
can mention your clothes you're wearing our donated so you
learned you had nothing, had nothing, and how do you
go about accessing those resources?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Are their own groups that.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Help you automatically jump in there and say, you know, yes,
some help or or we'll help you, or do you
have to seek them out.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
There's so many different foundations and so many different corporations
that are so amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Can give us one that you really stuck out to you.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh, there was this one. I'm trying to remember what
it was. I think it was called either a List Hollywood,
which was really really lovely group of women in.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
The industry and everything.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
J Lo donated some clothing. I got a pair of
Versace heels. Her I was like, she had a lot
of Louis Bauton or lou Baton heels and.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Happen it's good yeah to her size literally literally.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
There was a bunch of different clothing that were donated
through different people in the industry, which was so lovely
because I think the community itself, it's so strong, and
that's what I learned throughout this whole situation, and I'd
say that was one. I think that's what it's called.
I think it's called a Hollywood you know, that's one,
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and then I love there's this one called Frankie's Bikinis,
which was really cute, and they had a bunch of
like swimwear stuff and very high end, very nice, and
they you could pick like three different outfits and three
different things, and it was like by appointment only to
rag and Bone did one as well, okay for jeans,
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which was lovely. And then there was one at this
like an editorial house like in the like the parking
lot that a good friend of mine told me about
and he also like lost his place in the fire,
and so he told me about it, and he told
me to go there, and everybody there was so lovely
as well, and so I don't know, I think also
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being able, like a bunch of my childhood friends also
lost their place, so like we're all kind of in
the same boat. But I think being able to have
a strong community and like be there for one another.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So that's that's at the Mom's Club that we have
by our zoomer moms, because I'm sure they have a
lot of questions. So welcome zoomer moms. Welcome to the
Mom's Club. Well, let's start with Annie tell us a
little bit about where you're from, and do you have
any children? And do you have a question for a
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soul day?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I do, I do, and I do.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
So.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
I am a mom of two boys, one of which
is the younger. He's twenty six, and I guess we
have a little bit in common in that I was
his manager for a time when he was growing up.
He's a guitar player. He's in a band in Chicago
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and it's called the Untold And it's leading to my
question for her. They have reported some really good music
in the last year that has to do with mental
health issues, which is a huge topic front now for
lots of reasons.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
But I guess where I want to go with her
is today.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
From what I'm seeing, she seems to be in a
good play. I try to, But what I want to
know is how did you get there?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Like, you know, did you.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
Go somewhere or even your parents for you know, counseling,
or did you all join a group a support group,
because you do seem to be I guess resolved not
be a good word with you. Said, you know you
had that loss, now, but how did you get to
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that place? Because it had to be devastating for at
least a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Good question, A great question.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I think that's an amazing question and something that I
actually want to actually talk about with you guys. I
think mental health is so huge. My mental health was
never this good. Ever. I think that if my younger
self would have saw me, she would have been so
so proud. And I think that as a kid there.
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I was actually just talking about this with a friend
of mine in the car the other day, and I
think there's so many different things that you know, you
you surround yourself with different people in your environment. I mean,
there was a time where I want to be so honest,
I was suicidal when I was sixteen years old, and
it was something where I was at a really dark
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place in my life and it was difficult to be
able to want to live on planet Earth. And that
was at a time where I was trying to figure
out myself because I either by teachers that I had
in my life, told that I was not good enough,
that I'd become a failure. And this is by people
that I cared about in my life, not my parents.
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My parents were definitely there for me, but I think
they were always trying to be strong for me and
so I wanted to be strong for myself so I
could be strong for others. And I took mental health
into my own hands when I knew I was going downhill.
There was a couple other situations that I feel are
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super important to talk about. I got interrogated by the
police when I was sixteen years old and they handcuffed
my hands behind a chair in somebody's office without my
parents knowing about it. And I was at a camp
in Michigan, and that scared the living daylights out of me,
and I didn't know who to talk to try. I
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felt like I lost a lot of trust in humankind,
and then I started to regain it after I started
to love myself again. And I was always like wanting
to be there for myself. I always wanted to love myself,
and I think everybody should. Everybody should love their self,
you know, fully to love somebody else. And so I
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really took mental health seriously because I was an absolute toll.
And so I decided that I was going to go
to counseling. It was super expensive. I had a family
friend who was a psychologist and she helped me, and
she saved my life multiple times. When I was sixteen
and I am now free of that.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I speak fly about it and I think that really help.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yeah, for sure, So I I took better help. I mean,
I don't know if this should be a sponsor had
for better help, better help sponsor me?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The best endorsement is one for the genuine.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Why people know about it, if it really helped, it
really helped it.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Really mean did I had this amazing counselor and she
one counselor. Yes, and she like was so amazing and
I had her in my life. But I also like
when I was doing classical music because I was classically
trained and violin for seventeen years and now I'm a
pop singer. So definitely a change, you know. But I
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the thing is is that like I had a teacher,
a violent teer, I had a couple of violent teachers
that were very different from one another. The first one
was not my favorite and I and I wish her
the best, I really do, you know. I think she
helped me and she hurt me the very same time.
And she was the one that was telling me I
wasn't good enough and You'll never be good enough to
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be playing this orchestra. Because you never do this, and
I think critigue is such a toxic thing to do.
I mean, critique is great, but in a healthy way
it should be maintained. But it was very toxic for
a very long time, for about like maybe ten years,
and so I told myself, I'm like, I'm not going
to go through that. And then I went through another
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teacher who was lovely, but it was hard for me
to open up. Yeah, even with playing already been shut down.
You've already been shut down, yes, exactly. And so she
was lovely, but she decided to go another path with
profession and she went to become an incredible teacher at
UVEM at the University of Michigan.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
So what I'm hearing too, it's like, if you look
at that experience, which was pretty devastating at the time,
and you you got counseling, you dealt with it. If
someone were to tell people a scenario and say, what
would be worse just having a really rough we can
even call it abusive at times situation as a child
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or having your house burned down, most people would think
the thing that would make you come out the other
side not as together and saying I'm feeling better than
I ever felt before would be the house burning down.
So yeah, so you are really a testimony to the
good counseling you did get.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Thank you. I yeah, well yeah, going, going more on
that topic is even the people around you are the
most influential in your life, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
So have your parents been They've been positive for you,
they've had a good attitude and been positive, or.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
They've had mixed mixed attitudes. But that is so okay
because they've been going, they've been.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They've been through well, let me not miss our other
Zoomer moms here.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So that's okay.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
So it's such a good question.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yes, it was excellent question. Thank you, Annie. Billy Ray.
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Please tell us your name,
where you're from, and do you have a question for
the Soul Day.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Yeah, hi everybody, Billy Ray here. I am actually a
new mom. I have a five month old daughter.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Congratulations, congratulations.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
That's amazing.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
On on a learning journey for sure.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
But yeah, it's been great and thank you for sharing
your story.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
It's it's it's really nice to hear the sort.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Of human side of a lot of the natural disasters
that our country is facing.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Actually work in the clean energy industry, and.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
I think a lot about resilience for our buildings and
other sort of physical spaces.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
But kind of similar to Anny's question, I'm wondering what kind.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Of skills or you know, sort of foundational efforts you've
made to become more.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Resilient in the face of disaster. And it sounds like
you have a few different examples of that. So just
love to hear your thoughts on that.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well, what makes you resilient, babe girl?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
So many things? I think what makes me resilient? That wow,
that truly, that's an amazing question. And I love your name,
by the way, beautiful name. I think what makes me
resilient is the fact that even through all these different hardships,
I still had faith in humanity and I still love.
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I love people. I love people, I love being around people.
I'm a people person. I will never not be even
when Chico is crazy, I will never not be. I
love people because I think I just see the good
in them good and I always try to even at
the worst. And I think that was one thing that
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makes me resilient. But also I think when you learn
how to be there for yourself through all these different circumstances,
whether it's it being you know, emotional abuse, or whether
it being your house burning down, or whether it be
something crazy happening, or or you like or you're yeah,
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exactly like all these different things happening in life. I
think the things that make you resilient are your mindset,
you know, the mindset that you carry within yourself. I
think affirmation. I go by affirmations all the time. I
think I listen on my headset. I was coming here
in an uber listening to affirmations and Tate McCray.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So, but does it help to to be to be
prepared like a lot of people not to be going
the Scouting program necessarily, but where at a place goes
to like what Billy Ray does for her career. You know,
like if I had to evacuate my house, I might
not know where to go if I had nowhere to live,
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or the power went out, which should happen one time,
and I did not handle that very well because you know,
it's not that kind of person.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
But that's what's bad, like I could starve to death.
Does it help to do you feel literally another show?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
But I mean, do you feel now like, Okay, if
something happened, that's I'm prepared to deal with anything.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Like I've got myself.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I didn't get in a bad situation like starving to death.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I knew what to do.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You also feel like you know you're all because there's
a lot of internal things you're talking about, which are awesome,
thank you, but yes, but if you're starving because you're
no power, I do. I recommend people prepare themselves for
what could happen, because there's plenty of things that could
happen these days, with you know, climate change and everything.
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They were losing worse storms that the people are finding
themselves in a similar situation, and some of them were
truly homeless. I mean we're in shelter or living in
their car or what. So did you find yourself did
you or do you feel now more prepared to deal
with if the worst thing, yeah, happened, you're ready because
you've been through it and you're yeah, you got it.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I do. I honestly feel that the community is so
important now because that was the only reason how my
family and I got house.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
And where are you living.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We're in Plia del Rey, which is near Marina. It's
this cute little area. It's like a beach town.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And are you renting or friends or how does.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
This friends renting situation? But it's really lovely because we're
super grateful for them and they're they're close friends. And
you know, right as we were, we were like at
our you know, trying to put some stuff away in
a different place right after the fires, and we were
checking on the house because we had a ring camera
and so we were just at this one little place
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and we were just watching our house burn down to
the ground, and we had so many people reaching out
and so lovely, and honestly, I'm just so blessed and
so grateful for everybody that's either reached out or has
been in my life or has sent me prayers or
has you know, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's really the support, so I should not fear starving
to death. Jeanne Video, jan Welcome to the Mom's Club.
Tell us your name and where you're from, and a
little bit about yourself and do you have a question
for a soul Day.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
Yeah, I'm Janis Corcamis and I live in Dallas, Texas.
I'm a kundry Western singer and my business was limousine
service for many years. But I have an adult child
that I take care of that lives with me on
the spectrum. So my question is to you is what
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kind of advice would you give to young people in
this time of tragedy?
Speaker 8 (35:57):
And also did you write a song about it?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Did I write a song about it? By the way,
I love that you are a country singer, and I
love that you have a limousine business that is so badass,
so cool. I did write a song about it. I
have not released it yet, but it's called Hometown and yeah, absolutely,
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let me get my the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Well, we don't. We only have time for a few.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
It'll be like I just.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Need to when she.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Has a beautiful voice and if you haven't, you you've
seen her songs in her you are amazing. It's all so.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Evy winner, who's blessing?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
I mean, come on, thank you a couple of chords
for us to kind of I think that's an amazing
way to.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Take this out.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, okay, because your art, I think is getting you through.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
To thank you. I agree. I think art is the
most and one of the most important things that I
think for me has distracted me in such an amazing
way during this time, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Really hyper focus.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, it give us something.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Okay, So this is the chorus. It's my home town.
Speaker 11 (37:15):
Leaves and the trees are burn now, tanglement, knees and
thrown down, had women nails, they'll pull pull pullsh it.
It's my home town. Disguise in the views are gray now,
smoke and ash lefts the grave town, tombstones of houses.
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They're called cold Heaven now became the cold cold Heaven
now became.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yes, thank you, wow.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yes, a little step.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yes, I'm gonna have to go get my makeup redne wow.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Amazing of course any time.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, okay, we're looking forward to that being released soon.
Review of it, So, where can everyone find you on
social media?
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And social media is at is old a Fair with
another r so I s O l D E F
A I R R. And that's for Instagram TikTok, and
then for YouTube it's just is ol day Fair with
not a double R so I s O L D
(38:50):
E F A I R.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Well, thank you on Spotify too, oh.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Yeah, well, thank you check her out. She is amazing.
As we stay here on the moms, thank you and
thank you for sharing your story because I think a
lot of people needed to hear that they've heard of
what happened, but they don't really understand how it affected
the people who lived here in other parts of the
country that had similar things happened. So thank you so much.
(39:18):
And you can find us on social media too at
Inside the Mom's Club. We're on TikTok, We're on all
the platforms, t talk, YouTube, we're everywhere, Facebook, Instagram. Check
us out there and check out our sponsors. We have
amazing sponsors. One of them is I turned to last
(39:39):
night was newcom which is an app that you can
get that helps you sleep better and focus, and last
night that's how we stay roommates because it keeps us
from killing each other. Oh and thank you too, Thanks
you too today for our tour Zoomer Moms. We want
to thank you. They all have amazing questions and we've
(40:00):
I finally also want to thank and we listen to
this closely because it's important to all of you moms
out there. We want to thank the Beaman Hotel who
recently has been sponsoring great events for moms in the
Dallas area where women could come together and meet each
other and the local people have contributed prizes, so there's
(40:20):
women that get there and they get it a special gift.
We couldn't have done it without the Beaman Hotel and
some amazing people that have done that. But also we're
going to do this all over the country, So we
are doing it in Dallas, but we're going to do
it everywhere so moms can come together and get to
know each other and find out and discover if they
too want to be a zoomer mom and be on
(40:41):
our show. If you're interested in being a zoomer mom,
check out our website inside the Mom's Club dot com
and there's a tab on there where you can sign
up that's great to be a zoomer mom, and we'll
have you on this show as well.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Julie again, welcome back, Thank you, you're back in the group.
What are you going to tell all your friends to
be zoomer moms?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Okay, good. I mean I was going to say, we're
gonna have to We're gonna have to let you go
as a co host. If you're not going now, we
get you back to work. Now You're now you're always
on it, always on it. Julie is going to do
that Julie is going to do that. And all you
moms out there, even if you're kind of like shying,
like I don't know that I want to be a
zoomer mom.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
I bet you know.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
I bet all of you know at least three of
your friends you'd make amazing zoomer moms.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
They'd be I mean, every friend loves to chat be
zoomer mom. It's super cool.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
You learn something, put your chattiest friends who you think
are smart and can ask good questions and tell them
to be zoomer moms exactly.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Anyway, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
It has been, It's been great and so like time flies,
and it certainly has today as always.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
For sure, but when we have young people are wiser and.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That's always yes, that's always amazing. Well, we will be
back next time with its celebrities and extraordinary moms like
you in listening audience. We know that your meantime is
precious and valuable. Thank you for spending it with us.
We will see you next time inside the Mom's Club
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