November 7, 2023 • 15 mins
In this heartwarming and inspiring episode, Entrepreneur Moms Host Karla Campos sits down with the talented children's book author, Cathy Gagliardi. Through her beautifully crafted stories, Cathy brings to life the importance of resilience, hope, and the power of storytelling in the lives of young readers.
Cathy's journey as an author is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Inspired by personal experiences of triumph over tragedy, she has channeled her passion for writing into creating stories that resonate deeply with children and their families.
Join us as we explore Cathy's remarkable journey, the impact of her work in the world of children's literature, and the transformative lessons that her stories offer. Through the lens of her own experiences, Cathy delves into the healing and empowering potential of literature, shedding light on the resilience that can emerge from even the darkest of moments.
Cathy's journey as an author is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Inspired by personal experiences of triumph over tragedy, she has channeled her passion for writing into creating stories that resonate deeply with children and their families.
Join us as we explore Cathy's remarkable journey, the impact of her work in the world of children's literature, and the transformative lessons that her stories offer. Through the lens of her own experiences, Cathy delves into the healing and empowering potential of literature, shedding light on the resilience that can emerge from even the darkest of moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the entrepreneur Mom's podcast. I'm your host, Carla Campos.
Before we get started, please consider supporting the podcast by
following or sharing. Today we are speaking with Kathy Guyliardi,
a number one best selling author an illustrator of children's books. Hey, Kathy,
can you share a little bit about your journey and
how you got started?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sure? Thanks for having me, Carla, Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I how it all started was kind of a tragic beginning.
Is I worked with this woman for a long time,
and when day found out that her son, her teenage son,
had taken his life, and it just blew everything, all
the emotions up. You know, it's hard to figure out
(00:46):
how to help this woman and the rest of her family,
and like the whole office was just zombies.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So when I went home, I couldn't sleep or eat,
and my mind just kept going around and around, like
what can I do about it?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
How can I help? And of course it's.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
A huge, huge issue, huge problem. But after trying to
watch TV or listening to the radio, nothing helped me.
And I finally put my pen to paper, as I
did when I.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Couldn't sleep sometimes, and I wrote the book belly Flies.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This book is meant to help children with their feelings
of butterflies and their tummy and being able to say
give them a voice for them to say, I have
belly flies, and it kind of opens a conversation for
you to talk. In the book, it just helps the
(01:47):
little boy to figure.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Out what to do when he feels this way.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So he has he can run, and he can play,
and he has a friend alligator that helps him go
go through.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
All those things. By the end of the book, he
has no more bellyflies.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So that started my journey that really propelled me and
the woman whose son I'm writing about or that I'm
writing for, really thought that this book and this message
was beautiful way to take something tragic and make it
useful in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm really thankful that you're turning tragedy into a positive
because I too had a friend who decided to end
it all. Everybody in the community was shocked and sad
because the person had so much talent, had so much potential.
You know, we always thought she was going to do
great things and she had such a promising life ahead.
(02:44):
But when we read the note that was left behind,
she mentioned dealing with a lot of emotions, feeling depressed,
feeling like there was no other way out. It's so
important that people learned this early.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And your books.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Are helping people in more than one language.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Correct my books.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Two of my books, Bellyflies and Going to Build a
Boat are both in English and Spanish, and those those
are the ones that I brought to Guatemala and Costa
Rica for the school libraries and their communities. And the
method that I'm doing that I'm teaching now is just
in English.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And what are some of the reactions you're getting. What
kind of feedback are you getting from parents.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I've had parents come to me and say their child,
their children are using I have bellyflies as a common
statement when they come home they didn't eat their lunch,
or they come home and they're frustrated about something, there's
just different anything, and they'll just say I have belly flies,
And then I'll start a conversation like where do you
(03:48):
feel the belly flies?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
What happened in school, what made you happy? What made
you say?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And through all these conversations they find out what exactly
it is that's bothering the child without the child trying
to say nothing, you know. Yeah, that's some more common
thing that they say. Yeah, and therapists and Ronald McDonald
house we've given them the books too.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I've had a lot of people tell.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Me that they read the book to their child every
night and spend time on each little page, like just
watch a cat run.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Or whatever the page is, and go through what was when.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Did you last see a cat chasing a butterfly or
chasing a leaf? And what you know, spend time on
each page and it becomes a different story every time
you read it. So the child looks forward to it
before a bit and it makes them feel good because
now everything, all their stresses of the day are gone,
and they have no more belly flies.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And that's really beautiful because what you're doing is opening
up the lines of communication and helping parents and children
share a teaching moment of express seeing their emotions amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And they don't have the time to dig in further
and find out what the problems are. You know, if
the child resists, you could just say, well, they're not
feeling good.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I know if I had this method when I was
raising my kids, I would have had an easier time.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's great, sometimes we don't notice that the little thing
that we do with our kids are actually what sticks
with them. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you have any stories of any feedback you received
from parents or children.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
There's so many. My mine's just blowing right now.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
For there's in Guatemala, I had We went to a
house and they have two children who one couldn't go
to school because of medical reasons, and the other one
was a little bit older and went to school so
she could read the Spanish one to the little boy.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And they loved them.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
They just they brought them around, walked around the house
with them, sat down and just read them all the time,
brought them into school. When I brought the books to
Costa Rican and Guatemala, I brought them English books and
Spanish books. I originally wanted to make them both in
one book, but I found that they really liked having
the two separate books so that they could learn English.
(06:16):
But they're yeah, they're so smart.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So your book sells like stars. Multipurpose. It's not only
teaching them like emotional strategies, but also helping with English.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, and then there's diversity in there, and how to
love yourself and how to love each other, like all
all my books have a message of love in them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow, that's huge for me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I really love how you include the message of love,
especially in the day and age in today's society. It's important, right.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I really find that some of my books are how
we're all connected. And those books I found also really
benefit the adults who are reading to the kids because
they know they feel I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Going to work, I'm doing my job, or coming home.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And doing this, and you don't realize that if you
just look around, you're all connected and everybody's in it together.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You have more books currently, and the worst.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I have, actually, The Bellyflies Method, is going to come
out in a book in the new year. And I
have another book called The Cookie Storm, and that will
be coming out probably the middle of next year, and
that's about a childhood who's narrow, diivergin too, so different
and they don't know why they're different, but everybody welcomes
(07:29):
them and they become happy with themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Are you looking to work with more schools?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Definitely looking for looking to work with schools.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
They've bought the books and I have been reading in
the schools and I've done assembly work with them.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But the Belly.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Flies method I haven't really been promoting in the schools yet.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's my next step.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And I have a newsletter coming out with helpful Hands.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Updates, little kids recipes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And games and things to just bring people together with
their kids and help them out with any frustrations they have.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So it sounds like you have a lot on your plate.
How do you kind of manage being an author being
in the school.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I always remember the why why I'm doing this, and
that gets me through everything. Like if I'm just thinking
about what I'm doing, I kind of get overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But when I think of why, it's.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
For the children's it's for the parents. It's to give
the children a voice and help the communication between all
the caregivers.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And the and the the children.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And to pass to pass on the information to other parents.
So if I keep thinking about the why, the work
comes easy for me.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, it sounds like it's a perfect fit for you.
You know, just from talking to you, you seem very
passionate about what you do and you know have a
big mission in the world. It sounds like, yeah, it
keeps me going as an author illustrator. Do you have
a mentor that you look up to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I have so many mentors. My first book, my brother
did the illustrations for me, and he is he's my
go to guy for a lot of things. I have
a lot of contacts and a lot of mentors for
different parts of my world. Yeah, for to learn more
about autism, about writing writing books about children, mentoring business.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
A lot of different people helped me out.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And on that note, how did you get involved in
Costa Rico and what tomorrow? What did I did you
to those places?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't know what actually pushed me to do that,
but it was on my mind all of a sudden
it came on in my mind. And for Costa Rica,
I was in a course and I just asked a
teacher have you done any traveling? And she just said, well,
you know, we're going to Costa Rica and to this schools.
And I thought, oh my god, that's exactly what I want.
(10:02):
So I just joined up and went and with Guatemala.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The woman who whose.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Son was this book is four, was going to Guatemala,
and so I went with her there and when detail
is her daughter was in grade six when I wrote
the book, and she wanted me to read it to
the class and I thought, wow, this is a little
children's book. I read it in their class and they
and they knew the situation.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
They had so many questions.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I gave them a picture to color, and I realized
they're all colored, every single thing different, and so I
showed them that and brought them all together. It was
it was an amazing They asked me to read it
three times. It was an amazing experience for me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's like you manifested it, you manifested the trips, and
then it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Just brought Yeah. It just it's something I had to do.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, something that I was meant to do, and experiences
I'll never ever ever forget like that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You mentioned those stories because sometimes people think, oh, I
sat there and I planned it for hours. But you know,
you've heard somebody's going on a trip. Hey, I'm going there.
It came to my and it just sounds like it
was meant to.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Be in a fit, right right.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah. Even the girl that was going to Costa Rica,
she said, I don't know where you came out of.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You just asked me, and it's just perfect.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And we had one more spot left, and you know,
like all these things just worked.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Out and What were you doing when you met the
lady whose son.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I was in a spiritual class cosmic rights, I think
it's called. And so it was very uplifting and very
down to earth at the same time. And so she
kind of glowed, you can imagine. Yeah, so, yeah, so
I want to be near her. She's the kind of
(11:49):
personet I want to be around and near. And that's
why I started talking to her about that. The experience
itself was like a beam of life. And I don't
know how to explain it. It was like a glowing experience.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Like your calling is here.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, it made my heart sing, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Were you always in this line of work even before you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Met No, no, no, I was in office.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I was office manager.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I did a lot of developing programs in the office,
and I had I've always written though, I've always written
poems and stories and yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And how was the transition. Did you take any of
the skills that you used as a manager to your
new found business.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh yeah, yes, yeah, everything that I've learned because I'm
managing it's my own little business.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now I'm managing that. There's a lot of little details.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do you have any advice for any other aspiring authors
or moms who are thinking, because we get a lot
of women here who are kind of thinking about starting
a business, but they're not really sure where to go. So,
you know, we'd like to have different people from different backgrounds.
So what would you say to an aspiring mompreneur wants
to be an author?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh, oh, just start.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Don't ever think about the overall situation.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Just start.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I always just start writing things out, writing lists or
writing my ideas out, and you can think of the
end result.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But don't be overwhelmed by all the steps in between.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You don't have to worry about all the steps until
you get there and feel what you want, Like if
you want to be an author, feel what the audience.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
What you want the audience to feel, or what you
want them.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
To learn, and make that and find out what your
why is and develop your business or your book from that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Why always keep that in mind, but just take one
step at a time. Did you ever hear that saying
how do you eat an elephant? I heard it one
bite at a time. I heard it and I thought,
oh my god, that's so weird. Maybe yeah, like you
don't have to.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You don't have to think its just gigantic. You just
take one step at a time and.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Before you know it, you're you're in it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And as long as you keep that idea of making
people feel good or making making the children healthy mentally
healthy er, that's that's the key to succeeding.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think beautifully said. I mean, you are an author,
so you have your way with words. Finally, who are
you trying to connect? And how can people connect with you?
To get to your book, to your sessions and just
to be around your wonderful or in general.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Bellyflies dot com will get you into my landing page
and give me your email. I can keep you updated
with my newsletter or or we can chat. And who
knows how connections work. I've met so many people that
are like we have become friends just through certain things
like this.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
My books are on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But if you want to get a book from me
that's signed with a message, contact me.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
We can go like.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You can give me your email address and when I
contact you back, you can let me know or so
belliflies dot com or if you want to email me
it's more confusing. It's on twinkling links. L y n
x at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That was author Kathy Gagliardi for The Entrepreneur Mom's podcast,
Don't forget to connect with us on Facebook, Facebook, dot com,
Slash Entrepreneur Mom's Club. I'll talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Bye.
Welcome to the entrepreneur Mom's podcast. I'm your host, Carla Campos.
Before we get started, please consider supporting the podcast by
following or sharing. Today we are speaking with Kathy Guyliardi,
a number one best selling author an illustrator of children's books. Hey, Kathy,
can you share a little bit about your journey and
how you got started?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Sure? Thanks for having me, Carla, Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I how it all started was kind of a tragic beginning.
Is I worked with this woman for a long time,
and when day found out that her son, her teenage son,
had taken his life, and it just blew everything, all
the emotions up. You know, it's hard to figure out
(00:46):
how to help this woman and the rest of her family,
and like the whole office was just zombies.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So when I went home, I couldn't sleep or eat,
and my mind just kept going around and around, like
what can I do about it?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
How can I help? And of course it's.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
A huge, huge issue, huge problem. But after trying to
watch TV or listening to the radio, nothing helped me.
And I finally put my pen to paper, as I
did when I.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Couldn't sleep sometimes, and I wrote the book belly Flies.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This book is meant to help children with their feelings
of butterflies and their tummy and being able to say
give them a voice for them to say, I have
belly flies, and it kind of opens a conversation for
you to talk. In the book, it just helps the
(01:47):
little boy to figure.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Out what to do when he feels this way.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So he has he can run, and he can play,
and he has a friend alligator that helps him go
go through.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
All those things. By the end of the book, he
has no more bellyflies.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So that started my journey that really propelled me and
the woman whose son I'm writing about or that I'm
writing for, really thought that this book and this message
was beautiful way to take something tragic and make it
useful in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm really thankful that you're turning tragedy into a positive
because I too had a friend who decided to end
it all. Everybody in the community was shocked and sad
because the person had so much talent, had so much potential.
You know, we always thought she was going to do
great things and she had such a promising life ahead.
(02:44):
But when we read the note that was left behind,
she mentioned dealing with a lot of emotions, feeling depressed,
feeling like there was no other way out. It's so
important that people learned this early.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And your books.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Are helping people in more than one language.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Correct my books.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Two of my books, Bellyflies and Going to Build a
Boat are both in English and Spanish, and those those
are the ones that I brought to Guatemala and Costa
Rica for the school libraries and their communities. And the
method that I'm doing that I'm teaching now is just
in English.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And what are some of the reactions you're getting. What
kind of feedback are you getting from parents.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I've had parents come to me and say their child,
their children are using I have bellyflies as a common
statement when they come home they didn't eat their lunch,
or they come home and they're frustrated about something, there's
just different anything, and they'll just say I have belly flies,
And then I'll start a conversation like where do you
(03:48):
feel the belly flies?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
What happened in school, what made you happy? What made
you say?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And through all these conversations they find out what exactly
it is that's bothering the child without the child trying
to say nothing, you know. Yeah, that's some more common
thing that they say. Yeah, and therapists and Ronald McDonald
house we've given them the books too.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I've had a lot of people tell.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Me that they read the book to their child every
night and spend time on each little page, like just
watch a cat run.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Or whatever the page is, and go through what was when.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Did you last see a cat chasing a butterfly or
chasing a leaf? And what you know, spend time on
each page and it becomes a different story every time
you read it. So the child looks forward to it
before a bit and it makes them feel good because
now everything, all their stresses of the day are gone,
and they have no more belly flies.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And that's really beautiful because what you're doing is opening
up the lines of communication and helping parents and children
share a teaching moment of express seeing their emotions amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And they don't have the time to dig in further
and find out what the problems are. You know, if
the child resists, you could just say, well, they're not
feeling good.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I know if I had this method when I was
raising my kids, I would have had an easier time.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's great, sometimes we don't notice that the little thing
that we do with our kids are actually what sticks
with them. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you have any stories of any feedback you received
from parents or children.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
There's so many. My mine's just blowing right now.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
For there's in Guatemala, I had We went to a
house and they have two children who one couldn't go
to school because of medical reasons, and the other one
was a little bit older and went to school so
she could read the Spanish one to the little boy.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And they loved them.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
They just they brought them around, walked around the house
with them, sat down and just read them all the time,
brought them into school. When I brought the books to
Costa Rican and Guatemala, I brought them English books and
Spanish books. I originally wanted to make them both in
one book, but I found that they really liked having
the two separate books so that they could learn English.
(06:16):
But they're yeah, they're so smart.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So your book sells like stars. Multipurpose. It's not only
teaching them like emotional strategies, but also helping with English.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, and then there's diversity in there, and how to
love yourself and how to love each other, like all
all my books have a message of love in them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow, that's huge for me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I really love how you include the message of love,
especially in the day and age in today's society. It's important, right.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I really find that some of my books are how
we're all connected. And those books I found also really
benefit the adults who are reading to the kids because
they know they feel I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Going to work, I'm doing my job, or coming home.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And doing this, and you don't realize that if you
just look around, you're all connected and everybody's in it together.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You have more books currently, and the worst.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I have, actually, The Bellyflies Method, is going to come
out in a book in the new year. And I
have another book called The Cookie Storm, and that will
be coming out probably the middle of next year, and
that's about a childhood who's narrow, diivergin too, so different
and they don't know why they're different, but everybody welcomes
(07:29):
them and they become happy with themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Are you looking to work with more schools?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Definitely looking for looking to work with schools.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
They've bought the books and I have been reading in
the schools and I've done assembly work with them.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But the Belly.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Flies method I haven't really been promoting in the schools yet.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's my next step.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And I have a newsletter coming out with helpful Hands.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Updates, little kids recipes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And games and things to just bring people together with
their kids and help them out with any frustrations they have.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So it sounds like you have a lot on your plate.
How do you kind of manage being an author being
in the school.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I always remember the why why I'm doing this, and
that gets me through everything. Like if I'm just thinking
about what I'm doing, I kind of get overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But when I think of why, it's.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
For the children's it's for the parents. It's to give
the children a voice and help the communication between all
the caregivers.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And the and the the children.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And to pass to pass on the information to other parents.
So if I keep thinking about the why, the work
comes easy for me.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, it sounds like it's a perfect fit for you.
You know, just from talking to you, you seem very
passionate about what you do and you know have a
big mission in the world. It sounds like, yeah, it
keeps me going as an author illustrator. Do you have
a mentor that you look up to.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I have so many mentors. My first book, my brother
did the illustrations for me, and he is he's my
go to guy for a lot of things. I have
a lot of contacts and a lot of mentors for
different parts of my world. Yeah, for to learn more
about autism, about writing writing books about children, mentoring business.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
A lot of different people helped me out.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And on that note, how did you get involved in
Costa Rico and what tomorrow? What did I did you
to those places?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't know what actually pushed me to do that,
but it was on my mind all of a sudden
it came on in my mind. And for Costa Rica,
I was in a course and I just asked a
teacher have you done any traveling? And she just said, well,
you know, we're going to Costa Rica and to this schools.
And I thought, oh my god, that's exactly what I want.
(10:02):
So I just joined up and went and with Guatemala.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The woman who whose.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Son was this book is four, was going to Guatemala,
and so I went with her there and when detail
is her daughter was in grade six when I wrote
the book, and she wanted me to read it to
the class and I thought, wow, this is a little
children's book. I read it in their class and they
and they knew the situation.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
They had so many questions.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I gave them a picture to color, and I realized
they're all colored, every single thing different, and so I
showed them that and brought them all together. It was
it was an amazing They asked me to read it
three times. It was an amazing experience for me.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's like you manifested it, you manifested the trips, and
then it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Just brought Yeah. It just it's something I had to do.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, something that I was meant to do, and experiences
I'll never ever ever forget like that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You mentioned those stories because sometimes people think, oh, I
sat there and I planned it for hours. But you know,
you've heard somebody's going on a trip. Hey, I'm going there.
It came to my and it just sounds like it
was meant to.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Be in a fit, right right.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah. Even the girl that was going to Costa Rica,
she said, I don't know where you came out of.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You just asked me, and it's just perfect.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And we had one more spot left, and you know,
like all these things just worked.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Out and What were you doing when you met the
lady whose son.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I was in a spiritual class cosmic rights, I think
it's called. And so it was very uplifting and very
down to earth at the same time. And so she
kind of glowed, you can imagine. Yeah, so, yeah, so
I want to be near her. She's the kind of
(11:49):
personet I want to be around and near. And that's
why I started talking to her about that. The experience
itself was like a beam of life. And I don't
know how to explain it. It was like a glowing experience.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Like your calling is here.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, it made my heart sing, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Were you always in this line of work even before you.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Met No, no, no, I was in office.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I was office manager.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I did a lot of developing programs in the office,
and I had I've always written though, I've always written
poems and stories and yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And how was the transition. Did you take any of
the skills that you used as a manager to your
new found business.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh yeah, yes, yeah, everything that I've learned because I'm
managing it's my own little business.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Now I'm managing that. There's a lot of little details.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do you have any advice for any other aspiring authors
or moms who are thinking, because we get a lot
of women here who are kind of thinking about starting
a business, but they're not really sure where to go. So,
you know, we'd like to have different people from different backgrounds.
So what would you say to an aspiring mompreneur wants
to be an author?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Oh, oh, just start.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Don't ever think about the overall situation.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Just start.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I always just start writing things out, writing lists or
writing my ideas out, and you can think of the
end result.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But don't be overwhelmed by all the steps in between.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You don't have to worry about all the steps until
you get there and feel what you want, Like if
you want to be an author, feel what the audience.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
What you want the audience to feel, or what you
want them.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
To learn, and make that and find out what your
why is and develop your business or your book from that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Why always keep that in mind, but just take one
step at a time. Did you ever hear that saying
how do you eat an elephant? I heard it one
bite at a time. I heard it and I thought,
oh my god, that's so weird. Maybe yeah, like you
don't have to.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You don't have to think its just gigantic. You just
take one step at a time and.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Before you know it, you're you're in it.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And as long as you keep that idea of making
people feel good or making making the children healthy mentally
healthy er, that's that's the key to succeeding.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think beautifully said. I mean, you are an author,
so you have your way with words. Finally, who are
you trying to connect? And how can people connect with you?
To get to your book, to your sessions and just
to be around your wonderful or in general.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Bellyflies dot com will get you into my landing page
and give me your email. I can keep you updated
with my newsletter or or we can chat. And who
knows how connections work. I've met so many people that
are like we have become friends just through certain things
like this.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
My books are on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But if you want to get a book from me
that's signed with a message, contact me.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
We can go like.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You can give me your email address and when I
contact you back, you can let me know or so
belliflies dot com or if you want to email me
it's more confusing. It's on twinkling links. L y n
x at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That was author Kathy Gagliardi for The Entrepreneur Mom's podcast,
Don't forget to connect with us on Facebook, Facebook, dot com,
Slash Entrepreneur Mom's Club. I'll talk to you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Bye.
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