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Planting Sunshine Seeds: A Journey of Growth, Positivity, and Kindness
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Imagine a world where the seeds of growth are planted with love and nurtured by a mother-daughter bond. That's exactly what Brandy and Brooke Bocolo have done with their inspiring book, "Planting Sunshine Seeds: A Mother Daughter Journey of Growth." This episode captures their journey of creating a heartfelt narrative inspired by Brandy's experiences as a sixth-grade teacher. Together, they weave a story rooted in personal relationships and the beauty of growth, all while using flower names to bring their characters to life. At just 13, Brooke joined her mother on this creative quest, showcasing a powerful collaboration filled with passion and imagination.
We also explore the profound impact of positive self-talk and affirmations on our lives. In a world where kindness often takes a backseat, nurturing self-compassion becomes crucial. Drawing wisdom from figures like Jim Rohn and Wayne Dyer, we uncover how a positive mindset can transform how we interact with others. Personal stories, including insights from Jon Gordon's "The Energy Bus," illustrate that growth and guidance often arrive just when we are ready to embrace them. The messages of self-kindness and positivity remind us that the energy we cultivate within ourselves influences the world around us.
Finally, we reflect on themes of gratitude and kindness, highlighting their ability to enrich our lives and the lives of others. Through everyday practices and family anecdotes, we see how small acts of kindness can have a lasting, positive impact. Whether it's encouraging children to share joy through simple gestures or appreciating the small wonders of life, these practices create a ripple effect of positivity. Our conversation underscores the significance of readiness, illustrating that even when seeds of growth are planted, they eventually flourish at the right time. Join us on this journey and learn how Brandy and Brooke's story can inspire your path towards a more positive and grateful mindset.
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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! 🎙️ Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! 🏡🌟 #TheBradWeismanShow #RealEstateRealLife
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All righty, here we go.
Speaker 2:From real estate to real life and everything in between the Brad. Wiseman Show and now your host.
Speaker 1:Brad Wiseman. All right, yes, we are back Another Thursday at 7 pm, which is really really fun. I have I just have a really good show lined up today. I'm really excited about it. We've been talking about it for a while. We have actually a mother-daughter guest right here in the studio. They didn't even have to drive up here, but they did, and it was really nice that they did, because being in the studio is just so much better. We have Brandy and Brooke Bacolo. You got it? Did I say it, right? You?
Speaker 2:said it right.
Speaker 1:Hey, hugo, mark that as down as one of the ones I got right. You know, this is a very unique show for us. You are mother and daughter, which I can tell. I can see that. I can see that, and you're here because you wrote a book together.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:Do you know if there's any other mother-daughter combinations that wrote books together?
Speaker 2:I'm sure there's tons.
Speaker 1:You think there is.
Speaker 2:But maybe not a young girl like Brooke.
Speaker 1:So you're, how old are you? I'm 14. 14. When did you guys start the book?
Speaker 2:It was last year, she was 13. We wrote the book in like two months.
Speaker 1:Are you kidding me? You wrote the book in two months. This is not a skinny book. I mean, there's a lot in here. Yeah, when we get started, we yeah, we just go right, you just go. So so how do you do that as two people? Do you just sit there as somebody on a type? I mean I say typewriter. You don't know what a typewriter is, do you? She's like what the heck is a typewriter? This guy's old. No, but do you just sit there or do? Do you dictate it first or do you write it down longhand?
Speaker 3:So we went to the mall and we brainstormed all the stuff, what it was going to be about and all the characters that were going to be in it. Awesome, we based it on people that we know, and also flower names, because it's sunflower.
Speaker 1:Well, say the name of the book, go ahead.
Speaker 3:Planting Sunshine.
Speaker 1:Seeds. A Mother say the name of the book. Go ahead Planting Sunshine Seeds.
Speaker 3:A Mother Daughter Journey of the Growth.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there it is. So there's the Planting Sunshine Seeds, A Mother Daughter Journey of Growth.
Speaker 2:And after we named the book and then I said the book aloud I would have renamed it because it's like a tongue twister.
Speaker 1:Is Planting Sunshine Seeds. Is that hard to say, or is it just me? So Sunshine Seeds Is that hard to say, or is it just me?
Speaker 2:So you did that on purpose, just to mess up any kind of podcast you would want, I probably would have changed the title, because every time I say it aloud I get twisted it is weird, because you want to say Sunshine Sheeds right, is that right?
Speaker 1:That's what you want to say, yeah, but well, you know what? It's a challenge, that's okay, it's a challenge, it's something to look at, but yeah, so you go to the mall, come up with the characters, all these things. That's how it starts. But who had the seed idea of it?
Speaker 2:So I'm a sixth grade teacher, and at back to school night I always talk about planting seeds in their mind and how. Your mind is a garden. And us as teachers? We care about their education, but most importantly, we're helping them with their mindset.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So a mom was in tears. She loved it so much, so as a Christmas gift, she made this. So I teach Zoom, that's great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a great graphic.
Speaker 2:This graphic here was. It was very touching. It was like one of my favorite gifts and I teach Zoom workouts every morning. So I was showing the girls in Zoom and I got a text message from one of the girls and she said, Bram, what was the name of that book? And I said, what do you mean? She said the one with the brain in the water. And I was like, oh, that's just the picture, it's not a book. And she was like, oh, maybe you should write it someday.
Speaker 1:Interesting.
Speaker 2:So she planted the seed in my mind. Then I was cleaning, and that's what I always get in my all my good ideas.
Speaker 1:She gets all of her good ideas when she's cleaning. That's great.
Speaker 2:And I said you know what, Maybe I'll write a book and I was going to make it more like nonfiction, more self-help kind of thing. And then I said you know what, maybe I'll make it about a girl named Brock. So then I called Brock. I say Brock, come on down. And then I said would you want to write it with me? And she was apprehensive at first, right, would you?
Speaker 1:want to write it with me. And she was apprehensive at first, right, because what do you say to that? You're 13, right, yeah, I was kind of. What do you say? Like mom says do you want to write a book with me? I mean, you're like mom's lost it, she's out of her mind, Like something has gone on. Now do you have siblings? Yeah, I have a brother, a brother 13. Oh, you're twins.
Speaker 2:She's 14 now.
Speaker 1:She's 14 now.
Speaker 2:They're 13. Oh, Irish twins.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is that what they call it.
Speaker 2:Irish twins.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Awesome, okay, so did he want to get in on this book?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:No, look at her face. You guys are like no, he's a boy, he's dirty, he's gross.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean the idea for the book. You come up with it from that picture and then it just started to go from there. It was so like she said we met at the mall, we came up with all the characters, we came up with the idea, and then how we wrote it together was we would come up with the chapter title. I would actually write the chapter and then we would sit together I would read it to her and then she would give me feedback and she'd say, mom, change this, let's do this. And then she'd say, all right, what's the next chapter? We would think of the title. I'd say, all right, brooke, I'll be right back. I would go write those words and then it's crazy.
Speaker 2:Weren't we getting addicted to it, though? We were like, all right, what's next?
Speaker 1:Is there another book on the horizon? Part two Did you like the process, brooke, of the writing of a book? Did you like that process? Because, even though you're 13, I've never written a book. I'm 54. So that's a process I'm not aware of. So to go through that and have that experience at your age is pretty awesome, and to be on, I mean hello, your name's on the front of a book. I mean my name. Hey, Hugo, are you on the front of a book? No, you're not on a book, are you? No, not yet. At least I didn't think so.
Speaker 2:I like that answer. Not yet, not yet at least that's true.
Speaker 1:Me neither so far. But yeah, that's awesome. So tell me about this book. So what are we going to find in there? What?
Speaker 2:is it about? Why did we write? Reason we wrote this is because I think the world right now needs a little more sunshine seeds in their life.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:The world is tough, life can be tough, but when you wake up each day, one of my favorite sayings what do I say every day? Brock, it's going to be a great day.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:So when the alarm goes off? That's what I say in my mind.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a great I say that until I believe affirmations affirmations and so you're a big believer in affirmations, right?
Speaker 2:That is like one of my favorite things, but I think the seed you plant in your mind, girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, as having two middle school children and teaching middle school aged kids are hard on themselves. The world is hard and it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So this is a beautiful story about a mom and a daughter. The mom's name in the story is actually my mom's name.
Speaker 1:Oh cool.
Speaker 2:And we use Brooke's name and she moves. She has to move to a new town and her daughter, brooke, is miserable, but Linda's also miserable because they lose their routine. They're planting all negative things in their life. Brooke's spending a lot of time in her room.
Speaker 1:Is this, after they move, that this is happening?
Speaker 2:Yes, they move pretty quickly in the beginning of the book. The mom is struggling with money so she moves in with her sister. Her sister's name's Mary. That's my mom's sister.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:And the most beautiful part of the story is they meet a man named Holy Joe. Now Holy Joe's character, brooke, tell who it's. Who's Holy Joe.
Speaker 3:It was her pop-up, and they called him Pop Joe, and I never got to meet him, though.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 3:He like passed away before I was born, but he always like I don't know how I'd like word that, but he would always so that's my grandpa, oh okay.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 2:So, in real life. His name is Holy they called him Holy Joe because I'll give you a little backstory. So he grew up very poor. He had his teeth knocked out. He was jumped. He was an alcoholic. He was married. His wife died. His last son died. He had his last son died, his. He had eight kids.
Speaker 1:Oh geez, the baby died, yeah Well the wife died.
Speaker 2:He was working. He became an alcoholic. They lived in the projects. Both of my parents grew up in the projects and my grandpa quickly found recovery.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So he found AA, and there he became known as holy doe oh wow and he planted these seeds in the lives of so many people. People in the projects called him dads. Like his door was always open, people were always they always need a pop. Pop was always there. Um, but then growing up, he lived with us.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So I have a sister. Her and I are 11 months apart.
Speaker 1:So this runs in the family this whole 11 months or 12 months apart. This is something in common. I'm noticing this. So you're not Irish, though, bacolo, I would think, is that Italian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but my maiden name's McKinney, so I am Irish, so I am Irish, guess where I'm going in July, by the way.
Speaker 1:Ireland I'm going to Ireland, yeah, with my wife and the kids and everybody. We're all going to Ireland. Yeah, that's exciting. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so he planted these seeds throughout our whole life. Yeah, and we didn't realize it. We didn't realize it, but my mom and dad grew up really hard and they are so inspiring because they're just great people. They were very successful in life. They raised two children.
Speaker 1:We thought we always had everything. So that's where it ties in with. One of the things we talked about before we went live here is creating positivity without support at home. Yes, is that where that comes from?
Speaker 2:It does Because I think, like I said earlier, it's going to be a great day. I think, when we wake up, we have a choice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How do you want your day to go? We have some people in our lives who have beautiful lives and they're miserable.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so true, right, they have everything and they're miserable. They have everything.
Speaker 2:And then you have other people who have been through it all and they're happy. And you wonder why.
Speaker 1:It is a choice.
Speaker 2:It is a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:It is a choice.
Speaker 2:And the older I'm getting, the more I'm realizing it's not what you have, it's not your circumstance, it's your perspective. It's how you're looking at your life. It's your perspective. It's how you're looking at your life. It's the seeds you're planting in your life, and one of the biggest things we talk about in this book is pulling the weeds each day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh good, that's good. Now tell me what would the weeds look like in somebody's life?
Speaker 2:Getting rid of toxic people, which Wayne Dyer always used to call them toxic people. Let me actually refer to. This is Linda's, so she's, her action is procrastination.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's her weed.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go so her actionable step is I will get out when my alarm goes off. I will not hit the snooze button. I will not scroll on my phone because Linda in the book was spending a lot of time doing that. She was procrastinating.
Speaker 1:I don't think any of us ever do that. What do you think Now, hugo? You don't do any of that, do you? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2:And then, Brooke, you want to read what yours was Read at the bottom. What was your weed? I will be kind to myself, I will practice affirmations and I will give myself compliments, but read what was your negative self-talk.
Speaker 1:Oh, negative self-talk is terrible. It can really I can really change, change your life, actually change a lot of people's lives actually. Yeah, it's amazing, it's good stuff, and that's what I was saying, the thing that I really, when I'm looking at all the things that you sent and it's all all great stuff, it's all stuff that I listed we just talked about. We like Jim Rohn, we like Wayne Dyer Both Jim and Wayne are dead.
Speaker 2:They're no longer around, which is terrible, and they're still so popular.
Speaker 1:I just started listening to Jim Rohn again and it's so funny. You know, nothing changes under the sun. I mean, it's all been taught before. I always say that we all have. All these things are all about positivity, about the powers in the word. All these things are kind of the same. The thing that changes is the people that put the message out, because everybody has a unique way. Like this is a unique way of putting the positivity message out and putting good things into people's lives. It's a different way of doing that and I think we need to have that, because we all learn in different ways. If you think about it, wayne Dyer might not attract everybody because you might not learn the way he teaches Right, so let's go back into that. So one of the other things kindness has a superpower. I like that one, and that's not just being kind to other people, it's being kind to yourself.
Speaker 2:And I think that's the most important part.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:When you're happy with yourself and you love yourself, it spills out what you believe about yourself. When you're kind to yourself, you're kind to others. And what do I always tell you, brooke? If someone's being mean to you, what's usually happening?
Speaker 3:Um, like something like wrong in their life or something so true, so true.
Speaker 1:It's actually a reflection from it's from from them. It's them not you, and you'll find as many times where things, sometimes where things annoy you about somebody. Sometimes you have to look in the mirror because sometimes you're doing those things too and you're like, oh boy, this is not good.
Speaker 2:We do that to each other, yeah, right.
Speaker 1:It's funny, I just thought of it. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Oh, just thought of it. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Oh, I like it. Yeah, when the student is ready, the teacher, the teacher will appear. That's yeah, that's a Wayne Dyer one. That's a good one. Yeah, cause it's so true. Because I'll tell you why. Because what I was saying before is that if you're not ready to to learn, it doesn't matter who's in front of you teaching you or talking to you. You have to be ready for it. And what's funny is all your teacher will appear at that point.
Speaker 2:And I actually, did you ever read the energy bus?
Speaker 1:I did not, I've somebody, I just the second time.
Speaker 2:somebody said this recently you have to John Gordon is you know who?
Speaker 1:you know who said that it was um Sylvie Sylvie the juice, though she's uh was on a show and uh, she said about that. Yeah, and I know the name. What's the name again?
Speaker 2:The energy bus. Energy bus, yeah, and what? Who's the author? John gordon. Yes, I know he is. He has tons of books. They're all about positivity, but they're all little stories yeah, he actually inspired the way I wrote this, because he tells a story, but he gives the message through a story yeah but anyways and a lot of us learn better that way yeah, because
Speaker 2:a lot of us learn better that way his books you can read in like an hour yep, exactly so ready for this story. I think you know she's like oh no, mom's telling that story so the energy bus was one of the first books I read, probably like 10 years ago, that I fell in love with positive self-talk and stuff like that so I was promoting it to everyone and telling everyone my sister at the time was going through a really hard time a really really hard time just in life, and every time we would sit there and just have a couple of drinks or just hanging out, I would try and plant the seeds.
Speaker 2:plant the seeds about this energy bus, energy bus, energy bus. But one day she's like Brad, I'm going to pop those tires on your bus. And her and I were so.
Speaker 1:Only a sister could say something like that.
Speaker 2:Right, there might've been some colorful language in there too.
Speaker 1:I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, but I was, we cracked up. We started laughing and she's like Brian, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. You have things going on in your life that are good. Of course you're going to feel happy. Well, about six months later, she started sending me like the energy bus book is yellow. She started sending me a picture of this bright pink bus.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting.
Speaker 2:And she finally got on the bus. But the reason I wanted to tell that story is because you said sometimes people aren't ready and you can't force them to be ready.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so true.
Speaker 2:So when they're finally ready is when? But I tell that story to her. She doesn't mind that I tell the story, but I always tell it because it's always important to still plant those seeds.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Because when people are finally ready, it starts to grow. It does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff, really good. It's almost like and what's funny about that, do you know, if you plant a seed and never rains, it will stay there until it rains and then, when it rains, it'll start to grow. Wow, yeah, so it's the same kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, it's the same kind of thing. So let's go into the power of gratitude. We hear a lot about gratitude today. You know what does gratitude mean to you?
Speaker 3:It just like is always like just reminding yourself like how fortunate you are and just all the like amazing things, and you have to be like grateful for what you have, even if it's little like little or big. You always just should be grateful for whatever you like you have and stuff.
Speaker 1:And do you, do you think about that? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Sometimes I don't really like really do it, but when do we do it? Tell them. And like, the morning for school, we always like do a prayer and she always asked me and my brother and she does it herself, like what we're grateful for, to just like remind us and just like yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 1:We do gratitude a lot too in our family. Gratitude we also do um talk about your day. We go around the table talk about your day. You know um always have time for that, but we try, yeah, um. But yeah, gratitude is huge, huge, huge, huge, thankful for everything you have. Cause I think it's funny. I think you know 99% of our lives are gone exactly where they're supposed to and it's all good, and then, all of a sudden, that one little thing happens and we put all of our focus on that one little thing and what we focus on expands, yeah. So you know, that's, that's um, it's good, good stuff, gratitude's awesome.
Speaker 2:And I love the theory of I get to or I have to.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:So you don't have to do anything, you're blessed, you get to get to like we, we had the opportunity to drive up here. It took us a long time. There was traffic, but we had a car.
Speaker 1:We had this awesome podcast to come to, and it's a much better experience, don't you agree?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, this is so cool. This is better than.
Speaker 1:Zoom, zoom is just so sterile.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're like famous don't you?
Speaker 1:Well, I never do. I don't know what the heck this is. You know I's good, it's good, so let's go into some of this stuff here. I love the idea of small acts of kindness. Great gratitude and positivity can make a difference in somebody's life. How do you do that every day? Do you look? Do you look for the people to try and do that for, do you? Or is it just happen? You know, I'm just wondering how that works out for you.
Speaker 2:Initially I forced it when they were little. We would. We did some really fun stuff.
Speaker 3:Tell them some of the stuff we did so, like when I was younger, she would always like play this song and it was just like I am and it was like like a ton of things like that. You should always like talk to yourself like, about, like positive, and not negative when I was like younger. I play soccer so I was juggling, it's like with your foot juggling.
Speaker 1:I think you knew the video. Yeah, it's not this. At first I did think you were in a circus, I wasn't sure. But no, it's with your foot.
Speaker 3:I know exactly what you mean. I would always get frustrated. So that sparked an idea to always play that song. Then we would always listen to it on the way to school. We would to it like on like the way to school or just like we would like sing it. And she would always ask like what is your affirmation today? What did you affirmation Tell them about the?
Speaker 2:acts of kindness, though.
Speaker 3:Oh, when me and my brother like were younger, we that like remember on the grabber machines. Oh, yeah, so she put like, wrote like a note and we put money there so like people could play or or use the grabber machine we call it a grabber machine.
Speaker 1:What's a grabber machine?
Speaker 2:It's like the crane machine where you put the money in Stuffed animals.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, yes, yes, I know exactly what you mean. I don't know why the kids are addicted to those things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know why we call it a grabber machine.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, we have so many little toys from that. All right, go back to the grabber machine. So were you using positive thoughts in the grabber machine, or what?
Speaker 2:No, we just put a bag of like coins oh okay, Got it A little note that said have fun or good luck, and we would like kind of hide them. Walmart.
Speaker 3:Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2:Catch someone using it. Did we actually ever see anyone?
Speaker 3:I remember we like walked in and we did it like when we first got like in the store and then the store and then we like got whatever like we needed to get and then when we left it wasn't there.
Speaker 2:So oh, it's interesting. And then with our soccer team we collected tons of stuff for the homeless that's good and we went down and delivered it, and so initially we forced it. But now, what do I say to you before you leave the car? Every day, make someone what make somebody smile?
Speaker 1:yeah, oh, that's cool, that's really good that's really good.
Speaker 2:That's good no pressure on buying anything.
Speaker 1:Just make them smile.
Speaker 2:Open the door Smile at someone. If someone doesn't have someone to sit with.
Speaker 1:Show that you care. Yeah, yeah, just showing acts of kindness. I mean acts of kindness. You hear that all the time, but it's so true because it's actually. It's a small story. I didn't tell this story yet at all, but this is really interesting.
Speaker 1:So I'm at McDonald's which is never good for me, of course, you know but I'm at McDonald's and I'm there and I'm in line and I'm waiting and waiting, and waiting and waiting. I never told you this story, hugo, so this is a new one. Waiting and waiting. Right, I'm like what is this lady doing? She? She gets out of her car to talk to do the order at the thing, because I guess her window doesn't go down or whatever. I'm getting frustrated. I'm like, what is going on? She's there, she's taking like five minutes. I'm like so much for fast food. This is ridiculous, right, I'm in a hurry. I'm going on an appointment. She pulls up now to go pay. She gets out of her car again, gets out of her car. She's talking to the lady forever paying.
Speaker 1:I'm like, why is this person getting out of their car to order first and then? So I'm thinking, okay, maybe her window doesn't work. And now in my mind I'm going I know I'm not supposed to be going through this, I know I shouldn't be acting like this, but I am. I'm human. This is the way it is right. I'm going on. I'm about ready to honk the horn and she like goes, like this and smiles and I'm like, all right, I'm not going to, I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to freak out. I was about ready to like just be, like gone, totally bizarre. Gets back in her car, she drives up to the second window, gets her food. I pull up to the first window and said, and the lady goes, that lady just bought your lunch.
Speaker 1:I just got chills I did too I knew you were going to say I was. I was about ready to beep at her and freak out on her, and it taught me a huge, huge, huge lesson. The lesson there is. You know, you have no idea what that person is doing, and I think what it was is her window didn't work.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So and she had a. The car was not the nicest of cars, you know. So me sitting there doing that was probably not a nice thing, but I'm in my day, I'm in my world and we're human. Probably not a nice thing, but I'm in my day, I'm in my world. And then, of course, because of all that, of how much time it took she bought me my lunch.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful, isn't?
Speaker 1:that cool.
Speaker 2:But I feel like Brooke and I were actually talking about that on the way up. You never know what someone else is going through, absolutely you never know what's going on in someone's mind. You never know the hurt, the pain. So did they lose?
Speaker 1:somebody Did they. Are they going through cancer? Are they? Are they doing this? Are they doing that? Are they financially strapped? You know you. You just don't know. And you know when they're coming at you or coming to you in a way that you're like this is you know, you just have to kind of go. Okay, wait, I don't know where they're coming from. Figure it out. The world would be a better place, wouldn't it? Yeah, it would. And, of course, at McDonald's I was freaking out.
Speaker 2:I think most people would have.
Speaker 1:And I'm usually pretty patient, but it was like really getting on me. But it just shows you. You need to slow down, brad. You need to slow down and let people have their time. I like that slowing down down, because how's mommy, when she's in a rush, don't say the word she says? This is a family friendly show.
Speaker 3:She just gets very annoyed at me and my brother and it's just I don't like it's not fun to be around, right?
Speaker 2:But no one's fun when they're in a rush.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So why are we in a rush? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Right, just like when we in a rush. Yeah, exactly Right. Just like when we were running late.
Speaker 2:I said to her all right, let's take a breath. Let's email, let's call let's email.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we got here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it worked out great and you were right on time. Yeah, actually, it was perfect, it worked. We don't get to the end of the show and we didn't talk about it. You have a podcast that you just started not too long ago, which is awesome. I tend to like podcasts. It's called Great Day Vibes, is that right?
Speaker 1:Yes, owning the chaos, finding the calm is like the part and that's the part that I love because I have to say when she says owning the chaos, finding the calm. I was listening to your podcast today. I listened to the latest episode before you got here and I was getting a little. I was very relaxed. She had that. That show or that podcast you're doing is a very it's a very relaxed like tone, definitely different than what you are here a hundred percent different.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I'm sitting usually on my couch okay with the computer on my lap okay and it's just me and the computer like I'm just talking and that's in that computer.
Speaker 1:That's the way you sound with the voice.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1:I seriously was like I was. I felt like I was going to go, like I wasn't sure what was going to happen.
Speaker 2:I was very relaxed I was like this is my talk, like my teacher voice teacher voice and do you do your workout thing in the morning?
Speaker 1:are you whisper on that sometimes? Is that because nobody's?
Speaker 2:up I.
Speaker 1:It's so funny you're saying that because the first time, the first thing I looked up when I saw you was you doing some kind of okay, so what we're gonna do right now, and I'm like she's really timid I think initially because I it's 5, 15 am and oh, yes, so the house is sleeping yeah, that's I. I had it right. I knew that's what it was.
Speaker 2:But then I think that is now in my mind, that's my voice when I teach a workout when, I talk on Instagram. Like my Instagram voice.
Speaker 1:Everyone makes fun of it.
Speaker 2:Everyone makes fun of it.
Speaker 1:She's rolling her eyes.
Speaker 2:If you don't know me, you think that's my voice, but if you know me, you're like what at first?
Speaker 1:what's funny? At first I was like I don't know if I can have her on the podcast. She barely talks. I was like, oh my gosh, she's so soft spoken.
Speaker 3:What'd you say You're totally opposite. Yeah, yeah, she talks a lot.
Speaker 2:This is good. My nickname growing up was motor mail.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, Okay, that's interesting, yeah, so this is good stuff. This is good stuff. So let's talk about the podcast. Why the podcast? What made you go from from the book to this podcast, which is totally different than than kind of well, it's not different, it's just it's a calmer way of of planting those seeds.
Speaker 2:Yes, so that was always in the back of my mind of something I wanted to do. Yeah, and how I do everything is impulsively. So I was driving to work and I had the idea again. It was came to me. I was like I really want to do this podcast. I was like you know what I'm going for it. Yeah, good for you Post it on Facebook. Guess what? I have a podcast.
Speaker 1:Is that before you even had it? Yeah, sometimes, sometimes you can throw it out there. Yeah, I have to commit Wait.
Speaker 2:I chat GPT the the um graphic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, the graphic is awesome.
Speaker 2:That was chat GPT. Are you kidding me? It's a really good graphic and I actually have a kid in my class who's an artist, who is phenomenal. She's going to paint that for me.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:But for now that so I, I screenshotted it, I put it up, and then I said to myself oh crap.
Speaker 1:Now I got to do it, and then I Googled how do you start a podcast? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So I mean, my intention for this podcast is to just help people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have a couple of platforms that I help people workouts. I would teach workouts on the beach. I do the zooms. I have an Instagram page. I have a Facebook page.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm a teacher. I run little seminars occasionally, yeah, but I thought this is just another way for someone who doesn't have Facebook, like my mom, or someone who's driving to work, cause that's when, a lot of times, I'll listen.
Speaker 1:That's where a lot of people listen to podcasts, yeah, and I do you know.
Speaker 2:Do you ever listen to Rob Dial?
Speaker 1:I can't say I have.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's, my favorite.
Speaker 1:Rob Dial.
Speaker 2:Rob Dial, you dial, rob dial You'll have to send me these things.
Speaker 1:Cause I like yeah, I definitely like to look things up, cause I'm always looking for different things.
Speaker 2:They're like 20 minutes long. They're a little scientific based. He curses a little bit in it and he's a little bit raw, he's a little real, he's really cool, but he gives you it's quick, yeah, so I once again, I base mine kind of like his. I don't want to keep it long. I can talk forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, same here, same here, and we have to wrap it up soon. Just speaking of which, we have to wrap it up soon. You know what's funny? This show started out. It used to be what? 12 minutes, 15 minutes, we used to do it, and then it went from 15 minutes to 17, 18 minutes, then from 18 minutes to 22 minutes. We're almost at a half hour, believe it, or's good content, it's good stuff. So I want to ask you is what else? And let me just make sure I got my takeaways on here Many things look different. I wanted to ask you your friends we brought this up before we went live, right, yeah, your friends? What do your friends think about all of this? I mean affirmations, positivity, oh my goodness.
Speaker 3:All that stuff that we never think of as as teenagers. Um, I don't really like talk about it, like with them. Uh, like they like found out I forget how they found out about it I feel like I guess a couple of them follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1:Are you going to tell them about the podcast? Oh look at her, she's probably like no, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, your soccer team, though, when I did the talk at your soccer team, oh, yeah, she so like my team was struggling a little bit. Yeah, okay, and like our games, like we would play really well, just that we couldn't get our shots off.
Speaker 1:And she came to our team like in before the game and just like gave us basically like a pep talk good, you think it worked um, can't hurt it did, she thinks it did.
Speaker 2:they were like goal scoring machines after that, goal-scoring machines.
Speaker 1:She makes the same faces my daughter makes. You and Catherine should get together sometime. But so, out of all of this, do you like it? Because it's different than what most 13-year-olds are being exposed to, do you like it?
Speaker 3:It definitely helps sometimes. Sometimes I'm just like is this really going to help? It does, Since she says it so much, it's kind of not like it gets old, it's just like okay mom, but it does really help. It really is something that anybody should do, because it really helps improve your life. It just makes you happier, even though you might think it doesn't. It really does, that's good stuff.
Speaker 1:That's good stuff. It's good for you like happier. Even though you might think it doesn't, it really does. Yeah, that's good stuff, that's good, so it's good for you to hear it right.
Speaker 2:That made me feel good. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:That's good Is there anything else you can think of that you wanted to cover before we wrap it up? Um, I guess we got the book. Also, where do we find you?
Speaker 2:Oh, so Susan found you.
Speaker 1:Now we figured that out. Okay, let's give susan a plug, because she'll enjoy that. Susan mcfadden is the one that put us together because they're friends through, uh, family or whatever, right, I think. And um, yeah, so, but no, where do we find you to get all of your information?
Speaker 2:so instagram coach piccolo okay facebook. Just my name, brandacolo, and the podcast is on Apple Spotify.
Speaker 1:I think I saw you on Spotify. That's where I saw you.
Speaker 2:I upload through RFM.
Speaker 1:And what's that called again? That's called Great Day Vibes. And if they look up your name, Bacolo, they find everything that way, right.
Speaker 2:And the book is on Amazon the Gratitude Journal, amazon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Gratitude Journal we forgot about real quick. That's this thing right here and you have stuff in there, that it's basically gives you every day like to write, to do stuff Right.
Speaker 2:So the reason I developed that was I had 10 different books and I wanted to put everything into one book with my goals, my prayers, all of that.
Speaker 1:So I love it. I love it, I love it. This stuff is so exciting. Thanks for coming in. Thank you for having us. Thank you for coming in. I really appreciate it. This was excellent, excellent, excellent. All right, we'll get you back in again, how's that?
Speaker 2:I'm excited We'll bring your friends in next time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good. She'll be like All right, there you go, brandy and Brooke Bacolo what a great thing. We got Great Day Vibes as their podcast. Author of Planting Sunshine Seeds I said it correctly but all kinds of positive stuff in here. You really should look them up. I think you're going to love it, you're going to love the book, you're going to love everything they're doing and you're also going to love the podcast that she does. It's very, very low, calm kind of feeling. So, yeah, check it all out. All right, that's about it. Thanks for watching us every Thursday at 7 pm. We'll see you next week. All right, bye.
