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Hello to all. Welcome to Data Care Network. I am Joyce Banning and I will be your host for this invigorating robust lifestyle show. First, I want to thank each one of our listeners that have tuned in live today and the ones that will be listening to this podcast. I am just really grateful for each one of you. And I am just overly excited today to have with me a brand new Diva, Hannah Stempert. And she is also an author in Diva's upcoming book called Animal Prince on My Soul, which will be released here very soon. Oh, I am just thrilled you guys are in for such a treat to listen as Hannah tells some about her story and about herself in this Animal Prince on My Souls book. So Hannah, could you please introduce yourself and tell your tell our listeners a little bit about yourself today?
SPEAKER_01Okay. Um my name is Hannah and I'm the youngest of my family of four and I have one older sister and we live on a little farm here in southwest Kansas and it's about a hundred acres, so it's it's kind of a a nice little hobby farm. And we yeah, it's it's a good life. But so I'm the youngest and um it's kinda nice being the baby of the family. I kinda like that. So but that's just me, I guess.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I can relate to that because I'm the baby of the family too, in my family. And so I always got teased about it. They said I was the most spoiled because I was the baby in the family, and I said, Hey, that's the advantages of being the baby.
SPEAKER_01I know. It works, right? I I I like the gig we got going on. It's awesome. Yes, I do too. I love it.
SPEAKER_02Well that sounds awesome on a hundred acre farm in southwest Kansas. Wow. The land of Oz. In the land of Oz, that's where you're at. That's wonderful. Well, tell our listeners a little bit about the story that you have in our upcoming book, Animal Prince on My Soul.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Um well, mostly about some of the pets that I've had in my life. Um, it's kind of it it kind of talks about my journey of trying to find and catch my dreams and making them come true, making them a reality, and kind of the lessons that I've learned through it all. Um I've always well of course me and my sister both have always wanted a horse, and we never was able to have one until last year, and so that was kind of a dream that we've been able to recognize and kind of the lessons that I've learned from that. And um I also had a kitty when I was twelve, and I mentioned her in the book. She was the love of my life. And so I talk about her in the book and how amazing she was and my love for her, and that's a little bit about kind of the lessons that I've learned. Um and it it's it's really important to me writing it all down. And I I think I kind of realized that when I started writing the story, because once you kind of reminisce about those times and start to realize what God has pulled me through, I don't know, it I just think it's I start to learn those lessons as I'm writing it down, kind of thinking through the process and how God's blessed me through my life. And I I to me that's so important, kind of recognizing that me personally. And so I I'm really excited to share that with other people and kind of tell them my experiences of how God's really blessed me through all that. So that's a little bit less about.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that is beautiful, and I love how you said putting it down in writing, it makes the lessons more vivid. It makes you reminisce about them, like you said, and you realize how much God has blessed you through these lessons, though some of them might have been tough, and you were like, Okay, why now? But uh when you start to write it all down, how true that is when you write things down, they take on a little different perspective than just having them.
SPEAKER_01They really do. I I totally agree. And I never really had thought about it that much until I started writing this story because I was like, oh wow, that you you start to kind of think of things that you might have forgotten, or you know, some things that kind of got pushed in the back of your head. And so I it was I I just loved it. I was like, wow, this is this is cool. I'm starting to to know me a little bit better now, too. So I'm like, okay, Hannah's not such a bad kid after all.
SPEAKER_02No, you're not, because I know you as a dear friend too. You and your sister both, and you're both you're both treasures, definitely.
SPEAKER_01So Well, thank you. You are too. Uh and by the way, thank you for having me on. This is super fun. And I'm I'm so glad that you're interviewing me, 'cause like you said, we are we are friends, we're buddies. And I'm I it it really helps me not to be nervous knowing that you're the one interviewing me.
SPEAKER_02So Oh, that is awesome. Well, thank you. Definitely feel the same way. I'm I'm just loving every moment of it. This is great. Well, I know you touched on it a little bit about reminiscing and making you remember some like you said, remember things and the vivid lessons. But how do you really feel what are some of the some more of the impacts that this story has had by writing it down and maybe even the impact you'd like to share on with others from your story?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um I shared in the book how um I had an experience when I was about three years old, how uh a horse almost came into my life and it didn't. And that was really disappointing for me. But now that we do have a horse, um, and I'm older, I kinda realized that I'm still three years old when it comes to horses. And uh I kind of had to grow up a little bit, if you know what I mean. Um it it's taken it it's kind of matured me a little bit to realize that, you know, although horses are pretty majestic animals, it's not a whole fairy tale having to deal with them. And with growing up on a farm, I I realized that, yeah, there's also a bad side to to life and to animals. I I knew that obviously, but um honey's kinda helped grow me up and well I I'm trying to teach her that um she needs a little growing up too. Uh but um so I think some impact that animals have had on me, not just honey, our horse, but like our farm animals, they're they all are so different and uh you're a country girl, you know what I mean. They all have such different personal thoughts, right?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01It's just like family members, you know, they they all have they try a temper tantrum once in a while. They all can be a pain in the very air. It can be really sweet too, but so I I really appreciate um having a relationship with animals in a way that like a friendship, you know, because just like humans, you kinda have to try an effort to be their friend. You can't just, you know, feed them, love them, put them in the barn. You know, you have to make an effort to to being their friend. And I really, really love how animals are are like humans in that way, where they're all so different. And it's you know, I go up to my couch and we have a different relationship than, you know, our dogs or something. It's and I I think that that's what makes life so fun and so enjoyable is having different, you know, animals in your life that that just hold different spots in your heart or that you have a different relationship with and it just makes life on the farm really enjoyable, really fun and really interesting, I think.
SPEAKER_02Oh, oh I agree a hundred percent because you they all every single one has a different personality. I mean I have three horses and they are just majestic animals and I I love every one of 'em. But they all they all bring something different into my life than what the other one does. Because they all we all connect to our heart, but they touch a different way and their personality just brings out something else in me that maybe the other one didn't. And it's yes, I agree. And the same with my dogs. I mean my little red healer, as I say in almost every one. I e everybody should that listens to me should know I have a little red healer that we are connected soul to soul and uh he he knows me better than any of the other animals, or I always say probably better than anybody else ever will. But yes. Yeah, it is just that is the cool. It is a connection with animals that is just it's an incredible, it's a majestic connection in a lot of ways.
SPEAKER_01And and I think you you know, I think everyone should take the time to make an effort into that too, you know, because it y you know, animal personalities can be obvious to most people, but if you really make an effort to truly understand them, that's when their different colors come out and you realize just how special they are.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Oh, oh definitely. I hear you completely. So many animals come to my mind when we're talking about this that have been in my life and are in my life, and oh wow, oh I love it. Uh we could talk for hours about all the animals that we have had and exchange how their personalities have impacted our lives. That is just beautiful. I know. Well, what uh you mentioned your horse and I heard you mention a cow. What all kind of farm animals have you experienced in your life living out in the country?
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, it it can we have cows and our dairy cows. They're they're really they're smaller than beef cows, obviously, but I I kind of like it that way. So they're a little easier to handle. They're really cute and fuzzy, and they have lawn eyelashes. And we have Hami, our horse, and she has one blue eye, one brown eye. And she is the blonde of the family, and she knows it. She's really cute and tangent. Uh but I love her to death. Even if she's just a lawn ornament, she's yeah, I love her. But anyway. And then we have our cats and dogs. We have German Shepherd, and then a mix of welfare cats that don't do much. And then we have we we used to have she, but we don't anymore. And then we have our chickens. And we used to have pigs, but they're they're in the freezer now, unfortunately. That's probably not a good subject for this reaction.
SPEAKER_02Oh wow, you have that's okay. You have just had all kinds of animals in your life, and something that even comes to my mind that I have really noticed, and especially uh through the summer months and now going into the f into the fall is the birds. The birds are just absolutely beautiful. We have had flocks of geese flying over us in the evenings talking and I mean of all they're just they're an incredible majestic animal to me in their own way. Living out in the country, I know you experience them also.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Actually, we have some cardinals and blue jays out here right now. So that's a big treat. Yeah, yeah. Actually they you know how blue jays sound like big grumpy, grumpy birds most of the time. They're called babies like but actually no, the more they're lingering, they they're starting to sound more nice. So uh yeah, I think I think we're rubbing off on them. They're realizing life is nice.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Your personality is transferring into them because they're around you. Oh, that is beautiful. I love that.
SPEAKER_01Well, if I start getting grumpy, then we know that the birds are starting to rub off on me, right?
SPEAKER_02We'll we'll have your sister keep you in line on that one.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay, that works.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's good. Well, Hannah, this has been such a pleasure and an honor to be able to interview you as one of our authors in our upcoming book. I am just so excited for our listeners to be able to read your story. You are so welcome.
SPEAKER_01And well, I'm sorry, I have to ask you. I have to ask you, sorry to interrupt. But uh you have a story in the book too, right? Yes, yes, I do. Well, when when are you gonna interview yourself? I mean, so much after interviewing you, right?
SPEAKER_02Well, actually, uh one of the other authors that is a host, her and I, did kind of a joint interview with each other on um last oh here within the last week's time. And that that is post should be posted everywhere here before long. And yes, we she we decided she did it one about cats, and mine is about basically all my farm animals, all the animals in my life and the influences, the way they've impacted me, and just some different things like that.
SPEAKER_01So, yes, but thank you so much for asking.
SPEAKER_02I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_01I'm really really look Yeah, I'm really looking forward to reading it um in the book. I mean that's that's why I wrote a story in the book so I could get a a free copy, right? So I can read Joyce's story. Well, and there's a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that is so sweet of you. I love it. Well, there is like twenty-six of us authors in the book.
SPEAKER_01Oh gosh, I yeah, I'm excited to read everyone else's story. Um especially yours, but everyone's story, obviously. It's yeah, it's kind of cool.
SPEAKER_02Oh. Well, thank you so much, so much, Hannah. Well, what is a final tip? You've left lots of information about animals with our listeners today, but what is a final tip you would like to leave to our listeners about animals in our lives for for them to look at being in their lives?
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. Well, I would I would say, you know, listening to animals because they they have so much to say, you know, and they're animals I think are a very, very special thing in our lives. I mean God gave them to us for a reason. They they are so special. They animals, yeah, like you said, we could talk on for days about about animals and how God has made animals so special. And so I think listening to them and and truly trying to understand with them, be patient, you know, um and learn from your mistakes. I I know I have definitely, and all of us we all make mistakes, we all have to learn from them. And animals, you know, they have patience too, to to teach you and to to love you. So the more you listen and the more you try to connect with them, the sweetier it will be, I think, honestly. And that's the way God made us all, it's it's to to connect that way. And yeah. That's that's my opinion.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that was beautiful, Hannah. What a beautiful tip to leave with our listeners. I absolutely love that. Thank you so much for being on my robust lifestyle show. This was just awesome. Thank you again.
SPEAKER_01I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you are so welcome, so welcome. And I do want to thank all of our listeners for listening to this absolutely incredible in incredible interview with one of our amazing authors in Animal Prince on My Soul. And be sure and get a copy of the book and read Hannah Stemphart's story in that book. Share this show with all your family and friends, and be sure to check out all the other hosts and their shows on divaseccare.com. Remember, with all your animals, listen and connect with them and give them a great big extra hug and share all your love with them. And remember, be kind to all. And until we connect again on Robust Lifestyles, stay strong and healthy.