As we throw open the doors to another season, we can't help but marvel at our podcast's journey from its humble beginnings to reaching ears across oceans. Remembering the early days of cobbling together the perfect show name, we now stand proud of our wins and the stories that have accompanied each release. We are excited about the consistency content that have resonated with many, but more so, it's an invitation to you to join our ongoing conversations!
Brace yourself for discussions that leap from laughter to deep reflection, as we continue to embrace topics that challenge and inspire. With a global family of listeners from India to the UK, we're not just crossing borders; we're breaking barriers with episodes that tackle everything from the intricacies of sex toys to the mysteries of spirituality. Our special spotlight on the episode with a medium showcases our spectrum of content and how we aim to stir hearts and minds alike.
Staying true to our roots, personal growth and transformation remain at the core of our musings. As we share the power of intention through selecting a word for the year, we invite you to consider this simple yet profound practice. And hold on tight because we've got some hair-raising topics up our sleeve, including a deep dive into dating dynamics and a thrilling episode on conspiracy theories that promises to leave you leaning in, questioning, and maybe even a little stirred up. Come, be part of our story as we embark on another round of amusing, poignant, and occasionally surprising conversations.
As we throw open the doors to another season, we can't help but marvel at our podcast's journey from its humble beginnings to reaching ears across oceans. Remembering the early days of cobbling together the perfect show name, we now stand proud of our wins and the stories that have accompanied each release. We are excited about the consistency content that have resonated with many, but more so, it's an invitation to you to join our ongoing conversations!
Brace yourself for discussions that leap from laughter to deep reflection, as we continue to embrace topics that challenge and inspire. With a global family of listeners from India to the UK, we're not just crossing borders; we're breaking barriers with episodes that tackle everything from the intricacies of sex toys to the mysteries of spirituality. Our special spotlight on the episode with a medium showcases our spectrum of content and how we aim to stir hearts and minds alike.
Staying true to our roots, personal growth and transformation remain at the core of our musings. As we share the power of intention through selecting a word for the year, we invite you to consider this simple yet profound practice. And hold on tight because we've got some hair-raising topics up our sleeve, including a deep dive into dating dynamics and a thrilling episode on conspiracy theories that promises to leave you leaning in, questioning, and maybe even a little stirred up. Come, be part of our story as we embark on another round of amusing, poignant, and occasionally surprising conversations.
One, two, three, four. Hey, all you people out there this is Michelle.
Speaker 2:Oh, she's getting all fancy on us, isn't she? Hey?
Speaker 1:Michelle, that's everybody right.
Speaker 2:All you people, all the peeps.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're all out there. Hey guys, welcome to episode 48. This is the first episode of season two. We're thrilled to have you join us and we are really thrilled to be doing this for our second year. Yeah, we've had a lot of fun with it Rounding it out.
Speaker 2:Rounding it out or rounding it up, I don't know. I think up we had a lot of learnings this year and some statistics that we wanted to share, and then also just some I don't know feedback of ours on our favorite episodes and rounding out the year and kind of what to look forward to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what do you think? A 2023 recap? How did this all start? Why did it start? How's it been?
Speaker 2:Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2:Okay, so let's talk about how it all started. That would be Julie. Well, no, was it 2019 or 2018? I think it was like 2018. We started talking about it. Yeah, and we were throwing around a lot of names because we needed to come up with a name you know for the podcast and we actually did do a little bit of surveying with people out there on some of the names we chosen. Oh my God, Michelle, I am so glad we didn't choose a couple of those.
Speaker 1:The name was probably the most time consuming.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And difficult part of the process as far as getting things started.
Speaker 2:Well, and really wanting to know kind of what our theme was going to be and what we were going to be pursuing in terms of topics and our audience. So I'm not a marketing person. I do that kind of stuff for work, but it's very different type of stuff for work and Michelle's the creative one, so we definitely have taken our paths on the creativity aspect of things. She's the real girl. She does all of the Instagram and Facebook and TikTok videos and stuff and she does pretty damn good job on them.
Speaker 2:And then Julie does all the hard stuff which makes me laugh because I am so not a techie person. But I was determined at the beginning of this last year we were going to. We knew we were going to be launching in February, so we took some time towards the end of the year to learn about the different sites that we could utilize to record, and then sites we could use to edit and then learning how to edit. That was I'm still doing it, I'm still learning. And then our next step of the course is going to be learning how to edit the video. So I just have to kind of get in. I'm going to tell you Google is your friend. You know Google and YouTube. You know we can. Just you can learn so much especially when you're 50 something.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I mean, at least we know what Google and YouTube are really for anybody yeah. Yeah, I had a little help from Zoe on different things and Andrew coming and helping with little things and yeah, there's been definite questions and things out there, but I try to minimize those because I don't like the eye roll that I get when it's like oh mom, you know yeah, but you have to say you you're like a dog with a bone. Yeah.
Speaker 1:When it comes to a cute puppy, yeah. A cute dog, yeah, and the puppies like. You're a dog with a dog, I'm a dog when it comes to some of this stuff, really with anything, I see you, but once, once she has her mind to something she pursues and she makes sure she figures it out yeah, and I've had a little you know, things along the way that have been a little rougher in the recordings and learning how to edit, like I'd edit the hell out of some of these where it didn't necessarily couldn't hear you breathe.
Speaker 2:You know that kind of thing. So I've learned as we've gone along, going into episode 48, there's just some things you can, it's okay. You know, you just leave some of that shit in there, it's no big deal.
Speaker 1:It's kind of how people talk yeah, keeping it real, exactly it is what it is.
Speaker 2:So we're going from 2019 to present and now going into our second season. Are you excited?
Speaker 1:Cause I'm kind of excited. Episodes and seasons yes, I know, a second season.
Speaker 2:So our goal is to drop an episode every, every week, which we did. We'd never missed a week. I was pretty excited about that and we did have some that were definitely downloaded more and were more popular, I would say. The other episodes, do you remember? Like the very first one, I think, was our trailer, which was, you know, kind of a fun, like only minute and a half or something that people would listen to it took us such a long time to do that trailer. Do you?
Speaker 1:remember we were sitting on the blue couch and to start recording and talking about it and talking about ourselves and getting it to sound right and flow right, and of course, we were trying to be more perfect. I think, yeah, and it's because of the whole idea of it all. Yeah, so that's the one lesson.
Speaker 2:It's like you have if you ever want to start a podcast or if you are interested in pursuing anything like this. One thing that you will learn very quickly is that perfection is not your friend. It is not your friend and we have a tendency to want to do things in a way to where they are perfect or where you know the everything's all buttoned up and the reality is that you know what. It's not going to always be like that, and I'm okay with that, and coming from me, that's a lot because, I, I has.
Speaker 2:I think that's why it took so long for us to get going in the first place yeah. So, anyway, it's been a total blast, and it's something that we had started originally because I was saying, well, at least for myself, I really needed to do a hobby or something that was different than what I would normally be doing.
Speaker 1:Which is buying things, real estate things and boats and shit like that. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I've stopped, I've stopped, I've stopped. Now we're just kind of going through all of those yeah, so moving over to something that doesn't cost me so much money, I guess.
Speaker 1:Kind of kidding, but not really, but not really yeah.
Speaker 2:No, we're just. We're just kind of sitting in this house. That has been oh, I don't know. I'd say labor, love we talked about that and we lost our contractor this year, and bless his heart and rest in peace. Mr J yeah, who built this house, so that's been kind of something that happened towards the end of the year. I think we're going to talk a little bit about some of the year and the things that have gone on.
Speaker 2:But I actually mentioned to Zoe the other day that I'm getting like that itch to like need more space. Oh, I know, and don't worry, I'm not going to do anything about it. I get, I get like that itch and then I'm like it'll be a good two or three years till I do anything. But this house is never leaving my family.
Speaker 1:I know that yeah.
Speaker 2:So there will always be a house here. But yeah, I think it's with Andrew. You just want to move to Texas.
Speaker 1:This is what's really when she says she's has that itch for more space. This is really what she's saying. Well, we're not just talking Texas.
Speaker 2:I mean, you couldn't catch me dead in Texas, right? Well, except in Austin Texas I could live in Austin Texas, but I never will live there, live there. I would consider living there. I would go back and forth. This is always gonna be home but, when we need sunshine or we need a little break. It's just one flight away, and if Andrew's there and Milly is there and, who knows, other little ones might be running around at some point. Although, no pressure you guys. Of course Grandma is gonna want to go and check it out.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, we'll see what happens with that? It is exciting. It's kind of that stage that everybody's going through with change. And this is his he's 30, and I'm excited for them. I'm a little sad at the same time, just cause they're not here. But you know what? I would never, ever in a million years, say no, you can't go because I want them to live their life.
Speaker 1:That's fun. When family dynamics start changing, it's when that evolution starts happening. You have to kind of evolve too in an interesting way.
Speaker 2:So anyways, that could be an episode. Just turn that up we are evolving. Yeah, we're evolving. Yeah, let's put that one down as an episode. Or is that we're evolving, or when we say retiring? Retiring, you put out evolving yeah cause I don't think I'll ever retire. I'm just too busy of a bee. I don't know that I'll ever do that.
Speaker 1:but Well, hence the reason I mean back to why we started talking about that is doing the podcast and having a pastime, you know.
Speaker 2:That is carrying a slash hobby Slash hobby. We're very organized with our calendar and everything. So, anyway, we will be bringing in more this year, but in retrospect and looking on the year that we just finished 2023, there's been so much that has gone on in our world and we won't get into all of the politics of it because that'll be a whole nother episode too.
Speaker 2:But, there's a lot of shit that's been going on in the world, and bad stuff you know good stuff too, of course but definitely things that are marking our history you know, with the different wars and all that stuff that's going on. And God forbid, michelle, we have a presidential election coming up in 2024.
Speaker 1:And if I could turn off, every one of those flipping at yes, no.
Speaker 2:I mean yes, 2024 coming up at the end of the year Already.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, wow, can you stand it? I mean, I knew it was coming, I've seen. It's not like I don't pay attention, but I just like to hear you say that. Well, I mean, we're in 2024. So it's very strange, like when you're writing it down, you're still writing 2023, until you get used to it Very strange to say that this year we will have a presidential election and we don't have a lot of really good candidates, so it's gonna be just frightening, I think.
Speaker 2:So we'll just sit and watch and do our best to participate and have an opinion, but do you?
Speaker 1:know, looking back, we were downloaded in other countries not just yeah of course, the Seattle area is where we had the most downloads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:But we also were in five countries.
Speaker 2:I know I know some of my peeps like in India. We had some that were in India and in Australia.
Speaker 1:I know that is one of my client's friend she's a friend client she actually lives in North Carolina, but she's from that area over there, canada, canada, the UK, yep, the UK, so that's been kinda cool. And then, of course, the US. Yeah, so that's good.
Speaker 2:We want our goals maybe to expand a little bit further than that. This year, a lot of East Coasters too, shout out to my girl, selena.
Speaker 1:You know what we need. We need to be able to do that for those of you that are faithful listeners. We love you, but downloading and sharing, right, download and share. I mean, we see that on social media all the time, but truly like for us to be able to grow and accomplish some of the things that we wanna be able to do, to be able to talk about all of these things that we do and really get it out there. Downloading and sharing Yep, if you like us, please share.
Speaker 2:Well, let's be honest, we didn't know that we were just like okay, we just need followers, that's all we need. So we've got followers and all that. We do have a lot of that stuff going on but we kind of learned a little bit more about the intricacies. And it's the downloads. And I download just cause I can have. I download any podcast I listen to, so it's with me If I'm not in a place where I have wifi or you're on a plane or whatever, and then I just delete them off my phone afterwards.
Speaker 1:Well, and then just tell people about us. Yeah, if there's something that you like or something you heard that you like, share it with your friends. Yeah, your girlfriends, whatever.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like we had a lot of controversial topics like we discussed I?
Speaker 1:think there were some, there were a few, there were some. I mean, my biggest goal in regard to that was to get Julie to say the word right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got. I'm not controversial anymore. I'm controversial Versual. Yeah, I'm just joking. Look at it. I've totally got it down now. Yeah, you've got it down.
Speaker 1:I think there were some. There were parts and pieces that were controversial. I don't know that Well, I mean, I think episodes in themselves that were controversial were probably like the sex toys one, you know sex, but it was very not controversial in that it was the topic itself, but to some people it might be Well.
Speaker 2:yeah, some are like oh my God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it just depends.
Speaker 2:I mean like shout out to our friend Eileen Well and girl, we are taking you to the Toy Store.
Speaker 1:God damn it. And the medium. They're all different, I think, levels of controversy depending on the person. So what might be controversial to you and I might be, or what might not be, I should say what might not be controversial to you and I, or, as controversial, might be extremely controversial to somebody else.
Speaker 2:That's listening Well, like the spirituality and religion episode. Oh yeah, we definitely got some feedback on that one and honestly I really felt good about that one because my mind is just looking at things so much differently as I've gotten older and of course I know that's not going to be something that everybody agrees with. I don't really care.
Speaker 2:It's just more like our opinions on things. But it's funny. I was talking to someone the other day and he was saying that he was an atheist and of course, immediately I'm just kind of like what does that mean? You know, tell me more about that. What does that mean? He really wasn't an atheist, he really did believe that there is something out there. It's a more agnostic.
Speaker 2:Yes, but he was thinking you know my, because it's not God. Yeah, my parents were both Baptist ministers and you know I was raised with this and I started questioning it kind of a thing, kind of like we did. I mean, I did all of that stuff and we were always taught to just believe, or like we learned our prayers. Like I mentioned, I didn't really know what they meant, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1:So repetitive and habitual right. That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2:And it's to you know, to keep you in Keep us in line I mean, there's good stuff to it too, but I think we can accomplish a lot of the same things.
Speaker 1:But those were controversial episodes, very much so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I did enjoy that very much. Oh me too. Yeah, what was your favorite, do you think, out of the ones that we had?
Speaker 1:Probably the medium. Okay, Jen's yeah, Jen, and that was a two part, two part one we did and just being able to spend that time with her and to really get a feel for that process and what that is for her and carrying it through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I've been with her before when she has actually done readings and things for groups or you know, she can't really turn it off a lot of the time and I I don't even know how to say it that girl fills my bucket in such a way, and I've known her for so, so many years. But she just has this specialness about her that she kind of radiates to other people.
Speaker 1:And I just want to give a shout out, actually right now, since we're talking about her past, but present. That was the name of our episode, but she has been filming a docu-series and that's what it's called past but present.
Speaker 2:So, and it's out there now, it's on YouTube, it's out there.
Speaker 1:Look for it on YouTube. I'm not following Jennifer on Instagram. She's on there. There's a lot of clips and trailers from all these docu-series that she's doing, and it's so interesting.
Speaker 2:She's doing a seminar down in Miami at the end of January and it is going to be a part of the docu-series.
Speaker 1:Oh, really yeah.
Speaker 2:Whatever they're going to be discussing and I've seen that come up a couple of times.
Speaker 1:In a nutshell, they like take her places. That she doesn't know specifically where she's at and then, for lack of a better term, they turn her loose. Yeah. And they're videotaping what she's feeling and they're documenting all of the information that is coming to her about people. Yeah, it's just, it's very cool, have you?
Speaker 2:run across people that had heard those episodes or heard about that, who were very skeptical.
Speaker 1:Yes, me too, me too.
Speaker 2:And I'm not skeptical about it at all because I've watched her in action I believe that it's very I don't know ignorant for us to believe that there is nobody out there kind of a thing. So it's your soul that's out there that is speaking, or someone's soul that's speaking or needing some clarification or reassurance, or whatever Some people believe, there's not life after death, though. Those would be atheists, that's just that not necessarily. Well, who else I?
Speaker 1:mean, if you don't believe in God, I get that. That's part of the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But there are those that might believe in whatever being something more agnostic, but that when you die, you die, you die, you're dead and there's no more. You're dead and gone, that's it. There's nothing more.
Speaker 2:That you don't have a soul.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Kind of like a ginger who has no soul.
Speaker 1:I don't yeah, so anyways, but Anyway, yeah, no, I yeah, there definitely are people like that out there. Having Jennifer, that was that was really cool. Yeah, I appreciated her taking the time and the little series was probably my favorite.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so anybody shout out, check it out. Yeah, if you can password present and you can also find her, like I said, on Instagram. But she was a lovely guest and we had a ton of downloads, a ton of listeners on those People were really excited to hear what she had to say.
Speaker 1:What was your favorite?
Speaker 2:episode. You know I really enjoyed the sexy conversation about intimacy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a short one, but really kind of I think we were both kind of speaking from the heart about what we kind of view that that topic you know, and what we vision it to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, I learned things, yeah, About myself too, Did you? I started growing up to do it, getting information for it and then really recognizing some of the things in my own life. With regard to that it's I don't know. I think there's been a lot of episodes, I think, where that has come to light. It's like, oh, not like I'm learning something new about myself, but really recognizing some of the things that I feel and think and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So I've really come to learn something about myself from some of these episodes too, and that is that I am a flip and hopeless romantic, and I don't really know that I realized that to the same degree before. Well, I am, I'm a total, mushy, hopeless romantic. I know I am To the degree I didn't really realize. So when I think about things, that's how I think about them. So I've really had to kind of start thinking about it a little bit differently, because not everything is sunshine and roses.
Speaker 1:Well, that's okay if you think that way.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but I'm just trying to, I'm trying to put it into perspective, right?
Speaker 1:I mean we got the whole other rest of things in our life that we can put in perspective, like let it be some kind of roses she's saying, be a hopeless, romantic, yes, okay. Because you know, I am too, I know you are, I mean, there you go.
Speaker 2:I'm worse, though I think I'm kind of worse. I mean, I find all these things on, you know, these Instagram things that are. I'll save them all. And then you know it's like, oh, that totally resonates, or whatever. I don't do anything with them.
Speaker 1:I just save them. You know, maybe you will some point Someday, maybe I will, yeah, but anyway, that is me hopeless romantic.
Speaker 2:I guess that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1:I also like the one about you know what does it mean to be 50 something?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That was an interesting one to me, the way I think I liked, the way how it came to light.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That we should do an episode about that. That I enjoyed, and then just really talking about that. Well, I enjoyed that one Doing it.
Speaker 2:That was another one where I had really thought through. It's like I don't know that we are. I think we're kind of unique in the way we approach things, just for our age group maybe or what we?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I just feel like we are unique or I feel like we're maybe a little on an island about how we look at things, which I'm okay with. But it became very clear that that was the case when that episode came up and just different things that had happened or we had discussed at the time. So we felt the need to really clarify or to speak about it and I really enjoyed that episode as well.
Speaker 2:I thought that one was a lot of fun. The slang one was pretty hilarious. You know, I mean some of these were just fun. You know they weren't gonna be ones that were really enlightening, so to speak, but they're gonna be fun.
Speaker 1:You know it's funny. I was had traveled recently and went skiing. So we were at a ski lodge and from where we were staying we would take a bus up to the lodge that's where you'd spend the day and then take the bus back. So literally they pack all these people in the bus, like snowboarders, skiers, and this one of the times, one of the trips, there were some young men talking and you know bro every other way, bro sick using all this slang to him and I just had to sit there.
Speaker 1:I was laughing because I understood everything he was saying.
Speaker 2:Are you on fleek? And?
Speaker 1:then we got back to the room and Rick's daughters were talking. We were just talking about it because everybody could hear the conversation and, yeah, I just said I was most impressed that I understood everything they were talking about. Do the girls talk that way?
Speaker 2:No, no, they don't use that kind of slang. I mean, who knows?
Speaker 1:Like they were their friends, I have no idea, I mean, who knows, but it was just funny, yeah. So I did learn, I guess, some things from that episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like our age group. Maybe it's like, instead of saying cool, you say oh sweet. You know it's funny, rick says cool all the time. Really Well, he's from the 60s too, I guess.
Speaker 1:He does. Yeah cool, his girls called him out on it too the other day.
Speaker 2:Because he says cool.
Speaker 1:Cool, oh my goodness, yeah so.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed that one a lot and the other one that we were talking about was we talked about the mediumship. One cannabis conversation one was really enlightening.
Speaker 1:That was very enlightening and she was a great guest.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, she's so smart.
Speaker 1:For one. We did that episode different than any other episode and our listeners won't know that, but brought her in through a phone call.
Speaker 2:Right, it sounded a little bit different. That was the first time we had done that and that was the only real difference. You wouldn't necessarily know otherwise.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought it was great. So that was a learning for us doing that episode. But she was really interesting to listen to and just her knowledge of everything and she was fun at the same time. So it was, yeah, I enjoyed that and learned a lot. What episode number that was. That was episode 43.
Speaker 2:The cannabis episode. So we are going to go back and maybe outline some of these and the numbers because, because, then you can download and share with your friends. Yeah, we just kind of didn't do that when we started, but yeah, we just get to talking about everything.
Speaker 1:We're just, we're kind of reminiscing, if you will, reminiscing about all of our episodes, Anyway.
Speaker 2:so let's talk a little bit about what we plan to do going into the new year. What can people expect from us?
Speaker 1:They can expect to see us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, there's one of the things that we're trying to figure out. This is a goal, it's a goal.
Speaker 1:And we're actually almost there and we don't want to do it half-assed, which is why it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2:Did we just talk about how things shouldn't be perfect?
Speaker 1:It doesn't have to be perfect, but but half-assed isn't.
Speaker 2:Like you have to be able to hear it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's, there's things, you can see it.
Speaker 2:but you have to be able to hear it.
Speaker 1:And we, we want it to be, you know, pleasurable to see.
Speaker 2:Michelle wants to pleasure you.
Speaker 1:While you look at us, while you look at us, or you could never mind, we're taking this way out of context, so that's okay. But yeah, they will be able to see us in 2024 because we will be doing video episodes as well as audio, like you are getting now.
Speaker 2:So which we've talked about. Then we've been procrastinating on my favorite thing Okay, Going into 2024. Have you chosen your word?
Speaker 1:I have not chosen my word. I still haven't. Nope, I have not chosen my word yet and I know I need to.
Speaker 2:Okay, explain Cause people might not know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:Uh, do you give yourself a word for the year, just like people set goals. But you have the this word and that is kind of a reminder, I think, for a lot of different things as you go throughout your journey into the next year. So, for example, your word last year was Elevate. Elevate.
Speaker 2:And I wrote it on my mirror and it's on my phone and it would be the word. It would be kind of what I would look at when I was like being lazy or going. I don't want to do that. I don't want to go to the gym. I don't want. I'd be like, okay, get your ass up.
Speaker 1:You need to like step it up or take it to the next level whatever it was you know could fit into any category, right, yeah, so yeah, that word as a reminder and how it resonates in all aspects of what you do. Yeah, what you're doing.
Speaker 2:So if you guys out there have not done that, it's kind of a cool thing to do. It's not about setting goals. Like you know, you set your new year's resolutions. It's not like that. I'm not a big believer in some of those things because I feel like by the end of January we forget about it.
Speaker 2:But, I like to have little simple things that I can focus on that will carry me throughout the year, Like, for example, the podcast. We said this is what we're going to be doing this year. It wasn't something that had to start on January 1st or anything like that, but we knew we wanted to get this up and running this year and get it live. The elevate word like I said, it was really put in place for me to be able to think about when I was wanting to not put effort into something, and so just elevating my approach whether it be, you know, about reading, whether it be about working out, whether it be about work, whatever it was and I actually feel like it's been really helpful for me because I go back to that and my goodness, if I'm in my bathroom, I see it on my mirror.
Speaker 2:You know, it's right up above my sink, so and I'm going to put a new one up there here in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1:Do you have yours?
Speaker 2:I do. You want to know what it is.
Speaker 1:No, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're having a pajama party, yeah, but actually it's New Year's already, so we had a pajama party for New Year's. You know face masks, and I mean these girls were like, really, Julie, you want to do a vision board? I'm not that boring, I don't need to do a vision board on New Year's Eve, right? So we're going to do that this coming week, probably sometime, but I think it's important to have oh yeah.
Speaker 2:What's funny is I had made one. I had made one in 2020 and I just crossed out the 20 and made it 21.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then I crossed out the 21 and made it 22. And then I just took the damn thing down Time for some new stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean really I had accomplished quite a few things that I had put on there, you know, travel part of it, Some of it I wasn't able to do because just it was not. We just wasn't the right time to be able to do it, with everything that was going on in the world and I needed to be focusing on other things. But I'm really looking forward to having some good experiences this year, you know. I want to travel and we've got lots going on with, you know, the moves and the podcast and just everything.
Speaker 2:So, I really have. I have a really optimistic view on what's ahead, because we only live once.
Speaker 1:That's right. Yeah, yolo, yolo baby, yolo baby. I'm more of a goal, kind of a gal, but I'm thinking of that only because I did a word last year and I don't remember what the word was. I remember having the conversation with you and Eileen and already had their word and we talked about it and I suck. You do kind of suck. I don't. I'm so impressed by your it was a parent that Julie had a word all throughout the year. We knew that Julie had this word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that that's a good thing, they told me to it.
Speaker 1:Maybe I just need to like yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe you do, you do you sister? Yeah, well, yeah, what works for you? I like the word. Thing though Hers was patience.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2:Not yours, michelle. I'm sorry. Eileen's was patience, I think. So it's on her phone. I just saw it the other day when I was with her. I don't even know what her new one's going to be. We're going to have to find that out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we'll, we'll talk about. Yeah, we'll talk a little bit more in another episode about the words.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and just kind of helping you prepare your mindset for the new year and honestly it's like just because it's January doesn't mean that it's the only time you do that. I mean you can reset your thought process anytime during the year, every single day, yep, every day you can start over. You know, I think I mentioned to you at one point it's like how everybody says they hate Mondays. They just like oh, I don't, I don't like Monday because it's the first day of the week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Monday does get a bad rap.
Speaker 2:But I kind of like Mondays, because Monday's kind of like this fresh start. You get 52 of them. It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know and and you get into routines about different things.
Speaker 1:So do you feel like Sunday is the first day of the week or the last day, I think?
Speaker 2:it's the last day.
Speaker 1:Oh see, I think of it as the first day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe I don't, I don't know. I always just like Sunday to me was the beginning of the week, weirdly, I don't know why, because you're right he was like a church thing he rested on the seventh day and that's the Sabbath day, which is Sunday. So it would make sense that Sunday is the last day of the week.
Speaker 2:I just think of. I've always just been very much a calendar girl.
Speaker 1:So Monday through Sunday and a calendar girl? Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm not a calendar girl, but you know what I mean. It's like I look at it that way Va va boom.
Speaker 2:But yeah, no Monday. I've always. I've always really liked that, but more so as I've gotten a little bit older, because I feel like, okay, it's time to reset. Everybody says, oh, yeah, well, I can have that. I'll start again on.
Speaker 2:Monday yeah, that's true, that's not the kind of thing I'm talking about, although I do that too, but no, that's not the kind of thing I'm talking about. It's more just kind of giving yourself an opportunity to reset, like if you had a really bad week or you know something shitty happened at work or whatever the case may be. It's like you know that you've got another chance to do it again.
Speaker 1:That's how I look at it, yeah.
Speaker 2:So the uh, the remainder of the year. Do you have other stuff that you're thinking about?
Speaker 1:So I think those obviously, like we just talked about, they're going to see more of us. Yeah, I think there will be more controversy in some of our content. Yeah, baby, I'm looking forward to that, so there will be that.
Speaker 2:And Michelle will be very perky.
Speaker 1:Perky yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Perky, she does give me a little sass sometimes. I love it. I like getting her to give me sass.
Speaker 1:I don't I know.
Speaker 2:It's okay, you have my permission.
Speaker 1:Okay. So I think, yes, there will be more controversy in the content. Not that we didn't have a lot of that last year, I just don't. I don't think there was a time.
Speaker 2:I would just say just, we were cautious about it, we, I think so too, yeah, and we have actually, you know, like we come up with our topics and then we do like an outline and we kind of stick with the outline. I've actually listened to quite a few podcasts, just kind of getting an idea on how we wanted to format things. And we, we are pretty structured with the way we do things. We don't just sit around and chat, and that's probably. I mean we do that too. We're doing that right now but, I'm always kind of like get to the point, you know when.
Speaker 2:I'm listening to these podcasts and I'm like, oh, this looks like an interesting topic. It's 20 minutes in that they start talking about it and I'm like they're just bullshitting for 20 minutes about stupid stuff and I'm like so I fast forward. So that's kind of the thought process, I think. But their content, you know, and the ones I'm thinking of, their content was all over the place, yeah, and you know, I listened to them. So obviously I'm not going to name what these podcasts are, but my my favorites are that, of course, the crime crime ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think we're in some ways like that. Our content is kind of all over the place as far as what we talk about. As far as our niche, yeah, it's it's because we're not like all about health, we're not all about crime, we're not all about you know one?
Speaker 2:specific thing, like telling all the different stories.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's just kind of a lot of what we are, a lot of a lot of different topics which I like.
Speaker 2:So our niche really has been not so much content as it has been audience. We've been focusing more on audience saying you know, we're 50-something women and we have life experience.
Speaker 2:So there's going to be a variety of topics and those are the things we're discussing, but what I have found is that our audience rages pretty vastly from, you know, the 20s into like the 60s and 70s. So we were thinking it was going to be more people our age, but really it's not so. I think this year I'd love to focus more on bringing men into the conversations.
Speaker 1:Well and controversial content. I mean it is a year of a presidential election, so hello, of course there's going to be. Yeah, we'll have a whole episode on.
Speaker 2:Michelle's conspiracy theories, and then we'll put her, you'll put her in the insane asylum. I'm just kidding. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1:It's so interesting in regard to conspiracy theories Cause, like I was telling Julie, it's not like all this is just like come out of nowhere when it comes to a conspiracy theory itself. But there's so much more access to information now and I'm not like a firm believer in a lot of these things. I'm just, I guess, putting a little disclaimer out there.
Speaker 1:Not a firm believer, it's just like a lot of them are so interesting to me because they do make me go. I never really thought about it or look at that. I mean, did that really so? So it's just stuff like that, it's super interesting to me.
Speaker 2:I really feed you a lot of shit about this. I know you do. Is it feed you shit? What?
Speaker 1:is it Flip you shit?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't feed you shit, I flip you shit about a lot of this stuff. But I have to say it's like you're open minded, you think for yourself and I do appreciate that, because you're not coming in with the status quo. You do question things and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We and it's not like I don't question things. Sometimes I'm just like I don't really care. So I'm just like yeah, I'll just take it the way it is.
Speaker 2:But it depends on the topic as well. There's some topics I'm very passionate about, just like you are so anyway, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I think there will be interesting stuff in regard to controversy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do have some dating stuff coming up from a woman who is actually well versed in this, on this topic, and is someone who's? Yeah, just dating and like just the different dynamics of it. So it's not her dating experiences necessarily, but it's really more of, I would say, clinical look at it, but it's more of a, it's just more of a objective look at it and why the world is the way it is and what we're seeing, and you know. You know why people are doing the things that they're doing.
Speaker 1:Side note one of the dating episodes was in the top five. Yeah Raiden for our so.
Speaker 2:I think it was the one that had maybe some of those like now I'm telling you, it's like you got to kiss a few frogs.
Speaker 1:I think it was the second one. Yeah, red flags. Wake ups, sis, whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah there were a lot of those, but on the flip side of that there have been, you know, a lot of really nice people that I've run into, just not for me you know, and same with Eileen. You know, I think that she's run into a lot of people and of course we were the ones that were having those conversations, because Michelle is, you know, in a long distance relationship with her sweetie pie, so she doesn't date, she just she's like the wing girl you know, depending on what we're doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, keeping on track, she keeps us out of trouble.
Speaker 1:I think it's a better way to put it Well, I, so it'll be interesting to get a more clinical presentation in regard to dating. That's interesting. Yeah, I look forward to that. One night I had I forget what it's called, but it was this thing in regard to dating where it was like you put you answer the questions like what age range, what ethnicity, financially, what you would want them to make.
Speaker 1:So it asked all these oh, it's even like height and all that stuff, all these fact based questions or you know where, because they get the information from I don't know what it's called, Anyways and then it gives you the percentage of people or guys that are out there that you have to pick from, based on your expectations, Right On what you're wanting. It was pretty funny, it was sad.
Speaker 2:Actually, I think I was at point 003.
Speaker 1:So then we change it anyways. Yeah, that was kind of funny, but anyway, I look forward to that. That'll be a good one.
Speaker 2:So another topics too. So if you have topics out there that you would be interested in us pursuing or having on here, or you want to be a guest and have something really really cool to share really cool to share, I use the word cool Anyway, we would love to hear from you and have you. We do have a podcast community that we are a part of that has some great ideas and content and people really that can help us out with some of those things too. So, but we would love to hear from you.
Speaker 1:We would love to hear from you. We had an amazing 2023. It was a year of growth, a year of learning things that we're going to be able to take into this next year. Really looking forward to that and making our podcast not just good but great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we're going into season two baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, season two.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, for all of you out there, we are appreciative of you and we look forward to hearing or I guess we look forward to you hearing us next week and remember downloads matter, Downloads matter.
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Speaker 2:And don't forget to like and follow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that too, all the socials.
Speaker 2:All the socials, like usual. You guys got it All right. Until next time, peace out people. Bye everybody, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.