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Keep Hope Alive Podcast
Chasing Dreams at Any Age: Bambi's Inspiring Journey from Author to Coach
At the heart of this episode, we highlight the incredible journey of Bambi, an inspiring author who proves that it's never too late to chase your dreams. With a family legacy of six children and 13 grandchildren, Bambi broke new ground by becoming a published author at 52. Her story is a candid reflection on the transformative years in her 40s and 50s, navigating pivotal life choices such as her potential move to Alaska and embracing a new path in public speaking and coaching. Bambi’s experiences offer a poignant reminder of the importance of following one's passion, even amidst the whirlwind of family commitments and personal growth.
As we explore Bambi's transition from books to workshops, we unpack the nuances of today’s literary landscape. Bambi shares the unexpected challenges she faced in expanding her creative offerings beyond traditional publishing, underscoring the need for authors to diversify. From the art of creating downloadable content to tapping into the ever-growing world of audiobooks, we discuss how to stay adaptable in the evolving market. This episode is packed with insights that promise to enlighten aspiring authors and anyone undergoing a life transition, offering practical advice to keep you inspired and motivated.
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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive podcast. Today we have another amazing guest with us, miss Bambi I love your name, by the way. That is so wonderful. I haven't met too many Bambis out there, so I think there was only one other. Now you're my second Bambi.
Speaker 2:It is a really cool name. There's definitely a story behind it, and I actually joined a Facebook page that said, yes, my real name is Bambi, and there's actually 101 of us that are on that page that they were really named Bambi. Isn't that cool? That's really cool.
Speaker 1:That is super cool and I've got a couple I've only Charlie Brown is another one. I know a travel agent named Charlie Brown and I know who else Charlie Brown and a little kid named Charlie Brown, so that should be another Facebook page and everything Exactly.
Speaker 2:Like, who are the Charlie Browns? Wow, that should definitely be one. So I'm excited to be on your show today.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, and I'm so excited to have you. So I you're an author, you're a mom and you're a Nona. Did I say it right?
Speaker 2:I'm a Nana.
Speaker 1:Yes, I am I said it wrong, but you know what. That's what the bloopers are for here.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yes, I'm a mother of six adult children, all married and living their lives, and I have 13 grandchildren and, yes, 13,. There's 10 boys and three girls. My one of them, um is, did pass away hours after he was born, so his name is Isaac, and so he doesn't. He's doesn't live on this earth with us, but he is always checking up on us in heaven, so and then, you're right, I am a two time published author.
Speaker 2:My third book comes out in June, so I will have three. So yes, it's kind of exciting. My first book will be two years old on June 9th and my second book will be a year old on March 17th. So it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:I think I'm at the point. 2025 came through and I've always wanted to write a book, but I haven't started. And the more times I talk to authors here, you guys all encourage me and I'm like I just needed to get done and then I'll be with my friend, but you're helping the world through your podcast. When are you going to have time? And I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 2:You know you have to do, you know we can't do everything, and you just do it in order. You know I just chose. I became an author at 52. And you know, so I was lived my life lived being a parent and empty nester and things like that. And you know it's something that happens when you become, you know, a woman in your 40s and your 50s. You start becoming who you are meant to be. Because now you have time for yourself, you have time to to discover who you are. For yourself, you have time to discover who you are, and so it was time to write my book. So I'm really excited. I do a blog too, so every week I got to come up with, you know, something to write.
Speaker 1:So I love that. Yeah, the blogs. I love doing blogs. Well, I have to admit, ai is helping me right there because everything is getting people scheduled in and being a mom and just running around making sure everything is correct. But you know, you mentioned something. You know I just turned 47. But when I hit 40s I was like, man, time goes really fast. Time goes really fast. And then I went out a couple of weeks ago to more country wise and I was like it felt like it was stopped in the moment because I was enjoying nature. So it got me thinking like where do I really want to live? Like? Do I like the fast paced city where I live and everything's flying by, or do I just want a fresh breath air and be able to look at the sunset, sunrise and beautiful woods? So I'm trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2:It's funny. I transplanted from Buffalo, new York, to Brunswick, georgia, the golden aisles of Georgia, and they have beautiful water, beautiful driftwood beaches and things like that. But now my oldest daughter, that's 37, her and her husband and my two grandchildren are now being shipped, because they're in the military, to Alaska. So do I want to go to Alaska to stay with them for the three years that they're there or do I want to stay in Georgia by myself? And I decided this year that I took this year, I took some of my 401k this year and decided that I was building a platform, I was building an opportunity for me to be able to speak, you know, at people's summits and retreats and things like that, and to build a one-on-one coaching plan so I could go, you know, I just have to, like, make sure that I can make some money, you know, to be able to stay there and to live there. So we'll see. We'll see what happens, you know.
Speaker 1:You see and that's the world that we live in right now, because, you know, even with podcasts, it's like how do you make the money? There are so many different ways to do that and then it's just you build it, it comes, and you know, people told me to be more of a guest speaker this year alone and then also get gigs to go out and speak at.
Speaker 2:So I wish it was as easy as they say it's going to be, and it's not. I never expected this to. I just never expected what you're expecting and to be able to public speak and to be on platforms. I didn't know. Everything is a cost, you know? Oh, we're going to coach you. Oh, we're going to give you this. And you're like, okay, I didn't know, coach you, oh, we're going to give you this, and you're like, okay.
Speaker 1:I didn't know why can't you just invite me to your stage? I have to laugh at that. That does sound right. It really does. I can't believe that. That puts my head at like okay, what can I do? Maybe there's different meetings that you can get into. I don't know. I'm going to look into all that because you know when you have a big event and you need guest speakers.
Speaker 2:You need guest speakers. Why are they charging us speakers? Why are they charging us Exactly? They're charging you. Or you have to go through an organization that they're charging you, you know. So you have to go if they say oh, you want to public speak, you want to be on a speaking. Well, here, I can give you this, this and this and this, and we'll cost you three grand, but I'll give you a speaking gig. Or you have to pay to play, you know. So you're like, all of this is so.
Speaker 2:It's just not what I expected. And, trying to start everything from ground up, I thought I had, I thought that I had a product. I didn't know that books necessarily aren't a product. And I'm thinking, oh my goodness, I've spent money publishing them, I've spent money, you know, writing them and things like that, and they're saying that that's not the product. The product has to be a workshop, has to be a download, has to, you know, be something. You're like oh my goodness, I'm writing. Why can't my books be at a table? That kind of thing. It's not what I expected and it's a learning curve.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely, I hear you on that. So I know I always ask my authors that I interview. Did you put it like on Audible? Because I'm the one who is like I want to listen to this book and I put in my AirPods at night and I'm like wow, wow, and then it's like 20 minutes in but I feel like I'm still listening because the whole book and I was like I remember I was asleep at one book and I go yeah, I know that in my sleep, so that was different. Well, really quick, before we jump into much more, I need to announce a question to you and talk about one of my sponsors here. So let's say, me and you got invited to go to a wedding it was our friend's wedding and we're walking into the church and to the right there is something to sign. What is it that we're signing?
Speaker 2:That's called a guest book.
Speaker 1:Yes, correct, correct, correct, correct. So Life on Record is one of our sponsors here at Keep Hope Alive podcast, and what they do is they have a rotary vintage phone that they put out for the guests to pick up and leave a message. It could be for one minute, five minutes, 30 minutes, but if it's a wedding, don't do 30 minutes. They have a little sign right next to it and it's a QR code that you can scan if you didn't want to use the vintage phone. But you could do it before or after the event Now I say wedding, it could do it like before or after the event. Now I say wedding, it could be an anniversary, a high school reunion, just any kind of event. But what it does, it collects all those messages from your friends and family saying congratulations, we're so happy for you. And then what they do? You have a choice. They can burn it on a 12-inch vinyl record for you, and I think the outside kissing is so cute too. And then the other thing that they do is they have a boom box that they can put all the messages on. So if it was a wedding, just think you're sitting there, it's a year later and you go okay, we're going to get the cake, let's get some of our champagne, let's hit, play and listen to all these messages.
Speaker 1:So, with Life on Record, their plans start at $99. You get that phone number for the year. Yes, after the event you have to return the phone. So phone number for a year, phone number for a year. And then you know, even if it was a wedding, I always, I always say, before that one year anniversary, call that number back and leave another message Happy anniversary, so, but you know what? To find more information about Life on Record, visit them at wwwlifeonrecordcom. All right, so we kind of jumped into it. You know we talked about you and who you are. What are we missing? I mean Alaska. I was like the Northern Lights. I've always wanted to go in one of those igloos that are heated and just look at the lights, and that would be a good writing spot, you know, to come to think of it.
Speaker 2:But can you deal with the cold? I don't know where life is going to. You know lead, but I don't have a job per se to keep me where I'm at, you know. So we'll see. We'll see what's in store. I'm game for anything, you know, years ago I read the Mel Robbins book, the Five Second Rule that you just live your life saying yes to whatever is there, you know, and stop saying no. Because a lot of times when we say no, we're saying no to adventures, we're saying no to life, and our brain, you know, continues to be afraid every time that we say no. So if we say yes, go out there and live your life. Go out there and enjoy it.
Speaker 1:We only get one life to live.
Speaker 2:So we'll see what happens. We'll see whether Alaska will be something that I go do, and we'll see. We'll see what's in store.
Speaker 1:That is really cool. Yes, alaska, that would be perfect. But yeah, we do get one life to live and live it well. That's one thing. I have a dream I want to swim with sea turtles. So I'm trying there two times, three times, I don't know. But somebody said, oh, south Padre does, even though where I live in Dallas, I think it's a nine hour drive, and I was like, oh, I'll get too old for that. So those are the fun.
Speaker 2:You know you're living, you're starting to live life again. You know, so you're never too old and you know what I've lived. The other day, my, my daughter and my grandson and myself we went to go pet and hold Highland little calves little you know, little cows. It was such an amazing experience, you know. You just look for the experiences in your life and you're never too old. Old, you know, an age is just a number. I've been told over and over again and I'd rather I'd rather, when I die, rather my children, say mom did this, this, this, this. You know, she never denied herself a yes, you know to an adventure. I'd rather be that person than have my children go. Yeah, my mother was scared to do anything. She didn't want to do anything. I don't want to be that person. I want to be somebody that, you know, continues to journey on.
Speaker 1:There's so much to see in this world there is there, really is, and you got to have that positive vibe initiative to go after it. So, looking over your bio and everything I know you've also mentioned you've been through some challenges. Did you want to dive into some of those challenges and share your story?
Speaker 2:Sure, I mean, that's. That is the book. The journey of Josephine is the story of my life. It is the raw account of my life. I didn't leave too much out because I wanted it to be used for other people to be able to write their story, you know. So there was a lot of things that took place on the cover of my book.
Speaker 2:The title of it is the Journey of Josephine and it is my doll, as when I was a little girl that my mother made a doll for us every year and this I was a rag doll and I named her Josephine Priscilla and she was my security blanket, you know. She was the one that knew my secrets, she knew my pain, you know, and she carried, she carried everything like a security blanket. So it tells the story of you know what I went through, the difference you know sexual abuse, attempted suicides, infidelity. You know infidelity. Victim of domestic violence I went through being burned, you know, on my chest, you know. It tells the story of how I was able to overcome, how I took that trauma in my life and how I was able to lay it all down on the table and pick up the pieces gradually, of the puzzle, pieces of my life and even though the pieces of my life didn't look like the puzzle was supposed to look, on the on the box that I thought it was going to was a new picture, but it was still a masterpiece. You know, it was still something that that I have grown into who I am and I wrote my story. And when I, when I got it in the mail, it came to my house and you get your books and you open up your books and you're holding your story for the first time. You're holding your book for the first time. That's such an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2:But I spent the evening reading my book and had to do some more healing. You know, cried a lot, you know. It was just, it was heart-wrenching to read my story. But then, after I read my story, I closed the book and I went. You know what, god, I'm not her anymore, but I want to find her. I want to find the women that are still hanging on to their trauma. I want to find those women that are still hanging on to their pain and give them permission to be able to tell their story, first of all, and then to be able to rewrite their story and find the purpose of why they were created all along. So that's why I wrote my book and that's why I'm on all these podcasts to be able to tell my story and to be able to tell other women. It's time to tell your story. If you need some help, read mine first so you know that, wow, this woman was really raw in her storytelling, so it gives you permission to tell yours.
Speaker 1:And that's usually a hard thing, especially for younger women going through it. I hear stories about that all the time and it's super, super sad. I've had something a long time ago. I haven't even talked about it, but it's like it almost causes like a PTSD. It triggers like if I ever move on and want to do this. But I learned to talk about it and be like I don't do ABC because it's how it affects me, you know, and it's just one of those things. But you know, I will kind of like lay there and look at my life and I'm really evaluating it now. Like as far as dating, again it's like what do I want? Because, you know, I need to make sure I'm on the same page as somebody. So I'm a bit of a little bit more particular on who I date, which is nice. I see me maturing and getting older now.
Speaker 1:So, but yeah, to put it in writing it's hard. You know, I had another lady and this was a totally different story, but she was the bully and the people that she hurt. She realized what she has done and turned over to God and I was like that podcast was just an amazing story to learn that people can go through it and they can carry that thing that happened to them. And, you know, not everybody's the same, but they do it to the next person and it's a vicious cycle and we don't want that for anybody. So if you're listening to this podcast, there is help. You've got to reach it out, even if it's over to Bambi or myself, we're going to help you. So, and I do have oh my gosh, I do have a number. The best thing is on my website. I love this part. It has leave a voicemail on it so you can click on the button voicemail and we'll call you right back.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's totally different. So, um, but yeah, and then to get what you did, to put it in writing and talking about it. I know it's reliving the moment each time for you and you have to be a warrior and you have to have that strength, but it's going through your faith and which is amazing. So I'm so proud that you have that gift to be able to be strong enough and go through that, because I always say, you know people was like well, what is Keep Hope Alive? I go. Well, it's for other people to be heard, because everybody has a story, but someone's story is going to help another person in this world.
Speaker 2:You know and I tell people.
Speaker 2:I tell people too, is that our story? Our trauma isn't a death sentence, you know. It's not something that we have to hang on and we're going to. It's something that we have. The trauma it's not a death sentence. What it is it's a first aid kit for the person behind you, if you can get healed and transformed and if you can lay it all down and realize that your scars only tell a story, but it doesn't keep you into the story. You don't have to keep going back, you know, to what you have been through. You can leave that behind and march forward and be able to be a vessel for somebody else.
Speaker 2:All of us have trauma, all of us have stories, all of us have scars and it's what we do with those scars. You know, I was just on a podcast and I was telling them that you know, years ago I had a pressure canner blow up on me and so I my breast burned and so I had to go into a burn unit for 17 days and they would take me into this room on this metal table and they would handcuff, you know, they would tie my hands and they would scrub me to try to get rid of the residue, you know of that. And then you know they did that for five days and then, after they finally said you know what, let's graft her, let's put new skin on her. And you know, and that's what happens to our trauma. There's a, there's a moment in our lives that you know God wants to scrub that trauma, but then he's going to come along and he's going to put a new skin on you.
Speaker 2:You know, we just have to be willing to go through the process, and some of the process hurts. Some of the process is us digging ourselves out of the pit and out of the muck, but it doesn't matter how many times you have to crawl yourself out. It's the crawling out that matters. It's us not staying in the pit and feeling and wallowing in our own trauma, when our trauma wasn't meant for us to stay there. It wasn't meant, and what happened to you isn't. You can forgive yourself and you cannot take the responsibility for somebody else.
Speaker 2:What happened to me was not my fault, and so I can like look at my past, and Viola Davis said it perfectly in her memoir. She said that her counselors told her leave the eight-year-old little girl that already survived. Leave that eight-year-old little girl that already conquered what she went through. Leave her in the past and you continue to march into your future. Leave her there. Stop bringing her into your future and having yourself feel sorry for yourself when she already conquered it. That's such a great revelation Like stop bringing it in, stop making it, stop making your trauma being something that you've got to continue to be a victim because you don't.
Speaker 1:Amen on that. That is so correct. That is so right. So, you know, I've met people that have a lot of trauma in their life but they don't know how to move forward from it. And it does what I learned I can talk to them, but it's just a vicious cycle and they keep going backwards instead of moving forward. And it doesn't matter how much you know, somebody tries, you know, to try to help them through that cycle.
Speaker 2:They got to want to do it for they don't want to be the victim anymore in the audience.
Speaker 2:They have to come to a point that when they walk into a room they don't have to bring their trauma all the time in the room.
Speaker 2:They have to come to a point and see the people. There was times that, yes, I talked about my trauma in a room but then you could gradually see the people moving back from you, because you've already told the story over and over again and you know it comes to a point in your life that it doesn't work for you anymore and at that time when it doesn't work for you anymore, you become sick and tired of being sick and tired and then you decide to do something about it because you're seeing the people around you start walking away. It's kind of like the same thing about, you know, when somebody dies or you have a baby and you know people are with you for a good three weeks, but after that three weeks you're on your own. You're on your own story. So how do you want to leave? I telling your story over and over again for people to feel sorry for you started feeling dirty to me.
Speaker 2:It started being this isn't. I just don't want to do this anymore. I want to be able to be that. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired that I'm going to go out and do something about it. You know, I didn't want my trauma to define me. I wanted. I wanted to be able to not even to survive, I wanted to become. I wanted to walk in a purpose. You know, use this, use all your trauma and create a purpose for it. You know, for me now I mean for you. You know, use this, use all your trauma and create a purpose for it. You know for me now I mean for you. You know, you're on, you're doing podcasts For me.
Speaker 2:I'm telling people buy my book, read my book, write your, write, then write your story and then contact me so we can redefine your story and then we can find your purpose. That's perfect. That's what people need to do. Yes, instead of staying like you begin to feel gross after a while and then you have to be as friends. We have to be able to be friends that tell our friends you know what. You have 10 minutes. You have 10 minutes to scream, yell. You know, do whatever. You need to take care of it. But then, after that 10 minutes, you know now let's tell you who you are and let's bring you back to reality.
Speaker 2:You know, like when my daughter called me yesterday to tell me that she was moving to Alaska, my heart broke into a thousand pieces. It was devastating to me and my girlfriends called me and they said you may need more than 10 minutes, bambi, but you know, but you're going to get through this, we're going to get through this. And I bawled like a baby that I haven't cried that much in years, because I thought a piece of me is leaving. My grandson is going to turn 18. While he's there, he's the only one that hugs me deeply. That's 20 seconds Thinking about all these things, and my daughter's not going to see the lemons that were brought that. She bought me, the lemon plant and all these things. But because I can't stay there now, I have to look and say, okay, now what can I look at? A good out of this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's really important. So, know, you're having your kids and hugging. Those are great moments. It's so funny because I have a daughter who is like 23 now. I was like, no mom, stay away now. She just had, um, I am a grandma now or gg, I don't know what I'm going to be called and I just love my granddaughter so much and she just looks at me and just smiles so big and she's dancing to Miss Rachel or you know, I'm learning all these new shows and stuff and I was like, but she's like, and she has this giggle. That is just so cute. You can tell that energy is there, which is nice.
Speaker 1:But I noticed, you know, the deepest hug I've ever got. Well, of course, my kids back when they were little, but church, church. It came a couple of weeks ago and I had a girl, young girl, open up to me and we talked about what she went through, but she hugged me and it was just, it felt like good, it is like okay, I, you know, I helped her. She was able to get some of what was bugging her off. You know, and I call her my little adopted daughter, church daughter now, but you know, as we're in choir and we're coming down the risers, I was like, oh, I must be getting old. She'll always try to grab my hand to get down the last step. And I was like, well, you know what it's cute, it's fine, I'm getting old, I'll take it. But when people can reach out for sharing those stories and help and getting the satisfaction of I acknowledge that you're helping me back is so important to us, you know. So now you do have a second book and I want to know about that. But I'm going to do a quick little mid-roll with us because I'm just having fun and this might be a good mid-roll.
Speaker 1:So Snap Vans is our other sponsor and, as you can see, I have this one. It says Hope on it and on the back of it it has an elastic band. So when you pull it out and say the little mantra saying they have all different colors with mantras, hope, faith is the one I created, promo code KHA and then they have like peace, love, fearless. They can do it in hot, pink or neutral colors. I just always choose black. But the whole theory. When you tug this, you say the mantra word hope. And here's my example. I always do it at the hospital. I'm a hard stick when they were trying to find a vein on me. So I'm like, okay, dear God, I hope they don't have to do it eight times. I hope they can get it in the first try. So I'm going to send this positive vibe light and I just say it.
Speaker 1:It was really funny because I had blood work done and they're like you need to take off your bracelets and I was like why I've never had to do that before. We can't get through? And I was like you have no idea that I'm using my snap bands here praying for you right now, but it's helped people with depression, anxiety, ptsd, and a portion of their sales will go to help better inventing organizations that focus in those behavioral different things, which is an amazing thing. They're durable Water. I've had mine on for it feels like two years now, but I love it. I will never take it off. And here's the funny thing. I'm really particular person. I don't want to sound snobby or anything, but I have a Pandora on, of course, but it was so funny. I was telling my friend it doesn't look anything like Pandora, but I'm always going to have it above my Pandora because that's where it needs to stay and that's how I feel about SnapBandscom, so, anyways, so tell me more about the second book that you wrote.
Speaker 2:The second book is titled the Treasures of my Heart, which you know, in the midst of our storms sometimes we forget that there actually is treasures that are happening or that we're being gifted, that we're being given to us because we're so caught up in the storm. But if we look back over our lives, we can see where God showed up. You could see where the aha moments of our lives were. So what it is, it's like all different stories, short stories of how God showed up in the midst of my storms and how he never left me by myself and that I could look back through the storms and realize that he always had my hand and he always was an anchor. So that's called the treasures of my heart and that is also out, you know, on my. You know on my um. What is it on my website? You know, and same thing with the. You know the journey of Josephine.
Speaker 1:Yay, well, yeah, I was going to ask you all about that and the socials and everything that you have, and go learn about what you do and how you get those books out there. Um, are they in a store front like Barnes and Noble?
Speaker 2:also, you can go to Barnes Noble and order them from Barnes Noble. You can go to Amazon and order them. You know you could go to the library and ask for them to order them.
Speaker 2:You know usually I mean more you know most people that have their own websites. They love for people to go on their websites because then you know somebody's not taking a portion, you know a percentage of, you know of your proceeds, of of your book. So most people like you to go on their website and but you can go anywhere you know to order and to purchase it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely. Now, as I told you before recording everybody here, um on my storefront. So after watching this podcast, you go to the storefront right at the bottom, you will find her two books to purchase. So we really want to get that out there and find it. Subscribe to the website. You will learn so much more also about the new, upcoming stuff that we're going to be putting. I'm going to have a store for 2025. I'm excited, but there's going to be all these new things coming up, so I'm going to shh for now, until it's done, but yeah, definitely. So what other means of how can they contact you through the website? Do you have your socials?
Speaker 2:They absolutely can contact me through, you know, through my social medias. You know it's Bambi Lynn on, you know, facebook. You can definitely find me on Facebook. There is, you know, I'm on TikTok. It's healing through stories and then parentheses. Bambi. I'm on LinkedIn. You know I'm on TikTok. It's healing through stories and then parentheses. Bambi, I'm on LinkedIn. You know is another one that I'm on is Bambi Makowski. I am on Instagram, which is Lynn Bambi. You know that you can find me on Instagram.
Speaker 2:So, just like everybody, you know, we're on all the social medias trying to build our platform.
Speaker 2:But mostly, you know, I'd love people going to my website, subscribing to my website, purchasing my book, and if they're looking for, you know, more, if they're looking for finding their purpose.
Speaker 2:You know I also am a life coach, a prayer life coach, that if there's, if that's something they're looking for, they can also email me from my website and we can, you know, set up a time to be able to talk and see where that goes. So there's so many different things, you know, because I, my mission and my passion is for people to heal through their stories and, you know, let your stories be the compass to lead you to healing. Let it be the compass that leads you to transformation and wholeness in your life. We don't need to walk around, you know, with our trauma anymore. We don't need to walk around with it hanging on our backs, you know, and just and piling up on us. We need to just let it go and lay it down and be able to walk out our purpose. But you can't know your purpose if you're hanging on to your trauma, if you're hanging on to your past. It's time for you to walk in the goodness and walk in your purpose of who you were created to always to be.
Speaker 1:I love that. That was just beautiful, well said, perfect, outstanding. That was just amazing. So I am going to have to definitely share this episode with a friend. So, because you know it is challenging, it really is, and you know it goes for anybody, don't get stuck. And I have to learn that also the hard way, because I always say I get handed so many challenges, I have this big heart, but why does everything? And I learned not to say why. But hey, a lot of things happen to me and then I conquer it and I get a little smoothness for a couple of days and then bam, here we go again. So this is here's an example.
Speaker 1:Recently I did decide to make a choice and leave where I was working, and the day I had to go and take back my stuff, I was like, oh, I have a doctor's appointment, so. But when I was leaving I missed my turn and got turned around. So I went the back way and I was coming up and, um, so bad. I was driving and I made a right onto the main road and I don't remember seeing anything like a sign or anything. But I was in a school zone and I looked and I was like, oh, those are pretty red and blue lights.
Speaker 1:And I was like, oh, those are pretty red and blue lights. And I was like, oh no, yeah, yeah. So I got pulled over and I was like, okay, you know, here we go, we're going to go with this thing. So, and then I learned, um, well, I thought I might've still had insurance, but I wasn't sure. Sure. And then I found out before I left that I didn't, because it didn't show in the cop thing, and I was like, oh yeah, I wanted a better price somewhere else. And shame on me, because that makes the two citations right. That's a lot of money too.
Speaker 1:I know school zone yeah, I, I have yet to. I just keep praying about it. So I don't know. But things in life they happen for a reason. It's part of my journey and I can laugh about it, because I was telling a girlfriend of mine I go, you know, that cop was really good looking. I'm going to go back and call the police station and say this cop gave me a ticket, but I don't know what concert we're going to. But you know, I just have to laugh.
Speaker 1:When the situations get tough, they do. And you know, you gotta find that way, that passion. Don't take it as a negative, don't hold it as a negative. Move it as a positive, you know, and then things will come your way. So but yeah, bambi, it was so nice meeting you and having this conversation. I'm just, I'm so excited because I want to read your books. A, I think you've given me that initiative also to kind of still look at that option for me. But I have a scary story book I want to write and then I have a bio of my health journey that I want to write about too. So I was just like I have two that I want to get there, but I just need somebody to just push me along.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, the funny thing is is that once you become an author, everything becomes a story. You're looking at everything you know like oh, I can write a story about that.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can write a story about that. So it definitely gets you motivated and, yeah, absolutely Read my story and it will give you, you know, give you some inspiration of what to write about, what not to write about, you know. But you some inspiration of what to write about, what not to write about, you know. But also to start your journey, you know, start your journey of letting and the other thing is, when you write your story, you're able to let it go. After that, you're able to get, you know, you're able to get freedom after that. So definitely go on my website, definitely, you know. Order my book. You get a 10% discount and it is worth finding some healing.
Speaker 1:Definitely, I agree, and we'll put that on the social media links and everything. So, um, wherever you guys do find your podcast, you'll be able to find Keep Hope Alive. Remember it is wwwkeephopelivepodcastcom there. If you wanted to be a guest speaker or subscribe or review. There's so much you can do on the website. We would love to hear from you because that is our goal. We're helping the world with these stories and if you have a suggestion of somebody you want to hear from, I can put that out to get those stories coming in also. But, yeah, definitely you can find us on Facebook, tiktok, instagram, modern I hope I said it right, because there's two new one and blue sky. I've been using kind of getting there, oh, and I added to threads and Pinterest this year, so I'm very excited.
Speaker 1:Um, there is new changes coming for the website kind of mentioned it earlier but to subscribe, to become a VIP member, there is going to be so many more perks for you guys If you do that. It is only $10 a month, which is amazing, but our speakers they will have specials and little promos and you get to see me acting goofy and different and I'm working out all the details. It's going to be a lot of fun. There will be giveaways and stuff like that, so I'm very excited about this new journey into 2025. But other than that, thank you so much for making my show here. Keep Hope Alive. You're bringing it to a float, guys. So I do appreciate you guys and Bambi. Once again, thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 1:I adore you.
Speaker 2:You're a sweetie. Thank you so much and I'm so glad that I was much for coming on. I adore you. You're a sweetie. Thank you so much and I'm so glad that I was able to come on and I hope that it does minister to at least one person.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm sure it'll do a lot. Yes, definitely, all right, guys. Until next time, love and light, bye-bye.
