Let's Talk Midlife Crisis Podcast
Hosts Ashley & Traci are creating a community and empowering women going thru midlife and aging, exploring the topic of midlife crisis an all its complexities. This is a space where we can come together to share our stories, our experiences, and our perspectives on this pivotal moment in our lives.
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Adventures on the Arctic Circle Trek: Belinda’s Solo Journey through Greenland’s Wilderness
Ever wondered what it takes to hike the most northern trek in the world? Join us as we sit down with Belinda from Soul Treader to hear about her awe-inspiring adventure on the Arctic Circle Trek in Greenland. Belinda shares the raw and exhilarating experience of traversing Greenland's unique geography, from dealing with massive blisters and sudden snowstorms to the culture of isolated yet vibrant communities. We also hear a heartwarming and humorous story of weathering a storm in a tiny hut with two Greenlandic women and a bottle of Jägermeister—a testament to the unexpected joys of solo hiking.
Feel the thrill and challenges of Belinda's journey as she navigates treacherous terrain, melting glaciers, and relentless bugs, all while embracing the eerie silence of the Arctic. Beyond the adventure, she speaks passionately about her commitment to building a supportive community for beginner hikers, including insights into her new Facebook group aimed at providing safety tips and guidance. Whether you're an experienced trekker or just love a good adventure story, this episode promises to inspire and educate, with a sneak peek into Belinda's upcoming hike in Sweden and a funny moment where she's dubbed "Dangerous Granny" by a fellow hiker. Join us for a celebration of nature, resilience, and community!
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About Belinda
Belinda, an Australian born in New Zealand, is a true testament to the spirit of adventure, channeling her energy into conquering trails across
the globe. A beckon of inspiration for women over 50, her blog
encourages the joy of hiking as a celebration of the golden years.
Belinda's transformation from a sedentary lifestyle began with a simple
pair of hiking boots and has evolved into a journey of unforgettable
treks and wild camping, despite a quirky fear of possums and birds.
Her guide's practical advice is drawn from authentic experiences,
ensuring fellow hikers are well-prepared. Embracing the nomadic
flexibility that remote work affords, Belinda balances professional life
with her passion, leading her to vibrant locations like Sayulita and
Cuenca. A staunch advocate for sustainability, she promotes eco-friendly
practices and gear, while welcoming all levels of hikers to share in the beauty she captures on her trails. Hopeful, daring, and deeply connected to nature, Belinda's story is not just about fitness or travel; it's an invitation to rediscover
oneself, submerged in the wilderness of the world and the introspection of the trails. Visit Soultreader.com and join her in exploring the path less traveled, where every woman is encouraged to shine in her own trek of life.
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Hello and welcome to let's Talk Midlife Crisis with your hosts, ashley and Tracy. Pull up a chair for your seat at the table as we talk about with Belinda, with Soul Treader. She's back with us today, hi, belinda.
Speaker 2:Hi, how are you? Thank you so much for having me back. It's so exciting to be back with you both.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're so excited to have you back. We can't wait to hear about your latest adventure.
Speaker 2:An adventure, that was yes.
Speaker 3:A good one, I hope.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I have just hiked the most northern hike in the world.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:And yes, yes, and it is called the Arctic Circle Trek and it's in Greenland. So, effectively, I've done the most southern hike in the world on Stewart Island in New Zealand and the most northern in Greenland, on Stewart Island in New Zealand and the most northern in Greenland. And, excuse me, I really Greenland has always been, you know, had this fascination. You know, for me it's like it's like one of those countries that everybody kind of knows it exists, right, but it's, it's kind of got this mystical, you know, does anybody ever go there, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's kind of off the radar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's off of the radar yeah, it is, and, um, it was probably one of the most, uh, profound experiences of my life it really was yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3:So Greenland is kind of the opposite. This is what I've heard, the opposite of the name. It's more like, like you would think, iceland is, you know, ice and snow, but it's green and Greenland is more ice and snow, correct?
Speaker 2:that's correct. Okay. Basically, the middle of Greenland is white. There's this huge ice cap that covers the majority of Greenland.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:And then it's almost like Greenland's got this pretty necklace around the perimeter of green in summer but it extends to white in winter obviously. And they actually do sheep farming right down the most southern part of Greenland, okay. So yeah, there's several cities well sorry, I won't call them cities, towns in Greenland, but they're not connected by roads. You can only get to. There's no road work within Greenland, but they're not connected by roads you can only get to. There's no road work within Greenland. You get to each place by flying or by sea.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's amazing, I did not know that either. Yeah, yeah, it's really interesting. They they have got a couple of so-called roads, which are tracks which you know, which are like for ATV or for terrain vehicles.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And a number of you know indigenous people. They will travel from place to place and stay in these huts which are along the along the route, and this is one of the one of the the routes that I hiked between um, kangaroo, slack and sissamuit, so I went from the ice cap all the way to the sea and it was uh. I went um about 180 kilometers, which is in miles.
Speaker 3:Oh, let me see. Yeah, I know the rest of the world works on the metric system.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's about 250 miles. Does that sound right?
Speaker 3:Kilometers to miles. So did you say 180, 180 kilometers?
Speaker 2:okay, so that's just under 112 miles, oh right, okay, we go the other way, right? Of course, that's a lot of miles yeah, yes, how so you?
Speaker 3:you hiked that entire distance. How long did it take you to do that?
Speaker 2:Okay, so it took me nine days. Wow, it can be done in a short time of six days. I took one rest day because I got a massive blister on my ankle on my heel. So I took a rest day. So I took a rest day and then the last day well the second to last day a snowstorm came in and I was in this little hut. So you've got these cute little red huts, red wooden huts which sort of stand out in the landscape. They're really cute. From Nordic, you know, real Nordic vibes.
Speaker 2:But this is a run one room hut, so these huts are for hunters, so they're for the indigenous hunters, and most families in greenland um hunt. It's when I say most um, all the greenlandic people that I met, their families hunt um. So not everybody hunts, but you know a lot of people do, because that's how they get this, you know that's where they get their, you know their meat from you know, and they're given a quota from the government.
Speaker 2:So it's not unlike hunting in America. Okay, so they are given a quota from the government for reindeer and whatnot, given a quota from the government for reindeer and um and whatnot and um. So this little wooden hut was perched on this rock so that you know, there were no foundations going in. It was held down by steel wires and the storm came in and I kind of thought, well, I'll wait here for the storm to pass, because I kind of had some time and I wasn't flying out for back to Kangaroo Blue Sack for another five days so I knew I had plenty of time.
Speaker 2:Well, I knew I had time and the little heart was shaking from side to side oh, my goodness, and you were all by yourself, correct. You were all by yourself, right. Oh my goodness, under my sneaky bag going oh dear, oh oh.
Speaker 1:And you were all by yourself, correct? You were all by yourself, right yeah?
Speaker 2:Then, then, the door opens oh no Two Greenlandic ladies walk in with a bottle of Jägermeister.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:I love it. So anyway. So they're all you know. You know they spoke a little bit of English, but that they were hilarious. They got, they got, they got the, they got the fire going and you know they're cooking up the storm and and they were going the same way as me, as I, and in the morning I got up and I walked outside and there was snow everywhere. So this is the middle of summer, wow. And I walked back and I went it's snowing. I'm just like what are we going to do? Do we stay here? And they're just like okay, we leave at 10.
Speaker 3:Wow, with you, don't leave me. So hopefully you were prepared for that type of weather.
Speaker 2:I, yes, I had, I had, I had warm, warm gear. So I did have warm gear, but there was a Swiss man who actually came in, probably later on, and because there were just three girls sleeping in the hut and you literally are on a platform and you're all sleeping side by side, so it's not wow you know, it's not like you know. Everyone's got a cozy little bed right, he said, oh, I'll stay outside.
Speaker 2:And he had an expedition hillberg tent and he said he was holding the it's one of those ones with the the round very you know, um, you know, frame. He was holding the frame to stop it from going over. It was that crazy, oh my gosh. And so this why? This is the funny thing about this hike is it is on paper. It doesn't have that much elevation, it looks like a very easy hike, but the weather can just change just like that, and I was so glad to have these Greenlandic ladies take me across the paths.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's so great.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3:So did you drink the Jägermeister.
Speaker 2:Yes, but until that, until that day, it was up to 85. Oh wow, hot polar sun. Wow, oh wow. So it went from that to snow, so it was actually absolutely stunning. One of the interesting things about it was that there are no trees.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:There's all the greenery that you see, it's not grass, it's kind of like this heath.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:And it sort of covers all the mountains, but there's no wildlife. There's no, there's no wildlife. There's no birds, there's no bird song. There's, um, there's the odd reindeer, the, the odd musk ox, and a musk ox essentially looks like a mini bison. Wow, little bison.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they're part, they're part of a goat family, uh, and their meat tastes a bit like mutton, like okay, you know goatee muttony yeah but but a sort of like a gamey, a gamey mutton right um, and, and so you've got this total quietness as you just silence, as you're just walking along, it is, it's almost airy.
Speaker 3:I was going to say yeah it really is airy. Yeah, I bet.
Speaker 2:So that was really interesting and it's also a very. There was two and a half days where I didn't see a single other person and, um, so it is. It is very, it is very remote. Um, you've got these gorgeous glacial lakes all along. Just, you're just following all these glacial lakes, but the good thing is because there's nobody there if you want to strip off and jump in the lake as many other Europeans do you don't have to worry about anybody coming around the track or anything like that.
Speaker 3:That's amazing, it's really nice. Wow, that's so exciting, what an adventure. Yeah, wow, that's so exciting, what an adventure. Yeah, so did you ever have moments where you were scared or got too tired or anything like that?
Speaker 2:Was it pretty slow paced or Okay, so well. The scary part was, when I was in this hut, that was going from side to side and this storm came in and I was by myself and I knew that anyone coming in behind me would be staying put and I knew that I was on the last stop before Sissamuut and I knew that nobody would be leaving Sissamuot, so I was actually quite high up and it was a mountain storm and I was just like, well, I had enough food and I had gas and I had shelter.
Speaker 2:So you know, I was okay with that. But it's when you're sort of by yourself and things like that, you're like oh dear. It's when you're sort of by yourself and things like that, you're like oh dear. And just you know, you do thoughts do start going like, oh, you know, I hope the storm blows over.
Speaker 3:I mean right, I mean you're in such a remote location.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, it's not like you can get help right away. There was another time. There was another time and I, just because the glacial, all the glacial, the glaciers start melting and the track just becomes so foggy.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:And the bugs are intense. So I had a net over my head and I had bugs in my net and I was trying to cross. It was probably a couple of kilometers of you know, of this area that I had to cross, which was so boggy and I go right up to my knee in mud.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't like the mud that you just put your foot in and put your foot out it was like you know, I couldn't get my foot out right.
Speaker 1:Did you think quicksand? I would have thought quicksand. I would have thought it's gonna swallow you up. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:yeah, it wasn't swallowing down like that, but it was just really tough going and I sat down and I wanted to cry. I was just like I don't want to be here. I'm so over this.
Speaker 3:What am I doing?
Speaker 2:But I didn't really actually have a choice, Right? Yeah, I had to keep going, I had to keep going. But that's you know. I suppose one of the good things about when you do carry your own tent is that when you have had enough you can just put your tent up and crawl inside.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there were a couple of times where I was just like this is hard. You know this is really hard and so it is considered a really hard hike. There were some hikers there that have done some quite gnarly Nordic hikes and they were going this is hard.
Speaker 3:Really.
Speaker 2:And it's not up and down like that, it's not like you're doing, you know.
Speaker 3:It's just the terrain.
Speaker 2:You know, Mount Whitney or anything like that. It's fairly flat, but it is. I think the polar sun got me, the 24-hour daylight really got me.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I struggled with that so much.
Speaker 3:I would too.
Speaker 2:You know eye patches or not, it was just, I like dark.
Speaker 3:I like cool and I like dark.
Speaker 2:So I struggled with that and I suppose the other thing which I haven't really talked that much about, but I was speaking to a friend today and it was the silence, the absolute silence because there's nothing to distract you and it's just you and your thoughts, and that can not a scary thing, but it's. You know, there's no distractions, there's no bird song, there's no. Oh, look at that, look at that cute little chipmunk, oh look there's a mammoth right. Oh, look at this pretty waterfall.
Speaker 3:There's nothing, it's just constant, just you and walking on this track wow, that's amazing that you must feel like so good, like what an accomplishment that is.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You know, yeah, it was good, it was really good and I'm so glad I did it. I you know, before I started, I was, you know, reading everything about it. It said experienced hikers only have you done this? And I said, yep, I've done that've done that, I know how to navigate, you know so I can, I can do it solo, um I. I would recommend this hike a million times over.
Speaker 2:But there are there are, you know, there are tour groups that that will okay, okay you know, and okay, and there's a local family who do amazing tour groups as well, and so there are locals. And the locals are just lovely, lovely people. They really are. They're just they've got the funniest sense of humor. Nothing, nothing's, nothing's too hard, you know right and nothing's.
Speaker 2:So I would really recommend this for anybody who wants a little bit of an adventure, and it is. It's actually much easier to get to Greenland than you realize because you can actually fly from Iceland and a lot of people are going to Iceland. Now, you know to, you know do this, that and the other, you know bring road or you know whatever, see a few waterfalls and Greenland literally is probably a couple of hours flight, so anyone gets injured really badly in Greenland.
Speaker 2:They actually get flown to Iceland as a first choice okay even though it Greenland's a Danish country it's just, iceland is closer wow oh, very interesting, that is interesting. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I just I did push myself to the limit, which I haven't done for a little while, so yeah, I'd say that's amazing.
Speaker 3:I mean I do you know very easy trails around Arizona and in Utah and things like that, but I've never done anything like that. I don't know if I could do it. I'm not sure Even with a tour guide.
Speaker 1:I was thinking, yeah, I would probably need a tour guide.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I definitely would.
Speaker 1:Or other people to commiserate with.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't consider myself, you know, an avid hiker at all.
Speaker 2:Right, right, no, and you know, and the thing is is, you know, I've got a lot of people, sort of you know, following me and I kind of say, well, you know, this isn't the bar to set yourself, you know, you know, you know that I'm sort of all about sort of getting out and being active and everything like that, and it doesn't have to be that that intense you know, right, have to be like the arctic circle trail.
Speaker 2:You know, because that you know, the whole thing about um, about, about, you know, being on a trail is that you're just using so many different muscles as you're negotiating just a simple path. You really are, because you're watching for roots and stones and right you know, and so your body is constantly moving in in all sorts of directions, like right, minutely, and so that is the health benefits for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not to mention the cardio health that it provides.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, absolutely Were there any you mentioned some of the animals that are there, but were there any dangerous animals that you were weary of, or critters? No, not really there.
Speaker 2:No, no, well, the most dangerous animal in Greenland is, of course, polar bear, but they tend to just stay on the ice shelf and you know, there have been a couple of instances where they've sort of you know, moved, moved off the ice shelf and, but you know, as soon as this spotted, they will, you know, the helicopter will go out and they'll, you know, try and sort of either move it back on or just you know they need to, because a polar bear is, you know, there's something, there's something if it, if it, if it's black, stand back, or if it's brown, lay down right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I've heard something.
Speaker 2:They take any prisoners, so yeah, no, um, and uh, I mean there's, there's nothing, and that's, that's the. That's the thing about it is that you know, there's the, there's the odd wildlife. I did get up in the middle of the night and I um camped by a, um, a lake, and I got up to go in the, you know in the middle of the night, right, do whatever, and there was a reindeer right outside my tent and I was like, oh, like um, I needed to go and I thought, well, I don't want to, because I don't want it to come charging at me while I'm going. Right, right, they're holding on and it's looking at me. And I sat down, had another bite of grass and sat there munching at me, looking at me, and I thought, well, it's now never. So I quickly went and it was looking at a huge interest, like what on earth is that huge doing?
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness. So they must be used to seeing people.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think they are, and I think that's why they're not scared.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:It's just like you know. They don't seem to be, they're just curious. Yeah, they don't seem to be scared, it's like you know. Or yeah, there's very few people. The population of Greenland, I think, is very small. I think it's only, you know, 30,000 or something.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, there's hardly any people and the houses are so cute. The houses are all painted different colours and so when you see the pictures of the houses you think you know. At first I always had this idea that you could paint your houses red or yellow or blue, and you can literally paint your house any color you want. There was a lavender one. Someone had gone with turquoise. Wow, it's different.
Speaker 2:So it's actually quite cool yeah town and, and you wonder, did that person choose that color because the paint was on sale, or did they really like that color? And what was that person thinking? Right, right, yeah, what were they?
Speaker 1:thinking.
Speaker 2:That's funny and also.
Speaker 1:I know that when you go to paint a house or anything, sometimes the color looks different in the can than it does up on the wall, when the light, you know, reflects off of it and stuff. So yeah, wow, that's hilarious, that's hilarious, yeah, wow. So it took you how long to make that hike.
Speaker 2:So it took me nine days.
Speaker 1:Nine days but.
Speaker 2:I had two rest days.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, halfway it took me nine days. Nine days I had two rest days, okay, yeah, halfway in between I actually got quite a bad blister, um, and it was after walking through the swamp, and I just just because uh, not swamp, I shouldn't call it a swamp, it's not really a swamp um sort of like a lot of a lot of water wetlands yeah, clean right okay, so the water's clean. It's glacial lake water.
Speaker 1:I mean you can literally dip your bottle, I was gonna say, you could probably drink it lake or stream.
Speaker 2:That's just, oh, it's just divine I bet that's amazing.
Speaker 1:But so you walk through the wet lands, if you will, right, yeah yeah, I was just.
Speaker 2:It was just that the constant wet inside. But right, okay, I'll give it a day of rest because I knew I had time and I was also pretty tired because I wasn't sleeping that well because of the polar sun. Yeah, um that, you know the the sun all through, um, but that's not everybody, other people, I just. I just need to need a room dark. Some people are really I'm the same way sleeping. I think it's.
Speaker 3:I think it's an age thing, yeah yeah, yeah, I can't even have like a night light in the room right, right.
Speaker 1:Well, I have always known that I would never be able to work the night shift right like. I just knew that would mess up my whole psyche. You know to come home and try to sleep during the day and I just knew that would never be something. You know that, yeah, it would work for me. But wow, how exciting. Well, congratulations, what a monumental feat. Now is that when you were saying raising the bar, what is your next goal? Where do you go from there?
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I want to go to. I'm just giving my knee a little bit of a rest, and then I want to go and do a hike in Sweden. So, yeah, there's a gorgeous hike in Sweden called the Kungsleden, which is the king's trail, and um that that's going to be weather dependent. So, um, I'll be ready to do that next week and then I'll just watch for the weather and um, and see and see how that looks.
Speaker 1:So wow, yeah, that's amazing. That is so exciting. I hope you continue to keep us posted on your journeys. We're now, we're just. I'm just so thrilled and I know hanging on pins and needles.
Speaker 3:So fun to follow you. Yeah, so did you post pictures yet on your website?
Speaker 2:I know I haven. Okay, I've only posted it on my personal Facebook only because I haven't done the post yet.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I need to. I need to do the post, but it was. This is my job for this weekend, so they'll start going live this as of today. Um, by the time this show goes live, the post will be up and all the adventures will be um show goes live. The post will be up and all the adventures will be um available on instagram and facebook.
Speaker 2:Um I've also at soul treader, right at soul treader yeah, I'm also starting a facebook group as well, so, but I've just set that up today okay and that is um, and it's on the same vein as my book on health and safety and hygiene um, I find myself on so many hiking groups and also, um, um, helping so many people on the trail, just like well, um, you know, I see people that you know maybe don't have, you know things in their medical kit and or you know they're not preparedness yeah, understanding how to hygiene properly, and so it's one of the biggest questions that, um, you know that a lot of um hikers, especially new people that are just starting out, um, they go well, you know, how do I know it's safe?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, and so I want a forum for you know, new bee hikers Say you wanted to go for a, you know, a walk on a trail. You say, well, you know, how can I be safe?
Speaker 2:And so I want a forum where new bee hikers can come and ask questions, and nothing is dumb enough to ask. Right what supplies do I need? Yeah, and that can be quite sort of, I think, when people are wanting to start walking in nature and we can start talking about a path which is easy, which even a toddler can walk down right.
Speaker 2:I mean, and it's you know, you're immersing yourself in nature, which is so good for you, it's so healthy for you no matter what age, what age you are, and sometimes you know you see all these, you know other people walking and they've got their hiking boots and their hiking sticks and they're you know, they're looking really professional and you know that they don't give you the time of the day and so it's not like you can stop them and say, well, ask them some safety questions or anything like that. So that's what I'm trying to do is to build a community where people who are just getting out into the you know, starting out and taking walks in nature as opposed to around the block, and where they can ask questions and people who are experienced can act like mentors and say well, you know.
Speaker 1:Help, guide them and give them that pertinent information.
Speaker 2:The best thing you can do is to do X, y and Z.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And I think that would be very helpful absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 3:It gives them a space where they don't have to feel intimidated. That's great. I like that you're doing that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and it doesn't it sounds like there aren't a lot of other individuals or resources, um, for that type of information for the beginner, so I think that your Facebook group is going to be very, very popular. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so too, because safety is not considered. When I say it's not considered important, it is important but it doesn't have its own platform. And there's so many. You know, like I would still take a small first aid kit, even, you know, even if I'm taking a small child like a toddler, like a grandchild or a niece or a nephew, I would still, because if they stumble and fall, they still need a Band-Aid on their.
Speaker 2:you know they still need a Band-Aid, you know, yes, band-aids make everything better. They still need a band-aid on their. You know they still need a band-aid you know.
Speaker 3:Yes, band-aids make everything better. They still need a band-aid. Yes, a band-aid and a kiss. Yeah, oh, that's so great.
Speaker 1:Well, we really appreciate you being here with us again and sharing your journey and your adventures with us. I personally find it so enlightening because I don't have the courage, you know, or the physical ability to do the things that you're doing, so I have to live vicariously through you. So, but I'm super excited, um, to hear what's to come next. So you're thinking sweden?
Speaker 2:yeah, in um as little as a week yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exciting so that will be a two-week hike, um, but I may need to take a break, uh, in between there's a small town that I can take a break in between, so we'll just see. We'll see what that looks like. And this is the beauty of what I'm doing is that I don't need to book accommodation because I've got my tent, so it's on your own schedule.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you something really funny. This Swiss guy that was staying in the tent that last night. He came in the next morning and we were talking and one of the Greenlandic lasses, her oldest sister, had a baby, so her mum was a grandmother. She goes, oh, I'm an auntie. And I said, oh, I can't wait to become a grandmother. And the Swiss guy goes I said I'll take them hiking. And and you know, we're looking at where exactly I was hiking at the moment. And and the Swiss guy goes I'm going to call you Dangerous Granny. Oh, peter, dangerous Granny, you're Dangerous Granny. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 3:Dangerous Granny. That's awesome, that's awesome. So yeah, adventurous Granny, that's what I think. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2:I do too Honestly. When I make that cake batter, it doesn't even need to go into the oven, they can just have it right away.
Speaker 3:Oh it's the best way to have it Brownie batter, cookie batter yeah.
Speaker 1:Awesome, aww. Well, thank you so much for being with us again today, belinda. As always, it's such a pleasure to talk to you and be inspired by you and your journeys, and please keep us posted.
Speaker 2:I will.
Speaker 1:I will thank you so much and that just about wraps it up for today. Thank you for joining us on.
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