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From Beehives to Birthdays: The Soul of Summer
Have you ever noticed how nature provides exactly what you need, exactly when you need it? When we unexpectedly got bee stings while checking our hives today, the bee balm growing nearby became our instant remedy - just crush, apply, and feel relief. That's the magic of plant medicine that drives our passion.
This episode overflows with Leo season energy as we celebrate birthdays, release butterflies, and reflect on transformation. From our adventures in beekeeping (where we're still learning after all these years) to the hemp fields we're cultivating, everything connects back to the healing power of plants. We dive deep into the properties of bee balm, also known as wild bergamot, which indigenous peoples have used for centuries as medicine for inflammation, digestion, and wounds.
The crown jewel of our work - our hemp-infused honey - takes center stage as we discuss this concentrated medicine (2,690mg of cannabinoids per jar!) and how it should be properly dosed. Unlike isolated THC beverages flooding the market, our approach honors the full spectrum of plant compounds working together in perfect harmony, just as nature intended.
We also explore how understanding your astrological blueprint (sun, moon, and rising signs) can illuminate your personal journey, and share the exciting development of young herbalists like Olivia seeking internships to carry plant wisdom forward. Throughout it all runs a thread of gratitude for the interconnectedness of all things - bees, plants, people, and the divine intelligence that orchestrates this beautiful dance.
Visit dnahempllc.com to experience the transformative power of our hemp-infused honey, and find us at the West Bend Farmer's Market every Saturday through October. Your healing journey deserves the full-spectrum support that only whole plant medicine can provide.
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sunshine and bubbles podcast numero 14 oh I'm happy to be back here with you, sunshine happy birthday.
Speaker 2:can you just say one day late, but so happy to celebrate with you today because of the rain, but yay.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, it's also your daughter Lily's birthday as well, so I love sharing that big Leo energy with sweet Lily, which is my daughter's middle name, and now my brother's new wiener dog, lily. It's her name too and it's super sweet because I got to meet sweet little Lily I think the day before, and she's so adorable. It is a dapple-colored wiener dog and she's like literally this big. She's like a tiny little peanut, like literally, yeah, like a little bean. So it's kind of crazy because their first wiener dog, frank, is now Uncle Frank to Lily, so it was Frank's sister that had their new weenie, so it's Uncle Frank and Lily Lou Bean, l-l Bean, kind of like working in the beans in there.
Speaker 3:It's like Frank and beans, frank and Lily Lou Bean or LL Bean, kind of like working in the beans in there.
Speaker 1:It's like Frank and beans. It just needs to happen. Oh my gosh, they got their hands full in that household. It's so puppy fever over there, but not probably any more than we do with Ripley. He's a little hellion, my new West Highland Terrier, so it was fun for them to meet too, because they were like little friends and we're able to.
Speaker 1:So yesterday for my birthday, I had all four kids, so my two kids and my brother's two kids and their two dogs and my two dogs. So I had four dogs and four kids in tow on a rainy day for my birthday in which we had to reschedule the party that we were going to have down by the lake, which is totally fine because it's happening today and they have music in the park. Oh, that couldn't be even more perfect. Yes, and it's not like scorching hot here in Wisconsin and where we're at. So it's just really nice that we don't have to like Kevin Bacon out there. We can just enjoy some music at the park.
Speaker 1:Kids can go swim in if they want. I mean adults truly can too. I want, and we're having our first time ever Qdoba catering. So we're like you know, it's just hard to bring everything in the kitchen sink down to the lake, by the beach area down there. So we're like we're just having it all brought in. Mama Cheryl already got the ice cream cake, so it's like all the birthday traditions. So I feel like I get a bonus day of celebration for my birthday because of yesterday's festivities. And then today's yes, today's, like the cherry on top, yes, for sure. And for that big Leo, energy.
Speaker 3:We are all about any extra celebration.
Speaker 1:So yesterday, when I thought the day would like, when I woke up, I'm like, shoot, it's raining outside. I got to reschedule a party. Then my coffee maker broke so I could not have, like, do my normal, like morning routine. So I kind of felt out of the element, although, and I did sleep in and then when I did do the rising in walks, the children and all of that sweet chaos, so I just had myself an extra a gummy and my morning gummy a little bit sooner than I normally would have, and just like, let's let the good times roll. None of this is going to stop me from having a good day today. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:So it was just kind of fun to kind of keep the ball rolling and we were able to go on a sweet little hike down to Nanny's house and the kids got to go swimming for a brief let up and Jessica braided my hair it's not I didn't keep it in, because there's like a big braid right here which was like a fro this morning with all like the humidity. So I was like, oh, I gotta tame this maid. But she did it like Viking hair, nice. So I feel like that to have a Leo to have their hair done. Girl, I was in heaven. Thank you so much, sweet jessica. And even despite the coffee maker breaking, she brought me daily dose uh, skinny dip, fresh juice and the protein balls, oh, which was amazing, and then prompted us to go to sippy hippie to get some super delicious coffee.
Speaker 2:Yum yes, in all the hot spots I love.
Speaker 1:I know that's like, I feel like just one one, one foot in front of the other. Yeah, you know, just being so. It was kind of cool to practice that grace. Just let it be, let it be, let it be. We have so much bee energy.
Speaker 3:Big bee energy Bee energy.
Speaker 1:Tell them where we just were. Sunshine, oh, by the bees bees.
Speaker 2:We're checking the supers. See where the honey's at they're producing. Wonderfully, we got the queen bee in the one high back down where she belongs into the two bottom boxes, not up in the honey laying eggs. Yeah, they're looking good. We added a super, got a little bee sting but fear. We got some bee balm to put on it.
Speaker 1:That was kind of wild because I feel like on our way out to the bees, we decided that the herb for this podcast is going to be the beautiful and gorgeous bee balm, which is also the wild bergamot Bergamot and a lot of people are familiar with bergamot because it's citrusy essential oil that smell is just so, so, yummy. So the Monarda Futsola it's like futsola Futsalosa is the Latin name, but it grows wild and plentiful and huge out at the farm in the fields. So on our way back to the bees, we're like it should probably be bee balm today that we talk about. Yeah, let's do bee balm. And then, go figure, both of us got stung because we weren't so heavy on the smoke, because we might have been in a little bit of hurry due to all the festivities happening.
Speaker 1:So we're like what do we do? Oh, we know exactly what to do. We're going to take a little leaf, we're going to crush it up, we're going to put it on that bee sting. Oh yeah, and I felt like instant relief. Honestly, it was just really, really good when I did it. It's got like that cooling effect.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Very, very nice. Anti-inflammatory is what they would call it, so they'd help with any of that like pain and inflammation and stinging. Anti-spamatic, so kind of helping any of that nervous spasm, energy calming all that down. Anti-septic Any of that nervous spasm, energy calming all that down. Antiseptic, mm-hmm and antimicrobial. Ooh, the bee balm is, and we're using the leaves and the flowers. That's all the petals, I believe. The petals, yeah, not so much the bunch. Yeah, I think the petals are just probably bonus, but I think most of the constituents are probably found in the leaf.
Speaker 2:Yes, but how wonderful plentiful Minty in the mint family but also citrusy, Very refreshing, invigorating. The flowers represent to me like fireworks. I was like whoosh. Very beautiful. They come in red, pink, white, many different different colors, but I feel like this one's wild one here in wisconsin, the purple yes, it's very abundant and I love that.
Speaker 1:she always provides, like why do you think you know? She's out here right now is, and I think the pollinators absolutely love it butterflies and bees, just like hummingbirds. Oh, trapped, trapped to this. Uh-huh, all the pollinators just all up in this bees nest, something like that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, nausea, digestion Great, make a tea.
Speaker 1:And wounds. If you're experiencing any of that. I wanted to share a little bit out of this book. I love this. Mariah had got me this book years ago. Oh, I do Growing your Own Tea Garden and I just absolutely love it because it has the pictures and some juicy information and it's all about tea, baby.
Speaker 2:I know I was like my books look like that too, like every page.
Speaker 1:I dove deep up in there. I just loved it. I love that the Oswego Indians use bee balm in the teas, and that's where you'll hear Oswego tea. So I feel like those native roots again kind of really utilizing what they had and relating it to the bergamot orange and the bee balm smells like an Earl Grey tea, a replacement for black tea. It's perennial, so it comes back every year and, like other mints, it's very aggressive. So if you are planting it for your tea garden, put it in a container. Yeah, keep it contained. Yeah, keep this baby contained. Put it in a container, yeah, keep it contained. Yeah, keep this baby contained.
Speaker 1:And the herb is a natural source of thymol, an antiseptic used in mouthwash, oh hey. So that is really really interesting. The clusters of palm-like flowers atop square stems from July to late September. I also read something fun in this one that I wanted to share because I like this.
Speaker 1:I feel like this Riccio check is very well known of, like the spirit of the herbs and the native culture, and it's kind of funny because it's talking about tincturing it. As you're either fresh or dried, you can put it in with alcohol and use that tincture in the winter months when you can't source it fresh. Use that tincture in the winter months when you can't absorb it fresh. But you would bundle it, hang, dry it and make oils, salves, creams or sunny honey with the flowering tops and infuse that honey. But talks about the powerful antibacterial and common cold sore throat. But check this out. So the native americans use it as a husband taming, where the wise wife casually sets a pan of lovely smelling bergamot to the back of the stove in order to improve the mood of a grouchy male, whatever it takes, girl, let's do it Right.
Speaker 1:So I mean I might, you know, just have to say more grouchy female. Yes, if she's up in that kitchen all day cooking for her family, I would just enjoy some wild bergamot up on my stove too. Oh yeah, ayo, those natives, they know what's up Like to think of that and to just know like, oh, this citrusy smell is going to be an uplifting mood enhancer and that's a kind of like, um, the plant energetics of that, like fun fireworks, it's kind of like it brings that energy out and kind of, yeah, it's uplifting, yeah, cool call collective. So it's just wild, that you know, kind of relating it to the doctrinal signatures and kind of like what it looks like or the names and how it can relate to what it's used for. Kind of just says it right in the name, right.
Speaker 2:Bee balm, who would have thought?
Speaker 1:Use it.
Speaker 3:Use the bee balm in balms, all your bee stings, all your bee stings.
Speaker 1:Bam Nature always provides. Okay, I have a new hair swing.
Speaker 2:There it is. I'm extra happy Flannery hair looks, just don't care.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, oh. Hey, yo Shout out to my sister-in-law, sarah Schaefer, that got me these sweet earrings for my birthday. And that's the third eye right or the. Evil eye, evil eye.
Speaker 2:Yes, which isn't?
Speaker 1:evil right.
Speaker 2:It's a ward off evil, ward off the evil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, it's a ward off evil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ward it off.
Speaker 1:Twist, and speaking of all this beautiful bee balm energy oh, I caught it in between my legs. Jesus is back on top.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to do like a no fear.
Speaker 1:I got him. Oh, are you going to put him back on there? Yes, are you going to drop him again?
Speaker 1:No Third time is the charm, baby, love it. Yes, this is coming from our hives, unadulterated, uncut, just pure, Local Raw Honey. Baby, I feel like this is just liquid gold. Have y'all ever heard of Colorado hemp honey? They're kind of doing the same thing, but this is like the local version, so it has all of that allergens in there to really help be a superfood, the nature's purest form of food, that's bee pollen. But think of the honey and it's sweetener. And this is not your average sweetener, no, no, no. You have to cut it because it's very concentrated. This 12-ounce jar has 2,690 milligrams of cannabinoids just oozing out of this sweet little jar and honestly I feel this. The honey is like a little piece of our heart.
Speaker 2:She has a hard time letting it go. You want it. You better really want it. You better work for it. How bad do you want that honey.
Speaker 1:Well, the energy exchange is. You know it's not cheap, I'll just say that. But I mean the blood, sweat and bee stings that were put into producing this honey is just something to be revered and really held dear. So yeah, I want to make sure the people that are using this honey know how to properly use it, know that it's not show average liquid gold because it's so concentrated with cannabinoids. Hey girl.
Speaker 3:So beautiful, I have to go. Why did it have to? I chose to Go, like mark the hemp plant, and this is what happened to my hands wow, is it from the resin?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It might be from the flags.
Speaker 3:Oh, from the metal flags. Yeah, so that's what happened to my hands. So work in hands.
Speaker 2:We marked like 33 of them 33?
Speaker 1:yes, but at the bottom half there wasn't like any hands. We marked like 33 of them. 33? Yes, but at the bottom half.
Speaker 3:There wasn't like any.
Speaker 1:It was like the front half.
Speaker 3:He barely helped.
Speaker 1:He's a team. It does take a team. Well, daddy offered these kids 25 cents a stake for every hemp plant that they found out of the field. And how much of this does it remind you of when we first started out on this mission, sunshine? It's exactly what we did out there when we didn't have irrigation or weed barrier and we were just finding plants out in the raw. And I feel like we're here again. I love it.
Speaker 3:It's wild Trust and this we are surrendering to what is Next year you should ask Dad to make more sawdust, because then you can just plant it over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, put the sawdust right over it so it can help suppress the weeds. Yeah, there'll be a lot easier. Yeah, yeah, about that. About that therapy no, we'll think about that for next year, but we're living, loving learning. About that, about that, there he. No, we'll think about that for next year, but we're living, loving learning. We're out in the fields getting our hands dirty, literally. That's what I like to see, baby, we're living it.
Speaker 2:I can't believe. It is like the first year all over again.
Speaker 1:It is. Yeah, I'm just this year. I feel like we kind of know what to expect and just kind of, yeah, let it go surrender know that we're not going to get all the weeds.
Speaker 2:There is no weeding that entire field. If we could just mow in between the rows, let me grind. Keep them at bay till the hemp take off, and then they're smooth sailing yes, but until then we gotta welcome to the jungle by the little plants, they're so cute they are so cute, but there's a lot of season left and I have a lot of hope for them.
Speaker 1:I've been saying prayers and that rain that we experienced is just such a blessing. That was me and really just putting Mother Nature to the test. And well, maybe not to the test, but let her do her work. Mm-hmm Worked with her.
Speaker 3:I have a memory from when we first had the farm. I remember when we didn't have this house and we would just have the Jeep back in the backfield and we would have the little kid picnic table thing out there. That was it.
Speaker 2:You kids were troopers then.
Speaker 1:And then Charlie and Nixon got married. Yes, the infamous wedding, the cornfield wedding between Kelly Sunshine's baby girl, charlie, and my baby boy Nixon, and then Unity and a sunflower. They were only four and they got married out there.
Speaker 3:And tell us what you said. It was so funny. Charlie was four and Nixon was three.
Speaker 2:We weren't even invited.
Speaker 3:We just decided to do it, and then we found a dirty bucket of water and some toilet paper and we used it as like Charlie's veil, and then we used a little dirty flag in the dirty water to like brush your hair back. Aww.
Speaker 1:That was so sweet.
Speaker 2:You can utilize your resources, yeah.
Speaker 1:Make something out of nothing, hey, some people still do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we just found a roll of toilet paper like back there or I don't remember if it was in the Jeep or something we just found a roll of toilet paper back there. I don't remember if it was in the Jeep or something. We just found it out there and then we just like.
Speaker 2:And we're probably in the field like where's the toilet paper?
Speaker 3:Yeah, All you need is love.
Speaker 1:What was the ring? Did you guys? What did you use for the ring? For, like, the wedding thing, for the wedding?
Speaker 3:ring the wedding ring. Oh, ring the wedding ring. Oh, we have found this candy ring and Nixon used that and was like put it on her hand.
Speaker 1:Oh, and was it sealed with a kiss? Yeah, was there a little smoochie involved there, a moochie moochie? Oh, your first kiss to Nixon. Stop it, stop it. Okay, sorry, we're done. And to the back to the honey.
Speaker 2:The full spectrum hemp honey is like sorry, we're done.
Speaker 1:And to the back to the honey. The full spectrum Hemp honey is like again like a full spectrum. So it uses the whole plant of hemp and all its beautiful cannabinoids working together in dissolute form in which we introduce back into our local unadulterated honey.
Speaker 3:Just saying it's really fun doing that, like getting that out of the stuff, and it's really fun.
Speaker 2:Hey, thanks for that, Nixon. Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I would really consider maybe getting a hive yourself.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, I would consider it too, but I do have to say for new beekeepers it is very involved.
Speaker 2:I would say Hands-on, very hands-on.
Speaker 1:You're going, you're checking that hive, you know, weekly during the peak season, which is summer, but even through winter you're still having hive maintenance and care. And I couldn't, we couldn't have done it without our wise and wonderful bee mentors, the Phil family from Don and Nick and their beautiful wives and children.
Speaker 1:They've come out and literally held our hand. Nick has. He has local blue ribbon award winning honey and he's president of the Beekeeper Society. Strangely enough, he went to high school with my husband, danny, and they played soccer together. So that sweet connection and sunshine of finding them at our QuickBooks class, I feel like that's the only thing we got out of that.
Speaker 2:Meeting a bee mentor. Yeah, meeting a bee mentor there.
Speaker 1:Still don't know how to do this, but how crazy that that all aligned yeah.
Speaker 1:And we still use him as a resource, I mean, throughout the season. He's just a wealth of knowledge and the way he is with the bees is something I really aspire to be one day. He is so calm and he just wears the veil, sometimes not even gloves or anything. Sometimes he doesn't even wear the veil and they're just mass producing beautiful, local, unadulterated, pure and raw blue ribbon, award-winning honey, and I make sure I source my bee pollen from them by the big jar. I normally go through probably about two or three big jars a year, me too. So I stock up because I put that in my smoothies, but that bee pollen is just, oh, baby, thank you, but they have like 2,000 hives or maybe even more. I mean, don't quote me. We have two and 2,000 hives or maybe even more.
Speaker 2:I mean don't quote me, we have two and we're still like help. I feel like we've pretty much well. I don't want to say that, but we've been through a lot like things that could go wrong or we know what to do in some situations and, trusting her, intuition, like we did this last time when we got the queen down to the bottom box and you spotted her, you could identify her.
Speaker 1:We've seen her. We were thorough in our hive inspection and we were able to find her and get her. We had the queen cover to put her down. I mean that is really coming a long ways, I feel like from where we started and when Nick had such patience and Grace to be able to show us all the things Nick's in really making slushies and my goodness.
Speaker 2:Well, I see this one. Sorry not to interrupt you. I don't know if you can see that, but it is starting to crystallize and that is a good thing. That means it's real. Don't be scared. I know a lot of people are like, oh it's going bad, no that, and liquefy it back to its normal state. Do not microwave it. No.
Speaker 1:Use a double boiler and kind of get that flowing. But yeah, the purity of it is, it's causing it to crystallize, and honey will never go bad, actually, if stored properly. It's just temperature no moisture.
Speaker 2:Temperature changes, what crystallizes it, so it may have gotten a little colder. Usually on the bottom it starts and then it'll rise up to the top.
Speaker 1:But don't throw it away, and there are some people that seek that out, like they love that chrysalide honey.
Speaker 3:It's like the fine wine, you know where.
Speaker 1:You let it age for a little while, or they'll whip it and make the butter the honey butter, which is also super amazing. That's where we met the mushroom lady at the Women's Herbal Conference, and she whipped that honey and added mushrooms to it and we're like, hey, hey, hey, let's get some hemp over there, because this is just like honey in and of itself, is so nourishing for your body and so nutritious, especially for the cold and flu season and allergy season as well. You add hemp to that, the master synergist conductor in with the flora and fauna, with the bees and the plants together, and then we're going to get the fungi in there. Ah, the future looks bright. It is indeed, but I just, absolutely, just I just love this. I do too. I do too.
Speaker 1:If you check out our website, dnahempllccom, you can get yourself some of your own and keep that in your cabinet. But remember, super concentrated. So dosing is very, very important. We're cutting this honey. If you normally use a tablespoon in your cup of coffee or in your smoothie, only use a half a tablespoon of this. That would be about 50 milligrams, which is still a lot.
Speaker 1:And then you add your other half, a tablespoon of your local raw honey from the Thills Perry's, and you'll have yourself a party on your taste buds. Yes.
Speaker 2:Tantalizing to the taste buds.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, so good. I just love this honey. It's always been a really good seller for us. You can find, and that is what Sippy Hippy uses in their delicious creations at their specialty coffee shop and beyond.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're doing a lot over there. It's really exciting.
Speaker 1:It's the Lavender Latte, where they use our DNA hemp honey infused honey, and it's just super delicious and amazing. I absolutely love it. I'm like on a whole nother vibe. I'm like feeling like a bee just buzzing, buzzing with good vibrations, when I have that latte from the Sippy Hippie. I'm sure you can add it to any of them, right I, when I have that latte from the city, I'm sure you can add it to any of them right, I'm sure you can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know Josh and Joe make dreams come true over there, those guys. They got two VW buses running for special events and weddings where you can get their specialty craft coffees and so much more. Now they're dipping their toes or diving right into the bar scene and offering craft cocktails and THC beverages as well, and you get that DNA house cocktails in there too. So I really loved it. I actually ran when we were there. We ran into Josh and he got to meet Lily, the mini meaner dog.
Speaker 1:And he just loved her. He's like, oh, she just made my day and he was so sweet. He was wearing a pink hat with a pink sippy hippie shirt. He said he needed his pink converse as on and I was like, sir, and I'm like, what is the occasion? And he was like just my Steve and I was like yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like, yes, Josh, I love this for you. He's like, all right, I got to go redo the website and the SEO and you had some big tasks to do on the ride in the ether waves and I was like, wow, that on top of running like six different businesses out of his one hub. What a spot for the community.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really is, not to mention their nonprofit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, middle Ground Connections, which has worked with the Tavern League, with the THC beverages. I feel like, oh my gosh, it's all connected and so, oh, oh, yeah. So while I was there I ran into Andrew from Capital Houston who sells the THC beverages, and he's like, yeah, your mom, cheryl, just scooped up a bunch of them to offer them at the club. Which I was like, yay, this is so great and Sippy Hippy offers them. But I can't help but think in the back of my mind, those beverages are not it, friends, they're not it. So I just wanted to you know as much as I'm like, applauding, Wisconsin for becoming more accepting of these THC.
Speaker 1:Obviously there is a market for it, right, and I feel like all the other industries are fully capitalizing on this, including, like our local Ma and Pa smoke shops and specialty stores that want to be able to offer the THC because they most certainly and legally can. But I just want to put out the intention that this plant is so much more. There is a lot more healing than just this high. There's not just the high, it's the healing and that's what you're going to get when you use whole plant material, full spectrum. It's not just the THC, it's not just the D8 or the D9. It is all the other hundred plus cannabinoids that are available in the plant that is going to make you feeling Mmm, mmm, mmm, b-licious, b-licious.
Speaker 3:Mmm, mmm, mmm, magnificent.
Speaker 1:Yes, yoo-hoo, which, speaking of B-licious sweet dragonfly, butterfly, princess, goddess, lover of all things, high vibrational, my sweet blessing of a sister-in-law, rachel, which we're going to so have her on here.
Speaker 3:She made, had a song made just for me it was like the best song I've ever heard it was called bubblicious and I was like, yes, it was like bubblicious. And then I had like sound bowls. It was like mermaid the glowing is where her soul takes flight, or something. It was really good it was so good.
Speaker 1:It was like speaking directly to my soul. I don't know how to share it, but when I find out I'm going to.
Speaker 3:It was amazing but not to call any attention away from.
Speaker 1:The beautiful poem that you wrote, sunshine, that you shared on the social media, brought a tear to my eye. I was like, I was like jamming to it. I was like yes and yes, and yes, and yes and yes, I think yes. So please go check that out if you haven't. I mean, that was just so sweet. We're so loved, ash, for you to take the time to download that sweet song. And next will be the delivery video Sunshine, we gotta like cut it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so sing that song because I bet you probably had a beat in your brain and I kind of got the beat as I was reading it and jamming to it and all those beautiful memories that you compiled, that was just this year, not even the whole year.
Speaker 2:No, there was a couple others, but I only got to like march yeah, we have a lot of memories, so many. We live a big bold and beautiful life.
Speaker 1:Thank you, dear jesus. Glory be to you. He is so, so good. Every day, you know, I just live in his synchronicities and his, his wise wisdom. It's just beautiful and it's already yours, it's already available to you and that's why I wanted to also put out there if y'all know about your astrological signs, because, speaking of this big Leo season and coming from cancer season, I feel like it's just really important to know.
Speaker 3:Guys, if you haven't checked out my mom's jobs yet, you should probably go do that, because they're're like really good, yeah, your song.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you, debbie.
Speaker 3:It takes a lot to do those songs I want her to help me write a song, but I don't think I have the patience for that oh, you, you do honey, you don't need to write it all at once.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but when it comes to you, just like look at your brother.
Speaker 1:he was so it was kind of crazy and about testify, testify to god's glory, right here, right now, nixon. I was like Nixon, do you want to hear my song? And I was like okay, and then I was like listen to it. And I like showed up and I was like back away because I get really shy.
Speaker 3:Okay, because I told her on one of her videos that she was cringe. So now she's like don't call me cringe.
Speaker 1:She's like is this cringey? But I push that out because I mean, you know what Jesus had? The most biggest critics were those in his own very town and he ended up doing all that he could and he left town and spread his good word. But had he listened to the people that he loved the most you know, his mom, his dad, his siblings, his parents maybe he knew he had a bigger purpose and a big light to share, and that is part of the discipleship that was preached at Sunday Mass at the Washington County Fairgrounds. What was that all about? What was your main takeaway, sunshine?
Speaker 2:Oh, well, besides it being really hot, yeah, I was like. Just come together and yeah, tell it on the mountain, go, tell it on the mountain.
Speaker 1:Go tell it on the mountain. He has one mind, one mind in that of Christ, that Christ-likeness, and so I feel like a lot of people are scared to talk about him, and for whatever reason, I don't.
Speaker 3:But I'm over here like.
Speaker 1:So anyways I shared this song with Nixon and I was like oh, like, kind of I don't know why. I just he immediately was like I want to write my song, I want to write a song. And I was like yes, you can.
Speaker 3:It was a rap song about God. It was actually really good. That is so cool For a nine-year-old.
Speaker 1:And he made it look so easy. I'm over here in my head thinking, well, you know my confidence, and trying to talk myself through this, let's get an ego aside. And that's what I helped. I was like this is what we got to do. I kind of just guided him and you know, pen and paper, writing it down, downloading it, kind of helping him work through it. And we had that song what Nixon in five minutes.
Speaker 3:Probably like three.
Speaker 1:Had it up on YouTube within the hour, within 15 minutes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So you're telling me that Butterfly, Princess, Nixon, you and I and Nevi was there all kind of wrote a song this week.
Speaker 3:Yes, I didn't want to yes.
Speaker 1:Oh, but you will. You're like the caterpillar.
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Speaker 1:Can you show us what your suite with the Dragonfly Princess has set up for you? Just take the water bottle out and come show us. Oh, because we have something special that we want to share with you. It's super amazing that I feel like we have to share because I just loved that today. This morning, jay and I'm in a hurry, right I feel like, oh geez, we got bed appointments, we have parties. I think I have like 40. Are you coming? Are you coming to Zapata? Oh see, I mean, yeah, 42.
Speaker 3:Okay. So, auntie Rachel, for my mom's birthday, she got us this and it's a bug catcher, it's like a butterfly catcher, basically, and I caught a little caterpillar today. It's like a really little baby and I'm going to get it out for you guys and show you it, because it's really cute, oh shoot.
Speaker 1:Is it on there, don't lose it.
Speaker 3:It's on here. This is the little I don't know. Wait, this is my little caterpillar.
Speaker 1:He's really little, which is me actively. The caterpillar Just lost out there, just munching, munching, munching, not really knowing what's going to happen, what the purpose is. What's it all mean? We don't know. I feel like that's all of us Right. Purposes what's it all mean? We don't know. I feel like that's all of us Right, I feel like. A lot of times in the Bible our pastor Aaron at New Life Church off of Highway D, he references the caterpillar a lot and how, like the beautiful Transformation, the transformation. As soon as you let you know that love and joy and His Holy Spirit in your heart, and what can happen, let go and let God and his Holy Spirit in your heart. And what can happen, let go and let God. I love my birthday. He's like the best. So Butterfly Princess we, for part of the birthday gift, she got us our very own darling butterfly enclosure which she has at her house and she's released over like 15 butterflies this season. She's just so sweet as she handles it. It just makes me so happy. We got to release butterflies today.
Speaker 3:It was really fun, that's what I was getting to.
Speaker 1:We got to release our very own butterflies.
Speaker 3:My butterfly just flew out of the cage. But it's okay, you named it, yeah, but I didn't want to touch it. Because when I was like, I'm still scared of butterflies because when I was little, the beach, I had, like I don't know. There I had, like I don't know, there was a bunch of butterflies flying around and I hit them to the picnic table and started screaming.
Speaker 1:You know what we're going to do about that right now, Nevi. Let's join hands, Join hands, Sunshine too. We're going to ho'oponopono. That All right. We're going to say I love you, I love you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, please forgive me. Please forgive me, thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you. I release you of any fear you have in any of God's creatures.
Speaker 3:Your face is really warm.
Speaker 1:Because all things are working together for good, my love.
Speaker 2:You know it's funny because I think Lily scared Butterflies too.
Speaker 1:Seriously, it was insane. She was tiny.
Speaker 2:She's like under the picnic table and I'm like what I'm like, it's okay, it's a butterfly.
Speaker 1:You know, the museum, the butterfly room and that can also be a very symbolic and representative of our fear that we have in transformation and how much we resist and, and and and put it away and try to stop it. But all things together are working for good and if God is with us, who could be against us? So lean into that. I challenge you to check out your astrological signs as well. I feel like this is need-to-know information, because God created you. Everything happens on purpose.
Speaker 3:Because if God spends six days I saw this on CapCut, by the way. I'm not like Testify, testify, but God spent six days creating the entire earth, okay, but he spent nine months creating who you are, ooh.
Speaker 1:I like that and he delivered you on a specific date at a specific location, at a specific time and if you look that up and there's apps online, it'll give you your sun sign, your moon sign and your rising sign.
Speaker 1:There's three different signs oh, yeah, and the three signs give together the portrait really of your life and much like the caterpillar, not knowing you can read this and kind of like have a sense of self of like knowing that everything is for a reason right. Yeah, that you can resonate with what's already written. Yeah, like don't put yourself in a box.
Speaker 2:You can be multiple and go across. Oh yeah, it definitely gives you like oh well, that's maybe why I am the way I am, or why do I feel this way?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's very complex it is.
Speaker 1:As your friend we should have Lindsay on as a guest, please, if we can. Yes, because she's the one who turned me on to Time Passages, which is the app that I use, and you can put your loved ones in there too, so you can better understand relationships too. But the birth chart is crazy. They're like, and everybody has them, it's kind of like your fingerprint. There is going to be no two the same, so I feel like that's just a beautiful call to God's grace and how unique and special everybody is. And Leo season is here and I'm going to hear that roar. So that's's the message today. I want to start a fire in you, to kind of know. You know where, what it is, your signs sun, moon rising and please dm me and let me know. I'm curious. I want to know what the vibe is attracting here, what kind of tribe we're.
Speaker 2:we're creating this whirlwind, yes, so the sun is like the core, your ego, like what you like, you feel right, the one you normally associate with that's your birth date. The moon is your emotions and and your reactions more like internal and then you're rising is how you present yourself and the impressions you so they can be all different. I've had one person where they're all the same as mine, so they're like three solid fires. It's like whoa, that's intense. It's really fun to find out and then, yeah, you throw the elements in there and it really makes it very interesting, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's really cool. It's like, you know, just getting to know your friends too. So, thinking outside of the box too, it's not just all about you, it's about your relationships and then knowing, I really feel, that every single person that you touch or meet is there. It's also for a reason and unbeknownst to us, we might not even know, but there's just a part of a bigger plan. So I feel like kind of having a deeper respect and understanding about your loved ones too, to kind of you know, it's just like a way of self-improvement, self-reflection, doing some of that shadow work.
Speaker 1:I feel like it can bring out some not so beautiful qualities in the sign that's already written in the stars, you know. So, yeah, me I feel like, yes, the Leo here you roar, but I need to also hone in that patience. And I feel like that's where the Leo here you roar, but I need to also hone in that patience. And I feel like that's where the moon sign and the rising signs kind of assist in all of that and know that you are divine and perfect just the way you are. Amen, as you are a child, god and have the Holy Spirit. So we're all here for a reason, friends, it's such a beautiful tapestry we're weaving and to be able to reflect that on that in the video that you created just in the short clips of a year, not even a couple months.
Speaker 2:Wow, I had to shorten it too, because otherwise it was way too long. They wouldn't let me use music. I've used two songs.
Speaker 1:I'm like okay and I have so much faith and love and adornment, that, like everybody, is capable of this life. Everybody had this fire and that's I feel like at the that Holy Hill. The pastor there like, literally like, looked into my soul and was like stark fires and I was like yeah, gladly Also part spark plug at church.
Speaker 1:I feel like even just that little like spark of energy and that's why I just love that we hit record today, because just being consistent and keep showing up. I love you sunshine, I love you bubbles. Thank you for making the birthday, which is, I learned from our friend row from the earth vibe. He's like it's not, he's like we're not getting older, he's like we are leveling and he's like it's not. He's like we're not getting older.
Speaker 1:He's like we are leveling and I was like yes, we are, yes, we are, and I was like we're not getting. I'm leveling up yo Older and wiser and we're experienced, I know now, and so much more to learn Just getting started. So thank you so much for being here and I so so blessed and so great, eternally grateful just to have you all ever in my life, because I feel like it's just what a blessing to be open to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, kitty cats, they're looking at me like I'm crazy again are we like almost a little more than halfway through summer, I think we're like two thirds. It's getting a little squirrely it is, and I love it because I really have to like stop and be present with that, because, geez, we don't. Time is all we have and that's all that really matters, but we live in a planet where time doesn't exist.
Speaker 3:Alien handshake.
Speaker 1:Have we done this before? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Let's do it again.
Speaker 1:Must alien handshake have?
Speaker 2:we done this before. Yeah, must happen. Can you tell me, before we leave, a little bit about themesville market and what happened there? Oh, I didn't get to hear. We didn't get to debrief. No, I know we didn't. These all was hot.
Speaker 1:Oh, also hot oh yeah, because that was the before the rain.
Speaker 2:Yeah yes, yeah, it was nice. They really have been able to pivot with the new splash pad, which is also really nice, by the playground, but they made it more on the grass, so that's really helped the vendors and their products, because that asphalt got so hot in the parking lot area. Unfortunately we weren't on there, but there were people that were, so they made an extra little loop around the whole thing in the grass, so that was nice. Then you get two sides of the aisle, just really vendor-friendly and shopper-friendly, and all the little kids running around and music and food, and it was really nice.
Speaker 1:That is so nice. Did you eat any yummy food there? I?
Speaker 2:did not. I was fasting, Ooh good on you, sis, I tried Nothing wrong with that. Lots of coffee, though.
Speaker 1:And to resist all those temptations. Yeah Out there, yeah Sunshine how do you do it?
Speaker 2:Well, we weren't even close to them this time. We were like, right, when you come in the main entrance, because we aren't there every week like we used to be, they're going to move us around, so you've got to keep.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's exciting it is.
Speaker 2:It's a new perspective. I like it. But yeah, we weren't by the food, so there weren't many temptations.
Speaker 1:Did you get to bring one of your kitty cats? No, no, I see that, megan is watching, so hello.
Speaker 2:Hi Megan, Hello.
Speaker 3:Megan.
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 3:Meg.
Speaker 1:I love her, so I love you, meg Sister, sisters Of all ages Send a heart, if you can hear us.
Speaker 2:No, what up, sis, send a heart if you can hear us. Why is that weird? Because, we're all children. What do you want to be?
Speaker 3:called. Do that? I think I know. Yeah, whenever my dad calls me, buddy, I'm like, I am not nobody, you're like, bro.
Speaker 1:Because you are nobody, you are somebody. You are not nobody, you are somebody, I am Somebody, I am, I am somebody, I am somebody. No, no, you are royalty. Yes, you have a seat at the throne. We are all princes and princesses. Channel it, channel it. That's why I love this new moon, the pink moon, because it's all about that manifestation and drawing into the renewal, the growth. Yes, nevi, okay, sweetie, I love. Oh, I just wanted to mention too, the kids were flagging.
Speaker 1:We got the Thamesville Market Butterfly releases, a whole vibe, our songs that were all created, or are they psalms, psalms or songs, I don't know, but I feel like sharing them takes it to a whole, not a whole. Other level of vulnerability, oh yeah, which I just have to tip my hat to because really like, yes, we are creators, um, breathtaking energy makers, but to share that with the world, I feel, feel like, is really the key element for that energy exchange, because you are putting yourself out there, you are being vulnerable and taking that risk and it's hard. It's hard to do, but I feel like he is calling you to do that.
Speaker 2:Don't ever dim your light. No, you let that love light in To be scared of right. Well, what? What be confidently vulnerable?
Speaker 1:yes because, yes, you can repeat after me yes, I can, yes I can. Um, and just a testament I know we have the babies coming around and they love to see their faces online and I love to see their faces online. And I love to see their faces online because, honestly, it's our show and we're just living it. I had Pretty Rachel's niece, miss Olivia, her brother's daughter, stop out at the farm today. Today, excuse me a couple days ago this week, and today, excuse me, a couple of days ago this week and she has such a genuine passion and calling for herbalism that she wanted to stop out and kind of pick, pick, pick our brain here. And it was very, as a Leo, I'm like I want to, you want to come out and be amazing Like you want, you want to hear it. You're not going to say yes, like come on out, that would be amazing, like you want to hear, okay, I'll talk.
Speaker 1:But you know, I feel like as much as I was able to like share with her, I was able to pick her brain and kind of do a lot of listening too, because she's the future of herbalism and what I really was kind of like she was probably like meow, meow. No, she was probably like meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. No, I'm just kidding Meow. But I was just like tell me more. I was like what is this plant telling you? I was like what is she saying? And she's like she knew, she intuitively, instinctually knew what some of the plants. After I explained to her Doctrine of Signatures and Plant Energetics, she was able to kind of pick up on the cues for some of these plants. And what I love about children or younger young adults, adolescents, involvement in herbalism is that the intuition is not beat out of them, right Like they instinctually know, and so to kind of like capture some of that essence from her.
Speaker 1:She is going to be approaching her school, she's going to be a senior this year in high school and she's going to talk to him about an internship program and whether that'd be a viable thing with DNA hemp and I'm like well, last time I checked we're licensed in a church. We're too legit to quit?
Speaker 3:Oh, that would be so cool.
Speaker 1:We can always use an extra hand out on the farm and for her to get her hands dirty. Work with the herbs. Help us wildcrafting, processing, drying, harvesting and then procuring products. And on social media, how to portray that message of all the energy exchange that goes into each and one of our products that we put out into the universe, which is also a little bit of vulnerability in and of itself. Amen, amen. So shout out to Olivia. I'm excited to see where the future goes and other like-minded pupils out there that want to learn.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like we're open. We are open for energy exchange and involvement and would love to learn with you. So it's awesome, I love it. Who knows?
Speaker 2:And I feel like, even for my kids.
Speaker 1:I love you too, and I feel like even for my kids to see that they're like, oh, olivia's interested in the herbalism.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe we're not that crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like wow, our moms are just hippy-dippy wild women out there, just peace, love and delight, right, debbie we?
Speaker 2:totally are, but there's way more, so that was really cool too.
Speaker 1:It was really special and kind of filled up my cup, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:Way to go, Olivia. Be proactive. I love that.
Speaker 1:I mean it takes a lot of confidence to get out there and kind of seek what you want, know what you like, use your network and your resources to really be able to follow that dream. And anything is possible. Share your gifts. Even the impossible, everything is possible. Even the impossible, I am possible. Yes, I am possible. So we're going to pack up this rambling awesome train, fully chugging down the tracks, to the West Bend Farmer's Market this Saturday 7.30 to 11.
Speaker 1:Yoo-hoo Every Saturday here until the end of October. I'm so excited for the Farmer's Market. It's always an adventure we do. All right, are we ready to sign off on this piece? Yes, we'll see you at the West Bend Farmer's Market this Saturday. Yoo-hoo, until next time, friends. Love you, much love and light.