From Cow Town to Tinsel Town (01)

🎙️ Welcome to the Sibling Soapbox Podcast!

In our very first episode, siblings Tristan Venture & Heather Evans jump on the soapbox together to share our wild, heartfelt, and hilarious journey from a small "cow town" in Washington State to chasing big dreams in Hollywood.

From haunted childhood homes and our parents' disco days... to U-Haul road trips, dancing for NBA teams, and graduating from USC Film School —this episode is packed with nostalgia, sibling banter, and a whole lot of truth.

🔥 Highlights:

• Why Tristan prefers video podcasts & Heather swears by audio
• Our leap of faith from small-town life to L.A. dreams
• The early days of our show “DateMate” and what led to this podcast
• Why YOUR voice matters on the Soapbox

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro 
02:48 Cowtown Life
05:05 The Move to TinselTown
13:40 First Jobs in Los Angeles
15:40 Dream Chasing
16:30 DateMate project
22:27 Starting a Podcast
24:05 Soapbox Meaning
30:30 Dance It Out

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Transcript

Episode 1 Transcript

Hey, what's up everyone? Welcome to the Sibling Soapbox Podcast. My name is Tristan Venture. I'm here with my sister.

Hey guys, I am Heather Evans and welcome. This is a place where we have an open mic, open minds, and we want to hear what you have to say. We're going to jump on the soapbox together.

Yeah. So we're trying out this new video podcast thing. I prefer video podcasts to watch. I don't know about you, Heather, but I think you mentioned audio for you, right?

Yeah, yeah, you'll have to tell me why you prefer the video. But for me, audio, I'm always on the go. I'm a mom of three and constantly like their Uber driver. Three teens. So I am always in my car. That's how I started listening to podcasts. And then at home, I'm usually doing something like a load of laundry, I'm cooking dinner. So, audio has always been a little bit easier for me, although I am diving into the video a little more now. 

But what about you? Why video over audio?

Nice. Yeah. I think for me, the video, because I'm such a visual person, you know, working in the film industry that if I'm not watching something, it's kind of captivating me with whoever's speaking. I tend to lose interest or get a little sidetracked in my daydreaming if I'm driving or something becomes kind of like background noise, like radio. And I can listen to audio books pretty good, but yes, I do tend to kind of sometimes not pay as close attention. So I really enjoy kind of seeing the speakers and any visual aids that they might have. So yeah, I'm excited that we're doing video as well as audio for those who are listening, and they want to put a face to the name. 

This is who we are, brother and sister team. We kind of look alike.

Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We still kind of look alike after all these years.

Well, I remember people thought we were twins when we were younger.

Yes, we are 18 months apart. That's pretty close. Yeah. The DNA doesn't stray that far, I guess. and yeah, a little bit of background about us. We come from a very small town out in the middle of nowhere in Washington state in the foothills of Mount Rainier. We grew up just in a small town playing in the woods all the time and riding our bikes everywhere, kind of like Stranger Things. And, and then at one point we both decided that we had had enough of Cowtown.

And we set our sights on our dreams and ambitions and headed to Southern California to Los Angeles and Hollywood.

Okay. So that everyone gets an idea of cow town. When you say cow town, I mean, we literally had cows all over the place in our town. But I remember, and tell me if you remember this, in high school, not only like in our yearbook where there are pictures of our classmates hunting, just showing off their deer heads, but I knew people that were bull riders and

rodeo clowns, and that was like their job. So it really was a cow town. Although after meeting my husband and going to his small town in Missouri, like at least we had stoplights. They don't have any stoplights in his.

We have one stoplight.

Yeah, yeah. Pretty sure I ran that too and it was while we were driving one time when you told me to gun it. Kidding, we'll have to tell that story another time.

But yeah, our journey, we went from Cowtown to Tinseltown. We left that small town where we had some big dreams and we made that big move. I'm sure you remember we, you know, we come from a working middle-class family. No Nepo babies here. No Nepo babies. Hardworking, blue collar people that we come from. And we were raised by a mother who was a performer and our father as well. did dance in high school together.

Wait, what? No, did they dance? No, they didn't dance together in high school.

Yes, mom and dad danced together on the dance team in high school.

Okay, I need to verify. I do not remember that.

I remember Mom showing me photos from the yearbook. Sure.

We need to ask dad. But I do remember them taking disco lessons. And we would stay home alone, and they would go take disco lessons. But dance team, I'm going to have to fact check that.

I'm going to find that photo in their yearbook. I'm sure our sister Nikkole has that and we will share that with our audience. Anyway, so in other words, a singer and performer and musicians on both sides of the family. So, you know, I think we had a lot of that in our background. You obviously with your dancing and then me trying to be a filmmaker at a young age with limited resources. But yeah, so we moved to LA and I went to film school there. So that was my ambition and my big dream. And Heather, I'll let you speak on your dreams and ambitions and what brought you to take that journey with me where we threw everything into U-Haul. We had one car that we shared. We both sold our cars in order to get money to move. And we threw everything in a big U-Haul, including my cat.

Right? my gosh, poor Kitty. We had to give her some sedatives and road trip away with her over the mountains.

Yeah. And, and ironically, the car that we brought was a hand me down from our father. It was called the Celebrity, Chevy Celebrity.

So telling. So telling of our future in LA.

Yeah. We really were going for the big dream. For you, it was dancing.

Yeah. dancing.  But first, I wanted to go back and ask you because I genuinely want to know, I don't remember, what made you first want to go into film and making movies and writing and like what point in your life in childhood made you want to, okay, someday I'm going to move to Hollywood and live the dream.

Yeah, so, you might remember this. So I think I was 10 years old. We went as a family and we saw Poltergeist in the movie theater. Maybe a little young, maybe a little young to see that. Anyway, that movie scared me so much. And especially with the house that we lived in that was haunted, which we'll have to dive into that on another episode. That movie scared me so much and affected me so deeply. was like, wow, this is a powerful medium. This is incredible. I want to be a part of this when I get older. Like this is really unique. And it's just something that affects you in such a visceral way that I was like, I gotta do that one day. I want to do that. Growing up. I just kept that in the back of my mind. Of course, you know, our family wanted me to be an engineer or take different career paths, but just always had that dream. And our mother at a young age instilled in us, like believe in yourself and your dreams, never give up, just go for it no matter what it takes. And I like to think that we did that.

Funny. I never knew that that poltergeist was your catapult. And I didn't go see the movie with you guys. I was not a horror movie person. I didn't go see it with you - that would have traumatized me. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep. So to hear that, I always thought it was Star Wars for you. So that's good to know.

Definitely Poltergeist. And we have to talk about our haunted house growing up. Whole episode right there.

Yeah. And now for you, so dancing, of course you danced competitively, you know, throughout your entire childhood, you and Nikkole, our oldest sister. I know you danced for the Sonics as well up in Seattle, the basketball team, one of the dancers there and then moved into LA.

I've danced since I was little. Competed, I did all the things, but I always had visions, especially, okay, there was a show called Solid Gold. It was like, is that 80s? Yeah, 80s. And I was a kid in the 80s. And I would watch these dancers and I was like, I wanna be them. They would just dance on stage with the music that was, I don’t know, it was like a top hits show or something. Sometimes live performers. Anyway, I even wrote a letter to one of the Solid Gold dancers, Darcel Wyne. Is that her name? Yeah. And I got an autograph picture because I would put her on my wall and be like, I want to be her, a Solid Gold dancer and kept that in my brain. And then yeah, I danced through high school, college, and then auditioned and did the NBA teams, the Seattle Sonics, if anyone remembers them, (they're no longer a team). And then moved to Mexico, ditched you all and moved to Mexico to choreograph and dance there. And then after that, I came home and you were like, let's do this.

I remember you were like, come on, you've always been the one to push me into the, you know, the territories that are a little bit unfamiliar and scary. And you've always, you know, climb Chichen Itza, you can do this, climb the pyramid. That's another story. Yeah. So that brought me to want to move to LA. I wanted to dance in music videos. I wanted to go on tour with artists -  and we made the move.

And you did it. And I mean, that's such a beautiful dream that you had and you did it. And you're still doing it with your Zumba now, which is so impressive and you know, choreography through the years and different dancing and performances with different groups and yeah, the Clippers and I mean, that's pretty incredible. especially going from cow town to tinsel town and actually achieving the dreams that you set forth with, because I think, you know, a lot of people arrive in the city with very little money, huge dreams, and it doesn't always work out the best, but just another one of those great stories of saying, you know what, if I don't do this, I won't be happy in life. and so I'm proud of you as your brother that you did it.

Thanks. You too. I mean, but it is about the stamina in it, right? Like that's what this industry and the entertainment field, you think maybe that you can come here and it's about overnight success. I'm going to make it big and it's going to happen tomorrow. And you're like, no, this is a grind to do this and stay. And the people who stay in it are usually the ones that find more success, I've seen. They don't give up.

Yeah, it's a marathon, not a sprint for sure.

Yes, exactly. Do you remember when we moved here? We moved into an apartment. It was like sight unseen, right? We had a manager that we contacted, was it through fax or something? We didn't see our apartment. That was the thing about back then that I loved is we took a total chance on this journey to move to Tinseltown, to LA, la la land. Like we were just going for it. Sold the cars, like you said, moved down. But we moved into an apartment that, had we seen it? Had we even, like, I remember the manager, we talked to him, we had to dial the phone and be like, hey, do you have a place for us to live? If I remember correctly, we didn't even know what it looked like inside.

I do remember, you know, we made a trip down prior and we looked at places, but yeah, we didn't know what it looked like inside. Was sight unseen.

We were just happy to have a place.

Yeah, it's crazy. And I think a lot of people have that dream of coming to Hollywood. You know, it's like the Island of Lost Toys. You just have people that randomly show up. You know, Glen did that. He, your husband, rolled up in his car and everything, all his belongings and just made it happen. And if anyone in the audience wants to share their experience about that, because I've heard so many great stories of the people we've met throughout our lives who did the same thing, you know, it's like a pilgrimage. I need to go there. Something's calling me to go there. And that's such an exciting time of your life. It's like when you travel, you know where you just go to this foreign place. You don't know anyone. You don't know anything. And you just start doing stuff. And I remember we didn't have jobs and we had to get jobs and you had your first job. Where was it? It was like a nuclear isotope place?

In all of my, you know, dance history, also, this is the beautiful duality of me, I will have these creative jobs and then I have my regimented corporate jobs, like I used to work like in dad's office. I was like a receptionist and then an administrative assistant. So when we moved down, I'm pursuing the dance dream, but I'm like, I need something to pay the bills because I've got to pay half the rent here and half of the bills. I didn't have a car and I got on at some nuclear isotope place. I worked in the office. But do you know that they once had, oh, maybe I shouldn't say this. Like there was like a, not a spill, but some sort of where we, I mean, they had to come into the office with the Geiger things to test us. Explains a lot about how I am now.

I have to say you would come on from work and you were just glowing. I mean it was pretty incredible. I was like wow, work must be good. My job on the other hand was you know.

What was yours? Your first one. Your first one you had done in Washington, right? Like you had done...

Well, so a little backstory here, our uncles and our family, we had three uncles who owned and operated a locksmithing business, which Mike, James, Danny, hello. Thanks you guys for employing me all those years. And so during that time I had learned a little bit, you know, we'd done some subcontract work with a company called ADT security systems. And so when we moved to LA, I was able to get a job with them and I was working in all kinds of different places.

The best part about this is that I really got to know LA and I had my Thomas guide and I would be looking through my pages, you know, and finding my map grids and okay, I'm going here and I would work my jobs and hey.

Children, we did not have anything like Waze or Google Maps. We literally had to pull out a book, the Thomas guide, and find our route before we start driving. Sometimes during, like leaning over. But I do remember that you went to some places that, you know, that was great for you to start to learn Southern California. I love it. Yeah. I, on the other hand, did not have a car. I would walk from our apartment, that, I don't even know, was at least four or five miles to work and back. I would try the bus, the bus was terrible. So I just did this instead. I got in really good shape though. But the walk, I remember coworkers would be like, why is she walking? Like one lady that I worked with, she felt bad for me and she loaned her car to me for a while when she was out of town. And she's like, do you want to just use my car? Yeah, I was that poor kid. It's fine. Made me work harder so I could save up for my $300 Toyota Corolla that I later purchased.

But it's all about the dream, right? Living the dream, sacrifices for the dream. And that's like when you said we should have people let us know about their journeys into their dreams. I also want to know not just people that were coming to Hollywood, like what did you guys do at that time in your lives? You know, you were in your early 20s and you either finished college or you finished high school and you just went for it. Some people didn't. Some people were perfectly content to stay where they were. For us. it was in our small town and I think they're still there, and mad respect for that because I wanted to break free. I'm sure you did too. But I would love to hear other people's stories about the dream chasing, right? Like where did you go and what brought you there and where are you now because of it?

Exactly. Yeah. You're chasing your dream and nothing's for certain and you're just going for it. And, know, you're either going to succeed or you're going to crash and burn, but either way, I think for me it was like, I couldn't live a life knowing that I didn't try to succeed or not. It doesn't matter. I mean, that's kind of my whole story of my life though is if I don't try things, if I don't at least try to do it, whether I fail or succeed, I really, I just have to try it. It's like doing a podcast together. You know what? I say, let's try it. Because, hey, you never know. That sounds interesting, something different. When we did that show, Datemate, that was kind of a fun little trial. And then that led us into other things. And we can dive into Datemate and talk a little bit about that. But yeah, that was kind of the start of our working together, outside of you, of course, acting in a lot of my films and film school. But yeah, going from there.

Yeah, I remember Datemate. I remember it well.

And this was a show that was for public broadcast and that we were hoping to get picked up on a larger network. But that didn't quite happen, but yeah, we had this great idea of when you're in your twenties or thirties and you're out there dating in the world, and this is before the big social media influence before Tinder and all of those things. But you know, how do you meet people? How do you vet people that are not crazies or psychos? How do you go through that process in dating? And was really just about sharing ideas through a platform that was very open and people could come to be on the show that we were the hosts of. Hey, let's hear about your dating experience so that I can relate to it and kind of feel better about mine, you know, Everyone has their horror stories about dating. And I think there was at that time Match.com. I think that had just come on the scene. I think it was right around that time because we were kind of like, you know, that was the thing. Do you meet people in bars? Do you meet people at work or were there those situations where you would go online, to chat rooms or Match.com?

Wait, did you ever do it? Did you ever go on Match.com?

I did one date on Match.com, and it was very awkward and kind of strange because back then you just didn't, you know, you didn't have a way to look at the person who you're going to go on the date with. But to really kind of know if you had a common interest or whatnot, that your synopsis of who you were, your brief little bio was very short. And I think, you know, we went out to dinner and we were like, yeah, we have nothing in common. And like, wait, you're a starving artist. You don't have a regular job? No, sorry buddy. You're out. You're out. And I was like, okay.

I guess I was my own Match.com. I just went for it and dated all of them. I didn't vet anything, which I should have, hindsight. I made a lot of mistakes. That's okay. That's what we live for, right? Like we're here to make mistakes, to learn and grow. But in the dating realm, yeah, that's what brought us to Datemate, which I loved doing with you. And I think that launching that is something that changed both of our lives as far as like, okay, future hosting and to bring it here now is pretty amazing. Full circle moment.

Yeah, it definitely was. I don't know if you still have yours. I still have mine from a long time ago. Do you remember that book that we made? Let me grab it. We made this little pitch book that we pitched.

Yeah, my God, we worked hard on this in his little apartment in Hollywood, right? Didn’t we get together and this was before the days of like, easily having graphics done. Didn't we have to hire an artist to help? I love that you created that, like you came up with the template for it.

Yeah, it was kind of an anecdote for the dating scene, you know, for our show and everything. Anyway, we came up with all this great fun stuff. Yeah.

And for the listeners out there, for the people who are audio listeners, he's showing this book that has this cool cover that we made that's a pill bottle and inside the logo of DateMate has a pill that's splitting apart. We did this whole pitch book. We had a set that we hired somebody to make - this pop-up book.

This is my favorite part right here. It's us. The set. It was so much fun. 

It's a pop-up! It's an actual pop-up, which, who makes those anymore? 

I want more pop-up books in the world. We’ve got to bring back the pop-ups. 

Come on. Bring back the pop-up. Anyway, that was DateMate. My gosh. That was such a good time.

I might still have my book somewhere. I'll have to go look. I love that.

Yeah, you'll have to look. That's kind of a great segue into why we're starting the Sibling Soapbox podcast. That was many, many years ago and now we're older and we have a lot more life experience and we've been through the fires and trials of life and adulthood. We both have families now and kids and all that. 

And now, it's no longer about dating. Now it's about life with, you know, relationships, long-term relationships and children, right? So we've segued into that part of our lives, this different season.

Exactly. Did you say the soap opera Days of our Lives? Time through an hourglass, these are the days of our lives. I just remember that being on every day as a kid.

It's still on. Our mom loved that show, by the way. It's still on. Yes. Even some of those actors, I don't watch them, but I see them on social and I'm like, wow, they're still around. That's amazing. It's amazing how good they look.

I wonder how that happens.

Amazing. 

No, season of our lives, like we're in a different season of our lives now. And I think that a lot of people can relate to this, especially Gen Xers who are like, okay, I've done the marriage or relationship thing. I have the kids. And then it becomes sort of a “now what?” moment. And I think that's what brought us to this. Like, okay, let's revisit DateMate. But now let's revisit where we are at this point in our lives.

Yeah, definitely. And I think, um, you know, also you get to a point in your life where you have maybe less time in front of you than behind you. You kind of look at things in retrospect and think back, well, what was my life and what have I done and what can I do in the time I have left? And I think, yeah, part of working with you again in this podcast is this going to be about exploring those topics that are relevant and that we can share ideas with an audience and, you know, as hosts bring on some guests for some pretty compelling insight into different topics that relate to our experiences as well as experiences by older generations and younger generations in the kind of somewhat crazy world that we live in these days. That's very dynamic and always changing and sometimes challenging to navigate. But yeah, I think that's what I'm most excited about with this idea of a podcast together. Yeah.

And when we say soapbox, we mean giving other people a voice and people we interview, you in the audience, people who are actually watching or listening, we want to give people a chance to give us feedback, like get on the soapbox a little bit and we're going to get on our soapboxes. Let's talk. I love it because I think this is really a good time that discussion needs to happen. And it's about more than just, you know, our generation. We want to hear from other generations. I have teenagers. I want to hear from them. And I think they have a lot of wisdom to offer. And so do, you know, the Boomers and those people.

Well, the Boomers, yeah, we really want to hear from them. Like, what did you guys do to us? No, I'm just kidding. That's a deep dive soapbox right there. Yeah, so the soapbox, just a little bit of backstory for our audience.

Tell the story because I, you know, I didn't remember when you're like “soapbox” and I'm like, I don't remember this, but I don't remember a lot. I think I phased out a lot of things in my life growing up. So when you said the soapbox, I was like, yeah.

Yes. I remember growing up and people in our family, um, you know, would often say that if they were voicing their opinion about something and sometimes it'd be on a diatribe, they're going on, uh, for an extended period. Uh, they would be like, damn it, Robert, get off your soapbox. What are you still going on and on about? Oh, so and so's on their soapbox. And then they walk out of the room and, know, don't want to be a part of the conversation anymore. So that to me always stuck with me, you know, someone really wanting to kind of share their thoughts on a particular subject. And, sometimes they didn't shut up and they just kept going on and on about it.

Like when somebody doesn't shut up and then you're like, it's my turn, I'm gonna bring my megaphone in and be like, ME, listen to me!

And that's exactly it. You know, and so we had a very vocal family, one side in particular that really liked to give opinions on things. It was fine. You know, heated discussions. Those are always good in a family dynamic.

And some of those where people would get up and leave on that side of the family. Do you remember? People would get offended. One person gets on their soapbox and maybe says something that offended. There was no like, well, I shouldn't say this. There was some discussion, but no healthy discussion, healthy back and forth. Sometimes that led to departures. Remember that?

And I guess so-and-so was on their soapbox too long and they got ousted. You're not welcome!

Where did he go?

But that's not the case here. You're welcome. We are welcoming. So let's talk.

That's right, here on the Sibling Soapbox Podcast, we invite you to share your ideas and we want to really have that open forum so that we can hear different points of view and share them. And you know, we're not just going to be on that one side where, no, we're only doing this political view or this view on this particular topic. We're not going to hear the other side, the other argument we want to hear both sides. And we really want to, you know, go down that rabbit hole of fleshing out all the different ideas that are there, as well as hearing the experiences in order to learn from each other and really have that openness. Hey, we all have our unique points of view and our unique opinions about things. And I think, thankfully in this country, we all have the freedom to share them and we should be able to share them, especially in a platform like podcasting, like, Hey, let's talk about things. Let's hear your unique take on a particular subject. Because with that, you may actually learn something new and see it from a different point of view and be like, wow, yeah, I never thought of it that way. And this could actually be useful for me, you know, to hear what other people have to say from all different demographics, you know, different points in life. And so hopefully that will be helpful for our audience. That's, that's kind of our goal here and our mission on this podcast.

Yeah, so true. I mean, I know we're brother and sister. We have a lot in common. But on the other hand, we view things differently a lot of the time and being able to not just from the masculine feminine, but from, you know, this is your life experience, this is my life experience. And they have been different. So to be able to share each other's experiences, and then being able to open this up and hear other people because I think oftentimes, especially in social media, it's so one-sided. And if you don't join in that banter on that side of things or this side of things, then you're like canceled. But here it's, we're listening. We really listen. We want to listen to each other. We want to listen to what people have to say. I think it's going to be important that our soapboxes, they remain a little neutral at times. Like, okay, maybe you don't agree with it, but hear it. Let's hear it. Everybody wants to be heard, right? Like we're open to it. Unless you're absolutely insane and bring some things to the soapbox that are...

Yeah, yes, we will censor inappropriate content, but if it's fitting and hey, maybe a little controversial, but you know, we're not gonna hold back.

Not afraid to get controversial, but we want to keep things like this a safe space too. Nobody's going to come on and make you feel awful. If they do, we'll just say bye.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And so, yeah, we're really excited. I'm excited to take this new journey with you and we'd love it if you'd come join us on the Sibling Soapbox podcast and hear some different viewpoints on topics. And hopefully we create an environment where it's very engaging and people can share things and be open and have a lot of fun with it at the same time. We would love to hear the ideas and thoughts from our audience members, you know, of different topics to explore as well as guests to have on that we can speak with and interview. And I think with that, it will be an exciting platform.

I look forward to that too, because I feel like we're going to cover so many different topics that people will be able to jump in and it's like, whoa, I never thought about discussing that and really dive into what makes you think this way and we want to hear it. And a lot of times I think we will go to the comments and get feedback that way. And then of course, when we have guests on, explore things and keep an open mind, I feel like all of us are here will just hopefully

listen with an open mind and give each other some feedback. Like you said, at the end of the day, let's make it fun and positive. We're going to discuss serious things, but life is so serious all the time. Let's also find the fun in it and laugh. I want to laugh. Let's laugh. Find some laughter in it. So it'll be great. Yes. So excited.

Exactly.

Yeah. So thank you again, to everyone for joining us on our first episode and we'll have many more here in the future. And if you would like to hit that LIKE button, we'd really appreciate it. Subscribe, hit the bell, leave any comments or any ideas that you have or feedback. We love to read the comments and have that engagement with our audience. and I think that's about it. I think we're good. Right Heather, is that…?

No, wait, I have an idea. Just go with this. Okay. Open mind. Um, I think we need to dance. So your sister's a dancer. I teach dance, still to this day. And I think that one of the best ways to start your day, to end your day, to get through any difficult times in your life, is to dance. We need to lead the way with dancing. So stand up. Do you have room to stand up?

Stand up, we're gonna dance. Yes, ready?

Yeah, I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it.

That's right.

Thank you everyone!

Bye!

(Siri Speaks)

I have to unplug Siri next time.

She wants to dance too!

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The Saving Cellphones Podcast!

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Hey, what's up everyone? Welcome to the Sibling Soapbox Podcast. My name is Tristan Venture. I'm here with my sister.

Hey guys, I am Heather Evans and welcome. This is a place where we have an open mic, open minds, and we want to hear what you have to say. We're going to jump on the soapbox together.

Yeah. So we're trying out this new video podcast thing. I, I prefer video podcasts to watch. I don't know about you, Heather, but I think you mentioned audio for you, right?

Yeah, yeah, you'll have to tell me why you prefer the video. But for me, audio, I'm always on the go. I'm a mom of three and constantly like their Uber driver. So three teens. So I am always in my car. So that's how I started listening to podcasts was just in my car. And then at home, I'm usually doing something with that. So I'm doing a load of laundry, I'm cooking dinner. yeah, that's audio has always been a little bit easier for me, although I am diving into the video a little more now. So

But what about you? Why video over on?

Speaker 2 (01:15.726)

Nice. Yeah. I think for me, the video, because I'm such a visual person, you know, working in the film industry that if I'm not watching something, it's kind of captivating me with whoever's speaking. I tend to lose interest or get a little sidetracked in my daydreaming if I'm driving or something becomes kind of like background noise, like radio. And I can listen like audio books pretty good, but yes, I do tend to kind of sometimes not pay as close attention. So I really enjoy kind of seeing the speakers and it

any visual aids that they might have. So yeah, I'm excited that we're doing the video as well as can be audio for those who are listening.

and they want to put like a face to the name. This is who we are, brother and sister team. We kind of look alike.

Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We still kind of look alike after all these years.

Well, think people, I remember people thought we were twins when we were younger.

Speaker 2 (02:11.121)

Yes, we are 18 months apart. That's pretty close. Yeah. The DNA doesn't stray that far, I guess. and yeah, a little bit of background about us. We come from a very small town out in the middle of nowhere in Washington state in the foothills of Mount Rainier. We grew up just small town playing in the woods all the time and riding our bikes everywhere, kind of like stranger things. And, and then at one point we both decided that, we we've had enough of Cowtown.

And we set our sights on our dreams and ambitions and headed to Southern California to Los Angeles and Hollywood.

Okay. So that everyone gets an idea of cow town. When you say cow town, I mean, we literally had cows all over the place in our town. But I remember, and tell me if you remember this, in high school, not only like in our yearbook where there are pictures of our classmates hunting, just showing off their deer heads, but I knew people that were bull riders and

rodeo clowns, that was like their job. So it really was a cow town small town. Although after meeting my husband and going to his small town in Missouri, like at least we had stoplights. They don't have any stoplights in

We have one stoplight.

Speaker 1 (03:29.536)

Yeah, yeah. Pretty sure I ran that too and it was while we were driving one time when you told me to gun it. kidding, we'll have to tell that story another time.

Speaker 1 (03:42.242)

But yeah, Tinseltown, that's our journey we got here.

Yeah. Our journey, we went from Cowtown to Tinseltown. we left that small town where we had some big dreams and we made that big move. I'm sure you remember we, you know, we come from a working middle-class family. No Nepo babies here. No Nepo babies. Hardworking, blue collar people that we come from. And we were raised by a mother who was a performer and our father as well. did dance in high school together.

Wait, what? No, did they dance? No, they didn't dance together in high school.

Yes, mom and dad, mom and dad dance together on the dance team in high school.

Okay, I need to verify that. do not remember that.

Speaker 2 (04:25.844)

I remember. remember this, I remember Mom showing me photos from the yearbook. Sure.

We need to ask dad. But I do remember them taking disco lessons. And we would stay home alone, and they would go take disco lessons. But dance team, I'm going to have to fact check that.

I'm going to find that photo in their yearbook. I'm sure our sister Nicole has that and we will share that with our audience. anyway, so in other words, a singer and performer and musicians on both sides of the family. so, you know, I think we had a lot of that in our background. You obviously with your dancing and then me trying to be a filmmaker at a young age with limited resources. but yeah, so we moved to LA and, I went to film school there. So that was.

my ambition and my big dream. And Heather, I'll let you speak on your dreams and ambitions and what brought you to take that journey with me where we threw everything into U-Haul. had one car that we shared. We both sold our cars in order to get money to move. And we threw everything in a big U-Haul, including my cat.

Right? my gosh, poor Kitty. We had to give her some sedatives and road trip away with her over the mountains.

Speaker 2 (05:39.032)

Yeah. And, and ironically, the car that we brought was a hand me down from our father. It was called the celebrity, Chevy celebrity.

So telling. So telling of our future in LA.

Yeah. We really were going for the big dream. For you dancing.

Yeah. Danzi, but I wanted to go back and ask you because I genuinely wanted, I don't remember, what made you first want to go into film and making movies and writing and like what point in your life in childhood made you want to, okay, someday I'm going to move to Hollywood and live the dream.

Yeah, so, and you might remember this. So I think I was 10 years old. We went as a family and we saw Poltergeist in the movie theater. Maybe a little young, maybe a little young to be seen that. Anyway, that movie scared me so much. And especially with the house that we lived in that was haunted, which we'll have to dive into that on another episode. That movie scared me so much and affected me so deeply. was like, wow, this is a powerful medium. This is incredible. I want to be a part of this when I get older. Like this is really unique.

Speaker 2 (06:45.07)

And it's just something that affects you in such a visceral way that I was like, I gotta do that one day. want to, I want to do that. Growing up. just kept that in the back of my mind. Of course, you know, family wanted me to be an engineer or take different career paths, but just always had that dream. And our mother at a young age instilled in us, like believe in yourself and your dreams, never give up, just go for it no matter what it takes. And I like to think that we did that.

funny. I never knew that that poltergeist was your catapult. And I didn't go see the movie with you guys. I was not a horror movie person. I didn't go see it with you that would have traumatized me. I would have been able to sleep. So to hear that I always thought it was Star Wars for you. So that's good to know.

Definitely pulled through guys. And we have to talk about our haunted house growing up.

whole episode right there.

Yeah. And now for you, so dancing, of course you dance competitively, you know, throughout your entire childhood, you and Nicole, our oldest sister. so as you dance, I know you dance for the Sonics as well up in Seattle, the basketball team, one of the dancers there and then move into LA.

Speaker 1 (07:52.91)

I've since was little. competed, I did all the things, but I always had visions, especially, okay, there was a show called Solid Gold. It was like, is that 80s? Yeah, 80s. And I was a kid in the 80s. And I would watch these dancers and I was like, I wanna be them. They would just dance on stage with the music that was, I don't it was like a top hits show or something. Sometimes live performers. Anyway, I even like wrote a letter to one of the Solid Gold dancers, Darcelle Wine. Is that her name? Yeah.

got an autograph picture because I would put her on my wall and be like, I want to be her, a solid gold dancer and kept that in my brain. And then yeah, I danced through high school, college, and then auditioned and did the NBA team, the Seattle Sonics, if anyone remembers them, they're no longer a team. And then moved to Mexico, ditched you all and moved to Mexico to choreograph and dance there. And then after that, I came home and you were like, let's do this.

I remember you were like, come on, you've always been the one to push me into the, you know, the territories that are a little bit unfamiliar and scary. And you've always, you know, climb Chichen Itza, you can do this, climb the pyramid. That's another story. Yeah. So that brought me to like, I want to move to LA. I want to dance in music videos. I want to be like going tour with artists and we made the move.

And you did it. And I mean, that's such a beautiful dream that you had and you didn't, you're still doing it with your zoom. now, which is so impressive and you know, choreography through the years and different dancing and performances with different groups and yeah, the Clippers and I mean, it's, that's pretty incredible. especially going from cow town to tinsel town and actually achieving the dreams that you set forth with, because I think, you know, a lot of people arrive in the city here.

Very little money, huge dreams, and it doesn't always work out the best, but just another one of those great stories of saying, you know what, if I don't do this, I won't be happy in life. and so I'm proud of you as your brother that you did it.

Speaker 1 (09:56.482)

Thanks. You too. You too. mean, but it is about the stamina in it, right? Like that's what this industry and the entertainment field, it's, you think maybe that you can come here and it's about overnight success. I'm going to make it big and it's going to happen tomorrow. And you're like, no, this is a grind to do this and stay. And the people who stay in it are usually the ones that find more success. I've seen. They don't give up.

Yeah, it's, it's a marathon, not a sprint for sure.

Yes, exactly. Do you remember when we moved here? We moved into an apartment. It was like sight unseen, right? We had a manager that we contacted, was it through fax or something? we didn't see our apartment. just, like, that was the thing about back then that I loved is we took a total chance on this journey to move to Tinseltown, to LA, la la land. Like we were just like, going for it. Sold the cars, like you said, moved down. But we moved into an apartment that

had we seen it? Had we even, like, I remember the manager, we talked to him over, like, we had to dial the phone and be like, hey, do you have a place for us to live? Abe. Yeah, right? mean, it was, we took, if I remember correctly, we didn't even know what it looked like inside.

It's I do remember, you know, we made a trip down like prior and we looked at places, but yeah, we didn't know what it looked like inside. was sight unseen.

Speaker 1 (11:20.086)

No, we were just happy to have a place.

Yeah, it's crazy. And I think a lot of people have that dream of coming to Hollywood. You know, it's like the Island of lost toys. You just have people that randomly show up. you know, Glenn did that. He, your husband rolled up in his car and everything, all his belongings and just made it happen. And if, if anyone in the audience wants to share their experience about that, because I've heard so many great stories of the people we've met throughout our lives who, did the same thing, you know, he's kind of go on a whim of like,

You know, I have to go there. It's like a pilgrimage. I need to go there. Something's calling me going there. And that's such an exciting time of your life. It's like when you travel, you know, where you, and you just go to this foreign place. You don't know anyone. You don't know anything. And you just start doing stuff. And I remember we didn't have jobs and we had to get jobs and you had your first job. Where was it? was like a nuclear isotope.

In all of my, you know, dance history, also, this is the beautiful duality of me is I will have like these creative jobs and then I have like my like regimented corporate jobs and I used to work like in dad's office. I was like a receptionist and then an administrative assistant. So when we moved down, I'm pursuing the dance stream, but I'm like, I need something to pay the bills because I've got to.

pay half the rent here and half of the bills. I didn't have a car and I got on at some nuclear isotope place. I worked in the office, but do you know that they once had, oh, maybe I shouldn't say this. Like there was like a, not a spill, but some sort of where we, I mean, they had to come into the office with the Geiger things to test us. She explains a lot about how I am now.

Speaker 2 (12:59.926)

I heard that!

Speaker 2 (13:04.654)

I have to say you would come on from work and you were just glowing. I mean it was pretty incredible. I was like wow, work must be good. My job on the other hand was you know.

What was yours? Your first one. Your first one you had done in Washington, right? Like you had done...

Well, so a little backstory here, our uncles and our family, we had three uncles who owned and operated a locksmithing business locksmiths, which Mike, James, Danny, hello. Thanks you guys for employing me all those years. and so during that time I had learned a little bit, you know, we'd done some subcontract work with a company called ADT security systems. And so when we moved to LA, I was able to get a job with them and I was working in all kinds of different places.

Best part about this is, is that I really got to know LA and I have my Thomas guide and I would-

said Thomas died!

Speaker 2 (13:57.026)

Looking through my pages, you know, and finding my map grids and okay, I'm going here and I would work my jobs and hey.

Children, we did not have anything like Waze or Google Maps. We literally had to pull out a book, a book, the Thomas guide and route, like find our route before we start driving. sometimes during like leaning over. But I do remember that you went to some places that, you know, that was great for you to start to learn California, Southern California. I love it. Yeah. I, on the other hand, did not have a car. I would walk from our apartment, like,

I don't even know, was at least four or five miles to work and back. I would try the bus, the bus was terrible. So I just did this instead. I got in really good shape though, but the walk, I remember coworkers would be like, why is she walking? Like one lady that I worked with, she felt bad for me and she like loaned her car to me for a while when she was out of town. And she's like, do you want to just use my car? Yeah, was that poor kid. It's fine. Made me work harder so I could save up for my $300 Toyota Corolla that I later purchased.

But it's all about the dream, right? Living the dream, sacrifices for the dream. And that's what when you said have people let us know about their journeys into their dreams. I also want to know not just people that were coming to Hollywood, like what did you guys do at that time in your lives? This is like, you know, you're in your early 20s and you're

Either you finished college or you finished high school and you just want it. Some people didn't. Some people were perfectly content to stay where they were for us. It was in our small town and I think they're still there and mad respect for that because I wanted to break free. I'm sure you did too. But I would love to hear other people's stories about the dream chasing, right? Like where did you go and what brought you there and where are you now because of it?

Speaker 2 (15:48.11)

Exactly. Yeah. You're chasing your dream and nothing's for certain and you're just going for it. And, know, you're either going to succeed or you're going to crash and burn, but either way, think for me was like, I couldn't live a life knowing that I didn't try succeed or not. It doesn't matter. I mean, that's kind of my whole story of my life though is if I don't try things, if I don't at least try to do it, whether I fail or succeed, I really, I just have to try it. It's like doing a podcast together. You know what? I just, let's try it.

Because, hey, you never know. That sounds interesting, something different. When we did that show, Datemate, that was kind of a fun little trial. And then that led us into other things. And we can dive into Datemate and talk a little bit about that. But yeah, that was kind of the start of our working together outside of you, of course, acting in a lot of my films and film school. But yeah, going from there.

Yeah, I remember date, mate. I remember it well.

And this was a show that for public broadcast and that we were hoping to get picked up on a larger network. but that didn't quite happen, but yeah, we had this great idea of, know, when you're in your twenties or thirties and you're out there dating in the world, and this is before the big social media influence before Tinder and all of those things. but you know, how do you meet people? How do you vet people that are not crazies or psychos? How do you go through that process in dating? And was really just about sharing ideas.

Um, through a platform that was very open and people could come to be on the show as you know, we're the hosts of just, Hey, let's hear about your dating experience so that I can relate to it and kind of feel better about Mike's, you know, everyone has their horror stories about dating. And I think there was at that time match.com. think that had just come on the scene. I think it was right around that time because we were kind of like, you know, that was the thing. Do you meet people in bars? Do you meet people at work or were there those situations where.

Speaker 1 (17:33.506)

that around

Speaker 2 (17:43.65)

You would go online, you know, I don't know chat rooms or match.com was the first day. Yeah. Creepers.

Wait, did you ever do it? Did you ever go on match.com?

I did one day on match.com. Um, and it was very awkward and, kind of strange because back then you just didn't, you know, you didn't have a way to look at the person who you're going to go on the date, but to really kind of know if you had a common interest or whatnot, that your synopsis of who you were, your brief little bio was very short. And I think, you know, we went out to dinner and we were like, yeah, we have nothing in common. And it you like, wait, you're a starving artist. You don't have a regular job.

no, sorry buddy. You're out. You're out. was like, okay.

I guess I was my own match.com. I just like went for it and dated all. I didn't vet anything, which I should have hindsight. I should have. was made a lot of mistakes. That's okay. That's what we live for, right? Like we're here to make mistakes, to learn and grow. But in the dating realm, yeah, that's what brought us to date mate, which I loved doing that with you. And I think that launching that is something that

Speaker 1 (18:57.25)

changed both of our lives as far as like, okay, future hosting and to bring it here now is pretty amazing. Full circle moment.

Yeah, it definitely was. don't know if you still have yours. I still have mine from a long time ago. Do you remember that book that we made? Let me grab it. We made this little pitch book that we pitched.

Yeah, my god, we worked hard on this in his little apartment in Hollywood, right? We didn't we get together and we like this was now listen. my god, that's it. This was before the day of like, easily having graphics done. Didn't we have to hire an artist to help? I love that you created that like you came up with the template for that.

model. Yeah, we, you know, Dave may was kind of a anecdote for the dating scene, you know, for our show and everything. Anyway, we came up with all this great fun stuff. yeah.

And for the listeners out there, for the people who are audio listeners, he's showing this book that has this cool cover that we made that's a pill bottle and inside the logo of DateMate has a pill that's splitting apart. we did this whole pitch book. We had a set that somebody we hired to make this pop-up book.

Speaker 2 (20:06.446)

This is my favorite part right here. It's us. The set. It was so much fun. was a lot of

It's a pop-up! It's an actual pop-up, which, who makes those anymore? Pop-up.

I want to wear pop-up books in the world. We got to bring back the pop-up. Come on. Bring back the pop-up. Anyway, that was Dave May. my gosh. That was such a good time.

I I might still have my book somewhere. I'll have to go look. I love that.

Yeah, you'll have to look. That's kind of a great segue into why we're starting the sibling soapbox podcast. That was many, many years ago and now we're older and we have a lot more life experience and we've been through the fires and trials of life and adulthood. We both have families now and kids and all that. I think.

Speaker 1 (20:52.27)

I say it's no longer about dating. Now it's about life with, you know, relationships, long-term relationships and children, right? So we're segued into that part of our lives, this different season.

Exactly going days of our lives. Did you say the soap opera days of our lives? Time through an hourglass. the days of our lives. I just remember that being on every day as a kid.

It's still on. Our mom loved that show, by the way. It's still on. Yes. Even some of those actors, I don't watch them, but I see them on social and I'm like, wow, they're still around. That's amazing. It's amazing how good they look.

I wonder how that happens.

Amazing. no, season of our lives, like we're in a different season of our lives now. And I think that a lot of people can relate to this, especially Gen Xers who are like, okay, I've done the marriage or relationship thing. I have the kids. And then it becomes sort of a now what moment. And I think that's what brought us to this. Like, okay, let's revisit date mate. But now let's revisit it where we are in this point of our lives.

Speaker 2 (22:07.342)

Yeah, definitely. And I think, um, you know, also you get to a point in your life where you have maybe less time in front of you than behind you. you kind of look at things in retrospect and think back, well, what was my life and what have I done and what can I do in the time I have left? And I think, yeah, part of working with you again in this podcast is this going to be about exploring those topics that are relevant and that we can share ideas with an audience and.

you know, as hosts bring on some guests for some pretty compelling insight into different topics that relate to our experiences as well as experiences by older generations and younger generations in the kind of somewhat crazy world that we live in these days. That's very dynamic and always changing and sometimes challenging to navigate. But yeah, I think that's what I'm most excited about with this idea of a podcast together. Yeah.

And when we say soapbox, know, giving other people a voice and people we interview, you in the audience, people who are actually watching or listening, we want to give people a chance to give us feedback, like get on the soapbox a little bit and we're going to get on our soapboxes.

Let's talk. love it because I think this is really a good time that discussion needs to happen. And it's about more than just, you know, our generation. We want to hear from other generations. I have teenagers. I want to hear from them. And I think they have a lot of wisdom to offer. And so do, you know, the boomers and those people.

Well, the boomers, yeah, we really want to hear from them. Like, what did you guys do to us? No, I'm just kidding. that's a deep dive soapbox right there. Yeah, so the soapbox, just a little bit of backstory for our audience.

Speaker 1 (23:51.566)

Tell the story because I, you know, I didn't remember when you're like soapbox and I'm like, I don't remember this, but I don't remember a lot. I think I phased out a lot of things in my life growing up. So tell the soapbox like, and then when you told me, I was like, yeah. So.

Yes. I remember growing up and people in our family, um, you know, would often say that if they were voicing their opinion about something and sometimes it'd be on a diatribe, they're gone, uh, for an extended period. Uh, they would be like, damn it, Robert, get off your soap box. What are you still going on and on about? Oh, so and so's on their soap box. And then they walk out of the room and, know, don't want to be a part of the conversation anymore. So that to me always stuck with me, you know,

someone really wanting to kind of share their thoughts on a particular subject. And, know, sometimes it didn't shut up and they just kept going on and on about it, but really, you know, yeah, that's it. That's it.

when somebody doesn't shut up and then you're like, it's my turn, I'm gonna bring my megaphone in and be like, me, listen to me.

And that's exactly it. You know, and so we had a very vocal family, one side in particular that really like to opinions on things, was fine. You know, heated discussions. Those are always good in a family dynamic.

Speaker 1 (25:11.777)

I some of those where people would get up and leave on that side of the family. Do you remember? People would get offended. One person gets on their soapbox and maybe says something that offended. There was no like, well, I shouldn't say this. There was some discussion, but healthy discussion, healthy back and forth. Sometimes that led to departures. remember that was a

And I guess so-and-so was on their soapbox too long and they got ousted. You're not welcome!

Where did he go?

Speaker 1 (25:45.992)

But that's not the case here. You're welcome. We are welcoming. So let's talk.

That's right here on the sibling soapbox podcast, we invite you to share your ideas and we want to really have that open forum so that we can hear different points of view and share them. And you know, we're not just going to be on that one side where, no, we're only doing this political view or this view on this particular topic. We're not going to hear the other side, the other argument we want to hear both sides. And we really want to, you know, go down that rabbit hole of fleshing out all the different ideas that are there.

as well as hearing the experiences in order to learn from each other and really have that openness to where, Hey, we all have our unique points of view and our unique opinions about things. And I think, thankfully in this country, we all have the freedom to share them and we should be able to share them, especially in a, platform like podcasting, like, Hey, let's talk about things. Let's, let's hear your unique take on a particular subject. Because with that, you may actually learn something new and see it from a different.

point of view and be like, wow, yeah, I never thought of it that way. And this could actually be useful for me, you know, to hear what other people have to say from all different demographics, you know, different points in life. And so hopefully that will be helpful for our audience. That's, that's kind of our goal here and our mission on, this podcast.

Yeah, so true. mean, I know we're brother and sister. have a lot in common. But on the other hand, we view things differently a lot of the time and being able to not just from the masculine feminine, but from, you know, this is your life experience. This is my life experience. And they have been different. So to be able to share each other's share with each other. And then I love

Speaker 1 (27:28.098)

being able to open this up and hear other people because I think oftentimes, especially in social media, it's so one-sided. And if you don't join in that banter on that side of things or this side of things, then you're like canceled. But here it's, we're listening. We really listen. We want to listen to each other. We want to listen to what people have to say. I think it's going to be important that our soap boxes, they remain a little neutral at times. Like, okay, maybe you don't agree with it, but hear it.

Let's hear it. Everybody wants to be heard, right? Like we're open to it. Unless you're absolutely insane and bring some things to the soapbox that are getting.

Yeah, yes, we will censor inappropriate content, but if it's fitting and hey, maybe a little controversial, but you know, we're not gonna hold back.

Not afraid to get controversial, but we want to keep things like this is a safe space too. Nobody's going to come on and make you feel awful. If they do, we'll just say bye.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And so, yeah, we're really excited. I'm excited to take this new journey with you and we'd love it if you'd come join us on the Siblings Hopebox podcast and here's some different viewpoints on topics. And hopefully we create an environment where it's very engaging and people can share things and be open and have a lot of fun with it at the same time. We would love to hear the ideas and thoughts from our audience members, you know, of different topics to explore as well as.

Speaker 2 (28:54.84)

guests to have on that we can speak with an interview. And I think with that, it will be an exciting platform.

I look forward to that too, because I feel like we're going to cover so many different topics that people will be able to jump in and it's like, whoa, I never thought about discussing that and really dive into what makes you think this way and we want to hear it. And a lot of times I think we will go to the comments and get feedback that way. And then of course, when we have guests on, explore things and keep an open mind, I feel like all of us are here to just hopefully

listen with an open mind and give each other some feedback. like you said, at the end of the day, let's make it fun and positive. We're going to discuss serious things, but life is so serious all the time. Let's also find the fun in it and laugh. I want to laugh. Let's laugh. find some laughter in it. So it'll be great. Yes. So excited.

Exactly.

Speaker 2 (29:57.804)

Yeah. So thank you again, to everyone for joining us on our first episode and we'll many more here in the future. And if you would like to, hit that like button, we'd really appreciate it. Subscribe at the bell, leave any comments of any ideas that you have or feedback. We love to read the comments and have that engagement with our audience. and I think that's about it. I think we're good. Right. Heather is that.

No, wait, I have an idea. Just go with this. Okay. Open mind. Um, I think we need to dance. So your sister's a dancer. I teach dance still to this day. And I, I think that one of the best ways to start your day, to end your day, to get through any like difficult times in your life, whatever is to dance. we need to lead the way with dancing. So stand up. Do you have room to stand up?

Speaker 1 (30:55.662)

Stand up, we're gonna dance. Yes, ready?

Speaker 2 (31:05.832)

yeah, I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it.

Speaker 1 (31:13.656)

That's right.

you

Speaker 2 (31:24.75)

Thank you everyone!

Speaker 1 (31:38.67)

Bye!

Speaker 2 (31:43.214)

I'm have to unplug Siri next time.

to dance too!

Show Notes:

Keywords

Sibling Soapbox Podcast, Cowtown, Tinseltown, dreams, ambitions, relationships, dating, life experiences, diverse perspectives, safe space

Summary

In this inaugural episode of the Sibling Soapbox Podcast, hosts Tristan and Heather share their journey from a small town to Los Angeles, discussing their dreams and ambitions in the entertainment industry. They explore the evolution of their podcast from dating experiences to broader life topics, emphasizing the importance of diverse perspectives and creating a safe space for open discussions. The episode highlights the significance of chasing dreams and the value of sharing personal stories and experiences.

Takeaways

The podcast aims to create an open forum for discussion.

Hosts share their journey from a small town to Hollywood.

The importance of diverse perspectives in conversations.

Chasing dreams requires courage and determination.

The podcast will evolve to cover various life topics.

Listeners are encouraged to share their experiences.

Creating a safe space for all opinions is essential.

The hosts value feedback from their audience.

Life experiences shape our perspectives and discussions.

It's important to listen to different generations.

Titles

From Cowtown to Tinseltown: A Journey of Dreams

Sibling Soapbox: Sharing Voices and Experiences

Sound bites

"We come from a very small town."

"Let's talk about things."

"We want to listen to each other."

Chapters

00:00 New Chapter

00:31 The Preference for Video vs. Audio Podcasts

02:03 Growing Up in a Small Town

02:31 The Journey from Cowtown to Tinseltown

04:06 Family Background and Influences

05:08 Ambitions and Dreams in Film and Dance

09:43 The Reality of Pursuing Dreams in Hollywood

17:06 The Concept of 'Date Mate' and Dating Experiences

20:31 The Evolution of the Podcast and Life Experiences

23:01 The Purpose of the Sibling Soap Box Podcast

24:56 Family Dynamics and Open Discussions

26:16 Creating a Welcoming Space for Diverse Opinions

27:59 The Importance of Listening and Engagement

28:59 Inviting Audience Participation and Feedback

29:57 The Journey of Moving to LA and Chasing Dreams

31:47 SSB INTRO Master EDIT FINAL 2.mp4

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