The Sun Drop Girl

In this episode, Jaime Lee, better known to many as “The Sun Drop Girl”, shares her journey of embracing creativity, small-town roots, and the unexpected paths life can take.

 From building “Shawano News” from scratch to preserving local stories and moments that matter, the conversation explores what it means to stay true to yourself, even when people don’t fully understand your vision.

There’s conversation about faith, family, veterans, old souls, aliens (obviously), entrepreneurship, growing up in Wisconsin taverns, and the beauty of Midwest culture. Jaime also opens up about learning to trust the process, chasing dreams without losing yourself, and why sometimes being “good enough” matters more than endlessly chasing perfection.

Grab a coffee, pull up a seat, and get to know The Sun Drop Girl with us!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

I this is my first one this morning, so Do you really drink sun drop every day?

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:06

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 0:08

And I've never had a cavity.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Shut up. No.

SPEAKER_03 0:11

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 0:13

And how much soda do you think you drink a day?

SPEAKER_01 0:16

I drink at least one a day.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

Oh, that's not bad. Yeah. And do you brush twice a day or once?

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Um let's be honest.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

I mean it depends how crashed out I'm at the end of the day. Yeah, I brush once. I have really good fees that way.

SPEAKER_02 0:30

They say a lot of it is genetic.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

It is. We have these big Barthes teeth.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

I like big teeth.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

I'm a fan of big teeth.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

I had braces for three years, you know. And it's like I'm proud of these things.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Yeah, you should be. There, you have a good smile.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Thanks. Yeah, seriously.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

And you have a vintage. What I love, and I I know Keith's not here, and that's why it's better. It's so funny because it's true. Just kidding. Um, you have a like um a vintage, like I have this like weird, comforting feeling when you're around of like my favorite person, my great aunt. Like you have a vintage feel to you. Like feel like you're an old soul.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

I've been around a long time.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

Right. This isn't my first. So when you sing too, she has like the old type of singing voice.

SPEAKER_03 1:17

You sing she does.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

She has a beautiful old, like an I don't mean like old voice, but like the old, like from the 40s.

SPEAKER_03 1:25

Old timey.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Yeah, and it's just beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Like kind of like our intro song.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Exactly. Like our intro.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

That's all. And people won't really believe it because my talking voice is so high and but my do that again.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

But my her outfit, you're just killing it with your outfit all put together. Thanks. Okay, so grandma's really yeah. So go back to your um people wouldn't believe it because of what?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Of my voice? Okay, yeah, because Okay, well, I've been singing since I was little. Okay. My grandma always had that deep little voice, and we'd sing church hymns. And so I always looked up to her, and she'd be singing everywhere. So she taught me to sing all the old folk songs, all the old country western stars, Patsy Klein. And um just been singing since I was a little girl. Can you sing us something real quick? I would love to.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Okay, go ahead. Crazy. I'm crazy for feeling so lonely. I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you. Aww.

SPEAKER_06 2:39

Girl, put that figure away.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

It's mine. I'm kidding, you're kidding. That is so beautiful. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 2:47

You are a beautiful singer, and just to like flip it on like that.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Yeah, like I I was expecting to be like, oh no. I love that you're like, Yeah. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

My friends, my family, if they've heard Patsy Klein, they are so sick of it. Probably a million times. But when I was a little girl, I um watched Sweet Dreams, a movie the first time, and I started singing. They're like, You sound just like her. So I got all of her the cassette tapes, and I'd practice and practice, and my grandma even made me a little jacket that said Patsy Jr. And on the back it said, Hit it, boys. And I do all the talent shows in town. And I wanted to be Patsy Jr. Do you still have that jacket? Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Of course you do.

SPEAKER_04 3:25

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

That was I hope you're recording that. Yes. Yeah. Because I mean, she records stupid stuff. Okay. And then we have no of them. You're amazing. Okay, let's start from the beginning with you. Do you need to ask her something weird?

SPEAKER_04 3:42

Are we starting? Did we already start? Oh, wait, let's clap. Oh, sorry. Ready? I missed it. We're gonna start. I was out. I was I was I had to run to I had to run to the gas station to get the cigarettes.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

She doesn't smoke. You are feeling close to me. You tell me. You know Johnside of me.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Hi, I'm Nicole Fisher.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

I'm Keith Fisher.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

And this is our beautiful guest today, Jamie Lee.

SPEAKER_04 4:27

AKA The Sundrop Girl. The Sundrop Girl. AKA The Shano Newscaster.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

You started Shano News, correct?

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Yes, I did.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

That was all your idea.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

It was my idea with another person in town. Okay. Aaron Walrich. He had the idea for a website called Shano News. Okay. And I had the idea of um doing stories and getting the feel good stories. So we teamed up at first and and got it rolling. So he was really instrumental in getting the the ball off the ground and really grateful for all that hard work. And as it transitioned, I am been doing it myself now, a one-woman show with my mom on camera and just using our phones and keeping it simple.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

You do so good.

SPEAKER_04 5:09

Yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

It's so good.

SPEAKER_04 5:11

Yeah. I have a have you watched any of our episodes? Oh, great. Do you know some of the questions that I asked in the beginning?

SPEAKER_01 5:19

No, can't.

SPEAKER_04 5:20

Oh, okay. Good. Because it's a new one.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Is this a new new one?

SPEAKER_04 5:23

Yeah. It's tailored just for her.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Okay, I'm not gonna drink any of that. No, it'll be fine. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:28

Um it's kind of putting you on the spot a little bit. But rest easy. Like if you answer inappropriately, we can slip cami a fiber and say, take that out.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

I'm ready. I'm ready, Keith.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

Okay, so like we know what it's like to own a coffee shop and have like you know, coffee right there at our at her fingertips all the time. And it's definitely um definitely consume more of it now than I did prior to that. Uh how much sun drop do you drink? Is it like your second favorite thing to drink?

SPEAKER_01 6:06

We already went over this, Keith.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

I only drank three things or really that was a really that was a lame question.

SPEAKER_04 6:14

But it was I like fears five bucks.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

No, you can answer it. I drink at least one sun drop a day. I crave it. You really I drank that milk and water. What kind of milk? Like what percent? One percent. One percent. Yeah, that's a good percent. Right. I love having that with meat and potatoes. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

But I crave uh I saw something in your slow cup, your crock pot.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

Yes, I had a meat for us last night.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

Oh, that looked so good.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yes, learned from my grandma all the old recipes. You know, we'd have a meal around the kitchen table every day.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

And you still try to do that?

SPEAKER_01 6:47

No. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

It's hard when you don't, yeah, when you're not home all the time. Right. And tell me about your dog.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

My dog is Molly. She's a white golden retriever, and you know, she's golden for the sun drop girl. And um, she's so sweet, and she's kind of they say dogs are are like their owner. So she's, you know, really sweet, kind of vulnerable and sensitive.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

And uh can she say her arse?

SPEAKER_01 7:15

No, no, that was a job.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

What's your oldest memory? Let's ask her that one because I feel like that's a good one for her.

SPEAKER_04 7:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

Not um, not one. Keith asked us better, not one that you remember by a picture that you've seen or that someone told you.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

One of my oldest memories is I remember waiting in the back of my childhood home in the sandbox. And my grandpa or Barts was going to pick me up for the Shawnee County fair. And I was so excited because it was just him and I. And he was the king of the fair. He went every night and everyone knew him and had the Miller High Life. And he picked me up in his old red truck, Papa B, and went, and we got the tickets, and we did the rides, and you know, sat by the VFW stand. And I just I felt I was so special because it was just him and I. And it's one of my earliest memories. I was probably maybe three years old.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Oh, that's so sweet. That's the type of grandpa you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Maybe fair grandpa.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Make it that far.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

If I live that long.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

If you live that long, you got the old truck. You got the old truck in the miller.

SPEAKER_04 8:24

That'll be their memory. Grandpa's grandpa's truck broke down again. She had to wait on the side of the road for great grandpa to come pick us up. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

So you're born and raised in Shauna?

SPEAKER_01 8:40

Born bred dead. That's what I was born there, was raised there, and I hope to to die there, surrounded by my ancestors and my family, and I I love where I come from.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

I love that. And it shows in your work.

SPEAKER_06 8:55

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

And I think that's hard. I think that says a lot of the type of good person you are because I would not want I have to be careful how I say this. I'm just gonna say it. Um, I would not feel that way about my hometown because I don't, and it's not because of what anybody's done to me, it's because of like who I was when I was like in school there. I was like a shithead. You know what I mean? So I wouldn't be like that. So it just I think it's a testament of the type of person that you've been in.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

And my family. I yeah, I grew up um with the help of my grandparents, so just having some of those roots and old-fashioned values, and I just I always felt safe at home and in Shano. And I saw the the specialness of it with the water, with the tell me about the water. What do you mean to have a Shano Lake and the river, and you know, you take it for granted. This beauty of people all over the world would would do anything to have the opportunity to to float on the river or go on a boat ride, and it's just this natural resource that it is just so beautiful. It is, and it's still close enough to the big cities, but far enough away where it's still a little slower pace of life. You know, grandpa always used to say, you know, it's a small town because you'd hit a stoplight and be like, you know, what do all these people want here? You know, you take the back, the back road so you could take the right at the stop sign. Yeah, I do like a slower pace of life. I mean, I like to to bebop around and travel, but there's nothing like coming home.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

I love that. You like her, don't you, Kami? I can tell.

SPEAKER_04 10:36

Um so before Shano News, you did yoga. And then before that, what what was your like seven, eight, nine, or five or whatever? What did you what did you do before that?

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Well, I guess my story goes back to again, I was born and raised in Shano and surrounded by family and and friends, and with the help of my grandparents, um, because my dad passed away when I was a little girl. So um, that was kind of a core, a core memory, a core wound that that stayed with me. So um I was lucky enough to, you know, I was always a singer and a dancer and performer for my family, kind of the bright light for my family to keep my dad's memory alive, but also just keep us together, you know. And then I went to college and decided to go for broadcast journalism.

SPEAKER_05 11:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Um, because I liked sharing stories, I liked entertaining and did that. But when I was in college, I ended up not liking it.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

What didn't you like about it?

SPEAKER_01 11:41

I didn't like covering things that didn't fill me up. Um, I didn't like covering um things that didn't feel good. And my senior thesis, I had a professor that came up to me and for the review, and he said, you know, you're just you're too bubbly and you're too positive. And I said, I respectfully disagree. I feel that gentleness and kindness and and positivity is just as strong. And I'm not gonna change. And so I I got turned off by that, and I'm like, I don't want to do this, I don't, I don't want to do it.

SPEAKER_04 12:20

And um well, I'm glad you were able to find something that fit you instead of you changing yourself to fit what you were doing, right? Um, isn't maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't like yoga what connected you two in the beginning?

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Yeah, she did yoga at her house in our backyard. It was tons of women, right?

SPEAKER_04 12:38

But that's how like kind of how you guys felt like that's how I yeah I woke up then.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

So after college, I I didn't go into broadcasting, but I luckily came back to Shawnee, came home and and started a family, adopted our son Charlie, who's just turned 18 and was a stay-at-home mom, and that was very fulfilling. Um, however, once he went to school and I kind of lost my purpose, I lost my spark, and I secretly started sleeping almost 18 hours a day. I was um depressed and anxious, and I think in the safety of my family home, I was able to maybe process some old childhood grief that I never had been able to face. So for years I secretly slept and no one knew. And then eight years ago, um my beloved cousin that I was really close with, that we'd share music and deep talks and um you know, heartfelt conversations, he died by suicide. And that's what woke me up, literally woke me up. And that's when I started to to get help, and I started yoga then. So yoga, I started to feel I started in child's pose the first six months, and I just for the first time really allowed myself to feel all the grief of not only my cousin, but growing up, and um, even though I had a wonderful childhood, still a trauma when something like that happens. And it was so beneficial to me that I went and became a yoga teacher to help other people with grief in my own journey. That's where I really started waking up and thinking, okay, now I'm gonna chase my dreams with the broadcasting. And that's yoga led to the broadcasting. And you know what?

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Thank God, because no offense, Savannah. But Savannah reports positive stuff.

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Oh, we did forget to talk about Savannah.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Oh, we forgot to talk about Savannah.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

That was a good one, too.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

But the news for generally is negative.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

Like people, for whatever reason, are drawn to negative.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

They are, and I feel like the older you get, the more it's like tell me every sick person in your family and who's dying and who is this and that.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Well, they're like programmed almost like by media, like yep.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Oh, this is happening, this is happening. And I don't want to ever be ignorant of things going on, and I don't think you are either. And I feel like we can connect as far as like what we try to use our business platform as positive stories, doesn't mean I'm always positive. It doesn't mean we don't have negative things that happen here. People don't want to hear any more negative, though. Right. There's so there's so much negative on Facebook, on social media, like everything is negative. So thank God.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

So then when COVID came around and there was so much negative news after I'd woken up and done some of the the inner work, I want to do some positive news. And that's when I, you know, hooked up.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

And that is your that's your key phrase. What is you, what do you always say?

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Your positive source in a crazy world.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

Yes. And just started to to go around and do it my way. The positive, the imperfect. That's another thing I did not like about um college because I felt so much anxiety to be perfect and the teleprompter, and it just it was too much for me. I wanted to just be me.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

And it's working for you, right? Imagine, I mean, I feel like you're polished, but in a good way, like and it like through trial and error, and the experience, right? But you're like something quirky that I love about it. You know what I mean? Like you're not like, oh, news anchor boring. You're like, oh girl, what what's got what's what's going on with your Ophit? You got sun drop socks on.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

That's right. Always representing. Yeah, it looks great.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

I want to go back to yoga real quick because I want to like just Keith likes yoga. Explain to you the experience that I had with it when she introduced me to yoga. Probably the first time was when you were at our house. Okay. It might have been.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Really?

SPEAKER_04 16:40

I think it might have been the first time we did yoga together.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Okay. I believe I I believe you.

SPEAKER_04 16:45

I'm looking for looking at you for keeping it.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

Because I don't remember you being there.

SPEAKER_04 16:49

Yeah, I was there. Like I I was in the back.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

Like seeing all the women's butts for what? Like, I I remember you being in the house stuff, but I didn't know you actually did the yoga.

SPEAKER_04 16:59

And I I remember thinking, uh, I don't yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Okay. I believe you. But that's why I'm not saying you want me to pretend. Oh, yeah, it was great.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

Okay. May I don't know. Memories are a little fuzzy beyond yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

I know you've done yoga with me, but I just But I feel like there's this um I don't know, maybe what's the word I'm looking for? I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

Uh, like of guys doing yoga.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Oh, a stigma.

SPEAKER_04 17:27

Yeah. Yeah. But unless you've done it and you've been in a room full of women who are just like killing it, and you're like, It's hard, right? Like you're convulsing, trying to hold it and my yoga isn't such a wuss.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Like, come on, stretch a little more. There's different types of yoga. Mine is very just gentle and and stretching and more relaxing. But I I do encourage men to come to yoga because it's so good if you're you know working out and to stretch it out and to to be more in tune with your your feelings and your emotions. And it's a wonderful thing to do with your partner, to come with your girlfriend or wife. It's a a bonding thing, or both.

SPEAKER_04 18:16

Maybe you bring them both and then they meet each other for the first time.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Right. So, and I also encourage because all this professional sports players, the Packers, the Badgers, they're doing yoga.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

It's not easy. No, and it's good though. Like, I think people think, oh, yoga is just like breathing. No, it's good. You said you felt amazing when you did yoga. I just told Jill Olson, I'm like, I need to get back at yoga. And she'll just every time I say that, she just gives me dates. Like, right, stop talking. Here are the dates. Show up, you know when I'm here.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

And first you can come just for the stretch. But what I like to tell my students is it's really about finding the capacity to expand a little and to feel comfortable in uncomfortable situations. So I'm stretching and for my leg and it hurts, but soon I relax and I'm getting more comfortable in the discomfort. And that translates off the mat into the work I do on Shano News that, okay, this is a new, a new story for me. These are new people, but I know I trust myself from yoga to go in the situation and be uncomfortable and go through it and breathe and be aware of how I'm feeling in any situation. So it's extremely helpful for all areas of your life, not just your body. The body is secondary, it's mostly your brain and your heart that is connected at yoga.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

My for you page last night, it was random, which maybe not, because here you are. And it was said if you ever get into yoga or even teaching yoga, thinking it's not spiritual, you're wrong. It's it you cannot do yoga without it being like a spiritual awakening.

SPEAKER_05 19:57

Right.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

And I thought about that. I'm like, you're right. It's like it's like you like how you're explaining, it's like to your core, not just physical activity.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

It's just a whole and everyone has a different path. I I know some people maybe look down on yoga as something that might not be right or woo-woo, but I have a relationship with God, and the more I've done yoga, the closer I've gotten to to Jesus and my own spiritual path, getting closer to him and that love, you know, that we're all children of God, and it just it feels so good to be in that state and relax being so busy as we are. Yeah. I love that.

SPEAKER_04 20:41

Do you still teach yoga?

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_04 20:43

Where?

SPEAKER_01 20:43

I teach teach twice a week at Cornerstone Care Practic in Shanghai. Oh, okay. What times do you do that? Monday nights at 6 p.m. and Wednesday mornings at 8 30. And again, it's all levels, extremely gentle, a safe place to come as you are. We're all in our, you know, our sweats and our jammies, and it's it's not about the yoga pants and the big moves. It's just chill and stretch.

SPEAKER_04 21:06

And how long does it normally go?

SPEAKER_01 21:09

An hour. An hour, we should do that. I would love for you guys to come. We should do that.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

I you should quit your your dead end job.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

I think it's going pretty good for you guys.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

She means like the one that pays me.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Yeah, the one that pays our insurance and pays the bills. Yeah. Um yeah, I love that. Yeah. When did you decide to get into yoga? Like after that.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

After my my cousin.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

Okay. And what like what led you? Did you do yoga before that? Or was it just like I didn't.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

I just went on YouTube and saw yoga for Adrian, and there were some grief classes. And I just started gentle, like I said, and it really started helping me. And I made some difficult decisions in my life. So it every time that I've gone through a big change or a challenge or a heartbreak. Yoga has been there with me as well as God, but it's come together to support me getting through these challenging times.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

I think when we met you, you were going through some challenging times. That's when we met her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

I've been going through some challenging times for the last eight years, but um, I'm proud of the work I've done. And most of it is what people don't see behind the scenes, the inner work. Oh, yeah. Um, and again, growing my capacity for more. I'm an extremely positive person, but I'm also sensitive and I'm passionate and I'm vulnerable. And I think it's now become my strength the more I'm trusting myself and opening up.

SPEAKER_04 22:45

Um, that's good.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

I'm not just this bubbly sun-drop girl. I'm I'm human and I love to laugh, but I I love to cry because it's I'm alive and I'm feeling and I've I've gotten through these things and I've become stronger and wiser and more compassionate, not only for other people, but myself. So I'm really grateful. Tap her or something.

SPEAKER_04 23:07

You know, that's the one thing about this like couch being so far away.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

Yeah. I do love that about you. Like I love that you live. Like you're nobody can dispute that. Like you're living, living to the fullest.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

I'm gonna go for it. You know, there's only one life, and with my cousin passing away, it's like I'm gonna do this to honor him. Um to keep the message going, and for myself and my own family, for my son, that we can talk about these things. That yes, we can drink sun drop and shano news, and that's you know, hold and celebrate life, but we can also talk about the hard, uncomfortable things grief, death, divorce, heartbreak, friendships, business. I mean, it's just it's life, it's so beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Um, and not sleeping your life away.

SPEAKER_05 23:59

Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Waking up to your dreams.

SPEAKER_06 24:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Love, I love that. Now it's hard for me to sleep. Is it? It's the opposite. Since I've um woken up, broken up and gotten help and continue to reach out. Um now my mind is going and have these creative ideas, like I heard you say, it's like your mind's going a million miles a minute, so many fun ideas.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

You just can't keep yep.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Yeah, that's when you know you're on the right path. Right. But then I'll also check in with yourself. I've also learned to now say no. Yep. Also um step back from things that aren't aligned and trusting that God will put the right people and opportunities in my path, not trying so hard. And that um, yeah, you know, because again, I'm an entertainer at heart and a people pleaser, but I can't forget about myself and what works for my nervous system. And that takes a while to figure out.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

It does. I have a comment. Yeah, go. You're like a mix of Hayley Mills and Dolly Parton. I like that. Who's Hayley Mills? Parent trap. Did you see the old parent trap? Um, I think so. Like from um like early 60s, I think. It's your eyes. Yeah, she's she's old. Like her soul is old. I was gonna say, we older. Yeah, no, she's not.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

She's not old.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

I mean, I'm 48 years old, and I'm very proud of that. And it's I feel it's a sun drop and it's it's just the living. And look at the sun drop. It is. So, how did you align with sun drop? Sundrop has just been one of the sweetest blessings of my life. Not to be corny, but I went to the Twigs Museum, which is amazing if you haven't checked it out.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

It is a really cool museum.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

All the memorabilia.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

It is, they did such a cool job.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Yes, and a great family. Hartwig family have been so generous. They started, they're celebrating their 75th anniversary this year at Twigs. And I went to visit the museum a couple years back and I saw the vintage Golden Girl advertisement from the 50s. This blonde and it was you blonde. And I said, That looks just like me. I am her. Like, I want to do this. I've been here my whole life. I drink sun drop. I'm I'm the sun drop girl. What's going on? So I've talked to Dan Hartwig, and I'm like, Dan, I'm gonna be the sun drop girl. And he goes, Well, what do you mean? I said, trust me and watch. And he's like, Okay, so I started doing content for Shawn One, and my grandma made me a vintage sun drop girl costume with the bottle caps and said the sun drop girl.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

We'll have to plug it in.

unknown 26:40

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

And I started creating content drinking sun drop and doing the stories of the people in Shano, and it caught on so well that the Hartwigs now I work as part of their team to highlight their business and boys and girls in in town, the golden boy and girl, and it's they trust me, and they've given me this golden opportunity to expand this message of like hometown values, of the golden rule, of sharing your gifts locally in Shano. And it doesn't matter how old you are or Bondawell or Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

People always mistake Bondawell and Shano, it happens all the time. It's like you're just like screwed up.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

So without the Heartwigs and Twigs, they really were the start to get my name and and message out there further. And it's just and they love you.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Like Annalise dropped off some sweatshirts a couple weeks ago, and we were talking about you, and she's like, she's just a gift, like you're just amazing.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

I'm I feel the same about them.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Yeah, they're good, they're good people.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Yeah, oh I know. This I thought was kind of divine for us is the original slogan of sun drop was sun drop, refreshing as a cup of coffee.

SPEAKER_02 28:00

So it's like we were meant in the mill 75 75 years ago, it was all meant to be this very moment.

SPEAKER_04 28:07

Twigs, sun drop, the mill, we're all meant to be they knew what was gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

Golden divine moment. Yes, cheers. Cheers.

SPEAKER_04 28:14

Cheers.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

I love that.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:17

Okay, I have a question. Uh-huh. Yeah. Um, so you were more so raised by your grandma.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I my mom. Or your mom raised me, but with the help of my grand and grandpa.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Do you have any like special memories moments that you can remember with your grandma or your grandparents? Whatever that looked like. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Um kind of one of the most special parts of my childhood was the memories I have with my grandparents. Luckily, I was able to get their help when my mom was a single mom, and my dad had passed away. So it was the simple times. They were just a normal, you know, middle class family, worked at the mill in Shahno, and we had the the meals around the table. We sang the songs, went to church, went up to a trailer up north at Mayflower Lake, and it was just the the times being together, like unconditional love. It didn't matter. You know, it was my grandma said nothing fancy. And so I really felt I could put my mask down, I could, I could take the performer off, and she loved me unconditionally. And uh she introduced my brother and I to the faith, brought us to church every week, went to St. James School, and um so during her later years of life, she developed dementia, and so that was difficult. But I was always did my best to be there as much as I could, took her to her hair appointments, and we'd always sing her songs, and no matter what, to the very end, she never forgot her songs. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 29:56

That's cool.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

And in the old days, too, driving up to the camper, my brother and I sit in back of Grandpa B's old truck, and we'd have the window open between the truck and we'd sing all the folk songs.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

And down by the old mill stream, down by the old, not the new but the old mill stream, not the river but the stream where I first met you. I thought that mill one was for you guys.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

We should have had her maker.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

I was gonna sing no, I had something in my eyes. You're crying to scraping this thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

So it was the songs, the songs that we all shared, and I wanna continue to sing those songs when I can. I want to incorporate those somehow into Shadow News or just into my personal stuff. I try.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

You do such a good job with that.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

It's the it's the songs that forever.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

So I don't know what you did.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

I do have something in my eye. Do you really?

SPEAKER_02 30:52

My goddamn is messing up. I don't know if she's lying or not.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

But it's also really sweet.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

But I'm like, I don't think you are messed up right now. I don't mean to call you out on it. I mean, I do, but I don't.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

And that was one of the the flavors of twigs. I mean, I know I always go back to Sundrop and Twigs, but they have a forget me not grape. Yeah, pull that out, Keith. Here's that.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

It's uh pull that out for her. I think it might be the so they did this, they did this uh per your week request.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

No, they have done this before. The Hartwig family and the Forget Me Not Fund collaborated with Can you crack open that root beer?

SPEAKER_02 31:25

I could go for a good root beer.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Yes, look at all these flavors. So the Forget Me Not Grape, the proceeds go to Alzheimer's and dementia. And so I love to drink this, and I also have a a costume, the Forget Me Not Girl, that I help with that cause as well. For grandma. Oh for grandma.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

He broke it.

unknown 31:46

That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Let's just hide that one.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

We'll just edit that out.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

We'll edit this all.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Can we get a close-up of that?

SPEAKER_03 31:53

Like Lord.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

He I don't I think it was a twist off.

SPEAKER_04 31:56

Oh my gosh. Oh, it is a twist off. Oh I'm an idiot.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

Don't do a button opener with the just set that up there. It's okay. I guess I'll have it orange. Just give me the orange, I'll open it myself.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

And then I brought the sour for you guys because I thought with all your liquor, I love that's a good mixer. And I love sour.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Like I love yeah. I'll just on its own. I'm just a sour girl. But I am cheers.

SPEAKER_04 32:20

Is this sun drop?

SPEAKER_02 32:21

You're sweet.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

Is this not a twist off?

SPEAKER_02 32:25

That's twist off too, I guess. Just don't ever use that thing again. Hulk smash. Speaking of Hulk Smash, I was trying to change the soap in the girl's bathroom this Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Can you do mine, Keith? Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

And I ripped the whole soap dispenser off the wall and took a chunk of drywall. So what does any good girl do? I hung a picture there. And then I crooked. Probably. It might be. And then I am like, okay, I'm gonna get just some hand soap. I will go to Dollar General and get some hand soap because I don't want people walking around with urine hands. Or my staff. Totally forgot. I get home and I'm like, oh. So the opener, Barista, Juliana, I'm like, hey, can you steal some soap from your mom and bring it to work tomorrow?

SPEAKER_04 33:10

So she's like, oh yeah, my mom's got lots of soap.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

She would. Kelly would.

SPEAKER_04 33:14

Kelly would have a whole closet of soap. Clean hands. We call her Clean Hands Kelly. That's her name.

SPEAKER_02 33:19

We don't call her that, but now we do that. Anyways, I just love your stories. What is your ultimate goal in life? Tell me like where you see yourself in 20 years.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

One thing that's changed throughout my life is when I was younger, I had everything planned out in my life. I had to know where I was going so I could feel safe. And now throughout the years, as I've evolved, gotten more help, got to know myself better. I don't really have a plan. I love that. And it doesn't, and it feels a lot more free. Yes, I still want to make sure that you know I have a job and providing for my family and doing what I love, but I'm trying not to put the pressure on myself and trusting that what is meant for me will will come my way.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

How freeing is that?

unknown 34:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Yeah, it's taken a lot of work to get this to this point because I was always, I guess, a control freak. And making sure everyone else was okay and all the plans were, and this is how this was gonna work out, and it's exhausting. And I still am very organized and have goals and take action, but I have tried to relax more into seeing where things take me.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

And you don't have a 20-year plan, which we don't either.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

No.

SPEAKER_04 34:45

So the day-to-day, let's um how do you organize your life? Do you have a do you have a planner that you write in? Or are you a digital gal with calendar?

SPEAKER_01 34:56

I just do the digital calendar.

SPEAKER_04 34:58

Does that work?

SPEAKER_01 34:59

It does for me. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Keith's taking notes.

SPEAKER_04 35:04

Well, that's how I do it, and it works well for me.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

And I take it once dig against me, Jamie. I have a shared calendar is not working.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

She's we don't have that. Okay. I have a planner that you open. I need something tangible. I need to see it. I need to write it down. And if I don't have it, I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_04 35:23

How often do you lose it?

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Ask me where it is right now. I'm not quite sure. It's either in it's either in the car or it's in the boutique. Um I was kind of hoping you would side with me and be an old-fashioned gal and have a planner, but it's time to get with the times.

SPEAKER_04 35:42

I actually thought if anybody would, it would maybe be you that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 35:46

But I mean realistically, you do need a digital planner.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

And I try to just take one day at a time. That's it. That's all I can. I have the do you okay, so one day at a time.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Do you do most of your work shano area or are you branching out?

SPEAKER_01 36:06

Slowly, it's been branching out. People are seeing my work. And obviously it's Shano News, but that could be Shano County. I've done work in Pulaski and Green Bay. And again, wherever it takes me, I'm open to learning and experiencing anything. I just I want to tell people stories.

SPEAKER_02 36:25

I want them to feel like you'd like to get you back here and do a story.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

I would love to. That was awesome to meet you guys.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

And when she did, that was like at the beginning. That was like two years ago.

SPEAKER_01 36:34

Yes. Thank you for that opportunity too. Because at first when I started Shano News, people were like, she's nuts. What is she doing? You know, no one no one was really doing that six years ago.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

You're you're absolutely right. They weren't. And now people are like, the news is nuts. What are they doing? Right. You know what it's like? Seriously, it's like uh podcasts and local news like that. You trust more people like I can see you versus someone on the news, you're like, whatever. Right. You know, what political agenda does this person have?

SPEAKER_01 37:03

And I think it may be relatable because again, I'm I'm local, it's imperfect, it's just off the cuff.

SPEAKER_06 37:10

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 37:11

And I my mom does my camera work, I do the editing, I try to keep it simple again for my own mental health. And um again, my grandma was a perfectionist, and she's like, if you can't do it right, don't do it at all. So I always had that, but my grandpa always said, good enough. And now I'm like, I think grandpa was right. Um, not that you don't try your best and give your heart, but there comes a point. I just say, good enough. Yeah, like I tried my best, and I'm not gonna edit this again, or beat myself up. It's good enough. I'm good enough. And hopefully people receive that, and if they don't, that's okay too. Yeah, you're doing great. Yeah, I appreciate that. So are you guys?

SPEAKER_04 37:55

Um, do you believe in aliens?

SPEAKER_01 37:58

Yes. I messaged you after your last um podcast, and I'm like, ooh, I got a new friend here. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 38:07

Have you had have you had any sightings?

SPEAKER_01 38:10

No, I haven't. No, but my son and I just went to Roswell for spring break. Yes, because I always like to talk to him about these things, and I've never seen aliens, but I believe you know there's different levels of consciousness and um and awareness, even as human beings here, like we go through something and oh, I see that differently now. And as we as we evolve, as the world changes, I think it's just a different level of thinking of heart awareness. So aliens, aren't we all kind of aliens though?

SPEAKER_05 38:44

Right, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

Regardless if we believe in heaven and God, we were not born here. We're not from Earth, we all came from somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

You didn't expect that answer, did you?

SPEAKER_04 38:56

That's gonna get me some no crazies. I sort of did actually.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

I thought she was gonna but you didn't expect her to engage that much. I I don't think we've had a guest that was like that excited about it. I went to Roswell, and yes, I'm an alien. Like she gave it right back.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

All right, so then this one might, this one might, I don't know, we'll see how you go. Um if you if you had an opportunity, alien showed up at your house and they're like, hey, Jamie, I'll show you around the entire all the universes. You're only gonna lose a week's time here on Earth, but you're gonna be gone for like six months, but you're only gonna lose a week's time here.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

I'm in.

SPEAKER_04 39:37

Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Yes, yes, you could bring your mic. Yes, I would I'd be the first one. I'd be like I knew she was gonna say yeah. My girl would be like famous, like more famous.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

Maybe this is a call. Yeah, this is a call to action. Like, I'm open.

SPEAKER_02 39:53

I mean that's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

No, no, because I trust in in God, I trust in myself, and I think it's also you're not gonna see or believe these until you're open to it. If you're open to not even aliens, but like to anything, like to any other perception, any other kind of perception. That's even somebody else's opinion. You have to just be open to other people's point of view. That's what I how I see it.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

She gave it right back. I Jamie Lee. Beers and banter with her. Beers and banter with Jamie Lee. Yeah. She's so we're gonna have um special. Surprise, surprise. It will probably be advertised by the time this launches, if not already aired.

SPEAKER_04 40:40

Oh, yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

I think so.

SPEAKER_04 40:42

We're gonna have like after hours, beers and banter, having it live, serving drinks, right, talking about conspiracy theories, aliens, like a nighttime show.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Yeah, yeah, more like do you know who told me to have her on? And I'm like, girl, and he's a guy. I already know her, Tony.

SPEAKER_04 41:05

Do you know Tony Masakowski?

SPEAKER_02 41:07

I graduated with him. Okay, that's why then he's like, you need to have Jamie on. And I'm like, I know he's like the sun dropper. I'm like, I know who she is. I'm like, we will.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

I used to party in in his uh back 40 in high school. I bet he was reconnected with him for years. I don't know. He's around here. He was on our podcast.

SPEAKER_04 41:22

Him and I worked together different agencies, but the same time. And we would call each other our best work friends. Um and he's a great guy. Great guy. Like, I love that guy.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

Wonderful to hear he's doing well.

SPEAKER_02 41:35

He is doing well. Well, he'll be on beers and banters, so you yeah, you should be there. You we can have a whole bunch of mics of a whole bunch of people. Have all the guests back.

SPEAKER_04 41:42

Yeah, all the crazy ones. I'll bring them alien beers I got from mics. We that might not be in the budget, but numbers.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

Oh, yeah. Mics are kind of expensive. Uh we have a few. We have a few.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 41:54

We could share. We could share. We can do extra things. Just shut them up. Just let me just um okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:07

Let's zero camera time.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Let's get back on track for Jamie.

SPEAKER_04 42:12

How is that coffee?

SPEAKER_01 42:14

Very good.

SPEAKER_04 42:15

Is it? I made it.

SPEAKER_01 42:16

Chocolatey. Is it good? I live on and I drink coffee.

SPEAKER_04 42:21

So it's a little stronger than normal. Like, not there's only like a slouch of milk.

SPEAKER_02 42:27

Her face.

SPEAKER_04 42:31

I'm thinking that Jamie's a strong coffee gal.

SPEAKER_02 42:34

Is what I I wouldn't think that because she's a sun drop drinker, so I'd be like, she likes her coffee a little sweet.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

It's I pretty much have cream with a side of coffee.

SPEAKER_04 42:42

Really?

SPEAKER_01 42:43

That's what I would predict. Sugar. I live on sugar.

SPEAKER_04 42:46

I was right with the aliens, though. You're right.

SPEAKER_01 42:48

I live on sugar. And I know people are like, oh, that's not healthy.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

Okay, so before we started recording, Jamie told me and Cammy she's never had a cavity. That's insane to me. And she brushes once a day, sometimes twice.

SPEAKER_03 43:04

But like drinking sun drop every day. Yeah. And you're tiny.

SPEAKER_02 43:08

You're tiny, you live on sugar, and you don't have cavities.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

It's good jeans and these big Bart's teeth. You just they're not.

SPEAKER_02 43:16

But so there's truth to that because Cubby has had tons of cavities. And his mom told me that she has soft teeth. Like she just has just genetically something wrong. Not something wrong with her, but like there's something. Like, and then her mom has the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 43:36

I didn't have my first cavity until I was like twenty six. And it was after I would I was drinking like probably three sun drops, we'll say sun drops a day.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

It was Mountain Dew. Gross.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

But I love going to the dentist. I mean, if I could afford it, I'd go every month. I love straight. Do you have insurance?

unknown 43:55

No.

SPEAKER_02 43:55

No. Well, she's the dental insurance. Yeah, well, I guess that's a personal question, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 44:01

Do you have life inside? I don't have dental insurance.

SPEAKER_03 44:03

Do you have life insurance? That'll be the title of this podcast. She doesn't have dental insurance.

SPEAKER_01 44:08

Yes, anybody wants to trade.

SPEAKER_04 44:10

But she doesn't need it. She doesn't need it. I don't need it.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

Do you know that you can go to the techs, tech schools, and you pay 20 bucks for cleanings?

SPEAKER_04 44:18

For the people that are just loading.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

I mean, I love my I love my local dentist. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

Oh, I'm sorry. Don't mean to take business away.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

You might get a cavity, though. You might get a cavity. Channel family dentistry. I, you know, I'm happy, proud. I love her. Very sweet.

SPEAKER_02 44:33

She's awesome. Yes. Yeah. She squeezed Sawyer and he had typical military fashion. They're like, oh, you have a deployment and you need to have a exam.

SPEAKER_04 44:42

Before you go.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

Like yesterday. Like yesterday. And he's like, I can't get in. I called my dentist. They're like, we can't, we can't get him in. And I called Rebecca and she's like, I will come in early. And she came in early and saw him. She's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

Yes, she won't be a very small. She's very pro-military.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

Yeah, she's very pro-military too.

SPEAKER_01 44:59

She does programs to help veterans. Rook canals and everything.

unknown 45:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 45:03

Right.

SPEAKER_02 45:05

I photographed it. Not the rook canals, but like the event one time. And I'm like, you're just a great, she's great. And she likes to come to the mill. So we do love her for that.

SPEAKER_01 45:14

And I guess speaking of the veterans too, something that's really dear to my heart is I think growing up at the VFW bar with my grandparents, that you know, I always went there, had Miller High Life with Gramp. And um, so now I've done some stories with the VFW and Memorial Day, and that's really heartwarming to me. I have an old-fashioned 1940s USO Sundrop Girl outfit. I saw it. And that has been really meaningful and powerful to me. So I think another thing I would like to um encourage anybody, all these things I'm doing are things I dreamed about when I was a little girl. I'm just really plain make-believe. I have the costumes, I I go and I'm an actress and entertainer at all these these places I go. And I'm just creating my dreams that I did when I was a little girl.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

And the look on those guys at the VFWs, I'm like the video, you'll have to pull it up once you're done watching this. Like they just look at you, and then you're singing to them, and they just look like they're back in time, and you're singing like it just it's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

I do it for my grandpa because I knew that he'd be proud.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

She would be so proud.

SPEAKER_01 46:28

Grew up in the bars, you know. I um I think that's another reason I'm able to connect with different people of different walks of life, is because when you do go to the taverns when you're little and you know, you're having the sun drop and the funyans and the Kit Kats, you can talk to anybody, and no one is higher or lower, it's just everyone walks of life relatable down to earth and old-fashioned folks. That's what I love. And I do love seniors because I do too.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

I can connect with that because my great aunt, I would go uh golfing with her. I would drive the golf cart, and then after we'd go to Bill's bar and she would have a beer and do her sign-in, and I would have a root beer and dill pickle chips, and I would sit at the bar and I'd BS with all her old lady friends, and like I would deliver meals on wheels with her. So, like, all of the old-fashioned stuff you do, like I can connect with on that level because I'm like, I loved that too.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

See, we're old souls together in another lifetime. You and I were maybe old ladies together. Maybe we were sisters or we were a little house in a prayer together. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

So, like when you're like how you connect, like I my favorite memories were with her and like her doing her old lady stuff, helping out the food pantry, you know, preparing meals for um catechism. Yeah, like she would always just be doing everything for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

I can't wait to be a grandma one day. Yeah, I know me too. I'm like, I think that'll be my glory. Yep, the golden girl, the actual golden lady legit, yes, the golden years.

SPEAKER_02 47:51

I'm like when her husband's like her dead, and she's like I'm kidding, she says it all the time.

SPEAKER_04 47:57

She's like, she talks with her friend about how when me and her husband die that they're gonna live together.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Like the golden girls.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

Oh, it's sissy, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

And I had that dream about you a couple months back, and I had texted you. Um, I must have seen some of your content, and that night I had a dream, and you were an old lady in this big farmhouse, and all the kids and all the animals, and it was kind of like uh Joanna Gaines, and you had made the mill into this huge thing, and I had reached out to you and said, I had this dream about you. I know this is gonna happen for you and your family.

SPEAKER_02 48:36

So you're like in the mill, it's the like Bon Noel version of um Joanna Gaines.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

Yes, fixer upper.

SPEAKER_02 48:43

Yeah, so that's right. I remember that. Yeah, I believe in dreams. Oh, and like there's meaning. Um I I have so many, I'm not even gonna go there because I have so many examples of dreams I've had, and then years down the road, I'm like, oh my gosh, I had that dream. And then I always reach out to people too because then it comes up and they're like, You had that dream. I'm like, I know. But it's like you're subconscious, like things happen. Wake up to your dreams, baby. Yeah. What do you have some more things you want her to chat about?

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Um, if you had to convince somebody to move to Wisconsin, how would you convince them? Like, why is Wisconsin so great? Not just Shawnee, but Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Wisconsin. Yeah, I would say that Wisconsin is again the heart. What do they call that? The heart of the Midwest? What is it? The heartland. The heartland. It is the heartland. Wisconsin is the heartland. And people are are still down to earth. Maybe we're a little behind, and that's okay. You know, we haven't caught up to maybe the fashions or the media or the trends of other states, but that's what makes it special because then maybe there's not as much pressure. I mean, we still are up to date and responsible adults, but it's still old fashioned, a little behind, and I like it that way. And it's safe. It is still, I would say, in comparison to other states, reasonable, um, affordable. And the natural resources of the trees, of the water, um, still old-fashioned family values. And it's welcoming. I I don't think you could go anywhere. You you meet you meet a Wisconsin person or a Shawnee person, Bonnewell person, like that person's from the Midwest. Yes. That person must be from Shawn because they're so darn nice. Like we're always nice to a fault. Um but I love it, and there's no place I'd rather be. My senior quote was they always come back, they always come home. You you notice that with people in Shauna, maybe around here too. They they venture off, go to school, maybe chase a dream, but there's nothing like coming home and and being surrounded by that that safety that's familiar. Yeah, I love it. I like that. That is a good pitch. I'll move, I'll move, I'll stay. You'll stay, I'll stay.

SPEAKER_02 51:06

That's the real every time I travel. I think I really do like Wisconsin. Yeah, and I don't mind winter. And I like I love when people are snowed in and can't leave.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

Yes, I love that latest storm. I do too. I love that. Like everybody stay put because the teenagers are home and they're forced to be. And yeah, let's everything's on pause. Yes, I love it.

SPEAKER_02 51:26

Although then I feel bad when I see like on social media our farmer friends struggling. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 51:31

Then I'm like, oh, that that sucks, like for farmers and stuff, but and all the workers that were plowing roads and yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_02 51:38

But I mean, for folks like us, we just shut the coffee shop down and go home and play Monopoly for three days.

SPEAKER_01 51:47

One thing I would like to touch on is Shano News a little bit, or how people can um um, they wonder how Shano News works. And Shano News, again, is just it's a positive outlet for for businesses, for people to get their stories out, events, and and businesses hire me to come do the social media because maybe some people don't like doing social media. Now, you guys are good at your own, and some people are, you know, have the time and energy, but some people don't want to do it. And I do, I like doing it. And so people reach out and I make packages for them that align with their budget and and go and get the behind-the-scenes stories. And not only is it just social media, I feel and I hope to create for myself and my family a legacy, a history. Because one day we're gonna look back and it was, you know, Dennis from the VFW and remember what he said, or or Jane Doe, who was making cakes at church. These are the stories one day. This is history, and we can record it now. It's not just in in papers and in print. Hopefully, this will last long after I'm gone. And this is my way to use my gifts and serve. And if I can make someone smile, if I can make someone laugh and brighten their day, I feel like I'm doing my work. That's all I have to offer, and that's good enough.

SPEAKER_02 53:11

One day you're gonna have to find a new sun drop girl. That would be your last job.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

Yes, and before my future, I'm hoping to create legacy programs through the Golden Boy and Girl program. And so cool. And maybe Sweet 16 for teenagers and finding the next sun drop girl that I can mentor and keep this program going for a lifetime.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

That is so cool. You basically created this.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

Yes, I made it up.

SPEAKER_02 53:40

Yeah, I love I made it all up.

SPEAKER_01 53:42

That's such a great thing, and anyone can do it. I'm gonna be speaking with the entrepreneurial class at the high school next week. And what I'm gonna tell them too is what are you good at? What do you like to do as a kid? And just take that. There may be no one's done it before, but just create it from what you're good at and what fills you up and and learn, make mistakes, ask for help along the way, and it can happen. It doesn't have to look like anybody else's. Go for it. You got one life, and now with technology, and possibly endless possibilities with these kids.

SPEAKER_03 54:21

So what are some of your favorite stories that you've covered?

SPEAKER_01 54:26

Some of my favorite stories have been with the veterans. I love that. And I love the the Sean O'Coney Fair, Sundrop, of course. I did the Vondewell corn roast last year, and that was great. Yeah, and got to go behind that. That went viral.

SPEAKER_02 54:40

I think it was like everyone, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:42

Yes. Um everyone, every single one. I am so grateful for because I learned something. And I'm gonna be that old lady, and I'm gonna be 90 years old and go, remember when I put that you know, cow outfit on? Remember when I went fishing? Remember, you know, like these are memories. You're still gonna be doing it, Jamie.

SPEAKER_06 55:04

I hope so.

SPEAKER_01 55:05

I hope so. I'm gonna keep going as long as long as people want it.

SPEAKER_02 55:11

Yeah, you know, yeah. Well, I really appreciate you coming on.

SPEAKER_04 55:15

Yeah, well, I think if somebody were to want to hire you, yeah, how would they get a hold of you?

SPEAKER_01 55:21

They can get a hold of me via Facebook, a direct message, or at 54166 Love at Gmail, and I'll get back right away and we can make magic happen. Living and loving in the 54166 and beyond Vindual.

SPEAKER_02 55:37

And I'll get that in there. Um, no, but I we would just we talk about this, we've talked about this a few times about the people that aren't necessarily don't have time or good at social media or marketing. That's where you come in. And people need that. They need that because I mean, if you think of boomers, they don't want to deal with Facebook or marketing, right? You know what I mean? They're used to just like putting an ad in the paper and then like seeing what specials are.

SPEAKER_01 56:06

So and there's room for everyone. Like, of course, there's gonna be there's wonderful people at the radio station, at the the newspapers. Um, but this is another form of advertising. It's advertising and it's easy. And if you want to trust somebody, put it in someone else's hands. I can I can help you do that and and make it fun and and different.

SPEAKER_02 56:25

I love it. Yeah, you're doing so good. Thanks, guys.

SPEAKER_04 56:28

Thanks so much for being on here. Yeah, broken pressure.

SPEAKER_01 56:33

I love um speaking with people that are entrepreneurs and creatives because sometimes in this in this section, it's people don't understand, or like, what are you doing? So it's nice to be able to relate. Um, you know, we're just doing the best we can and putting ourselves out there because it it's tough to be vulnerable.

SPEAKER_04 56:52

It is but it's working, it's working.

SPEAKER_00 56:58

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