Apple Review Appreciation & My Personal Struggles Episode 71

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This one’s a little different guy. 
I’m shouting out my Apple Podcast reviewers, drawing a name for a $25 prize + goodies tonight at 6:45 PM CST on Whatnot, and getting real with you about what’s been going on in my personal 

Thanks so much!  

Consultations:
📞 832-607-1526 | 💬 $20 / 30 min — Karri Kennedy on Whatnot

Transcript

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Hey there, everybody. I hope everybody is doing really, really well and having a wonderful Tuesday. Um, I wanted to say thanks to all the people who are wonderful, above the and beyond people who have taken the time to give a five-star rating and a review of my podcast on the Apple podcast like format. I know some of you listen to it on Spotify and all these other different independent podcast places, but really the one that matters the most that I get to see, um, you can message me on any one of these. It comes straight to me. There's even a little thing that says guys, and if you click on it, you can message directly to me. So I do get fan mail through Buzz Sprouts. I am getting messages from you guys, but I really do um appreciate those readings and reviews. And because of that, I am going to give $25 plus some candy, some pretty stride Skittles, some cute little 3D printed items, and whatever I can get together in a nice little, you know, envelope and send to somebody who I draw their name tonight. And how I'm going to do that is based on ratings and reviews. I am actually dropping this this morning before like eight o'clock. My kid's on his way to work. So I know it's really close to eight. Um, and what I'm gonna do is I'm actually, you can shut the podcast off after this part. Um, but I am gonna go through and say who these people are, call them out, and read everything they say, with positive or negative, because if you've taken the time to give me a review, even if it's negative, which I'm not a big fan of the negativity, but I'm still gonna read it out. Um, and then every single person's name I'm going to put in a box if I can find you on whatnot. So, like the first one right here was three days ago. It was 82 D I A Z S R. If that's not an actual person's name on the Whatnot app, I'm not gonna be able to find you and I won't be able to give you, you know, the $25 in the little basket bag of stuff. So um I'm giving you guys an option. If you've been listening to this, if you like it, if you found it helpful, if it's doing any good for you, to go and give a five-star review, but go and spend an extra 30 seconds, maybe guys, to leave a review. Okay, because if you leave a review, also I'm gonna give you something for it because I appreciate you. So you have from now until I go on my show. Well, actually, I'm probably gonna have to do it. I'm gonna have to cut it off. We'll say three o'clock central standard time today, because I'm gonna have to make the little pieces of paper. Three o'clock central standard time. That gives you what, six hours, guys? Something like that. Yeah, something like that. Anyways, okay, here's the deal. I'm gonna read these out just to give you an idea. If it's the person's name and you are on whatnot and you put it on here as your handle, then I will definitely pull that. I'm gonna do this at the beginning of my show tonight. It's at 6 45 under the name Carrie Kennedy on the Whatnot app. It's K-A-R-R-I, K-E-N-N-E-D-Y. Um, just go follow me over there, bookmark the show, come over tonight, hang out with me for a bit. I'm not gonna stay on super long because I've got a huge $1 free shipping and giveaways show on Saturday when Sarah is gonna be here. So tonight I'll probably only be on for like an hour and a half, two hours. I say that, but I cave to peer pressure very easily, I think. Um, anyways, okay, here I go. Um, the first one says newbie, and it says, love the advice. Thanks so much for helping us, newbies. That was three days ago from 82 D I A Z S R. Thank you, whoever you are. I appreciate you. The next one is put a three days ago. It says phenomenal information. Um, she says, Carrie provides so much great information on how to run a whatnot show. It is more than just putting a product in front of a camera, it's a business and it's all-encompassing. And this podcast covers it all. Full of valuable information and super tips. This podcast will help grow your whatnot shop if you do the work and follow the advice. Well, I don't know who this is, but it says custom sizes, please. So even if I don't even know if you guys can go in and change these, whoever you are, if it is called custom sizes, please, I'll go look um and see if there's somebody with that. Um, but I really need your whatnot name. And, you know, that's the thing. Either that or put it in your put it in the review so that I can shout you out. Okay. Um, okay, the next one says accurate and great guide. Uh, this is from four days ago. This is iCandy Club. As a buyer, then seller for one and a half years. It was great to find Carrie's podcast. It not only validated the positive of how I run my shows, but it gives me new ideas to consider. She's so genuine and tells it like it is. Any new seller will be way ahead of the game listening to her podcast. Well, thank you, iCandy Club. Okay, the next one is thanks from Clover Penny. Great oversight and insights for the new seller just getting started on whatnot. I appreciate all of the advice. And she put her name in the thing. So I think Clover Penny is her whatnot name. The next one is definitely a seller on here, and I actually really love these people. Um, they are in Florida, they sell only brass. So if you were a brass junkie, you're definitely gonna want to go check out brass rooster. Um, they're great. I love them. I don't always buy from them, I just hang out in their room. So um, I think that says a lot, though. Um, if you're a if you're new to whatnot, this is an amazing podcast to gain real life experience on what it's like to be a seller on Whatnot. Carrie is a thousand percent transparent, and I do try to be, I don't know about a thousand percent transparent, but I am pretty transparent, yes. Um, so the next one is the flower shop. Also, I think that's a seller on whatnot. It says, You have helped me so much, you rock. So I appreciate that. The next one is from White White Oak Treasures. I'm not reading 42, guys. It's only like 13, so don't freak out here. Um, it says, This will help is the title, and it says Carrie, simple yet profound information will help anyone who is listening, practical information with like an excess of exclamation marks at the end. Thank you, White Oak Treasures. Okay, the next one great info from Blue Muse Market. I signed up to sell and I had to do a show within seven days to get the bonus. And I started listening to Carrie um to prepare, as she has been so in capital letters, helpful. She breaks down everything we need uh to know so well, and I greatly appreciate this podcast. Well, thank you, Blue Moose uh market. That was three weeks ago. The next one says, This is all good, valuable information, but you might consider numbering your episodes, it will make it easier for you and others to be able to reference uh different episodes. This is from NJ Mobile, M-O-B-I-L-E. And you know what? I did what they said, I listened to you guys. So even if you have some, you know, I can't do everything. One of the hold on just a second, my dog. Um, one of these uh I've got dogs in the room, guys. This is raw. I I purposely don't edit my shows. You get the real, real, the real treatment here, anyways. Um, it says consider doing was the title for NJ Mobile. So thank you, NJ Mobile. I actually did listen to you and I do number all my episodes now. And you were absolutely 100% right because now that I'm doing interviews too, my inner the people I interview can come into shows and go, hey, I'm on the podcast. If you want to learn more about me, go listen to episode. Uh Greta's Garden has been doing that. I think she's episode 50. Um, okay, then the next one is from Tara underscore treasures and trinkets. And then this says, Love this podcast. You are so real and relatable. Great tips. Exclaim multiple. You guys got some serious love for the exclamation marks. Okay, and that is it. I don't have any more. So 43 ratings. That all it means is you go to Apple, you scroll down, and you click, and you hit five stars. And and you take 30 seconds to write a review, guys. This is really easy. And I'm actually paying you back to do it. And I don't want anybody to write anything that they don't think is true. So we're all trying to be honest and real here, and and we're gonna keep that up. Um, one guy, and I can't find it now. Um, but he his because I guess it only shows so many reviews. I'll look and see if I can find it somehow. Um, maybe I need to do a deep dive on that, but right now I don't see it. But he said I was long-winded and I was like, uh, yeah, yeah, I am, but that's not gonna change because that's who I am, that's my personality. I like doing analogies, I like doing examples, I like doing deep dives, I like having stories. That's my gig. I like that. I like podcasts like that. So it's okay, buddy, if you don't like me. I'm not gonna be everybody's cup of tea. That's okay. High five you for being good enough to, you know, give me your insight and information, but no, I'm not gonna change to that level. But if you have some critique that's good, like, you know, numbering my episodes or something like that, definitely do it. I know I need to do an outro, like I have the cute little intro thing. I know I need to do one where I say, you know, hey, go check me out, blah, blah, blah. But I just, you know, it's one of those things. You get to choose and pick what you're gonna do every day. Anyways, after saying all that, that's gonna be tonight. I think it's 6:45 Central Standard Time. Sarah, my assistant, will not be there. I'll only be on for like an hour, hour and a half, and um also go bookmark my upcoming two shows. All that being said, I know you guys have who are avid listeners who listen to me while you're driving or you're doing your mail route or you're exercising. I know who you are. I appreciate you guys, you devoted fans. I so appreciate you. Um, and so I just wanted to be honest and upfront and tell you what's going on in my life. Um, I have this is this is the sad part, the the you know, the human part that I don't really talk about a whole, whole lot on here. This is my transparency. So I had CPTSD about three and a half years ago, um, three years, four months. It lasted for about seven and a half to ten months. Um, it was really, really bad. Maybe I'll do an episode on it in the future. Uh, anyways, it was triggered by uh my kids all coming to my house kind of at the same time for Christmas and just the stress levels and emotional levels, everything. I just kind of snapped. My nervous system crashed. It was bad. Um, we all go through things. I had no idea what it was like, just like when I had breast cancer twice. The first time I went through it, I had no idea, you know. So the more you go through in life, the more you understand, you get it. Um, but anyways, it was horrible, terrible. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Um, I don't have a lot of enemies, but I wouldn't wish it on anybody. Okay. Um, but that happened to me. And after that, um, I'm not, it's it's a little patchy because when this happens, you lose time, memories, conversations. It's it's kind of crazy the whole thing because your brain just can't keep up. You're just in like this terrible survival mode. Anyways, uh, four of my six kids decided to stop talking to me. I'm not sure all the details. I remember bits and pieces, but so for three years, four months, four of my kids have not talked to me. And my oldest daughter has two grandbabies. And so, um, not only did I get, you know, shunned and estranged from my kids and my family, but also my grandkids. And I'm saying this just very matter of fact, but it's really hard for me to even say this because it's so emotional and it's so painful, and it's the most heartbreaking thing I will ever go through on this planet. I I know nothing could ever compete to this. And my kid the other day said rape or murder, and I was like, no, those end, those, those end. I yeah, I'd be okay with those over estrangement from my four kids and my grandkids in a heartbeat. Um, not to minimize murder or rape. I'm just saying the level of despair and heartbreak I've had, there's nothing comparable. Um, anyways, my daughter recently had a baby, um, her third child. Nobody even called me or told me. I didn't find out until like 10 or 12 days later um from my mom. And so you talk about Jerry Springer. Uh, anybody who knows who Jerry Springer is, it's very I there's some words I would like to use here, but I'm gonna keep it clean. It's just screwed up, guys. It is just beyond screwed up. And this this all happened three years, four months ago. I think I I I believe to this day I was an excellent mom, a good mom. Did I screw up here and there? Yes, like all moms, yes. Do I know that estrangement is like worldwide epidemic right now? Yes. In America, 27 to 32 percent of all kids in that generation. My kids are uh I have six of them. The oldest is 28, the youngest is 16, 12 year span. Um, three girls and then three boys. But, anyways, uh it's it's an epidemic. It really is. The cancel culture, the idea that human beings are toxic, that you shouldn't talk to people, that you have better things to do, whatever. I think it's sick and it's horrible and it's awful, and it's just awful for our culture, our society, and us as human beings. And so if there's people listening to me who are estranged, pick up the phone. My phone number is in my um profile under Carrie Kennedy, K-A-R-R-I, K-E-N-N-E-D-Y. And um, okay, now I'm getting to the meat because that kind of led you up to where I'm at. So, as this has gone on, this has been extremely difficult for my husband and I. Not only did my daughter take my grandkids' pictures away from me, I couldn't even see the pictures of them. We had this like cute little app called Tiny Beans, and I used to get to see pictures and videos of them all the time, and it was just wonderful. And now I am I I was cut off. But my husband wasn't, and I don't really understand that, but whatever. Um, they still talk to him not a whole lot, but here and there, we haven't had normal Thanksgivings, Christmases, anything like completely estranged. I've tried to email, I've sent pictures, I've sent little videos on forgiveness and little scriptures here and there, but basically, crickets, none of them talk to me. I one talk time talked to my second daughter, and I thought that there was going to be repair and restoration and hope and healing, and she never called back. And I was like, What happened? blah, blah, blah. And it just didn't work out. So it's been the worst three years and four months of my life, not just the CPTSD part, but mostly because my kids are estranged from me. So, all that being said, um it's been extremely hard on our marriage. Um, our marriage has had up and downs, like every marriage, you know, but we've forgiven each other, we've we've stuck it out, we've, you know, done it for the kids, done it for the family, done it for God, you know, tried, tried, tried. And um, after this, there's just, I don't think there's any way we can repair the marriage. There's not like anybody you can pick up the phone and go, okay, here's this situation. We have four kids that are estranged, they live in different states and different places, and they don't talk to their mom, and there's CPTSD, and our divorce, our marriage is really, really bad. There's nobody to go to when you have these like huge over-the-top, you know, situations. Our church doesn't have a counseling section. You know, if you do get counseling, it's for an hour here. I did offer to my husband to spend like five thousand dollars and you know, five or six days to do intensive counseling. He said, quote, I don't want to spend the time or the money. So uh that being said, we are getting a divorce. We've been together for 32 years, we've been married 30 years. Um, and uh yeah, so after 30 years and six kids, I'm getting a divorce. And so this morning, I am going to go to, and I talk some of you are gonna have cut the show off because you didn't want to hear those those reviews. I'm just realizing this now that I decided to throw this on. But I am going to the lawyer's office at 10 o'clock this morning. I just can't keep living like this. I don't feel like my husband's relationship and my relationship is is a good one anymore, where we're, you know, talking to the level that we used to and having the support and the reliability and the dependability. The trust is completely gone. Um, I think the trust has been eroding for many years, but this is the you know, straw that that broke the camel's back, if you will. We can't handle uh the this estrangement because we can't talk about it, we can't talk about the kids, we can't have our normal family back together. And I think that his heartbreak and my heartbreak are too much for this relationship. We just we can't do it. So, that being said, at 10 o'clock central time, I am going to the lawyer. And if you guys are listening to this, if you have any empathy, if you are a Christian, if you could pray, if you could think about this, um, I would really, really appreciate it. I am nervous. I, as the as one of the lawyers says, it's really way better to do mediation or just you know, negotiation rather than litigation, uh, where you have to go to court and you know figure all that out. I don't think it's gonna get that way. I think, as my husband said, quote, it's gonna get ugly if I get a lawyer. That was his quote. So I I have to get a lawyer because of honesty and dishonesty issues, whatever. Um, so I'm doing it. It's at 10 o'clock this morning. Guys, please pray for me. I I know this is not what you signed up for, this little bonus treatment here of me giving this information out on this podcast that you came here to learn about whatnot, and and whatever. But this kind of thing happens to real people. We're we're real people. Um, and I will say too, I was on a show last night and it was a new couple, and I think they had like, you know, I don't know, seven people in the room. And I was trying to help them out. She was just talking. It was her, it was actually not a couple, it was a brother and a sister. And she was talking, and they were cute, and they were sweet, and everything. They didn't have as much inventory as they needed. I told them I think they need to get more inventory. I I actually think they need to move to a different category because I just think that if they only had that much inventory, so maybe they have more and they should stay in that category. But, anyways, the whole point is I was trying to help them out, like genuinely, one person to another, saying, Hey, I think you guys should get more inventory. I think you're adorable, I think you're gonna make it. Don't forget to run the you know, timer because the algorithm senses it, it can't see what you're doing, you know, just little tips and hints. And there were two people in there that were just rude as can be. And they were like, Oh, she's giving advice. Oh, who cares about her advice? I mean, just like, and I was like, I don't know who these people are, like that are so horribly messed up that your goal in life is to put people down and hurt people. Um, I don't get it. Like, I just I don't get it. I don't get why my four kids are estranged from me. I don't get why I don't get to see my grandkids. I don't get why my daughter didn't call me and say, hey, congratulations, you're a grandma. You know, like I don't get the level of sin and evil in the world and how people can treat each other like that. I just I don't get it. Um, I realize that I haven't been perfect and that I've yelled at my kids before. And one time I made a daughter walk to her friend's house because she was being really rude to me in the car and um, you know, different little things in life, you know, and and I get that as a kid, one of the easiest and most immature things that we can do as human beings, because I've been there before, I've done it before too, is blame. We blame other people, right? You it's just the knee-jerk reaction, but it's not the most mature reaction, right? Maturity includes conversation, talking, allowing other people to talk, being kind. That that takes effort, that takes energy, right? Having grace and compassion and forgiveness and understanding and a moral compass, you know, those things matter in life, guys. And I just want to say to whoever the rude people were I just kept pouring the love out. I was like, hey, you can call me my phone numbers in my profile. You know, I said, we'll pray for you, you know. When because they were talking about banning him. I was like, don't ban him, you know, like but I mean, just stop, guys. Think everybody's going through stuff, those two people. Have no idea what I'm going through. But I really truly think if they were sitting in the same room with me and they were hearing my dogs. Sorry, guys. They were hearing my voice and they knew that I was going through estrangement, not getting to see my grandchildren, going through a divorce, having to go see a lawyer, having to try to move my house, trying to do all of this, that maybe they would have been a little bit kinder. I would hope so. I would hope that they're not such mean, horrible jerks that I'm going and I'm talking to somebody and I'm being nice and I'm giving advice and I'm trying to help. And they were being just rude and snotty. I didn't stay that long, but it was just the I just who are you? Who are you people? Do you not realize that we're all human beings and we're all going through stuff? You might not know who I am, and you might not know who any of these other people are when you go into these rooms. But we're human beings. We don't deserve to be treated like dogs. We don't deserve to be shun. We don't be deserve to be talked down to, rude. You know, we're all children of God. And I think if you guys can, you know, just try to be nice today. Go out into the world and be kind. See how you can help somebody, see how you can be there for somebody, see how you can support somebody. I think we're gonna be living in a better world when people realize that other people have feelings and they have heartbreak and they have sadness and they have trauma and they have medical issues and whatever. Just think before you post rude stuff and mean stuff. Just think is all I'm asking. Um, okay, that being said, there's my whole spiel. 10 o'clock central is when I meet with the lawyers. I might do a couple episodes like this where I give you the personal information. Um, but basically, I'll have to title this something like personal announcement. Um, but I'd love to see you guys tonight. I go on at 6 45 Central, and then on Saturday, I have my big one um free shipping and giveaways show. And Sarah will be here. Okay, with that, the dog is squeaking on his little toy and it's driving me crazy. You guys have a wonderful and great day, and we will talk to you later. Bye bye.