Ep. 2 The Mediterranean Skillet

Random show talking about small town dynamics, enjoying the Paulding Pancake House, odd jobs at 16, and about being stuck by comforts. Plus much more!! 

Books Mentioned

Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor

Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield

Structure of Magic - Richard Brandler

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Transcript

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Hello there, my friends. Welcome back. It's the second episode of Wizard of Wonder Podcast with your host, Mr. Joel Fields. Uh yeah, welcome. So I don't know. I I thought I would just, you know, record the next podcast. Just go ahead and get it on done with, right? I you wouldn't believe this, guys, but I sit around my house excessively. I'm I'm just here by myself, right? I'm I'm just like a single dude, just chilling, chilling out, maxing, relaxing, feeling all good, right? About to cause some trouble in my neighborhood. Anyway, uh, not really. And just chilling. But anyway, I spend an enormous amount of time by myself. And I I like hermit mode, right? I'm always in hermit mode, just chilling around, doing what I do. Well, sometimes it's a little isolating. So that's why I'm also doing this podcast is kind of a way to, you know, maybe get my voice out there while I'm just I'm just sitting here chilling. So I might as well drop some cool knowledge bombs on you guys and do what I'm doing. Uh, but when I'm chilling here by myself, oftentimes I'll have like these big, elaborate, amazing, cool, fun conversations, right? And they're like little rants, and I'll just kind of rant to myself out loud, you know, and I know that maybe that's a little crazy or something, but I'm I I'm wondering, I'm sure probably people who are single and stuff, just like living, you know, in an apartment or a house or wherever alone, you know, they they probably talk out loud to some extent. But I don't know. I have all these conversations and I have all these thoughts in my head. So, you know, I I think that this podcast, doing this little creative outlet flow, would be really good, just a way to get, you know, like I was saying, you know, a lot of those thoughts and stuff out so they're not just festering around. Or like I said, maybe maybe some of the things that I can talk about during this podcast could help some people. So today I uploaded my very first episode of the podcast. Uh yeah, it's actually so funny. I uploaded it this morning, but here I am uh recording episode two. And yeah, I I was just sitting here working out some podcast stuff, and I I thought I would take a moment to dive into a little bit more of the history of me. Um, and just I don't know how I came to be. So, you know, I touched on this a little bit in the last episode, but there's there's so much story, right? A backstory. So I'm currently 38 years old. Uh it's March 27th and 2026. And uh my birthday is like in a week. Crazy, crazy. I will be 39. Uh my last year of my 30s, and wow, this is it's been wild, you know. Some like, I don't know, when when you get up, you know, towards the the end of like an era, right? You tend to like look back and you're like, what did I do with myself the last 10 years? You know, how am I gonna be 39? I do not feel 39, not in the leaving the slightest, you know. Um, and I'm sure there's reasons for that, you know. You get into some of the trauma work and things like that, and you know, I've been going through my own inner healing journey um past several years, to be honest. I've I've dealt with some heavy stuff, you know, some heavy depression and isolation and just weird stuff, right? And even though like like I work by myself, I work for myself, and I work, you know, now I I just work home alone. I'm alone at home working, right? I work from home now and I I have I see clients here in my home office. It's lovely. Uh, but you know, it's it's kind of a weird little isolation thing. So I don't know, but anyway, getting back to whatever, right? Uh this personal journey and and trauma work and different things like that. So I've I've been really interested in my own journey for a long time, and you know, self-healing, self-help. Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry. I'm a sleepy boy a little bit. I don't know. I went out and had dinner, ADHD. I went out and had dinner earlier, and uh, I went to this restaurant, and uh goodness, I'll I'll definitely get back into like you know self-help and stuff like that. But anyway, I went out to this restaurant, right? This local restaurant around here. And you know, this is this is Joel Fields Unfiltered, so like this has really nothing to do with like business or anything. I I guess if you just want to listen to me and you're just like, well, whatever, you know. Anyway, I went off to this local restaurant and I love Pancake House, right? I love holding Pancake House. Big shout out to Amber and like her staff and her team and like everything that goes on there, right? It's just awesome. Love it. We're so thankful. I'm very I'm very thankful to have it because I like going to restaurants to have like noise around me, right? It's part of my human design. If you guys are familiar with that system, I'll I'll talk a little bit about that, but uh a part of me like likes to have noise when I'm eating. It's really good for my digestion to be eating with a lot of noise and racket around. So I I like going to out to eat a lot. And um, you know, there's not a lot of places to eat around here. And and today was actually the very first Friday that I have worked in Paulding at home. Uh I don't remember when the last time was. It's been a long time, and uh it's very exciting. You know, but anyway, I I ended my workday around 4 30 and I was like, well, I'm gonna go get some food real quick, you know. I I think a cheeseburger sounds pretty good. And so I went and I had a cheeseburger, you know, around five o'clock on a Friday uh at the local pancake house. And it was amazing. Food was great, always great, right? And but thing is, usually when I go to the Paulding Pancake House, it's in the morning, right? Because I'm a breakfast boy. You know, I love a good Mediterranean skillet. You know, I'm that guy who who has like that as his regular. You know, I can probably go in there, the server sees me, and you know, I could be like, you know what, I'm gonna have what I always have. And he'll be like, okay, Mediterranean skillet with over easy eggs and sourdough toast, and maybe a little, well, no. Sometimes I get gravy if I get like the melting pot skillet. I don't know. You guys do you guys want to know about my breakfasts? Anyway, I like a good skillet. I'm a man who likes a skillet. Anyway, um, but anyway, I went to this restaurant tonight and holy moly on a Friday night, right? I was like when I drove, well, I I I drove around a little bit and I was like, okay, well, it's not too busy, you know. So when I went back, I was like, okay, it ain't still isn't too busy, so I'll go on and eat, right? Oh, I go in there and eat, and then it's like mmm, like this dinner crowd, you know, they all come in and it's Linton season. And like I've said before, the area that I live in is a big, big, you know, religious area. So everybody's in there, they're all loading up on all this all-you-can-eat fish, and this fish look good, you know. I like fish, right? But I wasn't feeling fishy, you know. Sometimes you feel fishy, sometimes you don't, right? You gotta be in the mood for the fishes. And anyway, so I decided that I would just get a uh a cheeseburger, a hickory burger, and it was amazing. Gosh. Anyway, I I can go gush and gush about the food, but it was so busy, right? So busy, like filled up with people, you know, and there I was just by my little lonesome, just having a cheeseburger, you know, enjoying some cream of broccoli soup, having a good time. And like I started seeing all these these like old co-workers of mine. So a little backstory for you guys about the Paulting Pancake House, right? Uh, it is it used to be called the the Vagabond, right? The Vagabond Village. And it was like a truck stop, uh, you know, where anybody could go. And I think you could, I'm pretty sure they had alcohol there and at one point in time at least, and long, long ago, right? So the the the vagabond was actually my very first job, which is really weird. And uh as this guy that worked there called me, my title was a dish bitch. So I did dishes and I bust tables, you know, as a lot of uh 16-year-olds do. It was my very first job, and so for some reason I feel like I had that job prior to 16. Uh, but I I I don't I don't remember exactly how I got there, but I'm pretty sure I drove, but I had my permit, but I also followed the law and wouldn't have driven until I was 16. So I don't know. Maybe it was like right when I was 16, right on that, I don't remember. But anyway, um it was a good time, you know. I I I did what I did. The the back, you know, b back area of that restaurant at that time, I remember it was always wet and damp and it smelled funny, and it was just a weird place. And I always felt like I worked in like our I would always pretend. I have this huge imagination, and I would always feel like I would pretend that I was like working in the back of a pirate ship or something, or you know, scrubbing the decks or something, and they had uh like it was always wet, and like I said, it just I don't know this this weird, like you feel like you're on a boat, like I'm not you know, I'm not even too familiar with boats, I don't even know what I'm saying right there, but I feel like I was like in a kitchen and some old like 1970s boat, and like I was I don't know, I don't know, you know, doing dishes for fancy boaters, I don't know. Yachters, I don't know, yacht folk. Anyway, it was a weird feeling, a weird vibe back then. Uh very strange, very strange as always, you know. But that I had a very brief stint and it was a summer job, so it was probably the summer before my freshman year, to be honest. Um and that's why, you know, that was a long time ago. But um maybe, maybe summer. Well, yeah, it would have been the summer of the freshman year because I took driver's ed in that summer and yeah, and then so April, well, I don't remember. I don't know. It's weird now because my birthday is in April, April 4th, very, very soon here, actually. And um anyway, anyway, that's beyond the point. You guys don't need to hear about that stuff, right? You guys want to hear about some goods, right? Anyway, yeah, I went to this restaurant and man, it was crazy, crazy. I saw like old co-workers there, right? So this is what I was getting into. Like, I saw two co-workers from when I used to work in Pacaban. Like, how crazy is that? I don't know if it's crazy. You guys might be like, it's not that crazy. You know, you go out to eat at a restaurant in like a small local town, like, of course you're gonna run into townsfolk, you know. But it was just kind of weird. I don't know, it threw me off. But yeah, so that's that's that's what I did earlier, you know. So now I'm just sitting around here. It's it's 625, and you know, we're just chilling, enjoying the sunshine. It's it's springtime, spring's coming around. I can look outside here, and I see uh little buds growing on my tree in the front yard here, and it has really nice little little white, pinkish blooms uh in the spring. So we're we're getting getting there, you know. It's it's building up, you know. We're there's a lot of excitement right now amongst the buzzing and the hum himho of the town about you know the weather changing, and you know, all of my clients today were coming in, they're like, oh, you know, if only it would just be warm, you know, and we're getting there, we're gonna get there, and then soon, you know, we're gonna be like, it's too hot, I miss the cool, you know, oh fall, we wanna fall. You know, autumn time is really nice uh around here in northwest Ohio. You know, it's it's good season to be in autumn, but I, for one, am super thankful that we are heading out of the doom and gloom of winter and the sun's shining again, and like you know, it's getting brighter in the mornings. I I hate time change, you know, when we when we spring it forward, like it's like everybody's messed up until we can fall back again, and then that even gets us a little bit, and then we're on our on a pretty good trajectory for a minute, and then all of a sudden we gotta spring forward again, and we're all like messed up. You know, I feel like the days are weird, like time's weird, everything's strange since the time changed, right? And you know, you gotta be worried about the things that they do at CERN. If you're not concerned with CERN, um, or a privy to or even aware of it, then then goodness, that might even blow your dang mind, right? But CERN's been doing all kinds of crazy stuff, and there's possibilities of us jumping timelines, and oh goodness, that's you know, a conspiracy episode would probably be crazy. And I'm sure a lot of these will start coming into a more of a flow. As of right now, it's just it's just kind of a creative expression, right? It's just a way to put on a little bit of a creative something and see what what dazzles people, you know. Some some people might just sit around and be like, you know what, Joel, we really don't want to hear about how you prefer your eggs on your skillet, you know. Other people might be like, yeah, whatever. I I I can find with this guy. He's kind of fun to listen to. Um, but yeah, uh eventually here I will be dropping some some tidbits and stuff for you guys that will be relatively helpful. Um, but we're gonna get back real quick, just jump back here to what I was talking about earlier. So I have been on a healing journey past several years, right? Mind, body, spirit. And, you know, I've I've been in therapy for for quite some time, and I used to see a therapist. My very first therapist I started seeing was it was more of like a holistic practice uh in Northwest Ohio here. And it was nice. I I really liked it. Um, but it was more of like a bitch fest and gripe session about my past employer, uh Parkview Health. I'll just go ahead and drop them. But uh yeah, it was just a gripe session, you know. Ever everybody's you know, I'm the kind of person who really doesn't like a boss, you know. And for the last three years, I've been my own boss. And I don't really have a problem with that guy, you know, the duality here. But I don't really have a problem with with me being my own boss. Um, there's things that I really enjoy about being a therapist, you know, and about being a business owner. And I I I have a background in business, so it's not it's not something I'm not used to or not understanding, but it's just like, ugh, you know, I don't want to do that. You know, I I would rather just listen to people's unconscious selves all day long and then talk to their past selves and all kinds of different stuff, you know. The the weird mind-body work that I get into is unfathomably awesome. But uh, you know, I got a I got a business to run, you know, and I'm doing this podcast, you know, and I'm I'm creating things. I I just got these new um microphones that I'm using right now, actually, to record this. Uh, a really nice quality, uh well-utilized, uh, lovely microphone. And now I can record videos and be a little bit more animated. I I like moving, moving around, jumping around, being a little bit more fun and Zazzy, right? And uh anyway, I'm just I'm really trying to step up my game. You know, I'm I'm changing a lot of things up, and it's it's it it has been very difficult, you know. I'll be completely honest. It's it's been difficult for me here uh in northwest Ohio. You know, I was really hoping that I could move to northeast Indiana. Um last year I was really, really considering moving to like an apartment complex. And I've a little bit of backstory here. I've I I currently reside in my grandparents' home, and which shares a property with my childhood home. So as weird as that sounds, you know, I've I've I've been here for a long time. And uh I've been uh uh I've I've been here since 2017, and actually today, um today marks nine years since my grandpa has passed. And this is my grandfather's house. And yeah, I don't know. There's there's a there's a bit of a weird heaviness here, you know what I mean? It's like the ultimate comfort, it's a huge house. Uh I have my office here, it's spacious, it's in the country, it's chill as hell. I love it, you know, but it's also a little bit of a, you know, it's keeping me stuck. You know, it keeps me stuck, it keeps me stagnant. So um, you know, this is this is a raw podcast. So I I want to talk about these things, you know what I mean? That way, you know, I don't know, maybe there's somebody else out there who's like has some kind of a situation or something where they're feeling stuck, and you know, it's good, it's not bad, you know, it's not like I'm constantly like feeling tortured or anything, but it's like man, I you know, I have I have such a such a wild mind that sometimes I really do not feel like I fit in in a rural farmtown community, not at all. You know what I mean? But I also realize it takes all kinds of people, you know, it takes all kinds of people to speak up, to voice their opinions, to be a part of a community, you know. That's what that's kind of what it means to be a community member. You know, and even though I'm a hermit and I like doing my own things and it's hard for me to find my tribe and vibe with other people around here, um, you know, I I think I think I don't know, I I feel needed here, but there's a part of me that always wants to escape. So when I was hoping for my office a couple years ago in in Indiana, Northeast Indiana, I would just relocate. You know, it's about 40 40 minutes or so away, and I could just relocate, you know, just be over there, build up this office and practice over there and like do all these things. Well, it was good, but I didn't like doing things in Fort Wayne. You know, I would I would work or you know, I I have a really cool morning routine that I I like to stick to. It helps my ADHD, it keeps things like that at bay. And then in the evening, when I'm done at work, I just want to come chill. So I didn't like doing Fort Wayne things. So I didn't really have a lot of friends in Fort Wayne. In fact, I I probably only really have one. Um, you know, I mean there's acquaintances and stuff like that, but only one that I would really ever hang out with. So yeah, it was just got weird. So I have been feeling disconnected and I had to uh disconnect, right? Even further and simplify, and that's the name of the game. You know, right now we are simplifying this year, and we're just getting really crystal clear on what's mattering, you know, what what's mattering, what's mattering with you, bro? Uh, you know, what matters to me most and what really resonates in in my heart, you know. So right now I feel this pull to create, I feel this pull to um simplify, to maybe embrace more of the hermit. I don't even know, right? I'm sure I'll probably get out and start moving around and grooving around a little bit here soon, but right now I enjoy being a hermit and having my my small small community, you know, a small rural community, and just kind of being that weirdo wizard folk, you know, that that looms around and like hangs around. I I stand out because I have really long hair, right? And I love my my curls, and they're crazy when I uh I don't know, maybe that'll be a story for another time. But yeah, I just you know it it takes all kinds to build a community. So right now I'm just this weird, weird wizard in this little farm town in northwest Ohio where it's predominantly Trump's farters and farmers and veterans. There's like like eight or nine percent of the population in Paulding is veterans. Isn't that wild? But uh yeah, anyway, I guess that was episode two. Weird. So I don't know, maybe you guys got a chuckle out of it. Maybe you were like, yeah, I like my skillet with over-easy eggs too. You know what I mean? I don't know. This this podcast is gonna be, it's it's a random show, so just buckle up because who knows what's who's in store for what. Um, but I do have a lot to ramble about, so it's not all just gonna be about back breakfast foods and nonsense and whatever, but I I didn't even get into any of my backstory like I like I had planned. Obviously, the ADHD is kicking in today, but I did a very light workout on my spin bike. I always do 30 minutes. Well, oh my goodness, I'm telling you guys everything. Anyway, spin bikes are fun, y'all. I like to I like to ride my spin bike while reading and listening to techno at the same time. So tell me you have ADHD without directly telling me you have ADHD, right? Uh but it's it's fun, and I actually find out that I read a lot faster when I'm doing that. So I've been crunching these books lately. Currently, I'm reading uh The Structure of Magic by Richard Brandler, and I'm reading uh The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield, I believe. Uh I can't see that book right now in front of me. It's where the structure of magic is right here. Um and what else am I reading? Um, oh gosh. Uh um It's a book about happiness. It's orange. Uh one day I'll think about it. But that's been a really cool one too, diving into that a little bit. But yeah, I like to read you know different books and stuff when I'm, I don't know. I have different vibes and different feels, right? Anyway, I've rambled enough. I hope you guys have a Marvelous rest of your day and enjoy doing what you do. Drink some water, move your body, smile at somebody, wave at somebody like a goober because you know maybe they're not having a great day. And maybe you should just be like, hey, bud, I want to say hi to you. And yeah, anyway, I will leave you with that. Take care and see you next time on Wizard of Wonder.