The Walk Back - Season One Finale | Ep. 15

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Like if you had asked me when I was eight years old, what do you want to be when you grow up?

SPEAKER_03 0:03

My first answer was a mom. And mine was to take over the world. So my daughter-in-law will tell you, um, I've never seen you get mad, Cleta. You're always so calm and put together.

SPEAKER_02 0:15

I love that for her. He's like, here's what you wanted. And I'm like, bread and butter. This is my favorite. You know where I'm going with this story? Uh he said, Don't first of all, don't panic. I don't think anyone's actually buried here. Be gentle with your mom. It is her first time living too.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Welcome to Worth the Walk, where two sisters chat about generations, raising kids, and family life with honesty, heart, and plenty of laughs. No perfection here, people. Just real conversation as we walk it all out together. Let's get started. Here we are. It's the closing ceremonies, as they would say, on season one. I feel like we should have fireworks. I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Is that too dramatic to be like celebration?

SPEAKER_03 1:21

Finale. Woo! With that, we have tasked producer Dan. Edit that out, Dan. Produce Dan? Delete that little blogger. How much gratitude can we give to producer Dan? He's calling his boss and saying he's in an aporta. Should we do that? Should we should we publicize that? How many times have you been asked about producer Dan? So I was stopped at our uh concert we went to. Yes. Uh by the individual still, and and and said, you know, how about producer Dan? Who is he? Type of thing. And then you as well have had that. And then I've also reach out to me who listens to this, who says, like, is is this person like, does he live there? Is he real?

SPEAKER_02 2:05

Is he real? Because I know you mention him, producer Dan, and we're just like, Yeah, is he real character? No, no, no, folks. He's real. He's real.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

And on the hardworking, like we just don't pay him enough. We're at all. At all.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

We could not be doing this or anything of this if we didn't have without if we didn't have Dan. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

With that, we segue now over to Producer Dan.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

Hey everybody. It's a bit of a different voice you're hearing today. It's me, Producer Dan. And before we jump into the seasoned finale, I just wanted to come in here and say hello. And there's no better time to do it than on the final episode of season one. And first off, I wanted to say thanks to all the walkers for listening. We couldn't have done it without you. And it's been a pleasure working behind the scenes on Worth the Walk this season. For those of you who may not know, Claudette is actually my aunt. So this podcast has come with a few unique challenges along the way. Outside of having to edit a podcast that's basically happening on the other side of the country, I've spent countless hours editing and listening to my aunt talk about her romantic moments, dating, and all the other gushy things in between. There's definitely a few moments where I thought, yeah, that's maybe enough for today. But in all seriousness, it's been amazing to watch Claudette and Sherry build something that is connected with so many people. And it's been pretty cool to see the community that has grown around the podcast along the way. Now, for today's finale, we've put together some of our favorite moments from season one. Some laughs, some reflections, and a few clips that remind us of why this journey has meant so much to us all. Now, enough from me. Let's take a walk back through some of the highlights.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

That is a great story. That is, you're doing it. I'm put I'm picking my coffee up. Okay. So we Charles and I have the home that we live in now, it has been over 10 years that we've lived there. And the home itself has been in the community for, well, it was built in 62, so a long time. And the family that built the home, we know, just think the world of them. They're dear, dear people, and their children and grandchildren are also um acquaintances friends and acquaintances. So I'm actually very good friends. Paula is married to Dave, and Dave grew up in that house, and they had five children. So there's many stories of the home. And we know that in the community, um, Morris was the grandfather, and he would have lived in the back part of the house. His wife Emma passed before him. And then and then Morris had passed, and that's that story. We move into the home fast forward however many years, 35 years. We move in, we're cleaning up under the deck, and Charles says, Sherry, I need you to come and look at something. So I'm all excited, thinking like, oh, we found treasure under our deck. No, nope, nope. Uh he said, Don't first of all, don't panic.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

I don't think I want you to start with anything. The second my husband or anybody says to me, No, don't panic, the very first thing I do is lose my mind.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Right. And then the next sentence is, I don't think anyone's actually buried here. I don't, I don't think there's a body.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

But there's a headstone placed neatly under our deck. I have a story where back when Avery lived home with us, this is before he he moved. He was had graduated from university and he had been living home until he was, or he was away and he was home for a little while. And anyway, he was a it was probably four years, three or four years ago. And he was getting ready to have a barbecue with some of the friends at the house. And he said, I'm gonna go out to the store and pick up a few things. He said, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave. So he left the house and I knew he was going to go to the liquor store. So I texted him and I said, Hey, could you pick me up a bottle of red wine? Period. He texted me back. Sure. What did you have in mind? What wine would you like? And I texted back, capital B bread, lowercase, and capital B butter, period. Bread and butter. This is my favorite. You know where I'm going with this story? This is my favorite wine, bread and butter. This is US wine. So he says, so then I I put my phone down, I go outside. He's texting me back, but okay, I can get that too. But what kind of wine do you want? I never saw the text because I literally left my phone, went out, started doing whatever, told Charles, hey, awesome. Avery's going to pick us up wine. We don't have to make an extra trip. So Avery gets home. He bought whatever wine he just figured would work. Any kind of red wine he finds a bowl of red wine. And then he had the bread, a bottle of bread, and then stick it on. He's like, here's what you wanted. And I'm like, why do I put a loaf of bread and butter on the counter? It's like you literally texted me you wanted bread and butter. I was like, uh my God, you had to have laughed for a phone and he died. We were just like, oh, I I definitely see how miscommunication I really was not specific. The wine I want is literally called bread and butter. I can see now how you'd be confused. I'm on a Teams call, but I don't have a camera on. Thank God. That was like so then I'm basically and then I then I a couple minutes go by and I reach behind my ear and I feel the tick and I yank it off and I'm panicking and I'm flick it off and it's on the floor, and then I start stripping everything off, and I'm jumping and shaking, and I'm like, my hair's loose, and I'm I'm looking like a complete fool.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Everybody, she's still on a team because I'll hit mute quick enough so that you can't hear me jumping and going, ha ha ha, like running around my room.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

And then I have to pretend like everything's fine. And I'm like, of course, yes, those are all wonderful ideas. Mute and hit mute again. Oh my god!

SPEAKER_01 8:29

And I pick up the tick and I crush it and I flush it and uh and butt make it and having to pick only a couple funny moments was very hard to do.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

I asked the ladies the same question and the response was pretty much the same.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

Well, there was so many moments when I even went back to listen to them where I was laughing my head up and I said, Okay, this is do I pick the walker moment? We have a little group, we have a little following.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Like we should be the walkers. We have a walker group. Don't do it. It's like we have a walking group.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

We'll call ourselves the walkers. Now I hope every person out there who I mean I've heard that like there's millions and millions of people who have watched The Walking Dead, okay? And I know the second they hear, let's call ourselves the walkers. The first thing to think of themselves. I'm not walkers, I'm not a zombie.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

And I it was obviously the wrong choice of words. I understand that now. I get it now. I didn't hear it first. I didn't hear it when I first said it. I wasn't I didn't get the difference.

SPEAKER_03 9:37

I know I paid my pets because we had to turn the mic off because we had to restart. I had to go chase because I was literally I couldn't even keep it together. And then there were steamer wieners, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:45

Oh, my little steamer weenies. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Anyway, I was going to make uh some more of my um wiener steamers. Oh steamy weenies.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Wiener I don't know, or my um you didn't give me a heads up sausage steamers. The more I say it, the worse it sounds. I'm just gonna have some insight to this.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

I'm gonna tell you so I have a mold. I have a mold where I can make things in the shape of wiener dogs. Wiener wiener dogs. I and I have two mini dashes.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

I knew what I was leading with. I knew. I knew what I was doing there.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

And then there was the natural, neutral, neutral, natural walk make it, make it pot walk. Yeah, pot walk. Do an herbal or a natural walk.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

Oh, that sounds an herbal natural, wink, wink, wink, what? What do we do?

SPEAKER_03 10:48

No, we are absolutely not in any way doing anything even close to that. We're gonna be so disappointed because I've got the app on my phone and we're going to find out all the plants that are around. I'm going on a walk with my sister.

SPEAKER_04 11:03

They're gonna be like, Are you smoking pot in the woodship? They're like, what are you doing? Let's find a new babe. We're not gonna do a verbal walk.

SPEAKER_03 11:10

We're gonna do an all-natural walk. We're gonna find the the we're naked.

SPEAKER_04 11:17

Help me with a babe. We're not gonna be naked, and we're not gonna smoke a Jewish naked, and we're not gonna eat mushrooms. None of that is happening. None of that is happening.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

We're doing an unnatural walk, are we, Claudette?

SPEAKER_03 11:33

And then there was the the chamomile, chamomile, chamomile, chamomile, and then I was dying with that. So there was there were so many of them. Uh yeah, I'm not picking one. I I got too many of them, share. I got Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

For me, it was the the water bottles and how Dan took that conversation and made the video. Honestly, I it's unhealthy how many times I've watched the video. And how every single time it makes me laugh.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

In our whole, you know, Facebook and Instagram and all of those things. That video is the biggest one that has been watched over and over and over and over again. I may be the single contributor to it.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

I watched it a million times.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Okay, I feel like I can take on the world. Okay, you do it. Okay. It's been looming. It's been staring at me. It's sometimes a little scary. And every time I go into this room, I see it.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Am I setting the scene? You are. I walk in, I turn the and I have to turn on I have to turn the light on when I go in this room. And every time I do, there it is.

SPEAKER_04 12:41

Okay, come on. It's the water bottles. The water bottles.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Yeah, I may have had a little too much fun making that water bottles video. I asked the ladies, what surprised you the most about this season?

SPEAKER_02 12:56

I entered into this project as Claudette's support person. And I was totally on board with this. It's just being here to support her ideas and her and her whole concept of the podcast. But I I liked contributing and I liked listening and I liked laughing, but I really loved the contributing and I love being included. So that that surprised me the most this season, just how much I love being part of the conversation. So I love what you said when we were speaking on Friday is the vi is that you have people who come into your life for a reason. A reason, a season, and a lifetime.

SPEAKER_03 13:31

Yeah. So for me, I've got so many people that helped me in my twenties and my thirties and my forties, but they're not there now, right? But I couldn't have lived without them at the time. They taught me something. They gave me something. So there are people that come in for a season which would be those years that we talked about, right? So from the hockey season, right? I I'm I mean I know a lot of them. I know the lot from their school, but I'm not in touch with them today. Right. They've gone their journey now and I've gone mine. And there's some that have come in for a reason. They come to t teach you something. So they've just come in for a moment that gave you a little bit of insight on who you were and what you should do, how you should act and how you shouldn't act, right? Or or or just to teach you something. So there's the reason, the season, and the lifetime are those such as my Janet. There's Claudette, just to prunce it across the street, her stiletto's a mini skirt, just and knocking on the door. And there's little Janet answering sweet and kind. Like she is like I call her five foot nothing, but I mean she I think she says she's five one, but she's not. And uh she says, hi, wait a smiley sweet. I said, Is my son in your house? Her face, what is like is anything? And she said, Yes. I said, Is he down in the basement? Yes. Could you have my son up here, please? She's just terrified, right? Matthew comes and greets me and loves me, and he's just like, This is Sarah, and this is David, and this is my best friend, and all of this sort of stuff. And I started to look at her and I realized, oh my god, I have terrified this woman being really. And I looked at her, I said, They're lovely people. Hi, I'm Claudette. How are you? Yeah, I reeled that sucker right back in, but I scared the life right out of it. 35. 35. Well, 30 32 years, right? 32 years. Because she's Samantha's godmother. That's right. So fast forward. And I have the best friend that God has ever granted any human on the face of the earth.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

And how about you, Claudia? What surprised you the most about this season?

SPEAKER_03 15:37

I'll be honest. I walked in when it was in my head, putting it all together, I was confident. I was going to be I was gonna be it. I was gonna be so great at this, and I was going to be so confident in everything I said, and I could feel it leaving me as I was doing it because I was changing my whole thought. I was enjoying how we were together. And the more questions you and I asked, and then the more you gave answers, the more I realized like this is what I love. I love the banter. So what I learned was how much I love talking with you. I love your perspective, your confidence, you inspire me, you're absolutely the yin to my yang. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

So I'll start the ring story. And I was I was young because we it was our first home Charles and I ever bought in the community that we live in now. And the home was it was a beautiful home. And our neighbors were so that I still miss my neighbors, but we're still in touch with them. And the people who bought the home um were lovely and they were kind of invested in us because they they loved that home dearly. And when they knew it was a young family at the time, um Avery, our oldest, was six months old when we bought the home. Okay. And I could tell she loved the home because she's like, Oh, if you're gonna make any renovation, she said, I'd love to see what you're doing. Um, we only live a few communities over. I'm still in touch with our neighbors. And often, if she was ever visiting the neighbor, she'd pop over and just be like, Oh, what have you done? And we had taken out some walls and changed the carpets to the hardwood and whatnot. After a year that we were in the home, they moved to Calgary, this, the family that owned the house. And it was that year Charles and I said, Why don't we redo the kitchen? So we're going to sand down the wood cabinetry, and we were going to spray them, paint them. So I was on top and we did the bathroom and we did the kitchen. And I was on top, uh, it was on a chair. I remember reaching into the back of one of the cabinets, and one of the cabinets, it was like sticky. It was almost like a bottle of like cough syrup had spilled. It was like kind of sticky, and I was scrubbing it, and my cloth got stuck on something. And when I reached in, it was a ring and it was wedged kind of like in the wood almost. It was stuck and I cleaned it up. It was all green and I washed it, and it was a beautiful ring. And um, it would have fit like on my middle finger. It was kind of a big ring. So I looked at it, I thought, oh, that's beautiful. It looked like it'd been there a very long time. I hadn't thought anything about it. I didn't know if it was costume jewelry or something that was worth something. I don't know. I honest God, I threw it in a drawer up in my bedroom and I forgot about it. Meanwhile, life goes on. We had another baby. I had gone back to work. It was, I think we'd been in the house three years, and I'm on a course downtown. And I wake up that morning and I'm getting ready to go into this course that's downtown Halifax. I get dressed, I open up the drawer, and for some reason I pick the ring up, slid it on my finger, and walked out the door to go to work. Drop the kids off at daycare and drive into the course. After the course is done, I had a little extra time. So I stopped at a store to pick up some things. And who do I run into? The lady who owned our home. And we're talking, she, I was just like, oh my goodness, like, how's Calgary? She's like, great, we come home for when the weather gets nice. I go back to Cape Brighton for a little bit. She said, we're gonna go over and visit our neighbors too. I said, This is amazing, how nice. And then I said goodmar goodbyes and I left. I went home. About an hour later, there's a knock on the door, and she said, You know that ring you had on your finger? She said, Where did you get it? And I said, And I when I got home from work, I took it off and I put it back in the drawer. So I I said, I found it in the cupboards when we were redoing the kitchen. She said, Oh my god, that was my grandmother's ring. And I said, Oh my God. No, actually, I was wearing it still. I ripped it off my finger and I just put it in her hand. I said, Well, that's her telling you it's back to its rightful owner. Like this new thing.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Come on, people.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

That's not just the craziest story. I mean, you told me that nice, like the hair on the back of my neck.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Every time I tell it, I still get like that ring was meant to, it had to go back to her.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Or I will make sure you do run into her. It was nuts. Like, what are the chances on that day in that drawer, you put it on your finger and meet her in the store, and then she says I had not worn that ring.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Nope. I hadn't, it hadn't been on my finger since the day we had found that ring.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

It's absolutely nuts, right? I mean, that is the craziest thing. Yeah. I love that story. Yes. Absolutely love it.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

There was definitely some crazy stories this season. I asked Sherry what what conversation stuck with her the longest?

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Uh, the conversation that stayed with me the longest was uh when we had episode nine on the we can't choose what grows in the cup when your cup is full conversation. Yes. And honestly, as we're talking, and this is like this conversation piece that you're talking about, is like as it goes, it's evolving. And I'm realizing it just came to me as like I feel so good as a caregiver. So when I think about looking after dad when he lived with me and Charles, and when I think about caring for my children or caring for mom when she was ill, is that when they're happy and fulfilled and safe and content and all those things, my cup is so full. And I just thought that that stayed with me after. When I left, I thought, what a wonderful way to go about thinking is like making other people feeling good makes me feel good. So why not just continue it? And it was, I don't say an epiphany, but I mean it was a bit of like, oh, but it was a good moment, wasn't it? And and really when you said it, I was like, oh here's the thing too, it's like so those cups, those moments where my cup was full, I realized my kids' cups were also full because it's like they they got what they needed too, right?

SPEAKER_03 21:38

And didn't have a frazzled mother or father, right? In front of them, yanking them from point A to point B, and didn't bring anything to entertain the poor little girl who has to sit through a hockey game who now has to sit there staring out because you brought no drinks and no books and no there wasn't tablets, so didn't have tablets and phones.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

I'm gonna go like full circle here for a second. Look, and this is a mom, strict strictly a caregiver concept is that my cup can be full when yours is.

unknown 22:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Sherry, can you talk just a little bit about Claudette's 1,000 words that she gave us that caught us all off guard, I think.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Oh, I l I heard you read what you wrote, and that to me was just such um, it was very, very good, Claudette. Like it was so good. And I know, I know how hesitant you were to number one, do it, share it. It took, you know, you put a lot of what you did in that, but I saw such a different side of you. And I just, I know you're talented. You have so many talents, you really do. This, the written word piece that you wrote was was very, very was so good. And I just that one um that changed. My perspective of you, I saw you in a different light.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

Write a story, one thousand words, and instantly I can feel my heart begin to race. My palms get wet, my breath gets shallow, and the familiar whisper starts in the back of my mind. I can't compare to a real writer. I panic. Do I even know one thousand words? How long has it been since I had to write a specific word? Or write about myself, or write about something that matters to me personally. How many words does it take to put that thought on paper? I'm certain I've misplaced at least a thousand words, obviously not all at once. No, they've slipped away like those socks that vanish in a dryer, or the thoughts that evaporate during those extremely long, extremely unnecessary meetings where someone says, Let's circle back, and then my mind circles right out the front door. I'm sitting here trying to gather the words I still have left. I try to remember how I ever learned so many words in the first place. School, jobs, conversation, the countries I visited, the people I've met, and each one added a handful of words to my pocket. But how many have I forgotten? How many have leaked out through the holes in those same pockets? Did someone else find those words and put them in a safe place for safe keeping? As babies, we teach our children every word we can think. And when we can't think enough, we read them the books filled with pictures, hoping the pictures will stick with the words. When they become young boys and girls, we tell them the words they're not allowed to say. Those they never forget. They tuck them away like treasures, using them in secret to test the edges of their freedom of speech without risking punishment. Then we get to my age, the age where words start to run away from the front of my mind faster than a puppy with a forbidden treat. I'll be mid-sentence reaching for a descriptor I know exists, one I've used a thousand times, and suddenly it's gone, vanished, like a packed suitcase and left without leaving a note. Or I'll try to describe a movie I just watched, and the words feel a million miles away, floating somewhere between my memory and my tongue, refusing to land. Now we go a little bit further in years, and I watch my father as he struggles to form the words. He needs to tell a story he desperately wants to share. I can see the memory in his eyes, the sparkle, the emotion, the urgency of the words, but they don't line up. They must be floating around his head, bumping into each other, refusing to cooperate. I want to help him the way I help my grandchildren when they're searching for words, but I too struggle to find the one he's reaching for. Where do these words go? Are they lost? Are they hiding? Are they waiting for us to slow down long enough to catch them? Well, sometimes I imagine a great library in the sky, just a whimsical one where all the forgotten words float around, teasing and chasing and hiding in corners. Words we loved, words we used daily, words we only ever used once but felt very proud of, words we mispronounced, words we meant to look up, words we swore we would always remember. There they all are, floating around, playing hide and seek. Maybe that's what this story should be about. It's not a formal thousand words I'm supposed to write, the ones that sit up straight and mind their Ps and Q's, but the thousands of words I misplaced, like my keys and my glasses that I swear I put on a table. These are the thousands I've loved, the thousands I've whispered, shouted, swallowed, shared, and the thousands that shaped me into a semi-coherent shape, and the thousands that slipped away because they found a better place to party down the street. I've discovered I quite like visiting the library of lost words in the clouds. It's fun and it's magical. And the best part is nobody shushes you. I go there to browse the forgotten section. Just yesterday, I found a perfectly good skidamodaddle hiding under a kerfuffle, and I'm pretty sure my favorite thingamajig is being used as a doorstrop by a bunch of adjectives. I went to the back where I found a crate of lost thoughts, which were glad to be found. Unfortunately, most of them were past their expiration date. I grabbed a light bulb moment, but it flickered twice, told me it wasn't ready to come back until I fed at least one more cup of coffee. I even found a train of thoughts that I lost just last week, hanging on to the movie title I was trying to remember. Oh well, that'll have to stay there too until I visit again another day. So here we are. Are my words lost? Maybe? Are they gone forever? I don't think so. Words have a way of peeking out from behind the dusty shadows. They can spring into thoughts like fast-running springs or arrive slow and yellow like the daffodils blooming in spring. Honestly, with all these springs brouncing around, it's a miracle I have not developed a literal whiplash. So now I think I'm ready to begin my thousand words story. I visited the library of lost words, I've checked out at least a few hundred, and I've now had that second cup of coffee. Oh, wait. Oh no. I've just looked at my word count. I've spent my entire budget on an introduction. I have no words left. I've lost all my words. I'm bankrupt. Do you think I can go over? Would that be allowed? Or maybe now I just have to tell my story. Allowed.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

Well, what do you think? What's with us now? Artist, artists? Clutch! Do you like it?

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Uh yeah. I am. I have no words because that they're lost in the magical is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

That's really isn't that good? Well done.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

Yeah. I I remember editing that and thinking, whoa, where did that come from? Uh yeah, it was amazing. And what's the moment that has stuck with you this season?

SPEAKER_03 29:06

So mine was episode seven, and that was the in-between. So saying all that out loud really caught me. And I I mean it was very obvious because I got very choked up kind of quickly when I was talking about it. So I hadn't had that honest conversation. And here we are, on a in I'm gonna use live conversation being recorded, and I spilled it all out. And I realized, yeah. Yeah, it was like a raw emotion in the moment. It was. It was very true. So episode the in-between, number seven, has I believe will always stay with me. It's gonna be my it's my baby. Episode seven's my baby. Definitely. Yeah. I've created a space in my my office here that's all mine, that holds everything to me. And I'm so thrilled with it, and it brings me unbelievable joy. So and at the same moment, I want to feel the same joy when my children are here, and I'd love to have them here.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

I agree. And I think I just want to touch a little bit about this in-between moment. It's also opening up space for you, Claudette, to find parts of yourself you want to expand on. Okay. So I think this in-between, as hard and as difficult as some moments are, because and you're torn and you're struggling, obviously, because you you love what you've what you're building and what you have built, but you're also a little mm sad because you're missing those parts that are fulfilling to you, right? Your family and your grandbabies. Yeah. But I think finding it's also listening to those quiet little moments. I know last week we talked a little about being in tune to those cues and whatever, but I think sitting quietly and listening to your own internal voice and your cues about what's next for me.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

Yeah. Oh, finding out who you are. Like really, I mean, there was uh what was it a couple of weeks ago? I said, I just I'm not quite sure like who I am. Like what's what's the what's the thing that I am? And I'm finding it, you know, pretty quickly over the last few weeks. I mean, I'm finding great joy in a lot of things that I'm doing. And I I found them on my own. Like I I didn't uh I didn't need someone to direct me, or I didn't piggyback off of somebody to find something. I found them because I liked them and they're giving me immense joy. And I'm finding out how to own who I am as a person without absorbing somebody else's up or down, or somebody else's opinion, or somebody else's thought of what I should do. And I'm I'm only just finding all of those things. Those are that's all very new for me. That's not, I would always want to be something for somebody. And now I'm being something for me. And that's that in between. And it's just like I'm 62 this year, right? And I'm just finding out who that is.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

I asked ladies to talk a little bit about the listener responses that we received this season.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

Okay. So what uh listener response meant the most? And Dan asked us, but I'm gonna say I all of them, all of them, and I think you and I agreed when we were going through this is that all of the um letters, the texts, the people stopping us to say, I have I heard your podcast this week and I laugh so hard, or I can't wait till the new episode comes out, or hey, you guys are great and we're getting stopped. And people telling us that in the community is pretty awesome. And for me, um, I think every every listener response and those heartfelt letters and people sharing their personal stories about relating to episode seven, right? So that was a big thing that really resonated with a lot of folks.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

And we got a lot of feedback on episode seven. We really did, and I was really excited about that. And so I'm I'm with you there. There's I I I couldn't pick just one. Um, there's so many. I I want to say thank you to so many, right? If it's a great big hug, I can send out to you know all 108 walkers. Walkers.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

So this one really touches my heart. Um hi there. I'm an avid listener to your podcast, and I love your energy and your banter. Your most recent episode, The In-Between, offered a new perspective. I'm not a mom, but I have a mom. Your stories, personal experiences, and raw emotions reminded me of a quote I heard once. Be gentle with your mom. It is her first time living too. Growing up, even as an adult, I feel people perceive their mom, if they're fortunate enough to have one, active and present in their life, as this all-serving, all-knowing entity that keeps you alive. We rely on our moms for so much, it's easy to forget that they are their own person with goals and aspirations and a whole personality and life outside of your own. Thank you for the reminder. I'm gonna call my mom right now.

unknown 34:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Come on, isn't that beautiful? Yeah, that it really is. So here's one thing that becomes very um obvious, like as you're talking about your your health and your journey and yoga and all of that, is um when we talk about this one step better, too, because we started this one step better. I call it a challenge. It's not really a challenge, it's really more of things that we do or things that we want to take on to become better. Well, if I could go back from my younger self, it'd be like, keep going, even on the hard days. You don't think you're doing it, just keep trying, keep going. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

But when you look at big walks and hikes, you can get pebbles in your shoe, right? And if you don't take the pebble out, right, it just becomes an irritant and it's you know, it's it it just festers and it it makes the walk hard and the journeys hard and the hike is impossible and all of that. So if you don't stop and address the pebble in the shoe, all right, you're always going to have a hard time on your hike. And in life, if you don't stop and address the things that are causing you pain, issues, a hiccup, a pebble in your shoe, your journey is just gonna get harder and hard. The hike will be hard instead of it. So instead of trying to get to the destination, why don't you take the pebble out and enjoy the journey? Find the space to dedicate to yourself, to give yourself the freedom to be what you want to be. It's it's hard because we all have the it costs too much money, uh, I'm so stressed at work, I mean, I got to do 12 hours. But if I if I had one wish for every person in the world is don't make you priority. I could I could just wish that upon anyway, make yourself priority, even if it's for 30 minutes a day, maybe even 30 minutes a week.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

There is advice we gave um A rare oldest. And actually, we've given this piece of advice to all of our children. So all four of our children have heard us say this because we we push them to do difficult things. If if they have an idea of something they want to do or become, we've said if things were easy, everyone would do them. And also, you can do hard things. You can do hard things. And when you've done that thing that's really hard, you you had a sense of pride within yourself. It's like I I did it, and it was hard. It was very hard.

SPEAKER_03 36:38

I love this. Alumma podcasts. I love talking to you and laughing and giggling. Um all of it. I mean, it's like, what did I learn about myself? I learn I love to talk, but I love to be quiet when you're talking because I love to listen to your stories.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

I love listening to yours. So here's the thing we'd be doing this anyway. We may as well turn on the mics, folks. Let's be honest. And have a good laugh.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

Well, there you have it. Season one is complete. And that was our season one finale and highlights episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did editing it. And before I headed back behind the scenes, I just wanted to say thanks to all you guys for listening. Thanks for sending in your comments and messages, and thanks to Claudette and Sherry for having the confidence in me to edit their podcast. Now, I can't wait for season two. Back behind the scenes I go, but just a quick word from our hosts.

SPEAKER_03 37:43

So, with all of that being said, Sher, uh season one was the joy of my life. And season two will be the next level up. That's the joy of my life. And season three, four, and five, and all of those joyful moments that are about to come.

SPEAKER_02 37:57

And the good news is, folks, we are we're planning some really wonderful things for season two. We can't wait to just continue doing this and hopefully, hopefully get one step better and and uh you know get get better as we go.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

Yep, and every second is worth the walk.