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You are seen not by the world standards, but by
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something deeper, something true. Each week we talk to people
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who've learned to see themselves and discovered something extraordinary, stories
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of transformation, of people who found the light. I'm Scott
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Allen and this is seen.
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My guest tonight is mary Anne Wood. Mary Anne spent
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fifteen years as a professional dog trainer, which means she's
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probably more patient than I'll ever be. These days, she's
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writing children's books inspired by her two basset hounds, Randall
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and Hunter. Mary Anne, I'm so glad you're here.
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It's the light to be here. Thank you.
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How did you go from dog trainer to writing children's books?
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That's a good question. The story of Randall on a
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Hunter is more than just they were my dogs. They
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they were like a huge gift. They came from my
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sister who lived in California. I live in Vermont, so
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she was very ill was going to be transitioning soon,
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and she called and asked me if I would take
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Randall and Hunter. And of course, you know, I had
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a little bit of trepidation because I had another dog
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of my own who wasn't necessarily very dog friendly, and
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I thought I can't say no. This is like, this
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is a yes. So I said yes, And they were
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just one of the hugest gifts I've ever been given
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in my life. So from there, you know, I just
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they were like a connection to her. And you I
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know you mentioned Scott earlier that you had a basset hound,
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so you know that there they kind of just bring
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a smile to your face. Yeah, you know, the short legs, long,
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you know, the long ears, and they're just like and
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when I would walk them, I was felt like I
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was walking the Goodwill ambassadors. They were just like, go
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down the street and they would be so and people
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would smile. And so I was getting into my dog
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training and I did that for fifteen years. But one
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day on a wall with them. They've since transitioned themselves
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quite a few years ago, but I just got this
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idea that I needed to write a children's book about
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these dogs because they had taught me to be adaptable.
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Because they I observed how adaptable they were. You know,
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they came flew across country in little crates and adjusted
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to a new home, a new family, the change of
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seasons that they had never seen snow before, all these things,
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and it was like, wow, Wow, this could really help
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children learn to navigate change, because change can be scary
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for all of us, not just children, but for all
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of us. So I didn't do it right away. I
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didn't write the book for actually years later. And then,
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you know, your life gets busy and you have things happening.
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And but within the last three years, I've really dived
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into more of a spiritual connection in my life. And
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I was just quietly sitting one day and I heard
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Randall say, it's time to write these books. It's time
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to write these books, mom, And then I knew I
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had to do it.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think it's great. I think it's great.
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And it's funny you mentioned that because you are a
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sensitive We talked about that a little bit before we
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opped on the show. How has so clearly that has
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sort of fed into some of the work that you're
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doing now as well.
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Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, I've dived into it. And I feel,
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you know, you know, because you're the same that once
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you have that knowing that they're always around you, you
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just have this sense of peace that you don't have
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that I'd never had before. And so I both I
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thought it was going to be one book. It turned
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into a series of three. The books just carry on
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the theme of adaptability and resistance, resilience, excuse me, resilience
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and going with the flow, because really that's what we
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have to do. Life's always throwing things at us. And
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so in the second book, the challenge is the challenge
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got a little bigger and in terms of being resilient
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and adaptable because Hunter loses his vision in the second book,
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which actually did happen. He became blind. And again that
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was like, it was amazing to watch. Friends would come
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over in my house and they go, well, we can't
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believe he's blind. He's like walking around, He's like nothing,
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you know, And so I said, well that that has
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to go in the book. So it just kind of
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evolved into three books. And yeah, I'm really I'm really
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proud of them because I feel like they are making
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a good connection. I've been going to schools reading them
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to the kids. That's great, and I feel like and
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I think it opened up a larger connection to the
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greater reality. And now I'm getting like messages all the
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time from higher dimensional beings. So much so that I
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wrote another book which just came out called We Need
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a voice, connecting across realms, messages from the spirit world,
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and it's all of these messages that I've gotten from
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my parents, my husband, my dogs, hired you know, like
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masters like Jesus and Mother Mary. So it's I'm just
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following where this leads me. I have no idea when
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I'm just going with it.
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So we know, I mean, I think children, I mean everybody,
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most people. I shouldn't say all people, but most people
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are pet people. They're dog people, or they're cat people
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and animals resonates with people, you know, and stories about that.
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The new book that you have out, now, what do
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you what would you say is I mean, obviously you
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channeled that new channeled messages, but what is your purpose
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with that book? What is the point of that book?
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Is it just well I feel like they I was
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kind of directed to get it out. What I was
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told is it's a It's a book for people that
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are dipping their toe into spirituality and want to know more,
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want to understand that they too can connect with loved ones,
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they too can connect with their angels and their guides whatever,
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because you know, it's just it's time that we all
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start realizing that we can do this and so it's
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it's very it's gentle. It's not like nothing is alarming
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when you read it. It's all very love, love, kindness.
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This is how we how we need to be living,
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you know, and let's get on let's get on that
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track and less ego focused in our lives.
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Yeah, you know your books tend to focus on going
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with the flow. Can you share kind of a moment
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when that made a difference in somebody's whether it's a
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child going through something.
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Or well, yeah, I can tell you. Recently, I was
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at a town near me, had a sidewalk sales, and
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the woman that owns the bookstore invited me to come
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and sell, you know, sign books, sell books, and so
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it was a really hot day and you know, anyway,
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there wasn't a lot happening. I sold a few books.
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But anyway, this little boy comes up to me with
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his parents and he says, do you remember me? And
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of course I really didn't, but yeah, yeah, yeah, he goes,
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you came to our school and read the Randall and
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Hunter book. And I said, yeah, that's right. He goes
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and his dad said, and we want to buy your
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second book, and I said great, and the little boy
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looks at his dad and says, but dad, you didn't
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buy me the first book. And he said. The father goes, well,
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you had it read to you at school, and he goes,
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but I want both books, Dad, you need to buy both.
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So his father bought both books. But I thought, that is, like,
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what better testimonial can you have than fantastic a little
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child coming up and remembering you, remembering the book, liking
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the book. It was just that that just brought such
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joy to my heart, Like it was like, wow, what
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would you say? And then if you go back to
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the very beginning, you talk about going with the flow.
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As I said, I was petrified in one sense to
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take these two dogs, because, like I said, I had
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another dog. I was working. I was like, I don't
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know what I'm going to do. And this woman who
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I had never seen before came into a store I
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had at the time of business that I had never
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seen her before, never saw her again. And I live
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in a small town, so usually see people like they're
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you know what I mean, they were repeat customers, but
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never saw this woman. She comes in and she starts
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telling me that I'm a good person and I need
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to use my voice so we need a voice. Isn't
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that ironic that I need to use my voice? And
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she says, everything with those dogs is going to turn
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out fine, and I thought, WHOA, how she can't know
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I was thinking about adopting these dogs. So again that
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just made like her coming in just gave me the
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knowing that I could go with the flow with this
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and trust and trust, you know.
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And that's a good message for people too, is that,
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you know, we all get signs like that, we just
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don't always recognize that they're science. You have to be
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open to it and understand that that's not just some
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woman walking into a store. That's that's my sign, that's
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my message.
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You know.
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I think it's great. Would you say, you know, for you,
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is it more rewarded rewarding working with dogs or writing
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about dogs? You know and writing for.
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That's a great question. They both have their rewards. I
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mean I enjoyed being a dog trainer to tremendously when
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you make that connection between the when you like show
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the owner, because really you're training the owner that Okay,
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look this is what your dog can do. This is
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how you can interact with your dog. It changes everything
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and it sometimes makes the difference between whether a dog
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stays in the home or it gets rehomed, right, And
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I mean dogs are they Every time I went to
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someone's house, usually the dogs, you know, had an issue,
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or they just wanted some good basic obedience, whatever the
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case may be. When I left there, that dog proved
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to me that it could do everything I asked it
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to do, you know what I mean. But and so
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it's very rewarding. But on the other hand, writing a
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children's book or any book is you know, and I
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feel it's the same with dog trains. When you're in
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the flow, you're inspired, right, You're getting inspiration constantly, and
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so I feel like those books just kind of wrote
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themselves in many ways.
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Yeah, I get, you know.
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I was just inspiration was just coming through. And I
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remember dog training. I would go to someone's house and
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generally the first session was supposed to last about two hours.
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Because after two hours, everybody saturated, the dog saturated, the
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I would the two hours got seemed like ten minutes
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to me because I was in the flow. I was
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just I loved what I did.
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That's great. Do you still do that or do you
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do you no longer?
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Do no? I pretty much retired out of that last June,
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and there's things about it I miss, but I feel
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like it was time. Yeah, it was time. I wanted
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to put my focus more on other things.
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Are there any more stories for randallin Hunter? Or have
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you finished this?
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I think the third book, which will be coming out
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the end of September, I think wraps it up pretty
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so I'm not thinking there will be any more of those.
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I might do some other might I might do one
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now about my current dog. I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah,
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but dogs, you're You're absolutely right. Dogs resonate with children tremendously.
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What age group would you say? Your your books are your.
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Generally kindergarten to second grade?
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Okay, so young.
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Five to eight, five to eight, And I think.
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That for that kind of thing, really at that age,
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how can use the books to open conversations with their
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kids about handling some of the life challenges we face.
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Well, yeah, there's specially well both books that are out
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so far, but I mean it's a good they segue
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nicely into change and dealing with change. Because Hunter plays
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and he was sort of like this in real life.
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He was more of the scaredy cat dog Okay. You know,
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the he had concern you know, trepidations about things, whereas
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Randall was more of a confident So he plays the
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role of like the confident brother who keeps saying, we
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go with the flow, like the river to the ocean.
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There's nothing to worry about here. And so for one thing,
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you know, let's say you have two or three kids
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in a house. Probably there's a dynamic like that with
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those children. So one sibling can help the other rights
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let's you know, we don't need to be afraid. Everything's
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fine here. But I mean it talks about changing moving
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that can be a scary thing. It talks about seeing
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and observing the change of seasons that they never saw before.
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It talks about moving from California to Vermont. You know,
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that even opens up geography for the kids. Sure, so
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there's a lot of things that parents can bring in.
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look they moved, they have a new mom. But look
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they're outside, they're observing things, they're they're loving what they see.
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how was their transition. Obviously, that's a huge move California
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to Vermont.
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they did pretty well. They came to me in October,
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and I think we had our first snowfall, like sometime
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in November, and I remember going to the door, opening
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the door to let them out. They looked they were
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ready to run out the door. They came to a
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dead stop boom, and they just looked like, what isn't that. Yeah,
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they went out, and once they went out and they
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realized it, then they loved it. So yeah, yeah, it was.
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It was like so much of what's in book one
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and and parts of book two are really true. They
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really did happen.
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through this creative process whatever it was that you do
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when you when you write a book. Did you learn
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anything about Randal and Hunter that you hadn't even considered
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a thought about when you were going through this processes, Well, that's.
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think I was just reminded. I don't know if I
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learned it. I think I was just reminded of again
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how resilient they were. You know, it came back to
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me and writing the book, and how many things, little
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things I could pick up and put in there, like
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the move and the you know, like and actually it's true.
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Hunter would go in my garden, my vegetable garden, and
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he would root, dig up the carrots, eat the carrots,
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eat the tomatoes. One time he ate a huge, big cabbage,
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never got sick. So that all those memories just came
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flooding back as I was writing about him rooting in
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the garden and Randall's standing off on the sidelines because
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he knew better than to do that. He wasn't going
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to do that.
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Oh my gosh. So you know, it's funny because you
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may or may not know.
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I don't know.
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I was a funeral director for like almost I read
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that about you, and I remember I used to use something.
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It was a it was a brochure. It wasn't a
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full on book, but it was a brochure that was
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written by mister Rogers from mister Rogers neighborhood. And it
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was all about explaining grief to children. And it was
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invaluable because it wasn't for the children, it was for
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the parents, but it was how you can approach it
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with that sort of mindset to not make it scary
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because it is a fact of life. Have you ever
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thought of doing anything like that with Randolin Hunter since
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they have now transitioned?
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Well, you know that is it's like, wow, you must
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be reading.
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I had when I when I thought about the three books,
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and I did they're self published, but I went through
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this company called self publishing, and they they give you
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all the tools and tips and they help you and
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they coach you on everything.
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And when I was talking to one of my coaches,
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they said, well, I think the third book should include,
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like you should have one of the dogs transition. And
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I actually did contemplate that, but I don't know. A
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part of me was like, ugh, I don't know. I
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don't know if I want to do that. So I didn't.
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I want a different route on the third book. But
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you're right, I think there is a need for that.
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Well, And I was just I don't know, because I,
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you know, I get downloads like you do as we're
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going along here, and I'm almost wondering if it wouldn't
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be helpful because I think adults need this so much.
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If it isn't a book for the adult. You've read
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your children about You've read your childre about randalin Hunter.
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Now let's talk about how you can explain lost to
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your children sort of like the mister Rogers book, but
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about randalin Hunter and how you know they can explain
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the loss of a pet, the loss of it, you
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know whatever. I don't know. I'm not telling you what
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to write.
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I don't know why, no, no, but you know it is.
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It is fascinating that you bring that up, because it
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was something I contemplated. And then other people, you know
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how you always you're asking like what do you think?
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And there was a lot of people saying no, no, no, no, no,
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that's we don't want you know, for kids, that's too sad,
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it's too this. So I didn't go that route. But
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you know, maybe you're putting something in. Maybe something will
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bubble up from this, because you know, they are both gone.
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And when I go to the schools, kids aren't you know,
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kids aren't not dumb? They say, they ask a Randa
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and Hunters still alive? No. Well, then I say to them,
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how many of you have had a pet that has died?
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as long as us obviously, and most children do experience
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that in their life, the loss of a pet. It
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is one of the first lessons we learn on loss.
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Well, I think, what's interesting and I would have had
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this conversation with people in general, you know, in terms
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of you know what I did. But I think that
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when people adults I'm talking about, we don't like death,
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None of us do. I mean, it's not a pleasant thing.
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We don't And even as people who are sensitive mediums,
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whatever you want to call it, we still grieve. It's
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not like they're sitting next to us at the table
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still telling us what they did over the weekend. It
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doesn't work that way. It's different. It's a your relationship.
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up and is going to school, you want to talk
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to them about the dangers of drugs. You want to
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talk to them about the dangers of alcohol. You want
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to talk to them about things that they need to
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know to be good, decent, productive parents. And we're our
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children of people, and we're okay with that and we're
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ready for that. But the problem is is that a
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lot of parents can't handle it themselves because it's generational
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system of sticking our head in the sand, which is
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why we don't talk about it because we don't like
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it and it makes is uncomfortable. And I remember, now
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there's almost twelve years between my brother and I, and
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I remember when my dad's mother died. He was quite young.
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We went to the funeral, we came back home and
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he just says, you know, I learned something today. And
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I bet you he was five, and he said, what'd
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you learn? I thought she was going to look like
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a skeleton. I think she was going to look like
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a person. And sometimes the imagination is worse than the
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reality of it. And I think if we can equip
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people parents to help their children, it's not going to
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take away the pain. It is uncomfortable. But you know,
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no one wants to have the birds and the bees
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talk either. I mean, that's you know, yeah.
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Right, yeah, there are some things where just conditioned not
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to want to do.
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You're right, I don't want to talk about it, and
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I think this is one of those. And so you know,
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I was always this is why I loved that whole
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mister Rogers things so much. And I've thought of doing
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something like that myself. Sort of Transsisoh not transition. What
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do you call it? When you I'm having a channels
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channels don't when I'm coming channeled, you know. I feel
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like that's something that could be helpful for people. So
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there it is. I've gotta step off my soapbox and
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let you.
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I think it's a great idea. I just like I said,
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I didn't go I get it. Yeah, and I but
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it's interesting you bring it up because I did contemplate it.
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But and maybe it's still something that could be out there.
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It's never too.
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Late, never too late, it isn't you know. The lessons
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are always there. What's the big what would you say,
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you know, if the biggest lesson your dogs have taught
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you over the course of their life.
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Unconditional love. Unconditional love. I mean, that's why they're here.
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That's why they're here.
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That's it. That's it, I mean, in.
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we need to learn that from them. There are there
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as in that way.
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For sure, for sure. And I think anybody that's had
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the privilege to enjoy the love of a pet, not
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just a love for a pet, but the love back,
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it's really truly gifted. I think that's just, you know,
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an amazing thing, and I think it's wonderful how you've
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taken that love and that experience and shared it with others.
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I want to give you an opportunity to just talk
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about whatever you want to talk about. I know you
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have the new book and we've talked about that a
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little bit, but I want to give you, you know, an
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opportunity to talk about anything that we haven't necessarily had
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a chance to you had a chance to discuss.
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Well. The one thing I would like to say to
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any of your listeners that are retirement age or you know,
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getting their Social Security checks, whatever the case may be,
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get out there that it's just a new chapter of
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your life. Get out there and grab the gusto and
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do something awesome because you can. You can and do
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it with zest do it. I mean, like I didn't
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think I would do anything necessarily, but I feel more
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energized now than I did when I was thirty in
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some ways. Yeah, you know, I mean, and I feel
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like that is the new world that we're entering now,
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is that you know this this idea of oh I
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work forty years, I get my retirement. I go home
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and sit on the couch. It's it's not the way
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the world is. I think it's changing, and I feel
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like it's a good thing. And I say, you know,
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if your heart is calling you to do something, do it.
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Don't be afraid take that leap, go with the flow.
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And you, as my great nephew said, who lives in
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New Zealand. I sent them copies of the books. So
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my niece calls me and says, oh, yeah, Quinn was
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playing some sport the other day and he pulled a
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muscle on his leg and he said, mom my leg hurts,
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but don't worry. I'm just gonna go with the flow.
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I'm gonna go with the floor.
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That's so funny.
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Little ah Yeah, he's eight.
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Yeah, fantastic, that's right.
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So I thought, well, how great is that?
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I think it is great.
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So I feel like everybody has something to give, and
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don't lay the number of your birthday deter you from that.
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And you did all this.
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I feel that's a big message for people.
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Be done. I mean, you did all this later in life.
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You had never written before, you know, years ago.
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No, but I have. It's been again. It's been something
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that I've been called to do, but I've been pushing it,
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pushing it, pushing it aside, you know what I mean.
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I can't push it aside anymore, Like it's time to
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so whatever, you whatever stirring, you know, because I feel
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like if our soul is calling us to do something
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and we keep pushing it away, we're not living in
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our truth, we're not living our purpose. And so don't
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be afraid. There is fear around starting anything new, of
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course there is, but you.
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Know, just put that so seriously, you know what I mean,
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Go into it because you feel like it's a calling.
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And you may decide this isn't the one I want
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to publish, but you're it's all an experience.
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Right exactly, and it's and it's for your higher good
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and you're learning and you're, yeah, so that that's one thing.
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And then I would just you know, I would tell
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parents buy the books because I feel like you're going
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to have a lot of you're gonna have a lot
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of fun reading them to them. I feel like, you know,
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the piece about Hunter losing is eyesight. There's a lot
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of lessons in there about you know, never giving up,
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keep trying, you know, just you know, whatever comes your
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way is something that you know you can just go with,
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you can learn to go with it. And so yeah,
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I think there. I feel like they're out there for
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a reason. And I just I strongly belie believe that
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whoever is meant to read any of my books will
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get they'll get into the hands of the people that
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are they're meant for. Absolutely, I mean, how else should
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you feel about it? Right?
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That's it? And they can get books the books anywhere
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or I'm well there.
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It's on Amazon. Yep, it's on uh good Reads. They
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can if they go to my website Mariannwood dot com.
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You know, there's a link to Amazon. They can order
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them there. And the other book, We Need a Voice
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is also on Balboa Balboa Press, and it's obviously on Amazon.
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And did you publish to Balboa?
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Yeah, that book? I did?
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Yes, I did mine so too, yeahs on there as well.
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What is the name of the book with you know,
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with the one you did with Randall and Hunter or
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the book there?
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It's random. The series is called Randall and Hunter Go
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with the Flow perfect, okay, And then each has a subtitle.
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So the first one is Randall and Hunter Go with
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the Flow, two Tails on the Move, because they move,
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you know, they make the big move. And then the
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second book is Randolin Hunter Go with the Flow, Hunter's
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New View because he's got a new view. And then
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the third one, which is coming out on the twenty
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sixth of her is Randall and Hunter Go with the
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Flow Confidence Unleashed at the Shelter because they well, I
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don't want to give too much a way about it,
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but that's it's really cool what they do with the shelter.
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That's pretty great.
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Yeah. So so yeah, so if you just google Randol
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on the Hunter Go with the Flow, they'll they'll.
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Come up beautiful.
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So yeah, so it's it's been it's been exciting. You know.
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I'm now I'm now working to like get them out.
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You know, when you as you know, when you write
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a book, you don't unless you don't really care how
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much of it you sell, how many you really you
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got to really promote it.
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Yeah, you know that's the part. That's the part that's challenging,
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is to get.
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It is now. I don't really care for it, to
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be honest with you, Scott, it's not, but I'm learning
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I have to do it. Like I would rather just
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write the books and have them magically get out there,
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but that doesn't happen.
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So at all. It doesn't at all. No, but I'm
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hoping that helps, because I think you're doing a great thing.
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I think this is going to be uh you know,
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if it isn't already for people who haven't read it.
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I really think it's a valuable tool when you have children. Absolutely,
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arian thank you so much for joining us, And of
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course to Randal and Hunter who are probably running the
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show behind you know, the veil up there somewhere I
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don't know, put put the messages in your head so
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that you, you know, write this text, write this text.
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And if you want to look at any more of
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Marianne stories, or you just need an excuse to look
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at adorable dogs on the internet, head over to Maryanne
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Wood dot com and again it's Maryanne m A R
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Y A N N E would dot com. You'll find
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You are seen not by the world standards, but by
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something deeper, something true. Each week we talk to people
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who've learned to see themselves and discovered something extraordinary, stories
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of transformation, of people who found the light. I'm Scott
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Allen and this is seen.
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My guest tonight is mary Anne Wood. Mary Anne spent
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fifteen years as a professional dog trainer, which means she's
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probably more patient than I'll ever be. These days, she's
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writing children's books inspired by her two basset hounds, Randall
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and Hunter. Mary Anne, I'm so glad you're here.
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It's the light to be here. Thank you.
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How did you go from dog trainer to writing children's books?
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That's a good question. The story of Randall on a
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Hunter is more than just they were my dogs. They
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they were like a huge gift. They came from my
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sister who lived in California. I live in Vermont, so
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she was very ill was going to be transitioning soon,
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and she called and asked me if I would take
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Randall and Hunter. And of course, you know, I had
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a little bit of trepidation because I had another dog
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of my own who wasn't necessarily very dog friendly, and
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I thought I can't say no. This is like, this
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is a yes. So I said yes, And they were
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just one of the hugest gifts I've ever been given
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in my life. So from there, you know, I just
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they were like a connection to her. And you I
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know you mentioned Scott earlier that you had a basset hound,
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so you know that there they kind of just bring
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a smile to your face. Yeah, you know, the short legs, long,
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you know, the long ears, and they're just like and
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was walking the Goodwill ambassadors. They were just like, go
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down the street and they would be so and people
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would smile. And so I was getting into my dog
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training and I did that for fifteen years. But one
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day on a wall with them. They've since transitioned themselves
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quite a few years ago, but I just got this
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idea that I needed to write a children's book about
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these dogs because they had taught me to be adaptable.
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Because they I observed how adaptable they were. You know,
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they came flew across country in little crates and adjusted
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to a new home, a new family, the change of
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seasons that they had never seen snow before, all these things,
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and it was like, wow, Wow, this could really help
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children learn to navigate change, because change can be scary
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for all of us, not just children, but for all
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of us. So I didn't do it right away. I
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didn't write the book for actually years later. And then,
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you know, your life gets busy and you have things happening.
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into more of a spiritual connection in my life. And
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I was just quietly sitting one day and I heard
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Randall say, it's time to write these books. It's time
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to write these books, mom, And then I knew I
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had to do it.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think it's great. I think it's great.
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sensitive We talked about that a little bit before we
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opped on the show. How has so clearly that has
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sort of fed into some of the work that you're
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you know, you know, because you're the same that once
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you have that knowing that they're always around you, you
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just have this sense of peace that you don't have
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that I'd never had before. And so I both I
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thought it was going to be one book. It turned
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into a series of three. The books just carry on
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the theme of adaptability and resistance, resilience, excuse me, resilience
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and going with the flow, because really that's what we
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have to do. Life's always throwing things at us. And
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so in the second book, the challenge is the challenge
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got a little bigger and in terms of being resilient
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and adaptable because Hunter loses his vision in the second book,
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which actually did happen. He became blind. And again that
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was like, it was amazing to watch. Friends would come
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over in my house and they go, well, we can't
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believe he's blind. He's like walking around, He's like nothing,
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you know, And so I said, well that that has
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evolved into three books. And yeah, I'm really I'm really
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proud of them because I feel like they are making
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a good connection. I've been going to schools reading them
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to the kids. That's great, and I feel like and
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I think it opened up a larger connection to the
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greater reality. And now I'm getting like messages all the
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time from higher dimensional beings. So much so that I
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wrote another book which just came out called We Need
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a voice, connecting across realms, messages from the spirit world,
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and it's all of these messages that I've gotten from
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my parents, my husband, my dogs, hired you know, like
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masters like Jesus and Mother Mary. So it's I'm just
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following where this leads me. I have no idea when
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I'm just going with it.
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So we know, I mean, I think children, I mean everybody,
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most people. I shouldn't say all people, but most people
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are pet people. They're dog people, or they're cat people
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and animals resonates with people, you know, and stories about that.
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The new book that you have out, now, what do
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you what would you say is I mean, obviously you
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channeled that new channeled messages, but what is your purpose
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with that book? What is the point of that book?
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Is it just well I feel like they I was
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kind of directed to get it out. What I was
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told is it's a It's a book for people that
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are dipping their toe into spirituality and want to know more,
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want to understand that they too can connect with loved ones,
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they too can connect with their angels and their guides whatever,
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because you know, it's just it's time that we all
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start realizing that we can do this and so it's
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it's very it's gentle. It's not like nothing is alarming
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when you read it. It's all very love, love, kindness.
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This is how we how we need to be living,
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you know, and let's get on let's get on that
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track and less ego focused in our lives.
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Yeah, you know your books tend to focus on going
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with the flow. Can you share kind of a moment
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when that made a difference in somebody's whether it's a
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child going through something.
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Or well, yeah, I can tell you. Recently, I was
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at a town near me, had a sidewalk sales, and
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the woman that owns the bookstore invited me to come
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and sell, you know, sign books, sell books, and so
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it was a really hot day and you know, anyway,
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there wasn't a lot happening. I sold a few books.
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But anyway, this little boy comes up to me with
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his parents and he says, do you remember me? And
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of course I really didn't, but yeah, yeah, yeah, he goes,
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you came to our school and read the Randall and
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Hunter book. And I said, yeah, that's right. He goes
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and his dad said, and we want to buy your
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second book, and I said great, and the little boy
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looks at his dad and says, but dad, you didn't
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buy me the first book. And he said. The father goes, well,
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you had it read to you at school, and he goes,
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but I want both books, Dad, you need to buy both.
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So his father bought both books. But I thought, that is, like,
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what better testimonial can you have than fantastic a little
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child coming up and remembering you, remembering the book, liking
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the book. It was just that that just brought such
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joy to my heart, Like it was like, wow, what
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would you say? And then if you go back to
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the very beginning, you talk about going with the flow.
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As I said, I was petrified in one sense to
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take these two dogs, because, like I said, I had
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another dog. I was working. I was like, I don't
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know what I'm going to do. And this woman who
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I had never seen before came into a store I
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had at the time of business that I had never
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seen her before, never saw her again. And I live
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in a small town, so usually see people like they're
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you know what I mean, they were repeat customers, but
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never saw this woman. She comes in and she starts
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telling me that I'm a good person and I need
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to use my voice so we need a voice. Isn't
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that ironic that I need to use my voice? And
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she says, everything with those dogs is going to turn
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out fine, and I thought, WHOA, how she can't know
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I was thinking about adopting these dogs. So again that
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just made like her coming in just gave me the
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knowing that I could go with the flow with this
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and trust and trust, you know.
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don't always recognize that they're science. You have to be
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open to it and understand that that's not just some
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woman walking into a store. That's that's my sign, that's
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my message.
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I think it's great. Would you say, you know, for you,
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is it more rewarded rewarding working with dogs or writing
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about dogs? You know and writing for.
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That's a great question. They both have their rewards. I
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mean I enjoyed being a dog trainer to tremendously when
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you make that connection between the when you like show
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the owner, because really you're training the owner that Okay,
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look this is what your dog can do. This is
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how you can interact with your dog. It changes everything
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case may be. When I left there, that dog proved
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to do, you know what I mean. But and so
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it's very rewarding. But on the other hand, writing a
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children's book or any book is you know, and I
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feel it's the same with dog trains. When you're in
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the flow, you're inspired, right, You're getting inspiration constantly, and
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so I feel like those books just kind of wrote
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themselves in many ways.
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I was just inspiration was just coming through. And I
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generally the first session was supposed to last about two hours.
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to me because I was in the flow. I was
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just I loved what I did.
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That's great. Do you still do that or do you
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Do no? I pretty much retired out of that last June,
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and there's things about it I miss, but I feel
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like it was time. Yeah, it was time. I wanted
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to put my focus more on other things.
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Are there any more stories for randallin Hunter? Or have
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you finished this?
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the end of September, I think wraps it up pretty
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I might do some other might I might do one
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now about my current dog. I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah,
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but dogs, you're You're absolutely right. Dogs resonate with children tremendously.
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What age group would you say? Your your books are your.
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Generally kindergarten to second grade?
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how can use the books to open conversations with their
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kids about handling some of the life challenges we face.
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so far, but I mean it's a good they segue
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nicely into change and dealing with change. Because Hunter plays
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and he was sort of like this in real life.
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He was more of the scaredy cat dog Okay. You know,
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the he had concern you know, trepidations about things, whereas
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role of like the confident brother who keeps saying, we
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go with the flow, like the river to the ocean.
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in a house. Probably there's a dynamic like that with
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those children. So one sibling can help the other rights
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let's you know, we don't need to be afraid. Everything's
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fine here. But I mean it talks about changing moving
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that can be a scary thing. It talks about seeing
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and observing the change of seasons that they never saw before.
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that even opens up geography for the kids. Sure, so
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there's a lot of things that parents can bring in.
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look they moved, they have a new mom. But look
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they're outside, they're observing things, they're they're loving what they see.
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how was their transition. Obviously, that's a huge move California
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to Vermont.
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they did pretty well. They came to me in October,
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and I think we had our first snowfall, like sometime
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in November, and I remember going to the door, opening
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the door to let them out. They looked they were
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ready to run out the door. They came to a
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dead stop boom, and they just looked like, what isn't that. Yeah,
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they went out, and once they went out and they
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realized it, then they loved it. So yeah, yeah, it was.
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and and parts of book two are really true. They
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really did happen.
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through this creative process whatever it was that you do
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when you when you write a book. Did you learn
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anything about Randal and Hunter that you hadn't even considered
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a thought about when you were going through this processes, Well, that's.
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think I was just reminded. I don't know if I
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learned it. I think I was just reminded of again
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how resilient they were. You know, it came back to
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me and writing the book, and how many things, little
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things I could pick up and put in there, like
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the move and the you know, like and actually it's true.
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Hunter would go in my garden, my vegetable garden, and
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he would root, dig up the carrots, eat the carrots,
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eat the tomatoes. One time he ate a huge, big cabbage,
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never got sick. So that all those memories just came
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flooding back as I was writing about him rooting in
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the garden and Randall's standing off on the sidelines because
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he knew better than to do that. He wasn't going
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to do that.
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Oh my gosh. So you know, it's funny because you
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may or may not know.
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that about you, and I remember I used to use something.
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full on book, but it was a brochure that was
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written by mister Rogers from mister Rogers neighborhood. And it
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was all about explaining grief to children. And it was
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invaluable because it wasn't for the children, it was for
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the parents, but it was how you can approach it
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with that sort of mindset to not make it scary
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because it is a fact of life. Have you ever
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thought of doing anything like that with Randolin Hunter since
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they have now transitioned?
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Well, you know that is it's like, wow, you must
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be reading.
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I had when I when I thought about the three books,
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and I did they're self published, but I went through
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this company called self publishing, and they they give you
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all the tools and tips and they help you and
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they coach you on everything.
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they said, well, I think the third book should include,
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like you should have one of the dogs transition. And
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I actually did contemplate that, but I don't know. A
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part of me was like, ugh, I don't know. I
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don't know if I want to do that. So I didn't.
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I want a different route on the third book. But
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you're right, I think there is a need for that.
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Well, And I was just I don't know, because I,
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you know, I get downloads like you do as we're
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going along here, and I'm almost wondering if it wouldn't
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be helpful because I think adults need this so much.
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If it isn't a book for the adult. You've read
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your children about You've read your childre about randalin Hunter.
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Now let's talk about how you can explain lost to
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your children sort of like the mister Rogers book, but
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about randalin Hunter and how you know they can explain
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the loss of a pet, the loss of it, you
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know whatever. I don't know. I'm not telling you what
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to write.
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I don't know why, no, no, but you know it is.
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It is fascinating that you bring that up, because it
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was something I contemplated. And then other people, you know
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how you always you're asking like what do you think?
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that's we don't want you know, for kids, that's too sad,
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it's too this. So I didn't go that route. But
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you know, maybe you're putting something in. Maybe something will
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bubble up from this, because you know, they are both gone.
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kids aren't not dumb? They say, they ask a Randa
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and Hunters still alive? No. Well, then I say to them,
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how many of you have had a pet that has died?
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as long as us obviously, and most children do experience
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that in their life, the loss of a pet. It
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is one of the first lessons we learn on loss.
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this conversation with people in general, you know, in terms
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of you know what I did. But I think that
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when people adults I'm talking about, we don't like death,
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whatever you want to call it, we still grieve. It's
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not like they're sitting next to us at the table
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still telling us what they did over the weekend. It
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doesn't work that way. It's different. It's a your relationship.
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up and is going to school, you want to talk
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to them about the dangers of drugs. You want to
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talk to them about the dangers of alcohol. You want
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to talk to them about things that they need to
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know to be good, decent, productive parents. And we're our
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children of people, and we're okay with that and we're
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ready for that. But the problem is is that a
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lot of parents can't handle it themselves because it's generational
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system of sticking our head in the sand, which is
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why we don't talk about it because we don't like
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it and it makes is uncomfortable. And I remember, now
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there's almost twelve years between my brother and I, and
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he just says, you know, I learned something today. And
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I bet you he was five, and he said, what'd
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you learn? I thought she was going to look like
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a skeleton. I think she was going to look like
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a person. And sometimes the imagination is worse than the
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reality of it. And I think if we can equip
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people parents to help their children, it's not going to
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take away the pain. It is uncomfortable. But you know,
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no one wants to have the birds and the bees
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talk either. I mean, that's you know, yeah.
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I think this is one of those. And so you know,
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I was always this is why I loved that whole
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mister Rogers things so much. And I've thought of doing
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something like that myself. Sort of Transsisoh not transition. What
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do you call it? When you I'm having a channels
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channels don't when I'm coming channeled, you know. I feel
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like that's something that could be helpful for people. So
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there it is. I've gotta step off my soapbox and
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let you.
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I didn't go I get it. Yeah, and I but
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It's never too.
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Late, never too late, it isn't you know. The lessons
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are always there. What's the big what would you say,
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you know, if the biggest lesson your dogs have taught
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you over the course of their life.
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Unconditional love. Unconditional love. I mean, that's why they're here.
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That's it. That's it, I mean, in.
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we need to learn that from them. There are there
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as in that way.
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For sure, for sure. And I think anybody that's had
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the privilege to enjoy the love of a pet, not
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just a love for a pet, but the love back,
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it's really truly gifted. I think that's just, you know,
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an amazing thing, and I think it's wonderful how you've
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taken that love and that experience and shared it with others.
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I want to give you an opportunity to just talk
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about whatever you want to talk about. I know you
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have the new book and we've talked about that a
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little bit, but I want to give you, you know, an
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opportunity to talk about anything that we haven't necessarily had
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a chance to you had a chance to discuss.
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Well. The one thing I would like to say to
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any of your listeners that are retirement age or you know,
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getting their Social Security checks, whatever the case may be,
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get out there that it's just a new chapter of
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your life. Get out there and grab the gusto and
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do something awesome because you can. You can and do
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it with zest do it. I mean, like I didn't
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think I would do anything necessarily, but I feel more
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energized now than I did when I was thirty in
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some ways. Yeah, you know, I mean, and I feel
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like that is the new world that we're entering now,
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is that you know this this idea of oh I
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work forty years, I get my retirement. I go home
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and sit on the couch. It's it's not the way
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the world is. I think it's changing, and I feel
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like it's a good thing. And I say, you know,
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if your heart is calling you to do something, do it.
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Don't be afraid take that leap, go with the flow.
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Yeah.
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And you, as my great nephew said, who lives in
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New Zealand. I sent them copies of the books. So
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my niece calls me and says, oh, yeah, Quinn was
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playing some sport the other day and he pulled a
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muscle on his leg and he said, mom my leg hurts,
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but don't worry. I'm just gonna go with the flow.
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I'm gonna go with the floor.
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That's so funny.
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Little ah Yeah, he's eight.
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Yeah, fantastic, that's right.
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So I thought, well, how great is that?
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I think it is great.
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So I feel like everybody has something to give, and
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don't lay the number of your birthday deter you from that.
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And you did all this.
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I feel that's a big message for people.
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Be done. I mean, you did all this later in life.
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You had never written before, you know, years ago.
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No, but I have. It's been again. It's been something
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that I've been called to do, but I've been pushing it,
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pushing it, pushing it aside, you know what I mean.
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And then when I got that message from Randall, I'm like,
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I can't push it aside anymore, Like it's time to
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so whatever, you whatever stirring, you know, because I feel
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like if our soul is calling us to do something
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and we keep pushing it away, we're not living in
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our truth, we're not living our purpose. And so don't
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be afraid. There is fear around starting anything new, of
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course there is, but you.
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Know, just put that so seriously, you know what I mean,
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Go into it because you feel like it's a calling.
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And you may decide this isn't the one I want
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to publish, but you're it's all an experience.
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Right exactly, and it's and it's for your higher good
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and you're learning and you're, yeah, so that that's one thing.
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And then I would just you know, I would tell
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parents buy the books because I feel like you're going
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to have a lot of you're gonna have a lot
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of fun reading them to them. I feel like, you know,
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the piece about Hunter losing is eyesight. There's a lot
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of lessons in there about you know, never giving up,
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keep trying, you know, just you know, whatever comes your
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way is something that you know you can just go with,
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you can learn to go with it. And so yeah,
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I think there. I feel like they're out there for
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a reason. And I just I strongly belie believe that
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whoever is meant to read any of my books will
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get they'll get into the hands of the people that
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are they're meant for. Absolutely, I mean, how else should
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you feel about it? Right?
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That's it? And they can get books the books anywhere
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or I'm well there.
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It's on Amazon. Yep, it's on uh good Reads. They
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can if they go to my website Mariannwood dot com.
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You know, there's a link to Amazon. They can order
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them there. And the other book, We Need a Voice
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is also on Balboa Balboa Press, and it's obviously on Amazon.
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And did you publish to Balboa?
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Yeah, that book? I did?
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Yes, I did mine so too, yeahs on there as well.
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What is the name of the book with you know,
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with the one you did with Randall and Hunter or
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the book there?
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It's random. The series is called Randall and Hunter Go
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with the Flow perfect, okay, And then each has a subtitle.
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So the first one is Randall and Hunter Go with
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the Flow, two Tails on the Move, because they move,
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you know, they make the big move. And then the
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second book is Randolin Hunter Go with the Flow, Hunter's
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New View because he's got a new view. And then
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the third one, which is coming out on the twenty
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sixth of her is Randall and Hunter Go with the
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Flow Confidence Unleashed at the Shelter because they well, I
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don't want to give too much a way about it,
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but that's it's really cool what they do with the shelter.
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That's pretty great.
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Yeah. So so yeah, so if you just google Randol
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on the Hunter Go with the Flow, they'll they'll.
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Come up beautiful.
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So yeah, so it's it's been it's been exciting. You know.
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I'm now I'm now working to like get them out.
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You know, when you as you know, when you write
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a book, you don't unless you don't really care how
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much of it you sell, how many you really you
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got to really promote it.
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Yeah, you know that's the part. That's the part that's challenging,
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is to get.
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It is now. I don't really care for it, to
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be honest with you, Scott, it's not, but I'm learning
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I have to do it. Like I would rather just
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write the books and have them magically get out there,
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but that doesn't happen.
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So at all. It doesn't at all. No, but I'm
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hoping that helps, because I think you're doing a great thing.
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I think this is going to be uh you know,
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if it isn't already for people who haven't read it.
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I really think it's a valuable tool when you have children. Absolutely,
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arian thank you so much for joining us, And of
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course to Randal and Hunter who are probably running the
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show behind you know, the veil up there somewhere I
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don't know, put put the messages in your head so
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that you, you know, write this text, write this text.
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And if you want to look at any more of
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Marianne stories, or you just need an excuse to look
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at adorable dogs on the internet, head over to Maryanne
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Wood dot com and again it's Maryanne m A R
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Y A N N E would dot com. You'll find
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Straight for the world's most opinionated Bassett Hounds. And if
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