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Hi, I'm Emily with matters.com, and I'm joined by Ressa Glover.
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Welcome Ressa.
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Hello.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for having me.
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Welcome to matters.com.
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Ressa is a Pittsburgh based storyteller, actor and creator of the podcast.
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Yins are good, celebrating community change makers and uplifting everyday acts of kindness.
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So let's dive right in.
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What matters most to you right now, and what's the story behind it?
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Ooh.
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What matters most to me is connecting with other people.
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It's connecting in a meaningful way, and that can look like a lot of different things.
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And listening to others in a really meaningful and way.
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And so it is with my podcast doing that also in my personal relationships and really kind of checking in with myself and.
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Am I being the person that I want to be for those people and with those people.
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And with your podcast s are good.
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You do that very thing.
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You listen and you're also connecting with people, and you're talking about good news.
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Now, there are times where the good news format just doesn't seem to work.
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Ys are good, is working.
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It's award-winning.
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You've produced more than 200 episodes.
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What's the special sauce there?
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Why is this working?
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Are are other people craving that same connection that you are looking for as well?
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that's what I'm finding is when people learn about the show or what, and they say, oh my gosh, thank you.
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This is, this is what I've needed, or this is something that I, I, I want more of in my life.
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And I think part of it.
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Also is, it's like I always say, it's not totally Pollyanna.
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Like everything is perfect.
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That's my Pollyanna impression.
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It's not all like, the world is perfect because it's a longer form situation.
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So we're getting these interviews that are 30 minutes, 35 minutes, sometimes 40, sometimes longer.
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There's some editing.
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But you're hearing the whole journey of this person or these people who, and, and how they got to where they are and to the good deeds that they're doing or the good that they're doing in the community.
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And so along with that.
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It's not all good news, right?
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It's the challenges, the obstacles, the what, what you're hearing, all of it.
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And in that is this inspiration.
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When you are seeing people, meeting people on the other side of what they've been through and or what they've seen others go through.
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And so I think that is it, especially when you're hearing the genesis of a nonprofit they created or that they are now, executive director or a for-profit.
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Whatever.
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But when you're hearing how they got there and when they decided to turn around and help other people who are going through the same thing that they went through or saw other people go through, whatever that is, and so I, there's real inspiration and.
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And how it lifts you up when you listen to it, because you're gonna connect with that in some way.
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You probably won't have the exact same life experience, but you're gonna hear something in their story that you go, ah, I get that.
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And look at how, right?
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Look at their journey and how they got to where they are and what can that inspire me to do.
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That sort of feeling good through that very human connection that you're talking about, not just rainbows and butterflies, like you said Pollyanna, but that feeling good through connecting through people, whether it's all the good parts or some of the more cha like challenging.
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And hearing that and the nexus that eventually does hopefully lead to some good.
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I have to pause here, Val.
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So Yins is in the title.
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I'm a PA girl, but I'm out in Eastern pa, I'm outside of Philadelphia.
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We have used.
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John in the south, of course they have y'all.
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So what inspired you to use a very western PA term in the podcast title, like what's behind y?
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Well, thank you for also for already defining what it is.
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'cause it's usually a thing where I'm like, I go through that, like, use y'all.
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Okay.
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So I am a Pittsburgh girl born and raised and I've lived in some other spots as well, but made my way back to Pittsburgh and I knew, especially when I was starting the show, I had no technical knowledge whatsoever.
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I had no idea how one creates a podcast.
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But I knew.
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At least, initially it was going to be Pittsburgh area or Southwestern PA oriented, and Yins is one of those words.
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Pittsburgh.
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The Pittsburgh area has several made up.
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I'll just put it that way.
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Like words that are unique to the area, like for example a rubber band, right?
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We all know what that is, is a gum band.
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Okay.
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Which I didn't know.
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So I went away to college.
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That, that, that not everyone said that that's a gum band.
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Or instead of saying something, in the winter something, or if the roads are slippery, it's slippery.
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We just get rid of that consonant in there.
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Slippery or the, the syllables.
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Sorry.
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In there.
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Okay.
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So there are just words that are just, for us, so yins is one that kind of there are different, the history of it is kind of that it's an amalgam when.
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All of the immigrants were coming over to work in the steel mills and everybody was learning English sometimes from each other.
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And so there were dialects involved and other, and all of this, and these words popped up and yins became our version.
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And so I definitely wanted it to be this homage to the area and to all of Yans or Yinzer who are listening.
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Well used over here in Philadelphia likes that.
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You are talking about your podcasting journey, how it was brand new to you.
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You did mention that, it started out regionally, but it is since expanded, not just here in the US but across the globe.
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What has surprised you most about your podcasting journey?
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Dig in there.
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Oh my, well, first what you just said, like every time I think we're up to 89 countries and territories now, so every time when a new country comes in, I'm like, oh my, okay.
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So that just alone is absolutely surprising in the best way.
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I think also one of the, the things has been how many folks.
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Are helping other people every single day.
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And I learned through the podcast that Allegheny County, which is the county where Pittsburgh is, has more nonprofits in its area than any other county.
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However, we're measuring it in the country.
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Yeah, and, and I don't only speak with folks from nonprofits, I speak with anybody, but I learned that from one of the executive directors of a nonprofit and.
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that my eyes are open to that and the number of emails I get, or folks that say, oh, do you know about so and they should be on your show?
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Do you know what they're doing?
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Or people say, do you know what I'm doing?
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Can I be on your show?
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So that it has, it is unbelievable.
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So there's that.
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The number of people who every day as their job, as their work are helping people.
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And then the number of people who want to.
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Volunteer.
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What, what skill do I have that I can help somebody in a way, I, I have another career, another job that I'm doing, but how can I help?
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And that has been such a beautiful surprise in that way.
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Once you're tuned into it, and like once you're meeting people in that world and then you're seeing how many people want to do something, and oftentimes it can, it can be overwhelming.
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First of all, when you have so many choices like what do I even do?
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But how.
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How many people.
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And then I would also say I've just been surprised by how much it has changed my life because it really, the background that I, I come from as, as an actor and theater producer and writer, I have, it has taken me just in this really different path.
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Similar, obviously still storytelling and still connecting with folks, but it struck me recently that it, what it is, is I'm connecting with people as myself.
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Not as a character or not through something.
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Right?
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I think that it finally, like this light bulb went off like, oh yeah, I'm Tressa Glover, connecting with people and for real, right?
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Like in this way.
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And so I, I really, I think am surprised by how much it has changed my life in the best way.
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And trusted.
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What I find so fascinating about what you just said is that the very first thing you said had nothing to do with you and had to do, I thought you were gonna say, oh, I couldn't believe I learned how to edit, or technical skills, which I'm sure all, all the things that were in in the bucket of things you've learned or what surprised you.
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But I found it really fascinating that given the nature of the podcast that the very first thing you said is.
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How surprised you were with how many people.
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Using their talents, their time, their treasure to help other people, and that you are connecting them as you.
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And it, that next point made sense to me as well because no wonder why there feels like a connection and you're hearing these stories.
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I think that is, that's very fascinating.
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The way you framed it and think probably speaks to the work that you're doing.
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So I do wanna hear more from you, so we're gonna get to our matters.
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Speed round
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Oh Lord.
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here.
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I'm gonna name a topic.
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You're gonna tell me matters, not matters, or skip.
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And then I'll ask you why.
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So are you ready?
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Ressa.
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Oh, yes, I'm ready.
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Okay.
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All three is softball, podcasting.
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Matters
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Why?
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because of the number of people that.
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We slash any of us can connect with and stories that you can hear and insights that as far as like when I was growing up, we couldn't have imagined, right?
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And so that acce accessibility.
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Accessibility, there it is.
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To folks from all over I
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Performing arts matters not matters,
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You may adjust.
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Again, gosh, this word connection, but there is nothing like that, especially live theater, live whatever it is, music, dance.
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That connection between artists and community and audience is unlike, and speaking from experience, every performance is unique because every audience has a different energy and you're in that moment.
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That can't be recreated, and there's something so special in storytelling and the community of that, that there's so much to learn within that.
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And you were one step ahead of me because I was specifically gonna ask about live theater matters or not matters.
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Tell me a little bit more about that.
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Yeah, there is something and, and again, it's, I think some audience folks know it, but maybe you know not everyone, but there is like, yes, we, as the actors, we know, okay, we know the script, we know where we're supposed to go on the stage and do the thing, but.
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Every show there are.
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We are living in that moment, in real time along with you, and to be able to hear reactions and everything that's going on in this space.
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We are all telling the story together.
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And similar to what was talking what I was talking about with the podcast, it's that idea that you are going to connect with some part of this story.
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You most likely are not.
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It's not the exact journey you've been on, but there is something in a character, there's something in that story that you, as an audience person and as an actor are gonna find and connect with.
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And when we all have that time for a couple of hours to live together in a space and experience the same story, and it can land on each of us a little differently, but hearing the same words and spending that time together to share in that is, like that.
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Yeah, that shared experience in that, that third space, like you said, in a very disconnected world, it forces that connection even for that fleeting amount of time.
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Completely on board with that one mattering.
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How about this one?
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NASA's Artemis two.
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Mission matters, not Matters.
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Or Skip.
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Matters.
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Okay.
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Because, well, oh, put it this way.
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I think for me, once it hearing, maybe it's a little bit after,'cause I'll be honest, maybe at at the beginning I didn't fully, I didn't fully think like, oh, this is of utmost importance right now.
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World or in our country.
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Like I don't, it wasn't at, I'm but once it was happening and then and hearing from those incredible astronauts and, and those stories, and again, because it became about connection, it became about humanity and in, in, I think an unexpected way.
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I think I speaking for myself, but I know for.
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A lot of folks around me, it was kind of all of a sudden, oh, this is about something much, much bigger and more important than May more important.
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Something that just we maybe didn't see coming and didn't see how much we needed it
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Hmm.
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I can disagree with that.
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I, because of the focus going in, I hear the critiques, totally get it.
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But you're right.
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I think the, looking back at our delicate earth and it is all one place at one time, similar to that, that fleeting moment in the live theater, it, it was about connection.
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Connection of all humanity, not just.
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In our little, our little bubbles.
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I'm on board with that mattering too.
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And there's probably a lot of science as well that matters, but I'm not as in tuned with that portion.
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I'm gonna totally like 180 here.
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How about the National Hockey League playoffs?
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Your Pittsburgh girl, it's a pretty big hockey town, right?
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Do they matter?
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They matter.
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And I sound sad because of how we're doing right now.
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And you're from over.
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Are you a flyers fan?
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I am a Flyers fan,
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Alright, well look at us connecting an example of humanity right here because.
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Oh, so yes, I am biased, especially from, and you may be this way from where you're from too, but being from Pittsburgh sports, yeah, they're huge.
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So I grew up, I'm Penguins fan, Steelers, pirates, God love them.
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And so I do, I am a, a sports fan.
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I think that especially because we've seen you, you do tend to see humanity, sportsmanship.
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As much as we always, we tend to see the negatives that may come out of it.
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Right.
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Or in hockey especially, you tend to see, right.
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They'll show the fights and they'll show the, okay.
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And I, but if you follow the sports, you follow, how much support there really is, even among the rivals.
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I know kind of getting in the weeds here, but Ovechkin, who plays.
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Or maybe played for the capitals for, and he's a, a legend and a huge rival of the Penguins and, Sid Crosby and Malcolm, right?
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They all came up at the same time.
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But the amount of respect, right?
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So you as a fan have this whole but the amount of respect and our last games against them and how everybody in Pittsburgh's arena.
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Cheered for him.
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We did a special thing for him, the enemy, quote unquote.
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And the way that, that the stars themselves, they, the friendships that they have and the, the mutual respect they have for each other that we don't always see, because that's not maybe what sells the tickets and that's not what, is gonna make its way in front of the cameras.
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But at the heart of it.
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For the most part, right?
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There's, there's this great respect there and I think healthy rivalry is okay.
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I'm gonna be honest,
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Yeah, a little competition.
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I think it's good.
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But sports, so playoff, NHL playoffs, but sports in general matter.
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Another place for human connection.
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I think.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I'll give you one more.
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Oh, I'll give you, okay.
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I'm gonna give you two more.
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Oh, no.
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Coachella matters, not matters.
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Or skip.
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I right now feel not matters On that.
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Do I say why I'm, I'm afraid to answer what is wrong with me.
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I, I don't, that's my gut on it, that right now, at this time, it, it, it does not matter as much.
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That much.
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Okay, and I'll give you one more pets.
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Dogs Matters, not Matters or Skip.
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Matters.
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It's good that I had at least one not matter in there.
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I just realized because I'm like, everything matters, matters.
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We have our little mini Australian shepherd, we also have a cat.
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And it is this, the unconditional love that I didn't really, I grew up with dogs and cats and loved them and, but.
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As an adult choosing, right, choosing to get a dog, choosing to have pets.
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It's a whole nother thing than when you're a kid and you're not as responsible for it.
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It really has, has been life changing.
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The, the connection that you make and our dog is nine and I think about, and she's very smart to, the shepherd, they're smart animals.
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She knows like.
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So many words and, and things.
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We have to spell things.
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And now she's figured out what we're spelling.
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It's a whole thing.
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But not only that, so it's like a little person walking around, but I think it about in nine years she's been around us and with us for a lot of, for good and, and very sad times.
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And this little being has been here through it all.
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And you kind of, every once in a while, I just think about that.
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Like, wow.
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She has, she has seen a lot with us.
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And I've, I learn a lot from her every time we take probably four walks a day, and I try to see the world in her eyes every time I do it.
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Like I don't have my phone, I take, I don't, I not on my phone and I'm just exploring because yes, she's nine years old and had thousands of walks, but every walk is like, oh my gosh, and this is great and this is great.
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And so I try to absorb that.
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Appreciate and look around me and take everything in around me.
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So there's all of that learning too that that comes along with it so matters for sure.
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So not just connecting with each other, but the world around you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now Ressa, thank you today for connecting with me about this whole theme of human connection, the very thing that we're trying to do here@matters.com.
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So it was such a pleasure to have you on today and hearing your insights about what you are providing to such a broad community now, not just in the Pittsburgh area, but really across the world.
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Before I let you go, you must tell people where can they find you if they wanna hear all the good stuff you're doing.
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Oh my gosh.
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Thank you and thank you for having me.
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This has been such fun.
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And to, to get to meet you this way and chat this way.
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This is great.
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Thank you.
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So yes, so Yins are good.
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All spelled out.com is our website.
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So that will tell you a whole bunch about the show, but you can listen on pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.
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So Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, et cetera, et cetera.
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But we have links on the website, and then we're on Instagram and Facebook at Yinza.
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Good as well.
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So maybe just spell Yins for everybody who's not Pennsylvania.
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thank you.
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There we go.
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It's YINZ.
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It's Yinz.
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I just make sure everybody can connect with you who wants to connect with you
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Thank you.
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I'm Emily with matters.com.
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Hi, I'm Emily with matters.com, and I'm joined by Ressa Glover.
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Welcome Ressa.
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Hello.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for having me.
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Welcome to matters.com.
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Ressa is a Pittsburgh based storyteller, actor and creator of the podcast.
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Yins are good, celebrating community change makers and uplifting everyday acts of kindness.
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So let's dive right in.
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What matters most to you right now, and what's the story behind it?
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Ooh.
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What matters most to me is connecting with other people.
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It's connecting in a meaningful way, and that can look like a lot of different things.
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And listening to others in a really meaningful and way.
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And so it is with my podcast doing that also in my personal relationships and really kind of checking in with myself and.
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Am I being the person that I want to be for those people and with those people.
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And with your podcast s are good.
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You do that very thing.
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You listen and you're also connecting with people, and you're talking about good news.
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Now, there are times where the good news format just doesn't seem to work.
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Ys are good, is working.
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It's award-winning.
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You've produced more than 200 episodes.
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What's the special sauce there?
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Why is this working?
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Are are other people craving that same connection that you are looking for as well?
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that's what I'm finding is when people learn about the show or what, and they say, oh my gosh, thank you.
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This is, this is what I've needed, or this is something that I, I, I want more of in my life.
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And I think part of it.
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Also is, it's like I always say, it's not totally Pollyanna.
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Like everything is perfect.
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That's my Pollyanna impression.
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It's not all like, the world is perfect because it's a longer form situation.
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So we're getting these interviews that are 30 minutes, 35 minutes, sometimes 40, sometimes longer.
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There's some editing.
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But you're hearing the whole journey of this person or these people who, and, and how they got to where they are and to the good deeds that they're doing or the good that they're doing in the community.
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And so along with that.
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It's not all good news, right?
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It's the challenges, the obstacles, the what, what you're hearing, all of it.
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And in that is this inspiration.
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When you are seeing people, meeting people on the other side of what they've been through and or what they've seen others go through.
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And so I think that is it, especially when you're hearing the genesis of a nonprofit they created or that they are now, executive director or a for-profit.
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Whatever.
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But when you're hearing how they got there and when they decided to turn around and help other people who are going through the same thing that they went through or saw other people go through, whatever that is, and so I, there's real inspiration and.
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And how it lifts you up when you listen to it, because you're gonna connect with that in some way.
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You probably won't have the exact same life experience, but you're gonna hear something in their story that you go, ah, I get that.
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And look at how, right?
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Look at their journey and how they got to where they are and what can that inspire me to do.
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That sort of feeling good through that very human connection that you're talking about, not just rainbows and butterflies, like you said Pollyanna, but that feeling good through connecting through people, whether it's all the good parts or some of the more cha like challenging.
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And hearing that and the nexus that eventually does hopefully lead to some good.
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I have to pause here, Val.
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So Yins is in the title.
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I'm a PA girl, but I'm out in Eastern pa, I'm outside of Philadelphia.
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We have used.
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John in the south, of course they have y'all.
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So what inspired you to use a very western PA term in the podcast title, like what's behind y?
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Well, thank you for also for already defining what it is.
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'cause it's usually a thing where I'm like, I go through that, like, use y'all.
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Okay.
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So I am a Pittsburgh girl born and raised and I've lived in some other spots as well, but made my way back to Pittsburgh and I knew, especially when I was starting the show, I had no technical knowledge whatsoever.
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I had no idea how one creates a podcast.
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But I knew.
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At least, initially it was going to be Pittsburgh area or Southwestern PA oriented, and Yins is one of those words.
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Pittsburgh.
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The Pittsburgh area has several made up.
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I'll just put it that way.
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Like words that are unique to the area, like for example a rubber band, right?
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We all know what that is, is a gum band.
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Okay.
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Which I didn't know.
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So I went away to college.
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That, that, that not everyone said that that's a gum band.
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Or instead of saying something, in the winter something, or if the roads are slippery, it's slippery.
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We just get rid of that consonant in there.
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Slippery or the, the syllables.
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Sorry.
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In there.
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Okay.
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So there are just words that are just, for us, so yins is one that kind of there are different, the history of it is kind of that it's an amalgam when.
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All of the immigrants were coming over to work in the steel mills and everybody was learning English sometimes from each other.
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And so there were dialects involved and other, and all of this, and these words popped up and yins became our version.
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And so I definitely wanted it to be this homage to the area and to all of Yans or Yinzer who are listening.
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Well used over here in Philadelphia likes that.
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You are talking about your podcasting journey, how it was brand new to you.
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You did mention that, it started out regionally, but it is since expanded, not just here in the US but across the globe.
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What has surprised you most about your podcasting journey?
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Dig in there.
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Oh my, well, first what you just said, like every time I think we're up to 89 countries and territories now, so every time when a new country comes in, I'm like, oh my, okay.
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So that just alone is absolutely surprising in the best way.
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I think also one of the, the things has been how many folks.
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Are helping other people every single day.
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And I learned through the podcast that Allegheny County, which is the county where Pittsburgh is, has more nonprofits in its area than any other county.
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However, we're measuring it in the country.
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Yeah, and, and I don't only speak with folks from nonprofits, I speak with anybody, but I learned that from one of the executive directors of a nonprofit and.
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that my eyes are open to that and the number of emails I get, or folks that say, oh, do you know about so and they should be on your show?
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Do you know what they're doing?
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Or people say, do you know what I'm doing?
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Can I be on your show?
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So that it has, it is unbelievable.
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So there's that.
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The number of people who every day as their job, as their work are helping people.
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And then the number of people who want to.
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Volunteer.
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What, what skill do I have that I can help somebody in a way, I, I have another career, another job that I'm doing, but how can I help?
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And that has been such a beautiful surprise in that way.
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Once you're tuned into it, and like once you're meeting people in that world and then you're seeing how many people want to do something, and oftentimes it can, it can be overwhelming.
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First of all, when you have so many choices like what do I even do?
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But how.
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How many people.
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And then I would also say I've just been surprised by how much it has changed my life because it really, the background that I, I come from as, as an actor and theater producer and writer, I have, it has taken me just in this really different path.
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Similar, obviously still storytelling and still connecting with folks, but it struck me recently that it, what it is, is I'm connecting with people as myself.
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Not as a character or not through something.
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Right?
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I think that it finally, like this light bulb went off like, oh yeah, I'm Tressa Glover, connecting with people and for real, right?
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Like in this way.
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And so I, I really, I think am surprised by how much it has changed my life in the best way.
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And trusted.
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What I find so fascinating about what you just said is that the very first thing you said had nothing to do with you and had to do, I thought you were gonna say, oh, I couldn't believe I learned how to edit, or technical skills, which I'm sure all, all the things that were in in the bucket of things you've learned or what surprised you.
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But I found it really fascinating that given the nature of the podcast that the very first thing you said is.
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How surprised you were with how many people.
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Using their talents, their time, their treasure to help other people, and that you are connecting them as you.
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And it, that next point made sense to me as well because no wonder why there feels like a connection and you're hearing these stories.
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I think that is, that's very fascinating.
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The way you framed it and think probably speaks to the work that you're doing.
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So I do wanna hear more from you, so we're gonna get to our matters.
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Speed round
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Oh Lord.
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here.
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I'm gonna name a topic.
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You're gonna tell me matters, not matters, or skip.
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And then I'll ask you why.
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So are you ready?
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Ressa.
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Oh, yes, I'm ready.
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Okay.
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All three is softball, podcasting.
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Matters
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Why?
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because of the number of people that.
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We slash any of us can connect with and stories that you can hear and insights that as far as like when I was growing up, we couldn't have imagined, right?
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And so that acce accessibility.
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Accessibility, there it is.
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To folks from all over I
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Performing arts matters not matters,
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You may adjust.
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Again, gosh, this word connection, but there is nothing like that, especially live theater, live whatever it is, music, dance.
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That connection between artists and community and audience is unlike, and speaking from experience, every performance is unique because every audience has a different energy and you're in that moment.
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That can't be recreated, and there's something so special in storytelling and the community of that, that there's so much to learn within that.
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And you were one step ahead of me because I was specifically gonna ask about live theater matters or not matters.
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Tell me a little bit more about that.
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Yeah, there is something and, and again, it's, I think some audience folks know it, but maybe you know not everyone, but there is like, yes, we, as the actors, we know, okay, we know the script, we know where we're supposed to go on the stage and do the thing, but.
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Every show there are.
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We are living in that moment, in real time along with you, and to be able to hear reactions and everything that's going on in this space.
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We are all telling the story together.
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And similar to what was talking what I was talking about with the podcast, it's that idea that you are going to connect with some part of this story.
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You most likely are not.
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It's not the exact journey you've been on, but there is something in a character, there's something in that story that you, as an audience person and as an actor are gonna find and connect with.
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And when we all have that time for a couple of hours to live together in a space and experience the same story, and it can land on each of us a little differently, but hearing the same words and spending that time together to share in that is, like that.
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Yeah, that shared experience in that, that third space, like you said, in a very disconnected world, it forces that connection even for that fleeting amount of time.
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Completely on board with that one mattering.
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How about this one?
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NASA's Artemis two.
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Mission matters, not Matters.
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Or Skip.
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Matters.
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Okay.
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Because, well, oh, put it this way.
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I think for me, once it hearing, maybe it's a little bit after,'cause I'll be honest, maybe at at the beginning I didn't fully, I didn't fully think like, oh, this is of utmost importance right now.
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World or in our country.
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Like I don't, it wasn't at, I'm but once it was happening and then and hearing from those incredible astronauts and, and those stories, and again, because it became about connection, it became about humanity and in, in, I think an unexpected way.
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I think I speaking for myself, but I know for.
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A lot of folks around me, it was kind of all of a sudden, oh, this is about something much, much bigger and more important than May more important.
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Something that just we maybe didn't see coming and didn't see how much we needed it
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Hmm.
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I can disagree with that.
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I, because of the focus going in, I hear the critiques, totally get it.
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But you're right.
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I think the, looking back at our delicate earth and it is all one place at one time, similar to that, that fleeting moment in the live theater, it, it was about connection.
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Connection of all humanity, not just.
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In our little, our little bubbles.
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I'm on board with that mattering too.
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And there's probably a lot of science as well that matters, but I'm not as in tuned with that portion.
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I'm gonna totally like 180 here.
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How about the National Hockey League playoffs?
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Your Pittsburgh girl, it's a pretty big hockey town, right?
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Do they matter?
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They matter.
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And I sound sad because of how we're doing right now.
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And you're from over.
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Are you a flyers fan?
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I am a Flyers fan,
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Alright, well look at us connecting an example of humanity right here because.
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Oh, so yes, I am biased, especially from, and you may be this way from where you're from too, but being from Pittsburgh sports, yeah, they're huge.
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So I grew up, I'm Penguins fan, Steelers, pirates, God love them.
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And so I do, I am a, a sports fan.
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I think that especially because we've seen you, you do tend to see humanity, sportsmanship.
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As much as we always, we tend to see the negatives that may come out of it.
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Right.
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Or in hockey especially, you tend to see, right.
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They'll show the fights and they'll show the, okay.
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And I, but if you follow the sports, you follow, how much support there really is, even among the rivals.
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I know kind of getting in the weeds here, but Ovechkin, who plays.
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Or maybe played for the capitals for, and he's a, a legend and a huge rival of the Penguins and, Sid Crosby and Malcolm, right?
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They all came up at the same time.
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But the amount of respect, right?
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So you as a fan have this whole but the amount of respect and our last games against them and how everybody in Pittsburgh's arena.
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Cheered for him.
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We did a special thing for him, the enemy, quote unquote.
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And the way that, that the stars themselves, they, the friendships that they have and the, the mutual respect they have for each other that we don't always see, because that's not maybe what sells the tickets and that's not what, is gonna make its way in front of the cameras.
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But at the heart of it.
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For the most part, right?
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There's, there's this great respect there and I think healthy rivalry is okay.
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I'm gonna be honest,
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Yeah, a little competition.
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I think it's good.
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But sports, so playoff, NHL playoffs, but sports in general matter.
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Another place for human connection.
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I think.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I'll give you one more.
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Oh, I'll give you, okay.
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I'm gonna give you two more.
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Oh, no.
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Coachella matters, not matters.
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Or skip.
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I right now feel not matters On that.
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Do I say why I'm, I'm afraid to answer what is wrong with me.
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I, I don't, that's my gut on it, that right now, at this time, it, it, it does not matter as much.
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That much.
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Okay, and I'll give you one more pets.
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Dogs Matters, not Matters or Skip.
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Matters.
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It's good that I had at least one not matter in there.
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I just realized because I'm like, everything matters, matters.
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We have our little mini Australian shepherd, we also have a cat.
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And it is this, the unconditional love that I didn't really, I grew up with dogs and cats and loved them and, but.
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As an adult choosing, right, choosing to get a dog, choosing to have pets.
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It's a whole nother thing than when you're a kid and you're not as responsible for it.
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It really has, has been life changing.
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The, the connection that you make and our dog is nine and I think about, and she's very smart to, the shepherd, they're smart animals.
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She knows like.
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So many words and, and things.
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We have to spell things.
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And now she's figured out what we're spelling.
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It's a whole thing.
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But not only that, so it's like a little person walking around, but I think it about in nine years she's been around us and with us for a lot of, for good and, and very sad times.
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And this little being has been here through it all.
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And you kind of, every once in a while, I just think about that.
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Like, wow.
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She has, she has seen a lot with us.
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And I've, I learn a lot from her every time we take probably four walks a day, and I try to see the world in her eyes every time I do it.
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Like I don't have my phone, I take, I don't, I not on my phone and I'm just exploring because yes, she's nine years old and had thousands of walks, but every walk is like, oh my gosh, and this is great and this is great.
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And so I try to absorb that.
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Appreciate and look around me and take everything in around me.
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So there's all of that learning too that that comes along with it so matters for sure.
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So not just connecting with each other, but the world around you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now Ressa, thank you today for connecting with me about this whole theme of human connection, the very thing that we're trying to do here@matters.com.
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So it was such a pleasure to have you on today and hearing your insights about what you are providing to such a broad community now, not just in the Pittsburgh area, but really across the world.
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Before I let you go, you must tell people where can they find you if they wanna hear all the good stuff you're doing.
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Oh my gosh.
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Thank you and thank you for having me.
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This has been such fun.
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And to, to get to meet you this way and chat this way.
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This is great.
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Thank you.
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So yes, so Yins are good.
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All spelled out.com is our website.
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So that will tell you a whole bunch about the show, but you can listen on pretty much wherever you get your podcasts.
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So Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, et cetera, et cetera.
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But we have links on the website, and then we're on Instagram and Facebook at Yinza.
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Good as well.
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So maybe just spell Yins for everybody who's not Pennsylvania.
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thank you.
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There we go.
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It's YINZ.
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It's Yinz.
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I just make sure everybody can connect with you who wants to connect with you
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Thank you.
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I'm Emily with matters.com.
