Feb. 21, 2025
Micah Yacht's Multiverse of Art and Inspiration
Meet the incredibly multifaceted Micah Yacht, whose creative journey serves as both an inspiration and a testament to the power of self-expression. From storytelling with action figures to the world of music production and art design for video games, Micah has crafted a universe uniquely his own. He shares the challenges of balancing work and education and the fulfillment he found in writing. Together, we explore the evolution of creativity across various platforms, drawing parallels between singing, photography, and Micah's latest literary project born from deep reflection.
Our conversation meanders through the serene beauty of nature and the tangible joy of craftsmanship. Micah's passion for photography captures the poetic charm of beachscapes and New York's lush forests, while humorous wildlife anecdotes add a playful twist. Carpentry, a beloved skill for Micah, presents dreams of building a cozy log cabin. Shifting gears, we dive into Micah's graphic novels, particularly "The Silent Scream," a thrilling mix of horror, sci-fi, and anime that redefines superhero narratives. Together, these interests weave a rich tapestry of personal and creative expression.
Micah also opens up about the transformative power of creativity in overcoming trauma. His superhero universe, complete with complex character alignments reminiscent of Dungeons and Dragons, emphasizes the role of romance and drama in storytelling. We delve into his guide "Evolution and Revolution: How to Push with Love," focusing on personal growth and healing. As we discuss aspirations like animation projects and game development, a recurring theme emerges—connecting with others through creativity and love. Join us for an episode filled with inspiration, innovation, and the enduring hope that fuels our artistic journeys.
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Love & Light - Keep Hope Alive
Chapters
00:02 - Creative Journey of Micah Yacht
07:34 - Connecting With Nature and Creativity
15:03 - Evolution of Creativity Through Trauma
29:01 - Connecting Through Creativity and Inspiration
37:32 - Connecting Through Keep Hope Alive
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive podcast.
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Today I have Micah Yacht here with us, and he is a writer, an artist, a musician, speaker and even a carpenter.
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So we're going to be diving into his story about what he does in life and learning a lot about him.
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So welcome, micah, I'm so excited to have you on.
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Thank you for having me Well, you're so welcome.
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So I, Micah, I'm so excited to have you on Now the first question I have, for well, you're so welcome.
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So I have a question for you.
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Say, our friends invited us to go to their wedding.
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Okay, so we're going into the like I guess the ceremony site and, to the right, we see this thing we needed to sign to let them know we were there.
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What are we signing?
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See this thing?
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We needed to sign to let them know we were there.
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What are we?
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signing the guest book.
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Yay, yeah, perfect.
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I call it a keepsake speaker box and it's personalized.
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It's the cutest thing.
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It's about time you put a ring on her finger.
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All right?
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Well, let's get started.
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Who is Micah Yacht?
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That's a good question.
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I'm still trying to figure that one out.
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I would say in a nutshell I'm just a creative person trying to find a way to express myself in any way, any platform.
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Oh, wow, Okay.
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So yeah, definitely.
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Well, let's go back.
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Oh, wow, okay.
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So yeah, definitely.
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Well, let's go back.
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Rem lad, I would say probably four or five I used to play with my toys by myself a lot and I would just kind of create like little stories with my toys, like my little action figures.
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I had like a lot of GI Joes and Ninja Turtles and stuff like that and I would just create stories and play them out with each of the little figures.
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Dang, you're about my age If you're saying Ninja Turtles, I'm 47.
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And I'm like, okay, he was in the era of what I was in.
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I did the same thing with my Barbies.
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It was a storytelling thing, so definitely I get it so.
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And then you found that spark, and so, out of all the things you've done, what was the first one that you went after?
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I would say drawing was probably the very first thing because it was the simplest for me a piece of paper and a pencil.
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So I would just draw little figures and stuff and just try to draw anything I could.
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Obviously, when you're that little it's you know it's drawings.
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But as you get older you kind of get into it a little more.
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Okay, well, let's go into the teenage years and to graduating and stuff.
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Did you have a clear view of what you wanted to do?
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I know I didn't.
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I felt forced from my family oh, choose something and follow your career and go to college.
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I chose the wrong thing for me, but then I killed a fly with a green sheet and found the right direction as the paper landed.
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So it's a.
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It's a cute story, but anyways.
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So yeah, tell me more about that.
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Sure, sure.
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Yeah, I've had a similar story.
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It was kind of like what do I do as an artist out of high school?
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So, you know, you go to school.
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So initially I was like, well, I love music, I used to play music all the time.
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So I went into music production when I first started uh production when I first started.
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And then I got out of that, um, and went into, uh, art design for video games, uh scripting and animation.
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And then I got out of that because I was trying to work and go to school at the same time and it wasn't working out for me.
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So I just kept jumping from art form to art form until I basically got to writing and creating my own universe.
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That works, that really does so rewind Creative souls.
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They love music.
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So I don't know if you were anything like what I would do in my teenage years.
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I would turn on.
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We had the stereo, you know, and we could hit the record, button down, you know.
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But I was always practicing different songs.
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I love singing.
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That was my thing and my outlet, you know, for life is just singing.
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And you know, as I got older, I was like, oh, there's karaoke, I'm just going to go do that.
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But then, you know, going into photography, those were my ways of like your drawing and sand and everything.
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But mine was just picture taking of nature and families and weddings and everything so, but that's cool.
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Weddings and everything so, but that's cool.
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So, and as you did that, I know you wrote a book.
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Can you tell us a little bit about what your book's about?
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Sure, yeah.
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So this past couple of years I've been really reflecting on my life and the traumas and healing and just trying to create a process to kind of follow for myself so that I can kind of get myself back in order.
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And I created this process very simple process, it's only actually about 10 pages long and it's a way for me to kind of encapsulate, start to finish, how I go about processing and transmuting my own trauma into art, using nature and connection.
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Okay.
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So you're very, you're empath, like I am Okay, I'm getting you now, so okay.
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So I mean, how much are you willing to share?
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I'm here.
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I have a lot of questions for you.
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I'm pretty much an open book when it comes to who I am, so if you have a question, feel free.
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So example you know, I know I'm drawn to nature.
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Was it because I was a photographer?
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Who knows I love the seasons?
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But in Texas we don't really get to see the seasons that well.
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But taking pictures of what I could capture from a season was something.
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But I was always drawn to water, the beach.
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Make special trips down to Galveston.
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What was it in nature for you?
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I do love the water and beach and the ocean For me.
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I don't live near the ocean.
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I live in the middle, landlocked in New York, so for me it was the forest.
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I would always go into the forest and just sit and listen to the animals and try to feel the trees.
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I do okay, yeah, gotcha, okay, yeah.
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So deer are out there and have you ever came across anything you didn't want to come across?
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oh, uh.
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Yeah, there was this great story, that um or a great memory that I can tell you it's uh, I would say I was probably about 15 or so, maybe 14.
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I was walking home from school and I used to take the tracks and uh, forest, and uh, I happened to come across, um, a skunk on the tracks and I was like, well, I don't really want to get sprayed, so I'll just let him kind of meander away, get get across the tracks and as I was waiting, another skunk behind me showed up, which I was assuming was their relative or you know mate or something.
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So they were kind of sandwiching me in, which I was assuming was their relative or you know mate or something.
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So they were kind of sandwiching me in and I was like, oh great, what do I do?
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Hey, you know, I just wait and the other one will get me.
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So I I found a way to kind of, uh, get around them, um, and just ran past them without worrying, uh, and luckily I got, I got out of there before I got sprayed, which was interesting because as soon as I got into the field to get to where the back side of my house is, it's really tall grass at that time of year and what happens is deers will lay down in the tall grass and sleep during the day and I happened to just come across the sleeping doe and it popped up and crashed into me trying to get away and I was like this is the craziest, craziest walk home I've ever had.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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I mean, the likelihood of that happening is probably really, really rare, but yeah.
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So I remember I went camping with a friend and there were deer out in the morning.
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But I remember putting some of the food in my hand and it just came up to me and ate out of my hand.
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I was like, oh, that is so cool, you know.
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But yeah, I also skunked.
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Oh my gosh, I saw on the news that, with what little snow there was, it was so weird.
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Um, this little girl was walking like two of the dogs and the dog saw a skunk and the skunk was running away from the dog but the dogs went, but she never let loose of the dogs.
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She held on and the dogs pushed her like she was on her stomach, going across the street and everything.
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That poor girl.
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She even went up a curb, I saw it was like dang, but the dogs miss the skunk, thank god, because you can only imagine that little girl, if she got sprayed it would not be good.
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So, yeah, definitely okay.
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So, um, carpentry, when did that come about for you?
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so I kind of helped my dad and my grandpa when I was younger, just doing little things, uh, just to kind of be around them when they were making stuff.
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And then, as I got older, I kind of got into it just improving stuff around my own home, and then I really took an interest in it.
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I wanted to learn how to build a house so I could build my own house.
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So I got into the field and studied from people that have been doing it for like 30 years or so.
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And they were showing me all the ins and outs of building a home.
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Start to finish.
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Oh wow, did you build your own house.
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I haven't yet, but I'm still planning on it.
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Well, that is cool.
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I know my uncle did that and he moved to Virginia but he built his, he built my grandma's and then he built his sister's and I was just like, oh, so yeah, it does take a lot of learning and stuff and that motivation to go, so I'm wishing you the best of luck on that.
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So are you going to have one of those big, big homes or just like a ranch home?
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Yeah, probably not.
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I enjoy little, little tiny homes.
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They're kind of like something I'm interested in, so I probably won't build a giant home I like, maybe a log cabin.
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I know, when I was younger I took interior design and I got an a in that class, but I was designing my dream log cabin, like everything down to the T and how it would be decorated and everything, and I was like it made me think, yeah, I need to accomplish that goal really quick.
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So, but definitely Okay.
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Well, the other thing, you know, we talked about the music, the books, the speaking, the carpentry.
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What else are we missing about you?
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That's a good question.
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I do create a graphic novel series in my spare time.
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It's called the Silent Scream and I'm working on the sequel to the original.
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So I wrote this two years ago or a year and a half ago and I'm turning it into an animation at the moment.
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So I have kind of big plans for that series, which essentially is a superhero origin story that kind of blends sci-fi and psych thriller with horror and anime.
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So it's kind of like a blend of a bunch of different genres.
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I basically just wanted to combine horror and superheroes because I've always wanted to see that.
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Yeah, that sounds good.
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You know, I'm just thinking about the mindset because I'm in the middle of starting with my first book.
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I'm at chapter 10 right now, but it's based basically on a true story and but to write about, like different characters, that takes a lot.
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I think you know so the process of how the brain works.
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I've been dying to ask this question to somebody.
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What makes you want to start doing that and building upon from that, and how do you choose which characters and what traits they have?
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that is a good question because you're right, it is very in-depth because it's almost like I like to imagine it, as I try to embody a character that I think is really interesting, like how they think and how they act, and then try to create like a, an origin story for that person, like what brought them to that location, why, um, and then how do they look?
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Maybe it's an unusual, maybe they stand out a little bit, which I always find interesting when people have unique characteristics.
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Uh, they're not, you know the stereotype.
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Um, so for me, how it started, I guess, was I I started with a single character and the superheroes story, and then I was like, well, he has to have parents, and then he has to have friends, and then he has to have a home and he has to have, you know, a town, you know.
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Then everything else just keeps going and going, like tree branches.
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They just keep branching out one after another, and then you have to have antagonists and different levels of antagonism, and I, I love dungeons and dragons, it's like one of my favorites.
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So I I approached it like that and basically every character is a type or an alignment and and the fun thing for me is going against the grain with it, where it's like maybe you know, this antagonist is not really a bad guy, maybe they're a good guy and they just you know they're going against what society expects of them.
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I'll share.
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Yeah, I could see your brain working right now.
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You have a passion for that.
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Wow.
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Is there any romance in those books, or is it just all superhero stuff?
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interesting too, because, uh, it's one of those things that I like to dive into, um, the romance element of a superhero story or the drama like the ups and downs, because I don't feel like a superhero story is good unless it has, like, love and you know, drama, kind of like superman, is what I'm thinking of.
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That was my favorite movie.
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I would watch it over and over with Lois Lane and everything you know, and it was just the greatest story.
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So because they kind of live real lives too, you know, you can help the world.
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Wait a minute.
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That sounds like I'm helping the world with Keep Hope Alive, but I need to find love myself.
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Maybe I'm a superhero and so, oh my gosh, but that is so cool.
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Like, let me ask you, as far as what your characters wear, are you that descriptive too?
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Are you designing what they wear?
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yeah, yeah, I do uh, clothing design and stuff for them to figures and uh kind of like um, it's kind of like outfits, like a superhero outfit costume, but I kind of approached it at like a real, uh realistic approach, like you and I.
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It's like we were superheroes secretly, uh in our when we're not, don't tell anybody.
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Yeah right, when we're not doing the podcasting or any other work, we're secretly a superhero.
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We wouldn't have time to really go out and become a professional seamstress, so we would have to be creative on what we're wearing, with what materials we have.
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So I kind of approached it like that.
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Oh, that's interesting.
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So it's like hey, let me run to my closet and just put A, b, c, d together and I'll find a trash bag as a cape.
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Something like that.
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That is so funny.
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That is so funny.
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Now I know what to do for Halloween this year is so funny.
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That is so funny now I know what to do for halloween this year, so, but my goodness, okay, let's dive more into the book.
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Um, so you mentioned 10 pages, or what was.
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Are they short books?
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yeah, my process.
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It's uh, I wrote it as a very short process, so it's called Evolution and Revolution how to Push with Love and the concept essentially is evolving past ourself and revolting against our old ways so that we can become new version and push ourselves with love.
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That way we can push others with love.
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So this process is only about 10 or so pages and it's very simple and easy to follow.
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And then the other half is just a kind of a simple backstory of how I created this process, what I had to go through in a very general way, not really in depth.
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So it's a very short book.
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It's only about 20 pages.
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So I know when people you know go through trauma I know I've been through trauma and when we make to me without scaring somebody, I just rather them read what happened, you know, because it's hard for me to write, it's hard for me to relive.
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But I look at my book and I made an attempt to be like I'm only writing for one hour when everybody's still asleep.
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So I try to get up at five in the morning, get my coffee, get the dogs out and start writing and just reliving those moments.
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Like I got over one of the chapters today and I'm like I'm not through it.
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You know I'm so happy, like this is a win for me, but just that.
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You know I'm so happy, like this is a win for me, but just that.
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You know that's the one thing I had to learn as an author is like how do I tell somebody like, hey, I got this book.
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It could be a movie.
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It will scare the crap out of you.
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I don't want to talk.
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That's my selling pitch.
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I might make it more intriguing to read, right?
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So?
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But it sounds like you know, with the book, if you write more, they would catch on it and want to see what's the next one?
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What's the next one?
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So the trauma.
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Do you even want to talk about what you went through a little bit or not, because I respect you.
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I could talk about it.
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It's a trauma, is tough and I agree, when we kind of relive it it's basically just opening up that wound again so that we can feel the pain and, uh, it's very difficult.
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And then writing about it is like I like to imagine it's dragging us slowly through it, through the pain.
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So it's not only reliving it but it's going very slow and that's why I find it to be difficult to write about.
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But when you keep it, I try to keep it general in the book so that it can apply to everybody.
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It's a very simple process, simple process for myself.
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My own traumas are kind of generic, I guess, very common drama, uh, traumas like, uh, you know, childhood abuse, neglect, um, you know, bullying, that type of thing, lack of self-worth, worth, physical, emotional manipulation, sexual abuse, pretty much all of it.
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Everything that you can think of is just very common stuff.
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So when you go through this stuff, it does give you a choice you can kind of, I guess, close off the world or you can try to do something with it.
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So I've always kind of tried to be kind to others so that they didn't feel what I felt.
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I try to listen to people so that they don't feel like they're not heard or seen.
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I try to care about people and give them the benefit of the doubt type of thing, because I feel like most people aren't really malicious.
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They're just not really conscious or they're not really aware of what they're doing so I try to give them right there.
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You know, it's not necessarily like intentional.
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They just don't realize what they're doing or they're reacting from a place of pain and they don't realize that it's not that person that caused that pain.
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They're just reminding them of that pain.
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Yeah, so it's, uh, it's.
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It's something that I've had to really work through for myself because I'm I haven't been a perfect person, so to speak, with my own traumas.
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I've been very uh back and forth because I try to, I try to live in a very honorable state, uh for myself and my environment, but emotional triggers can cause us to act out, kind of lash out, which is pretty common.
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So that was something I had to kind of wrinkle in was my own emotional reactivity to my triggers, which that is a big uh, a big order, tall order for somebody, especially if you are uh and I.
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I didn't realize this at the time when I was growing up, but through more education I realized that I am on the spectrum, so to speak, with autism and neurodivergence and OCD and that type of thing.
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I didn't realize it until the past few years, studying and learning from other people and just listening to other people.
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