Aug. 16, 2024
Stopping Generation Trauma, One Story at a Time with Julie Fairhurst
What if you could transform generational trauma into a source of empowerment and healing through the art of storytelling? Join us in this heartfelt episode as we sit down with Ms. Julie Fairhurst, a former sales and marketing professional who found a new purpose in writing after a life-altering dream. Following the tragic loss of her niece to a fentanyl overdose, Julie decided to face her family's deep-rooted issues, shedding light on how unaddressed trauma impacts generations. Her journey is a moving testament to the power of personal narrative in making meaningful change.
We then shift our focus to the Women Like Me Community, a vibrant Facebook group where women from all walks of life share their stories in community books, completely free of charge. This initiative has not only empowered women locally but also extended its reach to Kenya, where storytelling has become a crucial tool for raising funds for essential needs like food and education. Discover how these stories serve as lifelines, fostering community pride and financial stability on a global scale, and learn about the transformative impact of a single chapter in a collaborative book.
Lastly, tune in for an enlightening discussion on the challenges that aspiring authors face and the practical strategies to overcome them. From setting manageable writing goals to exploring the benefits of ghostwriting, we cover it all. You'll also hear about the exciting new features coming to our podcast, like live streaming for real-time interaction and the innovative use of snap bands for managing mental health. This episode is packed with inspiring stories and actionable advice, perfect for anyone looking to follow their calling and uplift others through the power of storytelling.
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Love & Light - Keep Hope Alive
Chapters
00:02 - Empowering Women Through Storytelling
12:28 - Empowering Women Globally Through Storytelling
20:29 - Sharing Stories and Self-Discovery
28:23 - Women's Empowerment and Storytelling Expansion
36:39 - Global Women's Networking and Empowerment
48:38 - Audio Book Accessibility
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive podcast.
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Today we have another great show.
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I have the pleasure to introduce Ms Julie Fairhurst.
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She's going to be talking to us about stopping generation trauma.
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One story at a time, and I love that one story at a time.
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It's like we're going to get a glimpse into her world.
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But before we get started, julie, I have one question for you.
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Sure you ready, I'm ready.
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How many weddings have you been to, let's say, in the past 15 years?
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I was.
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I'm pretty sure it's about four.
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Four, okay, perfect, so if you're going to a wedding ceremony and you're going through the doors of this beautiful church, usually there is something there you would sign to let the bride and groom know you attended.
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What are you signing?
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The guest registry.
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Yes, yes, perfect.
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So one of our sponsors is lifeonrecordcom and what they do.
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Instead of the book, they have a vintage telephone they take to the event and right next to it is a QR code the guests can scan as well.
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But you pick up the vintage phone and you can leave them a message Congratulations on your big day, we're so happy for you.
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Or maybe it was like a groomsman going it's about time you put a ring on her finger.
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So it's this wonderful concept because they're collecting voice to be heard over time.
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Now, if the line is too long with the QR codes, scan if they want to take out their own cell phone, scan that they can leave a message before or after the event.
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Now I use wedding all the time for this sample and commercial for Life on Record, but this can go for any events, okay.
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So after all the voices get collected, you have a choice they can burn it on a 12-inch vinyl record or they have a keepsake speaker.
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So even if it was a wedding, maybe you're celebrating your one-year anniversary, you can have that cake and listen to all your friends and family talking.
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It's amazing, it sounds beautiful.
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Yeah, and the phone is adorable.
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It's like gold and black and I think they have all different phones on their website and stuff.
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So I'm going to try to repush that and show the phones on my Facebook page and everything.
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But so the plans they only start for $99 and you get the phone number.
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See, I said number, you got to return the phone but you get the number for one year.
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So even if it was a wedding, I'm like, okay, we'll just have your friends and family call before the one-year anniversary too and say happy one-year anniversary.
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You made it this far, so be something fun and corny like that.
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For more information about them, you can visit wwwlifeonrecordcom.
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All right, well, let's get started.
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Who is Julie Fairhurst?
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Well, I have worn many, many hats thus far in my life, so I have recently retired.
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Thus far in my life, so I have recently retired.
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Actually, february of this year, I retired from a career of 34 years in sales, marketing and promotion and I was very successful at that, running my own business, and I loved it.
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But I started to get a little bit burnt out.
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It was a lot, a lot, and so, back in 2016, I could feel that I was starting to burn out, so I started to think well, I don't, you know, I love doing stuff, I love working, I love making money.
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What, what can I possibly do that where I'm not running around like a chicken with my head cut off every day and just burning myself out?
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And and I, just I was having a hard time figuring it out.
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And then, one night, I had a dream and I was a sound asleep in bed and I remember there was a bright light and I was.
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I could feel I was being led somewhere and I heard a voice and the voice said Julie, it's time for you to go back now.
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And I and I heard a voice and the voice said Julie, it's time for you to go back now.
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And I and I in my dream, I felt panicked and I said I don't want to go back, I want to stay here with you, and whoever this person was to this day I have no idea who it was said to me no, you have to go back, you're not finished yet.
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And and I thought, okay.
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And then I said, but I don't know what to do, I don't know, I'm on purposes.
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And then I heard a voice that said well, you are your purpose.
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So in my dream, I was starting to get irritated because I thought, yeah, okay, but that doesn't really help me.
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And so I said, but I, but I don't know what to do.
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And as I woke up, the word right popped into my head.
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So I thought I was supposed to write books for salespeople, because I had been doing sales and marketing and promotion for 34 years.
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And so I started writing sales books and sales manuals and all of this kind of stuff, but my heart really wasn't still in it because I was a little bit burnt out in that industry.
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So now I'm, you know, writing books, but still I was a little bit burnt out.
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And so, long story short, in 2019, I stayed with my career, but in 2019, my husband and I decided to move an hour away from my business, so out of the big city.
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The day we moved, my 24 year old niece died of a drug overdose of fentanyl on the streets of Vancouver and it ticked me off.
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And the reason I was so angry was because I felt like it shouldn't and didn't need to happen.
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And that's where the generational trauma came in, because I realized my mom had her issues and she never dealt with them.
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She passed that along to us kids.
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Luckily, I dealt with my stuff, but my brother didn't, and my brother fell into drug abuse.
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And then my brother had a child and she fell into drug abuse.
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And then she was a single mom when she, when she, passed away.
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And I just felt like this, this is shouldn't be happening.
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And I was, and I was angry.
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So the night after her funeral I was laying in bed.
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I was wide awake.
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This time I wasn't dreaming, but I kept thinking what can I do?
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What can I do?
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There's got to be something I can do to help women, because I believe men are important to families as well.
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But I believe that we're the glue and if we can get ourselves together, then we can pass along those positives down to our children and also to the people that are around us.
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And so I just started thinking and I thought how could my mom have gotten that trauma that she experienced out of her body?
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And of course, there's lots of different ways, but I thought she could have written it.
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And so I woke up in the morning and I called 15 of my bestest girlfriends and stepsisters and I said do you guys want to write a book and talk and and tell your story in a book?
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And every one of them said yes, and in December of 2019, the first book, the first women like me book, was published, and since that time, in total, I have 36 published books since 2019.
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The women like me book series I have 24 of those, and then I have other books as well.
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That that I've been doing.
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I've helped over 160 women so far become published authors.
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Many of our books have hit number one book status, and the thing that's really unique about my program is no one pays.
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That is wonderful, so it doesn't matter if a woman is living on government assistance or if she has a full-time job where she makes good money.
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Everyone is equal and there's no financial barriers to anyone being involved in this program and, and when I look back at a lot of the women that I've been able to help, a lot of them could never have paid, could never.
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And so how do I support?
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How am I paying for 36 books to be published, and all of that through book sales?
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So it's so important to me that I get the books out there so that people can purchase a book, which helps me to be able to do the next book.
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So in September I'm starting the next chapter book with another 12 ladies from all over, and that's how, fingers crossed, we sell enough books to get the next book paid for.
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Oh, wow.
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It's going to happen for you.
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Pardon, it's going to happen for you, yeah.
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Yeah, it's coming, it's coming, it's it's.
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Sometimes some books sell well and some are slow.
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The key is consistency with your sales and your marketing, and I'm a one man show at the moment, so I do everything on my own.
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So what happens to me is I finish a book and then I want to start another one, and so I get that book out.
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I get it to number one.
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We so much excitement, the women learn about marketing and sales and all of that publishing, the publishing world and then I'm like, oh, that was so much fun, that's so exciting.
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Now I'm on to the next book and so I need to leave a little bit of gaps, I've realized to do my own sales and marketing, to push out the books so that everybody knows that they're out there.
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Wow, yeah, that's amazing, though I like that.
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When you said you're a one woman show, I was like you know what?
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That's how I am with my podcast and I'll sit down and go no, I got this, I got this.
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And then there's times you have 50 new messages.
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I'm like what am I doing?
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And I try so hard to do a morning and an evening before I go to bed, I need to feel good about myself and acknowledge and just, you know, kind of have that out there.
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So people know I'm paying attention to them still.
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But there's times I'm like it's time to find an intern.
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And then somebody once said, well, Nadine, you know, if you have an intern, are you going to be checking their work?
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That they did their work too.
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And I go, yeah, so you just added more work to yourself.
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And I'm like, oh my gosh, I see where this is going.
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And it's hard when you've found something that you love and you treasure.
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And with your podcast, just like me, with my books and my ladies, I'm very, very territorial about them and I, you know, I want to make sure I would pay, which is probably an.
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I shouldn't feel that way, but, you know, like someone going to treat them as well as I'm going to treat them, are we going to have that same connection?
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Is anybody going to be upset?
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So, which I'm sure, if you find the right person, you know it all goes smooth.
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But we have to release that fear, I think.
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Exactly, exactly, and that is really, really important to release the fear and let it go and have that faith in somebody.
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Because you know, I know, even though I'm looking, there has to be somebody as excited as me about this podcast and helping people around the world that this should become an easy process and everything.
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And I try, and I try to get my daughter to help me, but she's busy with the newborn and I'm like, okay, I understand that that's my little granddaughter, so thank you, thank you, but you know, it sounds like with your books and people being heard through the stories is amazing.
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It's kind of like the podcast I do here and I think you told me you have a podcast on this as well.
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I do.
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I do so.
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How my program works is so I have a group.
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It's a Facebook group.
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It's called the Women Like Me Community.
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Now in that group we do community books.
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So this one says the Women Like Me Community.
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So any woman in the community can write in this book.
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There's no cost, there's no charge.
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If they want to write, they just fill out the form.
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I edit, I, I have a book designer who designs the book for me and I do promotional things.
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So so and away we go.
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So that's the community, but also within community.
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I also do something that's about a two month program and that is the women like me chapter book.
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So you can see how much larger they are.
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Yeah.
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In this book I interview ladies again no charge and and I pick ladies who I think have the biggest thing for me is that there's lessons in the woman's story so that the reader, if they're relating to them, in that story, the reader is able to find some helpful tips or motivation, something within that person's story that will hopefully help them, that person's story that will hopefully help them.
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And so, yeah, so, and it's not a theme book.
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So they start to write and then I come up with the concept of the cover and then I come up with the title once the stories are done.
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So with this one, the stories are all about transforming pain into wisdom and love.
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And it's so interesting because in this book because I have much more of a connection with the women in this book, because we're doing this over a longer period of time I have women who say Julie, I thought I let it go and then I realized I hadn't, I just buried it, you know or they say I was so afraid.
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And now that I've written it down, I realized what was I afraid of.
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That I've written it down, I realized what was I afraid of.
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You know it was.
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It was, it was in my head and it was in my body and and and sometimes it's it's the fear of releasing.
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It is scarier than what it really was sometimes.
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So.
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So I get all sorts of fabulous comments from ladies and the biggest thing, that one thing that almost every woman has said to me is if I can just help one other woman, it's worth telling my story.
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So once they finish telling their stories, then we do a podcast with them about their story and they get to have the video and the podcast for them.
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They can do whatever they like with it.
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They can tear it apart, they can use it for their marketing, whatever they would like to do with it, and and then the other bonus for them is, if they've written in the book, they can now purchase this book at cost.
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So no commission to me whatsoever, whatever it is for printing, shipping and taxes, and they can do whatever they want.
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They can sell this book on a website, they can take it to the flea market and sell it.
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They can give it away to friends and family.
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I've had ladies who have gotten on the speaking circuit with their stories and they, they call me and they go Julie, I need 20 author copies.
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I'm going to do a speeching and I'm going to sign them and then they sell the books for $25 a book and it's there, oh my goodness.
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So we're trying to lift people's spirits, release trauma and let women know that there's power in their stories.
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Not only is there power for healing, but for making a few bucks too, and a lot of the women who have written can use a few bucks for sure.
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So, yeah, so that's how the program works with it.
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Can I tell you about one other book?
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Yeah, yeah you have all this time in the world girl.
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Okay, all right.
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So I also have a group of ladies in Kenya and they call themselves Women Like Me in Kenya.
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Now, these ladies are very, very poor.
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Most of them are widowed, many of them are very sick and one lady's living in a hut that's falling down Like it's not good.
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Not good and I didn't know this, but in Kenya if you want your child to go to school, you have to pay school fees, you have to buy a uniform.
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If you are poor and you cannot buy those things, your child does not get educated.
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So I had no idea about this.
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So I met a lady, so I have my connection lady there and she has this, this group church group of 26 ladies.
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She has a very large church group but she's got 26 ladies in the group and this is their third book.
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So what they do is they write a story.
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So this one is called Kenyan Mothers Speak, so in this book.
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I said, okay, I want you to tell me about the healthcare in Kenya, I want you to tell me about the education system, I want you to tell me about what it's like to get food, so and all these different things.
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So they took each one of those chapters and wrote a little, a little blurb about each one of those things, uh, in the book, and then, um, all the proceeds.
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So I, I have paid for all of this, so they pay.
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Of course they have no money, but they pay for nothing out of the proceeds.
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For this, for this book, they get every penny.
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So if somebody today buys a book for $15 and I see that it's sold, even though I haven't been paid yet, I immediately send them their $15 because every penny is so important to them.
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Yes, and so not only is it raising money for them, but they have a sense of pride.
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At first they said maybe we can make beads, and I said I don't sell.
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I don't think I can sell jewelry, it's not my thing.
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But then at Christmas time they knitted and crocheted bookmarks.
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So they made over 300 Canadian dollars selling bookmarks in Canada, and so I sold them with their books.
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So it's really helping them.
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And then what they do is they buy the one leader that I have that I connect with.
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She'll buy like big bags of food and then they'll all come and get their share out of those foods.
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And the last big shopping that she did, she bought.
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I saw that and I said oh, what is what is that?
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I had no idea what it was and she said it's dish soap.
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I said, oh, okay, and she goes.
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We have a lot of people who get sick because they can't clean their dishes properly, because they have no soap.
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And I'm like, oh my, and here we sit, in our homes, you know, and I mean, we have nothing to feel guilty about.
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We're born in a different country and this is our lifestyle and the way we live, but sometimes we forget that there's people in the world that can't even wash their dishes and they're getting sick because their dishes aren't even clean.
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So so these ladies are fabulous, they're just lovely and and so, yeah, so their books go, the proceeds go directly to them so they can get school clothing for their kids and and buy some food and and dish soap or whatever, and dish soap, and dish soap, yeah, and dish soap, and dish soap, yeah, yeah.
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So that's sort of the gist of what I've been doing since 2019.
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Wow, that is amazing, your journey, like okay.
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So I love the part that you heard a voice tell it and you heard the word or saw the word right, and I mean that is just a gift.
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I actually have never told anybody this.
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With my epilepsy, I have jumped out of my body.
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I have thought.
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I say, thought, I don't know.
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I got to ask God, but I've seen the white light more than once, but I always hear I'm not ready for you.
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And then I feel a free fall and I land in my body and I jump up and I'm like, oh, my goodness.
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And I remember the last big seizure I had.
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I was like I died, but who's going to believe me?
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Like, but I saw the white light and now I got back for a purpose.
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So it's those little things that, the stories and the journeys.
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I feel and know that I'm here for a purpose too.
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So and I got my calling for the podcast a long time ago, but they didn't have podcasts started right away.
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I tried to do this filming with a videographer but it was going to be too expensive to do.
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So I started doing more meetup, networking groups, helping women across the area that have been in and men, abused relationships of how to get out of it.
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And somebody wrote me one day and said abused relationships of how to get out of it.
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And somebody wrote me one day and said, hey, I want to hear you.
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I live out of state.
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Can you do a podcast?
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And I talked to a friend about it.
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I was like I don't know, I don't know if I can really do that.
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And then bam, just one day and here I am.
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I'm very blessed.
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I have an investor behind the show and everything, and it's been like a hundred.
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I have my one year anniversary.
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I think I'm at 160 interviews.
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Wow, and yeah.
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I'm already getting booked up into October, so it's going to keep going and going and going.
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So it's just happy to hear those stories and, like you, I could tell with your glow it's almost the same as my glow, because we're helping people and I love the fact that you do not charge and they get the money for that.
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That is amazing and I think a lot of people have that hard concept of knowing.
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I have somebody I know very well.
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Oh, nadine, you're doing a podcast and you're not getting paid.
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You know what when I sit at church?
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For me, this is what God wants me to do.
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Yes, I'm investing time, but I do it out of the kindness of my heart.
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I would be at a food pantry serving if I could.
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I'd be doing something like that.
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But I'm doing the same thing, doing what I love and helping, and not charging.
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So yeah, I mean, we all need money of course and especially in living in Canada or the United States.
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You're in big trouble if you don't have any money to survive, and that's important.
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But I believe that if you're doing what you're meant to do, it just comes.
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It does yeah.
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And there's been times I've gone, oh no, like how am I going to pay for my next book?
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Things are a little tough right now.
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Next thing, you know, it just comes.
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