March 1, 2025
Unforgettable Connections: The Importance of Preserving Moments
Step into a heartfelt conversation with Jessica Ray, a certified life coach and former nurse who is passionate about the power of memories. In this engaging episode, she introduces innovative ways to preserve special moments, highlighting a unique service called Life on Record, where guests can leave voice messages for loved ones at important events. Jessica’s perspective is shaped by her decades-long experience in cancer care, where she witnessed firsthand how crucial it is to cherish every moment and connection in life.
Explore how the lessons learned through her medical career transitioned seamlessly into her life coaching practice, where she aims to guide individuals in prioritizing what truly matters. As she encourages self-reflection and embracing every opportunity, Jessica emphasizes the importance of living intentionally to avoid regrets later in life.
The episode culminates in a discussion about her inspiring movement, One Chance, aimed at amplifying personal stories and memories through collective sharing. Tune in to discover how you can make the most of your one chance in life and why memories should never fade.
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Love & Light - Keep Hope Alive
Chapters
03:11 - Introduction to the Podcast
05:19 - Guest Introduction: Jessica Ray
01:16:37 - Exploring Life on Record
03:30:12 - The Role of a Nurse in Life Lessons
09:29:00 - The One Chance Movement
14:12:13 - Life Coaching and Empowerment
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive.
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Today I have Jessica Ray with us and she is a certified life coach and we're going to be diving into her story.
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So welcome to Keep Hope Alive.
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I'm so excited to have you on.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I'm really looking forward to this.
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Oh, thank you.
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Well, I just wanted to ask you one quick question before we get started Now, out of the past year, how many weddings have you been to?
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Not too many.
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All of our people are married and have children and living on with their lives.
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Well, let's pretend.
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Then we got invited to go see a wedding of a coworker let's just pretend.
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And we're going into the ceremony part and over to the right.
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There is something we need to sign to let them know that we were there.
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What would we be signing?
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A guest book?
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Yes, perfect.
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Now one of our biggest sponsors is Life on Record and what they do.
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Instead of the guest book, they actually have a rotary phone that the guests will pick up and leave a voice message.
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It could be for one minute, five minutes, 10 minutes, and it's like congratulations, guys, we're so happy you're married, or maybe it's a groom's going.
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It's about time you put a ring on her finger, no matter what the message, no matter even what the occasion, because this is good for birthdays and corporate events and family reunions.
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It's the gift of voice and hearing the congratulations part of it.
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I mean.
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I even used it for the football team and one of the kids broke his leg and they left a message.
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Now what they do?
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Oh, really quick, I'm all over the place today.
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I had so much coffee.
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They do have a QR code that you can scan with your own mobile device in case there was a long line for the phone to use it, so you can do that before or after the event.
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Now they'll burn all of this either on a 10 inch vinyl record or it will be a.
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I call it the boom box.
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It's a little speaker that you can have.
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Their plans start at $99.
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You get the phone number for one year.
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You got to return the phone.
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I know it's really pretty, but you've got to return the phone.
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To find out more information on Life on Record, visit them at wwwlifeonrecordcom.
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All right, so let's get started.
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Who is Jess Garay?
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I just want to start and say when I heard you share about Life on Record, I was like I want that, like I wish that I had that 18 years ago when we got married, but of course it didn't exist.
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But I love that.
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You can use it for different occasions, so yeah, definitely, and I always want to point that out because a lot of people will get it for weddings.
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That's probably their biggest thing.
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But like when I used it for the football injury, you know, having all your teammates say I hope you feel better, you know, and let your leg heal up and you're good football player, that's priceless, you know, that's priceless.
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So hearing that is very important to people.
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And then if it was a wedding, I always think like after one year, just you're having that cake, if it's still good or not, but you can hit the playback button or put the record on and hear all those and you know, and just you know kind of celebrate with your husband or wife or whatever you know, and enjoy that time to hear all those congratulations and stuff.
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So it is a neat concept.
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I'm definitely all about the memories and I think part of that stems from.
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My story stems from so I am, as you mentioned, a certified life coach.
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I'm also a registered nurse.
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I've been a nurse for 17 years and the first 13 years I worked in cancer care with cancer patients and their families and really quickly gained an appreciation for life and death and everything in between.
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And so when I think about that concept, I think about, and so when I think about that concept, I think about you know, leaving those memories for someone and having that forever.
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It's really really powerful and yeah, you see, even with the podcast, I feel like if I were ever to leave this earth.
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My kids have all these podcasts, they can watch their mom.
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But but, yeah, I think it's important and, as a nurse, and seeing people go through the cancer treatments, I mean, yeah, some make it, some people don't, and it's got to be a very hard job.
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So, um, that's, that's a lot of work, you know, being a nurse, and you're going to hear later on I'm going to be talking about nurses too.
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So but, yeah, what got you in that industry for nursing?
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I always knew that I wanted to help people.
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I didn't really know you know how some people have from the time they're a little child I want to be a nurse when I grow up.
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I didn't have that, but I had this strong desire to help and so I initially went into school for psychology and I was thinking I was going to be a psychologist.
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And I got into school and I loved it, but I was like I don't know if I want to do this for 10 years, to do this for 10 years.
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And so I was like what else could I do that is helping people that didn't have me in school for 10 years.
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And I was like I could just be a nurse.
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And so I went to school for nursing and almost immediately from from being in there, I was like, oh, this is definitely it, Like this was, this was the path for me, and so that's what started the journey was.
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I just didn't want to go to school for 10 years, but I knew that I wanted to help.
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Yeah, yeah, I always get around when I'm in for procedures because I had a lot of stuff.
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But I always tell them in my next life, but I always tell them in my next life I'm going to be an anesthesiologist, I'm going to go to school for that, because I mean it is a lot of schooling, though I didn't realize.
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So when what was my?
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Oh, oh, it was my stomach, yeah.
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So when they were about to put me under, I was like so when they were about to put me under, I was like, well, tell me about your schooling.
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And da-da-da-da-da-da, you know, how does this really work?
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Are you just sitting with me and pumping it every second?
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And they're like, yes, and I was like, oh, I thought it was like one time you leave the room and I'm just out, like taking an Ambien or something I didn't know, they had to stay by your side, like taking an Ambien or something I didn't know they had to stay by your side.
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So, but yeah, being a nurse and helping others is great.
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So, and then you probably made friendships, you know, with the people who were coming in and they looked up to you.
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So you probably got called your their angel helping them.
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Right, I did get that that.
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I also had a colleague who used to call me zen, because she's like no matter what is happening, like the worst situation could be happening, and you're just like okay, let's do this and this and this, um, so that has really stuck with me through that, yeah, yeah, on that.
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Yeah, that really good, I am so proud to hear that.
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And then the life coaching.
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Now, um, did you, I know for me, I took a course.
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Did you take any courses?
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I did.
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So I took a course in.
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I started coaching in about 2015, about 10 years ago, and in 2017, I took a certification course.
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Unfortunately, the school doesn't exist anymore, but it was just a beautiful.
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It was ran by two psychologists.
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It was a beautiful and supportive and fully immersive experience and I'm so grateful for that experience and working through that and getting a certification, that experience and working through that and getting a certification, and that's really good.
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And my school.
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They're no longer found either.
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So I was like I wanted to see if they had more horses.
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And you know, life coaching, it does come right to us.
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I'm picking up on you a little bit too, but I know I'm an empath.
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People will come up to me and just tell me their life story and I was like, well, how do they see that out of me, you know?
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So I was like, okay, I can do this.
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This is helping people, you know so.
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So the schooling, and then you finished up and then that drove you into the new world of doing, have you?
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I guess my question is when you started after the schooling, were you doing it on Zoom and meeting people anywhere?
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Okay, so, it was a combination.
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So I have definitely done coaching in person, but I find that I can reach so many more people when I do it through Zoom.
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I can connect with people all over the world and I find that people are comfortable sharing because they're in their environment and so we can go deeper as opposed to meeting in person.
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I also, I guess about 10 years ago, also moved into a rural location and so I am kind of off of the beaten path and so it makes more sense for efficiency and, like I said, that deep connection in order to do it over Zoom.
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Well, that's really cool.
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So you're at a smaller town, right?
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I'm right in the middle of two small towns out in the country.
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See, that's where I'm moving to Oklahoma and it is very compared to Texas, because I feel like we're getting overpopulated.
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And I remember it was a couple of weeks ago, see, we had Toyota come from California and brought so many people from California to Texas.
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And then Kentucky Fried Chicken in Kentucky.
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They bought a place in Plano, texas, for their headquarters now.
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So now it's like okay, we've got Kentucky people and now we're going to have California and there's so many diverse, different, my mind is boggled.
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So when I went to Shawnee to visit last week, it was the cutest small town where everybody knows everybody and I just, I remember just soaking it in, even the drive, soaking it in because I, when my son was very much younger, he would always be in the car and there was black cows and he called them bears.
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I go, no, no, honey, they're not bears.
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But now, every time I drive by those cows I was like there's the bears.
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Yeah you remember that that's funny, that's cute.
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Yeah, but it's drive and it's very hilly.
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Shawnee got hit by some tornadoes though, and um, the damage on the trees are still there.
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You could tell they picked up the pieces and they got things up and running again.
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But I, you know, that's probably the one thing I get I'll be scared of is the tornadoes.
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So, and then people say, oh, I get a cellar, I got a basement, I'm like where, where?
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You know, where do I go?
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like I hope they tell me I gotta find that out but the good thing is that, because they experience that type of weather, they are prepared for it, they know what to do if this happens, and you'll learn that once you're there.
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Yeah, definitely, and I guess the shopping is different in smaller towns too.
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So I'll share this with you.
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This is how city I am.
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Like you go to the grocery store if you want meat, like you just go up to the counter I need this, I need that.
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Well, my stepmom took me to the butcher and I was like, where are we?
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Like what is this?
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And I was telling the guy I go it's my stepmom, she's getting everything.
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And he's like, okay, I was like why don't?
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I was like she helped me understand.
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Like they come here, it's a small town, I get it.
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So and it smelled really good in there and I go, well, what's the difference between Walmart and y'all?
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And he told me and I can't stay on the podcast, but I was laughing my head off and it just made me think, okay, I need to come to the butcher now, so, but it was definitely interesting to be there and see that and everything.
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So, but I think it's fun.
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I've been a photographer for 20 years, so I was running around Shawnee a few years back taking pictures and I got some really good ones.
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I even caught the fire engine, cut it out, but they knew I was taking pictures, so they're waving and had the flag.
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I was like that is one of my best pictures, you know.
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Amazing, amazing, yeah, but that's cool, Okay.
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So with the life coaching, what segments do you actually cover?
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Is it like relationships, health, what else?
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So I help people with overwhelm, people pleasing, setting boundaries, saying yes to more of what lights them up and no to the things that don't, and for me, it's really important that people understand that we only have one opportunity, we only have one chance to do this life, and so spending it doing things that don't fuel us and fulfill us is going to make for a really long life, and I saw through working with cancer patients, people whose lives were cut too short, and we worked with people all the way from 18 to 100, any adults and people who laid there on their deathbed and had regrets about the things that they wish they did differently or the experiences that they wish.
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They said yes to working too hard and not spending time with the people they love, and so my work really is to inspire people to take advantage of every opportunity and to make the most of this life that's very good.
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Good, yeah, because people, you know we get driven away, you know, in different paths.
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So, like I came back to visit my son, I only came back what?
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Friday?
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No, it was no, it was Thursday, friday, saturday, and I'm leaving tomorrow after church and I take my son to football.
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So, but spending time with him is so important.
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Like I said, I know I'm packing, I'm doing this.
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I have to say bye to friends too.
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So he understands that.
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The only person who didn't understand that is my mother today.
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Well, why do you have to go and say bye to them?
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I was like they're my friends, I'm going to say bye.
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I was just like when do I have any other time to do that?
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But those little things and moving forward and having those moments to spend it with my son before I had to go back for a full week at Oklahoma again and try to get a job, it's just so important.
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And I told my son on a text.
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He's still sleeping.
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I said, listen, I have to go run another errand, but I would like to take you fishing and don't think it's going to be boring for me, because I just want to sit outside in the sun and beautiful weather we're having right now and look at the water and you do your thing.
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I'm just going to chill out, you know so, but those times are crucial and you've got to put.
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I call it time management.
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You know you've got to find time to be with the people you love and everything.
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I know my dad.
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I can't believe I'm saying this.
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He's such a great man, but I think maybe I get my singing from him in a weird way.
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He's a doo-wop person and he was sitting in his recliner and just singing away as loud as he could and I taped him because that's a memory I wanted to look back at.
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You know, is my dad going do, do, do, do.
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You know?
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It's just the funniest thing to me, but it's those memories and collecting it, just like you said, life on record those memories are so important.
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So it reminds me of.
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So I work in a different setting now.
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So I worked in cancer care in the hospital for 13 years and now I work in long-term care with people with cognitive impairments, alzheimer's, dementia, and so part of that role is I'm the assistant director of care there for nursing, and so part of that role is education, and so we teach a course a colleague and I called gentle persuasive approaches, and so part of the curriculum is different videos and things that they watch him before he had Alzheimer's, before he developed the inability to communicate with his family, and so it shares him giving hugs and kisses to his family, saying I love you, doing like a little dance where he like clicks his heels.
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And it reminds me of that because those memories whether you know someone and I've done a lot of reflecting on this lately, about people who are still alive in their physical body but they don't have their mental capacity, and I think about you know, looking back on those moments, we have 70 residents and quite a great portion of them they're not the people that they were before, and so when you look back at those memories you can really relate to them and think about who they were before.
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They're the people that they are now and so watching that evolution over time.
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It's just like your kids growing up right Watching the cute videos from when they were little and the funny things that they said or did, and then, when they're older, looking back on those memories and even sharing them with them.
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It's really fun.
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You know, just like you, I was an activity director for our vets who had dementia and Alzheimer's.
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But I had to do exercises with them and everything we always did after mealtime dancing.
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They would have entertainment, but just to be there.
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Everybody was different in the stages of it, but whether it was art doing that, it was just so fun.
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I'm best friends with the nurse there.
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We were just hanging out last night.
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But you know, if it wasn't for that job and seeing and helping people like that, I mean it's appreciation, I love it.
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You know, sadly it's been about 10 years now since you know I worked there but a lot of them have gone to the other side.
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But you know I will always cherish that memory, that work in there and having fun and, you know, helping them spend their time with everything.
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So, but when they it was dance time.
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Oh my, there was a guy who would play Jambalaya Crawfish Boil.
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They all love that song.
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But it got me listening to, like Hank Williams and everything, and I truly like.
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When I play that kind of music on my record player, I'm just like those were the best times player, I'm just like those were the best times.
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So all right, so the journey of helping.
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So, even online, you know what I guess you know for my podcast, I will always view who in the world.
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Who in the world is watching my show.
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But I have Australia, I have England and it was just Asia.
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I was like, wow, okay, so I'm out there.
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Are you helping anybody over there as well?
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Not currently.
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So currently my clients are Canada and the US, but I have historically, I've had a client in Australia, I've had a client from England.
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So, yeah, it's really nice to have that global impact and to be able to help and support people all over the world, and if not for the power of the internet and Zoom and all the technology, like we, wouldn't have the opportunity to do that.
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And it's really amazing to hear how people live differently in different areas of the world and the cultural differences and just the lens through which other countries see the world that we see very differently.
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Yep, yep, I enjoy talking to you.
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Me too.
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I was like through the lens, okay, I used to say that, you know, as I did photography.
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So, yeah, you differently see things differently.
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So, oh my goodness, okay, well, I got to jump into another commercial from one of our sponsors, snapvans, which are all over Facebook and you've probably seen them before, and of course, my Pandora bracelet is going to block it a little bit.
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Mine says hope on it.
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Now, these help.
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They have an elastic band on the back and they help with depression, anxiety, ptsd.
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It helps me for sleep too.
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But you take this and you thump it and you say a little.
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I always say a little prayer, but they have all different mantra words Like mine says hope, but there's peace and love and fearlessness, and the list goes on.
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They come in all different colors.
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But when this gets thumped and I'm going to give you an example I always pray for the nurses, because I have the worst veins in the world.
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I get stick almost six to eight times until they find a vein.
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So I'm always praying for the nurses to find my vein and I'll just thump it and let it do its thing.
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It does help me with the anxiety part and it helps me focus, like it redirects my focus on.
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It doesn't hurt, you know, let them, but pray harder for them because you know I don't like telling people I'm a hard stick but I do look for the confidence in a nurse to have that If something does happen, it happens.
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That's life.
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I've had some of them blow.
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My hand was swollen like a baseball and I was like okay, so heat for two days on it, but it went away and they did get that.
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They had to walk me over to the ER to find somebody who could get my vein because it was a CAT scan and I had to drink a bunch of liquid.
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So you only get this time period but not finding the vein right away.
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It was like scary, was like Carrie, but it really does help with all that.
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Now all proceeds will go to an organization or charity that helps people overcome anxiety and all this stuff.
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So I want you to check them out online.
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The word faith is new to theirs.
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The code when you're checking out is K-H-A keep hope alive, and then you can get the word faith on yours.
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Oh, and I love it because I do everything in the water.
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It's so durable and that's one of my favorite things too, but check them out at wwwsnapbandscom, and snap bands is actually spelled S, n, a, p, p, ba N D Z.
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All right, let's get back to this.
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I I'm having so much fun.
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I have all these questions and I know I can't just overwhelm you with questions right now.
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So, like, if people want to find you and everything, what socials?
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What's the best way to reach you?
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So best place to reach me on social is Facebook.
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I hang out there most often, though in the last week or so I've started to develop a LinkedIn presence, so I am slowly building over there.
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So if there's any LinkedIn people I would love to connect, and the other best places on my website jessgarycom, j-e-s-s-g-a-r-a-ycom, and there are links to all the places where they can find me.
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Oh, wow, okay, that's perfect, that's perfect.
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So let me just ask so I think we talked about books and that is in the future process, and then do you do any podcasts or anything else?
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So, when you talked before about having a podcast and having something living on the internet forever that your kids can listen to, that really resonates for me.
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