Jan. 30, 2025

January Jones sharing Calamities of a Clumsy Woman with Brenda Prater Sellers

January Jones sharing Calamities of a Clumsy Woman with Brenda Prater Sellers

Meet a Modern-Day Erma Bombeck! Brenda Prater Sellers has done it all: climbed Mt. Everest, chatted with celebrities, and written a book about her fabulous adventures. She’s slept in some of the craziest places and learned a lot of lessons about...

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Meet a Modern-Day Erma Bombeck! Brenda Prater Sellers has done it all: climbed Mt. Everest, chatted with celebrities, and written a book about her fabulous adventures. She’s slept in some of the craziest places and learned a lot of lessons about perseverance, mental health, and supporting loved ones while inspiring others. Brenda shares her story, discusses her travels, and encourages readers to focus on what matters in life. Author of “You Slept Where? Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman.”

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Who is January Jones. She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is not an older, gorgeous

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exotic dancer from The Johnny Carson Show. She is an

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author and she wrote Thou Show Not Why the Eleventh

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Commandment that reached number one at Amazon dot com. She

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is a reality TV golf personality with World High Stakes

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Golf televised on hd Net. She is a humans and

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whynologist expert. She is your featured host today on January

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Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax, and get

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ready to laugh and listen to Ms Jones with her

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eclectic roster of guests. As you learn life's lessons. These

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stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware because

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you are entering the no whining world of January Jones.

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Hello everyone, I hope you're having a glittery, glowing day.

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I'm January Jones and i'd like to welcome you to

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our podcast. I'm promoting my new glitter Granny Brandon. You'll

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hear more about that later. Now, for my listeners, let

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me ask you a question. Do you know anyone whose

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life is he's a calamity? Tell me, do you have

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a destination wishless? Now? Have you ever met someone who

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climbed them Mount Everest? Would you like to start out

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twenty twenty five meeting an amazing, humorous one who's compared

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to Irma Bombeck? Tell me have you ever heard of

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a book entitled You Slept Where? Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman?

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If you can answer yes or maybe to any of

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these questions, then you are in the right place, and

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I'd like to welcome you to January Jones sharing senior

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success stories. Now it's time rest relaxed, Go, get some

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cheese and crackers, get a glass of wine. Join us

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in the no Wine Zone today. Now let me tell

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you a little bit about our glittery guest today. She

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is a modern day Erma Bomback, and she has done

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it all and climb Mount Everest. I'm so thrilled. I've

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never had anyone on the show who's ever done that.

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She's chatted with celebrities, and she's written a book about

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her fabulous adventures. She slept in some of the craziest places,

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and along the way she's learned a lot of lessons

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while inspiring others. She is the author of You Slept

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Where Calamities of a Clumsy business Woman. It's my pleasure

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to welcome to our podcast today, Brenda Praeter Sellers. Hello, Brenda,

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how are you doing today?

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I'm doing great?

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How are you? Januine? I just love your name and

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it's so appropriate for January. I love your hat. I

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love you.

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That's my glitterate. And I'm trying to get everyone ready

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and in the mood for Valentine's Day, you know, with

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all the pink. And I know you're glittering today too,

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in your honor, in.

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Your honor January or my glitter vest.

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Okay, that's so much fun. Now I can tell from

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your accent. Now you're from Tennessee, right.

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That's correct.

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And tell us a little bit, Brenda, about where your

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story began. You were born in Tennessee. Tell us a

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little bit about your family life, and tell us about

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some of the people who influenced you when you were

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growing up.

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Okay, So I'm a farmer's daughter and my father is

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non generations local family on the same farm, and they're

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not making any farms anymore, and a lot of the farmers

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are being said divided. So I grew up on the

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farm as I was a daddy's girl, but my mother

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took a lot of pictures, and so I got the

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photography bag at a young age, and that's part of

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what my story's about. I wanted to photograph all these

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places because mama had national geographic books as we grow

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As we grew up, of course, I'm just a little

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farm girl, and we worked hard, and I said, someday,

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I'm going to photograph all these places.

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And I started a list as just a little girl.

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And I ended up checking those places off my list.

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And then from the farm, I got a job as

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a receptionist and worked my way from receptionists up to

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the president of a global manufacturing company, and it was

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so nice because we had air conditioning. I didn't have

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to pickover job attractor and we were inside. So it

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was just I couldn't believe that I was getting paid

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to work inside when the air conditioning. So went from

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the president from the receptionist to the president. And then

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in nineteen ninety we were in the automotive aftermarket business.

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And in nineteen ninety I won this woman or a

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Man of the Year ward because there was no women category.

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That sounds about right for that time. That sounds about right.

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The things have changed from that. But the title comes

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from the U slept Where is my Daddy's Boys? Because

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as you mentioned, I've stayed at bizarre places, from the

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Underwater Hotel to the ice Hotel, but I actually.

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Went and slept in a silo in.

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Ohio, and my great depression daddy, farmer Daddy could not

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believe that I paid to sleep in a sylo. You know,

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you should not believe it when we have a solo

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in our backyard.

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Oh that's great. And you know, having a dream board

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or imagination board. I've heard heard so many people talk

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about that. Never have I heard anyone do it that young.

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The closest I came to that, Brenda was I was

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growing up in Michigan and it was freezing and we'd

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be walking to school in the snow and I'd have

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ice forming on my cheeks. And my dream board was,

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I'm going to live in California.

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That's good for you.

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And then actually, when I was about twenty five, it happened.

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I ended up living in California for forty years. But

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I never put it on a board, and I never

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showed or told anyone else about it. Good for you. Okay,

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So where did you when? Did you? Have you always

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stayed in Tennessee.

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Or did you leave? Or Now I'm born and raised here,

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probably I will die here.

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And I never understood as a child.

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My mother was from Missouri, and her mother died when

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she was born. So her and my aunt, which is

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more like my grandmother, came to Tennessee to live with relatives.

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So all those Missouri relatives and I would come to

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Tennessee and would always take them to the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Well I never understand, well, why do we take them

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to the mountains. Well, now that I've been all over

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the world, I've been to seventy countries. Well, now I

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understand that we really do live in God's country here

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seventy countries.

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Wow, I think I've got my number up to fifty four.

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That's great.

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I've got some more traveling to do. I'm sure your

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family must be so proud of you. Tell us about

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when was your very very first adventure. What was your

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first trip where you went on an adventure?

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Oh?

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Well, I started really young.

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We did. I was a scuba diver. My whole story

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is very serendipity. I was going to get together at

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my next door neighbors. I met a scuba diver instructor

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and I'm like, well, I grew up with the lake

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but never did really scuba dive. That wasn't really on

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my list at the time. And he goes, well, I

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have a class starting the next night. I said, we'll

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sign me up. So I signed up. But with the

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scuba dive, he learned how to be a scuba diver,

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and I had to take my husband, Big Ed.

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He's also in the book.

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He's a he's called big A, but that's that's effectually

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called big Ad. He's just a big guy. Well, he

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didn't know really how to swim, and he didn't want to.

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He didn't want to really learn.

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To be scuba diving. But scuba diving, when I won,

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you have to have you have to have a partner.

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So anyway, our first adventure was that we scuba dived down.

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He had to be certified, and we were, but he

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he whined like a little girl. It was cold. But

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we stayed at an underwater hotel which was thirty feet

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under the water and you have to scuba dive to it.

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And I didn't know. I knew he couldn't swim very well,

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but he he did get surted.

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He didn't get certified.

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But then once we got in the enclosure, you actually

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scuba dive thirty feet down, come up. Well, he's closed

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the phobic.

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I knew that.

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And then to make matters worse, it was our anniversary.

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I didn't tell him we were going, and then we

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were there. That's my opening chapter in my book. I'm

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actually changing out of my wetsuit. And in January, another

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couple swims up into our enclosure and comes up into

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our because once you once you scuba dive down, you

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come up and you can breathe once you.

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Get an enclosure.

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Well, and there was this other young couple, and I'm like,

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it would be like going into somebody's hotel room, because

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this was our hotel room.

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And there I'm in a towel.

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I'm in a towel, and they they were there to

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stay at the same place. And I had made an

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oopsie daisy moment that I did not realize there were

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other people in this enclosure. So that you just learned

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to there whining, did you know good? Because you couldn't

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walk down the hallway to get another rim, So you

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just had to live. You had to just get along

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together because we were the bathroom was this big, and

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then we were down under, like I said, thirty feet

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of water. But you just started to coexist. You just

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started to co exist and laugh about it.

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Oh my gosh. Well, you know, I love your life

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is Seren Deputy and I can attest to that. And

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let's up. Let me hear a little bit about Big Ed.

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So how long have you two been there?

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A long time? I always forget our anniversary. I couldn't

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really tell you how long we've been married. But he's

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a good sport. Big Ed has his own fan club.

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He kind of just.

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Goes along, goes along, and then I think people feel

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sorry for him because he's not as adventurous. He regret

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I married my office at he's stay at home. He's

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very much like Dolly Parton's husband, but he's behind this,

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in the background, and he doesn't really like the exposure

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of being out there, but he goes along. In Big

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Head is like Ernest T. Bass in Maybery, because Ernest T.

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Mass is only in seven episodes if people don't realize

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that in Mayberry, and so Bighead is in seven episodes

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or seven chapters. In one of the stories was because

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he's big, He's just the East six six three, and

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one of the stories I wow. Yeah. But because of

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my background being in the automotive business, I had a

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on my list to go and stay in a nineteen

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fifty nine Cadillac Coop Deville convertible.

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And it's in Kentucky. It's it's in.

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The Wildwood end of Kentucky. Well, I didn't tell him

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that we were going to because our air conditioned had

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gone out in the house and so we needed to

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go somewhere where they fixed their air conditioning. Well, we

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get there and he the guy says, he sees Big

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d He goes, well, how tall is he?

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I said, hey, he's six three or six four.

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And I went, well, I didn't know why they were

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asking that, and he goes, ma'am, he said, this this bad.

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even six feet tall. I'm five seven and I had

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night and there he is, he's hooked up to his

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seapacked machine. He looked like Avery Charger because he was

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Oh my god, that was wonderful. This is such fun

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to Big Ad, I'm married to someone similar.

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five years second marriage for both of us, which is amazing,

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Welcome back with my Glittering, Clumsy Catastrophe friend, my new

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friend Brenda. And for the record, we're going to promote

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both of our books of course throughout this podcast, but

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Brenda and I are going to exchange books, and then

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we're going to have her come back on the show

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and I'm going to ask her questions and she's gonna

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ask me questions, and I think we're going to have

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a fun time. Tell me, Brenda, do you have children?

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Okay? I have one what we call blood child. We

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had one son, but we raised fifteen other kids.

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And that is because he was a poper kid.

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He played sports, but then he ended up putting sports

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and going with a band. So all these kids are groupy.

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So with these fifteen kids, we went from grade school

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to high school to college and beyond. And I'm still

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in touch with these fifteen kids and more they've even

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there's more. There's even more than the fifteen now.

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So okay, well, he sounds like a very lucky young

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man to have you. I noticed a theme in your

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presentation is a humor and I told you before we

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went on the air. When I wrote my humor book,

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Thou Shalt Not Wine, I did it in the tradition

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of Irma Bomback, because I write about things that happens

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to women everyday. Things mothers know everything. And that's pretty

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much what you've done with your book, right.

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Yes, well, and those are my words. But I thought

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that's who I wanted to write luck, and that she

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was kind of my mentor. And I actually even went

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to the Erma Bomback School in Ohio. They have a

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week long class that they can teach you how to

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how to write, and that was, Yeah, that was a

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blessing to learn how to do that. But during COVID,

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when I was trying to finish my book, I had

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beta readers, and then one of the one of the

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beta readers, she was the one that's that's her little blurb.

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On the back of the book. She's she She called.

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Me a modern day because your Arma Bomback was the housewife,

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but I was a business woman. So that's why she

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called me a modern day Erma Bomback, which was an

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honor for me. I just thought that was funny book

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because at the time that I was writing that book,

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I was my mother was dealing with dementia. So my

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sweet timid Christian mother was going through dementia, and so

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I needed to laugh, and so I would write stories

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to make her laugh, and that's where the laughter came,

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because it's better of the laughter crome.

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Yeah. Yeah, Well we all learned that along the way.

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If you can't have humor, there's going to be no hope.

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You have to have humor to get through life. That's

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kind of a theme through everything I've done. You're a businesswoman. Now,

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I started my business. Actually I was in business before

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my first book and other businesses, but my first book

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I wrote when I was fifty and then started the

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rest of this career. So you're never too old to

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have fun and do different things, right.

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That's exactly right. So you're just as young as you feel.

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Now taking care of your mom with dementia. I'm sorry.

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And how long was that period of your life?

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It was an average of ten years. And that's where

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I kind of learned to balance. And you know, I

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was running business. I had two different businesses at that time,

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and then you had employees. We had a photography business.

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incident under the water, we end up having a scuba

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diving business because we're a photographers and we would photograph

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the classmates as they were getting their certification. That mama

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had the dementia for about ten years, and in that

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you just learned how to keep mama happy. That's what

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that was our goal, keep mama happy. And Mama loved

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to read, but it got so she couldn't really remember

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what she was reading. But I would write my stories

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and that's how I finished my book. I would write

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the stories and she would listen, you know, she would

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listen to me as I was reading them and so,

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and then I could tell that she would laugh, she

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would lie. So that's how I knew it was funny,

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because she would laugh. I would want her, you know,

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I would want her to laugh.

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Now, okay, so let's jump back to the scuba diving career.

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We have a nephew and niece from Micronesia Palau, so

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we were fortunate enough to go there to scuba dive

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with them. Uh. Where do you scuba dive in Tennessee?

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and lakes, but if the visibility is.

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Very, very poor. But part of the big edge story.

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He's a two time Purple Heart Vietnam veteran Army veteran

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and uh, after we did this underwater adventure, he ended

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up didn't want to get the open water two certification,

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but he did. But then he got hooked on scuba

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dive and got fifty certifications, including cave diving. And he

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was called in to rescue a drowned victim that was

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way very you know, very deep, and that's a specialized

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diving certification to do that. And it's a sad story.

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And I wasn't gonna tell his story, but his story

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is part of that story because he ended up putting

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his life in danger and his dive partner. They ended

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up finding the drawn victim, but his dive partner, at

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age fifty, convulsed underwater and had to be brought to

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the top of the surface and later died on the

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surface or.

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though and then.

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He stopped diving after that accident, but.

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Canada showing and teaching people the seriousness of scuba diving

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and the dangers of scuba diving.

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Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, that's something you

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have to be really careful about. Okay, to quickly get

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to this Mount Everest story, because you're the first person

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who's ever been on my podcast who's Clonbaunt Everest. Well,

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my next question, of course, is did big Ed go

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with you?

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No, definitely, not definitely. He definitely would never do that.

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And I'm not really a mountain climber, but I was

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photographing and people don't realize I was photographing.

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There are four sets of Wonders of the World.

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Well that's four time seven and the Mount Everest is

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one of the natural wonders of the world.

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Well also a.

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Sky diver, So if I could have skydived over Mount

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Everst and take the picture to check it off my list,

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I would have done that. But it's too high, you know,

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it's too high. I had to sign a way where

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that you know, if you die, they don't bring you

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back because it's too you know, they just do some

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rocks on you. So I jokingly told her. Our tom

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that works in our local funeral home, was like, well,

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if I died, it's going to be a cheap funeral

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because I just throw some rocks. Be cheaper. Then you

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buried me, because they throw some rocks on you and

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then you're good to get. But I said, my biggest

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accomplishment of common Mount Everest was that that I didn't

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break a nails.

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Oh gosh, these nails are important, aren't they breaking nail?

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But I didn't do well, so don't be impressed at all.

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There again, it was my goal was just a photograph

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the mountain. Well, for three days, I don't remember. There's

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pictures of me on oxygen. I don't remember those days.

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For three days, you didn't even change you didn't even

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I didn't remember anything for three days.

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For three days.

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But the funny part about that was I survived the

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mountain and then I came back to Nepall with my

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with my shirt.

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But you had to have a guide to get on

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the mountains.

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Well, I get back to the hotel in the poll

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and uh, my guy, he says something to me. So

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I turned around and I was going into my hotel

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room and I hit my head on top of the

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because I was taller than the doorframed.

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During the fall, hit my.

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Head about knocked me out. And then I'll go inside

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my room and there was a steps. I didn't see

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the steps, so I tripped. I fell, sprang both my ankles.

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This is in the hotel room on the mountain after

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I calmed the mountain. And then to make it even worse,

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I could not wait to wash my hair, shave my legs,

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and to get a eye and so I put on

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the hotel issued flip flops because I could not wait

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to get out of those I mean, I had those

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Packey boots for three weeks, almost four weeks, and could

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not wait to get it. I get those things, but

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I had allergic reaction to the some the plastic in

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the flow. So so I always say, I said, well, I

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climbed my evers, but the hotel I survived my evers,

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but the hotel about killed me.

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Oh my, yeah, it sounds like it. Now you talk

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about your sherpa. Obviously your sherpa was on the mountain

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with you. Yeah, But did someone else travel with you

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to Nepal to do this or did you go by

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yourself by myself?

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But I travel and my mom. I could not believe

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that I traveled by myself. But at the time I was.

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I was a female in business, of course, a male

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dominated industry. But I always traveling by myself unless we

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did a trade show, and would always have staff with us.

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But I was used to traveling by myself.

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I was.

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I was raised with brothers, so the older brother, younger brother.

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I was used to being with men. But the problem

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with climbing Mount Everest is that I ended up just

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getting one guide. You have to have a guide, and

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then I had another. The second sherpa carried my gear, well,

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my camera gear was thirty pounds, and my face and

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what and what he did bless his He could not

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read or write, but he could carry one hundred and fifty.

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Pounds on his back.

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So that was his job, and bless his heart, he

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walked two days to meet us there in the poll.

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Well actually yeah, in the in Luca before we started

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the hike. He walked two days before we started the

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track on Mount Everest. So kind of a sad story

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is after that trap, I could not wait, like I said,

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for three or four days, you hide down, so I couldn't. Well,

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I'm hiking down when I wanted to hike up in

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three or four days. I was taking the pictures of

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the wrong mountain because Mount Everest was was smaller because

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you were from a distance. So I was taking pictures

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of the Rome Mountain.

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Wow.

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He every year after that he would he the Sherpa

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and that's sir livelihood. And they they said before I

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went there that if they don't I think you can

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make it. And I went through four trainers, ten months

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of training. They said they don't think you can make it,

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or if they don't like you, because that's the holy

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mountain to them, they can refuse to take you, know,

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to take you. I thought, well, surely somebody will like

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me somewhere and I could go. I could go and

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00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:24.599
they did. But they would cook my food on the way,

468
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:26.839
on the way and carry all the gears. But it

469
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:30.880
got when you start getting fourteen fifteen, sixteen thousand feet

470
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:35.680
that's altitude segment and and you to talk about you know,

471
00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:38.359
your note be in the nosebleeds section. It's so the

472
00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:42.799
air is so dry and THI end up there but experience.

473
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:47.519
But after we got back, he the sherp I kept email,

474
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.319
they come back next year, come back next year.

475
00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:51.079
I'm like, oh God, there's no way I'm going.

476
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.000
To come back. I could you know, I'm not going

477
00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:58.839
to wow. Yeah, But then I noticed a couple of

478
00:27:58.920 --> 00:27:59.799
years he stopped.

479
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:02.359
Well, then they had that accident.

480
00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:05.200
I went in two thousand and three and that was

481
00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:06.640
the fiftieth anniversary of.

482
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:10.640
Helly's climb.

483
00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:13.359
And then they had that accident where a lot of

484
00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:17.279
people die. And that name was his name was very

485
00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:20.599
you know, very popular in that area. So I wondered

486
00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:23.960
if he did perish after that, because I never heard

487
00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:28.119
from him again. Every year for years he kept email.

488
00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:30.920
Come back, come back. So that was kind of a

489
00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:31.559
sad story.

490
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:35.799
That's this story is amazing because I think I if

491
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:39.240
had I been there and I had someone who could

492
00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:42.759
carry one hundred and fifty pounds. I would have said,

493
00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:49.400
forget the camera. You carrying me, that's for sure.

494
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:54.039
Well it got so I could even He did end

495
00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.240
up taking my camera gear and then I had like

496
00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.400
a little camera around my neck. But I didn't even

497
00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:04.440
do this to raise the camera to breathe, and I

498
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.160
couldn't even do that. I was so I mean, it's

499
00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:09.839
like one step at a time, breath and one breath

500
00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:12.160
at a time, and a headache. I just had a

501
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:14.119
really really bad headache the whole time.

502
00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:16.759
Oh my gosh. And I'm going to read about that

503
00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:19.200
in your book, I hope when you said it to me,

504
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:22.240
and when you get my book, you're going to read

505
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:28.559
about one of my honeymoons where Lucky Leaf took me

506
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:33.640
on a honeymoon to the Alps so we could go skiing,

507
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.680
and I am like a new skier, and he hired

508
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.920
my ski instructor, Old Eddie, who it could have been

509
00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:50.319
like a shirpa because he literally snowplowed with me down

510
00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:53.559
an entire mountain. This was not like, oh, let's get

511
00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:56.960
a lift and go up. You're at the top of

512
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:01.039
the mountain and you're now skiing down and as you're

513
00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:04.680
skiing down, you're looking over to the sides and there's ropes,

514
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:10.240
so yeah, yeah, and then of course when you get

515
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:15.000
to the hotel, we all would drink snaps, which was amazing.

516
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:20.440
It sounds like we've had a lot of similar adventures,

517
00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:23.839
you know. Right now, with Valentine's Day coming up, we're

518
00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.200
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519
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520
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534
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Welcome back with my guests, Brenda Creator Seller and she couldn't.

535
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.640
Sounds to me like we may have been relatives in

536
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:48.759
a past life comparing our different adventures. Now, when what

537
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.559
other businesses have you been in Scooba photography? What else

538
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:53.079
have you done?

539
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.880
Okay, So one of my first businesses was I car

540
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.599
detail business because, like said, I grew up a farm

541
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.960
and I had a white car. So every day I

542
00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:07.279
had to drive my white car through the neighbor's dairy farm.

543
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.119
And so I learned at a very young age had

544
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:13.160
a clean poo off a car and it ended up

545
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:17.200
so I used to cleaning car. It was very serendipity.

546
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:19.799
Again how I ended up in the automotive after market

547
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.680
business because I knew how to clean and detail car.

548
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.839
So that was my first business, was the car detail shop.

549
00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:29.359
So I did that, and I had a photography business,

550
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:33.319
the manufacturing business probably it's probably what I'm most known

551
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:38.240
for in the industry. And then we did a scuba

552
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:39.480
diving business as well.

553
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.759
So wow, yeah, that's a lot of fun just to

554
00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:48.160
do those different things. Now, what do you hope our listeners,

555
00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:51.160
who will obviously be everyone's going to want to be

556
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:55.680
readers of both our books. What do you hope they

557
00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.920
will gain from reading your book? What's your prime message?

558
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:05.240
Well, my primary message is that I hope that they

559
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:06.119
used that.

560
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:07.279
There's a little form in the.

561
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.640
Back and it's a simple little form and it's kind

562
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:14.440
of encouraging the reader just to write down there, get

563
00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:17.720
them a list person, write down places that they would

564
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:19.759
like to do and as a child, was there any

565
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:21.960
place that they wanted to go? And to write that

566
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:23.759
down they can tear that out of the book, or

567
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:25.039
if they're an audible.

568
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.920
Fan, it's also on my website.

569
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:31.519
I'm just encouraging readers to go and travel. And COVID

570
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:35.400
I think made us realize that, oh my goodness, when

571
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:39.319
you couldn't travel, you really wanted to go someplace and

572
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:42.519
that was just, you know, good way you can and go.

573
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.640
And we noticed now too, and especially even with big

574
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:48.200
ed you need to go and do the things while

575
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:51.720
you're physically able and healthy to do stuff. So that's

576
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.519
what I tried to do to inspire people to do

577
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.359
it now and motivate them to do it now because

578
00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:58.680
life is short.

579
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.680
And we don't know that today may be our last day.

580
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:05.160
So do what you can and travel while you can

581
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:06.880
and have fun at the same time.

582
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:11.199
Oh that's a wonderful message. You know, now that I'm

583
00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:17.119
eighty two, Lucky Leaf and I were not traveling that much. However,

584
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:21.480
we were in an airline family. So yeah, we traveled for

585
00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:25.360
over fifty some years all over the world. And that's

586
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:28.559
the way you lived your life. You have to have adventures,

587
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:33.159
you have to go places and do things. I'm curious

588
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:39.480
about this calamity catastrophe? Where did this title come from?

589
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.480
Okay, so the subtitle of the book Calamities of a

590
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:48.079
Clumsy business Woman because I had never written a book before,

591
00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:51.440
and so I had to work with editors, and it's

592
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:55.639
knowing your weaknesses. I knew my strength and business, but

593
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.480
then to know your weaknesses was that I didn't really

594
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.159
know how to write a book, and I had to

595
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.239
lean on experts and editors, and it seemed like every

596
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:06.920
one of my stores and they said, you know, nobody

597
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:09.039
really cares about your vacation or this or that.

598
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:10.639
So unless there's conflicted.

599
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:13.320
And the conflict was my mother's story. Deal in them.

600
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.079
I deal with my parents' elder care.

601
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:20.079
But they the bottom the bottom line was is that

602
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.679
something had to happen, because otherwise it's just a boring story.

603
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:26.960
But what seemed funny the book, these chapters that made

604
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:30.360
it in the book, it seemed like every one of them,

605
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:33.480
I'm slipping, I'm following, you know, my mind, every story.

606
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:35.480
You know, I fell, I was, you know when I

607
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:41.159
was in Nepall. There's a chapter in the Ice Hotel

608
00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:43.039
that about fail. I did.

609
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:45.559
I almost fell going into the Ice Hotel.

610
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:48.079
Then I did. There's a scene that I did slip

611
00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:51.159
and fall in the Ice Hotel. And I'm just basically

612
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:56.079
basically just clumsy. I'm a photographer and I did modeling

613
00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:58.320
back in the back in the day, but also I

614
00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:00.719
was so cut, you know, tripped and fell off the stage.

615
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.960
So I ended up being a photographer so I can

616
00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:04.320
photograph the models.

617
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:11.679
Oh my gosh, I'm just here. I love this. I

618
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:15.000
just love having you on the show. This is so amazing,

619
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:19.159
such a kindred spirit. Now are there since you are

620
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.039
a photographer, are there a lot of photos in the

621
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:22.960
book so we all.

622
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.920
See a picture? Okay, So this was real innovative.

623
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.559
The book was published through Simon and Schuster through Archway Publishing,

624
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:34.559
and there's a QR code that takes you to my website.

625
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:38.360
So the website is the Brenda Pratersellers dot com. And

626
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:42.440
every chapter you can see the Ice Hotel, the fifty

627
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:47.000
nine Cadillac with Big Edg's feed in there. You can see, well,

628
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:50.519
the last photograph of Big Ed style partner is on

629
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.400
the chapter about him. So every chapter and my parents

630
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:55.480
are in there. My dad's in there, my brothers are

631
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:58.599
in there, the farm's in there, so everything is in there.

632
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:03.119
But I also have January. You won't believe this appending

633
00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:08.519
Guinness World Record for one thousand and sixty six photo

634
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.079
albums four inches stick in a single household. I have

635
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:17.639
photo albums.

636
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:17.079
And how big is your house? Girl?

637
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:20.239
Well, they're in two rooms. They do feel they do

638
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:21.559
fill two rooms.

639
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:27.840
Gosh, what is you should be? Are you in the

640
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:29.480
Guinness World Book of Records?

641
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.239
Not yet, it's still pending. It's still pending.

642
00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:37.800
Hugh Hefner has the most.

643
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:40.599
But he's he's he's died, so he's not gonna make

644
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:46.559
it anymore. So I the record. But Big Ed is

645
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.000
also a photographer. And that's part of the story is

646
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.960
that we compete, you know, for the whole stories about

647
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.800
competing with the best picture, and so he ends up

648
00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.239
being spoiler alert the better photographers, But that's Macrlos. We

649
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.000
have so many photograph so many kids that we had

650
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:05.280
photographed too, so the ends up with that many photo albums.

651
00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:06.360
That is so.

652
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:10.519
And of course Hugh Hefner is no longer into books

653
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:11.320
or bunnies.

654
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:13.440
That's right, that's right.

655
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:18.559
I'm pretty sure you can take that title away from him.

656
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.800
Any destinations left, places that you haven't been that you want.

657
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:27.280
To go to. Yeah, there's there's always the list.

658
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:28.760
The list continues.

659
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:32.320
But some of the places that that's on the list

660
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:36.760
you had to win a contest, and I didn't win

661
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:41.119
the contest. There was a contest that you could sleep

662
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:47.960
and Draculus coffin in Romania, but I didn't. Yeah, how

663
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.400
bizarre was that? But I thought I had a good

664
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:52.840
chance because I was working on the book. I've stayed

665
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:55.960
all these other bizarre places. But they were really looking

666
00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:59.840
for more Dracula enthusiasts, not just people that stayed either.

667
00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:04.159
Okay, yeah, so you have to bone up on a

668
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:05.119
little Dracula.

669
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.360
So I'm going to go back and say, well, now

670
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.400
that my book is finished, would you let me sleep

671
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:11.079
in Dracula's coffin. Please.

672
00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:15.519
That would Yeah, that would be on my bucket list

673
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:16.039
for sure.

674
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:21.480
I have Yeah, but I have slept in a morgue

675
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:25.519
in Missouri. There's an airb Eleague Missory that you can say,

676
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:28.920
and I slept. You can sleep on the embalming table.

677
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:31.360
That's pretty funny too.

678
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:39.280
Oh, Okay, this is amazing. Before we close out today,

679
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:43.320
let's talk a little bit about the fifty thousand dollars

680
00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:48.880
that you raise for nonprofits. I'm curious to hear that

681
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:50.519
story and how that played out.

682
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:52.960
Okay, well, yeah, thank you, and thank you for asking

683
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:56.039
about that. That's the reason I'm having this conversation with you,

684
00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:58.679
and that's the reason I do what I am doing

685
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:03.119
to promote that book because of my mother's story. Yeah,

686
00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:05.760
even though the books about my bizarre adventures, it's really

687
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:08.840
my mother's story and how she was, you know, how

688
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:13.519
that disease changed her. And we have a Tennessee Alzheimer's

689
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:16.880
here and we did a fundraiser. It was evening with

690
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:19.639
an author. It was a paid ticket event and that

691
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:24.199
one event January made thirty one thousand dollars just one event.

692
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.559
And that's a you know, obviously a nonprofit for the

693
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.599
Tennessee Alzheimer's and if you go on my social media

694
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.400
you can see pictures. They had pictures of my mom

695
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:36.239
there and then I spoke at the event.

696
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:38.119
It was a wonderful event.

697
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:41.440
Right across from my family farm down at the lake,

698
00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:44.199
and so I grew up just rode across the lake.

699
00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:46.679
So it was a very good venue. It's called Marblegate

700
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:52.280
in Friensville, Tennessee. So that was the first episode or

701
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.880
first fundraising that I did. And then before the book

702
00:40:56.039 --> 00:41:01.840
was even published, and this was during COVID, the Haven

703
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:05.840
House which is for domestic violence and women, they put

704
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.599
they had as silent auctions for Valentine's Day, and it

705
00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:13.119
was eight barbecues. The people that hosted it, they're real

706
00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:17.039
good barbecue cooker, you know, they made excellent barbecue. So

707
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:21.760
they did a book and eate like eight books and

708
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.719
eight dinners of their barbecue. And believe it or not,

709
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.119
that sold for five thousand, four hundred dollars. But then

710
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.079
they texted me and said another buyer they were feeding

711
00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:36.840
going on, and so they asked if I would do

712
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:41.599
it again. So ten thousand, eight hundred dollars came from that.

713
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.440
What it was is a Wealth Management company. They bought

714
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.119
it for their customer. They bought it for their customers,

715
00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:52.239
so that was what raised that much money. And then

716
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.159
in the remaining mallets was up. You can see this

717
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:58.079
in the background. Mama said, be nice. I always tried

718
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:01.400
to Mama say this, you know, that was my theme.

719
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:03.360
And so I did the little shirts. I sold the

720
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:06.440
little shirts and then the proceeds went back to the

721
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.400
Tennessee Al Timer. So that's how it's got to be

722
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:12.079
fifty thousand dollars. And then I do a lot of donating,

723
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:14.920
like I'm in the Rhetory Club. And then they did

724
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:18.079
a book, and then I'm a big Eminem's eater, and

725
00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:20.440
they did a I did a book and a door

726
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.920
Pruss drawing. So all of that helps race money for

727
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:26.199
other nonprofits and other civic group so anything you could

728
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:27.800
do to get back to the community.

729
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:31.800
So that's that's incredible. And I love the Eminems thing

730
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:34.960
because I'm addicted to those shoes. We have a lot

731
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:41.119
in common. So so for book signings, where have you

732
00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:42.880
been signing and promoting this?

733
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.800
So my book signings have been as bizarre as my

734
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:50.360
book I had. Okay, so let me think of all

735
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:53.480
that I had the first ever drive by book siting.

736
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:56.920
Those books a box of books are heavy and my

737
00:42:56.920 --> 00:42:59.920
book's are hardback book, so I'm so tired of care

738
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.400
in these books around. So we had a drive by

739
00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:05.760
book sign They drove around, get it and go, and

740
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.119
then we had a lot of antique cards that came

741
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:09.000
that day because.

742
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:10.760
You know, car people came.

743
00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:14.599
And then I did a book signing at Millennium Manor,

744
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.880
which is the old castle here in Alcoa, and it

745
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:23.039
was we're doing a like a Viking Renaissance festival, like

746
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.880
a come get free em and MS, get a book,

747
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:29.880
get a tour. And then we had the first ever

748
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:36.760
book signing downtown Maryville Capital Theater and it was a

749
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:39.760
surprise birthday party for Big Ed even though it was

750
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:42.079
we faked it as a book signing, which it was,

751
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.440
but they it was also a birthday party for him.

752
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:48.199
So people would come and then they would make a

753
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:53.039
donation check and he was seventy. He was seventy, and

754
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:54.760
so they would make that and they would make that

755
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:57.840
to Tennessee all to check out the Tennessee Alzheimer's in

756
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.119
lieu of his birthday.

757
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:01.760
And that event.

758
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:06.159
Raise maybe fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars, just that

759
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:10.599
one event where people came and and people knew it

760
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:13.280
was his birthday celebration, but he didn't know.

761
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.199
Well, he didn't know he was That's that's the fun

762
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:21.039
part of a surprise party out of curiosity. How did

763
00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:23.480
you and Big meet?

764
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:27.159
Okay, we were in yes, totally opposite. I didn't like

765
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:32.960
him at first because I said that he he's a photographer.

766
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:36.199
We met the local camera club, but because he wasn't

767
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:40.159
he was he's undercover investigator. I didn't really know what

768
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:43.440
he did for the government, but he found out by

769
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:47.280
age and that just and he told me he said

770
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:48.920
he found out how old it was. And I didn't

771
00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:52.360
like that about him because I don't know. We didn't

772
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.440
start out on a good path because I felt like

773
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.840
he was snooping into my background. And I said he

774
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:02.320
had the ugly shoes. He had the any man I've

775
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:04.400
ever seen, and I don't really know his shoes, but

776
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:06.920
his shoes were ugly. But then as time goes on,

777
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:10.079
he was so nice and he was the mama's boy.

778
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:11.880
He was real good to his mama.

779
00:45:11.639 --> 00:45:13.880
So that's good.

780
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:18.039
And then he was he was a really good photographer too,

781
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:21.440
and he's we have a photography studio in our home too,

782
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:22.440
and so he is.

783
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:24.159
We're totally opposites.

784
00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:28.079
He's very good with lighting, a very technical photographer, and

785
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.719
I'm more creative. So we kind of work good together.

786
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:36.400
Yeah, technical and artistic and yeah, I mean I ask

787
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:39.079
you again, how many years have you and big Ed

788
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:40.000
been up here?

789
00:45:41.079 --> 00:45:43.280
A long time? I don't really know the number.

790
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:45.360
I'll have to do the of the mat, but long enough.

791
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:51.559
Yeah, and that's part of the s So I keep

792
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:52.079
forgetting that.

793
00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.079
I always forget our anniversary too.

794
00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:58.559
Oh that's understandable. You know, we're at the point after

795
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:01.599
fifty four years we have a hard time remembering each

796
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:06.440
other's names, you know, like who are you again? And

797
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:12.280
we do a lot of honey and sweetie things like that. Wow,

798
00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:18.039
this is amazing interview. What advice do you have before

799
00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:22.039
we close out for our listeners? What are some of

800
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:26.840
your secrets to such a successful senior story?

801
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:29.719
Well, I don't know that it's successful, but I always say,

802
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:33.199
blessed be the folks that are flexible, that they never

803
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:39.000
get been out of shape, because if we can be flexible,

804
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:41.760
and if we could all just be like Mama said,

805
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:43.840
you know, Mama said, be nice. If we could just

806
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:47.679
be nice and live life like that today may be

807
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:50.920
our last day, and then always try to laugh at ourselves,

808
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:52.760
you know. And I think if we can do that,

809
00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:55.320
then the world would be a better place.

810
00:46:56.840 --> 00:47:02.920
And you're so busy any time management hints that you

811
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:05.960
could give us because it sounds like you're doing a

812
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:07.480
lot of things all the time.

813
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.079
Yes, well, and that's how I was able to go

814
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:13.599
to see so many things and do so many things

815
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:17.679
because and I teach time management as well, because it's

816
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:20.840
always the first thing in the morning. I always there's

817
00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:23.360
that old saying, you know, eat the frog first, you know,

818
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:26.840
try to get those things that you don't look so well.

819
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.599
If you can get that done and get that off

820
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:33.679
the list before anything, then it makes your day go

821
00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:35.960
a little bit better. And a lot of that is

822
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:39.599
I still use a daytimer, but I love my electronics

823
00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:42.079
and I'm on my phone more than a teenager. But

824
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:47.000
it is something about statistically forty seven percent, if you

825
00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:51.199
write it down, checking it off is an accomplishment just

826
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:53.119
to get it done, you know, just to get that done.

827
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:56.519
So if you can keep a list, and whether whatever

828
00:47:56.599 --> 00:47:58.920
works best for you, whether keeping on the list or

829
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:03.480
keeping it visual and making sure that you're not wasting

830
00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:07.199
your time. And I think it's about making decisions too.

831
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.239
I always say, And when you're trying to decide, well

832
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:12.880
should I do this or should I not? I always say,

833
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:14.679
is the juice worth to squeeze?

834
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:16.119
Okay?

835
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:19.800
Because if the juice is not worth to squeeze, don't

836
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:20.960
waste your time doing it.

837
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:25.679
Gotcha now, sister, I hear you loud and clear, and

838
00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.960
I'm so happy to have had you on the show,

839
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:33.239
and we will make plans to exchange our books and

840
00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:38.039
our life's experience and definitely we'll be having you back soon.

841
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:41.960
And thank you so much for coming on the show today.

842
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:44.360
Well, thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure.

843
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:45.519
You're Hank I love you.

844
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:49.599
I love you too. To my dear listeners, I hope

845
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:53.960
you've enjoyed our time together with Brenda. She's amazing. We've

846
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:58.440
tried to be informative and inspiring. Next Tuesday, we'll be

847
00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.599
back here live at three Eastern. Thank you for entering

848
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:06.400
the No Wine Zone with us today, and share our show,

849
00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:11.920
our books, and our stories with everyone you know. And

850
00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:16.599
remember you need to stop whining and then start smiling

851
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:20.000
and if that doesn't work, then you can just start

852
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:27.400
eating chocolate. Eminem's lots and lots. Take care and stay safe,

853
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:35.119
continue to glitter and glow. See you soon. Bye bye.

854
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:39.400
We want to thank you for listening to January Jones

855
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:44.320
sharing success stories. Always remember miss Jones' personal mantra, if

856
00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:47.320
you can think it, you can do it. That's what

857
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:49.360
all of our guests have done with their lives, and

858
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.559
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859
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.840
your own life. All you need to do will be

860
00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:58.199
to start sharing your own story with your family and friends.

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We hope that our guest story will encourage you to

862
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:04.440
explore an equation in your future that will combine your

863
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:08.000
creativity plus connecting with others will enable you to be

864
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:13.119
successful too. Always remembered, your passion plus your purpose will

865
00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:18.679
equal prosperity as you explore the wonderful world of January

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Jones