January Jones Sharing The Story Genie's Schmurple Purple Adventure

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

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actress on Madman. She is not
an older, gorgeous exotic dancer from The

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Johnny Carson Show. She is an
author and she wrote Thou Show Not Why

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the Eleventh Commandment that rates number one
at Amazon dot com. She is a

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reality TV golf personality with World High
Stakes Golf televised on hd Net. She

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is a Huget and why knowlogist expert. She is your featured host today on

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

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to laugh and listen to Ms Jones
with her eclectic roster of guests as you

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learn life's lessons. These stories plus
sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware

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because you are entering the no whining
world of January Jones. Hello everyone,

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I hope you're having a fabulous,
wonderful day. I'm January Jones, and

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i'd like to welcome you to our
podcast today from Sarasota, Florida. We're

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having great weather here and I hope
you're having it in other parts of the

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country too. I'm now the glitter
Granny. It's my new brand for my

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soon to becoming affiliate marketplace called glitter
Granny Gifts, where I will be selling

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books and products from Amazon dot Com
in the very near future. I'm really

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excited about this and I'll be sharing
more details about this project as it develops,

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so you can join in the fun
with me too. Now, for

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my listeners, let me ask you
a question. Have you ever wanted to

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create something? Of course, we
all have from time to time thought about

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that. Well, I mean,
after creating all of our children and grandchildren,

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there's still a lot left for us
to do. Tell me, would

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you like to write a book?
Well, you know, everyone thinks about

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that one. A lot of people
talk about it, a lot of people

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give it some consideration, but it's
very few people that actually can sit down

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and do it. Can you imagine
what it would be like to write a

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book for children? Now, I'm
going to tell you something. Writing a

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children's book is one of the most
difficult types of book the areas to write.

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I remember when I first started writing, I went to a seminar and

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everyone was talking about the different kinds
of books they were going to do,

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and everyone just said, don't go
near the children's market. It's so tough.

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Now you're someone who's not afraid of
the children's market. Have you ever

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heard of the story Genie? Tell
me? Have you ever met someone who

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has actually done it? All?
Created, written, recorded, and now

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she's promoting her latest book. Tell
me, have you heard about a book

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called Schlurpal Purple. Yes, it's
a new, brand new book that she

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just brought out recently. So if
you can answer yes or maybe to any

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of these questions that I've asked you, you are in the right place.

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And I would like to welcome you
to January Jones sharing success stories. So

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now it's time to erast, relax, Go get some wine, get some

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cheese and crackers, and join us
in the no Wine Zone. Let me

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tell you a little bit about my
guest today. She is someone that I

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met here in Sarasota and she was
the tireless ever promoting commissioner for the Sarasota

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County Film Commission, where she promoted
this area for filmmakers. My guest is

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an actress, vocalist, author,
audiobook producer, and a performer. She

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quite frankly, is one of the
most talented people that I've ever met.

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Today she's embracing her alter ego,
the story Genie. She's the official storyteller

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and entertainer of children in the mythical
Hamlet of Pekin. This is a character

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she developed back in two thousand and
three. As she says, sometimes it

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just takes a fun, silly book
to help children remember it's fun to say

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poodle, puddle, middle muddle.
And she says it's gratifying to entertain kids

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in general, but especially when you're
nurturing their love of words from an early

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age. She has written the popular
The Meanibug and Other Silly Creatures series.

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Today, we'll be talking about her
latest children's book that's just come out.

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It's called The schmirpl Purple welcome again
to the Story Genie. Jeanie Corchrane.

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Hi, Jeanie, Hi January.
So nice to see you. Hope you

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can hear me. Let me move
my microphone closer since I was having technical

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difficulties in the land of Peakin over
here, well in the Giant and have

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him hold up something over the over
the silly blinds that we're putting stripes on

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my face. Yeah, it's so
fun to have you on the show again.

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You've been here before, but this
time you're promoting a brand new book.

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Yeah, and it's a very exciting
time. I got to see part

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of the launch on Amazon, and
you've done a great job. When let

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me just ask you a question,
and you we've talked about this before,

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about the fact that writing children's books
is really a difficult thing. When you

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started this, how much time does
it take to from beginning to end to

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get it out? Well, you
know, I started all this in two

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thousand and four when we launched the
TV show Tales from the Story Genie.

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So in two thousand and four we
learned my music partner Karen and her husband

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Dunkan the Giant, and my husband
Dan, who was our technical director and

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our crew and our staff and twelve
children in our TV show, and we

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did it to promote some of the
books that we were creating, and boy,

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oh boy, did we get an
eye opening experience about how hard it

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is to crack into the children's market
in general. And the children's TV show,

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I'm happy to say, was on
forty eight stations across the country,

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most of them Christian stations, family
stations, everything that likes g rated wholesome

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fun, which is what we do. Everything we do is that. So

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we launched The Meanibug and other silly
creatures, and we had other books in

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that series lined up in our pipeline. And Dunk and the Giant, Karen's

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husband who he was our whiz guy. He knew finance and he knew construction,

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and he was in charge of that
side of things. He got ill

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and he went to the Great Hamlet
in the Sky. And anyway, we

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still miss Duncan terribly. But the
Story Genie television show went on hiatus after

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we had had a lot of interest
from all around the world, including South

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America and Asia. And then I
started to get into the ebooks and into

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children's books in general, and doing
audio for children's books and missillaneous things online,

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so forth, and along came the
idea that tales from the story Genie

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would have a little adjunct. It
would have a little side what are they

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called a side hustle, but you
don't say that in kids business, A

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little side direction. We went and
it's called Story Genie Teenie tales, which

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means they're short. They're usually under
ten minutes in length, sometimes under five

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minutes, but they're all original.
They rhyme almost all of them. Do

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we have fifteen right now ready to
move into the launch pattern. Purple is

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first because it's just so silly and
it's so much fun, and we test

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marketed it with kids, and they
love, first of all, they love

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sloppy, messy things. Children will
tell you, and when we were children,

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we know too. We just love
things that we can snirp up and

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lick up and one of them make
a mess with and get all over our

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face and our fingers and lick our
fingers, and you know. So anyway,

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schlurpol Purple came about because kids love
messy stuff and they love delicious food,

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and there's an awful lot of delicious
food that's purple. And if we're

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gonna sharp it up, then we
should call it sharpel purple. Right,

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purple came into being and we just
had a whole lot of fun. We

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I say we kind of the imperial
we. I wrote it by myself.

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I uh, illustrated it by myself. I laid it out by myself.

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I did it pretty much all by
myself. But I did get some great

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advice from my youngest son, who
actually lives out west, and I got

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some good advice from a couple of
other writers of children's products that I admire.

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So yes, I did it by
myself, but because I had wonderful

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mentors my younger son. Can you
imagine, you know, the younger ones

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are telling you how to tell the
older ones how to do the new technology.

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So that's how surp Purple came into
being. So it's all about purple

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foods and purple things that you drink
and things that you eat that are purple

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and making a mess. And if
it starts to droop down your lip and

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you get gllaps of this, and
you get slaps of that and oozes of

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this or the dribbles of that,
just go and wrop it up. Yeah.

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I love I love the part where
I love the colors, obviously because

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I am wearing purple today in honor
of this book, and I love best

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pounds. Kids. Are you know
now? You said it's what five to

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ten minutes, this would be a
wonderful It's five minutes. It's a five

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minutes song. Actually, the book
is longer because you read the book,

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and you read it however you interpret
it, and you read it to the

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child on your lap, or they
read it to themselves and their friends.

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So the book is longer in terms
of doing a physical reading of it depend

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on how fast or how slow.
And then the song, which is the

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audio book. The audiobook is it's
almost all music. There's a short introduction

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that I make about what it is
and what it means, but then it

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turns into an actual song. So
this slpo purple song is about under five

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minutes, and I'm telling you it's
very sticky. Every grown up who has

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heard it suddenly is walking around their
house or wherever they're at wherever they heard

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it, going purple out of a
cup, never frown. You know,

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it's very sticky. It's a very
catchy little song, and we all love

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it. And your voice is incredible, So I'm you. You wrote the

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song and you also are the one
singing it. Yes, that's me.

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I know that's a lot of work. Well, I have a wonderful music

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collaborator. She did the music.
Her name is Kaleidoscope Karen, and if

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you go on story Genie dot com
you will see her as Kaleidoscope Karen and

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she sings on that show too,
and her husband was dunking the giant.

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Everybody sang, Duncan sang, Our
Pixie sang, I sang, Karen sang.

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Professor Digittation sang. Everybody sings on
the story Genie TV show. So

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almost all my teeny tales, everyone
will have an original song that goes with

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it and tells the story. And
then it will have a combination. Read

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a long ebook, which you can
just read the ebook and have fun with

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that because they'll rhyme and tell a
great story. But if you get the

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audiobook to go with it, your
read a long book becomes a sing along

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book because it matches. The sing
along book matches the audiobook exactly, and

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even to the boines and the NonStop
PLoP with a cherry on top. So

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you the way I'm understanding it,
you actually have off the drawing board fifteen

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more of these books done? We
do? We do? Actually? Yeah,

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fourteen fourteen that I have this story
written and they're all copyrighted. I

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upload them in batches because that's the
way my brain works. Yeah. I

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just can't turn my brain off.
I don't know what's wrong with me.

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I'm constantly writing something. And I
wake up the middle of the morning and

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and I had this great idea for
a new character who knows all the facts

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in the world. He just knows
all the facts in the world. And

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I won't give away all of it, but he comes up with the facts

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that kids like, what's the messiest, what's the what's the funniest, what's

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the craziest, what's the sloppiest,
what's the sleepiest? And you know,

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he knows all the facts. Okay, So, now do all of these

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books? Do they have a color
theme like purple or what's how do you

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know each one? Know? The
theme really is the overall artwork will be

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the similar and very similar feels,
so you'll be able to recognize the covers

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as being part of the series.
And the theme is really the fact that

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they rhyme that they are a story
Genie teeny Tale part of the group,

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but each one is a standalone book
if you only ever buy one because you

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like it, or if you only
get one for free on Kindle Unlimited Kindle

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Unlimited Free the e book as well
as the Rhyming book. Uh, if

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you only get one, it will
be perfectly beginning, middle, in and

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end all by itself, but they
will all have interwoven potential to cross over.

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For example, Professor Digitation's book.
Professor Digitation actually came from the land

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of Peakin. He was in our
TV show years ago, a wonderful,

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fabulous, fabulous fellow and Professor Digitation
travels the world in a globe and he

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visits children around the world, and
he loves music, and he loves rhyme

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and rhythm and repetition, and wherever
he goes, he gets kids singing and

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rhyming and poeming, and you know, it's very fun. And actually he

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goes into places that that he's never
been, some of it by accident,

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and he makes new friends. And
he has his own little theme song that

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goes with his audio book on Professor
Digetation. A traveler of note by plane

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or train, hot air, balloon, or caravan, rote, you know,

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and so on. Everybody has its
own personality and its own so you

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know, when we were raising our
kids, and as we've done with our

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grandchildren, reading a story at bedtime
was just a part of the routine.

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We never never skipped it unless we
had all been just completely completely exhausted.

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And I so hope that this newer
generation can get take a break from all

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of the devices and actually sit down
and read a real story with a real

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book in their hands, and get
that experience with their children. And then

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basically you can take this experience with
your devices wherever you go, you can

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take it in the car, you
can do so much with it. And

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I think teaching children from a very
early early age, as you said,

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the love of words and dialogue,
it's such an important gift to give them

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love of sounds. You know,
we had a song long ago in our

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TV show and it was called sounds
around and bleep and blurp and PLoP and

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flip and you know, what do
you say that makes a drip? And

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we've always focused on words, rhyme, rhythm, repetition because they're the building

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blocks of being able to read.
They're also the building blocks of literacy in

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general. And it's also a tremendous
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this is for people who are whiners, or if you know someone who's a

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whiner. Like Genie's books, this
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get. Lately, there is a
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even whining about whining. Are you
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all the time? So was January
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Whine, the Eleventh Commandment that reached
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about at all ages and all stages
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that can tell you how to help
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stop them from whining. This is
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for any occasion. Thou Shalt Not
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be given anonymously for those special people
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internationally known author in the style of
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her book being published in Korea and
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she's visiting with us today. I
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it was done magnificently and we're happy
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Genie, could you share with our
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fact that this kindle book is available
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story Genie Corcoran, which is my
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my books. You'll find slurbal purple
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the sing along book, which is
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that's not out there yet. I
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works now. Also, I want
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for them to get into the audio
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six books, and she has done
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audio. And wow, what a
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just there's so much fun. I've
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in about thirty six months. Wow. I love doing all kinds of books.

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oriented. I don't do things that
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don't do things that are terribly profane
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cursing. If it's a part of
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person and the story that are peppered
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wouldn't make my family comfortable, and
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I don't like that very much.
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of your image and it's important to
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love you. Know, like one
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I think was what ten eleven hours, What a project that was, and

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when I actually was able to sit
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it. You are an incredible spokesperson
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with other people. And I know
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one audiobook one time and I'm so
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story. Genie. Well, I
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to read. I'm a voracious reader. I read literally and I'm not exaggerating

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three to five books a week every
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a market for narrator slash producers,
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t and I have so enjoyed it. And when I'm reading a book like

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yours, I did a couple of
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author, and she is amazing.
She's an amazing lady, and her stories

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are so different. The culture is
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the narration so much if it's coming
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having read them, read everyone you
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is changing, because right now everyone
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many ways, you know, I
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book in your hand. I used
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frankly. But how easy it is
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especially when they're carpooling, or they
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they're doing their other things. So
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a very accessible world for learning now. It's also an accessible world unfortunately for

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distraction. And there's so many things
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come across our phones and our computers
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else. It can it can drive
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or before I read a book,
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willing to give this hours of my
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it? Is this two hour movie
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hour book going to be worth reading? And you know, you know as

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you're getting into it, before you
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Angeles when I was in the business
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twenty pages of a book, you
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or a screenplay or a manuscript,
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aside. So when you're working in
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you better make those first twenty pages
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you know, hook them good like
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that's for sure. You know what
we all do. Everything you've written is

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wonderful. I especially love your books. They're great. Yeah. Well,

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we've had fun working together, and
it's an interesting I know, full disclosure

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here, we are actually very close
friends. Yes, it's true. It's

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true. Lucky me were to lunch
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like we should be eating a sandwich
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fun to have you. Now.
You've had so many careers. Let's kind

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of look back at the arc you
author, writer, entertainer, incredible vocalist,

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actress, audiobook producer, just a
wonderful talented performer. When you look

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back, which of your careers do
you feel that you enjoyed the most and

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that you work the hardest. At
gosh, that's a hard one. I

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loved doing live theater. I loved
doing musical theater. I was marrying a

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librarian and music man, and I
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was one of the three daughters.
I was in Oliver, I was Nancy.

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I mean, I've been in a
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and I love that so much.
It's so it's so enriching to have

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that audience feedback right there. It
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you're sinking or swimming. Either they're
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know immediately what the result is.
That's probably my very, very favorite format

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for performing. Although I like doing
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like doing commercials. I like doing
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close second, and as I'm getting
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is definitely writing. I just love
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children's things. I love to write
novels. I love to write poetry.

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but I never send them in.
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then I get it off my chest. Whatever it may be, and then

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I go, okay, I got
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see this, and I put it
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her. I loved her well,
you know. Speaking of writing with my

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friend who is a priceless personality visiting
with us today, I'd like to share

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with you ten other priceless personalities.
Have you ever met someone who was unforgettable,

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someone who has touched your heart and
soul, People who have faced difficult

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problems, People who have struggled to
find solutions, People who fearlessly shared their

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stories. People who have not only
informed you, but inspired you. People

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who have priceless personalities. I have
been fortunate to host an internet radio talk

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show called January John sharing success Stories, and it has been my privilege to

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interview hundreds of guests. My guests
have shared their stories, their struggles,

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their secrets, and their successes in
their own words. In this book,

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we're talking about people dealing with problems
such as incest, molestation, runaway kids,

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child abuse, drug abuse, polygamy, unemployment, scandal, and starting

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over. Then there are my guests
dealing with difficult physical struggles such as blindness,

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cancer, and birth defects. That
are beyond traumatic. My guests have

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all been exciting, eclectic, and
energizing. They have amazed, amused,

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and even astonished me. I have
adored getting to meet them, and I

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adore sharing them with you. Attention
all listeners. Priceless Personalities success Stories shared

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by January Jones, Volume two is
now available at Amazon dot com in paperback

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and kindle editions. You'll be able
to meet ten amazing people who will be

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sharing their own personal stories with all
their struggles, successes and solutions sprinkled with

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lots of humor and hope. Priceless
Personalities features a teenager who becomes one of

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the famous supremes from Motown, a
nurse who has a humorist helps people to

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heal, an inspiring laughter yoga instructor, a mother dealing with the loss of

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a child, an incredible motivational speaker, a woman who married five times,

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a gifted paranormal nurse, a wise
economist, a funny female humorist, along

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with an older man sharing his sweet
childhood in the Deep South. Guests are

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all amazing and amusing. You will
never forget meeting them. Go to Amazon

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dot com for your own Priceless experience. Welcome back with my Priceless Friend.

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And you know, when I'm working
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Priceless Personalities, the story, Genie
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sure. That's very kind. You
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January, your books have touched on
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people. They're just such a valuable
read to have other lives that have been

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so impactful touch us and I really
appreciate them. Yeah, thank you.

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And I must say I wrote my
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book, you can do a book. If I could do it at fifty,

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anyone can do it. Right now, I'm working on book number seven

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and book number eight, kind of
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up against the wall and see that's
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about writing. What kind of writer
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do you write it in the middle
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your writing experience, how you put
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they find most protective. In my
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alert. So if I've had a
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run to the computer, pull up
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down the specifics of the idea,
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just a little too foggy in the
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ten thirty eleven o'clock I'll come instead
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document. I'll just start hashing through
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points that occurred to me at the
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everything. He knows all the trivia
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little boy whose head was filled with
a world of trivia, what would he

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find most enjoyable? What would kids
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just can't help myself. I loved
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almost impossible for me to just write
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I just can't stop. It's like
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a. I just do a skeleton
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I start, where I want to
end, who's in it. I start

404
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.920
doing character lists and cast lists and
whatever. So for grown ups, I

405
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:25.880
really put together not formulaic by any
means, because I'm always turning and twisting

406
00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.720
my stories. They're far from formulaic. But I do put together a structure,

407
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.400
and then I get started and you
just jump in. And I'm sort

408
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:37.279
of a what they call a narrative
driven writer. I know what I want,

409
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.160
I know how I wanted to start, how I wanted to end,

410
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:44.319
and the people that will be involved. But I let the story tell itself,

411
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:49.200
because if you're truly in your story
as the writer, and you've got

412
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.519
the structure in your head, the
story tells itself to your brain. It's

413
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.720
like a movie playing in your head
and you just have to get it down

414
00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.079
on paper. And sometimes you write
things and go where did that come from?

415
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.640
Going, that's a really good idea. I like that. I'm going

416
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:06.599
to write more of that, and
it's kind of fun. I was writing

417
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.039
something one time and ended up with
two pairs of twins in it. I

418
00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:13.599
married them all off at the end, but it was fun. Well,

419
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.519
you know, it's interesting that I
think for most writers you have that experience.

420
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:21.119
I know, I keep a pad
of paper by the bed and something

421
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:24.279
to write with because sometimes you'll wake
up in the middle of the night and

422
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:30.039
somehow, I don't know how this
works, but the universe and centering things

423
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:36.519
through our little brain computers, and
you get some wonderful ideas, some wonderful

424
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:40.400
inspiration. But of course the key
is remembering that when you wake up.

425
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.400
Is that true? That is so
true because you have this great I don't

426
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.079
know about you, but I have
a great dream and I'm dreaming it.

427
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.720
I know I'm dreaming it, and
I'm thinking, wow, this is quite

428
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.680
a plot. Oh I love this. I love this. I love this.

429
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.799
I wonder how it's going to turn
out. And then I wake up

430
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:59.640
and I try to write it down
and it's just like it's just like wisps.

431
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.640
They they just blow away on the
breeze. It's like blowing on a

432
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:06.799
dandelion. As soon as you wake
up, off it goes. So having

433
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:08.679
paper and pen by the side of
the bed is old school, but it

434
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.079
is really affective. I like it. Oh yeah, and you know it's

435
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:17.159
interesting. This past week we had
a lunch with an interesting gal that we

436
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:22.679
just met, Cdy Jardin, who
is an incredible writer. I'm going to

437
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.079
have her on the show for sure. And her one book it was one

438
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.320
of those books I've read it in
an entire day because I couldn't put it

439
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.280
down. But the three of us
were talking about that and a lot of

440
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:38.199
times I would write, you know, from ten to eleven to two three

441
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.840
in the morning, me too,
save it on the computer, go to

442
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.719
bed, wake up, and we
all three of us talked about this.

443
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:51.079
And you come back and you look
at it, and you go who wrote

444
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:54.480
this where? And go back,
go back a couple of years and read

445
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:59.199
I have a I probably shouldn't admit
this because it says I'm a little OCD,

446
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:02.519
But I have a four inch wide
binder, great big d ring binder,

447
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.760
and I kid you not. The
spine is this wide, and it

448
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:15.599
is filled with sections and treatments and
jotted down outlines or skeletons or just good

449
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:17.639
thoughts about things I want to write. And I have it written. I

450
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:23.760
have it divided out into novels,
screenplays, children's stuff, music, stories,

451
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:29.920
poems, and it's so fat with
ideas that the cover is displayed open

452
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.320
like this. I don't know what
I'll ever do with it. Probably when

453
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:37.280
I'm gone, my kids will have
a bonfire and mix in the backyard with

454
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.079
it. But that's okay. But
you have to put it. You have

455
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.119
to get it out of your head
onto the paper, and casually I'll go

456
00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:45.639
back and root around in it,
just to see if there was something that

457
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:47.800
jumps out at me and I do
that, I'll say, gosh, I

458
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:52.039
don't remember writing that. I don't
remember that really fun little character. And

459
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:59.559
that's very common thing. I always
have so many authors on the show.

460
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:05.559
I love promoting them. Of course, now with the Glitter Granny Gifts,

461
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:08.000
I'll be propoting all of your books
and they're going to You're going to look

462
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:12.920
so good doing it. Wow,
I love doing it. But you know,

463
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:17.079
as much as I enjoy writing,
actually one of the things I really

464
00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:22.239
enjoy, and this seems kind of
remedial. I love going through the editing

465
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:29.280
process and just seeing it on a
page and changing words, and I get

466
00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:32.719
a lot of satisfaction from that.
Of course, then you know, when

467
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.599
you're getting ready to publish, you
hire a real editor because they can really

468
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.440
do the job. But you are
the one. You're the no one knows

469
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:45.199
your story as well as you.
And to do your first draft, no

470
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:49.559
matter how wonderful you think it is, you have got to put the put

471
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.960
your mind to it, and you've
got to do at least a first full

472
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:57.000
draft edit. You've got to go
through it because nobody knows it the way

473
00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:00.920
you do, and you'll find things
that make you go, oh, that's

474
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:05.239
not leading the character in the emotional
direction. I want him or her to

475
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:07.639
go or no, I don't think. I don't think that she would really

476
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:10.239
say that, or I don't think
he would really do that. Because even

477
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:14.079
though you at the time you were
doing it, it made sense, you

478
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:15.840
should go back. You should always
be the first one to edit your work

479
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:19.679
and do a full edit start to
finish, even if you just do it

480
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.679
with a red pen on a printed
out copy, because it's your baby,

481
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.000
it's really your baby, and nobody, you know, nobody should be trimming

482
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.119
its hair and clipping its nails,
but you the first time, for sure.

483
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.199
And let's before we close out,
let's talk about a really important thing

484
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:40.000
when you're writing any book. Let's
talk about the cover. Oh what love

485
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:43.760
covers. I love covers. Covers
are so much fun. I love to

486
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:50.840
your schmerbol Permer color is fabulous?
Who designed that me perfect? I didn't

487
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.800
know that, so I'm happy to
give that. Now. I have to

488
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.480
admit, you know, people were
talking about AI this and AI that,

489
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:01.960
and I used AI called mid Journey. I used it while I was putting

490
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:06.639
that book together. And I have
to tell people who are saying, oh,

491
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:08.960
it takes away the creativity in the
artistry and so on. No,

492
00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:13.840
it doesn't. It's just a tool
of your mind. It's just a tool

493
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:19.079
for you to manipulate because AI and
this may change in the future, but

494
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.880
the AI mid journey that I used
it, it just sits there. It's

495
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.760
an engine and you have to be
so specific about what it is you're looking

496
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:30.239
for. And let me tell you, you will do it over and over

497
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:35.679
and over. If you say to
your AI, I need water color children's

498
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:43.239
illustration of kids laughing with bright colors, licking an ice cream cone, it's

499
00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:45.840
going to give you things that are
nothing like what you want. I mean,

500
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:50.039
you'll get four images immediately, and
you'll go, what what that's not

501
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:53.320
look like an ice cream cone?
That looks like a great big soup spoon.

502
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:57.039
I mean, you'll get things that
just make no sense to you because

503
00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:02.880
a machine is trying to make algorithms
match your human logic and it'll be better

504
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:06.440
and better. But the more you
do it, the more you learn.

505
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:10.639
It's your mind creating it. It's
your brain creating it. It's your creativity

506
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:15.480
and your creative juices. And if
you couldn't think those thoughts and express those

507
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:20.159
thoughts and explain what those thoughts mean
your brain. Yeah, yeah, it's

508
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:21.960
just going to sit there. It's
not going to make up your work.

509
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.920
It's not going to do it for
you. You have to be able to

510
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:30.920
push well what you're doing in it. My seventh book is on the drive

511
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:36.119
board, and I was going to
hire cover of Designer, but now you've

512
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.199
given me a thought, I might
like to go try a it's mid journey,

513
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:43.840
mid journey right thing? What that'll
come up with? And? Uh,

514
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.840
well, this has been fun and
it's fun to sit down and play

515
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:49.920
with AI. If you ever want
to come over, we'll just sit here

516
00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:52.440
in front of my computer and I'll
show you how to talk to it and

517
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.559
not yell at it, because I
have I have a story about a flying

518
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:59.559
dog, and I'm going to tell
you right now it's not getting it.

519
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.400
It does. I just't understand what
I'm saying or doing, but I'm working

520
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:07.280
on it. Oh my gosh.
This has been so much fun, And

521
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:13.760
thank you so much Genie the story. Genie. I love doing this because

522
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.320
I love sharing our little bit of
knowledge with other people who might be thinking

523
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:24.039
about writing. And I encourage everyone
give it a shot. You've got nothing

524
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:28.639
to lose, right right, there's
a song out there says, express yourself.

525
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.320
Express yourself. You need to.
We all need to get that out

526
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:35.079
of our head and onto the paper
or onto the page, or onto the

527
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.000
canvas, you know. Paint it, draw it, sing it, dance

528
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.760
it, whatever it might be.
Let it out. Let me ask you

529
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:45.280
that question I always ask, and
I can't remember what you said the last

530
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:50.360
time, And the question is,
if you could have dinner with anyone living

531
00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:54.880
or dead besides me, who would
it be? Oh golly, you know,

532
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.800
I have all kinds of answers.
You know. From a faith standpoint,

533
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.920
say I'd love to have dinner with
Jesus. From a political standpoint,

534
00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:07.639
I say I would love to sit
down and have dinner with Abraham Lincoln.

535
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:14.119
From a societal standpoint, I would
love to sit down and talk to Susan

536
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:17.599
B. Anthony. You know,
there's so there's there's different people throughout history

537
00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:23.599
and different milieus and different in different
concepts. From music standpoint, just give

538
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:30.480
me, Paul McCartney, I'm happy. Yeah, what do you think about

539
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:36.039
this thing that's sweeping the country.
That's all of our grandchildren, they're all

540
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:44.000
involved with these phenomena of the Taylor
Swift's. Yeah, she's a cutie and

541
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.480
she writes, she writes all her
own stuff. If I'm not mistaken,

542
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:53.880
she's very clever. She's very catchy. She's very tall, she's very pretty.

543
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:59.239
But she's smart, smart, smart, and I love that she writes

544
00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:00.920
all her own things and she gets
it out there. You know, she's

545
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:05.000
some of it is a little angst
ridden and some of it is a little

546
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:10.599
so. Yeah, it's very personal, and it's very self uh examining.

547
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:14.960
You know, she's very self examining. But does she hasn't puny strings about

548
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:16.480
some of the people that have,
you know, stomped on her toe.

549
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:22.760
I like her, I you know, do I think that it's opus?

550
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:27.000
You know, it's it's great musical
opus. No, But I think it's

551
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.920
a great pop place in history.
And I wish her just a lot of

552
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:36.000
happiness. I wish she'd find romantic
happiness with her football player or who ends

553
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:37.320
up with. You know, she's
she's got a lot to give. You

554
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:42.360
can certainly see that in her music. Oh she's got a heart that's just

555
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:49.159
huge, just huge. I'm enjoying
this experience because it's really something I can

556
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.559
share with my especially my granddaughter,
my ballet dancer. Oh my gosh,

557
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:59.239
she loves she knows every word of
every song. And I guarantee you,

558
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:00.559
when you hear it, you've got
to get moving. You've got to get

559
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.519
hopping around in your seat. And
if you're walking and cleaning house or something,

560
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:07.119
suddenly you're dancing along with it.
So you're a swiftie. We're all

561
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:09.800
a little you know, we're all
a little bit of a swift I think

562
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:14.639
we all should be swifties. I
think it's fun and it's kind of you

563
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:17.679
know. I know, when we
were growing up, our parents couldn't relate

564
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.840
to our music because we were rock
and roll and we were the Beatles and

565
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.639
we did all of that, and
our parents wondered what that was all about.

566
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:30.760
But this is actually her music and
some of her contemporaries. This is

567
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:37.119
music that everyone can enjoy and it's
just a nice bridge between generations. And

568
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:39.639
I have to say, let me
say this just really really quickly. My

569
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:43.679
youngest son is in a band.
I won't mention the name because we're not

570
00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:47.079
doing advaitorials here, but my youngest
sin's band travels the world around their fifth

571
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:52.280
album and their music is very catchy
and it's very it's a certain style,

572
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:55.440
you know, it's a very indie
style, kind of one of a kind.

573
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:58.239
And my husband says, ah,
you know, it's not for me.

574
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:00.519
And when I listen to it,
I love it. And when I

575
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:04.400
go to their live concerts, oh, it is sold out, shoulder to

576
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.280
shoulder, packed, packed, packed, And the age groups are running from

577
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:12.920
fifteen or sixteen years old up to
people in their fifties, and they're all

578
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.280
they're just all together, you know, they're communing together on something common that

579
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:21.480
they're loving. So music is a
wonderful, wonderful way to bring people together.

580
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:28.800
Oh no, so swifties go Swifties. Yeah. Yeah. I think

581
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:34.320
it's good for all of us to
experience new things. And I think this

582
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:37.880
is a wonderful opportunity. As I
said, it's a generational bridge because all

583
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.639
of a sudden, we all have
something we can talk about. It's either

584
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.880
the music or the football player,
or or how tall she is. And

585
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.199
she has the best She has the
best lips. I love the shape of

586
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.679
her lips. They're so pretty.
Yeah, that's the only thing to admire

587
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:57.360
about somebody. But she has beautifully
formed lips. Her and Charlie's Crown Beautiful

588
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.079
Lips. Well, I was reading
I was reading this learning about all the

589
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:05.119
awards for the Grammys coming up,
and of course she's getting right up there

590
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:09.559
between her and Beyonce. I mean, they're just breaking records with all the

591
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:16.679
awards that they're winning, and they're
both such wonderful talents and I think incredibly

592
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:22.360
incredibly important role models. Well,
and look at how diverse they are.

593
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:28.320
Look at how they're polar opposites in
music style, in visible appearance, in

594
00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.159
dance style. It's just wonderful.
I mean, it's wonderful to just see

595
00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:37.119
this broad spectrum of kinds of music
and beats of music and types of music.

596
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:44.239
I love it. I love it
all I do too. It's invigorating.

597
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.360
It's good for all of us.
Now. I know this is a

598
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:50.880
silly question to ask you, and
you're probably going to laugh in my face,

599
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:58.400
But when you look back, do
you have any things, not regrets,

600
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:02.000
but things you wish you put have
done differently at this stage? Looking

601
00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:07.519
back at this stage, there are
things I wish I had done differently,

602
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:10.559
But they are silly things, you
know, silly things like I wish I

603
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:16.320
had, I wish I had taken
piano lessons and I could accompany myself.

604
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:20.840
I wish I could play a musical
instrument, and I so admire people that

605
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:24.679
can. I wish that I had
taken up tap dancing. I tried it

606
00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:28.599
once, oh years and years ago, when my kids were little. I

607
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took some tap dancing classes. I
had so much fun. But the life

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of a young mom with young kids
and working full time and still trying to,

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you know, be a good soulmate
to my husband and a good parent

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to my children, I had to
give up tap dancing. So I'd like

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to do that. But maybe the
one thing, seriously that I really wish

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I had done differently is I wish
that I had known my mother better.

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I wish I had known her better. She died by a biological mother,

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died really young. And kids out
there, never take your mom for granted

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because the world is unpredictable. And
whoever you love, tell them today,

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and tell them every day you love
them, And ask them about themselves.

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If you're young, ask your mom, ask your dad, ask your grandparents,

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your favorite aunts and uncles, ask
them about themselves and their background and

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their childhood. Because you can go
back. You can't you don't get a

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do over. So I wish i'd
done that. And you know, I

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think one thing that the two of
us share, then we know we're both

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very lucky and very blessed. We
both are very good at picking husbands.

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Yes, for sure, that's for
sure. So Jeanie and I we also

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shared the fact that we both have
been married fifty three years. Yes,

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that's right. I was three,
I was three years old, and now

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I was a teen. I will
admit I was a teenager when I got

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Yeah, well, I was just
fairly out of my teens too, So

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it's it's a big number and goes
by them. I find it hard to

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believe that it's actually a true number
for both of us. Yeah, well,

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in these senior success stories, you
know, once you're over fifty five,

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folks, you're a senior. I
don't know if you like it or

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not. Welcome to the club.
Oh I know, because I'm now at

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the point where I'm taking my kids, my four kids, to movies with

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me, and it shocks me when
I'm going up and buying tickets for three

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seniors and one of them is my
kids. That's funny. How does that

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happen? How does that happen.
I don't know. I sometimes I had

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someone much smarter than me say to
me one time. You'll find as you

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grow older that your brain stops thinking
of itself at a certain age. So

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when you're fifty, your brain is
still thinking you're thirty five, maybe thirty

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eight, and then suddenly you realize, no, I'm not. Oh my

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god, how does that happen?
And then suddenly you're sixty and your brain

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is thinking you're forty five. Oh
okay, So you know I'm always counting

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backwards at least by ten or fifteen. Wells, speaking of time, now

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we really are saying about it.
So all of our dear friends, we

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hope to see you next week,
and I'm going to have a nice surprise.

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I think that I'll be introducing you
to one of the Golden Bachelorettes,

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which I'm very excited about. Well, to our listeners, thank you for

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entering the No Wine Zone with us, the Glitter Granny and the story Genie.

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Thank you. Please share our stories
and our show with everyone you know,

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and remember you need to stop whining, start smiling, and if that

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doesn't work, then you can just
start eating chocolate. Lots and lots of

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chocolate. Now one, take care
and stay safe until we meet again next

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Tuesday. Bye bye, bye bye. We want to thank you for listening

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to January Jones sharing success stories.
Always remember miss Jones' personal mantra, if

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you can think it, you can
do it. That's what all of our

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guests have done with their lives,
and so can you. You are the

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ultimate success coach in your own life. All you need to do will be

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to start sharing your own story with
your family and friends. We hope that

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our guest stories will encourage you to
explore an equation in your future that will

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combine your creativity plus connecting with others
will enable you to be successful too.

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Always remember your passion plus your purpose
will equal prosperity as you explore the wonderful

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world of January Jones