From Problem-Solving to Purpose: An Autistic-Friendly Entrepreneurial Journey with Virginia Rose

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plan is right for you. Welcome to Crazy Fitness

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by Healthy Living Podcast, where we strive to

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motivate people who are on the autism spectrum

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to live healthy lifestyles. If you think this

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podcast is only for people who are autistic,

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then think again. Whether you are autistic or

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not, we have a mix of content from healthy living

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to everything in between that makes up a balanced

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and healthy life. Autism is our backbone and

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we strive to support the autism community by

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motivating, inspiring, and educating everyone

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about what autism is. Please welcome your host.

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host Jimmy Clare, who is a motivational speaker,

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autism advocate, author, and founder of CrazyFitnessFive

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.com. Welcome to another episode of Crazy Fitness

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Guys Healthy Living Podcast. I got my friend,

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Virginia, who's going to talk about pretty much

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everything and everything, healthy living and

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whatnot, and welcome to the show. Thank you,

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Jimmy. I'm very happy to be here and I'm very

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happy to be in your space and to get to be interviewed

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by you. It's a pleasure. Thank you so much. I'm

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so glad that we got to do this because I know

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I had to reschedule last time because I had an

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annoying house showing. Gosh, darn it. Just kidding.

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Quite all right. It's all God's timing, right?

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And stay with the day. And I'm having a good

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hair day. So anybody that's listening to this

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on the audio, just know that I'm having a good

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hair day today. It's all mine. And you are. And

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you look rejuvenated. You look well. So happy

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to be here with you. That must probably be because

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of my spring break that I needed. Oh, you do

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look well rested. You do look well rested. Well,

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I'm so excited to be here and to... be on your

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platform and support you and everything, what

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you're doing. I'm so happy and so proud of you,

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of everything. So, so exciting. Thank you. So

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tell me a little bit about yourself. Well, I

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live in the greater Washington, D .C. area. I

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am a 20 year vet fashion photographer. I've done

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some modeling. I've done some acting. I co -authored

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an international bestselling book called Women

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Who Illuminate. And I am the proud host of La

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Dolce Vita podcast with Virginia Rose. That is

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on eight platforms, currently listenership in

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31 countries. And that is a platform that I started

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to. poor artists, activists, and industry professionals

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during the pandemic. So what made you want to

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start the podcast? Okay, so this is going to

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be about at least a five minute long story. So

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you guys stick with me, all you listeners out

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there. So I had planned on retiring. I actually

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did say the words, I'm retiring from photography

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after 20... a little over 20 years in the industry.

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I worked very, very hard. I was published many,

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many times. I worked with incredible celebrities

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and I was ready to start a new journey. But I

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actually started in 2017 with winemaking in Italy.

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And I worked very, very hard alongside my business

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partner, Petra Moretti. We had made some beautiful

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tailor -made boutique wines that we were planning

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on launching that was going to take all my energy

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and all my efforts. And 2020 was going to be

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our year for this launch. So I was... Happy to

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kind of hang up modeling, only do it for fun.

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I wasn't really into too many acting projects

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anymore. You know, semi -retired, retired from

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photography where I wasn't doing any more art

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directing and big projects and really put all

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my energy into this blind journey. Well, I don't

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have to. Have you guys guess what happened when

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we went to launch the wine? So Italy closed,

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the United States closed and Disney World closed

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pretty much all in the same like what, 30 days,

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less than 30 days. And so that caused me to have

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a major pivot in my course. So I was painting.

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I had been painting for a couple of years, but

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I'm on lockdown. 77 days was the first. lockdown

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that I had my groceries delivered. I don't remember

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leaving the house, but two times maybe for like

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gas or something that couldn't be delivered to

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my home, like real, real quick, you know, but

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77 days on lockdown and I'm painting and falling

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into depression, Jimmy. My mental health was

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starting to deteriorate to a place that I did

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not recognize myself. And I was feeling very

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sick. you know, sad and depressed and down on

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myself. And I started praying. And my industry

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professional friends, actors, models, filmmakers,

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painters, writers, they were sad and depressed.

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So this all leads me to a very special prayer.

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that I started praying in August, asking God,

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what do you want to do with me? I can't do photography

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shoots. I can't make my wine and launch my program.

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I can paint, but nobody's going to really see

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my artwork. And I feel at a loss to help people

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and to support them. I don't know what to do,

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God. And I woke up on August 15th, about 5 a

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.m. in the morning, and he just spoke right through

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me and put it on my heart. He said, you're going

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to start a podcast. And I was like, What? I've

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told this story quite a few times. Like I'm going

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to start a podcast. Okay, God, I have no equipment.

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I don't know how to do a podcast. I have been

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on radio, on FM radio, WRNR a few years ago.

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So I kind of know how it works, but I'm like,

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I'm not really sure what to do here. And he just

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kept filling into my spirit. If you can't find

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the light, you need to be the light and be the

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light around others and support them and give

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them a platform. Just use your voice. Just use

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your voice and the rest will come. Well, I am

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very happy to tell you that by Friday of this

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week, I will have recorded 60 episodes. We are

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on season two and the podcast is going extremely

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well. We're continuously growing. We now have

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not only artists, but leaders, coaches, experts

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in their field, psychotherapists, relationship

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experts. doctors mds um and filmmakers people

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from all different walks of life so i'm so excited

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to be on this journey and that god put it on

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my heart and and he just kind of poured into

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me when i was in a very dark space so nonetheless

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you can hear in my voice i'm i'm pretty happy

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i'm pretty positive now so uh i'm glad to hear

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that because uh i know i don't think i got into

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I don't think I got into depression during the

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pandemic, but I felt like it was starting to

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take a toll on my overall outlook on life. I

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wouldn't really call it depression. I just think

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it was just everything. I just felt like, am

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I really living through this, or am I just going

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through the motions? And after a while, everything

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just started becoming a chore. I went through

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some phases where I kind of stepped away from

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social media just as a break. Not a whole big

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break, but I started getting rid of accounts.

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different services that I just started deleting

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one by one. And it's like, don't need this anymore.

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Don't need this anymore. And I was doing all

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of that. And I was like, that was waiting on

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me for what? I was like, it feels so good. I

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was like, and it's like some of these services

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that I bookmarked and I saved in my secure password

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manager. I was like, I don't remember even using

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the service. I was like, I just saved. The internet

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can be a distraction place. It's full of distractions

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like social media, shopping, and so many more

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websites that are very distracting. Just like

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video games and whatnot. But it is all over the

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place. So much noise going on. Well, with a blocker

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tool like Freedom Blocker, it can block all those

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home, clean up your social medias, clean up maybe

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your friends. It was a good time for cleanup,

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for sure. Organization, those type of things.

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So that's good that you did that. It's great

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for mental health. Yeah. I'm like, I don't even

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know what half the accounts I was using for.

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I was like, did I sign up for this? I don't know.

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I was going to do something with this. Nah, I

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just slept now. I don't know. Wow. So what do

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you discuss on your podcast? Okay, so it depends

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on the guest. I will tell you that I do pre -screen

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my guests. In the beginning, I was contacting

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other people, inviting them to be on my podcast.

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my industry professional friends and people that

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I had known that were very well respected or,

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you know, people that were acquaintances that

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I respected their work. But now people are contacting

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me from all over the world. And I interview people

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in Mexico and Australia and UK and the United

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States. I mean, just all Greece all over. But

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I would say so La Dolce Vita, the name La Dolce

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Vita. means the sweet life. And when I say the

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sweet life, I don't mean just eating cookies

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and cakes and built a, you know, um, I interview

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people on things that are sweet in life and that

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can be many things. Uh, relationships can be

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sweet. Um, I interview, um, Dr. Tranquility.

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She's been on The View about relationships. One

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of my episodes was with Michael Loria where we

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talked about what's your love language and how

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to identify that. in a relationship or you're

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married or you're dating, what is your partner's

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love language? So that if you're stuck in a house

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during the pandemic and you know each other's

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love language, maybe you can get along a little

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bit better. Or if you're new to the dating scene

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after being on lockdown for a year, how you can

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connect with others. Another episode we did was

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about testimony. I interviewed a gentleman about

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sharing the power of a testimony and healing

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through abuse and mental health awareness, suicide

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prevention. I interviewed a gentleman by the

00:16:12.509 --> 00:16:15.909
name of Jason Cisneros, who from the Bald Avenger

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podcast, who is with Cert Ministries, who goes

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in and saves. children, victims of human trafficking,

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and gets them to a safe place through certain

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ministries. So really all different people, mainly

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artists, okay? Incredible singers like Deborah

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Bond and Mervyn Mayo and Monique Maffei Hester,

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just all different types of people. Painters

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that paint in Chicago, huge beautiful murals

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and do activist projects. So if you go and listen,

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I assure you that there's at least one episode

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for everyone that they can enjoy and that they

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can learn. It's definitely a platform where you

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can learn something as well. And I guarantee

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you by the end of the show, you're going to feel

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so beautiful in your heart space. You're going

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to feel uplifted and you're going to feel. really

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good about what you just heard we don't talk

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about politics we don't um talk negatively about

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others um and we don't talk about things that

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are going to be majorly controversial like should

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you take the vaccine should you not um should

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you wear a mask should you not because i don't

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want to argue with people i want to tell their

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stories I totally agree. That's one of the rules

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that when I created this podcast, my own podcast,

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that it was not going to be any politics. It

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was not going to be anything that is controversial

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because I didn't want to argue with people. I

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was like, you have your opinion. I have my opinion.

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No one has asked me this question, but if someone

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did ask me what my politics are, I would say,

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I don't have time for that. I don't understand

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stupid. At this current time, as an American

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citizen, born in the U .S., my family is Italian

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on my mom's side. I have to do my duty as an

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American citizen and I do use the power of my

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voice, but I don't want to ever butt heads with

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anyone. I mean, we just agree to disagree if

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it's something that I hear and I'm like. I'm

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not sure unless it's something that's against

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my moral compass, you know, then I'll speak up.

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But I'm here to be in the entertainment industry.

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I'm here to be an amazing host. I'm here to support

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others. And so that's my really my primary focus.

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I don't care who they voted for for president.

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If they're a good person and spiritually, you

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know, they're on their. their purpose -driven

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life, I want to support it. Exactly. And plus,

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I always liked... My dad used to watch his talk

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show host when he was younger, Johnny Carson.

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Yeah. He always said, like, why would I want

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to piss off, like, 50 % of the audience? Right.

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And I was like... And I always... Like, even

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though I'm not... that high up on the food chain

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as he was. It's like, why would I want to piss

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off my audience? And it's like, I was like, I

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don't even need to, why even talk about that

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stupid topic? Well, there's one person that I

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really love a lot and that I have a lot of respect

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for who has had, I believe, a four, if not five

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decade successful career. And that's Dolly Parton.

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Dolly Parton, when asked about any type of politics

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or her view, like to choose one side or the other.

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She always makes a sweet, cute little joke or

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she says, hey, I'm just here to sing a song,

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darling, you know, or something cute like that.

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And she she kind of deflects from it and she

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stays away from that area. She knows that she's

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in the entertainment business. She's not here

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to influence people in that way. She just wants

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to be a good person. And she has donated millions

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and millions of books so that children can learn

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how to read. And she supports charities and does

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wonderful things. Why would she want to lose

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the support of the people by saying one comment

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about who to vote for or whatever? We have the

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power and the ability to do our own personal

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research about who we want to vote for. You know,

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you can always write to Congress. There are many

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things that you can do in your own space. You

00:20:43.930 --> 00:20:46.900
don't need to unless you're in politics. Uh,

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and that's, you know, that's the direction of

00:20:49.140 --> 00:20:51.079
your career that you want it to go. You don't

00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.420
need to, you know, be getting on there and there's

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no need to bash other people or anything like

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that. And on a podcast, my podcast is not political.

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It's spiritual. So, uh, how did you come up with

00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:08.920
the name for your podcast? Well, I really thank

00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:12.059
God put it on my heart, but, um, So La Dolce

00:21:12.059 --> 00:21:15.299
Vita is like, it's like saying in Italy, like,

00:21:15.339 --> 00:21:17.940
you know, the sweet life, the sweet life. And

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I wanted to name the podcast something that was

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from, you know, my Italian heritage that was

00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:27.480
an Italian saying, something that was probably

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familiar with. even English speaking, you know,

00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.400
people, a lot of people that are, you know, American

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or any, you know, other places in the world has

00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:39.039
heard the saying, ah, La Dolce Vita, right? So,

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.119
um, and I wanted it to be something that people

00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.359
knew instantaneously that this is going to be

00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:47.440
a fun show, or this is going to be a spiritual

00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.359
show. Um, if you're talking about the sweet light.

00:21:50.890 --> 00:21:53.769
then you're probably not talking about politics,

00:21:53.990 --> 00:21:56.230
right? Or you're probably not talking, even though

00:21:56.230 --> 00:21:59.710
we do speak about very serious subjects, the

00:21:59.710 --> 00:22:02.509
subjects that we're talking on are to raise awareness

00:22:02.509 --> 00:22:05.789
or to raise funding for charities or things that

00:22:05.789 --> 00:22:07.930
are going to support and help people or like

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art and music. And I have this quote, I think

00:22:11.750 --> 00:22:14.769
you'll love it, Jimmy, that the world without

00:22:14.769 --> 00:22:19.049
artists would be in asylum. Yeah, I can agree

00:22:19.049 --> 00:22:22.299
with that. So if you took away architects and

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fashion designers and musicians and painters

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and models and actors and all these different

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types of artists, filmmakers, it would be a pretty

00:22:30.940 --> 00:22:33.740
boring world. And we'd probably go crazy without

00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:37.690
ways to. express ourselves. So it kind of all

00:22:37.690 --> 00:22:39.990
fits. So the name of the podcast, La Dolce Vita,

00:22:40.089 --> 00:22:42.390
The Suite Life, that's where it comes from. And

00:22:42.390 --> 00:22:44.569
then the quote, a world without artists would

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be an asylum comes from Virginia Rose. It comes

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from me. And it's like, hey, come support artists.

00:22:50.789 --> 00:22:54.430
Otherwise there won't be any. I can totally agree

00:22:54.430 --> 00:22:59.410
with you on that because it's funny. I was telling

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this one person that I met in person once and

00:23:03.569 --> 00:23:07.339
he says like, I was like, I don't listen to music.

00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.319
I was like, huh? I was like, yeah, I just don't

00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:13.359
really care for music. Well, isn't your life

00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:15.960
boring? I didn't say that to the person, but

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I was like, how do you not listen to music? I

00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:21.700
was like, I'm bored in the car when there's no

00:23:21.700 --> 00:23:27.700
music. I'm bored when I do my marketing, my everyday

00:23:27.700 --> 00:23:29.660
marketing that I do for my brand and everything.

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I'm always listening to music. I'm afraid that

00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.700
my parents are going to tell me to shut up with

00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:37.380
the music or something. It's like, come on. It's

00:23:37.380 --> 00:23:41.099
like, bring it down. It's not like I'm blasting

00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:44.779
at like 10 decimals, like 50 decimals high at

00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:47.599
night. And it's like, I'm just listening to some

00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.319
Macy Deasy before I go to bed. Maybe it's not

00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:53.819
the best thing to listen to before you go to

00:23:53.819 --> 00:23:56.640
bed because you just feel like you continue doing

00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:02.890
stuff. I like listening to ACDC. Yeah. Well,

00:24:02.930 --> 00:24:06.869
music is life for me. So I am an artist, but

00:24:06.869 --> 00:24:09.869
I wouldn't be the artist that I am if it wasn't

00:24:09.869 --> 00:24:15.170
for music, Jimmy. I do put a lot of beautiful,

00:24:15.329 --> 00:24:19.190
tranquil music into my podcast. And it's so funny

00:24:19.190 --> 00:24:22.990
because a couple of people have told me that

00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:26.130
I should do a guided meditation app because they

00:24:26.130 --> 00:24:28.410
love to fall asleep to my voice when they listen

00:24:28.410 --> 00:24:32.210
to the interviews. And I find that so beautiful

00:24:32.210 --> 00:24:35.670
and amazing because music gets me in the spirit

00:24:35.670 --> 00:24:39.109
before I do the interviews. I paint to music.

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I actually... Sometimes name my paintings after

00:24:44.089 --> 00:24:46.809
a song or a lyric that I was listening to at

00:24:46.809 --> 00:24:49.390
the time that I painted them. I was a figure

00:24:49.390 --> 00:24:52.309
skater and I did ballroom dancing and I was also

00:24:52.309 --> 00:24:55.529
a belly dancer. So I know people listening like,

00:24:55.670 --> 00:24:57.789
what? A belly dancer? Yeah, I did belly dancing

00:24:57.789 --> 00:25:01.009
for like five years as part of my fitness journey

00:25:01.009 --> 00:25:04.910
to be in shape after three children. And I love

00:25:04.910 --> 00:25:07.750
music. I love almost every type of music. The

00:25:07.750 --> 00:25:10.529
only thing that I can't get into is heavy metal.

00:25:11.180 --> 00:25:13.160
It's no, you know, nothing against other people

00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:15.140
that listen to it, but it kind of like hurts

00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:17.380
my head a little bit. But I can always listen

00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:20.140
to anything from classical to a good rock song.

00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:22.700
So I have to agree with you on the 80s, though.

00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:27.859
Super awesome. I'm not a big fan of metal, heavy

00:25:27.859 --> 00:25:30.099
metal either, because it just feels like a headache

00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:33.980
going off in the back of my brain. It's kind

00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:36.259
of like it's also screaming, too. It's like,

00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:40.390
what's that lyric? There's a lot of people that

00:25:40.390 --> 00:25:42.869
work out to it. They like to work out to it because

00:25:42.869 --> 00:25:45.349
it really gives them a good pump. But for me,

00:25:45.390 --> 00:25:47.710
I'm much more of a J -Lo girl. Give me some Pitbull.

00:25:48.109 --> 00:25:53.569
Give me some JoJo. I don't think I can listen

00:25:53.569 --> 00:25:59.130
to Pitbull because I'm just not a big hip -hop

00:25:59.130 --> 00:26:03.710
kind of person. But the heavy metal, I can see

00:26:03.710 --> 00:26:07.640
people working out to it. I'm just not that into

00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:13.900
it. Probably because my parents always played

00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:17.819
either classic rock or rock and roll in the car.

00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:24.880
Never like super loud, obnoxious music. Now when

00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:28.119
ACDC comes on, we play it a little high in the

00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:33.150
car, but it's not like we... I don't even know

00:26:33.150 --> 00:26:35.690
any heavy metal bands, but it's not like we're

00:26:35.690 --> 00:26:40.329
blasting you over the radio. Some of those people

00:26:40.329 --> 00:26:44.930
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00:26:44.930 --> 00:26:47.329
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00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.859
What else do you want to ask me, Jamie? I'm an

00:28:23.859 --> 00:28:33.500
open book here. So how long have you been...

00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:38.980
What kind of artwork do you make? Okay, so I

00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:42.819
am an international fine artist. I create...

00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:46.819
uh works of art photography works of art that

00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:51.000
are um photography prints that I have like a

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.380
limited edition collection that's one type of

00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:58.000
art that I do and like I did um I went to this

00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:01.660
photo shoot in Chicago and we did a Marie Antoinette

00:29:01.660 --> 00:29:07.079
like recreation and it was like From the 16th,

00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:09.160
17th century, it was really, really beautiful,

00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:12.880
like kind of Rococo type of art, Venetian style

00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:16.099
art with the lady with the wigs and the masks

00:29:16.099 --> 00:29:18.480
and the beautiful ball gowns and dresses and

00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:20.519
things like that. And people can order it on

00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:25.380
like metal or on acrylic or like pearlized canvases,

00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:28.059
stuff like that. And then there's another type

00:29:28.059 --> 00:29:31.539
of art that I do, and that's paintings. And I

00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:34.539
never know what the painting is going to look

00:29:34.539 --> 00:29:39.319
like because I do abstract art. I've painted

00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:43.170
a kid. cat before I've painted wine glasses wine

00:29:43.170 --> 00:29:46.109
bottles instruments all different types of things

00:29:46.109 --> 00:29:51.349
so I'll tell you I do prayer and meditation every

00:29:51.349 --> 00:29:56.089
morning and God gives me like visions and I can

00:29:56.089 --> 00:29:59.509
see what I'm supposed to paint and he always

00:30:00.269 --> 00:30:03.250
I feel like God is like so mindful that he usually

00:30:03.250 --> 00:30:05.490
gives me the vision when he knows I either have

00:30:05.490 --> 00:30:08.869
the day off and actually time to paint or I'm

00:30:08.869 --> 00:30:11.470
in a space like really inspired space and I will

00:30:11.470 --> 00:30:15.529
be able to paint to that day. And I really, really

00:30:15.529 --> 00:30:19.069
enjoy painting. It was meant to be a hobby. And

00:30:19.069 --> 00:30:22.309
to like have some down time. But what ended up

00:30:22.309 --> 00:30:24.509
happening is people saw my work and then they

00:30:24.509 --> 00:30:26.690
asked me, they wanted to commission me and they

00:30:26.690 --> 00:30:29.349
started buying my art. And so when things open

00:30:29.349 --> 00:30:31.390
back up, I really want to get my paintings in

00:30:31.390 --> 00:30:34.670
the galleries because a lot of my paintings have.

00:30:35.369 --> 00:30:39.890
message of hope behind them about not being afraid

00:30:39.890 --> 00:30:44.990
or pushing forward or crashing waves or honoring

00:30:44.990 --> 00:30:49.369
God throughout the storms the painting that is

00:30:49.369 --> 00:30:52.529
in my office that's hanging is called hope and

00:30:52.529 --> 00:30:55.849
it's all about being hopeful so that's that's

00:30:55.849 --> 00:30:58.309
a lot of my artwork. And then I do write as well.

00:30:58.329 --> 00:31:01.670
And I coauthored a book, Women Who Eliminate.

00:31:02.269 --> 00:31:05.829
And I am going to continue to write and hopefully

00:31:05.829 --> 00:31:10.930
write more books in the future. I wish I had

00:31:10.930 --> 00:31:15.250
your art skill because I'm good with, I've created

00:31:15.250 --> 00:31:21.900
many different pieces of art myself. I think

00:31:21.900 --> 00:31:24.779
some of the listeners might think this story

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might be funny. Some might disagree, but I think

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it was pretty funny. So one of my art classes

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just because I needed a place where I can let

00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:48.279
my emotions out, and instead of verbally talking

00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:51.900
to someone, I just wanted to... make stuff and

00:31:51.900 --> 00:31:56.900
create stuff. And one of my art classes, I created

00:31:56.900 --> 00:32:00.000
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00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:06.799
For my last and final project, I took it up a

00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:13.200
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00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:17.700
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00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:23.569
skull. And I turned it into sort of like a prison

00:32:23.569 --> 00:32:29.950
and had different little bars on it from paper

00:32:29.950 --> 00:32:33.150
clips. And I'm not saying my college or anything.

00:32:33.269 --> 00:32:37.349
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00:32:37.349 --> 00:32:43.150
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Terms and conditions apply. My art teacher said,

00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:17.579
like, Jimmy, I think that should go into the

00:34:17.579 --> 00:34:19.679
art show. I was like, you're kidding me, right?

00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:21.360
And he's like, no, it's that good. It should

00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.099
go into the art show. So I go to the art show,

00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:28.519
put it in there. My principal saw it and was

00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.639
like, Jimmy, I think that piece looks wonderful.

00:34:31.710 --> 00:34:33.530
I thought you would be offended by that piece.

00:34:33.670 --> 00:34:36.369
And it's like, no, I truly know how much you

00:34:36.369 --> 00:34:38.909
really dislike high school and middle school.

00:34:39.429 --> 00:34:43.769
I was like, wow, I didn't even have to mention

00:34:43.769 --> 00:34:46.190
that to you. I was like, no, it was pretty random

00:34:46.190 --> 00:34:47.989
much all over your face back then. And it's like,

00:34:48.070 --> 00:34:52.829
thank you. Well, you saw it with an outlet for

00:34:52.829 --> 00:34:55.429
you. I mean, that was how you were feeling. You

00:34:55.429 --> 00:34:59.630
were feeling caged at the time. break free and

00:34:59.630 --> 00:35:02.789
be out into the world. So I don't think it's

00:35:02.789 --> 00:35:06.570
inappropriate at all. I think it's an honest

00:35:06.570 --> 00:35:10.969
dictation of how you were feeling physically,

00:35:11.250 --> 00:35:16.730
emotionally, mentally. I was not a fan of middle

00:35:16.730 --> 00:35:20.190
school and high school. In middle school, I did

00:35:20.190 --> 00:35:24.460
love bands, music. There you go. Chorus. Music.

00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:28.440
There you go. I loved my band friends and I really,

00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.579
really enjoyed it. But my favorite class of the

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:33.639
day was either band or chorus. Like I didn't

00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:35.579
I didn't care about any of the other classes.

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:37.699
And when I became a figure skater and I was figure

00:35:37.699 --> 00:35:41.059
skating, I barely even wanted to go to school

00:35:41.059 --> 00:35:42.179
because I was like, I'm going to be a famous

00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:44.219
figure skater. What I did all the science and

00:35:44.219 --> 00:35:47.380
math stuff. Well, nonetheless, I graduated anyways,

00:35:47.659 --> 00:35:51.900
which. You know, everybody, it's good to apply

00:35:51.900 --> 00:35:55.159
your studies to your life. But Jimmy, I had to

00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:57.280
completely agree with you. I felt like it was

00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.599
prison. I wanted to break free. I want to go

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:01.639
out to the world. I wanted to do photography

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.579
and skating and modeling and dancing. And none

00:36:04.579 --> 00:36:06.739
of those really have classes at school or space

00:36:06.739 --> 00:36:09.980
at the school. So I completely understand where

00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:11.900
you're coming from with that art piece. And thank

00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:13.539
you for telling that story and sharing it with

00:36:13.539 --> 00:36:18.699
me. Well, what's funny though, an art critic

00:36:18.699 --> 00:36:24.159
came in to, every year art critics come, local

00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:28.960
art critics come around just to view local pieces

00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:33.289
and everything. And my piece won an award. And

00:36:33.289 --> 00:36:40.010
I still have it pasted onto the piece as well.

00:36:40.250 --> 00:36:44.710
And I was like, yeah. I was like, it's a great

00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:49.670
piece. It's like, gee. After all the stuff that

00:36:49.670 --> 00:36:52.760
I made previous years. never got in but this

00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:55.920
piece took the icing on the cake it sure did

00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:58.719
well congratulations on that award and that just

00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:01.860
shows that art is all in the eye of the beholder

00:37:01.860 --> 00:37:06.539
and obviously someone's doll uh you invoked an

00:37:06.539 --> 00:37:09.199
emotion in them jimmy and you made them stop

00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.710
and the judge and say hey He expressed his feelings

00:37:13.710 --> 00:37:16.070
in an art piece and we need to pay attention

00:37:16.070 --> 00:37:18.809
to this. And so that's really awesome. What a

00:37:18.809 --> 00:37:22.210
cool story. I was, you know what? I was terrible

00:37:22.210 --> 00:37:26.829
in art in school because I never wanted to do

00:37:26.829 --> 00:37:29.710
the art projects that they gave us. Like, oh,

00:37:29.789 --> 00:37:32.929
make a mosaic or do this clay project or make

00:37:32.929 --> 00:37:36.309
a black and white sketch of yourself. It never

00:37:36.309 --> 00:37:38.829
translated for me. I don't like to be told what

00:37:38.829 --> 00:37:41.559
to do. I'm an Aries Taurus for anybody that believes

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:45.969
it. The horoscopes or, you know, the zodiac signs

00:37:45.969 --> 00:37:49.130
or whatever. But Aries Tauruses do not like to

00:37:49.130 --> 00:37:51.909
be told what to do. If you ask us, we'll do anything

00:37:51.909 --> 00:37:54.309
in the world for you. But if you tell us, we're

00:37:54.309 --> 00:37:56.530
like, oh, no, I don't want to do that. So my

00:37:56.530 --> 00:37:59.329
teacher like commanded me to make a certain type

00:37:59.329 --> 00:38:01.829
of artwork that didn't speak to me. I have a

00:38:01.829 --> 00:38:05.289
very hard time translating it. So now that I

00:38:05.289 --> 00:38:07.909
have my own art studio and my own photography

00:38:07.909 --> 00:38:11.500
studio, my own space. And my imagination can

00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:14.460
run wild and I can create anything I want, whether

00:38:14.460 --> 00:38:16.739
it be creating a dress, making my own dresses,

00:38:16.820 --> 00:38:19.840
making my own backdrops, my own sets, my own

00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.780
bringing my visions to life. And that's what

00:38:22.780 --> 00:38:26.000
I did with models for years. It's such a wonderful

00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.119
space because I feel like it's never ending,

00:38:28.219 --> 00:38:30.760
Jenny. So art is such an important piece of the

00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.460
world and it lives inside of us and we need to

00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:40.500
get it out though. Super awesome. I was never

00:38:40.500 --> 00:38:43.519
a really good drawer at all. I could barely even

00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:48.159
draw a stick figure. But I could paint stuff.

00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.400
I made, oh, I have something right here. I made

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:57.539
this. Oh, he's got a cool bowl. You know what

00:38:57.539 --> 00:39:01.920
that looks like? It's from Nightmare Before Christmas.

00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:05.440
The jack with the swirl. Yeah. It looks really

00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:08.179
neat. Put it on your website so people can see.

00:39:08.619 --> 00:39:12.639
I might. There was this, what's funny though,

00:39:12.820 --> 00:39:17.179
I got this idea from one of my favorite shows

00:39:17.179 --> 00:39:20.980
called Avatar the Last Airbender. And I wanted

00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:27.820
to, there was this one scene, the scene was,

00:39:27.940 --> 00:39:31.019
he was visiting the northern water tribe to get

00:39:31.019 --> 00:39:37.059
a, to get a water, a waterbending master to learn

00:39:37.059 --> 00:39:41.619
waterbending. And when they were getting attacked

00:39:41.619 --> 00:39:51.380
and everything, in the second part of that, Aang

00:39:51.380 --> 00:39:56.280
the Avatar had to go to this, where he met these

00:39:56.280 --> 00:40:00.079
koi fish, and they were black and white. And

00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:03.139
it was, and they always circled around each other.

00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:07.039
And so that's when I got the kind of the circle.

00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.260
Well, I wouldn't say it was really that circle,

00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:12.349
but it was just. We're all. swirl around you

00:40:12.349 --> 00:40:15.590
out there i love koi fish i love well you know

00:40:15.590 --> 00:40:17.630
sometimes um i don't know if you've ever been

00:40:17.630 --> 00:40:19.869
down to florida but or there's different there's

00:40:19.869 --> 00:40:22.110
different places because we're very delicate

00:40:22.110 --> 00:40:25.349
to my understanding but i think koi fish are

00:40:25.349 --> 00:40:27.630
so beautiful when you can go to like a tropical

00:40:27.630 --> 00:40:29.869
type of restaurant and they have them like in

00:40:29.869 --> 00:40:32.489
the little like ponds and you can sit next to

00:40:32.489 --> 00:40:34.570
it and you can watch them i can literally sit

00:40:34.570 --> 00:40:36.530
there for hours i feel like they're the most

00:40:36.530 --> 00:40:40.300
tranquil uh fish neat looking fish and i hope

00:40:40.300 --> 00:40:43.519
someday uh you know what i'm gonna just say it's

00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.699
gonna happen that i can have my own koi fish

00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:49.099
pond like at my home somewhere because i think

00:40:49.099 --> 00:40:50.780
they're absolutely amazing and i can see the

00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:53.460
translation in your artwork of how that spoke

00:40:53.460 --> 00:40:58.300
to you so really really neat uh it's funny i

00:40:58.300 --> 00:41:02.039
like uh i'm always trying to look for some uh

00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:06.679
cool different uh like different apps for art

00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:12.059
on my Chromebook or my phone because since I'm

00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:15.559
out of, since, I don't think there's any art

00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:18.599
classes in my college. I took a photography class,

00:41:18.659 --> 00:41:23.099
but I haven't gotten to do much of anything.

00:41:23.579 --> 00:41:27.059
It's funny. They offer for college at the moment,

00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:33.300
like they have so many different, what's the

00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:36.840
word I'm looking for? electives that I could

00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:39.480
choose from but none of them had to do with anything

00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:41.980
art it's like you can take a class in art history

00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:47.119
and it's like yeah that's art history is is fun

00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:49.340
but that's basically um you're going to need

00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:51.760
to retain information and you're going to be

00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.860
tested about the renaissance period about the

00:41:53.860 --> 00:41:57.739
rococo period about um different um artists that

00:41:57.739 --> 00:41:59.960
painted different things and and where they were

00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:02.739
from and were they philosophers and and different

00:42:02.739 --> 00:42:06.929
things so I mean art History is great to know

00:42:06.929 --> 00:42:09.289
if you're really into that. But if you want to

00:42:09.289 --> 00:42:11.489
create, that's not going to do anything for you.

00:42:12.030 --> 00:42:15.670
It may inspire you, but because I love art history.

00:42:15.789 --> 00:42:18.150
I love watching documentaries. I love studying,

00:42:18.309 --> 00:42:20.730
not because I want to copy the work, but I want

00:42:20.730 --> 00:42:23.789
to be inspired by the great. But for me, I'm

00:42:23.789 --> 00:42:26.750
like, oh, my goodness, like I eat it up. Like

00:42:26.750 --> 00:42:29.909
on my down days or like my days off when I really

00:42:29.909 --> 00:42:32.690
need to unplug my brain and just rest and relax.

00:42:32.989 --> 00:42:35.510
I will watch the History Channel for like hours.

00:42:35.590 --> 00:42:38.070
Like my phone is on silent. People are trying

00:42:38.070 --> 00:42:39.909
to contact me. They're like, where are you, Virginia?

00:42:40.050 --> 00:42:42.889
I was like. If they really knew, they would be

00:42:42.889 --> 00:42:47.230
like, you're such a nerd. So I don't like, you

00:42:47.230 --> 00:42:48.769
know, tell them that I'm watching, you know,

00:42:48.789 --> 00:42:50.829
the History Channel for six hours watching documentaries

00:42:50.829 --> 00:42:53.769
about, you know, Leonardo da Vinci. But I think

00:42:53.769 --> 00:42:59.510
you should check into one of your local YMCA

00:42:59.510 --> 00:43:02.510
wine and design. They have like some type of

00:43:02.510 --> 00:43:04.170
wine design places. You don't have to drink the

00:43:04.170 --> 00:43:06.309
wine. You could just go take a class for about

00:43:06.309 --> 00:43:11.909
$30 to $40 and you can learn Bob Ross videos

00:43:11.909 --> 00:43:14.530
on YouTube. Because I'm a self -taught artist,

00:43:14.670 --> 00:43:17.429
I watch many type of tutorials and things to

00:43:17.429 --> 00:43:20.610
get inspired. And I'll tell you how I started,

00:43:20.670 --> 00:43:22.670
Jimmy. And this might inspire you and some of

00:43:22.670 --> 00:43:26.489
your listeners. I kept having dreams of different

00:43:26.489 --> 00:43:29.429
color paint that was on paintbrushes rushing

00:43:29.429 --> 00:43:31.869
against different canvases. And it made me really

00:43:31.869 --> 00:43:34.630
happy when I woke up. And I was like, but God,

00:43:34.690 --> 00:43:38.489
I'm not a painter. And I don't think he was asking

00:43:38.489 --> 00:43:40.719
me to paint. I think he was just... telling me,

00:43:40.739 --> 00:43:42.679
like putting on my heart, like you're going to

00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.679
paint. So I went to the art supply store and

00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:48.440
I asked the nice lady there that was working

00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:52.119
that day where the paint supplies were and what

00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.139
aisle. And she kind of helped me a little bit.

00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:57.039
Then she left me to it. And basically what I

00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.420
did was I bought some canvases, I bought some

00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:02.260
paint and I bought some brushes. And then I came

00:44:02.260 --> 00:44:04.480
home and I went on Pinterest and I looked at

00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:06.820
different types of beginner paintings and different

00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:09.159
things that I could start with. And I just found

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:11.460
one that the color spoke to me and it was a wine

00:44:11.460 --> 00:44:14.460
glass and it was really beautiful. So I just,

00:44:14.460 --> 00:44:17.000
I just started painting Jimmy and I did it with

00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:19.400
no expectations. You cannot have expectations

00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:21.800
because if you do, you're going to be like, oh,

00:44:21.900 --> 00:44:24.900
this looks like crud. I don't like this. Paint

00:44:24.900 --> 00:44:27.079
whatever Jimmy wants to paint. If anybody who's

00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:29.159
listening to this podcast and you want to start

00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:31.619
painting, paint whatever you want to paint. It's

00:44:31.619 --> 00:44:33.500
all in the eyes of the beholder. I have paintings

00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:35.559
hanging up in my office that my children made

00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:37.079
me when they were seven, eight, nine, 10, 11

00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.260
years old. And they're like, mom, that's terrible.

00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:42.960
Take that down. No, I love it. It inspires me.

00:44:43.260 --> 00:44:46.480
So if it inspires you and you love it, you can

00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:48.400
put it in your home. You can give it as a gift

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:52.619
to someone and just. Let it out. Let that creativity

00:44:52.619 --> 00:44:55.659
out. And don't worry about any type of, you know,

00:44:55.699 --> 00:44:58.260
meeting the expectations of Leonardo da Vinci

00:44:58.260 --> 00:45:00.780
or, you know, some sort of a famous painter,

00:45:00.860 --> 00:45:03.619
Monet or Van Gogh. Just do it for you and you'll

00:45:03.619 --> 00:45:06.300
get better and better over time. So, Jimmy, I'm

00:45:06.300 --> 00:45:07.639
going to have to check back in when you're on

00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:11.539
my podcast on April 2nd and see if you have started

00:45:11.539 --> 00:45:15.119
your creative journey painting. No pressure or

00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:18.980
anything. Good Lord. Check it out. I want you

00:45:18.980 --> 00:45:20.599
to do it only if it's in your heart. heart but

00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:22.780
I think you want to start creating a little bit

00:45:22.780 --> 00:45:24.980
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00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:27.119
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I can definitely relate to that it shouldn't

00:47:33.130 --> 00:47:36.889
be pushed or feel like you have to do art or

00:47:36.889 --> 00:47:39.650
something because there was times when I was

00:47:39.650 --> 00:47:45.329
in my high school art class. I was lacking the

00:47:45.329 --> 00:47:47.909
creativity one day where I didn't know what I

00:47:47.909 --> 00:47:51.050
wanted to do. A teacher came over and was like,

00:47:51.110 --> 00:47:52.769
so, Jimmy, what are you going to make this week?

00:47:53.090 --> 00:47:56.409
I don't know. And I was like, well, you got to

00:47:56.409 --> 00:47:58.530
think of something. I was like, I got nothing.

00:47:59.329 --> 00:48:02.610
And so, like, I just sat there literally the

00:48:02.610 --> 00:48:07.210
whole class staring, thinking. I couldn't think

00:48:07.210 --> 00:48:09.429
of anything. I think that went on for like two

00:48:09.429 --> 00:48:12.960
or three days in a row. And it finally hit me,

00:48:13.059 --> 00:48:17.340
and I was like, I'm going to make a small school

00:48:17.340 --> 00:48:22.380
and create a prison. And my teacher says, like,

00:48:22.539 --> 00:48:26.420
interesting. And I was like, I don't think the

00:48:26.420 --> 00:48:28.360
principal will like it very much. And it's like,

00:48:28.460 --> 00:48:33.840
not like I'm hurting anybody. I'm just sharing

00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:36.860
my feelings. Well, art doesn't always have to

00:48:36.860 --> 00:48:39.639
be bright and shiny. There's a lot of healing

00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:44.920
and therapy that can come in art. And you probably

00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:48.420
felt a bit therapeutic with sharing your feelings

00:48:48.420 --> 00:48:51.320
about how you were feeling inside of that school.

00:48:51.420 --> 00:48:55.780
And you, I don't want to say forced, but kind

00:48:55.780 --> 00:49:00.659
of guided people to pay attention that as a student,

00:49:00.699 --> 00:49:04.119
it's not so warm and fuzzy. That's not I'm not

00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:08.039
feeling like so happy and joyful. I'm feeling.

00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:11.320
some negativity in this space. And I want you

00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:14.179
all to pay attention and understand. So therapy

00:49:14.179 --> 00:49:17.980
for me, most of my paintings, I would say 90

00:49:17.980 --> 00:49:21.159
to 95 % of my paintings or my artwork or my photography

00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.199
work is what you would call bright and shiny

00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:26.500
and happy and colorful. But I will tell you,

00:49:26.579 --> 00:49:29.599
I have painted an abstract painting of a heart

00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:33.880
being ripped out of its chest with black and

00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:38.519
reds and very passionate colors last year. I

00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:43.239
had a friend that was killed and I didn't know

00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:46.880
what to do to work through that. So I immediately

00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:50.119
went to my canvas and my paintbrushes and I painted

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00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:57.860
in that time. I felt fire. I felt the heat of

00:50:57.860 --> 00:51:00.079
the situation. I felt like the walls were closing

00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:03.760
in on me. I felt like she was here with me in

00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:08.400
spirit, but I couldn't reach her. And I painted

00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:11.320
that. And you know what? A psychiatrist bought

00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:15.840
it and put it in her house. And I did a fine

00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.699
art print of it. And I have that hanging in my

00:51:17.699 --> 00:51:21.239
art gallery, or in my artist studio, my space.

00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:24.780
Art can be anything you want it to be. You just

00:51:24.780 --> 00:51:28.400
have to break free and allow yourself to begin

00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:33.820
the journey of creativity. That's what I think.

00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:38.699
I feel like colleges should definitely have more

00:51:38.699 --> 00:51:47.920
art classes because it's really funny. They built

00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:51.380
this new building on my campus. And it's a very

00:51:51.380 --> 00:51:55.960
nice building. And they have this gym there.

00:51:56.880 --> 00:52:01.880
And I don't think I've seen anyone outside of

00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:08.039
a class or a sports team, besides a sports team

00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:11.050
and a class, ever going there to use it. And

00:52:11.050 --> 00:52:13.869
I feel, and it's like, oh, we want students to

00:52:13.869 --> 00:52:18.570
use this gym and everything. And I was like,

00:52:19.130 --> 00:52:27.489
well, first off, we never have time between classes

00:52:27.489 --> 00:52:33.010
or anything. And as I can never do, we have tons

00:52:33.010 --> 00:52:38.789
and tons of homework. And it's like, and you

00:52:38.789 --> 00:52:41.900
never know when you could, go into that gym and

00:52:41.900 --> 00:52:45.980
whatnot and if you're even allowed and so and

00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:48.400
it's like man why can't we have art classes and

00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:51.019
it's like i would love to have teachers and it's

00:52:51.019 --> 00:52:53.880
like you can make anything art you can do anything

00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:58.079
and it's like it's like some of my classes that

00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:01.239
i that i have in my major that i take is like

00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:03.440
marketing is like well marketing is a form of

00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:09.309
art and because it is the algorithms or social

00:53:09.309 --> 00:53:12.809
media changes each and every time and you can

00:53:12.809 --> 00:53:17.750
create two different posts with gifs etc but

00:53:17.750 --> 00:53:24.110
I was like really why can't we have some why

00:53:24.110 --> 00:53:31.500
can't we have some electives that we can art

00:53:31.500 --> 00:53:33.900
electives that we can choose from like even art

00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:36.920
on a computer let us do photoshop let us do some

00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:41.480
things but this is like this is you know that

00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:43.780
might be a good thing uh jimmy for you to talk

00:53:43.780 --> 00:53:47.900
to your um uh college guidance counselor or possibly

00:53:47.900 --> 00:53:53.639
write a letter um perhaps you could be a leader

00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:57.280
uh or with the help of some friends maybe that

00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:01.219
you have and start an art club Because sometimes

00:54:01.219 --> 00:54:03.579
if they don't have a course for it, like a class

00:54:03.579 --> 00:54:05.659
for it, you could you could start a club and

00:54:05.659 --> 00:54:09.659
you can invite different artists from your community,

00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:12.639
perhaps through a Facebook group or through a

00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:15.099
board, a community board. You can invite different

00:54:15.099 --> 00:54:18.099
artists to come and teach like a technique. Like

00:54:18.099 --> 00:54:21.320
maybe one artist does pottery. Maybe one artist

00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.360
does, you know, abstract painting. But something

00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:26.960
I'd like to offer you. And I know it's like it's

00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.219
on the podcast. It's recorded. So you got to

00:54:29.219 --> 00:54:31.880
hold me to. it if you would like we can do a

00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:37.000
video zoom um art project together you have a

00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.679
painting i have a painting we can like a canvas

00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:43.119
and a canvas and uh we could uh paint together

00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:47.460
via zoom and you can keep that going and invite

00:54:47.460 --> 00:54:49.860
other friends to paint with you through zoom

00:54:49.860 --> 00:54:51.940
and then maybe like at the end you can do a reveal

00:54:51.940 --> 00:54:54.449
and you guys can both show each other your painting.

00:54:54.570 --> 00:54:59.309
So it's a way to interact, build bond, friendships,

00:54:59.429 --> 00:55:02.869
keep people engaged, and to do something fun.

00:55:03.070 --> 00:55:05.269
So if you'd like to do that with me, Jimmy, I

00:55:05.269 --> 00:55:07.349
just got the idea for it, and I think I'm going

00:55:07.349 --> 00:55:09.269
to start inviting some other friends to do it

00:55:09.269 --> 00:55:12.269
too. Hopefully that'll inspire you and help you

00:55:12.269 --> 00:55:15.750
with your creativity. It is, man. I'm going to

00:55:15.750 --> 00:55:19.010
have to join in on that. Yay! It's exciting!

00:55:23.549 --> 00:55:30.269
So I was just curious, do you have your own website

00:55:30.269 --> 00:55:33.309
and everything too? I do, Jimmy. So I have two

00:55:33.309 --> 00:55:37.429
websites currently, www .virginiarosefineart

00:55:37.429 --> 00:55:40.110
.com. That's where you can find those fine prints

00:55:40.110 --> 00:55:43.070
of like the Marie Antoinette. And there's a very

00:55:43.070 --> 00:55:45.130
special celebrity on there that's an advocate.

00:55:45.250 --> 00:55:48.269
You guys can go check it out. Mermaids and different

00:55:48.269 --> 00:55:52.610
cool things. And then, no. I have a 20 year,

00:55:52.630 --> 00:55:54.909
over a 20 year photography career, so I cannot

00:55:54.909 --> 00:55:58.170
fit my entire portfolio on one website, but there's

00:55:58.170 --> 00:56:01.070
some wonderful images. And I would say a good

00:56:01.070 --> 00:56:06.920
25 % chunk of my portfolio on the R. H photography

00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:11.119
.com. And soon to come is a little chain Vita

00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:15.139
podcast website that is also going to have connectors

00:56:15.139 --> 00:56:18.480
for my paintings. Because like I said, my paintings

00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:20.760
were just supposed to be for me. I didn't realize

00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:22.639
that people were going to want to buy them and

00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:26.420
buy prints of them. So we're working with some

00:56:26.420 --> 00:56:29.320
marketing people and some advice on some e -commerce

00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:33.059
stuff. And I do have notebooks and also signed

00:56:33.059 --> 00:56:36.780
books. So if you contact me at virginiarosefineart

00:56:36.780 --> 00:56:39.559
at yahoo .com and you would like to purchase

00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:42.440
a signed copy of the book, you can contact me

00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:46.679
directly and I'll get that to you. And where

00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:49.440
can people follow you on social media? Okay,

00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:52.829
so I have VR. Fine art. And by the way, that

00:56:52.829 --> 00:56:56.530
VR for Virginia Rose, fine art. You can follow

00:56:56.530 --> 00:56:59.510
me at La Dolce Vita Podcast. And you can also

00:56:59.510 --> 00:57:02.550
follow me on Facebook on La Dolce Vita Podcast

00:57:02.550 --> 00:57:06.110
with Virginia Rose or under Virginia Hodges.

00:57:07.130 --> 00:57:11.170
Virginia Rose you will find me so message me

00:57:11.170 --> 00:57:13.250
and let me know who you are and that you listen

00:57:13.250 --> 00:57:15.650
to this episode and I will gladly approve you

00:57:15.650 --> 00:57:18.469
and that way we can touch base and be in connection

00:57:18.469 --> 00:57:21.469
and I'm always looking for podcast guests to

00:57:21.469 --> 00:57:23.730
support but please reach out to me but thank

00:57:23.730 --> 00:57:25.989
you for letting me share that Jimmy you're definitely

00:57:25.989 --> 00:57:31.570
welcome and before I let you go what would you

00:57:31.570 --> 00:57:42.849
say if you have a I'm lost for words. Do you

00:57:42.849 --> 00:57:50.769
think art has changed your life in some way,

00:57:50.769 --> 00:57:54.190
shape, or form? Do I think art has changed my

00:57:54.190 --> 00:57:59.329
life? Yes, Jimmy. Art is my life. Virginia Rose,

00:57:59.369 --> 00:58:02.150
the name, the brand, the person, the mother,

00:58:02.309 --> 00:58:06.900
the being, the child of God. would not exist

00:58:06.900 --> 00:58:11.099
without art in every form of it. I am surrounded

00:58:11.099 --> 00:58:13.960
and supported by beautiful artists in my life

00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:18.860
who have been there for me in my darkest hour.

00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.440
Painting is not only something that has been

00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.079
therapeutic for me, but it's also a celebration.

00:58:26.140 --> 00:58:28.559
photographing people and showing them their inner

00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:32.219
beauty and their outer beauty and just finding

00:58:32.219 --> 00:58:36.840
a way to impact the world and I hope that long

00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:40.199
after I'm gone from this earth that my art and

00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:45.440
what I stood for as an artist will be a legacy

00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:49.019
and it will lift people's spirits for years to

00:58:49.019 --> 00:58:51.719
come I don't have to be Leonardo da Vinci but

00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:55.039
what I want people to know out there is anyone

00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:58.619
can be an artist. Anyone can be creative. Just

00:58:58.619 --> 00:59:02.559
start, just, just, you know. wake up in the morning

00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:04.559
and go out and get a couple of art supplies,

00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:06.880
invite a friend over to have a glass of wine

00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:09.119
with you as long as you're over 21 and you drink

00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:13.960
responsibly and paint and just enjoy or do some

00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:15.940
type of art. You know, maybe you want to be a

00:59:15.940 --> 00:59:18.519
fashion designer, whatever it is, just believe

00:59:18.519 --> 00:59:20.920
in yourself. And it absolutely has changed my

00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:23.619
life for the better. And I'm so grateful to be

00:59:23.619 --> 00:59:28.199
an artist, a podcast host, an author, a dancer.

00:59:28.280 --> 00:59:30.599
I mean, just all different types of things, all

00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:33.239
fun. So thank you for that question. It was a

00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:36.300
great question. I can definitely agree. It's

00:59:36.300 --> 00:59:39.880
like art doesn't just have to be painting and

00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:45.039
drawing and it can be writing. Like for my website,

00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:53.340
sometimes I don't feel like the website is, sometimes

00:59:53.340 --> 00:59:57.019
for me, writing on my website is not that, I

00:59:57.019 --> 00:59:59.650
don't feel like that. I don't really feel like

00:59:59.650 --> 01:00:04.309
it's that artsy to me. I'm currently working

01:00:04.309 --> 01:00:06.889
on a project that I'm not telling anyone about.

01:00:07.969 --> 01:00:11.289
Yay! Secret project! Yeah, I'm a secret agent.

01:00:13.469 --> 01:00:17.730
Time to be revealed by Jimmy Clare. Soon, maybe

01:00:17.730 --> 01:00:27.829
2025, the way I'm going. But I feel... I write

01:00:27.829 --> 01:00:29.989
in my journal a lot, so I feel like that has

01:00:29.989 --> 01:00:35.269
been helping me and that's sort of art to me.

01:00:35.809 --> 01:00:39.329
But the writing for my website sometimes just

01:00:39.329 --> 01:00:42.050
feels kind of like work -related a little bit

01:00:42.050 --> 01:00:45.690
because that's what I do for my work and podcasts

01:00:45.690 --> 01:00:48.369
and everything. But I like podcasting more than

01:00:48.369 --> 01:00:53.329
I do writing on my website. if I can be honest,

01:00:53.510 --> 01:00:56.070
because it's not that I hate the idea of writing

01:00:56.070 --> 01:00:58.889
on my website, but just with all the gosh darn

01:00:58.889 --> 01:01:02.630
algorithms, it's like, eh, it's gosh darn Google.

01:01:03.269 --> 01:01:08.369
Yeah, I read a bonus statistic. Now, Google,

01:01:08.570 --> 01:01:12.510
I think they said, the article said that they

01:01:12.510 --> 01:01:15.630
update their algorithms like 400 times a year.

01:01:15.969 --> 01:01:21.420
I'm like, overkill. Yeah. It makes it difficult.

01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:24.599
So it's hard to stand out in our space sometimes.

01:01:25.300 --> 01:01:28.000
And I really appreciate you giving me this platform,

01:01:28.300 --> 01:01:32.260
Jimmy, to talk about what I do and why I do it

01:01:32.260 --> 01:01:36.460
and why I do the podcast, because I think the

01:01:36.460 --> 01:01:40.239
best way to create visibility is through your

01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:43.880
friends and through your your support system,

01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:48.610
because Google. All right. Is it a necessary

01:01:48.610 --> 01:01:51.010
tool? Yes. Do they care about Jimmy Claire and

01:01:51.010 --> 01:01:53.210
Virginia Rose? No, they don't. They should care

01:01:53.210 --> 01:01:55.269
about me. They should care about you and they

01:01:55.269 --> 01:01:57.250
should care about me too, but do they? Probably

01:01:57.250 --> 01:01:59.989
not. So we have to make our own way. And the

01:01:59.989 --> 01:02:02.650
best way, I think, to create visibility about

01:02:02.650 --> 01:02:05.789
anything that is important to you, any business,

01:02:05.909 --> 01:02:08.409
any type of marketing, and I'm not a marketing

01:02:08.409 --> 01:02:11.130
strategist. I mean, do I do marketing? Do I know

01:02:11.130 --> 01:02:13.469
some things about it? Yes, but I honestly look

01:02:13.469 --> 01:02:17.409
to mentors mostly for that. One of the best ways

01:02:17.409 --> 01:02:20.309
to get yourself out there and to have people

01:02:20.309 --> 01:02:24.489
pay attention, I believe, is to be yourself and

01:02:24.489 --> 01:02:29.489
to have a support system and to just continue

01:02:29.489 --> 01:02:32.449
to say yes. And now don't go against your moral

01:02:32.449 --> 01:02:35.130
compass, but yes, meaning yes, I'll be on Jimmy

01:02:35.130 --> 01:02:37.289
Claire's podcast. Yes, I'll do Coffee with Clingman.

01:02:37.389 --> 01:02:39.409
Yes, I'll be on The Warrior Woman. You know,

01:02:39.469 --> 01:02:44.309
just saying yes. Just saying yes. Yes, Brett,

01:02:44.429 --> 01:02:46.309
I'll be on your mastermind. Yes, I'll do Raw

01:02:46.309 --> 01:02:48.510
and Blinded. Just different types of projects

01:02:48.510 --> 01:02:50.590
that are going to get you out there and people

01:02:50.590 --> 01:02:53.329
are going to see you or hear you so they know

01:02:53.329 --> 01:02:55.309
what your passions are and they can go follow

01:02:55.309 --> 01:02:59.650
you. So please, I'll just ask, please go and

01:02:59.650 --> 01:03:01.909
follow and support La Dolce Vita podcast. It's

01:03:01.909 --> 01:03:03.989
not about me. It's about supporting others. And

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I'm on Spotify and seven other platforms. You

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can literally just Google La Dolce Vita with

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Virginia Rose and you'll find it. And real quick,

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yes, I literally, I found what's really funny

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of what you said, I don't know what I was going

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to say. What's funny, I feel like that there's

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some I feel like Google should care about who

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I am, even though I'm not that famous yet. That's

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how I got my name out there, just by saying yes

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to a lot of different things. I got into 61 different

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podcasts so far. My mom's like, don't you feel

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like you're going to become redundant? and no

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one wants to hear your story anymore. I found

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this other opportunity for this other podcast

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as a guest appearance, and I was going to talk

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about some marketing tips for nonprofits. I'm

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not saying, I even told the person, I'm not a

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marketing expert. There's always someone better

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than me out there who's got degrees in this.

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But like I took in, for my major, I had to take

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some marketing courses. Last summer, I mean,

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two summers ago, I took a marketing course from

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HubSpot. So I've learned, honestly, I must have,

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I learned quite a few. A few things from marketing.

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I didn't just get over 800 Twitter followers

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overnight. So I must be doing something right.

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I don't know. I think you're doing a lot of things

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right. And, you know, even if Google doesn't

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care, I care. And I'm very happy to be on your

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show. And I'm so happy you're going to be on

01:05:19.480 --> 01:05:22.320
mine. So I think you're a wonderful person. I

01:05:22.320 --> 01:05:26.800
love who you are. I love how honestly you that

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you are. I love that even though there was some

01:05:30.179 --> 01:05:34.079
obstacles in your life, that you have overcame

01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:37.340
them beautifully and that you're just a cool

01:05:37.340 --> 01:05:39.980
guy because you're that crazy fitness guy. So

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I'm excited to have you on my show and we're

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going to be painting together soon. We'll have

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to put up on Facebook or on our websites, whatever

01:05:47.800 --> 01:05:50.639
we create that day. So super excited. So thank

01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:52.380
you for letting me be here. And thank you for

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giving me this space again, Jimmy. Super awesome.

01:05:54.619 --> 01:05:58.059
Always welcome. And I hope you can come back

01:05:58.059 --> 01:06:01.019
on the show again. I would love to. I would absolutely

01:06:01.019 --> 01:06:03.679
love to. And let's continue to raise awareness

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about art therapy and about being creative. us,

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encouraging people and supporting them. We're

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going to be on the other end of this pandemic

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very soon. And we're all going to need support,

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you know, getting back to the world. We're all

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going to need each other. Definitely. And thanks

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for being here. Let's stay in touch. Okay. Thank

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