1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,402 Oh okay. 2 00:00:02,402 --> 00:00:04,871 Yeah I am, I am I'm there just to. 3 00:00:04,871 --> 00:00:05,638 I did read your book. 4 00:00:05,638 --> 00:00:07,841 I loved it, and I've loved every book you've had out here. 5 00:00:07,841 --> 00:00:08,975 We are on right now. 6 00:00:08,975 --> 00:00:11,544 Yeah. Oh. So. Hey, Joyce, how are you? 7 00:00:11,544 --> 00:00:13,313 Does that mean what's good today is my book. 8 00:00:13,313 --> 00:00:15,415 Yeah. What's good? Today's your book, and I'm. 9 00:00:15,415 --> 00:00:17,951 I just love it. Enjoy health, wealth and happiness. 10 00:00:17,951 --> 00:00:19,419 Live abundantly. Now. 11 00:00:19,419 --> 00:00:21,121 I just love that word abundant. 12 00:00:21,121 --> 00:00:25,125 This, true stories to inspire you to manifest the life you desire. 13 00:00:25,158 --> 00:00:28,661 Because we really can manifest a set, a tone of our day, by the way we think, 14 00:00:28,895 --> 00:00:31,898 what we say of ourselves in the morning. 15 00:00:31,965 --> 00:00:33,733 And, Joyce, I read your book. 16 00:00:33,733 --> 00:00:35,068 It was an easy read. 17 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:37,203 I love the wisdom that you shared. 18 00:00:37,203 --> 00:00:39,539 Some of my chapters are only a page and a half. 19 00:00:39,539 --> 00:00:41,975 I know it makes you feel like you've accomplished 20 00:00:41,975 --> 00:00:44,778 something and it's easy to read. The print is good. 21 00:00:44,778 --> 00:00:47,647 I didn't have to wear my readers, you know, with this, believe it or not. 22 00:00:47,647 --> 00:00:50,650 And, But I'm thinking right here. 23 00:00:50,817 --> 00:00:52,752 I love the idea, but I read it. 24 00:00:52,752 --> 00:00:55,588 What was the impetus for you to write this book? 25 00:00:55,588 --> 00:00:58,358 Live abundantly now, so. 26 00:00:58,358 --> 00:00:59,692 Oh, thank you for sure. 27 00:00:59,692 --> 00:01:02,762 I'm sure everybody needs to go out and buy this book. 28 00:01:03,329 --> 00:01:05,832 I just, I, I, you know, I saw that picture 29 00:01:05,832 --> 00:01:09,002 and I, I knew I'd be on the cover of the book. 30 00:01:09,736 --> 00:01:10,003 Yeah. 31 00:01:10,003 --> 00:01:13,840 So I wrote the book because I keep journals. 32 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,944 I mean, for I don't know how many years and I would write down 33 00:01:17,944 --> 00:01:22,248 things I'd write down, like what I wanted in life and la la la la. 34 00:01:22,248 --> 00:01:25,251 I've had vision boards, all of that. 35 00:01:25,385 --> 00:01:29,522 And one day years ago, somebody said to me, 36 00:01:29,923 --> 00:01:32,926 you know, everything I manifest. 37 00:01:33,293 --> 00:01:34,494 I realized, 38 00:01:35,562 --> 00:01:37,330 I made really 39 00:01:37,330 --> 00:01:40,700 light of the jokes about it to my girlfriends. 40 00:01:41,167 --> 00:01:44,237 And we laughed about it and then showed up 41 00:01:45,271 --> 00:01:48,274 and that made me think, 42 00:01:48,575 --> 00:01:51,678 oh, I think that's happened to me too. 43 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:54,481 So I began writing down. 44 00:01:54,481 --> 00:01:57,317 And these short stories are a lot of my stories. 45 00:01:57,317 --> 00:02:00,320 Some other people stories about 46 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,189 how they attracted that in their life. 47 00:02:03,189 --> 00:02:07,327 And you'll be amazed at how it happens because it's so 48 00:02:08,561 --> 00:02:12,765 all I can tell you is it's so easy that once you get it, 49 00:02:13,266 --> 00:02:15,502 you can't unsee it, right? 50 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:18,805 And then it comes with, well, you know, I love what you say. 51 00:02:18,805 --> 00:02:20,140 The spirit of the. 52 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:20,907 Yeah, the enjoyment of. 53 00:02:20,907 --> 00:02:22,675 Yes, yes. Right. 54 00:02:22,675 --> 00:02:28,548 So I think of, Katrina's story in this book. 55 00:02:29,082 --> 00:02:32,085 So, Katrina, I love this story 56 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,556 because she, she was divorced 57 00:02:37,190 --> 00:02:41,728 and, kind of looking today, but not really. 58 00:02:42,295 --> 00:02:46,399 And she said to her friends and herself, you know what? 59 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:49,802 I want to find someone that has no baggage. 60 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:54,674 We hear about it, but good luck. 61 00:02:54,674 --> 00:02:55,008 Right? 62 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:55,542 Good luck. 63 00:02:55,542 --> 00:02:58,511 Right. 64 00:02:59,712 --> 00:03:02,248 All she said was, I want that. 65 00:03:02,248 --> 00:03:05,251 I want everyone to be dead in their family 66 00:03:06,119 --> 00:03:07,887 shoes in Los. 67 00:03:07,887 --> 00:03:08,688 Right. 68 00:03:08,688 --> 00:03:10,690 She went through that, right? Right. 69 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:13,126 She said, I don't want any in-laws. 70 00:03:13,126 --> 00:03:15,595 I don't want any kids with problems. 71 00:03:15,595 --> 00:03:19,365 I don't want anything like that, and I don't want to travel. 72 00:03:19,632 --> 00:03:22,835 So I want them to live really close to me. 73 00:03:22,835 --> 00:03:24,971 Yeah. And they would laugh about this. 74 00:03:24,971 --> 00:03:28,174 It would be like, oh yeah, we know what she was, right. 75 00:03:28,641 --> 00:03:30,944 Like, so mom, blah blah blah. 76 00:03:30,944 --> 00:03:33,913 So she, 77 00:03:34,681 --> 00:03:36,382 maybe like a year or two later 78 00:03:36,382 --> 00:03:39,385 she buys, a small little house 79 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:44,190 and she goes out into her own backyard and over the fence. 80 00:03:44,190 --> 00:03:49,128 She's her neighbor, and he's this good looking guy, 81 00:03:50,496 --> 00:03:51,998 you know, parents there, right? 82 00:03:51,998 --> 00:03:54,968 Never had children. 83 00:03:54,968 --> 00:03:56,369 Things are looking good. 84 00:03:56,369 --> 00:04:01,207 And I'll just say that as we're sitting here right now. 85 00:04:01,841 --> 00:04:04,844 It's been years, and they are still together. 86 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:05,645 Oh, I love it. 87 00:04:05,645 --> 00:04:08,348 They still live next door to each other 88 00:04:08,348 --> 00:04:12,018 because they decided that they both liked having their own space. 89 00:04:12,118 --> 00:04:14,487 Yeah, and they live together. 90 00:04:14,487 --> 00:04:17,724 And sometimes he comes home, but they have a beautiful life. 91 00:04:17,724 --> 00:04:20,727 And I know him. And he's an artist. 92 00:04:20,893 --> 00:04:25,031 He is picture perfect for her. 93 00:04:25,331 --> 00:04:27,400 And she is for him. Yeah. 94 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,969 It was like, what? So. 95 00:04:29,969 --> 00:04:32,405 And they thought she was crazy. And look what happened. Yes. 96 00:04:32,405 --> 00:04:34,073 But in the book you will see a picture. 97 00:04:34,073 --> 00:04:39,445 She had someone made a magnet for her that she put on a refrigerator saying that. 98 00:04:39,812 --> 00:04:42,982 What chapter is his choice when I'm going to be able to show that picture. 99 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:46,252 Next. 100 00:04:46,252 --> 00:04:48,488 I should see what? 101 00:04:48,488 --> 00:04:50,390 Real casual doing this stuff. 102 00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:53,926 Oh, you know, it's like we're all hanging out together here at the. 103 00:04:54,861 --> 00:04:55,928 Yeah. Catering. 104 00:04:55,928 --> 00:05:00,099 Picture of the magnet that she had on the refrigerator. 105 00:05:00,333 --> 00:05:03,336 Right. Yeah. Yeah. 106 00:05:03,403 --> 00:05:04,337 I'm here. 107 00:05:04,337 --> 00:05:06,105 Don't even see Michael Bolton in this. 108 00:05:06,105 --> 00:05:08,374 Yes, the great Michael Bolton, Connecticut's own. 109 00:05:08,374 --> 00:05:13,246 That's, a story about how we met and how we ended up 110 00:05:13,246 --> 00:05:16,649 actually having a business together. So. 111 00:05:17,250 --> 00:05:18,851 Oh, I can't found her. 112 00:05:18,851 --> 00:05:21,587 She's a while, she's looking and she's always where she's worked 113 00:05:21,587 --> 00:05:24,657 with Carly Simon, John Mellencamp, Mariah Carey, 114 00:05:24,657 --> 00:05:28,161 you know, some small name people that Joyce has been associated 115 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:31,164 with. 116 00:05:31,297 --> 00:05:32,131 Let me see. 117 00:05:32,131 --> 00:05:34,033 Her dream was simple. 118 00:05:34,033 --> 00:05:37,637 Meet someone, fall in love and live next. 119 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:41,441 Yeah, that's what I. 120 00:05:41,441 --> 00:05:42,442 Yeah. Wow. 121 00:05:42,442 --> 00:05:47,413 I think it was it was, And and have your own separate places to go if you need to. 122 00:05:48,414 --> 00:05:50,083 I think that's ideal. Right. 123 00:05:50,083 --> 00:05:53,319 Because especially if, you know, if someone's sick 124 00:05:53,786 --> 00:05:55,588 and maybe you don't have the room in your house 125 00:05:55,588 --> 00:05:58,224 for the person to go to a wing of your right. 126 00:05:58,224 --> 00:05:58,925 Right. 127 00:05:58,925 --> 00:06:03,196 You just be like, I just sleep home tonight because I don't want you to. 128 00:06:03,496 --> 00:06:04,330 Well, it's like the former. 129 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:05,932 I mean, this is not related to the book, 130 00:06:05,932 --> 00:06:08,935 but the former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Jimmie Johnson, 131 00:06:09,135 --> 00:06:12,271 when he would coach during the year, he didn't want to be interrupted. 132 00:06:12,805 --> 00:06:15,808 So he bought his own house that he had 133 00:06:16,075 --> 00:06:19,078 during the season, and his family lived down the street. 134 00:06:19,512 --> 00:06:22,715 And it and, you know, just basically a block or two away. 135 00:06:22,715 --> 00:06:24,283 But they never saw him anyway. 136 00:06:24,283 --> 00:06:27,086 But they had the means to do that. Right. 137 00:06:27,086 --> 00:06:30,590 It was a Hollywood couple, and I don't remember their names, 138 00:06:31,124 --> 00:06:35,661 but they had adjoining houses that came with a tunnel. 139 00:06:36,129 --> 00:06:37,730 Oh, really? Oh, yeah. 140 00:06:37,730 --> 00:06:40,633 So here's an idea. Yeah. 141 00:06:40,633 --> 00:06:45,071 So we thought it was really nice because she, 142 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:48,374 when she got all dolled up at night with her lingerie, 143 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:52,645 she would just call him and he would just like, honey, 144 00:06:56,082 --> 00:06:56,749 yeah. 145 00:06:56,749 --> 00:06:57,617 It kept it interesting. 146 00:06:57,617 --> 00:06:59,986 It kept the adrenaline going. 147 00:06:59,986 --> 00:07:02,755 Wow. Honey, I'm on the other side of the Donal. 148 00:07:02,755 --> 00:07:03,523 Oh, wow. 149 00:07:03,523 --> 00:07:06,559 Okay, okay, let's get back to the book here. 150 00:07:06,592 --> 00:07:08,161 Okay. 151 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:10,496 I began to think of the things that happened 152 00:07:10,496 --> 00:07:14,033 in my own life, and it was as simple as. 153 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:18,871 And I'll tell you, the walnut brownie story that's in there. 154 00:07:19,572 --> 00:07:23,743 So I had this hankering for Joyce. Now. 155 00:07:23,743 --> 00:07:25,978 Now you got me thinking about the walnut brownies. 156 00:07:25,978 --> 00:07:27,880 I mean, she is a baker, too. 157 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,451 I just, I love to I know you do a good baker, but I just, I, 158 00:07:31,451 --> 00:07:34,654 I like to experiment, so I, I woke up 159 00:07:34,654 --> 00:07:38,491 and know it was the night before I was, grocery shopping with my son. 160 00:07:38,991 --> 00:07:42,695 He picked up a box of, girardelli 161 00:07:42,962 --> 00:07:46,766 chocolate walnut, lava coming over. 162 00:07:46,766 --> 00:07:49,602 Who has a nut allergy. 163 00:07:49,602 --> 00:07:54,073 And I said, no, no, no, I'll, I'll just make, I'll make a simple one. 164 00:07:54,674 --> 00:07:56,742 But it stayed in my mind. 165 00:07:56,742 --> 00:07:58,744 I wanted that chocolate. 166 00:07:58,744 --> 00:08:00,813 Yeah, I want that brownie right now. 167 00:08:00,813 --> 00:08:01,681 I know I, 168 00:08:06,085 --> 00:08:06,652 every time I 169 00:08:06,652 --> 00:08:10,456 bring home brownies to my wife, she'll say, I love Joyce, 170 00:08:10,456 --> 00:08:14,160 I hate her, I love Joyce, I hate her as she takes another big bite. 171 00:08:14,594 --> 00:08:15,461 Right? 172 00:08:15,461 --> 00:08:18,464 Yeah. 173 00:08:19,265 --> 00:08:20,433 And so what happened 174 00:08:20,433 --> 00:08:24,170 was I woke up that morning, and, 175 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:29,242 I made her the brownies, and I thought it was done in the middle. 176 00:08:29,242 --> 00:08:30,710 Yeah, I'm looking at it. 177 00:08:30,710 --> 00:08:33,713 For those of you who make brownies, you know, they can't be 178 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:34,747 right. 179 00:08:34,747 --> 00:08:36,849 Burns around the edges. 180 00:08:36,849 --> 00:08:39,318 So I took it out with one hand 181 00:08:39,318 --> 00:08:42,622 to pull it out to see, you know, test it. 182 00:08:42,889 --> 00:08:43,523 Yeah, yeah. 183 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:48,661 And the whole pants was laid out of my hands, and it was like liquid. 184 00:08:49,262 --> 00:08:53,432 That went all over my on the floor. 185 00:08:53,432 --> 00:08:57,103 My shoes, it went everywhere. 186 00:08:57,103 --> 00:08:58,905 And I went. Yeah. 187 00:08:58,905 --> 00:09:00,439 And then I started laughing. 188 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:04,877 I just everyone was sleeping in the house, but I started to laugh, 189 00:09:04,877 --> 00:09:10,816 and I sat on the floor and I thought, I am just destined to have a today. 190 00:09:11,851 --> 00:09:12,585 I mean, you didn't 191 00:09:12,585 --> 00:09:15,588 you didn't see any swear words when that happened. 192 00:09:15,621 --> 00:09:18,224 Wow. That story. 193 00:09:18,224 --> 00:09:18,591 Yeah. 194 00:09:18,591 --> 00:09:23,462 Because it dripped down like the side of my oven in between the cabinets. 195 00:09:23,462 --> 00:09:23,663 Right. 196 00:09:23,663 --> 00:09:26,666 I didn't get to see you had a lot of work to do to clean it up. 197 00:09:27,433 --> 00:09:31,304 But I kept saying, you know, I'm not going to let this get me down. 198 00:09:31,604 --> 00:09:34,607 Maybe I just don't make it, you know, for, like, 199 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,710 for something. Yeah. 200 00:09:37,710 --> 00:09:39,879 So an hour later, 201 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,249 I opened my front door there, my pal there 202 00:09:43,783 --> 00:09:46,352 who never did this before, like, 203 00:09:46,352 --> 00:09:49,355 never, ever not allergy. 204 00:09:49,622 --> 00:09:52,191 And she's got a white box in her hand. 205 00:09:52,191 --> 00:09:53,859 And I said, what's that? 206 00:09:53,859 --> 00:09:57,930 And she said, oh, I was in this, I was in this bakery. 207 00:09:58,197 --> 00:10:01,033 And they just came out with a tray 208 00:10:01,033 --> 00:10:03,636 of brownies with walnuts and, 209 00:10:06,105 --> 00:10:08,074 so I got, 210 00:10:08,074 --> 00:10:10,109 Oh, wow. 211 00:10:10,109 --> 00:10:10,710 Brownies. 212 00:10:10,710 --> 00:10:13,679 I ever even better than the ones you made. 213 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:14,580 Really? 214 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:17,583 Because someone else made it right? 215 00:10:18,684 --> 00:10:20,019 Yeah, 216 00:10:20,019 --> 00:10:20,353 right. 217 00:10:20,353 --> 00:10:25,591 And I thought to myself at that moment, I think if I had cursed it and I think I, 218 00:10:25,658 --> 00:10:30,496 I have been in a bad mood for some reason, she wouldn't have got that vibe. 219 00:10:31,163 --> 00:10:34,166 I'm going to get this for her, because normally she. 220 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,001 Yeah. 221 00:10:35,001 --> 00:10:38,004 Anything, especially with nuts in it. Yeah. 222 00:10:38,070 --> 00:10:41,073 So there it was, this gift. 223 00:10:41,073 --> 00:10:44,343 And again, that made me think manifest. 224 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:47,680 Manifest how you mean? Wow. 225 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,482 Something else. Why? 226 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:52,485 I think I have the book, 227 00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:55,821 about seven times my vision board. 228 00:10:55,821 --> 00:10:56,455 Right. 229 00:10:56,455 --> 00:11:00,026 People will say oh I don't, I don't know, I don't want to do that anymore. 230 00:11:00,693 --> 00:11:06,065 And what happens is they cut out pictures of money 231 00:11:06,165 --> 00:11:10,302 or a car or a house and they look at that. 232 00:11:10,936 --> 00:11:15,141 And then after months and months and months go by, nothing's showing up. 233 00:11:15,741 --> 00:11:18,744 The board becomes a reminder of what they don't have. 234 00:11:19,578 --> 00:11:22,548 So I tell people, 235 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:25,418 number one, you are the walking vision boy. 236 00:11:25,418 --> 00:11:28,254 You are the one with your thoughts every day. 237 00:11:28,254 --> 00:11:31,257 But if you feel like you want to have a vision board, 238 00:11:31,490 --> 00:11:35,294 don't put on like what you don't have. 239 00:11:35,728 --> 00:11:37,763 Put on pictures that make you feel good. 240 00:11:37,763 --> 00:11:42,234 So when you wake up in the morning, if you love horses, put a picture of a 241 00:11:43,402 --> 00:11:45,404 sunrise, sunset or something. 242 00:11:45,404 --> 00:11:48,074 When you wake up makes you feel good. Yes. 243 00:11:48,074 --> 00:11:50,710 I didn't win the lottery. 244 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:52,178 Yeah, right. 245 00:11:52,178 --> 00:11:56,082 But, yeah, you know, that's going to change everything. 246 00:11:56,348 --> 00:12:02,154 And that's what I hope you know, is that this book, gets that message to you, 247 00:12:02,521 --> 00:12:06,392 especially when you read some other people's, you know, and, Joyce, 248 00:12:06,392 --> 00:12:09,995 what we say two words mean things to like you also allude to you. 249 00:12:10,329 --> 00:12:11,564 You and I talked about that all the time. 250 00:12:11,564 --> 00:12:15,134 Like when people say, well, I can't well know, 251 00:12:15,134 --> 00:12:19,472 switch around and say, how can I, I have to go to work. 252 00:12:19,472 --> 00:12:21,741 No, you get to go to work. 253 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:23,709 It's an honor and privilege. 254 00:12:23,709 --> 00:12:25,344 That little bit of a pivot. 255 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:27,346 And your language can change everything. 256 00:12:27,346 --> 00:12:29,215 Your whole mindset. 257 00:12:29,215 --> 00:12:31,951 And you address a lot of that with your with your with your book. 258 00:12:31,951 --> 00:12:35,354 Two, by how we look at life and how we can manifest things 259 00:12:35,354 --> 00:12:39,225 by what we say and by what we think of saying that something is, 260 00:12:40,025 --> 00:12:42,962 if somebody says to you, how are things going? 261 00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:46,799 And maybe you, you're really going through something, and instead of telling 262 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:51,270 the whole story, you can just say, you know what? 263 00:12:51,537 --> 00:12:53,272 It's a little challenging right now. 264 00:12:53,272 --> 00:12:56,275 If you change it from it's so hard, right? 265 00:12:56,642 --> 00:12:59,411 It's a little challenging right now, but I'm going to get through this. 266 00:12:59,411 --> 00:13:01,347 So the keyword was the but to there, you know, 267 00:13:01,347 --> 00:13:03,616 so it's a little challenging right now. People can relate to that. 268 00:13:03,616 --> 00:13:07,286 But I'm going to get through it you know or you know nevertheless 269 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:11,557 I use that as a transition many times things are really, really kind of tough. 270 00:13:11,557 --> 00:13:14,794 You know, I'm, you know, a little bit tough at work right now, a little stress, 271 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:18,264 but nevertheless, you know, I'm, I'm really optimistic about things. 272 00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:21,433 And you just watch how things can change 273 00:13:21,433 --> 00:13:24,637 things to have a way of changing around in your life. 274 00:13:24,737 --> 00:13:27,139 It's like it's like the word disease. 275 00:13:27,139 --> 00:13:30,342 Disease means lack of ease, you know? 276 00:13:30,342 --> 00:13:33,512 And I think that's why a lot of people get sick because of lack of ease. 277 00:13:33,913 --> 00:13:36,549 With all of a sudden, when you get those ease thoughts a little bit 278 00:13:36,549 --> 00:13:39,852 more of a, you know, a positive mindset about yourself. 279 00:13:39,852 --> 00:13:41,453 I think a lot of times, you know, that can 280 00:13:42,488 --> 00:13:43,889 help. Yes. 281 00:13:43,889 --> 00:13:48,227 And so many ways, using your imagination, being able to, 282 00:13:48,227 --> 00:13:53,532 you know, dream about things well while you're awake. 283 00:13:53,899 --> 00:13:58,103 And I'll give you another example of that, which is also in the book. 284 00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:03,976 I was going to a job that I did not like. 285 00:14:05,010 --> 00:14:08,681 Something happened at work where the husband and wife weren't 286 00:14:08,681 --> 00:14:13,219 getting along, and I was doing public relations for them, and it 287 00:14:13,986 --> 00:14:16,422 it got to the point where I found myself 288 00:14:16,422 --> 00:14:19,391 crying, actually, like in the car. 289 00:14:19,758 --> 00:14:22,761 So what I did, what I innately did, 290 00:14:23,596 --> 00:14:25,931 don't even know why I did it, 291 00:14:25,931 --> 00:14:30,269 but, turned off the radio and I started to provide 292 00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:33,472 and I would pretend I had a radio show 293 00:14:34,206 --> 00:14:36,575 and it was my show, and I would say, hi, 294 00:14:36,575 --> 00:14:39,879 this is Joyce Logan, and today we're going to talk about 295 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:43,782 and I went into this, you know, imaginative things that kids. 296 00:14:44,984 --> 00:14:47,286 I loved doing that. 297 00:14:47,286 --> 00:14:48,654 So I did that. 298 00:14:48,654 --> 00:14:51,724 And this is going to seem really bizarre. 299 00:14:51,757 --> 00:14:53,826 You're going to say that can't be. 300 00:14:53,826 --> 00:15:00,499 But three weeks later I was co-hosting when someone couldn't show up in radio. 301 00:15:01,033 --> 00:15:03,102 They asked me to cover for them. 302 00:15:03,102 --> 00:15:06,805 I had never done that ever, ever, ever. 303 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,244 So, I went to lunch one day with someone 304 00:15:12,244 --> 00:15:16,982 and they had their own radio show, but I met with them because 305 00:15:18,017 --> 00:15:20,819 they were, they advertised on the show. 306 00:15:20,819 --> 00:15:22,788 The reason why I met them for my client. 307 00:15:22,788 --> 00:15:25,791 The one that I was having a difficult time. Yes. 308 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:29,461 And we had lunch and we talked about it, 309 00:15:29,461 --> 00:15:32,498 and he said, well, I'll send you information on that. 310 00:15:32,531 --> 00:15:34,266 Did great, great. 311 00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:36,035 And I got back to my office 312 00:15:37,002 --> 00:15:39,138 and the phone rang, and it 313 00:15:39,138 --> 00:15:42,908 was the receptionist saying that this person was on the phone. 314 00:15:43,842 --> 00:15:45,544 And my heart started to race. 315 00:15:45,544 --> 00:15:48,948 And I had this crazy thought that he was going 316 00:15:48,948 --> 00:15:51,951 to ask me to cover for him on the show. 317 00:15:52,384 --> 00:15:55,387 I don't. 318 00:15:55,854 --> 00:15:57,990 Wow phone. 319 00:15:57,990 --> 00:16:00,993 And he said, who? 320 00:16:01,260 --> 00:16:03,996 Wow. I had a great talk with you. Yeah. 321 00:16:03,996 --> 00:16:08,567 And I know that you'll be able to do this because you listen to the show. 322 00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:12,438 When did it is I didn't really ever 323 00:16:13,806 --> 00:16:14,974 know. 324 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:17,743 Right? Right. My mother did. Right. 325 00:16:17,743 --> 00:16:20,746 I knew of the show, I knew pieces of the show, 326 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,283 and I did 327 00:16:24,883 --> 00:16:26,885 know it was the next day. 328 00:16:26,885 --> 00:16:28,354 Wow. The next day. 329 00:16:28,354 --> 00:16:31,357 The next day it was a five hour show. 330 00:16:32,324 --> 00:16:36,428 A four hour show on Sunday, only breaking for news. 331 00:16:36,528 --> 00:16:37,229 So a talk show. 332 00:16:37,229 --> 00:16:39,064 You didn't have any music to play? Like what? 333 00:16:39,064 --> 00:16:40,499 What were the what I do? 334 00:16:40,499 --> 00:16:43,502 Wow, that's a lot of time to fill in 335 00:16:43,569 --> 00:16:45,971 what I had to talk about 336 00:16:45,971 --> 00:16:49,375 were places about businesses that he frequented. 337 00:16:50,476 --> 00:16:52,344 But you didn't know well. 338 00:16:52,344 --> 00:16:56,915 And most of the restaurants to talk about, I'm vegetarian. 339 00:16:57,449 --> 00:17:00,152 There were all steakhouse 340 00:17:00,152 --> 00:17:02,921 places that I would be frequenting, quite frankly. 341 00:17:02,921 --> 00:17:03,989 Yes, yes. 342 00:17:03,989 --> 00:17:08,293 Being the carnivore I am when I walk, I didn't even sleep that night. 343 00:17:08,627 --> 00:17:10,095 I mean, you can imagine. Yeah. 344 00:17:10,095 --> 00:17:12,898 I had like maybe two hours sleep. 345 00:17:12,898 --> 00:17:17,102 And I remember my husband saying to me, how do you get yourself into these. 346 00:17:18,971 --> 00:17:21,974 I said yes because I feel compelled to say yes. 347 00:17:22,274 --> 00:17:25,310 But please don't listen because if I know 348 00:17:25,310 --> 00:17:28,313 you're listening, I don't want anyone critiquing me. 349 00:17:28,380 --> 00:17:31,183 I'm not even going to say my name. 350 00:17:31,183 --> 00:17:35,988 And I and I, the whole time you say your name, I think I said Joyce, right? 351 00:17:36,321 --> 00:17:40,692 Joyce, in the very beginning, I'm covering the show and, 352 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:44,029 and my heart 353 00:17:44,029 --> 00:17:47,032 was beating out of my chest when the red light went on. 354 00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:47,533 Yeah. 355 00:17:47,533 --> 00:17:51,403 You know, I remember I remember the feeling when I first did radio. 356 00:17:51,403 --> 00:17:53,439 I'm like, am I going to have the breath to speak? 357 00:17:53,439 --> 00:17:56,308 Am I going to let this guy down? 358 00:17:56,308 --> 00:18:00,279 I've got five hours to talk, five hours. 359 00:18:00,879 --> 00:18:02,614 And that's insane. 360 00:18:02,614 --> 00:18:04,950 It was. Yeah. So the red light 361 00:18:05,951 --> 00:18:07,086 and, you 362 00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:10,089 know, the producer went like this, right? 363 00:18:10,189 --> 00:18:14,526 And I just started speaking and I said, well, obviously, 364 00:18:14,526 --> 00:18:19,064 you know, I'm not and I'm, you know, and know obviously I'm not. 365 00:18:19,698 --> 00:18:23,435 But you know, we know we're going to have a good time today, you know, right. 366 00:18:23,535 --> 00:18:26,538 Reading through, you know, what is stuff like that. 367 00:18:27,272 --> 00:18:30,509 And I began to feel like I was Cinderella 368 00:18:30,509 --> 00:18:33,512 who found the other shoe in my life. 369 00:18:34,012 --> 00:18:37,015 It was a spirit of ease. 370 00:18:37,816 --> 00:18:39,351 Yeah. 371 00:18:39,351 --> 00:18:42,054 That I realized that 372 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:44,423 I always love speaking to people. 373 00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:48,427 I am a storyteller and even though I was horrible 374 00:18:48,427 --> 00:18:51,697 for that show because I wasn't making sales for them. 375 00:18:51,864 --> 00:18:53,098 Right. 376 00:18:53,098 --> 00:18:56,001 But people were coming in and telling 377 00:18:56,001 --> 00:19:00,572 the people answering phones like, oh, tell her, 378 00:19:00,906 --> 00:19:04,476 to keep talking about those stories because we like to hear it. 379 00:19:04,510 --> 00:19:08,680 I was like, okay, but you know, you're in your you're in your right place 380 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:10,482 making money for them, right? 381 00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:13,352 The biggest compliment I got is, 382 00:19:13,352 --> 00:19:16,355 by Sunday, I had to get up and do it again. 383 00:19:16,355 --> 00:19:19,158 And I was really like, oh, you got to do it again 384 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:22,060 for hours and I'll see you one less hour. 385 00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:23,829 Oh, sour. 386 00:19:23,829 --> 00:19:26,031 But I crawled up. 387 00:19:26,031 --> 00:19:28,567 I'm, I go to bed. Right. 388 00:19:28,567 --> 00:19:31,603 And I saw that my son was calling me 389 00:19:31,603 --> 00:19:34,573 and family I always pick up for. 390 00:19:34,606 --> 00:19:37,609 So I, I picked up this, you know. 391 00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:38,944 Hi, Tim. 392 00:19:38,944 --> 00:19:41,947 And, I said, I'm really, really tired. 393 00:19:42,247 --> 00:19:43,916 You know, I had to work this morning. 394 00:19:43,916 --> 00:19:45,350 That's all I said. 395 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:49,221 And he said, you know, he said I was sitting 396 00:19:49,221 --> 00:19:52,491 and having a cup of coffee in a parking lot. 397 00:19:52,925 --> 00:19:54,826 I think it was McDonald's. 398 00:19:54,826 --> 00:19:57,763 And he always listened to the show. 399 00:19:57,763 --> 00:19:59,598 Yeah, I didn't know. 400 00:19:59,598 --> 00:20:04,803 And he said, it's so funny because the woman that was, there, 401 00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:08,273 I found her so comforting. 402 00:20:08,273 --> 00:20:11,543 And then I realized that she reminded me of you. 403 00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:15,681 But then I thought, she was very professional, and you're not. 404 00:20:15,814 --> 00:20:17,216 Oh, geez. 405 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:18,116 You get a compliment. 406 00:20:18,116 --> 00:20:18,383 And then, 407 00:20:18,383 --> 00:20:22,187 just like a backtrack, never thought of me being on the radio right in his head. 408 00:20:22,287 --> 00:20:22,888 Yeah, yeah, 409 00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:26,458 that's all I needed to hear, right? 410 00:20:26,458 --> 00:20:29,828 Me feel like I didn't let people down, right? 411 00:20:30,128 --> 00:20:33,131 I didn't care because I loved it, I loved it, 412 00:20:33,365 --> 00:20:37,603 and then after that, I was offered a show for a couple of years. Wow. 413 00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:40,272 And the one called the Two Wise Ladies. Yeah. 414 00:20:40,272 --> 00:20:43,909 But what I'm trying to say is that came off my imagination. 415 00:20:45,043 --> 00:20:48,146 Like I was doing a soothing, like, salve 416 00:20:48,146 --> 00:20:51,883 on my mind because I so just liked where I was going. 417 00:20:52,184 --> 00:20:57,422 And I created this imaginary world while I was driving to and from 418 00:20:57,689 --> 00:21:00,525 and and think, how little kids do that all the time. 419 00:21:00,525 --> 00:21:01,627 Little kids do that all the time. 420 00:21:01,627 --> 00:21:03,562 They play them and write. 421 00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:04,896 A lot of times they manifest 422 00:21:04,896 --> 00:21:07,633 because they're out there playing, you know, make believe. 423 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:10,669 And you were doing that make believe, but you were manifesting something. Yes. 424 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,905 It was almost like the laws of the universe are saying, choice. 425 00:21:13,905 --> 00:21:16,074 That's for you. Yes. Right. 426 00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:18,043 And that's 427 00:21:18,043 --> 00:21:22,447 that's what I, I started writing this book about all those times, 428 00:21:22,781 --> 00:21:26,952 even though they may sound like insignificant things to you, 429 00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:30,722 it doesn't always have to be the lottery that you win. 430 00:21:31,256 --> 00:21:34,092 It could be someone shows up. 431 00:21:34,092 --> 00:21:37,062 Someone gives you a a relationship that happened with your 432 00:21:37,062 --> 00:21:41,566 with your husband Wayne, you kind of manifested that I did. 433 00:21:41,833 --> 00:21:43,402 And that's also written about in the book. 434 00:21:43,402 --> 00:21:43,869 Yeah. 435 00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:50,175 That's a that's a very, very special story because I loved him before 436 00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:53,979 this was even possible to be with him, 437 00:21:54,079 --> 00:21:57,249 but I never I was I was in his presence 438 00:21:57,816 --> 00:22:01,953 and he was married at the time and that's all I knew we were in. 439 00:22:02,521 --> 00:22:06,992 I was doing my internship at the Brantford Counseling Center in our town, 440 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,495 because I just always wanted to be a therapist. 441 00:22:11,263 --> 00:22:16,435 And however, on my way to be a therapist, I made a pit stop in radio, and that's, 442 00:22:17,536 --> 00:22:18,770 Yeah, because it helped me. 443 00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:20,005 Okay, sure. 444 00:22:20,005 --> 00:22:23,075 And I needed a therapist at the time, like most people in radio. 445 00:22:23,075 --> 00:22:24,343 Thank you. Joyce. 446 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:26,878 Oh, yeah. 447 00:22:26,878 --> 00:22:29,881 Yeah, those are interesting times. 448 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:34,386 But it was during that time where I was I was this intern, you know, 449 00:22:34,453 --> 00:22:38,156 and running a group with no code run. 450 00:22:38,156 --> 00:22:39,091 It wasn't running it. 451 00:22:39,091 --> 00:22:39,725 It was. 452 00:22:39,725 --> 00:22:41,293 I was, 453 00:22:41,293 --> 00:22:44,296 an intern, and it was a group about people 454 00:22:44,296 --> 00:22:49,000 in transition, whether it was jobs or whatever in life. 455 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,103 It was really interesting group. 456 00:22:51,103 --> 00:22:54,973 And she said to me one day, wait till you meet 457 00:22:54,973 --> 00:22:59,978 someone who's joining our group, Wayne Logan and Wayne Logan is fabulous. 458 00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:03,081 And he could actually write a book about this, you know? 459 00:23:03,081 --> 00:23:05,250 But, you know, he's joining the group. 460 00:23:05,250 --> 00:23:06,518 So great. 461 00:23:06,518 --> 00:23:09,388 So, you know, I really was looking forward to meeting him. 462 00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:12,691 And that morning, I broke my foot. Oh, geez. 463 00:23:13,658 --> 00:23:14,159 I picked 464 00:23:14,159 --> 00:23:17,896 up in the closet and something very heavy fell on my foot. 465 00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:21,032 And I went to emergency rooms with the cast of my foot and crutches. 466 00:23:21,633 --> 00:23:25,937 But I something told me I had to go because I really wanted to meet Wayne, 467 00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:29,441 not only because he was a new addition to the crew 468 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:32,477 and was sitting in the group 469 00:23:32,477 --> 00:23:36,281 setting, and he's talking and all that, and I'm just saying, 470 00:23:36,281 --> 00:23:40,819 oh, marvelous man is his wife is like looking him on earth. 471 00:23:41,386 --> 00:23:43,922 I thought, you know, was in my mind. 472 00:23:43,922 --> 00:23:46,925 And but there's one thing, 473 00:23:46,992 --> 00:23:50,128 when we were in the group, you know, if you in the emergency room. 474 00:23:50,128 --> 00:23:50,462 Right. 475 00:23:50,462 --> 00:23:52,364 You know, like, if you get a hospital bracelet. 476 00:23:52,364 --> 00:23:53,999 Yes. Impossible. 477 00:23:53,999 --> 00:23:57,969 I know, so I was I had the hospital bracelet on. 478 00:23:57,969 --> 00:24:01,807 I was trying to maneuver it off, you know, kind of, you know, I could see. 479 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:02,707 Yeah. 480 00:24:02,707 --> 00:24:07,612 And the group leader says, Joyce, you're looking very pensive and 481 00:24:08,814 --> 00:24:09,948 you want to add. 482 00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:13,084 Oh, boy, you're just trying to get the bracelet out. 483 00:24:13,318 --> 00:24:14,786 Oh, yeah. My finger or. 484 00:24:14,786 --> 00:24:18,190 No, no, I don't think we don't got caught under a little clasp. 485 00:24:18,590 --> 00:24:21,493 Right. And I couldn't dislodge my hand. 486 00:24:21,493 --> 00:24:24,696 So I, you know, I 487 00:24:24,863 --> 00:24:28,200 when I held it up and I said, I'm so sorry, but I'm caught. 488 00:24:29,201 --> 00:24:33,605 Wayne came over, is the only one who got up, and he knelt in front of me. 489 00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:38,143 And he took the my nail, and he just eased it out, 490 00:24:38,743 --> 00:24:41,179 and I thought, oh, 491 00:24:41,179 --> 00:24:42,581 this guy is so great. 492 00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:45,383 His wife is like, 493 00:24:45,383 --> 00:24:48,753 it's like circulating in the brain, like, yeah, he's a shivery. 494 00:24:48,753 --> 00:24:50,121 And the thing is, you know, like the knight 495 00:24:50,121 --> 00:24:53,625 in shining armor, he's been a gentleman in every way. 496 00:24:54,426 --> 00:24:56,027 And he helped me. 497 00:24:56,027 --> 00:24:59,030 You know, even I was going on a date with someone 498 00:24:59,231 --> 00:25:02,234 he even, you know, helped me with something, right? 499 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,903 And so it was it. 500 00:25:04,903 --> 00:25:09,174 So five years after that, to make the story short, I'm. 501 00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:13,144 This is wife, and I had the opportunity to work with this man 502 00:25:13,144 --> 00:25:16,848 at many of my DJ gigs over the years, and he was a photographer. 503 00:25:17,082 --> 00:25:21,119 He also did some, you know, photo shoots for us, you know, at my house. 504 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,420 And you're right. 505 00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:25,390 I mean, an absolute gentleman in every way. 506 00:25:25,390 --> 00:25:28,426 And, I love Jimmy Stewart because, I don't really. 507 00:25:28,426 --> 00:25:28,760 You shall. 508 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,463 We talked about one of my favorite movies. Yes. 509 00:25:31,463 --> 00:25:34,633 He reminded me of right, right as tall and thin. 510 00:25:34,633 --> 00:25:37,435 But he had a demeanor about him. 511 00:25:37,435 --> 00:25:39,271 Just a very kind man. Not judgmental. 512 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:41,206 When you were around him, you felt like he. 513 00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:44,442 You know, he just, liked you for who you are. Yes. 514 00:25:44,843 --> 00:25:46,278 That's a real gift. You. 515 00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:49,180 You know, I have this daughter in my life, 516 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:52,984 you know, Denise, she's a wonderful, just wonderful person. 517 00:25:53,018 --> 00:25:54,519 She's like my bonus daughter. 518 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:57,155 So why don't we hold up your book again? Joyce? 519 00:25:57,155 --> 00:26:00,992 You know, and, when is this going to be available for everybody to buy? 520 00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:02,627 Time. You see this? 521 00:26:02,627 --> 00:26:04,963 This this will be on Amazon. 522 00:26:04,963 --> 00:26:07,933 And if you get Kindle, just like pennies to get it. 523 00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:11,269 But, I think it will help you. 524 00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:14,873 I think it will help you see that it's not as difficult 525 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,876 as it appears to manifest. 526 00:26:17,876 --> 00:26:20,946 The words manifest may seem to be right, 527 00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:24,716 but it starts with the little things and then it grows. 528 00:26:25,917 --> 00:26:28,053 But it's every day just to be grateful. 529 00:26:28,053 --> 00:26:29,321 Just to be thankful. 530 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:32,257 And once those miracles of little miracle start. 531 00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:36,361 Yeah, they don't stop because you keep seeing them. 532 00:26:36,361 --> 00:26:38,296 You can't unsee them. 533 00:26:38,296 --> 00:26:43,568 But give them as much credit as you do as millions of dollars, 534 00:26:43,568 --> 00:26:47,706 because you will have the mindset piece of that within you. 535 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:51,943 Yeah, we're all looking for that piece and grab it and gratitude is riches, 536 00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:55,714 if you think about that each and every day, just being grateful. 537 00:26:55,947 --> 00:26:59,484 And no matter how tough our lives are and we all have challenges, 538 00:27:00,051 --> 00:27:02,654 each and every one of us is battling something right now. 539 00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:04,489 There's still something to be grateful for. 540 00:27:04,489 --> 00:27:07,993 Yeah, there's a lot more, I think, to be grateful for than than there isn't. 541 00:27:08,893 --> 00:27:09,828 It's all about where you look. 542 00:27:10,962 --> 00:27:11,963 If you turn on the 543 00:27:11,963 --> 00:27:14,966 news, it immediately sinks your heart to them. 544 00:27:15,066 --> 00:27:15,734 It does. 545 00:27:15,734 --> 00:27:18,536 That's why I say watch the local news, which is great. 546 00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:19,838 Learn what the weather is. 547 00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:22,841 But beyond that, we don't need to know what the whole world is doing. 548 00:27:22,841 --> 00:27:23,675 Right? You can. 549 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:24,409 We can pray. 550 00:27:24,409 --> 00:27:27,812 We we really can't send our good energy and all of that. 551 00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:32,317 But peace begins in your home and you have to have that too. 552 00:27:33,118 --> 00:27:34,953 Life is too short not to have it. 553 00:27:34,953 --> 00:27:35,620 That's right. 554 00:27:35,620 --> 00:27:38,990 There's a there's a lot going on, and, there's a there's a lot of good out there. 555 00:27:38,990 --> 00:27:42,661 So just focus on focus on what's good, what's good in your life. 556 00:27:42,661 --> 00:27:44,262 And then that's the name of our show here. 557 00:27:44,262 --> 00:27:48,366 What's good with John and Joyce and, tell your friends about us, please. 558 00:27:48,933 --> 00:27:50,468 You know, let them know about this. 559 00:27:50,468 --> 00:27:52,537 And, we'd love to get your feedback down the line. 560 00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:55,306 And thank you so much for for sending. 561 00:27:55,306 --> 00:27:58,076 Yeah, lots of it. And thank you so much for watching and listening. 562 00:27:58,076 --> 00:28:01,079 And we wish you the best for you and your family. 563 00:28:01,246 --> 00:28:01,913 Bye for now.