Welcome to Episode 1 - Ruth and Dawn - In this exciting inaugural episode, hosts Dawn and Ruth introduce themselves and dive into the captivating world of their brand new podcast, 'Created Creative'. They discuss the concept of creativity and how it exists within each and every one of us. Dawn shares her experience as a life coach, having spent nearly 20 years in the field and gaining national board certification. Ruth, on the other hand, talks about her journey as a small business owner, starting her own subscription box venture called ConseCrate. The lively conversation meanders through delightful memories as they delve into their past adventures, including their time at seminary and involvement in creative projects. Both hosts express their genuine excitement for the upcoming episodes, promising authentic stories, insights, and even coaching opportunities with guests. They invite listeners to join them on this immersive journey of creativity and community, encouraging everyone to embrace their own creative spirit and discover the transformative power it holds. So, sit back, relax, and tune in for a dose of inspiration, laughter, and heartfelt conversations. Follow Dawn and Ruth's incredible ventures and stay connected: - Dawn's website: BigPictureBigPurpose.com - Consecrate's subscription box: Consecrate.cratejoy.com - Consecrate's Etsy shop: https://consecratebox.etsy.com - Dawn's Instagram: @dawntrautman - Consecrate's Instagram: @consecratebox Watch episodes of Dawn's web series, A Dairy Tale at: https://www.adairytale.com/episodes See a clip of Ruth on the Norwegian television show Alt for Norge at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQYgiT9Wq_8&list=PLmZ8UU9BWaQBQw1jjLtX70mW6vRzHaBQL&index=83 Remember to rate, review, and subscribe on Spotify and Itunes/Apple Podcasts to join the 'Created Creative' community and be part of this fantastic journey. So, grab your headphones, get inspired, and let the magic of creativity unfold!

dawn-t: welcome to Creative.

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Creative.

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I'm Dawn

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Ruth: Hi, I am Ruth

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dawn-t: and we're

figuring out what this is.

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It's a new podcast.

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Ruth: yes.

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yes.

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It's called Created Creative, the podcast,

and we're so glad that you're here.

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dawn-t: but the website

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is Created creative podcast.

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Ruth: I haven't even looked at it yet.

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dawn-t: there's nothing there.

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We own it though.

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We own it.

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Ruth: Excellent.

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Created creative.

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Thank you for naming it.

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dawn-t: I think of you

as more clever than me,

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Ruth: oh,

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I don't know about that, but I felt

like it is good 'cause it's a good

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play on words, addresses what we

wanna talk about , creative people

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and how the spirit drives that.

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dawn-t: Yes.

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I love that you chose

'cause I thought about.

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Creator.

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but we are talking about people who have

a belief that there is some other entity

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out there we call God, but whatever

sort of spirit, there's a creator

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that created us and we were created

creative, like it's always been true.

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Ruth: Mm-Hmm.

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, yes.

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That we are created to create things

. That, that's just part of our fundamental

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that That makes us who we are.

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dawn-t: Have you seen that study?

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That if you ask kindergartners who's

creative, and they all raise their hand,

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and then if you ask high school seniors,

it'll be like two people who draw well.

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Ruth: Mm-Hmm.

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Yes.

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remember reading about that

in . Unless we're an expert in

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something, we think we're not that.

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But no, all of us are creative

people just in different ways.

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dawn-t: I'm excited to hear the stories

because these will be people who have

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the creative part of their life in

various percentages of their life.

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Ruth: Mm-Hmm?

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dawn-t: some will be full time and some will be like, this is what I do,

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five hours a month on the side and

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everything in between.

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Ruth: And we get hear about their process.

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And what I love is times when some

of those creative people give you an

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opportunity to coach them a little bit.

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and then I get secondhand coaching

from from when you're talking to them.

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dawn-t: As will the listener, I guess.

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That is probably pretty unique to

this podcast that we're doing real

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time coaching or brainstorming with

the guests who invite us to do that.

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Ruth: Yeah.

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because you bring a lot of experience with

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coaching to this.

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How long have you been doing it now?

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Coaching

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dawn-t: Nearly 20 years.

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I had been working in churches

and had the master's from Luther

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Seminary and got a second master's in

organizational psychology in New York.

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And within that I learned about

executive coaching and there

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was just this little whisper of

something new called life coaching.

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And as soon as I heard it, I was

like, that's the thing, because

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the executive coaching stayed

within the walls of the job.

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And life coaching was more universal.

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And So, I was one of the very first

ones within the first a hundred

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people to be national board certified

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as a coach.

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So it's been a while

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Ruth: Yeah, I know that.

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It was the first time I had ever heard

of the term life coach was when you

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started doing it, I was like,

what is this newfangled thing?

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dawn-t: I used to have to

tell people what it is.

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Now I have to tell

people how I'm different

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than all the other life coaches,

which basically I mostly coach of

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churches, nonprofits, and small

business owners, which you are

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small business owner.

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You're like an amazing

small business owner.

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Ruth: Well, , thank you.

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dawn-t: Tell us more.

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Everybody needs to know.

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Ruth: Well, I love my small business.

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I started in 2020.

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I had been a pastor for many,

many years and always had been

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interested in different things

and I had different things.

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I had always done things on the

side, like writing and whatnot.

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But then in 2020, . I Had gotten this

idea to start a subscription box for

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ministers and on a Facebook group,

I just put the word out, and there

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was a really warm reception to it.

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And so I thought, well, why not?

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Try and still to this day, I'm

surprised at what a great reception

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it's had and how we've sent Consecrates

to people all around the United

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States and all around the world.

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And just grown and grown.

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And it's been fun because a lot of

the things that I curate are from

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other ministers who make things,

and so . I love encouraging other

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ministers as they are brought to

life by these side projects they have.

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And then other small

businesses contribute as well.

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But it's been a great way to meet

people and to just open up my own

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Track 1: world too.

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too

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dawn-t: feels very much like a community.

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Not many businesses are so good

at having a point of view.

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And then drawing in people who want

to be a part of that point of view.

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And then meeting each other.

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As we've interviewed people, they're

saying, oh, I met them through Consecrate.

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So you're doing all this other

stuff to help people interact.

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Ruth: Yeah, it's been really fun and

I didn't expect any of that, but it's

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been so very organic how people have

made connections through the box and

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now in January we're having a trip.

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Some of us who are part of Consecrate

are going on a trip to Belize , all of

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these things that I hadn't expected.

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We have a book group.

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People that I've never met face to

face, but they feel like friends

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just because , we communicate

through being part of Consecrate.

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dawn-t: It's so funny too.

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both ended up as these small business

owners, and when I met you, that

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never would've been What I assumed.

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Life is funny how it goes on a track

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Ruth: It is.

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dawn-t: And,

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here we are reconnected.

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Ruth: and you were so nice too, the

very first box, I remember I asked you

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if you would put something in there, to

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share with people about your life

coaching and you put together this

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cool little thing for Advent, I

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remember.

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dawn-t: hmm.

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Ruth: put it in there.

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And so, , we've had, I think

a couple times we've shared

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about your business in the

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box.

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And that's been

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dawn-t: you

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for doing that.

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I, I get really good people.

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Whenever somebody sets up an

intro session, I always say,

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how did we find each other?

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And the best people are like,

you were in the consecrated box,

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so you're drawing a good crowd,

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Ruth: Oh, good.

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Well, I'm really glad to hear that

because of course it adds value to the box

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when I'm able to put you an offer from.

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from a coach in there.

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So thank you for doing that.

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yeah,

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you and I, our paths go way back.

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We've known each other a long time

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dawn-t: right out of college?

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Ruth: Mm-Hmm.

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dawn-t: I think.

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Ruth: yeah.

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dawn-t: So we both did.

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This organization that's now defunct,

Lutheran Youth Encounter, may it rest in

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peace.

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So Lutheran youth encounters like

traveling and doing a combo of camp songs

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Ruth: Yep.

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dawn-t: games and puppet shows

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Ruth: I know, now looking back or

when you try to explain it to anybody

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who doesn't know it, it sounds

so lame, but I remember, I just

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thought I was the coolest person

ever when I got accepted to do it.

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dawn-t: Yeah was a reality show where

people were traveling around in a

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van and I was like, I've already

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done it.

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Ruth: exactly.

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We

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dawn-t: You travel a whole

year in a van with eight people

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Ruth: right?

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It's like big deal.

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We did that.

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dawn-t: We went six town a week,

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sometimes

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Ruth: Yep.

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dawn-t: up our own band

equipment, do the gig,

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stay with members of the congregation.

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Ruth: Yep.

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Staying with host

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families.

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Oh.

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my gosh.

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The stories I was trying to remember

which part of the country you traveled

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in.

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dawn-t: I was North Central,

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so Minnesota and North and

South Dakota and the edges of

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Iowa, Wisconsin, and Canada.

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Ruth: yeah.

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My first team was North Central too.

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dawn-t: Oh,

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so you know,

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and you did somewhere in Africa

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Ruth: Yeah.

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Then I did Crossfire to West

Africa, the second team.

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Yeah.

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But it was funny because the first

team , I didn't know until I left

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for training I was gonna be on an

international team or a national team.

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And

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dawn-t: Oh my gosh.

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Ruth: I was saying all these

grand goodbyes and then we

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basically were traveling through

my hometown every couple

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weeks, on North Central.

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So I was like, oh, okay.

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Well I'm still here.

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dawn-t: Hi.

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Yeah,

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Whenever I meet someone from the Dakotas

and they're like, You haven't heard

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of my town, and I'm like, I might have

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Ruth: Yeah.

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dawn-t: I might have,

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done a concert there

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and slept in someone's house.

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Ruth: Yeah,

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dawn-t: whenever I play two truths

and a lie, now I'm gonna give it away.

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But I often say I've slept

in over 400 people's homes,

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Ruth: yeah,

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dawn-t: it sounds unrealistic,

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but it's true.

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Ruth: It is true.

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Those were good years though.

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I, liked doing that but it

was a little while ago now,

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dawn-t: And then we both went to the

same seminary, so we overlapped there.

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Ruth: Yep.

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We did, we overlapped at seminary,

so I always knew who you were and

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then I'd been a pastor for a while

and I remember I got back in touch

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with you 'cause I wanted coaching.

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dawn-t: Yes.

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Yeah, that was fun.

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Ruth: you were my coach for a little while

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dawn-t: And that right around when

you were leaving to be on a reality

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show, because that's normal for a

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pastor

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Ruth: Right.

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Oh, by the way,

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Track 1: guess what, Dawn, now,

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Ruth: I'm going to Norway

to be in a reality show.

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It was called Alt for Norge,

and longer exists either.

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It was on for 10 seasons though,

in Norway, and , it actually

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won the Norwegian equivalent

of the Emmy award many times.

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Because it was very,

very popular in Norway.

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Yeah.

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And it was basically US citizens

who went over to Norway to learn

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about Norwegian culture and to find

out about , your own roots too.

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And so you got to see like home

place where your ancestors came from.

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It was really cool thing to be a part of.

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dawn-t: Was it a thing

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you Could win.

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Ruth: Yes.

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There was a winner for each

season and I was not the winner

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dawn-t: Oh.

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I'm still impressed that you did it.

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I don't care that you didn't win.

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Ruth: It was really fun.

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You can watch old episodes on YouTube.

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All for Noga.

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dawn-t: Okay.

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Ruth: Yeah.

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dawn-t: Maybe we'll put

a link in the show notes.

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Ruth: No, no, don't put it . Don't

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dawn-t: you're gonna

make people work for it.

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Ruth: But what I think you should,

put a link in the show notes to

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your web series that you created

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dawn-t: Oh my gosh.

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Ruth: and that Talk about that.

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dawn-t: It is called A Dairy Tale and

the tail is like fairytale, not the

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tail of the cow, T-A-L-E-A dairy tale.

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And we filmed three seasons in

Wisconsin on location with the cows.

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like the office, if your office were a

barn and, these characters that are in

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a town that is struggling to get, its.

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Footing.

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It is true that Wisconsin is losing

a lot of family farms and so that

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affects everything else in the town.

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So it all started that I do professional

musical, like we're flown out from

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New York City to do this thing.

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And, we do it a lot.

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Thus I am in these random towns with

the same people year after year.

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So one year I was like, you know

what we should do while we're there?

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Ruth: Oh,

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dawn-t: make a web series.

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Ruth: I love that.

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And then not unlike

many creative endeavors.

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Once we decided to do a web series,

we just did it using what we had

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around us, which was the cows.

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Ruth: Yeah.

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I

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can't believe I haven't

watched it yet, but I'm,

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I'm going to now, now it's on my

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dawn-t: We would be

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Advertising it on the local affiliates

of N-P-R-A-B-C-N-B-C, all these

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different places their morning

shows, and then they'd us about the

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cows and we wouldn't know anything.

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sorry.

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We're the city people pretending

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Ruth: Yeah, what a great idea though.

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just like this is a great idea that you

also came up with to do this podcast.

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dawn-t: I just kind of pitched like

seven ideas and you were like, podcast,

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that's what we're doing.

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So thank you for the encouragement.

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'cause I never would've done it on my own.

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Ruth: I feel the same way.

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I've done these mini interviews of some of

the creators who put things in the box.

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I've

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done it on Instagram Live, but I

really needed someone who had, skills

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and the drive to actually turn this

into something and God just put you

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right in my path.

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So here we

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are,

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dawn-t: here we are.

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And We both need each

other for this to work.

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Ruth: I know, and I'm really

excited to see because these first

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conversations that we've done,

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they're so interesting.

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So I

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can't wait to see what else happens down

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the road.

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dawn-t: So what are we

wanting our listeners to get?

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, why would someone listen I've all

thought about why it's fun for us,

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Ruth: yeah.

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dawn-t: Why would someone

else wanna listen?

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Like

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Ruth: Well, I think that, like I said,

it's been so interesting to hear the

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process that these people going through

as they're creating things and as they're

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thinking about taking the next steps.

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And I learned so much from it, so I

can't help but imagine our listeners

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will learn a lot from it as well.

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What do you think?

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dawn-t: I think it's encouraging.

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and interesting to hear someone just like

them that made space for it in their

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regular life without any extra resources

like not the celebrity talk and Just

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said, this is a need of my spirit and

I'm gonna be creative, and they're doing

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Ruth: Oh my goodness.

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Isn't that key.

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That is so important, because , all

of these people, they're working

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their regular jobs, but they're also

creating beautiful things and it's

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feeding something deep in their

souls and it's a gift to the world.

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dawn-t: hold hopefully people

listening to this as you said, you're

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getting some secondary coaching.

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I hope they are too.

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I think some of the things

they bring up are universal

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Ruth: Oh, very much.

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Very much so.

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could apply to their job,

but just to life in general.

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some of the quotes that have come

out of it are like, oh, well that's

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just good life advice right there.

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You know,

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dawn-t: I can make a T-shirt

out of everybody's episode.

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Ruth: yes.

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and I like that we are talking to

people from different denominations

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as well, and there'll probably

be some people down the road who

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aren't even part of a denomination

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and

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I think that it's going to be

something that'll be of interest

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to a wide variety of people.

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dawn-t: I am excited to see what sort

you're so good at building community

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and I am obsessed with community.

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I can't wait to see what

community forms around this.

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Ruth: Yeah, it's true.

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Because what is life without community?

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We need it so much in so many ways

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at every stage of our life, we need it.

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gonna be a good journey.

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dawn-t: yay.

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Here we go.

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Ruth: Yeah.

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Here we go.

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Okay.

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So if people want to be on this journey

with us, What do we want them to do?

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dawn-t: What do you do with a podcast?

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You follow subscribe and

then rate and review.

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Ruth: Rate and review.

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Yeah.

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Follow us on Spotify and iTunes.

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Do you listen to your

podcasts on Spotify or iTunes?

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Spotify.

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dawn-t: because Armchair

expert was only there

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for a Year.

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and Brene Brown also had

exclusive deals with Spotify

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and so , that did what they wanted.

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It made me switch.

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Ruth: Now I'm only, pretty

much, only Spotify is where

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dawn-t: Me too.

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But it feels like my mom will do iTunes,

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you know?

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Ruth: Ahuh.

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Yeah.

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dawn-t: Okay, So how can people find us?

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I am at Big Picture big purpose.com,

and from there you can find everything

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else I do with Coaching, et cetera.

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and at some point we will connect

it to created creative podcast.com.

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We are just getting

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Ruth: Exactly, yes.

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And Consecrate.

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We always have boxes and subscriptions.

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You can find that@consecrate.cratejoy.com

or on Etsy, it's Consecrate

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Box, and that's where the fun

t-shirts and cups and things are.

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dawn-t: And your Instagram is Consecrate

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Ruth: Instagram is also a consecrate box.

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Mm-Hmm.

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dawn-t: Very well curated Instagram.

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Everyone follow.

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Ruth: Yes.

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And my Instagram is just my name.

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Dawn Trautman, T R a U T M a N.

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I posed a coaching video nearly every day.

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Ruth: yes..

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But first, everybody follow this podcast.

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Ruth: Please like us and follow us on

iTunes and Spotify, and rate and review.

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Give us a positive review.

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We could use

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those.

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dawn-t: Yes.

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Tell your friends

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Ruth: Tell your friends.

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Yes.

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Invite them to listen.

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dawn-t: thank you for

being on this experiment,

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Ruth: Yes.

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It's been so fun, join us

for all the upcoming episodes.

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We're so excited.

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dawn-t: Yay.