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From The Country To The Crystal Shop — BB's Origin Story | Astrology Ride of the Day
8th June 2026 • I Am Astrology Readings Podcast with Paul Heath • I Am Astrology Readings Podcast
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Paul met BB at a vendor event at the Red Jasper in Hattiesburg Mississippi. A brief exchange led to a 10 minute chart conversation and something she said made him say I have to have this woman on the show. Brandelyn Mangum Deer grew up way out in the country in Waynesboro Mississippi where all her neighbors were family. Played outside. Drank from the hose. Went to a church so old you could see the ground through the floors. Tomboy. Despised dresses. Kept up with the boys. Then her parents fought constantly and her father left two days before Christmas when she was nine. Her family moved and kept moving. She learned to adapt fast. Wild and a little feral. That's where the story starts. Know thyself and balance your energy.

Takeaways:

  • Every powerful story starts somewhere ordinary — BB's started in rural Mississippi playing in the woods with cousins
  • Constant moving as a child teaches adaptability in a way nothing else does
  • The family you grow up in plants seeds both good and complicated that take years to understand
  • A father leaving two days before Christmas at age nine is the kind of wound that shapes everything after
  • Humanizing the person before the transformation story is what makes the transformation believable

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Speaker A:

Thank you for joining me for another episode.

Speaker A:

I'm doing an episode on meet and greet.

Speaker A:

You know how I do.

Speaker A:

And how did this interview come about?

Speaker A:

I attended an event hosted by the Red Jasper and I went out there as a vendor to Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Speaker A:

And when I walked in, I met someone.

Speaker A:

We.

Speaker A:

We had a brief exchange and then the event went on.

Speaker A:

And then at the.

Speaker A:

Toward the end of the event, we had another exchange and I got to.

Speaker A:

I pulled up her chart briefly and we had a.

Speaker A:

About a 10 minute conversation.

Speaker A:

And in that conversation she said a few things that sparked my interest.

Speaker A:

And from there I said, wow, I gotta have a conversation with this lady.

Speaker A:

Her name is.

Speaker A:

Well, everyone calls a BB And I want to welcome you to the show.

Speaker A:

How you doing, B.B.

Speaker B:

I'm.

Speaker B:

I'm good.

Speaker B:

How are you?

Speaker A:

All right.

Speaker A:

Your name is.

Speaker A:

You want to say your whole name?

Speaker B:

It's Brandon Mangum Deer.

Speaker A:

Brandon Mangum Deer.

Speaker A:

Oh, sounds country.

Speaker B:

That's just my accent.

Speaker A:

Oh, okay, okay.

Speaker A:

I did have a fine time down there at your event that you hosted.

Speaker A:

I did enjoy meeting the people.

Speaker A:

But to begin with, Bibi.

Speaker A:

You don't mind me calling you Bibi, right?

Speaker B:

Not at all.

Speaker B:

Please do.

Speaker B:

That's much easier.

Speaker A:

Where did you grow up?

Speaker B:

I grew up in Waynesboro, Mississippi.

Speaker B:

And that's.

Speaker B:

I was there until I was about 12 and then I moved to Laurel, Mississippi.

Speaker B:

And Laurel's.

Speaker B:

I tell.

Speaker B:

I.

Speaker B:

So I basically say Laurel is where I'm from.

Speaker A:

So what was it like growing up in Mississippi at that time?

Speaker B:

You know, it was fine.

Speaker B:

I was a kid.

Speaker B:

You know, I think when you're a kid growing up, you don't really think much about anything.

Speaker B:

That's not good, you know, and.

Speaker B:

Well, I didn't.

Speaker B:

Even though things were.

Speaker B:

Were going wrong in my life, it was just my life.

Speaker B:

So Mississippi has always been home to me and that's one of the reasons I stayed here and continue to try to make it a better place.

Speaker A:

Have any siblings?

Speaker B:

I do.

Speaker B:

I have.

Speaker B:

I have an older brother.

Speaker B:

He's three years older than me and I have a half sister.

Speaker B:

She's 12 years younger than me.

Speaker A:

Okay.

Speaker A:

What was life like in the early home of BB.

Speaker B:

In the early home of bb I lived in the country.

Speaker B:

That's why my name sounds country.

Speaker B:

I lived in the country.

Speaker B:

I, I lived way out.

Speaker B:

And all of my neighbors were basically family.

Speaker B:

We all live within walking distance of one another.

Speaker B:

d, you know, back then in the:

Speaker B:

Yes.

Speaker B:

Yes, I was.

Speaker B:

Back then, we played outside.

Speaker B:

We stayed outside, and I was in nature all the time.

Speaker B:

We weren't allowed to come inside.

Speaker B:

We didn't have video games.

Speaker B:

We.

Speaker B:

You know, we were outside, and.

Speaker B:

And we drank some hoods.

Speaker A:

Would you be classified as a tomboy?

Speaker B:

Yes, absolutely.

Speaker B:

100.

Speaker B:

I was a tomboy, and I despised wearing dresses.

Speaker B:

I did not really play with dolls much.

Speaker B:

You know, it wasn't my gig.

Speaker B:

And I played in the woods, played in the dirt.

Speaker B:

And, yes, I ran the boys.

Speaker B:

You know, we.

Speaker B:

I kept up with them.

Speaker B:

And my parents fought a lot.

Speaker B:

My.

Speaker B:

My dad and my mother, they were constantly fighting.

Speaker B:

My.

Speaker B:

And my father left my mother when I was 9, like, two days before Christmas on December 23rd, which my brother had a tough time.

Speaker B:

You know, he had a really tough time with it.

Speaker B:

I was kind of relieved because, you know, they fought so much, and I was like, oh, finally this.

Speaker A:

You know, they're not gonna fight a minute of peace.

Speaker B:

Right?

Speaker B:

Right.

Speaker B:

And then my mother.

Speaker B:

I was raised by my mother, basically, because my mother worked a lot and she.

Speaker B:

We moved a lot so that I was in constant motion as a child.

Speaker B:

So right when I would get accustomed to one place, one school, one, you know, city, one place, we would move to another place.

Speaker B:

And that was very hard on it, you know, as a kid, because you get friends and you don't want to leave your friends, and.

Speaker B:

And, you know, it was just.

Speaker B:

But.

Speaker B:

But I will say that all the moving and having to adapt and become, you know, re.

Speaker B:

Almost, you know, relearn how to live in certain.

Speaker B:

Because each school is such a different culture.

Speaker B:

You don't think.

Speaker B:

You don't think that it's that much difference, but it's so different.

Speaker B:

Every school has its own culture.

Speaker B:

And so I really learned how to adapt quickly and efficiently.

Speaker B:

That was a good thing.

Speaker B:

And that's just.

Speaker B:

As a kid, I was wild and a little feral.

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