Sarah's Background:

• Mother of three children under the age of seven.

Parenting Chat:

• The challenges and joys of raising active kids.
• Transition from preschool to elementary school.
• Recollections of Sarah's and Tali's experiences with their energetic children.

Journey to Bitcoin:

• The COVID pandemic's impact on Sarah's family, especially on her husband's musician's income.
• The emotional reconnection to husband's earlier passion for public policy, justice and equality.
• Their educative journey through YouTube, learning about Bitcoin's decentralized potential.

Bitcoin's Global Impact:

• Potential of Bitcoin as a tool to address financial inequality and system inefficiencies.
• Sarah's husband's excitement and conviction about Bitcoin's ability to fix global financial issues.

Sarah's info:

Contact - sarahabranscum@gmail.com

Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-basics-in-cincinnati/events/295454844/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

Apps to earn sats -

Smiles (this is the step app that you get rewarded in sats for walking throughout the day)

Sudoku- 'it's a number's game' (from Viker)

Missing Letters (from Viker)

To learn more about Bitcoin: Join the Orange Hatter Women's Reading Club. Visit https://www.meetup.com/womensbitcoinreadingclubwithorangehatter

Please email questions/comments to Tali@orangehatter.com

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Hi everyone.

Welcome to Orange Hatter.

Today you're listening to a conversation I had with Sarah.

Good morning, Sarah.

Thank you so much for joining us today on Orange Hatter.

I'm so excited to jump right in and find out more about you.

And I wanna thank you again for your willingness to share your

Bitcoin story with our audience.

So can you tell us, uh, a little bit about yourself?

Sure.

Well, my name's Sarah and I am, I have a wonderful husband and three

adorable children, and they're all under seven, so seven, five, and one.

So we're just starting the elementary school craziness and

afterschool activities and meal planning, house management, all

sorts of fun stuff like that.

So I feel very busy, but very lucky and excited to do a lot

of fun stuff with my days.

We.

My husband works as a musician, so we have kind of an interesting family

schedule, and I have a small part-time job running a Bible study program

for elementary school kids, but kind of a side passion project of mine.

So yeah, we live in a suburb of a fun town.

Fun city.

I live in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Which is a lots of fun stuff to do.

Lots of fun things for families and we stay very busy and have a lot of fun

friends that we go and hang out with and chat with and play dates, and that's kind

of what my life looks like week by week.

I don't know, we're in a busy but but exciting season of

life right now with our kids.

Yeah, that's a, that's a big transition to go from

preschool into elementary school.

And then you have a, a toddler really, I mean, that keeps you very busy.

Yes.

And now he's mobile.

He's mobile and gets into everything.

We have designated cabinets for him that he is allowed to rip everything

out of, and then we put them back because he is very active now.

But yeah, we just got our soccer schedule for my girls, and I did

not realize that I'm committing five nights a week, five days a week,

to soccer for the next two months.

So, Yeah, it's very fun and that's why I keep telling myself is that it's just

a season and it's very fun and I should enjoy it because some days it does feel

a little overwhelming, but, but I'm only gonna do it for a couple years.

I feel, you know, it's gonna pass and I wanna look back and

enjoy it and not have missed it.

So that's the mindset I'm trying to cult cultivate.

So some days it's easier than others.

I'm sure you went through a similar season.

Oh yeah.

I had, I have four kids under the age of five.

They were like less than five years together, and I remember running from

gymnastics to swimming to karate.

To soccer, and my kids were so active that, you know, I, they

would do one karate class and then the, the teachers would say, oh,

they can go home and sleep now.

I said, no, you don't have, you have no idea.

We're going from here to swimming.

And then after that, they're still going to run circles around the kitchen.

Oh yeah, I have, I...

I'm glad that you can understand.

I mean, I have friends who are like, oh, they'll nap well, or, well,

they'll fall asleep in the car.

I'm like, my children don't sleep unless like natural sedation of like literally

they have to run themselves ragged.

Like they have to be active all day and that's, That's exciting.

That's great.

They get it from their, their father.

I am, I love a good nap, but my girls, my kids haven't napped since

they were two, so it's definitely, they get it naturally from Jason.

So...

None of my kids wanted to nap.

And I used to have to sit on them, literally put my legs over them, to keep

them still for two minutes, they'll be like, I don't want a nap, I don't want...

and then they would be out 10 minutes later.

They were 10 minutes.

The nap was over.

They were up and running circles around.

The kitchen again.

You understand.

I understand.

Yeah.

I have hope.

I have hope.

My toddler will be a napper, he'll be more of like in line with me,

but now that he's moving, I'm seeing evidence to the contrary.

But yeah, we'll see.

But like you said, it's gonna, it's literally in the blink of an eye.

They're going to be grown and they're going to be going different directions.

That's where I am.

They're transitioning into young adulthood and you know, the family used to be

the center of their universe, right.

When they get to that age, it's no longer the center of their universe.

And you're like, my babies, they're just, they wanna spend time with other people.

Oh my gosh.

I, my seven year old says she wants to live with mommy forever.

And, and she's, and she's on, she's like, I'm I, I wanna get married.

But then we'll just all live together.

We'll all live together.

And I'm like, I'm pretty sure that will change.

I should record you saying this now.

So that I can play it back for you when you're wanting to study abroad and

when you're wanting to, you know, move across the world or something like that.

Just I wanna be able to remind you that at one point you wanted to live with

mommy forever and just feel, feel good about that because it means that she

loves me and trusts me, but yeah, I, I know there's coming a day when they will

spread their wings and that, and that will be, that will mean I've done a good job.

That will mean that, that Jason and I, my husband and I have succeeded.

It's like, you know when they can fly on their own, that is success.

But I do know it's, it's bittersweet.

But you are at the perfect season for what we're about to

jump into the topic of Bitcoin.

They're young enough that you can just start prepping them and teaching

them without them having their own opinions about how crazy we are.

So what a great season to be in.

Let's talk Bitcoin.

Let's talk how, how you came across the concept of Bitcoin in the first

place, and how did you get from that point to being so convicted that you

take part in the, in the ecosystem.

Sure.

Well, Tali, I probably, similar to a lot of people, I feel like the more people

I meet in Bitcoin, I hear a somewhat frequent story of the Covid pandemic

came and I had a lot of time on my hands, because that's what happened to my family.

My, my husband is a musician, as I, I mentioned, and as you

can imagine, the, the shutdowns.

Did not do very well for musicians and public performance, the arts in general.

So we were in a very kind of scary situation where in the blink of an

eye, our income, our projected income for the year went to zero because.

Every gig fell off his calendar.

And I do work part-time, but not nearly enough to support a family.

And you know, this was before the government started stepping in to

do all these programs and stuff.

There was just a lot of like fear, like, you know, but also time.

And he started.

Looking into cryptocurrencies in general, but Bitcoin specifically as

the, as this new technology in finance.

And he started doing deep dives, like instead of spending time practicing his

craft, he started researching Bitcoin.

And I remember driving one day and he was getting so excited about

Bitcoin and he was using terminology like, this can solve world problems.

This can fix financial inequality.

Like things like way bigger than just, Oh, this is a new weird way to pay, you

know, pay my babysitter or pay, uh, for my cup of coffee or something like that.

And his background before he started his career is in political science.

Specifically of the developing world.

And when we were in college, he wanted to, he wanted to bring

justice to the world and equality.

And unfortunately back in the early two thousands, he got really, I.

Discouraged and depressed about the situation in the global

south and how unfair the world financial system is for people.

And so he kind of just like left that all behind as like, this

is an unfixable problem and the world is irrevocably broken.

And he threw himself into this other career.

Now, fast forward 20 years and I'm hearing him talk about

this is the tool that we need.

This is the tool, the financial tool that can bring financial equality that

can level the playing field for people who have been historically oppressed,

people who have been historically under the thumb of these banking systems.

Anyway, he, so that gave him this like passion and this fire and which is very

attractive in a husband, you know, this like excitement and I was like, wow.

Like, that's really cool.

And so during the pandemic, you know, as, as I'm sure everybody did, our

streaming services became our lifelines for like, you know, entertainment,

but also like education in our case, because we started watching every

YouTube video we could find on Bitcoin and how it changes fundamentally,

the structure of availability to capital that's not centralized.

So it's not based in like a government and it's not based in somebody else's control.

And so as he's thinking through like the inflation problems that happen

throughout the global south and all these, and then the inflation problems

that happened here after the pandemic, he was like, "Bitcoin fixes this!"

He kept saying that.

"Bitcoin fixes this!"

Thanks for joining us today and learning with us today.

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