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Women's Hour broadcasts live every Sunday at 7:00p.m. uk time. 

Georgia is the owner of a large scale candle business and has a few stories to tell


Welcome to another cosy autumn episode of Women's Hour, streaming live on Radio Soapbox and Rumble. I'm Shelley Tasker, and today we have a delightful show lined up. We start with a chat with Jo Wood, discussing the joys and challenges of autumn, from battling the elements to the comfort of cosy lighting and warm fires. Shelley shares her recent adventures, including a night out in new shoes that led to some unexpected barefoot escapades and a captivating performance of Lord of the Dance.

We delve into the world of food and health, sharing tips on breaking in new shoes, the benefits of various supplements, and the importance of a balanced diet. Jo and I discuss our love-hate relationship with eggs and the surprising health benefits of everyday foods like baked beans.

In the second half, we welcome Georgia Vanderbilt, the fragrance aficionado and owner of Shorties Candle Company. Georgia shares her entrepreneurial journey, the power of fragrance in evoking memories and emotions, and the importance of internal growth for business success. We explore how scents can act as a pattern interrupt, helping to shift moods and create a sense of belonging.

Georgia also shares her meditation practices and how they contribute to her personal and professional life. We discuss the significance of mindfulness and positive affirmations in maintaining a balanced and peaceful mindset.

Join us for an episode filled with laughter, insights, and the warmth of shared experiences. Whether you're a fan of candles, looking for business inspiration, or simply seeking a cosy chat, this episode has something for everyone.

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To. You are listening to women's hour streaming live on radiosoapbox.com.   It's good to have your company.   I'm also streaming live on Rumble.   So if you'd like to leave any comments, join in when you chat, please do so. My channel is just Shelley Tasker.   Well, here we are, another week, and it is autumn. It is cozy as anything here.   Anyway, today's date, Sunday   29th   September 2024.   We are gonna be joined by Jo   briefly, well, for the first half an hour and then have a great guest lined up for the second half an hour of the show.   So let's get miss Jo Wood on the line and catch up with what's going on in her life.  

She should be waiting.   Good evening, miss Jo Wood.   Hello?  

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Good evening.  

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How are you doing?  

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I'm doing   okay.   I'm glad it's the end of my working week.   But yeah. What about yourself?  

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Yeah. I'm good. I'm really good. Thank you. Yeah. I'm just saying how cozy it is. I mean, I know you're at work, but I've, like, got a couple of candles, lights on, the fire on, the fairy lights on,   dimmed warm lighting, and life is good.  

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Stop it. It's   absolutely  

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low in a gale where I'm at and be asleep. So It is tipping it down here. Tipping it down. That's what makes it even cozier. I do like this time of year.   The more the heavier the rain, the better. No.  

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No.   I mean, I was talking to somebody about that today. I don't   necessarily   mind the rain. I mean, you know, nobody really likes rain, getting wet, and all the rest of it.   But I will tolerate that over winds.   The winds, it just   it's really, like, eerie. I don't like the wind. It unsettles   me.  

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No. I don't mind the wind, but I am I'm gonna have to invest in some,   what do you call them, earmuffs?   Because I suffer with the wind. If if I go out in the wind, my ears start whistling. It drives me nuts. So  

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Really?  

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Yeah. Really bad.   Oh, really? Even having the fan on in my bedroom, and I've loved I love having the fan on even though it's not cold just to feel even though it's not hot, I mean, just to feel that breeze blowing over me when I'm trying to get to sleep, but I have put that in the loft today.  

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Oh, have you been a busy bee? I have been very busy.  

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I've gotta tell you about last night because last   last last night, I wore my lovely new clothes, my lovely new shoes Yes.   Only to realize when I got to the bottom of the hill at Troy train station that I was gonna have to take them off. I'm so stupid. Who wears a brand new pair of shoes not broken in   to a wonderful evening?   So But  

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you didn't have far to walk from the bottom of the hill to where you were going.  

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Oh, no. But I was in agony, Jo. I was in agony. I literally when we got to the restaurant, I took my shoes off,   they stayed off for the remainder of the evening. I walked to the hall for Cornwall barefoot.   I walked to the show barefoot. I got up to the toilet at the interval barefoot.  

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You did not.  

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I am not gonna be in pain. Not gonna be in pain.   Was they really that bad? They were, and I've got, like, 2 blisters on both of my feet.   So,   yeah, so someone's told me today that I should put   damp newspaper in them and it will stretch them. And then another lady said that I need to wear them around the house with big, thick socks on to wear them in.  

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Well, they are   2 good suggestions.   Another one is,   obviously, when you've got them to   a certain   width,   but you're thinking, oh my gosh. I do not wanna risk it.   Get a damp, not wet,   a damp   bar of soap   and rub it   on the insides   of where they rub.   And soap just acts as a very soft sort of lubricant  

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that stops them from rubbing. I will try that. And I'll see. I like heels, but   I'd never get on with them, really. And they weren't particularly high, but the the whole rubbing. But apart from that, I felt a $1,000,000.  

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I mean, yeah, it's a fantastic  

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outfit. I really, really like it. Oh, great. Pleasure. Yeah. It it was good. It was lovely. And we had beautiful food, and then we watched lord of the dance at the hall for Cornwall.   Oh my god. I think that is one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life. We need to come back to that. Where did you go to eat, and what did you have to eat? We went to Piero's, the Italian. That is one of our favorites.   And I started with a patty with some salad leaves.  

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You had a starter?  

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Oh, yeah. I start to starve myself all day because my tummy's not been great for the last few weeks, and I was, like, praying. And I just had a couple of slices of red onion because I love red onion.   Yeah. It was lovely. And then followed by carbonara,   but without the egg yolk. I don't like it when they bring it out, and there's a raw egg   on top for you to, like, mix it all in. No. No. Oh, I've never had that with the raw egg. No. That's what the Italians do, my darling.   Yeah. So, you know, to have to state no raw egg, and I don't do Parmesan cheese neither. I can't understand that. What is wrong with you?   I just don't like strong smells and weird things, and I I do have an issue with eggs.  

We? I   love eggs, and I eat eggs most days, but I'm gonna try and cut cut them out to see if my diet, like, improves my   digestion problems and things like that.   But you would have seen it on the farmer's post   about the whole, not theory, the whole,   role of how the egg   is kind of, like, grown inside the hen,   and then within 24 hours, it pops out.   Now I've always joked about this that you're eating a hen's period.   And my daughter says that I put her off eggs for life,   but you are essentially that is what you're eating.  

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Not really. I don't see it that way. I just see them as eggs.  

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Oh, no. But they're unfertilized   eggs.  

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I know. To be honest, I don't really eat a lot of eggs by themselves. Occasionally,   I will. But, you know, I mean, if   if if they're in the ingredients of some sort of food, I have no problem with it whatsoever.  

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They're they're a bit of an offensive food, really, aren't they?   Along the lines of like tuna and stuff. I think they just smell funny when they're being cooked and.   Yeah. I don't know. But they fill me up. They're full of protein.   But I'm seeing that post again a couple of days ago. It's kind of   like  

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No.   No. We've been eating them for   eons.   Just carry on. Ignore that. They're probably one of the best foods you can eat. That along with baked beans. You know, if you were, like, stranded on a desert island and you only had tins of baked beans to live on, you could survive   for   as long as your dying days came. You know? Yeah.   Yeah. They are all food. So, yeah, big up baked beans and eggs, I'd say.  

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Well, we have had a couple of meals lately. I said to you, when I'm lazy now, it's like it's beans on toast for tea.   That's it. I can't be bothered.   But tonight for tea,   I mean, I know we've got to talk about food. I had to, like, interpret the starter that we had last night, but we just had it as a starter. I wasn't there as a main pate,   sourdough bread,   and   rocket salad.   Very posh.   Lovely. Wasn't really enough for Darren. As soon as he ate it, he went and got a bag of crisps.  

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Oh, no.   Really? Did you have any tiramisu?  

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Tiram no. Not with pate.  

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No. After for dessert.  

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Oh, no. No. We don't really do dessert.   Really? No. Not very often. We're both trying to lose weight, Jo.   We worked it out last night. We was, because Darren's always trying to lose weight, and I always am as well. I've got like a stone. I'm a stone heavier than when I met him, and he's 4 and a half stone heavier.   That's a lot, isn't it? It's a lot. Yeah. But he's comfortable in his life. That's Oh, yeah. Yeah. But he carries it well. He wouldn't say it was 4 and a half stone either. But,   I've just this last week, I've lost a couple of pounds without really trying because I've just been so picky what I've been eating with all of this heartburn and stuff. You know?   So, anyway,   you know, everything's Well, I  

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ordered,   and they arrived yesterday. So   I started to take all the majiggery pokery supplements.   And   in some in in in the whole package, I swear to god I must have bought up the whole store.   I bought some berberine   to go with my matcha tea. Now berberine   is   a weight loss   it's it's not primarily   used for weight loss. It's an immune immune   boosting supplement,   but it has added properties   of enabling you to lose weight.   So I've taken that, and I'm taking my matcha tea, which is known for losing weight.   And that's really my go to match a tea. And it's see it it's like   it, like, has a mind of its own. It goes, oh,   you're carrying a spare tire.  

Best I'll go there and get rid of that first young lady. I'm like,   no. Probably within   10, 12 days,   at least when I take it,   I can then go, oh.   Oh, okay. I can there's excess material  

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around my abdomen. Wow. Yes. So Does that act as like a meal suppressant then?  

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It's hard to say because   I   I'm not really   I'm not really motivated by food. I do like food, but I'm not motivated by it. So I'm the type of person that would just rather be hungry and sit there   and drink   copious amounts of tea   and then go to bed. You know? I I can   cope with   not thinking that I'm hungry.   It doesn't really suppress it, but it it stops the sugar cravings. It lowers your blood sugar level. It low berberine lowers your cholesterol.   It's   matcha tea is a natural caffeine as well. So a lot of people rely on sort of fizzy drinks and sugar,   but caffeine is a real potent   natural caffeine. And you have no   no comedown from it.  

So it's really, really good stuff.  

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I I dread to think really how much I spend a year on supplements. There's things that I try and, you know, obviously, I was having my mushrooms.   And I'm a bit begrudging to pay £35 for 16 capsules that last you a month. That's   so   capsules that last you a month. That's so long. It is. So I need to go out in nature.   And yesterday, I did thought I'd hit hot luck. I was like, are these magic mushrooms?   Really?   And I do have to say to the listeners out there, I'm looking at them for   purposes not to trip. Literally, I could get away. If I can find the source, you could literally take just one mushroom every other day just to boost your brain and everything like that. And I reckon, though, the last week of not taking them,   I I can see that my brain is a bit more bedazzled.  

And the lion's mane, I've stopped taking that just because purely I haven't got around to ordering anymore. But, you know, a couple of weeks ago, I went in a health food store and spent, like, £56   on all these vitamins and stomach   things. Yeah. So last night, I decided to go through an old all my old emails because,   when we were in COVID times,   I actually sent a hair strand test off for myself, Darren, and the kiddies.   And it's done by Bio Resonance. They put your hair like on a machine   and it scans everything that your body's missing and what it's calling out for. And it does metals,   It does vitamins, your gut biome, and everything like that. It was really interesting, actually, because,   I mean, that was 4 years ago. I think I'm quite tempted to do that again.  

And what what did it come back in as then? Well, what was really interesting was one of the hormones they said I'm really low on was estrogen.   And, you know, I've had all these, I've stopped taking the mini pill. Yeah.   And the mini pill, I think, is,   oh, I'm always going to get this back to front. 1 of the pills, and I think it's that one.   It gives you so much of a hormone,   so it trips your body into being pregnant. So I actually I think it's progesterone only.   So it wipes out all of the estrogen. Now I might have got this back to front.   So I've had a lack of estrogen all to do with that mini pill.  

And I know there's not really many men hopefully not listening, but I've said before, I've had a real lack   of sex drive.   And   lo and behold, it's come back. I've been off that pill for 2 months   now, but because I wasn't getting any estrogen. And estrogen   is the hormone that you need   to to to endure sex. Yeah.  

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Yeah. That's interesting. I mean, 2 months, like, you know, 8 weeks isn't really  

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a long time, is it? No. It's not. It's not at all. Lucky Darren.   Bless him. Yeah.  

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Well, sort of maybe you should try some kombucha   or kimchi.  

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Yes. They are next on my list for my whole gut bio because it says about that as well.  

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Love it. Absolute. And I never thought I would. I think I was put off by just the word kimchi,   but it really, really is nice. And, I I particularly like radish   kimchi.  

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You that like it's the kimchi. It's like,   soaked in, like, vinegar or something. Yeah. Yeah. Peebles.  

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But, yeah, it's lovely. And kombucha,   I mean,   you know, baby steps baby steps. I will buy it shop bought, but, you know, organic, not mass produced.   But then people say to me, oh, you know, you should get the,   forgot the Scooby.   You should get the Scooby and make your own kombucha.   And I'm like, no. Because that thing just looks like an alien.   Yeah.   Oh, have you ever seen a Scooby, a kombucha  

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Scooby? Yes. Yes.   Nasty. And I'm like, no. Not for me. Not for me. It's so good for you, though, isn't it? Like, all the fermented foods. And, I mean, I think I said last time when I went to the doctors about my stomach and I said to her, I'm drinking apple cider vinegar. And she said, well, surely that won't work. She said, because you've already got too much stomach acid.   And it was explained to me that basically it's the whole because it's not fermented.   You know, it's that process, isn't it, with the kabuchi whatever you just said.   So all of that natural stuff that we need.  



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But apple cider vinegar is very good for bloating.  

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It's good for loads of things. Yeah. All of these natural things. I mean, well, like I said, £56, and I I'm natural things. I mean, well, like I said, £56. And I I look at that cupboard, and I think all these things that I've tried, but we'll get there. I've got my little procedure on Wednesday where I've   got to go and,   yeah, drink,   like a milky sort of drink that's fruit flavored. I'm not allowed to drink for 6 hours or eat anything.   And then it's,   you have an x-ray that lasts about 10 minutes, but it will show what's going on in your stomach, your esophagus, and all that sort of stuff. But they reckon   that that 10 minutes   is about 18 months worth of what you would get a radiation in one go, what you would usually get in natural circumstances.  

So that's a bit daunting, isn't it? But then it's still wise. On the other hand, if you wanna find out what's going on, it's the only way to really see.  

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Exactly. I mean, you get radiation just by stepping outside nowadays, and I know I know it isn't, you know, as much as whatever.   But actually,   flying,   you know, you you're really exposed to quite a lot of radiation.   So  

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Yeah. Well, that I said that's what they said 18 months in That's what I've got breathing. Breathe   Yeah. Yeah. You what? No. Sorry. Nothing. I didn't say anything.   But,  

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yes. Oh, okay.   It   but, basically, breathing is   blood.   But tell me about the show.  

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Oh my god, Jo. Oh my god.   Oh, just amazing.   Because I know one of my mom's friends said she'd go and see any show, but she said she couldn't face going to watch that for 2 hours. And it wasn't just tapping because I think we see things like Riverdance and you feel like you see all the Irish dancers standing in a line with their arms folded by their sides and they're all like hopping up and down.   It was a story,   and I've never watched a show in my life. And that second half just flew by   and the noise.   And they were all beautiful. I mean, they were all young. You know, they were obviously early twenties and stuff, and they had like, the female dancers, the male dancers, and they told a story. But when they when the music got really loud and they were all tapping out a fighting scene and stuff, oh, I'm just getting hairs on my arms thinking about it.  

Yeah. Was it good? Was it, like, sold out? Busy? Yeah. It was. It was packed out. It was the last night, so we only decided to go last week.   I mentioned it. I think it was this time last week. And Darren said, should we go? And I said, yeah, let's do it. We live a good life. We live a very good life, and I'm very grateful. I said to him earlier when we were having our fancy pate and salad for tea. I said, you treat I said, you treat me like a princess. And he said, well, you are a princess.   I was like, oh my god.   God bless him. I know. I know. I was so lucky. Bless him. So, no, it was amazing. And we got a choo choo train there and back. I love a good train ride.  

Oh, what time train did you get back last night? Last one was half past 10 last night, so we only had to wait for, like, 15 minutes. But, yeah, walked barefoot all the way up to the train station.   Anyway, I made it.   Well but what time did the trains actually stop running? Do you know? Last night, that was the last train back to Campbell and from Tru. It's pretty rubbish on a Saturday night, isn't it?  

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That is awful.  

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Awful. Yeah.   That's why it all counts for you. And, I mean, trains anyway, aren't they? I mean, Paul Darren, he says, like, quite often, like, oh, I'm I'm gonna commute this week. I'm gonna get the train, and then I'm gonna walk up to work and back.   But then quite often, it's raining. He's like, no. I'm not doing it. But then more than often, I think what puts him off as wow is he comes to get the train back, and that train's been canceled, and he's gotta wait, like, another 45 minutes for the next one. And it's like, I can't be doing that. Public transport is a nightmare.  

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Cool. You know? I mean,   god help us when they put us into 15 minutes city centers. Do you know what I mean? It's like, we don't have the infrastructure   for people to get public transport.   And they're you know, the the first step is to get us out of the fossil fuel combustion engine cars and get us into electric. Don't stop me on electric cars because, you know, that's   they ain't as green as what people are telling you. No. Anyway you know? And that's one thing. But say if you couldn't afford   a car and you have to take public transport,   alright. You know? Maybe in different countries. And my experience would be, you know, the Far East,   very, very good for public transport.  

But here,   it's just ludicrous.   You're lucky if one runs on time, let alone frequently, like, you know, throughout the day.  

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Yeah.   Not a good I mean, the best form of public transport I think I've ever taken was in Turkey   several years ago,   and I can't remember what they call it. It's just like a massive taxi where everyone hoards in the back. No one wears seat belts. They drive like maniacs.  

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A bit of a joyride. Yeah. Yeah. It was.  

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It was entertaining.   Anyway, Jo, have you done your homework?  

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Because we've got 8 minutes left, and you had homework set for this week. Well, I I I have. I didn't really have to do too much because you know me. I like a good research before I start doing anything with myself.   So what would you like to know?  

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The salmon   sperm  

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The face cream.  

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Well, the correct terminology would be polynucleotide.  

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Okay. We'll just call it salmon sperm. It's  

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well, it's a purified   salmon sperm,   and   they I don't know how they do it, but they   extract the DNA from the sperm, and then they, like, purify it, and clean it up.   So you can either have it   injected   under the skin, or you can have it microneedled,   and then they sort of,   put the serum on top of your skin after they've made all the light microscopic   holes via   microneedling.   And what it does,   it works on   the fibroblast   cells, which are like   the factories that make your own collagen.   So it gives them a huge boost to go, oh, come on. Wake up. You're being a bit slow on the production line.   Here, let me give you a little treat like a little sweetie.  

Let me give you some DNA from some sperm   and,   get on and do your job. So, you know, it it's quite a a relatively new   concept. I would say it's probably been around   for 3,   4 years.  

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But how do they get the sperm from the salmon?   Well, don't make me go into graphic detail, but Come on. Explain because I'm gonna have to YouTube it otherwise.  

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I'll use   some polite terminology.   I would imagine that they milk   the salmon. They probably   squeeze it in a particular  

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area. So are these dead salmon or live salmon?   No.   Well, which one? Dead or alive?   They're alive. They're alive, and then they just keep it like a factory in every day and, like, milk it.  

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Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, they've they've probably got, you know, a huge southern farm. Maybe they've gone into business with salmon farms   like the fisheries   for people   that eat, you know, farmed  

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salmon. I don't I don't know. On earth would come up with the idea that let's try some summon sperm to see if this does anything on our face? Well, I would. I would.  

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Somebody said to me, my god. That's gonna make you lie   nearly  

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Yeah. But who comes up with the idea and says, oh, this could be good?  

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First in the line.  

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You still there?   You've broken up.   It must be the weather.   It is terrible.   It's terrible.  

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Oh, Oh, collagen. Sorry. Jo, you cut out. You cut out.   Between 6 9 months.  

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You keep cutting out.   Hello? Hello?   You'll love live radio. I'm blaming it all on the weather because it is, like I just said, atrocious out there.   So,   Joe, she's just here. So we  

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did see.  

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Jo, you keep cutting out. Poor connection. Poor connection, it keeps saying.   I'm gonna call you back.   Now she's gonna wonder where I've gone because I think she's still   talking away.   Let's see.   Love a bit of live radio   because she's calling me, and it's coming through on my phone. And if I answer my phone,   then I'm not gonna be able to   hear her.   Joe, if you can hear me, stop ringing me on my phone.   No. I   Joe, I have to call you because I don't think it works. Speak a moment.  

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Hello? Hello?  

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Oh, it's terrible.   Terrible. We could be in for storms and everything.   Right. Let's see. Let's see. Sorry about this, listeners.   Jo, you kept breaking up, my lovely.   Hello? Hello? You kept breaking up.   Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello, Malu. Can you hear me? Hello?  

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Hello. Hello. Yes. Yes. So listen. 3 minutes ago, basically,   polynucleotides   are the new thing   totally proven   to sort of make you look 10 years younger.   They   increase your collagen production, so it works with your own natural   production of collagen,   and it's the way forward, my friends.  

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Is it expensive?  

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No.   Well  

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Are you getting yours from South Korea?  

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Yeah. It depends what you you deem as expensive.   I suppose when I married the 2 of, like, the Far Eastern here,   I would say, yes, In the UK,   it's probably quite expensive. But the Far East, then   no. Absolutely   not.   But I I would still   have it done here. I think I think for a whole face,   it's anything between 202150.  

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And how long does that last for?  

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About 6 to 9 months.  

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That's longer than Botox then.  

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Well, yes. I mean and and look at it this way.   I take collagen   powder anyway in my protein shakes along with all my jibberi pokery supplements.   So I figure,   you know,   I'm meeting the polynucleotides   halfway.   So,   you know, you if if somebody did that, you would probably have a longer   effect from   the, polynucleotides,  

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wouldn't you? And it would probably last longer than 6 to 9 months. Yeah. Yeah. Well, perhaps I'll try that then, some collagen powder, another supplement.  

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Yeah. I love it. I love it. It's so easy. You know? You just throw it all in a blender with a protein shake,   and,   you know, I put new collagen in there. I put my matcha tea in there, whiz it all up, and then shove all my supplements in my mouth. Big old swig   of it. Down it goes. Happy days set up for the rest of the day. Take them all at the same time in, like, one mouthful?  

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Yeah. Because I'm just impatient. I'm just,  

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like so I probably have   their capsules.   I'll do anything between,   say, 6 and 7  

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all in one go. I might try that tomorrow.   I might have to film myself doing it and send it to you because I can see me, like, urging and  

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You know? It's like, I ain't got time to be confident one at a time. Just get them down. Another trick is,   just very, very quickly is if people have problems swallowing any form of tablet,   put it in   your mouth, then put some liquid in your mouth, and then put your like, raise your chin down almost as if you're trying to put it on your chest and then swallow.   Don't put your head back like it's a natural reaction to put your head back and swig it.   No. No. No. No. Mark my words. Put your chin down to your chest and then swallow, and you have no problems.  

[00:30:36] Unknown:

Right. Well, I shall try that tomorrow.   Do that. Well, thank you for the tips, Jo. I wish you a blessed evening. You're welcome. Have a safe drive home, and I will catch up with you very soon, my friend.   Alright. You take care. Take care, darling. See you soon. Bye. Bye. Bye bye. Bye.   Wow. Great stuff from Jo. Bless her heart. Now leaving work after no doubt she's done a 12 hour   day. Been up since the crack of dawn. Anyway, I have an awesome guest lined up   now. I've got the wonderful Georgia Vanderbilt,   who runs,   well, runs, owns a big candle making   company in America.  

And, she's got a bit of a story to tell.  

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The doors are. Everything on them.  

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She's looking at me again.   No, Jo. No. No.   Right.   Oh, no. It wasn't her. It was it was the other lady.   Oh my gosh. It was my guest, actually. I'm good, aren't I? Right.   It's okay.   Okay. We'll try again.   Right.   Sorry about my my Skype  

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me.  

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Call me. Right. Call me lovely.   Right. Okay. Right. Fingers crossed. You won't have to bear with me for too much longer just by myself. I just have to fill some airtime.   So how are you lovely people out there today anyway?   Have you had a wonderful weekend?   It just goes   too too quick, doesn't it? Too quick. It should be a 5 day   weekend.   I just love the weekends,   but quite often, I do like the quarantine.   Okay. Here we go.   Good evening, Georgia.   Good evening, Georgia.  

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Hello?  

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Hello. Can you hear me okay? Hi.   I can. Wonderful stuff. Wonderful. How are you?   I'm fantastic. How are you doing? Yeah. I'm really good. Thank you. Really good. I've been looking forward to,   chatting to you. I was just   telling the audience that you've got a massive candle match of manufacturing   company   called Shorty's Candle Company.   And, yeah, you've got some interesting stuff to talk about. So tell us a bit about yourself, George, and how, like, you got to where you are now because   you are a businesswoman. And at this moment in time, my business is suffering.   I don't have the   the marketing skills. I wanna build a big business.  

So I'm hoping you might have some hacks.  

[00:34:16] Unknown:

Beautiful. Well, let's see.   Yes. I I am. I, you know, I'm known as the fragrance aficionado   because I am a candle designer, and I understand fragrance and what it can do for us. And   one of the things so the the real story   behind Shorty's candle company is that I started it when I was 21.   And I had no idea what an entrepreneur was or that I was entering this world   of entrepreneurship.   It was just oblivious to me.   And I I was simply having fun with this boy I just met,   and he was gonna make me a website, and I was having fun making candles, and we were having fun together.   And with that, we just moved forward.  

And we just followed all of the steps that we needed to follow along the way, really. And the steps were,   of course, setting up the company,   and growing and growing.   But   as we continued to grow, we got bigger and bigger,   especially because we had a team. So when you have 2 people that have different skill sets and you put them both together,   you too can just rock it.   Because   doing things   on your own,   at least from my opinion, from my point of view, when I've done things on my own,   I can get so far.   But there's a part that I'm missing.   And I know a lot of people that just get really far on their own, but I really do feel like   there   it hit the wall.  



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Yeah. That's a bit of my math at the moment.  

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So Hannah moving forward with the marketing,   with building our website,   with   designing the labels,   putting the booth together, and then me and my   ability,   like, my science background   to build an incredible product, to think of it all the way through.   And my   let's go make it happen attitude   combined with this.   I I wouldn't even call it great customer service.   I   I've taken the time recently   to sit down   and ask   what my actual goal is. What is it that I want to do? And the thing I want to do,   the thing that means so much to me is making sure that everybody belongs.   And   that is one of the most important things,   and I can trace that back to being a little girl.  

So when people would come into our booth, they always felt like they belonged.   It was they they just needed to be there, and they would come back week after week after week, and they'd tell me about the product, and they'd say, this was great or this could be better. They would give me great feedback, but they just wanted to stay in the booth because they felt like they belonged.   And I would say that that's kind of one of our biggest things is   making sure everybody feels like they belong.   But then we grew and we grew and we grew.   And we got to a point   where 2,008 happened.  

And   if you remember 2,008  

[00:37:39] Unknown:

The big financial crash.  

[00:37:41] Unknown:

Yes. Right. For us, it was very, very hard. But I I didn't watch television, so I didn't know that that was what people were going through. I thought it was a mistake I made with our products   because of the timing. So I had just launched a soy candle the same day the Lehman Brothers thing happened. Wow. But I didn't know   that that happened at the same time. I had no idea   until I traced it back years later.   But   I I thought it was the product I created,   and   I really thought I had just done a horrible job.   And at that point, we weren't doing any craft those or farmers markets or anything like that anymore. So we weren't seeing people face to face. We were all online.  

So they just tried to keep working and working and working and other things happened and I it just diminished.   And we went back   to we we ended up losing our last employee in middle of   2014,   and   we had to rebuild.   We rebuilt and   after that,   I ended up having kind of, like, a little medical crisis, and it went a little at the time. It was gigantic.   And now it looks little because it was so long ago because it was   10 years   4 months ago.   Because that time lapse, it seems like it was little   but   with that,   in I I had to start to rebuild,   and we started to learn and we started to grow.  

And now that I can look back on that, I can see   that   I was missing something internally   that was stopping us from our growth.   And once I could learn internally,   I had to change my beliefs. I had to learn forgiveness, forgiveness for myself and for others.   I had to   recognize the good that I was putting out   and   allow other people to do good to us and not feel like   them coming in and helping us with something was a charity case, if that even makes any sense.   And I had a lot to learn internally,   so that way we could grow externally.   And that is what I would say was the key   to our success so far, is growing internally.  

Oh, I love that.   You you you can put sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. No. You can   put out so much energy, and you can get that big, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. And   then when something does happen, you know, you lose a big client,   you have the Lehman Brothers, something happens outside of your reach,   you have a a physical something happens with you medically. There's something that's happening.   When those things happen, if you haven't grown internally, you won't be able to get over that hump.   So   and that's when a lot of companies end up going out of business because   they haven't grown internally yet.  

So that was the key.  

[00:40:48] Unknown:

Wow. I needed to hear that tonight, so thank you.   But that's like, I mean, there's so much we don't realize what goes into candles, not as in the making, but you talk about you like to talk about fragrance and how it takes plays a part in our happiness.   Can you expand on that?  

[00:41:07] Unknown:

Oh,   definitely.   So fragrance is really, really interesting. You know, you have your 5 senses,   and you can,   you can   change something that's happening to you. So we live in our head. 95%   of what's happening to us is inside of our minds.   And we can change   the things that are happening inside of us through a pattern interrupt.   So, for example, a few years ago now, my son, I think he was about 8, and we were driving home from school. I just picked him up, and his teacher had told me, of course, that he was an awful child, and he caused so many disruptions, and she didn't like his behavior, and he was rude, and he was defiant, And she had all these ways to just absolutely tell him he was horrible.   And I took it upon myself that I then needed to spit this young man out.  

So we got in the car, we're driving home, and we   start in this big argument, which I'm sure every single parent has gone through this with their child.   And we're   yelling at each other, and he, of course, has great feedback keys that are great responses.   And I'm like, no, but you need to listen to me.   And I am we pull up to my house, and I'm gonna take everything   away from him. There's no computer. There's no TV. There's no phones. There's no video games. You can't even look at the toaster because it plugs in. There's nothing   for you at this point.  

So I'm walking in the house. I'm, like, 4 feet in front of him because I needed a head start. And I'm heading in. I open the front door and boom.   This fragrance hits me,   and it stops me in my tracks.   And I'm like,   oh, oh, wait.   You're being a jerk.   You don't have to do that. And this child isn't doing anything bad to you.   He has his own feelings.   There's a different way to react.   Just calm down.   And I looked at him and I said, hey, bud. And, of course, he's got tears in his eyes. He's frustrated.   And I'm like, I'm really sorry.   Give me a minute to calm down,   and we'll come back together, and we're gonna figure something else out, and a better way to act toward your teacher.  

And he looks up at me, and he goes,   okay.   And he just walks off.   And I was able to sit for a minute because I had that pattern interrupt,   that boom,   you don't need to do that.   And we came together, and we ended up having a beautiful conversation.   It's the rest of this year was a whole heck of a lot better than it had been because I was able to calm down.   And it really just simply took that pattern and dropped. And that's what fragrance does for us. Yes, it does so many wonderful things. Like, you know,   it it's like a history.   You get to go back in time. I was talking to a girl the other day. She said one of our one of our employees, hey, baby, in shipping.  

She said to me   she was,   working with chocolate mint, And she said, oh, these smell like the little mint candies I used to get at the movie theater.   The this is oddly satisfying.   And that's what fragrance does. It brings up those moments that are oddly satisfying.  

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Yeah. I've never thought of it like that. I mean, my daughter, she would you know, we would be out somewhere and she says, oh, that smell, it reminds me of such and such.   It does. It can be really important, actually.   All the candles. I mean, I love, like, the mixed spice apple ones, the Christmassy ones, the cinnamon ones, and stuff like that, but you can seem to get a candle for every flavor now.  

[00:44:54] Unknown:

Mhmm.   One of our very first fragrances that we worked with, what actually   turned us into a candle company   was I so I had made my this I had just met this boy,   and   I met him I I actually I walked up to a guy on a motorcycle. I asked him for a ride, and he said   no.   So then, I convinced him to give me a ride, and he looked at me. He had his helmet on, and he looked at me. And I think he thought I was cute. So he said, okay. I'll give you a ride around the block. But that was September 20,   2001.   And so for Christmas, I needed to make him something. So I made him some candles, and I made my girlfriends that I was living with, our roommates,   made them   or flatmates, I think, is what you guys call them. Right?  

I made them some candles as well for Christmas. And my flats gave me   candle making supplies for Christmas. So then Valentine's Day came, and I made the boy a heart shaped candle for Valentine's Day. And I took it to work with me. And I asked all the guys I worked with there, what is I gonna like this?   And they all smelled it. And my friend, Todd, he said, oh, my God. This is so incredible. Will you make me beer scented candles?  

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Wow.  

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And I said, yes.   I had no idea if I could do it, but I just thought, yeah, I probably can.   So I went, found the beer scent, started making it, and then I brought him the beer fragrance. And they were   him and all of the other guys I worked with I worked with mainly guys,   and   they were blown away.   And that was really the start of it, was   the beer.  

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Well, each to their own, isn't it? We've all got that different taste of flavor and stuff.  

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Well, we were 21,   and it smelled like a full fraternity. That hadn't been cleaned in, like, 9 years, and it was awful. But   but he was happy, and that's what mattered.  

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I mean, how would you get the fragrance for beer then?   How'd you come off of that?  

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It's like a flavor. Right? So you can get a flavor for something,   and you could ask somebody to make you a beer flavor.   You can ask somebody to make you a beer fragrance.   So we have   I got people for that.   Yeah. It's   perfumers.  

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Alright. Okay.   Yeah. Wonderful. So literally anything you want the flavor of,   you can come   up  

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with   it.  

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Oh, wonderful stuff. And it is that time of year now. I'm actually hit with the candles alike. I love candles.   And it's not just the fragrance, though, is there? There's just something about the whole coziness of the flame.   I don't know what it is.  

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I always call a flame our friend   because all of a sudden you're not alone.   It's like something you can talk to. It's something that moves.   It's something that makes us happy, and it's something that brings us together.   If you think about it, since we since humans started,   where did we create life?   Where how how did life   continue? It was around the fire. We told stories around the fire. The fire kept us safe.   The fire was our friend. It's where family was. It's where our tribe was.   And that's what candles do.  

[00:48:21] Unknown:

Oh, I love that analogy.   A candle is our friend. Yeah. You're right. And I used to try meditating a lot with candles. They say they're supposed to be good for meditation,   but   yeah.   Oh, wow. That's lovely.   I was watching,   one of your Facebook videos actually when, you came across a lavender   plant.   Quite entertaining.   Oh, dear. Because I think you said something like,   oh, is this the English lavender? Oh, I don't know. Somebody have to go back and watch it. But no. So you do do lavender candles, I presume. Do you have lavender in America?  

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Yes. It was the English lavender.   So you're starting to laugh. Yes.   Thank you for watching, by the way.  

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I should imagine that your energy draws a lot of people your way as well.   You've got a lovely warm energy.  

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Thank you.   If you're in my if you are here in person, you're not gonna walk away from me without a hug. You're not gonna walk away or you're gonna walk away knowing that you belong. Like, this is this is your home now.  

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So we know each other. Oh, lovely. So you're very spiritually in tune then as well?  

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I probably.  

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Just just one of those lovely people that you meet. And I think we meet them every day, don't we? I mean, are you religious at all?   Say that again? Are you religious at all?  

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Am I religious? Yeah.   I don't so I grew up religious.   My husband is not religious.   And so I went in one day, and I just asked the bishop because I didn't really know exactly what to say or what to do. I was kind of torn. And I said, you know, my husband is really not wanting me to come, but my mom is wanting me to come. And I'm feeling   kind of confused and torn. And the bishop said, do you guys have a peaceful living home? And I said, yes.   And he said, loving a home is worth more than you showing up at church.   Do what it takes to keep your home peaceful and loving and kind.  

And we love you, and God loves you, whether you're here or not.   And   that made a big difference for me. And so, I haven't gone back to church since then.   And,   but I do, I meditate every day.   And I have a beautiful relationship   with   our universe,   and   what energy that that I that comes from it.  

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Do you religiously   meditate every day then? Is that part of your routine?  

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Yes. I do.  

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I will just And when do you do it? Do you have a set time every day?  

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I do it in the morning time, but that's what works for me.   And if it it depends on you, you know, I might do it in the morning time that you might find at noon or at 10 or at 2 or at   at midnight, it might be best for you. So whenever it's best for you.  

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Set the scene for me,   Georgia. So when you're gonna meditate, how do you, you know, do you lie on the bed? Do you sit on the floor? Legs crossed.  

[00:51:34] Unknown:

I well, my husband's usually asleep.   I wake up.   I just put my pillow behind my back between the headboard and my back,   and I sit as tall as I can, and I cross my legs.   And then I just put my hands in my lap. I don't hold my hands out to the side, like a lot of people do or like in pictures. Mhmm. But I just put my hands in my lap, and I close my eyes.   And sometimes,   meditate 2 or 3 minutes, and then sometimes an hour's gone by. So  

[00:52:04] Unknown:

Really? Really?   I I've always found it quite hard to do, and I think it's one of those things I would love to achieve. I seem to have gone into meditation, like when I've drifted off somewhere.   Sometimes it seems to happen, you know, just a natural thing. You could call it just drifting off. And I like to see something and I think, oh, oh, I've just drifted. I've been been somewhere. I've just got a message or something, you know, but just trying to clear the mind.   Message or something. You know? But just trying to clear   the mind, it is quite a hard thing to do, isn't it, for lots of people? Well, there's a few things. So one thing that I well, there's a few things I'll do.  



[00:52:32] Unknown:

So sometimes if I feel that my mind is,   well, okay. So let me separate this real quick. There is guided meditations.   You can find a ton of free ones on YouTube.   They're wonderful. There's some wonderful companies out there. I would recommend a company called Mindvalley.   They are absolutely phenomenal. They have beautiful,   meditations. And this one meditation that I did,   if, if it's alright if I share it Yeah. But it was by the it's from this company called Mindvalley. And,   it's called the 6 Days Meditation.   And you can search it on YouTube. It's free. It doesn't have anything to do with me. I've, yeah, they,   yeah.  

Wonderful, wonderful   company, in my opinion.   But   then there's 2 different kinds of meditations. There is a guided meditation,   and then there is your individual meditation.   So when I am doing I'll do both.   But if I am doing just a me meditation,   and I go into meditation and my mind is bouncing all over the place,   some every once in a while, not often anymore, I'll have to open my eyes, and I'll have to have a little notepad next to my bed, and I'll write down notes of everything I'm thinking. And it's usually just like 1 or 2 words, and it's usually a checklist of things I need to do.   Or   do a few other things.  

So I'll do a relaxation method for myself, for my head all down all the way down to my toes. And then at the end,   I will ask my brain to relax.   And that, when I ask my brain to relax,   that is the most effective I have found.   But then, there's also another technique that I have kind of this is all just stuff I've done on my own. Like, I haven't heard anyone else talk about this, but this is just me and years years years of meditating.   But I have, like, a clothesline,   and I will take the things I need. It's not in real life. It's just in my mind. And I will take the things I need to hang on to, and I'll hang them on the clothesline,   and then I send the clothesline away. And then at the end of the meditation when I'm about to come out of it, I will ask the clothesline to come back.  

And so I know that I might not be able to tell you all the 15 things I put on that clothesline,   but when I go and I undo that pin, everything I am taking off comes back into me, and I know I'll get it done during the day.  

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Oh, I love that. Great idea. Great analogy. Yeah. A clothesline. Right. I need to remember that one.   So it sets you up for the day then, really, doesn't it? Because, I mean, we've all got so many busy we're just busy. I I'm sure you are. Like, your brain, like you say, is constantly talking, isn't it? Constantly, we've got to do this. We've got to do that.  

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Mhmm. Oh, yes.   Yeah.  

[00:55:29] Unknown:

I have far too much going on in my mind. I'm gonna try some meditation.  

[00:55:35] Unknown:

The key the key in in our mind is making sure   that if it's anything positive or or excuse me. If it's anything negative   or   hurtful or   scary,   would just recognize that. Recognize that that's what's going on. Because once you recognize that, then you can look at it a little bit different, and you can say,   wait a second here. Like, for me, I have these reminders on my phone.   So,   they go off   all day, every day.   And they're little things like,   my desire is safe and deeply pleasurable.   I don't know. That's one that just popped into my mind.   Feel love.  

Everything is always working out for me.   Then one of my favorites I love that everything is always working out for me. That one, I think I got from Esther Hicks or Abraham Hicks, if you've heard of her. Mhmm.   And then,   my very favorite though, it comes every night at bedtime.   Because bedtime can sometimes be a little bit difficult.   I have they're becoming teenagers. I have 2 boys that are 12 and 14.   And   I just don't wanna go to bed.   But this one that comes on my phone, it's 9:30 every night, and it says, what could go right?   And I remember that during the day when I noticed that my mind is going negative,   I say, what could go right?  



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I love it. Love it. It's a whole load of mindfulness, isn't it? And being mindful all the time of what we are thinking about.   Because one negative thought can just carry us then onto a journey for all the other negative   thoughts, isn't it? So they're like positive affirmations.  

[00:57:22] Unknown:

Yeah. But sometimes we don't even recognize we're in a negative thought. Like, all of a sudden, you'll be driving down the road and you're like, wait. I've been, like, yelling at somebody in my mind for the last 10 minutes. What am I doing?  

[00:57:37] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah.   Oh, bless you. Well, we are running out of time,   Georgia.   It's been so   lovely to talk to to talk to you. I can feel your energy, and I would give you a lovely hug now if you were here.  

[00:57:52] Unknown:

I'm hugging you back. Oh, bless you.  

[00:57:54] Unknown:

So tell people where they can find out more about you and your website.  

[00:57:59] Unknown:

They can find us at jordiescandles.com,   and they can follow us on Facebook at jordiescandlecompany.  

[00:58:08] Unknown:

Wonderful. And I do urge people to do that. And do you post much of, like, your sentiments in with your Facebook stuff as well? I mean, like I said, just that little lavender video, you can catch your energy just in that little, like, 32nd   clip,   but you're quite,  

[00:58:23] Unknown:

yeah.   We try to.   We put   whatever is kinda happening in the moment. We don't really have   a dedicated   social media person right now. We actually have someone coming in tomorrow   to interview for that position, but we don't have anybody in that position right now. So it's kinda hard to get everything up there.  

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Definitely.  

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When we have actually, I should not say that. I should say, we are working toward being able to get a lot more social media content out there.  

[00:58:55] Unknown:

But you no. I'm glad you that actually, because I should I think I've just made the realization today about my business, and I've I have turned it around and said, right. I wanna make this work, and I need to learn about this and that. And and I've had to reach out because like you say, it takes more than one person.   I can have all the materials and everything, but I need that extra set of eyes and ears and that brainpower.   So   thank you so much. Thank you. It's been a real privilege talking to you. You've lifted me and you've given me some food for 4. Definitely.   And that's what it's about. Isn't it? Don't worry about the audience. As long as I get something, these are just self counseling sessions,  

[00:59:36] Unknown:

really.   You know what? It's beautiful because everybody walks away with something.  

[00:59:41] Unknown:

Exactly. Just one little thing and it changes stuff.   Anyway, we are gonna have to go because literally the next show is gonna start. Thank you so much, Georgia. And we'll have to have you on again at a later date and chat about other amazing things.  

[00:59:56] Unknown:

Definitely. I'll be here. Great. Thank you for having me. You're very welcome. You take care. Bye. You too, Shelley. Bye.  

[01:00:04] Unknown:

And there we are. That was lovely. It's a shame that the line was a little bit jibberty, but   it is what it is.