Do what you want it to feel what you want to feel. Yeah, Welcome to our new podcast. The most exciting thing is that we just came up with the name two seconds ago and we're going to let you know what that name is. But first, I think we should introduce ourselves. My name is Diane love and I am Grace Hogan and Grace. How do we know each other? Well, you came and got a haircut actually. Yeah. Um where I work at and you landed in my scissor cutting hands one day that is just pretty awesome. And I have the raddest haircut which leads me to introduce the name of our new podcast. You want to say it. Yeah, you ready for it. We are to rad chicks, right? I mean, you can probably already tell that we are to ride chicks. But we're not just like to as in the number 2 rad it's like to rad like to add for to add for life to rad-foot. Sad to read for Mad to read for just pretty much everything and we should probably say though. So how okay. Alright, so cut to our visual of me sitting in the salon and Grace comes up and she says hey. I'm cutting your hair today. Nice to meet you and I say okay cool make it really rad whatever whatever and then cut to like 20 haircuts later. Yeah, probably which was about two weeks ago and I'm sitting down and I say to Grace Grace. Can you please please like cut off all my hair? Come see about hate it like I don't want to do it and she looks at me like I don't even remember what you said. Hmm. You had sent me inspiration to through the week and I was Ready to go there. I was ready to go there but we didn't go there we did not I almost don't even know. Why did we why didn't we go there? Well, I don't even know we kind of we went Sammy there. Yeah, I mean we were right it's amazing. It's like the coolest haircut ever. I think she just doesn't listen to me. She just doesn't want to go there. It's all right. Anyway, so we're there and I am begging her to cut my hair off and she's kind of like sidestepping me and then we get to talking like that's kind of my Hot like I have feel like I come and get my haircut with you about every three days. I just have to give you guys a visual as well. Like when TN rocked up. She usually people come with maybe inspiration photos. What kind of haircut they won Dee Ann came to me with a photo of what she feels like already and it was an image of Lisa. Listen with all of her half like always select over to one side. I feel like we yeah and got that image. So we have to get that in because I couldn't I just peed myself laughing in the middle of this long Grace dropped dead to the floor like shaking and laughing like I was like, oh my gosh what's going on, but she's just laughing at the image of leases and you will not even reactive to that. You would just kind of like, this is how I feel and I don't want to be Field and you're like, I don't want to be this anymore. So as I cut my hair off anyway, she didn't cut my hair off but I don't feel like Lisa Simpson anymore. And then we got to talking about how you know how cool it is to hang out with each other and how we always have a million things to do. But how life. I mean it could always be better right? Like we could always do cooler stuff and then we were like, maybe you said to me how's your podcast going or something? And I was like, yeah, it's amazing. It's good. I don't know, you know. Yeah, and then we said What really happens when you do cool shit, maybe that's what it was. We will kind of like, oh imagine doing this or imagine doing that all that kind of some of the things that were a little bit scared to do and then we're so we kind of don't do them, but we need a bit of hand-holding and yeah, you you're always like like I'll say something some crazy story or some weird shit that I've done and or that I want to do and graceful always be like, yeah. I mean just like and you get to know so this is the whole idea of this podcast you get to know that we are about to embark on some really potentially crazy adventures and we want to take you with us. Yeah, and so that's kind of the what really happens. Yeah segment and so in the space of a haircut which need takes like how long how long does it take for you to cut my hand wheel an hour to cut a haircut, but I Feel like we did your color first and then we don't know we did your haircut first and then we did your car. So we spent some time together day. I feel like everywhere hours. I might come into the salon. It's like 5 to 10 hours. But yeah in the space of 5 to 10 hours or two hours or whatever it is. We yeah, we got really excited about this concept and I had lunch actually after I did you Yeah, hell yeah, I'm eating lunch and I was like, is this really happening? Like this is a cool. This is such a cool idea and I guess it kind of gives I like to do things with purpose, I guess. Yeah, and so it makes it easier for me to jump into these scenarios are situations when there's a podcast to talk about it because I probably wouldn't have gone through with doing some of the the things maybe that we've talked about or are going to do yet if I didn't have the purpose to share it so it's all about purpose. It's all about being a little bit curious about certain things in life, but maybe needing like another rad chick to do it with it's all about going on adventures that are a little bit out of your comfort zone. I guess like for me my big thing is yet to have purpose but then to share that so I Inspire other people. Yeah, because that's kind of been My life path as a hoop dancer in as a teacher to be like, okay. I'm doing all this really cool shit. And now I want to share it with you so that I can spark some courage. That's what I really feel at. This podcast is all about like us we could just go on these adventures together. Yeah, we could just jump in the car and go but we're like, why don't we go on the bigger Adventures which you'll get to find out about and then we'll share it will come back and Report each. Yeah. I feel like it's nice too because you kind of recapping on what you've Done and reflecting back on that so it's kind of like a physical act out of maybe what you might do already in your life, but mentally so it's kind of nice to vocalize it and yeah. Yeah, it's cool and share your feelings on Mike how things might have me do feel through the process of something outside of your comfort zone. Yeah, like even we don't know what's going to happen. Like we've both done some really rad stuff in our life. Send you get to know us a little bit more and we'll hopefully I'll have the courage to divulge some of my stuff and Grace I'll like pry it out of her, but we don't know what's going to happen. Like some of the things that we've chosen like we were going to call this I dare ya they can make them big crazy dad jump out of planes and all that kind of stuff, but we actually don't know some of the things that we have on our list. I'm kind of nervous. Are you nervous? I'm sorry scared. I'm so scared of being called scared AF. Yeah. Yeah, but then I didn't want it to be like, you know, I thought if we did it that way it would be like, what are those crazy reality TV shows like the could become extremism. Yeah, maybe yeah, like I don't want to push each other because I don't want this set and you know in emotional disaster. So we've pulled back from the original wildness your hey let go. Yeah, you gonna go see reality and then like somewhere in the middle, so So we came up with lots of different ideas and we're going to call it what really happens like what really happens when you blah blah blah go on this and we'll come back and report and that's pretty much what we're going to do every week. Maybe we should join a talk about like what we're going to this is like the intro podcast. So stay tuned. You're welcome - yes all of the hilarity but this week we're kind of going to introduce ourselves in But in case you are wondering what we're going to do each week. Yes. Oh, we will are we going to ask questions every week? No. No, do you think let's do it this week? Yeah, because if we ask questions every week, we're clear Billy like it off of knowing about you. I want to know about the adventure. Yeah cool. So we'll go through we will have a weekly confession each of something that might have happened in our week. That get deep could get really deep or weird. Mmm. Just be weird. It could be so basic. Yeah, actually, you know what, like don't don't be thinking that my life is some kind of me amazing Wild Ride every week like it might be something about my teeth washing the dishes or something. Yeah, and then we will report back on what we have done for the activity on experience. Again, so what back on that and how it went and how we felt then we will introduce the next adventure. Yes choose a new adventure. So the next week. Yeah. So cool. So you'll yeah will report on that and then Is that yeah. Yeah, and and they're doing see we are living on the edge. We're like spontaneous to red cheeks. Yeah, and then the next adventure and then we will be sharing our weekly obsessions, which is our two favorite songs. So will each share two of our favorite songs from that week. I think that I'm not going to say I'm not going to pick favorites. But yeah, okay airing songs because And I are constantly sending. Songs, but if I songs back and forward to each other and they're just getting more and more epic and we want to share them with you because life needs the soundtrack and eat, you know, I love getting a new song like I think I just yet. It feels like just Sparks so much new nurse. So I'm excited about that each good but you have to stay till The Bitter End. Yeah together some the reward of our to weekly Obsession songs. Cool. All right. So I think that kind of feels good. So we are to rad chicks and we are going to be going on these huge small medium large life adventures and Reporting back to you on what it was how it fell what happened like what really happened and even we don't know. No, I've got no idea and maybe somewhere down the track some you might request us to go on. Yeah, but we have some we have I'm pretty cool ones actually on my Instagram and if you don't know Grace's Instagram at Greece dot your dot self. Yeah, and I'm at the end of EXO. I reached out and I ask people for kind of dares. There were some good ones. So we'll do we'll definitely do some of those. Yeah for sure. All right, so moving in to our next segment. Just imagine there's really Music right here there may or may not be at some point in this podcast as we evolve and grow together all of us. Yeah. Do you feel like singing? Yeah. What was that intro song? Hmm. What was our entry that you want to do? Feel what you want to feel ya so beautiful. I am not going to see on those Larry. I will just talk I could get up and dance, but it's hot in here. So I have to take off all my clothes. Alright, we are going to ask each other some questions that we prepared earlier that will give you a little bit of insight into who this rad chick is and then who I am and this rat is that sound cool because I do do another podcast and it is over on Deanne love.com and it's a bit. It's a bit sacred. It's a bit special and that is only one part of me and this rad chick has like just the million parts of her. So 1 million. 1 million who wants to go first? You want to go first. Hmm. Do you want to ask actually really we she's going to wait? I'm sorry. I drank so much water as I should know by now. I should yes. Get out of here. All right, I'll be right back. Okay, we're back from our pee break and it was amazing. Oh, I bet actually when I sat on your toilet seat, it felt like that out. I was on a pirate ship from parts of the The Caribbean because it was kind of Creek. It was like that is not what I thought you were going to say, but it seems appropriate that's good. Okay. Next time I go to the toilet. I'm going to think of Johnny Depp. Wait is that appropriate? I don't know but okay questions. Let's talk about the questions. You want to ask me first? Yes. I do want to ask you first. Okay. I'm totes excited about what you have to ask me and I am ready to be honest. Right. So I see that you have tattoos you have so many there's arms and wrists. So my question is how many tattoos do you have? And what do they mean to you? Okay. Are you ready? And if I blah blah too much you can but in and ask me about any of them. Yes, so lots of people like at service stations. Listen, and then you are in the US that's a gas station service stations or 7-Eleven or just random kids in the street will be like are they real? Because they look like just a stamp. Yeah, they do. However, I keep so first question answered is how many tattoos so I have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 I shit 11 would have been better. I just got that one in Brazil. So okay real quick. So the first tattoo that I have is on my back. And I think I was my mom had to come with me. So I must have been young and I had had a Reiki session. And in that Reiki session. I had a vision of like a heart with wings moving like it felt like freedom and expansion of like my heart chakra. Yes. I've always been a hippie made inside the rad chick and I went to work the next day at the job. That I was doing at the time it was it was a shop called Inner Harmony how crazy that my podcast now like 20 years on is called inner wisdom. Yeah, some things never change amazing and it was a crystal shop and like a new age store at the time that's would have been what it was called and I was you know, just doing what I did bombing. Whatever you do talking to people about Chris. Those and essential oils and I opened up a box of books. And as I opened it the book on the top was called communicating with your Angels or something and it was the freakin heart with wings that I'd seen in the Reiki session and I was like what up Angels that's crazy and to hang and so I was like, wow, I never thought I wasn't tattoos didn't really feel like me, but then I saw it was in my reach. And it was on the books. I was like, okay, so I got that stamped on me and then In Japan, I got those seed of life which is the beginning of all creation. But it also looks like hula hoops. And many many people have asked me. Have I been in the Olympics? Yeah. No, I think I might even ask totes never so cool. No not an athlete always a hula hooper and it's the seed of life. So it is sacred geometry look it up. I got it done in a really Smoky Den in Tokyo with really loud rock music and it was kind of gross and then I got this. Like dot of dots of love that I thought back then one day when I really love myself when I have like full self-love. I'm going to fill that in because it's like the dots, you know mums and dads do for little kids when they want to like teach them how to write you can hardly see it, but the craziest thing about this one is that I met up with my old best friend and we hadn't seen each other for years and years and she had like red dots and there's no way yeah that she would have ever known that anyway. And then over the years I have got hearts in different locations and when people ask me like what are they? Like this one was in Brazil a couple of weeks ago. This one was in India at the end of last year. This one was in Cooley in coolangatta where we live where we work and live because I felt there was like a shift in my life. Yeah, yellow is a good color for coolangatta. It's a good representation of this and coolangatta yet coolangatta is where we live and it's very coastie. On the coast bro. It's surfy beautiful. I may it's like paradise and these ones Melbourne Melbourne. And then these ones were the u.s. At different times when I quit my job and became a full-time hula hooper and then these two little anchors with hearts on the inside of my wrist muster and I used to go to Bali for a year at a time. No, no no a month or two at a time because we were living in a kind of chilly area of Australia and so we would go Hang out in Bali and muscle would make friends with just like cool dudes on the side of the street and one day he went out walking in a new bird and he was like, I'm at these really cool guys at the tattoo shop. You should come hang and then I did and I was like, hey, can you talk to me and I'm so glad I did can I see them? Yeah. They're they're just little and a different color hearts. Yeah ones blue ones. Yep one got super fasty. So that is my there my yeah there and that says deeper stories, but it's kind of Of I feel like it's a little bit like, you know, when someone goes to this really wherever cool vacation and then they come back and they tell you like they show you their slideshow. Yeah people and you're like, yeah, it's called but or it's like I know you and I share dreams a lot. But sometimes your dream is so amazing and real to you but the other person's like great. Yeah. Yeah cool. It kind of leaves you feel very empty that can feel like that. This feeling I'm feeling empty. Well, I'm feeling like it's probably just a bit Bland boring for you to be honest, but it's so cool. No, I love them and they're super cool and I have no tattoos. So it's pure cool Pure Clean Skin bro. You are. Yeah, cool. Okay. Thank you for sharing your tattoos with us. Another question I have for you is your name Deanne love. Yes, tell us about okay. Yes. My name is Diane love but I was not born Deanne love I was born Deanne. In fact, my mom didn't know what to call me and the night before she had me like she was like, oh, I think you're going to be Michelle or Louise or something really pretty and the night before she had me she had a dream and maybe it was the same angels. I don't know they came to her and they said that my name was Diane. It's so cool. I like that. I mean, who were they? I don't know if they're the same dudes that are protecting me all the time. Some girls women Angels omnipresent being. Yeah. I feel like you're very in touch with your like spirituality. Do you feel like your mom is as well? I feel like it was it was just like a kind of undercurrent like she's not some like Crystal jangling, you know, Sage swirling wild woman, she felt like that at all, but there was stuff always in our house that was you know, Maybe affirmation cards or that's how that's how I learned about yoga. So young. My mom had a book with or just the sun salutations of some like it and I would do it as a little kid like so there was stuff around I think like we always had lots of books and things like that. So yeah, my spirituality was definitely came from my mom and my nana. Mmm. That's so cool. Okay. I had another question for you. Did I? Today, it's okay. You can look at your phone because I was actually just thinking I was like, oh gosh, what a Grace is questions. I'm going to have to look at my phone yet because I that's right do Journal. That's the new I Journal do I ever oh my gosh. So I often think and you being super creative as well like how brain gets so filled with stuff whether that's like emotion or ideas or things that I want to write about and over the years. I if I somehow All of my journals from everywhere that would just like fill this whole entire Studio. Do you keep them? You keep your journals. Some of them are like, I don't even know where they've gone. Wow. Oh my gosh. So if anyone finds Dance Moms channel, I don't know. Yeah phone 1-866-931-6190. Now anyone want anyone to sponsor us? That would be great. Eight, I do I Journal a lot and then I will look back and be like who the hell wrote that because it's a lot like, you know, just because conscious download. I do Journal a lot on simple note, which is on my What's this called the iPhone and but sometimes I get distracted. Yeah, okay, and then suddenly three hours later. I'm still in stuff. Yeah. Well, maybe you just can like I feel like sometimes you might get distracted, but maybe you've already Done enough, you know. Yep, it's really cool because I can go back to it. Mmm. But yeah, I know I Journal so much I write shit down all of the time. Yeah, even your Instagram. I don't know if you find an Instagram page. I feel like you give a really good. Oh, yeah. Dialect I got a lot to say some of my friends think my captions are too long and I'm just like whatevs. Just give it a like. Yeah, I think that yeah, I have a lot to say and if you have it a really overactive creative brain keeping it inside is detrimental dangerous get it out get it out. Are you going to explode as feel good to get things out? I'm sure you feel that too. Yeah. Really? I'd probably don't sit down with I do in some ways. Like if I'm I do some complex stand-up comedy and stuff. So I'm writing ideas down first comedy or video ideas or things like that. And yeah, I guess if I'm feeling a certain way, it is good to write things out. I feel like I process my emotions through music sometimes as well. So like I'm not really yeah, sometimes I might sit down and write a bit of a song but in that kind of I feel like that's kind of like my journaling. Mmm it on an emotional level because you write some of the music right? Yeah. I yeah, I kind of I feel like Yeah, I feel like I solve a lot of my emotional stuff through through doing that because I feel like it gives you more of a feel like you can feel into it and you can sometimes I don't even know why I'm playing but I'm like, yes, this is this sounds exactly how I feel right now. And so it's like really good to get it out. And then once I feel so much better afterwards, do you ever have a bit of a cry like mid-song? Oh, yup a lot of Yeah, yeah that happened. Actually when I have a dog and I felt like I had my busy life was really busy and I felt like I might have had to re-home her. So I'll walk I was like I and it was kind of like I'd done a comedy gig that night and I came home and I was feeling really terrible and I just sat down at the piano and I was crying so much and then I just kind of wrote These Like lyrics but then they'll kind of funny as well and but yeah, it did make me feel better in some way. But yeah, but it does happen but we've talked about this a lot how we both. Well, we think we're pretty funny actually Grace is like legit funny and hilarious and sometimes we when we hang out we exhaust each other like to the point of maybe, you know tomorrow we're going to have a calm down and a crash. He had so much like happiness in US laughing at and with and for and so yeah each other's true. And but at times we can use humor to kind of deflect stuff. So we have to be have to be a bit conscious of like, right, you know, and Ozzy is going to have a kind of sarcastic funny. She'll be right Edge as well. So yeah, but using the lyrics and the writing and the humor the song to to move through your emotions I dance and I move and if sometimes I feel like if I don't if I don't write or I don't move my body or lip-sync for my life. Yeah, then yeah gets really Stark. It's really hard. Yeah bit of a cry. I really love those questions. Do you feel good? I feel great to feel good. I feel good. Do you need to go to the toilet? And I'm good? We can push on tree I have questions for you. Can I ask them? Yes, please. So there's a few things and you'll get to know Grace a whole lot better. But basically she has many many talents. And so I tried to ask questions that I think will get you will get to know her a little bit better and they will hint at some of her many talents. So the first well, we already said this we met each other through the hair cutting and Grace. It works in this really cool Salon man. Go on give it a plug. Give it a plug that's once in every hair and on space and it's a really cool silent. Super cool. It's really really yeah, super super amazing. So my first thought when I was thinking and I thought this sometimes like when you're touching me appropriately in the hair salon, you must Sighs a lot of heads. Yeah, and so you get it's quite an intimate profession if I'm to be honest, have you ever had like Have you ever fell in love with anyone touching their head? Yeah, I feel like sometimes I you can kind of pick up because you consult first before you touch the head just kind of like, you know, just go straight down. No, you just kind of get consent first, you know, and and so so you can pick up on me how people are feeling and things like that and sometimes I am conscious of that when I am giving head massage black I don't know. I pretend that I have superpowers and I just can and like if I feel like they're feeling any hurt or sadness. I feel like I just send them heaps of love and lacks real when I give him a massage. But yeah, you do get up in people's grilling. I feel like I can fall in love pretty quickly. Oh and I liked a lot. I love to love so I make sure that I do it with love in a non-sexual way. Oh, yeah. I mean you'll never hear me referring to anything in a sexual way. That's that was he sarcasm always? Okay, so that wasn't you know, you have you fallen in love you haven't in love. With someone's head massage you talking about the the guy that oh, yeah, you can tell the story. I told Dan this story was that last night? Mmm Yeah one time I was giving a guy beard trim and you have to get so up in their Grill like you have to get really close and I legit fell in love with this guy. Do you think it was because of this his pheromones? Moans, was it like how he smells? Yeah, I feel like it was definitely a part of that and and we just had really good conversation and just like just quality goodness, you know, like, okay, so then what happened so you fell in love when you were shaving his beard and you were like, oh, he smells good. He looks good. He talks good. So did you follow him down the street? No, well, he told me that he had a girlfriend and he was telling me all about her. So Okay, it didn't no go Zone and I was like, oh, okay Moving on but then I ran into him at the beach like a few days later actually. Oh my God, and he wasn't with his girlfriend meant to be it's meant to be and then he's Canadian he was is Canadian. I'm sure he still have changed nationalities. And did you did you feel the same kind of love the next time around I was it 1200 because it was kind of like on the beach. Beach and it was kind of like didn't stop and spend too much time together. It was kind of like high and he was there taking photos of some Surfers. Oh wow, making him even cool. Yeah Graeme even hide up there somewhere. That's right. If you're listening or watching this Grace loves you. I love you. I love you. She's in love with you can come. Anytime and get it on trim. We can wait wait, wait, wait, have you been repulsed how many times have been on the opposite end of the spectrum? Because I like to explore all the extremes report grossed out. You know, what I don't remember being I mean I have actually now that I think was it me or was he was Seco. No, definitely not. I yeah, I have been repulsed at one time. Actually, there was a woman that came in for a haircut and I think she kind of came in off the street and this is Nike. Not this being disrespectful. I want to know it's true. Yeah, no, no. No, it's just like you have to get really intimately people. Yeah, and she was like quite aggressive and I know I was actually scared. I thought she was going to punch me and I hadn't even touched her hair anything yet, and I just kind of sat down with her to have a chat about her hair and She she yeah, she was really what like uncapped and a bit smelly a massive bit of motors and you are not aggressive at also though Miss, but she threw her hands up like above her head and I'll I kind of felt like they were going to come back down on like a I mean, yeah, it's hard to know what to do in those situations. You're the kind of person that wants to give support and look like Hmm. Anyway, she didn't get her hair done. She didn't get ahead and decide no. Well. I think she realized she couldn't afford to get hurt which is sad too. But I have I have done volunteer work actually with some a company called Helping Hands in prison. Do you know it? Yeah, and I went into some haircuts for some women that were in bad situations. And yeah, yeah, it's really it's kind of nice doing that stuff because you realize how grateful you are, you know to have grown up or live safe and healthy life. Yeah, and I guess that brings him balance into your life to you because you work in this really high and cool edgy. So it's nice to be part of the Fuller Community. Yeah, definitely. And yes, I step out of our bubble as much as we possibly can which is what this podcast is all about. Okay. So yeah Canadian guy come back. I'll just come back say that one more time. I forgot some of the questions, but I would like to know why you called your dog Olive. Ah, there's a good question. I took me awhile actually to come up with a good name. I'm like I was thinking it was there was a few going around that was like Gloria was an option. She's a bit of a Gloria Gloria. She's yeah. She she looks like a pygmy hippo. So Gloria would have suited her. But all of came. I had my whole family on board with this everyone you need to he had a name competition going on cool and my mom actually came up with the name of and which is real cute. And it just like fit her really? Well, I think and she kind of does look a bit like a color model. Oh, yes as he was saying that I was like, oh I get it now. Yeah. She looks like an olive. Yeah therefore she is. Can you describe like what kind of she is an English Stephie and she's brindle and just yeah, she kind of looks like her coloring. I would describe her as like a Mars bar like if he did into a A Mars bar. She's kind of got these caramel tones and chocolate tones. And she's got these really cute possum eyes. She's really cute. Now. I'm and she's a lover as well. She's the sweetest child ever. Yeah, we should rear in she likes to lick. She loves licking just like her mum. I will talk about that later in what really happens when you Oh, how could I forget so Grace is an incredible stand-up comic. However, it's fairly new like just kind of new for me. It feels like since I've known you how did you grow the ovaries like cheese that is probably one of the it's a lot to stand up in front of people and be funny and you know timing all that thing. Yeah. We're how did it all start and where to get the courage Okay, so I've always kind of made silly Instagram videos and had fun being silly and then my housemates and really good friends at the time bought me this day workshop like comedy school. Yeah, and they're like, you know, you're always making videos Merry Christmas go do this fun thing. So I did and I enjoyed it so much and ever. And at the class like I went in knowing nothing. I don't even think I bought a pen or paper piece of paper like always I just rocked up, you know, and then I really enjoy and everyone there was working on material for for a gig and I was like, can I go in that thing that everyone's doing and yeah, I did and I did my first gig and it was so scary. Mmm the first time I think it's still kind of is scary. But yeah, I think. Like you felt this the scariness in your body. Like do you remember some of the sensations? Yes, I because my best friend was like came to my first show and we went and had dinner. I wasn't I wasn't really that hungry really, you know when you so much. Hello anxiety. Yeah. I had I think I had a red wine or two myself up and then and then when it was in Byron Bay and I think it was a Sunday or Monday and they my friend and I best friend and I we walked over to the car to drive back to the over to the gig and there was this drum circle happening at the very base. If you don't know Byron Bay, it's like the epicenter of cool and spiritual and movement in Australia and music and it's just the music everywhere. And so we were like let's go and dance so and that Helped me so much. Like we just went down into this drum circle. That's a couple of people dancing and we just threw down really hard cool for like a few minutes. I don't see this one amazing that so it wasn't that long and but it just kind of help me loosen up and and yeah, yeah move those feelings through yeah ways, they're stuck. So you think well, the moral of the story is just an just an everyday and particularly when You feel yeah, like it could be the scariest thing in your life. And then so like blood pumping body ready mind open and free and Bam on stage on stage. Yeah, and it was awesome. I really enjoyed it. And then the lady I did their workshop with she runs like a six-week comedy writing. Yeah, of course and I signed up to that a little while later. And did that end? Yeah at the end of the six weeks you do a performance. And yeah, and then from there I was like I want to do more of this. So I just found these like people I don't know they just showed up. I don't know the word just like I just do a bit of Stan. I just I think like I can feel for myself. There's no just like that would feel really being for me. Where is like, I guess everyone's and I could get up on stage and probably I'd be really terrified but I could maybe do a movement performance or something like that. I don't know how good it would be these days but it would be you never know. Just what there's something in there though that gives you the courage to stand up and this is a whole point of this podcast is like to inspire our cell or to be more courageous and then to inspire others. You just do it. I guess I guess I have always done it to Anise extent, you know, like growing up. I've always loved just being silly. It's like in I feel like it's in me and then I feel like you don't you don't be funny. You just are funny. Yeah, like yeah the way you speak or move or you know, I feel like there's It's just when you meet a funny person, it's not even what they're saying. Sometimes it's just the way that they're holding their soul for like I've yeah, but it's funny and quirky like I guess there's so many different things but I'm thinking I know that you're just naturally funny like some people just have natural painting skills or dance or and then they kind of accumulate more they go to funny school and then they get better and better. But was there a certain feel like after that first were you into the drum circle you threw down? You're feeling good. You stood up. You did the the routine. If is that what yeah, you can it could have really bombed. I don't know. Yeah and being like I am never doing that again, but something in that moment. Yeah, it actually is believed to be like I'm going to do that again. That's true. It did feel really good. So I felt it felt so good afterwards. I was like driving home and I was just like I don't even care. Care what happens to me? I'm feel so good right now because it was like this post adrenaline. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah and like eat probably like wasn't the greatest. I don't know. It's out that like, yeah, I mean, I don't know how good it was as from a wax Comics perspective, but I feel like it felt good getting up and doing it or trying it and then pleasantly surprising myself. Yeah. There was this sense of Blackwater. This is a stretch but I'm going to do it anyway, and then there's a sense of accomplishment. I did that thing. Yeah big thing. And if you know what your big thing in my big thing might be totally different but it's like something that was outside of that comfort zone and then yeah, it's like and have you felt since doing more and more shows which you I just actively seek like it's such an inspiration because I'd be like Yep, tick did that one show whatever see you later. People never gonna do that again. I did. Yeah, and then for the for the rest of my life at parties are be like, yeah this one time like I used to be a stand-up comic but no Grace goes out and continuously seeks like sometimes two or three times a week now. Yeah, that's yeah. So yeah, is it affecting the rest of your life? Yeah. I feel like it's the last couple of times last couple of weeks. I've had a bit of a Twitchy eye. Like that's great. There. It is a bit of a Juggle, you know juggling full-time work with comedy stuff, but it's the comedy stuff makes me feel like I'm living because it is something you threw yourself into and it's like is this really happening? It's kind of like watching, you know, when you see maybe a glass full of or you not a glass and you're watching it and you know, it's going to happen but You can't really do anything about it. That's how I feel when our gigs coming up. I'm like it's happening. But I did it might work out. It might not it's scary. So you put yourself in a position. That's a stretch for you. That's outside of your comfort zone. Even though you're not quite ready. Yeah. Are we ever ready? Exactly. We're waiting to be ready then it's never going to happen. So you put yourself in these positions and then you watch the glass fall. Yeah, you're like, it's happening. Have you ever felt like I can't do this gig like I just can't Tonight not because you're sick like it up or whatever bit just yeah. Yeah, I would definitely had an experience where I was on a way my way to a gig and I was crying down the highway as a cycle. You really upset and it was feeling really emotional and I was like, how am I going to be funny? Like I you know, how am I and and I just had this I thought about turning around and just not showing up, you know, like and they live I was like, you know, I'm like I could use this and so I decided and I was like this could go terribly wrong, but I'm going to try it anyway, but I basically use it as a therapy session. So what I had had prepared, I just like lost. I just kind of didn't go in with what I had prepared for the night and I just I yeah, I just shared how I was feeling and I just had this one tagline. That was that's fucked up. And so I shed all of the fucked-up things that were happening in my life at that moment and it actually got a really good response and I think because it was real like I guess And they loved it. They were they like towards the end of the the my gig there were like that's fucked up. You know, like okay whatever afterwards I felt so good and I also felt like I'm so sorry. I just basically have thrown all my shit on to you guys. But but it was still worked and it yeah people want to relate you know, it's I like when you post your hilarious insta videos or whatever. It's like there's part of me that like we can kind of relate to the Logan or the you know, the guy who's like the doing the tiling jobs or what, you know, we can relate to your characters or we kind of know I do like that or having met him one time, you know, so we relate but then yeah like well, I guess it's a it's a super power of yours as well to be open and vulnerable and people all relate to we all go through if you know, we're all having those moments where you're driving down the highway crying. Yeah. I'm going to get around any she likes on. I'm just like this is not working. What was I thinking I can't do this, but for you you then go ahead like you turn it into this gold where you take? What is the challenge and the limitation where you know, some of us might be like, yeah. I'm like it's over and you turn that into your strength, will you turn that into comedy and maybe that's you know, Yeah. Yeah, I think. I've yeah I try. Well, I feel like in that moment. I was like if I turn around her and I get home I'm going to feel bad about it because I've yeah, I've told I you know, so I kind of and I was like if I go. It's it I went for myself still like, you know, it was kind of like if I go I'm going to feel good about being there and I'm just going to try some new something new and yeah, maybe it will work. Yeah, and I think there's always that external like I'd feel bad about, you know, letting people down or not turning up the moment. They think of me but also like I just yeah I let myself down. Yeah, I don't have that sense of achievement. I don't I didn't follow through. Yeah and it and like I said, I felt so good. To doing it and I was like I wouldn't have felt that if I went home that night, you know, yeah, I turned around and didn't go I wouldn't have felt as good as what I did. Of course. I'm not that's having a really amazing sense of self or self-awareness and emotional awareness like okay, maybe felt like this before. I know how this rolls. We've got two parts we could go down. Yeah, it's totally going home to bed and crying and looking at Instagram is also a valuable option always. No, don't go stand up on that stage. Try it what really happens what really happens. How you feeling? Good. Okay, these I've got like a million questions, but I'm going to just see if I can okay. How many instruments do you have? Oh, that's a good question. Let me just quickly. I have two guitars. Yep at the moment. I have my grandma's piano. Yes. Wait, is it a piano or is it something you know, so you can put roles of Music inside of it and pump the pedals and it plays As music and can make you look like a really good piano player. Even if you have never played the piano in your life. Yeah, it's pretty spectacular and it gives you a buzz a buzz and it's kind of like old and a karaoke really? Yeah, it's super cool uncle and I have a ukulele a kazoo. I kazoo. Yeah. Have you seen the kazoo kid on his room? Oh my gosh. I'm gonna link you up here hot. Expect like a hundred. Kazoo Kid memes. Okay, you're in bulk Amazing Race and looking forward to that. I send Grace three thousand messages a day. I would send as many just as many back maybe doesn't lots of cool stuff. There's so many funny memes and things just sad and hilariousness. Okay, if you had a month off everything, what would you do like everything so you're really doing any comedy like Like you can do whatever you want. I know I know but you're going into like this creative hibernation and it's only a month and you're going to be fine. And when you come out like what would you have done in that month? I think I well I doesn't have to be like, yeah, I feel like I would probably go to Tasmania, I'd probably go to tansy. So my Coastal where I could have a fire and eat heaps of amazing food and invite my friends. The ones I want to see you're not invited. I'm Jake. Uh, I don't change my phone number. I feel like I would I'd get really creative like I would just love to I'd probably take my instruments with me and I would try and I would know I would say try I would write a book called the year. My parents broke up. You heard it here first. Yeah, and I feel like I feel like I would just do comedy like I would write be writing comedy ideas or writing. I want to write a web series as well. That would be really fun. Just have yeah. Yeah get some character do some character development and this podcast is like a vision board right now. Yeah. I know it does. It down like images and this so like who knows? I mean you move pretty fast so it could be late next week and it's done or will still be here in a year and you know till talk be talking about happens when you go to Z and you write lyrics up. Okay, so you're not wearing amazing. I mean, that's an amazing shirt. But often I will rock up to meet you and you have some kind of wild ass looking shirt on when Do you get them all from I will find them in weird places one time I worked on this and did some hair for a sustainable fashion show in Brizzy. And I found my favorite shirt bear which you've probably seen it's got watermelons on it. Yeah, it's so cool. So I bought that from there. It's like a shirt like I mean in Greece has like no. Yeah button up shirt pattern. Yeah, and then One one shirt was left at my parents house from one of my brother's friends, I think and no one will aimed in so I was assigned as keep I now actually had a client bring me she went through she went traveling to visit her family in Vietnam, and she brought me back a t-shirt with strawberries on it and polka dots, you know, yeah. Yeah and Like that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah awesome. So you just kind of like Scouting Around you don't have a One-Stop shop for know. It's just kind of like that. Uh, you know, they find me, you know, cool. Alright, is there anything that you're not good at? Yeah, there is I don't think so. I can't remember can't think of anything that she's not good. I'm so good at everything and my final question is will you marry me? Yes, great. Well, that was it. So let's move on to the next segment and it unless you need to pee. No, I'm good. Cool. Alright. So ah, this is a bit of a weird one. So each week we are going to have a confession like we're going to say something that's either a little bit weird about us or something that's been going on, but it could come from the adventure that we're going on of the Dare or the activity that we're going on. But because we haven't been on any yet. Yeah, we can just kind of come up with one and I have a million like I think um This is not really weird. This is like it's just a confession. I think like I kind of love my mustache. I can't even see your mustache. Well, that means I'm going to have to grow it even longer. All right, maybe that's not a confession or you talking about your smoothie miss that oh, did you see have you seen ask me the massages? I'll have to like send you some in staphon. Yeah, what's something mmm, you know, I was thinking this week like all yesterday I was My house is just like normal boring stuff for this week. I don't really have a kooky confession. Yeah, you'll get a little bit more courageous as time goes on. I'll tell you some real deal confession. Yes, I because I'm such a fantasize ER but I can bring the fantasy into not just you know, the bedroom when I so, I don't love cleaning my house, but it's not like, you know, it's not super gross and messy, but I will create these fantasies that like people Are coming over so that I go and like have this full fantasy of like well having this dinner party and everything even though it's totally not happening. Like I'm probably just going to watch Netflix at night. But and so that will make me like fully scrub the bathroom floor and like make you know, wipe out all my kitchen cupboard like Go the whole are so clean hard. Yes. I have to fantasize to clean my house. Does that feel like a confession and they may Get Saucy enough funny kind of funny like I'm gonna leave I'm going to get funnier. This time it is funny you imagine my hair. Do you have it? Can you imagine? No, you can't I can't be one day. I'll tell you about them. Do you have a confession confession confession? What do what can I confess? I'm sorry. I'm not really prepared on this one the other day. I was driving home and there was an RB T like a a random breath testing. Oh, yeah. Yep. I got pulled over and my car is probably not roadworthy. And I was I thought about turning around but I was like that will probably make them chase me. This is only my mind by the way. Maybe they probably didn't even see me if I turned round. But anyway, I was like no I'm going to I'm going to go up and I'm going to blow in this breath test. I hadn't been drinking or anything. I was just worried that my car was just go. Going to be like by the way. Yeah, here's a fine for this this this and this. Anyway, I went I got pulled over they were like, have you been drinking? I said, no. They got me in a blur in the bag and I had to give them my license and then they were like, okay. See you later. Bye and I was like, I'd like as soon as I saw them I was like, oh my gosh. This is it. You know, I'm going to have to pay thousands of dollars in fines. So you've got the Angels On Your Side to yeah, and yeah Grace has a surf wagon a Silver Surf wagon and that she Parks diagonally in the middle of the street of coolangatta semi safely. Sometimes she wins the windows up. Sometimes she doesn't often times. I walk past it and think I should probably leave letters on the front of the window and she won't know who it is. But now from I did think about that the other day. I was like Dan better write me a love letter one time and put it on my car but then out but then I did think the same as like I would know it's from her because you live Dan lives like very close to where I work. So I have thought about it. Maybe I'll just say rape ain't a love letter. You will never know who it is. It was not me. Yeah. All right. We'll take a photo if I do. Do spring all right. So this is where we come to the most exciting part of the show where we tell you what really happens except we haven't really done anything yet. I mean we have but we haven't done anything for specifically the purpose of this podcast so we would normally report back right? Yeah on our experience and let you in on all the juicy details, but this time we're just going to tell you We are heading next and you want to tell us Grace. Ya going. We are heading to the nimbin Mardi Gras Festival. Now if you have no freaking idea what that actually is because either you don't live in Australia, or you don't even know what Nieman is Grace what when I say the when I say the place nimbin is a place when I say that place nimbin what comes to mind for you? Well, they're definitely Lana it's like the capital of marijuana. Hence why they host the mighty Grass Festival Mighty grass grass or grass if you are a u.s. A bang or Canadian, but they also have cheese. They have a have you seen that nimbin cheese. No. Well. Yeah, I mean the whole surrounds of nimbin is it is incredibly beautiful Lush Mountains part of Australia, which is how far from where we live. I think it's an hour and It drive. Okay. So we're going to be heading into the hills. We're going to be heading into the Lush Green Hills of nimbin. There are some very interesting / kooky people who live there. What else would you say about nimbin? If you were the first time I went there it was a bit scared. I was scared scary. It was scary. What made you scared? But scary. Why were you scared? I was scared because I got out of the car and I was out of the car for less than 30 seconds. And this woman who was really scary looking kind of like missing teeth just gone to in like a bit. Okay disjointed came up to me and was like to you on a by Brownie and basically you get hit up. If you want you get hit up to buy drugs and in all kinds of forms, and I was just getting out of the car to like, yes that has happened to me and my Mother actually a woman possibly the same lady said to my mother would you like to buy some cookies and my mom was like cookies and I know mum no, they're not the cook. No, we won't be buying those cookies having said that the last time we went there with my mom. There's some really cool shops in nimbin. So yes, I would I would actually there are incredible people that live in nimbin, but there is also a potential drug problem. Yeah to however on the flip side of that they do celebrate and this is the hole Uh, yeah buddy grasses that they celebrate the medicinal benefits of marijuana Lana. What are some other words, you know in Japanese marijuana weed marijuana in Japanese is Harper Harper. I like that Papa. It's pretty funny so often if I could just smell it will like Hopper, huh? Yeah. Yeah, but it is also a bit rainbow. Like there's a kind of there's some really cool fashion. And that's what I was going to say. The last time we went there with fashion really cool. Awesome outfits. So by going to Mardi grass. It's a three-day event, but we're just going to go on the Sunday and see the parade and kind of immerse ourselves in the culture chili super weird and over-the-top and also loving and beautiful and open and free and celebratory. However, I have some friends who are in a dance troupe and they are called the gunga fairies. So that's such a cool man. They will be all dressed in green and looking fabulous. So we're just going to go scope. We're going to go see it now Grace. Are you a pothead? No, not really. We sometimes have dabbled like I have yeah sometimes if I'm feeling it, but I I want to be hmm. I just wanna be like that. I want to be however, I've just it's never My group yeah, that'd be my thing. But Australia is expanding its acceptance of medicinal marijuana and CBD oil and I think this is a really important. Yeah. I know some people that have you use it for medicinal purposes. I'm I know a guy who's got Parkinson's and he uses the oils and he says it settles his tremors. Yeah a lot and that's really cool. Like it has incredible properties and it's yeah, it's At medicine it it there. Yeah, there's some just like anywhere, I guess there's some stigma and also legality issues around marijuana in Australia. So we're going to we're just going to explore that. We don't really know. We actually live in a different state. So yeah where the Mardi grass is. So there's like the whole legal issue. There's the medicinal issue. There's the party is there's the scary side of Namibia. Are you scared? Do you have any fears around going I I don't think I'm scared because I have been in a lot of yeah, a lot of situation. Yeah that have been drug related. However one little thing is that I'm not scared because I'm feel like you know where your company I don't think we're going to be going down any dark alleys and like, you know, but yeah just like anywhere I think there are some there's some escalation of potentially like not super amazing drugs. Yeah, me too. Nothin But I don't know I actually don't know so I'm not going to let put any expectation that yeah, I kind of I remember a dear friend of mine who has now passed away when I was younger he was very much into mighty grass and would go all the time and he is really colorful and beautiful and amazing. So for me it's kind of like a reconnection to that time. Yeah, and who knows I love the smell of pot like I think it smells so it's like the best incense. Yeah forward to seeing if it's you know Ru I feel like I'm kind of like a we going to get passively hi, I hope so. Yeah, because I think it's like I sound like yeah, but I feel like I can really easily if someone is in the room of people are smoking weed around me. I kind of feel that yeah walked in a room together. Yeah. It's kind of my favorite way. I don't know how open it's going to be because we do. Yeah, we probably should have done a little bit more research, but I even don't know the laws around it. Of course, you can't you can't smoke and drive and a Elia and particularly New South Wales, which is where the when Engineers have some really strict driving drug laws and lots of drug buses now, so they'll be on the nimbin seen that could be cool to see how many pulleys are there. I'm also interested to see like that weekend. They must have to ship in extra munchy supplies just the like service right? We're going to community cakes and cheap. Yeah, like lollies. Maybe we could do like Heidi bags look like Gucci bags. Just hand them out to everyone. That's a good that's like a Good Samaritan. Yeah. He service. I feel like we could do that be so nice because people are going to yeah so show bag it's got show bags for the stoners. It is it's going to be great. Yeah, I'm yeah, it's going to be cool because there's just going to be a lot of interesting people. So you'll also get we'll take some video and we'll take some footage and just see what happens and us to like I don't know. I'm open to anything scared little nimbin. Yeah have your way with me. That's the thing. No expectations will see and as the week's go on with this podcast. We will we're starting. I think we're starting out pretty chill. Yeah, I feel that we're going to chill with the weed. Yeah. It's probably to Mardi grass. Yeah, so it'll be sweet and beautiful. So definitely come and see what happens. Who knows actually what's going to happen. But as the week's go on, but I don't want to give away anything any of the things that were Considering yeah, I don't think yeah, it's gonna be good easy. All right, so that's our next adventure and we will report back next week and let you know what happens at the nimbin Mardi grass. Okay. Now it's my favorite part of the show where we get to share with you our to weekly obsessions. I am obsessed with making playlists. Grace is an incredible musician and she also sends me amazing songs all of the time that I've never heard of that's the cool thing when you like being someone that is like there's like new fresh blood. So that's why we want to share them with you. Do you want to do you know yours? Yeah my route them here. Okay earlier. All right, get your spot a fake out right now. So one that I've been loving this week is by an artist called Charlie Berg and the song is called you used to why do you love it? Actually, I'm just thinking I don't I Is that how you pronounce that? Yeah, big UK as in Burger. Yeah be uig. Yeah, totally just checking I think so. How else would you Berg Birch? No big belly Burger Charlie Barry Charlie burger if you're watching this, which I'm sure you are we know how to say, you know, Charlie bag you used to you used to yeah used to what come over and lay on my bed and listen to music a music. I think it's actually no that's kind of the general is really sassy. Is it Jesse? It's kind of sexy. It's very is that the one that you were trying to on your insta stories seduce me? Yeah. Yeah, I did with her one minute of dancing learning of dancing and then my other cool one that I rediscovered this week is by Mariah Carey. Re and it's called we belong together and that's also another sexy one. It's been a bit of a sexy week. Yes. Yeah, it definitely has so they're my two things he week for me. They're good. They're really good. So get those in your Shazam and Spotify. Hmm. We should probably at some point make a to rad chicks playlist. Yeah. I mean, I'm definitely coming up. We'll share it with you. You probably 20 minutes after this show my to okay, so I have been sharing on my ends two stories every freaking day one minute of movement so that you can just totally accept that you're a miracle in motion and move your booty. So I made a playlist called booty and it's actually it's a also good for cleaning when you're fantasizing about fake people coming over so that you clean your house. You can see a theme Here. And one of the songs I think is like the second song on that playlist is called say yeah, and it's by a guy. I don't even know what he looks like. I'm going to have to Google him. His name is Troy Boy as in TR o y Bo, I like Bonnie and it's just like super funky. Yeah, he's kind of like, I don't know. He's rapping. I'm not a rapper. Yeah you laugh who is a rapper hoopdog and I think he's like if you're making money for the fam say yeah, so he's like, yeah, I don't know maybe he's cheering on the hard workers and my second one. Okay, I stole this from you. Well, I didn't feel it for me. But when you said so this is how my brain goes when I hear a song. I'm a guy my gosh Mariah. So then I've got to go and Google I mean ya know Spotify all of the other Mariah's and fantasy, you know when she does that little lack what's that? What is that? Real a 20-something decrescendo know that's I think in loudness and yeah, and and then she's like, yep. She's so into this guy or girl. I don't know it is Mariah. So she's probably in two hot guys and she yeah, it's a really good one because what happened was I started to go down the Mariah rabbit hole and some of them are really sad like that woman. She must have really either she just it's that relating thing, you know, she wrote the songs or whoever wrote the songs for people who were just like freaking heart broken. So I was like and then I found a fantasy. Yeah sweet as out of me finally baby when I listen to my eyes you come and take me so something I don't even know. Anyway, she's like, you know walking down the street looking fine. She's loving him. So thank you Mariah that one on repeat. Totally loving it. All right, so they are weekly obsessions and embrace the furniture. I'm getting too comfortable that must mean that it is time to totally wrap this first episode. Oh my God, holy shit. We did it our first episode of to radish chicks too much found out so much about us, but there's so much more there's so much there is so much more and it's really cool to share with you. Thank you Grace. Thank you for being my you made this he ate or we made this happen in one haircut, you know so much can happen power of a haircut isn't such a short time. You just never know. So if there's something that you're holding back on like a podcast with your hairdresser then do it. You should totally do it is all about being courageous and taking the step and learn from Driving down the highway crying but still doing it. Yeah, I think that's the lesson of the weight buckling guys all we're gonna have to bring in some of your characters. I feel too maybe next week afternoon been. I mean, that would be a good idea. Who knows what how we're going to come back from nimbin if we're going to come back from you been it's pretty exciting. All right fun. Talk to you next week. Bye. Thank you.
Welcome, welcome. So nice to bump into here. Ready for some new adventures? We are taking you with us. Each week we pick a new life adventure to journey on then we report on the ups and downs, ins and outs. Who is to say what might happen. This podcast was born out of a desire to experience the fullness of life, open our hearts and minds even more and journey to new places hand in hand with each other and you. Each week we will share a confession. Sometimes deep, often sweet, always entertaining. These confessions are a way of opening up parts of our selves and inspiring you to question, ponder and do the same. The sweetest thing is, we do not share these confessions with each other until recording time so all is revealed each week live and on air. We look forward to sharing our deepest, sweetest confessions with you. Could lead to anything. Next we report back on our adventure of the week. We share our concerns, excitement and the hilarity (or intensity) that was sparked. We wrap up each episode with a very special gift; our weekly obsessions. We are always listening to music and swapping songs so our weekly obsessions are our two fav songs of the week. Add them to your playlist or check out the Too Rad Chicks playlist on Spotify. We are so stoked to share and evolve together. Anything is possible. 