Let Me Tell You This About That
Let Me Tell You This About That is a weekly heart-to-heart between lifelong friends Hess and Delbert. With six decades of friendship, struggles, triumphs, and life lessons between them, they invite listeners to pull up a chair and join their intimate conversations about everything from daily challenges to life's bigger questions. Think of it as your weekly dose of wisdom and warmth, served up by two friends who've seen it all and aren't afraid to share both their victories and vulnerabilities. Each episode feels less like a podcast and more like joining two trusted mentors for coffee, where genuine conversation flows freely and every listener is welcomed like family. Join this heartwarming duo every week for conversations that comfort, inspire, and remind us that we're never truly alone on life's journey.
Episodes
November 2, 2025 Episode 55
Taking Care of Yourself and Others—Snap to It!
On today’s episode, Delbert is NOT on the green couch joining in on the conversation with Hess—because of the SNAP benefits being paused, she is has been asked by more schools to help kids with food insecurity—her time this morning, is taking care of those burdens being placed on families and kids. Hess wanted to still show up because it is im...
Home—What is it for you?
Delbert and Hess join together for their 54th podcast and talk about “home”. What is it?—it’s not always a structure, it’s a place where your heart is. A place where you belong, where you connect. Delbert is taking a book from her childhood today to her niece’s baby shower, We Were Tired of Living in the House, by Liesel Moak Skorpen. Four small children, a dog, and a cat move into a tree, ...
Legacies—big and small
Legacy is how we leave a footprint to the people that come after us. Thanks for joining us on our Sunday morning chat! Hess and Delbert had reunited with their Barkley Village this past week. They enjoyed their time together—especially the conversations around the table. They also experienced important legacies of Kentucky—horses, the land and bourbon! They toured Keeneland Racecourse, t...
We grow when we do the hard things
Hess is back from a trip in France, and Delbert is back on the green couch today to talk to you about life—Join us in this chat. They had watched a video of Kara Lawson, Duke women’s basketball coach, telling her players that they should never wait for things to get easier. She tells them it won’t—but doing the hard things, will make it easier for you to do the hard things in the fu...
Self Care—
This is a previously recorded podcast.
Hess and Delbert talk about how important self care is for our lives. We have to listen to ourselves. Delbert hit the “wall” after a very busy time, as she was walking her GrandDogs down the alley. She went home, cooked herself some “soul food” (for her)—Linguini and clams, and binge watched her feel good series, Ugly Betty. She did her laundry-returned calls and ema...
Neurotransmitters—the Brain Bridge to Positivity
Hess and Delbert feel energized when they talk about possibility. They wanted to follow up and talk about it more after last week’s Podcast. In their Sunday chat this morning, Hess explains how we can move from trauma to resiliency. We can use the neuroplasticity of the brain to rewire and get out of the “ditch”. Trauma lives in the limbic area of the brain and stays...
Possibility—You Reframe #49!
Delbert and Hess have a Sunday afternoon chat today. Hess just got back from boating with a friend on Dale Hollow Lake. They are “lit up” and excited today to talk about Possibility. After Hess finished college—her Dad asked her what she was going to do, and when she told him she wanted to start a fruit market in Lexington, he responded, “Look into it.” That was such a positive open re...
Unity—We are all in this together Our 48th podcast!
It’s been a week where hard things have happened. Delbert and Hess want to do a U-Turn like we talked about last week, and to move into Unity—. We are better when we cross the bridge into the other’s world. Put good energy and love out there. Be the sparkles on the wall—like Hess has her window covering that the light reflects rainbow colors on the wall—like Delbe...
Episode 47! Run Towards It!
Hess and Delbert were inspired this week by the passing of the mother of one of their classmates from Sacred Heart. Maureen Walker was a musician, a teacher and a family counselor in Louisville Kentucky—also she was Delberts senior year cheerleading coach. She had a private practice in Louisville for 40 years. She would see a need, and fill it. It is what all of us must do. One step at a...
Podcast 46! Honor the Hard and Make a U-turn towards Love
Hess and Delbert commiserate about the news headlines of the week. People starving in Gaza, another school shooting, ICE holding people without cause. It is tough and hard. One of their classmates from Sacred Heart was the mother of the Minnesota shooter. Their compassion goes out to her. Hess finds solace in the words and wisdom of Buddhist practitioner ...
Podcast 45! Friends-Connection, it’s what its about!
Hess heard today that “connection is the opposite of depression”. That is something that Delbert and Hess learned last week from Jay Davidson, director of the Healing Place Recovery Center. He said “Addiction is the disease of isolation.” Delbert and Hess talk today about friends. Old friends, new friends. Friendships evolve over time. We have neighbor friends...
Jay Davidson-The Miracle on Market Street-The road to Recovery
Hess and Delbert welcome Jay Davidson, the man that made the Healing Place Recovery what it is today. He has been at the Healing Place for 34 years, from its start as the Father Morgan Homeless shelter to now a 500 bed campus for men and 250 campus for women. They boast a 65% success rate in recovery-taking the person through detox, and 148 days later to ...
Hess and Delbert have a great conversation this morning about mentoring. When we mentor, it helps someone else, but it also helps ourselves. Hess just attended the Freedom Dinner for the Healing Place the night before. The Healing Place is a free addiction and recovery facility in Louisville and now in Campbellsville Ky. They honored the past director Jay Davidson for his over 35 year career at the Healing Place. ...
The Swirl of Chaos—Jump Out!
Join our Sunday morning chat where we discuss feeling the chaos in the world right now. News has been a literal tsunami, earth quakes, wildfires in Canada, starving kids in Gaza, a continued war in Ukraine, and politics not serving the people that are hurting. The old show Get Smart on TV called the enemy “Chaos”— It does us no good to stay in it’s spin. What can help us get out of it—w...
This morning on our Sunday chat, Hess and Delbert add onto last weeks podcast that was on Imagination—what can come next is possibilities. When we sit with what is, and are able to feel it, we can think of new ways things could be. We can see opportunities of changing something, doing something new, or even just looking at it in a new way. It begins with wondering, being with it, focusing, then moving into creativi...
Delbert and Hess love, love this topic—Imagination!
In this Sunday morning chat, join us for our discussion about imagination. Imagination is the bridge from the reactivity of the limbic brain—fight, flight, freeze—into the broad expanse of the potential and unlimited possibilities in the universe! We again, talk about Delbert’s Papaw, and how imagination kept him alive in the 104th division of the U.S. Army in Eur...
Delbert and Hess have their Sunday morning chat today about what having a tribe or village in our lives does for us. They are varied. This week Delbert was grateful for her Kentucky Select tribe of mentors and colleagues that she works with in real estate, grateful for her village of family, the village of friends. Hess is on her boat, the Relation Ship on the Rideau Canal, finishing up a two week cruise with her...
Delbert and Hess, from their respective places in their lives, and in their memories discuss the 4th of July. Hess informs the conversation of the history of the 4th of July and how it came about. They both speak of what they like the most. Delbert has a top five, Family, food, music and water. Fireworks being last and not as important. The fireworks are something that always surrounded us, but sometimes caused ...
In this week’s Sunday conversation, Delbert and Hess reflect on the helpers of the world. Hess has had quite the list of things on the farm that needed to be repaired the last 6 weeks—her geothermal furnace, the brakes on her boat trailer, and then this week, the well pump on the farm and other components needed replaced. Delbert made the point that helpers can get good feelings by helping—an endorphin rush by helpi...
Hess and Delbert invite you to the celebration of Pride Month. They both share their own experiences of their life, having been born in 1958. Hess talks about the Stonewall riot that created a shift towards gay rights. There is a National Monument in Christoper Park in NYC in its commemoration. You don’t know what you don’t know, so Hess talks about how confusing it was to her, not to see any representation in her...
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