FIRST THING: Amy read something special her sister wrote called That Time We Tore Down the Fence. Loving your neighbors well, getting outside of your comfort zone, and answering dreams, but never forgetting what you have experienced and learned and loved on the way.
SECOND THING: Taft Hansen (a medical laboratory scientist/parasitologist) is a guest for this continued conversation about parasites. He sent Amy an email after hearing her episode with Katie Decker and he wanted to contribute. They talk about why you should never kiss your dog, cooking meat properly, parasites in the brain and more.
3RD THING: Taft's wife Morgan joins in for '4 Things Gratitude' and some good movie, tv and book recommendations come up during it!
4TH THING: Amy's cousin, Amanda Rieger Green is on talking about how 2024 is the year of empowerment. She released a Numerology Guide Book that’s special for this year (an 8 year, BTW) and people are loving it, so Amanda gave us the details & also shared with us some mantras and intentions that are good for us to use this year specifically!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good cast up things, little food for yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Life.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh it's pretty, but hey, it's pretty beautiful thing beautiful
for that. For a little more exciting, said.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
He can cut your kid with four Thing with Amy Brown.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Happy Thursday.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Four Things Amy here with a very diverse episode for
you for totally different things. The first thing is a
short story that my sister wrote. She's such an amazing writer.
This is a story from back in the day. But
I love it so much, and it's encouragement to love
your neighbors, love them well, and also get outside your
comfort zone.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Then the second thing is one of you guys.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I got a listener coming on to talk about parasites
after they listened to the last parasite episode, because this listener, well,
he worked with parasites on a daily basis, and we're
going to talk about kissing our pets and cooking meat
properly and more things to help keep us safe. And
then for the third thing, his wife hops on because
she's a big listener, and we do gratitude and they
have some good TV book movie recommendations that we end
(01:16):
up talking about because of things that they're thankful for.
And then my cousin is on for the fourth thing,
talking about why twenty twenty four is the Year of empowerment,
and she's got some specific mantras and intentions.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
For us as well.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
First man.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Right, have a little throwback short story for you from
one plumtree dot com. And that is the name of
a blog that my sister and I had back in
the day. It was called one Plum Tree and two
Sisters who used to have one because we had a
plum tree in our backyard.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Just one.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
And there's a story that she wrote called That Time
We Tore down the Fence. And it's such a beautiful
example of the gift that neighbors can be. And also
it's encouragement to get outside your comfort zone, to take
a look at your dreams and maybe start saying yes
to some of them, and never forget what you've experienced
(02:09):
and learned and loved along the way, even if you
are starting new chapters. So here it is now, I'm
going to read it for you, That Time We Tore
down the Fence. Life's taken some turns for us these
past six months, as we answered a stirring in our
hearts to change things up a bit, some of it
so quickly it's taken a second to process the changes.
(02:31):
So that's what I've been doing processing. We sold our
little house in Austin, the one with the big oak
tree out front and the wooden tree swing, the one
with our handprints in the concrete pad out back, where
the kids and neighbors played basketball as I watched out
my kitchen window, the one where we raised toddlers and newborns,
and where we cared for my dying mom. My throat
(02:53):
is closing an eyes welling up as I think about
the people we gathered around our table for shredded pork
tacos and special sauce, cheese trays and wine coffee and
Kish pizza and ranch dressing or just plain old cereal
or leftovers. Truth is, the food was just the invitation
to more important things time. The things I will always
(03:16):
miss the most about that little spot in the world
are neighbors. We had several amazing ones on our little block,
but we go furthest back with the ones directly to
our right as you walked out the front door. We
could never get grass to grow in that little area
because of all the little feet making a quick turn
off the front porch. So to our sweet neighbors, I
say thank you. Thank you for teaching us more about
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love than just about any humans we've ever met. Thank
you for being game to cut a hole in our
fence with wirecutters so the little kids could easily go
back and forth the fence we eventually took down altogether.
Thank you for not thinking that it's odd for me
to be scavenging through your backyard at six forty five
am in my bathrobe on a school morning looking for
(03:59):
misplaced shoes.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Thank you for going in with.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Us on those picnic tables that we put under the
tall front yard sycamore trees, where we so often combined
forces to come up with complete meals. The tables Kristin
strung cafe lights above as it basically became our very
own real life Pinterest setup. Thank you, Kristin for bathing
my kids, doctoring their cuts, and doing things that no
(04:22):
neighbor should have to do. Galen, as you hear the
singing words of a four year old saying I'm done
coming from your bathroom as you walk in from work.
Thank you for sitting by my mom's bedside as she
was sick. Thank you for sneaking into our house and
rapping our doors with wrapping paper and switching labels on
all our canned foods. For months, I'd think I was
(04:44):
opening tomatoes and it ended up being peaches. Then I
would just sneak into your house and borrow a can
of tomatoes.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Thank you for teaching me.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
How to fold crapes, how to use a table saw,
how to use a smoker, and how to use those
weird clothings that shred meat. Great Christmas present for someone
who is likely to shred meat. By the way, Thank
you for sharing cups of coffee, bottles of wine, and
various groceries that we were out of, which was usually tomatoes, milk, eggs,
or cumin powder. The thank yous are honestly endless, and
(05:14):
the sadness I feel is that season has come to
an end reminds me of a quote that comforted me
when we lost our mom. That which brings you so
much sorrow does so because it once brought you so
much joy. Your family was and continues to be joy
personified to us. I'm so glad we tore down that
fence together years ago, and that walls have been coming
(05:36):
down slowly ever since, allowing us to be more vulnerable
more present, less guarded, less resistant, more whole, and more
at peace.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
The tearing down of walls.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
That let the light into our stories of brokenness and
let healing begin.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I'm still a work in progress.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
At the moment, I'm scouting out a place for a
new long row of picnic tables in the front yard
of our new home in the world, this time under
tall pine trees, a place where we can put in
practice what you all taught us how tables really do
bring people together. Thank you for being the kind of
neighbors that become family. That was a little thank you
(06:13):
note directly to them. But as I type this, I'm
trying to bring into play all that I learned from
the great family of Green Bay Packers that we used
to live next to. The ones who sometimes channeled their
inner Kenny g and played the saxophone on their back porch,
or the ones who wore cowboy boots with swimsuits, or
the ones who had parties with fifty plus foreign exchange
students from China who loved to zip line and taught
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them how to mixmores.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
The ones who were always up for an adventure.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Apple dumplings and cheese curds are now forever a part
of my vocabulary, and I like it. Here's what I
don't like sometimes and often resist change. Kids starting high
school is dumb. Kids graduating high school is dumb. Moving
is dumb. But those sarcastic dumb changes come with the
territory of growth, and growth can be smart and high
(07:03):
school kids and college kids are funny, and they can
drive themselves places and wash their own clothes and moving.
Moving makes you clean out your attic, not gonna lie.
That felt really good. You don't even have to move
to do it. It's been emotionally hard sometimes, and that
has been okay. To grieve the end of anything is
okay and usually necessary. You can stuff it, but the
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need to grieve will keep surfacing. So do that part,
and then with time it'll become what you make it.
It will become how you choose to see it, how
you honor the memory of it, and how you choose
to let it grow. You hoping we can all grow
and change and be thankful for the process. When you
have more than you need, build a longer table, not
(07:47):
a higher fence. All right, My guests for this thing,
taft Hansen came about in a fun way because he
sent a podcast email in after hearing my parasite episode
with Katie Decker. Taft studied medical laboratory science and he
works in parasiteology, so he's definitely qualified to add to
(08:10):
the parasite conversation. And I was just reading an article
about a parasite that was stuck in a woman's brain,
and I want to start there because I want more
details on how this kind of situation happens, because I'm
hoping that mine, if I even have any, are staying
in my gut, and you know, while I'm doing my clinse,
I hope they come out.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
There are very very few that can leave your intestinal tract.
Sometimes you swallow them. The typical term that is fecal oral,
So usually things where you can touch and then you
put in your mouth eating. Sometimes they can leave your
intestines and disseminate or go throughout your entire body. Very
very few can actually make it through the brain, and
(08:50):
that would be through your blood. Just yet, what's so
through your brain? A more common one is through your sinuses,
and that's the one that I'm referring to. Happens when
you jump into water and you get water up your nose,
and that says a pathway for that to enter into
the brain.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Okay, when you say water, do you mean a lake,
a river, or the ocean a pool with chlorine or
would chlorine kill the parasite?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I know, it kills, but all but one, and that
one would not go into your brain. And so the
one that I'm referencing is called Niglia foul rite, and
it typically affects strangely more boys than girls in their teens.
What it is, it's they're going swimming in warm bodies
of water, boys lakes, and so most of the cases
(09:40):
are in Texas and Florida where they're having fun. They're
jumping in from a boat or off a rock, and
they get water up their nose and that's the pathway
for to enter. And it's microscopic, it's very very small
to enter into their sinuses, and then from their sinuses
you can go up to their brain.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Dumb question, But I don't want to spoil anybody. Some
aer fun jumping off a boat into the lake. We
shouldn't be freaked out by this. But could we jump
off a boat holding our nose and then not let
go until we come back up out of the water
and that would help us out.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yes, absolutely totally fine. And if you get wat up
your nose, you know you don't have to panic. The
last look, there has only been since the CDC has
started recording infections of this, I think one hundred and
sixty one hundred and sixty five cases of this particular parasite,
so it's really really rare. Most of the cases are
in Texas and Florida. Once you get up in latitude
(10:30):
where it gets colder, you don't see it at all.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
So why are more of our issues with parasites intestinal?
And what are symptoms that we can look out for.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
The entry is fecal oral, right, and so wherever you
can get eco matter, so you can you can have
it on your vegetables, you can have it on your
handst like that and you ingest it. And so a
large amount of the symptoms will be your testim. The
main one is diarrhea. You have a lot of indomitable cramping,
abdominal pain, a needing to do with your stomach. Some
(11:02):
people they may have consippation, but typically it's the other end,
or you have diarrhea. You can have fevers, you can
have headaches, some parasites can cause a lot of inflammation,
so any symptoms that have to deal with inflammation. Some
parasites are coughing because I'm sure you've heard of hookworm. Hookworm,
it actually has a maturation phase in your lungs, and
(11:23):
so you can have a cough and that's them hanging
out in your lungs in developing, and so you can
even get a cough can be a symptom of a parasite.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
In fiction, okay, bet, you get a lot of family
members and friends asking you about bathroom things and showing
you pictures. It's kind of like when someone is a
therapist in their family and friends, they hit them with
personal problems, but your line of work is just super personal.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Sadly, I have become the person to talk to if
you have diarrhea, and that's just how my family knows
me my job. If you have any used vowel, then
you call tapped and see what's wrong, and maybe he
can give you some ideas of what you can do.
And so my wife says, lovingly abandoned me from talking
about my job at the dinner table where with like
(12:08):
friends are meeting new people and they're like, oh tah,
what do you do? And I'm like, I work in
a lab, or say that I work in a lab,
and I'm not really allowed to talk much more about
it because we're eating food. I usually I am pretty courteous,
and they don't. I don't I try to gross people out.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
What about our dogs and our cats and our homes
or you know you said feckal to mouth like I
kissed my cat earlier?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Is that a problem?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
What about our dogs and our cats and our homes
or you know you said feckal to mouth like I
kissed my cat earlier?
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Is that a problem?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Cats, if you're not pregnant, is usually not a problem.
I will say you should never let your dog lick
you in your mouth. That is a thing. They like
to eat. Things they like to, you know, step in
stool and they're licking their paws. You never want to
let them lick in your mouth. It's definitely an entry
site wards a few different types of parasites to get
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into your body.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
So why did you say cats are okay as long
as you're not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So cats, they could be carriers of a parasite called
toxoplasma gandhi, which can cause fetal abmoralities of birth defects otherwise,
on people who are not pregnant, your body can take
care of it and you don't have any problems. So
that's why if you don't know, if you've hardly you know,
pregnant people who have cats, they stay away from the
cat litter. Sometimes they have their spouses, like their spouse
(13:36):
will change, they're their cat litter, and they won't have
the pregnant woman take care of that because they're creating
that separation from the cat pieces so that they don't
run the risk of possibly getting it. It's incredibly rare,
but you always have to take those precautions because there's really,
you know, no way of knowing.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
I keep thinking about how I kissed my cat earlier,
and how some people kiss their dogs. What about if
they just are licking our faces?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, licking on the faces. Okay, just not in the mouth,
because you see every once in a while, like people
sharing drinks with dogs, and you know they're giving you
kisses in your mouth, and that's that's an absolute no
for me.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I don't know that I've seen anybody share a drink
with a dog, but I guess maybe I saw.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It on a TV show. I think as Love is Blind,
she was sharing her wine with a dog. But you
can have some serious parasites from getting them from dogs,
especially if you're around livestock. Like, if your dogs are
around livestock, then you have to be extra careful about
what your dog can track in.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What about sushi, like, is it on our fish?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Like?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
If I get a sushi.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Roll and it's got raw salmon in there, should I
have any concern that there potentially could be a parasite.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
My answer to that would be how close you are
to the coast. If you are right next to the ocean,
there's a chance that that fish has you know, was
just in the ocean that morning, or hasn't had a
chance to be to be flash frozen. So usually when
they're coming off of the coast, they're flash frozen and
that pre cycle will kill off any para science and
(15:06):
so it's still really really fresh. But there is a
fish tape form that you can get, But I would say,
you know, in Tennessee, where you're from, I'd say it's
pretty pretty unlikely that you get it, And it's usually
people who are you know, fishermen who are living on
the coast. Too. That's the diet and they're having it frequently.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
So my niece married a meat scientist and he said,
you know, yeah, a steak can cook it however you
want and have it rare on the inside. But if
you're doing ground meat, because everything's been mushed up together,
and Saul, you can't guarantee stuff on the outside that
went to the inside. That you should always have a
(15:45):
hamburger well done. As a meat scientist, he will never
eat a hamburger that's medium or rare in any way,
shape or form. A steak he will, but not a hamburger.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, no, that he's exactly right. In that case. The
danger is the bacteria. And so, and you cook a steak,
you're cooking the outside right, and so that completely kills
all the bacteria. But when you're kicking a hamburger, you're
taking the outside and you're putting it inside, and so
you're just mixing everything up the potentially down the outside,
and so you have to make sure that it's completely
cooked through.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
We got cats on the kitchen counter.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
They're probably fine. I had a cat that when when
I was young, and I absolutely adored it, and I
think they're fine. Cats are pretty clean, especially indoor cats.
They're not getting into things. And I think you'll be okay,
you clean your countertops and I think you'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Well, taft, I appreciate you emailing, and I want to
do four things gratitude with you. Love doing gratitude with listeners.
But also I want to meet your wife, Morgan, So
if she's close by, can she come in?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
So our situation, we give it a little highlight on
a situation. We have a little t a temical boy.
And then my wife, who's a speech pathologist, she had
an accident at work and someone broke her leg and
so patient fell on her and broke her leg and
so she's actually on crutches in the other But she's
a huge fan. She's the one who had me listen
to your podcast. She listens to your podcast all the time.
(17:06):
She listens to the Bobby Bone Show, Sore Losers, the
whole nine yards, and so she's like, it's your time
to shine. I don't need to say hi, but I
know deep down she really wants to say hi.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Okay, let's bring her in for the next thing and
we'll do four things gratitude together.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We go thy.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Hey, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Hi, nice to meet you.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Nice to meet you too.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I'm so sorry to hear that a patient fell on
you and you're on crutches and you broke your leg
and you have a ten month old.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Oh it's okay, it's live.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We're all right.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Well, thank you for sharing the parasite episode with your
husband so he could come on and add more to
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
When we were listening to it, he's like, I should
write in and I'm like, yeah, do it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Do it because you responded to.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
One of my emails.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And then when you responded, do you want to come on?
I like, oh crap. I'm really excited. Thank you for
giving him that opportunity.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I was gonna ask Taft we were going to do
four things gratitude, but I guess y'all could do together. Morgan,
you could share two things you're thankful for, and then
Taft could share two things he's thankful for.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, I'll do a TV show right now. We
watched a show called A Small Light. It's on Disney
Plus Man. It's based off of the Frank family. The
Frank family during World War Two that was hidden and
the premise of it is. It's life of their help
or her name is Meep, it's her a little bit
(18:35):
of her background story and kind of like it's a
little bit of a historical fiction, but there's also nonfiction
in there, and it's about all the efforts that they
went to help the Frank family, to help hide them,
and it highlights really well the situation that they were experiencing.
The Frank family and all the Jews and disney Bus
just did a phenomenal job of making the show and
(18:57):
it really helps you understand the severity of the problem
and the desperation these people were feeling. So that was
probably the best show we've watched in the past couple
of months.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Okay, I love that recommendation. I wrote it down.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Especially I'm on a World War two kick at the moment,
so I feel like this is going to be the
perfect thing to add to my lineup. Have y'all seen
the movie Jojo Rabbit, Yes, talk about all the feels.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, it's heavy. It's so good and it really helps
the director. He kind of explained, because sometimes the humor
of it could be offensive if you really not exactly
understand what he was doing. And he explained that he
was over the top. He made the German party over
the top to kind of highlight how ridiculous the things
they were saying, and so but it was really really good.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Well, I love the recommendation for a small light on Disney.
Plus I love that that's something that you're thankful for,
and now we get to be thankful for it as well,
because I'm going to add it to my watch list.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
What's something else you're thankful for?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
To So this one is something that I'm tremendously grad
I'm grateful for. I highlighted a little bit. We've been
having a hard past couple of months, and I've been
really grateful for our help, specifically my mother in law.
It's been hard on us, and so having a ten
month old is a big deal. He's a lot of work.
(20:19):
He's an angel, but he has his needs and you know,
it's difficult being a parent who can't get there, and
he's put a lot of stress in our family. And
she has dedicated her whole life to helping him in
these past two months, and so I'm tremendously grateful for her.
She's put her life on hold and she's done everything
that we've asked for her. She put up with our
(20:40):
menace dog, and she talked to me and she's like,
you have to give me the credit for introducing you
to the Bobby Boneheit And so this is my official
plug that she takes responsibility for us being there, and
I'll give her all the credit that is due. And
she's been extremely grateful for her. And my mom is
here and very bat for her. She took. She doesn't
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live here. She lives by the Four Corners here, I'm
sure here of Duringo by Colorado.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, that's where we fly into when I go see
my sister.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, And so that's exactly where she she leaves from.
And she's from. She lives in Farmington, New Mexico, and
she has been here for a month, and she's been
tremendously helpful to you. And she's still working, she's working
from home, and she's allowed us to live. Really, both
of those those two women, and so I'm tremendously vateful
for them.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's tough. Thank you, Tafft, And what about you, Morgan.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So I am really grateful for my body and for
its ability to heal and continue to function despite my
one leg being broken right now, So that's one thing
that I'm grateful for.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
The Other thing that I'm grateful for is access to
healthcare and the ability to have access to really excellent
physicians and physical therapists and nurses who are helping me rehabilitate.
Those are two really big things that I'm grateful for
right now in this season.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Well, y'all, it has been great getting to talk with
you Taft, but also Morgan, I'm so glad you came
in the same.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Hi, thank you, thank you for allowing me.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
To I'm thankful that you saw the episode and listen
to it and then had your husband listen to it.
And thank y'all so much.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Thank you, Bye bye bye, poor things.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Brown.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
All right, I got my cousin Amanda Rieger green on
because she released a numerology book that's special for this
year and people are loving it. And I mean, I'm
want to start with why you put something like this together.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I put out a numerology guidebook for twenty twenty four
because we are in a year of empowerment, and with
a year of empowerment, we have all this disempowerment. So
we're looking for expansion. We're looking for growth, We're looking
for abundance. We're looking to wake up and feel happier
and more whole. And with all of that, the energy
(23:25):
this year in the numerology is going to bring up
gunk that tells us we're not enough, we don't have
what we need, we can't do it, we don't have
the resources. We're exhausted. The energy of twenty twenty four
is an eight year. Two plus zero plus two plus
four equals eight. If you turn the eight on its side,
(23:46):
it's the infinity symbol, the infinity symbol. If you think
about the numbers in numerology, each single digit number has
an energy or a vibration. The zero and the eight,
if you look at the single digit number, are the
only two numbers that have no beginning or no end.
So the eight energy is in constant flux. It's like
(24:08):
centripical motion. The biggest key in the energy of the
eight is it's this energy of empowerment. So we always
experience the converse of anything this year through the eight.
So if empowerment, clarity, joy is what you're seeking, you
will automatically feel disempowered, unclear, lacking joy, spunk, or motivation,
(24:31):
And whenever you see those pitfalls that's an opportunity to heal,
to recognize, to get present, and then to invite in growth.
The energy of the eight is all about harnessing your
point of attraction. Your point of attraction is that energy
within the part of you that's connected to the divine
that is always attempting to attract in what you desire,
(24:56):
what you want. And there can be this ego version
of you that is in fear and sending out signals
of lack or not enough or scarcity, or you can
take those ego based fears and you can say, wait
a minute, how can I shift this? How can I
heal this? Where do I ask for help? How do
I call in God and my higher power? Where do
I call in my angels and guides? I'm not alone.
(25:18):
I've got this And I wouldn't have a dream in
my heart or looking for deeper meaning or purpose if
it wasn't out there for me to receive. This year
is about sending and receiving and the probably the biggest
cornerstone of this year is whatever you focus on grows.
The eight is the master manifestor so if you are
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exhausted or in chaos, or completely in self pity or
self doubt. We're human. We all experience this stuff, and
sometimes it lasts longer than others. But if you stay
in it long enough, it will manifest externally the same
thing with happiness, abundance, love, joy. When you have experience serience,
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is that cultivate abundance or cultivate joy or excitement or
creativity right place, right time energy. When you notice that
and you're in it and you enjoy it, and you
recognize it and you think God and your guides for that,
it creates this stronger, more vibrant, high high energy point
of attraction that will bring and call in more things
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that are aligned with you easily and abundantly.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Do you have a mantra or an intention that would
be really good for us to use specifically for this year.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
A mantra that I think is fabulous for the year
is around flow, because the eight, if you trace the
eight with your finger, it's in this flowing state. So
a mantra would be when I flow with the currents
of life, things turn out more magically and magnificently than
I can humanly imagine, and even deeper than that. If
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you want something a little bit shorter, I would go
to your eye.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Know.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I've used the I am for a long time because
it is a really magical, manifesting, clarifying, strengthening code your
mighty I am, I am love, I am kindness, I
am worthy, I am healthy, I am whole. Yes, absolutely
use that. But deeper than that this year is your eye.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Know.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It tracks with the astrology, attracts the numerology, and it
tracks with this acceleration of consciousness that we are experiencing.
So you can go to a place of I know love,
I know abundance, I know health and well being, I
know joy, I know mystical magical experiences. I know God,
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I know my higher power, I know the divine within.
That I Am is so bold and it is very emphatic,
So it gets you into this state of declaring. The
I know gets you into embodying and if any lesson
from the energy of the eight this year, apart from
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whatever you focus on, grows is important. It's also I
am and I know. It's both. It's that external and
that internal energy that you are combining. I know love,
I know happiness, I know joy, I know peace. I
know this world is magnificent even when it's tough. I
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know I'm right where I'm supposed to be. I am love,
I am joyful.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
All right.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I feel like people are going to have more questions
about the Numerology guide Book, so can you give us
more details.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's very simple, it's very straightforward, and it's super empowered.
There are mantras, there are crystal recommendations. It gives you
the numerology code and the energy month over month because
we have different numerology. We've got this overarching energy of
the eight, but each month has a different numerological component.
And when you work with the code in conjunction with
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the eight, I break it down for you very simply
and what it resonates with. There are journal prompts. There's
also strategies and then blind spots. I love the blind
spots because it's like look out for this, you know,
look out for self doubt or look out for self
pity or you know, wearing your heart on your sleeve.
And the journal prompts help because they just get you
into it. The mantras, the crystal recommendations. It's really easy
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to follow, but it's also really relevant even if you
buy the guide in May. Because this is the way
I work with it. I will go back retrospectively, and
I'll go back to January, I'll go back to February,
I'll retrace my steps, and then I'll also go forward.
I'll go into November or December. And that way, it's
like I have the whole picture and then I harness
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everything in my now. So the guidebook gives you overarching
energy of the eight all the tools, tips, ends outs, highs, lows, vibes,
how to work with numbers and their energy. And also
it goes month over month very simply, very strategically and systematically,
and also in this really cool energetic vibe that gets
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you thinking more broadly. And then you'll start seeing number
codes everywhere. That's the cool part of it, is like
when you know your numbers, when you see the numbers,
when you get in touch with the energy field, numbers
and number codes, repeating digits, eleven, eleven, two, two, two, three, three, three, four,
four four, all that stuff starts showing up and you're like,
oh my gosh, I know what this means. Oh my gosh,
I can't. I'm just looking at this. So it's really
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it's so much fun, but it's expansive and expansiveness. This
year in twenty twenty four is not only part of
what will create whatever it is you are seeking this year,
it's also really important for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
And then where can people find the guidebook and learn more.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's solepathology dot com. That's my website. You can also
check out my podcast Soul Sessions with Amanda Rieger Green
or me on social media at soul Pathology. The guidebook
is right there on the top on the banner, so
you will find it straight away. And there's also a
sample of January, so just remember or when you get
the January sample, that's what the month over month guidebook
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looks like. But there's also this massive overview of the
energy of the eight that comes with the month over month.
And if you want a bonus, there's an audio companion.
A lot of people learn more audibly or like to
listen to things in their car, and the way the
audio companion is it's really me riffing off of the
guidebook and the energy, so it's very complementary, and it's
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broken down month over month with insights, anecdotes, personal experiences
that might bring it into a more tangible, understandable, relatable
view for you.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Love it thanks Amanda, Bye bye,
Good cast up things, little food for yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Life.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh it's pretty, but hey, it's pretty beautiful thing beautiful
for that. For a little more exciting, said.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
He can cut your kid with four Thing with Amy Brown.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Happy Thursday.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Four Things Amy here with a very diverse episode for
you for totally different things. The first thing is a
short story that my sister wrote. She's such an amazing writer.
This is a story from back in the day. But
I love it so much, and it's encouragement to love
your neighbors, love them well, and also get outside your
comfort zone.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Then the second thing is one of you guys.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I got a listener coming on to talk about parasites
after they listened to the last parasite episode, because this listener, well,
he worked with parasites on a daily basis, and we're
going to talk about kissing our pets and cooking meat
properly and more things to help keep us safe. And
then for the third thing, his wife hops on because
she's a big listener, and we do gratitude and they
have some good TV book movie recommendations that we end
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up talking about because of things that they're thankful for.
And then my cousin is on for the fourth thing,
talking about why twenty twenty four is the Year of empowerment,
and she's got some specific mantras and intentions.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
For us as well.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
First man.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Right, have a little throwback short story for you from
one plumtree dot com. And that is the name of
a blog that my sister and I had back in
the day. It was called one Plum Tree and two
Sisters who used to have one because we had a
plum tree in our backyard.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Just one.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
And there's a story that she wrote called That Time
We Tore down the Fence. And it's such a beautiful
example of the gift that neighbors can be. And also
it's encouragement to get outside your comfort zone, to take
a look at your dreams and maybe start saying yes
to some of them, and never forget what you've experienced
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and learned and loved along the way, even if you
are starting new chapters. So here it is now, I'm
going to read it for you, That Time We Tore
down the Fence. Life's taken some turns for us these
past six months, as we answered a stirring in our
hearts to change things up a bit, some of it
so quickly it's taken a second to process the changes.
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So that's what I've been doing processing. We sold our
little house in Austin, the one with the big oak
tree out front and the wooden tree swing, the one
with our handprints in the concrete pad out back, where
the kids and neighbors played basketball as I watched out
my kitchen window, the one where we raised toddlers and newborns,
and where we cared for my dying mom. My throat
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is closing an eyes welling up as I think about
the people we gathered around our table for shredded pork
tacos and special sauce, cheese trays and wine coffee and
Kish pizza and ranch dressing or just plain old cereal
or leftovers. Truth is, the food was just the invitation
to more important things time. The things I will always
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miss the most about that little spot in the world
are neighbors. We had several amazing ones on our little block,
but we go furthest back with the ones directly to
our right as you walked out the front door. We
could never get grass to grow in that little area
because of all the little feet making a quick turn
off the front porch. So to our sweet neighbors, I
say thank you. Thank you for teaching us more about
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love than just about any humans we've ever met. Thank
you for being game to cut a hole in our
fence with wirecutters so the little kids could easily go
back and forth the fence we eventually took down altogether.
Thank you for not thinking that it's odd for me
to be scavenging through your backyard at six forty five
am in my bathrobe on a school morning looking for
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misplaced shoes.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Thank you for going in with.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Us on those picnic tables that we put under the
tall front yard sycamore trees, where we so often combined
forces to come up with complete meals. The tables Kristin
strung cafe lights above as it basically became our very
own real life Pinterest setup. Thank you, Kristin for bathing
my kids, doctoring their cuts, and doing things that no
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neighbor should have to do. Galen, as you hear the
singing words of a four year old saying I'm done
coming from your bathroom as you walk in from work.
Thank you for sitting by my mom's bedside as she
was sick. Thank you for sneaking into our house and
rapping our doors with wrapping paper and switching labels on
all our canned foods. For months, I'd think I was
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opening tomatoes and it ended up being peaches. Then I
would just sneak into your house and borrow a can
of tomatoes.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Thank you for teaching me.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
How to fold crapes, how to use a table saw,
how to use a smoker, and how to use those
weird clothings that shred meat. Great Christmas present for someone
who is likely to shred meat. By the way, Thank
you for sharing cups of coffee, bottles of wine, and
various groceries that we were out of, which was usually tomatoes, milk, eggs,
or cumin powder. The thank yous are honestly endless, and
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the sadness I feel is that season has come to
an end reminds me of a quote that comforted me
when we lost our mom. That which brings you so
much sorrow does so because it once brought you so
much joy. Your family was and continues to be joy
personified to us. I'm so glad we tore down that
fence together years ago, and that walls have been coming
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down slowly ever since, allowing us to be more vulnerable
more present, less guarded, less resistant, more whole, and more
at peace.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
The tearing down of walls.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
That let the light into our stories of brokenness and
let healing begin.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I'm still a work in progress.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
At the moment, I'm scouting out a place for a
new long row of picnic tables in the front yard
of our new home in the world, this time under
tall pine trees, a place where we can put in
practice what you all taught us how tables really do
bring people together. Thank you for being the kind of
neighbors that become family. That was a little thank you
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note directly to them. But as I type this, I'm
trying to bring into play all that I learned from
the great family of Green Bay Packers that we used
to live next to. The ones who sometimes channeled their
inner Kenny g and played the saxophone on their back porch,
or the ones who wore cowboy boots with swimsuits, or
the ones who had parties with fifty plus foreign exchange
students from China who loved to zip line and taught
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them how to mixmores.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
The ones who were always up for an adventure.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Apple dumplings and cheese curds are now forever a part
of my vocabulary, and I like it. Here's what I
don't like sometimes and often resist change. Kids starting high
school is dumb. Kids graduating high school is dumb. Moving
is dumb. But those sarcastic dumb changes come with the
territory of growth, and growth can be smart and high
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school kids and college kids are funny, and they can
drive themselves places and wash their own clothes and moving.
Moving makes you clean out your attic, not gonna lie.
That felt really good. You don't even have to move
to do it. It's been emotionally hard sometimes, and that
has been okay. To grieve the end of anything is
okay and usually necessary. You can stuff it, but the
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need to grieve will keep surfacing. So do that part,
and then with time it'll become what you make it.
It will become how you choose to see it, how
you honor the memory of it, and how you choose
to let it grow. You hoping we can all grow
and change and be thankful for the process. When you
have more than you need, build a longer table, not
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a higher fence. All right, My guests for this thing,
taft Hansen came about in a fun way because he
sent a podcast email in after hearing my parasite episode
with Katie Decker. Taft studied medical laboratory science and he
works in parasiteology, so he's definitely qualified to add to
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the parasite conversation. And I was just reading an article
about a parasite that was stuck in a woman's brain,
and I want to start there because I want more
details on how this kind of situation happens, because I'm
hoping that mine, if I even have any, are staying
in my gut, and you know, while I'm doing my clinse,
I hope they come out.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
There are very very few that can leave your intestinal tract.
Sometimes you swallow them. The typical term that is fecal oral,
So usually things where you can touch and then you
put in your mouth eating. Sometimes they can leave your
intestines and disseminate or go throughout your entire body. Very
very few can actually make it through the brain, and
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that would be through your blood. Just yet, what's so
through your brain? A more common one is through your sinuses,
and that's the one that I'm referring to. Happens when
you jump into water and you get water up your nose,
and that says a pathway for that to enter into
the brain.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Okay, when you say water, do you mean a lake,
a river, or the ocean a pool with chlorine or
would chlorine kill the parasite?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I know, it kills, but all but one, and that
one would not go into your brain. And so the
one that I'm referencing is called Niglia foul rite, and
it typically affects strangely more boys than girls in their teens.
What it is, it's they're going swimming in warm bodies
of water, boys lakes, and so most of the cases
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are in Texas and Florida where they're having fun. They're
jumping in from a boat or off a rock, and
they get water up their nose and that's the pathway
for to enter. And it's microscopic, it's very very small
to enter into their sinuses, and then from their sinuses
you can go up to their brain.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Dumb question, But I don't want to spoil anybody. Some
aer fun jumping off a boat into the lake. We
shouldn't be freaked out by this. But could we jump
off a boat holding our nose and then not let
go until we come back up out of the water
and that would help us out.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yes, absolutely totally fine. And if you get wat up
your nose, you know you don't have to panic. The
last look, there has only been since the CDC has
started recording infections of this, I think one hundred and
sixty one hundred and sixty five cases of this particular parasite,
so it's really really rare. Most of the cases are
in Texas and Florida. Once you get up in latitude
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where it gets colder, you don't see it at all.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
So why are more of our issues with parasites intestinal?
And what are symptoms that we can look out for.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
The entry is fecal oral, right, and so wherever you
can get eco matter, so you can you can have
it on your vegetables, you can have it on your
handst like that and you ingest it. And so a
large amount of the symptoms will be your testim. The
main one is diarrhea. You have a lot of indomitable cramping,
abdominal pain, a needing to do with your stomach. Some
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people they may have consippation, but typically it's the other end,
or you have diarrhea. You can have fevers, you can
have headaches, some parasites can cause a lot of inflammation,
so any symptoms that have to deal with inflammation. Some
parasites are coughing because I'm sure you've heard of hookworm. Hookworm,
it actually has a maturation phase in your lungs, and
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so you can have a cough and that's them hanging
out in your lungs in developing, and so you can
even get a cough can be a symptom of a parasite.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
In fiction, okay, bet, you get a lot of family
members and friends asking you about bathroom things and showing
you pictures. It's kind of like when someone is a
therapist in their family and friends, they hit them with
personal problems, but your line of work is just super personal.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Sadly, I have become the person to talk to if
you have diarrhea, and that's just how my family knows
me my job. If you have any used vowel, then
you call tapped and see what's wrong, and maybe he
can give you some ideas of what you can do.
And so my wife says, lovingly abandoned me from talking
about my job at the dinner table where with like
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friends are meeting new people and they're like, oh tah,
what do you do? And I'm like, I work in
a lab, or say that I work in a lab,
and I'm not really allowed to talk much more about
it because we're eating food. I usually I am pretty courteous,
and they don't. I don't I try to gross people out.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
What about our dogs and our cats and our homes
or you know you said feckal to mouth like I
kissed my cat earlier?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Is that a problem?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
What about our dogs and our cats and our homes
or you know you said feckal to mouth like I
kissed my cat earlier?
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Is that a problem?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Cats, if you're not pregnant, is usually not a problem.
I will say you should never let your dog lick
you in your mouth. That is a thing. They like
to eat. Things they like to, you know, step in
stool and they're licking their paws. You never want to
let them lick in your mouth. It's definitely an entry
site wards a few different types of parasites to get
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into your body.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
So why did you say cats are okay as long
as you're not pregnant.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
So cats, they could be carriers of a parasite called
toxoplasma gandhi, which can cause fetal abmoralities of birth defects otherwise,
on people who are not pregnant, your body can take
care of it and you don't have any problems. So
that's why if you don't know, if you've hardly you know,
pregnant people who have cats, they stay away from the
cat litter. Sometimes they have their spouses, like their spouse
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will change, they're their cat litter, and they won't have
the pregnant woman take care of that because they're creating
that separation from the cat pieces so that they don't
run the risk of possibly getting it. It's incredibly rare,
but you always have to take those precautions because there's really,
you know, no way of knowing.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
I keep thinking about how I kissed my cat earlier,
and how some people kiss their dogs. What about if
they just are licking our faces?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, licking on the faces. Okay, just not in the mouth,
because you see every once in a while, like people
sharing drinks with dogs, and you know they're giving you
kisses in your mouth, and that's that's an absolute no
for me.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I don't know that I've seen anybody share a drink
with a dog, but I guess maybe I saw.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It on a TV show. I think as Love is Blind,
she was sharing her wine with a dog. But you
can have some serious parasites from getting them from dogs,
especially if you're around livestock. Like, if your dogs are
around livestock, then you have to be extra careful about
what your dog can track in.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What about sushi, like, is it on our fish?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Like?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
If I get a sushi.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Roll and it's got raw salmon in there, should I
have any concern that there potentially could be a parasite.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
My answer to that would be how close you are
to the coast. If you are right next to the ocean,
there's a chance that that fish has you know, was
just in the ocean that morning, or hasn't had a
chance to be to be flash frozen. So usually when
they're coming off of the coast, they're flash frozen and
that pre cycle will kill off any para science and
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so it's still really really fresh. But there is a
fish tape form that you can get, But I would say,
you know, in Tennessee, where you're from, I'd say it's
pretty pretty unlikely that you get it, And it's usually
people who are you know, fishermen who are living on
the coast. Too. That's the diet and they're having it frequently.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
So my niece married a meat scientist and he said,
you know, yeah, a steak can cook it however you
want and have it rare on the inside. But if
you're doing ground meat, because everything's been mushed up together,
and Saul, you can't guarantee stuff on the outside that
went to the inside. That you should always have a
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hamburger well done. As a meat scientist, he will never
eat a hamburger that's medium or rare in any way,
shape or form. A steak he will, but not a hamburger.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, no, that he's exactly right. In that case. The
danger is the bacteria. And so, and you cook a steak,
you're cooking the outside right, and so that completely kills
all the bacteria. But when you're kicking a hamburger, you're
taking the outside and you're putting it inside, and so
you're just mixing everything up the potentially down the outside,
and so you have to make sure that it's completely
cooked through.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
We got cats on the kitchen counter.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
They're probably fine. I had a cat that when when
I was young, and I absolutely adored it, and I
think they're fine. Cats are pretty clean, especially indoor cats.
They're not getting into things. And I think you'll be okay,
you clean your countertops and I think you'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Well, taft, I appreciate you emailing, and I want to
do four things gratitude with you. Love doing gratitude with listeners.
But also I want to meet your wife, Morgan, So
if she's close by, can she come in?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
So our situation, we give it a little highlight on
a situation. We have a little t a temical boy.
And then my wife, who's a speech pathologist, she had
an accident at work and someone broke her leg and
so patient fell on her and broke her leg and
so she's actually on crutches in the other But she's
a huge fan. She's the one who had me listen
to your podcast. She listens to your podcast all the time.
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She listens to the Bobby Bone Show, Sore Losers, the
whole nine yards, and so she's like, it's your time
to shine. I don't need to say hi, but I
know deep down she really wants to say hi.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Okay, let's bring her in for the next thing and
we'll do four things gratitude together.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We go thy.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Hey, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Hi, nice to meet you.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Nice to meet you too.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I'm so sorry to hear that a patient fell on
you and you're on crutches and you broke your leg
and you have a ten month old.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Oh it's okay, it's live.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We're all right.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Well, thank you for sharing the parasite episode with your
husband so he could come on and add more to
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
When we were listening to it, he's like, I should
write in and I'm like, yeah, do it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Do it because you responded to.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
One of my emails.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And then when you responded, do you want to come on?
I like, oh crap. I'm really excited. Thank you for
giving him that opportunity.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I was gonna ask Taft we were going to do
four things gratitude, but I guess y'all could do together. Morgan,
you could share two things you're thankful for, and then
Taft could share two things he's thankful for.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, I'll do a TV show right now. We
watched a show called A Small Light. It's on Disney
Plus Man. It's based off of the Frank family. The
Frank family during World War Two that was hidden and
the premise of it is. It's life of their help
or her name is Meep, it's her a little bit
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of her background story and kind of like it's a
little bit of a historical fiction, but there's also nonfiction
in there, and it's about all the efforts that they
went to help the Frank family, to help hide them,
and it highlights really well the situation that they were experiencing.
The Frank family and all the Jews and disney Bus
just did a phenomenal job of making the show and
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it really helps you understand the severity of the problem
and the desperation these people were feeling. So that was
probably the best show we've watched in the past couple
of months.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Okay, I love that recommendation. I wrote it down.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Especially I'm on a World War two kick at the moment,
so I feel like this is going to be the
perfect thing to add to my lineup. Have y'all seen
the movie Jojo Rabbit, Yes, talk about all the feels.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, it's heavy. It's so good and it really helps
the director. He kind of explained, because sometimes the humor
of it could be offensive if you really not exactly
understand what he was doing. And he explained that he
was over the top. He made the German party over
the top to kind of highlight how ridiculous the things
they were saying, and so but it was really really good.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Well, I love the recommendation for a small light on Disney.
Plus I love that that's something that you're thankful for,
and now we get to be thankful for it as well,
because I'm going to add it to my watch list.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
What's something else you're thankful for?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
To So this one is something that I'm tremendously grad
I'm grateful for. I highlighted a little bit. We've been
having a hard past couple of months, and I've been
really grateful for our help, specifically my mother in law.
It's been hard on us, and so having a ten
month old is a big deal. He's a lot of work.
(20:19):
He's an angel, but he has his needs and you know,
it's difficult being a parent who can't get there, and
he's put a lot of stress in our family. And
she has dedicated her whole life to helping him in
these past two months, and so I'm tremendously grateful for her.
She's put her life on hold and she's done everything
that we've asked for her. She put up with our
(20:40):
menace dog, and she talked to me and she's like,
you have to give me the credit for introducing you
to the Bobby Boneheit And so this is my official
plug that she takes responsibility for us being there, and
I'll give her all the credit that is due. And
she's been extremely grateful for her. And my mom is
here and very bat for her. She took. She doesn't
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live here. She lives by the Four Corners here, I'm
sure here of Duringo by Colorado.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, that's where we fly into when I go see
my sister.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, And so that's exactly where she she leaves from.
And she's from. She lives in Farmington, New Mexico, and
she has been here for a month, and she's been
tremendously helpful to you. And she's still working, she's working
from home, and she's allowed us to live. Really, both
of those those two women, and so I'm tremendously vateful
for them.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's tough. Thank you, Tafft, And what about you, Morgan.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So I am really grateful for my body and for
its ability to heal and continue to function despite my
one leg being broken right now, So that's one thing
that I'm grateful for.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
The Other thing that I'm grateful for is access to
healthcare and the ability to have access to really excellent
physicians and physical therapists and nurses who are helping me rehabilitate.
Those are two really big things that I'm grateful for
right now in this season.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Well, y'all, it has been great getting to talk with
you Taft, but also Morgan, I'm so glad you came
in the same.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Hi, thank you, thank you for allowing me.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
To I'm thankful that you saw the episode and listen
to it and then had your husband listen to it.
And thank y'all so much.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Thank you, Bye bye bye, poor things.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Brown.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
All right, I got my cousin Amanda Rieger green on
because she released a numerology book that's special for this
year and people are loving it. And I mean, I'm
want to start with why you put something like this together.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I put out a numerology guidebook for twenty twenty four
because we are in a year of empowerment, and with
a year of empowerment, we have all this disempowerment. So
we're looking for expansion. We're looking for growth, We're looking
for abundance. We're looking to wake up and feel happier
and more whole. And with all of that, the energy
(23:25):
this year in the numerology is going to bring up
gunk that tells us we're not enough, we don't have
what we need, we can't do it, we don't have
the resources. We're exhausted. The energy of twenty twenty four
is an eight year. Two plus zero plus two plus
four equals eight. If you turn the eight on its side,
(23:46):
it's the infinity symbol, the infinity symbol. If you think
about the numbers in numerology, each single digit number has
an energy or a vibration. The zero and the eight,
if you look at the single digit number, are the
only two numbers that have no beginning or no end.
So the eight energy is in constant flux. It's like
(24:08):
centripical motion. The biggest key in the energy of the
eight is it's this energy of empowerment. So we always
experience the converse of anything this year through the eight.
So if empowerment, clarity, joy is what you're seeking, you
will automatically feel disempowered, unclear, lacking joy, spunk, or motivation,
(24:31):
And whenever you see those pitfalls that's an opportunity to heal,
to recognize, to get present, and then to invite in growth.
The energy of the eight is all about harnessing your
point of attraction. Your point of attraction is that energy
within the part of you that's connected to the divine
that is always attempting to attract in what you desire,
(24:56):
what you want. And there can be this ego version
of you that is in fear and sending out signals
of lack or not enough or scarcity, or you can
take those ego based fears and you can say, wait
a minute, how can I shift this? How can I
heal this? Where do I ask for help? How do
I call in God and my higher power? Where do
I call in my angels and guides? I'm not alone.
(25:18):
I've got this And I wouldn't have a dream in
my heart or looking for deeper meaning or purpose if
it wasn't out there for me to receive. This year
is about sending and receiving and the probably the biggest
cornerstone of this year is whatever you focus on grows.
The eight is the master manifestor so if you are
(25:40):
exhausted or in chaos, or completely in self pity or
self doubt. We're human. We all experience this stuff, and
sometimes it lasts longer than others. But if you stay
in it long enough, it will manifest externally the same
thing with happiness, abundance, love, joy. When you have experience serience,
(26:00):
is that cultivate abundance or cultivate joy or excitement or
creativity right place, right time energy. When you notice that
and you're in it and you enjoy it, and you
recognize it and you think God and your guides for that,
it creates this stronger, more vibrant, high high energy point
of attraction that will bring and call in more things
(26:22):
that are aligned with you easily and abundantly.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Do you have a mantra or an intention that would
be really good for us to use specifically for this year.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
A mantra that I think is fabulous for the year
is around flow, because the eight, if you trace the
eight with your finger, it's in this flowing state. So
a mantra would be when I flow with the currents
of life, things turn out more magically and magnificently than
I can humanly imagine, and even deeper than that. If
(26:56):
you want something a little bit shorter, I would go
to your eye.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Know.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I've used the I am for a long time because
it is a really magical, manifesting, clarifying, strengthening code your
mighty I am, I am love, I am kindness, I
am worthy, I am healthy, I am whole. Yes, absolutely
use that. But deeper than that this year is your eye.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Know.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It tracks with the astrology, attracts the numerology, and it
tracks with this acceleration of consciousness that we are experiencing.
So you can go to a place of I know love,
I know abundance, I know health and well being, I
know joy, I know mystical magical experiences. I know God,
(27:40):
I know my higher power, I know the divine within.
That I Am is so bold and it is very emphatic,
So it gets you into this state of declaring. The
I know gets you into embodying and if any lesson
from the energy of the eight this year, apart from
(28:02):
whatever you focus on, grows is important. It's also I
am and I know. It's both. It's that external and
that internal energy that you are combining. I know love,
I know happiness, I know joy, I know peace. I
know this world is magnificent even when it's tough. I
(28:24):
know I'm right where I'm supposed to be. I am love,
I am joyful.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
All right.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I feel like people are going to have more questions
about the Numerology guide Book, so can you give us
more details.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's very simple, it's very straightforward, and it's super empowered.
There are mantras, there are crystal recommendations. It gives you
the numerology code and the energy month over month because
we have different numerology. We've got this overarching energy of
the eight, but each month has a different numerological component.
And when you work with the code in conjunction with
(28:56):
the eight, I break it down for you very simply
and what it resonates with. There are journal prompts. There's
also strategies and then blind spots. I love the blind
spots because it's like look out for this, you know,
look out for self doubt or look out for self
pity or you know, wearing your heart on your sleeve.
And the journal prompts help because they just get you
into it. The mantras, the crystal recommendations. It's really easy
(29:21):
to follow, but it's also really relevant even if you
buy the guide in May. Because this is the way
I work with it. I will go back retrospectively, and
I'll go back to January, I'll go back to February,
I'll retrace my steps, and then I'll also go forward.
I'll go into November or December. And that way, it's
like I have the whole picture and then I harness
(29:42):
everything in my now. So the guidebook gives you overarching
energy of the eight all the tools, tips, ends outs, highs, lows, vibes,
how to work with numbers and their energy. And also
it goes month over month very simply, very strategically and systematically,
and also in this really cool energetic vibe that gets
(30:02):
you thinking more broadly. And then you'll start seeing number
codes everywhere. That's the cool part of it, is like
when you know your numbers, when you see the numbers,
when you get in touch with the energy field, numbers
and number codes, repeating digits, eleven, eleven, two, two, two, three, three, three, four,
four four, all that stuff starts showing up and you're like,
oh my gosh, I know what this means. Oh my gosh,
I can't. I'm just looking at this. So it's really
(30:23):
it's so much fun, but it's expansive and expansiveness. This
year in twenty twenty four is not only part of
what will create whatever it is you are seeking this year,
it's also really important for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
And then where can people find the guidebook and learn more.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's solepathology dot com. That's my website. You can also
check out my podcast Soul Sessions with Amanda Rieger Green
or me on social media at soul Pathology. The guidebook
is right there on the top on the banner, so
you will find it straight away. And there's also a
sample of January, so just remember or when you get
the January sample, that's what the month over month guidebook
(31:03):
looks like. But there's also this massive overview of the
energy of the eight that comes with the month over month.
And if you want a bonus, there's an audio companion.
A lot of people learn more audibly or like to
listen to things in their car, and the way the
audio companion is it's really me riffing off of the
guidebook and the energy, so it's very complementary, and it's
(31:24):
broken down month over month with insights, anecdotes, personal experiences
that might bring it into a more tangible, understandable, relatable
view for you.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Love it thanks Amanda, Bye bye,
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