"The journey has been a very long ride. Flashback to the 60's when young Jess (aka Douglas Jessop) was playing rock 'n roll in a garage band and playing high school dances. Then came a variety of exploratory careers including surveyor, cook, actor, modern dancer, photographer, filmmaker, lawyer, poet and music student at Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Next came playing in numerous LA bands and recording for original projects. Now Jess is writing his own music with his own distinct voice - a singer/songwriter with huge variety because each song teaches him what it is about and what it wants. Music to feed and heal souls."

https://jesswayne.com/about

Jess's music is available for download at his website.

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Ed had spent the day casually searching the quieter spots of Manitou Springs, the hidden gems of town that would add to his lifelong portfolio of photographs. He was warming up from the snowfall with coffee in a cafe when I walked in. I noticed his cameras and couldn't help but ask a question about them. The following conversation is what came next.

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These street interviews are always interesting. I am surprised by some of the answers here but I was definitely surprised by a few people who became emotional while thinking of their answers. One of the participants hugged me after we spoke, thanking me for asking this question. How could I have anticipated this?

What do you think of these answers? What should have been the follow-up question to these answers? And, what do YOU wish?

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Thank you and be well!

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What do you think of these answers? What do YOU think is the best scary movie?

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Lisa had grown tired of her environment. With a close friend, she purchased a one-way ticket to Hawaii and has remained there for 24 years. Talking with Paul: A Podcast is pleased to present this interview, in full.

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TODAY'S EPISODE:

Clinical Herbalist, Anna Foster, invites us into her shop for a discussion about what herbalism is, how it serves her clients, and her favorite recipes.

Anna's Apothecary (annasapothecary.com)

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Luke is Chicken Daddy. He shows me around his homemade chicken coop with high spirit and introduces me to his four chickens. Let's go visit a chicken coop surrounded by pinon trees and rock outcroppings in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains!

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Does Luke worry about his chickens while he's reclined in a chair with his feet warming by the fire and it's zero degrees outside? Sure, his chickens are inside a coop but isn't it stressful for them while foxes and racoons investigate the coop at 2AM, looking for a way in? What about really hot days? What could cause them to get sick or contract a disease?

Well, on a warm day in December, I finally satisfied all of my curiosities about raising chickens. I visited the self-proclaimed Chicken Daddy's house, located on a quiet hillside with THE MOST spectacular view of Colorado Springs I have ever seen while standing next to a chicken coop.

Episode posts March 5.

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Calvin is a life-long Californian who, in his retirement, pursued his passion to create collage art. He collects old magazines, and carefully dissects them to create new, beautiful imageries. It would be a painstaking process for most of us but for Calvin, it’s right where he wants to be.

If you go to his website, scrapscollage.com, you have to remind yourself that what you are seeing is not a collection of paintings – those are all collages. Made from magazines!

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Calvin presents insight on himself and his artistry with vulnerability and candor. In this segment, Calvin briefly examines the transition he made from serving others through teaching and pastoral ministry to, ultimately, serving himself through his work as an artist.

Episode posts February 20 at www.TalkingWithPaul.com

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EPISODE:

Abby Dewsnap and Mel McFarlane worked as train conductors and train engineers at the same company but at different times. Abby departed her position as conductor/engineer after two years in 2023 and Mel after 18 years in 2015.

Although they are no longer employed as train engineers, Abby and Mel come together today to talk shop about their experiences driving trains for the same railway, The Pikes Peak Cog Railway, located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. A 30ton train driving nine miles to the top of a 14,000-foot mountain, with grades as steep as 25%, is an engineering feat for the ages. The vision of such a rail line was had in 1888 after business owner Zalmon Simmons made the journey to the summit of Pikes Peak by way of mule.

The railway was subsequently built and opened for business in 1891, having operated every year until the end of 2017 when the railway received a long overdue renovation. Re-opening in 2021, it continues to draw thousands of visitors to its operation every year.

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As he and I spoke about his work as a photographer, little bits of information crept out here and there that sounded quite interesting. There was the one job where he helped manage a half-way house for inmates reintegrating back into society and the hardships of working surveillance for a private investigator.

The interview took a sharp turn. Of course, we discussed photography in New York City but you better believe we talked about all those other jobs that, in the end, makes him a jack of all trades.

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Driving a 30ton train up and down that rail line certainly comes with its rewards and its challenges but in the end, it amounts to an experience of a lifetime for Abby and Mel. 

Full episode posts February 9.

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As he and I spoke about his work as a photographer, little bits of information crept out here and there that sounded quite interesting. There was the one job where he helped manage a half-way house for inmates reintegrating back into society and the hardships of working surveillance for a private investigator.

The interview took a sharp turn. Of course, we discussed photography in New York City but you better believe we talked about all those other jobs that, in the end, makes him a jack of all trades.

In this segment, Tim tells a story about getting busted on a job where he was trying to photograph a subject believed to be committing insurance fraud.

Episode airs February 6.

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In this segment, Paul describes riding the city bus in 2017 and hearing two strangers discover they both drive tractor trailers on the same route.

This is the moment Paul realized he wanted to start a podcast and produce episodes where two strangers of the same profession TALK SHOP.

Talking Shop episodes are available in their entirety, for free, at Acast beginning February 9!

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Episode posts January 23 at TalkingWithPaul.com

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In this segment, Erin discusses a common mistake made by job seekers.

https://bloomwell.llc

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A very warm thank you to our patrons. You are why we do the show. We think about you while writing and conducting every interview and while we edit out every cough, sneeze, dropped mug of tea, and Tatum whimpering in his sleep at the feet of our guests. 

The podcast grew in ways we did not expect. One aspect of the production that you influenced is the Paul and Tremaine segment; you said you wanted more and we adjusted. We especially appreciate your support so early in the life of the podcast, which is where all of the big learning moments happen. You were here from the beginning. We know who you are and we won't ever forget your support.

Another very warm thank you goes out to everyone who said yes to us when we asked for interviews. You may think that your only contribution was saying yes and then giving us an hour of your time but, without that, we would not have had a podcast to offer our patrons. Your yes means more to us than we could articulate here (and we tried).

We have learned so much during these first six months and cannot wait to share new productions with you in 2024 where we continue exploring life through the experiences people have, the work they do, their ideas, dreams, and knowledge.

Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and we will see you on January 1.

Happy New Year!

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You can plan on meeting new people, certainly, and you can plan on being up to five hours behind your friends and family. What about the fun things to plan for; the exciting things that drive you to make the move in the first place? These are the things you "plan" for while staring off at red lights and at your cubicle at work: Evening walks along beaches, reading favorite books under palm trees, hiking to hidden waterfalls within lush rain forests, and leaving behind the version of yourself that was created by this old place you’ve called home all these years.

Then you hear a voice, whether it be a friend or family member or the voice in your head, ask, how will you live? You set out to generate a new list, some might say a more practical list, of plans: Find a job, find a place, find a place you can afford, wait - find a job that pays well, then find a place you can afford. Cars - transportation - how will you get around? Is there a bad part of Hawaii that you should steer clear of? What does google say about all this?

Then you have the plan to implement the plan - find the job, find the place to live, buy the plane ticket, put in your two-week notice at work, get rid of the stuff you aren't taking - wait, what stuff are you taking?

As the daydreamy plans fall to the side and the work of actual planning takes over, moments of excitement and fear do a little waltz in your chest at odd times each day. With a one-way plane ticket in your inbox and your eye on the big day every time you look at your phone or the bottom right corner of your monitor at work, you realize even more new plans that need to be generated. You need to plan on missing people. You need to plan on being alone for a while as you get adjusted. You need to plan on not knowing where anything is or what the names of streets are and that nothing will look familiar. You need to plan on having moments of wanting to go back to what you know.

There’s much planning to do and, depending on your personality, you’ll focus on one type of plan over the other plans that go with a move like this. But there is one plan that I’ll bet nearly everyone overlooks. It’s the type of plan that can make you, in your new environment, astonishingly successful or astonishingly unsuccessful. This type of plan is usually realized too late, causing us to say, I wish I’d have thought of that before doing this.

You’re going to hear Lisa talk about this type of plan. She’s the subject of the One-Way Ticket interview. At 20 years old, she bought a one-way ticket to Hawaii and, 22 years later, she tells her story...from Hawaii. There won’t be a moment during the interview when she says, this is the plan that most people overlook. She’ll just talk about it as casually as she does while telling her story, describing life in Hawaii, sharing her insight about Hawaiian culture, Hawaiian people, and universal matters that affect us all.

Let’s see if you can hear Lisa talk about the plan she had that most of us will completely overlook.

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Lisa was 20 years old. She had one suitcase. There was no ticket out of Hawaii. There was no backup plan. This is where she would remain for twenty-three years. She spoke with me in November, sharing thoughtful and at times, hilarious, descriptions of her journey thus far. She also describes a Hawaiian reality that may be surprising for some to hear.

In this segment, Lisa recalls her first day as a nanny for two toddler siblings.

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Naturopathic medicine is a system that uses natural remedies to help the body heal itself. It embraces various therapies, including herbs, massage, acupuncture, exercise, and nutritional counseling. Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest forms of naturopathic medicine, which can be traced to the first century BC.

Records show that humans have cared for each other using natural remedies for the past 5000 years. And in the late 1800’s, science took off, creating vaccines to treat some ailments that were really vexing the human race, like cholera, anthrax, rabies, typhoid fever, the bubonic plague, and then aspirin was invented, and, later, penicillin. Science was on a roll! We progressed from creating treatments to cure diseases to treatments that cure headaches and then treatments for things that make us sneeze and then treatments to make us generally feel better.

Wait a minute, where did natural healing go?

Many people today either don’t know what natural healing is or they don’t trust it – or both. The people I’ve met who know what it is, trust it, they use it and are really big fans of it. Now I’m interested in natural healing. I want to understand it better and I couldn’t have discussed this topic with a better practitioner than Dr. Brianna Drozda. Dr. Drozda graduated from the College of Naturopathic Medicine in Arizona and is a registered naturopathic doctor committed to treating the root cause of disease. She currently practices in Colorado and believes that natural medicine is the greatest tool to help the body heal itself.

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http://www.halsanaturopathic.com/dr-brianna-drozda.html

Episode airs December 5 at www.talkingwithpaul.com

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Interview: Taylor shares his passion for and expertise about solar energy. He is the Director of Design for Small Town Solar, a family-owned solar energy company.

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Interview: Katie Snyder gives a lively and insightful interview about teaching in a public school prior to and during the pandemic.

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Interview: Bradley Wade sits down for a discussion about his time in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which he says is, "the most incredible commute to work that anyone ever had."

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Interview: Jess discusses her aspiration to be mortician and gives surprising insight into her beliefs about how society addresses grief in children.

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Interview: Brian, owner of Westside Stories in Old Colorado City, discusses the business of operating a used bookstore, the types of customers he advises to shop elsewhere for books, and why he doesn't mind when his employees spend an hour talking to one customer.

Editor's Note: Small talk and comments between the interviewer and interviewee that are unrelated to the subject of the interview are typically removed from final edits; however, not all of those elements are removed from the Bookstore Owner Interview in order to provide listeners a different perspective of the conversation and a more enlightening aspect of the interview process.

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For more information on Michelle, visit www.createawarenesstherapy.com

For more information on mental health stigmas:

Mental health: Overcoming the stigma of mental illness - Mayo Clinic

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This interview contains language and discussions about drug use and sex that may be considered offensive.

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This podcast is a growing collection of curiosities about who people are, what they know, and how things work. I hope the podcast, the interviews, and series are delightful exposures to ideas you have yet to consider and with people you may not typically engage.

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Thank you for your patronage and participation in Talking with Paul: A Podcast - it means so much. Have a wonderful week, everyone!

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Cody provides thoughtful interview on his love of and need to skateboard.

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For more information about the group and to donate to their organization: SCRG.org

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*The references of criticism of police in the introduction to the interview is about police, overall, and not specifically about Officer Strand.

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Anna's Apothecary (annasapothecary.com)

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How to Retire and Not Die: The 3 Ps That Will Keep You Young: Sirak, Gary, Sirak, Max: 9781544523729: Amazon.com: Books

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