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Episode 4
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"Welcome to Episode 4 of Lee Asher's World Podcast! Today, it's just me—flying solo—and I'm excited to share some recent adventures from the road during my speaking tour. From unexpected moments to unforgettable experiences, it's all coming up in this episode. If you're curious about where I’ll be next, check out upcoming dates at leeasherevents.com. Hope you enjoy.
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Introduction & Podcast Theme
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Speaker
ah everyone I hope you're having a beautiful day. Welcome to episode four of Lee Asher's World Podcast. It is just me today.
00:00:17
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As I mentioned in the beginning, it's not always gonna be a guest. I'm just now, oh, let me scoot up here. That's better.
Wardrobe Challenges & Personal Climate Preferences
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i am, if you're watching a video, I am wearing pants. It's hard to tell.
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As I'm looking at the video now, I see it's hard to tell, but I'm wearing regular shorts just like anybody else. And it's the chair that I'm oftentimes when you're as tall as me, when whenever I wear shorts, it's always it's never good when I sit down.
00:00:51
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it's it's I can never be in a meeting or like watching shooting a video, I always look like I'm not wearing any pants at all. It's terrible. And I i love wearing shorts.
00:01:05
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I absolutely love it. I'm usually wearing pants because I'm shooting a video or when the dogs jump up on me for attention or whatever, it it scratches up my scratches up my legs. But I get so hot in the summer, as and most of you probably think, of course, it's summer. But no, I really...
00:01:28
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I fear it. I'm sure you could hear it in my tone. I fear it. i easily overheat. I don't know what I'm mixed with, but I would move to the Arctic if I could.
00:01:41
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and I wish I could wear shorts more often, but obviously I'm always filming videos and I'm doing zooms and no one ever takes me seriously when I'm wearing shorts. I'm basically showing everything but the golden nuggets.
00:01:56
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And all it does is obviously inspire curiosity. You can see everything except,
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you know, the grand king, you know, you know, talking to trying to, you know, right. You could see everything except the the Schmeckle. And I just feel like that's all anybody's thinking about, which probably isn't true. Anyways, let's move on.
00:02:20
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Let's move on. So I just, what I was trying to say is I'm wearing shorts.
Tour Announcements & Reflections
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i I've got ah couple shows coming up. I wanted to let you know. since we don't have any sponsors for the podcast yet, I could, uh, I can sponsor my own stuff.
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So Aspen 24th and evening with Lee Asher Aspen 24th, it's coming up at the Wheeler opera house. Check it out. Uh, very excited for the show. I love Colorado. Last time I was in Aspen, i was traveling in the RV.
00:02:50
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Actually last time I was in Aspen, um, i was I was letting my my my boss know that I was going to quit. No, no, no.
00:03:02
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That's not true. Last time I was in Aspen, I was in the RV. yeah ah Denver is going to be the next day, the twenty fifth oklahoma Oklahoma City will be may sixteenth Denver, Denver, the 25th Paramount Theater.
00:03:19
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OKC, the 16th Tower Theater and Chicago, Illinois on the 18th Park West Theater. So we got Aspen on the 24th, Denver, the 25th, Oklahoma City, the 16th and Chicago, Illinois, the 18th.
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You can get your tickets on my website. Excuse me. on my website. That's Lee, L-E-E, Asher, A-S-H-E-R, events.com.
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LeeAsherEvents.com. Check it out.
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But yeah, I just got back from my from my tour. First show was in Boston. what What an amazing, oh my gosh, just what an awesome city.
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and never I've never got a chance to really experience Boston and it was so wonderful. this This tour I was a little bit afraid of because i was I was worried about how emotional I was going to be. It's been it's it's there's been a significant amount of emotion and so many extreme highs and the really dark lows from this past tour and the gap between my other one.
00:04:34
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And I've really changed a lot just in the matter of months. I think it was maybe five, six months. But yeah, I was just nervous about how emotional I would be speaking about some of the things that were really so hard for me to overcome
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because I've been experiencing a lot of things that have been the difficult for any sort of emotional person, you know, and it was just such a beautiful experience to be able to just to be able to get in front of and meet so many amazing people.
00:05:15
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But the the people in Boston were so beautiful and so nice. And I saw many of my patrons from my Patreon community and it was just such a wonderful, wonderful experience.
00:05:31
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And, and then we, we were supposed to drive to Buffalo. It was going to be an eight hour drive. And, um, We ended up, my buddy, i asked a friend of mine if he would help me find good flights and he ended up sponsoring the tickets for us. It was the kindest thing.
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was so kind. he had a a bunch of miles, so he so we didn't have to so we didn't have to
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drive the eight hours. So we flew from Boston to Buffalo. It was an hour. It fantastic. And then um we were able to just relax for the day in Buffalo.
00:06:11
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Stayed the Westin, the Westin Buffalo. They have an amazing gym, this gym that overlooks the city. Really, really nice gym. Got a great workout in, got to relax.
00:06:23
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eight at Just didn't leave the hotel, ate at the hotel. Then had a show at the Electric Theater. really different type of layout. I've been used to speaking at theaters.
00:06:34
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um And a few people told me that I, a couple of people told me that I was not going to like it. And then of course you had a few people think that I was going to love it. um I love the challenge of things. you know I would do a show anywhere completely naked oh just for the challenge in the freezing cold, by the way.
00:06:55
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All right. Would tickets be a little bit more expensive? They're not going to be cheaper. Okay.
Adaptability in Performances
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But, uh, daddy's going to pay the bills.
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I've always wanted to do a naked and afraid. um but then I always don't want to do it. You know, every time I get in the shower, I think, well, what would they think? just Like, what would they think if I walked up? What would they be like?
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Yeah.
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But they they think like this guy is not cut out for this show. What was he thinking? Or was this is this one of the better ideas that he had? um Let's cut that out.
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Just kidding.
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What was I going with? Okay. Naked and Afraid. Electric. spoke at the What was it called again, Clint? Electric what?
00:08:13
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Not Electric Theater. Electric Zoo. think that's the name of it. if You look it up real quick. Electric something. And it was more of a... like a comedy it hadn't it had the layout of like more of a club.
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It was section. What is it? What? I know what it is. It doesn't say it? Your old tubers aren't on the website anymore. Okay.
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Electric.
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It was something electric. Awesome people. The Chris took great care of us. Yeah, it just wasn't a theater. It was just a different vibe. but It was really, really cool though.
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And I had a lot of fun. And then we finished the tour in peak scale. And that was just an awesome way to call it a night. Let me see if I can look it up real quick.
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Electric.
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Peter Buffalo.
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Electric City. Electric City. Clint, how come um I can, isn't this supposed to be your thing? i had a I got to do the work for you now. that's Electric City.
00:09:37
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um And then finish it up in Peak Scale. It was just an amazing tour. It really was. All right. So Hudson Valley, Paramount and Peak Scale. That's where we finished off.
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Incredible. it was just It was just so beautiful and so emotional. my My show went an extra 45 minutes than it usually does. I had a lot of lot of people who were just very close to my heart there.
00:10:03
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ah Mike Bresco was there, and I got to meet his nephew, Louis, a lot of people from his family. it it was just wonderful. um I really, and the entire staff, everybody who's a part of Hudson Valley, just such a great, just such great staff.
00:10:23
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my My security guy, Mike, who they who they supported me with there. um Just an amazing human being, everybody. i couldn't have asked for a better way to finish that tour.
00:10:35
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Yeah, usually I'm so excited for these shows. I'm just so excited to leave on these shows, but because they're like my vacation, you know? I don't leave the sanctuary very often. And these tours are really like my vacation. And even in Oregon, even when I leave the sanctuary, I'm always with at least 30, 40 dogs. Like, I don't go anywhere. You probably can't see them, but I have Ruby and Dave behind me here.
00:11:04
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And, uh, there's 20, 20 dogs downstairs. So these shows are just a time for me to travel and to eat out and to spend time with Sarah.
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And this one I was,
Adopting Ralphie
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I didn't want to go because i had just gotten back from the pet expo in Orlando where I was a guest of natural farm and, um,
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I adopted a dog, Larry, which we're changing to Ralphie. he He looks more like a Ralphie. And so where where I met Ralphie and my gosh, when I tell you I was smitten, I was just head over heels.
00:11:52
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i He is so cute, guys. He is seriously, i can't believe he is real. What are you doing, Dave? Just lie down. He is so cute and i couldn't believe that ah he was in my arms when when I was looking at him and he was just melting in my arms.
00:12:11
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And, you know, they're all saying everyone who was there, a part of Florida Little Dog Rescue, they're like, oh, he's usually very squirmy and and he's crazy and spicy and he was just sleeping in my arms.
00:12:26
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There was no way I wasn't getting him. I was like, I couldn't believe it. Such an interesting mix. He's an Akita Frenchy mix. He is so special. He's, he's so smart.
00:12:39
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Oh, but, um, yeah. So just a few days after i got back with Ralphie, this Akita Frenchy puppy, um, I had to leave him for a week and I was just so sad about it.
00:12:53
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I was really, really sad about it, but it really ended up being for the better. um I had been so busy. I've been so busy that I wasn't really able to prepare for this tour.
00:13:08
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A lot of it, I had to just, you know, speak from my heart and I was quite nervous. I think people are not always, but a lot of times I could speak for me.
00:13:20
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I'm only nervous if I'm not prepared, you know, preparation usually takes care of a lot of things for you. And
00:13:32
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i definitely wasn't prepared. I wasn't my best self for it. And I think bringing a puppy, even Ralphie, it was more of a distraction. So I went three days early in case I had any sort of jet lag. I get jet lag pretty bad.
00:13:48
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I get jet lag pretty bad. So I went to, I'm still, if I sound weird, by the way, I lost my voice and I'm still getting it back. So it still sounds a little bit, So still sounds a little rough, but yeah, I went to Boston, uh, two nights, three days prior to my event.
00:14:10
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Um, Sarah stayed at the sanctuary to help out. She came the day of the event. So for three days, it was just me. And it was really awesome to be able to, uh, have those three days, um, with no dogs and nobody around.
00:14:26
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i haven't had that. in a very long time. I wouldn't want that, but I wasn't expecting what happened to to happen, which was for me to really be able to give something all of my attention.
00:14:41
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It's been and never realized it because I'm in the middle of it, right? I'm always in the middle of the eye of the storm, and it's hard to pay attention to what's going on around you.
00:14:53
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And I'm so busy, like I always have so much going on. It's so easy to talk about, like being present and.
00:15:05
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Having time for yourself when. I just it's it's it's not a possibility right now, right now, and I don't say that to complain that I this is the life that I chose and the rewards are yeah the rewards. I get to see it in our faces every single day.
00:15:22
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So they're always they're always there. But just to have those three days in Boston you know alone in my hotel room, Sarah brought Patrick with her. And like i said, she she got there about an hour before the show.
00:15:37
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With Patrick and it felt like home, it was so it was so good for them to be so good to see them. But for those three days, I was just so productive and working on my talk and adding some new things to it.
00:15:50
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Um, so it was like, it was enough time to prepare me so that for the day of the show, I wasn't nervous at all. I was really excited to, to really show, you know, I think a lot of, it's very easy to talk about being relentless.
00:16:07
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It's very easy to talk about never giving up. It's very easy to, so truly sound inspirational. It's easy to sound motivational. And there are so many speakers out there that have such beautiful stories, right?
00:16:24
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They really have these very passionate stories of these near death experiences and, and you kind of just have to take their word for it. And and I'm not saying that they're dishonest, but what I'm saying is they're, they're stories that you hear.
00:16:41
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And I, I've been to a lot of these motivational seminars. I used to, Many years ago, in my early 20s, I worked for Tony Robbins and you know she i I didn't have that sort of encouragement that I could be anybody I wanted to be in and that anybody I wanted to be or to believe in myself growing up. So you know someone like him, it was great to hear that. And i really looked up to him and admired him. So I want to be clear. I'm not saying this in a negative way against motivational speakers.
00:17:18
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I'm saying that when we hear these stories about their relentlessness, if that's a word, but of their their drive and how they never gave up, which they all have, you know't you're unable to accomplish success without experiencing it. So I want to be clear.
00:17:35
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I believe the stories. But what I'm trying to say is you we have to take their word for it because we weren't there, right? We weren't there to experience it where I feel incredibly lucky where I feel incredibly lucky is you're experiencing what I'm going through with me.
00:17:56
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You're seeing it, right? When i lose, you know, what I love most in my life, what once when i when what I love most in my life passes away, you know, right then and there, the pain that I'm experiencing.
00:18:14
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When there are people who are spreading the worst of lies about you and you have all these people threatening, your life and your employees lives and you know and you see it all over social media, people are aware that I'm going through this.
00:18:29
Speaker
Like I said, it's just the fact that um a lot of this a lot of what I'm going through is happening in real time right now. And I feel very grateful to be able to go through what I go through.
00:18:47
Speaker
And I know a lot of people try to shed light on negativity and they say those types of things in order to be optimistic, which is very important.
00:19:00
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It's very important. I'm not at the part. ah Excuse me I'm not at the point. Fortunately, I'm not at the point in my life where I need to try to be optimistic.
00:19:13
Speaker
I really believe in optimism. I believe in the the goodness that comes out of darkness. And ah definitely it it definitely does not come easy. Like I still get I still feel so much pain and I feel pressure and I feel stress and I feel sadness.
00:19:34
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I do feel it yeah because I'm i'm human. Right. So I feel it. But I do know do know that good will come out of it.
00:19:46
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And I get I get curious about what that goodness is. Right. And I know it will outweigh the pain and there is always goodness in those things.
00:19:59
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You know, here's here's a great example. Here's here's a great example. Okay.
Community Support & Online Impact
00:20:08
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um when I got back from my tour, when I got back from the tour on Monday,
00:20:17
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Sarah looked a little bit sad. we were on a pack walk and Sarah looked kind of sad. You know, I could just feel the energy was off. And I was like, what's wrong? Is everything okay? And she said, yeah, everything's fine.
00:20:28
Speaker
And I could tell that it wasn't. And I said, did something happen? And she's like, well, do you remember the woman you met? from open road hauling at your at your event.
00:20:42
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And I said, yeah, because at my events, we have a VIP meet and greet and I meet this really sweet woman who was in line and she was at the meet and greet and we took a photo together and she was so nervous. She handed me when she tried to hand me a card, she handed like her whole stack of cards.
00:21:02
Speaker
and was letting me know she wanted to get started and she doesn't know where to start and all these different things. And she was just a really good human being. I could just feel her energy. I could feel her authenticity.
00:21:12
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She was just a good person. And, uh, when so when i was talking to sarah she she let me know that this woman posted a picture that of that of her and i from my event and she said you know i'm so grateful i got to meet lea asher whatever right and ah this hate page, one of these many hate pages, ah thought that she would be a perfect victim to attack for no other reason than posting a picture with me.
00:21:48
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And they instructed each other in the hate page to give her bad reviews and to attack her and to harass her, which is exactly what they did.
00:22:00
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And she had less, you know, she had 100 followers, than 100 followers.
00:22:05
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And um Sarah showed me she was saying, stop harassing me and you know I don't deserve this. I just posted a picture with Lee.
00:22:16
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And she had no one to defend her. She had no one to defend her. And this was really upsetting, not surprising. It's the type of people that they are, um but just really upsetting.
00:22:29
Speaker
So I went to my community um and i let them know about how awful this was and how much it hurt me.
00:22:40
Speaker
And I, I told my community, I asked my community for them to go support this amazing woman from open road hauling. And, my goodness, they sure did.
00:22:52
Speaker
They sure did because, in less than a week, in less than a week, she went from ah hundred followers on Facebook to over 50,000 followers.
00:23:03
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thousand follow over fifty thousand I mean, you can't even see the hate. It's not even, it's so irrelevant.
00:23:17
Speaker
The love is so powerful and so beautiful. And that is something that I believe in. you know She put out this really nice thank you She thanked me and everything. and And she thanked the haters because it never would have happened if it wasn't for them.
00:23:34
Speaker
And it's ah it's true. there You can find the best things in the world, the the most amount of wisdom, the best lessons, all in the hardship, all in the toughest and the most painful times.
00:23:52
Speaker
That is where the most amount of growth comes from. And for some people, it's growth in a different way. 50, 60,000, that's a real following. That's a community of people.
00:24:07
Speaker
And, um, you know, our community helped this amazing person do that in less than a week. And that's, that's something to be noted, you know, and that's love, that's kindness, that's compassion and empathy.
00:24:24
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And, uh, it's extremely beautifully powerful, really. So, um,
00:24:37
Speaker
so uh yeah it's uh it is good to be back i i do love my trips i do love These speaking events, I love the traveling and and being in a different state, you know, eating out and and meeting the community is so special to me. And I also really enjoy seeing all the dogs. Like when I walk around the cities, just seeing the different dogs um walking with their owners. i miss seeing that. I miss seeing people walking their dogs and stuff.
00:25:14
Speaker
i you know, it's it's just nice. So I'm always watching my dogs like I'm I'm really I really spend a lot of my time.
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um
00:25:29
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What watching my dogs, so it's fun to be able to see people like live their life i By the way, i don't I say that and I enjoy very much being with my dog. I don't have to do that.
00:25:39
Speaker
I'm not a prisoner. and i'm you know um ah But it is safer when I'm the one managing all the dogs and ah easier. But it is a choice. Obviously, when I leave and I have ah people at the Asher house really step it up and they're able to manage, you know they're able to watch the dogs.
00:26:01
Speaker
The dogs, the difference is they don't get they don't get the same amount of mental or physical stimulation. They don't get the the long pack walks all throughout the day.
00:26:15
Speaker
They're not all sleeping out at night when I'm gone. When Sarah and I aren't there, most of the dogs, if not all the dogs are kenneled at night um when we're there, you know, it's when we're there, it's more freedom and the dogs that they're it's like when mom and dad are home, they behave a lot, a lot better, too. But the dogs still get pack walks and they're still out you know of course they're outside all day. They're in the yards. We have several, several different yards. Sorry, guys. I know my my voice probably sounds so weird. i don't even recognize myself right now, man.
00:26:48
Speaker
The way my my voice sounds, I really don't. I heard ah i sound like AI. I've seen a lot of fake AI stuff. um what was with using my my face, but my AI voice.
00:27:01
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And I feel like this is what I sound like. So be careful out there.
Returning Home to the Pack
00:27:07
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But um yeah, but being home, it's just so good to see them. It's just so but just so uniquely beautiful.
00:27:17
Speaker
I mean, when I get home and they're it's it's even It's even more beautiful when they settle down because it's it's quite chaotic. I think that's the hardest part about coming home is you know it's really important when you have a pack of dogs, you want to limit competition.
00:27:38
Speaker
That's by the way, that is I'm not a dog trainer and that is my own. advice, but for what I do with my pack, I try at all costs to always limit competition.
00:27:52
Speaker
Right. And that includes affection. That includes affection. So when you have all of them who haven't gotten affection from your Sarah for you know a few days to a week,
00:28:07
Speaker
They're, of course, doing everything they can. They're jumping on top of each other to get to me and to get to Sarah. And it's a lot of dogs that I'm trying to keep calm while petting them.
00:28:21
Speaker
So it's a lot. And some of them, it's too much for them. It's really cute. It also kind of makes me sad. Like the little ones, they really want our affection. They missed us, but they're afraid to get trampled. So they're like waiting in this long line.
00:28:34
Speaker
So it it really takes a long time to get the pack settled. But once everyone has gotten their love and you know I've been able to put it in the time and give them all kisses and everything, Um, it's just so beautiful when they all settle in because you could tell they're so relieved.
00:28:51
Speaker
There's this relief energy, right? Like everything is okay. And, uh, it always makes my heart happy because the, um the team notices that the employees notice how much happier the dogs are when we're there.
00:29:05
Speaker
And, uh, it just feel it ah really, it just, just like anybody that you love traveling, but there's nothing like being at home. it's It's really the same thing for for me you know and for Sarah, even though our home, it's it's not like most people that they're coming back to a nice quiet home and they can just sit on the couch and put their feet up and turn on the TV. you know to us, we have a significant amount of employees
00:29:36
Speaker
you know over 70 employees, the majority of those team members are working in our house, uh, where all of our dogs are, which I just got an update.
00:29:48
Speaker
Um, the, you'll probably be listening to this podcast on the, uh, probably the 15th of April, right? Clint. Let's say the 13th, 14th.
00:30:00
Speaker
so theres fourteen um So maybe the 16th, well, are we not posting one tomorrow? I don't know. we have any? No, that's fine.
00:30:12
Speaker
Okay. So whenever you're going to hear it, if it's next week, this month, this number might be increased, but the Asher house, we currently, we've had really awesome weekend of adoptions. So we have 155 dogs at the sanctuary right now.
00:30:31
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ah the sanctuary right now
00:30:35
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I'm telling you guys that number because in the past couple of lives that I've done, which the last live that I've done was about a month ago. So I was accurate at the time, but I said 165 and that I would double check and I just double checked today.
00:30:49
Speaker
We're at 155, but we've had significant amount of adoptions in the past week. Some of those adoptions are really tough, but I'm so happy for them.
00:31:01
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Ronan, one of the best rescue stories ever. Ronan, the Husky got adopted. Maggie, a German short hair pointer. Maggie's a different. I'd love to talk about Maggie on a different episode.
00:31:16
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I'll talk about some of these dogs that recently got adopted. Not today because um I wanna rest my voice because ah my brother, I'm gonna have my brother on the show and he's up next.
00:31:31
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And sorry, I'm just writing notes for myself.
Closing Thoughts & Gratitude
00:31:36
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um I want to have my, my brother's gonna be the next guest on the show. So I'm going to rest my voice a little bit to have him on, but, um yeah, just wanted to catch you guys up on, on those things.
00:31:51
Speaker
Uh, I really appreciate the support on the podcast. It means a lot. It's fun to be able to, um, to do this with y'all and, uh, I appreciate it very much.
00:32:02
Speaker
I love you guys very much. Um, and I'll talk to you more along the way. Okay. See you. Have a good day. And, uh, I'll check in, I'll check in with y'all later. Thank you. I love you. Have a beautiful day.
00:32:14
Speaker
Bye.