Ageless Glamour Girls Night Out: a Podcast - Round 1

Nearly three weeks ago, we went LIVE with our debut of "Ageless Glamour Girls Night Out: a Podcast." And now you can catch the replay! What started as a once-a-month experiment has quickly become a Friday night affair, where fabulous women 50+ come together to laugh, share, reflect, and celebrate life’s next chapters. In this first episode, meet 4 amazing AGGs -Dionne, Melinda, Julie, & Germaine, who open up about their ageless-aging journeys with honesty, humor, and heart. We battled through several tech “hiccups,” impacting the audio and video (because hey, that’s real life!) - but their stories and sisterhood shine through. Think of it as a virtual happy hour with your girlfriends. Whether you joined us LIVE or are tuning in now, we’re so glad you’re here. Bold. Beautiful. Brilliant. Cheers to Healthy Aging and Joyful Living, Luvvies! Reconnect soon!

OUR GUESTS:

Dionne Jones is a Gerontologist, Licensed Social Worker, Author, and Certified Personal Trainer dedicated to empowering women 50+. As the founder of Age with Vibrancy LLC, she offers holistic wellness programs that support physical, mental, and emotional health. Passionate about redefining aging, Dionne helps women live fully, authentically, and with purpose — proving that age is truly just a number.   https://linktr.ee/agewithvibrancy | IG: @age_with_vibrancy

Melinda Rinzivillo, a.k.a. “Sweet Pea,” is an author and retired teacher who believes joy is a choice, even in life’s most challenging seasons. After weathering divorce, she’s embraced a new chapter in Naples, Florida, where she finds happiness in music, dancing, comedy clubs, and her cherished cat, Pumpkin. Rooted in a deep spiritual life, Melinda reflects on her journey with honesty and optimism, inspiring others to live truthfully and joyfully.

Julie McGraw is an intuitive guide, spiritual mentor, and energy healer dedicated to helping people connect with Spirit and awaken their inner knowing. Trained under Pat Longo, she channels with empathy, integrity, and respect, offering safe and supportive sessions for clients across the U.S. and internationally. Julie’s work blends mystical insight with grounded guidance, providing clarity, healing, and tools to align with your highest self.  https://www.psychicmediumjulie-mcgraw.com/

Germaine Miller-Summers is a multi-media strategist, publisher, and creative visionary known as a “dream revitalizer.” As founder and CEO of HOV, LLC — with publishing, media consulting, and TV/film divisions — she empowers others to bring their passions to life with accountability, insight, and innovation. With a career spanning fashion, artist management, and entertainment, Germaine blends experience and empathy to help clients transform hard-to-reach dreams into reality. https://hovpub.com/ 

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SPEAKER_06 0:08

I am Marquita, Curtis Haynes, and um I am the CEO and the founder of the lifestyle brand Ageless Glamour Girls, where we embrace empower, celebrate, and entertain women aged 50 and plus on this ageless aging journey, which, as you know, filled with ups and downs, potholes, and uh bright spots, so many bright spots. And you know what? You just keep on living. You just go with the flow. You just keep on living. I am so happy to be here, and I'm so glad you guys are here too. Um I came up with this idea. I was thinking about it because last week I think I put out a post and saying that, oh, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna relaunch my podcast next week. So yesterday I was talking to Jermaine. You'll be in the second, I'm like, oh my God, I'm gonna have to do something. I gotta, I don't wanna lie. She's like, go live. I'm like, oh my God. So here I am. So I put a post out yesterday that I was going to go live today. And here I am alive. Um, so happy. And thank you guys for your support. Age of Glamour Girls. I just I just love the brand. Our tagline is Whoa, beautiful, brilliant. I love that. Um, there's a podcast of the same age, Age is Glamour Girls. There's a book with About that. Age of Glamour Girls Reflections on Aging. It's an anthology because we're all about sharing voices, sharing stories, and inspiring others. Thank you very much. We have a private group on Facebook called the Ageless Cafe. We're on YouTube. You may be watching us now on the YouTube channel. We're all over the place. We're all over the place, and I love it. Um, so glad you're here. So, without further ado, let's bring in and you can meet our lovely panel who is discussing their ageless aging journeys with us on a Friday, T G I F, and we have our you know, libations, you know, alcohol or not. Do you? This is green, juice. Okay, Google something is in there, but it is green, right? I learned that when I was in Mexico. But anyway, without any uh further ado, let's bring on, let's bring them in. Let's where my where are my ladies? Where are my uh Ageless glamour girls?

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Julie, go ahead. I'm a spiritual medium, psychic intuitive, uh, spiritual development coach. So I do have a tendency to glitch things out. I am very honored to be here tonight, be a part of this beautiful group. I'm probably like throwing things off. I've got all my crystals around me, so I'm hoping that that helps uh level out the energy a little bit. Okay, now it's said that is who I am, and you're calling in from where?

SPEAKER_06 2:59

Or you're I'm located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Oh, Sioux Falls, nice, nice. Um here, yay, yay, nice meeting you, Julie. All right, thank you, thank you. Who's next? Okay, Jermaine, we'll go back to you, Jermaine. I am so happy we're here because I need a little girl's time, so right, right, right. But um, yes, I am here from Connecticut. Um, as your as your publisher, yes, thank you so much for inviting me in. Yes, we have a lot to talk about tonight. Yes, we do, yes, we do. So, welcome, welcome Julie, welcome Jermaine, and we have two more. Dion, you're on.

SPEAKER_04 3:50

Good evening from Northeast Ohio, and I am your neighborhood friendly gerontologist.

SPEAKER_06 3:58

I love that girl, you never a dull moment right now, right? With all the with all of us odies with goodies, and um we'll come back to to you, Dion, for some more information. And last but not least, Melinda. Woo! And she she likes to call herself the tech dinosaur.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

And it's so true. Unfortunately, it's very true, but I try hard. Anyway, hello to everybody. It's nice to see some familiar faces, and it's nice to see you, Julie, a new person. Uh, my name is Melinda Rinzebello, formerly from New York, Westchester County area, and I live in beautiful, cloudy Naples, Florida, today. It's cloudy here today. Formerly a teacher for 43 years, and now I'm an image consultant in a fashion boutique, uh uh a curated consignment shop here in Naples. And that's where she and I met. Yes, it is at the consignment.

SPEAKER_06 5:11

Yes, yes, we did. And wow, 40 you said 43 years as a teacher. 43 years. That's amazing. That's a good retirement, Missy.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Oh, and but if you recall, that was part of what I wrote about in my chat. That's right. That's right. Because I was in like the shoe department or one of those departments in that store, and I don't know what happened to me, but all of a sudden it just hit me like, where did my life go? And I thought about it, and it was just like, oh my god, I taught for 43 years, and you know, I just didn't realize it. And just like that, right? Just like that, it goes. I was on fast forward, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 5:52

Yes, yes. Um, so it's nice meeting meeting and seeing everybody. Um, like Melinda just said, Melinda and I met here, and um uh she's one of the co-authors in our original books. Dion and I've never met in person. One day we're gonna meet in person, but uh I met her through Instagram. We I slid into her DM and uh she saw someone of our co-authors and and um Julie, I've never met. Um, this is my first time seeing her, and um I met one of her dear friends at Costco. Did you guys know that Costco is a pickup joint? Costco is a pickup joint, let me tell you. Because I picked up Jean, her girlfriend there. Her girl, not her girlfriend, her friend girl, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

I don't care, whatever. Mark Marquita, uh I pick up some meat lasagna there. I told you it was a pickup joint.

SPEAKER_06 6:44

And it's really good. But that is going to be such a cute post. How I met Gene, you know, in the I I forgot Costco even sold plants, but we met in the plant department. So that was really cool. So uh I just want to know off the bat, what what do you guys enjoy most about being an older, an older woman over 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever? And uh do you scream your age out loud or do you just like you know? Because I'm like, you know, if you want to Google it, go for it. As some people, as as Cheryl, one of my other colleagues says the young people say GTS it. You know what that is. Google that. But anyway, are you from the scream out loud or you don't mind? And and what do you love most about getting older and being over 50 or 60 or 70?

SPEAKER_01 7:41

Um, I don't have an answer. Okay, okay, I have an answer. Um I feel like I've really come of age, you know. I like the wisdom, I like the experience, I like the interaction that I've had with people, and I put it all together. Um and I like the fact that I can speak my mind where I didn't before when I was younger.

SPEAKER_06 8:06

Right.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

I don't hide my age. It is, you know, it is what it is. So we might as well embrace it, be proud of it, move with it. Don't try to be younger than you are, just be who you are. Hold up. Be proud of it. Hold up.

SPEAKER_06 8:23

I like to be younger than I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

I'm just kidding. No, but seriously. Just be just be who you are. Let your beauty shine. You know, we have a few more wrinkles, we have a few more scars, we have a lot more experience, but all that speaks to our life. You know, it's just the way it is. So embrace it, don't fight it, enjoy it, and you know, do the things that you love because that will keep your spirit happy and joyful. And if you want to use the term young, I guess it'll keep you young, young at heart.

SPEAKER_06 9:02

Um, and you just had a birthday, right?

unknown 9:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Okay. And I and and I did struggle with it a little bit, actually. You know, yeah. And I have to really I had to work on myself a bit to, but it's okay, it's all good. Because you turned a certain age, right? Yeah, well, you want me to tell my age? I wouldn't. No, no, that's why I said it's all on you. It's all you know, it's I'm 75. Oh, 75. Thank you, Dion. I love you. No, 75. And it's the same kind of aha that I had about teaching for 43 years. It's like, how can I be 70? You know, how can I be 75? How can I be there? But I'm there, you know, the and here we go: the life experience, the teaching for 43 years, the you know, studying for college, the late nights, the this, the marriage, the divorce, the family, you know, new babies coming into the world and loved ones leaving the world. It's all there. So that's why I say we embrace it, because not to embrace it, I think, is going to just drain us emotionally, and I think it's gonna could tire us, bring us down, even make us sick. So we have to be proud of all, you know, we made it. You made it to 63, you made it to 75, you made it to 82. I mean, we're doing it, and that's a lot to be proud of.

SPEAKER_06 10:33

That that is so true. I love that. And Miss Dion. Dion.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

What's up, it is an honor to be able to wake up every day and live. So I will um be 55 this year in a in a month or two. And my mom just turned 75, and she she she always wanted this big birthday. So she had this birthday in the backyard, and she celebrated and danced. And I even posted a picture, I mean, I posted a video, and it was the most likes I've ever received on any post ever. So people are embracing the fact that we are living and not just living, but living out loud. That's the difference. And so I am blessed because being a gerontologist, I get to work with older adults every day. And my oldest client is 94, and she is such a spitfire. I love her to life. Oh, I love you. Right, right. She inspires me, she makes me laugh, she's still working out every day, she still um practices in her ministry, she wrote a book. So, I mean, I'm 94. I mean, they always call me a baby. All the all my older adults call me a baby. They're like, ah, we have shoes older than you, and I'm so so yeah, it keeps me excited. The fact that um I get to wake up every day and share my experiences, as Melinda said. Now, the side effects, yeah. Um, the joy of experiencing perimenopause, which they say can go up 20 years. I'm like, can I please get to menopause? Because this is for the birds.

SPEAKER_06 12:28

Yes, yes. Oh, that's right, Jermaine.

SPEAKER_04 12:32

Oh, I found some wonderful nuts and berries. So, and I've gone back to my personal trainer, so I'm getting back balance. So, yeah, I have some crucials too.

SPEAKER_06 12:44

Yeah, yeah, that that that's crucial. The the personal training, because if we don't like, you know, weight training, you know, strength training. And um, there was some guy said the other day, he said if you do nothing else every day, I would rather you strength train than walk and do cardio.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

You know, really you need lean muscle mass, you need it.

SPEAKER_06 13:06

It makes so much sense, and um, yeah. Um, thank you so much for that. Okay, Miss Julie, Julie Julie, the age.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

I know I I switched to my phone because I think it was my laptop, but oh okay, um, so I hope that's okay. Yeah, 53. And I love what everyone has said, um, because it is true, like we're returning to our true essence, our true selves, right? And doing it unapologetically is so powerful. And when we allow ourselves to do that, we're literally inspiring others to do the same thing. So um, I just I'm at a stage now in my 53 years where I have unconditionally loved myself and accept myself and not and not living up to other people's expectations. That's it, right, and calling back my power and just really allowing myself uh to be my true self, to have to have those connections with other people. And um, you know, I I'm I'm not for everyone's taste, and that's okay. And I'm just learning to um, like I said, re returning to my true essence and and really allowing myself to be my true authentic self and doing it unapologetically. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 14:36

But also with love and light, too. It's oh right, right. Remind me of something my mother said when I was a teenager. She says, one of the worst things you can do in this life is to try to please everybody. Yeah, and um, and sometimes my husband still says, calls me, you're a people pleaser. I'm like, no, I'm not, I'm just nice, but I'm not a people pleaser. But anyway, Jermaine, thank you so much for that, Julie. Jermaine, yeah, wait, the youngin', wait, oh wait, no, Dion is the young. You're youngin'. I love you, young'ins though. 54. They got me beat. Oh no, so so wait, she got me beat. I I'm like 55 in 2026. Is nothing but a number. It is speaking of which I have a little hot flash right now. That should have oh here. You need my look, you need my other fan. You need to take some inner shells. Why do I not have the fan in here with me right now? I blame, I blame my green juice on that. I blame this green juice.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

It's hot flashes, you know that.

SPEAKER_06 15:49

No, no, I don't get no. These are power surges. Wait, wait, wait. She's steaming up her glasses. I know that's what I'm saying. Listen, let's girl vitamins.

SPEAKER_04 15:59

Black girl vitamins, minnow chill.

SPEAKER_05 16:01

Black girl vitamins, okay.

SPEAKER_04 16:03

Minnow chill. I haven't had a hot flash in months.

SPEAKER_06 16:06

What do I have a hot flash in months? Black girl vitamins. So wait, wait, black girl.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Can you still take? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Okay, Markweet, I can pop that. I haven't had hot flashes in years. What are you taking? What are you taking?

SPEAKER_02 16:28

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 16:30

Melinda, I want some of what you have. Seriously.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

I'm old enough to be people, everybody's mother there.

SPEAKER_04 16:43

You are because I'm talking to my mom just celebrating her 75th, and I just love that. No, girls. Oh wow. I say yes, Mama Melinda. What's that, honey?

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Say yes, Mama Melinda. They're gonna tell you something else while while I'm giggling over here. One thing I realized is how much I love comedy and how much I love to laugh. I really think that helps to keep me going. I we're going again. We go every week to the comedy club. I love to find the humor in life and everything.

SPEAKER_06 17:20

And every study sh says that too, that you have to laugh, which that helps stave off dementia. There's a the list gets longer and longer of things that we can and should be doing, you know, at every age. And I'm on it. I'm on it. I mean, I laugh at myself.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

I laugh at myself all the time, and I really love to find the humor in things.

SPEAKER_06 17:43

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you better, you better, right? Right. So so back to Miss Miss Jermaine. What's going on, Jermaine? With this embracing your age.

SPEAKER_05 17:53

Can you hear me okay?

SPEAKER_06 17:54

I can hear you okay. Yeah. Can you hear me okay? Yes, okay. Okay, because I think my video keeps freezing up. Yeah, you're freezing up as long as you can hear me. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna just put the picture up and just hear my voice. Just hear my voice.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

Right.

SPEAKER_06 18:13

But um, you know, turning 50 for me, it was like another year of life, living life. And I think this is the best time of your life, to be honest with you, without the responsibilities of other ones, uh, you know, to just really be free to explore, to live, to do. And can you still hear me? Okay, yeah, yeah. Okay, good. But um, I tell you, this menopause thing or perimenopause or whatever you want to call it, I didn't sign up for this at all. No, I didn't sign up for this because I'm I think I'm starting to experience brain fog. Maybe I'm tired, I don't know what it is, but sometimes I'm sitting at my desk saying, Now, what was it I was doing?

SPEAKER_05 19:05

Or what did I need to do? Well, welcome to the club. Not good.

SPEAKER_06 19:13

Girl, right, right. And I'm not kidding you. When I was going through it in, you know, like yesterday, um I remember I it was so bad. I had to apologize to my husband because I really became someone else. I'm not kidding you. Um, I was just on edge, I was just not a nice person, and I had to apologize. And and back then, you know, I there wasn't a lot, a lot of information out there about it. Thank God there is today, but still, you know, it's like, dang. And uh you just like you know, you just keep moving through it. But I'm gonna tell you what saved me is um, you know, and you know, you wake up one day and there's this huge spare tire around your waist, you know. And even for smaller women, you know, I've always had a weight problem since I was 11 or 12. But anyway, um, so you know, all of a sudden there it is. And then I started doing HRT. And um, like after like a week or two weeks, if I remember correctly, this started going down. I started getting smarter all of a sudden. I'm like, this is nice. Then I moved, I left town and um had to go to another doctor, and he was looking at my chart chart. And he says, wait a minute, you're on HRT? I'm like, Yeah, what about it? And he's like, Well, I don't think you should be on it. I'm not gonna take you off because your mother had breast cancer, and um, and then your her sister, you know, dealt with breast cancer, and um, I don't think you should be on it. And that was then, but now so many studies have come out um about that it, you know, it's it's okay, you know, um, for some people who have you know um that in their families. I don't know. What are you guys? What are you all's thoughts on that? Is anyone um on HRT or you want to talk about it or know people who are on it and it's helped them?

SPEAKER_05 21:04

I wasn't even familiar with it.

SPEAKER_04 21:05

So I know someone, I've known two people. One person it did not work for, um, one person swears by it. Um, I choose nuts and berries, and um the mental chill, like I said, it's a of the formula of herbs and not spices, not chickens, but it is uh a natural formula. Okay, yeah, it's just I mean, like you said, the the mood swings, the brain fall, getting up at three o'clock in the morning, um cycle whenever it wants to come, all the the tire, all of that has just it's been regulated, and it's just I mean, I I think I need to get a an ambassadorship for them. Right? Yes. So like I said. Black girl's vitamins, or is that the same? Black girl vitamins, that's a formula. The minnow chill from black girl vitamins.

SPEAKER_06 22:06

Gotcha. And that the now I I'm gonna look, I'm gonna investigate that for real. And I'll tell you, this is the second time you mentioned the nuts and the berries. What are you doing? What kind of nuts?

SPEAKER_04 22:20

Well, that that's what I'm saying. I look for natural because my my grandmother was my inspiration. She was the one who was instrumental in the path that I chose for myself. And she was holistic and she was vegan before the word even was invented. I mean, we had a water distiller, we had the wheat germ on, we had to take wheat germ, there was no sugar in the house. I mean, all that my husband always laughs about my sheltered childhood, but my grandmother was ahead of her time. So I've gotten back to most of what she's taught me. Now, as soon as I can find a way to um make bourbon holistic, I'll get that out of the way.

SPEAKER_06 23:04

My grandmother made aspidity. Are you all familiar with asphydi? That was made with whiskey. Oh wow, and when your stomach starts hurting, rub it on there and it's gone.

SPEAKER_05 23:15

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_06 23:16

My parents used to give us my mother. Well, we used to give us when we had stomach ache, turpentine and sugar. No, no, a little drop of turpentine with sugar in a teaspoon, and your stomach, it would it would work out. Now I could have used that last night or being in in uh the drugstore. This is before CVS and and Walgreens, I guess. Before I don't remember, but you know, I'm like, where's your turpentine? Um I'm like, uh at the hardware store. But yeah, the Asphinity, these old school remedies, man, back in the day, they were because uh yeah, they work.

SPEAKER_05 23:58

Marquita, Marquita, uh, someone, your sister, maybe Marsha Curtis Jones says, thumbs up.

SPEAKER_06 24:06

Oh, she knows she knows, girl, you know, that was beyond the the the the father John's and the the draught something, D R A U G H T, the draught something, but anyway, yeah. They we handle our business, mom and dad handled, we handled our business. Oh, she has also the start of school, right?

SPEAKER_04 24:28

Keep the yeah, that cotton liver oil and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_06 24:34

That was some good stuff. It didn't kill us.

SPEAKER_04 24:37

Google Aspinity. We weren't sick either. What'd you say? We weren't sick either.

SPEAKER_06 24:42

No, no, exactly, exactly. And so something worked back then, you know. Something worked, um, more natural exactly. It was natural, it was natural. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Forgive me if you guys hear my stomach is making noises over here. I don't know. I could I could have used that little what is it, turpentine and what turpentine oil and sugar for a stomach ache. What stomach aches? I could have used that last night. I had a stomach ache last night that I haven't had in such a long time.

SPEAKER_06 25:13

I know. But don't try that today.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

Yeah, chew on some day and some ginger, mint leaves and ginger.

SPEAKER_06 25:26

Yeah, right. Speaking of ginger, didn't some study come out about ginger ale was just fake news, and it really didn't make you feel better or help your stomach or whatever. I disagree. Burners did. When you got sick, that was the first thing that was you look forward to.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

I need, I think I might need some ginger ale. One one thing that I hear from a lot of the women who come into the shop. Well, first of all, they're all worried about the same things, you know, about getting older or about, you know, I can't wear my high heels anymore, whatever. But I do hear a lot of them talk about the fact that they can't eat the way they used to eat, that they're having difficulty, like with I know my sister in particular, having difficulty digesting cream sauces and things like that. Dion, I'm I'm I'm wondering if you can can you speak to anything like that?

SPEAKER_04 26:20

Well, some of it has to do with your blood type. Oh there are certain foods that react with different blood types, and they almost are poisonous to your system. And when we were younger, our bodies can defend that. But the older we get, we can't defend it. I love avocados, but because of my blood type, it's not good for me. So the minute I eat an avocado because I'm hard-headed, my body reacts, my throat starts tickling, and it creates inflammation in my body. So if you know your blood type, that helps you find foods that are beneficial for your blood type. Because now your body is almost allergic to it. I mean, it always has been, but the older we get, it's harder to um to suppress it. So, like the immune system doesn't it's not necessarily the immune system, it's just your body overall, because it causes inflammation in your body. Well, what your blood type is, and we know inflammation is disease. Disease is caused by inflammation, right?

SPEAKER_03 27:24

Or at least 35% of it. That's very powerful to know, honestly. And I bet people don't know it. Uh obviously. No, they don't, but like I said, these are things my grandmother taught me, and who knew?

SPEAKER_06 27:36

Wow. Right, right. What do they say? The smarter, the older you get, the smarter your parents get. And your grandparents. Yeah, the grandmother. She, you know, my mother worked, my father worked, there were three of us, but my grandmother was that pinch hitter. You know, I, you know, and see the I want to switch to something. Today, you know, I mean, growing up, we were very close to our cousins, still close to our cousins, because we all lived in the same town. But now people are moving out, and you're not living in the same town as your grandmother, maybe, you know, or your parents, or your grandparents. And and that just to me, that interrupts the flow of life. I know everybody has to move on and live their life, their lives, you know, but um, but it helps to have people around you that you know um and love. And uh, here again, the studies talk about that, you know, the importance of of finding community and and you know, hanging out with your girls, you know. They said even if you do it once or twice a month, when you're talking to them, that little touch that they're gonna they're gonna hug you, and then during the conversation, they might touch your hand, and that little touch did does wonders for your heart and your mind. So, um, and you know, oh my God, I was reading this article the other day, and of course I don't remember the heart statistics, um, but it talked about how many people are living alone right now, and um, and the numbers are gonna continue to grow because we are such a huge population, um, the older generation. And uh, I think it started like two or three years ago, where a record number of people were turning 65 years old um every every year. So I wanna switch now to is society ready? Can society handle this aging population? Um, I I um saw something uh a couple of weeks ago where there are wait lists for nursing homes, for caregivers, even the high-end um, you know, assisted living places, a lot of them have wait lists now because there's such a groundswell of people. Do you guys worry about that? Do you are you gonna um, you know, what's gonna happen when you start going older and getting older? And you may or may not need uh care. Who knows? That's why it's important to do the lifespan with the health span and all of that. But do you guys worry about that? And running out of um places to live, run out of running out of caregivers. Um, do you worry about that?

SPEAKER_01 30:09

I have a comment. Okay. Nobody else wants to go. I have a comment. Um I can't say that I worry, but I can say that it's just semantics. I'm concerned about it because my brother-in-law, I know this is about age as glamour girls, but my brother-in-law had to go into, you know, a facility um for dementia, and uh his behavior got so erratic that they you know they had to put him in a psycho a psych ward somewhere, and that was just a mess. And um he passed away. Um my concern in going in there, and I went into those places to visit, and I went in with an open mind, and I, you know, my eyes are really opened for the first time. You know, you hear about it, but when you really live it and when you really see it and you experience it with your family or a friend, um, it's a little bit different. And um I'm concerned about the level of care. The level of care and the the facilities that I saw here in Naples, which is a you know, it's a fairly wealthy area, not all of it is, but you know, it's Naples. Uh even so, it doesn't matter where it is. I'm concerned with the quality of care because what I saw was dirty hallways, smell of urine. As soon as you walk in the door, right? Oh yeah, I saw, you know, people, you know, slumped in their chairs, and I realize that some people are to the point where maybe they they can't or don't want to do other things, but I'm much more concerned about the level of of care that is provided and the quality of the personnel caring for the people because he had he had marks on him that he shouldn't have had with a full-time assistant, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:21

My grandmother, right?

SPEAKER_01 32:23

I can't say that I'm worried about it, but I am concerned about the care and the quality of people, and there's gonna be an influx of us right a couple of years ago now, right? Right baby boomers, right, and prices. I'm also concerned about the prices that I hear because even my aunt passed away in a facility uh a couple of months ago, and when you find out how exorbitant the costs are, you know, people just don't have that, right? You know, right, and then if you can't pay that, then what is the level and quality of care?

SPEAKER_06 33:03

Right, right. And and people who care for others, like your family members, I'm like, dang, wait, we or they should be getting paid. You should be getting paid. It's like when my mother fell and hit her head, she had to have the brain surgery, and she was in visiting my sister in Louisville at the time. I remember I was there back and forth for like three months, and uh, and the plane tickets were just atrocious. And I remember there was an article in the New York Times that that that quoted how many, how much money people, when they're you know, caregiving from a long distance spend on average. And this was years ago, and that was like $19,000 or something a year. And uh, I don't I don't know what's gonna be done, but something has to be done. I you know, it's like it, it's it's yeah, I don't I don't worry about it every night, but I do think about it because I don't I have two wonderful stepchildren, um, I don't have any kids. And when you when I look back on how my sister and brother and I, and all of us were in three different states, were caring for my mother, and it's like like who's gonna care for me like that? You know, I think about that too. Yeah, you think about that too? Right. Uh-huh. I do think about that. Not having children, even though you do have stepchildren, it's not the same. And and you know, now nowadays people are just living their lives. It's almost like they don't have time for the elders, that you know, the elderly, those that are getting older. Right. But then on another side, you see people, the generational housing. I know one of your authors talked about that in your first book. Right. And more families are now all living together because one, it's it's tough out there, it's getting harder out there. And two, do you really trust the system? Because it's either a shortage, like you stated, um, in healthcare being provided in the homes, the senior homes, senior citizen homes. So it's it's like, okay, we're never gonna get old. We're just not gonna get old. We're not gonna get a bazillion-dollar industry right now, as you guys probably know. It's like, what can I take? What can I do? I'm not exactly you know, uh go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

I was just gonna say, and then for me, you know, you asked if I worried about it. Part of the reason that I don't worry about it is my faith system. There you go. I, you know, I gotta, I know God's gonna do what he can. That's it, right? You know, and I have to have that, and I not that I have to, I I have that faith. Right. Whatever's gonna be is gonna be, and at some point I'll be up in heaven and things will be glorious and wonderful. But you know, that's right. That that's that's me, and that's that helps me not to worry. I try to battle and I try to concentrate on the present, where I am today, and keeping myself as healthy as I can.

SPEAKER_06 36:03

Yes, yes. And my my brother, he did over the years, you know, when I you know, when I'm complaining about something, or I'm like, yeah, I was up all night. I just I was thinking about blah blah blah. He's like, Where's your faith? Yeah, a little faith. It's like, where is your faith? You don't I don't stay up at night, no, because of my faith. You know, I'm like, okay, and that helps, you know, just talking to people about that, that sort of thing just helps. But um, yeah, Jermaine, getting back to the the whole not having children thing, it's like when we put my grandmother in the nursing home, my sister and I had to uh fly home uh to Illinois to help my mother put her my grandmother in the nursing home because my mother was taking care of her, she was taking care of my father, she was taking my grandmother, and she was going down. And we had but she refused to put my grandmother in the nursing home. And so we went down there and we helped her, you know, move her into a nursing home. And of course, you know, when you have families there, they're on they're on their job, and we went every day, you know. And um, and so I told my mother one day, I said, I said, you know, mom, I can't, I said, I gotta have kids, you know, as I get older. She's like, Why, why? And I said, Because I see that you're treated better in the nursing home when you have family and they come visit you on a regular basis, you know. But you know what she told me? She says, just because you have children is no guarantee that they're gonna look back at you, Michael. Someone said that, someone else said that to me. Um, and you see it, you see it. Yeah, and you know what? I want to piggyback off of your story because when my grandmother, we put her in um a nursing home, she was living with my mom, and it just got to the point with everyone working, she needed care around the clock, but she had all her children, and so I would I would go visit my grandmother and I would see the care from all the family members that's there, and it made me think like, what is that going to look like when it's my time? Right, and I got a little teary-eyed, you know, because you think about stuff like that. But someone said to me, it's not guaranteed your kids will show up for you even in that time of need. See, yeah, see, people are so busy with their lives, it becomes an afterthought until their parents pass away. And God forbid, if they leave them any money, that's all they want to know. And wait a minute, on a on a connector thought thought, the um, the age discrimination thing, right? Which we know is whoo, real, real. But over the weekend, I was in um out of town, I'm not gonna even say where, but I was hanging out with two two little the cutest little kids, uh, seven and eight-year-olds, right? And so my husband is is bald-headed and he has all some gray hair in his beard, right? So we were playing with, you know, some set playing with the kids and a little seven-year-old, he's like, Miss Marquita, who's the oldest? You're Mr. Jerry. And I said, Well, who do you think is the oldest? Oh, dangerous question. And he looked, and I said, and of course, I had, you know, I'm like, Well, you as you can see, he has gray hair in his beard. He said, Yeah, yeah. And so I think he's the oldest. I said, Why? Why do you think that? He says, Because of the gray hair, plus he has wrinkles, you know. Now, mind you, I'm older than Jerry. But I said, Thank God for fat, you know, the natural Botox, natural Botox, because otherwise, it's like, oh, this resination today. Um, so um, I do want to ask you guys about um uh we've I'm gonna skip over some stuff here. Um you know the whole um the the whole career thing. Um you know a lot of older people are going back to work and they're you know they're staying on their jobs longer because I think somebody I think somebody said used the term huggers, we're holding on to those jobs, you know. Um, but in but what that means is that the person in the middle job is not getting a promotion because us senior citizens, yeah, I hate that phrase, us older people are hanging on to these jobs. Um and um, but you know what? When people ask me, am I retired? I mean, I consider myself semi-retired because you know, I have to work, I want to work, and you and you just keep on moving, you keep doing the thing. And that's why I was telling someone, ageless glamour girls gives me life. It's it's um because I'm learning so much. Um, and you know, I have a little part-time thing also, but I don't know. Um, my last full-time job was um about I guess a year and a half ago, and um, you know, working around some younger people. And um at one point, one of the youngins um got me in trouble. I was called into HR because I referred to her as to a couple of them as youngins. And uh, so yeah, but anyway, that's a term of endearment for me. Exactly. But anyway, how do you guys feel about going back to work? Um, you know, continuing to work as long as you have, as long as you can. I remember somebody saying the other day, yeah, I can yeah, I can always get a job, you know, as a as a Walmart greeter. I'm like, those jobs are done. There is no Walmart greeter anymore. I haven't seen one in years. So anyway, how do you guys feel about keeping keeping it moving? Julie, we haven't talked to you in a minute.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

Yeah, so you know, I don't look at it as work, as I look at it as and and as like creating. So I don't look at it as like, oh, I'm gonna hold on to my job. I just look at it because I I mean, for the most part, I do my my mediumship, my spiritual development coaching full time, but I also will I am in early childhood, I work with special needs kids, and so I look at that as um every day that I get to spend time with them, I get to learn how to communicate because I'm working with some kids who are autistic and nonverbal. And so to me, I don't really look at it. I do see myself quote unquote, uh I like to say creating up until the day uh the good Lord tells me it's time to go to the other side. So I just I I don't really look at it as working as like the opportunity to to create and um to expand and to grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So uh that's kind of my take on it. Um, and I really believe like as opportunities come to us, whether it's in the form of a job, and I agree, Walmart greeters are non-existence because they are now they say like they're at they're like access, oh they're basically watching to make sure you don't steal stuff, right? I don't know, I can't remember what the the vests say, but it says like uh something, I don't know what it is, but I was like what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 43:17

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Like they wear these big vests and they got reflectors. Um, but at the same time, um, I you know it's it's really about how people perceive things, it's how how are they taking in things. So I don't look at things as work. And I I came from a corporate world. Okay. I came from the medical world, I came from the core corporate world, and really like stepping into my faith and my spirituality really allowed me to see it from a different perspective as it's not work. It's it I just call it creating because I do I wear many hats, you know. I'm working with early childhood, I am you. Know I'm I'm doing all these different things with my medium shift, I'm doing workshops, and to me, that's my passion. And when I am operating from my passion, it's not work, it's creating.

SPEAKER_06 44:15

Yeah, see, I love that. I love that. You know, and that reminds me of something you said they said back in the day, uh, you know, uh follow your passion, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

And then, you know, it's not when you are following your passion, and and I'm here to tell whoever is listening, is that you can make money from your passion. Okay, you can make a career out of it. How much do you believe in yourself? How much do you have faith in that? I mean, so I just look at it as um when you are operating authentically from your heart center, when you are really operating and allowing yourself to create with your passion, watch how the opportunities do come in to you, for you, and through you. Oh, great.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

Oh, I like that.

SPEAKER_06 45:07

Yeah, I like that. Because that's yeah, now that's how I I feel about Ageless Glamour Girls. For the for the longest, my husband's like, it's just a hobby, you know. You're gonna make some money when you when you tell me how you're gonna make some money, and we could talk, and but he's now he finally gets me, you know. It's like, you know, if you build it, well, you know, will they come? Um, you know, but uh yeah, yeah. I I love I love this Aegis Glamour Girls thing, and and it gives me life, it gives me so much life. But I needed to give me some cash.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

It's coming, I promise you it's coming because that's right. Yeah, as you operate. Here's the thing: this is what I tell people if you get the idea to create something, it's because you've already received it in another timeline. This is about you, you are created from a divine limitless source, God, the universe, how you know, however you see it, you have that flowing through you. So why not embrace it and allow yourself to create and receive? Because you every single one of us came here to do big things, to create big things, but also to receive big things. You are really operating from your passion, it's not going to feel like work.

SPEAKER_06 46:26

That's right, right, that's true, that is so true.

SPEAKER_01 46:29

Yeah, um, I think the important thing is though, and I I I agree completely. That's kind of where I I just believe in that completely. But I think what I've found is we have so many people who are blocked, they're blocked, and they don't have that belief or they don't have that PMA, the positive mental attitude. They don't have whatever you want to do. PMA, they really don't, or they're not they're they're speaking the negative rather than speaking forward, you know what I mean? Speak what you what you want and live what you want. But uh attitude, I read a book years ago. I have to find it because I kept it. I went to some sort of a I guess workshop. It was a big presentation, and the name of the book was um attitude is everything. Well, I would say attitude is a lot, it may not be everything, but it's a lot. The way you frame things, the way you look at things, the way you speak things. Um all that's really important. It's like the glass half full, the glass half empty. You know, I think we're all kind of saying the same thing about learning, expanding, experiencing, moving. I wrote your words down because they're all good words. And I look at that and say, living, but some people are living with roadblocks.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

Yeah, and I like what you said too, is when you hyperfixate, when you focus, when it's negative, negative, negative, that's what you're projecting out. That is what you're going to get back in. But when you see things, yes, during if there's if you're having a little bit of a I I like to look at things as a learning opportunity, right? So if you are in the you're experiencing a situation with struggle or chaos or worry or fear, yeah, this is what I this is what I like to tell people when your fear is is that really fear or is this excitement coming through because you were you're operating at a different vibrational level. And so when you allow yourself to not feed that fear, right? And you allow yourself just to get in, I love that PMA, and see it, like get on that observation deck and see it from a higher perspective, then you're gonna gain clarity in which direction to take. And you're gonna under, I always say you're gonna be able to alchemize that energy, that feeling, right? You're gonna alchemize it. And uh what I'm finding through the people that I encounter with, there's a lot of people what I call waking up, and they're realizing, oh, there's more out there, I can ship this. How do I do this? But it's a lot of old programming, right? Things that have been instilled in us to like, oh, you can only do this if you can do this. But even just by questioning and wondering and looking at things at a different perspective, you're raising your vibration, your energy. And I like what you said, like positive things, right? Like our words are everything is energy and vibration. So think about this. When you speak to yourself of yourself, you're literally you're spelling out things. And I don't mean this like in a real witchy woo-woo way, but you're casting spells, you're you're projecting out. So I always tell clients I'm working with, when you are like, oh crap, I gotta do this again. It's like, wow, I'm gifted to be able to do this because there's some people who can't go to the grocery store. They don't. I like that. And so I say, look at it as I am gifted. And when you're feeling anxious, is this really anxiousness or is this excitement? Because you're experiencing something on a whole nother level. And I always say, too, if it doesn't scare you, it ain't worth doing because when that fear comes in, that means that you're busting out of some type of old programming and you're stepping into that higher vibrational state and you're transforming, you're transforming and you're accelerating and you're elevating. Girl, that's that's fear.

SPEAKER_06 50:54

I always say that fear keeps me from being great. Fear robs you, it robs you of your greatness. It does, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_05 51:03

But Marquita, I want to I want to chime in because this is so necessary. What you're doing, I'm so proud of you.

SPEAKER_06 51:11

Starting your live platform because I'm I'm seeing the comments, and people need to belong to something, yes, want to be a part of something, and Ageless Glamour Girls is a massive movement. Oh, you gotta first believe and know it is because think about your target audience. Think about your target audience. As she as Julie just said, they are in a stage of pivoting, they're holding on to these workplaces for so long when they know that it's probably time to go. But the scariest thing is, what do I do? People that retire, you normally see their life start declining if they don't have anything to replace that time with, right? Right, you do see that, yes. Yeah, and the thing is that I I always think the biggest question is how what do I do and how do I do it? So, this is ageless glamour girls, being able to provide a place that people can chime in and be a part of these conversations, be encouraged and uplifted.

SPEAKER_05 52:18

Everything Julie was just talking about. How many other women need to hear that? Need to hear that, you know what? Creative. Let me see the skills that I left corporate with or my last job with. How can I now take those skills, be creative with that, and make it work whereas it can?

SPEAKER_04 52:38

Yes, yes, and you'll be worried because you won't be in that box of what your job puts you in. Absolutely. Not everyone's blessed to have a job that they can be them their full selves in. That's right. So, yeah, I had to step away, and I was so excited. I stepped away from one of my longest contracts because that that fear, because out that comfort zone, yes, and I was like, I know I'm worth more than this. And the moment, literally the day I submitted that resignation, we had a flood of opportunities. Look at that.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

Waiting on you, they were waiting on you.

SPEAKER_04 53:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 53:20

It's amazing, it's amazing what comes through when you call back your power of your worth and your value, and you allow yourself to emerge in it and submerge in it.

SPEAKER_01 53:31

Well, the other thing I'd like to say is sometimes people don't take the time or the space to even hear what they're supposed to do. I mean, I believe that, you know, I in my busyness for so many years teaching and tutoring and you know, working part-time and this and that, it wasn't really until I came to Naples and until I retired, even though I'm working again. I'm doing something that I absolutely love, empowering women, helping them to feel more beautiful, look more beautiful, and coaching and things like that. But I had time also, I made sure that I carved out time, quiet time with my journal, with my beautiful spiritual music, time to walk on the beach. Wherever it was for me that I could hear what I'm supposed to do or be led, you know. You need that, yes, yeah. You know, if you're always covering everything up with busyness, I think you're gonna have a difficult time going through the roadblocks, the things that stop you.

SPEAKER_06 54:40

And that's why they say you gotta be quiet with yourself. Yeah, be still, be still, be a listen to the voice, be open to this in a new way.

SPEAKER_04 54:50

Yeah, if not, you'll send that will back to send you back to Nineveh till you learn a lesson. You've got nice workshops, you know.

SPEAKER_01 54:59

Say it again, Melinda potential right here, you know.

SPEAKER_06 55:02

Say it again. People are starving for just that, and if you don't make it available, somebody else will, because this is a whole market that's wide open. Yeah, and right now the name is so bent, it's so perfect.

SPEAKER_01 55:18

Oh, between journaling, between I mean, just just the small group that's right here. And we, you know, there's three four of us here that know the other people that were authors, and they all have something to give. You know, there's a lot of workshop potential here, a lot of lean on that, and that's it.

SPEAKER_06 55:39

And I see these other groups doing all of these things and and webinars and meeting and going here, and I'm like, oh my god, I gotta do that.

SPEAKER_01 55:46

I have to you know, I put those together, darling. I put those together for years and years and years I can help you do it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 55:53

Quit talking and doing it, girl. Quit playing. I'm talking to myself. Just do it, just do it. And I have to put this out because you know, one of my favorite sayings is this is no time for modesty. But in the book, Lisa Bedian, where's Lisa on here? Here she is, right here. Lisa Bedian. Her chapter, I forget the name of it. Uh oh, use the something like use the tools in your toolbox. Yeah, you know, when you start thinking about your second act, so you want to leave lose your job. And I think a couple of people hit on that. It's like, oh, I'm good at this. Um this is my value, and now let's turn this into something different. You know, it was so interesting. I was watching a clip from somebody's podcast, it popped up on Instagram, and there was this guy on there talking about AI, which was my next question. Yeah, we have a little time, which is my next question. But he was saying that the jobs, the jobs of the future are just jobs that you've never even thought about, you know. And one was that um a walker, you know, uh, people will pay you to go walk with them outside and talk to them, you know. And I'm like, hey, I would love that job just to go, you know, and and I met somebody at Jerry and I sometimes we do church hopping. Uh we go to different churches, and I went to a really nice church uh recently and was talking to someone. Um, she lives in assistant living place, and I was asking her, I'm like, Do you does anybody ever come in and and and read? You know, not in assist 11, but the other, you know, connected nursing home. Just read to people because I would love to do that. Just go and just read. Like storytelling. I love reading out loud for some reason, but yeah, the narrative connected to the third grade when I was in the third grade. But anyway, I that's another job. Just go read to people. But I love that thing about walking, you know. Uh I'm a professional walker and I'm talking to the people so they won't be alone. You know, there's so much potential, there's so much creativity, there's so many opportunities that we can put our arms around.

SPEAKER_01 58:00

Just gonna I was just gonna say, if you remember, um, was it wasn't it? Uh uh Karen? Who is the art? Yeah, Karen. Is that everything's name right? Right, Karen heard about it. It's all there, Marquito.

SPEAKER_06 58:19

All the you know, you know what? Sometimes I'm gonna say sometimes people are sometimes you need to just find who's that person that's going to help birth that vision, right? And then because everybody don't wear all the hats. So it's when you look back in your ageless glamour girl community, and I know right now you're recruiting for your next book, which means you're getting more women that are looking to do some things to take their skills and introduce it to the world. So sometimes maybe it's just having someone to help birth that vision out. So you, as you recruit and bring women together, it's executing a plan for Aegis Glamour Girls movement to be global. I know that's big. Global is is scary. Don't let it scare you. But some things are just what they are. Yeah, that's true. Oh, one of our new co-authors is Global, is our first global collection. Um, so so that's that, yeah, I love it. And oh, here again, this is no time for modesty, but this is the book, uh Age is Clever Girls Reflections on the Aging. It came out in December of 2023. There are 13 of us, I'm 13, and um the forward was written by uh my dear friend Pat Pat Battle, uh NBC in New York. Um, and bless the heart, she ended up writing writing her own chapter in the back in the back of the book of her own the angel of Sglamo Girls in her life that helped influence her. And oh my god, I love her chapter. I love all of the chapters, seriously, all of the chapters. But yeah, you know, getting back to what we were saying about the the fear thing, yeah. I'm slowly, oh my god, I'm slowly putting myself out there more because the whole live thing, and thank you, Jermaine. Jermaine invited me to be live on her show a couple of weeks ago, and I was like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, you know, and and and I was okay, and I and I survived it. And now, you know, with the podcast, you held it down. What'd you say? You held my show down when I was having technical difficulties. You were amazing. Thank you, thank you. And it's like, okay, so it's say you save money because you don't have to pay an editor when you do live. That's true. That's a beautiful thing, but it's it's it can be terrifying. Uh, it can be terrifying, but um, so I'm how do you feel, Marquita? What'd you say? How do you feel? Because you are live right now. Your first time going live. You took the lead. How are you feeling? Girl, girl, you know, you think about stuff you said, you can't take it back, you can't edit it out. I used to drive Charles crazy. I'm like, you gotta take out that. I'm like, I uh that I sounded, you know, you can't even understand what I'm saying. But now it's like bam, you know, and you know me, I'm behind the scenes person. Um, you know, I never wanted to be an anchor report. I'm just you know, I hope you you get there, you know. I'm behind the scenes. So to be in front of the camera, you know, it's like scary stuff. And and I'm one of those introverted, extrovert kind of people, you know, and people don't believe it. I I can be very shy. But um, you know, I'm just trying to get out there. I just remember. I remember when I was in my 20s.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

What? I have nothing.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:45

I am, and I remember that, Marquina. Oh my god, look at my sister writing on me in the comments.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:58

You know, I mean, we're we're all live, right? It doesn't, I don't know. It feels it feels warm and fuzzy and just lovely. It's lovely to meet everybody else and see everybody else. I don't know. I I think it feels unifying and just like a warm fuzzy. Yes, she needs to be showing with my green juice cheers.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:22

They can put forward on TV, we can put quality on.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:25

It might it might have it wait, it might help that I was a speech and communication arts major. Right, right.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:33

And and one of my speaking, and and and one of the things that Charles, the guy who uh edits the show and and does you know, contributing producer, um he, you know, he's always saying, You're trying to be perfect, you know, stop being, you know, nobody's being perfect. This is not television news, and you guys know that I was in television news for many years, and so what a release is like it's okay. I mean, we came on at what 532. You know, you couldn't do that in real television. But you're forgiven, you're forgiven.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:08

People aren't that hard anymore, right? Well, and I think too, Marquita, you're authentic, and so when you're authentic, people, it's like, oh my gosh, look at her. You may not think you have it together or it's a little chaotic, but people people love that authenticity, and then they're like, Oh, okay, yep, it's okay. It's okay. I get the live thing because when I go live time, you know, I especially I'll start talking real fast, you know. I get I'm the East Coast comes out and I'm like, you know, and and but at the same time, I know that I'll say to myself, oh, I'll even say it out loud, oh my god, I'm spiritually stroking out, I gotta reel it in, you know. But people they they love that authenticity, so continue to be yourself. If you're nervous, let them see the nervousness because then they're gonna like, okay, she can do it, I can do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:04

I can do it, absolutely, it frees them up, it gives them space to be. Yes. Now I just had lunch. I had lunch today with a friend of mine, and uh one of the things she said to me was something about I all I want to be is an elegant woman, and and I don't know how to be an elegant woman. And I said, Oh, you know what? I said, honey, I just just just just be you, yeah. You're beautiful now, you don't have to be anything but be you, and that's what I want to say to to you, Marquita. You know, you're you, you are authentic, yeah. That's thank you, and that is very freeing for people. I totally agree.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:51

Yeah, and and I wanted your curls popping, lip pops, you know, I'm a tech dinosaur.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:00

I admit Atlanta, we were at uh it's a cigar bar. I was just hanging out with my best friend. I would anyway. The lady that was talking to the ladies because there was a table of age, there's glamour girls there. So of course I molded all over there. I'm like, hey, you know, but anyway, this one lady was saying, Oh, she says, I love your curls. I'm like, you can have these two with the right cream and gel. That's really what I put on it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:25

I think we should have I think we should have a uh I think we should have a a come as you are come as you are uh live broadcast. Oh, this wasn't come as it was at six o'clock in the morning, you'll see. Talk about being authentic.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:45

Oh my god, it's so true. Uh oh what Maria's hi Maria. Maria just joined us. Yes. Oh man, Maria, are you dressed? Can you you want to come into the room? I don't know how many we can have. Do we have room for one more? And I know we have to get off and like. 10 minutes. We have room for one more, right? Um, I don't know. But do you want to talk about your new book coming? Yeah. We're gonna talk about that first, right now, right? Listen, listen, just bring Maria on the next live. This is going to be how often? How often are you showing up? Well, you know, Friday. You know, I've the first time, one of the first times I saw a psychic in my life. I've I've walked in my auntie's insisted on me seeing the psychic. So, and I love psychics. And and yeah, I used to see them a lot in New York, but I was home visiting and I was at my the dining room table and we were waiting for the young lady to come in, and she came in and she looked at me, she's like, Why do you why do you fear commitment of any kind? You know, and I say all that to say, you know, this is the first Friday, and wouldn't it be cool if we had something every first Friday? You know, why can't we? You know, yeah, but we can, but you can because this is, after all, um, what is it? Um, ladies' night, ageless glamour girls night out, you know, a happy hour for us ageless glamour girls. And I love it. I'm trying to get healthy, so I'm drinking green juice, and I'm chasing at with some water with a little green juice in it. Yeah, yes, the uh everything, and and and and so we are now working on volume two. Let me tell you about Jermaine, my my uh publishing part uh partner. She and I have a mutual friend, uh Charles, who edits my show. I just mentioned him. And um and he was like, Oh, you gotta meet Jermaine. I'm like, okay, I'll meet Jermaine. And so just like um years ago, you know, I started with the whole podcast thing, and Charles and I were talking, he's like, You should really do a podcast. I'm like, okay. And the reason I went along with that is because I had read excerpts from Sean DeRime's book, A Year of Yes, which is she's celebrating her 10th year now, right? A year of yes. And because she says she know her sister noticed that whenever someone would invite her out to do something, she was like, No, I'm good. And that would be me. But then when Charles was talking about the podcast, I'm like, okay, let's do it. And then a couple about a year later, I met Jermaine and he's like, Oh, you got to meet Jermaine. And so she reached out to me and she says, Your brand would make um would would do really well with an anthology. I'm like, okay, let's do it. So thank you, Shonda Rise. A year of yes, and that's my life now. Yes, yes, yes, let's do it. So that brings me to my next point. Book number two, woohoo, volume two. So um, as Jermaine uh mentioned, we've been meeting with women and you know, laying it down and you know, just talking about that because oh my gosh, this one was so well received, and everybody says the same thing: inspirational and so relatable. Um, and it's really a cool book. And I remember I don't know who it was. They said when their grandparents, when their grandkids come over, they'll see that grandma wrote a book, you know, the pictures on the back, and and you know, your chapter uh is in here with your picture and bio, so it's very cool. So now we're working on volume two. Woo-hoo! Volume two. Someone asked me, I think Melinda asked me today, as a matter of fact, when I was talking to her briefly, what am I writing about? I'm like, girl, I don't know. I have no idea. But you know, other women have asked me, you know, I don't have a story to share. Yes, you do. You're over 50, you have something to share. Trust me. Um, so anyway, I say all that, and we will um throw that over to Jermaine. Wait, you got wait, one more thing. You know how you watch those webinars on on um on Instagram, right? And they're like, I'm gonna teach you this, this, this for free. And so you go and you sign in and you and you write down all these nuggets, then about 45 minutes in, they go for the gusto. It's like, oh now I you I'll work with you on a regular basis, but all this stuff is worth $75,000. But for you today, it's a thousand dollars. But anyway, so that's a dish from our so record for the gusto.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:02

Okay, this is not that.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:06

This is not that, I know. No, but I want to say, you know what? The first book was so well received, you know, having Pat Battles come in and be um the person that did the forward. She also hosted all the ladies when the book launched. Right, yes, that was fun, and so you decided to go at it again, volume two. And the good thing is the ladies have some time because it's coming out um women's month, the first Tuesday, I think, in women's month, right? Woman's interest, yeah, which is March, and so that gives you time now to schedule out, to figure out what your chapter is going to be, to actually sign up because chapters are going. There is limited first come, first serve. So if you are someone and you're interested in being a part of V two, and this is what we always get the people that wanted to be in it and decided, no, I'm not gonna do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:05

And then when the book came out and they were so upset that they missed the opportunity.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:11

You don't have well, now's the time, you don't have to miss an opportunity. You can sign up now, be a part of volume two, be celebrated, and she's building her vault. She is introducing this platform for women to have a voice, and she she also crossed. Look, you cross the waters, you have someone from Canada that's in the book, volume two. And she's already talking about. I have some other friends that are in different countries. So, guys, don't let this become an international volume two, Ageless Glamour Girls. Come on, we got to show up here in America, right? Yeah, we have so much fun. Like you said, we did the live hits. I mean, let me see. Melinda and Dion, those are my two cards on the on the call. Oh my god, oh my god, they humored me. They humored me. I'm like, okay, let's do this. Okay, can you all do that? Okay, they go right along, and I loved it because that's what helped us sell the book, too. It's like, okay, exactly. We got this. It's a nice, it's a beautiful sisterhood. It really is. It really is. And one day we're gonna all meet because we're still with a chat together. Uh, I love these women. You hear me? I love these women, and uh, and just you know, when you're down, you just go in the chat. Hey, hey, because of course I had to go to them and tell them I was doing this live thing, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:37

They're like, You got this, you got this.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:40

So um Marquita, how can they get in touch with you? I'm gonna put um a link up for if they're interested. I'm gonna put the link up for them to just complete the form. Yeah, if they're interested in being a part of volume two. Okay, go at ageclamorgirls.com. You just send it to me at ageclamergirls.com. And there's there, you know, there's a payment plan like everybody else has. Thank God. Absolutely. It's like, oh my gosh. Um, so yeah, it's gonna be fun. And you know, people ask me, what should I write about? It's like, come on, write about anything. You don't you don't have to be a professional writer, Marsha. Oh sorry. Wait, she talks about all she talks about.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:24

Yeah, Marcia's in there having a good time in the chat, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:13:26

She's really like cool. I'm gonna have to get her. She she, I don't know why she needs to be in this book, but you know, you know how sisters are sometimes. But anyway, I would love, love, love, you know, just explore, just think about it. We we recorded the last um video that we had, and um Jermaine has all the information. Um, but yeah, it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun because yeah, we have a longer time. I have a longer time to sweat you guys, whoever's gonna be in the next book.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:58

Well, let me just say, let me say, I couldn't even get into my hot mail tonight. Don't ask me why. So make sure I get it somehow. I don't know what's going on. I know, it's crazy. So I'm pretty putting it out there. I've already written something. I've already written something, but I've I've got like three or four more ideas. Oh, chill.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:30

My chapter is already done.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:32

Are you serious? God bless.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:34

I can't wait to read it.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:35

So, Julie, welcome, Julie, to the club. That's great. Julie, Julie, Julie. I just like posting it. Yeah, that's something I'm supposed to do anyway.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:47

I'm posting the link, the form. What'd you say? She's posting the form. What'd you say, Julie? I'm posting the form. Oh, I'm posting the form. So for all of you, make sure you lock in your chapter. She has a certain amount of people, and people are signing up.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:05

Good. Marquita, you know. I'm I'm freezing up. I can't get to you know. I I got I I see you. I I'm gonna come on, I'm gonna come on a live program. I'm gonna find myself a dinosaur mask or something. A dinosaur one?

SPEAKER_06 1:15:26

Dinosaur, tech dinosaur. Okay, we're gonna talk about doing a course for basic stuff, just basic stuff. Thank you for that, Jermaine. Thank you very much, Jermaine, for that. And uh, I just look forward to our uh our returning writers, our new writers. It's it's it's it's gonna be good, and uh, and you're gonna meet some great people, and uh and we are gonna be lifelong friends. Like I know that Dion and Melinda and the rest of the ladies, it's like we're right forever and ever. Amen. You know, so uh oh my god, we have to get off because Charles has to come on because he's doing using this um at seven o'clock. Um, I think we covered everything. I just want to say um thank you, everybody uh in the chat at home. Um, thanks for following the brand, and thank you so much for um signing up and subscribing to uh the YouTube channel, which I'm working on. And uh and let's see, what else do we have going on? Oh you you guys know I hate asking anybody for anything, but uh can we talk with the whole butt coffee thing, Jermaine? Uh oh yes, I lost Jermaine. Yes, I'm pulling top frozen. My image is frozen. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you now. Okay, so I'm going to pull up to give everyone. I am can you hear me okay? My video's frozen, but can you hear me okay? Yes, yes. Can you hear me? Yes, okay. I'm so sorry. I'm going to pull into the screen so everyone has an opportunity to encourage Mark Quita to continue to do first Fridays. Can you hear me? Yes, can you hear me? Yes, is it choppy? No, okay, you're fine. Okay, good. I am I want everyone to be able to buy you a coffee as little as a dollar so we can keep this going. The first Fridays of the month. Is that fair enough? Is that fair enough? Woo!

SPEAKER_05 1:17:42

Yes, yes, that is buy media coffee.com forward slash ageless glamour girls. That is as little as a dollar. You put the little lips on there.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:57

Yes, that is so cute. Oh my gosh, thank you so much. It's like people always do it on their website, support me. And I I'm just I just here I am. I'm just you know, well, thank you so much. Thank you so much for giving me to this, Jermaine. I I appreciate that because uh baby need a new pair of shoes. I've just killed oh my god, okay. You can take it down now. Just kidding. Oh, thank you. She's nervous seriously, okay. We're gonna have to do this again um next month, and I'm gonna clear my calendar. So that would be October the third, right? Yep, yep. October 3rd. Be there, be square, and thank you guys because I you know, like I said, I just did this yesterday morning. I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna go live. And I didn't I put it in my social media, but I didn't run any ads or any of that stuff. And and you have to do stuff like that, you really, really do. Um, and so I just want to say thank you, thank you for your support, you know, with the brand, thank you, you know, support with the book, uh, with the podcast. Thanks for sharing your stories. Thanks for being here. Thank you for being here. Seriously, thank you. Uh, couldn't have done it without you for real, for real. So I love you, ladies. Anybody else have any closing thoughts? Any any closing thoughts?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:21

Keep doing what you're doing, keep doing what you needed.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:25

Full steamer girls is needed, and I see a vision of where it's going.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:30

Yes, talk about it, yes. Let it be talked about, executed. Let's put it out there to the universe. Let's put it out there to the universe. I know. All right, bye bye.