Episode Eighteen: The Byte - Milo

You're going to notice that episode 18 is a little different.

And that's because I interviewed my good friend Milo.

She's a fellow podcaster.

She has her own podcast named Milo Talks.

It's basically a girl and her dog travel across the U.

S.

In their van,

And they have conversations with strangers.

One of my favorite episodes is called I Think I Have a Boyfriend.

And it's a charming story about a stranger Milo meets on an airplane,

The conversation that they have,

And what happens after that.

Check it out if you have the time.

At any rate,

It became clear quite quickly who was in charge of this interview.

And it definitely wasn't me.

Thank you so much for letting yourself be interviewed.

Did you get the email?

I did.

Okay.

Why are you making that face?

Oh,

My God.

Okay,

So here's what's funny.

Now you can see my face.

And I'm very expressive.

We were in a really great way.

So I read it and went,

Oh,

Yeah,

I don't.

Here's the problem.

It goes back to what you and I,

I mean,

What one of the how the whole podcast thing started was I posed the question to Jenny,

Do you even believe in miracles?

Do you believe that we're getting signs?

Do you believe right?

And the reason the question came up is because I don't know if I believe any of that anymore.

And it's like,

It's like I really have been thinking about it because I read,

I read something else about your questions from somewhere else.

So I knew what you might be asking.

So when you sent the email,

I thought,

Well,

Maybe she's asking me something else.

But you didn't.

And you asked me the same thing I had read before.

And I thought,

Oh,

Shoot,

You know,

I guess what I wanted to do is I wanted to hear.

I wanted to hear why you why after all the education,

After all the things you've been through the things you've seen,

And you are still a believer.

Why?

Okay,

So this is really,

Really funny.

And it's you've totally flipped the interview around on me,

Which you're kind of devious and diabolical.

My favorite thing to say right now is,

Okay,

So I live in a van.

I live in a van with my dog,

Willie Nelson.

Um,

Gosh,

How do you describe this person?

I thankfully I don't have to do that very often.

Yeah,

I have no idea.

How would you describe me?

I mean,

One thing I would say is,

I mean,

You're a creative,

So you have your own podcast,

Milo talks.

And it's about conversations with people that you're meeting on your van and on the road.

The other thing I would say is brave,

Intrepid,

Able to be a linear thinker as far as your job goes.

And then of course,

You create you can break the rules to create art.

Basically your rule breaker.

Okay,

I like that.

Okay,

I like that.

I'm gonna make that a bumper sticker.

I'm a rule.

I definitely don't conform.

But yet I'm not also some anarchist on the fringe of society.

But yeah,

I like that.

I'm a rule breaker.

For me personally,

I had a very and I would be I would be a miss if I didn't at least say that.

At the beginning of 2019,

I made a decision to make myself healthy to get healthy because I was in bad relationships over and over again.

And I found that even if I had shifted my decision to do be with this person and this person,

And that person was drastically different than this other person,

They were still they were still failing.

And there was one common denominator one thread to all of them.

And it was me,

I was the thread.

So I knew whatever was happening,

Whatever to make these decisions that I was in these relationships that were really quite horrible on all different levels.

I needed to fix this.

So I made a promise in myself on 2019 to get well.

And part of that was therapy.

And like you talking it through.

And then the other part of it was I went to an acupuncturist of all strange things because my doctor wanted to put me on antidepressants and I didn't I was very depressed.

And I'd gone to a doctor tears in my eyes like for no reason.

Like I was literally sitting there going,

I have no reason to be sad.

I have no reason to be sad.

But when you feel sad,

And you know,

You shouldn't be sad,

And the world can tell you you shouldn't be sad.

That's just that's just that is depression.

And I was making myself get up every day.

I was still functioning,

But I didn't want to do the pills.

For those people who do them,

I applaud you.

I just knew I couldn't have it.

I didn't want it in my life.

It's just I just didn't want to be tied to it.

I didn't want the side effects of it.

And I knew I could do it without the pills.

So I went I,

I ran into this woman.

Funny enough,

I just ran into her recently again and thanked her for this.

She told me about her acupuncturist.

I wrote the acupuncturist as a do with depression.

She said yes.

I said okay,

I bought a package.

It was cheaper that way.

Session three,

She kept hitting this spot.

And every time she did,

I'm like,

Oh,

Whatever that is,

Like thinking about it brings tears to my eyes.

She would hit it and I would just go,

Oh,

That is really bad.

So she explained to me that that line was connected to maybe I don't remember in my lungs and I have lung problems.

Bottom line is on that day,

I became very emotional.

She walked out of the room and I lost it.

Just needles.

So I'm,

I'm laying very still because I have needles,

Needles everywhere.

And I am sobbing.

I am so I am more than sobbing.

This is a this was a exorcism of sadness that I literally vomited up in the room emotionally.

I just opened my mouth as far as I could open it and just sadness.

And then I fell asleep.

She came back in however long and she checked on me and then she came back to check the nails.

I didn't say anything.

I didn't tell her about it.

I just kind of wanted to kind of gather myself and just go sit in the car.

And I had a therapy appointment like right after that.

I mirrored the two so that I could do one and then the other when I was in town.

I want to just,

I'm so curious because when you talk about when the acupuncturist put the needle in,

You were pointing to the side of your neck almost behind your ear.

Is that okay?

So I need to tell you something that's actually really fascinating.

You'll find this fascinating.

So my first visit with the Quirindera,

She directly went into that area and started massaging.

And she said on both sides of the neck in that area,

When you suffer trauma in your life,

When someone slights you or insults you or when you're a kid,

If you're bullied or if someone makes fun of your dress or you lose your job,

Each one of those is a trauma of a sort.

And in the Quirindera world,

They're called sustos.

And she told me that every trauma that you suffer in your life is stored right there in the neck where you were pointing to,

Where the acupuncturist was working on you.

So you have a choice.

You can either be a ray of light,

Walk in spirit,

Live in spirit,

Feel in spirit.

I'm kind of pointing at you when I do that on the Zoom thing.

And let that rush over and splash on people.

Or you can be full of disease and negativity and you can let that fill you up and spill over onto people around you.

The choice is yours.

And then our other choice is either be around the person who's splashing us with goodness or the person who's splashing us with their negativity.

So these are all of our choices.

I'm trying not to let anything upset me these days because I've worked so hard on just being happy,

But I'll tell you,

I choose to walk and roll in life with people who are exuding that thing that I want,

Right?

I would rather be next to the person who just is constantly happy,

Like my dog.

He wakes up happy every day.

He greets people like he has missed them his entire life.

Like,

Where have you been?

I love you so much.

I want to be like my dog every day.

That's my goal.

And that's it.

That's episode 18 of Bite Size Blessings,

The podcast all about the magic and spirit that surrounds us if only we open our eyes to it.

And whether you choose to listen to our Bite Size offering for that five to 10 minutes of freedom in your day or the longer interviews,

We're grateful you're here.

I need to thank the lovely and creative Milo from the podcast,

Milo Talks.

And also my friend,

I need to thank her for being vulnerable and coming on the show today.

I also need to thank the creators of music used Frank Schroeder,

Kevin MacLeod,

Brian Holt's music,

Raphael Crux,

Winnie the Moog,

Chilled Music and Michael Hellman.

For complete attribution,

Please see the Bite Size Blessings website at bite sized blessings.

Com.

On the website,

You'll find links to other people,

Books and music I think will lift and inspire you to go out and live your best life.

Thank you for listening.

And here's my one request.

Be like Milo and never pass up the chance to talk to strangers.