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Let Me Tell You This About ThatHome-what is it for you?Send us a textHome—What is it for you?Delbert and Hess join together for their 54th podcast and talk about “home”. What is it?—it’s not always a structure, it’s a place where your heart is. A place where you belong, where you connect. Delbert is taking a book from her childhood today to her niece’s baby shower, We Were Tired of Living in the House, by Liesel Moak Skorpen. Four small children, a dog, and a cat move into a tree, pond, cave and seashore, but something unusual happens to make them move...
2025-10-2628 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatLegacies--big and smallSend us a textLegacies—big and smallLegacy is how we leave a footprint to the people that come after us. Thanks for joining us on our Sunday morning chat! Hess and Delbert had reunited with their Barkley Village this past week. They enjoyed their time together—especially the conversations around the table. They also experienced important legacies of Kentucky—horses, the land and bourbon! They toured Keeneland Racecourse, they visited Hess at her farm, they went to the races, and they toured Makers Mark distillery in Loretto Ky. Legacy can come in man...
2025-10-1930 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatWe grow when we do the hard thingsSend us a textWe grow when we do the hard thingsHess is back from a trip in France, and Delbert is back on the green couch today to talk to you about life—Join us in this chat. They had watched a video of Kara Lawson, Duke women’s basketball coach, telling her players that they should never wait for things to get easier. She tells them it won’t—but doing the hard things, will make it easier for you to do the hard things in the future. Delbert and Hess have talked a l...
2025-10-1229 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatSelf CareSend us a textSelf Care—This is a previously recorded podcast.Hess and Delbert talk about how important self care is for our lives. We have to listen to ourselves. Delbert hit the “wall” after a very busy time, as she was walking her GrandDogs down the alley. She went home, cooked herself some “soul food” (for her)—Linguini and clams, and binge watched her feel good series, Ugly Betty. She did her laundry-returned calls and emails, and went to bed at 5:30. After the following day, she was recharged.Self Care is so import...
2025-10-0529 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatNeurotransmitters--the Brain Bridge to Possibility!Send us a textNeurotransmitters—the Brain Bridge to PositivityHess and Delbert feel energized when they talk about possibility. They wanted to follow up and talk about it more after last week’s Podcast. In their Sunday chat this morning, Hess explains how we can move from trauma to resiliency. We can use the neuroplasticity of the brain to rewire and get out of the “ditch”. Trauma lives in the limbic area of the brain and stays there if it is not processed in a healthy way. The trauma lives on in the re-triggering with anythin...
2025-09-2831 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatPossibility--Your ReframeSend us a textPossibility—You Reframe #49!Delbert and Hess have a Sunday afternoon chat today. Hess just got back from boating with a friend on Dale Hollow Lake. They are “lit up” and excited today to talk about Possibility. After Hess finished college—her Dad asked her what she was going to do, and when she told him she wanted to start a fruit market in Lexington, he responded, “Look into it.” That was such a positive open response, Hess looked into it, and opened up that summer. Naive is NOT a negative, naive means you have t...
2025-09-2229 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatUnity--We are all in this togetherSend us a textUnity—We are all in this together Our 48th podcast!It’s been a week where hard things have happened. Delbert and Hess want to do a U-Turn like we talked about last week, and to move into Unity—. We are better when we cross the bridge into the other’s world. Put good energy and love out there. Be the sparkles on the wall—like Hess has her window covering that the light reflects rainbow colors on the wall—like Delbert’s sandals with shiny crystals that reflected sparkles around the house she was...
2025-09-1423 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatRun Towards It!Send us a textEpisode 47! Run Towards It!Hess and Delbert were inspired this week by the passing of the mother of one of their classmates from Sacred Heart. Maureen Walker was a musician, a teacher and a family counselor in Louisville Kentucky—also she was Delberts senior year cheerleading coach. She had a private practice in Louisville for 40 years. She would see a need, and fill it. It is what all of us must do. One step at a time. We take what we have experienced, oftentimes something that is very difficult, and we move f...
2025-09-0732 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatHonor the Hard and Make a U-Turn toward LoveSend us a textPodcast 46! Honor the Hard and Make a U-turn towards LoveHess and Delbert commiserate about the news headlines of the week. People starving in Gaza, another school shooting, ICE holding people without cause. It is tough and hard. One of their classmates from Sacred Heart was the mother of the Minnesota shooter. Their compassion goes out to her. Hess finds solace in the words and wisdom of Buddhist practitioner Tara Brach. “Don’t be dismayed by the brokenness of the world, all things break. And all things can be mended not with time as...
2025-08-3128 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatFriends--Connection is what its aboutSend us a textPodcast 45! Friends-Connection, it’s what its about!Hess heard today that “connection is the opposite of depression”. That is something that Delbert and Hess learned last week from Jay Davidson, director of the Healing Place Recovery Center. He said “Addiction is the disease of isolation.” Delbert and Hess talk today about friends. Old friends, new friends. Friendships evolve over time. We have neighbor friends, school friends, friends from our kids when they are growing up. Hess got 12 new friends from pickleball by running into an old friend sitting next to her at a concert. Fr...
2025-08-2430 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatJay Davidson-The Healing Place-The Road to RecoverySend us a textJay Davidson-The Miracle on Market Street-The road to RecoveryHess and Delbert welcome Jay Davidson, the man that made the Healing Place Recovery what it is today. He has been at the Healing Place for 34 years, from its start as the Father Morgan Homeless shelter to now a 500 bed campus for men and 250 campus for women. They boast a 65% success rate in recovery-taking the person through detox, and 148 days later to the place of continuance of care, or some call after care. 85% of the 125 employees are alumnae of the program. Recovery is n...
2025-08-1740 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatMentorship: Learning from others who have learned from others.Send us a textHess and Delbert have a great conversation this morning about mentoring. When we mentor, it helps someone else, but it also helps ourselves. Hess just attended the Freedom Dinner for the Healing Place the night before. The Healing Place is a free addiction and recovery facility in Louisville and now in Campbellsville Ky. They honored the past director Jay Davidson for his over 35 year career at the Healing Place. There are 125 employees and 85% are alumnae. Hess read that the International Space Station crew safely splashed down yesterday morning. They were replaced last week by a n...
2025-08-1027 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatThe Swirl of Chaos-Jump Out!Send us a textThe Swirl of Chaos—Jump Out!Join our Sunday morning chat where we discuss feeling the chaos in the world right now. News has been a literal tsunami, earth quakes, wildfires in Canada, starving kids in Gaza, a continued war in Ukraine, and politics not serving the people that are hurting. The old show Get Smart on TV called the enemy “Chaos”— It does us no good to stay in it’s spin. What can help us get out of it—what helps you get out of it? Calling a friend, resting and reju...
2025-08-0327 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatPossibilities--Moving into a Better PlaceSend us a textThis morning on our Sunday chat, Hess and Delbert add onto last weeks podcast that was on Imagination—what can come next is possibilities. When we sit with what is, and are able to feel it, we can think of new ways things could be. We can see opportunities of changing something, doing something new, or even just looking at it in a new way. It begins with wondering, being with it, focusing, then moving into creativity. We change things for ourselves in our own personal world. We can change things that would be good...
2025-07-2727 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatImagination--Opens Our Hearts to the Good!Send us a textDelbert and Hess love, love this topic—Imagination! In this Sunday morning chat, join us for our discussion about imagination. Imagination is the bridge from the reactivity of the limbic brain—fight, flight, freeze—into the broad expanse of the potential and unlimited possibilities in the universe! We again, talk about Delbert’s Papaw, and how imagination kept him alive in the 104th division of the U.S. Army in Europe in WW 2. Papaw had a wife and family to come home to. He continued that practice in all of his life, and ins...
2025-07-2030 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatOur Tribes and Villages--Send us a textDelbert and Hess have their Sunday morning chat today about what having a tribe or village in our lives does for us. They are varied. This week Delbert was grateful for her Kentucky Select tribe of mentors and colleagues that she works with in real estate, grateful for her village of family, the village of friends. Hess is on her boat, the Relation Ship on the Rideau Canal, finishing up a two week cruise with her friend Melinda. She belongs to a tribe of people that own the same type of vessel—a Rosboro...
2025-07-1330 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatOur Independent Memories--July 4thSend us a textDelbert and Hess, from their respective places in their lives, and in their memories discuss the 4th of July. Hess informs the conversation of the history of the 4th of July and how it came about. They both speak of what they like the most. Delbert has a top five, Family, food, music and water. Fireworks being last and not as important. The fireworks are something that always surrounded us, but sometimes caused fear and pain! With Delbert being the oldest of seven, she recalls her father being the sergeant of safety. The kids ha...
2025-07-0625 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatBe a Helper, It Makes Life Better!Send us a textIn this week’s Sunday conversation, Delbert and Hess reflect on the helpers of the world. Hess has had quite the list of things on the farm that needed to be repaired the last 6 weeks—her geothermal furnace, the brakes on her boat trailer, and then this week, the well pump on the farm and other components needed replaced. Delbert made the point that helpers can get good feelings by helping—an endorphin rush by helping, and also by figuring out solutions to problems. Helpers come in all sizes. There are the police, the nurs...
2025-06-2927 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatPride Month! Be Proud and Own Who You Are!Send us a textHess and Delbert invite you to the celebration of Pride Month. They both share their own experiences of their life, having been born in 1958. Hess talks about the Stonewall riot that created a shift towards gay rights. There is a National Monument in Christoper Park in NYC in its commemoration. You don’t know what you don’t know, so Hess talks about how confusing it was to her, not to see any representation in her childhood with who she was. It made her difficult for her to even know who she was because n...
2025-06-2232 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatLiving Wholeheartedly Can Get You ThroughSend us a textDelbert and Hess just got back to Kentucky after being with their tribe at Bethany Beach, Delaware. They came back with the spirit of living wholeheartedly. They all read Brené Browns the Gifts of Imperfection before they got together. They talked about letting go of fear of what people think and moving into authenticity; moving from perfectionism into self compassion; moving from numbing and powerlessness to a resilient spirit; from scarcity and fear of the dark into gratitude; from the need of certainty to listening to your intuition and have trusting fa...
2025-06-1633 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatJust Be Yourself says Beazie!Send us a textHess and Delbert are together in Bethany Beach Delaware. They are there for a weeklong retreat with some high school friends. Adventure, lots to do, the beach, good meals, and doing work with the book The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. They share how the got there, getting up in the middle of the night for their 5:15 am flight. Crossing the beautiful Chesapeake Bay and beautiful farmland, they land in the beach condo. Beazie gives the tip for the next podcast about being who you are. Checking in with how you feel, what is...
2025-06-0827 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatLiving in the beautiful circles of LifeSend us a textOut of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it. -- Joseph CambellIn this episode, Delbert and Hess share their recent experiences of noticing the circles. The circles that begin, even in the face of some thing h...
2025-06-0132 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatFinding Balance with Connection-Send us a textDelbert and Hess talk about connection helping them process and re-balance. Delbert shared what she and her daughter Sophie love to do—it is a daily exercise from the book the Artists Way by Julia Cameron—You do what is called Morning Pages, and you write—stream of consciousness, without any self editing, whatever shows up— This is a great tool to help you balance, help get your creativity going, helping you get a great start for the day. Hess shared the Liz Gilbert exercise from her Substack. You ask Unconditional Love a question. A...
2025-05-2527 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatPrepare and PivotSend us a textDelbert and Hess continue their Sunday Chats, talking about their lives. In this episode they talk about experiencing what life brings to you, be it circumstance or bad weather. They both were sophomores in high school when a tornado hit their hometown of Louisville. Delbert was shopping at Oxmoor, and Hess and her mother had pulled over and found shelter in an office. The keys that they have found is to always be prepared, and then to always be flexible to pivot when something happens. Hess loves some Brené Brown--and she reminds us in her...
2025-05-1834 minLet Me Tell You This About ThatWelcome to the Lead Role in Your Movie!Send us a textIn this episode Hess and Delbert share a life theory, that you are the lead character in your life movie. You have to play that role with true authenticity. There is no other person who can play it! Choose the themes and values that are most important, attract people around you who can play those supportive roles. You are allowed mistakes, that is how we learn. You can ask for help, you don’t have to know it all or do it all. It's just doing the next best thing, and then then next bes...
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