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Hey there, and welcome to the 
Planner Pals Podcast, a podcast 

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hosted by two true planner pals.
My name is Mark and I go by Mark

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your pages. 
And I'm Jess or Jessie Curran 

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and Oh my gosh, I I don't think 
I'm ready to do this episode 

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because just take me back. 
I've been home for less than 24 

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hours and I'm already ready to 
like, book my flight for next 

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year because Go Wild was, well, 
I'm not going to spoil it 

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because we're going to talk 
about whether it was worth it, 

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but like spoilers, it was great.
Yeah, this year was 

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exceptionally awesome. 
I will talk about through the 

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points, especially around some 
topics of discussion while we 

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were there too, around the size 
and it being smaller than last 

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year, a little bit of a 
different switch up on the back 

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end of planning Figs. 
But from my perspective as an 

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attendee this year, I actually 
felt like it was better than 

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last year, but for like a few 
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I think just one of my favorite 
parts of this year was our 

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opportunity to speak with others
behind the scenes of Go Wild. 

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This was an opportunity that 
Jess and I got when we were 

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asked to speak this year in her 
own session. 

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We got Jess up on stage and you 
did amazing. 

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Oh. 
My God, thank you. 

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Because it didn't feel amazing 
at the time. 

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At the time it was just like, 
it's a panic. 

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Oh my God, how many words did I 
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Especially when people send you 
the little clips and such and 

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you're like, Oh my gosh, do I 
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Which you'd think I'd be used to
doing the whole like videoing 

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and editing and such, but it 
just feels different when it's 

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in a room larger than this one. 
It's definitely a totally 

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different feeling. 
We talked about that a lot. 

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I was like, Jess, you're OK. 
You literally do live streams 

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and YouTube videos. 
You're like, yeah, in a room by 

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myself talking to a camera. 
But you did fantastic. 

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And even we're on top of that, 
Jess and I got to interview and 

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talk with people behind the 
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So the way that we're going to 
set this up, this episode is 

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really going to be focused on 
our experience as attendees of 

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Go Wild Indie 2025. 
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talking and we did some 
interviews with some of the 

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volunteers from Go Wild, which 
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volunteers because you see them 
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feel like I got a much better 
sense of how important and 

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integral they are to actual Go 
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Yeah, I very much understand 
that feeling because when you're

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attending is what I'm gonna say 
is like just an attendee. 

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And I don't mean it in like a 
negative way, but when you're 

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not really paying attention to 
it, they just blend into the 

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background so much. 
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to the power of the volunteer 
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They're in the background making
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for us as attendees to use in 
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And unless you're actively 
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just like slip out of a room, 
come back with a bunch of stuff 

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and you wouldn't even notice. 
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actually really important to 
have the volunteer, so we'll 

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kick right into it. 
So the fun part about this year 

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is that they did things a bit 
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had meet and greets and I had 
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were meeting and greeting at 
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It turns out we were meeting and
greeting at 3:30 PM on my 

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flight. 
And I'm like, Jess, I don't know

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if I'm going to make it hold 
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You got this. 
And I arrived and I got into a 

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car and I got the hotel like a 
bat out of hell, my suitcase 

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running up the escalators. 
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the volunteers. 
They were like, Mark, you're 

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supposed to be in the planner 
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I was like, show me the way. 
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And it was a wonderful greet and
beating. 

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And I was like, Jess, I'm here. 
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Yeah, it was exactly like that. 
And I wasn't really too sure 

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where I was supposed to be 
going, but the team was very 

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good to just kind of like, you 
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direction without kind of like 
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you there. 
I'm very respectful about the 

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fact that I had no idea what I 
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Well, you did fantastic. 
You held down the Fort. 

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I felt like it went by so fast. 
I mean, I got there and there 

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was already a line. 
Like we were asked to move our 

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line and start to curve the 
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There are so many people already
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you and and all of us here. 
And it was just it was amazing. 

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I don't have any other words. 
I was just smiling the whole 

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entire time. 
My face started to hurt after a 

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while. 
I was like, I hope my smile 

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doesn't start to look fake 
because my cheeks are failing. 

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What, you mean like me on this 
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There's no in between. 
There's there's Jess and then 

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there's Jess. 
There's yeah, that I I don't 

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have a happy balance in terms of
like my attentive face versus 

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like my resting bitch face. 
It's all right. 

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I know that it's not that. 
So it works out OK. 

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But yeah, I mean, going right 
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start things off not in a 
negative light. 

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It's very positive at first. 
But like the planner fair was 

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definitely totally different 
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I remember last year walking 
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just being so overwhelming. 
There was so many different 

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vendors. 
There was like a blow up all 

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balloon thing over here and 
there was a lights over here and

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there was a llama here in 
Showgirls over here. 

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I mean, it was just like 
Everything Everywhere once and I

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remember feeling very 
overwhelmed and when I watched 

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in the planet this time, I want 
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just like such a vast difference
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And I don't know if that was a 
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comes to like the vendor fair 
part of it because I still feel 

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relatively new. 
I feel like after next year, I 

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can't say that I'm new, like I'm
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But what were your thoughts on 
that comparing especially DC 

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too, because that was your first
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this year? 
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definitely have a different vibe
to it walking in and if we're 

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thinking about like, you know, 
was it worth it kind of a thing?

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We didn't have a lot of vendor 
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things. 
And honestly, I wasn't sad about

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it because I don't really want 
to go to be like further enabled

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to buy stationary, especially 
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bunch of it just from being at 
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Whether it's from the sponsored 
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swag drops or anything like 
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The suitcase is going to be 
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I don't need to like help it 
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things also. 
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don't don't really see a lot of 
these stationary pieces in the 

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wild because we don't have a lot
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I'm based. 
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Michaels and Hobby Lobby or like
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I don't even know the names of 
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And if I knew that, I'd have 
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So walking into the Plan Affair 
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simply gilded section and the 
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practically because everybody 
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kind of a thing. 
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have maybe a couple of the 
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having a decent sized queue, but
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there were less people here, any
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chill and way more manageable. 
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an extrovert, but sometimes when
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with quite a large crowd, it can
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I didn't feel as overwhelmed 
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was necessarily just from there 
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if it's just like I've done this
rodeo before kind of a thing 

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because now I am a veteran and 
it's been my third year. 

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I think it might be a bit of 
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I don't know the actual numbers,
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talking both during Go Wild and 
afterwards that there was like 

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almost like half the amount of 
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than there was last year in 
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I don't know if that number is 
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I mean, it was definitely much 
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I think that was almost for the 
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we'll talk about today, which is
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I felt like I talked to a lot 
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I felt like I had a more 
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the queue lines being shorter 

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because, Oh my gosh, last year, 
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alone, we were in through the 
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again, I was like, is this 
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And then this year there was, I 
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there was no line and even the 
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did not feel as nuts or intense 
as last year, which I honestly 

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see is a good thing. 
It also just made it feel more 

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intimate and kind of like you 
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more conversations with people. 
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conversations were less rushed 
because you didn't feel like you

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had to get around to everybody. 
Not to say that like you have to

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talk to every single person 
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conferencing wrong or anything, 
but being able to just take your

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time with the interactions with 
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them was just a pleasant change 
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Again, like I kind of mentioned 
being the third time around, 

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maybe I'm just better trained, 
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big kind of assistive point by 
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once this year where last year I
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I feel like unless you had like 
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extra exuberant about you that 
made you stand out, I wasn't 

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necessarily noticing any certain
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But this year, like, I was 
seeing multiple people. 

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I remembered some people's 
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And you know, for me, like, 
that's really difficult for me 

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to do. 
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was like I was making more 
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this year than previously, which
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I think also with it being kind 
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and focus and such, it was 
actually so lovely getting to 

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talk to the people who were on 
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call like regular quote, quote 
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To the extent where I was having
an interaction with one person 

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who is part of a panel and I 
didn't realize until I was is on

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the way to the airport after the
event that they had been the 

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person on the panel. 
I was like, Oh my God, is that 

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like the same person? 
I did not even realize. 

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I'm like, oh, I met planner 
royalty and I didn't even know. 

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So let's start to talk about the
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something this year again, I 
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wild for like in a totally 
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I think the opportunity for us 
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really important, but something 
that we actually talked to 

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Jasmine about was the importance
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how they actually make Wild 
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While like, yes, she's like the 
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like organizing, like she's not 
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What do you love about having 
volunteers come in and just be a

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part of this? 
There's so many cool things that

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go on behind the scenes. 
You know, I think, well-being a 

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volunteer, I think it's just 
such an excellent way, 

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especially for those people that
are introverts that might, you 

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know, feel a little anxious 
about sitting at a table with 

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just random people. 
It's kind of like this ready 

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made group where they can, 
they're they're part of it no 

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matter what. 
They're all part of the team, 

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you know, and they play an 
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Role. 
In the production of the events,

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because we really can't do any 
of this without them. 

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You know, every single thing, I 
mean that you see it, it's, it 

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has the volunteers, you know, 
all of their efforts and, and 

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it's really because how 
passionate they become about it 

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that we're able to do this. 
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organization in many ways, so 
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It's amazing. 
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They were like putting together 
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station areas. 
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So it was so cool to see that. 
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like the volunteers, like the 
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they're like, you know, the 
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any of the events, they do shout
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mayhem that's going on, I don't,
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necessarily appreciate how much 
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volunteer work. 
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here to enjoy the conference and
be part of it and all of that 

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kind of stuff. 
But they're also doing a whole 

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bunch of extra work that we 
don't necessarily get to see and

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appreciate unless you get this 
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or it's called out by the people
who go on stage. 

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I know we've talked about it a 
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being able to go backstage this 
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kind of first hand was really 
exciting for me. 

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Also just like trying to go in 
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talk to you guys? 
Please don't let me interrupt 

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because you've obviously got 
really important things to do. 

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But everybody was so nice and 
very accommodating of us, like 

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putting a camera in their face 
and talking to them. 

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No, they did a good job. 
So we asked them a few 

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questions. 
So Jess and I split duties 

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during Go Wild because, you 
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and that's how we do that. 
So I got to ask them a few 

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questions upfront and the first 
time we had to have fun with, 

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you know, you got to break the 
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somebody during the putting 
things together, which if you're

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watching this on YouTube or the 
video podcast, you'll see people

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actually doing things as we're 
talking to them. 

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You can't stop. 
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them is what is their current 
favorite planner product? 

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I would say just any of the 
stickers because I like to, I 

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like to be very creative with, 
especially with my, my planning 

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and my budgeting with the, the 
various journals that I've kind 

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of gotten over the years, you 
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of being at some of the planning
conventions here. 

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So I am this year using a just 
scribble. 

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I'm loving that layout. 
So I'm I'm trying to see it. 

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That's my. 
Piece I like that I like that it

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won't be your planner piece we 
none of. 

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Us. 
No, no, we switched that too 

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much. 
My favorite planner product is 

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stickers. 
It's a big sticker group. 

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Mainly because I don't have time
to really write down what I'm 

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doing, but I do have time to 
like pull out the sticker and 

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put it there and then it just 
saves things for later. 

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I'm going to have to say my 
pens, OK? 

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I really like the gel pen. 
OK. 

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Any certain brand that you're in
love with right now? 

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Zebra, you know who's doing his 
thing? 

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You're well. 
It makes me happy. 

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I love it. 
So I am obsessed with, well, 

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Benici cousin Good. 
Choice. 

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Good choice. 
I have an unhealthy amount of 

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washi. 
All of us, right? 

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No, it's really an. 
Oh, it's really about. 

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I love how straight faced you 
are too. 

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You're like, no, no, I have a 
problem. 

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It's a problem think. 
Probably my pens. 

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We're having interest. 
Serasa right now. 

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Yeah, that's a good one. 
The mark on ones are we doing 

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with like the other like colored
ones, like the vintage colors, 

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have you tried those? 
No hardest question so far, 

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everyone's answered. 
What is your current favorite 

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plan or product? 
I blame you, Mark. 

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Fountain pen. 
Yes, I. 

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Am now. 
Obsessed and have spent way too 

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much money on fountain. 
Pens, but I love them. 

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They're gently on the wrist so 
my longer writing sessions don't

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hurt, and I love that. 
So I'm falling down the rabbit 

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hole with those pet tapes and I 
love it. 

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They're beautiful and they're 
they're different. 

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They I mean. 
It's like a cross between 

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stickers and washi tape. 
I like stickers. 

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Big sticker. 
Yeah. 

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Big sticker Grill. 
Awesome. 

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Stickers will forever. 
Be one of my. 

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Favorite planner products, even 
if my daughter's try to steal my

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stickers all the time. 
They end up in like the inside 

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window of your car and you're 
like, where did you get that 

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one? 
That was expensive. 

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They've been surprisingly good 
about that, but I've also been 

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managing to get just little 
things here and there, like I 

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got a Dino pen for my 7 year old
from the PIP 6 bag. 

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She'll be so excited. 
As somebody who doesn't, I don't

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know, use stickers as often as 
others, I mean, I'm getting 

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there. 
I'm using stickers a little bit 

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more liberally, but I still have
major sticker anxiety. 

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It was still nice to hear that 
there is such a love and 

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appreciation for stickers out 
there. 

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But of course, that was just an 
icebreaker question. 

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We had to get into the hard 
hitting stuff. 

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So we also wanted to know from 
them why they decided to be a 

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volunteer. 
For me, it's kind of giving back

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because this community helped me
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and so it was something. 
That I went to when I was like. 

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In dark places. 
So I feel like this is a good 

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way of getting back to the 
community. 

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I am not a Outfront type of 
person. 

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I love the bat and I love to be 
able to help and see everybody's

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face when they see all the magic
stuff. 

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You're like the behind the 
scenes at Disney when they see 

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the characters and you get like 
so happy. 

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They're like, look how happy 
they are. 

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I did that I did deal with that 
right. 

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So this is my first Go Wild and 
my first time volunteering. 

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So I figured this is my a new 
way for me to experience Go 

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wild. 
So this is my first year 

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volunteering for Go Wild, but I 
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conferences in general just 
because you get to make new 

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friends, meet new people, and 
then you feel like part of your 

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heart and soul goes into this 
and into everybody having a good

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time. 
So tell us a little bit about 

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why you decided to volunteer and
what you like about it so far. 

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I just wanted to see what the 
behind the scenes was of Go Wow 

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because I seen on social media 
how it is and wanted to 

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participate. 
I like volunteering because I 

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like helping and like getting 
stuff done. 

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Makes me really happy and 
helping other people. 

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Like if I know the answer to a 
question that they need to go 

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somewhere or whatever, I like to
be the one that's open to answer

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that. 
I like the camaraderie really. 

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I mean, it's, it's fun to, you 
know, just be part of something 

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that's really just bigger than 
me. 

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So this is my first year 
volunteering and attending. 

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Oh fantastic. 
So I figured this was the 

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easiest way to meet people. 
My favorite part about 

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volunteering at Go Wild is just 
doing all the things. 

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So like talking with everybody 
is definitely fun, but being 

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engaged in the action, like 
behind the scene action and 

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everything that goes into it, I.
I love it. 

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I feel very productive and 
especially like how our friend 

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John said, like you get to build
camaraderie with other people, 

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especially new people, and so 
like you're engaging in similar 

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tasks and helping each other 
out. 

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So it goes a little bit beyond 
of just the normal, typical go 

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wild experience. 
What? 

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Do you like so far about being a
volunteer for Go Wild? 

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It's a lot of fun. 
I was coming to this alone. 

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I don't have any planner friends
in my area. 

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I'm making some but so I it's 
kind of the same thing A couple 

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people have said now is that. 
It was it was a way to force 

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myself to kind of meet people 
and talk to people and just have

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fun. 
It was so heartwarming to hear 

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them answer the way that they 
did because you can tell that 

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it's super genuine. 
Even the people who was their 

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very first year, I loved that 
they talked about making friends

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as volunteers, that some of them
are very introverted or they 

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weren't really knowing anything 
too much about Go Wild or the 

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community as they saw this as a 
fantastic way to get involved. 

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And that was probably just one 
of my favorite parts. 

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Or, you know, they're sitting 
there talking like I made a 

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friend and I didn't think I was 
going to or I wasn't sure. 

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And like, this is really 
awesome. 

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And I and I got that same 
feeling this year out in the 

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crowd and like at our tables 
too. 

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Like there's something magical. 
I don't know what it was. 

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No, I, I loved the hearing, 
especially from the introverted 

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people, right? 
Because as we kind of touched 

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on, it can be overwhelming when 
there are so many people there. 

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And even though we had a smaller
attendee list for this year, it 

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can still be overwhelming if 
you're going for your first time

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or by yourself or something. 
So we had a couple of volunteers

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who said that they were coming 
by themselves. 

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It was a really good opportunity
for them to not only help and 

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give back because that's lovely,
but just being the person who 

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knows the answers. 
So it's like easier, I suppose, 

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to have those interactions with 
people without feeling like you 

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have to go and barge into 
people's conversations or 

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shoulder tap and be like, hey, 
can I be your friend or 

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anything? 
They're just going to come up to

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you because they already have 
questions. 

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And it gives you an opportunity 
to like kick off a volley kind 

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of a thing. 
And there's some veterans to 

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have been here for years. 
Like I felt like it's like when 

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you go to like Home Home Depot, 
it's like I've worked here for 

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eight years. 
Like I feel like some of them 

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have pins that they're just 
keeping on their lanyards that 

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they replace every year. 
And it shows how much of A go 

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Wild veteran they are. 
And they're so helpful. 

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And even some of them too, like 
I remember a few of them from 

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last year. 
They remembered me, they 

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remembered us. 
They were just like, it's just 

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it feels so good, especially 
when you're nervous going 

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backstage right before you go up
for someone to be like, you're 

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gonna do great and be your 
cheerleader. 

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That isn't, you know, your 
planner pal partner. 

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That's you like Jess. 
Breathe. 

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Here's a bag to hyperventilate 
in. 

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We go on in two. 
Yeah, I just appreciated there 

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was one part there where we were
standing backstage. 

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I'm like, Nope, can't do it. 
I'm going for a walk and you're 

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like, OK, bye. 
Just like doing laps behind the 

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stage. 
You have to do that. 

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I mean, I have like a jumping 
thing that I do that just helps 

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me get out, like all the nerves.
And I'm sure everyone looks at 

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me, but I was just like, I'm 
already a ball of energy. 

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So it has to expel somewhere 
because as soon as I get up on 

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stage, it like comes rushing 
back at you, but in a different 

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way because then you're just, 
you're just there. 

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And you and I did a really good 
job the night before, got a 

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choreographing a little bit, but
then as soon as we got up on 

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stage like that, all went out 
the door. 

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Literally, it's like we wrote 
out all of these notes and I'm 

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like, I think I looked at them 
once and that was when you were 

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speaking so that I would know 
when you were done and when I 

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was supposed to like queue in or
whatever. 

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But Oh dear. 
Well, you did great. 

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I mean, I think the biggest 
thing that I've gotten out of it

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as well kind of post is the 
feedback that we got instantly 

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afterwards. 
And we'll again talk a lot more 

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about like our session 
specifically and others in the 

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follow up episode to this. 
But again, that community part 

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of it was great. 
And one of my favorite things 

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and you and I talked about this.
We were like, I think we're 

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doing a good thing here is 
people were like your chemistry 

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is awesome. 
Like how did this happen? 

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And getting to like share the 
story of how we were just 

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Instagram bullet journal friends
that have turned into planner 

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pals that Co host this amazing 
podcast that has this growing 

449
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,480
incredible community within 
itself. 

450
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,040
Like it just overjoice me. 
No, I really like to see the 

451
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,680
kind of overlap between the Go 
Wild community and the Planner 

452
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,320
Pals community. 
Like, obviously not everybody 

453
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:52,920
who goes to Go Wild is a planner
pal. 

454
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,200
But by being there and being 
there, like as the podcast, it 

455
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,880
gave us more of an opportunity 
to like make new planner pal 

456
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,880
friends and bring them into our 
circle. 

457
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,400
Like you can sit with us. 
No, it was really cool. 

458
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,600
Some of my favorite 
conversations though, were the 

459
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,720
ones where they were like your 
fountain pen episode is my 

460
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,200
absolute favorite and you pen 
abled me and I bought 4 or 5 

461
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,000
fountain pen and I still always 
just laugh at that one because I

462
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,800
think of all the episodes, 
that's the one that you're least

463
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,600
like about because you're like, 
I mean, I have one but like I'm 

464
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,360
not as enthusiastic as y'all. 
Yeah, this is just mox. 

465
00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:27,760
Time to monologue and I'll just 
sit there and be like, Oh yeah, 

466
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,520
nibs. 
It's it's really amazing. 

467
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,360
So thanks to all of the planner 
pals that are new or if you've 

468
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:37,240
been OGS from the very beginning
and you were there. 

469
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,640
I just wanted to say thank you 
because it really made me feel 

470
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,280
good. 
I mean, I still feel like we're 

471
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,760
a newer podcast because we're a 
little over a year and a half 

472
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,920
now at this point. 
Like we were looking back on 

473
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,240
videos because you posted your 
vlog from last Go Wild while we 

474
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,640
were at Go Wild I think. 
Yep, The one that said like, Oh 

475
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,480
yeah, we're like 6 episodes in 
right now when we were like real

476
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,440
baby baby. 
And then I have to remember like

477
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,960
that's 12 weeks though, because 
we do one every two weeks. 

478
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,840
So you were already like 1/4 of 
a year old at that point, but it

479
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,080
still felt very new and fresh. 
It still feels very new and 

480
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,600
fresh. 
I mean, heck, we got on to 

481
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,120
record today. 
We're like, how do we intro 

482
00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,400
this? 
Like what do we say? 

483
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,760
We are professionals. 
We are professionals. 

484
00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,720
Of course, the volunteers who 
are sitting at the tables with 

485
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,360
us and like going backstage and 
grabbing swag bits and such. 

486
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,960
There's only kind of like one 
type of volunteer we have for 

487
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,200
this event because we also have 
all of the amazing sponsors who 

488
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,600
bring us all of this awesome 
stuff to play around with. 

489
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,240
One of those being the table 
sponsors or the people who on 

490
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,720
the first day they've like 
decked out one of the tables 

491
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,160
that sits 10 people with a whole
bunch of swag and goodies and 

492
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,000
awesome bits. 
And I think they're getting to 

493
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,280
see that set up process. 
That was really fun because when

494
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,480
you get there on the first day 
and you know, you go into the 

495
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,440
room and such, you see all of 
the amazingness. 

496
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,560
It can be first of all kind of 
overwhelming. 

497
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:51,800
It's like, Oh my gosh, where am 
I gonna sit? 

498
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,640
And 2nd, it can kind of take 
like a backseat in terms of like

499
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,480
who put this together? 
Like who was the one who came up

500
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,200
with the concept and like got 
all of these goodies for us and 

501
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,640
laid them all out and such. 
So getting to see them do that 

502
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,000
process, that was really cool. 
I. 

503
00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,280
Mean the other part was 
definitely us talking to them 

504
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,720
because similar to the 
volunteers, these are businesses

505
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,240
that are sponsoring these 
tables. 

506
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,200
Not only that, but they are 
loading them up with different 

507
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,400
and there are bigger companies 
that are there, like Zebra was 

508
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,800
there again this year. 
It's always fantastic to see 

509
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,240
them. 
They had their tables filled 

510
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,200
with stuff. 
Archer and Olive had their 

511
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,720
table, which was stunning. 
Everything about that table. 

512
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,960
I wanted to sit there. 
Jazz, I don't know about you, 

513
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,520
but I wanted to sit there. 
But I was like, I already have 

514
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,800
all of this stuff. 
It was literally that I'm just 

515
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,080
like, Oh my God, it's so 
beautiful. 

516
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,600
I could totally sit there and 
like, the thing for me is that 

517
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,480
when I sit at a table, I want to
know that I'm going to get, if 

518
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:41,960
we're thinking about is it worth
it? 

519
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,160
I'm going to get value out of 
it. 

520
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,120
It's going to be stuff that I'm 
actually actually going to use 

521
00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:46,960
kind of a thing. 
So I'm kind of looking at the 

522
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,240
tables thing about like, you 
know, would I use these items? 

523
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,000
How would I use these items? 
Some kind of thing. 

524
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,600
But given the fact that I have 
so many alternative products at 

525
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,760
this stage, which I love, don't 
get me wrong. 

526
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,200
I'm just like, we don't need 
more Jessica. 

527
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,760
And you, you can get the ones 
that you don't have if you 

528
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,040
really, really need to. 
But my favorite people to talk 

529
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,000
to though, like you kind of 
mentioned, were those small 

530
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,640
businesses, the ones who were 
possibly even there for their 

531
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,000
first time ago, wild, both as 
attendees and table sponsors. 

532
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,080
Those people like really just 
stepped up and decked out the 

533
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,920
tables in some of the most 
awesome and creative ways. 

534
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,280
I know we had like Danielle or 
Constance. 

535
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,960
I love her vibe. 
It's so bright and so fun. 

536
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,480
Daisy Chain Rebellion as well. 
I loved the pieces that they put

537
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,200
together with a little kind of 
like tiered box. 

538
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,960
In my mind, I call it a Snackle 
box. 

539
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,760
I know it's not a Snackle box. 
Is it a tackle box? 

540
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,200
I don't know. 
It has tears. 

541
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,320
I had a bunch of stickers and 
the designs were so stinking 

542
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:40,920
cute. 
So that was really cool to say 

543
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,280
to. 
Yeah, I think technically it's 

544
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,160
like a kit in Caboodle is what 
it's kind of have known for. 

545
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,320
I mean, when we were younger, 
like you would put like all your

546
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,560
makeup or your sticker things 
inside of there. 

547
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,840
I mean, you could use it a 
tackle box if you wanted to. 

548
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,320
But they shared a lot with us 
actually about their vibe and 

549
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,880
like what they were going for. 
So like, let's not talk for 

550
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,200
them. 
Let's have them explain it 

551
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:00,800
themselves. 
Hi. 

552
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:06,080
My name is Jeanette, this is my 
sister Melissa, and we own Daisy

553
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,280
Chain Rebellion, A planter 
sticker company. 

554
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,600
This table is amazing, first of 
all, and I know you're only just

555
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,640
setting it up, which is amazing.
So tell us a little bit about 

556
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,360
what you all love so much, I 
guess about stickers and like, 

557
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:21,240
do you have a certain aesthetic 
or are you just like, what's 

558
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,320
inspiring you all right now? 
I love all things cute, but I 

559
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,600
also like all things quirky. 
I like for our stickers to 

560
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,920
actually be playful. 
I want to recapture a little bit

561
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,920
of what I loved about stickers 
in the 1st place when I was a 

562
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,360
kid. 
Yeah, we grew up. 

563
00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,400
We were both born in the 70s, 
grew up in the 80s. 

564
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,680
We love everything 80s. 
We love retro, the caboodles, 

565
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,920
yeah, So we wanted to kind of 
bring that. 

566
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,680
You're never too old to love 
stickers. 

567
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,120
So you all have a lot of really 
cool stuff on here, but I want 

568
00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:51,920
to ask you about your 
sponsorship right. 

569
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,880
So this is is this the first 
year y'all are sponsoring your 

570
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:54,920
table? 
It is OK. 

571
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,520
Awesome. 
So tell us a little bit about 

572
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,720
what went into your thought for 
this theme. 

573
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:04,400
So we actually go wild, actually
reached out to US 29 days ago. 

574
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,360
We were like, oh, we'll go to go
wild next year. 

575
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,000
But they reached out and were 
like, Oh yes, we have to do it. 

576
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,560
So we just went out shopping and
looking at and she saw some puff

577
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,280
balls and she's like, you know, 
could we incorporate like these 

578
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,040
puff balls, maybe lay them on 
the table. 

579
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,360
And then it became our whole 
theme as puff balls. 

580
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,120
So it started off as a joke. 
We're joking back and forth, but

581
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,440
we can do a puff ball this and a
puff ball that. 

582
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,720
We thought, well, you know what?
Why shouldn't our thing just be 

583
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,440
puff balls? 
We're having so much fun with 

584
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,040
it. 
Maybe everyone else will also. 

585
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,120
Oh they definitely will. 
I I didn't I noticed the one on 

586
00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,280
top of this piece but now I'm 
seeing some more over there. 

587
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,000
This is maybe. 
Yeah, we have little puff ball 

588
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,800
wands for people to wave. 
We tried to make things 

589
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,040
interactive, so we've got some 
bracelet making stations. 

590
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,360
Well, if nothing else. 
The two of us especially. 

591
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,440
When we get together 
imagination, we run out of time 

592
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,160
before we run out of ideas. 
Those two sisters were my 

593
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,000
favorite. 
I mean, just talking to them and

594
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,440
having them share stories about 
them being younger and then 

595
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,040
watching them start a new 
business, like it was so cool. 

596
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,600
They were actually the sweetest 
and I just loved hearing the 

597
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,000
story behind how they designed 
the table because I know that 

598
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,640
obviously this kind of planning 
goes into it, but it's not 

599
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,960
something I kind of actively 
focus on. 

600
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,880
In my mind. 
It's like, Oh yeah, they come 

601
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,440
with the swag bits and they lay 
them out in some aesthetically 

602
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,840
pleasing way. 
But hearing those stories behind

603
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,440
how they selected the elements 
and what was going to go on the 

604
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,680
table, that was really cool to 
hear too. 

605
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,400
Another person I was really 
excited to check in with is 

606
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,000
someone I consider to be a Go 
Wild OG and hearing the story 

607
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,800
behind her table was really cool
too. 

608
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,200
I'm Kristen Christian Designs. 
This year is special because 

609
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,400
we're celebrating our 15 year 
anniversary. 

610
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,520
More than half of our team is 
actually Mexican, so we are 

611
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,800
celebrating our quinceanera. 
Oh, I love that. 

612
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,160
I asked my husband to come up 
with the theme this year because

613
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,520
I feel like every year I've come
up with like, it's like a 

614
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,400
template. 
It's like everything is the same

615
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,760
and I kind of wanted something 
different. 

616
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,400
So I let him basically decide it
all. 

617
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,160
And then he told me what he 
wanted and I turned it into our 

618
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,160
table. 
So I'm really excited about it 

619
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,640
because it's something totally 
different that we've never done 

620
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,960
before, and I just can't wait 
for people to see it. 

621
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,680
My name is Damien Kristen's 
husband. 

622
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,760
And like she said, a lot of our 
crew is Hispanic. 

623
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,840
OK, you know, there's a lot of 
different cultures here. 

624
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,360
So and it is our 15th year 
anniversary so we figured us 

625
00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,160
through a quinceanera. 
I love it. 

626
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,960
Quinceanera is kind of more like
a wedding style, okay. 

627
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,160
So I wanted to do more of like 
Hispanic kind of culture, okay, 

628
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:27,480
but also quinceanera, but also 
not quinceanera. 

629
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,240
So it's more of a 15 year 
Fiesta. 

630
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,840
OK, I love that. 
So tell us. 

631
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,800
So we got like candy over here. 
We got some stickers like what's

632
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,640
your favorite snack that's at 
this table? 

633
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,840
Yeah, there's some coconut or 
Mexican flags, OK, that are my 

634
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,720
favorite. 
And then and. 

635
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,040
The Duvalines are probably my 
second best. 

636
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,960
Those look like jungaroos. 
Is that basic? 

637
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,720
Is that? 
What they are pretty much, 

638
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,960
except they don't come with a 
stick. 

639
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,480
It was also cool just to say 
that both for Daisy Chain 

640
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,080
Rebellion and Chrissy and 
Designs, it's very much like a 

641
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,400
family affair. 
So we have the sisters working 

642
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,480
together and then the whole 
Chrissy Ann Designs family out 

643
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,000
there setting up the tables 
together. 

644
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,680
And also nice that for all of 
our sticker lovers, they were 

645
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,520
very well taken care of in terms
of sponsored tables. 

646
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,160
We can't talk about stickers 
without having a sticker party, 

647
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,240
so talking with Erica too. 
As someone who was creating and 

648
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,000
sponsoring a table herself, hers
was really awesome as well. 

649
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,320
Yeah, hers was awesome enough 
that I like had to sit at her 

650
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:21,960
table because it had a denim 
pencil bag. 

651
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,320
I'm like, I need that pencil 
bag. 

652
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,360
Hello planner pals, my name is 
Erica. 

653
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,840
I am the owner and designer 
behind the sticker party. 

654
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,120
I am based in Canada so Canadian
business. 

655
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,720
At Go Wild I do primarily 
stickers which I do hand draw 

656
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,280
most of them myself. 
What else? 

657
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,760
I do a lot of stuff. 
I did Go Wild merch this year. 

658
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,560
I do a lot of stuff in like the 
bookish and reading kind of 

659
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:47,800
niche. 
Tell us a little about what you 

660
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,080
love so much about Go Wild. 
What I love about Go Wild is by 

661
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,080
far the community. 
I think everyone fits in here, 

662
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,800
everyone is loved and there's 
just so many friends and I 

663
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,440
always feel like my most 
confident self here. 

664
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,320
Tell us about your theme for 
this year. 

665
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,160
Honestly, I don't have much of A
theme. 

666
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,760
I do a lot of like I did advent 
calendars last year. 

667
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,920
I did Go Wild merch. 
Like I said, I have my sticker 

668
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,400
subscription, so a lot of it is 
just like extra products from 

669
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,200
that, which, yeah, if you're 
ever expanding your line outside

670
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,520
of stickers, this is a great way
to like show it off. 

671
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,160
I just loved Erica's whole vibe 
and I said I like had to sit at 

672
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,800
her table because I love that 
pencil bag. 

673
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,200
But hers was very much like a 
contender against Danielle or 

674
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,200
Constance's table because I 
loved the bright colors and I 

675
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,720
thought that the ducks were so 
Dang cute. 

676
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,240
So it was good that we also got 
to check in with her and chat 

677
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,440
about her table. 
So let's start off introduce 

678
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,560
yourself to the planner pals. 
OK, so my name's Danielle, but 

679
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,400
my shop's name's Constance. 
That's a long story, but yeah, 

680
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,160
I've been in the planer 
community since 2019, so. 

681
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,000
Amazing. 
Well the table looks amazing. 

682
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,120
I know y'all are still setting 
up. 

683
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,760
Tell us a little bit about your 
theme for this year for 

684
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,280
sponsoring. 
OK so my theme is based off of 

685
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,360
actually my original character. 
She's called Love Zombie and her

686
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,280
colors are like teal, pink and 
blue and I just like bright 

687
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,280
colors so I wanted to go off 
that. 

688
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,000
So we tried to match almost 
everything. 

689
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,280
It looks amazing. 
I'm partially color deficient, 

690
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,760
but I can tell from the shading 
that it looks amazing. 

691
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,960
Now I can see color. 
Don't know all of them. 

692
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,160
Tell us a little bit about you 
love so much about Go Wild. 

693
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,440
OK, so for me it was like, 
you're online and you see all 

694
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,720
these people, right? 
But when you're together, it's 

695
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,880
so different. 
I honestly feel like, OK, I 

696
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,560
don't want to tear up, but I my 
first go wild was in DC and I 

697
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,920
like feel like I came alive 
because there were people who 

698
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,240
got it. 
You know what I mean? 

699
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,080
Like we all like the same things
and everyone here is nice. 

700
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,480
So that's the plus. 
I don't know, I just it's like 

701
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,080
fam almost in a way. 
I mean, I'll be honest with you,

702
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,080
I think hers was probably one of
my favorites just because of how

703
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,440
it was decorated. 
Like all of it, the ducks, the 

704
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,120
lights, the everything, Like she
had it all going on. 

705
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,640
But like, that's what it's all 
about. 

706
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,000
I didn't get to sit at like a 
over the top table like hers 

707
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,880
was, but I did get to sit at the
editing table. 

708
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,280
Have you heard about editing 
before? 

709
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,240
Because now that I've talked 
about it more, everyone like 

710
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,880
that's in like Germany or like 
Europe is like, yeah, they're 

711
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,760
like our Sharpie. 
But have you heard about them 

712
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:18,960
before? 
Go wild. 

713
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480
I don't know, I feel like it's 
one of those things where they 

714
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,160
sound super, super familiar. 
But if you had to said adding to

715
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,240
me, I wouldn't necessarily have 
picked pen brand. 

716
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,760
Yeah, I'm not going to lie to 
you either, because I was just 

717
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,480
like, I don't know, but it made 
a lot of sense. 

718
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,520
I mean, I sat at that table and 
I made the decision that even 

719
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,360
though I have a lot of pens that
I didn't have their pens. 

720
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,640
And actually before I even sat 
at that table in the 

721
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,120
Planterford, they had a table 
set up and they were showing 

722
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,320
these amazing glitter brush pens
that they have and these 

723
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,480
metallic ones. 
And I was just like, these are 

724
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,000
so cool. 
I actually bought a pack of the 

725
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,840
metallic ones because I was 
like, these are neat. 

726
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,640
And then when I sat at their 
table, they had a box and in 

727
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,760
that box was metallic brush pens
plus so many amazing kits of 

728
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,200
stuff. 
It was it was incredible 

729
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,240
included. 
So so this has been my favorite 

730
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,120
thing in the entire world that I
got from go wild because it 

731
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,320
looks like a marker and it's a 
pencil holder. 

732
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,000
And my favorite part, just you 
think, I don't know if you were 

733
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,080
there when I was talking to 
them, like as they were cleaning

734
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,200
up, but I was, they were like, 
Oh, we noticed you had our 

735
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,480
pencil holder up on stage with 
Zebra mild miners inside of it. 

736
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,960
I was like, is it sacrilegious 
to do that? 

737
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,240
Like I'm not sponsored by you 
yet. 

738
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,400
Yeah, No, I think that as 
somebody who has a lot of pens 

739
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,120
as well, I intentionally didn't 
sit at a pen table. 

740
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,000
But that kind of comes back to 
the question of like, you know, 

741
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,000
is it worth it for me sitting at
a pen table knowing that I have 

742
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,000
my sets of pens that I like and 
I use and I trust and I don't 

743
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,760
really need anymore but also 
don't really want anymore. 

744
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,880
Sitting at a table that didn't 
have pens makes a lot of sense 

745
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,480
for me. 
And that is a choice that I made

746
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,560
to make it so that my experience
was worth it. 

747
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,320
Sitting at the table like the 
sticker party as someone who 

748
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,240
doesn't necessarily use a lot of
functional stickers or really 

749
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,120
just wanted that pencil bag. 
And now I have the pencil bag 

750
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,680
and I'm like, so happy I kept 
like pretty much everything that

751
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,280
was on that table. 
Like there was designated to me.

752
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,480
I didn't go stealing other 
people's things before anybody 

753
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,080
calls me out for that. 
But making sure that you're 

754
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,800
sitting at a table where the 
stuff that you're being provided

755
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,040
with or given aligns with how 
you are as a planner, I think is

756
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,080
kind of important. 
Because the first year that I 

757
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,679
went to go wild, I just kind of 
plonked myself down at the first

758
00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,199
table. 
I could see that had space and I

759
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:29,760
kept a pair of tweezers. 
That was the entire thing that I

760
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,840
kept from the entire table. 
That wasn't really worth it. 

761
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,520
It was also, no, it had a bunch 
of like stamping related stuff 

762
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,719
and it's someone who doesn't 
really stamp or at least wasn't 

763
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,440
really into stamping at that 
point in time. 

764
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,120
It was not necessarily my finest
choice of the hour, but I do 

765
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,000
love those tweezers. 
They're excellent tweezers. 

766
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,040
Like quality wise not comparable
but. 

767
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,800
I remember last year I had to 
swap somebody for for the stamps

768
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,360
that were on their table because
I did not sit at their table. 

769
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,160
But I didn't also don't know 
about the importance of like 

770
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,880
choosing a table last year. 
Like I knew it was the thing 

771
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,440
that people did, but like, 
there's a strategy to it. 

772
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,000
And I agree with you. 
Like making it worth it is 

773
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,080
really important. 
You don't always just want to go

774
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,440
for like the biggest, most crazy
and exuberant table you could. 

775
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,920
But like Zebra always is piled 
up like it's like Christmas 

776
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,760
morning on their tables, I feel 
like. 

777
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,000
But when you already have 
mildliner collections, they 

778
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,480
aren't creating any more colors.
There's not a whole lot of like 

779
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,880
new things you can really get. 
Like even this year there was a 

780
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,200
handful of mild liners inside of
some of the packs and freebies 

781
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,840
and drops and stuff. 
And not that I don't love them, 

782
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,800
but I already have like I don't 
even know of triple kits as a 

783
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,920
word, but I have triples of a 
lot of those colors. 

784
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,400
Like I was giving them the 
friends at work or telling my 

785
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,160
wife to take them to school with
her to let other people have 

786
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,960
them as well. 
But like I don't have adding 

787
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,640
pens and markers and fine liners
and brush pens and metallic pens

788
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,760
was cool. 
Also just to like discover a new

789
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,680
brand as well and get to 
experience like what that was. 

790
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,120
And it's also cool. 
And I know you can definitely 

791
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,600
attest to this too. 
When those sponsors are there 

792
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,800
and they come to your table and 
they're talking to you and like 

793
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,200
getting to know you, they're a 
business, but you also realize 

794
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:07,880
that they are a real person, 
right? 

795
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,640
And I think that is a really 
important part of like those, 

796
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,280
those table sponsors and getting
to know them as well. 

797
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,520
Yeah, I think that that makes it
such, such like a special gift. 

798
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,280
It's almost kind of like if you 
got a book that was like a 

799
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,800
signed copy from the author kind
of thing, Like if you went to 

800
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,040
like a book signing and they 
signed it and like put your name

801
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,760
on it and such. 
And when you're sitting at the 

802
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,960
table and you get to see all the
stuff like that, that in itself 

803
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,120
is an exciting experience. 
And that's going to be like no 

804
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,600
part of your ticket price, like 
you're worth it kind of a thing.

805
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,720
But then being able to see the 
person who made the magic happen

806
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,360
for the, you know, tables where 
people who set them up were the 

807
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,520
people who supplied the goods. 
And we're also at the conference

808
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:44,760
because that isn't for 
everybody. 

809
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,680
Like I know we had a couple of 
sponsored tables there where the

810
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,400
people who were sponsoring the 
table had kind of like shipped 

811
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,200
their things in and had like one
of the volunteers set them up 

812
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,680
and such. 
Which again, volunteers coming 

813
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,560
in clutch. 
Because otherwise it's like you 

814
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,600
sit down at the table and 
nothing's been set up and it's 

815
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,080
like, here's a box from FedEx, 
unpack your stuff kind of a 

816
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,120
thing. 
But it just adds to the 

817
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,200
experience and kind of like 
highlights the value that isn't 

818
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,440
just like exchange of money for 
goods kind of a thing. 

819
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,960
Because at the end of the day, 
if you want a bunch of swag and 

820
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,440
you only want pieces that are 
going to be things that you're 

821
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,080
actually going to use and they 
fit your vibe and your aesthetic

822
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,320
and all of that kind of thing, 
you could take your ticket price

823
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,520
and go out and buy that stuff 
and probably be very happy. 

824
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,800
But you're going to miss out on 
all of those opportunities to 

825
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,280
connect with the other people 
who are there and get to have 

826
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,280
conversations with people who 
are just enthusiastic and like 

827
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,720
the same kind of things that you
like. 

828
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,040
And don't look at you weird when
you get like anxious about 

829
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,480
putting a sticker onto paper 
because that means that the 

830
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,600
stick is gone now and you're 
never going to be able to use 

831
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,640
that again. 
And then like, what if in three 

832
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,920
years time, the perfect 
opportunity comes up for that 

833
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,840
sticker, but you place the 
sticker now you don't have the 

834
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,280
sticker. 
Like they're not going to look 

835
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,000
at you like you're kind of loco 
because they get it. 

836
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:55,040
No, you're 100%. 
I do have a question for you 

837
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,520
mentioned about the importance 
of that signed copy book. 

838
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,160
Do you think Bailey, the person 
who I got my book from the book 

839
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,240
swap, who did sign a lot of my 
book, do you think that they 

840
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:07,680
were there? 
I I don't know man, but Bailey, 

841
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,840
we have some choice. 
OK? 

842
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,960
Mark loves his book. 
Mark is so happy. 

843
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,920
I was like, Bailey, what gives? 
This is not a gift. 

844
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,360
To give a little behind this 
seed, so a part of the crop this

845
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,680
year, which happens on Friday 
night, there was a book swap. 

846
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,080
And so you had to pick a book 
and wrap it and you would write 

847
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,840
the theme or kind of the genre 
of the book and then the first 

848
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,640
line of the book. 
Then you put it on a table and 

849
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,960
they divvied people up and you 
went and picked up your book and

850
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,440
then you did stuff kind of 
around that with the rest of the

851
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,440
crop. 
I got Lord of the Flies, which I

852
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,560
was excited for because I've 
actually never read that. 

853
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:43,560
But Bailey had read that book 
extensively, Highlighted pages, 

854
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,080
notes all around the margins. 
A very well loved book. 

855
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,560
They did all the work for me. 
I don't even know if I have to 

856
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,400
read the book, Jess. 
Like it's all done and. 

857
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,680
Mark's like I'm really happy 
with this and I'm like, I'm glad

858
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,880
you are because I'm not in my 
mind. 

859
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,720
I was like the book swap is like
it's another type of gift kind 

860
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,280
of a thing. 
So I was thinking like, you 

861
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,440
know, second hand book totally 
fine, like if it's good quality 

862
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,080
still, you know, in good nick 
hasn't been graffitied. 

863
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,960
All of these like annotated 
notes, which it's kind of silly 

864
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,440
to say that because the session 
that we were literally doing at 

865
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,160
the crop was book annotation. 
But I'm like, look at you 

866
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,680
stealing Mark Thunder. 
Now he can't go and do his own 

867
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,720
book annotations because it's 
got all yours in there. 

868
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,280
I had some things that I was 
feeling I was, I was in my 

869
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,160
fields. 
I'm trying not to let it bother 

870
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,440
me. 
Yeah, when we talk about that 

871
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,720
book annotating session, though,
it gave me such anxiety because 

872
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:37,640
it's one thing to annotate, 
there's another thing to draw 

873
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,160
with markers over top of your 
page. 

874
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,560
I will leave it as that. 
I don't want to ruin everything 

875
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,920
for the next episode where we 
talk more in detail, but there 

876
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,560
is. 
I needed a Xanax because that 

877
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,480
was stressing me out. 
Whereas I'm sitting here just 

878
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,160
like, oh, I love this. 
This is so great. 

879
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,240
This could be a really fun 
creative project for you and 

880
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:54,040
your friends. 
And then other people are 

881
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,520
sitting there like, why would 
you do that? 

882
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,000
You're defacing the book. 
I'm like, be nice to the nice 

883
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,480
lady. 
She came out here to show us to 

884
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,360
creative talents. 
I'm all for it. 

885
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,320
Yeah, she was amazing. 
I absolutely love talking to her

886
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,520
and now getting to know her 
after that session too and 

887
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,760
seeing what else she's doing 
online was really awesome. 

888
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,200
But all of the defacing of the 
books aside, it was really cool.

889
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,680
So just at your tables having 
those conversations and being 

890
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,720
able to and then, you know, 
working on the crop and 

891
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:21,840
listening to the rest of people 
talk about what's going on and 

892
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,640
like have these opportunities 
with the product. 

893
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,760
So it was really awesome. 
At the end of the day, like I 

894
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,240
said, I think that a lot of what
you get out of it and just 

895
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,800
mentioned it before is like if 
you're just there for the 

896
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,680
products, you could easily buy 
them twice and three times over 

897
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,040
with the price of your flight in
your hotel and like the cost of 

898
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,960
the ticket. 
But you really are paying for 

899
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,280
the community just as much as 
you are like the free swag stuff

900
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,360
that you get to. 
I think there's no denying that 

901
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,600
whatsoever. 
And like I said, this year, I do

902
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,160
honestly, truly feel like I got 
so much more of that than I had 

903
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,160
previously. 
This has been one of the most 

904
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,760
like cup filling activities that
I have done for myself in a 

905
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,240
really long time because you 
hear so much about people, you 

906
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,880
know, coming to the conference 
and such and talking about the 

907
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,200
community aspect and all of 
that. 

908
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,480
Oftentimes when people say the 
same thing over and over again, 

909
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,240
my personal Rebel brain kicks 
in. 

910
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,600
It's like, Oh yeah, whatever. 
It's a conspiracy. 

911
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,720
Like they've all like talked to 
each other and they're just 

912
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:16,960
trying to feed me some BS kind 
of a thing. 

913
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,880
And so Rebel Brain had to kind 
of like check herself a little 

914
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,440
bit this time because I came 
away from the conference just 

915
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,320
being like, actually they're 
right. 

916
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,320
Like the community aspect of 
this and getting to have those 

917
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,960
interactions was so positively 
impactful that I would totally 

918
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,040
recommend this experience to 
anybody who feels like they want

919
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,040
to go and find their planet 
people. 100% there's multiple 

920
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,040
people who said you're finding 
your tribe and your people. 

921
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,800
This was similar to me with my 
full time job and design 

922
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,000
operations. 
I felt like a solo person at 

923
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,240
work because I was very 
interested in this topic and I 

924
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,720
was the only one kind of doing 
it. 

925
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,000
And then I went to a design OPS 
conference and you're surrounded

926
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,800
by like minded people talking 
and sharing about the same 

927
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,760
things. 
And you do you come back like 

928
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,560
energy. 
And that's exactly how I feel in

929
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,040
this context too. 
I think we kind of talked, well,

930
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,200
I think you've talked about kind
of being like a little bit of 

931
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,720
like a slump a few weeks ago, 
right in our episode when I came

932
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,680
back from my personal vacation. 
And then I knew that Go Wild was

933
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,600
happening. 
I had this like zone where I was

934
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,840
just like, I'm not feeling very 
motivated to do anything. 

935
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,560
I wasn't motivated to create 
content. 

936
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,160
I wasn't motivated to create any
YouTube videos. 

937
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,400
Like the only thing I really 
look forward to honestly was 

938
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,280
recording episodes of the 
podcast because it is different.

939
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,280
But coming back from Go Wild 
though, you'll be proud of me. 

940
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,800
I already recorded 2 YouTube 
videos. 

941
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,640
I already worked on a bunch of 
reels. 

942
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,800
I'm like back in planner mode. 
I've got a bunch of stuff set 

943
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,160
up. 
Like it's just exactly what I 

944
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,840
feel like. 
I needed to do that. 

945
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,040
And it wasn't so much just from 
the speakers and the talks. 

946
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,880
It was just from talking about 
planning with other people and 

947
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,880
like how they do it and what 
they're doing. 

948
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,400
That got me as excited. 
Yeah, I would very much agree. 

949
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,720
I was really standing in the 
shower thinking about it today. 

950
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,360
My shower's leaking. 
So it that's its own kind of 

951
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,560
like can of worms and terms of 
the life problem. 

952
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,760
And I was thinking about the 
idea of taking time for yourself

953
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,360
and taking, you know, vacation 
days and all of these kind of 

954
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,160
things and thinking about like, 
when's my next vacation? 

955
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,360
What am I doing for that? 
And like, how do I kind of 

956
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,960
capture that cup filling aspect 
of it? 

957
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,640
So it actually feels like 
restful. 

958
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,680
And I was thinking about the 
previous go wild to have had and

959
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,800
whether I kind of came away 
feeling the same. 

960
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,400
And I feel like this one has 
been the best in terms of making

961
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:31,240
me feel more renewed and 
rejuvenated and re excited and 

962
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:34,720
like re motivated to do things. 
All the race, all of them re re 

963
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,440
all up in this. 
But I was thinking about like 

964
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,560
some people to get their cup 
filled or like, you know, to 

965
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,120
take care of themselves or 
whatnot. 

966
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,560
They want to take themselves off
to like a tropical island and 

967
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,600
sip my tires at the beach or 
whatever. 

968
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,160
It's not going to be me. 
I don't like sand. 

969
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,920
That's another issue. 
But I think that for me, it's 

970
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,600
very much that social connection
because I don't have that in my 

971
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,400
job. 
Like we, we get to hang out and 

972
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,280
we get to chat and I get to 
like, you know, talk to people 

973
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:00,680
in the comments and such like 
that. 

974
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,480
But there's a lot of magic being
in the room where it happens, 

975
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,360
like getting to meet face to 
face and feeling that energy of 

976
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,520
being in a space with other 
people, which I don't have in 

977
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,120
any other aspect of my life 
really. 

978
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,280
And even John Green kind of 
talked about this idea of these 

979
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:20,480
hybrid type societies or groups 
where this is an exact kind of 

980
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,040
example of that, where we share 
things online, but we also have 

981
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,480
this ability to have a physical 
space to meet and talk and 

982
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,440
create, especially with Go Wild.
And I thought that was a really 

983
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,800
awesome connection and it made a
lot of sense because it's 

984
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,880
exactly what I feel like Go 
Wild. 

985
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,680
It's like a coming together of 
the minds in a physical space, 

986
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,360
which is cool. 
Yeah, I know that after my first

987
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,640
go wild experience and thinking 
about like the monetary cost of 

988
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,760
that, ignoring the fact that I 
tacked on AUS holiday with it. 

989
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,720
But like just thinking about 
like, you know, the ticket and 

990
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:52,160
the hotel and the flights and 
all of that just to get there. 

991
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,560
Because when you live at the ass
end of the world, those things 

992
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,600
certainly add up. 
And I was the way I kind of 

993
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,240
pitched it to Vogel. 
I was like, this is going to be 

994
00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:02,200
a one time thing. 
Like I, I probably won't do this

995
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,520
again. 
So I really just want to go and 

996
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,120
experience it because I'd seen 
it online while I had been a 

997
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,880
teacher and it was like smack 
bang in the middle of term one 

998
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,760
for me every single times. 
I'm like, yeah, there's no way 

999
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,800
we're going to be able to do 
that because you have to like 

1000
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,480
take time off and then not get 
paid for that, but then also pay

1001
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,880
for everything new. 
But I literally went into it 

1002
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,640
expecting it just to be a one 
time thing. 

1003
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,200
And now it's like a no, no, no, 
no. 

1004
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,720
This is the annual pilgrimage. 
We are going to make it happen 

1005
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,400
regardless of what we need to 
do. 

1006
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,000
If I need to go get down and 
sell my body to the night, 

1007
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,800
probably won't do that. 
But like anything before that, 

1008
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,480
like maybe I'll start taking 
feet pics. 

1009
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,200
Nobody wants to see it, but 
maybe they do. 

1010
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,640
Or you can start a Patreon. 
Well, I hate. 

1011
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:40,480
These ideas if I just want. 
Dinner. 

1012
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,800
You can up your ad revenue on 
YouTube. 

1013
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,720
Put mid roll ads Never. 
There are many more options than

1014
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,760
selling your feet and becoming a
woman of the night to go to go 

1015
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,280
wild. 
I'm just throwing that out 

1016
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:53,840
there. 
You probably have a point. 

1017
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:55,320
I'm not ready to hear it yet 
though. 

1018
00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:00,040
Well, one thing we wanted to 
also do, she was obviously 

1019
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,440
spending time with Jasmine. 
I mean, we caught her right 

1020
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,000
before the pajama jammer. 
Is that how you say I can? 

1021
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,600
I can't ever talk. 
You stuff this up every time. 

1022
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,240
I'm like, you're, you've been 
two years in a row now, Mr. And 

1023
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:13,400
I know you didn't go to plan 
Jammer the first time. 

1024
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,400
That's no excuse. 
Talking to her, I was like, oh, 

1025
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,600
pajama job, jobs coming up. 
She was like. 

1026
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:23,440
And she looked at him like, 
yeah, buddy, good job you tried.

1027
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,200
She's like, I'm exhausted. 
I don't even know what you're 

1028
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,280
saying right now. 
Sure, but we did spend some time

1029
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,800
with Jasmine and talk to her 
even more about what Go Wild 

1030
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,840
means to her and the community 
and like the importance of that.

1031
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,360
This city is amazing. 
We've been walking around and 

1032
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,120
checking stuff, but it was a 
good spot to be. 

1033
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,360
You know, it just happened. 
It was just pure luck that we 

1034
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,320
ended up here. 
It wasn't the original 

1035
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,480
intention. 
As you know, Jeanette, our 

1036
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,800
founder, has ALS, and so we 
wanted to be as close to her as 

1037
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,640
possible. 
She lives about two hours away. 

1038
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,440
OK. 
And so yeah, that was the the 

1039
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,560
reason for this location, but it
ended up working out 

1040
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,440
beautifully. 
One of the biggest things that 

1041
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,400
we've talked about with everyone
here, what they've told us is 

1042
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,800
about the Go Wild community. 
I know that's been such a 

1043
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:10,520
pivotal, important part of it, 
but I'm curious what it means to

1044
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,080
you. 
We've been a part of these since

1045
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,680
the beginning. 
This is a big one from, you 

1046
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:16,880
know, running things this year 
and making things happen and 

1047
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,240
some of these curious for you, 
like what is the coolest part 

1048
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,480
from your perspective about this
community? 

1049
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:26,120
You know, it really is just 
watching everybody interact with

1050
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,760
each other, watching the 
friendships that form. 

1051
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:34,400
I've been very, very blessed 
myself personally in that my the

1052
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,480
majority of my friend group like
day-to-day friend group homes 

1053
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,360
from the wild community. 
I didn't know them before. 

1054
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,600
So cool. 
To this day, I still have 

1055
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,600
friends that I met from the very
first one that, you know, a 

1056
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:49,120
couple of them are from my city 
that we had no idea we lived in 

1057
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,880
the same city. 
And our friends, our, our kids 

1058
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,280
became friends. 
And, you know, we spent 

1059
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,480
holidays, we traveled together. 
We, you know, outside of Go 

1060
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,560
Wild, you know, and it's, it's 
so much more than what happens 

1061
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,800
at Go Wild. 
It's what happens after Go Wild,

1062
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,520
like how those friendships 
continue. 

1063
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,000
And I think for me, that's, 
that's the best part of, you 

1064
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,080
know, seeing everyone. 
And that's what I want everyone 

1065
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:13,600
to do. 
Yeah, and the people that are 

1066
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,960
sitting and meeting each other. 
Someone said earlier, what I 

1067
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,560
loved someone about it is that 
you can be sitting at a table 

1068
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,160
with strangers and a lot of the 
times, especially in the planner

1069
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,400
community, tend to be somewhat 
introvert. 

1070
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,320
We've got our crazy ones like me
and MO and others that are out 

1071
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:27,560
there having fun all the time, 
right? 

1072
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,920
That you can be sitting at a 
table and just introduce 

1073
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,800
yourself and then suddenly 
you're talking about the 

1074
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,320
planners that you like your 
favorite pens or products or 

1075
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,320
techniques and things like that.
It's been great. 

1076
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,960
We there's so many different 
events that go on from the 

1077
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,840
opening night. 
The the pajama jam party plan, 

1078
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,200
plan jam, right? 
Plan jam. 

1079
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,240
Plan Jam. 
Is there a certain event that 

1080
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:48,200
goes on during Go Wild that you 
look most forward to? 

1081
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,480
All of the events are absolutely
amazing. 

1082
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:56,240
But I think for me, it's the 
moment that I see people start 

1083
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,400
starting to arrive, like even 
before the events start and they

1084
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:00,960
start running into their 
friends. 

1085
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,600
I mean, because it happens for 
me. 

1086
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,880
And so I see that in other 
people they're like, there's, 

1087
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,200
there's this group of three 
ladies and I absolutely adore. 

1088
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,840
I mean, we'll talk sometimes. 
We very rarely talk, but because

1089
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,920
I'm horrible at social media, 
but we'll chat a little bit and 

1090
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:22,440
but we see each other and it's 
like we're old friends and I 

1091
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,840
seen all of that as people start
coming in to me. 

1092
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:27,440
That is my absolute favorite 
part. 

1093
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,960
Yeah, it is the, the hotel 
lobbies are this like beautiful 

1094
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:32,880
space that just started to bring
people together. 

1095
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,680
You're seeing I think gets you 
excited. 

1096
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,400
We're creating these communities
online. 

1097
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,840
Like you said, it goes past 
what's happening in person, but 

1098
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,280
but like the keynote speaker 
talked about today, like this 

1099
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,000
community transcends the media 
or where it is, it's in person, 

1100
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,160
it's hybrid. 
It's there's so many different 

1101
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,480
ways to experience it, which I 
think is fantastic, which is 

1102
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:52,880
also what makes it really 
special. 

1103
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,680
And like you said, those 
friendships go well beyond this.

1104
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,680
And, you know, this year, Jess 
and I, you know, being able to 

1105
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,360
go up on stage and talk together
and do that in person and have 

1106
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,440
people be like, I watch you on 
the Internet, you know? 

1107
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,280
I don't know if you noticed, but
this year I really placed an 

1108
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:13,000
emphasis on those community 
members and that reflected on 

1109
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,440
who we had on stage where they 
maybe weren't necessarily people

1110
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,080
that had thousands or hundreds 
of thousands of followers, but 

1111
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,160
they still connected with people
that were in the audience 

1112
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:30,360
because it's they know them, you
know, and being able to engage 

1113
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,360
with them in person, I think was
is huge. 

1114
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,000
It's it's amazing. 
Now, I know tonight you said 

1115
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,360
you're giving a big announcement
for everyone. 

1116
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,400
Yes, we know that this is going 
to come out a little bit 

1117
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,320
afterwards. 
So everyone that was here is 

1118
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,440
going to find this out soon. 
But for everyone who will be 

1119
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,600
watching afterwards that wasn't 
able to attend this year, are 

1120
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,280
you OK with sharing your special
news? 

1121
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,400
Yes, absolutely. 
So next year, 2026 is our 10th 

1122
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,040
year since our very first event.
We, our first event was in New 

1123
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:01,920
Orleans in 2016. 
And so in 2026 we're going back 

1124
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,160
to New Orleans. 
We're going back year 10. 

1125
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,160
So we're super excited. 
We're going to have so much fun.

1126
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,840
And, you know, we get a couple 
of weeks off and then it's time 

1127
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,480
to get back into it, you know, 
start planning. 

1128
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,280
It's insane to think that it's 
AI mean that's how long these 

1129
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,000
things take to get together. 
But so much props to you and to 

1130
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,840
your team and everyone else. 
And again, thank you so much for

1131
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,720
continuing to put this on. 
I know every single person is 

1132
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:27,560
going to have an amazing time. 
They're going to start screaming

1133
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,200
when they find out that special 
news. 

1134
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:30,960
Yeah, yeah. 
I'm so excited. 

1135
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,120
I can't wait. 
And I just, I do really want to 

1136
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,400
add that none of this, I could 
not have done any of this 

1137
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,520
without the team that I have. 
You know, they are absolutely 

1138
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,600
amazing. 
They, you know, being able to 

1139
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,960
have people that I can rely on 
that, you know, can just take 

1140
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,280
things, you know, that they're 
so talented in so many different

1141
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,600
ways and I just feel so lucky to
have. 

1142
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,800
Them with getting to do the 
behind the Saints interviews and

1143
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,360
all of that kind of thing, like 
getting to talk to the speakers 

1144
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,200
and the volunteers and then 
Jasmine, I think my favorite 

1145
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,440
moment from those was actually 
just getting to hear about her 

1146
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,240
favorite go wild moment. 
That just felt really special 

1147
00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:08,200
because oftentimes when you 
think about like a favorite 

1148
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,720
moment, you're thinking like, 
oh, you know, who was your 

1149
00:52:09,720 --> 00:52:12,240
favorite session or like coming 
in on the first day and like 

1150
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:14,760
getting to get to the swag 
tables and all of those kind of 

1151
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,120
things. 
That's the stuff that we often 

1152
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,920
hear about from other people. 
It's like getting to be into the

1153
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:21,880
room or like, you know, 
connecting and such. 

1154
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:26,560
But having her talk about before
anything even happens and just 

1155
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,240
when people are coming in like 
the day before, that felt really

1156
00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:30,800
special. 
That was really nice to hear 

1157
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,400
from her. 
No, it absolutely was. 

1158
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,480
And she's amazing. 
I know, like I told her over and

1159
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,480
over again how amazing she is, 
but she just kept reiterating 

1160
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,920
this is not just me. 
This is a team of people. 

1161
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,200
These are the volunteers. 
These are the people who are 

1162
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,760
coming to go wild that make it 
what it is. 

1163
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,280
I mean, anybody could put 
together, maybe not anybody, it 

1164
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,200
takes a special person, but put 
together a conference. 

1165
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,360
But that doesn't mean that 
people are going to come. 

1166
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,680
Oh, wait a second, Jess. 
She did tell people about when 

1167
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,240
the next one is going to be 
right? 

1168
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,840
Yeah, yeah, that was kind of a 
big deal. 

1169
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,000
Yeah, so we got to hear it a 
little bit before everybody else

1170
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:05,840
did. 
But she did announce that next 

1171
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,720
year they're going to be taking 
it back to the first one, which 

1172
00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:10,520
is in New Orleans. 
So that's where next year is 

1173
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,080
going to be. 
So it was cool to get like a 

1174
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,640
little sneak peek in on that, 
But that people are already 

1175
00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:16,880
posting online, like, see you in
New Orleans. 

1176
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,880
Like there's no thought. 
They don't even care who is 

1177
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,800
going to be there. 
They just know, like some of 

1178
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,240
their friends are going to be 
there and there'll be some type 

1179
00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:26,840
of planning conversations and 
speakers, fun in a Pajama JAMA 

1180
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:28,960
Jam party. 
Like they know these things are 

1181
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,760
going to be there. 
It just becomes a part of what 

1182
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:32,960
it is. 
So that alone, I think speaks 

1183
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,280
volumes around how people find 
value in it. 

1184
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,440
Like, is it actually worth it? 
Like when you literally find out

1185
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,600
where it's going to be next year
and you're basically booking 

1186
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,640
your trips and taking off from 
work, you know it's good. 

1187
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:45,760
Oh, yeah, I already started 
looking up ticket prices, like 

1188
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,240
we don't even know what month 
that's going to happen. 

1189
00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:49,240
And I was just like, Oh yeah, 
we'll just do some ballpark 

1190
00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:50,760
amounts, like what it'll be in 
March. 

1191
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,760
What would it be in June kind of
a thing? 

1192
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,120
Yeah, I need to start selling 
fig picks and becoming a man of 

1193
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,560
the night just to pay for my 
ticket next year, so. 

1194
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,640
I don't know why, but when you 
said you're going to be a man of

1195
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,320
the night, I instantly went to 
Batman. 

1196
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,040
I'm like, how is it the Man of 
the Night gets Batman and Women 

1197
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,400
of the Night gets Selene from 
Moulin Rouge? 

1198
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,760
Oh my gosh. 
Well I mean if I have to become 

1199
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,200
a masked vigilante to raise 
money, I will steal from the 

1200
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,640
robbers and the bad villains to 
be able to go to go wild next 

1201
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:21,520
year. 
I'll take that. 

1202
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,880
I will also sell my body if 
necessary. 

1203
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,320
I appreciate your dedication to 
the because I'm going to be 

1204
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:27,960
there. 
Like I don't know how much it's 

1205
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:29,800
going to cost yet. 
I don't know when it's going to 

1206
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,680
be, but I'm going to be there. 
Well, next episode we're going 

1207
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:36,480
to go in even deeper as we talk 
more about the speakers. 

1208
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,600
Not only do we get to share our 
thoughts on the topics that were

1209
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,320
discussed and we'll be sharing 
about that, but we also had the 

1210
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,480
opportunity once they came off 
stage, which was a very good 

1211
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:48,640
change on your part just to have
them after they were relaxed, 

1212
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:51,560
but asking them questions about 
what they love about the 

1213
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,520
community and what they wanted 
people to take away from their 

1214
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,720
talks as well. 
Because as we know, not every 

1215
00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:59,200
single person was going to be 
able to go, and Jess and I 

1216
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,160
wanted to be able to give our 
planner pals a little Nuggets of

1217
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,560
information that everybody had 
to pay a lot of money for. 

1218
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:07,240
Of course, as always, we do want
to hear from you, planner pal. 

1219
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:09,720
If you went to go wild this 
year, what was your kind of 

1220
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:13,040
like, favorite part about it, 
whether that be community aspect

1221
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,440
or swag? 
Totally fine. 

1222
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,240
All options are welcome. 
And if you didn't get to come 

1223
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:19,120
along, do you think you ever 
would? 

1224
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:20,760
And what would incentivize you 
to? 

1225
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,320
Let us know either in the 
comments or you can e-mail us at

1226
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,200
plannerpalspodcast@gmail.com or 
hit us up over on Instagram at 

1227
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,520
Planet House Podcast. 
Well, it was an amazing episode,

1228
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,040
Jess. 
It was super fun to talk about 

1229
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,040
that and for us to get to go 
behind the scenes. 

1230
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,400
And I do have to say Jess, I 
know I got sappy in the group 

1231
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,160
chat kind of afterwards, but how
amazing it is to be able to see 

1232
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,240
friends that you talk to online 
all the time. 

1233
00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:43,400
Like the amount of times we had 
to explain to people how we time

1234
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,080
out when we actually can record 
was crazy. 

1235
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,040
But to not only see you in 
person, I feel like that happens

1236
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,720
every year now, but to be up on 
stage and get to be the actual 

1237
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:55,680
person to person Co worker that 
you don't get to be with other 

1238
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:57,960
people. 
And even with us and YouTube and

1239
00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:59,840
everything else it was it was 
amazing. 

1240
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,920
So thank you for being open to 
doing that with me because it 

1241
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,320
was made an extra also. 
Yeah, thank you for being my 

1242
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,200
what? 
Emotional support planner pal up

1243
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:08,920
on stage. 
It's like people who have like 

1244
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,640
their Snuggie or whatever. 
Not to say that you're like a 

1245
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:14,320
sad blanket that people have 
toted around for like the better

1246
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,000
part of 20 years of their life, 
but. 

1247
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,640
I may talk to some of my 
friends, they might say 

1248
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,360
different things. 
I I appreciate you mentioning 

1249
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,560
your quote sappy message in the 
group chat because what was not 

1250
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,960
seen was then once we got back 
to our hotel rooms from the plan

1251
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,480
jammer event, I was like, oh, 
this is a good time to call 

1252
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:31,920
Vogel. 
And the first thing I did on the

1253
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:35,400
phone was like breakdown into 
tears being like, my friends are

1254
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,600
all leaving tomorrow and I don't
even get to see them anymore and

1255
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:40,760
I'm not going to see them for 
another year and I'm 

1256
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,960
heartbroken. 
So like you did fine. 

1257
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,080
You actually just used nice 
words and stuff and I was a 

1258
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:46,080
blobbering mess. 
I. 

1259
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,520
Know well I didn't get to see 
that I don't know if I want to 

1260
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,920
see Jess cry. 
I feel like I'm so used to the 

1261
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,320
happy Jess and go lucky Jess 
like to be like she. 

1262
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,440
He has emotions. 
I did not know this. 

1263
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,400
Sorry automaton, Jess got let 
out and she's off doing other 

1264
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:01,760
things. 
So you got like highly 

1265
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,600
emotionally charged Jess 
instead. 

1266
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,160
Well, I won't let Jess say 
goodbye because clearly she has 

1267
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,000
a problem with that. 
We don't want to get emotional. 

1268
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,040
So, planner pals, we'll talk to 
you next time. 

1269
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:11,080
Have a great one.