Rosa Sophia - Managing Editor of Mobile Electronics Magazine

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Let's endeavor to learn from history so
we don't repeat it. Today.

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My guest is Rosa Sophia, Managing
editor of Mobile Electronics Magazine. Here's your

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bio. Rosa Sophia is the managing
director of Mobile Electronics Magazine, the nation's

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number one resource for the twelve volte
aftermarket car audio industry. I can talk.

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Rosa holds an associate's degree in psychology, a bachelor's degree in Communication and

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Media Studies, a degree in Automotive
Business Management and Automotive Technology, and as

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a candidate for Masters in fine arts
in creative writing. Her automotive themed poems

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have been published in Philadelphia Stories Magazine, Writers, Foundry Review, and others.

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She's the recipient of the twenty twenty
three Christopher F. Kelly Award for

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Poetry sponsored by the Academy of American
Poets, for her poem villanel At thirty

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seven. Rosa lives in Palm Bay, Florida. Rosa, Welcome to Winning

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Business, TV and radio. Thanks
for being here. Thank you for having

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me. I appreciate it. So
you live in Palm Bay, yep.

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Where'd you grow up in Florida or
elsewhere in Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania? How did

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you make it to Florida? I
came here to visit, and I liked

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it. So I went home and
quit my job and drove here. What

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were you doing at the time.
I was working night shift in a grocery

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store, stocking shelves. Uh career, career role right there. Nothing nothing

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against those guys, but uh,
I mean I liked it. I enjoyed

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it. Actually. So we're in
Pennsylvania, and tell us about you know

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a little bit about that town or
city and what it was like to grow

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up there. And I grew up
in the country in the woods. Everything

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was kind of far away. It
was around the Philadelphia area, so yep.

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I spent a lot of time outside
and under cars, over cars and

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under cars. What were your early
interests? Well, I was interested in

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cars from a young age. When
I was a kid, I used to

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build model cars in my bedroom during
the summer, and I had, you

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know, the little matchbox cars.
As I got older, I just was

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more interested in how they were and
I was a little afraid of them.

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So I thought the best way to
overcome your fear is torand it so that

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was what made me pursue automotive school. That's awesome. So you and I

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know, you know that my wife
and I WI and I were Rosenos.

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My wife were in England recently and
we went to a motor museum which I'll

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tell you about I see you next. But it was really cool some of

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these really classic cars and they were
all in mint condition. Because the owner

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of the museum who's passed on and
now has passed it to family, they've

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really maintained these vehicles. I'll show
you pictures. So it wasn't in the

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cots hole. Yes, have you
been there? I was I did.

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I didn't go in there. I
was in front of the building and I

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didn't have enough time, and I
thought, gosh, if only born on

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the water. Yeah, it's really
cool, really cool. So I'll show

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you pictures places. That's my favorite
town in the cots Hole. That's so

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cool. Yeah, I recommend that
trip to anybody. So you got a

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degree in psychology? What motivated that? Actually I didn't actually finish that degree,

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okay, So what ended up happening
was that I'm not very good with

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my math skills and I really wanted
to help people, so I didn't want

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to pursue psychology. But by the
time I hit these bath classes, I

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couldn't pass them. So I wound
up transferring those credits to my automotive degree.

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And I do remember when I when
I when I enrolled, the gentleman

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said to me, I don't think
we've ever had anyone come into the automotive

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program from a psychology degree. So
but it helps in everything, like he

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you know, he said, well, you go into you know, work

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in a dealership and you deal with
customers, You're going to be using those

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skills, so it all intertwines.
So what made you choose that automotive degree.

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I love working on cars, and
to be honest, it's a good

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way to avoid the math, except
except for the automotive math, which is

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an essential part of it and that
I really enjoyed because I have a very

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visual mind, So I while I
can't understand algebra, I could understand calculating

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cylinder bore because I could see the
engine block in front of me, so

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it made more sense to me.
And how did you get into cars?

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I was just interested, but you
know, I didn't really I didn't really

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grow up around anyone who got me
interested in it. But I did discover

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when I got older and I reunited
with my father because I didn't see him

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for fifteen years, and then I
found out that he was working on,

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you know, his own vehicles,
and he built an engine lift like in

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his garage himself because he was a
construction worker, so he installed steel beams

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in his shed. And then I
when I met him and realized how much

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we had in common, I thought, wow, it must be genetic.

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And what made you choose Lincoln Tech? And I want you to talk about

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You said you were on the race
team. I want to talk about that.

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Oh yeah, Lincoln Tech. Yeah, it was just close to me.

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At the time. I was living
in Palm Beach County and the campus

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isn't there anymore, but it was
in Mangonia Park and it was convenient.

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And yeah, and the race team, it was short lived. I didn't

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have a whole lot of support,
unfortunately. Our original goal was to get

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the car to the to the track
of Palm Beach International, which unfortunately that

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racetrack just closed recently. Wow.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time

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with that racetracks. It's sad.
So what were your responsibilities on the team?

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Well, like I said, it
was short lived, but I did

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see I was taking off riffins at
one point. Yeah, so that was

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fun. That's cool. Yeah.
So you're one of the few women that

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I know who can rebuild an engine, who can do since what do you

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call it? Cylinder or calculating cylinder
bar? I don't even know what that

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would look like. What are some
of the automotive projects that you've been involved

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in or undertaken? Little or big? So I did work in a garage

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for a short time, but because
I have trigeminal neuralgia, I couldn't do

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it for very long, but I
like to work on my own stuff.

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So I did work on my truck
engine and I did much of the overhauling

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work myself until I realized I had
to get the actual engine block to a

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machinist. So that was a sort
of a bummer to discover. But that

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is a different skill set machining that
most people would, I think, would

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farm that out. And we will
get to your ailment in a little bit.

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I do want to get people hear
about that because there's a way that

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they can help out. When did
you know you were good at writing?

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When did I know that I was
good at it? I don't know.

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I just always enjoyed it. And
that's a skill that really you have to

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work on, like anything else.
I think talent comes to you, but

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then you have to Like any craft, you have to keep working on it.

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So I think, really my confidence
in my work has built from the

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MFA program that I've been in.
But I've always loved writing. And what

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are some of the subjects you've written
about? And I imagine you started writing

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when you were young. Yeah,
as soon as I could, I was

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writing. I write fiction, poetry, memoir. I wrote a book on

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Florida history that was published by the
History Press. So I touch on a

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lot of different subjects. We're going
to talk about that too. Uh.

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You decided to major in communications.
That was because of writing. Yeah,

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actually not really. That was just
kind of a stepping stone degree because I

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didn't really know what I wanted to
do at the time. But ironically I

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got a lot out of it in
terms of like critical thinking classes. I

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think I took a class on that, and I remember thinking, why don't

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I have to take a class on
this? I know how to think critically.

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But but then I got into it
and I realized there was a lot

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of stuff that I didn't that I
didn't know. Yeah, terminology I wasn't

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aware of. And then when I
thought more on it, I learned a

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lot from it. By the way, those that are wondering what that sound

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is cat, oh you can hear? Oh dear? I was hoping no

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if I was fine, it's not
bothering me. I just wanted the audience

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to be aware of it. Yeah, why should the cat be excluded from

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the radio? Yeah? She has
to be on top of me at all

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times. So sorry, both that
totally fine. So you're pursuing your MFA

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Masters of Fine Arts. What motivated
that? That's a lot of undertaking,

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right, Yes, I started that
in twenty eighteen, and I live quite

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a distance from the school, so
it's taking me a long time. And

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I have my thesis manuscript is ready, and that's a book of automotive themed

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poems. Very cool, very cool. I might ask you to read one.

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Oh okay, well think about that. The break's quick, but we're

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not there yet, but think about
it during the break, and I want

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to read. I hope I pronounced
the the when you get the award for

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villain l villain. Oh that's correct. Yeah, okay, I'm going to

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read that one before the end because
I want you to comment on it.

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Tell us where you know, what, the motivation is, the background,

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et cetera. So when will you
When do you expect to finish up?

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I will be defending my thesis in
fall of twenty twenty four. Very cool.

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And for others that might be pursuing
that type of a degree and you're

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working full time, you're very busy, you're doing other things. You're into

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a lot of different areas. What's
the workload like on say a daily,

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weekly, monthly basis. Well,
it's hard, I mean, you know,

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but I think it's hard to say
what's the workload. It's a lot,

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But I think the important thing is
balance and discipline and knowing, you

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know, knowing when you have to
just get something done. And like I

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don't get to sit down and watch
a movie very often. I guess you're

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not missing a lot. I like
movies, but you're not missing a lot.

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Yeah. Yeah, So what were
some of the jobs you started with

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MEA magazine? MEA is the Mobile
Electronics Association in the magazine, and we'll

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get into that shortly. But what
were some of the jobs you had prior

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to twenty fourteen. Well, I
worked at the grocery store stocking shelves.

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My first job was in a mom
and pop deli in Pennsylvania and I worked

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for quite a while. Ye and
I also worked in libraries for about five

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years or so, and alls involved
a lot of customer service and helping people,

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which I really like to do.
So it doesn't really so much matter

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the venue. You know, it's
like if I can if I can help

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somebody out, I'm happy. That's
awesome. And I know disclaimer, I

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know Rosa fairly well, and that
is so true about you. All Right,

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we're going to take our first break
right here. This breaks about a

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minute long, so sit tight everybody. We'll be back with Rosa Sophia in

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Here once again, it's Kevin Helena. Welcome back. We are back

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with Rosa Sophia, managing editor of
Mobile Electronics magazine. So start out by

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telling the audience, the viewers and
listeners. What is MEA? What is

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the Mobile Electronics Association? So we
bring knowledge and information to the mobile electronics

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industry, which is all after market, after market automotive installations, car audio

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safety equipment, that sort of thing, lighting as well, and the magazine

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is bringing knowledge and information to those
businesses. And your role as managing editor

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describe that I write and edit articles
that we get in and I write and

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compile them as well. Cool,
that's not a job. I've always said.

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You've been with MEA since twenty fourteen. Talk about how you got connected

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with the MAA and what other things
you've done you've been associated with the magazine.

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I know you you're you're very active
at the conferences and shows, the

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knowledge fest they call them knowledge fust
shows. Talk about your growing responsibilities and

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how you got to be managing editor. Yeah. So I was freelancing the

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year that I started, and I
was a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association,

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and someone who was writing for Mobile
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in when I was initially interviewed my
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bit. I'm sure well that in
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you started out, what did were
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at the beginning of COVID. I
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that. Yeah. Yeah, Before
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here and there, mostly our retail
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everybody probably understands proofreading, But what
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when you're working with somebody else's work, you have to be able to

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help them refine it without changing their
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guess that's really to me. I
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down that road. How did you
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when did you realize and how did you

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realize you wanted to make a living
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world. What was your first entry
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wanted to do it from the time
I was little, and I told my

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mother when I was a little kid
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write all day when I grew up. So, Yeague, if you can

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get it, Yeah, and honestly, I can do that now if I

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want so. But beyond that,
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and putting myself around in the right
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Association, which is a very good
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proofread, copyright goes right, or
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a good place to start. So
you've written a lot, You've written poems,

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You've written a couple of novels.
I know. One of those novels

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is Meet Me in the Garden.
Tell us about that. That was twenty

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fifteen. Yeah, that was like
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of genre, so it's been it's
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It's been called a paranormal romance,
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so so it's a Florida novel,
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to Limitless Publishing. Is that available? Yes? It is. Yeah,

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it's on Amazon. All of my
in the Garden Okay. Cool? And

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talk about a couple of other books, or as many as you like.

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We have plenty of time. Well, I think the one I'm most proud

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of is the Florida history book,
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a History, and it is a
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County. But I really enjoyed doing
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everything and talking to people hearing their
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the magazine too. I get to
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is what I really love about this
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would you have for other authors.
There's probably a lot you could say here,

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take your time who want to write
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maybe there's specific genre advice, maybe
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My biggest piece of advice is go
and be around people who know more than

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you do, which can be hard
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we can feel first we can feel
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Then we can think maybe we've found
a community online, but really mean nothing

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beats going and finding a solid community. And I will always recommend that writers

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try to find a writer's conference.
There are a lot of them, and

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many of them offer financial aid.
So what really helped me was Writers in

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Paradise at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg. That was such a phenomenal one week

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program with like workshops and craft talks, and at places like that you meet

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lifelong friends who are willing to look
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back and forth and then you always
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important. No, this is not
where you go and say I got the

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script idea. No, yeah,
you have to. The biggest thing about

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wanting to improve your craft is that
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for almost anything. You have to
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constructive criticism because that's how we grow. I think in anything that's excellent advice.

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So you're the recipient of the twenty
twenty twenty three Christopher F. Kelly

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Award for Poetry, sponsored by the
Academy of American Poets. How did did

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you submit for that? Talk about
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the poem. Yes, congratulations,
by the way, thank you. Yeah,

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that is a university prize. I
believe it's it's open to many different

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schools across the country. So I
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year I submit, And the process
is you never know because contests there's a

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final judge and they're they're they they're
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I learned, because I used to
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if I get rejected from a contest, it doesn't mean my work is

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baad. It just means that judge
didn't necessarily connect with the peace. That's

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really good. Yeah, all right, I have this somewhere. Oh did

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I not pull it up? Hold
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you can't find them? Oh?
There it is? Okay, So this

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is villainel at thirty seven, and
I'm going to do my best to read

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it. All right. I missed
the womb of that magic house, walking

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its gardens, a lush labyrinth of
green, always here in a dream,

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running my hands along warm wooden walls, memorizing moments, abiding ancestors who call

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long distance from the in between.
I yearn for the fruit. I can

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still taste the gooseberries growing down by
the fence, smelling the Forcythia Queen Anne's

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lace the pine. When I press
my nose to the trees. I missed

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the womb of that magic house,
walking its gardens, a lush labyrinth of

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green. Then up to the up
the path to your porch. Please say

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I can stay. I hear you, grandmother, your laughter like daffodils in

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bloom. Every year older, I
linger held fast to our home, memorizing

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moments, abiding ancestors who call long
distance from the in between. It's been

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so long since I walked through the
door, saw the plants hanging from them

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from the macroma cords. Remember afternoon
light shows, Remember afternoon light shows from

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chandelier beads. I missed the womb
of that magic house, walking its garden,

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a lush labyrinth of green. In
dreams, I yearn for the path

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under my feet. You smile like
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what's next. My fingers pressed gently
against your palm, memorizing moments, abiding

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ancestors who call long distance from the
in between. You felt a pain in

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your ribs, an empty ache,
a hunger for summer, for sacred space.

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When it came to age, you'd
forgotten yours, your essence. Gazing

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out a bright bay window, I
missed the womb of that magic house,

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walking its garden, a lush labyrinth
of green, memorizing moments, abiding ancestors

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who call long distance from the in
between. Wow, nice job. So

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tell us about that. Well,
my grandmother was really special to me.

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We were very close, and she
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was ninety six. Wow. Yeahty
six. And what inspired you is maybe

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an obvious answer, maybe not so
obvious. What inspired you to write it?

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And who were you writing for?
Who? That's a good question,

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and it's actually a question we often
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honest, sometimes we know that the
people who are reading our poems are other

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poets. But primarily in the beginning, I wrote it for myself. But

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we often find that in poetry,
even when we write something deeply personal,

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it connects someone else can connect with
it because we all share so many similar

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experiences. Yeah, I did connect
with it. That's why I wanted to

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read it. And I forgive me
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as a professional reader. But you
did beautifully. Thank you. That's been

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published in Sentienced Literary Literary Journal,
right yep, and then you submitted it

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for the prize and one awesome.
What are some other poems that you've run

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and what written? Excuse me and
what inspired you to write them? Well,

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a lot of it is grief related, and my automotive poems are especially

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related to that. And I find
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automotive parts and working on cars.
For me, it was a good avenue

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to talk about more delicate subjects.
So I do have another poem that was

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called take this Transmission instance, and
I read some comments or reviewers comments on

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those it was they were they were
really good. Thank you. Yeah,

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that was about my father. But
I use this transmission, this old dusty

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transmission that I that was found in
his shed after he died, as a

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way of talking about the grief experience. So I'd like you to read that

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one after the break, if you
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but I wanted to talk about a
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And this is just a fun one. You enjoy collecting and working on

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antique and vintage typewriters, And on
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some of the work you do there. It just sounds like a fun endeavor.

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How'd you get into that? And
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or two of the more fun projects. Well, I've always been around typewriters.

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My mother had one and I learned
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probably helps that we didn't have a
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couldn't afford a compute right away.
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just you know, I remember we
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And then when it came time for
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computer, I walked into a Best
Buy and I was just like, you

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know, there are all these signs
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do that, and I thought,
I just want one that has a word

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processor. So for me, it's
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and I find that there are other
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I find a machine that I can
refurbish, and if it finds a good

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home and someone appreciates it. That's
cool. So you ended up selling those

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Yeah, I've sold a couple,
but it's still a growing process. That's

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cool. That's cool. All right, we're going to take our final break

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right here. I want you to
read that transmission poem if you would.

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When we came back, we will
be right back with Rosa Sophia. You're

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of Mobile Electronics Magazine, part of
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having this conversation. Share with us
the poem, give us the title and

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go ahead, all right, sure
it's called Take this transmission for instance,

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I have no vehicle for this T
eighteen four speed transmission Dana Model three hundred

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transfer case. This transmission sat in
my father's shed after his four wheeler crushed

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him in the Pennsylvania woods, sat
in the dark after helicopter carried him off

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the mountain, waited in silence as
my father felt comatose. This transmission ignored

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by my stepmother as she sold and
gave away my father's tool. Couldn't be

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compelled when my family pulled the plug, couldn't be reconciled when I never flew

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to his funeral, left in his
shed for eight additional years. Now,

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it doesn't fit anywhere. This transmission
collecting dust after he died, couldn't be

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lifted in the rainstorm by my brother. Mark in the mud two handed couldn't

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be budged by thought, ingenuity,
or reason. Two hundred and forty pounds

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of cast iron needed. My cousin
barry chains a trailer. This transmission came

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to me with loosened bolts, dirt
inside. After my cousin inspected it closely,

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put it in neutral, gave me
advice I can't remember on shifting gears,

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and together we stabbed a perfect circle
in my new car's rear fender.

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This transmission hung from a thick chain
like a locket, A reminder, a

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note as if to say, this
doesn't fit anywhere. Driven to twelve hundred

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miles to Florida in the back of
my new car, this transmission now dangles

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in my garage, where I twirl
it like a locket. After I dragged

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it from the trunk of my new
car, crashed it into my knee and

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scraped my skin, slammed my wrist. The next day, it's swollen and

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gray, arm, scraped, elbow
bruised, dragged the hulking metal on the

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fender, added marks to my perfect
circle. Extra dings, A reminder,

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a note as if to say,
take this transmission for instance. Now it

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doesn't fit anywhere. Wow, I
wish I could give you a better round

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of claws than just me. That
was outstanding. Thank you sounds deeply personal.

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It sounds like you're talking about grief
and loss. But it was probably

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really beneficial to write now. Oh
yeah, absolutely, And I'll ask this

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again. I think I know this
answer, But who was that written for?

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I think one can relate to it
if they've lost someone. And that's

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what I found initially when I started
writing these poems. I thought people aren't

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going to understand this, that they
don't understand cars. But but what I

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discovered actually is that as long as
the emotion was there, it came through.

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And some of my readers told me
they didn't really have to understand what

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some of the car parts were.
They could they could relate to it anyway.

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Agreed, totally agreed. That was
beautiful, Really was thank you.

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00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:46.559
So there's this character named Torque.
Ah who's that let's talk about you?

410
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:52.559
Tell me, let's talk about tork
Who's talk That's me? So the way

411
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.920
you describe Torque on your website is
an alter ego. Yes, somewhat,

412
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:00.119
I don't know that I forget the
words you used somewhat Smith, there's some

413
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:06.160
q uh so where did talk?
Uh? What's the genesis of Torque?

414
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.199
And tell us about her? Well, when I first went to automotive school,

415
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.679
I had a really good buddy.
He's actually my mom's age. His

416
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.039
name is Steve Higgins and uh,
shout out to Steve, Yeah, shout

417
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:25.440
out. I'll have to send this
to him. But yeah, So he

418
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.000
he's like a father to me.
And my father had had his accident kind

419
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:35.639
of around the time we met.
So he went with me to orientation.

420
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.920
He went with me to the school
when I enrolled, and he said to

421
00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:42.679
me, Uh, Rosie, you
can't go in there without a nickname.

422
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:47.639
You gotta have a nickname. So
so he called me torqu and I adopted

423
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:55.920
it. And Torque has a website, yes, which is what ww dot

424
00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.599
Torque's garage dot com. That's all
one word awesome, so one if you

425
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:04.400
put that in the crawl, people
might want to visit that. Uh.

426
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:09.679
And there there's a reference to take
you back to backwords. Let's see what

427
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:16.360
is it backwards wo r ds?
What's your other site? That is a

428
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.840
blog site that I have that I
don't it's I keep it up there,

429
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.159
but I have not written a blog
in a while. Okay, I just

430
00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:25.840
got a very real kick out of
the the what you turn on the word

431
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.880
backwards? Right? Yeah? But
writer, that's it. So Torqu's garage,

432
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:36.880
you'll see some of uh Rosa's work. You'll you'll get her background.

433
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:45.760
The other website that people should be
aware of is dash mag that's the magazine

434
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.840
that Rosa is the managing editor of. Uh. If you are interested in

435
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:53.800
the twelve vault industry or just to
see her work, check that out.

436
00:35:53.840 --> 00:36:00.559
That's me eh m a g dot
com. That's easy. And I always

437
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:02.039
like to ask people, we're going
to spend some time here, what do

438
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:05.559
you do when you're not working?
We call it the back of the business

439
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.400
card, right the front of the
business card, says managing editor. The

440
00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:14.239
back of the business card. You're
involved in a lot of things, or

441
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:16.199
you were. I think you're still
involved, but you were on the board.

442
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:22.039
Whether you were or are not as
important as the work. Seminole Wars

443
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:28.079
Foundation. Tell the audiences, the
listening and viewing audiences about that foundation.

444
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:35.280
Yeah. So I'm actually the president
now, and what we do is we

445
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:42.679
educate. We do educational outreach and
we publish scholarly materials on the Seminole Wars

446
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:47.840
in Florida. And it's important because
unfortunately it's not taught as much in schools

447
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:54.039
and it was a really big conflict
in the US. So it's an important

448
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:58.920
part of American history and if you
want to learn more about it, you

449
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:05.880
can go to Seminole Wars dot U, s Seminoles s C M I N

450
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:09.079
Oil Wars dot US in a in
a you know, in one or two

451
00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:13.719
minutes. I know that is going
to do it disservice, But just to

452
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.360
create some interest. Why is it
important and what should people what? What

453
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.360
would you want people to know about
that that period in US history in Florida.

454
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:29.360
Well, I think the most important
thing is that it I have a

455
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:35.239
friend, a historian who is book. He compared to the Vietnam War because

456
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:40.440
it was at the time very unpopular. Much of the United States military,

457
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:47.440
all the branches were fighting in Florida
against the Seminoles. It was also the

458
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:53.519
it was where the trail of tears
really started, okay, which is really

459
00:37:53.519 --> 00:38:00.400
important to know. And so the
Seminoles were pushed out and tried they tried

460
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:06.719
to send them to the Oklahoma territory. The other important thing is that it

461
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:14.559
was mainly due to slavery. Escaped
slaves were fleeing into Florida, and when

462
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:20.039
Spain was in control, they would
allow them to come and live free.

463
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.800
I think it was, and I'm
not I can't remember exactly, but I'm

464
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.119
pretty sure it was. If they
served, they're military, they could be

465
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:32.119
free. And then of course they
were intermarrying with the seminoles. So when

466
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:36.599
the United States government wanted to get
their slaves back, that was when they

467
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:42.280
went to Florida. And there's there's
quote, there's quoted material that backs that

468
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:46.719
up. I just think it's kind
of interesting that before that they they had

469
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:50.440
no interest because they said, it's
just a swamp, and we don't it's

470
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:52.920
gross, we don't want to go
down there, And now everybody lives here

471
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:58.679
dirty. You also volunteer with the
I'm going to try this locks of Hatchie

472
00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:02.800
Battlefield Preservation. I used to.
Yes, that's another small organization. I

473
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:08.119
don't volunteer with them anymore, but
the Seminal Wars Foundation does support all of

474
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:15.320
those organizations. So any any nonprofit
in the state of Florida that does reenactments

475
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.039
or seminal wars history. We support
that, so we do. We do

476
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:24.599
work with them quite a bit.
Let's see, Oh, what is it.

477
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.599
So you were the archivist. What
does an archivist do? Yeah,

478
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:37.679
so it's just basically keeping records.
I did that when when I worked at

479
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.199
the North Palm Beach Library. That
was how I wound up getting involved in

480
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:45.079
Florida history. I was the village
historian for the town of North Palm Beach

481
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.400
and what I was doing was putting
their archives online so that they were easily

482
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:58.159
accessible. So it's it's record keeping
all kinds of different records outside of books

483
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.079
and photos. It seems to me
it takes a passion, it takes a

484
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:06.360
certain person to do that. You've
got to have a desire to preserve that

485
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.760
information, right, definitely, definitely. And You've worked with a couple of

486
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:14.880
different libraries, North Palm Beach as
well as Martin County YEP Martin County Library

487
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:20.320
System, and then I volunteered for
the or Vigsburg Public Library in Pennsylvania.

488
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.000
Oh cool, cool, all right, I wanted you to You mentioned your

489
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:29.519
your disease. I think it's a
disease, yes, that you're battling since

490
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:35.840
you were young trigeminal neuralgia. Tell
people what that is. When they go

491
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.519
online, they're going to see some
images of you. And I see you,

492
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:40.880
you know, when I see you
three or four times a year,

493
00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:46.199
I see you with like a a
wrap around your hair head scarf. So

494
00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:52.880
tell us about that disease, what
it is, how you've you know,

495
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:54.639
I'm not trying to make this terrible
thing. I want people to be aware

496
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:58.840
of it, and yet you've been
able to accomplish in spite of it,

497
00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:01.920
quite frankly, because it's debilitating,
talk about it. Yeah, So what

498
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:07.440
it is is there's a compression in
on my trigeminal nerve in my brain that

499
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:14.280
sends pain signals to my face.
And the nerve comes up like this on

500
00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:17.159
three branches. And when I was
younger, it only went into my forehead,

501
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:22.440
but since then it's graduated and I
had it my whole life, but

502
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:29.119
I wasn't diagnosed thil I was twenty
seven. Well, and then once I

503
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:35.199
figured out that scarves helped, I
started covering my head because it definitely any

504
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:39.880
breeze or wind or anything touching my
face can cause pain. Long air,

505
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:45.559
yes, and yeah, and Honestly, when I get really bad pain attacks,

506
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:49.920
I can feel all of my hair
like I can I have pain in

507
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:55.639
the individual hairs. It's very strange. So, yeah, most people want

508
00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.119
to keep their hair. Maybe you're
really you know, when you're in that,

509
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:02.639
you sort of wonder it would it
be better if I didn't have any.

510
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.719
And it's not as uncommon as it
sounds. I mean probably nobody's or

511
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:12.920
very few people, especially in this
audience. I've heard that heard of that

512
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.480
ailment, but it's not as uncommon
as one would think. Right, that's

513
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:22.679
right, And I think a lot
of times it's probably misdiagnosed because it's hard.

514
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.119
For one thing, it's hard to
communicate when you're in that much pain,

515
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:31.599
and so and I mean initially they
to do with me, so it

516
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:36.000
took a little bit to get the
diagnosis. Yeah, my face hurts,

517
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.199
my hair hurts. Well, that's
you know who, Yeah, takes it

518
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:42.679
seriously. Right, Is there a
way that people could, you know,

519
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.440
if they're if they're even one or
two or three or four that are so

520
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.559
inclined to help. Is there a
place to give fifty bucks, five bucks,

521
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:53.639
whatever it might be. Yes,
I highly recommend checking out the I

522
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:59.639
think it's called the Facial Pain Association. I believe they're based in Gainesville,

523
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:05.360
flower To and they do research into
this. There's not a lot of research

524
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:08.559
being done, but they're doing it, so it's really great. Cool.

525
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:15.079
All right, just a few more
questions. What's in the future for you?

526
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.159
So you're gonna get your MFA,
what do you want to do?

527
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.440
I want to keep doing what I'm
doing. I love my job, so

528
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:29.840
which sometimes surprises people because I know
they think generally if you're getting a degree,

529
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:34.559
that you're going to have some other
thing to do. I might simply

530
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:40.360
expand maybe do writers residencies where I
might you know, teach a class or

531
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:46.320
something, or maybe do readings.
Poetry readings I do have. I will

532
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:52.719
be a featured poet next year in
Saint Augustine. They're having the Saint Augustine

533
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:59.000
Poet Poet Fest is having a special
event, so I'm going to be a

534
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:01.760
featured poet November of twenty twenty four. So I'd love to do more stuff,

535
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.519
but I do love my job,
so I'm happy where I am.

536
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:14.000
That's so who in the listening and
viewing audiences should reach out to you?

537
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:20.000
And why? Well, I don't
know if any of this interests you,

538
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:25.039
you want to talk about writing or
if I'm always happy to help anyone who's

539
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:32.119
interested in learning more about writing,
editing or anything like that. And obviously

540
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:37.079
Chris and Richard would give us a
hard time if we didn't say. And

541
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.159
if you're hearing this and you're in
the twelve old industry and not a member

542
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:45.920
of MAA game on you, you're
missing a lot. And if you don't

543
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.079
attend knowledge vests on a regular basis, you're missing a lot. Yeah,

544
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:55.400
Mobile Mobile Dash Electronics dot Com.
Yeah, And I will add to that

545
00:44:55.519 --> 00:45:01.239
too that I love going to the
Knowledge Fest show is because everybody I meet

546
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:06.800
loves their job just as much as
I do. And it's really fulfilling to

547
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:09.639
be in an environment where people are
liking what they do, almost to the

548
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:15.880
point that you sometimes forget your working, which is fabulous. And also,

549
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:21.840
if anyone in the audience is in
the mobile electronics industry, I'm always looking

550
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:30.000
for content for the magazine, So
please reach out Awesome and Roses contact information

551
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:34.280
we'll come across across the scroll one
more time, I'm sure as the best

552
00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.159
way to reach out, And just
so you can hear some of this inside

553
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:40.360
stuff audiences. You know, I've
known Rosa for a number of years through

554
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:45.639
what are called knowledge fest. Those
are the shows that are that happened four

555
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:50.360
times a year. I've been a
speaker on sales content for a number of

556
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:53.360
years and that's where I've gotten to
know those folks and Rose in particular.

557
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:58.159
So listen. Thank you so much
for being here. I know you're busy.

558
00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.679
It's been really great having here.
Thanks for taking the time. Thank

559
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.719
you. This has been a lot
of fun cool. I'm glad and thanks

560
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.800
everybody for watching and listening. This
is a show about business, and particularly

561
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:14.480
this was a creative about a creative
business perhaps and sometimes business challenges. If

562
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:17.039
you've got concerns, perhaps about the
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563
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.599
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564
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.719
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565
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.239
com. Our company is Winning Incorporated. We're part of Sandler Training. We

566
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:37.000
always say we developed sales teams into
high achievers and sales leaders into true coaches

567
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.280
and mentors. Hey we're not right
for everybody, but maybe we should have

568
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:43.960
a conversation. Thank you to our
producer and engineer one thank you one for

569
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.559
another job well done. Be sure
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570
00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:50.719
October sixteenth. We'll do it all
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571
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:55.320
is Kevin helen In. You've been
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572
00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.320
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