S1E1: KK's Genuine Sunshine
Karla Kangleon
EPISODE SUMMARY:
It's my pilot episode! Let's get started with appreciating words that best describe each human being like you and me.
"The more I couldn't see, the more things were getting so much clearer." - KK.
KK is a marketing addict with a flair for dramatics, which gives her endless possibilities to stay positive regardless of all the tragedies she experienced throughout her life.
Listen to what words are synonymous with her and the personal stories that she reveals to me.
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MAIN TOPICS:
00:00 - Pilot Introduction
02:23 - KK's intro
04:25 - Human Thesaurus quick background
06:00 - KK's 7-year old story (the prelude)
14:17 - KK's adult tragedy turned into something positive
41:48 - KK's future plans
43:25 - KK's phrase to share with you
46:54 - Wish's important words from this episode
48:00 - Outro
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
QUOTABLE QUOTES
"Acceptance is very important when it comes to loving life ..."
"At 7 I realised that I had some form of integrity"
"The more I couldn't see, the more things were getting so much clearer..."
"You have 2 choices: one is to be blind and sexy or to see but you're gonna have to accept that you're gaining weight..."
"Choose to be you!"
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Wish 00:03
As humans. We are all defined by several synonyms or words that represent who we are to ourselves and others. Hence the show! Hello humanity, welcome to the pilot episode of Human Thesaurus podcast. I'm your host & restless Soul Wish Ronquillo Peacocke. With this podcast, I interview my fascinating friends and acquaintances who I love to talk to about everything under the sun. It's like catching up with them in a cafe or over cocktails. And here you are eavesdropping on our conversations while we explore what words define who they authentically are. For this pilot episode, I'll make my own intro that my guest will provide us. I'll start: my name is Wish, same as the words Dropbear as a noun, traversing as a verb, and indomitable as an adjective. My pronouns are she and her. I like the word Sesquipedalian, and I dislike the word yolk. How's that sound?
Wish 01:27
Karla Kangleon, or KK is a marketing addict, ultra connector, and networker, public speaker, among other things. She does a lot of things. I met her through a common friend that we both love. She's so sweet, and we just hit it off. We pretty much met in Manila, and then we just took our friendship from there. We never looked back since then. My synonyms for her are Sunshine as a noun, buzzing as a verb, and zestful as an adjective. I wanted for her to be my pilot because we also have a project together coming soon, probably when this launches. We're going to launch that one, too, so watch out for it. I would like us to welcome KK!
KK 02:23
Hello. Hi. My name is Karla. Same as the word diamond as a noun, challenge as a verb, and genuine as an adjective. I like the word discovery, and I dislike, dislike the word hate like that.
Wish
Love! That's fantastic. Thank you so much! For me, I'm just excited to catch up with you. How are you feeling post this holiday health challenges? I mean, you kind of disappeared because you need to watch after your health. So how are you doing?
KK 03:07
I am feeling fantastic right now. The new year started really awful because I got cold. But apart from that, well, the worst part about it was I couldn't speak and I love to talk. And so obviously I had to be quarantined and I couldn't really speak because of my throat. But now I feel fantastic. I celebrated my birthday, my 47th, last January 24. And yeah, I celebrated it with disaster. Self care, self love, and I'm ready. 2022.
Wish 03:53
Happy birthday, by the way. That was...
KK 03:55
Thank you.
Wish
Fantastic. Kind of opening for you for your birthday, that you're feeling better and stronger. We're so happy that you're back, too, because I feel like my social feed is not the same without you in it.
KK 04:15
That is so sweet. So what's up for today? What are we doing? What is human word?
Wish 04:25
It's Human Thesaurus.
KK 04:26
Oh Human Thesaurus. Okay.
Wish 04:31
Yeah, it's the same premise. Right. But I like it to be a little bit more one on one because there's a certain conversation amongst my friends and acquaintances, one on one that sparked some ideas or something funny, something dramatic and things like that. So it's really I love it showcasing how I appreciate the people that I know. I mean, I'm around them because they're fantastic.
KK 05:04
I love you. But thank you so much. It's such an honor to be the first guest here, and I can't wait to know what you have in store for me. I'm like, I'm really nervous.
Wish
Don't be nervous. It's just like how we're talking about everything all the time. So we're just going to begin with that. But I wanted to showcase really, like, how much I became in love with you from the beginning because of the story that you really have or during an incident. Would you be okay to share that a little bit, even just a little bit? It's not going to be, like, dramatic.
KK 05:51
You know what? To be honest, you can ask me anything you want. And I'll answer because I'm an open book.
Wish 06:00
Perfect. So, yes, I just wanted if you could share with our listeners this is turning point for me how much I have so much deep respect for you because of your temporary blindness incident and seeing you with this positive light and beautiful outlook in life. Yeah. It's just beyond not everybody could do. So can you share with us that experience a little bit?
KK 06:35
Okay, let me start off with something else. When I was seven years old.
Wish 06:40
Sure.
KK 06:41
When I was seven years old, I got shot by a .38 caliber. I was in Greenhills (Manila, Philippines), and we watched a mascot dancing. My grandfather, he always likes to indulge his grandkids with really nice things and fun stuff. And so he said to my mom, you will all have a family trip. And then we'll go to Greenhills, and then we'll have fun. And so we did. I had fun. This is a restaurant across the stage area. So that's behind the audience, right, right. And people start running out of the restaurant and then start shooting at each other when they start shooting at each other. And I was like, very scared. So I thumb sucked. Okay. Then when I thumb sucked, I felt something dripping on my arm. Well, my forearm and just falling down and on my dress. And I'm like, oh, no, my dress is dirty. My dress is dirty. So I was like, mom. And I saw that I had a wound, right? So I showed it to her and she was saying, shut up, shut up, shut up. And I'm like, mom. She said, shut up, shut up, shut up. And I'm like, on the third try, I showed her it's like Darna, like Wonder Woman my arm up. And then I showed it to her, and she was like, wow. She started shouting panicking. And she was pregnant then, okay? And then she was like, and then the crowd started looking at us, and you know where we were? We were by the stage. In between was a big audience, a large audience. How did that bullet get to me? And fortunately, I thumb sucked, everything would have gone straight to my chest, right?
Wish 08:52
Yeah.
KK 08:53
And it's ricocheted for sure. I don't know, because anyway, yeah, probably. I saw the media. I saw that they were photographers, media and everything. And I'm like, okay. When my mom started shouting and crying, I started shouting and crying because I was scared. Because you're scared.
Wish 09:15
You're beginning to realize something is wrong.
KK 09:18
But the truth is, I didn't feel any pain, okay? I saw the media. I said, okay. I told myself, this is my chance. Like, I have to say something. Yeah. On the way to the ambulance, I said, too. I shouted out, I don't want to die. I want to see my classmates. And that particular scene that I did, he mentioned it in the newspapers. I don't know. At seven years old, I was that brilliant. Okay. So going to the way to the hospital, I didn't feel any pain, but my mom was crying, so I was crying, okay. Got the Cardinal, which is the closest hospital, got there. And then they took out the bullet. And I was like, laughing. I was like, no. And then they showed me the bullet, and I'm like, wow. And you know what? My scar right now is exactly what the bullet looked like.
Wish
Oh, my goodness.
KK
It was flat and it hooked on my bone, so it obviously was heated up by when it hit the floor or when it hit me. So it was very soft, I guess, right? Flat.
Wish 11:01
It's a ricochet. It's not a direct hit.
KK 11:04
No, it wasn't.
Wish 11:05
The force is not as strong as.
KK 11:09
No, because the force was with me. So that was fine, right? And then they told me, okay, let's all go to the precinct, because they needed me to identify who shot me. And I'm like, how could I know?
Wish 11:27
Exactly.
KK 11:28
So we went to the precinct, and then they asked me to sit down, and then they put right in front of me, right in front of me. No glass, nothing. They can see me. Okay.
Wish 11:41
Oh, my gosh. What the hell?
KK 11:43
Yes, I know. Right in front of me, they put in five people. One of them was bloodied. One was bloodied. Like, seriously, how can I identify anyone? Number one, I was far from where it happened, where they would start shooting. Number two, they were running, and I was a kid. There were people, a lot of people, right in front of me as the audience, they're scattered. So they kept on pushing me to point the guy, the bloodied guy. But I said, no, I don't know, isn't it this one? And I'm like, no, I don't know. So at seven as well, I learned, I realized that I had some form of integrity. Yeah. And it was nothing for me. It was something that made my mom cry, which really upset me, and it scared me. But at the same time, I was like, I'm okay. I'm okay. So going back to school, I had, like, one week, I just watched TV, and my whole family was doting on me, and I'm like, so nice. And then I finally had to go back to school, of course, right. On the way to my classroom, I could see that my classmates were standing up. Okay. And then as soon as I entered the classroom, they started clapping. I'm not here. Yeah, I know, right? And so the teachers were there. The nuns were there. My principal, who's also a nun, was also a nun. She was also there. They were clapping, clapping we're so glad you're safe. You're alive. Because in the media, I said, I don't want to die. I want to see my classmates.
Wish 13:54
Of course, you're so strategic from that point on very strategic, you know how to play the audience.
KK 14:05
It's weird, right? But I genuinely wanted to see my classmates, though. But I just had to play it out. Like, really? I have to say it out loud and proud. So the reason I led back to that stage was because my reaction to when the unfortunate time when I got blind happened. I realized that knowing my strength then when I was seven years old, led me to how I reacted decades after. So when it happened, it was end of May 31, actually, when it happened, my boyfriend and I were living in an apartment in BGC. And then I was on my way home, and I knew my boyfriend then was back from Libya, I think. And I'm supposed to break up with him that day, right? So I knew he was arriving at 04:00 and I was coming back home at eight. Okay. So I first ordered food in the Vietnamese restaurant and told them to deliver it to me. So I arrived at my doorstep at 8:00 sharp, right? Opened the door. Then at 8:10 or 8:09, I received the food, the Vietnamese food, all right. At 8:10, the whole building shook, and there was an explosion. And so I was like, what happened? And then my boyfriend then said, you should go downstairs. And then just go downstairs. I'll take care of everything. And I'm like, oh, my God, what happened? What happened? You know, it's like you just arrived home, put all your things down, get the food that you're supposed to have for dinner with your partner, and then the whole place, and then hear an explosion. And then the building shakes like crazy. And so nothing happened inside the apartment. But opening the door, the door wouldn't even close anymore. So open the door wider. And then I saw the shutters and everything, the ceiling. It was like, wow, what happened? I just passed through there, and then I suddenly thought about the girl who delivered because she rode the elevator.
Wish 16:59
Yes.
KK 17:01
It's like, oh, my God. And I was living on the fifth floor then. Oh, no, I was living in the third floor, so I wasn't too high up enough. So I'm like, okay, fine. Now he said to me, okay, just go downstairs, check what's happening, and then get out of here, and I will take care of everything. I said, what about the cats? Because we had two cats then. And then I said, I have to get the cats. And he said, no, I'll take care of them. Okay? Just go. So he was doing a Rambo thing, trying to save all the other neighbors because they were stuck inside their homes. We didn't know if there was going to be fire or anything. So on my way down, someone from the floor above was going down as well. And he was trying to run because he was on fire.
Wish 17:52
What?
KK 17:53
Yes, he was on fire. He was behind me. He was on fire. So I tried my best to really run down quickly so that to give him more space. I can't go and wait for him to go down because I'll be on fire. You know what? I had to run down. Okay, so good. Fortunately, I really was on the third floor, so went out. Came out. Now my boyfriend, then he came out without my cats,
Wish
right? That justified why I wanted to break up with him.
Unknown speaker
I was livid! No, not really, but in a way. That justified! So I'm like, Where are the cats? He forgot. Yeah, because they were our kids. They were like a kid. So I'm like, you forgot our kids? What the hell? Okay, so I tried. The security was like, stopping me. And I'm like, no, you know, my voice. My voice is like, no, which character was that? It's like Darth Vader. My voice came, okay. So I said, no, I'm going up. I am going up. I'm going to get my kids. And then I'm going to go down. That's all I need. I got them and then brought them down. Okay. But people calling me up, my mom was calling, you know, that doesn't help.
Wish 19:29
Yeah.
KK 19:30
The truth is when in panic and something happens and they're trying. They're really, genuinely trying to see if you're alive.
Wish 19:37
Yes.
KK 19:38
But then it's not helping the person. It wasn't helping me because the more I was panicked because I was breathing really in and out. I was hyperventilating. And people were telling me, Come on, come on, just breathe and breathe and breathe. That's why I really do think I should have practiced meditation then. Right. But that was my reaction. And they put us in a hotel just right across the condo, and we couldn't get our things. Nothing. We had no clothes, extra clothes, nothing. We had nothing with us. Right?
Wish 20:18
Yeah.
KK 20:19
And then I was also very worried because I left over hundreds of thousand pesos check that is in cash.
Wish 21:18
Oh, damn
KK 21:21
In the apartment. And since we couldn't lock it, anyone can go in. Okay? It was crazy. So, of course, a day goes by. Fortunately, the realtor they were very kind enough to get our stuff. And then also in hotel, they provided us with like three meals a day, laundry, free electricity, everything, which was good. At the same time, I was also going through that relationship crisis that I had. I wanted break things up with him. Two days later, I came back to my condo, and then, of course, I couldn't go back inside, but I came back to the lobby, and then I was looking for the people in charge. And I was asking, Can I get my other things? It may take months before you can go back inside. And so I'm like, oh my God. And then one lady said to me, Is everything okay? And I said, yeah, what? Is everything okay? No. And then she said, no, I mean, health wise, is everything okay? Health-wise? And I'm like, yes, everything is okay. No, there's something wrong because you're looking at me this way. Something is going on with your eyesight, your vision, the way you're looking at me. And you have to go to a doctor now. And so I said, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'll go and do it with my own doctor. Okay? Okay. I called up my mom, and now we went to our family doctor. And then the family doctor said, You've got to go back to BGC to bring you to the hospital. Right now. This is an emergency because it's not about your eyes. This is about your optic nerve up. Okay. Without much back up. He knew already what was going on.
Wish 22:45
I see.
KK 22:49
So I'm not physically damaged during the time, except, you know, they could see that there's an effect on me.
Wish 22:58
The effect of the pressure of the gas explosion.
KK 23:20
That was the effect of it mentally, health wise, I was not okay. Two days, I was straight in the hospital. I was there for a week because I was already fully blind.
Wish 23:39
What? So hold on. When that lady probably a Guardian Angel or something, noticed you, were you feeling something at that time or you're still driven by, like, adrenaline?
KK 23:57
Absolutely. Adrenaline.
Wish 23:59
Oh, I see. I didn't realize that this thing, like this is how it progressed, like how it happened. It was different in my head. But thank you for sharing that, because now I really understand completely all the details. Okay, so you were diagnosed, you were at the hospital because not everybody would have this experience. Can you share what were you feeling? Because this is our eyesight. All of our senses go together. And also, when you live with these senses your entire life, and it disappears. How is that process with you? How were you feeling at that time when you were losing your eyesight became blind. What do you have to go through?
KK 24:59
You know what? Because of my personality, I think acceptance is very important when it comes to loving life in relationships, friendships, family. Acceptance is one thing that is important and also acceptance of what is going on with the situation, the current situation in my life. And so you know what? When that happened and I lost my eyesight, I was telling myself, okay, this is boring. This is going to be boring because I can't watch TV, but then I can hear right now. My experience then when I was hospitalized, I could see partially, and then suddenly it was slowly dwindling until black. Okay. So how I was feeling during that time, to be honest, was I was very scared. It was very scary because I wouldn't know if I could get my eyesight back. But then whatever I could see, I was trying to memorize everything so that I can appreciate it and so that I can remember, you know, it took me only, like, maybe just like, what, three days to get accustomed to it.
Wish 26:27
Oh, wow.
KK 26:28
But it did not mean because it went to get accustomed to it. Meaning, like, okay, spoon, fork, to touching things. Okay, I'm familiar with this. Okay. I was in the hospital. That was easy, controlled environment. Very much very controlled. And then I could hear my friends, their voices, so I could hear them speak, and I knew who it was. And I could also feel and I know what's going on, even if no one is telling me or no one is saying anything. So your sentence gets so heightened that it's like a superpower. Yeah, exactly. And during those days, that one week that I was there in the hospital, the more I couldn't see, the more things were getting so much clearer.
Wish 27:28
Oh, that is meta. That is so deep.
KK 27:32
How can I explain this? Because it's like using the sense of sight made me use the other senses, especially my brain made me use my brain finally, to think and reflect on what's right and what's important to me and what moving forward. Where do I go from here?
Wish 27:55
Right.
KK 27:56
I had nothing else to do. But also during that time, I was still working. And the unfortunate part was I was working online. How can I do this? Right. So the company in New York didn't even know that this happened to me. Because how can I really explain, like, really, everything happens so fast, I can't even put it in my brain how things happen, and the more can I explain it to anyone else. Right. So the nurses were pretending to they were the ones typing for me in my email.
Wish 28:33
Okay.
KK 28:33
They were reading emails typing for me. And one time in the hospital, I also had a conference call with four regions. You know how hard it is time difference, how hard it is to get everyone together, let alone cancel on them. And I'm the one leading the meeting. There's no way I can do that.
Wish 28:59
Yes.
KK 29:00
So I had to do it alone. And then they were whispering. I had a script. Fortunately, I also did a script prior the script. And then I was telling the nurses, okay, what to press, what to click on and everything so that I know what is being read there. So they were whispering to me. Then I will tell them what I have to say. They were fabulous. They were just really fabulous. So in a way, I knew that there was a support system around that I was not alone in this. And apart from that, the realtor, they were the ones who really supported me as well financially with all this. They're the ones who rushed me to the hospital. They took care of me. So, yeah, that's what happened. And then after that, I still lived in the hotel for 78 days total. I had to count on all these things you get to realize, like, things that you take for granted when, say, 78 days is so specific. You take for granted many things that suddenly when you lose the site. When I lost my eyesight, I was just like, paying attention to everything else.
Wish 30:26
Right.
KK 30:27
So they also provided me when I left the hospital, and then I went back to the apartment, to the hotel cats. My cats were living with my neighbor. I mean, building another building came another building. They were living there. And then they didn't want to see me because they would run every time they see me because Caps could sense that there's something wrong, that I think they associated with explosive trauma as well.
Wish 31:09
Yes.
KK 31:09
Yeah. That's one thing. And so what they did was they provided me with a psychotherapist where they did Reiki, Acupuncture and everything. And you'd be shocked because they also provided Acupuncture Reiki for my cat.
Wish 31:27
Oh, wow. How thoughtful. I think he saw the realtor for that area. It's Ayala Corporation, right?
KK 31:41
Yeah. And so they were very good. Yeah.
Wish 31:45
So I think that's why they're very successful as a massive business, as a massive Corporation in the Philippines is because they have those systems in line as well. So if I think that there's a certain class in terms of how they do things, exactly. If it was a different realtor or property developers, I'm not sure it's not going to be the same care, same experience. We both understand this very much.
KK 32:24
Yes. They took care of me, and I'm so glad that they did. And people were asking me, why don't you sue them? And I'm like, why would I do that? And add extra stress to my brain. And so this happened. It will be all right.
Wish 32:50
When this is happening, did the doctor tell you that you're going to regain your eyesight by there was no guarantee. There's no guarantee. So do you have to go through battling that in your brain that you may not be able to see again and do something about it or you're more optimistic like I'm going to regain it. What's your process around that time?
KK 33:22
Okay, so when I left the hospital, I could partially see. For example, if I look at you, I could see your nose. That's it. So it's like a slit.
Wish 33:36
Wow.
KK 33:37
Okay. Peripherally, I couldn't see anything. But if I look straight, then I can only see your nose. So there's a little bit of hope. Okay, okay, got it. Because the medicines they gave me, steroids and everything, I was gaining weight. Fortunately, I couldn't see myself.
Wish 34:04
That's the most important thing.
KK 34:08
That would have really depressed me like crazy. I was so happy that they were very supportive. Doctor Mariano, he called the people in Harvard and then checked on the soldiers, the ones who experienced PTSD and who got blind, but they weren't physically injured. Okay, so to check on what kind of formulation they should provide me with. This never happened. Really? Well, of course there are some cases, but it's very rare case. They didn't really have a protocol as to what to give me. So they were experimenting on medicines. On what? Okay, how do you feel right now? Whatever. So for a year and a half, yeah, we're going through different kinds of medicines. And I said to him, Doctor, you know what, can you please give me something that will not make me fat? Because I am really double my size. Seriously, I would double my size or double or actually triple. I mean, not triple. No, that's exaggeration, but double, right. Okay, what can I do? Do you have a choice? Because I always have the City scan. I always have to have the MRI, CT scan, visual field test so that they know what to give me. So what to see how my progress is going. And that's when I brought it up. And so I said, before you create something for me, please tell me, what can I do? I don't want to gain weight. He says to me, you know what, Karla? Let me ask you, you have two choices. One is to be blind and sexy or to go with the medication and go with the program and just go with it and then see how we go. Yeah.
Wish 36:37
I love your doctor. It's very straightforward.
KK 36:45
So I said to him, Doctor, let me get back to you.
Wish 36:51
Oh my God, you're crazy.
KK 36:56
I was getting so much weight and I got back to him a day after I called him up. Okay, this is my verdict. Yes. Okay, I'm going to go with the flow. Okay, so let's work on this. Yeah. So a year and a half, almost two years later, I finally regained my eyesight. I do remember that time when it was like almost fully, like fully. And I'm like, oh, wow, how's the feeling can you describe it to me? Well, because it was gradual. So in a way, it's like one day you open your eyes and then suddenly you can see peripherally and somehow each one was a milestone. Each moment, the gradual progress of it, there were milestones in between. And so yeah. When I fully was like, okay, you are 80% is very good because I correct peripherally, but it doesn't mean that it's not going to come back. That was a scare. And then because my optic nerve imagine the brain emotional. It was explained to me this way, not by Dr. Mariano, but the psychotherapist. The brain on top of it is the emotional brain. It's like not really emotional brain, but it's an emotional part of it. It's like an emotional film. And on top of that, when I got stressed during that time, the explosion, it enlarged that the optic nerve was stretched, then it had a lesion on it.
Wish 38:57
I see.
KK 38:59
So that's what happened. Since that happened, I should not have any kind of stress that would cause that ever again in my entire life. So not even yoga, that's inversions. I can't do that because my blood will go there and it will stretch everything in my head so I can't do inversions and everything. So I'm just trying to be careful. So as soon as I got my eyesight back, that was 2016. I started getting that was the time I broke up with my ex.
Wish 39:45
It dragged on.
KK 39:47
Yes.
Wish 39:47
During your treatment. I see. So that was 2016 when you were healed, like mid year?
KK 39:56
Yes. No, the beginning of 2016 at the beginning.
Wish 40:00
Because I met you December of that year.
KK 40:04
Yes.
Wish 40:04
When we were introduced.
KK 40:06
Yeah. That's what happened. I knew already. Okay, things are going to be clear. Everything is straightforward for me. I knew what I wanted. I appreciate everything and I'm not going to take anything for granted. That's what I told myself.
Wish 40:34
It just, justifies really how much I have deep respect for your outlook. I really appreciate that about you because you're always positive and open. And then now we understand what gives, like how you do it and from what we can pick up. Right. It's always a choice whether we're going to take a bad situation and make it worse for ourselves or we want to improve because we want to fight for ourselves as well. And there's sometimes a compromise, like what you're saying about, okay, I could gain my eyesight, but I'm going to gain weight. So I think it's better exactly at that time. And it's wonderful.
KK 41:27
So.
Wish 41:30
Sorry. I'm beginning to be a little bit more teary-eyed because my heart is so full right now with you inspiring me all the time.
Wish 41:48
So coming from this, moving forward as well, right now that you're saying 2022, I'm ready. So what are you ready for? What are your future plans? What's going to happen, what exciting things are in store for KK.
KK 42:06
Oh, my God, you are my exciting thing that's happening because we have a show to do.
Wish 42:47
Yes, me too.
KK 42:53
Exactly! What I'm excited about, it's not just doing it with a friend, but it's with you. I mean, every time we have a conversation, like, we talk on the phone and we go video chat, it's like a realization, like, oh, my God, we should talk about this. This alone is like a podcast. So I'm very excited to exchange banters with you. Also. Apart from that, I'm also excited. Those are the things that we'll be sharing with people. I'm excited also to learn from them and then to hear what they have to say about our topics, because we're celebrating what we know and what we want and what interests us.
Wish
Yes, totally.
Unknown speaker
Exactly. Apart from that, there's too much bad news out there. Let's just celebrate what we can celebrate. Right. And then just give the importance to what we like doing. We're just talking.
Wish 43:25
Yes, absolutely. So in closing, what's the word or phrase that you can impart to our listeners? And if you can expand on that.
KK 43:40
Is there a particular word? Just one word?
Wish 43:42
Either a word or a phrase that you can share with our listeners?
KK 43:47
What I always say is choose to be you because I choose to be me. I am who I am because I really, definitely choose to be me as long as I'm kind and empathetic and there are just many things that I can say that I want to be as. But what's freeing about being me is because accepting myself and discovering new things and looking at everything with childlike wonder, being over 40. Yes, it's a fantastic thing. It's like a lovely feeling. And I do hope that everyone else will feel this way because there are many things that we have in store in our lives that we don't know about. But what we can do is control our reactions to things.
Wish 44:54
Yes.
KK 44:57
And being in control of our own reactions to what is happening around the world and taking control of our own self and being who we want to be and choosing to be our natural ourselves is the best feeling of all. Because living our lives with social media is very tiring. There are many things out there. But at the same time, I just think just being authentically yourself is the best thing.
Wish 45:29
Absolutely. It's not tiring. It's yourself. You don't need to pretend. You don't need to think about it because it's just naturally you.
KK 45:36
Yeah, exactly. I hope I described it in the correct way, but, yeah, this just choose to be you. There's no judgment. Everyone else around you have their own lives. They actually really don't care. So just choose to be you. You'll be fine.
Wish 45:58
Yes. There's only one uniquely you, so don't copy anybody else.
KK 46:05
That's just superpower. When can I interview you like this? Want to throw this back at you and then just ask you at some point.
Wish 46:17
We can do that. At some point, yes.
KK 46:19
Okay.
Wish 46:21
So thank you so much, KK, for hanging out with me. This is a wonderful pilot. It's always beautiful talking to you and I'm sure we're going to talk real soon because we need to launch our podcast and our video streaming as well.
KK 46:41
Yes, it's very exciting but thank you so much wish for inviting me here because it's an honor.
Wish 46:54
From this episode one of the most important words about life is acceptance. It is defined as the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered. Now, acceptance word also means similarly as receiving, obtaining, acquiring, affirmation, welcoming and approval. Diane von Furstenberg quoted "you're always with yourself so you might as well enjoy the company." Acceptance is part of a huge process. The way we have to see things, it's a choice. And as long as we accept things around us probably we can adjust and find a clearer path to be happy. I hope you love eavesdropping. You should start thinking about your own synonyms. What are they? Thank you for listening to the pilot episode of Human Thesaurus podcast. Join me again next week for another episode. I'm your host Wish Ronquillo Peacocke, have a fantastic day and thanks for listening!
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