Dreams, Doubt and Doing It Anyway with Stephanie

In this episode of Beautifully Unbalanced, Mikita sits down with Stephanie from Audio Oasis Storytelling to talk about storytelling, purpose, rest, and trusting your gift.

Stephanie shares how her love of books and storytelling started in childhood and how that passion led her to create a podcast that gives people space to pause, reflect, and simply be. Together, Mikita and Stephanie talk about what it means to find your voice, start before you feel ready, and create your own blueprint when no clear path exists.

They also dive into the power of storytelling, the importance of honoring people’s time, and why purpose often reveals itself when you finally trust what’s already inside of you.

Stephanie also gives a glimpse into her upcoming audio project, Immortal Taco, a creative and unexpected story that stretches her gift in a whole new way.

In this episode:

• Storytelling as rest and reflection
• Finding your gift and trusting it
• Starting before you feel ready
• Creating your own blueprint
• Honoring the time people give you
• Stephanie’s upcoming project, Immortal Taco

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Transcript

Mikita: [00:00:00] All right. Welcome back. I am Mikita. This is the Beautifully Unbalanced Podcast. Thank you so much for sharing your time, your space, and of course your amazing energy with me today. Today I am super excited to be joined by the one and only Stephanie from the Audio Oasis Storytelling podcast.

Your storytelling is how so much of history is told is through storytelling. And I was just thinking like, Stephanie is such an amazing storyteller and I love hearing your stories on your podcast .

They're short, intentional, and funny and relaxing, they have, it's so much purpose in meaning behind them, so. Stephanie, thank you. 

Stephanie: Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. That's what it's all about, is just providing a place for people to just be, you know, you don't have to dress up. You can if you want to, but you can just, you know, just take a break from what's going on out there.[00:01:00] 

Come in here and just sit and listen and think, and my motto is a place where you can come, sit, think rest. , And just feel better about whatever it is you're facing out there. You come here and just be, 

Mikita: yeah, and it sounds so simple, but honestly, that's the hardest thing to do is to just be because your mind is running and you're thinking about a hundred things you should be doing, you ought to be doing, and just making yourself sit with it.

Stephanie: It is very difficult. And, and I know that, you know this, like, um, you're supposed to turn off your devices like an hour, a half, an hour before you turn in, go to sleep or, or relax. And just doing that, just, just turning it off or putting it in another room that that's an exercise, you're like, uh, I don't know.

You know? But you have to. I haven't 

Mikita: graduated to that yet. 

Stephanie: Exactly, exactly. So baby steps, baby steps, baby steps. Yeah. 

Mikita: [00:02:00] Yeah. But Stephanie, for people that may not be familiar with . What you do and how you tell stories mm-hmm. Tell them a, give us a little insight into the Audio Oasis podcast, um, storytelling and how it came about.

Stephanie: Okay. So, the name of my podcast again, audio Oasis Storytelling, and the motto is a place where you can stop by, listen, think, laugh, but most importantly. Rest. And I always say rest because , people need a place to, just escape and just sit. Right. And I started in November of 2017. November of 2017.

I've always liked stories as a child. I've always liked telling stories, listening to stories, much like yourself. I love a good book. I have a library here of of books everywhere. And when I was little. If you wanted to punish me, you would take away my books, whereas like another person, another child, if you wanted to punish them, take away maybe their sweets or their toys, [00:03:00] wanted to punish me, take away my books, and I would just, just sob and cry and just please, I, I won't, I won't be bad.

I won't do it again because I love. Books. I love books and that's what I wanted to bring as an adult. That's what I wanted to bring to the world. A place where you can escape into these stories and just, you know, just go away and just. Let your mind wander and, um, I hope that that's what I'm, what I'm, what I'm doing.

And there's more to come. As a matter of fact. Here we go. Okay. I'm gonna try an audio book this year. I'm gonna try an audio book this year and, uh, we're gonna talk more about that later, but that's my next stretch project that I'm gonna do. 

Mikita: Oh my goodness. That, that is amazing. Um, 

Stephanie: mm-hmm. 

Mikita: Like you said.

, We'll get into that because 

Stephanie: we'll get into it. 

Mikita: Um, yeah. So much I wanna say about that. Um, mm-hmm. But that's [00:04:00] amazing. Um, just like you, storytelling has been like, I, I would say my foundation into getting me into reading books. I always felt my mom was an amazing storyteller. I remember when we were kids like.

She would, she did not like thunderstorms. So with, when it thundered, we would all, she would create this little palette and we would lay down and she would just tell stories of her childhood of things that happened. And it was not just a opportunity for, to forget what's going out on outside around us, but 

It got us a, a glimpse into who my mom was before she was my mom. 

Stephanie: Yeah. 

Mikita: You know, I, I got to know her as, as a child growing up, as a teenager, as an adult, and. Kinda into, you know, like what it felt like for her to grow up in the space that she did and how that . Affected some of, you know, her decisions and how she feels, the way she feels about certain things.

So storytelling says a lot and it so deeply rooted in our history. [00:05:00] Well, exactly. 

Stephanie: Mm-hmm. That's right. 

Mikita: Yeah. 

Stephanie: That's right. That's right. 

Mikita: So did you ever feel like, 'cause as you got into that space in 2017 and. For podcasting. Um, it, it definitely wasn't new. It's not, but people were, it wasn't as many people into Exactly.

Podcasting and especially not storytelling. 

Stephanie: No. 

Mikita: And the way that you're doing it and mm-hmm. I'm not sure there's even anyone that's doing, there may be someone, but I feel like , you're the founder of that. 

In the way you, um. Tell stories, but did you ever feel like you're, did you feel like you were starting from scratch, like building something completely new and different in Yeah.

Stephanie: Or did you feel like 

Mikita: you had a mentor? 

Stephanie: That's a great question. I, I'll put it to you this way. I now had a platform and, and it wasn't so much about, um, getting a, a, a, a big following. I just wanted to put out into the world what was inside of me because I would, I would [00:06:00] tell stories and, and just create stories to an audience of, let give you an example.

This is, this will explain it. When I was little, right? My mom, my mom told me this. Now I'm thinking she's gonna tell me the truth. She said. And I quote Stephanie. You were a, a different child. And I'm like, I don't know what she's trying to say by that, but all right. She said what you would do is you would, uh, tear up bits of paper, tear up bits of paper, and I was like, what you trying to say, mom?

Where, where you going with this story? You would tear up bits of paper and put them in little rows. Put them in little rows, and those would be the chairs. And then you would stand in front of the, the, the rows of, of paper and you would tell a speech. And I said, oh, okay. So this explains a lot, right? So 

This, this platform allowed me to just whatever was inside, just to bring it out.

Just just to bring it out. And, if it, um. Caught the ear of someone or caught the eye of someone. , Great. But I just wanted to share with the [00:07:00] world what was inside of me, if that makes sense. 

Mikita: Oh yeah, that makes definitely sense. 

Stephanie: Yeah. 

Mikita: You know, when we think about sometimes creating, , most of the time, , when we're being creative, it's not necessarily something we've seen someone do.

Maybe, um, someone may say something that sparked something that 

Picks us on this creative journey. But I know for me, it felt like I was creating my own blueprint of what I wanted to do. Right. I knew there were people in spaces, but I didn't really know them. Mm-hmm. And you know, sometimes, like we pick mentors that may not know us and we mm-hmm.

Like gravitate toward people and be like, let me see what they're doing. But they're not actually doing the same thing that you're doing, but you. Kind of becoming a blueprint for someone else to spark something creative into their life. And as I was thinking about that, I was like, you know, reading, um, a book.

Well, I was [00:08:00] listening to book, Harlem Rhapsody, and it talks about WV Du Bois, and he had a literary writer, um, Jesse Faucet. I was just like so intrigued by her story and how, you're talking about 1920s. Mm-hmm. This lady is a literary editor at a time when you don't see black women, especially in that type of a role.

Exactly. So I'm just wondering, like, do you have a mentor? Is there someone that look up to or that 

Stephanie: mm-hmm. 

Mikita: Even just like encourage you to. 

Stephanie: Yes, I don't have a mentor per se, but I, I sure would love one. But, um, I, I just pull from within and I do a lot of reading as well, so I'm all, and I do a lot of listening to other, uh, podcasters too.

So I'm always open to learning. I'm always open to, okay, , how can I get better? You know, what training should I consider? What exercises can I do,, to make the craft, uh, the [00:09:00] craft better, especially now that I'm stretching myself to go to a different level of storytelling. So I'm open.

I'm definitely open. 

Mikita: When you, when you mentioned going, like doing the, you know, stretching and doing the, um, going into audio, it's so funny. I was thinking, I started to think about when I was in, um, high school and we. Read the book. Um, roar Thunder, hear me cry. And I remember being no one in the, no one wanted to read the book, so it's so funny 'cause every time the teacher would be like, any volunteers, I was the only one had my hand up.

So like, I read the whole series so much that they, the class ended up calling me the character. So my name was Cassie. 

Stephanie: Oh my goodness. 

Mikita: Yeah. But you know, for me, that was my outlet to read out loud for other people. And I wasn't gonna say, I'm like an excellent, at the time I didn't even think of myself as an excellent reader or a storyteller.

I just wanted to read the book. 

Stephanie: You know what I find [00:10:00] when you meet, there's a gift in, in each of us. There's a gift in, in all of us, I believe. Sometimes it's revealed to you what the gift is. Sometimes you're like, my gift is medicine. I'm going to be a doctor. , Which is a great thing because you know early enough you can focus, you know your life in such a way, , you can tell other people, they can direct you and you can just, you know what it is.

You're gifted, you're called to do it. You get on the track and you go, um, sometimes. It's a while for us to meet up with our gift. We know that there's something there, but we don't quite know what it is. We know we're getting closer. We know we're in the ballpark. It's like whenever I'm doing this, things start to happen around me.

But that's not quite it though, but it's something. So maybe it's a subset of this. Let me just pay attention and look around to see if I can identify it. And I have found when the moment comes that you finally come face to face [00:11:00] with the gift, it is like a, a, a, um, a key and a lock. , You've been missing it.

And it's almost,, it's right. It's not quite. And then called boom, it actually happens. There's something so wonderful, magical, spiritual, mystical , put in the descriptor right there. When it happens, you're like, that's it. This is what 

And there's a knowing, there is a knowing, it doesn't, it doesn't shout there.

You don't hear like someone on a megaphone and there's a big parade , and, you know, skywriting. But there's a, there's a knowing and there's a piece that settles within you. And you are like, this, this is what. I'm, and you know it, , you know it. And no one can tell you that you're wrong.

It's kind of like that movie, um, how To Train Your Dragon. You know that movie, how To Train Your Dragon? Have you seen it? No. Yeah, yeah. And the dragon knows the, the touch and the energy of its [00:12:00] master. And, um, if you are not the master and you touch the dragon, that'll be your last day on earth.

So, yeah. So you better make sure that. You know what you think is your dragon? Is your dragon, but there are signs, whatever. But what I'm trying to say is when that master touches the dragon, there's something that happens and it's, you're like, this, this is, these are my people I've met. I've met my, my, my partner in life.

Going back to what I was saying, when you come in contact with your gift, it's such a blessing. I've come in contact with what I know is my gift. It is storytelling. So even if. I'm doing other things. , I have to get, you know, big girl job. I have to do big girl things. Yes. That's just part of life.

But I know that storytelling, is what I do. And before I forget, let me just share with you, 'cause you've been listening to some of the stories, but the listeners as well, let me give you an idea of the kind of craziness that's up here. , I [00:13:00] have a, a story called Relax Darling. Relax darling. And basically that's about finding peace in everyday things.

Relax. Relax, darling. There's another, uh, story that I have about the bodega and, and the role that the bodega or the corner store, the role that the bodega plays in city life. It plays a very important role in city life. And if you're not like, what's a bo? What's a bodega? What, what is that? It's like, oh, this is gonna be good.

Let me tell you about the bodega. Um, middle seat matchmaker. Middle seat matchmaker. That's about finding love and you too. Can find love in 2026 on an MTA train. If you have the right tools and a fairy godmother, , you can do that. Um, vinyl wisdom, vinyl, vinyl wisdom, the unspoken lessons of old school lyrics Now.

Right now there's music out [00:14:00] there , and some of the independent artists, , they understand it. But back in the day, you could listen to a song and it would tell you what you needed to do about all manner of situations. You would just listen and go, oh, so that's how you get the girl? Or, oh, you messed up, this is how you make it, right.

Or, oh. You messed up, she's gonna leave you. Or, oh, this is how you, you, um, uh, lift up your, your parents, your mama, you know, or, oh, this is what goes on in the neighborhood. You would just listen. And that was a form of storytelling because there was a plot and a storyline , through the songs.

There's a, a song about relaxation of mac and cheese. Relaxation featuring mac and cheese, a superhero dance battle. Now listen, when the superheroes got on the dance floor and they , shook a foot and and, and did what they had [00:15:00] to do, it's not who you think, it's not who think is a dancer. There's a particular superhero who's an excellent dancer.

So I say all that to say the stories run the gamut. They run the gamut and. Once you find out what your gift is, the sky's the limit. 

Mikita: I truly, truly believe that some it's so, it's like an unlocking of something in you. . That for the first time you feel like I know who I am, I know what my purpose is.

And now I know what I need to do. 

Stephanie: That's right. You got it. You got. 

You got it. 

Mikita: And then you get to the point where you're not afraid to talk about it, shot it from the roof, tell other people. And I think what happens in that, in that moment when you are no longer afraid to speak your purpose into rea, into existence, that there's so many people that are put around you that are there to guide you to that purpose.

Stephanie: That's right. 

Mikita: That it just starts opening up doors. You never realize That's right. You start [00:16:00] running and leading into people that you, you never expected to and from that you are creating, you start creating this community of people that if you would've never trusted yourself and your strengths and your, and your gifts, but it 

Stephanie: never 

Mikita: happened.

Yes. Like, 

Stephanie: It's a leap. , It's a leap. Um, I think. I think that there are people listening to this, uh, episode right now who know what their gift is. They know it. , You know what your gift is. It is been revealed to you. It's been confirmed. Other people have told you, uh, your friends have told you, and, and strangers have told you and, and work, uh, coworkers have told you.

What else? What else do you need? Well, what are you, what are you waiting for? What, what? You, you, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta make the leap. And once you make the leap, other, other doors will start to open, but they're not gonna open [00:17:00] until you walk into what it is , that is your, your calling.

Mikita: Yeah. I think it's this, this fear that once you do it, like you're just gonna fall into the abyss of some. 

But the thing is, I, I remember when I first recorded my first episode and I was so afraid, and I. I hit published and I was like, nothing like, 

Stephanie: mm-hmm. 

Mikita: What did I expect? I don't know what I expected to happen, but like none of that happened.

And when I started telling people, instead of people saying, who do you think you are? Or Why would you do that? They were like, oh my gosh, that's so congratulations. I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna share. 

Stephanie: The right people, the right people. , The right people. It's why, you know, when you have a, a vision or a dream, you have to sort of, um, let your inner wisdom guide you to who you want to share that with, because it's, it's a very tentative road,

. And if you, uh, [00:18:00] share with the wrong type of individual. Hmm. That person can delay it longer. It's not gonna be delayed forever, but that person can set you off of your path. But if you share it with the right people yes. And you push forward, , they're right there with you supporting you.

Mikita: Oh yeah. The person will have you stalling and 

It's telling you to.

Don't know, they're afraid of, of your own gifts and sometimes that happens.

I was just curious though, because your, I love the fact that your, your episodes are like small mini doses of happiness. 

When people are listening, like what, what is [00:19:00] it that you want them to get from the episode? Or what experience do you want them to have? I know one of your mottoes is, , to just rest and be, but is there anything else outside of that you want them to kind of connect to or experience?

Stephanie: I think that my goal is, if you give me your time, 'cause you, you give a bit of time to, to listen to a, a podcast. This, you know, listen, if you give me your time, I want you to be glad that you did. Um, because time, once you give time, you don't get it back. Like you give five minutes, 10 minutes, 45 minutes an hour.

You do not get it back. It's gone forever. It's gone. And where we. Where we are right now, as, as a world time is currency. Everybody wants your time. You got emails, you got texts, you have podcasts, you have streaming. Ooh, you got uh playlists, you got [00:20:00] music, you got everything. And everybody wants your time and you have to make a decision.

Look, I only have x number of. Minutes, hours in a day, I have to sleep sometime. So you can't listen and devote your time to everything that wants your time. You have to choose. So my thing is, if you choose me, meaning , my show, audio Oasis Storytelling, I will do my best to make it worth your time because it's an honor to have someone's time.

It, it's truly, especially now. Make it worth it. Make it because, put it this way, have you ever, you are looking for a new show and, and you're scrolling. You're like, oh, okay, so what's, what's this? Lemme see. Okay. You know, different platforms. You look in your podcast as you're looking up and you click on it.

And you're just like, uh oh, no. And you just click right off. Like, Nope, I can tell from 30 seconds, 45 seconds this, Nope, [00:21:00] nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Exactly, exactly. You, you, you. Yeah. Mm-hmm. 

Mikita: And then I'm so mad at myself if I allow it to go through the whole thing, and I'm like, why did I just waste my time on something I knew was not gonna be good.

Stephanie: Exactly. And I could have 

Mikita: been doing something else. Yeah. 

Stephanie: And I wish more people, thought of that, , you only have a certain, , amount of seconds really to like, bring someone in and make them consider going further in the episode with you. So really do as best you can where you are, you know?

, You don't necessarily have to make. If you're a new podcaster or an existing one, you don't have to make your show sound like someone else's. You do the best that you can. You can where you are right here, and when you learn a bit more and you have a bit more experience and you continue to do the best at that next level, you know, but , just put it out there and do your best, your best where you are and you'll be [00:22:00] fine.

And continue , and continue. You gotta continue. 

Mikita: Yeah. I think that's the most important thing is starting where you are. Yeah. And the 

Stephanie: rest 

Mikita: will catch up. And the whole purpose is, like you say, it's not perfection. No, it's starting. Because starting, you have to start from somewhere. You will get better as you go.

Mm-hmm. You will find your voice better, you will learn what your voice is and what you wanna say. And you do have permission to evolve and change and, and pivot if you need to. 

Stephanie: That's it. That's the whole thing. I think, um, if, if you are new to podcasting, I think that, um, you might be under the impression like, you know, I need to put out something that's just a letter.

Perfect. Because so many people are gonna see it and they're gonna judge me. Hmm. Put it out there. You'd be surprised. , Just, just put it out there. Just put it out there. It's fine. , It's fine. Just do it. 

Mikita: Yeah. It will be, it'll be just fine. Mean, I, I listened to some of my [00:23:00] first episodes and I'm like, Ugh.

But if I would've waited to be perfect, 

Stephanie: yeah. 

Mikita: I would've never got to earn them. Now. So I'm, I'm very thankful. But when we talk earlier, we were talking about mentors blueprint on purpose. Um, I'm not gonna say I came into, I may have known what I wanted to do, but it, it took some. Some people in my life to remind me and to say, Hey, you would,

and to trust that process because I think I spent like, I would say at least a year and a half with one question my husband asked me about, , if I could do anything, create a business, whatever it was, what be, and. That really made me focus on what my purpose is, what I could do in this world, what could I bring?

What type of legacy could I leave? What could I pass on to my kids? [00:24:00] It, it was a small question, but it was a big question because when you're talking about creating something in a space that would live on even after you, it's like, hold on, I can create this whole legacy, this leave, this whole thing.

What would it be? What am I good at? What makes me stand out? What do what? Even if I'm good at it, do I love it enough to that I wanna do it 

Stephanie: right? 

Mikita: And in the process of all that, he was like, you should start a podcast. 

Stephanie: Good man. 

Mikita: And from that, was like, you think so? He was like, yeah. And I was like, I'm gonna do it then.

But sometimes some, sometimes you do. You need people to see what's also inside of you. Not that you need validation, but sometimes you need a reminder that you can do it and people to push you along the way. 

Stephanie: Well, I'm gonna tell you something about your show, so here we go. All right. All right. Here we go.

Hold [00:25:00] on to something sturdy. I listened to your show and there was something about. The format, format that reminded me of me. Now, when is your birthday? When is your birthday? 

Mikita: Um, January 7th.

Are you a Capricorn? 

Stephanie: My birthday is January 12th. That's it. That's it. That's it. 

Mikita: That's it. 

Stephanie: I, I, I said. There is something about the delivery of, of this host that is so familiar. January 7th. Okay. We'll, we'll talk off, we'll talk offline. We'll, we'll, we'll talk That explains everything that explains ing.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 

Mikita: Yeah, it's like Capricorn energy. I don't know, it's just, um, for me it's just like, it was like a [00:26:00] love letter or things I. Uh, a reminder to my younger self and my future self, like, and just being honest and transparent. So little mix of everything, but yeah. 

Stephanie: Mm-hmm. 

Mikita: Definitely.

Stephanie: That explains it. I I love it. I love it., I love your format and I love your realness. I, I like the way you are unapologetic. About just making it plain and simple things that may not be pleasant, but are necessary and important. And a lot of people can't make it plain and simple. They talk round and round and round and they, they, they fluff it up and , they really make it.

It's like, this is what we're doing. I'm gonna spell it out nice and simple for [00:27:00] you. Get into it. Yeah. 

Mikita: Yeah. 

Stephanie: And now I know why I like it. All right. Okay. 

Mikita: Yeah. 

. 

Mikita: That's probably why, that's probably why I gravitated to you, like 

Uh, you, you just really had a calmness, and then to hear your storytelling voice was just like, oh my goodness.

I could listen to her forever. Which leads me into this audio of doing now. Have you ever thought about like writing books or have you written a book, or where are we at with this? 

Stephanie: I thought about writing a book when I was much, much younger. I would love to write children's books. I'd really love.

The way a child's mind., There's no gateway. Like, like you wanna go to a d di, uh, a different planet, you wanna go to a different world. Okay. And, and they will just get right in there with you and they're just so, so open, you know? Mm-hmm. And, and I would love to create, children's books and I love reading [00:28:00] to children because.

It's something you're reading to them and they'll, , you're like in your chair up and they're down below and they're just kind of looking up at you. And there's just something that's such a gift. That's such a gift to take these little people and take them with you, take them with you into this world.

Let me tell you about this. This audio book? Uh, uh. Are you ready? You ready? Okay. Yes. Uh, all right. The name of the book, the, the working title is Immortal. Immortal, like Live Forever, immortal Taco.

Immortal Taco. Right. And quickly in this, it's not Earth. It's not Earth, but it's Earth light. It, it's, it's somewhere over there, but it's not earth in this world. , The goal of every being in this world is to live, to be the age of eighty eight zero. So when [00:29:00] you're born into this world, your, your whole reason for just being is to live.

To be 80. And you're gonna say, so what was, what? What's happening with 80? Well, when you were 80 years old, 80. In this world, free housing, free healthcare, you get a stipend. You live like a king and or a queen. You have paparazzi. You are a celebrity. You live the life. I mean, you live a good life.

It's a good life. Now, caveat. An 80-year-old person in this world has the physicality and the movement, the body movements of a 40 to 50-year-old, you got me. So they're 80 and they're called an elder, but they have the physicality move around like a 40 or a 50-year-old, and they live to a minimum of 120 years minimum.

You could live older, but a minimum of 120 years. [00:30:00] Immortal taco well. Like anything else, there's always someone who doesn't want to live to 80. Like, I wanna be 80 now. I don't wanna live to be 80. I want to be 80 now. So you have people that are 20, 30, 40, who like, I want all of the, the, uh, rewards and all of the, the, the everything of being an 80-year-old or an elder.

I want it now. Well. There's this street drug. Mm-hmm. There's this street drug that you can take now, uh, pause this street drug. If you know about it, if you know about it, you can find it. If you have no idea what, what people are talking about, nobody knows what it is that you're talking about. So you either know it or you no.

Mikita: You 

Stephanie: don't. Don't. Right. So this street drug, when you take it, it will. Age you up to look like an 80-year-old. It'll age you up in about [00:31:00] maybe 30 seconds. You take it and you get all of the, and now you look 80, but it has a one hour window. One hour, one hour. After that one hour, it dages you and you go back to whatever it was that you started.

Now with that in mind. There are people who basically are getting jobs and it's like a virtual interview. So they'll get a job, they'll take the drug, um, 80, and they will talk to the camera and they will. Get the job and every time they need to go for a meeting or go whatever, they'll take the street drug.

There are people who've been married and the husband has no idea that his wife is really a 25-year-old because she's been taking the street drug and in, in their home, she has the drug placed in strategic places so that every hour on the hour she's like, oh wait, [00:32:00] and her husband thinks she's an elder.

She's not, she's a 25, 30, 40-year-old, but she's been taking the drug well, story time. So there's this, this, uh, 30-year-old, 40-year-old, and he wants , this, this job in this world. All the good jobs, all the six figure , good jobs or taken by the elders, because remember what I said, the elder is the life that you want.

You wanna live to be 80. So you could like just. Yes. Right. Yeah. And he's like, I want the job Now he gets a street drug. He has a virtual call and he's in this meeting and everybody loves him. Like the, you know, the little squares you got the zoom, the little squares. They love him. They're like, , we are, look, , and it's all older people.

It's like the 80 year olds and, and what have you. Right? And, we love your resume. You look great. This is wonderful. You know what, let, let's, let's settle this. Let's get the CEO. On the, on the call, and we can [00:33:00] just, if he likes you, , you're good. 

Mikita: You're in 

Stephanie: all right. And he's looking at the little clock next to his computer because that's telling him how much time he has left before.

Right. Meaning, you know, reverting back to, the usual, , the old face, whatever. So, um, the CEO is late getting on the call and he's looking at the clock, and before it was 45 minutes, there's still time. CEO is still late. There's 30 minutes. I can still, oh, okay. C, pull it on. The CEO is still late.

15 minutes. Like now. You might say to yourself, well, if it's gonna be that close, just disconnect the call. Just find a way to like, oops. Disconnect. Yeah. I dunno what's happening. But see, this is the thing in this world, if you get an interview with this organization and you disconnect, you have to go to the end of the line.

Because everybody wants to work for this organization. So it's kind of [00:34:00] like, I gotta make it. That's 

Mikita: 22. 

Stephanie: I gotta, I gotta make it work. 'cause if I go to the end of the line, I don't know when I'm gonna come back around to have all these people and me. 'cause everybody wants these interviews. Anyway, the CEO finally gets on the line.

Finally, finally comes on the screen. He's like, I've heard so many things about you. You are wonderful. So tell me now. He's looking at the clock and he has five minutes. Five minutes. Oh. And one thing we know about interviews, you can't rush the interviewer. Like, what do you, you like, you can't, you want, you want to cut work for?

So he's just like, oh, no. Like, you know, and of course it happens., It happens. And he starts to de-age, he starts to de de-age. Right on camera, right on camera. And in this world. If you are caught with the street because people know why you're aging. They're like, uh, so if you're caught because the street drug and you de-age in, in, [00:35:00] in public, it's a, it's a crime.

Mm. 

Stephanie: Pe people in suits find you. 

Mikita: Oh, wow. 

Stephanie: So it's a, it's a thriller. 

Mikita: Yeah. Do you, what do you think? 

Stephanie: What do you think? 

Mikita: I can't wait to hear it is what I think. I 

Stephanie: mortal taco. 

Mikita: Oh my goodness, there's so many. It seems like so many plots and twists. 

Stephanie: Oh, it's crazy. 

Mikita: Yeah. This is so out there. I love it. It's so crazy.

You like it. So I like the sci-fi mentality of it, that it's not here, just this whole thing with the, the older people like, 

Stephanie: yeah, 

Mikita: we need to get 80. And they're 

Stephanie: living 

Mikita: it up, girl. Oh, there's a lot happening here. 

Stephanie: They're living,, they're getting into the clubs child. They're wearing all the fashions.

Baby, they driving the cars. It's, it's, I just wanted to do like a, a, a twist on it. Mm-hmm. Because in, in our world, in in earth world, you know, [00:36:00] youth is everything. , Being young is everything. You know, you're young , and your body is a certain way and clear skin and all. And muscles Yeah.

And all that. And that's what we want. But in this world, 80. 80. Now. , The people that live in organic 80 like you, you come into this world, , you work. And the beautiful thing is when you're 40, 'cause 40 in our world, 40 is like you, you're right in a sweet spot. Not too old, not too young.

But when you're 40 in that world, you're like, okay, I have, I have 40 more years to go. When you're 50, it's like, I got 30 more years to go. And when you're 60 it's , okay, 20 more years, I can do it. When you're 70, it's like 10 more, 10 more years. 75, 5 more years, 79, 1 and 80. Kaboom. Yeah. 

Mikita: Yes. That's when life starts.

Stephanie: When it starts everything. Money, real estate free. He, those real golden 

Mikita: years. 

Stephanie: Beautiful. And you [00:37:00] had, you're still able to just do everything. You're not a feeble 80, you are a strong, like vibrant.. 

Mikita: Yeah. I love it. Oh, I'm so excited. I cannot wait. I love it. 

Stephanie: Yes. I'm gonna, I'm gonna try my best.

And if you look on my, if you look on my Instagram, you'll see like a, a pinned post , about, , immortal Taco. Yeah. 

Mikita: Awesome. I just wanna say before we log off, tell people how they can connect with you, how they can learn more about what you're doing and have a moment to listen to the audio as and storytelling podcast.

And then take a moment for themselves and rest. 

Stephanie: Sure you can find me on Instagram at AO storytelling. That'll take you, if you go to my bio, it'll take you to all the different links like YouTube and all of the other platforms to learn more about the stories that I tell. And, , yeah, that's the best place to find.

Mikita: Yes. All right, you guys, I hope you learned a lot from this episode. There [00:38:00] was so many key points that we talked about. Not only did we talk about, , storytelling and finding a purpose and understanding that we all have a gift. You just have to tap into it and trust the process. But we also talked about sometimes you have to be the blueprint to your own.

, Purpose and story. You are the character and lead character in your own story, and you can show up in that story however you want. You can be the hero. It's all up to you. You just have to take the chance to take your place in your story and let that guide you through, so, 

Stephanie: exactly. 

Mikita: Yes. So thank y'all so much for sharing your time and space with me.

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