Hey guys, what's up? It's Candice Kumai and welcome to the Wabi Sabi podcast. We are on episode 10 today.

And what I really want to share with you is a little more on the art of golden repair in Japanese wellness, which is the art of kinsugi. It kind of goes hand in hand

with wabi-sabi. A lot of people think that they're parallel art forms. One complements the other.

And a lot of people also have been coming to me and saying, thank you for being a little bit

more real than most people out that are in front of the camera

and in media and in mainstream media.

And I want to say you're welcome.

I received a very strong email from somebody yesterday and as I always say the universe

sends me these notes on what I'm supposed to speak on as we move through

life together. You're in this with me and I'm in this with you. Eventually throughout the course

of this podcast and my life, you'll meet my parents, you'll meet my sister, you'll meet my extended

family. You're going to hear a lot of stories about my friends. Some are good,

some are bad, but everything is wabi-sabi. So this email is quite touching. And what it does is it

sort of ties Kinsugi together into a bow. Now, back in March, I spoke at South by Southwest, and it was an incredible

opportunity for me to be able to share the book one month before my life was going to really change.

So before the book dropped in April, I spoke to a couple hundred people at South By.

And my best friend Stephanie, Nikki, Gillian, my friend Adrian Mishler, my friend's Max Lugavir

and Alyssa Viti.

I mean, everybody came out for it in the middle of Austin, Texas.

And my friends Kelly Crowsy, Nicole Crowsy, and Henry had helped

to set up the whole event. And what you didn't see was right before the presentation.

My PowerPoints are so large because they contain a lot of video components as well that it

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