Welcome everybody to me time. I hope you all had a lovely week. I hope you found some

time to have some me time for yourself. Please share with us if you did and tag us on social

media so we can repost the stories and see what everybody's doing and how they're spending

their time. I am so excited about this week's guest. Well this is someone I know very, very

well. One of my dearest and closest friends, James Rode, Rodrigues. And he, I feel like

really gets me time. He actually, I think, it describes it better than I do. We had such

a nice chat and I'm so excited for you all to listen and get to know him a little better

and enjoy the two of us having a really good time. First off, before we get to James, I'm

going to maybe start a little thing where I talk about Miami Time over the last week

and fun things I discovered or did. Miami Time over the last week, I would say, was

majority was taken up with, I wish I could consider a great way to spend me time, was

connecting with family. I went home to my hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, and saw my family

and had a really nice time and also visited the theater where I grew up doing plays and

ran into some old friends that absolutely warmed my heart, touched my soul, but who were

such a big part of me doing what I do. I did my first play at the theater when I was

10. It's a dinner theater and I just want to kind of shout them out. It's called the

Derby Dinner Playhouse and I really feel like I grew up in this theater and this is where

I learned to and sort of found what I wanted to do. So much of it was shaped by these incredible

people that were always so supportive and kind and helpful and always willing to give

constructive criticism and help me be better and they were also so loving in the process

and it was so nice to go back. I even got to see a couple of old friends but also to just

see a show and experience how special that theater is and how talented everyone there

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